Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 2000

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/0001001 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistics of Turbulence from Spectral-Line Data Cubes

A. Lazarian

Comments: 21 pages, 1 figure, review for "Plasma Turbulence and Energetic Particles in Astrophysics", eds.M. Ostrowski & R. Schlickeiser, Cracow (1999)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/0001002 [pdf, other]

Title: On the inverse Compton scattering model of radio pulsars

G.J. Qiao, R.X. Xu, J.F. Liu, J.L. Han, B. Zhang (CAS-PKU BAC & Astronomy Department, PKU)

Comments: 5 pages, no figures, LaTeX, a proceeding paper for Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Aug. 1999, HongKong, China

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/0001003 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark Halo and Disk Galaxy Scaling Laws in Hierarchical Universes

Julio F. Navarro (University of Victoria), Matthias Steinmetz (University of Arizona)

Comments: submitted to The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.538:477-488,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/0001004 [pdf, other]

Title: Theory of the Interaction of Planetary Nebulae with the Interstellar Medium

Ruth Dgani

Comments: To appear in ``Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae II: from Origins to Microstructures, '' ASP Conference Series, Vol. 199, 2000; J.H. Kastner, N. Soker & S.A. Rappaport, eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/0001005 [pdf, other]

Title: Restrictions on parameters of power-law magnetic field decay for accreting isolated neutron stars

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

Comments: 8 pages including 3 PostScript figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/0001006 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Clustering of GRBs on the Sky

Shiv K. Sethi, S. G. Bhargavi, Jochen Greiner

Comments: 5 pages, Latex with this http URL, incl. 1 ps-Fig., Proc. of the 5th Huntsville Gamma Ray Burst Symposium, Oct. 1999, ed. R.M. Kippen, AIP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/0001007 [pdf, other]

Title: Wide Field CCD Surface Photometry of the Giant Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4472 in the Virgo Cluster

Eunhyeuk Kim (1), Myung Gyoon Lee, (1), Doug Geisler (2) ((1) Seoul National University, Korea (2) Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)

Comments: 8 pages(mnrasLaTeX), 8 Postscript figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/0001008 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-Ray Bursts in the 1990's - a Multi-wavelengths Scientific Adventure

Sylvio Klose

Comments: 22 pages, Latex; added references for section 2.1

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/0001009 [pdf, other]

Title: The Nature of Ultra-Luminous Compact X-Ray Sources in Nearby Spiral Galaxies

Kazuo Makishima (1), Aya Kubota (1), Tsunefumi Mizuno (1), Tomohisa Ohnishi (1), Makoto Tashiro (1), Yoichi Aruga (2), Kazumi Asai (2), Tadayasu Dotani (2), Kazuhisa Mitsuda (2), Yoshihiro Ueda (2), Shin'ichiro Uno (2), Kazutaka Yamaoka (2), Ken Ebisawa (3), Yoshiki Kohmura (4), Kyoko Okada (4) ((1)University of Tokyo, (2) Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, (3)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, (4)Harima Institute)

Comments: submitted to ApJ, December 1999

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.535:632,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/0001010 [pdf, other]

Title: Feedback Processes in the Early Universe

A. Ferrara, B. Ciardi, S. Marri, P. Todini

Comments: 8 pages, this http URL, LaTeX, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Invited Review at the 33rd ESLAB Symp. "Star Formation from the Small to the Large Scale", ed. F. Favata et al

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/0001011 [pdf, other]

Title: What can BeppoSAX tell us about short GRBs: An update from the Subsecond GRB Project

G. Gandolfi, M. Feroci, E. Costa, L. Piro (IAS/CNR), M.J.S. Smith, J.M. Muller (SRON), A. Coletta, G. Celidonio, L. Di Ciolo, A. Paolino, G. Tarei, G. Tassone (TELESPAZIO), F. Frontera (ITESRE/CNR)

Comments: Proc. 5th Huntsville GRB Symposium

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/0001012 [pdf, other]

