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Tuesday, 09 February


User Guide for the Discrete Dipole Approximation Code DDSCAT 7.1

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1505
B. T. Draine (1), P. J. Flatau (2) ((1) Princeton University, (2) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)
83 pages, 11 figures
DDSCAT 7.

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09 02 10 - 08:49 | | No comments |


Three carbon-enhanced metal-poor dwarf stars from the SDSS - Chemical abundances from CO^5BOLD 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1670
N.T. Behara, P. Bonifacio, H.-G. Ludwig, L. Sbordone, J.I. González Hernández, E. Caffau
12 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
The origin of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars enriched with both s and r elements is highly debated.

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09 02 10 - 08:49 | | No comments |


Generation of Alfven Waves by Magnetic Reconnection

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1360
Hiromitsu Kigure, Kunio Takahashi, Kazunari Shibata, Takaaki Yokoyama, Satoshi Nozawa
29 pages, 17 figures
In this paper, results of 2.

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09 02 10 - 08:48 | | No comments |


Unfolding the Hierarchy of Voids

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1503
M.A. Aragon-Calvo, R. van de Weygaert, P. Araya-Melo, E. Platen, A.S. Szalay
5 pages, 2 figures
We present a framework for the hierarchical identification and characterization of voids based on the Watershed Void Finder.

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09 02 10 - 08:48 | | No comments |


Simplified models for photohadronic interactions in cosmic accelerators

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1310
Svenja Hümmer, Michael Rüger, Felix Spanier, Walter Winter
39 pages, 13 (color) figures, 6 tables
We discuss simplified models for photo-meson production in cosmic accelerators, such as Active Galactic Nuclei and Gamma-Ray Bursts.

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09 02 10 - 08:47 | | No comments |

Monday, 08 February


Numerical Models of Sgr A*

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1261
M. Moscibrodzka, C.F. Gammie, J. Dolence, H. Shiokawa, P.K. Leung
To appear in "The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies", ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
We review results from general relativistic axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion in Sgr A*.

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08 02 10 - 14:16 | | No comments |


Large-scale inhomogeneities may improve the cosmic concordance of supernovae

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1232
Luca Amendola, Kimmo Kainulainen, Valerio Marra, Miguel Quartin
this http URL
We reanalyse the current data from the supernovae observations including the weak lensing effects caused by inhomogeneities.

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08 02 10 - 14:16 | | No comments |


Numerical Simulation of Excitation and Propagation of Helioseismic MHD Waves in Magnetostatic Models of Sunspots

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1117
K. Parchevsky, A. Kosovichev, E. Khomenko, V. Olshevsky, M. Collados
17 pages, 9 figures
We present comparison of numerical simulations of propagation of MHD waves,excited by subphotospheric perturbations, in two different ("deep" and "shallow") magnetostatic models of the sunspots.

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08 02 10 - 14:13 | | No comments |


On the isolated dwarf galaxies: from cuspy to flat dark matter density profiles and metallicity gradients

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.1085
S. Pasetto, E.K. Grebel, P. Berczik, R. Spurzem, W. Dehnen
Accepted the 28/01/10
The chemodynamical evolution of spherical multi-component self-gravitating models for isolated dwarf galaxies is studied.

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08 02 10 - 14:12 | | No comments |

Friday, 05 February


Bias-Free Shear Estimation using Artificial Neural Networks

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.0838
D. Gruen, S. Seitz, J. Koppenhoefer, A. Riffeser
21 pages, 9 figures; re-submitted to ApJ after referee comments have been taken into account
Bias due to imperfect shear calibration is the biggest obstacle when constraints on cosmological parameters are to be extracted from large area weak lensing surveys such as Pan-STARRS-3pi, DES or future satellite missions like Euclid.

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Wednesday, 03 February


Primordial non-Gaussianity in density fluctuations

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.0503
F. Fraschetti (Arizona/LUTh, Obs-Paris), J.M. Alimi (LUTh, Obs-Paris), J. Courtin (LUTh, Obs-Paris), P.S. Corasaniti (LUTh, Obs-Paris)
5 pages, 2 figures; in press in the AIP proceedings of the 'Invisible Universe International Conference', UNESCO-Paris, June 29-July 3, 2009
We present N-body cosmological numerical simulations including a primordial non-Gaussianity in the density fluctuation field quantified by the non-linear parameter $f_{NL}$.

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03 02 10 - 14:37 | | No comments |


Three-Dimensional Propagation of Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in Solar Coronal Arcades

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.0469
S. Rial, I. Arregui, J. Terradas, R. Oliver, J.L. Ballester
38 pages, 50 figures
We numerically investigate the excitation and temporal evolution of oscillations in a two-dimensional coronal arcade by including the three-dimensional propagation of perturbations.

