Astrophysics

Authors and titles for July 2013

[1] arXiv:1307.0001 [pdf, other]

Title: Leakage of power from dipole to higher multipoles due to non-symmetric WMAP beam

Santanu Das, Tarun Souradeep

Comments: 12 pages, 18 figures

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

[2] arXiv:1307.0003 [pdf, other]

Title: Larger sizes of massive quiescent early-type galaxies in clusters than in the field at 0.8 < z < 1.5

L. Delaye, M. Huertas-Company, S. Mei, C. Lidman, R. Licitra, A. Newman, A. Raichoor, F. Shankar, F. Barrientos, M. Bernardi, P. Cerulo, W. Couch, R. Demarco, R. Muñoz, R. Sanchez-Janssen, M. Tanaka

Comments: submitted to MNRAS

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

[3] arXiv:1307.0008 [pdf, other]

Title: Streams in the Aquarius stellar haloes

Facundo A. Gómez, Amina Helmi, Andrew P. Cooper, Carlos S. Frenk, Julio F. Navarro, Simon D. M. White

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures. MNRAS accepted. Revised to reflect final version

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

[4] arXiv:1307.0010 [pdf, other]

Title: Tearing up the disc: misaligned accretion on to a binary

Chris Nixon, Andrew King, Daniel Price

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures. Accepted to MNRAS. Simulation movies are available here: this http URL

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

[5] arXiv:1307.0011 [pdf, other]

Title: Virial scaling of galaxies in clusters: bright to faint is cool to hot

Hao-Yi Wu, Oliver Hahn, August E. Evrard, Risa H. Wechsler, Klaus Dolag

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables; replaced to match published version

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

[6] arXiv:1307.0012 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermal Stability in Turbulently Mixed Accretion Discs

Yucong Zhu, Ramesh Narayan

Comments: 15 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[7] arXiv:1307.0016 [pdf, other]

Title: The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): the Narrow Band Spectrometer

P. M. Korngut, T. Renbarger, T. Arai, J. Battle, J. Bock, S. W. Brown, A. Cooray, V Hristov, B. Keating, M. G. Kim, A. Lanz, D. H. Lee, L. R. Levenson, K. R. Lykke, P. Mason, T. Matsumoto, S. Matsuura, U. W. Nam, B. Shultz, A. W. Smith, I. Sullivan, K. Tsumura, T. Wada, M. Zemcov

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

[8] arXiv:1307.0017 [pdf, other]

Title: A Systematic Analysis of Caustic Methods for Galaxy Cluster Masses

Daniel Gifford, Christopher J. Miller, Nicholas Kern (University of Michigan)

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures, ApJ accepted

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

[9] arXiv:1307.0018 [pdf, other]

Title: Velocity Anisotropy and Shape Bias in the Caustic Technique

Daniel Gifford, Christopher J. Miller (University of Michigan)

Comments: Published in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 768, Issue 2, article id. L32, 5 pp. (2013)

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

[10] arXiv:1307.0020 [pdf, other]

Title: Variation of the fine-structure constant: an update of statistical analyses with recent data

Lucila Kraiselburd, Susana J. Landau, Claudio Simeone

Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Accepted 25 June, 2013

Journal-ref: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 557, id.A36, 9 pp., September 2013

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

[11] arXiv:1307.0021 [pdf, other]

Title: The Efficiency of Second-Order Fermi Acceleration by Weakly Compressible MHD Turbulence

Jacob W. Lynn, Eliot Quataert, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Ian J. Parrish

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

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

[12] arXiv:1307.0022 [pdf, other]

Title: Herschel Reveals Massive Cold Clumps in NGC 7538

C. Fallscheer, M. A. Reid, J. Di Francesco, P. G. Martin, M. Hennemann, T. Hill, Q. Nguyen-Luong, F. Motte, A. Men'shchikov, Ph. Andre, D. Ward-Thompson, M. Griffin, J. Kirk, V. Konyves, K. L. J. Rygl, M. Sauvage, N. Schneider, L. D. Anderson, M. Benedettini, J.-P. Bernard, S. Bontemps, A. Ginsburg, S. Molinari, D. Polychroni, A. Rivera-Ingraham, H. Roussel, L. Testi, G. White, J. P. Williams, C. D. Wilson, M. Wong, A. Zavagno

