Showing papers in "New Astronomy Reviews in 2011"

TL;DR: In this paper, three classes of black holes could power ULXs: normal stellar mass black holes (∼10M), massive stellar black hole (≲100M), and intermediate mass (102-104M) black holes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the current knowledge of the galactic and sub-galactic environments of short gamma-ray bursts, and use these observations to draw inferences about the progenitor population.

TL;DR: A survey of magnetic fields in large objects, from the interstellar supershells up to the edge of the Universe (near a redshift z of 10), with an emphasis on discoveries made in the last decade, be they through particle astronomy or electromagnetic astronomy is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: A survey of planetary, stellar and clumpy interstellar magnetic fields, with an emphasis on discoveries made in the last decade, is presented in this paper, where the basic observational properties are summarized, and the best theoretical scenario which accounts for the large body of observations is discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the necessary conditions for carbon solids to grow in a cooling gas is higher bulk C abundance than O abundance, but for hydrogen-free supernova interiors that bulk-abundance condition is too restrictive.