Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 1996

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/9611001 [pdf, other]

Title: The Butcher-Oemler Effect at Low Redshift: Spectroscopy of Five Nearby Clusters of Galaxies

Nelson Caldwell (SAO), James Rose (UNC)

Comments: To appear in the Astronomical Journal. 68 pages including 24 pages of figures. To include the gif images of Fig 12 in postscript form, use xv to change gif to ps with names as given in the tex file, and uncomment the appropriate lines in the figure caption area of tex file

Journal-ref: Astron.J.113:492-520,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/9611002 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Minivoids in the Intergalactic Medium

Avery Meiksin (University of Chicago)

Comments: Latex, 10 pages, includes 6 figures. Invited talk presented at IAGUSP Workshop on Young Galaxies and QSO Absorbers in Santos, Brazil, April 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/9611003 [pdf, other]

Title: B, V, R, I, H and K Images of 86 Face-On Spiral Galaxies

Roelof S. de Jong (University of Durham)

Comments: 10 pages LaTeX, uses included this http URL file. Paper and data published on CD-ROM in The Journal of Astrononomical Data, Vol.2. Paper also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: The Journal of Astronomical Data, Vol.2

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/9611004 [pdf, other]

Title: HST Observations of Distant Clusters: Implications for Galaxy Evolution

Alan Dressler, Ian Smail

Comments: 9 pages, Latex, 3 figures, this http URL included. Invited review to appear in the proceedings of the 37th Herstmonceux conference ``HST and the High Redshift Universe''

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/9611005 [pdf, other]

Title: Differential rotation enhanced dissipation of tides in the PSR J0045-7319 Binary

Pawan Kumar (IAS, Princeton), Eliot J. Quataert (Harvard, Cambridge)

Comments: 8 pages, tex. Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/9611006 [pdf, other]

Title: Angular momentum transport by gravity waves and its effect on the rotation of the solar interior

Pawan Kumar (IAS, Princeton), Eliot J. Quataert (Harvard, Cambridge)

Comments: 10 pages, tex, 3 figures. To appear in ApJ letter

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 475 (1997) L143-L146

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/9611007 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-Infrared Synthetic Spectra of Elliptical Galaxies

M. L. Houdashelt, R. A. Bell

Comments: 4 pages, Tex, 2 eps figures included, to appear in the conference proceedings of the Second Stromlo Symposium: The Nature of Elliptical Galaxies

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/9611008 [pdf, other]

Title: Lithium Production in Hot Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows in Soft X-Ray Transients

Insu Yi (IAS, Princeton), Ramesh Narayan (IAS and CfA, Cambridge)

Comments: 21 pages, AASLATEX, no figures, final, revised version, ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/9611009 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical Synthetic Spectra of Elliptical Galaxies

R. A. Bell, M. L. Houdashelt

Comments: 2 pages, Tex, 2 eps figures included, to appear in the conference proceedings of the Second Stromlo Symposium: The Nature of Elliptical Galaxies

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/9611010 [pdf, other]

Title: Keck High Resolution Spectroscopy of PKS 0123+257: Intrinsic Absorption in a Radio Loud Quasar

Thomas A. Barlow, W. L. W. Sargent (Caltech)

Comments: 16 pages with 5 figures, AAS LaTex v4.0. To appear in the Astronomical Journal, January 1997

Journal-ref: Astron.J.113:136-143,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/9611011 [pdf, other]

Title: A candidate supernova in the ultraluminous galaxy IRAS 12112+0305

Neil Trentham

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figs, Postscript, A&A research note in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/9611012 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak Lensing Detection in CMB Maps

F. Bernardeau (SPhT Saclay)

Comments: 13 pages; revised version, in press in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 324 (1997) 15-26

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/9611013 [pdf, other]

Title: Ejection of Matter and Energy from NGC 4258

E.M. Burbidge, G. Burbidge (University of California, San Deigo)

Comments: 7 pages, 1 Figure, LaTex using this http URL, submitted to this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/9611014 [pdf, other]

Title: Standard Physics Solution To The Solar Neutrino Problem?

