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Title: z~7 galaxy candidates from NICMOS observations over the HDF South and the CDF-S and HDF-N GOODS fields

Authors: Rychard J. Bouwens (UCSC/Leiden), Garth D. Illingworth (UCSC), Valentino Gonzalez (UCSC), Ivo Labbe (OCIW), Marijn Franx (Leiden), Christopher J. Conselice (Nottingham), John Blakeslee (HIA), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Holland Ford (JHU), Brad Holden (UCSC), Danilo Marchesini (Tufts), Dan Magee (UCSC), Wei Zheng (JHU)

Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, submitted to ApJ, see this http URL for a link to a complete reduction of the NICMOS observations over the two GOODS fields

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

[2] arXiv:1003.1705 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Region of Violent Star Formation in the Irr Galaxy IC 10: Structure and Kinematics of Ionized and Neutral Gas

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

Comments: 22 pages, 10 figures; accepted in Astronomy Reports

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

[3] arXiv:1003.1685 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Meridional Circulation During the Extended Solar Minimum: Another Component of the Torsional Oscillation?

Authors: I. Gonzalez Hernandez, R. Howe, R. Komm, F. Hill

Comments: ApJ Letters (accepted)

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

[4] arXiv:1003.1674 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraining blazar distances with combined Fermi and TeV data: an empirical approach

Authors: E. Prandini, G. Bonnoli, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, F. Tavecchio

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[5] arXiv:1003.1665 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: X-ray imaging of the ionisation cones in NGC 5252

Authors: M.Dadina, M.Guainazzi, M.Cappi, S.Bianchi, C. Vignali, G. Malaguti, A. Comastri

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[6] arXiv:1003.1663 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: SDSSJ150634.27+013331.6: the second compact elliptical galaxy in the NGC5846 group

Authors: Igor Chilingarian, Gilles Bergond

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figure, 1 table. Accepted to MNRAS Letters

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

[7] arXiv:1003.1662 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A simple model of the reflection effect for the interacting binaries and extrasolar planets

Authors: Jan Budaj

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

[8] arXiv:1003.1656 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Multiband Emission from Pulsar Wind Nebulae: A Possible Injection Spectrum

Authors: J. Fang, L. Zhang

Comments: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted by A&A

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

[9] arXiv:1003.1653 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A photospheric bright point model

Authors: S. Shelyag, M. Mathioudakis, F.P. Keenan, D.B. Jess

Comments: 6 pages, 9 figures, accepted to A&A

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

[10] arXiv:1003.1647 [pdf, other]

Title: The photospheric energy and helicity budgets of the flux-injection hypothesis

Authors: P. W. Schuck

Comments: 42 pages, 14 figures, 1 table

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

[11] arXiv:1003.1644 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A mid-IR study of Hickson Compact Groups I : Probing the Effects of Environment in Galaxy Interactions

Authors: T. Bitsakis (1), V. Charmandaris (1) (2) (3), E. Le Floc'h (4), T. Diaz-Santos (1) (2), S. K. Slater (5), E. Xilouris (6), M. P. Haynes (7) ((1) University of Crete, (2) IESL/FORTH Greece, (3) Observatoire de Paris, (4) CEA/DSM-CNRS Paris, (5) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (6) National Observatory of Athens, (7) Cornell University )

Comments: 24 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[12] arXiv:1003.1636 [pdf]

Title: HI and CO in the circumstellar environment of the S-type star RS Cnc

Authors: Yannick Libert, Jan Martin Winters, Thibaut Le Bertre, Eric Gérard, Lynn D. Matthews

Comments: accepted for publication in A&A

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

[13] arXiv:1003.1635 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational interaction of antimatter

Authors: Massimo Villata

Comments: 5 pages, submitted to General Relativity and Gravitation on 2 February 2010

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

[14] arXiv:1003.1633 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: An axis-free overset grid in spherical polar coordinates for simulating 3D self-gravitating flows

Authors: Annop Wongwathanarat, Nicolay J. Hammer, Ewald Müller

Comments: 15 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[15] arXiv:1003.1629 [ps, pdf]

Title: X-Shooting EF Eridani: further evidence for a massive white dwarf and a sub-stellar secondary

Authors: A.D. Schwope, L. Christensen

Comments: Astron, Astrophys., in press

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

[16] arXiv:1003.1575 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Light elements in massive single and binary stars

Authors: N. Langer, I. Brott, M. Cantiello, S.E. de Mink, R.G. Izzard, S.-C. Yoon

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures, to appear in proc. IAU-Symp. 268. C. Charbonnel et al., eds.

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

[17] arXiv:1003.1564 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Behavior of Li abundances in solar-analog stars II. Evidence of the connection with rotation and stellar activity

Authors: Y. Takeda, S. Honda, S. Kawanomoto, H. Ando, T. Sakurai

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures; accepted for publication in Astron. Astrophys.

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

[18] arXiv:1003.1539 [pdf]

Title: The nature of the compact HII region Sh 2-89 and its stellar content

Authors: G. Ramos-Larios, J. P. Phillips, J. A. Perez-Grana

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 33 pages in arXiv

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[19] arXiv:1003.1521 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Measurement of the Rate of Type Ia Supernovae in Galaxy Clusters from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

Comments: 46 pages. Submitted to ApJ. Resubmitted to ApJ following referee report.

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

[20] arXiv:1003.1519 [pdf]

Title: The Underluminous Nature of Sgr A*

Authors: F. Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern University), M. Wardle (Macquarie University)

Comments: 4 pages, To appear in Proceedings of "X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives", Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[21] arXiv:1003.1498 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of long-period variable stars in the very-metal-poor globular cluster M15

Authors: Iain McDonald, Jacco Th. van Loon, Andrea K. Dupree, Martha L. Boyer

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[22] arXiv:1003.1496 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Fermi-LAT restrictions on UHECRs and cosmogenic neutrinos

Authors: V.Berezinsky, A.Gazizov, M.Kachelriess, S.Ostapchenko

Comments: 5 pages, 3 eps figures

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

[23] arXiv:1003.1465 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Cool dwarfs stars from the Torino Observatory Parallax Program

Authors: R.L. Smart, G. Ioannidis, H.R.A. Jones, B. Bucciarelli, M.G. Lattanzi

Comments: 8 pages 6 figures accepted by AA

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

[24] arXiv:1003.1436 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Southern Sky Survey with Fermi LAT and ASKAP

Authors: Robert A. Cameron, for the Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, the ASKAP VAST Science Survey Team

Comments: 2009 Fermi Symposium, eConf Proceedings C091122

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

[25] arXiv:1003.1430 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Radiative Spectra from Disk Corona and Inner Hot Flow in Black Hole X-ray Binaries

Authors: Ryoji Kawabata, Shin Mineshige

Comments: 13 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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

[26] arXiv:1003.1420 [pdf, other]

Title: The Mid-Infrared Luminosities of Normal Galaxies over Cosmic Time

Authors: Daniel D. Kelson (Carnegie Observatories), Bradford P. Holden (UCO/Lick Observatories)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[27] arXiv:1003.1413 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Search for Outbursts in the Narrow 511-keV Line from Compact Sources Based on INTEGRAL Data

Authors: S. Tsygankov (1,2), E. Churazov (1,2) ((1) MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, (2) Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia)

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures. To be published in Astronomy Letters, 2010, Vol. 36, No 4, p. 237

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

[28] arXiv:1003.1407 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Radiative hydrodynamics simulations of red supergiant stars: II. simulations of convection on Betelgeuse match interferometric observations

Authors: A. Chiavassa, X. Haubois, J. S. Young, B. Plez, E. Josselin, G. Perrin, B. Freytag

Comments: 11 pages, Accepted for publication on A&A

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

[29] arXiv:1003.1400 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Lifetime of the embedded phase of low-mass star formation and the envelope depletion rates

Authors: Eduard Vorobyov (The Institute for Computational Astrophysics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada and The Institute of Physics, South Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia)

Comments: Accepted for publication by The Astrophysical Journal

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

[30] arXiv:1003.1376 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: 3D view of transient horizontal magnetic fields in the photosphere

Authors: R. Ishikawa, S. Tsuneta, J. Jurcak

Comments: 35 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[31] arXiv:1003.1375 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The chemistry of vibrationally excited H2 in the interstellar medium

Authors: M. Agundez, J. R. Goicoechea, J. Cernicharo, A. Faure, E. Roueff

Comments: accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal; 9 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[32] arXiv:1003.1374 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The "Dilution Peak", Metallicity Evolution, and "Dating" Galaxy Interactions and Mergers

Authors: M. Montuori, P. Di Matteo, M. D. Lehnert, F. Combes, B. Semelin

Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures, A&A submitted

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

[33] arXiv:1003.1370 [src]

Title: AKARI's infrared view on nearby stars : Using AKARI Infrared Camera All-Sky Survey, 2MASS, and Hipparcos catalog