Title: Observed Properties of Mass Loss in Symbiotic Binaries

Joanna Mikolajewska

Comments: To appear in ``Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae II: from Origins to Microstructures'', ASP Conference Series, Vol. 199, 2000; J.H. Kastner, N. Soker, & S.A. Rappaport, eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/0001013 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of Millisecond Pulsars with Heavy White Dwarf Companions - Extreme Mass Transfer on Sub-Thermal Timescales

T.M. Tauris, E.P.J. van den Heuvel, G.J. Savonije

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/0001014 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin-Orbit Couplings in X-ray Binaries

T.M. Tauris, G.J. Savonije

Comments: 6 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the NATO ASI "The Neutron Star - Black Hole Connection"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/0001015 [pdf, other]

Title: New Direct Observational Evidence for Kicks in SNe

T.M. Tauris, E.P.J. van den Heuvel

Comments: 2 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the IAU Colloq. 177 "Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and beyond"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/0001016 [pdf, other]

Title: The Space Density of Primordial Gas Clouds near Galaxies and Groups and their Relation to Galactic HVCs

M. A. Zwaan, F. H. Briggs (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL. 7 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/0001017 [pdf, other]

Title: H2 emission from CRL 618

F. Herpin (Dept. Fisica Molecular, IEM, CSIC, Madrid, Spain), J.Cernicharo (same address), A. Heras (Space Science Dept. of ESA, ESTEC, Netherlands)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, proceeding of the "H2 in Space" conference, Paris, September 1999

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/0001018 [pdf, other]

Title: Do AGB Stars Differ Chemically from RGB Stars in Globular Clusters?

Christopher Sneden (1), Inese I. Ivans (1), Robert P. Kraft (2) ((1) McDonald Observatory and Univ. of Texas at Austin (2) UCO/Lick Observatory and Univ. of California at Santa Cruz)

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures (this http URL, this http URL) to appear in Workshop Proceedings of "The Changes in Abundances in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars", held in Monteporzio Catone (Italy), September 1999, to be published by this http URL., eds. F. D'Antona and R. Gallino

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/0001019 [pdf, other]

Title: The Ulysses Supplement to the GRANAT/WATCH Catalog of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts

K. Hurley, N. Lund, S. Brandt, C. Barat, T. Cline, R. Sunyaev, O. Terekhov, A. Kuznetsov, S. Sazonov, A. Castro-Tirado

Comments: 26 pages, plus 25 gif figures; submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplements

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl. 128 (2000) 549-560

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/0001020 [pdf, other]

Title: HST/WFPC2 observations of the core of KjPn 8

J.A. Lopez, J. Meaburn, L.F. Rodriguez, R. Vazquez, W. Steffen, M. Bryce

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear in ``Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae II: from Origins to Microstructures'' ASP Conference Series, Vol. 199, 2000; J.H. Kastner, N. Soker and S.A. Rappaport, eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/0001021 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing envelope models of young stellar objects with submillimeter continuum and molecular-line observation

Michiel R. Hogerheijde (1), Goeran Sandell (2) ((1) Radio Astronomy Laboratory, Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley; (2) NRAO Greenbank)

Comments: 35 pages incl. 9 figures. Uses AAS LaTeX v5.0 and psfig

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/0001022 [pdf, other]

Title: A multipole-Taylor expansion for the potential of gravitational lens MG J0414+0534

Catherine S. Trotter, Joshua N. Winn, Jacqueline N. Hewitt (MIT)

Comments: 44 pages, 5 figures, 11 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/0001023 [pdf, other]

Title: Studies of Low-Mass Star Formation with ALMA

Neal J. Evans II

Comments: 10 pg., 4 figs

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/0001024 [pdf, other]

Title: Physical Conditions, Grain Temperatures, and Enhanced Very Small Grains in the Barnard Loop

Carl Heiles, L.M. Haffner, R.J. Reynolds, S.L. Tufte

Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/0001025 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonant capture, counter-rotating disks, and polar rings

Scott Tremaine, Qingjuan Yu (Princeton University Observatory)

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, Latex. Submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 319 (2000) 1

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/0001026 [pdf, other]

Title: The Central X-Ray Point Source in Cassiopeia A

Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT), Michael J. Pivovaroff (MIT), Lars E. Hernquist (CfA), Jeremy S. Heyl (CfA/Caltech), Ramesh Narayan (CfA)

Comments: 17 pages including 2 figs. To appear in ApJ, Vol. 546 (Jan 10, 2001). Minor revisions per referee. Pulsation limits revised in light of HRC wiring problem. Typos corrected

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/0001027 [pdf, other]

Title: Is Thermal Instability Significant in Turbulent Galactic Gas?

Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni, Adriana Gazol (Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM), John Scalo (U. of Texas)

Comments: 18 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/0001028 [pdf, other]

Title: The variability analysis of PKS 2155-304

J.H. Fan (CfA, Gnu, <a href="http://Cas-Pku.Bac" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>), R.G. Lin (CfA, Gnu)

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, A&A (accepted)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/0001029 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-term Variability Properties and Periodicity Analysis for Blazars

J.H. Fan (CfA, Gnu, <a href="http://Cas-Pku.Bac" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>)

Comments: 10 pages, 2 table, no figure, a proceeding paper for Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Aug. 1999, HongKong, China

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/0001030 [pdf, other]

Title: A Hard Medium Survey with ASCA. III.: a Type 2 AGN revealed from X-ray Spectroscopy

R. Della Ceca, T. Maccacaro, P. Rosati, V. Braito

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, Latex manuscript, Accepted for publication in the Astronomy and Astrophysics - Main Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/0001031 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiple Outflows in AFGL 2688

Robert Lucas (1), Pierre Cox (2), Patrick J. Huggins (3) ((1) Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimetrique, (2) Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, (3) Physics Department, New York University)

Comments: To appear in ``Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae II: from Origins to Microstructures,'' ASP Conference Series, Vol. 199, 2000; J.H. Kastner, N. Soker, & S.A. Rappaport, eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/0001032 [pdf, other]

Title: Limits on the Spatial Extent of AGN Measured with the Fine Guidance Sensors of the HST

Richard N. Hook, Ethan J. Schreier, George Miley

Comments: 33 pages, 24 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/0001033 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio emission of the Galactic X-rays binaries with relativistic jets

S.A. Trushkin (SAO RAS, Russia)

Comments: 10 pages, LaTeX, 14 Postscript figures, talk given at the Gamov Memorial International Conference (GMIC'99) "Early Universe: Cosmological Problems and Instrumental Technologies" in this http URL, 23-27 August, 1999, to appear in Astron. Astrophys. Trans., 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/0001034 [pdf, other]

Title: First Light Measurements of Capella with the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer aboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory

A. C. Brinkman, C. J. T. Gunsing, J. S. Kaastra, R. L. J. van der Meer, R. Mewe, F. Paerels, A. J. J. Raassen, J. J. van Rooijen (SRON), H. Bräuninger, W. Burkert, V. Burwitz, G. Hartner, P. Predehl (MPE), J.-U. Ness, J. H. M. M. Schmitt (Uni Hamburg), J. J. Drake, O. Johnson, M. Juda, V. Kashyap, S. S. Murray, D. Pease, P. Ratzlaff, B. J. Wargelin (Harvard-CFA)

Comments: 4 pages (ApJ letter LaTeX), 2 PostScript figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters, 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/0001035 [pdf, other]

Title: O-bearing Molecules in Carbon-rich Proto-Planetary Objects

F. Herpin (Dept Fisica Molecular, I.E.M., C.S.I.C., Madrid, Spain), J. Cernicharo (same address)

Comments: 16 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Astrophys. Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/0001036 [pdf, other]

Title: On Luminosity and morphology segregation in the Southern Sky Redshift Survey 2

Claus Beisbart, Martin Kerscher (University of Munich)

Comments: O pages, superceeded by arXiv:astro-ph/0003358

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/0001037 [pdf, other]

Title: The BeppoSAX High Energy Large Area Survey (HELLAS): a progress Report

A. Comastri, F. Fiore, C. Vignali, F. La Franca, G. Matt

Comments: Invited talk, to appear in the Proceedings of the Conference: ``Large Scale Structure in the X-ray Universe" Santorini, Greece, 20-22 September 1999, 8 pages, 4 figures. Added references

