astro-ph.GA : Galaxy Astrophysics: September 2012

Friday, September 28, 2012

1209.6052 (B. Vollmer et al.)

A dynamical model for the Taffy galaxies UGC 12914/5 [PDF]

B. Vollmer, J. Braine, M. Soida

Physical conditions in the gas phases of the giant HII region LMC-N11 unveiled by Herschel - I. Diffuse [CII] and [OIII] emission in LMC-N11B [PDF]

V. Lebouteiller, D. Cormier, S. C. Madden, F. Galliano, R. Indebetouw, N. Abel, M. Sauvage, S. Hony, A. Contursi, A. Poglitsch, A. Remy, E. Sturm, R. Wu

X-ray Binaries and Star Clusters in the Antennae: Optical Cluster Counterparts [PDF]

Blagoy Rangelov, Rupali Chandar, Andrea Prestwich, Bradley C. Whitmore

The inhomogenous reionization of the inter-galactic medium by metal-poor globular clusters [PDF]

B. F. Griffen, M. J. Drinkwater, Ilian T. Iliev, P. A. Thomas, Garrelt Mellema

The occurrence of nitrogen-enhanced metal-poor stars: implications for the initial mass function in the early Galactic halo [PDF]

Onno R. Pols, Robert G. Izzard, Richard J. Stancliffe, Evert Glebbeek

Spatially resolved spectroscopy of the globular cluster RZ 2109 and the nature of its black hole [PDF]

Mark B. Peacock, Stephen E. Zepf, Arunav Kundu, Thomas J. Maccarone, Katherine L. Rhode, John J. Salzer, Christopher Z. Waters, Robin Ciardullo, Caryl Gronwall, Daniel Stern

Gaia constraints on the Galactic thick disc [PDF]

G. Kordopatis

The role of OH in the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks II. Gas-rich environments [PDF]

Germán Chaparro Molano, Inga Kamp

Large-scale effects of ionizing feedback [PDF]

James Dale

The Unprecedented Third Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a Supernova [PDF]

Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, Alexei Filippenko, Kyle Blanchard, Peter Blanchard, Chadwick F. E. Casper, S. Bradley Cenko, Kelsey I. Clubb, Daniel Cohen, Gary Li, Jeffrey M. Silverman

1209.5744 (S. P. Ellingsen et al.)

Discovery of Two New Class II Methanol Maser Transitions in G345.01+1.79 [PDF]

S. P. Ellingsen, A. M. Sobolev, D. M. Cragg, P. D. Godfrey

A search for co-evolving ion and neutral gas species in prestellar molecular cloud cores [PDF]

Konstantinos Tassis, Talayeh Hezareh, Karen Willacy

Numerical Simulations of the Dark Universe: State of the Art and the Next Decade [PDF]

Michael Kuhlen, Mark Vogelsberger, Raul Angulo

Isotropic Heating of Galaxy Cluster Cores via Rapidly Reorienting AGN Jets [PDF]

Arif Babul, Prateek Sharma, Christopher S. Reynolds

Gaia and the dynamics of the Galaxy [PDF]

Benoit Famaey

Non-Gaussianities, early Universe, and GRBs. Tracing the primeval state of the Universe with number counts of Gamma-Ray Bursts [PDF]

Umberto Maio

Star Formation and Dust Extinction Properties of Local Galaxies as seen from AKARI and GALEX [PDF]

A. Sakurai, T. T. Takeuchi, F. -T. Yuan, V. Buat, D. Burgarella

The impact of thermodynamics on gravitational collapse: filament formation and magnetic field amplification [PDF]

Thomas Peters, Dominik R. G. Schleicher, Ralf S. Klessen, Robi Banerjee, Christoph Federrath, Rowan J. Smith, Sharanya Sur

Radio-to-gamma-ray Monitoring of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy PMN J0948+0022 from 2008 to 2011 [PDF]

L. Foschini, E. Angelakis, L. Fuhrmann, G. Ghisellini, T. Hovatta, A. Lahteenmaki, M. L. Lister, V. Braito, L. Gallo, T. S. Hamilton, M. Kino, S. Komossa, A. B. Pushkarev, D. J. Thompson, O. Tibolla, A. Tramacere, A. Carraminana, L. Carrasco, A. Falcone, M. Giroletti, D. Grupe, Y. Y. Kovalev, T. P. Krichbaum, W. Max-Moerbeck, I. Nestoras, T. J. Pearson, A. Porras, A. C. S. Readhead, E. Recillas, J. L. Richards, D. Riquelme, A. Sievers, J. Tammi, M. Tornikoski, H. Ungerechts, J. A. Zensus, A. Celotti, G. Bonnoli, A. Doi, L. Maraschi, G. Tagliaferri, F. Tavecchio

Mass loss and fate of the most massive stars [PDF]

Jorick S. Vink

Mass-loss predictions for evolved very metal-poor massive stars [PDF]

Lianne Muijres, Jorick S. Vink, A. de Koter, R. Hirschi, N. Langer, S. -C. Yoon

The mass-loss dominated lives of the most massive stars [PDF]

Jorick S. Vink

Binary-disk interaction: Gap-Opening criteria [PDF]

Luciano del Valle, Andres Escala

1109.3713 (Sijing Shen et al.)

