Astrophysics

Authors and titles for June 2007

[451] arXiv:0706.2548 [pdf, other]

Title: WSRT Faraday tomography of the Galactic ISM at \lambda \sim 0.86 m

D.H.F.M. Schnitzeler, P. Katgert, A.G. de Bruyn

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication as a Letter to the Editor in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[452] arXiv:0706.2551 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dependence of Galaxy Formation on Cosmological Parameters: Can we distinguish the WMAP1 and WMAP3 Parameter Sets?

Jie Wang, Gabriella De Lucia, Manfred G. Kitzbichler, Simon D. M. White (MPA)

Comments: 18 pages,17 figures, version accepted by MNRAS, references and subsection on PVD added

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[453] arXiv:0706.2555 [pdf, other]

Title: The AMIGA sample of isolated galaxies. V. Quantification of the isolation

S. Verley, S. Leon, L. Verdes-Montenegro, F. Combes, J. Sabater, J. Sulentic, G. Bergond, D. Espada, E. Garcia, U. Lisenfeld, S. C. Odewahn

Comments: 10 pages, 12 figures, proposed for acceptance A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[454] arXiv:0706.2558 [pdf, other]

Title: A phenomenological model of galaxy clusters

Y. Ascasibar (AIP, Germany), J. M. Diego (IFCA, Spain)

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[455] arXiv:0706.2559 [pdf, other]

Title: The physics and chemistry of circumstellar envelopes of S-stars on the AGB

S. Ramstedt, F. L. Schoeier, H. Olofsson

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proceedings from 'Why Galaxies Care About AGB stars'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[456] arXiv:0706.2561 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of multi-muon bundles in cosmic ray showers detected with the DELPHI detector at LEP

The DELPHI Collaboration, J. Abdallah, et al

Comments: 22 pages, 17 figures, Accepted by Astropart. Phys

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.28:273-286,2007

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

[457] arXiv:0706.2562 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray observations of ultraluminous X-ray sources

T.P. Roberts (Durham University)

Comments: Invited talk at the 5th Stromlo Symposium. 10 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science

Journal-ref: Astrophys.SpaceSci.311:203-212,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[458] arXiv:0706.2564 [pdf, other]

Title: Hubble Space Telescope far-ultraviolet imaging of the jet in 3C273: a common emission component from optical to X-rays

Sebastian Jester (1,2), Klaus Meisenheimer (1), Andre' Martel (3), Eric Perlman (4), Bill Sparks (5) ((1) MPIA Heidelberg, (2) Fermilab Particle Astrophysics Center, (3) JHU, (4) FIT, (5) STScI)

Comments: MNRAS accepted; 8 pages, 4 .eps files

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.380:828-834,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[459] arXiv:0706.2566 [pdf, other]

Title: An anomaly detector with immediate feedback to hunt for planets of Earth mass and below by microlensing

M. Dominik (SUPA, University of St Andrews), N. J. Rattenbury, A. Allan, S. Mao, D. M. Bramich, M. J. Burgdorf, E. Kerins, Y. Tsapras, L. Wyrzykowski

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures and 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[460] arXiv:0706.2567 [pdf, other]

Title: The hyperyoung HII region in G24.78+0.08 A1

M.T. Beltran (1), R. Cesaroni (2), L. Moscadelli (2), C. Codella (3) ((1) Universitat de Barcelona; (2) Osservatorio di Arcetri; (3) IRA-Firenze)

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by A&A Letter

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[461] arXiv:0706.2571 [pdf, other]

Title: The contribution of Oxygen-Neon white dwarfs to the MACHO content of the Galactic Halo

J. Camacho, S. Torres, J. Isern, L.G. Althaus, E. Garcia-Berro

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[462] arXiv:0706.2572 [pdf, other]

Title: The Blackholic energy and the canonical Gamma-Ray Burst

Remo Ruffini, Maria Grazia Bernardini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Letizia Caito, Pascal Chardonnet, Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Federico Fraschetti, Roberto Guida, Michael Rotondo, Gregory Vereshchagin, Luca Vitagliano, She-Sheng Xue

Comments: 163 pages, 89 figures, to appear on the "Proceedings of the XIIth Brazilian School of Cosmology and Gravitation", M. Novello, S.E. Perez-Bergliaffa (editors), AIP, in press

