Astrophysics

Authors and titles for June 2007

[51] arXiv:0706.0278 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of a Rare Supersoft Outburst Event during a Suzaku Observation of 1E0102.2-7219

D. Takei, M. Tsujimoto, S. Kitamoto, M. Morii, K. Ebisawa, Y. Maeda, E. D. Miller

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. PASJ in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[52] arXiv:0706.0279 [pdf, other]

Title: Hubble and Spitzer Observations of an Edge-on Circumstellar Disk around a Brown Dwarf

K. L. Luhman, Lucia Adame, Paola D'Alessio, Nuria Calvet, Kim K. McLeod, C. J. Bohac, William J. Forrest, Lee Hartmann, B. Sargent, Dan M. Watson

Comments: The Astrophysical Journal, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.666:1219-1225,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[53] arXiv:0706.0305 [pdf, other]

Title: CoRoT and asteroseismology. Preparatory work and simultaneous ground-based monitoring

Ennio Poretti (1), Monica Rainer (1), Katrien Uytterhoeven (1), Giuseppe Cutispoto (2), Elisa Distefano (2), Paolo Romano (2) ((1) INAF-OA Brera, Milano, Italy (2) INAF-OA Catania, Italy)

Comments: Contributed talk at the " 51 Congresso Societa' Astronomica Italiana", Firenze (Italy), April 17-20, 2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[54] arXiv:0706.0326 [pdf, other]

Title: A WENO Algorithm for the Growth of Ionized Regions at the Reionization Epoch

Jing-Mei Qiu (1), Chi-Wang Shu (1), Ji-Ren Liu (2), Li-Zhi Fang (2) ((1) Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, (2) Department of Physics, University of Arizona)

Comments: Elsart Latex file, 24 pages, 11 figures included, accepted for publication in New Astronomy

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[55] arXiv:0706.0330 [pdf, other]

Title: Searching for links between magnetic fields and stellar evolution. II. The evolution of magnetic fields as revealed by observations of Ap stars in open clusters and associations

J. D. Landstreet, S. Bagnulo, V. Andretta, L. Fossati, E. Mason, J. Silaj, G. A. Wade

Comments: Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[56] arXiv:0706.0336 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffusive radiation in Langmuir turbulence produced by jet shocks

Gregory D. Fleishman, Igor N. Toptygin

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS, accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[57] arXiv:0706.0344 [pdf, other]

Title: Collisional processes and size distribution in spatially extended debris discs

Philippe Thebault, Jean-Charles Augereau

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics (with better figures) (note: full abstract in the *.pdf file)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[58] arXiv:0706.0347 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical and Dynamical Properties of the Stellar Halo

C. B. Brook, D. Kawata, H. Martel, B. K. Gibson, E. Scannapieco

Comments: Conference proceedings linked in ADS, 6 short pages

Journal-ref: EAS Publ.Ser.24:269-275,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[59] arXiv:0706.0361 [pdf, other]

Title: Astrometric Orbits for Hipparcos Stochastic Binaries

Alexey Goldin, Valery Makarov

Comments: This is followup to astro-ph/0606293

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[60] arXiv:0706.0367 [pdf, other]

Title: CANGAROO-III Search for Gamma Rays from Centaurus A and the $\omega$ Centauri Region

S.Kabuki, R.Enomoto, CANGAROO-III collaboration

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, to appear in ApJ, this http URL

Journal-ref: ApJ, 668 (2007) 968-973

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[61] arXiv:0706.0369 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial Variations of Galaxy Number Counts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. Test of Galactic Extinction in High Extinction Regions

Naoki Yasuda, Masataka Fukugita, Donald P. Schneider

Journal-ref: Astron.J.134:698-705,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[62] arXiv:0706.0378 [pdf, other]

Title: Searching Extra Dimensions in Compact Stars

G.G. Barnafoldi, P. Levai, B. Lukacs

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Astron. Nachrichten

Journal-ref: Astron. Nachrichten 328, 809-812 (2007)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[63] arXiv:0706.0383 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of Dust in Primordial Supernova Remnants: Can Dust Grains Formed in the Ejecta Survive and be Injected into the Early Interstellar Medium?

