Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 1996

[201] arXiv:astro-ph/9611201 [pdf, other]

Title: New Trends in Solar-Neutrino Physics

V. Berezinsky, G. Fiorentini

Comments: Proceedings of 4th International Topical Workshop help at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, May 2 - 4 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[202] arXiv:astro-ph/9611202 [pdf, other]

Title: Origin of the viewing-angle dependence of the optical continuum emission in quasars

Joanne C. Baker

Comments: 14 pages, 21 figures, MNRAS accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[203] arXiv:astro-ph/9611203 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the properties of the 2175 angstrom interstellar feature carrier

F. Rouleau, Th. Henning, R. Stognienko

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX A&A style file L-AA version 3 is used, to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, see this http URL for other JAP's

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[204] arXiv:astro-ph/9611204 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dynamical Equilibrium of Galaxy Clusters

Carlberg, Yee, Ellingson, Morris, Abraham, Gravel, Pritchet, Smecker-Hane, Hartwick, Hesser, Hutchings, Oke

Comments: Submitted for publication in ApJLetts. 12 pages as a uufile, also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[205] arXiv:astro-ph/9611205 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlinear bulk viscosity and inflation

Roy Maartens, Vicenc Mendez

Comments: 8 pages Revtex

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 1937-1942

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[206] arXiv:astro-ph/9611206 [pdf, other]

Title: The Las Campanas Redshift Survey Galaxy-Galaxy Autocorrelation Function

D.L. Tucker (FNAL/AIP), A. Oemler Jr. (OCIW/Yale), R.P. Kirshner (CFA), H. Lin (Toronto), S.A. Shectman (OCIW), S.D. Landy (OCIW), P.L. Schechter (MIT), V. Mueller (AIP), S. Gottloeber (AIP), J. Einasto (Tartu)

Comments: 5 pages, LaTeX, 8 postscript figures, and this http URL included. Text and figures are also available at this http URL and at this http URL Accepted for publication by MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[207] arXiv:astro-ph/9611207 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropies in the Distribution of Satellite Galaxies

Dennis Zaritsky (UCO/Lick Obs.), Rodney Smith (Univ. of Wales), Carlos S. Frenk (Univ. of Durham), Simon D.M. White (MPA)

Comments: 15 pages, submitted to ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.478:L53-L56,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[208] arXiv:astro-ph/9611208 [pdf, other]

Title: Conformal Invariance and Cosmic Background Radiation

I. Antoniadis, P. O. Mazur, E. Mottola

Comments: 4 pages, Revtex file, uuencoded with one figure

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.79:14-17,1997

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

[209] arXiv:astro-ph/9611209 [pdf, other]

Title: MACHOs in the solar neighbourhood

B. Fuchs, H. Jahreiss (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg, Germany)

Comments: latex, 10 pages, 3 eps-figures and this http URL included, contributed paper to appear in the proceedings of the 'International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics', Heidelberg, Sept. 16 - 20 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[210] arXiv:astro-ph/9611210 [pdf, other]

Title: A Catalog of Morphological Types in 10 Distant Rich Clusters of Galaxies

Ian Smail, Alan Dressler, Warrick J. Couch, Richard S. Ellis, Augustus Oemler, Harvey Butcher, Ray M. Sharples

Comments: 24 pages, Latex (uses this http URL - included), 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS. Full tables, plates and images are to be distributed on AAS CD-ROM and are not included here. Catalogs now available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl. 110 (1997) 213

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[211] arXiv:astro-ph/9611211 [pdf, other]

Title: Are the Perseus-Pisces chain and the Pavo-Indus wall connected?

Helene Di Nella (MPIA, Heidelberg), W. Couch, G. Paturel, Q. Parker

Comments: 14 pages, postscript including tables and figures,

Journal-ref: MNRAS 1996, 283, 367

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[212] arXiv:astro-ph/9611212 [pdf, other]

Title: Results from CAT and prospects for the VSA

Michael E. Jones (MRAO, Cambridge, UK)

Comments: 6 pages, LaTex, uses 'this http URL' (included), 3 PostScript figures. To appear in proceedings of the XXXIst Rencontre de Moriond, `Microwave Background Anisotropies'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[213] arXiv:astro-ph/9611213 [pdf, other]

Title: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations with the Ryle Telescope

