Astrophysics

Authors and titles for December 2013

[851] arXiv:1312.6991 [pdf, other]

Title: Dipolar Dark Matter and Cosmology

Luc Blanchet, David Langlois, Alexandre Le Tiec, Sylvain Marsat

Comments: 9 pages; to appear in the proceedings of the conference HTGRG (Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 2013)

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

[852] arXiv:1312.6993 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroseismology observations and space missions

T.Appourchaux, F.Grundahl

Comments: 32 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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

[853] arXiv:1312.6997 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic activity of F stars observed by Kepler

S. Mathur, R.A. Garcia, J. Ballot, T. Ceillier, D. Salabert, T. S. Metcalfe, C. Regulo, A. Jimenez, S. Bloemen

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures (plus 11 pages and 22 figures in the appendix). Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[854] arXiv:1312.7020 [pdf, other]

Title: Consequences of an Eccentric Orbit for Fomalhaut b

Daniel Tamayo

Comments: 25 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[855] arXiv:1312.7029 [pdf, other]

Title: A thin diffuse component of the Galactic Ridge X-ray emission and heating of the interstellar medium contributed by the radiation of Galactic X-ray binaries

Margherita Molaro, Rishi Khatri, Rashid Sunyaev

Comments: Minor changes; additional references; matches published version

Journal-ref: A&A 564, A107 (2014)

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

[856] arXiv:1312.7043 [pdf, other]

Title: Type Ic core-collapse supernova explosions evolved from very massive stars

Takashi Yoshida, Shinpei Okita, Hideyuki Umeda

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[857] arXiv:1312.7086 [pdf, other]

Title: Spitzer observations of a circumstellar nebula around the candidate Luminous Blue Variable MWC 930

L. Cerrigone (1), G. Umana (2), C. S. Buemi (2), J. L. Hora (3), C. Trigilio (2), P. Leto (2), A. Hart (3) ((1) Centro de Astrobiologia INTA-CSIC, Spain, (2) INAF-Catania Astrophysical Observatory, Italy, (3) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA)

Comments: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[858] arXiv:1312.7102 [pdf, other]

Title: Symbolic computation of the Birkhoff normal form in the problem of stability of the triangular libration points

I. I. Shevchenko

Comments: 18 pages

Journal-ref: Computer Physics Communications, v. 178, pp. 665-672 (2008)

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

[859] arXiv:1312.7131 [pdf, other]

Title: Digital Electronics for the Pierre Auger Observatory AMIGA Muon Counters

O. Wainberg, A. Almela, M. Platino, F. Sanchez, F. Suarez, A. Lucero, M. Videla, B. Wundheiler, D. Melo, M. Hampel, A. Etchegoyen

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

[860] arXiv:1312.7181 [pdf, other]

Title: Dependence of the Length of Solar Filament Threads on the Magnetic Configuration

Y. H. Zhou, P. F. Chen, Q. M. Zhang, C. Fang

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in RAA

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

[861] arXiv:1312.7221 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray flares observed from six young stars located in the region of star clusters NGC 869 and IC 2602

Himali Bhatt (1), J. C. Pandey (2), K. P. Singh (3), Ram Sagar (2), Brijesh Kumar (2) ((1) Astrophysical Sciences Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (2) Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (3) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Comments: 18 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables (Accepted for publication in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy)

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

[862] arXiv:1312.7234 [pdf, other]

Title: Possible Overionization of C II, N II, and O II Ions in the Atmospheres of Early B- and Late O-Type Stars

Leonid S. Lyubimkov

Journal-ref: Astrophysics, vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 472-487, 2013

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

[863] arXiv:1312.7235 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotating and infalling motion around the high-mass young stellar object Cepheus A-HW2 observed with the methanol maser at 6.7 GHz

K. Sugiyama, K. Fujisawa, A. Doi, M. Honma, H. Kobayashi, Y. Murata, K. Motogi, K. Niinuma, H. Ogawa, K. Wajima, S. Sawada-Satoh, S. P. Ellingsen

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[864] arXiv:1312.7282 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral formation in a radiative shock: application to anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters

N. D. Kylafis, J. E. Truemper, U. Ertan

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[865] arXiv:1312.7297 [pdf, other]

Title: New Method to Measure Proper Motions of Microlensed Sources: Application to Candidate Free-Floating-Planet Event MOA-2011-BLG-262

Jan Skowron (1 and 2), Andrzej Udalski (1), Michał K Szymański (1), Marcin Kubiak (1), Grzegorz Pietrzyński (1 and 3), Igor Soszyński (1), Radosław Poleski (2), Krzysztof Ulaczyk (1), Paweł Pietrukowicz (1), Szymon Kozłowski (1), Łukasz Wyrzykowski (1) (the OGLE Collaboration), Andrew Gould (2) ((1) Warsaw University Observatory, (2) Ohio State University, (3) Universidad de Concepción)

