Astrophysics

Authors and titles for April 2016

[1001] arXiv:1604.08562 [pdf, other]

Title: Unprecedented Fine Structure of a Solar Flare Revealed by the 1.6~m New Solar Telescope

Ju Jing, Yan Xu, Wenda Cao, Chang Liu, Dale Gary, Haimin Wang

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures

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

[1002] arXiv:1604.08563 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpolation of the magnetic field at the test masses in eLISA

I. Mateos, M. Díaz-Aguiló, J. Ramos-Castro, E. García-Berro, A. Lobo

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32, 165003, 2015

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

[1003] arXiv:1604.08566 [pdf, other]

Title: Broadband Observations of High Redshift Blazars

Vaidehi S. Paliya, M. L. Parker, A. C. Fabian, C. S. Stalin

Comments: 42 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[1004] arXiv:1604.08570 [pdf, other]

Title: The impact of rotation on turbulent tidal friction in stellar and planetary convective regions

Stéphane Mathis, Pierre Auclair-Desrotour, Mathieu Guenel, Florian Gallet, Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 592, A33 (2016)

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

[1005] arXiv:1604.08578 [pdf, other]

Title: CMB Lensing Bispectrum from Nonlinear Growth of the Large Scale Structure

Toshiya Namikawa

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, replaced to match the published version in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 121301 (2016)

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

[1006] arXiv:1604.08587 [pdf, other]

Title: Semi-implicit anisotropic cosmic ray transport on an unstructured moving mesh

Ruediger Pakmor, Christoph Pfrommer, Christine M. Simpson, Rahul Kannan, Volker Springel

Comments: 16 pages, 16 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[1007] arXiv:1604.08589 [pdf, other]

Title: Interpreting the subtle spectral variations of the 11.2 and 12.7 {\mu}m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon bands

M. J. Shannon, D. J. Stock, E. Peeters

Comments: 20 pages, 14 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[1008] arXiv:1604.08590 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep imaging of Eridanus II and its lone star cluster

D. Crnojević (1), D. J. Sand (1), D. Zaritsky (2), K. Spekkens (3), B. Willman (2,4,5), J. R. Hargis (6) ((1) Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA, (2) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, (3) Royal Military College of Canada, Department of Physics, Kingston, ON, Canada, (4) LSST, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, (5) Haverford College, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Haverford, PA, USA, (6) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA)

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures; ApJL accepted

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

[1009] arXiv:1604.08592 [pdf, other]

Title: MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST). I: Solar-Scaled Models

Jieun Choi, Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy, Matteo Cantiello, Bill Paxton, Benjamin D. Johnson

Comments: Accepted to ApJ

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

[1010] arXiv:1604.08593 [pdf, other]

Title: Resolved atomic lines reveal outflows in two ultraluminous X-ray sources

Ciro Pinto, Matthew J. Middleton, Andrew C. Fabian

Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, published by Nature on 27 April 2016

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

[1011] arXiv:1604.08594 [pdf, other]

Title: Are Some Milky Way Globular Clusters Hosted by Undiscovered Galaxies?

Dennis Zaritsky (1), Denija Crnojević (2), David J. Sand (2) ((1) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, (2) Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA)

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures; ApJL in press

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

[1012] arXiv:1604.08597 [pdf, other]

Title: The Star Formation Rate Efficiency of Neutral Atomic-dominated Hydrogen Gas in the Outskirts of Star Forming Galaxies from z~1 to z~3

Marc Rafelski, Jonathan P. Gardner, Michele Fumagalli, Marcel Neeleman, Harry I. Teplitz, Norman Grogin, Anton M. Koekemoer, Claudia Scarlata

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[1013] arXiv:1604.08599 [pdf, other]

Title: Determining the large-scale environmental dependence of gas-phase metallicity in dwarf galaxies

Kelly A. Douglass, Michael S. Vogeley

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures, published in ApJ; updated declination units

Journal-ref: ApJ (2017) 834: 186-198

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

[1014] arXiv:1604.08604 [pdf, other]