Takaya Nozawa, Takashi Kozasa, Asao Habe, Eli Dwek, Hideyuki Umeda, Nozomu Tominaga, Keiichi Maeda, Ken'ichi Nomoto

Comments: 35 pages including 10 figures and 5 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.666:955-966,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[64] arXiv:0706.0385 [pdf, other]

Title: Grand minima and maxima of solar activity: New observational constraints

I.G. Usoskin, S.K. Solanki, G.A. Kovaltsov

Comments: 10 Figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.471:301-309,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[65] arXiv:0706.0391 [pdf, other]

Title: CMB Constraint on Radion Evolution in the Brane World Scenario

K. C. Chan, M.-C. Chu

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, minor changes of format to conform with PRD format

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D76:043525,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[66] arXiv:0706.0392 [pdf, other]

Title: Centrifugally driven electrostatic instability in extragalactic jets

Z. Osmanov

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[67] arXiv:0706.0407 [pdf, other]

Title: Fabry-Perot Interferometry and Dynamics of Spiral Galaxies

Kambiz Fathi, John E. Beckman, Claude Carignan, Olivier Hernandez

Comments: To appear in the proceedings for "Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe", Editors: Johan Knapen, Terry Mahoney, and Alexandre Vazdekis

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[68] arXiv:0706.0412 [pdf, other]

Title: Scale-dependent Galaxy Bias

Peter Coles, Pirin Erdogdu (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)

Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected, discussion added and references corrected; matches version accepted by JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP0710:007,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[69] arXiv:0706.0434 [pdf, other]

Title: Shock-triggered formation of magnetically-dominated clouds

S. Van Loo, S.A.E.G. Falle, T.W. Hartquist, T.J.T. Moore

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[70] arXiv:0706.0461 [pdf, other]

Title: What Gamma-Ray Bursts Explode Into

Roger A. Chevalier

Comments: 15 pages, for "070228: The Next Decade of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows" eds. Wijers, R.A.M.J., Kaper, L, and van Eerten, H.J. (Elsevier: Amsterdam)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[71] arXiv:0706.0495 [pdf, other]

Title: Hierarchical Star-Formation in M33: Fundamental properties of the star-forming regions

N. Bastian (1), B. Ercolano (2), M. Gieles (3), E. Rosolowsky (2), R. A. Scheepmaker (4), R. Gutermuth (2), Yu. Efremov (5) ((1) University College London, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (3) ESO-Santiago, (4) Utrecht University, (5) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow)

Comments: 12 pages, 16 figures, accepted MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:1302-1312,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[72] arXiv:0706.0500 [pdf, other]

Title: A deeper search for the progenitor of the Type Ic Supernova 2002ap

R. M. Crockett, S. J. Smartt, J. J. Eldridge, S. Mattila, D. R. Young, A. Pastorello, J. R. Maund, C. R. Benn, I. Skillen

Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures (resolution of images reduced), 6 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS 2007 July 27 (received 2007 July 23; in original form 2007 June 04)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[73] arXiv:0706.0503 [pdf, other]

Title: A Fresh Look at Diffuse Gamma-ray Emission from the Inner Galaxy

B. M. Baughman, W. B. Atwood, R. P. Johnson, T. A. Porter, M. Ziegler

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[74] arXiv:0706.0504 [pdf, other]

Title: Monte Carlo Study of Cosmic-Ray Propagation in the Galaxy and Diffuse Gamma-Ray Production

C.-Y. Huang, M. Pohl

Comments: 4 pages; 6 figures; Contribution to the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico, 2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[75] arXiv:0706.0506 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffuse Gamma-Rays Produced in Cosmic-Ray Interactions and the TeV-band Spectrum of RX J1713.7-3946

C.-Y. Huang, M. Pohl, S.-E. Park, C. D. Daniels

Comments: 4 pages; 5 figures; Contribution to the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico, 2007; References included

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[76] arXiv:0706.0509 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-Rays Produced in Cosmic-Ray Interactions and the TeV-band Spectrum of RX J1713.7-3946

C.-Y. Huang, S.-E. Park, M. Pohl, C. D. Daniels

Comments: 3 pages; 4 figures; Contribution to the First GLAST Symposium, Standord, 2007

Journal-ref: AIPConf.Proc.921:169-171,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[77] arXiv:0706.0513 [pdf, other]

Title: High resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy of ultraluminous infrared galaxies

D. Farrah (Cornell), J. Bernard-Salas (Cornell), H. W. W. Spoon (Cornell), B. T. Soifer (Caltech), L. Armus (Caltech), B. Brandl (Leiden University), V. Charmandaris (University of Crete and Observatoire de Paris), V. Desai (Caltech), S. Higdon (Georgia Southern), D. Devost (Cornell), J. Houck (Cornell)

