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astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

Evolution of Anemone AR NOAA 10798 and the Related Geo-Effective Flares and CMEs

Ayumi Asai, Kazunari Shibata, Takako T. Ishii +4

We present a detailed examination of the features of the Active Region (AR) NOAA 10798. This AR generated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that caused a large geomagnetic storm on 24…

astro-ph2008★ 42 cited

Electron acceleration at a low-Mach-number perpendicular collisionless shock

Takayuki Umeda, Masahiro Yamao, Ryo Yamazaki

A full particle simulation study is carried out on the electron acceleration at a collisionless, relatively low Alfven Mach number (M_A=5), perpendicular shock. Recent self-consist…

astro-ph2008★ 54 cited

Detection of Polarimetric Variations Associated with the Shortest Time-Scale Variability in S5 0716714

Mahito Sasada, Makoto Uemura, Akira Arai +7

We present the result of near-infrared and optical observations of the BL Lac object S5 0716714 carried out by the KANATA telescope. S5 0716714 has both a long term high-…

astro-ph2008★ 5 cited

A Chain of Dark Clouds in Projection Against the Galactic Center

Takahiro Nagayama, Shuji Sato, Shogo Nishiyama +9

In the J, H, and Ks bands survey of the the Galactic Center region over an area of 2deg x 5deg, we have found many dark clouds, among which a distinguished chain of dark clouds can…

astro-ph2008★ 41 cited

Formation of Galactic Center Magnetic Loops

Mami Machida, Ryoji Matsumoto, Satoshi Nozawa +7

A survey for the molecular clouds in the Galaxy with NANTEN mm telescope has discovered molecular loops in the Galactic center region. The loops show monotonic gradients of the lin…

astro-ph2008★ 51 cited

Limits on Isocurvature Perturbations from Non-Gaussianity in WMAP Temperature Anisotropies

Chiaki Hikage, Kazuya Koyama, Takahiko Matsubara +2

We study the effect of primordial isocurvature perturbations on non-Gaussian properties of CMB temperature anisotropies. We consider generic forms of the non-linearity of isocurvat…

astro-ph2008★ 32 cited

Discovery of Large-Scale Gravitational Infall in a Massive Protostellar Cluster

Peter J. Barnes, Yoshinori Yonekura, Stuart D. Ryder +4

We report Mopra (ATNF), Anglo-Australian Telescope, and Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment observations of a molecular clump in Carina, BYF73 = G286.21+0.17, which give evi…

astro-ph2008★ 5.4k cited

The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDS…

astro-ph2008★ 127 cited

Modeling Nonlinear Evolution of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: Convergence Regime of N-body Simulations and Analytic Models

Takahiro Nishimichi, Akihito Shirata, Atsushi Taruya +10

We use a series of cosmological N-body simulations and various analytic models to study the evolution of the matter power spectrum in real space in a ΛCold Dark Matter universe. We…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

Deep 15um AKARI observations in the CDFS: estimating dust luminosities for a MIR-selected sample and for Lyman Break Galaxies and the evolution of L(dust)/L(UV) with the redshift

Denis Burgarella, Veronique Buat, Tsutomu T. Takeuchi +2

Deep observations of the CDFS have been secured at 15um with AKARI/IRC infrared space telescope (ESA open time). From these observations, we define a sample of MIR-selected galaxie…

astro-ph2008★ 20 cited

Performance of the Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer with Photoconductive Detector Arrays: An Application for the AKARI Far-Infrared Instrument

Mitsunobu Kawada, Hidenori Takahashi, Noriko Murakami +10

We have developed an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) for space-based far-infrared astronomical observations. The FTS employs a newly developed photoconductive detector…

astro-ph2008★ 46 cited

The Dust-to-Gas Ratio in the Small Magellanic Cloud Tail

K. D. Gordon, C. Bot, E. Muller +21

The Tail region of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) was imaged using the MIPS instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope as part of the SAGE-SMC Spitzer Legacy. Diffuse infrared emi…

astro-ph2008★ 42 cited

Non-Gaussianity in Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature Fluctuations from Cosmic (Super-)Strings

