Arxivsorter

Title: Identification of the TW Hya Association member 2M1235$-$39: a tertiary component of the HR 4796 system

Authors: Joel H. Kastner (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble and Rochester Institute of Technology), B. Zuckerman (University of California, Los Angeles), M. Bessell (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University)

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure; accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:0808.2624 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Is there a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way?

Authors: Mark J. Reid (1) ((1)Harvard--Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Comments: Invited review submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics D; 23 pages; 10 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:0808.2612 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Uniformly Rotating Homogeneous and Polytropic Rings in Newtonian Gravity

Authors: David Petroff, Stefan Horatschek

Comments: 18 pages, 12 figures. This paper is essentially a combined version of arXiv:0802.0078 and arXiv:0802.0081 and was published in this form

Journal-ref: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., vol. 389, p. 156 (2008)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:0808.2611 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of L and T Dwarfs in Color-Magnitude Diagrams

Authors: D. Saumon (1), M. S. Marley (2) ((1) Lanl, (2) NASA Ames)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the ApJ. 52 pages including 20 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:0808.2610 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: GRB 070714B - Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short Burst Redshift

Authors: J. F. Graham (1 and 2), A. S. Fruchter (1), A. J. Levan (3), A. Melandri (4), L. J. Kewley (5), E. M. Levesque (5), M. Nysewander (1), N. R. Tanvir (6), T. Dahlen (1), D. Bersier (4), K. Wiersema (6) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3) University of Warwick, (4) Liverpool John Moores University, (5) University of Hawaii, (6) University of Leicester)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:0808.2603 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Are Optically-Selected Quasars Universally X-Ray Luminous? X-Ray/UV Relations in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars

Authors: Robert R. Gibson, W. N. Brandt, Donald P. Schneider

Comments: Accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:0808.2595 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Mirror dark matter discovered?

Authors: Z.K. Silagadze

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:0808.2585 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Star cluster evolution in the Magellanic Clouds revisited

Authors: Richard de Grijs (1,2), Simon P. Goodwin (1) ((1) University of Sheffield, UK; (2) NAOC-CAS, Beijing, China)

Comments: 6 pages, conference contribution to IAU Symposium 256, van Loon J.T. & Oliviera J.M., eds., Cambridge Univ. Press (also presented at "From Taurus to the Antennae", Univ. of Sheffield, August 2008)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:0808.2582 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Muon Charge Ratio of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

Authors: Bo-Qiang Ma

Comments: 4 latex pages, Invited talk at 2007 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2007), November 13-15, 2007, Taipei

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[10] arXiv:0808.2558 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A catalog of variable stars in the Kepler field of view found in the ASAS3-North data

Authors: A. Pigulski, G. Pojmanski, B. Pilecki, D. Szczygiel

Comments: 2 pages

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:0808.2554 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The eSMA: description and first results

Authors: Sandrine Bottinelli (1), Ken H. Young (2), Richard Chamberlin (3), Remo P.J. Tilanus (4,9), Mark A. Gurwell (2), Dave J. Wilner (2), Hiroko Shinnaga (3), Hiroshige Yoshida (3), Per Friberg (4), Huib Jan van Langevelde (5,1), Ewine F. van Dishoeck (1,6), Michiel R. Hogerheijde (1), A. Meredith Hughes (2), Robert D. Christensen (8), Richard E. Hills (7), John S. Richer (7), Emily Curtis (7), the eSMA commissioning team

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, paper number 7012-12, to appear in Proceedings of SPIE vol. 7012: "Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II", SPIE conference on Astronomical Instrumentation, Marseille, 23-28 June 2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:0808.2551 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of Metric Perturbations in Quintom Bounce model

Authors: Yi-Fu Cai, Xinmin Zhang

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:0808.2550 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Vertical Structure of Warm Ionised Gas in the Milky Way

Authors: B. M. Gaensler (1), G. J. Madsen (1,2), S. Chatterjee (1), S. A. Mao (3) ((1) U. Sydney, (2) U. Wisconsin, Madison, (3) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Comments: 20 pages, including 5 PS figures (4 in color). Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[14] arXiv:0808.2542 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Variable Stars of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy - Revisited