Authors: Y. Ita (1,2), M. Matsuura (3,4), D. Ishihara (5), S. Oyabu (2), S. Takita (2), H. Kataza (2), I. Yamamura (2), N. Matsunaga (6), T. Tanabe (6), Y. Nakada (6), H. Fujiwara (7), T. Wada (2), T. Onaka (7), H. Matsuhara (2), ((1)NAOJ, (2)ISAS/JAXA, (3)UCL, Department of Physics and Astronomy, (4)UCL, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, (5)Nagoya University, (6)IOA, The University of Tokyo, (7)Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo)

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. High resolution version is available at: this http URL (26Mb)

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

[34] arXiv:1003.1368 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Probability Distribution of Terrestrial Planets in Habitable Zones around Host Stars

Authors: Jianpo Guo, Fenghui Zhang, Xuefei Chen, Zhanwen Han

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Published on Ap&SS, Oct. 2009

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

[35] arXiv:1003.1365 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Deuterium Fractionation as an Evolutionary Probe in the Infrared Dark Cloud G28.34+0.06

Authors: Huei-Ru Chen, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Yu-Nung Su, Qizhou Zhang

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, and 2 tables, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[36] arXiv:1003.1358 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Ongoing Star Formation In AGN Host Galaxy Disks: A View From Core-collapse Supernovae

Authors: J. Wang, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[37] arXiv:1003.1355 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The reflection-symmetric wiggle of the young protostellar jet HH 211

Authors: Chin-Fei Lee, Tatsuhiko I. Hasegawa, Naomi Hirano, Aina Palau, Hsien Shang, Paul T.P. Ho, Qizhou Zhang

Comments: 21 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[38] arXiv:1003.1340 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Relationship Between Molecular Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide Abundances in Molecular Clouds

Authors: S. C. O. Glover, M.-M. Mac Low

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[39] arXiv:1003.1339 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Total Infrared Luminosity Estimation of Resolved and Unresolved Galaxies

Authors: M. Boquien, G. Bendo, D. Calzetti, D. Dale, C. Engelbracht, R. Kennicutt, J. C. Lee, L. van Zee, J. Moustakas

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

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

[40] arXiv:1003.1686 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Potential dominated scalar-tensor cosmologies in the general relativity limit: phase space view

Authors: Laur Jarv, Piret Kuusk, Margus Saal

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures

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

[41] arXiv:1003.1680 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Observability of the total inflationary expansion

Authors: Sergei Winitzki

Comments: 11 pages, RevTeX, no figures

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

[42] arXiv:1003.1667 (cross-list from physics.gen-ph) [pdf]

Title: Charged Black Holes and Constraints on Baryon Asymmetry

Authors: C Sivaram (1), Kenath Arun (2) ((1) Indian Institute of Astrophysics; (2) Christ Junior College)

Comments: 5 pages, 12 equations

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

[43] arXiv:1003.1625 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Black Holes and Photons with Entropic Force

Authors: Xiao-Gang He, Bo-Qiang Ma

Comments: 4 Latex pages, no figure

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

[44] arXiv:1003.1609 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Lensing in the strong deflection limit and black-hole quasi-normal modes

Authors: Ivan Zh. Stefanov, Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev, Galin G. Gyulchev

Comments: 7 pages

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

[45] arXiv:1003.1386 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Compact binary coalescence and the science case for Einstein Telescope

Authors: Chris Van Den Broeck

Comments: 3 pages, 6 eps figures. (Very) brief summary of a talk given at the 12th Marcel Grossmann meeting; to appear in the Proceedings

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

[46] arXiv:1003.1359 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Solution to the "Frozen Star" Paradox, Nature of Astrophysical Black Holes, non-Existence of Gravitational Singularity in the Physical Universe and Applicability of the Birkhoff's Theorem

Authors: Shuang-Nan Zhang

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, invited plenary talk at "The first Galileo-Xu Guangqi conference", Shanghai, China, 2009. To appear in International Journal of Modern Physics D (2010)

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

[47] arXiv:1003.1217 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Electrostatic and electromagnetic instabilities associated with electrostatic shocks: two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation

Authors: Tsunehiko N. Kato, Hideaki Takabe

Comments: 10 pages, 15 figures, REVTeX4. Accepted for publication in Physics of Plasmas

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

[48] arXiv:1003.1159 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On Conformal Transformations with Multiple Scalar Fields

Authors: David I. Kaiser

Comments: 17 pages, no figures

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

[49] arXiv:1003.1078 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Summary & Outlook: Particles and Cosmology

Authors: Wilfried Buchmuller

Comments: Plenary talk at EPS 2009, Kracow, 19 pages, 18 figures; minor corrections

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

[50] arXiv:1002.4601 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Sterile neutrino dark matter, CDMS-II and a light Higgs boson

Authors: F. S. Queiroz, C. A. de S. Pires, P. S. Rodrigues da Silva

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures, uses axodraw.sty

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

[51] arXiv:0911.5560 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Static black hole uniqueness and Penrose inequality

Authors: Ryosuke Mizuno, Seiju Ohashi, Tetsuya Shiromizu

Comments: 6 pages

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

[52] arXiv:hep-ph/0507255 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf]

Title: Neutrino and graviton rest mass estimations by a phenomenological approach

Authors: Dimitar Valev

Comments: 14 pages, 1 figure, minor changes

Journal-ref: Aerospace Res. Bulg. 22:68-82, 2008

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

[53] arXiv:1003.1313 [pdf, other]

Title: The role of emerging bipoles in the formation of a sunspot penumbra

Authors: R. Schlichenmaier, N. Bello Gonzalez, R. Rezaei, T. A. Waldmann

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astronomische Nachrichten

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

[54] arXiv:1003.1312 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Structure and dynamics of giant low surface brightness galaxies

Authors: Federico Lelli, Filippo Fraternali, Renzo Sancisi

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[55] arXiv:1003.1311 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian analysis of spatially distorted cosmic signals from Poissonian data

Authors: Cornelius Weig, Torsten Ensslin

Comments: 22 pages, 10 figures, submitted

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

[56] arXiv:1003.1301 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Photometric observation of transiting extrasolar planet WASP - 10b

Authors: Tereza Krejcova (1), Jan Budaj (2), Viktoria Krushevska (2 and 3) ((1) Masaryk University Brno, (2) Astronomical Institute Tatranska Lomnica, (3) Nat. Academy of Sciences Ukraine)

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

[57] arXiv:1003.1285 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A characterization of the NGC 4051 soft X-ray spectrum as observed by XMM-Newton

Authors: A.A. Nucita, M. Guainazzi, A.L. Longinotti, M. Santos-Lleo, Y. Maruccia, S. Bianchi

Comments: Accepted for publication on section 4 "Extragalactic astronomy" of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, 12 pages, 8 Figures, 4 Tables, in printer format

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

[58] arXiv:1003.1283 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Perturbations in Einstein-Aether and BPSH Theories

Authors: Cristian Armendariz-Picon, Noela Farina Sierra, Jaume Garriga

Comments: 30 pages, 2 figures

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

[59] arXiv:1003.1282 [pdf, other]

Title: X-raying Galaxies: A Chandra Legacy

Authors: Q. Daniel Wang (University of Massachusetts)

Comments: Refereed review article to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[60] arXiv:1003.1280 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The nature of B supergiants: clues from a steep drop in rotation rates at 22000 K. The possibility of Bi-stability braking

Authors: Jorick S. Vink, I. Brott, G. Graefener, N. Langer, A. de Koter, D.J. Lennon

Comments: Accepted by A&A Letters (4 pages, 5 figures); typos corrected

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

[61] arXiv:1003.1279 [pdf]

Title: Two new variable stars observed in the field of the extrasolar planet host star WASP-3

Authors: M. Damasso, A. Carbognani, P. Calcidese, P. Giacobbe, A. Bernagozzi, E. Bertolini, M.G. Lattanzi, R. Smart, A. Sozzetti

Comments: 13 pages, published on the Open European Journal on Variable Stars (paper # 0122)

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

[62] arXiv:1003.1277 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The GRB luminosity function in the internal shock model confronted to observations

Authors: H. Zitouni (1 and 2), F. Daigne (1), R. Mochkovitch (1), T. H. Zerguini (2) ((1)Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (2)Université des Sciences et Technologies Houari Boumebedienne)

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: MNRAS, 386, 1597-1604 (2008)

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

[63] arXiv:1003.1275 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Observation of the growth of a magnetic vortex in the transition layer of a mildly relativistic oblique plasma shock

Authors: G. C. Murphy, M. E. Dieckmann, L. O'C. Drury

Comments: 4 pages

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

[64] arXiv:1003.1265 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Is GRB afterglow emission intrinsically anisotropic ?

