Astrophysics

Authors and titles for February 2013

[601] arXiv:1302.4437 [pdf, other]

Title: Enhanced off-center stellar tidal disruptions by supermassive black holes in merging galaxies

F.K. Liu (PKU), Xian Chen (KIAA-PKU & AEI)

Comments: 17 pages, 8 figures; Typos are corrected to match the published version in ApJ

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

[602] arXiv:1302.4440 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical Simulations of Radiatively-Driven Dusty Winds

Mark R. Krumholz, Todd A. Thompson

Comments: 19 pages, 17 figures, MNRAS in press; some additional discussion compared to previous version, no changes in conclusions

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

[603] arXiv:1302.4441 [pdf, other]

Title: Wind Roche-lobe overflow: Application to carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars

C. Abate, O.R. Pols, R.G. Izzard, S.S. Mohamed, S.E. de Mink

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[604] arXiv:1302.4443 [pdf, other]

Title: Low stellar obliquities in compact multiplanet systems

Simon Albrecht, Joshua N. Winn, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, John A. Johnson

Comments: Accepted version ApJ; this version includes referee comments, one additional figure (Fig. 4), and additional Kepler photometry for KOI-94 now including the epoch of the spectroscopic transit observations

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

[605] arXiv:1302.4444 [pdf, other]

Title: The red blazar PMN J2345-1555 becomes blue

G. Ghisellini, F. Tavecchio, L. Foschini, G. Bonnoli, G. Tagliaferri (INAF - Brera Observatory, Italy)

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS Letters, in press

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

[606] arXiv:1302.4445 [pdf, other]

Title: Kepler observations of rapid optical variability in the BL Lac object W2R1926+42

R. Edelson, R. Mushotzky, S. Vaughan, J. Scargle, P. Gandhi, M. Malkan, W. Baumgartner

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, 2013 March 20 edition

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

[607] arXiv:1302.4448 [pdf, other]

Title: Timing Noise in Pulsars and Magnetars and the Magnetospheric Moment of Inertia

David Tsang, Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJL

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

[608] arXiv:1302.4449 [pdf, other]

Title: Surface composition and taxonomic classification of a group of near-Earth and Mars-crossing asteroids

Juan A. Sanchez, René Michelsen, Vishnu Reddy, Andreas Nathues

Comments: 23 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Icarus

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

[609] arXiv:1302.4450 [pdf, other]

Title: A phenomenological approach to the evolution of galaxies

Simon Lilly, Ying-jie Peng, Marcella Carollo, Alvio Renzini

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium No 295 "The intriguing life of massive galaxies", which was held in Beijing during August 2012

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

[610] arXiv:1302.4452 [pdf, other]

Title: Herschel views on ultra-luminous X-ray sources

Mathieu Servillat, Alexis Coleiro, Sylvain Chaty

Comments: Accepted for publication in Proceedings of Science (INTEGRAL 2012), Eds. A. Goldwurm, F. Lebrun and C. Winkler, based on a presentation at the 9th INTEGRAL Workshop, October 15-19, 2012, Paris, France

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

[611] arXiv:1302.4455 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio studies of novae: a current status report and highlights of new results

Nirupam Roy, Laura Chomiuk, Jennifer L. Sokoloski, Jennifer Weston, Michael P. Rupen, Traci Johnson, Miriam I. Krauss, Thomas Nelson, Koji Mukai, Amy Mioduszewski, Michael F. Bode, Stewart P. S. Eyres, Tim J. O'Brien

Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures. Review article published in the Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India (BASI) special issue on novae

Journal-ref: 2012, Bulletin of the ASI, 40, 293

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

[612] arXiv:1302.4456 [pdf, other]

Title: Monte Carlo simulations of the photospheric emission in GRBs

D. Bégué, I. A. Siutsou, G. V. Vereshchagin

Comments: 6 pages, 9 figures, accepted to ApJ. Correction of typos in formulae 4 and 7

Journal-ref: ApJ 767 (2013) 139

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

[613] arXiv:1302.4457 [pdf, other]

Title: Steady Outflows in Giant Clumps of High-z Disk Galaxies During Migration and Growth by Accretion

Avishai Dekel, Mark R. Krumholz

Comments: 16 pages, no figures, MNRAS in press; minor changes from previous version

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

[614] arXiv:1302.4458 [pdf, other]

Title: A Captured Runaway Black Hole in NGC 1277?

