today in particle astrophysics: 02/01/2010

Authors: G. Leloudas (1), J. Sollerman (1,2), A. J. Levan (3), J. P. U. Fynbo (1), D. Malesani (1), J. R. Maund (1,4) ((1) DARK, (2) Stockholm Obs., (3) Univ. Warwick, (4) UCSC)

Fermi detection of delayed GeV emission from the short GRB 081024B

Authors: Fermi LAT Collaboration, Fermi GBM Collaboration

An upper limit on the contribution of accreting white dwarfs to the type Ia supernova rate

Authors: Marat Gilfanov (MPA, IKI), Akos Bogdan (MPA)

tipa -- 2/17/2010

Gamma-ray excess from a stacked sample of high-frequency peaked blazars observed with the MAGIC telescope

Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

Observations of the shell-type SNR Cassiopeia A at TeV energies with VERITAS

Authors: The VERITAS Collaboration

Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of PSR J1836+5925

Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration

The supernova delay function: recovery method and application to the Lick Observatory Supernova Search

Authors: Dan Maoz, Filippo Mannucci, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Massimo Della Valle, Nino Panagia

Domenico Pacini, the forgotten pioneer of the discovery of cosmic rays

Authors: Alessandro De Angelis, Nicola Giglietto, Sebastiano Stramaglia

tipa -- 2/16/2010

Rapid dust production in submillimeter galaxies at z>4?

Authors: Michał J. Michałowski, Darach Watson, Jens Hjorth

Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes

Authors: Michael Kesden, Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti

Numerical study of Cosmic Ray Diffusion in MHD turbulence

Authors: A. Beresnyak, H. Yan, A. Lazarian

Exploring binary-neutron-star-merger scenario of short-gamma-ray bursts by gravitational-wave observation

Authors: Kenta Kiuchi, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Masaru Shibata, Keisuke Taniguchi

The median recoil direction as a WIMP directional detection signal

Authors: Anne M. Green, Ben Morgan

The experimental challenge of detecting solar axion-like particles to test cosmological ALP-photon oscillation hypothesis

Authors: F.T. Avignone III, R.J. Creswick, S. Nussinov

Fermi LAT Observations of Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds

Authors: Daniel Castro (1,2), Patrick Slane (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)

First Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic Double Differential Cross Section

Authors: MiniBooNE Collaboration: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko, S. J. Brice, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, J. Cao, L. Coney, J. M. Conrad, D. C. Cox, A. Curioni, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, B. T. Fleming, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, C. Green, J. A. Green, T. L. Hart, E. Hawker, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, P. Kasper, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kourbanis, S. Koutsoliotas, E. M. Laird, S. K. Linden, J. M. Link, Y. Liu, Y. Liu, W. C. Louis, K. B. M. Mahn, W. Marsh, C. Mauger, V. T. McGary, G. McGregor, W. Metcalf, P. D. Meyers, F. Mills, G. B. Mills, J. Monroe, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, R. H. Nelson, P. Nienaber, J. A. Nowak, B. Osmanov, S. Ouedraogo, R. B. Patterson, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov, C. C. Polly, E. Prebys, J. L. Raaf, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, A. D. Russell, V. Sandberg, R. Schirato, D. Schmitz, M. H. Shaevitz, F. C. Shoemaker, D. Smith, M. Soderberg, M. Sorel, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, I. Stancu, R. J. Stefanski, M. Sung, H. A. Tanaka, R. Tayloe, M. Tzanov, R. G. Van de Water, M. O. Wascko, D. H. White, M. J. Wilking, H. J. Yang, G. P. Zeller, E. D. Zimmerman

Neutrino mass hierarchy and three-flavor spectral splits of supernova neutrinos

Authors: Basudeb Dasgupta, Alessandro Mirizzi, Irene Tamborra, Ricard Tomas

tipa -- 2/15/2010

Empirical Delay Time Distributions of Type Ia Supernovae From The Extended GOODS/HST Supernova Survey

Authors: Louis-Gregory Strolger, Tomas Dahlen, Adam G. Riess

Discovery of Pulsed $\gamma$-rays from PSR J0034-0534 with the Fermi LAT: A Case for Co-located Radio and $\gamma$-ray Emission Regions

Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

A Photosphere-Internal Shock Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Implications for the Fermi/LAT Results

