Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 2015

[701] arXiv:1501.05161 [pdf, other]

Title: Transport by meridional circulations in solar-type stars

Toby S. Wood, Nicholas H. Brummell

Comments: 14 figures

Journal-ref: ApJ, 755, 99 (2012)

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

[702] arXiv:1501.05166 [pdf, other]

Title: Hybrid Pulsators -- Pulsating Stars with Multiple Identities

A.-Y. Zhou

Comments: Conference report, in preparation for RAA. 16 pages, 1 figure, 6 tables, web page access

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

[703] arXiv:1501.05182 [pdf, other]

Title: Selection between foreground models for global 21-cm experiments

Geraint Harker

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: MNRAS: Letters 2015 449 (1): L21-L25

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

[704] arXiv:1501.05183 [pdf, other]

Title: Eclipsing binaries and fast rotators in the Kepler sample. Characterization via radial velocity analysis from Calar Alto

J. Lillo-Box, D. Barrado, L. Mancini, Th. Henning, P. Figueira, S. Ciceri, N. Santos

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A. 18 pages, 9 figures, 17 tables. This version fixes an error affecting the values of tables A.1-A.13. The text remains unaltered

Journal-ref: A&A 576, A88 (2015)

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

[705] arXiv:1501.05204 [pdf, other]

Title: Identification of new transitional disk candidates in Lupus with Herschel

I. Bustamante, B. Merín, Á. Ribas, H. Bouy, T. Prusti, G.L. Pilbratt, Ph. André

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A. 16 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables

Journal-ref: A&A 578, A23 (2015)

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

[706] arXiv:1501.05207 [pdf, other]

Title: Circularization of Tidally Disrupted Stars around Spinning Supermassive Black Holes

Kimitake Hayasaki, Nicholas C. Stone, Abraham Loeb

Comments: 23 pages, 18 figures, 1 appendix, accepted for publication in MNRAS (with significant improvement)

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

[707] arXiv:1501.05211 [pdf, other]

Title: Observations of an Energetically Isolated Quiet Sun Transient: Evidence of Quasi-Steady Coronal Heating

N. Brice Orange, David L. Chesny, Hakeem M. Oluseyi

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures

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

[708] arXiv:1501.05217 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-epoch time-resolved photometry of the eclipsing polar CSS081231:J071126+440405

A.D. Schwope, F. Mackebrandt, B.D. Thinius, C. Littlefield, P. Garnavich, A. Oksanen, T. Granzer

Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in AN

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

[709] arXiv:1501.05227 [pdf, other]

Title: Probabilities for Solar Siblings

M. Valtonen, A.T. Bajkova, V.V. Bobylev, A. Myllari

Comments: 15 pages, 4 tables, 3 figures. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (this http URL...56V). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1106.5632

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

[710] arXiv:1501.05238 [pdf, other]

Title: Prominence seismology using the period ratio of transverse thread oscillations

R. Soler, M. Goossens, J. L. Ballester

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 575, A123 (2015)

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

[711] arXiv:1501.05247 [pdf, other]

Title: The Galactic $^{26}$Al emission map as revealed by INTEGRAL/SPI

Laurent Bouchet, Elisabeth Jourdain, Jean-Pierre Roques

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[712] arXiv:1501.05251 [pdf, other]

Title: Dissecting magnetar variability with Bayesian hierarchical models

D. Huppenkothen, B.J. Brewer, D.W. Hogg, I. Murray, M. Frean, C. Elenbaas, A.L. Watts, Y. Levin, A.J. van der Horst, C. Kouveliotou

Comments: accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; code available at this https URL, data products at this http URL

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

[713] arXiv:1501.05254 [pdf, other]

Title: Cool dwarfs in wide multiple systems. Paper 5: New astrometry of 54 wide pairs with M dwarfs

M. Cortés-Contreras, J. A. Caballero, D. Montes

Comments: The Observatory, 134, 348

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

[714] arXiv:1501.05262 [pdf, other]

Title: On the uniqueness of kinematical signatures of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters

Alice Zocchi, Mark Gieles, Vincent Hénault-Brunet

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 312, Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies Across Cosmic Time

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

[715] arXiv:1501.05264 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-dimensional modeling of ionized gas. II. Spectral energy distributions of massive and very massive stars in stationary and time-dependent modeling of the ionization of metals in HII regions

