Astrophysics

Authors and titles for July 2015

[901] arXiv:1507.07603 [pdf, other]

Title: A systematic search for close supermassive black hole binaries in the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey

Matthew J. Graham, S. G. Djorgovski, Daniel Stern, Andrew J. Drake, Ashish A. Mahabal, Ciro Donalek, Eilat Glikman, Steve Larsen, Eric Christensen

Comments: 29 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS - this version contains extended table and figure

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

[902] arXiv:1507.07613 [pdf, other]

Title: A Stacked Search for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in 337 Extragalactic Star Clusters

J. M. Wrobel, K. E. Nyland, J. C. A. Miller-Jones

Comments: 19 pages; 6 figures; accepted by AJ

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

[903] arXiv:1507.07620 [pdf, other]

Title: Structural properties of non-spherical dark halos in Milky Way and Andromeda dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Kohei Hayashi, Masashi Chiba

Comments: Typos corrected. 16 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication by ApJ

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

[904] arXiv:1507.07627 [pdf, other]

Title: What Powers Lyman alpha Blobs?

Y. Ao, Y. Matsuda, A. Beelen, C. Henkel, R. Cen, C. De Breuck, P. Francis, A. Kovacs, G. Lagache, M. Lehnert, M. Mao, K. M. Menten, R. Norris, A. Omont, K. Tatemastu, A. Weiss, Z. Zheng

Comments: 7 pages and 3 figurs, accepted by A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 581, A132 (2015)

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

[905] arXiv:1507.07635 [pdf, other]

Title: Capabilities of future intensity interferometers for observing fast-rotating stars: imaging with two- and three-telescope correlations

Paul D. Nunez, Armando Domiciano de Souza

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 8 pages, 5 figures

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

[906] arXiv:1507.07642 [pdf, other]

Title: Extreme value statistics of CMB lensing deflection angles

Philipp M. Merkel (ZAH/Heidelberg), Bjoern Malte Schaefer (ZAH/Heidelberg)

Comments: 7 pages, 9 figures, MNRAS accepted

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

[907] arXiv:1507.07655 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical simulations of solar energetic particle event timescales associated with ICMES

S.-Y. Qi, G. Qin, Y. Wang

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

[908] arXiv:1507.07659 [pdf, other]

Title: WZ Sge-Type Dwarf Novae

Taichi Kato (Kyoto U.)

Comments: 41 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ, minor corrections

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

[909] arXiv:1507.07678 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Reionization after Planck: Could Quasars Do It All?

Piero Madau, Francesco Haardt

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[910] arXiv:1507.07694 [pdf, other]

Title: Digital Sky Surveys from the ground: Status and Perspectives

T. Shanks

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures, Refereed Proceeding of the "The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys" conference held at the INAF - Observatory of Capodimonte, Naples, on 25th-28th November 2014, to be published in Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, edited by Longo, Napolitano, Marconi, Paolillo, Iodice

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

[911] arXiv:1507.07705 [pdf, other]

Title: Post-common-envelope Wolf-Rayet central stars of planetary nebulae

Brent Miszalski (SAAO/SALT), Rajeev Manick (KU Leuven), Vanessa McBride (SAAO/UCT)

Comments: To appear in conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Wolf-Rayet Stars. 3 pages, 1 figure

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

[912] arXiv:1507.07707 [pdf, other]

Title: The role of binarity in Wolf-Rayet central stars of planetary nebulae

Brent Miszalski (SAAO/SALT), Rajeev Manick (KU Leuven), Vanessa McBride (SAAO/UCT)

Comments: To appear in conference proceedings of the Physics of Evolved Stars meeting. 4 pages

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

[913] arXiv:1507.07708 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep X-ray spectroscopy and imaging of the Seyfert 2 galaxy, ESO 138-G001

M. De Cicco, A. Marinucci, S. Bianchi, E. Piconcelli, G. Violino, C. Vignali, F. Nicastro

Comments: Accepted for pubblication in MNRAS. 9 pages, 8 figures

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

[914] arXiv:1507.07710 [pdf, other]

Title: Roche Lobe Underfilling of the Secondary Star in PSR J102347.6+003841?