Authors: K. Kinemuchi, H.C. Harris, Horace A. Smith, N.A. Silbermann, L.A. Snyder, A. P. LaCluyze, C.L. Clark

Comments: Accepted to AJ. 61 pages, 14 figures, 10 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:0808.2539 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Microlensing Optical Depth Revisited with Recent Star Counts

Authors: Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Heon-Young Chang, Myeong-Gu Park, Ki-Won Lee

Comments: 15 pages, 3 figures and 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:0808.2536 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Lighthouses with two lights: burst oscillations from the accretion-powered millisecond pulsars

Authors: Anna L. Watts (University of Amsterdam)

Comments: Invited review, to appear in the proceedings of the workshop 'A decade of accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars' (Amsterdam, April 2008)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:0808.2534 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The AAT/WFI survey of the Monoceros Ring and Canis Major Dwarf galaxy: II. from l = (280 - 025)deg

Authors: Blair C. Conn, Richard R. Lane, Geraint F. Lewis, Mike J. Irwin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Nicolas F. Martin, Michele Bellazzini, Artem V. Tuntsov

Comments: 11 Pages with quite a few figures. As ever, figure quality has been reduced to post on arxiv. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:0808.2532 [pdf]

Title: Sensitivity of PDR Calculations to Microphysical Details

Authors: N. P. Abel, P. A. M. van Hoof, G. Shaw, G. J. Ferland, T. Elwert

Comments: 36 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:0808.2529 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep Near-IR Surface Photometry of 57 Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence

Authors: Emma Kirby, Helmut Jerjen, Stuart Ryder, Simon Driver

Comments: Accepted by AJ. High resolution version available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:0808.2526 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The subhalo - satellite connection and the fate of disrupted satellite galaxies

Authors: Xiaohu Yang (SHAO), H.J. Mo (UMass), Frank C. van den Bosch (MPIA)

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures. Submitted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[21] arXiv:0808.2513 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Noise-Sustained Convective Instability in a Magnetized Taylor-Couette Flow

Authors: Wei Liu

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures and 1 table. submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[22] arXiv:0808.2506 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Telescopes versus Microscopes: the puzzle of Iron-60

Authors: Jonathan P. Williams

Comments: to appear in the proceedings of the Les Houches Winter School "Physics and Astrophysics of Planetary Systems", (EDP Sciences: EAS Publications Series)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:0808.2505 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Heavy element abundances in giant stars of the globular clusters M4 and M5

Authors: David Yong (1), Amanda I. Karakas (1), David L. Lambert (2), Alessandro Chieffi (3), Marco Limongi (4) ((1) RSAA, Mt Stromlo Observatory, (2) Univ. of Texas, (3) INAF-IASF, (4) INAF-OAR)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:0808.2497 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy density profiles and shapes -- II. selection biases in strong lensing surveys

Authors: Rachel Mandelbaum (IAS, Princeton), Glenn van de Ven (IAS, Princeton), Charles R. Keeton (Rutgers Univ.)

Comments: 25 pages, 16 figures; paper I at arXiv:0808.2493; submitted for publication in MNRAS; PDF file with full resolution figures at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:0808.2493 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy density profiles and shapes -- I. simulation pipeline for lensing by realistic galaxy models

Authors: Glenn van de Ven (IAS, Princeton), Rachel Mandelbaum (IAS, Princeton), Charles R. Keeton (Rutgers Univ.)

