astro-ph.GA : Galaxy Astrophysics: December 2011

M. J. Kim, S. Kim, S. Youn, M. S. Yun, G. W. Wilson, I. Aretxaga, J. P. Williams, D. H. Hughes, A. Humphrey, J. E. Austermann, T. A. Perera, P. D. Mauskopf, L. Magnani, Y. -W. Kang

MOCCA Code for Star Cluster Simulations - II. Comparison with N-body Simulations [PDF]

Mirek Giersz, Douglas C. Heggie, Jarrod Hurley, Arkadiusz Hypki

Non-Thermal Insights on Mass and Energy Flows Through the Galactic Centre and into the Fermi Bubbles [PDF]

Roland M. Crocker

The Galactic Centre - A Laboratory for Starburst Galaxies (?) [PDF]

Roland M. Crocker

Structure Analysis of OMC1 Filaments at 1.1 mm Emission [PDF]

Soyoung Youn, Sungeun Kim

On the Amplification of Magnetic Field by a Supernova Blast Shock Wave in a Turbulent Medium [PDF]

Fan Guo, Shengtai Li, Hui Li, Joe Giacalone, J. R. Jokipii, David Li

1101.2048 (Planck HFI Core Team et al.)

Planck early results. VI. The High Frequency Instrument data processing [PDF]

Planck HFI Core Team, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, R. Ansari, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, A. J. Banday, M. Bartelmann, J. G. Bartlett, E. Battaner, K. Benabed, A. Benoît, J. -P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, F. R. Bouchet, F. Boulanger, T. Bradshaw, M. Bucher, J. -F. Cardoso, G. Castex, A. Catalano, A. Challinor, A. Chamballu, R. -R. Chary, X. Chen, C. Chiang, S. Church, D. L. Clements, J. -M. Colley, S. Colombi, F. Couchot, A. Coulais, C. Cressiot, B. P. Crill, M. Crook, P. de Bernardis, J. Delabrouille, J. -M. Delouis, F. -X. Désert, K. Dolag, H. Dole, O. Doré, M. Douspis, J. Dunkley, G. Efstathiou, C. Filliard, O. Forni, P. Fosalba, K. Ganga, M. Giard, D. Girard, Y. Giraud-Héraud, R. Gispert, K. M. Górski, S. Gratton, M. Griffin, G. Guyot, J. Haissinski, D. Harrison, G. Helou, S. Henrot-Versillé, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, S. R. Hildebrandt, R. Hills, E. Hivon, M. Hobson, W. A. Holmes, K. M. Huffenberger, A. H. Jaffe, W. C. Jones, J. Kaplan, R. Kneissl, L. Knox, M. Kunz, G. Lagache, J. -M. Lamarre, A. E. Lange, A. Lasenby, A. Lavabre, C. R. Lawrence, M. Le Jeune, C. Leroy, J. Lesgourgues, A. Lewis, J. F. Macías-Pérez, C. J. MacTavish, B. Maffei, N. Mandolesi, R. Mann, F. Marleau, D. J. Marshall, S. Masi, T. Matsumura, I. McAuley, P. McGehee, J. -B. Melin, C. Mercier, S. Mitra, M. -A. Miville-Deschênes, A. Moneti, L. Montier, D. Mortlock, A. Murphy, F. Nati, C. B. Netterfield, H. U. N\orgaard-Nielsen, C. North, F. Noviello, D. Novikov, S. Osborne, F. Pajot, G. Patanchon, T. Peacocke, T. J. Pearson, O. Perdereau, L. Perotto, F. Piacentini, M. Piat, S. Plaszczynski, E. Pointecouteau, N. Ponthieu, G. Prézeau, S. Prunet, J. -L. Puget, W. T. Reach, M. Remazeilles, C. Renault, A. Riazuelo, I. Ristorcelli, G. Rocha, C. Rosset, G. Roudier, M. Rowan-Robinson, B. Rusholme, R. Saha, D. Santos, G. Savini, B. M. Schaefer, P. Shellard, L. Spencer, J. -L. Starck, V. Stolyarov, R. Stompor, R. Sudiwala, R. Sunyaev, D. Sutton, J. -F. Sygnet, J. A. Tauber, C. Thum, J. -P. Torre, F. Touze, M. Tristram, F. Van Leeuwen, L. Vibert, D. Vibert, B. D. Wandelt, S. D. M. White, H. Wiesemeyer, A. Woodcraft, V. Yurchenko, D. Yvon, A. Zacchei

The Color-Magnitude Diagram of NGC 2264 [PDF]

David G. Turner

Proper motions of the Arches cluster with Keck-LGS Adaptive Optics: the first kinematic mass measurement of the Arches [PDF]

Will Clarkson, Andrea Ghez, Mark Morris, Jessica Lu, Andrea Stolte, Nate McCrady, Tuan Do, Sylvana Yelda

The lower main sequence of stars in the solar neighborhood: Model predictions versus observation [PDF]

S. Bartasiute, V. Deveikis, S. Raudeliunas, J. Sperauskas

1112.5170 (E. Sani et al.)

