Astrophysics

Authors and titles for September 2003

[701] arXiv:astro-ph/0309701 [pdf, other]

Title: The black hole--bulge relation in AGNs

W.Bian, Y.Zhao

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables,accepted by MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.347:607,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[702] arXiv:astro-ph/0309702 [pdf, other]

Title: Difference of $\alpha$-disks between Seyfert 1 galaxies and Quasars

W. Bian, Y. Zhao

Comments: 6 pages, 1 tables, accepted by Chin. J. Astron. Astrophys

Journal-ref: Chin.J.Astron.Astrophys.4:28-36,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[703] arXiv:astro-ph/0309703 [pdf, other]

Title: Physics of Primordial Universe

Maxim Yu. Khlopov

Comments: 25.09.2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[704] arXiv:astro-ph/0309704 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmoparticle Physics -the Challenge for the Millenium

Maxim Yu. Khlopov

Comments: 19.09.2003

Journal-ref: Proc. of Physics Beyond the Standard Model, BEYOND'03 1 (2003) Springer, Heidelberg, ed. H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[705] arXiv:astro-ph/0309705 [pdf, other]

Title: 172 ks Chandra Exposure of the LALA Bo\"{o}tes Field: X-ray Source Catalog

J. X. Wang, S. Malhotra, J. E. Rhoads, M. J. I. Brown, A. Dey, T. M. Heckman, B. T. Jannuzi, C. A. Norman, G. P. Tiede, P. Tozzi

Comments: AJ accepted, 37 pages, including 10 figures and 1 table

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[706] arXiv:astro-ph/0309706 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulation of stellar instabilities with vastly different timescales using domain decomposition

M. Grott (1), S. Chernigovski (2), W. Glatzel (1) ((1) Universitaets-Sternwarte Goettingen, (2) Institut fuer Analysis und Numerik, Universitaet Magdeburg)

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures, published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:1119,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[707] arXiv:astro-ph/0309707 [pdf, other]

Title: Ambipolar Diffusion in the Magnetorotational Instability

Matthew W. Kunz, Steven A. Balbus (University of Virginia)

Comments: Submitted to MN, 6 pages, 3 figs, MN style file v2.2

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.348:355,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[708] arXiv:astro-ph/0309708 [pdf, other]

Title: Instabilities of captured shocks in the envelopes of massive stars

M. Grott (1), W.Glatzel (1), S. Chernigovski (2) ((1) Universitaets-Sternwarte Goettingen, (2) Institut fuer Analysis und Numerik, Universitaet Magdeburg)

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.347:481,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[709] arXiv:astro-ph/0309709 [pdf, other]

Title: Interstellar Dust Scattering Properties

Karl D. Gordon

Comments: 15 pages, color, to appear in Astrophysics of Dust, ASP Conf. Proceedings, eds. A. N. Witt, G. C. Clayton, and B. T. Draine

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[710] arXiv:astro-ph/0309710 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantifying the bimodal color-magnitude distribution of galaxies

I. K. Baldry, K. Glazebrook, J. Brinkmann, Z. Ivezic, R. H. Lupton, R. C. Nichol, A. S. Szalay

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:681-694,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[711] arXiv:astro-ph/0309711 [pdf, other]

Title: The Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters and Galaxies

Stephen E. Zepf

Comments: 3 pages, review talk presented at JD-11, IAU General Assembly XXV, Sydney, July 2003, to be included in Highlights of Astronomy, Vol. 13

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[712] arXiv:astro-ph/0309712 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Instabilities in Disks with Radiative Cooling

Annie C. Mejía, Richard H. Durisen, Megan K. Pickett

Comments: Proceedings for the Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets Conference. Movies available from this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[713] arXiv:astro-ph/0309713 [pdf, other]

Title: How Common are Engines in Ib/c Supernovae?

Edo Berger (Caltech)

Comments: To appear in proceedings of IAU Colloquium 192, Supernovae: 10 Years of 1993J Valencia, Spain 22-26 April 2003, eds. J.M. Marcaide, K.W. Weiler

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[714] arXiv:astro-ph/0309714 [pdf, other]

Title: The Diversity of Cosmic Explosions: Gamma-Ray Bursts and Type Ib/c Supernovae

Edo Berger (Caltech)

Comments: To appear in proceeding of "3-D signatures in stellar explosions", June 10-13 2003, Austin, Texas, USA

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[715] arXiv:astro-ph/0309715 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Energy Neutrinos Produced by Interactions of Relativistic Protons in Shocked Pulsar Winds

