Astrophysics

Authors and titles for February 1996

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/9602001 [pdf, other]

Title: The observed distribution function of peculiar velocities of galaxies

Somak Raychaudhury (IUCAA, Pune, India & CfA, Cambridge MA), William C. Saslaw (NRAO & University of Virginia)

Comments: 28 pages, gzipped postscript file, including 11 figures and 2 tables; To appear in the Astrophysical Journal, March 1996

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 461 (1996) 514

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/9602002 [pdf, other]

Title: Interacting and Merging Galaxies

Uta Fritze - von Alvensleben

Comments: 14 pages, LaTeX, no figures, to appear in: ''From Stars to Galaxies'', eds. C. Leitherer, U. Fritze - von Alvensleben, J. Huchra, Minor revisions: NGC 3597 (not 3596), 2nd nucleus in M31: 2pc (not 2 kpc)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/9602003 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectro-photometric Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies. II. Models with infall

R. Tantalo, C. Chiosi (Departiment of Astronomy, Padua, Italy), A. Bressan (Astronomical Observatory, Padua, Italy), F. Fagotto (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarie,Tenerife, Spain)

Comments: pages 22, 20 postscript figures, 2 external table (tab2_infall using this http URL and tab5_infall using this http URL)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/9602004 [pdf, other]

Title: MHD Turbulence, Cloud Formation and Star Formation in the ISM

E. Vazquez-Semadeni (IAUNAM), T. Passot, A. Pouquet (Obs. Nice)

Comments: Gzipped, tarred Latex file (7 pages), and style file. Uses AAS macros. Gzipped Postscript file with 9 figures available at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Proc. "The Fifth Mexico-Texas Conference on Astrophysics: Gaseous Nebulae and Star Formation", Rev. Mex. Astr. Ap. Ser. Conf. 3, 61 (1995)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/9602005 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of the Type Ia Supernova SN1994D

P. Hoeflich (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, macros 'this http URL'

Journal-ref: To appear in ""Thermonuclear Supernovae" eds. R.Canal, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, J. Isern, (Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/9602006 [pdf, other]

Title: Implications of White Dwarf Galactic Halos

Fred C. Adams, Greg Laughlin (U. Michigan)

Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures available on request

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 468 (1996) 586

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/9602007 [pdf, other]

Title: Time-Dilation, Log N - Log P, and Cosmology

R.J. Nemiroff (NASA/GMU), J.P. Norris (NASA/GSFC), J.T. Bonnell (NASA/USRA), J.D. Scargle (NASA/AMES)

Comments: 5 pages in LATeX, REVTEX style, 2 embedded figures. To appear in Third Huntsville Symposium on Gamma Ray Bursts Proceedings

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/9602008 [pdf, other]

Title: The origin of the correlation between the UV and X-rays in NGC 4151

A.A. Zdziarski, P. Magdziarz

Comments: 5 pages, MNRAS accepted

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 279 (1996) L21

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/9602009 [pdf, other]

Title: Direct Imaging of the CMB from Space

Michael A. Janssen, Douglas Scott, Martin White, Michael D. Seiffert, Charles R. Lawrence, Krzysztof M. Gorski, Mark Dragovan, Todd Gaier, Ken Ganga, Samuel Gulkis, Andrew E. Lange, Steven M. Levin, Philip M. Lubin, Peter Meinhold, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Paul L. Richards, John E. Ruhl

Comments: 15 pages, including 8 figures. Full resolution and colour versions of simulations and full versions of the preprint available at this ftp URL . Further details of PSI and FIRE are available at this http URL and this http URL, respectively

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/9602010 [pdf, other]

Title: Photometric properties of clusters of galaxies

Bianca Garilli, Dario Bottini, Dario Maccagni (IFCTR-CNR, Milano, Italy)Luis Carrasco, Elsa Recillas (INAOE, Puebla, Mexico)

Comments: uuencoded, gzipped tar file including Latex text (aas style) and tables and 3 postcript figures. Figure 3 available at this http URL this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/9602011 [pdf, other]

Title: Looking for the S-Z Effect towards Distant ROSAT Clusters of Galaxies

P.Andreani (<a href="http://Univ.Padova" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>,ESO), L.Pizzo (TESRE,Bologna), G.Dall'Oglio (III <a href="http://Univ.Roma" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>), N.Whyborn (SRON Groningen), H.Boehringer (MPE Garching), P.Shaver (ESO), R. Lemke, A.Otarola, L.-A.Nyman (ESO,LaSilla), R.Booth (ONSALA)

