Astrophysics

Authors and titles for December 2004

[501] arXiv:astro-ph/0412501 [pdf, other]

Title: The Far Ultraviolet Spectrum of Z Cam in Quiescence

Louise Hartley, Knox S. Long, Cynthia S. Froning, Janet E Drew

Comments: 45 pages, including 13 figures and 5 tables; accepted for publiction in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 623 (2005) 425-441

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[502] arXiv:astro-ph/0412502 [pdf, other]

Title: Solar Abundance of Elements from Neutron-Capture Cross Sections

O. Manuel, W. A. Myers, Y. Singh, M. Pleess

Comments: 2 pages with 4 figures, submitted for oral presentation in the Genesis Mission Special Session, 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, 14-18 March 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[503] arXiv:astro-ph/0412503 [pdf, other]

Title: Extreme Test of Quantum Theory with Black Holes

Antony Valentini

Comments: 10 pages, latex, no figures

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

[504] arXiv:astro-ph/0412504 [pdf, other]

Title: Further Criteria for the Existence of Steady Line-Driven Winds

N. A. Pereyra

Comments: 30 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication by The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 577-588

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[505] arXiv:astro-ph/0412505 [pdf, other]

Title: The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Ellipsoidal Variability of Red Giants in the Large Magellanic Cloud

I. Soszynski, A. Udalski, M. Kubiak, M.K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, K. Zebrun, O. Szewczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, W.A. Dziembowski

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX. Photometric data presented in the paper are available from the OGLE Internet archive: this http URL or its US mirror this http URL

Journal-ref: Acta Astron. 54 (2004) 347

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[506] arXiv:astro-ph/0412506 [pdf, other]

Title: Dust Sensitivity of Absorption-Line Indices

Lauren A. MacArthur (University of British Columbia)

Comments: 19 pages, 15 embedded color figures, uses this http URL. Submitted to ApJ. High-resolution version available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 623 (2005) 795-814

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[507] arXiv:astro-ph/0412507 [pdf, other]

Title: The radio counter-jet of the QSO 3C~48

W.X.Feng, T.An, X.Y.Hong, Jun-Hui Zhao, T.Venturi, Z.-Q. Shen, W.H.Wang

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[508] arXiv:astro-ph/0412508 [pdf, other]

Title: Study the X-ray Dust Scattering Halos with Chandra Observations of Cygnus X-3 and Cygnus X-1

Jingen Xiang, Shuang Nan Zhang, Yangsen Yao

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Chinese Journal of Astronomy and astrophysics, 2004 Supplements

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[509] arXiv:astro-ph/0412509 [pdf, other]

Title: Implications for unified schemes from submillimetre and far-infrared follow-up of radio-selected samples

Jennifer A. Grimes, Steve Rawlings, Chris JWillott

Comments: 13 pages (including an appendix), 5 figures, to appear in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 359 (2005) 1345-1355

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[510] arXiv:astro-ph/0412510 [pdf, other]

Title: A survey for Fe 6.4 keV emission in young stellar objects in rho Oph: the strong fluorescence from Elias 29

F. Favata, G. Micela, B. Silva, S. Sciortino, M. Tsujimoto

Comments: Accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[511] arXiv:astro-ph/0412511 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion, fluorescent X-ray emission and flaring magnetic structures in YSOs

F. Favata

Comments: Proceedings of a conference on 'Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: IMF, accretion and activity' held in Volterra (Italy) in October 2004 (Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[512] arXiv:astro-ph/0412512 [pdf, other]

Title: Young Massive Clusters in Non-Interacting Galaxies

S. S. Larsen (1), J. P. Brodie (2), D. A. Hunter (3), T. Richtler (4) ((1) ESO/ST-ECF, (2) UCO/Lick, (3) Lowell Observatory, (4) Universidad de Concepcion)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in "Starbursts from 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies'', eds. R. de Grijs, R. M. Gonzalez Delgado

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[513] arXiv:astro-ph/0412513 [pdf, other]

Title: What is the origin of the soft excess in AGN?

