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Authors: R. Krivonos (1,2), S. Tsygankov (3,4,2), A. Lutovinov (2), M. Revnivtsev (2), E. Churazov (1,2), R. Sunyaev (1,2) ((1) MPA, Germany, (2) IKI, Moscow, Russia, (3) FINCA, University of Turku, Finland, (4) University of Oulu, Finland)

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures, long table, submitted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[11] arXiv:1205.3931 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Relativistic jet models for two low-luminosity radio galaxies: evidence for backflow?

Authors: R. A. Laing (1), A. H. Bridle (2) ((1) ESO, (2) NRAO)

Comments: 22 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[12] arXiv:1205.3910 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Oxygen and nitrogen abundances of HII regions in six spiral galaxies

Authors: Alexander S. Gusev, Leonid S. Pilyugin, Firouz Sakhibov, Sergey N. Dodonov, Olga V. Ezhkova, Maria S. Khramtsova

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[13] arXiv:1205.3905 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The evolution of the X-ray emission of HH 2 - Investigating heating and cooling processes

Authors: P. C. Schneider, H. M. Guenther, J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Comments: 5 pages with 4 figures; accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[14] arXiv:1205.3901 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Interstellar reddening towards six small areas in Puppis-Vela

Authors: G. A. P. Franco

Comments: Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[15] arXiv:1205.3895 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spectroscopy of extended Lyα envelopes around z=4.5 quasars

Authors: P. L. North (1), F. Courbin (1), A. Eigenbrod (1), D. Chelouche (2) ((1) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), (2) University of Haifa, Israel)

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[16] arXiv:1205.3889 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Optimization of Bandpass Calibration in Radio Spectroscopy

Authors: Haruka Yamaki, Seiji Kameno, Hirohisa Beppu, Izumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Imai

Comments: To appear in Publications of Astronomical Society of Japan, Vol.64, No.6, with 12 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables

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

[17] arXiv:1205.3888 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Viscous-Resistive ADAF with a general Large-Scale Magnetic Field

Authors: S. Abbassi, A. Mosallanezhad

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science

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

[18] arXiv:1205.3874 [pdf]

Title: Improvement of xenon purification system using a combination of a pulse tube refrigerator and a coaxial heat exchanger

Authors: Wan-Ting Chen, D. Chbib, J.-P. Cussonneau, J. Donnard, S. Duval, O. Lemaire, M. Le Calloch, P. Le Ray, A.-F. Mohamad-Hadi, E. Morteau, T. Oger, L. Scotto-Lavina, J.-S. Stutzmann, D. Thers, P. Briend, T. Haruyama, S. Mihara, T. Tauchi

Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[19] arXiv:1205.3854 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Keplerian Circumbinary Disk around the Protobinary System L1551 NE

Authors: Shigehisa Takakuwa, Masao Saito, Jeremy Lim, Kazuya Saigo, T. K. Sridharan, Nimesh A. Patel

Comments: 27 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[20] arXiv:1205.3840 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Detection of the 128 day radial velocity variations in the supergiant α Persei. Rotational modulations, pulsations, or a planet?

Authors: Byeong-Cheol Lee, Inwoo Han, Myeong-Gu Park, Kang-Min Kim, David. E. Mkrtichian

Comments: 7 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables

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

[21] arXiv:1205.3839 [pdf, other]

Title: A Brightest Cluster Galaxy with an Extremely Large Flat Core

Authors: Marc Postman, Tod R. Lauer, Megan Donahue, Genevieve Graves, Dan Coe, John Moustakas, Anton Koekemoer, Larry Bradley, Holland C. Ford, Claudio Grillo, Adi Zitrin, Doron Lemze, Tom Broadhurst, Leonidas Moustakas, Begona Ascaso, Elinor Medezinski, Daniel Kelson

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[22] arXiv:1205.3835 [pdf, other]

Title: Star Formation in the First Galaxies I: Collapse Delayed by Lyman-Werner Radiation

Authors: Chalence Safranek-Shrader, Meghann Agarwal, Christoph Federrath, Anshu Dubey, Milos Milosavljevic, Volker Bromm

Comments: 22 pages, 12 figures

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

[23] arXiv:1205.3829 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The nature of dust in compact Galactic planetary nebulae from Spitzer spectra

Authors: L. Stanghellini, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, P. Garcia-Lario, J. E. Davies, R. A. Shaw, E. Villaver, A. Manchado, J. V. Perea-Calderon

Comments: The Astrophysical Journal, in press (76 pages, 36 figures and 6 Tables)

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

[24] arXiv:1205.3828 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Infrared Light Curve of SN 2011fe in M101 and the Distance to M101

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, emulateapj style, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[25] arXiv:1205.3825 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gas Accretion is Dominated by Warm Ionized Gas in Milky Way-Mass Galaxies at z ~ 0

Authors: M. Ryan Joung, Mary E. Putman, Greg L. Bryan, Ximena Fernandez, J. E. G. Peek (Columbia U)

Comments: 10 pages including 5 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[26] arXiv:1205.3821 [pdf, other]

Title: Recent Observations of Plasma and Alfvenic Wave Energy Injection at the Base of the Fast Solar Wind

Authors: Scott W. McIntosh

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures - accepted to appear in Space Science Reviews

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

[27] arXiv:1205.3819 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A solar tornado observed by AIA/SDO: Rotational flow and evolution of magnetic helicity in a prominence and cavity

Authors: Xing Li, Huw Morgan, Drew Leonard, Lauren Jeska

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters

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

[28] arXiv:1205.3802 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Progenitor mass constraints for core-collapse supernovae from correlations with host galaxy star formation

Authors: J. P. Anderson, S. M. Habergham, P. A. James, M. Hamuy

Comments: 22 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. The abstract has been edited to fit within arXiv.org submission requirements

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

[29] arXiv:1205.3801 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Constraining stellar assembly and AGN feedback at the peak epoch of star formation

Authors: Taysun Kimm, Sugata Kaviraj, Julien Devriendt, Seth Cohen, Rogier Windhorst, Yohan Dubois, Adrianne Slyz, Nimish Hathi, Russell Ryan Jr, Robert O'Connell, Michael Dopita, Joseph Silk

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[30] arXiv:1205.3798 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Studying the hybrid pulsator 12 Lacertae: mode identification and complex seismic modelling

Authors: Wojciech Szewczuk, Przemysław Walczak, Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure

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

[31] arXiv:1205.3796 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Constraints on model atmospheres from complex asteroseismology of the βCephei stars

Authors: Wojciech Szewczuk, Przemysław Walczak, Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz

Comments: 2 pages

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

[32] arXiv:1205.3795 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Acceleration of Energetic Particles through Reconnection of Weakly Stochastic Magnetic Field

Authors: A. Lazarian, G. Kowal, E. Gouveia dal Pino, E. Vishniac

Comments: review, 12 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the proceedings of Albach workshop

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

[33] arXiv:1205.3793 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: HI Power Spectra and the Turbulent ISM of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

Authors: Hong-Xin Zhang (1,2), Deidre A. Hunter (2), Bruce G. Elmegreen (3) ((1) Purple Mountain Observatory, (2) Lowell Observatory, (3) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Accepted by ApJ

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

[34] arXiv:1205.3792 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Column Density Variance-Sonic Mach Number Relationship

Authors: Blakesley Burkhart A. Lazarian

Comments: submitted to ApJ Letter

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[35] arXiv:1205.3789 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Dynamical Modeling of the Broad Line Region in Mrk 50

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

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

[36] arXiv:1205.3788 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: IDCS J1426.5+3508: Cosmological implications of a massive, strong lensing cluster at Z = 1.75

Authors: Anthony H. Gonzalez, S. A. Stanford, Mark Brodwin, Cosimo Fedeli, Arjun Dey, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Conor Mancone, Daniel Stern, Greg Zeimann

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal

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

[37] arXiv:1205.3787 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: IDCS J1426.5+3508: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurement of a Massive IR-selected Cluster at z=1.75

Authors: M. Brodwin, A. H. Gonzalez, S. A. Stanford, T. Plagge, D. P. Marrone, J. E. Carlstrom, A. Dey, P. R. Eisenhardt, C. Fedeli, D. Gettings, B. T. Jannuzi, M. Joy, E. M. Leitch, C. Mancone, G. F. Snyder, D. Stern, G. Zeimann

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[38] arXiv:1205.3786 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: IDCS J1426+3508: Discovery of a Massive, IR-Selected Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.75

Authors: S.A. Stanford, M. Brodwin, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Greg Zeimann, Daniel Stern, Arjun Dey, P. R. Eisenhardt, Gregory F. Snyder, C. Mancone

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[39] arXiv:1205.3785 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A new, precise measurement of the primordial abundance of Deuterium

Authors: Max Pettini (1,2), Ryan Cooke (1,2) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, (2) Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge)

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, Submitted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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

[40] arXiv:1205.3784 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the Circumbinary Envelope of Z CMa via imaging polarimetry

Authors: H. Canovas, M. Min, S. V. Jeffers, M. Rodenhuis, C. U. Keller

Comments: Accepted for publication in A\&A

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

[41] arXiv:1205.3783 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cosmic Rays and Stochastic Magnetic Reconnection in the Heliotail

Authors: P. Desiati, A. Lazarian

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication by Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

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

[42] arXiv:1205.3779 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Optically Unbiased GRB Host (TOUGH) survey. IV. Lyman-alpha emitters

Authors: Bo Milvang-Jensen, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Daniele Malesani, Jens Hjorth, Páll Jakobsson, Palle Møller

Comments: Resubmitted to ApJ, taking into account the referee's second report

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

[43] arXiv:1205.3778 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: HerMES: Candidate Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies and Lensing Statistics at Submillimeter Wavelengths

Authors: Julie L. Wardlow, Asantha Cooray, Francesco De Bernardis, A. Amblard, V. Arumugam, H. Aussel, A.J. Baker, M. Béthermin, R. Blundell, J. Bock, A. Boselli, C. Bridge, V. Buat, D. Burgarella, R.S. Bussmann, J. Calanog, J.M. Carpenter, C.M. Casey, N. Castro-Rodríguez, A. Cava, P. Chanial, S.C. Chapman, D.L. Clements, A. Conley, P. Cox, C.D. Dowell, S. Dye, S. Eales, D. Farrah, A. Franceschini, D.T. Frayer, C. Frazer, Hai Fu, R. Gavazzi, J. Glenn, M. Griffin, M.A. Gurwell, A.I. Harris, E. Hatziminaoglou, R. Hopwood, E. Ibar, R.J. Ivison, S. Kim, G. Lagache, L. Levenson, L. Marchetti, G. Marsden, M. Negrello, R. Neri, H.T. Nguyen, B. O'Halloran, S.J. Oliver, A. Omont, M.J. Page, P. Panuzzo, A. Papageorgiou, C.P. Pearson, I. Pérez-Fournon, M. Pohlen, D. Riechers, D. Rigopoulou, et al. (17 additional authors not shown)

