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    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Volume 421, Issue 2

    913-1824
    April 2012
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Parameter estimation with Bayesian estimation applied to multiple species in the presence of biases and correlations

J. Newling,  B. Bassett,  R. Hlozek,  M. Kunz,  M. Smith,  M. Varughese, 
  • Pages: 913-925
  • First Published: 01 March 2012

Cosmic voids in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7

Danny C. Pan,  Michael S. Vogeley,  Fiona Hoyle,  Yun-Young Choi,  Changbom Park, 
  • Pages: 926-934
  • First Published: 28 February 2012

γ -rays from molecular clouds illuminated by accumulated diffusive protons – II. Interacting supernova remnants

Hui Li,  Yang Chen, 
  • Pages: 935-942
  • First Published: 13 February 2012

Solar wind and the motion of dust grains

J. Klačka,  J. Petržala,  P. Pástor,  L. Kómar, 
  • Pages: 943-959
  • First Published: 03 February 2012

Structural parameters and blue stragglers in Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy globular clusters

Ricardo Salinas,  Lucie Jílková,  Giovanni Carraro,  Márcio Catelan,  Pía Amigo, 
  • Pages: 960-970
  • First Published: 29 February 2012

Investigating Mg ii absorption in paired quasar sight-lines

J. A. Rogerson,  P. B. Hall, 
  • Pages: 971-982
  • First Published: 01 March 2012

Tidal asteroseismology: Kepler’s KOI-54

Joshua Burkart,  Eliot Quataert,  Phil Arras,  Nevin N. Weinberg, 
  • Pages: 983-1006
  • First Published: 22 February 2012

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Structural Investigation of Galaxies via Model Analysis

Lee S. Kelvin,  Simon P. Driver,  Aaron S. G. Robotham,  David T. Hill,  Mehmet Alpaslan,  Ivan K. Baldry,  Steven P. Bamford,  Joss Bland-Hawthorn,  Sarah Brough,  Alister W. Graham,  Boris Häussler,  Andrew M. Hopkins,  Jochen Liske,  Jon Loveday,  Peder Norberg,  Steven Phillipps,  Cristina C. Popescu,  Matthew Prescott,  Edward N. Taylor,  Richard J. Tuffs, 
  • Pages: 1007-1039
  • First Published: 01 March 2012

A cluster of class I/f/II young stellar objects discovered near the Cepheid SU Cas

D. Majaess,  D. G. Turner,  W. Gieren, 
  • Pages: 1040-1042
  • First Published: 30 January 2012

Strongly star forming galaxies in the local Universe with nebular He iiλ4686 emission

Maryam Shirazi,  Jarle Brinchmann, 
  • Pages: 1043-1063
  • First Published: 22 February 2012

Constraining the topology of the Universe using the polarized cosmic microwave background maps

P. Bielewicz,  A. J. Banday,  K. M. Górski, 
  • Pages: 1064-1072
  • First Published: 13 February 2012

Mock weak lensing analysis of simulated galaxy clusters: bias and scatter in mass and concentration

Yannick M. Bahé,  Ian G. McCarthy,  Lindsay J. King, 
  • Pages: 1073-1088
  • First Published: 23 January 2012

Analytic gas orbits in an arbitrary rotating galactic potential using the linear epicyclic approximation

N. Piñol-Ferrer,  P. O. Lindblad,  K. Fathi, 
  • Pages: 1089-1102
  • First Published: 31 January 2012

On the binary nature of the γ-ray sources AGL J2241+4454 (= MWC 656) and HESS J0632+057 (= MWC 148)

J. Casares,  M. Ribó,  I. Ribas,  J. M. Paredes,  F. Vilardell,  I. Negueruela, 
  • Pages: 1103-1112
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

The imprint of cosmological non-Gaussianities on primordial structure formation

Umberto Maio,  Sadegh Khochfar, 
  • Pages: 1113-1122
  • First Published: 23 January 2012

X-ray surface brightness and gas density fluctuations in the Coma cluster

E. Churazov,  A. Vikhlinin,  I. Zhuravleva,  A. Schekochihin,  I. Parrish,  R. Sunyaev,  W. Forman,  H. Böhringer,  S. Randall, 
  • Pages: 1123-1135
  • First Published: 26 January 2012

Parametrization effects in the analysis of AMI Sunyaev–Zel’dovich observations

AMI Consortium ,  Malak Olamaie,  Carmen Rodríguez-Gonzálvez,  Matthew L. Davies,  Farhan Feroz,  Thomas M. O. Franzen,  Keith J. B. Grainge,  Michael P. Hobson,  Natasha Hurley-Walker,  Anthony N. Lasenby,  Guy G. Pooley,  Richard D. E. Saunders,  Anna M. M. Scaife,  Michel Schammel,  Paul F. Scott,  Timothy W. Shimwell,  David J. Titterington,  Elizabeth M. Waldram,  Jonathan T. L. Zwart, 
  • Pages: 1136-1154
  • First Published: 30 January 2012

