Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 1996

[101] arXiv:astro-ph/9601101 [pdf, other]

Title: Potential-Density Basis Sets for Galactic Disks

David J.D. Earn

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, 13 pages, plain TeX, uses this http URL, no figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[102] arXiv:astro-ph/9601102 [pdf, other]

Title: Cluster mass reconstruction from weak gravitational lensing

Gillian Wilson, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk (Durham)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Compressed postscript also available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[103] arXiv:astro-ph/9601103 [pdf, other]

Title: The APM Galaxy Survey III: An Analysis of Systematic Errors in the Angular Correlation Function and Cosmological Implications

S.J. Maddox (The Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge), G. Efstathiou, W.J. Sutherland (Department of Physics, Oxford)

Comments: 102 pages, plain TeX plus 41 postscript figures. Submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.283:1227-1263,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[104] arXiv:astro-ph/9601104 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma Rays and the Decay of Neutrinos from SN1987A

A. Jaffe (CITA), M.S. Turner (Chicago, Fermilab)

Comments: 17 pages, 6 postscript figures, uses revtex, this http URL. Submitted to PRD. Also available at file://ftp.this http URL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D55:7951-7959,1997

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

[105] arXiv:astro-ph/9601105 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies from Ultraviolet Spectra

Ben Dorman (LASP, NASA/GSFC), Robert W. O'Connell (U. Virginia)

Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX + two encapsulated postscript figures. Uses paspconf, rotate, epsf, times styles. Postscript version available at this http URL Attention is also drawn to colour poster (Heidelberg meeting, June 1995) available at the same site covering similar material. To appear in `From Stars to Galaxies: The Impact of Stellar Physics on Galaxy Evolution,' eds C. Leitherer, U. Fritze-von Alvensleben, & J. P. Huchra, ASP Conf Ser

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[106] arXiv:astro-ph/9601106 [pdf, other]

Title: Line Emission from an Accretion Disk around a Rotating Black Hole: Toward a Measurement of Frame Dragging

Benjamin C. Bromley, Kaiyou Chen, Warner A. Miller

Comments: 15 pages (LaTex), 7 postscript figures; color plot (Figure 1) available at this http URL (This version contains a new subsection as well as minor corrections.)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 475 (1997) 57

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

[107] arXiv:astro-ph/9601107 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematic Evidence for Superbubbles in I Zw 18: Constraints on the Star Formation History and Chemical Evolution

Crystal L. Martin (Steward Observatory; University of Arizona)

Comments: 31 pages including 6 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 465 (1996) 680

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[108] arXiv:astro-ph/9601108 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Selected Clusters of Galaxies

Isabella M. Gioia (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI and Istituto di Radioastronomia del CNR, Bologna, Italy)

Comments: 5 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[109] arXiv:astro-ph/9601109 [pdf, other]

Title: Standard Solar Neutrinos

Arnon Dar (Department of Physics, Techion, Haifa, Israel)

Comments: Invited talk to be published in the Proceedings of ``Theoretical Aspects of Underground Physics'', Toledo, Spain, September 17-21, 1995 (Nucl. Phys. B, ed. A. Morales, in press)

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 48 (1996) 335-342

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[110] arXiv:astro-ph/9601110 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining Omega using weak gravitational lensing by clusters

Gillian Wilson, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk (Durham)

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS. Compressed postscript also available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[111] arXiv:astro-ph/9601111 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino Oscillations and the Supernova 1987A Signal

B.Jegerlehner, F.Neubig, G.Raffelt (MPI fur Physik, Munich)

Comments: Final version with very minor wording changes, to be published in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D54:1194-1203,1996

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

[112] arXiv:astro-ph/9601112 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Photometry and Dust Absorption in Highly Inclined Spiral Galaxies

Leslie E. Kuchinski, Donald M. Terndrup (Ohio State University)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the March 1996 AJ. LaTex source which generates 27 pages of text and tables (no figures). Complete (text + figs) compressed Postscript preprint is also available at this ftp URL (854 Mbyte)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[113] arXiv:astro-ph/9601113 [pdf, other]

Title: The amplitude of the initial density fluctuation spectrum from lensing statistics

Eelco van Kampen (Royal Observatory Edinburgh, U.K.)