Comments: 62 pages in preprint format, 4 tables, 23 figures. ApJ accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.667:149-169,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[78] arXiv:0706.0515 [pdf, other]

Title: The Kinematic Evolution of Strong MgII Absorbers

Andrew C. Mshar, Jane C. Charlton, Ryan S. Lynch, Chris Churchill, Tae-Sun Kim

Comments: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[79] arXiv:0706.0516 [pdf, other]

Title: The Kinematics of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem

Joshua D. Simon (Caltech), Marla Geha (HIA/DAO)

Comments: 22 pages, 15 figures (12 in color), 6 tables, minor revisions in response to referee report. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.670:313-331,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[80] arXiv:0706.0517 [pdf, other]

Title: TeV gamma-rays from photo-disintegration/de-excitation of nuclei in Westerlund 2

Luis A. Anchordoqui, John F. Beacom, Yousaf M. Butt, Haim Goldberg, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Thomas J. Weiler, Justin Wesolowski

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[81] arXiv:0706.0518 [pdf, other]

Title: Close Pairs as Proxies for Galaxy Cluster Mergers

Andrew R. Wetzel, A.E. Schulz, Daniel E. Holz, Michael S. Warren

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ. Significant additions to text and two figures changed. Added new findings on the universality of pair mergers and added analysis of the effect of FoF linking length on halo mergers

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[82] arXiv:0706.0519 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Spheroids. II: Scaling Relations at z=0.36

Tommaso Treu (1), Jong-Hak Woo (1), Matthew A. Malkan (2), Roger D. Blandford (3) ((1) UCSB; (2) UCLA; (3) Stanford)

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.667:117-130,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[83] arXiv:0706.0520 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the merging timescale of luminous red galaxies, or, where do all the halos go?

Charlie Conroy, Shirley Ho, Martin White

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, final version, to appear in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:1491-1497,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[84] arXiv:0706.0521 [pdf, other]

Title: A trilinear method for finding null points in a 3D vector space

Andrew L. Haynes (1), Clare E. Parnell (1) ((1) University of St Andrews)

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physics of Plasmas

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[85] arXiv:0706.0524 [pdf, other]

Title: Chandra X-Ray Study of Galactic Supernova Remnant G299.2-2.9

Sangwook Park (Penn State), Patrick O. Slane (CfA), John P. Hughes (Rutgers), Koji Mori (Miyazaki), David N. Burrows, Gordon P. Garmire (Penn State)

Comments: 16 pages (AASTex emulator style), 3 Tables, 10 Figures (including 1 color: Figure 1), Accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.665:1173-1181,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[86] arXiv:0706.0527 [pdf, other]

Title: The Discovery of 1000 km/s Outflows in Massive Post-starburst Galaxies at z=0.6

Christy A. Tremonti (1), John Moustakas (2), Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic (1) ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) New York University)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[87] arXiv:0706.0530 [pdf, other]

Title: LISA: Mars and the limits of life

G. Galletta, M. D'Alessandro, G. Bertoloni, G. Fanti, E. Dainese, M. Pelizzo, F. Ferri, D. Pavarin, C. Bettanini, G. Bianchini, S. Debei

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. Mem. SAIt, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[88] arXiv:0706.0535 [pdf, other]

Title: Terrestrial Zone Debris Disk Candidates in h and chi Persei

Thayne Currie (1), Scott J. Kenyon (1), George Rieke (2), Zoltan Balog (2), Benjamin C. Bromley (3) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Steward Observatory/University of Arizona, (3) Dept. of Physics, University of Utah)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, Matched to published version, Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press: 2007, ApJL, 663, 105

Journal-ref: Astrophys. J. Lett. 663 (2007) 105

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[89] arXiv:0706.0542 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Dispersion Optical Spectra of Nearby Stars Younger Than The Sun

R. J. White (1), J. M. Gabor (2), L. A. Hillenbrand (3) ((1) University of Alabama in Huntsville, (2) Universtiy of Arizona, (3) Caltech)

Comments: 1 electronic table; published in the Astronomical Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.J.133:2524,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[90] arXiv:0706.0543 [pdf, other]

Title: A detailed study of the enigmatic cluster M82F

N. Bastian (1), I. Konstantopoulos (1), L.J. Smith (1,2), G. Trancho (3,4), M. S. Westmoquette (1), J.S. Gallagher III (5) ((1) University College London, (2) STScI, (3) Gemini Observatory, (4) Universidad de La Laguna, (5) UW-Madison)

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, accepted MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:1333-1342,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[91] arXiv:0706.0546 [pdf, other]

Title: When did cosmic acceleration start? How fast was the transition?

