Astrophysics

Authors and titles for June 2007

[751] arXiv:0706.4086 [pdf, other]

Title: Bulk Viscous Cosmology

R. Colistete Jr., J.C. Fabris, J. Tossa, W. Zimdahl

Comments: 25 pages, 5 figures, comments and references added, accepted for publication in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D76:103516,2007

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

[752] arXiv:0706.4087 [pdf, other]

Title: Mutually compensative pseudo solutions of primary energy spectra in the knee region

S. V. Ter-Antonyan

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.28:321-326,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[753] arXiv:0706.4088 [pdf, other]

Title: A Study of the Type Ia/IIn Supernova 2005gj from X-ray to the Infrared: Paper I

J.L. Prieto, P.M. Garnavich, M.M. Phillips, D.L. DePoy, J.Parrent, D. Pooley, V.V. Dwarkadas, E. Baron, B. Bassett, A. Becker, D. Cinabro, F. DeJongh, B. Dilday, M. Doi, J.A. Frieman, C.J. Hogan, J. Holtzman, S. Jha, R. Kessler, K. Konishi, H. Lampeitl, J. Marriner, J. L. Marshall, G. Miknaitis, R.C. Nichol, A.G. Riess, M.W. Richmond, R. Romani, M. Sako, D.P. Schneider, M. Smith, N. Takanashi, K. Tokita, K. van der Heyden, N. Yasuda, C. Zheng, J.C. Wheeler, J. Barentine, J. Dembicky, J. Eastman, S. Frank, W. Ketzeback, R.J. McMillan, N. Morrell, G. Folatelli, C. Contreras, C.R. Burns, W. L. Freedman, S. Gonzalez, M. Hamuy, W. Krzeminski, B.F. Madore, D. Murphy, S.E. Persson, M. Roth, N.B. Suntzeff

Comments: 63 pages, 16 figures, submitted to AJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[754] arXiv:0706.4089 [pdf, other]

Title: The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Role of Galaxy Environment in the Cosmic Star-Formation History

Michael C. Cooper, Jeffrey A. Newman, Benjamin J. Weiner, Renbin Yan, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Kevin Bundy, Alison L. Coil, Christopher J. Conselice, Marc Davis, S. M. Faber, Brian F. Gerke, Puragra Guhathakurta, David C. Koo, Kai G. Noeske

Comments: 20 pages including 18 figures and 4 tables in emulateapj format; submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[755] arXiv:0706.4091 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-Wavelength Constraints on the Cosmic Star Formation History from Spectroscopy: the Rest-Frame UV, H-alpha, and Infrared Luminosity Functions at Redshifts 1.9<z<3.4

Naveen A. Reddy (NOAO/Caltech), Charles C. Steidel (Caltech), Max Pettini (IoA), Kurt L. Adelberger (McKinsey), Alice E. Shapley (Princeton), Dawn K. Erb (CfA), Mark Dickinson (NOAO)

Comments: 40 pages, 28 figures, 12 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[756] arXiv:0706.4093 [pdf, other]

Title: New Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction at z~1.3

Brian Siana (1), Harry I. Teplitz (1), James Colbert (1), Henry C. Ferguson (2), Mark Dickinson (3), Thomas M. Brown (2), Christopher J. Conselice (4), Duilia F. de Mello (5,6), Jonathan P. Gardner (6), Mauro Giavalisco (7), Felipe Menanteau (8) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, (2) STScI, (3) NOAO, (4) Nottingham, (5) Catholic University, (6) Goddard, (7) UMass, (8) Rutgers)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. aastex format. 39 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[757] arXiv:0706.4096 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation and evolution of compact binaries in globular clusters: II. Binaries with neutron stars

N. Ivanova, C. Heinke, F.A. Rasio, K. Belczynski, J. Fregeau

Comments: 25 pages, 7 figures, 12 tables, MNRAS accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[758] arXiv:0706.4115 [pdf, other]

Title: TMC-1C: an accreting starless core

S. Schnee, P. Caselli, A. Goodman, H. G. Arce, J. Ballesteros-Paredes, K. Kuchibhotla

Comments: 29 pages, including 5 tables and 15 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[759] arXiv:0706.4116 [pdf, other]

Title: Star Formation in Molecular Clouds?

