Astrophysics

Authors and titles for June 2007

[701] arXiv:0706.3831 [pdf, other]

Title: The massive expanding molecular torus in the planetary nebula NGC 6302

N. Peretto, G.A. Fuller, A.A. Zijlstra, N.A. Patel

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[702] arXiv:0706.3835 [pdf, other]

Title: A Spectroscopic Study of the Algol-type Binaries S Equulei and KO Aquilae: Absolute Parameters and Mass Transfer

F. Soydugan, A. Frasca, E. Soydugan, S. Catalano, O. Demircan, C. Ibanoglu

Comments: 19 pages

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:1533-1545,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[703] arXiv:0706.3838 [pdf, other]

Title: Eight powers of ten: similarities in black hole accretion on all mass scales

Rob Fender (Southampton), Elmar Koerding, Tomaso Belloni, Phil Uttley, Ian McHardy, Tasso Tzioumis

Comments: Invited Review at the VI Microquasar Workshop: Microquasars and beyond, Sept 18-22 2006, Como, Italy. To be published online by PoS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[704] arXiv:0706.3839 [pdf, other]

Title: The variable radio counterpart and possible large-scale jet of the new Z-source XTE J1701-462

R P Fender (Southampton), M Dahlem, J Homan, S Corbel, R Sault, T M Belloni

Comments: Accepted for publication as a Letter in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[705] arXiv:0706.3847 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on secondary 10-100 EeV gamma ray flux in the minimal bottom-up model of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

O.Kalashev, G.Gelmini, D.Semikoz

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[706] arXiv:0706.3850 [pdf, other]

Title: The local star formation history of the thin disc derived from kinematic data

A. Just, H. Jahreiss

Comments: a completely revised version can be found at astroph 0910.3481 and is published in MNRAS (reference see below)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[707] arXiv:0706.3855 [pdf, other]

Title: Hubble Space Telescope Survey of Interstellar ^12CO/^13CO in the Solar Neighborhood

Y. Sheffer, M. Rogers, S. R. Federman (U. Toledo), D. L. Lambert (U. Texas at Austin), R. Gredel (MPIfA)

Comments: 1-column emulateapj, 23 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 667 (2007) 1002-1016

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[708] arXiv:0706.3857 [pdf, other]

Title: The onset of photoionization in Sakurai's Object (V4334 Sgr)

P.A.M. van Hoof, M. Hajduk, Albert A. Zijlstra, F. Herwig, A. Evans, G.C Van de Steene, S. Kimeswenger, F. Kerber, S.P.S. Eyres

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in A&A letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[709] arXiv:0706.3860 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of Interacting Quintessence Models: Observational Constraints

German Olivares, Fernando Atrio-Barandela, Diego Pavon

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures and 3 tables. Modifications introduced to match published version

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D77:063513,2008

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

[710] arXiv:0706.3862 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular cloud formation and magnetic fields in spiral galaxies

Clare Dobbs, Daniel Price, Ian Bonnell

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[711] arXiv:0706.3871 [pdf, other]

Title: The Kinematically Measured Pattern Speeds of NGC 2523 and NGC 4245

P. Treuthardt, R. Buta, H. Salo, E. Laurikainen

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, 11 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Astron.J.134:1195-1205,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[712] arXiv:0706.3881 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for a parsec scale X-ray jet from the accreting neutron star Circinus X-1

S. Heinz, N. S. Schulz, W. N. Brandt, D. K. Galloway

Comments: Added journal reference, corrected on reference and typo in labels for Fig. 1; 5 pages, 3 figures, ApJ Letter, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[713] arXiv:0706.3886 [pdf, other]

Title: Sterile Neutrino-Enhanced Supernova Explosions

Jun Hidaka, George M. Fuller

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D76:083516,2007

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

[714] arXiv:0706.3887 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing for Features in the Primordial Power Spectrum

Loison Hoi, James M. Cline

Comments: 23 pages, 6 figures; added new section on theoretical motivation for k^3 term, and discussion of double D-term hybrid inflation models; title changed, added a new section discussing the generic spikelike features, published in IJMPD

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys.D18:1863,2009

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

[715] arXiv:0706.3888 [pdf, other]

Title: The dwarf nova SS Cygni: what is wrong?

Matthias R. Schreiber, Jean-Pierre Lasota

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[716] arXiv:0706.3894 [pdf, other]

Title: The Initial-Final Mass Relation: Direct Constraints at the Low Mass End

Jasonjot S. Kalirai, Brad M. S. Hansen, Daniel D. Kelson, David B. Reitzel, R. Michael Rich, Harvey B. Richer

Comments: 18 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to Astrophys. J. Revised from first version

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 676 (2008) 594

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[717] arXiv:0706.3895 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure Formation Inside Triaxial Dark Matter Halos: Galactic Disks, Bulges and Bars

Clayton Heller (GSU), Isaac Shlosman (UK Lexington), Lia Athanassoula (Observatoire de Marseille)

Comments: 18 pages, 16 figures, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal. Minor revisions. The high-resolution figures can be found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[718] arXiv:0706.3896 [pdf, other]

