Astrophysics

Authors and titles for December 1996

[101] arXiv:astro-ph/9612101 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on ``Constraints on the strength of primordial B-fields from big bang nucleosynthesis reexamined''

Peter J. Kernan, Glenn D. Starkman, Tanmay Vachaspati (Case Western Reserve University, Dept of Physics)

Comments: 4 pages, Latex, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D56 (1997) 3766-3767

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[102] arXiv:astro-ph/9612102 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational Limits on Machos in the Galactic Halo

EROS collaboration: C. Renault, C. Afonso, E. Aubourg, P. Bareyre, F. Bauer, S. Brehin, C. Coutures, C. Gaucherel, J.F. Glicenstein, B. Goldman, M. Gros, D. Hardin, J. de Kat, M. Lachieze-Rey, B. Laurent, E. Lesquoy, C. Magneville, A. Milsztajn, L. Moscoso, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, F. Queinnec, J. Rich, M. Spiro, L. Vigroux, S. Zylberajch, R. Ansari, F. Cavalier, F. Couchot, B. Mansoux, M. Moniez, O. Perdereau, J.-Ph. Beaulieu, R. Ferlet, Ph. Grison, A. Vidal-Madjar, J. Guibert, O. Moreau, E. Maurice, L. Prevot, C. Gry, S. Char, J. Fernandez

Comments: 4 pages, 3 Postscript figures, to be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[103] arXiv:astro-ph/9612103 [pdf, other]

Title: Time-dependent Hypercritical Accretion onto Black Holes

Luca Zampieri (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Comments: 5 pages, LaTeX, World Scientific Press style file (this http URL). Talk presented at the Second International Sakharov Conference on Physics (Moscow, May 20-25, 1996). To appear in the Proceedings

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[104] arXiv:astro-ph/9612104 [pdf, other]

Title: X-rays and gamma-rays from accretion flows onto black holes in Seyferts and X-ray binaries

Andrzej A. Zdziarski, W. Neil Johnson, Juri Poutanen, Pawel Magdziarz, Marek Gierlinski

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, to appear in proceedings of the 2nd INTEGRAL workshop "Transparent Universe", September 16-20, 1996, St. Malo, France

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[105] arXiv:astro-ph/9612105 [pdf, other]

Title: COBE Observations of Interstellar Line Emission

Edward L. Wright (UCLA Astronomy)

Comments: 7 pages of LaTeX with 5 included figures. Presented at the IRTS symposium at ISAS in Japan on 12 Nov 96

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[106] arXiv:astro-ph/9612106 [pdf, other]

Title: Two Dimensional Topology of Large Scale Structure in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey

Wesley N. Colley (Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ)

Comments: AASTeX, v4, preprint, 11 pages including 2 PS figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[107] arXiv:astro-ph/9612107 [pdf, other]

Title: An Investigation of Neutrino-Driven Convection and the Core Collapse Supernova Mechanism Using Multigroup Neutrino Transport

A. Mezzacappa, A. C. Calder, S. W. Bruenn, J. M. Blondin, M. W. Guidry, M. R. Strayer, A. S. Umar

Comments: Postscript figures at this http URL To appear in Ap J Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[108] arXiv:astro-ph/9612108 [pdf, other]

Title: Cataloging of the Digitized POSS-II, and Some Initial Scientific Results From It

S. G. Djorgovski (1), R. R. de Carvalho (1 and 2), R. R. Gal (1), M. A. Pahre (1), R. Scaramella (3), G. Longo (4) ((1) Palomar Observatory, Caltech, (2) Observatorio Nacional, CNPq, Brazil, (3) Osservatorio Astr. de Roma, Italy, (4) Osservatorio Astr. di Capodimonte, Italy)

Comments: to appear in New Horizons From Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #179, eds. B. McLean et al. (Dordrecht: Kluwer); 7 pages, no figures; LaTeX, requires this http URL (not included, but available from LANL at this http URL paper is also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[109] arXiv:astro-ph/9612109 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical and Analytical Modelling of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

C.S. Frenk, C.M. Baugh, S. Cole (University of Durham), C.G. Lacey (TAC Copenhagen)

Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures included, needs this http URL file. To appear in ``Dark Matter 1996: Dark and Visible Matter in Galaxies and Cosmological Implications'', eds M. Persic and P. Salucci

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[110] arXiv:astro-ph/9612110 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiation-Driven Warping: The Origin of Warps and Precession in Accretion Disks

Philip R. Maloney, Mitchell C. Begelman, J. E. Pringle

Comments: 16 pages, latex, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[111] arXiv:astro-ph/9612111 [pdf, other]

