Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 2013

[1] arXiv:1301.0010 [pdf, other]

Title: The intergalactic Newtonian gravitational field and the shell theorem

L. Zaninetti

Comments: 18 pages 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1212.6838

Journal-ref: Serbian Astronomical Journal (2012)185, 17-23

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[2] arXiv:1301.0012 [pdf, other]

Title: An X-ray and Multiwavelength Survey of Highly Radio-Loud Quasars at z > 4: Jet-Linked Emission in the Brightest Radio Beacons of the Early Universe

Jianfeng Wu, W. N. Brandt, Brendan P. Miller, Gordon P. Garmire, Donald P. Schneider, Cristian Vignali

Comments: ApJ in press; 9 figures, 13 tables

Journal-ref: 2013ApJ...763..109W

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[3] arXiv:1301.0017 [pdf, other]

Title: High-z Quasars in the R_h=ct Universe

Fulvio Melia

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: ApJ 764, 72 (2013)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[4] arXiv:1301.0018 [pdf, other]

Title: Ubiquitous Solar Eruptions Driven by Magnetized Vortex Tubes

I. N. Kitiashvili, A. G. Kosovichev, S. K. Lele, N. N. Mansour, A. A. Wray

Comments: 18 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[5] arXiv:1301.0023 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing the Cool KOIs IV: Kepler-32 as a prototype for the formation of compact planetary systems throughout the Galaxy

Jonathan J. Swift, John Asher Johnson, Timothy D. Morton, Justin R. Crepp, Benjamin T. Montet, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Philip S. Muirhead

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures, ApJ accepted

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[6] arXiv:1301.0024 [pdf, other]

Title: Relative velocity of dark matter and barions in clusters of galaxies and measurements of their peculiar velocities

Klaus Dolag, Rashid Sunyaev

Comments: 17 pages, 18 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[7] arXiv:1301.0049 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic Cosmological Behavior of Scalar-Torsion Mode in Poincare Gauge Theory

Chao-Qiang Geng, Chung-Chi Lee, Huan-Hsin Tseng

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, accepted by PRD

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

[8] arXiv:1301.0060 [pdf, other]

Title: On the accuracy of the Perturbative Approach for Strong Lensing: Local Distortion for Pseudo-Elliptical Models

Habib S. Dúmet-Montoya, Gabriel B. Caminha, Bruno Moraes, Martin Makler, Mandeep S. S. Gill, Basílio X. Santiago

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS 433, 2975 (2013)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[9] arXiv:1301.0063 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular hydrogen regulated star formation in cosmological SPH simulations

Robert Thompson, Kentaro Nagamine, Jason Jaacks, Jun-Hwan Choi

Comments: 23 pages, 19 figures, 1 table, accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[10] arXiv:1301.0064 [pdf, other]

Title: Artificial Neural Network based gamma-hadron segregation methodology for TACTIC telescope

V. K. Dhar, A. K. Tickoo, M. K. Koul, R. Koul, B. P. Dubey, R. C. Rannot, K. K. Yadav, P. Chandra, M. Kothari, K. Chanchalani, K. Venugopal

Comments: Accepted for Publication in Nuclear Instruments Methods in Physics Research A., Dec 2012 ; 36 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[11] arXiv:1301.0111 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterisation of the Galactic thin disc with Corot targets

J.-C. Gazzano, G. Kordopatis, M. Deleuil, P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco, V. Hill

Comments: Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[12] arXiv:1301.0162 [pdf, other]

Title: A magnetic reconnection model for quasi-periodic oscillations in black hole systems

Chang-Yin Huang, Ding-Xiong Wang, Jiu-Zhou Wang, Zhi-Yun Wang

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in RAA

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[13] arXiv:1301.0163 [pdf, other]

Title: Lithium-Rich Field Giants in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Sarah L. Martell, Matthew D. Shetrone

Comments: 11 pages, MNRAS accepted

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[14] arXiv:1301.0187 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Periods of Negative Superhumps and the Nature of Superoutbursts

J. Smak

Comments: 7 pages; submitted to "Acta Astronomica"

Journal-ref: Acta Astron., 63, 109-114, 2013

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[15] arXiv:1301.0190 [pdf, other]

Title: An XMM-Newton search for X-ray sources in the Fornax dwarf galaxy

A. A. Nucita, L. Manni, F. De Paolis, D. Vetrugno, G. Ingrosso

Comments: In press on Astronomy and Astrophysics. 12 Pages, colour figures on the on-line version of the paper

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[16] arXiv:1301.0199 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of the first Super-Lithium rich Beat Cepheid: V371 Per

V. V. Kovtyukh, N. I. Gorlova, M. Hillen

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2012, v. 25, N1, p.52

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[17] arXiv:1301.0217 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterization of potentially habitable planets: Retrieval of atmospheric and planetary properties from emission spectra

P. von Paris, P. Hedelt, F. Selsis, F. Schreier, T. Trautmann

Comments: accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics (23.12.2012), 14 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[18] arXiv:1301.0232 [pdf, other]

