today in particle astrophysics: 09/01/2006

Authors: Duncan K. Galloway (1), Edward H. Morgan (2), Miriam I. Krauss (2,3), Philip Kaaret (4), Deepto Chakrabarty (2,3) ((1) University of Melbourne, (2) MIT Kavli Institute, (3) Department of Physics, MIT, (4) University of Iowa)

Spitzer measurements of atomic and molecular abundances in the Type IIP SN 2005af

Authors: Rubina Kotak (ESO), Peter Meikle, Monica Pozzo (Imperial College London), Schuyler D. van Dyk (SSC), Duncan Farrah (Cornell Uni.), Robert Fesen (Dartmouth College), Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan Foley (Berkeley), Claes Fransson (Stockholm Obs.), Christopher L. Gerardy (Imperial College London), Peter A. Hoeflich (Florida State Uni.), Peter Lundqvist (Stockholm Obs.), Seppo Mattila (Queen's Uni. Belfast), Jesper Sollerman (DARK Cosmology Centre), J. Craig Wheeler (Uni. Texas at Austin)

INTEGRAL serendipitous detection of the gamma-ray microquasar LS 5039

Authors: P.Goldoni (APC, DSM/Dapnia/Sap), M. Ribo (Universitat de Barcelona), T. Di Salvo (Universita' di Palermo), J.M. Paredes (Universitat de Barcelona), V. Bosch-Ramon (MPIK, Heidelberg), M. Rupen (NRAO/VLA, Socorro)

BAIKAL Experiment: main results obtained with the neutrino telescope NT200

Authors: Zh.-A. Dzhilkibae (for the BAIKAL Collaboration)

Optical, Infrared, and Ultraviolet Observations of the X-Ray Flash GRB 050416A

Authors: S. T. Holland (1,2), P. T. Boyd (3), J. Gorosabel (4), J. Hjorth (5), P. Schady (6,7), B. Thomsen (8), T. Augusteijn (9), A. J. Blustin (6), A. Breeveld (6), M. De Pasquale (6), J. P. U. Fynbo (5), N. Gehrels (3), C. Gronwall (7), S. Hunsberger (7), M. Ivanushkina (7,10), W. Landsman (3,11), P. Laursen (5), K. McGowan (6,12), V. Mangano (13), C. B. Markwardt (3), F. Marshall (3), K. O. Mason (6,14), A. Moretti (15), M. J. Page (6), T. Poole (6), P. Roming (7), S. Rosen (6), M. Still (2,3,16) ((1) NASA's GSFC, (2) USRA, (3) NASA's GSFC, (4) CSIC, (5) DARK, (6) MSSL, (7) Penn State, (8) Aarhus, (9) NOT, (10) Brigham Young, (11) SSAI, (12) Southampton, (13) INAF Palermo, (14) PPARC, (15) INAF Brera (16) SAAO)

Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy

Authors: Murray Gell-Mann (Santa Fe Institute), James Hartle (University of California Santa Barbara)

Papers -- 9/26/2006

Efficient approximations of neutrino physics for three-dimensional simulations of stellar core collapse

Authors: M. Liebendoerfer, U.-L. Pen, C. Thompson

GRB 051028: an intrinsically faint GRB at high redshift?

Authors: A.J. Castro-Tirado, M. Jelinek, S.B. Pandey, S. McBreen, J. de Jong, D.K. Sahu, P. Ferrero, J.A. Caballero, J. Gorosabel, D.A. Kann, S. Klose, A. de Ugarte Postigo, G.C. Anupama, C. Gry, S. Guziy, S. Srividya, L. Valdivielso, S. Vanniarajan, A. A. Henden

Search for Correlations between Nearby AGNs and Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays

Authors: J. D. Hague, J. A. J. Matthews, B. R. Becker, M. S. Gold

High-energy particles in the wind nebula of pulsar B1509-58 as seen by INTEGRAL

Authors: M. Forot, W. Hermsen, M. Renaud, P. Laurent, I. Grenier, P. Goret, B. Khelifi, L. Kuiper

Tracing the evolution in the Iron content of the ICM

Authors: I. Balestra, P. Tozzi, S. Ettori, P. Rosati, S. Borgani, V. Mainieri, C. Norman, M. Viola

Are Wolf-Rayet winds driven by radiation?

