More interesting astrophysics, Oct 07-17

More interesting (to me) papers on astrophysics, collected between October 07 to 17th, 2008.

This is a mix of preprints (astro-ph) and fully peer-reviewed articles in the main astronomical journals. Your ability to access to the latter may be compromised if you are not at an institution with a subscription.

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Galaxies:

The Most Luminous Starbursts in the Universe
Daniel W. Weedman and James R. Houck
The Astrophysical Journal 2008 October 10, Vol. 686, No. 1: 127-137.

XMM-Newton observations of the diffuse X-ray emission in the starburst galaxy NGC 253
Bauer, M.; Pietsch, W.; Trinchieri, G.; Breitschwerdt, D.; Ehle, M.; Freyberg, M. J.; Read, A. M.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 489, Issue 3, 2008, pp.1029-1046

A Spectacular H-alpha Complex in Virgo: Evidence for a Collision Between M86 and NGC 4438 and Implications for Collisional ISM Heating of Ellipticals
Authors: J. D. P. Kenney, T. Tal, H. H. Crowl, J. Feldmeier, G. H. Jacoby, arXiv:0810.0711v1 [astro-ph]
Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures

And the Rest: The Stellar Archeological Record of M82 Outside the Central Starburst
Authors: T. J. Davidge, arXiv:0810.0843v1 [astro-ph]
Comments: 47 pages, including 17 postscript figures. Accepted for publication in AJ

The Identification of New Stellar Groupings in the M81 Debris Field
Authors: T. J. Davidge, arXiv:0810.0847v1 [astro-ph]
Comments: 31 pages, including 10 postscript figures; accepted for publication in the PASP

Correlations between Mid-Infrared, Far-Infrared, Halpha, and FUV Luminosities for Spitzer SWIRE Field Galaxies
Yi-Nan Zhu, Hong Wu, Chen Cao, and Hai-Ning Li
The Astrophysical Journal 2008 October 10, Vol. 686, No. 1: 155-171.

An XMM-Newton study of hyper-luminous infrared galaxies
Ruiz, A.; Carrera, F. J.; Panessa, F., Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 471, Issue 3, September I 2007, pp.775-786

Multiwavelength study of X-ray selected star-forming galaxies within the Chandra Deep Field-South
Rosa-González, Daniel; Burgarella, Denis; Nandra, Kirpal; Kunth, Daniel; Terlevich, Elena; Terlevich, Roberto, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 379, Issue 1, pp. 357-369.

On the distance and reddening of the starburst galaxy IC10
Authors: N. Sanna, G. Bono, P. B. Stetson, M. Monelli, A. Pietrinferni, I. Drozdovsky, F. Caputo, S. Cassisi, M. Gennaro, P. G. Prada Moroni, R. Buonanno, C. E. Corsi, S. Degl'Innocenti, I. Ferraro, G. Iannicola, M. Nonino, L. Pulone, M. Romaniello, A. R. Walker, arXiv:0810.1210v1 [astro-ph]
Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, ApJ Letters accepted

Large scale galactic turbulence: can self-gravity drive the observed HI velocity dispersions?
Oscar Agertz, George Lake, Romain Teyssier, Ben Moore, Lucio Mayer, Alessandro B. Romeo, arXiv:0810.1741v1 [astro-ph]

Comments: 18 pages, 23 figures, MNRAS accepted. A version with high-resolution
figures can be found at this http URL

Mass loss of galaxies due to an ultraviolet background
Takashi Okamoto, Liang Gao and Tom Theuns, 2008, MNRAS, Volume 390 Issue 3, Pages 920 - 928

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Numerical Simulations and Hydrodynamics

The Turbulent Warm Ionized Medium: Emission Measure Distribution and MHD Simulations
Alex S. Hill, Robert A. Benjamin, Grzegorz Kowal, Ronald J. Reynolds, L. Matthew Haffner, and Alex Lazarian
The Astrophysical Journal 2008 October 10, Vol. 686, No. 1: 363-378.

A test suite for quantitative comparison of hydrodynamic codes in astrophysics
Elizabeth J. Tasker, Riccardo Brunino, Nigel L. Mitchell, Dolf Michielsen, Stephen Hopton, Frazer R. Pearce, Greg L. Bryan, Tom Theuns, 2008, MNRAS, Volume 390 Issue 3, Pages 1267 - 1281

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X-ray instrumentation

A versatile facility for the calibration of X-ray polarimeters with polarized and unpolarized controlled beams
Authors: Fabio Muleri, Paolo Soffitta, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Alessandro Brez, Enrico Costa, Massimo Frutti, Marcello Mastropietro, Ennio Morelli, Michele Pinchera, Alda Rubini, Gloria Spandre, arXiv:0810.2684v1 [astro-ph]
Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures
Journal-ref: Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008 Conference,
23-28 June 2008 Marseille, France, vol. 7011-84

The Gas Pixel Detector as an X-ray photoelectric polarimeter with a large field of view
Authors: Fabio Muleri, Paolo Soffitta, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Alessandro Brez, Enrico Costa, Sergio Fabiani, Massimo Frutti, Massimo Minuti, Maria Barbara Negri, Michele Pinchera, Alda Rubini, Gloria Spandre, arXiv:0810.2693v1 [astro-ph]
Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures
Journal-ref: Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008 Conference, 23-28 June 2008 Marseille, France, vol. 7011-88

XPOL: a photoelectric polarimeter onboard XEUS
Authors: Enrico Costa, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Jean Bregeon, Alessandro Brez, Massimo Frutti, Sergio Di Cosimo, Luca Latronicio, Francesco Lazzarotto, Giorgio Matt, Massimo Minuti, Ennio Morelli, Fabio Muleri, Michele Pinchera, Massimiliano Razzano, Alda Rubini, Paolo Soffitta, Gloria Spandre, arXiv:0810.2700v1 [astro-ph]
Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures
Journal-ref: Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008 Conference, 23-28 June 2008 Marseille, France, vol. 7011-15

X-ray polarimetry on-board HXMT
Authors: Paolo Soffitta, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Enrico Costa, Giovanni Pareschi, Stefano Basso, Vincenzo Cotroneo, Massimo Frutti, Francesco Lazzarotto, Fabio Muleri, Alda Rubini, Gloria Spandre, Alessandro Brez, Luca Baldini, Jean Bregeon, Massimo Minuti, Giorgio Matt, Filippo Frontera, arXiv:0810.2708v1 [astro-ph]
Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures
Journal-ref: Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008 Conference, 23-28 June 2008 Marseille, France, vol. 7011-85

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Supernovae

Late-Time Observations of SN 2006gy: Still Going Strong
Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Joshua S. Bloom, Weidong Li, Alexei
V. Filippenko, Raphaël Gavazzi, Andrea Ghez, Quinn Konopacky, Matthew
A. Malkan, Philip J. Marshall, David Pooley, Tommaso Treu, and
Jong-Hak Woo
The Astrophysical Journal 2008 October 10, Vol. 686, No. 1: 485-491.

Iron 60 Evidence for Early Injection and Efficient Mixing of Stellar Debris in the Protosolar Nebula
N. Dauphas, D. L. Cook, A. Sacarabany, C. Fröhlich, A. M. Davis, M. Wadhwa, A. Pourmand, T. Rauscher, and R. Gallino
The Astrophysical Journal 2008 October 10, Vol. 686, No. 1: 560-569.

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Chemical evolution, yields and metal abundances:

Solar Forbidden Oxygen, Revisited
Thomas R. Ayres
The Astrophysical Journal 2008 October 10, Vol. 686, No. 1: 731-740.