Astrophysics

Authors and titles for September 2005

[301] arXiv:astro-ph/0509301 [pdf, other]

Title: Spontaneous Isotropy Breaking: A Mechanism for CMB Multipole Alignments

Christopher Gordon, Wayne Hu, Dragan Huterer, Tom Crawford (KICP, U. Chicago)

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D72:103002,2005

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

[302] arXiv:astro-ph/0509302 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep Near-Infrared Observations of L1014: Revealing the nature of the core and its embedded source

T.L. Huard, P.C. Myers, D.C. Murphy, L.J. Crews, C.J. Lada, T.L. Bourke, A. Crapsi, N.J. Evans II, D.W. McCarthy, C. Kulesa

Comments: Replacement includes revision to mass of core. 22 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.640:391-401,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[303] arXiv:astro-ph/0509303 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts from Population III Progenitors

Volker Bromm, Abraham Loeb

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, revised version, ApJ in press (May 1, 2006 issue)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[304] arXiv:astro-ph/0509304 [pdf, other]

Title: SN 2005cg: Explosion Physics and Circumstellar Interaction of a Normal Type Ia Supernova in a Low-Luminosity Host

Robert Quimby (1), Peter Hoeflich (1), Sheila J. Kannappan (1), Eli Rykoff (2), Wiphu Rujopakarn (2), Carl W. Akerlof (2), Christopher L. Gerardy (3), J. Craig Wheeler (1) ((1) University of Texas, (2) University of Michigan, (3) Imperial College)

Comments: 6 pages, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.636:400-405,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[305] arXiv:astro-ph/0509305 [pdf, other]

Title: The Balance of Dark and Luminous Mass in Rotating Galaxies

Stacy McGaugh (University of Maryland)

Comments: 4 pages RevTeX. Phys. Rev. Letters, in press

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.95:171302,2005

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

[306] arXiv:astro-ph/0509306 [pdf, other]

Title: Spoke formation under moving plasma clouds

Alison J. Farmer, Peter Goldreich

Comments: 15 pages, 2 figures, Icarus in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[307] arXiv:astro-ph/0509307 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion modes in collapsars - prospects for GRB production

William H. Lee (IAUNAM), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (IAS)

Comments: Revised version following referee's comments. References added. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.641:961-971,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[308] arXiv:astro-ph/0509308 [pdf, other]

Title: Clustering of Star-forming Galaxies Near a Radio Galaxy at z=5.2

Roderik A. Overzier, G.K. Miley, R.J. Bouwens, N.J.G. Cross, A.W. Zirm, N. Benitez, J.P. Blakeslee, M. Clampin, R. Demarco, H.C. Ford, G.F. Hartig, G.D. Illingworth, A.R. Martel, H.J.A. Rottgering, B. Venemans, the ACS IDT

Comments: 39 pages (15 figures). Accepted to ApJ. Full resolution version available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.637:58-73,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[309] arXiv:astro-ph/0509309 [pdf, other]

Title: Mergers of close primordial binaries

N. Andronov, M. H. Pinsonneault, D. M. Terndrup

Comments: number of pages depends on font, margins, columns etc (58 with given format), 14 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.646:1160-1178,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[310] arXiv:astro-ph/0509310 [pdf, other]

Title: The Secular Evolution of Disk Structural Parameters

Victor P. Debattista (1,2), Lucio Mayer (1), C. Marcella Carollo (1), Ben Moore (3), James Wadsley (4), Thomas Quinn (2) ((1) Institut fur Astronomie, ETH Zurich (2) Astronomy Department, University of Washington (3) Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich (4) Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University)

Comments: 18 pages, 21 figures, in emulateapj format. Published in ApJ. Animation accompanying submission available at this http URL. This new version corrects minor typos to match the published version. It also includes a figure 15 with new data and a section 7.1 discussing the requirements for SMBH formation from clump instabilities. appeared in ApJ, 645, 209

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.645:209-227,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[311] arXiv:astro-ph/0509311 [pdf, other]

Title: UV/Optical Nuclear Activity in the gE Galaxy NGC 1399

R. W. O'Connell, J. R. Martin, J. D. Crane, D. Burstein, R. C. Bohlin, W. B. Landsman, I. Freedman, R. T. Rood

Comments: 18 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:305-310,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[312] arXiv:astro-ph/0509312 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Structural Differences between Disk and Dwarf Galaxies

J. Schombert (UOregon)

Comments: 16 pages, 2 figures, AJ in press, AASTeX5.2

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[313] arXiv:astro-ph/0509313 [pdf, other]