Comments: 3 figures, 14 pages, submitted to ApJ, see also Bennett et al. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3951)

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

[866] arXiv:1312.7304 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma rays and neutrinos from a cosmic ray source in the Galactic Center region

A.D. Supanitsky

Comments: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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

[867] arXiv:1312.7330 [pdf, other]

Title: The Venus ground-based image Active Archive: a database of amateur observations of Venus in ultraviolet and infrared light

Geert Barentsen, Detlef Koschny

Comments: Pre-print accepted for publication in Planetary and Space Science on 26 March 2008

Journal-ref: Planetary and Space Science, Volume 56, Issue 10, August 2008, p. 1444-1449

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

[868] arXiv:1312.7352 [pdf, other]

Title: Ideas for Advancing Code Sharing (A Different Kind of Hack Day)

Peter Teuben, Alice Allen, Bruce Berriman, Kimberly DuPrie, Robert J. Hanisch, Jessica Mink, Robert Nemiroff, Lior Shamir, Keith Shortridge, Mark Taylor, John Wallin

Comments: To be published in Proceedings of ADASS XXIII. Links to notes from brainstorming sessions are available here: this http URL

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Digital Libraries (cs.DL)

[869] arXiv:1312.7356 [pdf, other]

Title: Fitting the Continuum Component of A Composite SDSS Quasar Spectrum Using CMA-ES

Jian Wu, Daniel E. Vanden Berk

Comments: 23 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables

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

[870] arXiv:1312.7358 [pdf, other]

Title: Oblique Alfv\'en instability driven by compensated currents

P. Malovichko, Y. Voitenko, J. De Keyser

Comments: 6 figures, accepted by ApJ

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

[871] arXiv:1312.7364 [pdf, other]

Title: Topology and field strength in spherical, anelastic dynamo simulations

M. Schrinner, L. Petitdemange, R. Raynaud, E. Dormy

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: A&A, 564, A78 (2014)

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

[872] arXiv:1312.7417 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the X-ray luminosities of SDSS DR7 clusters from RASS

Lei Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Shiyin Shen, H. J. Mo, Frank C. van den Bosch, Wentao Luo, Yu Wang, Erwin T. Lau, Q.D. Wang, Xi Kang, Ran Li

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

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

[873] arXiv:1312.7427 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-Layer Hydrostatic Equilibrium of Planets and Synchronous Moons: Theory and Application to Ceres and to Solar System Moons

Pasquale Tricarico

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, in press in ApJ

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

[874] arXiv:1312.7431 [pdf, other]

Title: Habitability around F-type Stars

S. Sato, M. Cuntz, C. M. Guerra Olvera, D. Jack, K.-P. Schroeder

Comments: 37 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables; International Journal of Astrobiology (in press)

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

[875] arXiv:1312.7435 [pdf, other]

Title: Axion inflation with gauge field production and primordial black holes

Edgar Bugaev, Peter Klimai

Comments: v2: 18 pages, 5 figures. Revised version of the paper accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 90, 103501 (2014)

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

[876] arXiv:1312.7440 [pdf, other]

Title: Photo-Disintegration of Heavy Nuclei at the Core of Cen A

Esha Kundu, Nayantara Gupta

Comments: Version to appear in JCAP

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

[877] arXiv:1312.7459 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultra high energy cosmic rays: implications of Auger data for source spectra and chemical composition

R. Aloisio, V. Berezinsky, P. Blasi

Comments: 18 pages, 12 eps figures, accepted for publication in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP 1410 (2014) 10, 020

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

[878] arXiv:1312.7491 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistics of Anisotropies in Inflation with Spectator Vector Fields

Mikjel Thorsrud, Federico R. Urban, David F. Mota

Comments: 33 pages, 9 figures, v2: refs added, correction in Appendix A, matches version published in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP 04 (2014) 010

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)

[879] arXiv:1312.7500 [pdf, other]

Title: The behavior of quasar C IV emission-line properties with orientation

Jessie C. Runnoe, M. S. Brotherton, M. A. DiPompeo, Zhaohu Shang

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, accepted to MNRAS

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

[880] arXiv:1312.7502 [pdf, other]

Title: Electron capture of strongly screening nuclides $^{56}$Fe, $^{56}$Co, $^{56}$Ni , $^{56}$Mn ,$^{56}$Cr and $^{56}$V in presupernova

Jing-Jing Liu

Comments: 6 pages,5 figures, MNRAS, Volume 433, Issue 2, p.1108-1113

Journal-ref: 2013MNRAS.433.1108L

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

[881] arXiv:1312.7512 [pdf, other]

Title: Second generation planet formation in NN Serpentis?