Title: Proceedings of IAU 163: Radiation-Driven Warping: The Origin of Warps and Precession in Accretion Disks

Philip R. Maloney, Mitchell C. Begelman

Comments: 10 pages, latex, this http URL (included), 3 figures. To Appear in Proceedings of IAU #163, "Accretion Phenomena and Associated Outflows", (cf. also astro-ph/9612110, which also appears in ApJ, 472, p. 582)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[112] arXiv:astro-ph/9612112 [pdf, other]

Title: Atomic Carbon in M82: Physical conditions derived from simultaneous observations of the [CI] fine structure submillimeter wave transitions

J. Stutzki, U.U. Graf, S. Haas, C.E. Honingh, D. Hottgenroth, K. Jacobs, R. Schieder, R. Simon, J. Staguhn, G. Winnewisser, R.N. Martin, W.L. Peters, J.P. McMullin

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, ApJL in press, postscript also available at this ftp URL e-mail-contact:stutzki@ph1.this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[113] arXiv:astro-ph/9612113 [pdf, other]

Title: The Minimum Mass of the First Stars and the Anthropic Principle

Takashi Nakamura, Hideya Uehara, Takeshi Chiba

Comments: 3 Pages, to be published in Progress of Theoretical Physics 1997 January issue

Journal-ref: Prog.Theor.Phys. 97 (1997) 169-171

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[114] arXiv:astro-ph/9612114 [pdf, other]

Title: Peaks in the Cosmic Microwave Background: flat versus open models

R. B. Barreiro (1 and 2), J. L. Sanz (2), E. Martinez-Gonzalez (2), L. Cayon (3), Joseph Silk (3) ((1) Departamento de Fisica Moderna, Universidad de Cantabria, (2) Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, (3) Astronomy Department and Center for Particle Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley)

Comments: 13 pages latex file using this http URL + 3 tables + 2 postscript figures, to appear in ApJ (March 1997)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[115] arXiv:astro-ph/9612115 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Stability and Environmental Influences in Low Surface Brightness Disk Galaxies

Chris Mihos (JHU), Stacy McGaugh (DTM), Erwin de Blok (Groningen)

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX using AASTeX macros 4.0, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[116] arXiv:astro-ph/9612116 [pdf, other]

Title: Fabry-Perot Observations of Globular Clusters III: M15

Karl Gebhardt, Carlton Pryor, T.B. Williams, James E. Hesser, Peter B. Stetson

Comments: 31 pages, 10 figures, LaTex, accepted AJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[117] arXiv:astro-ph/9612117 [pdf, other]

Title: Feedback, Disk Self-regulation and Galaxy Formation

Joseph Silk

Comments: 13 pages, Tex, ApJ accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.481:703-709,1997

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[118] arXiv:astro-ph/9612118 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of the Low-Energy Photon Spectra in Gamma-Ray Bursts

A. Crider, E. P. Liang, I. A. Smith, R. D. Preece, M. S. Briggs, G. N. Pendleton, W. S. Paciesas, D. L. Band, J. L. Matteson

Comments: 12 pages (including 6 figures), accepted to ApJ

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[119] arXiv:astro-ph/9612119 [pdf, other]

Title: Orchestration of Starbirth Activity in Disk Galaxies: New Perspectives from Ultraviolet Imaging

William H. Waller, Theodore P. Stecher, the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT)Science Team

Comments: Paper format (latex); length of paper (4); 2 encapsulated postscript figure files; uses AIP Press files this http URL, this http URL; Journal Reference: to be published in proceedings in "Star Formation, Near and Far", Proceedings of the 7th annual Astrophysics Conference in Maryland, Steve Holt, Lee G. Mundy, editors

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[120] arXiv:astro-ph/9612120 [pdf, other]

Title: Excitation of Solar Acoustic Oscillations

Pawan Kumar (IAS, Princeton)

Comments: 19 pages, LaTeX, 7 figues. Invited review to appear in the IAU symposium # 181 "Sounding Solar and Stellar Interiors", eds. F.X. Schmider & J. Provost

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[121] arXiv:astro-ph/9612121 [pdf, other]

Title: New Keck Spectra of Q0014+813: annulling the case for high deuterium abundances

David Tytler, Scott Burles, David Kirkman

Comments: 25 pages, 6 Figures, also available at this http URL ; submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[122] arXiv:astro-ph/9612122 [pdf, other]

Title: THE AMANDA EXPERIMENT - status and prospects for indirect Dark Matter detection

L. Bergstrom, et al. (The AMANDA Collaboration)

Comments: Talk given at "Identification of Dark Matter", Sheffield, 1996, LaTeX, 7 pages, uses this http URL and this http URL

