tipa -- 12/1/2009

Particle mesh simulations of the Lyman-alpha forest and the signature of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the intergalactic medium

• Authors: Martin White, Adrian Pope, Jordan Carlson, Katrin Heitmann, Salman Habib, Patricia Fasel, David Daniel, Zarija Lukic

Optical Transients from the Unbound Debris of Tidal Disruption

• Authors: Daniel Kasen, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Nebular Spectra and Explosion Asymmetry of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Stefan Taubenberger, Jesper Sollerman, Paolo A. Mazzali, Giorgos Leloudas, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Kentaro Motohara

Hyperaccreting Disks around Magnetars for Gamma-Ray Bursts: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields

• Authors: Dong Zhang (OSU), Z. G. Dai (NJU)

Discovery of a new Soft Gamma Repeater: SGR J0418+5729

• Authors: A.J. van der Horst, V. Connaughton, C. Kouveliotou, E. Gogus, Y. Kaneko, S. Wachter, M.S. Briggs, J. Granot, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, P.M. Woods, R.L. Aptekar, S.D. Barthelmy, J.R. Cummings, M.H. Finger, D.D. Frederiks, N. Gehrels, C.R. Gelino, D.M. Gelino, S. Golenetskii, K. Hurley, H.A. Krimm, E.P. Mazets, J.E. McEnery, C.A. Meegan, P.P. Oleynik, D.M. Palmer, V.D. Pal'shin, A. Pe'er, D. Svinkin, M.V. Ulanov, M. van der Klis, A. von Kienlin, A.L. Watts, C.A. Wilson-Hodge

Massive protostars as gamma-ray sources

• Authors: V. Bosch-Ramon, G. E. Romero, A. T. Araudo, J. M. Paredes

Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger

• Authors: Julian H. Krolik

First proton--proton collisions at the LHC as observed with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged particle pseudorapidity density at sqrt(s) = 900 GeV

• Authors: ALICE Collaboration