Astrophysics

Authors and titles for May 2015

[701] arXiv:1505.05522 [pdf, other]

Title: Mass models of disk galaxies from the DiskMass Survey in MOND

Garry W. Angus, Gianfranco Gentile, Robert A. Swaters, Benoit Famaey, Antonaldo Diaferio, Stacy S. McGaugh, Kurt J. van der Heyden

Comments: 13 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[702] arXiv:1505.05527 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the Muon content of Extensive Air Showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory

J. Espadanal (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in HEPFT-2014 (Protvino, Russia) proceedings

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[703] arXiv:1505.05529 [pdf, other]

Title: Fundamental Cosmology from Precision Spectroscopy: II. Synergies with supernovae

A. C. O. Leite, C. J. A. P. Martins

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D91, 103519 (2015)

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)

[704] arXiv:1505.05535 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Cosmological FRBs from Young Supernova Remnant Pulsars

Liam Connor, Jonathan Sievers, Ue-Li Pen

Comments: 5 pages

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

[705] arXiv:1505.05538 [pdf, other]

Title: A Narrow Short-Duration GRB Jet from a Wide Central Engine

Paul C. Duffell, Eliot Quataert, Andrew I. MacFadyen

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

[706] arXiv:1505.05539 [pdf, other]

Title: On the potentially dramatic history of the super-Earth rho 55 Cancri e

Brad Hansen, Jonathon Zink

Comments: 18 pages, 21 figures, 2 tables. Some figures reduced in resolution to meet space requirements. To be published in MNRAS

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

[707] arXiv:1505.05545 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical abundances and properties of the ionized gas in NGC 1705

F. Annibali (INAF-OABO), M. Tosi (INAF-OABO), A. Pasquali (Universitaet Heidelberg), A. Aloisi (STScI), M. Mignoli (INAF-OABO), D. Romano (INAF-OABO)

Comments: Accepted for publication on AJ

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

[708] arXiv:1505.05551 [pdf, other]

Title: A Cryogenic Space Telescope for Far-Infrared Astrophysics: A Vision for NASA in the 2020 Decade

C.M. Bradford, P.F. Goldsmith, A. Bolatto, L. Armus, J. Bauer, P. Appleton, A. Cooray, C. Casey, D. Dale, B. Uzgil, J. Aguirre, J.D. Smith, K. Sheth, E.J. Murphy, C. McKenney, W. Holmes, M. Rizzo, E. Bergin, G. Stacey

Comments: This document contains a large paper on CALISTO, as well as 6 small scientific white papers, all prepared in response to NASA's Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group (PAG) request for input on future mission concepts

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

[709] arXiv:1505.05555 [pdf, other]

Title: An equatorial ultra iron-poor star identified in BOSS

C. Allende Prieto, E. Fernandez-Alvar, D. S. Aguado, J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez, R. Rebolo, Y. S. Lee, T. C. Beers, C. M. Rockosi, J. Ge

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[710] arXiv:1505.05560 [pdf, other]

Title: Frontier Fields Clusters: Chandra and JVLA View of the Pre-Merging Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403

G. Ogrean, R. van Weeren, C. Jones, T. E. Clarke, J. Sayers, T. Mroczkowski, P. E. J. Nulsen, W. Forman, S. S. Murray, M. Pandey-Pommier, S. Randall, E. Churazov, A. Bonafede, R. Kraft, L. David, F. Andrade-Santos, J. Merten, A. Zitrin, K. Umetsu, A. Goulding, E. Roediger, J. Bagchi, E. Bulbul, M. Donahue, H. Ebeling, M. Johnston-Hollitt, B. Mason, P. Rosati, A. Vikhlinin

Comments: Submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome

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

[711] arXiv:1505.05563 [pdf, other]

Title: Mid-infrared spectroscopy of SVS13: Silicates, quartz and SiC in a protoplanetary disc

Takuya Fujiyoshi (Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Hawaii, USA), Christopher M. Wright (PEMS, UNSW Canberra, Canberra, Australia), Toby J. T. Moore (ARI, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK)

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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

[712] arXiv:1505.05567 [pdf, other]

Title: He I vector magnetic field maps of a sunspot and its superpenumbral fine-structure

