Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2000

[301] arXiv:astro-ph/0011301 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle injection and reacceleration in clusters of galaxies and the EUV excess: the case of Coma

G.Brunetti, G.Setti, L.Feretti, G.Giovannini

Comments: 22 pages, plus this http URL figures, Latex, this http URL included, New Astronomy, accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[302] arXiv:astro-ph/0011302 [pdf, other]

Title: Should Elliptical Galaxies Be Idealised as Collisionless Equilibria?

Henry E. Kandrup (University of Florida)

Comments: an invited talk at: The Workshop on Observational Manifestations of Chaos in Astrophysical Objects, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, August 2000 16 pp, update version to appear in Space Science Reviews

Journal-ref: Space Sci.Rev. 102 (2002) 101-114

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[303] arXiv:astro-ph/0011303 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the First Stars with Hydrogen and Helium Recombination Emission

Jason Tumlinson, Mark L. Giroux, J. Michael Shull

Comments: 4 pages emulateapj, one eps figure, submitted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[304] arXiv:astro-ph/0011304 [pdf, other]

Title: Assisted stellar suicide: the wind-driven evolution of the recurrent nova T Pyxidis

C. Knigge (Southampton), A.R. King (Leicester), J. Patterson (Columbia)

Comments: accepted for publication in A&A Letters; 5 pages; no figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[305] arXiv:astro-ph/0011305 [pdf, other]

Title: The Be/X-ray binary LS 992/RX J0812.4-3114: physical parameters and long-term variability

P. Reig (U. Crete), I. Negueruela (SAX SDC), D.A.H. Buckley (SAA), M.J. Coe (U. Southampton), J. Fabregat (U. Valencia), N.J. Haigh (U. Southampton)

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[306] arXiv:astro-ph/0011306 [pdf, other]

Title: Selfconsistent Numerical Calculation of Relativistic Neutron Star Magnetospheres

Peter Biltzinger, Klaus Oswald Thielheim (University of Kiel)

Comments: Title and content changed, 24 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[307] arXiv:astro-ph/0011307 [pdf, other]

Title: High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy and imaging of supernova remnant N132D

Ehud Behar (1), Andrew P. Rasmussen (1), R. Gareth Griffiths (2), Konrad Dennerl (3), Marc Audard (4), Bernd Aschenbach (3), Albert C. Brinkman (5) ((1) Columbia University, New York, USA (2) University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K. (3) Max-Planck-Institute, Garching, Germany (4) Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland (5) Space Research Organization of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Comments: To appear in A&A Letters, 365 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[308] arXiv:astro-ph/0011308 [pdf, other]

Title: Shock geometry and inverse Compton emission from the wind of a binary pulsar

Lewis Ball, Jennifer Dodd

Comments: To be published in the Publications of the Astrophysical Society of Australia, Volume 18 number 1, (10 pages, 6 postscript figures)

Journal-ref: PASA, 2001, 18, 98-104.

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[309] arXiv:astro-ph/0011309 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensitivity of an Imaging Space Infrared Interferometer

Tadashi Nakajima, Hideo Matsuhara

Comments: 28 pages, 9 figures. To be published in Applied Optics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[310] arXiv:astro-ph/0011310 [pdf, other]

Title: Naked eye star visibility and limiting magnitude mapped from DMSP-OLS satellite data

P. Cinzano (1), F. Falchi (1), C. D. Elvidge (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Padova, Italy, (2) Office of the Director, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO)

Comments: 15 pages, 8 size-reduced PostScript figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, high-resolution original maps will be available as zipped TIFF files from this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) 34

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[311] arXiv:astro-ph/0011311 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Fine Structure in the Fireballs Peak of the 1998 Leonids

Costantino Sigismondi (Yale University, Dept. of Astronomy, Astronomical Observatory of Rome and ICRA, International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics)

Comments: 2 pages, Latex, with 3 figures, to appear in Proc. of the IX Marcel Grossmann Meeting, World Scientific Pub. (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[312] arXiv:astro-ph/0011312 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature of dwarf nova outbursts

Valentin Buat-Menard, Jean-Marie Hameury, Jean-Pierre Lasota

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[313] arXiv:astro-ph/0011313 [pdf, other]

Title: The BAIKAL neutrino project: status report

G.V.Domogatsky, for BAIKAL experiment

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures. Invited Talk at Neutrino-2000, XIX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Sudbury, June 16-21, 2000

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.91:438-444,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[314] arXiv:astro-ph/0011314 [pdf, other]

Title: Do relativistic corrections affect microlensing amplification?