Comments: 31 pages, 15 figures; paper II at arXiv:0808.2497; submitted for publication in MNRAS; PDF file with full resolution figures at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:0808.2492 [pdf, other]

Title: Faranoff-Riley type I jet deceleration at density discontinuities "Relativistic hydrodynamics with realistic equation of state"

Authors: Z. Meliani, R. Keppens, B. Giacomazzo

Comments: accepted in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:0808.2483 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Correlated Variability in Blazars

Authors: Robert Wagner (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich and Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching)

Comments: 15 pages, 13 figures, "Workshop on Blazar Variability across the Electromagnetic Spectrum", 2008 April 22-25, Palaiseau, France

Journal-ref: PoS(BLAZARS2008)013

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:0808.2480 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Chemical Analysis of Five Red Giants in the Globular Cluster M10 (NGC 6254)

Authors: Sharina Haynes, Geoffrey Burks, Christian I. Johnson, Catherine A. Pilachowski

Comments: 16 Pages; 3 Figures; 3 Tables; Accepted for publication in PASP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[29] arXiv:0808.2477 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Ionizing Photon Escape Fractions from High Redshift Dwarf Galaxies

Authors: John H. Wise (NASA/GSFC), Renyue Cen (Princeton)

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ. Any comments are welcome

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:0808.2471 [pdf, other]

Title: Environmental Dependence of Dark Matter Halo Growth I: Halo Merger Rates

Authors: Onsi Fakhouri, Chung-Pei Ma

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:0808.2470 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Measurements of CaII absorption, metals, and dust in a sample of z~1 DLAs and subDLAs

Authors: Daniel Nestor, Max Pettini, Paul Hewett, Sandhya Rao, Vivienne Wild

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 15 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:0808.2469 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey

Authors: Warren R. Brown, Margaret J. Geller, Scott J. Kenyon (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Comments: 10 pages, submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:0808.2467 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Energy conditions bounds and supernovae data

Authors: M.P. Lima, S.D.P. Vitenti, M.J. Reboucas

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Phys. Lett. B (2008)

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

[34] arXiv:0808.2466 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from RGB J0152+017

Authors: J.-P. Lenain, D. Nedbal, M. Raue, S. Kaufmann, L. Gérard, M. Hauser, B. Giebels, for the H.E.S.S. collaboration

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures; accepted to appear in the proceedings of the Workshop on Blazar Variability across the Electromagnetic Spectrum, 22-25 April 2008, Palaiseau, France

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:0808.2465 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Spitzer Observations of the z=2.73 Lensed Lyman Break Galaxy, MS1512-cB58

Authors: Brian Siana (1), Harry I. Teplitz (2), Ranga-Ram Chary (2), James W. Colbert (2), David T. Frayer (3) ((1) Caltech, (2) Spitzer Science Center, (3) IPAC)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. aastex format, 18 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[36] arXiv:0808.2449 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Propagator Corrections for Constant Deceleration

Authors: T. M. Janssen (Utrecht), S. P. Miao (Utrecht), T. Prokopec (Utrecht), R. P. Woodard (Florida)

Comments: 34 pages, uses LaTeX 2 epsilon

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

[37] arXiv:0808.2318 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors

Authors: Jonathan L. Feng, Huitzu Tu, Hai-Bo Yu

Comments: 20 pages, 8 figures

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

[38] arXiv:0808.2284 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Revisiting chameleon gravity - thin-shells and no-shells with appropriate boundary conditions

Authors: Takashi Tamaki, Shinji Tsujikawa

Comments: 14 pages, no figures

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

[39] arXiv:0808.2441 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Extremely red stellar objects revealed by IPHAS

Authors: N.J. Wright, R. Greimel, M.J. Barlow, J.E. Drew, M.-R.L. Cioni, A.A. Zijlstra, R.L.M. Corradi, E.A. González-Solares, P. Groot, J. Irwin, M.J. Irwin, A. Mampaso, R.A.H. Morris, D. Steeghs, Y.C. Unruh, N. Walton

Comments: 18 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:0808.2437 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Galactic Cosmic Ray physics: I. Method and results for the Leaky Box Model

Authors: A. Putze, L. Derome, D. Maurin, L. Perotto, R. Taillet

Comments: 18 pages, 15 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:0808.2435 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Study of H2 Emission in Three Bipolar Proto-Planetary Nebulae: IRAS 16594-4656, Hen 3-401, and Rob 22

Authors: Bruce J. Hrivnak, Nathan Smith, Kate Y. L. Su, Raghvendra Sahai

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:0808.2432 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The construction of non-spherical models of quasi-relaxed stellar systems