T.A. Schad, M.J. Penn, H. Lin, A. Tritschler

Comments: Accepted for publication in Solar Physics

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

[713] arXiv:1505.05581 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Collective Magnetic Field Strength and Vector Structure of Dark Umbral Cores Measured by the Hinode Spectropolarimeter

T.A. Schad

Comments: 24 pages, 10 figures, Accepted by Solar Physics

Journal-ref: Solar Physics, Volume 289, Issue 5, pp.1477-1498 (2014)

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

[714] arXiv:1505.05583 [pdf, other]

Title: Atomic Data and Spectral Models for FeII

Manuel A. Bautista, Vanessa Fivet, Connor Ballance, Pascal Quinet, Gary Ferland, Claudio Mendoza, Timothy R. Kallman

Comments: 36 pages, 12 figures, 9 tables, accepted for publication in the ApJ

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

[715] arXiv:1505.05596 [pdf, other]

Title: A simple reform for treating the loss of accuracy of Humlicek's W4 algorithm near the real axis

Mofreh R. Zaghloul

Comments: 7 pages 4 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[716] arXiv:1505.05608 [pdf, other]

Title: Temperature-averaged and total free-free Gaunt factors for $\kappa$ and Maxwellian distributions of electrons

Miguel A. de Avillez (U. Évora, Portugal, TU Berlin, Germany), Dieter Breitschwerdt (TU Berlin, Germany)

Comments: Paper accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Contains 5 pages, 4 figures, and 9 tables

Journal-ref: A&A 580, A124 (2015)

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

[717] arXiv:1505.05617 [pdf, other]

Title: Data Compression in the Petascale Astronomy Era: a GERLUMPH case study

Dany Vohl, Christopher J. Fluke, Georgios Vernardos

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables. Published in the Special Issue of Astronomy & Computing on The future of astronomical data formats

Journal-ref: Astronomy & Computing, 12, 200 (2015)

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

[718] arXiv:1505.05649 [pdf, other]

Title: Coronal Pseudo-Streamer and Bipolar Streamer Observed by SOHO/UVCS in March 2008

Lucia Abbo, Roberto Lionello, Pete Riley, Yi-Ming Wang

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures, in press in Solar Physics, 2015

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

[719] arXiv:1505.05653 [pdf, other]

Title: Counting quasar--radio source pairs to derive the millijansky radio luminosity function and clustering strength to z=3.5

S. Fine, T. Shanks, R. Johnston, M. J. Jarvis, T. Mauch

Comments: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[720] arXiv:1505.05661 [pdf, other]

Title: Angular momentum transport and large eddy simulations in magnetorotational turbulence: the small Pm limit

H. Meheut, S. Fromang, G. Lesur, M. Joos, P.-Y. Longaretti

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 579, A117 (2015)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[721] arXiv:1505.05671 [pdf, other]

Title: K-mouflage effects on clusters of galaxies

Philippe Brax, Luca Alberto Rizzo, Patrick Valageas

Comments: 34 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 043519 (2015)

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

[722] arXiv:1505.05676 [pdf, other]

Title: Tracing planet-induced structures in circumstellar disks using molecular lines

F. Ober, S. Wolf, A. L. Uribe, H. H. Klahr

Comments: 19 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 579, A105 (2015)

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

[723] arXiv:1505.05701 [pdf, other]

Title: Is Magnetic Topology Important for Heating the Solar Atmosphere?

C. E. Parnell, J. E. H. Stevenson, J. Threlfall, S. J. Edwards

Comments: 22 pages, 5 pages

Journal-ref: Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2015 373 20140264; Published 20 April 2015

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

[724] arXiv:1505.05703 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton view of a hard X-ray transient IGR J17497-2821

Md. Shah Alam, Dipanjan Mukherjee, Aditya S. Mondal, Gulab C. Dewangan, Sanjay Jhingan, Biplab Raychaudhuri

Comments: 14 pages, 21 ps figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS, 2015, 451, 3078

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

[725] arXiv:1505.05713 [pdf, other]

Title: Radially anisotropic systems with $r^{-\alpha}$ forces: equilibrium states

Pierfrancesco Di Cintio (1), Luca Ciotti (2), Carlo Nipoti (2) (1 Physics and Astronomy Dept., Florence Univ. - 2 Physics and Astronomy Dept., Bologna Univ.)

