Astrophysics

Authors and titles for June 1996

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/9606001 [pdf, other]

Title: Lectures on Gravitational Lensing

Ramesh Narayan (1), Matthias Bartelmann (2) ((1) CfA, (2) MPA)

Comments: revised version: references updated, some new results included; 53 pages without any figures; complete versions can be found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/9606002 [pdf, other]

Title: MM Observations of IRAS Galaxies: Dust Properties, Luminosity Functions and Contributions to the Sub-MM Background

P. Andreani, A. Franceschini (Dipartimento di Astronomia di Padova)

Comments: 4 pg Latex file (using included this http URL) gzip'd tar'd file including 3 ps figures. Proceedings of 'Cold dust Morphology Conference', Johannesburg, South Africa, January 21-26 1996 A wrong figure is replaced

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/9606003 [pdf, other]

Title: Femtolens Imaging of a Quasar Central Engine Using a Dwarf Star Telescope

Andrew Gould, B. Scott Gaudi

Comments: 12 pages including 3 embedded figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/9606004 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulated VLBI Images From Relativistic Hydrodynamic Jet Models

Amy J. Mioduszewski, Philip A. Hughes (University of Michigan), G. Comer Duncan (Bowling Green State University)

Comments: 27 pages, uses this http URL; 18 PostScript figures (1.57Mb gziped, 8.67Mb gunziped) available from this http URL or by anonymous ftp from this http URL in pub/get/hughes. Submitted to Ap. J

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/9606005 [pdf, other]

Title: Wavelet Space-Scale Decomposition Analysis of QSO's Lyman-Alpha Lines: Spectrum of non-Gaussianity

Jesus Pando, Li-Zhi Fang

Comments: 27 LaTEX pages with 16 PostScript figure included as a tar,uuencoded file

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/9606006 [pdf, other]

Title: Internal Kinematics of Galaxies at z=0.25-0.45

Luc Simard, Christopher J. Pritchet (Univ. of Victoria)

Comments: 8 pages and 1 figure, AASTeX v4.0 2-column preprint style. Submitted to ApJ Letters. Also available through anonymous FTP at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/9606007 [pdf, other]

Title: The Ultra High Energy Neutrino-Nucleon Cross Section

John P. Ralston, Douglas W. McKay (University of Kansas), George M. Frichter (Bartol Research Institute)

Comments: 7 pages, this http URL, Conf. Proc. Seventh International Symposium on Neutrino Telescopes, Feb. 27 - Mar. 1, 1996, Venice, Italy

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

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/9606008 [pdf, other]

Title: Toward Radio Detection of PeV Neutrinos on the Cubic Kilometer Scale

George M. Frichter (Bartol Research Institute), John P. Ralston, Douglas W. McKay (University of Kansas)

Comments: 10 pages, this http URL, this http URL. Conf. Proc. Seventh International Symposium on Neutrino Telescopes, Feb. 27 - Mar. 1, 1996, Venice, Italy

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

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/9606009 [pdf, other]

Title: Line Emission in AGN: Effects of Local Delays Upon Line Variability

Jason A. Taylor (NASA/GSFC)

Comments: To appear in ApJ, Vol. 470, October 10, 1996

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 470 (1996) 269

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/9606010 [pdf, other]

Title: The Spectral States of Black Hole X-ray Binary Sources

Xingming Chen, Ronald E. Taam

Comments: ApJ, July 1996; 2 figures available upon request

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/9606011 [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastic Isocurvature Baryon Fluctuations, Baryon Diffusion, and Primordial Nucleosynthesis

Hannu Kurki-Suonio (Helsinki), Karsten Jedamzik (Livermore), Grant J. Mathews (Notre Dame)

Comments: LaTeX, 11 pages and 4 figures, this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 479 (1997) 31-39

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/9606012 [pdf, other]

Title: A Binary Lensing Event Toward the LMC: Observations and Dark Matter Implications

D.P.Bennett, C.Alcock, R.A.Allsman, D.Alves, T.S.Axelrod, A.Becker, K.H.Cook, K.C.Freeman, K.Griest, J.Guern, M.J.Lehner, S.L.Marshall, D.Minniti, B.A.Peterson, M.R.Pratt, P.J.Quinn, S.H.Rhie, A.W.Rodgers, C.W.Stubbs, W.Sutherland, D.Welch (The MACHO Collaboration)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 postscript figures included; To appear in the Proceedings of the Dark Matter '96 Conference held in Santa Monica, CA, Feb., 1996

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 51B (1996) 152-156

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/9606013 [pdf, other]

