Astrophysics

Authors and titles for May 2013

[201] arXiv:1305.1538 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray, optical and infrared investigation of the candidate Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient IGR J18462-0223

V. Sguera, S. P. Drave, L. Sidoli, N. Masetti, R. Landi, A. J. Bird, A. Bazzano

Comments: accepted for publication in A&A, 9 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables

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

[202] arXiv:1305.1574 [pdf, other]

Title: Solar Flare X-ray Source Motion as a Response to Electron Spectral Hardening

A. O'Flannagain, P. Gallagher, J. Brown, R. Milligan, G. Holman

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

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

[203] arXiv:1305.1576 [pdf, other]

Title: Bounds on the density of sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Comments: 25 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: JCAP 1305 (2013) 009

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

[204] arXiv:1305.1581 [pdf, other]

Title: A Decade-Baseline Study of the Plasma States of Ejecta Knots in Cassiopeia A

John Rutherford, Daniel Dewey, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Sarah N. T. Heine, Fabienne A. Bastien, Kosuke Sato, C. R. Canizares

Journal-ref: 2013 ApJ, 769, 64

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

[205] arXiv:1305.1584 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the Galactic millisecond pulsar population using Fermi Large Area Telescope

Tristan Grégoire (1), Jürgen Knödlseder (1) ((1) Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie)

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[206] arXiv:1305.1595 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - VI. The orbital extent of enhanced star formation in interacting galaxies

David R. Patton, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel, Jillian M. Scudder

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. MNRAS Letters in press. Updated to include revised Fig. 4 and additional minor edits during proofs stage

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

[207] arXiv:1305.1607 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroid family identification using the Hierarchical Clustering Method and WISE/NEOWISE physical properties

Joseph R. Masiero, A. K. Mainzer, J. M. Bauer, T. Grav, C. R. Nugent, R. Stevenson

Comments: Accepted to ApJ. Full version of Table 3 to be published electronically in ApJ

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

[208] arXiv:1305.1620 [pdf, other]

Title: The MASTER-II Network of Robotic Optical Telescopes. First Results

E. S. Gorbovskoy, V. M. Lipunov, V. G. Kornilov, A. A. Belinski, D. A. Kuvshinov, N. V. Tyurina, A. V. Sankovich, A. V. Krylov, N. I. Shatskiy, P. V. Balanutsa, V. V. Chazov, A. S. Kuznetsov, A. S. Zimnukhov, V. P. Shumkov, S. E. Shurpakov, V. A. Senik, D. V. Gareeva, M. V. Pruzhinskaya, A. G. Tlatov, A. V. Parkhomenko, D. V. Dormidontov, V. V. Krushinsky, A. F. Punanova, I. S. Zalozhnyh, A. A. Popov, A. Yu. Burdanov, S. A. Yazev, N. M. Budnev, K. I. Ivanov, E. N. Konstantinov, O. A. Gress, O. V. Chuvalaev, V. V. Yurkov, Yu. P. Sergienko, I. V. Kudelina, E. V. Sinyakov, I. D. Karachentsev, A. V. Moiseev, T. A. Fatkhullin

Comments: Erroneous submission in violation of copyright

Journal-ref: Astronomy Reports April 2013, Volume 57, Issue 4, pp 233-286

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

[209] arXiv:1305.1622 [pdf, other]

Title: Core collapse and horizontal-branch morphology in galactic globular clusters

Mario Pasquato, Gabriella Raimondo, Enzo Brocato, Chul Chung, Anthony Moraghan, Young-Wook Lee

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures, A&A accepted

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

[210] arXiv:1305.1625 [pdf, other]

Title: On the origin of the B-stars in the Galactic center

Ann-Marie Madigan, Oliver Pfuhl, Yuri Levin, Stefan Gillessen, Reinhard Genzel, Hagai B. Perets

Comments: Updated paper. 21 pages, 28 figures, 6 tables, ApJ accepted

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

[211] arXiv:1305.1626 [pdf, other]

Title: Angular Momentum and Galaxy Formation Revisited: Effects of Variable Mass-to-light Ratios

