Astrophysics

Authors and titles for October 2003

[201] arXiv:astro-ph/0310201 [pdf, other]

Title: Pulsar Birthrate from Parkes Multi-beam Survey

N. Vranesevic, R. N. Manchester, G. B. Hobbs, A. G. Lyne, M. Kramer, D. R. Lorimer, F. Camilo, I. H. Stairs, V. M. Kaspi, N. D'Amico, A. Possenti

Comments: To appear in "Young Neutron Stars and Their Environments" (IAU Symposium 218, ASP Conference Proceedings), eds F. Camilo and B. M. Gaensler

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) L139-L142

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[202] arXiv:astro-ph/0310202 [pdf, other]

Title: A Phenomenological Model for the Evolution of Proto-Galaxies

F.Tabatabaei, S.Nasiri

Comments: 6 pages, 15 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[203] arXiv:astro-ph/0310203 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Cluster Properties in SPH Simulations of Galaxy Clusters

R. Valdarnini

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proceeding of the "Multi-Wavelength Cosmology" Conference held in Mykonos, Greece, June 2003, ed.M. Plionis (Kluwer)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[204] arXiv:astro-ph/0310204 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematics of the dwarf irregular galaxy GR8

Ayesha Begum, Jayaram N. Chengalur

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 409 (2003) 879-886

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[205] arXiv:astro-ph/0310205 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion of dust grains as a possible origin of metal-poor stars with low alpha/Fe ratios

Toshikazu Shigeyama, Takuji Tsujimoto

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, references corrected

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 598 (2003) L47-L50

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[206] arXiv:astro-ph/0310206 [pdf, other]

Title: Correlated adiabatic and isocurvature CMB fluctuations in the light of the WMAP data

Jussi Valiviita

Comments: September 8, 2003. 4 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the "15th Rencontres de Blois"

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

[207] arXiv:astro-ph/0310207 [pdf, other]

Title: A Maximum Likelihood Analysis of the Low CMB Multipoles from WMAP

G. Efstathiou

Comments: MNRAS (2004) 348 885. Resubmission matches published version

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.348:885,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[208] arXiv:astro-ph/0310208 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiative constraints on brane quintessence

David Seery (Edinburgh), Bruce A. Bassett (Portsmouth and Kyoto)

Comments: 20 pages, 4 figures, uses this http URL, graphicx, this http URL, this http URL; submitted to JCAP. Replaced with revised version accepted by JCAP, journal reference supplied

Journal-ref: JCAP 0402 (2004) 010

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

[209] arXiv:astro-ph/0310209 [pdf, other]

Title: Variable Star Network: World Center for Transient Object Astronomy and Variable Stars

T. Kato, M. Uemura, R. Ishioka, D. Nogami (Kyoto U), C. Kunjaya (Kyoto U, Institute of Technology, Bandung), H. Baba (Kyoto U, ISAS), H. Yamaoka (Kyushu U)

Comments: 57 pages, 21 figures, to appear in PASJ (special issue on VSNET), for more information and a full resolution version, see this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[210] arXiv:astro-ph/0310210 [pdf, other]

Title: The Infrared Supernova Rate

F. Mannucci, G. Cresci, R. Maiolino, M. Della Valle

Comments: 5 pages, IAU coll. 192 "Supernovae: 10 years of SN1993J", J.M. Marcaide and K.W. Weiler eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[211] arXiv:astro-ph/0310211 [pdf, other]

Title: The Merging History of Massive Black Holes

M. Volonteri, F. Haardt, P. Madau, A. Sesana

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, Contribute to "Multiwavelength Cosmology", Mykonos, Greece, June 17-20, 2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[212] arXiv:astro-ph/0310212 [pdf, other]

Title: The Halpha Luminosity Function of the Galaxy Cluster Abell 521 at z = 0.25

Kazuyoshi Umeda, Masafumi Yagi, Sanae F. Yamada, Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Shioya, Takashi Murayama, Tohru Nagao, Masaru Ajiki, Shinobu S. Fujita, Yutaka Komiyama, Sadanori Okamura, Kazuhiro Shimasaku

Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures, ApJ, Part 1, in press

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 601 (2004) 805-812

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[213] arXiv:astro-ph/0310213 [pdf, other]

