Astrophysics

Authors and titles for Feb 2010

[1]  arXiv:1002.0001 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Binary Contamination in the SEGUE sample: Effects on SSPP Determinations of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters

Authors: Katharine J. Schlesinger, Jennifer A. Johnson, Young Sun Lee, Thomas Masseron, Brian Yanny, Constance M. Rockosi, B. Scott Gaudi, Timothy C. Beers

Comments: 68 pages, 20 figures, 9 tables

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

[2]  arXiv:1002.0002 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Calcium and light-elements abundance variations from high resolution spectroscopy in globular clusters

Authors: Eugenio Carretta (1), Angela Bragaglia (1), Raffaele Gratton (2), Sara Lucatello (2,3), Michele Bellazzini (1), Valentina D'Orazi (2) ((1)INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (3) Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching)

Comments: Uses emulateapj, 3 figures, 2 tables (1 only available in electronic form), accepted for publication on ApJ Letters

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[3]  arXiv:1002.0004 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Star formation, starbursts and quenching across the Coma supercluster

Authors: Smriti Mahajan, Chris P. Haines, Somak Raychaudhury

Comments: 17 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publicaton in MNRAS

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

[4]  arXiv:1002.0008 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Photometric Redshift Biases from Galaxy Evolution

Authors: C. J. MacDonald, Gary Bernstein

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

[5]  arXiv:1002.0009 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Star Cluster Population of the Collisional Ring Galaxy NGC 922

Authors: Anne Pellerin, Gerhardt R. Meurer, Kenji Bekki, Debra M. Elmegreen, O. Ivy Wong, Patricia M. Knezek

Comments: 17 pages including 13 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ. Full resolution version at this http URL

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

[6]  arXiv:1002.0014 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Voids as a Precision Probe of Dark Energy

Authors: Rahul Biswas, Esfandiar Alizadeh, Benjamin D. Wandelt

Comments: Submitted to PRD, 22 pages 9 figures

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

[7]  arXiv:1002.0016 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Color Magnitude Relation and Morphology of Low-Redshift ULIRGs in SDSS

Authors: Yuxi Chen, James D. Lowenthal, Min S. Yun

Comments: 42 pages, 11 figures, ApJ accepted

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

[8]  arXiv:1002.0023 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulation of the Event Reconstruction of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos with Askaryan Radio Array

Authors: Shang-Yu Sun, Pisin Chen, Melin Huang

Comments: 7 pages, 12 figures, presented at the CosPA Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, November 2009

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

[9]  arXiv:1002.0025 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Doppler imaging of alpha^2 Canum Venaticorum in all four Stokes parameters. Unveiling the hidden complexity of stellar magnetic fields

Authors: O. Kochukhov, G.A. Wade

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures; Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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

[10]  arXiv:1002.0071 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The LABOCA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Two modes of star formation in AGN hosts?

Authors: D. Lutz, V. Mainieri, D. Rafferty, L. Shao, G. Hasinger, A. Weiss, F. Walter, I. Smail, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, S. Chapman, K. Coppin, N.M. Forster Schreiber, E. Gawiser, R. Genzel, T.R. Greve, R.J. Ivison, A.M. Koekemoer, P. Kurczynski, K.M. Menten, R. Nordon, P. Popesso, E. Schinnerer, J.D. Silverman, J. Wardlow, Y.Q. Xue

Comments: 39 manuscript pages, 6 figures, revised version to ApJ

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

[11]  arXiv:1002.0074 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evidence of a thick disk rotation-metallicity correlation

Authors: A. Spagna, M.G. Lattanzi, P. Re Fiorentin, R.L. Smart

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for pubblication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, in press. Version with enlarged figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[12]  arXiv:1002.0081 [pdf, other]

Title: H I spin temperature in the Fermi-LAT era

Authors: Gudlaugur Johannesson, Igor Moskalenko, Seth Digel, for the Fermi LAT Collaboration

Comments: "2009 Fermi Symposium", "eConf Proceedings C091122"

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

[13]  arXiv:1002.0082 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Significant X-ray Line Emission in the 5-6 keV band of NGC 4051

Authors: T.J.Turner, L.Miller, J.N.Reeves, A. Lobban, V. Braito, S.B. Kraemer, D.M. Crenshaw

Comments: 18 pages, accepted for publication by ApJ

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

[14]  arXiv:1002.0116 [pdf]

Title: Perturbation of heliosynchronous orbits in stable Kaluza-Klein theory

Authors: M. Kuassivi

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure

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

[15]  arXiv:1002.0148 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Anomalous parity asymmetry of WMAP power spectrum data at low multpoles: is it cosmological or systematics?

Authors: Jaiseung Kim, Pavel Naselsky

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

[16]  arXiv:1002.0150 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The First Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: A. A. Abdo, for the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Comments: 68 pages, 28 figures; electronic tables available soon; submitted to ApJ

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

[17]  arXiv:1002.0160 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Spectroscopic Confirmation of Three Red-Sequence Selected Galaxy Clusters at z=0.87, 1.16 and 1.21 from the SpARCS Survey

Authors: Ricardo Demarco, Gillian Wilson, Adam Muzzin, Mark Lacy, Jason Surace, H. K. C. Yee, Henk Hoekstra, Kris Blindert, David Gilbank

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 18 pages, 11 figures

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

[18]  arXiv:1002.0187 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Relativistic Dissipative Accretion Flow onto Black Hole

Authors: Hiromi Saida, Rohta Takahashi, Hiroki Nagakura

Comments: 4 pages. Theorem 1 was mistaken, and it is replaced by a correct one. Based on a talk in JGRG19 (19th Workshop on General Relativity and Cosmology, Japan)

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

[19]  arXiv:1002.0197 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gamma rays and neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in galaxy clusters

Authors: Qiang Yuan (1), Peng-Fei Yin (2), Xiao-Jun Bi (1,3), Xin-Min Zhang (4), Shou-Hua Zhu (2,3) ((1) Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; (2) Institute of Theoretical Physics & State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University; (3) Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University; (4) Theoretical Division, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Comments: 19 pages, 7 figures and 1 table; references added

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

[20]  arXiv:1002.0223 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On saturation of betatron acceleration of dust particles behind shock fronts

Authors: L.V. Kostyukova (1), V.V. Prudskikh (1), Yu.A. Shchekinov (1,2); ((1) Faculty of Physics of Southern Federal University, Rostov on Don, Russia; (2) Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS, Nizhny Arkhyz, Karachai-Cherkessiya, Russia)

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[21]  arXiv:1002.0228 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Fermi-LAT observations of GRBs with weak LAT emission

Authors: Masanori Ohno, for the Fermi-LAT/GBM collaborations

Comments: 2009 Fermi Symposium. eConf Proceedings C091122

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

[22]  arXiv:1002.0244 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Radiative emission of solar features in Ca II K

Authors: S. Criscuoli, I. Ermolli, J. Fontenla, F. Giorgi, M. Rast, S. Solanki, H. Uitenbroek

Comments: In Proceedings of the 25th NSO Workshop: Chromospheric Structure and Dynamics

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

[23]  arXiv:1002.0245 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Numerical simulations of Optical Turbulence at low and high horizontal resolution in Antarctica with a mesoscale meteorological model

Authors: F. Lascaux, E. Masciadri, S. Hagelin, J. Stoesz

Comments: 3rd Arena conference, 11-15 May 2009, EAS Publication Series

Journal-ref: EAS Publications Series, Volume 40, 2010, pp.97-101

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

[24]  arXiv:1002.0264 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Study of the winter 2005 Antarctica polar vortex

Authors: F. Lascaux, E. Masciadri, S. Hagelin, J. Stoesz

Comments: 3rd ARENA conference, 11-15 May 2009 EAS Publication Series

Journal-ref: EAS Publications Series, Volume 40, 2010, pp.103-105

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

[25]  arXiv:1002.0266 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Re-Assembling the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy

Authors: M. Niederste-Ostholt, V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans, J. Penarrubia

Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, submitted to ApJ

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

[26]  arXiv:1002.0288 [pdf, other]

Title: VLT-MAD observations of the core of 30 Doradus

Authors: M. A. Campbell (IfA, University of Edinburgh), C. J. Evans, A. D. Mackey, M. Gieles, J. Alves, J. Ascenso, N. Bastian, A. J. Longmore

Comments: 16 pages, 21 figures (1 degraded for submission), accepted by MNRAS

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

[27]  arXiv:1002.0291 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical stability of infinite homogeneous self-gravitating systems: application of the Nyquist method

Authors: Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[28]  arXiv:1002.0293 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics and origins of the young stars in the Galactic center

Authors: Hagai B. Perets

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); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[29]  arXiv:1002.0297 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Extended Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration Over the Solar Cycle

Authors: Steven R. Cranmer, John L. Kohl, Mari Paz Miralles, Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Comments: 8 pages (ASP style), 2 figures, in press for the proceedings of "SOHO-23: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum."

