Astrophysics

Authors and titles for September 1996

[101] arXiv:astro-ph/9609101 [pdf, other]

Title: The Ultraviolet Morphology of Galaxies

Robert W. O'Connell, Pamela Marcum (Univ. of Virginia)

Comments: 4 pages; LaTeX text file, 4 PostScript figures, and a special style file. Paper to be published in "HST and the High Redshift Universe" (37th Hertstmonceux Conference), eds. N.R. Tanvir, A. Aragon-Salamanca, and J.V. Wall, 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[102] arXiv:astro-ph/9609102 [pdf, other]

Title: Predicted Extragalactic TeV Gamma-Ray Sources

F.W. Stecker, O.C. De Jager, M.H. Salamon

Comments: 14 pages, no figures, AAS Latex, submitted to Ap.J. Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 473 (1996) L75-L78

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[103] arXiv:astro-ph/9609103 [pdf, other]

Title: Is Deuterium in High Redshift Lyman Limit Systems Primordial?

K. Jedamzik (LLNL), G.M. Fuller (UCSD)

Comments: 16 pages, Latex (this http URL)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[104] arXiv:astro-ph/9609104 [pdf, other]

Title: Multifrequncy Radio Observations of the Gravitational Lens System MG0414+0534

C. A. Katz, C. B. Moore, J. N. Hewitt (MIT Dept. of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics)

Comments: 19 pages, LaTeX 2.09, 7 encapsulated PS figures; uses this http URL; To appear in The Astrophysical Journal, February 1, 1997; Postscript also available at this ftp URL; Revised author affiliations and ftp address

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[105] arXiv:astro-ph/9609105 [pdf, other]

Title: The Sachs-Wolfe Effect

Martin White, Wayne Hu

Comments: 2 pages, LaTeX uses this http URL, no figures. Submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.321:8-9,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[106] arXiv:astro-ph/9609106 [pdf, other]

Title: The Stability of Planets in the Alpha Centauri system

Paul A. Wiegert (University of Toronto), Matt Holman (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

Comments: 13 pages, 6 Postscript figures (uses this http URL)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[107] arXiv:astro-ph/9609107 [pdf, other]

Title: Scaling Laws for Advection Dominated Flows: Applications to Low Luminosity Galactic Nuclei

Rohan Mahadevan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: 30 pages, 5 postscript files. Accepted to ApJ. Also available this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[108] arXiv:astro-ph/9609108 [pdf, other]

Title: Results from the First Flight of BAM

G. S. Tucker, H. P. Gush, M. Halpern, W. Towlson

Comments: 6 pages, 3 EPS figures, TeX. To appear in Proceedings of the XXXIst Moriond Meeting "Microwave Background Anisotropies", Les Arcs (France), March 16-23 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[109] arXiv:astro-ph/9609109 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of Embedded Small Clusters

R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, F. Sori (Inst. of Astr., Roma)

Comments: Contribution to the 1996 Star Formation Workshop, July 1996, Wellesley Coll, Mass., USA, 6 Tex pages, 6 postscript figs

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[110] arXiv:astro-ph/9609110 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Ray Interactions and the Abundances of the Chemical Elements

Peter L. Biermann

Comments: Invited lecture at MESON96, Krakow, May 1996, to be published in the proceedings, Eds. A. Magiera et al., 25 pages in Latex, 1 fig. Report MPIfR No. 685

Journal-ref: Acta Phys.Polon.B27:3399-3415,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[111] arXiv:astro-ph/9609111 [pdf, other]

Title: Contact Stars in Microlensing Surveys

Slavek Rucinski

Comments: latex, 10 pages, 8 figures, uses this http URL; presented at the 12th IAP Coll. "Variable Stars and the Astrophysical Returns of Microlensing Surveys", Paris, July 1996; eds. R. Ferlet and J.-P. Maillard, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[112] arXiv:astro-ph/9609112 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared emission around Cyg X-3

R.N. Ogley (1), S.J. Bell Burnell (1), R.P. Fender (2) ((1) The Open University, UK, (2) University of Sussex, UK)

Comments: to appear in "Accretion Phenomena and Associated Outflows", IAU Coll. 163, Port Douglas, Australia, July 1996; 2 pages, 0 figures

Journal-ref: ASP Conf Ser 121 (1997) 775

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[113] arXiv:astro-ph/9609113 [pdf, other]

Title: The SBF Survey of Galaxy Distances. I. Sample Selection, Photometric Calibration, and the Hubble Constant

