Astrophysics

Authors and titles for March 2013

[1101] arXiv:1303.7206 [pdf, other]

Title: Ripple effects & oscillations in the broad FeKa line as a probe of massive black hole mergers

B.McKernan, K.E.S.Ford, B.Kocsis, Z.Haiman

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures, MNRAS (accepted)

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

[1102] arXiv:1303.7212 [pdf, other]

Title: Forecasts for CMB \mu- and i-type spectral distortion constraints on the primordial power spectrum on scales 8 < k < 10^4 Mpc^-1 with the future Pixie-like experiments

Rishi Khatri, Rashid A. Sunyaev

Comments: Includes free recipe. i-type distortion spectra and Mathematica code available at this http URL

Journal-ref: JCAP 06 (2013) 026

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

[1103] arXiv:1303.7218 [pdf, other]

Title: A PCA approach to stellar effective temperatures

Julián Muñoz Bermejo, Andrés Asensio Ramos, Carlos Allende Prieto

Comments: Pages 1-9 Article and pages 9-22 Table. 7 Figures

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

[1104] arXiv:1303.7228 [pdf, other]

Title: How well can we really estimate the stellar masses of galaxies from broadband photometry?

P. D. Mitchell, C. G. Lacey, C. M. Baugh, S. Cole

Comments: 29 pages, 16 Figures, changed to match published MNRAS version

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

[1105] arXiv:1303.7231 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy evolution near groups and clusters: ejected satellites and the spatial extent of environmental quenching

Andrew R. Wetzel, Jeremy L. Tinker, Charlie Conroy, Frank C. van den Bosch

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS, matches published version

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

[1106] arXiv:1303.7233 [pdf, other]

Title: Stability Analysis for Cosmic-Ray Heating of Cool Cores in Galaxy Clusters

Yutaka Fujita, Sota Kimura, Yutaka Ohira

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[1107] arXiv:1303.7234 [pdf, other]

Title: Late-Time Spectral Observations of the Strongly Interacting Type Ia Supernova PTF11kx

Jeffrey M. Silverman, Peter E. Nugent, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mark Sullivan, D. Andrew Howell, Alexei V. Filippenko, Yen-Chen Pan, S. Bradley Cenko, Isobel M. Hook

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, re-submitted to ApJ

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

[1108] arXiv:1303.7237 [pdf, other]

Title: Crucial aspects of the initial mass function (I): The statistical correlation between the total mass of an ensemble of stars and its most massive star

Miguel Cervino (1 and 2), Carlos Romann-Zuniga (3), Valentina Luridiana (2 and 4), Amelia Bayo (5 and 6), Nestor Sanchez (7), Enrique Perez (1) ((1) IAA-CSIC, (2) IAC, (3) IA-Ensenada UNAM, (4) Univ. La Laguna, (5) ESO, (6) MPA Heifelberg, (7) Facl. Matematicas-UCM)

Comments: Accepted by A&A; 16 pages, 10 figures

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

[1109] arXiv:1303.7238 [pdf, other]

Title: Crucial aspects of the initial mass function (II): The inference of total quantities from partial information on a cluster

Miguel Cervino (1 and 2), Carlos Romann-Zuniga (3), Amelia Bayo (4 and 5), Valentina Luridiana (2 and 6), Nestor Sanchez (7), Enrique Perez (1) ((1) IAA-CSIC, (2) IAC, (3) IA-Ensenada UNAM, (4) ESO, (5) MPA Heifelberg, (6) Univ. La Laguna, (7) Facl. Matematicas-UCM)

Comments: Accepted by A&A; 9 pages

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

[1110] arXiv:1303.7239 [pdf, other]

Title: The Fundamental Plane of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

Marcel Neeleman, Arthur M. Wolfe, J. Xavier Prochaska, Marc Rafelski

Comments: Published in ApJ. 18 pages with 10 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal 769 (2013) 54

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

[1111] arXiv:1303.7251 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic neutral points and electric lines of force in strong gravity of a rotating black hole

V. Karas, O. Kopacek, D. Kunneriath

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, accepted

Journal-ref: International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 3, No. 3A, pp. 18-24 (2013)

