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astro-ph2000★ 34 cited

3EG J2016+3657: Confirming an EGRET Blazar Behind the Galactic Plane

J. P. Halpern, M. Eracleous, R. Mukherjee +1

We recently identified the blazar-like radio source G74.87+1.22 (B2013+370) as the counterpart of the high-energy gamma-ray source 3EG J2016+3657 in the Galactic plane. However, si…

hep-ph2000★ 190 cited

QCD-like Theories at Finite Baryon and Isospin Density

K. Splittorff, D. T. Son, M. A. Stephanov

We use 2-color QCD as a model to study the effects of simultaneous presence of chemical potentials for isospin charge, , and for baryon number, . We determine the phase d…

astro-ph2000★ 38 cited

Long-term Optical Variability of Radio-Selected Quasars from the FIRST Survey

David J. Helfand, Remington P. S. Stone, Beth Willman +5

We have obtained single-epoch optical photometry for 201 quasars, taken from the FIRST Bright Quasar Survey, which span a wide range in radio loudness. Comparison with the magnitud…

astro-ph2000★ 7 cited

Preliminary Results from the 1999 Balloon Flight of the Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)

E. Aprile, U. G. Oberlack, A. Curioni +8

LXeGRIT is a balloon-borne Compton telescope employing a large volume liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) as the central gamma-ray detector. It is designed to image gamma…

astro-ph2000★ 4 cited

Performance of the Light Trigger System in the Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Telescope LXeGRIT

U. Oberlack, E. Aprile, A. Curioni +1

LXeGRIT is a balloon-borne Compton telescope for MeV gamma-ray astrophysics, based on a liquid xenon time projection chamber with charge and light readout. The energy and direction…

astro-ph2000★ 44 cited

The COMPTEL instrumental line background

G. Weidenspointner, M. Varendorff, U. Oberlack +8

The instrumental line background of the Compton telescope COMPTEL onboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory is due to the activation and/or decay of many isotopes. The major compon…

astro-ph2000★ 6 cited

An Upgraded Data Acquisition System for the Balloon-Borne Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Telescope LXeGRIT

E. Aprile, A. Curioni, K. Giboni +2

LXeGRIT is a balloon-borne Compton telescope for MeV gamma-ray astrophysics, based on a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXe-TPC) with charge and light readout. The first ball…

astro-ph2000★ 14 cited

Spectroscopy and Imaging Performance of the Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)

E. Aprile, A. Curioni, V. Egorov +8

LXeGRIT is a balloon-borne Compton telescope based on a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXeTPC) for imaging cosmic \g-rays in the energy band of 0.2-20 MeV. The detector, wit…

astro-ph2000★ 26 cited

Compton scattering sequence reconstruction algorithm for the liquid xenon gamma-ray imaging telescope (LXeGRIT)

U. G. Oberlack, E. Aprile, A. Curioni +2

The Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT) is a balloon born experiment sensitive to \g -rays in the energy band of 0.2-20 MeV. The main detector is a time projection c…

astro-ph2000★ 67 cited

A radio supernova remnant associated with the young pulsar J1119-6127

Fronefield Crawford, B. M. Gaensler, V. M. Kaspi +4

We report on Australia Telescope Compact Array observations in the direction of the young high magnetic-field pulsar J1119-6127. In the resulting images we identify a non-thermal r…

astro-ph2000★ 4 cited

DarkSUSY - A numerical package for dark matter calculations in the MSSM

Paolo Gondolo, Joakim Edsjo, Lars Bergstrom +2

The question of the nature of the dark matter in the Universe remains one of the most outstanding unsolved problems in basic science. One of the best motivated particle physics can…

astro-ph2000

The black hole mass vs bulge mass relationship in spiral galaxies

A. Marconi, D. Axon, J. Atkinson +15

We describe an on-going HST program aimed at determining the relationship between the nuclear black hole mass and bulge mass in spiral galaxies. We have selected a volume limited s…

