Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2013

[801] arXiv:1311.6242 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroseismology of binary stars and a compilation of core overshoot and rotational frequency values of OB stars

Conny Aerts

Comments: Proceedingspaper, 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, to appear in "Setting a New Standard in the Analysis of Binary Stars", Eds K. Pavlovski, A. Tkachenko, and G. Torres, EAS Publications Series

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

[802] arXiv:1311.6246 [pdf, other]

Title: Precision ephemerides for gravitational-wave searches: I. Sco X-1

Duncan Galloway (1), Sammanani Premachandra (1), Danny Steeghs (2), Tom Marsh (2), Jorge Casares (3), Rémon Cornelisse (3) ((1) Monash Centre for Astrophysics, (2) University of Warwick, (3) Instituto de Astrofîsica, Universidad de la Laguna)

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted by ApJ

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

[803] arXiv:1311.6316 [pdf, other]

Title: N-point Statistics of Large-Scale Structure in the Zel'dovich Approximation

Svetlin Tassev

Comments: 13 pages, 2 figures

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

[804] arXiv:1311.6322 [pdf, other]

Title: A non-grey analytical model for irradiated atmospheres. II: Analytical vs. numerical solutions

Vivien Parmentier, Tristan Guillot, Jonathan J. Fortney, Mark S. Marley

Comments: Accepted in A&A, models are available at this http URL or in CDS

Journal-ref: A&A 574, A35 (2015)

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

[805] arXiv:1311.6336 [pdf, other]

Title: Accurate parameters of the oldest known rocky-exoplanet hosting system: Kepler-10 revisited

Alexandra Fogtmann-Schulz, Brian Hinrup, Vincent Van Eylen, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Hans Kjeldsen, Víctor Silva Aguirre, Brandon Tingley

Comments: 14 pages (in the used format), 4 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal at December 3rd 2013

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

[806] arXiv:1311.6344 [pdf, other]

Title: The Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supernovae Discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory

Y.-C. Pan, M. Sullivan, K. Maguire, I. M. Hook, P. E. Nugent, D. A. Howell, I. Arcavi, J. Botyanszki, S. B. Cenko, J. DeRose, H. K. Fakhouri, A. Gal-Yam, E. Hsiao, S. R. Kulkarni, R. R. Laher, C. Lidman, J. Nordin, E. S. Walker, D. Xu

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[807] arXiv:1311.6346 [pdf, other]

Title: Determining heating time scales in solar active region cores from AIA/SDO Fe XVIII images

Ignacio Ugarte-Urra, Harry P. Warren

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

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

[808] arXiv:1311.6357 [pdf, other]

Title: Binary-corrected velocity dispersions from single- and multi-epoch radial velocities: massive stars in R136 as a test case

Michiel Cottaar, Vincent Hénault-Brunet

Comments: Accepted by A&A; minor corrections made on November 27

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

[809] arXiv:1311.6374 [pdf, other]

Title: Fluctuations in strongly coupled cosmologies

Silvio A. Bonometto, Roberto Mainini

Comments: 25 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication on JCAP; updated to match the published version

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

[810] arXiv:1311.6383 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnification bias as a novel probe for primordial magnetic fields

Stefano Camera, Cosimo Fedeli, Lauro Moscardini

Comments: 21 pages, 9 figures; published on JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP03(2014)027

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

[811] arXiv:1311.6407 [pdf, other]

Title: Gadolinium in water Cherenkov detectors improves detection of supernova $\nu_e$

Ranjan Laha, John F. Beacom

Comments: v2: 11 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes. Conclusions unchanged. Published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 063007 (2014)

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

[812] arXiv:1311.6408 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature of supernovae 2010O and 2010P in Arp 299 - I. Near-infrared and optical evolution

E. Kankare, S. Mattila, S. Ryder, M. Fraser, A. Pastorello, N. Elias-Rosa, C. Romero-Canizales, A. Alberdi, V.-P. Hentunen, R. Herrero-Illana, J. Kotilainen, M.-A. Perez-Torres, P. Vaisanen

Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures. Minor changes in text from v1. Published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: 2014, MNRAS, 440, 1052

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

[813] arXiv:1311.6414 [pdf, other]

Title: Li depletion in solar analogues with exoplanets: Extending the sample

E. Delgado Mena, G. Israelian, J. I. González Hernández, S. G. Sousa, A. Mortier, N. C. Santos, V. Zh. Adibekyan, J. Fernandes, R. Rebolo, S. Udry, M. Mayor

