Showing 2003 · astro-phShow all

16 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph2003★ 15 cited

Q-LET - Quick Lensing Estimation Tool - An application to SN2003es

Christofer Gunnarsson

Q-LET is a FORTRAN 77 code that enables a quick estimate of the gravitational lensing effects on a point- or an extended source. The user provided input consists of the redshifts,…

astro-ph2003★ 81 cited

Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II

AMANDA Collaboration, J. Ahrens

We present the results of a search for point sources of high energy neutrinos in the northern hemisphere using AMANDA-II data collected in the year 2000. Included are flux limits o…

astro-ph2003★ 1.5k cited

New Constraints on , , and w from an Independent Set of Eleven High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with HST

R. A. Knop, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah +45

We report measurements of , , and w from eleven supernovae at z=0.36-0.86 with high-quality lightcurves measured using WFPC-2 on the HST. This is an independent set of hi…

astro-ph2003★ 62 cited

Mapping the Circumstellar Environment of T Tauri with Fluorescent H_2 Emission

Frederick M. Walter, Gregory Herczeg, Alexander Brown +6

We have obtained three long-slit, far UV spectra of the pre-main sequence system T Tauri. These HST/STIS spectra show a strong and variable on-source spectrum composed of both fluo…

astro-ph2003★ 25 cited

Constraints on intergalactic dust from quasar colours

Edvard Mortsell, Ariel Goobar

Colour measurements of quasars are used to constrain the abundance and properties of intergalactic dust and the related extinction effects on high-z sources. For Type Ia supernovae…

astro-ph2003★ 234 cited

The power spectrum of SUSY-CDM on sub-galactic scales

Anne M. Green, Stefan Hofmann, Dominik J. Schwarz

The formation of large scale structure is independent of the nature of the cold dark matter (CDM), however the fate of very small scale inhomogeneities depends on the micro-physics…

astro-ph2003★ 1 cited

High-resolution optical studies of nearby Type Ia supernovae

Peter Lundqvist, Seppo Mattila, Jesper Sollerman +5

Since April 2000, a program using the ESO/VLT/UVES to search for early circumstellar signatures from nearby supernovae has been conducted. Until now, two Type Ia supernovae have be…

astro-ph2003★ 8 cited

Can homogeneous extra dimensions be stabilized during matter domination?

Torsten Bringmann, Martin Eriksson

We investigate cosmologies with homogeneous extra dimensions that can be described by generalised Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metrics and give a brief review on a general setup to d…

astro-ph2003★ 408 cited

Sensitivity of the IceCube Detector to Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Muon Neutrinos

The IceCube Collaboration, J. Ahrens

We present the results of a Monte-Carlo study of the sensitivity of the planned IceCube detector to predicted fluxes of muon neutrinos at TeV to PeV energies. A complete simulation…

astro-ph2003★ 47 cited

The intrinsic colour dispersion in Type Ia supernovae

S. Nobili, A. Goobar, R. Knop +1

The properties of low-redshift Type Ia supernovae are investigated using published multi-band optical broadband data from the Calan/Tololo and CfA surveys. The average time evoluti…

astro-ph2003★ 81 cited

Effect of realistic astrophysical inputs on the phase and shape of the WIMP annual modulation signal

Anne M Green

The orbit of the Earth about the Sun produces an annual modulation in the WIMP direct detection rate. If the local WIMP velocity distribution is isotropic then the modulation is ro…

astro-ph2003★ 25 cited

Weak Lensing from Space I: Instrumentation and Survey Strategy

Jason Rhodes, Alexandre Refregier, Richard Massey +1

A wide field space-based imaging telescope is necessary to fully exploit the technique of observing dark matter via weak gravitational lensing. This first paper in a three part ser…

astro-ph2003★ 77 cited

Limits on diffuse fluxes of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 detector

J. Ahrens et al.

Data from the AMANDA-B10 detector taken during the austral winter of 1997 have been searched for a diffuse flux of high energy extraterrestrial muon-neutrinos, as predicted from, e…

astro-ph2003★ 21 cited

Constraining photon-axion oscillations using quasar spectra

Edvard Mortsell, Ariel Goobar

Using quasar spectra from the SDSS survey, we constrain the possibility of photon-axion oscillations as a source of dimming of high redshift objects. Such a process has been sugges…

astro-ph2003★ 31 cited

Cosmological Evolution of Homogeneous Universal Extra Dimensions

Torsten Bringmann, Martin Eriksson, Michael Gustafsson

The lightest Kaluza-Klein particle appearing in models with universal extra dimensions has recently been proposed as a viable dark matter candidate when the extra dimensions are co…

astro-ph2003★ 343 cited

Enhanced cosmic-ray flux toward zeta Persei inferred from laboratory study of H3+ - e- recombination rate

B. J. McCall, A. J. Huneycutt, R. J. Saykally +13

The H3+ molecular ion plays a fundamental role in interstellar chemistry, as it initiates a network of chemical reactions that produce many interstellar molecules. In dense clouds,…