Junya Ebina, Takeaki Osuga, Hideki Asada, Masumi Kasai

Comments: 4 pages (PTPTeX); accepted for publication in Prog. Theor. Phys

Journal-ref: Prog.Theor.Phys. 104 (2000) 1317-1320

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[315] arXiv:astro-ph/0011315 [pdf, other]

Title: Microquasars: Open Questions and Future Perspectives

I.F. Mirabel

Comments: 9 pages, no figures. Summary of discussions to be published in Proc. of 3rd Microquasar workshop, Granada, Sept. 2000. Eds. A.J. Castro-Tirado, J. Greiner and M. Paredes. Astrophysics and Space Science

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 276 (2001) 319-327

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[316] arXiv:astro-ph/0011316 [pdf, other]

Title: General Relativistic Electromagnetic Fields of a Slowly Rotating Magnetized Neutron Star. I. Formulation of the equations

L. Rezzolla, B. J. Ahmedov, J. C. Miller

Comments: A few typos corrected; matches the versions in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 723

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

[317] arXiv:astro-ph/0011317 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of nonrandom patterns in cosmological gravitational clustering

R. Valdarnini

Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[318] arXiv:astro-ph/0011318 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. I. Stochastic Heating of Small Grains

B. T. Draine, Aigen Li (Princeton University)

Comments: Submitted to ApJ. 42 pages, 18 figures, Latex

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.551:807-824,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[319] arXiv:astro-ph/0011319 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. II. The Diffuse Interstellar Medium

Aigen Li, B. T. Draine (Princeton University)

Comments: Final version published in ApJ, 554, 778 but with factor 1.086 error in Table 6 and Fig. 16 corrected. Main change from astro-ph version 1 is correction of typographical errors in Table 1, and correction of typo in eq. (A2). 51 pages, 16 figures, Latex

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.554:778-802,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[320] arXiv:astro-ph/0011320 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultra - High Energy Cosmic Rays from decay of the Super Heavy Dark Matter Relics

A.G. Doroshkevich, P.D. Naselsky (Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Copenhagen)

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Physical Review D

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[321] arXiv:astro-ph/0011321 [pdf, other]

Title: Inverse cascade in decaying 3D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Mattias Christensson, Mark Hindmarsh, Axel Brandenburg

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, minor changes to match published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E64 (2001) 056405

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[322] arXiv:astro-ph/0011322 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of Ly-alpha Absorbing Galaxies

Suzanne M. Linder (INAOE/Cardiff University)

Comments: 2 pages, to appear in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[323] arXiv:astro-ph/0011323 [pdf, other]

Title: A Mosaic of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies with XMM-Newton

Ulrich G. Briel, J. Patrick Henry, David H. Lumb, Monique Arnaud, Doris Neumann, Nabila Aghanim, Rene Gastaud, Jonathan P. D. Mittaz, Timothy P. Sasseen, W. Tom Vestrand

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepetd for publication in the A&A special issue on XMM-Newton results

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[324] arXiv:astro-ph/0011324 [pdf, other]

Title: Production of 2H, 3He, and 7Li from Interactions Between Jets and Clouds

M. A. Famiano, J. Vandegriff, R. N. Boyd, T. Kajino, P. Osmer

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[325] arXiv:astro-ph/0011325 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Size-Dependence of the Inclination Distribution of the Main Kuiper Belt

H.F. Levison, S.A. Stern

Comments: 14 pages, 6 postscript figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[326] arXiv:astro-ph/0011326 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the Birth Aggregate of the Solar System

Fred C. Adams (U. Michigan), Gregory Laughlin (NASA Ames)

Comments: 25 pages, 2 figures, accepted to Icarus

Journal-ref: Icarus150:151-162,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[327] arXiv:astro-ph/0011327 [pdf, other]

Title: The Discovery of Argon in Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)

S.A. Stern, D.C. Slater, M.C. Festou, J.Wm. Parker, G.R. Gladstone. M.F. A'Hearn, E. Wilkinson

