Astrophysics

Authors and titles for May 2004

[101] arXiv:astro-ph/0405101 [pdf, other]

Title: Calibrated stellar models for metal-poor population

P. Cariulo, S. Degl'Innocenti, V. Castellani

Comments: In publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 421 (2004) 1121-1130

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[102] arXiv:astro-ph/0405102 [pdf, other]

Title: Properties of Spiral and Elliptical Galaxy Progenitors at z > 1

Christopher J. Conselice

Comments: Proceedings of the ESO/USM/MPE Workshop on "Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution", eds. R. Bender and A. Renzini, 6 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[103] arXiv:astro-ph/0405103 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial and velocity coincidence of 4765- and 1720-MHz OH masers in two star-forming regions Cep A and W75N

A.Niezurawska (1)M.Szymczak (1), R.J.Cohen (2), A.M.S.Richards (2) ((1) Toruń Centre for Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, (2) Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, UK)

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 350 (2004) 1409

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[104] arXiv:astro-ph/0405104 [pdf, other]

Title: Broad band X-ray spectra of short bursts from SGR 1900+14

M. Feroci, G.A. Caliandro (IASF/CNR, Rome), E. Massaro (Univ. Rome La Sapienza), S. Mereghetti (IASF/CNR, Milan), P.M. Woods (USRA, NSSTC, Huntsville, AL)

Comments: Accepted for Publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 612 (2004) 408-413

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[105] arXiv:astro-ph/0405105 [pdf, other]

Title: An embedded circumnuclear disk in Mrk 273

Hans-Rainer Kl"ockner (1,2), Willem A. Baan (2) (1. Kapteyn Institute, 2. ASTRON/NFRA)

Comments: 11 pages, including 8 Figures, accepted for publication in A & A 2004 Vol 419 p. 887

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 419 (2004) 887-896

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[106] arXiv:astro-ph/0405106 [pdf, other]

Title: Identifying a black hole X-ray transient in M31 with XMM-Newton and Chandra

R. Barnard, U. Kolb, J. P. Osborne

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A; 9 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 423 (2004) 147-153

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[107] arXiv:astro-ph/0405107 [pdf, other]

Title: The nuclear ring in the unbarred galaxy NGC 278: result of a minor merger?

J.H. Knapen (Hertfordshire), L.F. Whyte (Nottingham), W.J.G. de Blok (Cardiff), J.M. van der Hulst (Groningen)

Comments: Accepted for A&A. 10 pages latex, 13 figures. Six figures included as jpeg files, others as encapsulated postscript. Complete high-resolution version of the paper in postscript or pdf can be found at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 423 (2004) 481-493

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[108] arXiv:astro-ph/0405108 [pdf, other]

Title: The equilibrium state of the dense electron-nuclear plasma in the self-gravitational field. The stellar mass distribution and stellar magnetic fields

B.V.Vasiliev

Comments: 20 pages,5 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[109] arXiv:astro-ph/0405109 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrinos from extragalactic cosmic ray interactions in the far infrared background

E. V. Bugaev, A. Misaki, K. Mitsui

Comments: 8 pages (including 1 figure)

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 24 (2005) 345-354

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[110] arXiv:astro-ph/0405110 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiwavelength Observation of WIMP Annihilation

Roberto Aloisio

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figure, talk given at the 10th Marcel Grossman Meeting (Rio de Janeiro, July 20 - 26, 2003)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[111] arXiv:astro-ph/0405111 [pdf, other]

Title: First determination of the dynamical mass of a binary L dwarf

H. Bouy, G. Duchene, R. Koehler, W. Brandner, J. Bouvier, E. L. Martin, A. Ghez, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, F. Allard, I. Baraffe, G. Basri, L. Close, C. E. McCabe

Comments: accepted for publication in A&A 16 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[112] arXiv:astro-ph/0405112 [pdf, other]

Title: The gas content of peculiar galaxies: strongly interacting systems

V. Casasola (1), D. Bettoni (2), G. Galletta (1) ((1)Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita di Padova, (2)INAF, Oss. Astron. Padova)

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 422 (2004) 941-950

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[113] arXiv:astro-ph/0405113 [pdf, other]

Title: Black Hole Induced Ejections

G. Pelletier (LAOG/IUF Grenoble France)

Comments: 30 pages, 3 Figures (pdf), revised version of the invited paper for the book "Dynamics and dissipation in electromagnetically dominated media" (Nova Science) edited by M. Lyutikov

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[114] arXiv:astro-ph/0405114 [pdf, other]

