S. Heinz

Publication List Details

Period

1991 - 2008

Number

101

Co-Authors

A parsec scale X-ray extended structure from the X-ray binary Circinus X-1 (2008)

Soleri, P., Heinz, S., Fender, R., Wijnands, R., Tudose, V., Altamirano, D., ...

We present the results of the analysis of two Chandra observations of Circinus X-1 performed in 2007, for a total exposure time of ~50 ks. The source was observed with the High Resolution Camera...

Galactic Compact Objects Section of the White Paper on the Status and Future of Ground-based TeV Gamma-ray Astronomy (2008)

Kaaret, P., Abdo, A. A., Arons, J., Baring, M., Cui, W., Dingus, B., ...

This is a report on the findings of the Galactic compact objects working group for the white paper on the status and future of TeV gamma-ray astronomy. The white paper is an APS commissioned...

Blazing trails: Microquasars as head-tail sources and the seeding of magnetized plasma into the ISM (2008)

Heinz, S., Grimm, H. J., Sunyaev, R. A., Fender, R. P.

We discuss the dynamics of microquasar jets in the interstellar medium, with specific focus on the effects of the X-ray binaries' space velocity with respect to the local Galactic standard of rest....

Evidence for a parsec scale X-ray jet from the accreting neutron star Circinus X-1 (2007)

Heinz, S., Schulz, N. S., Brandt, W. N., Galloway, D. K.

We analyzed the zero-order image of a 50 ks Chandra gratings observation of Circinus X-1, taken in 2005 during the source's low-flux state. Circinus X-1 is an accreting neutron star that exhibits...

Search for a long lived component in the reaction U+U near the Coulomb barrier (2007)

Villari, A.C.C., Golabek, C., Mittig, W., Heinz, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Boilley, D., ...

We performed an experiment to search for a signature of a long living component in the collision of $^{238}$U + $^{238}$U between 6.09 and 7.35A MeV. The experiment was performed at GANIL using the...

Search for a long lived component in the reaction U+U near the Coulomb barrier (2007)

Villari, A.C.C., Golabek, C., Mittig, W., Heinz, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Boilley, D., ...

We performed an experiment to search for a signature of a long living component in the collision of $^{238}$U + $^{238}$U between 6.09 and 7.35A MeV. The experiment was performed at GANIL using the...

Search for a long lived component in the reaction U+U near the Coulomb barrier (2007)

Villari, A.C.C., Golabek, C., Mittig, W., Heinz, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Boilley, D., ...

We performed an experiment to search for a signature of a long living component in the collision of $^{238}$U + $^{238}$U between 6.09 and 7.35A MeV. The experiment was performed at GANIL using the...

Shock heating by FR I radio sources in galaxy clusters (2007)

Brueggen, M., Heinz, S., Roediger, E., Ruszkowski, M., Simionescu, A.

Feedback by active galactic nuclei (AGN) is frequently invoked to explain the cut-off of the galaxy luminosity function at the bright end and the absence of cooling flows in galaxy clusters....

Impact of tangled magnetic fields on AGN-blown bubbles (2007)

Ruszkowski, M., Ensslin, T. A., Bruggen, M., Heinz, S., Pfrommer, C.

There is growing consensus that feedback from AGN is the main mechanism responsible for stopping cooling flows in clusters of galaxies. AGN are known to inflate buoyant bubbles that supply mechanical...

Cosmological evolution of the AGN Kinetic Luminosity Function (2006)

Merloni, A., Heinz, S.

We present a first attempt to derive the cosmological evolution of the kinetic luminosity function of AGN based on the joint evolution of the flat spectrum radio and hard X-ray selected AGN...

The answer is blowing in the wind: Simulating the interaction of jets with dynamic cluster atmospheres (2006)

Heinz, S., Brueggen, M., Young, A., Levesque, E.

We present numerical simulations investigating the interaction of AGN jets with galaxy clusters, for the first time taking into account the dynamic nature of the cluster gas and detailed cluster...

A radio-emitting outflow in the quiescent state of A0620-00: implications for modelling low-luminosity black hole binaries (2006)

Gallo, E., Fender, R., Miller-Jones, J., Merloni, A., Jonker, P., Heinz, S., ...

