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    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Volume 413, Issue 3

    1505-2304
    May 2011
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Figures of merit for testing standard models: application to dark energy experiments in cosmology

A. Amara,  T. D. Kitching, 
  • Pages: 1505-1514
  • First Published: 15 April 2011

New limb-darkening coefficients and synthetic photometry for model-atmosphere grids at Galactic, LMC and SMC abundances

Ian D. Howarth, 
  • Pages: 1515-1523
  • First Published: 18 April 2011

Lucky Imaging Adaptive Optics of the brown dwarf binary GJ569Bab

B. Femenía,  R. Rebolo,  J. A. Pérez-Prieto,  S. R. Hildebrandt,  L. Labadie,  A. Pérez-Garrido,  V. J. S. Béjar,  A. Díaz-Sánchez,  I. Villó,  A. Oscoz,  R. López,  L. F. Rodríguez,  J. Piqueras, 
  • Pages: 1524-1536
  • First Published: 01 March 2011

The water maser in MG 0414+0534: the influence of gravitational microlensing

H. Garsden,  G. F. Lewis,  L. Harvey-Smith, 
  • Pages: 1537-1547
  • First Published: 25 March 2011

The kinematic identification of a thick stellar disc in M31

M. L. M. Collins,  S. C. Chapman,  R. A. Ibata,  M. J. Irwin,  R. M. Rich,  A. M. N. Ferguson,  G. F. Lewis,  N. Tanvir,  A. Koch, 
  • Pages: 1548-1568
  • First Published: 01 March 2011

Reionization constraints using principal component analysis

Sourav Mitra,  T. Roy Choudhury,  Andrea Ferrara, 
  • Pages: 1569-1580
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

Candidate subdwarfs and white dwarfs from the 2MASS, Tycho-2, XPM and UCAC3 catalogues

George A. Gontcharov,  Anisa T. Bajkova,  Peter N. Fedorov,  Vladimir S. Akhmetov, 
  • Pages: 1581-1599
  • First Published: 17 March 2011

Very long-term optical variability of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud

A. F. Rajoelimanana,  P. A. Charles,  A. Udalski, 
  • Pages: 1600-1622
  • First Published: 04 March 2011

Super-Eddington slim accretion discs with winds

Calanit Dotan,  Nir J. Shaviv, 
  • Pages: 1623-1632
  • First Published: 17 March 2011

Black holes and galactic density cusps – I. Radial orbit cusps and bulges

M. Le Delliou,  R. N. Henriksen,  J. D. MacMillan, 
  • Pages: 1633-1642
  • First Published: 26 April 2011

Observational constraints on the modelling of SN 1006

O. Petruk,  V. Beshley,  F. Bocchino,  M. Miceli,  S. Orlando, 
  • Pages: 1643-1656
  • First Published: 07 March 2011

Radio, X-ray and γ-ray surface brightness profiles as powerful diagnostic tools for non-thermal SNR shells

O. Petruk,  S. Orlando,  V. Beshley,  F. Bocchino, 
  • Pages: 1657-1670
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

The first gamma-ray outburst of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy: the case of PMN J0948+0022 in 2010 July

L. Foschini,  G. Ghisellini,  Y. Y. Kovalev,  M. L. Lister,  F. D’Ammando,  D. J. Thompson,  A. Tramacere,  E. Angelakis,  D. Donato,  A. Falcone,  L. Fuhrmann,  M. Hauser,  Yu. A. Kovalev,  K. Mannheim,  L. Maraschi,  W. Max-Moerbeck,  I. Nestoras,  V. Pavlidou,  T. J. Pearson,  A. B. Pushkarev,  A. C. S. Readhead,  J. L. Richards,  M. A. Stevenson,  G. Tagliaferri,  O. Tibolla,  F. Tavecchio,  S. Wagner, 
  • Pages: 1671-1677
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

Galaxy environments in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey

R. W. Chuter,  O. Almaini,  W. G. Hartley,  R. J. McLure,  J. S. Dunlop,  S. Foucaud,  C. J. Conselice,  C. Simpson,  M. Cirasuolo,  E. J. Bradshaw, 
  • Pages: 1678-1686
  • First Published: 22 February 2011

A comprehensive classification of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: how to tell true from fake AGN?

