Interesting Astrophysics: Dec 01 to Dec 05
Labels:
astrophysics,
black holes,
comets,
dust,
galaxies,
gamma-rays,
hydrodynamics,
starbursts,
stars,
UV,
x-rays
The current week's set of peer-reviewed papers and arXiv preprints I consider interesting.
Galaxies and Starbursts
Star Formation Rates in Lyman Break Galaxies: Radio Stacking of LBGs in the
COSMOS Field and the Sub-muJy Radio Source Population
C.L. Carilli, Nicholas Lee, P. Capak, E. Schinnerer, K.-S. Lee,
H. McCraken, M. S. Yun, N. Scoville, V. Smolcic, M. Giavalisco,
A. Datta, Y. Taniguchi, and C. Megan Urry, The Astrophysical Journal 2008 December 20, Vol. 689, No. 2: 883-888.
Evolution of Lyman Alpha Galaxies: Stellar Populations at z ~ 0.3
Steven L. Finkelstein, Seth H. Cohen, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads, arXiv:0812.0592 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Morphological Composition of z~0.4 groups: The site of S0 formation
D. J. Wilman, A. Oemler, J. S. Mulchaey, S. L. McGee, M. L. Balogh, R. G. Bower, arXiv:0811.4425 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
The Hubble flow around the Local Group
I.D. Karachentsev, O.G. Kashibadze, D.I. Makarov, R.B. Tully, arXiv:0811.4610 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Binary Galaxies in the Local Supercluster and Its Neighborhood
I. D. Karachentsev, D. I. Makarov, ArXiv:0812.0689 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: published in Astrophysical Bulletin, 2008, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 299-345
Journal-ref: Astrophysical Bulletin, 2008, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 299-345
Stellar population analysis on local infrared-selected galaxies
X. Y. Chen, Y. C. Liang, F. Hammer, Y. H. Zhao, G. H. Zhong, arXiv:0811.4694 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 13 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication by A&A
EVN observations of the Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies IRAS 23365+3604 and IRAS 07251-0248
Cristina Romero-Cañizales, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Torres, Antxon Alberdi, arXiv:0812.0760 [pdf, other]
Comments: 3 pages, 6 figures and 1 table; needs PoS.cls. To be be published in Proceedings of Science, proceedings of The 9th European VLBI Network Symposium on The role of VLBI in the Golden Age for Radio Astronomy and EVN Users Meeting, September 23-26, 2008, Bologna, Italy
The IR Luminosity Functions of Rich Clusters
Lei Bai, George H. Rieke, Marcia J. Rieke, Daniel Christlein, Ann I. Zabludoff, arXiv:0812.0427 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, accepted by ApJ
The cosmic evolution of metallicity from the SDSS fossil record
The Chemical and Ionization Conditions in Weak Mg ii Absorbers
Anand Narayanan, Jane C. Charlton, Toru Misawa, Rebecca E. Green, and Tae-Sun Kim The Astrophysical Journal 2008 December 20, Vol. 689, No. 2: 782-815.