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

[123] arXiv:astro-ph/9612123 [pdf, other]

Title: On the morphology of accretion flows with small non-zero specific angular momentum

Xingming Chen, Ronald E. Taam, Marek A. Abramowicz, Igor V. Igumenshchev

Comments: MNRAS accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[124] arXiv:astro-ph/9612124 [pdf, other]

Title: Force Evaluation in Particle Methods for Self-Gravitating Multi-Phase Systems

R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta (1), R. Di Lisio (1 and 2), P. Miocchi (1 and 3) ((1) Inst. of Astronomy, University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (2) Math. Dep., University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (3)Phys. Dep., University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)

Comments: 5 pages + 1 postscript figure; to be published in the Proceedings of the XII Italian Conference on Gen. Rel. and Grav. Phys., Roma, sep. 23-27 1996

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[125] arXiv:astro-ph/9612125 [pdf, other]

Title: Cygnus X-3 in outburst : quenched radio emission, radiation losses and variable local opacity

R. P. Fender (University of Sussex, UK), S. J. Bell Burnell, E. B. Waltman, G. G. Pooley, F. D. Ghigo, R. S. Foster

Comments: LaTeX, 11 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[126] arXiv:astro-ph/9612126 [pdf, other]

Title: HV 2554 and the supersoft X-ray source RX J0527.8-6954

J. Greiner (MPE Garching), M.L. Hazen (Harvard College Observatory)

Comments: accepted in Inf. Bull. on Variable Stars, No. 4409; LATEX with this http URL, 2 ps-figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[127] arXiv:astro-ph/9612127 [pdf, other]

Title: Reionization of the Universe and the Early Production of Metals

Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Comments: submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 486 (1997) 581

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[128] arXiv:astro-ph/9612128 [pdf, other]

Title: The Pattern of Correlated X-ray Timing and Spectral Behavior in GRS 1915+105

Xingming Chen, Jean H. Swank, Ronald E. Taam

Comments: ApJ Lett accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[129] arXiv:astro-ph/9612129 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensitivity of Gamma-Ray Detectors to Polarization

I.-A. Yadigaroglu (Stanford University)

Comments: 17 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Exper.Astron. 7 (1997) 221-237

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[130] arXiv:astro-ph/9612130 [pdf, other]

Title: Gas Rich Dwarfs from the PSS-II I. Catalog and Characteristics

James Schombert (UOregon), Rachel Pildis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Jo Ann Eder (Arecibo Observatory)

Comments: 17 pages, AASTeX v4.0, 6 figures, to be published in ApJ Suppl, images, tables and referee report can be found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[131] arXiv:astro-ph/9612131 [pdf, other]

Title: The Enrichment of the Intracluster Medium

Brad K. Gibson (MSSSO), Francesca Matteucci (SISSA)

Comments: 2 pages, TeX, also available at this http URL, to appear in the Proceedings of the Second Stromlo Symposium

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[132] arXiv:astro-ph/9612132 [pdf, other]

Title: On Dwarf Galaxies as the Source of Intracluster Gas

Brad K. Gibson (MSSSO), Francesca Matteucci (SISSA)

Comments: 43 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX, also available at this http URL, to appear in ApJ, Vol 473, 1997, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 475 (1997) 47

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[133] arXiv:astro-ph/9612133 [pdf, other]

Title: The Chemical Residue of a White Dwarf-Dominated Galactic Halo

Brad K. Gibson (MSSSO), Jeremy R. Mould (MSSSO)

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX, also available at this http URL, to appear in ApJ, Part I, 1997, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[134] arXiv:astro-ph/9612134 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of CO+ toward the reflection nebula NGC 7023

A. Fuente, J. Martin-Pintado (OAN, Spain)

Comments: 14 pages, 1 Postscript figure, uses this http URL. to appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[135] arXiv:astro-ph/9612135 [pdf, other]

Title: Scaling and Small Scale Structure in Cosmic String Networks

Graham R. Vincent (1), Mark Hindmarsh (1), Mairi Sakellariadou (2) ((1) Sussex University, (2) Universite de Geneve)

Comments: 22pp Plain LaTeX, 12 EPS figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D56:637-646,1997

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

[136] arXiv:astro-ph/9612136 [pdf, other]

Title: Five contributions to the 3rd ESO-VLT Workshop ``Galaxy Scaling Relations''

A. Cappi, L. Ciotti, B. Lanzoni, C. Maraston, S. Maurogordato, S. Pellegrini

Comments: 18 pages, plain LaTeX, plus 4 .ps figures plus 2 .eps figures and LaTeX-macros this http URL this http URL this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[137] arXiv:astro-ph/9612137 [pdf, other]

