Astrophysics

Authors and titles for August 2007

[1] arXiv:0708.0001 [pdf, other]

Title: The effects of Chern-Simons gravity on bodies orbiting the Earth

Tristan L. Smith (Caltech), Adrienne L. Erickcek (Caltech), Robert R. Caldwell (Dartmouth College), Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures; minor corrections made; to appear in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D77:024015,2008

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

[2] arXiv:0708.0002 [pdf, other]

Title: 1E 1547.0-5408: a radio-emitting magnetar with a rotation period of 2 seconds

F. Camilo (Columbia), S. M. Ransom (NRAO), J. P. Halpern (Columbia), J. Reynolds (ATNF)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:0708.0004 [pdf, other]

Title: The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Color and Luminosity Dependence of Galaxy Clustering at z~1

Alison L. Coil, Jeffrey A. Newman, Darren Croton, Michael C. Cooper, Marc Davis, S. M. Faber, Brian F. Gerke, David C. Koo, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Risa H. Wechsler, Benjamin J. Weiner

Comments: 28 pages, 17 figures, emulateapj format, accepted to ApJ, updated to match published version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:0708.0006 [pdf, other]

Title: Lyman-alpha Emitters During the Early Stages of Reionization

Andrei Mesinger, Steven Furlanetto

Comments: 14 pages, 13 figures, moderate changes to match version accepted for publication in the MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:0708.0007 [pdf, other]

Title: The Sightline to Q2343-BX415: Clues to Galaxy Formation in a Quasar Environment

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

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 27 pages, 8 tables, 21 postscript figures

Journal-ref: Rix et al. 2007, ApJ, 670, 15

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:0708.0010 [pdf, other]

Title: Velocity Dispersion Profiles of Seven Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Matthew G. Walker, Mario Mateo, Edward W. Olszewski, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Xiao Wang, Bodhisattva Sen, Michael Woodroofe

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:0708.0011 [pdf, other]

Title: An Extremely Massive Dry Galaxy Merger in a Moderate Redshift Cluster

Kenneth Rines (CfA), Rose Finn (Siena), Alexey Vikhlinin (CfA)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 665 (2007) L9-L13

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:0708.0015 [pdf, other]

Title: Is there a link between the neutron-star spin and the frequency of the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations?

Mariano Mendez (SRON - Netherlands Institute for Space Research), Tomaso Belloni (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 8 pages + 4 figures. Uses this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:0708.0024 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mirage of w=-1

Eric V. Linder

Comments: 8 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:0708.0027 [pdf, other]

Title: The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters: M54 and Young Populations in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

Michael H. Siegel, Aaron Dotter, Steven R. Majewski, Ata Sarajedini, Brian Chaboyer, David L. Nidever, Jay Anderson, Antonio Marín-Franch, Alfred Rosenberg, Luigi R. Bedin, Antonio Aparicio, Ivan King, Giampaolo Piotto, I. Neill Reid

Comments: Accepted to ApJ Letter; 11 pages, 2 figures; figure 1 uploaded as jpg; paper in ApJ format with full-resolution figures available at: this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:0708.0030 [pdf, other]

Title: A Galaxy Photometric Redshift Catalog for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6

Hiroaki Oyaizu, Marcos Lima, Carlos E. Cunha, Huan Lin, Joshua Frieman, Erin S. Sheldon

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.674:768-783,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:0708.0031 [pdf, other]

Title: Lensing Corrections to Features in the Angular Two-Point Correlation Function and Power Spectrum

Marilena LoVerde, Lam Hui, Enrique Gaztanaga

Comments: v2: 8 pages, 5 figures, text and figures condensed, references added

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D77:023512,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:0708.0033 [pdf, other]

Title: Survey Requirements for Accurate and Precise Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernovae

Yun Wang, Gautham Narayan, Michael Wood-Vasey

Comments: 11 pages, including 3 color figures. Typo in Eq.(7) corrected. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS 382, 377 (2007)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:0708.0038 [pdf, other]

Title: Tracking the Orbital and Super-orbital Periods of SMC X-1

Sarah Trowbridge, Michael A. Nowak, Joern Wilms

Comments: 10 pages, using emulateapj style. To be published in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:0708.0044 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the Local Milky Way: M Dwarfs as Tracers of Galactic Populations

