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astro-ph.GA2011★ 14 cited

Testing three derivative methods of stellar population synthesis models

Yu Zhang, Zhanwen Han, Jinzhong Liu +2

The number of methods used to study the properties of galaxies is increased, and testing these methods is very important. Galactic globular clusters (GCs) provide an excellent medi…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 76 cited

VLBI observations of 10 CSO candidates: expansion velocities of hot spots

Tao An, Fang Wu, Jun Yang +11

Observations of ten Compact Symmetric Objects ({\rm CSO}) candidates have been made with the Very Long Baseline Array at 8.4 GHz in 2005 and with a combined Chinese and European VL…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 103 cited

Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the Rapidly Pulsating Subdwarf B-type binary NY Vir

S. -B. Qian, L. -Y. Zhu, Z. -B. Dai +3

We report here the tentative discovery of a Jovian planet in orbit around the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type (sdB-type) eclipsing binary NY Vir. By using new determined eclipse…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 58 cited

The X-ray light curve of Gamma-ray bursts: clues to the central engine

M. G. Bernardini, R. Margutti, J. Mao +2

We present the analysis of a large sample of gamma-ray burst (GRB) X-ray light curves in the rest frame to characterise their intrinsic properties in the context of different theor…

astro-ph.SR2011

Chromospheric activity on the RS Canum Venaticorum stars

Zhang Liyun, Gu Shenghong

Firstly, we review the stellar chromospheric activity in the optical wavelength. Secondly, we introduce our ongoing project of multi-wavelength high--resolution optical observation…

astro-ph.SR2011

Photometric Study of Neglected Eclipsing Binary GSC 3576-0170

Zhang Liyun, Jing Jianghong, Tang Yanke +1

The new multi-color photometric light curves of the short-period eclipsing binary GSC 3576-0170 were obtained on two consecutive nights (October 5 and 6, 2009). With the 200…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 2 cited

Binary interactions on the calibrations of star formation rate

F. Zhang, L. Li, Y. Zhang +2

Using the evolutionary population synthesis (EPS) models with and without binary interactions (BIs), we present L_Ha, L_[OII], L_{i,UV} and L_FIR for Burst, S0, Sa-Sd and Irr galax…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 34 cited

Temporal Variation of the Hemispheric Solar Rotation

J. -L. Xie, X. -J. Shi, J. -C. Xu

The daily sunspot numbers of the whole disk as well as the northern and southern hemispheres from January 1, 1945 to December 31, 2010 are used to investigate the temporal variatio…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 14 cited

Diversity of multiwavelength emission bumps in the GRB 100219A afterglow

J. Mao, D. Malesani, P. D'Avanzo +4

Context. Multi-wavelength observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows provide important information about the activity of their central engines and their environments. In part…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 69 cited

The short-period limit of contact binaries

Dengkai Jiang, Zhanwen Han, Hongwei Ge +2

The stability of mass transfer is important in the formation of contact binaries from detached binaries when the primaries of the initially detached binaries fill their Roche lobes…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 19 cited

GRB 081029: A Gamma-Ray Burst with a Multi-Component Afterglow

Stephen T. Holland, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Jirong Mao +12

We present an analysis of the unusual optical light curve of the gamma-ray burst GRB 081029, a long-soft burst with a redshift of z = 3.8479. We combine X-ray and optical observati…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 18 cited

The surge-like eruption of a miniature filament

Jia-Yan Yang, Yun-Chun Jiang, Dan Yang +4

We report on the rare eruption of a miniature H_alpha filament that took a surge form. The filament first underwent a full development within 46 minutes and then began to erupt 9 m…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 1 cited

Helium star donor channel to type Ia supernovae and their surviving companion stars

Bo Wang, Zhanwen Han

Employing Eggleton's stellar evolution code with the optically thick wind assumption, we systematically studied the He star donor channel of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), in which a…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 207 cited

On a Coronal Blowout Jet: The First Observation of a Simultaneously Produced Bubble-like CME and a Jet-like CME in a Solar Event

Yuandeng Shen, Yu Liu, Jiangtao Su +1

The coronal blowout jet is a peculiar category among various jet phenomena, of which the sheared base arch, often carrying a small filament, experiences a miniature version of blow…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 45 cited

Microwave Zebra Pattern Structures in the X2.2 Solar Flare on Feb 15, 2011

Baolin Tan, Yihua Yan, Chengming Tan +2

Zebra pattern structure (ZP) is the most intriguing fine structure on the dynamic spectrograph of solar microwave burst. On 15 February 2011, there erupts an X2.2 flare event on th…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 29 cited

On the Evolution of the Cores of Radio Sources and Their Extended Radio Emission

Zunli Yuan, Jiancheng Wang

The work in this paper aims at determining the evolution and possible co-evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their cores via their radio luminosity functions…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 17 cited

The optical variability of steep-spectrum radio quasars in the SDSS Stripe 82 region

Minfeng Gu, Y. L. Ai

While there are a lot of investigations on the optical variability of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), not much work has been done on the optical variability of steep-spectrum…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 151 cited

Radiation Mechanisms and Physical Properties of GeV-TeV BL Lac Objects

Jin Zhang, En-Wei Liang, Shuang-Nan Zhang +1

BL Lac objects are the best candidates to study the jet properties since their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are less contaminated by the emission from the accretion disk an…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 1 cited

Radiation Mechanisms and Physical Properties of GeV-TeV BL Lac Objects

Jin Zhang, En-Wei Liang, Shuang-Nan Zhang +1

Broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are complied from literature for 24 TeV BL Lac objects. Two SEDs, which are identified as low and high states with their flux densiti…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 9 cited

Constraining broad-line regions from time lags of broad emission lines relative to radio emission

H. T. Liu, J. M. Bai, J. M. Wang +1

In this paper, a new method is proposed to estimate the broad-line region sizes of UV lines . It is applied to 3C 273. First, we derive the time lags of rad…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 1 cited

Characteristics of convection and overshooting in RGB and AGB stars

X. -J. Lai, Y. Li

Based on the turbulent convection model (TCM) of Li & Yang (2007), we have studied the characteristics of turbulent convection in the envelopes of 2 and 5M stars at the RGB and AGB…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 177 cited

Observations and Interpretation of a Low Coronal Shock Wave Observed in the EUV by the SDO/AIA

Suli Ma, John C. Raymond, Leon Golub +5

Taking advantage of both the high temporal and spatial resolution of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we studied a limb coronal…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 136 cited

Kinematics and Fine Structure of An Unwinding Polar Jet Observed by SDO/AIA

Yuandeng Shen, Yu Liu, Jiangtao Su +1

We present an observational study of the kinematics and fine structure of an unwinding polar jet, with high temporal and spatial observations taken by the Atmospheric Imaging Assem…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 34 cited

Observations of EUV and Soft X-ray Recurring Jets in an Active Region

Liheng Yang, Yunchun Jiang, Jiayan Yang +3

We present simultaneous observations of three recurring jets in EUV and soft X-ray (SXR), which occurred in an active region on 2007 June 5. By comparing their morphological and ki…