Arnon Dar (Technion - Israel Institute of Tech. Haifa)

Comments: Invited talk presented at ``Neutrino 1996'', Helsinki, Finland, June 12-17, 1996, Zuos Summer School On Physics With Neutrinos, Zuos, Switzerland, August 4-10, 1996, and ``New Worlds In Astroparticle Physics'', Faro, Portugal, September 8-10, 1996

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

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/9611015 [pdf, other]

Title: The EXOSAT data on GX 339-4: further evidence for an ``intermediate'' state

Mariano Mendez, Michiel van der Klis

Comments: To appear in ApJ. AAS LaTex v4.0 (11 pages, 3 ps-figures)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/9611016 [pdf, other]

Title: The stellar population of the Globular Cluster M 3. II: CCD photometry of additional 10,000 stars

F.R. Ferraro, E. Carretta, C.E. Corsi, F. Fusi Pecci, C. Cacciari, R. Buonanno, B. Paltrinieri, D. Hamilton

Comments: 15 pages, plain latex, uses this http URL, 19 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/9611017 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of a bow shock around Vela X-1

Lex Kaper, Jacco van Loon, Thomas Augusteijn, Paul Goudfrooij, Nando Patat, Albert Zijlstra (ESO), Rens Waters (Univ. Amsterdam)

Comments: 14 pages, latex (including style file), 3 postscript figures, ApJ Letters, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/9611018 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational Signature of the `Boundary Layer' of Galactic and Extragalactic Black Holes

S. K. Chakrabarti (TIFR), L. Titarchuk (GSFC), D. Kazanas (GSFC), K. Ebisawa (GSFC)

Comments: 5 pages, Latex, Special macros for A&A style included. To be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics Suppl. Series (v. 120), Proceedings of the 3rd Compton Symposium

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.Suppl.Ser.120:163-166,1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/9611019 [pdf, other]

Title: Global Solutions of Viscous Transonic Flows in Kerr Geometry I: Weak Viscosity Limit

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (TIFR)

Comments: Latex 10 pages, special macro this http URL are included

Journal-ref: Mon. Not. Royal Astron.Soc. 283 (1996) 325-335

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/9611020 [pdf, other]

Title: Solutions of Two Dimensional Viscous Accretion and Winds In Kerr Black Hole Geometry

S.K. Chakrabarti (TIFR)

Comments: 22 page Latex files and 7 figures. Special ApJ macro this http URL included. Appearing in ApJ on Nov. 1st 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/9611021 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral Effects of the Vacuum Resonance in Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters

Tomasz Bulik (Copernicus Center, Poland), M. Coleman Miller (University of Chicago)

Comments: 13 pages Latex , uses this http URL. Submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/9611022 [pdf, other]

Title: Laboratory Synthesis of Molecular Hydrogen on Surfaces of Astrophysical Interest

V. Pirronello, Chi Liu, Liyong Shen, Gianfranco Vidali

Comments: 13 pages plus 5 figures (only change: this version has 5 figures included); this paper is to appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/9611023 [pdf, other]

Title: Broad band high energy observations of the superluminal jet source GRO J1655-40 during an outburst

S. N. Zhang, K. Ebisawa, R. Sunyaev, Y. Ueda, B. A. Harmon, S. Sazonov, G. J. Fishman, H. Inoue, W. S. Paciesas, T. Takahashi

Comments: 27 pages, 4 PostScript figures, Accepted for ApJ publication

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 479 (1997) 381

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/9611024 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraviolet Imaging Observations of the cD Galaxy in Abell 1795: Further Evidence for Massive Star Formation in a Cooling Flow

Eric P. Smith (NASA/GSFC), R.C. Bohlin (STScI), G.D. Bothun (Univ. Oregon), R.W. O'Connell (UVa), M.S. Roberts (NRAO), S.G. Neff, A.M. Smith, T.P. Stecher (NASA/GSFC)

Comments: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal. 14 AAS preprint style pages plus 7 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/9611025 [pdf, other]

Title: Distribution of Supernovae in Spiral Galaxies

Sidney van den Bergh

Comments: To appear in the January 1997 Astronomical Journal. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/9611026 [pdf, other]

Title: High Carbon in I Zwicky 18: New Results from Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy

D. R. Garnett (University of Minnesota), E. D. Skillman (University of Minnesota), R. J. Dufour (Rice University), G. A. Shields (University of Texas)

Comments: 14 pages including 4 figures; uses this http URL. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Postscript version also available by e-mail request to author at garnett@oldstyle.this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/9611027 [pdf, other]

Title: Cepheids as Distance Indicators

N.R. Tanvir

Comments: 21 pages, latex, 6 eps figures. Invited review to appear in the proceedings of the STScI symposium on the "Extragalactic Distance Scale"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/9611028 [pdf, other]

Title: Signatures of Stellar Reionization of the Universe

Zoltan Haiman, Abraham Loeb (Harvard Univ.)