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

[30]  arXiv:1002.0302 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Gas Absorption in the KH 15D System: Further Evidence for Dust Settling in the Circumbinary Disk

Authors: S. M. Lawler, W. Herbst, S. Redfield, C. M. Hamilton, C. M. Johns-Krull, J. N. Winn, J. A. Johnson, R. Mundt

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 23 pages, 6 figures

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

[31]  arXiv:1002.0304 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: SN 1986J VLBI: II. The Evolution of the Shell and the Central Source

Authors: M. F. Bietenholz, N. Bartel, M. P. Rupen

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 17 pages, 7 figures

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

[32]  arXiv:1002.0307 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Type I planet migration in nearly laminar disks - long term behavior

Authors: Cong Yu (1,2), Hui Li (2), Shengtai Li (2), S. H. Lubow (3), D.N.C. Lin (4) (1. Yunnan Astronomical Observatory 2. Los Alamos National Lab 3. Space Telescope Science Institute 4 UCO/Lick Observatory)

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[33]  arXiv:1002.0324 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraining pulsar gap models with light-curve shapes of a simulated gamma-ray pulsar population

Authors: Marco Pierbattista, Isabelle Grenier, Alice Harding, Peter Gonthier

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures; contribution to 2009 Fermi symposium, eConf C091122

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

[34]  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)

[35]  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)

[36]  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)

[37]  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)

[38]  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)

[39]  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)

[40]  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)

[41]  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)

[42]  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)

[43]  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)

[44]  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)

[45]  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)

[46]  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)

[47]  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)

[48]  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)

[49]  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)

[50]  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)

[51]  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)

[52]  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)

[53]  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)

[54]  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)

[55]  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)

[56]  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)

[57]  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)

[58]  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)

[59]  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)

[60]  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)

[61]  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)

[62]  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)

[63]  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)

[64]  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)

[65]  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)

[66]  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); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[67]  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)

[68]  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)

[69]  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)

[70]  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)

[71]  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)

[72]  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)

[73]  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)

[74]  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)

[75]  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)

[76]  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)

[77]  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)

[78]  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)

[79]  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)

[80]  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)

[81]  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)

[82]  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)

[83]  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)

[84]  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)

[85]  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)

[86]  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)

[87]  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)

[88]  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)

[89]  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)

[90]  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)

[91]  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)

[92]  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)

[93]  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)

[94]  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)

[95]  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)

[96]  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)

[97]  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)

[98]  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)

[99]  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)

[100]  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)

[101]  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)

[102]  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)

[103]  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)

[104]  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)

[105]  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)

[106]  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)

[107]  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)

[108]  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)

[109]  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)

[110]  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)

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

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

Authors: A. Romano, L. Fu, F. Giordano, R. Maoli, P. Martini, M. Radovich, R. Scaramella, V. Antonuccio-Delogu, A. Donnarumma, S. Ettori, K. Kuijken, M. Meneghetti, L. Moscardini, S. Paulin-Henriksson, E. Giallongo, R. Ragazzoni, A. Baruffolo, A. DiPaola, E.Diolaiti, A.Fontana, A.Grazian, S.Gallozzi, F.Pedichini, J.Farinato, R.Speziali, R.Smareglia, V.Testa

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

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

[112]  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)

[113]  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)

[114]  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)

[115]  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)

[116]  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)

[117]  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)

[118]  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)

[119]  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)

[120]  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)

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

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

Authors: Alan P. Marscher, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Francesca D. D'Arcangelo, Dipesh Bhattarai, Brian Taylor, Alice R. Olmstead, Emily Manne-Nicholas, Valeri M. Larionov, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, Tatiana S. Konstantinova, Elena G. Larionova, Liudmila V. Larionova, Daria A. Melnichuk, Dmitry A. Blinov, Evgenia N. Kopatskaya, Ivan S.Troitsky, Iván Agudo, José L. Gómez, Mar Roca-Sogorb, Paul S. Smith, Gary D. Schmidt, Omar Kurtanidze, Maria G. Nikolashvili, Givi N. Kimeridze, Lorand A. Sigua

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

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

[122]  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)

[123]  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)

[124]  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)

[125]  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)

[126]  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)

[127]  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)

[128]  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)

[129]  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)

[130]  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)

[131]  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)

[132]  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)

[133]  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)

[134]  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)

[135]  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)

[136]  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)

[137]  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)

[138]  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)

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

Title: SAGACE: the Spectroscopic Active Galaxies And Clusters Explorer

Authors: P. De Bernardis, D. Bagliani, A. Bardi, E. Battistelli, M. Birkinshaw, M. Calvo, S. Colafrancesco, A. Conte, S. De Gregori, M. De Petris, G. De Zotti, A. Donati, L. Ferrari, A. Franceschini, F. Gatti, M. Gervasi, P. Giommi, C. Giordano, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, L. Lamagna, A. Lapi, G. Luzzi, R. Maiolino, P. Marchegiani, A. Mariani, S. Masi, M. Massardi, P. Mauskopf, F. Nati, L. Nati, P. Natoli, M. Negrello, F. Piacentini, G. Polenta, M. Salatino, G. Savini, A. Schillaci, S. Spinelli, A. Tartari, M. Tavanti, A. Tortora, M. Vaccari, R. Vaccarone, M. Zannoni, V. Zolesi

Comments: Proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting

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

[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:1002.0881 [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)

[142]  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)

[143]  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)

[144]  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)

[145]  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)

[146]  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)

[147]  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)

[148]  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)

[149]  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)

[150]  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)

[151]  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)

[152]  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)

[153]  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)

[154]  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 &amp; A

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

[155]  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)

[156]  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)

[157]  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)

[158]  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)

[159]  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)

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

Title: Revealing the nature of new unidentified INTEGRAL sources

Authors: N. Masetti, P. Parisi, E. Palazzi, L. Bassani, R. Landi, A. Malizia, F. Schiavone, J.B. Stephen, E. Jimenez-Bailon, V. Chavushyan, L. Morelli, E. Mason, G. Galaz, D. Minniti, A.J. Bird, A.J. Dean, V.A. McBride, P.A. Charles, A. Bazzano, P. Ubertini

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)

[161]  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)

[162]  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)

[163]  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)

[164]  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)

[165]  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)

[166]  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)

[167]  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)

[168]  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)

[169]  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)

[170]  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)

[171]  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)

[172]  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)

[173]  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)

[174]  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)

[175]  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)

[176]  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)

[177]  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)

[178]  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)

[179]  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)

[180]  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)

[181]  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)

[182]  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)

[183]  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)

[184]  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)

[185]  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&amp;A letter

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

[186]  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)

[187]  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)

[188]  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)

[189]  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)

[190]  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&amp;A

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

[191]  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)

[192]  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)

[193]  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&amp;A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[194]  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)

[195]  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)

[196]  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)

[197]  arXiv:1002.1249 [pdf, other]

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

Authors: T. Kronborg, D. Hardin, J. Guy, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R. G. Carlberg, A. Conley, D. Fouchez, I. M. Hook, D. A. Howell, J. Jönsson, R. Pain, K. Pedersen, K. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, M. Sullivan, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider

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

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

[198]  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)

[199]  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)

[200]  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)

[201]  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)

[202]  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)

[203]  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)

[204]  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)

[205]  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)

[206]  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)

[207]  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)

[208]  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)

[209]  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)

[210]  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)

[211]  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)

[212]  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)

[213]  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)

[214]  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)

[215]  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)

[216]  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)

[217]  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)

[218]  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)

[219]  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)

[220]  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)

[221]  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); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[222]  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)

[223]  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&amp;A

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

[224]  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)

[225]  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)

[226]  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)

[227]  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)

[228]  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)

[229]  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)

[230]  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)

[231]  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)

[232]  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); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[233]  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 &amp; B. Barbuy, eds. Cambridge University Press p. 81

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

[234]  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 &amp; C.C. Popescu, AIP Conference Series

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

[235]  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)

[236]  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)

[237]  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)

[238]  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)

[239]  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)

[240]  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)

[241]  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)

[242]  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)

[243]  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)

[244]  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)

