Astrophysics

Authors and titles for October 2005

[801] arXiv:astro-ph/0510801 [pdf, other]

Title: Giant Halos in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies vs. Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies

Myung Gyoon Lee, Narae Hwang

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of IAU Colloquium 198, "Near-Field Cosmology With Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies", editors H. Jerjen and B. Binggeli, Cambridge University Press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[802] arXiv:astro-ph/0510802 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of Remote Star Clusters in the Halo of the Irregular Galaxy NGC 6822

Narae Hwang (1), Myung Gyoon Lee (1), Jong Chul Lee (1), Won-Kee Park (1), Hong Soo Park (1), Jang-Hyun Park (2), Sangmo Tony Sohn (2), Sang-Gak Lee (1), Hyung Mok Lee (1), Mun-Suk Chun (2), Young-Wook Lee (3), Young-Jong Sohn (3), In-Soo Yuk (1,2), Sang Chul Kim (1,2), Ho-Il Kim (2), Wonyong Han (2) ((1) Seoul National University, (2) KASI, (3) CSA Yonsei University)

Comments: 2 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of IAU Colloquium 198, "Near-Field Cosmology With Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies", editors H. Jerjen and B. Binggeli, Cambridge University Press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[803] arXiv:astro-ph/0510803 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for Global Metric Anisotropy in Type Ia Supernova Data

Pankaj Jain, Moninder S. Modgil, John P. Ralston

Comments: 16 pages, 2 figures, minor changes, to be published in Modern Physics Letters A

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A22:1153-1165,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[804] arXiv:astro-ph/0510804 [pdf, other]

Title: On the generation of asymmetric warps in disk galaxies

Kanak Saha, Chanda J. Jog

Comments: Accepted for publication in A & A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[805] arXiv:astro-ph/0510805 [pdf, other]

Title: History of stellar evolution at high redshifts: Implications for the CMB E-mode polarization

L.A. Popa (INAF/IASF Bologna, Italy)

Comments: 5 pages and 7 figures Open Questions in Cosmology, 22 - 26 August, 2005, Garching, Germany

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[806] arXiv:astro-ph/0510806 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlocal radiative coupling in non monotonic stellar winds

A. Feldmeier, R. Nikutta

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[807] arXiv:astro-ph/0510807 [pdf, other]

Title: Halo properties and secular evolution in barred galaxies

E. Athanassoula

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in "Island Universes - Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies" ed. R. S. de Jong

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[808] arXiv:astro-ph/0510808 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation and dynamical evolution of galaxies and of their components

E. Athanassoula

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures. Invited review to the Conference on Planetary Nebulae as Astronomical Tools (Gdansk, Poland, 28 June-2 July 2005)

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.804:333-340,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[809] arXiv:astro-ph/0510809 [pdf, other]

Title: Trends in Space Astronomy and Cosmic Vision 2015-2025

Catherine Turon (GEPI), Chris Done, Andreas Quirrenbach, Peter Schneider, Conny Aerts, Angela Bazzano, Jose Cernicharo, Paolo De Bernardis, Ariel Goobar, Thomas Henning, Rob J. Ivison, Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM), Evert Meurs, Michiel Van Der Klis, Pedro Viana, Sergio Volonte, Werner W. Zeilinger

Comments: To be published in the proceedings of the 2005 ESLAB Symposium "Trends in Space Science and Cosmic Vision 2020", held at ESTEC, 19-21 April 2005, F. Favata (ed)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[810] arXiv:astro-ph/0510810 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparison of measured and simulated lateral distributions for electrons and muons with KASCADE

KASCADE Collaboration, W.D. Apel, et al

Comments: 27 pages, accepted for publication in Astropart. Phys

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.24:467-483,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[811] arXiv:astro-ph/0510811 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic-ray Acceleration at Ultrarelativistic Shock Waves: Effects of a "Realistic" Magnetic Field Structure

Jacek Niemiec (1and 2), Michal Ostrowski (3) ((1) Iowa State University, Ames, USA, (2) Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland, (3) Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)

Comments: submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.641:984-992,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[812] arXiv:astro-ph/0510812 [pdf, other]

Title: On the neutral gas distribution and kinematics in the dwarf irregular galaxy IC 1613

Sergiy Silich, Tatyana Lozinskaya, Alexei Moiseev, Nikolai Podorvanuk, Margarita Rosado, Jura Borissova, Margarita Valdez-Gutierrez

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[813] arXiv:astro-ph/0510813 [pdf, other]

