Astrophysics

Authors and titles for June 2013

[351] arXiv:1306.2336 [pdf, other]

Title: The Hot and Energetic Universe: Luminous extragalactic transients

Peter Jonker, Paul O'Brien, Lorenzo Amati, Jean-Luc Atteia, Sergio Campana, Phil Evans, Rob Fender, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Giuseppe Lodato, Julian Osborne, Luigi Piro, Arne Rau, Nial Tanvir, Richard Willingale

Comments: Supporting paper for the science theme "The Hot and Energetic Universe" to be implemented by the Athena+ X-ray observatory (this http URL). 8 pages, 3 figures

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

[352] arXiv:1306.2337 [pdf, other]

Title: The Fast and Furious Decay of the Peculiar Type Ic Supernova 2005ek

M. R. Drout, A. M. Soderberg, P. A. Mazzali, J. T. Parrent, R. Margutti, D. Milisavljevic, N. E. Sanders, R. Chornock, R. J. Foley, R. P. Kirshner, A. V. Filippenko, W. Li, P. J. Brown, S. B. Cenko, S. Chakraborti, P. Challis, A. Friedman, M. Ganeshalingam, M. Hicken, C. Jensen, M. Modjaz, H. B. Perets, J. M. Silverman, D. S. Wong

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Please visit this http URL to hear a sonification of SN2005ek

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

[353] arXiv:1306.2338 [pdf, other]

Title: Nebular emission and the Lyman continuum photon escape fraction in CALIFA early-type galaxies

P. Papaderos, J.M. Gomes, J.M. Vilchez, C. Kehrig, M.D. Lehnert, B. Ziegler, S.F. Sanchez, B. Husemann, A. Monreal-Ibero, R. Garcia-Benito, J. Bland-Hawthorn, C. Coritjo, A. de Lorenzo-Caceres, A. del Olmo, J. Falcon-Barroso, L. Galbany, J. Iglesias-Paramo, A.R. Lopez-Sanchez, I. Marquez, M. Molla, D. Mast, G. van de Ven, L. Wisotzki, the CALIFA collaboration

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, in press

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

[354] arXiv:1306.2341 [pdf, other]

Title: An emission mechanism explaining off-pulse emission originating in the outer magnetosphere of pulsars

Rahul Basu, Dipanjan Mitra, George I. Melikidze

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure, to be published in ApJ

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

[355] arXiv:1306.2344 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of shocks in stellar atmosphere models on the emission line spectrum of surrounding Hii regions

C. B. Kaschinski, Barbara Ercolano

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables

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

[356] arXiv:1306.2345 [pdf, other]

Title: Continued Neutron Star Crust Cooling of the 11 Hz X-Ray Pulsar in Terzan 5: A Challenge to Heating and Cooling Models?

N. Degenaar, R. Wijnands, E.F. Brown, D. Altamirano, E.M. Cackett, J. Fridriksson, J. Homan, C.O. Heinke, J.M. Miller, D. Pooley, G.R. Sivakoff

Comments: Accepted to ApJ without revision. Updated references and fixed few typos to match published version. 7 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables

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

[357] arXiv:1306.2354 [pdf, other]

Title: Complete history of the observable 21-cm signal from the first stars during the pre-reionization era

Anastasia Fialkov (1), Rennan Barkana (1), Arazi Pinhas (2), Eli Visbal (3) ((1) Tel Aviv University, (2) University of Pennsylvania, (3) Harvard University)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, submitted to MNRAS

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

[358] arXiv:1306.2370 [pdf, other]

Title: Implications of the Planck bispectrum constraints for the primordial trispectrum

Christian T. Byrnes, Sami Nurmi, Gianmassimo Tasinato, David Wands

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures

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

[359] arXiv:1306.2381 [pdf, other]

Title: Survey of cometary CO2, CO, and particulate emissions using the Spitzer Space Telescope: Smog check for comets

William T. Reach, Michael S. Kelley, Jeremie Vaubaillon

Comments: accepted for publication in Icarus

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

[360] arXiv:1306.2393 [pdf, other]

Title: The first high-resolution observations of 19.9-GHz methanol masers

Vasaant Krishnan, Simon Ellingsen, Maxim Voronkov, Shari Breen

Comments: 19 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables

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

[361] arXiv:1306.2402 [pdf, other]

Title: Satellite probing General Relativity and its extensions and Kolmogorov analysis

