Arxivsorter

Title: The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments

Authors: D. Batcheldor (Florida Institute of Technology)

Comments: ApJ Letters, accepted

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

Title: Asteroseismological Analysis of Rich Pulsating White Dwarfs

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure Proceedings for the International Conference on Stellar Pulsations: Challenges for Theory and Observation, Santa Fe, NM, June 2009 Published in AIP Conference Proceedings

Journal-ref: AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1170, pp. 621-624 (2009)

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

[3] arXiv:1002.1703 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models

Authors: A. Feoli, L. Mancini, F. Marulli, S. van den Bergh

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures, to be published in a special issue of General Relativity and Gravitation

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

[4] arXiv:1002.1701 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The nonlinear saturation of the non-resonant kinetically driven streaming instability

Authors: L. Gargate, R. A. Fonseca, J. Niemiec, M. Pohl, R. Bingham, L. O. Silva

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

[5] arXiv:1002.1700 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: How the curvaton scenario, modulated reheating and an inhomogeneous end of inflation are related

Authors: Laila Alabidi, Karim A. Malik, Christian T. Byrnes, Ki-Young Choi

Comments: 5 pages

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

[6] arXiv:1002.1690 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Unusual Trends in Solar P-Mode Frequencies During the Current Extended Minimum

Authors: S. C. Tripathy, K. Jain, F. Hill, J. W. Leibacher

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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

[7] arXiv:1002.1685 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Low-Latitude Coronal Holes at the Minimum of the 23rd Solar Cycle

Authors: V. Abramenko, V. Yurchyshyn, J. Linker, Z. Mikic, J. Luhmann, C. Lee

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures

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

[8] arXiv:1002.1675 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Coronal hole boundaries evolution at small scales: II. XRT view Can small-scale outflows at CHBs be a source of the slow solar wind?

Authors: S. Subramanian, M. S. Madjarska, J. G. Doyle

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Astronomy and Astrophysics, submitted

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

[9] arXiv:1002.1670 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Three carbon-enhanced metal-poor dwarf stars from the SDSS - Chemical abundances from CO^5BOLD 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres

Authors: N.T. Behara, P. Bonifacio, H.-G. Ludwig, L. Sbordone, J.I. González Hernández, E. Caffau

Comments: 12 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

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

[10] arXiv:1002.1663 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A high-resolution spectroscopic survey of late-type stars: chromospheric activity, rotation, kinematics, and age

Authors: J. Lopez-Santiago, D. Montes, M. C. Galvez-Ortiz, I. Crespo-Chacon, R. M. Martinez-Arnaiz, M. J. Fernandez-Figueroa, E. De Castro, M. Cornide

Comments: Accepted to A&A. 56 pages, 7 pages. Online material: 4 tables and 27 figures

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

[11] arXiv:1002.1661 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Apparent Associations between Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen Structure and (WMAP) High Frequency Continuum Emission

Authors: Gerrit L. Verschuur

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

[12] arXiv:1002.1647 [pdf, other]

Title: The type Ib supernova 2010O: an explosion in a Wolf-Rayet X-ray binary?

Authors: G. Nelemans, R. Voss, M.T.B. Nielsen, G. Roelofs

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS

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

[13] arXiv:1002.1643 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The hydrogen and helium lines of the symbiotic binary Z And during its brightening at the end of 2002

Authors: N. A. Tomov (1), M. T. Tomova (1), D. V. Bisikalo (2) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Science, National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen, (2) Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Science)

Comments: 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy Reports

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

[14] arXiv:1002.1638 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Tau Boo b: Hunting for reflected starlight

Authors: F. Rodler, M. Kuerster, T. Henning

Comments: 7 pages

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

[15] arXiv:1002.1625 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Abell 611. II. X-ray and strong lensing analyses

Authors: A. Donnarumma, S. Ettori, M. Meneghetti, R. Gavazzi, B. Fort, L. Moscardini, A. Romano, L. Fu, F. Giordano, M. Radovich, R. Maoli, R. Scaramella, J. Richard

Comments: 21 pages, 16 figures; submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[16] arXiv:1002.1609 [pdf]

Title: Dynamism in the solar core

Authors: Attila Grandpierre

Comments: 44 pages, 20 figures

Journal-ref: Proc. of the Third UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on the Intern. Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science (ASSP). eds. Hans J. Haubold and A.M. Mathai. 2010, Springer, 103-139

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

[17] arXiv:1002.1603 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on variation in $\alpha$ and $m_e$ from WMAP 7-year data

Authors: Susana. J. Landau, Claudia G. Scóccola

Comments: 5 pages, 7 figures

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

[18] arXiv:1002.1595 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A deep optical/near-infrared catalog of Serpens

Authors: L. Spezzi, B. Merin, I. Oliveira, E.F. van Dishoeck, J.M. Brown

Comments: 7 page, 5 figures

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

[19] arXiv:1002.1585 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: PROFIT: a new alternative for emission-line PROfile FITting

Authors: Rogemar A. Riffel

Comments: Accepted for publication Astrophysics & Space Science - 7 pges; 4 Figs

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

[20] arXiv:1002.1576 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Fermi LAT measurements of diffuse gamma-ray emission: results at the first-year milestone

Authors: Luigi Tibaldo, for the Fermi/LAT collaboration

Comments: Contribution to the Workshop SciNeGHe 2009/Gamma-ray Physics in the LHC era (Assisi - Italy, Oct. 7-9 2009); 10 pages, 6 figures

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

[21] arXiv:1002.1575 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: RR Lyrae Stars in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Authors: Gisella Clementini (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Comments: Invited talk presented at the B. V. Kukarkin Centenary Conference: Variable Stars, the Galactic Halo, and Galaxy Formation, October 12-16 2009

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

[22] arXiv:1002.1574 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Probable Existence of an Abrupt Magnetization in the Upper Chromosphere of the Quiet Sun

Authors: Jiri Stepan, Javier Trujillo Bueno

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2010)

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

[23] arXiv:1002.1570 [pdf]

Title: Rydberg Matter clusters of alkali metal atoms: the link between meteoritic matter, polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE), sporadic sodium layers, polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs, NLCs), and ion chemistry

Authors: Frans Olofson, Patrik U. Andersson, Leif Holmlid

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

[24] arXiv:1002.1563 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the possibility of sub-TeV Gamma-ray emission from Cyg X-3

Authors: W. Bednarek

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[25] arXiv:1002.1561 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Molecular Gas in Redshift 6 Quasar Host Galaxies

Authors: Ran Wang, Chris L. Carilli, R. Neri, D. A. Riechers, Jeff Wagg, Fabian Walter, Frank Bertoldi, Karl M. Menten, Alain Omont, Pierre Cox, Xiaohui Fan

Comments: 34 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[26] arXiv:1002.1555 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational Waves from Collapsing Domain Walls

Authors: Takashi Hiramatsu, Masahiro Kawasaki, Ken'ichi Saikawa

Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures

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

[27] arXiv:1002.1526 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The ASTE Galactic Center CO J=3-2 Survey: Probing Shocked Molecular Gas in the CMZ

Authors: Tomoharu Oka, Kunihiko Tanaka, Shinji Matsumura, Makoto Nagai, Kazuhisa Kamegai, Kunihiko Tanaka, Tetsuo Hasegawa

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[28] arXiv:1002.1525 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Planetary Nebulae: Observational Properties, Mimics, and Diagnostics

Authors: David J. Frew, Quentin A. Parker

Comments: 25 pages, 6 figures; presentation at the workshop on the Legacies of the Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg H-alpha Planetary Nebula project, accepted by the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA)

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

[29] arXiv:1002.1511 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Searching for prompt signatures of nearby core-collapse supernovae by a joint analysis of neutrino and gravitational-wave data

Authors: I. Leonor, L. Cadonati, E. Coccia, S. D'Antonio, A. Di Credico, V. Fafone, R. Frey, W. Fulgione, E. Katsavounidis, C. D. Ott, G. Pagliaroli, K. Scholberg, E. Thrane, F. Vissani

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Class. Quantum Grav

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

[30] arXiv:1002.1505 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: User Guide for the Discrete Dipole Approximation Code DDSCAT 7.1

Authors: B. T. Draine (1), P. J. Flatau (2) ((1) Princeton University, (2) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)

Comments: 83 pages, 11 figures

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

[31] arXiv:1002.1503 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Unfolding the Hierarchy of Voids

Authors: M.A. Aragon-Calvo, R. van de Weygaert, P. Araya-Melo, E. Platen, A.S. Szalay

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures

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

[32] arXiv:1002.1488 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Black hole growth and host galaxy morphology

Authors: Kevin Schawinski, C. Megan Urry, Shanil Virani, Paolo Coppi, Steven P. Bamford, Ezequiel Treister, Chris J. Lintott, Marc Sarzi, William C. Keel, Sugata Kaviraj, Carolin N. Cardamone, Karen L. Masters, Nicholas P. Ross, the Galaxy Zoo team

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the IAU Symposium no. 267, "Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies: Feeding and Feedback", eds. B.M. Peterson, R.S. Somerville and T. Storchi-Bergmann

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

[33] arXiv:1002.1486 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Do AGN suppress star formation in early-type galaxies?

