Astrophysics

Authors and titles for July 2005

[401] arXiv:astro-ph/0507401 [pdf, other]

Title: Studies of Systematic Uncertainties in the HiRes-II Measurement of the UHECR Spectrum

Andreas Zech (for the HiRes Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to the 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Pune, India

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[402] arXiv:astro-ph/0507402 [pdf, other]

Title: Upper limit on the primary photon fraction from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures. To be presented at the 29th ICRC, Pune, August 2005. The Pierre Auger author list is given at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[403] arXiv:astro-ph/0507403 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular Gas in NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) III. The warped LINER NGC3718

M. Krips, A. Eckart, R. Neri, J.U. Pott, S. Leon, F. Combes, S. Garcia-Burillo, L.K. Hunt, A.J. Baker, L.J. Tacconi, P. Englmaier, E. Schinnerer, F. Boone

Comments: 16 pages, 17 figures, accepted by A&A, high resolution version of the paper available at <this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[404] arXiv:astro-ph/0507404 [pdf, other]

Title: Phosphorus in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium

V. Lebouteiller, Kuassivi, R. Ferlet

Comments: Accepted to A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[405] arXiv:astro-ph/0507405 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical Camera with high temporal resolution to search for transients in the wide field

S.Karpov, G.Beskin, A.Biryukov, S.Bondar, K.Hurley, E.Ivanov, E.Katkova, A.Pozanenko, I.Zolotukhin

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures. To be published in "Il Nuovo Cimento", Proceedings of the 4th Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, eds. L. Piro, L. Amati, S. Covino, B. Gendre

Journal-ref: Nuovo Cim.C28:747-750,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[406] arXiv:astro-ph/0507406 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic Models of Galaxies

D. Vogt, P. S. Letelier

Comments: 18 pages, 23 eps figures, uses this http URL style file, to be published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.363:268-284,2005

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

[407] arXiv:astro-ph/0507407 [pdf, other]

Title: FAVOR (FAst Variability Optical Registration) -- A Two-telescope Complex for Detection and Investigation of Short Optical Transients

G.Beskin, V.Bad'in, A.Biryukov, S.Bondar, G.Chuntonov, V.Debur, E.Ivanov, S.Karpov, E.Katkova, V.Plokhotnichenko, A.Pozanenko, I.Zolotukhin, K.Hurley, E.Palazzi, N.Masetti, E.Pian, L.Nicastro, C.Bartolini, A.Guarnieri, A.Piccioni, P.Conconi, E.Molinari, F.M.Zerbi, N.Brosch, D.Eichler, A.Shearer, J.-L.Atteia, M.Boer

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. To be published in "Il Nuovo Cimento", Proceedings of the 4th Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, eds. L. Piro, L. Amati, S. Covino, B. Gendre

Journal-ref: Nuovo Cim.C28:751-754,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[408] arXiv:astro-ph/0507408 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton 13H Deep field - I. X-ray sources

N. S. Loaring, T. Dwelly, M. J. Page, K. Mason, I. McHardy, K. Gunn, D. Moss, N. Seymour, A. M. Newsam, T. Takata, K. Sekguchi, T. Sasseen, F. Cordova

Comments: 27 pages, 18 figures, MNRAS accepted

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.362:1371-1395,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[409] arXiv:astro-ph/0507409 [pdf, other]

Title: The X-ray spectra of accreting Kerr black holes

Andrew C. Fabian, Giovanni Miniutti

Comments: 35 pages, 25 figures, to appear in "Kerr Spacetime: Rotating Black Holes in General Relativity" eds. D.L. Wiltshire, M. Visser and S.M. Scott, (Cambridge Univ. Press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[410] arXiv:astro-ph/0507410 [pdf, other]

Title: The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the Swift MIDEX Mission

S. D. Barthelmy, L. M. Barbier, J. R. Cummings, E. E. Fenimore, N. Gehrels, D. Hullinger, H. A. Krimm, C. B. Markwardt, D. M. Palmer, A. Parsons, G. Sato, M. Suzuki, T. Takahashi, M. Tashiro, J. Tueller

