tipa -- 2/23/2012

Evidence for top-heavy stellar initial mass functions with increasing density and decreasing metallicity

• Authors: Michael Marks, Pavel Kroupa, Jörg Dabringhausen, Marcel S. Pawlowski

Spatial variation in the fine-structure constant -- new results from VLT/UVES

• Authors: Julian A. King, John K. Webb, Michael T. Murphy, Victor V. Flambaum, Robert F. Carswell, Matthew B. Bainbridge, Michael R. Wilczynska, F. Elliot Koch

The Unusual Temporal and Spectral Evolution of the Type IIn Supernova 2011ht

• Authors: P. W. A. Roming, T. A. Pritchard, J. L. Prieto, C. S. Kochanek, C. L. Fryer, K. Davidson, R. M. Humphreys, A. J. Bayless, J. F. Beacom, P. J. Brown, S. T. Holland, S. Immler, N. P. M. Kuin, S. R. Oates, R. W. Pogge, G. Pojmanski, R. Stoll, B. J. Shappee, K. Z. Stanek, D. M. Szczygiel

Double Compact Objects I: The Significance Of The Common Envelope On Merger Rates

• Authors: Michal Dominik, Krzysztof Belczynski, Christopher Fryer, Daniel Holz, Emanuele Berti, Tomasz Bulik, Ilya Mandel, Richard O'Shaughnessy