Malgorzata Sobolewska (CAMK, Warsaw), Chris Done (University of Durham)

Comments: The proceedings for XDAP 2004, to be published in AIP in May 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[514] arXiv:astro-ph/0412514 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for a hot dust-free inner disk around 51 Oph

W.-F. Thi (1), B. van Dalen (1), A. Bik (1 and 2), L.B.F.M. Waters (1) ((1) University of Amsterdam, (2) European Southern Observatory)

Comments: Letter accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[515] arXiv:astro-ph/0412515 [pdf, other]

Title: The Neutrino Emissivity of Strange Stars with Ultra Strong Magnetic Field

Liu Xuewen, Zheng Xiaoping, Hou Defu

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 24 (2005) 92-99

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

[516] arXiv:astro-ph/0412516 [pdf, other]

Title: The distribution of red and blue galaxies in groups: an empirical test of the halo model

Adrian A. Collister (IoA, Cambridge), Ofer Lahav (UCL, London)

Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures. MNRAS accepted version. Adds appx. on profile fitting; now use truncated NFW

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 361 (2005) 415-427

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[517] arXiv:astro-ph/0412517 [pdf, other]

Title: Madam - a map-making method for CMB experiments

E. Keihanen, H. Kurki-Suonio, T. Poutanen

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 360 (2005) 390

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[518] arXiv:astro-ph/0412518 [pdf, other]

Title: Ram pressure stripping of disk galaxies

E. Roediger (1), G. Hensler (2), ((1) Institute for theoretical physics and astrophysics Uni Kiel, (2) University Observatory of Vienna)

Comments: 25 pages, 32 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, high resolution version at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[519] arXiv:astro-ph/0412519 [pdf, other]

Title: Fundamental stellar parameters

M. Wittkowski

Comments: To appear in Proc. of the 37th Liege International Astrophysical Colloquium "Science Case for Next Generation Optical/Infrared Interferometric Facilities (the post VLTI era)"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[520] arXiv:astro-ph/0412520 [pdf, other]

Title: TeV mu Neutrinos from Young Neutron Stars

B. Link (1 and 2), Fiorella Burgio (3) ((1) Montana State University, (2) University of Pisa, (3) INFN Catania)

Comments: 4 pages. Editorial changes and typos corrected

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 94 (2005) 181101

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

[521] arXiv:astro-ph/0412521 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton EPIC observations of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5204 X-1

T. P. Roberts (1), R. S. Warwick (1), M. J. Ward (1 and 2), M. R. Goad (1 and 3), L. P. Jenkins (1) ((1) University of Leicester, (2) University of Durham, (3) University of Southampton)

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS [version including full resolution Figure 1 available from this http URL]

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 357 (2005) 1363-1369

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[522] arXiv:astro-ph/0412522 [pdf, other]

Title: Interferometry and the study of binaries

Frank Verbunt

Comments: Invited Talk at 37th Liege this http URL. 2004 "Science case for next generation optical/infrared interferometric facilities", 11 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[523] arXiv:astro-ph/0412523 [pdf, other]

Title: Cluster AgeS Experiment (CASE): SX Phe stars from the globular cluster Omega Centauri

A. Olech, W.A. Dziembowski, A.A. Pamyatnykh, J. Kaluzny, W. Pych, A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny, I.B. Thompson

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 363 (2005) 40-48

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[524] arXiv:astro-ph/0412524 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray sources in globular clusters

Frank Verbunt

Comments: Invited review in: "Interacting binaries", July 4-10 Cefalu, eds. Antonelli et al., to be published with AIP. 10 pages,6 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[525] arXiv:astro-ph/0412525 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultrahigh Energy Nuclei Propagation in a Structured, Magnetized Universe

Eric Armengaud, Guenter Sigl (GReCO, and APC, Paris), Francesco Miniati (ETH Zuerich)

Comments: 17 pages, 35 ps figures included

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 043009

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

[526] arXiv:astro-ph/0412526 [pdf, other]

Title: Present Evidence for Intermediate Mass Black Holes in ULXs and Future Prospects

J. M. Miller (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Comments: 14 pages, 3 color figures, to appear in From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Hole Accretion on All Mass Scales, ed. T. J. Maccarone, R. P. Fender, L. C. Ho (Dordrecht: Kluwer)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[527] arXiv:astro-ph/0412527 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of a Be/X-ray Binary Consistent with the Position of GRO J2058+42