Title: The Cosmological Mean Density and its Local Variations Probed by Peculiar Velocities

Roya Mohayaee, R. Brent Tully

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:L113-L116,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[314] arXiv:astro-ph/0509314 [pdf, other]

Title: On the origin of anomalous velocity clouds in the Milky Way

Tim W. Connors (1), Daisuke Kawata (1 and 2), Jeremy Bailin (1), Jason Tumlinson (3), Brad K. Gibson (4) ((1) Swinburne (2) Carnegie Observatories (3) Yale (4) Central Lancashire)

Comments: Accepted by ApJL, 08 Jun 2006. 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. LaTeX (this http URL). File with high resolution images available at this http URL . References added; discussion added to, but conclusions unchanged

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 646 (2006) L53-L56

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[315] arXiv:astro-ph/0509315 [pdf, other]

Title: Triggered Star Formation by Massive Stars

Hsu-Tai Lee, W. P. Chen

Comments: 2007, ApJ, 657, 884

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[316] arXiv:astro-ph/0509316 [pdf, other]

Title: Photopolarimetric observations of the new eclipsing polar CTCV J1928-5001

Stephen B. Potter, Thomas Augusteijn, Claus Tappert

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 364 (2005) 565-572

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[317] arXiv:astro-ph/0509317 [pdf, other]

Title: 17 new very low-mass members in Taurus. The brown dwarf deficit revisited

S. Guieu (1), C Dougados (1), J.L Monin (1 and 2), E Magnier (3 and 4), E.L Martin (5 and 6) ((1) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, (2) Institut Universitaire de France, (3) Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation, (4) University of Hawaii, Institute of Astronomy, (5) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (5) University of Central Florida, Department of Physics)

Comments: 20 pages, 15 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.446:485-500,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[318] arXiv:astro-ph/0509318 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark Matter-baryon segregation in the non-linear evolution of coupled Dark Energy model

Roberto Mainini (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca, INFN sez. di Milano)

Comments: 22 pages, 9 figures, accepted version: comparison with a different potential provided, new figures and references added

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D72:083514,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[319] arXiv:astro-ph/0509319 [pdf, other]

Title: Variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 2419

C.Greco, V. Ripepi, L. Federici, G. Clementini, L. Di Fabrizio, L. Baldacci, M. Maio, M. Marconi, I. Musella, P. B. Stetson

Comments: 2 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of "Stellar Pulsation and Evolution", 2005, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy

Journal-ref: Mem.Soc.Ast.It.77:257-258,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[320] arXiv:astro-ph/0509320 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark energy and dark matter from cosmological observations

Steen Hannestad (University of Aarhus)

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Lepton-Photon 2005 proceedings, added figure and typos corrected

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys.A21:1938-1949,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[321] arXiv:astro-ph/0509321 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic distances of nearby ultracool dwarfs

N. Phan-Bao, M. Bessell

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures. revised version, submitted to A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.446:515-523,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[322] arXiv:astro-ph/0509322 [pdf, other]

Title: From AMANDA to IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration: Mathieu Ribordy, et al

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures Invited talk contribution at 5th International Conference on Non-accelerator New Physics (NANP 05), Dubna, Russia, 20-25 Jun 2005

Journal-ref: Phys.Atom.Nucl.69:1899-1907,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[323] arXiv:astro-ph/0509323 [pdf, other]

Title: The effects of ellipticity and substructure on estimates of cluster density profiles based on lensing and kinematics

M. Meneghetti, M. Bartelmann, A. Jenkins, C. Frenk

Comments: 17 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication on MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.381:171-186,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[324] arXiv:astro-ph/0509324 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from Early Decaying Primordial Black Holes

Pankaj Jain, Sukanta Panda

Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[325] arXiv:astro-ph/0509325 [pdf, other]

Title: The outer crust of non-accreting cold neutron stars

Stefan B. Ruester, Matthias Hempel, Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.C73:035804,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[326] arXiv:astro-ph/0509326 [pdf, other]

Title: Oxygen abundances in planet-harbouring stars. Comparison of different abundance indicators

A. Ecuvillon (1), G. Israelian (1), N. C. Santos (2,3), N. G. Shchukina (4), M. Mayor (3), R. Rebolo (1,5) ((1)IAC, Spain, (2)Observatorio Astronomico de Lisboa, Portugal, (3) Observatoire de Geneve, Switzerland, (4)Main Astronomical Observatory, Ukraine, (5)CSIC, Spain)

