Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 2005

[601] arXiv:astro-ph/0501601 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-slit and Fabry-Perot spectroscopy of collisional ring galaxy Arp 10

A. V. Moiseev (1), D. V. Bizyaev (2,3), E. I. Vorobyov (4,5) ((1) SAO RAS Russia, (2) Univ. of Texas El Paso (3) SAI Russia, (4) University of Western Ontario Canada (5) IoP, Rostov-on-Don Russia)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, poster contribution on American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #26.05

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[602] arXiv:astro-ph/0501602 [pdf, other]

Title: Elementary Heating Events - Magnetic Interactions Between Two Flux Sources. III Energy Considerations

K. Galsgaard, C. E. Parnell

Comments: A&A accepted, 24 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[603] arXiv:astro-ph/0501603 [pdf, other]

Title: Metallicity and HI Column Density Properties of Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ Systems

J.L. Hou, C.G. Shu, S.Y. Shen, R.X. Chang, W. P. Chen, C.Q. Fu

Comments: 31 pages including 7 figures, will appear in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 624 (2005) 561-570

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[604] arXiv:astro-ph/0501604 [pdf, other]

Title: On the distance, reddening and progenitor of V838 Mon

U.Munari, A.Henden, A.Vallenari, H.E.Bond, R.L.M.Corradi, L.Crause, S.Desidera, E.Giro, P.M.Marrese, S.Ragaini, A.Siviero, R.Sordo, S.Starrfield, T.Tomov, S.Villanova, T.Zwitter, R.M.Wagner

Comments: in press in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[605] arXiv:astro-ph/0501605 [pdf, other]

Title: On gravitational lensing by deflectors in motion

M. Sereno (DSF, Unina; Inaf-Oac; INFN-Sec. Napoli)

Comments: 4 pages; this is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[606] arXiv:astro-ph/0501606 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantitative H and K band spectroscopy of Galactic OB-stars at medium resolution

T. Repolust, J. Puls, M.M. Hanson, R.-P. Kudritzki, M.R. Mokiem

Comments: 26 pages, 15 figures, A&A, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[607] arXiv:astro-ph/0501607 [pdf, other]

Title: New Catalogs of Compact Radio Sources in the Galactic Plane

Richard L. White, Robert H. Becker, David J. Helfand

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables; accepted for August 2005 Astronomical Journal; numerous minor revisions in paper and catalogs from first version

Journal-ref: Astron.J.130:586-596,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[608] arXiv:astro-ph/0501608 [pdf, other]

Title: The young, active binary star EK Draconis

B. König, E.W. Guenther, J. Woitas, A.P. Hatzes

Comments: 10 pages, 11 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[609] arXiv:astro-ph/0501609 [pdf, other]

Title: On Multiwavelength Emission and Morphology of Large-Scale Quasar Jets

L. Stawarz, M. Sikora, M. Ostrowski, M.C. Begelman

Comments: 2 pages. Proceedings of the Workshop `Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context', Garching, Jun. 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[610] arXiv:astro-ph/0501610 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Magnetic Field in Quasar and FR II Large-Scale Jets

L. Stawarz, J. Kataoka

Comments: 4 pages, 6 figures included. Proceedings of the Workshop `22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics', Palo Alto, Dec. 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[611] arXiv:astro-ph/0501611 [pdf, other]

Title: A planet-sized transiting star around OGLE-TR-122 - Accurate mass and radius near the Hydrogen-burning limit

F. Pont, C. H. F. Melo, F. Bouchy, S. Udry, D. Queloz, M. Mayor, N. C. Santos

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, A&A letters, in Press. Revised

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[612] arXiv:astro-ph/0501612 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Magnetic Field in Kpc-Scale Jets of FR I Radio Galaxies

L. Stawarz, A. Siemiginowska, M. Ostrowski, M. Sikora

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures included. Proceedings of the Workshop `22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics', Palo Alto, Dec. 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[613] arXiv:astro-ph/0501613 [pdf, other]

Title: Matter Power Spectrum for Convex Quartessence

R. R. R. Reis, M. Makler, I. Waga

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, IOP class file used

Journal-ref: Class.Quant.Grav.22:353-362,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[614] arXiv:astro-ph/0501614 [pdf, other]

Title: Signatures of Primordial Non-Gaussianity in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe

N. Bartolo (ICTP, Trieste), S. Matarrese, A. Riotto (Physics Dept. and INFN, Padova)

Comments: 8 pages, LaTeX file; Revised to match the final version accepted for publication on JCAP (some comments and one figure added)

Journal-ref: JCAP 0510 (2005) 010

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

[615] arXiv:astro-ph/0501615 [pdf, other]

Title: Doppler follow-up of OGLE planetary transit candidates in Carina

F. Pont, F. Bouchy, C. Melo, N.C. Santos, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, S. Udry

Comments: 22 pages, submitteed to A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[616] arXiv:astro-ph/0501616 [pdf, other]

Title: The extreme flare in III Zw 2: Evolution of a radio jet in a Seyfert galaxy

A. Brunthaler (1,2), H. Falcke (3,4), G.C. Bower (5), M.F. Aller (6), H.D. Aller (6), H. Teraesranta (7) ((1) Max-Plank Institut fuer Radioastronomie, (2) Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, (3) Astron, (4) Universiteit Nijmegen, (5) Berkeley, (6) University of Michigan, (7) Metsahovi Radio Observatory)

Comments: Astronomy & Astrophysics, accepted, 11 pages, 14 Figures, also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[617] arXiv:astro-ph/0501617 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of Ultracompact X-ray Binaries in Dense Star Clusters

N. Ivanova, F.A. Rasio, J.C. Lombardi Jr., K.L. Dooley, Z.F. Proulx

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, in emulateapj style. ApJ Letters, in press, includes corrections in proofs

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) L109-L112

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[618] arXiv:astro-ph/0501618 [pdf, other]

Title: Merging of globular clusters within inner galactic regions. I. Do they survive the tidal interaction?

P. Miocchi, R. Capuzzo Dolcetta, P. Di Matteo, A. Vicari (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dip. di Fisica, Rome, Italy)

Comments: LaTeX 2e, AASTeX v5.x, 23 pages with 14 figures. Accepted for publication on the Astrophysical Journal. Final version with major changes

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.644:940-953,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[619] arXiv:astro-ph/0501619 [pdf, other]

Title: A numerical comparison of theories of violent relaxation

I. Arad, P.H. Johansson

Comments: Replaced with a revised version, which is now accepted to MNRAS. LaTeX, 12 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 362 (2005) 252-262

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[620] arXiv:astro-ph/0501620 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of Spectroscopic Variations in the DAB White Dwarf GD 323

C. Pereira, P. Bergeron, F. Wesemael

Comments: 23 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 623 (2005) 1076-1082

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[621] arXiv:astro-ph/0501621 [pdf, other]

Title: IRAS 16293-2442B: A Compact, Possibly Isolated Protoplanetary Disk in a Class 0 Object

Luis F. Rodriguez, Laurent Loinard, Paola D'Alessio, David J. Wilner, Paul T. P. Ho

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) L133-L136

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[622] arXiv:astro-ph/0501622 [pdf, other]

Title: Lost & Found Dark Matter in Elliptical Galaxies

A. Dekel (1,2,3), F. Stoehr (2), G.A. Mamon (2), T.J. Cox (4), G.S. Novak (3), J.R. Primack (3) ((1) HU Jerusalem, (2) IAP Paris, (3) UC Santa Cruz, (4) CfA Harvard)

Comments: Letter to Nature, 13+15 pages, 2+11 figures, improved text, extended Supplementary Information added

Journal-ref: Nature437:707,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[623] arXiv:astro-ph/0501623 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular freeze-out as a tracer of the thermal and dynamical evolution of pre- and protostellar cores

J. K. Jorgensen (1), F. L. Schoeier (2), E. F. van Dishoeck (1) ((1) Leiden Observatory, (2) Stockholm Observatory)

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[624] arXiv:astro-ph/0501624 [pdf, other]

Title: Observations of Rapid Disk-Jet Interaction in the Microquasar GRS 1915+105

David M. Rothstein (Cornell), Stephen S. Eikenberry (U. Florida), Keith Matthews (Caltech)

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 626 (2005) 991

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[625] arXiv:astro-ph/0501625 [pdf, other]

Title: Mini-dark halos with intermediate mass black holes

HongSheng Zhao, Joseph Silk

Comments: Expanded figures and abstract from published version

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 95 (2005) 011301

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

[626] arXiv:astro-ph/0501626 [pdf, other]