John J. Bochanski, Jeffrey A. Munn, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West, Kevin R. Covey, Donald P. Schneider

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures, Accepted by AJ

Journal-ref: Astron.J.134:2418-2429,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:0708.0057 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Compton scattering on the Gamma Ray Spectra of Solar flares

Jun'ichi Kotoku (1), Kazuo Makishima (2 and 3), Yukari Matsumoto (2), Mitsuhiro Kohama (3), Yukikatsu Terada (3), Toru Tamagawa (3) ((1) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, (2) Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, (3) RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical research))

Comments: 37 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:0708.0060 [pdf, other]

Title: The Nature of the Compact X-ray Source in Supernova Remnant RCW 103

Xiang-Dong Li

Comments: 12 pages, 1 figure, accepted to ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:0708.0064 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effect of Variability on the Estimation of Quasar Black Hole Masses

B. C. Wilhite, R. J. Brunner, D. P. Schneider, D. E. Vanden Berk

Comments: 76 pages, 15 figures, 2 (long) tables; Accepted for publication in ApJ (November 10, 2007)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.669:791-800,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:0708.0073 [pdf, other]

Title: Suzaku wide-band observations of SN 1006

Aya Bamba (1), Yasushi Fukazawa (2), Junko S. Hiraga (3), John P. Hughes (4), Hideaki Katagiri (2), Motohide Kokubun (1), Katsuji Koyama (5), Emi Miyata (6), Tsunefumi Mizuno (2), Koji Mori (7), Hiroshi Nakajima (6), Masanobu Ozaki (1), Rob Petre (8), Hiromitsu Takahashi (2), Tadayuki Takahashi (1), Takaaki Tanaka (9), Yukikatsu Terada (3), Yasunobu Uchiyama (1), Shin Watanabe (1), Hiroya Yamaguchi (5) ((1) ISAS/JAXA, (2) Hiroshima U., (3) RIKEN, (4) Rutgers U., (5) Kyoto U., (6) Osaka U., (7) Miyazaki U., (8) NASA/GSFC. (9) SLAC)

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, PASJ, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:0708.0076 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and radio survey of Southern Compact Groups of galaxies. I. Pilot study of six groups

E. Pompei, M. Dahlem, A. Iovino

Comments: accepted on A&A on July 19, 2007. Figures 1 and 3-12 will be available only in electronic form

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:0708.0078 [pdf, other]

Title: Soft gamma-ray galactic ridge emission as unveiled by SPI aboard INTEGRAL

Jürgen Knödlseder (CESR), Vincent Lonjou (CESR, CENBG), Georg Weidenspointner (CESR), Pierre Jean (CESR), Andy Strong (MPE), Roland Diehl (MPE), Bertrand Cordier (DAPNIA), Stéphane Schanne (DAPNIA), Christoph Winkler (ESTEC)

Journal-ref: Dans THE FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM - THE FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM, Stanford : \'Etats-Unis d'Am\'erique (2007)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[22] arXiv:0708.0085 [pdf, other]

Title: X-Rays From Massive OB Stars: Thermal Emission From Radiative Shocks

Svetozar A. Zhekov, Francesco Palla

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:0708.0086 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron star cooling after deep crustal heating in the X-ray transient KS 1731-260

P. S. Shternin (1), D. G. Yakovlev (1), P. Haensel (2), A. Y. Potekhin (1) ((1) Ioffe Phys.-Tech. Inst., St.-Petersburg; (2) N. Copernicus Astron. Center, Warsaw)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted by MNRAS. In v.2, two references added and typos corrected

Journal-ref: Mon. Not. R. astron. Soc. 382 (2007) L43

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:0708.0095 [pdf, other]

Title: Solving the cosmic lithium problems with primordial late-decaying particles

Daniel Cumberbatch, Kazuhide Ichikawa, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kazunori Kohri, Joseph Silk, Glenn D. Starkman

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review D; minor changes to references

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D76:123005,2007

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

[25] arXiv:0708.0096 [pdf, other]

Title: Abundances on the Main Sequence of Omega Centauri

Laura M. Stanford, G. S. Da Costa, John E. Norris

Comments: 43 Pages, 13 Figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:0708.0097 [pdf, other]

Title: SDSS J150722.30+523039.8: a CV formed directly from a detached white dwarf/brown dwarf binary?