V.G.Gurzadyan, I.Ciufolini, S.Sargsyan, G.Yegorian, S.Mirzoyan, A.Paolozzi

Comments: to match the published version, 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Europhys. Lett. 102 (2013) 60002

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

[362] arXiv:1306.2407 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of the gas kinematics of galaxies in cosmological simulations

Maria E. De Rossi (1,2,3), Susana E. Pedrosa (1,2) ((1) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, CONICET, Argentina, (2) Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, IAFE, Argentina, (3) Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Comments: Accepted for publication in BAAA, Vol. 55, 2012. 4 pages, 1 figure, this http URL

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

[363] arXiv:1306.2418 [pdf, other]

Title: Atmospheric Circulation of Terrestrial Exoplanets

Adam P. Showman, Robin D. Wordsworth, Timothy M. Merlis, Yohai Kaspi

Comments: Invited review, in press for the Arizona Space Science Series book "Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets" (S. Mackwell, M. Bullock, and J. Harder, editors). 56 pages, 26 figures

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

[364] arXiv:1306.2420 [pdf, other]

Title: Timescales on which Star Formation Affects the Neutral ISM

Adrienne M. Stilp, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Steven R. Warren, Daniel R. Weisz, Evan Skillman, Juergen Ott, Benjamin F. Williams, Andrew E. Dolphin

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[365] arXiv:1306.2424 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Linking Star Formation Histories and Stellar Mass Growth

Amanda E. Bauer, A. M. Hopkins, M. Gunawardhana, E. N. Taylor, I. Baldry, S. P. Bamford, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Brough, M. J. I. Brown, M. E. Cluver, M. Colless, C. J. Conselice, S. Croom, S. Driver, C. Foster, D. H. Jones, M. A. Lara-Lopez, J. Liske, A. R. Lopez-Sanchez, J. Loveday, P. Norberg, M. S. Owers, K. Pimbblet, A. Robotham, A. E. Sansom, R. Sharp

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[366] arXiv:1306.2445 [pdf, other]

Title: Anti-glitch of magnetar 1E 2259+586 in the wind braking scenario

H. Tong

Comments: 14 pages, accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: 2014,ApJ,784,86

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

[367] arXiv:1306.2451 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Systems Triggering the M6.6-class Solar Flare in NOAA Active Region 11158

Shin Toriumi, Yusuke Iida, Yumi Bamba, Kanya Kusano, Shinsuke Imada, Satoshi Inoue

Comments: 34 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. A high-quality version can be found at this http URL

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

[368] arXiv:1306.2455 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence of a metal-rich surface for the asteroid (16) Psyche from interferometric observations in the thermal infrared

Alexis Matter, Marco Delbo, Benoit Carry, Sebastiano Ligori

Comments: 45 pages (in referee and preprint format), 6 figures

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

[369] arXiv:1306.2457 [pdf, other]

Title: The Clusters AgeS Experiment (CASE): Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster M4

J. Kaluzny, I.B. Thompson, M. Rozyczka, W. Krzeminski

Comments: Accepted by Acta Astronomica

Journal-ref: Acta Astronomica, 06/2013, vol 63, no 2, p. 181-201

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

[370] arXiv:1306.2458 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraviolet and visual flux and line variations of one of the least variable Bp stars HD 64740

J. Krticka, J. Janik, H. Markova, Z. Mikulasek, J. Zverko, M. Prvak, M. Skarka

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

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

[371] arXiv:1306.2471 [pdf, other]

Title: Connecting QGP-Heavy Ion Physics to the Early Universe

Johann Rafelski

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure, presented at SpacePart12 held at CERN, November 5-7 2012

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

[372] arXiv:1306.2474 [pdf, other]

Title: Environment-derived constraints on the progenitors of low-luminosity type I supernovae

Joseph Lyman, Phil James, Hagai B. Perets, Joseph P. Anderson, Avishay Gal-Yam, Paolo Mazzali, Sue Percival

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to MNRAS

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

[373] arXiv:1306.2475 [pdf, other]

Title: Very fast X-ray spectral variability in Cygnus X-1: Origin of the hard and soft-state emission components

Chris J. Skipper, Ian M. McHardy, Thomas J. Maccarone

Comments: 12 pages, 14 figures; accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013 June 7

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

[374] arXiv:1306.2479 [pdf, other]

Title: Incomplete-exclusion Statistical Mechanics in Non-collisional Violent Relaxation of Celestial Objects

R. A. Treumann, W. Baumjohann

Comments: 17 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: A&A 558, A40 (2013)

