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Title: Teorie lunari, effemeridi e sistemi di coordinate (Lunar theories, ephemerides and coordinates systems)

Comments: 55 pages with figures; the text is in Italian. Thesis (Laurea Magistrale, first level) discussed on Feb 22, 2006 at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Geography

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

[2] arXiv:1202.1265 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Oscillations in the Habitable Zone around Alpha Centauri B

Authors: Duncan Forgan

Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[3] arXiv:1202.1248 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On The Doppler Velocity of Emission Line Profiles Formed in the "Coronal Contraflow" that is the Chromosphere-Corona Mass Cycle

Authors: Scott W. McIntosh, Hui Tian, Marybeth Sechler, Bart De Pontieu

Comments: 7 pages, 5 color figures. Accepted to Appear ApJ

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

[4] arXiv:1202.1247 [pdf, other]

Title: Backreaction on the luminosity-redshift relation from gauge invariant light-cone averaging

Authors: I. Ben-Dayan, M. Gasperini, G. Marozzi, F. Nugier, G. Veneziano

Comments: 22 pages, 4 figures

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

[5] arXiv:1202.1225 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The long gamma-ray burst rate and the correlation with host galaxy properties

Authors: J. Elliott (1), J. Greiner (1), S. Khochfar (1), P. Schady (1), J. L. Johnson (1 and 2), A. Rau (1) ((1) Max-Planck-Insitut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, (2) Los Alamnos Laboratory)

Comments: 15 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[6] arXiv:1202.1200 [pdf, other]

Title: A Search for Hydroxylamine (NH2OH) toward Select Astronomical Sources

Authors: Robin L. Pulliam, Brett A. McGuire, Anthony J. Remijan

Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[7] arXiv:1202.1196 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Evolution of intrinsic ellipticity correlations due to peculiar motion

Authors: Aram Giahi-Saravani (ARI/ZAH, Heidelberg), Bjoern Malte Schaefer (ARI/ZAH, Heidelberg)

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[8] arXiv:1202.1191 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations from black holes

Authors: M. H. Erkut

Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures, already published in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 743:5 (9pp), 2011

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

[9] arXiv:1202.1184 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Correlated X-ray/Ultraviolet/Optical variability in the very low mass AGN NGC 4395

Authors: D. T. Cameron, I. Mc Hardy, T. Dwelly, E. Breedt, P. Uttley, P. Lira, P. Arevalo

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[10] arXiv:1202.1182 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Anatomy of helical relativistic jets: The case of S5 0836+710

Authors: Manel Perucho, Yuri Y. Kovalev, Andrei P. Lobanov, Philip E. Hardee, Ivan Agudo

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[11] arXiv:1202.1172 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Nonlocal Gravitational Models and Exact Solutions

Authors: Sergey Yu. Vernov

Comments: 4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the International Workshop "Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries" (SQS'2011), Dubna, Russia, July 18-23, 2011, this http URL

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)

[12] arXiv:1202.1170 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Saas-Fee Lecture Notes: Multi-messenger Astronomy and Dark Matter

Authors: Las Bergstrom

Comments: 105 pages, 12 figures. Lecture notes from the Saas-Fee Advanced Course 40, 2010, "Astrophysics at Very-High Energies" to be published by Springer

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

[13] arXiv:1202.1168 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A tidally destructed massive planet as the progenitor of the two light planets around the sdB star KIC 05807616

Authors: Ealeal Bear, Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Submitted

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

[14] arXiv:1202.1138 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A universal stellar-mass and size relation of galaxies in GOODS-N region

Authors: Takashi Ichikawa, Masaru Kajisawa, Mohammad Akhlaghi

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[15] arXiv:1202.1128 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a Fermi source with the Nancay Radio Telescope

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[16] arXiv:1202.1123 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Modeling pulsar time noise with long term power law decay modulated by short term oscillations of the magnetic fields of neutron stars

Authors: Shuang-Nan Zhang, Yi Xie

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to IJMPD

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

[17] arXiv:1202.1116 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spectrum Analysis of Bright Kepler Gamma Doradus Candidate Stars

Authors: Andrew Tkachenko, Holher Lehmann, Barry Smalley, Jonas Debosscher, Conny Aerts

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, 7 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[18] arXiv:1202.1113 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Height of Chromospheric Loops in an Emerging Flux Region

Authors: L. Merenda, A. Lagg, S. K. Solanki

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: 2011A&A...532A..63M

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

[19] arXiv:1202.1102 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Evolution of the spectral curvature in the ULX Holmberg II X-1

Authors: J. J. E. Kajava, J. Poutanen, S. A. Farrell, F. Grisé, P. Kaaret

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[20] arXiv:1202.1096 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radio-to-TeV Phase-resolved Emission from the Crab Pulsar: The Annular Gap Model

Authors: YuanJie Du, GuoJun Qiao, Wei Wang

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables; accepted by ApJ on Jan 18. Due to the character limitation, the abstract here has been adopted a shortened version

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

[21] arXiv:1202.1094 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The BSS population in NGC 6229

Authors: N. Sanna, E. Dalessandro, B. Lanzoni, F. R. Ferraro, G. Beccari, R. T. Rood

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[22] arXiv:1202.1086 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The orbit of 2010 TK7. Possible regions of stability for other Earth Trojan asteroids

Authors: Rudolf Dvorak, Christoph Lhotka, Liyong Zhou

Comments: 11 pages, 16 figures

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

[23] arXiv:1202.1064 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Extreme Coronal Line Emitters: Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei?

Authors: Tinggui Wang, Hongyan Zhou, S. Komossa, Huiyuan Wang, Weimin Yuan, Chenwei Yang

Comments: 32 pages, 12 figures, ApJ accepted

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[24] arXiv:1202.1044 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Kinematics and excitation of the ram pressure stripped ionized gas filaments in the Coma cluster of galaxies

Authors: Michitoshi Yoshida (1), Masafumi Yagi (2), Yutaka Komiyama (2), Hisanori Furusawa (2), Nobunari Kashikawa (2), Takashi Hattori (2), Sadanori Okamura (3) ((1) Hiroshima U., (2) NAOJ, (3) U. Tokyo)

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 14 pages, 23 figures, emulateapj format

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

[25] arXiv:1202.1035 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Water Formation through a Quantum Tunneling Surface Reaction, OH + H2, at 10 K

Authors: Y. Oba, N. Watanabe, T. Hama, K. Kuwahata, H. Hidaka, A. Kouchi

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[26] arXiv:1202.1034 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectral components analysis of diffuse emission processes

Authors: Dmitry Malyshev

Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures

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

[27] arXiv:1202.1030 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: MIS: a MIRIAD Interferometry Singledish toolkit

Authors: Marc W. Pound, Peter Teuben

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

[28] arXiv:1202.1028 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Practices in Code Discoverability: Astrophysics Source Code Library

Authors: Alice Allen, Peter Teuben, Robert J. Nemiroff, Lior Shamir

Comments: ASCL codes are now incoorporated into ADS

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

[29] arXiv:1202.1026 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Practices in Code Discoverability

Authors: Peter Teuben, Alice Allen, Robert J. Nemiroff, Lior Shamir

Comments: ASCL codes are now incoorporated into ADS

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

[30] arXiv:1202.1025 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Precursor of Sunspot Penumbral Formation discovered with Hinode SOT Observations

Authors: Toshifumi Shimizu, Kiyoshi Ichimoto, Yoshinori Suematsu

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures, accepted for ApJ Letters

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

[31] arXiv:1202.1023 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Characterization of Turbulence from Submillimeter Dust Emission

Authors: Shadi Chitsazzadeh, Martin Houde, Roger H. Hildebrand, John Vaillancourt

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in the ApJ

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[32] arXiv:1202.1020 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Testing Galactic Magnetic Field Models using Near-Infrared Polarimetry

Authors: Michael D. Pavel, Dan P. Clemens, April F. Pinnick

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[33] arXiv:1202.0997 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: PACS-Herschel FIR detections of Lyman-alpha emitters at 2.0<z<3.5

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[34] arXiv:1202.0980 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Fully Nonadiabatic Analysis of Vibrational Instability of Population III Stars due to the $\varepsilon$-Mechanism

Authors: Takafumi Sonoi, Hiromoto Shibahashi

Comments: PASJ, 64, 2 (2012) in press. 9 pages, 8 figures

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

[35] arXiv:1202.0971 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Size and velocity-dispersion evolution of early-type galaxies in a Lambda cold dark matter universe

Authors: C. Nipoti, T. Treu, A. Leauthaud, K. Bundy, A. B. Newman, M. W. Auger

Comments: 19 pages, 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS. Revised following referee report

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[36] arXiv:1202.0938 [pdf, other]

