Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 1996

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/9601001 [pdf, other]

Title: Embedded Clusters in Giant Extragalactic HII Regions III. Extinction and Star Formation

Y.D. Mayya (TIFR, Bombay), T.P. Prabhu (IIA, Bangalore)

Comments: 18 pages, AASTeX v4.0, 3 tables with aj_pt and 8 postscript figures. Figure 9 is available on request from ydm@tifrc3.this http URL or at the URL this http URL To appear in Astronomical Journal

Journal-ref: AJ 111 (1996) 1252

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/9601002 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-infrared and optical broadband surface photometry of 86 face-on disk dominated galaxies. II. A two-dimensional method to determine bulge and disk parameters

Roelof S. de Jong (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics 19 pages LaTeX, 6 PostScript figures (Fig.1 missing), full version with all figures available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/9601003 [pdf, other]

Title: The Physics of Black Hole X-ray Transients

J. Craig Wheeler, S.-W. Kim, M. D. Moscoso, M. Kusunose (Department of Astronomy, University of Texas), S. Mineshige (Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University)

Comments: LaTex 6 pages. To appear in the Kyoto Workshop on the Basic Physics of Accretion Disks eds S. Kato, S. Inagaki, J. Fukue, and S. Mineshige (New York: Gordon and Breach). Also available on this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/9601004 [pdf, other]

Title: Recent Progress in Inflationary Cosmology

Andrei Linde

Comments: 21 pages, An invited talk at the 1st RESCEU International Symposium on "The Cosmological Constant and the Evolution of the Universe," Tokyo, November 1995

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

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/9601005 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-infrared and optical broadband surface photometry of 86 face-on disk dominated galaxies. III. The statistics of disk and bulge parameters

Roelof S. de Jong (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics 21 pages LaTeX, 45 PostScript figures, also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.313:45-64,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/9601006 [pdf, other]

Title: Type Ia Supernovae as Extragalactic Distance Indicators

David Branch, Peter Nugent, Adam Fisher

Comments: 20 pages, latex, 8 figures, (uses styles: this http URL and this http URL) tarred and gzipped. A PostScript version is available at this http URL To appear in Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Thermonuclear Supernovae

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/9601007 [pdf, other]

Title: OSSE Observations of the Radio Quiet Quasar PG 1416-129

R.Staubert, M.Maisack

Comments: A&A Postscript, 4 pages, to appear in A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/9601008 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion Disk Models with Self-Consistent Advective Cooling and Heating

I.V. Artemova, G.S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, G. Bjornsson, I. Novikov

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, tarred and gzipped. Uses this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/9601009 [pdf, other]

Title: Atomic Data for Astrophysics. II. New Analytic Fits for Photoionization Cross Sections of Atoms and Ions

D. A. Verner, G. J. Ferland, K. T. Korista (University of Kentucky), D. G. Yakovlev (Ioffe Institute)

Comments: 24 pages including Postscript figures and tables, uses this http URL, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal. Misprint in Eq.(1) is corrected

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.465:487,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/9601010 [pdf, other]

Title: The CTIO Prime Focus CCD: System Characteristics from 1982-1988

Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Alistair R. Walker (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the PASP. 15 pages, AASTeX V4.0 latex format (including figures), 4 ps figures, 4 separate AASTeX V4.0 latex tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/9601011 [pdf, other]

Title: Maximum-Likelihood Cluster Recontruction

Matthias Bartelmann, Ramesh Narayan, Stella Seitz, Peter Schneider

Comments: 9 pages including 2 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/9601012 [pdf, other]

Title: Signatures of the Origin of High-Energy Cosmic Rays in Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts

Jordi Miralda-Escude, Eli Waxman (IAS, Princeton)

Comments: Submitted to the ApJ Letters; 10 pages (LaTeX file, 3 PostScript figures, this http URL style file, tar'ed, gzip'ed and uuencoded)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 462 (1996) L59-L62

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/9601013 [pdf, other]

Title: The Abundance Spread Among Giants and Subgiants in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Nicholas B. Suntzeff (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NOAO), Robert P. Kraft (Univ. Calif. Obs., Lick Observatory, UCSC)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the AJ. 40 pages, AASTeX V4.0 latex format (including figures), 13 ps figures, 8 separate AASTeX V4.0 latex tables

