classic papers of the week -- 27

Equation of state calculations by fast computing machines

• N. Metropolis, A.W. Rosenbluth, M.N. Rosenbluth, A.H. Teller (Los Alamos) , E. Teller (Chicago U.)

Surface brightness and evolution of galaxies

• Petrosian, V. (Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.)

First Results from a Superconductive Detector for Moving Magnetic Monopoles

• Blas Cabrera (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.)

tipa -- 6/29/2007

A Study of the Type Ia/IIn Supernova 2005gj from X-ray to the Infrared: Paper I

• Authors: J.L. Prieto, P.M. Garnavich, M.M. Phillips, D.L. DePoy, J.Parrent, D. Pooley, V.V. Dwarkadas, E. Baron, B. Bassett, A. Becker, D. Cinabro, F. DeJongh, B. Dilday, M. Doi, J.A. Frieman, C.J. Hogan, J. Holtzman, S. Jha, R. Kessler, K. Konishi, H. Lampeitl, J. Marriner, J. L. Marshall, G. Miknaitis, R.C. Nichol, A.G. Riess, M.W. Richmond, R. Romani, M. Sako, D.P. Schneider, M. Smith, N. Takanashi, K. Tokita, K. van der Heyden, N. Yasuda, C. Zheng, J.C. Wheeler, J. Barentine, J. Dembicky, J. Eastman, S. Frank, W. Ketzeback, R.J. McMillan, N. Morrell, G. Folatelli, C. Contreras, C.R. Burns, W. L. Freedman, S. Gonzalez, M. Hamuy, W. Krzeminski, B.F. Madore, D. Murphy, S.E. Persson, M. Roth, N.B. Suntzeff

Formation and evolution of compact binaries in globular clusters: II. Binaries with neutron stars

• Authors: N. Ivanova, C. Heinke, F.A. Rasio, K. Belczynski, J. Fregeau

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and Binary Mergers in Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies: Redshift Distribution and Hosts

• Authors: R. O'Shaughnessy (1), V. Kalogera (1), K. Belczynski (2) ((1) Northwestern University, (2) New Mexico State University)

Searching for Gravitational-Wave Bursts with LIGO

• Authors: K. A. Thorne (for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

tipa -- 6/28/2007

Strong Upper Limits on Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter

• Authors: Hasan Yuksel, John F. Beacom (Ohio State U.), Casey R. Watson (Millikin U.)

Observation of VHE gamma-rays from Cassiopeia A with the MAGIC telescope

• Authors: J. Albert, et al, for the MAGIC collaboration

The Northern Site of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: D. Nitz, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Reconstructing WIMP properties with neutrino detectors

• Authors: Olga Mena, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Silvia Pascoli

Ungravity and Its Possible Test

• Authors: Haim Goldberg, Pran Nath

tipa -- 6/27/2007

The Magellanic Squall: Gas Replenishment from the Small to Large Magellanic Cloud

• Authors: Kenji Bekki, Masashi Chiba

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

• Authors: S. Heinz, N. S. Schulz, W. N. Brandt, D. K. Galloway

Sterile Neutrino-Enhanced Supernova Explosions

• Authors: Jun Hidaka, George M. Fuller

tipa -- 6/26/2007

Radio Synchrotron Emission from Secondary Leptons in the Vicinity of Sgr A*

• Authors: Roland M. Crocker, David Jones, David R. Ballantyne, Fulvio Melia

In which shell-type SNRs should we look for gamma-rays and neutrinos from p-p collisions?

• Authors: Boaz Katz, Eli Waxman

Gravitational Wave Background from Population III Stars

• Authors: Yudai Suwa, Tomoya Takiwaki, Kei Kotake, Katsuhiko Sato

Testing gravity with motion of satellites around galaxies: Newtonian gravity against Modified Newtonian Dynamics

• Authors: A. Klypin, F. Prada

Formation of Massive Primordial Stars in a Reionized Gas

• Authors: Naoki Yoshida (Nagoya), Kazuyuki Omukai (NAOJ), Lars Hernquist (CfA)

New PVLAS results and limits on magnetically induced optical rotation and ellipticity in vacuum