[245]  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); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[246]  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)

[247]  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)

[248]  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)

[249]  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)

[250]  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)

[251]  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)

[252]  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 &amp; Space Science - 7 pges; 4 Figs

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

[253]  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)

[254]  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); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[255]  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)

[256]  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)

[257]  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)

[258]  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)

[259]  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)

[260]  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)

[261]  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&amp;A. 56 pages, 7 pages. Online material: 4 tables and 27 figures

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

[262]  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&amp;A

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

[263]  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)

[264]  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)

[265]  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)

[266]  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)

[267]  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)

[268]  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)

[269]  arXiv:1002.1704 [pdf, other]

Title: Asteroseismological Analysis of Rich Pulsating White Dwarfs

Authors: A. Bischoff-Kim

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)

[270]  arXiv:1002.1705 [ps, pdf, other]

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)

[271]  arXiv:1002.1712 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies

Authors: S. Callegari, S. Kazantzidis, L. Mayer, M. Colpi, J. M. Bellovary, T. Quinn, J. Wadsley

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[272]  arXiv:1002.1713 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Probing local non-Gaussianities within a Bayesian framework

Authors: Franz Elsner, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Michael D. Schneider

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[273]  arXiv:1002.1714 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The radio-loud active nucleus in the "dark lens" galaxy J1218+2953

Authors: S. Frey (FOMI Sgo), Z. Paragi (JIVE), R.M. Campbell (JIVE), A. Moor (Konkoly Obs.)

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[274]  arXiv:1002.1715 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Morphologies and Lifetimes of Transitional Protoplanetary Disks

Authors: Thayne Currie (NASA-GSFC)

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures. Expanded version of conference proceedings contribution for "Reionization to Exoplanets" allowing for a much more detailed discussion

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

[275]  arXiv:1002.1719 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-exponential hydrodynamical growth in density-stratified thin Keplerian discs

Authors: Yu. M. Shtemler, M. Mond, G. Rudiger, O. Regev, O. M. Umurhan

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[276]  arXiv:1002.1729 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Increasing the Scientific Return of Stellar Orbits at the Galactic Center

Authors: Sylvana Yelda, Andrea M. Ghez, Jessica R. Lu, Tuan Do, Will Clarkson, Keith Matthews

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); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[277]  arXiv:1002.1742 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A New Method for Determining the Milky Way Bar Pattern Speed

Authors: Ivan Minchev (1), Jason Nordhaus (2), Alice Quillen (3), ((1) Strasbourg Observatory, (2) Princeton University, (3) University of Rochester)

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)

[278]  arXiv:1002.1743 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury V. Radial Star Formation History of NGC 300

Authors: Stephanie M. Gogarten, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Benjamin F. Williams, Rok Roskar, Jon Holtzman, Anil C. Seth, Andrew Dolphin, Daniel Weisz, Andrew Cole, Victor P. Debattista, Karoline M. Gilbert, Knut Olsen, Evan Skillman, Roelof S. de Jong, Igor D. Karachentsev, Thomas R. Quinn

Comments: 18 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[279]  arXiv:1002.1750 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Sensitivity of the energy levels of singly ionized cobalt to the variation of the fine structure constant

Authors: V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum

Comments: 4 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures

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

[280]  arXiv:1002.1752 [pdf, other]

Title: Intelligent Design: On the Emulation of Cosmological Simulations

Authors: Michael D. Schneider, Oskar Holm, Lloyd Knox

Comments: 13 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ. Emulator code available at this http URL

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

[281]  arXiv:1002.1759 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Misaligned Discs as Obscurers in Active Galaxies

Authors: A.Lawrence, M.Elvis

Comments: For publication in Astrophysical Journal. 18 pages, 6 figures

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

[282]  arXiv:1002.1761 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Does GD 356 have a Terrestrial Planetary Companion?

Authors: Dayal T. Wickramasinghe, Jay Farihi, Christopher A. Tout, Lilia Ferrario, Richard J. Stancliffe

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[283]  arXiv:1002.1770 [pdf]

Title: Some Aspects of Rotational and Magnetic Energies for a Hierarchy of Celestial Objects

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

Comments: 12 pages, 37 equations

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

[284]  arXiv:1002.1775 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Testing stellar cusp formation theories with observations of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster

Authors: Tuan Do (1), Andrea M. Ghez (1), Mark R. Morris (1), Jessica R. Lu (2), Keith Matthews (2), Sylvana Yelda (1), Shelley Wright (3), James Larkin (1) ((1) UCLA, (2) Caltech, (3) UC Berkeley)

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[285]  arXiv:1002.1776 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Westerbork SINGS Survey III. Global Magnetic Field Topology

Authors: Robert Braun (1), George Heald (2), Rainer Beck (3) ((1) CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, (2) ASTRON, (3) MPIfR)

Comments: 22 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[286]  arXiv:1002.1783 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dynamo action at recombination epoch of open Friedmann universe spatial sections

Authors: Garcia de Andrade

Comments: DFT uerj Brasil

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

[287]  arXiv:1002.1784 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: What is the radiative process of the prompt phase of Gamma Ray Bursts?

Authors: G. Ghisellini (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at the conference: X-Ray Astronomy 2009, Present Status, multiwavelength approach and future perspectives, September 2009, Bologna

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

[288]  arXiv:1002.1792 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Instrument and data analysis challenges for imaging spectropolarimetry

Authors: C. Denker

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten/AN, special issue of the 1st EAST-ATST Workshop: "Science with large solar telescopes" in Freiburg, Germany, October 14-16, 2009

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

[289]  arXiv:1002.1793 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Strangeness in Astrophysics and Cosmology

Authors: Tillmann Boeckel, Matthias Hempel, Irina Sagert, Giuseppe Pagliara, Basil Sa'd, Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

Comments: 8 pages, invited talk given at the International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2009), Buzios, Brasil, September 28 - October 2, 2009

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

[290]  arXiv:1002.1794 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: First underground results with NEWAGE-0.3a direction-sensitive dark matter detector

Authors: Kentaro Miuchi, Hironobu Nishimura, Kaori Hattori, Naoki Higashi, Chihiro Ida, Satoshi Iwaki, Shigeto Kabuki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Kiseki Nakamura, Joseph Parker, Tatsuya Sawano, Michiaki Takahashi, Toru Tanimori, Kojiro Taniue, Kazuki Ueno, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Atsushi Takeda, Ken'ichi Tsuchiya, Atsushi Takada

Comments: 21 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Physics Letters B

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

[291]  arXiv:1002.1795 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Study of the Large-scale Temperature Structure of the Perseus Cluster with Suzaku

Authors: Sho Nishino (1), Yasushi Fukazawa (1), Katsuhiro Hayashi (1), Kazuhiro Nakazawa (2), Takaaki Tanaka (3) ((1) Department of Physical Science, Hiroshima University, (2) Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, (3) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University)

Comments: 17 pages, 25 figures, accepted for Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[292]  arXiv:1002.1800 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Overlapping binary and multiple open cluster candidates in the Galaxy

Authors: G. Javakhishvili, M. Todua

Comments: 11 pages, 13 figures

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

[293]  arXiv:1002.1808 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Accretion and Outflow in Active Galaxies

Authors: Andrew King

Comments: invited review, IAU Symposium 267, Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, B.M. Peterson, R.S. Somerville, and T. Storchi-Bergmann, eds typos in eq (2.2) corrected

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

[294]  arXiv:1002.1811 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-Gaussianities in the local curvature of the 5-year WMAP data

Authors: Øystein Rudjord, Nicolaas E. Groeneboom, Frode K. Hansen, Paolo Cabella

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

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

[295]  arXiv:1002.1815 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Radio Polarization Observations of G319.9-0.7: A Bow-shock Nebula with an Azimuthal Magnetic Field Powered by Pulsar J1509-5850

Authors: C.-Y. Ng, B. M. Gaensler, S. Chatterjee, S. Johnston

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[296]  arXiv:1002.1823 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Another cluster of red supergiants close to RSGC1

Authors: Ignacio Negueruela (Alicante), Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez (Alicante), Amparo Marco (Alicante), J. Simon Clark (Open University), Silvia Martinez-Nunez (Alicante)

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics. Figure 1 degraded and changed to B&amp;W, Figure 2 degraded to meet size requirements

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

[297]  arXiv:1002.1839 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33: X-ray, Optical and Radio Properties of the Supernova Remnants

