Astrophysics

Authors and titles for August 2015

[201] arXiv:1508.01853 [pdf, other]

Title: A Causal, Data-Driven Approach to Modeling the Kepler Data

Dun Wang, David W. Hogg, Dan Foreman-Mackey, Bernhard Schölkopf

Comments: Accepted for publication in the PASP

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

[202] arXiv:1508.01854 [pdf, other]

Title: A Comparative study of hyperon equations of state in supernova simulations

Prasanta Char, Sarmistha Banik, Debades Bandyopadhyay

Comments: LaTeX; 25 pages including two tables and 10 figures; to be published in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[203] arXiv:1508.01874 [pdf, other]

Title: The distribution of galaxies gravitational field stemming from their tidal interaction

Vladimir Stephanovich, Wlodzimierz Godlowski

Comments: APJ accepted, 48 pages, 4figures

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

[204] arXiv:1508.01905 [pdf, other]

Title: Star formation properties of sub-mJy radio sources

M. Bonzini, V. Mainieri, P. Padovani, P. Andreani, S. Berta, M. Bethermin, D. Lutz, G. Rodighiero, D. Rosario, P. Tozzi, S. Vattakunnel

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures, 1 table (available in its entirety as ancillary data)

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

[205] arXiv:1508.01909 [pdf, other]

Title: Interferometry of $\epsilon$ Aurigae: Characterization of the asymmetric eclipsing disk

Brian Kloppenborg, Robert Stencel, John D. Monnier, Gail Schaefer, Fabien Baron, Chris Tycner, Robert T. Zavala, Donald Hutter, Ming Zhao, Xiao Che, Theo ten Brummelaar, Chris Farrington, Robert Parks, Hal McAlister, Judit Sturmann, Laszlo Sturmann, P.J. Sallave-Goldfinger, Nils Turner, Ettoree Pedretti, Nathalie Thureau

Comments: 105 pages, 57 figures. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it

Journal-ref: 2015 ApJS, 220, 14

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

[206] arXiv:1508.01919 [pdf, other]

Title: The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection

Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Kumiko Kotera, Didier Charrier, Sijbrand De Jong, Krijn D. de Vries, Ke Fang, Zhaoyang Feng, Chad Finley, Quanbu Gou, Junhua Gu, Hongbo Hu, Kohta Murase, Valentin Niess, Foteini Oikonomou, Nicolas Renault-Tinacci, Julia Schmid, Charles Timmermans, Zhen Wang, Xiangping Wu, Jianli Zhang, Yi Zhang

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, 34th ICRC conference

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

[207] arXiv:1508.01921 [pdf, other]

Title: Final Evolution and Delayed Explosions of Spinning White Dwarfs in Single Degenerate Models for Type Ia Supernovae

Omar G. Benvenuto (1), Jorge A. Panei (1), Ken'ichi Nomoto (2), Hikaru Kitamura (3), Izumi Hachisu (4) ((1) Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata, CCT-CONICET-UNLP, La Plata, Argentina, (2) Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo, Japan, (3) Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan, (4) Department of Earth Science and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 809, L6 (2015), added some corrections for errata

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal Letters, 809, L6 (2015)

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

[208] arXiv:1508.01932 [pdf, other]

Title: The extended Main Sequence Turn Off cluster NGC1856: rotational evolution in a coeval stellar ensemble

F. D'Antona, M. Di Criscienzo, T. Decressin, A. P. Milone, E. Vesperini, P. Ventura

Comments: 8 pages 4 figures, accepted for publication on Monthly Notices of the R.A.S

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

[209] arXiv:1508.01949 [pdf, other]

Title: The physics and kinematics of the evolved, interacting planetary nebula PN G342.0-01.7

Alaa Ali, Morsi A. Amer, M.A. Dopita, F.P.A. Vogt, H. M. Basurah

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, A&A accepted 2015

Journal-ref: A&A 583, A83 (2015)

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

[210] arXiv:1508.01952 [pdf, other]

Title: Destabilization of a Solar Prominence/Filament Field System by a Series of Eight Homologous Eruptive Flares

Navdeep K. Panesar, Alphonse C. Sterling, Davina E. Innes, Ronald L. Moore

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[211] arXiv:1508.01956 [pdf, other]

