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hep-ph2000★ 164 cited

Propagation of Muons and Taus at High Energies

S. Iyer Dutta, M. H. Reno, I. Sarcevic +1

The photonuclear contribution to charged lepton energy loss has been re-evaluated taking into account HERA results on real and virtual photon interactions with nucleons. With large…

astro-ph2000★ 63 cited

The Origin of the Magnetic Fields of the Universe: The Plasma Astrophysics of the Free Energy of the Universe

S. A. Colgate, H. Li, V. Pariev

(abridged) The interpretation of Faraday rotation measure maps of AGNs within galaxy clusters has revealed regions, kpc, that are populated with large, G…

astro-ph2000★ 20 cited

The Cyclotron Fundamental Exposed in the High-Field Magnetic Variable V884 Her

G. D. Schmidt, L. Ferrario, D. T. Wickramasinghe +1

High-quality phase-resolved optical spectropolarimetry is presented for the magnetic cataclysmic variable V884 Her. The overall circular polarization during active accretion states…

hep-ph2000★ 2 cited

On the eta-eta' complex in the SD-BS approach

Dubravko Klabucar, Dalibor Kekez, Michael D. Scadron

The bound-state Schwinger-Dyson and Bethe-Salpeter (SD-BS) approach is chirally well-behaved and provides a reliable treatment of the eta-eta' complex although a ladder approximati…

cond-mat.soft2000★ 19 cited

Measurement of one-particle correlations and momentum distributions for trapped 1D gases

M. D. Girardeau, E. M. Wright

van Hove's theory of scattering of probe particles by a macroscopic target is generalized so as to relate the differential cross section for atomic ejection via stimulated Raman tr…

astro-ph2000★ 3.3k cited

Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant

W. L. Freedman, B. F. Madore, B. K. Gibson +12

We present here the final results of the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to measure the Hubble constant. We summarize our method, the results and the uncertainties, tabulate our…

astro-ph2000★ 484 cited

The Power Spectrum Dependence of Dark Matter Halo Concentrations

V. R. Eke, J. F. Navarro, M. Steinmetz

High-resolution N-body simulations are used to examine the power spectrum dependence of the concentration of galaxy-sized dark matter halos. It is found that dark halo concentratio…

astro-ph2000★ 48 cited

A Large-Scale Jet and FR I Radio Source in a Spiral Galaxy: The Host Properties and External Environment

Michael J. Ledlow, Frazer N. Owen, Min S. Yun +1

We have identified a large (~200 kpc), powerful double radio source whose host galaxy is clearly a disk and most likely a spiral. This FR I radio galaxy is located very near the ce…

astro-ph2000★ 50 cited

Mapping the Galactic Halo III. Simulated Observations of Tidal Streams

Paul Harding, Heather L. Morrison, Edward W. Olszewski +5

We have simulated the evolution of tidal debris in the Galactic halo in order to guide our ongoing survey to determine the fraction of halo mass accreted via satellite infall. Cont…

hep-ex2000★ 14 cited

A Measurement of the Branching Ratio and Asymmetry of the Decay Cascade^0-->Sigma^0/gamma

A. Alavi-Harti

We have studied the rare weak radiative hyperon decay Cascade0-->Sigma0/gamma in the KTeV experiment at Fermilab. We have identified 4045 signal events over a background of 804 eve…

astro-ph2000★ 45 cited

The Optical Spectroscopic Evolution of V1974 Cygni (Nova Cygni 1992)

A. Moro-Martin, P. M. Garnavich, A. Noriega-Crespo

Optical observations of nova V1974 Cygni (Cygni 1992), spanning a 4 year period, have been used to study its spectroscopic evolution. The data cover a wavelength range from $\sim 3…

astro-ph2000

Helicity in Hydro and MHD Reconnection

Axel Brandenburg, Robert M. Kerr

Helicity, a measure of the linkage of flux lines, has subtle and largely unknown effects upon dynamics. Both magnetic and hydrodynamic helicity are conserved for ideal systems and…

astro-ph2000★ 11 cited

A Multivariate Analysis of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North

