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    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Volume 427, Issue 3

    1801-2700
    11 December 2012
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Evolution of the population of very strong Mg ii absorbers

Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo,  Kaylan Wessels,  Jane C. Charlton,  Anand Narayanan,  Andrew Mshar,  Antonino Cucchiara,  Therese Jones, 
  • Pages: 1801-1815
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The growth of red sequence galaxies in a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation

J. M. Gabor,  R. Davé, 
  • Pages: 1816-1829
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A deep ATCA 20 cm radio survey of the AKARI Deep Field South near the South Ecliptic Pole

Glenn J. White,  Bunyo Hatsukade,  Chris Pearson,  Toshinobu Takagi,  Chris Sedgwick,  Shuji Matsuura,  Hideo Matsuhara,  Stephen Serjeant,  Takao Nakagawa,  Hyung Mok Lee,  Shinki Oyabu,  Woong-Seob Jeong,  Mai Shirahata,  Kotaro Kohno,  Issei Yamamura,  Hitoshi Hanami,  Tomotsugu Goto,  Sin'itirou Makiuti,  David L. Clements,  K. Malek,  Sophia A. Khan, 
  • Pages: 1830-1846
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A Bayesian approach to the modelling of α Cen A

M. Bazot,  S. Bourguignon,  J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, 
  • Pages: 1847-1866
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Microlensing evidence for super-Eddington disc accretion in quasars

P. Abolmasov,  N. I. Shakura, 
  • Pages: 1867-1876
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The first planet detected in the WTS: an inflated hot Jupiter in a 3.35 d orbit around a late F star†

M. Cappetta,  R. P. Saglia,  J. L. Birkby,  J. Koppenhoefer,  D. J. Pinfield,  S. T. Hodgkin,  P. Cruz,  G. Kovács,  B. Sipőcz,  D. Barrado,  B. Nefs,  Y. V. Pavlenko,  L. Fossati,  C. del Burgo,  E. L. Martín,  I. Snellen,  J. Barnes,  A. Bayo,  D. A. Campbell,  S. Catalan,  M. C. Gálvez-Ortiz,  N. Goulding,  C. Haswell,  O. Ivanyuk,  H. R. Jones,  M. Kuznetsov,  N. Lodieu,  F. Marocco,  D. Mislis,  F. Murgas,  R. Napiwotzki,  E. Palle,  D. Pollacco,  L. Sarro Baro,  E. Solano,  P. Steele,  H. Stoev,  R. Tata,  J. Zendejas, 
  • Pages: 1877-1890
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Recovering 3D clustering information with angular correlations

Jacobo Asorey,  Martin Crocce,  Enrique Gaztañaga,  Antony Lewis, 
  • Pages: 1891-1902
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Clear sky fraction above Indonesia: an analysis for astronomical site selection

T. Hidayat,  P. Mahasena,  B. Dermawan,  T. W. Hadi,  P. W. Premadi,  D. Herdiwijaya, 
  • Pages: 1903-1917
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Golden gravitational lensing systems from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey – II. SDSS J1430+4105: a precise inner total mass profile from lensing alone

Thomas Eichner,  Stella Seitz,  Anne Bauer, 
  • Pages: 1918-1939
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The mass function and dynamical mass of young star clusters: why their initial crossing-time matters crucially

Geneviève Parmentier,  Holger Baumgardt, 
  • Pages: 1940-1952
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The low-mass end of the fundamental relation for gravitationally lensed star-forming galaxies at 1 < z < 6†

Lise Christensen,  Johan Richard,  Jens Hjorth,  Bo Milvang-Jensen,  Peter Laursen,  Marceau Limousin,  Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky,  Claudio Grillo,  Harald Ebeling, 
  • Pages: 1953-1972
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Gravitationally lensed galaxies at 2 < z < 3.5: direct abundance measurements of Ly α emitters†

Lise Christensen,  Peter Laursen,  Johan Richard,  Jens Hjorth,  Bo Milvang-Jensen,  Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky,  Marceau Limousin,  Claudio Grillo,  Harald Ebeling, 
  • Pages: 1973-1982
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Global gravitationally organized spiral waves and the structure of NGC 5247

