Astrophysics

Authors and titles for August 1996

[101] arXiv:astro-ph/9608101 [pdf, other]

Title: Power correlations in cosmology: limits on primordial non-Gaussian density fields

A. J. Stirling, J. A. Peacock (Institute for Astronomy and Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)

Comments: MNRAS in press. 6 pages TeX including Postscript figures. Uses this http URL and this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[102] arXiv:astro-ph/9608102 [pdf, other]

Title: The Observational Consequences of Merging Clusters of Galaxies

Kurt Roettiger (1), Jack O. Burns (2), Chris Loken (2) ((1) UMd, (2) NMSU)

Comments: 42 pages, Latex, 23 postscript figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[103] arXiv:astro-ph/9608103 [pdf, other]

Title: The origin of pulsar velocities

Alexander Kusenko, Gino Segre (University of Pennsylvania)

Comments: 7 pages, latex, epsf, 1 figure included, postscript also available at this ftp URL

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

[104] arXiv:astro-ph/9608104 [pdf, other]

Title: Physical constraints on the sizes of dense clouds in the central magnetospheres of Active Galactic Nuclei

Z. Kuncic, E. G. Blackman, M. J. Rees (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Comments: 9 pages, LaTeX type, 2 postscript figures, uses this http URL and this http URL, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[105] arXiv:astro-ph/9608105 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak lensing at the limit of the sky background noise

Y. Mellier (1,2), B. Fort (2) ((1) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (2) Observatoire de Paris DEMIRM)

Comments: 12 pages, Contributed talks for the ESO Workshop on "The Early Universe with the VLT" 1-4 April 1996. Latex with this http URL and this http URL, Latex, 12 pages, 6 figures, also available on this http URL.

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[106] arXiv:astro-ph/9608106 [pdf, other]

Title: Normalization of modes in an open universe

Juan Garcia-Bellido, Andrew R Liddle, David H Lyth, David Wands

Comments: 8 pages LaTeX file (using RevTeX). Some restructuring of the arguments and additional material added; no changes to existing formulae or to the principal results

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 55, 4596 (1997)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[107] arXiv:astro-ph/9608107 [pdf, other]

Title: Really Cool Stars at the Galactic Center

R. D. Blum (JILA, University of Colorado), K. Sellgren, D. L. DePoy (The Ohio State University)

Comments: Accepted by AJ. 37 pages (latex, aastex v4.0, 2 planotables, 5 figures, embedded, eps). Postscript also available at this ftp URL, Some minor changes made to text and figures regarding Stars IRS 28, OSUC1-3. No significant changes to conclusions

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[108] arXiv:astro-ph/9608108 [pdf, other]

Title: The Absolute Magnitude and Kinematics of RR Lyrae Stars via Statistical Parallax

A.C. Layden, R.B. Hanson, S.L. Hawley, A.R. Klemola, C.J. Hanley

Comments: 44 pages, aastex, 8 postscript figures; tentatively scheduled for the Nov 1996 issue of AJ; Table 2 data available in ASCII from this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[109] arXiv:astro-ph/9608109 [pdf, other]

Title: First Results from the All-Sky Monitor on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

Alan M. Levine, Hale Bradt, Wei Cui, J. G. Jernigan, Edward H. Morgan, Ronald Remillard, Robert E. Shirey, Donald A. Smith

Comments: 9 pages, LaTeX type (this http URL), one bitmapped and two PostScript figures, to appear in ApJL, September 20, 1996

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.469:L33,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[110] arXiv:astro-ph/9608110 [pdf, other]

Title: The Starburst Model for AGN: Past, Present & Future

R. Cid Fernandes (Depto. de Fisica - UFSC, Florianopolis, Brazil)

Comments: 6 pages, uses this http URL. Also available at this http URL To appear in "Starburst Activity in Galaxies", Rev. Mex. Astron. & Astroph. (1996)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[111] arXiv:astro-ph/9608111 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mass of Abell 1060 and AWM 7 from Spatially Resolved X-ray Spectroscopy: Variations in Baryon Fraction

Michael Loewenstein, Richard Mushotzky (NASA/GSFC)

Comments: 11 pages Latex including 3 encapsulated postscript files, uses this http URL, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[112] arXiv:astro-ph/9608112 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-scale distribution of quasars in deep pencil-beam surveys

Andrey V. Kravtsov (New Mexico State University)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX (uses this http URL), submitted to MNRAS, also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[113] arXiv:astro-ph/9608113 [pdf, other]

