Astrophysics

Authors and titles for August 1995

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/9508001 [pdf, other]

Title: The Abundance of Boron in Evolved A- and B-Type Stars

Kim A. Venn, David L. Lambert, Michael Lemke

Comments: uuencoded compressed postscript. The preprint is also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/9508002 [pdf, other]

Title: Overtures to the pulsational instability of ZZ Ceti variables

Alfred Gautschy (Max-Planck Inst. für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany and Universität Basel, Switzerland), Hans-Günter Ludwig (Max-Planck Inst. für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany), Bernd Freytag (Universität Kiel, Germany)

Comments: 13 pages, postscript figures included in text, uuencoded gzipped ps-file. Submitted for publication in Astron.&Astrophys

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/9508003 [pdf, other]

Title: The Open Universe Grishchuk-Zel'dovich Effect

Juan Garcia-Bellido, Andrew R Liddle, David H Lyth, David Wands

Comments: 10 pages LaTeX file (using RevTeX), plus 4 postscript figures to be printed separately. Final version, to appear in Physical Review D: main change is a new appendix on the dipole anisotropy

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D52:6750-6759,1995

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

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/9508004 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrodynamical Simulations of Corotating Interaction Regions and Discrete Absorption Components in Rotating O-Star Winds

S. R. Cranmer, S. P. Owocki (Bartol Research Institute)

Comments: Submitted to Ap. J., 8-1-95. 20 pages of LaTeX text, using AASTeX 4.0 macros. Postscript figures available on WWW, along with postscript version of paper, at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/9508005 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Constraints on the Intrinsic Shape of the Lenticular Galaxy NGC 1332

David A. Buote, Claude R. Canizares

Comments: 45 pages (figures missing), PostScript, to appear in ApJ on January 20, 1996

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 457 (1996) 177

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/9508006 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Microlensing, The Distance Scale, And The Ages

Bohdan Paczynski

Comments: 10 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 173: ``Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, Eds.: C. S. Kochanek and J. N. Hewitt , also available as POPe 631 at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/9508007 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization of Astronomical Maser Radiation. III. Arbitrary Zeeman Splitting and Anisotropic Pumping

Moshe Elitzur (University of Kentucky)

Comments: 31 pages Latex file, uses AASTeX v4.0. Postscript figures available upon request

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/9508008 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling the Galactic Bar Using Red Clump Stars

K. Z. Stanek, M. Mateo, A. Udalski, M. Szymanski, J. Kaluzny, M. Kubiak, W. Krzeminski (OGLE collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages, uuencoded compressed PostScript, talk presented at the IAU Colloquium 157 "Barred Galaxies"; also available through WWW at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/9508009 [pdf, other]

Title: Cold Dark Matter Resuscitated?

Martin White, Douglas Scott, Joe Silk, Marc Davis

Comments: 6 pages, self-unpacking uuencoded compressed postscript, with 4 included figures, to appear in MNRAS. References added and Fig.3 corrected. Also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.276:L69-L75,1995

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/9508010 [pdf, other]

Title: The Canada-France Redshift Survey X: The Quasar Sample

David Schade, David Crampton, F. Hammer, O. Le Fevre, S.J. Lilly

Comments: uuencoded compressed Tex file requiring this http URL (first part), plus uuencoded compressed postscript copies of Table 1, Figures 1, 3 and 4. A hardcopy of Figure 2 is available from the authors. Also available at this http URL . Accepted Aug 1 by MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/9508011 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigating the Near-Infrared Properties of Planetary Nebulae. I. Narrowband Images

William B. Latter (NRAO/Tucson), Douglas M. Kelly (Univ. of Texas at Austin), Joseph L. Hora (Institute for Astronomy), Lynne K. Deutsch (Univ. of Massachusetts)

Comments: 21 pages text+tables and 38 figures, full preprint available at this http URL, report #9571 (4.4MB gzipped file), or email latter@dusty.this http URL. Accepted ApJS, scheduled Sept. 1995

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/9508012 [pdf, other]

