Astrophysics

Authors and titles for February 2022

[401] arXiv:2202.05277 [pdf, other]

Title: The impact of galaxy selection on the splashback boundaries of galaxy clusters

Stephanie O'Neil (1), Josh Borrow (1), Mark Vogelsberger (1), Benedikt Diemer (2) ((1) MIT, (2) UMD)

Comments: 18 pages, 18 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[402] arXiv:2202.05279 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensitive Chandra coverage of a representative sample of weak-line quasars: revealing the full range of X-ray properties

Q. Ni, W. N. Brandt, B. Luo, G. P. Garmire, P. B. Hall, R. M. Plotkin, O. Shemmer, J. D. Timlin III, F. Vito, J. Wu, W. Yi

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[403] arXiv:2202.05281 [pdf, html, other]

Title: SCAT Uncovers ATLAS's First Tidal Disruption Event ATLAS18mlw: A Faint and Fast TDE in a Quiescent Balmer Strong Galaxy

Jason T. Hinkle, Michael A. Tucker, Benjamin. J. Shappee, Thomas W.-S. Holoien, Patrick J. Vallely, Thomas de Jaeger, Katie Auchettl, Greg Aldering, Chris Ashall, Dhvanil D. Desai, Aaron Do, Anna V. Payne, John L. Tonry

Comments: Updated to reflect the accepted version in MNRAS

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

[404] arXiv:2202.05282 [pdf, other]

Title: Translation and Rotation Equivariant Normalizing Flow (TRENF) for Optimal Cosmological Analysis

Biwei Dai, Uros Seljak

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[405] arXiv:2202.05283 [pdf, other]

Title: An accurate treatment of scattering and diffusion in piecewise power-law models for cosmic ray and radiation/neutrino transport

Philip F. Hopkins (Caltech)

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure. Updated to match published version

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[406] arXiv:2202.05286 [pdf, other]

Title: The origin of the unfocused XMM-Newton background, its variability and lessons learned for ATHENA

Fabio Gastaldello, Martino Marelli, Silvano Molendi, Iacopo Bartalucci, Patrick Kühl, Catherine E. Grant, Simona Ghizzardi, Mariachiara Rossetti, Andrea De Luca, Andrea Tiengo

Comments: 14 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[407] arXiv:2202.05288 [pdf, other]

Title: The mechanism of efficient electron acceleration at parallel non-relativistic shocks

Mohamad Shalaby, Rouven Lemmerz, Timon Thomas, Christoph Pfrommer

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, Accepted to ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[408] arXiv:2202.05289 [pdf, other]

Title: Acoustic waves and g-mode turbulence as energy carriers in a viscous intracluster medium

Prakriti Pal Choudhury, Christopher S. Reynolds

Comments: 25 pages, 14 figures, 1 table (+2 figures in appendices). Accepted in MNRAS

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

[409] arXiv:2202.05291 [pdf, other]

Title: Luminosity function and event rate density of XMM-Newton-selected supernova shock-breakout candidates

Hui Sun, He-Yang Liu, Hai-Wu Pan, Zhu Liu, Dennis Alp, Jingwei Hu, Zhuo Li, Bing Zhang, Weimin Yuan

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[410] arXiv:2202.05300 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of a dense group of hyper-compact radio sources in the central parsec of the Galaxy

Jun-Hui Zhao, Mark R. Morris, W. M. Goss

Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures, ApJ accepted

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

[411] arXiv:2202.05301 [pdf, other]

Title: Anisotropic Infall and Substructure formation in Embedded Disks

Aleksandra Kuznetsova, Jaehan Bae, Lee Hartmann, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Comments: 20 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[412] arXiv:2202.05342 [pdf, other]

Title: Migration traps as the root cause of the Kepler dichotomy

Brianna Zawadzki, Daniel Carrera, Eric B. Ford

Comments: 21 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[413] arXiv:2202.05372 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrodynamics of Clustered Clouds: Drafting, Survival, Condensation, and Ablation

M. Elliott Williams, Robin L. Shelton

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal 926 (2022) 36-51

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

[414] arXiv:2202.05399 [pdf, other]