Title: Seeing Galaxies Through Thick and Thin: I. Optical Opacity Measures in Overlapping Galaxies

Raymond E. White III, William C. Keel (U. of Alabama), Christopher J. Conselice (U. Chicago)

Comments: 30 pages AASTeX; submitted to ApJ; 15 PostScript figures available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[114] arXiv:astro-ph/9608114 [pdf, other]

Title: Scattering of X-ray emission lines by the neutral and molecular hydrogen in the Sun's atmosphere and in the vicinity of active galactic nuclei and compact sources

R.Sunyaev (MPI fur Astrophysik, Garching bei Munchen, Germany), E.Churazov (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia)

Comments: 19 pages, 12 Postscript figures, uses this http URL, this http URL, this http URL, Astronomy Letters, 1996, V.22, N.10 (in press)

Journal-ref: Astron.Lett. 22 (1996) 648-663

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[115] arXiv:astro-ph/9608115 [pdf, other]

Title: Clustering of absorption line systems

Patrick Petitjean (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Comments: 8 pages, LaTeX (this http URL), 2 Postscript figures. Contributed talk at the ESO Workshop on "The Early Universe with the VLT" 1-4 April 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[116] arXiv:astro-ph/9608116 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing Cosmological Models With A $\lya$ Forest Statistic: The High End Of The Optical Depth Distribution

Renyue Cen (Princeton University Observatory)

Comments: ApJ Letters, in press, substantial changes have been made from the last version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[117] arXiv:astro-ph/9608117 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mass distribution of the Cluster 0957+561 from Gravitational Lensing

Philippe Fischer, Gary Bernstein, George Rhee, J. Anthony Tyson

Comments: LaTeX, aas version 4 macros. Calibration error in original led to overestimate of cluster mass. Seven out of twelve figures included. Complete paper is available at: this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[118] arXiv:astro-ph/9608118 [pdf, other]

Title: Passive Evolution: Are the Faint Blue Galaxy Counts Produced by a Population of Eternally Young Galaxies?

Rychard J. Bouwens, Joseph Silk (UC Berkeley)

Comments: 11 pages, LaTeX type (this http URL), 3 Postscript figures, submitted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[119] arXiv:astro-ph/9608119 [pdf, other]

Title: A Dynamical Analysis of the Poor Galaxy Clusters A2626 and A2440

J. J. Mohr (U Michigan), M. J. Geller (Harvard), G. Wegner (Dartmouth)

Comments: 22 pages, to appear in the Astronomical Journal, Nov 96

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[120] arXiv:astro-ph/9608120 [pdf, other]

Title: Photometry of GX 349+2: Evidence for a 22-hour Period

Stefanie Wachter, Bruce Margon (University of Washington)

Comments: 17 pages including 3 tables and 5 figures; Uses AASTeX 4.0; Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, volume 112, December 1996

Journal-ref: AJ, 112, 2684, 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[121] arXiv:astro-ph/9608121 [pdf, other]

Title: Redshift clustering in the Hubble Deep Field

Judith G. Cohen, Lennox L. Cowie, David W. Hogg, Antoinette Songaila, Roger Blandford, Esther M. Hu, Patrick Shopbell

Comments: 14 pages, including 2 figures, to appear in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[122] arXiv:astro-ph/9608122 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Lambda Models of Structure Formation

K. Coble, S. Dodelson, J. Frieman

Comments: 25 pages, latex, 9 figures. Also available by WWW at this http URL under Publications

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D55:1851-1859,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[123] arXiv:astro-ph/9608123 [pdf, other]

Title: Expected Enhancement of the Primary Antiproton Flux at the Solar Minimum

T. Mitsui, K. Maki, S. Orito (University of Tokyo)

Comments: 19 pages, 4 PostScript figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett. B389 (1996) 169-175

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

[124] arXiv:astro-ph/9608124 [pdf, other]

Title: The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies. I. Cluster Definition and Photometric Data

R. Brent Tully, Marc A.W. Verheijen, Michael J. Pierce, Jia-Sheng Huang, Richard J. Wainscoat

Comments: A LATEX file without figures. The postscript version (7.1Mb in gzipped format) including all the tables, figures and scanned versions of the plates can be retrieved as preprint no.208 from this http URL Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[125] arXiv:astro-ph/9608125 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron-induced nucleosynthesis

H. Oberhummer, H. Herndl, T. Rauscher, H. Beer

Comments: 40 pages (uses this http URL), 2 postscript figures (uses psfig), accepted for publication in Surveys in Geophysics, uuencoded tex-files and postscript-files available at this ftp URL