• Authors: E. Zavattini (Deceased January 9, 2007), G. Zavattini, G. Raiteri, G. Ruoso, E. Polacco, E. Milotti, V. Lozza, M. Karuza, U. Gastaldi, G. Di Domenico, F. Della Valle, R. Cimino, S. Carusotto, G. Cantatore, M. Bregant (PVLAS Collaboration)

tipa -- 6/25/2007

SN 2001em: No Jet-Driven Gamma Ray Burst Event

• Authors: M. F. Bietenholz, N. Bartel

classic papers of the week -- 26

Calculated Spectrum of Inverse-Compton-Scattered Photons

• Frank C. Jones (Laboratory for Theoretical Studies, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland)

The Paths of Ions in the Cyclotron I. Orbits in the Magnetic Field

• L.H. Thomas (Mendenhall Laboratory of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

Actual Path Length of Electrons in Foils

• C. N. Yang (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois)

tipa -- 6/22/2007

Carbon Detonation and Shock-Triggered Helium Burning in Neutron Star Superbursts

• Authors: Nevin N. Weinberg (UC Berkeley), Lars Bildsten (KITP, UCSB)

GRB060218 and GRBs associated with Supernovae Ib/c

• Authors: Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Maria Grazia Bernardini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Letizia Caito, Roberto Guida, Remo Ruffini

Detecting Axion-Like Particles With Gamma Ray Telescopes

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Pasquale D. Serpico

tipa -- 6/21/2007

Evidence for nearby universe structures in the ultra-high energy sky

• Authors: A. Cuoco, G. Miele, P. D. Serpico

Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and the Stellar IMF in the Early Universe

• Authors: Jason Tumlinson

Constraints on top-down models for the origin of UHECRs from the Pierre Auger Observatory data

• Authors: D.V. Semikoz, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Discovery of diffuse radio emission at the center of the most X-ray-luminous cluster RX J1347.5-1145

• Authors: Myriam Gitti (1), Chiara Ferrari (2), Wilfried Domainko (3), Luigina Feretti (4), Sabine Schindler (2) ((1) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (2) Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck (3) Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (4) INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna)

Neutrino Backgrounds to Dark Matter Searches

• Authors: Jocelyn Monroe, Peter Fisher

Astrophysical Violations of the Kerr Bound as a Possible Signature of String Theory

• Authors: Eric G. Gimon, Petr Horava

tipa -- 6/20/2007

Intracluster Short Gamma-Ray Bursts by Compact Binary Mergers

• Authors: Yuu Niino, Tomonori Totani

Ultra High Energy Cosmic ray and gamma-ray signatures of inductive acceleration in AGN jets

• Authors: Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada), Guenter Sigl (AstroParticules et Cosmologie, Paris, France & Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France), Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)

Signatures of the transition from galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays

• Authors: R. Aloisio (1), V. Berezinsky (1), P. Blasi (2), S. Ostapchenko (3) ((1) INFN/LNGS, (2)INAF/Arcetri, (3) Karlsruhe)

tipa -- 6/19/2007

Magnetorotational collapse of very massive stars in full general relativity

• Authors: Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, Branson C. Stephens (UIUC)

Super Star Cluster NGC1705-1: A Local Analogue to the Birthsite of Long-duration Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: Hsiao-Wen Chen (University of Chicago), J. X. Prochaska (UCO/Lick Observatory), Joshua S. Bloom (UC Berkeley)

Decoherence in supernova neutrino transformations suppressed by deleptonization

• Authors: Andreu Esteban-Pretel, Sergio Pastor, Ricard Tomas, Georg G. Raffelt, Gunter Sigl

Swift-XRT observation of 34 new INTEGRAL/IBIS AGNs: discovery of Compton thick and other peculiar sources

• Authors: A. Malizia, R. Landi, L. Bassani, A.J. Bird, M. Molina, A. De Rosa, M. Fiocchi, N. Gehrels, J.Kennea, M. Perri

Black hole in the West Nucleus of Arp 220

• Authors: D. Downes, A. Eckart

Search for large-scale anisotropies with the Auger Observatory

• Authors: E. Armengaud, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Measurement of the UHECR energy spectrum from hybrid data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: Lorenzo Perrone, for the the Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 6/18/2007

Search for Supernova Neutrino Bursts at Super-Kamiokande

• Authors: M.Ikeda, A.Takeda, Y.Fukuda, M.R.Vagins, M.Sakuda

The $^{15}$O($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^{19}$Ne Breakout Reaction and Impact on X-Ray Bursts

• Authors: W. P. Tan, J. L. Fisker, J. Goerres, M. Couder, M. Wiescher

classic papers of the week -- 25

The Correlation Function for the Distribution of Galaxies

• Totsuji, H.; Kihara, T.