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in the special issue of Journal of Plasma Physics "Complex Plasma Phenomena in the Laboratory and in the Universe"

Journal-ref: J. Plasma Phys. 81 (2015) 495810504

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[726] arXiv:1505.05721 [pdf, other]

Title: Spitzer bright, UltraVISTA faint sources in COSMOS: the contribution to the overall population of massive galaxies at z=3-7

K. I. Caputi, O. Ilbert, C. Laigle, H. J. McCracken, O. Le Fevre, J. Fynbo, B. Milvang-Jensen, P. Capak, M. Salvato, Y. Taniguchi

Comments: 18 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables. Updated to match version in press at the ApJ

Journal-ref: ApJ, 810, 73 (2015)

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

[727] arXiv:1505.05722 [pdf, other]

Title: Examining the T Tauri system with SPHERE

Gergely Csépány (1 and 2), Mario van den Ancker (1), Péter Ábrahám (2), Wolfgang Brandner (3), Felix Hormuth (3) ((1) ESO Garching, (2) Konkoly Observatory, (3) MPIA)

Comments: Accepted by A&A Letters

Journal-ref: A&A 578, L9 (2015)

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

[728] arXiv:1505.05749 [pdf, other]

Title: No circumbinary planets transiting the tightest Kepler binaries - a possible fingerprint of a third star

David V. Martin, Tsevi Mazeh, Daniel C. Fabrycky

Comments: Accepted to MNRAS after a minor revision

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

[729] arXiv:1505.05750 [pdf, other]

Title: Herschel observations of extreme OH/IR stars - the isotopic ratios of oxygen as a sign-post for the stellar mass

K. Justtanont, M.J. Barlow, J. Blommaert, L. Decin, F. Kerschbaum, M. Matsuura, H. Olofsson, P. Owen, P. Royer, B. Swinyard, D. Teyssier, L.B.F.M. Waters, J. Yates

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A. 50 pages including online material (28 figures)

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

[730] arXiv:1505.05756 [pdf, other]

Title: Angular momentum fluctuations in the convective helium shell of massive stars

Avishai Gilkis, Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[731] arXiv:1505.05757 [pdf, other]

Title: Impact of Fermi-LAT and AMS-02 results on cosmic-ray astrophysics

Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

Comments: In SuGAR2015, Searching for the sources of Galactic Cosmic Rays, University of Geneva, 21-23 January 2015; eds. E. Prandini & S. Toscano; 6 pages, 3 figures

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

[732] arXiv:1505.05764 [pdf, other]

Title: Quark-Novae in massive binaries : a model for double-humped, hydrogen-poor, superluminous Supernovae

Rachid Ouyed, Denis Leahy, Nico Koning (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Canada)

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. See this http URL for a picture gallery of the QN fits to other super-luminous and double-humped SNe

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

[733] arXiv:1505.05780 [pdf, other]

Title: Explosion of a massive, He-rich star at z=0.16

N. Elias-Rosa, A. Pastorello, M. Nicholl, S. Valenti, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, M. Turatto, G. Altavilla, M. T. Botticella, L. A. G.Monard, M. Riello, L. Zampieri

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Accepted by MNRAS

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

[734] arXiv:1505.05781 [pdf, other]

Title: Mapping the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder parametrization onto Physical Dark Energy Models

Robert J. Scherrer

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, typo corrected in Eq. (17), to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 043001 (2015)

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

[735] arXiv:1505.05790 [pdf, other]

Title: A series of shocks and edges in Abell 2219

R.E.A. Canning, S.W. Allen, D.E. Applegate, P.L. Kelly, A. von der Linden, A. Mantz, E. Million, R.G. Morris, H.R. Russell

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[736] arXiv:1505.05797 [pdf, other]

Title: Grids of stellar models including second harmonic and colours: Solar composition

Mutlu Yildiz

Comments: 13 Figures 21 pages. Accepted by RAA

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

[737] arXiv:1505.05805 [pdf, other]

Title: V409 Tau As Another AA Tau: Photometric Observations of Stellar Occultations by the Circumstellar Disk

Joseph E. Rodriguez, Joshua Pepper, Keivan G. Stassun, Robert J. Siverd, Phillip Cargile, David A. Weintraub, Thomas G. Beatty, B. Scott Gaudi, Eric E. Mamajek, Nicole Sanchez

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, Accepted in AJ

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

[738] arXiv:1505.05809 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak lensing by voids in modified lensing potentials