The origin of metals in the circum-galactic medium of massive galaxies at z=3 [PDF]

Sijing Shen, Piero Madau, Anthony Aguirre, Javiera Guedes, Lucio Mayer, James Wadsley

A Cold Milky Way Stellar Stream in the Direction of Triangulum [PDF]

Ana Bonaca, Marla Geha, Nitya Kallivayalil

The SLUGGS Survey: NGC 3115, A Critical Test Case for Metallicity Bimodality in Globular Cluster Systems [PDF]

Jean P. Brodie, Christopher Usher, Charlie Conroy, Jay Strader, Jacob A. Arnold, Duncan A. Forbes, Aaron J. Romanowsky

A Baryonic Solution to the Missing Satellites Problem [PDF]

Alyson M. Brooks, Michael Kuhlen, Adi Zolotov, Dan Hooper

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury III. Measuring Ages and Masses of Partially Resolved Stellar Clusters [PDF]

Lori C. Beerman, L. Clifton Johnson, Morgan Fouesneau, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Daniel R. Weisz, Anil C. Seth, Ben F. Williams, Eric F. Bell, Luciana C. Bianchi, Nelson Caldwell, Andrew E. Dolphin, Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, Jason S. Kalirai, Søren S. Larsen, Jason L. Melbourne, Hans-Walter Rix, Evan D. Skillman

From Dust to Planetesimals: Criteria for Gravitational Instability of Small Particles in Gas [PDF]

Ji-Ming Shi, Eugene Chiang

The Disk Population of the Upper Scorpius Association [PDF]

K. L. Luhman, E. E. Mamajek

Water and Methanol Maser Activities in the NGC 2024 FIR 6 Region [PDF]

Minho Choi, Miju Kang, Do-Young Byun, Jeong-Eun Lee

Study of The Abundance Patterns in The Metal-Poor Stellar Stream [PDF]

Hongjie Li, Shuai Liang, Wenyuan Cui, Bo Zhang

M82 - A radio continuum and polarisation study I. Data reduction and cosmic ray propagation [PDF]

B. Adebahr, M. Krause, U. Klein, M. Wezgowiec, D. J. Bomans, R. -J. Dettmar

The phase space density of fermionic dark matter haloes [PDF]

Shi Shao, Liang Gao, Tom Theuns, Carlos S. Frenk

Inverting the White Dwarf Luminosity Function: the Star Formation History of the Solar Neighbourhood [PDF]

Nicholas Rowell

Hypernuclear matter in strong magnetic field [PDF]

Monika Sinha, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, Armen Sedrakian

A Cool Dust Factory in the Crab Nebula: A Herschel Study of the Filaments [PDF]

H. L. Gomez, O. Krause, M. J. Barlow, B. M. Swinyard, P. J. Owen, C. J. R. Clark, M. Matsuura, E. L. Gomez, J. Rho, M. -A. Besel, J. Bouwman, W. K. Gear, Th. Henning, R. J. Ivison, E. T. Polehampton, B. Sibthorpe

Extreme-mass-ratio bursts from the Galactic Centre [PDF]

Christopher P. L. Berry, Jonathan R. Gair

A Unified Microscopic-Macroscopic Monte Carlo Simulation of Gas-Grain Chemistry in Cold Dense Interstellar Clouds [PDF]

Qiang Chang, Eric Herbst

1209.4942 (Giovanni Carraro et al.)

Five old open clusters more in the outer Galactic disk [PDF]

Giovanni Carraro, Yuri Beletsky, Gianni Marconi

The Carnegie Hubble Program: The Leavitt Law at 3.6 and 4.5 micron in the Milky Way [PDF]

Andrew J. Monson, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, S. E. Persson, Victoria Scowcroft, Mark Seibert, Jane R. Rigby

A Bayesian Approach to Locating the Red Giant Branch Tip Magnitude (Part II); Distances to the Satellites of M31 [PDF]

Anthony R. Conn, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Geraint F. Lewis, Quentin A. Parker, Daniel B. Zucker, Nicolas F. Martin, Alan W. McConnachie, Mike J. Irwin, Nial Tanvir, Mark A. Fardal, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Scott C. Chapman, David Valls-Gabaud

Radial Metallicity Distribution Breaks at Corotation Radius in Spiral Galaxies [PDF]

Sergio Scarano Jr, Jacques R. D. Lépine

Giant pulse emission from PSR B0950+08 [PDF]

Ashok K. Singal, Hari Om Vats

Long-term stability of fibre-optic transmission for multi-object spectroscopy [PDF]

R. Sharp, S. Brough, R. D. Cannon

XMM-Newton view of the N 206 superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud [PDF]

Patrick J. Kavanagh, Manami Sasaki, Sean. D. Points

Feedback from Winds and Supernovae in Massive Stellar Clusters [PDF]

Julian Pittard, Hazel Rogers

Herschel observations of B1-bS and B1-bN: two first hydrostatic core candidates in the Perseus star-forming cloud [PDF]

Stefano Pezzuto, D. Elia, E. Schisano, F. Strafella, J. Di Francesco, S. Sadavoy, P. André, M. Benedettini, J. P. Bernard, A. M. di Giorgio, A. Facchini, M. Hennemann, T. Hill, V. Könyves, S. Molinari, F. Motte, Q. Nguyen-Luong, N. Peretto, M. Pestalozzi, D. Polychroni, K. L. J. Rygl, P. Saraceno, N. Schneider, L. Spinoglio, L. Testi, D. Ward-Thompson, G. J. White

New Maser Emission from Nonmetastable Ammonia in NGC 7538. III. Detection of the (10,6) Transition and a Velocity Gradient [PDF]

Ian M. Hoffman

1209.4640 (J. Christopher Howk et al.)

Ionized Gas in the First 10 Kiloparsecs of the Interstellar Galactic Halo: Metal Ion Fractions [PDF]

J. Christopher Howk, S. Michelle Consiglio

Insights into Pre-Enrichment of Star Clusters and Self-Enrichment of Dwarf Galaxies from their Intrinsic Metallicity Dispersions [PDF]

Ryan Leaman

On the effects of rotation during the formation of population III protostars [PDF]

Jayanta Dutta, Paul C. Clark, Ralf S. Klessen

Gamma-ray emission from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and implications on the jets unification [PDF]

Luigi Foschini

The Arecibo HII Region Discovery Survey [PDF]

T. M. Bania, L. D. Anderson, Dana S. Balser

How to recover both velocity components in discs of barred galaxies with integral-field spectroscopy [PDF]

Witold Maciejewski, Eric Emsellem, Davor Krajnović

1209.4366 (Federico García et al.)