Comments: 17 pg Latex file (using this http URL) gzip'd tar'd uuencoded file including 1 ps figure, ApJ Letter in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/9602012 [pdf, other]

Title: The Temperature Dependence of Solar Neutrino Fluxes

John N. Bahcall, Andrew Ulmer

Comments: Repaired http URL path for postscript file. 24 pages (RevTeX) + 5 figures (postscript), uuencoded gz-compressed tar file including text+figures. Postscript file also available at this http URL Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D53:4202-4210,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/9602013 [pdf, other]

Title: The Palomar Distant Cluster Survey : II. The Cluster Profiles

Lori M. Lubin (Carnegie Observatories), Marc Postman (STScI)

Comments: Latex, 21 pages, this http URL, 11 figures and this http URL included, appended as a uuencoded, gzipped tar file, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/9602014 [pdf, other]

Title: A new method to determine Globular Cluster ages

Raul Jimenez, Paolo Padoan

Comments: 4 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/9602015 [pdf, other]

Title: AGAPE, a microlensing search in the direction of M31: status Report

R. Ansari, M. Auriere, P. Baillon, A. Bouquet, G. Coupinot, C. Coutures, C. Ghesquiere, Y. Giraud-Heraud, P. Gondolo, J. Hecquet, J. Kaplan, Y. Le Du, A.L. Melchior, M. Moniez, J.P. Picat, G. Soucail

Comments: 5 pages, Latex2e, includes 5 figures, uuencoded gziped tar file. Proceedings of the workshop ``The dark side of the Universe : experimental efforts and theoretical framework'' Roma 13-14 November 1995

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/9602016 [pdf, other]

Title: Electron Acceleration and Efficiency in Nonthermal Gamma-Ray Sources

A. Bykov, P. Meszaros

Comments: Ap.J. (Letters) in press, uuencoded latex file (uses AAS macro aaspp4), 10 pages

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.461:L37-L40,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/9602017 [pdf, other]

Title: Explosion Models, Light Curves, Spectra and Ho

P. Hoeflich, A. Khokhlov, J.C. Wheeler, K. Nomoto, F.K. Thielemann

Comments: 20 pages, 14 figures, macros 'this http URL'.For a postscript version with high resolution figures, send E-Mail to pah@cfa141.this http URL; To appear in ""Thermonuclear Supernovae" eds. this http URL, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, J. Isern, (Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/9602018 [pdf, other]

Title: Global textures and the Doppler peaks

Alejandro Gangui (ICTP and SISSA), Ruth Durrer (Univ. de Genève), Mairi Sakellariadou (Univ. de Genève)

Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX using this http URL (enclosed), 1 figure. To appear in Proc. ``Mapping, Measuring and Modelling the Universe''. Eds.: this http URL and this http URL. ASP conference series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/9602019 [pdf, other]

Title: Acoustic Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Wayne Hu (IAS, Princeton), Martin White (U. Chicago)

Comments: 45pg. aaspp4, 14 figs. minor changes reflect published version; supporting material at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.471:30-51,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/9602020 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Test of Inflation

Wayne Hu (IAS, Princeton), Martin White (U. Chicago)

Comments: 5pgs, revtex, 2 figs.; minor revisions reflect published version; supporting material at this http URL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.77:1687-1690,1996

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

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/9602021 [pdf, other]

Title: Violent Relaxation in Hierarchical Clustering

Simon D.M. White

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the 36th Herstmonceux Conference, "Gravitational Dynamics", editors O. Lahav, E. Terlevich, R. Terlevich 9 pages including 2 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/9602022 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetohydrodynamic winds and jets from accretion disks

H.C. Spruit (MPI for Astrophysics)

Comments: 40 pages, 14 ps figures. Also available at this ftp URL or at this ftp URL (higher quality figures, bigger file)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/9602023 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Microwave Background experiments targeting the cosmic strings Doppler peak signal

Joao Magueijo (DAMTP, MRAO, University of Cambridge), Mike Hobson (MRAO, University of Cambridge)

Comments: 5 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/9602024 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Population of Normal Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts z>3

