Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2005

[701] arXiv:astro-ph/0511701 [pdf, other]

Title: Globular Clusters in Dwarf and Giant Galaxies

Sidney van den Bergh

Comments: To be published in the proceedings of the conference on Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies, to be held in Conception, Chile. Replacement paper has correct Figure 1

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[702] arXiv:astro-ph/0511702 [pdf, other]

Title: Diameters of Open Star Clusters

Sidney van den Bergh

Comments: Astronomical Journal, in press

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:1559-1564,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[703] arXiv:astro-ph/0511703 [pdf, other]

Title: What can be learned from the lensed cosmic microwave background B-mode polarization power spectrum?

Sarah Smith, Anthony Challinor, Graca Rocha

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures. Very minor changes to match version accepted by Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 023517

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[704] arXiv:astro-ph/0511704 [pdf, other]

Title: Multivariate Analysis of Globular Cluster's Horizontal Branch Morphology: searching for the second parameter

A. Recio-Blanco, A. Aparicio, G. Piotto, F. De Angeli, S.G. Djorgovski

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[705] arXiv:astro-ph/0511705 [pdf, other]

Title: Principal Component Analysis of Weak Lensing Surveys

Dipak Munshi (1,2), Martin Kilbinger (3) ((1) IoA Cambridge, (2) Cavendish Lab. Cambridge, (3) AIfA Bonn)

Comments: 13 pages, 17 figures. A&A in press, matches the version to be published

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.452:63,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[706] arXiv:astro-ph/0511706 [pdf, other]

Title: A new radial system of dark globules in Monoceros

C. Carrasco-González, R. López, A. Gyulbudaghian, G. Anglada, C.W. Lee

Comments: 4 pages, 3 Figures. Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[707] arXiv:astro-ph/0511707 [pdf, other]

Title: A search for periodicity in the light curves of selected blazars

N.A. Kudryavtseva (1), T.B. Pyatunina (2) ((1) Astronomy Institute, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, (2) Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Comments: 27 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy Reports

Journal-ref: Astron.Rep.50:1-11,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[708] arXiv:astro-ph/0511708 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiative zone solar magnetic fields and g-modes

T. I. Rashba, V. B. Semikoz, J. W. F. Valle

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures; final version to appear in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:845,2006; Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:845-850,2006

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

[709] arXiv:astro-ph/0511709 [pdf, other]

Title: Comments on the tethered galaxy problem

William J. Clavering

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to this http URL

Journal-ref: Am.J.Phys. 74 (2006) 745-750

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

[710] arXiv:astro-ph/0511710 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonance Overlap is Responsible for Ejecting Planets in Binary Systems

Lawrence R. Mudryk, Yanqin Wu

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophyical Journal. Consists of 8 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.639:423-431,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[711] arXiv:astro-ph/0511711 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetar giant flares and afterglows as relativistic magnetized explosions

Maxim Lyutikov (UBC, University of Rochester)

Comments: 23 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:1594-1602,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[712] arXiv:astro-ph/0511712 [pdf, other]

Title: Resolving the Kinematic Distance Ambiguity of Southern Massive Young Stellar Object Candidates

A. L. Busfield, C. R. Purcell, M. G. Hoare, S. L. Lumsden, T. J. T. Moore, R. D. Oudmaijer

Comments: 23 pages, 15 figures, accepted MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:1096-1117,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[713] arXiv:astro-ph/0511713 [pdf, other]

Title: Roche Lobe Sizes in Deep-MOND Gravity

HongSheng Zhao

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics Letter, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[714] arXiv:astro-ph/0511714 [pdf, other]

Title: Complex supergravity quintessence models confronted with Sn Ia data

K. Henttunen, T. Multamaki, I. Vilja (University of Turku)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B634:5-8,2006

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

[715] arXiv:astro-ph/0511715 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral shape of the UV ionizing background and OVI absorbers at z ~ 1.5 towards HS0747+4259

D. Reimers, I.I. Agafonova, S.A. Levshakov, H.-J. Hagen, C. Fechner, D. Tytler, D. Kirkman, S. Lopez

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables; accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[716] arXiv:astro-ph/0511716 [pdf, other]

Title: Reconciliation of Statistical Mechanics and Astro-Physical Statistics. The errors of conventional canonical thermostatistics