Title: Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey II: Adaptive Optics Imaging of 969 Kepler Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars

Christoph Baranec, Carl Ziegler, Nicholas M. Law, Tim Morton, Reed Riddle, Dani Atkinson, Jessica Schonhut, Justin Crepp

Comments: Accepted by AJ. 32 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1312.4958

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

[1015] arXiv:1604.08611 [pdf, other]

Title: Tidal stripping as a test of satellite quenching in redMaPPer clusters

Yuedong Fang, Joseph Clampitt, Neal Dalal, Bhuvnesh Jain, Eduardo Rozo, John Moustakas, Eli Rykoff

Comments: 9 pages, 9 figures

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

[1016] arXiv:1604.08613 [pdf, other]

Title: Inflow, Outflow, Yields, and Stellar Population Mixing in Chemical Evolution Models

Brett H. Andrews, David H. Weinberg, Ralph Schönrich, Jennifer A. Johnson

Comments: 30 pages, 20 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJ. v3: fixes typos and clarifies a few minor points that the referee noted. The flexCE chemical evolution model is available at this https URL

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

[1017] arXiv:1604.08614 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Target for Cosmic Axion Searches

Daniel Baumann, Daniel Green, Benjamin Wallisch

Comments: 31 pages, 9 figures; V2: minor modifications and references added; extended version of published PRL

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 171301 (2016)

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

[1018] arXiv:1604.08626 [pdf, other]

Title: On the evolution of the inner disk radius with flux in the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Serpens X-1

Chia-Ying Chiang, Robert A. Morgan, Edward M. Cackett, Jon M. Miller, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Tod E. Strohmayer

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[1019] arXiv:1604.08627 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Protocluster at z=3.786

Arjun Dey, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Naveen Reddy, Michael Cooper, Hanae Inami, Sungryong Hong, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Buell T. Jannuzi

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (March 27, 2016)

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

[1020] arXiv:1604.08631 [pdf, other]

Title: Secular models and Kozai resonance for planets in coorbital non-coplanar motion

Cristian A. Giuppone, Alejandro M. Leiva

Comments: 15 pages. 20 figures

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

[1021] arXiv:1604.08644 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectro-timing study of GX 339-4 in a hard intermediate state

F. Fuerst (1), V. Grinberg (2), J. A. Tomsick (3), M. Bachetti (4), S. E. Boggs (3), M. Brightman (1), F. E. Christensen (5), W. W. Craig (3,6), P. Gandhi (7), B. Grefenstette (1), C. J. Hailey (8), F. A. Harrison (1), K. K. Madsen (1), M. L. Parker (9), K. Pottschmidt (10,11), D. Stern (12), D. J. Walton (12,1), J. Wilms (13), W. W. Zhang (11) ((1) Caltech, (2) MIT, (3) SSL UC Berkeley, (4) INAF OAC, (5) DTU Space, (6) LLNL, (7) U Southampton, (8) Columbia U, (9) IoA Cambridge, (10) CRESST UMBC, (11) NASA GSFC, (12) JPL, (13) Remeis-Observatory and ECAP)

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[1022] arXiv:1604.08648 [pdf, other]

Title: {\Delta}{\mu} Binaries among Stars with Large Proper Motions

M.Yu. Khovritchev (1), A.M. Kulikova (1) ((1) Pulkovo Observatory)

Comments: 27 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Astronomy Letters, Volume 41, Issue 12, pp.833-847, 12/2015

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

[1023] arXiv:1604.08669 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarization of thermal bremsstrahlung emission due to electron pressure anisotropy

S. Komarov, I. Khabibullin, E. Churazov, A. Schekochihin

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures

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

[1024] arXiv:1604.08676 [pdf, other]

Title: SGR-like behaviour of the repeating FRB 121102

F. Y. Wang (NJU), H. Yu (NJU)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in JCAP

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

[1025] arXiv:1604.08701 [pdf, other]