C. Steidel, M. Giavalisco, M. Pettini, M. Dickinson, K. Adelberger

Comments: To be published in ApJ Letters, 12 pages, AAS Latex, including 2 figures. Also available at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.462:L17,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/9602025 [pdf, other]

Title: Explosion Models for Type Ia Supernovae: A Comparison with Observed Light Curves, distances, H_o and q_o

P. Hoeflich, A. Khokkhlov

Comments: 55 pages, 26 figures. For a postscript version with high resolution send E-Mail to pah@cfa141.this http URL; To appear in "The Astrophysical Journal"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/9602026 [pdf, other]

Title: The Proximity Effect, the UV Background and the Statistics of the Lyman-Alpha Lines at High Resolution

E. Giallongo (OARome), S. Cristiani (Padova Univ,,ESO), S. D'Odorico (ESO), A. Fontana (OARome), S. Savaglio (IAS,ESO)

Comments: 24 pages (2 macros included) + 9 figures. Accepted for publication on ApJ. Revised version: minor changes to text and fig 8 and 9

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/9602027 [pdf, other]

Title: A Possible Mechanism for Wiggling Protostellar Jets from 3D Simulations in a Stratified Ambient Medium

E.M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, M. Birkinshaw, W. Benz

Comments: To appear in the Astrophys. J. (Lett.), Latex file, 14 pages, 2 Figs. available upon request

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/9602028 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-rays from Galactic Black Hole Candidates with Stochastic Particle Acceleration

Hui Li (LANL), Masaaki Kusunose (UT-Austin), Edison Liang (Rice)

Comments: 2 figures, to appear in March 20 of ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/9602029 [pdf, other]

Title: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Gary Steigman

Comments: 13 pages, including 4 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop on ``Theoretical and Phenomenological Aspects of Underground Physics" (TAUP'95), Suppl. Nucl. Phys. B (M. Fatas, ed.)

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 48 (1996) 499-507

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/9602030 [pdf, other]

Title: Secular Evolution in Barred Galaxies

J.A. Sellwood, Victor P. Debattista

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of Nobel Symposium 98 "Barred Galaxies and Circumnuclear Activity", edited by Aa. Sandquist, P.O. Lindblad and S. Jörsäter. 17 pages, latex, 6 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/9602031 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-scale magnetic fields from hydromagnetic turbulence in the very early universe

Axel Brandenburg, Kari Enqvist, Poul Olesen

Comments: 10 pages uuencoded LATeX, 4 figures included

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D54:1291-1300,1996

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

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/9602032 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the Age of Elliptical Galaxies

A. Bressan (Astronomical Observatory, Padua, Italy), C. Chiosi (Departiment of Astronomy, Padua, Italy), R. Tantalo (Departiment of Astronomy, Padua, Italy)

Comments: pages 22, 16 postscript figures, 1 external table (table 4)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/9602033 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropic Observations in Universes with Nonlinear Inhomogeneity

Neil Humphreys, Roy Maartens, David Matravers

Comments: 12 pages, Latex, 2 Maple graphs available from authors; submitted ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 477 (1997) 47

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/9602034 [pdf, other]

Title: General relativistic radiative transfer in hot astrophysical plasmas: a characteristic approach

Silvia Zane, Roberto Turolla, Luciano Nobili, Myris Erna

Comments: 47 pages plus 9 postscript figures, uuencoded file, PlainTeX. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/9602035 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the dynamics of cluster-lenses

Priyamvada Natarajan, Jean-Paul Kneib (IoA, Cambridge)

Comments: 16 pages, including 11 figures. LaTeX, requires this http URL, MNRAS in press. Replaced version with two new figures included

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/9602036 [pdf, other]

Title: Quasar-Cluster Associations and Gravitational Lensing by Large-Scale Matter Clumps

Xiang-Ping Wu, Li-Zhi Fang (University of Arizona)

Comments: 14 pages, AASTEX, ApJ Lett., in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/9602037 [pdf, other]

Title: Proper Motions Of VLBI Lenses, Inertial Frames and The Evolution of Peculiar Velocities

C.S Kochanek, T.S. Kolatt, M. Bartelmann

Comments: 23 pages, figures included uuencoded gzipped ps-file, submitted to the ApJ. One correction made from the original version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/9602038 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts

F. Halzen, G. Jaczko

Comments: 12 pages, Latex 2.09, no figures. Postscript version available at this http URL or this ftp URL

