Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2000

[401] arXiv:astro-ph/0011401 [pdf, other]

Title: OAO1657-415 : A `Missing Link' in High Mass X-ray Binaries?

D.H. Maxwell (1), A.J. Norton (1), P. Roche (2) ((1) The Open University, (2) Leicester University)

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, to be published in 'Evolution of binary and multiple star systems', proceedings of conference, Bormio

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[402] arXiv:astro-ph/0011402 [pdf, other]

Title: Synthetic Doppler maps of gaseous flows in semidetached binaries based on the results of 3D gas dynamical simulations

D.V.Bisikalo (1), A.A.Boyarchuk (1), O.A.Kuznetsov (2), V.M.Chechetkin (2) ((1)Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Acad. of Sci., Moscow; (2) Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow)

Comments: To be published in Proceedings of International Workshop "Hot Points in Astrophysics", Dubna, Russia, August 22-26, 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[403] arXiv:astro-ph/0011403 [pdf, other]

Title: X Ray Precursors in GRBs and SGRs: outer X tails around a Precessing Gamma Jet

Daniele Fargion (Physics Department and INFN, <a href="http://Ple.A.Moro" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a> 2, Rome, Italy)

Comments: Vulcano Workshop 2000,14 pages,8 figures,Vulcano Workshop 2000, May 22th - May 27th, 2000 -Italy. Marginal editorial corrections (abstract missing) introduced in the text

Journal-ref: Frontier in Astr. and Part. Phys. Ed. Giovannelli et al. SIF Conf. Vol.73,347-360 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[404] arXiv:astro-ph/0011404 [pdf, other]

Title: The Steady Spin Down Rate of 4U 1907+09

A. Baykal, C. Inam (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), M.A. Alpar (Sabanci University, Turkey), J. in't Zand (Space Research Organization Sorbonnelaan, Netherlands), T. Strohmayer (NASA/GSFC, USA)

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 327 (2001) 1269

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[405] arXiv:astro-ph/0011405 [pdf, other]

Title: Giant cluster arcs as a constraint on the scattering cross-section of dark matter

Massimo Meneghetti, Naoki Yoshida, Matthias Bartelmann, Lauro Moscardini, Volker Springel, Giuseppe Tormen, Simon D. M. White

Comments: 8 pages, Latex using MN style, accepted version, to appear in MNRAS. Other figures not included in the paper can be found at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.325:435,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[406] arXiv:astro-ph/0011406 [pdf, other]

Title: The X-ray outbursts of Be/X-ray transients

Ignacio Negueruela (SAX SDC, now Strasbourg), Atsuo T. Okazaki (Hokkai-Gakuen)

Comments: Slightly enlarged version of paper appearing in Proceedings of IAU Colloq 175, eds Smith M.A. et al., ASP Conference Series 214. "The Be phenomenon in early-type stars", p. 713-718. Extended introduction and bibliography, one extra figure. LaTeX file, 3 figs (one in colour, prints fine in B&W);uses this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[407] arXiv:astro-ph/0011407 [pdf, other]

Title: The Be/X-ray transient 4U 0115+63/V635 Cas I. A consistent model

I. Negueruela (SAX SDC &amp; Liverpool JMU, now Strasbourg)A. T. Okazaki (Hokkai-Gakuen)

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, uses this http URL. To appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics Main Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 369 (2001) 108

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[408] arXiv:astro-ph/0011408 [pdf, other]

Title: On the spin-up of neutron stars to millisecond pulsars in long-period binaries

H. Ritter, A. King

Comments: 10 pages, no figures, LaTeX, to appear in: Evolution of Binary and Multiple Star Systems, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. ?, 2001, P. Podsiadlowski et al. (eds.)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[409] arXiv:astro-ph/0011409 [pdf, other]

Title: Finding Signatures of the Youngest Starbursts

Chip Kobulnicky (University of Wisconsin), Kelsey E. Johnson (University of Colorado)

Comments: 6 pages; uses Springer-Verlag document class; 2 figures +1 color figure To appear in Proceedings of "Starbursts: Near and Far", held at Ringberg Castle, Germany, 10-15 September 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[410] arXiv:astro-ph/0011410 [pdf, other]

Title: LOWL p-mode frequencies and their variation with solar activity

Sebastián J. Jiménez-Reyes (1,2), Thierry Corbard (1), Pere L. Pallé (2), Steve Tomczyk (1) ((1) High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA, (2) Instituto de Astrofí sica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain)

