Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2000

[101] arXiv:astro-ph/0011101 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraviolet Signposts of Resonant Dynamics in the Starburst-Ringed Sab Galaxy, M94 (NGC 4736)

William H. Waller, Michael N. Fanelli, William C. Keel, Ralph Bohlin, Nicholas R. Collins, Barry F. Madore, Pamela M. Marcum, Susan G. Neff, Robert W. O'Connell, Joel D. Offenberg, Morton S. Roberts, Andrew M. Smith, Theodore P. Stecher

Comments: revised figure 1 (corrected coordinate labels on declination axis); 19 pages of text + 19 figures (jpg files); accepted for publication in AJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[102] arXiv:astro-ph/0011102 [pdf, other]

Title: Detectability of the Parallax-induced Deviations in the Astrometric Centroid Shift Trajectories of Gravitational Microlensing Events

Cheongho Han (Chungbuk National University, Korea), Kyongae Chang (Chongju University, Korea)

Comments: MNRAS accepted, total 6 pages including 4 figures

Journal-ref: CBNU-A&SS-14/99

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[103] arXiv:astro-ph/0011103 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of low-energy nuclear forces and Solar Neutrino Problems in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model of light nuclei

A.N. Ivanov, H. Oberhummer, N.I. Troitskaya, M. Faber

Comments: 18 pages, no figures, Latex

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[104] arXiv:astro-ph/0011104 [pdf, other]

Title: Microslit Nod-shuffle Spectroscopy - a technique for achieving very high densities of spectra

Karl Glazebrook, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Comments: Accepted for publication in PASP; 25 pages, 12 figures. A higher-quality compressed Postscript file (2.2Mb) is available from this http URL

Journal-ref: Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.113:197,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[105] arXiv:astro-ph/0011105 [pdf, other]

Title: Where is the [O III]4363 emitting region in active galactic nuclei?

Tohru Nagao (1), Takashi Murayama (1), Yoshiaki Taniguchi (1 and 2) ((1) Astronomical Institute, Tohoku Univ., (2) Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii)

Comments: 19 pages, 1 separate table. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[106] arXiv:astro-ph/0011106 [pdf, other]

Title: From the Galaxy to the Edge of the Universe: Plausible Sources of UHECRs

Angela V. Olinto

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures; talk given at the International Workshop on Observing Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays From Space and Earth, Metepec, Puebla, Mexico (2000)

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc. 566 (2000) 99-112

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[107] arXiv:astro-ph/0011107 [pdf, other]

Title: Maximally incompressible neutron star matter

Timothy S. Olson

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. C63 (2000) 015802

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[108] arXiv:astro-ph/0011108 [pdf, other]

Title: The Density Probability Distribution Function in Turbulent, Isothermal, Magnetized Flows in Slab Geometry

Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, Thierry Passot

Comments: To appear in "Computational Fluid Dynamics": Proceedings of the Fourth UNAM Supercomputing Conference, eds. E. Ramos, G. Cisneros, R. Fernandez-Flores & A. Santillan (Singapore: World Scientific). 8 pages, 2 ps figures. Uses this http URL style file

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[109] arXiv:astro-ph/0011109 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dyer-Roeder distance in quintessence cosmology and the estimation of H_0 through time-delays

Fabio Giovi, Franco Occhionero, Luca Amendola (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.325:1097,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[110] arXiv:astro-ph/0011110 [pdf, other]

Title: New class of low frequency QPOs: signature of nuclear burning or accretion disk instabilities?

M. Revnivtsev (1,2), E. Churazov (2,1), M. Gilfanov (2,1), R. Sunyaev (2,1) ((1)-Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia;(2) - MPA, Garching bei Munchen, Germany)

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A Main Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 372 (2001) 138-144

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[111] arXiv:astro-ph/0011111 [pdf, other]

Title: Eclipsing Broad Emission Lines in Hercules X-1: Evidence for a Disk Wind?

James Chiang (NASA/GSFC)

Comments: 32 pages, 9 figures, LaTeX, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[112] arXiv:astro-ph/0011112 [pdf, other]

Title: A Near-Infrared Imaging Survey of the Chamaeleon I Dark Cloud

M. Gomez (Obser. Astron. de Cordoba, Argentina), S.J. Kenyon (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: 33 pages (including tables), 8 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[113] arXiv:astro-ph/0011113 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure of the Galactic Stellar Halo Prior to Disk Formation

Masashi Chiba (NAOJ), Timothy C. Beers (MSU)

Comments: 27 pages, including 6 figures and 1 table, ApJ in press, a postscript file with all figures embedded available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[114] arXiv:astro-ph/0011114 [pdf, other]

Title: A shock-excited OH maser in a post-AGB envelope ?

