Astrophysics

Authors and titles for September 2000

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/0009001 [pdf, other]

Title: The Origin of a Chemically Enriched lya Absorption System at z=0.167

Hsiao-Wen Chen, Jason X. Prochaska (Carnegie Observatories)

Comments: 18 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in the ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/0009002 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnification relations in gravitational lensing via multidimensional residue integrals

Neal Dalal, Jeffrey M. Rabin

Comments: 16 pages, uses revtex4, submitted to Journal of Mathematical Physics

Journal-ref: J.Math.Phys. 42 (2001) 1818-1836

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/0009003 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Thermal Production of WIMPs and the Sub-Galactic Structure of the Universe

W.B. Lin, D.H. Huang, X. Zhang, R. Brandenberger

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures; typo corrected; to appear in PRL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 86 (2001) 954

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

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/0009004 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamical Accretion Flows into Black Holes

Mami Machida (1), Ryoji Matsumoto (1)and Shin Mineshige (2) ((1) Chiba University, (2) Kyoto University)

Comments: 4pages, 2 figures. Submitted to PASJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/0009005 [pdf, other]

Title: On the variation of the Initial Mass Function

Pavel Kroupa (Kiel)

Comments: MNRAS, in press; 34 pages, 14 figures (figs.1 and 14 in colour); this http URL: adjustments for consistency with published version

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.322:231,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/0009006 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining cosmological parameters with the clustering properties of galaxy clusters in optical and X-ray bands

Lauro Moscardini, Sabino Matarrese, H.J. Mo

Comments: 15 pages, Latex using MN style. Revised version accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 327 (2001) 422

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/0009007 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature and Heavy Element Abundance Profiles of Cool Clusters of Galaxies from ASCA

A. Finoguenov (MPE, CfA), M. Arnaud (CEA Saclay), L.P. David (CfA)

Comments: 14 pages, several changes are introduced, ApJ 2001, v 555 (July 1, in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/0009008 [pdf, other]

Title: A study of the core of the Shapley Concentration: V. The A3528 complex: a young merger event?

S.Bardelli, E.Zucca, A.Baldi

Comments: 15 pages (MN LaTeX style) with 7 encapsulated figures; MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2001) 387

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/0009009 [pdf, other]

Title: Broad-band diffuse gamma ray emission of the Galactic Disk

F.A. Aharonian, A.M. Atoyan

Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics, accepted for publication

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/0009010 [pdf, other]

Title: Halpha emitting galaxies and the cosmic star formation rate at z = 2.2

Alan F.M. Moorwood, Paul P. van der Werf, Jean Gabriel Cuby, Tino Oliva

Comments: 11 pages including 9 postscript figures. To appear in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/0009011 [pdf, other]

Title: Compact High Velocity Clouds

Robert Braun

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in ASP Conf. Ser. "Gax and Galaxy Evolution", Eds. Hibbard, Rupen and Van Gorkom

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/0009012 [pdf, other]

Title: Selection effects in high-redshift submillimeter surveys and pointed observations

Andrew W. Blain (Cambridge)

Comments: 8 pages, UMass/INAOE conference proceedings on Deep Millimeter Surveys, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/0009013 [pdf, other]

Title: Wide band observations of the new X-ray burster SAX J1747.0-2853 during the March 1998 outburst

L. Natalucci (1), A. Bazzano (1), M. Cocchi (1), P. Ubertini (1), J. Heise (2), E. Kuulkers (2), J.J.M. in 't Zand (2) ((1) Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale/CNR, Roma, Italy, (2) Space Research Organization Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands)

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/0009014 [pdf, other]

Title: HST/STIS Imaging of the Host Galaxy of GRB980425/SN1998bw

J. U. Fynbo (1), S. Holland (2), M. I. Andersen (3), B. Thomsen (2), J. Hjorth (1), G. Bjornsson (4), A. O. Jaunsen (5), P. Natarajan (6,7), N. Tanvir (8) ((1)University of Copenhagen, (2) University of Aarhus, (3) University of Oulu, (4) University of Iceland, (5) Univsersity of Oslo, (6) Cambridge University, (7) Yale University, (8) University of Hertfordshire)

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, AASTeX v5.02 accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 542 (2000) L89-L93

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/0009015 [pdf, other]

Title: 3D simulations of shear instabilities in magnetized flows

M. Brüggen (MPA), W. Hillebrandt (MPA)

Comments: submitted to MNRAS, figures in colour and higher quality at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/0009016 [pdf, other]

