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Recent publications by Leiden Astronomers

(20 most recent)
arXiv:1305.1781v1 [pdf]
Title:Photodissociation of interstellar N2
Authors: Xiaohu Li, Alan N. Heays, Ruud Visser, Wim Ubachs, Brenton R. Lewis, Stephen T. Gibson, Ewine F. van Dishoeck
Comments: Online database: http://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~ewine/photo
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1305.1625v1 [pdf]
Title:On the origin of the B-stars in the Galactic center
Authors: Ann-Marie Madigan, Yuri Levin, Oliver Pfuhl, Reinhard Genzel, Hagai B. Perets
Comments: 19 pages, 21 figures, 3 tables, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1305.0882v1 [pdf]
Title:The importance of major mergers in the build up of stellar mass in brightest cluster galaxies at z=1
Authors: C. Lidman, G. Iacobuta, A. E. Bauer, L. F. Barrientos, P. Cerulo, W. J. Couch, L. Delaye, R. Demarco, E. Ellingson, A. J. Faloon, D. Gilbank, M. Huertas-Company, S. Mei, J. Meyers, A. Muzzin, A. Noble, J. Nantais, A. Rettura, P. Rosati, R. Sanchez-Janssen, V. Strazzullo, T. M. A. Webb, G. Wilson, R. Yan, H. K. C. Yee
Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Reduced data will be made available through the ESO archive
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1305.0350v1 [pdf]
Title:Detection of galaxy assembly bias
Authors: Lan Wang, Simone M. Weinmann, Gabriella De Lucia, Xiaohu Yang
Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1305.0262v1 [pdf]
Title:On-sky characterisation of the VISTA NB118 narrow-band filters at 1.19 micron
Authors: B. Milvang-Jensen, W. Freudling, J. Zabl, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Moller, K. K. Nilsson, H. Joy McCracken, J. Hjorth, O. Le Fevre, L. Tasca, J. S. Dunlop, D. Sobral
Comments: Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Subjects: astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1305.0005v1 [pdf]
Title:Discovery of spectral curvature in the shock downstream region: CIZA J2242.8+5301
Authors: A. Stroe, R. J. van Weeren, H. T. Intema, H. J. A. Röttgering, M. Brüggen, M. Hoeft
Comments: 19 pages, 23 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics; Version with high resolution images: http://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~astroe/doc/CIZA_gmrt_wsrt_review.pdf
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1304.7408v1 [pdf]
Title:A CO J=3-2 map of M51 with HARP-B: Radial properties of the spiral structure
Authors: C. Vlahakis, P. van der Werf, F. P. Israel, R. P. J. Tilanus
Comments: 26 pages, 18 figures, 7 tables
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1304.7389v2 [pdf]
Title:Embedded Protostars in the Dust, Ice, and Gas In Time (DIGIT) Key Program: Continuum SEDs, and an Inventory of Characteristic Far-Infrared Lines from PACS Spectroscopy
Authors: Joel D. Green, Neal J. Evans II, Jes K. Jørgensen, Gregory J. Herczeg, Lars E. Kristensen, Jeong-Eun Lee, Odysseas Dionatos, Umut A. Yildiz, Colette Salyk, Gwendolyn Meeus, Jeroen Bouwman, Ruud Visser, Edwin A. Bergin, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Michelle R. Rascati, Agata Karska, Tim A. van Kempen, Michael M. Dunham, Johan E. Lindberg, Davide Fedele
Comments: 85 pages, 37 figures; accepted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1304.7126v1 [pdf]
Title:RAMSES-RT: Radiation hydrodynamics in the cosmological context
Authors: Joakim Rosdahl, Jeremy Blaizot, Dominique Aubert, Timothy Stranex, Romain Teyssier
Comments: 46 pages, 37 figures, submitted to MNRAS, comments are welcome
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1304.7156v1 [pdf]
Title:The M_BH - sigma relation for intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters
Authors: Nora Lützgendorf, Markus Kissler-Patig, Nadine Neumayer, Holger Baumgardt, Eva Noyola, P. Tim de Zeeuw, Karl Gebhardt, Behrang Jalali, Anja Feldmeier
Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1304.6717v1 [pdf]
Title:Are there tangled magnetic fields on HgMn stars?