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

[1112] arXiv:1303.7258 [pdf, other]

Title: CMB and Random Flights: temperature and polarization in position space

Paulo H. F. Reimberg, L. Raul Abramo

Comments: Minor revisions; matches version published in JCAP06(2013)043

Journal-ref: JCAP06(2013)043

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1113] arXiv:1303.7266 [pdf, other]

Title: Reactive Desorption and Radiative Association as Possible Drivers of Complex Molecule Formation in the Cold Interstellar Medium

A.I. Vasyunin, Eric Herbst

Comments: 23 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJ

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

[1114] arXiv:1303.7267 [pdf, other]

Title: Connecting The Non-Singular Origin of the Universe, The Vacuum Structure and The Cosmological Constant Problem

Eduardo Guendelman, Pedro Labrana

Comments: 44 pages, 5 figures. Typos corrected, two new figures, references added. Invited review to be published in IJMPD

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

[1115] arXiv:1303.7269 [pdf, other]

Title: TPZ : Photometric redshift PDFs and ancillary information by using prediction trees and random forests

M. Carrasco Kind, R.J. Brunner

Comments: 21 pages, 15 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS. TPZ code at this http URL

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

[1116] arXiv:1303.7283 [pdf, other]

Title: Resolved Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: A Flux-Reversal Binary at the L dwarf/T dwarf Transition

Adam J. Burgasser (UC San Diego), Scott S. Sheppard (Carnegie), K. L. Luhman (Penn State)

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures SUBMITTED to ApJ (comments are welcome)

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

[1117] arXiv:1303.7301 [pdf, other]

Title: On the ubiquity of molecular anions in the dense interstellar medium

M. A. Cordiner, J. V. Buckle, E. S. Wirström, A. O. H. Olofsson, S. B. Charnley

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

[1118] arXiv:1303.7304 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling the quantum interference signatures of the Ba II D2 4554 A line in the second solar spectrum

H. N. Smitha, K. N. Nagendra, J. O. Stenflo, M. Sampoorna

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[1119] arXiv:1303.7314 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic rays and climate change over the past 1000 million years

T. Sloan, (Dept of Physics, University of Lancaster), A.W. Wolfendale, (Dept. of Physics, University of Durham)

Comments: Tex file only

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

[1120] arXiv:1303.7323 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing Cosmic Rays in Nearby Giant Molecular Clouds with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Rui-zhi Yang, Emma de Oña Wilhelmi, Felix Aharonian

Comments: published by A&A

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

[1121] arXiv:1303.7340 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropic Non-Gaussianity from a Two-Form Field

Junko Ohashi, Jiro Soda, Shinji Tsujikawa

Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 87, 083520 (2013)

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)

[1122] arXiv:1303.7345 [pdf, other]

Title: The Clusters AgeS Experiment (CASE): The blue straggler Star M55-V60 caught amidst rapid mass exchange

M. Rozyczka, J. Kaluzny, I.B. Thompson, S.M. Rucinski, W. Pych, W. Krzeminski

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Acta Astronomica

Journal-ref: Acta Astronomica,63,67-78,2013

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

[1123] arXiv:1303.7352 [pdf, other]

Title: Fermi LAT pulsed detection of PSR J0737-3039A in the double pulsar system

L. Guillemot, M. Kramer, T. J. Johnson, H. A. Craig, R. W. Romani, C. Venter, A. K. Harding, R. D. Ferdman, I. H. Stairs, M. Kerr

Comments: Published in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ 768, 169, 2013). Updated to reflect changes made at the proof stage

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

[1124] arXiv:1303.7368 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematics of Outer Halo Globular Clusters in M31

J. Veljanoski, A.M.N. Ferguson, A.D. Mackey, A.P. Huxor, M.J. Irwin, P. Côté, N.R. Tanvir, E. J. Bernard, S. C. Chapman, R. A. Ibata, M. Fardal, G. F. Lewis, N. F. Martin, A. McConnachie, J. Peñarrubia

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[1125] arXiv:1303.7394 [pdf, other]

