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astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

Near-IR spectroscopic ages of massive star clusters in M82

A. Lançon, J. S. Gallagher, M. Mouhcine +3

Like other starburst galaxies, M82 hosts compact, massive young star clusters that are interesting both in their own right and as benchmarks for population synthesis models. Can sp…

astro-ph2008★ 106 cited

Grain alignment induced by radiative torques: effects of internal relaxation of energy and complex radiation fields

Thiem Hoang, Alex Lazarian

Earlier studies of grain alignment dealt mostly with interstellar grains that have strong internal relaxation of energy which aligns grain axis of maximum moment of inertia with re…

astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

Diffuse ionized gas in spiral galaxies and the disk-halo interaction

R. J. Reynolds, L. M. Haffner, G. J. Madsen +2

Thick layers of warm, low density ionized hydrogen (i.e., the warm ionized medium or WIM) in spiral galaxies provide direct evidence for an interaction between the disk and halo. T…

astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

Studying ISM magnetic fields and turbulent regimes from polarimetric maps

D. Falceta-Goncalves, A. Lazarian, G. Kowal

Polarimeric maps have been used on the characterization of the magnetic field in molecular clouds. However, it is difficult to determine the 3-dimensional properties of these regio…

astro-ph2008★ 9 cited

IceCube: Construction Status and First Results

Albrecht Karle

IceCube is a 1 km3 neutrino telescope currently under construction at the South Pole. The detector will consist of 4800 optical sensors deployed at depths between 1450 m and 2450 m…

astro-ph2008

Angular Momentum Loss and Stellar spin-down in Magnetic Massive Stars

Asif ud-Doula, Stanley P. Owocki, Richard H. D. Townsend

We examine the angular momentum loss and associated rotational spin-down for magnetic hot stars with a line-driven stellar wind and a rotation-aligned dipole magnetic field. Our an…

astro-ph2008★ 225 cited

A Highly Complete Spectroscopic Survey of the GOODS-N Field

A. J. Barger, L. L. Cowie, W. -H. Wang

We present a table of redshifts for 2907 galaxies and stars in the 145 square arcmin HST ACS GOODS-North, making this the most spectroscopically complete redshift sample obtained t…

astro-ph2008★ 52 cited

A spatially resolved study of photoelectric heating and [CII] cooling in the LMC

D. Rubin, S. Hony, S. C. Madden +20

(abridged) We study photoelectric heating throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud. We quantify the importance of the [CII] cooling line and the photoelectric heating process of vario…

astro-ph2008★ 12 cited

Can the cosmic-ray driven dynamo model explain the observations of the polarized emission of edge-on galaxies ?

Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur, Marian Soida, Barbara Kulesza-Żydzik +2

In the present paper we construct maps of polarized synchrotron radio emission of a whole galaxy, based on local models of the cosmic ray (CR) driven dynamo. We perform numerical s…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

Local Star formation triggered by SN shocks in magnetized diffuse neutral clouds

M. R. M. Leao, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, D. Falceta-Goncalves +2

In this work, considering the impact of a SNR with a neutral magnetized cloud we derived analytically a set of conditions which are favorable for driving gravitational instability…

astro-ph2008★ 128 cited

Growth of Magnetic Fields Induced by Turbulent Motions

J. Cho, E. Vishniac, A. Beresnyak +2

We present numerical simulations of driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with weak/moderate imposed magnetic fields. The main goal is to clarify dynamics of magnetic field g…

astro-ph2008★ 130 cited

The Disruption and Fueling of M33

M. E. Putman, J. E. G. Peek, A. Muratov +7

The disruption of the M33 galaxy is evident from its extended gaseous structure. We present new data from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) Survey that show the…

astro-ph2008★ 14 cited

Protodiscs around Hot Magnetic Rotator Stars

M. Maheswaran, J. P. Cassinelli

We develop equations and obtain solutions for the structure and evolution of a protodisc region that is initially formed with no radial motion and super-Keplerian rotation speed wh…

astro-ph2008★ 9 cited

CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Foreground Science Knowledge and Prospects

A. A. Fraisse, J. -A. C. Brown, G. Dobler +10

We report on our knowledge of Galactic foregrounds, as well as on how a CMB satellite mission aiming at detecting a primordial B-mode signal (CMBPol) will contribute to improving i…

astro-ph2008

How rapidly do neutron stars spin at birth?

Roberto Soria, Rosalba Perna, David Pooley +1

We have studied the X-ray properties of ageing historical core-collapse supernovae in nearby galaxies, using archival data from Chandra, XMM-Newton and Swift. We found possible evi…

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★ 26 cited

AURA - A radio frequency extension to IceCube

H. Landsman, L. Ruckman, G. S. Varner

The excellent radio frequency transparency of cold polar ice, combined with the coherent Cherenkov emission produced by neutrino-induced showers when viewed at wavelengths longer t…

astro-ph2008★ 36 cited

Fishing in Tidal Streams: New Radial Velocity and Proper Motion Constraints on the Orbit of the Anticenter Stream

Carl J. Grillmair, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Steven R. Majewski

We have obtained radial velocity measurements for stars in two, widely-separated fields in the Anticenter Stream. Combined with SDSS/USNO-B proper motions, the new measurements all…

astro-ph2008★ 25 cited

Properties and selected implications of magnetic turbulence for interstellar medium, Local Bubble and solar wind

A. Lazarian, A. Beresnyak, H. Yan +2

Astrophysical fluids, including interstellar and interplanetary medium, are magnetized and turbulent. Their appearance, evolution, and overall properties are determined by the magn…

astro-ph2008★ 119 cited

Measuring the Sources of the Intergalactic Ionizing Flux

L. L. Cowie, A. J. Barger, L. Trouille

We use a wide-field (0.9 square degree) X-ray sample with optical and GALEX ultraviolet observations to measure the contribution of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) to the ionizing fl…

astro-ph2008★ 110 cited

Obtaining Spectra of Turbulent Velocity from Observations

A. Lazarian

We discuss a long-standing problem of how turbulence can be studied using observations of Doppler broadened emission and absorption lines. The focus of the present review is on two…

astro-ph2008★ 57 cited

The OPTX Project I: The Flux and Redshift Catalogs for the CLANS, CLASXS, and CDF-N fields

L. Trouille, A. J. Barger, L. L. Cowie +2

We present the redshift catalogs for the X-ray sources detected in the Chandra Deep Field North (CDF-N), the Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey (CLASXS), and the Chandra Lock…

astro-ph2008★ 201 cited

Density Studies of MHD Interstellar Turbulence: Statistical Moments, Correlations and Bispectrum

Blakesley Burkhart, D. Falceta-Goncalves, G. Kowal +1

We present a number of statistical tools for obtaining studying turbulence in molecular clouds and diffuse interstellar medium. For our tests we used of three-dimensional 512 cube…

astro-ph2008★ 58 cited

Variable Evolved Stars and YSOs Discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud using the SAGE Survey

Uma P. Vijh, M. Meixner, B. Babler +13

We present initial results and source lists of variable sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) for which we detect thermal infrared variability from the SAGE (Surveying the Ag…