John L. Tonry, John P. Blakeslee, Edward A. Ajhar, Alan Dressler

Comments: 29 pages plus 8 figures; LaTeX (AASTeX) uses this http URL (included); To appear in The Astrophysical Journal, 1997 February 1 issue; Compressed PostScript available from this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[114] arXiv:astro-ph/9609114 [pdf, other]

Title: Comments on the superluminal motion in Cygnus X-3

R.N. Ogley (1), S.J. Bell Burnell (1), S.J. Newell (2) ((1) The Open University, UK, (2) NRAL, Jodrell Bank, UK)

Comments: accepted for publication in MNRAS; 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: MNRAS 285 (1997) 187

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[115] arXiv:astro-ph/9609115 [pdf, other]

Title: Voigt-Profile Analysis of the Lyman-alpha Forest in a Cold Dark Matter Universe

Romeel Davé (UCSC), Lars Hernquist (UCSC), David Weinberg (Ohio State), Neal Katz (UW)

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures, AAS LaTex, accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[116] arXiv:astro-ph/9609116 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic Precessing Jets and Cosmological Gamma Ray Bursts

Eric G. Blackman (Cambridge Univ. Institute of Astronomy, UK), Insu Yi (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ), George B. Field (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA)

Comments: 15 pages, plain TeX, accepted to ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 473 (1996) L79

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[117] arXiv:astro-ph/9609117 [pdf, other]

Title: PKS 1830-211: A Possible Compound Gravitational Lens

J.E.J. Lovell, J.E. Reynolds, D.L. Jauncey, P.R. Backus, P.M. McCulloch, M.W. Sinclair, W.E. Wilson, A.K. Tzioumis, E.A. King, R.G. Gough, S.P. Ellingsen, C.J. Phillips, R.A. Preston, D.L. Jones

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX (this http URL). Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Preprint also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[118] arXiv:astro-ph/9609118 [pdf, other]

Title: Wide-field CCD imaging at CFHT: the MOCAM example

J.-C. Cuillandre (1), Y. Mellier (1,2), J.-P. Dupin (1), P. Tilloles (1), R. Murowinski (3), D. Crampton (3), R. Wooff (3), G. A. Luppino (4) ((1) Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France (2) IAP, Paris, France (3) Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B.C., Canada (4) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Latex with this http URL and this http URL. 12 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[119] arXiv:astro-ph/9609119 [pdf, other]

Title: Causal Thermodynamics in Relativity

Roy Maartens

Comments: Lectures given at the Hanno Rund Workshop on Relativity and Thermodynamics, University of Natal, June 1996. 39 pages Latex

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[120] arXiv:astro-ph/9609120 [pdf, other]

Title: A robust method for investigating galactic evolution in the submillimetre waveband: II the submillimetre background and source counts

Stephen Eales (Cardiff), Mike Edmunds (Cardiff)

Comments: 17 pages, 9 postscript figures, TEX, accepted by MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[121] arXiv:astro-ph/9609121 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy Formation at High Redshift

N. Metcalfe, T. Shanks, A. Campos, R. Fong, J.P. Gardner (University of Durham, UK)

Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX, uses this http URL, 3 postscript figures plus 1 gif figure; to appear on Sept 19th in Nature 383, p326; also available from this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[122] arXiv:astro-ph/9609122 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak Lensing Statistics as a Probe of Omega and Power Spectrum

F. Bernardeau (SPhT Saclay), L. van Waerbeke (Obs. Midi-Pyrenees), Y. Mellier (Obs. Paris and IAP)

Comments: 19 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics 1997, 322, 1

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.322:1-18,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[123] arXiv:astro-ph/9609123 [pdf, other]

Title: The origin of large scale magnetic fields

K. Subramanian

Comments: 4 pages, LATEX, this http URL included, Invited talk at the 7th Asian-Pacific meeting of the IAU, Aug. 19 - 23, Pusan, Korea, To be published in the proceedings

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[124] arXiv:astro-ph/9609124 [pdf, other]

Title: The BBN Manifesto

Terry P. Walker

Comments: 8 pages including one ps figure, LaTeX. Invited talk at the 4th Annual Nuclei in the Cosmos Conference. To be published in Nucl. Phys. A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[125] arXiv:astro-ph/9609125 [pdf, other]

Title: The Spectacular Ionized Interstellar Medium of NGC55

Annette M. N. Ferguson (JHU), Rosemary F. G. Wyse (JHU), J. S. Gallagher (U. Wisconsin)