Title: Scaling of the electron dissipation range of solar wind turbulence

F. Sahraoui, S. Y. Huang, J. De Patoul, G. Belmont, M. L. Goldstein, A. Retino, P. Robert, N.Cornilleau-Wehrlin

Comments: 10 pages, submitted

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

[1126] arXiv:1303.7399 [pdf, other]

Title: The dust properties of z ~ 3 MIPS-LBGs from photo-chemical models

X.L. Fan, A. Pipino, F. Matteucci

Comments: 31pages,9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 768, Issue 2, article id. 178 (2013)

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

[1127] arXiv:1303.7408 [pdf, other]

Title: On Detecting Transient Phenomena

G. Belanger

Comments: Typos in published version are corrected

Journal-ref: 2013, ApJ, 733, 66

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

[1128] arXiv:1303.7433 [pdf, other]

Title: Unidentified Moving Objects in Next Generation Time Domain Surveys

James R. A. Davenport

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted and instantaneously accepted to the Journal of Speculative Astronomy

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

[1129] arXiv:1303.7436 [pdf, other]

Title: The Influence of Radial Stellar Migration on the Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way

Yue Wang, Gang Zhao

Comments: 12 pages, 14 figures

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

[1130] arXiv:1303.7463 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle scattering in turbulent plasmas with amplified wave modes

Sebastian Lange, Felix Spanier, Markus Battarbee, Rami Vainio, Timo Laitinen

Comments: accepted, publishing process A&A still running

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

[1131] arXiv:1303.0069 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Modified surface redshift of pulsars and magnetars by magnetized plasmas and vacuum polarization

Yuee Luo, Zhigang Bu, Wenbo Chen, Hehe Li, Peiyong Ji

Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[1132] arXiv:1303.0108 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Separate seesaw and its applications to dark matter and baryogenesis

Ryo Takahashi

Comments: 20 pages, matches the published version

Journal-ref: PTEP 2013 6, 063B04

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

[1133] arXiv:1303.0204 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulent Dissipation Challenge: A community Driven Effort

Tulasi N. Parashar, Chadi Salem

Comments: For a quicker read, please go through Section 3;; V2. - Added a section with updates from the session at SHINE 2013 meeting

Journal-ref: J. Plasma Phys. 81 (2015) 905810513

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

[1134] arXiv:1303.0232 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A first-order secular theory for the post-Newtonian two-body problem with spin -- I: The restricted case

Francesco Biscani, Sante Carloni

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, Published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS (January 21, 2013) 428 (3): 2295-2310

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1135] arXiv:1303.0274 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Superluminality in the Bi- and Multi- Galileon

Paul de Fromont, Claudia de Rham, Lavinia Heisenberg, Andrew Matas

Comments: 32 pages, minor changes, few references added

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

[1136] arXiv:1303.0475 (cross-list from nlin.CD) [pdf, other]

Title: Using new dynamical indicators to distinguish between order and chaos in a galactic potential producing exact periodic orbits and chaotic components

Euaggelos E. Zotos

Comments: Published in Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (AApTr) journal

Journal-ref: Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (AApTr), 2012, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 635-654, ISSN 1055-6796

Subjects: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[1137] arXiv:1303.0476 (cross-list from nlin.CD) [pdf, other]

Title: A rational galactic potential with accurate periodic orbits and quasi-integrals of motion

Euaggelos E. Zotos

Comments: Published in Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (AApTr) journal

Journal-ref: Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (AApTr), 2012, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 625-634, ISSN 1055-6796

Subjects: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[1138] arXiv:1303.0519 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Rotating black hole hair

Ruth Gregory, David Kubiznak, Danielle Wills

Comments: 25 pages, 7 figures v2: minor corrections

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

[1139] arXiv:1303.0601 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: Introduction of the CDEX experiment