Authors: A. M. Beloborodov (1), F. Daigne (2), R. Mochkovitch (2), Z. L. Uhm (3) ((1)Columbia University, (2)Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (3)Institute for the Early Universe and Research Center of MEMS Space Telescope)

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[65] arXiv:1003.1259 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraining Perturbative Early Dark Energy with Current Observations

Authors: Ujjaini Alam

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures

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

[66] arXiv:1003.1255 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Small magnetic loops connecting the quiet surface and the hot outer atmosphere of the Sun

Authors: M. J. Martinez Gonzalez, R. Manso Sainz, A. Asensio Ramos, L. R. Bellot Rubio

Comments: to appear in ApJ letters (better quality figures will be available in the published version)

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

[67] arXiv:1003.1252 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: New groups of planetary nebulae with peculiar dust chemistry towards the Galactic bulge

Authors: S.K. Gorny, J.V. Perea-Calderon, D.A. Garcia-Hernandez, P. Garcia-Lario, R. Szczerba

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures

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

[68] arXiv:1003.1250 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Optical polarization observations in the Scorpius region: NGC 6124

Authors: M. Marcela Vergne, Carlos Feinstein, Ruben Martinez, Ana Maria Orsatti, Maria Paula Alvarez

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[69] arXiv:1003.1230 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Rare 23.1-GHz Methanol Masers in NGC 7538 IRS 1

Authors: Roberto Galván-Madrid (1,2,3), Gabriela Montes (2,4), Edgar A. Ramírez (2,5), Stan Kurtz (2), Esteban Araya (6), Peter Hofner (7,8,9) ((1)CfA, USA, (2) CRyA-UNAM, Mexico, (3) ASIAA, Taiwan, (4) IAA, Spain, (5) U. Sheffield, England, (6)Western Illinois U, USA, (7)New Mexico Tech, USA, (8)NRAO, USA, (9)MPIfR, Germany)

Comments: Accepted to ApJ

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

[70] arXiv:1003.1227 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Secondary emission behind the radio outflows in gamma-ray binaries?

Authors: V. Bosch-Ramon

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures / presented as a contributed talk in HEPRO II, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26-30 2009 / accepted for publication in Int. Jour. Mod. Phys. D

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

[71] arXiv:1003.1225 [pdf, other]

Title: Can the morphology of gamma-ray emission distinguish annihilating from decaying dark matter?

Authors: Celine Boehm, Timur Delahaye, Joseph Silk

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

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

[72] arXiv:1003.1222 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Habitable Zones and UV Habitable Zones around Host Stars

Authors: Jianpo Guo, Fenghui Zhang, Xianfei Zhang, Zhanwen Han

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

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

[73] arXiv:1003.1214 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Swift/XRT follow-up observations of unidentified INTEGRAL/IBIS sources

Authors: R. Landi, L. Bassani, A. Malizia, J.B. Stephen, A. Bazzano, M. Fiocchi, A.J. Bird

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figure and 2 tables. Accepted for publication on PoS (contribution PoS(extremesky2009)018), proceedings of "The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV", held in Otranto (Italy), 13-17 October 2009

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

[74] arXiv:1003.1211 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Tropospheric ozone columns and ozone profiles for Kiev in 2007

Authors: A.V. Shavrina, Ya.V. Pavlenko, A.A. Veles, V.A. Sheminova, I.I. Synyavski, M.G. Sosonkin, Ya.O. Romanyuk, N.A. Eremenko, Yu.S. Ivanov, O.A. Monsar, M. Kroon

Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, pablished in Kosmichna Nauka i Tekhnologiya (ISSN 1561-8889), Vol. 14, No. 5, p. 85 (2008)

Journal-ref: Kosmichna Nauka i Tekhnologiya (ISSN 1561-8889), Vol. 14, No. 5, p. 85 (2008)

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

[75] arXiv:1003.1208 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Implications of magnetar non-precession

Authors: K. Glampedakis, D. I. Jones

Comments: 5 pages. To appear in MNRAS

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

[76] arXiv:1003.1207 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Habitable Zones of Host Stars During the Post-MS Phase

Authors: Jianpo Guo, Fenghui Zhang, Zhanwen Han

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures. Accepted by Ap & SS

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

[77] arXiv:1003.1197 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Acquire information about neutrino parameters by detecting supernova neutrinos

Authors: Ming-Yang Huang, Xin-Heng Guo, Bing-Lin Young

Comments: 19 pages, 10 figures

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

[78] arXiv:1003.1193 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Hybrid Mechanism Forming a 2:1 Librating-Circulating Resonant Configuration in the Planetary System

Authors: Zhang Niu (1,2), Ji Jianghui (1), Sun Zhao (1,2) ((1) Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS (2)Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 Tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[79] arXiv:1003.1190 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Solar Chemical Abundances Determined with a CO5BOLD 3D Model Atmosphere

Authors: Elisabetta Caffau (GEPI), Hans-Günter Ludwig (GEPI, CIFIST, ZAU), Matthias Steffen (AIP), Bernd Freytag (CRAL), Piercarlo Bonifacio (GEPI, CIFIST, OAT)

Comments: to be published in Solar Physics

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

[80] arXiv:1003.1175 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Detection of highly ionized CIV gas within the Local Cavity

Authors: Barry Y. Welsh, Jonathan Wheatley, Oswald H.W. Siegmund, Rosine Lallement

Comments: Accepted ApJ. Letters

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[81] arXiv:1003.1169 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Properties of the Central Perturbations by Planets in Binary Stellar Systems under the Strong Finite-Source Effect

Authors: Sun-Ju Chung, Byeong-Gon Park

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[82] arXiv:1003.1144 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Composite Dark Matter and Puzzles of Dark Matter Searches

Authors: Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Andrey G. Mayorov, Evgeny Yu. Soldatov

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, Invited contribution to proceeding of the 4th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA09)

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

[83] arXiv:1003.1142 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Annihilation vs. Decay: Constraining dark matter properties from a gamma-ray detection

Authors: Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (Lisbon, CFTP), Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins (CCAPP)

Comments: 27 pp, 8 figs

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

[84] arXiv:1003.1140 [pdf, other]

Title: Radiation Spectral Synthesis of Relativistic Filamentation

Authors: Jacob Trier Frederiksen, Troels Haugboelle, Mikhail V. Medvedev, Aake Nordlund

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters. Revision 2: corrected figure reference in conclusion (replaced "fig 5" with "fig 4" in bulleted list)

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

[85] arXiv:1003.1136 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Analytic Methods for Cosmological Likelihoods

Authors: A. N. Taylor, T. D. Kitching

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[86] arXiv:1003.1135 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Small-scale dynamo action during the formation of the first stars and galaxies

Authors: Dominik R. G. Schleicher, Robi Banerjee, Sharanya Sur, Tigran G. Arshakian, Ralf S. Klessen, Rainer Beck, Marco Spaans

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[87] arXiv:1003.1133 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Using Radio Halos and Minihalos to Measure the Distributions of Magnetic Fields and Cosmic-Rays in Galaxy Clusters

Authors: Uri Keshet, Abraham Loeb

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome

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

[88] arXiv:1003.1132 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: a Model for Evolution in a Triaxial Milky Way Halo

Authors: David R. Law, Steven R. Majewski

Comments: 27 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Version with full-resolution figures is available at this http URL

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[89] arXiv:1003.1130 [pdf, other]

Title: AKARI's infrared view on nearby stars : Using AKARI Infrared Camera All-Sky Survey, 2MASS, and Hipparcos catalog

Authors: Y. Ita (1,2), M. Matsuura (3,4), D. Ishihara (5), S. Oyabu (2), S. Takita (2), H. Kataza (2), I. Yamamura (2), N. Matsunaga (6), T. Tanabe (6), Y. Nakada (6), H. Fujiwara (7), T. Wada (2), T. Onaka (7), H. Matsuhara (2), ((1)NAOJ, (2)ISAS/JAXA, (3)UCL, Department of Physics and Astronomy, (4)UCL, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, (5)Nagoya University, (6)IOA, The University of Tokyo, (7)Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo)

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. High resolution version is available at: this http URL (26Mb)

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

[90] arXiv:1003.1118 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Collapse and evaporation of a canonical self-gravitating gas

Authors: Clément Sire, Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Comments: A short review summarizing our results on self-gravitating gas since 2002

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (World Scientific, Singapore, 2010)

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[91] arXiv:1003.0962 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Extracting Dark Matter Properties Model-Independently from Direct Detection Experiments

Authors: Chung-Lin Shan

Comments: 10 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Dark Matter, Dark Eaergy, and Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 20-21, 2009

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

[92] arXiv:1003.0485 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Binary black hole merger gravitational waves and recoil in the large mass ratio limit

Authors: Pranesh A. Sundararajan, Gaurav Khanna, Scott A. Hughes

Comments: 15 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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

[93] arXiv:1001.0096 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Relevance of the CDMSII events for mirror dark matter

Authors: R. Foot

Comments: about 7 pages

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

[94] arXiv:1003.1119 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: SPIDER - III. Environmental Dependence of the Fundamental Plane of Early-type Galaxies

