classic papers of the week -- 172

Black Holes and Entropy

• Bekenstein, Jacob D. (Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University; Center for Relativity Theory, The University of Texas at Austin)

Gravitational Effects on and of Vacuum Decay

• Sidney R. Coleman (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Frank De Luccia, (Institute for Advanced Study)

Life at low Reynolds number

• Purcell, E. M. (Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University)

tipa -- 10/29/2010

The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: The Type Ia Supernova Rate in High-Redshift Galaxy Clusters

• Authors: K. Barbary, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, M. Brodwin, N. Connolly, K. S. Dawson, M. Doi, P. Eisenhardt, L. Faccioli, V. Fadeyev, H. K. Fakhouri, A. S. Fruchter, D. G. Gilbank, M. D. Gladders, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, T. Hattori, E. Hsiao, X. Huang, Y. Ihara, N. Kashikawa, B. Koester, K. Konishi, M. Kowalski, C. Lidman, L. Lubin, J. Meyers, T. Morokuma, T. Oda, N. Panagia, S. Perlmutter, M. Postman, P. Ripoche, P. Rosati, D. Rubin, D. J. Schlegel, A. L. Spadafora, S. A. Stanford, M. Strovink, N. Suzuki, N. Takanashi, K. Tokita, N. Yasuda, for the Supernova Cosmology Project

Shapiro delay measurement of a two solar mass neutron star

• Authors: Paul Demorest, Tim Pennucci, Scott Ransom, Mallory Roberts, Jason Hessels

The Massive Pulsar PSR J1614-2230: Linking Quantum Chromodynamics, Gamma-ray Bursts, and Gravitational Wave Astronomy

• Authors: Feryal Ozel, Dimitrios Psaltis, Scott Ransom, Paul Demorest, Mark Alford

Characteristics of Gamma-Ray Loud Blazars in the VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey

• Authors: J. D. Linford, G. B. Taylor, R. Romani, S. E. Healey, J. F. Helmboldt, A. C. S. Readhead, R. Reeves, J. Richards, G. Cotter

Supersoft X-ray Phase of Single Degenerate Type Ia Supernova Progenitors in Early Type Galaxies

• Authors: Izumi Hachisu (Univ. of Tokyo), Mariko Kato (Keio Univ.), Ken'ichi Nomoto (Univ. of Tokyo)

A new limit on the Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray flux with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope

• Authors: S. ter Veen, S. Buitink, H. Falcke, C.W. James, M. Mevius, O. Scholten, K. Singh, B. Stappers, K.D. de Vries

tipa -- 10/28/2010

Black Hole Formation in Failing Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: Evan O'Connor, Christian D. Ott

"Discrepant hardenings" in cosmic ray spectra: a first estimate of the effects on secondary antiproton and diffuse gamma-ray yields

• Authors: Fiorenza Donato, Pasquale D. Serpico

CMB Neutrino Mass Bounds and Reionization

• Authors: Maria Archidiacono, Asantha Cooray, Alessandro Melchiorri, Stefania Pandolfi

tipa -- 10/27/2010

Induced Rotation in 3D Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae: Implications for Pulsar Spins

• Authors: E. Rantsiou (Princeton), A. Burrows (Princeton), J. Nordhaus (Princeton), A. Almgren (LBNL)

Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Models For Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: S.E. Woosley, Daniel Kasen

Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

• Authors: Joan M. Centrella, John G. Baker, Bernard J. Kelly, James R. van Meter

tipa -- 10/26/2010

Formation of the black-hole binary M33 X-7 via mass-exchange in a tight massive system

• Authors: Francesca Valsecchi, Evert Glebbeek, Will M. Farr, Tassos Fragos, Bart Willems, Jerome A. Orosz, Jifeng Liu, Vassiliki Kalogera

Collateral Effects on Solar Nebula Oxygen Isotopes due to Injection of 26Al by a Nearby Supernova

