Astrophysics

Authors and titles for September 2004

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/0409001 [pdf, other]

Title: The small Blue Straggler star population in the dense Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 6752

E. Sabbi, F.R. Ferraro, A. Sills, R.T. Rood

Comments: 29 pages, 10 figures, in press on ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 1296-1306

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/0409002 [pdf, other]

Title: Laboratory coded aperture imaging experiments: radial hole coded masks and depth-sensitive CZT detectors

J. Hong, S. V. Vadawale, M. Zhang, E. C. Bellm, A. Yousef, J. Noss, J. E. Grindlay, T. Narita

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures, appears in the SPIE 2004 proceedings (5540: Hard X-ray and gamma-ray detector physics V)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/0409003 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for new unidentified TeV gamma-ray sources from angularly-correlated hot-spots observed by independent TeV gamma-ray sky surveys

G. Walker, R. Atkins, D. Kieda

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 614 (2004) L93-L96

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/0409004 [pdf, other]

Title: A Substantial Amount of Hidden Magnetic Energy in the Quiet Sun

J. Trujillo Bueno, N. Shchukina, A. Asensio Ramos

Comments: 21 pages and 2 figures (letter published in Nature on July 15, 2004)

Journal-ref: Nature 430 (2004) 326-329

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/0409005 [pdf, other]

Title: Signatures of Incomplete Paschen-Back Splitting in the Polarization Profiles of the He I 10830 multiplet

H. Socas-Navarro, J. Trujillo Bueno, E. Landi Degl'Innocenti

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 612 (2004) 1175-1180

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/0409006 [pdf, other]

Title: The Fundamental Plane Evolution of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies

Jong-Hak Woo (Yale), Meg Urry (Yale), Paulina Lira (Univ. Chile), Roeland van der Marel (STScI), Jose Maza (Univ. Chile)

Comments: 19pages, 8 color figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 903-914

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/0409007 [pdf, other]

Title: Full-sky correlation functions for CMB experiments with asymmetric window functions

Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Comments: 14 pages, 1 figure, minor changes, and references added

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 083009

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/0409008 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetospheres and Disk Accretion in Herbig Ae/Be Stars

J. Muzerolle, P. D'Alessio, N. Calvet, L. Hartmann

Comments: 32 pages, 12 figures, accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 406-417

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/0409009 [pdf, other]

Title: QSO-Galaxy Association and Gravitational Lensing

S. M. Tang, S. N. Zhang

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2004 Supplements

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/0409010 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium Associated with the Virgo Cluster using an Oxygen Absorption Line

R. Fujimoto, Y. Takei, T. Tamura, K. Mitsuda, N. Y. Yamasaki (ISAS/JAXA), R. Shibata (Nagoya U.), T. Ohashi, N. Ota (Tokyo Metropolitan U.), M. D. Audley (UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory), R. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne (NASA/GSFC)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in PASJ. A reference is added

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/0409011 [pdf, other]

Title: Confirmation of the effectiveness of sub-mm source redshift estimation based on rest-frame radio to FIR photometry

I. Aretxaga (1), D.H. Hughes (1), J.S. Dunlop (2) ((1) INAOE, Tonantzintla, Mexico, (2) Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh, UK)

Comments: submitted to MNRAS (1 object removed from analysis, shortening of paper)

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 358 (2005) 1240-1246

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/0409012 [pdf, other]

Title: The Serendipitous Extragalactic X-Ray Source Identification (SEXSI) Program: II. Optical Imaging

Megan E. Eckart (1), Elise S. Laird (2,3), Daniel Stern (4), Peter H. Mao (1,5), David J. Helfand (2), Fiona A. Harrison (1) ((1) Caltech, (2) Columbia, (3) Imperial College, (4) JPL/Caltech, (5) UCLA)

Comments: 30 pages, 8 figures; accepted to ApJS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/0409013 [pdf, other]