S. A. Khoperskov,  A. V. Khoperskov,  I. S. Khrykin,  V. I. Korchagin,  D. I. Casetti-Dinescu,  T. Girard,  W. van Altena,  D. Maitra, 
  • Pages: 1983-1993
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Dipoles in the sky

Cameron Gibelyou,  Dragan Huterer, 
  • Pages: 1994-2021
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

On the convergence of the critical cooling time-scale for the fragmentation of self-gravitating discs

Farzana Meru,  Matthew R. Bate, 
  • Pages: 2022-2046
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

On the formation of cD galaxies and their parent clusters

Hrant M. Tovmassian,  Heinz Andernach, 
  • Pages: 2047-2056
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Spectral modelling of the ‘super-Chandrasekhar’ Type Ia SN 2009dc – testing a 2 M⊙ white dwarf explosion model and alternatives

Stephan Hachinger,  Paolo A. Mazzali,  Stefan Taubenberger,  Michael Fink,  Rüdiger Pakmor,  Wolfgang Hillebrandt,  Ivo R. Seitenzahl, 
  • Pages: 2057-2078
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Impact of redshift information on cosmological applications with next-generation radio surveys

Stefano Camera,  Mário G. Santos,  David J. Bacon,  Matt J. Jarvis,  Kim McAlpine,  Ray P. Norris,  Alvise Raccanelli,  Huub Röttgering, 
  • Pages: 2079-2088
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Atmospheric turbulence profiling using multiple laser star wavefront sensors

Angela Cortés,  Benoit Neichel,  Andrés Guesalaga,  James Osborn,  Francois Rigaut,  Dani Guzman, 
  • Pages: 2089-2099
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

3d-pdr: a new three-dimensional astrochemistry code for treating photodissociation regions

T. G. Bisbas,  T. A. Bell,  S. Viti,  J. Yates,  M. J. Barlow, 
  • Pages: 2100-2118
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

3D extinction mapping using hierarchical Bayesian models

S. E. Sale, 
  • Pages: 2119-2131
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A 2 per cent distance to z = 0.35 by reconstructing baryon acoustic oscillations – I. Methods and application to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Nikhil Padmanabhan,  Xiaoying Xu,  Daniel J. Eisenstein,  Richard Scalzo,  Antonio J. Cuesta,  Kushal T. Mehta,  Eyal Kazin, 
  • Pages: 2132-2145
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A 2 per cent distance to z = 0.35 by reconstructing baryon acoustic oscillations – II. Fitting techniques

Xiaoying Xu,  Nikhil Padmanabhan,  Daniel J. Eisenstein,  Kushal T. Mehta,  Antonio J. Cuesta, 
  • Pages: 2146-2167
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A 2 per cent distance to z = 0.35 by reconstructing baryon acoustic oscillations – III. Cosmological measurements and interpretation

Kushal T. Mehta,  Antonio J. Cuesta,  Xiaoying Xu,  Daniel J. Eisenstein,  Nikhil Padmanabhan, 
  • Pages: 2168-2179
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A selection of hot subluminous stars in the GALEX survey – II. Subdwarf atmospheric parameters†

Péter Németh,  Adéla Kawka,  Stéphane Vennes, 
  • Pages: 2180-2211
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Detecting gravitationally lensed Population III galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope

Erik Zackrisson,  Adi Zitrin,  Michele Trenti,  Claes-Erik Rydberg,  Lucia Guaita,  Daniel Schaerer,  Tom Broadhurst,  Göran Östlin,  Tina Ström, 
  • Pages: 2212-2223
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Moving-mesh cosmology: properties of gas discs

Paul Torrey,  Mark Vogelsberger,  Debora Sijacki,  Volker Springel,  Lars Hernquist, 
  • Pages: 2224-2238
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Spin–orbit coupling for tidally evolving super-Earths

A. Rodríguez,  N. Callegari Jr,  T. A. Michtchenko,  H. Hussmann, 
  • Pages: 2239-2250
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Impact of the orbital uncertainties on the timing of pulsars in binary systems

