today in particle astrophysics: 07/01/2009

Authors: Jeremiah W. Murphy (1), Christian D. Ott (2), Adam Burrows (3) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, (2) Tapir, Caltech, (3) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton)

Galactic Substructure and Energetic Neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth

Authors: Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

A Universal Luminosity Function for Radio Supernova Remnants

Authors: Laura Chomiuk, Eric M. Wilcots (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

tipa -- 7/28/2009

An Observational Determination of the Proton to Electron Mass Ratio in the Early Universe

Authors: Rodger I. Thompson, Jill Bechtold, John H. Black, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, Robert C. Kennicutt, Carlos Martins, J. Xavier Prochaska, Yancey L. Shirley

The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7

Authors: Wendy L. Freedman, Christopher R. Burns, M. M. Phillips, Pamela Wyatt, S. E. Persson, Barry F. Madore, Carlos Contreras, Gaston Folatelli, E.Sergio Gonzalez, Mario Hamuy, Eric Hsiao, Daniel D. Kelson, Nidia Morrell, D. C. Murphy, Miguel Roth, Maximilian Stritzinger, Laura Sturch, Nick B. Suntzeff, P. Astier, C. Balland, Bruce Bassett, Luis Boldt, R. G. Carlberg, Alexander J. Conley, Joshua A. Frieman, Peter M. Garnavich, J. Guy, D. Hardin, D. Andrew Howell, Richard Kessler, Hubert Lampeitl, John Marriner, R. Pain, Kathy Perrett, N. Regnault, Adam G. Riess, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mark Sullivan, Michael Wood-Vasey

The uncertainty in Galactic parameters

Authors: Paul J. McMillan, James J. Binney

Search for High Energetic Neutrinos from Supernova Explosions with AMANDA

Authors: Dirk Lennarz, Jan-Patrick Hülß, Christopher Wiebusch, for the IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 7/27/2009

Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star-Forming Galaxies

Authors: Carolin N. Cardamone, Kevin Schawinski, Marc Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, Nicola Bennert, C. M. Urry, Chris Lintott, William C. Keel, John Parejko, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel Thomas, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex Szalay, Jan VandenBerg

BLAST: the Redshift Survey

Authors: Stephen Eales, Edward L. Chapin, Mark J. Devlin, Simon Dye, Mark Halpern, David H. Hughes, Gaelen Marsden, Philip Mauskopf, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Calvin B. Netterfield, Enzo Pascale, Guillaume Patanchon, Gwenifer Raymond, Marie Rex, Douglas Scott, Christopher Semisch, Brian Siana, Matthew D. P. Truch, Marco P. Viero

The Physics of the FIR-Radio Correlation: I. Calorimetry, Conspiracy, and Implications

Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert

Fermi LAT Observations of LS I +61 303: First detection of an orbital modulation in GeV Gamma Rays

Authors: A. A. Abdo, et al., for the Fermi LAT collaboration

Chandra Observations of 1RXS J141256.0+792204 (Calvera)

Authors: Andrew S. H. Shevchuk, Derek B. Fox, Robert E. Rutledge

Dark matter, the CMSSM and lattice QCD

Authors: Joel Giedt, Anthony W. Thomas, Ross D. Young

How Far Are We from the Quantum Theory of Gravity?

Authors: R. P. Woodard (University of Florida)

classic papers of the week -- 110

The redshift of extragalactic nebulae

Zwicky, F.

On Continued Gravitational Contraction

Oppenheimer, J. R.; Snyder, H. (University of California, Berkeley)

Theories of gamma-ray bursts

Ruderman, M. (Columbia University, New York, N.Y.)

tipa -- 7/24/2009

The Fermi gamma-ray spectrum of the inner galaxy: Implications for annihilating dark matter

Authors: Ilias Cholis, Gregory Dobler, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Lisa Goodenough, Tracy R. Slatyer, Neal Weiner

