Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2005

[301] arXiv:astro-ph/0511301 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray and soft gamma-ray behaviour of the Galactic source 1E 1743.1-2843

M. Del Santo, L. Sidoli, A. Bazzano, M. Cocchi, G. De Cesare, A. Paizis, P. Ubertini

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)

[302] arXiv:astro-ph/0511302 [pdf, other]

Title: Variations in the spectral slope of Sgr A* during a NIR flare

S. Gillessen, F. Eisenhauer, E. Quataert, R. Genzel, T. Paumard, S. Trippe, T. Ott, R. Abuter, A. Eckart, P. O. Lagage, M. D. Lehnert, L. J. Tacconi, F. Martins

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, this http URL, accepted by ApJL, v2: more detailed analysis section

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.640:L163-L166,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[303] arXiv:astro-ph/0511303 [pdf, other]

Title: Some Consequences of Dark Energy Density varying Exponentially with Scale Factor

Sanil Unnikrishnan, T. R. Seshadri

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A20:2805-2818,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[304] arXiv:astro-ph/0511304 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Time-Symmetric Block Time-Step Algorithm for N-Body Simulations

Murat Kaplan (1), Hasan Saygin (1), Piet Hut (2), Jun Makino (3) (1. Istanbul Technical University, <a href="http://2.IAS" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a> Princeton, <a href="http://3.University" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a> of Tokyo)

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted for publication in New Astronomy

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[305] arXiv:astro-ph/0511305 [pdf, other]

Title: How well do we know the age and mass distributions of the star cluster system in the Large Magellanic Cloud?

Richard de Grijs (University of Sheffield, UK), Peter Anders (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany)

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures, resubmitted to MNRAS after responding to referee report

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:295-307,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[306] arXiv:astro-ph/0511306 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiperiodicity in the large-amplitude rapidly-rotating $\beta $Ceph ei star HD 203664

C. Aerts, P. De Cat, J. De Ridder, H. Van Winckel, G. Raskin, G. Davignon, K. Uytterhoeven

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A (Astronomy & Astrophysics)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[307] arXiv:astro-ph/0511307 [pdf, other]

Title: The SAURON project - V. Integral-field emission-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

M. Sarzi, J. Falcon-Barroso, R. L. Davies, R. Bacon, M. Bureau, M. Cappellari, P. T. de Zeeuw, Eric Emsellem, K. Fathi, D. Krajnovic, H. Kuntschner, R. M. McDermid, Reynier F. Peletier

Comments: 51 pages, 40 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. A version with full resolution figures is available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:1151-1200,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[308] arXiv:astro-ph/0511308 [pdf, other]

Title: Scalar statistics on the sphere: application to the CMB

C. Monteserin, R.B. Barreiro, J.L. Sanz, E. Martinez-Gonzalez

Comments: 19 pages, 11 figures, version accepted for publication in MNRAS; high quality color figures upon request to the authors

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.360:9-26,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[309] arXiv:astro-ph/0511309 [pdf, other]

Title: The radial profiles of the different mass components in galaxy clusters

A. Biviano (INAF Trieste), P. Salucci (SISSA/ISAS Trieste)

Comments: Version accepted for publication in A&A. 10 pages, 7 figures. Footnote 1, and caption to this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[310] arXiv:astro-ph/0511310 [pdf, other]

Title: X-RED: A Satellite Mission Concept To Detect Early Universe Gamma Ray Bursts

Mirko Krumpe, Deirdre Coffey, Georg Egger, Francesc Vilardell, Karolien Lefever, Adriane Liermann, Agnes I.D. Hoffmann, Joerg Steiper, Marc Cherix, Simon Albrecht, Pedro Russo, Thomas Strodl, Rurik Wahlin, Pieter Deroo, Arvind Parmar, Niels Lund, Guenther Hasinger

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures, this http URL needed

Journal-ref: Journal: Photonics for Space Environments X. Edited by Taylor, Edward W. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 58981J, 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[311] arXiv:astro-ph/0511311 [pdf, other]

Title: Subaru optical observations of the two middle-aged pulsars PSR B0656+14 and Geminga

