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astro-ph.CO2009★ 10 cited

A Joint Chandra and XMM-Newton View of Abell 3158: Massive Off-Centre Cool Gas Clump As A Robust Diagnostic of Merger Stage

Yu Wang, Haiguang Xu, Liyi Gu +5

By analysing the Chandra and XMM-Newton archived data of the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 3158, which was reported to possess a relatively regular, relaxed morphology in the X-ray b…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 1 cited

The X-ray Asynchronous Optical Afterglow of GRB 060912A and Tentative Evidence of a 2175-A Host Dust Extinction Feature

J. Deng, W. Zheng, M. Zhai +6

We present optical photometry of the GRB 060912A afterglow obtained with ground-based telescopes, from about 100 sec after the GRB trigger till about 0.3 day later, supplemented wi…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 16 cited

Hanle signatures of the coronal magnetic field in the linear polarization of the hydrogen LyAlpha line

M. Derouich, F. Auchere, J. C. Vial +1

This paper is dedicated to the assessment of the validity of future coronal spectro-polarimetric observations and to prepare their interpretation in terms of the magnetic field vec…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 9 cited

Phase-resolved spectral analysis of 4U 1901+03 during its outburst

Ya-Juan Lei, Wei Chen, Jin-Lu Qu +5

The high mass X-ray binary 4U 1901+03 was reported to have the pulse profile evolving with the X-ray luminosity and energy during its outburst in February-July 2003: the pulse peak…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 70 cited

The energy dependence of the centroid frequency and phase lag of the QPOs in GRS 1915+105

J. L. Qu, F. J. Lu, Y. Lu +3

We present a study of the centroid frequencies and phase lags of the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as functions of photon energy for GRS 1915+105. It is found that the centroi…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 62 cited

A Search for Infall Evidence in EGOs I: the Northern Sample

Xi Chen, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Jing-jing Li +2

We report the first systematic survey of molecular lines (including HCO+ (1-0) and 12CO, 13CO, C18O (1-0) lines at 3 mm band) towards a new sample of 88 massive young stellar objec…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 36 cited

X-ray Radiation Mechanisms and Beaming Effect of Hot Spots and Knots in Active Galactic Nuclear Jets

Jin Zhang, J. M. Bai, Liang Chen +1

The observed radio-optical-X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 22 hot spots and 45 knots in the jets of 35 active galactic nuclei are complied from literature and modeled…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 7 cited

Modelling the WMAP large-angle anomalies as an effect of a local density inhomogeneity

Li-Ping He, Quan Guo

We investigate large-angle scale temperature anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data and model the large-angle…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 56 cited

Unified dark energy and dark matter from a scalar field different from quintessence

Changjun Gao, Martin Kunz, Andrew R Liddle +1

We explore unification of dark matter and dark energy in a theory containing a scalar field of non-Lagrangian type, obtained by direct insertion of a kinetic term into the energy-m…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 5 cited

The emission positions of kHz QPOs and Kerr spacetime influence

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

Based the Alfven wave oscillation model (AWOM) and relativistic precession model (RPM) for twin kHz QPOs, we estimate the emission positions of most detected kHz QPOs to be at r=18…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 9 cited

Adiabatic Perturbations in Homologous Conventional Polytropic Core Collapses of a Spherical Star

Yi Cao, Yu-Qing Lou

We perform a non-radial adiabatic perturbation analysis on homologous conventional polytropic stellar core collapses. The core collapse features a polytropic exponent relat…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 113 cited

Variability and stability in blazar jets on time scales of years: Optical polarization monitoring of OJ287 in 2005-2009

C. Villforth, K. Nilsson, J. Heidt +45

(Abridged) OJ287 is a BL Lac object that has shown double-peaked bursts at regular intervals of ~12 yr during the last ~40 yr. We analyse optical photopolarimetric monitoring data…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 57 cited

Simulations on High-z Long Gamma-Ray Burst Rate

Shu-Fu Qin, En-Wei Liang, Rui-Jing Lu +2

Since the launch of Swift satellite, the detections of high-z (z>4) long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) have been rapidly growing, even approaching the very early Universe (the record ho…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 45 cited

Leptonic dark matter annihilation in the evolving universe: constraints and implications

Qiang Yuan, Bin Yue, Xiaojun Bi +2

The cosmic electron and positron excesses have been explained as possible dark matter (DM) annihilation products. In this work we investigate the possible effects of such a DM anni…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 1 cited

Microlensing pulsars

S. Dai, R. X. Xu, A. Esamdin

We investigate the possibilities that pulsars act as the lens in gravitational microlensing events towards the galactic bulge or a spiral arm. Our estimation is based on expectant…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 11 cited

Lower bounds of altitudes for pulsar -ray radiation

K. J. Lee, Y. J. Du, H. G. Wang +3

Determining radiation location observationally plays a very important role in testing the pulsar radiation models. One-photon pair production in the strong magnetic field, $γ-e^{+}…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 10 cited

Discovery of a magnetic neutron star in X-ray transient IGR J01583+6713

W. Wang

IGR J01583+6713 is a new transient source discovered by the INTEGRAL/IBIS hard X-ray surveys. Optical observations suggested that it should be a high mass X-ray binary, but its nat…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 86 cited

New dynamo pattern revealed by solar helical magnetic fields

Hongqi Zhang, T. Sakurai, A. Pevtsov +4

Previously unobservable mirror asymmetry of the solar magnetic field -- a key ingredient of the dynamo mechanism which is believed to drive the 11-year activity cycle -- has now be…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 8 cited

WD + He star systems as the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae and their surviving companion stars

Bo Wang, Zhanwen Han

Employing Eggleton's stellar evolution code with an optically thick wind assumption, we have systematically studied the WD + He star channel of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), in whic…

astro-ph.CO2009

Contribution of Cross-Correlations to the 21cm Angular Power Spectrum in the Epoch of Reionization

Qian Zheng

Measurement of the 21cm hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen provides a unique probe of the epoch of reionization and the Dark Ages. Three major mechanisms are believed to domi…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 90 cited

Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves and Detection

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Alberto Sesana, Loren Hoffman +4

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) found in the centers of many galaxies have been recognized to play a fundamental active role in the cosmological structure formation process. In hi…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 6 cited

Mechanism of very high energy radiation in BL Lacertae object 3C 66A

Jianping Yang, Jiancheng Wang

Our goal is to understand the nature of blazars and the mechanisms for the generation of high-energy -rays, through the investigation of the blazar 3C 66A. We model the high ene…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 42 cited

Characteristic velocities of stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova cores

I. Maurer, P. A. Mazzali, J. Deng +9

The velocity of the inner ejecta of stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae (CC-SNe) is studied by means of an analysis of their nebular spectra. Stripped-envelope CC-SNe are th…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 93 cited

Companion stars of Type Ia supernovae and hypervelocity stars

Bo Wang, Zhanwen Han

{Context} Recent investigations of the white dwarf (WD) + He star channel of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) imply that this channel can produce SNe Ia with short delay times. The comp…