classic papers of the week -- 40

A new class of radio pulsars

• Alpar, M. A.; Cheng, A. F.; Ruderman, M. A.; Shaham, J.

Evidence For The Production Of Neutral Mesons By Photons

• W.K.H. Panofsky, J. Steinberger, J. Steller

MAD versus NUTS

• S.M. Keeny Jr., W.K.H. Panofsky (SLAC)

tipa -- 9/28/2007

Radio Detection of Supernova 2004ip in the Circumnuclear Region of the Luminous Infrared Galaxy IRAS 18293-3413

• Authors: M. A. Pérez-Torres, S. Mattila, A. Alberdi, L. Colina, J. M. Torrelles, P. Väisänen, N. Panagia, A. Wilson

A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin

• Authors: D. R. Lorimer, M. Bailes, M. A. McLaughlin, D. J. Narkevic, F. Crawford

Observation of the Supernova Remnant IC 443 with VERITAS

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: T. B. Humensky

Discovery of the candidate pulsar wind nebula HESS J1718-385 in very-high-energy gamma-rays

• Authors: H.E.S.S Collaboration: S. Carrigan, Y.A. Gallant, J. A. Hinton, Nu. Komin, K. Kosack, C. Stegmann

Charged Current Neutrino Cross Section and Tau Energy Loss at Ultra-High Energies

• Authors: N. Armesto, C. Merino, G. Parente, E. Zas

tipa -- 9/27/2007

Large amounts of optically-obscured star formation in the host galaxies of some type-2 quasars

• Authors: M. Lacy (1), A. Sajina, (1), A.O. Petric (1,2), N. Seymour (1), G. Canalizo (3), S.E. Ridgway (4), L. Armus (1), L.J. Storrie-Lombardi (1) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, (2) Columbia University, (3) University of California, Riverside, (4) NOAO)

Quasi-binarity of massive stars in young dense clusters - the case of the ONC

• Authors: S. Pfalzner, C. Olczak

Search for supernova-produced 60Fe in a marine sediment

• Authors: C. Fitoussi, G. M. Raisbeck, K. Knie, G. Korschinek, T. Faestermann, S. Goriely, D. Lunney, M. Poutivtsev, G. Rugel, C. Waelbroeck, A. Wallner

Flame-driven deflagration-to-detonation transitions in Type Ia supernovae?

• Authors: F. K. Roepke (MPA Garching and UC Santa Cruz)

Type Ia Supernova: Burning and Detonation in the Distributed Regime

• Authors: S. E. Woosley

Establishing a connection between high-power pulsars and very-high-energy gamma-ray sources

• Authors: S. Carrigan, J.A. Hinton, W. Hofmann, K. Kosack, T. Lohse, O. Reimer, for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

How certain is the distance to the most luminous supernova?

• Authors: H. Arp

tipa -- 9/26/2007

The Cosmic MeV Gamma-ray Background and Hard X-ray Spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei: Implications for the Origin of Hot AGN Coronae

• Authors: Yoshiyuki Inoue, Tomonori Totani, Yoshihiro Ueda (Kyoto University)

Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae with the VERITAS Array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

• Authors: A. Konopelko, for the VERITAS collaboration

Neutrinos from WIMP Annihilations Using a Full Three-Flavor Monte Carlo

• Authors: Mattias Blennow, Joakim Edsjo, Tommy Ohlsson

Muon internal bremsstrahlung: a conventional explanation for the excess electron-neutrino events in MiniBoone

• Authors: Arie Bodek

tipa -- 9/25/2007

Search for Pulsar Wind Nebula Associations of Unidentified TeV Gamma-Ray Sources

• Authors: Chulhoon Chang, Alexander Konopelko, Wei Cui (Purdue University)

VERITAS: Status and Latest Results

• Authors: G. Maier, et al

Observation of M87 with VERITAS

• Authors: Pierre Colin (for the VERITAS collaboration)

Localising the H.E.S.S. Galactic Centre point source

• Authors: C. van Eldik, O. Bolz, I. Braun, G. Hermann, J. Hinton, W. Hofmann (for the HESS Collaboration)

Detecting Neutrino Magnetic Moments with Conducting Loops

• Authors: Aram Apyan, Armen Apyan, Michael Schmitt

Consequences of Approximate $S_3$ Symmetry of the Neutrino Mass Matrix

• Authors: Chien-Yi Chen, L. Wolfenstein

tipa -- 9/24/2007

Cosmological Cosmic Rays: Sharpening the Primordial Lithium Problem

• Authors: Tijana Prodanovic, Brian D. Fields

Monochromatic Neutrino Signals from Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Vernon Barger, Wai-Yee Keung, Gabe Shaughnessy

Are There Enough Ionizing Photons to Reionize the Universe by z=6?

