Astrophysics

Authors and titles for December 2005

[101] arXiv:astro-ph/0512101 [pdf, other]

Title: Calibration of ACS Prism Slitless Spectroscopy Modes

S. S. Larsen, M. Kuemmel, J. R. Walsh (ESO / ST-ECF)

Comments: 6 pages, incl. 5 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 2005 HST Calibration Workshop, STScI, 2005 (eds. A. Koekemoer, P. Goudfrooij and L. Dressel)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[102] arXiv:astro-ph/0512102 [pdf, other]

Title: Slitless spectroscopy with the Advanced Camera for Surveys

M. Kuemmel, S. S. Larsen, J. R. Walsh (ESO / ST-ECF)

Comments: 10 pages, incl. 8 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 2005 HST Calibration Workshop, STScI, 2005 (eds. A. Koekemoer, P. Goudfrooij and L. Dressel)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[103] arXiv:astro-ph/0512103 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernovae Ia observations in the Lemaitre--Tolman model

Krzysztof Bolejko

Comments: 18 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PMC Physics A

Journal-ref: PMC Phys.A2:1,2008

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

[104] arXiv:astro-ph/0512104 [pdf, other]

Title: Cluster Masses from CMB and Galaxy Weak Lensing

Antony Lewis, Lindsay King

Comments: PRD accepted; 18 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D73:063006,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[105] arXiv:astro-ph/0512105 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiplicity-Study of Exoplanet Host Stars

M. Mugrauer, R. Neuhäuser, T.Mazeh, E. Guenther

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[106] arXiv:astro-ph/0512106 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing dark matter with X-ray binaries

Walter Dehnen, Andrew King (Leicester)

Comments: 3 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.367:L29-L31,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[107] arXiv:astro-ph/0512107 [pdf, other]

Title: Frequency dependence of orthogonal polarisation modes in pulsars

J.M. Smits, B.W. Stappers, R. T. Edwards, J. Kuijpers, R. Ramachandran

Comments: 31 pages, 24 figures, 1 table, accepted by A&A; added references in introduction

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[108] arXiv:astro-ph/0512108 [pdf, other]

Title: The Space Interferometry Mission Astrometric Grid Giant-Star Survey. I. Stellar Parameters and Radial Velocity Variability

Dmitry Bizyaev (1,2), Verne V. Smith (1,3), Jose Arenas (4), Doug Geisler (4), Steven R. Majewski (5), Richard J. Patterson (5), Katia Cunha (1,6), Cecilia Del Pardo (7), Nicholas B. Suntzeff (8), Wolfgang Gieren (4) ((1) NOAO, (2) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Russia, (3) McDonald Observatory, UT Austin, (4)Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, (5) Univ. of Virginia, (6)Observatorio Nacional, Brazil, (7) UTEP (8) CTIO, Chile)

Comments: Astronomical Journal, in press, 22 pages, 11 Postscript figures, uses this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:1784-1796,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[109] arXiv:astro-ph/0512109 [pdf, other]

Title: The age of the main population of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Solving the "M giant conundrum"

M. Bellazzini (INAF-OA Bologna), M. Correnti (Univ. Bologna), F.R. Ferraro (Univ. Bologna), L. Monaco (ESO/Chile), P. Montegriffo (INAF-OA Bologna)

Comments: Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics (Letters). Latex. 5 pages, 3 figures, figure 1 is provided only in JPEG format because of the large size of the original .ps figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[110] arXiv:astro-ph/0512110 [pdf, other]

Title: Massive stars and the energy balance of the interstellar medium. II. The 35 solar mass star and a solution to the "missing wind problem"

Tim Freyer, Gerhard Hensler, Harold W. Yorke

Comments: 52 pages, 20 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.638:262-280,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[111] arXiv:astro-ph/0512111 [pdf, other]

Title: A model for the X-ray absorption in Compton--thin AGN

Alessandra Lamastra, G. Cesare Perola, Giorgio Matt

Comments: Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[112] arXiv:astro-ph/0512112 [pdf, other]

