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astro-ph.CO2013★ 50 cited

Measuring the X-ray luminosities of SDSS DR7 clusters from RASS

Lei Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Shiyin Shen +8

We use ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) broadband X-ray images and the optical clusters identified from SDSS DR7 to estimate the X-ray luminosities around candidate cluste…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 8 cited

Temporal Variations And Spectral Properties of Be/X-ray Pulsar GRO J1008-57 Studied by INTEGRAL

Wei Wang

Spin period variations and hard X-ray spectral properties of Be/X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57 are studied with INTEGRAL observations. The pulsation periods at 93.66 s in 2004 and at 93…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 8 cited

Hard X-ray emission cutoff in anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61 detected by INTEGRAL

Wei Wang, Hao Tong, Yan-Jun Guo

The anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61 was studied by the INTEGRAL observations. The hard X-ray spectrum of 18 -- 500 keV for 4U 0142+61 was derived using near 9 years of INTEGRAL/I…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 66 cited

Variation of the solar magnetic flux spectrum during solar cycle 23

C. l. Jin, J. X. Wang

By using the unique database of SOHO/MDI full disk magnetograms from 1996 September to 2011 January, covering the entire solar cycle 23, we analyze the time-variability of the sola…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 14 cited

An analytical model of the large neutral regions during the late stage of reionization

Yidong Xu, Bin Yue, Meng Su +2

In this paper we investigate the nature and distribution of large neutral regions during the late epoch of reionization. In the "bubble model" of reionization, the mass distributio…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 31 cited

Not-So-Simple Stellar Populations in the Intermediate-age Large Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters NGC 1831 and NGC 1868

Chengyuan Li, Richard de Grijs, Licai Deng

Using a combination of high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope/WFPC2 observations, we explore the physical properties of the stellar populations in two intermediate-age star cluster…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 112 cited

The Ginger-shaped Asteroid 4179 Toutatis: New Observations from a Successful Flyby of Chang'e-2

Jiangchuan Huang, Jianghui Ji, Peijian Ye +26

On 13 December 2012, Chang'e-2 conducted a successful flyby of the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis at a closest distance of 770 120 meters from the asteroid's surface. The…

astro-ph.SR2013

Magnetic fields in Accretion Discs around Neutron Stars - Consequences for the change of spin

Luca Naso, John Miller, Wlodek Kluzniak

Accretion disks are ubiquitous in the universe and it is generally accepted that magnetic fields play a pivotal role in accretion-disk physics. The spin history of millisecond puls…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 42 cited

First Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Measurement of Satellite Halo Mass in the CFHT Stripe-82 Survey

Ran Li, Huanyuan Shan, HouJun Mo +7

We select satellite galaxies from the galaxy group catalog constructed with the SDSS spectroscopic galaxies and measure the tangential shear around these galaxies with source catal…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 38 cited

Outflows from active galactic nuclei: The BLR-NLR metallicity correlation

Pu Du, Jian-Min Wang, Chen Hu +4

The metallicity of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), which can be measured by emission line ratios in their broad and narrow line regions (BLRs and NLRs), provides invaluable informat…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 25 cited

Numerical simulation of the electron capture process in a magnetar interior

Z. F. Gao, N. Wang, J. P. Yuan +2

In a superhigh magnetic field, direct Urca reactions can proceed for an arbitrary proton concentration. Since only the electrons with high energy (, is the threshold…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 20 cited

Evolution of superhigh magnetic fields of magnetars

Z. F. Gao, N. Wang, J. P. Yuan +3

In this paper, we consider the effect of Landau levels on the decay of superhigh magnetic fields of magnetars. Applying anisotropic neutron superfluid theory yield a seco…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 23 cited

Landau level-superfluid modified factor and effective X/-ray coefficient of a magnetar

Z. F. Gao, Q. H. Peng, N. Wang +2

As soon as the energy of electrons near the Fermi surface are higher than , the threshold energy of inverse decay, the electron capture process will dominate. The resulting…

astro-ph.IM2013

Up to 700k GPU cores, Kepler, and the Exascale future for simulations of star clusters around black holes

P. Berczik, R. Spurzem, L. Wang +9

We present direct astrophysical N-body simulations with up to a few million bodies using our parallel MPI/CUDA code on large GPU clusters in China, Ukraine and Germany, with differ…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 16 cited

Asteroseismic analysis of the CoRoT target HD49933

Zhie Liu, Wuming Yang, Shaolan Bi +9

The frequency ratios and of HD 49933 exhibit an increase at high frequencies. This behavior also exists in the ratios of other stars, which is considered to result from the low sig…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 173 cited

Puzzling accretion onto a black hole in the ultraluminous X-ray source M101 ULX-1

Jifeng Liu, Joel N. Bregman, Yu Bai +2

There are two proposed explanations for ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) with luminosities in excess of erg s. They could be intermediate-mass black holes (more…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 17 cited

Properties of Solar Ephemeral Regions at the Emergence Stage

Shuhong Yang, Jun Zhang

For the first time, we statistically study the properties of ephemeral regions (ERs) and quantitatively determine their parameters at the emergence stage based on a sample of 2988…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 271 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS): measuring growth rate and geometry with anisotropic clustering

Lado Samushia, Beth A. Reid, Martin White +27

We use the observed anisotropic clustering of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 11 CMASS sample to measure the linear growth rate of struc…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 154 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: single-probe measurements from CMASS anisotropic galaxy clustering

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco Prada, Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez +23

With the largest spectroscopic galaxy survey volume drawn from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), we can extract cosmological constraints from the measure…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 1.9k cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 10 and 11 galaxy samples

Lauren Anderson, Eric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey +62

We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 24 cited

Constraints on a decomposed dark fluid with constant adiabatic sound speed by jointing the geometry test and growth rate after Planck data

Weiqiang Yang, Lixin Xu, Yuting Wang +1

In this paper, a unified dark fluid with constant adiabatic sound speed is decomposed into cold dark matter interacting with vacuum energy. Based on Markov chain Monte Carlo method…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 36 cited

Constraints on a CDM model from strong gravitational lensing and updated Hubble parameter measurements

Yun Chen, Chao-Qiang Geng, Shuo Cao +2

We constrain the scalar field dark energy model with an inverse power-law potential, i.e., (), from a set of recent cosmological observations by compiling…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 61 cited

Modeling the nonlinear clustering in modified gravity models I: A fitting formula for matter power spectrum of f(R) gravity

Gong-Bo Zhao

Based on a suite of N-body simulations of the Hu-Sawicki model of f(R) gravity with different sets of model and cosmological parameters, we develop a new fitting formula with a num…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 14 cited

Using pulsar timing arrays and the quantum normalization condition to constrain relic gravitational waves

Ming-Lei Tong, Yang Zhang, Wen Zhao +3

In the non-standard model of relic gravitational waves (RGWs) generated in the early universe, the theoretical spectrum of is mainly described by an amplitude and a spectral in…