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.910:55-217,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[463] arXiv:0706.2573 [pdf, other]

Title: VLT/NACO observations of the High-Magnetic field radio pulsar PSR J1119-6127

R.P.Mignani (<a href="http://MSSL.Ucl" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>), R.Perna (JILA, UCB), N. Rea (SRON), G.L. Israel (INAF-Oar), S. Mereghetti (INAF-Iasf), G. Lo Curto (ESO)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, A&A, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[464] arXiv:0706.2574 [pdf, other]

Title: The narrow-line region of narrow-line and broad-line type 1 AGN I. A zone of avoidance in density

Dawei Xu (1), Stefanie Komossa (2), Hongyan Zhou (3,2,4), Tinggui Wang (4), Jianyan Wei (1) ((1) NAOC, (2) MPE, (3) Univ. of Florida, (4) USTC)

Comments: submitted to ApJ (April 2007); 42 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[465] arXiv:0706.2586 [pdf, other]

Title: Nuclear Cosmic Rays propagation in the Atmosphere

A. Putze, L. Derome, D. Maurin, M. Buénerd

Comments: Proc. of 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida, Mexico; 4 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[466] arXiv:0706.2590 [pdf, other]

Title: Extreme Value Theory and the Solar Cycle

A. Asensio Ramos

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[467] arXiv:0706.2593 [pdf, other]

Title: Using the Zeldovich dynamics to test expansion schemes

Patrick Valageas

Comments: 29 pages, published in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron. Astrophys. (2007), 476, 31

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[468] arXiv:0706.2594 [pdf, other]

Title: Baryogenesis from the amplification of vacuum fluctuations during inflation

Bjorn Garbrecht, Tomislav Prokopec

Comments: 18 pages

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D78:123501,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[469] arXiv:0706.2597 [pdf, other]

Title: Propagation of UHE protons through a magnetized large scale structure

Hyesung Kang, Santabrata Das, Dongsu Ryu, Jungyeon Cho

Comments: 4 page, 3 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico, with minor changes

Journal-ref: J.Phys.Conf.Ser.120:062025,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[470] arXiv:0706.2599 [pdf, other]

Title: Black hole in the West Nucleus of Arp 220

D. Downes, A. Eckart

Comments: Reference list updated for 2007 publications; estimated position errors increased

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.468:L57,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[471] arXiv:0706.2607 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematic effect in gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies

M. Sereno (University of Zurich)

Comments: 6 pages; accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[472] arXiv:0706.2613 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing micro-arcsec astrometry with NACO

Andreas Seifahrt (1,2), Tristan Roell (2), Ralph Neuhaeuser (2), ((1) European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany, (2) Astrophysical Institute and University-Observatory Jena, Germany)

Comments: To be published in the proceedings of the 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[473] arXiv:0706.2614 [pdf, other]

Title: Dust crystallinity in protoplanetary disks: the effect of diffusion/viscosity ratio

Ya. Pavlyuchenkov, C. P. Dullemond

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[474] arXiv:0706.2615 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining scalar-tensor quintessence by cosmic clocks

S. Capozziello, P.K.S. Dunsby, E. Piedipalumbo, C. Rubano

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures. to be published in Astron & Astroph

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

[475] arXiv:0706.2622 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure Through Colour: A Pixel Approach Towards Understanding Galaxies

M. M. Lanyon-Foster, C. J. Conselice, M. R. Merrifield

Comments: 16 pages, 20 figures, MNRAS, accepted. For high resolution figures see: this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[476] arXiv:0706.2624 [pdf, other]

Title: Demonstrating the negligible contribution of optical ACS/HST galaxies to source-subtracted cosmic infrared background fluctuations in deep IRAC/Spitzer images

A. Kashlinsky, R. G. Arendt, J. Mather, S. H. Moseley

Comments: this http URL, in press. Minor revisions to mathc the accepted version

Journal-ref: Ap.J.(Letters), 2007, vol. 666, L1

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[477] arXiv:0706.2627 [pdf, other]

Title: The Tidal Tails of NGC 5466

M. Fellhauer (1), N.W. Evans (1), V. Belokurov (1), M.I. Wilkinson (1,2), G. Gilmore (1) ((1) Cambridge, (2) Leicester)

Comments: MNRAS, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[478] arXiv:0706.2629 [pdf, other]