R. Cid Fernandes,  G. Stasińska,  A. Mateus,  N. Vale Asari, 
  • Pages: 1687-1699
  • First Published: 01 March 2011

A redshift-distortion-free correlation function at third order in the non-linear regime

Kelai Meng,  Jun Pan,  István Szapudi,  Longlong Feng, 
  • Pages: 1700-1708
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

Cluster bulleticity

Richard Massey,  Thomas Kitching,  Daisuke Nagai, 
  • Pages: 1709-1716
  • First Published: 22 February 2011

Minimally parametric power spectrum reconstruction from the Lyman α forest

Simeon Bird,  Hiranya V. Peiris,  Matteo Viel,  Licia Verde, 
  • Pages: 1717-1728
  • First Published: 21 March 2011

Searching for an intermediate-mass black hole in the blue compact dwarf galaxy MRK 996

A. Georgakakis,  Y. G. Tsamis,  B. L. James,  A. Aloisi, 
  • Pages: 1729-1734
  • First Published: 14 March 2011

Radio and X-ray emission from disc winds in radio-quiet quasars

K. C. Steenbrugge,  E. J. D. Jolley,  Z. Kuncic,  K. M. Blundell, 
  • Pages: 1735-1743
  • First Published: 30 March 2011

Modified virial formulae and the theory of mass estimators

Jin H. An,  N. Wyn Evans, 
  • Pages: 1744-1752
  • First Published: 07 March 2011

Strong-lensing analysis of MS 1358.4+6245: New multiple images and implications for the well-resolved z= 4.92 galaxy

Adi Zitrin,  Tom Broadhurst,  Dan Coe,  Jori Liesenborgs,  Narciso Benítez,  Yoel Rephaeli,  Holland Ford,  Keiichi Umetsu, 
  • Pages: 1753-1763
  • First Published: 25 February 2011

Nuclei of early-type dwarf galaxies: insights from stellar populations

Sanjaya Paudel,  Thorsten Lisker,  Harald Kuntschner, 
  • Pages: 1764-1776
  • First Published: 02 March 2011

HerMES: SPIRE emission from radio-selected active galactic nuclei

N. Seymour,  M. Symeonidis,  M. J. Page,  A. Amblard,  V. Arumugam,  H. Aussel,  A. Blain,  J. Bock,  A. Boselli,  V. Buat,  N. Castro-Rodríguez,  A. Cava,  P. Chanial,  D. L. Clements,  A. Conley,  L. Conversi,  A. Cooray,  C. D. Dowell,  E. Dwek,  S. Eales,  D. Elbaz,  A. Franceschini,  J. Glenn,  E. A. González Solares,  M. Griffin,  E. Hatziminaoglou,  E. Ibar,   K. Isaak,  R. J. Ivison,  G. Lagache,  L. Levenson,  N. Lu,  S. Madden,  B. Maffei,  G. Mainetti,  L. Marchetti,  H. T. Nguyen,  B. O’Halloran,  S. J. Oliver,  A. Omont,  P. Panuzzo,  A. Papageorgiou,  C. P. Pearson,  I. Pérez-Fournon,  M. Pohlen,  J. I. Rawlings,  D. Rizzo,  I. G. Roseboom,  M. Rowan-Robinson,  B. Schulz,  Douglas Scott,  D. L. Shupe,  A. J. Smith,  J. A. Stevens,  M. Trichas,  K. E. Tugwell,  M. Vaccari,  I. Valtchanov,  L. Vigroux,  L. Wang,  G. Wright,  C. K. Xu,  M. Zemcov, 
  • Pages: 1777-1786
  • First Published: 07 March 2011

The lower limits of disc fragmentation and the prospects for observing fragmenting discs

Dimitris Stamatellos,  Anaëlle Maury,  Anthony Whitworth,  Philippe André, 
  • Pages: 1787-1796
  • First Published: 25 March 2011

The first spectroscopically confirmed Mira star in M33

E. A. Barsukova,  V. P. Goranskij,  K. Hornoch,  S. Fabrika,  W. Pietsch,  O. Sholukhova,  A. F. Valeev, 
  • Pages: 1797-1802
  • First Published: 02 March 2011

Radiative lifetime measurements of highly excited even-parity levels of Eu i

Wei Zhang,  Shan Du,  Yanyan Feng,  Liyun Jiang,  Zhankui Jiang,  Zhenwen Dai, 
  • Pages: 1803-1809
  • First Published: 06 April 2011

The role of stellar collisions for the formation of massive stars

H. Baumgardt,  R. S. Klessen, 
  • Pages: 1810-1818
  • First Published: 10 March 2011

Coupling between QPOs and broad-band noise components in GRS 1915+105

Thomas J. Maccarone,  Philip Uttley,  Michiel van der Klis,  Rudy A. D. Wijnands,  Paolo S. Coppi, 
  • Pages: 1819-1827
  • First Published: 01 March 2011

A variationally computed line list for hot NH3

S. N. Yurchenko,  R. J. Barber,  J. Tennyson, 
  • Pages: 1828-1834
  • First Published: 11 May 2011

PHR 1315−6555: a bipolar planetary nebula in the compact Hyades-age open cluster ESO 96-SC04