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/0001038 [pdf, other]

Title: Morphological evolution of X-ray clusters using hydrodynamical simulations

R.Valdarnini, S. Ghizzardi, S. Bonometto

Comments: 4 pages, To appear in "LSS in the X-ray Universe", Santorini 20-22 September 1999

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/0001039 [pdf, other]

Title: Antikaon condensation in neutron stars

Subrata Pal, Debades Bandyopadhyay, Walter Greiner

Comments: 34 pages;13 figs;Revtex; change of title; a figure added; version to appear in Nucl. Phys. A

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys. A674 (2000) 553-577

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

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/0001040 [pdf, other]

Title: Updated Information on the Local Group

Sidney van den Bergh (DAO/HIA/NRC)

Comments: 19 pages, 1 figure, to be published in the April 2000 issue of PASP

Journal-ref: Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.112:529-536,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/0001041 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for a low-density Universe from the relative velocities of galaxies

R. Juszkiewicz, P.G. Ferreira, H.A. Feldman, A.H. Jaffe, M. Davis

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Jan.7 issue of ``Science''; In the original version, the title appeared twice. This problem has now been corrected. No other changes were made

Journal-ref: Science 287 (2000) 109-112

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/0001042 [pdf, other]

Title: Eccentric Stellar Discs with Strong Density Cusps and Separable Potentials

M. A. Jalali, A. R. Rafiee

Comments: 5 pages, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/0001043 [pdf, other]

Title: Photometric Properties of 47 Clusters of Galaxies: I. The Butcher-Oemler Effect

V. E. Margoniner, R. R. de Carvalho

Comments: 35 pages including 8 figures, submitted to AJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/0001044 [pdf, other]

Title: Interferometric 12CO Observations of the Central Disk of NGC 4631: An Energetic Molecular Outflow

Richard J. Rand

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. LaTex manuscript 12 pages, 7 ps files of figures. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/0001045 [pdf, other]

Title: The Second Peak: The Dark-Energy Density and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Marc Kamionkowski, Ari Buchalter

Comments: 4 pages, 3 PostScript figures

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

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/0001046 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Thermal Emission from Relativistic Electrons in Clusters of Galaxies: A Merger Shock Acceleration Model

Motokazu Takizawa (Univ. of Tokyo), Tsuguya Naito (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.)

Comments: 19 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/0001047 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for TeV gamma-ray emission from the shell type SNR RXJ1713.7-3946

H. Muraishi, T. Tanimori, S. Yanagita, T. Yoshida, M. Moriya, T. Kifune, S. A. Dazeley, P. G. Edwards, S. Gunji, S. Hara, T. Hara, A. Kawachi, H. Kubo, Y. Matsubara, Y. Mizumoto, M. Mori, Y. Muraki, T. Naito, K. Nishijima, J. R. Patterson, G. P. Rowell, T. Sako, K. Sakurazawa, R. Susukita, T. Tamura, T. Yoshikoshi

Comments: Accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics (5 pages, 2 figures)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/0001048 [pdf, other]

Title: The 24-Hour Night Shift: Astronomy from Microlensing Monitoring Networks

Penny D. Sackett

Comments: Invited Targeted Talk at ``Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals,'' 28 July 1999, Boston. To appear in the ASP Conference Series, eds. T.G. Brainerd and C.S. Kochanek. 8 postscript pages, LaTex requires this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/0001049 [pdf, other]

Title: The Rise Times of High and Low Redshift Type Ia Supernovae are Consistent

Greg Aldering, Robert Knop, Peter Nugent

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. Also available at this http URL Typos were corrected and a few sentences were added for improved clarity

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/0001050 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-infrared emission-line galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North

F. Iwamuro, K. Motohara, T. Maihara, J. Iwai, H. Tanabe, T. Taguchi, R. Hata, H. Terada, M. Goto, S. Oya, M. Iye, M. Yoshida, H. Karoji, R. Ogasawara, K. Sekiguchi

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in PASJ(2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)