Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2013

[101] arXiv:1311.0873 [pdf, other]

Title: The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey - Infrared (NGVS-IR): I. A new Near-UV/Optical/Near-IR Globular Cluster selection tool

Roberto P. Muñoz (1 and 2), Thomas H. Puzia (1), Ariane Lançon (2), Eric W. Peng (3 and 4), Patrick Côté (5), Laura Ferrarese (5), John P. Blakeslee (5), Simona Mei (6,7 and 8), Jean-Charles Cuillandre (9), Patrick Hudelot (10), Stéphane Courteau (11), Pierre-Alain Duc (12), Michael L. Balogh (13), Alessandro Boselli (14), Frédéric Bournaud (12), Raymond G. Carlberg (15), Scott C. Chapman (16), Patrick Durrell (17), Paul Eigenthaler (1), Eric Emsellem (18 and 19), Giuseppe Gavazzi (20), Stephen Gwyn (5), Marc Huertas-Company (6 and 7), Olivier Ilbert (14), Andrés Jordán (1), Ronald Läsker (21), Rossella Licitra (6), Chengze Liu (22 and 23), Lauren MacArthur (5), Alan McConnachie (5), Henry Joy McCracken (10), Yannick Mellier (10), Chien Y. Peng (24), Anand Raichoor (7), Matthew A. Taylor (1), John L. Tonry (25), R. Brent Tully (25), Hongxin Zhang (4) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica, PUC, (2) Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, Universite de Strasbourg, (3) Department of Astronomy, Peking University, (4) Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, (5) Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, (6) GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, (7) Universite Paris Denis Diderot, (8) Caltech, (9) CFHT Corporatio, (10) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (11) Department of Physics, Queen's University, (12) Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, (13) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, (14) Aix Marseille Université, LAM, (15) Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, (16) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, (17) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Youngstown State University, (18) Universite de Lyon 1, (19) ESO, Garching, (20) Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, (21) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, (22) Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, (23) INPAC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, (24) Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, (25) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

Comments: 23 pages, 18 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJS

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

[102] arXiv:1311.0874 [pdf, other]

Title: Variable Doppler shifts of the thermal wind absorption lines in low-mass X-ray binaries

O.K. Madej, P.G. Jonker, M. Diaz Trigo, I. Miskovicova

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS; typos corrected, references updated, clarification added in the introduction and table 2, conclusions unchanged

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

[103] arXiv:1311.0875 [pdf, other]

Title: The Diffuse Galactic Far-Ultraviolet Sky

Erika Hamden, David Schiminovich, Mark Seibert

Comments: 15 pages, 19 Figures, Accepted for publication by ApJ

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

[104] arXiv:1311.0883 [pdf, other]

Title: Targeting supermassive black hole binaries and gravitational wave sources for the pulsar timing array

Pablo A. Rosado, Alberto Sesana

Comments: 25 pages, 29 figures

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

[105] arXiv:1311.0886 [pdf, other]

Title: 3D stellar kinematics at the Galactic center: measuring the nuclear star cluster spatial density profile, black hole mass, and distance

T. Do (1,2), G. D. Martinez (2,3), S. Yelda (4), A. M. Ghez (4), J. Bullock (2), M. Kaplinghat (2), J. R. Lu (5), A. G. H. Peter (2,6,7)K. Phifer (4) ((1) Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto, (2) University of California, Irvine, (3) The Oskar Klein Center, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, (4) UCLA, (5) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, (6) Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics and Department of Physics, Ohio State University, (7) Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University)

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, ApJL accepted

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

[106] arXiv:1311.0888 [pdf, other]

Title: New constraints on the cooling of the Central Compact Object in Cas A

B. Posselt, G.G. Pavlov, V. Suleimanov, O. Kargaltsev

Comments: 20 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[107] arXiv:1311.0900 [pdf, other]

Title: Assessing the reliability of Friends-of-Friends groups on the future Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey

A. Zandivarez (1,2), E. Díaz-Giménez (1,2), C. Mendes de Oliveira (2), B. Ascaso (3), N. Benítez (3), R. Dupke (4,5), L. Sodré Jr (2)., J. Irwin (6) ((1) IATE (CONICET) & OAC (UNC),(2) IAG, (3) CSIC, (4) University of Michigan, (5) ON Rio de Janeiro, (6) University of Alabama)

Comments: 20 pages, 17 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[108] arXiv:1311.0905 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology from cross correlation of CMB lensing and galaxy surveys

Ruth Pearson, Oliver Zahn

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 043516 (2014)

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

[109] arXiv:1311.0906 [pdf, other]