Journal-ref: Astron.J.111:1913-1935,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/9601014 [pdf, other]

Title: The Two-Point Correlation Function at Redshift 1/3

C. W. Shepherd, R. G. Carlberg, H. K. C. Yee (University of Toronto), E. Ellingson (University of Colorado)

Comments: 23 pages including 6 Postscript figures, uses this http URL, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/9601015 [pdf, other]

Title: The distance modulus of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Constraints from RR Lyrae pulsation properties

M. Catelan

Comments: LaTeX file, five pages, requires this http URL (v.3.0). One postscript figure available upon request. To appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Letters section)

Journal-ref: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 307, L13-L16 (1996)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/9601016 [pdf, other]

Title: A Survey of the Galactic Plane for 6.7-GHz Methanol Masers I: l = 325.0 - 335.0 ; b = -0.53 - 0.53

S.P. Ellingsen (Uni of Tas), M.L. von Bibra (Uni of Tas), P.M. McCulloch (Uni of Tas), R.P. Norris (ATNF), A.A. Deshpande (RRI), C.J. Phillips (Uni of Tas)

Comments: 19 pages including 4 figures, using LaTeX formatted with this http URL, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/9601017 [pdf, other]

Title: AGB Stars: What Should Be Done ?

Cheryl Frost, John Lattanzio

Comments: latex, 11 postscript figures, total of 19 postscript pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/9601018 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark Baryons in the Universe: the Quest Goes On

Paolo Salucci, Massimo Persic (SISSA and Osservatorio Astronomico, Trieste)

Comments: submitted to MNRAS; 5 pages, Tex file (ask the first Author for the postscript files of two figures)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/9601019 [pdf, other]

Title: Cepheid Radii and the Cors Method Revisited

V. Ripepi, F. Barone, L. Milano, G. Russo

Comments: postscript file; figures and tables included. For any problem please write to ripepi@csfisi.this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/9601020 [pdf, other]

Title: Episodic Star Formation in the Carina dSph Galaxy

T.A. Smecker-Hane (UC Irvine), P.B. Stetson, J.E. Hesser (NRC/HIA/DAO), D.A. VandenBerg (U Victoria)

Comments: 6 pages including 2 figures, gzip'ed and uuencoded postscript file, to appear in "From Stars to Galaxies: The Impact of Stellar Physics on Galaxy Evolution", eds. C. Leitherer, U. Fritze-van Alvensleben and J. Huchra, (ASP: San Francisco), ASP Conf. Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/9601021 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Growth of Cosmological Structure: Summary and Comparisons Among Scenarios

Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Renyue Cen

Comments: Princeton University Obs., ApJ, in press, tarred, gzipped and uuencoded, including figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/9601022 [pdf, other]

Title: Stability of motion of N-body systems

A.A. El-Zant (Astronomy centre, University of Sussex)

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, uuencoded gzipped ps-file, to appear in Chaos in gravitational N-body systems J.C. Muzzio (ed.)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/9601023 [pdf, other]

Title: New Perspectives on Type Ic Supernovae

A. Clocchiatti (Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory), J. C. Wheeler (Department of Astronomy, University of Texas)

Comments: 21 pages LaTex, 7 figures embedded with psfig, to appear in Thermonucear Supernovae (NATO ASI), eds R. Canal and P. Ruiz-Lapuente (Dordrecht: Kluwer), also available in postscript on this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/9601024 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-dimensional Combustion in Type Ia Supernovae

A. M. Khokhlov (Department of Astronomy, UT Austin), E. S. Oran (Naval Research Laboratory), J. C. Wheeler (Department of Astronomy, UT Austin)

Comments: 10 pages LateX, three figures available from author, to appear in Thermonuclear Supernovae (NATO ASI), eds R. Canal and P. Ruiz-Lapuente, (Dordrecht: Kluwer), also available in postscript on this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/9601025 [pdf, other]

Title: Local Flux of Low-Energy Antiprotons from Evaporating Primordial Black Holes

