Astrophysics

Authors and titles for October 2000

[401] arXiv:astro-ph/0010402 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonant Gaps in the Scattered Cometary Population of the Trans-Neptunian Region

Tanya Taidakova (CrAO), Leonid M. Ozernoy (GMU), Nick N. Gorkavyi (NASA/GSFC)

Comments: 2 pages with one encapsulated Figure. Highlights of Astronomy, Joint Discussion 4. Eds. A. Lemaitre and H. Rickman (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[402] arXiv:astro-ph/0010403 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the gravitationally lensed system HE1104-1805: VLT spectroscopy of the lens at z=0.729

C. Lidman, F. Courbin, J.-P. Kneib, G. Golse, F. Castander, G. Soucail

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[403] arXiv:astro-ph/0010404 [pdf, other]

Title: CMB with Quintessence: Analytic Approach and CMBFAST

James L. Crooks, James O. Dunn, Paul H. Frampton, Y. Jack Ng, Ryan Rohm

Comments: 13 pp LaTeX and 7 postscript figures

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett. A16 (2001) 63-74

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

[404] arXiv:astro-ph/0010405 [pdf, other]

Title: The Birth, Evolution and Death of Star Clusters

Pavel Kroupa (Heidelberg)

Comments: Invited talk, to appear in this http URL, Origin and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters, 12 pages, 3 figures, replaced version has completed references

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[405] arXiv:astro-ph/0010406 [pdf, other]

Title: The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey. II. H-alpha Selected Survey List 1

J.J. Salzer, C. Gronwall, V.A. Lipovetsky, A. Kniazev, J.W. Moody, T.A. Boroson, T.X. Thuan, Y.I. Izotov, J.L. Herrero, L.M. Frattare

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures, A.J. in press. Full resolution versions of Figures 1 & 2 are available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[406] arXiv:astro-ph/0010407 [pdf, other]

Title: The vertical structure and kinematics of HI in spiral galaxies

Renzo Sancisi (AOB and Kapteyn Inst.), Filippo Fraternali (IRA and Bologna Univ.), Tom Oosterloo (NFRA), Gustaaf van Moorsel (NRAO)

Comments: 8 pages, 3 Postscript figures; to appear in "Galaxy disks & disk galaxies", ASP Conference Series, J.G. Funes & E.M. Corsini (eds.)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[407] arXiv:astro-ph/0010408 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle Creation in Pre-Big-Bang Cosmology: theory and observational consequences

R. Durrer, K.E. Kunze, M. Sakellariadou

Comments: Review article for the memorial volume of Dennis Sciama to be published in New Astronomy Review. In this revised version new results, especially for the dilaton and moduli spectra have been included and several typos have been corrected. Version to match the one presently in print

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev. 46 (2002) 659

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

[408] arXiv:astro-ph/0010409 [pdf, other]

Title: From Messier to Abell: 200 years of science with galaxy clusters

Andrea Biviano

Comments: Invited talk at "Constructing the Universe with clusters of galaxies", F. Durret & D. Gerbal organizers, Paris, July 4-8, 2000 -- 57 pages, 34 figs

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[409] arXiv:astro-ph/0010410 [pdf, other]

Title: A High Resolution Radio Survey of Class I Protostars

P.W.Lucas (1,2), Katherine M.Blundell (2), P.F.Roche (2) ((1) University of Hertfordshire, UK, (2) University of Oxford, UK)

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS. 16 pages, 5 figures, 9 postscript files, 1 Latex file

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 318 (2000) 526-534

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[410] arXiv:astro-ph/0010411 [pdf, other]

Title: Abundances and Evolution of Lithium in the Galactic Halo and Disk

Sean G. Ryan, Toshitaka Kajino, Timothy C. Beers, Takeru Ken Suzuki, Donatella Romano, Francesca Matteucci, Katarina Rosolankova

Comments: 41 pages including 7 figures 2001, ApJ, 548, xxx (20 February)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[411] arXiv:astro-ph/0010412 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral distortion of cosmic background radiation by scattering on hot electrons. Exact calculations

A.D. Dolgov, S.H. Hansen, S. Pastor, D.V. Semikoz

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures, to be published in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 554 (2001) 74-84

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

[412] arXiv:astro-ph/0010413 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultra-Lithium-Deficient Halo Stars and Blue Stragglers: A Common Origin?