Authors: G. Bertin, A.L. Varri (Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica)

Comments: AASTeX v5.2, 37 pages with 2 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:0808.2414 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Properties of X-ray selected Broad Absorption Line Quasars

Authors: A. J. Blustin, T. Dwelly, M. J. Page, I. M. McHardy, N. Seymour, J. A. Kennea, N. S. Loaring, K. O. Mason, K. Sekiguchi

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:0808.2408 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Detecting Sound-Wave-Like Surface Brightness Ripples in Cluster Cores

Authors: J. Graham, A.C. Fabian, J.S. Sanders

Comments: 9 Pages, 13 figures MNRAS Accepted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:0808.2404 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Infrared Luminosity of Galaxy Clusters

Authors: M. Giard (1), L. Montier (1), E. Pointecouteau (1), E. Simmat (1 and 2) ((1) CESR, CNRS-Université de Toulouse, (2) MPI Heidelberg)

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted july 31st 2008 for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:0808.2403 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Phase Shift Sequences for an Adding Interferometer

Authors: Peter Hyland, Brent Follin, Emory F. Bunn

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:0808.2391 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Star formation rates in Lyman break galaxies: radio stacking of LBGs in the COSMOS field and the sub-$\mu$Jy radio source population

Authors: C.L. Carilli (NRAO), Nicholas Lee (NRAO), P. Capak (CIT), E. Schinnerer (MPIA), K.-S. Lee (Yale), H. McCraken (IAP), M.S. Yun (UMass), N. Scoville (CIT), V. Smolcic (CIT), M. Giavalisco (UMass), A. Datta (NRAO), Y. Taniguchi (Ehime Univ) C. Megan Urry (Yale)

Comments: 15 pages, 2 figures AASTEX, to appear in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:0808.2386 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: TW Hydrae: evidence of stellar spots instead of a Hot Jupiter

Authors: N. Huelamo, P. Figueira, X. Bonfils, N.C. Santos, F. Pepe, M. Guillon, R. Azevedo, T. Barman, M. Fernandez, E. di Folco, E.W. Guenther, C. Lovis, C.H.F. Melo, D. Queloz, S. Udry

Comments: accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:0808.2385 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the nature of unabsorbed Seyfert 2 galaxies

Authors: Murray Brightman, Kirpal Nandra

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication at MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:0808.2384 [pdf, other]

Title: Sound waves in the intracluster medium of the Centaurus cluster

Authors: J.S Sanders, A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Comments: 5 page letter, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[51] arXiv:0808.2375 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Molecular Emission Line Formation in Prestellar Cores

Authors: Ya. Pavlyuchenkov, D. Wiebe, B. Shustov, Th. Henning, R. Launhardt, D. Semenov

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[52] arXiv:0808.2371 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Direct X-ray Spectral Deprojection of Galaxy Clusters

Authors: H. R. Russell, J. S. Sanders, A. C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Comments: 11 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[53] arXiv:0808.2367 [pdf]

Title: Extreme multiplex spectroscopy at wide-field 4-m telescopes

Authors: Robert Content, Tom Shanks

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, to appear in proceedings of Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, SPIE conference, Marseille, 23-28 June, 2008

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[54] arXiv:0808.2359 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Integral and Rxte/Asm Observations on Igr J17098-3628

Authors: Yu-Peng Chen, Shu Zhang, Nick Schurch, Jian-Min Wang, Werner Collmar, Ti-Pei Li, Jin-Lu Qu, Cheng-Min Zhang

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figure, accepted in PASJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[55] arXiv:0808.2346 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The dynamics of internal working surfaces in MHD jets

Authors: Fabio De Colle, Alejandro Raga, Alejandro Esquivel

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures. ApJ in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[56] arXiv:0808.2339 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Nature of a Cosmic-ray Accelerator CTB37B Observed with Suzaku and Chandra

Authors: Ryoko Nakamura, Aya Bamba, Manabu Ishida, Hiroshi Nakajima, Ryo Yamazaki, Yukikatsu Terada, Gerd Puhlhofer, Stefan J. Wagner

