Astrophysics

Authors and titles for July 2005

[301] arXiv:astro-ph/0507301 [pdf, other]

Title: Observing Baryon Oscillations with Cosmic Shear

Fergus Simpson (IoA, Cambridge)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.647:L91-L94,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[302] arXiv:astro-ph/0507302 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin-Induced Disk Precession in Sagittarius A*

Gabriel Rockefeller, Christopher L. Fryer, Fulvio Melia

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures; small changes to sections 2.1 and 3; accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:336-340,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[303] arXiv:astro-ph/0507303 [pdf, other]

Title: The SFH of the LMC: The CMD approach vs. integrated colors and spectra

Thomas Lilly, Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben

Comments: 10 pages, poster in "Resolved Stellar Populations", 2005, Cancun, Mexico

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[304] arXiv:astro-ph/0507304 [pdf, other]

Title: Cygnus X-3 and the problem of the missing Wolf-Rayet X-ray binaries

Dave Lommen, Lev Yungelson, Ed van den Heuvel, Gijs Nelemans, Simon Portegies Zwart

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[305] arXiv:astro-ph/0507305 [pdf, other]

Title: Deriving star formation histories from integrated light: Colors and indices

Thomas Lilly, Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben

Comments: 13 pages, talk in "Resolved Stellar Populations", 2005, Cancun, Mexico

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[306] arXiv:astro-ph/0507306 [pdf, other]

Title: UV Continuum Spectroscopy of a 6L* z=5.5 Starburst Galaxy

C.C. Dow-Hygelund, B.P. Holden, R.J. Bouwens, A. van der Wel, G.D. Illingworth, A. Zirm, M. Franx, P. Rosati, H. Ford, P.G. van Dokkum, S.A. Stanford, P. Eisenhardt, G.G. Fazio

Comments: Accepted to ApJ Letters. 4 pages in emulate ApJ format, 3 color figures, 1 with lower resolution. Full resolution file available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.630:L137-L140,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[307] arXiv:astro-ph/0507307 [pdf, other]

Title: Baryon oscillations

Martin White

Comments: 18 pages, 10 figures. Minor changes to match version accepted by Astroparticle Physics

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.24:334-344,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[308] arXiv:astro-ph/0507308 [pdf, other]

Title: The Ups and Downs of Baryon Oscillations

Eric V. Linder

Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures; minor, but incisive, updates

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[309] arXiv:astro-ph/0507309 [pdf, other]

Title: Iron-Line Emission as a Probe of Bardeen-Petterson Accretion Disks

P. Chris Fragile, Warner A. Miller, Eric Vandernoot

Comments: 13 pages, 11 figures, submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:157-166,2005

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

[310] arXiv:astro-ph/0507310 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic study of blue compact galaxies V. oxygen abundance and the metallicity-luminosity relation

F. Shi, X. Kong, C. Li, F. Z. Cheng

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.437:849,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[311] arXiv:astro-ph/0507311 [pdf, other]

Title: Electron Positron Capture Rates and the Steady State Equilibrium Condition for Electron-Positron Plasma with Nucleons

Ye-Fei Yuan (USTC)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 013007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[312] arXiv:astro-ph/0507312 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational constraints on hyperons in neutron stars

Benjamin D. Lackey, Mohit Nayyar, Benjamin J. Owen (Penn State)

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures; corrected error in equation three, corrected minor typos, new tables of equations of state added; final version as appearing in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D73:024021,2006

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

[313] arXiv:astro-ph/0507313 [pdf, other]

Title: Taylor-Couette flow: MRI, SHI and SRI

Guenther Ruediger

Comments: 12 pages, 13 figures, dedicated to Prof. E.P. Velikhov on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[314] arXiv:astro-ph/0507314 [pdf, other]

Title: Homeoidally striated density profiles. II. Anisotropy and rotation

R. Caimmi

Comments: 53 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, improved version with bending instabilities mentioned and discussed, and related references added

