High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Authors and titles for June 2016

[151] arXiv:1606.08537 [pdf, other]

Title: Revisiting the constraints on annihilating dark matter by radio observational data of M31

Man Ho Chan

Comments: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[152] arXiv:1606.08600 [pdf, other]

Title: Limits on Lorentz invariance violation at the Planck energy scale from H.E.S.S. spectral analysis of the blazar Mrk 501

Matthias Lorentz, Pierre Brun (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Comments: To appear in proceedings of the 6th Roma International Conference on Astro-Particle Physics (RICAP 16)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[153] arXiv:1606.08626 [pdf, other]

Title: Time dependence of the electron and positron components of the cosmic radiation measured by the PAMELA experiment between July 2006 and December 2015

O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, M. Boezio, E. A. Bogomolov, M. Bongi, V. Bonvicini, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, P. Carlson, M. Casolino, G. Castellini, C. De Santis, V. Di Felice, A. M. Galper, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. A. Koldobskiy, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malakhov, L. Marcelli, M. Martucci, A. G. Mayorov, W. Menn, M. Merge, V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, R. Munini, G. Osteria, B. Panico, P. Papini, M. Pearce, P. Picozza, M. Ricci, S. B. Ricciarini, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. I. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, M. S. Potgieter, E. E. Vos

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[154] arXiv:1606.08648 [pdf, other]

Title: The Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Astrophysical Disks

Ioannis Contopoulos, Demosthenes Kazanas, Dimitrios Papadopoulos

Comments: 10 pages, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[155] arXiv:1606.08700 [pdf, other]

Title: First detection at 5.5 and 9 GHz of the radio relics in bullet cluster with ATCA

Siddharth Malu, Abhirup Datta, Pritpal Sandhu

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science. 18 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Astrophysics and Space Science, 361 (8), 1-8 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[156] arXiv:1606.08742 [pdf, other]

Title: The radio evolution of supernova SN$\,$2008iz in M$\,$82

N. Kimani, K. Sendlinger, A. Brunthaler, K. M. Menten, I. Martí-Vidal, C. Henkel, H. Falcke, T. W. B. Muxlow, R.J. Beswick, G. C. Bower

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A18 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[157] arXiv:1606.08748 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling the shock-cloud interaction in SN 1006: unveiling the origin of nonthermal X-ray and gamma-ray emission

Marco Miceli, Salvatore Orlando, Victor Pereira, Fabio Acero, Satoru Katsuda, Anne Decourchelle, Frank P. Winkler, Rosaria Bonito, Fabio Reale, Giovanni Peres, Jiangtao Li, Gloria Dubner

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A26 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[158] arXiv:1606.08810 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpretation of measurements of the number of muons in extensive air shower experiments

Raul Ribeiro Prado, Ruben Conceição, Mário Pimenta, Vitor de Souza

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[159] arXiv:1606.08873 [pdf, other]

Title: A Reverse Shock in GRB 160509A

Tanmoy Laskar, Kate D. Alexander, Edo Berger, Wen-fai Fong, Raffaella Margutti, Isaac Shivvers, Peter K. G. Williams, Drejc Kopac, Shiho Kobayashi, Carole Mundell, Andreja Gomboc, WeiKang Zheng, Karl M. Menten, Melissa L. Graham, Alexei V. Filippenko

Comments: 8 pages, 2 tables, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[160] arXiv:1606.08879 [pdf, other]

Title: BlackHoleCam: fundamental physics of the Galactic center

C. Goddi, H. Falcke, M. Kramer, L. Rezzolla, C. Brinkerink, T. Bronzwaer, R. Deane, M. De Laurentis, G. Desvignes, J. R. J. Davelaar, F. Eisenhauer, R. Eatough, R. Fraga-Encinas, C. M. Fromm, S. Gillessen, A. Grenzebach, S. Issaoun, M. Janßen, R. Konoplya, T. P. Krichbaum, R. Laing, K. Liu, R.-S. Lu, Y. Mizuno, M. Moscibrodzka, C. Müller, H. Olivares, O. Porth, O. Pfuhl, E. Ros, F. Roelofs, K. Schuster, R. Tilanus, P. Torne, I. van Bemmel, H. J. van Langevelde, N. Wex, Z. Younsi, A. Zhidenko

Comments: review paper, 36 pages, 12 figures (v2 is the published version)

Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics D, February 2017, Vol. 26, No. 02

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[161] arXiv:1606.08940 [pdf, other]

Title: Detailed study of SNR G306.3-0.9 using XMM-Newton and Chandra observations

J.A. Combi, F. García, A.E. Suárez, P.L. Luque-Escamilla, S. Paron, M. Miceli

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures. Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 592, A125 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[162] arXiv:1606.09025 [pdf, other]

Title: SN 2015bh: NGC 2770's 4th supernova or a luminous blue variable on its way to a Wolf-Rayet star?