S.Nagataki

Comments: 52 pages and 21 postscript figures. Accepted for Publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:883-904,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[716] arXiv:astro-ph/0309716 [pdf, other]

Title: Apparent Deviations from Keplerian Acceleration for Stars Around the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center

Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Comments: 5 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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

[717] arXiv:astro-ph/0309717 [pdf, other]

Title: The Turbulent Star Formation Model. Outline and Tests

Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the Proceedings 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)

[718] arXiv:astro-ph/0309718 [pdf, other]

Title: Physical interpretation of the UV/X-ray variability behavior of NGC 7469

P.O. Petrucci (LAOG, Grenoble, France), L. Maraschi (OAB, Milano, Italy)F. Haardt (Univ. dell'Insubria, Como, Italy), K. Nandra (Imperial College, London, UK)

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.155:407-408,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[719] arXiv:astro-ph/0309719 [pdf, other]

Title: Masers : High resolution probes of massive star formation

Simon Ellingsen

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)

[720] arXiv:astro-ph/0309720 [pdf, other]

Title: A multicolor CCD photometric study of the open clusters NGC 2866, Pismis 19, Westerlund 2, ESO96-SC04, NGC 5617 and NGC 6204

Giovanni Carraro (Padova), Ulisse Munari (Asiago)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 eps figures, in press in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.347:625,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[721] arXiv:astro-ph/0309721 [pdf, other]

Title: A Proposal to Search for Transparent Hidden Matter Using Optical Scintillation

Marc Moniez

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[722] arXiv:astro-ph/0309722 [pdf, other]

Title: Time variation of G and \alpha within models with extra dimensions

P. Loren-Aguilar, E. Garcia-Berro, J. Isern, Yu.A. Kubyshin

Comments: 15 pages, LaTeX, 2 postscript figures

Journal-ref: Class.Quant.Grav.20:3885-3896,2003

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

[723] arXiv:astro-ph/0309723 [pdf, other]

Title: Contamination of Cluster Radio Sources in the Measurement of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Angular Power Spectrum

Wei Zhou, Xiang-Ping Wu

Comments: 15 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.600:501-507,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[724] arXiv:astro-ph/0309724 [pdf, other]

Title: The evolutionary properties of intermediate-mass stars

S. Cassisi (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Teramo, Italy)

Comments: Invited talk (8 pages, 6 figure, to be published in the proceeding of the workshop (IAU193) "Variable Stars in the Local Group), D.W. Kurtz & K. Pollard, eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[725] arXiv:astro-ph/0309725 [pdf, other]

Title: HMXB, ULX and star formation

M.Gilfanov, H.-J.Grimm, R.Sunyaev

Comments: To appear in Proc. of the BeppoSAX Symposium: "The Restless High-Energy Universe", E.P.J. van den Heuvel, J.J.M. in 't Zand, and R.A.M.J. Wijers (Eds)

Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.132:369-375,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[726] arXiv:astro-ph/0309726 [pdf, other]

Title: Tracing a Z-track in the M31 X-ray Binary RX J0042.6+4115

R. Barnard, U. Kolb, J. P. Osborne

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

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.411:553-558,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[727] arXiv:astro-ph/0309727 [pdf, other]

Title: Simultaneous visible and infrared spectro-polarimetry of a solar internetwork region

J. Sanchez Almeida (1), I. Dominguez Cerdena (2), F. Kneer (2) ((1)Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain, (2)Universitats-Sternwarte, Germany)

Comments: ApJL, accepted

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.597:L177,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[728] arXiv:astro-ph/0309728 [pdf, other]

Title: The Luminosity Function of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Fiona Hoyle, Randall R. Rojas, Michael S. Vogeley (Drexel), John Brinkmann (Apache Point)

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.620:618-628,2005

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[729] arXiv:astro-ph/0309729 [pdf, other]

Title: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects from Quasars in Galaxies and Groups

A. Lapi (1), A. Cavaliere (1), G. De Zotti (2) (1 - Univ. Tor Vergata, Roma; 2 - INAF, Oss. Astr. Padova)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, uses REVTeX4 and this http URL. Accepted by ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.597:L93-L96,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[730] arXiv:astro-ph/0309730 [pdf, other]

Title: Binaries discovered by the SPY project. III. HE2209-1444: a massive, short period double degenerate

C.A. Karl, R. Napiwotzki, G. Nelemans, N. Christlieb, D. Koester, U. Heber, D. Reimers