Galaxy merger morphologies and time-scales from simulations of equal-mass gas-rich disc mergers
Jennifer M. Lotz, Patrik Jonsson, T. J. Cox and Joel R. Primack, 2008, MNRAS, Volume 391 Issue 3, 1137
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A semi-empirical model of the infrared emission from galaxies
D. C. Ford, B. Nikolic and P. Alexander, 2008, MNRAS, Volume 391 Issue 3, 1176
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Cosmology
Primordial Nucleosynthesis: an updated comparison of observational light nuclei abundances with theoretical predictions
G. Miele, O. Pisanti, arXiv:0811.4479 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of NOW 2008
Synchrotron Radiation from the Galactic Center in Decaying Dark Matter Scenario
Koji Ishiwata, Shigeki Matsumoto, Takeo Moroi, arXiv:0811.4492 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 20 pages, 6 figures
A semi-analytic model for the co-evolution of galaxies, black holes and active galactic nuclei
Rachel S. Somerville, Philip F. Hopkins, Thomas J. Cox, Brant E. Robertson and Lars Hernquist, MNRAS, 2008, Volume 391 Issue 2, Pages 481 - 506
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The Role of Cold Flows in the Assembly of Galaxy Disks
A.M. Brooks, F. Governato, T. Quinn, C.B. Brook, J. Wadsley, arXiv:0812.0007 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: accepted to ApJ
Numerical Astrophysics
Smart detectors for Monte Carlo radiative transfer
Maarten Baes, MNRAS, 2008, Volume 391 Issue 2, Pages 617 - 623
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Modeling the Local Warm/Hot Bubble
Dieter Breitschwerdt, Miguel A. de Avillez, Verena Baumgartner, arXiv:0812.0505 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "The Local Bubble and Beyond II", Philadelphia, USA, April 21-24, 2008
X-rays and Gamma rays
Calibration of the Gamma-RAy Polarimeter Experiment (GRAPE) at a Polarized Hard X-Ray Beam
P. F. Bloser, J. S. Legere, M. L. McConnell, J. R. Macri, C. M. Bancroft, T. P. Connor, J. M. Ryan, arXiv:0812.0782 [pdf]
Comments: 35 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in NIM-A
Section on Extragalactic Science Topics of the White Paper on the Status and Future of Ground-Based TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy
H. Krawczynski et al, arXiv:0812.0793 [ps, pdf, other]Comments: Comments: report from the Extragalactic Science Working group of the APS commissioned White paper on ground-based TeV gamma ray astronomy (12 pages, 3 figures)
Black Holes, Compact Objects, AGN
X-Ray Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei with Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
G. C. Dewangan, S. Mathur, R. E. Griffiths, and A. R. Rao, The Astrophysical Journal 2008 December 20, Vol. 689, No. 2: 762-774.
Chandra Observations of Nuclear X-ray Emission from Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
M. Das, C. S. Reynolds, S. N. Vogel, S. S. McGaugh, N. G. Kantharia, arXiv:0812.0457 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 17 pages, 1 table, 4 figures. To appear in ApJ
Frying Doughnuts: What can the reprocessing of X-rays to IR tell us about the AGN environment?
B. McKernan, K.E.S. Ford, N. Chang, C.S. Reynolds, arXiv:0812.0984 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: 12 pages, MNRAS accepted
Stars and Supernovae
The Scale-Free Character of the Cluster Mass Function and the Universality of the Stellar Initial Mass Function
Fernando J. Selman and Jorge Melnick, The Astrophysical Journal 2008 December 20, Vol. 689, No. 2: 816-824.
Semi-analytical formulas for the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Lorenzo Zaninetti, arXiv:0811.4524 [pdf, other]
Comments: Pages 35, Figures 13
Journal-ref: Published on Serbian Astronomical Journal, 177, (2008), pages 73-85
Difficulties in Probing Nuclear Physics: A Study of $^{44}$Ti and $^{56}$Ni
Aimee Hungerford, Christopher L. Fryer, Francis X. Timmes, Patrick Young, Michael Bennett, Steven Diehl, Falk Herwig, Raphael Hirschi, Marco Pignatari, Georgios Magkotsios, Gabriel Rockefeller, arXiv:0811.4645 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: To appear in the Conference Proceedings for the "10th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC X)", July 27 - August 1 2008, Mackinack Island, Michigan, USA
Nucleosynthesis Calculations from Core-Collapse Supernovae
Christopher L. Fryer, Patrick Young, Michael Bennett, Steven Diehl, Falk Herwig, Raphael Hirschi, Aimee Hungerford, Marco Pignatari, Georgios Magkotsios, Gabriel Rockefeller, Francis X. Timmes, arXiv:0811.4648 [ps, pdf, other]
Comments: To appear in the Conference Proceedings for the "10th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC X)", July 27 - August 1 2008, Mackinack Island, Michigan, USA
Overview of the Orion Complex
John Bally, arXiv:0812.0046 [pdf, other]
Comments: 24 pages, 15 figures. To be published in Handbook of Star Forming Regions Vol. I Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008, Bo Reipurth, ed
This article is particularly interesting with respect to our local vicinity in the Galaxy.
Planets and Astrobiology
The structure of the inner Oort cloud from the simulation of its formation for 2 Gyr
G. Leto, M. Jakubík, T. Paulech, L. Neslušan and P. A. Dybczyński, 2008, MNRAS, Volume 391 Issue 3, Pages 1350 - 1358
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