Title: Oxygen abundance distributions in six late-type galaxies based on SALT spectra of HII regions

I. A. Zinchenko, A. Y. Kniazev, E. K. Grebel, L. S. Pilyugin

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures; Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[212] arXiv:1508.01965 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the nature of the pre-merging system Hickson Compact Group 31 through IFU data

M. Alfaro-Cuello, S. Torres-Flores, E. R. Carrasco, C. Mendes de Oliveira, D.F. de Mello, P. Amram

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 18 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables

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

[213] arXiv:1508.02042 [pdf, other]

Title: The Silicon and Calcium High-Velocity Features in Type Ia Supernovae from Early to Maximum Phases

Xulin Zhao (1,2), Xiaofeng Wang (1), Keiichi Maeda (2,3), Hanna Sai (1), Tianmeng Zhang (4), Jujia Zhang (5,6), Fang Huang (1,7), Liming Rui (1), Qi Zhou (1), Jun Mo (1) ((1) Tsinghua University (2) Kyoto University (3) University of Tokyo (4) National Astronomical Observatories of China (5) Yunnan Astronomical Observatories (6) Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, CAS (7) Beijing Normal University)

Comments: 61 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement

Journal-ref: 2015, ApJS, 220, 20

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

[214] arXiv:1508.02049 [pdf, other]

Title: The radio/X-ray correlation in Cyg X-3 and the nature of its hard spectral state

Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Alberto Segreto, Guy G. Pooley

Comments: An error in the BAT light curve shown in Fig. A2 corrected. Published in MNRAS + erratum

Journal-ref: MNRAS, 456, 775 (2016)

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

[215] arXiv:1508.02064 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensitivity study using machine learning algorithms on simulated r-mode gravitational wave signals from newborn neutron stars

Antonis Mytidis, Athanasios Aris Panagopoulos, Orestis P. Panagopoulos, Andrew Miller, Bernard Whiting

Comments: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 99, 024024 (2019)

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[216] arXiv:1508.02076 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Panchromatic Data Release (far-UV --- far-IR) and the low-z energy budget

Simon P. Driver, Angus H. Wright, Stephen K. Andrews, Luke J. Davies, Prajwal R. Kafle, Rebecca Lange, Amanda J. Moffett, Elizabeth Mannering, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Kevin Vinsen, Mehmet Alpaslan, Ellen Andrae, Ivan K. Baldry, Amanda E. Bauer, Steven P. Bamford, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Nathan Bourne, Sarah Brough, Michael J. I. Brown, Michelle E. Cluver, Scott Croom, Matthew Colless, Christopher J. Conselice, Elisabete da Cunha, Roberto De Propris, Michael Drinkwater, Loretta Dunne, Steve Eales, Alastair Edge, Carlos Frenk, Alister W. Graham, Meiert Grootes, Benne W. Holwerda, Andrew M. Hopkins, Edo Ibar, Eelco van Kampen, Lee S. Kelvin, Tom Jarrett, D. Heath Jones, Maritza A. Lara-Lopez, Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, Jochen Liske, Jon Loveday, Steve J. Maddox, Barry Madore, Martin Meyer, Peder Norberg, Samantha J. Penny, Stephen Phillipps, Cristina Popescu, Richard J. Tuffs, John A. Peacock, Kevin A.Pimbblet, Kate Rowlands, Anne E. Sansom, Mark Seibert, Matthew W.L. Smith, Will J. Sutherland, Edward N. Taylor, Elisabetta Valiante, Lingyu Wang, Stephen M. Wilkins, Richard Williams

Comments: 31 pages and 30 figures. Accepted in MNRAS. High-resolution copy available from our release site: this http URL or directly via this http URL

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

[217] arXiv:1508.02104 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing cosmology with weak lensing selected clusters II: Dark energy and f(R) gravity models

Masato Shirasaki, Takashi Hamana, Naoki Yoshida

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, accepted for Publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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

[218] arXiv:1508.02119 [pdf, other]

Title: Plasma-wave generation in a dynamic spacetime

Huan Yang, Fan Zhang

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure, published version

Journal-ref: ApJ, 817, 183, 2016

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[219] arXiv:1508.02120 [pdf, other]

