Astrophysics

Authors and titles for February 2013

[501] arXiv:1302.3517 [pdf, other]

Title: The 10830 He I Absorption Line Among Metal-Poor Subdwarfs

Graeme H. Smith (UCO/Lick), Andrea K. Dupree (CfA/SAO), Jay Strader (Michigan State)

Comments: 8 pages, published in PASP

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

[502] arXiv:1302.3520 [pdf, other]

Title: 2D kinematics of the edge-on spiral galaxy ESO 379-G006

M. Rosado, R.F. Gabbasov, P. Repetto, I. Fuentes-Carrera, P. Amram, M. Martos, O. Hernandez

Comments: 61 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ

Journal-ref: 2013 AJ, 145, 135

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

[503] arXiv:1302.3526 [pdf, other]

Title: Formaldehyde Densitometry of Starburst Galaxies: Density-Independent Global Star Formation

Jeffrey G. Mangum, Jeremy Darling, Christian Henkel, Karl M. Menten

Comments: 27 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables (sheesh...what a long paper!). Accepted for publication in ApJ. Updated with proof corrections. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0710.2115

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

[504] arXiv:1302.3533 [pdf, other]

Title: The Top Ten Spitzer YSOs in 30 Doradus

Nolan R. Walborn (Space Telescope Science Institute), Rodolfo H. Barba (Universidad de La Serena, Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas de la Tierra y del Espacio [ICATE-CONICET]), Marta M. Sewilo (The Johns Hopkins University, Space Science Institute)

Comments: 23 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; to be published in the Astronomical Journal

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

[505] arXiv:1302.3537 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Velocity Line Forming Regions in the Type Ia Supernova 2009ig

G. H. Marion (1), Jozsef Vinko (2 and 3), J. Craig Wheeler (2), Ryan J. Foley (1 and 4), Eric Y. Hsiao (5), Peter J. Brown (6), Peter Challis (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (7), Peter Garnavich (8), Robert P. Kirshner (1), Wayne B. Landsman (9), Jerod T. Parrent (10 and 11), Tyler A. Pritchard (12), Peter W. A. Roming (12 and 13), Jeffrey M. Silverman (2), Xiaofeng Wang (14 and 6) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) University of Texas at Austin, (3) Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics, University of Szeged, (4) Clay Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (5) Carnegie Observatories, Las Campanas Observatory, (6) Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University, (7) Department of Astronomy, University of California, (8) Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, (9) Adnet Systems, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (10) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, (11) Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College, (12) Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University, (13) Space Science & Engineering Division, Southwest Research Institute, (14) Physics Department and Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics (THCA))

Comments: 19 pages, 11figures, 4 tables, submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[506] arXiv:1302.3538 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of Circumplanetary Disks around Planets in Wide Orbits: Implications for Formation Theory, Observations, and Moon Systems

Megan Shabram, Aaron Boley

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[507] arXiv:1302.3544 [pdf, other]

Title: Power spectrum for inflation models with quantum and thermal noises

Rudnei O. Ramos, L. A. da Silva

Comments: 29 pages, 26 eps figures. Published in JCAP. Arxiv version: added comments about Planck results

Journal-ref: JCAP 03 (2013) 032

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

[508] arXiv:1302.3614 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing the Universality of the Fundamental Metallicity Relation at High Redshift Using Low-Mass Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies

Sirio Belli, Tucker Jones, Richard S. Ellis, Johan Richard

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, 15 pages, 8 figures

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

[509] arXiv:1302.3615 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulations of two-planet systems through all phases of stellar evolution: implications for the instability boundary and white dwarf pollution

Dimitri Veras, Alexander J. Mustill, Amy Bonsor, Mark C. Wyatt

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 24 pages, 19 figures

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

[510] arXiv:1302.3616 [pdf, other]

Title: Isolated galaxies in hierarchical galaxy formation models - present-day properties and environmental histories

Michaela Hirschmann, Gabriella De Lucia, Angela Iovino, Olga Cucciati

Comments: 15 pages, 13 figures, minor changes in the text, accepted for publication by MNRAS

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

[511] arXiv:1302.3618 [pdf, other]

Title: GALA: an automatic tool for the abundance analysis of stellar spectra

A. Mucciarelli (UNIBO), E. Pancino (INAF-OABO, ASDC), L. Lovisi (UNIBO), F. R. Ferraro (UNIBO), E. Lapenna (UNIBO)

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[512] arXiv:1302.3620 [pdf, other]