Title: Major Substructure in the M31 Outer Halo: the South-West Cloud

N. F. Bate, A. R. Conn, B. McMonigal, G. F. Lewis, N. F. Martin, A. W. McConnachie, J. Veljanoski, A. D. Mackey, A. M. N. Ferguson, R. A. Ibata, M. J. Irwin, M. Fardal, A. P. Huxor, A. Babul

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[110] arXiv:1311.0919 [pdf, other]

Title: VERITAS Observations of the Microquasar Cygnus X-3

S. Archambault, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, K. Berger, R. Bird, A. Bouvier, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, M. Cerruti, X. Chen, L. Ciupik, M. P. Connolly, W. Cui, C. Duke, J. Dumm, M. Errando, A. Falcone, S. Federici, Q. Feng, J. P. Finley, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, N. Galante, G. H. Gillanders, S. Griffin, S. T. Griffiths, J. Grube, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, J. Holder, G. Hughes, T. B. Humensky, P. Kaaret, M. Kertzman, Y. Khassen, D. Kieda, H. Krawczynski, M. J. Lang, A. S Madhavan, G. Maier, P. Majumdar, S. McArthur, A. McCann, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, D. Nieto, A. O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, N. Park, J. S. Perkins, M. Pohl, A. Popkow, H. Prokoph, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, J. Rajotte, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, G. T. Richards, E. Roache, G. H. Sembroski, F. Sheidaei, A. W. Smith, D. Staszak, I. Telezhinsky, M. Theiling, J. V. Tucci, J. Tyler, A. Varlotta, S. Vincent, S. P. Wakely, T. C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, D. A. Williams, B. Zitzer, M. L. McCollough

Comments: 23 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[111] arXiv:1311.0936 [pdf, other]

Title: Time-Dependent Models for Blazar Emissions with the Second-Order Fermi Acceleration

Katsuaki Asano, Fumio Takahara, Masaaki Kusunose, Kenji Toma, Jun Kakuwa

Comments: 34 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[112] arXiv:1311.0972 [pdf, other]

Title: Atmospheric escape by magnetically driven wind from gaseous planets

Yuki A. Tanaka, Takeru K. Suzuki, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[113] arXiv:1311.0980 [pdf, other]

Title: The Association of Polar Faculae with Polar Magnetic Patches Examined with Hinode Observations

Anjali John Kaithakkal, Y. Suematsu, M. Kubo, D. Shiota, S. Tsuneta

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 776:122 (6pp), 2013 October 20

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

[114] arXiv:1311.0995 [pdf, other]

Title: High Redshift Investigation On The Dark Energy Equation of State

E.Piedipalumbo, E. Della Moglie, M. De Laurentis, P. Scudellaro

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1206.7046

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

[115] arXiv:1311.1003 [pdf, other]

Title: Studying the metallicity gradient in Virgo Ellipticals with E-ELT photometry of resolved stars

Laura Schreiber, Laura Greggio, Renato Falomo, Daniela Fantinel, Michela Uslenghi

Comments: 16 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS

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

[116] arXiv:1311.1004 [pdf, other]

Title: Detectability of Torsion Gravity via Galaxy Clustering and Cosmic Shear Measurements

Stefano Camera, Vincenzo F. Cardone, Ninfa Radicella

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 083520 (2014)

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

[117] arXiv:1311.1015 [pdf, other]

Title: Systematic properties of decelerating relativistic jets in low-luminosity radio galaxies

R. A. Laing (1), A. H. Bridle (2) ((1) ESO, (2) NRAO)

Comments: 56 pages, 27 figures, MNRAS, in press. The full text and appendices are included in a single file. The appendices will appear as supplementary material in the version published on-line. Minor changes to match published version and correct typographical errors

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

[118] arXiv:1311.1021 [pdf, other]

Title: Metallicity field and selection effects in spatial distribution of the Galactic globular cluster system

Igor' I. Nikiforov, Ol'ga V. Smirnova

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten (AN)

Journal-ref: Astron. Nachr. 334: No. 8, 749-755, 2013

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

[119] arXiv:1311.1050 [pdf, other]

Title: Speeding up low-mass planetary microlensing simulations and modelling: the Caustic Region Of INfluence

Matthew T. Penny

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables

Journal-ref: ApJ 790, 142 (2014)

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

[120] arXiv:1311.1054 [pdf, other]

Title: The OIV 1407.3\AA /1401.1\AA\ emission-line ratio in a plasma

Nabil Ben Nessib, Norah Alonizan, Rabia Qindeel, Sylvie Sahal-Bréchot, Milan S. Dimitrijević

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research

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

[121] arXiv:1311.1059 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial fluctuations from deformed quantum algebras

Andrew C. Day, Iain A. Brown, Sanjeev S. Seahra

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures

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

[122] arXiv:1311.1070 [pdf, other]