The detection of globular clusters in galaxies as a data mining problem

Massimo Brescia,  Stefano Cavuoti,  Maurizio Paolillo,  Giuseppe Longo,  Thomas Puzia, 
  • Pages: 1155-1165
  • First Published: 30 January 2012

A novel method to photometrically constrain orbital eccentricities: Multibody Asterodensity Profiling

David M. Kipping,  William R. Dunn,  Jamie M. Jasinski,  Varun P. Manthri, 
  • Pages: 1166-1188
  • First Published: 14 February 2012

Spectral study of the late nitrogen-sequence Wolf–Rayet star FSZ35 in M33

O. Maryeva,  P. Abolmasov, 
  • Pages: 1189-1195
  • First Published: 22 February 2012

First detailed analysis of multiple system V2083 Cyg

P. Zasche,  P. Svoboda,  M. Šlechta, 
  • Pages: 1196-1200
  • First Published: 01 February 2012

Broken discs: warp propagation in accretion discs

Christopher J. Nixon,  Andrew R. King, 
  • Pages: 1201-1208
  • First Published: 21 February 2012

Nearby supernova remnants and the cosmic ray spectral hardening at high energies

Satyendra Thoudam,  Jörg R. Hörandel, 
  • Pages: 1209-1214
  • First Published: 01 February 2012

Dark matter detection with hard X-ray telescopes

Tesla E. Jeltema,  Stefano Profumo, 
  • Pages: 1215-1221
  • First Published: 23 January 2012

Abundances in HD 27411 and the helium problem in Am stars

G. Catanzaro,  L. A. Balona, 
  • Pages: 1222-1230
  • First Published: 31 January 2012

Principal component analysis on chemical abundances spaces

Y. S. Ting,  K. C. Freeman,  C. Kobayashi,  G. M. De Silva,  J. Bland-Hawthorn, 
  • Pages: 1231-1255
  • First Published: 13 February 2012

A complete sample of bright Swift long gamma-ray bursts: testing the spectral-energy correlations

L. Nava,  R. Salvaterra,  G. Ghirlanda,  G. Ghisellini,  S. Campana,  S. Covino,  G. Cusumano,  P. D’Avanzo,  V. D’Elia,  D. Fugazza,  A. Melandri,  B. Sbarufatti,  S. D. Vergani,  G. Tagliaferri, 
  • Pages: 1256-1264
  • First Published: 21 February 2012

The dark bursts population in a complete sample of bright Swift long gamma-ray bursts

A. Melandri,  B. Sbarufatti,  P. D’Avanzo,  R. Salvaterra,  S. Campana,  S. Covino,  S. D. Vergani,  L. Nava,  G. Ghisellini,  G. Ghirlanda,  D. Fugazza,  V. Mangano,  M. Capalbi,  G. Tagliaferri, 
  • Pages: 1265-1272
  • First Published: 21 February 2012

Fitting dwarf galaxy rotation curves with conformal gravity

James G. O’Brien,  Philip D. Mannheim, 
  • Pages: 1273-1282
  • First Published: 23 January 2012

What produces the diffuse X-ray emission from the Orion nebula? I. Simple spherical models

S. J. Arthur, 
  • Pages: 1283-1297
  • First Published: 23 January 2012

The ATLAS3D project – XI. Dense molecular gas properties of CO-luminous early-type galaxies

Alison Crocker,  Melanie Krips,  Martin Bureau,  Lisa M. Young,  Timothy A. Davis,  Estelle Bayet,  Katherine Alatalo,  Leo Blitz,  Maxime Bois,  Frédéric Bournaud,  Michele Cappellari,  Roger L. Davies,  P. T. de Zeeuw,  Pierre-Alain Duc,  Eric Emsellem,  Sadegh Khochfar,  Davor Krajnović,  Harald Kuntschner,  Pierre-Yves Lablanche,  Richard M. McDermid,  Raffaella Morganti,  Thorsten Naab,  Tom Oosterloo,  Marc Sarzi,  Nicholas Scott,  Paolo Serra,  Anne-Marie Weijmans, 
  • Pages: 1298-1314
  • First Published: 24 January 2012

Sgr A* flares: tidal disruption of asteroids and planets?