Quentin A. Parker,  David J. Frew,  Brent Miszalski,  Anna V. Kovacevic,  Peter M. Frinchaboy,  Paul D. Dobbie,  Joachim Köppen, 
  • Pages: 1835-1844
  • First Published: 07 April 2011

γ-rays as a diagnostic of the origin of core radiation in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei

Hajime Takami, 
  • Pages: 1845-1851
  • First Published: 01 March 2011

The mechanics of tidal streams

Andy Eyre,  James Binney, 
  • Pages: 1852-1874
  • First Published: 30 March 2011

Two-dimensional Hα kinematics of bulgeless disc galaxies

Nadine Neumayer,  Carl Jakob Walcher,  David Andersen,  Sebastian F. Sánchez,  Torsten Böker,  Hans-Walter Rix, 
  • Pages: 1875-1888
  • First Published: 04 March 2011

Models of our Galaxy – II

James Binney,  Paul McMillan, 
  • Pages: 1889-1898
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

From the molecular-cloud- to the embedded-cluster-mass function with a density threshold for star formation

Geneviève Parmentier, 
  • Pages: 1899-1912
  • First Published: 23 February 2011

The cooling phase of Type I X-ray bursts in 4U 1636−53

Guobao Zhang,  Mariano Méndez,  Diego Altamirano, 
  • Pages: 1913-1921
  • First Published: 10 March 2011

Magnetic fields and differential rotation on the pre-main sequence – I. The early-G star HD 141943 – brightness and magnetic topologies

S. C. Marsden,  M. M. Jardine,  J. C. Ramírez Vélez,  E. Alecian,  C. J. Brown,  B. D. Carter,  J.-F. Donati,  N. Dunstone,  R. Hart,  M. Semel,  I. A. Waite, 
  • Pages: 1922-1938
  • First Published: 01 April 2011

Magnetic fields and differential rotation on the pre-main sequence – II. The early-G star HD 141943 – coronal magnetic field, Hα emission and differential rotation

S. C. Marsden,  M. M. Jardine,  J. C. Ramírez Vélez,  E. Alecian,  C. J. Brown,  B. D. Carter,  J.-F. Donati,  N. Dunstone,  R. Hart,  M. Semel,  I. A. Waite, 
  • Pages: 1939-1948
  • First Published: 01 April 2011

Magnetic fields and differential rotation on the pre-main sequence – III. The early-G star HD 106506

I. A. Waite,  S. C. Marsden,  B. D. Carter,  R. Hart,  J.-F. Donati,  J. C. Ramírez Vélez,  M. Semel,  N. Dunstone, 
  • Pages: 1949-1960
  • First Published: 01 April 2011

The peaks formalism and the formation of cold dark matter haloes

Aaron D. Ludlow,  Cristiano Porciani, 
  • Pages: 1961-1972
  • First Published: 01 March 2011

Internal properties and environments of dark matter haloes

Huiyuan Wang,  H. J. Mo,  Y. P. Jing,  Xiaohu Yang,  Yu Wang, 
  • Pages: 1973-1990
  • First Published: 01 March 2011

Pressure from dark matter annihilation and the rotation curve of spiral galaxies

M. Wechakama,  Y. Ascasibar, 
  • Pages: 1991-2003
  • First Published: 02 March 2011

Implications for the origin of short gamma-ray bursts from their observed positions around their host galaxies

Ross P. Church,  Andrew J. Levan,  Melvyn B. Davies,  Nial Tanvir, 
  • Pages: 2004-2014
  • First Published: 17 March 2011

Constraining the orbital history of the Magellanic Clouds: a new bound scenario suggested by the tidal origin of the Magellanic Stream

Jonathan Diaz,  Kenji Bekki, 
  • Pages: 2015-2020
  • First Published: 02 March 2011

Ambipolar diffusion in superfluid neutron stars

K. Glampedakis,  D. I. Jones,  L. Samuelsson, 
  • Pages: 2021-2030
  • First Published: 29 March 2011

The protomagnetar model for gamma-ray bursts

B. D. Metzger,  D. Giannios,  T. A. Thompson,  N. Bucciantini,  E. Quataert, 
  • Pages: 2031-2056
  • First Published: 29 March 2011

Gas sloshing, cold front formation and metal redistribution: the Virgo cluster as a quantitative test case

E. Roediger,  M. Brüggen,  A. Simionescu,  H. Böhringer,  E. Churazov,  W. R. Forman, 
  • Pages: 2057-2077
  • First Published: 21 March 2011

Understanding the faint red galaxy population using large-scale clustering measurements from SDSS DR7

Ashley J. Ross,  Rita Tojeiro,  Will J. Percival, 
  • Pages: 2078-2086
  • First Published: 17 March 2011