Title: Directly Measured Limit on the Interplanetary Matter Density from Pioneer 10 and 11

Michael Martin Nieto, Slava G. Turyshev, John D. Anderson

Comments: 16 pages, 2 figures, publication version

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett. B613 (2005) 11-19

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[627] arXiv:astro-ph/0501627 [pdf, other]

Title: Astrophysical water masers: Line profiles analysis

W.H.T. Vlemmings (Cornell University), H.J. van Langevelde (JIVE, Dwingeloo)

Comments: 8 pages; 6 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[628] arXiv:astro-ph/0501628 [pdf, other]

Title: The magnetic field around late-type stars revealed by the circumstellar H2O masers

W.H.T. Vlemmings (Cornell University), H.J. van Langevelde (JIVE, Dwingeloo), P.J. Diamond (Jodrell Bank Observatory)

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in A&A; corrected typo in referenced magnetic field strength

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[629] arXiv:astro-ph/0501629 [pdf, other]

Title: HE 0141-3932: a bright QSO with an unusual emission line spectrum and associated absorption

D. Reimers, E. Janknecht, C. Fechner, I. I. Agafonova, S. A. Levshakov, S. Lopez

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[630] arXiv:astro-ph/0501630 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of Intracluster Planetary Nebulae in the Coma Cluster

Ortwin Gerhard (1), Magda Arnaboldi (2), Kenneth C. Freeman (3), Nobunari Kashikawa (4), Sadanori Okamura (5), Naoki Yasuda (6) ((1) Astron. Inst., Univ. Basel, (2) INAF, Obs. Turin, (3) RSAA, Mt. Stromlo, (4) NAOJ, Tokyo, (5) Dpt. Astron., Univ. Tokyo, (6) Inst. Cosmic Ray, Univ. Tokyo)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) L93-L96

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[631] arXiv:astro-ph/0501631 [pdf, other]

Title: Coronal properties of G-type stars in different evolutionary phases

L. Scelsi (1), A. Maggio (2), G. Peres (1), R. Pallavicini (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, Sezione di Astronomia, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, (2) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy)

Comments: 15 pages, 13 Postscript figures, to be published in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[632] arXiv:astro-ph/0501632 [pdf, other]

Title: ISM Properties in Low-Metallicity Environments III. The Dust Spectral Energy Distributions of II Zw 40, He 2-10 and NGC 1140

F. Galliano, S. C. Madden, A. P. Jones, C. D. Wilson, J.-P. Bernard

Comments: A&A, 19 pages, 31 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[633] arXiv:astro-ph/0501633 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of more than two thousand white dwarfs in the globular cluster Omega Centauri

M. Monelli, C.E. Corsi, V. Castellani, I. Ferraro, G. Iannicola, P.G. Prada Moroni, G. Bono, R. Buonanno, A. Calamida, L.M. Freyhammer, L. Pulone, P.B. Stetson

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted on ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) L117-L120

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[634] arXiv:astro-ph/0501634 [pdf, other]

Title: A spectroscopic event of eta Car viewed from different directions: The data and first results

Otmar Stahl, Kerstin Weis, Dominik J. Bomans, Kris Davidson, Theodore R. Gull, Roberta M. Humphreys

Comments: 10 pages, 16 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[635] arXiv:astro-ph/0501635 [pdf, other]

Title: The structural and scaling properties of nearby galaxy clusters: I - The universal mass profile

E. Pointecouteau, M. Arnaud, G.W. Pratt

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[636] arXiv:astro-ph/0501636 [pdf, other]

Title: A deep, wide-field search for substellar members in NGC 2264

T.R. Kendall, J. Bouvier, E. Moraux, D.J. James, F. Menard

Comments: 10 pages, 12 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[637] arXiv:astro-ph/0501637 [pdf, other]

Title: The 3-point function in large scale structure: redshift distortions and galaxy bias

E. Gaztanaga (IEEC/Csic), R. Scoccimarro (CCPP/Nyu)

Comments: 14 pages, 15 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.361:824-836,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[638] arXiv:astro-ph/0501638 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing the locality of transport in self-gravitating accretion discs - II. The massive disc case

G. Lodato (1), W. K. M. Rice (2) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, (2) Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA)

