Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 1994

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/9401001 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-Scale Mass Distribution Behind the Galactic Plane

Tsafrir Kolatt, Avishai Dekel, Ofer Lahav

Comments: (10 pages, 8 figures, compressed and uudecoded PostScript 1.3Mbyte)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/9401002 [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleation of quark matter bubbles in neutron stars

Michael L. Olesen, Jes Madsen

Comments: 13 pages, REVTeX, Phys.Rev.D (in press), IFA 93-32. 5 figures (not included) available upon request from jesm@dfi.this http URL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D49:2698-2702,1994

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/9401003 [pdf, other]

Title: Small-Scale Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies as a Probe of the Geometry of the Universe

Marc Kamionkowski, David N. Spergel, Naoshi Sugiyama

Comments: 12 pages of uuencoded PostScript

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 426 (1994) L57

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/9401004 [pdf, other]

Title: Causality in Strong Shear Flows

Ramesh Narayan, Abraham Loeb, Pawan Kumar

Comments: 44 pages, TEX, 9 figures can be obtained from hottle@cfa.this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 431 (1994) 359

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/9401005 [pdf, other]

Title: Finite Source Sizes and the Information Content of MACHO-Type Lens Search Light Curves

Robert J. Nemiroff (NASA/GSFC and George Mason U.), W.A.D. Thulsi Wickramasinghe (U. Penn)

Comments: in press: ApJ (Lett.), 10 pages in Plain TeX version 3.0, 1 figure available by FAX

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 424 (1994) L21

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/9401006 [pdf, other]

Title: The Scalar Field Potential in Inflationary Models: Reconstruction and Further Constraints

Fred C. Adams, Katherine Freese

Comments: 30 pages Plain TeX, submitted to Phys. Rev. D, 5 fig., UM-AC 94-01

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D51 (1995) 6722-6735

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/9401007 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Perturbation Theory in the Synchronous vs. Conformal Newtonian Gauge

Chung-Pei Ma, Edmund Bertschinger

Comments: 35 pages, AAS LaTeX v3.0, figures and/or postscript available by anonymous ftp to this http URL, Caltech GRP-375; MIT-AT-94-01; IASSNS-AST-94/1

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 455 (1995) 7

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/9401008 [pdf, other]

Title: The Origin of the Magellanic Stream

Ben Moore, Marc Davis

Comments: 20 pages in TeX format. Please request hardcopy of plots, tables and text from BM

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/9401009 [pdf, other]

Title: The virial theorem for action-governed theories

M. Milgrom

Comments: 9 pages

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett. A190 (1994) 17-21

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/9401010 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Emitting Dust in the Free-Electron Layer of Spiral Galaxies: Testing the Disk/Halo Interface

A. Ferrara, R.J. Dettmar

Comments: Plain TeX, ST-801

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/9401011 [pdf, other]

Title: False Vacuum Inflation with Einstein Gravity

Edmund J Copeland, Andrew R Liddle, David H Lyth, Ewan D Stewart, David Wands

Comments: 37 pages, LaTeX (3 figures available as hard copies only), SUSSEX-AST 94/1-1

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D49 (1994) 6410-6433

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

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/9401012 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Temperature Fluctuations from Two Years of COBE DMR Observations

C. Bennett, A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, A. Banday, E. Wright, K. Gorski, D. Wilkinson, R. Weiss, G. Smoot, S. Meyer, J. Mather, P. Lubin, K. Loewenstein, C. Lineweaver, P. Keegstra, E. Kaita, P. Jackson, E. Cheng

Comments: Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal. Modifications include the addition of a quadrupole- removed correlation function and an analysis of the technique bias on the power spectral index, n. The most likely, de-biased, estimate of n is between 1.1 and 1.3. 57 pages of uu-encoded postscript (incl 3 b&w figures)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.436:423-442,1994

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/9401013 [pdf, other]

Title: Time delay controversy on QSO 0957+561 not yet decided

J.Pelt, W.Hoff, R.Kayser, S.Refsdal, T.Schramm

Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX A&A L-AA version 3, including Encapsulated PostScript figures, tar, compressed, uuencoded HH-GRAL-RK-1-93

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/9401014 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational Constraints on the Spectral Index

Andrew R Liddle, David H Lyth

Comments: 11 pages. Revised version with an extended text and comments on damped Lyman alpha systems. Latex file for the text, plus a ps file for the two figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/9401015 [pdf, other]

Title: Angular Power Spectrum of the Microwave Background Anisotropy seen by the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer

E. L. Wright, G. F. Smoot, C. L. Bennett, P. M. Lubin

Comments: 22 pages of LaTex using this http URL and this http URL with appended Postscript figures, COBE Preprint 94-02

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.436:443-451,1994

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/9401016 [pdf, other]

Title: Origin of Quasar Progenitors from the Collapse of Low-Spin Cosmological Perturbations

Daniel J. Eisenstein, Abraham Loeb (Harvard Univ.)