M. Völschow, R. Banerjee, F.V. Hessman

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 562, A19 (2014)

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

[882] arXiv:1312.7536 [pdf, other]

Title: Origin of the peculiar eccentricity distribution of the inner cold Kuiper belt

A. Morbidelli, H.S. Gaspar, D. Nesvorny

Comments: in press in Icarus

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

[883] arXiv:1312.7552 [pdf, other]

Title: Electron capture of iron group nuclei in magnetars

Jing-Jing Liu

Comments: 8 pages, 13 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[884] arXiv:1312.7571 [pdf, other]

Title: A photometric and spectroscopic survey of solar twin stars within 50 parsecs of the Sun: I. Atmospheric parameters and color similarity to the Sun

G. F. Porto de Mello, R. da Silva, L. da Silva, R. V. de Nader

Comments: 25 pages, 15 figures, 14 tables

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

[885] arXiv:1312.7609 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the dark matter annihilation from Fermi-LAT observation of M31

Zhengwei Li, Xiaoyuan Huang, Qiang Yuan, Yupeng Xu

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures and a tables; significantly improved with Pass 8 data of Fermi-LAT and a thorough treatment of the inverse Compton scattering emission from dark matter induced e+e-; accepted for publication in JCAP

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

[886] arXiv:1312.7613 [pdf, other]

Title: Forecasting the solar activity cycle: new insights

Dibyendu Nandy, Bidya Binay Karak

Comments: Proc. of IAU Symposium 294

Journal-ref: Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos and Magnetic Activity, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 294, pp. 439-444 (2013)

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

[887] arXiv:1312.7616 [pdf, other]

Title: Pinpointing the knee of cosmic rays with diffuse PeV gamma-rays and neutrinos

Y. Q. Guo, H. B. Hu, Q. Yuan, Z. Tian, X. J. Gao

Comments: Accepted for publication in the ApJ; 6 figures

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

[888] arXiv:1312.7619 [pdf, other]

Title: Inflationary paradigm after Planck 2013

Alan H. Guth, David I. Kaiser, Yasunori Nomura

Comments: 11 pages, no figures; added references, and brief additions to Footnote 1, Section VI, and the Acknowledgments

Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B 733 (2014): 112-119

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

[889] arXiv:1312.7668 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing microphysics data

Przemysław Walczak, Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz

Comments: Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 301

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

[890] arXiv:1312.7673 [pdf, other]

Title: Mining the VVV: star formation and embedded clusters

Otto Solin, Lauri Haikala, Esko Ukkonen

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

[891] arXiv:1312.7701 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission Light Curves and Power Density Spectra in the ICMART Model

Bo Zhang, Bing Zhang

Comments: 11 pages, 13 figures, matches published version

Journal-ref: ApJ, 782, 92 (2014)

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

[892] arXiv:1312.7702 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroid families classification: exploiting very large data sets

Andrea Milani, Alberto Cellino, Zoran Knezevic, Bojan Novakovic, Federica Spoto, Paolo Paolicchi

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

[893] arXiv:1312.7706 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on Lepton Asymmetry from Nucleosynthesis in a Linearly Coasting Cosmology

Parminder Singh, Daksh Lohiya

Comments: 18 Pages, 9 Figures. Matches published version

Journal-ref: JCAP 05 (2015) 061

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

[894] arXiv:1312.7737 [pdf, other]

Title: Profile likelihood ratio analysis techniques for rare event signals

J. Billard (MIT) (for the SuperCDMS Collaboration)

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, Low Temperature Detector 15 conference proceedings, to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics

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

[895] arXiv:1312.7766 [pdf, other]

Title: Do Most Active Galactic Nuclei Live in High Star Formation Nuclear Cusps?

Richard F. Mushotzky, T. Taro Shimizu, Marcio Melendez, Michael Koss

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[896] arXiv:1312.7768 [pdf, other]

Title: Flickering of 1.3 cm Sources in Sgr B2: Towards a Solution to the Ultracompact HII Region Lifetime Problem

C. G. De Pree, T. Peters, M.-M. Mac Low, D. J. Wilner, W. M. Goss, R. Galván-Madrid, E. R. Keto, R. S. Klessen, A. Monsrud

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[897] arXiv:1312.7784 [pdf, other]

Title: A high order special relativistic hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic code with space-time adaptive mesh refinement

Olindo Zanotti, Michael Dumbser

Comments: matches version accepted by Computer Physics Communications

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

[898] arXiv:1312.7790 [pdf, other]

Title: Comments on "Growth of Covariant Perturbations in the Contracting Phase of a Bouncing Universe" by A. Kumar

N. Pinto-Neto, S. D. P. Vitenti

Comments: 7 pages, revtex4-1, accepted for publication in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 028301 (2014)

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

[899] arXiv:1312.7808 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of intermediate Minkowskian evolution on CMB bispectrum

S.A. Mironov, S.R. Ramazanov, V.A. Rubakov

Comments: 27 pages, 5 figures; references added, representation of the material improved; matches journal version

Journal-ref: JCAP04(2014)015

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

[900] arXiv:1312.7814 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino masses from CMB B-mode polarization and cosmic growth rate

Koichi Hirano

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, Accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics A. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1212.6423

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)