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Thu, 10 Aug 2017 (showing first 25 of 39 entries)

[1]  arXiv:1708.02927 [pdf, other]

Title: The NGC 454 system: anatomy of a mixed on-going merger

Authors: H. Plana, R. Rampazzo, P. Mazzei, A. Marino, Ph. Amram, A.L.B. Ribeiro

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS (21pages, 20 figures)

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[2]  arXiv:1708.02915 [pdf, other]

Title: Rings and filaments: The remarkable detached CO shell of U Antliae

Authors: F. Kerschbaum, M. Maercker, M. Brunner, M. Lindqvist, H. Olofsson, M. Mecina, E. De Beck, M.A.T. Groenewegen, E. Lagadec, S. Mohamed, C. Paladini, S. Ramstedt, W. H. T. Vlemmings, M. Wittkowski

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

[3]  arXiv:1708.02914 [pdf, other]

Title: High-Energy Polarization: Scientific Potential and Model Predictions

Authors: Haocheng Zhang (1 and 2) ((1) University of New Mexico, (2) Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Comments: Proceedings of "Polarized Emission from Astrophysical Jets", Ierapetra, Crete, June 12 - 16, 2017

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

[4]  arXiv:1708.02887 [pdf, other]

Title: Glitches: the exact quantum signatures of pulsars metamorphosis

Authors: A.A. Hujeirat

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures

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

[5]  arXiv:1708.02865 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Validation of Radiative Transfer Computation with Monte Carlo Method for Ultra-Relativistic Background Flow

Authors: Ayako Ishii, Naofumi Ohnishi, Hiroki Nagakura, Hirotaka Ito, Shoichi Yamada

Comments: 19 pages, 26 figures, accepted to Journal of Computational Physics

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

[6]  arXiv:1708.02864 [pdf, other]

Title: The Carina Nebula and Gum 31 molecular complex: II. The distribution of the atomic gas revealed in unprecedented detail

Authors: David Rebolledo, Anne J. Green, Michael Burton, Kate Brooks, Shari L. Breen, B. M. Gaensler, Yanett Contreras, Catherine Braiding, Cormac Purcell

Comments: 20 pages, 1 table, 16 Figures, Accepted for Publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[7]  arXiv:1708.02850 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The Pan-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey: Star Formation Quenching in Group and Cluster Environments

Authors: Hung-Yu Jian, Lihwai Lin, Kai-Yang Lin, Sebastien Foucaud, Chin-Wei Chen, Tzihong Chiueh, R. G. Bower, Shaun Cole, Wen-Ping Chen, W. S. Burgett, P. W. Draper, H. Flewelling, M. E. Huber, N. Kaiser, R.-P. Kudritzki, E. A. Magnier, N. Metcalfe, R. J. Wainscoat, C. Waters

Comments: 19 pages, 11 figures, accepted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[8]  arXiv:1708.02834 [pdf]

Title: Infrared Spectroscopy of HR 4796A's Bright Outer Cometary Ring + Tenuous Inner Hot Dust Cloud

Authors: Carey M. Lisse, Mike L. Sitko, Massimo Marengo, Ron J. Vervack, Yanga R. Fernandez, Tushar Mittal, Christine H. Chen

Comments: 26 Pages, 5 Figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal 07 August 2017

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

[9]  arXiv:1708.02829 [pdf, other]

Title: Very-High-Energy $γ$-Ray Observations of the Blazar 1ES 2344+514 with VERITAS

Authors: C. Allen, S. Archambault, A. Archer, W. Benbow, R. Bird, E. Bourbeau, R. Brose, M. Buchovecky, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, J. V Cardenzana, M. Cerruti, X. Chen, J. L. Christiansen, M. P. Connolly, W. Cui, M. K. Daniel, J. D. Eisch, A. Falcone, Q. Feng, M. Fernandez-Alonso, J. P. Finley, H. Fleischhack, A. Flinders, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, G. H. Gillanders, S. Griffin, J. Grube, M. Hütten, N. Håkansson, D. Hanna, O. Hervet, J. Holder, G. Hughes, T. B. Humensky, C. A. Johnson, P. Kaaret, P. Kar, N. Kelley-Hoskins, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, M. Krause, F. Krennrich, S. Kumar, M. J. Lang, G. Maier, S. McArthur, A. McCann, K. Meagher, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nguyen, D. Nieto, S. O'Brien, A. O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, N. Park, A. Petrashyk, A. Pichel, et al. (21 additional authors not shown)

