Astrophysics

Authors and titles for March 2000

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/0003001 [pdf, other]

Title: The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation

Stacy McGaugh (<a href="http://U.Maryland" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>), Jim Schombert, Greg Bothun (U. Oregon), Erwin de Blok (ATNF)

Comments: 10 pages including 1 color figure. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 533 (2000) L99-L102

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/0003002 [pdf, other]

Title: RBSC-NVSS Sample. I. Radio and Optical Identifications of a Complete Sample of 1500 Bright X-ray Sources

F. E. Bauer (1) (2), J. J. Condon (1), T. X. Thuan (2), J. J. Broderick (3) ((1) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (2) University of Virginia, (3) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Comments: 35 LaTeX pages including 6 eps figures + 40 LaTeX page table2 (landscape) w/ AASTeX 5.0; accepted to ApJS

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl. 129 (2000) 547-562

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/0003003 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactic Globular Clusters as a test for Very Low-Mass stellar models

S. Cassisi, V. Castellani, P. Ciarcelluti, G. Piotto, M. Zoccali

Comments: accepted for pubblication on MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 315 (2000) 679

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/0003004 [pdf, other]

Title: On the helium content of Galactic globular clusters via the R parameter

M. Zoccali, S. Cassisi, G. Bono, G. Piotto, R. M. Rich, S. G. Djorgovski

Comments: accepted for pubblication on ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/0003005 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of galaxy mergers on the faint IRAS source counts and the background

Yiping Wang (1,2,3,4), Peter L. Biermann (3) ((1) Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China, (2) National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (3) Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, (4) Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/0003006 [pdf, other]

Title: Bulges

M. Molla (1), F. Ferrini (2), G. Gozzi (2) ((1) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), (2) Universita di Pisa (Italy))

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures, to be published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 316 (2000) 345

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/0003007 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of Balmer Profiles of early type stars

Mercedes Molla (1), Angeles I. Diaz (1), Mar Alvarez Alvarez (1), Rosa Gonzalez Delgado (2) ((1) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), (2) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (Spain))

Comments: 1 pag, Contribution to the conference "Cosmic Evolution and Galaxy Formation: Structure, Interactions and Feedback", Nov. 1999 (Puebla, Mexico), to be published in ASP. Conf. Series, Eds. J. Franco, E. Terlevich. O. Lopez-Cruz, I. Aretxaga

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/0003008 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of Weak Gravitational Lensing by Large-scale Structure

David Bacon (1), Alexandre Refregier (1), Richard Ellis (1,2) ((1) IoA, Cambridge, (2) Caltech)

Comments: 17 LaTex pages, including 13 figures and 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS, minor revision

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.318:625,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/0003009 [pdf, other]

Title: Design Considerations for Large Detector Arrays on Submillimeter-wave Telescopes

Antony A. Stark

Comments: in proceedings "Radio Telescopes" SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 30 March 2000, Munich. SPIE code 4015-46. 12 pages 4 figures Revised to fix typos, figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/0003010 [pdf, other]

Title: Lithium and rotation on the subgiant branch II. Theoretical analysis of observations

J. D. do Nascimento Jr (1, 4), C. Charbonnel (1)A. Lebre (2), P. de Laverny (3), J.R. De Medeiros (4)

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/0003011 [pdf, other]

Title: The rate of cosmic ray showers at large zenith angles: a step towards the detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos by the Pierre Auger Observatory

M. Ave (1), J.A. Hinton (2), R.A. Vazquez (1), A.A. Watson (2), E. Zas (1) ((1) Universidad de Santiago, (2) University of Leeds)

Comments: 22 pages, 12 figures, to appear in Astroparticle Physics

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 14 (2000) 109-120

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/0003012 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar Populations in the Large Magellanic Cloud from 2MASS

Sergei Nikolaev, Martin D. Weinberg (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Comments: 32 pages including 11 figures and 3 tables. Submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 542 (2000) 804-818

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/0003013 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mystery of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

A. V. Olinto (Univ. of Chicago)

Comments: LaTeX, 9 pages, Proceedings of the International Summer School on Experimental Physics of Gravitational Waves, Urbino, Italy, September 1999

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/0003014 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of weak gravitational lensing distortions of distant galaxies by cosmic dark matter at large scales

David M. Wittman, J. Anthony Tyson, David Kirkman, Ian Dell'Antonio, Gary Bernstein

Comments: 18 pages, 5 figures: To appear in Nature. (This replacement fixes tex errors and typos.)