Title: Young core collapse supernova remnants and their supernovae

Roger A. Chevalier

Comments: 43 pages, ApJ, revised, discussion of 3C58 changed, in press for Feb. 1, 2005

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 619 (2005) 839-855

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/0409014 [pdf, other]

Title: An optical absorption study of the Helix Planetary Nebula: NaI and CaII lines, and a search for diffuse bands

N. Mauron, T.R. Kendall

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figs (1 available by ftp); accepted by Astron. Astrophys

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 428 (2004) 535-543

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/0409015 [pdf, other]

Title: The variable cyclotron line in GX 301-2

Ingo Kreykenbohm, Joern Wilms, Wayne Coburn, Markus Kuster, Richard E. Rothschild, William A. Heindl, Peter Kretschmar, Ruediger Staubert

Comments: accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 427 (2004) 975-986

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/0409016 [pdf, other]

Title: On the mass of the gravitational lenses in LMC

L. Mancini, S. Calchi Novati, Ph. Jetzer, G. Scarpetta

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the Marcel Grossmann Meeeting X

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/0409017 [pdf, other]

Title: Pumping of a Planetesimal Disc by a Rapidly Migrating Planet

R. G. Edgar, P. Artymowicz

Comments: Five pages, two figures, accepted by MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/0409018 [pdf, other]

Title: The First Cosmic Structures and their Effects

Benedetta Ciardi (MPA), Andrea Ferrara (SISSA)

Comments: 130 pages, 40 figures. Updated version of the review appeared in 2005, Space Science Reviews, 116, 625. In this submission, several figures were compressed, resulting in a reduction in quality. A postscript file with the full figures is available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Space Sci.Rev.116:625-705,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/0409019 [pdf, other]

Title: Equilibrium properties of self-interacting neutrinos in the quasi-particle approach

M Sirera, A. Pérez

Comments: 17 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: J.Phys. G30 (2004) 1173-1184

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/0409020 [pdf, other]

Title: Fundamental Physics with the SKA:Strong-Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes

M. Kramer (University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK)

Comments: Talk presented at 'Exploring the Cosmic Frontier - Astrophysical Instrument for the 21st Century', to be published in Springer series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia", 4 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/0409021 [pdf, other]

Title: e-VLBI... a Wide-field Imaging Instrument with milliarcsecond Resolution & microJy Sensitivity

M.A. Garrett (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, JIVE)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. Paper presented in a conference held in Berlin "Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century", May 2004 proceedings to be published in the Springer-Verlag series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/0409022 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma rays precursors and afterglows surrounding UHECR events: Z-burst model is still alive

D.Fargion, A. Colaiuda

Comments: 8 pages, 1 Figure, Cris Conference 2004 (submitted to Nuclear Phys B)

Journal-ref: Nuclear Physics B. (Proc. Suppl.) 136 (2004) 256-262

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

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/0409023 [pdf, other]

Title: Surface Brightness and Stellar Populations at the Outer Edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud: No Stellar Halo Yet

C. Gallart, P.B. Stetson, E. Hardy, F. Pont, R. Zinn

Comments: ApJLett, in press 13 pages including 3 color figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 614 (2004) L109-L112

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/0409024 [pdf, other]

Title: Y2 Isochrones with an Improved Core Overshoot

Pierre Demarque (Yale), Jong-Hak Woo (Yale), Yong-Cheol Kim (Yonsei), Sukyoung Yi (Oxford)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJS (December issue)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 291 (2004) 261-262

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/0409025 [pdf, other]

Title: Distances of Quasars and Quasar-Like Galaxies: Further Evidence that QSOs may be Ejected from Active Galaxies

M. B. Bell

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.616:738-744,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/0409026 [pdf, other]

Title: Rapid Oscillations in Cataclysmic Variables, and a Comparison with X-Ray Binaries

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

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures (needs AIP style file). To appear in the conference proceedings of `Interacting Binaries: Accretion, Evolution & Outcomes' (Cefalu, July 4-10 2004)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/0409027 [pdf, other]