• Authors: Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Gamma-ray emission from dark matter wakes of recoiled black holes

• Authors: Roya Mohayaee, Jacques Colin, Joe Silk

Composition of UHECR and the Pierre Auger Observatory Spectrum

• Authors: Katsushi Arisaka, Graciela B. Gelmini, Matthew Healy, Oleg Kalashev, Joong Lee

High Energy Neutrinos with a Mediterranean Neutrino Telescope

• Authors: E. Borriello, A. Cuoco, G. Mangano, G. Miele, S. Pastor, O. Pisanti, P. D. Serpico

classic papers of the week -- 39

Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

• Sidney R. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

On the Origin of Great Nebulae

• Gamow, G.; Teller, E. (The George Washington University, Washington, D. C.)

tipa -- 9/21/2007

[OIII] 5007 Emission from the Black-Hole X-ray Binary in a NGC 4472 Globular Cluster

• Authors: Stephen E. Zepf, Thomas J. Maccarone, Gilles Bergond, Arunav Kundu, Katherine L. Rhode, John J. Salzer

Prospects For Detecting Dark Matter With GLAST In Light Of The WMAP Haze

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Gregory Dobler

Cosmology and the Unexpected

• Authors: Edward W. Kolb

tipa -- 9/20/2007

IGR J22517+2218=MG3 J225155+2217: a new gamma-ray lighthouse in the distant Universe

• Authors: L. Bassani, R. Landi, A. Malizia, M.T. Fiocchi, A. Bazzano, A. J. Bird, A. J. Dean, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, P. Ubertini

Cosmic ray acceleration in subluminal and superluminal relativistic shock environments

• Authors: Athina Meli (1,2), Julia K. Becker (2), John J. Quenby (3) ((1) Physics Department, National University of Athens, Greece (2) Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Dortmund, Germany (3) Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK)

Cosmic Ray Physics with ACORDE at LHC

• Authors: C. Pagliarone, A. Fernandez-Tellez

tipa -- 9/19/2007

Clustering properties of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays and the search for their astrophysical sources

• Authors: Alessandro Cuoco, Steen Hannestad, Troels Haugboelle, Michael Kachelriess, Pasquale D. Serpico

Freshly Formed Dust in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope

• Authors: J. Rho, T. Kozasa, W. T. Reach, L. Rudnick, T. DeLaney, J. D. Smith, J. A. Ennis, H. Gomez, A. Tappe

The Orbital Period of the Wolf-Rayet Binary IC 10 X-1; Dynamic Evidence that the Compact Object is a Black Hole

• Authors: A. H. Prestwich, R. Kilgard, P. A. Crowther, S. Carpano, A. M. T. Pollock, A. Zezas, S. H. Saar, T. P. Roberts, M. J. Ward

tipa -- 9/18/2007

LBT Discovery of a Yellow Supergiant Eclipsing Binary in the Dwarf Galaxy Holmberg IX

• Authors: J. L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, D. R. Weisz, A. Baruffolo, J. Bechtold, V. Burwitz, C. DeSantis, S. Gallozzi, P. M. Garnavich, E. Giallongo, J. M. Hill, R. W. Pogge, R. Ragazzoni, R. Speziali, D. J. Thompson, R. M. Wagner

Neutrino Triggered Target of Opportunity (NToO) test run with AMANDA-II and MAGIC

• Authors: M. Ackermann, E. Bernardini, N. Galante, F. Goebel, M. Hayashida, K. Satalecka, M. Tluczykont, R.M. Wagner

tipa -- 9/17/2007

The birth place of the progenitor of the type Ic Supernova 2007gr

• Authors: R. Mark Crockett, Justyn R. Maund, Stephen J. Smartt, Seppo Mattila, Andrea Pastorello, Jonathan Smoker, Andrew W. Stevens, Johan Fynbo, John J. Eldridge, I. John Danziger, Christopher R. Benn