Authors: Kenji Toma, Xue-Feng Wu, Peter Meszaros

Flavor sensitivity to theta_13 and the mass hierarchy for neutrinos from solar WIMP annihilation

Authors: Ralf Lehnert, Thomas J. Weiler

classic papers of the week -- 136

Theory of the Symmetry of Electrons and Positrons

Ettore Majorana

On the Continuous γ-Radiation Accompanying the β-Decay

Bloch, F. (Stanford University)

Henry Cavendish, Johann von Soldner, and the deflection of light

Will, Clifford M. (Washington University, St. Louis, MO)

tipa -- 2/12/2010

The Spin of the Black Hole in the Soft X-ray Transient A0620--00

Authors: Lijun Gou (1), Jeffrey E. McClintock (1), James F. Steiner (1), Ramesh Narayan (1), Andrew G. Cantrell (2), Charles D. Bailyn (2), Jerome A. Orosz (3) ((1) CfA (2) Yale (3) SDSU)

Deep Chandra observations of TeV binaries I: LSI +61 303

Authors: N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC), D. F. Torres (CSIC-IEEC, ICREA), M. van der Klis (Amsterdam), P. G. Jonker (SRON), M. Mendez (Groningen), A. Sierpowska-Bartosik (Lodz)

Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Thermonuclear .Ia Supernovae from Helium Shell Detonations: Explosion Models and Observables

Authors: Ken J. Shen, Daniel Kasen, Nevin N. Weinberg, Lars Bildsten, Evan Scannapieco

Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Neutrino oscillation and expected event rate of supernova neutrinos in adiabatic explosion model

Authors: S.Kawagoe, T. Yoshida, T. Kajino, H. Suzuki, K. Sumiyoshi, S. Yamada

Charged-Particle and Neutron-Capture Processes in the High-Entropy Wind of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: K. Farouqi, K.-L. Kratz, B. Pfeiffer, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thilemann, J.W. Truran

Locating the VHE source in the Galactic Centre with milli-arcsecond accuracy

Authors: A.Abramowski, S.Gillessen, D.Horns, H.-S.Zechlin

Muon Fluxes and Showers from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center

Authors: Arif Emre Erkoca, Graciela Gelmini, Mary Hall Reno, Ina Sarcevic

tipa -- 2/11/2010

Young massive star clusters

Authors: Simon Portegies Zwart (Sterrewacht Leiden), Steve McMillan (Drexel University), Mark Gieles (ESO)

Testing General Relativity with Current Cosmological Data

Authors: Scott F. Daniel, Eric V. Linder, Tristan L. Smith, Robert R. Caldwell, Asantha Cooray, Alexie Leauthaud, Lucas Lombriser

Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 10^18 eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Capture and Annihilation of Dark Matter in Milky Way Globular Clusters

Authors: Amit Misra, Glenn Starkman, J. Christopher Mihos

High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star forming galaxies in the young Universe

Authors: L. J. Tacconi, R. Genzel, R. Neri, P. Cox, M. C. Cooper, K. L. Shapiro, A. Bolatto, N. Bouche, F. Bournaud, A. Burkert, F. Combes, J. Comerford, M. Davis, N. M. Foerster Schreiber, S. Garcia-Burillo, J. Gracia-Carpio, D. Lutz, T. Naab, A. Omont, A. Shapley, A. Sternberg, B. Weiner

Nucleosynthesis in Two-Dimensional Delayed Detonation Models of Type Ia Supernova Explosions

Authors: K. Maeda, F.K. Roepke, M. Fink, W. Hillebrandt, C. Travaglio, F.-K. Thielemann

Double-detonation sub-Chandrasekhar supernovae: can minimum helium shell masses detonate the core?

Authors: M. Fink, F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt, I. R. Seitenzahl, S. A. Sim, M. Kromer

Observation of Supernova Remnant IC443 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: A.A. Abdo, et al. (Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration)

tipa -- 2/10/2010

Radio Polarization Observations of G319.9-0.7: A Bow-shock Nebula with an Azimuthal Magnetic Field Powered by Pulsar J1509-5850

Authors: C.-Y. Ng, B. M. Gaensler, S. Chatterjee, S. Johnston

The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33: X-ray, Optical and Radio Properties of the Supernova Remnants

