Astrophysics

Authors and titles for December 2015

[1] arXiv:1512.00002 [pdf, other]

Title: CTA telescopes as deep-space lasercom ground receivers

Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Pena, Ricardo Vergaz

Comments: 9 pages, 10 figures, IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 7, Issue 6 (2015)

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

[2] arXiv:1512.00004 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring amplitudes of harmonics and combination frequencies in variable stars

Earl P. Bellinger, Daniel Wysocki, Shashi M. Kanbur

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, RR Lyrae 2015, to appear in the No. 105 issue of the Communications from the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Journal-ref: Communications from the Konkoly Observatory, 2016, Vol. 105, p. 101-104

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

[3] arXiv:1512.00005 [pdf, other]

Title: Rest-frame Optical Properties of Luminous 1.5<z<3.5 Quasars: the Hbeta-[OIII] Region

Yue Shen

Comments: 10 pages; ApJ in press

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

[4] arXiv:1512.00007 [pdf, other]

Title: The number of tidal dwarf satellite galaxies in dependence of bulge index

Martin Lopez-Corredoira (IAC), Pavel Kroupa (Bonn)

Comments: ApJ, in press; 7 pages, 4 figures, LatEx

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

[5] arXiv:1512.00008 [pdf, other]

Title: The galaxy correlation function as a constraint on galaxy formation physics

Marcel P. van Daalen (1,2,3), Bruno M. B. Henriques (1), Raul E. Angulo (4), Simon D. M. White (1) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, (2) Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, (3) Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, (4) Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón)

Comments: 17 pages, 11 figures. Replaced to match the version accepted by MNRAS

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

[6] arXiv:1512.00009 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mass and Size Distribution of Planetesimals Formed by the Streaming Instability. I. The Role of Self-Gravity

Jacob B. Simon, Philip J. Armitage, Rixin Li, Andrew N. Youdin

Comments: 18 pages, 16 figures, accepted to ApJ after minor revisions and title change

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

[7] arXiv:1512.00012 [pdf, other]

Title: Wavelet-Based Techniques for the Gamma-Ray Sky

Samuel D. McDermott, Patrick J. Fox, Ilias Cholis, Samuel K. Lee

Comments: 18+8 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[8] arXiv:1512.00014 [pdf, other]

Title: LOFAR MSSS: Detection of a low-frequency radio transient in 400 hrs of monitoring of the North Celestial Pole

A. J. Stewart, R. P. Fender, J. W. Broderick, T. E. Hassall, T. Muñoz-Darias, A. Rowlinson, J. D. Swinbank, T. D. Staley, G. J. Molenaar, B. Scheers, T. L. Grobler, M. Pietka, G. Heald, J. P. McKean, M. E. Bell, A. Bonafede, R. P. Breton, D. Carbone, Y. Cendes, A. O. Clarke, S. Corbel, F. de Gasperin, J. Eislöffel, H. Falcke, C. Ferrari, J.-M. Grießmeier, M. J. Hardcastle, V. Heesen, J. W. T. Hessels, A. Horneffer, M. Iacobelli, P. Jonker, A. Karastergiou, G. Kokotanekov, V. I. Kondratiev, M. Kuniyoshi, C. J. Law, J. van Leeuwen, S. Markoff, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, D. Mulcahy, E. Orru, M. Pandey-Pommier, L. Pratley, E. Rol, H. J. A. Röttgering, A. M. M. Scaife, A. Shulevski, C. A. Sobey, B. W. Stappers, C. Tasse, A. J. van der Horst, S. van Velzen, R. J. van Weeren, R. A. M. J. Wijers, R. Wijnands, M. Wise, P. Zarka, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, I. M. Avruch, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, F. Breitling, M. Brüggen, H. R. Butcher, B. Ciardi, J. E. Conway, A. Corstanje, E. de Geus, A. Deller, S. Duscha, W. Frieswijk, M. A. Garrett, A. W. Gunst, M. P. van Haarlem, M. Hoeft, J. Hörandel, E. Juette, G. Kuper, M. Loose, P. Maat, R. McFadden, D. McKay-Bukowski, J. Moldon, H. Munk, M. J. Norden, H. Paas, A. G. Polatidis, D. Schwarz, J. Sluman, O. Smirnov, M. Steinmetz, S. Thoudam, M. C. Toribio, R. Vermeulen, C. Vocks, S. J. Wijnholds