Title: XRISM Quick Reference

XRISM Science Team

Comments: 26 pages, 25 figures, minor revision

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

[415] arXiv:2202.05410 [pdf, other]

Title: An estimate of the stochastic gravitational wave background from the MassiveBlackII simulation

Bailey Sykes, Hannah Middleton, Andrew Melatos, Tiziana Di Matteo, Colin DeGraf, Aklant Bhowmick

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[416] arXiv:2202.05417 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactic Positrons from Thermonuclear Supernovae

T.B. Mera Evans, P. Hoeflich, R. Diehl

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables

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

[417] arXiv:2202.05424 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray emission from candidate stellar merger remnant TYC 2597-735-1 and its Blue Ring Nebula

Hans Moritz Günther, Keri Hoadley, Maximilian N. Günther, Brian D. Metzger, P. C. Schneider, Ken J. Shen

Comments: accepted by AJ, 15 pages, 5 figures

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

[418] arXiv:2202.05427 [pdf, other]

Title: The discovery of a radio galaxy of at least 5 Mpc

Martijn S.S.L. Oei, Reinout J. van Weeren, Martin J. Hardcastle, Andrea Botteon, Tim W. Shimwell, Pratik Dabhade, Aivin R.D.J.G.I.B. Gast, Huub J.A. Röttgering, Marcus Brüggen, Cyril Tasse, Wendy L. Williams, Aleksandar Shulevski

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Journal-ref: A&A 660, A2 (2022)

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

[419] arXiv:2202.05429 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactic center gamma-ray production by cosmic rays from stellar winds and Sgr A East

Andrés Scherer, Jorge Cuadra, Franz E. Bauer

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: A&A 659, A105 (2022)

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

[420] arXiv:2202.05434 [pdf, other]

Title: Getting started: How a supersonic stellar wind is initiated from a hydrostatic surface

Stan Owocki

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures; to appear in proceedings of IAUS 366, "The Origin of Outflows from Evolved Stars", Leen Decin and Clio Gielen, editors

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

[421] arXiv:2202.05440 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Parametric Spherical Jeans Mass Estimation with B-splines

Nabeel Rehemtulla, Monica Valluri, Eugene Vasiliev

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS; comments welcome

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

[422] arXiv:2202.05449 [pdf, other]

Title: Centrifugal breakout reconnection as the electron acceleration mechanism powering the radio magnetospheres of early-type stars

Stanley P Owocki, Matt E. Shultz, Asif ud-Doula, Poonam Chandra, Barnali Das, Paulo Leto

Comments: 11 pages, 6 pages, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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

[423] arXiv:2202.05475 [pdf, other]

Title: Circular polarization of fast radio bursts in the curvature radiation scenario

H. Tong, H. G. Wang

Comments: 9 pages, accepted in RAA. Three different ways to generate circular polarization intensity is newly added in the discussion section

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

[424] arXiv:2202.05477 [pdf, other]

Title: Vacuum Birefringence in a Supercritical Magnetic Field and a Subcritical Electric Field

Chul Min Kim, Sang Pyo Kim

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

[425] arXiv:2202.05478 [pdf, other]

Title: Vetting Asteroseismic $\Delta\nu$ Measurements using Neural Networks

Claudia Reyes, Dennis Stello, Marc Hon, Joel C. Zinn

Comments: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal

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

[426] arXiv:2202.05479 [pdf, other]

Title: When models fail: an introduction to posterior predictive checks and model misspecification in gravitational-wave astronomy

Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Eric Thrane, Paul D. Lasky

Comments: 15 figures

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

[427] arXiv:2202.05482 [pdf, other]

Title: Is the black-widow pulsar PSR J1555-2908 in a hierarchical triple system?