J. A. Weber, A. W. A. Pauldrach, T. L. Hoffmann

Comments: Accepted by A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 583, A63 (2015)

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

[716] arXiv:1501.05274 [pdf, other]

Title: Short-term variability of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) at 4.8 AU from the Sun

Pablo Santos-Sanz, José Luis Ortiz, Nicolás Morales, Rene Duffard, Francisco Pozuelos, Fernando Moreno, Estela Fernández-Valenzuela (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC)

Comments: 15 pages, 3 Figures, 2 Tables, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[717] arXiv:1501.05287 [pdf, other]

Title: A long-lasting quiescence phase of the eruptive variable V1118 Ori

D.Lorenzetti, S.Antoniucci, T.Giannini, A. Harutyunyan, A.A.Arkharov, V.M.Larionov, F.Cusano, A.Di Paola, G.Li Causi, B.Nisini, R.Speziali, F.Vitali

Comments: 6 figures, 5 tables, accepted on ApJ

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

[718] arXiv:1501.05295 [pdf, other]

Title: The rms-flux relation in accreting white dwarfs: another nova-like variable and the first dwarf nova

M. Van de Sande, S. Scaringi, C. Knigge

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures. Accepted to MNRAS

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

[719] arXiv:1501.05299 [pdf, other]

Title: Kiloparsec-scale jets in three radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies

Joseph L. Richards, Matthew L. Lister

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, accepted to ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 800 (2015) L8

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

[720] arXiv:1501.05300 [pdf, other]

Title: The Spatial Structure of Young Stellar Clusters. II. Total Young Stellar Populations

Michael A. Kuhn (1,2,3), Konstantin V. Getman (1), Eric D. Feigelson (1) ((1) Penn State University, (2) Universidad de Valparaíso, (3) Millennium Institute of Astrophysics)

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 45 pages, 9 figures, and 3 tables. Supplemental materials from the online-version of this article, including a machine-readable table and "Data behind the Figure" (*.fits), are available at the public MYStIX website (this http URL)

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

[721] arXiv:1501.05301 [pdf, other]

Title: The Origin of the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background and Implications for Dark-Matter Annihilation

M. Ajello, D. Gasparrini, M. Sanchez-Conde, G. Zaharijas, M. Gustafsson, J. Cohen-Tanugi, C. D. Dermer, Y. Inoue, D. Hartmann, M. Ackermann, K. Bechtol, A. Franckowiak, A. Reimer, R. W. Romani, A. W. Strong

Comments: On behalf of the Fermi-LAT collaboration. Contact authors: M. Ajello, D. Gasparrini, M. Sanchez-Conde, G. Zaharijas, M. Gustafsson. Accepted for publication on ApJL

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

[722] arXiv:1501.05302 [pdf, other]

Title: Driving extreme variability: The evolving corona and evidence for jet launching in Markarian 335

D.R. Wilkins, L.C. Gallo

Comments: 21 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[723] arXiv:1501.05303 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Web Reconstruction through Density Ridges: Method and Algorithm

Yen-Chi Chen, Shirley Ho, Peter E. Freeman, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman

Comments: To appear in MNRAS. 18 pages, 19 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Applications (stat.AP)

[724] arXiv:1501.05304 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian Inference for Radio Observations

Michelle Lochner, Iniyan Natarajan, Jonathan T.L. Zwart, Oleg Smirnov, Bruce A. Bassett, Nadeem Oozeer, Martin Kunz

Comments: Published in MNRAS. See this https URL for a video of MultiNest converging to the correct source model

Journal-ref: MNRAS 2015 450 (2): 1308-1319

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

[725] arXiv:1501.05306 [pdf, other]

Title: A Dark Year for Tidal Disruption Events

James Guillochon (1), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (2) ((1) Harvard ITC, (2) UC Santa Cruz)

Comments: Accepted to ApJ. Updated version adds new figure (Figure 9). 11 pages, 9 figures. Movie of stream intersections available at this http URL

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

[726] arXiv:1501.05308 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-ray novae as probes of relativistic particle acceleration at non-relativistic shocks

Brian D. Metzger, Thomas Finzell, Indrek Vurm, Romain Hascoet, Andrei M. Beloborodov, Laura Chomiuk

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted to MNRAS after minor edits

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

[727] arXiv:1501.05309 [pdf, other]

Title: A photometric selection of White Dwarf candidates in SDSS DR10

Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Boris T. Gaensicke, Sandra Greiss