Title: The galaxies in the field of the nearby GRB980425/SN1998bw

S. Foley (1), D. Watson (2), J. Gorosabel (3), J.P.U. Fynbo (2), J. Sollerman (2,4), S. McGlynn (1), B. McBreen (1), J. Hjorth (2) ((1) University College Dublin, (2) DARK Copenhagen, (3) IAA-CSIC, (4) Stockholm Observatory)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 447 (2006) 891-895

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[814] arXiv:astro-ph/0510814 [pdf, other]

Title: The spin temperature and 21cm brightness of the intergalactic medium in the pre-reionization era

Michael Kuhlen, Piero Madau, Ryan Montgomery (UCSC)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. A few modifications and clarifications at the referee's request

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.637:L1-L4,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[815] arXiv:astro-ph/0510815 [pdf, other]

Title: An anomalous concentration of QSOs around NGC 3079

E.M. Burbidge, G. Burbidge, H.C. Arp, W.M. Napier

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[816] arXiv:astro-ph/0510816 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Gaussian Foreground Residuals of the WMAP First Year Maps

J. Medeiros, C. R. Contaldi

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:39-45,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[817] arXiv:astro-ph/0510817 [pdf, other]

Title: Low Mass X-ray Binaries in 6 Elliptical Galaxies: Connection to Globular Clusters

Eunhyeuk Kim, Dong-Woo Kim, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Myung Gyoon Lee, Hong Soo Park, Doug Geisler, Boris Dirsch

Comments: 52 pages

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.647:276-292,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[818] arXiv:astro-ph/0510818 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar populations in a complete sample of local radio galaxies

D. Raimann (1 and 2), T. Storchi-Bergmann (1), H. Quintana (3), R. Hunstead (4), L. Wisotzki (5) ((1) IF-UFRGS - Brazil, (2) UDESC - Brazil, (3) PUC - Chile, (4) University of Sydney - Australia, (5) Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam - Germany)

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:1239-1252,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[819] arXiv:astro-ph/0510819 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark-Matter Halos of Early-Type Galaxies

Philip J. Humphrey, David A. Buote, Fabio Gastaldello, Luca Zappacosta, James S. Bullock, Fabrizio Brighenti, William G. Mathews

Comments: 2 pages, 2 figures, to appear in proceedings of "The X-Ray Universe 2005", San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain, Sep 26-30 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[820] arXiv:astro-ph/0510820 [pdf, other]

Title: The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from SDSS Imaging Data

Hugh C. Harris, Jeffrey A. Munn, Mukremin Kilic, James Liebert, Kurtis A. Williams, Ted von Hippel, Stephen E. Levine, David G. Monet, Daniel J. Eisenstein, S.J. Kleinman, T.S. Metcalfe, Atsuko Nitta, D.E. Winget, J. Brinkmann, Masataka Fukugita, G.R. Knapp, Robert H. Lupton, J. Allyn Smith, Donald P. Schneider

Comments: Accepted for AJ (Jan 2006). 35 pages (includes 10 figures)

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:571-581,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[821] arXiv:astro-ph/0510821 [pdf, other]

Title: Do dwarf galaxies form in tidal tails?

M. Wetzstein, T. Naab, A. Burkert

Comments: 18 pages, 16 figures, revised version, MNRAS accepted

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.375:805-820,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[822] arXiv:astro-ph/0510822 [pdf, other]

Title: CPD-41deg7742: an unusual wind interaction

H. Sana, E. Gosset, G. Rauw, E. Antokhina, P. Royer, J. Manfroid, J.-M. Vreux

Comments: 4pages, 5 figures, to appear in "Distant Worlds", proceedings of the JENAM2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[823] arXiv:astro-ph/0510823 [pdf, other]

Title: Chaos and the dynamical evolution of barred galaxies

T. Manos, E. Athanassoula

Comments: 2 pages, 4 figures, in the 5th International Conference "The Fabulous destiny of galaxies:Bridging past and present", (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[824] arXiv:astro-ph/0510824 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting chaotic and ordered motion in barred galaxies

T. Manos, E. Athanassoula

Comments: 2 pages, 4 figures, in the "Semaine de l'Astrophysique Francaise Journees de la SF2A", (in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[825] arXiv:astro-ph/0510825 [pdf, other]

Title: Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant in the Spacetime of a Domain Wall

L. Campanelli, P. Cea, L. Tedesco

Comments: New version, accepted for publication in MPLA

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A22:1013-1018,2007

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

[826] arXiv:astro-ph/0510826 [pdf, other]