On the origin of the jet-like radio/X-ray morphology of G290.1-0.8 [PDF]

Federico García, Jorge A. Combi, Juan F. Albacete-Colombo, Gustavo E. Romero, Fabrizio Bocchino, Javier López-Santiago

The long bar as seen by the VVV survey: I. Colour-magnitude diagrams [PDF]

C. González-Fernández, M. López-Corredoira, E. B. Amôres, D. Minniti, P. Lucas, I. Toledo

Implications and Applications of Kinematic Galaxy Scaling Relations [PDF]

Dennis Zaritsky

CO J=2-1 Observations toward the Supernova Remnant G54.1+0.3 [PDF]

Jung-Won Lee, Bon-Chul Koo, Jeong-Eun Lee

Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge: different stellar populations and possible gradients [PDF]

V. Grieco, F. Matteucci, A. Pipino, G. Cescutti

On the shape of the mass-function of dense clumps in the Hi-GAL fields. I. SED determination and global properties of the mass-functions [PDF]

L. Olmi, D. Angles-Alcazar, D. Elia, S. Molinari, L. Montier, M. Pestalozzi, S. Pezzuto, D. Polychroni, I. Ristorcelli, J. Rodon, E. Schisano, M. D. Smith, L. Testi, M. Thompson

Superbubble dynamics in globular cluster infancy I. How do globular clusters first lose their cold gas? [PDF]

Martin Krause, Corinne Charbonnel, Thibaut Decressin, Georges Meynet, Nikos Prantzos, Roland Diehl

The First Spectroscopically Resolved Sub-parsec Orbit of a Supermassive Binary Black Hole [PDF]

E. Bon, P. Jovanović, P. Marziani, A. I. Shapovalova, N. Bon, V. Borka Jovanović, D. Borka, J. Sulentic, L. Č. Popović

Collisional Excitation of the [CII] Fine Structure Transition in Interstellar Clouds [PDF]

Paul F. Goldsmith, William D. Langer, Jorge L. Pineda, T. Velusamy

Stellar Energy Relaxation around A Massive Black Hole [PDF]

Ben Bar-Or, Gábor Kupi, Tal Alexander

Self-consistent spectra from radiative GRMHD simulations of accretion onto Sgr A* [PDF]

Samia Drappeau, Salomé Dibi, Jason Dexter, Sera Markoff, P. Chris Fragile

1209.4080 (Rik J. Williams et al.)

Warm-hot gas in groups and galaxies toward H2356-309 [PDF]

Rik J. Williams, John S. Mulchaey, Juna A. Kollmeier

On the true shape of the upper end of the stellar initial mass function: The case of R136 [PDF]

Sambaran Banerjee, Pavel Kroupa

Does the dwarf galaxy system of the Milky Way originate from Andromeda? [PDF]

Sylvain Fouquet, François Hammer, Yanbin Yang, Mathieu Puech, Hector Flores

Spiral morphology and galactic shear rate [PDF]

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

Eccentric black hole mergers and zoom-whirl behavior from elliptic inspirals to hyperbolic encounters [PDF]

Roman Gold, Bernd Bruegmann

Estimating distance, pressure, and dust opacity using submillimeter observations of self-gravitating filaments [PDF]

Joerg Fischera, Peter G. Martin

AKARI Far-Infrared All-Sky Survey Maps [PDF]

Yasuo Doi, Shinya Komugi, Mitsunobu Kawada, Satoshi Takita, Ko Arimatsu, Norio Ikeda, Daisuke Kato, Yoshimi Kitamura, Takao Nakagawa, Takafumi Ootsubo, Takahiro Morishima, Makoto Hattori, Masahiro Tanaka, Glenn J. White, Mireya Etxaluze, Hiroshi Shibai

Tidal interactions at the edge of the Local Group: New evidence for tidal features in the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy [PDF]

Samantha J. Penny, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Christopher J. Conselice, Michael J. I. Brown, Ruth Gruetzbauch, David J. E. Floyd

Galaxy evolution in nearby groups. II. Galaxy evolution in nearby loose groups. II. Photometric and kinematic characterization of USGC U268 and USGC U376 group members in the Leo cloud [PDF]

A. Marino, H. Plana, R. Rampazzo, L. Bianchi, M. Rosado, D. Bettoni, G. Galletta, P. Mazzei, L. Buson, P. Ambrocio-Cruz, R. F. Gabbasov

The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan Survey I: Survey Observations and the Discovery of 13 Pulsars [PDF]

Jason Boyles, Ryan Lynch, Scott M. Ransom, Ingrid H. Stairs, Duncan R. Lorimer, Maura A. McLaughlin, Jason W. T. Hessels, Vicky M. Kaspi, Vlad I. Kondratiev, Anne Archibald, Aaron Berndsen, Rogerio F. Cardoso, Angus Cherry, Christie A. McPhee, Tim Pennucci, Mallory S. E. Roberts, Kevin Stovall, Joeri van Leeuwen

Spectroscopic and photometric studies of white dwarfs in the Hyades [PDF]

P. -E. Tremblay, E. Schilbach, S. Röser, S. Jordan, H. -G. Ludwig, B. Goldman

The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey VI : The Virgo Cluster (II) [PDF]

R. Taylor, J. I. Davies, R. Auld, R. F. Minchin, R. Smith

1209.3769 (Raoul Haschke et al.)

Three dimensional maps of the Magellanic Clouds using RR Lyrae Stars and Cepheids II. The Small Magellanic Cloud [PDF]

Raoul Haschke, Eva K. Grebel, Sonia Duffau

Detailed Abundances of Two Very Metal-Poor Stars in Dwarf Galaxies [PDF]

Evan N. Kirby, Judith G. Cohen

Orion Revisited - I. The massive cluster in front of the Orion Nebula Cluster [PDF]

J. Alves, H. Bouy

Evidence for Two Distinct Stellar Initial Mass Functions [PDF]

Dennis Zaritsky, Janet E. Colucci, Peter M. Pessev, Rebecca A. Bernstein, Rupali Chandar

The central density of R136 in 30 Doradus [PDF]

Fernando J. Selman, Jorge Melnick

The Spitzer Space Telescope Survey of the Orion A & B Molecular Clouds - Part I: A Census of Dusty Young Stellar Objects and a Study of their Mid-IR Variability [PDF]

