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astro-ph2006★ 13 cited

A WENO Algorithm of the Temperature and Ionization Profiles around a Point Source

Jing-Mei Qiu, Long-Long Feng, Chi-Wang Shu +1

We develop a numerical solver for radiative transfer problems based on the weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) scheme modified with anti-diffusive flux corrections, in order…

astro-ph2006★ 23 cited

Multi-wavelength Study of Young Massive Star Clusters in the Interacting Galaxy ARP 24

Chen Cao, Hong Wu

We made a multi-wavelength study of young massive star clusters (YSCs) in the interacting galaxy ARP 24, using the optical and ultraviolet images from Hubble Space Telescope (HST),…

astro-ph2006★ 14 cited

Very early multi-color observations of the plateau phase of GRB 041006 afterglow

Y. Urata, K. Y. Huang, Y. L. Qiu +17

Observations of the optical afterglow of GRB 041006 with the Kiso Observatory 1.05 m Schmidt telescope, the Lulin Observatory 1.0 m telescope and the Xinglong Observatory 0.6 m tel…

astro-ph2006★ 144 cited

The young stellar population in M17 revealed by Chandra

Patrick S. Broos, Eric D. Feigelson, Leisa K. Townsley +5

We report here results from a Chandra ACIS observation of the stellar populations in and around the Messier 17 H II region. The field reveals 886 sources, 771 of which have stellar…

astro-ph2006

On the nature of the flares from three candidate tidal disruption events

Y. Lu, Z. Zheng, S. N. Zhang +1

The X-ray flares of NGC 5905, RX J1242.6-1119A, and RX J1624.9+7554 observed by Chandra in 2001 and 2002 have been suggested as the candidate tidal disruption events. The distinct…

astro-ph2006★ 26 cited

Age constraints for an M31 globular cluster from SEDs-fit

Jun Ma, Yanbin Yang, David Burstein +4

We have constrained the age of the globular cluster S312 in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) by comparing its multicolor photometry with theoretical stellar population synthesis models.…

astro-ph2006★ 243 cited

Making a Short Gamma-Ray Burst from a Long one: Implications for the Nature of GRB 060614

Bing Zhang, Bin-Bin Zhang, En-Wei Liang +3

The absence of a supernova accompanying the nearby long GRB 060614 poses a great puzzle about the progenitor of this event and challenges the current GRB classification scheme. Thi…

astro-ph2006★ 136 cited

531 new spectroscopic redshifts from the CDFS and a test on the cosmological relevance of the GOODS-South field

C. D. Ravikumar, M. Puech, H. Flores +23

(Abbrev.) This paper prepares a series of papers analysing the Intermediate MAss Galaxy Evolution Sequence (IMAGES) up to z=1. Intermediate mass galaxies (MJ <=-20.3) are selected…

astro-ph2006★ 71 cited

Optical Monitoring of BL Lacertae Object S5 0716+714 with a Novel Multi-Peak Interference Filter

Jianghua Wu, Xu Zhou, Jun Ma +3

We at first introduce a novel photometric system, which consists of a Schmidt telescope, an objective prism, a CCD camera, and, especially, a multi-peak interference filter. The mu…

astro-ph2006★ 13 cited

Possible Streams of the Globular Clusters in the Galaxy

Shuang Gao, Bi-Wei Jiang, Yong-Heng Zhao

This paper aims to retrieve the ghost streams under the pre-assumption that all the globular clusters in our Galaxy were formed in the very early merge events. The results are base…

astro-ph2006★ 17 cited

Characteristics of supernova remnant G351.7+0.8 and a distance argument against its association with PSR J1721-3532

W. W. Tian, M. Haverkorn, H. Y. Zhang

New images of the supernova remnant (SNR) G351.7+0.8 are presented based on 21cm HI-line emission and continuum emission data from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS). SNR G3…

astro-ph2006★ 164 cited

A comprehensive analysis of Swift/XRT data: I. Apparent spectral evolution of GRB X-ray tails

