Astrophysics

Authors and titles for May 1996

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/9605001 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dispersion Velocity of Galactic Dark Matter Particles

R. Cowsik, Charu Ratnam, P. Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore)

Comments: RevTex, 4 pages, 1 ps figure, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996) 3886-3889

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

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/9605002 [pdf, other]

Title: Linear Regression for Astronomical Data with Measurement Errors and Intrinsic Scatter

Michael G. Akritas, Matthew A. Bershady

Comments: 23 pages LaTeX, 1 postscript table, and style files (uuencoded, gzipp'ed tar file). To appear in the Astrophysical Journal, October 10, 1996 issue, Vol. 470

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 470 (1996) 706

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/9605003 [pdf, other]

Title: Direct collisional simulation of 10 000 particles past core collapse

Rainer Spurzem (Institut fuer Astronomie und Astrophysik, Univ. Kiel, Germany), Sverre J. Aarseth (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)

Comments: 13 pages, Blackwell publishers Macro this http URL for MNRAS used, tex-source without figures, full this http URL available through this http URL (click on: Postscript-File (1.1 MB) ), in press for MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/9605004 [pdf, other]

Title: X-Ray Fluctuations from Locally Unstable Advection-Dominated Disks

T. Manmoto, M. Takeuchi, S. Mineshige, R. Matsumoto, H. Negoro

Comments: plain TeX, 11 pages, without figures; to be published in ApJ Letter

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/9605005 [pdf, other]

Title: Cooling Time Scales and Temporal Structure of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Re'em Sari (1), Ramesh Narayan (2), Tsvi Piran (1) ((1) Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center, Cambridge)

Comments: 33 pages and 7 figures, submitted to ApJ Complete PS file is available at this ftp URL or at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/9605006 [pdf, other]

Title: Are topological defects responsible for the 300 EeV cosmic rays?

R.J. Protheroe, P.A. Johnson (University of Adelaide)

Comments: 3 pages, compressed and uuencoded PostScript (111kb); Nucl. Phys. B., Proc. Suppl., vol 48, in press (TAUP95 Workshop)

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 48 (1996) 485-487

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/9605007 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature determination of the cool DO white dwarf HD149499B from EUVE observations

S. Jordan (Institut fuer Astronomie und Astrophysik, Kiel, Germany), R. Napiwotzki (Dr.-Reimeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg, Germany), D. Koester (Kiel), T. Rauch (Kiel; Lehrstuhl Astrophysik, Potsdam, Germany)

Comments: 5 pages, LaTeX with l-aa style, 5 Postscript figures; tarred, gzipped and uuencoded, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/9605008 [pdf, other]

Title: The Metallicity Dependence of the Stellar Luminosity and Initial Mass Functions: HST Observations of Open and Globular Clusters

Ted von Hippel (University of Wisconsin), Gerard Gilmore, Nial Tanvir, David Robinson (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge), Derek H.P. Jones (Royal Greenwich Observatory)

Comments: 15 pages, uuencoded gunzip'ed latex + 8 postscrip figures, to be published in AJ, July 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/9605009 [pdf, other]

Title: The effects of resonance scattering and dust on the UV line spectrum of radio galaxies

M.Villar-Martin, L.Binette, R.A.E. Fosbury

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. Postscript file (compressed) available at this ftp URL and this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/9605010 [pdf, other]

Title: A Procedure for Correcting the Apparent Optical Depths of Moderately Saturated Interstellar Absorption Lines

Edward B. Jenkins (Princeton University Observatory)

Comments: 23 pages, 5 postscript files for 4 figures, ApJ in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.471:292-301,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/9605011 [pdf, other]

Title: Mechanisms for the Outbursts of Soft X-ray Transients

J.-P. Lasota, R. Narayan, I. Yi

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, Astronomy & Astrophysics in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/9605012 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Binaries in Globular Clusters. I. A Search for Ultra-Hard Binaries on the Main Sequence in M4