Authors: F. La Barbera, P.A.A. Lopes, R.R. de Carvalho, I.G. de la Rosa, A.A. Berlind

Comments: 26 pages, 28 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[95] arXiv:1003.1115 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Formulation for the Relativistic Blast Waves

Authors: Z. Lucas Uhm

Comments: 28 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[96] arXiv:1003.1113 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the use of X-ray telescopes for identifying the origin of electrons and positrons observed by Fermi and PAMELA

Authors: Antoine Calvez, Warren Essey, Malcolm Fairbairn, Alexander Kusenko, Michael Loewenstein

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures

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

[97] arXiv:1003.1108 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Environmental effects on the growth of super massive black holes and AGN feedback

Authors: Min-Su Shin (Princeton University), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton University and University of Cambridge), Luca Ciotti (University of Bologna)

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

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

[98] arXiv:1003.1103 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Green's functions for far-side seismic images: a polar expansion approach

Authors: F. Perez Hernandez, I. Gonzalez Hernandez

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, Astrophysical Journal, accepted (2010)

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

[99] arXiv:1003.1073 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The origin of the WMAP quadrupole

Authors: Hao Liu, Ti-Pei Li

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures

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

[100] arXiv:1003.1067 [pdf, other]

Title: The Celestial Reference Frame at 24 and 43 GHz. II. Imaging

Authors: P. Charlot, D. A. Boboltz, A. L. Fey, E. B. Fomalont, B. J. Geldzahler, D. Gordon, C. S. Jacobs, G. E. Lanyi, C. Ma, C. J. Naudet, J. D. Romney, O. J. Sovers, L. D. Zhang

Comments: 63 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables, accepted by the Astronomical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[101] arXiv:1003.1055 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-linear Weibel-type Soliton Modes

Authors: R. C. Tautz, I. Lerche

Comments: Submitted to Journal of Applied Mathematics & Physics (ZAMP)

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

[102] arXiv:1003.1051 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Cold fronts in galaxy clusters

Authors: Simona Ghizzardi, Mariachiara Rossetti, Silvano Molendi

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Version with full resolution figures available at: this http URL

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

[103] arXiv:1003.1043 [pdf, other]

Title: Do primordial Lithium abundances imply there's no Dark Energy?

Authors: Marco Regis, Chris Clarkson (Cape Town)

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures

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

[104] arXiv:1003.0997 [pdf]

Title: An ultra-massive fast-spinning white dwarf in a peculiar binary system

Authors: S. Mereghetti, A. Tiengo, P. Esposito, N. La Palombara (1), G.L. Israel, L. Stella (2) ((1) INAF-IASF MILANO, Italy, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy)

Comments: Science article and Supporting Online Material are available at this http URL Submitted 13 May 2009; accepted 23 July 2009

Journal-ref: Science vol.325, p.1222 (4 September 2009)

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

[105] arXiv:1003.0994 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Discovery of an unusual new radio source in the star-forming galaxy M82: Faint supernova, supermassive blackhole, or an extra-galactic microquasar?

Authors: T. W. B. Muxlow (1), R. J. Beswick (1), S. T. Garrington (1), A. Pedlar (1), D. M. Fenech (2), M. K. Argo (3), J. van Eymeren (1), M. Ward (4), A. Zezas (5,6), A. Brunthaler (7) ((1)Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester, (2)UCL, (3) ICRAR, Curtin, (4) Durham, (5)IESL, Crete, (6) Harvard CfA, (7) MPIfR, Bonn)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures (2 colour), MNRAS letters accepted

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

[106] arXiv:1003.0976 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Classification of Extragalactic X-ray Jets

Authors: D. E. Harris (SAO), F. Massaro (SAO), C. C. Cheung (NRL/NRC)

Comments: 4 pages; to appear in the conference proceedings: "X-Ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multiwavelength Approach and Future Perspectives"; Bologna, Italy, September 2009, Editors: A. Comastri, M. Cappi, L. Angelini, 2010 AIP (in press)

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

[107] arXiv:1003.0974 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Full-sky map of the ISW and Rees-Sciama effect from Gpc simulations

Authors: Yan-Chuan Cai, Shaun Cole, Adrian Jenkins, Carlos S. Frenk

Comments: 25 pages, 19 figures, version with high resolution images at this http URL

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

[108] arXiv:1003.0970 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Distance to Multiple Kinematic Components of Quasar Outflows: VLT Observations of QSO 2359-1241 and SDSS J0318-0600

Authors: M.A. Bautista, J.P. Dunn, N. Arav, K.T. Korista, M. Moe, C. Benn

Comments: 27 pages, 5 figures

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

[109] arXiv:1003.0966 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Simulations of Magnetized Disks Around Black Holes: Effects of Black Hole Spin, Disk Thickness, and Magnetic Field Geometry

Authors: Robert F. Penna (1), Jonathan C. McKinney (2), Ramesh Narayan (1), Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Rebecca Shafee (3), Jeffrey E. McClintock (1) ((1) Harvard CfA, (2) Stanford/KIPAC, (3) Harvard Center for Brain Science)

Comments: 28 pages, 23 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[110] arXiv:1003.0965 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Power spectrum extraction for redshifted 21-cm epoch of reionization experiments: the LOFAR case

Authors: Geraint Harker, Saleem Zaroubi, Gianni Bernardi, Michiel A. Brentjens, A. G. de Bruyn, Benedetta Ciardi, Vibor Jelic, Leon V. E. Koopmans, Panagiotis Labropoulos, Garrelt Mellema, Andre Offringa, V. N. Pandey, Andreas H. Pawlik, Joop Schaye, Rajat M. Thomas, Sarod Yatawatta

Comments: 13 pages, 11 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[111] arXiv:1003.0961 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Calibration of Monochromatic Far-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators

Authors: D. Calzetti (UMass), S.-Y. Wu (UMass), S. Hong (UMass), R. C. Kennicutt (IofA, Cambridge), J. C. Lee (Carnegie Obs.), D.A. Dale (U Wyoning), C. W. Engelbracht (U Arizona), L. van Zee (U Indiana), B. T. Draine (Princeton U), C.-N. Hao (Tianjin Normal U; IofA, Cambridge), K. D. Gordon (STScI), J. Moustakas (UCSD), E.J. Murphy (SSC-Caltech), M. Regan (STScI), A. Begum (IofA, Cambridge), M. Block (U Arizona), J. Dalcanton (U Washington), J. Funes (Vatican Obs, U Arizona), A. Gil de Paz (U Computense de Madrid), B. Johnson (IofA, Cambridge), S. Sakai (UCLA), E. Skillman (U Minnesota), F. Walter (MPIA-Heidelberg), D. Weisz (U Minesota), B. Williams (U Washington), Y. Wu (IPAC-Caltech)

Comments: 69 pages, 19 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication on ApJ

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

[112] arXiv:1003.0945 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dwarf Novae in the Shortest Orbital Period Regime: II. WZ Sge Stars as the Missing Population near the Period Minimum

Authors: M. Uemura, T. Kato, D Nogami, T. Ohsugi

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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

[113] arXiv:1003.0942 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Massive Neutrinos in Cosmology: Analytic Solutions and Fluid Approximation

Authors: Masatoshi Shoji, Eiichiro Komatsu

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures

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

[114] arXiv:1003.0939 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Bullet Cluster: A Challenge to LCDM Cosmology

Authors: Jounghun Lee (Seoul Nat'l U.), Eiichiro Komatsu (U.Texas at Austin)

Comments: submitted to ApJ, 21 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables

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

[115] arXiv:1003.0938 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: New 9.9-GHz methanol masers

Authors: M. A. Voronkov, J. L. Caswell, S. P. Ellingsen, A. M. Sobolev

Comments: accepted for publication in MNRAS, 14 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[116] arXiv:1003.0937 [pdf, other]

Title: rpSPH: a much improved Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Algorithm

Authors: Tom Abel

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome

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

[117] arXiv:1003.0925 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Orbital migration of low-mass planets in evolutionary radiative models: Avoiding catastrophic infall

Authors: W. Lyra, S.-J. Paardekooper, M.-M. Mac Low

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Revised version submitted to ApJ in response to referee's report. Comments welcome

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

[118] arXiv:1003.0920 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The dusty heart of nearby active galaxies. I. High-spatial resolution mid-IR spectro-photometry of Seyfert galaxies

Authors: S. F. Hoenig, M. Kishimoto, P. Gandhi, A. Smette, D. Asmus, W. Duschl, M. Polletta, G. Weigelt

Comments: 22 pages, 13 figues, 6 tables; Accepted for publication in A&A; Note that this is the second submitted paper from the series, but we changed paper order. This one will be referred to as paper I, the previously submitted arXiv:0909.4539 will become paper II

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

[119] arXiv:1003.0911 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Hot Subdwarfs in Resolved Binaries

Authors: Simon J. O'Toole

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of The Fourth Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects held in China, 20-24 July 2009. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science

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

[120] arXiv:1003.0905 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Signature of Cosmic Strings Wakes in the CMB Polarization

Authors: Rebecca J. Danos, Robert H. Brandenberger, Gil Holder (McGill Univ.)