S. T. Megeath, R. Gutermuth, J. Muzerolle, E. Kryukova, K. Flaherty, J. Hora, L E. Allen, L. Hartmann, P. C. Myers, J. L. Pipher, J. Stauffer, E. T. Young, G. G. Fazio

Galacto-forensic of LMC's orbital history as a probe for the dark matter potential in the outskirt of the Galaxy [PDF]

Xiaojia Zhang, Douglas N. C. Lin, Andreas Burkert, Ludwig Oser

Pilot VLBI Survey of SiO v=3 J=1--0 Maser Emission around Evolved Stars [PDF]

Hiroshi Imai, Miyako Oyadomari, Sze Ning Chong, Akiharu Nakagawa, Tomoharu Kurayama, Jun-ichi Nakashima, Naoko Matsumoto, Takumi Nagayama, Tomoaki Oyama, Shota Mizuno, Shuji Deguchi, Se-Hyung Cho

Near-Infrared spectroscopy of the super star cluster in NGC1705 [PDF]

F. Martins, N. M. Foerster Schreiber, F. Eisenhauer, D. Lutz

New scientific results with SpIOMM: a testbed for CFHT's imaging Fourier transform spectrometer SITELLE [PDF]

L. Drissen, A. Alarie, T. Martin, D. Lagrois, L. Rousseau-Nepton, A Bilodeau, C. Robert, G. Joncas, J. Iglesias-Páramo

The complete far-infrared and submillimeter spectrum of the Class 0 protostar Serpens SMM1 obtained with Herschel. Characterizing UV-irradiated shocks heating and chemistry [PDF]

Javier R. Goicoechea, J. Cernicharo, A. Karska, G. J. Herczeg, E. T. Polehampton, S. F. Wampfler, L. E. Kristensen, E. F. van Dishoeck, M. Etxaluze, O. Berne, R. Visser

Sputtering in oblique C-type shocks [PDF]

S. Van Loo, I. Ashmore, P. Caselli, S. A. E. G. Falle, T. W. Hartquist

1209.3310 (Sara D. Barber et al.)

The Frequency of Debris Disks at White Dwarfs [PDF]

Sara D. Barber, Adam J. Patterson, Mukremin Kilic, S. K. Leggett, P. Dufour, J. S. Bloom, D. L. Starr

On the structure of molecular clouds [PDF]

Ballesteros-Paredes, J., D'Alessio, P., Hartmann, L. W.

Star formation activity in the Galactic H II region Sh2-297 [PDF]

K. K. Mallick, D. K. Ojha, M. R. Samal, A. K. Pandey, B. C. Bhatt, S. K. Ghosh, L. K. Dewangan, M. Tamura

Fractional amplitude of kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation from 4U 1728-34: evidence of decline at higher energies [PDF]

Arunava Mukherjee, Sudip Bhattacharyya

Solar constraints on asymmetric dark matter [PDF]

Ilidio Lopes, Joseph Silk

Interaction of planetary nebulae, Eta-Carinae and supernova remnants with the Interstellar Medium [PDF]

L. Zaninetti

Monte Carlo simulations of the luminosity function of hot white dwarfs [PDF]

S. Torres, E. García-Berro, J. Krzesinski, S. J. Kleinman

1209.3015 (Dan Hooper et al.)

Stringent and Robust Constraints on the Dark Matter Annihilation Cross Section From the Region of the Galactic Center [PDF]

Dan Hooper, Chris Kelso, Farinaldo S. Queiroz

Eccentric disc instability in stellar discs formed from inspiraling gas clouds in the Galactic Centre [PDF]

Alessia Gualandris, Michela Mapelli, Hagai B. Perets

The Low-Temperature Nuclear Spin Equilibrium of H3+ in Collisions with H2 [PDF]

F. Grussie, M. H. Berg, K. N. Crabtree, S. Gaertner, B. J. McCall, S. Schlemmer, A. Wolf, H. Kreckel

Magnetic field amplification by cosmic rays in supernova remnants [PDF]

K. M. Schure, A. R. Bell

Environments of massive stars and the upper mass limit [PDF]

Paul A. Crowther

Finslerian MOND vs. observations of Bullet Cluster 1E0657-558 [PDF]

Xin Li, Ming-Hua Li, Hai-Nan Lin, Zhe Chang

Triggered Star Formation from Bubbles S51, N68, and N131 [PDF]

Chuan-Peng Zhang, Jun-Jie Wang

Space-Based UV/Optical Wide-Field Imaging and Spectroscopy: Near-Field Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution Using Globular Clusters in Nearby Galaxies [PDF]

Paul Goudfrooij, Jean Brodie, Rupali Chandar, Oleg Gnedin, Katherine Rhode, Francois Schweizer, Jay Strader, Enrico Vesperini, Bradley Whitmore, Stephen Zepf

The Chemical Effects of Mutual Shielding in Photon Dominated Regions [PDF]

Richard P. Rollins, Jonathan M. C. Rawlings

Massive Stars: Key to Solving the Cosmic Puzzle [PDF]

Aida Wofford, Claus Leitherer, Nolan R. Walborn, Myron Smith, María Peña-Guerrero, Luciana Bianchi, David Thilker, John D. Hillier, Jesús Maíz Apellániz, Miriam García, Artemio Herrero

Photometric distances to young stars in the inner galactic disk [PDF]

Gabriel Perren, Rubén Vázquez, Giovanni Carraro

1209.2705 (Judith G. Cohen et al.)