Colleen A. Wilson, Martin C. Weisskopf, Mark H. Finger (NSSTC), M.J. Coe (Southampton, UK), Jochen Greiner (MPE-Garching), Pablo Reig, Giannis Papamastorakis (Univ of Crete/IESL)

Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 1024-1032

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[528] arXiv:astro-ph/0412528 [pdf, other]

Title: High altitude wind velocity at Sierra Negra and San Pedro M\'artir

Esperanza Carrasco (1), Remy Avila (2), Alberto Carramiñana (1) ((1) INAOE, Tonantzintla, Mexico (2) Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, Mexico)

Comments: Accepted for publication in PASP; 14 pages, 6 tables, 2 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[529] arXiv:astro-ph/0412529 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle acceleration and non-thermal emission from galaxy clusters

Gianfranco Brunetti

Comments: 8 pages, 4 Figures, invited talk, to appear in proceedings of the 3rd Korean Astrophysics Workshop "Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Fields in Large Scale Structure", Pusan, Korea, August 2004, eds. H. Kang & D. Ryu, Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society

Journal-ref: J. Kor. Astron. Soc. 37 (2004) 1-5

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[530] arXiv:astro-ph/0412530 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the star formation history of the Large Magellanic Cloud

S. C. Javiel, B. X. Santiago, L. O. Kerber

Comments: 16 pages, 14 figures, A&A (2005) in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[531] arXiv:astro-ph/0412531 [pdf, other]

Title: The Optical and Ultraviolet Spectral Energy Distributions of Short Period Black Hole X-ray Transients in Outburst

R.I. Hynes (Louisiana State University, The University of Texas at Austin)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 20 pages using this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 623 (2005) 1026-1043

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[532] arXiv:astro-ph/0412532 [pdf, other]

Title: A high-energy view of radio-loud AGN

D.M. Worrall (Dept. of Physics, University of Bristol)

Comments: Review to be published in Proceedings of the workshop "Multiband Approach to AGN", held on Sep.30-Oct.2 in Bonn. Publication: Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v. 26, No.1 (2005). 8 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[533] arXiv:astro-ph/0412533 [pdf, other]

Title: An Improved Estimate of the Mass of Dust in Cassiopeia A

T. L. Wilson (ESO & MPIfR), W. Batrla (Fachhochschule Hof, Abt. Muenchberg & MPIfR)

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted by A&A for publication

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[534] arXiv:astro-ph/0412534 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic MHD simulations of pulsar bow-shock nebulae

N. Bucciantini, E.Amato, L.Del Zanna

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[535] arXiv:astro-ph/0412535 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian evidence as a tool for comparing datasets

Phil Marshall, Nutan Rajguru, Anze Slosar

Comments: 4 pages, accepted by Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D73:067302,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[536] arXiv:astro-ph/0412536 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic-Like Temperature of Clusters of Galaxies and Cosmological Implications

P. Mazzotta, E. Rasia, S. Borgani, L. Moscardini, K. Dolag, G. Tormen

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Rencontres du Vietnam "New Views on the Universe"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[537] arXiv:astro-ph/0412537 [pdf, other]

Title: A Simultaneous RXTE and XMM-Newton Observation of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy 3C 111

Karen T. Lewis, Michael Eracleous (Penn State)Mario Gliozzi, Rita M. Sambruna (George Mason University), Richard F. Mushotzky (GSFC/LHEA)

Comments: 22 pages, 3 tables, 11 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 816-829

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[538] arXiv:astro-ph/0412538 [pdf, other]

Title: The Importance of Intergalactic Structure to Gravitationally Lensed Quasars

R. Benton Metcalf (University of California)

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 629 (2005) 673-679

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[539] arXiv:astro-ph/0412539 [pdf, other]

Title: A Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Survey of Luminous Cool Stars

A. K. Dupree, A. Lobel, P. R. Young (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), T. B. Ake (Johns Hopkins U/CSC), J. Linsky, S. Redfield (JILA/U. Colorado/NIST)

Comments: Accept for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 22 pages of text, 23 figures and 8 tables

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 629-652

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[540] arXiv:astro-ph/0412540 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton Detection of Hot Gas in the Eskimo Nebula: Shocked Stellar Wind or Collimated Outflows?