M.N.Sevenster, J.M.Chapman

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[115] arXiv:astro-ph/0011115 [pdf, other]

Title: Star Forming Objects in the Tidal Tails of Compact Groups

J. Iglesias-Paramo, J.M. Vilchez

Comments: 5 gif figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[116] arXiv:astro-ph/0011116 [pdf, other]

Title: Disk-corona interactions in soft spectral states of black hole binaries

Piotr T. Zycki, (CAMK, Warsaw)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 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: 2001, ApSSS, 276, 169

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[117] arXiv:astro-ph/0011117 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton EPIC Observation of SMC SNR 0102-72.3

M. Sasaki (1), T.F.X. Stadlbauer (1), F. Haberl (1), M.D. Filipovi'c (1,2,3), P.J. Bennie (4) ((1) MPE Garching, Germany, (2) University of Western Sydney Nepean, Australia, (3) ATNF, Australia, (4) University of Leicester, United Kingdom)

Comments: 5 pages, accepted for publication in the special A&A Letters issue for XMM-Newton

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[118] arXiv:astro-ph/0011118 [pdf, other]

Title: The heavy-element abundances of AGB stars and the angular momentum conservation model of wind accretion for barium stars

Y. C. Liang (1,3), G. Zhao (1,3), B. Zhang (2,4) ((1) Beijing Astro. Obs., (2) Hebei Normal Univ. (3) National Astro. Obs. (4) BAC)

Comments: 14 pages, LaTex, 17 PS figures included, accepted for publication in A & A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[119] arXiv:astro-ph/0011119 [pdf, other]

Title: UV observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 1795 with the optical monitor on XMM-Newton

J. P. Mittaz, J. S. Kaastra, T. Tamura, A. C. Fabian, R. F. Mushotzky, J. R. Peterson, Y. Ikebe, D. H. Lumb, F. Paerels, G. Stewart, S. Truolyubov

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures accepted by A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[120] arXiv:astro-ph/0011120 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbital elements of barium stars formed through a wind accretion scenario

J. H. Liu (1,2), B. Zhang (1,5), Y. C. Liang (3), Q. H. Peng (4,5) ((1) Hebei Normal Univ., (2)Shijianzhuang Teachers' College, (3) Beijing Astro. Obs. (4) Nanjing Univ. (5) BAC)

Comments: 7 pages, LaTex, 4 PS figures and 1 table included, accepted for publication in A & A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[121] arXiv:astro-ph/0011121 [pdf, other]

Title: XTE J1118+480: Clues on the Nature of the Accretion Flow from the Optical Variability

A. Merloni (IoA), T. Di Matteo (Harvard), A. C. Fabian (IoA)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. 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.276:213-216,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[122] arXiv:astro-ph/0011122 [pdf, other]

Title: The Turbulent Shock Origin of Proto--Stellar Cores

Paolo Padoan, Mika Juvela, Alyssa A. Goodman, AAke Nordlund

Comments: 17 pages (figures included). Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[123] arXiv:astro-ph/0011123 [pdf, other]

Title: Reviving Fossil Radio Plasma in Clusters of Galaxies by Adiabatic Compression in Environmental Shock Waves

Torsten A. Ensslin (MPI f. Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)Gopal-Krishna (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India)

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 366 (2001) 26-34

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[124] arXiv:astro-ph/0011124 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiation-driven winds of hot stars. XIII. A description of NLTE line blocking and blanketing towards realistic models of expanding atmospheres

A. W. A. Pauldrach, T. L. Hoffmann, M. Lennon

Comments: 42 Pages, 39 Figures. LaTeX documentclass aa, packages graphicx and times. Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 395 (2002) 611-612

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[125] arXiv:astro-ph/0011125 [pdf, other]

Title: WIYN Open Cluster Study 5. Lithium Depletion and Metallicity in G and K Dwarfs of the Open Cluster M35

D. Barrado y Navascues (1,2), Constantine P. Deliyannis (3), John R. Stauffer (4,5) ((1), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie. (2) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, (3) Astronomy Department, Indiana University, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (5) IPAC)

Comments: Accepted ApJ (Feb 20, 2001 issue)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[126] arXiv:astro-ph/0011126 [pdf, other]

Title: Star Formation History in the Solar Vicinity

Bertelli Gianpaolo (1,2), Nasi Emma (3) ((1) CNR-GNA Roma (2) Dep. of Astron. Padova (3) Astron. Obs. Padova)

Comments: 30 pages and 3 tables (LaTex), 9 this http URL; replaced figure 9 with the correct one. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[127] arXiv:astro-ph/0011127 [pdf, other]

Title: Confronting Hydrodynamic Simulations Of Relativistic Jets With Data: What Do We Learn About Particles & Fields?