Very High Energy Gamma-ray Afterglow Emission of Nearby Gamma-ray Bursts

Authors: R. R. Xue, P. H. Tam, S. J. Wagner, B. Behera, Y. Z. Fan, D. M. Wei

Computational Models of Stellar Collapse and Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: C. D. Ott (1,2,3), E. Schnetter (3,4), A. Burrows (5), E. Livne (6), E. O'Connor (1), F. Loeffler (3) ((1) TAPIR, Caltech, (2) Niels Bohr Institute, (3) Center for Computation and Technology, LSU, (4) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, LSU, (5) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, (6) Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University)

tipa -- 7/23/2009

Primordial Core-Collapse Supernovae and the Chemical Abundances of Metal-Poor Stars

Authors: C. C. Joggerst, A. Almgren, J. Bell, Alexander Heger, Daniel Whalen, S. E. Woosley

On Type Ia Supernovae From The Collisions of Two White Dwarfs

Authors: Cody Raskin, F.X. Timmes, Evan Scannapieco, Steven Diehl, Chris Fryer

tipa -- 7/22/2009

Substructure depletion in the Milky Way halo by the disk

Authors: Elena D'Onghia (1), Volker Springel (2), Lars Hernquist (1), Dusan Keres (1) ((1) Harvard/Cfa, (2) MPA, Garching)

Observations of "wisps" in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Crab Nebula

Authors: N.F. Camus, S.S. Komissarov, N. Buccantini, P.A. Hughes

tipa -- 7/21/2009

Collisions of white dwarfs as a new progenitor channel for type Ia supernovae

Authors: S. Rosswog, D. Kasen, J. Guillochon, E. Ramirez-Ruiz

High-Energy Neutrinos From Dark Matter Particle Self-Capture Within the Sun

Authors: Andrew R. Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-ray Burst Optical Afterglows: Biases in the Swift Sample and Characterization of the Absorbers

Authors: J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, J. X. Prochaska, D. Malesani, C. Ledoux, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Nardini, P. M. Vreeswijk, J. Hjorth, J. Sollerman, H.-W. Chen, C. C. Thoene, G. Bjoernsson, J. S. Bloom, A. Castro-Tirado, L. Christensen, A. De Cia, J. U. Gorosabel, A. Jaunsen, B. L. Jensen, A. Levan, J. Maund, N. Masetti, B. Milvang-Jensen, E. Palazzi, D. A. Perley, E. Pian, E. Rol, P. Schady, R. Starling, N. Tanvir, D. J. Watson, K. Wiersema, D. Xu, T. Augusteijn, F. Grundahl, J. Telting, P.-O. Quirion

tipa -- 7/20/2009

The Formation of Population III Binaries from Cosmological Initial Conditions

Authors: Matthew J. Turk (1), Tom Abel (1), Brian W. O'Shea (2) ((1) Stanford/KIPAC, (2) Michigan State University)

Measuring Black Hole Spin via the X-ray Continuum Fitting Method: Beyond the Thermal Dominant State

Authors: James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard, Ramesh Narayan, Lijun Gou

Cosmological and astrophysical constraints from the Lyman-alpha forest flux probability distribution function

Authors: M. Viel, J.S. Bolton, M.G. Haehnelt

classic papers of the week -- 109

CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction

Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)

The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matter

Davis, M.; Efstathiou, G.; Frenk, C. S.; White, S. D. M.

On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, in Consequence of the Diminution of the Velocity of Their Light, in Case Such a Diminution Should be Found to Take Place in any of Them, and Such Other Data Should be Procured from Observations, as Would be Farther Necessary for That Purpose. By the Rev. John Michell, B. D. F. R. S. In a Letter to Henry Cavendish, Esq. F. R. S. and A. S.

