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astro-ph/9505123
A Statistic for identifying cosmic string wakes and other sheet-like structure
We describe an implementation of the structure functions of Babul \& Starkman, in order to quantify the ``sheet-like'' nature of a distribution of matter. We test this statistic on a toy model describing cosmic string wakes, and show that it does a better job than other statistics which have been proposed for distingui...
1995-05-26
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
James Robinson and Andreas Albrecht
astro-ph/9505124
Variable Stars in the MACHO Collaboration Database
The MACHO Collaboration's search for baryonic dark matter via its gravitational microlensing signature has generated a massive database of time ordered photometry of millions of stars in the LMC and the bulge of the Milky Way. The search's experimental design and capabilities are reviewed and the dark matter results ar...
1995-05-26
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
K.H. Cook, C. Alcock, R.A. Allsman, T.S. Axelrod, K.C. Freeman, B.A. Peterson, P.J. Quinn, A.W. Rodgers, D.P. Bennett, J. Reimann, K. Griest, S.L. Marshall, M.R. Pratt, C.W. Stubbs, W. Sutherland, and D. Welch
astro-ph/9505121
HST polarization map of the ultraviolet emission from the outer jet in M87 and a comparison with the 2cm radio emission
We present the first high resolution polarization map of the ultraviolet emission from the outer jet in M87. The data were obtained by the Faint Object Camera (FOC) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The polarization map has a resolution of 0.2 arcsec and was derived using data from three linearly polarized images combined...
1995-05-26
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
R.C. Thomson, D.R.T. Robinson, N.R. Tanvir, C.D. Mackay, A. Boksenberg
astro-ph/9505119
Effect of kick velocity on the gamma-ray burster distribution
The effect of kick velocity to newly born pulsars on the distribution of $\gamma$-ray bursters is examined in the context of a disk origin model and a halo model of $\gamma$-ray bursters. The conversion formula from a 2-dimensional velocity distribution function to a 3-dimensional distribution function is derived and a...
1995-05-25
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Nobuo Terasawa and Makoto Hattori
astro-ph/9505118
The Sun
The paper is based on lectures on the internal structure and evolution of the Sun. It contains an outline of observational and theoretical elements of the Standard Solar Model, emphasizing also recent research results on solar rotation, magnetic fields, thermonuclear energy generation, and solar activity.
1995-05-25
2011-03-01
[ "astro-ph" ]
H.J. Haubold and A.M. Mathai
astro-ph/9505116
Magnetic and Spin History of Very Young Pulsars
After Michel (1994) introduced a phenomenological picture of `rapid magnetization' of newly born neutron stars (NSs), Muslimov & Page (1995) suggested that the physical conditions accompanying the formation of a NS may result in the surface magnetic field of the NS having a low value (~ 10^8 - 10^9 G) while the bulk of...
1995-05-25
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
A. Muslimov (Institut fur Astrophysik der Universitat Bonn) & D. Page (Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, Mexico)
astro-ph/9505117
Properties of a possible class of particles able to travel faster than light
The apparent Lorentz invariance of the laws of physics does not imply that space-time is indeed minkowskian. Matter made of solutions of Lorentz-invariant equations would feel a relativistic space-time even if the actual space-time had a quite different geometry (i.e. a galilean space-time). A typical example is provid...
1995-05-25
2009-08-09
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph", "hep-th" ]
Luis Gonzalez-Mestres (L.A.P.P. Annecy and L.P.C. College de France)
astro-ph/9505111
NON-AXISYMMETRIC STRUCTURES IN THE STELLAR DISKS OF GALAXIES
We study the azimuthal structure of the stellar disks of 18 face-on spiral galaxies, using K-band photometry to trace the stellar surface mass density. Assuming the disks are co-planar, we characterize their deviation from axisymmetry by the fractional amplitudes, A_i and phases of the azimuthal Fourier components at r...
1995-05-24
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Hans-Walter Rix (Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Astrophysik) and Dennis Zaritsky (UC Santa Cruz)
astro-ph/9505115
Observation of Infrared and Radio Lines of Molecules toward GL2591 and Comparison to Physical and Chemical Models
We have observed rovibrational transitions of acetylene and HCN near 13 microns in absorption toward GL2591. We also observed rotational lines of CS, HCN, H2CO, and HCO+. The combined data are analyzed in terms of models with a cloud envelope with density gradients and discrete regions of hot, dense gas, probably near ...
1995-05-24
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
John S. Carr, Neal J. Evans II, J. H. Lacy, and Shudong Zhou
astro-ph/9505113
Optimizing Higher-Order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory for Standard CDM and BSI models
We investigate the performance of Lagrangian perturbation theory up to the second order for two scenarios of cosmological large-scale structure formation, SCDM (standard cold dark matter) and BSI (broken scale invariance). The latter model we study as a representative of COBE-normalized CDM models which fit the small-s...
1995-05-24
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
Arno G. Weiss, Stefan Gottloeber and Thomas Buchert
astro-ph/9505112
CCD PHOTOMETRY OF RR LYRAE STARS IN M5 AS A TEST FOR THE PULSATIONAL SCENARIO
In this paper we present new CCD investigations of RR Lyrae pulsators in the Oo.I globular cluster M5. B V curves of light for 15 RR Lyrae are presented. With the addition of further 11 curves of light by Storm, Carney and Beck (1991) one is dealing with a sample of 26 well studied cluster pulsators whose properties ha...
1995-05-24
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
E. Brocato, V. Castellani and V. Ripepi
astro-ph/9505114
NEAR-INFRARED PHOTOMETRY OF THE CORE-COLLAPSED METAL-POOR GLOBULAR CLUSTERS NGC5946 AND NGC7099
Moderately deep near-infrared images are used to investigate the photometric properties and spatial distribution of bright giants near the centers of the core-collapsed globular clusters NGC5946 and NGC7099. The former cluster is located at a low Galactic latitude and is heavily reddened; nevertheless, the K, J-K color...