S. Michael Fall, Aaron J. Romanowsky

Comments: ApJ Letters, in press, 5 pages, 3 figures

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

[212] arXiv:1305.1628 [pdf, other]

Title: Searching for nuclear stellar discs in simulations of star cluster mergers

E. Portaluri (1), E. M. Corsini (1,2), L. Morelli (1,2), M. Hartmann (3), E. Dalla Bontà (1,2), Victor P. Debattista (4), A. Pizzella (1,2) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'G. Galilei', Università di Padova, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (3) Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie, Universität Heidelberg, (4) Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire)

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[213] arXiv:1305.1629 [pdf, other]

Title: Ringing the initial Universe: the response of overdensity and transformed-density power spectra to initial spikes

Mark C. Neyrinck, Lin Forrest Yang (JHU)

Comments: Accepted to MNRAS Letters. 6 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: MNRAS (August 01, 2013) 433 (2): 1628-1633

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

[214] arXiv:1305.1630 [pdf, other]

Title: The Cosmic Star Formation Rate from the Faintest Galaxies in the Unobservable Universe

Matthew D. Kistler (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley), Hasan Yuksel, Andrew M. Hopkins (Australian Astronomical Observatory)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

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

[215] arXiv:1305.1631 [pdf, other]

Title: Discrete clouds of neutral gas between the galaxies M31 and M33

Spencer A. Wolfe, D. J. Pisano, Felix J. Lockman, Stacy S. McGaugh, Edward J. Shaya

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, including supplementary information and figure, to appear in Nature

Journal-ref: Nature, 497 (2013), 224-226

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

[216] arXiv:1305.1643 [pdf, other]

Title: Ground-based detections of thermal emission from the dense hot Jupiter WASP-43b in H and Ks-bands

Wei Wang (1), Roy van Boekel (2), Nikku Madhusudhan (3), Guo Chen (4), Gang Zhao (1), Thomas Henning (2) ((1) Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (2) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, (3) Yale University (4) Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, to be published in ApJ

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

[217] arXiv:1305.1644 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio polarimetry of compact steep spectrum sources at sub-arcsecond resolution

F. Mantovani, A. Rossetti, W. Junor, D.J. Saikia, C.J. Salter

Comments: Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[218] arXiv:1305.1647 [pdf, other]

Title: Dust and star-formation properties of a complete sample of local galaxies drawn from the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue

M. S. Clemens, M. Negrello, G. De Zotti, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, L. Bonavera, G. Cosco, G. Guarese, L. Boaretto, P. Salucci, C. Baccigalupi, D. L. Clements, L. Danese, A. Lapi, N. Mandolesi, R. B. Partridge, F. Perrotta, S. Serjeant, D. Scott, L. Toffolatti

Comments: 19 pages, 20 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[219] arXiv:1305.1658 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Constants and Vibrational Frequencies for l-C3H+ and Isotopologues from Highly-Accurate Quartic Force Fields: The Detection of l-C3H+ in the Horsehead Nebula PDR Questioned

Xinchuan Huang, Ryan C. Fortenberry, Timothy J. Lee

Journal-ref: Huang, X., Fortenberry, R. C., & Lee, T. J. 2013, ApJL, 768, 25

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

[220] arXiv:1305.1660 [pdf, other]

Title: The Possible Interstellar Anion CH2CN-: Spectroscopic Constants, Vibrational Frequencies, and Other Considerations

Ryan C. Fortenberry, T. Daniel Crawford, Timothy J. Lee

Journal-ref: Fortenberry, R. C., Crawford, T. D., & Lee, T. J. 2013, ApJ, 762, 121

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

[221] arXiv:1305.1662 [pdf, other]

Title: Plutino Detection Biases, Including the Kozai Resonance

S. M. Lawler, B. Gladman

Comments: accepted for publication in AJ

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

[222] arXiv:1305.1663 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity relations in passive and star-forming galaxies from SPH-cosmological simulations

A.D. Romeo Velonà, J. Sommer-Larsen, N.R. Napolitano, V. Antonuccio-Delogu, S. Cielo, I. Gavignaud

Comments: Emended list of authors

Journal-ref: ApJ 770, 155 (2014)

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

[223] arXiv:1305.1670 [pdf, other]