Keitaro Takahashi, Atsushi Naruko, Yuuiti Sendouda +3

We compute analytically the small-scale temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background from cosmic (super-)strings and study the dependence on the string intercommutin…

astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

Sub-mm/mm studies of the molecular gas in the Galactic disk; the TeV gamma ray SNR RXJ1713.7-3946 and the W28 high mass star forming region

Yasuo Fukui

Interstellar molecular clouds are gamma ray sources through the interactions with cosmic ray protons followed by production of neutral pions which decay into gamma rays. We present…

astro-ph2008★ 72 cited

Constraints on Neutrino Masses from Weak Lensing

Kiyotomo Ichiki, Masahiro Takada, Tomo Takahashi

The weak lensing (WL) distortions of distant galaxy images are sensitive to neutrino masses by probing the suppression effect on clustering strengths of total matter in large-scale…

astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

Efficient diagrammatic computation method for higher order correlation functions of local type primordial curvature perturbations

Shuichiro Yokoyama, Teruaki Suyama, Takahiro Tanaka

We present a new efficient method for computing the non-linearity parameters of the higher order correlation functions of local type curvature perturbations in inflation models hav…

astro-ph2008★ 29 cited

Mass models and environment of the new quadruply lensed quasar SDSS J1330+1810

Masamune Oguri, Naohisa Inada, Jeffrey A. Blackburne +5

We present the discovery of a new quadruply lensed quasar. The lens system, SDSS J1330+1810 at z_s=1.393, was identified as a lens candidate from the spectroscopic sample of the Sl…

astro-ph2008★ 42 cited

Lynds 1622: a nearby star forming cloud projected on Orion B?

M. Kun, Z. Balog, N. Mizuno +4

We present results of optical spectroscopic and photometric observation of the pre-main sequence stars associated with the cometary shaped dark cloud Lynds 1622, and 12CO and 13CO…

astro-ph2008★ 35 cited

Magnetic Field Configuration at the Galactic Center Investigated by Wide Field Near-Infrared Polarimetry

Shogo Nishiyama, Motohide Tamura, Hirofumi Hatano +13

We present a polarimetric map of a 20'x20' area toward the Galactic center. The polarization of point sources has been measured in the J, H, and Ks bands using the near-infrared po…

astro-ph2008★ 54 cited

AKARI Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Detection of H2O and CO2 Ices toward Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Takashi Shimonishi, Takashi Onaka, Daisuke Kato +4

We present the first results of AKARI Infrared Camera near-infrared spec- troscopic survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We detected absorption features of the H2O ice 3.05…

astro-ph2008★ 161 cited

Microlensing Event MOA-2007-BLG-400: Exhuming the Buried Signature of a Cool, Jovian-Mass Planet

Subo Dong, I. A. Bond, A. Gould +55

We report the detection of the cool, Jovian-mass planet MOA-2007-BLG-400Lb. The planet was detected in a high-magnification microlensing event (with peak magnification A_max = 628)…

astro-ph2008★ 9 cited

Mapping dust column density in dark clouds by using NIR scattered light : Case of the Lupus 3 dark cloud

Yasushi Nakajima, Ryo Kandori, Motohide Tamura +3

We present a method of mapping dust column density in dark clouds by using near-infrared scattered light. Our observations of the Lupus 3 dark cloud indicate that there is a well d…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

Five New High-Redshift Quasar Lenses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Min-Su Shin +7

We report the discovery of five gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). All five systems are selected as two-image lensed quasar candidates from a…

astro-ph2008★ 9 cited

The hidden HI-massive LIRG HIZOA J0836-43: Inside-out galaxy formation

M. E. Cluver, T. H. Jarrett, P. N. Appleton +6

HIZOA J0836-43 is an extreme gas-rich (=7.5$\times10^{10} M_{\sun}$) disk galaxy which lies hidden behind the strongly obscuring Vela region of the Milky Way. Utilizin…