Astrophysics

Authors and titles for October 2000

[601] arXiv:astro-ph/0010602 [pdf, other]

Title: Bipolar outflows in OH/IR stars

Albert A. Zijlstra, J.M. Chapman, P. te Lintel Hekkert, L. Likkel, F. Comeron, R.P. Norris, F.J. Molster, R.J. Cohen

Comments: 31 pages, LaTeX using this http URL. MNRAS, accepted for publication

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 280

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[602] arXiv:astro-ph/0010603 [pdf, other]

Title: Vacuum gaps in pulsars and PSR J2144-3933

Janusz Gil (J. Kepler Astronomical Centre), Dipanjan Mitra (Raman Research Institut)

Comments: 19 pages, 1 postscript figure, Latex, uses this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[603] arXiv:astro-ph/0010604 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-color Classification in the Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey

C. Wolf, K. Meisenheimer, H.-J. Röser, S.V.W. Beckwith, F. H. Chaffee Jr., J. Fried, H. Hippelein, J.-S. Huang, M. Kümmel, B. von Kuhlmann, C. Maier, S. Phleps, H.-W. Rix, E. Thommes, D. Thompson

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures included, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[604] arXiv:astro-ph/0010605 [pdf, other]

Title: Can the gamma-ray source 3EG J2033+4118 be produced by the stellar system Cyg OB2 No.5?

P. Benaglia, Gustavo E. Romero, I.R. Stevens, Diego F. Torres

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 366 (2001) 605-611

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

[605] arXiv:astro-ph/0010606 [pdf, other]

Title: Cassiopeia A: on the origin of the hard X-ray continuum and the implication of the observed O VIII Ly-alpha/Ly-beta distribution

J.A.M. Bleeker, R. Willingale, K. van der Heyden, K. Dennerl, J.S. Kaastra, B. Aschenbach, J. Vink

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures. accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, letters (XMM issue)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[606] arXiv:astro-ph/0010607 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-term evolution of a dipole type magnetosphere interacting with an accretion disk. II. Transition into a quasi-stationary spherically radial outflow

Christian Fendt, Detlef Elstner (AIP Potsdam)

Comments: A&A, in press. Complete file (15 pags and 11 figs) and gif-animations available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[607] arXiv:astro-ph/0010608 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton observations of NGC 253: Resolving the emission components in the disk and nuclear area

W. Pietsch, T.P. Roberts, M.J. Freyberg, A.M. Read, K.N. Borozdin, G. Branduardi-Raymont, M. Cappi, M. Ehle, P. Ferrando, S.M. Kahn, T.J. Ponman, A. Ptak, R.E. Shirey, M. Ward

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the special A&A Letters issue for XMM-Newton, a full resolution file is available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.365:L174,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[608] arXiv:astro-ph/0010609 [pdf, other]

Title: Simultaneous BeppoSAX and RXTE observations of the X-ray burst sources GX 3+1 and Ser X-1

T. Oosterbroek, D. Barret, M. Guainazzi, E.C. Ford

Comments: 8 pages, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[609] arXiv:astro-ph/0010610 [pdf, other]

Title: EUV and X-ray observations of Abell 2199: a three-phase intracluster medium with a massive warm component

Richard Lieu, Max Bonamente, Jonathan P.D. Mittaz

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures (1 in color), A&A in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[610] arXiv:astro-ph/0010611 [pdf, other]

Title: On the way to global phase-delay astrometry

E. Ros (MPIfR), J.M. Marcaide (U. Valencia), J.C. Guirado (U. Valencia), M.A. Perez-Torres (IRA/CNR)

Comments: Proceedings of the 14th Working Meeting on European VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry, eds. Tomasi, P., Mantovani, F., Perez-Torres, M.A., Istituto di Radioastronomia/CNR, Bologna, Italy; 6 pages, 4 figures, needs floatfig, multicol

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[611] arXiv:astro-ph/0010612 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton First-Light Observations of the Hickson Galaxy Group 16

M. J. L. Turner (1), J. N. Reeves (1), T. J. Ponman (2), M. Arnaud (3), M. Barbera (4), P. J. Bennie (1), M. Boer (5), U. Briel (6), I. Butler (2), J. Clavel (7), et al. ((1) University of Leicester, UK, (2) University of Birmingham, UK, (3) CEA Saclay, (4) OAPA, Palermo, (5) CESR Toulouse, (6) MPE Garching, (7) XMM-SOC, Vilspa etc.)

