Astrophysics

Authors and titles for July 2016

[1] arXiv:1607.00002 [pdf, other]

Title: The dimensionless age of the Universe: a riddle for our time

Arturo Avelino (1), Robert P. Kirshner (1 and 2) ((1) Harvard University, (2) Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)

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

[2] arXiv:1607.00005 [pdf, other]

Title: The magnetic field and dust filaments in the Polaris Flare

G. V. Panopoulou, I. Psaradaki, K. Tassis

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[3] arXiv:1607.00006 [pdf, other]

Title: HATS-31b Through HATS-35b: Five Transiting Hot Jupiters Discovered by the HATSouth Survey

M. de Val-Borro, G. Á. Bakos, R. Brahm, J. D. Hartman, N. Espinoza, K. Penev, S. Ciceri, A. Jordán, W. Bhatti, Z. Csubry, D. Bayliss, J. Bento, G. Zhou, M. Rabus, L. Mancini, T. Henning, B. Schmidt, T. G. Tan, C. G. Tinney, D. J. Wright, L. Kedziora-Chudczer, J. Bailey, V. Suc, S. Durkan, J. Lázár, I. Papp, P. Sári

Comments: submitted to ApJ

Journal-ref: Astron. J. 152 (2016) 6

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

[4] arXiv:1607.00007 [pdf, other]

Title: Three Temperate Neptunes Orbiting Nearby Stars

Benjamin J. Fulton, Andrew W. Howard, Lauren M. Weiss, Evan Sinukoff, Erik A. Petigura, Howard Isaacson, Lea Hirsch, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Gregory W. Henry, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Daniel Huber, Kaspar von Braun, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Stephen R. Kane, Justin Wittrock, Elliott P. Horch, David R. Ciardi, Steve B. Howell, Jason T. Wright, Eric B. Ford

Comments: Revisions submitted to ApJ

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

[5] arXiv:1607.00008 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological parameters, shear maps and power spectra from CFHTLenS using Bayesian hierarchical inference

Justin Alsing, Alan F. Heavens, Andrew H. Jaffe

Comments: Matches accepted version

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

[6] arXiv:1607.00010 [pdf, other]

Title: AGN feedback in the nucleus of M51

M. Querejeta, E. Schinnerer, S. García-Burillo, F. Bigiel, G. A. Blanc, D. Colombo, A. Hughes, K. Kreckel, A. K. Leroy, S. E. Meidt, D. S. Meier, J. Pety, K. Sliwa

Comments: 21 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A118 (2016)

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

[7] arXiv:1607.00012 [pdf, other]

Title: The slow spin of the young sub-stellar companion GQ Lupi b and its orbital configuration

Henriette Schwarz (1), Christian Ginski (1), Remco J. de Kok (1 and 2), Ignas A. G. Snellen (1), Matteo Brogi (3 and 5), Jayne L. Birkby (4 and 6) ((1) Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, (2) SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, (3) Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado at Boulder (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (5) NASA Hubble Fellow, (6) NASA Sagan Fellow)

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A74 (2016)

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

[8] arXiv:1607.00013 [pdf, other]

Title: ZFIRE: A KECK/MOSFIRE Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxies in Rich Environments at z~2

Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Tiantian Yuan, Kim-Vy Tran, Lee Spitler, Lisa Kewley, Caroline Straatman, Michael Cowley, David Fisher, Ivo Labbe, Adam Tomczak, Rebecca Allen, Leo Alcorn

Comments: Published in ApJ. Data available at this http URL, Code for figures at this https URL, 31 pages, 24 figures

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

[9] arXiv:1607.00014 [pdf, other]

Title: Cold-Mode Accretion: Driving the Fundamental Mass-Metallicity Relation at z~2

Glenn G. Kacprzak, Freeke van de Voort, Karl Glazebrook, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Tiantian Yuan, Themiya Nanayakkara, Rebecca J. Allen, Leo Alcorn, Michael Cowley, Ivo Labbe, Lee Spitler, Caroline Straatman, Adam Tomczak

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[10] arXiv:1607.00015 [pdf, other]

Title: Self-similarity in the chemical evolution of galaxies and the delay time distribution of SNe Ia

