Astrophysics

Authors and titles for September 2003

[451] arXiv:astro-ph/0309451 [pdf, other]

Title: The Impact of the Chemical Stratification of White Dwarfs on the Classification of Classical Novae

Jordi Jose (1), Margarita Hernanz (2), Enrique Garcia-Berro (1), Pilar Gil-Pons (3). (1. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya & Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya). (2. Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (CSIC) & Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya). (3. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.597:L41-L44,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[452] arXiv:astro-ph/0309452 [pdf, other]

Title: Arecibo Timing and Single Pulse Observations of 18 Pulsars

W. Lewandowski, A. Wolszczan, G. Feiler, M. Konacki, T. Soltysinski

Comments: submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:905-913,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[453] arXiv:astro-ph/0309453 [pdf, other]

Title: Ten-Micron Observations of Nearby Young Stars

Stanimir A. Metchev (1), Lynne A. Hillenbrand (1), Michael R. Meyer (2) ((1) Caltech, (2) The University of Arizona)

Comments: 40 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables. To appear in the January 1, 2004 issue of ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:435-450,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[454] arXiv:astro-ph/0309454 [pdf, other]

Title: Low mass X-ray binaries as a stellar mass indicator for the host galaxy

M.Gilfanov (MPA, Iki)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.349:146,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[455] arXiv:astro-ph/0309455 [pdf, other]

Title: HETE-2 Observations of the Extremely Soft X-Ray Flash XRF 020903

T. Sakamoto, D. Q. Lamb, C. Graziani, T. Q. Donaghy, M. Suzuki, G. Ricker, J-L. Atteia, N. Kawai, A. Yoshida, Y. Shirasaki, T. Tamagawa, K. Torii, M. Matsuoka, E. E. Fenimore, M. Galassi, T. Tavenner, J. Doty, R. Vanderspek, G. B. Crew, J. Villasenor, N. Butler, G. Prigozhin, J. G. Jernigan, C. Barraud, M. Boer, J-P. Dezalay, J-F. Olive, K. Hurley, A. Levine, G. Monnelly, F. Martel, E. Morgan, S. E. Woosley, T. Cline, J. Braga, R. Manchanda, G. Pizzichini, K. Takagishi, M. Yamauchi

Comments: 32 pages, 12 figures, revised, accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.727:106-110,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[456] arXiv:astro-ph/0309456 [pdf, other]

Title: A Unified Jet Model of X-Ray Flashes and Gamma-Ray Bursts

D. Q. Lamb, T. Q. Donaghy, C. Graziani

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, to appear in proc. 2nd VERITAS Symposium on TeV Astrophysics, Chicago, Illinois; revised text

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev.48:459-464,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[457] arXiv:astro-ph/0309457 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for Global Dipole Enhancements in the HiRes-I Monocular Data above 10^{18.5} eV

The High Resolution Fly's Eye Collaboration (HiRes)

Comments: 17 pages, 31 figures

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.21:111,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[458] arXiv:astro-ph/0309458 [pdf, other]

Title: A Model for High Frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillations from Accreting Black Holes

Jeremy D. Schnittman, Edmund Bertschinger

Comments: 25 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.606:1098,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[459] arXiv:astro-ph/0309459 [pdf, other]

Title: Astrometry of the OH masers of 4 Mira stars

Wouter Vlemmings (Cornell University), Huib Jan van Langevelde (JIVE), Phil Diamond (Jodrell Bank)

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the PASP conference proceeding of the VLBA 10th Anniversary Meeting

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[460] arXiv:astro-ph/0309460 [pdf, other]

Title: The Nature of E+A Galaxies in Intermediate Redshift Clusters

Kim-Vy Tran, Marijn Franx, Garth Illingworth, Daniel Kelson, Pieter van Dokkum

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ, version with higher resolution images available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.599:865-885,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[461] arXiv:astro-ph/0309461 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical Examination of the Lithium Depletion Boundary

Christopher J. Burke (1), Marc H. Pinsonneault (1), Alison Sills (2) ((1) Ohio State, (2) McMaster Univ.)