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

[126] arXiv:astro-ph/9608126 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiphase cooling flows

Peter A. Thomas

Comments: 8 pages LaTeX file including 5 encapsulated postscript figures. Talk given at `Cooling Flow' workshop, Haifa, Israel, 5-8 August '96

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[127] arXiv:astro-ph/9608127 [pdf, other]

Title: The Capture and Escape of Stars

J.L. Collett (Oxford), S.N. Dutta (Ohio), N.W. Evans (Oxford)

Comments: 22 pages, Tex file, 19 Postscript figures, uses psfig 2 further figures are not Postscript, but are available on emailing the authors, MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[128] arXiv:astro-ph/9608128 [pdf, other]

Title: Verifying the Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function Method

George Jacoby (National Optical Observatories)

Comments: 15 pages, latex, uses this http URL, invited talk at the Extragalactic Distance Scale STScI Symposium, May 7-10, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[129] arXiv:astro-ph/9608129 [pdf, other]

Title: A survey for high-redshift radio-loud quasars: optical spectroscopy of S > 0.2 Jy, flat-spectrum radio sources

I. M. Hook, R. G. McMahon, M. J. Irwin, C. Hazard

Comments: 14 pages including tables and figures, except Figs. 3 and 4 (spectra) which are available from this http URL . To appear in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[130] arXiv:astro-ph/9608130 [pdf, other]

Title: Destruction of Molecular Hydrogen During Cosmological Reionization

Zoltan Haiman, Martin Rees, Abraham Loeb

Comments: 14 pages, uuencoded compressed Postscript, 4 figures included. To appear in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 476 (1997) 458

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[131] arXiv:astro-ph/9608131 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring Polarization In Cosmic Microwave Background

Uros Seljak (Harvard Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics)

Comments: 23 pages, 2 figures, AAS latex; matches the accepted version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[132] arXiv:astro-ph/9608132 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic properties, spatial and luminosity distributions of the UCm survey galaxies

J. Gallego (Lick Observatory UCSC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), J. Zamorano, M. Rego, A.G. Vitores (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Comments: 13 pages, latex, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ (Feb 97). Uses this http URL. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[133] arXiv:astro-ph/9608133 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-equilibrium effects on line-of-sight size estimates of QSO absorption systems

Martin G. Haehnelt (MPA-Garching), Michael Rauch (Caltech), Matthias Steinmetz (Berkeley)

Comments: 11 pages, LaTeX , 5 postscript figures included; accepted by MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[134] arXiv:astro-ph/9608134 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for an outflow from the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051

P.E. Christopoulou (1), A.J. Holloway (2), W. Steffen (2), C.G. Mundell (3), A.H.C. Thean (3), C.D. Goudis (1), J. Meaburn (2), A. Pedlar (3). (1-Dept. Physics, Univ. Patras, Greece. 2-Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Univ. Manchester, England. 3-NRAL, Univ. Manchester, England.)

Comments: latex, this http URL, 8 pages, 8 figures. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[135] arXiv:astro-ph/9608135 [pdf, other]

Title: Solution To The Gamma Ray Burst Mystery?

Nir J. Shaviv, Arnon Dar

Comments: Talk presented by A. Dar at the VIII-th Rencontre De Blois, ``Neutrinos and Dark Matter In The Universe'', June 6-12, 1996. To be published in the proceedings. 9 pages, latex, figures in astro-ph/9606032

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

[136] arXiv:astro-ph/9608136 [pdf, other]

Title: ROSAT HRI observations of Centaurus A

S. Doebereiner, N. Junkes, S.J. Wagner, H. Zinnecker, R. Fosbury, G. Fabbiano, E.J. Schreier

Comments: To be published in Astrophys. Journal Letters. 4 pages, 3 plates

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[137] arXiv:astro-ph/9608137 [pdf, other]

Title: Double-Diffusive Mixing-Length Theory, Semiconvection, and Massive Star Evolution

Scott A. Grossman, Ronald E. Taam (Northwestern University)

Comments: 17 pages, 6 postscript figures, to appear in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[138] arXiv:astro-ph/9608138 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistics of Gravitational Microlensing Magnification. I. Two-Dimensional Lens Distribution

Lev Kofman, Nick Kaiser, Man Hoi Lee, Arif Babul

Comments: 35 pages, including 6 figures; uses AASTeX v4.0 macros; submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 485 (1997) 508-521

