Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2007

[701] arXiv:0711.3946 [pdf, other]

Title: Flare Ribbons Observed with G-band and FeI 6302A Filters of the Solar Optical Telescope on Board Hinode

H. Isobe, M. Kubo, T. Minoshima, K. Ichimoto, Y. Katsukawa, T. D. Tarbell, S. Tsuneta, T. E. Berger, B. W. Lites, S. Nagata, T. Shimizu, R. A. Shine, Y. Suematsu, A. Title

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, PASJ in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[702] arXiv:0711.3952 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-Amplitude Oscillation of an Erupting Filament as Seen in EUV, H-alpha and Microwave Observations

H. Isobe, D. Tripathi, A. Asai, R. Jain

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, Solar Physics in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[703] arXiv:0711.3954 [pdf, other]

Title: Phase-dependent X-ray observations of the beta Lyrae system: No eclipse in the soft band

R. Ignace, L.M. Oskinova, W.L. Waldron, J.L. Hoffman, W.-R. Hamann

Comments: to appear in A&A Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[704] arXiv:0711.3976 [pdf, other]

Title: The (Anti-)Hierarchical Evolution of Disk Galaxies

Asmus Boehm, Bodo L. Ziegler

Comments: Comments: 2 pages, 2 figures, proceedings from the conference "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks", Rome, Oct 1-5, 2007. To be published in the ASP Conference Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[705] arXiv:0711.3978 [pdf, other]

Title: OGLE-TR-211 - a new transiting inflated hot Jupiter from the OGLE survey and ESO LP666 spectroscopic follow-up program

A. Udalski, F. Pont, D. Naef, C. Melo, F. Bouchy, N.C. Santos, C. Moutou, R.F. Diaz, W. Gieren, M. Gillon, S. Hoyer, M. Mayor, T. Mazeh, D. Minniti, G. Pietrzynski, D. Queloz, S. Ramirez, M.T. Ruiz, O. Tamuz, S. Udry, M. Zoccali, M. Kubiak, M.K. Szymanski, I. Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, K. Ulaczyk, L. Wyrzykowski

Comments: 6 pages. Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[706] arXiv:0711.3980 [pdf, other]

Title: Combining astrometry with the light-time effect: The case of VW Cep, zeta Phe and HT Vir

P. Zasche, M. Wolf

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to AN

Journal-ref: Astron.Nachr.328:928-937,2007

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[707] arXiv:0711.3985 [pdf, other]

Title: A search for the optical counterpart to the magnetar CXOU J010043.1-721134

Martin Durant, Marten H. van Kerkwijk

Comments: 9 pages, accepted by ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[708] arXiv:0711.3988 [pdf, other]

Title: Cepheids as tracers of the metallicity gradient across the Galactic disk

B. Lemasle, A. Piersimoni, S. Pedicelli, G. Bono, P. Francois, F. Primas, M. Romaniello

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures; to appear in Mem. Soc. Astr. Italiana, Vol. 79/2 (proceeding Cefalu' Workshop "XXI Century Challenges for Stellar Evolution", ed. S. Cassisi & M. Salaris)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[709] arXiv:0711.3990 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological applications of a geometrical interpretation of "c"

J.-M. Vigoureux, P. Vigoureux, B. Vigoureux

Comments: 2 figures

Journal-ref: Int.J.Theor.Phys.47:928-935,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[710] arXiv:0711.3993 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparison of cloud models for Brown Dwarfs

Ch.Helling, A.Ackerman, F.Allard, M.Dehn, P.Hauschildt, D.Homeier, K.Lodders, M.Marley, F.Rietmeijer, T.Tsuji, P.Woitke

Comments: 5 pages, Proceeding to "Exoplantes: Detection, Formation, Dynamics", eds. Ferraz-Mello et a

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[711] arXiv:0711.4003 [pdf, other]

Title: Possibly Large Corrections to the Inflationary Observables

N. Bartolo (Physics Dept. and INFN, Padova, Italy), A. Riotto (CERN, Switzerland and INFN Padova, Italy)

Comments: 4 pages, LateX file

Journal-ref: Mod.Phys.Lett.A23:857-862,2008

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

[712] arXiv:0711.4010 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and X-ray variability of two Small Magellanic Cloud X-ray binary pulsars - SXP46.6 and SXP6.85

