Research by the OSU Astronomy Graduate Students

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Some well-cited first-author papers written over the years by the Ohio State Astronomy graduate students (while still at OSU):

Recent (since 2008) first-author papers written by the Ohio State Astronomy graduate students: (or try this automated ADS search - this is only for our current graduate students, and does include some papers written by other people with the same last names).

arXiv:1110.6179 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: A Reverberation Lag for the High-Ionization Component of the Broad Line Region in the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Mrk 335
Authors: C. J. Grier, B. M. Peterson, R. W. Pogge, K. D. Denney, M. C. Bentz, Paul Martini, S. G. Sergeev, S. Kaspi, Y. Zu, C. S. Kochanek, B. J. Shappee, K. Z. Stanek, C. Araya Salvo, T. G. Beatty, J. C. Bird, D. J. Bord, G. A. Borman, X. Che, C. Chen, S. A. Cohen, M. Dietrich, V. T. Doroshenko, Yu. S. Efimov, N. Free, I. Ginsburg, C. B. Henderson, Keith Horne, A. L. King, K. Mogren, M. Molina, A. M. Mosquera, S. V. Nazarov, D. N. Okhmat, O. Pejcha, S. Rafter, J. C. Shields, J. Skowron, D. M. Szczygiel, M. Valluri, J. L. van Saders
Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to ApJ Letters. For a brief video explaining the key results of this paper, see this http URL
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1109.2118 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Red Giant Branch Bump Brightness and Number Counts in 72 Galactic Globular Clusters Observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
Authors: David M. Nataf, Andrew P. Gould, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Andrzej Udalski
Comments: 66 pages, 21 figures, 7 tables, Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1108.2273 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Sensitivity of Convection Zone Depth to Stellar Abundances: An Absolute Stellar Abundance Scale from Asteroseismology
Authors: Jennifer L. van Saders, Marc H. Pinsonneault
Comments: 37 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables, submitted to ApJ. For a brief video explaining the key result of this paper, see this http URL
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1106.5718 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Effect of Collective Neutrino Oscillations on the Neutrino Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Authors: Ondrej Pejcha, Basudeb Dasgupta, Todd A. Thompson
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

arXiv:1106.3093 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Cherenkov Telescopes as Optical Telescopes for Bright Sources: Today's Specialised Thirty Metre Telescopes?
Authors: Brian C. Lacki
Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