Comments: 6 pages, accepted for publication in A&A Special Letters Edition (First results from XMM-Newton)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[612] arXiv:astro-ph/0010613 [pdf, other]

Title: Energetics of jets from X-ray binaries

Rob Fender (Amsterdam)

Comments: To be published in `Proceedings of the Third Microquasar Workshop: Granada Workshop on galactic relativistic jet sources', Eds A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Greiner and J. M. Paredes, Astrophysics and Space Science, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 276 (2001) 69-77

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[613] arXiv:astro-ph/0010614 [pdf, other]

Title: Preliminary Spectral Analysis of the Type II Supernova 1999em

E. Baron, David Branch, Peter H. Hauschildt, Alexei V. Filippenko, R. P. Kirshner, P. M. Challis, S. Jha, R. Chevalier, Claes Fransson, Peter Lundqvist, Peter Garnavich, Bruno Leibundgut, R. McCray, E. Michael, Nino Panagia, M. M. Phillips, C. S. J. Pun, Brian Schmidt, George Sonneborn, N. B. Suntzeff, L. Wang, J. C. Wheeler

Comments: to appear in ApJ, 2000, 545

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.545:444-448,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[614] arXiv:astro-ph/0010615 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of the Type IIn Supernova 1998S: Effects of Circumstellar Interaction on Observed Spectra

Eric J. Lentz, E. Baron, Peter Lundqvist, David Branch, Peter H. Hauschildt, Claes Fransson, Peter Garnavich, Nate Bastian, Alexei V. Filippenko, R. P. Kirshner, P. M. Challis, S. Jha, Bruno Leibundgut, R. McCray, E. Michael, Nino Panagia, M. M. Phillips, C. S. J. Pun, Brian Schmidt, George Sonneborn, N. B. Suntzeff, L. Wang, J. C. Wheeler

Comments: to appear in ApJ, 2001, 547

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[615] arXiv:astro-ph/0010616 [pdf, other]

Title: Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Flavor Mixing

Mikhail V. Medvedev (CITA)

Comments: TeX, 4 pages. Submitted to PRL. Other works are at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[616] arXiv:astro-ph/0010617 [pdf, other]

Title: Introductory Remarks on The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implications

P. J. E. Peebles

Comments: 8 pages; in IAU Conference 204, the Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implications, Manchester, August 2000, eds M. Harwit and M. G. Hauser

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[617] arXiv:astro-ph/0010618 [pdf, other]

Title: Mapping the Galactic Free-Free Foreground via Interstellar H-Alpha Emission

R. J. Reynolds, L. M. Haffner

Comments: 10 pages, 6 Figures; Presented at IAU Symposium #201, to be published in PASP; for more information and higher quality figures, see this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[618] arXiv:astro-ph/0010619 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the Multi-Wavelength, Low Surface Brightness Universe

R.J. Brunner, S.G. Djorgovski, R.R. Gal, A.A. Mahabal (Caltech), S.C. Odewahn (ASU)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, uses this http URL (included). To be published in the proceedings of the conference "Virtual Observatories of the Future," editors R.J. Brunner, S.G. Djorgovski, and Alex S. Szalay

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[619] arXiv:astro-ph/0010620 [pdf, other]

Title: An Approximate Determination of the Gas-Phase Metal Abundance in Herbig-Haro Outflows and their Shocks

