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Title: Observing Supernova 1987A with the Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope

Authors: Kevin France (CASA/University of Colorado), Richard McCray (JILA/University of Colorado), Kevin Heng (ETH Zurich, IAS), Robert Kirshner (CfA/Harvard), Peter Challis (CfA/Harvard), Patrice Bouchet (CEA - Saclay), Arlin Crotts (Columbia), Eli Dwek (GSFC), Claes Fransson (Stockholm), Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame), Josefin Larsson (Stockholm), Stephen Lawrence (Hofstra), Peter Lundqvist (Stockholm), Nino Panagia (STScI), Chun Pun (Hong Kong), Nathan Smith (UC-Berkeley), Jesper Sollerman (Stockholm), George Sonneborn (GSFC), John Stocke (CASA/Colorado), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M), Craig Wheeler (Texas)

Comments: Science, accepted. Science Express, 02 Sept 2010. 5 figures. Supporting online material can be found at this http URL;science.1192134/DC1

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

[2] arXiv:1009.0517 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Detailed Studies of Atmospheric Calibration in Imaging Cherenkov Astronomy

Authors: Sam Nolan, Gerd Puehlhofer, Cameron Rulten

Comments: 13 Pages, 12 figures. Accepted by Astroparticle Physics

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

[3] arXiv:1009.0515 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The central black hole mass of the high-sigma but low-bulge-luminosity lenticular galaxy NGC 1332

Authors: Stephanie P. Rusli, Jens Thomas, Peter Erwin, Roberto P. Saglia, Nina Nowak, Ralf Bender

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[4] arXiv:1009.0496 [pdf, other]

Title: Orbit of the Large Magellanic Cloud in a Dynamical Model for the Local Group

Authors: P. J. E. Peebles

Comments: 22 pages, 4 figures

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

[5] arXiv:1009.0480 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Evolution of the Solar Nebula and Planet Growth Under the Influence of Photoevaporation

Authors: Tyler R. Mitchell, Glen R. Stewart

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[6] arXiv:1009.0477 [pdf]

Title: The Pathfinder Testbed: Exploring Techniques for Achieving Precision Radial Velocities in the Near-Infrared

Authors: Larry Ramsey, Suvrath Mahadevan, Stephen Redman, Chad Bender, Arpita Roy, Stephanie Zonak, Steinn Sigurdsson, Alex Wolszczan

Comments: To appear in Proc. SPIE 2010 Vol. 7735

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

[7] arXiv:1009.0461 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An Analytic Technique for Constraining the Dynamical Origins of Multiple Star Systems Containing Merger Products

Authors: Nathan Leigh, Alison Sills

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

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

[8] arXiv:1009.0460 [pdf, other]

Title: Image formation in synthetic aperture radio telescopes

Authors: Ronny Levanda, Amir Leshem

Comments: 12 pages

Journal-ref: Levanda, R.; Leshem, A.; , "Synthetic aperture radio telescopes," Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE , vol.27, no.1, pp.14-29, Jan. 2010

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

[9] arXiv:1009.0453 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Outflows and mass accretion in collapsing dense cores with misaligned rotation axis and magnetic field

Authors: Andrea Ciardi, Patrick Hennebelle

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS letters, 6 pages 4 figures

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

[10] arXiv:1009.0450 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An Extended and More Sensitive Search for Periodicities in RXTE/ASM X-ray Light Curves

Authors: Alan M. Levine, Hale V. Bradt, Deepto Chakrabarty, Robin H. D. Corbet, Robert J. Harris

Comments: 20 pages, 22 figures, in emulateapj format; submitted to ApJS

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

[11] arXiv:1009.0449 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of an Extremely Bright Sub-Millimeter Galaxy at z=3.93

Authors: J.-F. Lestrade (Obs-Paris), F. Combes (Obs-Paris), P. Salomé (Obs-Paris), A. Omont (IAP), F. Bertoldi (Bonn), P. André (CEA), N. Schneider (CEA)

Comments: submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, 4 pages, 3 figures

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

[12] arXiv:1009.0445 [pdf, other]

Title: Mid-infrared spectroscopy of Spitzer-selected ultra-luminous starbursts at z~2

Authors: Nicolas Fiolet, Alain Omont, Guilaine Lagache, Benjamin Bertincourt, Dario Fadda, Andrew J. Baker, Alexandre Beelen, Stefano Berta, Francois Boulanger, Duncan Farrah, Attila Kovacs, Carol Lonsdale, Frazer Owen, Mari Polletta, Dave Shupe, Lin Yan

Comments: 19 pages, 14 figures + 2 figure in appendix Accepted in A&A on 26/08/201

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

[13] arXiv:1009.0439 [pdf]

Title: Sensitivity of Biomarkers to Changes in Chemical Emissions in the Earth's Proterozoic Atmosphere

Authors: John Lee Grenfell, Stefanie Gebauer, Philip von Paris, Mareike Godolt, Pascal Hedelt, Beate Patzer, Barbara Stracke, Heike Rauer

Comments: 27 pages, 5 Figures, 4 Tables

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

[14] arXiv:1009.0435 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Pre-Main Sequence stars in the star forming complex Sh 2-284

Authors: F. Cusano, V. Ripepi, J. M. Alcala, D. Gandolfi, M. Marconi, S. Degl'Innocenti, F. Palla, E. W. Guenther, S. Bernabei, E. Covino, C. Neiner, E. Puga, S. Hony

Comments: accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[15] arXiv:1009.0434 [pdf]

Title: Fibre Positioning Revisited: The use an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE

Authors: Gavin Dalton, Martin Whalley, Oudayraj Mounissamy, Eric Sawyer, Ian Tosh, David Terrett, Ian Lewis

Comments: 7 Pages, 7 Figures, summary of a presentation to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010

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

[16] arXiv:1009.0421 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: M-flation and its spectators

Authors: Marieke Postma

Comments: 26 pages

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

[17] arXiv:1009.0420 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Formation of a Magnetic Channel by the Emergence of Current-carrying Magnetic Fields

Authors: Eun-Kyung Lim, Jongchul Chae, Ju Jing, Haimin Wang, Thomas Wiegelmann

Comments: 11 figures, accepted for Astrophysical journal

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

[18] arXiv:1009.0419 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Cosmic Far-Infrared Background Buildup Since Redshift 2 at 70 and 160 microns in the COSMOS and GOODS fields

Authors: M. Jauzac, H. Dole, E. Le Floc'h, H. Aussel, K. Caputi, O. Ilbert, M.Salvato, N. Bavouzet, A. Beelen, M. Béthermin, J.-P. Kneib, G. Lagache, J.-L. Puget

Comments: Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[19] arXiv:1009.0403 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: NGC 1300 Dynamics: III. Orbital analysis

Authors: P.A. Patsis, C. Kalapotharakos, P. Grosbol

Comments: 18 pages, 32 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[20] arXiv:1009.0398 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Effect of NLTE model atmospheres on photometric amplitudes and phases of early B-type pulsating stars

Authors: J. Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz, W. Szewczuk

Comments: 13 pages, 2 tables, 17 figues submitted to A&A

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

[21] arXiv:1009.0387 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Structure in the 3D Galaxy Distribution: I. Methods and Example Results

Authors: M.J. Way, P.R. Gazis, Jeffrey D. Scargle

Comments: 76 pages, 31 figures, submitted to ApJ. For full sized figures please download from: this http URL

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

[22] arXiv:1009.0383 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: NGC 1300 Dynamics: II. The response models

Authors: C. Kalapotharakos, P.A. Patsis, P. Grosbol

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[23] arXiv:1009.0376 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: NGC 1300 Dynamics: I. The gravitational potential as a tool for detailed stellar dynamics

Authors: C. Kalapotharakos, P.A. Patsis, P. Grosbol

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures, published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 403, 83-95 (2010)

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

[24] arXiv:1009.0364 [pdf, other]

Title: OB-stars as extreme condition test beds

Authors: Joachim Puls, Jon O. Sundqvist, Jorge G. Rivero González

Comments: To be published in the proceedings book of the IAUS 272, Cambridge University Press. Editors C. Neiner, G. Wade, G. Meynet and G. Peters

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

[25] arXiv:1009.0348 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: AMI Large Array radio continuum observations of Spitzer c2d small clouds and cores

Authors: Anna M. M. Scaife, Emily I. Curtis, Matthew Davies, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Keith J. B. Grainge, Michael P. Hobson, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Anthony N. Lasenby, Malak Olamaie, Guy G. Pooley, Carmen Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Richard D. E. Saunders, Michel Schammel, Paul F. Scott, Timothy Shimwell, David Titterington, Elizabeth Waldram, Jonathan T. L. Zwart

Comments: submitted MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[26] arXiv:1009.0346 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The convergence of EAS radio emission models and a detailed comparison of REAS3 and MGMR simulations

Authors: Tim Huege (KIT, IK), Marianne Ludwig (KIT, IEKP), Olaf Scholten (KVI), Krijn D. de Vriew (KVI)

Comments: Proceedings of the ARENA2010 conference, Nantes, France

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

[27] arXiv:1009.0345 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The LOPES experiment - recent results, status and perspectives

Authors: Tim Huege (KIT, IK), for the LOPES Collaboration

Comments: Proceedings of the ARENA2010 conference, Nantes, France

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

[28] arXiv:1009.0344 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: GLE-2005-BLG-153: Microlensing Discovery and Characterization of A Very Low Mass Binary