astro-ph2000★ 84 cited

Discovery of Five Binary Radio Pulsars

F. Camilo, A. G. Lyne, R. N. Manchester +8

We report on five binary pulsars discovered in the Parkes multibeam Galactic plane survey. All of the pulsars are old, with characteristic ages 1-11 Gyr, and have relatively small…

math.AP2000★ 17 cited

On the Global Regularity of Wave Maps in the Critical Sobolev Norm

S. Klainerman, I. Rodnianski

We extend the recent result of T.Tao to wave maps defined from the Minkowski space of dimension >4 to a target Riemannian manifold which possesses a ``bounded parallelizable'' stru…

astro-ph2000

The Nuclei of Nearby Radio-Loud Ellipticals

G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, P. T. de Zeeuw, S. A. Baum +5

We have observed a complete sample of 21 nearby (D < 70h^{-1} Mpc) Fanaroff & Riley Type I galaxies with HST/WFPC2 and detected dust disks and lanes in 19 of them. The radio jets a…

nucl-th2000★ 358 cited

High Azimuthal Asymmetry in Non-central A+A at RHIC

Miklos Gyulassy, Ivan Vitev, Xin-Nian Wang

The high GeV azimuthal asymmetry, , in non-central nuclear collisions at RHIC is shown to be a sensitive measure of the initial parton density distrib…

nucl-th2000★ 119 cited

Pion Interferometry at RHIC: Probing a thermalized Quark-Gluon-Plasma?

Sven Soff, Steffen A. Bass, Adrian Dumitru +1

We calculate the Gaussian radius parameters of the pion-emitting source in high energy heavy ion collisions, assuming a first order phase transition from a thermalized Quark-Gluon-…

nucl-th2000★ 3 cited

Kaon and Pion Ratio Probes of Jet Quenching in Nuclear Collisions

P. Levai, G. Papp, G. Fai +1

Non-abelian energy loss in quark gluon plasmas is shown to lead to novel hadron ratio suppression patterns in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. We apply GLV estimates for the g…

nucl-ex2000★ 258 cited

Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Multiplicity in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, K. Adcox

We present results for the charged-particle multiplicity distribution at mid-rapidity in Au - Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV measured with the PHENIX detector at RHIC. For the…

hep-th2000★ 101 cited

Multi-Domain Walls in Massive Supersymmetric Sigma-Models

Jerome P. Gauntlett, David Tong, Paul K. Townsend

Massive maximally-supersymmetric sigma models are shown to exhibit multiple static kink-domain wall solutions that preserve 1/2 of the supersymmetry. The kink moduli space admits a…

hep-ph2000★ 67 cited

Domain walls of high-density QCD

D. T. Son, M. A. Stephanov, A. R. Zhitnitsky

We show that in very dense quark matter there must exist metastable domain walls where the axial U(1) phase of the color-superconducting condensate changes by 2pi. The decay rate o…

cond-mat.supr-con2000★ 12 cited

What can we learn from comparison between cuprates and He films ? : phase separation and fluctuating superfluidity

Y. J. Uemura

In the underdoped, overdoped, Zn-doped or stripe-forming regions of high- cuprate superconductors (HTSC), the superfluid density at shows universal co…

astro-ph2000★ 54 cited

PSR J1740-3052 - a pulsar with a massive companion

I. H. Stairs, R. N. Manchester, A. G. Lyne +14

We report on the discovery of a binary pulsar, PSR J1740-3052, during the Parkes multibeam survey. Timing observations of the 570-ms pulsar at Jodrell Bank and Parkes show that it…

astro-ph2000★ 3 cited

The Brown Dwarf Mass Function from Pixel Microlensing

E. A. Baltz, J. Silk

We argue that gravitational microlensing is a feasible technique for measuring the mass function of brown dwarf stars in distant galaxies. Microlensing surveys of the bulge of M31,…