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astro-ph/9505020
The Velocity Dispersion -- Temperature Correlation from a Limited Cluster Sample
Most studies of correlations between X-ray and optical properties of galaxy clusters have used the largest samples of data available, regardless of the morphological types of clusters included. Given the increasing evidence that morphology is related to a cluster's degree of dynamical evolution, we approach the study o...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Christina M. Bird (U. Kansas), Richard F. Mushotzky (GSFC) and Christopher A. Metzler (U. Michigan)
astro-ph/9505015
From Microwave Anisotropies to Cosmology
Fluctuations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background have now been detected over a wide range of angular scales, and a consistent picture seems to be emerging. This article describes some of the implications for cosmology. Analysis of all the published detections suggests the existence of a peak on degree...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Douglas Scott, Joe Silk & Martin White
astro-ph/9505022
Feasibility of Measuring the Cosmological Constant Lambda and Mass Density Omega using Type Ia Supernovae
We explore the feasibility of resurrecting the apparent magnitude-redshift relation for a ``standard candle'' to measure the cosmological constant and mass density. We show that type Ia supernovae, if measured with 0.15 mag uncertainty out to a redshift of z=1, may provide a good standard candle or calibrated candle fo...
1995-05-04
2014-10-13
[ "astro-ph" ]
Ariel Goobar and Saul Perlmutter
astro-ph/9505018
A Collision of Subclusters in Abell 754
We present direct evidence of a collision of subclusters in the galaxy cluster Abell 754. Our comparison of new optical data and archival ROSAT PSPC X-ray data reveal three collision signatures predicted by n-body/hydrodynamical simulations of hierarchical cluster evolution. First, there is strong evidence of a non-hyd...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Ann I. Zabludoff (OCIW) and Dennis Zaritsky (UCO/Lick Obs., UCSC)
astro-ph/9505016
On the Detectability of Very Massive Compact Objects with Gravitational Microlensing
If the dark halo of our galaxy is made of compact objects as massive as M = 10^6 solar masses, their detection by means of ordinary microlensing searches would take a very long time as the characteristic time scale of such a lensing event, t_0, is approximately 200 years. Fortunately, the very high magnification events...
1995-05-04
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton University Observatory)
astro-ph/9505019
Probing For Machos of Mass $10^{-15}M_\odot$-$10^{-7}M_\odot$ with Gamma-Ray Burst Parallax Spacecraft
Two spacecraft separated by $\sim 1\,\au$ and equipped with gamma-ray burst (GRB) detectors could detect or rule out a cosmological density of Massive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs) in the mass range $10^{-15} M_{\odot}\lsim M \lsim 10^{-7} M_{\odot}$ provided that GRBs prove to be cosmological. Previously devised metho...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Robert J. Nemiroff and Andrew Gould
astro-ph/9505021
Satellites in Discs: Regulating the Accretion Luminosity
We demonstrate, using a simple analytic model, that the presence of a massive satellite can globally modify the structure and emission properties of an accretion disc to which it is tidally coupled. We show, using two levels of numerical approximation, that the analytic model gives reasonable results. The results are a...
1995-05-04
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
Dave Syer (CITA), Cathie Clarke (QMW)
astro-ph/9505023
A Supernova at z = 0.458 and Implications for Measuring the Cosmological Deceleration
We have begun a program to discover high-redshift supernovae ($z \approx$ 0.25--0.5), and study them with follow-up photometry and spectroscopy. We report here our first discovery, a supernova at $z = 0.458$. The photometry for this supernova closely matches the lightcurve calculated for this redshift from the template...
1995-05-04
2014-10-13
[ "astro-ph" ]
S. Perlmutter, C. R. Pennypacker, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, R. A. Muller, H. J. M. Newberg, J. Desai, A. G. Kim, M. Y. Kim, I. A. Small, B. J. Boyle, C. S. Crawford, R. G. McMahon, P. S. Bunclark, D. Carter, M. J. Irwin, R. J. Terlevich, R. S. Ellis, K. Glazebrook, W. J. Couch, J. R. Mould, T. A. Small, and R. G...
astro-ph/9505009
Possible association of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray events with strong gamma-ray bursts
We point out that each of the error boxes of the two highest-energy cosmic-ray shower events known, overlaps with that of a strong gamma-ray burst (GRB). The GRBs precede the cosmic rays by 5.5, and 11 months respectively. In one case the strongest known cosmic ray is paired with the strongest gamma-ray burst in the BA...
1995-05-03
2011-05-05
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ex", "hep-ph" ]
Mordehai Milgrom and Vladimir Usov (Weizmann Institute)
astro-ph/9505012
LONG WAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS OF HIGH GALACTIC LATITUDE DUST
The properties of high latitude dust are of great interest to extragalactic astronomers and cosmologists. It is proposed here that essentially all high Galactic latitude interstellar dust is at a typical temperature of about 20~K (i.e. it is warm dust) and that if any cold high latitude interstellar dust exists, its em...
1995-05-03
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
George F. Smoot (Berkeley)
astro-ph/9505011
A PRELIMINARY CLASSIFICATION SCHEME FOR THE CENTRAL REGIONS OF LATE-TYPE GALAXIES
The large-scale prints in The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies have been used to formulate a classification scheme for the central regions of late-type galaxies. Systems that exhibit small bright central bulges or disks (type CB) are found to be of earlier Hubble type and of higher luminosity than galaxies that do not contai...
1995-05-03
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Sidney van den Bergh
astro-ph/9505010
Mass Distributions of Clusters Using Gravitational Magnification
Lensing in the context of rich clusters is normally quantified from small image distortions, yielding a relative mass distribution in the limit of weak lensing. Here we show the magnification effect of lensing can also be mapped over a cluster, resulting in absolute mass determinations for the weak limit. Furthermore, ...
1995-05-03
2016-08-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
Tom Broadhurst
astro-ph/9505014
Binary galaxies and alternative physics. I. A qualitative application of MOND and Mannheim-Kazanas gravity
Binary galaxies are modeled as point-masses obeying the non-Newtonian MOND and Mannheim-Kazanas (MKG) theories of gravity. Random samples of such systems are generated by means of Monte Carlo simulations of binary orbits. Model pairs have total masses and mass ratios similar to pairs in the cataloged sample used in the...