Title: Tidal Instability and Superhump by a Wave-Wave Resonant Model

Shoji Kato

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted in PASJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[19] arXiv:1301.0235 [pdf, other]

Title: Hot Moons and Cool Stars

René Heller (1), Rory Barnes (2,3) ((1) Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Germany, (2) University of Washington, Seattle, USA, (3) NASA Astrobiology Institute, VPL Lead Team, USA)

Comments: submitted as Proceedings to the ROPACS meeting "Hot Planets and Cool Stars" (Nov. 2012, Garching), 4 pages, 2 colored figures

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[20] arXiv:1301.0240 [pdf, other]

Title: Does a prestellar core always become protostellar? Tracing the evolution of cores from the prestellar to protostellar phase

S. Anathpindika, James Di Francesco

Comments: 14 pages, 24 figures and 1 table; To appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[21] arXiv:1301.0242 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffuse interstellar bands in fullerene planetary nebulae: the fullerenes - diffuse interstellar bands connection

D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, J. J. Diaz-Luis

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters (6 pages, 4 figures, and 1 Table)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[22] arXiv:1301.0245 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep optical observations of the gamma-ray pulsar PSR J0007+7303 in the CTA 1 supernova remnant

R. P. Mignani (INAF-IASF Milano, MSSL/UCL, Kepler Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Gora), A. de Luca (INAF-IASF Milano, INFN), N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC), A. Shearer, S. Collins (Centre for Astronomy, National University of Ireland), D. F. Torres, D. Hadasch, A. Caliandro (CSIC-IEEC)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication on MNRAS

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[23] arXiv:1301.0248 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Lorentz Factor of Superluminal Sources

Chika Christian Onuchukwu, Augustine Anyaegbunam Ubachukwu

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in RAA (MS1143)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[24] arXiv:1301.0250 [pdf, other]

Title: Successful Asteroseismology for a Better Characterization of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b

M. Oshagh, A. Grigahcène, O. Benomar, M.-A. Dupret, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, R. Scuflaire, N. C. Santos

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, Published in the Stellar Pulsations, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Volume 31., p. 227, 2013

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[25] arXiv:1301.0253 [pdf, other]

Title: Non--local radiative transfer in strongly inverted masers

F. Daniel, J. Cernicharo

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[26] arXiv:1301.0255 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling Wave Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Hubert L. Bray, Alan R. Parry

Comments: 22 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[27] arXiv:1301.0257 [pdf, other]

Title: FUV Detection of the Suspected Subdwarf Companion to the Be Star 59 Cygni

Geraldine J. Peters, Tiffany D. Pewett, Douglas R. Gies, Yamina N. Touhami, Erika D. Grundstrom

Comments: Accepted for ApJ, 25 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[28] arXiv:1301.0263 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the non-Gaussian stochastic gravitational-wave background: a method for realistic interferometer data

Eric Thrane

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 87, 043009 (2013)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[29] arXiv:1301.0274 [pdf, other]

Title: The mass of the black hole in GRS 1915+105: new constraints from IR spectroscopy

D. J. Hurley, P. J. Callanan, P. Elebert, M. T. Reynolds

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[30] arXiv:1301.0276 [pdf, other]

Title: Pre-main-sequence binaries with tidally disrupted discs: the Br gamma in HD 104237

P. J. V. Garcia, M. Benisty, C. Dougados, F. Bacciotti, J.-M. Clausse, F. Massi, A. Mérand, R. Petrov, G. Weigelt

Comments: 16 pages, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal This version corrects some typos identified at proofs stage

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[31] arXiv:1301.0285 [pdf, other]

Title: The Equations of Magnetoquasigeostrophy

O. M. Umurhan

Comments: 13 pages. Under consideration for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[32] arXiv:1301.0291 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Non-existence of a Sharp Cooling Break in GRB Afterglow Spectra

Z. Lucas Uhm, Bing Zhang

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 17 pages, 5 figures; significantly expanded to address the referee's reports, new section (2.2) and three more figures added, conclusion unchanged

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[33] arXiv:1301.0295 [pdf, other]

Title: A new way of detecting intergalactic baryons

Richard Lieu, Lingze Duan

Comments: ApJ Letters in press (this version incl. changes made at Proofs stage)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[34] arXiv:1301.0305 [pdf, other]

Title: Phantom Energy and the Cosmic Horizon: Rh is still not a horizon!