Comments: 16 pages, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[814] arXiv:1311.6427 [pdf, other]

Title: Einstein@Home discovery of four young gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi LAT data

H. J. Pletsch, L. Guillemot, B. Allen, D. Anderson, C. Aulbert, O. Bock, D. J. Champion, H. B. Eggenstein, H. Fehrmann, D. Hammer, R. Karuppusamy, M. Keith, M. Kramer, B. Machenschalk, C. Ng, M. A. Papa, P. S. Ray, X. Siemens

Comments: To appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 779, L11 (2013)

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

[815] arXiv:1311.6444 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Emulation: Fast Predictions for the Galaxy Power Spectrum

Juliana Kwan, Katrin Heitmann, Salman Habib, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Hal Finkel, Nick Frontiere, Adrian Pope

Comments: Replaced to match published version. The emulator can be downloaded at this http URL

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

[816] arXiv:1311.6452 [pdf, other]

Title: Herschel and IRAM-30m Observations of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) at 4.5 AU from the Sun

L. O'Rourke, D. Bockelée-Morvan, N. Biver, B. Altieri, D. Teyssier, L. Jorda, V. Debout, C. Snodgrass, M. Küppers, M. A'Hearn, T. G. Müller, T. Farnham

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables. Accepted by A&A

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

[817] arXiv:1311.6463 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints of $\Delta\mu/\mu$ based on H$_2$ observations in QSO spectra at high redshifts

Martin Wendt, Paolo Molaro

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Proceedings of the Sesto Conference on Varying fundamental constants and dynamical dark energy (Sesto, Italy, July 8-13, 2013)

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

[818] arXiv:1311.6466 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatially-resolved dust properties of the GRB 980425 host galaxy

Michał J. Michałowski, L. K. Hunt, E. Palazzi, S. Savaglio, G. Gentile, J. Rasmussen, M. Baes, S. Basa, S. Bianchi, S. Berta, D. Burlon, J. M. Castro Ceron, S. Covino, J.-G. Cuby, V. D'Elia, P. Ferrero, D. Gotz, J. Hjorth, M. P. Koprowski, D. Le Borgne, E. Le Floc'h, D. Malesani, T. Murphy, E. Pian, S. Piranomonte, A. Rossi, J. Sollerman, N. R. Tanvir, A. de Ugarte Postigo, D. Watson, P. van der Werf, S. D. Vergani, D. Xu

Comments: Accepted by A&A. 14 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. V2: minor updates to match the published version

Journal-ref: Astron. Astrophys. 562 (2014) A70

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

[819] arXiv:1311.6467 [pdf, other]

Title: Removal of systematics in photometric measurements: static and rotating illumination corrections in FORS2@VLT data

Lodovico Coccato (1), Daniel M. Bramich (1, 2), Wolfram Freudling (1), Sabine Moehler (1) ((1) European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse, Germany, (2) Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar)

Comments: 16 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[820] arXiv:1311.6469 [pdf, other]

Title: NGC1266 as a Local Candidate for Rapid Cessation of Star Formation

Katherine Alatalo, Kristina Nyland, Genevieve Graves, Kristen Shapiro Griffin, Pierre-Alain Duc, Michele Cappellari, Richard M. McDermid, Timothy A. Davis, Alison F. Crocker, Lisa M. Young, Philip Chang, Nicholas Scott, Sabrina L. Cales, Estelle Bayet, Leo Blitz, Maxime Bois, Frédéric Bournaud, Martin Bureau, Roger L. Davies, P. Tim de Zeeuw, Eric Emsellem, Sadegh Khochfar, Davor Krajnović, Harald Kuntschner, Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Tom Oosterloo, Marc Sarzi, Paolo Serra, Anne-Marie Weijmans

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal

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

[821] arXiv:1311.6473 [pdf, other]

Title: Central galaxies in different environments: Do they have similar properties?