Comments: Submitted to ApJ. 29 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables

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

[44] arXiv:1205.3777 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Deuterium at high-redshift: Primordial abundance in the zabs = 2.621 damped Ly-alpha system towards CTQ247

Authors: P. Noterdaeme, S. López, V. Dumont, C. Ledoux, P. Molaro, P. Petitjean

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A Letters

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

[45] arXiv:1205.4000 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Big Bang nucleosynthesis with a non-Maxwellian distribution

Authors: C. A. Bertulani, J. Fuqua, M.S. Hussein

Comments: 9 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

[46] arXiv:1205.3958 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A new Skyrme interaction with improved spin-isospin properties

Authors: X. Roca-Maza, G. Colo', H. Sagawa

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

[47] arXiv:1205.3893 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Non-axisymmetric oscillations of rapidly rotating relativistic stars by conformal flatness approximation

Authors: Shin'ichirou Yoshida

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

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

[48] arXiv:1205.3876 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gravitational lensing in the Kerr-Randers optical geometry

Authors: M. C. Werner

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure

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

[49] arXiv:1205.3842 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radiation reaction at 3.5 post-Newtonian order in effective field theory

Authors: Chad R. Galley, Adam K. Leibovich

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures

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

[50] arXiv:1205.3790 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spherically Symmetric Inflation

Authors: R.S. Perez, N. Pinto-Neto

Comments: Latex file, 4 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Gravitation and Cosmology, Volume 17, Number 2 (2011), 136-140

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

[51] arXiv:1205.3764 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Buildup of Magnetic Shear and Free Energy During Flux Emergence and Cancellation

Authors: Fang Fang (1), Ward Manchester IV (1), William P. Abbett (2), Bart van der Holst (1) ((1) Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, (2) Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

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

[52] arXiv:1205.3761 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spontaneous symmetry breaking in inflationary cosmology: on the fate of Goldstone Bosons

Authors: Daniel Boyanovsky

Comments: 32 pages, 6 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)

[53] arXiv:1205.3760 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of an Outer Field in Omega Centauri: A Definitive Helium Abundance

Authors: I. R. King (1), L. R. Bedin (2), S. Cassisi (3), A. P. Milone (4), A. Bellini (5), G. Piotto (5), J. Anderson (6), A. Pietrinferni (3), D. Cordier (7) ((1) Univ.of Washington Seattle, (2) INAF-OAPD, (3) INAF-OATE, (4) IAC, (5) Univ.PD, (6) STScI, (7) Observatoire de Besançon)

Comments: 26 pages, 10 figures (4 in low resolution. AJ accepted on March 21, 2012

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[54] arXiv:1205.3738 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Multi-wavelength Observations of the Type IIb Supernova 2009mg

Authors: S. R. Oates, A. J. Bayless, M. D. Stritzinger, T. Prichard, J. L. Prieto, S. Immler, P. J. Brown, A. A. Breeveld, M. De Pasquale, N. P. M. Kuin, M. Hamuy, S. T Holland, F. Taddia, P. W. A. Roming

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[55] arXiv:1205.3733 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Evidence for the Wave Nature of an Extreme Ultraviolet Wave Observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly Onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory

Authors: Yuandeng Shen, Yu Liu

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[56] arXiv:1205.3732 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Measuring the mass accretion rates of Herbig Ae/Be stars with X-shooter

Authors: M. A. Pogodin, S. Hubrig, R. V. Yudin, M. Schoeller, J. F. Gonzalez, B. Stelzer

Comments: 19 pages, 13 figures, nine tables, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten

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

[57] arXiv:1205.3731 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Simultaneous Observations of a Large-Scale Wave Event in the Solar Atmosphere: From Photosphere to Corona

Authors: Yuandeng Shen, Yu Liu

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[58] arXiv:1205.3723 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The frequency of giant planets around metal-poor stars

Authors: A. Mortier, N. C. Santos, A. Sozzetti, M. Mayor, D. Latham, X. Bonfils, S. Udry

Comments: Accepted to A&A, 8 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

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

[59] arXiv:1205.3719 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Non-thermal burst-on-tail of long-duration solar event on 2003 October 26

Authors: I. V. Zimovets, A. B. Struminsky

Comments: 20 pages, 5 figures

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

[60] arXiv:1205.3716 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Self-cancellation of ephemeral regions in the quiet Sun

Authors: Shuhong Yang, Jun Zhang, Ting Li, Yang Liu

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[61] arXiv:1205.3715 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: X-ray emission from star-forming galaxies - II. Hot interstellar medium

Authors: S. Mineo (1,2), M. Gilfanov (2,3), R. Sunyaev (2,3) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, (3) Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences)

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures, 1 table - Submitted to MNRAS

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

[62] arXiv:1205.3709 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dark energy from a renormalization group flow

Authors: I. Mocioiu, R. Roiban

Comments: 22 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 84, 043512 (2011)

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

[63] arXiv:1205.3704 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Circumnuclear star-forming regions in early type spiral galaxies: dynamical masses

Authors: G. F. Hagele, M. V. Cardaci, G. L. Bosch, A. I. Diaz, E. Terlevich, R. Terlevich

Comments: 4 pages, To appear in the proceedings of "V ADeLa: Astronomia Dinamica en Latinoamerica", La Plata, Argentina, March 2012

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

[64] arXiv:1205.3699 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of the Optical/Ultraviolet/Gamma-ray Counterpart to the Eclipsing Millisecond Pulsar J1816+4510

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[65] arXiv:1205.3698 [pdf]

Title: Science Drivers for AGN Observations with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Authors: Henric Krawczynski (Washington University in St. Louis)

Comments: Invited contribution to the workshop "AGN Physics in the CTA Era", 16-17 May, 2011, Toulouse (France). For complete proceedings see: this http URL

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

[66] arXiv:1205.3691 [pdf]

Title: The Black Hole Evolution and Space Time (BEST) Observatory

Authors: Henric Krawczynski (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Jack Tueller (GSFC), Scott Barthelmy (GSFC), Jeremy Schnittman (GSFC), William Zhang (GSFC), Julian Krolik (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Matthew G. Baring (Rice Univ.), Ezequiel Treister (Univ. of Hawaii), Richard Mushotzky (Univ. of Maryland), Matthias Beilicke (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), James Buckley (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Ram Cowsik (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Martin Israel (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)

Comments: White paper submitted in response to the NASA request for information "Concepts for the Next NASA X-ray Astronomy Mission" (NASA NNH11ZDA018L). See: this http URL for more information

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

[67] arXiv:1205.3689 [pdf, other]

Title: A Second Giant Planet in 3:2 Mean-Motion Resonance in the HD 204313 System

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

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[68] arXiv:1205.3684 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The anticentre old open clusters Berkeley 27, Berkeley 34, and Berkeley 36: new additions to the BOCCE project

Authors: P. Donati, A. Bragaglia, M. Cignoni, G. Cocozza, M. Tosi

Comments: MNRAS in press, figs 1,2,3 degraded resolution

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[69] arXiv:1205.3661 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Inflating a chain of x-ray deficient bubbles by a single jet activity episode

Authors: Michael Refaelovich, Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Submitted

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

[70] arXiv:1205.3660 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Radial molecular abundances and gas cooling in starless cores

Authors: O. Sipilä

Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A, above abstract shortened to fit arXiv format

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[71] arXiv:1205.3659 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Chemical compositions of thin-disk, high-metallicity red horizontal-branch field stars

Authors: M. Afşar, C. Sneden, B.-Q. For

Comments: manuscript format, 65 pages, 18 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in AJ

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

[72] arXiv:1205.3657 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Progenitor-Explosion Connection and Remnant Birth Masses for Neutrino-Driven Supernovae of Iron-Core Progenitors

Authors: Marcella Ugliano (1), H.-Thomas Janka (1), Andreas Marek (1), Almudena Arcones (2,3) ((1) MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, (2) TU Darmstadt, (3) GSI Darmstadt)

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures (7 eps files); submitted to Astrophys. J

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

[73] arXiv:1205.3644 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Mass and pressure constraints on galaxy clusters from interferometric SZ observations

Authors: M. Olamaie, M. P. Hobson, K. J. B. Grainge

Comments: 5 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures

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

[74] arXiv:1205.3627 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Coronal activity cycles in nearby G and K stars - XMM-Newton monitoring of 61 Cygni and Alpha Centauri

Authors: J. Robrade, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, F. Favata

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[75] arXiv:1205.3623 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: AGN and Megamasers

Authors: Andrea Tarchi

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, invited review to appear in Proc. IAU 287 "Cosmic Masers: from OH to H_0", R.S. Booth, E.M.L. Humphreys and W.H.T. Vlemmings, eds

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

[76] arXiv:1205.3620 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spectral analysis of the gamma-ray background near the dwarf Milky Way satellite Segue 1: Improved limits on the cross section of neutralino dark matter annihilation

Authors: A. N. Baushev, S. Federici, M. Pohl

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted to Physical Review D

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

[77] arXiv:1205.3616 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Satellites around massive galaxies since z$\sim$2: confronting the Millennium simulation with observations

Authors: Vicent Quilis, Ignacio Trujillo

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[78] arXiv:1205.3611 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Effective field theory for perturbations in dark energy and modified gravity

Authors: Jonathan A. Pearson

Comments: Proceedings for Rencontres de Moriond, 2012, Cosmology

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

[79] arXiv:1205.3607 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Lepton asymmetries and primordial hypermagnetic helicity evolution

Authors: V. B. Semikoz, D. Sokoloff, J. W. F. Valle

Comments: LaTeX, 12 pages, 3 figures, jcappub.sty, to be published in JCAP

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

[80] arXiv:1205.3603 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The magnetic fields and magnetospheres of hot stars

Authors: Evelyne Alecian

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution", Foz do Iguacu, Feb. 2012

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

[81] arXiv:1205.3572 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Constraining the Bulk Lorentz Factor of GRB Outflow in the Magnetic-dominated Jet Model

Authors: Zhe Chang, Hai-Nan Lin, Yunguo Jiang

Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures

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

[82] arXiv:1205.3571 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Heating the intra-cluster medium perpendicular to the jets axis

Authors: Avishai Gilkis, Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)

Comments: Submitted

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

[83] arXiv:1205.3568 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing Subpopulations within the Near Earth Objects with NEOWISE: Preliminary Results

Authors: A. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. Masiero, J. Bauer, R. S. McMillan, J. Giorgini, T. Spahr, R. M. Cutri, D. J. Tholen, R. Jedicke, R. Walker, E. Wright, C. R. Nugent

Comments: ApJ accepted

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

[84] arXiv:1205.3559 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Discovery of the most isolated globular cluster in the local universe

Authors: In Sung Jang, Sungsoon Lim, Hong Soo Park, Myung Gyoon Lee

Comments: 6 pages with 5 figures

Journal-ref: 2012ApJ...751L..19J

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

[85] arXiv:1205.3545 [pdf, other]

Title: 870 micron Imaging of a Transitional Disk in Upper Scorpius: Holdover from the Era of Giant Planet Formation?