Comments: 8 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)

[121] arXiv:1003.0904 [pdf, other]

Title: Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection

Authors: Jonathan L. Feng

Comments: 61 pages, to appear in Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[122] arXiv:1003.0900 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Angular momentum transport in convectively unstable shear flows

Authors: Petri J. Käpylä (1,2), Axel Brandenburg (2,3), Maarit J. Korpi (1), Jan E. Snellman (1), Ramesh Narayan (4) ((1) University of Helsinki, (2) NORDITA, (3) University of Stockholm, (4) Harvard-CfA)

Comments: 10 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ. Version with higher resolution figures can be found at this http URL

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

[123] arXiv:1003.0898 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dust accretion and destruction in galaxy groups and clusters

Authors: Sean L. McGee, Michael L. Balogh (University of Waterloo)

Comments: 10 pages, MNRAS, in press

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

[124] arXiv:1003.0896 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The effect of redshift-space distortions on projected 2-pt clustering measurements

Authors: Kelly Nock, Will J. Percival, Ashley J. Ross

Comments: 13 pages, 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[125] arXiv:1003.0895 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Fermi-LAT high-latitude Survey: Source Count Distributions and the Origin of the Extragalactic Diffuse Background

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Comments: Submitted to ApJ. Contact authors: M. Ajello and A. Tramacere

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

[126] arXiv:1003.0892 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A mass-loss rate determination for zeta Puppis from the quantitative analysis of X-ray emission line profiles

Authors: David H. Cohen (1), Maurice A. Leutenegger (2), Emma E. Wollman (1,3), Janos Zsargó (4,5), D. John Hillier (4), Richard H. D. Townsend (6,7), Stanley P. Owocki (6) ((1) Swarthmore College, (2) NASA-GSFC, (3) Caltech, (4) Univ. Pittsburgh, (5) IPN, Mexico City, (6) Univ. Delaware, (7) Univ. Wisconsin)

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 17 pages, including 14 figures (7 color)

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

[127] arXiv:1003.0883 (cross-list from nucl-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Finite temperature effects on spin polarization of neutron matter in a strong magnetic field

Authors: A.A. Isayev, J. Yang

Comments: Prepared with RevTeX4, 6pp., 4 figs

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

[128] arXiv:1003.0878 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Planck-scale modifications to Electrodynamics characterized by a space-like symmetry-breaking vector

Authors: Giulia Gubitosi, Giuseppe Genovese, Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Alessandro Melchiorri

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

[129] arXiv:1003.0876 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The generalized second law of thermodynamics in Horava-Lifshitz cosmology

Authors: Mubasher Jamil, Emmanuel N. Saridakis, M. R. Setare

Comments: 9 pages, no figures

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

[130] arXiv:1003.0873 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Understanding the "anti-kick" in the merger of binary black holes

Authors: Luciano Rezzolla, Rodrigo P. Macedo, José Luis Jaramillo

Comments: 4 pages

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

[131] arXiv:1003.0769 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Crossing of Phantom Divide in $F(R)$ Gravity

Authors: Kazuharu Bamba, Chao-Qiang Geng, Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure, to be published in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Matter-antimatter Asymmetry in Special Issue of Modern Physics Letters A, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 20th - 21st November, 2009

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)

[132] arXiv:1003.0105 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Fast magnetic reconnection in three dimensional MHD simulations

Authors: Bijia Pang, Ue-Li Pen, Ethan T. Vishniac

Comments: 10 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Physics of Plasmas

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[133] arXiv:1002.4873 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Derrick's theorem beyond a potential

Authors: Solomon Endlich, Kurt Hinterbichler, Lam Hui, Alberto Nicolis, Junpu Wang

Comments: 4 pages

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

[134] arXiv:1003.0884 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Positions and sizes of X-ray solar flare sources

Authors: E. P. Kontar, N. L. S. Jeffrey

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters

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

[135] arXiv:1003.0880 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Primordial He' abundance implied by the mirror dark matter interpretation of the DAMA/Libra signal

Authors: P. Ciarcelluti, R. Foot

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure

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

[136] arXiv:1003.0879 [pdf]

Title: The Data Big Bang and the Expanding Digital Universe: High-Dimensional, Complex and Massive Data Sets in an Inflationary Epoch

Authors: Meyer Z. Pesenson (1), Isaac Z. Pesenson (2), Bruce McCollum (1) ((1) California Institute of Technology, (2) Temple University)

Comments: 24 pages, 8 Figures, 1 Table. Accepted for publication: "Advances in Astronomy, special issue "Robotic Astronomy"

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

[137] arXiv:1003.0875 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The nature of V39: an LBV candidate or LBV impostor in the very low metallicity galaxy IC 1613?

Authors: A. Herrero, M. Garcia, K. Uytterhoeven, F. Najarro, D.J. Lennon, J.S. Vink, N. Castro

Comments: In press at A&A. 10 pages, 11 figures

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

[138] arXiv:1003.0866 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Young Stellar Objects and Triggered Star Formation in the Vulpecula OB Association

Authors: N. Billot, A. Noriega-Crespo, S. Carey, S. Guieu, S. Shenoy, R. Paladini, W. Latter

Comments: 30 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[139] arXiv:1003.0861 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dwarf spheroidals in the M81 Group - Metallicity distribution functions and population gradients

Authors: Sophia Lianou (1), Eva K. Grebel (1), Andreas Koch (2) ((1)ARI, University of Heidelberg, (2)University of Leicester)

Comments: 15 pages, 11 figures; A&A accepted

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

[140] arXiv:1003.0858 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The role of nuclear activity as the power source of ultraluminous infrared galaxies

Authors: E. Nardini, G. Risaliti, Y. Watabe, M. Salvati, E. Sani

Comments: 44 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[141] arXiv:1003.0851 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Near-infrared spectroscopy in NGC 7538

Authors: E. Puga, A. Marín-Franch, F. Najarro, A. Lenorzer, A. Herrero, J.A. Acosta Pulido, L.A. Chavarría, A. Bik, D. Figer, S. Ramírez Alegría

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, accepted by A&A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[142] arXiv:1003.0843 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Atomic data activities by the OP and IP consortia: past, present and new perspectives within the VAMDC

Authors: Claudio Mendoza, Luis A. Nunez

Comments: 40 pages, 18 figures. Submitted for publication in a special issue of Acta Cientifica Venezolana to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC)

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

[143] arXiv:1003.0841 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The potential of X-ray cluster surveys to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity

Authors: B. Sartoris, S. Borgani, C. Fedeli, S. Matarrese, L. Moscardini, P. Rosati, J. Weller

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[144] arXiv:1003.0838 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dusty Wind-Blown Bubbles

Authors: John E. Everett, Ed Churchwell

Comments: 13 pages, 14 figures, Accepted to ApJ

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

[145] arXiv:1003.0835 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The coevolution of the velocity and mass functions of galaxies and dark haloes

Authors: Kyu-Hyun Chae

Comments: 13 pages, 12 figures, MNRAS, submitted

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

[146] arXiv:1003.0834 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Reionization by UV or X-ray sources

Authors: S. Baek, B. Semelin, P. Di Matteo, Y. Revaz, F. Combes

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, submitted A&A. High resolution version available at this http URL

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

[147] arXiv:1003.0833 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Submillimeter Number Counts at 250, 350 and 500 microns in BLAST data

Authors: M. Béthermin, H. Dole, M. Cousin, N. Bavouzet

Comments: 13 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, submitted to A&A, after 2 passes of referee

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

[148] arXiv:1003.0829 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: RATAN-600 7.6-cm Deep Sky Strip Surveys at the Declination of the SS433 Source During the 1980-1999 Period. Data Reduction and the Catalog of Radio Sources in the Right-Ascension Interval 7h < R.A. < 17h

Authors: N.S.Soboleva, E.K.Majorova, O.P.Zhelenkova, A.V.Temirova, N.N.Bursov

Comments: 26 pages, 18 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Bulletin, Vol 65, N 1, pp.42-59, 2010

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

[149] arXiv:1003.0827 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Submillimeter galaxies behind the Bullet Cluster (1E 0657-56)

Authors: Daniel Johansson, Cathy Horellou, Martin W. Sommer, Kaustuv Basu, Frank Bertoldi, Mark Birkinshaw, Katy Lancaster, Omar Lopez-Cruz, Hernan Quintana

Comments: Accepted by A&A, 15 pages, 11 figures

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

[150] arXiv:1003.0825 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A New Distribution Function for Relativistic Counterstreaming Plasmas

Authors: R. C. Tautz

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science

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

[151] arXiv:1003.0810 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Model-independent cosmological constraints from the CMB