• Authors: C. I. Ellinger, P. A. Young, S. J. Desch

Discovery and follow-up studies of the extended, off-plane, VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1507-622

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration

The clustering of massive galaxies at z~0.5 from the first semester of BOSS data

• Authors: Martin White, M. Blanton, A. Bolton, D. Schlegel, J. Tinker, A. Berlind, L. da Costa, E. Kazin, Y.-T. Lin, M. Maia, C. McBride, N. Padmanabhan, J. Parejko, W. Percival, F. Prada, B. Ramos, E. Sheldon, F. de Simoni, R. Skibba, D. Wake, I. Zehavi, Z. Zheng, R. Nichol, D. Schneider, Michael A. Strauss, B.A. Weaver, David H. Weinberg

The local energy production rates of GRB photons and of UHECRs

• Authors: Eli Waxman (Weizmann Inst.)

Constraints on a hadronic model for unidentified off-plane galactic gamma-ray sources

• Authors: Wilfried F. Domainko (MPIK Heidelberg, Germany)

Atmospheric lepton fluxes at very high energy

• Authors: J.I. Illana, Paolo Lipari, M. Masip, D. Meloni

The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae

• Authors: Eduardo Bravo, Leandro G. Althaus, Enrique García-Berro, Inmaculada Domínguez

Light WIMP Searches: The Effect of the Uncertainty in Recoil Energy Scale and Quenching Factor

• Authors: J.I. Collar

New Experimental Constraints for the Standard Model from Muon Decay

• Authors: R. Bayes, J.F. Bueno, A. Hillairet, Yu.I. Davydov, P. Depommier, W. Faszer, C.A. Gagliardi, A. Gaponenko, D.R. Gill, A. Grossheim, P. Gumplinger, M.D. Hasinoff, R.S. Henderson, J. Hu, D.D. Koetke, R.P. MacDonald, G. Marshall, E.L. Mathie, R.E. Mischke, K. Olchanski, A. Olin, R. Openshaw, J.-M. Poutissou, R. Poutissou, V. Selivanov, G. Sheffer, B. Shin, T.D.S. Stanislaus, R. Tacik, R.E. Tribble

Quasi-Nambu-Goldstone Modes in Bose-Einstein Condensates

• Authors: Shun Uchino, Michikazu Kobayashi, Muneto Nitta, Masahito Ueda

tipa -- 10/25/2010

Detection of a Thermal Spectral Component in the Prompt Emission of GRB 100724B

• Authors: Sylvain Guiriec, Valerie Connaughton, Michael S. Briggs, Michael Burgess, Felix Ryde, Frédéric Daigne, Peter Mészáros, Adam Goldstein, Julie McEnery, Nicola Omodei, P.N. Bhat, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Ascensión Camero-Arranz, Vandiver Chaplin, Roland Diehl, Gerald Fishman, Suzanne Foley, Melissa Gibby, Misty M. Giles, Jochen Greiner, David Gruber, Andreas von Kienlin, Marc Kippen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Sheila McBreen, Charles A. Meegan, William Paciesas, Robert Preece, Arne Rau, Dave Tierney, Alexander J. van der Horst, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

The Supernova Legacy Survey 3-year sample: Type Ia Supernovae photometric distances and cosmological constraints

• Authors: J. Guy, M. Sullivan, A. Conley, N. Regnault, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R.G. Carlberg, D. Fouchez, D. Hardin, I.M. Hook, D.A. Howell, R. Pain, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, K.M. Perrett, C.J. Pritchet, J. Rich, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, D. Balam, S. Baumont, R.S. Ellis, S. Fabbro, H.K. Fakhouri, N. Fourmanoit, S. Gonzalez-Gaitan, M.L. Graham, E. Hsiao, T. Kronborg, C. Lidman, A.M. Mourao, S. Perlmutter, P. Ripoche, N. Suzuki, E.S. Walker