Comments: 23 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, accepted by ApJ

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

[13] arXiv:1307.0041 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactic Archaeology. The dwarfs that survived and perished

Vasily Belokurov

Comments: Text revised. 1 Figure added. 72 pages, 9 figures. A review article to be published in the special issue "Galactic Archaeology" of New Astronomy Reviews

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

[14] arXiv:1307.0061 [pdf, other]

Title: Improved search of PCA databases for spectro-polarimetric inversion

R. Casini, A. Asensio Ramos, B. W. Lites, A. Lopez Ariste

Comments: accepted for publication on the Astrophysical Journal

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

[15] arXiv:1307.0125 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Interferometric Calibration via Ordered-Subsets Algorithms: OS-LS and OS-SAGE calibrations

S. Kazemi, S. Yatawatta, S. Zaroubi

Comments: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. accepted

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

[16] arXiv:1307.0133 [pdf, other]

Title: HARPS spectropolarimetry of Herbig Ae/Be stars

S. Hubrig, I. Ilyin, M. Schoeller, G. Lo Curto

Comments: Eight pages, seven figures, three tables, accepted for publication in AN

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

[17] arXiv:1307.0136 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin-orbit evolution of Mercury revisited

Benoit Noyelles, Julien Frouard, Valeri Makarov, Michael Efroimsky

Comments: Extended version of the submitted paper, accepted for publication in Icarus

Journal-ref: Icarus, 241, 26-44 (2014)

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

[18] arXiv:1307.0142 [pdf, other]

Title: Stringent magnetic field limits from early universe dynamos cosmology with torsion

Luiz Carlos Garcia de Andrade

Comments: Dept of theoretical physics, UERJ, Brasil

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

[19] arXiv:1307.0166 [pdf, other]

Title: A Study of Fast Flareless Coronal Mass Ejections

H. Q. Song, Y. Chen, D. D. Ye, G. Q. Han, G. H. Du, G. Li, J. Zhang, Q. Hu

Comments: 8 figures, accepted by ApJ

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

[20] arXiv:1307.0182 [pdf, other]

Title: Steady Twin-Jets Orientation: Implications For Their Formation Mechanism

Noam Soker, Liron Mcley (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Submitted to ApJ Letters. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1209.0986

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

[21] arXiv:1307.0188 [pdf, other]

Title: Fitting Formulae for the Effects of Binary Interactions on Lick Indices and Colours of Stellar Populations

Zhongmu Li, Zhanwen Han

Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables

Journal-ref: 2009,RAA,9,191

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

[22] arXiv:1307.0197 [pdf, other]

Title: Accounting for the Sun and the Moon in Fermi-LAT Analysis

Gudlaugur Johannesson, Elena Orlando (for the Fermi-LAT collaboration)

Comments: 2013 ICRC proceedings

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

[23] arXiv:1307.0212 [pdf, other]

Title: The Collisionless Magnetoviscous-Thermal Instability

Tanim Islam

Comments: submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[24] arXiv:1307.0226 [pdf, other]

Title: The Next Frontier in UHECR Research with an Upgraded Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Comments: Submitted to Snowmass 2013: Cosmic Frontier, revised version

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

[25] arXiv:1307.0263 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-scale mapping of the massive star-forming region RCW38 in the [CII] and PAH emission

H. Kaneda, T. Nakagawa, S. K. Ghosh, D. K. Ojha, D. Ishihara, T. Kondo, J. P. Ninan, M. Tanabe, Y. Fukui, Y. Hattori, T. Onaka, K. Torii, M. Yamagishi

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[26] arXiv:1307.0271 [pdf, other]

Title: Model independent interpretation of recent CR lepton data after AMS-02

Daniele Gaggero (SISSA and INFN, Trieste), Luca Maccione (LMU and MPP, Munich)

Comments: v1: 15 pages, 8 figures. v2: 18 pages, 10 figures. Improved discussion on Fermi-LAT systematic errors. Conclusions unchanged. Accepted by JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP12(2013)011

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[27] arXiv:1307.0285 [pdf, other]

Title: Globular cluster star classification: application to M13

R. Caimmi

Comments: 36 pages, 13 tables (table 13 continued up to 16) and 9 figures. Accepted for publication on Serbian Astronomical Journal

Journal-ref: SerAJ 186 (2013) 25-45

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

[28] arXiv:1307.0294 [pdf, other]