The circumnuclear environment of IRAS 20551-4250 a case study of AGN/Starburst connection for JWST [PDF]

E. Sani, E. Nardini

NBursts+phot: parametric recovery of galaxy star formation histories from the simultaneous fitting of spectra and broad-band spectral energy distributions [PDF]

Igor Chilingarian, Ivan Katkov

Constraining the Flaring Region of Sagittarius A* By 1.3mm VLBI Measurements [PDF]

Lei Huang, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Feng Gao

News on the s process from young open clusters [PDF]

Enrico Maiorca, Laura Magrini, Maurizio Busso, Sofia Randich, Sara Palmerini, Oscar Trippella

Chemical Differentiation toward the Pipe Nebula Starless Cores [PDF]

P. Frau, J. M. Girart, M. T. Beltran

The shapes of Milky Way satellites: looking for signatures of tidal stirring [PDF]

Ewa L. Lokas, Steven R. Majewski, Stelios Kazantzidis, Lucio Mayer, Jeffrey L. Carlin, David L. Nidever, Leonidas A. Moustakas

Evidence for Environmental Changes in the Submillimeter Dust Opacity [PDF]

Peter G. Martin, Arabindo Roy, Sylvain Bontemps, Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock, Edward L. Chapin, Mark J. Devlin, Simon R. Dicker, Matthew Griffin, Joshua O. Gundersen, Mark Halpern, Peter C. Hargrave, David H. Hughes, Jeff Klein, Gaelen Marsden, Philip Mauskopf, Calvin B. Netterfield, Luca Olmi, Guillaume Patanchon, Marie Rex, Douglas Scott, Christopher Semisch, Matthew D. P. Truch, Carole Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, Marco P. Viero, Donald V. Wiebe

1107.4612 (D. T. O'Dea et al.)

A Model For Polarised Microwave Foreground Emission From Interstellar Dust [PDF]

D. T. O'Dea, C. N. Clark, C. R. Contaldi, C. J. MacTavish

The Effect of Anisotropic Conduction on the Thermal Instability in the Interstellar Medium [PDF]

Ena Choi, James M. Stone

The collimated outflows of the planetary nebula Hu1-2: proper motion and radial velocity measurements [PDF]

L. F. Miranda, M. Blanco, M. A. Guerrero, A. Riera

A (sub)millimetre study of dense cores in Orion B9 [PDF]

Oskari Miettinen, Jorma Harju, Lauri K. Haikala, Mika Juvela

Warm Absorbers and Outflows in the Seyfert-1 Galaxy NGC 4051 [PDF]

Ashley L. King, Jon M. Miller, John Raymond

1112.0019 (Robert J. J. Grand et al.)

The dynamics of stars around spiral arms [PDF]

Robert J. J. Grand, Daisuke Kawata, Mark Cropper

Detecting Triaxiality in the Galactic Dark Matter halo through Stellar Kinematics [PDF]

Armando Rojas-Niño, Octavio Valenzuela, Barbara Pichardo, Luis A. Aguilar

Implementation of a Parallel Tree Method on a GPU [PDF]

Naohito Nakasato

Discovery of the Youngest Molecular Outflow associated with an Intermediate-mass protostellar Core, MMS-6/OMC-3 [PDF]

Satoko Takahashi, Paul Ho

Periodic Signals in Binary Microlensing Events [PDF]

Xinyi Guo, Ann Esin, Rosanne Di Stefano, Jeffrey Taylor

Lunar system constraints on the modified theories of gravity [PDF]

Qasem Exirifard

Resolving the Luminosity Problem in Low-Mass Star Formation [PDF]

Michael M. Dunham, Eduard I. Vorobyov

Kohn's theorem and Newton-Hooke symmetry for Hill's equations [PDF]

P. M. Zhang, G. W. Gibbons, P. A. Horvathy

Disruption of a Proto-Planetary Disk by the Black Hole at the Milky Way Centre [PDF]

Ruth A. Murray-Clay, Abraham Loeb

1106.1397 (Philipp P. Kronberg et al.)

Measurement of the Electric Current in a Kpc-Scale Jet [PDF]

Philipp P. Kronberg, Richard V. E. Lovelace, Giovanni Lapenta, Stirling A. Colgate

Accretion disks around kicked black holes: Post-kick Dynamics [PDF]

Marcelo Ponce, Joshua A. Faber, James C. Lombardi Jr

Different thermodynamics of self-gravitating systems and discussions for some observations and simulations [PDF]

Dong-Biao Kang

Old Massive Globular Clusters and the Stellar Halo of the Dwarf Starburst Galaxy NGC 4449 [PDF]

Jay Strader, Anil C. Seth, Nelson Caldwell

Strengthening the Open Cluster Distance Scale via VVV Photometry [PDF]

Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, C. Moni Bidin, D. Geisler, J. Borissova, D. Minniti, C. Bonatto, W. Gieren, G. Carraro, R. Kurtev, F. Mauro, A-N. Chene, D. W. Forbes, P. Lucas, I. Dekany, R. K. Saito, M. Soto

Modified Newtonian Dynamics: A Review [PDF]

Benoit Famaey, Stacy McGaugh

The Luminous Infrared Host Galaxy of Short-Duration GRB 100206A [PDF]

Daniel A. Perley, M. Modjaz, A. N. Morgan, S. B. Cenko, J. S. Bloom, N. R. Butler, A. V. Filippenko, A. A. Miller

Simulating protostellar evolution and radiative feedback in the cluster environment [PDF]

Mikhail Klassen, Ralph E. Pudritz, Thomas Peters

Variable Accretion Rates and Fluffy First Stars [PDF]

Rowan J. Smith, Takashi Hosokawa, Kazuyuki Omukai, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen

XMM-Newton observation of 4U 1820-30: Broad band spectrum and the contribution of the cold interstellar medium [PDF]

E. Costantini, C. Pinto, J. S. Kaastra, J. J. M. in't Zand, M. J. Freyberg, L. Kuiper, M. Mendez, C. P. de Vries, L. B. F. M. Waters

On the non-evolution of the dependence of black hole masses on bolometric luminosities for QSOs [PDF]

M. Lopez-Corredoira, C. M. Gutierrez

Star Formation Rates in Molecular Clouds and the Nature of the Extragalactic Scaling Relations [PDF]

Charles J. Lada, Jan Forbrich, Marco Lombardi, Joao F. Alves

1107.5617 (Sirichai Chongchitnan et al.)

Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Extreme-Value Statistics of Galaxy Clusters [PDF]

Sirichai Chongchitnan, Joseph Silk

The Gemini Cluster Astrophysics Spectroscopic Survey (GCLASS): The Role of Environment and Self-Regulation in Galaxy Evolution at z ~ 1 [PDF]

Adam Muzzin, Gillian Wilson, H. K. C. Yee, David Gilbank, Henk Hoekstra, Ricardo Demarco, Michael Balogh, Pieter van Dokkum, Marijn Franx, Erica Ellingson, Amalia Hicks, Julie Nantais, Allison Noble, Mark Lacy, Chris Lidman, Alessandro Rettura, Jason Surace, Tracy Webb

NIR Spectroscopy of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~1.4 with Subaru/FMOS: The Mass-Metallicity Relation [PDF]

Kiyoto Yabe, Kouji Ohta, Fumihide Iwamuro, Suraphong Yuma, Masayuki Akiyama, Naoyuki Tamura, Masahiko Kimura, Naruhisa Takato, Yuuki Moritani, Masanao Sumiyoshi, Toshinori Maihara, John Silverman, Gavin Dalton, Ian Lewis, David Bonfield, Hanshin Lee, Emma Curtis Lake, Edward Macaulay, Fraser Clarke

Formation of massive globular clusters with heavy element abundance spread in the Galactic building blocks [PDF]

Kenji Bekki

Chemical evolution of the Milky Way: the origin of phosphorus [PDF]

G. Cescutti, F. Matteucci, E. Caffau, P. François

Detection of HF emission from the Orion Bar [PDF]

F. F. S. van der Tak, V. Ossenkopf, Z. Nagy, A. Faure, M. Roellig, E. A. Bergin

Fullerenes and proto-fullerenes in interstellar carbon dust [PDF]

Walter W. Duley, Anming Hu

1111.5013 (Andreas H. W. Kuepper et al.)

More on the structure of tidal tails [PDF]

Andreas H. W. Kuepper, Richard R. Lane, Douglas C. Heggie

Power of Turbulent Reconnection: Star Formation, Acceleration of Cosmic Rays, Heat Transfer, Flares and Gamma Ray Bursts [PDF]

A. Lazarian

The 15-20 um emission in the reflection nebula NGC2023 [PDF]

Els Peeters, Alexander G. G. M. Tielens, Louis J. Allamandola, Mark G. Wolfire

Acceleration of Small Dust Grains due to Charge Fluctuations [PDF]

Thiem Hoang, A. Lazarian

Pitch Angle Restrictions in Late Type Spiral Galaxies Based on Chaotic and Ordered Orbital Behavior [PDF]

Angeles Perez-Villegas, Barbara Pichardo, Edmundo Moreno, Antonio Peimbert, Hector M. Velazquez

Gas Accretion onto a Supermassive Black Hole: a step to model AGN feedback [PDF]

Kentaro Nagamine, Paramita Barai, Daniel Proga

A unified supernova catalogue [PDF]

Dirk Lennarz, David Altmann, Christopher Wiebusch

Mapping the Milky Way: William Herschel's Star-Gages [PDF]

Todd Timberlake

XSL: The X-Shooter Spectral Library [PDF]

Yanping Chen, Scott Trager, Reynier Peletier, Ariane Lançon

1108.5174 (Pau Amaro-Seoane et al.)

The butterfly effect in the extreme-mass ratio inspiral problem [PDF]

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Patrick Brem, Jorge Cuadra, Philip J. Armitage

A Cluster of Class I/f/II YSOs Discovered Near the Cepheid SU Cas [PDF]

Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, Wolfgang Gieren

Observational evidence of quasar feedback quenching star formation at high redshift [PDF]

M. Cano-Diaz, R. Maiolino, A. Marconi, H. Netzer, O. Shemmer, G. Cresci

The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Distance Scale [PDF]

Alistair R Walker

Photoionization modeling of the Galactic planetary nebulae Abell 39 and NGC 7027 [PDF]

Ashkbiz Danehkar, David J. Frew, Quentin A. Parker, Orsola De Marco

A gas cloud on its way towards the super-massive black hole in the Galactic Centre [PDF]

S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, T. K. Fritz, E. Quataert, C. Alig, A. Burkert, J. Cuadra, F. Eisenhauer, O. Pfuhl, K. Dodds-Eden, C. F. Gammie, T. Ott

The Origin of Parsec-Scale Gaseous and Stellar Disks in the Galactic Center and AGNs [PDF]

F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Wardle

Planetary Rings [PDF]

Matthew S. Tiscareno

Diagnostic line ratios in the IC 1805 optical gas complex [PDF]

Dominic Lagrois, Gilles Joncas, Laurent Drissen

1101.1107 (Todd M. Tripp et al.)

The 21cm "Outer Arm" and the Outer-Galaxy High-Velocity Clouds: Connected by Kinematics, Metallicity, and Distance [PDF]

Todd M. Tripp, Limin Song

Planck early results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources [PDF]