Axial vector vertex in spinor electrodynamics

• Stephen L. Adler (Princeton U.)

Drag and Propulsion of Large Satellites in the Ionosphere; An Alfvén Propulsion Engine in Space

• Drell, S. D.; Foley, H. M.; Ruderman, M. A. (Jason Division, Institute for Defense Analyses, Arlington, Virginia)

tipa -- 6/15/2007

Measurement of the UHECR energy spectrum using data from the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: Markus Roth, for the Auger Collaboration

Dark Matter Annihilation in Substructures Revised

• Authors: L. Pieri, G. Bertone, E Branchini

tipa -- 6/14/2007

Chandra Observations of SN 2004et and the X-ray Emission of Type IIp Supernovae

• Authors: J. Rho, T. H. Jarrett, N. N. Chugai, R. A. Chevalier

Inhomogeneous extragalactic magnetic fields and the second knee in the cosmic ray spectrum

• Authors: Kumiko Kotera, Martin Lemoine (IAP)

TASI Lectures on Astrophysical Aspects of Neutrinos

• Authors: John F. Beacom (Ohio State U.)

Test of hadronic interaction models with data from the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: Ralph Engel, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 6/13/2007

The First Survey of X-ray Flares from Gamma Ray Bursts Observed by Swift: Spectral Properties and Energetics

• Authors: A. D. Falcone (1), D. Morris (1), J. Racusin (1), G. Chincarini (2 and 3), A. Moretti (2), P. Romano (2 and 3), D. N. Burrows (1), C. Pagani (1), M. Stroh (1), D. Grupe (1), S. Campana (2), S. Covino (2), G. Tagliaferri (2), R. Willingale (4), N. Gehrels (5) ((1) Pennsylvania State University, (2)INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (3) Universita degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, (4) University of Leicester, (5) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

21-cm synthesis observations of VIRGOHI 21 - a possible dark galaxy in the Virgo Cluster

• Authors: Robert Minchin (1 and 2), Jonathan Davies (2), Michael Disney (2), Marco Grossi (2 and 3), Sabina Sabatini (4), Peter Boyce (2), Diego Garcia (2 and 5), Chris Impey (6), Christine Jordan (7), Robert Lang (2), Andrew Marble (6), Sarah Roberts (2), Wim van Driel (8) ((1) Arecibo Observatory, (2) Cardiff University, (3) Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, (4) Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, (5) University of Bonn, (6) Steward Observatory, (7) Jodrell Bank Observatory, (8) Observatoire de Paris)

Effects of Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Supernova Dynamics and Radiated Neutrino Spectra

• Authors: K. Langanke, G. Martinez-Pinedo, B. Mueller, H.-Th. Janka, A. Marek, W.R. Hix, A. Juodagalvis, J. M. Sampaio

Composition-sensitive parameters measured with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: M.D.Healy, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Limits to the diffuse flux of UHE tau neutrinos at EeV energies from the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: O. Blanch Bigas, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Search for correlation of UHECRs and BL Lacs in Pierre Auger Observatory data

• Authors: Diego Harari, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Studies of clustering in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory above 10 EeV

• Authors: Silvia Mollerach, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 6/12/2007

Detection of GRB 060927 at z = 5.47: Implications for the Use of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Probes of the End of the Dark Ages

• Authors: A. E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Swan, E. Troja, D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, R. L. C. Starling, D. Xu, F. Aharonian, C. Akerlof, M. I. Andersen, M. C. B. Ashley, S. D. Barthelmy, D. Bersier, J. M. Castro Cerón, A. J. Castro-Tirado, N. Gehrels, E. Göğüş, J. Gorosabel, C. Guidorzi, T. Güver, J. Hjorth, D. Horns, K. Y. Huang, P. Jakobsson, B. L. Jensen, Ü. Kızıloģlu, C. Kouveliotou, H. A. Krimm, C. Ledoux, A. J. Levan, T. Marsh, T. McKay, A. Melandri, B. Milvang-Jensen, C. G. Mundell, P. T. O'Brien, M. Özel, A. Phillips, R. Quimby, G. Rowell, W. Rujopakarn, E. S. Rykoff, B. E. Schaefer, J. Sollerman, N. R. Tanvir, C. C. Thöne, Y. Urata, W. T. Vestrand, P. M. Vreeswijk, D. Watson, J. C. Wheeler, R. A. M. J. Wijers, J. Wren, S. A. Yost, et al (2 additional authors not shown)

