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astro-ph.SR2010★ 1 cited

Long-term Spectroscopic Monitoring of LBVs and LBV Candidates

A. Lobel, J. H. Groh, K. Torres +1

We present results of a long-term spectroscopic monitoring program (since mid 2009) of Luminous Blue Variables with the new HERMES echelle spectrograph on the 1.2 m Mercator telesc…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 44 cited

The widespread occurence of water vapor in the circumstellar envelopes of carbon-rich AGB stars: first results from a survey with Herschel/HIFI

D. A. Neufeld, E. González-Alfonso, G. Melnick +16

We report the preliminary results of a survey for water vapor in a sample of eight C stars with large mid-IR continuum fluxes: V384 Per, CIT 6, V Hya, Y CVn, IRAS 15194-5115, V Cyg…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 36 cited

First magnetic field models for recently discovered magnetic beta Cephei and slowly pulsating B stars

S. Hubrig, I. Ilyin, M. Schoeller +3

In spite of recent detections of magnetic fields in a number of beta Cephei and slowly pulsating B (SPB) stars, their impact on stellar rotation, pulsations, and element diffusion…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 134 cited

MESS (Mass-loss of Evolved StarS), a Herschel Key Program

M. A. T. Groenewegen, C. Waelkens, M. J. Barlow +39

MESS (Mass-loss of Evolved StarS) is a Guaranteed Time Key Program that uses the PACS and SPIRE instruments on board the Herschel Space Observatory to observe a representative samp…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 21 cited

Herschel/HIFI observations of IRC+10216: water vapor in the inner envelope of a carbon-rich AGB star

David A. Neufeld, Eduardo González-Alfonso, Gary J. Melnick +6

We report the results of observations of ten rotational transitions of water vapor toward the carbon-rich AGB (asymptotic giant branch) star IRC+10216 (CW Leonis), carried out with…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 70 cited

The 9.7 and 18 um silicate absorption profiles towards diffuse and molecular cloud lines-of-sight

J. M. van Breemen, M. Min, J. E. Chiar +8

Studying the composition of dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial in understanding the cycle of dust in our galaxy. The mid-infrared spectral signature of amorphous sili…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 1 cited

The Potential of the Timing Method to Detect Evolved Planetary Systems

Roberto Silvotti, Robert Szabo, Pieter Degroote +2

The timing method, using either stellar pulsations or eclipse timing of close binaries as a clock, is proving to be an efficient way to detect planets around stars that have evolve…

math.AG2010★ 3 cited

Zeta functions and Bernstein-Sato polynomials for ideals in dimension two

Bart Bories

For a nonzero ideal I of C[x_1,...,x_n], with 0 in supp I, a generalization of a conjecture of Igusa - Denef - Loeser predicts that every pole of its topological zeta function is a…

math.OA2010★ 10 cited

One-cohomology and the uniqueness of the group measure space decomposition of a II_1 factor

Stefaan Vaes

We provide a unified and self-contained treatment of several of the recent uniqueness theorems for the group measure space decomposition of a II_1 factor. We single out a large cla…

math.NT2010★ 4 cited

Igusa's p-adic local zeta function associated to a polynomial mapping and a polynomial integration measure

Bart Bories

For p prime, we give an explicit formula for Igusa's local zeta function associated to a polynomial mapping f=(f_1,...,f_t): Q_p^n -> Q_p^t, with f_1,...,f_t in Z_p[x_1,...,x_n], a…

math.AG2010

Motivic zeta functions for degenerations of abelian varieties and Calabi-Yau varieties

Lars Halvard Halle, Johannes Nicaise

This is a survey on motivic zeta functions associated to abelian varieties and Calabi-Yau varieties over a discretely valued field. We explain how they are related to Denef and Loe…

hep-th2010★ 93 cited

Higher-dimensional Rotating Charged Black Holes

Marco M. Caldarelli, Roberto Emparan, Bert Van Pol

Using the blackfold approach, we study new classes of higher-dimensional rotating black holes with electric charges and string dipoles, in theories of gravity coupled to a 2-form o…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 45 cited

