Astrophysics

Authors and titles for October 2004

[501] arXiv:astro-ph/0410502 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio-loud and Radio-quiet X-ray Binaries: LSI+61303 in Context

Maria Massi

Comments: Invited talk. 7th EVN Symposium. Bachiller,Colomer,Desmurs,de Vincente (eds) October 12th-15 2004, Toledo, Spain

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[502] arXiv:astro-ph/0410503 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining Van der Waals quintessence by observations

S. Capozziello, V.F. Cardone, S. Carloni, S. De Martino, M. Falanga, A. Troisi, M. Bruni

Comments: JCAP accepted version; a new section has been added and the matching with the data has been repeated in a different way also evaluating the positions of the peaks in the CMBR anisotropy spectrum; it is now a 24 pages paper with 8 figures

Journal-ref: JCAP0504:005,2005

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

[503] arXiv:astro-ph/0410504 [pdf, other]

Title: The gamma-ray emitting microquasar LSI+61303

M. Massi, M. Ribo', J.M. Paredes, S.T. Garrington, M. Peracaula, J. Marti'

Comments: To be published in the proceedings of the Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Heidelberg, July 26-30, 2004 (AIP Proceedings Series)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[504] arXiv:astro-ph/0410505 [pdf, other]

Title: Relations Between Timing Features and Colors in Accreting Millisecond Pulsars

Steve van Straaten (1), Michiel van der Klis (1), Rudy Wijnands (1) ((1) Univ. Amsterdam)

Comments: 46 pages, 23 figures, ApJ accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 619 (2005) 455-482

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[505] arXiv:astro-ph/0410506 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic confirmation of high-redshift supernovae with the ESO VLT

C. Lidman, D. A. Howell, G. Folatelli, G. Garavini, S. Nobili, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, P. Antilogus, P. Astier, G. Blanc, M. S. Burns, A. Conley, S. E. Deustua, M. Doi, R. Ellis, S. Fabbro, V. Fadeyev, R. Gibbons, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, D. E. Groom, I. Hook, N. Kashikawa, A. G. Kim, R. A. Knop, B. C. Lee, J. Mendez, T. Morokuma, K. Motohara, P. E. Nugent, R. Pain, S. Perlmutter, V. Prasad, R. Quimby, J. Raux, N. Regnault, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, G. Sainton, B. E. Schaefer, K. Schahmaneche, E. Smith, A. L. Spadafora, V. Stanishev, N. A. Walton, L. Wang, W. M. Wood-Vasey, N. Yasuda (The Supernova Cosmology Project)

Comments: 30 pages, 43 figures. Accepted by A&A. A version with higher resolution finding charts is available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[506] arXiv:astro-ph/0410507 [pdf, other]

Title: Do Magnetic Fields Prevent Hydrogen from Accreting onto Cool Metal-line White Dwarf Stars?

S. Friedrich, S. Jordan, D. Koester

Comments: 4 LaTeX pages, 4 eps figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, eds. D. Koester and S. Moehler, ASP Conf. Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[507] arXiv:astro-ph/0410508 [pdf, other]

Title: Phantom Dark Energy, Cosmic Doomsday, and the Coincidence Problem

Robert J. Scherrer

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, more references and discussion added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 063519

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

[508] arXiv:astro-ph/0410509 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of magnetic fields in CPNs

S. Jordan, K. Werner, S.J. O'Toole

Comments: 4 LaTeX pages, 4 eps figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, eds. D. Koester and S. Moehler, ASP Conf. Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[509] arXiv:astro-ph/0410510 [pdf, other]

Title: The effects of stellar dynamics on the evolution of young dense stellar systems

H. Belkus, J. Van Bever, D. Vanbeveren

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, proceeding of the conference Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries, eds. N. St-Louis and A. Moffat

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[510] arXiv:astro-ph/0410511 [pdf, other]

Title: Controlled Antihydrogen Propulsion for NASA's Future in Very Deep Space

Michael Martin Nieto, Michael H. Holzscheiter, Slava G. Turyshev

Comments: 12 pagess, 3 figures, to be published in the Prceedings of the 2004 NASA/JPL Workshop on Physics for Planetary Exploration

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[511] arXiv:astro-ph/0410512 [pdf, other]

Title: uvbyCaHbeta CCD Photometry of Clusters. V. The Metal-Deficient Open Cluster NGC 2243

B. J. Anthony-Twarog, J. Atwell, B. A. Twarog (Univ. of Kansas)

Comments: 21 pg postscript, latex to preprint format, 15 eps figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal Feb. 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[512] arXiv:astro-ph/0410513 [pdf, other]

Title: The Starburst IMF -- An Impossible Measurement?

