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astro-ph2003★ 2 cited

The Reionization History in the Lognormal Model

Ji-Ren Liu, Li-Zhi Fang, Long-Long Feng +1

We study the evolution of baryonic gas before the reionization in the lognormal (LN) model of cosmic clustering. We show that the thermal history of the universe around the reioniz…

astro-ph2003★ 96 cited

Comparing Geometrical and Delay Radio Emission Heights in Pulsars

Dipanjan Mitra, X. H. Li

We use a set of carefully selected published average multifrequency polarimetric observations for six bright cone dominated pulsars and devise a method to combine the multifrequenc…

astro-ph2003★ 5 cited

Weak lensing of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich sky

Xiang-Ping Wu

We address the question of whether the angular power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) sky is further distorted by weak gravitational lensing of foreground large-scal…

astro-ph2003★ 270 cited

Pre-Processing of Galaxies before Entering a Cluster

Yutaka Fujita

We consider several mechanisms that possibly affect the evolution of disk galaxies in clusters using analytical models based on a hierarchical clustering scenario. We especially fo…

astro-ph2003★ 25 cited

Chemical compositions of four barium stars

Y. C. Liang, G. Zhao, Y. Q. Chen +2

Chemical compositions of four barium stars HD 26886, HD 27271, HD 50082 and HD 98839 are studied based on high resolution, high signal-to-noise Echelle spectra. Results show that a…

astro-ph2003★ 25 cited

Joint X-Ray and Optical Measurements of the Mass Distribution of the Distant Galaxy Cluster CLJ 0152.7-1357

Zhi-Ying Huo, Sui-Jian Xue, Haiguang Xu +2

We present joint X-ray and optical observations of the high redshift (z~0.83) lensing cluster CLJ0152.7-1357 made with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Keck telescope. We conf…

astro-ph2003★ 11 cited

Optically bright Active Galactic Nuclei in the ROSAT-Faint Source Catalogue

M. -P. Veron-Cetty, S. K. Balayan, A. M. Mickaelian +8

To build a large, optically bright, X-ray selected AGN sample we have correlated the ROSAT-FSC catalogue of X-ray sources with the USNO catalogue limited to objects brighter than O…

astro-ph2003★ 16 cited

Stationary perturbation configurations in a composite system of stellar and coplanarly magnetized gaseous singular isothermal discs

Yu-Qing Lou, Yue Zou

We construct aligned and unaligned stationary perturbation configurations in a composite system of stellar and coplanarly magnetized gaseous singular isothermal discs (SIDs) couple…

astro-ph2003★ 30 cited

Chandra Observations of ULIRGs: Extended Hot Gas Halos in Merging Galaxies

Z. Y. Huo, X. Y. Xia, S. J. Xue +2

We study the properties of hot gaseous halos in 10 nearby ultraluminous IRAS galaxies observed with the ACIS instrument on board Chandra. For all sample galaxies, diffuse soft X-ra…

astro-ph2003★ 11 cited

The amplitude of mass fluctuations and mass density of the Universe constrained by strong gravitational lensing

Da-Ming Chen

We investigate the linear amplitude of mass fluctuations in the universe, , and the present mass density parameter of the Universe, , from the statistical strong…

astro-ph2003★ 11 cited

Rhombic cell analysis II. Application to the IRAS/PSCz Catalogue

T. Kiang, Yongfeng Wu, X. F. Zhu

Rhombic cell analysis as outlined in the first paper of the present series is applied to samples of varying depths and liming luminosities of the IRAS/PSCz Catalogue. Numerical ind…

astro-ph2003★ 142 cited

Sulphur and zinc abundances in Galactic stars and damped Lyman-alpha systems

P. E. Nissen, Y. Q. Chen, M. Asplund +1

High resolution spectra of 34 halo population dwarf and subgiant stars have been obtained with VLT/UVES and used to derive sulphur abundances from the 8694.0, 8694.6 A and 9212.9,…

astro-ph2003★ 50 cited

Observations of the pulsating subdwarf B star Feige 48: Constraints on evolution and companions