Authors: Kevin Schawinski

Comments: 3 pages. Proceedings of "Accretion and Ejection in AGN: a global view", Como, Italy, ASP Conference Series, Eds: L. Maraschi, G. Ghisellini, R. Della Ceca and F. Tavecchio

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

[34] arXiv:1002.1482 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The quiet chromosphere. Old wisdom, new insights, future needs

Authors: Robert J. Rutten

Comments: To appear in Proceedings 25th NSO Workshop, editors A. Tritschler, K. Reardon, H. Uitenbroek, Mem. Soc. Astr. Ital

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

[35] arXiv:1002.1479 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The effects of charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) on galaxy shape measurements

Authors: Jason Rhodes, Alexie Leauthaud, Chris Stoughton, Richard Massey, Kyle Dawson, William Kolbe, Natalie Roe

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in PASP

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

[36] arXiv:1002.1476 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of the Clustering of Photometrically Selected Galaxies SDSS Galaxies

Authors: Ashley J. Ross, Will J. Percival, Robert J. Brunner

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome

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

[37] arXiv:1002.1461 [pdf, other]

Title: Do Nuclear Star Clusters and Supermassive Black Holes Follow the Same Host-Galaxy Correlations?

Authors: Peter Erwin, Dimitri Gadotti

Comments: LaTeX, 4 pages, 2 PDF figures. To appear in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds. V.P. Debattista & C.C. Popescu, AIP Conference Series

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

[38] arXiv:1002.1452 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The first galactic stars and chemical enrichment in the halo

Authors: Piercarlo Bonifacio (CIFIST, Gepi, Oat)

Comments: Invited Review at IAU Symposium 265, "Chemical Abundances in the Universe: Connecting First Stars to Planets", K. Cunha, M. Spite & B. Barbuy, eds. Cambridge University Press p. 81

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

[39] arXiv:1002.1448 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: FRW cosmology in Milgrom's bimetric theory of gravity

Authors: Timothy Clifton, Thomas G. Zlosnik

Comments: 11 pages

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

[40] arXiv:1002.1445 [pdf, other]

Title: The Coexistence of Classical Bulges, Pseudobulges, and Supermassive Black Holes

Authors: Peter Erwin

Comments: LaTeX, 4 pages, 2 PDF figures. To appear in the proceedings of "The Monster's Fiery Breath: Feedback in Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters", eds. Sebastian Heinz and Eric Wilcots (AIP conference series)

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

[41] arXiv:1002.1444 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of large-scale anisotropy of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in HiRes data

Authors: R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen, J. F. Amann, G. Archbold, K. Belov, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, O. A. Brusova, G. W. Burt, C. Cannon, Z. Cao, W. Deng, Y. Fedorova, J. Findlay, C. B. Finley, R. C. Gray, W. F. Hanlon, C. M. Hoffman, M. H. Holzscheiter, G. Hughes, P. Hüntemeyer, D. Ivanov, B. F Jones, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kim, M. A. Kirn, H. Koers, E. C. Loh, M. M. Maestas, N. Manago, L. J. Marek, K. Martens, J. A. J. Matthews, J. N. Matthews, S. A. Moore, A. O'Neill, C. A. Painter, L. Perera, K. Reil, R. Riehle, M. D. Roberts, D. Rodriguez, M. Sasaki, S. R. Schnetzer, L. M. Scott, G. Sinnis, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, C. Song, R. W. Springer, B. T. Stokes, S. R. Stratton, J. R. Thomas, S. B. Thomas, G. B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, D. Tupa, L. R. Wiencke, A. Zech, X. Zhang

Comments: 9 pages, 5 Postscript figures

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

[42] arXiv:1002.1416 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Non-Gaussianities from Inflation Models

Authors: Xingang Chen

Comments: 80 pages, invited review for special issue of Advances in Astronomy on "Testing the Gaussianity and Statistical Isotropy of the Universe"

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

[43] arXiv:1002.1413 [pdf]

Title: Status Report on the United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative (UNBSSI)

Authors: H.J. Haubold, S. Gadimova

Comments: 8 pages

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

[44] arXiv:1002.1409 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Achromatizing a liquid-crystal spectropolarimeter: Retardance vs Stokes-based calibration of HiVIS

Authors: D. M. Harrington, J.R. Kuhn, C. Sennhauser, E.J. Messersmith, R.J. Thornton

Comments: Accepted in PASP

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

[45] arXiv:1002.1401 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Novae With Long-Lasting Supersoft Emission That Drive a High Accretion Rate

Authors: Bradley E. Schaefer, Andrew C. Collazzi (Louisiana State University)

Comments: Astronomical Journal, in press, 39 pages, 10 figures

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

[46] arXiv:1002.1389 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions

Authors: Ruth Durrer

Comments: 14 pages, 8 Figures Proceedeings of the 1st Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity (MCCQG)

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

[47] arXiv:1002.1386 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: NGC 4245: one or two bars, and where does the gas inflow stop?

Authors: O. K. Sil'chenko (1), I. V. Chilingarian (1 and 2), V. L. Afanasiev (3) ((1) Moscow State University, (2) Observatoire de Paris, (3) Russian Academy of Sciences)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[48] arXiv:1002.1380 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Parsec-scale Properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Authors: E. Liuzzo, G. Giovannini, M. Giroletti, G.B. Taylor

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[49] arXiv:1002.1379 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center

Authors: V.A. Dogiel, K.-S. Cheng, D.O. Chernyshov, W.-H. Ip, C.-M. Ko, and, V. Tatischeff

Comments: 5 pages, Contributed talk for the proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, "The Galactic Center: A Window to the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies", in 19-21 October, Shanghai China, 19-21 October, 2009

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

[50] arXiv:1002.1376 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A note on the equivalence of a barotropic perfect fluid with a K-essence scalar field

Authors: Frederico Arroja, Misao Sasaki

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure

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

[51] arXiv:1002.1374 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraining dark matter halo properties using lensed SNLS supernovae

Authors: J. Jonsson, M. Sullivan, I. Hook, S. Basa, R. Carlberg, A. Conley, D. Fouchez, D. A. Howell, K. Perrett, C. Pritchet

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[52] arXiv:1002.1368 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Cross-correlation of the Lyman-\alpha Forest and HI 21 cm: A Probe of Cosmology

Authors: Tapomoy Guha Sarkar, Somnath Bharadwaj, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Kanan Datta

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures (submitted)

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

[53] arXiv:1002.1360 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Generation of Alfven Waves by Magnetic Reconnection

Authors: Hiromitsu Kigure, Kunio Takahashi, Kazunari Shibata, Takaaki Yokoyama, Satoshi Nozawa

Comments: 29 pages, 17 figures

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

[54] arXiv:1002.1348 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Is Dust Forming on the Red Giant Branch in 47 Tuc?

Authors: M. L. Boyer, J. Th. van Loon, I. McDonald, K. D. Gordon, B. Babler, M. Block, S. Bracker, C. Engelbracht, J. Hora, R. Indebetouw, M. Meade, M. Meixner, K. Misselt, M. Sewilo, B. Shiao, B. Whitney

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[55] arXiv:1002.1346 [pdf]

Title: Difference in the wind speeds required for initiation versus continuation of sand transport on Mars: Implications for dunes and dust storms

Authors: Jasper F. Kok

Comments: In press in Physical Review Letters

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

[56] arXiv:1002.1343 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Imaging Redshift Estimates for BL Lacertae Objects

Authors: Aaron M. Meisner, Roger W. Romani

Comments: 15 pages, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[57] arXiv:1002.1340 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Effect of Corotation on the Radial Gradient of Metallicity of Spiral Galaxies

Authors: S. Scarano Jr., J.R.D. Lepine

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure

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

[58] arXiv:1002.1327 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic rays from AGN, the knee energy mass scale and dark matter particles

Authors: Yukio Tomozawa

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

[59] arXiv:1002.1325 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Modeling the Metallicity Distribution of Globular Clusters

Authors: Alexander L. Muratov, Oleg Y. Gnedin

Comments: submitted to ApJ

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

[60] arXiv:1002.1315 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraining the Environment of CH+ Formation with CH3+ Observations

Authors: Nick Indriolo, Takeshi Oka, T. R. Geballe, Benjamin J. McCall

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[61] arXiv:1002.1311 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the Speed of Dark: Detecting Dark Energy Perturbations

Authors: Roland de Putter, Dragan Huterer, Eric V. Linder

Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures

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

[62] arXiv:1002.1310 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Simplified models for photohadronic interactions in cosmic accelerators

Authors: Svenja Hümmer, Michael Rüger, Felix Spanier, Walter Winter

Comments: 39 pages, 13 (color) figures, 6 tables

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

[63] arXiv:1002.1309 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Metal-Ion Absorption in Conductively Evaporating Clouds

Authors: Orly Gnat, Amiel Sternberg, Christopher F. McKee

Comments: Submitted to ApJ

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

[64] arXiv:1002.1308 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Testing Parity-Violating Mechanisms with Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments

Authors: Vera Gluscevic, Marc Kamionkowski

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures; to be submitted to PRD

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

[65] arXiv:1002.1306 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dark Matter Decaying into a Fermi Sea of Neutrinos

Authors: Ole Eggers Bjaelde, Subinoy Das

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures

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

[66] arXiv:1002.1299 (cross-list from nucl-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: How strange are compact star interiors ?