C. C. Thöne, A. de Ugarte Postigo, G. Leloudas, C. Gall, Z. Cano, K. Maeda, S. Schulze, S. Campana, K. Wiersema, J. Groh, J. de la Rosa, F. E. Bauer, D. Malesani, J. Maund, N. Morrell, Y. Beletsky

Comments: 29 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 599, A129 (2017)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[163] arXiv:1606.09037 [pdf, other]

Title: Silhouette and spectral line profiles in the special modification of the Kerr black hole geometry generated by quintessential fields

Jan Schee, Zdenek Stuchlik

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[164] arXiv:1606.09090 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of magnetic field topology in black hole-neutron star mergers: Long-term simulations

Mew-Bing Wan

Comments: 14 pages, 17 figures. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 95, 104013 (2017)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[165] arXiv:1606.09232 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron Star Mass-Radius Constraints using Evolutionary Optimization

A. L. Stevens, J. D. Fiege, D. A. Leahy, S. M. Morsink

Comments: Supplementary online only tables are also available by contacting the authors

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[166] arXiv:1606.09243 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernova neutrino physics with xenon dark matter detectors: A timely perspective

Rafael F. Lang, Christopher McCabe, Shayne Reichard, Marco Selvi, Irene Tamborra

Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures. Minor revisions compared to original version. Matches version published in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94 (2016) no.10, 103009

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[167] arXiv:1606.09250 [pdf, other]

Title: The Gamma-Ray Pulsar Population of Globular Clusters: Implications for the GeV Excess

Dan Hooper, Tim Linden

Comments: 29 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[168] arXiv:1606.09261 [pdf, other]

Title: Searching for supergiant fast X-ray transients with Swift

P. Romano (1), E. Bozzo (2), P. Esposito (3), B. Sbarufatti (4,5), F. Haberl (6), G. Ponti (6), P. D'Avanzo (4), L. Ducci (7,2), A. Segreto (1), C. Jin (6), N. Masetti (8,9), M. Del Santo (1), S. Campana (4), V. Mangano (5) ((1) INAF/IASF-Palermo, (2) ISDC, (3) API/UvA, (4) INAF/OAB, (5) PSU, (6) MPE, (7) IAAT, Uni. Tuebingen, (8) INAF-IASF-Bologna, (9) Universidad Andres Bello)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 12 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A96 (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[169] arXiv:1606.09265 [pdf, other]

Title: A growth-rate indicator for Compton-thick active galactic nuclei

M. Brightman, A. Masini, D. R. Ballantyne, M. Baloković, W. N. Brandt, C.-T. Chen, A. Comastri, D. Farrah, P. Gandhi, F. A. Harrison, C. Ricci, D. Stern, D. J. Walton

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[170] arXiv:1606.09293 [pdf, other]

Title: Cascade photons as test of protons in UHECR

V. Berezinsky, A. Gazizov, O. Kalashev

Comments: Version accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics. Most recent neutrino flux limits by IceCube were included to the tables. 14 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: Astroparticle Physics, Volume 84, November 2016, Pages 52-61

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[171] arXiv:1606.09295 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining stellar binary black hole formation scenarios with eLISA eccentricity measurements

Atsushi Nishizawa, Alberto Sesana, Emanuele Berti, Antoine Klein

Comments: 5 figures, 1 table

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[172] arXiv:1606.09316 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernovae powered by magnetars that transform into black holes

Takashi J. Moriya, Brian D. Metzger, Sergei I. Blinnikov

Comments: 7 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 833, Issue 1, article id. 64, 7 pp. (2016)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[173] arXiv:1606.09335 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Marcos Santander

Comments: To appear in "Neutrino Astronomy- Current status, future prospects", Eds. T. Gaisser & A. Karle (World Scientific)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[174] arXiv:1606.09466 [pdf, other]

Title: Rosseland and flux mean opacities for Compton scattering

Juri Poutanen (Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku and Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University)

Comments: 11 pages, submitted to ApJ on June 30, 2016

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[175] arXiv:1606.09536 [pdf, other]