Neal J. Evans II

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure, ASP format, to be published in "Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe", eds. J. Knapen, T. Mahoney, & A. Vazdekis

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[760] arXiv:0706.4122 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Energy and Helicity Budgets in the Active-Region Solar Corona. I. Linear Force-Free Approximation

M. K. Georgoulis, Barry J. LaBonte

Comments: 44 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. The Astrophysical Journal, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[761] arXiv:0706.4124 [pdf, other]

Title: On the origin of X-ray emission in some FR Is: ADAF or jet?

Qingwen Wu (1,2,3), Feng Yuan (1,2), Xinwu Cao (1,2) ((1)Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China;(2)Joint Institute for Galaxy and Cosmology (JOINGC) of SHAO and USMC; (3)Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)

Comments: 31 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[762] arXiv:0706.4133 [pdf, other]

Title: The proper motion of the Arches cluster with Keck Laser-Guide Star Adaptive Optics

Andrea Stolte, Andrea M. Ghez, Mark Morris, Jessica R. Lu, Wolfgang Brandner, Keith Matthews

Comments: 22 pdflatex pages including 12 figures, reviewed version accepted by ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[763] arXiv:0706.4136 [pdf, other]

Title: An improved method for estimating source densities using the temporal distribution of Cosmological Transients

E. Howell, D. Coward, R. Burman, D. Blair

Comments: Submitted to ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.666:L65-L68,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[764] arXiv:0706.4139 [pdf, other]

Title: Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and Binary Mergers in Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies: Redshift Distribution and Hosts

R. O'Shaughnessy (1), V. Kalogera (1), K. Belczynski (2) ((1) Northwestern University, (2) New Mexico State University)

Comments: 14 figures, using bitmapped fonts (via eps2eps) to fit in archive space restrictions; better resolution figures are available from the author. Accepted for publication in ApJ. v3 updates references

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.675:566-585,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[765] arXiv:0706.4140 [pdf, other]

Title: Improbability of DUrca process constraints EOS

Hao Tong, Qiu-he Peng

Journal-ref: Chin.J.Astron.Astrophys.7:809,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[766] arXiv:0706.4142 [pdf, other]

Title: Unified model of baryonic matter and dark components

Luis Chimento, Monica Forte

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures A new section added

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B666:205-211,2008

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

[767] arXiv:0706.4146 [pdf, other]

Title: X-Ray Spectroscopy of SN 1006 with Suzaku

Hiroya Yamaguchi, Katsuji Koyama, Satoru Katsuda, Hiroshi Nakajima, John P. Hughes, Aya Bamba, Junko S. Hiraga, Koji Mori, Masanobu Ozaki, Takeshi Go Tsuru

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures (14 figure files), accepted for publication in PASJ

Journal-ref: Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan (PASJ), Vol.60, S141, 2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[768] arXiv:0706.4154 [pdf, other]

Title: A Formation Mechanism of Collapsar Black Hole -- early evolution phase

Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Masaru Shibata

Comments: Figures are in low resolution

Journal-ref: Prog.Theor.Phys.117:1029,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[769] arXiv:0706.4156 [pdf, other]

Title: Glitches in Anomalous X-ray Pulsars

Rim Dib, Victoria M. Kaspi, Fotis P. Gavriil

Comments: 48 pages, 17 figures, 8 tables, To be published in ApJ (accepted)

Journal-ref: AIPConf.Proc.983:239-243,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[770] arXiv:0706.4171 [pdf, other]

Title: Local dark energy: HST evidence from the vicinity of the M 81/M 82 galaxy group

A.D. Chernin, I.D. Karachentsev, O.G. Kashibadze, D.I. Makarov, P. Teerikorpi, M.J. Valtonen, V.P. Dolgachev, L.M. Domozhilova

Comments: 17 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Astrophys.50:405-415,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[771] arXiv:0706.4198 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological constraints on neutrino plus axion hot dark matter

Steen Hannestad, Alessandro Mirizzi, Georg G. Raffelt, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Comments: 13 pages, 2 figures, uses this http URL

Journal-ref: JCAP 0708:015,2007

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

[772] arXiv:0706.4199 [pdf, other]