Authors: D. Blaschke, T. Klahn, R. Lastowiecki, F. Sandin

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, prepared for the Proceedings of the International Conference SQM2009, Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sep.27-Oct.2, 2009

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

[67] arXiv:1002.1210 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological perturbations in a family of deformations of general relativity

Authors: Kirill Krasnov, Yuri Shtanov

Comments: 44 pages, no figures

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

[68] arXiv:1002.0229 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Radio and gamma-ray constraints on dark matter annihilation in the Galactic center

Authors: Roland M. Crocker, Nicole F. Bell, Csaba Balázs, David I. Jones

Comments: 33 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to PRD

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

[69] arXiv:0912.5139 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Casimir densities for a boundary in Robertson-Walker spacetime

Authors: A. A. Saharian, M. R. Setare

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure

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

[70] arXiv:1002.1277 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Eccentric Disc Instability: Dependency on Background Stellar Cluster

Authors: Ann-Marie Madigan (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University)

Comments: Proceedings article to be published in "The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies", ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[71] arXiv:1002.1276 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Outskirts of spiral galaxies: result of a secular evolution process?

Authors: J. Bakos (1), I. Trujillo (1), R. Azzollini (1), J. E. Beckman (1), M. Pohlen (2) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (2) Cardiff University)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[72] arXiv:1002.1269 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Pattern speeds in interacting galaxies

Authors: C. L. Dobbs (University of Exeter)

Comments: 4 pages, 6 figures. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[73] arXiv:1002.1262 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Estimation of pattern speed using very young, stellar clusters

Authors: P. Grosbol (1), H. Dottori (2) ((1) European Southern Observatory, (2) Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[74] arXiv:1002.1261 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Numerical Models of Sgr A*

Authors: M. Moscibrodzka, C.F. Gammie, J. Dolence, H. Shiokawa, P.K. Leung

Comments: To appear in "The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies", ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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

[75] arXiv:1002.1260 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The role of quasars in galaxy formation

Authors: D.Elbaz (CEA-Saclay, Aim)

Comments: Invited talk, to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 267, "Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies", B.M. Peterson, R.S. Somerville, T. Storchi-Bergmann, eds., in press (8 pages, 3 figures)

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

[76] arXiv:1002.1259 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Ordered and chaotic spirals in disk galaxies

Authors: P. A. Patsis (1 and 2), C. Kalapotharakos (1) ((1) Academy of Athens, (2) European Southern Observatory)

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[77] arXiv:1002.1252 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Deriving the pattern speed using dynamical modelling of gas flows in barred galaxies

Authors: I. Perez (1 and 2), K. C. Freeman (3), R. Fux (4), A. Zurita (2) ((1) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, (2) Universidad de Granada, (3) Australian National University, (4) Observatoire de Geneve)

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[78] arXiv:1002.1249 [pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational lensing in the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)

Comments: 13 pages, 17 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in AA

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

[79] arXiv:1002.1246 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Tidal effects on brown dwarfs: Application to the eclipsing binary 2MASSJ05352184-0546085 - The anomalous temperature reversal in the context of tidal heating

Authors: René Heller (1), Brian Jackson (2), Rory Barnes (3) (4), Richard Greenberg (2), Derek Homeier (5) ((1) University of Hamburg (Hamburger Sternwarte), (2) University of Arizona (LPL Tucson), (3) University of Washington (Dept. of Astronomy, Seattle), (4) Virtual Planetary Laboratory, NASA, (5) University of Göttingen (Institut für Astrophysik))

Comments: accepted by AandA January 2010, 18 pages, 13 figures, 1 table

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

[80] arXiv:1002.1245 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Direct measurements of bar pattern speeds

Authors: E. M. Corsini (Universita` di Padova)

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[81] arXiv:1002.1243 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Disk-Jet Connection in Agns and Microquasars: The Possibility of Thermal Flares in the Center

Authors: Joni Tammi, Talvikki Hovatta

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the HEPRO II conference, Buenos Aires, October 26-30 2009

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

[82] arXiv:1002.1239 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Density Variance Mach Number Relation in the Taurus Molecular Cloud

Authors: Chris Brunt

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[83] arXiv:1002.1233 [pdf, other]

Title: Fast infrared variability from a relativistic jet in GX 339-4

Authors: P. Casella, T. J. Maccarone, K. O'Brien, R. P. Fender, D. M. Russell, M. van der Klis, A. Pe'er, D. Maitra, D. Altamirano, T. Belloni, G. Kanbach, M. Klein-Wolt, E. Mason, P. Soleri, A. Stefanescu, K. Wiersema, R. Wijnands

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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

[84] arXiv:1002.1232 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-scale inhomogeneities may improve the cosmic concordance of supernovae

Authors: Luca Amendola, Kimmo Kainulainen, Valerio Marra, Miguel Quartin

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. A turboGL package to be used with your favorite SNe catalogue is available at this http URL

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

[85] arXiv:1002.1231 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A coincidence between a hydrocarbon plasma absorption spectrum and the lambda 5450 DIB

Authors: H. Linnartz, N. Wehres, H. Van Winckel, G.A.H. Walker, D.A. Bohlender, A.G.G.M Tielens, T. Motylewski, J.P. Maier

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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

[86] arXiv:1002.1224 [pdf, other]

Title: The power of monitoring stellar orbits

Authors: S. Gillessen, F. Eisenhauer, H. Bartko, K. Dodds-Eden, T.K. Fritz, O. Pfuhl, T. Ott, R. Genzel

Comments: Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[87] arXiv:1002.1220 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Mass Segregation in the Galactic Centre

Authors: Clovis Hopman, Ann-Marie Madigan (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University)

Comments: Proceedings article to be published in "The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies", ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[88] arXiv:1002.1213 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Lutz-Kelker bias in pulsar parallax measurements

Authors: J. P. W. Verbiest, D. R. Lorimer, M. A. McLaughlin

Comments: 9 pages, 3 tables, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[89] arXiv:1002.1208 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dust effect on Tremaine-Weinberg measurements

Authors: J. Gerssen (1), V. P. Debattista (2) ((1) Astrophysikalischer Institut Potsdam, (2) University of Central Lancashire)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[90] arXiv:1002.1197 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The SUMER Lyman-alpha line profile in quiescent prominences

Authors: W. Curdt, H. Tian, L. Teriaca, U. Schühle

Comments: 4 pages, 7 figures; accepted for publication as A&A letter

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

[91] arXiv:1002.1194 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Soft X-ray Imager on board EXIST

Authors: L. Natalucci, A. Bazzano, F. Panessa, P. Ubertini, G. Tagliaferri, R. Della Ceca, G. Ghisellini, G. Pareschi, G. Villa, P. Caraveo, M. Fiorini, M. Uslenghi, J.E. Grindlay, B. Ramsey

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication on PoS (contribution PoS(extremesky2009)088), proceedings of "The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV", held in Otranto (Italy), 13-17 October 2009

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

[92] arXiv:1002.1190 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: High-Fidelity Spectroscopy at the Highest Resolutions

Authors: Dainis Dravins (Lund Observatory, Sweden)

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Reviews in Modern Astronomy vol. 22 (2010)

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

[93] arXiv:1002.1173 [pdf]

Title: Surveying the Extreme Sky with EXIST

Authors: Jonathan E. Grindlay, Lorenzo Natalucci (on behalf of the) EXIST Team

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication on PoS (contribution PoS(extremesky2009)082), proceedings of "The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV", held in Otranto (Italy), 13-17 October 2009

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

[94] arXiv:1002.1171 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: ATCA Detection of SiO Masers in the Inner Parsecs of the Galactic Center

Authors: Juan Li, Tao An, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Atsushi Miyazaki

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[95] arXiv:1002.1145 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A unified solution for the orbit and light-time effect in the V505 Sgr system

Authors: M. Broz, P. Mayer, T. Pribulla, P. Zasche, D. Vokrouhlicky, R. Uhlar

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

[96] arXiv:1002.1141 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Phantom boundary crossing and anomalous growth index of fluctuations in viable f(R) models of cosmic acceleration

Authors: Hayato Motohashi, Alexei A. Starobinsky, Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures

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

[97] arXiv:1002.1137 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Current New Zealand Activities in Radio Astronomy: Building Capacity in Engineering & Science for the Square Kilometre Array

Authors: M. Johnston-Hollitt, V. Kitaev, C.P. Hollitt, N. Jones, T.C. Motleno

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, published in Proceedings of the 16th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZcon), held 18-20 Nov, 2009, Dunedin, New Zealand

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 16th Electronics New Zealand Conference, vol 16, (2009) p 107-112

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

[98] arXiv:1002.1131 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The expected photometrical characteristics of high redshift spiral galaxies

Authors: Mollá M. García-Vargas, M. Martín-Manjón

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to be published in the proceedings of IAU Symp. 262 "Stellar Populations - Planing for the Next Decate" (Aug. 2009)

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

[99] arXiv:1002.1130 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Ambiguities in second-order cosmological perturbations for non-canonical scalar fields

Authors: Corrado Appignani, Roberto Casadio, S. Shankaranarayanan

Comments: 3 Pages, To appear in the Proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting

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

[100] arXiv:1002.1128 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dark spinor driven inflation

Authors: S. Shankaranarayanan

Comments: 3 Pages, To appear in the Proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting

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

[101] arXiv:1002.1117 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Numerical Simulation of Excitation and Propagation of Helioseismic MHD Waves in Magnetostatic Models of Sunspots

Authors: K. Parchevsky, A. Kosovichev, E. Khomenko, V. Olshevsky, M. Collados

Comments: 17 pages, 9 figures

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

[102] arXiv:1002.1115 [pdf, other]