Comments: Accepted in MNRAS. 17 pages, 14 figures. The full catalogue presented in table 5 is available for download at this http URL

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

[728] arXiv:1501.05311 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncertainties in The Interstellar Extinction Curve and the Cepheid Distance to M101

David M. Nataf

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal

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

[729] arXiv:1501.05312 [pdf, other]

Title: Overturning the Case for Gravitational Powering in the Prototypical Cooling Lyman-alpha Nebula

Moire K. M. Prescott (1), Ivelina Momcheva (2), Gabriel B. Brammer (3), Johan P. U. Fynbo (1), Palle Møller (4) ((1) Dark Cosmology Centre, (2) Yale University, (3) STScI, (4) ESO)

Comments: Accepted to ApJ; 21 pages in emulateapj format; 12 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 802 (2015) 32-42

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

[730] arXiv:1501.05313 [pdf, other]

Title: An Emerging Wolf-Rayet Massive Star Cluster in NGC 4449

Kimberly R. Sokal, Kelsey E. Johnson, Rémy Indebetouw, Amy E. Reines

Comments: Accepted AJ, 35 pages, 10 figures

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

[731] arXiv:1501.05314 [pdf, other]

Title: How to form planetesimals from mm-sized chondrules and chondrule aggregates

Daniel Carrera, Anders Johansen, Melvyn B. Davies

Comments: 20 pages. Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 579, A43 (2015)

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

[732] arXiv:1501.05316 [pdf, other]

Title: Composition of the Fermi-LAT isotropic gamma-ray background intensity: Emission from extragalactic point sources and dark matter annihilations

Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables. This version matches the published version, minor changes only

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D91 (2015) 123001

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

[733] arXiv:1501.05317 [pdf, other]

Title: Observations of the Icy Universe

Adwin Boogert, Perry Gerakines, Douglas Whittet

Comments: To appear in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 53, 2015. Updated 08/May/2015: corrected numbers in elemental budget section, updated references and typos

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

[734] arXiv:1501.05321 [pdf, other]

Title: Interstellar Medium Mitigation Techniques in Pulsar Timing Arrays

Lina Levin

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures; Proceedings of LISA Symposium X, accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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

[735] arXiv:1501.05322 [pdf, other]

Title: Confronting uncertainties in stellar physics: calibrating convective overshooting with eclipsing binaries

Richard J. Stancliffe (1), Luca Fossati (1), Jean-Claude Passy (1), Fabian R. N. Schneider (1 and 2) ((1) AIfA, (2) Oxford)

Comments: 9 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A (20/01/2015)

Journal-ref: A&A 575, A117 (2015)

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

[736] arXiv:1501.05323 [pdf, other]

Title: Passive galaxies as tracers of cluster environments at z~2

V. Strazzullo, E. Daddi, R. Gobat, B. Garilli, M. Mignoli, F. Valentino, M. Onodera, A. Renzini, A. Cimatti, A. Finoguenov, N. Arimoto, M. Cappellari, C. M. Carollo, C. Feruglio, E. Le Floc'h, S. J. Lilly, D. Maccagni, H. J. McCracken, M. Moresco, L. Pozzetti, G. Zamorani

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures; A&A Letters, in press

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

[737] arXiv:1501.05330 [pdf, other]

Title: Systematic Uncertainties in the Spectroscopic Measurements of Neutron-Star Masses and Radii from Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts. III. Absolute Flux Calibration

Tolga Guver, Feryal Ozel, Herman Marshall, Dimitrios Psaltis, Matteo Guainazzi, Maria Diaz-Trigo

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[738] arXiv:1501.05343 [pdf, other]

Title: NANOGrav Constraints on Gravitational Wave Bursts with Memory

Z. Arzoumanian, A. Brazier, S. Burke-Spolaor, S. J. Chamberlin, S. Chatterjee, B. Christy, J. M. Cordes, N. J. Cornish, P. B. Demorest, X. Deng, T. Dolch, J. A. Ellis, R. D. Ferdman, E. Fonseca, N. Garver-Daniels, F. Jenet, G. Jones, V. M. Kaspi, M. Koop, M. T. Lam, T. J. W. Lazio, L. Levin, A. N. Lommen, D. R. Lorimer, J. Luo, R. S. Lynch, D. R. Madison, M. A. McLaughlin, S. T. McWilliams, D. J. Nice, N. Palliyaguru, T. T. Pennucci, S. M. Ransom, X. Siemens, I. H. Stairs, D. R. Stinebring, K. Stovall, J. Swiggum, M. Vallisneri, R. van Haasteren, Y. Wang, W. W. Zhu