Planck Collaboration, J. Aatrokoski, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, H. D. Aller, M. F. Aller, E. Angelakis, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, A. Balbi, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, J. G. Bartlett, E. Battaner, K. Benabed, A. Benoît, A. Berdyugin, J. -P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, R. Bhatia, A. Bonaldi, L. Bonavera, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, F. R. Bouchet, M. Bucher, C. Burigana, D. N. Burrows, P. Cabella, M. Capalbi, B. Cappellini, J. -F. Cardoso, A. Catalano, E. Cavazzuti, L. Cayón, A. Challinor, A. Chamballu, R. -R. Chary, L. -Y Chiang, P. R. Christensen, D. L. Clements, S. Colafrancesco, S. Colombi, F. Couchot, A. Coulais, S. Cutini, F. Cuttaia, L. Danese, R. D. Davies, R. J. Davis, P. de Bernardis, G. de Gasperis, A. de Rosa, G. de Zotti, J. Delabrouille, J. -M. Delouis, C. Dickinson, H. Dole, S. Donzelli, O. Doré, U. Dörl, M. Douspis, X. Dupac, G. Efstathiou, T. A. Enßlin, F. Finelli, O. Forni, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, L. Fuhrmann, S. Galeotta, K. Ganga, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Gehrels, M. Giard, G. Giardino, N. Giglietto, P. Giommi, F. Giordano, Y. Giraud-Héraud, J. González-Nuevo, K. M. Górski, S. Gratton, A. Gregorio, A. Gruppuso, D. Harrison, S. Henrot-Versillé, D. Herranz, S. R. Hildebrandt, E. Hivon, M. Hobson, W. A. Holmes, W. Hovest, R. J. Hoyland, K. M. Huffenberger, A. H. Jaffe, M. Juvela, E. Keihänen, R. Keskitalo, O. King, T. S. Kisner, R. Kneissl, L. Knox, T. P. Krichbaum, H. Kurki-Suonio, G. Lagache, A. Lähteenmäki, J. -M. Lamarre, A. Lasenby, R. J. Laureijs, N. Lavonen, C. R. Lawrence, S. Leach, R. Leonardi, J. León-Tavares, M. Linden-Vørnle, E. Lindfors, M. López-Caniego, P. M. Lubin, J. F. Macías-Pérez, B. Maffei, D. Maino, N. Mandolesi, R. Mann, M. Maris, E. Martínez-González, S. Masi, M. Massardi, S. Matarrese, F. Matthai, W. Max-Moerbeck, M. N. Mazziotta, P. Mazzotta, A. Melchiorri, L. Mendes, A. Mennella, P. F. Michelson, M. Mingaliev, S. Mitra, M. -A. Miville-Deschênes, A. Moneti, C. Monte, L. Montier, G. Morgante, D. Mortlock, D. Munshi, A. Murphy, P. Naselsky, P. Natoli, I. Nestoras, C. B. Netterfield, E. Nieppola, K. Nilsson, H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, F. Noviello, D. Novikov, I. Novikov, I. J. O'Dwyer, S. Osborne, F. Pajot, B. Partridge, F. Pasian, G. Patanchon, V. Pavlidou, T. J. Pearson, O. Perdereau, L. Perotto, M. Perri, F. Perrotta, F. Piacentini, M. Piat, S. Plaszczynski, P. Platania, E. Pointecouteau, G. Polenta, N. Ponthieu, T. Poutanen, G. Prézeau, P. Procopio, S. Prunet, J. -L. Puget, J. P. Rachen, S. Rainò, W. T. Reach, A. Readhead, R. Rebolo, R. Reeves, M. Reinecke, R. Reinthal, C. Renault, S. Ricciardi, J. Richards, T. Riller, D. Riquelme, I. Ristorcelli, G. Rocha, C. Rosset, M. Rowan-Robinson, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, B. Rusholme, J. Saarinen, M. Sandri, P. Savolainen, D. Scott, M. D. Seiffert, A. Sievers, A. Sillanpää, G. F. Smoot, Y. Sotnikova, J. -L. Starck, M. Stevenson, F. Stivoli, V. Stolyarov, R. Sudiwala, J. -F. Sygnet, L. Takalo, J. Tammi, J. A. Tauber, L. Terenzi, D. J. Thompson, L. Toffolatti, M. Tomasi, M. Tornikoski, J. -P. Torre, G. Tosti, A. Tramacere, M. Tristram, J. Tuovinen, M. Türler, M. Turunen, G. Umana, H. Ungerechts, L. Valenziano, E. Valtaoja, J. Varis, F. Verrecchia, P. Vielva, F. Villa, N. Vittorio, B. D. Wandelt, J. Wu, D. Yvon, A. Zacchei, J. A. Zensus, X. Zhou, A. Zonca

The Initial Mass Function of the Orion Nebula Cluster across the H-burning limit [PDF]

Nicola Da Rio, Massimo Robberto, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Thomas Henning, Keivan G. Stassun

The origin of the negative torque density in disk-satellite interaction [PDF]

Roman R. Rafikov, Cristobal Petrovich

Star Clusters in M 31. IV. A Comparative Analysis of Absorption Line Indices in Old M 31 and Milky Way Clusters [PDF]

Ricardo P. Schiavon, Nelson Caldwell, Heather Morrison, Paul Harding, Stephane Courteau, Lauren A. MacArthur, Genevieve J. Graves

The effects of baryon physics, black holes and AGN feedback on the mass distribution in clusters of galaxies [PDF]

Davide Martizzi, Romain Teyssier, Ben Moore, Tina Wentz

Discovery of VHE gamma-ray emission from the SNR G15.4+0.1 with H.E.S.S [PDF]

P. Hofverberg, R. C. G. Chaves, J. Méhault, M. de Naurois, for the H. E. S. S. Collaboration

1107.6000 (K. Abe et al.)

Measurement of the cosmic-ray antiproton spectrum at solar minimum with a long-duration balloon flight over Antarctica [PDF]

K. Abe, H. Fuke, S. Haino, T. Hams, M. Hasegawa, A. Horikoshi, K. C. Kim, A. Kusumoto, M. H. Lee, Y. Makida, S. Matsuda, Y. Matsukawa, J. W. Mitchell, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, R. Orito, J. F. Ormes, K. Sakai, M. Sasaki, E. S. Seo, R. Shinoda, R. E. Streitmatter, J. Suzuki, K. Tanaka, N. Thakur, T. Yamagami, A. Yamamoto, T. Yoshida, K. Yoshimura

Finite temperature effects in Bose-Einstein Condensed dark matter halos [PDF]

Tiberiu Harko, Eniko J. M. Madarassy

Stability, chaos and entrapment of stars in very wide pairs [PDF]

Valeri V. Makarov

Light echoes reveal an unexpectedly cool Eta Carinae during its 19th-century Great Eruption [PDF]

