Astrophysics

Authors and titles for March 2004

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/0403001 [pdf, other]

Title: The Observed and Predicted Spatial Distribution of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

B. Willman (1), F. Governato (2), J.J. Dalcanton (2), D. Reed (3), T. Quinn (2) ((1) NYU, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, (2) University of Washington, (3) University of Durham)

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures. Replaced with MNRAS accepted version

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.353:639-646,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/0403002 [pdf, other]

Title: Occultations of HIP and UCAC2 stars downto 15m by large TNO in 2004-2014

Denis Denissenko

Comments: 6 pages, submitted to Astronomy Letters

Journal-ref: Astron.Lett. 30 (2004) 630-633

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/0403003 [pdf, other]

Title: Expansion, Geometry, and Gravity

Robert R. Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski

Comments: 4 pages, 1 color figure

Journal-ref: JCAP 0409 (2004) 009

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/0403004 [pdf, other]

Title: Symbiotic Stars as Laboratories for the Study of Accretion and Jets: A Call for Optical Monitoring

J. L. Sokoloski (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures. Invited review paper to appear in the Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/0403005 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of Galaxies: A Metaphysics Viewpoint

J. Schombert (UOregon)

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, invited talk to the 2004 AAAS Meeting

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/0403006 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensitivity of quintessence perturbations to initial conditions

Jingsong Liu

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures. Accepted by Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 083504

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/0403007 [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastic Acceleration of 3He and 4He by Parallel Propagating Plasma Waves

Siming Liu, Vahé Petrosian, Glenn M. Mason

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to ApjL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) L81

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/0403008 [pdf, other]

Title: The soft X-ray excess AGN RE J2248-511

R. L. C. Starling, E. M. Puchnarewicz, E. Romero-Colmenero

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. MG10 Proceedings

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/0403009 [pdf, other]

Title: A new type of photoionized code required for the new era of X-ray spectroscopy

Suzy Collin, Anne-Marie Dumont (Observatoire Paris-Meudon, France), Olivier Godet (CESR, Toulouse, France)

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures. accepted by A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 419 (2004) 877-886

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/0403010 [pdf, other]

Title: The effect of differential refraction on wave propagation in rotating pulsar magnetospheres

D. Fussell, Q. Luo

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 1019

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/0403011 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino Interaction with Nucleons in the Envelope of a Collapsing Star with a Strong Magnetic Field

A.A.Gvozdev, I.S.Ognev

Comments: 23 pages

Journal-ref: J.Exp.Theor.Phys. 94 (2002) 1043-1056; Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz. 121 (2002) 1219-1234

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

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/0403012 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational Evidence from Supernovae for a Contracting Universe

William Q. Sumner

Comments: LaTex, 11 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/0403013 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic rotation velocities of L dwarfs from VLT/UVES and their comparison with periods from photometric monitoring

C.A.L. Bailer-Jones (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

Comments: To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics; 10 pages

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 419 (2004) 703-712

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/0403014 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydromagnetic and gravitomagnetic crust-core coupling in a precessing neutron star

Yuri Levin (CITA), Caroline D'Angelo (University of Toronto)

Comments: 6 pages

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) 1157-1163

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/0403015 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Polarization of Gamma Ray Bursts and their Optical Afterglows

Shlomo Dado, Arnon Dar, A. De Rujula

Comments: 10 pages, 13 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/0403016 [pdf, other]

Title: Markov Chain Monte Carlo joint analysis of Chandra X-ray imaging spectroscopy and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect data

Massimiliano Bonamente, Marshall K. Joy, John E. Carlstrom, Erik D. Reese, Samuel J. LaRoque

Comments: ApJ accepted, scheduled for ApJ 10 October 2004, v614 issue. Title changed, added more convergence diagnostic tests, Figure 7 converted to lower resolution for easier download, other minor changes

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/0403017 [pdf, other]

Title: High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of the Post-T Tauri Star PZ Tel

C. Argiroffi (1), J.J. Drake (2), A. Maggio (3), G. Peres (1), S. Sciortino (3), F.R. Harnden (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Sezione di Astronomia, Università di Palermo, Italy, (2) Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, Cambridge, MA, (3) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy)

Comments: 15 pages, 8 Postscript figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.609:925-934,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/0403018 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral Evolution of weak bursts from SGR 1806-20 observed with INTEGRAL

D. Gotz, S. Mereghetti, I.F. Mirabel, K. Hurley

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 417 (2004) L45-L48

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/0403019 [pdf, other]