1995-05-24
2016-08-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
T. J. Davidge
astro-ph/9505103
Wiener reconstruction, SVD and `Optimal' Functional bases: Appliction For Redshift Galaxy Catalogs
The formalism of Wiener filtering is applied to reconstruct, in terms of spherical harmonics, the projected $4\pi$ galaxy distribution of a mock IRAS 1.2 Jy catalog with a `Zone of Avoidance' $|b| = 15^\circ$. The Singular Value Decomposition al gorithm is utilized as an extra-regularizer in order to stabilize the inve...
1995-05-23
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Saleem Zaroubi
astro-ph/9505110
THE CHEMISTRY OF IRREGULAR GALAXIES
I review the current data on abundances in irregular galaxies, with special emphasis on recent results on C/O and Si/O from observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. The abundance data for He, C, N, and O in irregular galaxies is discussed in the context of models for the evolution of dwarf galaxies.
1995-05-23
2008-02-03
[ "astro-ph" ]
Don Garnett (Astronomy Department, University of Minnesota)
astro-ph/9505107
Bimodal star formation in elliptical galaxies and the enrichment of the intra-cluster medium
A detailed model of galactic evolution is proposed to explain both the iron content of the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) and of the ellipticals pertaining to the cluster. SNII are responsible for the production of Fe in the galaxies and of its partial ejection in the surrounding medium. A high formation rate of massive st...
1995-05-23
2008-02-03
[ "astro-ph" ]
D. Elbaz, M. Arnaud, E.Vangioni-Flam
astro-ph/9505104
The fate of Li and Be in stars and in the laboratory
We connect the observed under-abundances of Li and Be in dwarfs, with recent results on nuclear cross sections at low energies: for collisions of protons with atomic or molecular targets, the measured cross sections seem too high with respect to extrapolations for bare nuclei. Phenomenologically, these anomalous nuclea...
1995-05-23
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
V. Castellani, G. Fiorentini, O. Straniero and B. Ricci
astro-ph/9505105
Cosmological evolution and large scale structures of radio galaxies and quasars
The simple unification scheme of powerful radio galaxies and quasars, based entirely on the orientation dependent effects, has been confronted with the observed radio structures for 152 radio galaxies and 173 steep spectrum quasars. Contrary to the scheme's prediction, the cosmological evolution of geometrical paramete...
1995-05-23
2008-02-03
[ "astro-ph" ]
Krzysztof T. Chyzy and Stanislaw Zieba
astro-ph/9505108
Number and Luminosity Evolution of Interacting Galaxies as a Natural explanation for the Galaxy Counts
A newly developed isochrone synthesis algorithm for the photometric evolution of galaxies is described. Two initial mass functions, IMFs, in particular, the recent IMF determined by Kroupa, Tout, and Gilmore, three photometric transformations, and a 1-Gyr-burst star formation rate, SFR, are used to compute the $B-V$ an...
1995-05-23
2016-08-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
Pedro Colin (Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM & Department of Astronomy, U of T)
astro-ph/9505106
Isotropy, homogeneity and dipole saturation
A distribution of points that satisfies the property of local isotropy is not necessarily homogeneous: homogeneity is implied by the condition of local isotropy together with the assumption of analyticity or regularity. Here we show that the evidence of dipole saturation in galaxies (and clusters) catalogues, together ...
1995-05-23
2017-04-26
[ "astro-ph" ]
Francesco Sylos Labini
astro-ph/9505109
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING EFFECT ON COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES: A POWER SPECTRUM APPROACH
The effect of gravitational lensing on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies is investigated using the power spectrum approach. The lensing effect can be calculated in any cosmological model by specifying the evolution of gravitational potential. Previous work on this subject is generalized to a non-flat unive...
1995-05-23
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Uros Seljak (MIT)
astro-ph/9505099
The Stromlo-APM Redshift Survey III. Redshift Space Distortions, Omega and Bias
Galaxy redshift surveys provide a distorted picture of the universe due to the non-Hubble component of galaxy motions. By measuring such distortions in the linear regime one can constrain the quantity $\beta = \Omega^{0.6}/b$ where $\Omega$ is the cosmological density parameter and $b$ is the (linear) bias factor for o...
1995-05-22
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
J. Loveday (FNAL), G. Efstathiou (Oxford), S.J. Maddox (RGO) and B.A. Peterson (MSSSO)
astro-ph/9505101
Phase-Transition theory of Instabilities. IV. Critical Points on the Maclaurin Sequence and Nonlinear Fission Processes
We use a free-energy minimization approach to describe the secular and dynamical instabilities as well as the bifurcations along equilibrium sequences of rotating, self-gravitating fluid systems. Our approach is fully nonlinear and stems from the Landau-Ginzburg theory of phase transitions. Here we examine higher than ...
1995-05-22
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
D.M. Christodoulou, D. Kazanas, I. Shlosman and J.E. Tohline
astro-ph/9505100
No birefringence in Einstein's gravity
Einstein's theory predicts that, massive test particles with non-zero spin or angular momentum, in an external gravitation field, follow geodesics which depend upon the orientation of the spin-angular momentum . It has been claimed that such an effect also holds for photons i.e. photons with different helicities follow...
1995-05-22
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
S. Mohanty and A.R. Prasanna
astro-ph/9505097
Discovery of an Arc System in the Brightest ROSAT Cluster of Galaxies
We report the discovery of two bright arcs in what turns out to be the brightest X--ray cluster in the ROSAT band ever observed, RXJ1347.5-1145. Its luminosity is $(6.2\pm0.6) \cdot10^{45}$erg s$^{-1}$ (in the range 0.1--2.4~keV). The arcs are most probably gravitationally lensed images of background galaxies. They wer...
