Astrophysics

Authors and titles for December 2013

[751] arXiv:1312.5846 [pdf, other]

Title: CKVul: evolving nebula and three curious background stars

M. Hajduk, P. A. M. van Hoof, A. A. Zijlstra

Comments: Published in MNRAS, available at this http URL

Journal-ref: MNRAS 2013, 432, 167H

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

[752] arXiv:1312.5864 [pdf, other]

Title: BANYAN. II. Very Low Mass and Substellar Candidate Members to Nearby, Young Kinematic Groups With Previously Known Signs of Youth

Jonathan Gagné, David Lafrenière, René Doyon, Lison Malo, Étienne Artigau

Comments: 35 pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (in press); Several typographic corrections

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

[753] arXiv:1312.5877 [pdf, other]

Title: Can the magnetic field in the Orion arm inhibit the growth of instabilities in the bow shock of Betelgeuse?

Allard Jan van Marle, Leen Decin, Zakaria Meliani

Comments: 5 pages, including 7 figures. The published version will include 4 animations. Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[754] arXiv:1312.5878 [pdf, other]

Title: Fifty Years of TT Arietis

J. Smak

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; submitted to "Acta Astronomica"

Journal-ref: Acta Astronomica, 63, 453, 2013

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

[755] arXiv:1312.5880 [pdf, other]

Title: A Search for Photometric Variability Towards M71 with the Near-Infrared Transiting ExoplanetS Telescope

J. McCormac (1 and 3), I. Skillen (1), D. Pollacco (2 and 3), F. Faedi (2 and 3), G. Ramsay (4), V. S. Dhillon (5), I. Todd (3), A. Gonzalez (1) ((1) Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain, (2) University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, (3) Astrophysics Research Centre, Queens University, Belfast, UK, (4) Armagh Observatory, Armagh, UK and (5) Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield, UK)

Comments: Part of this work was carried out while J. McCormac, D. Pollacco, F. Faedi and I. Todd were at Queens University Belfast, UK

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

[756] arXiv:1312.5890 [pdf, other]

Title: Photometry of the progenitor of Nova Del 2013 (V339 Del) and calibration of a deep BVRI photometric

Ulisse Munari, Arne Henden

Comments: IBVS 6087

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

[757] arXiv:1312.5895 [pdf, other]

Title: Intermittent dust mass loss from activated asteroid P/2013 P5 (PANSTARRS)

F. Moreno., J. Licandro, C. Álvarez-Iglesias, A. Cabrera-Lavers, F. Pozuelos

Comments: Accepted by ApJ

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

[758] arXiv:1312.5896 [pdf, other]

Title: Relative frequencies of supernovae versus properties of spiral hosts

A. A. Hakobyan, T. A. Nazaryan, V. Zh. Adibekyan, A. R. Petrosian, L. S. Aramyan, D. Kunth, G. A. Mamon, V. de Lapparent, E. Bertin, J. M. Gomes, M. Turatto

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 304, pp.339-340, 2014

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

[759] arXiv:1312.5899 [pdf, other]

Title: A Detailed Numerical Analysis of Asymmetrical Density Distribution in Saturn's F ring During an Encounter with Prometheus

Phil J Sutton, Feo Kusmartsev

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

[760] arXiv:1312.5917 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for binary central stars of the SMC PNe

M. Hajduk, M. Gladkowski, I. Soszyński

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A. 7 pages and 7 figures, table 4 is only available at the CDS

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

[761] arXiv:1312.5918 [pdf, other]

Title: Global Distribution of Water Vapor and Cloud Cover--Sites for High Performance THz Applications

Jonathan Y. Suen, Michael T. Fang, Philip M. Lubin

Comments: 15 pages, 23 figures

Journal-ref: IEEE Trans. Terahertz Sci. Technol. 4 (2014) 86-100

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

[762] arXiv:1312.5924 [pdf, other]

Title: Black Hole X-ray Transients: The Formation Puzzle

Grzegorz Wiktorowicz, Krzysztof Belczynski, Thomas J. Maccarone

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

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

[763] arXiv:1312.5928 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar Granulation as the Source of High-Frequency Flicker in Kepler Light Curves

Steven R. Cranmer (CfA), Fabienne A. Bastien (Vanderbilt), Keivan G. Stassun (Vanderbilt, Fisk), Steven H. Saar (CfA)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 7 pages (emulateapj style), 5 figures

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

[764] arXiv:1312.5944 [pdf, other]

Title: Does Planck really rule out monomial inflation?