Authors: Knox S. Long, William P. Blair, P. Frank Winkler, Robert H. Becker, Terrance J. Gaetz, Parviz Ghavamian, David J. Helfand, John P. Hughes, Robert P. Kirshner, Kip D. Kuntz, Emily K. McNeil, Thomas G. Pannuti, Paul P. Plucinsky, Destry Saul, Ralph Tuellmann, Benjamin Williams

Galactic electrons and positrons at the Earth:new estimate of the primary and secondary fluxes

Authors: T. Delahaye, J. Lavalle, R. Lineros, F. Donato, N. Fornengo

tipa -- 2/9/2010

Simplified models for photohadronic interactions in cosmic accelerators

Authors: Svenja Hümmer, Michael Rüger, Felix Spanier, Walter Winter

Analysis of large-scale anisotropy of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in HiRes data

Authors: R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen, J. F. Amann, G. Archbold, K. Belov, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, O. A. Brusova, G. W. Burt, C. Cannon, Z. Cao, W. Deng, Y. Fedorova, J. Findlay, C. B. Finley, R. C. Gray, W. F. Hanlon, C. M. Hoffman, M. H. Holzscheiter, G. Hughes, P. Hüntemeyer, D. Ivanov, B. F Jones, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kim, M. A. Kirn, H. Koers, E. C. Loh, M. M. Maestas, N. Manago, L. J. Marek, K. Martens, J. A. J. Matthews, J. N. Matthews, S. A. Moore, A. O'Neill, C. A. Painter, L. Perera, K. Reil, R. Riehle, M. D. Roberts, D. Rodriguez, M. Sasaki, S. R. Schnetzer, L. M. Scott, G. Sinnis, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, C. Song, R. W. Springer, B. T. Stokes, S. R. Stratton, J. R. Thomas, S. B. Thomas, G. B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, D. Tupa, L. R. Wiencke, A. Zech, X. Zhang

Searching for prompt signatures of nearby core-collapse supernovae by a joint analysis of neutrino and gravitational-wave data

Authors: I. Leonor, L. Cadonati, E. Coccia, S. D'Antonio, A. Di Credico, V. Fafone, R. Frey, W. Fulgione, E. Katsavounidis, C. D. Ott, G. Pagliaroli, K. Scholberg, E. Thrane, F. Vissani

The type Ib supernova 2010O: an explosion in a Wolf-Rayet X-ray binary?

Authors: G. Nelemans, R. Voss, M.T.B. Nielsen, G. Roelofs

tipa -- 2/8/2010

Discovery and Characterization of a Faint Stellar Companion to the A3V Star Zeta Virginis

Authors: Sasha Hinkley (1,2), Ben R. Oppenheimer (3), Douglas Brenner (3), Neil Zimmerman (3,4), Lewis C Roberts Jr. (5), Ian R. Parry (6), Remi Soummer (7), Anand Sivaramakrishnan (3,8,9), Michal Simon (9), Marshall D. Perrin (10), David L. King (6), James P. Lloyd (11), Antonin Bouchez (12), Jennifer E. Roberts (5), Richard Dekany (12), Charles Beichman (13), Lynne Hillenbrand (1), Rick Burruss (5), Michael Shao (5), Gautam Vasisht (5) ((1) Caltech, (2) Sagan Fellow, (3) AMNH, (4) Columbia Univ., (5) JPL, (6) IoA Cambridge, (7) STScI, (8) CfAO, (9) Stony Brook, (10) UCLA, (11) Cornell, (12) Caltech Optical Observatories, (13) NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)

The Nuclear Stellar Disk in Andromeda: A Fossil from the Era of Black Hole Growth

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert (Berkeley)

New X-ray observations of the Geminga pulsar wind nebula

Authors: G. G. Pavlov (Penn State), S. Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India), V. E. Zavlin (USRA/NASA MSFC)

Gravitational lensing in the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)

Authors: T. Kronborg, D. Hardin, J. Guy, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R. G. Carlberg, A. Conley, D. Fouchez, I. M. Hook, D. A. Howell, J. Jönsson, R. Pain, K. Pedersen, K. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, M. Sullivan, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider

classic papers of the week -- 135

A Proposed Experimental Test of the Neutrino Theory

Luis W. Alvarez (University of California Radiation Laboratory)

Cosmic Ray anti-Protons as a Probe of a Photino Dominated Universe

Joseph Silk (University of California, Berkeley & Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara), Mark Srednicki (University of California, Santa Barbara)