Comments: 23 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, Volume 456, Issue 3, p.2321-2342

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

[9] arXiv:1512.00015 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models

Quan Guo, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Qi Guo, Matthieu Schaller, Michelle Furlong, Richard G. Bower, Shaun Cole, Robert A. Crain, Carlos S. Frenk, John C. Helly, Cedric G. Lacey, Claudia del P. Lagos, Peter Mitchell, Joop Schaye, Tom Theuns

Comments: 26 pages, 16 figures, re-submitted to MNRAS. Version including the modifications addressing the referee's suggestions

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

[10] arXiv:1512.00016 [pdf, other]

Title: HH 1158: The lowest luminosity externally irradiated Herbig-Haro jet

B. Riaz, E. T. Whelan

Comments: Accepted in ApJ Letters

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

[11] arXiv:1512.00017 [pdf, other]

Title: Luminosity Dependence and Redshift Evolution of Strong Emission-line Diagnostics in Star-Forming Galaxies

Lennox L. Cowie, Amy J. Barger, Antoinette Songaila

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 16 pages, 15 figures

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

[12] arXiv:1512.00018 [pdf, other]

Title: Rest-UV Absorption Lines as Metallicity Estimator: the Metal Content of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~5

A. L. Faisst, P. L. Capak, I. Davidzon, M. Salvato, C. Laigle, O. Ilbert, M. Onodera, G. Hasinger, Y. Kakazu, D. Masters, B. Mobasher, D. Sanders, J. D. Silverman, L. Yan, N. Z. Scoville

Comments: 20 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables; Submitted to ApJ

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

[13] arXiv:1512.00020 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared emission from tidal disruption events --- probing the pc-scale dust content around galactic nuclei

Wenbin Lu (UT Austin), Pawan Kumar, Neal J. Evans II

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome!!

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

[14] arXiv:1512.00024 [pdf, other]

Title: Studying the Interstellar Medium and the inner region of NPS/Loop 1 with shadow observations toward MBM36

E. Ursino, M. Galeazzi, W. Liu

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, approved for publication on ApJ

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

[15] arXiv:1512.00042 [pdf, other]

Title: Ocean g-modes on transient neutron stars

Alex Deibel

Comments: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[16] arXiv:1512.00043 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for a very low-column density hole in the Galactic halo in the direction of the high latitude molecular cloud MBM 16

Wenhao Liu, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Eugenio Ursino

Comments: 5 Pages, 3 Figures, Accepted for Publication on ApJ

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

[17] arXiv:1512.00044 [pdf, other]

Title: Chandra Observations of Eight Sources Discovered by INTEGRAL

John A. Tomsick (SSL/UCB), Roman Krivonos (Space Research Institute), Qinan Wang (SSL/UCB and HKU), Arash Bodaghee (Georgia College), Sylvain Chaty (AIM and Institut Universitaire de France), Farid Rahoui (ESO and Harvard), Jerome Rodriguez (AIM), Francesca M. Fornasini (SSL/UCB and UCB)

Comments: Accepted by ApJ, 14 pages

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

[18] arXiv:1512.00051 [pdf, other]

Title: The Galactic magnetic field and its lensing of ultrahigh energy and Galactic cosmic rays

Glennys R. Farrar

Comments: Invited talk at the Focus Meeting on Scale Free Phenomena at the Honolulu IAU, Aug. 2015. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1508.04530

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

[19] arXiv:1512.00052 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotating Hot White Dwarfs

Kuantay Boshkayev, Jorge A. Rueda, Bakytzhan Zhami

Comments: 2 pages, 2 figures

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

[20] arXiv:1512.00053 [pdf, other]

Title: Toward Direct Imaging of Low-Mass Gas-Giants with the $\textit{James Webb Space Telescope}$