Authors: K.-H. Hwang, A. Udalski, C. Han, Y.-H. Ryu, I.A. Bond, J.-P. Beaulieu, M. Dominik, K. Horne, A. Gould, B.S. Gaudi, M. Kubiak, M.K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, K. Ulaczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, F. Abe, C.S. Botzler, J.B. Hearnshaw, Y. Itow, K. Kamiya, P.M. Kilmartin, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, M. Motomura, Y. Muraki, S. Nakamura, K. Ohnishi, C. Okada, N. Rattenbury, To. Saito, T. Sako, M. Sasaki, D.J. Sullivan, T. Sumi, P.J. Tristram, J.N. Wood, P.C.M. Yock, T. Yoshioka, M. Albrow, D.P. Bennett, D.M. Bramich, S. Brillant, J.A.R. Caldwell, J.J. Calitz, A. Cassan, K.H. Cook, E. Corrales, C. Coutures, M. Desort, S. Dieters, D. Dominis, J. Donatowicz, P. Fouque, J. Greenhill, K. Harpsoe, K. Hill, M. Hoffman, U.G. Jorgensen, S. Kane, D. Kubas, R. Martin, J.-B. Marquette, P. Meintjes, et al. (15 additional authors not shown)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

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

[29] arXiv:1009.0341 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Suzaku Observation of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1841-045

Authors: Mikio Morii, Shunji Kitamoto, Noriaki Shibazaki, Nobuyuki Kawai, Makoto Arimoto, Masaru Ueno, Takayoshi Kohmura, Yukikatsu Terada, Shigeo Yamauchi, Hiromitsu Takahashi

Comments: Accepted for publication in the PASJ

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

[30] arXiv:1009.0338 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: OGLE-2009-BLG-092/MOA-2009-BLG-137: A Dramatic Repeating Event With the Second Perturbation Predicted by Real-Time Analysis

Authors: Y.-H. Ryu, C. Han, K.-H. Hwang, R. Street, A. Udalski, T. Sumi, A. Fukui, J.-P. Beaulieu, A. Gould, M. Dominik, F. Abe, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, C.S. Botzler, K. Furusawa, F. Hayashi, J.B. Hearnshaw, S. Hosaka, Y. Itow, K. Kamiya, P.M. Kilmartin, A. Korpela, W. Lin, C.H. Ling, S. Makita, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, N. Miyake, Y. Muraki, K. Nishimoto, K. Ohnishi, Y.C. Perrott, N. Rattenbury, To. Saito, L. Skuljan, D.J. Sullivan, D. Suzuki, W.L. Sweatman, P.J. Tristram, K. Wada, P.C.M. Yock, M.K. Szymański, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzyński, I. Soszyński, O. Szewczyk, Ł. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, M. Bos, G.W. Christie, D.L. Depoy, A. Gal-Yam, B.S. Gaudi, S. Kaspi, C.-U. Lee, D. Maoz, J. McCormick, B. Monard, D. Moorhouse, R.W. Pogge, D. Polishook, Y. Shvartzvald, A. Shporer, G. Thornley, et al. (44 additional authors not shown)

Comments: 18 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

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

[31] arXiv:1009.0335 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Correlations Between Planetary Microlensing Parameters

Authors: Cheongho Han, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; 2010 ApJ published

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

[32] arXiv:1009.0334 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Properties, evolution and morpho-kinematical modelling of the very fast nova V2672 Oph (Nova Oph 2009), a clone of U Sco

Authors: U. Munari, V.A.R.M. Ribeiro, M.F. Bode, T. Saguner

Comments: in press in MNRAS

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

[33] arXiv:1009.0317 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gas and dark matter in the Sculptor group: NGC 300

Authors: T. Westmeier, R. Braun, B. S. Koribalski

Comments: 22 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[34] arXiv:1009.0312 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Scalings of the synchrotron cut-off and turbulent correlation of active galactic nucleus jets

Authors: Mitsuru Honda

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[35] arXiv:1009.0311 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Pulsar current revisited

Authors: N. Vranešević, D. B. Melrose

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

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

[36] arXiv:1009.0295 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Modeling mass independent of anisotropy

Authors: Joe Wolf

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures. IAU Symposium 271: Astrophysical Dynamics: From Stars to Galaxies

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

[37] arXiv:1009.0290 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A search for gravitationally lensed water masers in dusty quasars and star-forming galaxies

Authors: J. P. McKean (1), C. M. V. Impellizzeri (2), A. L. Roy (3), P. Castangia (4), F. Samuel (2), A. Brunthaler (3), C. Henkel (3), O. Wucknitz (5) ((1) ASTRON, (2) NRAO, (3) MPIfR, (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, (5) AIfA)

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

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

[38] arXiv:1009.0283 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Collisional formation of very massive stars in dense clusters

Authors: Nickolas Moeckel, Cathie J. Clarke

Comments: 8 pages, submitted to MNRAS. Includes revisions per referee's comments

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

[39] arXiv:1009.0280 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Steady X-Ray Synchrotron Emission in the Northeastern Limb of SN 1006

Authors: Satoru Katsuda (1), Robert Petre (1), Koji Mori (2), Stephen P. Reynolds (3), Knox S. Long (4), P. Frank Winkler (5), Hiroshi Tsunemi (6) ((1) NASA/GSFC, (2) Miyazaki University, (3) North Carolina State University, (4) Space Telescope Science Institute, (5) Middlebury College, (6) Osaka University)

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, 24 pages, 6 figures

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

[40] arXiv:1009.0279 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Westerbork Ultra-Deep Survey of HI at z=0.2

Authors: Marc Verheijen, Boris Deshev, Jacqueline van Gorkom, Bianca Poggianti, Aeree Chung, Ryan Cybulski, K.S. Dwarakanath, Maria Montero-Castano, Glenn Morrison, David Schiminovich, Arpad Szomoru, Min Yun

Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures, Proceedings of ISKAF2010 Science Meeting: A New Golden Age for Radio Astronomy, June 10-14 2010, Assen, the Netherlands. Edited by J. van Leeuwen. Movies of rendered rotating data cubes are available at this http URL

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

[41] arXiv:1009.0277 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Nuclear weak interaction rates in primordial nucleosynthesis

Authors: George M. Fuller, Christel J. Smith

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures

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

[42] arXiv:1009.0275 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Swift observations of the ultraluminous X-ray source Holmberg IX X-1

Authors: A.K.H. Kong, Y.J. Yang, T.-C. Yen, H. Feng, P. Kaaret

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

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

[43] arXiv:1009.0273 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial and temporal tuning in void models for acceleration

Authors: Simon Foreman, Adam Moss, James P. Zibin, Douglas Scott

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

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

[44] arXiv:1009.0269 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Most Massive Galaxies at 3.0<z<4.0 in the NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey: Properties and Improved Constraints on the Stellar Mass Function

Authors: Danilo Marchesini, Katherine E. Whitaker, Gabriel Brammer, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Ivo Labbe, Adam Muzzin, Ryan F. Quadri, Mariska Kriek, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Gregory Rudnick, Marijn Franx, Garth D. Illingworth, David Wake

Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures. Re-submitted to ApJ after revision according to referee's report

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

[45] arXiv:1009.0264 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A pan-chromatic view of the galaxy cluster XMMU J1230.3+1339 at z=0.975 - Observing the assembly of a massive system

Authors: Rene Fassbender, Hans Böhringer, Joana S. Santos, Gabriel W. Pratt, Robert Suhada, Jan Kohnert, Mike Lerchster, Manolis Rovilos, Daniele Pierini, Gayoung Chon, Axel D. Schwope, Georg Lamer, Martin Mühlegger, Piero Rosati, Hernan Quintana, Alessandro Nastasi, Arjen de Hoon, Stella Seitz, Joseph J. Mohr

Comments: 26 pages, 14 color figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[46] arXiv:1009.0262 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: H-ATLAS: PACS imaging for the Science Demonstration Phase

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

[47] arXiv:1009.0261 [pdf, other]

Title: The Nature of the Warm/Hot Intergalactic Medium I. Numerical Methods, Convergence, and OVI Absorption

Authors: Britton D. Smith, Eric J. Hallman, J. Michael Shull, Brian W. O'Shea

Comments: 18 pages, 16 figures, emulateapj, submitted to ApJ, comments welcome

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

[48] arXiv:1009.0370 (cross-list from physics.flu-dyn) [pdf]

Title: Stability of Inviscid Parallel Flows between Two Parallel Walls

Authors: Hua-Shu Dou

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)

[49] arXiv:1009.0365 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Quantum Gravity Corrections and Entropy at the Planck time

Authors: Spyros Basilakos, Saurya Das, Elias C. Vagenas

Comments: 7 pages, REVTeX 4, 1 figure, accepted for publication in JCAP

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)

[50] arXiv:1009.0292 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Extreme-Mass-Ratio-Black-Hole-Binary Evolutions with Numerical Relativity

Authors: Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables

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

[51] arXiv:1009.0268 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Stability of spin-0 graviton and strong coupling in Horava-Lifshitz theory of gravity

Authors: Anzhong Wang, Qiang Wu

Comments: revtex4, 9 figures

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)

[52] arXiv:0911.5354 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Covariant Vertex Operators for Cosmic Strings

Authors: Dimitri Skliros, Mark Hindmarsh

Comments: 73 pages, 3 figures. Extensively rewritten: new construction of coherent state vertex operators with and without lightlike winding, new computations of angular momentum showing equivalence of covariant vertex operators, lightcone gauge states and classical solutions

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

[53] arXiv:1009.0258 [pdf]

Title: ALMA North American Integration Center Front-End Test System

Authors: Geoffrey A. Ediss, Joshua Crabtree, Kirk Crady, Erik Gaines, Morgan McLeod, Greg Morris, Rick Williams, Antonio Perfetto, John Webber

Comments: Journal of Infrared, millimeter and Teraherz waves 2010

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

[54] arXiv:1009.0248 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Forming the first planetary systems: debris around Galactic thick disc stars