Title: The integrated bispectrum as a test of CMB non-Gaussianity: detection power and limits on f_NL with WMAP data

P. Cabella, F.K. Hansen, M. Liguori, D. Marinucci, S. Matarrese, L. Moscardini, N. Vittorio

Comments: submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:819-824,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[113] arXiv:astro-ph/0512113 [pdf, other]

Title: J0041+3224: a new double-double radio galaxy

D.J. Saikia, C. Konar, V.K. Kulkarni (NCRA, TIFR, Pune, India)

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

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:1391-1398,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[114] arXiv:astro-ph/0512114 [pdf, other]

Title: Guidelines for axion identification in astrophysical observations

K. Zioutas, Y. Semertzidis, Th. Papaevangelou

Comments: 6 pages, to be submitted to JCAP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[115] arXiv:astro-ph/0512115 [pdf, other]

Title: Saturn's Icy Moon Rhea: a Prediction for Bulk Chemical Composition and Physical Structure at the Time of the Cassini Spacecraft First Flyby

A. J. R. Prentice

Comments: This paper was submitted to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA) on 30 November 2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[116] arXiv:astro-ph/0512116 [pdf, other]

Title: Adaptive Optics Imaging of Low-redshift Damped Lyman-alpha Quasar Absorbers

Mark R. Chun (1), Soheila Gharanfoli (2), Varsha P. Kulkarni (2), Marianne Takamiya (3) ((1)Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Hilo (2)Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia (3)Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Hilo)

Comments: 37 pages, 24 figures, 5 tables, Accepted on Oct. 26 2005 for publication in Astronomical Journal. The figures have been lowered in resolution to make them fit the size requirements for astroph submission. A PDF file with original high-resolution figures can be found at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:686-700,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[117] arXiv:astro-ph/0512117 [pdf, other]

Title: Chaplygin gas may prevent big trip

José A. Jiménez Madrid (IAA, Granada & IMAFF, Madrid)

Comments: 6 pages, no figures, uses Revtex. Several typos corrected. References updated

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B634:106-110,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[118] arXiv:astro-ph/0512118 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematics and star formation activity in the z=2.03954 damped Lyman-alpha system towards PKS 0458-020

Janine Heinmueller, Patrick Petitjean, Cedric Ledoux, Sara Caucci, R. Srianand

Comments: accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 449 (2006) 33-39

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[119] arXiv:astro-ph/0512119 [pdf, other]

Title: Objective Subclass Determination of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Unknown Spectral Objects

David Bazell, David J. Miller, Mark SubbaRao

Comments: 31 pages; 6 figures; revised version accepted for Ap. J. Added one figure, added discussion, compared method with another approach, added appendix with algorithmic details

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.649:678-691,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[120] arXiv:astro-ph/0512120 [pdf, other]

Title: Critical revision of the ZEPLIN-I sensitivity to WIMP interactions

A. Benoit, M. Chapellier, G. Chardin, L. Dumoulin, K. Eitel, J. Gascon, G. Gerbier, C. Goldbach, J. Jochum, A. de Lesquen, G. Nollez, F. Proebst, W. Seidel

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, minor corrections, two references updated, final version accepted in Physics Letters B

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B637:156-160,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[121] arXiv:astro-ph/0512121 [pdf, other]

Title: The AGN tori sizes: a remark on astro-ph/0512025 by Moshe Elitzur

Gian Luigi Granato (INAF-OAPD and SISSA), Luigi Danese (SISSA)

Comments: WEB note, 2 pages, no figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[122] arXiv:astro-ph/0512122 [pdf, other]

Title: CO J=6-5 observations of TW Hya with the SMA

C. Qi (1), D.J. Wilner (1), N. Calvet (4), T.L. Bourke (1), G.A. Blake (2), M.R. Hogerheijde (3), P.T.P. Ho (1,5), E. Bergin (4) ((1) CfA, (2) Caltech, (3) Leiden, (4) U. Michigan, (5) ASIAA)

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by ApJL on Dec. 5th, 2005

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.636:L157-L160,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[123] arXiv:astro-ph/0512123 [pdf, other]