Deep observations with the Very Large Array of A0620-00, performed in 2005 August, resulted in the first detection of radio emission from a black hole binary at X-ray luminosities as low as 10^{-8.5}...

Filaments, Bubbles, and Weak Shocks in the Gaseous Atmosphere of M87 (2006)

Forman, W., Churazov, E., Jones, C., Markevitch, M., Nulsen, P., Vikhlinin, A., ...

We present the first results from a 500 ksec Chandra ACIS-I observation of M87. At soft energies (0.5-1.0 keV), we detect filamentary structures associated with the eastern and southwestern X-ray and...

Why the fundamental plane of black hole activity is not simply a distance driven artifact (2006)

Merloni, A., Koerding, E., Heinz, S., Markoff, S., Di Matteo, T., Falcke, H.

The fundamental plane of black hole activity is a non-linear correlation among radio core luminosity, X-ray luminosity and mass of all accreting black holes, both of stellar mass and supermassive,...

Why the fundamental plane of black hole activity is not simply a distance driven artifact (2006)

Merloni, A., Körding, E., Heinz, S., Markoff, S.B., Matteo, T. Di, Falcke, H.

The fundamental plane of black hole activity is a non-linear correlation among radio core luminosity, X-ray luminosity and mass of all accreting black holes, both of stellar mass and supermassive,...

A radio-emitting outflow in the quiescent state of A0620-00: implications for modelling low-luminosity black hole binaries (2006)

Gallo, E., Fender, R.P., Merloni, A., Jonker, P.G., Heinz, S., ...

Deep observations with the Very Large Array of A0620-00, performed in 2005 August, resulted in the first detection of radio emission from a black hole binary at X-ray luminosities as low as 10-8.5...

A radio-emitting outflow in the quiescent state of A0620-00: implications for modelling low-luminosity black hole binaries (2006)

Gallo, E., Fender, R.P., Merloni, A., Jonker, P.G., Heinz, S., ...

Deep observations with the Very Large Array of A0620-00, performed in 2005 August, resulted in the first detection of radio emission from a black hole binary at X-ray luminosities as low as 10-8.5...

Reflections of Active Galactic Nucleus Outbursts in the Gaseous Atmosphere of M87 (2005)

Forman, W., Nulsen, P., Heinz, S., Owen, F., Eilek, J., Vikhlinin, A., ...

We combined deep Chandra, ROSAT HRI, and XMM-Newton observations of M87 to study the impact of active galactic nucleus (AGN) outbursts on its gaseous atmosphere. Many X-ray features appear to be a...

Reflections of Active Galactic Nucleus Outbursts in the Gaseous Atmosphere of M87 (2005)

Forman, W., Nulsen, P., Heinz, S., Owen, F., Eilek, J., Vikhlinin, A., ...

We combined deep Chandra, ROSAT HRI, and XMM-Newton observations of M87 to study the impact of active galactic nucleus (AGN) outbursts on its gaseous atmosphere. Many X-ray features appear to be a...

Estimating the kinetic luminosity function of jets from Galactic X-ray binaries (2005)

Heinz, S.

By combining the recently derived X-ray luminosity function for Galactic X-ray binaries (XRBs) by Grimm et al. (2002) and the radio-X-ray-mass relation of accreting black holes found by Merloni et...

A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1 (2005)

Gallo, E., Fender, R., Kaiser, C., Russell, D., Morganti, R., Oosterloo, T., ...

Accreting black holes are thought to emit the bulk of their power in the X-ray band by releasing the gravitational potential energy of the infalling matter. At the same time, they are capable of...

Heating the bubbly gas of galaxy clusters with weak shocks and sound waves (2005)

Heinz, S., Churazov, E.

Using hydrodynamic simulations and a technique to extract the rotational component of the velocity field, we show how bubbles of relativistic gas inflated by AGN jets in galaxy clusters act as a...

The ion-trap facility SHIPTRAP (2005)

Block, M., Ackermann, D., Beck, D., Blaum, K., Breitenfeldt, M., Chauduri, A., ...