Authors: Geoffrey S. Mathews, Jonathan P. Williams, Francois Menard

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures. To appear in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[86] arXiv:1205.3541 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dark matter transport properties and rapidly rotating neutron stars

Authors: C.J. Horowitz

Comments: 4 pages

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

[87] arXiv:1205.3538 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Solving the Puzzle of the Massive Star System Theta 2 Orionis A

Authors: V. Petit, M. Gagne, D. H. Cohen, R. H. D. Townsend, M. A. Leutenegger, M. R. Savoy, G. Fehon, C. A. Cartagena

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of "Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution", ASP Conference Series, editors A. Carciofi and Th. Rivinius. 8 pages, 3 figures

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

[88] arXiv:1205.3536 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The equilibrium tide in stars and giant planets: I - the coplanar case

Authors: F. Remus, S. Mathis, J.-P. Zahn

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[89] arXiv:1205.3531 [pdf, other]

Title: The Inter-Eruption Timescale of Classical Novae from Expansion of the Z Camelopardalis Shell

Authors: Michael M.Shara, Trisha Mizusawa, David Zurek, Christopher D. Martin, James D. Neill, Mark Seibert

Comments: 6 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[90] arXiv:1205.3524 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The `harder when brighter' X-ray behaviour of the low luminosity active galactic nucleus NGC 7213

Authors: D. Emmanoulopoulos, I. E. Papadakis, I. M. McHardy, P. Arevalo, D. E. Calvelo, P.Uttley

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. The paper is 9 pages long and contains 5 figures and 1 table

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

[91] arXiv:1205.3512 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Electron-positron plasma in GRBs and in cosmology

Authors: Remo Ruffini, Gregory Vereshchagin

Comments: to appear in Il Nuovo Cimento C

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

[92] arXiv:1205.3510 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An X-ray Survey of Colliding Wind Binaries

Authors: Marc Gagne, Garrett Fehon, Michael Savoy, Carlos Cartagena, David H. Cohen, Stanley P. Owocki

Comments: 6 pages

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

[93] arXiv:1205.3503 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Detection of Weak Circumstellar Gas around the DAZ White Dwarf WD 1124-293: Evidence for the Accretion of Multiple Asteroids

Authors: J. H. Debes, M. Kilic, F. Faedi, E. L. Shkolnik, M. Lopez-Morales, A. J. Weinberger, C. Slesnick, R. G. West

Comments: 31 pages with 9 figures; accepted to ApJ

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

[94] arXiv:1205.3502 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Turbulent dynamo with advective magnetic helicity flux

Authors: Fabio Del Sordo, Gustavo Guerrero, Axel Brandenburg

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[95] arXiv:1205.3498 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: [CII] line emission in massive star-forming galaxies at z=4.7

Comments: 14 pages, submitted to ApJ Letters

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

[96] arXiv:1205.3495 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Runaway Stars and the Escape of Ionizing Radiation from High-Redshift Galaxies

Authors: Charlie Conroy, Kaitlin Kratter

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, resubmitted to ApJ after responding to referee report

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

[97] arXiv:1205.3494 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Precision Measurement of The Most Distant Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova Ia with the Hubble Space Telescope

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL. Minor wording changes

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

[98] arXiv:1205.3493 [pdf, other]

Title: Extending BEAMS to correlated photometric supernova data

Authors: Michelle Knights, Bruce A. Bassett, Melvin Varughese, Renée Hlozek, Martin Kunz, Mat Smith, James Newling

Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures

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

[99] arXiv:1205.3491 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Dominance of Neutrino-Driven Convection in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: Jeremiah W. Murphy, Joshua C. Dolence, Adam Burrows

Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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

[100] arXiv:1205.3490 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The optically unbiased GRB host (TOUGH) survey. III. Redshift distribution

Authors: P. Jakobsson, J. Hjorth, D. Malesani, R. Chapman, J. P. U. Fynbo, N. R. Tanvir, B. Milvang-Jensen, P. M. Vreeswijk, G. Letawe, R. L. C. Starling

Comments: 12 pages, 19 figures. ApJ, in press

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

[101] arXiv:1205.3751 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Tests of the universality of free fall for strongly self-gravitating bodies with radio pulsars

Authors: Paulo C. C. Freire, Michael Kramer, Norbert Wex

Comments: 19 pages, two figures; accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity as an invited review on the "focus issue" on Tests of the Weak Equivalence Principle, organized by Clive Speake and Clifford Will

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

[102] arXiv:1205.3675 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the Cosmic Ray Muon Hypothesis for DAMA

Authors: Josef Pradler

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures; 47th Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak session; includes new comments on recent works

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

[103] arXiv:1205.3621 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Hadron-Quark Crossover and Massive Hybrid Stars with Strangeness

Authors: Kota Masuda, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Tatsuyuki Takatsuka

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures and 1 table

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

[104] arXiv:1205.3488 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Quasar feedback in the early Universe: the case of SDSS J1148+5251

Authors: Rosa Valiante, Raffaella Schneider, Roberto Maiolino

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters

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

[105] arXiv:1205.3486 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Particle-In-Cell Simulation of Electron Acceleration in Solar Coronal Jets

Authors: G. Baumann, Å. Nordlund

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[106] arXiv:1205.3479 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Neutrinos And Cosmic Rays From Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: Arnon Dar

Comments: Corrected references

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

[107] arXiv:1205.3470 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: [Fe III] emission lines in the planetary nebula NGC 2392

Authors: Y. Zhang, X. Fang, W. Chau, C.-H. Hsia, X.-W. Liu, S. Kwok, N. Koning

Comments: 41 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[108] arXiv:1205.3455 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Superluminous Light Curves from Supernovae Exploding in a Dense Wind

Authors: Sivan Ginzburg, Shmuel Balberg (The Hebrew University)

Comments: 13 pages

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

[109] arXiv:1205.3450 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Fermi~I particle acceleration in converging flows mediated by magnetic reconnection

Authors: V. Bosch-Ramon

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted, to be published as Reserch Note in A&A

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

[110] arXiv:1205.3449 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Imaging neutral hydrogen on large-scales during the Epoch of Reionization with LOFAR

Comments: 9 figures, 11 pages, submitted for publication in MNRAS

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

[111] arXiv:1205.3431 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Using H(z) data as a probe of the concordance model

Authors: Marina Seikel, Sahba Yahya, Roy Maartens, Chris Clarkson (Cape Town & Western Cape)

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures. GaPP available at this http URL

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

[112] arXiv:1205.3428 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Comparing galaxy populations in compact and loose groups of galaxies

Authors: Valeria Coenda, Hernan Muriel, Hector J. Martinez

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

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

[113] arXiv:1205.3401 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Scale dependent halo bias in the excursion set approach

Authors: Marcello Musso (CP3-Univ.Louvain), Aseem Paranjape (ICTP), Ravi K. Sheth (ICTP, U.Penn)

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures

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

[114] arXiv:1205.3384 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dark gas in the Solar neighnorhood from extinction data

Authors: D. Paradis, K. Dobashi, T. Shimoikura, A. Kawamura, T. Onishi, Y. Fukui, J.-P. Bernard

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[115] arXiv:1205.3376 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Planck Intermediate Results. IV. The XMM-Newton validation programme for new Planck clusters

Authors: Planck Collaboration: P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, A. Balbi, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, J. G. Bartlett, E. Battaner, K. Benabed, A. Benoît, J.-P. Bernard, I. Bikmaev, H. Böhringer, A. Bonaldi, S. Borgani, J. Borrill, F. R. Bouchet, M. L. Brown, C. Burigana, R. C. Butler, P. Cabella, P. Carvalho, A. Catalano, L. Cayón, A. Chamballu, R.-R. Chary, L.-Y Chiang, G. Chon, P. R. Christensen, D. L. Clements, S. Colafrancesco, S. Colombi, B. P. Crill, F. Cuttaia, A. Da Silva, H. Dahle, R. J. Davis, P. de Bernardis, G. de Gasperis, G. de Zotti, J. Delabrouille, J. Démoclès, F.-X. Désert, J. M. Diego, K. Dolag, H. Dole, S. Donzelli, O. Doré, M. Douspis, X. Dupac, T. A. Enßlin, H. K. Eriksen, F. Finelli, I. Flores-Cacho, et al. (125 additional authors not shown)

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

[116] arXiv:1205.3368 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Galaxy environments and star formation rate variations

Comments: 15 pages, 35 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[117] arXiv:1205.3367 [pdf, other]

Title: Electrodynamics of Massless Charges with Application to Pulsars

Authors: Andrei Gruzinov (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure

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

[118] arXiv:1205.3366 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Vector and Tensor Contributions to the Luminosity Distance

Authors: Enea Di Dio, Ruth Durrer

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures

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

[119] arXiv:1205.3365 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Cosmological Constant Problem (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Authors: Jerome Martin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Comments: 89 pages, 14 figures, Accepted review article to appear in a special volume of the "Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences" about Dark Energy and Dark Matter

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)

[120] arXiv:1205.3350 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cosmic acceleration with cosmological soft phonons

Authors: J. Rekier, A. Füzfa

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

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

[121] arXiv:1205.3348 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A relativistic iron emission line from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 3+1

Authors: S.Piraino, A.Santangelo, P.Kaaret, B. Mück, A. D'Aì, T. DI Salvo, R. Iaria, N. Robba, L. Burderi, E. Egron