O. McConnell, P. J. Callanan, M. Kennedy, D. Hurley, P. Garnavich, J. Menzies

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2015 451 (4): 3468-3472

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

[915] arXiv:1507.07713 [pdf, other]

Title: The Araucaria Project: The distance to the Carina Dwarf Galaxy from infrared photometry of RR Lyrae stars

P. Karczmarek, G. Pietrzyński, W. Gieren, K. Suchomska, P. Konorski, M. Górski, B. Pilecki, D. Graczyk, P. Wielgórski

Comments: Accepted for publication in AJ. 14 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables

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

[916] arXiv:1507.07724 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial damping of propagating sausage waves in coronal cylinders

Ming-Zhe Guo, Shao-Xia Chen, Bo Li, Li-Dong Xia, Hui Yu

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 581, A130 (2015)

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

[917] arXiv:1507.07725 [pdf, other]

Title: Bridge over troubled gas: clusters and associations under the SMC and LMC tidal stresses

E. Bica, B. Santiago, C. Bonatto, R. Garcia-Dias, L. Kerber, B. Dias, B. Barbuy, E. Balbinot

Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures, MNRAS, Accepted 2015 July 27

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

[918] arXiv:1507.07733 [pdf, other]

Title: Prospects of GPGPU in the Auger Offline Software Framework

Tobias Winchen, Marvin Gottowik, Julian Rautenberg (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Comments: Proceedings of the GPU in High Energy Physics Conference 2014 (GPUHEP2014), Pisa

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

[919] arXiv:1507.07740 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing M subdwarf metallicity with an esdK5+esdM5.5 binary

Ya.V. Pavlenko (UH, MAO), Z.H. Zhang (IAC, UL), M.C. Gálvez-Ortiz (CSIC-INTA, UH), I.O. Kushniruk (UKyiv), H.R.A. Jones (UH)

Comments: Accepted by AA, 11 pages, 9 figs

Journal-ref: A&A 582, A92 (2015)

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

[920] arXiv:1507.07746 [pdf, other]

Title: Collision and Annihilation of Relative Equilibrium Points Around Asteroids with a Changing Parameter

Yu Jiang, Hexi Baoyin, Hengnian Li

Comments: 25pages, 3 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[921] arXiv:1507.07747 [pdf, other]

Title: Exclusion of Leptophilic Dark Matter Models using XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

The XENON Collaboration: E. Aprile, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, L. Arazi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, M. Auger, C. Balan, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, A. Behrens, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Buetikofer, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, D. Coderre, A. P. Colijn, H. Contreras, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, A. Di Giovanni, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, W. Fulgione, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, L. W. Goetzke, C. Grignon, E. Gross, W. Hampel, R. Itay, F. Kaether, B. Kaminsky, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, C. Levy, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Lyashenko, S. Macmullin, T. Marrodan Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Mayani Paras, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Y. Meng, M. Messina, B. Miguez, A. Molinario, G. Morana, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, P. Pakarha, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, G. Plante, N. Priel, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, O. Vitells, R. Wall, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, with supporting online material

Journal-ref: Science 2015 vol. 349 no. 6250 pp. 851-854

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[922] arXiv:1507.07748 [pdf, other]

Title: Search for Event Rate Modulation in XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

The XENON Collaboration: E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, M. Anthony, L. Arazi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, C. Balan, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Buetikofer, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, D. Coderre, A. P. Colijn, H. Contreras, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, P. de Perio, A. Di Giovanni, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, W. Fulgione, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, L. W. Goetzke, C. Grignon, E. Gross, W. Hampel, C. Hasterok, R. Itay, F. Kaether, B. Kaminsky, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, C. Levy, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Lyashenko, S. Macmullin, T. Marrodan Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Mayani, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez. Y. Meng, M. Messina, K. Micheneau, B. Miguez, A. Molinario, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, P. Pakarha, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, G. Plante, N. Priel, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, R. Wall, H. Wang, M. Weber

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091302 (2015)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[923] arXiv:1507.07753 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigation of the radio wavefront of air showers with LOPES measurements and CoREAS simulations (ARENA 2014)

F.G. Schröder, W.D. Apel, J.C. Arteaga-Velazquez, L. Bähren, K. Bekk, M. Bertaina, P.L. Biermann, J. Blümer, H. Bozdog, I.M. Brancus, E. Cantoni, A. Chiavassa, K. Daumiller, V. de Souza, F. Di Pierro, P. Doll, R. Engel, H. Falcke, B. Fuchs, D. Fuhrmann, H. Gemmeke, C. Grupen, A. Haungs, D. Heck, J.R. Hörandel, A. Horneffer, D. Huber, T. Huege, P.G. Isar, K.-H. Kampert, D. Kang, O. Krömer, J. Kuijpers, K. Link, P. Luczak, M. Ludwig, H.J. Mathes, M. Melissas, C. Morello, J. Oehlschläger, N. Palmieri, T. Pierog, J. Rautenberg, H. Rebel, M. Roth, C. Rühle, A. Saftoiu, H. Schieler, A. Schmidt, S. Schoo, O. Sima, G. Toma, G.C. Trinchero, A. Weindl, J. Wochele, J. Zabierowski, J.A. Zensus (LOPES Collaboration)

Comments: Proceedings of ARENA 2014, Anapolis, USA

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

[924] arXiv:1507.07757 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotation, differential rotation, and gyrochronology of active Kepler stars

Timo Reinhold, Laurent Gizon

Comments: 16 pages, 15 figures; Tables 2 & 4 will entirely be available (later...)