Journal-ref: Astron.Nachr.327:925-935,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[315] arXiv:astro-ph/0507315 [pdf, other]

Title: The discovery of a galaxy-wide superwind from a young massive galaxy at redshift z~3

R. J. Wilman (1), J. Gerssen (1), R. G. Bower (1), S. L. Morris (1), R. Bacon (2), P. T. de Zeeuw (3), R. L. Davies (4) ((1) University of Durham, (2) Observatoire de Lyon, (3) Leiden Observatory, (4) University of Oxford)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures; published 14 July 2005 in Nature; PPARC press release at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[316] arXiv:astro-ph/0507316 [pdf, other]

Title: Kiloparsec-Scale Jets in FR I Radio Galaxies and the Gamma-Ray Background

L. Stawarz, T.M. Kneiske, J. Kataoka

Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures included. ApJ accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.637:693-698,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[317] arXiv:astro-ph/0507317 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiative Habitable Zones in Martian Polar Environments

C. Cordoba-Jabonero, M.-P. Zorzano, F. Selsis, M. R. Patel, C. S. Cockell

Comments: 44 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Icarus 175 (2005) 360-371

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[318] arXiv:astro-ph/0507318 [pdf, other]

Title: SnIa Constraints on the event-horizon Thermodynamical model of Dark Energy

Jérome Gariel (LERMA), Gérard Le Denmat (LERMA), Cécile Barbachoux (LERMA)

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B629:1-8,2005

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

[319] arXiv:astro-ph/0507319 [pdf, other]

Title: Neptune's Migration into a Stirred-Up Kuiper Belt: A Detailed Comparison of Simulations to Observations

Joseph M. Hahn, Renu Malhotra

Comments: 60 pages, 16 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.J.130:2392-2414,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[320] arXiv:astro-ph/0507320 [pdf, other]

Title: The ISO-2MASS AGN survey: On the type-1 sources

C. Leipski, M. Haas, H. Meusinger, R. Siebenmorgen, R. Chini, C. M. Scheyda, M. Albrecht, B. J. Wilkes, J. P. Huchra, S. Ott, C. Cesarsky, R. Cutri

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication as A&A Letter

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[321] arXiv:astro-ph/0507321 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton spectral properties of the Ultraluminous IRAS Galaxy Mrk 273

I. Balestra, Th. Boller, L. Gallo, D. Lutz, S. Hess

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysic

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[322] arXiv:astro-ph/0507322 [pdf, other]

Title: Which cosmological model with dark energy -- phantom or LambdaCDM

Wlodzimierz Godlowski Marek Szydlowski

Comments: 8 pages 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B623:10-16,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[323] arXiv:astro-ph/0507323 [pdf, other]

Title: A search for changing-look AGN in the Grossan catalog

S. Bianchi, M. Guainazzi, G. Matt, M. Chiaberge, K. Iwasawa, F. Fiore, R. Maiolino

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[324] arXiv:astro-ph/0507324 [pdf, other]

Title: A closer look at the spectrum and small scale anisotropies of UHECRs

Daniel De Marco, Pasquale Blasi, Angela V. Olinto

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP 0601:002,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[325] arXiv:astro-ph/0507325 [pdf, other]

Title: Anti-GZK effect in UHECR spectrum

R. Aloisio, V.S. Berezinsky

Comments: 4 pages, 4 eps figures, talk given at IFAE 2005: Incotri Fisica Alte Energie, Catania, Italy, 30 March - 2 April 2005

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.794:236-239,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[326] arXiv:astro-ph/0507326 [pdf, other]

Title: Blue Luminescence and the Presence of Small PAHs in the ISM

Uma P.Vijh, Adolf N. Witt, Karl D. Gordon

Comments: 10 pages, 16 figures, To appear in the ApJ, vol. 633, issue 1

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.633:262-271,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[327] arXiv:astro-ph/0507327 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the Energy Release Rate and the Reconnection Rate in Solar Flares

