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Taking Economic Equality Off the Table
Nichol considers Pres Clinton\u27s Administration\u27s record on issues of economic equality, including California Gov Pete Wilson\u27s plan to discriminate against newly arrived California welfare recipients. The Clinton Administration has not been alone in taking economic fairness off the political agenda, but they have clearly done their part
Constitutional Perils—Real and Otherwise
Review of: Our Endangerd Rights—The ACLU Report on Civil Liberties Today. Edited with an Introduction by Norman Dorsen. Pantheon Books, New York, N.Y., 1984
Galactic extinction and Abell clusters
In this paper, we present the results of comparing the angular distribution
of Abell clusters with Galactic HI measurements. For most subsamples of
clusters considered, their positions on the sky appear to be anti-correlated
with respect to the distribution of HI column densities. The statistical
significance of these observed anti-correlations is a function of both richness
and distance class, with the more distant and/or richest systems having the
highest significance (~3 sigma). The lower richness, nearby clusters appear to
be randomly distributed compared to the observed Galactic HI column density.Comment: 5 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file. Figures included.
Accepted by MNRA
A Bayesian Inference Analysis of the X-ray Cluster Luminosity-Temperature Relation
We present a Bayesian inference analysis of the Markevitch (1998) and Allen &
Fabian (1998) cooling flow corrected X-ray cluster temperature catalogs that
constrains the slope and the evolution of the empirical X-ray cluster
luminosity-temperature (L-T) relation. We find that for the luminosity range
10^44.5 erg s^-1 < L_bol < 10^46.5 erg s^-1 and the redshift range z < 0.5,
L_bol is proportional to T^2.80(+0.15/-0.15)(1+z)^(0.91-1.12q_0)(+0.54/-1.22).
We also determine the L-T relation that one should use when fitting the Press-
Schechter mass function to X-ray cluster luminosity catalogs such as the
Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) and the Southern Serendipitous High-
Redshift Archival ROSAT Catalog (Southern SHARC), for which cooling flow
corrected luminosities are not determined and a universal X-ray cluster
temperature of T = 6 keV is assumed. In this case, L_bol is proportional to
T^2.65(+0.23/-0.20)(1+z)^(0.42-1.26q_0)(+0.75/-0.83) for the same luminosity
and redshift ranges.Comment: Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal, 20 pages, LaTe
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