Day 245

Sunday.  At Frankfurt airport.  ICE, 1hr 45 minutes from Bonn.  Saw the "Lorelei" from the train. Ate onigiri, tamagoyaki and smoked salmon on the plane.  Had dinner with Tina Tan and Stephanie (Seema couldn't make it), at Teresa's.  Nice to chat with them again.
Monday.  Finally managed to install GREAT3, with GitHub.  I'll use this (Git and GitHub) at Bonn.  Found out what the Americans think of the Euclid project--that it's troubled, management wise.  Saw Rachel, was good to talk to her again.


1204.4720
Molecular abundances in the inner layers of IRC +10216
Agundez, Fonfria, Cernicharo, Kahane, Daniel, Guelin


* this star is a very sooty carbon star, brightest known star in 5um.


Observatons of CS, SiO, SiS, NaCl, KCl, AlCl, AlF and NaCN with IRAM 30-m telescope (80-357.5 GHz frequency range).  Rotational transitions, highly excited vibrational states in emission.  Derive molecular abundances in all layers.  Actively contributing to the formation of dust (CS and SiS).  S and Si: most of these elements have already condensed onto grains, mostly in the form of MgS and SiC.  NaCl, KCl, AlCl, AlF, and NaCN, despite their refractory character, are not significantly depleted in the cold outer layers.  A few percent of the metals Na, K and Al survive in the gas phase, either in atomic or molecular form, and are therefore available to participate in the gas phase chemistry in the outer envelope.


1204.4724
On the assumption of Gaussian likelihoods for estimators of cosmological power spectra and their information content
Carron


The assumption of a Gaussian estimator likelihood is neither necessary nor really adequate; warn against the use of Gaussian likelihoods with parameter dependent covariance matrices for parameter inference from such spectra.


1204.4725
The 6dF galaxy survey: z \approx 0 measurement of the growth rate and sigma_8
Beutler, Blake, Colless, et al


z-space distortion in the 2-pt correlation function of 6dF; 81971 galaxies over 17k deg sq with effective z ~ 0.067.  Sigma_8, Omega_m as expected.


1204.4726
Submillimeter photometry of 323 nearby galaxies from the Herschel reference survey
Ciesla, et al


This submm catalogue of nearby galaxies (range of morphological types and environments) is a benchmark for the study of the dust properties in the local universe, given the z=0 reference for any cosmological survey.