Gamma-Rays from Decaying Dark Matter

• Authors: Gianfranco Bertone (IAP), Wilfried Buchmuller, Laura Covi, Alejandro Ibarra (DESY)

Extra dimensions, orthopositronium decay, and stellar cooling

• Authors: Alexander Friedland, Maurizio Giannotti

classic papers of the week -- 38

Discovery of a pulsar in a binary system

• Hulse, R. A.; Taylor, J. H. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Resonant Neutrino Oscillations and the Neutrino Signature of Supernovae

• Terry P. Walker (Fermilab) , David N. Schramm (Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Fermilab)

Quantized space-time

• Hartland S. Snyder (Department of Physics, Northwestern University)

tipa -- 9/14/2007

Cherenkov Telescope Array: The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory

• Authors: G. Hermann, W. Hofmann, T. Schweizer, M. Teshima, for the CTA consortium

tipa -- 9/13/2007

CGRaBS: An All-Sky Survey of Gamma-Ray Blazar Candidates

• Authors: Stephen E. Healey, Roger W. Romani, Garret Cotter, Peter F. Michelson, Edward F. Schlafly, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Paolo Giommi, Sylvain Chaty, Isabelle A. Grenier, Lawrence C. Weintraub

tipa -- 9/12/2007

Hypervelocity Stars III. The Space Density and Ejection History of Main Sequence Stars from the Galactic Center

• Authors: Warren R. Brown (1), Margaret J. Geller (1), Scott J. Kenyon (1), Michael J. Kurtz (1), Benjamin C. Bromley (2) ((1) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (2) University of Utah)

Constraints on Circumstellar Material Around the Type Ia Supernova 2007af

• Authors: Joshua D. Simon (Caltech), Avishay Gal-Yam (Caltech, Weizmann Institute), Bryan E. Penprase (Pomona), Weidong Li (UC Berkeley), Robert M. Quimby (Texas), Jeffrey M. Silverman (UC Berkeley), Carlos Allende Prieto, J. Craig Wheeler (Texas), Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), Irene T. Martinez, Daniel J. Beeler (Pomona), Ferdinando Patat (ESO)

Compact Stars as Dark Matter Probes

• Authors: Gianfranco Bertone (IAP), Malcolm Fairbairn (CERN)

The Luminous and Carbon-Rich Supernova 2006gz: A Double Degenerate Merger?

• Authors: M. Hicken, P. M. Garnavich, J. L. Prieto, S. Blondin, D. L. DePoy, R. P. Kirshner, J. Parrent

The Most Dark Matter Dominated Galaxies: Predicted Gamma-ray Signals from the Faintest Milky Way Dwarfs

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari, Savvas M. Koushiappas, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha, Beth Willman

Suzaku Detection of Extended/Diffuse Hard X-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center

• Authors: Takayuki Yuasa, Ken-ichi Tamura, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuo Makishima, Aya Bamba, Yoshitomo Maeda, Tadayuki Takahashi, Ken Ebisawa, Atsushi Senda, Yoshiaki Hyodo, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Katsuji Koyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Hiromitsu Takahashi

Discovery of Very High Energy Gamma-Rays from the Distant Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C 279 with the MAGIC Telescope

• Authors: Masahiro Teshima, Elisa Prandini, Rudolf Bock, Manel Errando, Daniel Kranich, Pratik Majumdar, Daniel Mazin, Elina Lindfors, Eckart Lorenz, Mose Mariotti, Villi Scalzotto, Robert Wagner (for the MAGIC Collaboration)

tipa -- 9/11/2007

Hypervelocity Stars from the Andromeda Galaxy

• Authors: Blake D. Sherwin, Abraham Loeb, Ryan M. O'Leary

Magnetowave Induced Plasma Wakefield Acceleration for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Feng-Yin Chang, Pisin Chen, Guey-Lin Lin, Kevin Reil, Richard Sydora

CANGAROO-III Search for Gamma Rays from SN 1987A and the Surrounding Field

• Authors: R. Enomoto, et al (CANGAROO-III collaboration)