Most massive haloes with Gumbel statistics

O. Davis,  J. Devriendt,  S. Colombi,  J. Silk,  C. Pichon, 
  • Pages: 2087-2092
  • First Published: 16 March 2011

Reionization of the Local Group of galaxies

Ilian T. Iliev,  Ben Moore,  Stefan Gottlöber,  Gustavo Yepes,  Yehuda Hoffman,  Garrelt Mellema, 
  • Pages: 2093-2102
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

Systematic effects of foreground removal in 21-cm surveys of reionization

Nada Petrovic,  S. Peng Oh, 
  • Pages: 2103-2120
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

Cusped mass density profiles and magnification ratios of double-image gravitational lenses

P. T. Mutka, 
  • Pages: 2121-2139
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

The He-rich stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova 2008ax

S. Taubenberger,  H. Navasardyan,  J. I. Maurer,  L. Zampieri,  N. N. Chugai,  S. Benetti,  I. Agnoletto,  F. Bufano,  N. Elias-Rosa,  M. Turatto,  F. Patat,  E. Cappellaro,  P. A. Mazzali,  T. Iijima,  S. Valenti,  A. Harutyunyan,  R. Claudi,  M. Dolci, 
  • Pages: 2140-2156
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

Optical intraday variability studies of 10 low energy peaked blazars

Bindu Rani,  Alok C. Gupta,  U. C. Joshi,  S. Ganesh,  Paul J. Wiita, 
  • Pages: 2157-2172
  • First Published: 10 March 2011

A detailed spectral study of GRB 041219A and its host galaxy

D. Götz,  S. Covino,  R. Hascoët,  A. Fernandez-Soto,  F. Daigne,  R. Mochkovitch,  P. Esposito, 
  • Pages: 2173-2183
  • First Published: 02 March 2011

Ionization balance of Ti in the photospheres of the Sun and four late-type stars

Maria Bergemann, 
  • Pages: 2184-2198
  • First Published: 17 March 2011

Chemical composition of evolved stars in the open cluster IC 4651

Šarūnas Mikolaitis,  Gražina Tautvaišienė,  Raffaele Gratton,  Angela Bragaglia,  Eugenio Carretta, 
  • Pages: 2199-2206
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

Low-T/|W| instabilities in differentially rotating protoneutron stars with magnetic fields

Wen Fu,  Dong Lai, 
  • Pages: 2207-2217
  • First Published: 10 March 2011

Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking time-scale

P. Delorme,  A. Collier Cameron,  L. Hebb,  J. Rostron,  T. A. Lister,  A. J. Norton,  D. Pollacco,  R. G. West, 
  • Pages: 2218-2234
  • First Published: 01 March 2011

Testing formation mechanisms of the Milky Way's thick disc with RAVE

Michelle L. Wilson,  Amina Helmi,  Heather L. Morrison,  Maarten A. Breddels,  O. Bienaymé,  J. Binney,  J. Bland-Hawthorn,  R. Campbell,  K. C. Freeman,  J. P. Fulbright,  B. K. Gibson,  G. Gilmore,  E. K. Grebel,  U. Munari,  J. F. Navarro,  Q. A. Parker,  W. Reid,  G. Seabroke,  A. Siebert,  A. Siviero,  M. Steinmetz,  M. E. K. Williams,  R. F. G. Wyse,  T. Zwitter, 
  • Pages: 2235-2241
  • First Published: 02 March 2011

A 2D multiwavelength study of the ionized gas and stellar population in the giant H ii region NGC 588

A. Monreal-Ibero,  M. Relaño,  C. Kehrig,  E. Pérez-Montero,  J. M. Vílchez,  A. Kelz,  M. M. Roth,  O. Streicher, 
  • Pages: 2242-2258
  • First Published: 16 March 2011

Simulated spectral states of active galactic nuclei and observational predictions

Małgorzata A. Sobolewska,  Aneta Siemiginowska,  Marek Gierliński, 
  • Pages: 2259-2268
  • First Published: 07 March 2011

On the nature of the ‘radio-quiet’ black hole binaries

Paolo Soleri,  Rob Fender, 
  • Pages: 2269-2280
  • First Published: 08 March 2011

Surface formation of CO2 ice at low temperatures

S. Ioppolo,  Y. van Boheemen,  H. M. Cuppen,  E. F. van Dishoeck,  H. Linnartz, 
  • Pages: 2281-2287
  • First Published: 25 February 2011

Connected structure in the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey

D. N. A. Murphy,  V. R. Eke,  Carlos S. Frenk, 
  • Pages: 2288-2296
  • First Published: 24 March 2011

A new perspective on globular clusters, their initial mass function and their contribution to the stellar halo and the cosmic reionization

Daniel Schaerer,  Corinne Charbonnel, 
  • Pages: 2297-2304
  • First Published: 04 March 2011