Authors: Knox S. Long, William P. Blair, P. Frank Winkler, Robert H. Becker, Terrance J. Gaetz, Parviz Ghavamian, David J. Helfand, John P. Hughes, Robert P. Kirshner, Kip D. Kuntz, Emily K. McNeil, Thomas G. Pannuti, Paul P. Plucinsky, Destry Saul, Ralph Tuellmann, Benjamin Williams

Comments: 142 pages, including 8 talbes and 50 figures, to be published in ApJ Supplements

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[298]  arXiv:1002.1841 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Recurrent Activity in Active Galactic Nuclei

Authors: D.J. Saikia (1,2), M. Jamrozy (3) ((1) NCRA, TIFR, India, (2) ICRAR, UWA, Australia, (3) Obserwatorium Astronomiczne, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Poland)

Comments: 27 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Bull. Astr. Soc. India (BASI), 37, 97-123 (2009)

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

[299]  arXiv:1002.1848 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Nature of the Hyper-Runaway Candidate HIP 60350

Authors: Andreas Irrgang, Norbert Przybilla, Ulrich Heber, M. Fernanda Nieva, Sonja Schuh

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal 711 (2010) 138-143

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

[300]  arXiv:1002.1849 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Line formation in AGB atmospheres including velocity effects. Molecular line profile variations of long period variables

Authors: W. Nowotny, S. Hoefner, B. Aringer

Comments: 26 pages, 27 (colour) figures, accepted for publication in A&amp;A

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

[301]  arXiv:1002.1853 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Dense and Warm Molecular Gas and Warm Dust in Nearby Galaxies

Authors: Satoki Matsushita, Ryohei Kawabe, Kotaro Kohno, Tomoka Tosaki, Baltasar Vila-Vilaró

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in PASJ

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[302]  arXiv:1002.1857 [pdf, other]

Title: Detecting circumbinary planets using eclipse timing of binary stars - numerical simulations

Authors: P. Sybilski, M. Konacki, S. Kozłowski

Comments: 9 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[303]  arXiv:1002.1864 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The standard model of star formation applied to massive stars: accretion disks and envelopes in molecular lines

Authors: Eric Keto, Qizhou Zhang

Comments: submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[304]  arXiv:1002.1865 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of SN 1987A: Monitoring with XMM-Newton

Authors: R. Sturm, F. Haberl, B. Aschenbach, G. Hasinger

Comments: 10 pages, 8 Figures; accepted by A&amp;A

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

[305]  arXiv:1002.1875 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A scenario of planet erosion by coronal radiation

Authors: J. Sanz-Forcada, I. Ribas, G. Micela, A. M. T. Pollock, D. Garcia-Alvarez, E. Solano, C. Eiroa

Comments: Accepted by A&amp;A Letters (8 Feb. 2010). 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 online table (included)

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

[306]  arXiv:1002.1882 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Primordial density perturbations with running spectral index: impact on non-linear cosmic structures

Authors: C. Fedeli, F. Finelli, L. Moscardini

Comments: 17 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables. MNRAS submitted

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

[307]  arXiv:1002.1892 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Ultradeep Ks Imaging in the GOODS-N

Authors: Wei-Hao Wang (1,2), Lennox L. Cowie (3), Amy J. Barger (4,3), Ryan C. Keenan (4), Hsiao-Chiang Ting (1) ((1) Academia Sinica (2) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (3) University of Hawaii (4) University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Comments: Accepted for publication on ApJS. Online data are available

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

[308]  arXiv:1002.1895 [pdf, other]

Title: SZ Science with an ALMA Band 1 Receiver System

Authors: Anna M. M. Scaife, Keith J. B. Grainge

Comments: submitted BASI

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

[309]  arXiv:1002.1898 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Iron line emission from X-ray pulsars: physical conditions and geometry of the system

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

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication on PoS (contribution PoS(extremesky2009)070), proceedings of "The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV", held in Otranto (Italy) in October 2009

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

[310]  arXiv:1002.1910 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Galactic electrons and positrons at the Earth:new estimate of the primary and secondary fluxes

Authors: T. Delahaye, J. Lavalle, R. Lineros, F. Donato, N. Fornengo

Comments: 33 pages, submitted

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

[311]  arXiv:1002.1912 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Direct detection of WIMPs

Authors: David G. Cerdeno, Anne M. Green

Comments: 27 pages, 6 figures. Contribution published as Chapter 17 of "Particle Dark Matter: Observations, Models and Searches" edited by G. Bertone

Journal-ref: Chapter 17 of "Particle Dark Matter: Observations, Models and Searches" ed. G. Bertone, 2010, Cambridge University Press

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

[312]  arXiv:1002.1915 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: X/gamma-ray emission from hot accretion flows in AGNs

Authors: A. Niedzwiecki, F.-G. Xie, A. A. Zdziarski

Comments: 6 pages, proceedings of "The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV"

Journal-ref: Proceedings of Science, PoS(extremesky2009)030

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

[313]  arXiv:1002.1938 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for a dark matter particle

Authors: Yukio Tomozawa

Comments: This is the first article which presents a prediction and observational evidence for the mass of a dark matter particle

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

[314]  arXiv:1002.1946 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: PINGS: the PPAK IFS Nearby Galaxies Survey

Authors: F. F. Rosales-Ortega, R. C. Kennicutt, S. F. Sanchez, A. I. Diaz, A. Pasquali, B. D. Johnson, C. N. Hao

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 26 pages, 14 figures (some in low resolution), 3 tables

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

[315]  arXiv:1002.1947 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: H-band thermal emission from the 0.79-day period planet WASP-19b

Authors: D. R. Anderson, M. Gillon, P. F. L. Maxted, T. S. Barman, A. Collier Cameron, C. Hellier, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, A. H. M. J. Triaud

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted to A&amp;A

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

[316]  arXiv:1002.1952 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Big Bang, Modern Cosmology and the Fate of the Universe: Impacts upon Culture

Authors: Lawrence M. Krauss (Arizona State University)

Comments: Invited Lecture, UNESCO/IAU Meeting: The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture Jan 2009, to appear, IAU Proceedings, D. Valls-Gaubaud and A. Boksenberg, eds.. (Several typos removed in this version)

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

[317]  arXiv:1002.1957 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Post-correlation radio frequency interference classification methods

Authors: A.R. Offringa, A.G. de Bruyn, M. Biehl, S. Zaroubi, G. Bernardi, V.N. Pandey

Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures (11 in colour). The software that was used in the article can be downloaded from this http URL

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

[318]  arXiv:1002.1961 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Young massive star clusters

Authors: Simon Portegies Zwart (Sterrewacht Leiden), Steve McMillan (Drexel University), Mark Gieles (ESO)

Comments: Only 88 pages. To be published in ARAA. Final version to be submitted on Friday 12 February

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

[319]  arXiv:1002.1962 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Testing General Relativity with Current Cosmological Data

Authors: Scott F. Daniel, Eric V. Linder, Tristan L. Smith, Robert R. Caldwell, Asantha Cooray, Alexie Leauthaud, Lucas Lombriser

Comments: 11 pages; 7 figures

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

[320]  arXiv:1002.1963 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: M 54 + Sagittarius = omega Centauri

Authors: E. Carretta (1), A. Bragaglia (1), R.G. Gratton (2), S. Lucatello (2,3), M. Bellazzini (1), G. Catanzaro (4), F. Leone (5), Y. Momany (2,6), G. Piotto (7), V. D'Orazi (2) ((1) INAF-Oss.Astr.Bologna, (2) INAF-Oss.Astr.Padova, (3) Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching, (4) INAF-Oss.Astr.Catania, (5) Univ. Catania, (6) ESO, Chile, (7) Univ. Padova)

Comments: Uses emulateapj, 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication on ApJ Letters

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[321]  arXiv:1002.1964 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Large-Scale Orientations of Disk Galaxies

Authors: Oliver Hahn (1,2), Romain Teyssier (3,4), C. Marcella Carollo (1) ((1) ETH Zurich, (2) KIPAC/Stanford, (3) University Zurich, (4) CEA Saclay)

Comments: 18 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. A high-resolution version available at this http URL

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

[322]  arXiv:1002.1969 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Convectively stabilised background solar models for local helioseismology

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

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures, HELAS NA3, The Acoustic Solar Cycle, Birmingham, 6-8 January 2009

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

[323]  arXiv:1002.1972 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Bolometric correction and spectral energy distribution of cool stars in Galactic clusters

Authors: A. Buzzoni (1), L. Patelli (1), M. Bellazzini (1), F. Fusi Pecci (1), E. Oliva (2) ((1)INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (2) INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy)

Comments: 18 pages with 12 color figures and 12 tables. To appear in the MNRAS. Full spectral catalog of stars available at this http URL

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

[324]  arXiv:1002.1973 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemodynamics of Compact Stellar Systems in NGC 5128: How similar are Globular Clusters, Ultra-Compact Dwarfs, and Dwarf Galaxies?

