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astro-ph2004★ 81 cited

Effects of rotation on the revival of a stalled shock in supernova explosions

T. Yamasaki, S. Yamada

In order to infer the effects of rotation on the revival of a stalled shock in supernova explosions, we investigated steady accretion flows with a standing shock. We first obtained…

astro-ph2004★ 26 cited

Damped Lyman alpha Absorbing Galaxies At Low Redshifts z<1 From Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Models

Katsuya Okoshi, Masahiro Nagashima

We investigate Damped Ly-alpha absorbing galaxies (DLA galaxies) at low redshifts z<1 in the hierarchical structure formation scenario to clarify the nature of DLA galaxies because…

astro-ph2004★ 44 cited

Discovery of a Large Scale Clumpy Structure around the Lynx Supercluster at z~1.27

Fumiaki Nakata, Tadayuki Kodama, Kazuhiro Shimasaku +12

We report the discovery of a probable large scale structure composed of many galaxy clumps around the known twin clusters at z=1.26 and z=1.27 in the Lynx region. Our analysis is b…

astro-ph2004★ 27 cited

Nobeyama Millimeter Array Observations of GRB 030329: a Decay of Afterglow with Bumps and Molecular Gas in the Host Galaxy

K. Kohno, T. Tosaki, T. Okuda +12

Nobeyama Millimeter Array was used to observe millimeter-wave afterglow of GRB 030329 at 93 GHz and 141 GHz from 2003 April 6 to 2003 May 30. A sensitive search for CO(J=1-0) emiss…

astro-ph2004

Chandra Observation of the Starburst Galaxy NGC 2146

Tatsuya Inui, Hironori Matsumoto, Takeshi Go Tsuru +4

We present six monitoring observations of the starburst galaxy NGC 2146 using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We have detected 67 point sources in the 8'.7 x 8'.7 field of view of t…

astro-ph2004★ 18 cited

ADAS analysis of the differential emission measure structure of the inner solar corona. II. A study of the `quiet Sun' inhomogeneities from SOHO CDS-NIS spectra

A. C. Lanzafame, D. H. Brooks, J. Lang

We present a study of the differential emission measure (DEM) of a `quiet Sun' area observed in the extreme ultraviolet at normal incidence by the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (…

astro-ph2004★ 79 cited

Development of an advanced Compton camera with gaseous TPC and scintillator

A. Takada, K. Hattori, H. Kubo +8

A prototype of the MeV gamma-ray imaging camera based on the full reconstruction of the Compton process has been developed. This camera consists of a micro-TPC that is a gaseous Ti…

astro-ph2004★ 43 cited

Alfven Wave-Driven Proto-Neutron Star Winds And R-Process Nucleosynthesis

Takeru K. Suzuki, Shigehiro Nagataki

We propose magnetic proto-neutron star (PNS) winds driven by \Alfven waves as well as the neutrino heating as an appropriate site for the r-process nucleosynthesis. \Alfven waves e…

astro-ph2004★ 29 cited

The Acceleration Mechanism of Resistive MHD Jets Launched from Accretion Disks

T. Kuwabara, K. Shibata, T. Kudoh +1

We analyzed the results of non-linear resistive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of jet formation to study the acceleration mechanism of axisymmetric, resistive MHD jets. Th…

astro-ph2004★ 39 cited

TV Corvi Revisited: Precursor and Superhump Period Derivative Linked to the Disk Instability Model

M. Uemura, R. E. Mennickent, R. Ishioka +9

We report optical photometric observations of four superoutbursts of the short-period dwarf nova TV Crv. This object experiences two types of superoutbursts; one with a precursor a…

astro-ph2004★ 259 cited

A Spatial and Spectral Study of Nonthermal Filaments in Historical Supernova Remnants: Observational Results with Chandra