Joshua E. Schlieder, Charles A. Beichman, Michael R. Meyer, Thomas Greene

Comments: 2 pages; 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)

[21] arXiv:1512.00065 [pdf, other]

Title: "Asymptotic Parabola" Fits for Smoothing Generally Asymmetric Light Curves

Kateryna D. Andrych, Ivan L Andronov, Lidia L. Chinarova, Vladyslava I. Marsakova

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures, "Odessa Astronomical Publications", 2015, vol. 28 (accepted)

Journal-ref: Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2015, vol. 28, No. 2, p. 158-160

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

[22] arXiv:1512.00072 [pdf, other]

Title: Extreme data compression for the CMB

Alan Zablocki, Scott Dodelson

Comments: 14 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables, updated to match the published version in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 083525, 2016

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

[23] arXiv:1512.00086 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium

Matthew McQuinn

Comments: 55 pages, 13 figures; published in the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[24] arXiv:1512.00090 [pdf, other]

Title: The formation and dynamical evolution of young star clusters

Michiko Fujii, Simon Portegies Zwart

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[25] arXiv:1512.00094 [pdf, other]

Title: Levitating atmospheres of Eddington-luminosity neutron stars

Maciek Wielgus, Aleksander Sadowski, Wlodek Kluzniak, Marek Abramowicz, Ramesh Narayan

Journal-ref: MNRAS 458, 3420-3428 (2016)

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

[26] arXiv:1512.00113 [pdf, other]

Title: Should One Use the Ray-by-Ray Approximation in Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations?

M. Aaron Skinner, A. Burrows, J.C. Dolence

Comments: Updated and revised text; 13 pages; 13 figures; Accepted to Ap.J

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

[27] arXiv:1512.00121 [pdf, other]

Title: IRTF/SPEX Observations of the Unusual Kepler Lightcurve System KIC8462852

C.M. Lisse, M.L. Sitko, M. Marengo

Comments: 10 Pages, 2 Figures; Key Words: infrared: stars; techniques: spectroscopic; radiation mechanisms: thermal; scattering; stars: planetary systems; stars: circumstellar matter

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal Letters, 815:L27 (4pp), 2015 December 20

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

[28] arXiv:1512.00124 [pdf, other]

Title: An accretion disk-outflow model for hysteretic state transition in X-ray binaries

Xinwu Cao

Comments: accepted by ApJ, the references updated

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

[29] arXiv:1512.00132 [pdf, other]

Title: Electron capture and beta-decay rates for sd-shell nuclei in stellar environments relevant to high density O-Ne-Mg cores

Toshio Suzuki, Hiroshi Toki, Ken'ichi Nomoto

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[30] arXiv:1512.00134 [pdf, other]

Title: The First Neptune Analog or Super-Earth with Neptune-like Orbit: MOA-2013-BLG-605Lb

T. Sumi, A. Udalski, D.P. Bennett, A. Gould, R. Poleski, I.A. Bond, N. Rattenbury, R. W. Pogge, T. Bensby, J.P. Beaulieu, J.B. Marquette, V. Batista, S. Brillant, F. Abe, Y. Asakura, A. Bhattacharya, M. Donachie, M. Freeman, A. Fukui, Y. Hirao, Y. Itow, N. Koshimoto, M.C.A. Li, C.H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, Y. Muraki, M. Nagakane, K. Ohnishi, H. Oyokawa, To. Saito, A. Sharan, D.J. Sullivan, D. Suzuki, P., J. Tristram, A. Yonehara (The MOA Collaboration), M.K. Szymanski, K. Ulaczyk, S. Kozlowski, L. Wyrzykowski, M. Kubiak, P. Pietrukowicz, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, (The OGLE Collaboration), C. Han, Y.-K. Jung, I.-G Shin, C-U. Lee

Comments: 54 pages, 10 figures, 13 tables, Accepted for publication in the ApJ

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

[31] arXiv:1512.00146 [pdf, other]

Title: The variable V381 Lac and its possible connection with the R CrB phenomenon

Corinne Rossi, Flavia Dell'Agli, Andrea Di Paola, Kamo S. Gigoyan, Roberto Nesci

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[32] arXiv:1512.00151 [pdf, other]

