Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2005

[201] arXiv:astro-ph/0511201 [pdf, other]

Title: The OSER project

Marc Moniez (LAL)

Comments: 6 pages, 9 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: 21st IAP Colloquium: Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures, Paris : France (2005)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[202] arXiv:astro-ph/0511202 [pdf, other]

Title: A Radio and X-Ray Study of Historical Supernovae in M83

C. J. Stockdale, L. A. Maddox, J. J. Cowan, A. Prestwich, R. Kilgard, S. Immler, M. Krauss

Comments: 3 color ps figures

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:889-894,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[203] arXiv:astro-ph/0511203 [pdf, other]

Title: Extracting Star Formation Histories from Medium-resolution Galaxy Spectra

Hugues Mathis, Stephane Charlot, Jarle Brinchmann

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures, to appear in MNRAS; version with full resolution figures available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:385-400,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[204] arXiv:astro-ph/0511204 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarimetry of binary stars

N. Manset

Comments: 12 pages, no figures, invited review, conference proceedings, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[205] arXiv:astro-ph/0511205 [pdf, other]

Title: Is GRB 050904 a super-long burst?

Y. C. Zou, Z. G. Dai, D. Xu

Comments: 16 pages, 4 figure. Submitted on Oct. 21, 2005, accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.646:1098-1103,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[206] arXiv:astro-ph/0511206 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Population of Planetary Nebulae Discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud (I): Preliminary Sample

Warren A. Reid, Quentin A. Parker

Comments: 14 pages, 21 figures (zipped). Accepted for publication in Mmonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.804:12-12,2006; Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:401-413,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[207] arXiv:astro-ph/0511207 [pdf, other]

Title: A spectroscopic study of southern (candidate) gamma Doradus stars. I. Time series analysis

P. De Cat (1,2), L. Eyer (3), J. Cuypers (1), C. Aerts (2,4), B. Vandenbussche (2), K. Uytterhoeven (2,5), K. Reyniers (2), K. Kolenberg (2,6), M. Groenewegen (2), G. Raskin (2,7), T. Maas (2), S. Jankov (8,9) ((1) Royal Observatory of Belgium, (2) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (3) Observatoire de Geneve, (4) Radboud University Nijmegen, (5) University of Central Lancashire, (6) Universitat Wien, (7) Mercator telescope, (8) Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, (9) Laboratoire Univ. d'Astroph. de Nice)

Comments: 13 pages (+ 10 pages online material), 10 (+16) figures. Accepted for publication by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[208] arXiv:astro-ph/0511208 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational results for northern and southern (candidate) gamma Doradus stars

P. De Cat (1,2), K. Goossens (2)F. Bouckaert (2), L. Eyer (2,3), J. Cuypers (1), J. De Ridder (2), C. Aerts (2,4), M.-A. Dupret (5), A. Grigahcene (6), many observers ((1) Royal Observatory of Belgium, (2) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (3) Observatoire de Geneve, (4) Radboud University Nijmegen, (5) Observatoire de Paris, (6) Algiers Observatory)

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures. To appear in: A.R. Walker & G. Bono (eds.), Proceedings of International Astrophysics Meeting 'Stellar pulsation and evolution', Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana 76

Journal-ref: Mem.Soc.Ast.It.77:313-316,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[209] arXiv:astro-ph/0511209 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of MERCATOR data Part I: variable B stars

P. De Cat (1,2), M. Briquet (2), C. Aerts (2,3), K. Goossens (2), S. Saesen (2), J. Cuypers (1), K. Yakut (2), R. Scuflaire (4), M.-A. Dupret (5), many observers ((1) Royal Observatory of Belgium, (2) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (3) Radboud University Nijmegen, (4) Universite de Liege, (5) Observatoire de Paris)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in: Proceedings of JENAM 2005 'Distant worlds', Communications in Asteroseismology

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[210] arXiv:astro-ph/0511210 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization of Starlight by Unresolved and Oblate Extra-solar Planet in Elliptical Orbit

Sujan Sengupta, Malay Maiti

Comments: 19 pages including 7 postscript figures, Latex (AASTEX style), Accepted for publication by The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.639:1147-1152,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[211] arXiv:astro-ph/0511211 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-axisymmetric instabilities in shocked adiabatic accretion flows

Wei-Min Gu, Ju-Fu Lu

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:647-652,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[212] arXiv:astro-ph/0511212 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational Evidence of Accretion Disk-Caused Jet Precession in Galactic Nuclei

Ju-Fu Lu, Bo-Yan Zhou

Comments: 13 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:L17-L20,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[213] arXiv:astro-ph/0511213 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Question of the Behavior of O-C Residuals of the Active Algol-Like Binary RZ Cassiopeiae

