Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 2016

[1101] arXiv:1601.04996 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Lectures on General Theory of Relativity

Emil T. Akhmedov

Comments: 12 lectures, 110 pages, 29 figures, further amendements have been made, misprints are corrected

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

[1102] arXiv:1601.05052 (cross-list from cs.DC) [pdf, other]

Title: Auto-Tuning Dedispersion for Many-Core Accelerators

Alessio Sclocco, Henri E. Bal, Jason Hessels, Joeri van Leeuwen, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

Comments: 10 pages, published in the proceedings of IPDPS 2014

Subjects: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[1103] arXiv:1601.05086 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Unstable flip-flopping spinning binary black holes

Carlos O. Lousto, James Healy

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 124074 (2016)

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

[1104] arXiv:1601.05094 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Randomness in the Dark Sector: Emergent Mass Spectra and Dynamical Dark Matter Ensembles

Keith R. Dienes, Jacob Fennick, Jason Kumar, Brooks Thomas

Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 083506 (2016)

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

[1105] arXiv:1601.05109 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Causal Nature and Dynamics of Trapping Horizons in Black Hole Collapse

Alexis Helou, Ilia Musco, John C. Miller

Comments: 33 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity 34, 135012 (2017)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[1106] arXiv:1601.05172 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A parametric reconstruction of the cosmological jerk from diverse observational data sets

Ankan Mukherjee, Narayan Banerjee

Comments: 12 pages, 44 figures; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[1107] arXiv:1601.05337 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: The van der Waals fluid and its role in cosmology

Rudinei C. S. Jantsch, Marcus H. B. Christmann, Gilberto M. Kremer

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, left and right frames of fig.1 were not in the correct order as was explained in the text

Journal-ref: IJMP D Vol. 25, No. 2 (2016) 1650031

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[1108] arXiv:1601.05339 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, other]

Title: The Hyperon Puzzle in Neutron Stars

Ignazio Bombaci

Comments: Invited keynote talk at the Topical Session "Hyperon puzzle in Neutron Stars" at the 12th International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP2015), September 7-12, 2015, Sendai, Japan. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1601.04559

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

[1109] arXiv:1601.05405 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Living with ghosts in Horava-Lifshitz gravity

S. Ramazanov, F. Arroja, M. Celoria, S. Matarrese, L. Pilo

Comments: 33 pages, 1 figure. The proof of an equivalence between the IR limit of the projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity and the mimetic matter scenario is given in Appendix A. Version accepted for publication in JHEP

Journal-ref: JHEP06(2016)020

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

[1110] arXiv:1601.05407 (cross-list from physics.space-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Solar energetic particle events: trajectory analysis and flux reconstruction with PAMELA

A. Bruno, O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, M. Boezio, E. A. Bogomolov, M. Bongi, V. Bonvicini, S. Bottai, U. Bravar, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, R. Carbone, P. Carlson, M. Casolino, G. Castellini, E. C. Christian, C. De Donato, G. A. de Nolfo, C. De Santis, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, V. Formato, A. M. Galper, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. Koldobskiy, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, M. Lee, A. Leonov, V. Malakhov, L. Marcelli, M. Martucci, A. G. Mayorov, W. Menn, M. Mergè, V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, R. Munini, G. Osteria, F. Palma, B. Panico, P. Papini, M. Pearce, P. Picozza, M. Ricci, S. B. Ricciarini, J. M. Ryan, R. Sarkar, V. Scotti, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, S. Stochaj, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. I. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, V. G. Zverev

Comments: Conference: The 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), 30 July - 6 August, 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands, Volume: PoS(ICRC2015)085

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

[1111] arXiv:1601.05415 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Entangled Scalar and Tensor Fluctuations during Inflation

Hael Collins, Tereza Vardanyan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Comments: 25 pages, 4 figures, published version

Journal-ref: JCAP 1611 (2016) no. 11, 059

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

[1112] arXiv:1601.05442 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: The Advanced LIGO Input Optics

