Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2016

[1301] arXiv:1611.08997 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO

Carl Blair, Slawek Gras, Richard Abbott, Stuart Aston, Joseph Betzwieser, David Blair, Ryan DeRosa, Matthew Evans, Valera Frolov, Peter Fritschel, Hartmut Grote, Terra Hardwick, Jian Liu, Marc Lormand, John Miller, Adam Mullavey, Brian O'Reilly, Chunnong Zhao, LSC Instrument Authors

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151102 (2017)

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

[1302] arXiv:1611.09006 (cross-list from nucl-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar $^{54}$Fe($n, \gamma$)$^{55}$Fe cross sections via AMS

Anton Wallner, Tamas Belgya, Kathrin Buczak, Laurent Coquard, Max Bichler, Iris Dillmann, Robin Golser, Franz Käppeler, Amanda Karakas, Walter Kutschera, Claudia Lederer, Alberto Mengoni, Marco Pignatari, Alfred Priller, Rene Reifarth, Peter Steier, Laszlo Szentmiklosi

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

[1303] arXiv:1611.09016 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized uncertainty principles, effective Newton constant and regular black holes

Xiang Li, Yi Ling, You-Gen Shen, Cheng-Zhou Liu, Hong-Sheng He, Lan-Fang Xu

Comments: 22 pages

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

[1304] arXiv:1611.09188 (cross-list from physics.chem-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum tunneling during interstellar surface-catalyzed formation of water: the reaction H + H$_2$O$_2$ $\rightarrow$ H$_2$O + OH

Thanja Lamberts, Pradipta Kumar Samanta, Andreas Köhn, Johannes Kästner

Comments: Accepted for publication by Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016. Supplementary information available: this http URL

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

[1305] arXiv:1611.09223 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Newton gauge cosmological perturbations for static spherically symmetric modifications of the de Sitter metric

Camilo Santa Velez, Antonio Enea Romano

Comments: 20 pages, version accepted by JCAP, typo in the title corrected

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

[1306] arXiv:1611.09275 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Light propagation through black-hole lattices

Eloisa Bentivegna, Mikołaj Korzyński, Ian Hinder, Daniel Gerlicher

Comments: 32 pages, 10 figures, matches published version

Journal-ref: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 1703, 014 (2017)

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

[1307] arXiv:1611.09320 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the monochromatic gamma-rays from dark matter annihilation by the LHC

Arman Esmaili, Sara Khatibi, Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 96, 015027 (2017)

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

[1308] arXiv:1611.09370 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Aharonov-Bohm protection of black hole's baryon/skyrmion hair

Gia Dvali, Alexander Gußmann

Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Lett. B 768 (2017) 274-279

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

[1309] arXiv:1611.09628 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring Global Monopole Velocities, one by one

Asier Lopez-Eiguren, Jon Urrestilla, Ana Achúcarro

Comments: v2: Minor changes. Matches published version. 22 pages, 4 figures. v3: Erratum added that corrects a mistake in a formula and the corresponding tables, without modifying the conclussions

Journal-ref: JCAP01(2017)020; Erratum: JCAP06(2017)E01

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

[1310] arXiv:1611.09712 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: A HEMT-Based Cryogenic Charge Amplifier with sub-100 eVee Ionization Resolution for Massive Semiconductor Dark Matter Detectors

A. Phipps, A. Juillard, B. Sadoulet, B. Serfass, Y. Jin

Comments: Published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A

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

[1311] arXiv:1611.09720 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: The Black Hole Accretion Code

Oliver Porth, Hector Olivares, Yosuke Mizuno, Ziri Younsi, Luciano Rezzolla, Monika Moscibrodzka, Heino Falcke, Michael Kramer

Comments: revised version accepted for publication by Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology. Some figures have been down-sampled

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

[1312] arXiv:1611.09810 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Phenomenology with fluctuating quantum geometries in loop quantum cosmology

Ivan Agullo, Abhay Ashtekar, Brajesh Gupt

Comments: 28 pages, 13 figures

Journal-ref: Class. Quant. Grav. 34, 074003-33 (2017)

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

[1313] arXiv:1611.09812 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Limiting the effects of earthquakes on gravitational-wave interferometers

Michael Coughlin, Paul Earle, Jan Harms, Sebastien Biscans, Christopher Buchanan, Eric Coughlin, Fred Donovan, Jeremy Fee, Hunter Gabbard, Michelle Guy, Nikhil Mukund, Matthew Perry

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. 34 044004 (2017)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[1314] arXiv:1611.09834 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Whirling orbits around twirling black holes from conformal symmetry

Shahar Hadar, Achilleas P. Porfyriadis

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures

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

[1315] arXiv:1611.09855 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: The photo-philic QCD axion

Marco Farina, Duccio Pappadopulo, Fabrizio Rompineve, Andrea Tesi

Comments: 22 pages, 5 figures. Experimental signature from CASPEr-wind added

Journal-ref: JHEP 1701 (2017) 095

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

[1316] arXiv:1611.10074 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Universality for quintessence

F. Cicciarella, M. Pieroni

Comments: 21 pages + appendices, 23 figures

Journal-ref: JCAP 1708 (2017) no.08, 010

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

[1317] arXiv:1611.10172 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Localization of Vector Field on Dynamical Domain Wall

Masafumi Higuchi, Shin'ichi Nojiri

Comments: LaTeX 12 pages

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

[1318] arXiv:1611.10178 (cross-list from physics.flu-dyn) [pdf, other]

Title: An analytical test case for dust dynamics during a shock-wave passage

Lars Mattsson

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures. Updated refernces. To appear in the proceedings of The 19th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)