The Bizarre Chemical Inventory of NGC 2419, An Extreme Outer Halo Globular Cluster [PDF]

Judith G. Cohen, Evan N. Kirby

Constraints on the Shape of the Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from Jeans Equations Applied to SDSS Data [PDF]

Sarah R. Loebman, Zeljko Ivezic, Thomas R. Quinn, Fabio Governato, Alyson M. Brooks, Charlotte R. Christensen, Mario Juric

XMM-Newton discovery of transient 285.4 s X-ray pulsar XMMU J013359.5+303634 in M33 [PDF]

Sergey Trudolyubov

Nonthermal emission of supernova remnant SN 1006 revisited: theoretical model and the H.E.S.S. results [PDF]

E. G. Berezhko, L. T. Ksenofontov, H. J. Voelk

Experimental tests of pseudo-complex General Relativity [PDF]

Thomas Schönenbach, Gunther Caspar, Peter O. Hess, Thomas Boller, Andreas Müller, Mirko Schäfer, Walter Greiner

Molecular anions in circumstellar envelopes, interstellar clouds and planetary atmospheres: quantum dynamics of formation and evolution [PDF]

Fabio Carelli

Open clusters in 2MASS photometry II. Mass Function and Mass Segregation [PDF]

L. Bukowiecki, G. Maciejewski, P. Konorski, A. Niedzielski

The Star Formation Rate of Turbulent Magnetized Clouds: Comparing Theory, Simulations, and Observations [PDF]

Christoph Federrath, Ralf S. Klessen

A compact steep spectrum radio source in NGC1977 [PDF]

D. Anish Roshi, Scott M. Ransom

Global Gravitationally-Organized Spiral Waves and the Structure of NGC 5247 [PDF]

S. A. Khoperskov, A. V. Khoperskov, I. S. Khrykin, V. I. Korchagin, D. I. Casetti-Dinescu, T. Girard, W. van Altena, D. Maitra

High-energy observations of black hole binaries with the INTEGRAL satellite [PDF]

Melania Del Santo

Interstellar matter and star formation in W5-E - A Herschel view [PDF]

L. Deharveng, A. Zavagno, L. D. Anderson, F. Motte, A. Abergel, Ph. Andre, S. Bontemps, G. Leleu, H. Roussel, D. Russeil

The merging dwarf galaxy UM 448: chemodynamics of the ionized gas from VLT integral field spectroscopy [PDF]

B. L. James, Y. G. Tsamis, M. J. Barlow, J. R. Walsh, M. S. Westmoquette

1209.2415 (Robert R. King et al.)

Testing the universality of star formation - II. Comparing separation distributions of nearby star-forming regions and the field [PDF]

Robert R. King, Simon P. Goodwin, Richard J. Parker, Jenny Patience

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury II. Tracing the Inner M31 Halo with Blue Horizontal Branch Stars [PDF]

Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Eric F. Bell, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta, Tod R. Lauer, Anil C. Seth, Jason S. Kalirai, Philip Rosenfield, Leo Girardi

Extremely rapid star cluster disruption in high-shear circumnuclear starburst rings: the unusual case of NGC 7742 [PDF]

Richard de Grijs, Peter Anders

An HI shell-like structure associated with nova V458 Vulpeculae? [PDF]

Nirupam Roy, N. G. Kantharia, S. P. S. Eyres, G. C. Anupama, M. F. Bode, T. P. Prabhu, T. J. O'Brien

The Stellar and Gas Kinematics of the LITTLE THINGS Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC 1569 [PDF]

Megan Johnson, Deidre A. Hunter, Se-Heon Oh, Hong-Xin Zhang, Bruce Elmegreen, Elias Brinks, Erik Tollerud, Kimberly Herrmann

Modelling of c-C2H4O formation on grain surfaces [PDF]

A. Occhiogrosso, S. Viti, M. D. Ward, S. D. Price

Do we need a new family of optical-NIR extinction laws? [PDF]

J. Maíz Apellániz

Carbon enrichment of the evolved stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal [PDF]

Iain McDonald, Jennifer R. White, Albert A. Zijlstra, Lizette Guzman Ramirez, Cezary Szyszka, Jacobus Th. van Loon, Eric Lagadec, Olivia C. Jones

Elemental abundances of low-mass stars in nearby young associations: AB Doradus, Carina Near, and Ursa Major [PDF]

K. Biazzo, V. D'Orazi, S. Desidera, E. Covino, J. M. Alcalá, M. Zusi

Is there a compact companion orbiting the late O-type binary star HD 164816? [PDF]

L. Trepl, V. V. Hambaryan, T. Pribulla, N. Tetzlaff, R. Chini, R. Neuhäuser, S. B. Popov, O. Stahl, F. M. Walter, M. M. Hohle

On the origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs [PDF]

E. García-Berro, S. Torres, P. Lorén-Aguilar, G. Aznar-Siguán, J. Camacho, B. Külebi, J. Isern, L. G. Althaus, A. H. Córsico

Characterizing a cluster's dynamic state using a single epoch of radial velocities [PDF]

Michiel Cottaar, Michael R. Meyer, Richard J. Parker

Cyg X-3: a Galactic double black hole or black hole-neutron star progenitor [PDF]

Krzysztof Belczynski, Tomasz Bulik, Ilya Mandel, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Andrzej Zdziarski, Joanna Mikolajewska

1209.2114 (Ladislav Subr et al.)

Catch me if you can: is there a runaway-mass black hole in the Orion Nebula Cluster? [PDF]

Ladislav Subr, Pavel Kroupa, Holger Baumgardt

Moving mesh cosmology: properties of neutral hydrogen in absorption [PDF]

Simeon Bird, Mark Vogelsberger, Debora Sijacki, Matias Zaldarriaga, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist

Stellar Kinematics of the Andromeda II Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy [PDF]

Nhung Ho, Marla C. Geha, Ricardo R. Munoz, Puragra Guhathakurta, Jason S. Kalirai, Karoline M. Gilbert, Erik J. Tollerud, James S. Bullock, Rachael L. Beaton, Steve R. Majewski

A statistical method for measuring the Galactic potential and testing gravity with cold tidal streams [PDF]

Jorge Peñarrubia, Sergey E. Koposov, Matthew G. Walker

The horizontal branch morphology of M31 globular clusters. Extreme second parameter effect in outer halo clusters [PDF]

S. Perina, M. Bellazzini, A. Buzzoni, C. Cacciari, L. Federici, F. Fusi Pecci, S. Galleti

Characterizing the formation history of Milky Way-like stellar haloes with model emulators [PDF]

Facundo A. Gómez, Christopher E. Coleman-Smith, Brian W. O'Shea, Jason Tumlinson, Robert. L. Wolpert

Flux Correlations in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence [PDF]