Kari Enqvist, Mindaugas Karciauskas

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures and 1 table

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)

[765] arXiv:1312.5945 [pdf, other]

Title: The theory of pulsar wind nebulae

E. Amato (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

Comments: 10 pages, Invited Review Talk at the HEPRO IV Confernce, Heidelberg, Germany. To be published in International Journal of Modern Physics

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

[766] arXiv:1312.5956 [pdf, other]

Title: A Radio Determination of the Time of the New Moon

Y. A. Hafez, L. Trojan, F. H. Albaqami, A. Z. Almutairi, R. D. Davies, C. Dickinson, L. Piccirillo

Comments: 11 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[767] arXiv:1312.5961 [pdf, other]

Title: Coupling between corotation and Lindblad resonances in the elliptic planar three-body problem

Maryame El Moutamid, Bruno Sicardy, Stéfan Renner

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

[768] arXiv:1312.5968 [pdf, other]

Title: From Theory to Observations and viceversa: theoretical uncertainties and observational constraints

Santi Cassisi (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Teramo, Italy)

Comments: 54 pages, 19 figures, Contribution for the proceeding of the 23^rd Evry Schatzman School on Stellar Astrophysics, "The Ages of Stars", Roscoff (France), 2013, EAS Publications Series

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

[769] arXiv:1312.5981 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak gravitational lensing

H. Hoekstra

Comments: Lecture given as part of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi "New Horizons for Observational Cosmology", Varenna, July 1-6, 2013, eds. A. Melchiori, A. Cooray, E. Komatsu, to be published by the Italian Society of Physics

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

[770] arXiv:1312.5982 [pdf, other]

Title: A Rare Encounter with Very Massive Stars in NGC 3125-A1

Aida Wofford, Claus Leitherer, Rupali Chandar, Jean-Claude Bouret

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 34 pages, 12 figures

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

[771] arXiv:1312.5994 [pdf, other]

Title: FeLoBAL Outflow Variability Constraints from Multi-Year Observations

Sean M. McGraw, Joseph C. Shields, Frederick W. Hamann, Daniel M. Capellupo, Sarah C. Gallagher, William N. Brandt

Comments: 2 pages, no figures, to be published in conference proceedings for IAU Symposium No. 304: Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies

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

[772] arXiv:1312.6013 [pdf, other]

Title: Reconstructing the sky location of gravitational-wave detected compact binary systems: methodology for testing and comparison

Trevor Sidery, Ben Aylott, Nelson Christensen, Ben Farr, Will Farr, Farhan Feroz, Jonathan Gair, Katherine Grover, Philip Graff, Chad Hanna, Vassiliki Kalogera, Ilya Mandel, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Matthew Pitkin, Larry Price, Vivien Raymond, Christian Roever, Leo Singer, Marc Van der Sluys, Rory J.E. Smith, Alberto Vecchio, John Veitch, Salvatore Vitale

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 084060 (2014)

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

[773] arXiv:1312.6016 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological simulations of screened modified gravity out of the static approximation: effects on matter distribution

Claudio Llinares, David F. Mota

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, matches version accepted for publication in PRD

Journal-ref: Physical Review D, Volume 89, Issue 8, id.084023 (2014)

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

[774] arXiv:1312.6030 [pdf, other]

Title: Refined approximations for the distortion visibility function and mu-type spectral distortions

Jens Chluba

Comments: 19 pages, 14 figures, accepted version MNRAS

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

[775] arXiv:1312.6043 [pdf, other]

Title: Thought Experiments on Gravitational Forces

Donald Lynden-Bell, Joseph Katz

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures

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

[776] arXiv:1312.6063 [pdf, other]

Title: Light curves of symbiotic stars in massive photomeric surveys II: S and D'-type systems

M. Gromadzki, J. Mikolajewska, I. Soszynski

Comments: 26 pages, 14 figures, to appear in Acta Astronomica

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

[777] arXiv:1312.6067 [pdf, other]

Title: Planck and WMAP constraints on generalised Hubble flow inflationary trajectories