Title: Second Epoch Global VLBI Observations of Compact Radio Sources in the M82 Starburst Galaxy

J.D. Riley, A. Pedlar, T.W.B. Muxlow, A.R. McDonald, R.J. Beswick, K.A. Wills

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures. To be published on the accompanying CD of the Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 192: Supernovae

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[115] arXiv:astro-ph/0405115 [pdf, other]

Title: The Hubble constant from gravitational lens CLASS B0218+357 using the Advanced Camera for Surveys

T. York (1), N. Jackson (1), I.W.A. Browne (1), O. Wucknitz (2), J.E. Skelton (1) ((1) Jodrell Bank, (2) Universitaet Potsdam)

Comments: Published in MNRAS. 15 pages, 7 figures. Astro-ph version now consistent with published version. Major changes include an improved noise model and combination of optical galaxy position with VLBI constraints

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 357 (2005) 124-134

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[116] arXiv:astro-ph/0405116 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton observations of three high redshift radio galaxies

E. Belsole, D.M. Worrall, M. J. Hardcastle (Department of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)

Comments: 5 pages, 7 figures. To appear in "X-ray and Radio Connections", eds. Sjouwerman, L.O. & Dyer, K.K. (see this http URL)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[117] arXiv:astro-ph/0405117 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulating star formation in molecular cores II. The effects of different levels of turbulence

Simon P. Goodwin, Anthony P Whitworth, Derek Ward-Thompson (Cardiff University, UK)

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures. In press in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.423:169-182,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[118] arXiv:astro-ph/0405118 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological parameter estimation with large scale structure and supernovae data

Carolina Odman (1 and 2), Mike Hobson (1), Anthony Lasenby (1), Alessandro Melchiorri (2)

Comments: (1) Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge Unviersity, UK (2) Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys. D13 (2004) 1661-1668

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[119] arXiv:astro-ph/0405119 [pdf, other]

Title: An intense soft-excess and evidence for light bending in the luminous narrow-line quasar PHL 1092

L. C. Gallo (1), Th. Boller (1), W. N. Brandt (2), A. C. Fabian (3), D. Grupe (4) ((1)MPE; (2)PSU; (3)IoA; (4)OSU)

Comments: To appear in MNRAS. Submitted March 01, 2004. 9 pages

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.352:744,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[120] arXiv:astro-ph/0405120 [pdf, other]

Title: Phaseless VLBI mapping of compact extragalactic radio sources

Anisa T. Bajkova

Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Lett. 30 (2004) 218-231

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[121] arXiv:astro-ph/0405121 [pdf, other]

Title: The Sample of Gamma-ray Bursts Observed With SPI-ACS

A. Rau, A. von Kienlin, K. Hurley, G. G. Lichti

Comments: 7 pages, 9 figures, this http URL, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th INTEGRAL Workshop, Munich 2004

Journal-ref: Nuovo Cim.C028:323-326,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[122] arXiv:astro-ph/0405122 [pdf, other]

Title: Confronting the Superbubble Model with X-ray Observations of 30 Dor C

David A. Smith, Q. Daniel Wang

Comments: 25 pages, 4 figures. To appear in The Astrophysical Journal, August 20, 2004 issue

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.611:881-891,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[123] arXiv:astro-ph/0405123 [pdf, other]

Title: Compton Echoes from Gamma-Ray Bursts: Unveiling Misaligned Jets in Nearby Type Ib/c Supernovae

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (IAS), Piero Madau (UCSC)

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 608 (2004) L89-L92

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[124] arXiv:astro-ph/0405124 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mass of the MACHO-LMC-5 Lens Star

Andrew Gould (Ohio State), David P. Bennett (Notre Dame), David R. Alves (Columbia)

Comments: 20 pages inc 3 fig, submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 614 (2004) 404-410

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[125] arXiv:astro-ph/0405125 [pdf, other]

Title: Extragalactic Ultracompact HII Regions: Probing the Birth Environments of Super Star Clusters

Kelsey E. Johnson

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, to appear in "The Formation and Evolution of Massive Young Star Clusters," eds. H. Lamers, A. Nota and L. Smith (San Francisco: ASP)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[126] arXiv:astro-ph/0405126 [pdf, other]

Title: Implications of Quasar Black Hole Masses at High Redshifts

Matthias Dietrich, Fred Hamann

Comments: 26 pages, 4 figures. ApJ, accepted, Vol.611 (Aug20)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 611 (2004) 761-769

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[127] arXiv:astro-ph/0405127 [pdf, other]

Title: Altair: The Brightest Delta Scuti Star

D. L. Buzasi, H. Bruntt, T. R. Bedding, A. Retter, H. Kjeldsen, H. L. Preston, W. J. Mandeville, J. Catanzarite, T. Conrow, R. Laher

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figure files (only 5 figures), 2 tables

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 619 (2005) 1072-1076

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[128] arXiv:astro-ph/0405128 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the Evolution of the Galaxy Interaction/Merger Rate Using Collisional Ring Galaxies

R.J. Lavery (1), A. Remijan (2), V. Charmandaris (3), R.D. Hayes (1), A.A. Ring (1) ((1) Northern Arizona Univ., (2) Univ. of Illinois, (3) Cornell Univ.)