Title: Skewness as a test of the equivalence principle

Luca Amendola, Claudia Quercellini (INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma and Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata)

Comments: 5 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 92 (2004) 181102

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

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/0403020 [pdf, other]

Title: Two-body relaxation in modified Newtonian dynamics

L. Ciotti (Astronomy Dept., University of Bologna, Italy), J. Binney (Oxford University, Theoretical Physics, UK)

Comments: 8 pages, accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 285

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/0403021 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropic convection in rotating proto-neutron stars

J.A. Miralles, J.A. Pons, V. Urpin

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, final version to appear in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 420 (2004) 245-249

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/0403022 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulation of air shower image in fluorescence light based on energy deposits derived from CORSIKA

D. Gora, D. Heck, P. Homola, H. Klages, J. Pekala, M. Risse, B. Wilczynska, H. Wilczynski

Comments: 36 pages, 4 tables, 12 figures

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 22 (2004) 29-45

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/0403023 [pdf, other]

Title: The growth of supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies: absorption of stars and activity of galactic nuclei

V.A. Sirota, A.S. Ilyin, K.P. Zybin, A.V. Gurevich

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/0403024 [pdf, other]

Title: On coordinate distances to type Ia supernovae and radio galaxies

V. E. Kuzmichev, V. V. Kuzmichev (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Comments: 10 pages, 3 EPS figure, 1 table; remark on large-scale structure formation was added

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/0403025 [pdf, other]

Title: ISAAC/VLT observations of a lensed galaxy at z=10.0

R. Pello (OMP), D. Schaerer (Geneva Observatory, OMP), J. Richard (OMP), J.-F. Le Borgne (OMP), J.-P. Kneib (Caltech, OMP)

Comments: To be published in A&A, Vol. 416, p. L35. Press release information, additional figures and information available at this http URL and this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.416:L35,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/0403026 [pdf, other]

Title: An XMM-Newton study of the RGH 80 galaxy group

Y.-J. Xue, H. Boehringer, K. Matsushita

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 420 (2004) 833-845

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/0403027 [pdf, other]

Title: Density waves in the shearing sheet IV. Interaction with a live dark halo

B. Fuchs

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Astron. Astrophys

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 419 (2004) 941-948

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/0403028 [pdf, other]

Title: An explanation for the unusual IMF in Taurus

Simon P. Goodwin, A. P. Whitworth, Derek Ward-Thompson

Comments: In press in A&A, 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 419 (2004) 543-547

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/0403029 [pdf, other]

Title: WMAP constraints on inflationary models with global defects

Neil Bevis, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz

Comments: 10pp LaTeX/RevTeX, 6 eps figs; matches accepted version

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 043508

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

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/0403030 [pdf, other]

Title: Strong QPOs and High Energy Tail in Simultaneous RXTE/INTEGRAL Observations of GRS 1915+105

J. Rodriguez, Y. Fuchs, D.C. Hannikainen, O. Vilhu, S.E. Shaw, T. Belloni, S. Corbel

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures (1 color fig.), Proceedings of the 5th INTEGRAL workshop, to be published by EDP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/0403031 [pdf, other]

Title: The evolution of density perturbations in two quintessence models

Tame Gonzalez, Rolando Cardenas

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/0403032 [pdf, other]

Title: A General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics Simulation of Jet Formation

K.-I. Nishikawa (NSSTC), G. Richardson (UAH), S. Koide (Toyama Univ.), K. Shibata (Kyoto Univ.), T. Kudoh (Univ. of Western Ontario), P. Hardee (UA), G. J. Fishman (MSFC/NSSTC)

Comments: 27 pages, 8 figures, revised and accepted to ApJ (figures with better resolution: this http URL)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 625 (2005) 60

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/0403033 [pdf, other]

Title: Oxygen and Magnesium Abundance in the Ultra-Metal-Poor Giants CS22949-037 and CS29498-043: Challenges in Models of Atmospheres

G.Israelian (IAC), N. Shchukina (Kiev Obs.), R. Rebolo (IAC), G. Basri (Berkeley), J. I. Gonzalez-Hernandez (IAC), T. Kajino (NAOJ)

Comments: 16 pages, 15 figures, accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 419 (2004) 1095-1109

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/0403034 [pdf, other]

Title: Tracing Accretion onto Herbig Ae/Be Stars using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

M.E. van den Ancker (ESO Garching)