Title: Transmission Spectroscopy of the Hot-Jupiter WASP-12b from 0.7 to 5 microns

Kevin B. Stevenson, Jacob L. Bean, Andreas Seifahrt, Jean-Michel Desert, Nikku Madhusudhan, Marcel Bergmann, Laura Kreidberg, Derek Homeier

Comments: 18 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[224] arXiv:1305.1680 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray and EUV Observations of GOES C8 Solar Flare Events

Trevor A. Bowen, Paola Testa, Katharine K. Reeves

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

[225] arXiv:1305.1687 [pdf, other]

Title: Observing coronal nanoflares in active region moss

Paola Testa (1), Bart De Pontieu (2), Juan Martinez-Sykora (2,3), Ed DeLuca (1), Viggo Hansteen (4), Jonathan Cirtain (5), Amy Winebarger (5), Leon Golub (1), Ken Kobayashi (5), Kelly Korreck (1), Sergey Kuzin (6), Robert Walsh (7), Craig DeForest (8), Alan Title (2), Mark Weber (1), ((1) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, (2) Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab, (3) Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, (4) Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, (5) NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, (6) <a href="http://P.N.Lebedev" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a> Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, (7) University of Central Lancashire, (8) Southwest Research Institute)

Comments: Accepted for publication on The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 5 figures. Movies can be found at: this http URL

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

[226] arXiv:1305.1703 [pdf, other]

Title: Platform Deformation Phase Correction for the AMiBA-13 Co-planar Interferometer

Yu-Wei Liao, Kai-Yang Lin, Yau-De Huang, Jiun-Huei Proty Wu, Paul T. P. Ho, Ming-Tang Chen, Chih-Wei Locutus Huang, Patrick M. Koch, Hiroaki Nishioka, Tai-An Cheng, Szu-Yuan Fu, Guo-Chin Liu, Sandor M. Molnar, Keiichi Umetsu, Fu-Cheng Wang, Yu-Yen Chang, Chih-Chiang Han, Chao-Te Li, Pierre Martin-Cocher, Peter Oshiro

Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: The Astrophysics Journal, 769, 71, 2013

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

[227] arXiv:1305.1716 [pdf, other]

Title: The Responses of Magnetically Sub-Critical Cores to Shocks

B. Vaidya, T. W. Hartquist, S. A. E. G. Falle

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

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

[228] arXiv:1305.1717 [pdf, other]

Title: The effect of planet-planet scattering on the survival of exomoons

Yan-Xiang Gong, Ji-Lin Zhou, Ji-Wei Xie, Xiao-Mei Wu

Comments: published at ApJL

Journal-ref: ApJ, 2013, 769, L14

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

[229] arXiv:1305.1731 [pdf, other]

Title: Mapping the Central Region of the PPN CRL 618 at Sub-arcsecond Resolution at 350 GHz

Chin-Fei Lee, Chun-Hui Yang, Raghvendra Sahai, Carmen Sanchez Contreras

Comments: 43 pages, 15 figures, Accepted by the ApJ

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

[230] arXiv:1305.1740 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio pulsars: the search for truth

V.S. Beskin, Ya.N. Istomin, A.A. Philippov

Comments: 18 pages

Journal-ref: Physics-Uspekhi, 56, 164-179 (2013)

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

[231] arXiv:1305.1755 [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleosynthesis in the accretion disks of Type II collapsars

Indrani Banerjee, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Comments: 13 pages including 4 figures; to appear in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: RAA 13 (2013) 1063-1074

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[232] arXiv:1305.1760 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigation on the Coronal Magnetic Field Using a Type II Solar Radio Burst

V. Vasanth (1), S. Umapathy (1 and 3), B. Vršnak (2), T. Žic (2), O. Prakash (1) ((1) School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University (2) Hvar Observatory, Faculty of Geodesy (3) Radio Astronomy Center, NCRA-TIFR)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Solar Physics

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

[233] arXiv:1305.1763 [pdf, other]

Title: The photospheric solar oxygen project: II. Non-concordance of the oxygen abundance derived from two forbidden lines