1995-05-03
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
D.S.L. Soares (Physics Department - UFMG/Brazil)
astro-ph/9505013
A Gravitational Lens Solution for IRAS F10214+4724
We show that the high redshift IRAS source F10214 is highly magnified by the gravitational field of an intervening elliptical galaxy, accounting for its many anomalous properties. Detailed radio and near-IR images identify the IRAS source with a symmetric arc, centered on a red object, or lensing galaxy. To explain the...
1995-05-03
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Tom Broadhurst, Joseph Lehar
astro-ph/9505008
Phase-Transition Theory of Instabilities. III. The Third-Harmonic Bifurcation on the Jacobi Sequence and the Fission Problem
In Papers I and II, we have used a free-energy minimization approach that stems from the Landau-Ginzburg theory of phase transitions to describe in simple and clear physical terms the secular and dynamical instabilities as well as the bifurcations along equilibrium sequences of rotating, self-gravitating fluid systems....
1995-05-02
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
D.M. Christodoulou, D. Kazanas, I. Shlosman and J.E. Tohline
astro-ph/9505004
Subcluster merging in clusters of galaxies and the cosmological density parameter
Recent X-ray observations have established that collisions between subclusters of galaxies are rather common phenomena. Prompted by such observations, we have performed N-body simulations of two equal-mass subclusters of galaxies, which are going to merge. We first have confirmed that only a part of kinetic energy asso...
1995-05-02
2016-08-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
F. E. Nakamura(Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University), M. Hattori (MPE) and S. Mineshige(Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University)
astro-ph/9505002
On the usage of Flaring Gas Layers to determine the Shape of Dark Matter Halos
I present a new method of deriving the shape of the dark matter (DM) halos of spiral galaxies. The method relies on the comparison of model predictions with high spectral and spatial resolution HI observations of the gas layer. The potential arising from the {\em total} mass distribution of the galaxy is used in the ...
1995-05-02
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Rob P. Olling (Columbia University, New York)
astro-ph/9505006
Determination of Malmquist Bias and Selection Effects from Monte-Carlo Simulations
Maps of the peculiar velocity field derived from distance relations are affected by Malmquist type bias and selection effects. Because of the large number of interdependent effects, they are in most cases difficult to treat analytically. Monte Carlo simulations are used to understand and evaluate these effects. In thes...
1995-05-02
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Wolfram Freudling, Luiz N. Da Costa, Gary Wegner, Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes and John J. Salzer
astro-ph/9505007
High redshift AGNs from the 1Jy catalogue and the magnification bias
We have found a statistically significant (99.1 \%) excess of red ($O-E>2$) galaxies with photographic magnitudes $E<19.5$, $O< 21$ taken from the APM Sky Catalogue around $z \sim 1$ radiosources from the 1Jy catalogue. The amplitude, scale and dependence on galaxy colours of the observed overdensity are consistent wit...
1995-05-02
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
N. Benitez and E. Martinez-Gonzalez
astro-ph/9505005
Approximation Methods for Non-linear Gravitational Clustering
We discuss various analytical approximation methods for following the evolution of cosmological density perturbations into the strong (i.e. nonlinear) clustering regime. These methods can be classified into five types: (i) simple extrapolations from linear theory, such as the high--peak model and the lognormal model; (...
1995-05-02
2008-11-26
[ "astro-ph" ]
Varun Sahni and Peter Coles
astro-ph/9505003
Mechanical alignment of suprathermally rotating grains
It is shown that mechanical alignment of grains can be efficient for grains rotating suprathermally, i.e. with kinetic energy substantially exceeding $k$ (the Boltzmann constant) over any temperature in the system. The paper studies suprathermal rotation caused by H$_{2}$ formation and the alignment that takes place du...
1995-05-01
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
A. Lazarian
astro-ph/9505001
Substructure in Clusters of Galaxies and the value of ${\bf\Omega}$
We investigate the formation of clusters of galaxies in an expanding universe using a new code that regrids at a region of high density. In particular we investigate two models for the initial conditions, both with the standard CDM power spectrum - one has $\Omega = 1$ and the other $\Omega = 0.2$. Both universes have ...
1995-05-01
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
Suvendra N. Dutta
astro-ph/9504101
Decaying $\Lambda$ cosmologies and statistical properties of gravitational lenses
In this paper we investigate the statistical properties of gravitational lenses for models in which a cosmological term decreases with time as $\Lambda \propto a^{-m}$, where $a$ is the scale factor and $m$ is a parameter ($0 \leq m < 3$). We show that for given low values of the present matter density parameter $\Omeg...
1995-04-28
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
L. F. Bloomfield Torres and I. Waga
astro-ph/9504100
GRAIN ALIGNMENT IN THE TAURUS DARK CLOUD
Variations in polarization efficiency (p/A) of interstellar grains as a function of environment place vital constraints on models for the mechanism of their alignment. We use polarimetry of background field stars to investigate alignment in the Taurus dark cloud as a function of optical depth for extinctions of A_K < 2...
1995-04-28
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
P.A. Gerakines(1,2) and D.C.B. Whittet(1) (1- Leiden Observatory, Leiden, The Netherlands; 2- Dept. of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst)
astro-ph/9504097
Reconciling Inflation with Openness
It is already understood that the increasing observational evidence for an open Universe may be reconciled with inflation if our horizon is contained inside one single huge bubble nucleated during the inflationary phase transition. In the scenario we present here, the Universe consists of infinitely many superhorizon b...
1995-04-27
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Luca Amendola, Carlo Baccigalupi and Franco Occhionero
astro-ph/9504095
ASCA observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxies Mrk1040 and MS0225.5+3121
We present {\it ASCA} observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxies Mrk~1040 and MS~0225.5+3121. Mrk~1040 was found to have decreased in flux by almost a factor of 4 since an {\it EXOSAT} observation 10\,years ago. The energy spectrum of Mrk~1040 displays complexity both at soft energies (below 0.8\thinspace keV) and at hard ...