Title: Binary black holes in Mkns as sources of gravitational radiation for space based interferometers

F. De Paolis, G. Ingrosso, A.A. Nucita, A.F. Zakharov

Comments: in press on A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.410:741-747,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[214] arXiv:astro-ph/0310214 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational Cosmology: caveats and open questions in the standard model

Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Comments: 26 pages, to be published in the book "Recent Research Developments in Astronomy & Astrophysics" (Research Signpost, Kerala)

Journal-ref: Recent. Res. Devel. Astronomy & Astrophys., 1, 561 (2003)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

[215] arXiv:astro-ph/0310215 [pdf, other]

Title: WIMP direct detection and halo structure

Anne M Green

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 220 "Dark matter in galaxies", ASP, Eds: S. Ryder, D.J. Pisano, M. Walker, K. Freeman

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[216] arXiv:astro-ph/0310216 [pdf, other]

Title: Grain Size Distributions and Photo-Electric Heating in Ionized Regions

P.A.M. van Hoof, J.C. Weingartner, P.G. Martin, K. Volk, G.J. Ferland

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures; to appear in "Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae III" editors M. Meixner, J. Kastner, N. Soker, B. Balick (ASP Conf. Series)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[217] arXiv:astro-ph/0310217 [pdf, other]

Title: Determining the Metallicity of Cepheid Stars in the SMC, LMC and the Galaxy

M. Mottini (1), F. Primas (1), M. Romaniello (1), M. Groenewegen (2), ((1) ESO-Garching, (2) Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Leuven)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in "Variable Stars in the Local Group", IAU Colloquium 193 proceedings, ASP Conference Series, D.W. Kurtz & K. Pollard eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[218] arXiv:astro-ph/0310218 [pdf, other]

Title: Tidal dissipation in rotating giant planets

G. I. Ogilvie, D. N. C. Lin

Comments: 74 pages, 12 figures, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 610 (2004) 477-509

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[219] arXiv:astro-ph/0310219 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark Matter in Galaxies: Conference Summary

James Binney (Oxford University)

Comments: Revised in light of preprint by Milgrom & Sanders (astro-ph/0309617). To appear in IAU Symposium 220, "Dark Matter in Galaxies", ed. Stuart Ryder, D.J. Pisano, Mark walker & Ken Freeman, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[220] arXiv:astro-ph/0310220 [pdf, other]

Title: Revised positions for the CIG galaxies

S. Leon, L. Verdes-Montenegro (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia-CSIC, Spain)

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. The data can be downloaded at this http URL

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 411 (2003) 391-396

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[221] arXiv:astro-ph/0310221 [pdf, other]

Title: The Sizes and Kinematic Structure of Absorption Systems Towards the Lensed Quasar APM08279+5255

Sara L. Ellison, Rodrigo Ibata, Max Pettini, Geraint F. Lewis, Bastien Aracil, Patrick Petitjean, R. Srianand

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 414 (2004) 79-93

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[222] arXiv:astro-ph/0310222 [pdf, other]

Title: Cooling Flows or Heating Flows?

James Binney (Oxford University)

Comments: To appear in "The Riddle of Cooling Flows in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies", ed. T.H. Reiprich, J.C. Kempner & N. Soker

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[223] arXiv:astro-ph/0310223 [pdf, other]

Title: Early reionization by miniquasars

Piero Madau, Martin J. Rees, Marta Volonteri, Francesco Haardt, S. Peng Oh

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, revised version accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.604:484-494,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[224] arXiv:astro-ph/0310224 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion Onto Fast X-Ray Pulsars

S. A. Rappaport, J. M. Fregeau, H. Spruit

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 606 (2004) 436-443

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[225] arXiv:astro-ph/0310225 [pdf, other]

Title: First observations of the X-ray transient EXO 2030+375 with IBIS/ISGRI

Sergey Kuznetsov (1), Maurizio Falanga (1), Pere Blay (2), Andrea Goldwurm (1), Paolo Goldoni (1), Victor Reglero (2) ((1) SAp/CEA-Saclay, (2) GACE, Univ. of Valencia)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures (1 in CMYK color), accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics, INTEGRAL special issue, 2003

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.411:L437-L440,2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[226] arXiv:astro-ph/0310226 [pdf, other]