Journal-ref: Nature 405 (2000) 143-149

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/0003015 [pdf, other]

Title: How to Identify Pre-Protostellar Cores

Erik M. Gregersen (McMaster), Neal J. Evans II (University of Texas at Austin)

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/0003016 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion Rates onto Massive Black Holes in Four Quiescent Elliptical Galaxies

J.M. Wrobel, J.R. Herrnstein

Comments: with 1 figure, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/0003017 [pdf, other]

Title: Slim Disk Model for Soft X-Ray Excess and Variability of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Shin Mineshige (1), Toshihiro Kawaguchi (1,2), Mitsuru Takeuchi (2,3), Kiyoshi Hayashida (4) ((1)Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University (2)Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (3)Astronomical Institute, Osaka-Kyoiku University (4)Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Osaka University)

Comments: 9 pages LaTeX including 4 figures, accepted to PASJ. e-mail to minesige@kusastro.this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/0003018 [pdf, other]

Title: Repulsive Dark Matter

Jeremy Goodman

Comments: 8 pages, no figures. Uses aastex502

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/0003019 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-loud quasars: a view with BeppoSAX

F. Tavecchio, L. Maraschi, G. Ghisellini, A. Celotti, L. Chiappetti, A. Comastri, G. Fossati, P. Grandi, F. Haardt, E. Pian, G. Tagliaferri, A. Treves, C.M.Raiteri, R. Sambruna, M. Villata

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "X-Ray Astronomy '99", Bologna, Italy, September 1999

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/0003020 [pdf, other]

Title: Ambiguities in fits to the complex X-ray spectra of starburst galaxies

M. Dahlem (1), A.N. Parmar (1), T. Oosterbroek (1), A. Orr (1), K.A. Weaver (2), T.M. Heckman (3) ((1) ESA/ESTEC, (2) NASA/GSFC, (3) John Hopkins U.)

Comments: 6 pages. To appear in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/0003021 [pdf, other]

Title: Synchrotron and Compton Components and their Variability in BL Lac Objects

P.Giommi, G. Ghisellini, P. Padovani, G. Tagliaferri

Comments: 4 pages, TeX plus 3 figures. Proceedings of the conference "X-ray Astronomy 1999", September 6-10,1999, Bologna

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/0003022 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of lithium in solar-type stars: clues from intermediate age clusters

S. Randich (Osservatorio di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy), L. Pasquini (ESO, Garching, Germany), R. Pallavicini (Osservatorio di Palermo, Palermo, Italy)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/0003023 [pdf, other]

Title: ROSAT HRI monitoring of X-ray variability in the NLS1 galaxy PKS 0558-504

M. Gliozzi (1), Th. Boller (1), W. Brinkmann (1), W.N. Brandt (2) ((1) MPE Garching, (2) Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/0003024 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic field strength from peaked synchrotron spectra

Christian Hettlage, Karl Mannheim

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/0003025 [pdf, other]

Title: The jet-disk symbiosis model for Gamma Ray Bursts: cosmic ray and neutrino background contribution

G. Pugliese (1), H. Falcke (1), Y. Wang (2,3), P. L. Biermann (1,4) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, (2) Purple Mountain Observatory, Academica Sinica, Nanjing, China, (3) National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (4) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bonn, Germany)

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures, Astron. Astrophys. 358, 409-416 (2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/0003026 [pdf, other]

Title: Bimodal production of Be and B in the early Galaxy

E. Parizot, L. Drury (Dublin Institute for Advances Studies)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figs, A&A Letters (accepted)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/0003027 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial black holes and gravitational memory

B.J.Carr, C.A.Goymer

Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures available from author, to appear in Proceedings of "Black Holes and Gravitational Waves" (Kyoto 1999)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/0003028 [pdf, other]

Title: On the tilting of protostellar disks by resonant tidal effects

S. H. Lubow (1), G. I. Ogilvie (1,2) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik)

Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/0003029 [pdf, other]

Title: A correction to the pp reaction

Robert L. Kurucz (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Comments: 2 pages; revised with five additional sentences at end

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/0003030 [pdf, other]

Title: RXTE observation of NGC 6240: a search for the obscured active nucleus

Yasushi Ikebe, Karen Leighly, Yasuo Tanaka, Takao Nakagawa, Yuichi Terashima, Stefanie Komossa

Comments: To appear in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 316 (2000) 433

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/0003031 [pdf, other]

Title: ISO Spectroscopy of the HH 7-11 Flow and its red-shifted Counterpart

S. Molinari, A. Noriega-Crespo, C. Ceccarelli, B. Nisini, T. Giannini, D. Lorenzetti, E. Caux, R. Liseau, P. Saraceno, G. J. White

Comments: 16 pages, Fig. 1 is in color, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/0003032 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-detection of a pulsar-powered nebula in Puppis A, and implications for the nature of the radio-quiet neutron star RX J0822-4300

Bryan Gaensler (1), Douglas Bock (2), Ben Stappers (3) ((1) MIT, (2) UC Berkeley, (3) U Amsterdam)

Comments: 5 pages, including 2 embedded EPS figures, uses this http URL. Accepted to ApJ Letters (minor changes made following referee's report)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/0003033 [pdf, other]

Title: An Effective Temperature Scale for Late M and L Dwarfs, from Resonance Absorption Lines of CsI and RbI