Title: A family of lowered isothermal models

Mark Gieles, Alice Zocchi (University of Surrey)

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures, 4 appendices, MNRAS, updated to match final journal style

Journal-ref: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 454, 576-592 (2015)

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

[220] arXiv:1508.02130 [pdf, other]

Title: The early afterglow and magnetized ejecta present in GRB 110731A

Nissim Fraija, William H. Lee

Comments: 7 pages. In proceedings of "Swift: 10 Years of Discovery" congress (Rome, 2-4 December 2014), PoS(SWIFT 10)092

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

[221] arXiv:1508.02145 [pdf, other]

Title: Hyper-Fit: Fitting Linear Models to Multidimensional Data with Multivariate Gaussian Uncertainties

A.S.G. Robotham, D. Obreschkow

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

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

[222] arXiv:1508.02147 [pdf, other]

Title: Cold or Warm? Constraining Dark Matter with Primeval Galaxies and Cosmic Reionization after Planck

A. Lapi (1,2,3,4), L. Danese (1,3,4) (1-SISSA, Trieste, Italy, 2-Univ. Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy, 3-INAF/OATS, Trieste, Italy, 4-INFN/TS, Trieste, Italy)

Comments: 19 pages, 7 figures, uses this http URL. Accepted by JCAP

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

[223] arXiv:1508.02164 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining differential rotation of Sun-like stars from asteroseismic and starspot rotation periods

M. B. Nielsen, H. Schunker, L. Gizon, W. H. Ball

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A. 5 pages, 4 figures

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

[224] arXiv:1508.02184 [pdf, other]

Title: Gaia: The Astrometry Revolution

A. Sozzetti, M. Bonavita, S. Desidera, R. Gratton, M.G. Lattanzi

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 314 'Young Stars & Planets Near the Sun', held on May 11-15 2015 in Atlanta (GA), USA (J. H. Kastner, B. Stelzer, & S. A. Metchev, eds.)

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

[225] arXiv:1508.02193 [pdf, other]

Title: Survival analysis of the optical brightness of GRB host galaxies

I. I. Racz, L. G. Balazs, Z. Bagoly, L. V.Toth

Comments: Swift: 10 Years of Discovery. Conference paper. 2-5 December 2014. La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

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

[226] arXiv:1508.02195 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-universality of dark-matter halos: cusps, cores, and the central potential

Jens Hjorth, Liliya L. R. Williams, Radosław Wojtak, Michael McLaughlin

Comments: ApJ, in press, 10 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: ApJ 811, 2 (2015)

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

[227] arXiv:1508.02224 [pdf, other]

Title: A comparison of black hole growth in galaxy mergers with Gasoline and Ramses

J. M. Gabor, Pedro R. Capelo, Marta Volonteri, Frédéric Bournaud, Jillian Bellovary, Fabio Governato, Thomas Quinn

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to A&A. Comments welcome

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

[228] arXiv:1508.02231 [pdf, other]

Title: The bispectrum of cosmic string temperature fluctuations including recombination effects

Donough Regan, Mark Hindmarsh

Comments: 23 pages, 3 figures

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

[229] arXiv:1508.02237 [pdf, other]

Title: A nonextensive view of the stellar braking indices

D. B. de Freitas, F. J. Cavalcante, B. B. Soares, J. R. P. Silva

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1304.7644

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

[230] arXiv:1508.02241 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of Thermal Conditions of the 6-m BTA Telescope Elements and the Telescope Dome Space

E.V. Emelianov

Journal-ref: ISSN 1990-3413, Astrophysical Bulletin, 2015, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 362-370

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

[231] arXiv:1508.02275 [pdf, other]

Title: Supernova 1987A: a Template to Link Supernovae to their Remnants

S. Orlando, M. Miceli, M.L. Pumo, F. Bocchino

Comments: 16 pages, 11 Figures; accepted for publication on ApJ

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

[232] arXiv:1508.02294 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope I: Introduction

G. H. Rieke, G. S. Wright, T. Boeker, J. Bouwman, L. Colina, Alistair Glasse, K. D. Gordon, T. P. Greene, Manual Guedel, Th. Henning, K. Justtanont, P.-O. Lagage, M. E. Meixner, H.-U. Norgaard-Nielsen, T. P. Ray, M. E. Ressler, E. G. van Dishoeck, C. Waelkens