Geraint F. Lewis

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[35] arXiv:1301.0311 [pdf, other]

Title: Venus transits: history and opportunities for planetary, solar and gravitational physics

Costantino Sigismondi, Xiaofan Wang, Patrick Rocher, Eugenio Reis-Neto

Comments: 3 pages, Proc. of XIII Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, SG1-2 sessions. Stockholm, July 1-8, 2012. To be published with World Scientific pub. in 2013

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[36] arXiv:1301.0317 [pdf, other]

Title: A Tentative Detection of an Emission Line at 1.6 {\mu}m for the z~12 Candidate UDFj-39546284

Gabriel B. Brammer, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Garth D. Illingworth, Rychard J. Bouwens, Ivo Labbe, Marijn Franx, Ivelina Momcheva, Pascal A. Oesch

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[37] arXiv:1301.0318 [pdf, other]

Title: Wind-driven Accretion in Protoplanetary Disks. I: Suppression of the Magnetorotational Instability and Launching of the Magnetocentrifugal Wind

Xue-Ning Bai, James M. Stone

Comments: 23 pages, 13 figures, accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[38] arXiv:1301.0319 [pdf, other]

Title: Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Giant Planets, Oscillations, Rotation, and Massive Stars

Bill Paxton, Matteo Cantiello, Phil Arras, Lars Bildsten, Edward F. Brown, Aaron Dotter, Christopher Mankovich, M. H. Montgomery, Dennis Stello, F. X. Timmes, Richard Townsend

Comments: Accepted for publication in The ApJ Supplement Series. Extra informations required to reproduce the calculations in this paper are available at this http URL

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[39] arXiv:1301.0320 [pdf, other]

Title: The Radial Distribution of Star Formation in Galaxies at z~1 from the 3D-HST Survey

Erica June Nelson, Pieter van Dokkum, Ivelina Momcheva, Gabriel Brammer, Britt Lundgren, Rosalind Skelton, Katherine Whitaker, Elisabete Da Cunha, Natascha Forster Schreiber, Marijn Franx, Mattia Fumagalli, Mariska Kriek, Ivo Labbe, Joel Leja, Shannon Patel, Hans-Walter Rix, Kasper Schmidt, Arjen van der Wel, Stijn Wuyts

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[40] arXiv:1301.0321 [pdf, other]

Title: Strontium and Barium In Early-Type Galaxies

Charlie Conroy, Pieter van Dokkum, Genevieve J. Graves

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, ApJL accepted

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[41] arXiv:1301.0322 [pdf, other]

Title: Solving Large Scale Structure in Ten Easy Steps with COLA

Svetlin Tassev, Matias Zaldarriaga, Daniel Eisenstein

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: JCAP06(2013)036

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[42] arXiv:1301.0323 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopy of The Largest Ever Gamma-ray Selected BL Lac Sample

Michael S. Shaw, Roger W. Romani, Garret Cotter, Stephen E. Healey, Peter F. Michelson, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Joseph L. Richards, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Oliver G. King, William J. Potter

Comments: 14 pages; Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[43] arXiv:1301.0325 [pdf, other]

Title: The Relationship Between the Dense Neutral and Diffuse Ionized Gas in the Thick Disks of Two Edge-On Spiral Galaxies

Katherine M. Rueff, J. Christopher Howk, Marissa Pitterle, Alec S. Hirschauer, Andrew J. Fox, Blair D. Savage

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in AJ

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[44] arXiv:1301.0326 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature of the near-infrared interline sky background using fibre Bragg grating OH suppression

Christopher Q. Trinh, Simon C. Ellis, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Anthony J. Horton, Jon S. Lawrence, Sergio G. Leon-Saval

Comments: 17 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[45] arXiv:1301.0341 [pdf, other]

Title: Coupling the solar surface and the corona: coronal rotation, Alfv\'en wave-driven polar plumes

R. F. Pinto, R. Grappin, M. Velli, A. Verdini

Comments: Solar Wind 13: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Solar Wind Conference

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[46] arXiv:1301.0348 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of the Vorticity Effect on the Disk Orientations

Jounghun Lee (Seoul National University)

Comments: submitted for publication in ApJ, 18 pages, 7 figures, comments welcome

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[47] arXiv:1301.0355 [pdf, other]

Title: Synthetic Light Curves of Shocked Dense Circumstellar Shells

Takashi J. Moriya, Sergei I. Blinnikov, Petr V. Baklanov, Elena I. Sorokina, Alexander D. Dolgov

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, accepted by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 430, Issue 2, p.1402-1407 (2013)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[48] arXiv:1301.0359 [pdf, other]

Title: Pulsar searches of Fermi unassociated sources with the Effelsberg telescope

E. D. Barr, L. Guillemot, D. J. Champion, M. Kramer, R. P. Eatough, K. J. Lee, J. P. W. Verbiest, C. G. Bassa, F. Camilo, Ö. Çelik, I. Cognard, E. C. Ferrara, P. C. C. Freire, G. H. Janssen, S. Johnston, M. Keith, A. G. Lyne, P. F. Michelson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, B. W. Stappers, K. S. Wood

Comments: 10 pages (+ 9 page table), 3 figures, Published in MNRAS

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[49] arXiv:1301.0360 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational lensing effects on sub-millimetre galaxy counts

Xinzhong Er, Guoliang Li, Shude Mao, Liang Cao

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[50] arXiv:1301.0364 [pdf, other]

Title: The Secular Aberration Drift and Future Challenges for VLBI Astrometry

Oleg Titov

Comments: Proceedings of the "Journees-2011" meeting hold in Vienna University of Technology, 19-21 September, 2011

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)