Title: Accurate Sky Continuum Subtraction with Fibre-fed Spectrographs

Yanbin Yang (1)Myriam Rodrigues (2)Mathieu Puech (1)Hector Flores (1)Frederic Royer (1)Karen Disseau (1)Thiago Gonçalves (3)François Hammer (1)Michele Cirasuolo (4)Chris Evans (5)Gianluca Li Causi (6)Roberto Maiolino (7)Claudio Melo (2) ((1) GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Meudon, France (2) ESO (3) Observatorio do Valongo, Brazil (4) SUPA, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, UK (5) UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, UK (6) INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy (7) Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)

Comments: to appear in ESO Messenger, March 2013

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

[513] arXiv:1302.3621 [pdf, other]

Title: GALA cookbook

A. Mucciarelli (UNIBO)

Comments: Manual of the GALA code. 22 pages

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

[514] arXiv:1302.3622 [pdf, other]

Title: INTEGRAL/IBIS and optical observations of the Crab nebula/pulsar polarisation

Paul Moran, Andy Shearer, Christian Gouiffes, Philippe Laurent

Comments: Proceedings of "An INTEGRAL view of the high-energy sky (the first 10 years)" the 9th INTEGRAL Workshop, October 15-19, 2012, Paris, France, in Proceedings of Science (INTEGRAL 2012), Eds. A. Goldwurm, F. Lebrun and C. Winkler, (this http URL), id:(PoS(INTEGRAL 2012)008)

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

[515] arXiv:1302.3626 [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding Galaxy Outflows as the Product of Unstable Turbulent Support

Evan Scannapieco

Comments: 1 page, published in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: 2013, ApJ, 763, L31

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

[516] arXiv:1302.3631 [pdf, other]

Title: The Neutral Hydrogen Content of Galaxies in Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations

Romeel Davé, Neal Katz, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Juna A. Kollmeier, David H. Weinberg

Comments: 21 pages, MNRAS, accepted

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

[517] arXiv:1302.3643 [pdf, other]

Title: Can magnetar spin-down power extended emission in some short GRBs?

Ben Gompertz, Paul O'Brien, Graham Wynn, Antonia Rowlinson

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[518] arXiv:1302.3644 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical Observations of the Transiting Exoplanet GJ 1214b

Johanna K. Teske, Jake D. Turner, Matthias Mueller, Caitlin A. Griffith

Comments: 20 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. Accepted to MNRAS. Revisions: Updated reference list with 2 additional references; updated Figure 3 with 1 additional source of observations (3 points)

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

[519] arXiv:1302.3655 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for a Snow Line Beyond the Transitional Radius in the TW Hya Protoplanetary Disk

K. Zhang, K. M. Pontoppidan, C. Salyk, G. A. Blake

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication by Astrophysical Journal

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

[520] arXiv:1302.3666 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulations of micrometeoroid interactions with the Earth atmosphere

G. Briani, E. Pace (Univ. di Firenze), S. N. Shore (Univ. di Pisa, INFN-Pisa), G. Pupillo (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia), A. Passaro (Alta S. p. A.), S. Aiello (Univ. di Firenze)

Comments: accepted (2013 Feb. 4) for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics; V.2 - corrected problems with bibliography/citations in the tex file, otherwise no changes

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[521] arXiv:1302.3675 [pdf, other]

Title: Mariner 2 and its Legacy: 50 Years on

Jeremy Bailey

Comments: 10 pages, Accepted in the Proceedings of the 12th Australian Space Science Conference

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

[522] arXiv:1302.3679 [pdf, other]

Title: Metallicity Distribution Functions, Radial Velocities, and Alpha Element Abundances in Three Off-Axis Bulge Fields

Christian I. Johnson, R. Michael Rich, Chiaki Kobayashi, Andrea Kunder, Catherine A. Pilachowski, Andreas Koch, Roberto De Propris

Comments: Accepted for Publication in the Astrophysical Journal; 120 pages (main text ends on page 24); 22 figures (figures end on page 46); 6 tables; electronic versions of the tables can be made available upon request to author C. Johnson

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

[523] arXiv:1302.3683 [pdf, other]