G. A. Caliandro,  D. F. Torres,  N. Rea, 
  • Pages: 2251-2274
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Heavily reddened quasars at z ∼ 2 in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey: a transitional phase in AGN evolution

Manda Banerji,  Richard G. McMahon,  Paul C. Hewett,  Susannah Alaghband-Zadeh,  Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares,  Bram P. Venemans,  Melanie J. Hawthorn, 
  • Pages: 2275-2291
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Determining neutron star masses using weak microlensing

Lanlan Tian,  Shude Mao, 
  • Pages: 2292-2297
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Bright low mass eclipsing binary candidates observed by STEREO

K. T. Wraight,  L. Fossati,  Glenn J. White,  A. J. Norton,  D. Bewsher, 
  • Pages: 2298-2307
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Turbulent magnetic field amplification driven by cosmic ray pressure gradients

L. O'C. Drury,  T. P. Downes, 
  • Pages: 2308-2313
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Pre-existing dwarfs, tidal knots and a tidal dwarf galaxy: an unbiased H i study of the gas-rich interacting galaxy group NGC 3166/9

K. Lee-Waddell,  K. Spekkens,  M. P. Haynes,  S. Stierwalt,  J. Chengalur,  P. Chandra,  R. Giovanelli, 
  • Pages: 2314-2327
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The chemical effects of mutual shielding in photon-dominated regions

R. P. Rollins,  J. M. C. Rawlings, 
  • Pages: 2328-2335
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The ballistic transport instability in Saturn's rings – I. Formalism and linear theory

Henrik N. Latter,  Gordon I. Ogilvie,  Marie Chupeau, 
  • Pages: 2336-2348
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The old globular cluster system of NGC 4365: new VLT/FORS2 spectra

A. L. Chies-Santos,  S. S. Larsen,  M. Kissler-Patig, 
  • Pages: 2349-2358
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Statistics of cosmological Lyman α absorption

Dipak Munshi,  Peter Coles,  Matteo Viel, 
  • Pages: 2359-2375
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Observed versus modelled u-, g-, r-, i-, z-band photometry of local galaxies – evaluation of model performance

K. S. Alexander Hansson,  Thorsten Lisker,  Eva K. Grebel, 
  • Pages: 2376-2391
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A study of the orbits of the logarithmic potential for galaxies

S. R. Valluri,  P. A. Wiegert,  J. Drozd,  M. Da Silva, 
  • Pages: 2392-2400
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Star formation in high-redshift quasars: excess [O ii] emission in the radio-loud population

E. Kalfountzou,  M. J. Jarvis,  D. G. Bonfield,  M. J. Hardcastle, 
  • Pages: 2401-2410
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Convective overshoot mixing in Nova outbursts – the dependence on the composition of the underlying white dwarf

S. Ami Glasner,  Eli Livne,  James W. Truran, 
  • Pages: 2411-2419
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Statistical and systematic errors in redshift-space distortion measurements from large surveys

D. Bianchi,  L. Guzzo,  E. Branchini,  E. Majerotto,  S. de la Torre,  F. Marulli,  L. Moscardini,  R. E. Angulo, 
  • Pages: 2420-2436
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Resolving subhaloes’ lives with the Hierarchical Bound-Tracing algorithm

Jiaxin Han,  Y. P. Jing,  Huiyuan Wang,  Wenting Wang, 
  • Pages: 2437-2449
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Modelling of c-C2H4O formation on grain surfaces

A. Occhiogrosso,  S. Viti,  M. D. Ward,  S. D. Price, 
  • Pages: 2450-2456
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A new L dwarf member of the moderately metal poor triple system HD 221356

B. Gauza,  V. J. S. Béjar,  R. Rebolo,  K. Peña Ramírez,  M. R. Zapatero Osorio,  A. Pérez-Garrido,  N. Lodieu,  D. J. Pinfield,  R. G. McMahon,  E. González-Solares,  J. P. Emerson,  S. Boudreault,  M. Banerji, 
  • Pages: 2457-2463
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Gas clumping in self-consistent reionization models

