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Recent publications by Leiden Astronomers

(20 most recent)
arXiv:1205.1922v1 [pdf]
Title:High Resolution IR Observations of the Starburst Ring in NGC 7552 -- One Ring to Rule Them All?
Authors: B. R. Brandl, N. L. Martin-Hernandez, D. Schaerer, M. Rosenberg, P. P. van der Werf
Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures, accepted, to appear in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1205.1647v1 [pdf]
Title:Isolated starless cores in IRDCs in the Hi-GAL survey
Authors: L. A. Wilcock, D. Ward-Thompson, J. M. Kirk, D. Stamatellos, A. Whitworth, C. Battersby, D. Elia, G. A. Fuller, A. DiGiorgio, M. J. Griffin, S. Molinari, P. Martin, J. C. Mottram, N. Peretto, M. Pestalozzi, E. Schisano, H. A. Smith, M. A. Thompson
Comments: 12 pages + appendix, 12 figures, 4 tables. Only a sample of images in Appendix A is given due to size restrictions. Accepted by MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1205.1434v1 [pdf]
Title:The formation of young dense star clusters through mergers
Authors: Michiko S. Fujii, Takayuki R. Saitoh, Simon F. Portegies Zwart
Comments: 13 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1205.1351v1 [pdf]
Title:Cool and warm dust emission from M33 (HerM33es)
Authors: E. M. Xilouris, F. S. Tabatabaei, M. Boquien, C. Kramer, C. Buchbender, F. Bertoldi, S. Anderl, J. Braine, S. Verley, M. Relano, G. Quintana-Lacaci, S. Akras, R. Beck, D. Calzetti, F. Combes, M. Gonzalez, P. Gratier, C. Henkel, F. Israel, B. Koribalski, S. Lord, B. Mookerjea, E. Rosolowsky, G. Stacey, R. P. J. Tilanus, F. van der Tak, P. van der Werf
Comments: 12 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1205.1082v1 [pdf]
Title:Detection of a radio bridge in Abell 3667
Authors: E. Carretti, S. Brown, L. Staveley-Smith, J. M. Malarecki, G. Bernardi, B. M. Gaensler, M. Haverkorn, M. J. Kesteven, S. Poppi
Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS. Some figures are at lower resolution than the original ones because of the archive size limits
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE
arXiv:1205.0547v1 [pdf]
Title:The Star-formation Mass Sequence out to z=2.5
Authors: Katherine E. Whitaker, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer, Marijn Franx
Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 6 pages, 5 figures. NMBS IR+UV SFRs are now available at http://www.astro.yale.edu/nmbs/Data_Products.html
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1204.6668v1 [pdf]
Title:Adaptable Radiative Transfer Innovations for Submillimetre Telescopes (ARTIST) - Dust polarisation module (DustPol)
Authors: M. Padovani, C. Brinch, J. M. Girart, J. K. Jřrgensen, P. Frau, P. Hennebelle, R. Kuiper, W. H. T. Vlemmings, F. Bertoldi, M. Hogerheijde, A. Juhasz, R. Schaaf
Comments: 9 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Subjects: astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1204.6586v1 [pdf]
Title:UltraVISTA: a new ultra-deep near-infrared survey in COSMOS
Authors: H. J. McCracken, B. Milvang-Jensen, J. Dunlop, M. Franx, J. P. U. Fynbo, O. Le Fčvre, J. Holt, K. I. Caputi, Y. Goranova, F. Buitrago, J. Emerson, W. Freudling, P. Hudelot, C. López-Sanjuan, F. Magnard, Y. Mellier, P. Mřller, K. K. Nilsson, W. Sutherland, L. Tasca, J. Zabl
Comments: 11 pages, 15 figures, submitted to A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1205.0017v1 [pdf]
Title:A Dual Narrowband Survey for Hα Emitters at z=2.2: Demonstration of the Technique and Constraints on the Hα Luminosity Function
Authors: Janice C. Lee, C. Ly, L. Spitler, I. Labbe, S. Salim, S. E. Persson, M. Ouchi, D. Dale, A. Monson, D. Murphy
Comments: 35 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to PASP. Minor changes made per referee's report
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1205.0015v1 [pdf]
Title:The Type II Supernova Rate in z~0.1 Galaxy Clusters from the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey
Authors: M. L. Graham, D. J. Sand, C. J. Bildfell, C. J. Pritchet, D. Zaritsky, H. Hoekstra, D. W. Just, S. Herbert-Fort, S. Sivanandam, R. J. Foley
Comments: 16 pages, 5 tables, 6 figures, 2 appendices; accepted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1204.5706v1 [pdf]
Title:Herschel Search for O2 Toward the Orion Bar