Rick Wagner, Gregory Falkovich, Alexei G. Kritsuk, Michael L. Norman

Can Galactic chemical evolution explain the oxygen isotopic variations in the Solar System? [PDF]

Maria Lugaro, Kurt Liffman, Trevor R. Ireland, Sarah T. Maddison

Determining neutron star masses with weak microlensing [PDF]

Lanlan Tian, Shude Mao

The metallicity profile of M31 from spectroscopy of hundreds of HII regions and PNe [PDF]

Nathan Sanders, Nelson Caldwell, Jonathan McDowell, Paul Harding

Using radiative transfer models to study the atmospheric water vapor content and to eliminate telluric lines from high-resolution optical spectra [PDF]

A. Gardini, J. Maíz Apellániz, E. Pérez, J. A. Quesada, B. Funke

New observations of the gas cloud G2 in the Galactic Center [PDF]

S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, T. K. Fritz, F. Eisenhauer, O. Pfuhl, T. Ott, J. Cuadra, M. Schartmann, A. Burkert

The role of pressure anisotropy in the turbulent intracluster medium [PDF]

M. S. Nakwacki, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, G. Kowal, R. Santos-Lima

The Information Of The Milky Way From 2MASS Whole Sky Star Count: The Bimodal Color Distributions [PDF]

Chan-Kao Chang, Shao-Yu Lai, Chung-Ming Ko, Ting-Hung Peng

A Systematic Search for Molecular Outflows Toward Candidate Low-Luminosity Protostars and Very Low Luminosity Objects [PDF]

Kamber R. Schwarz, Yancy L. Shirley, Michael M. Dunham

The interpretation of Rotation Measures in the presence of inhomogeneous foreground screens [PDF]

M. L. Bernet, F. Miniati, S. J. Lilly

1101.4024 (Torgny Karlsson et al.)

Pre-galactic metal enrichment - The chemical signatures of the first stars [PDF]

Torgny Karlsson, Volker Bromm, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

3D Moving-Mesh Simulations of Galactic Center Cloud G2 [PDF]

Peter Anninos, P. Chris Fragile, Julia Wilson, Stephen D. Murray

Matryoshka Holes: Nested Emission Rings in the Transitional Disk Oph IRS 48 [PDF]

Joanna M. Brown, Katherine A. Rosenfeld, Sean M. Andrews, David J. Wilner, Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Observed Limits on Charge Exchange Contributions to the Diffuse X-ray Background [PDF]

S. G. Crowder, K. A. Barger, D. E. Brandl, M. E. Eckart, M. Galeazzi, R. L. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne, D. McCammon, C. G. Pfendner, F. S. Porter, L. Rocks, A. E. Szymkowiak, I. M. Teplin

Kinetic temperatures toward X1/X2 orbit interceptions regions and Giant Molecular Loops in the Galactic center region [PDF]

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

A new dynamical indicator for chaos detection in galactic Hamiltonian systems [PDF]

Euaggelos E. Zotos

A multipurpose 3-D grid of stellar models [PDF]

J. Maíz Apellániz

Spin-dominated waveforms for unequal mass compact binaries [PDF]

Márton Tápai, Zoltán Keresztes, László Árpád Gergely

The Pal 5 Star Stream Gaps [PDF]

R. G. Carlberg, C. J. Grillmair, Nathan Hetherington

IRAS 01202+6133 : A Possible Case of Protostellar Collapse Triggered by a Small HII Region [PDF]

Sung-Ju Kang, C. R. Kerton

Theories of the massive star formation: a (short) review [PDF]

Patrick Hennebelle, Benoit Commercon

Cloud core collapse and the role of turbulent magnetic reconnection diffusion [PDF]

M. R. M. Leão, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, R. Santos-Lima, A. Lazarian

Collapse of Primordial Filamentary Clouds under Far-Ultraviolet Radiation [PDF]

S. Bessho, T. Tsuribe

Mass loss of stars in star clusters: an energy source for dynamical evolution [PDF]

Mark Gieles

The distance to the young open cluster Westerlund 2 [PDF]

Giovanni Carraro, David Turner, Daniel Majaess, Gustavo Baume

First Interstellar HCO$^+$ Maser [PDF]

Nicholas S. Hakobian, Richard M. Crutcher

1209.1389 (Ferah Munshi et al.)

Reproducing the Stellar Mass/Halo Mass Relation in Simulated LCDM Galaxies: Theory vs Observational Estimates [PDF]

Ferah Munshi, F. Governato, A. M. Brooks, C. Christensen, S. Shen, S. Loebman, B. Moster, T. Quinn, J. Wadsley

A New Catalog of Faraday Rotation Measures and Redshifts for Extragalactic Radio Sources [PDF]

Alison M. Hammond, Timothy Robishaw, B. M. Gaensler

Rotation and Internal Structure of Population III Protostars [PDF]

A. Stacy, T. H. Greif, R. S. Klessen, V. Bromm, A. Loeb

AGN feedback and triggering of star formation in galaxies [PDF]

W. Ishibashi, A. C. Fabian

The molecular clump towards the eastern border of SNR G18.8+0.3 [PDF]

S. Paron, M. E. Ortega, A. Petriella, M. Rubio, G. Dubner, E. Giacani

On the influence of collisional rate coefficients on the water vapour excitation [PDF]

F. Daniel, J. R. Goicoechea, J. Cernicharo, M. -L. Dubernet, A. Faure

Characterization of Young Stellar Clusters [PDF]

T. Santos-Silva, J. Gregorio-Hetem

Interstellar Carbodiimide (HNCNH) - A New Astronomical Detection from the GBT PRIMOS Survey via Maser Emission Features [PDF]

Brett A. McGuire, Ryan A. Loomis, Cameron M. Charness, Joanna F. Corby, Geoffrey A. Blake, Jan M. Hollis, Frank J. Lovas, Philip R. Jewell, Anthony J. Remijan

A Galactic O2 If*/WN6 star possibly ejected from its birthplace in NGC3603 [PDF]

Alexandre Roman-Lopes

1209.1092 (S. S. Larsen et al.)