Title: The Cherenkov radiation in the galaxy halo of dark matter

Leonid M Chechin

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

[524] arXiv:1302.3687 [pdf, other]

Title: Confronting Cold Dark Matter Predictions with Observed Galaxy Rotations

Danail Obreschkow, Xiangcheng Ma, Martin Meyer, Chris Power, Martin Zwaan, Lister Staveley-Smith, Michael J. Drinkwater

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: ApJ 766 137 (2013)

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

[525] arXiv:1302.3708 [pdf, other]

Title: Identification of 12 High Mass X-Ray Binaries detected by INTEGRAL through NIR photometry and spectroscopy

A. Coleiro, S. Chaty, J.A. Zurita Heras, F. Rahoui, J.A. Tomsick

Comments: Poster at the 9th INTEGRAL Workshop held in Paris, France, on 15-19 october 2012. To be published in Proceedings of Science

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

[526] arXiv:1302.3715 [pdf, other]

Title: Synthetic photometry for carbon-rich giants. III. Tracing the sequence of mass-losing galactic C-type Miras

W. Nowotny, B. Aringer, S. Hoefner, K. Eriksson

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[527] arXiv:1302.3728 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroseismic determination of obliquities of the exoplanet systems Kepler-50 and Kepler-65

W. J. Chaplin, R. Sanchis-Ojeda, T. L. Campante, R. Handberg, D. Stello, J. N. Winn, S. Basu, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, G. R. Davies, T. S. Metcalfe, L. A. Buchhave, D. A. Fischer, T. R. Bedding, W. D. Cochran, Y. Elsworth, R. L. Gilliland, S. Hekker, D. Huber, H. Isaacson, C. Karoff, S. D. Kawaler, H. Kjeldsen, D. W. Latham, M. N. Lund, M. Lundkvist, G. W. Marcy, A. Miglio, T. Barclay, J. J. Lissauer

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 46 pages, 11 figures

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

[528] arXiv:1302.3754 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of the distribution of High Mass X-ray Binaries in the Galaxy

A. Coleiro, S. Chaty

Comments: Proceedings of "An INTEGRAL view of the high-energy sky (the first 10 years)" the 9th INTEGRAL Workshop, October 15-19, 2012, Paris, France, in Proceedings of Science (INTEGRAL 2012), Eds. A. Goldwurm, F. Lebrun and C. Winkler

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

[529] arXiv:1302.3755 [pdf, other]

Title: Ice condensation as a planet formation mechanism

Katrin Ros, Anders Johansen

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[530] arXiv:1302.3761 [pdf, other]

Title: PARSEC: A Parametrized Simulation Engine for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Protons

Hans-Peter Bretz, Martin Erdmann, Peter Schiffer, David Walz, Tobias Winchen

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics

Journal-ref: Astroparticle Physics 54C (2014), pp. 110-117

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

[531] arXiv:1302.3795 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure of the inner jet of OJ 287 VLBA data at 15 GHz in a super-resolution mode

Claudio E. Tateyama

Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJS

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

[532] arXiv:1302.3804 [pdf, other]

Title: Blazar Anti-Sequence of Spectral Variation within individual Blazars: Cases for Mrk 501 and 3C 279

Jin Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang, En-Wei Liang

Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures, 2 table, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[533] arXiv:1302.3821 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigation of the Earth Ionosphere using the Radio Emission of Pulsars

O.M. Ulyanov, A.I. Shevtsova, D.V. Mukha, A.A. Seredkina

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, Baltic Astronomy, vol.22, 53-65, 2013

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[534] arXiv:1302.3827 [pdf, other]

Title: Nemesis encounters of nearby Hipparcos stars

Igor Yu. Potemine

Comments: 4 pages

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

[535] arXiv:1302.3842 [pdf, other]

Title: Transporting non-Gaussianity from sub to super-horizon scales

David J. Mulryne

Comments: 17 pages, no figures

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

[536] arXiv:1302.3853 [pdf, other]

Title: A Spectral Atlas of HII Galaxies in the Near-Infrared

Lucimara P. Martins, Alberto Rodríguez-Ardila, Suzi Diniz, Ruth Gruenwald, Ronaldo de Souza

Comments: 21 pages (main) + 28 pages (appendix), 6 figures + 28 figures (appendix), accepted by MNRAS