A. Rest, J. L. Prieto, N. R. Walborn, N. Smith, F. B. Bianco, R. Chornock, D. L. Welch, D. A. Howell, M. E. Huber, R. J. Foley, W. Fong, B. Sinnott, H. E. Bond, R. C. Smith, I. Toledo, D. Minniti, K. Mandel

The Metallicity Distribution Functions of SEGUE G and K dwarfs: Constraints for Disk Chemical Evolution and Formation [PDF]

Katharine J. Schlesinger, Jennifer A. Johnson, Constance M. Rockosi, Young Sun Lee, Heather L. Morrison, Ralph Schoenrich, Carlos Allende Prieto, Timothy C. Beers, Brian Yanny, Paul Harding, Donald P. Schneider, Cristina Chiappini, Luiz N. da Costa, Marcio A. G. Maia, Ivan Minchev, Helio Rocha-Pinto, Basilio X. Santiago

X-ray and Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at Low Redshift [PDF]

Jianfeng Wu, W. N. Brandt, Scott F. Anderson, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Patrick B. Hall, Richard M. Plotkin, Donald P. Schneider, Ohad Shemmer

Near-infrared and Millimeter-wavelength Observations of Mol 160: A Massive Young Protostellar Core [PDF]

Grace Wolf-Chase, Michael Smutko

Gravitationally Focused Dark Matter Around Compact Stars [PDF]

Benjamin C. Bromley

Anisotropies in the cosmic radiation observed with ARGO-YBJ [PDF]

Roberto Iuppa, for the ARGO-YBJ Collaboration

The enigma of jets and outflows from young stars [PDF]

Deirdre Coffey

The HI absorption distance of HESS J1943+213 favours its extragalactic nature [PDF]

D. A. Denis, W. W. Tian

On the gravitational stability of a galactic disc as a two-fluid system [PDF]

Mohsen Shadmehri, Fazeleh Khajenabi

New Galactic Candidate Luminous Blue Variables and Wolf-Rayet Stars [PDF]

Guy S. Stringfellow, Vasilii V. Gvaramadze, Yuri Beletsky, Alexei Y. Kniazev

Spectral Identification of New Galactic cLBV and WR Stars [PDF]

G. S. Stringfellow, V. V. Gvaramadze, Y. Beletsky, A. Y. Kniazev

1112.1949 (David M. Alexander et al.)

What Drives the Growth of Black Holes? [PDF]

David M. Alexander, Ryan C. Hickox

Resolving the inner regions of the HD97048 circumstellar disk with VLT/NACO polarimetric differential imaging [PDF]

Sascha P. Quanz, Stephan M. Birkmann, Daniel Apai, Sebastian Wolf, Thomas Henning

A Survey of Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Observations of Cataclysmic Variables [PDF]

C. S. Froning, K. S. Long, B. Gaensicke, P. Szkody

Relaxation-limited evaporation of globular clusters [PDF]

Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Prospects for Probing the Spacetime of Sgr A* with Pulsars [PDF]

K. Liu, N. Wex, M. Kramer, J. M. Cordes, T. J. W. Lazio

Galactic Outflows and Evolution of the Interstellar Medium [PDF]

Benoit Côté, Hugo Martel, Laurent Drissen, Carmelle Robert

1101.2032 (Planck Collaboration et al.)

Planck early results. XXI. Properties of the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane [PDF]

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, A. Balbi, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, J. G. Bartlett, E. Battaner, K. Benabed, A. Benoit, J. -P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, R. Bhatia, J. J. Bock, A. Bonaldi, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, F. R. Bouchet, F. Boulanger, M. Bucher, C. Burigana, P. Cabella, J. -F. Cardoso, A. Catalano, L. Cayon, A. Challinor, A. Chamballu, L. -Y Chiang, C. Chiang, P. R. Christensen, S. Colombi, F. Couchot, A. Coulais, B. P. Crill, F. Cuttaia, T. Dame, L. Danese, R. D. Davies, R. J. Davis, P. de Bernardis, G. de Gasperis, A. de Rosa, G. de Zotti, J. Delabrouille, J. -M. Delouis, F. -X. Desert, C. Dickinson, S. Donzelli, O. Dore, U. Dorl, M. Douspis, X. Dupac, G. Efstathiou, T. A. Ensslin, F. Finelli, O. Forni, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, S. Galeotta, K. Ganga, M. Giard, G. Giardino, Y. Giraud-Heraud, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, K. M. Gorski, S. Gratton, A. Gregorio, I. A. Grenier, A. Gruppuso, F. K. Hansen, D. Harrison, S. Henrot-Versille, D. Herranz, S. R. Hildebrandt, E. Hivon, M. Hobson, W. A. Holmes, W. Hovest, R. J. Hoyland, K. M. Huffenberger, T. R. Jaffe, A. H. Jaffe, W. C. Jones, M. Juvela, E. Keihanen, R. Keskitalo, T. S. Kisner, R. Kneissl, L. Knox, H. Kurki-Suonio, G. Lagache, A. Lahteenmaki, J. -M. Lamarre, A. Lasenby, R. J. Laureijs, C. R. Lawrence, S. Leach, R. Leonardi, C. Leroy, P. B. Lilje, M. Linden-Vornle, M. Lopez-Caniego, P. M. Lubin, J. F. Macias-Perez, C. J. MacTavish, B. Maffei, N. Mandolesi, R. Mann, M. Maris, D. J. Marshall, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, S. Masi, S. Matarrese, F. Matthai, P. Mazzotta, P. McGehee, P. R. Meinhold, A. Melchiorri, L. Mendes, A. Mennella, M. -A. Miville-Deschenes, A. Moneti, L. Montier, G. Morgante, D. Mortlock, D. Munshi, A. Murphy, P. Naselsky, P. Natoli, C. B. Netterfield, H. U. Norgaard-Nielsen, F. Noviello, D. Novikov, I. Novikov, S. Osborne, F. Pajot, R. Paladini, F. Pasian, G. Patanchon, O. Perdereau, L. Perotto, F. Perrotta, F. Piacentini, M. Piat, S. Plaszczynski, E. Pointecouteau, G. Polenta, N. Ponthieu, T. Poutanen, G. Prezeau, S. Prunet, J. -L. Puget, J. P. Rachen, W. T. Reach, R. Rebolo, W. Reich, C. Renault, S. Ricciardi, T. Riller, I. Ristorcelli, G. Rocha, C. Rosset, J. A. Rubino-Martin, B. Rusholme, M. Sandri, D. Santos, G. Savini, D. Scott, M. D. Seiffert, P. Shellard, G. F. Smoot, J. -L. Starck, F. Stivoli, V. Stolyarov, R. Stompor, R. Sudiwala, J. -F. Sygnet, J. A. Tauber, L. Terenzi, L. Toffolatti, M. Tomasi, J. -P. Torre, M. Tristram, J. Tuovinen, G. Umana, L. Valenziano, J. Varis, P. Vielva, F. Villa, N. Vittorio, L. A. Wade, B. D. Wandelt, A. Wilkinson, N. Ysard, D. Yvon, A. Zacchei, A. Zonca