L. Nieder, M. Kerr, C. J. Clark, P.Bruel, H. T. Cromartie, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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

[428] arXiv:2202.05521 [pdf, other]

Title: The co-evolution of molecular hydrogen and the grain size distribution in an isolated galaxy

Leonard E. C. Romano, Kentaro Nagamine, Hiroyuki Hirashita

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 16 pages, 13 figures

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

[429] arXiv:2202.05552 [pdf, other]

Title: Stellar mergers as the origin of the blue main-sequence band in young star clusters

Chen Wang, Norbert Langer, Abel Schootemeijer, Antonino Milone, Ben Hastings, Xiao-Tian Xu, Julia Bodensteiner, Hugues Sana, Norberto Castro, D.J. Lennon, Pablo Marchant, A. de Koter, Selma E. de Mink

Comments: Published in Nature Astronomy online. Link to the paper:this https URL

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

[430] arXiv:2202.05556 [pdf, other]

Title: Boosting jittering jets by neutrino heating in core collapse supernovae

Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[431] arXiv:2202.05563 [pdf, other]

Title: The X-ray activity of the young solar-like star Kepler-63 and the structure of its corona

M. Coffaro, B. Stelzer, S. Orlando

Comments: 15 pages; 2 tables; 12 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. Abstract shortened for the arXiv listing

Journal-ref: A&A 661, A79 (2022)

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

[432] arXiv:2202.05608 [pdf, other]

Title: Dissecting the different components of the modest accretion bursts of the very young protostar HOPS 373

Sung-Yong Yoon, Gregory J. Herczeg, Jeong-Eun Lee, Ho-Gyu Lee, Doug Johnstone, Watson Varricatt, John J. Tobin, Carlos Contreras Peña, Steve Mairs, Klaus Hodapp, P. Manoj, Mayra Osorio, S. Thomas Megeath, the JCMT Transient Team

Comments: 29 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[433] arXiv:2202.05618 [pdf, other]

Title: Mergers of supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes in galactic nuclei from disruptions of star clusters

Giacomo Fragione

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJ

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

[434] arXiv:2202.05633 [pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of hot subdwarfs with extremely high carbon and oxygen abundances

Klaus Werner, Nicole Reindl, Stephan Geier, Max Pritzkuleit

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. This Letter is accompanied by a paper entitled "An evolutionary channel for CO-rich and pulsating He-rich subdwarfs" by Miller Bertolami et al., appearing in the same issue of MNRAS Letters and on arxiv

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

[435] arXiv:2202.05635 [pdf, other]

Title: An evolutionary channel for CO-rich and pulsating He-rich subdwarfs

Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami, Tiara Battich, Alejandro H. Córsico, Leandro G. Althaus, Felipe C. Wachlin

Comments: 6 Pages, 4Figures. Companion paper to "Discovery of hot subdwarfs with extremely high carbon and oxygen abundances" by Klaus Werner et alia

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

[436] arXiv:2202.05649 [pdf, other]

Title: A prototype for pulsar observations at low radio frequencies using log periodic dipole antennas

Kshitij S. Bane, Indrajit V. Barve, G. V. S. Gireesh, C. Kathiravan, R. Ramesh

Comments: 22 pages, 8 figures, Published in The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS)

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

[437] arXiv:2202.05699 [pdf, other]

Title: The activity of the post-nova V1363 Cyg on long timescales

Vojtech Simon

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures

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

[438] arXiv:2202.05705 [pdf, other]

Title: The FRB 20121102A November rain in 2018 observed with the Arecibo Telescope

J. N. Jahns, L. G. Spitler, K. Nimmo, D. M. Hewitt, M. P. Snelders, A. Seymour, J. W. T. Hessels, K. Gourdji, D. Michilli, G. H. Hilmarsson

Comments: 22 pages, 15 figures, published in MNRAS. Data available at this https URL

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 519, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 666-687

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

[439] arXiv:2202.05707 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncertainties associated with the backward integration of dwarf satellites using simple parametric potentials

Richard D'Souza, Eric F. Bell

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[440] arXiv:2202.05715 [pdf, other]

Title: Jets from main sequence and white dwarf companions during common envelope evolution

Yangyuxin Zou, Luke Chamandy, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Eric G. Blackman, Adam Frank

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures

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

[441] arXiv:2202.05719 [pdf, other]

Title: Impact of satellite glints on the transient science on ZTF scale

Sergey Karpov, Julien Peloton

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

[442] arXiv:2202.05753 [pdf, other]