Title: Polarimetric Detection of Exoplanets Transiting T- and L- Brown Dwarfs

Sujan Sengupta

Comments: 17 pages (AASTEX) including 5 eps figures. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

Journal-ref: The Astronomical Journal, Volume 152, No. 4, pp. 98, October 03, 2016

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

[1026] arXiv:1604.08710 [pdf, other]

Title: Fermi Study of gamma-ray Millisecond Pulsars: the Spectral Shape and Pulsed 25--200 GeV Emission from J0614-3329

Yi Xing, Zhongxiang Wang

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, submitted

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

[1027] arXiv:1604.08722 [pdf, other]

Title: The 2X-HI disks of spiral galaxies

B. S. Koribalski

Comments: 3 pages, incl. one page of colour figures; Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 321, 2016, Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts, eds. A. Gil de Paz, J. Knapen, & J. Lee

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

[1028] arXiv:1604.08770 [pdf, other]

Title: Post-Newtonian Evolution of Massive Black Hole Triplets in Galactic Nuclei: I. Numerical Implementation and Tests

Matteo Bonetti, Francesco Haardt, Alberto Sesana, Enrico Barausse

Comments: 17 pages, 25 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[1029] arXiv:1604.08773 [pdf, other]

Title: The Local Universe: Galaxies in 3D

B. S. Koribalski

Comments: 8 pages; 2 colour figures; Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No 309, 2014, "Galaxies in 3D across the Universe", eds. B. L. Ziegler, F. Combes, H. Dannerbauer, & M. Verdugo

Journal-ref: 2015IAUS..309...39K

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

[1030] arXiv:1604.08777 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparing [CII], HI, and CO dynamics of nearby galaxies

W.J.G. de Blok, F. Walter, J.-D.T Smith, R. Herrera-Camus, A.D. Bolatto, M. A. Requena-Torres, A.F. Crocker, K.V. Croxall, R.C. Kennicutt, J. Koda, L. Armus, M. Boquien, D. Dale, K. Kreckel, S. Meidt

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

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

[1031] arXiv:1604.08783 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulated interaction of MHD shock waves with a complex network-like region

Irantzu C. Santamaria, Elena Khomenko, Manuel Collados, Angel de Vicente

Comments: 4 pages

Journal-ref: A&A 590, L3 (2016)

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

[1032] arXiv:1604.08787 [pdf, other]

Title: Closed-loop focal plane wavefront control with the SCExAO instrument

Frantz Martinache, Nemanja Jovanovic, Olivier Guyon

Comments: 9 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication by A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A33 (2016)

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

[1033] arXiv:1604.08791 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrinos and {\gamma}-rays from the Galactic Center Region After H.E.S.S. Multi-TeV Measurements

Silvia Celli, Andrea Palladino, Francesco Vissani

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in EPJC

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

[1034] arXiv:1604.08800 [pdf, other]

Title: An accurate and self-consistent chemical abundance catalogue for the APOGEE/Kepler sample

Keith Hawkins, Thomas Masseron, Paula Jofre, Gerry Gilmore, Yvonne Elsworth, Saskia Hekker

Comments: 17 Pages, 16 Figures, Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 594, A43 (2016)

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

[1035] arXiv:1604.08827 [pdf, other]

Title: A protosolar nebula origin for the ices agglomerated by Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

O. Mousis, J. I. Lunine, A. Luspay-Kuti, T. Guillot, B. Marty, M. Ali-Dib, P. Wurz, K. Altwegg, A. Bieler, M. Hässig, M. Rubin, P. Vernazza, J. H. Waite

Comments: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press

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

[1036] arXiv:1604.08831 [pdf, other]

Title: Origin of molecular oxygen in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

O. Mousis, T. Ronnet, B. Brugger, O. Ozgurel, F. Pauzat, Y. Ellinger, R. Maggiolo, P. Wurz, P. Vernazza, J. I. Lunine, A. Luspay-Kuti, K. E. Mandt, K. Altwegg, A. Bieler, A. Markovits, M. Rubin

