Astrophysics

Authors and titles for March 2000

[201] arXiv:astro-ph/0003201 [pdf, other]

Title: Pre-Supernova Evolution of Massive Stars

Nino Panagia, Giuseppe Bono

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, to appear in "The Largest Explosions Since the Big Bang: Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts," proceedings of the 1999 STScI May Symposium, eds. M. Livio, N. Panagia & K. Sahu

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[202] arXiv:astro-ph/0003202 [pdf, other]

Title: SN Ia Enrichment in Virgo Early-Type Galaxies from ROSAT and ASCA Observations

A. Finoguenov, C. Jones

Comments: 14 pages using emulateapj. ApJ 2000, accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[203] arXiv:astro-ph/0003203 [pdf, other]

Title: QSOs and Absorption Line Systems Surrounding the Hubble Deep Field

Daniel E. Vanden Berk (1 and 2), Chris Stoughton (1), Arlin P. S. Crotts (3), David Tytler (4), David Kirkman (4) ((1) Fermilab, (2) McDonald Observatory, (3) Columbia University, (4) UC San Diego)

Comments: 36 pages, including 9 figures and 8 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.J. 119 (2000) 2571-2582

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[204] arXiv:astro-ph/0003204 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud from 2MASS

Martin D. Weinberg, Sergei Nikolaev

Comments: 24 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.548:712-726,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[205] arXiv:astro-ph/0003205 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak Lensing by Large-Scale Structure: A Dark Matter Halo Approach

Asantha Cooray (University of Chicago), Wayne Hu (IAS, Princeton), Jordi Miralda-Escude (Ohio State University)

Comments: 4 ApJ pages, 3 figures; submitted to ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 535 (2000) L9-L12

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[206] arXiv:astro-ph/0003206 [pdf, other]

Title: 2dF QSO Redshift Survey

T.Shanks, B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, N. Loaring, L. Miller, R.J. Smith

Comments: 6 pages; to be published in Clustering at High Redshift, Marseille, June 1999, eds. A. Mazure, O. LeFevre, V. Lebrun

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[207] arXiv:astro-ph/0003207 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of new sources of methanol emission at 95 GHz with the Mopra telescope

I.E. Val'tts (1), S.P.Ellingsen (2), V.I. Slysh (1), S.V. Kalenskii (1), R.Otrupcek (3), G.M. Larinov (1) ((1) Astro Space Center, (2)University of Tasmania, (3)Australia Telescope National Facility)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 20 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 317 (2000) 315

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[208] arXiv:astro-ph/0003208 [pdf, other]

Title: Reanalyses of Voyager Ultraviolet Spectrometer Limits to the EUV and FUV Diffuse Astronomical Flux

Jerry Edelstein, Stuart Bowyer, Michael Lampton

Comments: To be published in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[209] arXiv:astro-ph/0003209 [pdf, other]

Title: A Very Fast and Momentum-Conserving Tree Code

Walter Dehnen (Heidelberg)

Comments: revised version (accepted by ApJ Letters), 5 pages LaTeX, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[210] arXiv:astro-ph/0003210 [pdf, other]

Title: Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in low mass X-ray binary sources and their relation with the neutron star magnetic field

Sergio Campana (Osservatorio astronomico di Brera)

Comments: 4 pages (emulateapj macro), 1 figure. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[211] arXiv:astro-ph/0003211 [pdf, other]

Title: The HII Region KR 140: Spontaneous Formation of a High Mass Star

D.R. Ballantyne (1,2), C. R. Kerton (1,3), P.G. Martin (1) ((1) CITA, Toronto (2) IoA, Cambridge (3) DRAO, Penticton)

Comments: 46 pages; includes 15 figures; accepted by the ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[212] arXiv:astro-ph/0003212 [pdf, other]

Title: Protostellar Collapse with Various Metallicities

Kazuyuki Omukai (Kyoto University)

Comments: 30 pages. The Astrophysical Journal, 533, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[213] arXiv:astro-ph/0003213 [pdf, other]

Title: A Direct Distance to the LMC Cepheid HV 12198 from the Infrared Surface Brightness Technique

W. P. Gieren, J. Storm, P. Fouque, R.E. Mennickent, M. Gomez

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[214] arXiv:astro-ph/0003214 [pdf, other]

Title: The Cosmic Ray - X-ray Connection: Effects of Nonlinear Shock Acceleration on Photon Production in SNRs

Donald C. Ellison

Comments: 7 pages including 4 figures; to appear in ``The Acceleration and Transport of Energetic Particles Observed in the Heliosphere,'' Proceedings of the ACE-2000 Symposium held on January 5 - 8, 2000, Indian Springs, CA