S. P. Littlefair, V. S. Dhillon, T. R. Marsh, B. T. Gaensicke, I. Baraffe, C. A. Watson

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:0708.0100 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-ray and neutrino diffuse emissions of the Galaxy above the TeV

C. Evoli (SISSA), D. Grasso (INFN, Pisa), L. Maccione (SISSA, and INFN, Trieste)

Comments: 4 pages + 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2007), Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 3-11 Jul 2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:0708.0106 [pdf, other]

Title: An evolutionary study of the pulsating subdwarf B eclipsing binary PG1336-018 (NY Vir)

H. Hu, G. Nelemans, R. Østensen, C. Aerts, M. Vučković, P.J. Groot

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:0708.0113 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on Dissipative Non-Equilibrium Dark Energy Models from Recent Supernova Data

Vasiliki A. Mitsou (Valencia U., IFIC)

Comments: 5 pages LaTeX, 1 EPS figure. Contributed to Lake Louise Winter Institute 2007: Fundamental Interactions, 19-24 Feb 2007, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada

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

[30] arXiv:0708.0122 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Constraints on Radion Evolution in the Universal Extra Dimension Model

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

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, comments added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D77:063525,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:0708.0123 [pdf, other]

Title: SuperAGILE: the hard X-ray Imager for the AGILE space mission

M. Feroci, E. Costa, P. Soffitta, E. Del Monte, G. Di Persio, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Frutti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, M. Mastropietro, E. Morelli, L. Pacciani, G. Porrovecchio, M. Rapisarda, A. Rubini, M. Tavani, A. Argan

Comments: Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A, in press. Full version with figures included in the text, now available at: this ftp URL It will also be linked at the official AGILE web pages

Journal-ref: Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A581:728-754,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:0708.0131 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Density Dependent Nuclear Matter Compressibility

V.A. Dexheimer, C.A.Z. Vasconcellos, B.E.J. Bodmann

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.C77:065803,2008

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

[33] arXiv:0708.0133 [pdf, other]

Title: The clumpy structure of the chemically active L1157 outflow

Milena Benedettini, Serena Viti, Claudio Codella, Rafael Bachiller, Frederic Gueth, Maria T. Beltràn, Anne Dutrey, Stephane Guilloteau

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:0708.0140 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and Near-Infrared Observations of the Highly Reddened, Rapidly Expanding Type Ia Supernova 2006X in M100

Xiaofeng Wang (1,2), Weidong Li (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (1), Kevin Krisciunas (3), Nicholas B. Suntzeff (3), Junzheng Li (2), Tianmeng Zhang (4), Jingsong Deng (4), Ryan J. Foley (1), Mohan Ganeshalingam (1), Tipei Li (2), YuQing Lou (2), Yulei Qiu (4), Rencheng Shang (2), Jeffrey M. Silverman (1), Shuangnan Zhang (2), Youhong Zhang (2) ((1) UC Berkeley (2) Tsinghua University (3) Texas A&M University (4) National Astronomical Observatory of China)

Comments: 48 pages, 20 figures and 11 tables. Accepted Version (ApJ, 2008, March issue)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.675:626-643, 2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:0708.0144 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Field Structure in the Parsec Scale Jet of 3C273 from Multifrequency VLBA Observations

T. Savolainen (1,2), K. Wiik (2), E. Valtaoja (2), M. Tornikoski (3) ((1) MPIfR - Germany, (2) Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku - Finland, (3) Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Helsinki University of Technology - Finland)

Comments: 7 pages, to appear in "Extragalactic Jets: Theory and Observation from Radio to Gamma Ray", eds. T. A. Rector and D. S. De Young, ASP conference series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:0708.0146 [pdf, other]

Title: A Side of Mercury Not Seen By Mariner 10

Gerald Cecil, Dmitry Rashkeev (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Comments: 7 pages, 4 PDF figures, pdfLaTeX, typos corrected, Fig. 2 modified slightly to add crater diameters not given in published version

Journal-ref: Astron.J.134:1468-1474,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:0708.0148 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling the behaviour of accretion flows in X-ray binaries

Chris Done, Marek Gierlinski, Aya Kubota

Comments: 76 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.Rev.15:1-66,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:0708.0149 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling the spectral energy distribution of ULIRGs I: the radio spectra