Bernhard R. Brandl, Morten Andersen

Comments: 8 pages, to appear in IMFat50: The Initial Mass Function 50 years later, ed: E. Corbelli, F. Palla, and H. Zinnecker, Kluwer `Academic Publishers; a meeting held at the Abbazia di Spineto, Tuscany, Italy -- May 16-20, 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[513] arXiv:astro-ph/0410514 [pdf, other]

Title: The mass composition of cosmic rays above 10^17 eV

A. A. Watson

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures. Based on a talk given at XIII ISVHECRI: Pylos, Greece in September 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[514] arXiv:astro-ph/0410515 [pdf, other]

Title: Deuterated Thioformaldehyde in the Barnard 1 Cloud

N. Marcelino, J. Cernicharo, E. Roueff, M. Gerin, R. Mauersberger

Comments: 33 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 620 (2005) 308-320

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[515] arXiv:astro-ph/0410516 [pdf, other]

Title: Weighing stellar - mass black holes with Gaia

B. Fuchs, U. Bastian

Comments: 2 pages, a reference added

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[516] arXiv:astro-ph/0410517 [pdf, other]

Title: How to reconcile the C and s-process abundances in the metal-poor star V453 Oph ?

Pieter Deroo, Stephane Goriely, Lionel Siess, Maarten Reyniers, Hans Van Winckel

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, refereed contribution to the Nuclei in the Cosmos Conference, accepted to appear in Nucl. Phys. A

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys. A758 (2005) 288-291

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[517] arXiv:astro-ph/0410518 [pdf, other]

Title: Did most present-day spirals form during the last 8 Gyrs? A formation history with violent episodes revealed by panchromatic observations

F. Hammer (1), H. Flores (1), D. Elbaz (2), X.Z. Zheng (1,3), Y.C. Liang (1,4), C. Cesarsky (5) ((1) GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, France; (2) CEA, Saclay-SAp, France; (3) Max-Planck Institut fuer Astronomie, Germany; (4) National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, China; (5) ESO, Germany)

Comments: 19 pages, 7 PS figures, 4 Tables. Accepted for publication in A&A, revised version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[518] arXiv:astro-ph/0410519 [pdf, other]

Title: High resolution infrared spectra of NGC 6342 and NGC 6528: two moderately reddened Bulge Globular Clusters

L. Origlia, E. Valenti, R.M. Rich

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 356 (2005) 1276-1282

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[519] arXiv:astro-ph/0410520 [pdf, other]

Title: The radio-ultraviolet spectral energy distribution of the jet in 3C273

S. Jester (1), H.-J. Roeser (2), K. Meisenheimer (2), R. Perley ((1) Fermilab, (2) MPIA Heidelberg, (3) NRAO Socorro)

Comments: 28 pages, lots of figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 431 (2005) 477

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[520] arXiv:astro-ph/0410521 [pdf, other]

Title: The CIDA Variability Survey of Orion OB1. I: the low-mass population of Ori OB 1a and 1b

Cesar Briceno (1), Nuria Calvet (2), Jesus Hernandez (1,3), A. Katherina Vivas (1), Lee Hartmann (2), Juan J. Downes (1,4), Perry Berlind (2) ((1) CIDA, Merida, Venezuela, (2) SAO, Cambridge, MA, USA, (3) ULA, Merida, Venezuela, (4) UCV, Caracas, Venezuela)

Comments: 44 pages, 12 figures, to appear in the Astronomical Journal. (Abridged abstract - to fit length limit in astroph) Full resolution figures in this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.J.129:907-926,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[521] arXiv:astro-ph/0410522 [pdf, other]

Title: Disk evolution in the Ori OB1 association

Nuria Calvet (1), Cesar Briceno (2), Jesus Hernandez (2), Sergio Hoyer (3), Lee Hartmann (1), Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar (1), S. T. Megeath (1), Paola D'Alessio (4) ((1) SAO, Cambridge, MA, USA, (2) CIDA, Merida, Venezuela, (3) PUC, Santiago, Chile, (4) CRA, Morelia, Mexico)

Comments: 35 pages, 11 figures, to appear in the Astronomical Journal. Full resolution figures in this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.J.129:935-946,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[522] arXiv:astro-ph/0410523 [pdf, other]

Title: Mid-Infrared Selection of Active Galaxies

Daniel Stern (1), Peter Eisenhardt (1), Varoujan Gorjian (1), Christopher S. Kochanek (2), Nelson Caldwell (3), Daniel Eisenstein (4), Mark Brodwin (1)Michael J.I. Brown (5 and 6), Richard Cool (4), Arjun Dey (6), Paul Green (3), Buell T. Jannuzi (6), Stephen S. Murray (3), Michael A. Pahre (3), S.P. Willner (3) ((1) JPL/Caltech, (2) Steward, (3) CfA, (4) Steward, (5) Princeton, (6) NOAO)