Kastytis Zubovas,  Sergei Nayakshin,  Sera Markoff, 
  • Pages: 1315-1324
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

Why COBE and CN spectroscopy cosmic background radiation temperature measurements differ, and a remedy

Sydney Leach, 
  • Pages: 1325-1330
  • First Published: 13 February 2012

The dynamical evolution of dwarf planet (136108) Haumea’s collisional family: general properties and implications for the trans-Neptunian belt

Patryk Sofia Lykawka,  Jonathan Horner,  Tadashi Mukai,  Akiko M. Nakamura, 
  • Pages: 1331-1350
  • First Published: 23 January 2012

Direct wind accretion and jet launch in binary systems

Maxim V. Barkov,  Dmitry V. Khangulyan, 
  • Pages: 1351-1359
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

Extreme AGN feedback in the MAssive Cluster Survey: a detailed study of X-ray cavities at z>0.3

J. Hlavacek-Larrondo,  A. C. Fabian,  A. C. Edge,  H. Ebeling,  J. S. Sanders,  M. T. Hogan,  G. B. Taylor, 
  • Pages: 1360-1384
  • First Published: 06 February 2012

The impact of galaxy colour gradients on cosmic shear measurement

L. M. Voigt,  S. L. Bridle,  A. Amara,  M. Cropper,  T. D. Kitching,  R. Massey,  J. Rhodes,  T. Schrabback, 
  • Pages: 1385-1398
  • First Published: 01 February 2012

Spherically averaging ellipsoidal galaxy clusters in X-ray and Sunyaev–Zel’dovich studies – II. Biases

David A. Buote,  Philip J. Humphrey, 
  • Pages: 1399-1420
  • First Published: 19 January 2012

Classical radio source propagating into outer H i disc in NGC 3801

B. H. C. Emonts,  C. Burnett,  R. Morganti,  C. Struve, 
  • Pages: 1421-1430
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

An extended excursion set approach to structure formation in chameleon models

Baojiu Li,  George Efstathiou, 
  • Pages: 1431-1442
  • First Published: 27 January 2012

Measurement of halo properties with weak lensing shear and flexion

Xinzhong Er,  Ismael Tereno,  Shude Mao, 
  • Pages: 1443-1449
  • First Published: 07 February 2012

Measuring and mapping the night sky brightness of Perth, Western Australia

James D. Biggs,  Tiffany Fouché,  Frank Bilki,  Marjan G. Zadnik, 
  • Pages: 1450-1464
  • First Published: 14 February 2012

High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects – II. The census of BH seeds

B. Devecchi,  M. Volonteri,  E. M. Rossi,  M. Colpi,  S. Portegies Zwart, 
  • Pages: 1465-1475
  • First Published: 16 February 2012

Review of OCS gas-phase reactions in dark cloud chemical models

Jean-Christophe Loison,  Philippe Halvick,  Astrid Bergeat,  Kevin M. Hickson,  Valentine Wakelam, 
  • Pages: 1476-1484
  • First Published: 10 February 2012

The globular cluster kinematics and galaxy dark matter content of NGC 3923

Mark A. Norris,  Karl Gebhardt,  Ray M. Sharples,  Favio Raul Faifer,  Terry Bridges,  Duncan A. Forbes,  Juan C. Forte,  Stephen E. Zepf,  Michael A. Beasley,  David A. Hanes,  Robert Proctor,  Sheila J. Kannappan, 
  • Pages: 1485-1498
  • First Published: 10 February 2012

Three-dimensional shapelets and an automated classification scheme for dark matter haloes

C. J. Fluke,  A. L. Malec,  P. D. Lasky,  B. R. Barsdell, 
  • Pages: 1499-1516
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

The size of the jet launching region in M87

Jason Dexter,  Jonathan C. McKinney,  Eric Agol, 
  • Pages: 1517-1528
  • First Published: 06 February 2012

The dynamics of stars around spiral arms

Robert J. J. Grand,  Daisuke Kawata,  Mark Cropper, 
  • Pages: 1529-1538
  • First Published: 07 February 2012

Physical properties of Herschel selected galaxies in a semi-analytic galaxy formation model

Sami-Matias Niemi,  Rachel S. Somerville,  Henry C. Ferguson,  Kuang-Han Huang,  Jennifer Lotz,  Anton M. Koekemoer, 
  • Pages: 1539-1556
  • First Published: 22 February 2012

X-ray characteristics and the spectral energy distribution of AE Aquarii

B. Oruru,  P. J. Meintjes, 
  • Pages: 1557-1568
  • First Published: 15 February 2012

On the fundamental dichotomy in the local radio-AGN population: accretion, evolution and host galaxy properties

P. N. Best,  T. M. Heckman, 
  • Pages: 1569-1582
  • First Published: 10 February 2012

Self-similar scaling and evolution in the galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity–temperature relation