Authors: Marc Vonlanthen, Syksy Rasanen, Ruth Durrer

Comments: 30 pages, 11 figures

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

[152] arXiv:1003.0808 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The influence of nondipolar magnetic field and neutron star precession on braking indexes of radiopulsars

Authors: D.P. Barsukov, A.I. Tsygan

Comments: 17 pages, 36 figures

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

[153] arXiv:1003.0805 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Fusion between ground- and space-based mid-infrared observations

Authors: O. Berne, A. G. G. M. Tielens, P. Pilleri, C. Joblin

Comments: Original title :Non-negative matrix factorization pansharpening: an application to mid-infrared astronomy

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

[154] arXiv:1003.0800 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Spectral Energy Distribution of Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Authors: A. Ruiz (1 and 2), G. Miniutti (3), F. Panessa (4), F.J. Carrera (1) ((1)Ifca, (CSIC-Uc), (2)Oab, (INAF), (3)Laex-Cab, (CSIC-Inta), (4)Iasf-Roma, (INAF))

Comments: 22 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[155] arXiv:1003.0798 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Globular Cluster Mass Function as a Remnant of Violent Birth

Authors: Bruce G. Elmegreen (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for ApJL on 3/1/2010

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

[156] arXiv:1003.0786 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: HST/WFPC2 observations of the LMC pulsar PSR B0540-69

Authors: R.P. Mignani (MSSL-Ucl), A. Sartori (INAF-Iasf), A. De Luca (INAF-Iasf, IUSS), B. Rudack (NCAC), A. Slowikowska (IA, Univ. of Zielona Gora, Iesl), G. Kanbach (MPE), P.A. Caraveo (INAF-Iasf)

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[157] arXiv:1003.0779 [pdf, other]

Title: On the frequency band of the f-mode CFS instability

Authors: Burkhard Zink, Oleg Korobkin, Erik Schnetter, Nikolaos Stergioulas

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures

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

[158] arXiv:1003.0778 [pdf, other]

Title: Studying the small scale ISM structure with supernovae

Authors: F. Patat, N.L.J. Cox, J. Parrent, D. Branch

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[159] arXiv:1003.0771 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Very metal-poor galaxies: ionized gas kinematics in nine objects

Authors: A.V. Moiseev (1), S.A. Pustilnik (1), A.Y. Kniazev (2) ((1)SAO, Russia, (2)SAAO, South Africa)

Comments: Accepted to MNRAS, 20 pages, 3 tables, 7 figures

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

[160] arXiv:1003.0766 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The First Mid-IR View of the Star-forming Properties of Nearby Galaxy Groups

Authors: Lei Bai, Jesper Rasmussen, John S. Mulchaey, Ali Dariush, Somak Raychaudhury, Trevor J. Ponman

Comments: 19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted by ApJ

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

[161] arXiv:1003.0759 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Galactic structure and chemical evolution traced by the population of planetary nebulae

Authors: L. Stanghellini, M. Haywood

Comments: ApJ, in press

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[162] arXiv:1003.0758 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Distance determination for RAVE stars using stellar models

Comments: 17 pages, 18 figures, data and future updates available at this http URL, accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[163] arXiv:1003.0754 [pdf, other]

Title: A geometrical model for the catalogs of galaxies

Authors: Zaninetti Lorenzo

Comments: 51 pages, 27 figures

Journal-ref: published on Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica (2010), 46, 115

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

[164] arXiv:1003.0753 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Luminous X-ray AGN in Clusters of Galaxies

Authors: E.Koulouridis, M.Plionis

Comments: accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[165] arXiv:1003.0744 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex

Authors: W.M. Napier

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures; accepted for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (definitive version will be available at www.blackwell-synergy.com)

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

[166] arXiv:1003.0725 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: An Unsplit Convolutional-Perfectly-Matched-Layer Based Boundary Formulation for the Stratified Linearized Ideal MHD equations

Authors: S. M. Hanasoge, D. Komatitsch, L. Gizon

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures, submitted to A & A

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

[167] arXiv:1003.0724 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Computational Fluid Dynamics Code I: Fyris Alpha

Authors: Ralph S. Sutherland

Comments: 59 pages, 27 figures For associated code see this http URL

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[168] arXiv:1003.0713 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-term degradation of optical devices on the moon

Authors: T. W. Murphy, Jr., E. G. Adelberger, J. B. R. Battat, C. D. Hoyle, R. J. McMillan, E. L. Michelsen, R. Samad, C. W. Stubbs, H. E. Swanson

Comments: 9 pages; 4 figures; accepted for publication in Icarus

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

[169] arXiv:1003.0710 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino heating near hyper-accreting black holes

Authors: Ivan Zalamea, Andrei M. Beloborodov (Columbia University)

Comments: 8 pages, submitted to MNRAS (figures corrected)

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

[170] arXiv:1003.0693 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Large scale outflows from z ~ 0.7 starburst galaxies identified via ultra-strong MgII quasar absorption lines

Authors: Daniel B. Nestor, Benjamin D. Johnson, Vivienne Wild, Brice Ménard, David A. Turnshek, Sandhya Rao, Max Pettini

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figure, to be submitted to MNRAS

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

[171] arXiv:1003.0688 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Detection of a Stellar Stream Behind Open Cluster NGC 188: Another Part of the Monoceros Stream

Authors: Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Terrence M. Girard, Imants Platais, William F. van Altena

Comments: accepted by AJ

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[172] arXiv:1003.0687 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Reconstructing Redshift Distributions with Cross-Correlations: Tests and an Optimized Recipe

Authors: Daniel J. Matthews, Jeffrey A. Newman

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures, fixed typos

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

[173] arXiv:1003.0686 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the buildup of massive early-type galaxies at z<~1. II- The coordinated key role of wet, mixed, and dry major mergers

Authors: M. C. Eliche-Moral (1), M. Prieto (2 and 3), J. Gallego (1), J. Zamorano (1) ((1) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, (2) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (3) Universidad de La Laguna (Spain))

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, ApJ submitted

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

[174] arXiv:1003.0685 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: One moment in time - modeling star formation in the Antennae

Authors: Simon J. Karl (1), Thorsten Naab (1), Peter H. Johansson (1), Hanna Kotarba (1), Chris Boily (2), Florent Renaud (2), Christian Theis (3) ((1) Uni-Sternwarte Munich (2) Strasbourg (3) Planetarium Mannheim)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Submitted to ApJL

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

[175] arXiv:1003.0681 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Radio Jet Interaction in NGC 5929: Direct Detection of Shocked Gas

Authors: D.J. Rosario (UCO/Lick), M. Whittle (UVa), C.H. Nelson (Drake), A.S. Wilson (UMd)

Comments: 5 Pages, 3 Figures, ApJL in press

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

[176] arXiv:1003.0680 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Authors: Anil C. Seth, Michele Cappellari, Nadine Neumayer, Nelson Caldwell, Nate Bastian, Knut Olsen, Robert D. Blum, Victor P. Debattista, Richard McDermid, Thomas Puzia, Andrew Stephens

Comments: To appear in ApJ. 21 pages, 19 figures, higher resolution PDF available at: this http URL

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

[177] arXiv:1003.0679 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Structure and Kinematics of the Circum-Galactic Medium from Far-UV Spectra of z~2-3 Galaxies

Authors: C. C. Steidel, D. K. Erb, A. E. Shapley, M. Pettini, N. A. Reddy, M. Bogosavljević, G. C. Rudie, O. Rakic

Comments: Submitted to ApJ, 22 February 2010. 32 pages, 24 figures

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

[178] arXiv:1003.0677 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the parameters of massive black hole binary systems with Pulsar Timing Array observations of gravitational waves

Authors: Alberto Sesana (1), Alberto Vecchio (2) ((1) AEI Golm; (2) University of Birmingham)

Comments: 20 pages, 12 figures, 2 color figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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

[179] arXiv:1003.0676 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: First star formation with dark matter annihilation

Authors: E. Ripamonti (1,2), F. Iocco (3), A. Ferrara (4), R. Schneider (5), A. Bressan (6,7,8), P. Marigo (9) ((1) Universita` di Milano-Bicocca; (2) Universita` dell'Insubria, Como; (3) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris; (4) Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; (5) INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri; (6) SISSA/ISAS, Trieste; (7) INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova; (8) INAOE, Tonantzintla; (9) Universita` di Padova)

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables; submitted to MNRAS on March 2, 2010

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

[180] arXiv:1003.0675 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Identifying dynamically young galaxy groups via wide-angle tail galaxies: A case study in the COSMOS field at z=0.53

Authors: A. Oklopcic, V. Smolcic, S. Giodini, G. Zamorani, L. Birzan, E. Schinnerer, C. L. Carilli, A. Finoguenov, S. Lilly, A. Koekemoer, N. Z. Scoville

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[181] arXiv:1003.0673 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-detection of a statistically anisotropic power spectrum in large-scale structure

Authors: Anthony R. Pullen, Christopher M. Hirata

Comments: Submitted to JCAP for publication; 23 pages; 10 figures; 3 tables

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

[182] arXiv:1003.0672 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-Gaussianity from Self-Ordering Scalar Fields

Authors: Daniel G. Figueroa, Robert R. Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure

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

[183] arXiv:1003.0671 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: What is the Matter with Dwarf Galaxies?

