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Recent publications by Leiden Astronomers

(20 most recent)
arXiv:1202.0402v1 [pdf]
Title:Herschel-ATLAS: towards a sample of ~1000 strongly-lensed galaxies
Authors: J. González-Nuevo, A. Lapi, S. Fleuren, S. Bressan, L. Danese, G. De Zotti, M. Negrello, Z. -Y. Cai, L. Fan, W. Sutherland, M. Baes, A. J. Baker, D. L. Clements, A. Cooray, H. Dannerbauer, L. Dunne, S. Dye, S. Eales, D. T. Frayer, A. I. Harris, R. Ivison, M. J. Jarvis, M. J. Micha?owski, M. López-Caniego, G. Rodighiero, K. Rowlands, S. Serjeant, D. Scott, P. van der Werf, R. Auld, S. Buttiglione, A. Cava, A. Dariush, J. Fritz, R. Hopwood, E. Ibar, S. Maddox, E. Pascale, M. Pohlen, E. Rigby, D. Smith, P. Temi
Comments: 36 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. Accepted by ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.5887v1 [pdf]
Title:A KInetic Database for Astrochemistry (KIDA)
Authors: V. Wakelam, E. Herbst, J. -C. Loison, I. W. M. Smith, V. Chandrasekaran, B. Pavone, N. G. Adams, M. -C. Bacchus-Montabonel, A. Bergeat, K. Béroff, V. M. Bierbaum, M. Chabot, A. Dalgarno, E. F. van Dishoeck, A. Faure, W. D. Geppert, D. Gerlich, D. Galli, E. Hébrard, F. Hersant, K. M. Hickson, P. Honvault, S. J. Klippenstein, S. Le Picard, G. Nyman, P. Pernot, S. Schlemmer, F. Selsis, I. R. Sims, D. Talbi, J. Tennyson, J. Troe, R. Wester, L. Wiesenfeld
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJS
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1201.5641v1 [pdf]
Title:Absorption signatures of warm-hot gas at low redshift: Broad Lyman-Alpha Absorbers
Authors: Thorsten Tepper-García, Philipp Richter, Joop Schaye, Craig M. Booth, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Tom Theuns
Comments: 25 pages (20 pages main text), 19 figures; submitted to MNRAS; comments are very welcome
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.5483v1 [pdf]
Title:The JCMT Legacy Survey of the Gould Belt: mapping 13CO and C18O in Orion A
Authors: J. V. Buckle, C. J. Davis, J. Di Francesco, S. F. Graves, D. Nutter, J. S. Richer, J. F. Roberts, D. Ward-Thompson, G. J. White, C. Brunt, H. M. Butner, B. Cavanagh, A. Chrysostomou, E. I. Curtis, A. Duarte-Cabral, M. Etxaluze, M. Fich, P. Friberg, R. Friesen, G. A. Fuller, J. S. Greaves, J. Hatchell, M. R. Hogerheijde, D. Johnstone, B. Matthews, H. Matthews, J. M. C. Rawlings, S. Sadavoy, R. J. Simpson, N. F. H. Tothill, Y. G. Tsamis, S. Viti, J. G. A. Wouterloot, J. Yates
Comments: Accepted by MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1201.5399v1 [pdf]
Title:On the nature of the stellar bridge between Leo IV and Leo V
Authors: Shoko Jin, Nicolas Martin, Jelte de Jong, Blair Conn, Hans-Walter Rix, Mike Irwin
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the Subaru conference on Galactic Archaeology, Shuzenji, Japan (Nov. 1-4 2011)
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1201.4873v1 [pdf]
Title:Magnetically-levitating disks around supermassive black holes
Authors: Evghenii Gaburov, Anders Johansen, Yuri Levin
Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM
arXiv:1201.4860v1 [pdf]
Title:The warm gas atmosphere of the HD 100546 disk seen by Herschel (Evidence of a gas-rich, carbon-poor atmosphere?)