Title: WMAP Microwave Emission Interpreted as Dark Matter Annihilation in the Inner Galaxy

Douglas P. Finkbeiner

Comments: 22 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: THIS PAPER IS SUPERSEDED BY Phys. Rev. D, 76, 083012 (2007)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/0409028 [pdf, other]

Title: Noise in strong lensing cosmography

Neal Dalal (IAS), Joseph Hennawi (Princeton), Paul Bode (Princeton)

Comments: 7 pages, submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 99-105

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/0409029 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the role of synchrotron X-rays from jets of accreting black holes

S. Heinz

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/0409030 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on Dark Energy Models from Galaxy Clusters with Multiple Arcs

Massimo Meneghetti, Bhuvnesh Jain, Matthias Bartelmann, Klaus Dolag

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 362 (2005) 1301-1310

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/0409031 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure and star formation in disk galaxies III. Nuclear and circumnuclear H alpha emission

J. H. Knapen (University of Hertfordshire, U.K.)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics; 11 pages latex with 8 postscript figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 429 (2005) 141-151

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/0409032 [pdf, other]

Title: Superburst Ignition and Implications for Neutron Star Interiors

Edward F. Brown (Michigan State University/JINA)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, ApJ Letters, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.614:L57-L60,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/0409033 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe

Richard Wigmans

Comments: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. on Sep. 1, 2004, 4 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/0409034 [pdf, other]

Title: High energy neutrinos from radio-quiet AGNs

Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Peter Meszaros

Comments: 10 pages, 5 Postscript figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 123001

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

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/0409035 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotating Core Collapse and Bipolar Supernova Explosions

Adam Burrows, Rolf Walder, Christian D. Ott, Eli Livne

Comments: 11 pages, 5 color JPEG figures, to be published in the proceedings of the international conference entitled "The Fate of the Most Massive Stars," held May 23-28, 2004, at Jackson Lake Lodge in the Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, ed. Roberta Humphreys (ASP Conf. Series)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/0409036 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Type Ia Supernovae 1991T, 1991bg, 1999ek, 2001bt, 2001cn, 2001cz, and 2002bo

Kevin Krisciunas, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Mark M. Phillips, Pablo Candia, Jose Luis Prieto, R. Antezana, R. Chassagne, H.-W. Chen, M. Dickinson, P. R. Eisenhardt, J. Espinoza, P. M. Garnavich, D. Gonzalez, T. E. Harrison, M. Hamuy, V. D. Ivanov, W. Krzeminski, C. Kulesa, P. McCarthy, A. Moro-Martin, C. Muena, A. Noriega-Crespo, S. E. Persson, P. A. Pinto, M. Roth, E. P. Rubenstein, S. A. Stanford, G. S. Stringfellow, A. Zapata, Alain Porter, Marina Wischnjewsky

Comments: Astron. J., 128, 3034 (Dec. 2004). This version with updated author list, addresses, acknowledgments, references

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/0409037 [pdf, other]

Title: Mass Segregation and Tidal Tails of the Globular Cluster NGC 7492

Kang Hwan Lee (1 and 2), Hyung Mok Lee (3), Gregory G. Fahlman (4), Hwankyung Sung (1) ((1) Sejong University, (2) University of Kent, (3) Seoul National University, (4) Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)

Comments: 28pages, 11figures, accepted for publication in AJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/0409038 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark energy and CMB bispectrum

F. Giovi, C. Baccigalupi

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures. To appear in "Impact of Gravitational Lensing on Cosmology", IAU Symposium 225, Mellier & Meylan eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/0409039 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Detection of Cosmic Ray Extensive Air Showers: present status of the CODALEMA experiment

A. Belletoile (SUBATECH), D. Ardouin (SUBATECH), D. Charrier (SUBATECH), Richard Dallier (SUBATECH), L. Denis (SRN), P. Eschstruth (LAL), T. Gousset (SUBATECH), F. Haddad (SUBATECH), P. Lautridou (SUBATECH), A. Lecacheux (LESIA), D. Monnier-Ragaigne (LAL), A. Rahmani (SUBATECH), O. Ravel (SUBATECH)