Authors: Matthew A. Taylor (HIA/UVic), Thomas H. Puzia (HIA), Gretchen L. Harris (University of Waterloo), William E. Harris (McMaster University), Markus Kissler-Patig (ESO), Michael Hilker (ESO)

Comments: 12 pages (ApJ style) with 11 figures and 7 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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

[325]  arXiv:1002.1975 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 10^18 eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Comments: Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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

[326]  arXiv:1002.1983 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Test particle acceleration in a numerical MHD experiment of an anemone jet

Authors: Karl Joakim Rosdahl, Klaus Galsgaard

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&amp;A

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

[327]  arXiv:1002.1993 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The light elements in the light of 3D and non-LTE effects

Authors: Martin Asplund, Karin Lind

Comments: 10 pages, invited review for IAU Symposium 268 "Light elements in the Universe", C. Charbonnel, M. Tosi, F. Primas, C. Chiappini (editors)

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

[328]  arXiv:1002.1996 [pdf, other]

Title: Ground-based detection of thermal emission from the exoplanet WASP-19b

Authors: N. P. Gibson (1,2 and 3), S. Aigrain (1 and 2), D. L. Pollacco (3), S. Barros (3), L. Hebb (4), M. Hrudková (5), E. K. Simpson (3), I. Skillen (6), R. West (7) ((1) University of Oxford, (2) University of Exeter, (3) Queen's University Belfast, (4) Vanderbilt University Nashville, (5) Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, (6) Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, (7) University of Leicester)

Comments: 4 Figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[329]  arXiv:1002.2003 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Effect of Star Spots on Accurate Radius Determination of the Low Mass Double-lined Eclipsing Binary GU Boo

Authors: G. Windmiller, J. A. Orosz, P. B. Etzel

Comments: Accepted to ApJ, Feb-2010

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

[330]  arXiv:1002.2006 [pdf]

Title: The nature of G52.381-0.849 and G56.240-0.345: young stellar objects associated with extended mid-infrared emission?

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

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 25 pages in arXiv

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[331]  arXiv:1002.2009 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of White Dwarfs. DA Stars

Authors: Ross E. Falcon, D. E. Winget, M. H. Montgomery, Kurtis A. Williams

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 14 pages, 12 figures

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

[332]  arXiv:1002.2013 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Comparing six evolutionary population synthesis models through spectral synthesis on galaxies

Authors: X. Y. Chen, Y. C. Liang, F. Hammer, Ph. Prugniel, G. H. Zhong, M. Rodrigues, Y. H. Zhao, H. Flores

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&amp;A

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

[333]  arXiv:1002.2020 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The JCMT Legacy Survey of the Gould Belt: a first look at Taurus with HARP

Authors: C.J. Davis, A. Chrysostomou, J. Hatchell, J.G.A. Wouterloot, J.V. Buckle, D. Nutter, M. Fich, C. Brunt, H. Butner, B. Cavanagh, E.I. Curtis, A. Duarte-Cabral, J. Di Francesco, M. Etxaluze, P. Friberg, R. Friesen, G.A. Fuller, S. Graves, J.S. Greaves, M.R. Hogerheijde, D. Johnstone, B. Matthews, H. Matthews, J.M.C. Rawlings, J.S. Richer, J. Roberts, S. Sadavoy, R.J. Simpson, N. Tothill, Y. Tsamis, S.Viti, D. Ward-Thompson, Glenn J. White, J.Yates

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS; 20 pages, 14 figures; paper with higher-resolution colour images available from this http URL

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[334]  arXiv:1002.2022 [pdf]

Title: The Neptune Trojans - a new source for the Centaurs?

Authors: J. Horner, P. S. Lykawka

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: MNRAS 402, 13-20 (2010)

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

[335]  arXiv:1002.2027 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Capture and Annihilation of Dark Matter in Milky Way Globular Clusters

Authors: Amit Misra, Glenn Starkman, J. Christopher Mihos

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

[336]  arXiv:1002.2037 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Lithium factories in the Galaxy: novae and AGB stars

Authors: F. D'Antona, P. Ventura

Comments: invited review presented at IAU Symposium 267 "Light Elements in the Universe", Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 9-13 2009, in press

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[337]  arXiv:1002.2042 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of Dark Energy Perturbations in Scalar-Tensor Cosmologies

Authors: J. C. Bueno Sanchez, L. Perivolaropoulos

Comments: 15 pages (revtex), 11 figures. References added, corrected caption of Fig. 11. The mathematica files used for the production of the figures and the numerical analysis include detailed pedagogical comments and may be downloaded from this http URL

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

[338]  arXiv:1002.2046 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Stellar Population of the Irregular Galaxy IC 10

Authors: N. A. Tikhonov, O. A. Galazutdinova

Comments: 24 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, published Astronomy Letters, v.35, n. 11, p.748-763

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[339]  arXiv:1002.2062 [pdf, other]

Title: The Suzaku broadband X-ray spectrum of the dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC4395

Authors: K. Iwasawa, Y. Tanaka, L.C. Gallo

Comments: 10 pages, 13 figures, To be published in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics

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

[340]  arXiv:1002.2063 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: High-dispersion spectroscopic monitoring of the Be/X-ray binary A0535+26/V725 Tau I: The long-term profile variability

Authors: Y. Moritani (Kyoto Univ.), D. Nogami, A. T. Okazaki (Hokkai-Gakuen University), A. Imada (OAO/NAOJ), E. Kambe (OAO/NAOJ), S. Honda (GAO), O. Hashimoto (GAO), Y. Ishino (Kyoto Univ.), Y. Suzuki (Kyoto Univ.), J. Tanaka (Kyoto Univ.)

Comments: (10 pages, 9 figures, accepted to MNRAS)

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

[341]  arXiv:1002.2068 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Physical and morphological properties of z~3 LBGs: dependence on Lyalpha line emission

Authors: L.Pentericci, A. Grazian, C. Scarlata, A. Fontana, M. Castellano, E. Giallongo, E. Vanzella

Comments: Accepted for publication on A&amp;A

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

[342]  arXiv:1002.2069 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The heavily polluted atmosphere of the DAZ white dwarf GALEX J193156.8+011745

Authors: S. Vennes, A. Kawka, P. Nemeth

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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

[343]  arXiv:1002.2074 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Delta V_HB_bump parameter in Globular Clusters

Authors: A. Di Cecco, G. Bono, P. B. Stetson, A. Pietrinferni, R. Becucci, S. Cassisi, S. Degl'Innocenti, G. Iannicola, P. G. Prada Moroni, R. Buonanno, A. Calamida, F. Caputo, M. Castellani, C. E. Corsi, I. Ferraro, M. Dall'Ora, M. Monelli, M. Nonino, A. M. Piersimoni, L. Pulone, M. Romaniello, M. Salaris, A. R. Walker, M. Zoccali

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

[344]  arXiv:1002.2077 [pdf, other]

Title: EAGLE multi-object AO concept study for the E-ELT

Authors: G. Rousset, T. Fusco, F. Assemat, T. Morris, E. Gendron, R. Myers, M. Brangier, M. Cohen, N. Dipper, C. Evans, D. Gratadour, P. Jagourel, P. Laporte, D. Le Mignant, M. Puech, C. Robert, H. Schnetler, W. Taylor, F. Vidal, J.-G. Cuby, M. Lehnert, S. Morris, P. Parr-Burman

Comments: 6 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the AO4ELT conference, held in Paris, 22-26 June 2009

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

[345]  arXiv:1002.2083 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: First Stars. I. Evolution without mass loss

Authors: D. Bahena, J. Klapp

Comments: 17 pages, 24 figures, 2 tables

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

[346]  arXiv:1002.2085 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The observed infall of galaxies towards the Virgo cluster

Authors: I.D. Karachentsev, O.G. Nasonova (Kashibadze)

Comments: 22 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[347]  arXiv:1002.2087 [pdf, other]

Title: Primordial Fluctuations in String Cosmology

Authors: Larissa C. Lorenz

Comments: PhD thesis, 183 pages, 29 figures, title page in French

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

[348]  arXiv:1002.2089 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Higher-order Convergence Statistics for Three-dimensional Weak Gravitational Lensing