Comments: 18 Pages, 12 Figures, To be published in Space Science Reviews

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[411] arXiv:astro-ph/0507411 [pdf, other]

Title: Broad-band electromagnetic radiation from microquasars interacting with ISM

V. Bosch-Ramon, F. A. Aharonian, J. M. Paredes

Comments: High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy: 2nd International Symposium, Proceedings of the conference held 26-30 July 2004 in Heidelberg (Germany). Edited by Felix A. Aharonian, Heinz J. Volk, and Dieter Horns. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 745. New York: American Institute of Physics, 2005., p.317-322

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.745:317,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[412] arXiv:astro-ph/0507412 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbital X-Ray Variability of the Microquasar LS 5039

V. Bosch-Ramon, J. M. Paredes, M. Ribo, J.M. Miller, P. Reig, J. Marti

Comments: published in Astrophysical Journal, submission format (real number of pages: 7, 4 figures)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 628 (2005) 388-394

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[413] arXiv:astro-ph/0507413 [pdf, other]

Title: The Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope

P. W. A. Roming, T. E. Kennedy, K. O. Mason, J. A. Nousek, L. Ahr, R. E. Bingham, P. S. Broos, M. J. Carter, B. K. Hancock, H. E. Huckle, S. D. Hunsberger, H. Kawakami, R. Killough, T. S. Koch, M. K. McLelland, K. Smith, P. J. Smith, J. C. Soto, P. T. Boyd, A. A. Breeveld, S. T. Holland, M. Ivanushkina, M. S. Pryzby, M. D. Still, J. Stock

Comments: 55 Pages, 28 Figures, To be published in Space Science Reviews

Journal-ref: Space Sci.Rev.120:95-142,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[414] arXiv:astro-ph/0507414 [pdf, other]

Title: Correlation of the estimated arrival time of the relativistic solar ions at 1 AU and start of ground level enhancement (GLE)

H.Martirosyan, A. Chilingarian

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference Pune (2005)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[415] arXiv:astro-ph/0507415 [pdf, other]

Title: The formation of DA white dwarfs with thin hydrogen envelopes

L. G. Althaus, M. M. Miller Bertolami, A. H. Córsico, E. García-Berro, P. Gil-Pons

Comments: 4 pages including 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[416] arXiv:astro-ph/0507416 [pdf, other]

Title: A Moving Cluster Distance to the Exoplanet 2M1207 B in the TW Hya Association

Eric E. Mamajek

Comments: ApJ, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.634:1385-1394,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[417] arXiv:astro-ph/0507417 [pdf, other]

Title: A Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot Survey of Dynamically Close Galaxy Pairs in the CNOC2 Redshift Survey

D. R. Patton, J. K. Grant, L. Simard, C. J. Pritchet, R. G. Carlberg, K. D. Borne

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. 40 pages, including 15 figures. For full resolution version, please see this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.J.130:2043-2057,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[418] arXiv:astro-ph/0507418 [pdf, other]

Title: The Optical - Infrared Colors of CORALS QSOs: Searching for Dust Reddening Associated With High Redshift Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

Sara L. Ellison, Patrick B. Hall, Paulina Lira

Comments: Accepted for publication in AJ

Journal-ref: Astron.J.130:1345-1357,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[419] arXiv:astro-ph/0507419 [pdf, other]

Title: The Wendelstein Calar Alto Pixellensing Project (WeCAPP): The M31 Variable Star Catalogue

Juergen Fliri (1), Arno Riffeser (1,2), Stella Seitz (1), Ralf Bender (1,2) ((1) Universitaetssternwarte Muenchen (USM), (2) Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (MPE))

Comments: 22 pages, re-submitted to A&A after referee comments have been taken into account

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[420] arXiv:astro-ph/0507420 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mass of a Millisecond Pulsar

B. A. Jacoby, A. Hotan, M. Bailes, S. Ord, S. R. Kulkarni

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.629:L113-L116,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[421] arXiv:astro-ph/0507421 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-Term Evolution of Supernova Remnants in Magnetized Interstellar Medium