Comments: 4 pages, six figures. To appear in GONG-SOHO proceedings (ESA-SP464)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[411] arXiv:astro-ph/0011411 [pdf, other]

Title: Signature of the solar cycle in the low degree p-modes using Mark-I

Sebastián J. Jiménez-Reyes (1,2), Thierry Corbard (1), Pere L. Pallé (2) ((1) High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA (2) Instituto de Astrofí sica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain)

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, To appear in GONG-SOHO proceedings (ESA-SP464)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[412] arXiv:astro-ph/0011412 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Radio Continuum Survey of the Sky at 1465 MHz between declinations -52 degrees and +68 degrees

C. Tello (1), T. Villela (1), G. F. Smoot (2), S. Torres (3), M. Bersanelli (4) ((1) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil (2) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA (3) Centro Internacional de Fisica, Colombia (4) Universita di Milano, Italy)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 colored eps figures, proceedings paper of contributed talk presented at the IAU Symposium 201, New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters, Manchester, August 2000, eds. A. N. Lasenby and A. Wilkinson

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[413] arXiv:astro-ph/0011413 [pdf, other]

Title: A high-resolution multi-wavelength study of the jet in 3C 273

S. Jester, H.-J. Roeser, K. Meisenheimer (MPIA), R. Perley (NRAO), S. Garrington (Jodrell Bank)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, presented at "Particles and Fields in Radio Galaxies", Oxford, 2000 (to appear in ASP conf. series)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[414] arXiv:astro-ph/0011414 [pdf, other]

Title: Summary: ZeV Air Showers. Where do we Stand?

Enrique Zas (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)

Comments: 19 pages, LaTeX, aipproc, Summary talk given at the International Workshop on Observing UHECR from space and earth, August 9-12-2000, Metepec, Puebla, Mexico

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc. 566 (2000) 399-417

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[415] arXiv:astro-ph/0011415 [pdf, other]

Title: The Galaxy Environment of a Quasar at z=1.226: A Possible Cluster Merger

C. P. Haines (1 and 2), R. G. Clowes (1), L. E. Campusano (2), A. J. Adamson (3) ((1) University of Central Lancashire, UK, (2) Universidad de Chile, Chile, (3) UKIRT, USA)

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. A VIK three-colour image of the 2.25'x2.25' quasar field is available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) 688

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[416] arXiv:astro-ph/0011416 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Approach to Mass Measurements of UHECR: Horizontal Air Showers

Enrique Zas (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)

Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX, aipproc, Talk given at the International Workshop on Observing UHECR from space and earth, August 9-12-2000, Metepec, Puebla, Mexico

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc. 566 (2000) 301-316

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[417] arXiv:astro-ph/0011417 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernovae in the nuclear regions of starburst galaxies

S.Mattila, W.P.S.Meikle

Comments: 19 pages, 7 figures; accepted in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 327 (2001) 350

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[418] arXiv:astro-ph/0011418 [pdf, other]

Title: The Discovery of an Outburst and Pulsed X-ray Flux from SMC X-2 from RXTE Observations

R.H.D. Corbet, F.E. Marshall, M.J. Coe, S. Laycock, G. Handler

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[419] arXiv:astro-ph/0011419 [pdf, other]

Title: Seyfert Galaxies with Circumnuclear/Nuclear Starbursts

Qiusheng Gu (1,2), D. Dultzin-Hacyan (2), J.A. de Diego (2) (1. Astronomy Department, Nanjing University, China; 2. Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, Mexico)

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, to appear in RevMexAA

Journal-ref: RevMexAA, 2001, 37,3-13

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[420] arXiv:astro-ph/0011420 [pdf, other]

Title: Nuclear obscuration and scattering in Seyfert 2 galaxies

Qiusheng Gu (1,2), Roberto Maiolino (3), Deborah Dultzin-Hacyan (2) ((1). Astronomy Department, Nanjing University, China; (2) Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, Mexico; (3) Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, Italy)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in A&Ap

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[421] arXiv:astro-ph/0011421 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems

Andrew Bunker (1), Annette Ferguson (1), Rachel Johnson (1), Richard McMahon (1), Ian Parry (1), Max Pettini (1), Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca (2), Rachel Somerville (1) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (2) University of Nottingham, UK)

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the ESO/ECF workshop on "Deep Fields", 9-12 October 2000, Garching. 4 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[422] arXiv:astro-ph/0011422 [pdf, other]

Title: The Initial Mass Function in the Galactic Center

Donald F. Figer (1,2) ((1) STScI, (2) JHU)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[423] arXiv:astro-ph/0011423 [pdf, other]