G. A. Shields, E. W. Bonning

Comments: Four pages, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Major revisions, especially Section 3

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 772, L5 (2013)

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

[615] arXiv:1302.4462 [pdf, other]

Title: LEDDB: LOFAR Epoch of Reionization Diagnostic Database

O. Martinez-Rubi, V. K. Veligatla, A. G. de Bruyn, P. Lampropoulos, A. R. Offringa, V. Jelic, S. Yatawatta, L. V. E. Koopmans, S. Zaroubi

Comments: ADASS XXII proceedings

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Databases (cs.DB)

[616] arXiv:1302.4477 [pdf, other]

Title: Mid-Infrared Properties of Nearby Luminous Infrared Galaxies I: Spitzer IRS Spectra for the GOALS Sample

S. Stierwalt, L. Armus, J.A. Surace, H. Inami, A.O. Petric, T. Diaz-Santos, S. Haan, V. Charmandaris, J. Howell, D.C. Kim, J. Marshall, J.M. Mazzarella, H.W.W. Spoon, S. Veilleux, A. Evans, D. B. Sanders, P. Appleton, G. Bothun, C.R. Bridge, B. Chan, D. Frayer, K. Iwasawa, L.J. Kewley, S. Lord, B.F. Madore, J.E. Melbourne, E.J. Murphy, J.A. Rich, B. Schulz, E. Sturm, V. U, T. Vavilkin, K. Xu

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJS

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

[617] arXiv:1302.4479 [pdf, other]

Title: Metallicity Differences in Type Ia Supernova Progenitors Inferred from Ultraviolet Spectra

Ryan J. Foley, Robert P. Kirshner

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ApJL

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

[618] arXiv:1302.4482 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei from Extragalactic Pulsars and the effect of their Galactic counterparts

Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera, Angela V. Olinto

Comments: 21 pages, 5 figure, JCAP submitted

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

[619] arXiv:1302.4485 [pdf, other]

Title: The 2013 Release of Cloudy

G. J. Ferland (1), R. L. Porter (2), P. A. M. van Hoof (3), R. J. R. Williams (4), N. P. Abel (5), M. L. Lykins (1), Gargi Shaw (6), W. J. Henney (7), P. C. Stancil (2) ((1) University of Kentucky, (2) University of Georgia, (3) Royal Observatory of Belgium, (4) AWE plc, UK, (5) University of Cincinnati, (6) CEBS, University of Mumbai, India, (7) CRyA-UNAM, Mexico)

Comments: Major review article to be published in RevMexAA. 27 pages, 18 figures

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

[620] arXiv:1302.4503 [pdf, other]

Title: Observations of the D/H ratio in Methane in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan - where did the Saturnian system form?

Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Jeremy Bailey, Jonathan Horner

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in proceedings of the Australian Space Science Conference 2012

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

[621] arXiv:1302.4533 [pdf, other]

Title: Matter power spectrum from a Lagrangian-space regularization of perturbation theory

Patrick Valageas, Takahiro Nishimichi, Atsushi Taruya

Comments: 26 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D, 87, 083522 (2013)

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

[622] arXiv:1302.4542 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical observations of NEA 162173 (1999 JU3) during the 2011-2012 apparition

M.-J. Kim, Y.-J. Choi, H.-K. Moon, M. Ishiguro, S. Mottola, M. Kaplan, D. Kuroda, D. S. Warjurkar, J. Takahashi, Y.-I. Byun

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 550, L11 (2013)

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

[623] arXiv:1302.4566 [pdf, other]

Title: The habitable zone of Earth-like planets with different levels of atmospheric pressure

Giovanni Vladilo, Giuseppe Murante, Laura Silva, Antonello Provenzale, Gaia Ferri, Gregorio Ragazzini