The Penning-trap mass spectrometer at the ion trap facility SHIPTRAP is in the final stage of commissioning. First on-line mass measurements of neutron-deficient radionuclides in the rare-earth...

The ion-trap facility SHIPTRAP (2005)

Block, M., Ackermann, D., Beck, D., Blaum, K., Breitenfeldt, M., Chauduri, A., ...

The Penning-trap mass spectrometer at the ion trap facility SHIPTRAP is in the final stage of commissioning. First on-line mass measurements of neutron-deficient radionuclides in the rare-earth...

A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1 (2005)

Gallo, E., Fender, R.P., Kaiser, C., Russell, D., Morganti, R., Oosterloo, T., ...

Black holes undergoing accretion are thought to emit the bulk of their power in the X-ray band by releasing the gravitational potential energy of the infalling matter. At the same time, they are...

Reflections of Active Galactic Nucleus Outbursts in the Gaseous Atmosphere of M87 (2005)

Forman, W., Nulsen, P., Heinz, S., Owen, F., Eilek, J., Vikhlinin, A., ...

We combined deep Chandra, ROSAT HRI, and XMM-Newton observations of M87 to study the impact of active galactic nucleus (AGN) outbursts on its gaseous atmosphere. Many X-ray features appear to be a...

Transcription factor Tfec contributes to the IL-4-inducible expression of a small group of genes in mouse macrophages including the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor (2005)

Rehli, M., Sulzbacher, S., Pape, S., Ravasi, T., Wells, C. A., Heinz, S., ...

Expression of the mouse transcription factor EC (Tfec) is restricted to the myeloid compartment, suggesting a function for Tfec in the development or function of these cells. However, mice lacking...

The Halo, Hot Spots and Jet/Cloud Interaction of PKS 2153--69 (2004)

Young, A. J., Wilson, A. S., Tingay, S. J., Heinz, S.

We report Chandra X-ray Observatory and 1.4 GHz Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA) observations of the radio galaxy PKS 2153--69 and its environment. The Chandra image reveals a roughly spherical...

Constraints on relativistic beaming from estimators of the unbeamed flux (2004)

Heinz, S., Merloni, A.

We review the statistical properties of relativistic Doppler boosting relevant for studies of relativistic jets from compact objects based on radio--X-ray(--mass) correlations, such as that found in...

Constraints on the role of synchrotron X-rays from jets of accreting black holes (2004)

Heinz, S.

We present an extension of the scale invariance formalism by Heinz & Sunyaev (2003) which includes the effects of radiative cooling on the X-ray synchrotron emission from core dominated jets and...

Long term variability of Cygnus X-1, III. Radio-X-ray correlations (2004)

Gleissner, T., Wilms, J., Pooley, G. G., Nowak, M. A., Pottschmidt, K., Markoff, S., ...

Long time scale radio-X-ray correlations in black holes during the hard state have been found in many sources and there seems to emerge a universal underlying relationship which quantitatively...

Long term variability of Cygnus X-1. III. Radio-X-ray correlations (2004)

Gleissner, T., Wilms, J., Pooley, G.G., Nowak, M.A., Pottschmidt, K., Markoff, S., ...

Long time scale radio-X-ray correlations in black holes during the hard state have been found in many sources and there seems to emerge a universal underlying relationship which quantitatively...

Reflections of AGN Outbursts in the Gaseous Atmosphere of M87 (2003)

Forman, W., Nulsen, P., Heinz, S., Owen, F., Eilek, J., Vikhlinin, A., ...

We combined deep Chandra, ROSAT HRI, and XMM-Newton observations of M87 to study the impact of AGN outbursts on its gaseous atmosphere. Many X-ray features appear to be a direct result of repetitive...

Ram pressure stripping and the formation of cold fronts (2003)

Heinz, S., Churazov, E., Forman, W., Jones, C., Briel, U. G.

Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of many clusters reveal sharp discontinuities in the surface brightness, which, unlike shocks, have lower gas temperature on the X-ray brighter side of the...

The Non-Linear Dependence of Flux on Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate in Core Dominated Jets (2003)

Heinz, S., Sunyaev, R.