Title: Period-color and amplitude-color relations in classical Cepheid variables V: The Small Magellanic Cloud Cepheid models

S. Kanbur (SUNY-Oswego), C. Ngeow (UIUC), G. Feiden (SUNY-Oswego)

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures and 6 tables, MNRAS accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[479] arXiv:0706.2640 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for large-scale anisotropies with the Auger Observatory

E. Armengaud (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. To be published in Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, July 3 - 11, 2007, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[480] arXiv:0706.2643 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the UHECR energy spectrum from hybrid data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Lorenzo Perrone (for the the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2007), Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 3-11 Jul 2007 - 4pp

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[481] arXiv:0706.2652 [pdf, other]

Title: The Spectrum of the Black Hole X-ray Nova V404 Cygni in Quiescence as Measured by XMM-Newton

C.K. Bradley, R.I. Hynes, A.K.H. Kong, C.A. Haswell, J. Casares, E. Gallo

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures, ApJ accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.667:427-432,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[482] arXiv:0706.2653 [pdf, other]

Title: The UDF05 Follow-up of the HUDF: I. The Faint-End Slope of the Lyman-Break Galaxy Population at z~5

P. A. Oesch (1), M. Stiavelli (2), C. M. Carollo (1), L. E. Bergeron (2), A. M. Koekemoer (2), R. A. Lucas (2), C. M. Pavlovsky (2), M. Trenti (2), S. J. Lilly (1), S. V. W. Beckwith (2), T. Dahlen (2), H. C. Ferguson (2), J. P. Gardner (3), C. Lacey (4), B. Mobasher (2), N. Panagia (2,5,6), H.-W. Rix (7) ((1) Department of Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, (2) Space Telescope Science Institute, (3) NASA's GSFC, (4) Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham, (5) INAF- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, (6) Supernova Ltd., (7) Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy)

Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures, small changes to match version accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[483] arXiv:0706.2656 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Properties of z~2 Star Forming Galaxies and a Universal Star Formation Relation

N. Bouche, G. Cresci, R. Davies, F. Eisenhauer, N. M. Forster Schreiber, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, M. Lehnert, D. Lutz, N. Nesvadba, K. L. Shapiro, A. Sternberg, L. J. Tacconi, A. Verma, A. Cimatti, E. Daddi, A. Renzini, D. K. Erb, A. Shapley, C. C. Steidel

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, minor typos corrected

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[484] arXiv:0706.2663 [pdf, other]

Title: Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): X-ray Imaging Spectroscopy of M33SNR21, the Brightest X-ray Supernova Remnant in M33

Terrance J. Gaetz, William P. Blair, John P. Hughes, P. Frank Winkler, Knox S. Long, Thomas G. Pannuti, Benjamin Williams, Richard J. Edgar, Parviz Ghavamian, Paul P. Plucinsky, Manami Sasaki, Robert P. Kirshner, Miguel Avillez, Dieter Breitschwerdt

Comments: 27 pages, 6 figures (3 color). ApJ (in press)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.663:234-243,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[485] arXiv:0706.2669 [pdf, other]

Title: A search for possible anisotropies of cosmic rays with 0.1<E<10 EeV in the region of the Galactic Centre

E.M. Santos (for the Auger Collaboration)

Comments: Contribution to the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida, Mexico, July 2007, 4 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[486] arXiv:0706.2683 [pdf, other]

Title: Calibration of the Relationship between Precipitable Water Vapor and 225 GHz Atmospheric Opacity via Optical Echelle Spectroscopy at Las Campanas Observatory

Joanna Thomas-Osip, Andrew McWilliam, M. M. Phillips, N. Morrell, I. Thompson, T. Folkers, M. Lopez-Morales

Comments: 14 pages, 5 tables, 9 figures, accepted by PASP in May 2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[487] arXiv:0706.2687 [pdf, other]

Title: The Luminosity Function of the Milky Way Satellites

S. Koposov (1,2), V. Belokurov (2), N.W. Evans (2), P.C. Hewett (2), M.J. Irwin (2), G. Gilmore (2), D.B. Zucker (2), H.-W. Rix (1), M. Fellhauer (2), E. F. Bell (1), E. V. Glushkova (3) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia)