Title: Radial and vertical angular momentum transport in protostellar discs

Raquel Salmeron (The Australian National University), Arieh Königl (The University of Chicago), Mark Wardle (Macquarie University)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, this http URL. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[773] arXiv:0706.4211 [pdf, other]

Title: The formation of a detached shell around the carbon star Y CVn

Y. Libert, E. Gerard, T. Le Bertre

Comments: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[774] arXiv:0706.4223 [pdf, other]

Title: Emergence of a flux tube through a partially ionised solar atmosphere

T. D. Arber, M. Haynes, J. E. Leake

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.666:541-546,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[775] arXiv:0706.4231 [pdf, other]

Title: Un coronographe interf\'erentiel achromatique coaxial

Jean Gay (LG), Francois Fressin (LG), Jean-Pierre Rivet (OCA), Yves Rabbia (LG), Christophe Buisset (LG)

Journal-ref: ComptesRendusPhysique6:1169-1175,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[776] arXiv:0706.4237 [pdf, other]

Title: On-sky observations with an achromatic hybrid phase knife coronagraph in the visible

Lyu Abe (LUAN), Mathilde Beaulieu (LUAN), Farrokh Vakili (LUAN), Jean Gay (LG), Jean-Pierre Rivet (OCA), Sebastien Dervaux (LG), Armando Domiciano De Souza (LUAN, LG)

Journal-ref: Astronomy and Astrophysics 461 (01/01/2007) 365-371

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[777] arXiv:0706.4241 [pdf, other]

Title: The role of thermal pressure in jet launching

Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of Star-disk interaction in young stars, Grenoble 2007, ed. J. Bouvier

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[778] arXiv:0706.4246 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Speed Optical Spectroscopy

T.R. Marsh

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the meeting on High Time Resolution Astrophysics, Galway, June 2006

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[779] arXiv:0706.4248 [pdf, other]

Title: Gap Formation in the Dust Layer of 3D Protoplanetary Disks

S. T. Maddison (1), L. Fouchet (2 and 3), J.-F. Gonzalez (2) ((1) Swinburne, Australia, (2) CRAL, Lyon, France, (3) ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)

Comments: 5 page, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science

Journal-ref: Astrophys.SpaceSci.311:3-7,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[780] arXiv:0706.4254 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Tail in NGC 7619

Dong-Woo Kim, Eunhyeuk Kim, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Ginevra Trinchieri

Comments: ApJ accepted to appear in the 2008 December 1 issue; Added discussion on sloshing

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[781] arXiv:0706.4265 [pdf, other]

Title: ASTE Submillimeter Observations of a Young Stellar Object Condensation in Cederblad 110

Masaaki Hiramatsu, Takahiro Hayakawa, Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Kazuhisa Kamegai, Toshikazu Onishi, Akira Mizuno, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Tetsuo Hasegawa

Comments: 30pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.664:964-973,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[782] arXiv:0706.4289 [pdf, other]

Title: A low CMB variance in the WMAP data

C. Monteserin, R.B. Barreiro, P. Vielva, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, M.P. Hobson, A.N. Lasenby

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures. Some new tests added. Section 5 largely modified. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.387:209-219,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[783] arXiv:0706.4293 [pdf, other]

Title: Simple Picture for Neutrino Flavor Transformation in Supernovae

Huaiyu Duan (UCSD), George M. Fuller (UCSD), Yong-Zhong Qian (UMN)

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figure, retex4 format. Split fig.1 into two figures. Minor corrections. Version accepted by PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D76:085013,2007

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

[784] arXiv:0706.4294 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Rays and Global Warming

T.Sloan, A W Wolfendale

Comments: Submitted to ICRC 2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[785] arXiv:0706.4303 [pdf, other]

Title: Global General Relativistic MHD Simulation of a Tilted Black-Hole Accretion Disk

P. Chris Fragile, Omer M. Blaes, Peter Anninos, Jay D. Salmonson

Comments: Accepted to ApJ. 32 pages, 16 fig. Please see this http URL for movies and high-resolution figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[786] arXiv:0706.4312 [pdf, other]

Title: Interacting Binaries with Eccentric Orbits. Secular Orbital Evolution Due To Conservative Mass Transfer

J. F. Sepinsky, B. Willems, V. Kalogera, F. A. Rasio

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[787] arXiv:0706.4316 [pdf, other]