Sean G. Ryan, Timothy C. Beers, Toshitaka Kajino, Katarina Rosolankova

Comments: 23 pages including 3 figures. 2001, ApJ, 547, xxx (1 February)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[413] arXiv:astro-ph/0010414 [pdf, other]

Title: The autocorrelation function of the soft X-ray background

Andrzej M. Soltan, Michael J. Freyberg

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures (1ab, 2a, 2b), to be published in the proceedings of "X-Ray Astronomy 2000", eds. R. Giacconi, L. Stella & S. Serio, ASP Conf. Ser

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[414] arXiv:astro-ph/0010415 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining non standard recombination: A worked example

Susana Landau, Diego Harari, Matias Zaldarriaga

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figs. Version accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 63, 083505 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[415] arXiv:astro-ph/0010416 [pdf, other]

Title: First XMM-Newton observations of a cataclysmic variable II: the X-ray spectrum of OY Car

Gavin Ramsay (1), France Cordova (2), Jean Cottam (3), Keith Mason (1), Rudi Much (4), Julian Osborne (5), Dirk Pandel (2), Tracey Poole (1), Peter Wheatley (5) ((1) MSSL, (2) Univ California, Santa Barbara, (3) Columbia Univ, (4) ESTEC, (5) Univ Leicester)

Comments: Accepted by A&A for publication in the special issue on XMM results, 4 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[416] arXiv:astro-ph/0010417 [pdf, other]

Title: Cepheid Mass-Luminosity Relations from the Magellanic Clouds

J. P. Beaulieu, J.R. Buchler, Z. Kollath

Comments: 9 pages, Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.373:164-172,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[417] arXiv:astro-ph/0010418 [pdf, other]

Title: INT-WFS + 2dFGRS: The Local Space & Luminosity Density

Nicholas Cross, Simon Driver, David Lemon (University of St Andrews)

Comments: 6 pages, including 6 figures. Presented at New Era of Wide-Field Astronomy eds. R.G. Clowes, A.J. Adamson, G.E. Bromage, ASP Conference Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[418] arXiv:astro-ph/0010419 [pdf, other]

Title: The radio luminosity function from the low-frequency 3CRR, 6CE & 7CRS complete samples

Chris J. Willott, Steve Rawlings, Katherine M. Blundell, Mark Lacy, Stephen A. Eales

Comments: 20 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.322:536-552,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[419] arXiv:astro-ph/0010420 [pdf, other]

Title: A Search for Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Phil Massey, Alaine Duffy

Comments: Accepted by Astrophysical Journal. Postscript version available via this http URL Revised version contains slightly revised spectral types for the Of stars but is otherwise unchanged

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[420] arXiv:astro-ph/0010421 [pdf, other]

Title: The impact of spanish astrophysics in the 1990's

S.F. Sanchez, C.R.Benn (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the IV scientific meeting of the Sociedad Española de Astronoia (SEA)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[421] arXiv:astro-ph/0010422 [pdf, other]

Title: Ho from Type Ia Supernovae

G. A. Tammann, A. Sandage, A. Saha

Comments: 27 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables, LaTeX. To be published in "A Decade of HST Science", eds. M. Livio, K. Noll, & M. Stiavelli, (Cambridge: CUP)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[422] arXiv:astro-ph/0010423 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton observations of the cluster of galaxies Sersic 159-03

J.S. Kaastra, C. Ferrigno, T. Tamura, F.B.S. Paerels, J.R. Peterson, J.P.D. Mittaz

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, XMM issue (revised using new A&A macro)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[423] arXiv:astro-ph/0010424 [pdf, other]

Title: Separating Thermal and Nonthermal X-Rays in Supernova Remnants I: Total Fits to SN 1006 AD

K.K. Dyer, S.P. Reynolds, K.J. Borkowski, G.E. Allen, R. Petre

Comments: 26 pages + 12 figures, accepted by ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[424] arXiv:astro-ph/0010425 [pdf, other]

Title: The Nature of the Radiative Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Radiatively Supported Thomson Atmospheres

Nir J. Shaviv

Comments: 18 Pages, 7 figures, uses this http URL, accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[425] arXiv:astro-ph/0010426 [pdf, other]

