Astrophysics

Authors and titles for December 2000

[501] arXiv:astro-ph/0012501 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep-Imaging Observations of a Candidate of an Absorbed QSO at z=0.653, AX J131831+3341

M.Akiyama (1), K.Ohta (2), N.Tamura (2), M.Doi (3), M.Kimura (3), Y.Komiyama (1), S.Miyazaki (4), F.Nakata (3), S.Okamura (3), M.Sekiguchi (3), K.Shimasaku (3), M.Yagi (4), M.Hamabe (3), M.Yoshida (4), T.Takata (1) ((1) Subaru Telescope, NAOJ, (2) Kyoto Univ., (3) Univ. of Tokyo, (4) NAOJ)

Comments: 19 pages with 5 figures, accepted for publication for PASJ

Journal-ref: Pub. Astron. Soc. Japan, 2000, vol.52, p.577

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[502] arXiv:astro-ph/0012502 [pdf, other]

Title: An Extremely Red Nucleus in an Absorbed QSO at z=0.65

Masayuki Akiyama (Subaru Telescope, NAOJ), Kouji Ohta (Kyoto Univ.)

Comments: 14 pages with 3 figures, accepted for publication for PASJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[503] arXiv:astro-ph/0012503 [pdf, other]

Title: The 0.1-200 keV spectrum of the blazar PKS 2005-489 during an active state

G. Tagliaferri, G. Ghisellini, P. Giommi, A. Celotti, M. Chiaberge, L. Chiappetti, I.S. Glass, L. Maraschi, F. Tavecchio, A. Treves, A. Wolter

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[504] arXiv:astro-ph/0012504 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining Dark Matter candidates from structure formation

C. Boehm, P. Fayet, R. Schaeffer

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure. Our results on induced-damping were initially expressed in terms of momentum-weighted average cross-sections. We precise how these are related to ordinary cross-sections

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B518:8-14,2001

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

[505] arXiv:astro-ph/0012505 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactic chemical abundance evolution in the solar neighborhood up to the Iron peak

Andreu Alibes, Javier Labay, Ramon Canal

Comments: 19 pages, 14 figures, submitted to A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[506] arXiv:astro-ph/0012506 [pdf, other]

Title: An X-ray and Near-IR spectroscopic analysis of the ULIRG IRAS 05189-2524

P. Severgnini, G. Risaliti, A. Marconi, R. Maiolino, M. Salvati

Comments: 9 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[507] arXiv:astro-ph/0012507 [pdf, other]

Title: Star Formation in Clusters: Subclustering, Cloud Fragmentation and the Origin of the Stellar IMF

Leonardo Testi (Arcetri)

Comments: to be published in "Modes of Star Formation and the Origin of Field Populations" this http URL and this http URL eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[508] arXiv:astro-ph/0012508 [pdf, other]

Title: 3EG J2016+3657: Confirming an EGRET Blazar Behind the Galactic Plane

J. P. Halpern, M. Eracleous, R. Mukherjee, E. V. Gotthelf

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[509] arXiv:astro-ph/0012509 [pdf, other]

Title: Are Silicon Nanoparticles an Interstellar Dust Component?

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

Comments: Submitted to ApJ, 21 pages, 11 figures, Latex Substantially revised from astro-ph version 1

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[510] arXiv:astro-ph/0012510 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the dark energy: methods and strategies

Dragan Huterer, Michael S. Turner

Comments: 20 pages and 23 figures, revtex, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D64:123527,2001

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

[511] arXiv:astro-ph/0012511 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlinear Stochastic Biasing of Peaks and Halos: Scale-Dependence, Time-Evolution, and Redshift-Space Distortion from Cosmological N-body Simulations

A.Taruya, H.Magira, Y.P.Jing, Y.Suto

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[512] arXiv:astro-ph/0012512 [pdf, other]

Title: Wolf-Rayet stars and GRB connection

A.M. Cherepashchuk, K.A. Postnov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow)