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[122] arXiv:1205.3343 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A mid-IR survey of local AGN with GTC/CanariCam

Authors: A. Alonso-Herrero (1), C. Packham (2) ((1) IFCA, CSIC-UC, Spain, (2) University of Florida)

Comments: To appear in "Science with the GTC: IV Meeting" conference proceedings, RevMexAA(SC)

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

[123] arXiv:1205.3314 [pdf, other]

Title: 9 Sgr: uncovering an O-type spectroscopic binary with an 8.6 year period

Authors: G. Rauw, H. Sana, M. Spano, E. Gosset, L. Mahy, M. De Becker, P. Eenens

Comments: Accepted for publications in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[124] arXiv:1205.3309 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Scale of Cosmic Isotropy

Authors: C. Marinoni, J. Bel, A. Buzzi (CPT, Aix-Marseille University)

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to JCAP

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

[125] arXiv:1205.3302 [pdf, other]

Title: Resolving the Circumstellar Disk Around the Massive Protostar Driving the HH 80-81 Jet

Authors: Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, Roberto Galvan-Madrid, Guillem Anglada, Mayra Osorio, Paola D'Alessio, Peter Hofner, Luis F. Rodriguez, Hendrik Linz, Esteban D. Araya

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[126] arXiv:1205.3273 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Incidence of Mg II absorption systems towards flat-spectrum radio quasars

Authors: Hum Chand (ARIES), Gopal-Krishna (NCRA)

Comments: 6 pages (emulateapj style), 2 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[127] arXiv:1205.3259 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The influence of fallback discs on the spectral and timing properties of neutron stars

Authors: Ting Yan (University of Colorado), Rosalba Perna (University of Colorado), Roberto Soria (ICRAR--Curtin University)

Comments: 14 pages, 700 KB. Accepted by MNRAS on 2012 April 3, in press

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

[128] arXiv:1205.3254 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Rapid Disappearance of Penumbra-Like Features Near a Flaring Polarity Inversion Line: The Hinode Observations

Authors: B. Ravindra, Sanjay Gosain

Comments: 15 Pages, 9 Figures, Published in Advances in Astronomy

Journal-ref: Volume 2012, Article ID 735879

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

[129] arXiv:1205.3233 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Measurements of Stellar Inclinations for Kepler Planet Candidates

Authors: Teruyuki Hirano, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Yoichi Takeda, Norio Narita, Joshua N. Winn, Atsushi Taruya, Yasushi Suto

Comments: 12 pages, 12 figures; resubmitted to ApJ in response to the first referee report

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

[130] arXiv:1205.3228 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A New Code for Proto-Neutron Star Evolution

Authors: Luke F. Roberts

Comments: Submitted to ApJ April 4th, 2012, 22 pages, 21 figures

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

[131] arXiv:1205.3227 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Observational signatures of sub-photospheric radiation mediated shocks in the prompt phase of GRBs

Authors: Amir Levinson

Comments: 20 pages, 5 figures

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

[132] arXiv:1205.3224 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Simultaneous Ultraviolet and Optical Emission-line Profiles of Quasars: Implications for Black Hole Mass Determination

Authors: Luis C. Ho, Paolo Goldoni, Xiao-Bo Dong, Jenny E. Greene, Gabriele Ponti

Comments: To appear in ApJ

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

[133] arXiv:1205.3210 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Beaming and rapid variability of high-energy radiation from relativistic pair plasma reconnection

Authors: Benoit Cerutti, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Mitchell C. Begelman

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[134] arXiv:1205.3200 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Second-order matter fluctuations via higher-order galaxy correlators

Authors: J. Bel, C. Marinoni (CPT, Aix-Marseille University)

Comments: 24 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[135] arXiv:1205.3191 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Chandra Observations of the Nuclear Star Cluster and Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in NGC 2139

Authors: Joseph C. Shields, Torsten Boeker, Luis C. Ho, Hans-Walter Rix, Roeland P. van der Marel, C. Jakob Walcher

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

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[136] arXiv:1205.3190 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Diagnosing small- and large-scale structure in the winds of hot, massive OB-star

Authors: J. O. Sundqvist, S. P. Owocki

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, To appear in the proceedings of "Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution", Foz do Iguacu, Feb. 2012

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

[137] arXiv:1205.3179 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Understanding X-ray reflection emissivity profiles in AGN: Locating the X-ray source

Authors: D.R. Wilkins, A.C. Fabian

Comments: 14 pages, 16 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[138] arXiv:1205.3177 [pdf, other]

Title: Slicing The Monoceros Overdensity with Suprime-Cam

Authors: Blair C. Conn, Noelia E. D. Noël, Hans-Walter Rix, R. R. Lane, G. F. Lewis, M. J. Irwin, N. F. Martin, R. A. Ibata, A. Dolphin, S. Chapman

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

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[139] arXiv:1205.3176 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Globular cluster systems as tracers of environmental effects on Virgo early-type dwarfs

Authors: R. Sánchez-Janssen (ESO), J.A.L. Aguerri (IAC, ULL)

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[140] arXiv:1205.3175 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Central Engine Structure of 3C120: Evidence for a Retrograde Black Hole or a Refilling Accretion Disk

Authors: Philip S. Cowperthwaite, Christopher S. Reynolds

Comments: Preprint Formatting. 14 pages with 3 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[141] arXiv:1205.3174 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Maximally Star-Forming Galactic Disks II. Vertically-Resolved Hydrodynamic Simulations of Starburst Regulation

Authors: Rahul Shetty, Eve C. Ostriker

Comments: 22 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[142] arXiv:1205.3173 [pdf, other]

Title: Rapid variability of the compact radio sources in Arp220. Evidence for a population of microblazars?

Authors: F. Batejat, J. E. Conway, A. Rushton, R. Parra, P. J. Diamond, C. J. Lonsdale, C. J. Lonsdale

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

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

[143] arXiv:1205.3172 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Metallicities of Emission-Line Galaxies from HST ACS PEARS and HST WFC3 ERS Grism Spectroscopy at 0.6 < z < 2.4

Authors: Lifang Xia, Sangeeta Malhotra, James Rhoads, Nor Pirzkal, Amber Straughn, Steven Finkelstein, Seth Cohen, Harald Kuntschner, Martin Kümmel, Jeremy Walsh, Rogier A. Windhorst, Robert O'Connell

Comments: 24 pages with 7 figures

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

[144] arXiv:1205.3171 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium inversions from a 3D MHD chromospheric model

Authors: Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez, Hector Socas-Navarro, Mats Carlsson, Jorrit Leenaarts

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[145] arXiv:1205.3170 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Broadcasts from Superconducting Strings

Authors: Yi-Fu Cai, Eray Sabancilar, Daniele A. Steer, Tanmay Vachaspati

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures

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

[146] arXiv:1205.3168 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Absence of Ex-Companions in Type Ia Supernova Remnants

Authors: R. Di Stefano, Mukremin Kilic

Comments: 6 pages, submitted to ApJ

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

[147] arXiv:1205.3167 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Screening Modifications of Gravity through Disformally Coupled Fields

Authors: Tomi S. Koivisto, David F. Mota, Miguel Zumalacarregui

Comments: 4 pages, 2 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)

[148] arXiv:1205.3166 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The bipolar outflow and disk of the brown dwarf ISO217

Authors: V. Joergens, A. Pohl, A. Sicilia-Aguilar, Th. Henning (ITA/ZAH Heidelberg, MPIA Heidelberg, Universidad de Madrid)

Comments: Accepted for publication at A&A

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

[149] arXiv:1205.3165 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Can we really measure fnl from the galaxy power spectrum?

Authors: Nina Roth, Cristiano Porciani

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS Letters. 5 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome

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

[150] arXiv:1205.3163 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in dark energy cosmologies: II. c-M relation

Authors: Cristiano De Boni, Stefano Ettori, Klaus Dolag, Lauro Moscardini

Comments: 18 pages, 18 figures, 13 tables, submitted to MNRAS, comments are welcome

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

[151] arXiv:1205.3162 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The optically unbiased GRB host (TOUGH) survey. I. Survey design and catalogs

Authors: Jens Hjorth, Daniele Malesani, Páll Jakobsson, Andreas O. Jaunsen, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Javier Gorosabel, Thomas Krühler, Andrew J. Levan, Michał J. Michałowski, Bo Milvang-Jensen, Palle Møller, Steve Schulze, Nial R. Tanvir, Darach Watson

Comments: 55 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables, submitted to ApJ

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

[152] arXiv:1205.3161 [pdf, other]

Title: A Lyman Alpha Galaxy at Redshift z=6.944 in the COSMOS Field

Authors: James E. Rhoads, Pascale Hibon, Sangeeta Malhotra, Michael Cooper, Benjamin Weiner

Comments: 15 pages including 3 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[153] arXiv:1205.3160 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Violation of Chandrasekhar Mass Limit: The Exciting Potential of Strongly Magnetized White Dwarfs

Authors: Upasana Das, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Comments: 9 pages including 4 figures; received Honorable Mention for the Gravity Research Foundation 2012 Awards for Essays on Gravitation

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

[154] arXiv:1205.3159 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: High-Contrast NIR Polarization Imaging of MWC480

Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, ApJ accepted 2012-05-06

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

[155] arXiv:1205.3480 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: All solutions of the n = 5 Lane-Emden equation

Authors: Patryk Mach

Comments: To appear in Journal of Mathematical Physics

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

[156] arXiv:1205.3458 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A Born-Infeld-like f(R) gravity

Authors: S. E. P. Bergliaffa, J. C. Fabris, R. S. Perez, N. Pinto-Neto

Comments: Latex file, 13 pages, 7 figures (jpg format)

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

[157] arXiv:1205.3446 (cross-list from math.CA) [pdf, other]

Title: Periodic orbits in the restricted four-body problem with two equal masses

Authors: Jaime Burgos-García, Joaquín Delgado

Comments: We offer an exhaustive study of each family of periodic orbits and the stability of each of them

Subjects: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[158] arXiv:1205.3421 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Dark energy cosmology: the equivalent description via different theoretical models and cosmography tests

Authors: Kazuharu Bamba, Salvatore Capozziello, Shin'ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov

Comments: 155 pages, 4 figures

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

[159] arXiv:1205.3404 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Hawking Radiation as a Mechanism for Inflation

Authors: Sujoy Kumar Modak, Douglas Singleton

Comments: 6 pages. Awarded "Honorable Mention" for the 2012 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest

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

[160] arXiv:1205.3403 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Tidal effects in binary neutron star coalescence

Authors: Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Alessandro Nagar, Marcus Thierfelder, Bernd Bruegmann

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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

[161] arXiv:1205.3312 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A beacon of new physics: The Pioneer anomaly modelled as a path based speed loss driven by the externalisation of aggregate non-inertial QM energy

Authors: Paul G. ten Boom

Comments: 138 pages, 13 figures, 7 tables, 144 references

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

[162] arXiv:1205.3304 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Issues about vacuum energy as the origin of dark energy

Authors: Houri Ziaeepour

Comments: 13 pages, no figure. Comments are welcomed

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)

[163] arXiv:1205.3284 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Generalized dark gravity

Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo

Comments: 8 pages. Received an Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest 2012

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

[164] arXiv:1205.3276 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Dirac right-handed sneutrino dark matter and its signature in the gamma-ray lines

Authors: Ki-Young Choi, Osamu Seto

Comments: 11pages

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

[165] arXiv:1205.3238 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf]

Title: Secondary electron emissions and dust charging currents in the nonequilibrium dusty plasma with power-law distributions

Authors: Gong Jingyu, Du Jiulin

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, 32 references

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[166] arXiv:1205.3229 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Balanced Homodyne Detection of Optical Quantum States at Audio-Band Frequencies and Below

Authors: M. S. Stefszky, C. M. Mow-Lowry, S. S. Y. Chua, D. A. Shaddock, B. C. Buchler, H. Vahlbruch, A. Khalaidovski, R. Schnabel, P. K. Lam, D. E. McClelland

Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[167] arXiv:1205.3184 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Tidal acceleration of black holes and superradiance

Authors: Vitor Cardoso, Paolo Pani

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures

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

[168] arXiv:1205.3150 [pdf, other]

Title: Predictions of the Maximum Amplitude, Time of Occurrence, and Total Length of Solar Cycle 24

Authors: L. C. Uzal, R. D. Piacentini, P. F. Verdes

Comments: Accepted in Solar Physics

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

[169] arXiv:1205.3143 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Dynamics of the Solar Radiative Zone

Authors: Antonio Eff-Darwich, Sylain G. Korzennik

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures, to appear in Solar Physics

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

[170] arXiv:1205.3138 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An Alternative String Landscape Cosmology: Eliminating Bizarreness

Authors: L. Clavelli, G. Goldstein

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

[171] arXiv:1205.3128 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Gravitational Asynchronous Machine

Authors: Luigi Foschini

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2012 Awards for Essays on Gravitation

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

[172] arXiv:1205.3123 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Sparsity Averaging Reweighted Analysis (SARA): a novel algorithm for radio-interferometric imaging

Authors: R. E. Carrillo, J. D. McEwen, Y. Wiaux

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[173] arXiv:1205.3117 [pdf]

Title: Signal transceiver transit times and propagation delay corrections for ranging and geo-referencing applications

Authors: P. Kaufmann, P. L. Kaufmann, S. V. D. Pamboukian, R. Vilhena de Morais

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures 4 tables. Submitted to Mathematical Problems in Engineering on May 11, 2012

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

[174] arXiv:1205.3103 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak-Lensing Mass Measurements of Five Galaxy Clusters in the South Pole Telescope Survey Using Magellan/Megacam

Authors: F. W. High, H. Hoekstra, N. Leethochawalit, T. de Haan, L. Abramson, K. A. Aird, R. Armstrong, M. L. N. Ashby, M. Bautz, M. Bayliss, G. Bazin, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, M. Brodwin, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H. M. Cho, A. Clocchiatti, M. Conroy, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, S. Desai, M. A. Dobbs, J. P. Dudley, R. J. Foley, W. R. Forman, E. M. George, M. D. Gladders, A. H. Gonzalez, N. W. Halverson, N. L. Harrington, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, J. D. Hrubes, C. Jones, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, J. Liu, M. Lueker, D. Luong-Van, A. Mantz, D. P. Marrone, M. McDonald, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, L. Mocanu, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. S. Murray, T. Natoli, D. Nurgaliev, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, C. L. Reichardt, A. Rest, J. Ruel, J. E. Ruhl, et al. (23 additional authors not shown)

Comments: Main body: 18 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables. Appendix: 7 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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

[175] arXiv:1205.3095 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Stripped gas as fuel for newly formed HII regions in the encounter between VCC1249 and M49: a unified picture from NGVS and GUViCS

Authors: Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Giuseppe Gavazzi, Michele Fumagalli, Alessandro Boselli, Samuel Boissier, Luca Cortese, Sebastien Heinis, Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté, J. Christopher Mihos, Jean Charles Cuillandre, Pierre-Alain Duc, Patrick Durrell, Stephen Gwyn, Andrés Jordán, Chengze Liu, Eric Peng, Simona Mei

Comments: 19 pages, 17 figures; one co-author added

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

[176] arXiv:1205.3089 [pdf, other]

Title: Radio Searches of Fermi LAT Sources and Blind Search Pulsars: The Fermi Pulsar Search Consortium

Comments: 2011 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C110509

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

[177] arXiv:1205.3075 [pdf, other]

Title: Properties of Galactic early-type O-supergiants: A combined FUV-UV and optical analysis

Authors: J.-C. Bouret, D. J. Hillier, T. Lanz, A. W. Fullerton

Comments: 30 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A 2012

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

[178] arXiv:1205.3070 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gravitational waves from the electroweak phase transition

Authors: Leonardo Leitao, Ariel Megevand, Alejandro D. Sanchez

Comments: 33 pages, 8 figures

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

[179] arXiv:1205.3066 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Limits to the fraction of high-energy photon emitting gamma-ray bursts

Authors: Carl W. Akerlof, WeiKang Zheng

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJ Letters

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

[180] arXiv:1205.3056 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: AARTFAAC: Towards a 24x7, All-sky Monitor for LOFAR

Authors: Peeyush Prasad, Stefan J. Wijnholds

Comments: 4 pages, Presented at 'New Windows on Transients across the Universe': A Discussion meeting of the Royal Society, London, April, 2012

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

[181] arXiv:1205.3053 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Luminous [O III] and [N II] from Tidally Disrupted Horizontal Branch Stars

Authors: Drew Clausen, Steinn Sigurdsson, Michael Eracleous, Jimmy A. Irwin

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[182] arXiv:1205.3038 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: General Properties of Fermi/LAT Active Galactic Nuclei

Authors: B. Lott, E. Cavazzuti, S. Cutini, D. Gasparrini, C. D. Dermer

Comments: 2012 Fermi & Jansky Proceedings - eConf C1111101, 6 pages, 7 figures

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

[183] arXiv:1205.3037 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: IGR J12319-0749: evidence for another extreme blazar found with INTEGRAL

Authors: L. Bassani, R. Landi, F. E. Marshall, A. Malizia, A. Bazzano, A. J. Bird, N. Gehrels, P. Ubertini, N. Masetti

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[184] arXiv:1205.3035 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Anomaly distribution in quasar magnitudes: a test of lensing by an hypothetic Supergiant Molecular Cloud in the Galactic halo

Authors: Edmond Giraud

Comments: 11 pages, no Figures, 2 tables

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

[185] arXiv:1205.3030 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Rapid growth of gas-giant cores by pebble accretion

Authors: Michiel Lambrechts (Lund University), Anders Johansen (Lund University)

Comments: Submitted to A&A, with modifications in response to referee report, comments welcome

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

[186] arXiv:1205.3023 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: TW Hya Association Membership and New WISE-detected Circumstellar Disks

Authors: Adam Schneider, Carl Melis, Inseok Song

Comments: ApJ, Accepted

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

[187] arXiv:1205.3018 [pdf, other]

Title: A First Search for coincident Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007

Authors: The ANTARES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration. THE ANTARES COLLABORATION: S. Adrián-Martínez, I. Al Samarai, A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, S. Anvar, M. Ardid, T. Astraatmadja, J-J. Aubert, B. Baret, S. Basa, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, C. Bigongiari, C. Bogazzi, M. Bou-Cabo, B. Bouhou, M.C. Bouwhuis, J. Brunner, J. Busto, A. Capone, C. Cârloganu, J. Carr, S. Cecchini, Z. Charif, Ph. Charvis, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, R. Coniglione, L. Core, H. Costantini, P. Coyle, A. Creusot, C. Curtil, G. De Bonis, M.P. Decowski, I. Dekeyser, A. Deschamps, C. Distefano, C. Donzaud, D. Dornic, Q. Dorosti, D. Drouhin, T. Eberl, U. Emanuele, A. Enzenhöfer, J-P. Ernenwein, S. Escoffier, K. Fehn, P. Fermani, M. Ferri, S. Ferry, V. Flaminio, et al. (905 additional authors not shown)

Comments: 35 pages, 8 figures, science summary page at this http URL Public access area to figures, tables at this https URL

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

[188] arXiv:1205.3013 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Conditions for Gravitational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks

Authors: Shigeo S. Kimura, Toru Tsuribe

Comments: accepted for publication in PASJ. Draft version with 26 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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

[189] arXiv:1205.3002 [pdf]

Title: Estimate of the impact of background particles on the X-Ray Microcalorimeter Spectrometer on IXO

Authors: S. Lotti, E. Perinati, L. Natalucci, L. Piro, T. Mineo, L. Colasanti, C. Macculi

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures

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

[190] arXiv:1205.2974 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Chameleon stars supported by a cosmological scalar field

Authors: Vladimir Folomeev

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure

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

[191] arXiv:1205.2972 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Holographic Λ(t)CDM model in a non-flat universe

Authors: Jing-Fei Zhang, Yang-Yang Li, Ying Liu, Sheng Zou, Xin Zhang

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1112.2350

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)

[192] arXiv:1205.2966 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Measuring the Initial Mass Function of Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

Authors: R. D. Jeffries (Keele University)

Comments: From a series of lectures presented at the Evry-Schatzman school on Low-mass stars and the transition from stars to brown dwarfs, edited by C. Charbonnel, C. Reyle, M. Schultheis. To appear in the EAS Conference Series. 47pp

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

[193] arXiv:1205.2959 [pdf, other]

Title: A 3D Radiative Transfer Code for Modeling the Hanle Effect in the Lyman-alpha line

Authors: Jiri Stepan, Javier Trujillo Bueno

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of Hinode 5: Exploring the Active Sun (Cambridge MA, Oct 10-15, 2011)

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

[194] arXiv:1205.2957 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Space-quality data from balloon-borne telescopes: the High Altitude Lensing Observatory (HALO)

Comments: 26 pages and 7 figures; to appear in Astroparticle Physics

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

[195] arXiv:1205.2954 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gamma-Ray Bursts are precise distance indicators similar to Type Ia Supernovae?