Authors: C. K. W. Sheehan, J. S. Greaves, G. Bryden, G. H. Rieke, K. Y. L. Su, M. C. Wyatt, C. A. Beichman

Comments: accepted by MNRAS Letters; 5 pages, 4 figures

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

[55] arXiv:1009.0245 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Upper Initial Mass Function from Ultraviolet Spectral Lines

Authors: Claus Leitherer

Comments: 8 pages, to appear in UP2010: Have Observations Revealed a Variable Upper End of the Initial Mass Function?, M. Treyer, J. C. Lee, M. H. Seibert, T. Wyder, & D. Neill, eds

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

[56] arXiv:1009.0227 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radiative emission of solar features in the Ca II K line: comparison of measurements and models

Authors: I. Ermolli, S. Criscuoli, H. Uitenbroek, F. Giorgi, M. P. Rast, S. K. Solanki

Comments: 14 pages, 18 figures, accepted by A&A

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

[57] arXiv:1009.0223 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: SOAR Imaging of sub-Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems at z<1

Authors: Joseph D. Meiring (1,2), James T. Lauroesch (2), Lutz Haberzettl (2), Varsha P. Kulkarni (3), Celine Peroux (4), Pushpa Khare (5), Donald G. York (6,7) ((1) U. Massachusetts, (2) U. Louisville, (3) U.S.C., (4) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (5) Utkal University, (6) U. Chicago, (7) Enrico Fermi Institute)

Comments: 11 pages, 4 Figures, Accepted for Publication in MNRAS

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

[58] arXiv:1009.0221 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Common Envelope Binary Star Origin of Long Gamma-ray Bursts

Authors: Christopher A. Tout, Dayal T. Wickramasinghe, Herbert H.-B. Lau, J. E. Pringle, Lilia Ferrario

Comments: 6 pages, no figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[59] arXiv:1009.0219 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Optical Structure and Evolution of the Arp 104 Interacting Galaxy System

Authors: John S. Gallagher III, Angela Parker

Comments: 20 pages, 6 figures and 1 table, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[60] arXiv:1009.0218 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining warm dark matter with cosmic shear power spectra

Authors: Katarina Markovič, Sarah Bridle, Anže Slosar, Jochen Weller

Comments: 26 pages, 9 figures

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

[61] arXiv:1009.0217 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Optical spectroscopy of DPVs and the case of LP Ara

Authors: Ronald E. Mennickent, Darek Graczyk, Zbigniew Kolaczkowski, Gabriela Michalska, Daniela Barria, Ewa Niemczura

Comments: To be published in the proceedings book of the IAUS 272, Cambridge University Press. Editors C. Neiner, G. Wade, G. Meynet and G. Peters

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

[62] arXiv:1009.0209 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of 59ms Pulsations from 1RXS J141256.0+792204 (Calvera)

Authors: S. Zane, F. Haberl, G.L. Israel, A. Pellizzoni, M. Burgay, R.P. Mignani, R. Turolla, A. Possenti, P. Esposito, D. Champion, R.P. Eatough, E. Barr, M. Kramer

Comments: 20 pages, 15 figures and 4 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[63] arXiv:1009.0206 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Determination of Dark Energy by the Einstein Telescope: Comparing with CMB, BAO and SNIa Observations

Authors: W. Zhao, C. Van Den Broeck, D. Baskaran, T.G.F. Li

Comments: 27 pages, 4 figures, 7 tables

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)

[64] arXiv:1009.0179 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the puzzle of space weathering alteration of basaltic asteroids

Authors: S. Marchi (1), M. C. De Sanctis (2), M. Lazzarin (1), S. Magrin (1) ((1) Padua University, (2) IASF/INAF-Rome)

Comments: Accepted by ApJL

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

[65] arXiv:1009.0172 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the average Gamma-Ray Burst X-ray flaring activity

Authors: R. Margutti, G. Bernardini, R. Barniol Duran, C. Guidorzi, R. F. Shen, G. Chincarini

Comments: MNRAS accepted

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

[66] arXiv:1009.0161 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Novel Jet Model: Magnetically Collimated, Radiation-Pressure Driven Jet

Authors: S. Takeuchi, K. Ohsuga, S. Mineshige

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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

[67] arXiv:1009.0157 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence

Authors: Kimitake Hayasaki (Department Astronomy, Kyoto University)

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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

[68] arXiv:1009.0156 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Molecular Disks in Radio Galaxies: The pathway to ALMA

Authors: I. Prandoni, R.A. Laing, H.R. de Ruiter, P. Parma

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for Publication in A&A

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

[69] arXiv:1009.0147 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Vorticity from irrotationally forced flow

Authors: Fabio Del Sordo, Axel Brandenburg

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Proceedings of IAU Symp. 271, Astrophysical Dynamics: from Stars to Galaxies, ed. N. Brummell and A.S. Brun, CUP

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[70] arXiv:1009.0142 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Galaxy formation hydrodynamics: From cosmic flows to star-forming clouds

Authors: Frederic Bournaud (CEA Saclay)

Comments: To appear in the proceedings for IAU Symposium 270: Computational Star Formation (eds. Alves, Elmegreen, Girart, Trimble)

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

[71] arXiv:1009.0137 [pdf]

Title: Building the 'JMMC Stellar Diameters Catalog' using SearchCal

Authors: Sylvain Lafrasse (LAOG), Guillaume Mella (LAOG), Daniel Bonneau (FIZEAU), Gilles Duvert (LAOG), Xavier Delfosse (LAOG), Olivier Chesneau (FIZEAU), Alain Chelli (LAOG)

Comments: 11 pages, to be published in SPIE'2010 conference on "Optical and Infrared Interferometry II"

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

[72] arXiv:1009.0129 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Derivation of the Lattice Boltzmann Model for Relativistic Hydrodynamics

Authors: M. Mendoza, B. M. Boghosian, H. J. Herrmann, S. Succi

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

[73] arXiv:1009.0124 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: LABOCA observations of giant molecular clouds in the south west region of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Authors: Caroline Bot, Monica Rubio, Francois Boulanger, Marcus Albrecht, Adam Leroy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Frank Bertoldi, Karl Gordon, Chad Engelbracht, Miwa Block, Karl Misselt

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, Accepted in A&A

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

[74] arXiv:1009.0123 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the interpretation of echelle diagrams for solar-like oscillations. Effect of centrifugal distortion

Authors: J.C. Suárez, M.J. Goupil, D.R.Reese, R. Samadi, F. Lignieres, M. Rieutord, J. Lochard

Comments: 10 pages,5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ; this http URL

Journal-ref: ApJ 721 537 (2010)

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

[75] arXiv:1009.0115 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Observations of Faint Eclipsing Cataclysmic Variables

Authors: Dicle Zengin Çamurdan, Cafer İbanoğlu, C. Muzaffer Çamurdan

Journal-ref: New Astronomy,, Volume 15, Issue 5, p. 476-482 (2010)

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

[76] arXiv:1009.0112 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: VLT-VIMOS integral field spectroscopy of luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies III: the atlas of the stellar and ionized gas distribution

Authors: Javier Rodriguez Zaurin, Santiago Arribas, Ana Monreal Ibero, Luis Colina, Almudena Alonso Herrero, Julia Alfonso Garzon

Comments: 42 pages, 8 Figues and 3 Tables, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[77] arXiv:1009.0106 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Impact of shell crossing and scope of perturbative approaches, in real space and redshift space

Authors: Patrick Valageas

Comments: 16 pages

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

[78] arXiv:1009.0100 [pdf, other]

Title: Cluster mass dependent truncation of the upper IMF: evidence from observations and simulations

Authors: C. Clarke, Th. Maschberger (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures; To appear in "UP: Have Observations Revealed a Variable Upper End of the Initial Mass Function?", Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

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

[79] arXiv:1009.0082 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Local and Global Radiative Feedback from Population III Star Formation

Authors: Brian W. O'Shea, Daniel J. Whalen

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of 'The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade", Austin, TX, March 8-11, 2010

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

[80] arXiv:1009.0071 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Near-infrared Thermal Emission from WASP-12b: detections of the secondary eclipse in Ks, H & J

Authors: Bryce Croll (University of Toronto), David Lafreniere (UdeM), Loic Albert (CFHT), Ray Jayawardhana (UofT), Jonathan J. Fortney (UCSC), Norman Murray (CITA)

Comments: AJ accepted. 12 pages, 11 figures, in EmulateApJ format. Version 2 removes two figures that were added by mistake

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

[81] arXiv:1009.0061 [pdf, other]

Title: Side-entrainment in a jet embedded in a sidewind

Authors: D. Lopez-Camara, A. C. Raga

Comments: 8 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[82] arXiv:1009.0054 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Nitrogen Enrichment in Atmospheres of A- and F- Type Supergiants

Authors: Leonid S. Lyubimkov, David L. Lambert, Sergey A. Korotin, Dmitry B. Poklad, Tamara M. Rachkovskaya, Sergey I. Rostopchin

Comments: 14 pages, 13 figures

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

[83] arXiv:1009.0049 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Optical Discovery of an Apparent Galactic Supernova Remnant G159.6+7.3

Authors: Robert Fesen, Dan Milisavljevic

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, accepted to the Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[84] arXiv:1009.0039 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Ionized gas and sources of its ionization in the Irr galaxy IC 10

Authors: O. V. Egorov, V. P. Arkhipova, T. A. Lozinskaya, A. V. Moiseev

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the conference "A Universe of dwarf galaxies" (Lyon, June 14-18, 2010)

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

[85] arXiv:1009.0038 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Spatial Extent of (U)LIRGs in the mid-Infrared I: The Continuum Emission