C.J. Walcher, R.M. Yates, I. Minchev, C. Chiappini, M. Bergemann, G. Bruzual, S. Charlot, P.R.T. Coelho, A. Gallazzi, M. Martig

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to A&A, version in reply to first referee report

Journal-ref: A&A 594, A61 (2016)

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

[11] arXiv:1607.00016 [pdf, other]

Title: The Circumgalactic Medium of Submillimeter Galaxies. I. First Results from a Radio-Identified Sample

Hai Fu, J. F. Hennawi, J. X. Prochaska, R. Mutel, C. Casey, A. Cooray, D. Kereš, Z.-Y. Zhang, D. Clements, J. Isbell, C. Lang, D. McGinnis, M. J. Michałowski, K. Mooley, D. Perley, A. Stockton, D. Thompson

Comments: ApJ accepted after minor revision

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

[12] arXiv:1607.00017 [pdf, other]

Title: H0LiCOW I. $H_0$ Lenses in COSMOGRAIL's Wellspring: Program Overview

S. H. Suyu, V. Bonvin, F. Courbin, C. D. Fassnacht, C. E. Rusu, D. Sluse, T. Treu, K. C. Wong, M. W. Auger, X. Ding, S. Hilbert, P. J. Marshall, N. Rumbaugh, A. Sonnenfeld, M. Tewes, O. Tihhonova, A. Agnello, R. D. Blandford, G. C.-F. Chen, T. Collett, L. V. E. Koopmans, K. Liao, G. Meylan, C. Spiniello

Comments: 16 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS and revised based on referee's comments

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

[13] arXiv:1607.00019 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters: X-ray scaling relations and their evolution

N. Truong, E. Rasia, P. Mazzotta, S. Planelles, V. Biffi, D. Fabjan, A. M. Beck, S. Borgani, K. Dolag, M. Gaspari, G. L. Granato, G. Murante, C. Ragone-Figueroa, L. K. Steinborn

Comments: 24 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables, replaced to match accepted version

Journal-ref: 2018, MNRAS, 474, 4089T

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

[14] arXiv:1607.00027 [pdf, other]

Title: Open clusters and associations in the Gaia era

E. Moraux

Comments: To appear in EES2015 - Stellar Clusters: benchmarks of stellar physics and galactic evolution, Eds. E. Moraux, Y. Lebreton and C. Charbonnel, EAS Publications Series. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0911.1459, arXiv:1512.03658, arXiv:1512.06854, arXiv:1505.08027, arXiv:1307.0569, arXiv:astro-ph/0509804, arXiv:1511.08884, arXiv:1602.07121, arXiv:1104.2182 by other authors

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

[15] arXiv:1607.00032 [pdf, other]

Title: A Combined View of Sterile-Neutrino Constraints from CMB and Neutrino Oscillation Measurements

Sarah Bridle, Jack Elvin-Poole, Justin Evans, Susana Fernandez, Pawel Guzowski, Stefan Soldner-Rembold

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, Version accepted by Physics Letters B, minor changes to text, results unchanged

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

[16] arXiv:1607.00043 [pdf, other]

Title: Perturbative approach to covariance matrix of the matter power spectrum

Irshad Mohammed, Uros Seljak, Zvonimir Vlah

Comments: 22 pages, 17 figures, 1 table

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

[17] arXiv:1607.00044 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of a Custom Support Vector Machine for Photometric Redshift Estimation and the Inclusion of Galaxy Shape Information

Evan Jones, J. Singal

Comments: Submitted to A&A, 11 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, updated to version in revision

Journal-ref: A&A 600, A113 (2017)

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

[18] arXiv:1607.00059 [pdf, other]

Title: HI absorption spectra for Supernova Remnants in the VGPS survey

Denis Leahy, Sujith Ranasinghe

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, conference proceedings paper for the meeting: Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar death

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

[19] arXiv:1607.00074 [pdf, other]

Title: Intermittent dipping in a low-mass X-ray Binary

Duncan K. Galloway (1,2), Alishan N. Ajamyan (1), James Upjohn (1), Matthew Stuart (3) ((1) School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University, (2) also Monash Centre for Astrophysics, (3) School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University)