Authors: Ryo Tsutsui, Takashi Nakamura, Daisuke Yonetoku, Keitaro Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Morihara

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to JCAP. Some references added

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

[196] arXiv:1205.2951 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A fully covariant mean-field dynamo closure for numerical 3+1 resistive GRMHD

Authors: N. Bucciantini (INAF, Oss. di Arcetri), L. Del Zanna (Dip. Fisica, Univ. Firenze)

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[197] arXiv:1205.2932 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Condensate dark matter stars

Authors: X. Y. Li, T. Harko, K. S. Cheng

Comments: 19 pages and 6 figures and accepted by Journal of Cosmolgy and Astroparticle Physics. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1105.5189

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

[198] arXiv:1205.2929 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the spectral shape of radiation due to Inverse Compton Scattering close to the maximum cut-off

Authors: E. Lefa, S. R. Kelner, F. A. Aharonian

Comments: 27 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[199] arXiv:1205.2871 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Mixing of blackbodies: entropy production and dissipation of sound waves in the early Universe

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

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

[200] arXiv:1205.2870 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A new null diagnostic customized for reconstructing the properties of dark energy from BAO data

Authors: Arman Shafieloo, Varun Sahni, Alexei A. Starobinsky

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures

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

[201] arXiv:1205.2846 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Signs of magnetic accretion in X-ray pulsars

Authors: N.R.Ikhsanov, N.G. Beskrovnaya

Comments: accepted for publication in Astronomy Reports

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

[202] arXiv:1205.2845 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: New insights into the Be/X-ray binary system MXB 0656-072

Authors: E. Nespoli, P. Reig, A. Zezas

Comments: 8 pages, 3 tables, 9 figures. Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[203] arXiv:1205.2837 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Lightcurves of the Karin family asteroids

Authors: Fumi Yoshida, Takashi Ito, Budi Dermawan, Tsuko Nakamura, Shigeru Takahashi, Mansur A. Ibrahimov, Renu Malhotra, Wing Huen Ip, Wen Ping Chen, Yu Sawabe, Masashige Haji, Ryoko Saito, Masanori Hirai, Seidai Miyasaka, Hideo Fukushima, Hideo Sato, Yusuke Sato

Comments: 48 pages, 3 tables, 8 figures, submitted to Icarus on 2012 May 13

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

[204] arXiv:1205.2814 [pdf, other]

Title: Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster M14

Authors: Kyle E. Conroy, Andrew N. Darragh, Zheyu J. Liu, Brian W. Murphy

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy, vol. 5, p. 34-42 (2012)

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

[205] arXiv:1205.2799 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Relativistic Solution for a Class of Static Compact Charged Star in Pseudo Spheroidal Space-Time

Authors: Pradip Kr. Chattopadhyay, Rumi Deb, Bikash Chandra Paul

Comments: 24 pages, 18 figures, 8 tables

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

[206] arXiv:1205.2796 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Observational Constraints on Modified Chaplygin Gas in Horava-Lifshitz Gravity

Authors: B. C. Paul, P. Thakur

Comments: 14 pages, 17 figures and 4 tables

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

[207] arXiv:1205.2795 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatially-resolved HST Grism Spectroscopy of a Lensed Emission Line Galaxy at z~1

Authors: Brenda L. Frye (1, 2, 3), Mairead Hurley (4), David. V. Bowen (5), Gerhardt Meurer (6), Keren Sharon (7), Amber Straughn (8), Dan Coe (9), Tom Broadhurst (10), Puragra Guhathakurta (11) ((1) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, (2) SUNY Stony Brook, (3) University of San Francisco, (4) Dublin City University, Ireland, (5) Princeton University, (6) The University of Western Australia, (7) The University of Chicago, (8) Goddard Space Flight Center, (9) STScI, (10) Basque Foundation for Science, (11) UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[208] arXiv:1205.2793 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Charged-current weak interaction processes in hot and dense matter and its impact on the spectra of neutrinos emitted from proto-neutron star cooling

Authors: G. Martínez-Pinedo, T. Fischer, A. Lohs, L. Huther

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

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

[209] arXiv:1205.2790 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Primordial Non-Gaussianity in the Forest: 3D Bispectrum of Ly-alpha Flux Spectra Along Multiple Lines of Sight

Authors: Dhiraj Kumar Hazra, Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. Submitted

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

[210] arXiv:1205.2785 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Formation of Stellar Cusps in Galactic Nuclei

Authors: Brian W. Murphy

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: The Galactic Center: a Window to the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies. Edited by Mark R. Morris, Q. Daniel Wang, and Feng Yuan. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2011, volume 439, p.189 May 2011

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[211] arXiv:1205.2774 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A Candidate Active Galactic Nucleus with a Pure Soft Thermal X-ray Spectrum

Authors: Yuichi Terashima, Naoya Kamizasa, Hisamitsu Awaki, Aya Kubota, Yoshihiro Ueda

Comments: To Appear in ApJ, 8 pages, 7 figures

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

[212] arXiv:1205.2772 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A New Sample of Candidate Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Selected by X-ray Variability

Authors: Naoya Kamizasa, Yuichi Terashima, Hisamitsu Awaki

Comments: To Appear in ApJ, 14 pages, 5 figures

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

[213] arXiv:1205.2765 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Anglo-Australian Planet Search. XXII. Two New Multi-Planet Systems

Authors: Robert A. Wittenmyer, J. Horner, M. Tuomi, G. S. Salter, C. G. Tinney, R. P. Butler, H. R. A. Jones, S. J. O'Toole, J. Bailey, B. D. Carter, J. S. Jenkins, Z. Zhang, S. S. Vogt, E. J. Rivera

Comments: 31 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[214] arXiv:1205.2760 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Astrophysical and Structural Parameters of the Open Clusters NGC 6866, NGC 7062, and NGC 2360

Authors: O. Gunes, Y. Karatas, C. Bonatto

Comments: 26 pages, 6 tables, 15 figures, accepted for New Astronomy

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[215] arXiv:1205.2758 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Non-Gaussianities in the Cosmological Perturbation Spectrum due to Primordial Anisotropy II

Authors: Anindya Dey, Sonia Paban

Comments: 30 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1106.5840

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

[216] arXiv:1205.2757 [pdf, other]

Title: WASP-42 b and WASP-49 b: two new transiting Saturns

Authors: M. Lendl, D. R. Anderson, A. Collier-Cameron, A. P. Doyle, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, E. Jehin, T. A. Lister, P. F. L. Maxted, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, D. Segransan, A. M. S. Smith, A. H. M. J. Triaud, S. Udry, R. G. West, P. J. Wheatley

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

[217] arXiv:1205.2739 [pdf, other]

Title: Fermi LAT Search for Dark Matter in Gamma-ray Lines and the Inclusive Photon Spectrum

Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, M. Brigida, R. Buehler, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, F. D'Ammando, F. de Palma, C. D. Dermer, E. do Couto e Silva, P. S. Drell, A. Drlica-Wagner, Y. Edmonds, R. Essig, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, S. Germani, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, D. Hadasch, M. Hayashida, D. Horan, R. E. Hughes, T. Kamae, J. Knödlseder, M. Kuss, J. Lande, et al. (60 additional authors not shown)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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

[218] arXiv:1205.2732 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Observational Constraints on the Molecular Gas Content in Nearby Starburst Dwarf Galaxies

Authors: Kristen. B. W. McQuinn, Evan D. Skillman, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Andrew E. Dolphin, John M. Cannon, Jon Holtzman, Daniel R. Weisz, Benjamin F. Williams

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

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

[219] arXiv:1205.2729 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Gravitational softening as a smoothing operation

Authors: Joshua E. Barnes

Comments: 17 pages, 17 figures. Submitted for publication in MNRAS. To get a copy with high-resolution figures, download code or data files, or see supplemental plots, visit this http URL

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

[220] arXiv:1205.2727 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An HST Imaging Survey of Low-Mass Stars in the Chamaeleon I Star Forming region

Authors: M. Robberto, L. Spina, N. Da Rio, D. Apai, I. Pascucci, L. Ricci, C. Goddi, L. Testi, F. Palla, F. Bacciotti

Comments: to appear on Astronomical Journal, accepted April 16, 2012 (AJ-10740)

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

[221] arXiv:1205.2716 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Formation of Galactic Pseudo-bulges via Gas Rich Major Mergers

Authors: Ariel Keselman, Adi Nusser

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 13 pages, 11 figures, and 3 tables

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

[222] arXiv:1205.2708 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: An Efficient Parameter Space Search as an Alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Authors: Scott F. Daniel, Andrew J. Connolly, Jeff Schneider

Comments: 15 pages; 26 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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

[223] arXiv:1205.2706 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Method to Constrain Supernova Fractions Using X-ray Observations of Clusters of Galaxies

Authors: Esra Bulbul, Randall K. Smith, Michael Loewenstein

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[224] arXiv:1205.2704 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A wide-area view of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy from VLT/FORS imaging

Authors: Giuseppina Battaglia, Marina Rejkuba, Eline Tolstoy, Mike Irwin, Giacomo Beccari

Comments: 21 pages; 11 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[225] arXiv:1205.2702 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A cosmological view of extreme mass-ratio inspirals in nuclear star clusters

Authors: M. Mapelli, E. Ripamonti, A. Vecchio, Alister W. Graham, A. Gualandris

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[226] arXiv:1205.2698 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Redshift space distortions in f(R) gravity

Authors: Elise Jennings (1,2), Carlton M. Baugh (3), Baojiu Li (3), Gong-Bo Zhao (4,5), Kazuya Koyama (4) ((1) KICP, University of Chicago, (2) The Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, (3) ICC, Durham University, (4) ICG, University of Portsmouth, (5) NAOC, Beijing)

Comments: 18 pages, 14 figures

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

[227] arXiv:1205.2697 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Large Scale Structure in Absorption: Gas within and around Galaxy Voids

Authors: Nicolas Tejos (Durham University), Simon L. Morris, Neil H. M. Crighton, Tom Theuns, Gabriel Altay, Charles W. Finn

Comments: To be accepted by MNRAS (reviewed); 18 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables

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

[228] arXiv:1205.2694 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Shaping the galaxy stellar mass function with supernova- and AGN-driven winds

Authors: Ewald Puchwein, Volker Springel

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[229] arXiv:1205.2693 [pdf, other]

Title: The velocity dispersion and mass function of the outer halo globular cluster Palomar 4

Authors: Matthias J. Frank, Michael Hilker, Holger Baumgardt, Patrick Côté, Eva K. Grebel, Hosein Haghi, Andreas H. W. Küpper, S. G. Djorgovski

Comments: 17 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[230] arXiv:1205.3140 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: What can the information paradox tell us about the early Universe?