Comments: 6 pages including 3 figures, gzip'ed and uuencoded Postscript, To appear in proceedings "Mapping, Measuring and Modelling the Universe", Valencia 1995, eds. P. Coles and V. Martinez

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[114] arXiv:astro-ph/9601114 [pdf, other]

Title: Genus statistics for structure formation with topological defects

Pedro Avelino (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

Comments: Compressed (gzip) uuencoded postcript, 36 pages with 13 figures (figure 2 available upon request), submited to the Astrophysical Journal (Part1)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 487 (1997) 18-32

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[115] arXiv:astro-ph/9601115 [pdf, other]

Title: Special relativity and the pseudo-Newtonian potential

Marek A. Abramowicz, Andrei M. Beloborodov, Xingming Chen, Igor V. Igumenshchev

Comments: A&A, in press 1996; uuencoded, compressed, PS file; also available on WWW at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.313:334-335,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[116] arXiv:astro-ph/9601116 [pdf, other]

Title: Instabilities of Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows

Xingming Chen

Comments: an invited talk presented at the workshop: Basic Physics of Accretion Disks, Kyoto, 22 - 27 October 1995. uuencoded, compressed, PS file; also available on Web at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[117] arXiv:astro-ph/9601117 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactic Evolution Of D And 3He Including Stellar Production Of 3He

David S. P. Dearborn, Gary Steigman, Monica Tosi

Comments: 21 pages, plus 10 figures, accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 465 (1996) 887

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[118] arXiv:astro-ph/9601118 [pdf, other]

Title: Globular Cluster Systems as Probes of Elliptical Galaxy Formation

Stephen E. Zepf (UC Berkeley)

Comments: 8 pages, postscript, gzipped and uuencoded, also at this http URL . Review presented at the Sant'Agata Conference on Interacting Galaxies: in Pairs, Groups, and Clusters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[119] arXiv:astro-ph/9601119 [pdf, other]

Title: Speckle-masking imaging polarimetry of Eta Carinae: evidence for an equatorial disk

Heino Falcke (1,2), Kris Davidson (3), Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Gerd Weigelt (1) ((1) MPIfR Bonn, (2) Univ. Maryland, (3) Univ. Minnesota)

Comments: Astron. & Astrophys. Letters, in press, LaTex (this http URL), 4 pages, 5 PS-figures, also available at this http URL or by request

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[120] arXiv:astro-ph/9601120 [pdf, other]

Title: The Gamma-Ray Background from Blazars: A New Look

F.W. Stecker, M.H. Salamon

Comments: uuencoded, compressed tar file contains Latex text file (aaspp4 style) and 3 EPSF figures (12 pages total for PS'd file). Accepted for publication by Ap. J

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 464 (1996) 600-605

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[121] arXiv:astro-ph/9601121 [pdf, other]

Title: MgII Absorbers: Halos or Disks?

Jane C. Charlton (Pennsylvania State University), Christopher W. Churchill (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Comments: 22 pages, Latex file, and 7 PostScript figures; Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal; Available as a single compressed PostScript file at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[122] arXiv:astro-ph/9601122 [pdf, other]

Title: Microlensing Implications for Halo Dark Matter

Philippe Jetzer (PSI, Villigen, and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Zurich), Eduard Masso (IFAE and Dep. Fisica, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona)

Comments: Six pages. Two figures (they can be telefaxed by request to masso@ifae.es). Talk at the second workshop on "The dark side of the Universe: experimental efforts and theoretical frameworks" (Rome, 13-14 November 1995)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[123] arXiv:astro-ph/9601123 [pdf, other]

Title: Finite Mass Isothermal Spheres and the Structure of Globular Clusters

Jes Madsen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

Comments: 11 pages, 3 ps figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.280:1089,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[124] arXiv:astro-ph/9601124 [pdf, other]

Title: The long-term X-ray lightcurve of RX J0527.8--6954

J. Greiner, R. Schwarz, G. Hasinger, M. Orio

Comments: 6 pages LATEX (with A&A style macro this http URL) including 1 postscript figure (using this http URL) accepted for publication in Astron. Astrophys

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[125] arXiv:astro-ph/9601125 [pdf, other]

Title: Reanalysis of the association of high-redshift 1-Jansky quasars with IRAS galaxies

Armin Bartsch, Peter Schneider, Matthias Bartelmann (Max-Planck-Institut f. Astrophysik)

Comments: 29 pages, LaTex, including 9 figures, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[126] arXiv:astro-ph/9601126 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Gary Steigman