Comments: 19 pages, including 4 figures, plus 2 external tables. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. Compressed, postscript versions of the plates are available at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[126] arXiv:astro-ph/9609126 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial distribution of accreting isolated neutron stars

S.B. Popov, M.E. Prokhorov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University)

Comments: 8 pages, 9 PostScript figures, to be presented as a poster at the conference "Current problems in astrophysics", Moscow, September 23-28, 1996. Short version will be published in Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[127] arXiv:astro-ph/9609127 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraviolet Imagery of NGC 6752: A Test of Extreme Horizontal Branch Models

W. B. Landsman, A. V. Sweigart, R. C. Bohlin, S. G. Neff, R. W. O'Connell, M. S. Roberts, A. M. Smith, T. P. STecher

Comments: 14 pages, AASTeX, includes 4 EPS figures ApJ Letters accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[128] arXiv:astro-ph/9609128 [pdf, other]

Title: An Absolute Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Temperature at 10.7 GHz

S. T. Staggs (1), N. C. Jarosik (2), S. S. Meyer (1), D. T. Wilkinson (2) ((1) University of Chicago, (2) Princeton University)

Comments: 14 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[129] arXiv:astro-ph/9609129 [pdf, other]

Title: Fractal Dimensions and Scaling Laws in the Interstellar Medium: a new Field Theory approach

H. J. de Vega, N. S'anchez, F. Combes

Comments: Latex file, 25 pages, no figures. Few minor changes. To appear in Phys. Rev. D, November 15, 1996

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 6008-6020

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

[130] arXiv:astro-ph/9609130 [pdf, other]

Title: Geometrical Effects of Baryon Density Inhomogeneities on Primordial Nucleosynthesis

M. Orito (NAO), T. Kajino (NAO), R N. Boyd (Ohio), G J. Mathews (Notre Dame)

Comments: Latex, 20 pages + 11 figures(not included). Entire ps file with embedded figures available via anonymous ftp at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[131] arXiv:astro-ph/9609131 [pdf, other]

Title: The large scale structure of the soft X-ray background. II: Galaxies

Andrzej M. Soltan (1, 2), Guenther Hasinger (3), Roland Egger (2), Steve Snowden (2, 4, 5), Joachim Truemper (2) (1 - Copernicus Astr. Cntr.,Warsaw, 2 - MPE, Graching, 3 - <a href="http://Astrophysik.Inst" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>., Potsdam, 4 - NASA/GSFC, LHEA, 5 - Univ. Space Research Association)

Comments: accepted for publication in Astr. Astrophys., 14 pages, LaTeX file, 11 PostScript figures, uses this http URL, this http URL (both included)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[132] arXiv:astro-ph/9609132 [pdf, other]

Title: A Probe of Primordial Gravity Waves and Vorticity

Marc Kamionkowski, Arthur Kosowsky, Albert Stebbins

Comments: 8 pages, RevTeX

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.78:2058-2061,1997

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

[133] arXiv:astro-ph/9609133 [pdf, other]

Title: Local Mixing near the Solar Core, Neutrino Fluxes and Helioseismology

O. Richard, S. Vauclair

Comments: 4 pages, 2 postscript figures (included), for LaTeX, uses this http URL, to be published in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[134] arXiv:astro-ph/9609134 [pdf, other]

Title: Field #3 of the Palomar-Groningen Survey I. Variable stars at the edge of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

Y.K. Ng (IAP, Paris, France), M. Schultheis (Vienna, Austria)

Comments: 3 pages TeX with 3 postscript figures. Table 1 and the finding charts are available on request. Accepted for publication in A&A Supplement Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[135] arXiv:astro-ph/9609135 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope Observations of OB Stars in the N 11 Region of the LMC

J. Wm. Parker (HSTX and SwRI), J. K. Hill (HSTX), R. C. Bohlin (STScI), R. W. O'Connell (U. Virginia), S. G. Neff (GSFC/NASA), M. S. Roberts (NRAO), A. M. Smith (GSFC/NASA), T. P. Stecher (GSFC/NASA)

Comments: AAS LaTeX style, 6 pages, 5 figures (Fig 1 as a GIF file, Figs 2-5 as encapsulated PostScript for embedding in the LaTeX file). Complete gzipped PostScript paper (including Figure 1) can be obtained from: this http URL In press in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[136] arXiv:astro-ph/9609136 [pdf, other]

