Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 2015

[501] arXiv:1501.03723 [pdf, other]

Title: The Atlas3D Project - XXX. Star formation histories and stellar population scaling relations of early-type galaxies

Richard M. McDermid, Katherine Alatalo, Leo Blitz, Frederic Bournaud, Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, Alison F. Crocker, Roger L. Davies, Timothy A. Davis, P. T. de Zeeuw, Pierre-Alain Duc, Eric Emsellem, Sadegh Khochfar, Davor Krajnovic, Harald Kuntschner, Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Tom Oosterloo, Marc Sarzi, Nicholas Scott, Paolo Serra, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Lisa M. Young

Comments: 33 pages, 18 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Full length tables available at this http URL

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

[502] arXiv:1501.03742 [pdf, other]

Title: The Data Reduction Pipeline for the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

David L. Nidever, Jon A. Holtzman, Carlos Allende Prieto, Stephane Beland, Chad Bender, Dmitry Bizyaev, Adam Burton, Rohit Desphande, Scott W. Fleming, Ana Elia Garcia Perez, Fred R. Hearty, Steven R. Majewski, Szabolcs Meszaros, Demitri Muna, Duy Nguyen, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Matthew Shetrone, Michael F. Skrutskie, Jennifer S. Sobeck, John C. Wilson

Comments: 22 pages, 26 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[503] arXiv:1501.03746 [pdf, other]

Title: Timing of five millisecond pulsars discovered in the PALFA survey

P. Scholz, V. M. Kaspi, A. G. Lyne, B. W. Stappers, S. Bogdanov, J. M. Cordes, F. Crawford, R. D. Ferdman, P. C. C. Freire, J. W. T. Hessels, D. R. Lorimer, I. H. Stairs, B. Allen, A. Brazier, F. Camilo, R. F. Cardoso, S. Chatterjee, J. S. Deneva, F. A. Jenet, C. Karako-Argaman, B. Knispel, P. Lazarus, K. J. Lee, J. van Leeuwen, R. Lynch, E. C. Madsen, M. A. McLaughlin, S. M. Ransom, X. Siemens, L. G. Spitler, K. Stovall, J. K. Swiggum, A. Venkataraman, W. W. Zhu

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, ApJ in press

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

[504] arXiv:1501.03749 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic expansion and structure formation in running vacuum cosmologies

Spyros Basilakos

Comments: 16 pages, 2 figures Invited paper for the Special Issue: "Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Variation" (Modern Physics Letters A, Guest Editor Joan Solà)

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)

[505] arXiv:1501.03761 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and infrared counterparts of the X-ray sources detected in the Chandra Cygnus OB2 Legacy Survey

M. G. Guarcello, J. J. Drake, N. J. Wright, T. Naylor, E. Flaccomio, V. L. Kashyap, D. Garcia-Alvarez

Comments: Matched catalog can be provided by the authors; Accepted for publication by ApJ

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

[506] arXiv:1501.03763 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic characterization of X-ray emitting young stars associated with the Sh 2-296 nebula

B. Fernandes, J. Gregorio-Hetem, T. Montmerle, G. Rojas

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

[507] arXiv:1501.03794 [pdf, other]

Title: The evolution of rotating very massive stars with LMC composition

K. Köhler, N. Langer, A. de Koter, S.E. de Mink, P.A. Crowther, C.J. Evans, G. Gräfener, H. Sana, D. Sanyal, F.R.N. Schneider, J.S. Vink

Comments: 21 pages, 25 figures

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

[508] arXiv:1501.03798 [pdf, other]

Title: A nearby M star with three transiting super-Earths discovered by K2

Ian J. M. Crossfield, Erik Petigura, Joshua Schlieder, Andrew W. Howard, B.J. Fulton, Kimberly M. Aller, David R. Ciardi, Sebastien Lepine, Thomas Barclay, Imke de Pater, Katherine de Kleer, Elisa V. Quintana, Jessie L. Christiansen, Eddie Schlafly, Lisa Kaltenegger, Justin R. Crepp, Thomas Henning, Christian Obermeier, Niall Deacon, Lauren M. Weiss, Howard T. Isaacson, Brad M. S. Hansen, Michael C. Liu, Tom Greene, Steve B. Howell, Travis Barman, Christoph Mordasini

