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astro-ph2002★ 9 cited

Constraining the Cosmological Density of Compact Objects with the Long-Term Variability of Quasars

Erik Zackrisson, Nils Bergvall

By comparing the results from numerical microlensing simulations to the observed long-term variability of quasars, strong upper limits on the cosmological density of compact object…

astro-ph2002★ 4 cited

Physics and Operation of the AMANDA-II High Energy Neutrino Telescope

Steven W. Barwick

This paper briefly describes the principle of operation and science goals of the AMANDA high energy neutrino telescope located at the South Pole, Antarctica. Results from an earlie…

astro-ph2002★ 22 cited

Three-component modeling of C-rich AGB star winds I. Method and first results

C. Sandin, S. Hoefner

Radiative acceleration of newly-formed dust grains and transfer of momentum from the dust to the gas plays an important role for driving winds of AGB stars. Therefore a detailed de…

astro-ph2002★ 134 cited

Stellar Archaeology: a Keck Pilot Program on Extremely Metal- Poor Stars From the Hamburg/ESO Survey. III. The Lead (Pb) Star HE 0024-2523

Sara Lucatello, Raffaele Gratton, Judith G. Cohen +4

We present a detailed abundance analysis, including spectral syntheses, of a very metal-poor ([Fe/H]= -2.7), peculiar main sequence star, HE0024-2523 detected during the course of…

astro-ph2002★ 34 cited

Andreev-Bashkin effect and knot solitons in interacting mixture of a charged and a neutral superfuids with possible releveance for neutron stars

Egor Babaev

We discuss a mixture of interacting a neutral and a charged Bose condensates, which is supposed being realized in interior of neutron stars in form of coexistent neutron superfluid…

astro-ph2002★ 38 cited

Dust formation in winds of long-period variables. V. The influence of micro-physical dust properties in carbon stars

A. C. Andersen, S. Hoefner, R. Gautschy-Loidl

We present self-consistent dynamical models for dust-driven winds of carbon-rich AGB stars. The models are based on the coupled system of frequency-dependent radiation hydrodynamic…

astro-ph2002★ 125 cited

IceCube - the next generation neutrino telescope at the South Pole

A. Karle

IceCube is a large neutrino telescope of the next generation to be constructed in the Antarctic Ice Sheet near the South Pole. We present the conceptual design and the sensitivity…

astro-ph2002

Dust grain properties in atmospheres of AGB stars

A. C. Andersen, S. Hoefner, R. Gautschy-Loidl

We present self-consistent dynamical models for dust driven winds of carbon-rich AGB stars. The models are based on the coupled system of frequency-dependent radiation hydrodynamic…

astro-ph2002

Does Betelgeuse have a magnetic field?

S. B. F. Dorch, B. Freytag

Recent numerical simulations by Freytag et al. of the outer convection envelope of the cool super-giant Betelgeuse, have shown that the fluctuations in the star's apparent luminosi…

astro-ph2002★ 22 cited

Multipair contributions to the spin response of nuclear matter

E. Olsson, C. J. Pethick

We analyse the effect of non-central forces on the magnetic susceptibility of degenerate Fermi systems. These include the presence of contributions from transitions to states conta…

astro-ph2002★ 46 cited

Search for Point Sources of High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA

J. Ahrens, X. Bai, G. Barouch +1

This paper describes the search for astronomical sources of high-energy neutrinos using the AMANDA-B10 detector, an array of 302 photomultiplier tubes, used for the detection of Ch…

astro-ph2002★ 62 cited

ISO-SWS calibration and the accurate modelling of cool-star atmospheres - IV. G9 to M2 stars

L. Decin, B. Vandenbussche, C. Waelkens +5

presented. The 2.38 -- 4.08 micron wavelength-range of band 1 of ISO-SWS (Short-Wavelength Spectrometers on board of the Infrared Space Observatory) in which many different molecul…

astro-ph2002★ 30 cited

ISO-SWS calibration and the accurate modelling of cool-star atmospheres - III. A0 to G2 stars

L. Decin, B. Vandenbussche, C. Waelkens +4

Vega, Sirius, Beta Leo, Alpha Car and Alpha Cen A belong to a sample of twenty stellar sources used for the calibration of the detectors of the Short-Wavelength Spectrometer on boa…

astro-ph2002★ 28 cited

ISO-SWS calibration and the accurate modelling of cool-star atmospheres - II. General results

L. Decin, B. Vandenbussche, C. Waelkens +5

The fine calibration of the ISO-SWS detectors (Infrared Space Observatory - Short Wavelength Spectrometer) has proven to be a delicate problem. We therefore present a detailed spec…

astro-ph2002★ 48 cited

Search for Neutrino-Induced Cascades with the AMANDA Detector

J. Ahrens

We report on a search for electromagnetic and/or hadronic showers (cascades) induced by a diffuse flux of neutrinos with energies between 5 TeV and 300 TeV from extraterrestrial so…

astro-ph2002★ 1 cited

Constraining Dark Matter with the Long-Term Variability of Quasars

E. Zackrisson, N. Bergvall, P. Helbig

By comparing the results of numerical microlensing simulations to the observed long-term variability of quasars, strong upper limits on the cosmological density of compact objects…

astro-ph2002★ 33 cited

Abundance analysis of two late A-type stars HD 32115 and HD 37594

I. F. Bikmaev, T. A. Ryabchikova, H. Bruntt +6

We have performed abundance analysis of two slowly rotating, late A-type stars, HD 32115 (HR 1613) and HD 37594 (HR 1940), based on obtained echelle spectra covering the spectral r…

astro-ph2002★ 91 cited

Sulphur abundances in disk stars: a correlation with silicon

Y. Q. Chen, P. E. Nissen, G. Zhao +1

We have performed new determinations of sulphur and silicon abundances for a sample of 26 disk stars based on high-resolution, high signal-to-noise spectra. The results indicate a…

astro-ph2002★ 223 cited

O/Fe in metal-poor main sequence and subgiant stars

P. E. Nissen, F. Primas, M. Asplund +1

A study of the O/Fe ratio in metal-poor main sequence and subgiant stars is presented using the [OI] 6300A line, the OI 7774A triplet, and a selection of weak FeII lines observed o…

astro-ph2002★ 88 cited

Observation of High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos with the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array

AMANDA Collaboration, J. Ahrens

The Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) began collecting data with ten strings in 1997. Results from the first year of operation are presented. Neutrinos coming thr…

astro-ph2002★ 5 cited

Physics Results from the AMANDA-B10 Neutrino Telescope

A. Hallgren

The data from the first year of operation of the 10-string, AMANDA-B10, high-energy neutrino detector array at the South Pole have been analyzed and searched for evidence of neutri…

astro-ph2002★ 14 cited

The 3 micron spectrum of R Doradus observed with the ISO-SWS

N. Ryde, K. Eriksson

We have modeled the 2.6 - 3.7 um spectrum of the red semiregular variable R Doradus observed with the Short-Wavelength Spectrometer on board the Infrared Space Observatory. The wav…

astro-ph2002★ 53 cited

Limits to the muon flux from WIMP annihilation in the center of the Earth with the AMANDA detector

The AMANDA Collaboration, J. Ahrens

A search for nearly vertical up-going muon-neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the center of the Earth has been performed with the AMANDA-B10 neutrino detector. The data sam…

astro-ph2002★ 147 cited

Detailed analysis of Balmer lines in cool dwarf stars

P. S. Barklem, H. C. Stempels, C. Allende Prieto +3

An analysis of H alpha and H beta spectra in a sample of 30 cool dwarf and subgiant stars is presented using MARCS model atmospheres based on the most recent calculations of the li…