Comments: 20 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[57] arXiv:0808.2338 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Axisymmetric Magnetorotational Instability in Viscous Accretion Disks

Authors: Youhei Masada (1), Takayoshi Sano (2) ((1) Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, (2) Institute of Laser Enginnering Osaka University)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ -- 18 pages, 9 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[58] arXiv:0808.2323 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The 21cm Power Spectrum After Reionization

Authors: Stuart Wyithe, Abraham Loeb

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[59] arXiv:0808.2317 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evidence of convective rolls in a sunspot penumbra

Authors: V. Zakharov, J. Hirzberger, T. L. Riethmueller, S. K. Solanki, P. Kobel

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, letter to Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[60] arXiv:0808.2313 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The impact of dust on the scaling properties of galaxy clusters

Authors: Antonio C. da Silva, Andrea Catalano, Ludovic Montier, Etienne Pointecouteau, Joseph Lanoux, Martin Giard

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[61] arXiv:0808.2294 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Sound Waves Excitation by Jet-Inflated Bubbles in Clusters of Galaxies

Authors: Assaf Sternberg (Technion, Israel) Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[62] arXiv:0808.2292 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-telescope timing of PSR J1518+4904

Authors: G.H.Janssen (1), B.W. Stappers (2,1,3), M. Kramer (3), D.J. Nice (4), A. Jessner (5), I. Cognard (6), M.B. Purver (3). ((1)University of Amsterdam, NL,(2)Astron, Dwingeloo, NL, (3)JBCA, University of Manchester, UK, (4)Bryn Mawr College, USA, (5)MPIfR, Bonn, DE, (6)CNRS, Orleans, FR)

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[63] arXiv:0808.2282 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Candidate Disk Wide Binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Authors: Branimir Sesar, Zeljko Ivezic, Mario Juric

Comments: emulateApJ, 47 pages, 28 figures, accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[64] arXiv:0808.2277 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Quasi-Hilda Comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu: Another long temporary satellite capture by Jupiter

Authors: Katsuhito Ohtsuka, Takashi Ito, Makoto Yoshikawa, David J. Asher, Hideyoshi Arakida

Comments: 20 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[65] arXiv:0808.2273 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Possible Icy Kuiper Belt around HD 181327

Authors: Christine H. Chen, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Paul S. Smith

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures (including 3 color figures), ApJ, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[66] arXiv:0808.2253 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Simulation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes with CORSIKA and sim_telarray

Authors: Konrad Bernlohr

Comments: 25 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[67] arXiv:0808.2250 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Turbulence-driven Polar Winds from T Tauri Stars Energized by Magnetospheric Accretion

Authors: Steven R. Cranmer (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Comments: 19 pages (emulateapj style), 13 figures, ApJ, in press (v. 689, December 10, 2008)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[68] arXiv:0808.2248 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Rotation-Resolved Spectroscopy of a Very Young Asteroid, (1270) Datura

Authors: Naruhisa Takato (Subaru telescope)

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ Letter

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[69] arXiv:0808.2240 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Calibrating Gamma-Ray Bursts to Reconstruct the Cosmic Expansion History up to Redshift z=6.29

Authors: Hao Wei, Shuang Nan Zhang

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, revtex4

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

[70] arXiv:0808.2233 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Importance of the Interclump Medium for Superionization: O VI Formation in the Wind of Zeta Pup

Authors: J. Zsargo, D. J. Hillier, J.-C. Bouret, T. Lanz, M. A. Leutenegger, D. Cohen

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL, 4 pages with 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[71] arXiv:0808.2214 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic Iron Line Emission from the Neutron Star Low-mass X-ray Binary 4U 1636-536

Authors: Dirk Pandel, Philip Kaaret (Univ. of Iowa), Stephane Corbel (Univ. Paris Diderot, CEA Saclay - AIM)

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[72] arXiv:0808.2210 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. The OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars. I. Classical Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Authors: I. Soszynski, R. Poleski, A. Udalski, M.K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, L. Wyrzykowski, O. Szewczyk, K. Ulaczyk