Comments: ApJ accepted. Spectra and light curves available at ApJ or via arXiv source

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[509] arXiv:1501.03802 [pdf, other]

Title: Correlations of atmospheric water ice and dust in the Martian Polar regions

Adrian J. Brown, Michael J. Wolff, Jeffrey D. Scargle

Comments: 29 pages, 7 figures

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

[510] arXiv:1501.03807 [pdf, other]

Title: On-sky demonstration of optical polaroastrometry

Boris Safonov

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS. 13 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

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

[511] arXiv:1501.03812 [pdf, other]

Title: Retired galaxies: not to be forgotten in the quest of the star formation -- AGN connection

G. Stasińska, M. V. Costa Duarte, N. Vale Asari, R. Cid Fernandes, L. Sodré

Comments: accepted for MNRAS figure resolution has been degraded with respect to what will be published in MNRAS

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

[512] arXiv:1501.03813 [pdf, other]

Title: Does the presence of planets affect the frequency and properties of extrasolar Kuiper Belts? Results from the Herschel DEBRIS and DUNES surveys

A. Moro-Martin, J. P. Marshall, G. Kennedy, B. Sibthorpe, B.C. Matthews, C. Eiroa, M.C. Wyatt, J.-F. Lestrade, J. Maldonado, D. Rodriguez, J.S. Greaves, B. Montesinos, A. Mora, M. Booth, G. Duchene, D. Wilner, J. Horner

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 31 pages, 13 figures, 9 tables

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[513] arXiv:1501.03814 [pdf, other]

Title: The Flow Around a Cosmic String, Part I: Hydrodynamic Solution

Andrey Beresnyak

Comments: 4 pages

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

[514] arXiv:1501.03816 [pdf, other]

Title: The Feeding Zones of Terrestrial Planets and Insights into Moon Formation

Nathan A. Kaib, Nicolas B. Cowan

Comments: 16 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in Icarus; fixed typos

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

[515] arXiv:1501.03819 [pdf, other]

Title: BUDHIES II: A phase-space view of HI gas stripping and star-formation quenching in cluster galaxies

Yara L. Jaffe, Rory Smith, Graeme N. Candlish, Bianca M. Poggianti, Yun-Kyeong Sheen, Marc A. W. Verheijen

Comments: Accepted for publication by MNRAS; 16 pages and 10 Figures (including Appendix)

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

[516] arXiv:1501.03820 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing foundations of modern cosmology with SKA all-sky surveys

Dominik J. Schwarz, David Bacon, Song Chen, Chris Clarkson, Dragan Huterer, Martin Kunz, Roy Maartens, Alvise Raccanelli, Matthias Rubart, Jean-Luc Starck

Comments: SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array (AASKA14) Conference, Giardini Naxos, Italy / June 9th -13th, 2014

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

[517] arXiv:1501.03821 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring redshift-space distortions with future SKA surveys

Alvise Raccanelli (1,2,3), Philip Bull (4), Stefano Camera (5,6), David Bacon (7), Chris Blake (8), Olivier Dore (2,3), Pedro Ferreira (9), Roy Maartens (10,7), Mario Santos (10,11,6), Matteo Viel (12,13), Gong-bo Zhao (14,7), ((1) Johns Hopkins University, (2) JPL, (3) Caltech, (4) Oslo, (5) Manchester, (6) CENTRA, (7) ICG, (8) Swinburne, (9) Oxford, (10) UWC, (11) SKA SA, (12) INAF, (13) INFN, (14) NAOC)

Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures. This article is part of the "Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014"

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

[518] arXiv:1501.03822 [pdf, other]

Title: Real time cosmology - A direct measure of the expansion rate of the Universe

H.-R. Klöckner, D. Obreschkow, C. Martins, A. Raccanelli, D. Champion, A. Roy, A. Lobanov, J. Wagner, R. Keller

Comments: This article is part of the 'SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[519] arXiv:1501.03823 [pdf, other]

Title: Foreground Subtraction in Intensity Mapping with the SKA

Laura Wolz, Filipe B. Abdalla, David Alonso, Chris Blake, Philip Bull, Tzu-Ching Chang, Pedro G. Ferreira, Cheng-Yu Kuo, Marios G. Santos, Richard Shaw