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.410:663-670,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[731] arXiv:astro-ph/0309731 [pdf, other]

Title: Applications of Gas Imaging Micro-Well Detectors to an Advanced Compton Telescope

P. F. Bloser, S. D. Hunter (NASA/GSFC), J. M. Ryan, M. L. McConnell (UNH), R. S. Miller (UAH), T. N. Jackson, B. Bai, S. Jung (PSU)

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, to appear in New Astronomy Reviews (proceedings of the Seeon Conference "Astronomy with Radioactivities IV and Filling the Sensitivity Gap in MeV Astronomy")

Journal-ref: New Astron.Rev.48:299-303,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[732] arXiv:astro-ph/0309732 [pdf, other]

Title: The XMM-Newton hard band wide angle Survey

N. Carangelo (IASF/CNR (MI)), S. Molendi (IASF/CNR (MI)), the Hellas2XMM collaboration

Comments: 4 pages; Conference proceeding "Multiwavelength Cosmology", Mykonos, June 2003. Editor M. Plionis. This version is a replacement of an earlier version and includes pdf file

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[733] arXiv:astro-ph/0309733 [pdf, other]

Title: GRB 011121: A collimated outflow into wind-blown surroundings

J. Greiner, S. Klose, M. Salvato, A. Zeh, R. Schwarz, D.H. Hartmann, N. Masetti, B. Stecklum, G. Lamer, N. Lodieu, R.D. Scholz, C. Sterken, J. Gorosabel, I. Burud, J. Rhoads, I. Mitrofanov, M. Litvak, A. Sanin, V. Grinkov, M.I. Andersen, J. M. Castro Cerón, A.J. Castro-Tirado, A. Fruchter, J.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, L. Kaper, C. Kouveliotou, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, E. Rol, N.R. Tanvir, P.M. Vreeswijk, R.A.M.J. Wijers, E. van den Heuvel

Comments: 22 pages ApJ style, accepted for publication

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.599:1223-1237,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[734] arXiv:astro-ph/0309734 [pdf, other]

Title: Mass and Angular Momentum Transfer in the Massive Algol Binary RY Persei

P. Barai, D. R. Gies, E. Choi, V. Das, R. Deo, W. Huang, K. Marshall, M. V. McSwain, C. Ogden, A. Osterman, R. L. Riddle, J. L. Seymour Jr, D. W. Wingert, A. B. Kaye, G. J. Peters

Comments: 39 pages, 12 figures, ApJ in press, 2004 June 20 issue

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.608:989-1000,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[735] arXiv:astro-ph/0309735 [pdf, other]

Title: Cold Dark Matter's Small Scale Crisis Grows Up

Elena D'Onghia (1), George Lake (2) ((1) MPIA, Heidelberg,(2) Washington State University)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. Changes made to match the referee report, but conclusion unchanged

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.612:628-632,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[736] arXiv:astro-ph/0309736 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraviolet Line Emission from Metals in the Low-Redshift Intergalactic Medium

Steven Furlanetto (Caltech), Joop Schaye (IAS), Volker Springel (MPA), Lars Hernquist (CfA)

Comments: replaced by version to appear in ApJ (conclusions unchanged, one new figure), 16 pages (emulateapj), 11 figures, version with higher resolution figures available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.606:221-236,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[737] arXiv:astro-ph/0309737 [pdf, other]

Title: The relationship between the X-ray and radio components in the Compact Steep Spectrum Quasar 3C 48

D.M. Worrall, M.J. Hardcastle, T.J. Pearson, A.C.S. Readhead

Comments: Accepted for publication in the MNRAS. 13 pages incl 8 figs

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.347:632,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[738] arXiv:astro-ph/0309738 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Gravitational Lensing and Limits on the Dark Matter Substructure in Q2237+0305

R.B. Metcalf, L.A. Moustakas, A.J. Bunker, I.R. Parry

Comments: 29 pages, 16 figures, submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.607:43-59,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[739] arXiv:astro-ph/0309739 [pdf, other]

Title: The Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy: Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae

A. V. Filippenko

Comments: In "The Early Universe and Observational Cosmology," ed. N. Breton, J. L. Cervantes-Cota, and M. Salgado (New York: Springer-Verlag), in press

Journal-ref: Lect.Notes Phys. 646 (2004) 191-221

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[740] arXiv:astro-ph/0309740 [pdf, other]

