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

See also: Nature

Simulation of Cosmic Ray neutrinos Interactions in Water

• Authors: T. Sloan (University of Lancaster)

Probing leptoquark production at IceCube

• Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Carlos A. Garcia Canal, Haim Goldberg, Daniel Gomez Dumm, Francis Halzen