Title: Advanced Multi-beam Spectrometer for the Green Bank Telescope

Authors: D. Anish Roshi (Nationa Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Green Bank), Marty Bloss (NRAO, Green Bank), Patrick Brandt (NRAO, Green Bank), Srikanth Bussa (NRAO, Green Bank), Hong Chen (University of California, Berkeley), Paul Demorest (NRAO, Charlottesville), Gregory Desvignes (University of California, Berkeley), Terry Filiba (University of California, Berkeley), Richard J. Fisher (NRAO, Charlottesville), John Ford (NRAO, Green Bank), David Frayer (NRAO, Green Bank), Robert Garwood (NRAO, Charlottesville), Suraj Gowda (University of California, Berkeley), Glenn Jones (University of California, Berkeley and Caltech, Pasadena), Billy Mallard (University of California, Berkeley), Joseph Masters (NRAO, Charlottesville), Randy McCullough (NRAO, Green Bank), Guifre Molera (University of California, Berkeley), et al. (9 additional authors not shown)

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the XXXth URSI General Assembly in Istanbul, August 2011, 4 pages; 3 figures

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

[37] arXiv:1202.0930 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Implementation of the Magnetohydrodynamics-Relaxation Method for Nonlinear Force-Free Field Extrapolation in the Solar Corona

Authors: Chaowei Jiang, Xueshang Feng

Comments: Accept by ApJ, 45 pages, 13 figures

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

[38] arXiv:1202.0926 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Kinetic simulation of the electron-cyclotron maser instability: effect of a finite source size

Authors: A. A. Kuznetsov, V. G. Vlasov

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[39] arXiv:1202.0903 [pdf, other]

Title: One or more bound planets per Milky Way star from microlensing observations

Comments: Letter, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Nature 481, 167-169 (2012)

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

[40] arXiv:1202.0892 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Testing modified gravity models with recent cosmological observations

Authors: Wen-Shuai Zhang, Cheng Cheng, Qing-Guo Huang, Miao Li, Song Li, Xiao-Dong Li, Shuang Wang

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

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

[41] arXiv:1202.0882 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Super-Damped Lyman-alpha QSO Absorber at z=2.2

Authors: Varsha P. Kulkarni, Joseph Meiring, Debopam Som, Celine Peroux, Donald G. York, Pushpa Khare, James T. Lauroesch

Comments: Revised version submitted to the Astrophysical Journal including responses to the referee report. Original version submitted on Dec. 10, 2011

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[42] arXiv:1202.0868 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Suzaku X-ray Imaging of the Extended Lobe in the Giant Radio Galaxy NGC6251 Associated with the Fermi-LAT Source 2FGLJ1629.4+8236

Authors: Y. Takeuchi, J. Kataoka, L. Stawarz, Y. Takahashi, K. Maeda, T. Nakamori, C. C. Cheung, A. Celotti, Y. Tanaka, T. Takahashi

Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ

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

[43] arXiv:1202.0846 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spectrum and Morphology of the Two Brightest Milagro Sources in the Cygnus Region: MGRO J2019+37 and MGRO J2031+41

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures

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

[44] arXiv:1202.0832 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The JCMT 12CO(3-2) Survey of the Cygnus X Region: I. A Pathfinder

Authors: M. Gottschalk, R. Kothes, H.E. Matthews, T.L. Landecker, W.R.F. Dent

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[45] arXiv:1202.0827 [pdf, other]

Title: The Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 Test of Surfaces in the Outer Solar System: The Compositional Classes of the Kuiper Belt

Authors: W. C. Fraser, M. E. Brown

Comments: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal. 49 Pages, 15 Figures

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

[46] arXiv:1202.0824 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Measurement of the Mass and Stellar Population Distribution in M82 with the LBT

Authors: Johnny P. Greco, Paul Martini, Todd A. Thompson

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to ApJ. For a brief video explaining the key result of this paper, see this http URL

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[47] arXiv:1202.0819 [pdf, other]

Title: Laser frequency comb techniques for precise astronomical spectroscopy

Authors: Michael T. Murphy (1), Clayton R. Locke (2), Philip S. Light (2), Andre N. Luiten (2), Jon S. Lawrence (3 and 4) ((1) Swinburne University of Technology, (2) University of Western Australia, (3) Australian Astronomical Observatory, (4) Macquarie University)

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[48] arXiv:1202.1239 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Living with ghosts in Lorentz invariant theories

Authors: Jaume Garriga, Alexander Vilenkin

Comments: 17 pages

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

[49] arXiv:1202.1226 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Effects of the Modified Uncertainty Principle on the Inflation Parameters

Authors: Barun Majumder

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

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

[50] arXiv:1202.1147 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Anisotropic fluid for a set of non-diagonal tetrads in f(T) gravity

Authors: M. Hamani Daouda, Manuel E. Rodrigues, M. J. S. Houndjo

Comments: 12 pages

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

[51] arXiv:1202.1071 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The astrometric recognition of the solar Clementine gnomon (1702)

Authors: Costantino Sigismondi

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the Third Galileo - Xu Guangqi meeting, October 11-15, 2011 National Astronomical Observatories - Beijing (China) The Sun, the Stars, the Universe, and General Relativity

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

[52] arXiv:1202.0966 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An Entropy Functional for Riemann-Cartan Space-Times

Authors: Fayçal Hammad

Comments: 12pp

Journal-ref: Int J Theor Phys 51 (2012) 362-373

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

[53] arXiv:1202.0896 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Stability of the 3-form field during inflation

Authors: Antonio De Felice, Khamphee Karwan, Pitayuth Wongjun

Comments: 17 pages, 13 figures

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

[54] arXiv:1202.0839 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO

Comments: 20 pages, 8 figures, proceedings of the 9th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves. For a longer exposition of the eLISA science case, see this http URL

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

[55] arXiv:1202.0815 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A New Multi-Dimensional General Relativistic Neutrino Hydrodynamics Code for Core-Collapse Supernovae II. Relativistic Explosion Models of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: B. Mueller, H.-Th. Janka, A. Marek

Comments: 23 pages, 19 figures; submitted to ApJ

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

[56] arXiv:1202.0808 [pdf, other]

Title: Practical Methods for Continuous Gravitational Wave Detection using Pulsar Timing Data

Authors: J. A. Ellis, F. A. Jenet, M. A. McLaughlin

Comments: submitted to ApJ

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

[57] arXiv:1202.0804 [pdf, other]

Title: Compact object coalescence rate estimation from short gamma-ray burst observations

Authors: Carlo Enrico Petrillo, Alexander Dietz

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures

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

[58] arXiv:1202.0797 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: CNO and F abundances in the globular cluster M22 (NGC 6656)

Authors: Alan Alves-Brito, David Yong, Jorge Meléndez, Sergio Vásquez, Amanda I. Karakas

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[59] arXiv:1202.0791 [pdf, other]

Title: Beyond Strömgren Spheres and Wind-Blown Bubbles: An Observational Perspective on H II Region Feedback

Authors: Matthew S. Povich

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Frank N. Bash Symposium 2011: New Horizons in Astronomy

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

[60] arXiv:1202.0787 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Sharp Look at Coronal Rain with Hinode/SOT and SST/CRISP

Authors: P. Antolin, M. Carlsson, L. Rouppe van der Voort, E. Verwichte, G. Vissers

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings 4th Hinode Science Meeting: Unsolved Problems and Recent Insights ASP Conference Series, Vol. 455 (2012)

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

[61] arXiv:1202.0780 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An extended XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051 - III. FeK emission and absorption

Authors: K.A.Pounds, S.Vaughan

Comments: submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[62] arXiv:1202.0775 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cosmological Redshift in FRW Metrics with Constant Spacetime Curvature

Authors: Fulvio Melia

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[63] arXiv:1202.0771 [pdf, other]

Title: Dead zones as safe-havens for planetesimals: influence of disc mass and external magnetic field

Authors: Oliver Gressel, Richard P. Nelson, Neal J. Turner

Comments: 20 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables, to be published in MNRAS

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

[64] arXiv:1202.0761 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Herschel view of the far-infrared properties of submillimetre galaxies

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A); 37 pages, 17 figures

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

[65] arXiv:1202.0759 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Determination of rotation periods in solar-like stars with irregular sampling: the Gaia case

Authors: E. Distefano (1), A. C. Lanzafame (1 and 2), A. F. Lanza (1), S. Messina (1), A. J. Korn (3), K. Eriksson (3), J. Cuypers (4) ((1) INAF - Catania Astrophysical Observatory, Catania, Italy, (2) University of Catania, Astrophysics Section, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Catania, Italy, (3) Division of Astronomy and Space Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden, (4) Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussel, Belgium)

Comments: 12 pages, 18 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[66] arXiv:1202.0756 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantitative Photospheric Spectral Analysis of the Type IIP Supernova 2007od

Authors: C. Inserra, E. Baron, M. Turatto

Comments: Accepted on MNRAS, 8 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[67] arXiv:1202.0741 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Inverse Compton X-ray Emission from Supernovae with Compact Progenitors: Application to SN2011fe

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

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

[68] arXiv:1202.0736 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: BOOTES Observation of GRB 080603B

Authors: Martin Jelinek, Javier Gorosabel, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, Sergei Guziy, Ronan Cunniffe, Petr Kubanek, Michael Prouza, Stanislav Vitek, Rene Hudec, Victor Reglero, Lola Sabau-Graziati

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

[69] arXiv:1202.0728 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Symmetry and anti-symmetry of the CMB anisotropy pattern