Title: The Role of Primordial Kicks on Black Hole Merger Rates

Miroslav Micic, Tom Abel, Steinn Sigurdsson

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: ECONF C041213:1216,2004; Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.372:1540-1548,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[124] arXiv:astro-ph/0512124 [pdf, other]

Title: Phantom-like behaviour in dilatonic brane-world scenario with induced gravity

Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX 4. References added. Version to appear in NPB

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.B797:78-92,2008

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

[125] arXiv:astro-ph/0512125 [pdf, other]

Title: Muon-Induced Background Study for Underground Laboratories

D.-M. Mei, A. Hime

Comments: 18 pages, 28 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D73:053004,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[126] arXiv:astro-ph/0512126 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization of light from warm clouds above an accretion disk: effects of strong-gravity near a black hole

J. Horak, V. Karas

Comments: Accepted for publication in PASJ; 7 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap. 58 (2006) 203-209

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[127] arXiv:astro-ph/0512127 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxies in SDSS and DEEP2: a quiet life on the blue sequence?

Michael R. Blanton

Comments: submitted to ApJ, summary and viewgraphs available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.648:268-280,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[128] arXiv:astro-ph/0512128 [pdf, other]

Title: The Duck Redux: An Improved Proper Motion Upper Limit for the Pulsar B1757-24 Near the Supernova Remnant G5.4-1.2

J. A. Blazek, B. M. Gaensler, S. Chatterjee, E. van der Swaluw, F. Camilo, B. W. Stappers

Comments: 9 pages, including 1 color and 1 B/W figure. Minor changes following referee's report. ApJ, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.652:1523-1530,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[129] arXiv:astro-ph/0512129 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the reionization history with QSO absorption spectra

S. Gallerani, T. Roy Choudhury, A. Ferrara (SISSA/ISAS)

Comments: 24 pages, 22 figures, revised to match the accepted version; MNRAS in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:1401-1421,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[130] arXiv:astro-ph/0512130 [pdf, other]

Title: The First High-Resolution Spectra of 1.3 L Subdwarfs

Ansgar Reiners, Gibor Basri

Comments: accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, abstract shortened

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:1806-1815,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[131] arXiv:astro-ph/0512131 [pdf, other]

Title: UBVI CCD Photometry of the Old Open Cluster Berkeley 17

Zosia A.C. Krusberg, Brian Chaboyer

Comments: to appear in AJ; 28 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.J.131:1565-1573,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[132] arXiv:astro-ph/0512132 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical Compositions of Red Giant Stars in Old Large Magellanic Cloud Globular Clusters

Jennifer A. Johnson (1,2), Inese I. Ivans (3), Peter B. Stetson (1) ((1) DAO/HIA/NRC, (2) Carnegie Observatories, (3) Caltech)

Comments: To be published in ApJ, 21 pages, 12 figures. Tables 2 (equivalent widths) and 3 (hyperfine splitting information) included separately

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.640:801-822,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[133] arXiv:astro-ph/0512133 [pdf, other]

Title: Roche Lobes in the Second Post-Newtonian Approximation

Sasa Ratkovic, Madappa Prakash, James M. Lattimer

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

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

[134] arXiv:astro-ph/0512134 [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulent magnetic dynamo excitation at low magnetic Prandtl number

P.D. Mininni

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Physics of Plasmas

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[135] arXiv:astro-ph/0512135 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark Energy Anisotropic Stress and Large Scale Structure Formation

Tomi Koivisto, David F. Mota

Comments: Typos corrected. References added. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D73:083502,2006

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

[136] arXiv:astro-ph/0512136 [pdf, other]

Title: The Role of the Equation of State in Binary Mergers

Sasa Ratkovic, Madappa Prakash, James M.Lattimer

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

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

[137] arXiv:astro-ph/0512137 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Stability of Dynamical Mass Transfer in Binaries

Mario C. R. D'Souza, Patrick M. Motl, Joel E. Tohline, Juhan Frank

Comments: 47 pages, 11 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. See this http URL for high resolution figures and mpeg animations