D.H.E.Gross

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures in color, invited talk at the NBS2005 meeting at the Observatoire de Paris 24-25 October 2005

Journal-ref: Comptes Rendus Physique 7:311-317,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[717] arXiv:astro-ph/0511717 [pdf, other]

Title: NGC 2401: A template of the Norma-Cygnus Arm's young population in the Third Galactic Quadrant

G. Baume (La PLata), A. Moitinho (Lisboa), R. Vazquez (La Plata), G. Solivella (La PLata), G. Carraro (UChile/Yale), S. Villanova (Padova)

Comments: 10 paginas, 11 eps figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:1441-1449,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[718] arXiv:astro-ph/0511718 [pdf, other]

Title: Shallow Decay of Early X-ray Afterglows from Inhomogeneous Gamma-Ray Burst Jets

Kenji Toma, Kunihito Ioka, Ryo Yamazaki, Takashi Nakamura

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.640:L139-L142,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[719] arXiv:astro-ph/0511719 [pdf, other]

Title: Hadronic Cosmic Ray Interactions Near the LHC Energy Region and in the UHE Domain of Giant EAS

J.-N. Capdevielle (APC)

Comments: Invited talk at 11th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering: Towards High Energy Frontiers: The 20th Anniversary of the Blois Workshops, Chateau de Blois, Blois, France, 15-20 May 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[720] arXiv:astro-ph/0511720 [pdf, other]

Title: Halpha surface photometry of galaxies in nearby clusters. V: the survey completion

G. Gavazzi, A. Boselli, L. Cortese, I. Arosio, A. Gallazzi, P. Pedotti, L. Carrasco

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication on A&A. Data and Fits images available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[721] arXiv:astro-ph/0511721 [pdf, other]

Title: Completing HI observations of galaxies II. The Coma Supercluster

G. Gavazzi, K. O'Neil, A. Boselli, W. van Driel

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication on A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[722] arXiv:astro-ph/0511722 [pdf, other]

Title: The weak INTEGRAL bursts GRB040223 and GRB040624: an emerging population of dark afterglows

P. Filliatre, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, A. De Luca, D. Gotz, S. McGlynn, S. McBreen, D. Fugazza, A. Antonelli, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, A. Cucchiara, M. Della Valle, S. Foley, P. Goldoni, L. Hanlon, G. Israel, B. McBreen, S. Mereghetti, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri

Comments: 13 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[723] arXiv:astro-ph/0511723 [pdf, other]

Title: Mass distribution in nearby Abell clusters

Ewa L. Lokas, Radoslaw Wojtak, Stefan Gottloeber, Gary A. Mamon, Francisco Prada

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures, final version accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:1463-1472,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[724] arXiv:astro-ph/0511724 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral evolution of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud: I. Blue concentrated clusters in the age range 40-300 Myr

J. F. C. Santos Jr. (1), J. J. Claria (2), A. V. Ahumada (2), E. Bica (3), A. E. Piatti (4), M. C. Parisi (2) ((1) DF-ICEx-UFMG, Brazil, (2) OAC-UNCOR, Argentina, (3) IF-UFRGS, Brazil, (4) IAFE-UBA, Argentina)

Comments: 13 pages, 22 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[725] arXiv:astro-ph/0511725 [pdf, other]

Title: Bimodal spectral variability of Cygnus X-1 in an intermediate state

J. Malzac, P.O. Petrucci, E. Jourdain, M. Cadolle, P. Sizun, G. Pooley, C. Cabanac, S. Chaty, T. Belloni, J. Rodriguez, J.P. Roques, P. Durouchoux, A. Goldwurm, P. Laurent

Comments: 14 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[726] arXiv:astro-ph/0511726 [pdf, other]

Title: Foreground contamination of the WMAP CMB maps from the perspective of the matched circle test

H. Then

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.373:139-145,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[727] arXiv:astro-ph/0511727 [pdf, other]

Title: A Dimensional study of Disk Galaxies

X. Hernandez, B. Cervantes-Sodi

Comments: 10 pages including 11 figures, Final version, MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:351-360,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[728] arXiv:astro-ph/0511728 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Multidimensional Hydrodynamics code based on Semidiscrete Central and WENO schemes