Authors: Till Sawala, Qi Guo, Cecilia Scannapieco, Adrian Jenkins, Simon D.M. White

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[184] arXiv:1003.0670 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Spin and structural halo properties at high redshift in a LCDM Universe

Authors: Andrew J. Davis, Priyamvada Natarajan

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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

[185] arXiv:1003.0667 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The evolution of extragalactic radio sources

Authors: Q. Luo, E.M. Sadler

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[186] arXiv:1003.0844 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Data analysis of gravitational-wave signals from spinning neutron stars. V. A narrow-band all-sky search

Authors: Pia Astone, Kazimierz M. Borkowski, Piotr Jaranowski, Andrzej Królak, Maciej Pietka

Comments: REVTeX, 20 pages, 8 figures

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

[187] arXiv:1002.5045 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Motion of Small Bodies in Classical Field Theory

Authors: Samuel E. Gralla

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

[188] arXiv:1002.4214 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constructing Infrared Finite Propagators in Inflating Space-time

Authors: Jason Kumar, Louis Leblond, Arvind Rajaraman

Comments: 7 pages

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

[189] arXiv:1002.2967 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Warped Model of Dark Matter

Authors: Tony Gherghetta, Benedict von Harling

Comments: 26 pages, 2 figures

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

[190] arXiv:0910.0282 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Gravity Effects on Unstable Orbits in Schwarzschild Space-time

Authors: Arundhati Dasgupta

Comments: 11 pages

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

[191] arXiv:1003.0665 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evidence of a Plasmoid-Looptop Interaction and Magnetic Inflows During a Solar Flare/CME Eruptive Event

Authors: Ryan O. Milligan, R. T. James McAteer, Brian R. Dennis, C. Alex Young

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures, ApJ (Accepted)

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

[192] arXiv:1003.0658 [pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Evidence for a 5.4-Minute Orbital Period in HM Cancri

Authors: G.H.A. Roelofs, A. Rau, T.R. Marsh, D. Steeghs, P.J. Groot, G. Nelemans

Comments: Accepted to ApJ Letters

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

[193] arXiv:1003.0654 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Long-Term Light Curve of Highly-Variable Protostellar Star GM Cep

Authors: Limin Xiao, Peter Kroll, Arne A. Henden

Comments: AJ in press

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

[194] arXiv:1003.0639 [pdf, other]

Title: The Double-Degenerate Nucleus of the Planetary Nebula TS 01. A Close Binary Evolution Showcase

Authors: Gagik Tovmassian, Lev Yungelson, Thomas Rauch, Valery Suleimanov, Ralf Napiwotzki, Grazyna Stasinska, John Tomsick, Jorn Wilms, Christophe Morisset, Miriam Pena, Michael G. Richer

Comments: Accepted for publication in Ap.J., 25 pages, 17 figures

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

[195] arXiv:1003.0636 [pdf]

Title: Autonomous Observations in Antarctica with AMICA

Authors: Gianluca Di Rico, Maurizio Ragni, Mauro Dolci, Oscar Straniero, Angelo Valentini, Gaetano Valentini, Amico Di Cianno, Croce Giuliani, Demetrio Magrin, Carlotta Bonoli, Favio Bortoletto, Maurizio D'Alessandro, Leonardo Corcione, Alberto Riva

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, Advances in Astronomy Journal, Special Issue "Robotic Astronomy", Accepted 11 February 2010

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

[196] arXiv:1003.0633 [pdf, other]

Title: Pervasive Orbital Eccentricities Dictate the Habitability of Extrasolar Earths

Authors: Ryosuke Kita, Frederic A. Rasio, Genya Takeda (Northwestern University)

Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures, to appear in Astrobiology

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

[197] arXiv:1003.0632 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Detailed Classification of Swift's Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: I Horvath, Z Bagoly, LG Balazs, A de Ugarte Postigo, P Veres, A Meszaros

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[198] arXiv:1003.0626 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Accurate free and forced rotational motions of rigid Venus

Authors: L. Cottereau, J. Souchay, S. Aljbaae

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in section 11. Celestial mechanics and astrometry of Astronomy and Astrophysics (27/02/2010)

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

[199] arXiv:1003.0623 [pdf, other]

Title: Low-frequency study of two giant radio galaxies: 3C35 and 3C223

Authors: E. Orrù (1,2), M. Murgia (3,4), L. Feretti (4), F. Govoni (3), G. Giovannini (4,5), W. Lane (6), N. Kassim (6), R. Paladino (1) ((1) Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics, University of Innsbruck, (2) Radboud University Nijmegen, (3) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, (4) INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia, (5) Dipartimento di Astronomia Università degli Studi di Bologna, (6) Naval Research Laboratory)

Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication on A&A

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

[200] arXiv:1003.0618 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The binary fraction and mass-ratio of Be and B stars: a comparative VLT/NACO study

Authors: Rene Oudmaijer, Andrew Parr (University of Leeds, UK)

Comments: accepted for publication in MNRAS 8 pages, 5 figs, 2 tables

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

[201] arXiv:1003.0608 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Photometric search of orbital periods in symbiotic stars

Authors: M. Wiecek, M. Mikolajewski, T. Tomov, M. Cikala, C. Galan, A. Majcher, E. Swierczynski, P. Wychudzki, P. Rozanski, S. Frackowiak, J.L. Janowski, D. Graczyk

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, Conference: Interacting Binaries: Accretion and Synchronization

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

[202] arXiv:1003.0605 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Accretion Disc Particle Method for Simulations of Black Hole Feeding and Feedback

Authors: Chris Power, Sergei Nayakshin, Andrew King

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS; 9 pages, 5 figures

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

[203] arXiv:1003.0595 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Ellipsoidal effect in the symbiotic star YY Her

Authors: M. Wiecek, M. Mikolajewski, T. Tomov, E. Swierczynski, C. Galan, P. Wychudzki

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, Conference Binaries - key to comprehention of the Universe, Brno, Czech Republik

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

[204] arXiv:1003.0578 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Feedback from central black holes in elliptical galaxies. III: models with both radiative and mechanical feedback

Authors: L. Ciotti (Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Bologna), J.P. Ostriker (Princeton University & IoA Cambridge), D. Proga (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada)

Comments: 37 pages, 11 figures (bitmapped, low-quality), ApJ submitted, comments welcome

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

[205] arXiv:1003.0577 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Spectral Index of Distant Radio Galaxies

Authors: O.V.Verkhodanov, M.L.Khabibullina

Comments: 7 pages,5 figures

Journal-ref: Astronomy Letters, 2010, V. 36, No. 1, 7

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

[206] arXiv:1003.0570 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Stable and habitable systems with two giant planets

Authors: Vera Dobos, Imre Nagy, Judit Orgoványi

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

[207] arXiv:1003.0566 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: FERMI constraints on the high energy, ~1 GeV, emission of long GRBs

Authors: Dafne Guetta, Elena Pian, Eli Waxman

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to A&A

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

[208] arXiv:1003.0557 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Analytical description of physical librations of Saturnian coorbital satellites Janus and Epimetheus

Authors: Philippe Robutel (IMCCE), Nicolas Rambaux (IMCCE), Julie Castillo-Rogez

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

[209] arXiv:1003.0556 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Selecting AGN through variability in SN datasets

Authors: K. Boutsia, B. Leibundgut, D. Trevese, F. Vagnetti

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, contributed talk, proceedings of the 9th Hellenic Astronomical Society Conference, Athens, 20-24 September 2009

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

[210] arXiv:1003.0541 [pdf, other]

Title: Evaluating the stability of atmospheric lines with HARPS

Authors: P. Figueira, F. Pepe, C. Lovis, M. Mayor (Observatoire Astronomique de Geneve, Switzerland)

Comments: 7 pages, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[211] arXiv:1003.0528 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constructing semi-empirical sunspot models for helioseismology

Authors: R. Cameron, L. Gizon, H. Schunker, A. Pietarila

Comments: 18 pages, 9 Figures submitted to Solar Physics

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

[212] arXiv:1003.0519 [pdf]

Title: Comparative study of different scattering geometries for the proposed Indian X-ray polarization measurement experiment using Geant4

Authors: S. V. Vadawale (1), B. Paul (2), J. Pendharkar (1), Sachindra Naik (1) ((1) Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad (2) Raman Research Institute, Bangalore)

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in "Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A"

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

[213] arXiv:1003.0515 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A new determination of the INTEGRAL/IBIS point source location accuracy