Chris Mueller, Muzammil Arain, Giacomo Ciani, Ryan DeRosa, Anamaria Effler, David Feldbaum, Valery Frolov, Paul Fulda, Joseph Gleason, Matthew Heintze, Eleanor King, Keiko Kokeyama, William Korth, Rodica Martin, Adam Mullavey, Jan Poeld, Volker Quetschke, David Reitze, David Tanner, Luke Williams, Guido Mueller

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

[1113] arXiv:1601.05457 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Sound Speed of Primordial Fluctuations in Supergravity Inflation

Alexander Hetz, Gonzalo A. Palma

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added, improved discussion; v3: typos corrected, version published in PRL

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 101301 (2016)

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

[1114] arXiv:1601.05652 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Mattig's relation and dynamical distance indicators

Pekka Teerikorpi, Yurij Baryshev

Comments: 3 pages, 0 figures

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[1115] arXiv:1601.05684 (cross-list from physics.geo-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Magneto--Coriolis waves in a spherical Couette flow experiment

Denys Schmitt (ISTerre), Philippe Cardin (ISTerre), Patrick La Rizza (ISTerre), Henri-Claude Nataf (ISTerre)

Comments: European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, Elsevier, 2013

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

[1116] arXiv:1601.05688 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum self-gravitating collapsing matter in a quantum geometry

Miguel Campiglia, Rodolfo Gambini, Javier Olmedo, Jorge Pullin

Comments: 4 pages, RevTex

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

[1117] arXiv:1601.05845 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Thermal Electron Energization from Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Driven Plasmas

Samuel Totorica, Tom Abel, Frederico Fiuza

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

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

[1118] arXiv:1601.05979 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Inflection point inflation and reheating

Soo-Min Choi, Hyun Min Lee

Comments: 27 pages, 8 figures, Improved discussion on general inflection point inflation

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

[1119] arXiv:1601.06083 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Maximum mass, moment of inertia and compactness of relativistic stars

Cosima Breu, Luciano Rezzolla

Comments: v2 matches version published on MNRAS

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

[1120] arXiv:1601.06140 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on dark matter annihilation to fermions and a photon

Debtosh Chowdhury, Abhishek M. Iyer, Ranjan Laha

Comments: v2: 21 pages, 5 figures. Some details about the calculation are moved to the Appendix. Conclusions unchanged. Accepted in JHEP

Journal-ref: JHEP05 (2018) 152

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

[1121] arXiv:1601.06232 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Collider Signatures of Higgs-portal Scalar Dark Matter

Huayong Han, Jin Min Yang, Yang Zhang, Sibo Zheng

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor changes, references added, journal version

Journal-ref: Phys.Lett.B756 (2016) 109

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

[1122] arXiv:1601.06561 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Reheating and Primordial Gravitational Waves in Generalized Galilean Genesis

Sakine Nishi, Tsutomu Kobayashi

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

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

[1123] arXiv:1601.06567 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining pion interactions at very high energies by cosmic ray data

Sergey Ostapchenko, Marcus Bleicher

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

[1124] arXiv:1601.06720 (cross-list from physics.flu-dyn) [pdf, other]

Title: The Generalized Quasilinear Approximation: Application to Zonal Jets

J. B. Marston, G. P. Chini, S. M. Tobias

Comments: 5 pages and 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 214501 (2016)

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

[1125] arXiv:1601.06734 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology in new gravitational scalar-tensor theories

Emmanuel N. Saridakis (Baylor U. & Valparaiso U., Catolica), Minas Tsoukalas (Bogazici U.)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, version published in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 124032 (2016)

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

[1126] arXiv:1601.06772 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Tachyonic models of dark matter

Igor Nikitin

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[1127] arXiv:1601.06789 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A Simple, Heuristic Derivation of our "No Backreaction" Results

Stephen R. Green, Robert M. Wald

Comments: 13 pages

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[1128] arXiv:1601.07030 (cross-list from physics.gen-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological model with dynamical curvature

Peter C. Stichel

Comments: Substantially revised and enlarged. New subsection 5.1

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[1129] arXiv:1601.07031 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: The slow expansion with nonminimal derivative coupling and its conformal dual

Yong Cai, Yun-Song Piao

Comments: 24 pages, 4 figures; published version in JHEP; details supplemented, references and comments added, presentation improved