Comments: 11 pages, including 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 6th Annual Astrophysics Conference in Maryland: Cosmic Abundances (eds.: S.S. Holt and G. Sonneborn) ; this version includes the .ps files for the figures which were omitted from the previous version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[127] arXiv:astro-ph/9601127 [pdf, other]

Title: A Macroscopic Gravity Wave Effect

Redouane Fakir

Comments: 2 figures available upon request at fakir@physics.this http URL 13 pages, plain Latex

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

[128] arXiv:astro-ph/9601128 [pdf, other]

Title: The Halo from the Outside In: QSO Absorption Lines

Christopher W. Churchill, Steven S. Vogt (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Comments: 4 pages, Latex file, and 2 PostScript figures; To appear in Formation of the Galactic Halo... Inside and Out, eds. H. Morrison & A. Sarajedini (PASP Conference Series); Available as a single compressed PostScript file at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[129] arXiv:astro-ph/9601129 [pdf, other]

Title: Is Her X-1 a strange star?

Jes Madsen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

Comments: 3 pages, REVTeX. No figures. Submitted to this http URL.(Lett.)

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.318:466,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[130] arXiv:astro-ph/9601130 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Filaments and Minivoids: The Origin of Intergalactic Absorption

Yu Zhang (1), Avery Meiksin (2), Peter Anninos (1), Michael L. Norman (1) ((1) NCSA, Univ. of Illinois, (2) Dept. of Astron. & Astrophys., Univ. of Chicago )

Comments: 8 pages in TeX, 3 Postscript figures included, figure 1(color) available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[131] arXiv:astro-ph/9601131 [pdf, other]

Title: On the production of very high energy beamed gamma-rays in blazars

W. Bednarek (MPI Kernphysik, Heidelberg and University of Lodz, Poland), J.G. Kirk, A. Mastichiadis (MPI Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

Comments: Astron. & Astrophys. Letters (in press), Latex (this http URL), 4 pages, 2 Ps figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.307:L17,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[132] arXiv:astro-ph/9601132 [pdf, other]

Title: On the high energy non-thermal emission from shell-type supernova remnants

A. Mastichiadis (MPI Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

Comments: Astron. & Astrophys. Letters (in press), Latex (this http URL), 4 pages, 4 Ps figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.305:L53,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[133] arXiv:astro-ph/9601133 [pdf, other]

Title: A Variation of the Present Star Formation Activity of Spiral Galaxies

Akihiko Tomita, Yoshio Tomita, Mamoru Saito

Comments: LaTeX file, 32 pages including tables without figs. 30 figures at this ftp URL . To appear in PASJ, Vol. 48, No. 2, April 1996 issue

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[134] arXiv:astro-ph/9601134 [pdf, other]

Title: Mixed dark matter with low-mass bosons

Georg B. Larsen, Jes Madsen

Comments: 17 pages+4 postscript figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D15 March

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D53:2895-2900,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[135] arXiv:astro-ph/9601135 [pdf, other]

Title: Inflationary cosmology and structure formation

J.A. Peacock (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK)

Comments: Lectures given at the EADN summer school "The structure of the universe", Leiden, July 1995. 77 pages TeX with macros included. Postscript figures from this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[136] arXiv:astro-ph/9601136 [pdf, other]

Title: New Solar Models Including Helioseismological Constraints and Light-Element Depletion

O. Richard, S. Vauclair, C. Charbonnel (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France), W.A. Dziembowski (Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland)

Comments: 14 pages, 5 postscript figures (included), for LaTeX, uses this http URL and A&A style file this http URL version 3.0 (not included), gzip'ed tar file. Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.312:1000-1011,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[137] arXiv:astro-ph/9601137 [pdf, other]

Title: Axisymmetric circumstellar interaction in supernovae

John M. Blondin, P. Lundqvist, Roger A. Chevalier

Comments: 22 page postscript file (gzipped and uuencoded), 10 gzipped postscript figures may be retrieved from this ftp URL Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[138] arXiv:astro-ph/9601138 [pdf, other]

Title: Ion viscosity mediated by tangled Magnetic fields-An application to Black Hole Accretion disks

Prasad Subramanian, Peter A. Becker, Menas Kafatos (CSI, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)

Comments: Sumitted to the Astrophysical Journal. 8 figures, figures not included here, please send e-mail to psubrama@gmu.edu

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[139] arXiv:astro-ph/9601139 [pdf, other]

