Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2015

[101] arXiv:1511.00835 [pdf, other]

Title: IAU Commission 37 "Star Clusters and Associations" Legacy report

Giovanni Carraro, Richard de Grijs, Bruce Elmegreen, Barbara Anthony-Twarog, Douglas Geisler, Simon Goodwin, Peter Stetson, Dante Minniti

Comments: 17 pages, to be published in the Transactions of the IAU, by the International Astronomical Union. Abstract reduced to fit in

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

[102] arXiv:1511.00839 [pdf, other]

Title: First-generation Science Cases for Ground-based Terahertz Telescopes

Hiroyuki Hirashita, Patrick M. Koch, Satoki Matsushita, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Masanori Nakamura, Keiichi Asada, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Yuji Urata, Ming-Jye Wang, Wei-Hao Wang, Satoko Takahashi, Ya-Wen Tang, Hsian-Hong Chang, Kuiyun Huang, Oscar Morata, Masaaki Otsuka, Kai-Yang Lin, An-Li Tsai, Yen-Ting Lin, Sundar Srinivasan, Pierre Martin-Cocher, Hung-Yi Pu, Francisca Kemper, Nimesh Patel, Paul Grimes, Yau-De Huang, Chih-Chiang Han, Yen-Ru Huang, Hiroaki Nishioka, Lupin Chun-Che Lin, Qizhou Zhang, Eric Keto, Roberto Burgos, Ming-Tang Chen, Makoto Inoue, Paul T. P. Ho

Comments: 39 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ (as a review paper)

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

[103] arXiv:1511.00843 [pdf, other]

Title: Large and small-scale structure of the Intermediate and High Velocity Clouds towards the LMC and SMC

J.V. Smoker, A.J. Fox, F.P. Keenan

Journal-ref: 2015MNRAS.451.4346S

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

[104] arXiv:1511.00845 [pdf, other]

Title: HD141569A: disk dissipation caught in action

J. Péricaud, E. Di Folco, A. Dutrey, J.-C. Augereau, V. Piétu, S. Guilloteau

Comments: To appear in "Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun", Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 314 (Cambridge University Press), J.H. Kastner, B. Stelzer, S.A. Metchev, eds

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

[105] arXiv:1511.00861 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffuse X-ray Emission within Wolf-Rayet Nebulae

J.A. Toalá, M.A. Guerrero, Y.-H. Chu, S.J. Arthur, R.A. Gruendl

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure; International Workshop on Wolf-Rayet Stars

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

[106] arXiv:1511.00883 [pdf, other]

Title: Allsky NICER and NICEST extinction maps based on the 2MASS near-infrared survey

M. Juvela, J. Montillaud

Comments: Accepted to A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 585, A38 (2016)

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

[107] arXiv:1511.00889 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-infrared extinction with discretised stellar colours

M. Juvela, J. Montillaud

Comments: Accepted to A&A

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

[108] arXiv:1511.00894 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrogen isotope exchanges between water and methanol in interstellar ices

A. Faure, M. Faure, P. Theulé, E. Quirico, B. Schmitt

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 584, A98 (2015)

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

[109] arXiv:1511.00901 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopy of $^{19}$Ne for the thermonuclear $^{15}$O($\alpha,\gamma$)$^{19}$Ne and $^{18}$F($p,\alpha$)$^{15}$O reaction rates

A. Parikh, A.M. Laird, N. de Séréville, K. Wimmer, T. Faestermann, R. Hertenberger, D. Seiler, H.-F. Wirth, P. Adsley, B.R. Fulton, F. Hammache, J. Kiener, I. Stefan

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, Phys. Rev. C (in press)

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[110] arXiv:1511.00904 [pdf, other]

Title: A low-luminosity type-1 QSO sample. V. Overluminous host spheroids and their excitation mechanisms

Gerold Busch (1), Nastaran Fazeli (1), Andreas Eckart (1 and 2), Mónica Valencia-S. (1), Semir Smajić (1 and 2), Lydia Moser (2 and 1), Julia Scharwächter (3), Jens Dierkes (4), Sebastian Fischer (5) ((1) University of Cologne, (2) MPI for Radioastronomy Bonn, (3) LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, (4) University Library Göttingen, (5) German Aerospace Center (DLR) Bonn)

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures; accepted by A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 587, A138 (2016)

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

[111] arXiv:1511.00932 [pdf, other]

Title: The X-ray dust scattered rings of the black hole low mass binary V404 Cyg

Georgios Vasilopoulos, Maria Petropoulou

Comments: 17 pages, 13 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[112] arXiv:1511.00933 [pdf, other]

Title: Chiral transport of neutrinos in supernovae: Neutrino-induced fluid helicity and helical plasma instability

