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astro-ph.CO2012★ 27 cited

Relative velocity of dark matter and barions in clusters of galaxies and measurements of their peculiar velocities

Klaus Dolag, Rashid Sunyaev

The increasing sensitivity of current experiments, which nowadays routinely measure the thermal SZ effect within galaxy clusters, provide the hope that peculiar velocities of indiv…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 138 cited

Bayesian analysis of ages, masses, and distances to cool stars with non-LTE spectroscopic parameters

Aldo Serenelli, Maria Bergemann, Gregory Ruchti +1

For studies of Galactic evolution, the accurate characterization of stars in terms of their evolutionary stage and population membership is of fundamental importance. A standard ap…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 127 cited

Red Supergiant Stars as Cosmic Abundance Probes: II. NLTE Effects in J-band Silicon Lines

Maria Bergemann, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Matthias Wueurl +3

Medium resolution J-band spectroscopy of individual red supergiant stars is a promising tool to investigate the chemical composition of the young stellar population in star forming…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 19 cited

Tidal disruptions in circumbinary discs (I): Star formation, dynamics, and binary evolution

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Patrick Brem, Jorge Cuadra

In our current interpretation of the hierarchical structure of the universe it is well established that galaxies collide and merge with each other during their lifetime. If massive…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 24 cited

The ATLAS 3D project - XVI. Physical parameters and spectral line energy distributions of the molecular gas in gas-rich early-type galaxies

Estelle Bayet, Martin Bureau, Timothy A. Davis +22

[Abridged] We present a detailed study of the physical properties of the molecular gas in a sample of 18 molecular gas-rich early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the ATLAS$ 3D sample. Ou…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 113 cited

The ATLAS3D project - XXII. Low-efficiency star formation in early-type galaxies: hydrodynamic models and observations

Marie Martig, Alison F. Crocker, Frederic Bournaud +27

We study the global efficiency of star formation in high resolution hydrodynamical simulations of gas discs embedded in isolated early-type and spiral galaxies. Despite using a uni…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 231 cited

Simulations of the galaxy population constrained by observations from z=3 to the present day: implications for galactic winds and the fate of their ejecta

Bruno Henriques, Simon White, Peter Thomas +4

We apply Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) methods to large-scale simulations of galaxy formation in a LambdaCDM cosmology in order to explore how star formation and feedback are con…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 20 cited

Cosmology from clustering of Lyman-alpha galaxies: breaking non-gravitational Lyman-alpha radiative transfer degeneracies using the bispectrum

Bradley Greig, Eiichiro Komatsu, J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Large surveys for Lyman-alpha emitting (LAE) galaxies have been proposed as a new method for measuring clustering of the galaxy population at high redshift with the goal of determi…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 61 cited

Temperature, gravity and bolometric correction scales for non-supergiant OB stars

Maria-Fernanda Nieva

Context. Precise and accurate determinations of effective temperature and surface gravity are mandatory to derive reliable chemical abundances and fundamental parameters like dista…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 61 cited

Simulating high-z Gamma-ray Burst host galaxies

R. Salvaterra, U. Maio, B. Ciardi +1

We investigate the nature of high-z host galaxies of long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) by means of state-of-the-art numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation and evolution of…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 106 cited

Turbulent convection in stellar interiors. III. Mean-field analysis and stratification effects

Maxime Viallet, Casey Meakin, David Arnett +1

We present 3D implicit large eddy simulations (ILES) of the turbulent convection in the envelope of a 5 Msun red giant star and in the oxygen-burning shell of a 23 Msun supernova p…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 5.1k cited

Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Parameter Results

G. Hinshaw, D. Larson, E. Komatsu +18

We present cosmological parameter constraints based on the final nine-year WMAP data, in conjunction with additional cosmological data sets. The WMAP data alone, and in combination…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 2.4k cited

Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Final Maps and Results

C. L. Bennett, D. Larson, J. L. Weiland +18

We present the final nine-year maps and basic results from the WMAP mission. We provide new nine-year full sky temperature maps that were processed to reduce the asymmetry of the e…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 338 cited

Unification of X-ray winds in Seyfert galaxies: from ultra-fast outflows to warm absorbers

F. Tombesi, M. Cappi, J. N. Reeves +4

The existence of ionized X-ray absorbing layers of gas along the line of sight to the nuclei of Seyfert galaxies is a well established observational fact. This material is systemat…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 35 cited

AGN and QSOs in the eROSITA All-Sky Survey -- Part I: Statistical properties

Alexander Kolodzig, Marat Gilfanov, Rashid Sunyaev +2

Context. The main element of the observing program of the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma orbital observatory is a four-year all-sky survey, in the course of which the entire sky will be s…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 48 cited

On the signature of superclusters and voids in the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect

Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo, Robert E. Smith

Through a large ensemble of Gaussian realisations and a suite of large-volume N-body simulations, we show that in a standard LCDM scenario, supervoids and superclusters in the reds…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 125 cited

Hot X-ray coronae around massive spiral galaxies: a unique probe of structure formation models

Akos Bogdan, William R. Forman, Mark Vogelsberger +8

Luminous X-ray gas coronae in the dark matter halos of massive spiral galaxies are a fundamental prediction of structure formation models, yet only a few such coronae have been det…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 14 cited

Modelling the formation of today's massive ellipticals

Thorsten Naab

The discovery of a population of massive, compact and quiescent early-type galaxies has changed the view on plausible formation scenarios for the present day population of elliptic…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 24 cited

Age Dating Stellar Populations in the Near Infrared: An absolute age indicator from the presence/absence of red supergiants

J. Zachary Gazak, N. Bastian, R. P. Kudritzki +4

The determination of age is a critical component in the study of a population of stellar clusters. In this letter we present a new absolute age indicator for young massive star clu…

gr-qc2012★ 89 cited

Numerical Relativity in Spherical Polar Coordinates: Evolution Calculations with the BSSN Formulation

Thomas W. Baumgarte, Pedro J. Montero, Isabel Cordero-Carrión +1

In the absence of symmetry assumptions most numerical relativity simulations adopt Cartesian coordinates. While Cartesian coordinates have some desirable properties, spherical pola…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 221 cited

3D deflagration simulations leaving bound remnants: a model for 2002cx-like Type Ia supernovae

M. Kromer, M. Fink, V. Stanishev +10

2002cx-like supernovae are a sub-class of sub-luminous Type Ia supernovae. Their light curves and spectra are characterized by distinct features that indicate strong mixing of the…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 948 cited

PHIBSS: molecular gas content and scaling relations in z~1-3 normal star forming galaxies

L. J. Tacconi, R. Neri, R. Genzel +21

We present PHIBSS, the IRAM Plateau de Bure high-z blue sequence CO 3-2 survey of the molecular gas properties in normal star forming galaxies (SFGs) near the cosmic star formation…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 9 cited

Improved CLEAN reconstructions for rotation measure synthesis with maximum likelihood estimation

M. R. Bell, N. Oppermann, A. Crai +1

The CLEAN deconvolution algorithm has well-known limitations due to the restriction of locating point source model components on a discretized grid. In this letter we demonstrate t…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 67 cited

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the sloshing cold fronts in the Virgo cluster as a measure for the effective ICM viscosity

E. Roediger, R. P. Kraft, W. R. Forman +2

Sloshing cold fronts (CFs) arise from minor merger triggered gas sloshing. Their detailed structure depends on the properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM): hydrodynamical simu…