Title: X-Ray Spectral Variability of Extreme BL Lac AGN H1426+428

A.D. Falcone (1), W. Cui (1), J.P. Finley (1) ((1) Purdue University)

Comments: accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 601 (2004) 165-172

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[227] arXiv:astro-ph/0310227 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of the Inner Circumstellar Envelope of V838 Monocerotis

John P. Wisniewski, Karen S. Bjorkman, Antonio M. Magalhaes

Comments: accepted by ApJL, 11 pages (including 2 figs, 2 tables)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 598 (2003) L43-L46

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[228] arXiv:astro-ph/0310228 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical, Ultraviolet, and Infrared Observations of SN 1993J

Alexei V. Filippenko (Berkeley), Thomas Matheson (CfA)

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure. 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)

[229] arXiv:astro-ph/0310229 [pdf, other]

Title: Computing Non- Gaussian Maps of the CMB

Martin Landriau, Paul Shellard

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the XVth Rencontres de Blois. Added 2 references

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[230] arXiv:astro-ph/0310230 [pdf, other]

Title: Force-Free Magnetosphere of an Accretion Disk -- Black Hole System. I. Schwarzschild Geometry

Dmitri A. Uzdensky (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB)

Comments: 28 pages, 3 figures; submitted to the Astrophysical Journal; some minor corrections made and a reference added

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 603 (2004) 652-662

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[231] arXiv:astro-ph/0310231 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of Early-type Field Galaxies Selected from a NICMOS Map of the Hubble Deep Field North

S.A. Stanford, M. Dickinson, M. Postman, H. Ferguson, R. Lucas, C. Conselice, T. Budavari, R. Somerville

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal; 54 pages, 21 figures. Figures 10 and 11 are included separately in JPEG format

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[232] arXiv:astro-ph/0310232 [pdf, other]

Title: Experimental Limit on the Cosmic Diffuse Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Flux

P. W. Gorham, C. L. Hebert (Univ. of Hawaii), K. M. Liewer, C. J. Naudet (JPL), D. Saltzberg, D. Williams (UCLA)

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, revtex4 style. New intro section, Fig. 2, Fig 4; in final PRL review

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.93:041101,2004

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

[233] arXiv:astro-ph/0310233 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the Topology of the Universe

Neil J. Cornish, David N. Spergel, Glenn D. Starkman, Eiichiro Komatsu

Comments: Submitted to PRL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 92 (2004) 201302

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

[234] arXiv:astro-ph/0310234 [pdf, other]

Title: Determination of the calorimetric energy in extensive air showers

Henrique M.J. Barbosa, Fernando Catalani, Jose A. Chinellato, Carola Dobrigkeit

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. This version corresponds to the one aproved for publication in Astroparticle Physics

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.22:159-166,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[235] arXiv:astro-ph/0310235 [pdf, other]

Title: Phase analysis of the 1-year WMAP data and its application for the CMB foreground separation

Pavel D. Naselsky (1,2), Oleg V. Verkhodanov (1,3), Lung-Yih Chiang (1), Igor D. Novikov (1,2,4) ((1)TAC, Copenhagen, (2)NBI, Copenhagen, (3)SAO, Russia, (4)ASC, Russia)

Comments: 13 pages, submitted to ApJ. For high-quality figures of this paper and our phase-cleaned map fits file see this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[236] arXiv:astro-ph/0310236 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization and light curve variability: the "patchy shell" model

Ehud Nakar, Yonatan Oren

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, Final version to appear in ApJL

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 602 (2004) L97-L100

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[237] arXiv:astro-ph/0310237 [pdf, other]

Title: An HST Search for Lyman Continuum Emission From Galaxies at z=1.1--1.4

Matthew Malkan, Wayne Webb, Quinn Konopacky

Comments: 20 manuscript pages, which includes two tables and two figures. To be published in 1 December 2003 issue of The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 598 (2003) 878-885

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[238] arXiv:astro-ph/0310238 [pdf, other]

Title: Does tiny-scale atomic structure exist in the interstellar medium ?

