classic papers of the week -- 92

Theory of Superconductivity

• Bardeen, J.; Cooper, L. N.; Schrieffer, J. R. (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois)

A theory of the interstellar medium - Three components regulated by supernova explosions in an inhomogeneous substrate

• McKee, C. F. (University of California, Berkeley); Ostriker, J. P. (Princeton University Observatory)

Tests for neutral currents in neutrino reactions

• E.A. Paschos (National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL), L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

tipa -- 1/30/2009

Optical polarisation of the Crab pulsar: precision measurements and comparison to the radio emission

• Authors: Agnieszka Słowikowska (1 and 2), Gottfried Kanbach (3), Michael Kramer (4), Alexander Stefanescu (5 and 3) ((1) IESL - FORTH Heraklion, Greece, (2) NCAC Toruń, Poland, (3) MPE Garching, Germany, (4) JBCA, University of Manchester, UK, (5) MPI Semiconductor Lab Munich, Germany)

VERITAS observations of the BL Lac 1ES 1218+304

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V.A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, S.M. Bradbury, J.H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, K.L. Byrum, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, Y.C.K. Chow, P. Cogan, P. Colin, W. Cui, M.K. Daniel, T. Ergin, A.D. Falcone, S.J. Fegan, J.P. Finley, P. Fortin, L.F. Fortson, A. Furniss, G.H. Gillanders, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, E. Hays, J. Holder, D. Horan, C.M. Hui, T.B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D.B. Kieda, J. Kildea, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M.J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nagai, J. Niemiec, R.A. Ong, D. Pandel, J.S. Perkins, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L.C. Reyes, P.T. Reynolds, H.J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G.H. Sembroski, A.W. Smith, D. Steele, S.P. Swordy, J.A. Toner, L. Valcarcel, V.V. Vassiliev, R. Wagner, S.P. Wakely, J.E. Ward, T.C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, R.J. White, D.A. Williams, S.A. Wissel, M. Wood, B. Zitzer

tipa -- 1/29/2009

The Large-Scale Environments of Type Ia Supernovae: Evidence for a Metallicity Bias in the Prompt Ia Rate

• Authors: Michael C. Cooper (Arizona), Jeffrey A. Newman (Pitt), Renbin Yan (Toronto)

A Measurement of Arcminute Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

• Authors: Matthew K. Sharp (1), Daniel P. Marrone (1,2), John E. Carlstrom (1), Thomas Culverhouse (1), Christopher Greer (1), David Hawkins (3), Ryan Hennessy (1), Marshall Joy (4), James W. Lamb (3), Erik M. Leitch (1), Michael Loh (1), Amber Miller (5), Tony Mroczkowski (5), Stephen Muchovej (3,5), Clem Pryke (1), David Woody (3), ((1) UChicago/KICP, (2) NRAO, (3) OVRO/Caltech, (4) NASA MSFC, (5) Columbia)

VERITAS Observations of a Very High Energy Gamma-ray Flare from the Blazar 3C 66A

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, M. Bottcher, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, Y. C. Chow, L. Ciupik, P. Cogan, W. Cui, M. K. Daniel, R. Dickherber, T. Ergin, A. Falcone, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, P. Fortin, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, D. Gall, K. Gibbs, G. H. Gillanders, S. Godambe, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, E. Hays, J. Holder, D. Horan, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, J. Kildea, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, J. Millis, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nagai, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, D. Petry, F. Pizlo, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, A. W. Smith, D. Steele, S. P. Swordy, M. Theiling, J. A. Toner, A. Varlotta, V. V. Vassiliev, R. G. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, J. E. Ward, T. C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, D. A. Williams, S. Wissel, M. Wood, B. Zitzer

Cosmological Results from Five Years of 30 GHz CMB Intensity Measurements with the Cosmic Background Imager

• Authors: J. L. Sievers, B.S. Mason, L. Weintraub, C. Achermann, P. Altamirano, J.R. Bond, L. Bronfman, R. Bustos, C. Contaldi, C. Dickinson, M.E. Jones, J. May, S.T. Myers, N. Oyarce, S. Padin, T.J. Pearson, M. Pospieszalski, A.C.S. Readhead, R. Reeves, M. C. Shepherd, A. C. Taylor, S. Torres