Title: Extinction toward the Compact HII Regions G-0.02-0.07

Authors: E.A. Mills, M.R. Morris, C.C. Lang, A. Cotera, H. Dong, Q.D. Wang, S.R. Stolovy

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure. To be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[103] arXiv:1002.1112 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: An infrared-radio simulation of the extragalactic sky: from the Square Kilometer Array to Herschel

Authors: R. J. Wilman, M. J. Jarvis, T. Mauch, S. Rawlings, S. Hickey

Comments: 16 pages, 19 figures, 2 tables; MNRAS accepted

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

[104] arXiv:1002.1109 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: New X-ray observations of the Geminga pulsar wind nebula

Authors: G. G. Pavlov (Penn State), S. Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India), V. E. Zavlin (USRA/NASA MSFC)

Comments: 16 pages, including 6 figures; submitted to ApJ

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

[105] arXiv:1002.1107 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Deriving Metallicities From the Integrated Spectra of Extragalactic Globular Clusters Using the Near-Infrared Calcium Triplet

Authors: Caroline Foster, Duncan A. Forbes, Robert N. Proctor, Jay Strader, Jean P. Brodie, Lee R. Spitler

Comments: 14 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in AJ

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

[106] arXiv:1002.1103 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Peanut-shaped bulges in face-on disk galaxies

Authors: J. Mendez-Abreu (1), E. M. Corsini (2), V. P. Debattista (3), S. De Rijcke (4), J. A. L. Aguerri (1), A. Pizzella (2) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (2) Universita` di Padova, (3) University of Central Lancashire, (4) Universiteit Gent)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[107] arXiv:1002.1098 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Relation between Radio Polarization and Gamma-ray Emission in AGN Jets

Authors: T. Hovatta (Purdue U.), M. L. Lister (Purdue U.), Y. Y. Kovalev (ASC Lebedev; MPIfR), A. B. Pushkarev (MPIfR; Pulkovo; CrAO), T. Savolainen (MPIfR)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "High Energy Phenomena In Relativistic Outflows II" (Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26-30, 2009) International Journal of Modern Physics D

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

[108] arXiv:1002.1093 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Distance to the SNR CTB 109/AXP 1E 2259+586 by HI absorption and self-absorption

Authors: Wenwu Tian, Denis Leahy, Di Li

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by MNRAS Letters

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

[109] arXiv:1002.1090 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the physical properties of z~6-8 galaxies

Authors: Daniel Schaerer (Geneva Observatory, CNRS), Stephane de Barros (Geneva Observatory)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[110] arXiv:1002.1085 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the isolated dwarf galaxies: from cuspy to flat dark matter density profiles and metallicity gradients

Authors: S. Pasetto, E.K. Grebel, P. Berczik, R. Spurzem, W. Dehnen

Comments: Accepted the 28/01/10

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

[111] arXiv:1002.1083 [pdf]

Title: The non-evolving internal structure of early-type galaxies: the case study SDSS J0728+3835 at z = 0.206

Authors: Matteo Barnabe (1,2), Matthew W. Auger (2), Tommaso Treu (2), Leon Koopmans (3), Adam S. Bolton (4), Oliver Czoske (3), Raphael Gavazzi (5) ((1) KIPAC Stanford, (2) UC Santa Barbara, (3) Kapteyn Institute, (4) Utah, (5) IAP)

Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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

[112] arXiv:1002.1082 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Wide Angle X-ray Sky Monitoring for Corroborating non-Electromagnetic Cosmic Transients

Authors: Dafne Guetta, David Eichler

Comments: 13 pages, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

[113] arXiv:1002.1080 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: J0454-0309: Evidence for a strong lensing fossil group falling into a poor galaxy cluster

Authors: Mischa Schirmer (1), Sherry Suyu (1), Tim Schrabback (2), Hendrik Hildebrandt (2), Aleksi Halkola (3,4), Thomas Erben (1) ((1) Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, (2) Leiden Observatory, (3) University of Tuorla Observatory, (4) Excellence Cluster Universe Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Comments: 19 pages, 17 figures; accepted for publication in A+A

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

[114] arXiv:1002.1079 [pdf, other]

Title: The Nuclear Stellar Disk in Andromeda: A Fossil from the Era of Black Hole Growth

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert (Berkeley)

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

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

[115] arXiv:1002.1076 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Revealing the nature of new unidentified INTEGRAL sources

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; accepted for publication in the Proceedings of HEPRO-II Conference (International Journal of Modern Physics D, in press; eds. G.E. Romero, F.A. Aharonian and J.M. Paredes)

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

[116] arXiv:1002.1074 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Discovery and Characterization of a Faint Stellar Companion to the A3V Star Zeta Virginis

Authors: Sasha Hinkley (1,2), Ben R. Oppenheimer (3), Douglas Brenner (3), Neil Zimmerman (3,4), Lewis C Roberts Jr. (5), Ian R. Parry (6), Remi Soummer (7), Anand Sivaramakrishnan (3,8,9), Michal Simon (9), Marshall D. Perrin (10), David L. King (6), James P. Lloyd (11), Antonin Bouchez (12), Jennifer E. Roberts (5), Richard Dekany (12), Charles Beichman (13), Lynne Hillenbrand (1), Rick Burruss (5), Michael Shao (5), Gautam Vasisht (5) ((1) Caltech, (2) Sagan Fellow, (3) AMNH, (4) Columbia Univ., (5) JPL, (6) IoA Cambridge, (7) STScI, (8) CfAO, (9) Stony Brook, (10) UCLA, (11) Cornell, (12) Caltech Optical Observatories, (13) NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, Accepted to ApJ

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

[117] arXiv:1002.1066 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: De/re-constructing the Kerr Metric

Authors: S. Deser, J. Franklin

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

[118] arXiv:1002.0833 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Resonant Non-Gaussianity

Authors: Raphael Flauger, Enrico Pajer

Comments: 32 pages, 4 figures

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

[119] arXiv:1002.0489 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of Interplanetary Dust on the LISA drag-free Constellation

Authors: Massimo Cerdonio, Fabrizio De Marchi, Roberto De Pietri, Philippe Jetzer, Francesco Marzari, Giulio Mazzolo, Antonello Ortolan, Mauro Sereno

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, to be published on the special issue of "Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy" on the CELMEC V conference

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

[120] arXiv:1001.5281 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Shear Instability in Relativistic Neutron Stars

Authors: Giovanni Corvino, Luciano Rezzolla, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Roberto De Pietri, Bruno Giacomazzo

Comments: 20 pages; submitted to the Classical and Quantum Gravity special issue for MICRA2009

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

[121] arXiv:1001.4590 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Note on Infinities in Eternal Inflation

Authors: George F. R. Ellis, William R. Stoeger

Comments: 13 pages and 6 figures

Journal-ref: Gen.Rel.Grav.41:1475-1484,2009

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

[122] arXiv:1002.1067 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Barred disks in dense environments

Authors: I. Marinova (UT Austin), S. Jogee (UT Austin), A. Heiderman (UT Austin), F. D. Barazza (EPFL), M. E. Gray (Nottingham), M. Barden (Innsbruck), C. Wolf (Oxford), C. Y. Peng (NRC HIA, STScI), D. Bacon (Portsmouth), M. Balogh (Waterloo), E. F. Bell (MPIA), A. Bohm (AIP, Innsbruck), J. A. R. Caldwell (UT McDonald), B. Haussler (Nottingham), C. Heymans (UBC, IAP), K. Jahnke (MPIA), E. van Kampen (Innsbruck), S. Koposov (MPIA), K. Lane (Nottingham), D. H. McIntosh (Missouri, UMass), K. Meisenheimer (MPIA), H.-W. Rix (MPIA), S. F. Sanchez (CAHA), A. Taylor (SUPA), L. Wisotzki (AIP), X. Zheng (PMO)

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures; To appear in "Tumbling, twisting, and winding galaxies: Pattern speeds along the Hubble sequence", E. M. Corsini and V. P. Debattista (eds.), Memorie della Societa` Astronomica Italiana

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

[123] arXiv:1002.1056 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Star Formation in the Outer Filaments of NGC 1275

Authors: R.E.A. Canning (1), A.C. Fabian (1), R.M. Johnstone (1), J.S. Sanders (1), C.J. Conselice (2), C.S. Crawford (1), J.S. Gallagher III (3), E. Zweibel (3) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, (2) University of Nottingham, (3) University of Wisconsin)

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

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

[124] arXiv:1002.1052 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: An ingress and a complete transit of HD 80606 b

Authors: M. G. Hidas, Y. Tsapras, R. A. Street, A. N. Ramaprakash, D. Mislis, J. H. M. M Schmitt, I. Steele, S. C. C. Barros, D. Pollacco, A. Ayiomamitis, J. Antoniadis, A. Nitsos, J. H. Seiradakis, S. Urakawa

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[125] arXiv:1002.1050 [pdf, other]

Title: Algorithm for the evaluation of reduced Wigner matrices

Authors: Gary Prezeau, Martin Reinecke

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures

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

[126] arXiv:1002.1044 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Type-I bursts within outbursts of IGR J17473-2721

Authors: Yu-Peng Chen, Shu Zhang, Diego F. Torres, Jian-Min Wang, Ti-Pei Li

Comments: in press at A & A

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

[127] arXiv:1002.1028 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: New results from DAMA/LIBRA