Journal-ref: A&A 583, A65 (2015)

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

[925] arXiv:1507.07764 [pdf, other]

Title: Digital radio detection of cosmic rays: achievements, status and perspectives

T. Huege (KIT)

Comments: Contribution to the proceedings of the ARENA2014 conference, Annapolis, MD; to be published in AIP Conf. Proc

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

[926] arXiv:1507.07769 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio detection of cosmic rays: present and future

T. Huege (KIT), A. Haungs (KIT)

Comments: Contribution to the Proceedings of the UHECR2014 conference, Springdale, UT; to be published in JPS Conf. Proc

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

[927] arXiv:1507.07776 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar granulation and interferometry

A. Chiavassa, L. Bigot

Comments: To appear in the Book of the VLTI School 2013, held 9-21 Sep 2013 Barcelonnette (France), "What the highest angular resolution can bring to stellar astrophysics?", Ed. Millour, Chiavassa, Bigot, Chesneau, Meilland, Stee, EAS Publications Series (2015)

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

[928] arXiv:1507.07780 [pdf, other]

Title: Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) IX: The planetary-mass domain of Chamaeleon-I and updated mass function in Lupus-3

Koraljka Muzic, Alexander Scholz, Vincent C. Geers, Ray Jayawardhana

Comments: Accepted for publication by Astrophysical Journal

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

[929] arXiv:1507.07783 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiative-transfer models for supernovae IIb/Ib/Ic from binary-star progenitors

Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Stan Woosley, Eli Livne, Roni Waldman, Sung-Chul Yoon, Norbert Langer

Comments: accepted to MNRAS

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

[930] arXiv:1507.07784 [pdf, other]

Title: Searching for I band variability in stars in the M/L spectral transition region

Gavin Ramsay (Armagh Observatory), Pasi Hakala (FINCA), J Gerry Doyle (Armagh)

Comments: Accepted MNRAS 6 pages

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

[931] arXiv:1507.07788 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian High-Redshift Quasar Classification from Optical and Mid-IR Photometry

Gordon T. Richards (1), Adam D. Myers (2), Christina M. Peters (1), Coleman M. Krawczyk (1), Greg Chase (1), Nicholas P. Ross (1), Xiaohui Fan (3), Linhua Jiang (4), Mark Lacy (5), Ian D. McGreer (3), Jonathan R. Trump (6), Ryan N. Riegel (7) ((1) Drexel University, (2) University of Wyoming, (3) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, (4) KIAA, Peking University, (5) NRAO, (6) Penn State, (7) Skytree, Inc.)

Comments: 54 pages, 17 figures; accepted by ApJS Data for tables 1 and 2 available at this http URL and this http URL

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

[932] arXiv:1507.07796 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-ray and neutrino diffuse emissions of the Galaxy above the TeV

Daniele Gaggero (SISSA), Dario Grasso (INFN and Pisa Un., Pisa), Antonio Marinelli (INFN and Pisa Un., Pisa), Alfredo Urbano (SISSA), Mauro Valli (SISSA)

Comments: Oral contribution to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, July 30 to August 6, The Hague, Netherlands

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

[933] arXiv:1507.07797 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncertainties on near-core mixing in red-clump stars: effects on the period spacing and on the luminosity of the AGB bump

Diego Bossini, Andrea Miglio, Maurizio Salaris, Adriano Pietrinferni, Josefina Montalbán, Alessandro Bressan, Arlette Noels, Santi Cassisi, Léo Girardi, Paola Marigo

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

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

[934] arXiv:1507.07803 [pdf, other]

Title: The revised Brussels-Locarno Sunspot Number (1981-2015)

Frédéric Clette, Laure Lefèvre, Marco Cagnotti, Sergio Cortesi, Andreas Bulling

Comments: 33 pages, 23 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Solar Physics, Volume 291, Issue 9-10, pp. 2733-2761, 2016

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

[935] arXiv:1507.07824 [pdf, other]

Title: Toward Accurate Modeling of the Nonlinear Matter Bispectrum: Standard Perturbation Theory and Transients from Initial Conditions

Nuala McCullagh, Donghui Jeong, Alexander S. Szalay

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS. V2: fixed an error in model predictions

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

[936] arXiv:1507.07829 [pdf, other]

