New Books in Hilo

IAU Colloquium 199
Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines
QB 860 .P7

IAU Symposium 218
Young Neutron Stars and Their Environments
QB 1 .I58 v. 218

New Books in Manoa

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series:

342. 1604-2004 : supernovae as cosmological lighthouses.
QB 843 .S95 T87 2004

344. The cool universe : observing cosmic dawn
QB 479.4 .C66 2004

New Books in Manoa

The interstellar medium
Lequeux, James
QB 790 .L4713 2005

A journey through time : exploring the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Barbree, Jay
QB 500.268 .B37 1995

The physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium.
Tielens, A. G. G. M.
QB 790 .T54 2005


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Not on the new books shelf, but new and in the collection:

A manual of spherical and practical astronomy,
vols. 1 & 2
Chauvenet, William
QB 145 .C5 1891

The shadow of the telescope; a biography of John Herschel
Buttmann, Gunther
QB 36 .H59 B813 1970

New Book in Manoa!

Cold dark matter
"A Morgan O'Brien Mystery"
Brett, Alex
PS 8553 .R3869 C54 2004

New Item in Manoa

IAU Symposium 228
From lithium to uranium : elemental tracers of the early chemical evolution

High citation counts sighted

InCites, the online newsletter of Thomson Scientific/ISI (publisher of Science Citation Index/World of Science), has highlighted two publications by IfA astronomers:

Istvan Szapudi is a co-author of one of the TOP THREE MOST-CITED physics papers published in the last two-years:
“Cosmological Parameters from SDSS and WMAP,” by Tegmark M; et al.
Physical Review D 69 (10): art. no.-103501. May 2004.
Citations: 254

John Tonry’s paper: “Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution,” by Riess, Adam G; et al.
Astrophysical Journal 607 (2): 665-687. 1 June 2004.
was designated as a Hot Paper in Physics in the January 16, 2006, segment of SCI-BYTES—What's New in Research.
Total citations to date: 213

"This 2004 report from Astrophysical Journal was cited 53 times
in current journal articles indexed by Thomson Scientific during
September-October 2005. No other physics paper published in the
last two years, aside from reviews, collected more citations during
that two-month period."

New Item in Manoa

Astronomical Phenomena for the year 2008
REF QB 8 .U3 A5 IA3 2008