Comments: september 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/0409040 [pdf, other]

Title: Systematic study of (g,n) reaction rates for Z>=78 isotopes

K. Sonnabend, K. Vogt, D. Galaviz, S. Mueller, A. Zilges

Comments: Phys. Rev. C, in press; Erratum (Phys. Rev. C, submitted) added

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.C70:035802,2004; Erratum-ibid.C72:019901,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/0409041 [pdf, other]

Title: A new photometric technique for the joint selection of star-forming and passive galaxies at 1.4<z<2.5

E. Daddi, A. Cimatti, A. Renzini, A. Fontana, M. Mignoli, L. Pozzetti, P. Tozzi, G. Zamorani

Comments: 19 pages, 17 figures, to appear on ApJ (20 December 2004 issue)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 746-764

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/0409042 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Phase Transitions

Norbert Straumann

Comments: 54 pages, 9 figures, Invited lecture at the third Summer School on Condensed Matter Research, 7-14 August 2004, Zuoz, Switzerland

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

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/0409043 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for Low-Mass Exoplanets by Gravitational Microlensing at High Magnification

F. Abe, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, S. Eguchi, Y. Furuta, J.B. Hearnshaw, K. Kamiya, P.M. Kilmartin, Y. Kurata, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, Y. Muraki, S. Noda, K. Okajima, A. Rakich, N.J. Rattenbury, T. Sako, T. Sekiguchi, D.J. Sullivan, T. Sumi, P.J. Tristram, T. Yanagisawa, P.C.M. Yock, A. Gal-Yam, Y. Lipkin, D. Maoz, E.O. Ofek, A. Udalski, O. Szewczyk, K. Zebrun, I. Soszynski, M.K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, L. Wyrzykowski

Journal-ref: Science 305 (2004) 1264-1266

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/0409044 [pdf, other]

Title: Anti-Hierarchical Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and QSO lifetimes

Andrea Merloni

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to Proceedings of the Conference on "Growing Black Holes" held in Garching, Germany, on June 21-25, 2004, edited by A. Merloni, S. Nayakshin and R. Sunyaev, Springer-Verlag series of "ESO Astrophysics Symposia"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/0409045 [pdf, other]

Title: An Expanded RXTE Survey of X-ray Variability in Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Alex Markowitz (NASA/GSFC), Rick Edelson (UCLA)

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 30 pages; 10 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 939-965

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/0409046 [pdf, other]

Title: Radial velocities and membership of stars in the old, distant open cluster Berkeley 29

A. Bragaglia (1), E.V. Held (2), M. Tosi (1) (1 - INAF Oss. Astron. Bologna, 2 - INAF Oss. Astron. Padova)

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures (fig. 1 at low-res, but JPEG version included too), accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 429 (2005) 881-886

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/0409047 [pdf, other]

Title: Pulsar Slot Gaps and Unidentified EGRET Sources

Alice Harding, Alexander Muslimov

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, to appear in proceedings of "The Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Sources", ed. G. Romero & K.S. Cheng

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 297 (2005) 63-70

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/0409048 [pdf, other]

Title: Are the WMAP angular magnification measurements consistent with an inhomogeneous critical density Universe?

R. Lieu, J.P.D. Mittaz

Comments: ApJ 623, L1 (2005)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/0409049 [pdf, other]

Title: Why the astrophysical Black Hole Candidates may not be black holes at all

Abhas Mitra

Comments: 8 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/0409050 [pdf, other]

Title: The tidally disturbed luminous compact blue galaxy Mkn 1087 and its surroundings

Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, Cesar Esteban, Monica Rodriguez

Comments: Accepted by A&A, 21 pages, 13 figures, 8 tables

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 428 (2004) 425-444

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)