Hiroaki Isobe, Hiroyuki Takasaki, Kazunari Shibata

Comments: 27 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.632:1184-1195,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[328] arXiv:astro-ph/0507328 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-Thread Hydrodynamic Modeling of a Solar Flare

Harry P. Warren

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.637:522-530,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[329] arXiv:astro-ph/0507329 [pdf, other]

Title: The Draco dwarf galaxy in the near-infrared

M.-R.L. Cioni, H.J. Habing

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, A&A accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[330] arXiv:astro-ph/0507330 [pdf, other]

Title: Model Simulations of a Shock-Cloud Interaction in the Cygnus Loop

D. J. Patnaude, R. A. Fesen

Comments: To be published in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.633:240-247,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[331] arXiv:astro-ph/0507331 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropy Studies Around the Galactic Center at EeV Energies with Auger Data

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Comments: To be presented at the 2005 ICRC in Pune, India, in August. Four pages, six figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[332] arXiv:astro-ph/0507332 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical Aspects of Gravitational Lensing in TeVeS

Mu-Chen Chiu, Chung-Ming Ko, Yong Tian

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.636:565-574,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[333] arXiv:astro-ph/0507333 [pdf, other]

Title: UHE neutrino damping in a thermal gas of relic neutrinos

J. C. D'Olivo, L. Nellen, S. Sahu, V. Van Elewyck

Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures. Typos corrected. More accurate treatment of the interaction with relic neutrino clusters. Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 25 (2006) 47-56

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

[334] arXiv:astro-ph/0507334 [pdf, other]

Title: The Central Laser Facility at the Pierre Auger Observatory

F. Arqueros, J. Bellido, C. Covault, D. D'Urso, C. Di Giulio, P. Facal, B. Fick, F. Guarino, M. Malek, J.A.J. Matthews, J. Matthews, R. Meyhandan, M. Monasor, M. Mostafa, P. Petrinca, M. Roberts, P. Sommers, P. Travnicek, L. Valore, V. Verzi, L. Wiencke (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to 29th ICRC Pune India

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[335] arXiv:astro-ph/0507335 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiative Hydrodynamic Models of the Optical and Ultraviolet Emission from Solar Flares

J. C. Allred, S. L. Hawley, W. P. Abbett, M. Carlsson

Comments: 21 pages, 15 figures. Will appear in 2005 September 1 issue of the ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.630:573-586,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[336] arXiv:astro-ph/0507336 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Limb Darkening, Spectral Energy Distribution, and Temperature Structure of Procyon

J. P. Aufdenberg (1), H.-G. Ludwig (2), P. Kervella (3) ((1) NOAO, (2) Lund Observatory, (3) LESIA Observatoire de Paris-Meudon)

Comments: 24 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.633:424-439,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[337] arXiv:astro-ph/0507337 [pdf, other]

Title: A Two-Component Explosion Model for the Giant Flare and Radio Afterglow from SGR1806-20

Z. G. Dai, X. F. Wu, X. Y. Wang, Y. F. Huang, Bing Zhang

Comments: 7 pages including 3 figures, this http URL, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.629:L81-L84,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[338] arXiv:astro-ph/0507338 [pdf, other]

Title: Baryonic acoustic oscillations in simulated galaxy redshift surveys

Hee-Jong Seo, Daniel J. Eisenstein

Comments: Accepted by ApJ, 16 pages, LaTeX

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.633:575-588,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[339] arXiv:astro-ph/0507339 [pdf, other]

Title: Vectorization and Parallelization of the Adaptive Mesh Refinement N-body Code

Hideki Yahagi

Comments: 21pages, 16 figures, to be published in PASJ (Vol. 57, No. 5, Oct. 2005)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[340] arXiv:astro-ph/0507340 [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleosynthesis of PopIII Core Collapse Supernovae and the Abundances of Extremely Metal Poor Stars

