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astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

Double Pair Production by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Photons

S. V. Demidov, O. E. Kalashev

With use of CompHEP package we've made the detailed estimate of the influence of double e+e- pair production by photons (DPP) on the propagation of ultra high energy electromagneti…

astro-ph2008★ 53 cited

Shape parameters of Galactic open clusters

N. V. Kharchenko, P. Berczik, M. I. Petrov +4

(abridged) In this paper we derive observed and modelled shape parameters (apparent ellipticity and orientation of the ellipse) of 650 Galactic open clusters identified in the ASCC…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Ultimate synchrotron cutoff in gamma-ray spectra of blazars as a signature of the converter mechanism

Boris E. Stern, Yana Y. Tikhomirov

There is a robust upper limit on the energy of synchrotron radiation in high-energy astrophysics: , where is the fine structure constant and the…

astro-ph2008★ 16 cited

HeII->HeI Recombination of Primordial Helium Plasma Including the Effect of Neutral Hydrogen

E. E. Kholupenko, A. V. Ivanchik, D. A. Varshalovich

The HeII->HeI recombination of primordial helium plasma (z = 1500 - 3000) is considered in terms of the standard cosmological model. This process affects the formation of cosmic mi…

astro-ph2008★ 17 cited

Discovery of very low amplitude 9-minute multiperiodic pulsations in the magnetic Ap star HD 75445

O. Kochukhov, S. Bagnulo, G. Lo Curto +1

We present our discovery of pulsational radial-velocity variations in the cool Ap star HD 75445, an object spectroscopically similar to the bright, rapidly-oscillating Ap (roAp) st…

astro-ph2008★ 23 cited

Star-forming cores embedded in a massive cold clump: Fragmentation, collapse and energetic outflows

Martin Hennemann, Stephan M. Birkmann, Oliver Krause +4

The fate of massive cold clumps, their internal structure and collapse need to be characterised to understand the initial conditions for the formation of high-mass stars, stellar s…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

Toward mode selection in Delta Scuti stars: Regularities in observed and theoretical frequency spectra

M. Breger, P. Lenz, A. A. Pamyatnykh

Only a fraction of the theoretically predicted nonradial pulsation modes have so far been observed in Delta Scuti stars. Nevertheless, the large number of frequencies detected in r…

astro-ph2008★ 8 cited

CMB anisotropy induced by tachyonic perturbations of dark energy

M. V. Libanov, V. A. Rubakov, O. S. Sazhina +1

We study effects of possible tachyonic perturbations of dark energy on the CMB temperature anisotropy. Motivated by some models of phantom energy, we consider both Lorentz-invarian…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

Sensitivity of cosmic-ray experiments to ultra-high-energy photons: reconstruction of the spectrum and limits on the superheavy dark matter

O. E. Kalashev, G. I. Rubtsov, S. V. Troitsky

We estimate the sensitivity of various experiments detecting ultra-high-energy cosmic rays to primary photons with energies above 10^19 eV. We demonstrate that the energy of a prim…

astro-ph2008★ 19 cited

Stellar dynamos with effect

V. V. Pipin, N. Seehafer

We study axisymmetric mean-field dynamo models containing differential rotation, the effect and the additional turbulent induction effects. The additional effects result from t…

astro-ph2008★ 4 cited

Distances and peculiar velocities of spiral galaxies in the 2MFGC and SFI++ samples

Yu. N. Kudrya, V. E. Karachentseva, I. D. Karachentsev +2

We compare infrared Tully-Fisher (TF) distances and peculiar velocities derived for spiral galaxies from the two largest datasets: the 2MASS selected Flat Galaxy Catalog, 2MFGC [19…

astro-ph2008★ 95 cited

Rotating molecular outflows: the young T Tauri star in CB26

R. Launhardt, Ya. Pavlyuchenkov, F. Gueth +7

The disk-outflow connection is thought to play a key role in extracting excess angular momentum from a forming proto-star. Though jet rotation has been observed in a few objects, n…

astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

Non-LTE line formation for Pr II and Pr III in A and Ap stars

L. Mashonkina, T. Ryabchikova, A. Ryabtsev +1

Non-LTE line formation for Pr II and Pr III is considered through a range of effective temperatures between 7250 K and 9500 K. A comprehensive model atom for Pr II/III is based on…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Science with the World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet

Ana I. Gomez de Castro, Isabella Pagano, Mikhail Sachkov +4

The World Space Observatory-Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) will provide access to the UV range during the next decade. The instrumentation on board will allow to carry out high resolution im…

astro-ph2008★ 12 cited

A likely optical counterpart of the G292.0+1.8 pulsar wind nebula

S. V. Zharikov, Yu. A. Shibanov, D. A. Zyuzin +2

G292.0+1.8 is the Cas A-like supernova remnant containing the young pulsar PSR J1124-5916, which powers a compact torus-like pulsar wind nebula with a jet visible in X-rays. We hav…

astro-ph2008★ 85 cited

A Unified Monte Carlo Treatment of Gas-Grain Chemistry for Large Reaction Networks. I. Testing Validity of Rate Equations in Molecular Clouds

A. I. Vasyunin, D. A. Semenov, D. S. Wiebe +1

In this study we demonstrate for the first time that the unified Monte Carlo approach can be applied to model gas-grain chemistry in large reaction networks. Specifically, we build…

astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

Interstellar Plasma Turbulence Spectrum Toward the Pulsars PSR B0809+74 and B0950+08

T. V. Smirnova, V. I. Shishov

Interstellar scintillations of pulsars PSR B0809+74 and B0950+08 have been studied using observations at low frequencies (41, 62, 89, and 112 MHz). Characteristic temporal and freq…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

Open Clusters IC 4665 and Cr 359 and a Probable Birthplace of the Pulsar PSR B1929+10

V. V. Bobylev

Based on the epicyclic approximation, we have simulated the motion of the young open star clusters IC 4665 and Collinder 359. The separation between the cluster centers is shown to…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

Galactic Rotation Curve and the Effect of Density Waves from Data on Young Objects

V. V. Bobylev, A. T. Bajkova, A. S. Stepanishchev

Based on currently available data on the three-dimensional field of space velocities of young (<50 Myr) open star clusters and the radial velocities of HI clouds and star-forming (…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

Single-hit criterion in DAMA/LIBRA DM search and daemons - they are anything but weakly interacting

E. M. Drobyshevski

Our prediction that the more massive DAMA/LIBRA detector would detect a smaller number of events per unit of mass and time than the DAMA/NaI system has got confirmation. This is ea…

astro-ph2008★ 9 cited

Speckle Interferometry of Metal-Poor Stars in the Solar Neighborhood.II

D. A. Rastegaev, Yu. Yu. Balega, A. F. Maksimov +2

The results of speckle interferometric observations of 115 metal-poor stars [m/H]<-1 within 250 pc from the Sun and with proper motions mu <= 0.2"/yr, made with the 6-m telescope o…

astro-ph2008★ 4 cited

Gamma-ray halo around 3C 279: looking through the Sun on the 8th of October

Malcolm Fairbairn, Timur Rashba, Sergey Troitsky

We discuss how the solar occultations of bright sources of energetic gamma rays can be used to extract non-trivial physical and astrophysical information, including the angular siz…

astro-ph2008★ 41 cited

Imaging Observations of Quasi-Periodic Pulsatory Non-Thermal Emission in Ribbon Solar Flares

I. V. Zimovets, A. B. Struminsky

Using RHESSI and some auxiliary observations we examine possible connections between spatial and temporal morphology of the sources of non-thermal hard X-ray (HXR) emission which r…

astro-ph2008★ 11 cited

Heavy Coronal Ions in the Heliosphere: I. Global Distribution of Charge-states of C, N, O, Mg, Si and S

S. Grzedzielski, M. E. Wachowicz, M. Bzowski +1

Aims: Investigate/Study de-charging of solar wind C, N, O, Mg, Si and S ions and assess fluxes of resulting ENA in the heliosphere. Methods: The model treats the heavy ions as test…