Comments: 35 pages, 9 figures, accepted ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.604:252-257,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[462] arXiv:astro-ph/0309462 [pdf, other]

Title: Scientific Highlights of the HETE-2 Mission

D. Q. Lamb, G. R. Ricker, J-L. Atteia, C. Barraud, M. Boer, J. Braga, N. Butler, T. Cline, G. B. Crew, J.-P. Dezalay, T. Q. Donaghy, J. P. Doty, A. Dullighan, E. E. Fenimore, M. Galassi, C. Graziani, K. Hurley, J. G. Jernigan, N. Kawai, A. Levine, R. Manchanda, M. Matsuoka, F. Martel, G. Monnelly, G. Morgan, J.-F. Olive, G. Pizzichini, G. Prigozhin, T. Sakamoto, Y. Shirasaki, M. Suzuki, K. Takagishi, T. Tamagawa, K. Torii, R. Vanderspek, G. Vedrenne, J. Villasenor, S. E. Woosley, M. Yamauchi, A. Yoshida

Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures, to appear in proc. "The Restless High-Energy Universe", Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam; revised text, added refs

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev.48:423-430,2004; Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.132:279-288,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[463] arXiv:astro-ph/0309463 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Laboratory for the Study of Type Ic Supernovae

D. Q. Lamb, T. Q. Donaghy, C. Graziani

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in proc. "3-D Signatures in Stellar Explosions", Austin, Texas

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[464] arXiv:astro-ph/0309464 [pdf, other]

Title: The observability of gamma-rays from neutralino annihilations in Milky Way substructure

Savvas M. Koushiappas, Andrew R. Zentner, Terrence P. Walker (The Ohio State University)

Comments: Replaced to match version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D69:043501,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[465] arXiv:astro-ph/0309465 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dark Matter Distribution in the Central Regions of Galaxy Clusters: Implications for CDM

David J. Sand, Tommaso Treu, Graham P. Smith, Richard S. Ellis (Caltech)

Comments: 52 pages, 11 figures, preprint format, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[466] arXiv:astro-ph/0309466 [pdf, other]

Title: First Starbursts at high redshift: Formation of globular clusters

Oleg Y. Gnedin (STScI)

Comments: 4 pages, proceedings of the "Multi-Wavelength Cosmology" meeting, June 2003

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci.Libr.301:215-218,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[467] arXiv:astro-ph/0309467 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparing Chandra and SIRTF Observations for Obscured Starbursts and AGN at High Redshift

D. Weedman (1), V. Charmandaris (1), A. Zezas (2) ((1) Astronomy Department, Cornell University, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:106-114,2004; Erratum-ibid.605:578,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[468] arXiv:astro-ph/0309468 [pdf, other]

Title: Gemini-South + FLAMINGOS Demonstration Science: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the z=5.77 Quasar SDSS J083643.85+005453.3

Daniel Stern (1), Patrick B. Hall (2,3), L. Felipe Barrientos (2), Andrew J. Bunker (4), Richard Elston (5), M. J. Ledlow (6), S. Nicholas Raines (5), Jon Willis (7) ((1) JPL/Caltech, (2) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, (3) Princeton University, (4) IoA, Cambridge, (5) University of Florida, (6) Gemini-South Observatory, (7) ESO, Chile)

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure; to appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.596:L39-L42,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[469] arXiv:astro-ph/0309469 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Loud AGN in the Context of the Eigenvector 1 Parameter Space

J. W. Sulentic (1), S. Zamfir (1), P. Marziani (2), R. Bachev (1), M. Calvani (2), D. Dultzin-Hacyan (3) ((1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA, (2) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy, (3) Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, Mexico D.F., Mexico)

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.597:L17-L20,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[470] arXiv:astro-ph/0309470 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational Tests of Damping by Resonant Absorption in Coronal Loop Oscillations

Markus J. Aschwanden, Richard W. Nightingale, Jesse Andries, Marcel Goossens, Tom Van Doorsselaere

Comments: 10 Figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.598:1375-1386,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[471] arXiv:astro-ph/0309471 [pdf, other]

Title: Starburst Galaxies: Why the Calzetti Dust Extinction Law?

Joerg Fischera, Michael A. Dopita, Ralph S. Sutherland

Comments: accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.599:L21-L24,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[472] arXiv:astro-ph/0309472 [pdf, other]

Title: Strange Stars with a Density-Dependent Bag Parameter

Nirvikar Prasad, R.S. Bhalerao (TIFR, Mumbai)

Comments: 23 pages, 8 figs; v2: 25 pages, 9 figs, version to be published in Phys. Rev. (D)

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D69:103001,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[473] arXiv:astro-ph/0309473 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared emission towards 11 years after outburst: Properties of the circumstellar dust

Jg. Fischera, R. J. Tuffs, H. J. Voelk

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.395:189,2002

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[474] arXiv:astro-ph/0309474 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Abelian Effects in Gravitation

A. Deur

Comments: 3 pages, no figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[475] arXiv:astro-ph/0309475 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared emission towards SN 1987A 11 years after outburst: Measurements with ISOCAM