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

[139] arXiv:astro-ph/9608139 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistics of Gravitational Microlensing Magnification. II. Three-Dimensional Lens Distribution

Man Hoi Lee, Arif Babul, Lev Kofman, Nick Kaiser

Comments: 52 pages, including 15 figures (Figures 3, 6, and 10 have been bitmapped); uses AASTeX v4.0 macros; submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 485 (1997) 522-542

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

[140] arXiv:astro-ph/9608140 [pdf, other]

Title: Distant Supernovae and Cosmic Deceleration

B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (European Southern Observatory)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 PostScript figures, special style file included. To appear in 'The Early Universe with the VLT,' ed. J. Bergeron, (Berlin: Springer); A PostScript version with embedded figures is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[141] arXiv:astro-ph/9608141 [pdf, other]

Title: Operational Concepts of Large Telescopes

B. Leibundgut (European Southern Observatory)

Comments: 7 pages, to appear in the SPIE conference proceedings 'Optical Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow', May 29 - June1, Landskrona/Hven, Sweden, A. Arneberg, ed.; A PostScript version of this paper is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[142] arXiv:astro-ph/9608142 [pdf, other]

Title: A wide-field K-band survey - II. Galaxy clustering

C.M. Baugh, J.P.Gardner, C.S. Frenk, R.M. Sharples (University of Durham)

Comments: 5 pages, 4 postscript figures included. Uses this http URL. To be published as a Letter in Monthly Notices of the RAS. Postscript version available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[143] arXiv:astro-ph/9608143 [pdf, other]

Title: Regularities in galaxy spectra and the nature of the Hubble sequence

Laerte Sodré Jr., Héctor Cuevas (Departamento de Astronomia, Instituto Astronomico e Geofisico da Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 postscript figure, uses this http URL and this http URL, to appear in PASP Conference Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[144] arXiv:astro-ph/9608144 [pdf, other]

Title: Mapping quasi-periodic oscillations from the outbursting intermediate polar GK Persei

L. Morales-Rueda, M. D. Still, P. Roche

Comments: 4 pages, uuencoded postscript (194kb), MNRAS in press, also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[145] arXiv:astro-ph/9608145 [pdf, other]

Title: The Quasi-Coherent Oscillations of SS Cygni

Christopher W. Mauche (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Comments: LaTeX format, uses this http URL, 4 pages, 2 Postscript figures, Submitted for inclusion in Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 163 --- Accretion Phenomena & Related Outflows, ed. D. Wickramasinghe, L. Ferrario, & G. Bicknell (San Francisco: ASP)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[146] arXiv:astro-ph/9608146 [pdf, other]

Title: APM z>4 QSO Survey: Distribution and Evolution of High Column Density HI Absorbers

L.J. Storrie-Lombardi, M.J. Irwin, R.G. McMahon

Comments: To appear in MNRAS. Latex file (10 pages of text) plus 14 separate postscript figure files. Requires this http URL. Postscript version with figures embedded is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[147] arXiv:astro-ph/9608147 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of Neutral Gas at High Redshift -- Implications for the Epoch of Galaxy Formation

L.J. Storrie-Lombardi, R.G. McMahon, M.J. Irwin

Comments: To appear in MNRAS. Latex file (4 pages of text) plus 3 separate postscript figure files. Requires this http URL. Postscript version with figures embedded is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[148] arXiv:astro-ph/9608148 [pdf, other]

Title: Massive Star Evolution in Different Environments

Daniel Schaerer (OMP, Toulouse; STScI; Geneva Observatory)

Comments: LaTeX using paspconf, psfigs macros. 23 pages including 4 figures. Invited review to appear in "Active Galactic Nuclei, Dense Stellar Systems and Galactic Environments", (1998), Eds. A.C. Baker, S. Lamb, J.J. Perry, ASP Conf. Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[149] arXiv:astro-ph/9608149 [pdf, other]

Title: X--ray Emission from Old, Isolated, Accreting Neutron Stars

R. Turolla

Comments: 5 pages, uses this http URL (included). Talk presented at the 2nd Sakharov Conference on Physics, Moscow May 20-25, 1996. To appear in the Proceedings

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[150] arXiv:astro-ph/9608150 [pdf, other]

Title: A photometric catalogue of the Coma cluster core

C. Lobo, A. Biviano, F. Durret, D. Gerbal, O. Le Fèvre, A. Mazure, E. Slezak

Comments: Accepted on August 2 for publication in A&AS, 6 pages, latex and postscript figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)