Authors: G. Gräfener, W.-R. Hamann

On the nature of the hard X-ray source IGR J2018+4043

Authors: A.M.Bykov, A.M.Krassilchtchikov, Yu.A.Uvarov, J.A.Kennea, G.G.Pavlov, G.M.Dubner, E.B.Giacani, H.Bloemen, W.Hermsen, J.Kaastra, F.Lebrun, M.Renaud, R.Terrier, M.DeBecker, G.Rauw, J.-P.Swings

Bulk Viscosity, Decaying Dark Matter, and the Cosmic Acceleration

Authors: James R. Wilson, Grant J. Mathews, George M. Fuller

Nuclear Astrophysics of Worlds in the String Landscape

Authors: Craig J. Hogan

Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decay at D0

Authors: D0 Collaboration, V.M. Abazov, et al

Earth Radioactivity Measurements with a Deep Ocean Anti-neutrino Observatory

Authors: S.T. Dye, E. Guillian, J.G. Learned, J. Maricic, S. Matsuno, S. Pakvasa, G. Varner, M. Wilcox

Indirect detection of light neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM

Authors: Francesc Ferrer, Lawrence M. Krauss, Stefano Profumo

Papers -- 9/25/2006

The Origin and Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relationship of Galaxies: Results from Cosmological N-Body Simulations

Authors: A.M. Brooks (UW), F. Governato (UW), C.M. Booth (Durham), B.Willman (CfA), J.P. Gardner (U.Pittsburgh), J. Wadsley (MacMaster), G. Stinson (UW), T. Quinn (UW)

The Impact of Baryonic Cooling on Giant Arc Abundances

Authors: Eduardo Rozo (Chicago/Ohio State), Daisuke Nagai (Caltech), Charles Keeton (Rutgers), Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago)

Discovery of Very High Energy $\gamma$-Rays from Markarian~180 Triggered by an Optical Outburst

Authors: J. Albert et al. (MAGIC collaboration)

Observation of Bs-Bsbar Oscillations

Authors: CDF Collaboration

A Relational Quantum Theory Incorporating Gravity

Authors: Charles Francis

Papers -- 9/22/2006

The Star Formation Epoch of the Most Massive Early-Type Galaxies

Authors: Pieter G. van Dokkum, Roeland P. van der Marel

A Direct Upper Limit on the Density of Cosmological Dust from the Absence of an X-ray Scattering Halo around the z=4.3 QSO 1508+5714

Authors: A. O. Petric, G. A. Telis, F. Paerels, D. J. Helfand

Report of the Dark Energy Task Force

Authors: Andreas Albrecht, Gary Bernstein, Robert Cahn, Wendy L. Freedman, Jacqueline Hewitt, Wayne Hu, John Huth, Marc Kamionkowski, Edward W. Kolb, Lloyd Knox, John C. Mather, Suzanne Staggs, Nicholas B. Suntzeff

A Cosmology Calculator for the World Wide Web

Authors: Edward L. Wright (UCLA)

The Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20 and its Radio Afterglow

Authors: G.B. Taylor (1 and 2), J. Granot (3) ((1) University of New Mexico, (2) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (3) Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology)

The type Ia supernova SNLS-03D3bb from a super-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf star

Authors: D. Andrew Howell, Mark Sullivan, Peter E. Nugent, Richard S. Ellis, Alexander J. Conley, Damien Le Borgne, Raymond G. Carlberg, Julien Guy, David Balam, Stephane Basa, Dominique Fouchez, Isobel M. Hook, Eric Y. Hsiao, James D. Neill, Reynald Pain, Kathryn M. Perrett, Christopher J. Pritchet