Yuri A. Shibanov (1), Sergei V. Zharikov (2), Viktoria N. Komarova (3), Nobuyuki Kawai (4), Yuji Urata (5), Alexey B. Koptsevich (1), Vladimir V. Sokolov (3), Shinpei Shibata (6), Noriaki Shibazaki (7) ((1) Ioffe Inst., Russia, (2) OAN SMP UNAM, Mexico, (3) SAO RAS, Russia, (4) Tokyo Inst. of Techn., Japan, (5) RIKEN, Japan, (6) Yamagata Univ., Japan, (7) Rikkyo Univ., Japan)

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures, A&A, accepted. For higher resolution images see this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[312] arXiv:astro-ph/0511312 [pdf, other]

Title: Steady shocks around black holes produced by sub-keplerian flows with negative energy

D. Molteni, G. Gerardi, V. Teresi

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS on 10 November 2005

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:1405,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[313] arXiv:astro-ph/0511313 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure formation and CMBR anisotropy spectrum in the inflessence model

A.A. Sen, V.F. Cardone, S. Capozziello, A. Troisi

Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics. A bug in a code has been corrected so that some of the figures on the growth factor and growth index have been changed, but the main results are unchanged

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.460:29-36,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[314] arXiv:astro-ph/0511314 [pdf, other]

Title: Spitzer/IRAC Photometry of the Eta Chameleontis Association

S. T. Megeath (1), L. Hartmann (2), K. L. Luhman (3), G. G. Fazio (1)

Comments: Accepted to ApJ letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.634:L113-L116,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[315] arXiv:astro-ph/0511315 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature of the HE0450-2958 System

David Merritt, Thaisa Storchi Bergmann, Andrew Robinson, Dan Batcheldor, David Axon, Roberto Cid Fernandes

Comments: 5 pages

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:1746-1750,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[316] arXiv:astro-ph/0511316 [pdf, other]

Title: Crossing of the Cosmological Constant Boundary - an Equation of State Description

Hrvoje Stefancic

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, talk given at QFEXT'05, Barcelona, 5-9 September 2005

Journal-ref: J.Phys.A39:6761-6768,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[317] arXiv:astro-ph/0511317 [pdf, other]

Title: Red AGN in XMM-Newton/SDSS fields

A. Georgakakis (1,2), I. Georgantopoulos (2), A. Akylas (2) ((1) Imperial College, (2) National Athens Observatory)

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:171-181,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[318] arXiv:astro-ph/0511318 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncovering Planetary Nebulae in Early Type Galaxies using the Rutgers Fabry-Perot

Arend P.N. Sluis (Rutgers; Umass/Amherst), T.B. Williams (Rutgers)

Comments: 48 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables, this http URL, submitted to AJ

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:2089-2104,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[319] arXiv:astro-ph/0511319 [pdf, other]

Title: High-resolution Millimeter Imaging of Submillimeter Galaxies

L.J.Tacconi, R.Neri, S.C.Chapman, R.Genzel, I.Smail, R.J.Ivison, F.Bertoldi, A.Blain, P.Cox, T.Greve, A.Omont

Comments: accepted to be published in ApJ, 9 Figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.640:228-240,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[320] arXiv:astro-ph/0511320 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Spectra of three Supernova Remnants: G114.3+0.3, G116.5+1.1 and G116.9+0.2

W.W. Tian, D. Leahy

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables

Journal-ref: Chin.Astron.Astrophys.6:543,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[321] arXiv:astro-ph/0511321 [pdf, other]

Title: HE 0437-5439 -- an unbound hyper-velocity main-sequence B-type star

Heinz Edelmann, Ralf Napiwotzki, Uli Heber, Norbert Christlieb, Dieter Reimers

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures. Astrophysical Journal Letters, accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.634:L181-L184,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[322] arXiv:astro-ph/0511322 [pdf, other]

Title: First Results from the Swift UVOT

K. O. Mason, A. J. Blustin, P. W. A. Roming

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of "The X-ray Universe 2005" conference, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, September 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[323] arXiv:astro-ph/0511323 [pdf, other]

Title: US 708 - An unbound hyper-velocity subluminous O star

H.A. Hirsch, U. Heber, S.J. O'Toole, F. Bresolin

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.444:L61,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[324] arXiv:astro-ph/0511324 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamic Tides in Close Binaries