Ivan Lacerna, Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Hector M. Hernandez-Toledo

Comments: 17 pages, 11 figures after last Referee's report. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: 2014, ApJ, 788, 29

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

[822] arXiv:1311.6475 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling reverberation mapping data II: dynamical modeling of the Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2008 dataset

Anna Pancoast, Brendon J. Brewer, Tommaso Treu, Daeseong Park, Aaron J. Barth, Misty C. Bentz, Jong-Hak Woo

Comments: 21 pages, 24 figures, 3 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS, corrected masses for NGC 5548 and NGC 6814 in the abstract

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

[823] arXiv:1311.6496 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical Compositions of RV Tauri Stars and Related Objects

S. Sumangala Rao, Sunetra Giridhar (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India)

Comments: 18 Pages, 6 Figures, Accepted for Publication in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica (RevMexxAA), Will appear in Vol.50, No. 1, April, 2014 issue of the Journal

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

[824] arXiv:1311.6503 [pdf, other]

Title: PopCORN: Hunting down the differences between binary population synthesis codes

S. Toonen, J.S.W. Claeys, N. Mennekens, A.J. Ruiter

Comments: 13 pages, +21 pages appendix, 35 figures, accepted for publishing in A&A, Minor change to match published version, most important the added link to the website this http URL for more detailed figures and information

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

[825] arXiv:1311.6515 [pdf, other]

Title: Chandra and XMM-Newton imaging and spectroscopic study of the supernova remnant Kes 73 hosting the magnetar 1E 1841-045

Harsha S. Kumar, Samar Safi-Harb, Patrick Slane, E. V. Gothelf

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[826] arXiv:1311.6519 [pdf, other]

Title: Recent Highlights from IceCube

Spencer R. Klein (for the IceCube Collaboration)

Comments: 9 pages; plenary highlight talk presented at the 2013 this http URL Ray Conf. The full collaboration author list is available at this http URL

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

[827] arXiv:1311.6522 [pdf, other]

Title: V1309 SCO - Understanding a merger

Jose L.A. Nandez, Natalia Ivanova, James Lombardi Jr

Comments: Published in ApJ, 24 pages, 23 figures, 2 figures for animations (online only)

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

[828] arXiv:1311.6523 [pdf, other]

Title: First Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Measurement of Satellite Halo Mass in the CFHT Stripe-82 Survey

Ran Li, Huanyuan Shan, HouJun Mo, Jean-Paul Kneib, Xiaohu Yang, Wentao Luo, Frank C. van den Bosch, Thomas Erben, Bruno Moraes, Martin Makler

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS,2014,438,2864

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

[829] arXiv:1311.6524 [pdf, other]

Title: Tying Dark Matter to Baryons with Self-interactions

Manoj Kaplinghat, Ryan E. Keeley, Tim Linden, Hai-Bo Yu

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. v2: sections II and III edited heavily for clarity of presentation, changes to figure 2 (halo shape), conclusions unchanged

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 021302 (2014)

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

[830] arXiv:1311.6546 [pdf, other]

Title: The Compactness of Presupernova Stellar Cores

Tuguldur Sukhbold, Stan Woosley

Comments: 23 pages, 28 figures

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

[831] arXiv:1311.6553 [pdf, other]

Title: Sejong Open Cluster Survey (SOS). II. IC 1848 Cluster in the H II Region W5 West

Beomdu Lim, Hwankyung Sung, Jinyoung S. Kim, Michael S. Bessell, Rivkat Karimov

Comments: 17 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[832] arXiv:1311.6559 [pdf, other]

Title: A Detailed Analysis of the HD 73526 2:1 Resonant Planetary System

Robert A. Wittenmyer, Xianyu Tan, Man Hoi Lee, Jonathan Horner, C.G. Tinney, R.P. Butler, G.S. Salter, B.D. Carter, H.R.A. Jones, S.J. O'Toole, J. Bailey, D. Wright, J.D. Crane, S.A. Schectman, P. Arriagada, I. Thompson, D. Minniti, M. Diaz

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[833] arXiv:1311.6565 [pdf, other]

Title: Acoustic Methods for Evaluation of High Energy Explosions

Yury I. Lobanovsky

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

[834] arXiv:1311.6590 [pdf, other]

Title: Origin of Nonthermal Emission from the Fermi Bubbles and Mechanisms of Particle Acceleration There

V. A. Dogiel, K.-S. Cheng, D. O. Chernyshov, C.-M. Ko

Comments: The text is pepared for publication in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 303 "The Galactic Center: Feeding and Feedback in a Normal Galactic Nucleus", Santa Fe, USA, 2013

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

[835] arXiv:1311.6592 [pdf, other]

Title: Plasma injection and outflow formation in Kerr black holes

Noemie Globus, Amir Levinson

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the HEPRO 4 meeting

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

[836] arXiv:1311.6597 [pdf, other]