Tanvir Rahman, R. B. Moore

Comments: 49 pages, 19 figures. Comments welcome

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[729] arXiv:astro-ph/0511729 [pdf, other]

Title: An Integrated Spectrophotometric Survey of Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies

John Moustakas, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[730] arXiv:astro-ph/0511730 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical Star-Formation Rate Indicators

John Moustakas, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., Christy A. Tremonti

Comments: ApJ, accepted; no changes from previously posted version; emulateapj style; 41 pages, 23 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.642:775-796,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[731] arXiv:astro-ph/0511731 [pdf, other]

Title: Integrated Nebular Abundances of Disk Galaxies

John Moustakas, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables, emulateapj style; ApJ, in press; replaced with accepted version (expanded analysis/discussion, main conclusions unchanged)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.651:155-166,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[732] arXiv:astro-ph/0511732 [pdf, other]

Title: Identifying Primordial Substructure in NGC 2264

Paula S. Teixeira (1,2), Charles J. Lada (1), Erick T. Young (3), Massimo Marengo (1), August Muench (1), James Muzerolle (3), Nick Siegler (3), George Rieke (3), Lee Hartmann (4), S. Thomas Megeath (1), Giovanni Fazio (1) (1-Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA 2-University of Lisbon, Portugal, 3-Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, AZ, USA, 4-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL, 5 pages, 4 figures. Color version available from the following webpages: this http URL and this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.636:L45-L48,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[733] arXiv:astro-ph/0511733 [pdf, other]

Title: The rapid fading of V1647 Orionis: the sudden end of a FUor-type eruption?

A. Kospal, P. Abraham, J. Acosta-Pulido, Sz. Csizmadia, M. Eredics, M. Kun, M. Racz

Comments: Four pages, two figures, accepted by IBVS as paper No. 5661

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[734] arXiv:astro-ph/0511734 [pdf, other]

Title: An Overdensity of Galaxies near the Most Distant Radio-Loud Quasar

W. Zheng, R. Overzier, R. J. Bouwens, R. L. White, H. C. Ford, N. Benitez, J. P. Blakeslee, L. D. Bradley, M. K. Jee, A. R. Martel, S. Mei, A. W. Zirm, G. D. Illingworth, M. Clampin, G. F. Hartig, D. R. Ardila, F. Bartko, T. J. Broadhurst, R. A. Brown, C. J. Burrows, E. S. Cheng, N. J. G. Cross, R. Demarco, P. D. Feldman, M. Franx, D. A. Golimowski, T. Goto, C. Gronwall, B. Holden, N. Homeier, L. Infante, R. A. Kimble, J. E. Krist, M. P. Lesser, F. Menanteau, G. R. Meurer, G. K. Miley, V. Motta, M. Postman, P. Rosati, M. Sirianni, W. B. Sparks, H. D. Tran, Z. I. Tsvetanov

Comments: Four figures. The Astrophysical Journal: in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.640:574-578,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[735] arXiv:astro-ph/0511735 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing neutrino masses with CMB lensing extraction

Julien Lesgourgues, Laurence Perotto, Sergio Pastor, Michel Piat

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures. One new figure and references added. Version accepted for publication

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D73:045021,2006

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

[736] arXiv:astro-ph/0511736 [pdf, other]

Title: The Curvaton Web

Andrei Linde, Viatcheslav Mukhanov

Comments: 15 pages, 3 figures, references added, discussion of long-wavelenth perturbations expanded

Journal-ref: JCAP 0604:009,2006

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

[737] arXiv:astro-ph/0511737 [pdf, other]

Title: Nature and completeness of galaxies detected in the Two Micron All Sky Survey

Daniel H. McIntosh (1), Eric F. Bell (2), Martin D. Weinberg (1), Neal Katz (1) ((1) University of Massachusetts, (2) Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy)

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, 20 pages, Latex using this http URL and this http URL (included), 17 figures, version with full resolution figures at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.373:1321-1338,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[738] arXiv:astro-ph/0511738 [pdf, other]

Title: Equilibrium of large astrophysical structures in the Newton-Hooke spacetime

A. Balaguera-Antolinez, M. Nowakowski

Comments: References added

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.441:23,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[739] arXiv:astro-ph/0511739 [pdf, other]

