Astrophysics

Authors and titles for March 2004

[401] arXiv:astro-ph/0403401 [pdf, other]

Title: The faint X-ray Source Population near 3C 295

Valerio D'Elia, Fabrizio Fiore, Martin Elvis, Massimo Cappi, Smita Mathur, Pasquale Mazzotta, Emilio Falco, Filomena Cocchia

Comments: 12 pages, 20 .ps figures, accepted for pubblication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 422 (2004) 11-21

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[402] arXiv:astro-ph/0403402 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical Abundances in the Secondary Star in the Black Hole Binary A0620-00

Jonay I. Gonzalez-Hernandez, R. Rebolo, G. Israelian, J. Casares, A. Maeder, G. Meynet

Comments: 32 pages, 5 tables and 11 figures, uses this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) 988-998

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[403] arXiv:astro-ph/0403403 [pdf, other]

Title: Structural parameters of nearby emission-line galaxies

Miguel Sanchez-Portal (1), Angeles I Diaz (2), Elena Terlevich (3 and 4), Roberto Terlevich (3 and 4) ((1) Dpto. de Electronica y Comunicaciones, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca en Madrid, Spain, (2) Dpto. de Fisica Teorica, C-XI, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain (3) Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico (4) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K.)

Comments: 21 pages, 36 Postscript figures, uses this http URL. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) 1087

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[404] arXiv:astro-ph/0403404 [pdf, other]

Title: Soft X-ray excess emission from clusters of galaxies

Richard Lieu, Jonathan Mittaz (editors)

Comments: Proceedings of conference held at the University if Alabama, Huntsville, December 2002

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[405] arXiv:astro-ph/0403405 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational lensing in the weak field limit by a braneworld black hole

A. S. Majumdar, Nupur Mukherjee

Comments: 5 pages, 1 eps figure, discussion on the mass range for applicability of weak field gravitational lensing

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A20:2487-2496,2005

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

[406] arXiv:astro-ph/0403406 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic models of two low-luminosity radio jets: B2 0326+39 and B2 1553+24

J. R. Canvin (1), R. A. Laing (2 and 1) ((1) Astrophysics, University of Oxford, (2) ESO)

Comments: 27 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) 1342

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[407] arXiv:astro-ph/0403407 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinetic theory viscosity

C.J. Clarke, J. E. Pringle

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 1187

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[408] arXiv:astro-ph/0403408 [pdf, other]

Title: EVN observations of water masers towards the high-mass young stellar object in AFGL 5142

C. Goddi, L. Moscadelli, W. Alef, J. Brand

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, to be published in A&A

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 295 (2005) 71-75

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[409] arXiv:astro-ph/0403409 [pdf, other]

Title: Observations of millisecond X-ray pulsars

Rudy Wijnands

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of "X-ray Timing 2003: Rossi and Beyond", eds. P. Kaaret, F. K. Lamb, & J. H. Swank (Melvill, NY; AIP). A more extended version of this review can be found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[410] arXiv:astro-ph/0403410 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the RGB-phase transition: Near-IR photometry of six intermediate age LMC clusters

Francesco R. Ferraro, Livia Origlia, Vincenzo Testa, Claudia Maraston

Comments: ApJ, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 608 (2004) 772-780

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[411] arXiv:astro-ph/0403411 [pdf, other]

Title: Linear Temperature-Mass relation and Local virial relation: Two hypotheses for self-gravitating systems

Y. Sota, O. Iguchi, M. Morikawa, A. Nakamichi

Comments: 11 pages, 14 figures, submitted to PRE. The comments and the analyses for the density profile are replaced. The figures for the case with a large number of particles are added

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[412] arXiv:astro-ph/0403412 [pdf, other]

Title: Imaging the Disk around TW Hya with the Submillimeter Array

C. Qi (1), P. T. P. Ho (1), D. J. Wilner (1), S. Takakuwa (1), N. Hirano (2), N. Ohashi (2), T. L. Bourke (1), Q. Zhang (1), G. A. Blake (3), M. Hogerheijde (4), M. Saito (1), M. Choi (2), J. Yang (5) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA; (2) ASIAA; (3) Caltech; (4) Sterrewacht Leiden; (5) PMO)

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 616 (2004) L11-L14

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[413] arXiv:astro-ph/0403413 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton Spectra of Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidates: Application of a Monte-Carlo Simulated Model