Carlo R. Contaldi, Jonathan S. Horner

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures

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

[778] arXiv:1312.6068 [pdf, other]

Title: Atlas of three body mean motion resonances in the Solar System

Tabaré Gallardo

Comments: accepted for publication in Icarus

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

[779] arXiv:1312.6071 [pdf, other]

Title: A Radio Survey of Galactic Center Clouds

E.A.C. Mills, C.C. Lang, M.R. Morris, J. Ott, N. Butterfield, D. Ludovici, S. Schmitz, A. Schmiedeke

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 303, "The Galactic Center: Feeding and Feedback in a Normal Galactic Nucleus"

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

[780] arXiv:1312.6074 [pdf, other]

Title: Single-Field Consistency Relations of Large Scale Structure. Part III: Test of the Equivalence Principle

Paolo Creminelli, Jérôme Gleyzes, Lam Hui, Marko Simonović, Filippo Vernizzi

Comments: 16 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor changes, JCAP published version

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

[781] arXiv:1312.6099 [pdf, other]

Title: Stability Boundaries for Resonant Migrating Planet Pairs

Eva H. L. Bodman, Alice C. Quillen

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures

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

[782] arXiv:1312.6106 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational constraints on the types of cosmic strings

Olga S. Sazhina, Diana Scognamiglio, Mikhail V. Sazhin

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures; accepted by the European Physical Journal C

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

[783] arXiv:1312.6111 [pdf, other]

Title: Phenomenology of dark energy: exploring the space of theories with future redshift surveys

Federico Piazza, Heinrich Steigerwald, Christian Marinoni

Comments: v1: 28 pages, 20 pdf figures. v2: 29 pages, minor improvements in the text, figures improved

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)

[784] arXiv:1312.6121 [pdf, other]

Title: HOPS 136: An Edge-On Orion Protostar Near the End of Envelope Infall

William J. Fischer, S. Thomas Megeath, John J. Tobin, Lee Hartmann, Amelia M. Stutz, Marina Kounkel, Charles A. Poteet, Babar Ali, Mayra Osorio, P. Manoj, Ian Remming, Thomas Stanke, Dan M. Watson

Comments: Accepted by ApJ, 12 pages, 6 figures

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

[785] arXiv:1312.6126 [pdf, other]

Title: On the sensitivity of extrasolar mass-loss rate ranges: HD 209458b a case study

C. S. Villarreal D'Angelo, E. M. Schneiter, A. Costa, P. Velázquez, A. Raga, A. Esquivel

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

[786] arXiv:1312.6127 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-Dimensional General Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamical Simulation of Super-Eddington Accretion, using a new code HARMRAD with M1 Closure

Jonathan C. McKinney (1), Alexander Tchekhovskoy (2), Aleksander Sadowski (3), Ramesh Narayan (3) ((1) University of Maryland, (2) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, (3) Harvard)

Comments: 36 pages, 26 figures, submitted to MNRAS, uses this http URL, this http URL

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

[787] arXiv:1312.6128 [pdf, other]

Title: Imbalanced Relativistic Force-Free Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Jungyeon Cho, A. Lazarian

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys. J., 780, 30 (2014)

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

[788] arXiv:1312.6129 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of multiple-scale driving on turbulence statistics

Hyunju Yoo, Jungyeon Cho

Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys. J., 780, 99 (2014)

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

[789] arXiv:1312.6135 [pdf, other]

Title: Jellyfish: Evidence of extreme ram-pressure stripping in massive galaxy clusters

Harald Ebeling, Lauren N. Stephenson, Alastair C. Edge

Comments: 5 pages, 1 table, 2 figures. Updated to match the final, published version

Journal-ref: Ebeling et al. 2014, ApJ 781, L40

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

[790] arXiv:1312.6139 [pdf, other]

Title: Covariant second-order perturbations in generalized two-field inflation

Eleftheria Tzavara, Shuntaro Mizuno, Bartjan van Tent

Comments: 39 pages, no figures, minor changes and clarifications

Journal-ref: JCAP07(2014)027

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

[791] arXiv:1312.6148 [pdf, other]

Title: Instrumental polarisation at the Nasmyth focus of the E-ELT

M. de Juan Ovelar, F. Snik, C. U. Keller, L. Venema

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[792] arXiv:1312.6202 [pdf, other]