1995-05-22
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
S.Schindler, L.Guzzo, H.Ebeling, H.B\"ohringer, G.Chincarini, C.A.Collins, S.De Grandi, D.M.Neumann, U.G.Briel, P.Shaver, G.Vettolani
astro-ph/9505098
RECOVERING THE INTRINSIC METALLICITY DISTRIBUTION OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES
We address the problem of deriving, from the observed projected metallicity gradients, the intrinsic metallicity distribution of elliptical galaxies as a function of their integrals of motion. The method is illustrated by an application to anisotropic spherical Hernquist models. We also compare the derived metallicity ...
1995-05-22
2009-09-25
[ "astro-ph" ]
L. Ciotti, M. Stiavelli and A. Braccesi
astro-ph/9505102
Echoes of Gravity
The study of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is progressing at a phenomenal rate, both experimentally and theoretically. These anisotropies can teach us an enormous amount about the way that fluctuations were generated and the way they subsequently evolved into the clustered galaxies which are...
1995-05-22
2008-11-26
[ "astro-ph" ]
Douglas Scott & Martin White
astro-ph/9505096
HOW FAR AWAY ARE GAMMA-RAY BURSTERS?
The positions of over 1000 gamma-ray bursts detected with the BATSE experiment on board of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory are uniformly and randomly distributed in the sky, with no significant concentration to the galactic plane or to the galactic center. The strong gamma-ray bursts have an intensity distribution co...
1995-05-22
2016-08-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton University Observatory)
astro-ph/9505095
Simulating ACQ/PEAK target acquisitions with the HST/FOS
A common target acquisition strategy with the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is to use a sequence of so-called ACQ/PEAK stages. Standard sequences and exposure times are given in the FOS Instrument Handbook (Keyes et al.~1995). The success of a given strategy is difficult to p...
1995-05-21
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Roeland P. van der Marel
astro-ph/9505094
On Masses of Equilibrium Configurations
Proceeding from the new gravitation equations (Phys.Lett.A,v.156, p.404 (1991)) we argue that the theory in principle allows equilibrium stable configurations of a degenerate electron or neutron gas with very large masses.
1995-05-20
2008-06-24
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
L.V.Verozub
astro-ph/9505092
On the formation of low-mass black holes in massive binary stars
Recently (Brown \& Bethe 1994) it was suggested that most stars with main sequence mass in the range of about $18 - 30 M_{\odot}$ explode, returning matter to the Galaxy, and then go into low-mass ($\geq 1.5 M_{\odot}$) black holes. Even more massive main-sequence stars would, presumably, chiefly g o into high-mass ($\...
1995-05-19
2016-08-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
G.E. Brown, J.C. Weingartner, R.A.M.J. Wijers
astro-ph/9505093
The arrival directions of the most energetic cosmic rays
In this Letter we examine the arrival directions of the most energetic cosmic rays (E > 2 * 10^19 eV) detected by several air shower experiments. We find that data taken by different air shower arrays show positive correlations, indicating a non--uniform arrival direction distribution. We also find that the events with...
1995-05-19
2008-11-26
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Todor Stanev, Peter Biermann, Jeremy Lloyd-Evans, Joerg Rachen and Alan Watson
astro-ph/9505091
Galaxy Classification by Human Eyes and by Artificial Neural Networks
The rapid increase in data on galaxy images at low and high redshift calls for re-examination of the classification schemes and for new automatic objective methods. Here we present a classification method by Artificial Neural Networks. We also show results from a comparative study we carried out using a new sample of 8...
1995-05-19
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Ofer Lahav
astro-ph/9505089
PERIGALACTIC DISTANCES OF GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
Luminosities and tidal radii of globular clusters have been used to estimate the perigalactic distances P of well-observed Galactic globulars that do not have collapsed cores. It is found that the cluster metallicity [Fe/H] correlates somewhat more strongly with P than it does with the present Galactocentric distances ...
1995-05-19
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Sidney van den Bergh
astro-ph/9505087
Disk M Dwarf Luminosity Function From HST Star Counts
We study a sample of 257 Galactic disk M dwarfs (8<M_V<18.5) found in images obtained using HST. These include 192 stars in 22 fields imaged with the repaired WFC2 with mean limiting mag I=23.7 and 65 stars in 162 fields imaged with the pre-repair Planetary Camera with mean limiting mag V=21.3. We find that the disk lu...
1995-05-19
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Andrew Gould, John N. Bahcall, and Chris Flynn
astro-ph/9505088
The formation and evolution of large- and superlarge-scale structure in the universe -I: General Theory
A quantitative theory, based on the Zeldovich approximation, to provide an approximate description of the evolution of structure is presented. We give an expression for the characteristic scale of superlarge-scale structure which can also be applied to power spectra with a Harrison-Zeldovich asymptotic. The evolution o...
1995-05-19
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
A.Doroshkevich, R.Fong, S.Gottloeber, J.P.Muecket, V.Mueller
astro-ph/9505090
Type Ia Supernova Scenarios and the Hubble Sequence
The dependence of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate on galaxy type is examined for three currently proposed scenarios: merging of a Chandrasekhar--mass CO white dwarf (WD) with a CO WD companion, explosion of a sub--Chandrasekhar mass CO WD induced by accretion of material from a He star companion, and explosion of a ...
1995-05-19
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
P. Ruiz-Lapuente (1), A. Burkert (2), R. Canal (1) (1- University of Barcelona, Spain; 2- MPI fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany)
astro-ph/9505086
Harmonic Function Expansion of Nearly Oblate Systems
We show how to develop an expansion of nearly oblate systems in terms of a set of potential-density pairs. A harmonic (multipole) structure is imposed on the potential set at infinity, and the density can be made everywhere regular. We concentrate on a set whose zeroth order functions describe the perfect oblate sphero...
1995-05-18
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
Dave Syer (CITA)
astro-ph/9505082
COSMOLOGICAL GAMMA RAY BURSTS AND THE HIGHEST ENERGY COSMIC RAYS
We discuss a scenario in which the highest energy cosmic rays (CR's) and cosmological $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRB's) have a common origin. This scenario is consistent with the observed CR flux above $10^{20}\text{eV}$, provided that each burst produces similar energies in $\gamma$-rays and in CR's above $10^{20}\text{eV}$...