Comments: 58 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ. More figures can be found at this http URL

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

[624] arXiv:1302.4612 [pdf, other]

Title: Hint of 150 MHz radio emission from the Neptune-mass extrasolar transiting planet HAT-P-11b

A. Lecavelier des Etangs, S.K. Sirothia, Gopal-Krishna, P. Zarka

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[625] arXiv:1302.4621 [pdf, other]

Title: Secular Light Curves of Comets C/2011 L4 Panstarrs and C/2012 S1 ISON Compared to 1P/Halley

Ignacio Ferrin

Comments: Submitted for publication, 15 pages, 6 Figures, 2 Tables

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

[626] arXiv:1302.4634 [pdf, other]

Title: RX J0648.0--4418: the fastest-spinning white dwarf

Sandro Mereghetti (IASF-Milano, INAF)

Comments: 3 pages; to appear in the Proceedings of 13th Marcel Grossman Meeting (MG13), Stockholm, Sweden, 1-7 July 2012

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

[627] arXiv:1302.4636 [pdf, other]

Title: Transport techniques for non-Gaussianity

David J. Mulryne

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Stockholm, July 2012

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

[628] arXiv:1302.4638 [pdf, other]

Title: Volatile and refractory abundances of solar analogs with planets

J. I. González Hernández, E. Delgado-Mena, S. G. Sousa, G. Israelian, N. C. Santos, S. Udry

Comments: Conference proccedings to appear in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (ASPCS)

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

[629] arXiv:1302.4640 [pdf, other]

Title: TASI Lectures on Cosmological Perturbations

Julien Lesgourgues

Comments: TASI 2013 lecture notes

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

[630] arXiv:1302.4645 [pdf, other]

Title: A CR-hydro-NEI Model of Multi-wavelength Emission from the Vela Jr. Supernova Remnant (SNR RX J0852.0-4622)

Shiu-Hang Lee, Patrick Slane, Donald C. Ellison, Shigehiro Nagataki, Daniel J. Patnaude

Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures, to appear at the Astrophysical Journal

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

[631] arXiv:1302.4665 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of a 168.8 s X-ray pulsar transiting in front of its Be companion star in the Large Magellanic Cloud

P. Maggi, F. Haberl, R. Sturm, W. Pietsch, A. Rau, J. Greiner, A. Udalski, M. Sasaki

Comments: Updated version of arXiv 1302.4665v1, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 11 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables

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

[632] arXiv:1302.4678 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Radio Polarization Signature of Efficient and Inefficient Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnant SN 1006

Estela M. Reynoso, John P. Hughes, David A. Moffett

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal

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

[633] arXiv:1302.4684 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarimetric observations of $\sigma$ Orionis E

Alex C. Carciofi, Daniel M. Faes, Richard H. D. Townsend, Jon E Bjorkman

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[634] arXiv:1302.4691 [pdf, other]

Title: Ab Initio Equation of State for Hydrogen-Helium Mixtures with Recalibration of the Giant-Planet Mass-Radius Relation

B. Militzer, W. B. Hubbard

Comments: 17 pages, 16 figures, EOS interpolation code may be requested via email: militzer@berkeley.edu

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

[635] arXiv:1302.4708 [pdf, other]

Title: Phase-resolved ultraviolet spectroscopy of the magnetic Of?p star HD 191612

W. L. F. Marcolino, J. -C. Bouret, J. O. Sundqvist, N. R. Walborn, A. W. Fullerton, I. D. Howarth, G. A. Wade, A. ud-Doula

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS (9 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables)

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

[636] arXiv:1302.4725 [pdf, other]

Title: A Search for Rapidly Spinning Pulsars and Fast Transients in Unidentified Radio Sources with the NRAO 43-Meter Telescope

Deborah Schmidt, Fronefield Crawford, Glen Langston, Claire Gilpin

Comments: 9 pages, including 3 figures and 2 tables. Accepted to the Astronomical Journal

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

[637] arXiv:1302.4727 [pdf, other]

Title: RX J0513.1+0851 AND RX J0539.9+0956: Two Young, Rapidly Rotating, Spectroscopic Binary Stars