Comments: 23 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Acta Astronomica

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[73] arXiv:0808.2208 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Challenges to the DGP Model from Horizon-Scale Growth and Geometry

Authors: Wenjuan Fang, Sheng Wang, Wayne Hu, Zoltan Haiman, Lam Hui, Morgan May

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables, submitted to PRD

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[74] arXiv:0808.2194 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Correlated Multi-Waveband Variability in the Blazar 3C~279 from 1996 to 2007

Authors: R. Chatterjee, S. G. Jorstad, A. P. Marscher, H. Oh, I. M. McHardy, M. F. Aller, H. D. Aller, T. J. Balonek, H. R. Miller, W. T. Ryle, G. Tosti, O. Kurtanidze, M. Nikolashvili, V. M. Larionov, V. A. Hagen-Thorn

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 50 pages (including 23 figures and 8 tables)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[75] arXiv:0808.2193 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Exceptionally Luminous Type II-L SN 2008es

Authors: A. A. Miller, R. Chornock, D. A. Perley, M. Ganeshalingam, N. R. Butler, J. S. Bloom, N. Smith, M. Modjaz, D. Poznanski, A. V. Filippenko, J. H. Shiode, J. M. Silverman (UC Berkeley)

Comments: submitted to ApJ, 9 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[76] arXiv:0808.1552 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Note on the thermal history of decoupled massive particles

Authors: Hongbao Zhang

Comments: JHEP style, 4 pages, to appear in CQG

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

[77] arXiv:0806.4459 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Plane symmetric thin-shell wormholes: solutions and stability

Authors: José P. S. Lemos, Francisco S. N. Lobo

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures. V2: typo corrections and minor modifications

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D78 (2008) 044030

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

[78] arXiv:0801.4401 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: General class of wormhole geometries in conformal Weyl gravity

Authors: Francisco S. N. Lobo

Comments: 7 pages, Revtex4. V2: typos corrected. V3: 8 pages, section on the energy conditions added, version to appear in Class. Quant. Gravity

Journal-ref: Class.Quant.Grav. 25 (2008) 175006

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

[79] arXiv:0808.2188 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Interferometric imaging of the high-redshift radio galaxy, 4C60.07: An SMA, Spitzer and VLA study reveals a binary AGN/starburst

Authors: R.J. Ivison (Edinburgh), G.E. Morrison, A.D. Biggs, Ian Smail, S.P. Willner, M.A. Gurwell, T.R. Greve, J.A. Stevens, M.L.N. Ashby

Comments: In press at MNRAS, 10 pages, no colour

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[80] arXiv:0808.2180 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Metallicity-corrected Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance to NGC 4258

Authors: Violet A. Mager, Barry F. Madore, Wendy L. Freedman

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 13 pages, 9 figures. Re-submitted with distance in Mpc corrected

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[81] arXiv:0808.2179 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Reconnection by a Self-Retreating X-Line

Authors: M. Oka, M. Fujimoto, T. K. M. Nakamura, I. Shinohara, K.-I. Nishikawa

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[82] arXiv:0808.2168 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Interstellar Weather Vanes: GLIMPSE Mid-Infrared Stellar-Wind Bowshocks in M17 and RCW49

Authors: Matthew S. Povich, Robert A. Benjamin, Barbara A. Whitney, Brian L. Babler, Remy Indebetouw, Marilyn R. Meade, Ed Churchwell

Comments: 17 pages, 3 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[83] arXiv:0808.2159 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: NTT follow-up observations of star cluster candidates from the FSR catalogue

Authors: D. Froebrich (1), H. Meusinger (2), A. Scholz (3) ((1) University of Kent, (2) Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, (3) University of St. Andrews)

Comments: 24pages, 3tables, 40figures, Accepted for publication by MNRAS, A version with higher resolution figures can be found at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[84] arXiv:0808.2156 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Estimating stellar rotation from starspot detection during planetary transits

Authors: Adriana Silva-Valio

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[85] arXiv:0808.2148 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Post Common Envelope Binaries from SDSS - III. Seven new orbital periods

Authors:

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