1995-04-27
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
C. S. Reynolds, A. C. Fabian and H. Inoue
astro-ph/9504099
The Masses of Nearby Dwarfs can be Determined with Gravitational Microlensing
Microlensing of distant stars in the Milky Way by the nearby high proper motion stars offers a direct way to precisely measure the masses of single lower main sequence stars and brown dwarfs.
1995-04-27
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
B. Paczynski
astro-ph/9504098
Relativity Experiments in the Solar System
Recent theoretical works on alternative metric theories of gravity give greater significance to solar-system tests of General Relativity. In particular, it is suggested that the post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ ought to be determined with great precision in order to discover possible preferred frame effects or effects...
1995-04-27
2009-09-25
[ "astro-ph" ]
Giacomo Giampieri (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
astro-ph/9504096
Omega_baryon and the Geometry of Intermediate Redshift Lyman alpha Absorption Systems
Estimates of Omega_baryon from primordial nucleosynthesis together with standard assumptions about the ionization state of low column density Lyman alpha forest clouds can be used to determine an upper limit for the cloud thickness along the line of sight. This upper limit provides significant constraints on the axis r...
1995-04-27
2016-06-08
[ "astro-ph" ]
Michael Rauch (Carnegie Observatories) & Martin G. Haehnelt (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik)
astro-ph/9504093
Soft X-ray properties of "narrow-line" Seyfert 1 galaxies
We report on AGN with extremely soft X-ray spectra observed with ROSAT. From their optical emission lines these objects are classified as narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1), almost all with extremely large Fe II/H-beta ratios and relatively narrow optical lines of hydrogen. Our results are based on a systematic stud...
1995-04-26
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Th. Boller, W.N. Brandt, H. Fink
astro-ph/9504090
The thick disc of the Galaxy: Sequel of a merging event
Accurate characterization of thick disc properties from recent kinematic and photometric surveys provides converging evidences that this intermediate population is a sequel of the violent heating of early disc populations by a merging satellite galaxy. The thick disc population is revisited under the light of new dat...
1995-04-26
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Annie C. Robin, Misha Haywood, Cr\'ez\'e, Devendra K. Ojha and Olivier Bienaym\'e
astro-ph/9504091
Microlensing Search of $10^6$ Quasars
By monitoring $10^6$ quasars one could search for lensing by stars and Massive Compact Halo Objects (Machos) out to redshifts $z\sim 4$. If Machos have a present cosmological density $\Omega_{L,0}=1\%$, then the expected event rate is $\Gamma\sim 200\,\yr^{-1}$. The expected event rate for known stars in galaxies is $\...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Andrew Gould
astro-ph/9504094
A Merger Origin for X-Structures in S0 Galaxies
Using numerical simulation, we study the response of a disk galaxy to a merger involving a low-mass satellite companion. During a prograde satellite accretion, the disk galaxy forms a strong bar in response to the perturbation of the companion. After the accretion event is over, the bar buckles vertically due to a bend...
1995-04-26
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Chris Mihos, Ian Walker, Lars Hernquist (UC Santa Cruz), Claudia Mendes de Oliviera (ESO and Instituto Astonomico e Geofisico), and Mike Bolte (UC Santa Cruz)
astro-ph/9504092
Automated classification of IUE low dispersion spectra (I)
Along the life of the IUE project, a large archive with spectral data has been generated, requiring automated classification methods to be analyzed in an objective form. Previous automated classification methods used with IUE spectra were based on multivariate statistics. In this paper, we compare two classification me...
1995-04-26
2019-08-15
[ "astro-ph" ]
E. F. Vieira (LAEFF - INTA - Spain), J. D. Ponz (ESA)
astro-ph/9504088
The Discovery of a Short Period Double-Degenerate Binary Star
We have found that the white dwarf PG 1101+364 is a double-lined white dwarf/white dwarf binary with an orbital period of 3.47 hours. PG 1101+364 is the shortest period detached double-degenerate yet found and gravitational radiation will cause it to merge in 2.5 X 10**9 years. PG 1101+364 has a mass ratio of 0.87 +/- ...
1995-04-25
2016-06-08
[ "astro-ph" ]
T.R. Marsh (Southampton)
astro-ph/9504089
Cosmic density and velocity fields in Lagrangian perturbation theory
A first- and second-order relation between cosmic density and peculiar-velocity fields is presented. The calculation is purely Lagrangian and it is derived using the second-order solutions of the Lagrange-Newton system obtained by Buchert & Ehlers. The procedure is applied to two particular solutions given generic init...
1995-04-25
2011-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Mikel Susperregi and Thomas Buchert
astro-ph/9504080
Is the galactic halo baryonic?
Recent observations of microlensing events in the Large Magellanic Cloud suggest that a sizeable fraction of the galactic halo is in form of MACHOs with mass less than abou 0.1 M_{\odot}. Here we argue that molecular clouds (mainly H_2) located in the galactic halo can contribute substantially to its total mass. We out...
1995-04-24
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
F.De Paolis, G.Ingrosso, Ph.Jetzer and M.Roncadelli
astro-ph/9504081
LIGHT PHOTINOS AS DARK MATTER
There are good reasons to consider models of low-energy supersymmetry with very light photinos and gluinos. In a wide class of models the lightest $R$-odd, color-singlet state containing a gluino, the $\r0$, has a mass in the 1-2 GeV range and the slightly lighter photino, $\pho$, would survive as the relic $R$-odd spe...
1995-04-24
2016-08-24
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Glennys R. Farrar and Edward W. Kolb
astro-ph/9504085
Analytic approach to the polarization of the cosmic microwave background in flat and open universes
We develop an analytic method and approximations to compute the polarization induced in the cosmic microwave background radiation on a wide range of angular scales by anisotropic Thomson scattering in presence of adiabatic scalar {(energy-density)} linear fluctuations. The formalism is an extension to the polarized cas...