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures; submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.631:163-168,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[523] arXiv:astro-ph/0410524 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring Properties of Dark and Visible Mass Distribution on Different Scales in the Universe

Yuriy Mishchenko, Chung-Ryong Ji

Comments: presented at the DPF2004 meeting in Riverside, CA; to be published in a supplement in International Journal of Modern Physics A

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys. A20 (2005) 3124

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[524] arXiv:astro-ph/0410525 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep-Ocean Crusts as Telescopes: Using Live Radioisotopes to Probe Supernova Nucleosynthesis

Brian D. Fields, Kathrin A. Hochmuth, John Ellis

Comments: 13 pages, 2 figures, AASTeX. Comments welcome

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.621:902-907,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[525] arXiv:astro-ph/0410526 [pdf, other]

Title: From the Earliest Seeds to Today's Supermassive Black Holes

Piero Madau

Comments: 15 pages, invited review to appear in "Growing Black Holes", eds. A. Merloni, S. Nayakshin, R. Sunyaev, Springel-Verlag series of "ESO Astrophysics Symposia"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[526] arXiv:astro-ph/0410527 [pdf, other]

Title: The Cosmic Evolution of Hard X-ray Selected Active Galactic Nuclei

A.J. Barger, L.L. Cowie, R.F. Mushotzky, Y. Yang, W.-H. Wang, A.T. Steffen, P. Capak

Comments: 36 pages, Accepted by The Astronomical Journal (scheduled for Feb 2005), Figure 15a-c greyscale images can be found at this http URL etc

Journal-ref: Astron.J.129:578-609,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[527] arXiv:astro-ph/0410528 [pdf, other]

Title: Is the interstellar gas of starburst galaxies well mixed?

Vianney Lebouteiller, Daniel Kunth (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures;contribution to Starbursts: from 30 Dor to Lyman Break Galaxies, 6 -10 September 2004, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[528] arXiv:astro-ph/0410529 [pdf, other]

Title: Praesepe and the seven white dwarfs

P.D. Dobbie (1), D.J. Pinfield (2), R. Napiwotzki (1), N.C. Hambly (3), M.R. Burleigh (1), M.A. Barstow (1), R.F. Jameson (1), I. Hubeny (4) ((1) University of Leicester, UK, (2) University of Hertfordshire, UK, (3) IfA, University of Edinburgh, UK, (4) NOAO, Tucson, AZ)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.355:L39-L43,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[529] arXiv:astro-ph/0410530 [pdf, other]

Title: Helical motion and the origin of QPO in blazar-type sources

Frank M. Rieger

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure; presented at the 5th Microquasar Workshop, Beijing, June 2004. Accepted for publication in the Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Chin.J.Astron.Astrophys.5S:305,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[530] arXiv:astro-ph/0410531 [pdf, other]

Title: The gravitational wave signature of young and dense star clusters

Simon Portegies Zwart

Comments: To be published in the proccedings of the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Paris, 18-25 July 2004, at the H0.1-2/E1.8 Gravitational Waves in Astronomy and Fundamental Physics meeting (Eds. S. Vitale and J. Centrella) by Elsevier publishers

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[531] arXiv:astro-ph/0410532 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantitative Stellar Spectral Classification. III. Spectral Resolution

J. Garcia, J. Stock, M. J. Stock, N. Sanchez

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures embedded, Accepted by RevMexAA

Journal-ref: Rev.Mex.Astron.Astrofis. 41 (2005) 31-40

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[532] arXiv:astro-ph/0410533 [pdf, other]

Title: Differential rotation of the active G5V star Kappa1 Ceti: Photometry from the MOST satellite

Slavek M. Rucinski, Gordon A.H. Walker, Jaymie M. Matthews, Rainer Kuschnig, Evgenya Shkolnik, Sergey Marchenko, David A. Bohlender, D. B. Guenther, Anthony F.J. Moffat, Dimitar Sasselov, Werner W. Weiss

Comments: 10 figures, accepted by PASP for Dec.2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[533] arXiv:astro-ph/0410534 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Fields in Molecular Cloud Cores

Shantanu Basu (UWO)

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, in Young Local Universe, Proceedings of XXXIXth Rencontres de Moriond, eds. A. Chalabaev, T. Fukui, T. Montmerle, and J. Tran-Thanh-Van, (Editions Frontieres, Paris)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[534] arXiv:astro-ph/0410535 [pdf, other]

Title: Palomar/Las Campanas Imaging Atlas of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: II. Surface Photometry and the Properties of the Underlying Stellar Population

A. Gil de Paz, B.F. Madore (Carnegie Observatories)

Comments: 35 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS. Postscript files of panels f1a-f1o of figure 1 are available online at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[535] arXiv:astro-ph/0410536 [pdf, other]

