Astrophysics

Authors and titles for November 2016

[1101] arXiv:1611.09923 [pdf, other]

Title: A Grism Design Review and the as-built performance of the silicon grisms for JWST-NIRCAM

Casey Deen, Michael Gully-Santiago, Weisong Wang, Jasmina Pozderac, Douglas Mar, Daniel Jaffe

Comments: Accepted for publication in PASP

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

[1102] arXiv:1611.09936 [pdf, other]

Title: ALMA Reveals Potential Localized Dust Enrichment from Massive Star Clusters in II Zw 40

S. Michelle Consiglio, Jean L. Turner, Sara Beck, David S. Meier

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 833, Issue 1, article id. L6, 6pp. (2016)

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

[1103] arXiv:1611.09937 [pdf, other]

Title: Model Atmospheres for X-ray Bursting Neutron Stars

Zach Medin, Marina von Steinkirch, Alan C. Calder, Christopher J. Fontes, Chris L. Fryer, Aimee L. Hungerford

Comments: 25 pages, 14 figures

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 832:102 (24pp), 2016 December 1

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

[1104] arXiv:1611.09938 [pdf, other]

Title: High Gas Surface Densities yet Low UV Attenuation in z $\sim$ 1 Disc Galaxies

Raanan Nordon

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, submitted to MNRAS. Comments are welcome

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

[1105] arXiv:1611.09953 [pdf, other]

Title: "Orphan" $\gamma$-ray Flares and Stationary Sheaths of Blazar Jets

Nicholas R. MacDonald, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher

Comments: 19 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.01239

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

[1106] arXiv:1611.09954 [pdf, other]

Title: Faraday Conversion in Turbulent Blazar Jets

Nicholas R. MacDonald, Alan P. Marscher

Comments: 17 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[1107] arXiv:1611.09966 [pdf, other]

Title: Reconnection and particle acceleration in interacting flux ropes I. Magnetohydrodynamics and test particles in 2.5D

Bart Ripperda, Oliver Porth, Chun Xia, Rony Keppens

Comments: Accepted in MNRAS

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[1108] arXiv:1611.09974 [pdf, other]

Title: On a role of corotation radius in the low $T/W$ dynamical instability of differentially rotating stars

Shin'ichirou Yoshida, Motoyuki Saijo

Comments: 14 pages, 14 figures. To appear in MNRAS

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

[1109] arXiv:1611.09976 [pdf, other]

Title: The Surface Brightness--Color Relations Based on Eclipsing Binary Stars: Toward Precision Better than 1% in Angular Diameter Predictions

Dariusz Graczyk, Piotr Konorski, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Wolfgang Gieren, Jesper Storm, Nicolas Nardetto, Alexandre Gallenne, Pierre F. L. Maxted, Pierre Kervella, Zbigniew Kolaczkowski

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Comments welcome

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

[1110] arXiv:1611.09994 [pdf, other]

Title: A Case Study in Astronomical 3-D Printing: The Mysterious Eta Carinae

Thomas I. Madura

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures, 5 embedded interactive 3-D figures, Accepted for publication in the PASP Focus Issue "Techniques and Methods for Astrophysical Data Visualization." The 3-D print files are included as ancillary material in the /anc subfolder

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

[1111] arXiv:1611.09995 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroid-Comet Continuum Objects in the Solar System

Henry H. Hsieh

Comments: 14 pages; accepted for publication in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A

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

[1112] arXiv:1611.09997 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on Bounded Motion and Mutual Escape for the Full 3-Body Problem

D.J. Scheeres

Comments: Accepted for publication in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[1113] arXiv:1611.10013 [pdf, other]

Title: Increasing Fisher Information by Moving-Mesh Reconstruction

Qiaoyin Pan, Ue-Li Pen, Derek Inman, Hao-Ran Yu

Comments: 6 pages

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

[1114] arXiv:1611.10025 [pdf, other]

Title: The Size of Local Bispectrum and Trispectrum in a Non-Minimal Inflation

Kosar Asadi, Kourosh Nozari

Comments: 22 two column pages, 18 figures, title changed, extension to the Einstein frame is added, major revision with new references