Authors: Gary J. Melnick, Volker Tolls, Paul F. Goldsmith, Michael J. Kaufman, David J. Hollenbach, John H. Black, Pierre Encrenaz, Edith Falgarone, Maryvonne Gerin, Ĺke Hjalmarson, Di Li, Dariusz C. Lis, René Liseau, David A. Neufeld, Laurent Pagani, Ronald L. Snell, Floris van der Tak, Ewine F. van Dishoeck
Comments: 30 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1204.5522v1 [pdf]
Title:Multi-physics simulations using a hierarchical interchangeable software interface
Authors: Simon Portegies Zwart, Steve McMillan, Arjen van Elteren, Inti Pelupessy, Nathan de Vries
Comments: 35 pages and 12 figures (Submitted to Journal of Computational Physics)
Subjects: astro-ph.IM
arXiv:1204.5364v1 [pdf]
Title:Mid-IR imaging of the transitional disk of HD169142: Measuring the size of the gap
Authors: M. Honda, Koen Maaskant, Y. K. Okamoto, H. Kataza, M. Fukagawa, L. B. F. M. Waters, C. Dominik, A. G. G. M. Tielens, G. D. Mulders, M. Min, T. Yamashita, T. Fujiyoshi, T. Miyata, S. Sako, I. Sakon, H. Fujiwara, T. Onaka
Comments: 18 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1204.5195v1 [pdf]
Title:Rotation rates, sizes, and star formation efficiencies of a representative population of simulated disc galaxies
Authors: Ian G. McCarthy, Joop Schaye, Andreea S. Font, Tom Theuns, Carlos S. Frenk, Robert A. Crain, Claudio Dalla Vecchia
Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1204.5037v1 [pdf]
Title:Herschel images of Fomalhaut. An extrasolar Kuiper Belt at the height of its dynamical activity
Authors: B. Acke, M. Min, C. Dominik, B. Vandenbussche, B. Sibthorpe, C. Waelkens, G. Olofsson, P. Degroote, K. Smolders, E. Pantin, M. J. Barlow, J. A. D. L. Blommaert, A. Brandeker, W. De Meester, W. R. F. Dent, K. Exter, J. Di Francesco, M. Fridlund, W. K. Gear, A. M. Glauser, J. S. Greaves, P. M. Harvey, Th. Henning, M. R. Hogerheijde, W. S. Holland, R. Huygen, R. J. Ivison, C. Jean, R. Liseau, D. A. Naylor, G. L. Pilbratt, E. T. Polehampton, S. Regibo, P. Royer, A. Sicilia-Aguilar, B. M. Swinyard
Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures
Subjects: astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP
arXiv:1204.4706v1 [pdf]
Title:Blind detections of CO J = 1--0 in 11 H-ATLAS galaxies at z = 2.1--3.5 with the GBT/Zpectrometer
Authors: A. I. Harris, A. J. Baker, D. T. Frayer, Ian Smail, A. M. Swinbank, D. A. Riechers, P. P. van der Werf, R. Auld, M. Baes, R. S. Bussmann, S. Buttiglione, A. Cava, D. L. Clements, A. Cooray, H. Dannerbauer, A. Dariush, G. DeZotti, L. Dunne, S. Dye, S. Eales, J. Fritz, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, R. Hopwood, E. Ibar, R. J. Ivison, M. J. Jarvis, S. Maddox, M. Negrello, E. Rigby, D. J. B. Smith, P. Temi, J. Wardlow
Comments: ApJ, accepted. 15 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1204.4367v1 [pdf]
Title:Kinematics of the inner thousand AU region around the young massive star AFGL 2591-VLA3: a massive disk candidate?
Authors: K. -S. Wang, F. F. S. van der Tak, M. R. Hogerheijde
Comments: 13 pages, 14 figures and 7 tables. accepted to A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1204.4074v1 [pdf]
Title:Central kinematics of the globular cluster NGC 2808: Upper limit on the mass of an intermediate-mass black hole
Authors: Nora Lützgendorf, Markus Kissler-Patig, Karl Gebhardt, Holger Baumgardt, Eva Noyola, Behrang Jalali, P. Tim de Zeeuw, Nadine Neumayer
Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1204.4184v1 [pdf]
Title:A fundamental problem in the theory of low mass galaxy evolution?
Authors: Simone M. Weinmann, Anna Pasquali, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Kristian Finlator, J. Trevor Mendel, Robert A. Crain, Andrea V. Maccio
Comments: 17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1204.3917v1 [pdf]
Title:Herschel-ATLAS: Planck sources in the Phase 1 fields
Authors: D. Herranz, J. González-Nuevo, D. L. Clements, M. Clemens, G. De Zotti, M. López-Caniego, A. Lapi, G. Rodighiero, L. Danese, H. Fu, A. Cooray, M. Baes, G. J. Bendo, L. Bonavera, F. J. Carrera, H. Dole, S. Eales, R. J. Ivison, M. Jarvis, G. Lagache, M. Massardi, M. J. Michalowski, M. Negrello, E. Rigby, D. Scott, E. Valiante, I. Valtchanov, P. Van der Werf, R. Auld, S. Buttiglione, A. Dariush, L. Dunne, R. Hopwood, C. Hoyos, E. Ibar, S. Maddox
Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
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