Feedback Heating by Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies

• Authors: Fulai Guo, S. Peng OH (UCSB)

A Complete Catalog of Swift GRB Spectra and Durations: Demise of a Physical Origin for Pre-Swift High-Energy Correlations

• Authors: Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel Kocevski, Joshua S. Bloom, Jason L. Curtis

Accretion vs colliding wind models for the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303: an assessment

• Authors: G.E. Romero, A.T. Okazaki, M. Orellana, S.P. Owocki

Arc-like distribution of high CO(J=3-2)/CO(J=1-0) ratio gas surrounding the central star cluster of the supergiant HII region NGC 604

• Authors: T. Tosaki, R. Miura, T. Sawada, N. Kuno, K. Nakanishi, K. Kohno, S. K. Okumura, R. Kawabe

Very High Energy Gamma-ray Radiation from the Stellar-mass Black Hole Cygnus X-1

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration: J. Albert, et al

Study of the Cosmic Ray Composition above 0.4 EeV using the Longitudinal Profiles of Showers observed at the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: Michael Unger, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Search for Gamma Ray Bursts using the single particle technique at the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: X.Bertou, for the Pierre Auger Observatory

tipa -- 6/11/2007

A multi-wavelength study of z = 3.15 Lyman-alpha emitters in the GOODS South Field

• Authors: Kim K. Nilsson (1,2), P. Moeller (1), O. Moeller (3), J.P.U. Fynbo (2), M.J. Michalowski (2), D. Watson (2), C. Ledoux (4), P. Rosati (1), K. Pedersen (2), L.F. Grove (2), (1 ESO-Garching, 2 Dark Cosmology Centre, 3 MPA, 4 ESO-Chile)

Suzaku Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected in the Swift/BAT Survey: Discovery of "New Type" of Buried Supermassive Black Holes

• Authors: Yoshihiro Ueda, Satoshi Eguchi (Kyoto University), Yuichi Terashima (Ehime University), Richard Mushotzky, Jack Tueller, Craig Markwardt, Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Stephen Potter (SAAO)

GRB 060206 and the quandary of achromatic breaks in afterglow light curves

• Authors: P.A. Curran, A.J. van der Horst, R.A.M.J. Wijers, R.L.C. Starling, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Gorosabel, A.S. Jarvinen, D. Malesani, E. Rol, N.R. Tanvir, K. Wiersema, M.R. Burleigh, S.L. Casewell, P.D. Dobbie, S. Guziy, P. Jakobsson, M. Jelinek, P. Laursen, A.J. Levan, C.G. Mundell, J. Naranen, S. Piranomonte

classic papers of the week -- 24

Cosmological Lower Bound on Heavy Neutrino Masses

• Benjamin W. Lee (Fermilab) , Steven Weinberg (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.)

The Formation of a Blast Wave by a Very Intense Explosion. II. The Atomic Explosion of 1945

• Taylor, Geoffrey

Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?

• Boris Peon

tipa -- 6/8/2007

Radiative Transfer Effect on Ultraviolet Pumping of the 21cm Line in the High Redshift Universe

• Authors: Leonid Chuzhoy (1) Zheng Zheng (2) ((1) University of Texas at Austin, (2) Institute for Advanced Study)

Constraining Warm Dark Matter using QSO gravitational lensing

• Authors: M. Miranda, A.V. Macciò

Constraining white-dwarf kicks in globular clusters

• Authors: Jeremy S. Heyl

The Ultraluminous X-ray Sources near the Center of M82

• Authors: A.K.H. Kong (MIT), Y.J. Yang, P.-Y. Hsieh (ASIAA, Taiwan), D.S.Y. Mak, C.S.J. Pun (The University of Hong Kong)

Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on Carbon

• Authors: MiniBooNE collaboration

tipa -- 6/7/2007

An Exceptional VHE Gamma-Ray Flare of PKS 2155-304

• Authors: F. Aharonian, et al. (HESS Collaboration)

Imaging the Cosmic Matter Distribution using Gravitational Lensing of Pregalactic HI

• Authors: Stefan Hilbert, R. Benton Metcalf, S. D. M. White

Measuring 10-1000 GeV Cosmic Ray Electrons with GLAST/LAT

• Authors: Alexander A.Moiseev, Jonathan F.Ormes, Igor V.Moskalenko

tipa -- 6/6/2007

The Kinematics of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem

• Authors: Joshua D. Simon (Caltech), Marla Geha (HIA/DAO)

