Astrophysics

Authors and titles for August 2015

[301] arXiv:1508.02750 [pdf, other]

Title: Monte-Carlo modelling of multi-conjugate adaptive optics performance on the European Extremely Large Telescope

Alastair Basden

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[302] arXiv:1508.02754 [pdf, other]

Title: Gas-phase oxygen abundances and radial metallicity gradients in the two nearby spiral galaxies NGC7793 and NGC4945

Letizia Stanghellini, Laura Magrini, Viviana Casasola

Comments: ApJ, in press

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

[303] arXiv:1508.02761 [pdf, other]

Title: On the geometric nature of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations in neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries

Jeroen Homan, Joel K. Fridriksson, Ronald A. Remillard

Comments: Updated to published version (ApJ, 812, 80)

Journal-ref: ApJ, 812, 80 (2015)

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

[304] arXiv:1508.02763 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbital decay of hot Jupiters due to nonlinear tidal dissipation within solar-type hosts

Reed Essick, Nevin N. Weinberg

Comments: 23 pages, 13 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: ApJ 816 18 (2016)

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

[305] arXiv:1508.02764 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravity and Zonal Flows of Giant Planets: From the Euler Equation to the Thermal Wind Equation

Hao Cao, David J. Stevenson

Comments: 28 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, accepted at JGR-Planets

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

[306] arXiv:1508.02778 [pdf, other]

Title: The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT: Polarization Measurements of the Galactic Plane at 43 and 95 GHz

QUIET Collaboration: T. M. Ruud, U. Fuskeland, I. K. Wehus, M. Vidal, D. Araujo, C. Bischoff, I. Buder, Y. Chinone, K. Cleary, R. N. Dumoulin, A. Kusaka, R. Monsalve, S. K. Naess, L. B. Newburgh, R. A. Reeves, J. T. L. Zwart, L. Bronfman, R. D. Davies, R. Davis, C. Dickinson, H. K. Eriksen, T. Gaier, J. O. Gundersen, M. Hasegawa, M. Hazumi, K. M. Huffenberger, M. E. Jones, C. R. Lawrence, E. M. Leitch, M. Limon, A. D. Miller, T. J. Pearson, L. Piccirillo, S. J. E. Radford, A. C. S. Readhead, D. Samtleben, M. Seiffert, M. C. Shepherd, S. T. Staggs, O. Tajima, K. L. Thompson

Comments: 22 pages, 18 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ; data are available on Lambda (this http URL)

Journal-ref: ApJ 811, 89 (2015)

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

[307] arXiv:1508.02784 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Cosmic String Velocities and the Origin of Globular Clusters

Ling Lin, Shoma Yamanouchi, Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

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

[308] arXiv:1508.02791 [pdf, other]

Title: Inside-Out Planet Formation. III. Planet-disk interaction at the dead zone inner boundary

Xiao Hu (1), Zhaohuan Zhu (2), Jonathan C. Tan (1 and 3), Sourav Chatterjee (1 and 4) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Florida, (2) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, (3) Department of Physics, University of Florida, (4) Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University)

Comments: Accepted by ApJ, comments welcome. 13 pages, 10 figures

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

[309] arXiv:1508.02806 [pdf, other]

Title: Derivation of a large isotropic diffuse sky emission component at 1.25 and 2.2um from the COBE/DIRBE data

K. Sano, K. Kawara, S. Matsuura, H. Kataza, T. Arai, Y. Matsuoka

Comments: ApJ accepted

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

[310] arXiv:1508.02815 [pdf, other]

Title: Local associations and the barium puzzle

Arumalla B. S. Reddy (1), David L. Lambert (1) ((1) W.J. McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin)

Comments: (18 pages, 8 figures, 11 tables. This paper has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal.)

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

[311] arXiv:1508.02816 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic infrared extinction mapping as a probe of grain growth in IRDCs

Wanggi Lim, Sean J. Carey, Jonathan C. Tan

Comments: 12 pages, 12 Figures, 1 Table, Accepted to be published to ApJ

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

[312] arXiv:1508.02818 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncertainty for calculating transport on Titan: a probabilistic description of bimolecular diffusion parameters

Sylvain Plessis, Damon McDougall, Kathy Mandt, Thomas Greathouse, Adrienn Luspay-Kuti

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

[313] arXiv:1508.02825 [pdf, other]

Title: HI 21cm emission from the sub-damped Lyman-alpha absorber at z=0.0063 towards PG1216+069

Jayaram N. Chengalur, T. Ghosh, C. J. Salter, N. Kanekar, E. Momjian, B. A. Keeney, J. T. Stocke