Title: Angular Momentum Transport by Gravity Waves in the Solar Interior

Tamara M. Rogers, Gary A. Glatzmaier

Comments: submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.653:756-764,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[740] arXiv:astro-ph/0511740 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermal effects on the absorption of ultra-high energy neutrinos by the cosmic neutrino background

J. C. D'Olivo, L. Nellen, S. Sahu, V. Van Elewyck

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures. Prepared for the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2005), Zaragoza (Spain), September 10-14, 2005

Journal-ref: J.Phys.Conf.Ser.39:422-425,2006

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

[741] arXiv:astro-ph/0511741 [pdf, other]

Title: Hi-Res Spectroscopy of a Volume-Limited Hipparcos Sample within 100 parsec: Austin Bash Symposium Conference Proceeding

P. L. Lim, J. A. Holtzman, V. V. Smith, K. Cunha

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in ASP Conference Series, eds. S. Kannappan, S. Redfield, N. Drory, J. Kessler-Silacci, M. Landriau

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[742] arXiv:astro-ph/0511742 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark world and baryon asymmetry from a common source

Daijiro Suematsu

Comments: 28 pages

Journal-ref: JCAP 0601:026,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[743] arXiv:astro-ph/0511743 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Black Holes: Do They Exist and Are They Useful?

B. J. Carr

Comments: 21 pages. 6 figures. To appear in Proceedings of "Inflating Horizon of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology", Universal Academy Press Inc and Yamada Science Foundation (2005)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[744] arXiv:astro-ph/0511744 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar model atmospheres with magnetic line blanketing. II. Introduction of polarized radiative transfer

S. A. Khan, D. V. Shulyak

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures. The final version, Sect. 3.4 revised, typos and mistakes corrected

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 448 (2006) 1153-1164

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[745] arXiv:astro-ph/0511745 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark Energy: relating the evolution of the universe from the past to the future

Zhuo-Yi Huang, Bin Wang, Rong-Gen Cai, Ru-Keng Su

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Chin.Phys.Lett.23:2621,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[746] arXiv:astro-ph/0511746 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey

D. Clowe, P. Schneider, A. Aragon-Salamanca, M. Bremer, G. De Lucia, C. Halliday, P. Jablonka, B. Milvang-Jensen, R. Pello, B. Poggianti, G. Rudnick, R. Saglia, L. Simard, S. White, D. Zaritsky

Comments: 35 pages, 24 figures, accepted to A&A, a version with better figure resolution can be found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[747] arXiv:astro-ph/0511747 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature of X-ray absorbed starburst QSOs and the QSO evolutionary scheme

M.J.Page (UCL-MSSL), F.J.Carrera (IFCA), J.Ebrero (IFCA), J.A. Stevens (IFCA), R.J. Ivison (ATC)

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of "The X-Ray Universe 2005" conference, 2005 Sept 26-30, El Escorial, Madrid, Spain

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[748] arXiv:astro-ph/0511748 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton observations of the Seyfert 1 AGN H0557-385

C.E.Ashton (UCL-MSSL), M.J.Page (UCL-MSSL), G.Branduardi-Raymont (UCL-MSSL), A.J.Blustin (UCL-MSSL)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:521-528,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[749] arXiv:astro-ph/0511749 [pdf, other]

Title: Efficiency Crisis of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts with Shallow X-ray Afterglows: Prior Activity or Time-Dependent Microphysics?

Kunihito Ioka, Kenji Toma, Ryo Yamazaki, Takashi Nakamura

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[750] arXiv:astro-ph/0511750 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for intrinsic absorption in the Swift X-ray afterglows

S. Campana, P. Romano, S. Covino, D. Lazzati, A. De Luca, G. Chincarini, A. Moretti, G. Tagliaferri, G. Cusumano, P. Giommi, V. Mangano, M. Perri, V. La Parola, M. Capalbi, T. Mineo, L.A. Antonelli, D.N. Burrows, J.E. Hill, J.L. Racusin, J.A. Kennea, D.C. Morris, C. Pagani, J.A. Nousek, J.P. Osborne, M.R. Goad, K.L. Page, A.P. Beardmore, O. Godet, P.T. O'Brien, A.A. Wells, L. Angelini, N. Gehrels

Comments: Accepted for publication on A&A (5 pages and 2 figures)

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.836:408-413,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)