Title: Atomic hydrogen in the spiral galaxy NGC 3631

J.H. Knapen (U. Hertfordshire)

Comments: 12 pages, Latex. 10 postscript files included. Better quality versions of the figures available from this ftp URL . Accepted, MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[138] arXiv:astro-ph/9612138 [pdf, other]

Title: Inflation in the Postmodern Era

Edward W. Kolb

Comments: 21-page LaTeX file for proceedings of the Erice School ``Astrofundamental Physics.'' Four postscript figures, this http URL (i=1 to 4), included using epsf

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[139] arXiv:astro-ph/9612139 [pdf, other]

Title: Post-T Tauri stars: a false problem

F. Palla, D. Galli

Comments: 6 pages (LaTeX), no Figures to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[140] arXiv:astro-ph/9612140 [pdf, other]

Title: The UIT Survey of the Ultraviolet Sky Background

William H. Waller, Theodore P. Stecher, Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope Science Team

Comments: latex; 3 pages; uses style file this http URL; to be published in ``New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys,'' IAU Symposium 179, Barry Lasker, Marc Postman, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[141] arXiv:astro-ph/9612141 [pdf, other]

Title: Tilted Hybrid Inflation

Juan Garcia-Bellido, Andrei Linde

Comments: 4 pages, revtex, no figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B398:18-22,1997

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

[142] arXiv:astro-ph/9612142 [pdf, other]

Title: The 67 Hz Feature in the Black Hole Candidate GRS 1915+105 as a Possible ``Diskoseismic'' Mode

M.A. Nowak, R.V. Wagoner, M.C. Begelman, D.E. Lehr

Comments: 4 Pages, Latex (this http URL included), to Appear in ApJ Letters, Vol. 477, Final Version with Updated References

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[143] arXiv:astro-ph/9612143 [pdf, other]

Title: Hadron Physics and the Structure of Neutron Stars

Marek Kutschera

Comments: Talk given at the Meeting of Astrophysics Commission of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cracow, June 1996, TeX, 19 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[144] arXiv:astro-ph/9612144 [pdf, other]

Title: Signatures of Accretion Disks in Quasar Microlensing

Andrew Gould, Jordi Miralda-Escude

Comments: 11 pages plus 1 postscript figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[145] arXiv:astro-ph/9612145 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure of the Universe

H. J. Haubold (UN, Austria), A. M. Mathai (McGill University, Canada)

Comments: 52 Pages, LaTeX, (four tables included; copies of 10 color photographs may be requested by e-mail). Prepared for 'From Quantum Fluctuations to Cosmological Structures', Casablanca, Morocco, December 1996. To appear in Encyclopedia of Astronomy

Journal-ref: Encyclopedia of Applied Physics 23(1998)47-81

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[146] arXiv:astro-ph/9612146 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Microwave Background Observations: Implications for Hubble's Constant and the Spectral Parameters $\n$ and $Q$ in Cold Dark Matter Critical Density Universes

Charles H. Lineweaver, Domingos Barbosa (Observatoire de Strasbourg, France)

Comments: accepted for publication in Astro & Astrophysics, 11 pages, 9 figures, a more careful and digested, major rewrite of previous version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[147] arXiv:astro-ph/9612147 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic Mean Field calculations of nuclear properties in early stages of stellar collapse

F. K. Sutaria, J. A. Sheikh, A. Ray

Comments: 4 pages , Latex, 4 figures, uses this http URL. To appear in Nucl. Phys. A, proceedings of "Nuclei in the Cosmos 1996" 4th International Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics. e-mail contact: fks@dashoo.this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[148] arXiv:astro-ph/9612148 [pdf, other]

Title: SPH P3MG Simulations of the Lyman-alpha Forest

J. W. Wadsley, J. Richard Bond (CITA)

Comments: 9 pages, 4 Postscript figures, uses this http URL (included), to appear in "Computational Astrophysics", Proc. 12th Kingston Conference, Halifax, Oct. 1996, ed. D. Clarke & M. West (PASP), also available from anonymous ftp site: this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[149] arXiv:astro-ph/9612149 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for a New Class of Extreme UV Sources

Dan Maoz, Eran Ofek, Amotz Shemi (Tel-Aviv University)

Comments: 8 pages, incl. figures, MNRAS, accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[150] arXiv:astro-ph/9612150 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-Ray Bursts from Radio-Quiet Quasars

N. Schartel (ESA Madrid), H. Andernach (ESA Madrid + Univ. Guanajuato, Mexico), J. Greiner (MPE Garching)

Comments: accepted for publ. in A&A; 16 pages incl. 6 ps-figs.; LATEX with this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)