Title: Globular Clusters as Probes of the Virgo gE NGC 4472

Terry Bridges (AAO), Keith Ashman (U. Kansas), Mike Beasley, Ray Sharples (Durham), Doug Geisler (Concepcion U.), Dave Hanes (Queen's U.), Steve Zepf (Yale)

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures. Slightly expanded version of paper to appear in IAU Symposium 201, New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters, August 2000 (eds. A. Lasenby and A. Wilkinson)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[424] arXiv:astro-ph/0011424 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar Collisions and Mergers in the Galactic Center

Donald F. Figer (1,2), Sungsoo S. Kim (3) ((1) STScI, (2) JHU, and (3) UCLA)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[425] arXiv:astro-ph/0011425 [pdf, other]

Title: On the thermal conduction in tangled magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies

Leonid Malyshkin

Comments: 16 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal, 2001, v 554, pp. 561-570

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[426] arXiv:astro-ph/0011426 [pdf, other]

Title: Isodensity Statistics on Clustering of High-z Objects in Cosmological Redshift-spaces

Atsushi Taruya, Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Comments: 37 pages, 8 figures, to be published in ApJ 550 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[427] arXiv:astro-ph/0011427 [pdf, other]

Title: The Abundance and Emission of H2O and O2 in Clumpy Molecular Clouds

Marco Spaans (Kapteyn Institute), Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden Observatory)

Comments: To be published in ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[428] arXiv:astro-ph/0011428 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-infrared line imaging of the starburst galaxies NGC 520, NGC 1614 and NGC 7714

J.K. Kotilainen (Tuorla), J. Reunanen (Tuorla), S. Laine (STScI), S.D. Ryder (AAO)

Comments: 13 pages, A&A, accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[429] arXiv:astro-ph/0011429 [pdf, other]

Title: Models of Polarized and Variable Radio Emission for IDV Source 0917+624

T. Beckert, A. Kraus, T. P. Krichbaum, A. Witzel, J. A. Zensus (MPIfR)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proceedings of "Particles and Fields in Radio Galaxies", Oxford, 2000, ASP Conf. Series, eds. R. A. Laing and K. M. Blundell

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[430] arXiv:astro-ph/0011430 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical Spectra of Dusty Starbursts

B.M. Poggianti

Comments: 6 pages, 5 postscript figures, Springer Latex macro. Invited talk, to appear in the proceedings of the meeting "Starbursts Near and Far", Ringberg Castle (D), 10-15 Sep 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[431] arXiv:astro-ph/0011431 [pdf, other]

Title: AGN in the XMM-Newton first-light image as probes for the interstellar medium in the LMC

F. Haberl (MPE, Garching), K. Dennerl (MPE), M.D. Filipovic (University of Western Sydney Nepean), B. Aschenbach (MPE), W. Pietsch (MPE), J. Truemper (MPE)

Comments: 4 pages, LaTex, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[432] arXiv:astro-ph/0011432 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Stability of Quasi-Equilibrium Self-Gravitating Configurations in a Tidal Field

M.A. Gomez-Flechoso, R. Dominguez-Tenreiro

Comments: 36 pages, 7 postscript figures, to be published in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[433] arXiv:astro-ph/0011433 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for Microflaring Activity in the Magnetic Network

G. Cauzzi (1), A. Falchi (1), R. Falciani (2) ((1) Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy (2) University of Florence, Italy)

Comments: Solar Physics in press,16 pages, 6 eps figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[434] arXiv:astro-ph/0011434 [pdf, other]

Title: Slim Disk Model for Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources

Ken-ya Watarai (1), Tsunefumi Mizuno (2), Shin Mineshige (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University (2) Department of Physics, Hiroshima University)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[435] arXiv:astro-ph/0011435 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmochemistry in the early Universe

Denis Puy (Institute of Theoretical Physics-Univ. Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[436] arXiv:astro-ph/0011436 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for Discrete Refractive Scattering Events

R. Ramachandran, A. A. Deshpande, B. W. Stappers

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[437] arXiv:astro-ph/0011437 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular hydrogen and the nature of damped Lyman-alpha systems

Patrick Petitjean (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris), R. Srianand (IUCAA, Pune), Cédric Ledoux (ESO, Germany)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, A&A Latex. Accepted for publication in A&A Special issue

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[438] arXiv:astro-ph/0011438 [pdf, other]

Title: The first broad-band X-ray images and spectra of the 30 Doradus region in the LMC