Title: Redshift space bias and beta from the halo model

Uros Seljak (Princeton University)

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, matches the accepted version in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 1359

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/0009017 [pdf, other]

Title: The strength and width of Fe Kalpha lines in Seyferts and their correlations with the X-ray slope

Piotr Lubinski (1 and 2), Andrzej Zdziarski (1) ((1) N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland, (2) Heavy Ion Laboratory, Warsaw Uniwersity, Poland)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 color figures, LaTeX 2.09 MNRAS style, published in MNRAS (Letters)

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) L37

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/0009018 [pdf, other]

Title: The ISM of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

L. D. Matthews (NRAO), Kenneth Wood (CfA), Yu Gao (IPAC)

Comments: 4 pages; requires this http URL; to appear in ``Gas and Galaxy Evolution'', a conference held in Socorro, NM, May 2000, ASP Conference Series, ed. J. E. Hibbard et al., in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/0009019 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar models and Hyades: the Hipparcos test

V. Castellani (1 and 2), S. Degl'Innocenti (1 and 2), P. G. Prada Moroni (3 and 4) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Italy, (2) INFN Sezione di Pisa, Italy, (3) Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Italy, (4) INFN Sezione di Genova, Italy)

Comments: 5 pages, 8 figures, MNRAS accepted

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2001) 66

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/0009020 [pdf, other]

Title: The Case Against Cosmology

M. J. Disney

Comments: 9 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Gen.Rel.Grav.32:1125-1134,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/0009021 [pdf, other]

Title: A detailed two-dimensional stellar population study of M32

C. del Burgo (IAC, IAP), R. F. Peletier (Nottingham), A. Vazdekis (Durham), S. Arribas (IAC), E.Mediavilla (IAC)

Comments: accepted in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 321 (2001) 227

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/0009022 [pdf, other]

Title: Viscosity Mechanisms in Accretion Disks

Kristen Menou (Princeton Univ.)

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Science

Journal-ref: Science 288, 2022 (2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/0009023 [pdf, other]

Title: Imaging the secondary stars in cataclysmic variables

V. S. Dhillon, C. A. Watson (University of Sheffield)

Comments: 25 pages, 15 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Astro-tomography Workshop, Brussels, July 2000, eds. H. Boffin, D. Steeghs, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Physics. A version with higher quality figures, is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/0009024 [pdf, other]

Title: A Submillimeter Selected Quasar in the Field of Abell 478

K.K. Knudsen, P.P. van der Werf, W. Jaffe (Leiden Observatory)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, in "Deep Millimeter Surveys: Implications for Galaxy Formation and Evolution", ed. J. Lowenthal and D. Hughes, World Scientific Publishers

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/0009025 [pdf, other]

Title: VLT spectroscopy of GRB 990510 and GRB 990712; probing the faint and bright end of the GRB host galaxy population

P.M. Vreeswijk, A. Fruchter, L. Kaper, E. Rol, T.J. Galama, J. van Paradijs, C. Kouveliotou, R.A.M.J. Wijers, E. Pian, E. Palazzi, N. Masetti, F. Frontera, S. Savaglio, K. Reinsch, F.V. Hessman, K. Beuermann, H. Nicklas, E.P.J. van den Heuvel

Comments: 9 pages; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: ApJ, 546, 672 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/0009026 [pdf, other]

Title: A Deep, Wide-Field H-alpha Survey of Nearby Clusters of Galaxies

Shoko Sakai (UCLA), Robert Kennicutt (Steward), Chris Moss (Liverpool)

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure. To appear in ASP Conference Series, "Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies", J.G. Funes S.J. and E.M. Corsini, eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/0009027 [pdf, other]

Title: SN 1997bs in M66: Another Extragalactic Eta Carinae Analog?