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.643:381-401,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[138] arXiv:astro-ph/0512138 [pdf, other]

Title: The Phoenix Deep Survey: The star-formation rates and the stellar masses of EROs

A. Georgakakis (1), A. M. Hopkins (2), J. Afonso (3), M. Sullivan (4), B. Mobasher (5), L. E. Cram (6) ((1) Imperial College, (2) University of Sydney, (3) Lisbon, (4) Toronto, (5) STScI, (6) Australian National University)

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS. Data available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:331-338,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[139] arXiv:astro-ph/0512139 [pdf, other]

Title: Source Extractor for Dummies v5

B.W. Holwerda

Comments: 112 pages, 18 figures, electronic publication, this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[140] arXiv:astro-ph/0512140 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization transfer in pulsar magnetosphere

S. A. Petrova

Comments: Accepted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:1539-1550,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[141] arXiv:astro-ph/0512141 [pdf, other]

Title: Time-resolved observations of the short period CV SDSS J123813.73-033933.0

S.V. Zharikov, G. H. Tovmassian, R. Napiwotzki, R. Michel, V. Neustroev

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted to A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[142] arXiv:astro-ph/0512142 [pdf, other]

Title: 12C/13C in atmospheres of red giants and peculiar stars

Yakiv V.Pavlenko (MAO NASU, Ukraine; UH UK)

Comments: Poster for IAU Symposium No. 228, "From Lithium to Uranium: Elemental Tracers of Early Cosmic Evolution", V. Hill, P. Francois & F. Primas, eds. (2005); 2 pages, ppt is available on this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[143] arXiv:astro-ph/0512143 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of Counter-Rotating Gas in the Galaxies NGC1596 and NGC3203 and the Incidence of Gas Counter-Rotation in S0 Galaxies

M. Bureau, A. Chung

Comments: 8 pages, including 1 table and 2 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Version with full resolution figures available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:182-188,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[144] arXiv:astro-ph/0512144 [pdf, other]

Title: Gaps below strange star crusts

Morten Stejner, Jes Madsen (University of Aarhus)

Comments: 12 pages incl. 14 figures. To appear in Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D72:123005,2005

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

[145] arXiv:astro-ph/0512145 [pdf, other]

Title: The periods of the intermediate polar RX J0153.3+7446

A.J. Norton, J.D. Tanner (The Open University)

Comments: 4 pages, submitted to A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[146] arXiv:astro-ph/0512146 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpreting the Hydrogen IR Lines - Impact of Improved Electron Collision Data

Norbert Przybilla, Keith Butler

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy. Edited by H. U. Kaeufl, R. Siebenmorgen, A.F.M. Moorwood. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2005, p. 224

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[147] arXiv:astro-ph/0512147 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the evolution of the near-IR luminosity function of galaxies to z ~ 3 in the Hubble Deep Field South

P. Saracco, A. Fiano, G. Chincarini, E. Vanzella, M. Longhetti, S. Cristiani, A. Fontana, E. Giallongo, M. Nonino

Comments: 18 pages, 21 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:349-365,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[148] arXiv:astro-ph/0512148 [pdf, other]

Title: Viscosity in cosmological simulations of clusters of galaxies

M. Brüggen (IUB), M. Ruszkowski (JILA)

Comments: submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[149] arXiv:astro-ph/0512149 [pdf, other]

Title: Confirmation of the $\eps$ -- $\eiso$ (Amati) relation from the X-ray flash XRF 050416A observed by Swift/BAT

T. Sakamoto, L. Barbier, S. D. Barthelmy, J. R. Cummings, E. E. Fenimore, N. Gehrels, D. Hullinger, H. A. Krimm, C. B. Markwardt, D. M. Palmer, A. M. Parsons, G. Sato, J. Tueller

Comments: 16 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.636:L73-L76,2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[150] arXiv:astro-ph/0512150 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamic tides in rotating objects: orbital circularisation of extra solar planets for realistic planet models

P. B. Ivanov, J. C. B. Papaloizou

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, resolution of several figures has been reduced

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.376:682-704,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)