tipa -- 9/12/2012

Stellar Kinematics of the Andromeda II Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

• Nhung Ho, Marla C. Geha, Ricardo R. Munoz, Puragra Guhathakurta, Jason S. Kalirai, Karoline M. Gilbert, Erik J. Tollerud, James S. Bullock, Rachael L. Beaton, Steve R. Majewski

Increase of the Density, Temperature and Velocity of Plasma Jets driven by a Ring of High Energy Laser Beams

• Wen Fu (Rice), Edison P. Liang (Rice), Milad Fatenejad (U. Chicago), Donald Q. Lamb (U. Chicago), Michael Grosskopf (U. Michigan), Hye-Sook Park (LLNL), Bruce Remington (LLNL), Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)

Determining neutron star masses with weak microlensing

• Lanlan Tian (1), Shude Mao (1, 2) ((1) National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2) Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, UK)

Seeking Counterparts to Advanced LIGO/Virgo Transients with Swift

• Jonah Kanner, Jordan Camp, Judith Racusin, Neil Gehrels, Darren White

New observations of the gas cloud G2 in the Galactic Center

• S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, T.K. Fritz, F. Eisenhauer, O. Pfuhl, T. Ott, J. Cuadra, M. Schartmann, A. Burkert

Local Simulations of the Magneto-rotational Instability in Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Y. Masada, T. Takiwaki, K. Kotake, T. Sano

A measure of total research impact independent of time and discipline

• Alberto Pepe, Michael J. Kurtz