Authors: Dipak Munshi, Alan Heavens, Peter Coles

Comments: 21 pages

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

[349]  arXiv:1002.2091 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Turbulent Destruction of Clouds - II. Mach Number Dependence, Mass-loss Rates, and Tail Formation

Authors: J.M. Pittard, T.W. Hartquist, S.A.E.G. Falle

Comments: 19 pages, 19 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[350]  arXiv:1002.2107 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: HD molecules at high redshift: The absorption system at z=2.3377 towards Q 1232+082

Authors: A.V. Ivanchik, P. Petitjean, S.A. Balashev, R. Srianand, D.A. Varshalovich, C. Ledoux, P. Noterdaeme

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[351]  arXiv:1002.2109 [pdf]

Title: Giant planet formation in the framework of the core instability model

Authors: Andrea Fortier

Comments: PhD. Thesis. Full text in Spanish

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

[352]  arXiv:1002.2111 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Chemical and radiative transfer modeling of the ISO-LWS Fabry-Perot spectra of Orion-KL water line

Authors: M. R. Lerate, J. A. Yates, M. J. Barlow, S. Viti, B. M. Swinyard

Comments: 16 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables. MNRAS accepted 2010 February 3

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

[353]  arXiv:1002.2121 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the importance of background subtraction in the analysis of coronal loops observed with TRACE

Authors: S.Terzo, F.Reale

Comments: 9 pages, 9 figures

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

[354]  arXiv:1002.2125 [pdf, other]

Title: On the dynamics of multiple systems of hot super-Earths and Neptunes: Tidal circularization, resonance and the HD 40307 system

Authors: John C. B. Papaloizou, Caroline Terquem

Comments: 38 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[355]  arXiv:1002.2132 [pdf]

Title: Sensitivity of the g-mode frequencies to pulsation codes and their parameters

Authors: A. Moya, S. Mathur, R.A. Garcia

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted in Solar Physics

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

[356]  arXiv:1002.2136 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: COSEBIs: Extracting the full E-/B-mode information from cosmic shear correlation functions

Authors: Peter Schneider (1), Tim Eifler (2,1), Elisabeth Krause (3) ((1) Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, Univ. Bonn, (2) Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Ohio State University, (3) California Institute of Technology, Dept. of Astronomy)

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures; submitted to Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics

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

[357]  arXiv:1002.2143 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Observations of Chromospheric Anemone Jets with Hinode SOT and Hida Ca II Spectroheliogram

Authors: Satoshi Morita, Kazunari Shibata, Satoru Ueno, Kiyoshi Ichimoto, Reizaburo Kitai, Ken-ichi Otsuji

Comments: 22 pages, 27 figures, accepted for Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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

[358]  arXiv:1002.2144 [pdf, other]

Title: SAO-6m Telescope Spectroscopic Observations of Globular Clusters in Nearby Galaxies

Authors: Margarita E. Sharina, Rupali Chandar, Thomas H. Puzia, Paul Goudfrooij, Emmanuel Davoust

Comments: 23 pages, 8 figures, 15 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[359]  arXiv:1002.2145 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Spectro-photometric close pairs in GOODS-S: major and minor companions of intermediate-mass galaxies

Authors: C. López-Sanjuan (1,2,3,4), M. Balcells (1,5), P. G. Pérez-González (3), G. Barro (3), J. Gallego (3), J. Zamorano (3) ((1) IAC, Spain, (2) ULL, Spain, (3) UCM, Spain, (4) LAM, France, (5) ING, Spain)

Comments: Submitted to A&amp;A. 12 pages, 4 figures, 7 tables. Comments are welcome

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

[360]  arXiv:1002.2149 [pdf]

Title: High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star forming galaxies in the young Universe

Authors: L. J. Tacconi, R. Genzel, R. Neri, P. Cox, M. C. Cooper, K. L. Shapiro, A. Bolatto, N. Bouche, F. Bournaud, A. Burkert, F. Combes, J. Comerford, M. Davis, N. M. Foerster Schreiber, S. Garcia-Burillo, J. Gracia-Carpio, D. Lutz, T. Naab, A. Omont, A. Shapley, A. Sternberg, B. Weiner

Comments: To Appear in Nature Feb 11, 2010; Supplementary Information included here

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

[361]  arXiv:1002.2153 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Nucleosynthesis in Two-Dimensional Delayed Detonation Models of Type Ia Supernova Explosions

Authors: K. Maeda, F.K. Roepke, M. Fink, W. Hillebrandt, C. Travaglio, F.-K. Thielemann

Comments: Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal. 15 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables

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

[362]  arXiv:1002.2155 [pdf, other]

Title: Kolmogorov analysis identifing radio and Fermi gamma-ray sources in cosmic microwave background maps

Authors: V.G. Gurzadyan, A.L. Kashin, H.G. Khachatryan, A.A. Kocharyan, E. Poghosian, D. Vetrugno, G. Yegorian

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figs, 1 Table

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

[363]  arXiv:1002.2157 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for episodic warm outflowing CO gas from the intermediate mass young stellar object IRAS 08470-4321

Authors: W.-F. Thi, E. F. van Dishoeck, K. M. Pontoppidan, E. Dartois

Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[364]  arXiv:1002.2160 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Looking for a link between Gas Content of Dwarf Galaxies and Properties of their Globular Cluster systems

Authors: M.E. Sharina, T.H. Puzia, R. Chandar, P. Goudfroij, E. Davoust

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the B. V. Kukarkin Centenary Conference: Variable Stars, the Galactic Halo, and Galaxy Formation, October 12-16 2009, p.181

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

[365]  arXiv:1002.2173 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Double-detonation sub-Chandrasekhar supernovae: can minimum helium shell masses detonate the core?

Authors: M. Fink, F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt, I. R. Seitenzahl, S. A. Sim, M. Kromer

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics

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

[366]  arXiv:1002.2181 [pdf, other]

Title: Observational features of equatorial coronal hole jets

Authors: G. Nistico', V. Bothmer, S. Patsourakos, G. Zimbardo

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in Annales Geophysicae, Special Issue:'Three eyes on the Sun-multi-spacecraft studies of the corona and impacts on the heliosphere'

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

[367]  arXiv:1002.2198 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Observation of Supernova Remnant IC443 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: A.A. Abdo, et al. (Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration)

Comments: To appear in The Astrophysical Journal v712 (March 2010)

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

[368]  arXiv:1002.2201 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the orbital evolution of giant planet pair embedded in a gaseous disk. I: Jupiter-Saturn configuration

Authors: Hui Zhang, Ji-Lin Zhou

Comments: 21 pages, 23 figures

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

[369]  arXiv:1002.2205 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Mass dependent Evolution of Field Early-Type Galaxies Since z=1

Authors: Alexander Fritz, Inger Jorgensen, Ricardo P. Schiavon (Gemini)

Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium no. 262, "Stellar Populations - Planning for the Next Decade", eds. G. R. Bruzual and S. Charlot

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

[370]  arXiv:1002.2207 [pdf, other]

Title: The Fermi blazars' divide based on the diagnostic of the SEDs peak frequencies

Authors: A. Tramacere, E. Cavazzuti, P. Giommi, N. Mazziotta, C. Monte, 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)

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

[371]  arXiv:1002.2211 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Spin of the Black Hole in the Soft X-ray Transient A0620--00

Authors: Lijun Gou (1), Jeffrey E. McClintock (1), James F. Steiner (1), Ramesh Narayan (1), Andrew G. Cantrell (2), Charles D. Bailyn (2), Jerome A. Orosz (3) ((1) CfA (2) Yale (3) SDSU)

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, ApJL submitted

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

[372]  arXiv:1002.2212 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Line-profile variations of stochastically excited oscillations in four evolved stars

Authors: S. Hekker, C. Aerts

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 pages, 10 figures and 3 tables. A version with figure 1 in full resolution can be obtained upon request from first author

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

[373]  arXiv:1002.2214 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic field regulated infall on the disc around the massive protostar Cepheus A HW2

Authors: W.H.T. Vlemmings, G. Surcis, K.J.E. Torstensson, H.J. van Langevelde

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS. High resolution version can be found at this http URL

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[374]  arXiv:1002.2216 [pdf, other]

Title: Tides and Tidal Capture in post-Main Sequence Binaries: A Period Gap for Planets Around White Dwarfs

Authors: J. Nordhaus (Princeton), D. S. Spiegel, L. Ibgui, J. Goodman, A. Burrows