Comments: 19 pages, 11 figures (low resolution), accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[327] arXiv:astro-ph/0509327 [pdf, other]

Title: OH megamasers, starburst and AGN activity in Markarian 231

A. M. S. Richards, J. H. Knapen, J. A. Yates, R. J. Cohen, J. L. Collett, M. M. Wright, M. D. Gray, D. Field

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:353-366,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[328] arXiv:astro-ph/0509328 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Evolution of Hessence Dark Energy and Avoidance of the Big Rip

Hao Wei, Rong-Gen Cai

Comments: 15 pages, 8 tables, revtex4; v2: references added; v3: published version

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D72:123507,2005

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

[329] arXiv:astro-ph/0509329 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling of the heliospheric interface: multi-component nature of the heliospheric plasma

Yury G. Malama, Vlad V. Izmodenov, Sergey V. Chalov

Comments: A&A accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[330] arXiv:astro-ph/0509330 [pdf, other]

Title: The IceCube Collaboration: contributions to the 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2005), Pune, India, Aug. 2005

The IceCube Collaboration

Comments: 75 pages, 60 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[331] arXiv:astro-ph/0509331 [pdf, other]

Title: Can stellar wobble in triple systems mimic a planet?

J. Schneider, J. Cabrera

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[332] arXiv:astro-ph/0509332 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral Decomposition of Broad-Line AGNs and Host Galaxies

Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Jiajian Shen, Ching-Wa Yip, Donald P. Schneider, Andrew J. Connolly, Ross E. Burton, Sebastian Jester, Patrick B. Hall, Alex S. Szalay, John Brinkmann

Comments: 18 pages; accepted for publication in AJ

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:84-99,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[333] arXiv:astro-ph/0509333 [pdf, other]

Title: The gravitational wave radiation of pulsating white dwarfs revisited: the case of BPM 37093 and PG 1159-035

E. Garcia-Berro, P. Loren-Aguilar, A. H. Corsico, L. G. Althaus, J. A. Lobo, J. Isern

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[334] arXiv:astro-ph/0509334 [pdf, other]

Title: Confronting Hierarchical Clustering Models with Observations of Galaxy Pairs

Josefa Perez (1,2), Patricia Tissera (2), Diego G. Lambas (3), Cecilia Scannapieco (2). ((1) Universidad Nacional de La Plata, (2) IAFE, Buenos Aires, (3) IATE, Observatorio Astronomico de Cordoba)

Comments: Proceedings for the Vth Marseille International Cosmology Conference: The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies. (2 pages)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[335] arXiv:astro-ph/0509335 [pdf, other]

Title: A FADC-based Data Acquisition System for the KASCADE-Grande Experiment

W. Walkowiak (for the)KASCADE-Grande collaboration

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.53:265-269,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[336] arXiv:astro-ph/0509336 [pdf, other]

Title: Fundamental parameters of Be stars located in the seismology fields of COROT

Yves Y. Fremat (ROB), Coralie Neiner (LEUVEN), Anne-Marie Hubert (OBSPM), Michelle Floquet (OBSPM), Jean Zorec (IAP), Eduardo Janot-Pacheco (IAGCAUSP), Jose Renan De Medeiros (DFUFRG)

Comments: 25 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[337] arXiv:astro-ph/0509337 [pdf, other]

Title: Kurucz's codes under GNU-Linux

L. Sbordone

Comments: 3 pages, no figures. To appear in the proceedings of the Workshop "ATLAS 12 and related codes", Trieste, July 11-15, 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[338] arXiv:astro-ph/0509338 [pdf, other]

Title: Where are the sources of the Near Infrared Background?

R. Salvaterra, A. Ferrara

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures; MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.367:L11-L15,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[339] arXiv:astro-ph/0509339 [pdf, other]

Title: A study of the B and Be star population in the field of the LMC open cluster NGC2004 with VLT-FLAMES

Christophe Martayan (GEPI), Anne-Marie Hubert (GEPI), Michele Floquet (GEPI), Juan Fabregat, Yves Fremat, Coralie Neiner (GEPI), Philippe Stee, Jean Zorec

Comments: 12 pages, 17 figures, accepted to A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.445:931-937,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[340] arXiv:astro-ph/0509340 [pdf, other]

Title: Spitzer IRS spectroscopy of 3CR radio galaxies and quasars: Testing the unified schemes

Martin Haas, Ralf Siebenmorgen, Bernhard Schulz, Endrik Kruegel, Rolf Chini

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted as Letter for A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[341] arXiv:astro-ph/0509341 [pdf, other]

Title: The dust-eliminated shape of quasar spectra in the near-infrared: a hidden part of the big blue bump

Makoto Kishimoto (1), Robert Antonucci (2), Omer Blaes (2) ((1) Univ of Edinburgh, (2) UCSB)

Comments: MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:640-648,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[342] arXiv:astro-ph/0509342 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral changes during dipping in low-mass X-ray binaries due to highly-ionized absorbers

M. Diaz Trigo (1), A. N. Parmar (1), L. Boirin (2), M. Mendez (3), J. S. Kaastra (3) ((1) ESA, ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, (2) Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France, (3) SRON, Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Comments: 19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[343] arXiv:astro-ph/0509343 [pdf, other]

Title: An Ultraviolet to Mid-Infrared Study of the Physical and Wind Properties of HD 164270 (WC9) and Comparison to BD+30 3639 ([WC9])

Paul Crowther (Sheffield), Pat Morris (Caltech), JD Smith (Steward)

Comments: 28 pages, 9 figures, accepted for ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.636:1033-1044,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[344] arXiv:astro-ph/0509344 [pdf, other]

Title: The chemistry of the neighbors: detailed abundances in the Sgr and CMa dwarf galaxies

L. Sbordone, P. Bonifacio, G. Marconi, S. Zaggia, R. Buonanno

Comments: 2 pages, no figures. To appear in the proceedings of the Workshop "Stellar pulsation and evolution", eds. A. R. Walker and G. Bono

Journal-ref: Mem.Soc.Ast.It.77:182-183,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[345] arXiv:astro-ph/0509345 [pdf, other]

Title: Slit Observations and Empirical Calculations for HII Regions

I. F. Fernandes, R. Gruenwald, S. M. Viegas

Comments: To be published in MNRAS, accepted in 09/09/2005, 17 pages and 6 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:674-682,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[346] arXiv:astro-ph/0509346 [pdf, other]

Title: An Infrared Imaging Survey of the Faint Chandra Sources near the Galactic Centre

R.M. Bandyopadhyay, J.C.A. Miller-Jones, K.M. Blundell, F.E. Bauer, Ph. Podsiadlowski, A.J. Gosling, Q.D. Wang, E. Pfahl, S. Rappaport

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, version with full-resolution figures available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:1195-1202,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[347] arXiv:astro-ph/0509347 [pdf, other]

Title: RX J2133.7+5107 : Identification of a new long period Intermediate Polar

J.M. Bonnet-Bidaud (1), M. Mouchet (2,3), D. de Martino (4), R. Silvotti (4), C. Motch (5) ((1) Service d'Astrophysique, DSM/DAPNIA/SAp, CE Saclay, (2) Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, (3) Universite Denis Diderot, (4) Osservatorio Astronomico di Napoli, (5) Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 tables, 6 figures. accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[348] arXiv:astro-ph/0509348 [pdf, other]

Title: A Model for Patchy Reconnection in Three Dimensions

M. G. Linton, D. W. Longcope

Comments: 27 pages plus 16 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.642:1177-1192,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[349] arXiv:astro-ph/0509349 [pdf, other]

Title: Intrinsic Absorption in the Spectrum of NGC 7469: Simultaneous Chandra, FUSE, and STIS Observations

Jennifer E. Scott (1), Gerard A. Kriss (2,3), Julia C. Lee (4), Jessica Kim Quijano (2), Michael Brotherton (5), Claude R. Canizares (6), Richard F. Green (7), John Hutchings (8), Mary Elizabeth Kaiser (3), Herman Marshall (6), William Oegerle (1), Patrick Ogle (9), Wei Zheng (3) ((1)NASA/GSFC, (2)STScI, (3)JHU, (4)CfA, (5)U. Wyo., (6)MIT, (7)KPNO/NOAO, (8)HIA/NRC, (9)JPL)

Comments: Minor correction to abstract; STScI eprint #1683; 50 pages, incl. 19 figures, 4 tables; Accepted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.634:193-209,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[350] arXiv:astro-ph/0509350 [pdf, other]

Title: The very late-stage merger IC 4200:pre-elliptical or pre-spiral?

P. Serra (1), S. C. Trager (1), J. M. van der Hulst (1), T. A. Oosterloo (1 and 2), R. Morganti (1 and 2), J. H. van Gorkom (1 and 3) ((1) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, (2) ASTRON, (3) Columbia University)

Comments: Proceedings for the 5th Marseille International Cosmology Conference: The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies. (2 pages)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)