K.-H. Bohm, S. Matt

Comments: 14 pages, incl. 3 figures; accepted by PASP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[620] arXiv:astro-ph/0010621 [pdf, other]

Title: The Structure of Self-Gravitating Polytropic Systems with n around 5

Mikhail V. Medvedev (Harvard & CITA), George Rybicki (Harvard)

Comments: LaTeX, emulateapj, 5 pages, 2 PS figures. ApJ,accepted version. Other works are at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[621] arXiv:astro-ph/0010622 [pdf, other]

Title: The Universe Traced by Clusters

Yasushi Suto (University of Tokyo)

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures. Invited talk at "Constructing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies", IAP 2000 meeting, Paris (France) July 2000. To be published in the proceedings edited by Florence Durret & Daniel Gerbal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[622] arXiv:astro-ph/0010623 [pdf, other]

Title: Hipparcos Luminosities and Asteroseismology

Timothy R. Bedding

Comments: 4 pages, LaTeX. Invited talk at IAU GA Joint Discussion 13 on "Hipparcos and the Luminosity Calibration of the Nearer Stars", to appear in Highlights of Astronomy Vol. 12

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[623] arXiv:astro-ph/0010624 [pdf, other]

Title: The Formation of Galaxy Disks

Joseph Silk

Comments: MNRAS, in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 313

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[624] arXiv:astro-ph/0010625 [pdf, other]

Title: Estimating jet power in proton blazar models

R.J. Protheroe, A. Mücke

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in `Particles and Fields in Radio Galaxies', Oxford Radio Galaxy Workshop 2000, ASP Conf. Ser., eds. Robert A. Laing and Katherine M. Blundell

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[625] arXiv:astro-ph/0010626 [pdf, other]

Title: AMRA: An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Hydrodynamic Code for Astrophysics

Tomek Plewa (1), Ewald Mueller (2) ((1) Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland, (2) MPA, Garching, Germany)

Comments: 41 pages, 21 figures (9 low-resolution), LaTeX, requires this http URL, submitted to Comp. Phys. Comm.; additional documentation and high-resolution figures available from this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[626] arXiv:astro-ph/0010627 [pdf, other]

Title: The Orion Star-Forming Region

Lynne A. Hillenbrand, John M. Carpenter, Eric D. Feigelson

Comments: To appear in "From Darkness to Light: Origin and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters"; ASP Conference Series ed. T. Montmerle and Ph. Andre

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[627] arXiv:astro-ph/0010628 [pdf, other]

Title: Preheating - cosmic magnetic dynamo ?

Bruce A. Bassett (Portsmouth), Giuseppe Pollifrone (Queen Mary), Shinji Tsujikawa (Waseda), Fermin Viniegra (Oxford)

Comments: 14 pages, 7 eps, 1 jpg figures. New discussion and simulations of the interplay between resonance and growth of conductivity

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 103515

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

[628] arXiv:astro-ph/0010629 [pdf, other]

Title: Some Common Problems and Challenges that Emission-Line Stars Present

Michael Feast (UCT)

Comments: 7 pages, 1 postscript figure, to appear in "Eta Car and other Mysterious Stars", ASP Conf ser, eds. Gull, Johansson, Davidson

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[629] arXiv:astro-ph/0010630 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological thermodynamics and deflationary gas universe

Winfried Zimdahl (Konstanz), Alexander B. Balakin (Kazan)

Comments: 12 pages, to appear in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 023507

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

[630] arXiv:astro-ph/0010631 [pdf, other]

Title: An ionizing UV background dominated by massive stars

Martin G. Haehnelt (MPA, Imperial), Piero Madau (IoA, UC Santa Cruz), Rolf P. Kudritzki (IfA), Francesco Haardt (Universitá dell'Insubria)

Comments: 4 pages, LaTeX, emulateapj, 4 postscript figures included; submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[631] arXiv:astro-ph/0010632 [pdf, other]

