Astrophysics

Authors and titles for October 2013

[51] arXiv:1310.0264 [pdf, other]

Title: RATS-Kepler -- a deep high cadence survey of the Kepler field

Gavin Ramsay (1), Adam Brooks (1,2), Pasi Hakala (3), Thomas Barclay (4,5), David Garcia-Alvarez (6,7,8), Victoria Antoci (9), Sandra Greiss (10), Martin Still (4,5), Danny Steeghs (10), Boris Gansicke (10), Mark Reynolds (11) ((1) Armagh Observatory, (2) UCL-MSSL, (3) Finca, (4) NASA-Ames, (5) Bay Area ERI, (6) IAC, (7) U La Laguna, (8) Grantecan, (9) Aarhus, (10) U Warwick, (11) U Michigan)

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS

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

[52] arXiv:1310.0270 [pdf, other]

Title: An X-ray view of quasars

K. P. Singh

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India (22 pages, 6 figures)

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

[53] arXiv:1310.0272 [pdf, other]

Title: A low-luminosity type-1 QSO sample: I. Overluminous host spheroidals or undermassive black holes?

Gerold Busch (1), Jens Zuther (1), Mónica Valencia-S. (1), Lydia Moser (1), Sebastian Fischer (1,2), Andreas Eckart (1,3), Julia Scharwächter (4), Dimitri A. Gadotti (5), Lutz Wisotzki (6) ((1) I. Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, (2) Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, (3) Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, (4) Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, (5) ESO Chile, (6) Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik, Potsdam)

Comments: 26 pages, 14 figures; accepted for publication in A&A

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

[54] arXiv:1310.0294 [pdf, other]

Title: An observational asteroseismic study of the pulsating B-stars in the open cluster NGC 884

S. Saesen, M. Briquet, C. Aerts, A. Miglio, F. Carrier

Comments: 2 pages, proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 301 (2013), "Precision Asteroseismology" (Wroclaw), W. Chaplin, J. Guzik, G. Handler & A. Pigulski (eds.)

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

[55] arXiv:1310.0313 [pdf, other]

Title: GRB 091024A and the nature of ultra-long gamma-ray bursts

F.J. Virgili, C.G. Mundell, V. Pal'shin, C. Guidorzi, R. Margutti, A. Melandri, R. Harrison, S. Kobayashi, R. Chornock, A. Henden, A.C. Updike, S.B. Cenko, N.R. Tanvir, I.A. Steele, A. Cucchiara, A. Gomboc, A. Levan, Z. Cano, C.J. Mottram, N.R. Clay, D. Bersier, D. Kopac, J. Japelj, A.V. Filippenko, W. Li, D. Svinkin, S. Golenetskii, D.H. Hartmann, P.A. Milne, G. Williams, P.T. O'Brien, D.B. Fox, E. Berger

Comments: Updated abstract, acknowledgements. Accepted for publication in ApJ; 21 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables

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

[56] arXiv:1310.0323 [pdf, other]

Title: Results of the simulations of the petal/lens as part of the LAUE project

Vineeth Valsan, Filippo Frontera, Enrico Virgilli, Vincenzo Liccardo, Ezio Caroli, John B Stephen

Comments: 12 pages, 26 figures, SPIE optics + Photonics conference 2013, Vol: 8861

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

[57] arXiv:1310.0325 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Energy Cosmic Rays and the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Effect

A A Watson

Comments: 40 pages with 21 figures Accepted for publication in Reports on Progress in Physics September 2013

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

[58] arXiv:1310.0327 [pdf, other]

Title: Putting the A-stars into context: concluding remarks

Charles R. Cowley

Comments: To appear in proceedings of the Moscow conference. 9 pages, no figures

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

[59] arXiv:1310.0330 [pdf, other]

Title: On the methods to determine signal attenuation curve for different surface arrays

J. Vicha, P. Travnicek, D. Nosek, J. Ebr

Comments: Contribution to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

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

[60] arXiv:1310.0351 [pdf, other]

Title: On the corotation torque for low-mass eccentric planets

Stephen M. Fendyke, Richard P. Nelson

Comments: 14 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[61] arXiv:1310.0360 [pdf, other]