Hidekazu Hanayama, Kohji Tomisaka

Comments: 32pages and 39figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.641:905-918,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[422] arXiv:astro-ph/0507422 [pdf, other]

Title: Atmosphere, Interior, and Evolution of the Metal-Rich Transiting Planet HD 149026b

J. J. Fortney, D. Saumon, M. S. Marley, K. Lodders, R. S. Freedman

Comments: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal. 18 pages, including 10 figures. New section on the atmosphere of planet HD 189733b. Enhanced discussion of atmospheric Ti chemistry and core mass for HD 149026b

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.642:495-504,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[423] arXiv:astro-ph/0507423 [pdf, other]

Title: Mid-Infrared Spectra of Classical AGN Observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope

D. W. Weedman, Lei Hao, S. J. U. Higdon, D. Devost, Yanling Wu, V. Charmandaris, B. Brandl, E. Bass, J. R. Houck

Comments: Accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.633:706-716,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[424] arXiv:astro-ph/0507424 [pdf, other]

Title: Keck Deep Fields. I. Observations, Reductions, and the Selection of Faint Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts z~4, 3, and 2

Marcin Sawicki, David Thompson

Comments: To appear in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:100-114,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[425] arXiv:astro-ph/0507425 [pdf, other]

Title: Ensemble Characteristics of the ZZ Ceti stars

Anjum S. Mukadam, M. H. Montgomery, D. E. Winget, S. O. Kepler, J. C. Clemens

Comments: ApJ, in press. (26 pages, 3 figures)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.640:956-965,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[426] arXiv:astro-ph/0507426 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring Dark Energy with SNAP

G. Aldering

Comments: contribution to Wide-Field Imaging from Space conference proceedings

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev.49:346-353,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[427] arXiv:astro-ph/0507427 [pdf, other]

Title: Star Formation in NGC5194 (M51a): The Panchromatic View from GALEX to Spitzer

D. Calzetti, R.C. Kennicutt, L. Bianchi, D.A. Thilker, D.A. Dale, C.W. Engelbracht, C. Leitherer, M.J. Meyer, M.L. Sosey, M. Mutchler, M.W. Regan, M.D. Thornley, L. Armus, G.J. Bendo, S. Boissier, A. Boselli, B.T. Draine, K.D. Gordon, G. Helou, D.J. Hollenbach, L. Kewley, B.F. Madore, D.C. Martin, E.J. Murphy, G.H. Rieke, M.J. Rieke, H. Roussel, K. Sheth, J.D. Smith, F. Walter, B.A. White, S. Yi, N.Z. Scoville, M. Polletta, D. Lindler

Comments: 66 pages, 20 figures (Figures 1-4 are in JPEG format, figures 5-20 are embedded postscript files). Accepted for publication on the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.633:871-893,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[428] arXiv:astro-ph/0507428 [pdf, other]

Title: The Current Flows in Pulsar Magnetospheres

Ren-Xin Xu (PKU), Xiao-Hong Cui (PKU), Guo-Jun Qiao (PKU)

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Chin.J.Astron.Astrophys.6:217-226,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[429] arXiv:astro-ph/0507429 [pdf, other]

Title: First Ultraviolet Spectrum of a Brown Dwarf: Evidence for H_2 Fluorescence and Accretion

John E. Gizis, Harry L. Shipman, James A. Harvin

Comments: 8 pages, to appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.630:L89-L92,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[430] arXiv:astro-ph/0507430 [pdf, other]

Title: On constructing horizontal branch models

A. Serenelli (1 and 2), A. Weiss (1) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching, (2) Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Comments: accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[431] arXiv:astro-ph/0507431 [pdf, other]

Title: CHANDRA reveals galaxy cluster with the most massive nearby cooling core, RXCJ1504.1-0248

H. Boehringer, V. Burwitz, Y.-Y. Zhang, P. Schuecker, N. Nowak

Comments: accepted for publication in Astrophys. Journal, 10 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.633:148-153,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[432] arXiv:astro-ph/0507432 [pdf, other]