arXiv:1106.3071 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Super-Chandrasekhar SNe Ia Strongly Prefer Metal-Poor Environments
Authors: Rubab Khan, K. Z. Stanek, R. Stoll, J. L. Prieto
Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1106.0005 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Intrinsic I-Band Magnitude Dispersion of the Galactic Bulge Red Clump
Authors: David M. Nataf, Andrzej Udalski
Comments: 13 pages, 4 Figures, submitted to ApJ Letters
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1104.0933 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Radial Mixing in Galactic Disks: The Effects of Disk Structure and Satellite Bombardment
Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, Stelios Kazantzidis, David H. Weinberg (The Ohio State University, Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics)
Comments: Full resolution paper available at this http URL . 13 pages, 12 figures; emulate MNRAS format. Submitted to MNRAS for publication
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:1103.4864 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Physics of the Neutrino Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Authors: Ondrej Pejcha, Todd A. Thompson
Comments: 25 pages, 20 figures, submitted to ApJ, minor revisions to address referee's suggestions
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1103.0549 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: A Study of Cepheids in M81 with the Large Binocular Telescope (Efficiently Calibrated with HST)
Authors: J.R. Gerke, C.S. Kochanek, J.L. Prieto, K.Z. Stanek, L. M. Macri
Comments: 45 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1102.3916 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Gradients in the 47 Tuc Red Giant Branch Bump and Horizontal Branch are Consistent With a Centrally-Concentrated, Helium-Enriched Second Stellar Generation
Authors: D. M. Nataf, A. Gould, M.H. Pinsonneault, P.B. Stetson
Comments: 20 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1101.0812 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: A Multi-Wavelength Study of Low Redshift Clusters of Galaxies I. Comparison of X-ray and Mid-Infrared Selected AGNs
Authors: David W. Atlee, Paul Martini, Roberto J. Assef, Daniel D. Kelson, John S. Mulchaey
Comments: 24 emulateapj pages, 14 figures. ApJ in press. Tables 1 & 2 included as a figure to avoid astro-ph's mangling of lscape. Full tables can be found here.
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1012.3747 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: A New Cepheid Distance to the Giant Spiral M101 Based On Image Subtraction of HST/ACS Observations
Authors: Benjamin J. Shappee, K. Z. Stanek
Comments: 63 pages, 30 figures, 14 tables, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, full resolution version is available at this http URL
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1012.3461 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: SN 2010jl in UGC 5189: Yet another luminous type IIn supernova in a metal-poor galaxy
Authors: R. Stoll J. L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, R. W. Pogge, D. M. Szczygiel, G. Pojmanski, J. Antognini, H. Yan,
Comments: 27 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:1012.3457 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Object-X: The Brightest Mid-IR Point Source in M33
Authors: Rubab Khan, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, A. Z. Bonanos
Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication by ApJ
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1011.4964 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Testing Subhalo Abundance Matching in Cosmological Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations
Authors: Vimal Simha, David Weinberg, Romeel Dave, Mark Fardal, Neal Katz, Benjamin D Oppenheimer
Comments: 21 pages, 12 figures
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1011.4295 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Discovery of Nuclear X-ray Sources in SINGS Galaxies
Authors: Catherine J. Grier Smita Mathur, Himel Ghosh, Laura Ferrarese,
Comments: Submitted to ApJ, 35 pages.
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:1011.4293 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: OGLE-III Detection of the Anomalous Galactic Bulge Red Giant Branch Bump: Evidence of Enhanced Helium Enrichment
Authors: D. M. Nataf, A. Udalski, A. Gould, M.H. Pinsonneault
Comments: 20 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, replacement version includes changes made following the referee report
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1011.1935 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Impact of Primordial Ultracompact Minihaloes on the Intergalactic Medium and First Structure Formation
Authors: Dong Zhang (Ohio State)
Comments: 21 pages, 15 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1011.0955 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Assessing Radiation Pressure as a Feedback Mechanism in Star-Forming Galaxies
Authors: Brett H. Andrews, Todd A. Thompson
Comments: 12 pages, emulateapj, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1011.0437 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Gamma-Ray Background Constrains the Origins of the Radio and X-Ray Backgrounds
Authors: Brian C. Lacki
Comments: Published in ApJL; 5 pages, 2 figures
Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal Letters (2011), 729, L1
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1010.3030 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Diffuse Hard X-ray Emission in Starburst Galaxies as Synchrotron from Very High Energy Electrons
Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson
Comments: 19 pages, emulateapj format
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1010.2497 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Properties of Bulgeless Disk Galaxies: I. Atomic Gas
Authors: Linda C. Watson, Eva Schinnerer, Paul Martini , Torsten Boeker , Ute Lisenfeld
Comments: Submitted to ApJS; 74 pages, 45 figures, 6 tables
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1009.5673 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: An R- and I-Band Photometric Variability Survey of the Cygnus OB2 Association
Authors: Calen B Henderson, Kris Z Stanek, Ondrej Pejcha, Jose L Prieto
Comments: 34 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1009.3013 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Ensemble analysis of open cluster transit surveys: upper limits on the frequency of short-period planets consistent with the field
Authors: Jennifer L. van Saders, B. Scott Gaudi
Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