Alex Golovin, Elena Pavlenko

Comments: Accepted to JAAVSO vol. 34

Journal-ref: J.Am.Assoc.Var.StarObs.34:46,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[214] arXiv:astro-ph/0511214 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure in the radio counterpart to the 2004 Dec 27 giant flare from SGR 1806-20

R.P. Fender (Southampton), T.W.B. Muxlow (Manchester), M.A. Garrett (JIVE), C. Kouveliotou (MSFC), B.M. Gaensler (CfA), S.T. Garrington (Manchester), Z. Paragi (JIVE), V. Tudose (Amsterdam), J.C.A. Miller-Jones (Amsterdam), R.E. Spencer (Manchester)

Comments: Accepted for publication as a letter in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.367:L6-L10,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[215] arXiv:astro-ph/0511215 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum and Mass Composition from 10^15 to 10^17 eV by Data of the Tunka EAS Cherenkov Array

N. M. Budnev (2), D. V. Chernov (1), O. A. Gress (2), T. I. Gress (2), E. E. Korosteleva (1), L. A. Kuzmichev (a), B. K. Lubsandorzhiev (3), L. V. Pankov (2), Yu. V. Parfenov (2), V. V. Prosin (1), Yu. A. Semeney (2), Ch. Spiering (4), R. P. Wischnewski (4), I. V. Yashin (1), ((1) SINP MSU, Moscow, Russia (2) API ISU, Irkutsk, Russia (3) INR RAS, Moscow, Russia (4) DESY, Zeuthen, Germany)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, reported at ICRC2005, rus-prosin-VV-abs2-he12-oral

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[216] arXiv:astro-ph/0511216 [pdf, other]

Title: The soft X-ray/NLR connection: a single photoionized medium?

Stefano Bianchi, Matteo Guainazzi, Marco Chiaberge

Comments: 14 pages, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[217] arXiv:astro-ph/0511217 [pdf, other]

Title: Standing Shocks in Trans-Magnetosonic Accretion Flows onto a Black Hole

M. Takahashi, J. Goto, K. Fukumura, D. Rilett, S. Tsuruta

Comments: 22 pages, 10 figures, accepted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.645:1408-1420,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[218] arXiv:astro-ph/0511218 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing Gravity Against Early Time Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect

Pengjie Zhang (SHAO & Fermilab)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted to PRD. v2: Revised to address to more general audience. v3: added discussions

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D73:123504,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[219] arXiv:astro-ph/0511219 [pdf, other]

Title: Dust in Resonant Extrasolar Kuiper Belts - Grain Size and Wavelength Dependence of Disk Structure

M. C. Wyatt

Comments: 12 pages, accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.639:1153-1165,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[220] arXiv:astro-ph/0511220 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Ray Energy Measurement with EAS Cherenkov Light: Experiment QUEST and CORSIKA Simulation

E.E. Korosteleva (1), L.A. Kuzmichev (1), V.V. Prosin (1), EAS-TOP COLLABORATION (2), ((1) SINP MSU, Moscow, Russia, (2) INFN, IFSI, Universita' Torino, Italy)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, Proc. 29th ICRC, 2005, rus-prosin-VV-abs1-he12-poster

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[221] arXiv:astro-ph/0511221 [pdf, other]

Title: The Galactic Center at High Energies

A. Goldwurm

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures. Proceedings of the Cerenkov 2005 Conference "Towards a Network of Atmospheric Cherenkov Detectors VII", 27-29 April 2005, Palaiseau, France

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[222] arXiv:astro-ph/0511222 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors at Low Metallicity

Sung-Chul Yoon, Norbert Langer

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proc "Stellar Evolution at Low Metallicity: Mass-Loss, Explosions, Cosmology" (eds: H. Lamers, N. Langer, T. Nugis), ASP Conf Series in press)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[223] arXiv:astro-ph/0511223 [pdf, other]

Title: Performance study of ground-based infrared Bracewell interferometers - Application to the detection of exozodiacal dust disks with GENIE

O. Absil, R. den Hartog, P. Gondoin, P. Fabry, R. Wilhelm, P. Gitton, F. Puech

Comments: A&A, accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[224] arXiv:astro-ph/0511224 [pdf, other]

Title: Nearby young single black holes

M.E. Prokhorov (1), S.B. Popov (1) (1 - Sternberg Astronomical Institute)

Comments: 14 pages with 7 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Lett.28:536,2002; Pisma Astron.Zh.28:609,2002

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[225] arXiv:astro-ph/0511225 [pdf, other]

Title: The WFPC2 Archival Parallels Project

Yogesh Wadadekar, Stefano Casertano, Richard Hook, Bül ent Kızıltan, Anton Koekemoer, Harry Ferguson, Doichin Denchev

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the PASP

Journal-ref: Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.118:450-460,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[226] arXiv:astro-ph/0511226 [pdf, other]