Comments: accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[314] arXiv:1508.02838 [pdf, other]

Title: Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei with Tidal Disruption of Stars: Paper II - Axisymmetric Nuclei

Shiyan Zhong, Peter Berczik, Rainer Spurzem

Comments: 14 pages, 16 figures, accepted by ApJ

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

[315] arXiv:1508.02839 [pdf, other]

Title: RAVE stars tidally stripped/ejected from $\omega$ Centauri globular cluster

J. G. Fernández-Trincado, A. C. Robin, K. Vieira, E. Moreno, O. Bienaymé, C. Reylé, O. Valenzuela, B. Pichardo, F. Robles-Valdez, A. M. M. Martins

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astron. and Astrophys

Journal-ref: A&A 583, A76 (2015)

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

[316] arXiv:1508.02861 [pdf, other]

Title: The ALHAMBRA survey : Estimation of the clustering signal encoded in the cosmic variance

C. López-Sanjuan, A. J. Cenarro, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, P. Arnalte-Mur, J. Varela, K. Viironen, A. Fernández-Soto, V. J. Martínez, E. Alfaro, B. Ascaso, A. del Olmo, L. A. Díaz-García, Ll. Hurtado-Gil, M. Moles, A. Molino, J. Perea, M. Pović, J. A. L. Aguerri, T. Aparicio-Villegas, N. Benítez, T. Broadhurst, J. Cabrera-Caño, F. J. Castander, J. Cepa, M. Cerviño, D. Cristóbal-Hornillos, R. M. González Delgado, C. Husillos, L. Infante, I. Márquez, J. Masegosa, F. Prada, J. M. Quintana

Comments: Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press. 9 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables

Journal-ref: A&A 582, A16 (2015)

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

[317] arXiv:1508.02863 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of tau neutrinos by Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes

Dariusz Gora, Elisa Bernardini

Comments: Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July- 6 August, 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands

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

[318] arXiv:1508.02866 [pdf, other]

Title: High energy cosmic ray self-confinement close to extragalactic sources

P. Blasi (INAF-Arcetri/GSSI), E. Amato (INAF-Arcetri), M. D'Angelo (GSSI)

Comments: To Appear in Physical Review Letters

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

[319] arXiv:1508.02879 [pdf, other]

Title: Planetesimal formation in self-gravitating discs -- dust trapping by vortices

P.G. Gibbons, G.R. Mamatsashvili, W.K.M. Rice

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1404.6953

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

[320] arXiv:1508.02881 [pdf, other]

Title: High Energy Positrons and Gamma Radiation from Decaying Constituents of a two-component Dark Atom Model

K. Belotsky, M. Khlopov, C. Kouvaris, M. Laletin

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, invited contribution to the special issue "Composite dark matter" of International Journal of Modern Physics D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1411.3657

Journal-ref: International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 24, No. 11 (2015) 1545004 (11 pages)

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

[321] arXiv:1508.02901 [pdf, other]

Title: A powerful double radio relic system discovered in PSZ1 G108.18-11.53: evidence for a shock with non-uniform Mach number?

F. de Gasperin, H. T. Intema, R. J. van Weeren, W. A. Dawson, N. Golovich, D. Wittman, A. Bonafede, M. Bruggen

Comments: 16 pages, 17 images, accepted MNRAS

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

[322] arXiv:1508.02911 [pdf, other]

Title: Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy using KMOS

Hannu Parviainen, Suzanne Aigrain, Niranjan Thatte, Joanna K. Barstow, Thomas M. Evans, Neale Gibson

Comments: 11 pages, accepted to MNRAS

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

[323] arXiv:1508.02931 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on the distribution of supernova remnants with Galactocentric radius

D. A. Green

Comments: 8 pages, MNRAS accepted

Journal-ref: 2015, MNRAS,Volume 454, Issue 2, p.1517-1524

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

[324] arXiv:1508.02948 [pdf, other]

Title: A LOFAR census of millisecond pulsars

V. I. Kondratiev, J. P. W. Verbiest, J. W. T. Hessels, A. V. Bilous, B. W. Stappers, M. Kramer, E. F. Keane, A. Noutsos, S. Osłowski, R. P. Breton, T. E. Hassall, A. Alexov, S. Cooper, H. Falcke, J.-M. Grießmeier, A. Karastergiou, M. Kuniyoshi, M. Pilia, C. Sobey, S. ter Veen, J. van Leeuwen, P. Weltevrede, M. E. Bell, J. W. Broderick, S. Corbel, J. Eislöffel, S. Markoff, A. Rowlinson, J. D. Swinbank, R. A. M. J. Wijers, R. Wijnands, P. Zarka