Journal-ref: Nucl. Phys. B 934 (2018)118

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

[1115] arXiv:1611.10032 [pdf, other]

Title: Enhancement of a sunspot light wall with external disturbances

Shuhong Yang, Jun Zhang, Robert Erdélyi

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[1116] arXiv:1611.10054 [pdf, other]

Title: High Energy Cosmic Rays From Supernovae

Giovanni Morlino

Comments: Final draft of a chapter in "Handbook of Supernovae" edited by Athem W. Alsabti and Paul Murdin

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

[1117] arXiv:1611.10069 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncertainties in primordial black-hole constraints on the primordial power spectrum

Yashar Akrami, Florian Kuhnel, Marit Sandstad

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures; v4: revised version to match published version

Journal-ref: Physics of the Dark Universe 19 (2018) 124-128

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

[1118] arXiv:1611.10085 [pdf, other]

Title: The sub-galactic and nuclear main sequences for local star-forming galaxies

A. Maragkoudakis, A. Zezas, M. L. N. Ashby, S. P. Willner

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 13 pages, 13 figures, 1 table

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

[1119] arXiv:1611.10092 [pdf, other]

Title: CNO behaviour in planet-harbouring stars. II. Carbon abundances in stars with and without planets using the CH band

L. Suárez-Andrés, G. Israelian, J.I. González Hernández, V. Zh. Adibekyan, E. Delgado Mena, N. C. Santos, S. G. Sousa

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 599, A96 (2017)

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

[1120] arXiv:1611.10125 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on violation of Lorentz invariance from atmospheric showers initiated by multi-TeV photons

Grigory Rubtsov, Petr Satunin, Sergey Sibiryakov

Comments: 21 pages, 4 figures. References added

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

[1121] arXiv:1611.10131 [pdf, other]

Title: Mean Flow Evolution of Saturated Forced Shear Flows in Polytropic Atmospheres

V. Witzke, L. J. Silvers

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, Astrofluid Conference Proceedings

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

[1122] arXiv:1611.10149 [pdf, other]

Title: $\mathcal{Q}^{+}$: Characterising the structure of young star clusters

S. E. Jaffa, A. P. Whitworth, O. Lomax

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS

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

[1123] arXiv:1611.10183 [pdf, other]

Title: Features of collisionless turbulence in the intracluster medium from simulated Faraday rotation maps II: the effects of instabilities feedback

R. Santos-Lima, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, D. A. Falceta-Gonçalves, M. S. Nakwacki, G. Kowal

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication on MNRAS

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

[1124] arXiv:1611.10193 [pdf, other]

Title: Planetary nebulae as kinematic tracers of galaxy stellar halos

Lodovico Coccato (European Southern Observatory)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 323 (Planetary Nebulae: Multi-Wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution), eds. Xiaowei Liu, Letizia Stanghellini, and Amanda Karakas

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

[1125] arXiv:1611.10197 [pdf, other]

Title: 15-Digit Accuracy Calculations of Chandrasekhar's $H$-function for Isotropic Scattering by Means of the Double Exponential Formula

Kiyoshi Kawabata

Comments: 15 pages, 8 tables, The article is available electronically: this http URL

Journal-ref: Astropysics and Space Science Vol.361 (12), 1-10 (2016)

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

[1126] arXiv:1611.10201 [pdf, other]

Title: A study of solar photospheric temperature gradient variation using limb darkening measurements

Serena Criscuoli, Peter Foukal

Comments: Accepted in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[1127] arXiv:1611.10207 [pdf, other]

Title: Gaia16apd -- a link between fast-and slowly-declining type I superluminous supernovae

T. Kangas, N. Blagorodnova, S. Mattila, P. Lundqvist, M. Fraser, U. Burgaz, E. Cappellaro, J. M. Carrasco Martínez, N. Elias-Rosa, L. K. Hardy, J. Harmanen, E. Y. Hsiao, J. Isern, E. Kankare, Z. Kołaczkowski, M. B. Nielsen, T. M. Reynolds, L. Rhodes, A. Somero, M. D. Stritzinger, Ł. Wyrzykowski

Comments: 14 pages; 8 figures. Updated on June 5 2017; now published in MNRAS after revision