Philip A. Hughes (U. Michigan)

Comments: 12 pages, 10 reduced resolution figures, invited talk 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)

[128] arXiv:astro-ph/0011128 [pdf, other]

Title: Results from Microlensing Searches for Extrasolar Planets

Penny D. Sackett

Comments: To Appear in the ASP Conference Series (IAU Symposium 202): "Planetary Systems in the Universe: Observation, Formation and Evolution," Editors A. Penny, P. Artymowicz, A.-M. Lagrange, and S. Russell

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[129] arXiv:astro-ph/0011129 [pdf, other]

Title: Extracting cosmological information from galaxy spectra and observations of high-redshift objects

Raul Jimenez (Rutgers University)

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures; invited review to appear in Proceedings of the IV Scientific Meeting of the Sociedad Espanola de Astrofisica (SEA)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[130] arXiv:astro-ph/0011130 [pdf, other]

Title: Helioseismology and screening of nuclear reactions in the Sun

G. Fiorentini, B. Ricci, F.L. Villante

Comments: 8 pages + 2 ps figures, RevTeX style

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett. B503 (2001) 121-125

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

[131] arXiv:astro-ph/0011131 [pdf, other]

Title: The Development of Gas/Star Offsets in Tidal Tails

Chris Mihos (Case Western Reserve University)

Comments: 10 pages, 4 B&W figures, 2 color figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[132] arXiv:astro-ph/0011132 [pdf, other]

Title: Alkali Metals and the Color of Brown Dwarfs

Adam Burrows

Comments: 8 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures, to be published in Ultracool Dwarfs, a Special Session of the I.A.U. General Assembly held August 12, 2000 in Manchester, England, eds. Hugh Jones and Iain Steele, Springer-Verlag: Lecture Notes in Physics series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[133] arXiv:astro-ph/0011133 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow with Continuous Energy Injection: Signature of a Highly-Magnetized Millisecond Pulsar

Bing Zhang, Peter Meszaros (Astronomy & Astrophysics Dept., Pennsylvania State University)

Comments: 5 pages, emulateapj style, to appear in ApJ Letters, updated with the accepted version, a few corrections are made

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 552 (2001) L35-L38

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[134] arXiv:astro-ph/0011134 [pdf, other]

Title: Damped Lyman-alpha absorption from a nearby Low Surface Brightness galaxy

D. V. Bowen, T. M. Tripp, E. B. Jenkins (Princeton Observatory)

Comments: Submitted to AJ

Journal-ref: AJ, 121, 1456 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[135] arXiv:astro-ph/0011135 [pdf, other]

Title: Keck Diffraction-Limited Imaging of the Young Quadruple Star System HD 98800

L. Prato (1), A. M. Ghez (1), R. K. Pina (2), C. M. Telesco (2), R. S. Fisher (2), P. Wizinowich (3), O. Lai (3), D. S. Acton (3), P. Stomski (3) ((1) UCLA, (2) University of Florida, Gainesville, (3) W. M. Keck Observatory)

Comments: 27 pages, 4 tables, 9 figures; small revisions to section 3.2.4

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[136] arXiv:astro-ph/0011136 [pdf, other]

Title: From the Top to the Bottom of the Main Sequence: A Complete Mass Function of the Young Open Cluster M35

D. Barrado y Navascués (1,2), John R. Stauffer (3,4), Jerome Bouvier (5), Eduardo L. Martín (6), ((1) Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie. (2) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, (3) Harvard--Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (4) IPAC, (5) Grenoble (6) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

Comments: Accepted ApJ (Jan 10, 2001 issue)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[137] arXiv:astro-ph/0011137 [pdf, other]

Title: Incidence and survival of remnant disks around main-sequence stars

H.J. Habing, C. Dominik, M. Jourdain de Muizon, R.J. Laureijs, M.F. Kessler, K. Leech, L. Metcalfe, A. Salama, R. Siebenmorgen, N. Trams, P. Bouchet

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, Astron & Astrophys. in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[138] arXiv:astro-ph/0011138 [pdf, other]

Title: Simultaneous intensive photometry and high resolution spectroscopy of Delta Scuti stars. V. The high--degree modes in the pulsational content of BV Circini

Luciano Mantegazza, Ennio Poretti, Filippo M. Zerbi (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