Title: On the covariant formalism of the effective field theory of gravity and its cosmological implications

Alessandro Codello, Rajeev Kumar Jain

Comments: v1: 25 pages, 9 figures; v2: 24 pages, 9 figures, title slightly changed, minor corrections, published in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. 34, 035015 (2017)

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

[937] arXiv:1507.07843 [pdf, other]

Title: Intrinsic alignments of galaxies in the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamical simulation

Nora Elisa Chisari, Sandrine Codis, Clotilde Laigle, Yohan Dubois, Christophe Pichon, Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz, Lance Miller, Raphael Gavazzi, Karim Benabed

Comments: 20 pages, 23 figures

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2015 454 (3): 2736-2753

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

[938] arXiv:1507.07871 [pdf, other]

Title: IceCube at the Threshold

Thomas K. Gaisser (for the IceCube Collaboration)

Comments: Presentation on behalf of IceCube at the Inauguration of HAWC, Puebla, March 19, 2015. Fifteen figures with updated references

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

[939] arXiv:1507.07877 [pdf, other]

Title: Inconsistencies in the application of harmonic analysis to pulsating stars

J. Pascual-Granado, R. Garrido, J. C. Suárez

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 581, A89 (2015)

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

[940] arXiv:1507.07887 [pdf, other]

Title: The Euphrosyne family's contribution to the low albedo near-Earth asteroids

Joseph R. Masiero, V. Carruba, A. Mainzer, J. M. Bauer, C. Nugent

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[941] arXiv:1507.07889 [pdf, other]

Title: Making action-angle disc models for Gaia

Paul J. McMillan

Comments: 5 pages, published in the proceedings of the GREAT-ITN conference on "The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia", Barcelona, December 2014

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

[942] arXiv:1507.07900 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources in Haro 11 and the Role of X-ray Binaries in Feedback in Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies

A. H. Prestwich, F. Jackson, P. Kaaret, M. Brorby, T. P. Roberts, S.H.Saar, M. Yukita

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

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

[943] arXiv:1507.07904 [pdf, other]

Title: The Megamaser Cosmology Project. VII. Investigating disk physics using spectral monitoring observations

Dominic W. Pesce, James A. Braatz, James J. Condon, Feng Gao, Christian Henkel, Eugenia Litzinger, Fred K.-Y. Lo, Mark J. Reid

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[944] arXiv:1507.07906 [pdf, other]

Title: Sputtering of Oxygen Ice by Low Energy Ions

E. A. Muntean, P. Lacerda, T. A. Field, A. Fitzsimmons, C. A. Hunniford, R. W. McCullough

Comments: to be published in Surface Science (2015)

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

[945] arXiv:1507.07913 [pdf, other]

Title: Know the Star, Know the Planet. V. Characterization of the Stellar Companion to the Exoplanet Host HD 177830

Lewis C. Roberts Jr., Rebecca Oppenheimer, Justin R. Crepp, Christoph Baranec, Charles Beichman, Douglas Brenner, Rick Burruss, Eric Cady, Statia Luszcz-Cook, Richard Dekany, Lynne Hillenbrand, Sasha Hinkley, David King, Thomas G. Lockhart, Ricky Nilsson, Ian R. Parry, Laurent Pueyo, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Remi Soummer, Emily L. Rice, Aaron Veicht, Gautam Vasisht, Chengxing Zhai, Neil T. Zimmerman

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

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

[946] arXiv:1507.07917 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of Cosmic-Ray Modulation during the Recent Unusual Minimum and Mini Maximum of Solar Cycle 24

O.P.M. Aslam, Badruddin

Comments: 23 pages include 13 figures and 6 tables. Accepted to Solar Physics (2015)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[947] arXiv:1507.07919 [pdf, other]

Title: Dissecting the complex environment of a distant quasar with MUSE

K. Husband, M. N. Bremer, E. R. Stanway, M. D. Lehnert

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS, 2015, 452 (3): 2388-2395

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

[948] arXiv:1507.07924 [pdf, other]

Title: A Chandra search for the pulsar wind nebula around PSR B1055-52

B. Posselt, G. Spence, G.G. Pavlov

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[949] arXiv:1507.07925 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effects of Self-Shadowing by a Puffed up Inner Rim in Scattered Light Images of Protoplanetary Disks

Ruobing Dong (Berkeley)

Comments: 22 pages (single column), 1 table, 6 figures, ApJ in press

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

[950] arXiv:1507.07930 [pdf, other]

Title: Beyond S\'ersic + exponential disc morphologies in the Coma Cluster

Jacob T.C.G. Head (Durham), John R. Lucey (Durham), Michael J. Hudson (Waterloo)

Comments: 26 pages, 24 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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