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 471, Issue 2, 21 October 2017, Pages 2117-2123

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

[10]  arXiv:1708.02828 [pdf, other]

Title: The first detection of a pulsar with the Atacama Large Millimetre Array

Authors: Roberto P. Mignani (1), Rosita Paladino (2), Bronek Rudak (3), Anna Zajczyk (4), Alessandro Corongiu (5), Andrea de Luca (6), Wolfgang Hummel (7), Andrea Possenti (5), Marta Burgay (5), Gianni Marconi (8) ((1) INAF/IASF-Milano, University of Zielona Gora, (2) INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia and Italian ALMA Regional Centre, (3) Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, (4) University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, (5) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, (6) INAF/IASF-Milano, (7) ESO, Garching, (8) ESO, Santiago)

Comments: 16 pages, 7 figures, submitted

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

[11]  arXiv:1708.02824 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the reionization 21 cm fluctuations using clustering wedges

Authors: Dinesh Raut, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Raghunath Ghara

Comments: 9 pages, submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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

[12]  arXiv:1708.02821 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring Other Worlds: Science Questions for Future Direct Imaging Missions (EXOPAG SAG15 Report)

Authors: Daniel Apai, Nicolas Cowan, Ravikumar Kopparapu, Markus Kasper, Renyu Hu, Caroline Morley, Yuka Fujii, Stephen Kane, Mark Maley, Anthony del Genio, Theodora Karalidi, Thaddeus Komacek, Eric Mamajek, Avi Mandell, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Travis Barman, Alan Boss, James Breckinridge, Ian Crossfield, William Danchi, Eric Ford, Nicolas Iro, James Kasting, Patrick Lowrance, Nikku Madhusudhan, Michael McElwain, William Moore, Ilaria Pascucci, Peter Plavchan, Aki Roberge, Glenn Schneider, Adam Showman, Margaret Turnbull

Comments: For the report with higher-resolution images and for updates and supporting documentations please visit this http URL

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

[13]  arXiv:1708.02775 [pdf]

Title: Who asks questions at astronomy meetings?

Authors: Sarah J. Schmidt, James R. A. Davenport

Comments: Nature Astronomy Comment from June 2017. Final version available at Nature Astronomy (this https URL web) or (this http URL pdf)

Journal-ref: 2017 Nature Astronomy Vol. 1 id. 0153

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

[14]  arXiv:1708.02761 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Stability of librational motion in the spatial circular restricted three-body problem for high inclinations and mass ratios

Authors: Ákos Bazsó, Richard Schwarz, Bálint Érdi, Barbara Funk

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the 6th Workshop of Young Researchers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Budapest 2012

Journal-ref: Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 334, Issue 9 (2013), p. 1008

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

[15]  arXiv:1708.02744 [pdf, other]

Title: The Local Volume HI Survey: star formation properties

Authors: Jing Wang, Baerbel S. Koribalski, Tom H. Jarrett, Peter Kamphuis, Zhao-Yu Li, Luis C. Ho, Tobias Westmeier, Li Shao, Claudia del P. Lagos, O. Ivy Wong, Paolo Serra, Lister Staveley-Smith, Gyula Jozsa, Thijs van der Hulst, A.R. Lopez-Sanchez

Comments: 31 pages, 20 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication at MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[16]  arXiv:1708.02739 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope monitoring of the black hole X-ray binary, V404 Cygni, during its June 2015 outburst

Authors: Poonam Chandra (1), Nissim Kanekar (1) ((1) NCRA-TIFR, India)

Comments: 5 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

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

[17]  arXiv:1708.02727 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: OGLE-2016-BLG-0263L\lowercase{b}: Microlensing Detection of a Very Low-mass Binary Companion Through a Repeating Event Channel