Marco Limongi (INAF-OAR), Alessandro Chieffi (INAF-IAS)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figure, Proceedings of the IAU Symp. No. 228 "From Lithium to Uranium: Elemental Tracers of Early Cosmic Evolution", this http URL, this http URL & this http URL eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[341] arXiv:astro-ph/0507341 [pdf, other]

Title: Heavy element abundances in DAO white dwarfs measured from FUSE data

S. A. Good, M. A. Barstow, M. R. Burleigh, P. D. Dobbie, J. B. Holberg, I. Hubeny

Comments: 15 pages, 24 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.363:183-195,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[342] arXiv:astro-ph/0507342 [pdf, other]

Title: HS0139+0559, HS0229+8016, HS0506+7725 and HS0642+5049: Four new long-period cataclysmic variables

A. Aungwerojwit, B.T. Gaensicke, P. Rodriguez-Gil, H.-J. Hagen, E.T. Harlaftis, C. Papadimitriou, H. Lehto, S. Araujo-Betancor, U. Heber, R.E. Fried, D. Engels, S. Katajainen

Comments: 12 pages, 17 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics in press, low-quality figures to comply with astro-ph size limit

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[343] arXiv:astro-ph/0507343 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar evolution with rotation XIII: Predicted GRB rates at various Z

R. Hirschi (1), G. Meynet (2), A. Maeder (2) ((1) University of Basel, (2) Geneva Observatory, Switzerland)

Comments: ~16 pages, 14 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[344] arXiv:astro-ph/0507344 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatially Resolved Spectral Analysis of Vela Shrapnel D

Satoru Katsuda, Hiroshi Tsunemi

Comments: 15 pages, 14 figures

Journal-ref: Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap. 57 (2005) 621

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[345] arXiv:astro-ph/0507345 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature of the red disk-like galaxies at high redshift: dust attenuation and intrinsically red stellar populations

D. Pierini (1), C. Maraston (2), K. D. Gordon (3), A. N. Witt (4) ((1) MPE, Garching, Germany, (2) University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., (3) Steward Observatory, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A., (4) UT, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.)

Comments: 16 pages, 8 ps figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.363:131-145,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[346] arXiv:astro-ph/0507346 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrinos and Cosmology: an update

Ofelia Pisanti (Naples U. & INFN, Naples), P.D. Serpico (Munich, Max Planck Inst.)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of IFAE, Catania 2005

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.794:232-235,2005

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

[347] arXiv:astro-ph/0507347 [pdf, other]

Title: Absolute Calibration of the Auger Fluorescence Detectors

P. Bauleo (CSU), J. Brack (CU), L. Garrard (CSU), J. Harton (CSU), R. Knapik (CSU), R. Meyhandan (LSU), A.C. Rovero (IAFE), A. Tamashiro (IAFE), D. Warner (CSU) (for the Auger Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figure. Submitted to the 29th ICRC, Pune, India

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[348] arXiv:astro-ph/0507348 [pdf, other]

Title: Ionization States and Plasma Structures of Mixed-morphology SNRs Observed with ASCA

Masahiro T. Kawasaki (MHI/ISAS), Masanobu Ozaki (ISAS), Fumiaki Nagase (ISAS), Hajime Inoue (ISAS), Robert Petre (GSFC)

Comments: 34 pages, 20 figures, 9 tables, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.631:935-946,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[349] arXiv:astro-ph/0507349 [pdf, other]

Title: Faraday Rotation Measure Synthesis

M. A. Brentjens (1,2), A. G. de Bruyn (2,1), ((1) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, (2) ASTRON)

Comments: 17 pages, 14 figures, accepted by A&A, added references, corrected typos

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.441:1217-1228, 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[350] arXiv:astro-ph/0507350 [pdf, other]

Title: Scalar phantom energy as a cosmological dynamical system

L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

Comments: 6 pages, 3 eps figures; uses RevTex4. New references added, and changes made according to referee's suggestions. Matches published version in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP 0509:013,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)