Limits on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from the first science run of the ZEPLIN-III experiment

• Authors: V. N. Lebedenko, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes, A. Bewick, R. Cashmore, V. Chepel, D. Davidge, J. Dawson, T. Durkin, B. Edwards, C. Ghag, V. Graffagnino, M. Horn, A. S. Howard, A. J. Hughes, W. G. Jones, M. Joshi, G. E. Kalmus, A. G. Kovalenko, A. Lindote, I. Liubarsky, M. I. Lopes, R. Luscher, K. Lyons, P. Majewski, A. StJ. Murphy, F. Neves, J. Pinto da Cunha, R. Preece, J. J. Quenby, P. R. Scovell, C. Silva, V. N. Solovov, N. J. T. Smith, P. F. Smith, V. N. Stekhanov, T. J. Sumner, C. Thorne, R. J. Walker

tipa -- 1/28/2009

Small Angular Scale Measurements of the CMB Temperature Power Spectrum from QUaD

• Authors: QUaD collaboration: R. B. Friedman, P. Ade, J. Bock, M. Bowden, M. L. Brown, G. Cahill, P. G. Castro, S. Church, T. Culverhouse, K. Ganga, W. K. Gear, S. Gupta, J. Hinderks, J. Kovac, A. E. Lange, E. Leitch, S. J. Melhuish, Y. Memari, J. A. Murphy, A. Orlando, C. O' Sullivan, L. Piccirillo, C. Pryke, N. Rajguru, B. Rusholme, R. Schwarz, A. N. Taylor, K. L. Thompson, A. H. Turner, E. Y. S. Wu, M. Zemcov

Angular Momentum and the Formation of Stars and Black Holes

• Authors: Richard B. Larson

tipa -- 1/27/2009

Robust identification of isotropic diffuse gamma rays from Galactic dark matter

• Authors: Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins, Vasiliki Pavlidou

A Candidate Sub-Parsec Supermassive Binary Black Hole System

• Authors: Todd A. Boroson (NOAO), Tod R. Lauer (NOAO)

Magnetized Relativistic Jets and Long-Duration GRBs from Magnetar Spindown during Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: N. Bucciantini (1), E. Quataert (1), B.D. Metzger (1), T.A. Thompson (2), J. Arons (1), L. Del Zanna (3) ((1) U.C. Berkeley, (2) Ohio State Univ., (3) Univ. di Firenze)

tipa -- 1/26/2009

The Impact of Inhomogeneous Reionization on the Satellite Galaxy Population of the Milky Way

• Authors: Michael T. Busha, Marcelo A. Alvarez, Risa H. Wechsler, Tom Abel, Louis E. Strigari (KIPAC)

A New Paradigm for Gamma Ray Bursts: Long Term Accretion Rate Modulation by an External Accretion Disk

• Authors: J. K. Cannizzo, N. Gehrels

138La-138Ce-136Ce nuclear cosmochronometer of supernova neutrino process

• Authors: Takehito Hayakawa, Toshiyuki Shizuma, Toshitaka Kajino, Kengo Ogawa, Hitoshi Nakada

A Search for Three and Four Point Correlation in HiRes Stereo Data

• Authors: R. Abbasi, for the HiRes Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 91

Capture of Slow Neutrons

• Breit, G.; Wigner, E. (Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University)

Galactic Magnetic Fields and the Origin of Cosmic Radiation

• Fermi, E.