Title: Resolving the Helium Lyman-$\alpha$ Forest: Mapping Intergalactic Gas and Ionizing Radiation at $z\approx 3$

Craig J. Hogan, Scott F. Anderson, Martin H. Rugers (University of Washington)

Comments: AAS Latex, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.J.113:1495-1504,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[137] arXiv:astro-ph/9609137 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of the Galaxy

Sidney van den Bergh

Comments: To appear in the PASP, November 1996; 46 pages plus 5 figures. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[138] arXiv:astro-ph/9609138 [pdf, other]

Title: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Observed Abundances of Light Elements

Craig J. Hogan

Comments: 13 pages, Latex. Contribution to the Princeton meeting, ``Critical Dialogues in Cosmology''

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[139] arXiv:astro-ph/9609139 [pdf, other]

Title: An Ultraviolet-Excess Optical Candidate for the Luminous Globular Cluster X-ray Source in NGC1851

Eric W. Deutsch, Scott F. Anderson, Bruce Margon (University of Washington), Ronald A. Downes (STScI)

Comments: 13 pages including 1 table and 3 figures in AASTeX 4.0; To appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, volume 472 (1996 December 1). Preprint with full-resolution figures available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 472 (1996) L97

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[140] arXiv:astro-ph/9609140 [pdf, other]

Title: Interactions of Massive Stars with Their Parental Clouds

J. Franco (UNAM), G. Garcia-Segura (UNAM), T. Plewa (MPA)

Comments: 13 pages, latex, uses this http URL, 4 figures (included); also available at this http URL . To appear in V. Toth, ed, The Interaction of Stars with their Environment. Proceedings of the the Advanced School and Workshop organized by the Lorand Eotvos University and the Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[141] arXiv:astro-ph/9609141 [pdf, other]

Title: The effect of Hall drift on the evolution of magnetic fields in the crusts of neutron stars

Mikael Sahrling

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures, all in PostScript format

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[142] arXiv:astro-ph/9609142 [pdf, other]

Title: `Comparing the Predicted Abell/ACO Cluster & the MarkIII Galaxy Density and Velocity Fields', Contribution to the Wide Field Spectroscopy Meeting held in Athens, 20-24 May 1996

M. Plionis, E. Branchini, I. Zehavi, A. Dekel

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[143] arXiv:astro-ph/9609143 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the Atmospheric Influence on Differential Astrometry: a Simple Method Applied to Wide Field CCD Frames

N. Zacharias (USRA/USNO, Washington DC, USA)

Comments: 12 pages LaTeX incl. tables, no figures, accepted by PASP, scheduled for Dec.96

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[144] arXiv:astro-ph/9609144 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular Hydrogen in the Direction of zeta Ori A

Edward B. Jenkins, Antonio Peimbert (Princeton Univ. Observatory)

Comments: 46 pages, 8 figures. To be published in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.477:265-280,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[145] arXiv:astro-ph/9609145 [pdf, other]

Title: The hydrodynamical response of a tilted circumbinary disc: linear theory and non-linear numerical simulations

John D. Larwood, John C.B. Papaloizou

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS, September 19 1996. LaTeX, 27 pages. Full postscript file including 14 figures available from this http URL@qmw.this http URL, or by anonymous ftp (see this http URL for instructions)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[146] arXiv:astro-ph/9609146 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Evolution of Quasars

Insu Yi (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Comments: Latex, 2 PS figures, To Appear in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[147] arXiv:astro-ph/9609147 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraviolet Emission Line Ratios of Cataclysmic Variables

Christopher W. Mauche, Y. Paul Lee, Timothy R. Kallman

Comments: LaTeX format, uses this http URL, 28 pages, 11 Postscript figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal 10/16/96

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[148] arXiv:astro-ph/9609148 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Analyses of the Planetary System Candidates: 55 Cnc, 51 Peg, 47 UMa, 70 Vir, and HD 114762

Guillermo Gonzalez (University of Texas at Austin)

Comments: 34 pages Tex file + 2 page long table + 4 ps figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[149] arXiv:astro-ph/9609149 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak Lensing On the Celestial Sphere

Albert Stebbins

Comments: 27 pages, plain TeX, 7 figures, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, PostScript version with embedded figures available from this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[150] arXiv:astro-ph/9609150 [pdf, other]

Title: A Conjecture Concerning the Rieger and Quasi-Biennial Solar Periodicities

P. A. Sturrock (Center for Space Science and Astrophysics, Stanford University)

Comments: 8 pages, Postscript, no figures, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)