Comments: To appear in proc. ESO workshop on "High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy", eds. H.-U. Käufl, R. Siebenmorgen & A. Moorwood

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/0403035 [pdf, other]

Title: p-mode frequencies in solar-like stars : I. Procyon A

M.Martic, J.-C. Lebrun, T. Appourchaux, S.G. Korzennik

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 418 (2004) 295-303

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/0403036 [pdf, other]

Title: Missing Lorenz-boosted Circles-in-the-sky

Janna Levin

Comments: 4 pages, 7 figures

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

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/0403037 [pdf, other]

Title: The multifrequency monitoring of microquasars. SS433

S.A. Trushkin, N.N. Bursov, N.A. Nizhelskij (SAO RAS)

Comments: 34 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Bulletin of Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS

Journal-ref: Bull. Spec. Astrophys. Obs. (2003) 56, 57-90

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/0403038 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino Processes in Supernovae and Neutrons Stars in Their Infancy and Old Age

M. Prakash, S. Ratkovic, S. I. Dutta, PALS

Comments: 19 pages, Submitted to KIAS-APCTP International Symposium in Astro-Hadron Physics, November 10-14, 2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/0403039 [pdf, other]

Title: Identifying young gamma-ray burst fossils

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (IAS)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures; final version

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) L38

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/0403040 [pdf, other]

Title: The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function

S.M. Croom (1), R.J. Smith (2), B.J. Boyle (1), T. Shanks (3), L. Miller (4), P.J. Outram (3), N.S. Loaring (4 and 5) ((1) Anglo-Australian Observatory, (2) Liverpool JMU, (3) Durham, (4) Oxford, (5) MSSL)

Comments: 24 pages, 23 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Version with full resolution figures available from this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.349:1397,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/0403041 [pdf, other]

Title: The Munich Near--Infrared Cluster Survey (MUNICS) -- VI. The stellar masses of K-band selected field galaxies to z ~ 1.2

N. Drory (1), R. Bender (2,3), G. Feulner (2), U. Hopp (2), C. Maraston (3), J. Snigula (2), G.J. Hill (1) ((1) University of Texas at Austin, (2) Universitaets-Sternwarte Muenchen, Germany, (3) Max-Planck Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Garching, Germany)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ, issues of style and typos corrected to match printed version (proofs)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.608:742-751,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/0403042 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of a Dwarf Post-Starburst Galaxy Near a High Column Density Ly-alpha Absorber

J. T. Stocke (1), B. A. Keeney (1), K. M. McLin (1), J. L. Rosenberg (1), R. J. Weymann (2), M. L. Giroux (3) ((1) CASA, Univ. of Colorado, (2) Carnegie Observatories, (3) East Tenn. State Univ.)

Comments: 33 pages, 4 figures, ApJ in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) 94

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/0403043 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the mirror matter interpretation of the DAMA experiment: Has the dark matter problem been solved?

R.Foot

Comments: About 10 pages

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

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/0403044 [pdf, other]

Title: Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application

Brian W. O'Shea, Greg Bryan, James Bordner, Michael L. Norman, Tom Abel, Robert Harkness, Alexei Kritsuk

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures. To appear in "Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications", Eds. T. Plewa, T. Linde & V. G. Weirs, Springer Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, 2004. The Enzo code is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/0403045 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlinear electrodynamics and the gravitational redshift of highly magnetised neutron stars

Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta, Jose' M. Salim

Comments: Accepted for publication in Month. Not. Roy. Ast. Soc. latex file, this http URL, 5 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.354:L55-L59,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/0403046 [pdf, other]

Title: Conservation of both current and helicity in a quadrupolar model for solar flares

Don Melrose

Comments: 14 pages, 1 figure. Solar Physics (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/0403047 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiverse cosmological models

P.C.W. Davies

Comments: 15 pages, no figures, review paper

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A19:727-744,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/0403048 [pdf, other]

Title: Tachyonic dark matter

P.C.W. Davies

Comments: 10 pages, no figures, research paper

Journal-ref: Int.J.Theor.Phys. 43 (2004) 141-149

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/0403049 [pdf, other]

Title: Does life's rapid appearance imply a Martian origin?

P.C.W. Davies

Comments: 10 pages, no figures, research paper

Journal-ref: Astrobiology 3 (2003) 673

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/0403050 [pdf, other]

Title: How bio-friendly is the universe

P.C.W. Davies

Comments: 11 page conference report, no figures

Journal-ref: Int.J.Astrobiol. 2 (2003) 115

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)