arXiv:1009.2502 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: HAT Discovery of 76 Bright Periodic Variables Toward the Galactic Bulge
Authors: D. M. Nataf, K.Z. Stanek, G. A.Bakos
Comments: 25 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:1009.1145 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Black Hole Mass Estimates Based on CIV are Consistent with Those Based on the Balmer Lines
Authors: Roberto J. Assef Kelly D. Denney Christopher S. Kochanek Brad M. Peterson Szymon Kozlowski N. Ageorges P. Buschkamp M. Dietrich E. Falco C. Feiz H. Gemperlein A. Germeroth C. J. Grier R. Hofmann M. Juette R. Khan M. Kilic V. Knierim W. Laun R. Lederer M. Lehmitz R. Lenzen U. Mall H. Mandel P. Martini S. Mathur K. Mogren P. Mueller V. Naranjo A. Pasquali K. Polsterer R. W. Pogge A. Quirrenbach W. Seifert B. Shappee C. Storz J. Van Saders P. Weiser D. Zhang
Comments: Submitted to ApJ, 33 text pages, 7 tables, 7 figures.
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1008.4126 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Pre-discovery and Follow-up Observations of the Nearby SN 2009nr: Implications for Prompt Type Ia SNe
Authors: Rubab Khan, J. L. Prieto, G. Pojmanski, K. Z. Stanek, J. F. Beacom, D. M. Szczygiel, B. Pilecki, K. Mogren, J. D. Eastman, P. Martini, R. Stoll
Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ on 11/02/2010
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

arXiv:1008.0641 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: An Alternative Approach To Measuring Reverberation Lags in Active Galactic Nuclei
Authors: Ying Zu, C.S. Kochanek, Bradley. M. Peterson
Comments: match to the version accepted to ApJ. New code release available at this http URL
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

arXiv:1007.5065 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Split Red Clump of the Galactic Bulge from OGLE-III
Authors: D. M. Nataf, A. Udalski, A. Gould, P. Fouque, K. Z. Stanek
Comments: 15 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:1005.4691 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Radiation Pressure Driven Galactic Winds from Self-Gravitating Disks
Authors: Dong Zhang, Todd A. Thompson (OSU)
Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, updated in response to referee's comments
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1005.4406 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Intergalactic Dust Extinction in Hydrodynamic Cosmological Simulations
Authors: Ying Zu (OSU), David H. Weinberg (OSU), Romeel Davé (Arizona), Mark Fardal (UMass), Neal Katz (UMass), Dusan Keres (Harvard), Benjamin D. Oppenheimer (Leiden)
Comments: Matches version accepted by MNRAS
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1005.4415 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Achieving better than 1 minute accuracy in the Heliocentric and Barycentric Julian Dates
Authors: Jason Eastman, Robert Siverd, B. Scott Gaudi
Comments: Online BJD_TDB calculator at this http URL PASP accepted, 11 pages, 6 figures, updated to match published version
Journal-ref: PASP, 122:935-946, 2010 August
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

arXiv:1004.2709 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: A Bound on the Light Emitted During the TP-AGB Phase
Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, Marc H. Pinsonneault (The Ohio State University)
Comments: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. 25 pages, 2 figures.
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:1004.2049 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The End of the Rainbow: What Can We Say About the Extragalactic Sub-Megahertz Radio Sky?
Authors: Brian C. Lacki
Comments: Accepted by MNRAS, 4 figures, 20 pages.
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1003.3466 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: All or Nothing
Authors: Brian C. Lacki, John F. Beacom
Comments: Fig. 2 fixed. emulateapj format, submitted to ApJL.
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