Authors: T. Diaz-Santos (1), V. Charmandaris (1,2), L. Armus (3), A. O. Petric (3), J. H. Howell (3), E. J. Murphy (3), J. M. Mazzarella (4), S. Veilleux (5), G. Bothun (6), H. Inami (3), P. N. Appleton (7), A. S. Evans (8), S. Haan (3), J. A. Marshall (3), D. B. Sanders (9), S. Stierwalt (3), J. A. Surace (3) ((1) University of Crete, (2) FORTH/ Observatoire de Paris, (3) Spitzer Science Center, (4) IPAC, (5) University of New York, (6) University of Oregon, (7) NASA Herschel Science Center, (8) University of Virginia, (9) University of Honolulu)

Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[86] arXiv:1009.0030 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Correlation between Global Parameters of Galaxies

Authors: Yu-Yen Chang, Rikon Chao, Wei-Hao Wang, Pisin Chen

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures

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

[87] arXiv:1009.0027 [pdf, other]

Title: A SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy Survey for Galaxy Counterparts to Damped Lyman-alpha Systems - II. Dynamical Properties of the Galaxies towards Q0302-223 and Q1009-0026

Authors: Celine Peroux (1), Nicolas Bouche (2), Varsha P. Kulkarni (3), Donald G. York (4), Giovanni Vladilo (5) ((1) Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille-Provence, France (2) Univ. of Santa Barbara, USA (3) Univ. of South Carolina, USA (4) Univ. of Chicago, USA (5) Osservatorio di Trieste, Italy)

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[88] arXiv:1009.0025 [pdf, other]

Title: A SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy Survey for Galaxy Counterparts to Damped Lyman-alpha Systems - I. New Detections and Limits for Intervening and Associated Absorbers

Authors: Celine Peroux (1), Nicolas Bouche (2), Varsha P. Kulkarni (3), Donald G. York (4), Giovanni Vladilo (5) ((1) Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille-Provence, France (2) Univ. of Santa Barbara, USA (3) Univ. of South Carolina, USA (4) Univ. of Chicago, USA (5) Osservatorio di Trieste, Italy)

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[89] arXiv:1009.0024 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Collisionless Electron-Ion Shocks

Authors: Lorenzo Sironi, Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University)

Comments: 24 pages, 20 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[90] arXiv:1009.0021 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Agile Observations of the "Soft" Gamma-Ray Pulsar PSR B1509-58

Authors: M. Pilia, A. Pellizzoni, A. Trois, F. Verrecchia, P. Esposito, P. Weltevrede, S. Johnston, M. Burgay, A. Possenti, E. Del Monte, F. Fuschino, P. Santolamazza, A. Chen, A. Giuliani, P. Caraveo, S. Mereghetti, M. Tavani, A. Argan, E. Costa, N. D'Amico, A. De Luca, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, G. Barbiellini, A. Bulgarelli, P. W. Cattaneo, V. Cocco, F. D'Ammando, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, I. Donnarumma, M. Fiorini, T. Froysland, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, F. Perotti, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Prest, G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, S. Sabatini, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, C. Pittori, F. Lucarelli, P. Giommi, L. Salotti, G. F. Bignami

Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[91] arXiv:1009.0020 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Through Thick and Thin: Kinematic and Chemical Components in the Solar Neighbourhood

Authors: Julio F. Navarro, Mario G. Abadi, Kim A. Venn, Kenneth C. Freeman

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[92] arXiv:1009.0019 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter

Authors: Pau Amaro-Seoane, Juan Barranco, Argelia Bernal, Luciano Rezzolla

Comments: 22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP

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

[93] arXiv:1009.0018 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Tale of Two Jets

Authors: Nicolas Yunes

Comments: 2 pages, no figures. Perspectives article commissioned by Science. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science {329, (08/20/2010)}

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

[94] arXiv:1009.0013 [pdf, other]

Title: The galaxy counts-in-cells distribution from the SDSS

Authors: Abel Yang, William C. Saslaw

Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[95] arXiv:1009.0011 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Detailed Numerical Simulations on the Formation of Pillars around HII-regions

Authors: Matthias Gritschneder, Andreas Burkert, Thorsten Naab, Stefanie Walch

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[96] arXiv:1009.0010 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spherical collapse of dark energy with an arbitrary sound speed

Authors: Ole Eggers Bjaelde, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures

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

[97] arXiv:1009.0007 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The nature of z ~ 2.3 Lyman-alpha emitters

Authors: Kim K. Nilsson (1,2), Göran Östlin (3), Palle Møller (4), Ole Möller-Nilsson (2), Christian Tapken (5), Wolfram Freudling (4), Johan P.U. Fynbo (6) ((1) ST-ECF, (2) MPIA, (3) Stockholm University, (4) ESO, (5) AIP Potsdam, (6) DARK Copenhagen)

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables, submitted to A&A

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

[98] arXiv:1009.0006 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Method for the Assessment of Age and Age-Spread of Pre-Main Sequence Stars in Young Stellar Associations of the Magellanic Clouds

Authors: Nicola Da Rio, Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, Mario Gennaro

Comments: 19 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication by the Astrophysical Journal

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

[99] arXiv:1009.0005 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Probing isolated compact remnants with microlensing

Authors: N. Sartore, A. Treves (University of Insubria)

Comments: 7 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[100] arXiv:1009.0004 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Monster in the Dark: The Ultraluminous GRB 080607 and its Dusty Environment

Comments: Submitted to AJ. 15 pages, 6 tables, 9 figures

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

[101] arXiv:1009.0002 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: MOIRCS Deep Survey. VIII. Evolution of Star Formation Activity as a Function of Stellar Mass in Galaxies since z~3

Authors: M. Kajisawa, T. Ichikawa, T. Yamada, Y. K. Uchimoto, T. Yoshikawa, M. Akiyama, M. Onodera

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[102] arXiv:1009.0001 [pdf, other]

Title: The 200 Degree-Long Magellanic Stream System

Authors: David L. Nidever, Steven R. Majewski, W. Butler Burton, Lou Nigra

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[103] arXiv:1009.0224 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Weak Corrections are Relevant for Dark Matter Indirect Detection

Authors: Paolo Ciafaloni, Denis Comelli, Antonio Riotto, Filippo Sala, Alessandro Strumia, Alfredo Urbano

Comments: 38 pages (half are technical appendices), 7 figures

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

[104] arXiv:1008.5395 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Was an Outburst of Aquila X-1 a Magnetic Flare?

Authors: Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: accepted by ApJ Letters

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

[105] arXiv:1008.5394 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Numerical Modeling of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections and Comparison with Heliospheric Images

Authors: N. Lugaz, I. I. Roussev

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures, accepted to JASTP

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

[106] arXiv:1008.5381 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Motions of Hard X-ray Sources During an Asymmetric Eruption

Authors: Chang Liu, Jeongwoo Lee, Ju Jing, Rui Liu, Na Deng, Haimin Wang

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[107] arXiv:1008.5376 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in dark energy cosmologies: I. general properties

Authors: Cristiano De Boni, Klaus Dolag, Stefano Ettori, Lauro Moscardini, Valeria Pettorino, Carlo Baccigalupi

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, submitted to MNRAS

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

[108] arXiv:1008.5375 [pdf, other]

Title: IR spectroscopy of COmosphere dynamics with the CO first overtone band

Authors: T.A. Schad, M.J. Penn

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, Published in Astronomische Nachrichten on behalf of the 1st EAST-ATST Workshop: "Science with Large Solar Telescopes"

Journal-ref: Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 331, Issue 6, p. 589 (2010)

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

[109] arXiv:1008.5369 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Tidal breakup of binary stars at the Galactic Center. II. Hydrodynamic simulations

Authors: Fabio Antonini, James C. Lombardi, David Merritt

Comments: 20 pages, 16 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[110] arXiv:1008.5366 [pdf, other]

Title: Hard X-ray identification of Eta Carinae and steadiness close to periastron

Authors: Jean-Christophe Leyder, Roland Walter, Gregor Rauw

Comments: 9 pages with 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[111] arXiv:1008.5362 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: X-Ray Wind Tomography of the highly absorbed HMXB IGR J17252-3616

Authors: A. Manousakis, R. Walter

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures

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

[112] arXiv:1008.5353 [pdf, other]

Title: Structure of magnetic fields in intracluster cavities

Authors: Konstantinos Nektarios Gourgouliatos, Jonathan Braithwaite, Maxim Lyutikov

Comments: 10 pages, 13 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[113] arXiv:1008.5352 [pdf, other]

Title: PIONIER: a visitor instrument for the VLTI

Comments: Proceedings of SPIE conference Optical and Infrared Interferometry II (Conference 7734) San Diego 2010

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

[114] arXiv:1008.5341 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Corotating light cylinders and Alfvén waves

Authors: K.N. Gourgouliatos, D. Lynden-Bell

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[115] arXiv:1008.5335 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radio interferometric observations of two core-dominated triple radio sources at z>3

Authors: D. Cseh, S. Frey, Z. Paragi, L.I. Gurvits, K.E. Gabanyi

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[116] arXiv:1008.5327 [pdf, other]

Title: Detailed Interstellar Polarimetric Properties of the Pipe Nebula at Core Scales

Authors: G.A.P. Franco, F.O. Alves, J.M. Girart

Comments: 20 pages, 23 figures, Accepted for The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[117] arXiv:1008.5318 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The DAFT/FADA survey. I.Photometric redshifts along lines of sight to clusters in the z=[0.4,0.9] interval

Authors: L.Guennou, C.Adami, M.P.Ulmer, V.LeBrun, F.Durret, D.Johnston, O.Ilbert, D.Clowe, R.Gavazzi, K.Murphy, T.Schrabback, S.Allam, J.Annis, S.Basa, C.Benoist, A.Biviano, A.Cappi, J.M.Kubo, P.Marshall, A.Mazure, F.Rostagni, D.Russeil, E.Slezak

Comments: Accepted in A&A

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

[118] arXiv:1008.5300 [pdf, other]

Title: Quasi-periodic Propagating Signals in the Solar Corona: The Signature of Magnetoacoustic Waves or High-Velocity Upflows?