Gibor Basri, Subhanjoy Mohanty, France Allard, Peter H. Hauschildt, Xavier Delfosse, Eduardo L. Martin, Thierry Forveille, Bertrand Goldman

Comments: 53 pages, including 20 figures and 2 Tables; accepted in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.538:363-385,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/0003034 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Linear Effects on the Angular Correlation Function

R. Scranton, S. Dodelson

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/0003035 [pdf, other]

Title: J-Band Infrared Spectroscopy of a Sample of Brown Dwarfs Using Nirspec on Keck II

Ian S. McLean, Mavourneen K. Wilcox, E. E. Becklin, Donald F. Figer, Andrea M. Gilbert, James R. Graham, James E. Larkin, N. A. Levenson, Harry I. Teplitz, J. Davy Kirkpatrick

Comments: New paper, Latex format, 2 figures, accepted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/0003036 [pdf, other]

Title: A simple, stringent test on the nature of GRBs' progenitors

Mario Vietri

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics. Standard LateX + 1 EPS figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/0003037 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of CO in the inner part of M31's bulge

A.-L. Melchior, F. Viallefond, M. Guelin, N. Neininger

Comments: 5 pages including 4 figures (2 in colour)

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 312 (2000) L29

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/0003038 [pdf, other]

Title: CMB B-polarization to map the Large-scale Structures of the Universe

K. Benabed (SPhT), F. Bernardeau (SPhT), L. van Waerbeke (CITA)

Comments: Latex2e with REVTEX ; 14 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 043501

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/0003039 [pdf, other]

Title: The ROSAT Bright Survey: II. Catalogue of all high-galactic latitude RASS sources with PSPC countrate CR > 0.2 s-1

A.D. Schwope, G. Hasinger, I. Lehmann, R. Schwarz, H. Brunner, S. Neizvestny, A. Ugryumov, Yu. Balega, J. Truemper, W. Voges

Comments: Also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Nachr.321:1-52,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/0003040 [pdf, other]

Title: How flat is the Universe?

Matts Roos, S. M. Harun-or-Rashid

Comments: 11 Pages, 1 Figure, LaTeX2e

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

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/0003041 [pdf, other]

Title: Pixel and Micro-lensing with NGST

S. Bensammar, A.-L. Melchior

Comments: 5 pages -- presented at the NGST Science and Technology Exposition (Hyannis, USA) 13-16 september 1999, published by the PASP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/0003042 [pdf, other]

Title: Low Frequency Radio Emission of Pulsar PSR J1907+0919 Associated with the Magnetar SGR 1900+14

Yu. P. Shitov, V. D. Pugachev, S. M. Kutuzov

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, this http URL, to be published in Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond, ASP Conference Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/0003043 [pdf, other]

Title: Jets from compact objects

H.C. Spruit

Comments: To appear in Highly Energetic Physical Processes .... (IAU Symp 195) P. C. H. Martens and S. Tsuruta, eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/0003044 [pdf, other]

Title: Theory of solar luminosity variations

H.C. Spruit

Comments: To appear in Advances in solar research at eclipses ... (NATO ASI Bucarest 1999), eds. J.-P. Zahn and M. Stavinschi

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/0003045 [pdf, other]

Title: A High-Eccentricity Low-Mass Companion to HD 89744

S.G. Korzennik, T.M. Brown, D.A. Fischer, P. Nisenson, R.W. Noyes

Comments: AASTEX-LateX v5.0, 7 pages w/ 3 figures, to be published in ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/0003046 [pdf, other]

Title: Self-interacting Warm Dark Matter

Steen Hannestad, Robert J. Scherrer

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, version accepted for publication in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 043522

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

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/0003047 [pdf, other]

Title: Star formation properties of UCM galaxies

A. Gil de Paz (1), A. Aragon-Salamanca (2), J. Gallego (1), A. Alonso-Herrero (3), J. Zamorano (1), G. Kauffmann (4) ((1) <a href="http://Dept.Astrofisica" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>, UCM, (2) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, (3) Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, (4) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik)

Comments: 19 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, also available at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 316 (2000) 357

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/0003048 [pdf, other]

Title: WR146 - observing the OB-type companion

Sean M. Dougherty (1 and 2), P.M. Williams (3), D.L. Pollacco (4) ((1)Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, (2)DRAO, Herzberg Institue for Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, (3) Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, (4) Queens University Belfast)

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, this ftp URL To be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 316 (2000) 143

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/0003049 [pdf, other]

Title: A limit for the mass transfer rate in soft X-ray transients

E. Meyer-Hofmeister, F. Meyer

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/0003050 [pdf, other]

Title: Systematic uncertainties in gravitational lensing models: a semi-analytical study of PG1115+080

HongSheng Zhao, Danny Pronk (Leiden Observatory)

Comments: Some small corrections and clarifications added. 20 pages, 11 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2001) 401

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)