Authors: R. Bernabei (1,2), P. Belli (2), F. Cappella (3,4), R. Cerulli (5), C.J. Dai (6), A. d'Angelo (3,4), H.L. He (6), A. Incicchitti (4), H.H. Kuang (6), X.H. Ma (6), F. Montecchia (1,2), F. Nozzoli (1,2), D. Prosperi (3,4), X.D. Sheng (6), R.G. Wang (6), Z.P. Ye (6,7) ((1) Univ. Roma Tor Vergata, (2) INFN Roma Tor Vergata, (3) Univ. Roma, (4) INFN Roma, (5) INFN LNGS, (6) IHEP Beijing, (7) Univ. Jing Gangshan)

Comments: presented at the Int. Conf. Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics (BEYOND 2010), 1-6 February 2010, Cape Town, South Africa

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

[128] arXiv:1002.1020 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Multiwavelength observations of 3C 454.3. III. Eighteen months of AGILE monitoring of the "Crazy Diamond"

Authors: S. Vercellone (INAF-IASF Palermo), F. D'Ammando, V. Vittorini, I. Donnarumma, G. Pucella, M. Tavani, A. Ferrari, C.M. Raiteri, M. Villata, P. Romano, H. Krimm, A. Tiengo, A.W. Chen, G. Giovannini, T. Venturi, M. Giroletti, Y.Y. Kovalev, K. Sokolovsky, A.B. Pushkarev, M.L. Lister, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, A. Bulgarelli, P. Caraveo, P.W. Cattaneo, V. Cocco, E. Costa, E. Del Monte, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, M. Fiorini, F. Fornari, T. Froysland, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, A. Giuliani, M. Marisaldi, S. Mereghetti, A. Morselli, A. Pellizzoni, L. Pacciani, F. Perotti, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Pilia, M. Prest, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, S. Sabatini, P. Soffitta, E. Striani, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, et al. (52 additional authors not shown)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Adapted Abstract. 17 pages, 19 Figures, 5 Tables

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

[129] arXiv:1002.1013 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A detailed study of the rise phase of a long duration X-ray flare in the young star TWA 11B

Authors: J. Lopez-Santiago, I. Crespo-Chacon, G. Micela, F. Reale

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 15 pages, 9 figures

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

[130] arXiv:1002.1004 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Li isotopes in metal-poor halo dwarfs, a more and more complicated story

Authors: Monique Spite (GEPI), François Spite (GEPI)

Journal-ref: IAU Symp 268 "Light elements in the Universe", Gen\`eve : Switzerland (2009)

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[131] arXiv:1002.0991 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Spitzer View of Low-Metallicity Star Formation: III. Fine Structure Lines, Aromatic Features, and Molecules

Authors: Leslie K. Hunt, Trinh X. Thuan, Yuri I. Izotov, Marc Sauvage

Comments: Accepted by ApJ: 70 pages in draft form, 6 tables, 22 figures

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

[132] arXiv:1002.0978 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Cosmic Age Test in Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models Mimicking $\Lambda$CDM on the Light-Cone

Authors: Mi-Xiang Lan, Miao Li, Xiao-Dong Li, Shuang Wang

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figures

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

[133] arXiv:1002.0965 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Centaurus A: Revealed by Gas- and Stellar Kinematics

Authors: Nadine Neumayer (ESO)

Comments: 8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA, contribution for "The Many Faces of Centaurus A" conference in Sydney, 2009

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

[134] arXiv:1002.0909 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Scattered X-rays in Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei and their Implications for Geometrical Structure and Evolution

Authors: Kazuhisa Noguchi, Yuichi Terashima, Yukiko Ishino, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Michael Koss, Yoshihiro Ueda, Hisamitsu Awaki

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

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[135] arXiv:1002.0895 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational-wave astronomy: Observational results and their impact

Authors: Peter S. Shawhan

Comments: Based on invited talk at the 8th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Columbia U, New York, June 2009); accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity

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

[136] arXiv:1002.0889 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Probing the Nature of High-z Short GRB 090426 with Its Early Optical and X-ray Afterglows

Authors: Liping Xin, Enwei Liang, Jianyan Wei, Bing Zhang, Houjun Lv, Weikang Zheng, Yuji Urata, Myungshin Im, Jing Wang, Yulei Qiu, Jinsong Deng, Kuiyun Huang, Jingyao Hu, Yiseul Jeon, Huali Li, Xuhui Han

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figures, 2 tables, Submitted to MNRAS

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

[137] arXiv:1002.0886 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: An a priori investigation of astrophysical false positives in ground-based transiting planet surveys

Authors: Tom M. Evans, Penny D. Sackett

Comments: 33 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables; To be published in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[138] arXiv:1002.0885 [pdf, other]

Title: Pulsar-wind nebulae in X-rays and TeV gamma-rays

Authors: Oleg Kargaltsev, George Pavlov

Comments: 8 pages, 1 fugure, 2 tables to appear in the proceedings of "X-ray Astronomy 2009" conference, Bologna, Italy, September, 2009 published by AIP

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

[139] arXiv:1002.0881 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Observational Study of the Multistructured Planetary Nebula NGC 7354

Authors: M.E. Contreras, R. Vázquez, L.F. Miranda, L.Olguín, S. Zavala, S. Ayala

Comments: Accepted for publication in AJ, 12 pages, 8 figures

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

[140] arXiv:1002.0872 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Nuclear fusion in a dense plasma

Authors: R. F. Sawyer

Comments: 4 pages

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

[141] arXiv:1002.0867 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: SAGACE: the Spectroscopic Active Galaxies And Clusters Explorer

Comments: Proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting

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

[142] arXiv:1002.0863 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars with [Fe/H] <= -2.5

Authors: Takuma Suda, Masayuki Y. Fujimoto

Comments: 19 pages, 12 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[143] arXiv:1002.0849 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Vector field models of modified gravity and the dark sector

Authors: J. Zuntz, T. G. Zlosnik, F. Bourliot, P. G. Ferreira, G. D. Starkman

Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures

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

[144] arXiv:1002.0848 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Ages of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors

Authors: Timothy D. Brandt, Rita Tojeiro, Éric Aubourg, Alan Heavens, Raul Jimenez, Michael A. Strauss

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures

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

[145] arXiv:1002.0847 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Formation, Evolution and Properties of Isolated Field Elliptical Galaxies

Authors: Sami-Matias Niemi, Pekka Heinämäki, Pasi Nurmi, Enn Saar

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 19 pages, 16 figures

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

[146] arXiv:1002.0845 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Polytropic dark halos of elliptical galaxies

Authors: Curtis J. Saxton (1), Ignacio Ferreras (1) ((1) Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London)

Comments: 17 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables. MNRAS accepted

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

[147] arXiv:1002.0844 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The halo mass function conditioned on density from the Millennium Simulation: insights on missing baryons and galaxy mass functions

Authors: A. Faltenbacher, A. Finoguenov, N. Drory

Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures, ApJ accepted

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

[148] arXiv:1002.0839 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The visibility of Lyman Alpha Emitters during reionization

Authors: Pratika Dayal, Antonella Maselli, Andrea Ferrara

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome

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

[149] arXiv:1002.0838 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Bias-Free Shear Estimation using Artificial Neural Networks

Authors: D. Gruen, S. Seitz, J. Koppenhoefer, A. Riffeser

Comments: 21 pages, 9 figures; re-submitted to ApJ after referee comments have been taken into account

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

[150] arXiv:1002.0837 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dust Obscuration and Metallicity at High Redshift: New Inferences from UV, H-alpha, and 8 Micron Observations of z~2 Star-Forming Galaxies

Authors: Naveen A. Reddy (NOAO), Dawn K. Erb (UCSB), Max Pettini (IoA), Charles C. Steidel (Caltech), Alice E. Shapley (UCLA)

Comments: 24 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[151] arXiv:1002.0836 [pdf, other]

Title: CMB Isotropy Anomalies and the Local Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

Authors: Hiranya V. Peiris (University of Cambridge and UCL), Tristan L. Smith (UC Berkeley)

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

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

[152] arXiv:1002.0835 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Role of Environment on the Formation of Early-Type Galaxies

Authors: Ben Rogers (1), Ignacio Ferreras (2), Anna Pasquali (3), Mariangela Bernardi (4), Ofer Lahav (5), Sugata Kaviraj (2,6) ((1) King's College London, (2) MSSL/UCL, (3) MPIA, (4) UPenn, (5) UCL, (6) Imperial)

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[153] arXiv:1002.0834 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Circles-in-the-sky searches and observable cosmic topology in a flat Universe

Authors: B. Mota, M.J. Reboucas, R. Tavakol

Comments: 6 pages

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

[154] arXiv:1002.0749 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Entropy and Correlators in Quantum Field Theory

Authors: Jurjen F. Koksma, Tomislav Prokopec, Michael G. Schmidt

Comments: 23 pages, 9 figures

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

[155] arXiv:1002.0600 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-Gaussianity of quantum fields during inflation

Authors: Kazuya Koyama

Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures, invited review for CQG issue on non-linear cosmology

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)

[156] arXiv:1002.0173 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Radial asymptotics of Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi dust models

Authors: Roberto A Sussman

Comments: 44 pages (including a long appendix), 3 figures, IOP LaTeX style

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

[157] arXiv:1002.0824 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes

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

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds. V.P. Debattista and C.C. Popescu, AIP Conf. Ser., in press

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

[158] arXiv:1002.0820 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A note on perfect scalar fields