Authors: Bart De Pontieu, Scott W. McIntosh

Comments: To appear Astrophysical Journal. 14 pages, 13 color figures, 4 movies. High resolution figures and online supporting movies are available at this http URL

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

[119] arXiv:1008.5284 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The impact of X-rays on molecular cloud fragmentation and the IMF

Authors: S. Hocuk, M. Spaans

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[120] arXiv:1008.5283 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Odd Meanderings of the IMF Across Cosmic Time

Authors: Romeel Davé

Comments: 8 pages, in proceedings of "UP2010: Have Observations Revealed a Variable Upper End of the Initial Mass Function?", M. Treyer, J.C. Lee, M.H. Seibert, T. Wyder, J. Neil, eds

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

[121] arXiv:1008.5281 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Vorticity production through rotation, shear and baroclinicity

Authors: Fabio Del Sordo, Axel Brandenburg

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to A&A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[122] arXiv:1008.5278 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Recurrent flux emergence from dynamo-generated fields

Authors: Jörn Warnecke, Axel Brandenburg

Comments: 2 pages, 2 figures, conference proceeding

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

[123] arXiv:1008.5258 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: CMB constraints on the energy scale of inflation

Authors: Zong-Kuan Guo, Dominik J. Schwarz, Yuan-Zhong Zhang

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

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)

[124] arXiv:1008.5255 [pdf, other]

Title: Importance of the Initial Conditions on Star Formation I: Cloud Evolution and Morphology

Authors: Philipp Girichidis, Christoph Federrath, Robi Banerjee, Ralf S. Klessen

Comments: 24 pages, 21 figures, 7 tables

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

[125] arXiv:1008.5244 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The stellar mass function of the most massive galaxies at 3<=z<5 in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey

Authors: K.I. Caputi, M. Cirasuolo, J.S. Dunlop, R.J. McLure, D. Farrah, O. Almaini

Comments: 15 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to MNRAS

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

[126] arXiv:1008.5235 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Influence of Magnetic Helicity in MHD

Authors: Simon Candelaresi, Fabio Del Sordo, Axel Brandenburg

Comments: 2 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of IAU Symp. 271, Astrophysical Dynamics: from Stars to Galaxies, ed. N. Brummell and A.S. Brun, CUP

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

[127] arXiv:1008.5232 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Frequency of Low-Mass Exoplanets. II. The `Period Valley'

Authors: Robert A. Wittenmyer, Simon J. O'Toole, H.R.A. Jones, C.G. Tinney, R.P. Butler, B.D. Carter, J. Bailey

Comments: ApJ, accepted

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

[128] arXiv:1008.5206 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Galaxy evolution begins at home: GALFA, EVLA, and GASKAP

Authors: Snezana Stanimirovic

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in proceedings of "ISKAF2010 Science Meeting", PoS(ISKAF2010)052

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[129] arXiv:1008.5193 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: High Energy Neutrinos from Novae in Symbiotic Binaries: The Case of V407 Cygni

Authors: Soebur Razzaque, Pierre Jean, Olga Mena

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures

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

[130] arXiv:1008.5178 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Megaparsec-Scale X-ray Jet of the BL Lac Object OJ287

Authors: Alan P. Marscher, Svetlana G. Jorstad

Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[131] arXiv:1008.5175 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radio observations of the Galactic Centre and the Coma cluster as a probe of light dark matter self-annihilations and decay

Authors: Celine Boehm, Joseph Silk, Torsten Ensslin

Comments: 12p; 8 Figures

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

[132] arXiv:1008.5174 [pdf, other]

Title: First Views of a Nearby LIRG: Star Formation and Molecular Gas in IRAS 04296+2923

Authors: David S. Meier (1,2), Jean L. Turner (3), Sara C. Beck (4), Varoujan Gorjian (5), Chao-Wei Tsai, (3,6), Schuyler D. Van Dyk (6) ((1) New Mexico Tech, (2) NRAO, (3) UCLA, (4) Tel Aviv University, (5) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (6) Spitzer Science Center)

Comments: Accepted, Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[133] arXiv:1008.5164 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Seyfert 2 galaxies in the GeV band: jets and starburst

Authors: Jean-Philippe Lenain, Claudio Ricci, Marc Türler, Daniela Dorner, Roland Walter

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables

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

[134] arXiv:1008.5152 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The star capture model for fueling quasar accretion disks

Authors: Gareth F. Kennedy, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Juna A. Kollmeier

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Proceedings of IAU Symp. 271, Astrophysical Dynamics: from Stars to Galaxies, ed. N. Brummell &amp; A.S. Brun, Cambrige Univ Press

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[135] arXiv:1008.5150 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Deuterium-Burning Mass Limit for Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets

Authors: David S. Spiegel (1), Adam Burrows (1), John A. Milsom (2) ((1) Princeton University, (2) The University of Arizona)

Comments: 11 emulateapj pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[136] arXiv:1008.5149 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Determining the extragalactic extinction law with SALT. II. Additional sample

Authors: Ido Finkelman, Noah Brosch, Alexei Y. Kniazev, Petri Vaisanen, David A.H. Buckley, Darragh O'Donoghue, Amanda Gulbis, Yas Hashimoto, Nicola Loaring, Encarni Romero-Colmenero, Ramotholo Sefako

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. R-band contour maps and B-R colour-index maps are low-resolution versions of those used in the MNRAS version

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

[137] arXiv:1008.5148 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of a large-scale galaxy filament near a candidate intergalactic X-ray absorption system

Authors: Rik J. Williams, John S. Mulchaey, Juna A. Kollmeier, Thomas J. Cox (Carnegie Observatories)

Comments: 7 pages emulateapj, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters

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

[138] arXiv:1008.5147 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos

Authors: Jillian Bellovary, Fabio Governato, Tom Quinn, James Wadsley, Sijing Shen, Marta Volonteri

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[139] arXiv:1008.5387 (cross-list from cs.AI) [pdf, other]

Title: Pattern Recognition in Collective Cognitive Systems: Hybrid Human-Machine Learning (HHML) By Heterogeneous Ensembles

Authors: Hesam T. Dashti, Adel Ardalan, Alireza F. Siahpirani, Jernej Tonejc, Ioan V. Uilecan, Tiago Simas, Bruno Miranda, Rita Ribeiro, Liya Wang, Amir H. Assadi

Comments: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, WorldComp 2010

Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[140] arXiv:1008.5348 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Noncommutative Geometry Spectral Action as a framework for unification: Introduction and phenomenological/cosmological consequences

Authors: Mairi Sakellariadou

Comments: 11 pages; Invited contribution for Mario Castagnino's Festschrift, to be published in IJMPD

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

[141] arXiv:1008.5243 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Light Dark Matter from the U(1)_X Sector in the NMSSM with Gauge Mediation

Authors: Zhaofeng Kang, Tianjun Li, Tao Liu, Chunli Tong, Jin Min Yang

Comments: 22 pages, 2 figs

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

[142] arXiv:1008.5225 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The realistic QCD equation of state in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the early Universe

Authors: Wojciech Florkowski

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

[143] arXiv:1008.5159 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Test bodies and naked singularities: is the self-force the cosmic censor?

Authors: Enrico Barausse, Vitor Cardoso, Gaurav Khanna

Comments: 4 pages, 1 table

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

[144] arXiv:1008.5157 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Higgs inflation: consistency and generalisations

Authors: F. Bezrukov, A. Magnin, M. Shaposhnikov, S. Sibiryakov

Comments: 25 pages, 1 figure

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

[145] arXiv:1008.5145 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Turbulent front speed in the Fisher equation: dependence on Damkohler number

Authors: A. Brandenburg (NORDITA), N. E. L. Haugen (SINTEF), N. Babkovskaia (Univ. Helsinki)

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to PRE

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

[146] arXiv:1008.5138 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Proto-Magnetars as GRB Central Engines: Uncertainties, Limitations, and Particulars

Authors: Todd A. Thompson, Brian D. Metzger, Niccolò Bucciantini

Comments: 8 pages. Proceedings for Deciphering the Ancient Universe with GRBs, Kyoto, Japan, April, 2010

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

[147] arXiv:1008.5136 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Synthetic spectra of UIBs (2 to 40 mu)

Authors: Renaud Papoular

Comments: 29 pages, 14 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[148] arXiv:1008.5124 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: SZ effects from annihilating dark matter in the Milky Way: smooth halo, subhalos and intermediate-mass-black-holes

Authors: Julien Lavalle

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures (submitted)

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

[149] arXiv:1008.5119 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Searches for Cosmic-Ray Electron Anisotropies with the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope

Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review D - contact authors: M.N. Mazziotta and V. Vasileiou

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

[150] arXiv:1008.5115 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Least squares deconvolution of the stellar intensity and polarization spectra

Authors: O. Kochukhov, V. Makaganiuk, N. Piskunov

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

[151] arXiv:1008.5114 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Assembly History and Structure of Galactic Cold Dark Matter Halos

Authors: Jie Wang, J. F. Navarro, C. S. Frenk, S. D. M. White, V. Springel, A. Jenkins, A. Helmi, A. Ludlow, M. Vogelsberger

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figs, submitted to MNRAS, a superfluous paragraph at the end of sec.2 taken out, the position of plots rearranged

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

[152] arXiv:1008.5107 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: X. The HI Mass Function and Omega_HI From the 40% ALFALFA Survey