Title: A multiwavelength-motivated X-ray model for the Circinus Galaxy

Carolina Andonie, Claudio Ricci, Stéphane Paltani, Patricia Arévalo, Ezequiel Treister, Franz Bauer, Marko Stalevski

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 15 pages, 10 figures, 8 tables

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

[443] arXiv:2202.05759 [pdf, other]

Title: The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: V. Chemical Abundances of CTIO/Hydra Clusters using The Cannon

Amy E. Ray, Peter M. Frinchaboy, John Donor, S. D. Chojnowski, Matthew Melendez

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, astronomical journal accepted

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

[444] arXiv:2202.05782 [pdf, other]

Title: Parameterizing the AGN radius -- luminosity relation from the Eigenvector 1 viewpoint

Swayamtrupta Panda ((1) Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (2) Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica - MCTIC, Itajubá, Brazil, (3) Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)

Comments: 33 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in `Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences: Rising Stars' Issue

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

[445] arXiv:2202.05790 [pdf, other]

Title: 97 Eclipsing Quadruple Star Candidates Discovered in TESS Full Frame Images

Veselin B. Kostov, Brian P. Powell, Saul A. Rappaport, Tamas Borkovits, Robert Gagliano, Thomas L. Jacobs, Martti H. Kristiansen, Daryll M. LaCourse, Mark Omohundro, Jerome Orosz, Allan R. Schmitt, Hans M. Schwengeler, Ivan A. Terentev, Guillermo Torres, Thomas Barclay, Adam H. Friedman, Ethan Kruse, Greg Olmschenk, Andrew Vanderburg, William Welsh

Comments: 56 pages, 27 figures, 4 tables

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

[446] arXiv:2202.05802 [pdf, other]

Title: Improved early-warning estimates of luminosity distance and orbital inclination of compact binary mergers using higher modes of gravitational radiation

Mukesh Kumar Singh, Divyajyoti, Shasvath J. Kapadia, Md Arif Shaikh, Parameswaran Ajith

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures

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

[447] arXiv:2202.05805 [pdf, other]

Title: "Stairway to Heaven" -- Spectroscopy of Particle Couplings with Gravitational Waves

Daniel G. Figueroa, Adrien Florio, Nicolas Loayza, Mauro Pieroni

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures and supplemental material

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

[448] arXiv:2202.05809 [pdf, other]

Title: Hard X-ray luminosity functions of cataclysmic variables: Joint Swift/BAT and Gaia data

Valery F. Suleimanov, Victor Doroshenko, Klaus Werner (IAAT)

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[449] arXiv:2202.05813 [pdf, other]

Title: Transit Timing Variations for AU Microscopii b & c

Justin M. Wittrock, Stefan Dreizler, Michael A. Reefe, Brett M. Morris, Peter P. Plavchan, Patrick J. Lowrance, Brice-Olivier Demory, James G. Ingalls, Emily A. Gilbert, Thomas Barclay, Bryson L. Cale, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Diana Dragomir, Jason D. Eastman, Mohammed El Mufti, Dax Feliz, Jonathan Gagne, Eric Gaidos, Peter Gao, Claire S. Geneser, Leslie Hebb, Christopher E. Henze, Keith D. Horne, Jon M. Jenkins, Eric L. N. Jensen, Stephen R. Kane, Laurel Kaye, Eder Martioli, Teresa A. Monsue, Enric Palle, Elisa V. Quintana, Don J. Radford, Veronica Roccatagliata, Joshua E. Schlieder, Richard P. Schwarz, Avi Shporer, Keivan G. Stassun, Christopher Stockdale, Thiam-Guan Tan, Angelle M. Tanner, Andrew Vanderburg, Laura D. Vega, Songhu Wang

Comments: Corrected typos; revised Section 3, 4, and 5 to reflect reanalysis, results unchanged. Submitted to AAS Journals Nov 11th, 2020; favorable referee report received Jan 3rd; final draft accepted for publication in the AJ Apr 19th

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

[450] arXiv:2202.05814 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic-ray generated bubbles around their sources

Benedikt Schroer, Oreste Pezzi, Damiano Caprioli, Colby Haggerty, Pasquale Blasi

Comments: 12 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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