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

[537] arXiv:1302.3858 [pdf, other]

Title: A Massive Protostar Forming by Ordered Collapse of a Dense, Massive Core

Yichen Zhang, Jonathan C. Tan, James M. De Buizer, Goran Sandell, Maria T. Beltran, Ed Churchwell, Christopher F. McKee, Ralph Shuping, Jan E. Staff, Charles Telesco, Barbara Whitney

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted to ApJ

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

[538] arXiv:1302.3877 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing Two-Field Open Inflation by Resonant Signals in Correlation Functions

Thorsten Battefeld, Jens C. Niemeyer, Dimitar Vlaykov

Comments: 42 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: JCAP 05 (2013) 006

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

[539] arXiv:1302.3878 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Resolution Observations and the Physics of High-Velocity Cloud A0

Gerrit L. Verschuur

Comments: 34 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[540] arXiv:1302.3883 [pdf, other]

Title: Anomalous CO2 Ice Toward HOPS-68: A Tracer of Protostellar Feedback

Charles A. Poteet, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, S. Thomas Megeath, Dan M. Watson, Karoliina Isokoski, Jon E. Bjorkman, Patrick D. Sheehan, Harold Linnartz

Comments: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal, 2013 February 15: 14 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

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

[541] arXiv:1302.3885 [pdf, other]

Title: Big Black Hole, Little Neutron Star: Magnetic Dipole Fields in the Rindler Spacetime

Daniel J. D'Orazio, Janna Levin

Comments: Published in Physical Review D: this http URL

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 88, 064059 (2013)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[542] arXiv:1302.3886 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffuse X-ray Emission from Planetary Nebulae with Nebular O VI

N. Ruiz, Y.-H. Chu, R.A. Gruendl, M.A. Guerrero, R. Jacob, D. Schonberner, M. Steffen

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted by ApJ

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

[543] arXiv:1302.3910 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimizing Doppler Surveys for Planet Yield

Michael Bottom, Philip S. Muirhead, John Asher Johnson, Cullen H. Blake

Comments: Accepted by PASP (Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific). 14 pages, 12 figures

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

[544] arXiv:1302.3915 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting Long-Duration Narrow-Band Gravitational Wave Transients Associated with Soft Gamma Repeater Quasi-Periodic Oscillations

David Murphy, Maggie Tse, Peter Raffai, Imre Bartos, Rubab Khan, Zsuzsa Marka, Luca Matone, Keith Redwine, Szabolcs Marka

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Physical Review D, vol. 87, Issue 10, id. 103008, 2013

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[545] arXiv:1302.3916 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotational quenching of rotationally-excited H$_2$O in collisions with He

Benhui Yang, M. Nagao, W. Satomi, M. Kimura, P. C. Stancil

Comments: 29 pages, 9 figures, 1 table

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

[546] arXiv:1302.3928 [pdf, other]

Title: Fluorine Abundances of Galactic Low-Metallicity Giants

H. N. Li, H.-G. Ludwig, E. Caffau, N. Christlieb, G. Zhao

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, published in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 765:51 (8pp), 2013 March 1

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

[547] arXiv:1302.3938 [pdf, other]

Title: SED-inferred properties and morphology of Lyman-break galaxies at $z\sim 1$ in the CDF-S

Z. Chen, C. G. Shu, D. Burgarella, V. Buat, J. -S. Huang, Z. J. Luo

Comments: 26 pages, 30 figures, 6 tables, accepted by MNRAS

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

[548] arXiv:1302.3941 [pdf, other]

Title: Unveiling the detailed density and velocity structures of the protostellar core B335

Yasutaka Kurono, Masao Saito, Takeshi Kamazaki, Koh-Ichiro Morita, Ryohei Kawabe

Comments: to be published in ApJ, 37 pages, 11 figures

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

[549] arXiv:1302.3954 [pdf, other]

Title: The formation of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs

Dimitris Stamatellos

Comments: 6 pages, a short review, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "The labyrinth of star formation", edited by Stamatellos, Goodwin & Ward-Thompson

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

[550] arXiv:1302.3955 [pdf, other]

Title: The formation of planets by disc fragmentation

Dimitris Stamatellos

Comments: 8 pages, a short review, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Hot Planets and Cool Stars" published by EDP Sciences

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)