Aya Bamba, Ryo Yamazaki, Tatsuo Yoshida +2

The outer shells of young supernova remnants (SNRs) are the most plausible acceleration sites of high-energy electrons with the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. We stu…

astro-ph2004★ 6 cited

Dark Matter Search with Direction Sensitive Scintillators

H. Sekiya, M. Mionwa, Y. Shimizu +2

We have carried out the dark matter search with a 116g direction-sensitive stilbene crystal in Kamioka Observatory. With the crystal fixed to the earth, we searched the modulation…

astro-ph2004★ 11 cited

Nature of a Strongly-Lensed Submillimeter Galaxy SMM J14011+0252

K. Motohara, T. Takata, F. Iwamuro +6

We have carried out near-infrared JHK spectroscopy of a gravitationally lensed submillimeter galaxy SMM J14011+0252 at z=2.565, using OHS and CISCO on the Subaru telescope. This ob…

astro-ph2004★ 804 cited

A general proof of the conservation of the curvature perturbation

David H. Lyth, Karim A. Malik, Misao Sasaki

Without invoking a perturbative expansion, we define the cosmological curvature perturbation, and consider its behaviour assuming that the universe is smooth over a sufficiently la…

astro-ph2004★ 72 cited

Dynamical Expansion of Ionization and Dissociation Front around a Massive Star. I. A Mode of Triggered Star Formation

Takashi Hosokawa, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We analyze the dynamical expansion of the HII region and outer photodissociation region (PDR) around a massive star by solving the UV and FUV radiation transfer and the thermal and…

astro-ph2004★ 30 cited

Starburst at the Expanding Molecular Superbubble in M82: Self-Induced Starburst at the Inner Edge of the Superbubble

Satoki Matsushita, Ryohei Kawabe, Kotaro Kohno +3

We present high spatial resolution (2.3"x1.9" or 43 pc x 36 pc at D = 3.9 Mpc) 100 GHz millimeter-wave continuum emission observations with the Nobeyama Millimeter Array toward an…

astro-ph2004★ 25 cited

XMM-Newton Observations of G32.45+0.1and G38.55+0.0: diffuse hard X-ray sources found with the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey

Hiroya Yamaguchi, Masaru Ueno, katsuji Koyama +2

We report on XMM-Newton observations of G32.45+0.1 and G38.55+0.0. These were discovered as diffuse hard X-ray sources with the ASCA Galactic plane survey, but the limited spatial…

astro-ph2004★ 165 cited

The Subaru Deep Field: The Optical Imaging Data

N. Kashikawa, K. Shimasaku, N. Yasuda +35

The Subaru Deep Field (SDF) project is a program of Subaru Observatory to carry out a deep galaxy survey over a blank field as large as 34'x27'. The program consists of very deep m…

astro-ph2004★ 19 cited

A low upper-limit on the lithium isotope ratio in HD140283

Wako Aoki, Susumu Inoue, Satoshi Kawanomoto +4

We have obtained a high-S/N (900-1100), high-resolving-power (R=95000) spectrum of the metal-poor subgiant HD 140283 in an effort to measure its 6Li/7Li isotope ratio. From a 1-D a…

astro-ph2004★ 38 cited

s-process branching at 185W revised

P. Mohr, T. Shizuma, H. Ueda +7

The neutron capture cross section of the unstable s-process branching nucleus 185W has been derived from experimental data of the inverse 186W(g,n)185W photodisintegration taken wi…

astro-ph2004★ 12 cited

The Peculiar 2004 Superoutburst in the Helium Dwarf Nova, 2003aw

D. Nogami, B. Monard, A. Retter +5

We conducted a time-resolved photometric campaign of the helium dwarf nova, 2003aw in 2004 May--June. 2003aw stayed at 14.7--15.7 mag for the first several days during this campaig…

astro-ph2004★ 45 cited

The Largest Blueshifts of [O III] emission line in Two Narrow-Line Quasars

Kentaro Aoki, Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Kouji Ohta

We have obtained optical intermediate resolution spectra (R = 3000) of the narrow-line quasars DMS 0059-0055 and PG 1543+489. The [O III] emission line in DMS 0059-0055 is blueshif…

astro-ph2004★ 26 cited

Dark energy reflections in the redshift-space quadrupole

Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Bruce A. Bassett, Hiroaki Nishioka

We show that the redshift-space quadrupole will be a powerful tool for constraining dark energy even if the baryon oscillations are missing from the usual monopole power spectrum a…

astro-ph2004★ 62 cited

Testing for double inflation with WMAP

David Parkinson, Shinji Tsujikawa, Bruce A. Bassett +1

With the WMAP data we can now begin to test realistic models of inflation involving multiple scalar fields. These naturally lead to correlated adiabatic and isocurvature (entropy)…