Joerg Fischera, Richard J. Tuffs, Heinrich J. Voelk

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.386:517,2002

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[476] arXiv:astro-ph/0309476 [pdf, other]

Title: Giant Planets and Variable Stars in 47 Tucanae - a progress report of a comprehensive ground-based search

David T.F Weldrake, Penny D Sackett, Terry J Bridges

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures, 'in press' for "IAU Symposium 219: Stars as Suns". Editors: A. K. Dupree and A. Benz

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[477] arXiv:astro-ph/0309477 [pdf, other]

Title: HI on large and small scales in starburst radio galaxies

Raffaella Morganti (1), Tom Oosterloo (1), Clive Tadhunter (2), Bjorn Emonts (3), Gustaaf van Moorsel (4) ((1) ASTRON,(2) Sheffield Univ.,(3) Kapteyn Inst., Groningen, (4) NRAO)

Comments: Invited review to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Neutral ISM in Starburst Galaxies", eds. this http URL, this http URL & this http URL. 12 pages, Figs.2,4,5 are in separate gif files. The full paper with high resolution images can be downloaded from this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[478] arXiv:astro-ph/0309478 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Gravity and the Big Bang

Martin Bojowald

Comments: 6 pages, invited talk at the conference "Where Cosmology and Fundamental Physics Meet" at IUFM, Marseille, June 23 - 26, 2003

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

[479] arXiv:astro-ph/0309479 [pdf, other]

Title: Recovery of the old nova V840 Ophiuchi: A carbon rich system

L. Schmidtobreick, C. Tappert, A. Bianchini, R. E. Mennickent

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted by A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.410:943-960,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[480] arXiv:astro-ph/0309480 [pdf, other]

Title: Updated Big Bang Nucleosynthesis confronted to WMAP observations and to the Abundance of Light Elements

A.Coc (CSNSM, IN2P3, CNRS, France), E.Vangioni-Flam (IAP, CNRS, France), P. Descouvemont, A. Adahchour (ULB, Belgique), C.Angulo (<a href="http://Un.de" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a> Louvain la Neuve, Belgique)

Comments: accepted in ApJ, 22 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:544-552,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[481] arXiv:astro-ph/0309481 [pdf, other]

Title: T Tauri Multiple Systems

Alexis Brandeker

Comments: 8 pages, To appear in the Proceeding of IAU Symposium 221, Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, Editors M. Burton, R. Jayawardhana & T. Bourke, Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[482] arXiv:astro-ph/0309482 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Parameters from Cosmic Shear

Martin Kilbinger (Institut f. Astrophysik, Univ. Bonn)

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proc. of "Marseille 2003 - Where Cosmology and Fundamental Physics meet", 23-26 June 2003, Marseille (France)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[483] arXiv:astro-ph/0309483 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Purity of the ZZ Ceti Instability Strip: Discovery of More Pulsating DA White Dwarfs on the Basis of Optical Spectroscopy

P. Bergeron, G. Fontaine, M. Billeres, S. Boudreault, E. M. Green

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:404-408,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[484] arXiv:astro-ph/0309484 [pdf, other]

Title: Early SPI/INTEGRAL measurements of galactic 511 keV line emission from positron annihilation

P. Jean (CESR), J. Knoedlseder, V. Lonjou, M. Allain, J.-P. Roques, G.K. Skinner, B.J. Teegarden, G. Vedrenne, P. von Ballmoos, B. Cordier, P. Caraveo, R. Diehl, Ph. Durouchoux, P. Mandrou, J. Matteson, N. Gehrels, V. Schoenfelder, A.W. Strong, P. Ubertini, G. Weidenspointner, C. Winkler

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.407:L55,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[485] arXiv:astro-ph/0309485 [pdf, other]

Title: Cluster mass functions in the quintessential Universe

Ewa L. Lokas, Paul Bode, Yehuda Hoffman

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, revised version (with minor changes) accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 595

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[486] arXiv:astro-ph/0309486 [pdf, other]

Title: Stability and evolution of super-massive stars (SMS)

Andreas Just, Pau Amaro-Seoane

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, needs this http URL (included). EAS Publ. Series, Vol. 10 EDP, Paris in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[487] arXiv:astro-ph/0309487 [pdf, other]

Title: The effect of the electron donor H3+ on the pre-main and Main Sequence evolution of low mass zero metallicity stars

G. J. Harris, A. E. Lynas-Gray, S. Miller, J. Tennyson

Comments: 31 pages, 11 figures. Accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:1025-1034,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[488] arXiv:astro-ph/0309488 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical friction on Globular Clusters in core-triaxial galaxies: is it a cause of massive black hole accretion?