Title: A Characteristic Transmission Spectrum dominated by H$_{2}$O applies to the majority of HST/WFC3 exoplanet observations

Aishwarya R. Iyer, Mark R. Swain, Robert T. Zellem, Michael R. Line, Gael Roudier, Graca Rocha, John H. Livingston

Comments: Accepted by ApJ

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

[33] arXiv:1512.00159 [pdf, other]

Title: Scintillation noise power spectrum and its impact on high redshift 21-cm observations

H.K. Vedantham, L.V.E. Koopmans

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[34] arXiv:1512.00167 [pdf, other]

Title: Identification of z~>2 Herschel 500 micron sources using color-deconfusion

X.W. Shu, D. Elbaz, N. Bourne, C. Schreiber, T. Wang, J. S. Dunlop, A. Fontana, R. Leiton, M. Pannella, K. Okumura, M. J. Michalowski, P. Santini, E. Merlin, F. Buitrago, V. A. Bruce, R. Amorin, M. Castellano, S. Derriere, A. Comastri, N. Cappelluti, J. X. Wang, H. C. Ferguson

Comments: 33 pages in emulateapj format, 24 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in the ApJS

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

[35] arXiv:1512.00171 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the parent population of beamed NLS1s: from the black hole to the jet

M. Berton, L. Foschini, S. Ciroi, A. Caccianiga, V. Cracco, G. La Mura, F. Di Mille, M. L. Lister, S. Mathur, B. M. Peterson, J.L. Richards, E. Congiu, M. Frezzato, P. Rafanelli

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Proceedings of High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows (HEPRO) V, Workshop Series of the Argentinian Astronomical Society

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

[36] arXiv:1512.00189 [pdf, other]

Title: Kepler-1647b: the largest and longest-period Kepler transiting circumbinary planet

Veselin B. Kostov, Jerome A. Orosz, William F. Welsh, Laurance R. Doyle, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Nader Haghighipour, Billy Quarles, Donald R. Short, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Eric B. Ford, Joao Gregorio, Tobias C. Hinse, Howard Isaacson, Jon M. Jenkins, Eric L. N. Jensen, Stephen Kane, Ilya Kull, David W. Latham, Jack J. Lissauer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Tsevi Mazeh, Tobias W. A.Muller, Joshua Pepper, Samuel N. Quinn, Darin Ragozzine, Avi Shporer, Jason H. Steffen, Guillermo Torres, Gur Windmiller, William J. Borucki

Comments: 61 pages, 21 figures

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

[37] arXiv:1512.00192 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiwavelength survey of a sample of flat-spectrum radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies

L. Foschini, M. Berton, A. Caccianiga, S. Ciroi, V. Cracco, B. M. Peterson, E. Angelakis, V. Braito, L. Fuhrmann, L. Gallo, D. Grupe, E. Järvelä, S. Kaufmann, S. Komossa, Y. Y. Kovalev, A. Lähteenmäki, M. M. Lisakov, M. L. Lister, S. Mathur, J. L. Richards, P. Romano, A. Sievers, G. Tagliaferri, J. Tammi, O. Tibolla, M. Tornikoski, S. Vercellone, G. La Mura, L. Maraschi, P. Rafanelli

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. Poster presented at HEPRO V (5-8 October 2015, La Plata, Argentina). Version for Proceedings

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

[38] arXiv:1512.00193 [pdf, other]

Title: Expected impact from weak reactions with light nuclei in core-collapse supernova simulations

T. Fischer, G. Martínez-Pinedo, M. Hempel, L. Huther, G. Röpke, S. Typel, A. Lohs

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the OMEG 2015 conference proceedings, appears in EPJ WoC proceedings

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

[39] arXiv:1512.00203 [pdf, other]

Title: A hard gamma-ray flare from 3C 279 in 2013 December

Vaidehi S. Paliya, Chris Diltz, Markus Bottcher, C. S. Stalin, David Buckley

Comments: 44 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables, to appear in the Astrophysical journal