Naoki Yamamoto

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures; v2: published version; v3: error in Eq. (38) corrected

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 065017 (2016)

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

[113] arXiv:1511.00934 [pdf, other]

Title: Detailed Abundances of Stars with Small Planets Discovered by Kepler I: The First Sample

Simon C. Schuler, Zachary A. Vaz, Orlando J. Katime Santrich, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith, Jeremy R. King, Johanna K. Teske, Luan Ghezzi, Steve B. Howell, Howard Isaacson

Comments: 64 single-column pages, 9 figures, 10 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[114] arXiv:1511.00937 [pdf, other]

Title: Broadband Meter-Wavelength Observations of Ionospheric Scintillation

R.A. Fallows, W.A. Coles, D. McKay, J. Vierinen, I.I. Virtanen, M. Postila, Th. Ulich, C-F. Enell, A. Kero, T. Iinatti, M. Lehtinen, M. Orispää, T. Raita, L. Roininen, E. Turunen, M. Brentjens, N. Ebbendorf, M. Gerbers, T. Grit, P. Gruppen, H. Meulman, M. Norden, J-P. de Reijer, A. Schoenmakers, K. Stuurwold

Comments: 11 pages, 17 figures

Journal-ref: Fallows, R A et al, Broadband meter-wavelength observations of ionospheric scintillation, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, 119(12), 10-544, 2014

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

[115] arXiv:1511.00943 [pdf, other]

Title: An Extension of the Athena++ Code Framework for GRMHD Based on Advanced Riemann Solvers and Staggered-Mesh Constrained Transport

Christopher J. White, James M. Stone, Charles F. Gammie

Comments: 30 pages, 17 figures, 1 table; this version accepted to ApJS; changes from previous version include additional tests and more thorough literature comparisons

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

[116] arXiv:1511.00944 [pdf, other]

Title: Secular dynamics of hierarchical multiple systems composed of nested binaries, with an arbitrary number of bodies and arbitrary hierarchical structure. First applications to multiplanet and multistar systems

Adrian S. Hamers, Simon F. Portegies Zwart

Comments: Revised to match MNRAS publication. 48 pages, 36 figures

Journal-ref: 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 459, Issue 3, p.2827-2874

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

[117] arXiv:1511.00949 [pdf, other]

Title: The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment

Bei Cai (for the DEAP Collaboration)

Comments: Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 2015

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

[118] arXiv:1511.00952 [pdf, other]

Title: The iodine-plutonium-xenon age of the Moon-Earth system revisited

Guillaume Avice, Bernard Marty

Comments: 27 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2014, vol. 372, p. 20130260

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

[119] arXiv:1511.00955 [pdf, other]

Title: New Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies Detected Around Nearby Spirals

I.D.Karachentsev, P.Riepe, T.Zilch, M.Blauensteiner, M.Elvov, P.Hochleitner, B.Hubl, G.Kerschhuber, S.Küppers, F.Neyer, R.Pölzl, P.Remmel, O.Schneider, R.Sparenberg, U.Trulson, G.Willems, H.Ziegler

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted in the Astrophysical Bulletin, 2015, 70, 4

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

[120] arXiv:1511.00957 [pdf, other]

Title: The rotation and Galactic kinematics of mid M dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood

Elisabeth R. Newton, Jonathan Irwin, David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Jason A. Dittmann, Andrew A. West

Comments: Accepted to ApJ. Machine readable tables and additional figures are available in the published article or on request

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

[121] arXiv:1511.00966 [pdf, other]

Title: The origin and evolution of r- and s-process elements in the Milky Way stellar disk

Chiara Battistini, Thomas Bensby

Comments: 25 pages, published in A&A

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

[122] arXiv:1511.00974 [pdf, other]

Title: CO luminosity function from Herschel-selected galaxies and the contribution of AGN

L. Vallini, C. Gruppioni, F. Pozzi, C. Vignali, G. Zamorani

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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

[123] arXiv:1511.00975 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological limits on neutrino unknowns versus low redshift priors

Eleonora Di Valentino, Elena Giusarma, Olga Mena, Alessandro Melchiorri, Joseph Silk

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 083527 (2016)

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

[124] arXiv:1511.00993 [pdf, other]

Title: Is beryllium ultra-depletion in solar-type stars linked to the presence of a white dwarf companion?