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Matias Zaldarriaga and Diego D. Harari (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
astro-ph/9504083
The Extragalactic Neutrino Background Radiations From Blazars and Cosmic Rays
Blazar emission of gamma rays and cosmic ray production of gamma rays in gas-rich clusters have been proposed recently as alternative sources of the high energy extragalactic diffuse gamma ray background radiation. We show that these sources also produce a very different high energy extragalactic diffuse neutrino backg...
1995-04-24
2014-10-13
[ "astro-ph" ]
Arnon Dar and Nir J. Shaviv (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
astro-ph/9504087
EVOLUTION OF THE POTENTIAL IN COSMOLOGICAL GRAVITATIONAL CLUSTERING
The potential is a constant to linear order in cosmological gravitational clustering. In this Letter we present results of testing the conjecture, proposed by Pauls and Melott (1995), that the effect of nonlinear evolution on the potential can be better described by smoothing it on the scale of nonlinearity. We show tw...
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Adrian L. Melott, B.S. Sathyaprakash, and Varun Sahni
astro-ph/9504082
Dark Matter and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
The recently observed Deuterium abundance in a low- metallicity high-redshift hydrogen cloud, which is about ten times larger than that observed in the near interstellar medium, is that expected from the Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis theory and the observed abundances of $^4$He and $^7$Li extrapolated to their prim...
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Arnon Dar (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
astro-ph/9504086
The lens parallax method: determining redshifts of faint blue galaxies through gravitational lensing
We propose a new technique, which we call the lens parallax method, to determine simultaneously the redshift distribution of the faint blue galaxies and the mass distributions of foreground clusters of galaxies. The method is based on gravitational lensing and makes use of the following: (1) the amplitude of lensing-in...
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Matthias Bartelmann and Ramesh Narayan
astro-ph/9504084
The power spectrum in a strongly inhomogeneous Universe
A crucial issue in cosmology is the determination of the fluctuation power spectrum.The standard picture of the matter clustering, the Cold Dark Matter model (and its variant), assumes that,on scales smaller than a certain ``flattening scale'' $\lambda_f$, the power spectrum increases with the scale, while on much larg...
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Francesco Sylos Labini and Luca Amendola
astro-ph/9504079
THE OPTICAL GRAVITATIONAL LENSING EXPERIMENT. THE CATALOG OF PERIODIC VARIABLE STARS IN THE GALACTIC BULGE. II. PERIODIC VARIABLES IN FOUR BAADE'S WINDOW FIELDS: BW1, BW2, BW3 AND BW4
We present the second part of the OGLE Catalog of Periodic Variable Stars in the Galactic bulge. 800 variable stars found in four Baade's Window fields BW1, BW2, BW3 and BW4 are presented. Among them 71 are classified as pulsating, 465 as eclipsing and 264 as miscellaneous type. The Catalog and individual observations ...
1995-04-23
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
A. UDALSKI, M. SZYMANSKI, J. KALUZNY, M. KUBIAK, M. MATEO and W. KRZEMINSKI
astro-ph/9504078
Statistical Determination of the MACHO Mass Spectrum
The mass function of 51 Massive Compact Objects (MACHOs) detected toward the Galactic bulge is statistically estimated from Einstein ring crossing times $t_{\rm e}$. For a Gaussian mass function, the best fitting parameters are $\langle \log (m/M_{\odot}) \rangle = -1.12$ and $\sigma_{\log (m/M_{\odot})} = 0.57$. If th...
1995-04-22
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Cheongho Han and Andrew Gould
astro-ph/9504077
On the Source and Location of Temporal Variability in Fireballs
Most cosmological models for gamma-ray bursts invoke the production of a ``fireball'' in a compact region, as indicated by the short time variability of the observed GRBs. The high density of $e^+e^-$ pairs in such fireballs inevitably makes them opaque to gamma-rays and requires the gamma-ray emission to take place on...
1995-04-22
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Nir J. Shaviv
astro-ph/9504075
Gamma-Ray Burst Peak Duration as a Function of Energy
Gamma-ray burst time histories often consist of many peaks. These peaks tend to be narrower at higher energy. If gamma-ray bursts are cosmological, the energy dependence of gamma-ray burst time scales must be understood in order to correct the time scale dependence due to the expansion of the universe. By using the ave...
1995-04-21
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
E. E. Fenimore, J. J. M. in 't Zand, J. P. Norris, J. T. Bonnell, and R. J. Nemiroff
astro-ph/9504076
PKS 2349$-$014: A LUMINOUS QUASAR WITH THIN WISPS, A LARGE OFF-CENTER NEBULOSITY, AND A CLOSE COMPANION GALAXY
HST images (WFC2) of \pks show that this luminous nearby quasar is interacting with diffuse (presumably galactic) material. Two thin wisps that have a total extent of about 20 kpc (for $H_0 = 100$ \kms ${\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ and $\Omega_0 = 1.0$) are observed to approximately surround the quasar. One of the wisps appears to ...
1995-04-21
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
J. N. Bahcall, Kirhakos, Sofia, and D. P. Schneider
astro-ph/9504074
THE EVOLUTION OF ACCRETION DISKS WITH CORONAE: A MODEL FOR THE LOW-FREQUENCY QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS IN X-RAY BINARIES
The global nonlinear time dependent evolution of accretion disk-corona systems in X-ray binary sources has been investigated to provide an understanding of the low frequency ($\sim 0.04$~Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed recently in the Rapid Burster MXB 1730-335 and in some black hole candidates sources ...
1995-04-21
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Marek A. Abramowicz, Xingming Chen, and Ronald E. Taam
astro-ph/9504073
Limitation of the Press-Schechter Formalism
The Press-Schechter(PS) formalism for the mass function of the collapsed objects are reanalyzed. The factor of two in the Press-Schechter formalism is argued to be correct in the sharp $k$-space filter even when we use the another approach proposed by Jedamzik(1994) in the cloud-in-cloud problem, which is different fro...