Authors: C. Han, A. Udalski, A. Gould, I. A. Bond, M. D. Albrow, S.-J. Chung, Y. K. Jung, Y.-H. Ryu, I.-G. Shin, J. C. Yee, W. Zhu, S.-M. Cha, S.-L. Kim, D.-J. Kim, C.-U. Lee, Y. Lee, B.-G. Park, J. Skowron, P. Mróz, P. Pietrukowicz, S. Kozłowski, R. Poleski, M. K. Szymański, I. Soszyński, K. Ulaczyk, M. Pawlak, F. Abe, Y. Asakura, R. Barry, D. P. Bennett, A. Bhattacharya, M. Donachie, P. Evans, A. Fukui, Y. Hirao, Y. Itow, N. Koshimoto, M. C. A. Li, C. H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, Y. Muraki, M. Nagakane, K. Ohnishi, C. Ranc, N. J. Rattenbury, To. Saito, A. Sharan, D. J. Sullivan, T. Sumi, D. Suzuki, P. J. Tristram, T. Yamada, T. Yamada, A. Yonehara

Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures

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

[18]  arXiv:1708.02714 [pdf, other]

Title: Individual, Model-Independent Masses of the Closest Known Brown Dwarf Binary to the Sun

Authors: E. Victor Garcia, S. Mark Ammons, Maissa Salama, Ian Crossfield, Eduardo Bendek, Jeffrey Chilcote, Vincent Garrel, James R. Graham, Paul Kalas, Quinn Konopacky, Jessica R. Lu, Bruce Macintosh, Eduardo Marin, Christian Marois, Eric Nielsen, Benoît Neichel, Don Pham, Robert J. De Rosa, Dominic M. Ryan, Maxwell Service, Gaetano Sivo

Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[19]  arXiv:1708.02687 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: The dependence of the IR-radio correlation on the metallicity

Authors: Jianjie Qiu, Yong Shi, Junzhi Wang, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Luwenjia Zhou

Comments: 25 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables. ApJ in press

Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[20]  arXiv:1708.02683 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the Physics of Narrow Line Regions in Active Galaxies IV: Full data release of The Siding Spring Southern Seyfert Spectroscopic Snapshot Survey (S7)

Authors: Adam D. Thomas, Michael A. Dopita, Prajval Shastri, Rebecca Davies, Elise Hampton, Lisa Kewley, Julie Banfield, Brent Groves, Bethan L. James, Chichuan Jin, Stéphanie Juneau, Preeti Kharb, Lalitha Sairam, Julia Scharwächter, P. Shalima, M. N. Sundar, Ralph Sutherland, Ingyin Zaw

Comments: 37 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for ApJSS. Data release available at: this https URL

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

[21]  arXiv:1708.02680 [pdf, other]

Title: Extreme infrared variables from UKIDSS - II. an end-of-survey catalogue of eruptive YSOs and unusual stars

Authors: P. W. Lucas, L. C. Smith, C. Contreras Pena, Dirk Froebrich, Janet E. Drew, M.S.N. Kumar, J. Borissova, D. Minniti, R. Kurtev, M. Monguio

Comments: Accepted by MNRAS. 34 pages, 16 figures. The data table for the 618 variable stars (Table 1) is available at this http URL in FITS and ascii format

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

[22]  arXiv:1708.02669 [pdf, other]

Title: A differential Least Squares Deconvolution method for high precision spectroscopy of stars and exoplanets I. Application to obliquity measurements of HARPS observations of HD189733b

Authors: John B. P. Strachan, Guillem Anglada-Escude

Comments: 8 pages

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

[23]  arXiv:1708.02646 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical Simulations of Supernova Remnant Evolution in a Cloudy Interstellar Medium

Authors: Jonathan D. Slavin, Randall K. Smith, Adam Foster, Henry D. Winter, John C. Raymond, Patrick O. Slane, Hiroya Yamaguchi

Comments: 15 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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

[24]  arXiv:1708.02644 [pdf, other]

Title: The Impact of Baryons on the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe

Authors: Weiguang Cui, Youcai Zhang

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures. Chapter 7 for the book "Trends in Modern Cosmology". In this version (V1), some citation errors are corrected and an additional subsection is included. Comments are welcome

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

[25]  arXiv:1708.02643 [pdf]

Title: Enabling Narrow(est) IWA Coronagraphy with STIS BAR5 and BAR10 Occulters

Authors: Glenn Schneider, Andras Gaspar, John Debes, Theodore Gull, Dean Hines, Daniel Apai, George Rieki

Comments: 33 pages, 27 figures, under review

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

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