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03 02 10 - 14:36 | | No comments |


Data Provenance: Use Cases for the ESO archive, and Interactions with the Virtual Observatory

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.0433
J.D. Santander-Vela (1 and 2), A. Delgado (1), N. Delmotte (1), M. Vuong (1) ((1) European Southern Observatory, (2) Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia-CSIC)
4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIX meeting (as P64), in the ASP Conference Series
In the Virtual Observatory era, where we intend to expose scientists (or software agents on their behalf) to a stream of observations from all existing facilities, the ability to access and to further interpret the origin, relationships, and processing steps on archived astronomical assets (their Provenance) is a requirement for proper observation selection, and quality assessment.

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03 02 10 - 14:34 | | No comments |


The origin and propagation of variability in the outflows of long duration gamma-ray bursts

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1002.0361
Brian J. Morsony, Davide Lazzati, Mitchell C. Begelman
16 pages, 12 figues, submitted to ApJ
We present the results of hydrodynamical simulations of gamma-ray burst jets propagating through their stellar progenitor material and subsequently through the surrounding circumstellar medium.

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03 02 10 - 14:33 | | No comments |

Monday, 01 February


A GPU-based Calculation Method for Near Field Effects of Cherenkov Radiation Induced by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.5341
Chia-Yu Hu, Chih-Ching Chen, Pisin Chen
8 pages, 9 figures, presented at the CosPA Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, November 2009
The radio approach for detecting the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos has become a mature field.

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01 02 10 - 09:34 | | No comments |


PCA Tomography and its application to nearby galactic nuclei

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.5274
J. E. Steiner (1), R. B. Menezes (1), T. V. Ricci (1), A. S. Oliveira (2) ((1) IAG-USP, (2) IP&D-Univap)
4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, to be published in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium no. 267
With the development of modern technologies such as IFUs, it is possible to obtain data cubes in which one produces images with spectral resolution.

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01 02 10 - 09:32 | | No comments |

Wednesday, 27 January


Dwarf Galaxies in Voids: Dark Matter Halos and Gas Cooling

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.4721
Matthias Hoeft (TLS), Stefan Gottloeber (AIP)
23 pages. To appear in Advances in Astronomy, Dwarf-Galaxy Cosmology issue
Galaxy surveys have shown that luminous galaxies are mainly distributed in large filaments and galaxy clusters.

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27 01 10 - 08:54 | | No comments |

Tuesday, 26 January


Modeling Collapse and Accretion in Turbulent Gas Clouds: Implementation and Comparison of Sink Particles in AMR and SPH

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.4456
Christoph Federrath, Robi Banerjee, Paul C. Clark, Ralf S. Klessen
30 pages, 17 figures, submitted to ApJ
We implemented sink particles in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hydrodynamics code FLASH.

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26 01 10 - 08:13 | | No comments |


Nonlinear propagation of Alfven waves driven by observed photospheric motions: Application to the coronal heating and spicule formation

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.4307
Takuma Matsumoto, Kazunari Shibata

We have performed MHD simulations of Alfven wave propagation along an open flux tube in the solar atmosphere.

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26 01 10 - 08:12 | | No comments |


Some Properties of the Kinetic Energy Flux and Dissipation in Turbulent Stellar Convection Zones

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.4138
Casey Meakin, David Arnett
Refereed Conference Proceeding, HELAS Workshop on 'Synergies between solar and stellar modelling', Rome, June 2009, to be published in Astrophys. Space Sci
We investigate simulated turbulent flow within thermally driven stellar convection zones.

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26 01 10 - 08:10 | | No comments |


Vorticity of IGM Velocity Field on Large Scales

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.4127
Weishan Zhu, Long-Long Feng, Li-Zhi Fang
27 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
We investigate the vorticity of the IGM velocity field on large scales with cosmological hydrodynamic simulation of the concordance model of LCDM.

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26 01 10 - 08:07 | | No comments |

Sunday, 24 January


On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.3883
Alexander Hobbs, Sergei Nayakshin, Chris Power, Andrew King
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
It has long been recognised that the main obstacle to accretion of gas onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is large specific angular momentum.

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24 01 10 - 22:47 | | No comments |

Thursday, 21 January


Transparent scientific usage as the key to success of the Virtual Observatory

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.3589
Igor Chilingarian, Ivan Zolotukhin
Proceedings of the ADASS-XIX conference, 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in ASP Conf. Series
Nowadays, Virtual Observatory standards, resources, and services became powerful enough to help astronomers making real science on everyday basis.

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21 01 10 - 12:12 | | No comments |


Multiphase and Variable Velocity Galactic Outflow in Cosmological SPH Simulations

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.3525
Jun-Hwan Choi (UNLV), Kentaro Nagamine (UNLV)
this http URL
We develop a new multiphase and variable velocity (MVV) galactic outflow model for cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations.

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21 01 10 - 12:11 | | No comments |


Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1001.3571
Feng Yuan (SHAO), Defu Bu (SHAO)
9 pages, 9 figures; submitted to MNRAS
The most important finding of two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of hot accretion flows is that the flow is convectively unstable, because of its inward increase of entropy.

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21 01 10 - 12:11 | | No comments |

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