B. Willems

Comments: To appear in Active OB-Stars: Laboratories for Stellar & Circumstellar Physics, ASP Conference Series, Eds. S. Stefl, S. Owocki and A. Okazaki

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[325] arXiv:astro-ph/0511325 [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulent Mixing in the Outer Solar Nebula

N. J. Turner, K. Willacy, G. Bryden, H. W. Yorke

Comments: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal; 20 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.639:1218-1226,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[326] arXiv:astro-ph/0511326 [pdf, other]

Title: Speckle nulling with space-based coronagraphs

Pascal Borde (1), Wesley Traub (2) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of IAUC 200, Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science & Techniques, October 3-7, 2005, Nice, France

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[327] arXiv:astro-ph/0511327 [pdf, other]

Title: Six Years of Chandra Observations of Supernova Remnants

Martin C. Weisskopf, John P. Hughes

Comments: 82 pages, 28 figures, for the book Astrophysics Update 2

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[328] arXiv:astro-ph/0511328 [pdf, other]

Title: Mid-Infrared Emission from Elliptical Galaxies: Sensitivity to Stellar Age

Pasquale Temi, Fabrizio Brighenti, William G. Mathews

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[329] arXiv:astro-ph/0511329 [pdf, other]

Title: CNO in evolved intermediate mass stars

R. Smiljanic, B. Barbuy, J. R. De Medeiros, A. Maeder

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A. Final version with language corrections

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[330] arXiv:astro-ph/0511330 [pdf, other]

Title: Mass Distributions of HST Galaxy Clusters from Gravitational Arcs

Julia M. Comerford (UC Berkeley), Massimo Meneghetti, Matthias Bartelmann (ITA Heidelberg), Mischa Schirmer (ING La Palma)

Comments: Submitted to ApJ, 14 figures included

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.642:39-47,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[331] arXiv:astro-ph/0511331 [pdf, other]

Title: The maximum stellar mass, star-cluster formation and composite stellar populations

Carsten Weidner, Pavel Kroupa (Sternwarte Bonn)

Comments: 15 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:1333-1347,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[332] arXiv:astro-ph/0511332 [pdf, other]

Title: VIMOS-IFU survey of z~0.2 massive galaxy clusters. I. Observations of the strong lensing cluster Abell 2667

G. Covone (1,2), J.-P. Kneib (1,3), G. Soucail (4), J. Richard (3,4), E. Jullo (1), H. Ebeling (5) ((1) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (2) INAF-OAC, Italy, (3) Caltech, USA (4) Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France (5) Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii)

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to AA

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[333] arXiv:astro-ph/0511333 [pdf, other]

Title: The Observed Galactic Annihilation Line. Possible Signature of the Cluster for Accreting Small Mass Black Holes

Lev Titarchuk (GMU/NRL/GSFC), Pascal Chardonnet (Universit'e de Savoie/ LAPTH /LAPP, France)

Comments: 21 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the ApJ, 10 March 2006, v 639 2 issue

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.641:293-301,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[334] arXiv:astro-ph/0511334 [pdf, other]

Title: A Dynamical Model for the Extra-planar Gas in Spiral Galaxies

Filippo Fraternali, James Binney (University of Oxford)

Comments: 19 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. High resolution version available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:449-466,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[335] arXiv:astro-ph/0511335 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy Collisions - Dawn of a New Era

Curtis Struck (Iowa State)

Comments: 44 pages, 9 figures, review article in press for Astrophysics Update Vol. 2

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[336] arXiv:astro-ph/0511336 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Radiation from Hot Jupiters

Drake Deming, L. Jeremy Richardson, Sara Seager, Joseph Harrington

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of "Tenth anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[337] arXiv:astro-ph/0511337 [pdf, other]

Title: 10,000 Standard Solar Models: a Monte Carlo Simulation

John N. Bahcall (**1), Aldo M. Serenelli (1), Sarbani Basu (2) ((1) Institute for Advanced Study, (2) Yale University)

Comments: ** John N. Bahcall passed away on August 17, 2005. Manuscript has 60 pages including 10 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl.165:400-431,2006

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

[338] arXiv:astro-ph/0511338 [pdf, other]