Apparent Weight of Photons

• Pound, R. V.; Rebka, G. A. (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

tipa -- 1/23/2009

A candidate tidal disruption event in the Galaxy cluster Abell 3571

• Authors: N. Cappelluti, M. Ajello, P. Rebusco, S. Komossa, A. Bongiorno, C. Clemens, M. Salvato, P. Esquej, T. Aldcroft, J. Greiner, H. Quintana

Al-26 and the formation of the Solar System from a molecular cloud contaminated by Wolf-Rayet winds

• Authors: Eric Gaidos, Alexander N. Krot, Jonathan P. Williams, Sean N. Raymond

tipa -- 1/22/2009

The Formation of Massive Star Systems by Accretion

• Authors: Mark R. Krumholz, Richard I. Klein, Christopher F. McKee, Stella S. R. Offner, Andrew J. Cunningham

tipa -- 1/21/2009

The Physics of Crystallization from Globular Cluster White Dwarf Stars in NGC 6397

• Authors: D. E. Winget, S. O. Kepler, Fabiola Campos, M. H. Montgomery, Leo Girardi, P. Bergeron, Kurtis Williams

A dark matter disc in the Milky Way

• Authors: J. I. Read, V. Debattista, O. Agertz, L. Mayer, A. M. Brooks, F. Governato, G. Lake

Are Most Low-Luminosity AGN Really Obscured?

• Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (1), Ryan Hickox (2), Eliot Quataert (1), Lars Hernquist (2) ((1) Berkeley, (2) CfA)

Gravitational-wave confusion background from cosmological compact binaries: Implications for future terrestrial detectors

• Authors: Tania Regimbau, Scott A. Hughes

Using Cold Atoms to Measure Neutrino Mass

• Authors: M. Jerkins, J. R. Klein, J. H. Majors, M. G. Raizen

tipa -- 1/20/2009

Evolution of the cosmic ray anisotropy above 10^{14} eV

• Authors: M. Aglietta, V.V. Alekseenko, B. Alessandro, P. Antonioli, F. Arneodo, L. Bergamasco, M. Bertaina, R. Bonino, A. Castellina, A. Chiavassa, B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli, G. Di Sciascio, W. Fulgione, P. Galeotti, P.L. Ghia, M. Iacovacci, G. Mannocchi, C. Morello, G. Navarra, O. Saavedra, A. Stamerra, G.C. Trinchero, S. Valchierotti, P. Vallania, S. Vernetto, C. Vigorito (The EAS-TOP Collaboration)

tipa -- 1/19/2009

A Binary Origin for Blue Stragglers in Globular Clusters

• Authors: Christian Knigge (University of Southampton), Nathan Leigh (McMaster University), Alison Sills (McMaster University)

The Mean Type Ia Supernova Spectrum Over the Past 9 Gigayears

• Authors: M. Sullivan, R. S. Ellis, D. A. Howell, A. Riess, P. E. Nugent, A. Gal-Yam

Nucleosynthesis Modes in the High-Entropy-Wind of Type II Supernovae: Comparison of Calculations with Halo-Star Observations

• Authors: K. Farouqi, K.-L. Kratz, L.I. Mashonkina, B.Pfeiffer, J.J Cowan, F.-K. Thielemann, J.W. Truran

classic papers of the week -- 90

The Maser-New Type of Microwave Amplifier, Frequency Standard, and Spectrometer

• Gordon, J. P.; Zeiger, H. J.; Townes, C. H. (Columbia University, New York, NY)

Anomaly Cancellation in Supersymmetric D=10 Gauge Theory and Superstring Theory

• Michael B. Green (Queen Mary College, University of London & California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) , John H. Schwarz (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

The morphology of extragalactic radio sources of high and low luminosity

• Fanaroff, B. L.; Riley, J. M.

tipa -- 1/16/2009

A quantitative explanation of the observed population of Milky Way satellite galaxies

• Authors: Sergey E. Koposov (1,2,3), Jaiyul Yoo (4), Hans-Walter Rix (1), David H. Weinberg (5), Andrea V. Macciò (1), Jordi Miralda-Escudé (6) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA, (5) Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, (6) Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Barcelona, Spain)

