Astrophysics

Authors and titles for January 2016

[301] arXiv:1601.02384 [pdf, other]

Title: Revealing the dynamics of Class 0 protostellar discs with ALMA

D. Seifried, Á. Sánchez-Monge, S. Walch, R. Banerjee

Comments: 17 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS

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

[302] arXiv:1601.02385 [pdf, other]

Title: Anatomy of the AGN in NGC 5548. VI. Long-term variability of the warm absorber

J. Ebrero, J. S. Kaastra, G. A. Kriss, L. Di Gesu, E. Costantini, M. Mehdipour, S. Bianchi, M. Cappi, R. Boissay, G. Branduardi-Raymont, P.-O. Petrucci, G. Ponti, F. Pozo-Nunez, H. Seta, K. C. Steenbrugge, M. Whewell

Comments: 20 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables, plus 4 figures and 6 tables in the Appendix. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[303] arXiv:1601.02386 [pdf, other]

Title: Collisional excitation of doubly and triply deuterated ammonia ND$_2$H and ND$_3$ by H$_2$

F. Daniel, C. Rist, A. Faure, E. Roueff, M. Gérin, D.C. Lis, P. Hily-Blant, A. Bacmann, L. Wiesenfeld

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

[304] arXiv:1601.02389 [pdf, other]

Title: Line shifts in accretion disks - the case of Fe K$\alpha$

P. Jovanović, V. Borka Jovanović, D. Borka, L. Č. Popović

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science

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

[305] arXiv:1601.02392 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiative transfer in cylindrical threads with incident radiation VII. Multi-thread models

N. Labrosse, A.S. Rodger

Comments: 18 pages, 17 figures, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 587, A113 (2016)

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

[306] arXiv:1601.02394 [pdf, other]

Title: Lie-series for orbital elements -- II. The spatial case

András Pál (1,2) ((1) Konkoly Observatory of the MTA Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, (2) Department of Astronomy, Eötvös Loránd University)

Comments: Accepted for publication in CeMDA, in press, 12 pages

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

[307] arXiv:1601.02395 [pdf, other]

Title: Nereid from space: Rotation, size and shape analysis from Kepler/K2, Herschel and Spitzer observations

Cs. Kiss, A. Pál, A. I. Farkas-Takács, Gy. M. Szabó, R. Szabó, L. L. Kiss, L. Molnár, K. Sárneczky, Th.G. Müller, M. Mommert, J. Stansberry

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[308] arXiv:1601.02396 [pdf, other]

Title: Hexapod Design For All-Sky Sidereal Tracking

András Pál (1,2), László Mészáros (1,2), Attila Jaskó (1), György Mező (1), Gergely Csépány (1,3,2), Krisztián Vida (1), Katalin Oláh (1) ((1) Konkoly Observatory (2) Department of Astronomy, Loránd Eötvös University, (3) ESO, Garching)

Comments: Accepted for publication in PASP, 10 pages

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

[309] arXiv:1601.02405 [pdf, other]

Title: Compositional characterisation of the Themis family

M. Marsset, P. Vernazza, M. Birlan, F. DeMeo, R.P. Binzel, C. Dumas, J. Milli, M. Popescu

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[310] arXiv:1601.02406 [pdf, other]

Title: Meridional motions and Reynolds stress from SDO/AIA coronal bright points data

Davor Sudar, Steven H. Saar, Ivica Skokić, Ivana Poljančić Beljan, Roman Brajša

Journal-ref: A&A 587, A29 (2016)

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

[311] arXiv:1601.02417 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantifying correlations between galaxy emission lines and stellar continua

Róbert Beck, László Dobos, Ching-Wa Yip, Alexander S. Szalay, István Csabai

Comments: 14 pages, 14 figures. Accepted by MNRAS on 2015 December 22. The paper's website with data and code is at this http URL

Journal-ref: MNRAS 2016 457 (1): 362-374

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

[312] arXiv:1601.02423 [pdf, other]

Title: Classical and relativistic flux of energy conservation in astrophysical jets

L. Zaninetti

Comments: 17 pages and 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1508.00360

Journal-ref: Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, (2016), 2, 41-56

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

[313] arXiv:1601.02426 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Mass Ejection from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

David Radice, Filippo Galeazzi, Jonas Lippuner, Luke F. Roberts, Christian D. Ott, Luciano Rezzolla

Comments: 19 pages, 10 figures. We corrected a problem in the formulation of the neutrino heating scheme and re-ran all of the affected models. The main conclusions are unchanged. This version also contains one more figure and a number of improvements on the text

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016 460 (3): 3255-3271

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

[314] arXiv:1601.02427 [pdf, other]