Authors: Ann M. Martin, Emmanouil Papastergis, Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes, Christopher M. Springob, Sabrina Stierwalt

Comments: 21 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[153] arXiv:1008.5106 [pdf, other]

Title: Time-division SQUID multiplexers with reduced sensitivity to external magnetic fields

Authors: G.M. Stiehl, H.M. Cho, G.C. Hilton, K.D. Irwin, J.A.B. Mates, C.D. Reintsema, B.L. Zink

Comments: 4 pages, 7 figures. Submitted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, August 2010

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

[154] arXiv:1008.5079 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Chandra and XMM-Newton view of the Warm Absorbing Gas in Mrk 290

Authors: Shuinai Zhang, Li Ji, Herman L. Marshall, Anna Lia Longinotti, Dan Evans, Qiusheng Gu

Comments: 24 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[155] arXiv:1008.5067 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: X-ray absorption by Broad Line Region Clouds in Mrk 766

Authors: G. Risaliti, E. Nardini, M. Salvati, M. Elvis, G. Fabbiano, R. Maiolino, P. Pietrini, G. Torricelli-Ciamponi

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[156] arXiv:1008.5066 [pdf, other]

Title: Adaptive selective sidelobe canceller beamformer with applications in radio astronomy

Authors: Ronny Levanda, Amir Leshem

Comments: 10 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE 26-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel(IEEEI 2010)

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

[157] arXiv:1008.5065 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Multi-wavelength study of the disk around the very low-mass star Par-Lup3-4

Authors: N. Huelamo, H. Bouy, C. Pinte, F. Menard, G. Duchene, F. Comeron, M. Fernández, D. Barrado, A. Bayo, I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo, J. Olofsson

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[158] arXiv:1008.5060 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Compact Binaries in Star Clusters II - Escapers and Detection Rates

Authors: J. M. B. Downing, M. J. Benacquista, M. Giersz, R. Spurzem

Comments: 19 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[159] arXiv:1008.5052 [pdf, other]

Title: Particle module of Piernik MHD code

Authors: Joanna Drążkowska, Michał Hanasz, Kacper Kowalik

Comments: 4 pages, submitted to the Proceedings of the 17'th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics (April 26 - May 1, 2010 Kyiv, Ukraine)

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

[160] arXiv:1008.5051 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Relative Composition and Energy Spectra of Light Nuclei in Cosmic Rays. Results from AMS-01

Authors: The AMS-01 Collaboration

Comments: 13 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables. Accepted by ApJ

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

[161] arXiv:1008.5050 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Multiple inverse Compton scatterings and the blazar sequence

Authors: C.-I. Björnsson

Comments: Accepted to ApJ, 18 pages, 1 figure

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

[162] arXiv:1008.5043 [pdf, other]

Title: The case of 3C326: VLA 74 MHz observations during a geomagnetic storm

Authors: Emanuela Orrú (1), Huib Intema (2) ((1) Radboud University Nijmegen, (2) National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in proceedings of "ISKAF2010 Science Meeting", PoS(ISKAF2010)075

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

[163] arXiv:1008.5042 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The X-ray and radio-emitting plasma lobes of 4C23.56: further evidence of recurrent jet activity and high acceleration energies

Authors: Katherine Blundell, Andy Fabian

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS; 6 pages

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

[164] arXiv:1008.5039 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The study of Seyfert 2 galaxies with and without infrared broad lines

Authors: Hong-bing Cai, Xin-Wen Shu, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Jun-xian Wang

Journal-ref: Please refer to Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, Volume 10, Issue 5, pp. 427-437

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

[165] arXiv:1008.5037 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Neutron Star Astronomy with the E-ELT

Authors: R.P. Mignani (MSSL-UCL)

Comments: 5, pages, proceedings of the Conference: Astronomy with Megastractures. Joint science with E-ELT and SKA. 10-14 May 2010, Crete

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

[166] arXiv:1008.5032 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Relativistic spin-precession in binary pulsars

Authors: Michael Kramer (MPI fuer Radioastronomie, Germany, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophsyics, University of Manchester, UK)

Comments: 20 pages, 6 figure, to be published in proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossmann meeting

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

[167] arXiv:1008.5025 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Steady State Equilibrium Condition of $npe^{\pm}$ Gas and Its Application to Astrophysics

Authors: Men-Quan Liu

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[168] arXiv:1008.5021 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Could the planets around HR 8799 be brown dwarfs?

Authors: Amaya Moro-Martin, George H. Rieke, Kate Y. L. Su

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters

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

[169] arXiv:1008.5019 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Bag model and quark star

Authors: Hua Li, Xin-Lian Luo, Hong-Shi Zong

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures

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

[170] arXiv:1008.5016 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Galaxy Motions, Turbulence and Conduction in Clusters of Galaxies

Authors: M. Ruszkowski (Michigan), S. Peng Oh (UCSB)

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS

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

[171] arXiv:1008.5010 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Current cosmological constraints on the curvature, dark energy and modified gravity

Authors: Yungui Gong, Xiao-ming Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu

Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures

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

[172] arXiv:1008.4991 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: N-body Models of Extended Clusters

Authors: Jarrod R. Hurley, A. Dougal Mackey

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[173] arXiv:1008.4985 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Neutrino cooling and spin-down of rapidly rotating compact stars

Authors: Prashanth Jaikumar, Stou Sandalski (CSU Long Beach)

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure

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

[174] arXiv:1008.4983 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Galactic foregrounds and CMB polarization

Authors: E. Carretti

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures, to appear in "The Dynamic ISM: A celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey," ASP Conference Series

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

[175] arXiv:1008.4960 [pdf]

Title: Growth and replication of red rain cells at 121 oC and their red fluorescence

Authors: Rajkumar Gangappa (Univ. of Glamorgan UK) Chandra Wickramasinghe (Cardiff Univ. UK), Milton Wainwright (Univ. Sheffield UK), A. Santhosh Kumar (Cochin University India), Godfrey Louis (Cochin University India)

Comments: 11 pages 10 figures SPIE Conference 7819 Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XIII Aug. 3-5 2010 San Diego, Ed. Richard B. Hoover

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

[176] arXiv:1008.4955 [pdf]

Title: Evolution of primordial planets in relation to the cosmological origin of life

Authors: N. Chandra Wickramasinghea (Cardiff Univ. UK), Jamie H. Wallis (Cardiff Univ. UK), Carl H. Gibson (Univ. Cal. San Diego US), Rudolph E. Schild (Harvard Univ. US)

Comments: 14 pages 7 figures SPIE Conference 7819 Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XIII Proceedings, Aug 3-5, 2010, San Diego, Ed. Richard B. Hoover

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

[177] arXiv:1008.4948 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Performance of XFaster likelihood in real CMB experiments

Authors: G. Rocha, C. R. Contaldi, L. P. L. Colombo, J. R. Bond, K. M. Gorski, C. R. Lawrence

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS

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

[178] arXiv:1008.4944 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: GALFACTS: The G-ALFA Continuum Transit Survey

Authors: Russ Taylor, Chris Salter

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings

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

[179] arXiv:1008.4936 [pdf]

Title: The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) Omega

Authors: Neil Gehrels

Comments: A response to the Astro2010 Request for Information by the Electromagnetic Observations from Space (EOS) panel

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

[180] arXiv:1008.4934 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Analyzing spatial coherence using a single mobile field sensor

Authors: P. A. Fridman

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, published in JOSA A

Journal-ref: J. of the Optical Soc. of America A, vol.24, No.4, 1069 (April 2007)

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

[181] arXiv:1008.4932 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effect of Environment on Massive Star Formation

Authors: Rowan J Smith, Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover, Ian A. Bonnell, Ralf S. Klessen

Comments: Conference Proceedings: UP2010, Have Observations Revealed a Variable Upper End of the Initial Mass Function? 8 pages

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[182] arXiv:1008.4928 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Second order cross-correlation between kSZ and 21 cm fluctuations from the EoR

Authors: Hiroyuki Tashiro, Nabila Aghanim, Mathieu Langer, Marian Douspis, Saleem Zaroubi, Vibor Jelic

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[183] arXiv:1008.4922 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Curvature-drift instability fails to generate pulsar radio emission

Authors: Alexander Kaganovich, Yuri Lyubarsky

Comments: to appear in ApJ

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

[184] arXiv:1008.4918 [pdf, other]

Title: The AGN Component in Deep Radio Fields: Current Understanding

Authors: Isabella Prandoni

Comments: Published in Proceedings of International SKA Forum 2010 Science Meeting (ISKAF 2010) Proceedings of Science (PoS), Vol. 47

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

[185] arXiv:1008.4899 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The termination shock of a magnetar wind: a possible origin of gamma-ray burst X-ray afterglow emission

Authors: Z. Mao, Yun-Wei Yu, Z. G. Dai, C. M. Pi, X. P. Zheng

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Astronomy and Astrophysics 518, A27 (2010)

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

[186] arXiv:1008.4893 [pdf]

Title: The Astronomical, Astrobiological and Planetary Science Case for Interstellar Spaceflight

Authors: Ian A. Crawford

Comments: 26 pages. Published in: Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 62, 415-421, (2009)

Journal-ref: Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 62, 415-421, (2009)

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

[187] arXiv:1008.4885 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling stellar coronal magnetic fields

Authors: Moira Jardine, Jean-Francois Donati, Doris Arzoumanian, Aline de Vidotto

Comments: 6pages, 4 figures

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

[188] arXiv:1008.4882 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radial oscillations of color superconducting self-bound quark stars

Authors: C. Vasquez Flores, G. Lugones

Comments: to appear in Physical Review D

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

[189] arXiv:1008.4866 [pdf, other]

Title: Estimating the amount of vorticity generated by cosmological perturbations in the early universe