John Michell

tipa -- 7/17/2009

Cosmic Neutrino Last Scattering Surface

Authors: Scott Dodelson, Mika Vesterinen

tipa -- 7/16/2009

Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Authors: Elena D'Onghia, Gurtina Besla, Thomas J. Cox, Lars Hernquist (Harvard-Cfa)

The energy spectrum, time history, and IPN error ellipse of GRB051103, a possible extragalactic SGR giant flare

Authors: K. Hurley, E. Bellm, D. Perley, I. G. Mitrofanov, D. V. Golovin, A. S. Kozyrev, M. L. Litvak, A. B. Sanin, W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshmann, M. Ohno, K. Yamaoka, Y. E. Nakagawa, D. M. Smith, T. Cline, N. Gehrels, H. Krimm, D. M. Palmer, R. C. Duncan, C. Wigger, W. Hajdas, J.-L. Atteia, G. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, A. Rau, A. von Kienlin

Radio monitoring of NGC 7469: Late time radio evolution of SN 2000ft and the circumnuclear starburst in NGC 7469

Authors: M.A. Perez-Torres, A. Alberdi, L. Colina, J.M. Torrelles, N. Panagia, A. Wilson, E. Kankare, S. Mattila

Chern-Simons Modified General Relativity

Authors: Stephon Alexander, Nicolas Yunes

Astrometric Solar-System Anomalies

Authors: John D. Anderson, Michael Martin Nieto

tipa -- 7/15/2009

Search for muon neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the IceCube neutrino telescope

Authors: IceCube Collaboration: R. U. Abbasi, et al

GRB afterglow plateaus and Gravitational Waves: multi-messenger signature of a millisecond magnetar?

Authors: Alessandra Corsi, Peter Meszaros

Propagation of ultrahigh energy nuclei in clusters of galaxies: resulting composition and secondary emissions

Authors: K. Kotera, D. Allard, K. Murase, J. Aoi, Y. Dubois, T. Pierog, S. Nagataki

Physics Capabilities of the IceCube DeepCore Detector

Authors: Christopher Wiebusch, for the IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 7/14/2009

Determining the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with Cosmology

Authors: Francesco De Bernardis, Thomas D.Kitching, Alan Heavens, Alessandro Melchiorri

The disappearance of Lyman alpha blobs: a GALEX search at z=0.8

Authors: William C. Keel, Raymond E. White III., Scott Chapman, Rogier A. Windhorst

tipa -- 7/13/2009

Dynamically Driven Evolution of the Interstellar Medium in M51

Authors: J. Koda (1,2), N. Scoville (1), T. Sawada (3), M. A. La Vigne, S. N. Vogel (4), A. E. Potts, J. M. Carpenter, S. A. Corder (1), M. C. H. Wright (5), S. M. White, B. A. Zauderer (4), J. Patience, A. I. Sargent (1), D. C. -J. Bock (6), D. Hawkins, M. Hodges (7), A. Kemball (8), J.W. Lamb (7), R.L. Plambeck (5), M.W. Pound (4), S. L. Scott (7), P. Teuben (4), D.P. Woody (7), ((1) Caltech, (2) Stony Brook, (3) NRO, (4) U. Maryland, (5) Berkeley, (6) CARMA, (7) OVRO, (8) UIUC)

Cosmological Constraints from the Clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Luminous Red Galaxies

Authors: Beth A. Reid, Will J. Percival, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Licia Verde, David N. Spergel, Ramin A. Skibba, Neta A. Bahcall, Tamas Budavari, Masataka Fukugita, J. Richard Gott, James E. Gunn, Zeljko Ivezic, Gillian R. Knapp, Richard G. Kron, Robert H. Lupton, Timothy A. McKay, Avery Meiksin, Robert C. Nichol, Adrian C. Pope, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Michael A. Strauss, Chris Stoughton, Alexander S. Szalay, Max Tegmark, David H. Weinberg, Donald G. York, Idit Zehavi

GRB 090426: The Environment of a Rest-Frame 0.35-second Gamma-Ray Burst at Redshift z=2.609

Authors: Emily M. Levesque, Joshua S. Bloom, Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel A. Perley, S. Bradley Cenko, J. Xavier Prochaska, Lisa J. Kewley, Andrew Bunker, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, Karl Glazebrook, Sebastian Lopez, Joseph Masiero, Maryam Modjaz, Adam N. Morgan, Dovi Poznanski

QCD effects on "stable" micro black holes at the LHC

Authors: Itzhak Goldman, Yuval Grossman, Shmuel Nussinov

classic papers of the week -- 108

A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Planck's "h"

also

Millikan, R. A. (Ryerson Physical Laboratory, University of Chicago)