S. Desidera, V. D'Orazi, M. Lugaro

Comments: Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press, 6 pages, 3 figures

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

[125] arXiv:1511.01003 [pdf, other]

Title: Luminosity of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays and bounds on magnetic luminosity of radio-loud active galactic nuclei

C. H. Coimbra-Araújo, R. C. Anjos

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 103001, Published 2 November 2015

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

[126] arXiv:1511.01012 [pdf, other]

Title: Planet signatures and effect of the chemical evolution of the Galactic thin-disk stars

Lorenzo Spina, Jorge Meléndez, Ivan Ramírez

Journal-ref: A&A 585, A152 (2016)

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

[127] arXiv:1511.01020 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparing galaxy disk and star-formation properties in X-ray bright and faint groups and clusters

Ian D. Roberts, Laura C. Parker, Ananthan Karunakaran

Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[128] arXiv:1511.01022 [pdf, other]

Title: KAT-7 observations of a mass-selected sample of galaxy clusters

G. Bernardi, T. Venturi, R. Cassano, D. Dallacasa, G. Brunetti, V. Cuciti, M. Johnston-Hollitt, N. Oozeer, V. Parekh, O.M. Smirnov

Comments: 14 pages, 12 (low resolution) figures, MNRAS accepted

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

[129] arXiv:1511.01033 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling the chemical evolution of star forming filaments

D. Seifried, S. Walch

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Zermatt ISM symposium "Conditions and impact of star formation: New results with Herschel and beyond". 4 pages, 1 figure

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

[130] arXiv:1511.01034 [pdf, other]

Title: A Dynamical Evolution Study of 40 2MASS Open Clusters

Orhan Güneş, Yüksel Karataş, Charles Bonatto

Comments: Accepted by AN. 48 pages, 36 figures and 11 tables

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

[131] arXiv:1511.01040 [pdf, other]

Title: Efficient Photo-heating Algorithms in Time-dependent Photo-ionization Simulations

Kai-Yan Lee, Garrelt Mellema, Peter Lundqvist

Comments: 22 pages, 22 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[132] arXiv:1511.01066 [pdf, other]

Title: The RINGS Survey: High-Resolution H-alpha Velocity Fields of Nearby Spiral Galaxies with the SALT Fabry-Perot

Carl J. Mitchell, J. A. Sellwood, T. B. Williams, Kristine Spekkens, K. Lee-Waddell, Rachel Kuzio de Naray

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, Conference proceeding for SALT Science Conference 2015

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

[133] arXiv:1511.01068 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterization of Kepler-91b and the Investigation of a Potential Trojan Companion Using EXONEST

Ben Placek, Kevin H. Knuth, Daniel Angerhausen, Jon M. Jenkins

Comments: Accepted at The Astrophysical Journal

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

[134] arXiv:1511.01079 [pdf, other]

Title: The Relative Rate of LGRB Formation as a Function of Metallicity

J. F. Graham, A. S. Fruchter

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted in press

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

[135] arXiv:1511.01082 [pdf, other]

Title: Combining Photometry From Kepler and TESS to Improve Short-Period Exoplanet Characterization

Ben Placek, Kevin H. Knuth, Daniel Angerhausen

Comments: Submitted to PASP

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

[136] arXiv:1511.01083 [pdf, other]

Title: A Search for Ringed Exoplanets using Kepler Photometry

Matthew Z. Heising, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Hilke E. Schlichting

Comments: 41 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ; corrected typos, added discussion of photometric signal of exomoons in section 2.3

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

[137] arXiv:1511.01084 [pdf, other]

Title: The variation of the tidal quality factor of convective envelopes of rotating low-mass stars along their evolution

S. Mathis

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the SF2A 2015 Conference

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

[138] arXiv:1511.01085 [pdf, other]

Title: PKS 1502+106: A high-redshift Fermi blazar at extreme angular resolution. Structural dynamics with VLBI imaging up to 86 GHz

V. Karamanavis, L. Fuhrmann, T. P. Krichbaum, E. Angelakis, J. Hodgson, I. Nestoras, I. Myserlis, J. A. Zensus, A. Sievers, S. Ciprini

Comments: 22 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 586, A60 (2016)

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

[139] arXiv:1511.01090 [pdf, other]

Title: Driving Extreme Variability - Measuring the evolving coronae and evidence for jet launching in AGN

D.R. Wilkins

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Astron. Nach. - Proceedings of the XMM-Newton 2015 Science Workshop "The Extremes of Black Hole Accretion"

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

[140] arXiv:1511.01092 [pdf, other]

Title: Eddington ratio Distribution of X-ray selected broad-line AGNs at 1.0<z<2.2

Hyewon Suh, Guenther Hasinger, Charles Steinhardt, John D. Silverman, Malte Schramm

Comments: 17 pages, 8 figures; Accepted for publication by ApJ

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

[141] arXiv:1511.01093 [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic Simulations of Eccentric Binary Neutron Star Mergers: One-arm Spiral Instability and Effects of Neutron Star Spin