Authors: Jaiseung Kim, Pavel Naselsky, Martin Hansen

Comments: review article

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

[70] arXiv:1202.0717 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Measuring bulk motion of X-ray clusters via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect: summarizing the "dark flow" evidence and its implications

Authors: A. Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, H. Ebeling

Comments: Physics Reports, draft version - comments welcome! Manuscript with all figures at full resolution is available from this http URL

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

[71] arXiv:1202.0703 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Recovering the Pulse Profiles and Polarization Position Angles of Some Pulsars from Interstellar Scattering

Authors: Abdujappar Rusul, Ali Esamdin, Alim Kerim, Dilnur Abdurixit, Hongguang Wang, Xiao-Ping Zheng

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, RAA

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

[72] arXiv:1202.0698 [pdf, other]

Title: Low power on large scales in just enough inflation models

Authors: Erandy Ramirez

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures

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

[73] arXiv:1202.0689 [pdf]

Title: The orbital and superhump periods of the dwarf nova SDSS J093249.57+472523.0

Authors: Jeremy Shears, Steve Brady, Shawn Dvorak, Enrique de Miguel, Etienne Morelle, Arto Oksanen, Richard Sabo

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Journal of the British Astronomical Association

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

[74] arXiv:1202.0686 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary star

Authors: P. F. L. Maxted (1), D. R. Anderson (1), M. R. Burleigh (2), A. Collier-Cameron (3), U. Heber (4), B. T. Gänsicke (5), S. Geier (4), T. Kupfer (4), T. R. Marsh (5), G. Nelemans (6), S. J. O'Toole (7), R. H. Østensen (8), B. Smalley (1), R. G. West (2), S. Bloemen (8) ((1) Keele, (2) Leicester, (3) St Andrews, (4) Bamberg, (5) Warwick, (6) Nijmegen, (7) AAO, (8) Leuven)

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects (sdOB5), 25 - 29 July 2011, Stellenbosch, South Africa. ASP Conference Series. 10 pages, 8 figures

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

[75] arXiv:1202.0659 [pdf, other]

Title: The bright Type IIP SN 2009bw, showing signs of interaction

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 19 pages, 13 figures, 9 tables

Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[76] arXiv:1202.0640 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The correlation function of galaxy clusters and detection of baryon acoustic oscillations

Authors: T. Hong, J. L. Han, Z. L. Wen, L. Sun, H. Zhan

Comments: 7 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[77] arXiv:1202.0629 [pdf, other]

Title: Characteristics of kinematics of a coronal mass ejection during the 2010 August 1 CME-CME interaction event

Authors: Manuela Temmer, Bojan Vrsnak, Tanja Rollett, Bianca Bein, Curt A. de Koning, Ying Liu, Eckhard Bosman, Jackie A. Davies, Christian Möstl, Tomislav Zic, Astrid M. Veronig, Volker Bothmer, Richard Harrison, Nariaki Nitta, Mario Bisi, Olga Flor, Jonathan Eastwood, Dusan Odstrcil, Robert Forsyth

Comments: accepted for ApJ

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

[78] arXiv:1202.0610 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Modelling high redshift Lyman-alpha Emitters

Authors: Thibault Garel, Jérémy Blaizot, Bruno Guiderdoni, Daniel Schaerer, Anne Verhamme, Matthew Hayes

Comments: 17 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[79] arXiv:1202.0596 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the Ionization of Luminous WMAP Sources in the Galaxy : Constraints from He Recombination Line Observations with the GBT

Authors: D. Anish Roshi, Adele Plunkett, Viviana Rosero, Sravani Vaddi

Comments: Accepted for publication in the ApJ; 14 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[80] arXiv:1202.0593 [pdf, other]

Title: Study of single-lobed circular polarization profiles in the quiet Sun

Authors: A. Sainz Dalda, J. Martinez-Sykora, L. Bellot Rubio, A. Title

Comments: 21 pages, 26 figures, 1 table

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

[81] arXiv:1202.0591 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Magnetic topology of a naked sunspot: Is it really naked?

Authors: A. Sainz Dalda, S. Vargas Dominguez, T. D. Tarbell

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: 2012 ApJ, 746, L13

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

[82] arXiv:1202.0581 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Surface Brightness Fluctuations as Primary and Secondary Distance Indicators

Authors: John Blakeslee

Comments: 8 pages, invited review at the conference "The Fundamental Cosmic Distance Scale: State of the Art and Gaia Perspective", to appear in Astrophysics and Space Science

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

[83] arXiv:1202.0560 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dwarf Galaxy Sized Monopoles as Dark Matter?

Authors: Jarah Evslin, Sven Bjarke Gudnason

Comments: 29 pages, 1 eps figure

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

[84] arXiv:1202.0557 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Global Models of Runaway Accretion in White Dwarf Debris Disks

Authors: Brian D. Metzger, Roman R. Rafikov, Konstantin V. Bochkarev

Comments: 23 pages, 20 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[85] arXiv:1202.0555 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: In situ formation of SgrA* stars via disk fragmentation: parent cloud properties and thermodynamics

Authors: M. Mapelli, T. Hayfield, L. Mayer, J. Wadsley

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

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[86] arXiv:1202.0554 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cuspy No More: How Outflows Affect the Central Dark Matter and Baryon Distribution in Lambda CDM Galaxies

Authors: F. Governato (1), A. Zolotov (2), A. Pontzen (3), C. Christensen (4), S.H. Oh (5,6), A.M. Brooks (7), T. Quinn (1), S. Shen (8), J. Wadsley (9) ((1) Univ of Washington, (2) Hebrew Univ. (3) Univ. of Oxford, (4) Univ. of Arizona, (5) Univ. of Western Australia, (6) CAASTRO, (7) Univ. of Wisconson, (8) UCSC, (9) McMaster Univ.)

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS. 12 Pages. Animation at this http URL

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

[87] arXiv:1202.0553 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Effects of Primordial Non-Gaussianity on Giant-Arc Statistics: A Scale Dependent Example

Authors: Anson D'Aloisio, Priyamvada Natarajan

Comments: New results using a scale dependent parameterization of primordial non-Gaussianity, to appear in the proceedings of the 2011 Frank N. Bash New Horizons in Astronomy Symposium

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

[88] arXiv:1202.0552 [pdf, other]

Title: Vertical structure of a supernova-driven turbulent magnetized ISM

Authors: Alex S. Hill, M. Ryan Joung, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Robert A. Benjamin, L. Matthew Haffner, Christian Klingenberg, Knut Waagan

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[89] arXiv:1202.0551 [pdf]

Title: Spin-Down of Radio Millisecond Pulsars at Genesis

Authors: Thomas M. Tauris (AIfA, Bonn University / MPIfR)

Comments: To appear in Science

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

[90] arXiv:1202.0550 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Simulating the evolution of disc galaxies in a group environment. I. The influence of the global tidal field

Authors: Álvaro Villalobos, Gabriella De Lucia, Stefano Borgani, Giuseppe Murante

Comments: 31 pages, 20 figures, and 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[91] arXiv:1202.0776 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Stimulated Neutrino Transformation in Supernovae

Authors: James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin, Kelly M. Patton

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[92] arXiv:1202.0645 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf]

Title: Dust-acoustic waves and stability in the permeating dusty plasma: II. Power-law distributions

Authors: Gong Jingyu, Liu Zhipeng, Du Jiulin

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures, 41 references

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[93] arXiv:1202.0641 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf]

Title: Dust-acoustic waves and stability in the permeating dusty plasma: I. Maxwellian distribution

Authors: Jingyu Gong, Zhipeng Liu, Jiulin Du

Comments: 15 pages,4 figures,29 references

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[94] arXiv:1202.0636 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf]

Title: Dust charging processes in the dusty plasma with nonextensive power-law distribution

Authors: Gong Jingyu, Du Jiulin

Comments: 15 pages,6 figures,50 references

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[95] arXiv:1202.0604 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Model-Independent Signatures of New Physics in non-Gaussianity

Authors: Mark G. Jackson, Koenraad Schalm

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures

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

[96] arXiv:1202.0565 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Acceleration of particles by black holes as a result of deceleration: ultimate manifestation of kinematic nature of BSW effect

Authors: O. B. Zaslavskii

Comments: 11 pages

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

[97] arXiv:1202.0548 [pdf, other]

Title: Limb darkening laws for two exoplanet host stars derived from 3D stellar model atmospheres

Authors: W. Hayek, D. Sing, F. Pont, M. Asplund

Comments: To be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics (article accepted)

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

[98] arXiv:1202.0547 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Can dust emission be used to map the interstellar medium in high-redshift galaxies? Results from the Herschel Reference Survey

Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[99] arXiv:1202.0546 [pdf, other]

Title: A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using South Pole Telescope data

Comments: 20 pages, 12 figures, to be submitted to ApJ

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

[100] arXiv:1202.0544 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A third cluster of red supergiants in the vicinity of the massive cluster RSGC3

Authors: C. González-Fernández, I. Negueruela

Comments: Accepted for publication on A&A

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

[101] arXiv:1202.0539 [pdf, other]

