tipa -- 1/9/2014

The PdBI Arcsecond Whirlpool Survey (PAWS): Environmental Dependence of Giant Molecular Cloud Properties in M51

• Dario Colombo, Annie Hughes, Eva Schinnerer, Sharon E. Meidt, Adam K. Leroy, Jerome Pety, Clare L. Dobbs, Santiago Garcia-Burillo, Gaelle Dumas, Todd A. Thompson, Karl F. Schuster, Carsten Kramer

Measuring Distances and Reddenings for a Billion Stars: Towards A 3D Dust Map from Pan-STARRS 1

• Gregory Maurice Green, Edward F. Schlafly, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Mario Jurić, Hans Walter Rix, Will Burgett, Kenneth C. Chambers, Peter W. Draper, Heather Flewelling, Rolf Peter Kudritzki, Eugene Magnier, Nicolas Martin, Nigel Metcalfe, John Tonry, Richard Wainscoat, Christopher Waters

A test of the millisecond magnetar central engine model of GRBs with Swift data

• Hou-Jun Lü, Bing Zhang

Triggering jet-driven explosions of core-collapse supernovae by accretion from convective regions

• Avishai Gilkis, Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)