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures. ApJ, 545, in press (2000)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.544:L169-L172,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[328] arXiv:astro-ph/0011328 [pdf, other]

Title: The Local Stellar Initial Mass Function

Pavel Kroupa (Kiel)

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures (figs.1 and 3 in colour), invited review for STAR2000: Dynamics of Star Clusters and the Milky Way, eds S. Deiters, R. Spurzem, et al., ASP Conf. Series, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[329] arXiv:astro-ph/0011329 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of Gravitational Waves from Inflation

Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech), Andrew H. Jaffe (UC Berkeley)

Comments: 13 page, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of DPF2000, Columbus, 9-12 August 2000 and (with slight revisions) in the proceedings of, "Gravitational Waves: A Challenge to Theoretical Astrophysics," Trieste, 5-9 June 2000

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys. A16S1A (2001) 116-128

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

[330] arXiv:astro-ph/0011330 [pdf, other]

Title: NICMOS Imaging of the Host Galaxies of z ~ 2 - 3 Radio-Quiet Quasars

S. E. Ridgway (JHU), T. M. Heckman (JHU), D. Calzetti (STScI), M. Lehnert (MPE)

Comments: 25 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[331] arXiv:astro-ph/0011331 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular Tracers of the Central 12 pc of the Galactic Center

Melvyn C. H. Wright (1), Alison L. Coil (1), Robeson S. McGary (2), Paul T.P. Ho (2), Andrew I. Harris (3) ((1) University of California, Berkeley; (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; (3) University of Maryland)

Comments: 24 pages, including 17 figures; to appear in The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[332] arXiv:astro-ph/0011332 [pdf, other]

Title: Large Scale Structure

Jaan Einasto

Comments: LaTex (sty files added), 24 pages, 8 PostScript figures embedded, in ``Understanding the Universe at the close of XXth Century'', ed. M. Signore, Elseview (in press)

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev. 45 (2001) 355-372

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[333] arXiv:astro-ph/0011333 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-Scale Structure and Dark Matter Problem

Jaan Einasto

Comments: LaTex (sty files added), 9 pages, 3 PostScript figures embedded, in ``Dark matter in astro and particle physics'', eds. H.V. Klapdor Kleingrothaus and B. Majorovits, Springer, Heidelberg (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[334] arXiv:astro-ph/0011334 [pdf, other]

Title: The structure of the Universe on 100 Mpc Scales

Jaan Einasto

Comments: LaTex (sty files added), 10 pages, 5 PostScript figures embedded, in ``9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on relativistic astrophysics'', ed. R. Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[335] arXiv:astro-ph/0011335 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolutionary Constraints from Infra-Red Source Counts

Chris Pearson (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan)

Comments: 18 pages, 12 figures, changes due to refs comments and accepted by MNRAS, models available at : this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 1511

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[336] arXiv:astro-ph/0011336 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical simulations of the accretion-ejection instability

Stuart Caunt, Michel Tagger

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of Third Microquasar Workshop

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 276 (2001) 157-160

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[337] arXiv:astro-ph/0011337 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of X-ray lines from a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB991216): Evidence of Moving Ejecta from the Progenitor

L. Piro, G. Garmire, M. Garcia, G. Stratta, E. Costa, M. Feroci, P. Meszaros, M. Vietri, H. Bradt, D. Frail, F. Frontera, J. Halpern, J. Heise, K. Hurley, N. Kawai, R. M. Kippen, F. Marshall, T. Murakami, V. V. Sokolov, T. Takeshima, A. Yoshida

Comments: 11 pages,2 fig.s, link to the published paper in Science, 290, 955 (2000) through this http URL

Journal-ref: Science 290 (2000) 955-958

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[338] arXiv:astro-ph/0011338 [pdf, other]

Title: On the hypothesis of an advection-dominated flow in the core of NGC 1052: new constraints from a BeppoSAX observation

M.Guainazzi (1), T.Oosterbroek (2), L.A.Antonelli (3), G.Matt (4) ((1) XMM-Newton SOC, VILSPA/ESA, E; (2) SSD/ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, NL; (3) Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, I; (4) Universita' "Roma 3", I)