S. Stanimirovic (1), J. M. Weisberg, A. Hedden, K. E. Devine, J. T. Green (2) (1)UC Berkeley; (2)Carleton College

Comments: Accepted by ApJ Letters, 5 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[239] arXiv:astro-ph/0310239 [pdf, other]

Title: Lights in the Shadows, 3D-modelling knots with MOCASSIN

C. Morisset, B. Ercolano

Comments: Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae III, ASP Conf. serie, 2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[240] arXiv:astro-ph/0310240 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Interferometers with wide bandwidths

Ravi Subrahmanyan (Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, Australia)

Comments: 8 pages, includes 1 figure, accepted for publication in the MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 348 (2004) 1208

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[241] arXiv:astro-ph/0310241 [pdf, other]

Title: An X-ray jet discovered by Chandra in the z=4.3 radio-selected quasar GB 1508+5714

Aneta Siemiginowska (1), Randall K. Smith (1), Thomas L. Aldcroft (1), D.A. Schwartz (1), Frederic Paerels (2), Andreea O. Petric (2) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Columbia University)

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ. Letters on Aug.13, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters on Oct.8

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 598 (2003) L15-L18

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[242] arXiv:astro-ph/0310242 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring Shapes of Galaxy Images II: Morphology of 2MASS Galaxies

Nurur Rahman, Sergei F. Shandarin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Revised version contains 17 pages, 23 PostScript figures

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.354:235,2004

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[243] arXiv:astro-ph/0310243 [pdf, other]

Title: Intermediate polars in low states

Brian Warner (Univ. of Cape Town)

Comments: 5 pages (requires this http URL). To appear in the proceedings of IAU JD5 "White Dwarfs: Galactic and Cosmological Probes", eds. Ed Sion, Stephane Vennes and Harry Shipman

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[244] arXiv:astro-ph/0310244 [pdf, other]

Title: Accretion in Cataclysmic Variable stars

Brian Warner (Univ. of Cape Town), Patrick A. Woudt (Univ. of Cape Town)

Comments: 7 pages (requires this http URL). To appear in the proceedings of IAU JD5, "White Dwarfs: Galactic and Cosmological Probes", eds. Ed Sion, Stephane Vennes and Harry Shipman

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[245] arXiv:astro-ph/0310245 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropic Heat Transfer inside Rotating Neutron Stars

C. Y. Hui, K. S. Cheng

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in "Young Neutron Stars and Their Environments"(IAU Symposium 218, ASP Conference Proceedings), eds F. Camilo and B. M. Gaensler

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[246] arXiv:astro-ph/0310246 [pdf, other]

Title: Ground-based characterisation of the asteroseismic targets for the COROT space mission

E. Poretti

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, Contributed talk to "Stars in Galaxies", La Palma, Canary Islands, March 2003, Mem. this http URL., in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[247] arXiv:astro-ph/0310247 [pdf, other]

Title: Effelsberg HI Survey of Compact High-Velocity Clouds

T. Westmeier, C. Bruens, J. Kerp

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Satellites and Tidal Streams", La Palma, Spain, 26-30 May 2003, eds. F. Prada, D. Martinez-Delgado, T. Mahoney

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[248] arXiv:astro-ph/0310248 [pdf, other]

Title: BeppoSAX observations of Seyfert 1s in the Piccinotti sample I: poorly studied sources

A. Quadrelli, A. Malizia, L. Bassani, G. Malaguti

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication as a Research Note in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 411 (2003) 77-82

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[249] arXiv:astro-ph/0310249 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparison between optical and X-ray cluster detection methods

S. Basilakos (NOA), M. Plionis (NOA and INAOE), S. Georgakakis (NOA), I. Georgantopoulos (NOA), T. Gaga (NOA and Un. of Athens), V. Kolokotronis (NOA), G. C. Stewart (Un. of Leicester)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proceeding of the ''Multi-wavelength Cosmology'', Conference held in Mykonos, Greece, June 2003

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[250] arXiv:astro-ph/0310250 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Observations of the Compact Source in CTA 1

Patrick Slane (1), Erik R. Zimmerman (2), John P. Hughes (3), Frederick D. Seward (1), Bryan M. Gaensler (1), Melanie J. Clarke (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (2) Havard College, (3) Rutgers University)

Comments: 5 pages, including 4 postscript this http URL. Accepted for publication by ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 601 (2004) 1045-1049

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)