Emille E. O. Ishida, Ribamar R. R. Reis, Alan V. Toribio, Ioav Waga

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures. Replaced to match the published version

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.28:547-552,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[92] arXiv:0706.0547 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for a Z < 8 Origin of the Source Subtracted Near Infrared Background

Rodger I. Thompson, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, Marcia Rieke, Robert C. Kennicutt

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.666:658-662,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[93] arXiv:0706.0558 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effects of Changes in Reaction Rates on Simulations of Nova Explosions

S. Starrfield, C. Iliadis, W. R. Hix, F. X. Timmes, W. M. Sparks

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, as it appeared in the Proceedings of the Tours 2006 Symposium on Nuclear Physics

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.891:364-372,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[94] arXiv:0706.0561 [pdf, other]

Title: A multi band study of the optically dark GRB 051028

Yuji Urata, Kui-Yun Huang, Ping-Hung Kuo, Wing-Huen Ip, Yulei Qiu, Keisuke Masuno, Makoto Tashiro, Keichi Abe, Kaori Onda, Natsuki Kodaka, Makoto Kuwahara, Toru Tamagawa, Fumihiko Usui, Kunihito Ioka, Yi-Hsi Lee, Jianyan Wei, Jinsong Deng, Weikang Zheng, Kazuo Makishima

Comments: 5page, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in PASJ Letter. PASJ style

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[95] arXiv:0706.0563 [pdf, other]

Title: The Spitzer c2d Survey of Weak-line T Tauri Stars II: New Constraints on the Timescale for Planet Building

Lucas Cieza, Deborah L. Padgett, Karl R. Stapelfeldt, Jean-Charles Augereau, Paul Harvey, Neal J. Evans, II, Bruno Merin, David Koerner, Anneila Sargent, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Lori Allen, Geoffrey Blake, Timothy Brooke, Nicholas Chapman, Tracy Huard, Shih-Ping Lai, Lee Mundy, Philip C. Myers, William Spiesman, Zahed Wahhaj

Comments: 54 pages, 13 figures, Accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.667:308-328,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[96] arXiv:0706.0568 [pdf, other]

Title: A feedback compression star formation model and the black hole - bulge relations

Bing-Xiao Xu, Xue-Bing Wu (PKU)

Comments: 13 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.667:92-96,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[97] arXiv:0706.0569 [pdf, other]

Title: The Extraordinary Infrared Spectrum of NGC 1222 (Mkn 603)

Sara C. Beck (Tel Aviv), Jean L. Turner (UCLA), Jenna Kloosterman (Berkeley)

Comments: accepted, Astronomical Journal. 29 pp, 4 figures. In replacement version an acknowledgment to NRAO is added

Journal-ref: Astron.J.134:1237-1244,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[98] arXiv:0706.0575 [pdf, other]

Title: A note on the large-angle anisotropies in the WMAP cut-sky maps

A. Bernui, B. Mota, M.J. Reboucas, R. Tavakol

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figeres. We performed a similar analysis of arXiv:astro-ph/0511666 by considering the LILC map with a Kp2 sky cut, and find that the presence of a significant axis of asymmetry is robust with respect to this masking procedure

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys.D16:411-420,2007

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

[99] arXiv:0706.0576 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-site observations of Delta Scuti stars 7 Aql and 8 Aql (a new Delta Scuti variable): The twelfth STEPHI campaign in 2003

L. Fox Machado, E. Michel, F. Perez Hernandez, J.H. Pena, Z.P. Li, M. Chevreton, J.A. Belmonte, M. Alvarez, L. Parrao, M.-A. Dupret, S. Pau, A. Fernandez, J.P. Michel, R. Michel, A. Pani

Comments: 8 pages, 7 fugures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.J.134:860-866,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[100] arXiv:0706.0587 [pdf, other]

Title: Time Evolution of Cosmic Ray MHD Shocks and Their Emissions

P. P. Edmon, T. W. Jones, H. Kang

Comments: 4 page, 2 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)