Title: Future X-ray timing missions

D. Barret (CESR/CNRS-UPS, France), M. van der Klis (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), G.K. Skinner (University of Birmingham, England), R. Staubert (University of Tubingen, Germany), L. Stella (University of Roma, Italy)

Comments: To be published in `Proceedings of the Third Microquasar Workshop: Granada Workshop on galactic relativistic jet sources', Eds A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Greiner and J. M. Paredes, Astrophysics and Space Science, in press. More about EXTRA can be found at: this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 276 (2001) 305-312

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[632] arXiv:astro-ph/0010633 [pdf, other]

Title: Reproducing the observed Cosmic microwave background anisotropies with causal scaling seeds

R. Durrer, M. Kunz, A. Melchiorri

Comments: 6 pages 2 figures, revtex; minor corrections and references added

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D63:081301,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[633] arXiv:astro-ph/0010634 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernova and Cosmology

M. Signore (DEMIRM, Observatoire de Paris), D. Puy (PSI and Institute of Theoretical Physics-Univ. Zurich)

Comments: 24 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev.45:409-423,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[634] arXiv:astro-ph/0010635 [pdf, other]

Title: The Accretion Ejection Instability : Observationnal Tests

J. Rodriguez, P. Varniere, M. Tagger, Ph. Durouchoux

Comments: 2 pages, no figures. To be published in `Proceedings of the Third Microquasar Workshop: Granada Workshop on galactic relativistic jet sources', Eds A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Greiner and J. M. Paredes, Astrophysics and Space Science, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 276 (2001) 235-236

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[635] arXiv:astro-ph/0010636 [pdf, other]

Title: HI absorption in radio galaxies: effect of orientation or interstellar medium?

R. Morganti (1), T.A. Oosterloo (1), C.N. Tadhunter (2), G. van Moorsel (3), N. Killeen (4), K.A. Wills (2) ((1) Astron, Dwingeloo; (2) University of Sheffield (UK); (3) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro; (4) Australia Telescope National Facility)

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) 331

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[636] arXiv:astro-ph/0010637 [pdf, other]

Title: Massive and luminous YSO IRAS 05361+3539 and its environment. A study of star formation in the parent cloud - I

A. Chakraborty, D. K. Ojha, B. G. Anandarao, T. N. Rengarajan

Comments: 7 pages (in A&A main journal format), 5 figures, accepted for publication in the A&A main journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[637] arXiv:astro-ph/0010638 [pdf, other]

Title: Color Gradients and the Secular Evolutionary Scenario in Late-Type Spiral Galaxies

Dimitri Alexei Gadotti (Astronomy Department / University of Sao Paulo - Brazil)

Comments: University of Sao Paulo this http URL. thesis, 125 pages, 25 figures, 9 tables; supervisor: Dr. S. dos Anjos; in Portuguese; appendices A, B and C, and higher resolution figures, can be requested by e-mail

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[638] arXiv:astro-ph/0010639 [pdf, other]

Title: Super-horizon perturbations and preheating

Karim A. Malik, D. Wands, D. H. Lyth, A. R. Liddle

Comments: 4 pages, talk presented at "Cosmology and Particle Physics 2000", Verbier (Switzerland), 17-28 July 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[639] arXiv:astro-ph/0010640 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio galaxies at z~2.5: results from Keck spectropolarimetry

J. Vernet, R. A. E. Fosbury, M. Villar-Martin, M. H. Cohen, A. Cimatti, S. di Serego Alighieri, R. W. Goodrich

Comments: 24 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Properly formatted for A4 and Letter paper formats ps files available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[640] arXiv:astro-ph/0010641 [pdf, other]

Title: Multicolour Observations, Inhomogeneity & Evolution

Charles Hellaby

Comments: Latex, 8 pages, using Astronomy & Astrophysics class file "this http URL". No figures. No tables. Submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics, 31/10/2000