Comments: 27 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables, accepted to A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 585, A128 (2016)

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

[325] arXiv:1508.02950 [pdf, other]

Title: XMM-Newton Large Program on SN1006 - I: Methods and Initial Results of Spatially-Resolved Spectroscopy

Jiang-Tao Li (CEA, Saclay, University of Michigan), Anne Decourchelle (CEA, Saclay), Marco Miceli (Universita di Palermo, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo), Jacco Vink (University of Amsterdam), Fabrizio Bocchino (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo)

Comments: 25 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables, MNRAS, in press

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

[326] arXiv:1508.02955 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of scattering on the transonic solution topology and intrinsic variability of line-driven stellar winds

Jon O. Sundqvist, Stanley P. Owocki

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures (incl. 1 Appendix), accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[327] arXiv:1508.02956 [pdf, other]

Title: Design of a low noise, wide band, active dipole antenna for a cosmic ray radiodetection experiment

Didier Charrier

Comments: Accepted for publication in Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2007 IEEE, 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, pp. 4485 - 4488, 9-15 June 2007

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[328] arXiv:1508.02957 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical framework for estimating GNSS bias

Juha Vierinen, Anthea J. Coster, William C. Rideout, Philip J. Erickson, Johannes Norberg

Comments: 18 pages, 5 figures, submitted to AMT

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

[329] arXiv:1508.02997 [pdf, other]

Title: Astrometry of the main satellites of Uranus: 18 years of observations

J.I.B. Camargo, F.P. Magalhães, R. Vieira-Martins, M. Assafin, F. Braga-Ribas, A. Dias-Oliveira, G. Benedetti-Rossi, A.R. Gomes-Júnior, A.H. Andrei, D.N. da Silva Neto

Comments: 13 pages, 21 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 582, A8 (2015)

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

[330] arXiv:1508.03004 [pdf, other]

Title: GHASP: an H$\alpha$ kinematic survey of spiral galaxies - X. Surface photometry, decompositions and the Tully-Fisher relation in the Rc-band

C. E. Barbosa, C. Mendes de Oliveira, P. Amram, F. Ferrari, D. Russeil, B. Epinat, V. Perret, C. Adami, M. Marcelin

Comments: 17 pages, 11 figures

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

[331] arXiv:1508.03006 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring 0.1-10$\,$eV axions with a new helioscope concept

J. Galán, T. Dafni, E. Ferrer-Ribas, I. Giomataris, F.J. Iguaz, I.G. Irastorza, J.A. García, J. Gracia, G. Luzón, T. Papaevangelou, J. Redondo, A. Tomás

Comments: prepared for submission to JCAP

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[332] arXiv:1508.03009 [pdf, other]

Title: Could a multi-PeV neutrino event have as origin the internal shocks inside the GRB progenitor star?

Nissim Fraija

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures. JHEAp, accepted. References were added, typos were corrected and the subsection "particle acceleration process" was included

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

[333] arXiv:1508.03012 [pdf, other]

Title: Local and global aspects of the linear MRI in accretion disks

Henrik N. Latter, Sebastien Fromang, Julien Faure

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, MNRAS accepted

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

[334] arXiv:1508.03021 [pdf, other]

Title: Broad Balmer Wings in BA Hyper/Supergiants Distorted by Diffuse Interstellar Bands: Five Examples in the 30 Doradus Region from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Nolan R. Walborn, Hugues Sana (Space Telescope Science Institute), Christopher J. Evans, William D. Taylor (UK Astronomy Technology Centre), Elena Sabbi (Space Telescope Science Institute), Rodolfo H. Barbá (Universidad de La Serena), Nidia I. Morrell (Las Campanas Observatory), Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA), Alfredo Sota (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC), Philip L. Dufton, Catherine M. McEvoy (Queen's University Belfast), J. Simon Clark (The Open University), Nevena Markova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Krzysztof Ulaczyk (Warsaw University Observatory)

Comments: 20 pages, 6 figures; to be published in ApJ (main journal)

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

[335] arXiv:1508.03022 [pdf, other]

Title: The Sun's Photospheric Convection Spectrum

David H. Hathaway, Thibaud Teil, Aimee A. Norton, Irina Kitiashvili

Comments: 13 pages, 13 figures, in press in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 811, 105 (2015)

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

[336] arXiv:1508.03024 [pdf, other]

Title: The NANOGrav Nine-year Data Set: Limits on the Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

