Astrophysics

Authors and titles for December 2000

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/0012001 [pdf, other]

Title: Extent of Excess Far Infrared Emission around Luminosity Class III Stars

Sungsoo S. Kim (1), Ben Zuckerman (1), Murray Silverstone (1,2) ((1) UCLA, Div. of Astronomy, (2) U. of Arizona, Steward Obs.)

Comments: To appear in the ApJ, scheduled for the March 20, 2001 issue

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/0012002 [pdf, other]

Title: A study of the gravitational wave form from pulsars

S. R. Valluri, F. A. Chishtie, R. G. Biggs, M. Davison, Sanjeev V. Dhurandhar, B. S. Sathyaprakash

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, TeX, presented at MG9 2000, Rome

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/0012003 [pdf, other]

Title: Trans-Relativistic Blast Waves in Supernovae as Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors

Jonathan C. Tan (1), Christopher D. Matzner (2), Christopher F. McKee (1,3) ((1) Dept. of Astronomy, UC Berkeley; (2) CITA; (3) Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley)

Comments: Accepted to ApJ; minor changes from previous version; 41 pages (including 12 figures)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/0012004 [pdf, other]

Title: A Progress Report on the Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey

Judith Cohen

Comments: Invited contribution to Deep Fields meeting, Munich, Oct 2000, to be published by Springer Verlag, ESO Astrophysics Symposia Series, reformatted to use AASTex macros. 8 pages with 4 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/0012005 [pdf, other]

Title: The Genesis of Super Star Clusters as Self-Gravitating HII Regions

Jonathan C. Tan (1), Christopher F. McKee (1,2) ((1) Dept. of Astronomy, UC Berkeley; (2) Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley)

Comments: To appear in Proceedings of "Starbursts: Near and Far", Ringberg Castle, Germany, 10-15 September 2000; 6 pages (including 1 figure)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/0012006 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytical Studies on the Structure and Emission of the SS433 Jets

H. Inoue, N. Shibazaki, R. Hoshi

Comments: 15 pages. Accepted for publication by Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/0012007 [pdf, other]

Title: Can all breaks in GRB afterglows be explained by jet effects?

D.M. Wei (Purple Mountain Observatory, China), T. Lu (Nanjing University, China)

Comments: Latex, revised version accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 332 (2002) 994

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/0012008 [pdf, other]

Title: Morphological Evolution of Galaxies to z=4

Christopher J. Conselice

Comments: Proceedings for talk given at the ESO/ECF/STScI Workshop on Deep Fields, Garching, Oct. 2000. Five pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/0012009 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the power spectrum bend with recent CMB data

S. Hannestad, S.H. Hansen, F.L. Villante

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures, version to appear in Astropart. Physics

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 16 (2001) 137-144

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

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/0012010 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic investigation of old planetaries V. Distance scales

Ralf Napiwotzki (Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg)

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, A&A accepted Fig.7 replaced

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/0012011 [pdf, other]

Title: The obscured mid-infrared continuum of NGC 4418: a dust- and ice-enshrouded AGN

H. W. W. Spoon (1), J. V. Keane (2), A. G. G. M. Tielens (2), D. Lutz (3), A.F.M. Moorwood (1) ((1) ESO, (2) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, (3) MPE)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/0012012 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological models: theory and observations

V.N.Lukash (Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow)

Comments: 7 pages, invited talk at 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly (Warsaw, Poland, 16-23 July 2000), this http URL is included

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/0012013 [pdf, other]

Title: Two-dimensional disk dynamos with vertical outflows into a halo

B. von Rekowski, W. Dobler, A. Shukurov, A. Brandenburg

Comments: 8 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: in: Dynamo and Dynamics, a Mathematical Challenge (eds. P. Chossat, D. Armbruster and I.Oprea), NATO Science Series II/26, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 305 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/0012014 [pdf, other]

Title: $\Lambda$-Inflation and CMBR Anisotropy

Vladimir N. Lukash (Astro Space Center of <a href="http://P.N.Lebedev" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a> Physical Institute)

