Abstracts - GCNEWS, Vol. 25, December 2006

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Volume 25, December 2006 - ABSTRACTS

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  1. ``A RIAF Interpretation for the Past Higher Activity of the Galactic Center Black Hole and the 511 keV Annihilation Emission''
    Tomonori TOTANI (
    totani@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
    Paper: PASJ. July 2006. submitted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Tue Jul 25 09:04:49 MDT 2006 )

  2. ``Inverse Compton Scenarios for the TeV Gamma-Ray Emission of the Galactic Centre''
    J. A. Hinton F. A. Aharonian (
    hinton@mpimail.mpi-hd.mpg.de)
    Paper: ApJ submitted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Jul 26 04:55:57 MDT 2006 )

  3. ``The Intrinsic Size of Sagittarius A* from 0.35 cm to 6 cm''
    Geoffrey C. Bower, W.M. Goss, Heino Falcke, Donald C. Backer, Yoram Lithwick (
    gbower@astro.berkeley.edu)
    Paper: ApJL in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Aug 2 10:57:23 MDT 2006 )

  4. ``GCIRS16SW: a massive eclipsing binary in the Galactic Center''
    F. Martins, S. Trippe, T. Paumard, T. Ott, R. Genzel, G. Rauw, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen, H. Maness, R. Abuter (
    martins@mpe.mpg.de)
    Paper: ApJL, accepted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Thu Aug 10 03:10:28 MDT 2006 )

  5. ``Correlation between Flux and Spectral Index during Flares in Sagittarius A*''
    Jonathan M. Bittner, Siming Liu, Christopher L. Fryer and Vahé Petrosian (
    jon.bittner@gmail.com)
    Paper: ApJ, submitted (Tue Aug 8 2006) [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Thu Aug 10 16:22:11 MDT 2006 )

  6. ``Stringent Constraint on Galactic Positron Production''
    John F. Beacom Hasan Yüksel (
    beacom@mps.ohio-state.edu)
    Paper: PRL, Aug 2006, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Aug 16 15:33:45 MDT 2006 )

  7. ``Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster''
    Peter Tuthill, John Monnier, Angelle Tanner, Donald Figer, Andrea Ghez, William Danchi (
    angelle.tanner@jpl.nasa.gov)
    Paper: Aug 2006, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Thu Aug 24 08:26:19 MDT 2006 )

  8. ``Production of Hypervelocity Stars through Encounters with Stellar-Mass Black Holes in the Galactic Centre''
    Ryan M. O'Leary, Abraham Loeb (
    roleary@cfa.harvard.edu)
    Paper: MNRAS, Sept. 2006, submitted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Tue Sep 5 07:08:15 MDT 2006 )

  9. ``Hypervelocity Collisions of Binary Stars at the Galactic Centre''
    Idan Ginsburg, Abraham Loeb (
    iginsbur@cfa.harvard.edu)
    Paper: MNRAS, September 2006 [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Sep 18 15:02:55 MDT 2006 )

  10. `` Constraints on the Stellar Mass Function from Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center''
    R.D. Alexander, M.C. Begelman & P.J. Armitage (
    rda@jilau1.colorado.edu)
    Paper: ApJ, accepted [Abstract, Tex, Paper] (Thu Oct 5 15:21:30 MDT 2006 )

  11. ``Iron and Nickel Line Diagnostics for the Galactic Center Diffuse Emission''
    Katsuji Koyama, Yoshiaki Hyodo, Tatsuya Inui, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hironori Matsumoto, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Tadayuki Takahashi, Yoshitomo Maeda, Noriko Yamazaki, Hiroshi Murakami, Shigeo Yamauchi, Yohko Tsuboi, Atsushi Senda, Jun Kataoka, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Stephen S Holt, Gregory V Brown (
    hyodo@cr.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
    Paper: PASJ, accepted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Fri Oct 6 03:40:43 MDT 2006 )

  12. ``Polarimetry of Near-Infrared Flares from Sgr A*''
    A. Eckart, R. Schödel, L. Meyer, S. Trippe, T. Ott, & R. Genzel (
    leo@ph1.uni-koeln.de)
    Paper: A&A, 2006, 455,1 [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Oct 9 01:40:18 MDT 2006 )

  13. ``Near-infrared polarimetry setting constraints on the orbiting spot model for Sgr A* flares''
    L. Meyer, A. Eckart, R. Schödel, W. J. Duschl, K. Mu\vzi\'c , M. Dov\vciak, V. Karas (
    leo@ph1.uni-koeln.de)
    Paper: A&A, 2006, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Oct 9 01:42:10 MDT 2006 )

  14. ``K-band polarimetry of an Sgr A* flare with a clear sub-flare structure''
    L. Meyer, R. Schödel, A. Eckart, V. Karas, M. Dov\vciak, W. J. Duschl (
    leo@ph1.uni-koeln.de)
    Paper: A&A Letters, 2006, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Oct 9 01:44:52 MDT 2006 )