Journal-ref: PASP, 127, 584, 2015

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

[233] arXiv:1508.02302 [pdf, other]

Title: The central parsecs of M87: jet emission and an elusive accretion disc

M. A. Prieto, J.A. Fernández-Ontiveros, S. Markoff, D. Espada, O. González-Martín

Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[234] arXiv:1508.02305 [pdf, other]

Title: Self Organized Criticality in a two dimensional Cellular Automaton model of a magnetic flux tube with background flow

Bogdan Danila, Tiberiu Harko, Gabriela Mocanu

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS 453, 2982:2991 (2015)

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

[235] arXiv:1508.02310 [pdf, other]

Title: Missing baryons traced by the galaxy luminosity density in the large-scale WHIM filaments

J. Nevalainen, E. Tempel, L.J. Liivamägi, E. Branchini, M. Roncarelli, C. Giocoli, P. Heinämäki, E. Saar, A. Tamm, A. Finoguenov, P. Nurmi, M. Bonamente

Comments: Accepted for Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 583, A142 (2015)

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

[236] arXiv:1508.02312 [pdf, other]

Title: The three-body problem

Z. E. Musielak, B. Quarles

Comments: 49 pages, 10 figures, Published in Reports on Progress in Physics

Journal-ref: Reports on Progress in Physics, Volume 77, Issue 6, article id. 065901 (2014)

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[237] arXiv:1508.02316 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma rays from a supernova of type Ia: SN2014J

Roland Diehl

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures; highlight talk at AG conference Bamberg, Germany, Sep 2014

Journal-ref: Astron. Nachrichten 336, 5, 464 (2015)

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

[238] arXiv:1508.02317 [pdf, other]

Title: Disruption of Cosmic String Wakes by Gaussian Fluctuations

Robert H. Brandenberger, Oscar F. Hernández, Disrael C. N. da Cunha

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. We have added a paragraph to the conclusion discussing the experimental prospects from the Square Kilometre Array of observing a $Gμ= 10^{-9}$ wake. Some typos were also corrected. The text now agrees with the published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 123501 (2016)

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)

[239] arXiv:1508.02333 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mid-Infrared Instrument for JWST, II: Design and Build

G. S. Wright, David Wright, G. B. Goodson, G. H. Rieke, Gabby Aitink-Kroes, J. Amiaux, Ana Aricha-Yanguas, Ruyman Azzolini, Kimberly Banks, D. Barrado-Navascues, T. Belenguer-Davila, J. A. D. L. Bloemmart, Patrice Bouchet, B. R. Brandl, L. Colina, Ors Detre, Eva Diaz-Catala, Paul Eccleston, Scott D. Friedman, Macarena Garcia-Marin, Manuel Guedel, Alistair Glasse, Adrian M. Glauser, T. P. Greene, Uli Groezinger, Tim Grundy, Peter Hastings, Th. Henning, Ralph Hofferbert, Faye Hunter, N. C. Jessen, K. Justtanont, Avinash R. Karnik, Mori A. Khorrami, Oliver Krause, Alvaro Labiano, P.-O. Lagage, Ulrich Langer, Dietrich Lemke, Tanya Lim, Jose Lorenzo-Alvarez, Emmanuel Mazy, Norman McGowan, M. E. Meixner, Nigel Morris, Jane E. Morrison, Friedrich Mueller, H.-U. Norgaard-Nielson, Goeran Olofsson, Brian O'Sullivan, J.-W. Pel, Konstantin Penanen, M. B. Petach, J. P. Pye, T. P. Ray, Etienne Renotte, Ian Renouf, M. E. Ressler, Piyal Samara-Ratna, Silvia Scheithauer, Analyn Schneider, Bryan Shaughnessy, Tim Stevenson, Kalyani Sukhatme, Bruce Swinyard, Jon Sykes, John Thatcher, Tuomo Tikkanen, E. F. van Dishoeck, C. Waelkens, Helen Walker, Martyn Wells, Alex Zhender

Journal-ref: PASP, 127, 595, 2015

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

[240] arXiv:1508.02346 [pdf, other]

Title: Taking advantage of photometric galaxy catalogues to determine the halo occupation distribution