Comments: Normalization of power spectrum is corrected

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 483 (1997) 21

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/9611029 [pdf, other]

Title: The colour of the Deep ROSAT X-ray sky fluctuations

M.Teresa Ceballos (1,2), Xavier Barcons (1), Francisco J. Carrera (1). ((1) Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas - Universidad de Cantabria), (2) Departamento de Fisica Moderna (Universidad de Cantabria))

Comments: 5 pages, Latex (this http URL), 3 figures included (epsf), postscript version also available via anonymous ftp at this ftp URL .Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/9611030 [pdf, other]

Title: Perspectives for Detection of a Higgsino-like Relic Neutralino

A. Bottino (Turin U.), N. Fornengo (J. Hopkins U.), G. Mignola (CERN), M. Olechowski (Turin U.), S. Scopel (Genoa U.)

Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX, 10 postscript figures

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.6:395-410,1997

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

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/9611031 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature of intermediate-redshift damped Ly-alpha absorbers

V. Le Brun (LAS-CNRS), J. Bergeron (ESO and Iap-CNRS), P. Boisse (ENS-Paris), J.-M. Deharveng (LAS-CNRS)

Comments: 21 Pages, LaTeX using A&A macros this http URL 3.0, 16 images (including 7 jpeg plates). Plates also available as postscript (110kB each in gzipped format) at this ftp URL , and can be included manually in the source by uncommenting the corresponding lines in the TeX file, if desired. The full postscript-gzipped file (1.3MB) with all figures can be found at this ftp URL . Accepted for Publication in A&A Main Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 321 (1997) 733-748

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/9611032 [pdf, other]

Title: Distortion of the CMB Spectrum by Primeval Hydrogen Recombination

Peter Boschan, Peter Biltzinger

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/9611033 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Method to Estimate Cosmological Parameters Using Baryon Fraction of Clusters of Galaxies

Shin Sasaki

Comments: 4 pages. LaTeX and 2 postscript figures. to appear in PASJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/9611034 [pdf, other]

Title: Dissipation of Magnetic Fields in the Galactic Halo

F. Zimmer (Radioastronomisches Institut der Universität Bonn), H. Lesch (Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik der Universität München), G.T. Birk (Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik der Universität München)

Comments: 13 pages (Latex), 11 figures (bitmapped ps). Originals available at this http URL from November 25: this http URL . Astronomy and Astrophysics (1996), accepted October 4

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/9611035 [pdf, other]

Title: The Tully-Fisher Relation at Intermediate Redshifts

Matthew A. Bershady

Comments: 4 pages LaTeX, 2 postscript figures, and style file. In Proceedings of ``Galaxies in the Young Universe,'' 1996, Springer Series ``Lecture Notes in Physics'', eds. H. Hippelein, K. Meisenheimer, H.-J. Roser, p.139

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/9611036 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Distant Galaxies

Matthew A. Bershady

Comments: 8 pages LaTeX, 5 figures (style file this http URL). To appear in ``Dark and Visible Matter in Galaxies and Cosmological Implications,'' eds. M. Persic and P. Salucci, A.S.P. Conference Series (1997)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/9611037 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Fundamental Properties of Dynamically Hot Galaxies

Alexei G. Kritsuk (St. Petersburg University)

Comments: 9 pages, 7 PostScript figures, uses MNRaS LaTeX style file; accepted for publication in MNRaS (Aug 1996)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/9611038 [pdf, other]

Title: Imprints of Primordial Voids on the CMB

C.Baccigalupi, L. Amendola, F. Occhionero

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Montly Notices

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 288 (1997) 387-396

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/9611039 [pdf, other]

Title: High Energy Continuum Spectra from X-Ray Binaries

S.N. Zhang (USRA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL)

Comments: 10 pages, PostScript file this http URL file. Invited review talk at the IAU Colloquium 163 `Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows', PASP Conference Series, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/9611040 [pdf, other]

Title: Where Does Dark Matter Become Important in Elliptical Galaxies?