Title: Chaplygin DGP cosmologies

Mariam Bouhmadi-López, Ruth Lazkoz

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, revtex

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B654:51-57,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[719] arXiv:0706.3900 [pdf, other]

Title: Black-Hole Spin and Galactic Morphology

Marta Volonteri, Marek Sikora, Jean-Pierre Lasota

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[720] arXiv:0706.3901 [pdf, other]

Title: High-resolution Spectroscopy of [Ne II] Emission from TW Hya

Gregory J. Herczeg, Joan Najita, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Ilaria Pascucci

Comments: Accepted by ApJ. 18 pages, including 2 figures and 2 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[721] arXiv:0706.3908 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the Expansion of the Universe Through Changes in the CMB Photosphere

S. Lange, L. Page

Comments: 4 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[722] arXiv:0706.3910 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidences of high energy protons with energies beyond 0.4 GeV in the solar particle spectrum as responsible for the cosmic rays solar diurnal anisotropy

C. E. Navia, C. R. A. Augusto, M. B. Robba, K. H. Tsui

Comments: 16 pages,15 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[723] arXiv:0706.3927 [pdf, other]

Title: The X-ray binary population in M33: II. X-ray spectra and variability

H.-J. Grimm, J. McDowell, A. Zezas, D.-W. Kim, G. Fabbiano

Comments: 25 pages, ApJ accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[724] arXiv:0706.3935 [pdf, other]

Title: Feedback in the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/9): I. High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Winds from Super Star Clusters

Andrea M. Gilbert, James R. Graham

Comments: Accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[725] arXiv:0706.3938 [pdf, other]

Title: The UV-optical Galaxy Color-Magnitude Diagram I: Basic Properties

Ted K. Wyder (1), D. Christopher Martin (1), David Schiminovich (2), Mark Seibert (3), Tamas Budavari (4), Marie A. Treyer (1,5), Tom A. Barlow (1), Karl Forster (1), Peter G. Friedman (1), Patrick Morrissey (1), Susan G. Neff (6), Todd Small (1), Luciana Bianchi (4), Jose Donas (5), Timothy M. Heckman (4), Young-Wook Lee (7), Barry F. Madore (3), Bruno Milliard (5), R. Michael Rich (8), Alex S. Szalay (4), Barry Y. Welsh (9), Sukyoung K. Yi (7) ((1) Caltech, (2) Columbia University, (3) Carnegie Institution of Washington, (4) Johns Hopkins University, (5) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (6) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (7) Yonsei University, (8) University of California Los Angeles, (9) University of California Berkeley)

Comments: 64 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJS GALEX special issue

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl.173:293-314,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[726] arXiv:0706.3940 [pdf, other]

Title: The Northern Site of the Pierre Auger Observatory

D. Nitz (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[727] arXiv:0706.3941 [pdf, other]

Title: Intrinsic alignments of galaxies and their effects on weak lensing detections of mass concentrations

Z.H. Fan

Comments: ApJ in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[728] arXiv:0706.3943 [pdf, other]

Title: The globular cluster system in NGC5866: optical observations from HST Advanced Camera for Surveys

Cantiello, Michele (1,2), Blakeslee, John P. (1), Raimondo, Gabriella (2) ((1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; (2)INAF--Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo, Italy)

Comments: ApJ, accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[729] arXiv:0706.3947 [pdf, other]

Title: Transient Lunar Phenomena: Regularity and Reality

Arlin P.S. Crotts

Comments: 45 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ. Other papers in series found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[730] arXiv:0706.3949 [pdf, other]

Title: Lunar Outgassing, Transient Phenomena and The Return to The Moon, I: Existing Data

Arlin P.S. Crotts

Comments: 35 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Icarus. Other papers in series found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[731] arXiv:0706.3952 [pdf, other]

Title: Lunar Outgassing, Transient Phenomena and The Return to The Moon, II: Predictions for Interactions between Outgassing and Regolith

Arlin P.S. Crotts, Cameron Hummels

Comments: 23 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ. Other papers in series found at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.707:1506-1523,2009

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[732] arXiv:0706.3954 [pdf, other]

Title: Lunar Outgassing, Transient Phenomena and The Return to The Moon, III: Observational and Experimental Techniques

Arlin P.S. Crotts

Comments: 33 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ. Figures 5-6 and other papers in series found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[733] arXiv:0706.3959 [pdf, other]

Title: Self-Similar Dynamics of a Magnetized Polytropic Gas

Wei-Gang Wang (1), Yu-Qing Lou (1, 2 and 3) ((1)Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics, (2)Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, (3)National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Comments: 37 pages, 36 figures, accepted by Astrophysics and Space Science

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci.311:363-400,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[734] arXiv:0706.3963 [pdf, other]

Title: Carbonates in space - The challenge of low temperature data

Th. Posch (1), A. Baier (1), H. Mutschke (2), Th. Henning (3) ((1) Institute for Astronomy, University of Vienna, (2) AIU Jena, Germany (3) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany)

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures, accepted by ApJ, corrected typos