Comments: MNRAS, accepted (higher quality, colour figures can be found at this http URL)

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 358 (2005) 1489-1500

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[639] arXiv:astro-ph/0501639 [pdf, other]

Title: Determination of the mass loss rate and the terminal velocity of stellar winds. I Genetic algorithm for automatic line profile fitting

L. Georgiev, X. Hernandez

Comments: 9 pages, accepted for publication in Rev. Mex. A&A

Journal-ref: Rev.Mex.Astron.Astrophys.41:121,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[640] arXiv:astro-ph/0501640 [pdf, other]

Title: Equatorial scattering and the structure of the broad-line region in Seyfert nuclei: evidence for a rotating disc

J.E. Smith, A. Robinson, S. Young, D.J. Axon, Elizabeth A. Corbett

Comments: 28 pages, 15 figures. Accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.359:846-864,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[641] arXiv:astro-ph/0501641 [pdf, other]

Title: Dust diffusion in protoplanetary discs by magnetorotational turbulence

Anders Johansen, Hubert Klahr (MPIA, Heidelberg)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. An additional MPEG movie can be downloaded at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 634 (2005) 1353-1371

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[642] arXiv:astro-ph/0501642 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-term stability of collisionless equilibrium configurations; algorithms

Jean-Rene Gauthier (University of Toronto), Hugo Martel (Universite Laval)

Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures (3 in color). Technical report

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[643] arXiv:astro-ph/0501643 [pdf, other]

Title: Extended Born-Infeld Dynamics and Cosmology

M. Novello, M. Makler, L. S. Werneck, C. A. Romero

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D71:043515,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[644] arXiv:astro-ph/0501644 [pdf, other]

Title: Relative Evolutionary Time Scale of Hot Molecular Cores with Respect to Ultra Compact HII Regions

R. S. Furuya, R. Cesaroni, S. Takahashi, M. Momose, L. Testi, H. Shinnaga, C. Codella

Comments: 13 pages, 2 figs, including a color fig

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 624 (2005) 827-831

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[645] arXiv:astro-ph/0501645 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-ray Observations of Explosive Nucleosynthesis Products

Jacco Vink (SRON National Institute for Space Research, Netherlands)

Comments: Invited review given at the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, July 18-25 2004, session E1.4 (joint session with E1.5) 'Young Neutron Stars and Supernova Remnants' edited by C. Rakowski and S. Chatterjee. 11 pages, AdSpR emulate style

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[646] arXiv:astro-ph/0501646 [pdf, other]

Title: Resolving IRAS 09111-1007 at 350 microns - a different path to ULIRG formation?

Sophia A. Khan, Dominic J. Benford, David L. Clements, S. Harvey Moseley, Richard A. Shafer, Timothy J. Sumner

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[647] arXiv:astro-ph/0501647 [pdf, other]

Title: Why Magnetic Fields Cannot be the Main Agent Shaping Planetary Nebulae

Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: PASP, 2006, in press. (This paper was rejected by MNRAS and ApJ; my criticism of the referee reports are in: Soker, N. astro-ph/0508525.)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[648] arXiv:astro-ph/0501648 [pdf, other]

Title: New Elemental Abundances for V1974 Cygni

K.M. Vanlandingham, G.J. Schwarz, S.N. Shore, S. Starrfield, R.M. Wagner

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 624 (2005) 914-922

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[649] arXiv:astro-ph/0501649 [pdf, other]

Title: A search for 53 MHz OH line near G48.4$-$1.4 using the National MST Radar Facility

Srikumar M. Menon (Manipal Institute of Technology, India), D. Anish Roshi (Raman Research Institute, India), T. Rajendra Prasad (National MST Radar Facility, India)

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 356 (2005) 958

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[650] arXiv:astro-ph/0501650 [pdf, other]

Title: An 8.5 GHz Arecibo survey of Carbon Recombination Lines toward Ultra-compact \HII regions: Physical properties of dense molecular material

D. Anish Roshi (Raman Research Institute, India), Dana. S. Balser (NRAO, Green Bank), T. M. Bania (Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University), W. M. Goss (NRAO, Socorro), C. G. De Pree (Agnes Scott College, GA)

Comments: 28 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables (accepted for publication in ApJ)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 625 (2005) 181-193

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)