Facundo Rodriguez, Manuel Merchán, Mario Agustín Sgró

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 580, A86 (2015)

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

[241] arXiv:1508.02352 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, V: Predicted Performance of the MIRI Coronagraphs

A. Boccaletti, P.-O. Lagage, P. Baudoz, C. Beichman, P. Bouchet, C. Cavarroc, D. Dubreuil, Alistair Glasse, A. M. Glauser, D. C. Hines, C.-P. Lajoie, J. Lebreton, M. D. Perrin, L. Pueyo, J. M. Reess, G. H. Rieke, S. Ronayette, D. Rouan, R. Soummer, G. S. Wright

Journal-ref: PASP, 127, 633, 2015

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

[242] arXiv:1508.02358 [pdf, other]

Title: New axes for the fundamental plane

Paul L. Schechter

Comments: 4 pages. Contribution to IAU Symposium 317 "The General Assembly of Halos" edited by A. Bragaglia, M. Arnaboldi, M. Rejkuba & D. Romano. Four typos corrected

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

[243] arXiv:1508.02362 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope, VII: The MIRI Detectors

G. H. Rieke, M. E. Ressler, Jane E. Morrison, L. Bergeron, Patrice Bouchet, Macarena Garcıa-Marın, T. P. Greene, M. W. Regan, K. G. Sukhatme, Helen Walker

Journal-ref: PASP, 127, 665, 2015

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

[244] arXiv:1508.02365 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Origins of the Stellar Mass-Obliquity Correlation in Planetary Systems

Christopher Spalding, Konstantin Batygin

Comments: 6 Figures, 15 pages, Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal

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

[245] arXiv:1508.02369 [pdf, other]

Title: An ATCA Survey of Sagittarius~B2 at 7~mm: Chemical Complexity Meets Broadband Interferometry

Joanna F. Corby, Paul A. Jones, Maria R. Cunningham, Karl M. Menten, Arnaud Belloche, Frederic R. Schwab, Andrew J. Walsh, Egon Balnozan, Leonardo Bronfman, Nadia Lo, Anthony J. Remijan

Comments: 31 pages of the article, with 53 additional pages of appendices. 16 figures in the main article

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

[246] arXiv:1508.02381 [pdf, other]

Title: Digging deeper into the Southern skies: a compact Milky-Way companion discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data

E. Luque, A. Queiroz, B. Santiago, A. Pieres, E. Balbinot, K. Bechtol, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. Fausti Neto, L. N. da Costa, M. A. G. Maia, B. Yanny, T. Abbott, S. Allam, A. Benoit-Lévy, E. Bertin, D. Brooks, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, C. E. Cunha, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, J. P. Dietrich, T. F. Eifler, D. A. Finley, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, G. Gutierrez, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, T. S. Li, M. March, J. L. Marshall, P. Martini, R. Miquel, E. Neilsen, R. C. Nichol, B. Nord, R. Ogando, A. A. Plazas, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, R. C. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, G. Tarle, J. Thaler, D. Tucker, A. R. Walker, Y. Zhang

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

[247] arXiv:1508.02389 [pdf, other]

Title: Elliptical accretion and inefficient highly eccentric accretion and the low luminosity of stellar tidal disruption events

Gilad Svirski, Tsvi Piran, Julian Krolik

Comments: 8 pages, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[248] arXiv:1508.02392 [pdf, other]

Title: On the distribution of particle acceleration sites in plasmoid-dominated relativistic magnetic reconnection

Krzysztof Nalewajko, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Benoît Cerutti, Gregory R. Werner, Mitchell C. Begelman

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, accepted in ApJ

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

[249] arXiv:1508.02393 [pdf, other]

Title: New constraints on primordial gravitational waves from Planck 2015

Luca Pagano, Laura Salvati, Alessandro Melchiorri

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure, matching the version published on PLB

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett. B760 (2016) 823-825

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

[250] arXiv:1508.02394 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Black Hole Swift J1753.5-0127

Farid Rahoui, John A. Tomsick, Mickael Coriat, Stephane Corbel, Felix Fuerst, Poshak Gandhi, Emrah Kalemci, Simone Migliari, Daniel Stern, Anastasios Tzioumis

Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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