Bin-Bin Zhang, En-Wei Liang, Bing Zhang

An early steep decay component following the prompt GRBs is commonly observed in {\em Swift} XRT light curves, which is regarded as the tail emission of the prompt gamma-rays. Prom…

astro-ph2006

Candidate Milky Way Satellites in the Galactic Halo

C. Liu, J. Hu, H. Newberg +1

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR5 photometric data with , are searched for new Milky Way companions or substructures in…

astro-ph2006

On Secular Resonances of Small Bodies in the Planetary Systems

Ji Jianghui, Liu Lin, Li Guangyu

We investigate the secular resonances for massless small bodies and Earth-like planets in several planetary systems. We further compare the results with those of Solar System. For…

astro-ph2006★ 29 cited

Measuring Neutron Star Mass and Radius with Three Mass-Radius Relations

C. M. Zhang, H. X. Yin, Y. Kojima +5

We propose to determine the mass and the radius of a neutron star (NS) using three measurable mass-radius relationships, namely the ``apparent'' radius inferred from neutron star t…

astro-ph2006★ 89 cited

A Sino-German lambda6 cm polarization survey of the Galactic plane I. Survey strategy and results for the first survey region

X. H. Sun, J. L. Han, W. Reich +4

(Abridged) Polarization measurements of the Galactic plane at lambda6 cm probe the interstellar medium (ISM) to larger distances compared to measurements at longer wavelengths, hen…

astro-ph2006★ 41 cited

Multi-color Shallow Decay and Chromatic Breaks in the GRB 050319 Optical Afterglow

K. Y. Huang, Y. Urata, P. H. Kuo +19

Multi-wavelength B, V, R, I observations of the optical afterglow of GRB 050319 were performed by the 1.05-m telescope at Kiso Observatory and the 1.0-m telescope at Lulin Observat…

astro-ph2006★ 34 cited

Implementation of New OPAL Tables in Eggleton's Stellar Evolution Code

Xuefei Chen, Christopher A. Tout

Based on the work of OPAL (Iglesias & Rogers 1996) and Alexander & Ferguson (1994), we construct a series of opacity tables for various metallicities Z=0, 0.00001, 0.00003, 0.0001,…

astro-ph2006★ 88 cited

Solar system constraints on R gravity

A. F. Zakharov, A. A. Nucita, F. De Paolis +1

Recently, gravitational microlensing has been investigated in the framework of the weak field limit of fourth order gravity theory. However, solar system data (i.e. planetary perio…

astro-ph2006★ 19 cited

Wave Modes in the Magnetospheres of Pulsars and Magnetars

Chen Wang, Dong Lai

We study the wave propagation modes in the relativistic streaming pair plasma of the magnetospheres of pulsars and magnetars, focusing on the effect of vacuum polarization. We show…

astro-ph2006★ 50 cited

The Galactic distribution of magnetic fields in molecular clouds and HII regions

J. L. Han, J. S. Zhang

{Magnetic fields exist on all scales in our Galaxy. There is a controversy about whether the magnetic fields in molecular clouds are preserved from the permeated magnetic fields in…

astro-ph2006★ 55 cited

The Secular Evolution and Dynamical Architecture of the Neptunian Triplet Planetary System HD 69830

Ji Jianghui, H. Kinoshita, Liu Lin +1

We perform numerical simulations to study the secular orbital evolution and dynamical structure in the HD 69830 system with the best-fit orbital solutions by Lovis and coworkers (2…

astro-ph2006★ 68 cited

Temporal Profiles and Spectral Lags of XRF 060218

En-Wei Liang, Bin-Bin Zhang, Mike Stamatikos +5

The spectral and temporal properties of the non-thermal emission ofthe nearby XRF 060218 in 0.3-150 keV band are studied. We show that both the spectral energy distribution and the…

astro-ph2006★ 27 cited

Probing the Mass Distributions in NGC 1407 and Its Associated Group with the X-ray Imaging Spectroscopic and Optical Photometric and Line-strength Indices Data

Zhongli Zhang, Haiguang Xu, Yu Wang +3

We present a study of the mass distributions in the bright E0 galaxy NGC 1407 and its associated group by analyzing the high quality Chandra and ROSAT X-ray spectroscopic data. In…