A Spitzer-MIPS search for dust in compact high-velocity HI clouds [PDF]

Rik J. Williams, Smita Mathur, Shawn Poindexter, Martin Elvis, Fabrizio Nicastro

A Revised Age for Upper Scorpius and The Star-Formation History Among the F-Type Members of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association [PDF]

Mark J. Pecaut, Eric E. Mamajek, Eric J. Bubar

Towards a self-consistent numerical model of late-type galaxies: Calibrating the effects of sub-grid physics on galactic models [PDF]

Rahimi Awat, Kawata Daisuke

The X-factor in Galaxies: I. Dependence on Environment and Scale [PDF]

Robert Feldmann, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Andrey V. Kravtsov

On The Apparent Narrowing of Radio Recombination Lines at High Principal Quantum Numbers [PDF]

J. Alexander, S. Gulyaev

Magnetic fields and gas flows around circumnuclear starbursts [PDF]

Rainer Beck

The fast spiral-in of the companion star to the black hole XTE J1118+480 [PDF]

Jonay I. González Hernández, Rafael Rebolo, Jorge Casares

Protostellar Outflow Heating in a Growing Massive Protocluster [PDF]

Ke Wang, Qizhou Zhang, Yuefang Wu, Hua-bai Li, Huawei Zhang

Identifying Star Streams in the Milky Way Halo [PDF]

Charles King III, Warren R. Brown, Margaret J. Geller, Scott J. Kenyon

1101.2031 (Planck Collaboration et al.)

Planck early results. XX. New light on anomalous microwave emission from spinning dust grains [PDF]

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, A. Balbi, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, J. G. Bartlett, E. Battaner, K. Benabed, A. Benoît, J. -P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, R. Bhatia, J. J. Bock, A. Bonaldi, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, F. R. Bouchet, F. Boulanger, M. Bucher, C. Burigana, P. Cabella, B. Cappellini, J. -F. Cardoso, S. Casassus, A. Catalano, L. Cayón, A. Challinor, A. Chamballu, R. -R. Chary, X. Chen, L. -Y Chiang, C. Chiang, P. R. Christensen, D. L. Clements, S. Colombi, F. Couchot, A. Coulais, B. P. Crill, F. Cuttaia, L. Danese, R. D. Davies, R. J. Davis, P. de Bernardis, G. de Gasperis, A. de Rosa, G. de Zotti, J. Delabrouille, J. -M. Delouis, C. Dickinson, S. Donzelli, O. Doré, U. Dörl, M. Douspis, X. Dupac, G. Efstathiou, T. A. Enßlin, H. K. Eriksen, F. Finelli, O. Forni, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, S. Galeotta, K. Ganga, R. T. Génova-Santos, M. Giard, G. Giardino, Y. Giraud-Héraud, J. González-Nuevo, K. M. Górski, S. Gratton, A. Gregorio, A. Gruppuso, F. K. Hansen, D. Harrison, G. Helou, S. Henrot-Versillé, D. Herranz, S. R. Hildebrandt, E. Hivon, M. Hobson, W. A. Holmes, W. Hovest, R. J. Hoyland, K. M. Huffenberger, T. R. Jaffe, A. H. Jaffe, W. C. Jones, M. Juvela, E. Keihänen, R. Keskitalo, T. S. Kisner, R. Kneissl, L. Knox, H. Kurki-Suonio, G. Lagache, A. Lähteenmäki, J. -M. Lamarre, A. Lasenby, R. J. Laureijs, C. R. Lawrence, S. Leach, R. Leonardi, P. B. Lilje, M. Linden-Vørnle, M. López-Caniego, P. M. Lubin, J. F. Macías-Pérez, C. J. MacTavish, B. Maffei, D. Maino, N. Mandolesi, R. Mann, M. Maris, D. J. Marshall, E. Martínez-González, S. Masi, S. Matarrese, F. Matthai, P. Mazzotta, P. McGehee, P. R. Meinhold, A. Melchiorri, L. Mendes, A. Mennella, S. Mitra, M. -A. Miville-Deschênes, A. Moneti, L. Montier, G. Morgante, D. Mortlock, D. Munshi, A. Murphy, P. Naselsky, P. Natoli, C. B. Netterfield, H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, F. Noviello, D. Novikov, I. Novikov, I. J. O'Dwyer, S. Osborne, F. Pajot, R. Paladini, B. Partridge, F. Pasian, G. Patanchon, T. J. Pearson, M. Peel, O. Perdereau, L. Perotto, F. Perrotta, F. Piacentini, M. Piat, S. Plaszczynski, P. Platania, E. Pointecouteau, G. Polenta, N. Ponthieu, T. Poutanen, G. Prézeau, P. Procopio, S. Prunet, J. -L. Puget, W. T. Reach, R. Rebolo, W. Reich, M. Reinecke, C. Renault, S. Ricciardi, T. Riller, I. Ristorcelli, G. Rocha, C. Rosset, M. Rowan-Robinson, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, B. Rusholme, M. Sandri, D. Santos, G. Savini, D. Scott, M. D. Seiffert, P. Shellard, G. F. Smoot, J. -L. Starck, F. Stivoli, V. Stolyarov, R. Stompor, R. Sudiwala, J. -F. Sygnet, J. A. Tauber, L. Terenzi, L. Toffolatti, M. Tomasi, J. -P. Torre, M. Tristram, J. Tuovinen, G. Umana, L. Valenziano, J. Varis, L. Verstraete, P. Vielva, F. Villa, N. Vittorio, L. A. Wade, B. D. Wandelt, R. Watson, A. Wilkinson, N. Ysard, D. Yvon, A. Zacchei, A. Zonca