1995-05-18
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Eli Waxman (Institute for Advance Study, Princeton)
astro-ph/9505085
X-RAY OUTBURST OF THE PECULIAR SEYFERT GALAXY IC 3599
We report optical, soft X-ray, and UV observations of the peculiar Seyfert galaxy IC 3599 using data obtained with ROSAT and IUE. Most remarkably, we discovered a rapid decrease of the X-ray flux by a factor of about 100 within one year and a more gradual decrease thereafter. The X-ray spectrum of IC 3599 was soft at f...
1995-05-18
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
D. Grupe, K. Beuermann, K. Mannheim, N. Bade, H.-C. Thomas, D. de Martino, and A. Schwope
astro-ph/9505083
The Confluent System Formalism: I.The Mass Function of Objects in the Peak Model
This is the first paper of a series of two devoted to develop a practical method to describe the growth history of bound virialized objects in the gravitational instability scenario without resorting to $N$-body simulations. Here we present the basic tool of this method, ``the confluent system formalism'', which allows...
1995-05-18
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Alberto Manrique and Eduard Salvador-Sole
astro-ph/9505084
Multifractal properties of visible matter distribution: a stochastic model
Galaxies and clusters distributions show two major properties: (i) the positions of galaxies and clusters are characterized by a power law distribution indicating properties with respect to their positions. (ii) The distribution of masses is also characterized by a power law corresponding to self similarity of differen...
1995-05-18
2009-09-25
[ "astro-ph" ]
Francesco Sylos Labini and Luciano Pietronero
astro-ph/9505072
Non-thermal radiative pair plasmas: processes and spectra
We study the emission and absorption spectra due to various photon and pair processes in a non-equilibrium pair plasma containing a significant density of photons. We present here some preliminary results from Monte-Carlo simulations. These investigations are likely to be useful in understanding the radiation and relax...
1995-05-17
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Ravi P. Pilla and Jacob Shaham (Columbia University)
astro-ph/9505080
Galaxy Tracers and Velocity Bias
This paper examines several methods of tracing galaxies in N-body simulations and their effects on the derived galaxy statistics, especially measurements of velocity bias. Using two simulations with identical initial conditions, one following dark matter only and the other following dark matter and baryons, both collis...
1995-05-17
2009-06-16
[ "astro-ph" ]
F J Summers, Marc Davis, and August E. Evrard
astro-ph/9505074
Towards Understanding the Nuclues of M31
A simple model of the nucleus of M31 based on {\it HST} images and ground based spectroscopy is used to investigate the properties of the double nucleus in M31. The model reproduces the general properties observed in the nucleus of M31. In particular, it produces symmetric rotation curves, and shifts of the velocity di...
1995-05-17
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Philippe Crane (European Southern Observatory)
astro-ph/9505081
DWARF GALAXIES AND THE ORIGIN OF INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM
Following the recent suggestion that it is dwarf galaxies in clusters -- as opposed to large ellipticals -- that provide the intracluster gas, we estimate the metallicity of the intracluster medium (ICM) in such a case. We derive analytical expressions for the fraction of mass of dwarf galaxies that is ejected, and est...
1995-05-17
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Biman B. Nath and Masashi Chiba
astro-ph/9505076
Phase--space Distribution of Volatile Dark Matter
We discuss the phase--space distribution of $\mu$ neutrinos if $\tau$ neutrinos are unstable and decay into $\nu_\mu + scalar$. If this scalar is a familon or a Majoron, in the generic case the $\nu_\mu$ background is NOT the straightforward overlap of neutrinos of thermal and decay origins. A delay in $\nu_\tau$ decay...
1995-05-17
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
S.Ghizzardi and S.A.Bonometto
astro-ph/9505073
Numerical Magnetohydrodynamics in Astrophysics: Algorithm and Tests for Multi-Dimensional Flow
We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme, which is a second-order-accurate extension of the Roe-type upwind...
1995-05-17
2016-08-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
Dongsu Ryu, T. W. Jones, and Adam Frank
astro-ph/9505078
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING OF QUASARS BY THEIR DAMPED LYMAN-ALPHA ABSORBERS
Damped Lyman-alpha absorbers are believed to be associated with galactic disks. We show that gravitational lensing can therefore affect the statistics of these systems. First, the magnification bias due to lensing raises faint QSOs above a given magnitude threshold and thereby enhances the probability for observing dam...
1995-05-17
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Matthias Bartelmann and Abraham Loeb (Harvard Univ.)
astro-ph/9505079
Non-Gaussian CMBR angular power spectra
In this paper we show how the prediction of CMBR angular power spectra $C_l$ in non-Gaussian theories is affected by a cosmic covariance problem, that is $(C_l,C_{l'})$ correlations impart features on any observed $C_l$ spectrum which are absent from the average $C^l$ spectrum. Therefore the average spectrum is rendere...
1995-05-17
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
J.C.R.Magueijo (MRAO/DAMTP,Cambridge University)
astro-ph/9505077
THE APM CLUSTER SURVEY: CLUSTER DETECTION AND LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE
The APM Cluster Survey was based on a modification of Abell's original classification scheme for galaxy clusters. Here we discuss the results of an investigation of the stability of the statistical properties of the cluster catalogue to changes in the selection parameters. For a poor choice of selection parameters we f...
1995-05-17
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
G.B. Dalton
astro-ph/9505075
A Helical Model for the Compact Jet in 3C345
We present a simple model for the apparent superluminal motion along curved trajectories of features observed in the compact radio jet of the quasar 3C345. The model is inspired by the magneto-hydrodynamic approach of Camenzind (1986), and assumes a conical geometry of the jet within about three milliarcseconds of the ...
1995-05-17
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
W. Steffen, J. A. Zensus, T. P. Krichbaum, A. Witzel, S. J. Qian
astro-ph/9505071
On the masses of neutron stars
We analyze the currently available observations of X-ray binaries in a consistent way, to re-determine the masses of the neutron stars in these systems. In particular, our attention is focussed on a realistic and consistent assessment of observational uncertainties and sources of systematic error. Confidence limits for...