Title: Sub-kpc star-formation law in the local luminous infrared galaxy IC 4687 as seen by ALMA

M. Pereira-Santaella, L. Colina, S. García-Burillo, P. Planesas, A. Usero, A. Alonso-Herrero, S. Arribas, S. Cazzoli, B. Emonts, J. Piqueras López, M. Villar-Martín

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A;10 pages, 9 figures. Fixed typos

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

[315] arXiv:1601.02444 [pdf, other]

Title: Fast Radio Transient searches with UTMOST at 843 MHz

M. Caleb, C. Flynn, M. Bailes, E. D. Barr, T. Bateman, S. Bhandari, D. Campbell-Wilson, A. J. Green, R. W. Hunstead, A. Jameson, F. Jankowski, E. F. Keane, V. Ravi, W. van Straten, V. Venkataraman Krishnan

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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

[316] arXiv:1601.02450 [pdf, other]

Title: The Chemical Compositions of Very Metal-Poor Stars HD 122563 and HD 140283; A View From the Infrared

Melike Afşar, Christopher Sneden, Anna Frebel, Hwihyun Kim, Gregory N. Mace, Kyle F. Kaplan, Hye-In Lee, Hee-Young Oh, Jae Sok Oh, Soojong Pak, Chan Park, Michael D. Pavel, In-Soo Yuk, Daniel T. Jaffe

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ (28 pages, 4 tables, 6 figures)

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

[317] arXiv:1601.02491 [pdf, other]

Title: IVOA Provenance data model: hints from the CTA Provenance prototype

Michèle Sanguillon, Mathieu Servillat, Mireille Louys, François Bonnarel, Catherine Boisson, Johan Brégeon

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in ADASS XXV proceedings, edited by N. P. F. Lorente, & K. Shortridge (San Francisco: ASP), ASP Conf. Ser

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

[318] arXiv:1601.02497 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of off-axis jet structure of TeV blazar Mrk 501 with mm-VLBI

S. Koyama, M. Kino, M. Giroletti, A. Doi, G. Giovannini, M. Orienti, K. Hada, E. Ros, K. Niinuma, H. Nagai, T. Savolainen, T. P. Krichbaum, M. Á. Pérez-Torres

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[319] arXiv:1601.02498 [pdf, other]

Title: The mass of the black hole in RE J1034+396

B. Czerny, B. You, A. Kurcz, J. Sredzinska, K. Hryniewicz, M. Nikolajuk, M. Krupa, J.-M. Wang, C. Hu

Comments: A&A, in press

Journal-ref: A&A 594, A102 (2016)

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

[320] arXiv:1601.02505 [pdf, other]

Title: The sulfur depletion problem: upper limits on the H2S2, HS2, and S2 gas-phase abundances toward the low-mass warm core IRAS16293-2422

R. Martín-Doménech, I. Jiménez-Serra, G. M. Muñoz Caro, H. S. P. Müller, A. Occhiogrosso, L. Testi, P. M. Woods, S. Viti

Journal-ref: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2016, 585, A112

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

[321] arXiv:1601.02506 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Continuum and Line Evolution of the Equatorial Ring around SN 1987A

Richard G. Arendt, Eli Dwek, Patrice Bouchet, I. John Danziger, Kari A. Frank, Robert D. Gehrz, Sangwook Park, Charles E. Woodward

Comments: Accepted for publication in AJ. 22 pages, 18 figures

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

[322] arXiv:1601.02514 [pdf, other]

Title: Updated analysis of near-infrared background fluctuations

Bin Yue, Andrea Ferrara, Ruben Salvaterra

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[323] arXiv:1601.02542 [pdf, other]

Title: Recurring X-ray Outbursts in the Supernova Impostor SN~2010da in NGC~300

B. Binder, B. F. Williams, A. K. H. Kong, T. J. Gaetz, P. P. Plucinsky, E. D. Skillman, A. Dolphin

Comments: 8 pages, accepted to MNRAS

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

[324] arXiv:1601.02551 [pdf, other]

Title: P13 an ULX that is a potential progenitor of merging BH-NS system

B. Beldycki, K. Belczynski

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to Acta Astronomica

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

[325] arXiv:1601.02580 [pdf, other]

Title: Tensor classification of structure in smoothed particle hydrodynamics density fields

Duncan Forgan, Ian Bonnell, William Lucas, Ken Rice

Comments: 14 pages, 28 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[326] arXiv:1601.02584 [pdf, other]

Title: Variable Star Signature Classification using Slotted Symbolic Markov Modeling

Kyle B. Johnston, Adrian M. Peter

Comments: 7 Figures, 3 Tables

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

[327] arXiv:1601.02587 [pdf, other]