Alexandre Barreira (ICC and IPPP, Durham), Marius Cautun (ICC, Durham), Baojiu Li (ICC, Durham), Carlton Baugh (ICC, Durham), Silvia Pascoli (IPPP, Durham)

Comments: 19 pages, 8 figures. v2 matches the version published in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP 1508 (2015) 08, 028

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

[739] arXiv:1505.05812 [pdf, other]

Title: Stability and Coalescence of Massive Twin Binaries

Jason A. Hwang, James C. Lombardi Jr., Frederic A. Rasio, Vassiliki Kalogera

Comments: 51 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 806, Issue 1, article id. 135, 23 pp. (2015)

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

[740] arXiv:1505.05823 [pdf, other]

Title: Binary Properties from Cepheid Radial Velocities (CRaV)

Nancy Remage Evans, Leonid Berdnikov, Jennifer Lauer, Douglas Morgan, Joy Nichols, H. Moritz Günther, Natalya Gorynya, Alexey Rastorguev, Pawel Moskalik

Comments: accepted for publication in AJ

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

[741] arXiv:1505.05824 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Wave Signatures of Ab Initio Two-Dimensional Core Collapse Supernova Explosion Models for 12-25 Solar Masses Stars

Konstantin N. Yakunin, Anthony Mezzacappa, Pedro Marronetti, Shin'ichirou Yoshida, Stephen W. Bruenn, W. Raphael Hix, Eric J. Lentz, O. E. Bronson Messer, J. Austin Harris, Eirik Endeve, John M. Blondin, Eric J. Lingerfelt

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures

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

[742] arXiv:1505.05835 [pdf, other]

Title: Telescope performance and image simulations of the balloon-borne coded-mask protoMIRAX experiment

A.V. Penacchioni, J. Braga, M.A. Castro, F. D'Amico

Comments: 9 figures

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

[743] arXiv:1505.05837 [pdf, other]

Title: On the detection of neutrinos from solar flares using pion-decay photons to provide a time window template

G. de Wasseige, K. Hanson, N. van Eijndhoven, P. Evenson, K.-L. Klein

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

[744] arXiv:1505.05843 [pdf, other]

Title: Abundances in the atmosphere of the metal-rich planet-host star HD 77338

I.O. Kushniruk, Ya.V. Pavlenko, J.S. Jenkins, H.R.A. Jones

Journal-ref: Advances in Astronomy and Space Physics, Volume 4, Issue 1-2 (2014)

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

[745] arXiv:1505.05847 [pdf, other]

Title: A 3+1 formalism for quantum electrodynamical corrections to Maxwell equations in general relativity

J. Pétri

Comments: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[746] arXiv:1505.05851 [pdf, other]

Title: A Multiwavelength Study of Three Hybrid Blazars

E. C. Stanley, P. Kharb, M. L. Lister, H. L. Marshall, C. O'Dea, S. Baum

Comments: 27 pages, 26 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[747] arXiv:1505.05853 [pdf, other]

Title: On the universality of luminosity-metallicity and mass-metallicity relations for compact star-forming galaxies at redshifts 0 < z < 3

Y. I. Izotov (1,2,3), N. G. Guseva (1,2), K. J. Fricke (2,4), C. Henkel (2,5) ((1) Main Astronomical Observatory, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine, (2) Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany, (3) LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Meudon, France, (4) Institute for Astrophysics, Goettingen, Germany, (5) Astronomy Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS 451, 2251 (2015)

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

[748] arXiv:1505.05858 [pdf, other]

Title: Synchrotron Origin of the Typical GRB Band Function - A Case Study of GRB 130606B

Bin-Bin Zhang, Z. Lucas Uhm, Valerie Connaughton, Michael S. Briggs, Bing Zhang

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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

[749] arXiv:1505.05860 [pdf, other]

Title: The complex chemistry of outflow cavity walls exposed: the case of low-mass protostars

Maria N. Drozdovskaya, Catherine Walsh, Ruud Visser, Daniel Harsono, Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 24 pages, 20 figures, 3 tables

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

[750] arXiv:1505.05865 [pdf, other]

Title: Initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations of the scalar sector of theories of Newtonian, Relativistic and Modified Gravity

Wessel Valkenburg, Bin Hu (Instituut-Lorentz)

Comments: 27 pages, 6 figure, code available at this http URL. Matches version published in JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP09(2015)054

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