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

[375] arXiv:1306.2488 [pdf, other]

Title: Tracing the Physical Conditions in Active Galactic Nuclei with Time-Dependent Chemistry

Rowin Meijerink, Marco Spaans, Inga Kamp, Giambattista Aresu, Wing-Fai Thi, Peter Woitke

Comments: Accepted for publication at the Journal of Physical Chemistry A "Oka Festschrift: Celebrating 45 Years of Astrochemistry"

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

[376] arXiv:1306.2495 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-scale dynamo action due to $\alpha$ fluctuations in a linear shear flow

S. Sridhar (RRI, India), Nishant K. Singh (IUCAA, India, NORDITA, Stockholm)

Comments: 33 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[377] arXiv:1306.2496 [pdf, other]

Title: VLT/X-Shooter Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and HST Imaging of Gravitationally-Lensed z~2 Compact Quiescent Galaxies

Stefan Geier, Johan Richard, Allison Man, Thomas Krühler, Sune Toft, Danilo Marchesini, Johan Fynbo

Comments: accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[378] arXiv:1306.2511 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Variations of the Be-shell Star EW Lac in the V/R Variation Periods

Masahiro Mon, Masakazu Suzuki, Yuki Moritani, Tomokazu Kogure

Comments: 19 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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

[379] arXiv:1306.2514 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbital migration of giant planets induced by gravitationally unstable gaps: the effect of planet mass

Ryan Cloutier, Min-Kai Lin

Comments: 13 pages, 15 figures, accepted by MNRAS. Audio/video commentary available at this http URL

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

[380] arXiv:1306.2528 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical simulations of granular dynamics. I. Hard-sphere discrete element method and tests

Derek C. Richardson, Kevin J. Walsh, Naomi Murdoch, Patrick Michel

Comments: 54 manuscript pages, 8 figures including 4 in colour (online version only)

Journal-ref: Icarus 212 (2011) 427-437

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

[381] arXiv:1306.2546 [pdf, other]

Title: Principal Component Analysis of Modified Gravity using Weak Lensing and Peculiar Velocity Measurements

Shinsuke Asaba, Chiaki Hikage, Kazuya Koyama, Gong-Bo Zhao, Alireza Hojjati, Levon Pogosian

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, published in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP08(2013)029

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

[382] arXiv:1306.2551 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of high-frequency iron K lags in Ark 564 and Mrk 335

E. Kara, A. C. Fabian, E. M. Cackett, P. Uttley, D. R. Wilkins, A. Zoghbi

Comments: 10 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[383] arXiv:1306.2575 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparison of theoretical white dwarf cooling timescales

Maurizio Salaris, Leandro G. Althaus, Enrique García-Berro

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[384] arXiv:1306.2590 [pdf, other]

Title: Time-monitoring Observations of the Ro-Vibrational Overtone CO bands in Young Stars

J. A. Eisner, G. H. Rieke, M. J. Rieke, K. M. Flaherty, T. J. Arnold, J. M. Stone, S. R. Cortes, E. Cox, C. Hawkins, A. Cole, S. Zajac, A. L. Rudolph

Comments: 30 pages, 13 figures; Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[385] arXiv:1306.2600 [pdf, other]

Title: Mid-Infrared and X-ray luminosity correlations of X-ray point sources in NGC 1399

P. Shalima, V. Jithesh, K. Jeena, R. Misra, S. Ravindranath, G. C. Dewangan, C. D. Ravikumar, B. R. S. Babu

Comments: 12 Pages, Corrected the references, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS, 434, 639-651, 2013

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

[386] arXiv:1306.2630 [pdf, other]

Title: Rapid Angular Expansion of the Ionized Core of CRL 618

D. Tafoya, L. Loinard, J. P. Fonfría, W. H. T. Vlemmings, I. Martí-Vidal, G. Pech

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures. Accepted to be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[387] arXiv:1306.2632 [pdf, other]

Title: 3D test particle simulations of the Galactic disks. The kinematical effects of the bar

Giacomo Monari, Teresa Antoja, Amina Helmi

Comments: 13 pages, 17 figure, version 2 (22 November 2013)

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

[388] arXiv:1306.2634 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting Massive Galaxies at High Redshift using the Dark Energy Survey

L. J. M. Davies, C. Maraston, D. Thomas, D. Capozzi, R. H. Wechsler, M. T. Busha, M. Banerji, F. Ostrovski, C. Papovich, B. X. Santiago, R. Nichol, M. A. G. Maia, L. N. da Costa