Comments: 5 Latex pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[339] arXiv:astro-ph/0011339 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Origin of Faint Intracluster Starlight in Coma

Vladimir Korchagin, Toshio Tsuchiya, Shoken M. Miyama

Comments: 11 pages, including 5 figures / to appear in Astrophysical Journal (2001) vol. 548

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[340] arXiv:astro-ph/0011340 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and Infrared Spectroscopy of the type IIn SN 1998S : Days 3-127

A. Fassia, W.P.S. Meikle, N. Chugai, T.R. Geballe, P. Lundqvist, N.A. Walton, D. Pollacco, S. Veilleux, G. Wright, M. Pettini, T. Kerr, E. Puchnarewicz, P. Puxley, M. Irwin, C. Packham, S. J. Smartt, D. Harmer

Comments: 22 pages, 14 figures, accepted in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 907

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[341] arXiv:astro-ph/0011341 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing current synthesis models of the X-ray background

R. Gilli (Univ. Firenze, AIP), M. Salvati (Oss. Arcetri), G. Hasinger (AIP)

Comments: 11 pages with 8 figures, A&A accepted

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.366:407-417,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[342] arXiv:astro-ph/0011342 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Energy Spectra of the Super-soft X-ray Sources CAL87 and RXJ0925.7-4758 Observed with ASCA

K. Ebisawa, K. Mukai, T. Kotani, K. Asai, T. Dotani, F. Nagase, H. W. Hartmann, J. Heise, P. Kahabka, A. van Teeseling

Comments: ApJ accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[343] arXiv:astro-ph/0011343 [pdf, other]

Title: Fast magnetic reconnection in free space: self-similar evolution process

S.Nitta (NAOJ), S.Tanuma (STE-lab. Nagoya-U), K.Shibata (Kyoto-U), K.Maezawa (ISAS)

Comments: 17 Pages, 17 Figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[344] arXiv:astro-ph/0011344 [pdf, other]

Title: Energy Release on the Surface of a Rapidly Rotating Neutron Star during Disk Accretion: A Thermodynamic Approach

N. Sibgatullin, R. Sunyaev

Comments: 12 pages, 0 figures (Astronomy Letters in press)

Journal-ref: Astron.Lett. 26 (2000) 772-778

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

[345] arXiv:astro-ph/0011345 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactic Disk Warps

Konrad Kuijken, Inigo Garcia (Kapteyn Institute, Groningen)

Comments: paper presented at ``Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies'', Rome, June 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[346] arXiv:astro-ph/0011346 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Pulsars in the Magellanic Clouds

F. Crawford (MIT), V. M. Kaspi (MIT, McGill), R. N. Manchester (ATNF), A. G. Lyne (Jodrell Bank), F. Camilo (Columbia), N. D'Amico (Bologna)

Comments: 14 pages, including 6 figures and 3 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.553:367-374,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[347] arXiv:astro-ph/0011347 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and EUV Light Curves of Dwarf Nova Outbursts

Christopher W. Mauche (Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab.), Janet A. Mattei (AAVSO), Frank M. Bateson (VSS/RASNZ)

Comments: 5 pages including 2 tables and 11 encapsulated postscript figures; LaTeX format, uses this http URL; submitted for inclusion in the proceedings of "Evolution of Binary and Multiple Star Systems."

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[348] arXiv:astro-ph/0011348 [pdf, other]

Title: Is There Still Room for Warm/Hot Gas? Simulating the X-ray Background Spectrum

L. A. Phillips, J. P. Ostriker, R. Cen (Princeton University)

Comments: 5 pages with 1 figure; submitted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[349] arXiv:astro-ph/0011349 [pdf, other]

Title: Precessing collimated outflows in the planetary nebula IC 4846

Luis F. Miranda (1), Martin A. Guerrero (2), Jose M. Torrelles (3) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Spain, (2) Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (3) Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC/CSIC) and Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (CSIC), Spain)

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures, to be published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 195

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[350] arXiv:astro-ph/0011350 [pdf, other]

Title: Nuclear spectra of polar-ring galaxies

V.P.Reshetnikov (1), M.Faundez-Abans (2), M. de Oliveira-Abans (2) ((1) AI SPbSU, Russia; (2) LNA, Brasil)

Comments: 7 pages, 4 postscript figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 689

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)