1995-04-21
2016-08-30
[ "astro-ph" ]
T.Yano, M.Nagashima and N.Gouda
astro-ph/9504068
The Cambridge-Cambridge ROSAT Serendipity Survey - II. Classification of X-ray Luminous Galaxies
We present the results of an intermediate-resolution (1.5\AA) spectroscopic study of 17 X-ray luminous narrow emission-line galaxies previously identified in the Cambridge-Cambridge {\it ROSAT} Serendipity Survey and the {\it Einstein} Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey. Emission-line ratios reveal that the sample is c...
1995-04-20
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
B.J.Boyle, R.G.McMahon, B.J.Wiles, M.Elvis
astro-ph/9504065
The Determination of the `Diffusion Coefficients' and the Stellar Wind Velocities for X-Ray Binaries
The distribution of neutron stars (NS's) is determined by stationary solution of the Fokker-Planck equation. In this work using the observed period changes for four systems: Vela X-1, GX 301-2, Her X-1 and Cen X-3 we determined D, the 'diffusion coefficient',-parameter from the Fokker-Planck equation. Using strong depe...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
V.M.Lipunov and S.B.Popov
astro-ph/9504063
Determination of Distance from Time Dilation of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts
The isotropic distribution of gamma-ray bursts as observed with the Burst and Transient Experiment (BATSE) strongly suggests that the bursts are at cosmological distances. At such distances, the expansion of the universe should redshift the spectra and stretch the temporal structure. We relate the observed peak intensi...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Ed E. Fenimore and Joshua S. Bloom
astro-ph/9504066
Population synthesis of X-ray sources at the Galactic center
X-ray binary population at the Galactic center is proposed here to form as a result of a starburst, which is synthesized by using the ``Scenario Machine'' code of binary star evolution. For the currently assumed starburst age of 4-7 millions years, our results are consistent with the recent {\it GRANAT} X-ray observati...
1995-04-20
2008-02-03
[ "astro-ph" ]
S.B. Popov, V.M. Lipunov, L.M. Ozernoy, K.A. Postnov, and M.E. Prokhorov
astro-ph/9504072
Hot and Cold Spots in the First plus Second Year COBE/DMR Maps
Density perturbations at the decoupling epoch produce angular fluctuations in the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation that may appear as hot and cold spots. Observational data of the CMB includes instrumental noise in addition to the cosmological signal. One would like to determine which of t...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Laura Cayon & George Smoot (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Center for Particle Astrophysics)
astro-ph/9504070
PAIRWISE VELOCITIES OF GALAXIES IN THE CFA AND SSRS2 REDSHIFT SURVEYS
(compressed version) We combine the CfA Redshift Survey (CfA2) and the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS2) to estimate the pairwise velocity dispersion of galaxies $\sig12$ on a scale of $\sim 1 \hmpc$. Both surveys are complete to an apparent magnitude limit $B(0)=15.5$. Our sample includes 12,812 galaxies distribute...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
R.O. Marzke, M.J. Geller, L.N. da Costa, J.P. Huchra
astro-ph/9504069
Faint UBVRI CCD sequences for wide-field surveys - I
We present the first results of a campaign to secure deep UBVRI CCD photometric calibration in all UK Schmidt equatorial fields with galactic latitudes |b| > 50deg. In this paper we provide information on deep BVRI sequences (B<22) in 14 UK Schmidt survey fields centred at declination=0deg. Deep U sequences have been o...
1995-04-20
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
B.J.Boyle, T.Shanks, S.M.Croom
astro-ph/9504061
A Simulation of Ly-alpha Absorption Forests in Linear Approximation in Cold and Cold+Hot Dark Matter Models
Our goal in this paper is to test some popular dark matter models by Ly-alpha forest in QSO spectra. Recent observations of the size and velocity of Ly-alpha forest clouds have indicated that the Ly-alpha absorption is probably not given by collapsed objects, but pre-collapsed regions in the baryonic density field. The...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Hongguang BI, Jian GE and Li-Zhi FANG
astro-ph/9504067
The environments of z<0.3 QSOs
Based on a cross-correlation analysis of X-ray selected QSOs with faint (B<20.5) galaxies, we find a 5sigma galaxy excess around low-redshift (z<0.3) QSOs with an amplitude identical to that of the galaxy angular correlation function. The similarity between QSO-galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy clustering suggests th...
1995-04-20
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
B.J.Boyle, R.J.Smith, S.J.Maddox
astro-ph/9504071
CBR Anisotropy and the Running of the Scalar Spectral Index
Accurate ($\lesssim 1\% $) predictions for the anisotropy of the Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR) are essential for using future high-resolution ($\lesssim 1^\circ$) CBR maps to test cosmological models. In many inflationary models the variation (``running'') of the spectral index of the spectrum of density perturbati...
1995-04-20
2010-01-06
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
Arthur Kosowsky (Harvard) and Michael S. Turner (U. Chicago/FNAL)
astro-ph/9504064
Reverberation mapping of the central regions of active galactic nuclei using high-energy gamma-ray observations
We calculate the time- and energy-dependent opacity of high-energy gamma-rays attenuated by pair production interaction with accretion-flare photons that are scattered by gas and dust surrounding thenuclei of active galaxies. We show that the temporal behavior of the high-energy opacity cutoff can be used in conjunctio...
1995-04-20
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
M. B\"ottcher, C. D. Dermer
astro-ph/9504060
Beyond the Thin Lens Approximation
We obtain analytic formulae for the null geodesics of Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker spacetimes with scalar perturbations in the longitudinal gauge. From these we provide a rigorous derivation of the cosmological lens equation, and obtain an expression for the magnification of a bundle of light rays without r...
1995-04-19
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph", "gr-qc" ]
Ted Pyne and Mark Birkinshaw
astro-ph/9504058
The magnetic field in the Coma cluster
The polarization data of the radio galaxy NGC4869, belonging to the Coma cluster and located in its central region, allow us to obtain information on the structure of magnetic field associated with the cluster itself. A magnetic field of $\sim$ 8.5 $\mu$G, tangled on scales of the order of less than 1 kpc, is required ...