Comments: 20 pages, 12 figures, MNRAS accepted. Missed reference added, minor change to Fig. 2

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

[389] arXiv:1306.2635 [pdf, other]

Title: A low-mass cut-off near the hydrogen burning limit for Salpeter-like initial mass functions in early-type galaxies

Matteo Barnabè (1,2), Chiara Spiniello (3), Léon V. E. Koopmans (3), Scott C. Trager (3), Oliver Czoske (4), Tommaso Treu (5) ((1) DARK, (2) NBIA, (3) Kapteyn, (4) IfA Vienna, (5) UCSB)

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[390] arXiv:1306.2636 [pdf, other]

Title: Inverse Compton X-ray signature of AGN feedback

Martin A. Bourne, Sergei Nayakshin

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[391] arXiv:1306.2637 [pdf, other]

Title: A young hierarchical triple system harbouring a candidate debris disc

N.R. Deacon (1), J.E. Schlieder (1), J. Olofsson (1), K.G. Johnston (1), Th. Henning (1) ((1) MPIA, Heidelberg)

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS, 13 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables

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

[392] arXiv:1306.2638 [pdf, other]

Title: What Shapes Supernova Remnants?

Laura A. Lopez (MIT)

Comments: 4 pages, proceeding from IAU Symposium 296: Supernova Environmental Impacts

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

[393] arXiv:1306.2639 [pdf, other]

Title: NuSTAR and Chandra Insight into the Nature of the 3-40 keV Nuclear Emission in NGC 253

B. D. Lehmer, D. R. Wik, A. E. Hornschemeier, A. Ptak, V. Antoniou, M. K. Argo, K. Bechtol, S. Boggs, F. E. Christensen, W. W. Craig, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, R. Krivonos, J.-C. Leyder, T.J. Maccarone, D. Stern, T. Venters, A. Zezas, W. W. Zhang

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ (7 pages, 5 figures)

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

[394] arXiv:1306.2641 [pdf, other]

Title: Beyond the nuclear starburst? Clustered star formation in major mergers

Leila C. Powell (1,2), Frederic Bournaud (1), Damien Chapon (1), Romain Teyssier (1,3) ((1) CEA Saclay, (2) MPE, Garching, (3) ITP, Zürich)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 16 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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

[395] arXiv:1306.2651 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetically Active Stars in Taurus-Auriga: Activity and Rotation

K.N. Grankin

Comments: 16 pages with 8 Postscript figures

Journal-ref: Astronomy Letters, 2013, Vol. 39, pp. 446-457

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

[396] arXiv:1306.2654 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatially-Resolved Millimeter-Wavelength Maps of Neptune

S. H. Luszcz-Cook, I. de Pater, M. Wright

Comments: 19 pages, accepted to Icarus

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

[397] arXiv:1306.2661 [pdf, other]

Title: Are giant tornadoes the legs of solar prominences?

Sven Wedemeyer, Eamon Scullion, Luc Rouppe van der Voort, Antonija Bosnjak, Patrick Antolin

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures; ApJ, accepted version

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

[398] arXiv:1306.2678 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroids in the service of humanity

Ian A. Crawford

Comments: Invited foreword to the book 'Asteroids: Prospective Energy and Material Resources' edited by V. Badescu (Springer, in press)

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

[399] arXiv:1306.2679 [pdf, other]

Title: The supermassive black hole mass - S\'ersic index relations for bulges and elliptical galaxies

Giulia Savorgnan, Alister W. Graham, Alessandro Marconi, Eleonora Sani, Leslie K. Hunt, Marina Vika, Simon P. Driver

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[400] arXiv:1306.2680 [pdf, other]

Title: Broad Absorption Line Quasars with Redshifted Troughs: High-Velocity Infall or Rotationally Dominated Outflows?

Patrick B. Hall (York University, Toronto, Canada), W. N. Brandt, P. Petitjean, I. Paris, N. Filiz Ak, Yue Shen, R. R. Gibson, E. Aubourg, S. F. Anderson, D. P. Schneider, D. Bizyaev, J. Brinkmann, E. Malanushenko, V. Malanushenko, A. D. Myers, D. J. Oravetz, N. P. Ross, A. Shelden, A. E. Simmons, A. Streblyanska, B. A. Weaver, D. G. York

Comments: MNRAS in press. 40 pages, 17 figures (a few of reduced quality); for full-resolution figures see this http URL

Journal-ref: MNRAS, 434, 222-256 (2013)

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