K. Maki, T. Mitsui, S. Orito (University of Tokyo)

Comments: 10 pages, 2 PostScript figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996) 3474-3477

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/9601026 [pdf, other]

Title: Tidal Fields and Structure Formation

Rien van de Weygaert (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

Comments: 7 pages including 3 figures, gzip'ed and uuencoded postscript file. To appear in proceedings ``Mapping, Measuring and Modelling the Universe'', Valencia 1995, eds. P. Coles & V. Martinez

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/9601027 [pdf, other]

Title: Future Cosmic Microwave Background Constraints to the Baryon Density

Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia), Gerard Jungman (Syracuse), Arthur Kosowsky (Harvard), David N. Spergel (Princeton and Maryland)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the Cosmic Abundances Conference, College Park, MD, October 9--11, 1995, edited by S. S. Holt and G. Sonneborn (AIP, New York, 1996)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/9601028 [pdf, other]

Title: Non--LTE Excitation of H$_2$ in Magnetised Molecular Shocks

Ivan O'Brien, L O'C Drury

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 5 pages, latex, 6 figures, Compressed postscript also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/9601029 [pdf, other]

Title: On the formation of a Hawking-radiation photosphere around microscopic black holes

Andrew F. Heckler

Comments: Latex, 16 pages, 3 postscript figures, submitted to PRD. Also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 480-488

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

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/9601030 [pdf, other]

Title: Satellite Parallaxes of Lensing Events Towards the Galactic Bulge

B. Scott Gaudi, Andrew Gould

Comments: 36 pages, includes 8 figures, TeX, uses phyzzx. Condensed, with several figures removed. Includes a more general introduction, along with several clarifying changes suggested by the referee

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/9601031 [pdf, other]

Title: Very close pairs of Quasi-Stellar Objects

G. Burbidge, F. Hoyle, P. Schneider

Comments: 8 pages, including 1 figure, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/9601032 [pdf, other]

Title: Nuclear and Gamma-ray Production by Supernova Ejecta

Brian D. Fields, Michel Casse, Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam, Ken'ichi Nomoto

Comments: 18 pages, written in aastex using this http URL; 6 figures. Also available at this http URL .

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 462 (1996) 276-286

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/9601033 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistics of Gamma Ray Burst Temporal Asymmetry

Bennett Link (Montana State), Richard Epstein (Los Alamos)

Comments: 13 pages, 3 postscript figures, uses this http URL. Submitted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/9601034 [pdf, other]

Title: Does Chaotic Mixing Facilitate Omega<1 Inflation?

Neil J. Cornish, David N. Spergel, Glenn D. Starkman

Comments: Version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. July 1st, 1996. 4 Pages, RevTeX, no figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 215-218

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

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/9601035 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Origin of Strong Magnetic Fields in Young Supernova Remnants

Byung-Il Jun (University of Minnesota), Michael L. Norman (University of Illinois)

Comments: Accepted for the publication in ApJ, 31 pages, 16 Postscript figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/9601036 [pdf, other]

Title: Sky Coverage and Burst Repetition

David L. Band (CASS/UCSD)

Comments: 12 pages AASTeX 4.0, 3 figures on request from dband@ucsd.edu

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/9601037 [pdf, other]

Title: Cyclotron Line Formation in a Relativistic Outflow

Michael Isenberg, D. Q. Lamb (U. Chicago), John C.L. Wang (U. Maryland)

Comments: 5 LaTeX pages with 1 Postscript figure included using this http URL, uses this http URL, this http URL and this http URL available at this ftp URL or this http URL, to appear in Proc. 3rd Huntsville Gamma--Ray Burst Symposium, eds. C. Kouveliotou, M.S. Briggs and G.J. Fishman, (New York:AIP)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/9601038 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence from Intrinsic Shapes for Two Families of Elliptical Galaxies

Benoit Tremblay, David Merritt (Rutgers)

Comments: 9 TEX pages, 4 PostScript figures, uses AASTEX, this http URL. Submitted to The Astronomical Journal, January 1996; revised February 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/9601039 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of (dark) matter concentrations via weak gravitational lensing