Q. Daniel Wang, Yangsen Yao, Wakako Fukui, ShuangNan Zhang, Rosa Williams

Comments: 23 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables. ApJ accepted, July 2004 issue

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) 113-121

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[414] arXiv:astro-ph/0403414 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep CCD Surface Photometry of Galaxy Clusters II: Searching for Intracluster Starlight in non-cD clusters

John J. Feldmeier (1), J. Christopher Mihos (1), Heather L. Morrison (1), Paul Harding (1), Nathan Kaib (1), John Dubinski (2) ((1)CWRU, (2) Univ. of Toronto)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 22 pages, 14 figures. Figures are severely compressed to comply with 650k limit. Paper is also available in high resolution form at: this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) 617-637

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[415] arXiv:astro-ph/0403415 [pdf, other]

Title: Puzzling wind properties of young massive stars in SMC-N81

F. Martins, D. Schaerer, D.J. Hillier, M. Heydari-Malayeri

Comments: 23 pages, 22 figures, A&A accepted

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 420 (2004) 1087-1106

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[416] arXiv:astro-ph/0403416 [pdf, other]

Title: The Hanle Effect as a Diagnostic of Magnetic Fields in Stellar Envelopes IV. Application to Polarized P Cygni Wind Lines

R. Ignace, K. H. Nordsieck, J. P. Cassinelli

Comments: accepted to the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) 1018-1034

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[417] arXiv:astro-ph/0403417 [pdf, other]

Title: MeV-mass dark matter and primordial nucleosynthesis

Pasquale D. Serpico, Georg G. Raffelt

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures, references and two appendices added, conclusions unchanged; accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 043526

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

[418] arXiv:astro-ph/0403418 [pdf, other]

Title: Submillimeter Array Observations of CS J=14--13 Emission from the Evolved Star IRC+10216

K. H. Young (1), T. R. Hunter (1), D. J. Wilner (1), M. A. Gurwell (1)et al. ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: accepted for publication in ApJ Letters, 12 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 616 (2004) L51-L54

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[419] arXiv:astro-ph/0403419 [pdf, other]

Title: Implications of the Lyman alpha Emission Line from a Candidate z=10 Galaxy

Renyue Cen, Zoltan Haiman, Andrei Mesinger

Comments: 5 pages, submitted to ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) 89-94

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[420] arXiv:astro-ph/0403420 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpreting the Colour-Magnitude Diagrams of Open Star Clusters through Numerical Simulations

Jasonjot Singh Kalirai (UBC), Monica Tosi (INAF)

Comments: 15 pages including 9 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 649

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[421] arXiv:astro-ph/0403421 [pdf, other]

Title: The Case for a Misaligned Relativistic Jet from SN 2001em

Jonathan Granot, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Comments: recent X-ray detection of SN 2001em by Chandra strengthens our conclusions

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) L9-L12

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[422] arXiv:astro-ph/0403422 [pdf, other]

Title: TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of the Galactic Center

K. Kosack, the VERITAS Collaboration

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.608:L97-L100,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[423] arXiv:astro-ph/0403423 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution and Color-Dependence of the Galaxy Angular Correlation Function: 350,000 Galaxies in 5 Square Degrees

Alison L. Coil, Jeffrey A. Newman, Nick Kaiser, Marc Davis, Chung-Pei Ma, Dale D. Kocevski, David C. Koo

Comments: 23 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 765-781

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[424] arXiv:astro-ph/0403424 [pdf, other]

Title: The Variability of Gamma-Ray Bursts that Create Afterglows

Joseph A. Munoz (1), Jonathan C. Tan (1,2) ((1) Princeton University Observatory, (2) ETH Zurich)

Comments: 9 pages, accepted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 625 (2005) 256-262

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[425] arXiv:astro-ph/0403425 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbital capture of stars by a massive black hole via exchanges with compact remnants

Tal Alexander (Weizmann), Mario Livio (STScI)

Comments: ApJL in press. 4 pp, 1 fig (final version; typo fixed in eq. 1; refs updated)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 606 (2004) L21-L24

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[426] arXiv:astro-ph/0403426 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonant Scattering and Recombination in CAL 87