H.-W. Rix (Steward Observatory, Tucson and MPA, Garching)

Comments: Postscript file (6 pages including 3 figures). Contribution to the DM1996 Workshop, Sesto, Italy

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/9611041 [pdf, other]

Title: Planetary Nebulae as standard candles XI. Application to Spiral Galaxies

John Feldmeier (Penn State), Robin Ciardullo, (Penn State), George Jacoby (NOAO)

Comments: 38 pages, TeX, with tables included but not figures. Uses this http URL and this http URL. To be published in the Astophysical Journal. Full paper is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/9611042 [pdf, other]

Title: NGC 4138 - A Case Study in Counterrotating Disk Formation

Aniruddha R. Thakar, Barbara S. Ryden (The Ohio State University), Katherine P. Jore, Adrick H. Broeils (Cornell University)

Comments: To appear in ApJ, 21 pages, LaTeX (aaspp4) format, 17 figs (gzipped tar file) also available at this ftp URL or at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/9611043 [pdf, other]

Title: The primordial lithium abundance

Piercarlo Bonifacio, Paolo Molaro

Comments: Tex, uses this http URL, 18 .ps figures; accepted MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 285 (1997) 847-861

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/9611044 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for TeV Counterparts of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the HEGRA Experiment

H. Krawczynski, B. Funk, the HEGRA collaboration, S. Barthelmy, P. Butterworth, T. Cline, N. Gehrels, C. Kouveliotou, J. Fishman, C. Meegan

Comments: Latex file, 6 pages, 4 figures. Macros needed: epsf, sprocl. To appear in proceedings of the "International School Of Cosmic-ray Astrophysics", Erice, 16-23 June 1996, (World Scientific)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/9611045 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for an anomalous state in the black-hole candidate 4U 1630-47

Erik Kuulkers, Michiel van der Klis, Arvind N. Parmar

Comments: 7 pages. LaTeX. 1 figure. Accepted for ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/9611046 [pdf, other]

Title: Ring Nebula and Bipolar Outflows Associated with the B1.5 Supergiant Sher #25 in NGC 3603

Wolfgang Brandner (AI Wuerzburg), Eva K. Grebel (AI Wuerzburg, UI at Urbana-Champaign), You-Hua Chu (UI Urbana-Champaign), Kerstin Weis (UI at Urbana-Champaign, ITA Heidelberg)

Comments: Figure 5 (plate 1) is available from the author upon request; gzipped postscript file also available at this ftp URL or at this http URL ; to be published in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: ApJ 475 (1997) L45

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/9611047 [pdf, other]

Title: Central Engines of AGN: Properties of Collimated Outflows and Applications for Cosmology

Erick J. Guerra, Ruth A. Daly (Princeton Univ. Physics)

Comments: revised version accepted to ApJ, in press, Vol 493

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/9611048 [pdf, other]

Title: Disk-Corona Models and X-ray Emission from Seyfert Galaxies

Laura Maraschi, Francesco Haardt

Comments: 13 pages, AAS latex [11pt,paspconf,epsf], + 4 .eps figures To appear in the Proceedings of the 163 IAU conference. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/9611049 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the Galactic Corona Models of Gamma-Ray Bursts From the 3B Catalogue

Tomasz Bulik, Donald Q. Lamb

Comments: 5 pages latex uses aip macros. To be published in the Proceedings of the 3rd Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, AIP editors C. Kouvelietou, M.S. Briggs, G.J. Fishman

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/9611050 [pdf, other]

Title: Interactions Between Massive Dark Halos And Warped Disks

Konrad Kuijken (Kapteyn Institute)

Comments: 8 pages, Latex, 3 figures included, uses this http URL macros. Talk presented at "Dark Matter 1996: Dark and Visible Matter in Galaxies and Cosmological Implications."

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)