Comments: accepted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.686:279-291,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[488] arXiv:0706.2690 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydromagnetic Instability in plane Couette Flow

Alfio Bonanno, Vadim Urpin

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures. To appear on PRE

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.E76:016303,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[489] arXiv:0706.2692 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of broad 21-cm absorption at z = 0.656 in the complex sight-line towards 3C336

S. J. Curran, P. Tzanavaris, M. T. Murphy, J. K. Webb, Y. M. Pihlstroem

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by MNRAS Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[490] arXiv:0706.2696 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-dimensional simulations of molecular cloud fragmentation regulated by magnetic fields and ambipolar diffusion

Takahiro Kudoh (1), Shantanu Basu (2), Youichi Ogata (3), Takashi Yabe (4) ((1) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, (2) University of Western Ontario, (3) Tokyo Institute of Technology, (4) Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Comments: 8 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, a preprint with fine figures at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.380:499-505,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[491] arXiv:0706.2701 [pdf, other]

Title: Differential rotation of stretched and twisted thick magnetic flux tube dynamos in Riemannian spaces

Garcia de Andrade

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[492] arXiv:0706.2704 [pdf, other]

Title: Kernel Regression For Determining Photometric Redshifts From Sloan Broadband Photometry

D. Wang, Y. X. Zhang, C. Liu, Y. H.Zhao

Comments: 6 pages,2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[493] arXiv:0706.2710 [pdf, other]

Title: Compulsory Deep Mixing of 3He and CNO Isotopes in the Envelopes of low-mass Red Giants

Peter P. Eggleton, David S. P. Dearborn, John C. Lattanzio

Comments: Final accepted version (submitted to Astrophys J in Jan 2007...)

Journal-ref: AIPConf.Proc.948:27-34,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[494] arXiv:0706.2712 [pdf, other]

Title: Morphological Dependence of MIR Properties of SDSS Galaxies in the Spitzer SWIRE Survey

Haining Li (1,2), Hong Wu (1,3), Chen Cao (1,2), Yinan Zhu (1,2) ((1)NAOC, China; (2)GUCAS, China; (3)Visiting Scholar, IfA, University of Hawaii)

Comments: Accepted for publication by AJ. 18 pages, 14 figures, and 4 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[495] arXiv:0706.2723 [pdf, other]

Title: Mass segregation in very young open clusters -- A case study of NGC 2244 and NGC 6530

L.Chen, R.de Grijs, J.L.Zhao

Comments: 36 pages, 10 figures, accepted to AJ

Journal-ref: Astron.J.134:1368-1379,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[496] arXiv:0706.2724 [pdf, other]

Title: A search for ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the Centaurus galaxy cluster

S. Mieske, M. Hilker, A. Jordan, L. Infante, M. Kissler-Patig

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[497] arXiv:0706.2737 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the DGP Universe Using Observational Hubble parameter

Hao-Yi Wan, Ze-Long Yi, Tong-Jie Zhang (Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University), Jie Zhou (School of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University)

Comments: 7 pages with 2 figures and 3 tables. Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B651:352-356,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[498] arXiv:0706.2739 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the Balmer Jump and Effective Gravity in FGK Stars

Michael S. Bessell

Comments: 20 pages, 13 figures and 4 tables

Journal-ref: PASP 119 June 2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[499] arXiv:0706.2745 [pdf, other]

Title: Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Expanding Nebular Remnant of the Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi (2006)

M.F. Bode (1), D.J. Harman (1), T.J. O'Brien (2), H.E. Bond (3), S. Starrfield (4), M.J. Darnley (1), A. Evans (5), S.P.S. Eyres (6) ((1) Liverpool John Moores University, (2) Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, (3) Space Telescope Science Institute, (4) Arizona State University, (5) Keele University, (6) University of Central Lancashire)

Comments: 13 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[500] arXiv:0706.2759 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular gas in nearby low-luminosity QSO host galaxies

T. Bertram (1), A. Eckart (1), S. Fischer (1), J. Zuther (1), C. Straubmeier (1), L. Wisotzki (2), M. Krips (3) (1. physikalisches Institut, Univ. of Cologne, Germany, (2) Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany, (3) Havard-Smithsonian CfA, SMA project, Hilo, USA)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)