Title: Source Plane Reconstruction of The Bright Lensed Galaxy RCSGA 032727-132609

Authors: Keren Sharon, Michael D. Gladders, Jane R. Rigby, Eva Wuyts, Benjamin P. Koester, Matthew B. Bayliss, L. Felipe Barrientos

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures, ApJ, in press

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

[102] arXiv:1202.0527 [pdf, other]

Title: CARMA follow-up of the northern unconfirmed PLANCK galaxy cluster candidates

Authors: Stephen Muchovej, Erik Leitch, Thomas Culverhouse, John Carpenter, Jonathan Sievers

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 9 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/0610115

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

[103] arXiv:1202.0520 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Towards understanding the dynamics of the bar/bulge region in our Galaxy

Authors: E. Athanassoula

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at "Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way" conference, April 17-22 2011, Grand Bornand

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[104] arXiv:1202.0513 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of Halpha satellite emission in a low state of the SW Sextantis star BB Doradus

Authors: L. Schmidtobreick, P. Rodriguez-Gil, K. S. Long, B. T. Gaensicke, C. Tappert, M. A. P. Torres

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[105] arXiv:1202.0511 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The ionized gas in the CALIFA early-type galaxies I. Mapping two representative cases: NGC 6762 and NGC 5966

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[106] arXiv:1202.0496 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Nature of Extremely Red H-[4.5]>4 Galaxies revealed with SEDS and CANDELS

Comments: Submitted to the ApJL, 6 pages including 1 table and 4 figures

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

[107] arXiv:1202.0494 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Color Gradients in Galaxies Out to z~3: Dependence on Galaxy Properties

Authors: Niraj Welikala (IAS, Orsay), Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM)

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[108] arXiv:1202.0489 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The enigmatic black-hole candidate and X-ray transient IGR J17091-3624 in its quiescent state as seen with XMM-Newton

Authors: Rudy Wijnands, Yi Jung Yang, Diego Altamirano

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS letters

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

[109] arXiv:1202.0485 [pdf]

Title: Local Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen sampled in-situ by IBEX

Authors: Lukas Saul, Peter Wurz, Diego Rodriguez, Jürgen Scheer, Eberhard Möbius, Nathan Schwadron, Harald Kucharek, Trevor Leonard, Maciej Bzowski, Stephen Fuselier, Geoff Crew, Dave McComas

Journal-ref: Lukas Saul et al. 2012 ApJS 198 14

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

[110] arXiv:1202.0483 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Period doubling and non-linear resonance in the black hole candidate IGR J17091-3624 ?

Authors: P. Rebusco, P. Moskalik, W. Kluzniak, M.A. Abramowicz

Comments: 3 pages

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

[111] arXiv:1202.0482 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dust effects on the derived Sersic indexes of disks and bulges in spiral galaxies

Authors: Bogdan A. Pastrav, Cristina C. Popescu, Richard J. Tuffs, Anne E. Sansom

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No.284, "The Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies", 5-9 sept. 2011, editors Richard J. Tuffs and Cristina C. Popescu

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[112] arXiv:1202.0481 [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleosynthesis and Gamma-Ray Line Spectroscopy with INTEGRAL

Authors: Roland Diehl

Comments: Conference "The extreme and variable high-energy sky", Italy Sep 2011. 10 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Proceedings of Science, PoS(Extremesky 2011)037

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

[113] arXiv:1202.0466 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays

Authors: Guenter Sigl

Comments: 41 pages, 15 figures, lectures given at ISAPP School "Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics", 26 July-5 August 2011, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy

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

[114] arXiv:1202.0461 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Double degenerate mergers as progenitors of high-field magnetic white dwarfs

Authors: E. García--Berro, P. Lorén--Aguilar, G. Aznar--Siguán, S. Torres, J. Camacho, L. G. Althaus, A. H. Córsico, B. Külebi, J. Isern

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[115] arXiv:1202.0458 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the molecular gas content and SFR in Hickson Compact Groups: enhanced or deficient?

Authors: V. Martinez-Badenes, U. Lisenfeld, D. Espada, L. Verdes-Montenegro, S. Garcia-Burillo, S. Leon, J. Sulentic, M.S. Yun

Comments: A&A, accpeted, 17 pages

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

[116] arXiv:1202.0449 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Constraining the dark energy and smoothness parameter with SNe Ia and Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: V. C. Busti, R. C. Santos, J. A. S. Lima

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

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

[117] arXiv:1202.0446 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A planetary system around the nearby M dwarf GJ 667C with at least one super-Earth in its habitable zone

Authors: Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Pamela Arriagada, Steven S. Vogt, Eugenio J. Rivera, R. Paul Butler, Jeffrey D. Crane, Stephen A. Shectman, Ian B. Thompson, Dante Minniti, Nader Haghighipour, Brad D. Carter, C. G. Tinney, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Jeremy A. Bailey, Simon J. O'Toole, Hugh R.A. Jones, James S. Jenkins

Comments: Accepted in ApJ Letters, 16 pages, 3 figures and 1 table

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

[118] arXiv:1202.0444 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Galactic Sources Science With Agile: The Case Of The Carina Region

Authors: S. Sabatini, M. Tavani, E. Pian, A. Bulgarelli, P. Caraveo, R. Viotti, M. F. Corcoran, A. Giuliani, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, S. Vercellone, S. Mereghetti, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, F. Boffelli, P.W. Cattaneo, A.W. Chen, V. Cocco, F. D'Ammando, E. Costa, G. De Paris, E. Del Monte, G. Di Cocco, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, A. Ferrari, M. Feroci, M. Fiorini, T. Froysland, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, M. Mastropietro, E. Morelli, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, F. Perotti, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Pilia, G. Porrovecchio, G. Pucella, M. Prest, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, A. Rubini, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, E. Vallazza, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, P. Santolamazza, P. Giommi, et al. (3 additional authors not shown)

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, proceedings of RICAP 2009

Journal-ref: Nuclear Instrument & Methods A 630 (2011) 193-197

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

[119] arXiv:1202.0441 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Optical Integral Field Spectroscopy of NGC 5850

Authors: M. Bremer, J. Scharwächter, A. Eckart, J. Zuther, S. Fischer, M. Valencia-S

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

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

[120] arXiv:1202.0437 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Possible optical counterpart of PSR J1357--6429

Authors: A. Danilenko, A. Kirichenko, R. E. Mennickent, G. Pavlov, Yu. Shibanov, S. Zharikov, D. Zyuzin

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[121] arXiv:1202.0429 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Chemical complexity in NGC1068

Authors: Rebeca Aladro, Serena Viti, Denise Riquelme, Sergio Martin, Rainer Mauersberger, Jesus Martin-Pintado, Estelle Bayet

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Proceedings of the "The Central Kiloparsec in Galactic Nuclei", 29 August - 2 September 2011, Bad Honnef, Germany

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

[122] arXiv:1202.0422 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Tunable filter imaging of high redshift quasar fields

Authors: John Swinbank, Joanne Baker, Jordi Barr, Isobel Hook, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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

[123] arXiv:1202.0415 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Neutral interstellar helium parameters based on IBEX-Lo observations and test particle calculations

Authors: M. Bzowski (1), M.A. Kubiak (1), E. Moebius (2), P. Bochsler (2,3), T. Leonard (2), D. Heirtzler, (2), H. Kucharek (2), J.M. Sokol (1), M. Hlond (1), G.B. Crew (4), N.A. Schwadron (2), S.A. Fuselier (5), D.J. McComas (6,7) ((1) Space Research Centre PAS, Poland (2) University of New Hampshire, (3) University of Bern, Switzerland (4) Haystack Observatory, MIT (5) Space Physics Lab, Lockheed martin, (6) Southwest Research Institute (7) University of Texas in San Antonio)

Comments: Data from IBEX-Lo on Interstellar Boundary Explorer analyzed; 40 pages, 24 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Astropjysical Journal Supplement Series Vol 198, 12, 2012

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

[124] arXiv:1202.0402 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Herschel-ATLAS: towards a sample of ~1000 strongly-lensed galaxies

Comments: 36 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. Accepted by ApJ

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

[125] arXiv:1202.0400 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A possible ultra strong and broad Fe Ka emission line in Seyfert 2 galaxy IRAS 00521-7054

Authors: Ying Tan, Junxian Wang, Xinwen Shu, Youyuan Zhou (USTC)

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ApJ Letters

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

[126] arXiv:1202.0396 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Applying the Background-Source separation algorithm to Chandra Deep Field South data

Authors: F. Guglielmetti, H. Boehringer, R. Fischer, P. Rosati, P. Tozzi

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures, contributed paper at SCMA V, Penn State University, June 2011, PA. To appear in the Proceedings of "Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V"

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

[127] arXiv:1202.0395 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cores in Infra-Red Dark Clouds (IRDCs) seen in the Hi-GAL survey between l = 300° and l = 330°