1995-05-16
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
M.H. van Kerkwijk (Univ. of Amsterdam, Caltech), J. van Paradijs (Univ. of Amsterdam, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville), E.J. Zuiderwijk (Univ. of Groningen, RGO)
astro-ph/9505066
Cosmic Concordance
Observational constraints guide one forcefully to examine models in which the matter density is substantially less than critical density. Particularly noteworthy are those which are consistent with inflation. For these models, microwave background anisotropy, large-scale structure measurements, direct measurements of t...
1995-05-16
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
J. P. Ostriker and Paul J. Steinhardt
astro-ph/9505068
The Mass of the Milky Way Galaxy
We use the Jaffe model as a global mass distribution for the Galaxy and determine the circular velocity $v_c$ and the Jaffe radius $r_j$ using the satellites of the Galaxy, estimates of the local escape velocity of stars, the constraints imposed by the known rotation curve of the disk, and the Local Group timing model....
1995-05-16
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Christopher S. Kochanek
astro-ph/9505069
Induced gravity inflation in the standard model of particle physics
We are considering the cosmological consequences of an induced gravity theory coupled to the minimal standard model of particle physics. The non-minimal coupling parameter between gravity and the Higgs field must then be very large, yielding some new cosmological consequences for the early Universe and new constraints ...
1995-05-16
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph", "hep-th" ]
J.L. Cervantes-Cota and H. Dehnen
astro-ph/9505070
Spectroscopy of HD 77581 and the mass of Vela X-1
We present new high-resolution, high signal-to-noise optical spectra of HD 77581, the optical counterpart of the X-ray source Vela X-1, and determine radial velocities from these spectra, as well as from high-resolution IUE spectra and from digitized photographic spectra. The measured velocities show strong deviations ...
1995-05-16
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
M.H. van Kerkwijk (Univ. of Amsterdam, Caltech), J. van Paradijs (Univ. of Amsterdam, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville), E.J. Zuiderwijk (Univ. of Groningen, RGO), G. Hammerschlag-Hensberge (Univ. of Amsterdam), L. Kaper (Univ. of Amsterdam, ESO), C. Sterken (Univ. of Brussels)
astro-ph/9505067
Interstellar sulfur isotopes and stellar oxygen burning
A 12C32S, 13C32S, 12C34S, and 12C33S J = 2 - 1 line survey has been made to study interstellar 32S/34S and 34S/33S ratios from the galactic disk. The four CS isotopomers were detected in 20 star forming regions with galactocentric distances between 3 and 9 kpc. From a comparison of line velocities, the C33S J = 2 - 1 r...
1995-05-16
2009-02-16
[ "astro-ph" ]
Y.-N. Chin, C. Henkel, J.B. Whiteoak, N. Langer, and E.B. Churchwell
astro-ph/9505065
RELATIVISTIC EFFECT OF GRAVITATIONAL DEFLECTION OF LIGHT IN BINARY PULSARS
An improved formula for the timing of binary pulsars that accounts for the relativistic deflection of light in the gravitational field of the pulsar's companion is presented, and the measurability of this effect together with its variance estimates are discussed. The deflection of the pulsar's beam trajectory in the gr...
1995-05-15
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Oleg Doroshenko & Sergei Kopeikin
astro-ph/9505064
THE VALUE OF \beta FROM THE LG AND ABELL CLUSTER PECULIAR VELOCITIES
Comparing the observed peculiar velocities of the Local Group and of nearby Abell clusters of galaxies with those predicted using linear perturbation theory and the 3-D reconstruction algorithm of Branchini \& Plionis (1995) the value of $\beta$ can be estimated. I show that the anisotropy that causes the LG motion doe...
1995-05-15
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Manolis Plionis (SISSA,Trieste, Italy)
astro-ph/9505062
Galaxy Selection and the Surface Brightness Distribution
Optical surveys for galaxies are biased against the inclusion of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. Disney (1976) suggested that the constancy of disk central surface brightness noticed by Freeman (1970) was not a physical result, but instead was an artifact of sample selection. Since LSB galaxies do exist, the per...
1995-05-14
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
S.S. McGaugh, G.D. Bothun, J.M. Schombert
astro-ph/9505063
EROS VARIABLE STARS : FUNDAMENTAL-MODE AND FIRST OVERTONE CEPHEIDS IN THE BAR OF THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD
We present CCD phase-binned light curves at 490 nm for 97 Cepheid variable stars in the bar of the LMC. The photometry was obtained as part of the French EROS project and has excellent phase coverage, permitting accurate decomposition into Fourier components. We identify as `sinusoidal' or s-Cepheids those stars with p...
1995-05-14
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
J. P. Beaulieu, P. Grison, W. Tobin, J. D. Pritchard, R. Ferlet, A. Vidal-Madjar, E. Maurice, L. Prevot, C. Gry, J. Guibert, O. Moreau, F. Tajahmady, E. Aubourg, P. Bareyre, S. Brehin, M. Gros, M. Lachieze-Rey, B. Laurent, E. Lesquoy, C. Magneville, A. Milsztajn, L. Moscoso, F. Queinnec, J. Rich, M. Spiro, L. V...
astro-ph/9505061
Detecting T Tauri disks with optical long-baseline interferometry
We present synthetic images of disks around T Tauri stars. We calculate visibility curves in order to study the possibility of directly detecting thermal emission from T Tauri disks. Total fluxes of T Tauri disks are compared to the sensitivity of VISA, the interferometric sub-array of the European Very Large Telescope...
1995-05-13
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
F. Malbet & C. Bertout (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, France)
astro-ph/9505058
Surface Sputtering from Cold Dark Matter Interactions: Proposed Search for its Diurnal Modulation
Nuclear recoil cascades induced by Cold Dark Matter (CDM) elastic scattering can produce the ejection of target atoms from solid surfaces. We calculate the yield and energy distribution of these sputtered atoms in a variety of materials. These parameters would suffer a large diurnal modulation induced by the rotation o...