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS; 10 pages

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

[375]  arXiv:1002.2218 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Systematic Search for X-ray Cavities in the Hot Gas of Galaxy Groups

Authors: Ruobing Dong, Jesper Rasmussen, John S. Mulchaey

Comments: 19 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables, accepted by ApJ

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

[376]  arXiv:1002.2223 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Deep Chandra observations of TeV binaries I: LSI +61 303

Authors: N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC), D. F. Torres (CSIC-IEEC, ICREA), M. van der Klis (Amsterdam), P. G. Jonker (SRON), M. Mendez (Groningen), A. Sierpowska-Bartosik (Lodz)

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS on 6/12/2009, referee comments included

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

[377]  arXiv:1002.2226 [pdf, other]

Title: Southern Cosmology Survey II: Massive Optically-Selected Clusters from 70 square degrees of the SZE Common Survey Area

Authors: Felipe Menanteau (1), John P. Hughes (1), L. Felipe Barrientos (2), Amruta J. Deshpande (1), Matt Hilton (3), Leopoldo Infante (2), Raul Jimenez (4), Arthur Kosowsky (5), Kavilan Moodley (3), David Spergel (6), Licia Verde (4) ((1) Rutgers University, (2) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, (3) University of KwaZulu-Natal, (4) ICREA & Institute for Sciences of the Cosmos (5) University of Pittsburgh, (6) Princeton University)

Comments: 13 pages, 7 Figures. Submitted to ApJSS. Full resolution plots and additional material available at this http URL

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

[378]  arXiv:1002.2229 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Dynamical Evolution of the Pleiades

Authors: Joseph M. Converse, Steven W. Stahler

Comments: 45 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables; Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[379]  arXiv:1002.2232 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Ep,i - Eiso correlation and Fermi Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: L. Amati

Comments: 6 pages, 1 Figure, to be published in the Proceedings of "The Shocking Universe - Gamma-Ray Bursts and High Energy Shock phenomena", Venice (Italy), September 14-18, 2009

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

[380]  arXiv:1002.2233 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Supermassive Dark Stars: Detectable in JWST

Authors: Katherine Freese, Cosmin Ilie, Douglas Spolyar, Monica Valluri, Peter Bodenheimer

Comments: 32 pages, 4 figures

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

[381]  arXiv:1002.2239 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Comments: 16 pages, 4 figures, submitted to JCAP, Corresponding authors: T.E. Jeltema and S. Profumo

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

[382]  arXiv:1002.2241 [pdf, other]

Title: Convective-reactive proton-C12 combustion in Sakurai's object (V4334 Sagittarii) and implications for the evolution and yields from the first generations of stars

Authors: Falk Herwig, Marco Pignatari, Paul R. Woodward, David H. Porter, Gabriel Rockefeller, Chris L. Fryer, Michael Bennett, Raphael Hirschi

Comments: submitted to ApJ

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

[383]  arXiv:1002.2253 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Detection of unidentified infrared bands in a Halpha filament in the dwarf galaxy NGC1569 with AKARI

Authors: Takashi Onaka, Hiroko Matsumoto, Itsuki Sakon, Hidehiro Kaneda

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

[384]  arXiv:1002.2258 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Thermonuclear .Ia Supernovae from Helium Shell Detonations: Explosion Models and Observables

Authors: Ken J. Shen, Daniel Kasen, Nevin N. Weinberg, Lars Bildsten, Evan Scannapieco

Comments: Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal; 9 pages, 9 figures

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

[385]  arXiv:1002.2261 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A Model of Magnetic Braking of Solar Rotation That Satisfies Observational Constraints

Authors: Pavel A. Denissenkov (University of Victoria)

Comments: 39 pages, 11 figures, submitted to ApJ

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

[386]  arXiv:1002.2264 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The interacting galaxy pair KPG 390: H$\alpha$ kinematics

Authors: P. Repetto, M. Rosado, R. Gabbasov, I. Fuentes-Carrera

Comments: 21 pages 14 figures, 3 tables

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

[387]  arXiv:1002.2266 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Photometric redshifts: estimating their contamination and distribution using clustering information

Authors: Jonathan Benjamin, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, Brice Ménard, Martin Kilbinger

Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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

[388]  arXiv:1002.2272 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: On the Nonthermal Emission from the Supernova Remnant W51C

Authors: Jun Fang, Li Zhang

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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

[389]  arXiv:1002.2278 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Solar Orbiter mission and its prospects for helioseismology

Authors: J. Woch, L. Gizon

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 328, Issue 3, page 362, 2007

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

[390]  arXiv:1002.2280 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Comments: 88 pages, 22 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. The 1FGL catalog is available at this http URL

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

[391]  arXiv:1002.2286 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: An alpha tagged X-ray source for the calibration of space borne X-ray detectors

Authors: A. R. Rao (1), Sachindra Naik (2), Milind Patil (1), J. P. Malkar (1), R. P. S. Kalyan Kumar (3) ((1) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, (2) Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, (3) Department of Physics, Pondicherry Univeristy, Puducherry, India)

Comments: 6 Pages, 6 Figures, Accepted for publication in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A

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

[392]  arXiv:1002.2288 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Spicule Dynamics over Plage Region

Authors: Tetsu Anan, Reizaburo Kitai, Tomoko Kawate, Takuma Matsumoto, Kiyoshi Ichimoto, Kazunari Shibata, Andrew Hillier, Kenichi Otsuji, Hiroko Watanabe, Satoru UeNo, Shin'ichi Nagata, Takako T.Ishii, Hiroyuki Komori, Keisuke Nishida, Tahei Nakamura, Hiroaki Isobe, Masaoki Hagino

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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

[393]  arXiv:1002.2296 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The XMM-Newton Detection of Extended Emission from the Nova Remnant of T Pyxidis

Authors: S. Balman (METU)

Comments: 5 journal pages, 5 figures, accepted to MNRAS as a letter, in press

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

[394]  arXiv:1002.2301 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Stellar populations of Virgo cluster early-type dwarf galaxies with and without discs: a dichotomy in age?

Authors: S. Paudel, T. Lisker, H. Kuntschner, E. Grebel, K. Glatt

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS; 22 pages, 20 figures

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

[395]  arXiv:1002.2303 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Non-Equipartition of Energy, Masses of Nova Ejecta, and Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Michael M. Shara, Ofer Yaron, Dina Prialnik, Attay Kovetz

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, awaiting publication in ApJL

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

[396]  arXiv:1002.2312 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Rotation Measure Synthesis of Galactic Polarized Emission with the DRAO 26-m Telescope

Authors: M. Wolleben, T. L. Landecker, G. J. Hovey, R. Messing, O. S. Davison, N. L. House, K. H. M. S. Somaratne, I. Tashev

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

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

[397]  arXiv:1002.2315 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino oscillation and expected event rate of supernova neutrinos in adiabatic explosion model

Authors: S.Kawagoe, T. Yoshida, T. Kajino, H. Suzuki, K. Sumiyoshi, S. Yamada

Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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

[398]  arXiv:1002.2326 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Low-mass stars within dense dark matter halos

Authors: Jordi Casanellas, Ilidio Lopes

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. Contributed talk in the "Invisible Universe International Conference", Paris 2009

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

[399]  arXiv:1002.2332 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: GMRT observations of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster

Authors: M. Murgia, D. Eckert, F. Govoni, C. Ferrari, M. Pandey-Pommier, J. Nevalainen, S. Paltani

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. For a version with high-quality figures see this http URL

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

[400]  arXiv:1002.2338 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Linear Sensitivity of Helioseismic Travel Times to Local Flows

Authors: A.C. Birch, L. Gizon

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 328, Issue 3, page 228, 2007

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

[401]  arXiv:1002.2344 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: SLiM: a code for the simulation of wave propagation through an inhomogeneous, magnetised solar atmosphere

Authors: R. Cameron, L. Gizon, K. Daiffallah

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 328, Issue 3, page 313, 2007

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

[402]  arXiv:1002.2346 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Charged-Particle and Neutron-Capture Processes in the High-Entropy Wind of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: K. Farouqi, K.-L. Kratz, B. Pfeiffer, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thilemann, J.W. Truran

Comments: 52 pages, 31 figures

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

[403]  arXiv:1002.2347 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Outstanding problems in local helioseismology

Authors: L. Gizon, M.J. Thompson

Comments: 7 pages, 0 figures

Journal-ref: Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 328, Issue 3, page 204, 2007

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

[404]  arXiv:1002.2359 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Numerical and semi-analytic core mass distributions in supersonic isothermal turbulence