Journal-ref: JHEP03(2016)134

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

[1130] arXiv:1601.07037 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: The Mattig Expression for a d-dimensional Gauss Bonnet FRWL Cosmology

Keith Andrew, Eric Steinfelds, Nick Zolman

Comments: 15 pages

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[1131] arXiv:1601.07057 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Unimodular-Mimetic Cosmology

S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov, V.K. Oikonomou

Comments: CQG accepted

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

[1132] arXiv:1601.07290 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: The correspondence between sonic points of ideal photon gas accretion and photon spheres

Yasutaka Koga, Tomohiro Harada

Comments: 9pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94, 044053 (2016)

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

[1133] arXiv:1601.07364 (cross-list from physics.flu-dyn) [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulence and distributed chaos with spontaneously broken symmetry

A. Bershadskii

Comments: extended version (experimental data have been added)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)

[1134] arXiv:1601.07375 (cross-list from stat.AP) [pdf, other]

Title: Using hydrodynamical simulations of stellar atmospheres for periodogram standardization : application to exoplanet detection

Sophia Sulis, David Mary, Lionel Bigot

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures. This manuscript was submitted and accepted to the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016

Journal-ref: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[1135] arXiv:1601.07512 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrinoless double beta decay: 2015 review

S. Dell'Oro, S. Marcocci, M. Viel, F. Vissani

Comments: 39 pages, 22 figures

Journal-ref: Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 2162659

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

[1136] arXiv:1601.07526 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: $Z^\prime_{BL}$ portal dark matter and LHC Run-2 results

Nobuchika Okada, Satomi Okada

Comments: 17 pages, 5 figures, typographical errors corrected

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 075003 (2016)

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

[1137] arXiv:1601.07556 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-rays from Dark Showers with Twin Higgs Models

Marat Freytsis, Simon Knapen, Dean J. Robinson, Yuhsin Tsai

Comments: 45 pages, 11 figures, v2: journal version, extended discussions in Secs. III-V, references added

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

[1138] arXiv:1601.07607 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of the tensor couplings on the nucleonic direct URCA processes in neutron star matter

Xu Yan, Huang Xiu-Lin, Liu Cheng-Zhi, Liu Guang-Zhou

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

[1139] arXiv:1601.07732 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic formulation of the Hall-Vinen-Bekarevich-Khalatnikov superfluid hydrodynamics

Mikhail E. Gusakov (Ioffe Institute)

Comments: 23 pages, accepted to PRD, minor changes to match accepted version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 064033 (2016)

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

[1140] arXiv:1601.07749 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Preheating and Entropy Perturbations in Axion Monodromy Inflation

Evan McDonough, Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam, Robert H. Brandenberger

Comments: 14 pages, published version

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

[1141] arXiv:1601.07753 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Baryogenesis via Elementary Goldstone Higgs Relaxation

Helene Gertov, Lauren Pearce, Francesco Sannino, Louis Yang

Comments: 21 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 115042 (2016)

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

[1142] arXiv:1601.07842 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Another look at synchronized neutrino oscillations

Evgeny Akhmedov, Alessandro Mirizzi

Comments: LaTeX, 32 pages, 3 figures. V2: minor textual changes, references and an acknowledgement added, results and conclusions unchanged

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

[1143] arXiv:1601.07901 (cross-list from physics.data-an) [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamic system classifier

Daniel Pumpe, Maksim Greiner, Ewald Müller, Torsten A. Enßlin

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 012132 (2016)

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

[1144] arXiv:1601.07922 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Einstein-Cartan, Bianchi I and the Hubble Diagram

Sami R. ZouZou, Andre Tilquin, Thomas Schucker

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[1145] arXiv:1601.07928 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Viability of Arctan Model of f(R) Gravity for Late-time Cosmology

Koushik Dutta, Sukanta Panda, Avani Patel

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94, 024016 (2016)

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

[1146] arXiv:1601.07997 (cross-list from physics.chem-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Radiative lifetimes and cooling functions for astrophysically important molecules

Jonathan Tennyson, Kelsey Hulme, Omree K. Naim, Sergei N. Yurchenko

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: J Phys B: At Mol Opt Phys, 49 (2016) 044002

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