Title: KROME - a package to embed chemistry in astrophysical simulations

T. Grassi, S. Bovino, D. R. G. Schleicher, J. Prieto, D. Seifried, E. Simoncini, F. A. Gianturco

Comments: accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[123] arXiv:1311.1072 [pdf, other]

Title: Abundances of lithium, oxygen, and sodium in the turn-off stars of Galactic globular cluster 47 Tuc

V. Dobrovolskas, A. Kučinskas, P. Bonifacio, S. A. Korotin, L. Sbordone, E. Caffau, D. Prakapavičius, M. Steffen, H.-G. Ludwig, F. Royer

Comments: 24 pages, 13 figures; discussion and conclusions expanded. Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[124] arXiv:1311.1101 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematics of the ionized-to-neutral interfaces in Monoceros R2

P. Pilleri, A. Fuente, M. Gerin, J. Cernicharo, J. R. Goicoechea, V. Ossenkopf, C. Joblin, M. González-García, S. P. Treviño-Morales, Á. Sánchez-Monge, J. Pety, O. Berné, C. Kramer

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[125] arXiv:1311.1104 [pdf, other]

Title: The largest structure of the Universe, defined by Gamma-Ray Bursts

I. Horvath, J. Hakkila, Z. Bagoly

Comments: 7th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, GRB 2013: paper 33 in eConf Proceedings C1304143

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

[126] arXiv:1311.1109 [pdf, other]

Title: The First Billion Years project: dark matter haloes going from contraction to expansion and back again

Andrew J. Davis, Sadegh Khochfar, Claudio Dalla Vecchia

Comments: accepted in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2014 443 (4): 985-1001

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

[127] arXiv:1311.1112 [pdf, other]

Title: The curious morphology and orientation of Orion proplyd HST-10

Ralph Y. Shuping, Marc Kassis, John Bally, Mark R. Morris

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters, 4 Nov 2013

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

[128] arXiv:1311.1116 [pdf, other]

Title: Spot activity of the RS CVn star {\sigma} Geminorum

P. Kajatkari, T. Hackman, L. Jetsu, J. Lehtinen, G.W. Henry

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to A&A

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

[129] arXiv:1311.1119 [pdf, other]

Title: One-zone SSC model for the core emission of Centaurus A revisited

Maria Petropoulou, Eva Lefa, Stavros Dimitrakoudis, Apostolos Mastichiadis

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[130] arXiv:1311.1142 [pdf, other]

Title: Giant Planet Formation, Evolution, and Internal Structure

Ravit Helled, Peter Bodenheimer, Morris Podolak, Aaron Boley, Farzana Meru, Sergei Nayakshin, Jonathan J. Fortney, Lucio Mayer, Yann Alibert, Alan P. Boss

Comments: Accepted for publication as a chapter in Protostars and Planets VI, to be published in 2014 by University of Arizona Press

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

[131] arXiv:1311.1145 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing the purple Earth: Modelling the globally-integrated spectral variability of the Archean Earth

E. Sanromá, E. Pallé, M. N. Parenteau, N. Y. Kiang, A. M. Gutiérrez-Navarro, R. López, P. Montañés-Rodríguez

Comments: 26 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[132] arXiv:1311.1149 [pdf, other]

Title: Stochastically excited oscillations on the upper main sequence

Victoria Antoci

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, Precision Asteroseismology, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 301, 2014, J.A. Guzik, W.J. Chaplin, G. Handler & A. Pigulski, eds

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

[133] arXiv:1311.1167 [pdf, other]

Title: The final-parsec problem in non-spherical galaxies revisited

Eugene Vasiliev, Fabio Antonini, David Merritt

Comments: 10 pages; published in ApJ

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 785, 163 (2014)

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

[134] arXiv:1311.1170 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing Distant Worlds with Asterodensity Profiling

David M. Kipping

Comments: 27 pages, 11 figures, accepted to MNRAS (fixed broken figures). Hi-res cheat-sheet available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 2014, Volume 440, Issue 3, pp. 2164-2184

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

[135] arXiv:1311.1198 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of a Highly Variable Dipping Ultraluminous X-ray source in M94

Dacheng Lin (1), Jimmy A. Irwin (1), Natalie A. Webb (2), Didier Barret (2), Ronald A. Remillard (3) ((1) University of Alabama, USA, (2) IRAP, France, (3) MIT, USA)

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[136] arXiv:1311.1201 [pdf, other]

Title: Detectability of Free Floating Planets in Open Clusters with JWST

Fabio Pacucci, Andrea Ferrara, Elena D'Onghia

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters on 4 November 2013

Journal-ref: 2013 ApJ 778 L42

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

[137] arXiv:1311.1202 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling Tracers of Young Stellar Population Age in Star-Forming Galaxies