Authors: Simon Bruderer, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Steven D. Doty, Gregory J. Herczeg
Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Subjects: astro-ph.SR
arXiv:1201.4859v1 [pdf]
Title:The Star Formation History of Leo T from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging
Authors: Daniel R. Weisz, Daniel B. Zucker, Andrew E. Dolphin, Nicolas F. Martin, Jelte T. A. de Jong, Jon A. Holtzman, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Karoline M. Gilbert, Benjamin F. Williams, Eric F. Bell, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans
Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1201.4794v1 [pdf]
Title:Ejection and Capture Dynamics in Restricted Three-Body Encounters
Authors: Shiho Kobayashi, Yanir Hainick, Re'em Sari, Elena M. Rossi
Comments: 25 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1201.3761v1 [pdf]
Title:High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects II: The census of BH seeds
Authors: B. Devecchi, M. Volonteri, E. M. Rossi, M. Colpi, S. Portegies Zwart
Comments: 12 pages, MNRAS, accepted
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.3839v1 [pdf]
Title:Rotten Egg Nebula: The magnetic field of a binary evolved star
Authors: M. L. Leal-Ferreira, W. H. T. Vlemmings, P. J. Diamond, A. Kemball, N. Amiri, J. -F. Desmurs
Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures
Subjects: astro-ph.SR
arXiv:1201.3281v1 [pdf]
Title:[FeII] as a tracer supernova rate
Authors: M. J. F. Rosenberg, P. P. van der Werf, F. P. Israel
Comments: Conference proceedings for Astronomy at High Angular Resolution 2011: The Central Kiloparsec in Galactic Nuclei
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1201.2908v1 [pdf]
Title:A bright z=5.2 lensed submillimeter galaxy in the field of Abell 773: HLSJ091828.6+514223
Authors: F. Combes, M. Rex, T. D. Rawle, E. Egami, F. Boone, I. Smail, J. Richard, R. J. Ivison, M. Gurwell, C. M. Casey, A. Omont, A. Berciano Alba, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, A. C. Edge, G. G. Fazio, J-P. Kneib, N. Okabe, R. Pello, P. G. Perez-Gonzalez, D. Schaerer, G. P. Smith, A. M. Swinbank, P. van der Werf
Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in A and A Letters
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.2558v1 [pdf]
Title:Dust and gas power-spectrum in M33 (HERM33ES)
Authors: F. Combes, M. Boquien, C. Kramer, E. M. Xilouris, F. Bertoldi, J. Braine, C. Buchbender, D. Calzetti, P. Gratier, F. Israel, B. Koribalski, S. Lord, G. Quintana-Lacaci, M. Relano, M. Roellig, G. Stacey, F. S. Tabatabaei, R. P. J. Tilanus, F. van der Tak, P. van der Werf, S. Verley
Comments: 11 pages, 24 figures, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.2438v1 [pdf]
Title:The ATCA HI Galactic Center Survey
Authors: N. M. McClure-Griffiths, J. M. Dickey, B. M. Gaensler, A. J. Green, J. A. Green, M. Haverkorn
Comments: 39 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to ApJS
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1201.1913v1 [pdf]
Title:Which galaxy property is the best indicator of its host dark matter halo properties?
Authors: David A. Wake, Marijn Franx, Pieter G. van Dokkum
Comments: 25 pages, 20 figures, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.1916v1 [pdf]
Title:Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: A Census of Dust in Optically Selected Galaxies from Stacking at Sub-mm Wavelengths
Authors: N. Bourne, S. J. Maddox, L. Dunne, R. Auld, M. Baes, I. K. Baldry, D. G. Bonfield, A. Cooray, S. M. Croom, A. Dariush, G. de Zotti, S. P. Driver, S. Dye, S. Eales, H. L. Gomez, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, A. M. Hopkins, E. Ibar, M. J. Jarvis, A. Lapi, B. Madore, M. J. Michalowski, M. Pohlen, C. C. Popescu, E. E. Rigby, M. Seibert, D. J. B. Smith, R. J. Tuffs, P. van der Werf, S. Brough, S. Buttiglione, A. Cava, D. L. Clements, C. J. Conselice, J. Fritz, R. Hopwood, R. J. Ivison, D. H. Jones, L. S. Kelvin, J. Liske, J. Loveday, P. Norberg, A. S. G. Robotham, G. Rodighiero, P. Temi
Comments: 38 pages, 25 figures, MNRAS Accepted
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.1925v1 [pdf]
Title:First simultaneous optical/near-infrared imaging of an X-ray selected, high-redshift cluster of galaxies with GROND: the galaxy population of XMMU J0338.7+0030 at z=1.1
Authors: D. Pierini, R. Suhada, R. Fassbender, A. Nastasi, H. Boehringer, M. Salvato, G. W. Pratt, M. Lerchster, P. Rosati, J. S. Santos, A. de Hoon, J. Kohnert, G. Lamer, J. J. Mohr, M. Muehlegger, H. Quintana, A. Schwope, V. Biffi, G. Chon, S. Giodini, J. Koppenhoefer, M. Verdugo, F. Ziparo, P. M. J. Afonso, C. Clemens, J. Greiner, T. Kruehler, A. Kupcu Yoldas, F. Olivares E., A. Rossi, A. Yoldas
Comments: accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Main Journal, 27 pages, 24 figures, 1 table
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.1616v1 [pdf]
Title:CLASH: Precise New Constraints on the Mass Profile of Abell 2261
Authors: Dan Coe, Keiichi Umetsu, Adi Zitrin, Megan Donahue, Elinor Medezinski, Marc Postman, Mauricio Carrasco, Timo Anguita, Margaret J. Geller, Kenneth J. Rines, Antonaldo Diaferio, Michael J. Kurtz, Larry Bradley, Anton Koekemoer, Wei Zheng, Mario Nonino, Alberto Molino, Andisheh Mahdavi, Doron Lemze, Leopoldo Infante, Sara Ogaz, Peter Melchior, Ole Host, Holland Ford, Claudio Grillo, Piero Rosati, Yolanda Jiménez-Teja, John Moustakas, Tom Broadhurst, Begoña Ascaso, Ofer Lahav, Matthias Bartelmann, Narciso Benítez, Rychard Bouwens, Or Graur, Genevieve Graves, Saurabh Jha, Stephanie Jouvel, Daniel Kelson, Leonidas Moustakas, Dan Maoz, Massimo Meneghetti, Julian Merten, Adam Riess, Steve Rodney, Stella Seitz
Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. 19 pages, 14 figures
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1201.1502v1 [pdf]
Title:Search for shocks in XMM-Newton observations of CIZA J2242.8+5301
Authors: Georgiana Ogrean, Marcus Bruggen, Huub Rottgering, Aurora Simionescu, Judith Croston, Reinout van Weeren, Matthias Hoeft
Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, 12 pages, 13 figures
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
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