arXiv:1003.3257 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: On The GeV & TeV Detections of the Starburst Galaxies M82 & NGC 253
Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert, Abraham Loeb, Eli Waxman
Comments: 14 pages, emulateapj format, submitted to ApJ.
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1002.0001 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Binary Contamination in the SEGUE sample: Effects on SSPP Determinations of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters
Authors: Katharine J. Schlesinger, Jennifer A. Johnson, Young Sun Lee, Thomas Masseron, Brian Yanny, Constance M. Rockosi, B. Scott Gaudi, Timothy C. Beers
Comments: 68 pages, 20 figures, 9 tables
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:1001.4529 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Mid-IR and X-ray Selected QSO Luminosity Function
Authors: R.J. Assef, C.S. Kochanek, M.L.N. Ashby, M. Brodwin, M.J.I. Brown, R. Cool, W. Forman, A.H. Gonzalez, R.C. Hickox, B.T. Jannuzi, C. Jones, E. Le Floc'h, J. Moustakas, S.S. Murray, D. Stern
Comments: Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. 20 pages + 6 tables + 16 figures
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:1001.3681 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Census of Self-Obscured Massive Stars in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer: Implications for Understanding the Progenitors of SN 2008S-Like Transients
Authors: Rubab Khan, K. Z. Stanek, J. L. Prieto, C. S. Kochanek, Todd A. Thompson, J. F. Beacom
Comments: 21 pages, 15 figures, 11 tables. Accepted by ApJ on April 12, 2010. High resolution figures and full length versions of tables 6, 8 and 10 can be accessed at this http URL
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:0912.4308 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The z = 0.0777 C III Absorber Towards PHL 1811 as a Case Study of a Low Redshift Weak Metal Line Absorber
Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Jane C. Charlton
Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:0910.1358 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Chemical Composition of Faint (I~21 mag) Microlensed Bulge Dwarf OGLE-2007-BLG-514S
Authors: Courtney R. Epstein, Jennifer A. Johnson, Subo Dong, Andrzej Udalski, Andrew Gould, George Becker
Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:0910.0478 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Physics of the FIR-Radio Correlation: II. Synchrotron Emission as a Star-Formation Tracer in High-Redshift Galaxies
Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson
Comments: Submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

arXiv:0909.3849 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Low Resolution Spectral Templates For AGNs and Galaxies From 0.03 -- 30 microns
Authors: R.J. Assef, C.S. Kochanek, M. Brodwin, R. Cool, W. Forman, A.H. Gonzalez, R.C. Hickox, C. Jones, E. Le Floc'h, J. Moustakas, S.S. Murray, D. Stern
Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 26 text pages + 3 tables + 20 figures, modified to include comments made by the referee. Fortran codes, templates and electronic tables available at this http URL .
Journal-ref: Astrophys. J. 713 (2010) 970
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:0907.4161 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Physics of the FIR-Radio Correlation: I. Calorimetry, Conspiracy, and Implications
Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert
Comments: Submitted to ApJ; updated in response to referee comments
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

arXiv:0905.3389 [pdf, ps, other]
Title: The Structure of the Large Magellanic Halo Stellar Halo Derived Using OGLE-III RR Lyr stars
Authors: O. Pejcha, K. Z. Stanek
Comments: Accepted for publication in November 2009 issue of ApJ. 7 pages, 5 figures. Extinction map of the LMC available at this http URL
Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal 704 (2009) 1730-1734
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:0903.5310 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Scaling ultraviolet outflows in Seyferts
Authors: R. Stoll, S. Mathur, Y. Krongold, F. Nicastro
Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:0903.4891 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The time-dependent rebrightenings in classical novae outbursts: a late-time episodic fuel burning?
Authors: Ondrej Pejcha
Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

arXiv:0903.2264 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Galaxy Orientation and Alignment Effects in the SDSS DR6
Authors: R. J. Siverd, B. S. Ryden, B. S. Gaudi
Comments: 58 pages, 25 figures, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:0902.4237 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Detecting Transits of Planetary Companions to Giant Stars
Authors: R. J. Assef, B. S. Gaudi, K. Z. Stanek
Comments: 34 pages, 9 figures; submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

arXiv:0902.0004 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The Nuclear Outflows and Feedback in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy Markarian 573
Authors: K. Schlesinger, Richard W. Pogge, Paul Martini, Joseph C. Shields, Dale Fields
Comments: 31 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables
Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA)

arXiv:0901.3762 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Enhancing the capabilities of LIGO time-frequency plane searches through clustering
Authors: Rubab Khan, Shourov Chatterji
Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures, submitted to CQG
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

arXiv:0901.3566 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: GALEX Measurements of the Big Blue Bump in Soft X-ray Selected AGN
Authors: David W. Atlee, Smita Mathur
Comments: 35 pages, 13 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