Journal-ref: 2017MNRAS.469.1246K

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

[1128] arXiv:1611.10222 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints from Faraday rotation on the magnetic field structure in the Galactic halo

Philippe Terral, Katia Ferriere

Comments: 23 pages, 23 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 600, A29 (2017)

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

[1129] arXiv:1611.10223 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on pulsar masses from the maximum observed glitch

Pierre Pizzochero, Marco Antonelli, Brynmor Haskell, Stefano Seveso

Comments: 5 figures, 1 table

Journal-ref: Nature Astronomy 1, 0134 (2017)

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

[1130] arXiv:1611.10226 [pdf, other]

Title: Nuclear pasta and supernova neutrinos at late times

C. J. Horowitz, D. K. Berry, M. E. Caplan, T. Fischer, Zidu Lin, W. G. Newton, E. O'Connor, L. F. Roberts

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures

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

[1131] arXiv:1611.10230 [pdf, other]

Title: Burst and Outburst Characteristics of Magnetar 4U 0142+61

Ersin Gogus, Lin Lin, Oliver J. Roberts, Manoneeta Chakraborty, Yuki Kaneko, Ramandeep Gill, Jonathan Granot, Alexander J. van der Horst, Anna L. Watts, Matthew Baring, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Daniela Huppenkothen, George Younes

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[1132] arXiv:1611.10244 [pdf, other]

Title: Hard X-ray Spectral Investigations of Gamma-ray Bursts, 120521C and 130606A, at High-redshift z~6

Tetsuya Yasuda, Yuji Urata, Junich Enomoto, Makoto S. Tashiro

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures; accepted to MNRAS ref. MN-16-1747-MJ.R2

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

[1133] arXiv:1611.10246 [pdf, other]

Title: Gaseous abundances in planetary nebulae: What have we learned in the past five years?

G. Delgado-Inglada

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures; corrected typos. Invited review to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symp. 323: "Planetary nebulae: Multi-wavelength probes of stellar and galactic evolution". Eds. X.-W. Liu, L. Stanghellini and A. Karakas

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

[1134] arXiv:1611.10262 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Redshifts of the BL Lac 3FGL J0909.0+2310 and its Close Companion

D. Rosa-Gonzalez, S. Coutiño de Leon, Y. D. Mayya, A. Carramiñana, I. Aretxaga, J. Becerra Gonzalez, A. Furniss, E. Terlevich, O. Vega, J. Mendez-Abreu, J. Leon Tavares, A. L. Longinotti, R. Terlevich

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS, 2016 November 30

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

[1135] arXiv:1611.10269 [pdf, other]

Title: Complementing the ground-based CMB Stage-4 experiment on large scales with the PIXIE satellite

Erminia Calabrese, David Alonso, Jo Dunkley

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 95, 063504 (2017)

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

[1136] arXiv:1611.10274 [pdf, other]

Title: PDR Emission from the Arched-Filaments and Nearby Positions

P. García, M. Röllig, N. Abel, M. Steinke, M. Burton, R. Blackwell

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

[1137] arXiv:1611.10292 [pdf, other]

Title: Perspective on the cosmic-ray electron spectrum above TeV

Kun Fang, Bing-Bing Wang, Xiao-Jun Bi, Su-Jie Lin, Peng-Fei Yin

Comments: 43 pages, 15 figures

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

[1138] arXiv:1611.10298 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroseismology of ZZ Ceti stars with fully evolutionary white dwarf models: I. The impact of the uncertainties from prior evolution on the period spectrum

Francisco C. De Gerónimo, Leandro G. Althaus, Alejandro H. Córsico, Alejandra D. Romero, S. O. Kepler

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures. To be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[1139] arXiv:1611.10322 [pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of light and charge yield of low-energy electronic recoils in liquid xenon

L. W. Goetzke, E. Aprile, M. Anthony, G. Plante, M. Weber

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 96, 103007 (2017)

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

[1140] arXiv:1611.10326 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak lensing magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