1995-05-12
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph", "nucl-ex" ]
J. I. Collar and F.T.Avignone III (Univ. of South Carolina)
astro-ph/9505060
Cosmology with Ultra-light Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Bosons
We explore the cosmological implications of an ultra-light pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. With global spontaneous symmetry breaking scale $f \simeq 10^{18}$ GeV and explicit breaking scale comparable to MSW neutrino masses, $M \sim 10^{-3}$ eV, such a field, which acquires a mass $m_\phi \sim M^2/f \sim H_0$, would have...
1995-05-12
2011-09-29
[ "astro-ph" ]
J. Frieman, C. Hill, A. Stebbins, and I. Waga
astro-ph/9505059
Post Big Bang Processing of the Primordial Elements
We explore the Gnedin-Ostriker suggestion that a post-Big-Bang photodissociation process may modify the primordial abundances of the light elements. We consider several specific models and discuss the general features that are necessary (but not necessarily sufficient) to make the model work. We find that with any sign...
1995-05-12
2011-08-17
[ "astro-ph" ]
M. J. Balbes, R. N. Boyd, G. Steigman and D. Thomas (The Ohio State University Physics Department)
astro-ph/9505050
The Cluster Distribution as a Test for Dark Matter Models. I: Clustering Properties
We present simulations of the cluster distribution in several dark matter models, using an optimized version of the truncated Zel'dovich approximation (TZA). We compare them with N-body cluster simulations and find that the TZA provides a very accurate description of the cluster distribution as long as fluctuations on ...
1995-05-11
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
S.Borgani, M.Plionis, P.Coles, L.Moscardini
astro-ph/9505051
Structure Of The Accretion Disks With Opticallt Thick-Thin Transitions
We present here the solution for accretion disk structure, which describes continuously the transition between optically thick and optically thin disk regions. We show that the disk structure equations without advection, used here, give two branches of solutions which do not intersect for $L<L_{b}\lesssim 0.6 L_{\rm Ed...
1995-05-11
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
I. V. Artemova, G. S. Bisnovatiy-Kogan, G. Bjornsson, I. D. Novikov
astro-ph/9505055
Nuclear Tracks from Cold Dark Matter Interactions in Mineral Crystals: A Computational Study
Recoiling nuclei from Cold Dark Matter (CDM) elastic scattering interactions with the constituent elements of some minerals may produce etchable damage tracks in the crystal structure. Present calculations show that in muscovite mica, CDM tracks from recoiling potassium atoms could be readily distinguished from others ...
1995-05-11
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph", "nucl-ex" ]
J. I. Collar and F.T.Avignone III (Univ. of South Carolina)
astro-ph/9505056
Evidence For Recent Accretion in Nearby Galaxies
I discuss observations of magnitude residuals from the B-band Tully-Fisher relationship, B-V color, chemical abundance gradients, and asymmetries in the H I and stellar disks of nearby spiral galaxies within the context of a model in which small satellites or H I clouds are accreted onto the outer disks of spiral galax...
1995-05-11
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Dennis Zaritsky (UCO/Lick Obs., UCSC)
astro-ph/9505057
New Results on Pulsating OB Stars
Until very recently the physical mechanism driving oscillations in $\beta$~Cep and other early type stars has been a mystery. The breakthrough came with the publication of new OPAL and OP opacity data. Model calculations with the new opacities have demonstrated that the pulsations are driven by the familiar $\kappa$-me...
1995-05-11
2008-02-03
[ "astro-ph" ]
Pawel Moskalik
astro-ph/9505054
Low-mass star formation in CG1: a diffraction limited search for pre-main sequence stars next to NX Puppis
Using adaptive optics at the ESO 3.6m telescope, we obtained diffraction limited JHK-images of the region around the Herbig AeBe star NX Pup. We clearly resolved the close companion (sep. 0.128") to NX Pup -- originally discovered by HST -- and measured its JHK magnitudes. A third object at a separation of 7.0" from NX...
1995-05-11
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Wolfgang Brandner, Jerome Bouvier, Eva K. Grebel, Eric Tessier, Dolf de Winter, and Jean-Luc Beuzit
astro-ph/9505052
ROSAT HRI observations of IRAS P09104+4109: a massive cooling flow
A ROSAT HRI image of the hyperluminous infrared galaxy IRAS P09104+4109 shows extended X-ray emission peaked around the central galaxy in a profile characteristic of a cooling flow. The inferred soft X-ray luminosity is comparable to that detected with ASCA. The ASCA spectrum is well fit by a cooling flow spectrum, ind...
1995-05-11
2016-06-08
[ "astro-ph" ]
A.C. Fabian, C.S. Crawford (Institute of Astronomy)
astro-ph/9505053
A 140 Mpc Oscillation of the Abell Cluster Correlation Function
We have developed a parameter-independent method to detect local maxima of the two-point correlation function. By applying it to two samples of rich Abell clusters of galaxies with redshift limits z<0.08 and z<0.12 we detect three maxima centered at 150 Mpc, 300 Mpc and 430 Mpc with confidence levels 80% and higher. Th...
1995-05-11
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Veikko Saar, Erik Tago, Jaan Einasto, Maret Einasto, Heinz Andernach
astro-ph/9505049
IS THE DENSITY DISTRIBUTION OF CLUSTERS NON-GAUSSIAN ?
The one-point probability distribution function (pdf) is computed for the $25\hmpc$-smoothed density field of rich clusters of galaxies in the Abell/\aco\ catalogs. The observed pdf is compared to the pdf s drawn similarly from mock catalogs of clusters in cosmological simulations of Gaussian and several non-Gaussian i...