Comments: Accepted in the Astrophysical Journal (11 pages, 4 figures). Higher resolution version of the figures is available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 612 (2004) 679-689

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[129] arXiv:astro-ph/0405129 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotation of Early B-type Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud - The role of evolution and metallicity

Stefan C. Keller

Comments: 15 pages, PASA accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[130] arXiv:astro-ph/0405130 [pdf, other]

Title: It's EZ to Evolve ZAMS Stars: A Program Derived from Eggleton's Stellar Evolution Code

Bill Paxton (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB)

Comments: 2 pages. To appear in PASP. Download tar file with source code, data, and instructions for building EZ from this http URL -- website has more information and pdf's for many plots of stellar evolution

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[131] arXiv:astro-ph/0405131 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio pulsars as progenitors of AXPs and SGRs: magnetic field evolution through pulsar glitches

J. R. Lin, S. N. Zhang

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures, accepted by ApJ letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 615 (2004) L133

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[132] arXiv:astro-ph/0405132 [pdf, other]

Title: Seismology of the Accreting White Dwarf in GW Lib

Dean M. Townsley (1), Phil Arras (2), Lars Bildsten (1 and 2) ((1) Department of Physics, UCSB, (2) Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures; uses emulateapj; Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 608 (2004) L105-L108

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[133] arXiv:astro-ph/0405133 [pdf, other]

Title: A Comprehensive Catalogue of Variable Stars in the field of 47 Tucanae

David T F Weldrake, Penny D Sackett, Terry J Bridges, Kenneth C Freeman

Comments: 62 pages, 24 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ. For a full resolution version and variable star findercharts, see: this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.J.128:736-760,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[134] arXiv:astro-ph/0405134 [pdf, other]

Title: The XMM-Newton/2dF survey - V. the radio properties of the X-ray population

A. Georgakakis (1), I. Georgantopoulos (1), I. Leonidaki (1,2), Akylas (1,3), G. C. Stewart (4), C. Goudis (1,2) ((1) National Athens Observatory, (2) University of Patras, (3) University of Athens, (4) Leicester)

Comments: to appear in MNRAS. see also this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 1005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[135] arXiv:astro-ph/0405135 [pdf, other]

Title: The INTEGRAL view of the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 1806-20

D. Gotz, S. Mereghetti, I.F. Mirabel, K. Hurley, S. Brandt, N. Lund, P. Ubertini, M. Del Santo, E. Costa, M. Feroci, A. Castro-Tirado, A. Gimenez, J.-L. Atteia, M. Boer, T. Cline, F. Frontera, G. Pizzichini, A. von Kienlin, E. Gougus, C. Kouveliotou, M. Finger, C. Thompson, H. Pedersen, M. van der Klis

Comments: To appear in the proceedings (ESA-SP) of the 5th INTEGRAL Workshop, "The INTEGRAL UNIVERSE", Munich, 16-20 February 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[136] arXiv:astro-ph/0405136 [pdf, other]

Title: Linking Gas Fractions to Bimodalities in Galaxy Properties

Sheila J. Kannappan (UT Austin)

Comments: accepted to ApJ Letters with minor revisions; color printing essential to understand figures; full-resolution version at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 611 (2004) L89-

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[137] arXiv:astro-ph/0405137 [pdf, other]

Title: Globular Clusters and Horizontal Branch

Z. Kadla

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[138] arXiv:astro-ph/0405138 [pdf, other]

Title: A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III: Discovery of Five Additional Quasars

Xiaohui Fan, Joseph F. Hennawi, Gordon T. Richards, Michael A. Strauss, Donald P. Schneider, Jennifer L. Donley, Jason E. Young, James Annis, Huan Lin, Hubert Lampeitl, Robert H. Lupton, James E. Gunn, Gillan R. Knapp, W. N. Brandt, et al

Comments: AJ in press (Aug 2004), 18 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.J.128:515,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[139] arXiv:astro-ph/0405139 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature and Entropy Fields of Baryonic Gas in the Universe