Authors: L. A. Wilcock, D. Ward-Thompson, J. M. Kirk, D. Stamatellos, A. Whitworth, D. Elia, G. A. Fuller, A. DiGiorgio, M. J. Griffin, S. Molinari, P. Martin, J. C. Mottram, N. Peretto, M. Pestalozzi, E. Schisano, R. Plume, H. A. Smith, M. A. Thompson

Comments: 7 pages (+26 in appendices). Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[128] arXiv:1202.0390 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Bayesian mixture models for Poisson astronomical images

Authors: Fabrizia Guglielmetti, Rainer Fischer, Volker Dose

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, invited talk at SCMA V, Penn State University, June 2011, PA. To appear in the Proceedings of "Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V"

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

[129] arXiv:1202.0388 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Transformations between WISE and 2MASS, SDSS, BVI photometric systems: II. Transformation equations for red clump stars

Authors: S. Bilir, S. Karaali, N. D. Dagtekin, O. Onal, S. Ak, T. Ak, A. Cabrera-Lavers

Comments: 13 pages, including 9 figures and 4 tables, accepted for publication in PASA

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[130] arXiv:1202.0374 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Surface chemistry in the interstellar medium - I - H2 formation by Langmuir-Hinshelwood and Eley-Rideal mechanisms

Authors: Jacques Le Bourlot, Franck Le Petit, Cecilia Pinto, Evelyne Roueff, Fabrice Roy

Comments: Article accepted in A&A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[131] arXiv:1202.0363 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radio Imaging of the NGC 2024 FIR 5/6 Region: a Hypercompact H II Region Candidate in Orion

Authors: Minho Choi, Jeong-Eun Lee, Miju Kang

Comments: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[132] arXiv:1202.0358 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The influences of the Magellanic Clouds on the Galaxy: Pole shift, warp, and star formation history

Authors: Kenji Bekki

Comments: 19 pages, 25 figures, accepted for the publication of MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[133] arXiv:1202.0355 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: AstroParticle Physics at the Highest Energies

Authors: Angela V. Olinto

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 32ND INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE, BEIJING 2011

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

[134] arXiv:1202.0354 [pdf, other]

Title: The Local Volume HI Survey: Galaxy Kinematics

Authors: Emma M. Kirby, Baerbel Koribalski, Helmut Jerjen, Angel Lopez-Sanchez

Comments: 22 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS

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

[135] arXiv:1202.0353 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Inclusive Constraints on Unified Dark Matter Models from Future Large-Scale Surveys

Authors: Stefano Camera, Carmelita Carbone, Lauro Moscardini

Comments: 22 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

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

[136] arXiv:1202.0348 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radiative Models of Sagittarius A* and M87 from Relativistic MHD Simulations

Authors: Jason Dexter, Eric Agol, P. Chris Fragile, Jonathan C. McKinney

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to the proceedings of AHAR 2011: The Central Kiloparsec

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

[137] arXiv:1202.0347 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The shallow-decay phase in both optical and x-ray afterglows of Swift GRB 090529A: Energy injection into a wind-type medium?

Comments: 19pages,2gigures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[138] arXiv:1202.0339 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the Application of Wesenheit Function in Deriving Distance to Galactic Cepheids

Authors: Chow-Choong Ngeow

Comments: ApJS accepted, 9 pages with 4 tables and 9 figures

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

[139] arXiv:1202.0311 [pdf, other]

Title: All Curled Up: A Numerical Investigation of Shock-Bubble Interactions and the Role of Vortices in Heating Galaxy Clusters

Authors: Samuel H. Friedman, Sebastian Heinz, Eugene Churazov

Comments: 16 pages, 24 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal, 2012, Vol. 746, page 112

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[140] arXiv:1202.0310 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Neutrinos and cosmic rays

Authors: Thomas K. Gaisser, Todor Stanev

Comments: 25 pages, 5 figures, for a topical issue of Astroparticle Physics on cosmic rays

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

[141] arXiv:1202.0308 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An Oxygen Abundance Gradient into the Outer Disk of M81

Authors: Maria T. Patterson, Rene A.M. Walterbos, Robert C. Kennicutt, Cristina Chiappini, David A. Thilker

Comments: 41 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[142] arXiv:1202.0304 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Bayesian Analysis of Inflation III: Slow Roll Reconstruction Using Model Selection

Authors: Jorge Noreña, Christian Wagner, Licia Verde, Hiranya V. Peiris, Richard Easther

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures

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

[143] arXiv:1202.0300 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Precise Infrared Radial Velocities from Keck/NIRSPEC and the Search for Young Planets

Authors: John I. Bailey III, Russel J. White, Cullen H. Blake, Dave Charbonneau, Travis S. Barman, Angelle M. Tanner, Guillermo Torres

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 18 pages, 7 figures

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

[144] arXiv:1202.0299 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian analysis of polarization measurements

Authors: Jason L. Quinn

Comments: 15 pages

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

[145] arXiv:1202.0290 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The contribution of starbursts and normal galaxies to infrared luminosity functions at z < 2

Authors: Mark T. Sargent, M. Béthermin, E. Daddi, D. Elbaz

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures & 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[146] arXiv:1202.0287 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cosmography from two-image lens systems: overcoming the lens profile slope degeneracy

Authors: S. H. Suyu

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[147] arXiv:1202.0282 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Energetic feedback and $^{26}$Al from massive stars and their supernovae in the Carina region

Authors: R. Voss, P. Martin, R. Diehl, J.S. Vink, D.H. Hartmann, T. Preibisch

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[148] arXiv:1202.0281 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Unmasking the Supernova Impostors

Authors: C. S. Kochanek (1 and 2), D. M. Szczygiel (1 and 2), K. Z. Stanek (1 and 2) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University (2) Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University)

Comments: 72 pages, 28 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[149] arXiv:1202.0280 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of a compact gas-rich DLA galaxy at z = 2.2: evidences for a starburst-driven outflow

Authors: P. Noterdaeme, P. Laursen, P. Petitjean, S. D. Vergani, M.-J. Maureira, C. Ledoux, J. P. U. Fynbo, S. López, R. Srianand

Comments: 15 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[150] arXiv:1202.0279 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dust to Dust: 3 years in the Evolution of the Unusual SN 2008S

Authors: D. M. Szczygiel, J. L. Prieto, C. S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek, T. A. Thompson, J. F. Beacom, P. M. Garnavich, C. E. Woodward

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJ; This paper has substantial text overlap with arXiv:1007.0011, but is significantly revised and updated with new data and results

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

[151] arXiv:1202.0278 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dust Attenuation and H-alpha Star Formation Rates of z~0.5 Galaxies

Authors: Chun Ly (1,7), Matthew A. Malkan (2), Nobunari Kashikawa (3,4), Kazuaki Ota (5), Kazuhiro Shimasaku (3), Masanori Iye (3), Thayne Currie (6) ((1) STScI, (2) UCLA, (3) U. Tokyo, (4) NAOJ, (5) Kyoto U., (6) NASA-Goddard, (7) Giacconi Fellow)

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Six pages, five figures (in color), emulateapj format

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

[152] arXiv:1202.0495 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Comparison of the LVDP and ΛCDM Cosmological Models

Authors: Ozgur Akarsu, Tekin Dereli

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

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

[153] arXiv:1202.0430 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Backreaction and the Covariant Formalism of General Relativity

Authors: Stefano Magni

Comments: 96 pages, 3 figures, master thesis; supervisors: S.R\"as\"anen and M.Carfora

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

[154] arXiv:1202.0288 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Inflation and dark matter in two Higgs doublet models

Authors: Jinn-Ouk Gong, Sin Kyu Kang, Hyun Min Lee

Comments: 28 pages, 8 figures

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

[155] arXiv:1202.0283 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Oscillating Asymmetric Dark Matter

Authors: Sean Tulin, Hai-Bo Yu, Kathryn M. Zurek

Comments: 23 pages, 4 figures

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

[156] arXiv:1202.0274 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Kinematics & Chemistry of Halo Substructures: The Vicinity of the Virgo Over-Density

Authors: A. R. Casey, S. C. Keller, G. Da Costa

Comments: accepted to AJ

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

[157] arXiv:1202.0271 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Detection of chaos in RR Lyrae models

Authors: E. Plachy, Z. Kolláth, L. Molnár

Comments: Proceedings of the "20th Stellar Pulsation Conference Series: Impact of new instrumentation & new insights in stellar pulsations", 5-9 September 2011, Granada, Spain

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

[158] arXiv:1202.0268 [pdf]

Title: Improved visual detection of moving objects in astronomical images using color intensity projections with hue cycling

Authors: Keith S. Cover

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures

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

[159] arXiv:1202.0265 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The McDonald Observatory Planet Search: New Long-Period Giant Planets, and Two Interacting Jupiters in the HD 155358 System

Authors: Paul Robertson, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Phillip J. MacQueen, Robert A. Wittenmyer, J. Horner, Erik J. Brugamyer, Attila E. Simon, Stuart I. Barnes, Caroline Caldwell

Comments: 38 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[160] arXiv:1202.0262 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: 2M1155-79 (= T Cha B): A Low-mass, Wide-separation Companion to the Nearby, "Old" T Tauri Star T Cha