arXiv:0810.3234 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Systematic Uncertainties in Black Hole Masses Determined from Single Epoch Spectra
Authors: Kelly D. Denney, Bradley M. Peterson, Matthias Dietrich, Marianne Vestergaard, Misty C. Bentz
Comments: 60 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0809.2999 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The Growth of Central and Satellite Galaxies in Cosmological Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations
Authors: Vimal Simha, David H.Weinberg, Romeel Dave, Oleg Y.Gnedin, Neal Katz, Dusan Keres
Comments: 14 pages, 14 figures, Submitted to MNRAS
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0809.2997 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Microlensing Event MOA-2007-BLG-400: Exhuming the Buried Signature of a Cool, Jovian-Mass Planet
Authors: Subo Dong, I.A. Bond, A. Gould, Szymon Kozlowski, N. Miyake, B.S. Gaudi, D.P. Bennett, F. Abe, A.C. Gilmore, A. Fukui, K. Furusawa, J.B. Hearnshaw, Y. Itow, K. Kamiya, P.M. Kilmartin, A. Korpela, W. Lin, C.H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, Y. Muraki, M. Nagaya, K. Ohnishi, T. Okumura, Y.C. Perrott, N. Rattenbury, To. Saito, T. Sako, S. Sato, L. Skuljan, D.J. Sullivan, T. Sumi, W. Sweatman, P.J. Tristram, P.C.M. Yock, G. Bolt, G.W. Christie, D.L. DePoy, C. Han, J. Janczak, C.-U. Lee, F. Mallia, J. McCormick, B. Monard, A. Maury, T. Natusch, B.-G. Park, R.W. Pogge, R. Santallo, K.Z. Stanek, A. Udalski, M. Kubiak, M.K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk
Comments: 30 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0809.0896 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Outliers from the Mass--Metallicity Relation II: A Sample of Massive Metal-Poor Galaxies from SDSS
Authors: Molly S. Peeples, Richard W. Pogge, K. Z. Stanek (Ohio State University)
Comments: Submitted to ApJ; 10 pages, 11 figures
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0808.0507 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: The Mass of the Black Hole in the Quasar PG 2130+099
Authors: C. J. Grier, B. M. Peterson, M. C. Bentz, K. D. Denney, J. D. Eastman, M. Dietrich, R. W. Pogge, J. L. Prieto, D. L. DePoy, R. J. Assef, D. W. Atlee, J. Bird, M. E. Eyler, M. S. Peeples, R. Siverd, L. C. Watson, J. C. Yee
Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0808.0010 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Evolution of the UV Excess in Early-Type Galaxies
Authors: David W. Atlee, Roberto J. Assef, Christopher S. Kochanek
Comments: 26 pages, 9 figures; submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0808.0001 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Galactic Globular and Open Clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Crowded Field Photometry and Cluster Fiducial Sequences in ugriz
Authors: Deokkeun An, Jennifer A. Johnson, James L. Clem, Brian Yanny, Constance M. Rockosi, Heather L. Morrison, Paul Harding, James E. Gunn, Carlos Allende Prieto, Timothy C. Beers, Kyle M. Cudworth, Inese I. Ivans, Zeljko Ivezic, Young Sun Lee, Robert H. Lupton, Dmitry Bizyaev, Howard Brewington, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Dan Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Audrey Simmons, Stephanie Snedden, Shannon Watters, Donald G. York
Comments: 30 pages, 25 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJS. Version with high resolution figures available at this http URL
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0807.4933 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Using Ultra Long Period Cepheids to Extend the Cosmic Distance Ladder to 100 Mpc and Beyond
Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, K. Z. Stanek, Jose L. Prieto
Comments: Submitted to ApJ. 24 pages, 8 figures
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0806.3271 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: First Stellar Velocity Dispersion Measurement of a Luminous Quasar Host with Gemini North Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
Authors: Linda C. Watson, Paul Martini, Kalliopi M. Dasyra, Misty C. Bentz, Laura Ferrarese, Bradley M. Peterson, Richard W. Pogge, Linda J. Tacconi
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures; accepted by ApJ Letters
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0806.3071 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: A Survey of the Metal Content of the Intergalactic Medium at High-redshift (II) : OVI line density, space density and gas metallicity at z_abs = 3.0
Authors: S. Frank (The Ohio State University), S. Mathur (The Ohio State University), D.G. York (University of Chicago)
Comments: 22 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, submitted to AJ, follow-up paper to arXiv:0707.1700 with statistical analysis of absorber sample
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0806.0179 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Constraining The Universal Lepton Asymmetry
Authors: Vimal Simha, Gary Steigman
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