Title: Loaded magnetohydrodynamic flows in Kerr spacetime

Noemie Globus, Amir Levinson

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures

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

[62] arXiv:1310.0368 [pdf, other]

Title: Active galactic nucleus torus models and the puzzling infrared spectrum of IRAS F10214+4724

A. Efstathiou, N. Christopher, A. Verma, R. Siebenmorgen

Comments: MNRAS accepted. The AGN torus and starburst models used here and in 1309.7005 are available on request

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

[63] arXiv:1310.0384 [pdf, other]

Title: Bent crystal selection and assembling for the LAUE project

Vincenzo Liccardo, Enrico Virgilli, Filippo Frontera, Vineeth Valsan, Vincenzo Guidi, Elisa Buffagni

Comments: 9 pages, 15 figures, SPIE conference vol. 8861 (2013)

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

[64] arXiv:1310.0387 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantitative analysis of spirality in elliptical galaxies

Levente Dojcsak, Lior Shamir

Comments: New Astronomy, accepted

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

[65] arXiv:1310.0388 [pdf, other]

Title: A pre-explosion optical transient event from a white dwarf merger with a giant supernova progenitor

Efrat Sabach, Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Final version, accepted by MNRAS

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

[66] arXiv:1310.0394 [pdf, other]

Title: Life after eruption - III. Orbital periods of the old novae V365 Car, AR Cir, V972 Oph, HS Pup, V909 Sgr, V373 Sct and CN Vel

C. Tappert, L. Schmidtobreick, N. Vogt, A. Ederoclite

Comments: 14 pages, 15 figures, MNRAS, accepted

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

[67] arXiv:1310.0403 [pdf, other]

Title: Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies

J. A. Sellwood (Rutgers University)

Comments: Minor revisions to become as it will appear in the journal

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

[68] arXiv:1310.0405 [pdf, other]

Title: Ionized Plasma and Neutral Gas Coupling in the Sun's Chromosphere and Earth's Ionosphere/Thermosphere

J.E. Leake, C.R. DeVore, J.P. Thayer, A.G. Burns, G. Crowley, H.R. Gilbert, J.D Huba, J. Krall, M.G. Linton, V.S. Lukin, W. Wang

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

[69] arXiv:1310.0412 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic fields of Ap stars from full Stokes vector spectropolarimetric observations

N. Rusomarov, O. Kochukhov, N. Piskunov

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

[70] arXiv:1310.0417 [pdf, other]

Title: SWIFT J1910.2-0546: A possible black hole binary with a retrograde spin or truncated disk

R. C. Reis, M. T. Reynolds, J. M. Miller, D. J. Walton, D. Maitra, A. King, N. Degenaar

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 11 pages, 11 figures and 1 Table

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

[71] arXiv:1310.0427 [pdf, other]

Title: Potential multiple steady-states in the long-term carbon cycle

Stephen Tennenbaum, Faina Berezovskaya, David Schwartzman

Comments: 25 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[72] arXiv:1310.0429 [pdf, other]

Title: A Dynamical Analysis of the Corona Borealis Supercluster

Merida Batiste, David J. Batuski

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures. To be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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

[73] arXiv:1310.0430 [pdf, other]

Title: Massive Milky Way Satellites in Cold and Warm Dark Matter: Dependence on Cosmology

E. Polisensky, M. Ricotti

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: 2014, MNRAS, 437, 2922

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

[74] arXiv:1310.0449 [pdf, other]

Title: Macroclumping as solution of the discrepancy between H{\alpha} and P v mass loss diagnostics for O-type stars

B. Šurlan, W.-R. Hamann, A. Aret, J. Kubát, L. M. Oskinova, A. F. Torres

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in Astrononomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 559, id.A130, 17 pp (2013)

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

[75] arXiv:1310.0451 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared identification of high-mass X-ray binaries discovered by INTEGRAL

Alexis Coleiro, Sylvain Chaty, Juan A. Zurita Heras, Farid Rahoui, John A. Tomsick

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A (in press)

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

[76] arXiv:1310.0456 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigating the presence of 500 um submillimeter excess emission in local star forming galaxies

Allison Kirkpatrick, Daniela Calzetti, Maud Galametz, Rob Kennicutt Jr., Daniel Dale, Gonzalo Aniano, Karin Sandstrom, Lee Armus, Alison Crocker, Joannah Hinz, Leslie Hunt, Jin Koda, Fabian Walter