Comments: 18 pages and one file of 3 figures, uuencoded compressed tarred Postscript. Final extended version, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal (4/10/95 issue)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.443:11,1995

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/9401017 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling the Power Spectrum of Density Fluctuations: A Phenomenological Approach

Enzo Branchini, Luigi Guzzo, Riccardo Valdarnini

Comments: ApJL in press, 10 pages in plain TeX, 3 figures available from guzzo@astmim.this http URL, SISSA 110/93/A

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 424 (1994) L5

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/9401018 [pdf, other]

Title: A NLTE study of neutral boron in solar-type stars

Dan Kiselman

Comments: 13 pages, A&A Plain TeX 3.0; 7 postscript figures upon request to dan@nordita.dk; Astronomy & Astrophyics in press, NORDITA-94/5 A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/9401019 [pdf, other]

Title: Empirical Constraints on Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts

Eric Woods, Abraham Loeb

Comments: 13 pages, TEX, 2 figures can be obtained from woods@cfata3.this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 425 (1994) L63

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/9401020 [pdf, other]

Title: A Spectroscopic Method to Measure Macho Proper Motions

Dan Maoz, Andrew Gould

Comments: 16 pages, LaTex, two PostScript figures, OSU-TA-1/94

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 425 (1994) L67

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/9401021 [pdf, other]

Title: Large Scale Morphological Segregation in Optically Selected Galaxy Redshift Catalogs

R. Dominguez-Tenreiro, A. Campos, M.A. Gómez-Flechoso, G. Yepes

Comments: 9 pages, (1 figure included), uuencode compressed Postscript, (accepted for publication in ApJ Letters), FTUAM-93-25

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/9401022 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of Cosmic Flows

Avishai Dekel

Comments: A review for Ann. Rev. of Astron. and Astrophys. 32 (October 1994). 46 pages, 10 figures built-in, compressed and uuencoded PostScript (1.58 Mbyte). (Also available by anonymous ftp from this http URL as pub/dekel/reviews/annrev9.uu, or text and figures separately as this http URL with fig*.ps) (HUJI-AST-94-002)

Journal-ref: Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys. 32 (1994) 371-418

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/9401023 [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastic fluctuations and structure formation in the Universe

A. Berera, L.Z.Fang

Comments: 14 pages, Latex, this http URL. in press, From Dept of Physics, University of Arizona

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 72 (1994) 458-461

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/9401024 [pdf, other]

Title: The $^7$Be Solar Neutrino Line: A Reflection of the Central Temperature Distribution of the Sun

John N. Bahcall

Comments: 58 pages, REVTEX file. For hardcopy of figures contact BEST@SNS.this http URL. Institute for Advanced Study number AST 93/40

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D49 (1994) 3923-3945

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/9401025 [pdf, other]

Title: A comparison of one and two dimensional models of transonic accretion discs around collapsed objects

J.C.B. Papaloizou, E. Szuszkiewicz

Comments: (To appear in M.N.R.A.S.) 25 pages, plain LaTeX, (8 figures available upon request), QMW 93-9

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/9401026 [pdf, other]

Title: Collapse of Primordial Gas Clouds and the Formation of Quasar Black Holes

A. Loeb, F. A. Rasio

Comments: 20 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, 4 figures available upon request from BEST@sns.this http URL, IAS-AST-94-3

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/9401027 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrodynamics of Binary Coalescence.I. Polytropes with Stiff Equations of State

F. A. Rasio, S. L. Shapiro

Comments: 27 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, 16 figures upon request from BEST@sns.this http URL, IAS-AST-94-4

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.432:242,1994

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/9401028 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Resolution Imaging of Faint Blue Galaxies

Matthew Colless, David Schade, T J Broadhurst, R S Ellis

Comments: MNRAS, in press, 15 pages, Latex, MNRAS style (this http URL), full paper with figures available as {}~ftp/pub/colless/mmc_94-1.tar.Z (compressed tar archive of PS files) via anonymous ftp to this http URL, MSSSO_MMC_94-1

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/9401029 [pdf, other]

Title: A Model for the Spectral Energy Distribution of the Ultraluminous Galaxy IRAS F10214+4724

P. Mazzei, G. De Zotti

Comments: TEX, 6 pages, 3 figures upon request

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/9401030 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-Ray Bursts from Neutron Star Mergers

T. Piran

Comments: 4 pages, 1 Figure can be obtained on request by e-mail from the Author

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/9401031 [pdf, other]

Title: Fireballs and Gamma-Ray Bursts

Tsvi Piran

Comments: Ten pages, 2 figures can be obtained from the author by e-mail on request

