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astro-ph2001★ 28 cited

An AGN Identification for 3EG J2006-2321

P. M. Wallace, J. P. Halpern, A. M. Magalhaes +1

We present a multiwavelength analysis of the high-energy gamma-ray source 3EG J2006-2321. The flux of this source above 100 MeV is shown to be variable on time scales of days and m…

astro-ph2001★ 104 cited

X-ray Radiation from the Millisecond Pulsar J0437-4715

V. E. Zavlin, G. G. Pavlov, D. Sanwal +4

We report on spectral and timing observations of the nearest millisecond pulsar J0437-4715 with Chandra. The pulsar spectrum, detected up to 7 keV, cannot be described by a simple…

nucl-th2001★ 195 cited

Jet Tomography of Au+Au Reactions Including Multi-gluon Fluctuations

M. Gyulassy, P. Levai, I. Vitev

Jet tomography is the analysis of the attenuation pattern of high transverse momentum hadrons to determine certain line integral transforms of the density profile of the QCD matter…

hep-ex2001

Elastic Vector Meson Production at HERA

B. Mellado

The H1 and ZEUS Collaborations report new results on elastic VM cross-section and trajectory determination. Elastic VM production appears to be independent of the photon polarizati…

astro-ph2001★ 57 cited

Distant Cluster Hunting I: A Comparison Between the Optical and X-ray Luminosity Functions from an Optical/X-ray Survey

Megan Donahue, Jennifer Mack, Caleb Scharf +6

We present a comparison of X-ray and optical luminosities and luminosity functions of cluster candidates from a joint optical/X-ray survey, the ROSAT Optical X-Ray Survey. Complete…

astro-ph2001★ 76 cited

Distant Cluster Hunting II: A comparison of X-ray and optical cluster detection techniques and catalogs from the ROX Survey

Megan Donahue, Caleb Scharf, Jennifer Mack +6

We present and analyze the optical and X-ray catalogs of moderate-redshift cluster candidates from the ROSAT Optical X-ray Survey, or ROXS. The survey covers 4.8 square degrees (23…

astro-ph2001★ 10 cited

UV Imaging Polarimetry of the peculiar Seyfert 2 galaxy Mrk 477

Makoto Kishimoto, Laura E. Kay, Robert Antonucci +3

We present the results of UV imaging polarimetry of the Seyfert 2 galaxy Mrk 477 taken by the Faint Object Camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). From a previous HST UV i…

nucl-th2001

K+/pi+ probes of jet quenching in AA collisions

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

Non-abelian energy loss in quark gluon plasma is shown to lead to novel hadron ratio suppression patterns in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. We apply recent (GLV) estimates f…

astro-ph2001★ 132 cited

Environment, Ram Pressure, and Shell Formation in HoII

M. Bureau, C. Carignan

Neutral hydrogen VLA D-array observations of the dwarf irregular galaxy HoII, a prototype galaxy for studies of shell formation, are presented. HI is detected to radii over 16' or…

astro-ph2001

XMM-Newton observations of MSH 14-63 (RCW 86)

Jacco Vink, Johan Bleeker, Jelle Kaastra +2

We present an analysis of the X-ray emission of the supernova remnant MSH14-63, which was partially covered by three observations with XMM-Newton. The detection of Fe K emission at…

astro-ph2001★ 2 cited

Young Pulsars from the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey and their Associations

R. N. Manchester, J. F. Bell, F. Camilo +9

The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey is covering a 10deg-wide strip of the southern Galactic plane from l=260deg to l=50deg. It utilizes a 13-beam receiver operating in the 20-cm ban…

astro-ph2001★ 27 cited

Arecibo timing observations of 17 pulsars along the Galactic plane

Duncan R. Lorimer, Fernando Camilo, Kiraki Xilouris

We present phase-coherent timing solutions obtained for the first time for 17 pulsars discovered at Arecibo by Hulse & Taylor (1975ab) in a 430-MHz survey of the Galactic plane. Th…

nucl-ex2001★ 44 cited

Differential Elliptic Flow in 2 - 6 AGeV Au+Au Collisions: A New Constraint for the Nuclear Equation of State

E895 Collaboration, P. Danielewicz

Proton elliptic flow is studied as a function of impact-parameter , for two transverse momentum cuts in 2 - 6 AGeV Au + Au collisions. The elliptic flow shows an essentially lin…

hep-ph2001★ 4 cited

Buckyballs and gluon junction networks on the femtometer scale

T. Csorgo, M. Gyulassy, D. Kharzeev

We explore the possibility that novel geometrical structures analogous to carbon Fullerenes may exist in Nature on the femtometer scale. QCD predicts the existence of special topol…

astro-ph2001★ 1 cited

Chandra Spectroscopy of Pulsars and their Wind Nebulae

E. V. Gotthelf, C. M. Olbert

We present preliminary results from a systematic spectral study of pulsars and their wind nebulae using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The superb spatial resolution of Chandra allo…

astro-ph2001

The Pulsar Wind Nebula of G11.2-0.3

M. S. E. Roberts, C. Tam, V. M. Kaspi +4

We present high-resolution radio and X-ray studies of the composite supernova remnant G11.2-0.3. Using archival VLA data, we perform radio spectral tomography to measure for the fi…

astro-ph2001★ 1 cited

Hiccups in the night: X-ray monitoring of the two Crab-like LMC pulsars

E. V. Gotthelf, W. Zhang, F. E. Marshall +2

We are undertaking an extensive X-ray monitoring campaign of the two Crab-like pulsars in the Large Magellanic Clouds, PSR B0540-69 and PSR J0537-6910. We present our current phase…

astro-ph2001

15 Years Going Steady - Timing the Magnetar 1E 1841-045

E. V. Gotthelf, F. P. Gavriil, V. M. Kaspi +2

We report on a long-term monitoring campaign of 1E 1841-045, the 12-s anomalous X-ray pulsar and magnetar candidate at the center of the supernova remnant Kes 73. We have obtained…

nucl-ex2001★ 277 cited

Centrality dependence of pi^[+/-], K^[+/-], p and p-bar production from sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC

PHENIX Collaboration, K. Adcox

Identified pi^[+/-] K^[+/-], p and p-bar transverse momentum spectra at mid-rapidity in sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV Au-Au collisions were measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC as a func…

hep-ph2001★ 14 cited

Supernova Neutrinos and the LSND Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations

Michel Sorel, Janet Conrad

The observation of the energy spectrum from a supernova burst can provide constraints on neutrino oscillations. We derive formulas for adiabatic oscillations of supernova…

hep-ph2001★ 1 cited

Modelling correlations in heavy ion collisions

T. Csorgo, A. Ster

Modelling correlations in heavy ion collisions is reviewed from model independent characterization of the two-particle correlations to Buda-Lund hydro model fits to correlations an…

cond-mat.str-el2001

Theory of the Quantum Paraelectric - Ferroelectric Transition

R. Roussev, A. J. Millis

A realistic theory of the quantum paraelectric - ferroelectric transition is presented, involving parameters determined from band calculations and a renormalization group treatment…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 37 cited

Self-organized criticality in a model of collective bank bankruptcies

Agata Aleksiejuk, Janusz A. Holyst, Gueorgi Kossinets

The question we address here is of whether phenomena of collective bankruptcies are related to self-organized criticality. In order to answer it we propose a simple model of bankin…

astro-ph2001★ 3 cited

The Role of Strangeness in Astrophysics - an Odyssey through Strange Phases

Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

The equation of state for compact stars is reviewed with special emphasis on the role of strange hadrons, strange dibaryons and strange quark matter. Implications for the propertie…