S.D. Van Dyk, C.Y. Peng, J.Y. King, A.V. Filippenko, R.R. Treffers, W.D. Li, M.W. Richmond

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the PASP (2000 Dec issue)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/0009028 [pdf, other]

Title: Clusters of Galaxies at High Redshift: The LMT/GTM Perspective

Omar Lopez-Cruz (1), Enrique Gaztanaga (1) ((1) INAOE-Tonantzintla)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, needs this http URL. To be published in the proceedings of the conference "Mapping the Hidden Universe" held in Guanjuato, Mexico (February 23-29, 2000), R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, P.A. Henning, and H. Andernach, eds. ASP Conf. Ser

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/0009029 [pdf, other]

Title: Photometric Properties of Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters (LOCOS)

Omar Lopez-Cruz (1,2) ((1) INAOE-Tonantzintla, (2) Department of Astronomy, U of Toronto)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, uses this http URL and this http URL. Invited Ph.D. Thesis presentation to appear in the proceedings of IX RRLA of the IAU/UAI held in Tonantzintla, Mexico (November 9-13, 1998), L. Aguilar & A. Carraminana, eds., Rev. Mex. A & A Serie Conferencias

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/0009030 [pdf, other]

Title: Dwarf Galaxies in Clusters: the Effects of a Violent Environment

Omar Lopez-Cruz (1), H.K.C. Yee (2) ((1) INAOE-Tonantzintla, (2) Department of Astronomy, U. of Toronto)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. Published in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Astrophysics Research and Science Education, Castel Gandolfo, Italy, June 14-21, 1998. edited by C. Impey

Journal-ref: O. Lopez-Cruz and H.K.C. Yee. 1999, in Symposium on Astrophys. Research and Sci. Edu., edited by C. Impey, (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana) pp. 262-266

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/0009031 [pdf, other]

Title: The Proper Motion, Parallax, and Origin of the Isolated Neutron Star RX J185635-3754

Frederick M. Walter

Comments: Accepted by ApJ. Minor corrections to magnitude of space motions

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/0009032 [pdf, other]

Title: Scaling properties of the redshift power spectrum: theoretical models

Y.P. Jing (Partner Group of MPA, Shanghai Observatory), G. Boerner (MPA, Garching)

Comments: accepted for publication in ApJ;24 pages with 7 figures included

Journal-ref: ApJ (2001) 547, 545

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/0009033 [pdf, other]

Title: HST as a powerful astrometric tool for pulsar astronomy

R.P. Mignani (1), P.A. Caraveo (2), A. De Luca (2) ((1) STECF-ESO, Garching, Germany, (2) IFC-CNR, Milan, Italy)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 PostScript figures, uses this http URL. To appear in the proceedings of A Decade of HST Science (Baltimore, USA, April 2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/0009034 [pdf, other]

Title: HST as a reliable astrometric tool for pulsar astronomy: the cases of the Vela and Geminga pulsars

A. De Luca (1), R.P. Mignani (2), P.A. Caraveo (1) ((1) IFC-CNR, Milan, Italy, (2) STECF-ESO, Garching, Germany)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 PostScript figures, uses this http URL. To appear in the proceedings of A Decade of HST Science (Baltimore, USA, April 2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/0009035 [pdf, other]

Title: SNR0540-69 -the Crab twin- revisited: Chandra vs. HST

P.A. Caraveo (1), R.P. Mignani (2), A. De Luca (1), S.Wagner (3), G.F. Bignami (4) ((1) IFC-CNR, Milan, Italy, (2) STECF-ESO, Garching, Germany, (3) LaundesSternwarte, Konigstuhl-Heidelberg, Germany, (4) ASI, Rome, Italy)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 PostScript figures, uses this http URL. To appear in the proceedings of A Decade of HST Science (Baltimore, USA, April 2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/0009036 [pdf, other]

Title: Canonical Timing and Spectral Behavior of LMC X-3 in the Low/Hard State

Patricia T. Boyd, Alan P. Smale (NASA/GSFC), Jeroen Homan, Peter G. Jonker, Michiel van der Klis (Univ. Amsterdam, CHEAF), Erik Kuulkers (SRON, Univ. Utrecht)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/0009037 [pdf, other]

Title: Morphological classification of high redshift galaxies

E. Pignatelli (1), G. Fasano (2) ((1) SISSA/ISAS, (2) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 encapsulated figures. Proceedings of the Euroconference "The Evolution of Galaxies.I- Observational clues." held in Granada (Spain), 23-27 May, 2000. To be published in a special issue of Astrophysics and Space Science journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 277 (2001) 561-564

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/0009038 [pdf, other]

Title: The Ultra-Luminous IR Galaxy Population

K. D. Borne (1 and 2), H. Bushouse (3), L. Colina (4), R. A. Lucas (3), S. Arribas (5) ((1) Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, (2) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (3) Space Telescope Science Institute, (4) Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, (5) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain)