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/9401032 [pdf, other]

Title: Merging Neutron Stars I: Initial Results for Coalescence of Non-Corotating Systems

M. B. Davies, W. Benz, T. Piran, F. K. Thielemann

Comments: Plain TeX, 22 pages, 9 figures can be obtained from Tsvi Piran by e-mail on request

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 431 (1994) 742

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/9401033 [pdf, other]

Title: Light Deflection in Perturbed Friedmann Universes

Ruth Durrer

Comments: LaTeX, submitted to PRL, no figures, ZU-TH3/94

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 72 (1994) 3301-3304

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/9401034 [pdf, other]

Title: An Outer Gap Model of High-Energy Emission from Rotation-Powered Pulsars

J. Chiang, R. W. Romani

Comments: 13 pages, LaTeX, for figures send request to chiang@cita.this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/9401035 [pdf, other]

Title: Microlensing by the Milky Way Halo

N.W.Evans, J.Jijina

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/9401036 [pdf, other]

Title: The Radio Nebula of the Soft Gamma Ray Repeater SGR 1806-20

S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail, N. E. Kassim, T. Murakami, G. Vasisht

Comments: 7 pages, PostScript. Figure available on request from dfrail@nrao.edu

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/9401037 [pdf, other]

Title: Lick Galaxy Correlation Function Revised

M. Plionis, S. Borgani

Comments: 4 pages. Postscript (Figure on request). Submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/9401038 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of Spots in the COBE DMR First Year Anisotropy Maps

S. Torres

Comments: 8 pages, plain Latex + one Postscript file appended, ICRA-20-01-94

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/9401039 [pdf, other]

Title: Topological Defects in Cosmology

Tanmay Vachaspati

Comments: 38 pages, TUTP-94-2

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/9401040 [pdf, other]

Title: Synthesis of Galactic Stellar Populations and Expected Constraints from Infrared Surveys

A.C. Robin

Comments: Latex, Besancon Observatory preprint

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/9401041 [pdf, other]

Title: Upper Limits on Metals in Quasar Lyman-Alpha Forest Clouds: Absence of C IV Lines in Echelle Spectra

D. Tytler, X.-M. Fan

Comments: Plain Tex, 9 pages and 2 figures. To get postscript files for figures ftp to this http URL and login as ftp in directory pub. Send preprint request to Betty Travell at btravell@ucsd.edu. To appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/9401042 [pdf, other]

Title: Jordan-Brans-Dicke Stochastic Inflation

Juan Garcia-Bellido

Comments: 22 pages, corrected some references, plain LaTeX

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys. B423 (1994) 221-242

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

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/9401043 [pdf, other]

Title: A Standard Model Solution to the Solar Neutrino Problem?

Arnon Dar, Giora Shaviv

Comments: 11 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/9401044 [pdf, other]

Title: The Contribution of the Obscuring Torus to the X--Ray Spectrum of Seyfert Galaxies: A Test for the Unification Model

Gabriele Ghisellini, Francesco Haardt, Giorgio Matt

Comments: 19 pages, Plain Tex, SISSA ref. 175/93/A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/9401045 [pdf, other]

Title: $\gamma$-Ray Pulsars: Emission Zones and Viewing Geometries

Roger W. Romani, I.-A. Yadigaroglu

Comments: 17 pages Latex with aaspp macros and PostScript figures. mpeg simulations available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/9401046 [pdf, other]

Title: Can We Identify Lensed Gamma Ray Bursts?

M.A. Nowak, S.A. Grossman

Comments: 28 pages, plain TeX (Figures Available as Post Script Files)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/9401047 [pdf, other]

Title: The Statistics of Gamma Ray Burst Lensing

S.A. Grossman, M.A. Nowak

Comments: 23 pages, plain TeX (revised to TeX easily), figures available by anonymous ftp

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 435 (1994) 548

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/9401048 [pdf, other]

Title: Scale-Invariant Spectrum of Cosmic Background Radiation as a Feature of the Universe with Negative Curvature

V.G.Gurzadyan, A.A.Kocharyan

Comments: 6 pages, plain LaTeX, IC/93/419

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/9401049 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing the Peculiar Velocity Field predicted from Redshift Surveys

Wolfram Freudling, Luiz Nicolaci da Costa, Paulo S. Pellegrini

Comments: tar-compressed and uudecoded postscript files, 12 pages+8 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 268 (1994) 943

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/9401050 [pdf, other]

Title: Limits on Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves

R. Bar-Kana

Comments: 10 pages inc. 3 figures, LaTeX file + 3 figures in tarred, compressed, uuencoded PostScript, CSR-AT-94-2

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D50 (1994) 1157-1160

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)