M.A. Guerrero (1), Y.-H. Chu (2), R.A. Gruendl (2), M. Meixner (3) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, IAA-CSIC, Spain, (2) Dept. of Astronomy, UIUC, USA, (3) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[541] arXiv:astro-ph/0412541 [pdf, other]

Title: The Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute in the context of VO activities

Inga Kamp, Randall Thompson, Alberto Conti, Dorothy Fraquelli, Tim Kimball, Karen Levay, Bernie Shiao, Myron Smith, Rachel Somerville, Richard L. White

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the conference "Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XIV", Pasadena, USA, October 2004, eds. P. L. Shopbell, M. C. Britton, and R. Ebert

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[542] arXiv:astro-ph/0412542 [pdf, other]

Title: Determining the Physical Properties of the B Stars II. Calibration of Synthetic Photometry

E.L. Fitzpatrick (Villanova), D. Massa (SGT, Inc.)

Comments: 56 pages, 11 Figures, electronic tables not included. To appear in AJ, March 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[543] arXiv:astro-ph/0412543 [pdf, other]

Title: Fifty Years of IMF Variation: The Intermediate-Mass Stars

John Scalo

Comments: 18 pages, including 4 figures: invited talk presented at the conference on "IMF@50: The Stellar Initial Mass Function Fifty Years Later" held at Abbazia di Spineto, Siena, Italy, May 2004; to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, edited by E. Corbelli, F. Palla, and H. Zinnecker

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[544] arXiv:astro-ph/0412544 [pdf, other]

Title: APS Neutrino Study: Report of the Neutrino Astrophysics and Cosmology Working Group

Steve W. Barwick, John F. Beacom, Vince Cianciolo, Scott Dodelson, Jonathan L. Feng, George M. Fuller, Manoj Kaplinghat, Doug W. McKay, Peter Meszaros, Anthony Mezzacappa, Hitoshi Murayama, Keith A. Olive, Todor Stanev, Terry P. Walker

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[545] arXiv:astro-ph/0412545 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Observations of the Bright Old Nova V603 Aquilae

K. Mukai (1 and 2), M. Orio (3 and 4) ((1) NASA/GSFC (2) USRA (3) INAF (4) Univ. Wisconsin)

Comments: 30 pages including 10 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 602-612

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[546] arXiv:astro-ph/0412546 [pdf, other]

Title: Cascades from $\nu_e$ above $10^{20}$ eV

Spencer R. Klein

Comments: Presented at "QCD at Cosmic Energies," Erice, Italy, Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2004. 18 pgs. with 8 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[547] arXiv:astro-ph/0412547 [pdf, other]

Title: The Halo, Hot Spots and Jet/Cloud Interaction of PKS 2153--69

A. J. Young, A. S. Wilson, S. J. Tingay, S. Heinz

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. It is tentatively scheduled for the ApJ 10 April 2005, v623 1 issue

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 830-841

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[548] arXiv:astro-ph/0412548 [pdf, other]

Title: Astrometric and Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Brown Dwarf Companion to GSC 08047-00232

G. Chauvin, A.-M. Lagrange, F. Lacombe, C. Dumas, D. Mouillet, B. Zuckerman, E. Gendron, I. Song, J.-L. Beuzit, P. Lowrance, T. Fusco

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, A&A accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[549] arXiv:astro-ph/0412549 [pdf, other]

Title: The Center of Activity in the CSS Superluminal Source 3C 138

Z.-Q. Shen, L.-L.Shang, H.-B.Cai, X.Chen, D.R.Jiang, Y.-J.Chen, X.Liu, R. Yang, S.Kameno, H.Hirabayashi

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.622:811-815,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[550] arXiv:astro-ph/0412550 [pdf, other]

Title: First microlensing candidate towards M31 from the Nainital Microlensing Survey

Y. C. Joshi (1,2), A. K. Pandey (2), D. Narasimha (1,3), R. Sagar (2) ((1) TIFR, (2) ARIES, (3) Tohoku University)

Comments: no changes except typos corrected, to appear in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)