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[77] arXiv:1310.0457 [pdf, other]

Title: The Extremely Red, Young L Dwarf PSO J318-22: A Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Analog to Directly Imaged Young Gas-Giant Planets

Michael C. Liu, Eugene A. Magnier, Niall R. Deacon, Katelyn N. Allers, Trent J. Dupuy, Michael C. Kotson, Kimberly M. Aller, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, P. W. Draper, K. W. Hodapp, R. Jedicke, R.-P. Kudritzki, N. Metcalfe, J. S. Morgan, N. Kaiser, P. A. Price, J. L. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat

Comments: ApJ Letters, in press. Version 2 incorporates tiny cosmetic changes to match final published version, including a revised Figure 1 that uses the most recent AB Pic b photometry from Biller et al (2013)

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

[78] arXiv:1310.0458 [pdf, other]

Title: The fragmenting past of the disk at the Galactic Center : The culprit for the missing red giants

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Xian Chen

Comments: 5 pages, no figures, accepted for publication ApJ Letts

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

[79] arXiv:1310.0460 [pdf, other]

Title: Herschel survey of brown dwarf disks in Rho Ophiuchi

C. Alves de Oliveira, P. Ábrahám, G. Marton, C. Pinte, Cs. Kiss, M. Kun, Á. Kóspál, Ph. André, V. Könyves

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[80] arXiv:1310.0462 [pdf, other]

Title: Synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission from blazar jets - IV. BL Lac type blazars and the physical basis for the blazar sequence

William J. Potter, Garret Cotter

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

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

[81] arXiv:1310.0464 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures at Two Loops

John Joseph M. Carrasco, Simon Foreman, Daniel Green, Leonardo Senatore

Comments: 56 pages, 10 figures. v2: JCAP published version, corrected a small algebra mistake, extended explanations, results unchanged

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)

[82] arXiv:1310.0465 [pdf, other]

Title: Reionization and Beyond: detecting the peaks of the cosmological 21cm signal

Andrei Mesinger, Aaron Ewall-Wice, Jacqueline Hewitt

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS in-press

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

[83] arXiv:1310.0466 [pdf, other]

Title: The Orbital Ellipticity of Satellite Galaxies and the Mass of the Milky Way

Christopher Barber, Else Starkenburg, Julio Navarro, Alan McConnachie, Azadeh Fattahi

Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures, Accepted by MNRAS

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

[84] arXiv:1310.0468 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropic dark matter distribution functions and impact on WIMP direct detection

Nassim Bozorgnia, Riccardo Catena, Thomas Schwetz

Comments: 34 pages, 25 figures, v2: version accepted for publication in JCAP, added LUX results

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

[85] arXiv:1310.0469 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing SASI- and Convection-Dominated Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions in Two Dimensions

Rodrigo Fernández, Bernhard Mueller, Thierry Foglizzo, Hans-Thomas Janka

Comments: accepted by MNRAS with minor changes

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[86] arXiv:1310.0470 [pdf, other]

Title: Two superluminous supernovae from the early universe discovered by the Supernova Legacy Survey

D. A. Howell, D. Kasen, C. Lidman, M. Sullivan, A. Conley, P. Astier, C. Balland. R. G. Carlberg, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, R. Pain, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, K. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider

Comments: ApJ, accepted, 43 pages, 15 figures

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

[87] arXiv:1310.0471 [pdf, other]

Title: Fossilized Gravitational Wave Relic and Primordial Clocks

Suddhasattwa Brahma, Elliot Nelson, Sarah Shandera

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures, v2: minor corrections, matches version published in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 023507 (2014)

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

[88] arXiv:1310.0474 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-Wavelength SEDs of Herschel Selected Galaxies in the COSMOS Field

Nicholas Lee, D. B. Sanders, Caitlin M. Casey, N.Z. Scoville, Chao-Ling Hung, Emeric Le Floc'h, Olivier Ilbert, Herve Aussel, Peter Capak, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Isaac Roseboom, Mara Salvato, M. Aravena, J. Bock, S. J. Oliver, L. Riguccini, M. Symeonidis