Papers -- 9/21/2006

The Warp and Spiral Arms of the Milky Way

Authors: E.S. Levine, Leo Blitz, Carl Heiles, Martin Weinberg

Production of high-energy \mu neutrinos from young neutron stars

Authors: G. F. Burgio (INFN Sezione di Catania, Italy), B. Link (Montana State University, Bozeman, USA)

Type Ia Supernova Light Curves

Authors: S.E. Woosley, Daniel Kasen, S. Blinnikov, E. Sorokina

Type Ia Supernova Rate in the Galactic Center Region

Authors: Stephane Schanne, Michel Casse, Patrick Sizun, Bertrand Cordier, Jacques Paul

Neutrinos from Supernova Remnants After the First H.E.S.S. Observations

Authors: Francesco Vissani

The signature of local cosmic structures on the ultra-high energy cosmic ray anisotropies

Authors: A. Cuoco

The short-hard GRB 051103: Observations and implications for its nature

Authors: E. O. Ofek, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Nakar, S. B. Cenko, P. B. Cameron, D. A. Frail, A. Gal-Yam, A. M. Soderberg, D. B. Fox

Status of Identification of VHE gamma-ray sources

Authors: Stefan Funk (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Formation of Neutrino Stars from Cosmological Background Neutrinos

Authors: M. H. Chan, M.-C. Chu

Papers -- 9/20/2006

Approximate formulae for exotic GCR anti-protons and anti-deuterons: fluxes and astrophysical uncertainties

Authors: D. Maurin, R. Taillet, C. Combet

A Near-Infrared and X-ray Study of W49B: A Wind Cavity Explosion

Authors: Jonathan W. Keohane, William T. Reach, Jeonghee Rho, Thomas H. Jarrett

On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes

Authors: A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Investigating AGN Heating in a Sample of Nearby Clusters

Authors: R.J.H. Dunn, A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

On the Origin of the Type Ia Supernova Width-Luminosity Relation

Authors: Daniel Kasen, S.E. Woosley

On the Possibility of Identification of a Short/Hard Burst GRB 051103 with the Giant Flare from a Soft Gamma Repeater in the M81 Group of Galaxies

Authors: D.D. Frederiks, V.D. Pal'shin, R.L. Aptekar', S.V. Golenetskii, T.L. Cline, E.P. Mazets

Swift XRT Observations of the Afterglow of XRF 050416A

Authors: Vanessa Mangano, Valentina La Parola, Giancarlo Cusumano, Teresa Mineo, Daniele Malesani, Jaroslaw Dyks, Sergio Campana, Milvia Capalbi, Guido Chincarini, Paolo Giommi, Alberto Moretti, Matteo Perri, Patrizia Romano, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, David N. Burrows, Neil Gehrels, Olivier Godet, Stephen T. Holland, Jamie A. Kennea, Kim L. Page, Judith L. Racusin, Peter W. A. Roming, Bing Zhang

Can you do quantum mechanics without Einstein?

Authors: Y. S. Kim, Marilyn E. Noz

Papers -- 9/19/2006

HI column densities of z > 2 Swift gamma-ray bursts

Authors: P. Jakobsson, J. P. U. Fynbo, C. Ledoux, P. Vreeswijk, D. A. Kann, J. Hjorth, N. R. Tanvir, D. Reichart, J. Gorosabel, S. Klose, R. S. Priddey, D. Watson, J. Sollerman, A. S. Fruchter, A. de Ugarte Postigo, K. Wiersema, G. Björnsson, C. C. Thöne, K. Pedersen, B. L. Jensen

Clustering of the IR Background Light with Spitzer: Contribution from Resolved Sources

Authors: Ian Sullivan (Caltech), Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine), Ranga-Ram Chary (Caltech), James J. Bock (JPL), Mark Brodwin (JPL), Michael J. I. Brown (Princeton), Arjun Dey (NOAO), Mark Dickinson (NOAO), Peter Eisenhardt (JPL), Henry C. Ferguson (STSCI), Mauro Giavalisco (STSCI), Brian Keating (UCSD), Andrew Lange (Caltech), Bahram Mobasher (STSCI), William T. Reach (Caltech), Daniel Stern (JPL), Edward L. Wright (UCLA)