Title: Metal Abundances in the ICM as a Diagnostics of the Cluster History

H. Böhringer, K. Matsushita, A. Finoguenov, Y. Xue, E. Churazov

Comments: Advances in Space Research in press (proceedings of the COSPAR 2004 Assembly, Paris), 9 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[433] arXiv:astro-ph/0507433 [pdf, other]

Title: Deuterium depletion and magnesium enhancement in the local disc

Piotr Gnacinski

Journal-ref: Acta Astron.55:407-413,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[434] arXiv:astro-ph/0507434 [pdf, other]

Title: The SDSS-XMM Quasar Sample: First Results

G. Risaliti (1,2), M. Elvis (1); ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Atrophysics; (2) INAF - Arcetri observatory, Italy)

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Corrected typos & references

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.629:L17-20,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[435] arXiv:astro-ph/0507435 [pdf, other]

Title: The supermassive black hole in Centaurus A: a benchmark for gas kinematical measurements

A. Marconi, G. Pastorini, F. Pacini, D.J. Axon, A. Capetti, D. Macchetto, A.M. Koekemoer, E.J. Schreier

Comments: Astronomy and Astrophysics in press; minor changes following referee report

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[436] arXiv:astro-ph/0507436 [pdf, other]

Title: A compact starburst ring traced by clumpy OH megamaser emission

R. Parra, J. E. Conway, M. Elitzur, Y. M. Pihlström

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[437] arXiv:astro-ph/0507437 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological black holes as voids progenitors. I. Simulations

Serpico Marco, D'Abrusco Raffaele, Longo Giuseppe, Stornaiolo Cosimo

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Gen.Rel.Grav.39:1551-1562,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[438] arXiv:astro-ph/0507438 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark energy exponential potential models as curvature quintessence

S. Capozziello, V.F. Cardone, E. Piedipalumbo, C. Rubano

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication on Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Class.Quant.Grav.23:1205-1216,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[439] arXiv:astro-ph/0507439 [pdf, other]

Title: Heavy Element Production in Inhomogeneous Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

S. Matsuura, S. Fujimoto, S. Nishimura, M. Hashimoto, K. Sato

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D72:123505,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[440] arXiv:astro-ph/0507440 [pdf, other]

Title: TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster

J.S. Perkins (for the VERITAS Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[441] arXiv:astro-ph/0507441 [pdf, other]

Title: Observations of AGN with the First VERITAS Telescope

P. Cogan (for the VERITAS collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[442] arXiv:astro-ph/0507442 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical Evolution in Hierarchical Models Of Cosmic Structure I: Constraints on the Early Stellar Initial Mass Function

Jason Tumlinson

Comments: Submitted to ApJ, 22 pages in emulate ApJ format, uncompressed figures available from this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.641:1-20,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[443] arXiv:astro-ph/0507443 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effect of Thermal Conduction on the Virgo Cluster

Edward C.D. Pope, Georgi Pavlovski, Christian R. Kaiser, Hans Fangohr

Comments: 19 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:13-28,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[444] arXiv:astro-ph/0507444 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Technique for Probing Convection in Pulsating White Dwarf Stars

M. H. Montgomery

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.633:1142-1149,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[445] arXiv:astro-ph/0507445 [pdf, other]

Title: Monte Carlo Studies of the first VERITAS telescope

G.Maier (for the VERITAS Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[446] arXiv:astro-ph/0507446 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for Cygnus Arm Diffuse TeV Gamma Ray Emission with the Whipple 10m Telescope

R. Atkins (for the VERITAS Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[447] arXiv:astro-ph/0507447 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral Monitoring of Mrk 421 during 2004

J. Grube (for the VERITAS Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[448] arXiv:astro-ph/0507448 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for TeV Radiation from Selected Local Group Galaxies

J. Hall (for the VERITAS Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[449] arXiv:astro-ph/0507449 [pdf, other]

Title: Calibration of VERITAS Telescope 1 via Muons

T. B. Humensky (for the VERITAS Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[450] arXiv:astro-ph/0507450 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploiting VERITAS Timing Information

J. Holder (for the VERITAS Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)