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.372:357-363,2001

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

[641] arXiv:astro-ph/0010642 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling the spin pulse profile of the isolated neutron star RX J0720.4--3125 observed with XMM-Newton

Mark Cropper (1), Silvia Zane (1), Gavin Ramsay (1), Frank Haberl (2)Christian Motch (3) ((1) MSSL, (2) MPE Garching, (3) Observatoire Astronomique, Strasbourg)

Comments: accepted for publication in A&A special issue of XMM results, 6 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[642] arXiv:astro-ph/0010643 [pdf, other]

Title: On ionization effects and abundance ratios in damped Lyman alpha systems

Yuri I. Izotov (Main Astronomical Observatory, Kiev), Daniel Schaerer, Corinne Charbonnel (OMP, Toulouse)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ (scheduled in march 10, 2001 issue) 20 pages including 5 figures (minor corrections in Table 2)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[643] arXiv:astro-ph/0010644 [pdf, other]

Title: The equilibrium of dense plasma in a gravity field

B.V.Vasiliev

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[644] arXiv:astro-ph/0010645 [pdf, other]

Title: Resolving Sirius-like binaries with the Hubble Space Telescope

M.A. Barstow, Howard E. Bond, M.R. Burleigh, J.B. Holberg

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 891

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[645] arXiv:astro-ph/0010646 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of an X-ray periodicity in the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy Mrk 766 with XMM-Newton

Th. Boller, R. Keil, J. Truemper (MPE Garching, Germany), P.T. O'Brien, J. Reeves (Leicester University, UK), M. Page (MSSL, UK)

Comments: 6 pages, 8 Figures, accepted for publication in the special A&A Letters issue for XMM-Newton; corrections in Section 2.2 required

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[646] arXiv:astro-ph/0010647 [pdf, other]

Title: Energy relaxation in galaxies induced by an external environment and/or incoherent internal pulsations

Henry E. Kandrup (University of Florida)

Comments: 7 pages including 4 Figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) 681

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[647] arXiv:astro-ph/0010648 [pdf, other]

Title: Reconstruction of the Zone of Avoidance

Yehuda Hoffman

Comments: 12 pages, 7 Figures, Latex, uses this http URL; to appear in Mapping the Hidden Universe, ASP Conf. Ser., eds. R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, P.A. Henning, H. Andernach

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[648] arXiv:astro-ph/0010649 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton observations of the BL Lac MS 0737+7441

Th. Boller, M. Gliozzi (MPE Garching, Germany), G. Griffiths, S. Sembay (Leicester University, UK), R. Keil, O. Schwentker, W. Brinkmann (MPE Garching, Germany), S. Vercellone (CNR Milano, Italy)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 Figures, accepted for publication in the special A&A Letters issue for XMM-Newton

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[649] arXiv:astro-ph/0010650 [pdf, other]

Title: VLBI imaging of the gravitational lenses B1422+231 and MGJ0414+0534

E. Ros (1), J.C. Guirado (2), J.M. Marcaide (2), M.A. Perez-Torres (3), E.E. Falco (4), J.A. Munoz (5), A. Alberdi (6), L. Lara (6) ((1) MPIfR, Bonn, Germany; (2)Dep. Astronomy, U. Valencia, Spain; (3) IRA/CNR, Bologna, Italy; (4) Harvard-CfA, Cambridge, US; (5) IAC, La Laguna, Spain; (6)IAA/CSIC, Granada, Spain)

Comments: Proceedings of the 4th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Zamorano J., Gorgas J., Gallego J. (eds.), Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Kluwer; 4 pages, 2 figures, needs this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[650] arXiv:astro-ph/0010651 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropic inverse Compton scattering in radio galaxies and particle energy distribution

G.Brunetti, G.Setti

Comments: 4 pages, 4 .ps figure, uses newpaspsty (included). To appear in "Particles and Fields in Radio Galaxies", this http URL and this http URL (Eds.), to be published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)