Detailed abundance analysis from integrated high-dispersion spectroscopy: Globular clusters in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal [PDF]

S. S. Larsen, J. P. Brodie, J. Strader

Scaling relations of metallicity, stellar mass, and star formation rate in metal-poor starbursts: I. A fundamental plane [PDF]

Leslie Hunt, Laura Magrini, Daniele Galli, Raffaella Schneider, Simone Bianchi, Roberto Maiolino, Donatella Romano, Monica Tosi, Rosa Valiante

Disclosing the Radio Loudness Distribution Dichotomy in Quasars: An Unbiased Monte Carlo Approach Applied to the SDSS-FIRST Quasar Sample [PDF]

Mislav Balokovic, Vernesa Smolcic, Zeljko Ivezic, Gianni Zamorani, Eva Schinnerer, Brandon C. Kelly

Scaling relations of metallicity, stellar mass, and star formation rate in metal-poor starbursts: II. Theoretical models [PDF]

Laura Magrini, Leslie Hunt, Daniele Galli, Raffaella Schneider, Simone Bianchi, Roberto Maiolino, Donatella Romano, Monica Tosi, Rosa Valiante

Accumulated Tidal Heating of Stars Over Multiple Pericenter Passages Near SgrA* [PDF]

Gongjie Li, Abraham Loeb

On the convergence of the critical cooling timescale for the fragmentation of self-gravitating discs [PDF]

Farzana Meru, Matthew R. Bate

Magnetic Field Structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud from Faraday Rotation Measures of Diffuse Polarized Emission [PDF]

S. A. Mao, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, B. M. Gaensler, M. Haverkorn, R. Beck, D. McConnell, M. Wolleben, S. Stanimirovic, J. M. Dickey, L. Staveley-Smith

Is the Sgr dSph a dark matter dominated system? [PDF]

Carmen A. Martínez-Barbosa, Rigoberto A. Casas

Jet interactions with a giant molecular cloud in the Galactic centre and ejection of hypervelocity stars [PDF]

Joseph Silk, Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu, Yohan Dubois, Volker Gaibler, Marcel R. Haas, Sadegh Khochfar, Martin Krause

The Wolf-Rayet Content of M31 [PDF]

Kathryn F. Neugent, Philip Massey, Cyril Georgy

Cosmic-ray-induced ionization in molecular clouds adjacent to supernova remnants [PDF]

F. Schuppan, J. Becker Tjus, J. H. Black, S. Casanova, M. Mandelartz

Centimeter continuum observations of the northern head of the HH 80/81/80N jet: revising the actual dimensions of a parsec scale jet [PDF]

Josep M. Masqué, Josep M. Girart, Robert Estalella, Luis F. Rodríguez, Maria T. Beltrán

The circumstellar disc of AB Aurigae: evidence for envelope accretion at late stages of star formation? [PDF]

Ya-Wen Tang, Stephane Guilloteau, Vincent Pietu, Anne Dutrey, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Paul T. P. Ho

Stellar populations in the surrounding field of the LMC clusters NGC 2154 and NGC 1898 [PDF]

E. Chiosi, G. Baume, G. Carraro, E. Costa, A. Vallenari

A Study of the Orbits of the Logarithmic Potential for Galaxies [PDF]

S. R. Valluri, P. A. Wiegert, J. Drozd, M. DaSilva

1010.1261 (Anna Frebel et al.)

Chemical Signatures of the First Galaxies: Criteria for One-Shot Enrichment [PDF]

Anna Frebel, Volker Bromm

Identifying Contaminated K-band Globular Cluster RR Lyrae Photometry [PDF]

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

The Milky Way's circular velocity curve between 4 and 14 kpc from APOGEE data [PDF]

Jo Bovy, Carlos Allende Prieto, Timothy C. Beers, Dmitry Bizyaev, Luiz N. da Costa, Katia Cunha, Garrett L. Ebelke, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Ana Elia García Pérez, Léo Girardi, Fred R. Hearty, David W. Hogg, Jon Holtzman, Marcio A. G. Maia, Steven R. Majewski, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Szabolcs Mészáros, David L. Nidever, Robert W. O'Connell, Christine O'Donnell, Audrey Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Helio J. Rocha-Pinto, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Michael Skrutskie, Verne V. Smith, David H. Weinberg, John C. Wilson, Gail Zasowski

Episodic accretion, protostellar radiative feedback, and their role in low-mass star formation [PDF]

Dimitris Stamatellos, Anthony P. Whitworth, David A. Hubber

The mass function and dynamical mass of young star clusters: Why their initial crossing-time matters crucially [PDF]

Genevieve Parmentier, Holger Baumgardt

Galaxy Gas Fractions at High-Redshift: The Tension between Observations and Cosmological Simulations [PDF]

Desika Narayanan, Matt Bothwell, Romeel Dave

The nature of the interstellar medium of the starburst low-metallicity galaxy Haro11: a multi-phase model of the infrared emission [PDF]

D. Cormier, V. Lebouteiller, S. C. Madden, N. Abel, S. Hony, F. Galliano, M. Baes, M. J. Barlow, A. Cooray, I. De Looze, M. Galametz, O. L. Karczewski, T. J. Parkin, A. Remy, M. Sauvage, L. Spinoglio, C. D. Wilson, R. Wu

Discrepancies between the [OIII] and [SIII] Temperatures in HII Regions [PDF]

Luc Binette, Roy Matadamas, Guillermo F. Hägele, David C. Nicholls, Gladis Magris C., María de los Angeles Peña-Guerrero, Christophe Morisset, Ary Rodríguez-González

Spitzer Observations of Hotspots in Radio Lobes [PDF]

Michael W. Werner, David W. Murphy, John H. Livingston, Varoujan Gorjian, Dayton L. Jones, David L. Meier, Charles R. Lawrence, Anthony C. S. Readhead

SN 2011ht: Confirming a Class of Interacting Supernovae with Plateau Light Curves (Type IIn-P) [PDF]

Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko, Adam N. Morgan, S. Bradley Cenko, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Kelsey I. Clubb, Thomas Matheson

The distribution of equivalent widths in long GRB afterglow spectra [PDF]