Comments: 2 pages; requires this http URL. Paper to appear in the ASP Conference Series for the May 2000 conference "Gas and Galaxy Evolution" (Socorro, NM), edited by J. E. Hibbard, M. P. Rupen and J. H. van Gorkom

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/0009039 [pdf, other]

Title: Southern Hemisphere Observations of a $10^{18}$eV Cosmic Ray Source Near the Direction of the Galactic Centre

J. A. Bellido, R. W. Clay, B. R. Dawson, M. Johnston-Hollitt (The University of Adelaide)

Comments: 14 pages including 5 postscript figures, corrected the title (replaced "Cosmic Ray Source" instead of "Cosmic Ray")

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 15 (2001) 167-175

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/0009040 [pdf, other]

Title: Secondary CMB anisotropies from the kinetic SZ effect

P. Valageas, A. Balbi, J. Silk

Comments: 17 pages, final version published in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 367 (2001) 1

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/0009041 [pdf, other]

Title: Maximum Galactic Disks vs. Hot Dark Halos

Daniel Pfenniger

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in "Gas & Galaxy Evolution", VLA 20th Anniversary Conference, J.E. Hibbard, M.P. Rupen & J.H. van Gorkom (eds.)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/0009042 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining our Universe with X-ray & Optical Cluster Data

J.M. Diego, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, J.L. Sanz, L. Cayon, J. Silk

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures. MNRAS accepted version

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 1533

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/0009043 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular cloud complexes in detail: Interferometric observations of GMCs in M31

N. Neininger

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, includes this http URL; presented at "The interstellar medium of M31 and M33"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/0009044 [pdf, other]

Title: Hard X-rays from Type II bursts of the Rapid Burster and its transition toward quiescence

N. Masetti, F. Frontera, L. Stella, M. Orlandini, A.N. Parmar, S. Del Sordo, L. Amati, E. Palazzi, D. Dal Fiume, G. Cusumano, G. Pareschi, I. Lapidus, R.A. Remillard

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted by A&A, main journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/0009045 [pdf, other]

Title: Depletion of background galaxies due to the cluster lens CL0024+1654: U and R band observations

O. E. Rognvaldsson (1), T. R. Greve (2), J. Hjorth (2), E. H. Gudmundsson (3), V. S. Sigmundsson (3), P. Jakobsson (2,3), A. O. Jaunsen (4), L. L. Christensen (5), E. van Kampen (6), A. N. Taylor (6) ((1) NORDITA, (2) Univ. of Copenhagen, (3) Univ. of Iceland, (4) Univ. of Oslo, (5) ST-ECF/ESO Garching, (6) Univ. of Edinburgh)

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 131-140

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/0009046 [pdf, other]

Title: Using Perturbative Least Action to Reconstruct the Local Group

David M. Goldberg (Yale University; Princeton University Observatory)

Comments: 18 Pages LaTeX, including 5 postscript figures. Submitted to Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys. J.550:87,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/0009047 [pdf, other]

Title: Neon abundances in normal late-B and mercury-manganese stars

M. M. Dworetsky (University College London)J. Budaj (UCL and Astron. Inst. Slovak Acad. Sciences)

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure, received 23 June 2000, accepted 4 August 2000, by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 318 (2000) 1264

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/0009048 [pdf, other]

Title: H_0 from gravitational lenses: recent results

Paul L. Schechter

Comments: 10 pages, no figures, uses this http URL, invited review to be published in IAU Symposium No. 201: New Cosmological and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters, eds. A.N. Lasenby and A. Wilkinson

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/0009049 [pdf, other]

Title: The Orbital Period of Intermediate Polar 1WGA J1958.2+3232

Sergei. V. Zharikov, Gaghik. H. Tovmassian, Juan Echevarria, Aixa Aube Cardenas; (Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, Ensenada, B.C., Mexico)

Comments: 6 pages, Latex, this http URL style, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/0009050 [pdf, other]

Title: Do High-Velocity Clouds Really Fuel Galactic Star Formation?

Brad K. Gibson (Swinburne), Mark L. Giroux (Colorado), John T. Stocke (Colorado), J. Michael Shull (Colorado)

Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX (newpasp, included), also available at this http URL, to appear in Gas & Galaxy Evolution (ASP Conf. Series), eds. J.E. Hibbard, M.P. Rupen & J.H. van Gorkom (2001, in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)