Authors: Wolfram Schmidt, Sebastian A. W. Kern, Christoph Federrath, Ralf S. Klessen

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to A&amp;A

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

[405]  arXiv:1002.2360 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Analytical approximations of K-corrections in optical and near-infrared bands

Authors: Igor Chilingarian, Anne-Laure Melchior, Ivan Zolotukhin

Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, 25 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. This version contains low-resolution figures. The "K-corrections calculator" service is available at this http URL

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

[406]  arXiv:1002.2362 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Complex Structure in Class 0 Protostellar Envelopes

Authors: John J. Tobin, Lee Hartmann, Hsin-Fang Chiang, Leslie W. Looney

Comments: 20 pages, 11 figures, 3 Tables, accepted to ApJ. Paper with full resolution figures available at this http URL

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

[407]  arXiv:1002.2364 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Locating the VHE source in the Galactic Centre with milli-arcsecond accuracy

Authors: A.Abramowski, S.Gillessen, D.Horns, H.-S.Zechlin

Comments: 7 pages, published in MNRAS 402, pg. 1342-1348

Journal-ref: 2010MNRAS.402.1342A

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[408]  arXiv:1002.2365 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Effects of an AGN on Host Galaxy Colour and Morphology Measurements

Authors: C. M. Pierce, J. M. Lotz, J. R. Primack, D. J. V. Rosario, R. L. Griffith, C. J. Conselice, S. M. Faber, D. C. Koo, A. L. Coil, S. Salim, A. M. Koekemoer, E. S. Laird, R. J. Ivison, R. Yan

Comments: 18 pages, 19 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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

[409]  arXiv:1002.2369 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Helioseismology of Sunspots: A Case Study of NOAA Region 9787

Authors: L. Gizon, H. Schunker, C.S. Baldner, S. Basu, A.C. Birch, R.S. Bogart, D.C. Braun, R. Cameron, T.L. Duvall Jr., S.M. Hanasoge, J. Jackiewicz, M. Roth, T. Stahn, M.J. Thompson, S. Zharkov

Comments: 28 pages, 18 figures

Journal-ref: Space Science Reviews, Volume 144, Issue 1-4, page 249, 2009

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

[410]  arXiv:1002.2375 [pdf, other]

Title: The Role of the Magnetic Field in the Interstellar Medium of the Post-Starburst Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC 1569

Authors: Amanda A. Kepley, Stefanie Muehle, John Everett, Ellen G. Zweibel, Eric M. Wilcots, Uli Klein

Comments: ApJ accepted. 56 pages, 14 figures (low resolution), 8 tables. Version with high resolution figures at this http URL

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

[411]  arXiv:1002.2379 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Surface magnetic field effects in local helioseismology

Authors: H. Schunker, D.C. Braun, P.S. Cally

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 328, Issue 3, page 292, 2007

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

[412]  arXiv:1002.2382 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: How to optimally parametrize deviations from General Relativity in the evolution of cosmological perturbations?

Authors: Levon Pogosian, Alessandra Silvestri, Kazuya Koyama, Gong-Bo Zhao

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures

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

[413]  arXiv:1002.2383 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The circum-galactic gas around cosmologically simulated disks

Authors: Stephanie Courty, Brad K. Gibson, Romain Teyssier

Comments: 4 pages, 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

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

[414]  arXiv:1002.2389 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Quiescent and flaring X-ray emission from the nearby M/T dwarf binary SCR 1845-6357

Authors: J. Robrade, K. Poppenhaeger, J.H.M.M. Schmitt

Comments: Accepted by A&amp;A, 6 pages, 5 figures

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

[415]  arXiv:1002.2392 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Irregular satellites of Jupiter: Capture configurations of binary-asteroids

Authors: H. S. Gaspar, O. C. Winter, E. Vieira Neto

Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures

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

[416]  arXiv:1002.2397 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: How close can an Inhomogeneous Universe mimic the Concordance Model?

Authors: Peter Dunsby, Naureen Goheer, Bob Osano, Jean-Philippe Uzan

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures

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

[417]  arXiv:1002.2401 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Progress of Solar Cycle 24 at High Latitudes

Authors: Richard C. Altrock (Air Force Research Laboratory, NSO/SP, Sunspot, NM, USA)

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, in press in "SOHO-23: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum," ASP Conference Series, Steven Cranmer, Todd Hoeksema, and John Kohl, Eds., 2010

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

[418]  arXiv:1002.2411 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: What Solar Oscillation Tell us About the Solar Minimum

Authors: Kiran Jain, S. C. Tripathy, O. Burtseva, I. Gonzalez Hernandez, F. Hill, R. Howe, S. Kholikov, R. Komm, J. Leibacher

Comments: 4 pages including 2 figures, submitted to the Proceedings of SOHO-23: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum, ASP Conf. Ser., Editors: Steven Cranmer, Todd Hoeksema, and John Kohl

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

[419]  arXiv:1002.2417 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Confirmation of a recent bipolar ejection in the very young hierarchical multiple system IRAS 16293-2422

Authors: G. Pech (CRyA-Unam), L. Loinard (CRyA-Unam), C. Chandler (NRAO), Luis F. Rodriguez (CRyA-Unam), P. D'Alessio (CRyA-Unam), C. Brogan (NRAO), D. Wilner (CfA), P. Ho (CfA)

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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

[420]  arXiv:1002.2428 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Nonlocality of Balanced and Imbalanced Turbulence

Authors: A. Beresnyak, A. Lazarian

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

[421]  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)

[422]  arXiv:1002.0108 (cross-list from cs.AI) [pdf, other]

Title: Genetic algorithm for robotic telescope scheduling

Authors: Petr Kubanek

Comments: 38 pages; master thesis

Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[423]  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)

[424]  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)

[425]  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)

[426]  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)

[427]  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)

[428]  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)

[429]  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)

[430]  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)

[431]  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)

[432]  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)

[433]  arXiv:1002.1014 (cross-list from math-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Hill's Equation with Random Forcing Parameters: Determination of Growth Rates through Random Matrices

Authors: Fred C. Adams, Anthony M. Bloch

Comments: 22 pages, 3 figures

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

[434]  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)

[435]  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)

[436]  arXiv:1002.1250 (cross-list from quant-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: The Aharonov-Bohm effect in conical space

Authors: Yu.A. Sitenko, N.D. Vlasii

Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[437]  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)

[438]  arXiv:1002.1361 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Scalar field in the anisotropic universe

Authors: Hyeong-Chan Kim, Masato Minamitsuji

Comments: submitted to PRD

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

[439]  arXiv:1002.1425 (cross-list from gr-qc) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Nonlocal Modification of Newtonian Gravity

Authors: Hans-Joachim Blome, Carmen Chicone, Friedrich W. Hehl, Bahram Mashhoon

Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure

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

[440]  arXiv:1002.1429 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: A complete analysis of linear cosmological perturbations in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity

Authors: Jinn-Ouk Gong, Seoktae Koh, Misao Sasaki

Comments: 22 pages

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

[441]  arXiv:1002.1646 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Dark matter in natural supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model

Authors: Francesc Ferrer, Christopher Spitzer

Comments: 26 pages, 8 figures

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

[442]  arXiv:1002.1651 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Drake Equation for the Multiverse: From the String Landscape to Complex Life

Authors: Marcelo Gleiser

Comments: 6 pages, RevTeX, in press, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D

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

[443]  arXiv:1002.1658 (cross-list from nucl-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Strangeness in Compact Stars

Authors: J. Schaffner-Bielich

Comments: 8 pages, invited talk given at the 10th International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP-X) September 14-18, 2009, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan

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

[444]  arXiv:1002.1810 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Penetrating Radiation at the Surface of and in Water

Authors: Domenico Pacini; translated, commented by Alessandro De Angelis

Journal-ref: Nuovo Cimento VI/3 93 (1912)

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

[445]  arXiv:1002.1846 (cross-list from hep-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Probability distribution of the vacuum energy density

Authors: G. Duplancic, D. Glavan, H. Stefancic

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure

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

[446]  arXiv:1002.1902 (cross-list from nucl-th) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Isospin asymmetric nuclear matter and properties of axisymmetric neutron stars

Authors: Partha Roy Chowdhury, Abhijit Bhattacharyya, D. N. Basu

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

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

[447]  arXiv:1002.2096 (cross-list from physics.space-ph) [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Power and spectral index anisotropy of the entire inertial range of turbulence in the fast solar wind

Authors: R. T. Wicks, T. S. Horbury, C. H. K. Chen, A. A. Schekochihin

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS letters

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