A. de Ugarte Postigo, J. P. U. Fynbo, C. C. Thoene, L. Christensen, J. Gorosabel, B. Milvang-Jensen, S. Schulze, P. Jakobsson, K. Wiersema, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, G. Leloudas, T. Zafar, D. Malesani, J. Hjorth

A New Model for the Milky Way Bar [PDF]

Yougang Wang, Hongsheng Zhao, Shude Mao, R. M. Rich

High resolution reddening map in the direction of the stellar system Terzan 5 [PDF]

Davide Massari, Alessio Mucciarelli, Emanuele Dalessandro, Francesco R. Ferraro, Livia Origlia, Barbara Lanzoni, Giacomo Beccari, R. Michael Rich, Elena Valenti, Scott M. Ransom

Oxygen-rich dust production in IC 10 [PDF]

V. Lebouteiller, G. C. Sloan, M. A. T. Groenewegen, M. Matsuura, D. Riebel, D. G. Whelan, J. Bernard-Salas, P. Massey, E. Bayet

1101.2208 (Charlie Conroy)

On The Birth Masses of the Ancient Globular Clusters [PDF]

Charlie Conroy

A galactic-scale origin for stellar clustering [PDF]

J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

The 2200 A bump and the UV extinction curve [PDF]

Frederic Zagury

The Magellan/IMACS Catalog of Optical Supernova Remnant Candidates in M83 [PDF]

William P. Blair, P. Frank Winkler, K. S. Long

Pumping up the [N I] nebular lines [PDF]

G. J. Ferland, W. J. Henney, C. R. O'Dell, R. L. Porter, P. A. M. van Hoof, R. J. R. Williams

An analysis of the FIR/RADIO Continuum Correlation in the Small Magellanic Cloud [PDF]

Howard Leverenz, Miroslav D. Filipović

Made-to-measure galaxy models - III Modelling with Milky Way observations [PDF]

R. J. Long, Shude Mao, Juntai Shen, Yougang Wang

The jet feedback mechanism (JFM): from supernovae to clusters of galaxies [PDF]

Noam Soker, Muhammad Akashi, Avishai Gilkis, Shlomi Hillel, Oded Papish, Michael Refaelovich, Danny Tsebrenko

A multi-waveband study of the Magellanic Bridge [PDF]

Gemma Bagheri, Maria-Rosa Cioni, Ralf Napiwotzki

Analysis of the CN and CH molecular band strengths in stars of the open cluster NGC 6791 [PDF]

R. Carrera

Supernovae and AGN driven galactic outflows [PDF]

Mahavir Sharma, Biman B. Nath

The Gravitational Potential Near the Sun From SEGUE K-dwarf Kinematics [PDF]

Lan Zhang, Hans-Walter Rix, Glenn van de Ven, Jo Bovy, Chao Liu, Gang Zhao

Ortho-to-Para Ratio Studies of Shocked H2 Gas in the Two Supernova Remnants IC 443 and HB 21 [PDF]

Jong-Ho Shinn, Ho-Gyu Lee, Dae-Sik Moon

Simultaneous X-ray and optical observations of true Type 2 Seyfert galaxies [PDF]

Stefano Bianchi, Francesca Panessa, Xavier Barcons, Francisco J. Carrera, Fabio La Franca, Giorgio Matt, Francesca Onori, Anna Wolter, Amalia Corral, Lorenzo Monaco, Angel Ruiz, Murray Brightman

Mid-J CO emission from the Orion BN/KL explosive outflow [PDF]

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

H2O line mapping at high spatial and spectral resolution - Herschel observations of the VLA1623 outflow [PDF]

P. Bjerkeli, R. Liseau, B. Larsson, G. Rydbeck, B. Nisini, M. Tafalla, S. Antoniucci, M. Benedettini, P. Bergman, S. Cabrit, T. Giannini, G. Melnick, D. Neufeld, G. Santangelo, E. F. van Dishoeck

Signatures of accretion events in the halos of early-type galaxies from comparing PNe and GCs kinematics [PDF]

L. Coccato, O. Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi

Thick disk kinematics from RAVE and the solar motion [PDF]

S. Pasetto, E. K. Grebel, T. Zwitter, C. Chiosi, G. Bertelli, O. Bienayme, G. Seabroke, J. Bland-Hawthorn, C. Boeche, B. K. Gibson, G. Gilmore, U. Munari, J. F. Navarro, Q. Parker, W. Reid, A. Silviero, M. Steinmetz

Thin disk kinematics from RAVE and the solar motion [PDF]

Dense Molecular Gas: A Sensitive Probe of Stellar Feedback Models [PDF]

Philip F. Hopkins, Desika Narayanan, Norman Murray, Eliot Quataert

Clumpy streams in a smooth dark halo: the case of Palomar 5 [PDF]

Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti, Paola Di Matteo, Marco Montuori, Misha Haywood

Disk and elliptical galaxies within renormalization group improved gravity [PDF]

Davi C. Rodrigues, Paulo L. C. de Oliveira, Julio C. Fabris, Ilya L. Shapiro

On the orbital and internal evolution of cluster galaxies [PDF]

Francesca Iannuzzi, Klaus Dolag

1208.6294 (V. Silva Aguirre et al.)

Verifying asteroseismically determined parameters of Kepler stars using hipparcos parallaxes: self-consistent stellar properties and distances [PDF]

V. Silva Aguirre, L. Casagrande, S. Basu, T. L. Campante, W. J. Chaplin, D. Huber, A. Miglio, A. M. Serenelli, J. Ballot, T. R. Bedding, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, O. L. Creevey, Y. Elsworth, R. A. Garcia, R. L. Gilliland, S. Hekker, H. Kjeldsen, S. Mathur, T. S. Metcalfe, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, B. Mosser, M. H. Pinsonneault, D. Stello, A. Weiss, P. Tenenbaum, J. D. Twicken, K. Uddin

The Age-Redshift Relation For Luminous Red Galaxies Obtained From the Full Spectrum Fitting and Its Cosmological Implications [PDF]

Gaochao Liu, Youjun Lu, Xuelei Chen, Yongheng Zhao, Wei Du, Xianmin Meng