  15. ``The detection of the (J,K)=(18,18) line of NH3''
    T. L. Wilson, C. Henkel, S. Hüttemeister (
    p220hen@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
    Paper: A&A, in press [Abstract, Tex] (Thu Oct 12 14:19:41 MDT 2006 )

  16. ``H.E.S.S. observations of the Galactic Center region and their possible dark matter interpretation''
    F. Aharonian and 106 alphabetically sorted co-authors (
    loic.rolland@lapp.in2p3.fr)
    Paper: PRL, 2006, accepted [Abstract, Tex] (Wed Oct 25 01:28:37 MDT 2006 )

  17. ``New Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars, and candidates. An annex to The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars''
    Karel A. van der Hucht (
    K.A.van.der.Hucht@sron.nl)
    Paper: A&A 458, 453 (2006) [Abstract, Tex, Paper, EPrint-Server] (Fri Oct 27 03:14:13 MDT 2006 )

  18. ``Galactic Centre X-ray Sources''
    A. J. Gosling R. M. Bandyopadhyay K. M. Blundell (
    ajgosling@gmail.com)
    Paper: Poster to appear in AIP Conf. Proc.: `The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Origins'; Cefalu, Sicily, 2006 June 11-24 [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Tue Nov 7 05:20:59 MST 2006 )

  19. ``The Nature of the Variable Galactic Center Source GCIRS 16SW Revisited: A Massive Eclipsing Binary''
    Molly S. Peeples , A. Z. Bonanos , D. L. DePoy , K. Z. Stanek , J. Pepper , Richard W. Pogge , M. H. Pinsonneault , K. Sellgren (
    molly@astronomy.ohio-state.edu)
    Paper: ApJL, accepted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Nov 8 14:26:54 MST 2006 )

  20. ``The Origin of Diffuse X-ray and gamma -ray Emission from the Galactic Center Region: Cosmic Ray Particles''
    F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Muno, M. Wardle, D.C. Lis (
    zadeh@northwestern.edu)
    Paper: ApJ, Feb 2007, in press [Abstract, Tex] (Mon Nov 13 23:53:48 MST 2006 )

  21. ``The Stellar Mass Spectrum in Warm and Dusty Gas: Deviations from Salpeter in the Galactic Centre and in Circum-Nuclear Starburst Regions''
    Ralf S. Klessen, Marco Spaans, Anne-Katharina Jappsen (
    rklessen@ita.uni-heidelberg.de)
    Paper: MNRAS, in press [Abstract, Tex, Paper, EPrint-Server] (Mon Nov 20 01:37:32 MST 2006 )

  22. ``Discovery of Variable Iron Fluorescence from Reflection Nebulae in the Galactic Center''
    M. P. Muno, F. K. Baganoff, W. N. Brandt, S. Park & M. R. Morris (
    mmuno@srl.caltech.edu)
    Paper: ApJL Submitted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Nov 20 17:35:07 MST 2006 )

  23. ``A polarised infrared flare from Sagittarius A* and the signatures of orbiting plasma hotspots''
    S. Trippe,, T. Paumard,, T. Ott,, S. Gillessen, F. Eisenhauer, F. Martins and R. Genzel (
    trippe@mpe.mpg.de)
    Paper: MNRAS, Nov 2006, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Tue Nov 28 14:24:24 MST 2006 )

  24. ``An Unambiguous Detection of Faraday Rotation in Sagittarius A*''
    Daniel P. Marrone James M. Moran Jun-Hui Zhao Ramprasad Rao (
    dmarrone@cfa.harvard.edu)
    Paper: ApJL, 2006, accepted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Nov 29 09:15:52 MST 2006 )

  25. ``Determining the nature of the faint X-ray source population near the Galactic Centre''
    Reba M. Bandyopadhyay, Andrew J. Gosling, Katherine M. Blundell, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Stephen E. Eikenberry, Valerie J. Mikles, James C.A. Miller-Jones, Franz E. Bauer (
    reba@astro.ufl.edu)
    Paper: PoS, 2006 [Abstract, Tex, Paper, EPrint-Server] (Fri Dec 8 16:09:31 MST 2006 )

  26. ``The Position of Sagittarius A*: III. Motion of the Stellar Cusp''
    M. J. Reid, K. M. Menten, S. Trippe, T. Ott & R. Genzel (
    reid@cfa.harvard.edu)
    Paper: ApJ, 2007, accepted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Dec 11 05:35:37 MST 2006 )

  27. ``Gravitational wave bursts from the Galactic massive black hole''
    Clovis Hopman, Marc Freitag and Shane L. Larson (
    clovis@strw.leidenuniv.nl)
    Paper: astro-ph/0612337 (submitted to MNRAS) [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Thu Dec 14 07:48:18 MST 2006 )

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