Cold neutrons trapped in external fields

• Authors: S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, Steven C. Pieper

classic papers of the week -- 171

Observations of the Failure of Conservation of Parity and Charge Conjugation in Meson Decays: the Magnetic Moment of the Free Muon

• Garwin, Richard L.; Lederman, Leon M.; Weinrich, Marcel (Physics Department, Nevis Cyclotron Laboratories, Columbia University, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, NY)

The Atmospheres of A-Type Subdwarfs and 95 Leonis

• Chamberlain, Joseph W.; Aller, Lawrence H. (Observatory, University of Michigan)

Fermi Questions

• Morrison, Philip (Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

tipa -- 10/22/2010

The Dark Matter at the End of the Galaxy

• Authors: Mariangela Lisanti, Louis E. Strigari, Jay G. Wacker, Risa H. Wechsler

Particle Acceleration on Megaparsec Scales in a Merging Galaxy Cluster

• Authors: R. J. van Weeren, H. J. A. Rottgering, M. Bruggen, M. Hoeft

Spectroscopic confirmation of a galaxy at redshift z=8.6

• Authors: M. D. Lehnert (1), N. P. H. Nesvadba (2), J.-G. Cuby (3), A. M. Swinbank (4), S. Morris (5), B. Clement (3), C. J. Evans (6), M. N. Bremer (7), S. Basa (3)

Pulsar timing arrays as imaging gravitational wave telescopes: angular resolution and source (de)confusion

• Authors: Latham Boyle, Ue-Li Pen

The Early Evolution of Primordial Pair-Instability Supernovae

• Authors: C. C. Joggerst, Daniel Whalen

tipa -- 10/21/2010

The circumburst density profile around GRB progenitors: a statistical study

• Authors: S. Schulze, S. Klose, G. Björnsson, P. Jakobsson, D. A. Kann, A. Rossi, T. Krühler, J. Greiner, P. Ferrero

Primordial beryllium as a big bang calorimeter

• Authors: Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler

Search for a Lorentz-violating sidereal signal with atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

PSRs J0248+6021 and J2240+5832: Young Pulsars in the Northern Galactic Plane. Discovery, Timing, and Gamma-ray observations

• Authors: G. Theureau, D. Parent, I. Cognard, G. Desvignes, D. A. Smith, J. M. Casandjian, C. C. Cheung, H. A. Craig, D. Donato, R. Foster, L. Guillemot, A. K. Harding, J.-F. Lestrade, P. S. Ray, R. W. Romani, D. J. Thompson, W. W. Tian, K. Watters

A low-threshold analysis of CDMS shallow-site data

• Authors: CDMS Collaboration: D.S. Akerib, M.J. Attisha, L. Baudis, D.A. Bauer, A.I. Bolozdynya, P.L. Brink, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D.O. Caldwell, C.L. Chang, R.M. Clarke, J. Cooley, M.B. Crisler, P. Cushman, F. DeJongh, R. Dixon, D.D. Driscoll, J. Filippini, S. Funkhouser, R.J. Gaitskell, S.R. Golwala, D. Holmgren, L. Hsu, M.E. Huber, S. Kamat, R. Mahapatra, V. Mandic, P. Meunier, N. Mirabolfathi, D. Moore, S.W. Nam, H. Nelson, R.W. Ogburn, X. Qiu, W. Rau, A. Reisetter, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, J. Sander, C. Savage, R.W. Schnee, D.N. Seitz, T.A. Shutt, G. Wang, S. Yellin, J. Yoo, B.A. Young

LUNA: Nuclear Astrophysics Deep Underground

• Authors: Carlo Broggini, Daniel Bemmerer, Alessandra Guglielmetti, Roberto Menegazzo

tipa -- 10/20/2010

The Supernova Impostor Impostor SN 1961V: Spitzer Shows That Zwicky Was Right (Again)