J. Greiner (MPE Garching), A. Iyudin (MPE Garching), M. Jimenez-Garate (MIT), V. Burwitz (MPE), R. Schwarz (Uni. Goettingen), R. DiStefano (CfA), N. Schulz (MIT)

Comments: To appear in Proceedings of IAU Coll. 194 "Compact binaries in the Galaxy and beyond" (Rev. Mex. A&A Conf. Series), eds. G. Tovmassian and E. Sion

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[427] arXiv:astro-ph/0403427 [pdf, other]

Title: Bremsstrahlung photons from the bare surface of a strange quark star

Prashanth Jaikumar, Charles Gale (McGill U.), Dany Page (UNAM), Madappa Prakash (SUNY Stony Brook)

Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 023004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[428] arXiv:astro-ph/0403428 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization of pulsar radiation in the two-pole caustic model and in the outer gap model

J. Dyks, A. K. Harding, B. Rudak

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, poster presented at the X-ray Polarimetry Workshop, SLAC, Stanford, California, 9 - 11 February 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[429] arXiv:astro-ph/0403429 [pdf, other]

Title: High Density Molecular Gas in the IR-bright Galaxy System VV114

Daisuke Iono (1 and 2), Paul T. P. Ho (1 and 3), Min S. Yun (2), Satoki Matsushita (3), Alison B. Peck (1), Kazushi Sakamoto (1) ((1) CfA, (2) UMass, (3) ASIAA)

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 616 (2004) L63-L66

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[430] arXiv:astro-ph/0403430 [pdf, other]

Title: High resolution observations of 6.7-GHz methanol masers with the LBA

R. Dodson, R. Ojha, S.P. Ellingsen

Comments: Accepted in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 779

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[431] arXiv:astro-ph/0403431 [pdf, other]

Title: Automated Clustering Algorithms for Classification of Astronomical Objects

Yanxia Zhang, Yongheng Zhao (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 422 (2004) 1113-1121

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[432] arXiv:astro-ph/0403432 [pdf, other]

Title: The VSOP 5 GHz Continuum Survey, recent results

R. Dodson, H. Hirabayashi, P. G. Edwards, K. Wiik, E. B. Fomalont, J. E. J. Lovell, G. A. Moellenbrock, W. K. Scott

Comments: Poster presentation at the Space Science Symposium, ISAS, Jan 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[433] arXiv:astro-ph/0403433 [pdf, other]

Title: The VSOP 2 mission: Imaging capabilities

R. Dodson, H. Hirabayashi, Y. Murata, P. G. Edwards, K. Wiik, D. Murphy, S. Kameno

Comments: Poster presentation at the Space Science Symposium, ISAS, Jan 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[434] arXiv:astro-ph/0403434 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrodynamic modelling of accretion flows

J. R. Murray, M. R. Truss, S. B. Foulkes, C. A. Haswell, K. Manson

Comments: 3 pages, to appear in proceedings of IAU Colloquium 194: Compact binaries in the galaxy and beyond

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[435] arXiv:astro-ph/0403435 [pdf, other]

Title: High speed photometry of faint Cataclysmic Variables: IV. V356 Aql, Aqr1, FIRST J1023+0038, Ha 0242-2802, GI Mon, AO Oct, V972 Oph, SDSS 0155+00, SDSS 0233+00, SDSS 1240-01, SDSS 1556-00, SDSS 2050-05, FH Ser

Patrick A. Woudt, Brian Warner, Magaretha L. Pretorius (Univ. of Cape Town)

Comments: 12 pages, 22 figures (Figs. 1, 2, 5 and 6 are available at higher resolution upon request). Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 1015

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[436] arXiv:astro-ph/0403436 [pdf, other]

Title: SN1987A and the properties of neutrino burst

Maria Laura Costantini, Aldo Ianni, Francesco Vissani

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 043006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[437] arXiv:astro-ph/0403437 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the proper motion of Vela with the LBA

Richard Dodson, David Legge, Peter McCulloch, John Reynolds

Comments: Poster presentation at VLBA 10th anniversary meeting

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[438] arXiv:astro-ph/0403438 [pdf, other]

Title: The Vela pulsar, the key?