Comments: 5pages, to appear in "Cosmology and Particle Physics", eds this http URL-Bellido, this http URL, and this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/0012015 [pdf, other]

Title: Cepheid Calibration of the Peak Brightness of SNe Ia. X. SN 1991T in NGC 4527

A. Saha (1), A. Sandage (2), Frank Thim (3), Lukas Labhardt (3), G. A. Tammann (3), J. Christensen (1), F. D. Macchetto (4), N. Panagia (4) ((1) National Optical Astronomy Observatories,(2) Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, (3) University of Basel, Switzerland, (4) Space Telescope Science Institute)

Comments: 46 pages, LATEX using this http URL, including 9 embedded tables, 19 figures (gif and jpg files), a full-resolution version (ps files) is available at this http URL, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.551:973-1015,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/0012016 [pdf, other]

Title: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich distortion from early galactic winds

Subhabrata Majumdar (JAP/IIA, India), Biman Nath (RRI, India), Masashi Chiba (NAO, Japan)

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures, MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 326 (2001) 1216

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/0012017 [pdf, other]

Title: Inner Disk Oscillations and QPOs in Relativistic Jet Sources

A. R. Rao (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)

Comments: 8 pages, LaTeX, this http URL, 2 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) 175-182

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/0012018 [pdf, other]

Title: Current Status of cosmological models with mixed dark matter

E.V. Mikheeva (Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow)

Comments: 8 pages, invited talk at 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly (Warsaw, Poland, 16-23 July 2000), this http URL is included, a typo is corrected

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/0012019 [pdf, other]

Title: Singular Isothermal Disks and the Formation of Multiple Stars

D. Galli, F. H. Shu, G. Laughlin, S. Lizano

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Invited Review at the Euroconference on "Stellar Clusters and Associations", ASP Conference Series, Vol. 198, T. Montmerle and P. Andre', eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/0012020 [pdf, other]

Title: Planetary dynamics in stellar clusters

Ian A. Bonnell, Kester W. Smith, Melvyn B. Davies, Keith Horne

Comments: 8, pages, 6 figures. accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 859

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/0012021 [pdf, other]

Title: Why is the Hubble flow so quiet?

Arthur Chernin (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, and Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku), Pekka Teerikorpi (Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku), Yurij Baryshev (Astronomical Institute, <a href="http://St.Petersburg" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a> State University)

Comments: 18 pages, LaTex, no figures. An invited talk at Cosmology Meeting of COSPAR-2000, July 22-23, 2000, Warsaw; to be published in Adv. Space Res

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/0012022 [pdf, other]

Title: The star-formation history of the universe - an infrared perspective

M.Rowan-Robinson (Imperial College)

Comments: 20 pages, 25 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Full details of models can be found at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.549:745-758,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/0012023 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Correction for our Big Bang Bouncing Universe

David E. Rosenberg (EVMS)

Comments: 20 pages, 2 graphs

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/0012024 [pdf, other]

Title: Models for infrared and submillimetre counts and backgrounds

M.Rowan-Robinson (Imperial College)

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figs. to appear in 'The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implications', IAU Symposium 204, eds this http URL and this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/0012025 [pdf, other]

Title: Models for the IR and submm SEDs of normal, starburst and active galaxies

M.Rowan-Robinson (Imperial College)

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures. To appear in 'Far-infrared and submm seds of Active and Starburst Galaxies', ed. this http URL Bemmel, this http URL, this http URL (Elsevier)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/0012026 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Parameters: do we already know the final answer ?

M.Rowan-Robinson (Imperial College)

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in 'IDM2000: 3rd International Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter', ed this http URL (World Scientific)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/0012027 [pdf, other]

Title: Predicting the peculiar velocities of nearby PSC-z galaxies using the Least Action Principle

J.Sharpe (1), M.Rowan-Robinson (1), A.Canavezes (1), W.Saunders (2), E.Branchini (3), G.Efstathiou (4), C.Frenk (3), O.Keeble (1), R.G.McMahon (4), S.Maddox (4), S.J.Oliver (1,6), W.Sutherland (5), H.Tadros (5,6), S.D.M.White (7). (1 Imperial College, 2 IfA Edinburgh, 3 Durham, 4 IOA Cambridge, 5 Oxford, 6 Sussex, 7 MPIA)