Authors: O. Kochukhov, V. Makaganiuk, N. Piskunov, S. V. Jeffers, C. M. Johns-Krull, C. U. Keller, M. Rodenhuis, F. Snik, H. C. Stempels, J. A. Valenti
Comments: 12 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.SR
arXiv:1304.5436v1 [pdf]
Title:ALMA detection of the rotating molecular disk wind drom the young star HD 163296
Authors: P. D. Klaassen, A. Juhasz, G. S. Mathews, J. C. Mottram. I De Gregorio-Monsalvo, E. F. van Dishoeck, S. Takahashi, E. Akiyama, E. Chapillon, D. Espada, A. Hales, M. R. Hogerheijde, M. Rawlings, M. Schmalzl, L. Testi
Comments: re-submitted to A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1304.5525v1 [pdf]
Title:The environmental dependence of the stellar mass function at z~1: Comparing cluster and field between the GCLASS and UltraVISTA surveys
Authors: Remco F. J. van der Burg, Adam Muzzin, Henk Hoekstra, Chris Lidman, Alessandro Rettura, Gillian Wilson, H. K. C. Yee, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Danilo Marchesini, Mauro Stefanon, Konrad Kuijken
Comments: 18 pages, 11 figures. Re-submitted to A&A after addressing the referee comments. Abstract abridged for arXiv submission
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1304.5203v1 [pdf]
Title:Evolution of CO lines in time-dependent models of protostellar disk formation
Authors: Daniel Harsono, Ruud Visser, Simon Bruderer, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Lars E. Kristensen
Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A, 17 pages with appendix; 14 figures
Subjects: astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1304.5154v1 [pdf]
Title:Uncovering multiple Wolf-Rayet star-clusters and the ionized ISM in Mrk178: the closest metal-poor Wolf-Rayet HII galaxy
Authors: C. Kehrig, E. Perez-Montero, J. M. Vilchez, J. Brinchmann, D. Kunth, R. Garcia-Benito, P. A. Crowther, J. Hernandez-Fernandez, F. Durret, T. Contini, A. Fernandez-Martin, B. L. James
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 15 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1304.4961v1 [pdf]
Title:VLT-CRIRES Survey of Rovibrational CO Emission from Protoplanetary Disks
Authors: Joanna M. Brown, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Gregory J. Herczeg, Geoffrey A. Blake, Alain Smette
Comments: Accepted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.SR
arXiv:1304.4730v1 [pdf]
Title:Enriching the hot circumgalactic medium
Authors: Robert A. Crain, Ian G. McCarthy, Joop Schaye, Carlos S. Frenk, Tom Theuns
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 21 pages, 13 figures, 1 table. Comments welcome
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1304.4227v1 [pdf]
Title:Discovery of Lyman Break Galaxies at z~7 from the ZFOURGE Survey
Authors: V. Tilvi, C. Papovich, K. -V. H. Tran, I. Labbe, L. R. Spitler, C. M. S. Straatman, S. E. Persson, A. Monson, K. Glazebrook, R. F. Quadri, P. van Dokkum, M. L. N. Ashby, S. M. Faber, G. G. Fazio, S. L. Finkelstein, H. C. Ferguson, N. A. Grogin, G. G. Kacprzak, D. D. Kelson, A. M. Koekemoer, D. Murphy, P. J. McCarthy, J. A. Newman, B. Salmon, S. P. Willner
Comments: Accepted in ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1304.4014v1 [pdf]
Title:Detection of carbon monoxide in the high-resolution day-side spectrum of the exoplanet HD 189733b
Authors: Remco J. de Kok, Matteo Brogi, Ignas A. G. Snellen, Jayne Birkby, Simon Albrecht, Ernst J. W. de Mooij
Comments: A&A, accepted for publication. Fig.1 reduced in quality
Subjects: astro-ph.EP
arXiv:1304.3970v1 [pdf]
Title:Chemistry of massive young stellar objects with a disk-like structure
Authors: Karoliina Isokoski, Sandrine Bottinelli, Ewine van Dishoeck
Comments: No journal ref found
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
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