Comments: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press

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

[1037] arXiv:1604.08850 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-wavelength landscape of the young galaxy cluster RXJ1257.2+4738 at z=0.866. II. Morphological properties

I. Pintos-Castro, M. Povic, M. Sánchez-Portal, J. Cepa, B. Altieri, Á. Bongiovanni, P. A. Duc, A. Ederoclite, I. Oteo, A. M. Pérez García, R. Pérez Martínez, J. Polednikova, M. Ramón-Pérez, S. Temporin

Comments: 19 pages, 20 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 592, A108 (2016)

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

[1038] arXiv:1604.08862 [pdf, other]

Title: The HI Content of Galaxies in Groups and Clusters as Measured by ALFALFA

Mary Crone Odekon, Rebecca A. Koopmann, Martha P. Haynes, Rose A. Finn, Christopher McGowan, Adina Micula, Lyle Reed, Riccardo Giovanelli, Gregory Hallenbeck

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted by ApJ

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

[1039] arXiv:1604.08864 [pdf, other]

Title: From climate models to planetary habitability: temperature constraints for complex life

Laura Silva (1), Giovanni Vladilo (1), Patricia M. Schulte (2), Giuseppe Murante (1), Antonello Provenzale (3) (1 National Institute for Astrophysics INAF-OATs, Trieste, Italy; 2 Department of Zoology, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 3 Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources IGG, CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Comments: 33 pages, 8 figures, abstract abridged, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology

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

[1040] arXiv:1604.08885 [pdf, other]

Title: On The Non-Gaussian Errors in High-z Supernovae Type Ia Data

Meghendra Singh, Ashwini Pandey, Amit Sharma, Shashikant Gupta, Satendra Sharma

Comments: 7 Pages, 2 Figures , Accepted in Research in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 16, Number 11 (2016)

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

[1041] arXiv:1604.08899 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical Aspects of Cosmic Acceleration

Mark Trodden

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures. Invited plenary talk at the Dark Side of the Universe conference, Kyoto, Japan, December 2015. To appear in the proceedings

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

[1042] arXiv:1604.08914 [pdf, other]

Title: Lensing corrections to the $E_g(z)$ statistics from large scale structure

Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah, Ruth Durrer

Journal-ref: JCAP 1609 (2016) no.09, 035

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

[1043] arXiv:1604.08941 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultraharmonics and Secondary Spiral Wakes Induced by a Planet

Wing-Kit Lee (ASIAA)

Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ. Comments are very welcome

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

[1044] arXiv:1604.08946 [pdf, other]

Title: Isotropy-Violation Diagnostics for $B$-mode Polarization Foregrounds to the Cosmic Microwave Background

Aditya Rotti, Kevin Huffenberger

Comments: Published in JCAP. Added appendix and updated text to match the accepted version

Journal-ref: JCAP09(2016)034

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

[1045] arXiv:1604.00123 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Higgs exotic decays in general NMSSM with self-interacting dark matter

Wenyu Wang, Mengchao Zhang, Jun Zhao

Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures, references added

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

[1046] arXiv:1604.00246 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational-wave signal from binary neutron stars: a systematic analysis of the spectral properties

Luciano Rezzolla, Kentaro Takami

Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables; Minor revisions, matches accepted version on PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 93, 124051 (2016)

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

[1047] arXiv:1604.00260 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Archaeoastronomy and the orientation of old churches

Alejandro Gangui

Comments: Published version available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Bulletin of the Argentine Astronomical Society (BAAA), Vol. 58, paper #261, P. Benaglia, et al. (eds.), 2016

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[1048] arXiv:1604.00264 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Linear growth in power law $f(T)$ gravity

Spyros Basilakos

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. D (typos corrected: this is the published version)

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

[1049] arXiv:1604.00269 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Analysis of Anisotropic Inflation

Mindaugas Karčiauskas

Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures

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

[1050] arXiv:1604.00291 (cross-list from physics.flu-dyn) [pdf, other]

Title: Dissipation process of binary mixture gas in thermally relativistic flow

Ryosuke Yano

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)