Title: Super Eddington Atmospheres and their Winds

Nir J. Shaviv (CITA)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Interacting Winds from Massive Stars" (ASP Conference Series), eds. A. F. J. Moffat, and N. St-Louis

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[426] arXiv:astro-ph/0010427 [pdf, other]

Title: An Imaging and Spectroscopic Study of the z=3.38639 Damped Lyman Alpha System in Q0201+1120: Clues to Star Formation Rate at High Redshift

Sara L. Ellison, Max Pettini, Charles C. Steidel, Alice E. Shapley

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[427] arXiv:astro-ph/0010428 [pdf, other]

Title: Irradiance or luminosity changes?

Sabatino Sofia (Yale), Linghuai H. Li (Yale)

Comments: 5 pages, 8 figures. To be published in: The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate, ESA Publ. SP-463, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[428] arXiv:astro-ph/0010429 [pdf, other]

Title: BeppoSAX Observations of the Maser Sy2 Galaxy: ESO103-G35

Belinda J. Wilkes, Smita Mathur, Fabrizio Fiore, Angelo Antonelli, Fabrizio Nicastro

Comments: 22 pages, postscript file, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[429] arXiv:astro-ph/0010430 [pdf, other]

Title: The Quiescent Emission Spectrum of Cen X-4 and other X-ray Transients containing Neutron Stars

Kristen Menou (Princeton Univ.), Jeffrey E. McClintock (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[430] arXiv:astro-ph/0010431 [pdf, other]

Title: Status of VHE Astronomy c.2000

Trevor C. Weekes

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, to be included in proceedings of the International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Heidelberg, June 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[431] arXiv:astro-ph/0010432 [pdf, other]

Title: Semi-Analytical Models for Lensing by Dark Halos: I. Splitting Angles

Li-Xin Li, Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton University)

Comments: 46 pages, including 13 figures. Revised version with significant improvement

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 566 (2002) 652

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[432] arXiv:astro-ph/0010433 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Local Separation of E and B Polarization Patterns in CMBR

Tzihong Chiueh

Comments: 12 pages, no figure. submitted to ApJ Lett.. Changed contents with more discussions added

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[433] arXiv:astro-ph/0010434 [pdf, other]

Title: UVES observations of QSO 0000-2620: Argon and Phosphorus abundances in the dust-free damped Ly-alpha system at zabs = 3.3901

Paolo Molaro (1), Sergei A. Levshakov (2), Sandro D'Odorico (3), Piercarlo Bonifacio (1), Miriam Centurion (1) ((1) Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, (2)Department of Theoretical Astrophysics, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (3) European Southern Observatory)

Comments: Accepted ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[434] arXiv:astro-ph/0010435 [pdf, other]

Title: The NGC4839 group falling into the Coma cluster observed by XMM-Newton

D.M. Neumann, M. Arnaud, R. Gastaud (CEA/Saclay, France), N. Aghanim (IAS/Orsay, France), D. Lumb (ESA/ESTEC, the Netherlands), U.G. Briel (MPE Garching, Germany), W.T. Vestrand (LANL/Los Alamos, USA), G.C. Stewart (Leicester University, UK), S. Molendi (IFC/CNR Milano, Italy), J.P.D. Mittaz (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK)

Comments: 6 pages, Accepted for publication in the special A&A Letters issue for XMM-Newton

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[435] arXiv:astro-ph/0010436 [pdf, other]

Title: Limits on Collisional Dark Matter from Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters

Oleg Y. Gnedin (Cambridge), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton)

Comments: 18 pages; evaporation models improved and extended for the case of velocity-dependent cross-section

Journal-ref: 2001, ApJ, 561

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[436] arXiv:astro-ph/0010437 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial Structure and Periodicity in the Universe

Jose A. Gonzalez, Hernando Quevedo, Marcelo Salgado, Daniel Sudarsky

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 6 pages, 5 ps figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.362:835-839,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[437] arXiv:astro-ph/0010438 [pdf, other]

Title: The Red Stellar Contents of Three Selected Fields of The Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy IC1613

J. Borissova, L. Georgiev, R. Kurtev, M. Rosado, V.D.Ivanov, M. Richer, M.Valdez-Gutierrez

Comments: 8 pages, 11 Postscript figures, accepted for publication in RevMexAA

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[438] arXiv:astro-ph/0010439 [pdf, other]