Patrick Cote (DAO), Phil Fischer (University of Michigan)

Comments: 25 pages; TeX and PS figures. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/9605013 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Binaries in Globular Clusters. II. A Search for Long-Period Binaries in M22

Patrick Cote (DAO), Carlton Pryor (Rutgers), Robert D. McClure (DAO), J. M. Fletcher (DAO), James E. Hesser (DAO)

Comments: 40 pages; TeX and PS figures. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/9605014 [pdf, other]

Title: The Case for a Kilometer-Scale High-Energy Neutrino Detector: 1996

F. Halzen

Comments: 19 pages, 4 postscript figures, Latex2.09, uses this http URL and this http URL. Talk given at the Venitian Neutrino Conference, February 1996. Postscript version of paper with figures also available at this http URL or at this ftp URL

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

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/9605015 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion Processes On a Black Hole

Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Comments: 167 single spaced pages of text. 91 figures in gif format

Journal-ref: Phys.Rept. 266 (1996) 229-392

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

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/9605016 [pdf, other]

Title: A parallel integration method for solar system dynamics

Prasenjit Saha, Joachim Stadel, Scott Tremaine

Comments: Submitted to AJ, 12 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/9605017 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the cosmological constant with redshift surveys

W. E. Ballinger, J. A. Peacock, A. F. Heavens (Institute for Astronomy and Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)

Comments: MNRAS in press. 12 pages LaTeX including Postscript figures. Uses this http URL and this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/9605018 [pdf, other]

Title: A Model for the Internal Structure of Molecular Cloud Cores

Dean E. McLaughlin, Ralph E. Pudritz

Comments: 33 pages, LaTeX with 3 PS figures; ApJ in press (October 1 1996)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/9605019 [pdf, other]

Title: The Role of Binaries in the Dynamical Evolution of the Core of a Globular Cluster

Piet Hut

Comments: 10 pages, Latex + 3 ps-figures, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 174: Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/9605020 [pdf, other]

Title: Convection in stellar envelopes: a changing paradigm

H.C. Spruit (MPI for Astrophysics)

Comments: 17 pages, uses this http URL, 2 postscript figures. Review, to appear in Mem. Soc. Astron. It. Much of the numerical work quoted is available at: this http URL this http URL this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/9605021 [pdf, other]

Title: A Keck HIRES Investigation of the Metal Abundances and Kinematics of Three Damped Lya Systems Toward Q2206-199

Jason X. Prochaska, Arthur M. Wolfe (University of California at San Diego)

Comments: 55 pages, 16 encapsulated figures, uses this http URL. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. Change: Fixed Title. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/9605022 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of Atmospheric Cherenkov Radiation Using Solar Heliostat Mirrors

Rene A. Ong (Univ. of Chicago), the STACEE Collaboration

Comments: 16 latex pages, 8 postscript figures, uses this http URL, to be published in Astroparticle Physics

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 5 (1996) 353-366

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/9605023 [pdf, other]

Title: High Spatial Resolution KAO Far-Infrared Observations of the Central Regions of Infrared-Bright Galaxies

Beverly J. Smith, P. M. Harvey (University of Texas)

Comments: 45 pages, to appear in Ap.J. vol. 468 (Sept. 1996). 17 postscript figures and 10 postscript tables available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/9605024 [pdf, other]

Title: Faint K Selected Galaxy Correlations and Clustering Evolution

R.G. Carlberg, L. L. Cowie, A. Songaila, E. M. Hu

Comments: to be published in the Aug 1 ApJ, 20 pages as a uuencoded postscript file Postscript with all figures is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/9605025 [pdf, other]

Title: New Evidence for The Cosmological Origin of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Tsafrir Kolatt (CfA), Tsvi Piran (HU)

Comments: 10 Pages, figures included, uuencoded gzipped ps-file

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/9605026 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparison of ASCA and ROSAT Cluster Temperatures: A2256, A3558 and AWM7