Dary Ruíz-Rodríguez, L. Prato, Guillermo Torres, L. H. Wasserman, Ralph Neuhäuser

Comments: 14 pages, 9 Figures, 7 Tables

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

[638] arXiv:1302.4728 [pdf, other]

Title: Short wavelength magnetic buoyancy instability

K. A. Mizerski, C. R. Davies, D. W. Hughes

Comments: Accepted for publication by ApJ Suppl

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

[639] arXiv:1302.4732 [pdf, other]

Title: Generic conditions for stable hybrid stars

Mark G. Alford, Sophia Han, Madappa Prakash

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures. Changes to nomenclature, references added

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 88, 083013 (2013)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[640] arXiv:1302.4741 [pdf, other]

Title: The Host Galaxies of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

Emily M. Levesque

Comments: 33 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; invited review for PASP, in press

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

[641] arXiv:1302.4742 [pdf, other]

Title: Calibrating stellar velocity dispersions based on spatially-resolved h-band spectra for improving the m-sigma relation

Wol-Rang Kang, Jong-Hak Woo, Andreas Schulze, Dominik A. Riechers, Sang Chul Kim, Daeseong Park, Vernesa Smolcic

Comments: To be published in ApJ, 12 pages, 9 figures

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

[642] arXiv:1302.4745 [pdf, other]

Title: Interferometric Upper Limits on Millimeter Polarization of the Disks around DG Tau, GM Aur, and MWC 480

A. M. Hughes (Wesleyan), C. L. H. Hull (UC Berkeley), D. J. Wilner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), R. L. Plambeck (UC Berkeley)

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in AJ

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

[643] arXiv:1302.4746 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical enrichment and physical conditions in I Zw 18

Vianney Lebouteiller, Sara Heap, Ivan Hubeny, Daniel Kunth

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A. Fixed typos and references

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

[644] arXiv:1302.4753 [pdf, other]

Title: Perturbed Recombination from Dark Matter Annihilation

Cora Dvorkin, Kfir Blum, Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)

Comments: 20 pages, 8 figures. v2: added references, improved discussion of second order source, corrected treatment of molecular weight in matter temperature evolution; results unchanged

Journal-ref: Phys. RevD.87:103522, 2013

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

[645] arXiv:1302.4754 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing Dark Matter Clustering with Redshift Space Distortions

Eric V. Linder

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures; v2 matches JCAP version, minor changes, clearer Fig. 4

Journal-ref: JCAP 04(2013)031

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

[646] arXiv:1302.4764 [pdf, other]

Title: An Algorithm for Precise Aperture Photometry of Critically Sampled Images

Steven Bickerton, Robert Lupton

Comments: Accepted MNRAS

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

[647] arXiv:1302.4799 [pdf, other]

Title: Two Beyond-Primitive Extrasolar Planetesimals

S. Xu (1), M. Jura (1), B. Klein (1), D. Koester (2), B. Zuckerman (1) ((1) UCLA (2) University of Kiel)

Comments: 36 pages, 13 figures, 7 tables, ApJ, accepted

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

[648] arXiv:1302.4830 [pdf, other]

Title: The radiation energy component of the Hubble function and a LCDM cosmological simulation

Hector Aceves (IA-UNAM)

Comments: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to the use an incorrect equation for perturbations including radiation. The linear part of the spectrum should follow the P(k)

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

[649] arXiv:1302.4837 [pdf, other]

Title: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in spatially resolved extragalactic star forming complexes

M.S. Khramtsova, D.S. Wiebe, P.A. Boley, Ya.N. Pavlyuchenkov

Comments: Accepted to MNRAS, 14 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables

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

[650] arXiv:1302.4847 [pdf, other]

Title: INTEGRAL Results on Gamma-Ray Bursts

Diego Gotz

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures, solicited talk to the 9th INTEGRAL Workshop and celebration of the 10th anniversary of the launch "An INTEGRAL view of the high-energy sky (the first 10 years)", accepted for publication in Proceedings of Science (editors: F. Lebrun, A. Goldwurm and C. Winkler)

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