Comments: 10 pages, 4 ps figures, LATEX. Abridged English version of paper in Astronomy Reports (2001, in press). Also to appear in Proc. 2d Rome Workshop "GRBs in the Afterglow Era"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[513] arXiv:astro-ph/0012513 [pdf, other]

Title: Applications of Indirect Imaging techniques in X-ray binaries

Emilios T. Harlaftis

Comments: 24 pages, 16 figures, Astro Tomography - An International Workshop on Indirect Imaging, eds. D. Steegh s, H. Boffin, J. Cuypers, Lecture Notes in Physics series, Springer-Verlag, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[514] arXiv:astro-ph/0012514 [pdf, other]

Title: Application of random walk theory to the first order Fermi acceleration in shock waves

T. N. Kato, F. Takahara

Comments: 20 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 321 (2001) 642

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[515] arXiv:astro-ph/0012515 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral Signature of Wind Generation From The Post-Shock Region in GRS1915+105 Accretion Disk

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS), Sivakumar G. Manickam (SNBNCBS), Anuj K. Nandi (SNBNCBS), A. R. Rao (TIFR)

Comments: 10 latex pages with four figures (Submitted Astronomy and Astrophysics, May 2000)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 579 (2002) L21-L24

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[516] arXiv:astro-ph/0012516 [pdf, other]

Title: Oscillations During Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts

Tod E. Strohmayer

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research; invited talk at the 33rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Warsaw, Poland, July, 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[517] arXiv:astro-ph/0012517 [pdf, other]

Title: Ages and Metallicities of Fornax Dwarf Ellipticals

K. Rakos, J. Schombert, H.M. Maitzen, S. Prugovecki, A. Odell

Comments: 40 pages AAS LaTeX, 14 figures, accepted for publication in AJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[518] arXiv:astro-ph/0012518 [pdf, other]

Title: The halo model and numerical simulations

Martin White, Lars Hernquist, Volker Springel

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, matches version accepted by ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.550:L129-L132,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[519] arXiv:astro-ph/0012519 [pdf, other]

Title: A Non-Triggered Burst Supplement to the BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogs

J. M. Kommers (1), W. H. G. Lewin (1), C. Kouveliotou (2,3), J. van Paradijs (4,5), G. N. Pendleton (4), C. A. Meegan (3), G. J. Fishman (3) ((1) MIT, (2) USRA, (3) NASA/MSFC, (4) U. Amsterdam, (5) UAH)

Comments: to appear in ApJ Supp Series; more information at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[520] arXiv:astro-ph/0012520 [pdf, other]

Title: Circumstellar Nebulae in Young Supernova Remnants

Y.-H. Chu

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, proceedings of the 11th October Astrophysics conference in Maryland, "Young Supernova Remnants", eds. Holt and Hwang

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[521] arXiv:astro-ph/0012521 [pdf, other]

Title: Jets and Outflows From Advective Accretion Disks

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS and CSP)

Comments: Latex AIP style. Proc. Heidelberg Gamma-ray Astronomy Symposium (In press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[522] arXiv:astro-ph/0012522 [pdf, other]

Title: Jets, Disks and Spectral States of Black Holes

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS and CSP)

Comments: Latex AIP Style

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[523] arXiv:astro-ph/0012523 [pdf, other]

Title: Classification of Light curves of the Black Hole Candidate GRS1915+105

Anuj Nandi, Sivakumar G. Manickam, Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Comments: Latex file with two figures

Journal-ref: Indian Journal of Physics, 74(B) No. 5, p. 331

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[524] arXiv:astro-ph/0012524 [pdf, other]

Title: Advective Flow Paradigm And Microquasar GRS1915+105

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS and CSP)

Comments: Kluwer Style Latex paper

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[525] arXiv:astro-ph/0012525 [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding Galactic Black Hole Candidate GRS 1915+105

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS)S.G. Manickam (SNBNCBS), A. Nandi (SNBNCBS), A.R. Rao (TIFR)

