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astro-ph1999

The Deepest Spectrum of the Universe? Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Background at High Redshift

Andrew J. Bunker, Francine R. Marleau, James R. Graham

We describe an ongoing experiment to search for the meta-galactic Lyman-continuum background at z~2-3. We are obtaining one of the deepest optical spectra ever, using LRIS/Keck-II…

hep-th1999★ 100 cited

Off-shell structure of the string sigma model

Alan Kostelecky, Malcolm Perry, Robertus Potting

The off-shell structure of the string sigma model is investigated. In the open bosonic string, nonperturbative effects are shown to depend crucially on the regularization scheme. A…

hep-th1999★ 241 cited

Wave function of the radion in a brane world

Christos Charmousis, Ruth Gregory, Valery A. Rubakov

We calculate the linearized metric perturbation corresponding to a massless four-dimensional scalar field, the radion, in a five-dimensional two-brane model of Randall and Sundrum.…

hep-ph1999★ 7 cited

BFKL dynamics at hadron colliders

Carlo Ewerz, Lynne H. Orr, W. James Stirling +1

Hadron colliders can provide important tests of BFKL `small-x' dynamics. We discuss two examples of such tests, the inclusive dijet jet cross section at large rapidity separation a…

astro-ph1999★ 99 cited

Isotropic Wavelets: a Powerful Tool to Extract Point Sources from CMB Maps

L. Cayon, J. L. Sanz, R. B. Barreiro +6

It is the aim of this paper to introduce the use of isotropic wavelets to detect and determine the flux of point sources appearing in CMB maps. The most suited wavelet to detect po…

hep-ph1999★ 15 cited

The Challenge of Small x

R. D. Ball, P. V. Landshoff

We review the current understanding of the behaviour of inclusive cross sections at small x and large Q^2 in terms of Altarelli-Parisi evolution, the BFKL equation, and Regge theor…

gr-qc1999★ 16 cited

K-causality and degenerate spacetimes

H. F. Dowker, R. S. Garcia, S. Surya

The causal relation was introduced by Sorkin and Woolgar to extend the standard causal analysis of spacetimes to those that are only . Most of their results also h…

cond-mat.str-el1999★ 52 cited

Spin-dependent transport in a quasiballistic quantum wire

C. -T. Liang, M. Pepper, M. Y. Simmons +2

We describe the transport properties of a 5 m long one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire. Reduction of conductance plateaux due to the introduction of weakly disorder scattering are…

hep-ph1999★ 196 cited

HERWIG 6.1 Release Note

G. Corcella, I. G. Knowles, G. Marchesini +5

A new version of the Monte Carlo program HERWIG (version 6.1) is now available. This note gives brief details of the new features relative to the previous version (5.9). A fully up…

astro-ph1999★ 8 cited

Supermassive Black Holes: Their Formation, and Their Prospects as Probes of Relativistic Gravity

Martin J. Rees

The existence of supermassive collapsed objects in the cores of most galaxies poses still-unanswered questions. First, how did they form, and how does their mass depend on the prop…

astro-ph1999★ 8 cited

`First Light' in the Universe; What Ended the "Dark Age"?

Martin J. Rees

The universe would have been completely dark between the epoch of recombination and the development of the first non-linear structure. But at redshifts beyond 5 -- perhaps even bey…

astro-ph1999★ 51 cited

Statistics of Weak Lensing at Small Angular Scales: Analytical Predictions for Lower Order Moments

Dipak Munshi, Bhuvnesh Jain

Weak lensing surveys are expected to provide direct measurements of the statistics of the projected dark matter distribution. Most analytical studies of weak lensing statistics hav…

cond-mat1999★ 18 cited

Comment on "Quantum Monte Carlo study of the dipole moment of CO" [J. Chem. Phys. 110, 11700 (1999)]

K. C. Huang, R. J. Needs, G. Rajagopal

Recently Schautz and Flad concluded that the Hellmann-Feynman theorem holds within the fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) method. We show that the Hellmann-Feynman expr…

cond-mat.mes-hall1999★ 100 cited

The spin-orbit interaction as a source of new spectral and transport properties in quasi-one-dimensional systems

A. V. Moroz, C. H. W. Barnes

We present an exact theoretical study of the effect of the spin-orbit (SO) interaction on the band structure and low temperature transport in long quasi-one-dimensional electron sy…

hep-ph1999★ 55 cited

Exclusive Vector Photoproduction: Confirmation of Regge Theory

A Donnachie, P V Landshoff

Recent small-t ZEUS data for exclusive rho photoproduction are in excellent agreement with exchange of the classical soft pomeron with slope alpha'=0.25 GeV^{-2}. Adding in a flavo…

gr-qc1999★ 8 cited

A Probe Particle in Kerr-Newman-deSitter Cosmos

Tetsuya Shiromizu, Uchida Gen

We consider the force acting on a spinning charged test particle (probe particle) with the mass m and the charge q in slow rotating the Kerr-Newman-deSitter(KNdS) black hole with t…

astro-ph1999★ 71 cited

The IRAS PSCz Dipole

M. Rowan-Robinson, J. Sharpe, S. J. Oliver +12

We use the PSCz IRAS galaxy redshift survey to analyze the cosmological galaxy dipole out to a distance 300 h Mpc. The masked area is filled in three different ways, firstly…

astro-ph1999★ 358 cited

The FIRST Bright Quasar Survey. II. 60 Nights and 1200 Spectra Later

R. L. White, R. H. Becker, M. D. Gregg +11

We have used the VLA FIRST survey and the APM catalog of the POSS-I plates as the basis for constructing a new radio-selected sample of optically bright quasars. This is the first…

chao-dyn1999★ 15 cited

The effect of forcing on the spatial structure and spectra of chaotically advected passive scalars

Zoltan Neufeld, Peter H. Haynes, Guillemette Picard

The stationary distribution of passive tracers chaotically advected by a two-dimensional large-scale flow is investigated. The tracer field is force by resetting the value of the t…

astro-ph1999

The CERES Astronomical Database

Xanthopoulos, N. J. Jackson, I. Snellen +2

The CERES Astronomical Archive was created initially in order to make the large amount of data that were collected from the two surveys, the Jodrell-VLA Astrometric Survey (JVAS) a…

math.QA1999

Biperfect Hopf Algebras

Pavel Etingof, Shlomo Gelaki, Robert Guralnick +1

Recall that a finite group is called perfect if it does not have non-trivial 1-dimensional representations (over the field of complex numbers C). By analogy, let us say that a fini…

astro-ph1999

The Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6553: Observations with HST's WFPC2, STIS, and NICMOS

Sylvie F. Beaulieu, Gerard F. Gilmore, Rachel A. Johnson +3

As part of a large HST project to study the formation and evolution of rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, we present results for the Galactic bulge metal-rich globul…

astro-ph1999★ 453 cited

The Formation and Structure of a Strongly Magnetized Corona above Weakly Magnetized Accretion Disks

K. A. Miller, J. M. Stone

We use three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations to study the formation of a corona above an initially weakly magnetized, isothermal accretion disk. We also describ…

hep-ph1999★ 2 cited

Mass Effects in Bose Einstein Correlations

Mark Smith

Bose-Einstein symmetrization can lead to correlations between out going identical particles which reflect the space-time extent of the collision process. At LEP and LEPII these cor…