Title: Observations of spatial and velocity structure in the Orion Molecular Cloud

H. D. Nissen, M. Gustafsson, J.L. Lemaire, Y. Clenet, D. Rouan, D. Field

Comments: 27 pages, 19 figures, submitted to A&A Version 2: Several additions, including a section on protostellar candidates in OMC1, have been made based on the referee's suggestions v3: corrected typography

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[227] arXiv:astro-ph/0511227 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulations of Supernova Remnants in Diffuse Media III. The Population of Buoyant Remnants Above the Milky Way's Disk

R. L. Shelton

Comments: Accepted by ApJ for publication on February 10, 2006 (Volume 638). 44 pages, including 6 figures, 10 tables (and 1 blank page)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.638:206-219,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[228] arXiv:astro-ph/0511228 [pdf, other]

Title: NLTE Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer: I. The Thermal Properties of Keplerian Disks around Classical Be Stars

A. C. Carciofi, J. E. Bjorkman

Comments: Accepted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.639:1081-1094,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[229] arXiv:astro-ph/0511229 [pdf, other]

Title: The Tunka Experiment: Towards a 1-km^2 EAS Cherenkov Light Array in the Tunka Valley

N. M. Budnev (2), D. V. Chernov (1), O. A. Gress (2), N. N. Kalmykov (1), V. A. Kozhin (1), E. E. Korosteleva (1), L. A. Kuzmichev (1), B. K. Lubsandorzhiev (3), G. Navarra (6), M. I. Panasyuk (1), L. V. Pankov (2), Yu. V. Parfenov (2), V. V. Prosin (1), V. S. Ptuskin (4), Yu. A. Semeney (2), A. V. Shirokov (1), A. V. Skurikhin (1), C. Spiering (5), R. Wischnewski (5), I. V. Yashin (1), ((1) SINP MSU, Moscow (2) API ISU, Irkutsk (3) INR RAS, Moscow (4) IZMIRAN, Moscow (5) DESY, Zeuthen, Germany (6) Universita' Torino, Italy)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, ICRC2005, rus-kuzmichev-LA-abs1-he15-poster

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys. A20 (2005) 6796-6798

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[230] arXiv:astro-ph/0511230 [pdf, other]

Title: Low Redshift BAL QSOs in the Eigenvector 1 Context

J. W. Sulentic, D. Dultzin-Hacyan, P. Marziani, C. Bongardo, V. Braito, M. Calvani, R. Zamanov

Comments: Accepted for publication in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[231] arXiv:astro-ph/0511231 [pdf, other]

Title: More General BBN Constraints on Neutrino Oscillations Parameters - Relaxed or Strengthened

Daniela P. Kirilova

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys.D16:1197-1210,2007

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

[232] arXiv:astro-ph/0511232 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral synthesis analysis and radial velocity study of the northern F-, G-, and K-type flare-stars

B. König, E.W. Guenther, M. Esposito, A. Hatzes

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:1050,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[233] arXiv:astro-ph/0511233 [pdf, other]

Title: Counting Pockets with World Lines in Eternal Inflation

Richard Easther, Eugene A. Lim, Matthew R. Martin

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, added references, minor elaboration on a few points to match published version

Journal-ref: JCAP 0603:016,2006

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

[234] arXiv:astro-ph/0511234 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton RGS and Chandra LETGS observations of the WHIM in 1ES 1028+511

K. C. Steenbrugge, F. Nicastro, M. Elvis

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of "The X-ray Universe 2005", San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain), 26-30 September 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[235] arXiv:astro-ph/0511235 [pdf, other]

Title: On The Origin of Very High Energy Cosmic Rays

Pasquale Blasi

Comments: Invited Review Article to appear in Modern Physics Letters A, Review Section

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A20:3055-3076,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[236] arXiv:astro-ph/0511236 [pdf, other]

Title: Ionization structure of the warm wind in NGC 5548

K. C. Steenbrugge, J. S. Kaastra, D. M. Crenshaw, S. B. Kraemer, N. Arav, I. M. George, D. A. Liedahl, F. B. S. Paerels, T. J. Turner, T. Yaqoob

Comments: 2 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "The X-ray Universe 2005", San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain), 26-30 September 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[237] arXiv:astro-ph/0511237 [pdf, other]

Title: V0332+53 in the outburst of 2004--2005: luminosity dependence of the cyclotron line and pulse profile

S. S. Tsygankov (1,2), A. A. Lutovinov (1,2), E. M. Churazov (1,2), R. A. Sunyaev (1,2) (1 - Space Research Institute (Moscow, Russia); 2 - Max-Plank Institute for Astrophysics (Garching, Germany))

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 10 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.371:19-28,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[238] arXiv:astro-ph/0511238 [pdf, other]