Elisabetta Caffau (1,2), Hans-G. Ludwig (1,2), Jean-M. Malherbe (3), Piercarlo Bonifacio (2), Matthias Steffen (4), Lorenzo Monaco (5) ((1) LSW, ZAH, (2) GEPI, (3) LESIA, (4) AIP, (5) ESO)

Comments: A&A accepted

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

[234] arXiv:1305.1764 [pdf, other]

Title: The study of s-process nucleosynthesis based on barium stars, CEMP-s and CEMP-r/s stars

Wenyuan Cui, Jianrong Shi, Yuanyuan Geng, Caixia Zhang, Xiaoying Meng, Lang Shao, Bo Zhang

Comments: 21 pages, 12 figures, accepted publication in APSS

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

[235] arXiv:1305.1774 [pdf, other]

Title: Atomic diffusion and mixing in old stars IV: Weak abundance trends in the globular cluster NGC 6752

Pieter Gruyters, Andreas J. Korn, Olivier Richard, Frank Grundahl, Remo Collet, Lyudmila I. Mashonkina, Yeisson Osorio, Paul S. Barklem

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures and 8 tables

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

[236] arXiv:1305.1781 [pdf, other]

Title: Photodissociation of interstellar N2

Xiaohu Li, Alan N. Heays, Ruud Visser, Wim Ubachs, Brenton R. Lewis, Stephen T. Gibson, Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Comments: Online database: this http URL

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

[237] arXiv:1305.1801 [pdf, other]

Title: The very energetic, broad-lined type Ic Supernova 2010ah (PTF10bzf) in the context of GRB/SNe

Paolo A. Mazzali (1,2,3), Emma S. Walker (4,5), Elena Pian (5,6), Masaomi Tanaka (7), Alessandra Corsi (8), Takashi Hattori (9), Avishay Gal-Yam (10) ((1) INAF-OAPadova (2) Astrophysics Research Institute, John Moores Univ. (3) MPA (4) Yale University (5) Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (6) INAF-IASFBO (7) NAOJ (8) George Washington Univ. (9) Subaru Telescope (10) Weizmann Institute of Science)

Comments: MNRAS, in press

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

[238] arXiv:1305.1802 [pdf, other]

Title: The Central 3 kpc of NGC 5850

M. Bremer, J. Scharwächter, A. Eckart, J. Zuther, S. Fischer, M. Valencias-S., F. Combes, S. Garcia-Burillo

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures. "Nuclei of Seyfert galaxies and QSOs - Central engine & conditions of star formation". November 6-8, 2012. Bonn, Germany. Editorial Board: Jens Zuther (chair), Andreas Eckart, Stefanie Komossa, Anton Zensus. To be published in Proceedings of Science (PoS, Trieste, Italy)

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

[239] arXiv:1305.1803 [pdf, other]

Title: Stacked reverberation lags at high redshift

S. Fine, T. Shanks, P. Green, B. C. Kelly, S. M. Croom, R. L. Webster, E. Berger, R. Chornock, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, N. Kaise, P. A. Price

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS letters

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

[240] arXiv:1305.1810 [pdf, other]

Title: A long-term X-ray monitoring of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5408 X-1 with Swift reveals the presence of dips but no orbital period

Fabien Grisé, Philip Kaaret, Stéphane Corbel, Dávid Cseh, Hua Feng

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[241] arXiv:1305.1823 [pdf, other]

Title: CANDELS Multiwavelength catalogs: Source Identification and Photometry in the CANDELS UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey Field

Audrey Galametz, Andrea Grazian, Adriano Fontana, Henry C. Ferguson, M. L. N. Ashby, Guillermo Barro, Marco Castellano, Tomas Dahlen, Jennifer L. Donley, Sandy M. Faber, Norman Grogin, Yicheng Guo, Kuang-Han Huang, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Michael Peth, S. P. Willner, Omar Almaini, Michael Cooper, Asantha Roshan Cooray, Christopher J. Conselice, Mark Dickinson, James S. Dunlop, G. G. Fazio, Sebastien Foucaud, Jonathan P. Gardner, Mauro Giavalisco, N. P. Hathi, Will G. Hartley, David C. Koo, Kamson Lai, Duilia F. de Mello, Ross J. McLure, Ray A. Lucas, Diego Paris, Laura Pentericci, Paola Santini, Chris Simpson, Veronica Sommariva, Thomas Targett, Benjamin J. Weiner, Stijn Wuyts, the CANDELS team