Comments: This article is part of the 'SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[520] arXiv:1501.03825 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology with SKA Radio Continuum Surveys

Matt J. Jarvis (1,2), David Bacon (3), Chris Blake (4), Michael L. Brown (5), Sam N. Lindsay (1), Alvise Raccanelli (6,7,8), Mario Santos (2,9), Dominik Schwarz (10) ((1) Oxford, (2) University of the Western Cape, (3) ICG, Portsmouth, (4) Swinburne, (5) Manchester, (6) Johns Hopkins, (7) JPL, (8) Caltech, (9) SKA South Africa, (10) Bielefield)

Comments: SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14) Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[521] arXiv:1501.03826 [pdf, other]

Title: On the LINER nuclear obscuration, Compton-thickness and the existence of the dusty torus; Clues from Spitzer/IRS spectra

O. Gonzalez-Martin, J. Masegosa, I. Marquez, J.M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, J.A. Acosta-Pulido, C. Ramos-Almeida, D. Dultzin, L. Hernandez-Garcia, D. Ruschel-Dutra, A. Alonso-Herrero

Comments: 17 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 578, A74 (2015)

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

[522] arXiv:1501.03827 [pdf, other]

Title: Global Simulations of the Interaction of Microquasar Jets with a Stellar Wind in High-Mass X-ray Binaries

Doosoo Yoon, Sebastian Heinz

Comments: 15 pages, 14 figures, Accepted to ApJ on January 6, 2015

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

[523] arXiv:1501.03828 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak gravitational lensing with the Square Kilometre Array

M. L. Brown, D. J. Bacon, S. Camera, I. Harrison, B. Joachimi, R. B. Metcalf, A. Pourtsidou, K. Takahashi, J. A. Zuntz, F. B. Abdalla, S. Bridle, M. Jarvis, T. D. Kitching, L. Miller, P. Patel

Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures. Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14) Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014

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

[524] arXiv:1501.03835 [pdf, other]

Title: The Morphology of the Sub-Giant Branch and Red Clump Reveal No Sign of Age Spreads in Intermediate Age Clusters

Nate Bastian (LJMU), Florian Niederhofer (ESO, Excellence Cluster)

Comments: 12 pages, 19 figures, accepted MNRAS

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

[525] arXiv:1501.03836 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Determination of the Binding Energy of Atomic Oxygen on Dust Grain Surfaces: Experimental Results and Simulations

Jiao He, Jianming Shi, Tyler Hopkins, Gianfranco Vidali, Michael J. Kaufman

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures. Accepted by ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[526] arXiv:1501.03840 [pdf, other]

Title: Model-independent constraints on dark energy and modified gravity with the SKA

Gong-Bo Zhao, David Bacon, Roy Maartens, Mario Santos, Alvise Raccanelli

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures. The wrongly generated last page was removed. This article is part of the 'SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[527] arXiv:1501.03848 [pdf, other]

Title: Cross correlation surveys with the Square Kilometre Array

Donnacha Kirk, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Filipe B. Abdalla, Philip Bull, Benjamin Joachimi

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures. This article is part of the 'Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14) Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[528] arXiv:1501.03851 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology on the Largest Scales with the SKA

S. Camera, A. Raccanelli, P. Bull, D. Bertacca, X. Chen, P.G. Ferreira, M. Kunz, R. Maartens, Y. Mao, M.G. Santos, P.R. Shapiro, M. Viel, Y. Xu

Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures; updated acknowledgments and references. This article is part of the 'SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14) Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[529] arXiv:1501.03859 [pdf, other]

Title: Overview of Complementarity and Synergy with Other Wavelengths in Cosmology in the SKA era

Keitaro Takahashi, Michael L. Brown, Carlo Burigana, Carole A. Jackson, Matt Jarvis, Thomas D. Kitching, Jean-Paul Kneib, Masamune Oguri, Simon Prunet, Huanyuan Shan, Jean-Luc Starck, Daisuke Yamauchi

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures. This article is part of the 'SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[530] arXiv:1501.03873 [pdf, other]