Title: Neural computation as a tool for galaxy classification : methods and examples

O. Lahav, A. Naim, L. Sodre, M.C. Storrie-Lombardi

Comments: uuencoded compressed postscript. The preprint is also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/9508013 [pdf, other]

Title: A 2nd generation cosmic axion experiment

C. Hagmann, W. Stoeffl, K. van Bibber, E. Daw, D. Kinion, L. Rosenberg, P. Sikivie, N. Sullivan, D. Tanner, D. Moltz, F. Nezrick, M. Turner, N. Golubev, L. Kravchuk

Comments: Postscript, 6 pages, 4 figures; submitted to proceedings of: XXXth Recontres de Moriond, 'Dark Matter in Cosmology", Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, Jan 21-28, 1995

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/9508014 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Model for Black Hole Soft X-ray Transients in Quiescence

Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Insu Yi

Comments: 32 Pages, 6 Figures included, Compressed Postscript, To Appear in Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 457 (1996) 821

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/9508015 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiation Dosimetry of Binary Pulsars

David Eichler, Biman B. Nath

Comments: To appear in The Astrophysical Journal. Plain TeX file, 8 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 458 (1996) 275

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/9508016 [pdf, other]

Title: Large Scale Structure Formation with Global Topological Defects. A new Formalism and its implementation by numerical simulations

R. Durrer, Z.-H. Zhou

Comments: uuencoded, compressed tar-file containing the text in LaTeX and 12 Postscript Figures, 41 pages

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D53 (1996) 5394-5410

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/9508017 [pdf, other]

Title: An axially-symmetric Newtonian Boson Star

B. Schupp, J.J. van der Bij

Comments: 4 pages, figures available on request

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett. B366 (1996) 85-88

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/9508018 [pdf, other]

Title: A test for partial correlation with censored astronomical data

M.G.Akritas, J.Siebert

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figs incl., uuencoded compressed postscript, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/9508019 [pdf, other]

Title: Automated Source Classification using a Kohonen Network

Petri Mahonen, Pasi Hakala (University of Oxford)

Comments: 10 pages, self-unpacking uuencoded postscript, with 4 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/9508020 [pdf, other]

Title: The Direct and Indirect Detection of Weakly Interacting Dark Matter Particles

F. Halzen

Comments: Talk presented at the International Symposium on Particle Theory and Phenomenology, Iowa State University, May 1995. Latex with some style macros included, 8 pages. Uses epsf to include 1 postscript figure. Compressed postscript version with figure can be obtained from this http URL or from this ftp URL

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

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/9508021 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermally-driven Neutron Star Glitches

B. Link, R. I. Epstein

Comments: 21 pages plus 17 figures, uuencode compressed Postscript. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/9508022 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonance Oscillation Of Radiative Shock Waves In Accretion Disks Around Compact Objects

Diego M. Molteni, H. Sponholz, Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Comments: 24 pages of text plus 6 figures (in tar-compressed form); Astrophysical journal (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/9508023 [pdf, other]

Title: QSOs and the hard x-ray background

Alexey Vikhlinin

Comments: 12 pages, figures included, also available at this http URL . A&A, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/9508024 [pdf, other]

Title: Elliptical Galaxies in Cluster Cores: Luminosity Functions and Selection Procedures

Emilio Molinari

Comments: uuencoded compressed postscript file, 4 pages with 2 figures, published in 'Fresh View of Ellipticals', Puebla congress proceedings, March 1995

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/9508025 [pdf, other]

Title: The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos

Julio F. Navarro (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona), Carlos S. Frenk (Physics Department, University of Durham), Simon D.M. White (MPI fur Astrophysik, Garching)

Comments: compressed and uuencoded PS file. 22 pages including 14 figures. 447875 bytes. Submitted to ApJ on August 1, 1995

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.462:563-575,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/9508026 [pdf, other]