Authors: Adam J. Christopherson, Karim A. Malik, David R. Matravers

Comments: 9 pages, revtex4, 1 figure

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

[190] arXiv:1008.4863 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gradual Inflation of Active-Region Coronal Arcades Building up to Coronal Mass Ejections

Authors: Rui Liu, Chang Liu, Sung-Hong Park, Haimin Wang

Comments: ApJ, accepted on 08/27/2010

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

[191] arXiv:1008.4842 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Lyman Alpha Emitters at z=7 in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey Field: Photometric Candidates and Luminosity Function

Authors: Kazuaki Ota, Masanori Iye, Nobunari Kashikawa, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Masami Ouchi, Tomonori Totani, Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi, Masahiro Nagashima, Atsushi Harayama, Natsuki Kodaka, Tomoki Morokuma, Hisanori Furusawa, Akito Tajitsu, Takashi Hattori

Comments: Accepted to ApJ for publication

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

[192] arXiv:1008.4837 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spitzer Space Telescope Constraint on the Stellar Mass of a z = 6.96 Lyman Alpha Emitter

Authors: Kazuaki Ota, Chun Ly, Matthew A. Malkan, Kentaro Motohara, Masao Hayashi, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Tomoki Morokuma, Masanori Iye, Nobunari Kashikawa, Takashi Hattori

Comments: Accepted to PASJ for publication

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

[193] arXiv:1008.4832 [pdf, other]

Title: Calibration of Sunspot Numbers

Authors: Leif Svalgaard

Comments: Submitted to GRL; 2 pages, 2 figures

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

[194] arXiv:1008.4827 [pdf, other]

Title: Group-finding with photometric redshifts: The Photo-z Probability Peaks algorithm

Authors: Bryan Gillis, Michael J. Hudson

Comments: Accepted for publication by MNRAS, 16 pages, 11 color figures

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

[195] arXiv:1008.4822 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Model independent dark energy constraints from the correlation function of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 luminous red galaxies

Authors: Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yun Wang, Maddumage Don P. Hemantha

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

[196] arXiv:1008.4802 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Constraints from Strong Gravitational Lensing in Galaxy Clusters

Authors: Eric Jullo, Priyamvada Natarajan, Jean-Paul Kneib, Anson d'Aloisio, Marceau Limousin, Johan Richard, Carlo Schimd

Comments: 32 pages, 8 figures, includes Supplementary Online Material. Published by Science on August 20, 2010

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

[197] arXiv:1008.4800 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Probing potassium in the atmosphere of HD 80606b with tunable filter transit spectrophotometry from the Gran Telescopio Canarias

Authors: Knicole D. Colon (University of Florida), Eric B. Ford (University of Florida), Seth Redfield (Wesleyan University), Jonathan J. Fortney (University of California, Santa Cruz), Megan Shabram (University of California, Santa Cruz), Hans J. Deeg (IAC, Universidad de La Laguna), Suvrath Mahadevan (Pennsylvania State University)

Comments: 12 pages, including 4 figures and 3 tables; submitted to MNRAS

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

[198] arXiv:1008.4799 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gas expulsion by quasar-driven winds as a solution to the over-cooling problem in galaxy groups and clusters

Authors: Ian G. McCarthy, Joop Schaye, Richard G. Bower, Trevor J. Ponman, Craig M. Booth, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Volker Springel

Comments: 21 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. For a version with high-resolution figures, see this http URL

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

[199] arXiv:1008.4797 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Single or Double Degenerate Progenitors? Searching for Shock Emission in the SDSS-II Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Brian T. Hayden, Peter M. Garnavich, Daniel Kasen, Benjamin Dilday, Joshua A. Frieman, Saurabh W. Jha, Hubert Lampeitl, Robert C. Nichol, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Jesper Sollerman, J. Craig Wheeler

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ, tentatively October 10th, 2010 v722-1

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

[200] arXiv:1008.4796 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Galaxy downsizing evidenced by hybrid evolutionary tracks

Authors: C. Firmani (1,2), V. Avila-Reese (2) ((1) INAF-OAB, (2) U.N.A.M)

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures. To appear in ApJ

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

[201] arXiv:1008.4795 [pdf, other]

Title: GTC OSIRIS Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheric Survey: Detection of potassium in XO-2b from spectrophotometry

Authors: D. K. Sing, J.-M. Desert, J. J. Fortney, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, G. E. Ballester, J. Cepa, D. Ehrenreich, M. Lopez-Morales, F. Pont, M. Shabram, A. Vidal-Madjar

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to A&A

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

[202] arXiv:1008.5048 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Scalar graviton in the healthy extension of Hořava-Lifshitz theory

Authors: Rong-Gen Cai, Bin Hu, Hong-Bo Zhang

Comments: 12 pages, 1 figure

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

[203] arXiv:1008.5013 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Inflation from a Supersymmetric Axion Model

Authors: Masahiro Kawasaki, Naoya Kitajima, Kazunori Nakayama

Comments: 4 pages

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

[204] arXiv:1008.5011 (cross-list from physics.geo-ph) [pdf]

Title: Small simple impact craters

Authors: Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

Comments: Key-words: Image processing, Satellite maps, Craters, Underwater craters

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[205] arXiv:1008.4997 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The general theory of porcupines, perfect and imperfect

Authors: Latham Boyle (Perimeter Institute)

Comments: 4 pages, no figures

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

[206] arXiv:1008.4968 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cosmological Evolution of Quintessence and Phantom with a New Type of Interaction in Dark Sector

Authors: Hao Wei

Comments: 11 pages, 6 tables, revtex4

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

[207] arXiv:1008.4951 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Fluctuation Dynamo and Turbulent Induction at Small Prandtl Number

Authors: Gregory L. Eyink

Comments: 20 pages, 13 figues

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

[208] arXiv:1008.4867 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Analytical results for group averaged scattering cross sections of high temperature plasmas

Authors: J. Fiedler

Comments: 14 pages, 15 tables

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

[209] arXiv:1008.4848 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Slowly Rotating Black Hole Solutions to Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity

Authors: Alikram N. Aliev, Çetin Şentürk

Comments: 15 pages, REVTeX

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

[210] arXiv:1008.4806 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Numerical Simulation of the Hydrodynamical Combustion to Strange Quark Matter

Authors: Brian Niebergal, Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary, Canada), Prashanth Jaikumar (CSU Long Beach, USA & Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures (animations online at this http URL)

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

[211] arXiv:1008.4281 (cross-list from physics.class-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Scale invariant stellar structure

Authors: Sidney Bludman, Dallas C. Kennedy

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Follows 1008.4086

Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[212] arXiv:1008.4775 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: STIS Spectroscopy of the Central 14 pc of NGC 3998: Evidence for an Inflow

Authors: Nick Devereux

Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, 27 August 2010, 33 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables

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

[213] arXiv:1008.4772 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Complete calculation of evaluated Maxwellian-averaged cross sections and their uncertainties for s-process nucleosynthesis

Authors: Boris Pritychenko

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures

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

[214] arXiv:1008.4767 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spectral evolution of Fermi/GBM short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: G. Ghirlanda (1), G. Ghisellini (1), L. Nava (2), D. Burlon (3) ((1) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (2) SISSA/ISAS - Trieste, (3) MPE - Garching)

Comments: 5 pages, 1 table, 3 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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

[215] arXiv:1008.4765 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Primordial Nucleosynthesis: The Predicted and Observed Abundances and Their Consequences

Authors: Gary Steigman

Comments: 10 page, 6 figures, To appear in the Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC XI), to be published by Proceedings of Science (PoS, SISSA)

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

[216] arXiv:1008.4762 [pdf, other]

Title: Fermi results on gamma-ray binaries

Authors: Adam B. Hill, Richard Dubois, Diego F. Torres, on behalf of the Fermi-LAT collaboration

Comments: Chapter to be published in the book of proceedings of the 1st Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, "ICREA Workshop on the high-energy emission from pulsars and their systems", held in April, 201

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

[217] arXiv:1008.4748 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Globular Cluster/Central Black Hole Connection in Galaxies

Authors: Gretchen L. H. Harris, William E. Harris

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[218] arXiv:1008.4741 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Multiwavelength Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Authors: Patrick Slane

Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures. Invited review to appear in Proc. of the inaugural ICREA Workshop on "The High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems" (2010), eds. N. Rea and D. Torres, (Springer Astrophysics and Space Science series)

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

[219] arXiv:1008.4730 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Temporal Variability of Active Region Outflows

Authors: Ignacio Ugarte-Urra, Harry P. Warren

Comments: Movies are available at this http URL To be submitted to ApJ

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

[220] arXiv:1008.4727 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Continued cooling of the crust in the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary KS 1731-260

Authors: Edward M. Cackett, Edward F. Brown, Andrew Cumming, Nathalie Degenaar, Jon M. Miller, Rudy Wijnands

Comments: submitted to ApJ

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

[221] arXiv:1008.4717 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cosmic ray transport in galaxy clusters: implications for radio halos, gamma-ray signatures, and cool core heating

Authors: Torsten A. Ensslin, Christoph Pfrommer, Francesco Miniati, Kandaswamy Subramanian

Comments: 20 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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

[222] arXiv:1008.4712 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Directional detection of non-baryonic dark matter with MIMAC

Authors: C. Grignon, J. Billard, F. Mayet, D. Santos

Comments: 4 pages, proc. of the 22nd Rencontres de Blois: Particle Physics and Cosmology, 15-20 July 2010, Blois, France

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

[223] arXiv:1008.4693 [pdf, other]