Ping He (1,2), Long-Long Feng (1,3), Li-Zhi Fang (2) (1, NAOC, China; 2, Physics Department, University of Arizona; 3, Purple Mountain Observatory, China)

Comments: 22 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 612 (2004) 14-27

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[140] arXiv:astro-ph/0405140 [pdf, other]

Title: VERA Observation of the W49N H2O Maser Outburst in 2003 October

M. Honma, Y.K. Choi, T. Bushimata, T. Fujii, T. Hirota, K. Horiai, H. Imai, N. Inomata, J. Ishitsuka, K. Iwadate, T. Jike, O. Kameya, R. Kamohara, Y. Kan-ya, N. Kawaguchi, H. Kobayashi, S. Kuji, T. Kurayama, S. Manabe, T. Miyaji, A. Nakagawa, K. Nakashima, R. Nagayoshi, T. Omodaka, T. Oyama, M. Rioja, S. Sakai, S. Sakakibara, K. Sato, T. Sasao, K.M. Shibata, R. Shimizu, K. Sora, H. Suda, Y. Tamura, K. Yamashita (the VERA project - NAOJ, Kagoshima University, University of Tokyo)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures included, to appear in PASJ letter (Vol.56, #3, 2004 June)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[141] arXiv:astro-ph/0405141 [pdf, other]

Title: Quenched millimetre emission from Cygnus X-1 in a soft X-ray state

S.P. Tigelaar (Amsterdam), R.P. Fender, R.P.J. Tilanus, E. Gallo, G.G. Poo ley

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 1015

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[142] arXiv:astro-ph/0405142 [pdf, other]

Title: Bending instability in galaxies: the stellar disk thickness and the mass of spheroidal component

N. V. Tyurina, A. V. Khoperskov, D. V. Bizyaev

Comments: 17 pages including 20 PostScript figures. Oral talk presented in International Workshop "Progress in Study of Astrophysical Disks: Collective and Stochastic Phenomena and Computational Tools", Volgograd, September 9-11, 2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[143] arXiv:astro-ph/0405143 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational lensing magnification without multiple imaging

Charles R. Keeton (Chicago/Rutgers), Michael Kuhlen (Santa Cruz), Zoltan Haiman (Columbia)

Comments: accepted in ApJ; 15 emulateapj pages; small revisions to clarify the text

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) 559-573

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[144] arXiv:astro-ph/0405144 [pdf, other]

Title: How are AGN Found?

Richard Mushotzky

Comments: 35 pages, 5 figures, to appear as Chapter 2 in "Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe" (2004), ed. A. J. Barger, Kluwer Academic Publishers, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[145] arXiv:astro-ph/0405145 [pdf, other]

Title: An investigation of the absolute circular polarization in radio pulsars

Aris Karastergiou, Simon Johnston

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 689

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[146] arXiv:astro-ph/0405146 [pdf, other]

Title: A multi-wavelength search for a counterpart of the unidentified gamma-ray source 3EG J2020+4017 (2CG078+2)

Werner Becker, Martin C. Weisskopf, Zaven Arzoumanian, Duncan Lorimer, Fernando Camilo, Ronald F. Elsner, Gottfried Kanbach, Olaf Reimer, Douglas A. Swartz, Allyn F. Tennant, Stephen L. O'Dell

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. A PDF version of the accepted paper with higher resolution images is available at this ftp URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 615 (2004) 897-907

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[147] arXiv:astro-ph/0405147 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational lensing in a concordance LCDM universe: The importance of secondary matter along the line of sight

Joachim Wambsganss, Paul Bode, Jeremiah P.Ostriker

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ (Letters)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 635 (2005) L1-L4

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[148] arXiv:astro-ph/0405148 [pdf, other]

Title: Are the sungrazing comets the inner source of pickup ions and energetic neutral atoms?

M. Bzowski, M. Krolikowska (Space Research Centre PAS, Warsaw, Poland)

Comments: accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[149] arXiv:astro-ph/0405149 [pdf, other]

Title: Acoustic causality in relativistic shells

Shunichiro Kinoshita, Yuuiti Sendouda, Keitaro Takahashi

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX 4

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 123006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[150] arXiv:astro-ph/0405150 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep Dredge-up in Intermediate-Mass TP-AGB Stars

R.J. Stancliffe (IoA, Cambridge), C.A. Tout (IoA, Cambridge), O.R. Pols (Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht)

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Some figures have been degraded to save space. For a full resolution copy, see this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 984

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)