M. D. Reed, S. D. Kawaler

Since pulsating subdwarf B (sdBV or EC14026) stars were first discovered (Kilkenny et al, 1997), observational efforts have tried to realize their potential for constraining the in…

astro-ph2003★ 93 cited

Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Nearby Type Ia Supernovae 1999ee, 2000bh, 2000ca, and 2001ba

Kevin Krisciunas, Mark M. Phillips, Nicholas B. Suntzeff +20

We present near infrared photometry of the Type Ia supernova 1999ee; also, optical and infrared photometry of the Type Ia SNe 2000bh, 2000ca, and 2001ba. For SNe 1999ee and 2000bh…

astro-ph2003★ 3 cited

Can the Bump be Observed in the Early Afterglow of GRBS with X-Ray Line Emission Features?

W. H. Gao, D. M. Wei

Extremely powerful emission lines are observed in the X-ray afterglow of several GRBs. The energy contained in the illuminating continuum which is responsible for the line producti…

astro-ph2003★ 50 cited

Envelope Expansion with Core Collapse. I. Spherical Isothermal Similarity Solutions

Yu-Qing Lou, Yue Shen

We investigate self-similar dynamical processes in an isothermal self-gravitational fluid with spherical symmetry. In reference to earlier complementary solution results of Larson,…

astro-ph2003★ 30 cited

Strong GeV Emission Accompanying TeV Blazar H1426+428

Y. Z. Fan, Z. G. Dai, D. M. Wei

For High frequency BL Lac objects (HBLs) like H1426+428, a significant fraction of their TeV gamma-rays emitted are likely to be absorbed in interactions with the diffuse IR backgr…

astro-ph2003★ 10 cited

Quasi-Local Evolution of the Cosmic Gravitational Clustering in Halo Model

Long-Long Feng, Li-Zhi Fang

We show that the nonlinear evolution of the cosmic gravitational clustering is approximately spatial local in the - (position-scale) phase space if the initial perturbations…

astro-ph2003★ 8 cited

Binary black holes in Mkns as sources of gravitational radiation for space based interferometers

F. De Paolis, G. Ingrosso, A. A. Nucita +1

The possibility that some Markarian objects (e.g. Mkn 501, Mkn 421 and Mkn 766) host massive binary black hole systems with eccentric orbits at their centers has been considered. T…

astro-ph2003★ 8 cited

Cross-correlation between the soft X-ray background and SZ Sky

Ling-Mei Cheng, Xiang-Ping Wu, Asantha Cooray

While both X-ray emission and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) temperature fluctuations are generated by the warm-hot gas in dark matter halos, the two observables have different dependence…

astro-ph2003★ 2 cited

Contamination of Cluster Radio Sources in the Measurement of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Angular Power Spectrum

Wei Zhou, Xiang-Ping Wu

We present a quantitative estimate of the confusion of cluster radio halos and galaxies in the measurement of the angular power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effe…

astro-ph2003★ 11 cited

Difference of -disks between Seyfert 1 galaxies and Quasars

W. Bian, Y. Zhao

In a previous paper (Bian & Zhao 2002), it was suggested that contamination to the luminosity of galactic nucleus from the host galaxies play an important role in determining param…

astro-ph2003★ 59 cited

The black hole--bulge relation in AGNs

W. Bian, Y. Zhao

We used the widths of H and [OIII] emission lines to investigate the black hole--bulge relation in radio-loud AGNs, radio-quiet AGNs and NLS1s. The central black hole mass, $M_{…

astro-ph2003★ 19 cited

Large-Field Multicolor Study of Abell 168 : Subclusters, Dynamics and Luminosity Functions

Yanbin Yang, Xu Zhou, Qirong Yuan +4

This paper presents a multicolor study of the nearby cluster of galaxies Abell 168 (z=0.045) with 13 intermediate-band filters in the Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan-Connecticut (BATC) filt…