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[215] arXiv:astro-ph/0003215 [pdf, other]

Title: Persistent fluctuations and scaling properties in galaxy number counts

Francesco Sylos Labini, Andrea Gabrielli

Comments: 17 pages, latex, no figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[216] arXiv:astro-ph/0003216 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of Spatial and Spectral Structure in the X-Ray Emission from the Crab Nebula

Martin C. Weisskopf, J. Jeff Hester, Allyn F. Tennant, Ronald F. Elsner, Norbert S. Schulz, Herman L. Marshall, Margarita Karovska, Joy S. Nichols, Douglas A. Swartz, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Stephen L. O'Dell

Comments: 7 pages including 4 figures as accepted by Ap J Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[217] arXiv:astro-ph/0003217 [pdf, other]

Title: Another Faint UV Object Associated with a Globular Cluster X-Ray Source: The Case of M92

Francesco R. Ferraro (Bologna Observatory), Barbara Paltrinieri (University of Rome), Robert T. Rood (Virginia University), Flavio Fusi Pecci (Bologna Observatory), Roberto Buonanno (Rome Observatory)

Comments: 21 pages, 4 figures. Astrophysical journal in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[218] arXiv:astro-ph/0003218 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio and X-ray Signatures of Merging Neutron Stars

Brad M. S. Hansen (1,2), Maxim Lyutikov (1) ((1) Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, (2) Princeton University)

Comments: LaTeX, 9 pages plus 2 postscript figures. submitted to M.N.R.A.S

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 695

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[219] arXiv:astro-ph/0003219 [pdf, other]

Title: The Northern ROSAT All-Sky (NORAS) Galaxy Cluster Survey I: X-ray Properties of Clusters Detected as Extended X-ray Sources

H. Boehringer, W. Voges, J.P. Huchra, B. McLean, R. Giacconi, P. Rosati, R. Burg, J. Mader, P. Schuecker, D. Simic, S. Komossa, T.H. Reiprich, J. Retzlaff, J. Truemper

Comments: 61 pages; ApJS in press; fixed bug in table file; also available at (better image quality) this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl.129:435-474,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[220] arXiv:astro-ph/0003220 [pdf, other]

Title: A code for optically thick and hot photoionized media

A.-M. Dumont (DAEC, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, F.), A. Abrassart (DAEC, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon), S. Collin (DAEC, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Meudon)

Comments: 17 pages, 21 figures, in press in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[221] arXiv:astro-ph/0003221 [pdf, other]

Title: The reality of old moving groups - the case of HR 1614

Sofia Feltzing, Johan Holmberg (Lund Observatory)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the main journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[222] arXiv:astro-ph/0003222 [pdf, other]

Title: New evidence for the complex struscture of the RGB of Omega Cen

E. Pancino (1), F. R. Ferraro (1 and 2), M. Bellazzini (2), G. Piotto (3), M. Zoccali (3) ((1) European Southern Observatory, (2) Osservatorio di Bologna, (3) Universita' di Padova)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication as ApJ Letter

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.534:L83-L87,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[223] arXiv:astro-ph/0003223 [pdf, other]

Title: The Tip of the Red Giant Branch and Distance of the Magellanic Clouds: results from the DENIS survey

Maria-Rosa. L. Cioni, Roeland P. van der Marel, Cecile Loup, Harm J. Habing

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, revised version, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 359, 601-614, 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[224] arXiv:astro-ph/0003224 [pdf, other]

Title: The evolution of the stellar populations in low surface brightness galaxies

L.B. van den Hoek (1), W.J.G. de Blok (2), J.M. van der Hulst (3), T. de Jong (1,4). ((1) Astronomical Institute 'Anton Pannekoek' Amsterdam, Netherlands (2) Australia Telescope National Facility, Sydney, Australia (3) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute Groningen, The Netherlands (4) Space Research Organisation of the Netherlands Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Comments: To be published in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[225] arXiv:astro-ph/0003225 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mid-Infrared Spectra of Interacting Galaxies: From ISO to SIRTF

V. Charmandaris (1), O.Laurent (2), I.F. Mirabel (3), P. Gallais (3), J. Houck, (1) ((1)Cornell University, USA, (2) MPE, Germany, CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, Service d'Astrophysique, France)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of ``ISO beyond the Peaks'', Villafranca del Castillo, Spain 2-4 February 2000 (ESA SP-456, 2000). Higher resolution color images available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[226] arXiv:astro-ph/0003226 [pdf, other]