Spontaneous creation of almost scale-free density perturbations in an inflationary universe

Bardeen, James M. (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA); Steinhardt, Paul J. (Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA); Turner, Michael S. (Astronomy and Astrophysics Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL)

Entropy Generation and the Survival of Protogalaxies in an Expanding Universe

Weinberg, Steven

tipa -- 7/10/2009

Search for Astrophysical Neutrino Point Sources at Super-Kamiokande

Authors: E. Thrane, et al. (The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Analysis of the low-energy electron-recoil spectrum of the CDMS experiment

Authors: Z. Ahmed, D.S. Akerib, S. Arrenberg, C.N. Bailey, D. Balakishiyeva, L. Baudis, D.A. Bauer, J. Beaty, P.L. Brink, T. Bruch, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D.O. Caldwell, J. Cooley, P. Cushman, F. DeJongh, M.R. Dragowsky, L. Duong, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, J. Filippini, M. Fritts, S.R. Golwala, D.R. Grant, J. Hall, R. Hennings-Yeomans, S. Hertel, D. Holmgren, L. Hsu, M.E. Huber, O. Kamaev, M. Kiveni, M. Kos, S.W. Leman, R. Mahapatra, V. Mandic, D. Moore, K.A. McCarthy, N. Mirabolfathi, H. Nelson, R.W. Ogburn, M. Pyle, X. Qiu, E. Ramberg, W. Rau, A. Reisetter, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, J. Sander, R.W. Schnee, D.N. Seitz, B. Serfass, K.M. Sundqvist, G. Wang, S. Yellin, J. Yoo, B.A. Young, the CDMS Collaboration

Anisotropy vs chemical composition at ultra-high energies

Authors: Martin Lemoine (IAP), Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute of Science)

tipa -- 7/9/2009

Type IIn supernovae at redshift z = 2 from archival data

Jeff Cooke, Mark Sullivan, Elizabeth J. Barton, James S. Bullock, Ray G. Carlberg, Avishay Gal-Yam & Erik Tollerud

The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution

A. Cattaneo, S. M. Faber, J. Binney, A. Dekel, J. Kormendy, R. Mushotzky, A. Babul, P. N. Best, M. Brüggen, A. C. Fabian, C. S. Frenk, A. Khalatyan, H. Netzer, A. Mahdavi, J. Silk, M. Steinmetz & L. Wisotzki

Radio Imaging of the Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Region in the Central Engine of a Radio Galaxy

The VERITAS Collaboration, The VLBA 43 GHz M 87 Monitoring Team, The H.E.S.S. Collaboration, The MAGIC Collaboration

Detection of 16 Gamma-Ray Pulsars Through Blind Frequency Searches Using the Fermi LAT

A Population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars Seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

tipa -- 7/8/2009

Variable Sodium Absorption in a Low-Extinction Type Ia Supernova

Authors: Joshua D. Simon (Carnegie Observatories), Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute), Orly Gnat, Robert M. Quimby (Caltech), Mohan Ganeshalingam, Jeffrey M. Silverman (UC Berkeley), Stephane Blondin (ESO), Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), J. Craig Wheeler (Texas), Robert P. Kirshner (CfA), Ferdinando Patat (ESO), Peter Nugent (LBL), Ryan J. Foley (CfA), Steven S. Vogt (UCSC), R. Paul Butler (Carnegie DTM), Kathryn M. G. Peek (UC Berkeley), Erik Rosolowsky (UBC Okanagan), Gregory J. Herczeg (MPE), Daniel N. Sauer (Stockholm), Paolo A. Mazzali (MPA)

Constraining the Milky Way potential with a 6-D phase-space map of the GD-1 stellar stream

Authors: Sergey E. Koposov (1,2,3), Hans-Walter Rix (1), David W. Hogg (1,4) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia, (4) New York University, New York, USA)

The hydrodynamics of the supernova remnant Cas A: The influence of the progenitor evolution on the velocity structure and clumping