Title: Dust around R Coronae Borealis stars: II. Infrared emission features in a H-poor environment

D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, N. Kameswara Rao, D. L. Lambert

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ (43 pages, 16 figures, and 6 tables)

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

[29] arXiv:1307.0297 [pdf, other]

Title: Timing Observations of 27 Pulsars at the Pushchino Observatory from 1978 to 2012

T. V. Shabanova, V. D. Pugachev, K. A. Lapaev (PRAO)

Comments: 66 pages, 17 figures. ApJ,775,2(2013)

Journal-ref: ApJ, 775, 2 (2013)

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

[30] arXiv:1307.0304 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for muon neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope using 2008 to 2011 data

S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert, I. Al Samarai, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, S. Anvar, M. Ardid, T. Astraatmadja, J.-J. Aubert, B. Baret, J. Barrios-Marti, S. Basa, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, C. Bigongiari, C. Bogazzi, B. Bouhou, M. C. Bouwhuis, J. Brunner, J. Busto, A. Capone, L. Caramete, C. Cârloganu, J. Carr, S. Cecchini, Z. Charif, Ph. Charvis, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, F. Classen, R. Coniglione, L. Core, H. Costantini, P. Coyle, A. Creusot, C. Curtil, G. De Bonis, I. Dekeyser, A. Deschamps, C. Distefano, C. Donzaud, D. Dornic, Q. Dorosti, D. Drouhin, A. Dumas, T. Eberl, U. Emanuele, A. Enzenhöfer, J.-P. Ernenwein, S. Escoffier, K. Fehn, P. Fermani, V. Flaminio, F. Folger, U. Fritsch, L. A. Fusco, S. Galatà, P. Gay, S. Geißelsöder, K. Geyer, G. Giacomelli, V. Giordano, A. Gleixner, J. P. Gómez-González, K. Graf, G. Guillard, H. van Haren, A. J. Heijboer, Y. Hello, J. J. Hernández-Rey, B. Herold, J. Hößl, C. W. James, M. de Jong, M. Kadler, O. Kalekin, A. Kappes, U. Katz, P. Kooijman, A. Kouchner, I. Kreykenbohm, V. Kulikovskiy, R. Lahmann, E. Lambard, G. Lambard, G. Larosa, D. Lefèvre, E. Leonora, D. Lo Presti, H. Loehner, S. Loucatos, F. Louis, S. Mangano, M. Marcelin, A. Margiotta, J. A. Martínez-Mora, S. Martini, T. Michael, T. Montaruli

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures; added Fig. 1 with effective area, updated Fig. 8 (b) according to arXiv:1204.4219

Journal-ref: A&A 559, A9 (2013)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[31] arXiv:1307.0308 [pdf, other]

Title: Type-I cosmic string network

Takashi Hiramatsu, Yuuiti Sendouda, Keitaro Takahashi, Daisuke Yamauchi, Chul-Moon Yoo

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, PRD accepted version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 88, 085021 (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)

[32] arXiv:1307.0312 [pdf, other]

Title: Proposal of the Readout Electronics for the WCDA in LHAASO Experiment

Lei Zhao, Shubin Liu, Qi An

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[33] arXiv:1307.0314 [pdf, other]

Title: KIC 8410637: a 408-day period eclipsing binary containing a pulsating red giant

S. Frandsen, H. Lehmann, S. Hekker, J. Southworth, J. Debosscher, P. Beck, M. Hartmann, A. Pigulski, G. Kopacki, Z. Kolaczkowski, A.O. Thygensen, K. Brogaard, Y. Elsworth

Comments: Accepted 20.6.2013 for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[34] arXiv:1307.0324 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays at the highest energies using data from Pierre Auger Observatory

Ioana C. Maris (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures, UHECR 2012 Symposium, CERN, Feb. 2012

Journal-ref: EPJ Web of Conferences 53, 04002 (2013)

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

[35] arXiv:1307.0335 [pdf, other]

Title: Herschel observations of the Sgr B2 cores: Hydrides, warm CO, and cold dust

M. Etxaluze, J. R. Goicoechea, J. Cernicharo, E. T. Polehampton, A. Noriega-Crespo, S. Molinari, B. M. Swinyard, R. Wu, J. Bally

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

[36] arXiv:1307.0352 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of the solar coronal green line profiles from eclipse observations