Authors: Joel H. Kastner (1), E. Thompson (1,2), R. Montez Jr. (1), S. J. Murphy (3), M. S. Bessell (3), G. G. Sacco (1,4) ((1) Center for Imaging Science and Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA, (2) West Irondequoit High School, Rochester, NY, USA, (3) RSAA, Mount Stromlo Observatory, The Australian National University, (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy)

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures; to appear in The Astrophys. J. (Letters)

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

[161] arXiv:1202.0260 [pdf, other]

Title: High-energy emission from galaxies: the star-formation/gamma-ray connection

Authors: S. Ohm, J. A. Hinton

Comments: to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 284, 2011 (R.J. Tuffs & C.C. Popescu, eds.) `The Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies'

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

[162] arXiv:1202.0245 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Census of High-Energy Observations of Galactic Supernova Remnants

Authors: Gilles Ferrand, Samar Safi-Harb

Comments: accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research

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

[163] arXiv:1202.0236 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: HST/COS Observations of Thirteen New He II Quasars

Authors: David Syphers, Scott F. Anderson, Wei Zheng, Avery Meiksin, Donald P. Schneider, Donald G. York

Comments: AJ accepted; 14 pages, 7 figures

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

[164] arXiv:1202.0234 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Nonlinear Excitations in Strongly-Coupled Fermi-Dirac Plasmas

Authors: M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

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

[165] arXiv:1202.0231 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Inversion of physical parameters in solar atmospheric seismology

Authors: Inigo Arregui

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, review paper to appear in Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings

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

[166] arXiv:1202.0214 [pdf]

Title: The chemical composition of CO-rich comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) at Rh = 2.4 and 2.0 AU before perihelion

Authors: L. Paganini, M. J. Mumma, G. L. Villanueva, M. A. DiSanti, B. P. Bonev, M. Lippi, H. Boehnhardt

Comments: To appear in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (LET27048R)

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

[167] arXiv:1202.0188 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Harmonic in-painting of CMB sky by constrained Gaussian realization

Authors: Jaiseung Kim, Pavel Naselsky, Nazzareno Mandolesi

Comments: v2: the caption of Fig. 1 corrected, references added

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

[168] arXiv:1202.0185 [pdf, other]

Title: Cluster Lenses

Authors: Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM), Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)

Comments: About 120 pages - Published in Open Access at: this http URL . arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/0504478 and arXiv:1003.3674 by other authors

Journal-ref: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2011, Volume 19, article id. 47

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

[169] arXiv:1202.0181 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Estimations of the Distances of Stellar Collapses in the Galaxy by Analyzing the Energy Spectrum of Neutrino Bursts

Authors: Ernesto Kemp, Bruno Miguez, Walter Fulgione

Comments: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars (SMFNS 2011) Instituto de Cibern\'etica, Matem\'atica y F\'isica (ICIMAF) Sociedad Cubana de F\'isica (SCF) Varadero, Cuba, 5-7 May 2011

Journal-ref: IJMPE, Volume No.20, Issue No. supp02 (2011) pg. 57-60

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

[170] arXiv:1202.0161 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Consequences of spontaneous reconnection at a two-dimensional non-force-free current layer

Authors: Jorge Fuentes-Fernández, Clare E. Parnell, Alan W. Hood, Eric R. Priest, Dana W. Longcope

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

[171] arXiv:1202.0150 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Period-Luminosity Relations for Cepheid Variables: From Mid-Infrared to Multi-Phase

Authors: Chow-Choong Ngeow, Shashi M. Kanbur, Earl P. Bellinger, Marcella Marconi, Ilaria Musella, Michele Cignoni, Ya-Hong Lin

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures and 1 table; Proceeding for presentation at "The Fundamental Cosmic Distance Scale: State of the Art and the Gaia Perspective", Naples, May 2011. Ap&SS accepted

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

[172] arXiv:1202.0143 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Amorphous state in the mixed phase of quark-hadron phase transition in protoneutron stars

Authors: Nobutoshi Yasutake, Toshiki Maruyama, Toshitaka Tatsumi

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, PRL submitted

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

[173] arXiv:1202.0134 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: High resolution imaging of the ATLBS regions: the radio source counts

Authors: K. Thorat, R. Subrahmanyan, L. Saripalli, R. D. Ekers

Comments: 49 pages, 9 Figures, Submitted to ApJ

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

[174] arXiv:1202.0132 [pdf, other]

Title: Gaia Universe Model Snapshot : A statistical analysis of the expected contents of the Gaia catalogue

Comments: 21 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, typos corrected in author names

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[175] arXiv:1202.0130 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Asiago eclipsing binaries program. IV. SZ Camelopardalis, a beta Cephei pulsator in a quadruple, eclipsing system

Authors: E. Tamajo, U. Munari, A. Siviero, L. Tomasella, S. Dallaporta

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[176] arXiv:1202.0125 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: S5 1803+78 revisited

Authors: R. Nesci (1), A. Maselli (2), F. Montagni (3) ((1) University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (2) INAF-IASF, Palermo, Italy, (3) Greve in Chianti Observatory, Italy)

Comments: Five pages, three figures, In press in Acta Polytechnica (this http URL), Proceedings of the IBWS 2011 conference. Karlovy Vary, April 2011

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

[177] arXiv:1202.0121 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An Attempt to Describe Frequency Correlations among kHz QPOs and HBOs by Two-Armed Nearly Vertical Oscillations

Authors: Shoji Kato

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures; 2012, PASJ Vol. 64

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

[178] arXiv:1202.0115 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Trapped, Two-Armed, Nearly Vertical Oscillations in Disks with Toroidal Magnetic Fields II: Effects of Finite Thickness

Authors: Shoji Kato

Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures; 2012, PASJ Vol. 64

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

[179] arXiv:1202.0107 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Observational Consequences of Dark Energy Decay

Authors: Ue-Li Pen, Pengjie Zhang

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

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

[180] arXiv:1202.0105 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: FM stars: A Fourier view of pulsating binary stars, a new technique for measuring radial velocities photometrically

Authors: Hiromoto Shibahashi, Donald W. Kurtz

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

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

[181] arXiv:1202.0102 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dithering Strategies and Point-Source Photometry

Authors: Johan Samsing, Alex G. Kim

Journal-ref: Vol. 123, No. 902 (April 2011), pp. 470-480

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

[182] arXiv:1202.0092 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A 2% Distance to z = 0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - III : Cosmological Measurements and Interpretation

Authors: Kushal T. Mehta, Antonio J. Cuesta, Xiaoying Xu, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Nikhil Padmanabhan

Comments: 13 pages, 14 figures, MNRAS submitted. This is the third of a series of three papers. See this http URL for associated data files and figures

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

[183] arXiv:1202.0091 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A 2% Distance to z=0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - II: Fitting Techniques

Authors: Xiaoying Xu, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kushal T. Mehta, Antonio J. Cuesta

Comments: 24 pages, 20 figures, MNRAS submitted. This is the second of a series of three papers. See this http URL for associated data files and figures. v2: Minor corrections to figures 4 & 5; no changes to numerical results

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

[184] arXiv:1202.0090 [pdf, other]

Title: A 2% Distance to z=0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - I : Methods and Application to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Authors: Nikhil Padmanabhan, Xiaoying Xu, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Richard Scalzo, Antonio J. Cuesta, Kushal T. Mehta, Eyal Kazin

Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures, MNRAS submitted. This is the first of a series of three papers. See this http URL for associated data files and figures

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

[185] arXiv:1202.0089 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Primordial curvature perturbation during and at the end of multi-field inflation

Authors: Ki-Young Choi, Soo A Kim, Bumseok Kyae

Comments: 20 pages

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

[186] arXiv:1202.0087 [pdf, other]

Title: Panoramic Survey of Lyman α Emitters at z=3.1

Authors: T. Yamada, Y. Nakamura, Y. Matsuda, T. Hayashino, R. Yamauchi, N. Morimoto, K. Kousai, M. Umemura

Comments: 15pages, accepted for publication Astronomical Journal

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

[187] arXiv:1202.0083 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The GJ 436 System: Directly Determined Astrophysical Parameters of an M-Dwarf and Implications for the Transiting Hot Neptune

Authors: Kaspar von Braun (1,11), Tabetha S. Boyajian (2,3), Stephen R. Kane (1,11), Leslie Hebb (9), Gerard T. van Belle (4), Chris Farrington (6), David R. Ciardi (1,11), Heather A. Knutson (11), Theo A. ten Brummelaar (6), Mercedes Lopez-Morales (5,8), Harold A. McAlister (2), Gail Schaefer (6), Stephen Ridgway (7), Andrew Collier Cameron (10), P. J. Goldfinger (6), Nils H. Turner (6), Laszlo Sturmann (6), Judit Sturmann (6) ((1) NExScI, (2) Georgia State U, (3) Hubble Fellow, (4) Lowell Observatory, (5) CSIC-IEEC, (6) The CHARA Array, (7) NOAO, (8) CIW - DTM, (9) Vanderbilt U., (10) St. Andrews, (11) Caltech)

Comments: 11 pages, 2 tables, 8 figures; submitted to ApJ

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

[188] arXiv:1202.0075 [pdf, other]