Title: Cygnus X-3 with ISO: investigating the wind

R. N. Ogley (1 and 2), S. J. Bell Burnell (1), R. P. Fender (3) ((1) The Open University, (2) SAp Saclay, (3) University of Amsterdam)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 11 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 177

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[439] arXiv:astro-ph/0010440 [pdf, other]

Title: Hyper- and suspended-accretion states of rotating black holes and the durations of gamma-ray bursts

Maurice H.P.M. van Putten (1), Eve C. Ostriker (2) ((1) MIT, (2) U. of Maryland)

Comments: accepted for publication in the ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[440] arXiv:astro-ph/0010441 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing the origin of the gamma-ray background

Andrzej M. Soltan, Radoslaw Marcinkowski

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in proceedings of the 4th INTEGRAL Workshop

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[441] arXiv:astro-ph/0010442 [pdf, other]

Title: J1343+3758: The third largest FRII-type radio galaxy

J. Machalski, M. Jamrozy (Jagiellonian Univ.)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A Letters A higher resolution version of the paper is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[442] arXiv:astro-ph/0010443 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernovae Ia, evolution and quintessence

D.L. Wiltshire

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, aipproc, epsfig. To appear in "Cosmology and Particle Physics", Proceedings of the CAPP'2000 Conference, Verbier, eds. J. Garcia-Bellido, R. Durrer and M. Shaposhnikov, (AIP, 2001)

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

[443] arXiv:astro-ph/0010444 [pdf, other]

Title: The ATESP radio survey III. Source counts

I. Prandoni, L. Gregorini, P. Parma, H.R. de Ruiter, G. Vettolani, M.H. Wieringa, R.D. Ekers

Comments: 9 pages, 8 ps figures. Corrected typos and replaced Fig.5

Journal-ref: Prandoni et al. 2001, A&A, 365, 392

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[444] arXiv:astro-ph/0010445 [pdf, other]

Title: A sample of 6C radio sources with virtually complete redshifts. II - optical spectroscopy

Steve Rawlings, Steve Eales, Mark Lacy

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 523

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[445] arXiv:astro-ph/0010446 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectrophotometry and period analysis of the sdB eclipsing binary HW Virginis

L.L. Kiss, B. Csak, K. Szatmary, G. Furesz, K. Sziladi

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A Main Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[446] arXiv:astro-ph/0010447 [pdf, other]

Title: FUSE Observations of the hottest DA white dwarfs

M.A. Barstow, M.R. Burleigh, N.P. Bannister, J.B. Holberg, I. Hubeny

Comments: 6 Pages, to be published in the Proceedings of the 12th European White Dwarf Workshop, Eds. H.L. Shipman and J.L. Provencal, ASP Conference series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[447] arXiv:astro-ph/0010448 [pdf, other]

Title: Heavy element abundances in DA white dwarfs

M.A. Barstow, M.R. Burleigh, N.P. Bannister, J.B. Holberg, I. Hubeny, F.C. Bruhweiler, R. Napiwotzki

Comments: 6 Pages, to be published in the Proceedings of the 12th European White Dwarf Workshop, Eds. H.L. Shipman and J.L. Provencal, ASP Conference series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[448] arXiv:astro-ph/0010449 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of arcs in Saturn's F ring during the 1995 Sun ring-plane crossing

S. Charnoz, A. Brahic, C. Ferrari, I. Grenier, F. Roddier, P. Thebault

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, To appear in A&A, for comments : charnoz@discovery.this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[449] arXiv:astro-ph/0010450 [pdf, other]

Title: Chandra Observation of M84, Radio Lobe Elliptical in Virgo cluster

A. Finoguenov (MPE, CfA), C. Jones (CfA)

Comments: accepted to ApJ Letters, Oct 2000. 5 pages in emulateapj

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[450] arXiv:astro-ph/0010451 [pdf, other]

Title: Fitting BOOMERANG and MAXIMA-1 data with a Einstein-Yang-Mills Cosmological Model

M.C. Bento, O. Bertolami, P.T. Silva

Comments: 15 pages, Latex, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett. B498 (2001) 62-66

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)