Title: The WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions

L.D. Anderson, T.M. Bania, Dana S. Balser, V. Cunningham, T.V. Wenger, B.M. Johnstone, W.P. Armentrout

Comments: Accepted to ApJS. Play with catalog contents here: this http URL

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

[793] arXiv:1312.6212 [pdf, other]

Title: Pumping of the 4.8 GHz H$_{\text{2}}$CO masers and its implications for the periodic masers in G37.55+0.20

D.J. van der Walt

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[794] arXiv:1312.6222 [pdf, other]

Title: The Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSSS). II. Bright Southern Stars

A. Sota, J. Maíz Apellániz, N. I. Morrell, R. H. Barbá, N. R. Walborn, R. C. Gamen, J. I. Arias, E. J. Alfaro

Comments: 110 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS. Some figures have low quality due to arXiv file size limitations, alternative version available at this http URL

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

[795] arXiv:1312.6232 [pdf, other]

Title: From Filamentary Networks to Dense Cores in Molecular Clouds: Toward a New Paradigm for Star Formation

Philippe André, James Di Francesco, Derek Ward-Thompson, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Ralph E. Pudritz, Jaime Pineda

Comments: 24 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication as a review chapter in Protostars and Planets VI, University of Arizona Press (2014), eds. H. Beuther, R. Klessen, C. Dullemond, Th. Henning

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

[796] arXiv:1312.6272 [pdf, other]

Title: The RCT 1.3-meter Robotic Telescope: Broad-band Color Transformation and Extinction Calibration

Louis-Gregory Strolger, Andrew M. Gott, Michael Carini, Scott Engle, Richard Gelderman, Edward Guinan, C. David Laney, Charles McGruder, Richard R. Treffers, Donald K. Walter

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures. Accepted by the Astronomical Journal

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

[797] arXiv:1312.6299 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing faint galaxies in the reionization epoch: LBT confirms two L<0.2L* sources at z=6.4 behind the CLASH/Frontier Fields cluster MACS0717.5+3745

E. Vanzella, A. Fontana, A. Zitrin, D. Coe, L. Bradley, M. Postman, A. Grazian, M. Castellano, L. Pentericci, M. Giavalisco, P. Rosati, M. Nonino, R. Smit, I. Balestra, R. Bouwens, S. Cristiani, E. Giallongo, W. Zheng, L. Infante, F. Cusano, R. Speziali

Comments: Accepted by ApJL; 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, emulateapj format

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

[798] arXiv:1312.6302 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion of Jupiter-mass Planets in the Limit of Vanishing Viscosity

J. Szulágyi, A. Morbidelli, A. Crida, F. Masset

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

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

[799] arXiv:1312.6307 [pdf, other]

Title: Extensive study of HD 25558, a long-period double-lined binary with two SPB components

Á. Sódor, P. De Cat, D.J. Wright, C. Neiner, M. Briquet, P. Lampens, R.J. Dukes, G.W. Henry, M.H. Williamson, E. Brunsden, K.R. Pollard, P.L. Cottrell, F. Maisonneuve, P.M. Kilmartin, J. Matthews, T. Kallinger, P.G. Beck, E. Kambe, C.A. Engelbrecht, R.J. Czanik, S. Yang, O. Hashimoto, S. Honda, J.N. Fu, B. Castanheira, H. Lehmann, Zs. Bognár, N. Behara, S. Scaringi, H. Van Winckel, J. Menu, A. Lobel, P. Mathias, S. Saesen, M. Vučković, the MiMeS collaboration

Comments: 24 pages, 12 figures, 11 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[800] arXiv:1312.6318 [pdf, other]

Title: The Atlas3D project -- XXVII. Cold Gas and the Colours and Ages of Early-type Galaxies

L. M. Young, N. Scott, P. Serra, K. Alatalo, E. Bayet, L. Blitz, M. Bois, F. Bournaud, M. Bureau, A. F. Crocker, M. Cappellari, R. L. Davies, T. A. Davis, P. T. de Zeeuw, P.-A. Duc, E. Emsellem, S. Khochfar, D. Krajnovic, H. Kuntschner, R. M. McDermid, R. Morganti, T. Naab, T. Oosterloo, M. Sarzi, A.-M. Weijmans

Comments: 20 pages. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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