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures. We will submit this article to ApJ two weeks from now. Questions or comments should be directed to Dustin Madison ([email protected])

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

[739] arXiv:1501.05347 [pdf, other]

Title: The VMC Survey - XIV. First results on the look-back time star-formation rate tomography of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Stefano Rubele, Leo Girardi, Leandro Kerber, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Andres E. Piatti, Simone Zaggia, Kenji Bekki, Alessandro Bressan, Gisella Clementini, Richard de Grijs, Jim P. Emerson, Martin A.T. Groenewegen, Valentin D. Ivanov, Marcella Marconi, Paola Marigo, Maria-Ida Moretti, Vincenzo Ripepi, Smitha Subramanian, Benjamin L. Tatton, Jacco Th. van Loon

Comments: MNRAS accepted, 24 pages

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

[740] arXiv:1501.05359 [pdf, other]

Title: Experimental Constraints on {\gamma}-ray Pulsar Gap Models and the Pulsar GeV to Pulsar Wind Nebula TeV Connection

A. U. Abeysekara, J. T. Linnemann

Comments: 28 Pages, 2 tables, 4 figures, Paper submitted to ApJ, and under review process

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

[741] arXiv:1501.05360 [pdf, other]

Title: The Asteroseismology of ZZ Ceti star GD1212

Lin Guifang, Li Yan, Su Jie

Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures

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

[742] arXiv:1501.05364 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle Trapping and Streaming Instability in Vortices

Natalie Raettig, Hubert Klahr, Wladimir Lyra

Comments: 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[743] arXiv:1501.05367 [pdf, other]

Title: Delivering SKA Science

Peter Quinn, Tim Axelrod, Ian Bird, Richard Dodson, Alex Szalay, Andreas Wicenec

Comments: 27 pages, 14 figures, Conference: Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array June 8-13, 2014 Giardini Naxos, Italy

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

[744] arXiv:1501.05389 [pdf, other]

Title: Grain-scale thermoelastic stresses and spatiotemporal temperature gradients on airless bodies, implications for rock breakdown

Jamie L. Molaro, Shane Byrne, Steve A. Langer

Comments: 34 pages, 12 figures

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[745] arXiv:1501.05393 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical Emission Spectra of Atmospheres of Hot Rocky Super-Earths

Yuichi Ito (1), Masahiro Ikoma (1), Hajime Kawahara (1), Hiroko Nagahara (1), Yui Kawashima (1), Taishi Nakamoto (2) ((1) The University of Tokyo, (2) Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[746] arXiv:1501.05401 [pdf, other]

Title: Scatter broadening measurements of 124 pulsars at 327 MHz

M.A. Krishnakumar, Dipanjan Mitra, Arun Naidu, Bhal Chandra Joshi, P. K. Manoharan

Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[747] arXiv:1501.05412 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of a methanol megamaser in a major-merger galaxy

Xi Chen, Simon P. Ellingsen, Willem A. Baan, Hai-Hua Qiao, Juan Li, Tao An, Shari L. Breen

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[748] arXiv:1501.05415 [pdf, other]

Title: Precise Radial Velocity Measurements for Kepler Giants Hosting Planetary Candidates: Kepler-91 and KOI-1894

Bun'ei Sato, Teruyuki Hirano, Masashi Omiya, Hiroki Harakawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Ryo Hasegawa, Takuya Takarada, Kiyoe Kawauchi, Kento Masuda

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[749] arXiv:1501.05420 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical $\Sigma$-$D$ Relations for Shell-Type Galactic Supernova Remnants

Ya-Peng Hu, Hong-An Zeng, Jun Fang, Jun-Peng Hou, Jian-Wen Xu

Comments: 12 pages, 2 tables, major revision, version accepted by Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

Journal-ref: J. Astrophys. Astr. (2019) 40:7

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

[750] arXiv:1501.05422 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of a disc gap induced by a planet: Effect of the deviation from Keplerian disc rotation

Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa, Hidekazu Tanaka, Takayuki Muto, Takayuki Tanigawa, Taku Takeuchi

Comments: 15 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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