• Authors: C.S. Kochanek (1), D.M. Szczygiel (1), K.Z. Stanek (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University)

Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Luminous Blue Variable eruptions and related transients: Diversity of progenitors and outburst properties

• Authors: Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mo Ganeshalingam, Alexei V. Filippenko

The Formation of Low-Mass Binary Star Systems Via Turbulent Fragmentation

• Authors: S. S. R. Offner, K. M. Kratter, C. D. Matzner, M. R. Krumholz, R. I. Klein

A Revised Historical Light Curve of Eta Carinae and the Timing of Close Periastron Encounters

• Authors: Nathan Smith, David J. Frew

tipa -- 10/19/2010

Spectral Energy Distribution of z>1 Type Ia Supernova Hosts in GOODS: Constraints on Evolutionary Delay and the Initial Mass Function

• Authors: M. G. Thomson (U. Sussex), R. Chary (Caltech)

Cosmic Ray e^+/(e^- + e^+) and pbar/p Ratios Explained by an Injection Model Based on Gamma-ray Observations

• Authors: T. Kamae (1), S.-H. Lee (1), L. Baldini (2), F. Giordano (3,4), M.-H. Grondin (5), L. Latronico (2), M. Lemoine-Goumard (5), C. Sgró (2), T. Tanaka (1), Y. Uchiyama (1) ((1) KIPAC and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, (2) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, (3) Dipartimento di Fisica "M. Merlin" dell'Universita e del Politecnico di Bari, (4) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, (5) Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS/IN2p3, Centre d'Études Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan)

Measurement of $\nu_\mu$-induced charged-current neutral pion production cross sections on mineral oil at $E_\nu\in0.5-2.0$ GeV

• Authors: 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.VandeWater, M.O.Wascko, D.H.White, M.J.Wilking, H.J.Yang, G.P.Zeller, E.D.Zimmerman

A Highly Efficient Neutron Veto for Dark Matter Experiments

• Authors: Alex Wright, Pablo Mosteiro, Ben Loer, Frank Calaprice

tipa -- 10/18/2010

Spin-Dependent Limits from the DRIFT-IId Directional Dark Matter Detector

• Authors: E. Daw, J.R. Fox, J.-L. Gauvreau, C. Ghag, L.J. Harmon, M. Gold, E. Lee, D. Loomba, E. Miller, A.StJ. Murphy, S.M. Paling, J.M. Landers, M. Pipe, K. Pushkin, M. Robinson, D.P. Snowden-Ifft, N.J.C. Spooner, D. Walker

Diffuse Hard X-ray Emission in Starburst Galaxies as Synchrotron from Very High Energy Electrons

• Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson

CRT: A numerical tool for propagating ultra-high energy cosmic rays through Galactic magnetic field models

• Authors: Michael S. Sutherland, Brian M. Baughman, James J. Beatty

Analytic Solutions of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei Revisited

• Authors: Markus Ahlers, Andrew M. Taylor

Investigating the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate Near the Supernova Remnant IC 443 Through H3+ Observations

• Authors: Nick Indriolo, Geoffrey A. Blake, Miwa Goto, Tomonori Usuda, Takeshi Oka, T. R. Geballe, Brian D. Fields, Benjamin J. McCall

classic papers of the week -- 170

On the Possibility of Electric Dipole Moments for Elementary Particles and Nuclei

• Purcell, E. M.; Ramsey, N. F. (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

The Ability of the 200-inch Telescope to Discriminate Between Selected World Models

• Sandage, Allan (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition

• Onsager, Lars (Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University)

tipa -- 10/15/2010

A low-magnetic-field Soft Gamma Repeater

• Authors: N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC), P. Esposito (INAF), R. Turolla (U. Padova), G. L. Israel (INAF), S. Zane (MSSL), L. Stella, S. Mereghetti, A. Tiengo (INAF), D. Gotz (CEA-Saclay), E. Gogus (Sabanci), C. Kouveliotou (NASA)