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

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/9602039 [pdf, other]

Title: Spherical Harmonic Analysis of the Angular Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Max Tegmark, Dieter Hartmann, Michael Briggs, Charles Meegan

Comments: 5 page conf. proceedings, with one figure included. Postscript. More detailed version at this http URL (faster from the US), from this http URL (faster from Europe) or from max@mppmu.this http URL

Journal-ref: Proc. 3rd Huntsville Workshop on Gamma Ray Bursts, eds. C. Kouveliotou, M. S. Briggs & G. J. Fishman

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/9602040 [pdf, other]

Title: Satellite design parameters for detecting coherence in the microwave sky

Andreas Albrecht, Benjamin D. Wandelt

Comments: uuencoded gzipped tarred Latex and PostScript files, 9 pages, 5 figures. Minor improvements have been made to the style. Latex and postscript versions also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/9602041 [pdf, other]

Title: Luminosity Functions of Elliptical Galaxies at z < 1.2

Myungshin Im, Richard E. Griffiths, Kavan U. Ratnatunga (Johns Hopkins University), Vicki L. Sarajedini (Steward Observatory)

Comments: To be published in ApJ Letters, 4 pages, AAS Latex, 4 figures, and 2 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/9602042 [pdf, other]

Title: Surface temperature of a magnetized neutron star and interpretation of the ROSAT data. II

Dany Page, Antonio Sarmiento (Instituto de astronomia, UNAM, Mexico)

Comments: 17 pages with 8 figures. Uses AASTeX v4.0 macro. Submitted to Ap. J

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 473 (1996) 1067

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/9602043 [pdf, other]

Title: Strange stars: Which is the ground stage of QCD at finite baryon number

Dany Page (formerly Astronomy Dept., Columbia University)

Comments: 10 page postscript

Journal-ref: `High Energy Phenomenology' eds. M. A. Perez & R. Huerta (World Scientific), 1992, p. 347 - 356

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

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/9602044 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy morphology to I=25 mag in the Hubble Deep Field

R. G. Abraham, N. R. Tanvir, B. X. Santiago, R. S. Ellis, K. Glazebrook, S. van den Bergh

Comments: 6 pages LaTeX. 4 EPS Figures. 2 Colour PS Plates. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.279:L47-l52,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/9602045 [pdf, other]

Title: Physics potentials of pp and pep solar neutrino fluxes

E. Calabresu, G. Fiorentini, M. Lissia

Comments: 14 pages, ReVTeX, plus 9 postscript figures

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.5:205-214,1996

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

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/9602046 [pdf, other]

Title: Ionized gas in early-type galaxies: Its effect on Mgb and other stellar line-strength indices

Paul Goudfrooij (ESO Garching), Eric Emsellem (Sterrewacht Leiden)

Comments: Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, in press (accepted Jan 11, 1996). 4 pages in revised A&A LaTeX style (enclosed); figures enclosed. Requires this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/9602047 [pdf, other]

Title: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Globular Clusters in M31 II: Structural Parameters

C.J. Grillmair (1), E.A. Ajhar (2), S.M. Faber (1), W.A. Baum (3), J.A. Holtzman (4), T.R. Lauer (2), C.R. Lynds (2), E.J. O'Neil Jr. (2) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) Kitt Peak National Observatory, (3) University of Washington, (4) New Mexico State University)

Comments: 15 pages, 10 tables, 8 postscript figures, this http URL, this http URL, and this http URL included, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/9602048 [pdf, other]

Title: A Study of Cross-Correlation and Breakfinding Algorithms Applied to the Measurements of Redshifts in Very Low Resolution Spectra

R. Cabanac, E. F. Borra

Comments: 16 pages + 15 figures, uuencoded-gziped-Postscript; Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/9602049 [pdf, other]

Title: The gravitational lens CFRS14.1311 = HST 14176+5226

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

Comments: uuencoded compressed Tex (4 pages) with 2 postscript figures and style files. Also available at this http URL . Accepted for A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/9602050 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Implications of the First Measurement of the Local ISM Abundance of $^3$He

Michael S. Turner, James W. Truran, David N. Schramm, Craig J. Copi

Comments: 15 pages + 2 figures (included as eps files using this http URL and this http URL), submitted to Nature

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 466 (1996) L59-L62

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)