Ke-Jun Kang, Jian-Ping Cheng, Jin Li, Yuan-Jing Li, Qian Yue, Yang Bai, Yong Bi, Jian-Ping Chang, Nan Chen, Ning Chen, Qing-Hao Chen, Yun-Hua Chen, Zhi Deng, Qiang Du, Hui Gong, Xi-Qing Hao, Hong-Jian He, Qing-Ju He, Xin-Hui Hu, Han-Xiong Huang, Hao Jiang, Jian-Min Li, Xia Li, Xin-Ying Li, Xue-Qian Li, Yu-Lan Li, Shu-Kui Liu, Ya-Bin Liu, Lan-Chun Lu, Hao Ma, Jian-Qiang Qin, Jie Ren, Jing Ren, Xi-Chao Ruan, Man-Bin Shen, Jian Su, Chang-Jian Tang, Zhen-Yu Tang, Ji-Min Wang, Qing Wang, Xu-Feng Wang, Shi-Yong Wu, Yu-Cheng Wu, Zhong-Zhi Xianyu, Hao-Yang Xing, Xun-Jie Xu, Yin Xu, Tao Xue, Li-Tao Yang, Nan Yi, Hao Yu, Chun-Xu Yu, Xiong-Hui Zeng, Zhi Zeng, Lan Zhang, Guang-Hua Zhang, Ming-Gang Zhao, Su-Ning Zhong, Jin Zhou, Zu-Ying Zhou, Jing-Jun Zhu, Wei-Bin Zhu, Xue-Zhou Zhu, Zhong-Hua Zhu

Comments: 36pages,39 figures

Journal-ref: Front. Phys., 2013,8(4):412-437

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[1140] arXiv:1303.0624 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Broad K$\alpha$ iron line from accretion disks around traversable wormholes

Cosimo Bambi

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures. v2: refereed version

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D87:084039,2013

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

[1141] arXiv:1303.0650 (cross-list from nlin.CD) [pdf, other]

Title: Multiscaling in Hall-Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Insights from a Shell Model

Debarghya Banerjee, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Ganapati Sahoo, Rahul Pandit

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 174501 (2013)

Subjects: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[1142] arXiv:1303.0855 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the redshift of standard sirens using the neutron star deformability

T. G. F. Li, W. Del Pozzo, C. Messenger

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure, Marcel Grossmann 13

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

[1143] arXiv:1303.0907 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleosynthesis: what direct reactions can do for it?

C.A. Bertulani

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, Invited Talk at the Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics, Poland, 2012. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1110.2534

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

[1144] arXiv:1303.0925 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Limits on spin-independent couplings of WIMP dark matter with a p-type point-contact germanium detector

TEXONO Collaboration

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures ; Published Version as V2

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 261301 (2013)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[1145] arXiv:1303.0949 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Yukawa effects on the clock onboard a drag-free satellite

Xue-Mei Deng, Yi Xie

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

Journal-ref: MNRAS (June 1, 2013) 431 (4): 3236-3239

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

[1146] arXiv:1303.0993 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Problems with Propagation and Time Evolution in f(T) Gravity

Yen Chin Ong, Keisuke Izumi, James M. Nester, Pisin Chen

Comments: Version accepted by PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 88, 024019 (2013)

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

[1147] arXiv:1303.1123 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Intrinsic energy of Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi models and cosmological implications

Ramon Lapiedra, Juan Antonio Morales-Lladosa

Comments: 18 pages; no figures; corrected and enlarged version

Journal-ref: Physical Review D {\bf 89}, 064033 (2014)

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

[1148] arXiv:1303.1185 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Wave Tests of Strong Field General Relativity with Binary Inspirals: Realistic Injections and Optimal Model Selection

Laura Sampson, Neil Cornish, Nicolas Yunes

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures

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

[1149] arXiv:1303.1193 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: One-particle-irreducible consistency relations for cosmological perturbations

Walter D. Goldberger, Lam Hui, Alberto Nicolis

Comments: 12 pages

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

[1150] arXiv:1303.1270 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Leading-order nucleon self-energy in relativistic chiral effective field theory

Giuseppe Colucci, Armen Sedrakian, Dirk H. Rischke

Comments: v3: matches published version, 8 pages, 6 figures. Removed discussion of saturation, changed title to reflect the shortened content. v1: 9 pages, 7 figures, v2: minor amendments

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. C 88, 015209 (2013)

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