Title: Marginalising instrument systematics in HST WFC3 transit lightcurves

H.R. Wakeford, D.K. Sing, T. Evans, D. Deming, A. Mandell

Comments: 19 pages, 13 figures, 8 tables, Accepted to ApJ

Journal-ref: 2016, ApJ, 819, 10

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

[328] arXiv:1601.02597 [pdf, other]

Title: The SLUGGS Survey: The Assembly Histories of Individual Early-type Galaxies

Duncan A. Forbes, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Nicola Pastorello, Caroline Foster, Jean P. Brodie, Jay Strader, Christopher Usher, Vincenzo Pota

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS in press

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

[329] arXiv:1601.02606 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical evolution of star forming regions - II. Basic kinematics

Richard J. Parker (1), Nicholas J. Wright (2,3) (1. Liverpool John Moores University, UK, 2. University of Hertfordshire, UK, 3. Keele University, UK)

Comments: 20 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[330] arXiv:1601.02608 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytic HI-to-H2 Photodissociation Transition Profiles

Shmuel Bialy, Amiel Sternberg

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 13 pages, 9 Figures

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 822, Number 2, 10 May 2016

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

[331] arXiv:1601.02610 [pdf, other]

Title: A self-consistent analytical magnetar model: The luminosity of $\gamma$-ray burst supernovae is powered by radioactivity

Zach Cano, Andreas K. G. Johansson, Keiichi Maeda

Comments: 14 pages, two figures, two tables. Accepted with minor revision at MNRAS (this is the newly submitted, revised version)

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

[332] arXiv:1601.02611 [pdf, other]

Title: Is there a maximum mass for black holes in galactic nuclei?

Kohei Inayoshi, Zoltan Haiman

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, appendix added

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

[333] arXiv:1601.02612 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Origin of High-Altitude Open Clusters in the Milky Way

L. A. Martinez-Medina, B. Pichardo, E. Moreno, A. Peimbert, H. Velazquez

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[334] arXiv:1601.02613 [pdf, other]

Title: Masses and Scaling Relations for Nuclear Star Clusters, and their Coexistence with Central Black Holes

Iskren Y. Georgiev, Torsten Böker, Natan Leigh, Nora Lützgendorf, Nadine Neumayer

Comments: Accepted in MNRAS, full version of Table A1 is available. 23 pages, 9 figures, Two tables

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

[335] arXiv:1601.02614 [pdf, other]

Title: Apodized pupil Lyot coronagraphs for arbitrary apertures. V. Hybrid Shaped Pupil designs for imaging Earth-like planets with future space observatories

Mamadou N'Diaye, Rémi Soummer, Laurent Pueyo, Alexis Carlotti, Christopher C. Stark, Marshall D. Perrin

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted on 01/04/2016

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

[336] arXiv:1601.02615 [pdf, other]

Title: The nature and energetics of AGN-driven perturbations in the hot gas in the Perseus Cluster

I. Zhuravleva (KIPAC, Stanford), E. Churazov (MPA, IKI), P. Arevalo (U. de Valparaiso), A. A. Schekochihin (Oxford), W. R. Forman (CfA), S. W. Allen (Stanford, SLAC), A. Simionescu (JAXA), R. Sunyaev (MPA, IKI), A. Vikhlinin (CfA), N. Werner (KIPAC, Stanford)

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS, comments are welcome

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

[337] arXiv:1601.02617 [pdf, other]

Title: One Thousand New Dwarf Novae from the OGLE Survey

P. Mroz, A. Udalski, R. Poleski, P. Pietrukowicz, M.K. Szymanski, I. Soszynski, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, S. Kozlowski, J. Skowron

Comments: Acta Astronomica, in press

Journal-ref: Acta Astron. 65, 313 (2015)

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

[338] arXiv:1601.02618 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral Distortion of the CMB by the Cumulative CO Emission from Galaxies throughout Cosmic History

Natalie Mashian, Abraham Loeb, Amiel Sternberg

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures; accepted to MNRAS

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

[339] arXiv:1601.02620 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards a comprehensive picture of powerful quasars, their host galaxies and quasar winds at z ~ 0.5

Dominika Wylezalek, Nadia L. Zakamska, Guilin Liu, Georges Obied

Comments: 16 pages + 3 pages Appendix and references, accepted to MNRAS

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

[340] arXiv:1601.02621 [pdf, other]

Title: Unravelling the complex structure of AGN-driven outflows: I. Kinematics and sizes

Marios Karouzos, Jong-Hak Woo, Hyun-Jin Bae

Comments: 19 pages, 12 figures, re-submitted with minor revisions to ApJ after referee's report