Authors: Sanil Unnikrishnan (IUCAA, Pune), L. Sriramkumar (HRI, Allahabad)

Comments: 11 pages

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

[159] arXiv:1002.0819 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Models for NGC 6503 using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique

Authors: David Puglielli, Lawrence M. Widrow, Stéphane Courteau

Comments: 57 pages, 22 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[160] arXiv:1002.0815 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The environment of the infrared dust bubble N65: a mutiwavelength study

Authors: A. Petriella, S. A. Paron, E. B. Giacani

Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. Figures degraded to reduce file size

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[161] arXiv:1002.0811 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Structure of the magnetoionic medium around the FR Class I radio galaxy 3C 449

Authors: D. Guidetti, R. A. Laing, M. Murgia, F. Govoni, L. Gregorini, P. Parma

Comments: 19 pages; 14 figures; accepted for publication on A&A. For a high quality version use this ftp URL

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

[162] arXiv:1002.0806 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Inner Jet of the Quasar PKS 1510$-$089 as Revealed by Multi-waveband Monitoring

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, in 2009 Fermi Symposium, eConf Proceedings C091122

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

[163] arXiv:1002.0805 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Probing the LMC age gap at intermediate cluster masses

Authors: E. Balbinot, B.X. Santiago, L. O. Kerber, B. Barbuy, B. M. S. Dias

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures. Accepted to MNRAS

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

[164] arXiv:1002.0800 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: High resolution X-ray spectroscopy and imaging of Mrk573

Authors: Stefano Bianchi, Marco Chiaberge, Daniel A. Evans, Matteo Guainazzi, Ranieri D. Baldi, Giorgio Matt, Enrico Piconcelli

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal

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

[165] arXiv:1002.0779 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: New Tests for Disruption Mechanisms of Star Clusters: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

Authors: Rupali Chandar (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo), S. Michael Fall (Space Telescope Science Institute), Bradley C. Whitmore (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Comments: 46 pages, 17 figures, ApJ accepted

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[166] arXiv:1002.0771 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Made-to measure galaxy models - I Methodology

Authors: R. J. Long, S. Mao

Comments: 18 pages, 15 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[167] arXiv:1002.0765 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Astrometric signal profile fitting for Gaia

Authors: Dr Mario Gai (1), Dr. Rossella Cancelliere (2), Dr. Deborah Busonero (1) ((1) Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Pino Torinese, Torino, Italy, (2) Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Torino, Torino, Italy)

Comments: 13 pages, 21 figures, Accepted by MNRAS 2010 January 29. Received 2010 January 28; in original form 2009 September 30

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

[168] arXiv:1002.0760 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the low mass end of the Mbh - sigma relation

Authors: Davor Krajnovic (ESO), Michele Cappellari (Oxford), Richard M. McDermid (Gemini), Roger L. Davies (Oxford)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX. To appear in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds. V.P. Debattista and C.C. Popescu, AIP Conf. Ser., in press

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

[169] arXiv:1002.0754 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The ANTARES Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope: Status and First Results

Authors: Paschal Coyle (the ANTARES Collaboration)

Comments: 8 pages, 16 figures

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

[170] arXiv:1002.0741 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Astrophysical S-factors for fusion reactions involving C, O, Ne and Mg isotopes

Authors: M. Beard (JINA), A. V. Afanasjev (Mississippi SU), L. C. Chamon (Sao Paulo U.), L. R. Gasques (Lisbon U.), M. Wiescher (JINA), D. G. Yakovlev (Ioffe Inst.)

Comments: 30 pages including 11 tables, 4 figures, ADNDT, accepted

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

[171] arXiv:1002.0737 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: High precision timing with the EPTA

Authors: K. Lazaridis

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, contributed talk, proceedings of the 9th Hellenic Astronomical Society Conference, Athens, 20-24 September 2009

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[172] arXiv:1002.0727 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Abell 611: I. weak lensing analysis with LBC

Comments: 13 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[173] arXiv:1002.0723 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A revision of the X-ray absorption nature of the BALQSOs

Authors: A. Streblyanska, X. Barcons, F. J. Carrera, R. Gil-Merino

Comments: Accepted by A&A. 12 pages, 8 figures

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

[174] arXiv:1002.0718 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Stellar disc -- dynamical evolution in a perturbed potential

Authors: Ladislav Subr

Comments: "The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies", ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[175] arXiv:1002.0711 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Chandra detection of diffuse X-ray emission from the globular cluster Terzan 5

Authors: P. Eger, W. Domainko, A.-C. Clapson

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication by A&A

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

[176] arXiv:1002.0707 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The eclipsing, double-lined, Of supergiant binary Cyg OB2-B17

Authors: V. E. Stroud, J. S. Clark, I. Negueruela, P. Roche, A. J. Norton, F. Vilardell

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures (1 degraded), accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[177] arXiv:1002.0701 [pdf, other]

Title: The ANTARES Collaboration: contributions to the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2009), Lodz, Poland, July 2009

Authors: the ANTARES Collaboration

Comments: 69 pages

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

[178] arXiv:1002.0699 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 10^18 eV

Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Comments: Accepted for publication by PRL

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

[179] arXiv:1002.0693 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Controlling intrinsic-shear alignment in three-point weak lensing statistics

Authors: X. Shi (1 and 2), B. Joachimi (1), P. Schneider (1) ((1) AIfA Bonn, (2) IMPRS for Astronomy and Astrophysics)

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[180] arXiv:1002.0691 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Deep GMRT 150 MHz observations of the LBDS-Lynx region: Ultra-Steep Spectrum Radio Sources

Authors: C. H. Ishwara-Chandra (1 and 2), S. K. Sirothia (1), Y. Wadadekar (1), S. Pal (3), R. Windhorst (4) ((1) National Centre for Radio Astrophysics-TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India, (2) Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India, (3) International Centre for Radio Astronomical Research, University of Western Australia, (4) School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University USA)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 24 pages (including 12 pages online material), 9 Figures, 5 Tables

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

[181] arXiv:1002.0681 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Metallicity as a source of dispersion in the SNIa bolometric light curve luminosity-width relationship

Authors: E. Bravo, I. Dominguez, C. Badenes, L. Piersanti, O. Straniero

Comments: 15 pages, 4 Figures, 1 Table, ApJ Letters accepted

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

[182] arXiv:1002.0676 [pdf, other]

Title: Soft clustering analysis of galaxy morphologies: A worked example with SDSS

Authors: Rene Andrae, Peter Melchior, Matthias Bartelmann

Comments: 18 pages, 19 figures, 2 tables, submitted to AA

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

[183] arXiv:1002.0671 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Positrons from cosmic rays interactions and dark matter annihilations

Authors: Roberto Alfredo Lineros Rodriguez (University of Torino and INFN/Torino)

Comments: 20 pages, 9 figures, To appear in Nuovo Cimento B for the INFN "Sergio Fubini Award" 2009

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

[184] arXiv:1002.0662 [pdf, other]

Title: Explicit formulae for the two way time-transfer in the T2L2 experiment including the J2 contribution to the Earth potential in a relativistic framework

Authors: Olivier Minazzoli, Bertrand Chauvineau, Etienne Samain, Pierre Exertier, Patrick Vrancken, Philippe Guillemot

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

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

[185] arXiv:1002.0652 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gravitational waves from kinks on infinite cosmic strings

Authors: Masahiro Kawasaki, Koichi Miyamoto, Kazunori Nakayama

Comments: 29 pages, 4figures

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

[186] arXiv:1002.0650 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic fields and radiative feedback in the star formation process

Authors: Daniel J. Price (Monash), Matthew R. Bate (Exeter)

Comments: 14 pages aip conf. format, 5 figures, submitted to AIP conf proc. of "Plasmas in the Laboratory and in the Universe: Interactions, Patterns and Turbulence", Como, Italy 1st-4th Dec 2009, eds. Bertin et al. Relevant movies at this http URL

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

[187] arXiv:1002.0645 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: ULAS J141623.94+134836.3: a Blue T Dwarf Companion to a Blue L Dwarf

Authors: Adam J. Burgasser (UCSD/MIT), Dagny L. Looper (U. Hawaii), John T. Rayner (U. Hawaii)

Comments: 21 pages, 3 figures (manuscript format); submitted to ApJ, constructive comments welcome

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

[188] arXiv:1002.0643 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Disk-Halo interface: The "foot point" of the Galactic Molecular Loops

Authors: D. Riquelme, M. A. Amo-Baladron, J. Martin-Pintado, R. Mauersberger, L. Bronfman, S. Martin

Comments: Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. To be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[189] arXiv:1002.0642 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Protoneutron stars in the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach and finite-temperature kaon condensation

Authors: A. Li, X. R. Zhou, G. F. Burgio, H.-J. Schulze

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, PRC in press

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

[190] arXiv:1002.0640 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: New tools for probing the phase space structure of dark matter halos

Authors: Monica Valluri, Victor P. Debattista, Tom Quinn, Ben Moore

Comments: To appear in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds. V.P. Debattista & C.C. Popescu, AIP Conf. Ser., in press, 4 pages 3 figures

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

[191] arXiv:1002.0637 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Transiting Extrasolar Planet with a Companion: Effects of Orbital Eccentricity

Authors: Masanao Sato, Hideki Asada

Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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

[192] arXiv:1002.0636 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the selection effect of radio quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Authors: Yu Lu, Tinggui Wang, Hongyan Zhou, Jian Wu (Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China)

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

[193] arXiv:1002.0635 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Diversity of Massive Star Outbursts I: Observations of SN 2009ip, UGC 2773 OT2009-1, and Their Progenitors

Authors: Ryan J. Foley, Edo Berger, Ori Fox, Emily M. Levesque, Peter J. Challis, Inese I. Ivans, James E. Rhoads, Alicia M. Soderberg

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[194] arXiv:1002.0633 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-Gaussianity and finite length inflation

Authors: Shiro Hirai Tomoyuki Takami

Comments: 11 pages, 4 tables

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

[195] arXiv:1002.0632 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Type 1 Active Galactic Nucleus Fraction in SDSS/FIRST Survey

Authors: Yu Lu, Ting-Gui Wang, Xiao-Bo Dong, Hong-Yan Zhou (Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China)

Comments: To appear in MNRAS

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

[196] arXiv:1002.0625 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: AAOmega Observations of 47 Tucanae: Evidence for a Past Merger?