K.E. McGowan (1), M.J. Coe (1), M.P.E. Schurch (1), R.H.D. Corbet (2), J.L. Galache (3), A. Udalski (4) ((1) University of Southampton, (2) University of Maryland/GSFC, (3) CfA, (4) Warsaw University Observatory)

Comments: 7 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[713] arXiv:0711.4018 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of the Spin Frequency of 4U 0614+09 with SWIFT/BAT

Tod Strohmayer, Craig Markwardt, Erik Kuulkers

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. AASTeX. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[714] arXiv:0711.4025 [pdf, other]

Title: Harmonic generation of gravitational wave induced Alfven waves

Mats Forsberg, Gert Brodin

Comments: 7 pages

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D77:024050,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[715] arXiv:0711.4027 [pdf, other]

Title: CCD Photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5466. RR Lyrae light curve decomposition and the distance scale

A. Arellano Ferro, V. Rojas Lopez, Sunetra Giridhar, D.M. Bramich

Comments: 17 pages, MNRAS Accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[716] arXiv:0711.4038 [pdf, other]

Title: Spitzer IRS Spectra and Envelope Models of Class I Protostars in Taurus

E. Furlan (1,2), M. McClure (3), N. Calvet (4), L. Hartmann (4), P. D'Alessio (5), W. J. Forrest (3), D. M. Watson (3), K. I. Uchida (1), B. Sargent (3), J. D. Green (3), T. L. Herter (1) ((1) Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, (2) NAI/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, (3) University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, (4) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, (5) UNAM, Morelia, Mexico)

Comments: 46 pages, 29 figures; accepted for publication in ApJS

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl.176:184-215,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[717] arXiv:0711.4045 [pdf, other]

Title: Fiducial Stellar Population Sequences for the u'g'r'i'z' System

James L. Clem, Don A. VandenBerg, Peter B. Stetson

Comments: 16 pages, 7 tables, 13 figures; accepted for publication in AJ

Journal-ref: Astron.J.135:682-692,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[718] arXiv:0711.4046 [pdf, other]

Title: Arguments against a dominantly hadronic origin of the VHE radiation from the supernova remnant RX J1713-3946

R. Plaga

Comments: 8 pages, small clarification and one footnote added to the published version

Journal-ref: New Astron.13:73-76,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[719] arXiv:0711.4047 [pdf, other]

Title: Feedback Processes [in Massive Star Formation]: A Theoretical Perspective

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (American Museum of Natural History)

Comments: for publication in the proceedings of "Massive Star Formation: Observations Confront Thoery", ASP conference series, eds. H. Beuther et al., 10 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[720] arXiv:0711.4051 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of cold filaments in cooling flow clusters

Y. Revaz, F. Combes, P. Salome

Comments: 4 Pages, 3 figures + online material ; Accepted for publication in A&A Letters. Higher resolution version may be downloaded here this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[721] arXiv:0711.4057 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar Collisions in Young Clusters: Formation of (Very) Massive Stars?

Marc Freitag (IoA, Cambridge)

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, contribution to proceedings of "Massive Star Formation: Observations confront Theory" H. Beuther et al. (eds.). Corrected mistake in estimate of change in relaxation time due to gas expulsion (Sec 4)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[722] arXiv:0711.4059 [pdf, other]

Title: Planets in the Galactic Bulge: Results from the SWEEPS Project

Kailash C. Sahu, Stefano Casertano, Jeff Valenti, Howard E. Bond, Thomas M. Brown, T. Ed Smith, Will Clarkson, Dante Minniti, Manuela Zoccali, Mario Livio, Alvio Renzini, R. M. Rich, Nino Panagia, Stephen Lubow, Timothy Brown, Nikolai Piskunov

Comments: To appear in "Extreme Solar Systems," eds. D. Fischer, F. Rasio, S. Thorsett, A. Wolszczan (ASP Conf. Series). 8 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[723] arXiv:0711.4060 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on "Correlation of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects"

Dmitry Gorbunov, Peter Tinyakov, Igor Tkachev, Sergey Troitsky

Comments: 1000 words, 2 figures, this http URL

Journal-ref: JETP Lett.87:461-463,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[724] arXiv:0711.4077 [pdf, other]

Title: The dark matter halo of NGC 1399 - CDM or MOND?

