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astro-ph.CO2011★ 37 cited

Constraints on ultracompact minihalos from extragalactic γ-ray background

Yupeng Yang, Lei Feng, Xiaoyuan Huang +3

It has been proposed that ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) might be formed in earlier epoch. If dark matter consists of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), UCMHs can be tre…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 20 cited

The Abundance of New Kind of Dark Matter Structures

Yupeng Yang, Xuelei Chen, Tan Lu +1

A new kind of dark matter structures, ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) was proposed recently. They would be formed during the radiation dominated epoch if the large density perturbat…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 14 cited

Testing three derivative methods of stellar population synthesis models

Yu Zhang, Zhanwen Han, Jinzhong Liu +2

The number of methods used to study the properties of galaxies is increased, and testing these methods is very important. Galactic globular clusters (GCs) provide an excellent medi…

astro-ph.IM2011

Atmospheric fluctuations below 0.1 Hz during drift-scan solar diameter measurements

Costantino Sigismondi, Andrea Raponi, Giulia De Rosi +6

Measurements of the power spectrum of the seeing in the range 0.001-1 Hz have been performed in order to understand the criticity of the transits' method for solar diameter monitor…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 23 cited

The Hamburg/ESO R-process Enhanced Star survey (HERES)VII. Thorium abundances in metal-poor stars

Jing Ren, Norbert Christlieb, Gang Zhao

We report thorium abundances for 77 metal-poor stars in the metallicity range of -3.5<[Fe/H]}<-1.0, based on "snapshot" spectra obtained with VLT-UT2/UVES during the HERES Survey.…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 17 cited

The relationships of solar flares with both sunspot and geomagnetic activity

Z. L. Du, H. N. Wang

The relationships between solar flare parameters (total importance, time duration, flare index, and flux) and sunspot activity (Rz) as well as those between geomagnetic activity (a…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 15 cited

Predicting the solar maximum with the rising rate

Z. L. Du, H. N. Wang

The growth rate of solar activity in the early phase of a solar cycle has been known to be well correlated with the subsequent amplitude (solar maximum). It provides very useful in…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 18 cited

Correlations between CME parameters and sunspot activity

Z. L. Du

Smoothed monthly mean coronal mass ejection (CME) parameters (speed, acceleration, central position angle, angular width, mass and kinetic energy) for Cycle 23 are cross-analyzed,…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 41 cited

Metal-poor hypervelocity star candidates from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Yinbi Li, Ali Luo, Gang Zhao +3

Hypervelocity stars are believed to be ejected out from the Galactic center through dynamical interactions of (binary) stars with the central massive black hole(s). In this letter,…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 7 cited

Measurement of halo properties with weak lensing shear and flexion

Xinzhong Er, Ismael Tereno, Shude Mao

We constrain properties of cluster haloes by performing likelihood analysis using lensing shear and flexion data. We test our analysis using two mock cluster haloes: an isothermal…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 76 cited

VLBI observations of 10 CSO candidates: expansion velocities of hot spots

Tao An, Fang Wu, Jun Yang +11

Observations of ten Compact Symmetric Objects ({\rm CSO}) candidates have been made with the Very Long Baseline Array at 8.4 GHz in 2005 and with a combined Chinese and European VL…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 103 cited

Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the Rapidly Pulsating Subdwarf B-type binary NY Vir

S. -B. Qian, L. -Y. Zhu, Z. -B. Dai +3

We report here the tentative discovery of a Jovian planet in orbit around the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type (sdB-type) eclipsing binary NY Vir. By using new determined eclipse…

astro-ph.SR2011

Chromospheric activity on the RS Canum Venaticorum stars

Zhang Liyun, Gu Shenghong

Firstly, we review the stellar chromospheric activity in the optical wavelength. Secondly, we introduce our ongoing project of multi-wavelength high--resolution optical observation…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 244 cited

The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA): II. Complete Sample and Data Release

Andrea Kunder, Andreas Koch, R. Michael Rich +13

We present new radial velocity measurements from the Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA), a large scale spectroscopic survey of M-type giants in the Galactic bulge/bar region. The…

astro-ph.SR2011

Photometric Study of Neglected Eclipsing Binary GSC 3576-0170

Zhang Liyun, Jing Jianghong, Tang Yanke +1

The new multi-color photometric light curves of the short-period eclipsing binary GSC 3576-0170 were obtained on two consecutive nights (October 5 and 6, 2009). With the 200…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 2 cited

Binary interactions on the calibrations of star formation rate

F. Zhang, L. Li, Y. Zhang +2

Using the evolutionary population synthesis (EPS) models with and without binary interactions (BIs), we present L_Ha, L_[OII], L_{i,UV} and L_FIR for Burst, S0, Sa-Sd and Irr galax…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 34 cited

Temporal Variation of the Hemispheric Solar Rotation

J. -L. Xie, X. -J. Shi, J. -C. Xu

The daily sunspot numbers of the whole disk as well as the northern and southern hemispheres from January 1, 1945 to December 31, 2010 are used to investigate the temporal variatio…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 10 cited

Where do the Progenitors of Millisecond Pulsars come from?

Ali Taani, Chengmin Zhang, Mashhoor Al-Wardat +1

Observations of a large population of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) show a wide divergence in the orbital periods (from approximately hours to a few months). In the standard view, Low…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 69 cited

The short-period limit of contact binaries

Dengkai Jiang, Zhanwen Han, Hongwei Ge +2

The stability of mass transfer is important in the formation of contact binaries from detached binaries when the primaries of the initially detached binaries fill their Roche lobes…

gr-qc2011★ 41 cited

Black Holes in the Universe: Generalized Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi Solutions

Changjun Gao, Xuelei Chen, You-Gen Shen +1

We present new exact solutions {which presumably describe} black holes in the background of a spatially flat, pressureless dark matter (DM)-, or dark matter plus dark energy (DM+DE…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 58 cited

The Initial-Final Mass Relation among White Dwarfs in Wide Binaries

Jingkun Zhao, Terry D. Oswalt, Lee Anne Willson +2

We present the initial-final mass relation derived from 10 white dwarfs in wide binaries that consist of a main sequence star and a white dwarf. The temperature and gravity of each…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 9 cited

A new synthetic library of the Near-Infrared CaII triplet indices. I.Index Definition, Calibration and Relations with stellar atmospheric parameters

Wei Du, A-Li Luo, Yong-Heng Zhao

Adopting the SPECTRUM package, we have synthesized a set of 2,890 Near-InfraRed (NIR) synthetic spectra with a resolution and wavelength sampling similar to the SDSS and the forthc…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 36 cited

Unveiling the super-orbital modulation of LS I +61 303 in X-rays

Jian Li, Diego F. Torres, Shu Zhang +5

From the longest monitoring of LS I +61 303 done to date by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) we found evidence for the long-sought, years- long modulation in the X-ray emissi…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 15 cited

Spectral and spatial observations of microwave spikes and zebra structure in the short radio burst of May 29, 2003

G. P. Chernov, R. A. Sych, N. S. Meshalkina +2

The unusual radio burst of May 29, 2003 connected with the M1.5 flare in AR 10368 has been analyzed. It was observed by the Solar Broadband Radio Spectrometer (SBRS/Huairou station…