1995-05-10
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Tsafrir Kolatt
astro-ph/9505048
Extensions around z=2 QSOs
Based on an R-band imaging survey of 6 high redshift (z~2) and high luminosity (M<-28mag) QSOs, we report the detection of extensions in two radio-quiet and one radio-loud QSO. The extensions are most likely due to the host galaxies of these QSOs, with luminosities of at least 3-7 per cent of the QSO luminosity. The mo...
1995-05-10
2016-06-08
[ "astro-ph" ]
I.Aretxaga, B.J.Boyle, R.J.Terlevich (Royal Greenwich Observatory)
astro-ph/9505045
ACCRETION DISCS WITH ACCRETING CORONAE IN AGN. I. SOLUTIONS IN HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM
We discuss a model for the central region of radio-quiet AGN in which coronal accretion is the source of energy for X-ray emission. We start from the Haardt & Maraschi model but supplement it with pressure balance condition, two possibilities of the angular momentum transfer and three models of the disc-corona transiti...
1995-05-10
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
P.T. Zycki, S. Collin-Souffrin and B. Czerny
astro-ph/9505046
SN 1986E eight years after outburst: a link to SN 1957D?
We report on the optical recovery of SN~1986E 7.1 and 7.9 years after explosion. The spectra are dominated by broad H$\alpha$ and [O~I] $\lambda\lambda$6300,6364 emission lines with a minor contribution from [Ca~II] $\lambda\lambda$7291,7324 and, possibly, [Fe~II] $\lambda$7155. Compared with the spectra of the other r...
1995-05-10
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
Enrico Cappellaro, John I. Danziger, Massimo Turatto
astro-ph/9505047
Starbursts in barred spiral galaxies. I. Mrk 712: a new Wolf-Rayet galaxy
We report the discovery of emission from Wolf-Rayet stars in a giant HII region 4.5 arcsec South of the nucleus of the IRAS barred spiral galaxy Mrk 712. The ratio of WNL to OV stars, estimated from the luminosity of the HeII 4686 line, is 0.2. By comparison with starburst and stellar evolution models, we find that thi...
1995-05-10
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Thierry Contini, Emmanuel Davoust (OMP, Toulouse) Suzanne Considere (Observatoire de Besancon)
astro-ph/9505043
The Effect of Physical Assumptions on the Calculation of Microwave Background Anisotropies
As the data on CMB anisotropies improve and potential cosmological applications are realized, it will be increasingly important for theoretical calculations to be as accurate as possible. All modern calculations for inflationary-inspired fluctuations involve the numerical solution of coupled Boltzmann equations. There ...
1995-05-09
2008-11-26
[ "astro-ph" ]
Wayne Hu, Douglas Scott, Naoshi Sugiyama & Martin White
astro-ph/9505042
SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION IN NEUTRON STAR/MAIN SEQUENCE BINARIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PULSAR TIMING
The spin-induced quadrupole moment of a rapidly rotating star changes the orbital dynamics in a binary system, giving rise to advance (or regression) of periastron and precession of the orbital plane. We show that these effects are important in the recently discovered radio pulsar/main sequence star binary system PSR J...
1995-05-09
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Dong Lai, Lars Bildsten, Vicky Kaspi
astro-ph/9505044
PSR J0045-7319: A DUAL-LINE BINARY RADIO PULSAR
Binary radio pulsars are superb tools for mapping binary orbits, because of the precision of the pulse timing method (Taylor and Weisberg 1989). To date, all orbital parameters for binary pulsars have been derived from observations of the pulsar alone. We present the first observations of the radial velocity variations...
1995-05-09
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
J.F. Bell, M. S. Bessell, B. W. Stappers, M. Bailes, V. M. Kaspi
astro-ph/9505041
Electromagnetic Origin of the CMB Anisotropy in String Cosmology
In the inflationary scenarios suggested by string theory, the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field can be amplified by the time-evolution of the dilaton background, and can grow large enough to explain both the origin of the cosmic magnetic fields and of the observed CMB anisotropy. The normalization of the...
1995-05-09
2010-01-06
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc", "hep-ph", "hep-th" ]
M. Gasperini, M. Giovannini and G. Veneziano
astro-ph/9505039
The Local Halo Density
For almost twenty years models of the Galaxy have included a dark halo responsible for supporting a substantial fraction of the local rotation velocity and a flat rotation curve at large distances. Estimates of the local halo density range from $2\times 10^{-25}\gcmm3$ to $10\times 10^{-25}\gcmm3$. By careful modeling ...
1995-05-08
2011-09-29
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
E. Gates, G. Gyuk, M. Turner
astro-ph/9505037
3D non-LTE line formation in the solar photosphere and the solar oxygen abundance
We study the formation of O I and OH spectral lines in three-dimensional hydrodynamic models of the solar photosphere. The line source function of the O I 777 nm triplet is allowed to depart from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE), within the two-level-atom approximation. Comparison with results from 1D models show ...
1995-05-08
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Dan Kiselman & {\AA}ke Nordlund
astro-ph/9505036
Probability Distribution of the Hubble Constant and the Age of the Universe Inferred from the Local Observation
We present a method to compute the probability distribution function of the (true) Hubble constant and the age of the universe, given the estimate of the Hubble constant in our nearby galaxy samples. Our method takes into account both the observational errors and the cosmic variance, and enables to quantitatively compu...
1995-05-08
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
T.Nakamura & Y.Suto
astro-ph/9505040
Ground-based Discovery of Cepheids and Miras in M101
We have identified 4 Cepheids and 5 Miras using KPNO 4m BVRI images of an outer field in M101. The Cepheid and Mira periods range from 30 to 60 days and 350 to 800 days, respectively. We derive independent Cepheid and Mira distance moduli that agree within experimental uncertainties. We find a true distance modulus of ...
1995-05-08
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
David R. Alves and Kem H. Cook
astro-ph/9505038
Interpreting New Data on Large Scale Bulk Flows
We study the implications of a recent estimate of the bulk flow of a sample of galaxies containing supernovae type Ia by Riess, Press, and Kirshner. We find that their results are quite consistent with power spectra from several currently popular models of structure formation, but that the sample is as yet too sparse t...