The Relationship Between Black Hole Growth and Star Formation in Seyfert Galaxies [PDF]

Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, George H. Rieke

Evolving Gravitationally Unstable Disks Over Cosmic Time: Implications For Thick Disk Formation [PDF]

John Forbes, Mark R. Krumholz, Andreas Burkert

A New Probe of the Distribution of Dark Matter in Galaxies [PDF]

Sukanya Chakrabarti

The Spectral Energy Distributions of White Dwarfs in 47 Tucanae: The Distance to the Cluster [PDF]

Kristin A. Woodley, Ryan Goldsbury, Jason Kalirai, Harvey Richer, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Jay Anderson, Pier Bergeron, Aaron Dotter, Lisa Esteves, Greg Fahlman, Brad Hansen, Jeremy Heyl, Jarrod Hurley, R. Michael Rich, Michael Shara, Peter Stetson

A Deep, Wide-Field, and Panchromatic View of 47 Tuc and the SMC with HST: Observations and Data Analysis Methods [PDF]

Jason S. Kalirai, Harvey B. Richer, Jay Anderson, Aaron Dotter, Gregory G. Fahlman, Brad M. S. Hansen, Jarrod Hurley, Ivan R. King, David Reitzel, R. Michael Rich, Michael M. Shara, Peter B. Stetson, Kristin A. Woodley

H2 Temperatures in the Crab Nebula [PDF]

E. D. Loh, J. A. Baldwin, G. J. Ferland, Z. K. Curtis, C. T. Richardson, A. C. Fabian, P. Salomé

Structural parameters and blue stragglers in Sagittarius dSph globular clusters [PDF]

R. Salinas, L. Jílková, G. Carraro, M. Catelan, P. Amigo

1106.3328 (Marc Postman et al.)

Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH): An Overview [PDF]

Marc Postman, Dan Coe, Narciso Benitez, Larry Bradley, Tom Broadhurst, Megan Donahue, Holland Ford, Or Graur, Genevieve Graves, Stephanie Jouvel, Anton Koekemoer, Doron Lemze, Elinor Medezinski, Alberto Molino, Leonidas Moustakas, Sara Ogaz, Adam Riess, Steve Rodney, Piero Rosati, Keiichi Umetsu, Wei Zheng, Adi Zitrin, Matthias Bartelmann, Rychard Bouwens, Nicole Czakon, Ole Host, Leopoldo Infante, Saurabh Jha, Yolanda Jimenez-Teja, Daniel Kelson, Ofer Lahav, Ruth Lazkoz, Dani Maoz, Curtis McCully, Peter Melchior, Massimo Meneghetti, Julian Merten, John Moustakas, Mario Nonino, Brandon Patel, Eniko Regos, Stella Seitz, Jack Sayers, Sunil Golwala, Arjen Van der Wel

The statistics of triggered star formation: an overdensity of massive YSOs around Spitzer bubbles [PDF]

M. A. Thompson, J. S. Urquhart, T. J. T. Moore, L. K. Morgan

The evolution of the surface brightness of a star cluster as a result of residual star-forming gas expulsion [PDF]

F. Lueghausen, G. Parmentier, J. Pflamm-Altenburg, P. Kroupa

The SPLASH Survey: Spectroscopy of 15 M31 Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Galaxies [PDF]

Erik J. Tollerud, Rachael L. Beaton, Marla C. Geha, James S. Bullock, Puragra Guhathakurta, Jason S. Kalirai, Steve R. Majewski, Evan N. Kirby, Karoline M. Gilbert, Basilio Yniguez, Richard J. Patterson, James C. Ostheimer, Abrar Choudhury

Formation versus destruction: the evolution of the star cluster population in galaxy mergers [PDF]

J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, F. Inti Pelupessy, Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers, Simon F. Portegies Zwart, Nate Bastian, Vincent Icke

HYPERION: An open-source parallelized three-dimensional dust continuum radiative transfer code [PDF]

Thomas P. Robitaille

Cataclysmic Variables in Globular Clusters [PDF]

Christian Knigge

Reconciling the Galactic Bulge Turnoff Age Discrepancy with Enhanced Helium Enrichment [PDF]

David M. Nataf, Andrew P. Gould

Herschel Far-Infrared and Sub-millimeter Photometry for the KINGFISH Sample of Nearby Galaxies [PDF]

D. A. Dale, G. Aniano, C. W. Engelbracht, J. L. Hinz, O. Krause, E. J. Montiel, H. Roussel, P. N. Appleton, L. Armus, P. Beirao, A. D. Bolatto, B. R. Brandl, D. Calzetti, A. F. Crocker, K. V. Croxall, B. T. Draine, M. Galametz, K. D. Gordon, B. A. Groves, C. -N. Hao, G. Helou, L. K. Hunt, B. D. Johnson, R. C. Kennicutt, J. Koda, A. K. Leroy, Y. Li, S. E. Meidt, A. E. Miller, E. J. Murphy, N. Rahman, H. -W. Rix, K. M. Sandstrom, M. Sauvage, E. Schinnerer, R. A. Skibba, J. -D. T. Smith, F. S. Tabatabaei, F. Walter, C. D. Wilson, M. G. Wolfire, S. Zibetti

Orbits of LMC/SMC with recent ground-based proper motions [PDF]

Katerina Bartoskova, Bruno Jungwiert, Adam Ruzicka, Edgardo Costa

The first outburst of the black hole candidate MAXI J1836-194 observed by INTEGRAL, Swift, and RXTE [PDF]

Carlo Ferrigno, Enrico Bozzo, Melania Del Santo, Fiamma Capitanio

1104.2513 (Timothy C. Beers et al.)