H.E.S.S. observations of gamma-ray bursts in 2003-2007

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

Measurement of the solar neutrino capture rate with gallium metal, Part III

• Authors: SAGE Collaboration: J. N. Abdurashitov, V. N. Gavrin, V. V. Gorbachev, P. P. Gurkina, T. V. Ibragimova, A. V. Kalikhov, N. G. Khairnasov, T. V. Knodel, I. N. Mirmov, A. A. Shikhin, E. P. Veretenkin, V. E. Yants, G. T. Zatsepin, T. J. Bowles, S. R. Elliott, W. A. Teasdale, J. S. Nico, B. T. Cleveland, J. F. Wilkerson

tipa -- 1/15/2009

An extremely faint stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova and its implications

• Authors: Stefano Valenti, Andrea Pastorello, Enrico Cappellaro, Stefano Benetti, Paolo Mazzali, Jose Manteca, Stefan Taubenberger, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Rafael Ferrando, Avet Harutyunyan, Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Markku Nissinen, Elena Pian, Massimo Turatto, Luca Zampieri, Stephen J. Smartt

tipa -- 1/14/2009

Do Moderate-Luminosity AGN Suppress Star Formation?

• Authors: Kevin Schawinski, Shanil Virani, Brooke Simmons, C. Megan Urry, Ezequiel Treister, Sugata Kaviraj, Bronika Kushkuley

Cosmic Rays VI - Starburst galaxies at multiwavelengths

• Authors: Julia K. Becker, Peter L. Biermann, Jens Dreyer, Tanja M. Kneiske

tipa -- 1/13/2009

High-energy particle acceleration at the radio-lobe shock of Centaurus A

• Authors: J.H. Croston, R.P. Kraft, M.J. Hardcastle, M. Birkinshaw, D.M. Worrall, P.E.J. Nulsen, R.F. Penna, G.R. Sivakoff, A. Jordan, N.J. Brassington, D.A. Evans, W.R. Forman, M. Gilfanov, J.L. Goodger, W.E. Harris, C. Jones, A.M. Juett, S.S. Murray, S. Raychaudhury, C.L. Sarazin, R. Voss, K.A. Woodley

Kinematic reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino events in a large water Cherenkov detector with proton identification

• Authors: Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

tipa -- 1/12/2009

A gravitationally lensed water maser in the early Universe

• Authors: C.M.V. Impellizzeri (1), J.P. McKean (1), P. Castangia (1,2), A.L. Roy (1), C. Henkel (1), A. Brunthaler (1), O. Wucknitz (3) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn; (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari; (3) Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, Bonn)

GRB Light Curves in the Relativistic Turbulence Model

• Authors: Ayah Lazar, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran

The Implications of a High Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate in Diffuse Interstellar Clouds

• Authors: Nick Indriolo, Brian D. Fields, Benjamin J. McCall

classic papers of the week -- 89

Experimental Observation of Isolated Large Transverse Energy Electrons with Associated Missing Energy at s**(1/2) = 540-GeV

• By UA1 Collaboration (G. Arnison et al.)

Cosmic Black-Body Radiation and Galaxy Formation

• Silk, Joseph

An experiment to search for discrete sources of cosmic gamma rays in the 10^11 to 10^12 eV region

• Fazio, G. G.; Helmken, H. F.; Rieke, G. H.; Weekes, T. C.

tipa -- 1/9/2009

A top-heavy stellar initial mass function in starbursts as an explanation for the high mass-to-light ratios of ultra compact dwarf galaxies

• Authors: J. Dabringhausen, P. Kroupa, H. Baumgardt

CMB Lensing Constraints on Neutrinos and Dark Energy

• Authors: Roland de Putter, Oliver Zahn, Eric V. Linder

On the nature of the AGILE galactic transient sources

• Authors: Gustavo E. Romero, Gabriela S. Vila

CMSSM Spectroscopy in light of PAMELA and ATIC

• Authors: Ilia Gogoladze, Rizwan Khalid, Qaisar Shafi, Hasan Yuksel

tipa -- 1/8/2009

An Intermediate Luminosity Transient in NGC300: The Eruption of a Dust-Enshrouded Massive Star

• Authors: E. Berger, A. M. Soderberg, R. A. Chevalier, C. Fransson, R. J. Foley, D. C. Leonard, J. H. Debes, A. M. Diamond-Stanic, A. K. Dupree, I. I. Ivans, J. Simmerer, I. B. Thompson, C. A. Tremonti