Title: Sublimation-Driven Activity in Main-Belt Comet 313P/Gibbs

Henry H. Hsieh, Olivier Hainaut, Bojan Novakovic, Bryce Bolin, Larry Denneau, Alan Fitzsimmons, Nader Haghighipour, Jan Kleyna, Rosita Kokotanekova, Pedro Lacerda, Karen J. Meech, Marco Micheli, Nick Moskovitz, Eva Schunova, Colin Snodgrass, Richard J. Wainscoat, Lawrence Wasserman, Adam Waszczak

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[531] arXiv:1501.03874 [pdf, other]

Title: Redshift drift exploration for interacting dark energy

Jia-Jia Geng, Yun-He Li, Jing-Fei Zhang, Xin Zhang

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in EPJC. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.7123

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. C 75 (2015) 356

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

[532] arXiv:1501.03876 [pdf, other]

Title: A Semi-Analytical Model of Visible-Wavelength Phase Curves of Exoplanets and Applications to Kepler-7 b and Kepler-10 b

Renyu Hu, Brice-Olivier Demory, Sara Seager, Nikole Lewis, Adam P. Showman

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[533] arXiv:1501.03882 [pdf, other]

Title: Millisecond Pulsars in Close Binaries

Thomas M. Tauris (Uni. Bonn / MPIfR)

Comments: 267 pages, 99 figures, Habilitation thesis, University of Bonn

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

[534] arXiv:1501.03892 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak Lensing Simulations for the SKA

Prina Patel, Ian Harrison, Sphesihle Makhathini, Filipe Abdalla, David Bacon, Michael L. Brown, Ian Heywood, Matt Jarvis, Oleg Smirnov

Comments: SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[535] arXiv:1501.03893 [pdf, other]

Title: A High-contrast Imaging Algorithm: Optimized Image Rotation and Subtraction

Jiangpei Dou, Deqing Ren, Gang Zhao, Xi Zhang, Rui Chen, Yongtian Zhu

Comments: 18 pages, 8 eps figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journalon on Jan. 10th, 2015

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

[536] arXiv:1501.03898 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the luminosity and virial black hole mass dependence of quasar-galaxy clustering at z ~ 0.8

Alex G. Krolewski, Daniel J. Eisenstein

Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures. To be published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[537] arXiv:1501.03906 [pdf, other]

Title: SoFiA: a flexible source finder for 3D spectral line data

Paolo Serra, Tobias Westmeier, Nadine Giese, Russell Jurek, Lars Flöer, Attila Popping, Benjamin Winkel, Thijs van der Hulst, Martin Meyer, Bärbel S. Koribalski, Lister Staveley-Smith, Hélène Courtois

Comments: MNRAS, accepted. SoFiA is registered at the Astrophysics Source Code Library with ID ascl:1412.001. Download SoFiA at this https URL

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

[538] arXiv:1501.03920 [pdf, other]

Title: The Auroral Planetary Imaging and Spectroscopy (APIS) service

Laurent Lamy, Renée Prangé, Florence Henry, Pierre Le Sidaner

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

[539] arXiv:1501.03927 [pdf, other]

Title: Connection between dynamically derived IMF normalisation and stellar populations

Richard M. McDermid

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 311, Galaxy Masses as Constraints of Formation Models, M,. Cappellari & S. Courteau, eds

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

[540] arXiv:1501.03930 [pdf, other]

Title: A Multi-wavelength study of the M dwarf binary YY Geminorum

C.J. Butler, N. Erkan, E. Budding, J.G. Doyle, B. Foing, G.E. Bromage, B.J. Kellett, M. Frueh, J. Huovelin, A. Brown, J.E. Neff

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures

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

[541] arXiv:1501.03941 [pdf, other]

Title: Preferential energization of alpha particles in polar coronal holes at one solar radius above the photosphere

Aniruddha Chakravarty, M. Bose

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures. Accepted in MNRAS for publication

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

[542] arXiv:1501.03946 [pdf, other]

Title: The low-frequency environment of the Murchison Widefield Array: radio-frequency interference analysis and mitigation