Title: Progress with the LOFAR Imaging Pipeline

Authors: George Heald (1), John McKean (1), Roberto Pizzo (1), Ger van Diepen (1), Joris E. van Zwieten (1), Reinout J. van Weeren (2), David Rafferty (2), Sebastiaan van der Tol (2), Laura Birzan (2), Aleksandar Shulevski (2), John Swinbank (3), Emanuela Orru (4), Francesco De Gasperin (5), Louise Ker (6), Annalisa Bonafede (7), Giulia Macario (7), Chiara Ferrari (8) on behalf of the LOFAR Collaboration ((1) ASTRON, (2) Leiden Observatory, (3) University of Amsterdam, (4) Radboud University Nijmegen, (5) MPIA Garching, (6) Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, (7) INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia, (8) Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in proceedings of "ISKAF2010 Science Meeting", PoS(ISKAF2010)057

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

[224] arXiv:1008.4686 [pdf, other]

Title: Data analysis recipes: Fitting a model to data

Authors: David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA), Jo Bovy (NYU), Dustin Lang (Toronto, Princeton)

Comments: a chapter from a non-existent book

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[225] arXiv:1008.4676 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Understanding Physical Conditions in High Redshift Galaxies through C I Fine Structure Lines: Data and Methodology

Authors: Regina A. Jorgenson (1), Arthur M. Wolfe (2), J. Xavier Prochaska (3) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, (2) UC San Diego, (3) UC Santa Cruz)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[226] arXiv:1008.4650 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Transition from Regular to Chaotic Circulation in Magnetized Coronae near Compact Objects

Authors: Ondřej Kopáček, Vladimír Karas, Jiří Kovář, Zdeněk Stuchlík

Comments: 21 pages, 20 figures, accepted to ApJ

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

[227] arXiv:1008.4646 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: $e^\pm$ Excesses in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum and Possible Interpretations

Authors: Yi-Zhong Fan, Bing Zhang, Jin Chang

Comments: 48 pages, including 10 figures and 1 tabel. Invited review to be published in IJMPD

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

[228] arXiv:1008.4642 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: How and Why to do VLBI on GPS

Authors: John M. Dickey

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, Conference Proceedings - International Very Long Baseline Service General Meeting 2010

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

[229] arXiv:1008.4640 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: GASKAP -- A Galactic Spectral Line Survey with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

Authors: John M. Dickey, S. J. Gibson, J.F. Gomez, H. Imai, P.A. Jones, N.M. McClure-Griffiths, S. Stanimirovic, J. Th. van Loon

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, to appear in "The Dynamic ISM: A celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey," ASP Conference Series

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

[230] arXiv:1008.4637 [pdf]

Title: The Origin of the Exoplanets

Authors: Helmut A. Abt

Journal-ref: PASP 122: 1015-1019, 2010

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

[231] arXiv:1008.4634 [pdf]

Title: Secular Aberration Drift and IAU Definition of ICRS

Authors: Oleg Titov

Comments: 6 pages

Journal-ref: MNRAS Letter, 407, L46, 2010

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

[232] arXiv:1008.4630 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dust Obscuration in Lyman Break Galaxies at z~4

Authors: I-Ting Ho, Wei-Hao Wang, Glenn E. Morrison, Neal A. Miller

Comments: 22 pages, 3 figures, and 2 tables. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)

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

[233] arXiv:1008.4623 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Astrophysical Supercomputing with GPUs: Critical Decisions for Early Adopters

Authors: Christopher J. Fluke (1), David G. Barnes (1), Benjamin R. Barsdell (1), Amr H. Hassan (1) ((1) Swinburne University of Technology)

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASA

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

[234] arXiv:1008.4620 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Misalignments between Matter and Galaxy Distributions in Triaxial Clusters: A Signature of a Possible Fifth Force?

Authors: Jounghun Lee (Seoul National University)

Comments: submitted to ApJL, 14 pages, 3 figures, comments welcome

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

[235] arXiv:1008.4618 [pdf]

Title: RR Lyrae Atmospherics: Wrinkles Old and New. A Preview

Authors: George W. Preston (Carnegie Observatories)

Comments: 13 pages, 10 Figures, submitted to AJ

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

[236] arXiv:1008.4616 [pdf, other]

Title: Only the Lonely: H I Imaging of Void Galaxies

Authors: K. Kreckel, E. Platen, M. A. Aragón-Calvo, J. H. van Gorkom, R. van de Weygaert, J. M. van der Hulst, K. Kovač, C.-W. Yip, P. J. E. Peebles

Comments: 53 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in AJ. High resolution available at this http URL

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

[237] arXiv:1008.4609 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Constraints on Quasar Lifetimes and Beaming from the HeII Lyman-alpha Forest

Authors: Steven Furlanetto (UCLA), Adam Lidz (Penn)

Comments: submitted to ApJ, 8 pages, 2 figures

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

[238] arXiv:1008.4602 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. I. Methodology and Results of Pilot Study

Authors: Vardha Nicola Bennert (1), Matthew W. Auger (1), Tommaso Treu (1), Jong-Hak Woo (2), Matthew A. Malkan (3) ((1) UCSB, (2) Seoul National University, (3) UCLA)

Comments: 27 pages, 19 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[239] arXiv:1008.4600 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The HARPS search for southern extrasolar planets. XXIII. 8 planetary companions to low-activity solar-type stars

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[240] arXiv:1008.4599 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Photometric variability of the Herbig Ae star HD 37806

Authors: S. M. Rucinski, K. Zwintz, M. Hareter, G. Pojmanski, R. Kuschnig, J. M. Matthews, D. B. Guenther, A. F. J. Moffat, D. Sasselov, W. W. Weiss

Comments: Accepted for publication by Astron. & Astroph. 8 pages, 9 figures. For some reason Fig.5 incorrectly shows in arXiv: Contours OK, gray scale not

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

[241] arXiv:1008.4590 [pdf, other]

Title: A Theory of Mulicolor Black Body Emission from Relativistically Expanding Plasmas

Authors: Asaf Pe'er, Felix Ryde

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures; submitted for publication in Ap.J

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

[242] arXiv:1008.4589 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Multiband lightcurves of tidal disruption events

Authors: Giuseppe Lodato (1), Elena Rossi (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' Degli Studi di Milano, Italy (2) Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted to MNRAS

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

[243] arXiv:1008.4588 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Galaxy protocluster candidates around z ~ 2.4 radio galaxies

Authors: N. A. Hatch, C. De Breuck, A. Galametz, G. K. Miley, R. A. Overzier, H. J. A. Röttgering, M. Doherty, T. Kodama, J. D. Kurk, N. Seymour, B. P. Venemans, J. Vernet, A. W. Zirm

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[244] arXiv:1008.4587 [pdf, other]

Title: Biasing and Demodulation Firmware for Kilopixel TES Bolometer Arrays

Authors: Graeme Smecher, François Aubin, Eric Bissonnette, Matt Dobbs, Peter Hyland, Kevin MacDermid

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

[245] arXiv:1008.4585 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Complete Spectroscopic Survey of the Milky Way satellite Segue 1: Dark matter content, stellar membership and binary properties from a Bayesian analysis

Authors: Gregory D. Martinez, Quinn E. Minor, James Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha

Comments: 15 pages, 19 figures

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

[246] arXiv:1008.4584 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Do sub-millimeter galaxy number counts provide evidence for a top-heavy IMF?

Authors: Christopher C. Hayward, Desika Narayanan, Patrik Jonsson, T. J. Cox, Dušan Kereš, Philip F. Hopkins, Lars Hernquist

Comments: Minor typo in the abstract corrected

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

[247] arXiv:1008.4583 [pdf, other]

Title: A Halo Model with Environment Dependence: Theoretical Considerations

Authors: Héctor Gil-Marín, Raul Jimenez, Licia Verde

Comments: 21 pages, 16 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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

[248] arXiv:1008.4582 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Extrasolar Planet HR 8799 b

Authors: Brendan P. Bowler, Michael C. Liu, Trent J. Dupuy, Michael C. Cushing

Comments: 21 pages, 23 figures; accepted by ApJ

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

[249] arXiv:1008.4581 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Mid-Infrared Evidence for Accelerated Evolution in Compact Group Galaxies

Authors: Lisa May Walker, Kelsey E. Johnson, Sarah C. Gallagher, John E. Hibbard, Ann E. Hornschemeier, Panayiotis Tzanavaris, Jane C. Charlton, Thomas H. Jarrett

Comments: 34 pages, 18 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

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

[250] arXiv:1008.4782 (cross-list from physics.geo-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Scaling of plate-tectonic convection with pseudoplastic rheology

Authors: Jun Korenaga

Comments: Accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[251] arXiv:1008.4777 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Universally Leptophilic Dark Matter From Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetry

Authors: Naoyuki Haba, Yuji Kajiyama, Shigeki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Okada, Koichi Yoshioka

Comments: 13 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure

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

[252] arXiv:1008.4769 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Limits on the Time Variation of the Fermi Constant G_F Based on Type Ia Supernova Observations

Authors: Alejandro Ferrero, Brett Altschul

Comments: 15 pages, 2 figures

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

[253] arXiv:1008.4726 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: What is the issue with SN1987A neutrinos?

Authors: F. Vissani, M.L. Costantini, W. Fulgione, A. Ianni, G. Pagliaroli

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure. Presented at Vulcano Workshop 2010: Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Vulcano, Italy, May 24-29, 2010

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

[254] arXiv:1008.4622 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Conservative self-force correction to the innermost stable circular orbit: comparison with multiple post-Newtonian-based methods

Authors: Marc Favata

Comments: 26 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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

[255] arXiv:1008.4193 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: $f\left(R,L_m\right)$ gravity

Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo

Comments: 6 pages, no figures

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

[256] arXiv:1005.2180 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Crossing the phantom divide with Ricci-like holographic dark energy

Authors: Samuel Lepe, Francisco Pena

Comments: Match with accepted version by EPJC

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

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