Title: The CFEPS Kuiper Belt Survey: Strategy and Pre-survey Results

R. L. Allen, B. Gladman, J-M Petit, P. Rousselot, O. Moussis, J. J. Kavelaars, A. Campo Bagatin, G. Bernabeu, P. Benavenidez, J. Parker, P. Nicholson, M. Holman, A. Doressoundiram, C. Veillet, H. Scholl, G. Mars

Comments: to be submitted to Icarus

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[827] arXiv:astro-ph/0510827 [pdf, other]

Title: Spitzer Constraints on the z=6.56 Galaxy Lensed by Abell 370

Ranga-Ram Chary, Daniel Stern, Peter Eisenhardt

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, ApJ Letters in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:L5-L8,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[828] arXiv:astro-ph/0510828 [pdf, other]

Title: New Views into High Redshift Star-formation from GOODS

Ranga-Ram Chary

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of "XXVth Moriond Astrophysics Meeting 2005: When UV meets IR: a History of Star Formation", ed. by D. Elbaz & H. Aussel

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[829] arXiv:astro-ph/0510829 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of Lyman Break Galaxies From z=5 to 3

I. Iwata, K. Ohta, M. Ando, G. Kiuchi, N. Tamura, M. Akiyama, K. Aoki

Comments: 5 pages, 4 postscript figures. To appear in the proceedings of "The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies: Bridging Past and Present", conference held in Marseille, June 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[830] arXiv:astro-ph/0510830 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep Spectroscopic Survey of Lyman Break Galaxies at z~5

M. Ando, K. Ohta, I. Iwata, M. Akiyama, K. Aoki, N. Tamura

Comments: 5 pages, 4 postscript figures. To appear in the proceedings of "The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies: Bridging Past and Present", with minor corrections

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[831] arXiv:astro-ph/0510831 [pdf, other]

Title: HS0702+6043: A star showing both short-period p-mode and long-period g-mode oscillations

S. Schuh, J. Huber, S. Dreizler, U. Heber, S.J. O'Toole, E.M. Green, G. Fontaine

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[832] arXiv:astro-ph/0510832 [pdf, other]

Title: Exciting new features in the frequency spectrum of the EC14026 star HS0702+6043 - Simultaneous g-modes and p-modes in a sdB pulsator

S. Schuh, J. Huber, S. Dreizler, E.M. Green, T. Stahn, S. Randall, T.-O. Husser, U. Heber, S.J. O'Toole, G. Fontaine

Comments: 2 pages, no figures, contribution to the proceedings of the conference "Stellar Pulsation and Evolution 2005" (held in Rome, 19 - 24 June 2005), to be published in "Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana", Vol. 76/4,eds. A.R. Walker & G. Bono

Journal-ref: Mem.Soc.Ast.It.77:480-481,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[833] arXiv:astro-ph/0510833 [pdf, other]

Title: Results from the First INTEGRAL AGN Catalogue

V. Beckmann (1,2), S. Soldi (3), C. R. Shrader (1), N. Gehrels (1) ((1) NASA/GSFC, (2) JCA/UMBC, (3) INTEGRAL Science Data Centre)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, proc. of "The X-ray Universe 2005", San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid, Spain), 26-30 September 2005, ESA-SP 604

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[834] arXiv:astro-ph/0510834 [pdf, other]

Title: A Model for Twin Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Neutron Star Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries

X.-D. Li, C.-M. Zhang

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

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 635 (2005) L57-L60

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[835] arXiv:astro-ph/0510835 [pdf, other]

Title: The reverse shock of SNR1987A at 18 years after outburst

Nathan Smith, Svetozar A. Zhekov, Kevin Heng, Richard McCray, Jon A. Morse, Mike Gladders

Comments: 5 pgs, Fig 1 in color, accepted by ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:L41,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[836] arXiv:astro-ph/0510836 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared [Fe II] emission from P Cygni's nebula: Atomic data, mass, kinematics, and the 1600 A.D. outburst

Nathan Smith, Patrick Hartigan

Comments: 23 pgs. Accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.638:1045-1055,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[837] arXiv:astro-ph/0510837 [pdf, other]

Title: An empirical model for the polarization of pulsar radio emission

D. Melrose, A. Miller, A. Karastergiou, Q. Luo

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:638-646,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[838] arXiv:astro-ph/0510838 [pdf, other]

Title: Gemini/GMOS Spectra of Globular Clusters in the Leo Group Elliptical NGC 3379

Michael Pierce (1), Michael A. Beasley (2), Duncan A. Forbes (1), Terry Bridges (3), Karl Gebhardt (4), Favio Raul Faifer (5,6), Juan Carlos Forte (5), Stephen E. Zepf (7), Ray Sharples (8), David A. Hanes (3), Robert Proctor (1) ((1) Swinburne (2) Lick Observatory, UCSC (3) Queen's (4) Texas (5) UNLP (6) IALP - CONICET (7) Michigan State (8) Durham)

Comments: 25 pages, 10 figures, accepted MNRAS, 2 Notes added in proof

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:1253-1264,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[839] arXiv:astro-ph/0510839 [pdf, other]

Title: Can dark matter be mostly massless particles?