1995-04-19
2008-02-03
[ "astro-ph" ]
L.Feretti, D. Dallacasa, G. Giovannini, A. Tagliani
astro-ph/9504062
Phase-Transition Theory of Instabilities. II. Fourth-Harmonic Bifurcations and Lambda-Transitions
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 Ginzburg-Landau theory of phase transitions. In this paper, we examine fo...
1995-04-19
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
D.M. Christodoulou, D. Kazanas, I. Shlosman and J.E. Tohline
astro-ph/9504059
HE 3-1475 AND ITS JETS
We present spectra and high-resolution images taken with HST, the NTT, the VLA, and the MPIA/ESO 2.2m of the emission-line star He 3-1475 which we suggest is a post-AGB star. The star is at the origin of a 15-arcsec-long structure containing symmetrically opposing bright knots. The knots have radial velocities of about...
1995-04-19
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
M. Bobrowsky, A.A. Zijlstra, E.K. Grebel, C.G. Tinney, P. te Lintel Hekkert, G.C. Van de Steene, L. Likkel and T.R. Bedding
astro-ph/9504054
Determination of Inflationary Observables by Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiments
Inflation produces nearly Harrison-Zel'dovich scalar and tensor perturbation spectra which lead to anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The amplitudes and shapes of these spectra can be parametrized by $Q_S^2$, $r\equiv Q_T^2/Q_S^2$, $n_S$ and $n_T$ where $Q_S^2$ and $Q_T^2$ are the scalar and tensor co...
1995-04-18
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Lloyd Knox
astro-ph/9504056
FAR-INFRARED SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALAXY BY COBE
We derive Galactic continuum spectra from 5-96/cm from COBE/FIRAS observations. The spectra are dominated by warm dust emission, which may be fit with a single temperature in the range 16-21 K (for nu^2 emissivity) along each line of sight. Dust heated by the attenuated radiation field in molecular clouds gives rise to...
1995-04-18
2012-08-27
[ "astro-ph" ]
W.T. Reach, E. Dwek, D.J. Fixsen, T. Hewagama, J.C. Mather, R.A. Shafer, A.J. Banday, C.L. Bennett, E.S. Cheng, R.E. Eplee, Jr., D. Leisawitz, P.M. Lubin, S.M. Read, L.P. Rosen, F.G.D. Shuman, G.F. Smoot, T.J. Sodroski, and E.L. Wright
astro-ph/9504057
The Physics of Microwave Background Anisotropies
Cosmic microwave background anisotropies provide a vast amount of information on both structure formation in the universe and the background dynamics and geometry. The full physical content and detailed structure of anisotropies can be understood in a simple and intuitive fashion through a systematic investigation of t...
1995-04-18
2018-01-29
[ "astro-ph" ]
Wayne Hu, Naoshi Sugiyama and Joseph Silk
astro-ph/9504053
Photometric monitoring (1987 to 1994) of the gravitational lens candidate UM 425
We present the results of a 7 year long photometric monitoring of two components (A and B) of UM 425, thought to be images, separated by 6.5", of the same z = 1.47 quasar. These components have been imaged through an R filter in order to obtain their light curves. The photometry was obtained by simultaneously fitting a...
1995-04-18
2019-08-15
[ "astro-ph" ]
F. Courbin (ESO), P. Magain, M. Remy (Astrophysics intitute, Liege, Belgium), A. Smette (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Netherlands), J.F. Claesken s (ESO), O. Hainaut (Institute for Astronomy, USA), D. Hutsemekers (Astrophys ics intitute, Liege, Belgium), G. Meylan (ESO), E. Van Drom (Osaka University, Japan)
astro-ph/9504055
PHOTON SPLITTING IN STRONGLY MAGNETIZED COSMIC OBJECTS -- REVISITED
We reassess the importance of photon splitting to spectral formation in cosmic X-ray and $\gamma$-ray sources with magnetic fields of several $10^{12}$ gauss. Our analysis is based on the recent numerically accurate evaluation of the full relativistic expression for photon splitting at neutron star magnetic field stren...
1995-04-18
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
G\"unter Wunner, Robert Sang and Dagmar Berg (Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum)
astro-ph/9504052
The velocity peaks in the cold dark matter spectrum on Earth
The cold dark matter spectrum on earth is expected to have peaks in velocity space. We obtain estimates for the sizes and locations of these peaks. To this end we have generalized the secondary infall model of galactic halo formation to include angular momentum of the dark matter particles. This new model is still sphe...
1995-04-17
2010-11-30
[ "astro-ph", "hep-ph" ]
P. Sikivie, I. I. Tkachev and Yun Wang
astro-ph/9504051
Ekman Pumping in Compact Astrophysical Bodies
We examine the dynamics of a rotating viscous fluid following an abrupt change in the angular velocity of the solid bounding surface. We include the effects of a density stratification and compressibility which are important in astrophysical objects such as neutron stars. We confirm and extend the conclusions of previo...
1995-04-16
2014-10-13
[ "astro-ph" ]
Mark Abney (U. of Chicago), Richard I Epstein (LANL)
astro-ph/9504049
X-ray Constraints on the Intrinsic Shapes and Baryon Fractions of Five Abell Clusters
We analyzed ROSAT PSPC images of the bright, nearby $(z<0.1)$ galaxy clusters A401, A1656 (Coma), A2029, A2199, and A2256 to constrain their intrinsic shapes and baryon fractions. Following Buote & Tsai we probed the aggregate structure of the clusters on scales $\sim 1.5h^{-1}_{80}$ Mpc to reduce effects of possible s...
1995-04-15
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
David A. Buote and Claude R. Canizares
astro-ph/9504050
GRAPESPH: Cosmological SPH simulations with the special purpose hardware GRAPE
A combined N--body/SPH code is presented which benefits from the high speed of the special purpose hardware GRAPE (GRAvity PipE). Besides gravitational forces, GRAPE also returns the list of neighbours and can, therefore, be used to speed up the hydrodynamical part, too. After the interaction list has been passed, dens...
1995-04-15
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
Matthias Steinmetz
astro-ph/9504048
COSMIC LITHIUM: GOING UP OR COMING DOWN ?