Richard Saunders (MRAO, Cambridge, UK)

Comments: 5 pages, LaTex, uses 'this http URL' (included), 1 PostScript figure. To appear in proceedings of the XXXIst Rencontre de Moriond, `Microwave Background Anisotropies'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[214] arXiv:astro-ph/9611214 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio frequency foreground emission and the separation of microwave anisotropies from foreground contamination

A. N. Lasenby (MRAO, Cambridge, UK)

Comments: 8 pages, LaTex, uses 'this http URL' (included), 7 PostScript figures. To appeart in proceedings of the XXXIst Rencontre de Moriond, `Microwave Background Anisotropies'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[215] arXiv:astro-ph/9611215 [pdf, other]

Title: The observability of secondary doppler peaks

Michael P. Hobson (MRAO, Cambridge, UK)

Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX, uses 'this http URL' (included), 6 PostScript figures. To appeart in proceedings of the XXXIst Rencontre de Moriond, `Microwave Background Anisotropies'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[216] arXiv:astro-ph/9611216 [pdf, other]

Title: Determining the Hubble Constant from the Gravitational Lens PG 1115+080

C. R. Keeton, C. S. Kochanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: revised to use the updated time delays of Bar-Kana astro-ph/9701068; 30 pages, 7 Postscript figures, to appear in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[217] arXiv:astro-ph/9611217 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Lensing Limits on Early-Type Galaxies

C.S. Kochanek, C.R. Keeton (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures Proc. of the Second Stromlo Symposium, The Nature of Elliptical Galaxies

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[218] arXiv:astro-ph/9611218 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of a CMB decrement towards the z = 3.8 quasar pair PC1643+4631A&B

Michael E. Jones (1), Richard Saunders (1), Joanne C. Baker (1), Garret Cotter (1), Alastair Edge (2), Keith Grainge (1), Toby Haynes (1), Anthony Lasenby (1), Guy Pooley (1), Huub Rottgering (3) ((1)MRAO Cambridge UK, (2)IoA Cambridge UK (3)Leiden Observatory)

Comments: 8 pages, LaTeX, 2 PostScript figures. To appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[219] arXiv:astro-ph/9611219 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and infrared investigation towards the z=3.8 quasar pair PC1643+4631A&B

Richard Saunders (1), Joanne C. Baker (1), Malcolm N. Bremer (2), Andrew J. Bunker (3), Garret Cotter (1), Steve Eales (4), Keith Grainge (1), Toby Haynes (1), Michael E. Jones (1), Mark Lacy (3), Guy Pooley (1), Steve Rawlings (3) ((1) MRAO Cambridge UK, (2) Leiden Observatory, (3) Oxford, (4) Cardiff)

Comments: 9 pages, LaTeX, 2 PostScript figures. To appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[220] arXiv:astro-ph/9611220 [pdf, other]

Title: An Atlas of Computed Equivalent Widths of Quasar Broad Emission Lines

Kirk Korista (U of KY), Jack Baldwin (CTIO), Gary Ferland (U of KY), Dima Verner (U of KY)

Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX (AASTeX this http URL); to appear in the 1997 ApJS: full contents of the 9 photoionization grids presented in this paper may be found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[221] arXiv:astro-ph/9611221 [pdf, other]

Title: SBS 0909+532: A New Double Gravitational Lens or Binary Quasar?

C. S. Kochanek, E. E. Falco, R. Schild, A. Dobrzycki (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)D. Engels, H.-J. Hagen (Hamburger Sternwarte)

Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures, ApJ in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[222] arXiv:astro-ph/9611222 [pdf, other]

Title: M-Subdwarfs: Spectroscopic Classification and the Metallicity Scale

John E. Gizis

Comments: AASTeX, 43 pages, 11 figures, A.J. accepted

Journal-ref: Astron.J.113:806-822,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[223] arXiv:astro-ph/9611223 [pdf, other]

Title: The Complex Broadband X-ray Spectrum of the Starburst Galaxy M82

Edward C. Moran, Matthew D. Lehnert (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

Comments: 23 pages, TeX, seven postscript figures, three tables Accepted for the March 20, 1997 issue of ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[224] arXiv:astro-ph/9611224 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Star Forming Regions in a CDM Universe