Title: Perspectives on Gamma-Ray Burst Physics and Cosmology with Next Generation Facilities

Weimin Yuan, Lorenzo Amati, John K. Cannizzo, Bertrand Cordier, Neil Gehrels, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Diego Götz, Nicolas Produit, Yulei Qiu, Jianchao Sun, Nial R. Tanvir, Jianyan Wei, Chen Zhang

Comments: accepted for publication in Space Science Review; reprinted as a chapter in a book of the Space Sciences Series of ISSI for the proceedings of the ISSI-Beijing workshop " Gamma-Ray Bursts: a Tool to Explore the Young Universe"

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[176] arXiv:1606.09566 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic flux stabilizing thin accretion disks

Aleksander Sadowski

Comments: MNRAS Letters, in press

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[177] arXiv:1606.00089 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: Three-dimensional simulations of gravitationally confined detonations compared to observations of SN 1991T

Ivo R. Seitenzahl, Markus Kromer, Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Franco Ciaraldi-Schoolmann, Kai Marquardt, Michael Fink, Wolfgang Hillebrandt, Ruediger Pakmor, Friedrich K. Roepke, Ashley J. Ruiter, Stuart A. Sim, Stefan Taubenberger

Comments: 11 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 592, A57 (2016)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[178] arXiv:1606.00140 (cross-list from astro-ph.GA) [pdf, other]

Title: On the Host Galaxy of GRB 150101B and the Associated Active Galactic Nucleus

Chen Xie, Taotao Fang, Junfeng Wang, Tong Liu, Xiaochuan Jiang

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[179] arXiv:1606.00225 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: V4743 Sgr, a magnetic nova?

P. Zemko, M. Orio, K. Mukai, A. Bianchini, S. Ciroi, V. Cracco

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted to MNRAS

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[180] arXiv:1606.00393 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [pdf, other]

Title: GammaLib and ctools: A software framework for the analysis of astronomical gamma-ray data

J. Knödlseder, M. Mayer, C. Deil, J.-B. Cayrou, E. Owen, N. Kelley-Hoskins, C.-C. Lu, R. Buehler, F. Forest, T. Louge, H. Siejkowski, K. Kosack, L. Gerard, A. Schulz, P. Martin, D. Sanchez, S. Ohm, T. Hassan, S. Brau-Nogué

Comments: 19 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, corrected X axis units in Figure 10

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A1 (2016)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[181] arXiv:1606.00433 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Spherical Cows in Dark Matter Indirect Detection

Nicolás Bernal, Lina Necib, Tracy R. Slatyer

Comments: 16 pages, 16 figures. Comments welcome. v2: Some text updates for clarification. Fig 12 updated. Conclusions unchanged. Version to appear on JCAP

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[182] arXiv:1606.00444 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: The charged black-hole bomb: A lower bound on the charge-to-mass ratio of the explosive scalar field

Shahar Hod

Comments: 9 pages

Journal-ref: Physics Letters B 755, 177 (2016)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[183] arXiv:1606.00557 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: $\gamma$-ray emission signals in the massive graviton mediated dark matter model

Cun Zhang, Ming-Yang Cui, Lei Feng, Yi-Zhong Fan, Zhong-Zhou Ren

Comments: To appear in Nuclear Physics B

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[184] arXiv:1606.00665 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: History of "Anomalous" Atmospheric Neutrino Events: A First Person Account

John M. LoSecco

Comments: 46 pages, 24 figures. To be published in Physics in Perspective Version 2 has a table of contents, a table of figures and the DOI added The final publication is available at Springer via this http URL

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[185] arXiv:1606.00859 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A Variational Principle for the Axisymmetric Stability of Rotating Relativistic Stars

Kartik Prabhu, Joshua S. Schiffrin, Robert M. Wald

Comments: v2: updated some text and references; published in CQG v1: 36 pages

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. (2016) 33 185007

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[186] arXiv:1606.00872 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: An Optical and Near-Infrared Study of the Type Ia/IIn Supernova PS15si

Charles D. Kilpatrick, Jennifer E. Andrews, Nathan Smith, Peter Milne, George H. Rieke, WeiKang Zheng, Alexei V. Filippenko

Comments: submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[187] arXiv:1606.00953 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Rapid and reliable sky localization of gravitational wave sources

Neil J. Cornish

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[188] arXiv:1606.01126 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Superfluid hydrodynamics in the inner crust of neutron stars

Noël Martin, Michael Urban

Comments: 13 pages, 12 figures, figures and discussions added. Accepted in Phys. Rev. C