Observations of interstellar lithium provide a valuable complement to studies of lithium in Pop I and Pop II stars. Large corrections for unseen LiII and for non-gas phase lithium have provided obstacles to using interstellar data for abundance determinations. An approach to surmounting these difficulties is proposed a...
1995-04-14
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
GARY STEIGMAN
astro-ph/9504047
THE OPTIMAL N-BODY METHOD FOR STABILITY STUDIES OF GALAXIES
The stability of a galaxy model is most easily assessed through N-body simulation. Particle-mesh codes have been widely used for this purpose, since they enable the largest numbers of particles to be employed. We show that the functional expansion technique, originally proposed by Clutton-Brock for other simulation pro...
1995-04-14
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
David J.D. Earn and J.A. Sellwood
astro-ph/9504044
Globular Clusters in Mergers
From spectrophotometric and chemical evolutionary modelling of interacting and merging galaxies we predict abundances of burst stars and of globular clusters (GCs) that may be formed in strong bursts. Observations of young GCs in merger remnants confirm the predicted metallicities. We investigate their formation as a r...
1995-04-13
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Uta Fritze - v. Alvensleben, Andi Burkert
astro-ph/9504045
Evolution of the double neutron star merging rate and the cosmological origin of gamma-ray burst sources
Evolution of the coalescence rate of double neutron stars (NS) and neutron star -- black hole (BH) binaries are computed for model galaxies with different star formation rates. Assuming gamma-ray bursts (GRB) to originate from NS+NS or NS+BH merging in distant galaxies, theoretical logN--logS distributions and <V/V_max...
1995-04-13
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
V.M. Lipunov, K.A. Postnov, M.E. Prokhorov, and I.E. Panchenko (Sternberg Astronomical Inst., Moscoww, Russia)
astro-ph/9504046
Quantifying the Morphologies and Dynamical Evolution of Galaxy Clusters. II. Application to a Sample of ROSAT Clusters
We quantify the morphologies and dynamical states of 59 galaxy clusters using the power-ratio technique of Buote & Tsai applied to ROSAT PSPC X-ray images. The clusters exhibit a particularly strong $P_2/P_0 - P_4/P_0$ correlation in the $1h^{-1}_{80}$ Mpc aperture which may be interpreted as an evolutionary track; the...
1995-04-13
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
David A. Buote and John C. Tsai
astro-ph/9504043
Interchange instability in an accretion disc with a poloidal magnetic field
We investigate the stability to nonaxisymmetric perturbations of an accretion disc in which a poloidal magnetic field provides part of the radial support against gravity. Interchange instability due to radial gradients in the magnetic field are strongly stabilized by the shear flow in the disc. For smooth field distrib...
1995-04-12
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
H.C. Spruit, R. Stehle and J.C.B. Papaloizou
astro-ph/9504040
Parallel Linear General Relativity and CMB Anisotropies
We have developed a code which links scalar-mode fluctuations in the early universe with those observable at the present time by integrating the coupled, linearized, Einstein, Boltzmann, and fluid equations in a perturbed flat Robertson-Walker spacetime. The results are useful both for calculations of the cosmic microw...
1995-04-12
2009-09-25
[ "astro-ph" ]
Paul Bode and Edmund Bertschinger
astro-ph/9504039
Bright Stars and Recent Star Formation in the Irregular Magellanic Galaxy NGC2366
The stellar content of the Im galaxy NGC 2366 is discussed on the basis of CCD BVR photometry. The three brightest blue and red stars have been used to estimate its distance, obtaining a balue of 2.9 Mpc. The spatial distribution of the young stellar population is discussed in the light of the integrated color indices ...
1995-04-12
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
A.Aparicio, J.Cepa, C.Gallart, H.Castaneda, C.Chiosi, G.Bertelli, C.Munoz-Tunon, Eduardo Telles, G.Tenorio-Tagle, A.I.Diaz, M.L.Garcia-Vargas, F. Garzon, R.Ma. Gonzalez-Delgado, M.Mas-Hesse, E.Perez, J.M.Rodriguez-Espinosa, E.Terlevich, R.J.Terlevich, A.M.Varela, J.M.Vilchez
astro-ph/9504038
Dynamics of Abell 2218 from optical and near-IR imagery of arc(let)s and ROSAT/HRI X-ray map
A mass model of the rich cluster A2218 is presented based on optical and new near-infrared images of arc(let)s and the ROSAT/HRI X-ray map. A lensing model is proposed with two dark matter clumps, centered on the two bright galaxies around which the various arcs are observed. Two of them, close to the most massive clum...
1995-04-12
2008-02-03
[ "astro-ph" ]
J.-P. Kneib, Y. Mellier, R. Pello, J. Miralda-Escude, J.-F. Le Borgne, H. Bohringer, J.-P. Picat
astro-ph/9504041
The Structure of Dark Matter Haloes in Dwarf Galaxies
Recent observations indicate that dark matter haloes have flat central density profiles. Cosmological simulations with non-baryonic dark matter predict however self similar haloes with central density cusps. This contradiction has lead to the conclusion that dark matter must be baryonic. Here it is shown that the dark ...
1995-04-12
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
A. Burkert
astro-ph/9504042
Analytical modeling of large-angle CMBR anisotropies from textures
We propose an analytic method for predicting the large angle CMBR temperature fluctuations induced by model textures. The model makes use of only a small number of phenomenological parameters which ought to be measured from simple simulations. We derive semi-analytically the $C^l$-spectrum for $2\leq l\leq 30$ together...
1995-04-12
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
J.C.R.Magueijo (Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory and DAMTP, Cambridge, UK)
astro-ph/9504031
Abundance Histories for QSO Absorption Line Systems
Abundance histories for QSO absorption line systems as a function of redshift are presented for all metals lighter than gallium. Coupling various conventional cosmological models with a simple, first--order model for the chemical evolution of the QSO absorption line systems allows transformation of the observed abundan...