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.322:121,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/0012028 [pdf, other]

Title: Gas kinematics from spectroscopy with a wide slit: detecting nuclear black holes

Witold Maciejewski, James Binney (University of Oxford)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 205 'Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolution'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/0012029 [pdf, other]

Title: Steady-state structure of relativistic collisionless shocks

David Medvigy, Abraham Loeb

Comments: Submitted to Physical Review E, 10 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/0012030 [pdf, other]

Title: Broad P Cygni X-ray Lines from Circinus X-1

N. S. Schulz, W. N. Brandt

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, to be published in "Astronomy 2000", eds. R. Giaconni, Luigi Stella, & Salvatore Serio, ASP Conference Series, 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/0012031 [pdf, other]

Title: A Cosmological Window on Trans-Planckian Physics

Jerome Martin, Robert H. Brandenberger

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. One important correction in the Corley/Jacobson case with b_m>0 and some misprints corrected

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

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/0012032 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion and Outflow Traced by Water Masers in the Circinus AGN

L. J. Greenhill, J. M. Moran, R. S. Booth, S. P. Ellingsen, P. M. McCulloch, D. L. Jauncey, R. P. Norris, J. E. Reynolds, A. K. Tzioumis, J. R. Herrnstein

Comments: 4 pages. Contributed talk at IAU Symposium 205: Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolutions, Manchester UK, August 2000. Proceedings to be published by ASP, edited by R. Schilizzi, S. Vogel, F. Paresce, M. Elvis

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/0012033 [pdf, other]

Title: Physical Modelling of the Zodiacal Dust Cloud

Leonid M. Ozernoy (George Mason U.)

Comments: Invited talk at the IAU Symp. No. 204 "The Extragalactic Infrared Background and Its Cosmological Implications. To be published in ASP Conf. Ser. (Eds. Martin Harwit and Michael Hauser). LaTEX, 17pp., incl. 5 Figures, uses this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/0012034 [pdf, other]

Title: Reddenings and metallicities in the LMC and SMC from Stroemgren CCD photometry

S. S. Larsen (1,2), J. V. Clausen (2), J. Storm (3) ((1) UCO / Lick Observatory, (2) Copenhagen University Observatory, (3) Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam)

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.364:455-466,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/0012035 [pdf, other]

Title: The Seyfert-Starburst Connection in X-rays. I. The Data

N. A. Levenson (JHU), K. A. Weaver (JHU/GSFC), T. M. Heckman (JHU)

Comments: 31 pages including 12 figures and 9 tables; to appear in the ApJS, April 2001; full-resolution figures are available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl. 133 (2001) 269-296

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/0012036 [pdf, other]

Title: The Seyfert-Starburst Connection in X-rays. II. Results and Implications

N. A. Levenson (JHU), K. A. Weaver (JHU/GSFC), T. M. Heckman (JHU)

Comments: 16 pages including 8 figures and 5 tables; to appear in the ApJ, Mar. 10, 2001

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal, 550, 230 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/0012037 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence Against a Redshift z>6 for the Galaxy STIS 123627+621755

Daniel Stern (1), Peter Eisenhardt (1), Hyron Spinrad (2), Steve Dawson (2), Wil van Breugel (3), Arjun Dey (4), Wim de Vries (3), S.A. Stanford (3,5) ((1) JPL/Caltech, (2) UC-Berkeley, (3) IGPP/LLNL, (4) KPNO/NOAO, and (5) UC-Davis)

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures; appeared as Nature, 408, 560-562 (30 Nov 2000)

Journal-ref: Nature 408 (2000) 560-562

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/0012038 [pdf, other]

Title: The Coalescence Rate of Double Neutron Star Systems

V. Kalogera (1), R. Narayan (1), D. N. Spergel (2,3), J. H. Taylor (2) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Princeton U., (3) IAS)

Comments: 40 pages, 7 figures, a few clarifying comments added. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 556 (2001) 340-356