B. J. Maughan,  P. A. Giles,  S. W. Randall,  C. Jones,  W. R. Forman, 
  • Pages: 1583-1602
  • First Published: 13 February 2012

Triggered star formation in the inner filament of Centaurus A

R. Mark Crockett,  Stanislav S. Shabala,  Sugata Kaviraj,  Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu,  Joseph Silk,  Max Mutchler,  Robert W. O’Connell,  Marina Rejkuba,  Bradley C. Whitmore,  Rogier A. Windhorst, 
  • Pages: 1603-1623
  • First Published: 10 February 2012

Abundance determination from global emission-line SDSS spectra: exploring objects with high N/O ratios

L. S. Pilyugin,  J. M. Vílchez,  L. Mattsson,  T. X. Thuan, 
  • Pages: 1624-1634
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

A trio of metal-rich dust and gas discs found orbiting candidate white dwarfs with K-band excess

J. Farihi,  B. T. Gänsicke,  P. R. Steele,  J. Girven,  M. R. Burleigh,  E. Breedt,  D. Koester, 
  • Pages: 1635-1643
  • First Published: 07 February 2012

Spectral index properties of milliJansky radio sources

K. E. Randall,  A. M. Hopkins,  R. P. Norris,  P.-C. Zinn,  E. Middelberg,  M. Y. Mao,  R. G. Sharp, 
  • Pages: 1644-1660
  • First Published: 22 February 2012

The collimated outflows of the planetary nebula Hu 1-2: proper motion and radial velocity measurements

L. F. Miranda,  M. Blanco,  M. A. Guerrero,  A. Riera, 
  • Pages: 1661-1665
  • First Published: 07 February 2012

On the nature of the parameter space in the presence of dissipative standing shocks in accretion flows around black holes

Chandra B. Singh,  Sandip K. Chakrabarti, 
  • Pages: 1666-1670
  • First Published: 20 February 2012

Photo-z performance for precision cosmology – II. Empirical verification

R. Bordoloi,  S. J. Lilly,  A. Amara,  P. A. Oesch,  S. Bardelli,  E. Zucca,  D. Vergani,  T. Nagao,  T. Murayama,  Y. Shioya,  Y. Taniguchi, 
  • Pages: 1671-1677
  • First Published: 14 February 2012

Testing three derivative methods of stellar population synthesis models

Yu Zhang,  Zhanwen Han,  Jinzhong Liu,  Fenghui Zhang,  Xiaoyu Kang, 
  • Pages: 1678-1696
  • First Published: 15 February 2012

The X-ray absorbing column density of a complete sample of bright Swift gamma-ray bursts

S. Campana,  R. Salvaterra,  A. Melandri,  S. D. Vergani,  S. Covino,  P. D’Avanzo,  D. Fugazza,  G. Ghisellini,  B. Sbarufatti,  G. Tagliaferri, 
  • Pages: 1697-1702
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

12.2-GHz methanol maser MMB follow-up catalogue – I. Longitude range 330° to 10°

S. L. Breen,  S. P. Ellingsen,  J. L. Caswell,  J. A. Green,  M. A. Voronkov,  G. A. Fuller,  L. J. Quinn,  A. Avison, 
  • Pages: 1703-1735
  • First Published: 29 February 2012

Outward migration of a super-Earth in a disc with outward propagating density waves excited by a giant planet

E. Podlewska-Gaca,  J. C. B. Papaloizou,  E. Szuszkiewicz, 
  • Pages: 1736-1756
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

The solar photospheric-to-coronal Fe abundance ratio from X-ray fluorescence lines

K. J. H. Phillips, 
  • Pages: 1757-1763
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

The relation between broad lines and γ-ray luminosities in Fermi blazars

T. Sbarrato,  G. Ghisellini,  L. Maraschi,  M. Colpi, 
  • Pages: 1764-1778
  • First Published: 17 February 2012

Bayesian inference of galaxy formation from the K-band luminosity function of galaxies: tensions between theory and observation

Yu Lu,  H. J. Mo,  Neal Katz,  Martin D. Weinberg, 
  • Pages: 1779-1796
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

Mechanical equilibrium of hot, large-scale magnetic loops on T Tauri stars

A. Aarnio,  J. Llama,  M. Jardine,  S. G. Gregory, 
  • Pages: 1797-1802
  • First Published: 01 March 2012

NGC 454: unveiling a new ‘changing look’ active galactic nucleus

E. Marchese,  V. Braito,  R. Della Ceca,  A. Caccianiga,  P. Severgnini, 
  • Pages: 1803-1812
  • First Published: 09 February 2012

Extracting the unresolved pulsar contribution to the gamma-ray background

Alex Geringer-Sameth,  Savvas M. Koushiappas, 
  • Pages: 1813-1824
  • First Published: 13 February 2012