T. Richtler (1), Y. Schuberth (1 and 2), M. Hilker (3), B. Dirsch (1), L. Bassino (4), A. J. Romanowsky (1 and 5) ((1) Universidad de Concepción, (2) Universität Bonn, (3) ESO, Garching, (4) Universidad Nacional de La Plata, (5) UCO/Lick Observatory)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication as a Letter in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[725] arXiv:0711.4078 [pdf, other]

Title: Quasistars: Accreting black holes inside massive envelopes

Mitchell C. Begelman, Elena M. Rossi, Philip J. Armitage (JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Comments: MNRAS, in press. Minor changes from previous version including additional discussion of stability

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[726] arXiv:0711.4095 [pdf, other]

Title: Potential for Precision Measurement of Solar Neutrino Luminosity by HERON

Y.H. Huang, R.E. Lanou, H.J. Maris, G.M. Seidel, B. Sethumadhavan, W. Yao

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.30:1-11,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[727] arXiv:0711.4096 [pdf, other]

Title: "Orphan" afterglows in the Universal Structured Jet Model for gamma-ray bursts

Elena M. Rossi (JILA), Rosalba Perna (JILA), Frédéric Daigne (IAP)

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures. MNRAS accepted. Moderate revisions

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[728] arXiv:0711.4097 [pdf, other]

Title: New Insights Into the Nature of the Eclipsing System V609 Aquilae

David G. Turner, Elena A. Panko, Olga Sergienko, David J. Lane, Daniel J. Majaess

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Observatory

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[729] arXiv:0711.4099 [pdf, other]

Title: Contribution to Unresolved Infrared Fluctuations from Dwarf Galaxies at Redshifts of 2-3

Ranga-Ram Chary, Asantha Cooray, Ian Sullivan

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, ApJ in press (too long for letters), results unchanged, text clarified

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[730] arXiv:0711.4104 [pdf, other]

Title: Tests of the Radial Tremaine-Weinberg Method

Sharon E. Meidt, Richard J. Rand, Michael R. Merrifield, Victor P. Debattista, Juntai Shen

Comments: 22 pages in emulateapj format, 20 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[731] arXiv:0711.4107 [pdf, other]

Title: The Distance of the SNR Kes 75 and PWN PSR J1846-0258 System

Denis A. Leahy, Wenwu Tian

Comments: 5 pages, two pictures, A&A letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[732] arXiv:0711.4109 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the correlation between QSO luminosity and host halo mass from high-redshift quasar clustering

Martin White, Paul Martini, J.D. Cohn

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Minor revisions to address questions from referee. References updated

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[733] arXiv:0711.4110 [pdf, other]

Title: Width of X-ray lines in cooling flows

P. Rebusco, E. Churazov, R. A. Sunyaev, H. Boehringer, W. Forman

Comments: Accepted for publication on MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[734] arXiv:0711.4111 [pdf, other]

Title: The Very Low Albedo of an Extrasolar Planet: MOST Spacebased Photometry of HD 209458

Jason F. Rowe, Jaymie M. Matthews, Sara Seager, Eliza Miller-Ricci, Dimitar Sasselov, Rainer Kuschnig, David B. Guenther, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Slavek M. Rucinski, Gordon A. H. Walker, Werner W. Weiss

Comments: 23 pages, 8 figures, accepted to the ApJ. v2: minor changes to mirror accepted ApJ version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[735] arXiv:0711.4112 [pdf, other]

Title: The power of blazar jets

A. Celotti (SISSA, Trieste), G. Ghisellini (Oss. Astron. di Brera)

Comments: MNRAS, in press, changed Fig. 5, corrected typos

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[736] arXiv:0711.4113 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of the Transverse Proximity Effect: Radiative Feedback from Bright QSOs

T. S. Goncalves, C. C. Steidel, M. Pettini

Comments: 19 pages, 17 figures, ApJ, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[737] arXiv:0711.4116 [pdf, other]