Title: V/Vmax statistic and Neo-Classic Cosmological Tests

L. Van Waerbeke, G. Mathez, Y. Mellier, H. Bonnet, M. Lachieze-Rey

Comments: uuencode compressed tar file of Latex and macros files. Tar compressed poscript files of the paper and figures are also available by anonymous ftp at this ftp URL or upon request at waerbeke@obsthis http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/9508027 [pdf, other]

Title: Pure Luminosity Evolution Hypothesis for QSOs: From Luminosity Functions to Synthetic Catalogues

G. Mathez, L. Van Waerbeke, Y. Mellier, H. Bonnet, M. Lachieze-Rey

Comments: uuencode compressed tar file of Latex and macros files. Tar compressed poscript files of the papers and figures are also available by anonymous ftp at this ftp URL or upon request at waerbeke@obsthis http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/9508028 [pdf, other]

Title: Triggering of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes: PMT trigger rates due to night-sky photons

G. Hermann, C. Köhler, T. Kutter, W. Hofmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik,Heidelberg,Germany)

Comments: 19 pages, latex,epsf, 7 figures appended as uuencoded file, submitted to Journal of Physics G

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/9508029 [pdf, other]

Title: Assessing Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis

Craig J. Copi, David N. Schramm, Michael S. Turner

Comments: 7 pages, LaTeX(2.09), 6 postscript figures (attached). A postscript version with figures can be found at this ftp URL . (See the README file for details)

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 75 (1995) 3981-3984

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/9508030 [pdf, other]

Title: The Kinematics of the Ionized and Molecular Hydrogen in the Starburst Galaxy NGC 253

F. Prada, A. Manchado, B. Canzian, R. F. Peletier, C. D. McKeith, J. E. Beckman

Comments: Uuencoded postscript file, 10 pages (4 tables included), 8 figures available on request to fprada@ibmthis http URL, Ap.J. (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/9508031 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion Flows Around Black Holes

Ramesh Narayan

Comments: 20 pages, 3 figures included, compressed uuencoded Postscript, Review talk at the conference on "Some Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics," Princeton, April 27-29, 1995. To appear in the Proceedings to be published by Princeton Univ. Press (editors, J. N. Bahcall & J. P. Ostriker)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/9508032 [pdf, other]

Title: Previrialization: Perturbative and N-Body Results

Ewa L. Lokas, Roman Juszkiewicz, Francois R. Bouchet, Eric Hivon

Comments: Significantly revised, 25 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, figures included, to appear in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/9508033 [pdf, other]

Title: Buckling Bars and Boxy Bulges

Michael R. Merrifield (Southampton University)

Comments: uuencoded compressed postcript, 9 pages. Invited talk at IAU Colloquium #157: Barred Galaxies. The figures (some of which are rather large) are available over the WWW from our preprint server at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/9508034 [pdf, other]

Title: Boson Star Rotation: A Newtonian Approximation

Vanda Silveira, Claudio M. G. de Sousa (Universidade de Brasilia)

Comments: 17 pages, Latex, 3 figures available upon request

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D52 (1995) 5724-5728

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

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/9508035 [pdf, other]

Title: Dust distribution in disks supplied by small bodies: Is the Beta Pictoris disk a gigantic multi-cometary tail?

A. Lecavelier des Etangs, A. Vidal-Madjar, R. Ferlet

Comments: 10 pages, l-aa LaTeX file + 7 appended figures in uuencoded .ps; To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Postscript version of paper also available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/9508036 [pdf, other]

Title: The Linear-Size Evolution of Classical Double Radio Sources

Mark J. Neeser, Stephen A. Eales, J. Duncan Law-Green, Patrick Leahy, Steve Rawlings

Comments: compressed and uuencoded postscript file. 33 pages including 5 figures (441951 bytes). Accepted for publication in September ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/9508037 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Origin for Cosmic Rays Above $10^{19}$ eV

Eli Waxman (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Comments: uuencoded gz-compressed postscript file, including 2 figures; To appear in the October 10 (1995) issue of the Ap. J. Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 452 (1995) L1-L4

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/9508038 [pdf, other]

Title: The Growth Rate of Tidally Excited Waves in Accretion Disks

Ethan T. Vishniac, Changsong Zhang (University of Texas)