The Discovery of 1000 km/s Outflows in Massive Post-starburst Galaxies at z=0.6

• Authors: Christy A. Tremonti (1), John Moustakas (2), Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic (1) ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) New York University)

Evidence for a Z < 8 Origin of the Source Subtracted Near Infrared Background

• Authors: Rodger I. Thompson, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, Marcia Rieke, Robert C. Kennicutt

On the detection of very high redshift Gamma Ray Bursts with Swift

• Authors: R. Salvaterra, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, G. Tagliaferri, S. Covino

TeV gamma-rays from photo-disintegration/de-excitation of nuclei in Westerlund 2

• Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, John F. Beacom, Yousaf M. Butt, Haim Goldberg, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Thomas J. Weiler, Justin Wesolowski

tipa -- 6/5/2007

Dark matter halo abundances, clustering and assembly histories at high redshift

• Authors: J.D. Cohn, Martin White

First Measurement of a Rapid Increase in the AGN Fraction in High-Redshift Clusters of Galaxies

• Authors: Jason Eastman, Paul Martini, Gregory Sivakoff (Ohio State), Daniel D. Kelson, John S. Mulchaey (Carnegie Observatories), Kim-Vy Tran (ETH Zurich)

A Monte Carlo Study of the Irreducible Background in the EGRET Instrument

• Authors: T. A. Porter, W. B. Atwood, B. Baughman, R. P. Johnson

CANGAROO-III Search for Gamma Rays from Centaurus A and the $\omega$ Centauri Region

• Authors: S.Kabuki, R.Enomoto, CANGAROO-III collaboration

Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration: P. Adamson, et al

Neutrino oscillations in a variable-density medium and $\nu-$ bursts due to the gravitational collapse of stars

• Authors: S. P. Mikheev, A. Yu. Smirnov

tipa -- 6/4/2007

The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo

• Authors: Eric F. Bell, Daniel B. Zucker, Vasily Belokurov, Sanjib Sharma, Kathryn V. Johnston, James S. Bullock, David W. Hogg, Knud Jahnke, Jelte T. A. de Jong, Timothy C. Beers, N. W. Evans, Eva K. Grebel, Zeljko Ivezic, Sergey E. Koposov, Hans-Walter Rix, Donald P. Schneider, Matthias Steinmetz, Adi Zolotov

The discovery of two extremely low luminosity Milky Way globular clusters

• Authors: S. Koposov (1,2), J. T. A. de Jong (1), V. Belokurov (2), H.-W. Rix (1), D.B. Zucker (2), N.W. Evans (2), G. Gilmore (2), M.J. Irwin (2), E. F. Bell (1) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, (2) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory

• Authors: J. Angle, E. Aprile, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, A. Bernstein, A. Bolozdynya, P. Brusov, L.C.C. Coelho, C.E. Dahl, L. DeViveiros, A.D. Ferella, L.M.P. Fernandes, S. Fiorucci, R.J. Gaitskell, K.L. Giboni, R. Gomez, R. Hasty, L. Kastens, J. Kwong, J.A.M. Lopes, N. Madden, A. Manalaysay, A. Manzur, D.N. McKinsey, M.E. Monzani, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, J. Orboeck, G. Plante, R. Santorelli, J.M.F. dos Santos, P. Shagin, T. Shutt, P. Sorensen, S. Schulte, C. Winant, M. Yamashita (XENON Collaboration)

Searching for energetic cosmic axions in a laboratory experiment: testing the PVLAS anomaly

• Authors: M.Fairbairn (CERN), S.N.Gninenko, N.V.Krasnikov, V.A.Matveev (Moscow, INR), T.I.Rashba (Munich, Max Planck Inst. and Troitsk, IZMIRAN), A.Rubbia (Zurich, ETH), Sergey Troitsky (Moscow, INR)

The Astrophysics of Early Galaxy Formation

• Authors: Piero Madau

classic papers of the week -- 23

On an alternative decay process for the neutral pi-meson

• R.H. Dalitz

The Inflationary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Horizon and Flatness Problems

• Alan H. Guth (SLAC)

Observation of a Line in the Galactic Radio Spectrum: Radiation from Galactic Hydrogen at 1,420 Mc./sec

• Ewen, H. I.; Purcell, E. M. (Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass)