Astrophysics

Authors and titles for March 1996

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/9603001 [pdf, other]

Title: DT/T beyond linear theory

Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez

Comments: plain tex, 16 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the Laredo Advance School on Astrophysics "The universe at high-z, large-scale structure and the cosmic microwave background". To be publised by Springer-Verlag

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/9603002 [pdf, other]

Title: Clumpy ultracompact HII regions -- II. Cores, spheres and shells from subsonic flows

M.P. Redman (1), R.J.R. Williams (1), J.E. Dyson (1,2) ((1) University of Manchester, (2) University of Leeds)

Comments: 6 pages with MN LaTeX macros, includes 12 postscript figures. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/9603003 [pdf, other]

Title: Clumpy ultracompact HII regions -- III. Cometary morphologies around stationary stars

R.J.R. Williams (1), J.E. Dyson (1,2), M.P. Redman (1) ((1) University of Manchester, (2) University of Leeds)

Comments: 6 pages with MN LaTeX macros, includes 5 postscript figures. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/9603004 [pdf, other]

Title: Using Oblique Decision Trees for the Morphological Classification of Galaxies

E. Owens, R. E. Griffiths, K. U. Ratnatunga (Johns Hopkins University)

Comments: To be published in MNRAS, 6 pages, and 1 figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/9603005 [pdf, other]

Title: Mapping the cold dust in edge-on galaxies at 1.2 mm wavelength

N. Neininger (IRAM France and MPIfR Bonn), M. Guelin (IRAM France)

Comments: 4 pages LaTeX plus gzipped tar-file, including style and 2 ps-figures; to be published in the proceeedings of the "Dust-Morphology" Conference, Johannesburg, 22-26 January, 1996, D. Block (ed.), (Kluwer Dordrecht)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/9603006 [pdf, other]

Title: Brightest Cluster Galaxy Profile Shapes

Alister Graham, Tod R. Lauer, Matthew Colless, Marc Postman

Comments: To appear in Ap.J., 16 pages

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.465:534-547,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/9603007 [pdf, other]

Title: How small were the first cosmological objects?

Max Tegmark, Joseph Silk, Martin Rees, Alain Blanchard, Tom Abel, Francesco Palla

Comments: Minor modifications to match published version. Molecular cooling rates improved. 29 pages, with 6 figures included. Color figures and related work at this http URL (faster from the US), from this http URL (faster from Europe) or from max@ias.edu

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.474:1-12,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/9603008 [pdf, other]

Title: A Study of Time Variations of UV Continuum and Emission Lines in 3C390.3

Wei Zheng (Johns Hopkins University)

Comments: To appear in The Astronomical Journal, April issue. 24 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/9603009 [pdf, other]

Title: Model Independent Predictions of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis from \he4 and \li7: Consistency and Implications

Brian D. Fields, Kimmo Kainulainen, Keith A. Olive, David Thomas

Comments: 28 pages, latex, 10 ps figures

Journal-ref: New Astron.1:77-96,1996

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

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/9603010 [pdf, other]

Title: A Constraint on the Distance Scale to Cosmological Gamma--Ray Bursts

Jean M. Quashnock (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago)

Comments: 15 LaTeX pages with 2 encapsulated Postscript figures included, uses AASTeX (v. 4.0) available at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 461 (1996) L69

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/9603011 [pdf, other]

Title: Abundances of light elements in metal-poor stars. I. Atmospheric parameters and a new T_eff scale

R.G. Gratton (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), E. Carretta (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova and Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna), F. Castelli (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste)

Comments: 15 pages, 13 encapsulated Postscript figures, uses this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/9603012 [pdf, other]

Title: Faint galaxies close to QSOs with damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems

A. Aragon-Salamanca, R.S. Ellis, K.S. O'Brien

Comments: 7 pages, LaTeX, with 4 postscript figures. To appear in Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/9603013 [pdf, other]

Title: Introductory Overview of Eulerian and Lagrangian Perturbation Theories

F. R. Bouchet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS)

Comments: Lecture notes for the Course CXXXII of the Enrico Fermi School on ``Dark Matter in the Universe'', help in Varenna, 29 pages, uses iopllppt (included)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/9603014 [pdf, other]

Title: Cepheids, supernovae and the value of $H_0$

M.A. Hendry, S.M. Kanbur

Comments: 5 pages, including 1 figure, gzip'ed and uuencoded postscript file. To appear in the proceedings ``Mapping, Measuring and Modelling the Universe'', Valencia September 1995, eds P. Coles \& V. Martinez, APS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/9603015 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-range (fractal) correlations in the LEDA database

H. Di Nella, M. Montuori, G.Paturel, L. Pietronero, F. Sylos Labini

Comments: 4 pages LaTex. 5 Postscript figures, and this http URL macro are available under request at sylos@roma1.this http URL

Journal-ref: Astronomy & Astrophysics Letter, 1996, in print

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/9603016 [pdf, other]

Title: Power Spectrum Analysis of the Stromlo-APM Redshift Survey

H. Tadros, G. Efstathiou

Comments: 14 pages, gziped and uuencoded postscript file. Submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/9603017 [pdf, other]

Title: A CMBR Measurement Reproduced: A Statistical Comparison of MSAM1-94 to MSAM1-92

C.A. Inman, E.S. Cheng, D.A. Cottingham, D.J. Fixsen, M.S. Kowitt, S.S. Meyer, L.A. Page, J.L. Puchalla, J.E. Ruhl, R.F. Silverberg

Comments: 9 pages, LaTeX+aasms4 package, 1 included encapsulated PostScript figure. Submitted to Ap.J Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/9603018 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonant Relaxation in Stellar Systems

Kevin P. Rauch, Scott Tremaine (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto)

Comments: 34 pages (LaTeX2e format), 2 PostScript figures, uses this http URL and this http URL (AASTeX v4.0), submitted to New Astronomy

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/9603019 [pdf, other]

Title: Synthetic Spectra and Mass Determination of the Brown Dwarf Gl229B

France Allard (Wichita State University), Peter H. Hauschildt (Arizona State University), Isabelle Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon)

Comments: 14 pages, latex, AASTEX, figures not included, full text plus figures available at this http URL or at this ftp URL, ApJ Letters, in press. Replaced with accepted version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/9603020 [pdf, other]

Title: Are Hubble Deep Field Galaxy Counts Whole Numbers?

Wesley N. Colley, James E. Rhoads, Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences), David N. Spergel (Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland)

Comments: accepted by ApJL, AASTeX 4.0 preprint style, 2 PostScript figures, Replacing astro-ph/9603020 (major modification: improved detection alg.)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/9603021 [pdf, other]

Title: Karhunen-Loeve eigenvalue problems in cosmology: how should we tackle large data sets?

Max Tegmark, Andy Taylor, Alan Heavens

Comments: 15 pages, with 5 figures included. Substantially expanded with worked COBE examples for e.g. the multiparameter case. Available from this http URL (faster from the US), from this http URL (faster from Europe) or from max@ias.edu

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.480:22,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/9603022 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Evolution of Galaxy Groups. A comparison of two approaches

C. Garcia-Gomez, E. Athanassoula, A. Garijo

Comments: 17 pages LaTex, 10 Postscript figures, uses this http URL, this http URL. To appear in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/9603023 [pdf, other]

Title: "Not too old" metal deficient stellar populations: the case of metallicity Z=0.00001

S. Cassisi (Osservatorio Astronomico Collurania, Teramo; Universita' de l'Aquila), M. Castellani (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"), V. Castellani (Osservatorio Astronomico Collurania; Universita' di Pisa)

Comments: 11 pages, 8 encapsulated Postscript figures. Accepted for publication on A&A main journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/9603024 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and X-ray properties of the RIXOS AGN: I - The continua

E.M. Puchnarewicz, K.O. Mason, E. Romero-Colmenero, F.J. Carrera, G. Hasinger, R. McMahon, J.P.D. Mittaz, M.J. Page, R. Carballo

Comments: 24 pages, TeX file, PS figures and this http URL. Accepted in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/9603025 [pdf, other]

Title: The Pulsating Pre-White Dwarf Star PG 0122+200

M. Sean O'Brien, J. Christopher Clemens (Hubble Fellow), Steven D. Kawaler, Benjamin T. Dehner (Iowa State University)

Comments: 18 pages (latex, AASTEX) plus 6 PostScript figures, accepted 7 February 1996 by The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/9603026 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle Dark Matter

David N. Spergel (Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University)

Comments: 19 pages, Latex, To appear in "Some Outstanding Questions in Astrophysics", edited by J.N. Bahcall \& J.P. Ostriker

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/9603027 [pdf, other]

Title: Gaseous Galactic Halos and QSO Absorption Line Systems

H. J. Mo (MPA, IAS), J. Miralda-Escude (IAS)

Comments: 44 pages, Latex(this http URL), 16 encap. ps figs. ApJ submitted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/9603028 [pdf, other]

Title: A general and practical method for calculating cosmological distances

Rainer Kayser, Phillip Helbig, Thomas Schramm (Hamburg Observatory)

Comments: 12 pages + 12 FORTRAN source files + PostScript User's Guide. Identical versions of everything available from this http URL o/angsiz.html or this ftp URL . Paper version available on request. Accepted by A&A. Changes: typos corrected, primarily in Appendix B. No changes to FORTRAN code or User's Guide. All versions mentioned here are complete; the published version will have the appendices published electronically at CDS

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 318 (1997) 680-686

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/9603029 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the evolution of the M/L ratio from the Fundamental Plane in CL 0024+16 at z=0.39

Marijn Franx, Pieter van Dokkum

Comments: 8 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file. To be published in Proceedings of IAU symposium 171, "New light on Galaxy Evolution", Eds.: this http URL and R. Davies, Kluwer, Dordrecht. Postscript version also available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/9603030 [pdf, other]

Title: ROSAT Observations of BL Lacertae Objects

G. Lamer, H. Brunner, R. Staubert (Institut fuer Astronomie und Astrophysik, Astronomie, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)

Comments: 9 pages, 8 postscript figures included, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/9603031 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlinear evolution of cosmological power spectra

J.A. Peacock, S.J. Dodds (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)

Comments: MNRAS in press. 8 pages TeX including Postscript figures. Uses this http URL and this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 280 (1996) L19

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/9603032 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure of Stationary Photodissociation Fronts

B.T. Draine (Princeton University Observatory), Frank Bertoldi (Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik)

Comments: 50 pages, 24 eps figures, uses this http URL . To appear in Ap.J

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.468:269,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/9603033 [pdf, other]

Title: A Line of Sight Approach to Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies

Uros Seljak (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Matias Zaldarriaga (MIT Physics Department)

Comments: 20 pages, 5 figures. Fortran code available from the authors

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.469:437-444,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/9603034 [pdf, other]

Title: The Cosmological Constant and Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors

Yun Wang, Edwin L. Turner (Princeton)

Comments: 13 pages plus 5 figure, LaTeX. Revised and final version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 56, 724 (1997)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/9603035 [pdf, other]

Title: Hubble Deep Field Constraint on Baryonic Dark Matter

Chris Flynn, Andrew Gould, John N. Bahcall

Comments: New limit on Local Group stars, less than 1/3000 density of local Pop II stars. 11 pages, 2 embedded figs

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 466 (1996) L55

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/9603036 [pdf, other]

Title: Close Approach during Hard Binary--Binary Scattering

D. Bacon, S. Sigurdsson, M.B. Davies (IoA, Cambridge)

Comments: 13 pages including 13 ps figures. MNRAS in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/9603037 [pdf, other]

Title: ROSAT/HRI and ASCA observations of the most luminous X-ray cluster RXJ1347.5-1145

S. Schindler, M. Hattori, D.M. Neumann, H. Böhringer

Comments: 11 pages, postscript, including 6 figures, submitted to A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/9603038 [pdf, other]

Title: A new technique for the detection of periodic signals in ``coloured'' power spectra

G. L. Israel, L. Stella

Comments: 20 pages plus 10 postscript figures, uuencoded zipped file, PostScript. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/9603039 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Order Correlations of Peaks and Halos: a Step toward Understanding Galaxy Biasing

H.J. Mo (MPA, IAS), Y.P. Jing, S.D.M. White (MPA)

Comments: 36 pages, Latex(this http URL), 5 encap. ps figs. MN submitted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/9603040 [pdf, other]

Title: The APM Bright Galaxy Catalogue

Jon Loveday (FNAL)

Comments: 52 pages, uuencoded, gzipped tar archive, includes all figures. The catalogue data is available from this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 278 (1996) 1025

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/9603041 [pdf, other]

Title: Line profile variations in $\gamma$ Doradus

L.A. Balona, T. Böhm, B.H. Foing, K.K. Ghosh, E. Janot-Pacheco, K. Krisciunas, A-M Lagrange, W. A. Lawson, S. D. James, J. Baudrand, C. Catala, M. Dreux, P. Felenbok, J. B. Hearnshaw

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures, accepted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/9603042 [pdf, other]

Title: Destruction of the Galactic Globular Cluster System

Oleg Y. Gnedin, Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton University Observatory)

Comments: 34 pages using AAS LaTeX macro, 4 tables, 25 figures (4 included). Submitted to ApJ. Full version is available through WWW at this http URL or anonymous ftp at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 474 (1997) 223

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/9603043 [pdf, other]

Title: M=1 and 2 Gravitational Instabilities in Gaseous Disks: I. Diffuse Gas

S. Junqueira, F. Combes (Observatoire de Paris)

Comments: 14 pages, 24 figures, uses Latex, L-AA, gzipped postscript available at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/9603044 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernova Neutrino Scattering Rates Reduced by Nucleon Spin Fluctuations: Perturbative Limit

G.Raffelt (MPI fur Physik), D.Seckel (Bartol), G.Sigl (Univ. Chicago)

Comments: 9 pages, REVTeX, 4 postscript figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D54:2784-2792,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/9603045 [pdf, other]

Title: No Crisis for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Peter J. Kernan (Case Western), Subir Sarkar (Oxford)

Comments: 10 pages LaTeX (uses ReVTeX), including 3 PostScript figures (uses epsf); Full paper available from this ftp URL ; Revised to include discussion of new deuterium observations in quasar absorption systems and helium-3 measurement in local interstellar gas, updated Fig 1, no change in conclusions, resubmitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D54:3681-3685,1996

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

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/9603046 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffuse gamma-rays from galactic halos

M. Pohl

Comments: 12 pages, invited Review at 156th Heraeus Workshop "The Physics of Galactic Halos", Bad Honnef, February 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/9603047 [pdf, other]

Title: Photometric Signatures of Starbursts in Interacting Galaxies and the Butcher-Oemler Effect

Karl Rakos, Thomas Maindl, James Schombert

Comments: 24 pages, LaTeX/AAS macros, contact author for tables, accepted for ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/9603048 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiscaling

Vicent J. Martinez (Departament d'Astronomia. Universitat de Valencia), Maria Jesus Pons-Borderia (Dep. de Fisica Teorica. UAM)

Comments: 6 pages, uuencoded gzipped ps-file, LaTeX using this http URL (enclosed), 2 figures. 127 kByte Proc. ``Mapping, Measuring and Modelling the Universe'', Valencia 1995, eds.: P. Coles, V.J. Martinez, M.J. Pons-Borderia, to be published by ASP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/9603049 [pdf, other]

Title: Structures in the Mirror Universe

R. N. Mohapatra, Vigdor L. Teplitz

Comments: 21 pages, Latex file and one postscript file of figure appended

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 478 (1997) 29-38

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

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/9603050 [pdf, other]

Title: A Weak Gravitational Lensing and X-ray Analysis of Abell 2163

G. Squires, D. M. Neumann, N. Kaiser, M. Arnaud, A. Babul, H. Böhringer, G. Fahlman, D. Woods

Comments: 30 pages, latex file. Postscript file also available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)