Comments: 12 pages (in A&A style), 9 ps figures (Fig. 7 in colour) Accepted for A&A Main Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[139] arXiv:astro-ph/0011139 [pdf, other]

Title: 47 Tuc: The Spectroscopic Versus CMD Age Discrepancy

Alexandre Vazdekis, Maurizio Salaris, Nobuo Arimoto, James A. Rose

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 549, Mar 1, 2001 issue

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[140] arXiv:astro-ph/0011140 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton survey of the low-metallicity open cluster NGC 2516

S. Sciortino, G. Micela, F. Damiani, E. Flaccomio, K. Briggs, M. Denby, J. Pye, N. Grosso, A. M. Read, P. Gondoin, R. D. Jeffries

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures (in 11 postscript files)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[141] arXiv:astro-ph/0011141 [pdf, other]

Title: Combined MEM and MHW analysis of CMB observations

R.B.Barreiro, P.Vielva, M.P.Hobson, E.Martinez-Gonzalez, A.N.Lasenby, J.L.Sanz, L.Toffolatti

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of The MPA/ESO/MPE Joint Astronomy Conference "Mining the Sky" held in Garching, Germany, July 31 - August 4 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[142] arXiv:astro-ph/0011142 [pdf, other]

Title: MERLIN/VLA imaging of the gravitational lens system B0218+357

A. D. Biggs, I. W. A. Browne, T. W. B. Muxlow, P. N. Wilkinson (University of Manchester, JBO)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 6 pages, 4 included PostScript figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 821

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[143] arXiv:astro-ph/0011143 [pdf, other]

Title: Planet Detection Capabilities of the Eddington Mission

Hans J. Deeg, Keith Horne, Fabio Favata, Eddington Science Team

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proc. of IAU Symp. 202 - Planetary Systems in the Universe (Manchester, 8/2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[144] arXiv:astro-ph/0011144 [pdf, other]

Title: Ambiguities in Determination Of Self-Affinity in the AE-index Time Series

N. W. Watkins, M. P. Freeman, C. S. Rhodes, G. Rowlands

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures. 3rd version has minor revisions added at the proof stage, and updated reference list

Journal-ref: Fractals, Vol. 9, No. 4, 471-480 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[145] arXiv:astro-ph/0011145 [pdf, other]

Title: The 1997 hard state outburst of the X-ray transient GS 1354-64 / BW Cir

C. Brocksopp, P.G. Jonker, R.P. Fender, P.J. Groot, M. van der Klis, S.J. Tingay

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 276 (2001) 117-120

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[146] arXiv:astro-ph/0011146 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling gaseous and stellar kinematics in the disc galaxies NGC 772, NGC 3898, and NGC 7782

E. Pignatelli (1), E. M. Corsini (2), J. C. Vega Beltran (3), C. Scarlata (4)A. Pizzella (2), J. G. Funes, S.J. (5), W. W. Zeilinger (6), J. E. Beckman (3), F. Bertola (4) ((1) SISSA, Italy, (2) Osservatorio di Asiago, Italy, (3) IAC, Spain, (4) Universita' di Padova, Italy, (5) Vatican Observatory, Arizona, USA, (6) Universitat Wien, Austria)

Comments: 21 pages, 18 low resolution encapsulated postscript figures. For high resolution figures, see this http URL . Accepted for publications in MNRAS. Replaced with accepted version, with only minor changes. Tables with original data will be made available at CDS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) 188

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[147] arXiv:astro-ph/0011147 [pdf, other]

Title: From Anisotropy to Omega

Alessandro Melchiorri, Louise M. Griffiths

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, corrected some typos

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev. 45 (2001) 321-328

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

[148] arXiv:astro-ph/0011148 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields on Neutron Star Structure

Christian Y. Cardall, Madappa Prakash, James M. Lattimer (SUNY at Stony Brook)

Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. 37 pages, 8 figures, uses aastex macros

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 554 (2001) 322-339

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

[149] arXiv:astro-ph/0011149 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the tensor mode from large scale structure observations

B. Novosyadlyj (L'viv Univ.), R. Durrer (Geneva Univ.), S. Apunevych (L'viv Univ.)

Comments: 3 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 201, Manchester, 7-11 August 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[150] arXiv:astro-ph/0011150 [pdf, other]

Title: Type Ia Supernovae and Remnant Neutron Stars

A.R. King (1,2), J.E. Pringle (2), D.T. Wickramasinghe (2,3) ((1) Univ. of Leicester, (2) IoA Cambridge, (3) Astrophysical Theory Centre Australia)

Comments: 4 pages, no figures; accepted for MNRAS; typo corrected

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2001) L45

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)