Comments: World Scientific Style 10 pages with figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[526] arXiv:astro-ph/0012526 [pdf, other]

Title: Fundamental States of Accretion/Jet Configuration and the Black Hole Candidate GRS1915+105

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS and CSP), Anuj Nandi

Comments: Latex file and four figures. Indian Journal of Physics (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[527] arXiv:astro-ph/0012527 [pdf, other]

Title: On the source of QPO of the black hole candidate GRS1915+105: some new observations and their interpretation

Anuj Nandi (SNBNCBS), Sivakumar G. Manickam (SNBNCBS), A.R. Rao (TIFR), Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS)

Comments: MNRAS style. MNRAS (To appear)

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 267

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[528] arXiv:astro-ph/0012528 [pdf, other]

Title: Relation of Light Curve Behaviour with Accretion Rates in Black Hole Candidate GRS1915+105

Sandip K. Chakrabarti, A. Nandi, S. G. Manickam

Comments: World Scientific Publication

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[529] arXiv:astro-ph/0012529 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of an Accretion Disk on the Gravitational Wave Signal from an Inspiralling Binary

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS and CSP)

Comments: World Scientific Style (Two pages)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[530] arXiv:astro-ph/0012530 [pdf, other]

Title: State-or-the-art Accretion and Wind Solutions Around Black Holes

Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS)

Comments: World Scientific Style (two pages with a figure)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[531] arXiv:astro-ph/0012531 [pdf, other]

Title: Bulk Motion Comptonization - a sure sign of Black Holes

Sandip K. Chakrabarti, Indranil Chattopadhyay

Comments: World Scientific Style. Proceedings of the 9th Marcel Grossman Meeting in Rome (World Scientific, to appear)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[532] arXiv:astro-ph/0012532 [pdf, other]

Title: Future High Energy Neutrino Telescopes

C.Spiering

Comments: Talk given at the this http URL Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Sudbury 2000, 8 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 91 (2000) 445-452

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[533] arXiv:astro-ph/0012533 [pdf, other]

Title: Generation and Acceleration of Jets from Effective Boundary Layer around Black Hole

Indranil Chattopadhyay, Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Comments: World Scientific Style, macro included

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[534] arXiv:astro-ph/0012534 [pdf, other]

Title: On Radiative Acceleration of Jets and Outflows from Advective Disks

Indranil Chattopadhyay (SNBNCBS), Sandip K. Chakrabarti (SNBNCBS and CSP)

Comments: AIP Publication, Macro included

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[535] arXiv:astro-ph/0012535 [pdf, other]

Title: Java-Applet For Radio Spectra Analysis

A.S.Trushkina, A.G.Gubanov

Comments: 4 pages, latex; Report of "JENAM 2000" conference, to be published in "Baltic Actronomy"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[536] arXiv:astro-ph/0012536 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and X-ray clusters as tracers of the supercluster-void network. I Superclusters of Abell and X-ray clusters

M. Einasto, J. Einasto, E. Tago, V. M"uller, H. Andernach

Comments: LaTex (sty files added), 16 pages, 3 ps figures, submitted to Astronomical Journal. Animations of the 3D distribution of superclusters of Abell and X-ray clusters at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[537] arXiv:astro-ph/0012537 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and X-ray clusters as tracers of the supercluster-void network. II The spatial correlation function

E. Tago, J. Einasto, M. Einasto, V. M"uller, H. Andernach

Comments: LaTex (sty files added), 9 pages, 6 eps figures, submitted to Astronomical Journal. Animations of the 3D distribution of superclusters of Abell and X-ray clusters at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[538] arXiv:astro-ph/0012538 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and X-ray clusters as tracers of the supercluster-void network. III Distribution of Abell and APM clusters

M. Einasto, J. Einasto, E. Tago, H. Andernach, G.B. Dalton, V. M"uller

Comments: LaTex (sty files added), 15 pages, 9 eps figures, submitted to Astronomical Journal. Animations of the 3D distribution of superclusters of Abell and APM clusters at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[539] arXiv:astro-ph/0012539 [pdf, other]