The Case for the Dual Halo of the Milky Way [PDF]

Timothy C. Beers, Daniela Carollo, Zeljko Ivezic, Deokkeun An, Masashi Chiba, John E. Norris, Ken C. Freeman, Young Sun Lee, Jeffrey A. Munn, Paola Re Fiorentin, Thirupathi Sivarani, Ronald Wilhelm, Brian Yanny, Donald G. York

Dark Matter Sub-Halo Counts via Star Stream Crossings [PDF]

Raymond G. Carlberg

Na-O anticorrelation and HB. IX. Kinematics of the program clusters. A link between systemic rotation and HB morphology? [PDF]

M. Bellazzini, A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta, R. G. Gratton, S. Lucatello, G. Catanzaro, F. Leone

In pursuit of gamma-ray burst progenitors: the identification of a sub-population of rotating Wolf-Rayet stars [PDF]

Jorick S. Vink, G. Graefener, T. J. Harries

The mid-infrared extinction in molecular clouds Case study of B 335 [PDF]

Sven Olofsson, Göran Olofsson

The inner Galactic bulge: evidence for a nuclear bar? [PDF]

Ortwin Gerhard, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta

W. W. Morgan and the Discovery of the Spiral Arm Structure of our Galaxy [PDF]

William Sheehan

Identification of Spitzer-IRS staring mode targets in the Magellanic Clouds [PDF]

Paul M. E. Ruffle, Paul M. Woods, F. Kemper

Detailed abundances for M giants in two inner bulge fields from Infrared Spectroscopy [PDF]

R. Michael Rich, Livia Origlia, Elena Valenti

The Aquila comparison Project: The Effects of Feedback and Numerical Methods on Simulations of Galaxy Formation [PDF]

C. Scannapieco, M. Wadepuhl, O. H. Parry, J. F. Navarro, A. Jenkins, V. Springel, R. Teyssier, E. Carlson, H. M. P. Couchman, R. A. Crain, C. Dalla Vecchia, C. S. Frenk, C. Kobayashi, P. Monaco, G. Murante, T. Okamoto, T. Quinn, J. Schaye, G. S. Stinson, T. Theuns, J. Wadsley, S. D. M. White, R. Woods

A Large Population of Massive Compact Post-Starburst Galaxies at z>1: Implications for the Size Evolution and Quenching Mechanism of Quiescent Galaxies [PDF]

Katherine E. Whitaker, Mariska Kriek, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Rachel Bezanson, Gabriel Brammer, Marijn Franx, Ivo Labbe

The Arizona CDFS Environment Survey (ACES): A Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopic Survey of the Chandra Deep Field South [PDF]

Michael C. Cooper, R. Yan, M. Dickinson, S. Juneau, J. M. Lotz, J. A. Newman, C. Papovich, S. Salim, G. Walth, B. J. Weiner, C. N. A. Willmer

Identification of a Fundamental Transition in a Turbulently-Supported Interstellar Medium [PDF]

Evan Scannapieco, William J. Gray, Liubin Pan

The LABOCA Survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Clustering of submillimetre galaxies [PDF]

Ryan C. Hickox, J. L. Wardlow, Ian Smail, A. D. Myers, D. M. Alexander, A. M. Swinbank, A. L. R. Danielson, J. P. Stott, S. C. Chapman, K. E. K. Coppin, J. S. Dunlop, E. Gawiser, D. Lutz, P. van der Werf, A. Weiss

XMM-Newton Detects a Hot Gaseous Halo in the Fastest Rotating Spiral Galaxy UGC 12591 [PDF]

Xinyu Dai, Michael E. Anderson, Joel N. Bregman, Jon M. Miller

YouASTRO: a web-based bibliography management system with distributed comments and rating features for SAO/NASA ADS papers [PDF]

F. Bocchino, J. Lopez-Santiago, F. Albacete-Colombo, N. Bucciantini

The APEX-CHAMP+ view of the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 core - Constraining the excitation with submillimeter CO multi-line observations [PDF]

T. -C. Peng, F. Wyrowski, L. A. Zapata, R. Güsten, K. M. Menten

Friday, December 30, 2011

On the emission lines in active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets [PDF]

How accurate is it to update the cosmology of your halo catalogues? [PDF]

Nonlocal metric formulations of MOND with sufficient lensing [PDF]

IRAS03063+5735: A Bowshock Nebula Powered by an Early B Star [PDF]

Enhanced Abundances in Spiral Galaxies of the Pegasus I Cluster [PDF]

Magnetic Field Diffusion and the Formation of Circumstellar Disks [PDF]

Central Regions of Barred Galaxies: Two-Dimensional Non-self-gravitating Hydrodynamic Simulations [PDF]

Dynamical Friction in Cuspy Galaxies [PDF]

High Precision Simulations of the Evolution of a Super Star Cluster Around a Massive Black Hole [PDF]

High performance astrophysics computing [PDF]

The Tidal Origin of the Magellanic Stream and the Possibility of a Stellar Counterpart [PDF]

Testing three derivative methods of stellar population synthesis models [PDF]

AzTEC 1.1 mm Observations of the MBM12 Molecular Cloud [PDF]