tipa -- 5/1/2009

A Unique Star in the Outer Halo of the Milky Way

• Authors: David K. Lai, Constance M. Rockosi, Michael Bolte, Jennifer A. Johnson, Timothy C. Beers, Young Sun Lee, Carlos Allende Prieto, Brian Yanny

Wavelength Accuracy of the Keck HIRES Spectrograph and Measuring Changes in the Fine Structure Constant

• Authors: Kim Griest, Jonathan B. Whitmore, Arthur M. Wolfe, J. Xavier Prochaska, J. Christopher Howk, Geoffrey W. Marcy

Synchrotron Emission from Elliptical Galaxies Consequent to AGN outbursts

• Authors: Y.-F. Jiang, L. Ciotti, J. P. Ostriker, A. Spitkovsky

How photon astronomy affects searches for continuous gravitational waves

• Authors: Benjamin J. Owen (Penn State)

Search for High Frequency Gravitational Wave Bursts in the First Calendar Year of LIGO's Fifth Science Run

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al