Title: Pulsar bow shocks as probes of warm neutral gas

Bryan Gaensler (1), Ben Stappers (2, 3), Shami Chatterjee (4, 5), Parviz Ghavamian (6), Heath Jones (7), James Cordes (4) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (2) ASTRON, (3) U Amsterdam, (4) Cornell U, (5) NRAO, (6) Rutgers U, (7) ANU)

Comments: 4 pages, one gif figure. To appear in the proceedings of "How does the Galaxy work? A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds", eds Alfaro, Perez & Franco, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[741] arXiv:astro-ph/0309741 [pdf, other]

Title: Chandra Detections of Two Quiescent Black Hole X-Ray Transients

John A. Tomsick (CASS/UCSD), Stephane Corbel (Universite Paris VII and CEA Saclay), Rob Fender (University of Amsterdam), Jon M. Miller (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA and NSF Fellow), Jerome A. Orosz (SDSU), Michael P. Rupen (NRAO), Tasso Tzioumis (ATNF), Rudy Wijnands (University of St. Andrews), Philip Kaaret (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Comments: 4 pages, Accepted by ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.597:L133-L136,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[742] arXiv:astro-ph/0309742 [pdf, other]

Title: The 3-Dimensional Structure of HH 32 from GMOS IFU Spetroscopy

Tracy L. Beck (1), A. Riera (2, 3 and 4), A. C. Raga (4), C. Aspin (1) ((1) Gemini Observatory, (2) Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, (3) Universitat de Barcelona, (4) UNAM)

Comments: Accepted for Publication in the Astronomical Journal (January 2004)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[743] arXiv:astro-ph/0309743 [pdf, other]

Title: An Attempt to Probe the Radio Jet Collimation Regions in NGC 4278, NGC 4374 (M84), and NGC 6166

C. Ly (1 and 2), R. C. Walker (1), J. M. Wrobel (1) ((1) NRAO/Socorro, (2) Steward Obs.)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[744] arXiv:astro-ph/0309744 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the Spacetime Around Sgr A* with Radio Pulsars

Eric Pfahl, Avi Loeb (CfA)

Comments: Accepted by ApJ; important improvements have been made; 6 pages; emulateapj

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.615:253-258,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[745] arXiv:astro-ph/0309745 [pdf, other]

Title: Imaging X-ray, Optical, and Infrared Observations of the Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197

E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern (Columbia Univ.), M. Buxton, C. Bailyn (Yale Univ.)

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, AAS LaTex, uses this http URL. Updated to include additional archival data and a new HRC observation. To appear in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.605:368-377,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[746] arXiv:astro-ph/0309746 [pdf, other]

Title: Phantom Cosmic Dynamics: Tracking Attractor and Cosmic Doomsday

Jian-gang Hao, Xin-zhou Li

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures; Replaced with the version to be published in Physical Review D. A discussion concerning the quantum stability added

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D70:043529,2004

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

[747] arXiv:astro-ph/0309747 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dyer-Roeder relation in a universe with particle production

M. de Campos, J. A. Souza

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted to be published in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.422:401-405,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[748] arXiv:astro-ph/0309748 [pdf, other]

Title: GRB 020813: polarization in the case of a smooth optical decay

J. Gorosabel, E. Rol, S. Covino, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J. M. Castro Cerón, D. Lazzati, J. Hjorth, D. Malesani, M. Della Valle, S. di Serego Alighieri, F. Fiore, A.S. Fruchter, J.P.U. Fynbo, G. Ghisellini, P. Goldoni, J. Greiner, G.L. Israel, L. Kaper, N. Kawai, S. Klose, C. Kouveliotou, E. Le Floc'h N. Masetti, F. Mirabel, P. Moller, S. Ortolani, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, J. Rhoads, G. Ricker, P. Saracco, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, N. Tanvir, E. van den Heuvel, M. Vietri, P.M. Vreeswijk, R.A.M.J. Wijers, F.M. Zerbi

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. Minor changes included with respect to the previously posted version

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.422:113-119,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[749] arXiv:astro-ph/0309749 [pdf, other]

Title: WIYN Open Cluster Study. XVII. Astrometry and Membership to V=21 in NGC 188

I. Platais (Johns Hopkins University), V. Kozhurina-Platais (Space Telescope Science Institute), R.D. Mathieu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), T.M. Girard (Yale University), W.F. van Altena (Yale University)

Comments: 37 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[750] arXiv:astro-ph/0309750 [pdf, other]

Title: Extinction in the Galaxy from surface brightnesses of ESO-LV galaxies: determination of A_R/A_B ratio

Jacek Choloniewski, Edwin. A. Valentijn

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Acta Astronomica

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)