arXiv:0805.1936 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Characterizing Long-Period Transiting Planets Observed by Kepler
Authors: Jennifer C. Yee, B. Scott Gaudi
Comments: 28 pages, 7 figures, Submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0804.2671 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Outliers from the Mass--Metallicity Relation I: A Sample of Metal-Rich Dwarf Galaxies from SDSS
Authors: Molly S. Peeples, Richard W. Pogge, K. Z. Stanek
Comments: Submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0804.1354 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M-Dwarf Planetary Companion?
Authors: Subo Dong, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski, Jay Anderson, G.W. Christie, B.S. Gaudi, M. Jaroszynski, M. Kubiak, M.K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, K. Ulaczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, D.L. DePoy, D.B. Fox, A. Gal-Yam, C. Han, S. Lepine, J. McCormick, E. Ofek, B.-G. Park, R.W. Pogge, F. Abe, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, T.R. Britton, A.C. Gilmore, J.B. Hearnshaw, Y. Itow, K. Kamiya, P.M. Kilmartin, A. Korpela, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, M. Motomura, Y. Muraki, S. Nakamura, K. Ohnishi, C. Okada, N. Rattenbury, To. Saito, T. Sako, M. Sasaki, D. Sullivan, T. Sumi, P.J. Tristram, T. Yanagisawa, P.C.M. Yock, T. Yoshoika, M.D. Albrow, J.P. Beaulieu, S. Brillant, H. Calitz, A. Cassan, K. H. Cook, Ch. Coutures, S. Dieters, D. Dominis Prester, J. Donatowicz, P. Fouque, J. Greenhill, K. Hill, et al (20 additional authors not shown)
Comments: 50 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables, Submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0803.3465 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Constraining The Early-Universe Baryon Density And Expansion Rate
Authors: Vimal Simha, Gary Steigman
Comments: 27 pages, 9 figures
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

arXiv:0803.0324 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Discovery of the Dust-Enshrouded Progenitor of the Type IIn SN 2008S with Spitzer
Authors: J.L. Prieto, M.D. Kistler, T.A. Thompson, H. Yuksel, C.S. Kochanek, K.Z. Stanek, J.F. Beacom, P. Martini, A. Pasquali, J. Bechtold
Comments: submitted to ApJ Letters
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0802.1210 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: X-Ray and Optical Microlensing in the Lensed Quasar PG 1115+080
Authors: Christopher W. Morgan (1 and 2), Christopher S. Kochanek (2 and 3), Xinyu Dai (2 and 3), Nicholas D. Morgan (2), Emilio E. Falco (4) ((1) Department of Physics, U.S. Naval Academy, (2) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, (3) Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Comments: 21 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ; corrected labeling errors in Tables 2 and 3 and Figures 1 and 2
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0801.4382 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Low-Level Nuclear Activity in Nearby Spiral Galaxies
Authors: Himel Ghosh (1), Smita Mathur (1), Fabrizio Fiore (2), Laura Ferrarese (3) ((1) Ohio State University (2) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (3) Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
Comments: 38 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

arXiv:0801.3432 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Difference Imaging of Lensed Quasar Candidates in the SDSS Supernova Survey Region
Authors: Brian C. Lacki (1), Christopher S. Kochanek (1), Krzysztof Z. Stanek (1), Naohisa Inada (2), Masamune Oguri (3) ((1) Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University, (2) Cosmic Radiation Laboratory, RIKEN (The Physical and Chemical Research Organization), (3) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University)
Comments: Submitted to ApJ, 24 pages, 5 figures
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

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