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[89] arXiv:1310.0475 [pdf, other]

Title: Helium-Abundance and Other Composition Effects on the Properties of Stellar Surface Convection in Solar-like Main-sequence Stars

Joel D. Tanner, Sarbani Basu, Pierre Demarque

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[90] arXiv:1310.0476 [pdf, other]

Title: SCExAO as a precursor to an ELT exoplanet direct imaging instrument

Nemanja Jovanovic, Olivier Guyon, Frantz martinache, Christophe Clergeon, Garima Singh, Sebastien Vievard, Tomoyuki Kudo, Vincent Garrel, Barnaby Norris, Peter Tuthill, Paul Stewart, Elsa huby, Guy Perrin, Sylvestre Lacour

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures Proceedings of AO4ELTs3 conference, paper 13396, Florence, Italy, May 2013

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

[91] arXiv:1310.0477 [pdf, other]

Title: MAMA: An Algebraic Map for the Secular Dynamics of Planetesimals in Tight Binary Systems

A. M. Leiva, J. A. Correa-Otto, C. Beaugé

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

[92] arXiv:1310.0482 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of a superbolide from a Damocloid observed over Spain on July 13, 2012

Jose M. Madiedo, Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez, Jaime Zamorano, Jose L. Ortiz, Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel, Francisco Ocaña, Jaime Izquierdo, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Nicolas Morales, David Galadi, Enrique de Guindos, Juan Lacruz, Faustino Organero, Leonor Ana-Hernandez, Fernando Fonseca, Mar Tapia, Felipe Gallego, Jesus Cabrera-Caño

Comments: Paper accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) on Sept. 26, 2013

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

[93] arXiv:1310.0485 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for Radiogenic Sulfur-32 in Type AB Presolar Silicon Carbide Grains?

Wataru Fujiya, Peter Hoppe, Ernst Zinner, Marco Pignatari, Falk Herwig

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[94] arXiv:1310.0487 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on decreases in Eta Carinae's mass loss from 3D hydrodynamic simulations of its binary colliding winds

Thomas I. Madura, Theodore R. Gull, Atsuo T. Okazaki, Christopher M.P. Russell, Stanley P. Owocki, Jose H. Groh, Michael F. Corcoran, Kenji Hamaguchi, Mairan Teodoro

Comments: 38 pages, 25 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[95] arXiv:1310.0488 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for nuclear radio jet and its structure down to <100 Schwarzschild radii in the center of the Sombrero galaxy (M 104, NGC 4594)

Kazuhiro Hada, Akihiro Doi, Hiroshi Nagai, Makoto Inoue, Mareki Honma, Marcello Giroletti, Gabriele Giovannini

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[96] arXiv:1310.0492 [pdf, other]

Title: Binary Black Hole Accretion From a Circumbinary Disk: Gas Dynamics Inside the Central Cavity

Brian D. Farris, Paul Duffell, Andrew I. MacFadyen, Zoltan Haiman

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

[97] arXiv:1310.0500 [pdf, other]

Title: Objects Appear Smaller as They Recede: How Proper Motions Can Directly Reveal the Cosmic Expansion, Provide Geometric Distances, and Measure the Hubble Constant

Jeremy Darling

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication by ApJ Letters

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

[98] arXiv:1310.0513 [pdf, other]

Title: Determination of Acceleration Mechanism Characteristics Directly and Non-Parametrically from Observations: Application to Supernova Remnants

Vahé Petrosian, Qingrong Chen

Comments: 16 pages, 4 figures, accepted to PRD

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

[99] arXiv:1310.0533 [pdf, other]

Title: Period Changes of Mira Variables, RR Lyrae Stars, and Type II Cepheids

Horace A. Smith

Comments: Presented at the "40 Years of Variable Stars: A Celebration of Contributions by Horace A. Smith" conference (arXiv:1310.0149). 15 pages, 4 figures

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

[100] arXiv:1310.0534 [pdf, other]

Title: A Study of RR1 Lightcurve Modulation in OGLE_III Bulge Time-series

Douglas L. Welch, Grant Foster

Comments: Presented at the "40 Years of Variable Stars: A Celebration of Contributions by Horace A. Smith" conference (arXiv:1310.0149). 11 pages, 12 figures

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