M. S. Clemens, O. Vega, A. Bressan, G. L. Granato, L. Silva, P. Panuzzo

Comments: 16 pages. Submitted to A&A Re-submitted, with aesthetic improvements to the text and figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:0708.0158 [pdf, other]

Title: A Compton Thick AGN Powering the Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxy IRAS 00182--7112

K. Nandra (Imperial College London), K. Iwasawa (MPE)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:0708.0173 [pdf, other]

Title: K-minus Estimator Approach to Large Scale Structure

M. Martinis, M. Sosic

Comments: 26 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:0708.0189 [pdf, other]

Title: Pulsar model of the high energy phenomenology of LS 5039

Agnieszka Sierpowska-Bartosik, Diego F. Torres

Comments: Figures and results are unchanged. Some new text and new references

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.671:L145-L148,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:0708.0190 [pdf, other]

Title: GD 99 - an unusual, rarely observed DAV white dwarf

Zs. Bognár (1), M. Paparó (1), B. Steininger (2), G. Virághalmy (1) ((1) Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary, (2) Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)

Comments: 2 pages, 1 eps figure; has been accepted for publication in Communications in Asteroseismology (Vol. 150, 2007), Proceedings of the Vienna Workshop on the Future of Asteroseismology

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:0708.0193 [pdf, other]

Title: UV excess and AGB evolution in elliptical-galaxy stellar populations

Rosa A. Gonzalez-Lopezlira (CRyA-UNAM, Morelia, Mexico), A. Buzzoni (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, uses this http URL. To appear in``Ultraviolet properties of evolved stellar populations", ed. M. Chavez, E. Bertone, D. Rosa-Gonzalez, and L.H. Rodriguez-Merino, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (Dordrecht:Springer), in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:0708.0195 [pdf, other]

Title: Accurate seeing measurements with MASS and DIMM

A. Tokovinin, V. Kornilov

Comments: 13 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:0708.0196 [pdf, other]

Title: More frequencies of KUV 02464+3239

Zs. Bognár (1), M. Paparó (1), A. Már (2), Gy. Kerekes (2), P. Pápics (2), L. Molnár (1,2), E. Plachy (2), N. Sztankó (2), E. Bokor (2) ((1) Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary; (2) Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Science, Budapest, Hungary)

Comments: 3 pages, 3 eps figures; has been accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten (Vol. 8, 2007), proceedings of the British-Hungarian-French N+N+N Workshop for Young Researchers

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:0708.0198 [pdf, other]

Title: The Chemical Composition of an Extrasolar Minor Planet

B. Zuckerman (1), D. Koester (2), C. Melis (1), B. Hansen (1), M. Jura (1) ((1) UCLA, (2) University of Kiel)

Comments: ApJ, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:0708.0203 [pdf, other]

Title: The end of the Galactic spectrum

C. De Donato (1), G. A. Medina-Tanco (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN, Milano, Italy (2) Dep. Altas Energias, Inst. de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico DF)

Comments: 4 pages, 7 figures, Proceeding of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida (2007), Yucatan, Mexico

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:0708.0211 [pdf, other]

Title: The long-term evolution of the spin, pulse shape, and orbit of the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658

Jacob M. Hartman (1), Alessandro Patruno (2), Deepto Chakrabarty (1), David L. Kaplan (1), Craig B. Markwardt (3), Edward H. Morgan (1), Paul S. Ray (4), Michiel van der Klis (2), Rudy Wijnands (2) ((1) MIT, (2) Univ. Amsterdam, (3) Univ. Maryland and GSFC, (4) Naval Research Lab)

Comments: 22 pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.675:1468-1486,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:0708.0214 [pdf, other]

Title: Helioseismic Holography of Simulated Solar Convection and Prospects for the Detection of Small-Scale Subsurface Flows

D. C. Braun, A. C. Birch, D. Benson, R. F. Stein, Å. Nordlund

Comments: 32 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:0708.0220 [pdf, other]

Title: The Thermal Evolution of the Donors in AM CVn Binaries

Christopher J. Deloye (Northwestern University), Ronald E. Taam (Northwestern University), Christopher Winisdoerffer (CRAL Lyon), Gilles Chabrier (CRAL Lyon)

Comments: (20 pages, 20 figures, accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)