K. Dennerl, F. Haberl, B. Aschenbach, U. G. Briel, M. Balasini, H. Braeuninger, W. Burkert, R. Hartmann, G. Hartner, G. Hasinger, J. Kemmer, E. Kendziorra, M. Kirsch, N. Krause, M. Kuster, D. Lumb, P. Massa, N. Meidinger, E. Pfeffermann, W. Pietsch, C. Reppin, H. Soltau, R. Staubert, L. Strueder, J. Truemper, M. Turner, G. Villa, V. E. Zavlin

Comments: to be published in A&A 365

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[439] arXiv:astro-ph/0011439 [pdf, other]

Title: The formation of cosmic structure with modified Newtonian dynamics

R.H. Sanders (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, NL)

Comments: revised version includes a Lagrangian-based, non-relativistic theory of modified dynamics; conclusions are unchanged; accepted for publication (ApJ)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[440] arXiv:astro-ph/0011440 [pdf, other]

Title: The brightness of SN 1991T and the uniformity of decline-rate and colour corrected absolute magnitudes of supernovae Ia

T. Richtler (1), J.B. Jensen (2), J. Tonry (3), B. Barris (3), G. Drenkhahn (4) ((1) Universidad de Concepcion, (2) Gemini Observatory, (3) University of Hawaii, (4) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik)

Comments: 7 pages, 2 Postscript figures, accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[441] arXiv:astro-ph/0011441 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Luminosity Functions of Young Stars in Taurus-Auriga-Perseus

B. Stelzer

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, to appear in "X-ray Astronomy 2000", eds. R. Giacconi, L. Stella and S. Serio, ASP Conf. Series, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[442] arXiv:astro-ph/0011442 [pdf, other]

Title: Petersen diagram for RRd stars in the Magellanic Clouds

B.L. Popielski (1), W.A. Dziembowski (1,2), S. Cassisi (3) (1 - Warsaw University Observatory, 2 - Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland, 3 - Osservatorio Astronomico Collurania, Teramo, Italy)

Comments: 17 pages, 8 postscript figures; to appear in Acta Astronomica

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[443] arXiv:astro-ph/0011443 [pdf, other]

Title: On the role of extinction in failed gamma-ray burst optical/IR afterglows

D. Lazzati (1,2), S. Covino (2), G. Ghisellini (2) ((1) IoA Cambridge; (2) Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, changes in the tables and in the statistical analysis

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 330 (2002) 583

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[444] arXiv:astro-ph/0011444 [pdf, other]

Title: Issues and methods for CMB anisotropy data reduction

J. Delabrouille

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to New Astronomy Reviews

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev. 45 (2001) 313-320

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[445] arXiv:astro-ph/0011445 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle modeling of disk-shaped galaxies of stars on nowadays concurrent supercomputers

Evgeny Griv (1), Michael Gedalin (1), Edward Liverts (1), David Eichler (1), Yehoshua Kimhi (2), Chi Yuan (3) ((1) Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, (2) Inter University Computational Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel, (3) Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taiwan)

Comments: 31 pages, 12 figures, was presented as a lecture at the NATO ASI "The Restless Universe" in Scotland 2000 by E. Griv

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[446] arXiv:astro-ph/0011446 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Star Formation under Far-ultraviolet radiation

Kazuyuki Omukai (National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka)

Comments: 32 pages and 9 figures. ApJ, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[447] arXiv:astro-ph/0011447 [pdf, other]

Title: Photon Scattering by Relativistic Flows in Schwarzschild Spacetimes. I. The Generation of Power-Law Spectra

H. Papathanassiou (SISSA), D. Psaltis (CfA,MIT)

Comments: 10 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[448] arXiv:astro-ph/0011448 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparative CMBology: Putting Things Together

Charles H. Lineweaver (UNSW)

Comments: 10 pages, 11 figures, Manchester IAU proceedings, "New Cosmological Data and the Values of Fundamental Parameters", edt A. Lasenby, A. Wilkinson

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[449] arXiv:astro-ph/0011449 [pdf, other]

Title: Lithium-Beryllium-Boron and Oxygen in the early Galaxy

Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam, Michel Casse

Comments: Invited Review, IAU, JD8, Manchester, August 2000, to be published in Highlights of Astronomy

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[450] arXiv:astro-ph/0011450 [pdf, other]

Title: The Star Formation History of the Milky Way

Gerry Gilmore

Comments: 10pp, to appear in Disk galaxies and galaxy disks, eds J G Funes and E M corsini ASP Conf ser in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)