R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta (1), A. Vicari (1) ((1) Dep. of Physics, Univ. of Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)

Comments: 27 pages, 10 figs, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.356:899-912,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[489] arXiv:astro-ph/0309489 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing the Paradigm of Low-Mass Star Formation

Lee Hartmann

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures; To appear in the Proceeding of IAU Symposium 221, Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, Editors M. Burton, R. Jayawardhana & T. Bourke, Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[490] arXiv:astro-ph/0309490 [pdf, other]

Title: The GraS Hypothesis: a Model for Dark Matter-Baryons Gravitational Interaction

Federico Piazza (1,2), Christian Marinoni (3) ((1) Dip. di Fisica, Universita` di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy (2) Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK (3) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France)

Comments: To be published in the proceedings of the Marseille 2003 meeting "Where Cosmology and Fundamental Physics Meet"

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[491] arXiv:astro-ph/0309491 [pdf, other]

Title: Signal Fluctuations in the Auger Surface Detector

T.Yamamoto (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Comments: Submitted to 28th International Cosmic Ray Conferences (ICRC 2003), Tsukuba, Japan, 31 Jul - 7 Aug 2003

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conferences, Tsukuba, Japan, (2003) 469-472

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[492] arXiv:astro-ph/0309492 [pdf, other]

Title: z-ph-REM: A photometric redshift code for the REM telescope

A. Fernandez-Soto (<a href="http://Obs.Ast.Univ.Valencia" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-http">this http URL</a>) (for the REM/ROSS collaboration)

Comments: 2 pages, to appear in Proceedings of the "Multi-Wavelength Cosmology" Conference held in Mykonos, Greece, June 2003, ed. M. Plionis (Kluwer)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[493] arXiv:astro-ph/0309493 [pdf, other]

Title: MHD Sausage Mode Oscillations in Coronal Loops

Markus J. Aschwanden, Valery M. Nakariakov, Victor F. Melnikov

Comments: 5 Figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:458-463,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[494] arXiv:astro-ph/0309494 [pdf, other]

Title: History of Star Formation Rate and Luminosity Density of Galaxies

T. N. Rengarajan, Y. D. Mayya

Comments: To appear in Advances in Space Reserach as COSPAR Proceedings of the Symposium Astronomy at the IR/Submm and the Microwave Background, Houston, October 2002

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[495] arXiv:astro-ph/0309495 [pdf, other]

Title: The formation of cluster elliptical galaxies as revealed by extensive star formation

J.A. Stevens, R.J. Ivison, J.S. Dunlop, Ian R. Smail, W.J. Percival, D.H. Hughes, H.J.A. Rottgering, W.J.M. van Breugel, M. Reuland

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures (1 colour, resolution degraded - gzipped high res version available at this http URL)

Journal-ref: Nature 425 (2003) 264

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[496] arXiv:astro-ph/0309496 [pdf, other]

Title: Environmental Effects on the Kinematics of Virgo Cluster Galaxies

L. Chemin, V. Cayatte, C. Balkowski, P. Amram, M. Marcelin, O. Garrido, J. Boulesteix, C. Carignan, A. Boselli, B. Vollmer, C. Adami, O. Hernandez

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to be published in "IAU Symposium 217, Recycling intergalactic and interstellar matter", ASP Conf Series

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[497] arXiv:astro-ph/0309497 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffuse X-Rays from the Inner 3 Parsecs of the Galaxy

Gabriel Rockefeller, Chris L. Fryer, Fulvio Melia, Michael S. Warren

Comments: 22 pages, 8 figures; new calculations reported, conclusion unchanged; accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.604:662-670,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[498] arXiv:astro-ph/0309498 [pdf, other]

Title: Accurate Redshifts and Classifications for 110 Radio-Loud AGNs

Michael Eracleous (1), Jules P. Halpern (2) (1 Penn State, 2 Columbia)

Comments: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal Supplements

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[499] arXiv:astro-ph/0309499 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Photometric Accuracy of RHESSI Imaging and Spectrosocopy

Markus J. Aschwanden, Thomas R. Metcalf, Sam Krucker, Jun Sato, Andrew J. Conway, Gordon J. Hurford, Ed. J. Schmahl

Comments: 2 Figures, full version on this http URL

Journal-ref: Solar Phys.219:149-157,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[500] arXiv:astro-ph/0309500 [pdf, other]

Title: The baryonic mass-velocity relation; clues to feedback processes during structure formation and the cosmic baryon inventory

Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich), Ben Moore (University of Zurich)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)