Turbulent Combustion in Type Ia Supernova Models

Authors: F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt (MPA Garching)

Optical to Mid-Infrared observations revealing the most obscured high-energy sources of the Galaxy

Authors: Sylvain Chaty (AIME), Farid Rahoui (AIME, ESO)

Temperature profiles of a representative sample of nearby X-ray galaxy clusters

Authors: G.W. Pratt (MPE Garching), H. Boehringer, J.H. Croston, M. Arnaud, S. Borgani, A. Finoguenov, R.F. Temple

Probing the Density in the Galactic Center Region: Wind-Blown Bubbles and High-Energy Proton Constraints

Authors: Christopher L. Fryer, Siming Liu, Gabriel Rockefeller, Aimee Hungerford, Guillaume Belanger

Mass loss of rotating stars at very low metallicity

Authors: Georges Meynet, Andre Maeder, Raphael Hirschi, Sylvia Ekstroem, Cristina Chiappini

GRBs as Cosmological Probes - Cosmic Chemical Evolution

Authors: S. Savaglio (MPE)

Propagation of super high-energy cosmic rays in the Galaxy

Authors: Joerg R. Hoerandel, Nikolai N. Kalmykov, Aleksei V. Timokhin

A Testable the Stochastic Acceleration Model for Flares in Sagittarius A*

Authors: Siming Liu, Vahe Petrosian, Fulvio Melia, Christopher L. Fryer

High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic-Rays from Low-Luminosity Gamma-Ray Bursts?

Authors: Kohta Murase, Kunihito Ioka, Shigehiro Nagataki, Takashi Nakamura

Hole theory and Quantum Electrodynamics in an unknown French manuscript by Ettore Majorana

Authors: S. Esposito

A Definition for Fine Tuning in Analogy to the Chaos

Authors: Zs. Hetesi, L. Végh

Papers -- 9/18/2006

Giant Molecular Clouds in M31: I - Molecular Cloud Properties

Authors: E. Rosolowsky (Center for Astrophysics)

INTEGRAL observations of TeV plerions

Authors: A. I. D. Hoffmann, D. Horns, A. Santangelo

Swift and Suzaku Observations of the X-Ray Afterglow from the GRB 060105

Authors: M. S. Tashiro (1), K. Abe (1), L. Angelini (2), S. Barthelmy (2), N. Gehrels (2), N. Ishikawa (3), L. J. Kaluzienski (2), N. Kawai (4), R. L. Kelley (2), K. Kinugasa (5), H. Kodaira (6), T. Kohmura (7), K. Kubota (8), Y. Maeda (9), S. Maeno (10), H. Murakami (9), T. Murakami (6), Y. E. Nakagawa (3), K. Nakazawa (9), J. Nousek (11), S. Okuno (6), K. Onda (1), J. N. Reeves (2), G. Ricker (12), G. Sato (2,9), E. Sonoda (10), M. Suzuki (13), T. Takahashi (9), T. Tamagawa (13), K. Torii (14), Y. Ueda (8), Y. Urata (1), K. Yamaoka (3), M. Yamauchi (10), D. Yonetoku (6), A. Yoshida (3), S. Yoshinari (6) ((1)Saitama Univ., (2)NASA/GSFC, (3)Aoyama Gakuin Univ., (4)Tokyo Tech., (5)Gunma Astronomical Observatory, (6)Kanazawa Univ., (7)Kogakuin Univ., (8)Kyoto Univ., (9)JAXA/ISAS, (10)Univ. of Miyazaki, (11)Penn. State Univ., (12)MIT, (13)RIKEN, (14)Osaka Univ)