Title: 2-D Stellar Evolution Code Including Arbitrary Magnetic Fields. I. Mathematical Techniques and Test Cases

L. H. Li (Yale), P. Ventura (INAF), S. Basu (Yale), S. Sofia (Yale), P. Demarque (Yale)

Comments: 88 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[239] arXiv:astro-ph/0511239 [pdf, other]

Title: The BATSE-Swift luminosity and redshift distributions of short-duration GRBs

Dafne Guetta, Tsvi Piran

Comments: Revised version includes additional bursts and revised redshift of older bursts

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[240] arXiv:astro-ph/0511240 [pdf, other]

Title: Modifications to the Cosmic 21-cm Background Frequency Spectrum by Scattering via electrons in Galaxy Clusters

Asantha Cooray

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, PRD in press; expanded and title changed from v1. Final version in press

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D73:103001,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[241] arXiv:astro-ph/0511241 [pdf, other]

Title: Halo Spacetime

Mark D. Roberts

Comments: To appear in the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, updated to coincide with published version

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

[242] arXiv:astro-ph/0511242 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-Body Kick to a Bright Quasar out of Its Galaxy During a Merger

Loren Hoffman, Abraham Loeb (Harvard U.)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, ApJ Letters, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.638:L75-L78,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[243] arXiv:astro-ph/0511243 [pdf, other]

Title: Development of Acoustic Sensors for the ANTARES Experiment

Christopher Lindsay Naumann, Gisela Anton, Kay Graf, Juergen Hoessl, Alexander Kappes, Timo Karg, Uli Katz, Robert Lahmann, Karsten Salomon

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the ARENA 2005 Workshop

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys.A21S1:92-96,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[244] arXiv:astro-ph/0511244 [pdf, other]

Title: First optical images of circumstellar dust surrounding the debris disk candidate HD 32297

P. Kalas

Comments: 5 pages; Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.635:L169-L172,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[245] arXiv:astro-ph/0511245 [pdf, other]

Title: Possible evidence for the ejection of a supermassive black hole from an ongoing merger of galaxies

Martin G. Haehnelt (IoA), Melvyn B. Davies (Lund), Martin J. Rees (IoA)

Comments: 4 pages, LaTeX, no figures; MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.366:L22-L25,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[246] arXiv:astro-ph/0511246 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotational Broadening of Atomic Spectral Features from Neutron Stars

P. Chang, S. Morsink, L. Bildsten, I. Wasserman

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

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.636:L117-L120,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[247] arXiv:astro-ph/0511247 [pdf, other]

Title: Exposing the Nuclear Burning Ashes of Radius Expansion Type I X-ray Bursts

Nevin N. Weinberg (Caltech, KITP), Lars Bildsten (KITP, UCSB), Hendrik Schatz (MSU, JINA)

Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures (emulateapj), accepted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.639:1018-1032,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[248] arXiv:astro-ph/0511248 [pdf, other]

Title: Studying Turbulence using Doppler-broadened lines: Velocity Coordinate Spectrum

A. Lazarian, D. Pogosyan

Comments: 27 page, 3 figures, content extended and presentation reorganized to correspond to the version accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[249] arXiv:astro-ph/0511249 [pdf, other]

Title: The FLAMINGOS Extragalactic Survey

Richard J. Elston, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Eric McKenzie, Mark Brodwin, Michael J. I. Brown, Gustavo Cardona, Arjun Dey, Mark Dickinson, Peter R. Eisenhardt, Buell T. Jannuzi, Yen-Ting Lin, Joseph J. Mohr, S. Nicholas Raines, S. A. Stanford, Daniel Stern

Comments: Accepted to ApJ, 11 pages, 13 figures. For higher resolution figures, see this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.639:816-826,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[250] arXiv:astro-ph/0511250 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS): Primordial Warm Dust Evolution From 3-30 Myr around Sun-like Stars

M.D. Silverstone (1), M.R. Meyer (1), E.E. Mamajek (2), D.C. Hines (3), L.A. Hillenbrand (4), J. Najita (5), I. Pascucci (1), J. Bouwman (6), J.S. Kim (1), J.M. Carpenter (4), J.R. Stauffer (7), D.E. Backman (8)A. Moro-Martin (9), T. Henning (6), S. Wolf (6), T.Y. Brooke (7), D.L. Padgett (7) ((1) Steward Obs., U. of AZ, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (3) Space Science Institute, (4) Dept. of Astron., CalTech, (5) NOAO, (6) Max-Plank-Institut fur Astronomie, (7) Spitzer Science Cntr., (8) NASA-Ames Research Cntr., (9) Dept. of Astrophys. Sci., Princeton U.)

Comments: 16 pages, includes 2 figures and 2 tables

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.639:1138-1146,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)