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures; accepted by MNRAS

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

[20] arXiv:1607.00085 [pdf, other]

Title: Metadata salad at the Cordoba Observatory

Verónica Lencinas

Comments: Presented at Astroplate: International workshop on scientific use, digitization and preserving astronomical photographic records. Prague 14 - 18 March 2016

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

[21] arXiv:1607.00094 [pdf, other]

Title: The far-infrared - radio correlation in dwarf galaxies

Dominik R. G. Schleicher, Rainer Beck

Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures, accepted at A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A77 (2016)

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

[22] arXiv:1607.00115 [pdf, other]

Title: NUV Star Catalogue from the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope Survey. First Release

Xian-Min Meng, Xu-Hui Han, Jian-Yan Wei, Jing Wang, Li Cao, Yu-Lei Qiu, Chao Wu, Jin-Song Deng, Hong-Bo Cai, Li-Ping Xin

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA)

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

[23] arXiv:1607.00129 [pdf, other]

Title: Oxygen, $\alpha$-element and iron abundance distributions in the inner part of the Galactic thin disc. II

S.M. Andrievsky, R.P. Martin, V.V. Kovtyukh, S.A. Korotin, J.R.D. Lépine

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

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

[24] arXiv:1607.00142 [pdf, other]

Title: HD 179821 (V1427 Aql, IRAS 19114+0002) -- A Massive Post-Red Supergiant Star?

Timur Sahin, David L. Lambert, Valentina G. Klochkova, Vladimir E. Panchuk

Comments: 19 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[25] arXiv:1607.00147 [pdf, other]

Title: HERA Mock Observations: Looking for Closure HERA Memorandum Number 13

C.L. Carilli, P. Sims

Comments: 14 pages. HERA Memo Number 13 located at this http URL reload -- changed one word

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

[26] arXiv:1607.00152 [pdf, other]

Title: Inhomogeneous molecular ring around the B[e] supergiant LHA 120-S 73

M. Kraus, L.S. Cidale, M.L. Arias, G. Maravelias, D.H. Nickeler, A.F. Torres, M. Borges Fernandes, A. Aret, M. Cure, R. Vallverdu, R.H. Barba

Comments: 14 pages, 13 figure, accepted for pulication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 593, A112 (2016)

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

[27] arXiv:1607.00161 [pdf, other]

Title: The violent white dwarf merger scenario for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae

Dongdong Liu, Bo Wang, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Zhanwen Han

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS, 461, 3653 (2016)

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

[28] arXiv:1607.00180 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing anthropic reasoning for the cosmological constant with a realistic galaxy formation model

Takahiro Sudoh, Tomonori Totani, Ryu Makiya, Masahiro Nagashima

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[29] arXiv:1607.00184 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining $f(R)$ Gravity Theory Using Weak Lensing Peak Statistics from the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Lensing Survey

Xiangkun Liu, Baojiu Li, Gong-Bo Zhao, Mu-Chen Chiu, Wei Fang, Chuzhong Pan, Qiao Wang, Wei Du, Shuo Yuan, Liping Fu, Zuhui Fan

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures. Updated to journal version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 051101 (2016)

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

[30] arXiv:1607.00212 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological constraints from $\mu E$ cross-correlations

Atsuhisa Ota

Comments: 20 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94, 103520 (2016)

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

[31] arXiv:1607.00228 [pdf, other]

Title: The appearance of non-spherical systems. Application to LMXB

A. Rozanska, B. Beldycki, J. Madej, T.P. Adhikari, B. You

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Acta Astronomica, comments are wellcome

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

[32] arXiv:1607.00233 [pdf, other]