Authors: Samir D. Mathur

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures (Essay awarded second prize in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2012)

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

[231] arXiv:1205.3112 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Treatment of Calibration Uncertainty in Multi-Baseline Cross-Correlation Searches for Gravitational Waves

Authors: John T. Whelan, Emma L. Robinson, Joseph D. Romano, Eric H. Thrane

Comments: 4 pages; submitted to the Proceedings of the International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC 2011), Goa, India, December 2011

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

[232] arXiv:1205.3088 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Modified gravity as a common cause for cosmic acceleration and flat galaxy rotation curves

Authors: Priti Mishra, Tejinder P. Singh

Comments: 7 pages, 1 fgure. Honorable Mention in Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest 2012

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

[233] arXiv:1205.3061 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Information Content of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Authors: Marcelo Gleiser, Nikitas Stamatopoulos

Comments: LaTeX, 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)

[234] arXiv:1205.3052 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Chanel No5 (fb^-1): The Sweet Fragrance of SUSY

Authors: Tianjun Li, James A. Maxin, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, Joel W. Walker

Comments: 8 Pages, 2 Figures, 1 Table

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

[235] arXiv:1205.2989 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Solar neutrino physics with Borexino I

Authors: L. Ludhova, G. Bellini, J. Benziger, D. Bick, G. Bonfini, D. Bravo, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice, C. Carraro, P. Cavalcante, A. Chavarria, D. D'Angelo, S. Davini, A. Derbin, A. Etenko, K. Fomenko, D. Franco, C. Galbiati, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, M. Giammarchi, M. Goeger-Nef, A. Goretti, L. Grandi, E. Guardincerri, S. Hardy, Aldo Ianni, Andrea Ianni, A. Kayunov, V. Kobychev, D. Korablev, G. Korga, Y. Koshio, D. Kryn, M. Laubenstein, T. Lewke, E. Litvinovich, B. Loer, F. Lombardi, P. Lombardi, I. Machulin, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, G. Manuzio, Q. Meindl, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, M. Misiaszek, D. Montanari, P. Mosteiro, V. Muratova, L. Oberauer, M. Obolenksy, F. Ortica, K. Otis, M. Pallavicini, L. Papp, L. Perasso, S. Perasso, A. Pocar, R.S. Raghavan, G. Ranucci, et al. (26 additional authors not shown)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, proceedings to Moriond 2012 EW session

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

[236] arXiv:1205.2918 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Consistency of inflation and preheating in F(R) supergravity

Authors: Sergei V. Ketov, Shinji Tsujikawa

Comments: 12 pages, 6 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)

[237] arXiv:1205.2844 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Originally Asymmetric Dark Matter

Authors: Nobuchika Okada, Osamu Seto

Comments: 22 pages

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

[238] arXiv:1205.2815 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the Supersymmetric Inflaton and Dark Matter link via the CMB, LHC and XENON1T experiments

Authors: Céline Bœhm, Jonathan Da Silva, Anupam Mazumdar, Ernestas Pukartas

Comments: 16 pages, 23 figures

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

[239] arXiv:1205.2713 (cross-list from physics.pop-ph) [pdf]

Title: The Cosmic Spacetime

Authors: Fulvio Melia

Comments: Published in Australian Physics as a Feature Article (May 2012)

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

[240] arXiv:1205.2695 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: WIMP-nucleus scattering in chiral effective theory

Authors: Vincenzo Cirigliano, Michael L. Graesser, Grigory Ovanesyan

Comments: 23 pages, 6 figures, 1 table

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

[241] arXiv:1205.1722 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: On the true nature of renormalizability in Horava-Lifshitz gravity

Authors: Fabio Briscese (1,2), Yeinzon Rodriguez (1,3), Guillermo A. Gonzalez (1), ((1) Escuela de Fisica Universidad Industrial de Santander, (2) Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi Gruppo Nazionale di Fisica Matematica, (3) Centro de Investigaciones Universidad Antonio Narino)

Comments: Latex file in Revtex style, 5 pages, no figures

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

[242] arXiv:1205.2598 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: HST and Optical Data Reveal White Dwarf Cooling, Spin and Periodicities in GW Librae 3-4 Years after Outburst

Authors: Paula Szkody, Anjum S. Mukadam, Boris T. Gaensicke, Arne Henden, Edward M. Sion, Dean Townsley, Paul Chote, Diane Harmer, Eric J. Harpe, J. J. Hermes, Denis J. Sullivan, D. E. Winget

Comments: 36 pages, 15 figures; Astrophysical Journal, 2012, 753

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

[243] arXiv:1205.2581 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Neutron star as laboratories for Cosmology

Authors: M. Angeles Perez-Garcia

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the 47th Rencontres de Moriond on Cosmology, March 10-17, 2012, La Thuile, Italy

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

[244] arXiv:1205.2576 [pdf, other]

Title: Scanamorphos: a map-making software for Herschel and similar scanning bolometer arrays

Authors: Hélène Roussel (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Comments: A version with much better-quality figures is available on this http URL

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

[245] arXiv:1205.2562 [pdf, other]

Title: Building a VO-compliant Radio Astronomical DAta Model for Single-dish radio telescopes (RADAMS)

Authors: J. D. Santander-Vela (1,4), E. García (1), S. Leon (2), V. Espigares (1), J. E. Ruiz (1), L. Verdes-Montenegro (1), E. Solano (3) ((1) Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), (2) Joint ALMA Observatory/European Southern Observatory (JAO/ESO), (3) Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC), (4) European Southern Observatory)

Comments: 28 pages, 8 figures, 18 tables, to be published in Experimental Astronomy (Springer)

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

[246] arXiv:1205.2559 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Multiwavelength Campaign on Mrk 509 X. Lower limit on the distance of the absorber from HST COS and STIS spectroscopy

Authors: N. Arav, D. Edmonds, B. Borguet, G. A. Kriss, J. S. Kaastra, E. Behar, S. Bianchi, M. Cappi, E. Costantini, R. G. Detmers, J. Ebrero, M. Mehdipour, S. Paltani, P. O. Petrucci, C. Pinto, G. Ponti, K. C. Steenbrugge, C. P. de Vries

Comments: Accepted to A&A (06 APR 2012)

Journal-ref: A&A, 2012

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

[247] arXiv:1205.2550 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: A survey of nulling pulsars using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope

Authors: Vishal Gajjar, B. C. Joshi, M. Kramer

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

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

[248] arXiv:1205.2549 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The competition between confinement and ram pressure and its implications for galaxies in groups and clusters

Authors: Yannick M. Bahe, Ian G. McCarthy, Robert A. Crain, Tom Theuns

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures; accepted to MNRAS

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

[249] arXiv:1205.2539 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: CME acceleration and non-thermal flare characteristics

Authors: S. Berkebile-Stoiser, A.M. Veronig, B.M. Bein, M. Temmer

Comments: accepted for ApJ

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

[250] arXiv:1205.2538 [pdf, other]

Title: Lithium production in the merging of white dwarf stars

Authors: Richard Longland, Pablo Lorén-Aguilar, Jordi José, Enrique García-Berro, Leandro G. Althaus

Comments: 6 Pages, 2 Figures. To be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[251] arXiv:1205.2537 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Cosmic Microwave and Infrared Backgrounds cross-correlation for ISW detection

Authors: Stéphane Ilic

Comments: 4 pages, 1 table. Contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Goa, India, December, 2011

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

[252] arXiv:1205.2533 [pdf, other]

Title: On Galaxies and Homology

Authors: Gregory S. Novak, Patrik Jonsson, Joel R. Primack, Thomas J. Cox, Avishai Dekel

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. Accepted to MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[253] arXiv:1205.2532 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Optical photometric and spectral study of the new FU Orionis object V2493 Cyg (HBC 722)

Authors: E. H. Semkov, S. P. Peneva, U. Munari, M. K. Tsvetkov, R. Jurdana-Sepic, E. de Miguel, R. D. Schwartz, D. P. Dimitrov, D. P. Kjurkchieva, V. S. Radeva

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[254] arXiv:1205.2529 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Integral Field Spectroscopy Of The Brightest Knots Of Hh 223 In L723

Authors: R. López, B. García-Lorenzo, R. Estalella, A. Riera, C. Carrasco-González, G. Gómez

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures; Accepted for MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[255] arXiv:1205.2526 [pdf, other]

Title: Heliospheric Observations of STEREO-Directed Coronal Mass Ejections in 2008--2010: Lessons for Future Observations of Earth-Directed CMEs

Authors: N. Lugaz, P. Kintner, C. Moestl, L. K. Jian, C. J. Davis, C. J. Farrugia

Comments: 21 pages, accepted to Solar Physics

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

[256] arXiv:1205.2522 [pdf, other]

Title: Astrophysical objects observed by the MESSENGER X-ray spectrometer during Mercury flybys

Authors: N. P. Bannister, G. W. Fraser, S. T. Lindsay, A. Martindale, D. L. Talboys

Comments: 35 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables

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

[257] arXiv:1205.2500 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Light Element Abundance Distribution in NGC 5128 from Planetary Nebulae

Authors: J. R. Walsh, G. H. Jacoby, R. F. Peletier, N. A. Walton

Comments: 28 pages, 12 tables, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[258] arXiv:1205.2461 [pdf]

Title: Astronomical Evidence for the Rapid Growth of Millimeter Sized Particles in Protoplanetary Disks

Authors: Jonathan P. Williams

Comments: This is a general level summary (10 pages, 3 figures) of protoplanetary disk mass evolution intended for cosmochemists. To appear in a special issue of Meteoritics and Planetary Science dedicated to Klaus Keil

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

[259] arXiv:1205.2457 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Orbital properties of an unusually low-mass sdB star in a close binary system with a white dwarf

Comments: MNRAS in press (10 pages, 7 figures)

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

[260] arXiv:1205.2456 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Connection between Radio and Gamma Ray Emission in Fermi/LAT Blazars