Title: IRS: the Infrared Spectrograph on SIRTF

J. Houck (1), J. van Cleve (1), B. Brandl (1), V. Charmandaris (1), D. Devost (1), K. Uchida (1) ((1) Cornell University, USA)

Comments: 3 pages, 7 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of ``ISO beyond the Peaks'', Villafranca del Castillo, Spain 2-4 February 2000 (ESA SP-456, 2000). Higher resolution color images available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 277 (2001) 97-97

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[227] arXiv:astro-ph/0003227 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Microwave Background at low frequencies

R. Subrahmanyan (ATNF, Australia)

Comments: 8 pages, includes 1 figure, to appear in The Universe at Low Radio Frequencies, IAU Symp. 199, Pune, India, Dec. 1999

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[228] arXiv:astro-ph/0003228 [pdf, other]

Title: How Stochastic is the Relative Bias Between Galaxy Types?

Michael Blanton

Comments: 38 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to Apj. Modified from a chapter of my Ph.D. Thesis at Princeton University, available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 544 (2000) 63-80

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[229] arXiv:astro-ph/0003229 [pdf, other]

Title: Nearly Coherent Oscillations in Type I X-Ray Bursts from KS 1731-260

Michael P. Muno, Derek W. Fox, Edward H. Morgan, Lars Bildsten

Comments: Version to be published in ApJ v542, Oct 20, 2000. Only minor changes. 24 pages including 8 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[230] arXiv:astro-ph/0003230 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-existence of radiation damping of gravitational motions

A. Loinger (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Milano, Italy)

Comments: 4 pages, PDF, submitted to Il Nuovo Cimento

Journal-ref: Nuovo Cim. B115 (2000) 679-682

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

[231] arXiv:astro-ph/0003231 [pdf, other]

Title: Topological defects: fossils of an anisotropic era?

P.P. Avelino (CAUP, Porto), C.J.A.P. Martins (DAMTP, CMS, Cambridge)

Comments: Fig.2 in jpg format (color version available for authors). Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 103510

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[232] arXiv:astro-ph/0003232 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Velocities 2000: A Review

Jeffrey A. Willick

Comments: 9 pages, uses this http URL (included), to appear in Proceedings of the XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond: Energy Densities in the Universe

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[233] arXiv:astro-ph/0003233 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational potential energy of simple bodies: the homogeneous bispherical concavo-convex lens

Zakir F. Seidov

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[234] arXiv:astro-ph/0003234 [pdf, other]

Title: Blue compact galaxies and the primordial 4Helium abundance

Trinh Xuan Thuan (1), Yuri I. Izotov (2) ((1) University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, (2) Main Astronomical Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine)

Comments: 12 pages, to appear in "The Light Elements and Their Evolution", IAU Symposium No. 198

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[235] arXiv:astro-ph/0003235 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonthermal Emission from a Supernova Remnant in a Molecular Cloud

A.M.Bykov (1), R.A.Chevalier (2), D.C.Ellison (3), Yu.A.Uvarov (1) ((1) <a href="http://A.F.Ioffe" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a> Institute, St. Petersburg, (2) University of Virginia, Charlottesville, (3) North Carolina State University, Raleigh)

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figure, Astrophysical Journal, v.538, 2000 (in press)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 538 (2000) 203-216

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[236] arXiv:astro-ph/0003236 [pdf, other]

Title: Searching for periodicities in the MACHO light curve of LMC X-2

C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, T. S. Axelrod, A. C. Becker, D. P. Bennett, P. A. Charles, K. H. Cook, A. J. Drake, K. C. Freeman, M. Geha, K. Griest, P. Groot, M. J. Lehner, S. L. Marshall, K. E. McGowan, D. Minniti, C. A. Nelson, B. A. Peterson, P. Popowski, M. R. Pratt, P. J. Quinn, W. Sutherland, A. B. Tomaney, T. Vandehei, J. van Paradijs

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures. Minor changes, including title. MNRAS, in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 316 (2000) 729

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[237] arXiv:astro-ph/0003237 [pdf, other]

Title: Erratum: ASCA Observations of the Absorption-Line Features from the Super-Luminal Jet Source GRS 1915+105

Taro Kotani, Ken Ebisawa, Tadayasu Dotani, Hajime Inoue, Fumiaki Nagase, Yasuo Tanaka, Yoshihiro Ueda

Comments: Erratum with 1 table and 1 figure submitted to ApJ. Original paper included

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 539 (2000) 413; Erratum-ibid. 651 (2006) 615-616

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[238] arXiv:astro-ph/0003238 [pdf, other]

