tipa -- 5/26/2009

Alien Maps of an Ocean-Bearing World

• Authors: N.B. Cowan, E. Agol, V.S. Meadows, T. Robinson (University of Washington), T.A. Livengood, D. Deming (NASA Goddard), C.M. Lisse (Johns Hopkins), M.F. A'Hearn, D.D. Wellnitz (University of Maryland), S. Seager (MIT), D. Charbonneau (Harvard)

Casting light on the 'anomalous' statistics of Mg II toward Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows: the incidence of weak systems

• Authors: Nicolas Tejos, Sebastian Lopez, J. Xavier Prochaska, Joshua S. Bloom, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Maria J. Maureira

Relative frequencies of supernovae types: dependence on host galaxy magnitude, galactocentric radius and local metallicity

• Authors: S. Boissier (1), N. Prantzos (2) ((1) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (2) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Public Perception of Astronomers: Revered, Reviled and Ridiculed

• Authors: Michael J. West (ESO)