Yu Zhang, Michael L. Norman, Peter Anninos, Tom Abel

Comments: 4 pages, with one figure that prints in color. To appear in the proceedings of the 7th Annual Astrophysics Conference in Maryland, STAR FORMATION, NEAR AND FAR, eds. Stephen S. Holt and Lee G. Mundy. This paper and some of the referenced articles are also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[225] arXiv:astro-ph/9611225 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropy in the Microwave Sky: Results from the First Flight of BAM

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

Comments: 18 pages, 3 Postscript figures, uses this http URL. Accepted for publication in this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[226] arXiv:astro-ph/9611226 [pdf, other]

Title: The Formation of Disk Galaxies

J. J. Dalcanton, D. N. Spergel, F J Summers

Comments: 48 pages LaTeX w/ figures. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[227] arXiv:astro-ph/9611227 [pdf, other]

Title: Reionization of the Universe induced by Primordial Black Holes

Marina Gibilisco (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, Universitá degli Studi di Milano and Universitá degli Studi di Pavia, Italy)

Comments: Plain Tex, 6 pages. Contribution to the 12th Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics. Figures on request

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys.A11:5541-5568,1996

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

[228] arXiv:astro-ph/9611228 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical implications of microwave background radiation anisotropy experiments

Graca Rocha, Stephen Hancock (MRAO Cambridge UK)

Comments: 7 pages LaTeX, including 6 PostScript figures. To appear in proceedings of the XXXIst Rencontre de Moriond, `Microwave Background Anisotropies'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[229] arXiv:astro-ph/9611229 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Lensing and the Extragalactic Distance Scale

Roger D. Blandford, Tomislav Kundic (Caltech)

Comments: 16 pages, 3 eps figures, uses this http URL. To appear in "The Extragalactic Distance Scale", eds. M. Livio, M. Donahue, and N. Panagia (Cambridge University Press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[230] arXiv:astro-ph/9611230 [pdf, other]

Title: The Discovery of a Planetary Companion to 16 Cygni B

W. D. Cochran, A. P. Hatzes (Univ. Texas), R. P. Butler, G. W. Marcy (SFSU and U. C. Berkeley)

Comments: 18 pages, 3 PostScript figures, Latex, uses aaspp4 macros, submitted to Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[231] arXiv:astro-ph/9611231 [pdf, other]

Title: The Flat Spectrum Radio Luminosity Function, Gravitational Lensing, Galaxy Ellipticities and Cosmology

C. S. Kochanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: 37 pages, 12 PostScript figures, ApJ in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[232] arXiv:astro-ph/9611232 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Dark Matter

Subir Sarkar (Oxford)

Comments: 15 pages LaTeX (needs this http URL) including 3 figures (epsf); Invited review to appear in proceedings of the workshop on `Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics', Heidelberg, Sept 16-20 1996, eds H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and Y. Ramachers (World Scientific Press); PostScript available at this ftp URL

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

[233] arXiv:astro-ph/9611233 [pdf, other]

Title: The Galactic Diffuse Gamma-ray Spectrum from Cosmic-ray Proton Interactions

Masaki Mori (NASA/GSFC; Miyagi U. Education, Japan)

Comments: To appear in Astrophysical Journal 478 (March 20, 1997). LaTeX with AASTeX Macros v4.0, 24 pages (including 14 eps figures)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 478 (1997) 225-232

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[234] arXiv:astro-ph/9611234 [pdf, other]

Title: Tidal thickening of galaxy disks

Vladimir Reshetnikov (AI SPbSU, Russia), Francoise Combes (Observatoire de Paris, France)

Comments: 3 pages, including two PostScript figures, LaTeX (this http URL). To be published in the proceedings of the "Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications" Third ESO-VLT Workshop, November 18-20, 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[235] arXiv:gr-qc/9611002 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Integrability of irrotational silent cosmological models

H van Elst, C Uggla, W Lesame, G Ellis, R Maartens

Comments: Minor corrections and improvements; 1 new reference; to appear Class. Quantum Grav.; 16 pages Ioplppt

Journal-ref: Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 1151-1162

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

[236] arXiv:gr-qc/9611005 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Singularities in Silent Universes: State of the Art

M. Bruni, H. van Elst, C. Uggla

Comments: 6 papes, Proceedings of the 12th Italian Conference of General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, style included

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

[237] arXiv:gr-qc/9611019 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum-to-classical Transition of Cosmological Perturbations for Non-vacuum Initial States