Title: The broken hierarchy of galaxy formation

R. G. Bower (1), A. J. Benson (2), R. Malbon (1), J. C. Helly (1), C. S. Frenk (1), C. M. Baugh (1), S. Cole (1), C. G. Lacey (1) ((1) ICC, Durham, (2) Dept. of Physics, Oxford)

Comments: 11 pages, 8 colour figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Galaxy catalogues are available for down load from this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:645-655,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[339] arXiv:astro-ph/0511339 [pdf, other]

Title: A method to search for topological signatures in the angular distribution of cosmic objects

Armando Bernui, Thyrso Villela

Comments: 11 pages, 18 figures. To appear in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[340] arXiv:astro-ph/0511340 [pdf, other]

Title: A Lower Bound on Neutrino Mass and Its Implication on The Z-burst Scenario

Kwang-Chang Lai, Pisin Chen

Comments: 6 pages, derivation simplified and main idea consolidated, and appendix added

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[341] arXiv:astro-ph/0511341 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion and nuclear activity of quiescent supermassive black holes. II: optical study and interpretation

Roberto Soria, Alister W. Graham, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Alessandro Baldi, Martin Elvis, Helmut Jerjen, Silvia Pellegrini, Aneta Siemiginowska

Comments: 15 pages, accepted by ApJ. See also our Paper I, astro-ph/0511293

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.640:143-155,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[342] arXiv:astro-ph/0511342 [pdf, other]

Title: High Energy All Sky Transient Radiation Observatory

V. Vassiliev, S. Fegan

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, Pesentation to "Towards a Network of Atmospheric Cherenkov Detectors VII", 2005, Palaiseau, France

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[343] arXiv:astro-ph/0511343 [pdf, other]

Title: Computation of Fluid Flows in Non-inertial Contracting, Expanding, and Rotating Reference Frames

A.Y. Poludnenko (1), A.M. Khokhlov (1) ((1) University of Chicago)

Comments: Accepted to Journal of Computational Physics; several additional numerical tests included. High resolution fig. 5 and additional animations of simulations can be found at this http URL

Journal-ref: J.Comput.Phys. 220 (2007) 678-711

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[344] arXiv:astro-ph/0511344 [pdf, other]

Title: Oscillation mode lifetimes in ksi Hydrae: Will strong mode damping limit asteroseismology of red giant stars?

D. Stello, H. Kjeldsen, T. R. Bedding, D. Buzasi

Comments: 9 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[345] arXiv:astro-ph/0511345 [pdf, other]

Title: Chandra observation of the most interesting cluster in the Universe

Maxim Markevitch (CfA)

Comments: 5 pages, to appear in Proc. "The X-ray Universe 2005", San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, September 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[346] arXiv:astro-ph/0511346 [pdf, other]

Title: Automatic classification of eclipsing binaries light curves using neural networks

L. M. Sarro, C. Sánchez-Fernández, A. Giménez

Comments: 11 pages (+ 5 pages online material) accepted for publication by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[347] arXiv:astro-ph/0511347 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Extinction by Aggregates of SiC Particles

Anja C. Andersen (NORDITA), Harald Mutschke (AIU Jena), Thomas Posch (Vienna Observatory)

Journal-ref: in "Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Non-spherical Particles" (eds.) F. Moreno, J.J. Lopez-Moreno, O. Munoz, pp. 1-4 (2005)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[348] arXiv:astro-ph/0511348 [pdf, other]

Title: Axisymmetric stability criteria for a composite system of stellar and magnetized gaseous singular isothermal discs

Yu-Qing Lou, Yue Zou

Comments: 14 pages, 14 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:1037-1049,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[349] arXiv:astro-ph/0511349 [pdf, other]

Title: Double stage Lyot coronagraph with the apodized reticulated stop for extremely large telescope

Natalia Yaitskova

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures, SPIE conference 5905, 2005

Journal-ref: in The Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets II, Proc. SPIE 5905, 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[350] arXiv:astro-ph/0511350 [pdf, other]

Title: The possible orbital period of the nova V1493 Aquilae

Andrej Dobrotka, Michael Friedjung, Alon Retter, Ladislav Hric, Rudolf Novak

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)