Title: Calculating energy storage due to topological changes in emerging active region NOAA AR 11112

Authors: L. A. Tarr, D. W. Longcope

Comments: 36 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Animation available at this http URL

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

[189] arXiv:1202.0062 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Star formation in self-gravitating disks in active galactic nuclei. II. Episodic formation of broad line regions

Authors: J.-M. Wang, P. Du, J. A. Baldwin, J.-Q. Ge, C. Hu, G. J. Ferland

Comments: 27 pages in emulateapj style, 10 figures, Accepted by ApJ 2012

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[190] arXiv:1202.0059 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Clumpy accretion onto black holes. I. Clumpy-ADAF structure and radiation

Authors: J.-M. Wang, C. Cheng, Y.-R. Li

Comments: 26 pages, 5 figures, Accepted by ApJ 2012

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[191] arXiv:1202.0058 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Latest Observational Constraints to the Ghost Dark Energy Model by Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach

Authors: Chao-Jun Feng, Xin-Zhou Li, Xian-Yong Shen

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures

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

[192] arXiv:1202.0057 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: CMB at 2x2 order: The dissipation of primordial acoustic waves and the observable part of the associated energy release

Authors: Jens Chluba, Rishi Khatri, Rashid A. Sunyaev

Comments: 39 pages, 17 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[193] arXiv:1202.0041 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Cosmic History of Hot Gas Cooling and Radio AGN Activity in Massive Early-Type Galaxies

Authors: A. L. R. Danielson, B. D. Lehmer, D. M. Alexander, W. N. Brandt, B. Luo, N. Miller, Y. Q. Xue, J. P. Stott

Comments: 17 pages, Accepted to MNRAS

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

[194] arXiv:1202.0029 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: High Spectral Resolution Measurement of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Null with Z-Spec

Authors: M. Zemcov, J. Aguirre, J. Bock, M. Bradford, N. Czakon, J. Glenn, S. R. Golwala, R. Lupu, P. Maloney, P. Mauskopf, E. Million, E. J. Murphy, B. Naylor, H. Nguyen, M. Rosenman, J. Sayers, K. S. Scott, J. Zmuidzinas

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[195] arXiv:1202.0026 [pdf, other]

Title: Ohmic Heating Suspends, not Reverses, the Cooling Contraction of Hot Jupiters

Authors: Yanqin Wu, Yoram Lithwick

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

[196] arXiv:1202.0013 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The kinematic of HST-1 in the jet of M87

Authors: M. Giroletti, K. Hada, G. Giovannini, C. Casadio, M. Beilicke, A. Cesarini, C. C. Cheung, A. Doi, H. Krawczynski, M. Kino, N. P. Lee, H. Nagai

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A Letters

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[197] arXiv:1202.0010 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gamma-Ray-Burst Host Galaxy Surveys at Redshift z>4: Probes of Star Formation Rate and Cosmic Reionization

Authors: Michele Trenti, Rosalba Perna, Emily M. Levesque, J. Michael Shull, John T. Stocke

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, ApJL submitted (on 1/17/12)

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

[198] arXiv:1202.0007 [pdf, other]

Title: Direct Detection of Dark Matter Debris Flows

Authors: Michael Kuhlen, Mariangela Lisanti, David N. Spergel

Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures

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

[199] arXiv:1202.0005 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Constraints on Neutrino Mass and Light Degrees of Freedom in Extended Cosmological Parameter Spaces

Authors: Shahab Joudaki (UC Irvine)

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, PRD submitted

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

[200] arXiv:1202.0004 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Phase-space consistency of stellar dynamical models determined by separable augmented densities

Authors: J. An (NAOC), E. Van Hese (Ghent), M. Baes (Ghent)

Comments: accepted for the publication in MNRAS, 12 journal pages (7pp in main body + 4 appendices)

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[201] arXiv:1202.0003 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Relation Between Ejecta Velocity, Intrinsic Color, and Host-Galaxy Mass for High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Ryan J. Foley

Comments: 13 pages, 11 figures, accepted by ApJ

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

[202] arXiv:1202.0248 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Prospective Constraints on Neutrino Masses from a Core-Collapse Supernova

Authors: John Ellis, Hans-Thomas Janka, Nikolaos E. Mavromatos, Alexander S. Sakharov, Edward K. G. Sarkisyan

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

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

[203] arXiv:1202.0244 (cross-list from nucl-ex) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Abrupt Change in Radiation-Width Distribution for 147Sm Neutron Resonances

Authors: P. E. Koehler, R. Reifarth, J. L. Ullmann, T. A. Bredeweg, J. M. O'Donnell, R. S. Rundberg, D. J. Vieira, J. M. Wouters

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

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

[204] arXiv:1202.0240 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Birkhoff Theorem and Matter

Authors: Rituparno Goswami, George F. R. Ellis

Comments: 7 pages, Revtex4

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[205] arXiv:1202.0178 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Stability of de Sitter Solutions in Non-local Cosmological Models

Authors: E. Elizalde, E. O. Pozdeeva, S. Yu. Vernov

Comments: 10 pages, has been published in the proceedings of the XXth International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory (QFTHEP'2011), this http URL

Journal-ref: PoS(QFTHEP2011)038, 2012

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

[206] arXiv:1202.0174 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Classical and quantum Big Brake cosmology for scalar field and tachyonic models

Authors: Alexander Y. Kamenshchik, Serena Manti

Comments: 14 pages

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

[207] arXiv:1202.0151 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radio-loud Magnetars as Detectors for Axions and Axion-like Particles

Authors: Doron Chelouche, Eduardo I. Guendelman

Comments: 9 pages

Journal-ref: IJMPE, Vol 20, Supplement 2 (2011), 100-108

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

[208] arXiv:1202.0011 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Simplified Smooth Inflation with Observable Gravity Waves

Authors: Mansoor Ur Rehman, Qaisar Shafi

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

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

[209] arXiv:1201.6676 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Kernel PCA for type Ia supernovae photometric classification

Authors: Emille E. O. Ishida, Rafael S. de Souza

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures. Comments welcome

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

[210] arXiv:1201.6661 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cosmological tests of sudden future singularities

Authors: Tomasz Denkiewicz, Mariusz P. Dcabrowski, Hoda Ghodsi, Martin A. Hendry

Comments: 8 pages

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

[211] arXiv:1201.6658 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: New constraints on cosmological parameters and neutrino properties using the expansion rate of the Universe to z~1.75

Authors: Michele Moresco, Licia Verde, Lucia Pozzetti, Raul Jimenez, Andrea Cimatti

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables, submitted to JCAP. This paper presents cosmological parameter constraints obtained with the new H(z) results, provided by the companion paper Moresco et al. 2012a. It is also companion to Jimenez et al. 2012, which presents a reconstruction of the dark energy potential

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

[212] arXiv:1201.6651 [pdf, other]

Title: High Energy Neutrinos from Space

Authors: Thomas K. Gaisser

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures for Proceedings of Lepton-Photon 2011, Mumbai India, to appear in a special issue of Pramana - Journal of physics

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

[213] arXiv:1201.6641 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves

Comments: To be submitted to ApJ

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

[214] arXiv:1201.6612 [pdf, other]

Title: First order Fermi acceleration driven by magnetic reconnection

Authors: Luke O'C. Drury

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

[215] arXiv:1201.6605 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The fate of high redshift massive compact galaxies in dense environments

Authors: Tobias Kaufmann, Lucio Mayer, Marcella Carollo, Robert Feldmann

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[216] arXiv:1201.6600 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Sizes of the Nearest Young Stars

Authors: Kyle A. McCarthy, Russel J. White

Comments: Accepted to AJ. 34 Pages, 4 Figures, 3 Tables

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

[217] arXiv:1201.6591 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The cosmic spin of the most massive black holes

Authors: Alejo Martinez-Sansigre, Steve Rawlings

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures. Dedicated to Steve Rawlings. Appeared in proceedings of "Astronomy with megastructures: Joint science with the E-ELT and SKA", 10-14 May 2010, Crete, Greece (Eds: Isobel Hook, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Steve Rawlings and Aris Karastergiou)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[218] arXiv:1201.6587 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dark matter and alternative recipes for the missing mass

Authors: Crescenzo Tortora, Philippe Jetzer, Nicola R. Napolitano

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd Italian-Pakistani Workshop on Relativistic Astrophysics, Lecce 20-22 June 2011, published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), references added

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

[219] arXiv:1201.6582 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Exoplanets Bouncing Between Binary Stars

Authors: Nickolas Moeckel, Dimitri Veras

Comments: MNRAS in press. Animations of some orbits can be viewed at this http URL

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

[220] arXiv:1201.6573 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the haze in the atmosphere of HD 189733b with HST/WFC3 transmission spectroscopy

Authors: N. P. Gibson (1), S. Aigrain (1), F. Pont (2), D. Sing (2), J.-M. Désert (3), T. M. Evans (1), G. Henry (4), N. Husnoo (2), H. Knutson (5) ((1) University of Oxford, (2) University of Exeter, (3) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (4) Tennessee State University, (5) Caltech)