Maya Prabhakar, K. P. Raju, T. Chandrasekhar

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

[37] arXiv:1307.0354 [pdf, other]

Title: SWEET-Cat: A catalogue of parameters for Stars With ExoplanETs I. New atmospheric parameters and masses for 48 stars with planets

N.C. Santos, S. G. Sousa, A. Mortier, V. Neves, V. Adibekyan, M. Tsantaki, E. Delgado Mena, X. Bonfils, G. Israelian, M. Mayor, S. Udry

Comments: Astronomy & Astrophysics, accepted for publication

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

[38] arXiv:1307.0375 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Paradigm in Space Based Experiments Using Rubber Balloons

Sandip K. Chakrabarti, Debashis Bhowmick, Sourav Palit, Subhankar Chakraborty, Sushanta Mondal, Arnab Bhattacharyya, Susanta Middya, Sonali Chakrabarti

Comments: Corrected the figure numbers in the caption and in the text as Fig. 6 was written twice earlier

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

[39] arXiv:1307.0386 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Astronomy transformed: Aperture Arrays - Past, Present and Future

M.A. Garrett (ASTRON and Univ. of Leiden)

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures. Presented at IEEE URSI BEJ session AFRICON 2013 "Large Scale Science Projects: Europa-Africa Connects". To appear in IEEE Xplore (accepted)

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

[40] arXiv:1307.0388 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of high-degree prograde sectoral mode sequences in the A-star KIC 8054146?

M. Breger, P. Lenz, A. A. Pamyatnykh

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

[41] arXiv:1307.0389 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic effects on coronal ejection in variable X-ray sources

B. Mishra, W. Kluzniak

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[42] arXiv:1307.0391 [pdf, other]

Title: The Conceptual Design of the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer

David F. Buscher, Michelle Creech-Eakman, Allen Farris, Christopher A. Haniff, John S. Young

Comments: Submitted to the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation

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

[43] arXiv:1307.0397 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron Stars and the EOS

Madappa Prakash

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, 8th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement, To appear in Proceedings of Science

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

[44] arXiv:1307.0403 [pdf, other]

Title: An outburst scenario for the X-ray spectral variability in 3C 111

F. Tombesi (1,2), J. N. Reeves (3), C. S. Reynolds (2), J. Garcia (2,4), A. Lohfink (2) ((1) NASA/GSFC, (2) University of Maryland, College Park, (3) Keele University, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNARS on July 1st 2013

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

[45] arXiv:1307.0416 [pdf, other]

Title: Transmission spectrum of Earth as a transiting exoplanet - from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared

Y. Betremieux, L. Kaltenegger

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: Betremieux & Kaltenegger (2013), ApJL 772, L31

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

[46] arXiv:1307.0418 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploding Core-Collapse Supernovae by Jets-Driven Feedback Mechanism

Oded Papish, Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Accepted to publication in MNRAS

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

[47] arXiv:1307.0419 [pdf, other]

Title: Searching for variable stars in the VVV globular clusters

Javier Alonso-García, István Dékány, Márcio Catelan, Rodrigo Contreras Ramos, Dante Minniti

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of "Fifty Years of Wide Field Studies in the Southern Hemisphere: Resolved Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge and the Magellanic Clouds", to be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

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

[48] arXiv:1307.0437 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiatively driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability candidates around a forming massive star system: NACO adaptive optics and VISIR study of G333.6-0.2

M. S. N. Kumar

Comments: Accepted by A&A, 8 pages, 4 figures

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

[49] arXiv:1307.0442 [pdf, other]

Title: WOCS 40007: A Detached Eclipsing Binary near the Turnoff of the Open Cluster NGC 6819

Mark W. Jeffries Jr., Eric L. Sandquist, Robert D. Mathieu, Aaron M. Geller, Jerome A. Orosz, Katelyn E. Milliman, Lauren N. Brewer, Imants Platais, Karsten Brogaard, Frank Grundahl, Soeren Frandsen, Aaron Dotter, Dennis Stello

Comments: accepted for AJ, 14 figures

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

[50] arXiv:1307.0458 [pdf, other]

Title: Models of coupled dark matter to dark energy

A. Pourtsidou, C. Skordis, E. J. Copeland

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures; version accepted for publication in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D88 (2013) 083505

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