Authors: Richard R. Lane, Brendon J. Brewer, László L. Kiss, Geraint F. Lewis, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Arnaud Siebert, Timothy R. Bedding, Péter Székely, Gyula M. Szabó

Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[197] arXiv:1002.0613 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Can Multiband Observations Constrain Explanations for Knotty Jets?

Authors: D. E. Harris

Comments: 8 pages, to appear in the proceedings of "High Energy Phenomena In Relativistic Outflows II" (Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26-30, 2009) International Journal of Modern Physics D. The editors of the special journal issue will be G.E. Romero, F.A. Aharonian and J.M. Paredes

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

[198] arXiv:1002.0608 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Mass-Size Relation from Clouds to Cores. I. A new Probe of Structure in Molecular Clouds

Authors: J. Kauffmann (1,2,3), T. Pillai (2,3), R. Shetty (1,2,3), P. C. Myers (2), A. A. Goodman (1,2) ((1) IIC, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (3) presently: JPL, Caltech, ZfA Heidelberg)

Comments: accepted to ApJ; references updated in new version

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[199] arXiv:1002.0596 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: X-Ray Studies of Supernova Remnants: A Different View of Supernova Explosions

Authors: Carles Badenes

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures, invited review to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (part of the special 'First decade of Chandra' issue)

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

[200] arXiv:1002.0594 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Coma cluster magnetic field from Faraday rotation measures

Authors: A. Bonafede, L. Feretti, M. Murgia, F. Govoni, G. Giovannini, D. Dallacasa, K. Dolag, G. B. Taylor

Comments: 23 pages, 21 figures. Higher resolution available at this http URL A&A accepted

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

[201] arXiv:1002.0593 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Multiflavor and multiband observations of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae

Authors: Ignacio Taboada

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

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

[202] arXiv:1002.0592 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Asymptotic Giant Branch and the Tip of the Red Giant Branch as Probes of Star Formation History: The Nearby Dwarf Irregular Galaxy KKH 98

Authors: J. Melbourne (Caltech), B. Williams (U. Washington), J. Dalcanton (U. Washington), S. M. Ammons (Arizona), C. Max (UCSC), D. C. Koo (UCSC), Leo Girardi (INAF), A. Dolphin (Raytheon)

Comments: 15 pages, 14 figs, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[203] arXiv:1002.0590 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Supernovae-induced accretion and star formation in the inner kiloparsec of a gaseous disk

Authors: Pawan Kumar (UT Austin), Jarrett L. Johnson (MPE)

Comments: 16 pages, 1 figure; MNRAS in press

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

[204] arXiv:1002.0587 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Fermi Gamma-ray Haze via Dark Matter and Millisecond Pulsars

Authors: Dmitry Malyshev, Ilias Cholis, Joseph D. Gelfand

Comments: 15 pages, 1 table, 5 figures

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

[205] arXiv:1002.0585 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dissipational versus Dissipationless Galaxy Formation and the Dark Matter Content of Galaxies

Authors: Claire N. Lackner, Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton University)

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[206] arXiv:1002.0584 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gas driven massive black hole binaries: signatures in the nHz gravitational wave background

Authors: Bence Kocsis, Alberto Sesana

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, 13 pages, 8 figures

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

[207] arXiv:1002.0583 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Which galaxies host bars and disks? A study of the Coma cluster

Authors: J. Mendez-Abreu (1,2), R. Sanchez-Janssen (3), J. A. L. Aguerri (1,2)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[208] arXiv:1002.0581 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: GRB 081008: from burst to afterglow and the transition phase in between

Authors: F. Yuan (U. Mich), P. Schady (MSSL-UCL), J. L. Racusin (PSU), R. Willingale (U. Leicester), T. Kruhler (MPE-Garching), P. T. O'Brien (U. Leicester), J. Greiner (MPE-Garching), S. R. Oates (MSSL-UCL), E. S. Rykoff (UCSB), F. Aharonian (MPI-Kernphysik), C. W. Akerlof (U.Mich), M. C. B. Ashley (UNSW), S. D. Barthelmy (NASA/Goddard), R. Filgas (MPE-Garching), H. A. Flewelling (IfA/Hawaii), N. Gehrels (NASA/Goddard), E. Gogus (Sabanci U.), T. Guver (U. Arizona), D. Horns (MPI-Kernphysik), U. Kiziloglu (METU), H. A. Krimm (NASA/Goddard), T. A. McKay (U. Mich), M. E. Ozel (Cag U.), S. B. Pandey (U. Mich), A. Phillips (UNSW), R. M. Quimby (Caltech), G. Rowell (MPI-Kernphysik), W. Rujopakarn (U. Arizona), B. E. Schaefer (LSU), W. T. Vestrand (LANL), J. C. Wheeler (U.Texas), J. Wren (LANL), W. Zheng (U. Mich)

Comments: 16 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[209] arXiv:1002.0375 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Unstable Hadrons in Hot Hadron Gas in Laboratory and in the Early Universe

Authors: Inga Kuznetsova, Johann Rafelski

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Physical Review C

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

[210] arXiv:1002.0029 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Hybrid Natural Low Scale Inflation

Authors: Graham G Ross, Gabriel German

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

[211] arXiv:1002.0556 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: UCAC3: Astrometric Reductions

Authors: Charlie T. Finch, Norbert Zacharias, Gary L. Wycoff

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, accepted on 01/21/2010 for publication in the Astronomical Journal

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

[212] arXiv:1002.0553 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: An upper limit to the central density of dark matter haloes from consistency with the presence of massive central black holes

Authors: X. Hernandez, William H. Lee

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted as a letter in MNRAS

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

[213] arXiv:1002.0551 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Probing the Galaxy's bars via the Hercules stream

Authors: Esko Gardner, Chris Flynn

Comments: 9 pages, 10 figures, uses mn2e.cls, mn2e.bst. Accepted to MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[214] arXiv:1002.0546 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Some comments on the paper by Vink et al. 2009 (A&A, 505, 743 or arXiv:0909.0888)

Authors: Y. Naze, G. Rauw (ULg)

Comments: 3 pages

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

[215] arXiv:1002.0544 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Multi-dimensional modelling of X-ray spectra for AGN accretion-disk outflows II

Authors: S. A. Sim, L. Miller, K. S. Long, T. J. Turner, J. N. Reeves

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication by MNRAS. Minor revision for consistency with journal version

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

[216] arXiv:1002.0525 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Angular size test on the expansion of the Universe

Authors: Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Comments: 44 pages, accepted to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D

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

[217] arXiv:1002.0521 [pdf, other]

Title: Strong-Lensing Analysis of a Complete Sample of 12 MACS Clusters at z>0.5: Mass Models and Einstein Radii

Authors: Adi Zitrin, Tom Broadhurst, Rennan Barkana, Yoel Rephaeli, Narciso Benitez

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, 18 pages, 35 figures, 2 tables. A high resolution version is available at this ftp URL

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

[218] arXiv:1002.0514 [pdf, other]

Title: A precise mass measurement of the intermediate-mass binary pulsar PSR J1802-2124

Authors: Robert D. Ferdman (1,2,3), Ingrid H. Stairs (3,4,5), Michael Kramer (6,7), Maura A. McLaughlin (8,9), Duncan R. Lorimer (8,9), David J. Nice (10), Richard N. Manchester (4), George Hobbs (4), Andrew G. Lyne (7), Fernando Camilo (11), Andrea Possenti (12), Paul B. Demorest (13), Ismael Cognard (1,2), Gregory Desvignes (1,2), Gilles Theureau (1,2,14), Andrew Faulkner (7), Donald C. Backer (15) ((1) Nancay Observatory, France, (2) LPC2E/CNRS Orleans, France, (3) Univeristy of British Columbia, Canada, (4) ATNF, Australia, (5) Swinburne University, Australia, (6) MPIfR, Germany, (7) University of Manchester, UK, (8) West Virginia University, USA, (9) NRAO Green Bank, USA, (10) Bryn Mawr College, USA, (11) Columbia University, USA, (12) INAF/Cagliari, Italy, (13) NRAO Charlottesville, USA, (14) GEPI/CNRS, France, (15) UC Berkeley, USA)

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[219] arXiv:1002.0510 [pdf, other]

Title: Tachyonic Quintessence and a Preferred Direction in the Sky

Authors: Luca Grisa, Lorenzo Sorbo

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure

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

[220] arXiv:1002.0506 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Low magnetic-Prandtl number flow configurations for cold astrophysical disk models: speculation and analysis