M. Garcia-Fernandez, E. Sánchez, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Suchyta, E. M. Huff, E. Gaztanaga, J. Aleksić, R. Ponce, F. J. Castander, B. Hoyle, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam, J. Annis, A. Benoit-Lévy, G. M. Bernstein, E. Bertin, D. Brooks, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Crocce, C. E. Cunha, C. B. D'Andrea, L. N. da Costa, D. L. DePoy, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, T. F. Eifler, A. E. Evrard, E. Fernandez, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, D. W. Gerdes, T. Giannantonio, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, D. J. James, M. Jarvis, D. Kirk, E. Krause, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, M. Lima, N. MacCrann, M. A. G. Maia, M. March, J. L. Marshall, P. Melchior, R. Miquel, J. J. Mohr, A. A. Plazas, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, E. S. Rykoff, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, R. C. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, A. R. Walker, W. Wester

Comments: 18 pages, 16 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[1141] arXiv:1611.10332 [pdf, other]

Title: Metal-Rich SX Phe stars in the Kepler Field

James M. Nemec, Luis A. Balona, Simon J. Murphy, Karen Kinemuchi, Young-Beom Jeon

Comments: 43 pages, 23 figures, accepted MNRAS Nov.23,2016

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

[1142] arXiv:1611.10347 [pdf, other]

Title: Wavelet-Bayesian inference of cosmic strings embedded in the cosmic microwave background

J. D. McEwen, S. M. Feeney, H. V. Peiris, Y. Wiaux, C. Ringeval, F. R. Bouchet

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures, minor changes to match version accepted by MNRAS

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

[1143] arXiv:1611.10350 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust predictions for an oscillatory bispectrum in Planck 2015 data from transient reductions in the speed of sound of the inflaton

Jesus Torrado, Bin Hu, Ana Achucarro

Comments: 19 pages - matches published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 96, 083515 (2017)

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

[1144] arXiv:1611.10360 [pdf, other]

Title: Zoom-Simulations of Protoplanetary Disks starting from GMC scales

Michael Kuffmeier, Troels Haugboelle, Åke Nordlund

Comments: 21 pages, 23 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[1145] arXiv:1611.10361 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing dw1335-29, a recently discovered dwarf satellite of M83

Andreia Carrillo, Eric Bell, Jeremy Bailin, Antonela Monachesi, Roelof S. de Jong, Benjamin Harmsen, Colin Slater

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[1146] arXiv:1611.10362 [pdf, other]

Title: Upper limits for Mass and Radius of objects around Proxima Cen from SPHERE/VLT

D. Mesa, A. Zurlo, J. Milli, R. Gratton, S. Desidera, M. Langlois, A. Vigan, M. Bonavita, J. Antichi, H. Avenhaus, A. Baruffolo, B. Biller, A. Boccaletti, P. Bruno, E. Cascone, G. Chauvin, R.U. Claudi, V. De Caprio, D. Fantinel, G. Farisato, J. Girard, E. Giro, J. Hagelberg, S. Incorvaia, M. Janson, Q. Kral, E. Lagadec, A.-M. Lagrange, L. Lessio, M. Meyer, S. Peretti, C. Perrot, B. Salasnich, J. Schlieder, H.-M. Schmid, S. Scuderi, E. Sissa, C. Thalmann, M. Turatto

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[1147] arXiv:1611.00018 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: More On Cosmological Gravitational Waves And Their Memories

Yi-Zen Chu

Comments: 84 pages, 1 figure

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

[1148] arXiv:1611.00055 (cross-list from cs.DL) [pdf, other]

Title: The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy

Christine L. Borgman, Peter T. Darch, Ashley E. Sands, Milena S. Golshan

Comments: Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, October 14-18, 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark. 10 pages; this https URL

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 79th ASIS&T Annual Meeting (Vol. 53), 2016

Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Computers and Society (cs.CY)

[1149] arXiv:1611.00076 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational lensing by compact objects within plasma

Adam Rogers

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures. Summary of an invited parallel session talk given in the GL3 session at the 14th Marcel Grossmann meeting, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015. For more details, see A. Rogers, 2015, MNRAS, 451, 1, 17-25

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

[1150] arXiv:1611.00199 (cross-list from physics.space-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: On the Existence of the Kolmogorov Inertial Range in the Terrestrial Magnetosheath Turbulence

S. Y. Huang, L. Z. Hadid, F. Sahraoui, Z. G. Yuan, X. H. Deng

Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)