Zaven Arzoumanian, Adam Brazier, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Sydney Chamberlin, Shami Chatterjee, Brian Christy, Jim Cordes, Neil Cornish, Paul Demorest, Xihao Deng, Tim Dolch, Justin Ellis, Rob Ferdman, Emmanuel Fonseca, Nate Garver-Daniels, Fredrick Jenet, Glenn Jones, Vicky Kaspi, Michael Koop, Michael Lam, Joseph Lazio, Lina Levin, Andrea Lommen, Duncan Lorimer, Jin Luo, Ryan Lynch, Dustin Madison, Maura McLaughlin, Sean McWilliams, Chiara Mingarelli, David Nice, Nipuni Palliyaguru, Tim Pennucci, Scott Ransom, Laura Sampson, Sotiris Sanidas, Alberto Sesana, Xavier Siemens, Joseph Simon, Ingrid Stairs, Dan Stinebring, Kevin Stovall, Joseph Swiggum, Stephen Taylor, Michele Vallisneri, Rutger van Haasteren, Yan Wang, Weiwei Zhu

Comments: 21 pages, 12 figures. Please send any comments/questions to [email protected]

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

[337] arXiv:1508.03042 [pdf, other]

Title: Reactivity and Survivability of Glycolaldehyde in Simulated Meteorite Impact Experiments

V.P. McCaffrey, N.E.B. Zellner, C.M. Waun, E.R. Bennett, E.K. Earl

Comments: Please contact the authors for supplemental data and text

Journal-ref: Orig Life Evol Biosph (2014) 44:29-42

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

[338] arXiv:1508.03043 [pdf, other]

Title: SETI via Leakage from Light Sails in Exoplanetary Systems

James Guillochon (1), Abraham Loeb (1) ((1) Harvard ITC)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to ApJL. Revisions correct minor algebra errors and make bandwidth assumptions explicit

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[339] arXiv:1508.03046 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the 2MASS Extended and Point Source Catalogs with Clustering Redshifts

Mubdi Rahman, Brice Ménard, Ryan Scranton

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, supplementary data available online. Accepted to MNRAS

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

[340] arXiv:1508.03057 [pdf, other]

Title: ZFIRE: Galaxy Cluster Kinematics, H$\alpha$ Star Formation Rates, and Gas-Phase Metallicities of XMM-LSS J02182-05102 at z=1.6233

Kim-Vy H. Tran, Themiya Nanayakkara, Tiantian Yuan, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Karl Glazebrook, Lisa J. Kewley, Ivelina Momcheva, Casey J. Papovich, Ryan Quadri, Greg Rudnick, Amélie Saintonge, Lee R. Spitler, Caroline Straatman, Adam Tomczak

Comments: Accepted for publication by ApJ. Survey website is this http URL

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

[341] arXiv:1508.03067 [pdf, other]

Title: Eclipse Mapping: Astrotomography of Accretion Discs

Raymundo Baptista

Comments: To appear in "Astronomy at High Angular Resolution - A compendium of techniques in the visible and near-infrared", Springer ASSL series, eds. H.M.J. Boffin, L. Schmidtobreick, G. Hussain and J.P. Berger., 22 pages, 9 postscript figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/0009472

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[342] arXiv:1508.03070 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, VI: The Medium Resolution Spectrometer

Martyn Wells, J.-W. Pel, Alistair Glasse, G. S. Wright, Gabby Aitink-Kroes, Ruyman Azzollini, Steven Beard, B. R. Brandl, Angus Gallie, V. C. Geers, A. M. Glauser, Peter Hastings, Th. Henning, Rieks Jager, K. Justtanont, Bob Kruizinga, Fred Lahuis, David Lee, I. Martinez-Delgado, J. R. Martinez-Galarza, M. Meijers, Jane E. Morrison, Friedrich Mueller, Thodori Nakos, Brian O'Sullivan, Ad Oudenhuysen, P. Parr-Burman, Evert Pauwels, R.-R. Rohloff, Eva Schmalzl, Jon Sykes, M. P. Thelen, E. F. van Dishoeck, Bart Vandenbussche, Lars B. Venema, Huib Visser, L. B. F. M. Waters, David Wright

Journal-ref: PASP, 2015, 127, 646

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

[343] arXiv:1508.03084 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery and spectroscopy of the young Jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager

B. Macintosh, J. R. Graham, T. Barman, R. J. De Rosa, Q. Konopacky, M. S. Marley, C. Marois, E. L. Nielsen, L. Pueyo, A. Rajan, J. Rameau, D. Saumon, J. J. Wang, J. Patience, M. Ammons, P. Arriaga, E. Artigau, S. Beckwith, J. Brewster, S. Bruzzone, J. Bulger, B. Burningham, A. S. Burrows, C. Chen, E. Chiang, J. K. Chilcote, R. I. Dawson, R. Dong, R. Doyon, Z. H. Draper, G. Duchêne, T. M. Esposito, D. Fabrycky, M. P. Fitzgerald, K. B. Follette, J. J. Fortney, B. Gerard, S. Goodsell, A. Z. Greenbaum, P. Hibon, S. Hinkley, T. H. Cotten, L.-W. Hung, P. Ingraham, M. Johnson-Groh, P. Kalas, D. Lafreniere, J. E. Larkin, J. Lee, M. Line, D. Long, J. Maire, F. Marchis, B. C. Matthews, C. E. Max, S. Metchev, M. A. Millar-Blanchaer, T. Mittal, C. V. Morley, K. M. Morzinski, R. Murray-Clay, R. Oppenheimer, D. W. Palmer, R. Patel, M. D. Perrin, L. A. Poyneer, R. R. Rafikov, F. T. Rantakyrö, E. L. Rice, P. Rojo, A. R. Rudy, J.-B. Ruffio, M. T. Ruiz, N. Sadakuni, L. Saddlemyer, M. Salama, D. Savransky, A. C. Schneider, A. Sivaramakrishnan, I. Song, R. Soummer, S. Thomas, G. Vasisht, J. K. Wallace, K. Ward-Duong, S. J. Wiktorowicz, S. G. Wolff, B. Zuckerman

Comments: 29 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, and Supplementary Materials. published in Science Express on Aug 13 2015. List of authors and the magnitudes of the star were correted

Journal-ref: Macintosh et al., Science 350 (6256): 64-67, 2015

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

[344] arXiv:1508.03094 [pdf, other]

Title: Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs: HI observations of gamma-ray burst host galaxies

Michał J. Michałowski (IfA, Edinburgh), G. Gentile, J. Hjorth, M. R. Krumholz, N. R. Tanvir, P. Kamphuis, D. Burlon, M. Baes, S. Basa, S. Berta, J. M. Castro Ceron, D. Crosby, V. D'Elia, J. Elliott, J. Greiner, L. K. Hunt, S. Klose, M. P. Koprowski, E. Le Floc'h, D. Malesani, T. Murphy, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, E. Palazzi, J. Rasmussen, A. Rossi, S. Savaglio, P. Schady, J. Sollerman, A. de Ugarte Postigo, D. Watson, P. van der Werf, S. D. Vergani, D. Xu

Comments: Accepted to A&A. 16 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables

Journal-ref: A&A 582, A78 (2015)

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

[345] arXiv:1508.03095 [pdf, other]

Title: High-altitude gravity waves in the Martian thermosphere observed by MAVEN/NGIMS and modeled by a gravity wave scheme

Erdal Yiğit, Scott L. England, Guiping Liu, Alexander S. Medvedev, Paul R. Mahaffy, Takeshi Kuroda, Bruce M. Jakosky

Comments: Accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). Special section: First Results from the MAVEN Mission to Mars

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[346] arXiv:1508.03100 [pdf, other]

Title: Two Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift ~2 : Improved Classification and Redshift Determination with Medium-band Infrared Imaging

Steven A. Rodney, Adam G. Riess, Daniel M. Scolnic, David O. Jones, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Alberto Molino, Curtis McCully, Bahram Mobasher, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Or Graur, Brian Hayden, Stefano Casertano

Comments: This version corrects errors in values reported in the text for x1, c, and mB for both Type Ia SNe (erratum accepted to AJ). This error was only in the text, and did not affect any figures or conclusions

Journal-ref: 2015, AJ, 150, 156

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

[347] arXiv:1508.03108 [pdf, other]

Title: Predicting Gaia's Parallax Distance to the Cygnus OB2 Association with Eclipsing Binaries

Daniel C. Kiminki, Henry A. Kobulnicky, Carlos A. Vargas Álvarez, Michael J. Alexander, Michael J. Lundquist

Comments: 20 pages, 13 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[348] arXiv:1508.03115 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraluminous X-ray pulsar: accreting magnetar?

H. Tong

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure. submitted to the proceeding of SMFNS2015

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

[349] arXiv:1508.03126 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing the propagation of gravity waves in 3D nonlinear simulations of solar-like stars

L. Alvan (1), A. Strugarek (2,1), A.S. Brun (1), S. Mathis (1), R.A. Garcia (1)

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figues, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[350] arXiv:1508.03133 [pdf, other]

Title: r-Process Lanthanide Production and Heating Rates in Kilonovae

Jonas Lippuner, Luke F. Roberts

Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 815, Issue 2, article id. 82, 18 pp. (2015)

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