Title: Knots in the outer shells of the planetary nebulae IC 2553 and NGC 5882

R.L.M. Corradi (1), D.R. Goncalves (2), E. Villaver (2), A. Mampaso (2), M. Perinotto (3) ((1) Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes - Spain, (2) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias - Spain, (3) Universita di Firenze - Italy)

Comments: 20 pages including 1 table and 6 figures. ApJ accepted. Also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: ApJ 542 (2000) 861-869

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[239] arXiv:astro-ph/0003239 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational potential energy of simple bodies: the method of negative density

Zakir F. Seidov

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[240] arXiv:astro-ph/0003240 [pdf, other]

Title: Cepheid variables in the LMC cluster NGC 1866. I. New BVRI CCD photometry

W.P. Gieren (1), M. Gomez (2), J. Storm (3), T.J. Moffett (4), L. Infante (2), T.G. Barnes III (5), D. Geisler (1), P. Fouque (6) ((1) Univ. de Concepcion, Chile, (2) P. Univ. Catholica de Chile, (3) Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany, (4) Purdue Univ., USA, (5) McDonald Observatory, USA, (6) Observatoire de Paris, France, and European Southern Observatory, Chile)

Comments: To appear in ApJ Supp., AASTeX, 24 pages, 8 tables, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl. 129 (2000) 111-122

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[241] arXiv:astro-ph/0003241 [pdf, other]

Title: A 695-Hz quasi-periodic oscillation in the low-mass X-ray binary EXO 0748-676

Jeroen Homan, Michiel van der Klis (University of Amsterdam)

Comments: 6 pages, accepted for publication in Part 1 of The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[242] arXiv:astro-ph/0003242 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernovae versus Neutron Star Mergers as the Major r-Process Sources

Y.-Z. Qian (UMN)

Comments: 5 pages, to appear in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 534 (2000) L67-L70

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[243] arXiv:astro-ph/0003243 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Disappearance of Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations at a High Mass Accretion Rate in Low-Mass X-ray Binaries

Wei Cui (MIT)

Comments: Minor revisions to match the published version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[244] arXiv:astro-ph/0003244 [pdf, other]

Title: Lower Limit on Radius as a Function of Mass for Neutron Stars

Norman K. Glendenning

Comments: Latex, 7 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 85 (2000) 1150

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

[245] arXiv:astro-ph/0003245 [pdf, other]

Title: HI Bright Galaxies in the Southern Zone of Avoidance

P. A. Henning, L. Staveley-Smith, R. D. Ekers, A. J. Green, R. F. Haynes, S. Juraszek, M. J. Kesteven, B. Koribalski, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg, R. M. Price, E. M. Sadler, A. Schroeder

Comments: To appear in The Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[246] arXiv:astro-ph/0003246 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytic Light-Curves of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows: Homogeneous versus Wind External Media

A. Panaitescu, P. Kumar

Comments: 11 pages, to be published in the ApJ, vol 543

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[247] arXiv:astro-ph/0003247 [pdf, other]

Title: UV Light Curves of Thermonuclear Supernovae

S.I.Blinnikov (ITEP,Moscow; MPA,Garching; ILE,Osaka)E.I.Sorokina (SAI, Moscow)

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures, this http URL LaTeX, accepted by this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron. Astrophys. v. 356, p. L30-L32 (2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[248] arXiv:astro-ph/0003248 [pdf, other]

Title: The line of sight velocity distributions of simulated merger remnants

George J. Bendo, Joshua E. Barnes

Comments: 11 pages, 14 figures; LaTeX source + postscript figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS on February 23, 2000. For a version with high-resolution figures, formatted for 8.5x11 paper, see this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 316 (2000) 315

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[249] arXiv:astro-ph/0003249 [pdf, other]

Title: The MONS Star Trackers

Timothy R. Bedding, Hans Kjeldsen

Comments: 4 pages, LaTeX, 4 Postscript figures. To appear in Proceedings of the Third MONS Workshop: Science Preparation and Target Selection, edited by T.C.V.S. Teixeira and T.R. Bedding (Aarhus: Aarhus Universitet)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[250] arXiv:astro-ph/0003250 [pdf, other]

Title: Prospects for observing pulsating red giants with the MONS Star Trackers

Timothy R. Bedding

Comments: 5 pages, LaTeX, 2 Postscript figures. To appear in Proceedings of the Third MONS Workshop: Science Preparation and Target Selection, edited by T.C.V.S. Teixeira and T.R. Bedding (Aarhus: Aarhus Universitet)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)