Comments: 22 pages, 20 figures, ApJ in press. The CANDELS UDS catalog (in ascii & fits format) and associated ReadMe file are made available on the CANDELS website (this http URL) as well as on the MAST CANDELS page (this http URL)

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

[242] arXiv:1305.1845 [pdf, other]

Title: Type Ia Supernovae inside Planetary Nebulae: Shaping by Jets

Danny Tsebrenko, Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: 17 pages, 8 figures

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

[243] arXiv:1305.1851 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and near-infrared observations of SN 2011dh - The first 100 days

M. Ergon, J. Sollerman, M. Fraser, A. Pastorello, S. Taubenberger, N. Elias-Rosa, M. Bersten, A. Jerkstrand, S. Benetti, M.T. Botticella, C. Fransson, A. Harutyunyan, R. Kotak, S. Smartt, S. Valenti, F. Bufano, E. Cappellaro, M. Fiaschi, A. Howell, E. Kankare, L. Magill, S. Mattila, J. Maund, R. Naves, P. Ochner, J. Ruiz, K. Smith, L. Tomasella, M. Turatto

Comments: 38 pages, 27 figures, 18 tables, accepted for publication by A&A

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

[244] arXiv:1305.1857 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared photometry of Young Massive Clusters in the starburst galaxy NGC 4214

A. Sollima, R.G. Gratton, E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, S. Lucatello

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS

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

[245] arXiv:1305.1862 [pdf, other]

Title: A stellar-mass BH in a transient, low luminosity ULX in M31?

Fabio Pintore (1), Paolo Esposito (2), Sara Motta (3), Luca Zampieri (1), ((1) INAF -- Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (2) INAF -- Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (3) ESA/European Space Astronomy Centre, Villanueva de la Cañada)

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure. Proceeding of the conference "X-ray Astronomy: towards the next 50 years!" (Milano, 1-5 October 2012), to be published on Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana

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

[246] arXiv:1305.1881 [pdf, other]

Title: AGN in dusty hosts: implications for galaxy evolution

Myrto Symeonidis, J. Kartaltepe, M. Salvato, A. Bongiorno, M. Brusa, M. J. Page, O. Ilbert, D. Sanders, A. van der Wel

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[247] arXiv:1305.1884 [pdf, other]

Title: The UVES Large Program for Testing Fundamental Physics: I Bounds on a change in alpha towards quasar HE 2217-2818

P. Molaro, M. Centurion, J. B. Whitmore, T. M. Evans, M. T. Murphy, I. I. Agafonova, P. Bonifacio, S. D'Odorico, S. A. Levshakov, S. Lopez, C. J. A. P. Martins, P. Petitjean, H. Rahmani, D. Reimers, R. Srianand, G. Vladilo, M. Wendt

Comments: 17 pages, 8 figures, accepted Astronomy Astrophysics 2013

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

[248] arXiv:1305.1889 [pdf, other]

Title: The Fate of Planetesimals in Turbulent Disks with Dead Zones. I. The Turbulent Stirring Recipe

Satoshi Okuzumi, Chris W. Ormel

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[249] arXiv:1305.1890 [pdf, other]

Title: The fate of planetesimals in turbulent disks with dead zones. II. Limits on the viability of runaway accretion

Chris Ormel, Satoshi Okuzumi

Comments: ApJ accepted

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

[250] arXiv:1305.1891 [pdf, other]

Title: Probability Friends-of-Friends (PFOF) Group Finder: Performance Study and Observational Data Applications on Photometric Surveys

Hung-Yu Jian, Lihwai Lin, Tzihong Chiueh, Kai-Yang Lin, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Alex Merson, Carlton Baugh, Jia-Sheng Huang, Chin-Wei Chen, Sebastien Foucaud, David N. A. Murphy, Shaun Cole, William Burgett, Nick Kaiser

Comments: 18 pages, 16 figures, 1 table. Submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal 788:109, 2014

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