We derive the non-linear relation between the core flux F_{nu} of accretion powered jets at a given frequency and the mass M of the central compact object. For scale invariant jet models, the...

Rho^0 meson production in the pp ->pppi+pi- reaction at 3.67 GeV/c (2002)

Balestra, F., Bedfer, Y., Bertini, R., Bland, L. C., Brenschede, A., Brochard, F., ...

Total and differential cross sections for the exclusive reaction pp->pp rho^0 observed via the pi+pi- decay channel have been measured at beam momentum=3.67 GeV/c. The observed total meson production...

Cosmic Rays from Microquasars: a Narrow Component to the CR Spectrum? (2002)

Heinz, S., Sunyaev, R. A.

We propose that relativistic Galactic jets like those observed in GRS 1915+105 and GRO J1655-40 may produce small but measurable contributions to the cosmic ray (CR) spectrum. If these jets contain...

Radio Lobe Dynamics and the Environment of Microquasars (2002)

Heinz, S.

We argue that, when compared to AGNs in dynamical terms, microquasars are found in low density, low pressure environments. Using a simple analytic model, we discuss radio lobe dynamics and emission....

The hydrodynamics of dead radio galaxies (2002)

Reynolds, C. S., Heinz, S., Begelman, M. C.

We present a numerical investigation of dead, or relic, radio galaxies and the environmental impact that radio galaxy activity has on the host galaxy or galaxy cluster. We perform axisymmetric...

Cosmic rays from microquasars: A narrow component to the CR spectrum? (2002)

Heinz, S., Sunyaev, R.

We propose that relativistic Galactic jets like those observed in GRS 1915+105 and GRO J1655-40 may produce a small but measurable contribution to the cosmic ray (CR) spectrum. If these jets contain...

Chandra ACIS-S observations of Abell 4059: Signs of dramatic interaction between a radio galaxy and a galaxy cluster (2002)

Heinz, S., Choi, Y. Y., Reynolds, C. S., Begelman, M. C.

We present Chandra observations of the galaxy cluster A4059. We find strong evidence that the FR I radio galaxy PKS 2354-35 at the center of A4059 is inflating cavities with radii similar to20 kpc in...

The hydrodynamics of dead radio galaxies (2002)

Reynolds, C. S., Heinz, S., Begelman, M. C.

We present a numerical investigation of dead, or relic, radio galaxies and the environmental impact that radio galaxy activity has on the host galaxy or galaxy cluster. We perform axisymmetric...

Hiding in plain sight: Chandra observations of the quiescent neutron star 4U 2129+47 in eclipse (2002)

Nowak, M. A., Heinz, S., Begelman, M. C.

During a previous outburst phase, the neutron star 4U 2129+47 exhibited evidence for a spatially extended accretion disk corona via broad, partial X-ray eclipses occurring periodically on the 5.24 hr...

Radio lobe dynamics and the environment of microquasars (2002)

Heinz, S.

We argue that, when compared to AGNs in dynamical terms, microquasars are found in low density, low pressure environments. Using a simple analytic model, we discuss radio lobe dynamics and emission....

Radio and X-ray detectability of buoyant radio plasma bubbles in clusters of galaxies (2002)

Ensslin, T. A., Heinz, S.

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is finding a surprisingly large number of cavities in the X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM), produced by the release of radio plasma from active galactic nuclei....

Vertikal-Transistor mit beweglichen Gate und Verfahren zu dessen Herstelllung (2001)

Gessner, T., Heinz, S., Bertz, A.

DE 10029501 C UPAB: 20011113 NOVELTY - Vertical field effect transistor made from a semiconductor wafer comprises a residual transistor consisting of a source region (42), a channel region (3), a...

$\phi$ and $\omega$ Meson Production in pp Reactions at $p_{lab}$=3.67 GeV/c (2000)

Collaboration, DISTO, Balestra, F., Bedfer, Y., Bertini, R., Bland, L. C., Brenschede, A., ...

The exclusive production cross sections for $\omega$ and $\phi$ mesons have been measured in proton-proton reactions at $p_{lab}=3.67$ GeV/c. The observed $\phi/\omega$ cross section ratio