Authors: S. Scaringi, A.J. Bird, A.B. Hill, D.J. Clark, V.A. McBride, A.J. Dean, A. Bazzano, L. Natalucci, J.B. Stephen

Comments: 3 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[214] arXiv:1003.0496 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: AMiBA: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect derived properties and scaling relations of massive galaxy clusters

Authors: Yu-Wei Liao (1,2), Jiun-Huei Proty Wu (1), Paul T. P. Ho (2,3), Chih-Wei Locutus Huang (1), Patrick M. Koch (2), Kai-Yang Lin (1,2), Guo-Chin Liu (2,4), Sandor M. Molnar (2), Hiroaki Nishioka (2), Keiichi Umetsu (2), Fu-Cheng Wang (1), Pablo Altamirano (2), Mark Birkinshaw (5), Chia-Hao Chang (2), Shu-Hao Chang (2), Su-Wei Chang (2), Ming-Tang Chen (2), Tzihong Chiueh (1), Chih-Chiang Han (2), Yau-De Huang (2), Yuh-Jing Hwang (2), Homin Jiang (2), Michael Kesteven (6), Derek Kubo (2), Chao-Te Li (2), Pierre Martin-Cocher (2), Peter Oshiro (2), Philippe Raffin (2), Tashun Wei (2), Warwick Wilson (6) ((1)Department of Physics, Institute of Astrophysics, & Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, (2)Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, (3)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (4)Department of Physics, Tamkang University, (5)Department of Physics, University of Bristol, (6)Australia Telescope National Facility)

Comments: Accepted by ApJ; 9 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables

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

[215] arXiv:1003.0486 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Hot Microflare Observed With RHESSI and Hinode

Authors: Ryan O. Milligan

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, ApJL (Accepted)

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

[216] arXiv:1003.0483 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Analytical Approach for the Determination of the Luminosity Distance in a Flat Universe with Dark Energy

Authors: T. Wickramasinghe, T. N. Ukwatta

Comments: 3 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[217] arXiv:1003.0481 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The cosmic microwave background bispectrum from the non-linear evolution of the cosmological perturbations

Authors: Cyril Pitrou, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Francis Bernardeau

Comments: 42 pages, 7 figures

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

[218] arXiv:1003.0477 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The hard state of black hole candidates: XTE J1752-223

Authors: T. Muñoz-Darias, S. Motta, D. Pawar, T. M. Belloni, S. Campana, D. Bhattacharya

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS letters. 5 pages, 4 figures and 2 tables

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

[219] arXiv:1003.0474 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On Radiation Pressure in Static, Dusty HII Regions

Authors: B. T. Draine (Princeton University)

Comments: submitted to ApJ

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

[220] arXiv:1003.0472 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The First Galaxies: Chemical Enrichment, Mixing, and Star Formation

Authors: Thomas H. Greif, Simon C. O. Glover, Volker Bromm, Ralf S. Klessen

Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[221] arXiv:1003.0463 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Wyoming Survey for H-alpha. III. H-alpha Luminosity Functions at z ~ 0.16, 0.24, 0.32, and 0.40

Authors: Daniel A. Dale, Rebecca J. Barlow, Seth A. Cohen, David O. Cook, L. Clifton Johnson, ShiAnne M. Kattner, Carolynn A. Moore, Micah D. Schuster, Shawn M. Staudaher

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[222] arXiv:1003.0459 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The case of 1.5 eV neutrino hot dark matter

Authors: Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

Comments: 3 pages, Proceedings Marcel Grossmann XII, Paris, 2009

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

[223] arXiv:1003.0457 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Lack of Transit Timing Variations of OGLE-TR-111b: A re-analysis with six new epochs

Authors: E. R. Adams, M. Lopez-Morales, J. L. Elliot, S. Seager, D. J. Osip

Comments: 28 pages, 7 tables, 6 figures. Accepted by ApJ

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

[224] arXiv:1003.0456 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological Parameters Degeneracies and Non-Gaussian Halo Bias

Authors: Carmelita Carbone, Olga Mena, Licia Verde

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables, apj submitted

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

[225] arXiv:1003.0455 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Extensive testing of Schottky CdTe detectors for the ECLAIRs X-Gamma-ray Camera on board the SVOM mission

Authors: Remoue Nadege (CESR Toulouse), Barret Didier (CESR Toulouse), Godet Olivier (CESR Toulouse), Mandrou Pierre (CESR Toulouse)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A. 13 pages, 13 figures

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

[226] arXiv:1003.0453 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational hydrodynamics vs observations of voids, Jeans clusters and MACHO dark matter

Authors: Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen, Carl H. Gibson, Rudolph E. Schild

Comments: 3 pages, Proceedings Marcel Grossmann XII, Paris 2009

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

[227] arXiv:1003.0451 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Minimum Radii of Super-Earths: Constraints from Giant Impacts

Authors: Robert A. Marcus, Dimitar Sasselov, Lars Hernquist, Sarah T. Stewart

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[228] arXiv:1003.0449 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy Zoo: Bars in Disk Galaxies

Authors: Karen L. Masters (ICG, Portsmouth), Robert C. Nichol (ICG, Portsmouth), Ben Hoyle (ICG, Portsmouth/Barcelona), Chris Lintott (Oxford), Steven Bamford (Nottingham), Edward M. Edmondson (ICG, Portsmouth), Lucy Fortson (Adler Planetarium), William C. Keel (Alabama), Kevin Schawinski (Yale), Arfon Smith (Oxford), Daniel Thomas (ICG, Portsmouth)

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS on Feb 8th. 9 pages, 7 figures

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

[229] arXiv:1003.0447 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Mid-infrared spectroscopy of candidate AGN-dominated submillimeter galaxies

Authors: K. Coppin (1), A. Pope (2), K. Menendez-Delmestre (3), D.M. Alexander (1), J.S. Dunlop (4), E. Egami (5), J. Gabor (5), Edo Ibar (6), R.J. Ivison (4,6), J.E. Austermann (7), A.W. Blain (8), S.C. Chapman (9), D.L. Clements (10), L. Dunne (11), S. Dye (12), D. Farrah (13), D.H. Hughes (14), A.M.J. Mortier (4), M.J. Page (15), M. Rowan-Robinson (10), D. Scott (16), C. Simpson (17), Ian Smail (1), A.M. Swinbank (1), M. Vaccari (18), M.S. Yun (19) ((1) Durham; (2) NOAO; (3) Carnegie; (4) IfA, ROE; (5) Steward Obs.; (6) UK ATC; (7) Colorado; (8) Caltech; (9) IoA, Cambridge; (10) Imperial; (11) Nottingham; (12) Cardiff; (13) Sussex; (14) INAOE; (15) MSSL; (16) UBC; (17) Liverpool John Moores; (18) Padova; (19) UMass)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 17 pages, 10 figures

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

[230] arXiv:1003.0446 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Highly Ionized Plasma in the Halo of a Luminous Spiral Galaxy Near z=0.225

Authors: Anand Narayanan, Blair D. Savage, Bart P. Wakker

Comments: The Astrophysical Journal accepted

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

[231] arXiv:1003.0444 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Probing fundamental constant evolution with neutral atomic gas lines

Authors: N. Kanekar (1,2), J. X. Prochaska (3), S. L. Ellison (4), J. N. Chengalur (1) ((1) National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India; (2) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA; (3) UCO/Lick Observatory, USA; (4) University of Victoria, Canada)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[232] arXiv:1003.0236 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Observing the Dimensionality of Our Parent Vacuum

Authors: Peter W. Graham, Roni Harnik, Surjeet Rajendran

Comments: 30 pages, 2 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)

[233] arXiv:1003.0113 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: The cross-spectrum experimental method

Authors: Enrico Rubiola, Francois Vernotte

Comments: 40 pages, table of symbols, 19 figures, 30 references. Slides available on this http URL

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

[234] arXiv:1003.0044 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Critical Remarks on Finsler Modifications of Gravity and Cosmology by Zhe Chang and Xin Li

Authors: Sergiu I. Vacaru

Comments: latex2e, 11pt, 13 pages

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

[235] arXiv:1003.0043 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: New Classes of Off-Diagonal Cosmological Solutions in Einstein Gravity

Authors: Sergiu I. Vacaru

Comments: latex2e, 11pt, 32 pages

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

[236] arXiv:1002.3366 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dark Matter-Motivated Searches for Exotic 4th Generation Quarks in Tevatron and Early LHC Data

Authors: Johan Alwall, Jonathan L. Feng, Jason Kumar, Shufang Su

Comments: 22 pages; v2: additional discussion of relation to DAMA, CDMS, and CoGeNT results, references added

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

[237] arXiv:1002.0753 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Interpreting the bounds on Solar Dark Matter induced muons at Super-Kamiokande in the light of CDMS results

Authors: Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, Sovan Chakraborty, Debasish Majumdar

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

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

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