Density Dependence of the Mass Function of Globular Star Clusters in the Sombrero Galaxy and its Dynamical Implications

• Authors: Rupali Chandar, S. Michael Fall, Dean E. McLaughlin

Tau neutrino search with the MAGIC telescope

• Authors: M. Gaug, C. Hsu, J. K. Becker, A. Biland, M. Mariotti, W. Rhode, M. Teshima

tipa -- 9/10/2007

Measuring AGN Feedback with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

• Authors: Evan Scannapieco, Robert J. Thacker, H. M. P. Couchman

classic papers of the week -- 37

A hypothesis, unifying the structure and the entropy of the Universe

• Zeldovich, Yaa B.

Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source

• Hewish, A.; Bell, S. J.; Pilkington, J. D.; Scott, P. F.; Collins, R. A.

tipa -- 9/7/2007

Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization

• Authors: Ryan Scranton, Andrew Connolly, Simon Krughoff, Jeremy Brewer, Alberto Conti, Carol Christian, Craig Sosin, Greg Coombe, Paul Heckbert

Comment on 'Discreteness Effects in Simulations of Hot/Warm Dark Matter' by J. Wang & S.D.M. White

• Authors: Adrian L. Melott (University of Kansas)

Predictions for the Cosmogenic Neutrino Flux in Light of New Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Dan Hooper, Subir Sarkar, Andrew M. Taylor

Not Only Because of Theory: Dyson, Eddington and the Competing Myths of the 1919 Eclipse Expedition

• Authors: Daniel Kennefick

tipa -- 9/6/2007

Starburst Intensity Limit of Galaxies at z~5-6

• Authors: N. P. Hathi, S. Malhotra, J. E. Rhoads

Implications of very rapid TeV variability in blazars

• Authors: Mitchell C. Begelman, Andrew C. Fabian, Martin J. Rees

Strong size evolution of the most massive galaxies since z~2

• Authors: Ignacio Trujillo, Christopher J. Conselice, Kevin Bundy, M. C. Cooper, P. Eisenhardt, Richard S. Ellis

White Paper on the Status and Future of Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy

• Authors: H. Krawczynski (1), J. Buckley (1), K. Byrum (2), C. Dermer (3), B. Dingus (4), A. Falcone (5), P. Kaaret (6), F. Krennrich (7), M. Pohl (7), V. Vassiliev (8), D. A. Williams (9) for the White Paper Team ((1) Wash. Univ. St. Louis, (2) ANL, (3) NRL, (4) LANL, (5) Penn State, (6) Univ. of Iowa, (7) ISU, (8) UCLA, (9) UCSD)

tipa -- 9/5/2007

SN 2005ap: A Most Brilliant Explosion

• Authors: Robert M. Quimby, Greg Aldering, J. Craig Wheeler, Peter Höflich, Carl W. Akerlof, Eli S. Rykoff

An Unexpectedly Swift Rise in the Gamma-ray Burst Rate

• Authors: Matthew D. Kistler, Hasan Yuksel, John F. Beacom, Krzysztof Z. Stanek (Ohio State University)

Neutrino-Induced Gamma-Ray Emission from Supernovae

• Authors: Yu Lu, Yong-Zhong Qian

tipa -- 9/4/2007

Searching for Inflation in Simple String Theory Models: An Astrophysical Perspective

• Authors: Mark P. Hertzberg (MIT), Max Tegmark (MIT), Shamit Kachru (Stanford), Jessie Shelton (Rutgers), Onur Ozcan (MIT)

GRB060602B = Swift J1749.4-2807: an unusual transiently accreting neutron-star X-ray binary

• Authors: Rudy Wijnands, Evert Rol, Ed M. Cackett, Rhaana L.C. Starling, Ron A. Remillard

Star Formation in Bulges from GALEX

• Authors: Sukyoung K. Yi

tipa -- 9/3/2007

CMB Cluster Lensing: Cosmography with the Longest Lever Arm

• Authors: Wayne Hu (KICP, U Chicago), Daniel E. Holz (LANL), Chris Vale (FNAL)

Anticipating a New Golden Age

• Authors: Frank Wilczek

Fundamental Constants

• Authors: Frank Wilczek