1995-05-08
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Richard Watkins (Michigan) and Hume A. Feldman (Princeton)
astro-ph/9505034
Neutrinos from SN 1987A: Can they tell even more ?
The neutrino signal from SN~1987A provides an excellent opportunity to constrain physical theories for matter at extreme conditions and properties of particles that are produced in supernova (SN) cores. Phase transitions in the supranuclear equation of state (EOS) may change the cooling history of the collapsed stellar...
1995-05-07
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
H.-Thomas Janka (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago)
astro-ph/9505035
Davis-Greenstein alignment of non-spherical grains
Paramagnetic alignment of non-spherical dust grains rotating at thermal velocities is studied. The analytical solution is found for the alignment measure of oblate grains. Perturbative approach is used for solving the problem. It is shown that even the first approximation of the suggested iteration procedure provides t...
1995-05-07
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
A. Lazarian
astro-ph/9505033
LYMAN-ALPHA FOREST CORRELATIONS USING NEIGHBOR COUNTS
We present a novel technique for calculating the two-point autocorrelation function of the Lyman-alpha forest based on the relation between the two-point correlation function and the Neighbor Probability Distribution Functions. The technique appears to reduce the scatter in estimates of the correlation function by a fa...
1995-05-06
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Avery Meiksin (Chicago) and Francois R. Bouchet (Paris)
astro-ph/9505032
GEMINGA'S SOFT X-RAY EMISSION AND THE STRUCTURE OF ITS SURFACE
We present a model to explain the decrease in the amplitude of the pulse profile with increasing energy observed in Geminga's soft X-ray surface thermal emission. We assume the presence of plates surrounded by a surface with very distinct physical properties: these two regions emit spectra of very distinct shapes which...
1995-05-05
2016-08-15
[ "astro-ph" ]
Dany Page (Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, Mexico), Yu.A. Shibanov (Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St Petersburg) and V. E. Zavlin (Max Planck Institut f\"ur Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching)
astro-ph/9505029
Large Scale Structure Tests of Warm Dark Matter
Warm dark matter (WDM) is an intriguing model of structure formation from the point of view of both cosmology and particle physics. We consider a one-parameter family of WDM models. The linear power spectra for these models is calculated and compared with the corresponding spectra for cold dark matter (CDM), hot dark m...
1995-05-05
2010-11-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
Stephane Colombi, Scott Dodelson, and Lawrence M. Widrow
astro-ph/9505028
Biological Effects of Stellar Collapse Neutrinos
Massive stars in their final stages of collapse radiate most of their binding energy in the form of MeV neutrinos. The recoil atoms that they produce in elastic scattering off nuclei in organic tissue create radiation damage which is highly effective in the production of irreparable DNA harm, leading to cellular mutati...
1995-05-05
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
J.I.Collar (G.P.S., Univ. Paris 7)
astro-ph/9505027
Numerical study of the tidal interaction of a star and a massive black hole
We present a formalism well adapted to the numerical study of the encounter of an ordinary main sequence star with a massive black hole. Symmetry considerations, the use of a well adapted moving grid and a well adapted moving frame along with integration of the partial differential equations by means of pseudo-spectral...
1995-05-05
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
J.A. Marck, A. Lioure and S. Bonazzola
astro-ph/9505025
Gravitational Radiation during Thorne-Zytkow object formation
Calculation of gravitational radiation during binary inspiral leading to possible formation of a Thorne-Zytkow (TZ) object (a neutron star inside a supergiant core) is performed. The calculations were done for polytropic density distributions with different indeces $n$, as well as for realistic models of supergiants. A...
1995-05-05
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
S.N. Nazin, K.A. Postnov (Sternberg Astronomical Inst., Moscow, Russia)
astro-ph/9505026
The stability of uniformly rotating stellar disks
We explore a series expansion method to calculate the modes of oscillations for a variety of uniformly rotating finite disks, either with or without a dark halo. Since all models have the same potential, this survey focuses on the role of the distribution function in stability analyses. We show that the stability behav...
1995-05-05
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
P. Vauterin and H. Dejonghe
astro-ph/9505031
ACCRETION OF HOT DARK MATTER ONTO SLOWLY MOVING COSMIC STRINGS
Cosmic strings with small-scale structure have a coarse-grained mass per unit length $\mu$ which is larger than the string tension. This leads to an effective Newtonian gravitational line source and to a characteristic translational velocity which is smaller than for strings without small-scale structure. Here, the acc...
1995-05-05
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Anthony N. Aguirre and Robert H. Brandenberger (Brown Univ.)
astro-ph/9505030
Causality, randomness, and the microwave background
Fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature are being studied with ever increasing precision. Two competing types of theories might describe the origins of these fluctuations: ``inflation'' and ``defects''. Here we show how the differences between these two scenarios can give rise to striking sign...
1995-05-05
2010-04-08
[ "astro-ph" ]
Andreas Albrecht(Imperial), David Coulson(Penn), Pedro Ferreira(Imperial), Joao Magueijo(DAMTP, MRAO)
astro-ph/9505024
A Generalized $K$ correction for Type Ia Supernovae: Comparing R-band Photometry Beyond z=0.2 with B, V, and R-band Nearby Photometry
Photometric measurements show that as a group nearby type Ia supernovae follow similar lightcurves and reach similar peak magnitudes Thus, these supernovae can serve as standard candles or calibrated candles at cosmological distances. Magnitudes of local and distant supernovae, both in the same filter band, are compare...
1995-05-04
2014-10-13
[ "astro-ph" ]
Alex Kim, Ariel Goobar, and Saul Perlmutter
astro-ph/9505017
Distributions of Fourier Modes of Cosmological Density Fields
We discuss the probability distributions of Fourier modes of cosmological density fields using the central limit theorem as it applies to weighted integrals of random fields. It is shown that if the cosmological principle holds in a certain sense, i.e., the universe approaches homogeneity and isotropy sufficiently rapi...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Zuhui Fan and J. M. Bardeen