Xiang-Song Chen

Comments: 1 page, no figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[840] arXiv:astro-ph/0510840 [pdf, other]

Title: The non-linear theory of a warped accretion disc with the beta-viscosity prescription

J. Ghanbari, M. Shadmehri, F. Salehi

Comments: Accepted by BASI

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[841] arXiv:astro-ph/0510841 [pdf, other]

Title: The Impact of Temperature Fluctuations on the Lyman-alpha Forest Power Spectrum

Kamson Lai, Adam Lidz, Lars Hernquist, Matias Zaldarriaga (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, ApJ accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.644:61-70,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[842] arXiv:astro-ph/0510842 [pdf, other]

Title: Behavior of Torsional Alfven Waves and Field Line Resonance on Rotating Magnetars

Taishi Okita, Yasufumi Kojima

Comments: 13 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:879-890,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[843] arXiv:astro-ph/0510843 [pdf, other]

Title: The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Discovery of Luminous, Metal-poor, Sta r-forming Galaxies at Redshifts z~0.7

Carlos Hoyos, David C. Koo, Andrew C. Phillips, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Puragra Guhathakurta

Comments: This is a .tgz file. It should create the following files: this http URL, this http URL, this http URL and this http URL. The LaTeX style used is this http URL, version November 26, 2004. This submission is 5 pages long, one table and two figures. To appear in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:L21-L24,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[844] arXiv:astro-ph/0510844 [pdf, other]

Title: Massive Science with VO and Grids

Robert Nichol (ICG Portsmouth), Garry Smith (ICG & IoA), Christopher Miller (NOAO), Peter Freeman, Chris Genovese, Larry Wasserman (Stats CMU), Brent Bryan, Alexander Gray, Jeff Schneider, Andrew Moore (CS CMU)

Comments: Invited talk at ADASSXV conference published as ASP Conference Series, Vol. XXX, 2005 C. Gabriel, C. Arviset, D. Ponz and E. Solano, eds. 9 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[845] arXiv:astro-ph/0510845 [pdf, other]

Title: The Bright Side of the Hard X-ray Sky: The XMM-Newton Bright Survey

R. Della Ceca, A. Caccianiga, P. Severgnini, T. Maccacaro, F. Cocchia, V. Braito

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the conference "The X-ray Universe 2005", held in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, 26-30 September 2005, organized by the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) of ESA

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[846] arXiv:astro-ph/0510846 [pdf, other]

Title: Photometric searches for transiting planets: results and challenges

Frederic Pont

Comments: 12 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the meeting "Tenth anniversary of 51Peg b - status and prospects of hot Jupiter studies" at OHP, France, 22-26 August 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[847] arXiv:astro-ph/0510847 [pdf, other]

Title: The circles-in-the-sky signature for three spherical universes

R. Aurich, S. Lustig, F. Steiner

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:240-248,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[848] arXiv:astro-ph/0510848 [pdf, other]

Title: An Intermediate-band imaging survey for high-redshift Lyman Alpha Emitters: The Mahoroba-11

Sanae F. Yamada, Shunji S. Sasaki, Ryoko Sumiya, Kazuyoshi Umeda, Yasuhiro Shioya, Masaru Ajiki, Tohru Nagao, Takashi Murayama, Yoshiaki Taniguchi

Comments: 46 pages, 15 figures, PASJ, Vol.57, No.6, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[849] arXiv:astro-ph/0510849 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Determination of Neutrino Masses and Dark Energy Evolution from the Cross Correlation of CMB and LSS

Kazuhide Ichikawa, Tomo Takahashi

Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: JCAP 0802:017,2008

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

[850] arXiv:astro-ph/0510850 [pdf, other]

Title: The Innermost AGNs with Future mm-VLBI

I. Agudo, T.P. Krichbaum, U. Bach, A. Pagels, B.W. Sohn, D.A. Graham, A. Witzel, J.A. Zensus, J.L. Gomez, M. Bremer, M. Grewing

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proc. of the Conf. "Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the XXI Century", in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)