Hypernova and Gamma-Ray Burst Remnants as TeV Unidentified Sources

• Authors: Kunihito Ioka (KEK), Peter Meszaros (Penn State)

Cosmological Parameters from the QUaD CMB polarization experiment

• Authors: QUaD collaboration: P. G. Castro (1 and 2), P. Ade (3), J. Bock (4 and 5), M. Bowden (3 and 6), M. L. Brown (1 and 8), G. Cahill (9), S. Church (6), T. Culverhouse (7), R. B. Friedman (7), K. Ganga (10), W. K. Gear (3), S. Gupta (3), J. Hinderks (6 and 11), J. Kovac (5), A. E. Lange (5), E. Leitch (4 and 5), S. J. Melhuish (12), Y. Memari (1), J. A. Murphy (9), A. Orlando (3 and 5), C. Pryke (7), R. Schwarz (7), C. O'Sullivan (9), L. Piccirillo (12), N. Rajguru (3 and 13), B. Rusholme (6), A. N. Taylor (1), K. L. Thompson (6), A. H. Turner (3), E. Y. S. Wu (6), M. Zemcov (3, 4 and 5) ((1) Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, (2) CENTRA, Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, (3) School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, (4) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (5) California Institute of Technology, (6) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University, (7) Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, (8) Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, (9) Department of Experimental Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, (10) Laboratoire APC UMR 7164, Univ. Paris Diderot-Paris 7 - CNRS - CEA - Obs. de Paris, (11) NASA Goddard, (12) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, (13) UCL)

tipa -- 1/7/2009

The First Positive Detection of Molecular Gas in a GRB Host Galaxy

• Authors: J. X. Prochaska (1,2), Y. Sheffer (3), D.A. Perley (4), J. S. Bloom (4), L. A. Lopez (2), M. Dessauges-Zavadsky (5), H.-W. Chen (6), A. V. Filippenko (4), M. Ganeshalingam (4), W. Li (4), A. A. Miller (4), D. Starr (4,7) ((1) UC Santa Cruz, (2) UCO/Lick, (3) University of Toledo, (4) UC Berkeley, (5) Observatoire de Geneve, (6) U Chicago, (7) Las Cumbres Observatory)

Interpretation of the Extragalactic Radio Background

• Authors: M. Seiffert, D. J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, S. M. Levin, M. Limon, P. M. Lubin, P. Mirel, J. Singal, T. Villela, E. Wollack, C. A. Wuensche

Diffuse neutrino flux from failed supernovae

• Authors: Cecilia Lunardini

An "archaeological" quest for galactic supernova neutrinos

• Authors: Rimantas Lazauskas, Cecilia Lunardini, Cristina Volpe

Candidates for Inelastic Dark Matter

• Authors: Yanou Cui, David E. Morrissey, David Poland, Lisa Randall

tipa -- 1/6/2009

Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background: Cosmic-Ray Induced Albedo from Debris in the Solar System?

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko, Troy A. Porter

Nucleosynthesis of 56Ni in wind-driven Supernova Explosions and Constraints on the Central Engine of Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Nozomu Tominaga

Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGO's S5 Data

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Non-Abelian Dark Sectors and Their Collider Signatures

• Authors: Matthew Baumgart, Clifford Cheung, Joshua T. Ruderman, Lian-Tao Wang, Itay Yavin

tipa -- 1/5/2009

The 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 300

• Authors: Howard E. Bond (1), Alceste Z. Bonanos (1), Roberta M. Humphreys (2), L.A.G. Berto Monard (3), Jose L. Prieto (4), Frederick M. Walter (5) ((1) STScI, (2) U. Minnesota, (3) Bronberg Obs., (4) Ohio State U., (5) Stony Brook U.)

Microwave Background Constraints on Mixing of Photons with Hidden Photons

• Authors: Alessandro Mirizzi (Max Planck Institut, Munich), Javier Redondo (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg), Guenter Sigl (Hamburg University)

Introduction to the Standard Model and Electroweak Physics

• Authors: Paul Langacker