A. R. Offringa, R. B. Wayth, N. Hurley-Walker, D. L. Kaplan, N. Barry, A. P. Beardsley, M. E. Bell, G. Bernardi, J. D. Bowman, F. Briggs, J. R. Callingham, R. J. Cappallo, P. Carroll, A. A. Deshpande, J. S. Dillon, K. S. Dwarakanath, A. Ewall-Wice, L. Feng, B.-Q. For, B. M. Gaensler, L. J. Greenhill, P. Hancock, B. J. Hazelton, J. N. Hewitt, L. Hindson, D. C. Jacobs, M. Johnston-Hollitt, A. D. Kapińska, H.-S. Kim, P. Kittiwisit, E. Lenc, J. Line, A. Loeb, C. J. Lonsdale, B. McKinley, S. R. McWhirter, D. A. Mitchell, M. F. Morales, E. Morgan, J. Morgan, A. R. Neben, D. Oberoi, S. M. Ord, S. Paul, B. Pindor, J. C. Pober, T. Prabu, P. Procopio, J. Riding, N. Udaya Shankar, S. Sethi, K. S. Srivani, L. Staveley-Smith, R. Subrahmanyan, I. S. Sullivan, M. Tegmark, N. Thyagarajan, S. J. Tingay, C. M. Trott, R. L. Webster, A. Williams, C. L. Williams, C. Wu, J. S. Wyithe, Q. Zheng

Comments: Accepted for publication in PASA

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

[543] arXiv:1501.03977 [pdf, other]

Title: Synergy between the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Square Kilometre Array

David Bacon, Sarah Bridle, Filipe B. Abdalla, Michael Brown, Philip Bull, Stefano Camera, Rob Fender, Keith Grainge, Zeljko Ivezic, Matt Jarvis, Neal Jackson, Donnacha Kirk, Bob Mann, Jason McEwen, John McKean, Jeffrey A. Newman, Alvise Raccanelli, Martin Sahlen, Mario Santos, Anthony Tyson, Gong-Bo Zhao

Comments: SKA Synergies Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14) Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014

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

[544] arXiv:1501.03978 [pdf, other]

Title: Euclid & SKA Synergies

Thomas D. Kitching, David Bacon, Michael L. Brown, Philip Bull, Jason D. McEwen, Masamune Oguri, Roberto Scaramella, Keitaro Takahashi, Kinwah Wu, Daisuke Yamauchi

Comments: This article is part of the 'SKA Synergies Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14) Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[545] arXiv:1501.03989 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology with a SKA HI intensity mapping survey

Mario G. Santos, Philip Bull, David Alonso, Stefano Camera, Pedro G. Ferreira, Gianni Bernardi, Roy Maartens, Matteo Viel, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Filipe B. Abdalla, Matt Jarvis, R. Benton Metcalf, A. Pourtsidou, Laura Wolz

Comments: This article is part of the 'SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

Journal-ref: PoS AASKA14 (2015) 019

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

[546] arXiv:1501.03990 [pdf, other]

Title: HI galaxy simulations for the SKA: number counts and bias

Mario G. Santos, David Alonso, Philip Bull, Marta Silva, Sahba Yahya

Comments: This article is part of the 'SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[547] arXiv:1501.03999 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving resolution and depth of astronomical observations via modern mathematical methods for image analysis

Marco Castellano, Daniele Ottaviani, Adriano Fontana, Emiliano Merlin, Stefano Pilo, Maurizio Falcone

Comments: 4 pages, contributed paper at the ADASS XXIV conference (Calgary, Oct. 2014). To be published in ASP conference series

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

[548] arXiv:1501.04012 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of discs around super-massive black hole binaries

Felipe G. Goicovic, Jorge Cuadra, Alberto Sesana

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 312, 2014. Animations available at this http URL

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

[549] arXiv:1501.04035 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology from HI galaxy surveys with the SKA

Filipe B. Abdalla, Philip Bull, Stefano Camera, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Benjamin Joachimi, Donnacha Kirk, Hans-Rainer Klöckner, Roy Maartens, Alvise Raccanelli, Mario G. Santos, Gong-Bo Zhao (for the Cosmology SWG)

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures. This article is part of the 'SKA Cosmology Chapter, Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA (AASKA14), Conference, Giardini Naxos (Italy), June 9th-13th 2014'

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

[550] arXiv:1501.04047 [pdf, other]

Title: $Om$ diagnostic applied to scalar field models and slowing down of cosmic acceleration

M. Shahalam, Sasha Sami, Abhineet Agarwal

Comments: 13 pages, Latex style, 11 figures, 5 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 448: 2948 - 2959 (2015)

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