William E. East, Vasileios Paschalidis, Frans Pretorius, Stuart L. Shapiro

Comments: 24 pages, 18 figures; revised to match published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 024011 (2016)

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

[142] arXiv:1511.01094 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic distribution of highly ionized metals and their physical conditions in the EAGLE simulations

Alireza Rahmati, Joop Schaye, Robert A. Crain, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Matthieu Schaller, Tom Theuns

Comments: 25 pages, 20 figures, 2 tables; Accepted for publication in MNRAS after minor changes

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

[143] arXiv:1511.01095 [pdf, other]

Title: The no-spin zone: rotation vs dispersion support in observed and simulated dwarf galaxies

Coral Wheeler (1), Andrew B. Pace (1) (2), James S. Bullock (1), Michael Boylan-Kolchin (3), Jose Onorbe (4), Oliver D. Elbert (1), Alex Fitts (3), Philip F. Hopkins (5), Dusan Keres (6) ((1) UC Irvine, (2) Texas A&amp;M University, (3) University of Texas at Austin, (4) MPIA, (5) Caltech, (6) UCSD)

Comments: 13 pages, 1 table, 4 figures. Accepted in MNRAS

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

[144] arXiv:1511.01096 [pdf, other]

Title: Precision measurement of the local bias of dark matter halos

Titouan Lazeyras, Christian Wagner, Tobias Baldauf, Fabian Schmidt

Comments: 23 pages, 8 figures; v2 : added references (sec. 1, 4, 5), results at higher redshifts on fig. 4 and updated fitting formulas (eqs 5.2-5.3), v3 : clarifications throughout, version accepted by JCAP

Journal-ref: JCAP 02 (2016) 018

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

[145] arXiv:1511.01097 [pdf, other]

Title: Light versus dark in strong-lens galaxies: Dark matter haloes that are rounder than their stars

Claudio Bruderer, Justin I. Read, Jonathan P. Coles, Dominik Leier, Emilio E. Falco, Ignacio Ferreras, Prasenjit Saha

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication by MNRAS

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

[146] arXiv:1511.01098 [pdf, other]

Title: The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles

Till Sawala (1 and 2), Carlos S. Frenk (1), Azadeh Fattahi (3), Julio F. Navarro (3 and 4), Richard G. Bower (1), Robert A. Crain (5), Claudio Dalla Vecchia (6 and 7), Michelle Furlong (1), John. C. Helly (1), Adrian Jenkins (1), Kyle A. Oman (2)Matthieu Schaller (1), Joop Schaye (8), Tom Theuns (1), James Trayford (1), Simon D. M. White (9) ((1) Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, University of Durham, (2) Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (4) Senior CIfAR Fellow, (5) Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, (6) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (7) Departamento de Astrofiisica, Universidad de La Laguna, (8) Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, (9) Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

Comments: 15 pages, submitted to MNRAS. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.2748

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

[147] arXiv:1511.01100 [pdf, other]

Title: Episodic molecular outflow in the very young protostellar cluster Serpens South

Adele L. Plunkett, Hector G. Arce, Diego Mardones, Pieter van Dokkum, Michael M. Dunham, Manuel Fernandez-Lopez, Jose Gallardo, Stuartt A. Corder

Comments: Accepted for publication as a "Letter" in Nature. 6 figures

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

[148] arXiv:1511.01102 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving Cosmological Distance Measurements Using Twin Type Ia Supernovae

H. K. Fakhouri, K. Boone, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, K. Barbary, D. Baugh, S. Bongard, C. Buton, J. Chen, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, P. Fagrelius, U. Feindt, M. Fleury, D. Fouchez, E. Gangler, B. Hayden, A. G. Kim, M. Kowalski, P.-F. Leget, S. Lombardo, J. Nordin, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, J. Ren, M. Rigault, D. Rubin, K. Runge, C. Saunders, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Sofiatti, M. Strovink, N. Suzuki, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver (The Nearby Supernova Factory)

Comments: 37 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Fixed typo in arXiv abstract

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

[149] arXiv:1511.01107 [pdf, other]

Title: Quasars as probes of cosmological reionization

Daniel J. Mortlock (Imperial College London)

Comments: Book chapter in 'Understanding the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization: Challenges and Progress', Springer International Publishing, ed. Andrei Mesinger, ISBN 978-3-319-21956-1

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

[150] arXiv:1511.01110 [pdf, other]

Title: Star Formation for Predictive Primordial Galaxy Formation

Milos Milosavljevic, Chalence Safranek-Shrader

Comments: Book chapter in "Understanding the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization: Challenges and Progress", Springer International Publishing, Ed. Andrei Mesinger, ISBN 978-3-319-21956-1

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