Title: CALET Upper Limits on X-ray and Gamma-ray Counterparts of GW 151226

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano, Y. Asaoka, M.G. Bagliesi, G. Bigongiari, W.R. Binns, S. Bonechi, M. Bongi, P. Brog, J.H. Buckley, N. Cannady, G. Castellini, C. Checchia, M.L. Cherry, G. Collazuol, V. Di Felice, K. Ebisawa, H. Fuke, T.G. Guzik, T. Hams, M. Hareyama, N. Hasebe, K. Hibino, M. Ichimura, K. Ioka, W. Ishizaki, M.H. Israel, A. Javaid, K. Kasahara, J. Kataoka, R. Kataoka, Y. Katayose, C. Kato, N. Kawanaka, Y. Kawakubo, H. Kitamura, H.S. Krawczynski, J.F. Krizmanic, S. Kuramata, T. Lomtadze, P. Maestro, P.S. Marrocchesi, A.M. Messineo, J.W. Mitchell, S. Miyake, K. Mizutani, A.A. Moiseev, K. Mori, M. Mori, N. Mori, H.M. Motz, K. Munakata, H. Murakami, Y.E. Nakagawa, S. Nakahira, J. Nishimura, S. Okuno, J.F. Ormes, S. Ozawa, L. Pacini, F. Palma, P. Papini, A.V. Penacchioni, B.F. Rauch, S. Ricciarini, K. Sakai, T. Sakamoto, M. Sasaki, Y. Shimizu, A. Shiomi, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, F. Stolzi, I. Takahashi, M. Takayanagi, M. Takita, T. Tamura, N. Tateyama, T. Terasawa, H. Tomida, S. Torii, Y. Tsunesada, Y. Uchihori, S. Ueno, E. Vannuccini, J.P. Wefel, K. Yamaoka, S. Yanagita, A. Yoshida, K. Yoshida, T. Yuda

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL, corresponding authors: T. Sakamoto, S. Nakahira, Y. Asaoka

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

[33] arXiv:1607.00265 [pdf, other]

Title: On the nature of quiescent light curves demonstrated by WZ Sge stars

D. A. Kononov, C. H. S. Lacy, V. B. Puzin, V. P. Kozhevnikov, A. Yu. Sytov, A. P. Lyaptsev

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

[34] arXiv:1607.00270 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the dark energy equation of state using Bayes theorem and the Kullback-Leibler divergence

S. Hee, J.A. Vázquez, W.J. Handley, M.P. Hobson, A.N. Lasenby

Comments: 9 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures; published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: MNRAS (2016) 466 (1): 369-377

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

[35] arXiv:1607.00277 [pdf, other]

Title: Wavefront Sensing in Space from the PICTURE-B Sounding Rocket

Ewan S. Douglas, Christopher B. Mendillo, Timothy A. Cook, Kerri L. Cahoy, Supriya Chakrabarti

Comments: Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation

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

[36] arXiv:1607.00281 [pdf, other]

Title: The System of Molecular Clouds in the Gould Belt

V.V. Bobylev

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Astronomy Letters, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 544-554

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

[37] arXiv:1607.00288 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of the dust-to-metals ratio in high-redshift galaxies probed by GRB-DLAs

P. Wiseman, P. Schady, J. Bolmer, T. Krühler, R. M. Yates, J. Greiner, J. P. U. Fynbo

Comments: Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. 24 pages, 34 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 599, A24 (2017)

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

[38] arXiv:1607.00290 [pdf, other]

Title: Implications of gamma-ray observations on proton models of UHECR

A.D. Supanitsky

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94, 063002 (2016)

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

[39] arXiv:1607.00304 [pdf, other]

Title: Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites

T. Montmerle, P. Benvenuti, Sze-leung Cheung, L.L. Christensen, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, Xiaowei Liu, D. Lubowich, E. Mamajek, R. Schulz, G. Valsecchi, G. Williams, R. Williams

Comments: Transactions IAU, Volume XXIXA, Proc. XXIXA IAU General Assembly (Honolulu, USA), August 2015, Cambridge University Press

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

[40] arXiv:1607.00306 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-wavelength Study of Transition Region Penumbral Subarcsecond Bright Dots Using IRIS and NST

Na Deng, Vasyl Yurchyshyn, Hui Tian, Lucia Kleint, Chang Liu, Yan Xu, Haimin Wang

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJ

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

[41] arXiv:1607.00309 [pdf, other]

Title: Full Monte-Carlo description of the Moscow State University Extensive Air Shower experiment

Yu.A. Fomin, N.N. Kalmykov, I.S. Karpikov, G.V. Kulikov, M.Yu. Kuznetsov, G.I. Rubtsov, V.P. Sulakov, S.V. Troitsky