Title: 1.25 mm Observations of a Complete Sample of IRAS Galaxies: (II) Dust Properties

P.Andreani, A.Franceschini (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Padova)

Comments: 9 pg Latex file (using this http URL) gzip'd tar'd file including 7 ps figures and 3 tables. to appear in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/9606014 [pdf, other]

Title: TeV emission from SN 1006

A. Mastichiadis (1)O.C. de Jager (2) ((1) MPI Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Space Research Unit, PU vir CHO, Potchefstroom, South Africa)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 postscript figure (this http URL), uses this http URL, TeX file name is this http URL, accepted for publication

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.311:L5-L8,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/9606015 [pdf, other]

Title: Identification of a Gravitationally Lensed z=2.515 Star-Forming Galaxy

T.M.D. Ebbels, J.-F. Le Borgne, R. Pelló, R.S. Ellis, J.-P. Kneib, I. Smail, B. Sanahuja

Comments: 5 pages, 160k uuencoded gzipped tar file, 4 postscript figures and style files included. Also available at: this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/9606016 [pdf, other]

Title: Young Star Clusters in Starburst Environments

Luis C. Ho (Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: Invited paper to appear in Rev. Mex. Astr. Astrofis. (1996), proceedings of Starburst Activity in Galaxies, ed. J. Franco, R. Terlevich, and G. Tenorio-Tagle. LaTex, 9 pages, including 1 postcript figure. this http URL macros included. 3 greyscale figures (Fig. 1-3) here as jpegs, or in compressed PostScript at this ftp URL (mget fig*ps.Z)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/9606017 [pdf, other]

Title: The G Dwarf Problem Exists in Other Galaxies

Guy Worthey (U. Michigan), Ben Dorman (LASP, NASA/GSFC), Lewis Jones (UNC)

Comments: 14 pages, LaTeX includes 3 postscript figures. Uses AAS LaTeX v 4.0 and this http URL. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. Postscript available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/9606018 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectrum of density fluctuations in Brans-Dicke chaotic inflation

Mikel Susperregi

Comments: 26 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file, two figures included

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 560-572

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

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/9606019 [pdf, other]

Title: The Fluence Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Vahe Petrosian, Theodore T. Lee (Stanford U.)

Comments: ApJ Letters, Accepted May 24, 1996. 16 pages LaTeX, 4 Postscript figures, uses AASTeX and psfig macros, paper also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/9606020 [pdf, other]

Title: Distant Ring Galaxies as Evidence for a Steeply Increasing Galaxy Interaction Rate with Redshift

R.J. Lavery (Iowa State), P. Seitzer (Michigan), N.B. Suntzeff, A.R. Walker (NOAO/CTIO), G.S. Da Costa (MSSSO)

Comments: Postscript file, 13 Pages, 1 fig. available upon request, accepted in ApJ Letters (date not set)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/9606021 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of a Second Optical Component in the HI cloud associated with the Young Dwarf Galaxy SBS 0335-052: New Data from the 6--m Telescope

S.A.Pustilnik (1), V.A.Lipovetsky (1), Yu.I.Izotov (2), E.Brinks (3), T.X.Thuan (4), A.Yu.Kniazev (1), S.I.Neizvestny (1), A.V.Ugryumov (1) ((1) Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia, (2) Main Astronomical Observatory, Ukraine, (3) NRAO, Socorro, (4) University of Virginia)

Comments: 6 pages with 2 Postscript figures inside

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/9606022 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational wave background from hybrid topological defects

Xavier Martin, Alex Vilenkin (Tufts University)

Comments: 11 pages, uses ReVTeX, 2 postscript figures. Detection of a gravitational background by first generation detectors is only marginally possible, BUT detection by second generation detectors is almost certain

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 2879-2882

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

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/9606023 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of a Sub-Parsec Radio Counterjet in the Nucleus of Centaurus A

D.L. Jones, S.J. Tingay, D.W. Murphy, D.L. Meier, D.L. Jauncey, J.E. Reynolds, A.K. Tzioumis, R.A. Preston, P.M. McCulloch, M.E. Costa, A.J. Kemball, G.D. Nicolson, J.F.H. Quick, E.A. King, J.E.J. Lovell, R.W. Clay, R.H. Ferris, R.G. Gough, M.W. Sinclair, S.P. Ellingsen, P.G. Edwards, P.A. Jones, T.D. van Ommen, P. Harbison, V. Migenes

Comments: 3 pages, 2 postscript figures, scheduled for publication in August 1, 1996 issue of Ap.J. Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.466:L63,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/9606024 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-generation neutrino mixing and LSND dark matter neutrinos