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

[341] arXiv:1601.02622 [pdf, other]

Title: AstroImageJ: Image Processing and Photometric Extraction for Ultra-Precise Astronomical Light Curves

Karen A. Collins, John F. Kielkopf, Keivan G. Stassun, Frederic V. Hessman

Comments: Accepted by AJ

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

[342] arXiv:1601.02624 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mass-Concentration-Redshift Relation of Cold and Warm Dark Matter Halos

Aaron D. Ludlow (Durham), Sownak Bose (Durham), Raúl E. Angulo (CEFCA), Lan Wang (NAO), Wojciech A. Hellwing (Portsmouth), Julio F. Navarro (UVic), Shaun Cole (Durham), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham)

Comments: 21 pages, 16 figures

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

[343] arXiv:1601.02625 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays from the "En Caul" Birth of Magnetars

Anthony L. Piro (Carnegie Observatories), Juna A. Kollmeier (Carnegie Observatories, IAS)

Comments: Some additional estimates and references. Main results unchanged. 11 pages, 8 figures, version accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[344] arXiv:1601.02628 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for High-Frequency QPOs with a 3:2 Frequency Ratio from a 5000 Solar Mass Black Hole

Dheeraj R. Pasham (NASA/GSFC & JSI), S. Bradley Cenko (NASA/GSFC & JSI), Abderahmen Zoghbi, Richard F. Mushotzky, Jon Miller, Francesco Tombesi

Comments: Published in ApJ Letters

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

[345] arXiv:1601.02629 [pdf, other]

Title: The Relation between Galaxy Structure and Spectral Type: Implications for the Buildup of the Quiescent Galaxy Population at 0.5<z<2.0

Michael Yano, Mariska Kriek, Arjen van der Wel, Katherine Whitaker

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[346] arXiv:1601.02630 [pdf, other]

Title: The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: Multi-wavelengths counterparts to 10$^3$ submillimeter galaxies in the UKIDSS-UDS field

Chian-Chou Chen (1,2), Ian Smail (1,2), Rob J. Ivison (3,4), Vinodiran Arumugam (3,4), Omar Almaini (5), Christopher J. Conselice (5), James E. Geach (6), Will G. Hartley (5,7), Cheng-Jiun Ma (1,2), Alice Mortlock (5,3), Chris Simpson (8), James M. Simpson (1,2), A. Mark Swinbank (1,2), Itziar Aretxaga (9), Andrew Blain (10), Scott C. Chapman (11), James S. Dunlop (3), Duncan Farrah (12), Mark Halpern (13), Michał J. Michałowski (3), Paul van der Werf (14), Aaron Wilkinson (5), Jorge A. Zavala (9) ((1,2) CEA/ICC Durham, (3) IfA, Edinburgh, (4) ESO, (5) Nottingham, (6) Hertfordshire, (7) ETH, (8) Liverpool, (9) INAOE, (10) Leicester, (11) Dalhousie, (12) Virginia Tech, (13) University of British Columbia, (14) Leiden)

Comments: ApJ in press, 23 pages, 17 figures

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

[347] arXiv:1601.02631 [pdf, other]

Title: Weakened magnetic braking as the origin of anomalously rapid rotation in old field stars

Jennifer L. van Saders, Tugdual Ceillier, Travis S. Metcalfe, Victor Silva Aguirre, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Rafael A. García, Savita Mathur, Guy R. Davies

Comments: 25 pages, 3 figures in main paper, 6 extended data figures, 1 table. Published in Nature, January 2016. Please see this https URL for a video description of the result

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

[348] arXiv:1601.02635 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling the circumstellar medium in RS Ophiuchi and its link to Type Ia supernovae

Richard A. Booth, Shazrene Mohamed, Philipp Podsiadlowski

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures. MNRAS accepted

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

[349] arXiv:1601.02638 [pdf, other]

Title: First Search for an X-ray -- Optical Reverberation Signal in an Ultraluminous X-ray Source

Dheeraj R. Pasham (NASA/GSFC &amp; JSI), Tod E. Strohmayer, S. Bradley Cenko, Margaret L. Trippe, Richard F. Mushotzky, Poshak Gandhi

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[350] arXiv:1601.02642 [pdf, other]

Title: Resolved Gas Interior to the Dust Rings of the HD 141569 Disk

Kevin M. Flaherty, A. Meredith Hughes, Sean M. Andrews, Chunhua Qi, David J Wilner, Aaron C. Boley, Jacob A. White, Will Harney, Julia Zachary

Comments: Accepted to ApJ

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