Kristian Finlator,  S. Peng Oh,  Feryal Özel,  Romeel Davé, 
  • Pages: 2464-2479
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The effect of poloidal velocity shear on the local development of current-driven instabilities

Krzysztof Nalewajko,  Mitchell C. Begelman, 
  • Pages: 2480-2486
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

An analytic model for rotational modulations in the photometry of spotted stars

David M. Kipping, 
  • Pages: 2487-2511
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Spectroscopic pulsational frequency identification and mode determination of γ Doradus star HD 12901†

E. Brunsden,  K. R. Pollard,  P. L. Cottrell,  D. J. Wright,  P. De Cat, 
  • Pages: 2512-2522
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Searching for non-axisymmetries in NGC 6503: a weak end-on bar

Rachel Kuzio de Naray,  Cameron A. Arsenault,  Kristine Spekkens,  J. A. Sellwood,  Michael McDonald,  Joshua D. Simon,  Peter Teuben, 
  • Pages: 2523-2536
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

MPTbreeze: a fast renormalized perturbative scheme

Martín Crocce,  Román Scoccimarro,  Francis Bernardeau, 
  • Pages: 2537-2551
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

A broad iron line in LMC X-1

James F. Steiner,  Rubens C. Reis,  Andrew C. Fabian,  Ronald A. Remillard,  Jeffrey E. McClintock,  Lijun Gou,  Ryan Cooke,  Laura W. Brenneman,  Jeremy S. Sanders, 
  • Pages: 2552-2561
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

On the structure of molecular clouds

Javier Ballesteros-Paredes,  Paola D'Alessio,  Lee Hartmann, 
  • Pages: 2562-2571
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Atmospheric point spread function interpolation for weak lensing in short exposure imaging data

C. Chang,  P. J. Marshall,  J. G. Jernigan,  J. R. Peterson,  S. M. Kahn,  S. F. Gull,  Y. AlSayyad,  Z. Ahmad,  J. Bankert,  D. Bard,  A. Connolly,  R. R. Gibson,   K. Gilmore,  E. Grace,  M. Hannel,  M. A. Hodge,  L. Jones,  S. Krughoff,  S. Lorenz,  S. Marshall,  A. Meert,  S. Nagarajan,  E. Peng,  A. P. Rasmussen,  M. Shmakova,  N. Sylvestre,  N. Todd,  M. Young, 
  • Pages: 2572-2587
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Dust and gas in carbon stars towards the Galactic halo

Eric Lagadec,  G. C. Sloan,  Albert A. Zijlstra,  Nicolas Mauron,  J. R. Houck, 
  • Pages: 2588-2596
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

The growth and hydrodynamic collapse of a protoplanet envelope

Ben A. Ayliffe,  Matthew R. Bate, 
  • Pages: 2597-2612
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Millennium simulation dark matter haloes: multifractal and lacunarity analysis and the transition to homogeneity

C. A. Chacón-Cardona,  R. A. Casas-Miranda, 
  • Pages: 2613-2624
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Evolution of the baryon fraction in the Local Group: accretion versus feedback at low and high z

Sébastien Peirani,  Intae Jung,  Joseph Silk,  Christophe Pichon, 
  • Pages: 2625-2635
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Testing the universality of star formation – II. Comparing separation distributions of nearby star-forming regions and the field

Robert R. King,  Simon P. Goodwin,  Richard J. Parker,  Jenny Patience, 
  • Pages: 2636-2646
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Carbon enrichment of the evolved stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal

I. McDonald,  J. R. White,  A. A. Zijlstra,  L. Guzman Ramirez,  C. Szyszka,  J. Th. van Loon,  E. Lagadec,  O. C. Jones, 
  • Pages: 2647-2659
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Gas pile-up, gap overflow and Type 1.5 migration in circumbinary discs: general theory

Bence Kocsis,  Zoltán Haiman,  Abraham Loeb, 
  • Pages: 2660-2679
  • First Published: 20 November 2012

Gas pile-up, gap overflow and Type 1.5 migration in circumbinary discs: application to supermassive black hole binaries

Bence Kocsis,  Zoltán Haiman,  Abraham Loeb, 
  • Pages: 2680-2700
  • First Published: 20 November 2012