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[221] arXiv:1201.6556 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: HS 2325+8205 - an ideal laboratory for accretion disk physics

Authors: S. Pyrzas, B. T. Gaensicke, J. R. Thorstensen, A Aungwerojwit, D. Boyd, S. Brady, J. Casares, R. D. G. Hickman, T. R. Marsh, I. Miller, Y. Ogmen, J. Pietz, G. Poyner, P. Rodriguez-Gil, B. Staels

Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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

[222] arXiv:1201.6546 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Eclipses observed by LYRA - a sensitive tool to test the models for the solar irradiance

Authors: A.I. Shapiro, W. Schmutz, M. Dominique, A.V. Shapiro

Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures, Solar Physics

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

[223] arXiv:1201.6526 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Multiple populations in globular clusters. Lessons learned from the Milky Way globular clusters

Authors: Raffaele Gratton (1), Eugenio Carretta (2), Angela Bragaglia (2) ((1) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (2) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna)

Comments: In press (The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review)

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

[224] arXiv:1201.6508 [pdf]

Title: Detection of radiation pressure from solar chameleons

Authors: O.K. Baker, A. Lindner, Y.K. Semertzidis, A. Upadhye, K. Zioutas

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure

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

[225] arXiv:1201.6501 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the polarimetric signature of emerging magnetic loops in the quiet-Sun

Authors: B. Viticchie

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures - Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[226] arXiv:1201.6491 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Outburst of LS V+44 17 Observed by MAXI and RXTE, and Discovery of a Dip Structure in the Pulse Profile

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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

[227] arXiv:1201.6490 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: How well-proportioned are lens and prism spaces?

Authors: R. Aurich, S. Lustig

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

[228] arXiv:1201.6484 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Correlation of Chandra photons with the radio giant pulses from the Crab pulsar

Authors: A.V. Bilous, M.A. McLaughlin, V.I. Kondratiev, S.M. Ransom

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures; to appear in The Astrophysical Journal, 2012

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

[229] arXiv:1201.6463 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Low frequency seeing and solar diameter measurements

Authors: Costantino Sigismondi

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the Third Galileo - Xu Guangqi meeting, October 11-15, 2011 National Astronomical Observatories - Beijing (China) The Sun, The Stars, The Universe and General Relativity

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

[230] arXiv:1201.6419 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The sub-Saturn Mass Transiting Planet HAT-P-12b

Authors: Jae Woo Lee, Jae-Hyuck Youn, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Tobias Cornelius Hinse

Comments: 17 pages, including 5 figures and 5 tables, accepted for publication in AJ

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

[231] arXiv:1201.6417 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Metallicity Gradients in Simulated Disk Galaxies

Authors: K. Pilkington, B.K. Gibson

Comments: To appear in "Galactic Archaeology: Near Field Cosmology and the Formation of the Milky Way"; Proceedings of 3rd Subaru International Conference; Shuzenji; 1-4 Nov 2011; ed. W. Aoki; ASP

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[232] arXiv:1201.6416 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Panchromatic Catalog of Early-Type Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift in the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Early Release Science Field

Comments: accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

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

[233] arXiv:1201.6415 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The relationship between gamma Cassiopeiae's X-ray emission and its circumstellar environment

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[234] arXiv:1201.6407 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Local 2D Particle-in-cell simulations of the collisionless MRI

Authors: Mario A. Riquelme, Eliot Quataert, Prateek Sharma, Anatoly Spitkovsky

Comments: 21 pages, 17 figures

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

[235] arXiv:1201.6406 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of the Hubble Sequence: morpho-kinematics of distant galaxies

Authors: Rodney Delgado-Serrano

Comments: PhD thesis. 211 pages, 85 figures. Figures in this version were degraded to meet astroph size limit

Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[236] arXiv:1201.6395 [pdf, other]

Title: Sub-arcsecond SMA observations of the prototype Class 0 object VLA1623 at 1.3 mm: A single protostar with a structured outflow cavity ?

Authors: A. J. Maury, N. Ohashi, Ph. Andre

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Low resolution figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[237] arXiv:1201.6393 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Black Holes in Pseudobulges: demography and models

Authors: F. Shankar (1), F. Marulli (2), S. Mathur (3), M. Bernardi (4), F. Bournaud (5) ((1) GEPI-Obs. Paris/CNRS, (2) Dip. Bologna, (3) OSU/CCAPP, (4) UPenn, (5) CEA-Saclay)

Comments: 9 pages, 4 Figures. Accepted by A&A

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

[238] arXiv:1201.6389 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey V. The peculiar B[e]-like supergiant, VFTS698, in 30 Doradus

Authors: P. R. Dunstall, M. Fraser, J. S. Clark, P. A. Crowther, P. L. Dufton, C. J. Evans, D. J. Lennon, I. Soszyński, W. D. Taylor, J. S. Vink

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures and 8 tables

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

[239] arXiv:1201.6383 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Constraining the nature of the most distant Gamma-Ray Burst host galaxies

Authors: S. Basa, J. G. Cuby, S. Savaglio, S. Boissier, B. Clement, H. Flores, D. Le Borgne, A. Mazure

Comments: Submitted to A&A

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

[240] arXiv:1201.6379 [pdf]

Title: Technology Development for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Balanced Receivers

Authors: J. W. Kooi, R. A. Chamberlin, R. Monje, B. Force, D. Miller, T. G. Phillips

Comments: 12 pages, 17 figures; IEEE Terahertz Science & Technology, January 2012, Volume 2, Issue 1

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

[241] arXiv:1201.6377 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Progenitor of the Type Ia Supernova that created SNR 0519-69.0 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Authors: Zachary I. Edwards, Ashley Pagnotta, Bradley E. Schaefer

Comments: ApJLett in press

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

[242] arXiv:1201.6372 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Testing the Proposed Connection between Dark Energy and Black Holes

Authors: A. Aykutalp, M. Spaans

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure, re-submitted to ApJL, referee's comments included

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

[243] arXiv:1201.6365 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Evolution of the Rest-frame V-band Luminosity Function from z=4: A Constant Faint-end Slope over the Last 12 Gyr of Cosmic History

Authors: Danilo Marchesini (1), Mauro Stefanon (2), Gabriel B. Brammer (3), Katherine E. Whitaker (4) ((1) Tufts University, (2) Observatori Astronomic Universitat de Valencia, (3) European Southern Observatory, ESO, (4) Yale University)

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

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

[244] arXiv:1201.6361 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Stellar Population Profiles and Radial Migrations in Disk Galaxies

Authors: Joel C. Roediger, Stephane Courteau, Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez

Comments: 35 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to ApJ. Comments welcome. Full resolution version available at this http URL

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

[245] arXiv:1201.6359 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Metallicity Gradients in Disks: Do Galaxies Form Inside-Out?

Authors: K. Pilkington, C.G. Few, B.K. Gibson, F. Calura, L. Michel-Dansac, R.J. Thacker, M. Molla, F. Matteucci, A. Rahimi, D. Kawata, C. Kobayashi, C.B. Brook, G.S. Stinson, H.M.P. Couchman, J. Bailin, J. Wadsley

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A; 12 pages; 5 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[246] arXiv:1201.6357 [pdf, other]

Title: The Milky Way Project First Data Release: A Bubblier Galactic Disk

Authors: R. J. Simpson, M. S. Povich, S. Kendrew, C. J. Lintott, E. Bressert, K. Arvidsson, C. Cyganowski, S. Maddison, K. Schawinski, R. Sherman, A. M. Smith, G. Wolf-Chase

Comments: 19 pages, 20 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[247] arXiv:1201.6589 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gravitational Wave Probe of High Supersymmetry Breaking Scale

Authors: Ryo Saito, Satoshi Shirai

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures

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

[248] arXiv:1201.6560 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Tachyonic Dirac sea

Authors: Ernst Trojan

Comments: 9 pages

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

[249] arXiv:1201.6434 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Statistical Anisotropy from Anisotropic Inflation

Authors: Jiro Soda

Comments: 32 pages, 5 figures, invited review for CQG

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

[250] arXiv:1201.6380 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Analyzing Cosmic Bubble Collisions

Authors: Roberto Gobbetti, Matthew Kleban

Comments: 24+5 pages, 4 figures

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

[251] arXiv:1201.6362 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravity Waves Seeded by Turbulence and Magnetic Fields From a First Order Phase Transition With Non-Renormalizable Electroweak Vacua

Authors: Robert Poltis

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures

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

[252] arXiv:1201.6342 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Effective theories of single field inflation when heavy fields matter

Authors: Ana Achucarro, Jinn-Ouk Gong, Sjoerd Hardeman, Gonzalo A. Palma, Subodh P. Patil

Comments: 25 pages, 1 figure

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

[253] arXiv:1112.0303 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A Class of Effective Field Theory Models of Cosmic Acceleration

Authors: Jolyon K. Bloomfield, Eanna E. Flanagan (Cornell University)

Comments: 44 pages, 2 figures; Version 2 significantly expanded, submitted to JCAP

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

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