Hypervelocity Collisions of Binary Stars at the Galactic Centre

Authors: Idan Ginsburg, Abraham Loeb

GRB 050223: A dark GRB in a dusty starburst galaxy

Authors: L. J. Pellizza (1 and 2), P.-A. Duc (1), E. Le Floc'h (3 and 4), I. F. Mirabel (5), L. A. Antonelli (6), S. Campana (7), G. Chincarini (7 and 8), A. Cimatti (9), S. Covino (7), M. Della Valle (9), F. Fiore (6), D. Fugazza (7), P. Giommi (10), P. Goldoni (11), G. L. Israel (6), E. Molinari (7), A. Moretti (7), L. Piro (12), P. Saracco (7), L. Stella (6), G. Tagliaferri (7), M. Vietri (13) ((1) AIM CEA Saclay - France, (2) IAFE - Argentina, (3) Steward Obs. - USA, (4) Observatoire de Paris - France, (5) ESO - Chile, (6) INAF Roma - Italy, (7) INAF - Brera Italy, (8) Univ. Milano-Bicocca - Italy, (9) INAF Arcetri - Italy, (10) ASI SDC - Italy, (11) APC - France, (12) INAF-IASF Roma - Italy, (13) SNS Pisa - Italy)

Canonical Constraints on Leptonic Cp Violation using UHCR neutrino fluxes

Authors: K.R.S. Balaji, G. Couture, C. Hamzaoui

Via Aristotle, Leibnitz and Mach to a Fractal D=2 Universe

Authors: D F Roscoe

Papers -- 9/15/2006

The birth and early evolution of star clusters

Authors: Pavel Kroupa (AIfA, Bonn)

ARCADE: Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission

Authors: A. Kogut (1), D. Fixsen (2), S. Fixsen (2), S. Levin (3), M. Limon (2), L. Lowe (2), P. Mirel (2), M. Seiffert (3), J. Singal (4), P. Lubin (4), E. Wollack (1) ((1) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, (2) SSAI, (3) JPL, (4) University of California, Santa Barbara)

The MicroJansky Radio Galaxy Population

Authors: A. J. Barger, L. L. Cowie, W.-H. Wang

Nucleonic gamma-ray production in Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Authors: D. Horns (1), F. Aharonian (2), A.I.D. Hoffmann (1), A. Santangelo (1) ((1) IAAT, Univ. Tuebingen (2) Max-Planck Institut f. Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

Degenerate sterile neutrino dark matter in the cores of galaxies

Authors: Faustin Munyaneza (1), Peter L. Biermann (1,2 and 3) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany, (2) University of Bonn, Germany and (3) University of Alabama, US)

Infrared observations of the 2006 outburst of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi: the early phase

Authors: A. Evans (Keele University), T. Kerr (JACH), Bin Yang (University of Hawaii), Y. Matsuoka (University of Tokyo), Y. Tsuzuki (Tokyo), M. F. Bode (Liverpool John Moores), S. P. S. Eyres (University of Central Lancs), T. R. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), C. E. Woodward (University of Minnesota), R. D. Gehrz (Minnesota), D. K. Lynch, R. J. Rudy, R. W. Russell (Aerospace Corporation), T. J. O'Brien (University of Manchester), S. G. Starrfield (Arizona State), R. J. Davis (Manchester), Jan-Uwe Ness (Arizona State), J. Drake (CfA), J. P. Osborne, K. L. Page (University of Leicester), A. Adamson (JACH), G. Schwarz (Steward Observatory), J. Krautter (Landessternewarte Heidelberg)

CMB Anisotropies from Outflows in Lyman Break Galaxies

Authors: Daniel Babich (Caltech), Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Observation of the GZK Cutoff by the HiRes Experiment

Authors: G.B. Thomson, for the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) Collaboration

Unveiling Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters with INTEGRAL

Authors: D. Gotz, S. Mereghetti, K. Hurley

The impact of stellar rotation on the CNO abundance patterns in the Milky Way at low metallicities

Authors: C. Chiappini (1,2), R. Hirschi (3), F. Matteucci (4), G. Meynet (2), S. Ekstrom (2), A. Maeder (2) ((1) Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, (2) Observatoire Astronomique de Geneve, (3) Dept. of Physics, University of Basel, (4) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' di Trieste)

Small-Scale X-ray Variability in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant