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Recent publications by Leiden Astronomers

(20 most recent)
arXiv:1202.3891v1 [pdf]
Title:Herschel-ATLAS: VISTA VIKING near-IR counterparts in the Phase 1 GAMA 9h data
Authors: S. Fleuren, W. Sutherland, L. Dunne, D. J. B. Smith, S. J. Maddox, J. González-Nuevo, J. Findlay, R. Auld, M. Baes, N. A. Bond, D. G. Bonfield, N. Bourne, A. Cooray, S. Buttiglione, A. Cava, A. Dariush, G. De Zotti, S. P. Driver, S. Dye, S. Eales, J. Fritz, M. L. P. Gunawardhana, R. Hopwood, E. Ibar, R. J. Ivison, M. J. Jarvis, L. Kelvin, A. Lapi, J. Liske, M. J. Michalowski, M. Negrello, E. Pascale, M. Pohlen, M. Prescott, E. E. Rigby, A. Robotham, D. Scott, P. Temi, M. A. Thompson, E. Valiante, P. van der Werf
Comments: 18 pages, 20 figures, 3 tables, submitted to MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1202.3992v1 [pdf]
Title:Evidence for Multiple Pathways to Deuterium Enhancements in Protoplanetary Disks
Authors: Karin I. Oberg, Chunhua Qi, David J. Wilner, Michiel R. Hogerheijde
Comments: accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1202.3787v1 [pdf]
Title:The XMM Cluster Survey: The interplay between the brightest cluster galaxy and the intra-cluster medium via AGN feedback
Authors: John P. Stott, Ryan C. Hickox, Alastair C. Edge, Chris A. Collins, Matt Hilton, Craig D. Harrison, A. Kathy Romer, Philip J. Rooney, Scott T. Kay, Christopher J. Miller, Martin Sahlen, Ed J. Lloyd-Davies, Nicola Mehrtens, Ben Hoyle, Andrew R. Liddle, Pedro T. P. Viana, Ian G. McCarthy, Joop Schaye, C. M. Booth
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1202.3582v1 [pdf]
Title:First science results from SOFIA/FORCAST: The mid-infrared view of the compact HII region W3A
Authors: F. Salgado, O. Berne, J. D. Adams, T. L. Herter, G. Gull, J. Schoenwald, L. D. Keller, J. M. De Buizer, W. D. Vacca, E. E. Becklin, R. Y. Shuping, A. G. G. M., Tielens, H. Zinnecker
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ letters; 13 pages, 3 figures 1 table
Subjects: astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM
arXiv:1202.3436v1 [pdf]
Title:A large, multi-epoch Hα survey at z=2.23, 1.47, 0.84 & 0.40: the 11 Gyr evolution of star-forming galaxies from HiZELS
Authors: David Sobral, Ian Smail, Philip N. Best, James E. Geach, Yuichi Matsuda, John P. Stott, Michele Cirasuolo, Jaron Kurk
Comments: 19 pages, 10 Figures, submitted to MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1202.3308v1 [pdf]
Title:A systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies
Authors: Michele Cappellari, Richard M. McDermid, Katherine Alatalo, Leo Blitz, Maxime Bois, Frederic Bournaud, M. Bureau, Alison F. Crocker, Roger L. Davies, Timothy A. Davis, P. T. de Zeeuw, Pierre-Alain Duc, Eric Emsellem, Sadegh Khochfar, Davor Krajnovic, Harald Kuntschner, Pierre-Yves Lablanche, Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Tom Oosterloo, Marc Sarzi, Nicholas Scott, Paolo Serra, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Lisa M. Young
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX. Accepted for publication as a Nature Letter. More information about our Atlas3D project is available at http://purl.org/atlas3d
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR
arXiv:1202.2713v1 [pdf]
Title:[FeII] as a tracer of Supernova Rate in Near-by Starburst Galaxies
Authors: M. J. F. Rosenberg, P. P. van der Werf, F. P. Israel
Comments: No journal ref found
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1202.2272v1 [pdf]
Title:Radio relics in cosmological simulations
Authors: M. Hoeft, S. E. Nuza, S. Gottloeber, R. J. van Weeren, H. J. A. Roettgering, M. Brueggen
Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, Invited talk at the conference "Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas", Bangalore, 1-4 March 2011; in press in special issue of Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1202.1723v1 [pdf]
Title:Separable triaxial potential-density pairs in MOND
Authors: L. Ciotti, H. Zhao, T. de Zeeuw
Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures (low resolution), accepted by MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1202.1829v1 [pdf]
Title:A Comprehensive View of a Strongly Lensed Planck-Associated Submillimeter Galaxy
Authors: Hai Fu, E. Jullo, A. Cooray, R. S. Bussmann, R. J. Ivison, I. Perez-Fournon, S. G. Djorgovski, N. Scoville, L. Yan, D. A. Riechers, J. Aguirre, R. Auld, M. Baes, A. J. Baker, M. Bradford, A. Cava, D. L. Clements, H. Dannerbauer, A. Dariush, G. De Zotti, H. Dole, L. Dunne, S. Dye, S. Eales<, D. Frayer, R. Gavazzi, M. Gurwell, A. I. Harris, D. Herranz, R. Hopwood, C. Hoyos, E. Ibar, M. J. Jarvis, S. Kim, L. Leeuw, R. Lupu, S. Maddox, P. Martinez-Navajas, M. J. Michalowski, M. Negrello, A. Omont, M. Rosenman, D. Scott, S. Serjeant, I. Smail, A. M. Swinbank, E. Valiante, A. Verma, J. Vieira, J. L. Wardlow, P. van der Werf
Comments: Submitted to ApJ. 11 pages, 4 Figures
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:1202.1822v1 [pdf]
Title:Spatially resolved Halpha maps and sizes of 57 strongly star-forming galaxies at z~1 from 3D-HST: evidence for rapid inside-out assembly of disk galaxies
Authors: Erica June Nelson, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer, Natascha Forster Schreiber, Marijn Franx, Mattia Fumagalli, Shannon Patel, Hans-Walter Rix, Rosalind E. Skelton, Rachel Bezanson, Elisabete Da Cunha, Mariska Kriek, Ivo Labbe, Britt Lundgren, Ryan Quadri, Kasper B. Schmidt
Comments: ApJ Letters, in press. The public 3D-HST website is http://3dhst.research.yale.edu/Home.html
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:1202.1803v1 [pdf]
Title:The molecular gas in Luminous Infrared Galaxies II: extreme physical conditions, and their effects on the X_{co} factor
Authors: Padelis P. Papadopoulos, Paul van der Werf, E Xilouris, Kate G. Isaak, Yu Gao
Comments: 75 pages, 6 figures, one Table, comments welcome (especially from the ULIRG-(low Xco) aficionados), submitted to ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
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
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