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[735] arXiv:0706.3967 [pdf, other]

Title: Revisiting Rotational Perturbations and the Microwave Background

Viktor G. Czinner, Matyas Vasuth

Comments: accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D

Journal-ref: Int.J.Mod.Phys.D16:1715-1723,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[736] arXiv:0706.3972 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton observation of the persistent Be/neutron-star system X Persei at a high-luminosity level

N. La Palombara, S. Mereghetti (INAF/IASF-Milano)

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[737] arXiv:0706.4013 [pdf, other]

Title: A Chandra Study of the Lobe/ISM Interactions Around the Inner Radio Lobes of Centaurus A: Constraints on the Temperature Structure and Transport Processes

R. P. Kraft, P. E. J. Nulsen, M. Birkinshaw, D. M. Worrall, R. F. Penna, W. R. Forman, M. J. Hardcastle, C. Jones, S. S. Murray

Comments: 29 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables - accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[738] arXiv:0706.4014 [pdf, other]

Title: The Disturbed 17 keV Cluster Associated with the Radio Galaxy 3C 438

R. P. Kraft, W. R. Forman, M. J. Hardcastle, C. Jones, P. E. J. Nulsen

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table - accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[739] arXiv:0706.4022 [pdf, other]

Title: A 100ks XMM-Newton view of the Seyfert 1.8 ESO113-G010. I. Discovery of large X-ray variability and study of the FeKalpha line complex

Delphine Porquet (OAS), Phil Uttley (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Uk), James N. Reeves (LHEA, Goddard, Usa, Johns Hopkins University, Usa, University of Keele, Uk), Alex Markowitz (LHEA, Goddard, Usa, Johns Hopkins University, Usa), Stefano Bianchi (Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy), Nicolas Grosso (OAS), Lance Miller (University of Oxford, Uk), Sandrine Deluit (CESR), Ian M. George (University of Maryland)

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A, 10 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[740] arXiv:0706.4024 [pdf, other]

Title: Cool Customers in the Stellar Graveyard IV: Spitzer Search for Mid-IR excesses Around Five DAs

J.H. Debes, S. Sigurdsson, B. Hansen

Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures, Accepted to AJ

Journal-ref: Astron.J.134:1662-1670,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[741] arXiv:0706.4028 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical analysis of the atmospheres of CP stars. Effects of the individual abundance patterns

S. A. Khan, D. V. Shulyak

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.469:1083-1100,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[742] arXiv:0706.4033 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing the viability of the interacting holographic dark energy model by using combined observational constraints

Chang Feng, Bin Wang, Yungui Gong, Ru-Keng Su

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP 0709:005,2007

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

[743] arXiv:0706.4036 [pdf, other]

Title: The Thermal Structure of the Circumstellar Disk Surrounding the Classical Be Star gamma Cassiopeia

T. A. A. Sigut, C. E. Jones

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures high resolution figures available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[744] arXiv:0706.4037 [pdf, other]

Title: Ha Emission from the Magellanic Bridge

E. Muller, Q. Parker

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in PASA

Journal-ref: Publ.Astron.Soc.Austral.24:69-76,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[745] arXiv:0706.4046 [pdf, other]

Title: The Thermal Regulation of Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks. IV. Simulations with Envelope Irradiation

Kai Cai, Richard H. Durisen, Aaron C. Boley, Megan K. Pickett, Annie C. Mejia

Comments: ApJ, in press (tentatively scheduled for Jan. 2008, v.673)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[746] arXiv:0706.4065 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of VHE gamma-rays from Cassiopeia A with the MAGIC telescope

J. Albert, et al (for the MAGIC collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.474:937-940,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[747] arXiv:0706.4068 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of dark energy near the Local Group with the Hubble Space Telescope

A.D. Chernin, I.D. Karachentsev, P. Teerikorpi, M.J. Valtonen, G.G. Byrd, Yu.N. Efremov, V.P. Dolgachev, L.M. Domozhilova, D.I. Makarov, Yu.V. Baryshev

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Grav.Cosmol.16:1-6,2010

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[748] arXiv:0706.4080 [pdf, other]

Title: On X-ray Optical Depth in the Coronae of Active Stars

Paola Testa (MIT), Jeremy J. Drake (SAO), Giovanni Peres (Universita' di Palermo), David P. Huenemoerder (MIT)

Comments: Accepted for publication on the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.665:1349-1360,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[749] arXiv:0706.4083 [pdf, other]

Title: Pulsational frequencies of the eclipsing delta-Scuti star HD 172189

J. E. S. Costa, E. Michel, J. Pena, O. Creevey, Z. P. Li, M. Chevreton, J. A. Belmonte, M. Alvarez, L. Fox Machado, L. Parrao, F. Perez Hernendez, A. Fernandez, J. R. Fremy, S. Pau, R. Alonso

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.468:637-642,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[750] arXiv:0706.4084 [pdf, other]

Title: Strong Upper Limits on Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter

Hasan Yuksel, John F. Beacom (Ohio State U.), Casey R. Watson (Millikin U.)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures; minor revisions, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.101:121301,2008

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