Title: On Combining Lensing Shear Information from Multiple Filters

Mike Jarvis, Bhuvnesh Jain (U Penn)

Comments: 8 pages, no figures, submitted to JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP0801:003,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[788] arXiv:0706.4317 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Effects of Dissipative Turbulence on the Narrow Emission-Line Ratios in Seyfert Galaxies

S.B. Kraemer (Catholic University), M. C. Bottorff (Southwestern University), D.M. Crenshaw (Georgia State University)

Comments: 29 oages, including 10 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[789] arXiv:0706.4322 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the UHECR spectrum above 10 EeV at the Pierre Auger Observatory using showers with zenith angles greater than 60 degrees

P. Facal San Luis (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[790] arXiv:0706.4330 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular Outflows and a Mid-Infrared Census of the Massive Star-Formation Region Associated with IRAS 18507+0121

D. S. Shepherd, M. S. Povich, B. A. Whitney, T. P. Robitaille, D. E. A. Nurnberger, L. Bronfman, D. P. Stark, R. Indebetouw, M. R. Meade, B. L. Babler

Comments: Accepted by ApJ, 46 pages, 12 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.669:464-482,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[791] arXiv:0706.4331 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on Extrasolar Planet Populations from VLT NACO/SDI and MMT SDI and Direct Adaptive Optics Imaging Surveys: Giant Planets are Rare at Large Separations

Eric L. Nielsen (1), Laird M. Close (1), Beth A. Biller (1), Elena Masciadri (2), Rainer Lenzen (3) ((1) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy, (3) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie, Hiedelberg, Germany)

Comments: 46 pages, 17 figures, accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[792] arXiv:0706.4336 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Connection Between Metal Absorbers and Quasar Nebulae

Doron Chelouche, Brice Ménard, David V. Bowen, Orly Gnat

Comments: 15 pages, 13 figures (ApJ submitted)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[793] arXiv:0706.4347 [pdf, other]

Title: Bulge and Halo Kinematics Across the Hubble Sequence

Luis C. Ho (The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Comments: 17 pages. To appear in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[794] arXiv:0706.4351 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffuse Gamma-ray Emission from the Galactic Center - A Multiple Energy Injection Model

K. S. Cheng, D. O. Chernyshov, V. A. Dogiel

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[795] arXiv:0706.4355 [pdf, other]

Title: Phase Space Constraints on Neutrino Luminosities

C. Sivaram (1), Kenath Arun (2), Samartha C A (3) ((1) Indian Institute of Astrophysics, (2) Christ Junior College, (3) Indian Institute of Science)

Comments: 13 pages, 20 equations

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A23:1470-1477,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[796] arXiv:0706.4360 [pdf, other]

Title: Cold r-Process in Neutrino-Driven Winds

Shinya Wanajo

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[797] arXiv:0706.4363 [pdf, other]

Title: Vacuum polarization and plasma oscillations

R. Ruffini, G.V. Vereshchagin, S.-S. Xue

Comments: to appear in Phys. Lett. A

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.A371:399-405,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[798] arXiv:0706.4369 [pdf, other]

Title: The role of HST in the study of near- and mid-infrared-selected galaxies

K.I. Caputi

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the 41st ESLAB Symposium "The impact of HST on European Astronomy". 4 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[799] arXiv:0706.4371 [pdf, other]

Title: The VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey. The dependence of clustering on galaxy stellar mass at z~1

B. Meneux, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli, O. Le Fevre, A. Pollo, J. Blaizot, G. De Lucia, M. Bolzonella, F. Lamareille, L. Pozzetti, A. Cappi, A. Iovino, C. Marinoni, H.J. McCracken, S. de la Torre, D. Bottini, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, J.P. Picat, R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, S. Bardelli, A. Bongiorno, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, O. Cucciati, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, O. Ilbert, B. Marano, A. Mazure, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pello, M. Radovich, D. Vergani, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[800] arXiv:0706.4377 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of the Pre-Main Sequence Population of the Stellar Association LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud with Hubble Space Telescope ACS Observations

Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, Thomas Henning, Wolfgang Brandner, Andrew E. Dolphin, Michael Rosa, Bernhard Brandl

Comments: Accepted for Publication in ApJ Letters - 4 Pages ApJ paper format - 3 figures in low-resolution/grayscale

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)