The Hyper-MUCHFUSS project: probing the Galactic halo with sdB stars

A. Tillich, U. Heber, S. Geier +7

High-velocity stars in the Galactic halo, e.g. the so-called hyper-velocity stars (HVS), are important tracers of the properties of the dark matter halo, in particular its mass. Ba…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 19 cited

Experimental evidence on the Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak interference of the topological surface states in the exfoliated Bi2Te3 nanoflakes

Yuyuan Qin, Zhaoguo Li, Fengqi Song +10

Here we demonstrate the Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak (AAS) interference of the topological surface states on the exfoliated Bi2Te3 microflakes by a flux period of h/2e in their magnetor…

hep-th2010★ 5 cited

Chronology protection and the stringy exclusion principle

Joris Raeymaekers, Dieter Van den Bleeken, Bert Vercnocke

We construct a family of supersymmetric solutions to AdS supergravity in three dimensions, that correspond to type IIB seven branes wrapped on an internal S3xT4. These solutions ar…

nucl-ex2010★ 19 cited

Coulomb excitation of 73Ga

J. Diriken, I. Stefanescu, D. Balabanski +40

The B(E2; Ii -> If) values for transitions in 71Ga and 73Ga were deduced from a Coulomb excitation experiment at the safe energy of 2.95 MeV/nucleon using post-accelerated beams of…

nucl-ex2010★ 98 cited

Nuclear spins, magnetic moments and quadrupole moments of Cu isotopes from N = 28 to N = 46: probes for core polarization effects

P. Vingerhoets, K. T. Flanagan, M. Avgoulea +21

Measurements of the ground-state nuclear spins, magnetic and quadrupole moments of the copper isotopes from 61Cu up to 75Cu are reported. The experiments were performed at the ISOL…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 45 cited

Massive unseen companions to hot faint underluminous stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) - Analysis of seven close subdwarf B binaries

S. Geier, P. F. L. Maxted, R. Napiwotzki +12

The project Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) aims at finding hot subdwarf stars with massive compact companions like massive white dw…

hep-th2010★ 19 cited

String Junctions and Holographic Interfaces

Marco Chiodaroli, Michael Gutperle, Ling-Yan Hung +1

In this paper we study half-BPS type IIB supergravity solutions with multiple asymptotic regions, where is either or . These solutions…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 56 cited

Dysprosium-based experimental representatives of an Ising-Heisenberg chain and a decorated Ising ring

Willem Van den Heuvel, Liviu F. Chibotaru

It is shown that the bond-decorated Ising model is a realistic model for certain real magnetic compounds containing lanthanide ions. The lanthanide ion plays the role of Ising spin…

astro-ph.SR2010

PACS spectroscopy of OH/IR stars

R. Lombaert, B. L. de Vries, L. Decin +5

Observations of high-excitation molecular emission lines can greatly increase our understanding of AGB winds, as they trace the innermost regions of the circumstellar envelope. The…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 66 cited

Different Evolutionary Stages in the Massive Star Forming Region S255 Complex

Y. Wang, H. Beuther, A. Bik +7

To understand evolutionary and environmental effects during the formation of high-mass stars, we observed three regions of massive star formation at different evolutionary stages t…

math.AG2010★ 4 cited

Geometric motivic Poincaré series of quasi-ordinary singularities

Helena Cobo Pablos, Pedro Daniel Gonzalez Perez

The geometric motivic Poincaré series of a germ of complex algebraic variety takes into account the classes in the Grothendieck ring of the jets of arcs through . De…

astro-ph.IM2010

Radiative cooling in numerical astrophysics: the need for adaptive mesh refinement

Allard Jan van Marle, Rony Keppens

Energy loss through optically thin radiative cooling plays an important part in the evolution of astrophysical gas dynamics and should therefore be considered a necessary element i…