Authors: Fan Xu-Liang, Bai Jin-Ming, Liu Hong-Tao, Chen Liang, Liao Neng-Hui

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures, Accepted by RAA

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

[261] arXiv:1205.2452 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The birth rate of SNe Ia from DD systems and CD systems

Authors: Xiangcun Meng, Wuming Yang

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A; submit/0472675

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

[262] arXiv:1205.2431 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Predicting the Configuration of Planetary System: KOI-152 Observed by Kepler

Authors: Su Wang (1), Jianghui Ji (1), Ji-lin Zhou (2) ((1) Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS (2) Nanjing University)

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[263] arXiv:1205.2429 [pdf]

Title: The Habitable Zone and Extreme Planetary Orbits

Authors: Stephen R. Kane, Dawn M. Gelino

Comments: 22 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astrobiology

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

[264] arXiv:1205.2423 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Multiwavelength Astronomy and CTA: X-rays

Authors: Tadayuki Takahashi, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Lukasz Stawarz

Comments: 18 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astroparticle Physics, Special Issue on Physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (editors: J. Hinton, S. Sarkar, & D.F. Torres)

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

[265] arXiv:1205.2422 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spatial Curvature and Cosmological Tests of General Relativity

Authors: Jason Dossett, Mustapha Ishak (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures

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

[266] arXiv:1205.2419 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Iris: The VAO SED Application

Authors: Stephen Doe, Nina Bonaventura, Ivo Busko, Raffaele D'Abrusco, Mark Cresitello-Dittmar, Richard Ebert, Janet Evans, Omar Laurino, Jonathan McDowell, Olga Pevunova, Brian Refsdal

Comments: Four pages, ADASS XXI conference proceedings (November 2011)

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

[267] arXiv:1205.2411 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Correlation between Peak Energy and Peak Luminosity in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: Z. B. Zhang (GZU), D. Y. Chen (GZU), Y. F. Huang (NJU)

Comments: 22 pages, 5 figures and 1 table

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

[268] arXiv:1205.2406 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Chemical Abundances of the Milky Way Thick Disk and Stellar Halo I.: Implications of [alpha/Fe] for Star Formation Histories in Their Progenitors

Authors: M. N. Ishigaki (1), M. Chiba (2), W. Aoki (1) ((1) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, (2) Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[269] arXiv:1205.2404 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The properties of a large volume-limited sample of face-on low surface brightness disk galaxies

Authors: G. H. Zhong, Y. C. Liang, F. S. Liu, F. Hammer, K. Disseau, L. C. Deng

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in RAA

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

[270] arXiv:1205.2403 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: ATCA monitoring of gamma-ray loud AGN

Authors: J. Stevens, P. G. Edwards, R. Ojha, M. Kadler, F. Hungwe, M. Dutka, S. Tingay, J. P. Macquart, A. Moin, J. Lovell, J. Blanchard

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, 2012 Fermi & Jansky Proceedings - eConf C1111101

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

[271] arXiv:1205.2399 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Increasing the Number of TeV Blazars with Parsec-Scale Kinematics

Authors: Vivian C. Tiet, B. Glenn Piner, Philip G. Edwards

Comments: 2012 Fermi & Jansky Proceedings - eConf C1111101

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

[272] arXiv:1205.2395 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Type Ib/c Supernovae with and without Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: Maryam Modjaz (NYU)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 Figures. To appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 279 "Death of Massive Stars: Supernovae and Gamma-ray Bursts". Contains updates with respect to Modjaz et al (2011)

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

[273] arXiv:1205.2393 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Determination of Electromagnetic Source Direction as an Eigenvalue Problem

Authors: Juan C. Martínez-Oliveros, Charles Lindsey, Stuart D. Bale, Säm Krucker

Comments: 22 pages, 7 figures, Accepted in Solar Physics

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

[274] arXiv:1205.2391 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Mid-Infrared Extinction Mapping of Infrared Dark Clouds II. The Structure of Massive Starless Cores and Clumps

Authors: Michael J. Butler (1), Jonathan C. Tan (1,2) ((1) Dept. of Astronomy, University of Florida, (2) Dept. of Physics, University of Florida)

Comments: 28 pages, 16 figures, to appear in ApJ, high-resolution version available this http URL

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

[275] arXiv:1205.2389 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The primordial Li abundance derived from giant stars

Authors: A. Mucciarelli, M. Salaris, P. Bonifacio

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, to appear in the proceedings of 'Lithium in the Cosmos', Paris, Feb. 27-29, 2012, Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana Supplementi

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

[276] arXiv:1205.2387 [pdf, other]

Title: A rare early-type star revealed in the Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Authors: C. J. Evans (UKATC), R. Hainich, L. M. Oskinova, J. S. Gallagher, Y.-H. Chu, R. A. Gruendl, W.-R. Hamann, V. Hénault-Brunet, H. Todt

Comments: Accepted by ApJ, 10 pages, 7 figures

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

[277] arXiv:1205.2384 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Hubble flows and gravitational potentials in observable Universe

Authors: Maxim Eingorn, Alexander Zhuk

Comments: 18 pages, 2 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)

[278] arXiv:1205.2377 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of Solar Rotational Variability in the LYRA 190 - 222 nm Spectral Band

Authors: A.V. Shapiro, A.I. Shapiro, M. Dominique, I.E. Dammasch, C. Wehrli, E. Rozanov, W. Schmutz

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

[279] arXiv:1205.2375 [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmology in 2D: the concentration-mass relation for galaxy clusters

Authors: Carlo Giocoli (UniBO, INAF-OaBO, INFN), Massimo Meneghetti (INAF-OaBO, INFN), Stefano Ettori (INAF-OaBO, INFN), Lauro Moscardini (UniBO, INAF-OaBO, INFN)

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures - MNRAS submitted - comments are welcome

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

[280] arXiv:1205.2374 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiphase Signatures of AGN Feedback in Abell 2597

Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures; Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[281] arXiv:1205.2373 [pdf, other]

Title: Residual Cooling and Persistent Star Formation amid AGN Feedback in Abell 2597

Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures; Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[282] arXiv:1205.2371 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Origin of the Virgo Stellar Substructure

Authors: Jeffrey L. Carlin, William Yam, Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Benjamin A. Willett, Heidi J. Newberg, Steven R. Majewski, Terrence M. Girard

Comments: Accepted to ApJ; preprint format, 41 pages, 17 figures (some with degraded resolution). Full-resolution version (in emulateapj format) available at this http URL

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[283] arXiv:1205.2370 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: AzTEC half square degree survey of the SHADES fields - II. Identifications, redshifts, and evidence for large-scale structure

Authors: M. J. Michałowski (1), J. S. Dunlop (1), R. J. Ivison (2,1) Michele Cirasuolo (1), K. I. Caputi (3,1), I. Aretxaga (4), V. Arumugam (1), J. E. Austermann (5), E. L. Chapin (6,7), S. C. Chapman (8), K. E. K. Coppin (9), E. Egami (10), D. H. Hughes (4), E. Ibar (2), A. M. J. Mortier (11,1), A. M. Schael (12,1), K. S. Scott (13), I. Smail (14), T. A. Targett (1), J. Wagg (15), G. W. Wilson (16), L. Xu (10), M. Yun (16), ((1) IfA, Edinburgh, (2) UK ATC, Edinburgh, (3) Kapteyn, Groningen, (4) INAOE, Puebla, (5) Univ. of Colorado, (6) Univ. of British Columbia, (7) XMM SOC, ESAC, Madrid, (8) IoA, Cambridge, (9) McGill Univ., (10) Steward Observatory, Univ. of Arizona, (11) Imperial College London, (12) MPIE, Garching, (13) North American ALMA Science Center, NRAO, (14) ICC, Durham, (15) ESO, Santiago, (16) Univ. of Massachusetts)

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS. 15 pages (+41 as appendix), 10 figures, 4 tables. Machine-readable versions of tables B1-B4 are available as 'Ancillary files' and from the source file. Comments welcome

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

[284] arXiv:1205.2369 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Relation Between Galaxy Cluster Optical Richness and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

Comments: 10 pages, submitted to ApJ

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

[285] arXiv:1205.2368 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: High-Velocity Outflows Without AGN Feedback: Eddington-Limited Star Formation in Compact Massive Galaxies

Authors: Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic (1,2), John Moustakas (1), Christy A. Tremonti (3), Alison L. Coil (1), Ryan C. Hickox (4), Aday R. Robaina (5), Gregory H. Rudnick (6), Paul H. Sell (3) ((1) UCSD, (2) CGE Fellow, (3) Wisconsin, (4) Dartmouth, (5) ICC Barcelona, (6) Kansas)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters

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

[286] arXiv:1205.2688 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: 130 GeV dark matter and the Fermi gamma-ray line

Authors: James M. Cline

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures. v2: added references, fixed error concerning EWPD, now leading to preferred model of S being an SU(2)_L singlet rather than doublet. Main results and predictions unchanged

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

[287] arXiv:1205.2675 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Quantum Mechanics, Gravity, and the Multiverse

Authors: Yasunori Nomura

Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures. An article published in the Astronomical Review, based on talks given by the author at various institutions

Journal-ref: AstRv. 7, 36 (2012)

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); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[288] arXiv:1205.2557 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Light Neutralino Dark Matter in the pMSSM: Implications of LEP, LHC and Dark Matter Searches on SUSY Particle Spectra

Authors: A. Arbey, M. Battaglia, F. Mahmoudi

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures

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

[289] arXiv:1205.2481 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: From Clock Synchronization to Dark Matter as a Relativistic Inertial Effect

Authors: Luca Lusanna

Comments: 90 pages. Lecture at BOSS2011

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

[290] arXiv:1205.2451 (cross-list from hep-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: The Neutron and the Universe - History of a Relationship

Authors: Stephan Paul

Comments: 23 pages, 15 figs, Proceedings of the Bormio winter meeting 2012

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

[291] arXiv:1205.2443 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Knots from wall--anti-wall annihilations with stretched strings

Authors: Muneto Nitta

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, to appear in PRD

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

[292] arXiv:1205.2442 (cross-list from hep-th) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Defect formation from defect--anti-defect annihilations

Authors: Muneto Nitta

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PRD

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

[293] arXiv:1203.3454 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Spacetime Splitting, Admissible Coordinates and Causality

Authors: D. Bini, C. Chicone, B. Mashhoon

Comments: 25 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor typos corrected, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D85:104020,2012

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

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