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

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/0012039 [pdf, other]

Title: The bulge luminosity functions in the MSX infrared bands

M. Lopez-Corredoira, M. Cohen, P. L. Hammersley

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, to be published in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 367 (2001) 106

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/0012040 [pdf, other]

Title: Possible galactic sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and a strategy for their detection via gravitational lensing

Alexander Kusenko, Vadim A. Kuzmin

Comments: 3 pages, one figure; references added

Journal-ref: Pisma Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.73:503,2001; JETP Lett.73:443-445,2001

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

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/0012041 [pdf, other]

Title: Pseudoparticle Multipole Method: A Simple Method to Implement High-Accuracy Treecode

Atsushi Kawai (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Junichiro Makino (University of Tokyo)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, latex, submitted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/0012042 [pdf, other]

Title: Implications of the PSR 1257+12 Planetary System for Isolated Millisecond Pulsars

M. Coleman Miller, Douglas P. Hamilton (University of Maryland)

Comments: 17 pages including one figure, uses aaspp4, accepted by ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/0012043 [pdf, other]

Title: Small-scale structure deduced from X- and gamma-ray timing measurements

M. Coleman Miller (University of Maryland)

Comments: 8 pages including 2 figures, uses this http URL (included), invited talk at IAU Symposium #205

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/0012044 [pdf, other]

Title: The Optical-Near-IR Spectrum of the M87 Jet From HST Observations

Eric S. Perlman (University of Maryland), John Biretta, William Sparks, Duccio Macchetto (Space Telescope Science Institute), J. Patrick Leahy (Jodrell Bank Observatory)

Comments: Text 17 pages, 3 Tables, 11 figures, accepted by ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/0012045 [pdf, other]

Title: Precise Masses for Wolf 1062 AB from Hubble Space Telescope Interferometric Astrometry and McDonald Observatory Radial Velocities

G. F. Benedict, B. E. McArthur, O. G. Franz, L. H. Wasserman, T. J. Henry, T. Takato, I. V. Strateva, J. L. Crawford, P. A. Ianna, D. W. McCarthy, E. Nelan, W. H. Jefferys, W. van Altena, P. J. Shelus, P.D. Hemenway, R. L. Duncombe, D. Story, A. L.Whipple, A. J. Bradley, L.W. Fredrick

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures. To appear in AJ March 2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/0012046 [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleosynthesis Calculations for the Ejecta of Neutron Star Coalescences

S. Rosswog, C. Freiburghaus, F.-K. Thielemann

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of Nuclei in the Cosmos 2000, to be published in Nucl. Phys. A; minor correction

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/0012047 [pdf, other]

Title: Astrophysical tests for the Novello-De Lorenci-Luciane theory of gravity: Gravitational-wave + neutrino bursts from local supernovae and gravitational-wave microlensing by Galactic (MACHOs) black holes

Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta (ASICTP-Trieste, CBPF-Rio de Janeiro)

Comments: Talk given at the workshop: Gravitational waves: A challenge to theoretical astrophysics. ICTP Trieste 5-9 June (2000). To be published in the ICTP Series. Editors V. Ferrari, J. C. Miller and L. Rezzolla

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/0012048 [pdf, other]

Title: How astrophysical mean field dynamos can circumvent existing quenching constraints

Eric G. Blackman (Univ. of Rochester), George B. Field (Harvard-Smithsonian CFA)

Comments: 19 pages LaTex, invited submission to Physics of Plasmas, APS/DPP Quebec 2000 Meeting Proceedings

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/0012049 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron Star Kicks and Asymmetric Supernovae

Dong Lai (Cornell)

Comments: 16 pages. Lecture presented at the European Center for Theor. Physics Workshop on Neutron Star (Trento, Italy, 2000). To be published in "Physics of Neutron Star Interiors" (Lecture Notes in Physics), ed. D. Blaschke, N.K. Glendenning and A. Sedrakian (Springer, 2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/0012050 [pdf, other]

Title: Does Light Gravitate? (Proposal on New Test of Equivalence Principle)

Anatoli Vankov

Comments: 31 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)