Title: A non-grey analytical model for irradiated atmospheres. I: Derivation

Vivien Parmentier, Tristan Guillot

Comments: Accepted by A&A, model available at this http URL

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

[837] arXiv:1311.6633 [pdf, other]

Title: First X-ray observations of Low-Power Compact Steep Spectrum Sources

M.Kunert-Bajraszewska, A.Labiano, A.Siemiginowska, M.Guainazzi

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[838] arXiv:1311.6642 [pdf, other]

Title: On the long-term correlation between the flux in the Ca II H & K and Halpha lines for FGK stars

J. Gomes da Silva, N. C. Santos, I. Boisse, X. Dumusque, C. Lovis

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[839] arXiv:1311.6643 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of CO in Amorphous Water Ice Environments

L.J. Karssemeijer, S. Ioppolo, M.C. van Hemert, A. van der Avoird, M.A. Allodi, G.A. Blake, H.M. Cuppen

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, Published in ApJ

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

[840] arXiv:1311.6644 [pdf, other]

Title: Far-infrared molecular lines from Low- to High-Mass Star Forming Regions observed with Herschel

A. Karska, F. Herpin, S. Bruderer, J.R. Goicoechea, G.J. Herczeg, E.F. van Dishoeck, I. San José-García, A. Contursi, H. Feuchtgruber, D. Fedele, A. Baudry, J. Braine, L. Chavarría, J. Cernicharo, F.F.S. van der Tak, F. Wyrowski

Comments: 23 pages, 19 figures, 6 Tables. Accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[841] arXiv:1311.6649 [pdf, other]

Title: N-body Dark Matter Haloes with simple Hierarchical Histories

Lilian Jiang, John C.Helly, Shaun Cole, Carlos S.Frenk

Comments: 23 pages, 17figures, improved version which matches the version accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[842] arXiv:1311.6651 [pdf, other]

Title: Preplanetary scavengers: Growing tall in dust collisions

Thorsten Meisner, Gerhard Wurm, Jens Teiser, Mathias Schywek

Comments: This paper has been replaced by the author due to a transmission error of references. Now the citations and references are given

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

[843] arXiv:1311.6653 [pdf, other]

Title: A model for the Balmer pseudocontinuum in spectra of type 1 AGNs

Jelena Kovacevic, Luka C. Popovic, Wolfram Kollatschny

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in the Advances in Space Research (ASR)

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

[844] arXiv:1311.6660 [pdf, other]

Title: Photophoretic Strength on Chondrules 1: Modeling

Christoph Loesche, Gerhard Wurm, Jens Teiser, Jon M. Friedrich, Addi Bischoff

Journal-ref: apj 2013 vol. 778(2), pp. 101

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

[845] arXiv:1311.6678 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimising Gaussian processes for reconstructing dark energy dynamics from supernovae

Marina Seikel, Chris Clarkson

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures

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

[846] arXiv:1311.6707 [pdf, other]

Title: Parallaxes of five L Dwarfs with a Robotic Telescope

Y. Wang, H.R.A. Jones, R.L. Smart, F. Marocco, D.J. Pinfield, Z. Shao, I.A. Steele, Z. Zhang, A.H. Andrei, A.J. Burgasser, K.L. Cruz, J. Yu, J.R.A. Clarke, C.J. Leigh, A. Sozzetti, D.N. Murray, B. Burningham

Comments: 36 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables

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

[847] arXiv:1311.6722 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of large-scale magnetic structures associated with the Fermi bubbles

Maxim V. Barkov, Valenti Bosch-Ramon

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for A&A

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

[848] arXiv:1311.6730 [pdf, other]

Title: Covariant Bardeen Perturbation Formalism

S. D. P. Vitenti, F. T. Falciano, N. Pinto-Neto

Comments: 15 pages, no figures, revtex4-1, accepted for publication in PRD, typos fixed, improved discussion about higher order gauge and foliation invariance

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 103538 (2014)

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

[849] arXiv:1311.6737 [pdf, other]

Title: Computing model independent perturbations in dark energy and modified gravity

Richard A. Battye, Jonathan A. Pearson

Comments: typos corrected; updated to match version in JCAP

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

[850] arXiv:1311.6750 [pdf, other]

Title: Spin-orbit coupling and chaotic rotation for coorbital bodies in quasi-circular orbits

Alexandre C.M. Correia, Philippe Robutel (IMCCE)

Comments: 6 pages. Astrophysical Journal (2013) 6pp

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