Title: Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant

J.K. Webb, M.T. Murphy, V.V. Flambaum, V.A. Dzuba, J.D. Barrow, C.W. Churchill, J.X. Prochaska, A.M. Wolfe

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Small changes to discussion, added an acknowledgement and a reference

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.87:091301,2001

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

[540] arXiv:astro-ph/0012540 [pdf, other]

Title: Innermost stable circular orbits around rotating compact quark stars and QPOs

D. Gondek-Rosinska, T. Bulik, w. Kluzniak, J. L. Zdunik, E. Gourgoulhon

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "The 4th Integral Workshop"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[541] arXiv:astro-ph/0012541 [pdf, other]

Title: Protoneutron stars and constraints on maximum and minimum mass of neutron stars

D. Gondek, P. Haensel, J. L. Zdunik

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, ASP Conference Series, Vol 138, 131, eds K. L. Chan, K. S. Cheng, H. P. Singh

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[542] arXiv:astro-ph/0012542 [pdf, other]

Title: The change in the inclination angle of the non-eclipsing binary SS Lacertae: future eclipses

Guillermo Torres

Comments: 32 pages, including figures and tables. Accepted for The Astronomical Journal, April 2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[543] arXiv:astro-ph/0012543 [pdf, other]

Title: Protoneutron stars and neutron stars

D. Gondek-Rosinska, P. Haensel, J. L. Zdunik

Comments: ASP Conference Series "Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond", eds Kramer, Wex, Wielebinski, Vol 202, 663

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[544] arXiv:astro-ph/0012544 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic models of kHz QPOs

W. Kluzniak

Comments: to appear in Proc. of the NATO ASI in Elounda, May 1999 "The Black-hole neutron-star connection"

Journal-ref: C. Kouveliotou et al., eds., The Neutron Star - Black Hole Connection, (2001), (Kluwer: Dordrecht), 325-330

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[545] arXiv:astro-ph/0012545 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffusion and the occurrence of hydrogen shell flashes in helium white dwarf stars

L. G. Althaus, A. M. Serenelli, O. G. Benvenuto

Comments: 13 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) 471

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[546] arXiv:astro-ph/0012546 [pdf, other]

Title: The Formation of Star Clusters

Bradley C. Whitmore

Comments: 27 pages, latex+postscript, STScI Symposium Series 14 (ed. M. Livio)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[547] arXiv:astro-ph/0012547 [pdf, other]

Title: Low-mass quark stars as Maclaurin spheroids

P. Amsterdamski, T. Bulik, D. Gondek-Rosinska, W. Kluzniak

Comments: 9 pages including 3 eps figures

Journal-ref: Astron. Astrophys.381:L21-L24,2002

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[548] arXiv:astro-ph/0012548 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron stars and strong-field effects of general relativity

W. Kluzniak

Comments: Lectures given at the Mexican School of Astrophysics, Guanajuato, August 1999

Journal-ref: From the Sun to the Great Attractor, D. Page, J.G. Hirsch eds., (2000), (Heidelberg:Springer) 173

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[549] arXiv:astro-ph/0012549 [pdf, other]

Title: Characteristics of Astronomy-Related Organizations

A. Heck (Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory)

Comments: in press in Astrophy. Sp. Sc. (24 pages + 57 figures) see this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 274 (2000) 733-783

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[550] arXiv:cond-mat/0012121 (cross-list from cond-mat.soft) [pdf, other]

Title: Classical long-range interacting N-particle configurations and its applications

Sergey S. Kokarev

Comments: Latex-2e, 14 pages, talk presented at school-seminar "Theoretical problems of gravity and cosmology", Russia, Ulyanovsk, september 2000. Shortened variant to be published in "Gravitation and Cosmology" 2001

Journal-ref: Grav.Cosmol.7:223-227,2001

Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)