Maxim Markevitch, Alexey Vikhlinin

Comments: SIS data added for A3558 which increased significance of the temperature structure. Accepted for ApJ. Latex, 8 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: ApJ 474, 84 (1997)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/9605027 [pdf, other]

Title: Globular Clusters in NGC 1275

Denise Kaisler, William E. Harris, Dennis R. Crabtree, Harvey B. Richer

Comments: 25 pages, latex, postscript figures, tarred, Unix compressed, postscript version of paper and figures available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/9605028 [pdf, other]

Title: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Status and Prospects

Jon Loveday (Fermilab)

Comments: Invited talk given at the XXXIst Rencontres de Moriond, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, January 1996. 10 pages, LaTex plus postscript figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/9605029 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytical Dynamical Models for Double-Power-Law Galactic Nuclei

HongSheng Zhao (MPA-Garching)

Comments: 25 pages, 6 figures uuencoded compressed tar files

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/9605030 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Microlensing Optical Depth of the Galactic Bar

HongSheng Zhao, Shude Mao (MPA-Garching)

Comments: 28 pages including 6 postscript figures in uuencoded compressed tar file. Submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/9605031 [pdf, other]

Title: Soft X--Ray Properties of Seyfert Galaxies in the Rosat All--Sky Survey

Brian Rush, Matthew A. Malkan (UCLA), Henner H. Fink, Wolfgang Voges (MPE)

Comments: AASTeX, 40 pages. Text and Table 2 only. PostScript versions of this file, figures, and Table 1, and a latex version of Table 1 are available by this ftp URL, get rmfv*. Accepted by ApJ ~1996 May 10. Should be published in late 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/9605032 [pdf, other]

Title: Scale-Invariant Correlation Functions of Cosmological Density Fluctuations in the Strong Clustering Regime

Taihei Yano, Naoteru Gouda (Osaka University)

Comments: 24 pages, no figures, uses this http URL, Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/9605033 [pdf, other]

Title: Stability of Cosmological Detonation Fronts

Luciano Rezzolla (SISSA, Trieste)

Comments: 39 pages, LaTeX file plus 3 embedded PostScript figures; to be published in Phys. Rev. D (15 July issue)

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 1345-1358

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

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/9605034 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Conductive/Cooling Fronts as Lyman Alpha Forest Clouds

Andrea Ferrara (Arcetri), Yuri Shchekinov (Rostov University)

Comments: 9 pages, plain TeX, 3 figures; ApJ Letters, accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/9605035 [pdf, other]

Title: The Nature and Observability of Protogalaxies

Simon D.M. White (MPA-Garching)

Comments: 10 pages including 2 postscript figures in uuencoded compressed tar file. To be published in proceedings of the ESO workshop on Large Millimeter Arrays (ed. P. Shaver)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/9605036 [pdf, other]

Title: Limits on Topological Defects Models of the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

R.J. Protheroe (University of Adelaide), Todor Stanev (Bartol Research Institute)

Comments: 8 pages, latex, 4 postscript figures, uses this http URL. Axis labelling on Figs. 2, 3, and 4 corrected. Discussion and conclusions unchanged

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.77:3708-3711,1996; Erratum-ibid.78:3420,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/9605037 [pdf, other]

Title: New sources for Kerr and other metrics: rotating relativistic disks with pressure support

C. Pichon (CITA, Canada), D. Lynden-Bell (Cambridge, UK)

Comments: plain tex, 29 pages, uses this http URL and this http URL; gzipped ps file with figures also available here and at this http URL and this ftp URL

Journal-ref: MNRAS (1996) 280 (4), pp 1007-1026

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/9605038 [pdf, other]

Title: H_alpha emission fluxes and lithium abundances of low mass stars in the young open cluster IC 4665

E.L. Martin, D. Montes

Comments: 7 pages, latex file, 6 PostScript figures, tar'ed and gzip'ed. Full postscript (text and figures) available at this http URL Accepted for publication in 'Astronomy and Astrophysics'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/9605039 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical evolution of DLA systems

F. Matteucci, P. Molaro, G. Vladilo

Comments: 10 pages, 5 Postscript figures, uses this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.321:45,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/9605040 [pdf, other]

Title: The globular cluster system of an ``old'' merger: NGC 5018

Michael Hilker, Markus Kissler-Patig (Sternwarte Bonn)

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A. 12 pages, gzipped, uuencoded, including 9 figures. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/9605041 [pdf, other]

Title: Percolation Analysis of a Wiener Reconstruction of the IRAS 1.2 Jy Redshift Catalog

Capp Yess, Sergei F. Shandarin (Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kansas), Karl B. Fisher (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)

Comments: Revised version accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, January 10, 1997 issue, Vol.474

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/9605042 [pdf, other]

Title: Equilibria of flat and round galactic disks

C. Pichon (CITA, Canada), D. Lynden-Bell (Cambridge, UK)

Comments: plain tex, uses this http URL and this http URL 20 pages, 6 eps figures, gziped ps file with figures also available here and at this http URL this ftp URL accepted for publication by MNRAS (1996)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/9605043 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effects of a Photoionizing UV Background on the Formation of Disk Galaxies

Julio Navarro, Matthias Steinmetz

Comments: 36 pages, w/ embedded figures, submitted to ApJ. Also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 478 (1997) 13

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/9605044 [pdf, other]

Title: An exact analytical method for inferring the law of gravity from the macroscopic dynamics: Spherical mass distribution with exponential density

Carlos Rodrigo-Blanco (LAEFF, Madrid, Spain)

Comments: 8 pages with 2 encapsulated PostScript figures included, uuencoded gzipped tar format. Uses Astronomy \& Astrophysics LaTeX macros. Submitted to A\&A

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

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/9605045 [pdf, other]

Title: An approximate analytical method for inferring the law of gravity from the macroscopic dynamics: Thin-disk mass distribution with exponential density

Carlos Rodrigo-Blanco (LAEFF, Madrid, Spain)

Comments: 8 pages with 2 encapsulated PostScript figures included, uuencoded gzipped tar format. Uses Astronomy \& Astrophysics LaTeX macros. Submitted to A\&A

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

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/9605046 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiative Torques on Interstellar Grains: I. Superthermal Spinup

B.T. Draine (Princeton University Observatory), Joseph C. Weingartner (Physics Dept., Princeton University)

Comments: 46 pages, 15 eps figures, uses this http URL . Ap.J., in press (Oct.10)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/9605047 [pdf, other]

Title: The structure of Doppler peaks induced by active perturbations

Joao Magueijo, Andreas Albrecht, Pedro Ferreira, David Coulson

Comments: uuencoded file with tex file and figures, using epsf, a4wide

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D54:3727-3744,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/9605048 [pdf, other]

Title: The inferred redshift distribution of the faint blue excess

Simon P. Driver (UNSW), Warrick J. Couch (UNSW), Steven Phillipps (Univ. Bristol), Rogier A. Windhorst (ASU)

Comments: To appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters (July 20th). 12 pages including 1 figure (uuencoded postscript)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/9605049 [pdf, other]

Title: IRAS04210+0400: Modeling the optical spectra from flaring large scale jets

W. Steffen, A.J. Holloway, A. Pedlar (University of Manchester, UK)

Comments: LaTeX (MN style-file), 10 pages, accepted by MNRAS, available online at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/9605050 [pdf, other]

Title: MgII Absorbers: Disks, Halos, Satellites, and Pairs?

Jane C. Charlton, Christopher W. Churchill (Penn State University)

Comments: 4 pages, Latex file, and 1 PostScript figure; To appear in IAGUSP Workshop on Young Galaxies and QSO Absorbers, eds. S. M. Viegas, R. Gruenwald, and R. de Carvalho, (PASP Conference Series); Available as a single PostScript file at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)