Comments: LaTeX (aastex)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 461 (1996) 307

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/9508039 [pdf, other]

Title: Real-time Detection of Gravitational Microlensing

M.R. Pratt, C. Alcock, R.A. Allsman, D. Alves, T.S. Axelrod, A. Becker, D.P. Bennett, K.H. Cook, K.C. Freeman, K. Griest, J. Guern, M. Lehner, S.L. Marshall, B.A. Peterson, P.J. Quinn, D. Reiss, A.W. Rodgers, C. Stubbs, W. Sutherland, D. Welch (The MACHO Collaboration)

Comments: 6 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, to appear int the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 173: "Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, Eds.: C. S. Kochanek and J. N. Hewitt

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 463 (1996) L67

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/9508040 [pdf, other]

Title: The first generation of stars: first steps towards chemical evolution of galaxies

Jean Audouze, Joseph Silk

Comments: 7 pages of plain TEX, no figures, to appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 451 (1995) L49

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/9508041 [pdf, other]

Title: Remote Control and Experience at ESO

Anders Wallander, Albert Zijlstra

Comments: Review talk given at conf. on New Observing Modes For The Next Century (Hawaii, July 1995). 9 pages, 2 (ps) figures available on request from azijlstr@eso.org

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/9508042 [pdf, other]

Title: The Deficit of Distant Galaxy Clusters in the RIXOS X-ray Survey

F.J. Castander, R.G. Bower, R.S. Ellis, A. Aragon-Salamanca, K.O. Mason, G. Hasinger, R.G. McMahon, F.J. Carrera, J.P.D. Mittaz, I. Perez-Fournon, H.J. Lehto

Comments: uuencoded compressed postscript. The preprint is also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/9508043 [pdf, other]

Title: Contact Binary Stars as Standard Candles

Slavek M. Rucinski (David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto)

Comments: review presented at Binaries in Clusters meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June 19-23, 1995. uufiles compressed Post-Script text and 4 figures. Subject to final editing and referee approval

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/9508044 [pdf, other]

Title: The Morphological Evolution of Galaxies

R.S. Ellis

Comments: gzipped postscript. The preprint is also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 267 (1999) 319-328

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/9508045 [pdf, other]

Title: Linear Potentials in the Cores of Clusters of Galaxies

Philip D. Mannheim (University of Connecticut)

Comments: Plain TeX, 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 1995 Astronomical Society of the Pacific Symposium on Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe, University of Maryland, June 1995

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/9508046 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak Interactions in Supernova Cores and Saturation of Nucleon Spin Fluctuations

Guenter Sigl

Comments: 9 latex pages, 1 uuencoded postscript figure added via figures command

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.76:2625-2628,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/9508047 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Models of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Charles D. Dermer (Naval Research Laboratory), Thomas J. Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

Comments: 12 pages, no figures, uuencoded compressed postscript file. Invited review to appear in the proceedings of the 29th ESLAB Symposium "Towards the Source of Gamma-Ray Bursts," Noordwijk, Netherlands, 25-27 April, 1995

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 231 (1995) 377

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/9508048 [pdf, other]

Title: Wave Motions In Molecular Clouds: Results in Two Dimensions

Curtis S. Gehman, Fred C. Adams, Marco Fatuzzo, Richard Watkins (Univ. of Michigan)

Comments: 24 pages + 10 figures; self-extracting, uuencoded, compressed tarfile

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 457 (1996) 718

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/9508049 [pdf, other]

Title: Decaying Vacuum Energy and Deflationary Cosmology in Open and Closed Universes

J.A.S. Lima, M. Trodden (Brown University)

Comments: 20 pages, 2 figures (available from the authors), uses LaTeX

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D53 (1996) 4280-4286

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

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/9508050 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Sampling on Measuring Galaxy Count Probabilities

István Szapudi, Alexander S. Szalay

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. postscript of 16 pages and three figures uuencoded, gzipped, tarred

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 459 (1996) 504

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)