Comments: V2: some clarifications added; matches the published version. 23 pages, 12 figures (18 panels)

Journal-ref: JINST 11 (2016) T08005

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

[42] arXiv:1607.00312 [pdf, other]

Title: Hamburger Sternwarte plate archives: Historic long-term variability study of active galaxies based on digitized photographic plates

M. Wertz, D. Horns, D. Groote, T. Tuvikene, S. Czesla, J.H.M.M. Schmitt

Comments: Accepted in AN

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

[43] arXiv:1607.00320 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing Intergalactic Magnetic Fields with Simulations of Electromagnetic Cascades

Rafael Alves Batista, Andrey Saveliev, Guenter Sigl, Tanmay Vachaspati

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 94, 083005 (2016)

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

[44] arXiv:1607.00322 [pdf, other]

Title: HATS-19b, HATS-20b, HATS-21b: Three Transiting Hot-Saturns Discovered by the HATSouth Survey

W. Bhatti, G. Á. Bakos, J. D. Hartman, G. Zhou, K. Penev, D. Bayliss, A. Jordán, R. Brahm, N. Espinoza, M. Rabus, L. Mancini, M. de Val-Borro, J. Bento, S. Ciceri, Z. Csubry, T. Henning, B. Schmidt, P. Arriagada, R. P. Butler, J. Crane, S. Shectman, I. Thompson, T. G. Tan, V. Suc, J. Lázár, I. Papp, P. Sári

Comments: Submitted to AAS journals. IPython notebook at this https URL and all HATSouth planet data at this http URL

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

[45] arXiv:1607.00323 [pdf, other]

Title: Rotationally-Driven Fragmentation for the Formation of the Binary Protostellar System L1551 IRS 5

Jeremy Lim, Paul K. H. Yeung, Tomoyuki Hanawa, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Tomoaki Matsumoto, Kazuya Saigo

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[46] arXiv:1607.00343 [pdf, other]

Title: NuSTAR Observations of the Black Hole GS 1354-645: Evidence of Rapid Black Hole Spin

A. M. El-Batal (1), J. M. Miller (1), M. T. Reynolds (1), S. E. Boggs (2), F. E. Chistensen (3), W. W. Craig (2,4), F. Fuerst (5), C. J. Hailey (6), F. A. Harrison (5), D. K. Stern (7), J. Tomsick (2), D. J. Walton (7), W. W. Zhang (8) ((1) University of Michigan, (2) SSL/UCB, (3) Danish Technical University, (4) LLNL, (5) Caltech, (6) Columbia University, (7) JPL, (8) NASA/GSFC)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[47] arXiv:1607.00344 [pdf, other]

Title: Today a Duo, But Once a Trio? The Double White Dwarf HS 2220$+$2146 May Be A Post-Blue Straggler Binary

Jeff J. Andrews, Marcel Agüeros, Warren R. Brown, Natalie M. Gosnell, A. Gianninas, Mukremin Kilic, Detlev Koester

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 12 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

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

[48] arXiv:1607.00375 [pdf, other]

Title: The chemistry of interstellar argonium and other probes of the molecular fraction in diffuse clouds

David A. Neufeld (JHU), Mark G. Wolfire (UMd)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 26 pages, 8 figures

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

[49] arXiv:1607.00380 [pdf, other]

Title: High-energy neutrinos from sources in clusters of galaxies

Ke Fang, Angela V. Olinto

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 828 (2016) 37

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

[50] arXiv:1607.00382 [pdf, other]

Title: H0LiCOW II. Spectroscopic survey and galaxy-group identification of the strong gravitational lens system HE0435-1223

D. Sluse, A. Sonnenfeld, N. Rumbaugh, C. E. Rusu, C. D. Fassnacht, T. Treu, S. H. Suyu, K. C. Wong, M. W. Auger, V. Bonvin, T. Collett, F. Courbin, S. Hilbert, L. V. E. Koopmans, P. J. Marshall, G. Meylan, C. Spiniello, M. Tewes

Comments: Version revised to address referee's comments, submitted to MNRAS, 21 pages (incl. Appendix). Data associated to the paper available from the H0LICOW website this http URL

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