Title: A Theory of the IMF for Star Formation in Molecular Clouds

Fred C. Adams, Marco Fatuzzo (U. Michigan)

Comments: 34 pages, 7 figures available on request

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[140] arXiv:astro-ph/9601140 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of the Correlations Between the Highest Energy Cosmic Ray Showers and Gamma Ray Bursts

Todor Stanev, Robert Schaefer, (Bartol Research Institute, USA), Alan Watson (University of Leeds, UK)

Comments: 1 uuencoded g-zipped postscript file containing text and figures

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.5:75-78,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[141] arXiv:astro-ph/9601141 [pdf, other]

Title: Quasar Absorption Lines and the Intergalactic Medium

Buell T. Jannuzi (NOAO)

Comments: 10 pages, latex, shst2 style file, 9 postscript figures, to appear in "Science with the Hubble Space Telescope-II"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[142] arXiv:astro-ph/9601142 [pdf, other]

Title: Can the Formation of X-ray Obscuring Tori and Jets in Active Galaxies be Determined by One Parameter?

Eric G. Blackman (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge UK), Insu Yi (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)

Comments: 12 pages, plain TeX, accepted to this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 461 (1996) L21

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[143] arXiv:astro-ph/9601143 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of the Systematic Errors in the Positions of BATSE Catalog Bursts

Carlo Graziani, Don Q. Lamb

Comments: A five page LateX file that uses the Revtex conference proceedings macro this http URL, and includes five postscript figures using psfig. To Be published in the Proceedings of the Third Hunstville Symposium on Gamma-Ray Bursts, eds. C. Kouveliotou, M.S. Briggs and G.J. Fishman (New York:AIP)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[144] arXiv:astro-ph/9601144 [pdf, other]

Title: The NLTE formation of neutral-boron lines in cool stars

Dan Kiselman (1 and 2), Mats Carlsson (3) ((1) NORDITA, Copenhagen, (2) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm Observatory, (3) Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo)

Comments: uuencoded gzipped tar file containing LaTex file (11 pages, this http URL and this http URL) and 15 Postscript figures. Also available at this ftp URL together with computer routines for calculation of NLTE abundance corrections. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[145] arXiv:astro-ph/9601145 [pdf, other]

Title: Baryonic Dark Matter: Theory and Experiment. Overview

Eduard Masso (IFAE and Dep. Fisica, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona)

Comments: Written version of a talk at IV Workshop on Theoretical and Phenomenological Aspects of Underground Physics, TAUP95, Toledo (Spain), Sept. 17-21

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 48 (1996) 13

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

[146] arXiv:astro-ph/9601146 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic Diskoseismology. I. Analytical Results for 'Gravity Modes'

Christopher A. Perez, Alexander S. Silbergleit, Robert V. Wagoner, Dana E. Lehr (Stanford University)

Comments: 31 pages, 6 figures, uses style file this http URL, prepared with the AAS LATEX macros v4.0, significant revision of earlier submission to include modes with axial index m>0

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

[147] arXiv:astro-ph/9601147 [pdf, other]

Title: A Low-Density Closed Universe

Marc Kamionkowski, Nicolaos Toumbas (Columbia University)

Comments: 9 pages, ReVTeX

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.77:587-590,1996

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

[148] arXiv:astro-ph/9601148 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-LTE Treatment of Fe II in Astrophysical Plasmas

Peter H. Hauschildt (Arizona State University), E. Baron (University of Oklahoma)

Comments: 17 pages, latex, aip style, no figures included, full text with figures available at this ftp URL or at this http URL

Journal-ref: J. Quant. Spec. Rad. Transf. 54:987-999 (1995)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[149] arXiv:astro-ph/9601149 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effects of Fe II NLTE on Nova Atmospheres and Spectra

Peter H. Hauschildt (Arizona State University), E. Baron (University of Oklahoma), Sumner Starrfield (ASU), France Allard (Wichita State University)

Comments: 25 pages, latex, AASTEX, figures not included, full text plus figures available via this http URL or at this ftp URL, to appear in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[150] arXiv:astro-ph/9601150 [pdf, other]

Title: Model Atmospheres for M (Sub)Dwarfs: I. The base model grid

France Allard (Wichita State University), Peter H. Hauschildt (Arizona State University)

Comments: 27 pages, latex, AASTEX, figures not included, complete text with figures available via this http URL or at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 445 (1995) 433-450

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)