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

[40] arXiv:1512.00204 [pdf, other]

Title: Evaluation of expected solar flare neutrino events in the IceCube observatory

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

Comments: Paper submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, The Hague 2015

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

[41] arXiv:1512.00246 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep MUSE observations in the HDFS. Morpho-kinematics of distant star-forming galaxies down to $10^8$M$_\odot$

T. Contini, B. Epinat, N. Bouché, J. Brinchmann, L. A. Boogaard, E. Ventou, R. Bacon, J. Richard, P. M. Weilbacher, L. Wisotzki, D. Krajnović, J-B. Vielfaure, E. Emsellem, H. Finley, H. Inami, J. Schaye, M. Swinbank, A. Guérou, T. Martinsson, L. Michel-Dansac, I. Schroetter, M. Shirazi, G. Soucail

Comments: 26 pages. Published in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 591, A49 (2016)

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

[42] arXiv:1512.00253 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for the rapid formation of low mass early-type galaxies in dense environments

Yiqing Liu (1,2), Eric W. Peng (1,2), John Blakeslee (3), Patrick Côté (3), Laura Ferrarese (3), Andrés Jordán (4), Thomas H. Puzia (4), Elisa Toloba (8,9), Hong-Xin Zhang (5,6,7,1,2) ((1) PKU, (2) KIAA, (3) NRC-HIA, (4) PUC, (5) NAOC, (6) CAS-CONICYT Fellow, (7) CASSACA, (8) UCO/Lick, (9) Texas Tech)

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures

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

[43] arXiv:1512.00270 [pdf, other]

Title: 70 years of Sunspot Observations at Kanzelh\"ohe Observatory: systematic study of parameters affecting the derivation of the relative sunspot number

Werner Pötzi, Astrid M. Veronig, Manuela Temmer, Dietmar Baumgartner, Heinrich Freislich, Heinz Strutzmann

Comments: 24 pages, 15 figures

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

[44] arXiv:1512.00278 [pdf, other]

Title: Eccentricity distribution of wide binaries

Andrei Tokovinin, Olga Kiyaeva

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 10 pages, 10 figures. Links to online-only Tables 2 & 3: this http URL and this http URL

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

[45] arXiv:1512.00285 [pdf, other]

Title: The obliquity of Enceladus

Rose-Marie Baland, Marie Yseboodt, Tim Van Hoolst

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[46] arXiv:1512.00301 [pdf, other]

Title: Search of MeV-GeV counterparts of TeV sources with AGILE in pointing mode

A. Rappoldi, F. Lucarelli, C. Pittori, F. Longo, P.W. Cattaneo, F. Verrecchia, M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli, A.W. Chen, S. Colafrancesco, I. Donnarumma, A. Giuliani, A. Morselli, S. Sabatini, S. Vercellone

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables

Journal-ref: A&A 587, A93 (2016)

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

[47] arXiv:1512.00309 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotation of the polarization vector from distant radio galaxies in the perturbed FRW metric

Sankha Subhra Chakrabarty

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures, references updated

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 123507 (2016)

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

[48] arXiv:1512.00318 [pdf, other]

Title: A Proper Motion Survey Using the First Sky Pass of NEOWISE-Reactivation Data

Adam C. Schneider, Jennifer Greco, Michael C. Cushing, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Amy Mainzer, Christopher R. Gelino, Sergio B. Fajardo-Acosta, James Bauer

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[49] arXiv:1512.00325 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-ray spectroscopy of Positron Annihilation in the Milky Way

Thomas Siegert, Roland Diehl, Gerasim Khachatryan, Martin G. H. Krause, Fabrizia Guglielmetti, Jochen Greiner, Andrew W. Strong, Xiaoling Zhang

Comments: 16 pages, 29 figures, 10 tables, accepted in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 586, A84 (2016)

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

[50] arXiv:1512.00334 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational constraints on star cluster formation theory - I. The mass-radius relation

S. Pfalzner, H. Kirk, A. Sills, J. S. Urquhart, J. Kauffmann, M. A. Kuhn, A. Bhandare, K. M. Menten

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted by A&A

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