Michael R. Corbin, Andrea Urban, Elizabeth Stobie +2

We use the ultraviolet and optical WFPC2 and near-infrared NICMOS images of the Hubble Deep Field North to measure and statistically compare an array of parameters for over 250 of…

astro-ph2000★ 88 cited

Weak lensing study of low mass galaxy groups: implications for Omega_m

H. Hoekstra, M. Franx, K. Kuijken +8

We report on the first measurement of the average mass and mass-to-light ratio of galaxy groups by analysing the weak lensing signal induced by these systems. The groups, which hav…

astro-ph2000★ 32 cited

Ultraviolet and Optical Observations of OB Associations and Field Stars in the Southwest Region of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Joel Wm. Parker, Dennis Zaritsky, Theodore P. Stecher +2

Using photometry from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) and photometry and spectroscopy from three ground-based optical datasets we have analyzed the stellar content of OB as…

astro-ph2000★ 35 cited

A Search for the Damped Ly-alpha Absorber at z=1.86 toward QSO 1244+3443 with NICMOS

Varsha P. Kulkarni, John M. Hill, Glenn Schneider +5

We have carried out a high-resolution imaging search for the galaxy associated with the damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) absorber at z=1.859 toward the z_{em}=2.48 quasar QSO 1244+3443, us…

hep-ph2000★ 50 cited

Radiative VPgamma transitions and eta-eta' mixing

A. Bramon, R. Escribano, M. D. Scadron

A value for the - mixing angle is extracted from the data on transitions using simple quark-model ideas. The set of data covers {\it all} possible radiative tran…

astro-ph2000★ 85 cited

The non-stellar infrared continuum of Seyfert galaxies

A. Alonso-Herrero, A. C. Quillen, C. Simpson +2

JHKL'M (1-5 micron) imaging of a sample of Seyfert (Sy) 2 galaxies is presented. We confirm that the 1-2.2 micron nuclear continuum of some Sy 2s is dominated by stellar emission,…

astro-ph2000★ 38 cited

Precise Masses for Wolf 1062 AB from Hubble Space Telescope Interferometric Astrometry and McDonald Observatory Radial Velocities

G. F. Benedict, B. E. McArthur, O. G. Franz +17

We present an analysis of astrometric data from FGS 3, a white-light interferometer on {\it HST}, and of radial velocity data from two ground-based campaigns. We model the astromet…

physics.plasm-ph2000★ 83 cited

Generation of electromagnetic pulses from plasma channels induced by femtosecond light strings

Chung-Chieh Cheng, E. M. Wright, J. V. Moloney

We present a model that elucidates the physics underlying the generation of an electromagnetic pulse from a femtosecond laser induced plasma channel. The radiation pressure force f…

nlin.CD2000★ 28 cited

The energy budget in Rayleigh-Benard convection

Robert M. Kerr

It is shown using three series of Rayleigh number simulations of varying aspect ratio AR and Prandtl number Pr that the normalized dissipation at the wall, while significantly grea…

math.DG2000★ 9 cited

The eta-invariant, Maslov index, and spectral flow for Dirac-type operators on manifolds with boundary

Paul Kirk, Matthias Lesch

Several proofs have been published of the Mod Z gluing formula for the eta-invariant of a Dirac operator. However, so far the integer contribution to the gluing formula for the eta…

hep-ph2000★ 34 cited

Search for QGP and Thermal Freeze-out of Strange Hadrons

Giorgio Torrieri, Johann Rafelski

After reviewing the observables of QGP we perform an analysis of m_T spectra of strange hadrons measured as function of centrality in 156AGeV Pb--Pb interactions. We show that ther…

astro-ph2000★ 11 cited

Extent of Excess Far Infrared Emission around Luminosity Class III Stars

Sungsoo S. Kim, Ben Zuckerman, Murray Silverstone

With the Infrared Space Observatory, we conducted 3x3-pixel imaging photometry of twelve luminosity class III stars, which were previously presumed to have dust particles around th…