Emily M. Levesque, Claus Leitherer

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[138] arXiv:1311.1203 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Metallicities of Kepler Stars

Subo Dong (KIAA-PKU), Zheng Zheng (Utah), Zhaohuan Zhu (Princeton), P. De Cat (Royal observatory of Belgium), J.N. Fu (BNU), X.H. Yang (BNU, NAOC), Haotong Zhang (NAOC), Ge Jin (USTC), Yong Zhang (NIAOT)

Journal-ref: 2014, ApJL, 789, L3

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

[139] arXiv:1311.1205 [pdf, other]

Title: Mass and Concentration estimates from Weak and Strong Gravitational Lensing: a Systematic Study

Carlo Giocoli (1,2,3), Massimo Meneghetti (2,3,4), R. Benton Metcalf (1), Stefano Ettori (2,3), Lauro Moscardini (1,2,3)

Comments: (1) DIFA-UniBO, (2) INAF-OABo, (3) INFN-BO, (4) JPL-Pasadena 18 pages, 19 figures - accepted for publication by MNRAS, two figures added for comparison with SGAS-SDSS and LoCuSS clusters

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

[140] arXiv:1311.1206 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy Evolution: Modeling the Role of Non-thermal Pressure in the Interstellar medium

Yuval Birnboim, Shmuel Balberg, Romain Teyssier

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures, accepted to MNRAS. Updated to match final version

Journal-ref: 2015MNRAS.447.3678B

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

[141] arXiv:1311.1207 [pdf, other]

Title: Predictions for Shepherding Planets in Scattered Light Images of Debris Disks

Timothy J. Rodigas, Renu Malhotra, Philip M. Hinz

Comments: Accepted to ApJ Nov. 5, 2013. 10 pages (emulateapj style), 5 figures, 3 tables

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

[142] arXiv:1311.1208 [pdf, other]

Title: The isotropy problem of Sub-ankle Ultra-high energy cosmic rays

Rahul Kumar, David Eichler

Comments: submitted to ApJ

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

[143] arXiv:1311.1209 [pdf, other]

Title: Early Hydrodynamic Evolution of a Stellar Collision

Doron Kushnir, Boaz Katz (IAS)

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures (without appendices). Submitted to ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[144] arXiv:1311.1210 [pdf, other]

Title: Mass, velocity anisotropy, and pseudo phase-space density profiles of Abell 2142

Emiliano Munari, Andrea Biviano, Gary Mamon

Comments: 14 pages, 14 figures. Consolidated version including the Corrigendum published on A&A

Journal-ref: A&A, 566, A68

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

[145] arXiv:1311.1211 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The large scale structure of galaxies and comparison to mock universes

Mehmet Alpaslan, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Simon Driver, Peder Norberg, Ivan Baldry, Amanda E. Bauer, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Michael Brown, Michelle Cluver, Matthew Colless, Caroline Foster, Andrew Hopkins, Eelco Van Kampen, Lee Kelvin, Maritza A. Lara-Lopez, Jochen Liske, Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, Jon Loveday, Tamsyn McNaught-Roberts, Alexander Merson, Kevin Pimbblet

Comments: 20 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal-ref: MNRAS 438 (2014) 177-194

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

[146] arXiv:1311.1212 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology with massive neutrinos II: on the universality of the halo mass function and bias

E. Castorina, E. Sefusatti, R.K. Sheth, F. Villaescusa-Navarro, M. Viel

Comments: 21 pages, 9 figures

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

[147] arXiv:1311.1214 [pdf, other]

Title: Secular chaos and its application to Mercury, hot Jupiters, and the organization of planetary systems

Yoram Lithwick (Northwestern), Yanqin Wu (Toronto)

Comments: 6 pages. To appear in PNAS

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

[148] arXiv:1311.1215 [pdf, other]

Title: Counterrotating Stars in Simulated Galaxy Disks

David G. Algorry, Julio F. Navarro, Mario G. Abadi, Laura V. Sales, Matthias Steinmetz, Franziska Piontek

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[149] arXiv:1311.1216 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the magnetic field in GRB relativistic collisionless shocks using radio data

Rodolfo Barniol Duran

Comments: 9 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures; minor changes; MNRAS accepted

Journal-ref: Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 442 (2014) 3147-3154

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

[150] arXiv:1311.1221 [pdf, other]

Title: Finding the First Cosmic Explosions. III. Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae

Daniel J. Whalen, Joseph Smidt, Wesley Even, S. E. Woosley, Alexander Heger, Massimo Stiavelli, Chris L. Fryer

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ

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