Title: Star Formation at Zero and Very Low Metallicities

Jonathan C. Tan (1), Christopher F. McKee (2) ((1) Dept. of Astronomy, University of Florida; (2) Depts. of Physics and Astronomy, UC Berkeley)

Comments: 16 pages, including 11 figures, Review paper to appear in "First Stars III", eds. B. O'Shea, A. Heger and T. Abel

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.990:47-62,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[738] arXiv:0711.4119 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing Cosmology with Cosmic Sound Waves

Pier Stefano Corasaniti (LUTH, Meudon), Alessandro Melchiorri (Rome U. & INFN, Rome)

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures. Additional discussion, matches PRD accepted version

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D77:103507,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[739] arXiv:0711.4123 [pdf, other]

Title: The Orbital Distribution of Satellite Galaxies

Stéphane Herbert-Fort, Dennis Zaritsky, Yeun Jin Kim, Jeremy Bailin, James E. Taylor

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

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[740] arXiv:0711.4126 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Scale-Dependent Non-Gaussianity on Cosmological Structures

Marilena LoVerde, Amber Miller, Sarah Shandera, Licia Verde

Comments: 43 pages, 9 figures; references added, submitted to JCAP; typo corrected in Table 1, minor changes to the text

Journal-ref: JCAP 0804:014,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[741] arXiv:0711.4129 [pdf, other]

Title: The optical morphology of A3667 re-examined

M. Johnston-Hollitt, R.W. Hunstead, E. Corbett

Comments: 10 pages, 12 figures, accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[742] arXiv:0711.4130 [pdf, other]

Title: Swift BAT Survey of AGN

J. Tueller, R. F. Mushotzky, S. Barthelmy, J. K. Cannizzo, N. Gehrels, C. B. Markwardt, G. K. Skinner, L. M. Winter

Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables; to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, July 10, 2008, v. 681

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[743] arXiv:0711.4131 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical Counterpart of the Ultraluminous X-ray Source IC 342 X-1

Hua Feng, Philip Kaaret (Univ. of Iowa)

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys. J. 675: 1067-1075, 2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[744] arXiv:0711.4138 [pdf, other]

Title: Furnishing the Galaxy with Pulsars

Paul Kiel, Jarrod Hurley, Matthew Bailes, James Murray

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures, Conference: "40 years of pulsars: Millisecond pulsars, magnetars and more", McGill University, Montreal, Canada, ed. this http URL et al., AIP

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.983:610-612,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[745] arXiv:0711.4140 [pdf, other]

Title: Review of overall parameters of giant radio pulses from the Crab pulsar and B1937+21

A. V. Bilous (ASC Lpi, Mipt), V. I. Kondratiev (ASC Lpi, Wvu), M. V. Popov (ASC Lpi), V. A. Soglasnov (ASC Lpi)

Comments: 3 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the conference "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More" held on August 12-17, 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.983:118-120,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[746] arXiv:0711.4141 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical comparison of Riemann solvers for astrophysical hydrodynamics

Christian Klingenberg, Wolfram Schmidt, Knut Waagan

Comments: 24 pages, 38 figures. To be published in Journal of Computational Physics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[747] arXiv:0711.4158 [pdf, other]

Title: Broad iron K-alpha emission lines as a diagnostic of black hole spin

Christopher S. Reynolds (Maryland), Andrew C. Fabian (Cambridge)

Comments: 23 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[748] arXiv:0711.4163 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino telescopes as a probe of active and sterile neutrino mixings

Zhi-zhong Xing

Comments: 6 pages. Plenary talk given at the XIV International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, Weihai, China, August 15-22, 2006

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.175-176:421-426,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[749] arXiv:0711.4164 [pdf, other]

Title: Morphological Evolution of Outflows from YSOs

Jonathan P. Seale, Leslie W. Looney

Comments: Accepted to Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[750] arXiv:0711.4171 [pdf, other]

Title: Chandra observations of the pulsar PSR B1929+10 and its environment

Zdenka Misanovic, George Pavlov, Gordon Garmire

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures and 2 tables; accepted by ApJ; version with low-resolution figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.685:1129-1142,2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)