tipa -- 10/10/2006

The Nature of the Variable Galactic Center Source GCIRS 16SW Revisited: A Massive Eclipsing Binary

• Authors: Molly S. Peeples (1), A. Z. Bonanos (2), D. L. DePoy (1), K. Z. Stanek (1), J. Pepper (1), Richard W. Pogge (1), M. H. Pinsonneault (1), K. Sellgren (1) ((1) Ohio State, (2) Carnegie Institute of Washington)

WMAP-normalized Inflationary Model Predictions and the Search for Primordial Gravitational Waves with Direct Detection Experiments

• Authors: Brett C. Friedman, Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine), Alessandro Melchiorri (Rome U. & INFN, Rome)

Propagation of ultra-high energy neutrinos in the cosmic neutrino background

• Authors: V. Van Elewyck

Supernovae in Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters: the Type-Ia Supernova Rate

• Authors: Keren Sharon (1), Avishay Gal-Yam (2), Dan Maoz (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (3), Puragra GuhaThakurta (4). ((1) Tel Aviv University, (2) Caltech, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) UCO/Lick Observatory)

Primordial magnetic field constrained from CMB anisotropies,and its generation and evolution before, during and after the BBN

• Authors: Dai G. Yamazaki, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Toshitaka Kajino, Grant J. Mathews

INTEGRAL Observations of SS433: Analysis of Precessional and Orbital X-ray Periodicities

• Authors: A.M. Cherepashchuk, R.A. Sunyaev, E.V. Seifina, E.A. Antokhina, D.I. Kosenko, S.V. Molkov, N.I. Shakura, K.A. Postnov, A.N. Timokhin, I.E. Panchenko

Gamma Ray Bursts as standard candles to constrain the cosmological parameters

• Authors: G. Ghirlanda (1), G. Ghisellini (1), C. Firmani (1,2) ((1) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera; (2) Instituto de Astronomia, U.N.A.M., Mexico)

Particle Acceleration at Multiple Internal Relativistic Shocks

• Authors: Paul Dempsey, Peter Duffy

Constraints on an optical afterglow and on supernova light following the short burst GRB 050813

• Authors: P. Ferrero, S.F. Sanchez, D.A. Kann, S. Klose, J.Greiner, J. Gorosabel, D.H. Hartmann, A.A. Henden, P. M\oller, E. Palazzi, A. Rau, B. Stecklum, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, C. Kouveliotou, N. Masetti, E. Pian, N. Tanvir, R.A.M.J. Wijers

Virtual Laboratories

• Authors: Piet Hut (IAS, Princeton)

Strangelets accelerated by pulsars in galactic cosmic rays

• Authors: K.S. Cheng, V.V. Usov

Cosmological zoo -- accelerating models with dark energy

• Authors: Marek Szydlowski

Hubble law may explain the anomalous acceleration of the pioneer 10 & 11 spacecraft

• Authors: Firmin J. Oliveira

Does PIONEER measure local spacetime expansion?

• Authors: Hans-Joerg Fahr, Mark Siewert (Argelander-Institut f. Astronomie, Abt. Astrophysik)

Is Our Universe Likely to Decay within 20 Billion Years?

• Authors: Don N. Page