Christian Y. Cardall, George M. Fuller

Comments: To be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.), in the proceedings of "Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe", held in Santa Monica, Feb. 14-16 1996. 5 pages

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 51B (1996) 259-263

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

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/9606025 [pdf, other]

Title: The Deuteron Confronts Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

George M. Fuller, Christian Y. Cardall

Comments: To be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.), in the proceedings of "Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe", held in Santa Monica, Feb. 14-16 1996. 5 pages. Replaced version has a TeX command removed that apparently caused some latex compilers to fail

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 51B (1996) 71-75

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

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/9606026 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparison of COBE DMR and ROSAT All-Sky Survey data

Ruediger Kneissl (MPA, Garching)

Comments: 6 pages, one EPS-figure, LaTeX and this http URL. To appear, proceedings of the XXXIth Moriond meeting ``Microwave Background Anisotropies'', Les Arcs (France), March 16-23 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/9606027 [pdf, other]

Title: A Lagrangian Dynamical Theory for the Mass Function of Cosmic Structures: I Dynamics

Pierluigi Monaco (Sissa & Dipartimento di Astronomia, Trieste, Italy)

Comments: 18 pages, Latex, uses this http URL and psfig, 7 postscript figures (fig. 2 and 3 not complete). Revised version, stylistic changes. MNRAS, in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 290 (1997) 439

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/9606028 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma Rays from SN1987A due to Pseudoscalar Conversion

J. A. Grifols, E. Masso, R. Toldra

Comments: 8 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 2372-2375

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

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/9606029 [pdf, other]

Title: A Lagrangian Dynamical Theory for the Mass Function of Cosmic Structures: II Statistics

Pierluigi Monaco (Sissa & Dipartimento di Astronomia, Trieste, Italy)

Comments: 18 pages, Latex, uses this http URL and psfig, 11 postscript figures . Revised version; important changes in the demonstration of the Markov nature of the F process. MNRAS, in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 290 (1997) 439

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/9606030 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlinear Investigation of the Pulsational Properties of RR Lyrae Variables

G. Bono, F. Caputo, V. Castellani, M. Marconi

Comments: postscript file of 11 pages and 15 figures; nonpostscript figures are available upon request; the tables and the appendix are available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp at this ftp URL; for any problem please write to bono@oat.this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/9606031 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Dispersion Spectroscopy of Luminous, Young Star Clusters: Evidence for Present-Day Formation of Globular Clusters

Luis C. Ho (Center for Astrophysics), Alexei V. Filippenko (U.C. Berkeley)

Comments: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal. LaTex, pages including 8 postscript figures. AAStex macros included

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/9606032 [pdf, other]

Title: On The Origin of Gamma Ray Bursts

Nir J. Shaviv, Arnon Dar (Israel Institute of Technology)

Comments: 11 pages, plain LaTex, 7 Postscript figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/9606033 [pdf, other]

Title: The Lyman-alpha Forest at z~4: Keck HIRES Observations of Q 0000-26

Limin Lu, Wallace L.W. Sargent, Donna S. Womble, Masahide Takada-Hidai

Comments: plain TeX containing 23 PS pages, 3 PS tables, and 9 PS figures, ApJ, Dec 1, 1996 issue replacing an earlier version which contains an corrupted table 1

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/9606034 [pdf, other]

Title: Interstellar Gamma Ray Lines from Low Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions

Reuven Ramaty

Comments: 8 pages with 7 eps figures (not embedded), uuencoded, compressed, tared, in press A&A Suppl. (Munich COMPTON Symp. Proc.)

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.Suppl.Ser. 120 (1996) 373-380

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/9606035 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards a Synthesis of Core-Collapse Supernova Theory

Adam Burrows (University of Arizona)

Comments: Eighteen Pages, Elsevier Elsart LaTeX format, no figures, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A, as a contribution to the Festschrift in honor of Gerald E. Brown's 70'th Birthday. PostScript version available from burrows@cobalt.this http URL

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys. A606 (1996) 151-166

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/9606036 [pdf, other]

Title: Atmospheric, Evolutionary, and Spectral Models of the Brown Dwarf Gliese 229 B

M.S. Marley, D. Saumon, T. Guillot, R. S. Freedman, W.B. Hubbard, A. Burrows, J.I. Lunine

Comments: 8 pages, plain TeX, plus four postscript figures, gzipped and uuencoded, accepted for Science

Journal-ref: Science 272 (1996) 1919

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/9606037 [pdf, other]

Title: Physical conditions in metal line systems toward Q1037-2704: Evidence for superclustering at z=2

Yannick Lespine, Patrick Petitjean

Comments: 8 pages accepted AandA main journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/9606038 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion disks in interacting binaries: Simulations of the stream-disk impact

P.J. Armitage, M. Livio

Comments: LaTeX (this http URL), 19 pages including 7 of 8 figures. The paper and remaining figure are also available at this http URL . ApJ in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/9606039 [pdf, other]

Title: Distribution of galaxies at large redshift and cosmological parameters from the magnification bias in Cl0024+1654

B. Fort (1)Y. Mellier (2,1,3)M. Dantel-Fort Fort (1) ((1) Observatoire de Paris DEMIRM, (2) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (3) UMR 5572 Observatoire Midi Pyrenees.)

Comments: Latex, 11 pages, this http URL and this http URL, 10 figures. 187K gzipped tar file. Submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics Main Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/9606040 [pdf, other]

Title: Semi-automatic Removal of Foreground Stars from Images of Galaxies

Zsolt Frei

Comments: 20 pages, TeX, 4 PostScript figures. Accepted for publication in the PASP. Figures 2, 3, and 4 can be obtained from the following WWW pages: this http URL (fast from the US) or: this http URL (European mirror)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/9606041 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature and Kinematics of CIV Absorption Systems

M. Rauch, W.L.W. Sargent, D.S. Womble, T.A. Barlow (Caltech)

Comments: submitted to the ApJ Letters, March 16, 1996 (in press); (13 Latex pages, 4 Postscript figures, and this http URL included)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/9606042 [pdf, other]

Title: About the initial mass function and HeII emission in young starbursts

Daniel Schaerer (STScI; Geneva Observatory; OMP Toulouse)

Comments: ApJ Letters, accepted. 8 pages LaTeX including 3 PostScript figures, uses AASTeX and psfig macros. PostScript file also available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/9606043 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and Long Wavelength Afterglow from Gamma-Ray Bursts

P. Meszaros, M.J. Rees

Comments: Submitted to Ap.J. (Letters) on 5/31/96; uuencoded latex file, 10 pages, uses AAS macro this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 476 (1997) 232-237

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/9606044 [pdf, other]

Title: Abundances at High Redshifts: the Chemical Enrichment History of Damped Lyman-alpha Galaxies

Limin Lu, Wallace L.W. Sargent, Thomas A. Barlow

Comments: AASTEX file containing 18 of the 20 tables. The remaining two tables (tables 16 and 17) are provided as separate PS files. 30 figures files also included (1 bitmapped at 100dpi). ApJS, accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl. 107 (1996) 475

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/9606045 [pdf, other]

Title: The masses of the millisecond pulsar J1012+5307 and its white-dwarf companion

M. H. van Kerkwijk (Palomar Observatory, Caltech), P. Bergeron (Universite de Montreal), S. R. Kulkarni (Palomar Observatory, Caltech)

Comments: 6 pages of text and figures. Refereed version, resubmitted to ApJL. Needs this http URL, this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys. J. 467, L89 (1996)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/9606046 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effect of Light Scattering by Dust in Galactic Halos on Emission Line Ratios

Andrea Ferrara, Simone Bianchi, Ralf-Juergen Dettmar, Carlo Giovanardi

Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX (this http URL), 2 figures; ApJ Letters, accepted, June 5th

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/9606047 [pdf, other]

Title: The spectrum of curvature perturbations from hybrid inflation

Juan Garcia-Bellido, David Wands

Comments: LaTeX (with RevTex) 5 pages, 3 uuencoded figures appended, also available on WWW via this http URL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D54:7181-7185,1996

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

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/9606048 [pdf, other]

Title: VLA Observations of the Gravitational Lens System Q2237+0305

E.E.Falco, J.Lehar (CfA), R.A.Perley (NRAO), J.Wambsganss (AIP Potsdam), M.V.Gorenstein (Waters Corp.)

Comments: 1 postscript file, 13 pages. To appear in AJ (1996.09), Submitted 1996.03.13, Accepted 1996.05.20

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/9606049 [pdf, other]

Title: Angular Sizes of Faint Field Disk Galaxies: Intrinsic Luminosity Evolution

Laura Cayon, Joseph Silk, Stephane Charlot

Comments: plain tex file + 3 postscript figures. To be published in ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/9606050 [pdf, other]

Title: An HST study of OB associations and star clusters in M101

F. Bresolin, R. Kennicutt, P. Stetson

Comments: 25 pages + 6tables Figures also available via anonymous ftp at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Astron.J. 112 (1996) 1009

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)