Julien Lesgourgues, David Polarski, Alexei A. Starobinsky

Comments: LaTeX (28 pages),+2 eps figures

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.B497:479-510,1997

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

[238] arXiv:gr-qc/9611023 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Phase Transition in Neutron Stars

R. P. Lano

Comments: 19 pages, standard LaTeX

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

[239] arXiv:gr-qc/9611031 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Scalar gravitational wave from Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse in scalar- tensor theories of gravity

Tomohiro Harada, Takeshi Chiba, Ken-ichi Nakao, Takashi Nakamura

Comments: Revised version, 27 pages, including 16 eps figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D55:2024-2037,1997

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

[240] arXiv:gr-qc/9611033 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Radiation from Rotational Instabilities in Compact Stellar Cores with Stiff Equations of State

Janet L. Houser, Joan M. Centrella (Drexel University)

Comments: 39 pages, uses Latex 2.09. To be published in the Dec. 15, 1996 issue of Physical Review D. 21 figures (bitmapped). Originals available in compressed Postscript format at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D54:7278-7297,1996

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

[241] arXiv:gr-qc/9611036 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: CMBR dipole from ultra large scale isocurvature perturbations

David Langlois (DARC, CNRS UPR 176, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon)

Comments: 4 pages, Latex, macro this http URL, to appear in the Proceedings of the "Journees relativistes 1996" in Helv. Phys. Acta

Journal-ref: Helv.Phys.Acta 69 (1996) 229-232

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

[242] arXiv:gr-qc/9611038 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Local and global gravity

Philip D. Mannheim (University of Connecticut)

Comments: LaTeX, 20 pages plus three figures in two postscript files. To appear in a special issue of Foundations of Physics honoring Professor Lawrence Horwitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday; A. van der Merwe and S. Raby, Editors, Plenum Publishing Company, N.Y., 1997

Journal-ref: Found.Phys.26:1683-1709,1996

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

[243] arXiv:gr-qc/9611048 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: On Relativistic Perturbations of Second and Higher Order

M. Bruni, S. Matarrese, S. Mollerach, S. Sonego

Comments: 6 pages, latex, with special style included, Proceedings of the 12th Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics

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

[244] arXiv:gr-qc/9611059 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Relic dilatons in string cosmology

M. Gasperini

Comments: 13 pages, LATEX, two figures included using epsf. To appear in Proc. of the 12th It. Conf. on Gen. Rel. and Grav. Phys. (Rome, Sept. 1996), ed. by M. Bassan et al. (World Scientific, Singapore). An updated collection of papers on the pre-big-bang scenario in string cosmology is available at this http URL

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

[245] arXiv:gr-qc/9611063 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Inflation and the Fine-Tuning Problem

Andrew Matacz (University of Sydney, Australia)

Comments: 5 pages in Latex (uses Revtex), no figures. Minor changes to the text only

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D56:1836-1840,1997

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

[246] arXiv:gr-qc/9611065 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology in Brans-Dicke theory with a scalar potential

Caroline Santos, Ruth Gregory

Comments: 28 pages harvmac, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Annals Phys. 258 (1997) 111-134

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

[247] arXiv:hep-ex/9611014 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Status of the AMANDA South Pole Neutrino Detector

F. Halzen

Comments: Latex 2.09, 11 pages, 4 postscript figures embedded using this http URL. Contribution by F. Halzen, on behalf of the AMANDA Collaboration, to the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, September 1996

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

[248] arXiv:hep-ph/9611305 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Medium effects in strange quark matter and strange stars

K. Schertler, C. Greiner, M.H. Thoma

Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX, 14 eps-figures included. To be published in Nuclear Physics A

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys. A616 (1997) 659-679

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[249] arXiv:hep-ph/9611339 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Dark matter axions '96

Pierre Sikivie (U of Florida)

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, Latex, invited talk at the APCTP Inauguration Conference in Seoul, Korea, June 4-10, 1996 and at the Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, Sept. 16-20, 1996

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

[250] arXiv:hep-ph/9611368 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino Propagation Through a Fluctuating Sun (The Talk)

C.P. Burgess, D. Michaud

Comments: 6 pages including 2 figures, Latex, uses this http URL, Presented to Neutrino-96, Helsinki, June 1996

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