1995-04-11
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
F.X.Timmes, J.T.Lauroesch and J.W.Truran
astro-ph/9504035
NEW TEST FOR THE HUBBLE LAW
The new, simple method is proposed for testing the Hubble law using redshifts and magnitude from magnitude-limited sample of galaxies. The power law relation between redshift and distance have been assumed (cz=r^p). The obtained results: p=1.21 \pm 0.04 (for CfA) and p=0.95 \pm 0.04 (for ESO/LV) confirm linear, Hubble ...
1995-04-11
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Jacek Choloniewski
astro-ph/9504032
Probing the Era of Galaxy Formation via TeV Gamma Ray Absorption by the Near Infrared Extragalactic Background
We present models of the extragalactic background light (EBL) based on several scenarios of galaxy formation and evolution. We have treated galaxy formation with the Press-Schecter approximation for both cold dark matter (CDM) and cold+hot dark matter (CHDM) models, representing a moderate ($z_f \sim 3$) and a late ($z...
1995-04-11
2009-12-10
[ "astro-ph" ]
D. MacMinn and J.R. Primack
astro-ph/9504034
New pulsational properties of eight "anomalous" RR Lyrae variables
CCD photometry in the V band is presented for 7 field RR Lyrae stars selected from a sample of eight variables which, according to data collected in the literature, are expected to be {\it ab}-type pulsators, to have short periods and hence high metallicity, and to be located at high {\it z} from the galactic plane. Ne...
1995-04-11
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
G. Clementini, M. Tosi, A. Bragaglia, R. Merighi, and C. Maceroni
astro-ph/9504033
On improved Cepheid distance estimators
In this paper, we derive a physical argument for the existence of Period-luminosity and period-luminosity-colour relations at maximum light. We examine in detail a sample of Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and compare the variance of some PL and PLC type distance indicators based on mean and maximum light. We s...
1995-04-11
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Shashi M. Kanbur, Martin A. Hendry
astro-ph/9504036
THE ORIGIN OF PLUTO'S ORBIT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOLAR SYSTEM BEYOND NEPTUNE
The origin of the highly eccentric, inclined, and resonance-locked orbit of Pluto has long been a puzzle. A possible explanation has been proposed recently [Malhotra, R., {\it Nature} 365:819-21 (1993)] which suggests that these extraordinary orbital properties may be a natural consequence of the formation and early dy...
1995-04-11
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Renu Malhotra (Lunar and Planetary Institute)
astro-ph/9504037
A Wavelet Space-Scale-Decomposition Analysis of Structure and Evolution fo QSO's Ly$\alpha$ Absorption Lines
A wavelet space-scale decomposition (SSD) analysis of large scale structures in the universe has been developed. The SSD method of identifying and measuring structures in the spatial distribution of objects has been demonstrated. The position and strength (richness) of the identified clusters can be described by the co...
1995-04-11
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Jesus Pando and Li-Zhi Fang (University of Arizona Physics Department)
astro-ph/9504027
Beat Frequency Modulation of T Tauri Accretion Rates
A general model of magnetically controlled accretion onto T Tauri stars is presented. In this model the magnetic field is oriented arbitrarily in relation to the star's rotation axis. The resultant interplay between the magnetic field and accretion disc causes a variable accretion rate. The dominant timescale of this v...
1995-04-10
2015-06-24
[ "astro-ph" ]
K.W. Smith, I.A. Bonnell, G.F. Lewis
astro-ph/9504030
Discovery of Diffuse X-ray Emission in 47 Tuc
We present the results of a search for diffuse x-ray sources in a 65 ksec ROSAT PSPC exposure of 47 Tuc. There is faint, soft emission on the NE side of the cluster at a distance of 6 arcmin from the core. The location of this emission along the direction of proper motion of the cluster suggests that it might be due to...
1995-04-10
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Martin Krockenberger and J. Grindlay
astro-ph/9504028
Observational constraints on blue primordial spectra
Recently, there has been growing interest on primordial ``blue" ($n>1$) perturbation spectra, motivated both by a composite set of observational data on large scales and from the point of view of theoretical model building. After reviewing the theoretical (inflationary) motivations for these blue spectra, we consider v...
1995-04-10
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
F. Lucchin, S. Colafrancesco, G. de Gasperis, S. Matarrese, S. Mei, S. Mollerach, L. Moscardini, N. Vittorio
astro-ph/9504029
Non-Gaussian Likelihood Function
We generalize the maximum likelihood method to non-Gaussian distribution functions by means of the multivariate Edgeworth expansion. We stress the potential interest of this technique in all those cosmological problems in which the determination of a non-Gaussian signature is relevant, e.g. in the analysis of large sca...
1995-04-09
2007-05-23
[ "astro-ph" ]
Luca Amendola (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
astro-ph/9504024
Molecular Gas in the Inner 3.2 Kiloparsecs of NGC 2403: Star Formation at Subcritical Gas Surface Densities
We present a fully sampled map of the inner 3.2 kpc of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2403 in the CO J=1-0 line. These data emphasize the relatively small contribution of molecular hydrogen to the cold gas content of this galaxy, and confirm that the gas surface densities in the inner 2.8 kpc of NGC 2403 lie below the cr...
1995-04-07
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
Michele D. Thornley (U. Maryland) & Christine D. Wilson (McMaster)
astro-ph/9504022
LINEAR POTENTIALS IN GALAXIES AND CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES
In a previous paper we presented a typical set of galactic rotation curves associated with the linear gravitational potential of the conformal invariant fourth order theory of gravity which has recently been advanced by Mannheim and Kazanas as a candidate alternative to the standard second order Newton-Einstein theory....
1995-04-07
2009-09-25
[ "astro-ph" ]
PHILIP D. MANNHEIM (University of Connecticut)
astro-ph/9504021
The absorption spectra of Q1107+487 and Q1442+295
We present the first moderate resolution (approx. 40--120 km/s) spectroscopic observations of the bright (V<16.7) high-redshift QSOs Q1107+487 (z_{em} = 2.965) and Q1442+295 (z_{em} = 2.669) (Sanduleak & Pesch 1989). The relatively high signal to noise reached in the spectra along with an extensive wavelength coverage ...
1995-04-07
2009-10-28
[ "astro-ph" ]
R. Carballo, X. Barcons, J.K. Webb