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. C 94, 065801 (2016)

Subjects: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[189] arXiv:1606.01165 (cross-list from astro-ph.GA) [pdf, other]

Title: Origin of central abundances in the hot intra-cluster medium - I. Individual and average abundance ratios from XMM-Newton EPIC

François Mernier, Jelle de Plaa, Ciro Pinto, Jelle S. Kaastra, Peter Kosec, Yu-Ying Zhang, Junjie Mao, Norbert Werner

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 592, A157 (2016)

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[190] arXiv:1606.01201 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: Recent X-Recent X-ray observations of the symbiotic star AG Peg: do they signify Colliding Stellar Winds?

Svetozar A. Zhekov, Toma Tomov

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 11 pages, 8 figires, 2 tables

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[191] arXiv:1606.01210 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: An improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, C. C. Arceneaux, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, C. Baune, V. Bavigadda, M. Bazzan, M. Bejger, A. S. Bell, B. K. Berger, G. Bergmann, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, S. Bhagwat, R. Bhandare, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, R. Birney, O. Birnholtz, S. Biscans, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, C. Bogan, A. Bohe, C. Bond, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. X 6, 041014 (2016)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[192] arXiv:1606.01262 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, C. C. Arceneaux, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, C. Baune, V. Bavigadda, M. Bazzan, M. Bejger, A. S. Bell, B. K. Berger, G. Bergmann, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, S. Bhagwat, R. Bhandare, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, R. Birney, S. Biscans, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, C. Bogan, A. Bohe, C. Bond, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose, Y. Bouffanais

Comments: 29 pages. Full version of tables available electronically with this submission

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94, 064035 (2016)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[193] arXiv:1606.01330 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Buchdahl compactness limit for a pure Lovelock static fluid star

Naresh Dadhich, Sumanta Chakraborty

Comments: Revised; Title Changed; 11 pages; no figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 95, 064059 (2017)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[194] arXiv:1606.01399 (cross-list from astro-ph.GA) [pdf, other]

Title: A Fundamental Line of Black Hole Activity

Ruth. A. Daly, Douglas A. Stout, Jeremy N. Mysliwiec

Comments: Published in the Astrophysical Journal, 863, 117-122; 6 pages; 2 tables; 2 figures

Journal-ref: 2018, ApJ, 863, 117

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[195] arXiv:1606.01529 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion disks around neutron and strange stars in $\mathcal{R}^2$ gravity

Kalin V. Staykov, Daniela D. Doneva, Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[196] arXiv:1606.01909 (cross-list from astro-ph.GA) [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Runaway Tidal Encounters

Nicholas C. Stone, Andreas H.W. Kuepper, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures, comments welcome

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[197] arXiv:1606.02271 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Comments on the compatibility of thermodynamic equilibrium conditions with lattice propagators

Fabrizio Canfora, Alex Giacomini, Pablo Pais, Luigi Rosa, Alfonso Zerwekh

Comments: 24 pages; 12 figures. Title slightly changed and improved discussion. Version accepted for publication on European Physical Journal C

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76:443

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[198] arXiv:1606.02300 (cross-list from astro-ph.SR) [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution and Fate of Super-Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarf Merger Remnants

Josiah Schwab, Eliot Quataert, Daniel Kasen

Comments: 17 pages, 17 figures, 1 table; accepted to MNRAS

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[199] arXiv:1606.02304 (cross-list from astro-ph.GA) [pdf, other]

Title: Cold, clumpy accretion onto an active supermassive black hole

Grant R. Tremblay, J. B. Raymond Oonk, Françoise Combes, Philippe Salomé, Christopher P. O'Dea, Stefi A. Baum, G. Mark Voit, Megan Donahue, Brian R. McNamara, Timothy A. Davis, Michael A. McDonald, Alastair C. Edge, Tracy E. Clarke, Roberto Galván-Madrid, Malcolm N. Bremer, Louise O. V. Edwards, Andrew C. Fabian, Stephen L. Hamer, Yuan Li, Anaëlle Maury, Helen R. Russell, Alice C. Quillen, C. Megan Urry, Jeremy S. Sanders, Michael Wise

Comments: Published in the June 9th, 2016 issue of Nature

Journal-ref: Nature, 534, 218-221 (2016)

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[200] arXiv:1606.02305 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Strong CMB Constraint On P-Wave Annihilating Dark Matter

Haipeng An, Mark B. Wise, Yue Zhang

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)