Peter Schneider (Max-Planck-Institut f. Astrophysik)

Comments: 24 pages, Plain-Tex, no macros needed, including 10 figures, submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; the result (15) and (16) of the paper was derived previously by Kaiser et al. (1994); proper reference is now given

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.283:837-853,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/9601040 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Models for the Milky Way

Walter Dehnen, James Binney (Oxford)

Comments: 10 pages, LaTeX, style file and 4 figures included. Invited talk presented at the meeting ``Formation of the Galactic Halo ... Inside and Out'', Tucson, October 9-11. Full .ps file available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/9601041 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of the first extra-galactic SiO maser

Jacco Th. van Loon, Albert A. Zijlstra, Valentin Bujarrabal, Lars-Ake Nyman

Comments: 4 pages, accepted by Astron. Astrophys. Letters, for correspondence contact jvloon@eso.org

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.306:L29-L32,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/9601042 [pdf, other]

Title: An Implicit Lagrangean Code for Spherically Symmetric General Relativistic Hydrodynamics with an Approximate Riemann Solver

Shoichi Yamada

Comments: AASTeX v4.0, 24 pages, 13 figures on request from shoichi@MPAthis http URL, submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/9601043 [pdf, other]

Title: The Twisting X-ray Isophotes of the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 720

David A. Buote, Claude R. Canizares (MIT)

Comments: 17 pages (3 figures), AASTeX manuscript with PostScript figures, to appear in ApJ September 10, 1996. Only a few minor cosmetic changes in this version

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 468 (1996) 184

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/9601044 [pdf, other]

Title: Scale-free dynamical models for galaxies: flattened densities in spherical potentials

Jos H.J. de Bruijne, Roeland P. van der Marel, P. Tim de Zeeuw

Comments: LaTeX file, uses standard macros this http URL, this http URL. 17 pages including 7 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/9601045 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature of the X-ray source in NGC 4151

P. Magdziarz, A.A. Zdziarski

Comments: 2 pages, will appear in proceedings from the conference `Roentgenstrahlung from the Universe', Sep.25-29, 1995, W"urzburg, Germany

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/9601046 [pdf, other]

Title: A 23 GHz Survey of GRB Error Boxes

J. N. Hewitt, C. A. Katz, S. D. Barthelmy, W. H. Baumgartner, T. L. Cline, B. E. Corey, G. J. Fishman, N. Gehrels, K. C. Hurley, C. Kouveliotou, C. A. Meegan, C. B. Moore, R. E. Rutledge, C. S. Trotter

Comments: 5 pages, 1 postscript figure. To appear in Proceedings of the Third Huntsville Symposium on Gamma-Ray Bursts (eds. C. Kouveliotou, M. S. Briggs, and G. J. Fishman)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/9601047 [pdf, other]

Title: The CANADA-FRANCE REDSHIFT SURVEY XI: Morphology of high-redshift field galaxies from high-resolution ground-based imaging

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

Comments: uuencoded compressed tar file containing 21 page Tex file, 9 postscript figures and 1 table. Ap J, in press. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/9601048 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-infrared surface photometry of spiral galaxies

Ph. Heraudeau (Obs. de Lyon), F. Simien (Obs. de Lyon), G.A. Mamon (Inst. d'Astrophys. de Paris)

Comments: Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Supplements). 11 pages LaTeX with l-aa style file and 3 figures included. Figure 4 (35 pages of figures taking over 3.5 MB uuencoded gzipped tared) is available at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.Suppl.Ser. 117 (1996) 417

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/9601049 [pdf, other]

Title: Low Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions in Astrophysics

Reuven Ramaty

Comments: 10 pages with 5 figures, uuencoded, compressed, tared to appear in the Proceedings of the Vietnam Conference, "The Sun and Beyond", 1966

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/9601050 [pdf, other]

Title: The CANADA-FRANCE REDSHIFT SURVEY XIII: The luminosity density and star-formation history of the Universe to z ~ 1

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

Comments: uuencoded compressed tar file containing 8 page Tex file, 2 postscript figures and 2 tables. Ap J Letters, in press. Also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: AstrophysJ.460:L1,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)