Richard Dodson, Dion Lewis, David Legge, Peter McCulloch, John Reynolds, David McConnell, Avinash Deshpande

Comments: Poster presentation at IAU 25th meeting

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[439] arXiv:astro-ph/0403439 [pdf, other]

Title: Warm high velocity CO in the wind of Sakurai's Object (= V4334 Sgr)

S. P. S. Eyres, T. R. Geballe, V. H. Tyne, A. Evans, B. Smalley, H. L. Worters

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) L9

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[440] arXiv:astro-ph/0403440 [pdf, other]

Title: Stability of cold fronts in clusters: is magnetic field necessary?

E.Churazov (1,2), N.Inogamov (3,1) ((1) MPA; (2) IKI, (3) Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, MNRAS (accepted), minor typos corrected

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) L52

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[441] arXiv:astro-ph/0403441 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature distribution in magnetized neutron star crusts

U. Geppert, M. Kueker, D. Page

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 426 (2004) 267-277

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[442] arXiv:astro-ph/0403442 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling the variability of the Fe K alpha line in accreting black holes

P. T. Zycki

Comments: 7 pages, MNRAS, accepted

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 1180

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[443] arXiv:astro-ph/0403443 [pdf, other]

Title: A dipping black-hole X-ray binary candidate in NGC 55

A-M. Stobbart, T. P. Roberts, R. S. Warwick (University of Leicester)

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

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 1063

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[444] arXiv:astro-ph/0403444 [pdf, other]

Title: The distance to the Pleiades from orbital solution of the double-lined eclipsing binary HD 23642

U.Munari, S.Dallaporta, A.Siviero, C.Soubiran, M.Fiorucci, P.Girard

Comments: accepted in press in A&A as Letter to the Editor

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 418 (2004) L31

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[445] arXiv:astro-ph/0403445 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Black Holes as Seeds of Voids in Galaxy Distribution

Salvatore Capozziello, Maria Funaro, Cosimo Stornaiolo

Comments: to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 420 (2004) 847-851

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[446] arXiv:astro-ph/0403446 [pdf, other]

Title: An outline of Weyl geometric models in cosmology

Erhard Scholz

Comments: 16 pages, 3 figures, condensed version of a paper submitted to Annalen der Physik

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[447] arXiv:astro-ph/0403447 [pdf, other]

Title: Classical novae from the POINT-AGAPE microlensing survey of M31 -- I. The nova catalogue

M. J. Darnley (1), M. F. Bode (1), E. Kerins (1), A. M. Newsam (1), J. An (2), P. Baillon (3), S. Calchi Novati (4), B. J. Carr (5), M. Creze (6,7), N. W. Evans (2), Y. Giraud-Heraud (6), A. Gould (8), P. Hewett (2), Ph. Jetzer (4), J. Kaplan (6), S. Paulin-Henriksson (6), S. J. Smartt (2), C. S. Stalin (6), Y. Tsapras (5) ((1) Liverpool John Moores, (2) IoA Cambridge, (3) CERN, (4) Zurich, (5) Queen Mary London, (6) PCC College de France, (7) Bretagne-Sud, (8) Ohio State)

Comments: 21 pages, 13 figures, re-submitted for publication in MNRAS, typos corrected, references updated, figures 5-9 made clearer

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.353:571,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[448] arXiv:astro-ph/0403448 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence of Planetesimal infall on to the very young Herbig Be star LkH$_\alpha$234

Abhijit Chakraborty (1), Jian Ge (1), Suvrath Mahadevan (1) ((1) Pennsylvania State University)

Comments: Accepted for publications in ApJLetters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 606 (2004) L69-L72

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[449] arXiv:astro-ph/0403449 [pdf, other]

Title: Hard-X-Ray Optics Development at Marshall Space Flight Center

Brian D. Ramsey, Martin C. Weisskopf

Comments: Three pages and five figures in pdf format submitted to Optical Engineering

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[450] arXiv:astro-ph/0403450 [pdf, other]

Title: GRB 020410: A Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Discovered by its Supernova Light

A. Levan, P. Nugent, A. Fruchter, I Burud, D. Branch, J. Rhoads, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, J. M. Castro Cerón, S.E. Thorsett, C. Kouveliotou, S. Golenetskii, J.P.U. Fynbo, P. Garnavich, S.T. Holland, J. Hjorth, P. Moller, E. Pian, N. Tanvir, M. Ulanov, R.A.M.J. Wijers, S. Woosley

Comments: 23 Pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.624:880-888,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)