Authors: O. M. Umurhan

Comments: To Appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[221] arXiv:1002.0504 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Big fish, small fish: Two New Ultra-Faint Satellites of the Milky Way

Authors: V. Belokurov (1), M.G. Walker (1), N.W. Evans (1), G. Gilmore (1), M. J. Irwin (1), D. Just (2), S. Koposov (1), M. Mateo (3), E. Olszewski (2), L. Watkins (1), L. Wyrzykowski (1) ((1) IoA, Cambridge, (2) Steward Observatory, Tucson, (3) University of Michigan)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJL

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

[222] arXiv:1002.0503 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial non-Gaussianity in density fluctuations

Authors: F. Fraschetti (Arizona/LUTh, Obs-Paris), J.M. Alimi (LUTh, Obs-Paris), J. Courtin (LUTh, Obs-Paris), P.S. Corasaniti (LUTh, Obs-Paris)

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures; in press in the AIP proceedings of the 'Invisible Universe International Conference', UNESCO-Paris, June 29-July 3, 2009

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

[223] arXiv:1002.0502 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: SKA HI end2end simulation

Authors: H.R. Kloeckner, R. Auld, I. Heywood, D. Obreschkow, F. Levrier, S. Rawlings

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figues, need skads2009.cls file to latex

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

[224] arXiv:1002.0493 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Orbital Period of Swift J1626.6-5156

Authors: A.Baykal (1), E.Gogus (2), S.C.Inam (3), T.Belloni (4) ((1) METU, Ankara, Turkey, (2) Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, (3) Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey, (4) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy)

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[225] arXiv:1002.0491 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: HI-selected Galaxies as a probe of Quasar Absorption Systems

Authors: Katsuya Okoshi, Masahiro Nagashima, Naoteru Gouda, Yousuke Minowa

Comments: 25 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[226] arXiv:1002.0480 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Spectrum of Electromagnetic Jets from Kerr Black Holes and Naked Singularities in the Teukolsky Perturbation Theory

Authors: Denitsa R. Staicova, Plamen P. Fiziev

Comments: 16 pages, 35 figures, LaTeX file

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

[227] arXiv:1002.0476 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Giant Radio Sources as a probe of the cosmological evolution of the IGM, II. The observational constraint for the model of the radio-jets propagation through the X-ray halo--IGM interface

Authors: E. Kuligowska, M. Jamrozy, D. Koziel-Wierzbowska, J. Machalski

Journal-ref: Acta Astronomica Vol. 59 No. 4 2009

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

[228] arXiv:1002.0471 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Witnessing active assembly phase of massive galaxies since z = 1

Authors: Y. Matsuoka, K. Kawara

Comments: Accepted for publication in Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc

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

[229] arXiv:1002.0469 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-Dimensional Propagation of Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in Solar Coronal Arcades

Authors: S. Rial, I. Arregui, J. Terradas, R. Oliver, J.L. Ballester

Comments: 38 pages, 50 figures

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

[230] arXiv:1002.0468 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Tokyo axion helioscope experiment

Authors: Y. Inoue, Y. Akimoto, R. Ohta, T. Mizumoto, A. Yamamoto, M. Minowa

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures. Identification of dark matter 2008 (idm2008), August 18-22, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden

Journal-ref: PoS(idm2008)067

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

[231] arXiv:1002.0462 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Phantom behaviour and growth index anomalous evolution in viable f(R) gravity models

Authors: Hayato Motohashi, Alexei A. Starobinsky, Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of 19th Workshop in General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG19)

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

[232] arXiv:1002.0461 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A panoramic view of the Milky Way analogue NGC 891

Authors: M. Mouhcine, R. Ibata, M. Rejkuba

Comments: 2 figures, Apj Letter, in press

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[233] arXiv:1002.0460 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A faint extended cluster in the outskirts of NGC 5128: evidence of a low mass accretion

Authors: M. Mouhcine, W. E. Harris, R. Ibata, M. Rejkuba

Comments: 9 pages, MNRAS, in press

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[234] arXiv:1002.0457 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Preparation to the CMB PLANCK data analysis, estimation of the contamination due to the galactic polarized emissions

Authors: L. Fauvet (1), J.F. Macias-Perez (1) ((1) LPSC Grenoble)

Comments: Proceeding of the International Workshop on Cosmic Structure and Evolution - Cosmology2009, September 23-25, 2009 Bielefeld, Germany

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

[235] arXiv:1002.0456 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A panoramic view of M81: New stellar systems in the debris field

Authors: M. Mouhcine, R. Ibata

Comments: 8 pages, MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[236] arXiv:1002.0433 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Data Provenance: Use Cases for the ESO archive, and Interactions with the Virtual Observatory

Authors: J.D. Santander-Vela (1 and 2), A. Delgado (1), N. Delmotte (1), M. Vuong (1) ((1) European Southern Observatory, (2) Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia-CSIC)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIX meeting (as P64), in the ASP Conference Series

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

[237] arXiv:1002.0421 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Observational Testability of Kerr bound in X-ray Spectrum of Black-Hole Candidates

Authors: Rohta Takahashi, Tomohiro Harada

Comments: Accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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

[238] arXiv:1002.0413 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Statistical properties of flares and sunspots over the solar cycle

Authors: M. Temmer

Comments: submitted to ASP Conference Series

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

[239] arXiv:1002.0403 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The dark matter content of the blue compact dwarf NGC 2915

Authors: E. C. Elson, W. J. G. de Blok, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg

Comments: MNRAS in press. 17 pages, 15 figures

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

[240] arXiv:1002.0397 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Coherent Lateral Motion of Penumbral Filaments during X-class Flare

Authors: S. Gosain, P. Venkatakrishnan, Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari

Comments: 4 pages (ASP style), 2 figures, for the proceedings of "Hinode-3:The third Hinode Science Meeting" Tokyo

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

[241] arXiv:1002.0395 [pdf, other]

Title: Metal transport by gas sloshing in M87

Authors: A. Simionescu, N. Werner, W. R. Forman, E. D. Miller, Y. Takei, H. Böhringer, E. Churazov, P. E. J. Nulsen

Comments: accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[242] arXiv:1002.0386 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Triggered Star Formation in Galaxy Pairs at z=0.08-0.38

Authors: Deborah Freedman Woods, Margaret J. Geller, Michael J. Kurtz, Eduard Westra, Daniel G. Fabricant, Ian Dell'Antonio

Comments: 25 pages, 15 figures. Accepted to AJ

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

[243] arXiv:1002.0369 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: k-essence and extended tachyons in brane-worlds

Authors: Luis P. Chimento, Martín G. Richarte

Comments: 4 pages, jpconf.cls, to appear in Proceedings of Spanish Relativity Meeting 2009 (ERE 09)

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

[244] arXiv:1002.0366 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Study of the Effect of Molecular and Aerosol Conditions in the Atmosphere on Air Fluorescence Measurements at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics

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

[245] arXiv:1002.0361 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The origin and propagation of variability in the outflows of long duration gamma-ray bursts

Authors: Brian J. Morsony, Davide Lazzati, Mitchell C. Begelman

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figues, submitted to ApJ

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

[246] arXiv:1002.0349 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining Lorentz Invariance Violation with Fermi

Authors: Vlasios Vasileiou (for the Fermi LAT and GBM collaborations)

Comments: Proceedings for the 2009 Fermi Symposium. eConf Proceedings C091122

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

[247] arXiv:1002.0341 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A close look at the Centaurus A group of galaxies: I. Metallicity distribution functions and population gradients in early-type dwarfs

Authors: D. Crnojević (1), E. K. Grebel (1), A. Koch (2) ((1) Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum fuer Astronomie der Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK)

Comments: 21 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[248] arXiv:1002.0339 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Polar CSS 081231:071126+440405 at a Low Accretion Rate

Authors: Katie Thorne, Peter Garnavich, Katherine Mohrig

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures; IBVS Number 5923

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

[249] arXiv:1002.0338 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Impact of Stellar Collisions in the Galactic Center

Authors: M. B. Davies, R. P. Church, D. Malmberg, S. Nzoke, J. Dale, M. Freitag

Comments: To appear in "The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies", ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[250] arXiv:1002.0335 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gas- and dust evolution in protoplanetary disks

Authors: T. Birnstiel, C.P. Dullemond, F. Brauer

Comments: accepted to A&A

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

[251] arXiv:1002.0332 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Exoplanetary Microlensing

Authors: B. Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University)

Comments: 35 pages. Refereed chapter in EXOPLANETS, edited by S. Seager, to be published as part of the Space Science Series of the University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ)

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

[252] arXiv:1002.0447 (cross-list from hep-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Hidden Microwave Background? -- signatures of photon-WISP oscillations in the CMB

Authors: Javier Redondo

Comments: 4 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

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

[253] arXiv:1002.0163 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Lense-Thirring effect on two-body range in solar system scenarios

Authors: Lorenzo Iorio

Comments: LaTex2e, 31 pages, 2 tables, 20 figures, 33 references

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[254] arXiv:1002.0157 (cross-list from physics.ao-ph) [pdf]

Title: Bounds on the thermodynamical properties of the fluid envelope of a planet based upon its radiative budget at the top of the atmosphere

Authors: Valerio Lucarini

Comments: 14 pages

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[255] arXiv:1001.4077 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of near-extremal-spin black holes using the moving puncture technique

Authors: Yuk Tung Liu, Zachariah B. Etienne, Stuart L. Shapiro

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figs

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.D80:121503,2009

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

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