Title: Accreting Neutron Stars and Black Holes: A Decade of Discoveries

Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)

Comments: 42 pages; 24 figures. To appear in "Compact Stellar X-ray Sources", eds. W.H.G. Lewin and M. van der Klis

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[536] arXiv:astro-ph/0410537 [pdf, other]

Title: Interaction of young stellar object jets with their accretion disk

Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press (contains an appendix which is not in A&A)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[537] arXiv:astro-ph/0410538 [pdf, other]

Title: A method for determining radio continuum spectra, and its application to large surveys

B. Vollmer (1 and 2), E. Davoust (3), P. Dubois (1), F. Genova (1), F. Ochsenbein (1), W. van Driel (4) ((1) CDS, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France, (2) MPI fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, (3) Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, (4) GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon, France)

Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[538] arXiv:astro-ph/0410539 [pdf, other]

Title: Phase-dependent changes in the wind lines in the HMXRB's SMC X-1 and 4U1700-37

R.C. Iping (1), G. Sonneborn (1), L. Kaper (2), G. Hammerschlag-Hensberge (2) ((1) NASA's GSFC, (2) University of Amsterdam)

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[539] arXiv:astro-ph/0410540 [pdf, other]

Title: FUSE Observations of eta Carinae

R.C. Iping (1), G. Sonneborn (1), T. R. Gull (1) ((1) NASA's GSFC)

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[540] arXiv:astro-ph/0410541 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological influence of super-Hubble perturbations

Edward W. Kolb, Sabino Matarrese, Alessio Notari, Antonio Riotto

Comments: Four pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A20:2705-2710,2005

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

[541] arXiv:astro-ph/0410542 [pdf, other]

Title: ANTARES Status & Milestones : News from Deep-Sea

Thierry Pradier (IReS & University Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I) (for the ANTARES Collaboration)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Frontier Science - Physics and Astrophysics in Space, Frascati, Italy, 14-19 June 2004

Journal-ref: Frascati Phys.Ser. 555 (2004) 1-7

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[542] arXiv:astro-ph/0410543 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernovae type Ia data favour coupled phantom energy

Elisabetta Majerotto, Domenico Sapone, Luca Amendola (INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy)

Comments: 10 pages, 14 figures, to be submitted to JCAP; v2: minor changes, added a plot and reference updates

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

[543] arXiv:astro-ph/0410544 [pdf, other]

Title: Beam mismatch effects in Cosmic Microwave Background polarization measurements

Cyrille Rosset (PCC, LAL), Vladimir Yurchenko, Jacques Delabrouille (PCC), Jean Kaplan (PCC), Yannick Giraud-Héraud (PCC), Jean-Michel Lamarre (LERMA), Antony J. Murphy

Comments: Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.464:405-415,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[544] arXiv:astro-ph/0410545 [pdf, other]

Title: A Far-Ultraviolet View of Starburst Galaxies

Claus Leitherer (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, Invited Talk, Starbursts--From 30 Doradus to Lyman-Break Galaxies, ed. R. de Grijs & R. M. Gonzalez Delgado (Dordrecht: Kluwer)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[545] arXiv:astro-ph/0410546 [pdf, other]

Title: Curvature Perturbations from Broken Symmetries

Edward W. Kolb, Antonio Riotto, Alberto Vallinotto

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D71:043513,2005

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

[546] arXiv:astro-ph/0410547 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio behavior of four southern non-thermal O-type stars

Paula Benaglia, Baerbel Koribalski

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, ASP Conference Proceeding submitted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[547] arXiv:astro-ph/0410548 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetospheric Birefringence Induces Unique Polarization Signatures in Neutron-Star Spectra

R. M. Shannon, Jeremy S. Heyl (UBC)

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, changes to reflect accepted version

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:1377-1380,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[548] arXiv:astro-ph/0410549 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbital solutions to the HD160691 (mu Arae) Doppler signal

Krzysztof Gozdziewski, Maciej Konacki, Andrzej J. Maciejewski

Comments: 6 pages, 1 table, 13 figures in low resolution suitable for astro-ph. Submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 1136-1148

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[549] arXiv:astro-ph/0410550 [pdf, other]

Title: Type I Migration in a Non-Isothermal Protoplanetary Disk

Hannah Jang-Condell (1 and 2), Dimitar D. Sasselov (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism)

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 619 (2005) 1123-1131

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[550] arXiv:astro-ph/0410551 [pdf, other]

Title: A review of rapid X-ray variability in X-ray binaries

M. van der Klis

Comments: 73 pages, 21 figures, no color to appear in Compact stellar X-ray sources, Lewin & van der Klis (eds), Cambridge University Press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)