The Production of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays during the Early Epochs of Radio-loud AGN

• Authors: Hajime Takami, Shunsaku Horiuchi

Diffusive Cosmic Ray Acceleration at the Galactic Centre

• Authors: Fulvio Melia, Marco Fatuzzo

Cores and Cusps in Warm Dark Matter Halos

• Authors: Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Neal Dalal

Dark Matter Annihilation in The Galactic Center As Seen by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Lisa Goodenough

Simulating merging binary black holes with nearly extremal spins

• Authors: Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark. A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi

tipa -- 10/14/2010

Bound and unbound substructures in Galaxy-scale Dark Matter haloes

• Authors: Michal Maciejewski (1), Mark Vogelsberger (1,2), Simon D.M. White (1), Volker Springel (1,3) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (2) Harvard/CfA (3) Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)

Gas accretion as the origin of chemical abundance gradients in distant galaxies

• Authors: G. Cresci, F. Mannucci, R. Maiolino, A. Marconi, A. Gnerucci, L. Magrini

The Origin of Dark Matter Halo Profiles

• Authors: Neal Dalal, Yoram Lithwick, Michael Kuhlen

When A Standard Candle Flickers

• Authors: Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge (NASA/MSFC), Michael L. Cherry (LSU), Wayne H. Baumgartner (NASA/CRESST) Elif Beklen (METU/SDU), P. Narayana Bhat, Michael S. Briggs (UAH), Ascension Camero-Arranz (NSSTC), Gary L. Case (LSU), Vandiver Chaplin, Valerie Connaughton (UAH), Mark H. Finger (USRA), Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), Jochen Greiner (MPE), Keith Jahoda (NASA/GSFC), Peter Jenke (NPP/NASA/MSFC), R. Marc Kippen (LANL), Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA/MSFC), Hans A. Krimm (CRESST/NASA/GSFC/USRA), Erik Kuulkers (ESA/ESAC), Charles A. Meegan (USRA), Lorenzo Natalucci (INAF-IASF), William S. Paciesas, Robert Preece (UAH), James C. Rodi (LSU), Nikolai Shaposhnikov, Gerald K. Skinner (UMD/CRESST/NASA/GSFC), Doug Swartz (USRA), Andreas von Kienlin (MPE)

Caltech Core-Collapse Project (CCCP) observations of type IIn supernovae: typical properties and implications for their progenitor stars

• Authors: Michael Kiewe (1), Avishay Gal-Yam (1), Iair Arcavi (1), Douglas C. Leonard (2), J. Emilio Enriquez (3), S. Bradley Cenko (4), Derek B. Fox (5), Dae-Sik Moon (6), David J. Sand (7), Alicia M. Soderberg (7)

tipa -- 10/13/2010

A ground-based measurement of the relativistic beaming effect in a detached double WD binary

• Authors: Avi Shporer, David L. Kaplan, Justin D. R. Steinfadt, Lars Bildsten, Steve B. Howell, Tsevi Mazeh

Hubble Space Telescope Studies of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae: The Mean Maximum Light Ultraviolet Spectrum and its Dispersion

• Authors: Jeff Cooke, Richard S. Ellis, Mark Sullivan, Peter Nugent, D. Andrew Howell, Avishay Gal-Yam, Chris Lidman, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law, Eran O. Ofek, Robert M. Quimby

Where are the Fossils of the First Galaxies? I. Local Volume Maps and Properties of the Undetected Dwarfs

• Authors: Mia S. Bovill, Massimo Ricotti (University of Maryland)

Constraining the Minimum Mass of High-Redshift Galaxies and Their Contribution to the Ionization State of the IGM

• Authors: Joseph A. Muñoz, Abraham Loeb

tipa -- 10/12/2010

Cluster morphologies and model-independent Y_SZ estimates from Bolocam Sunyaev-Zel'dovich images

• Authors: Jack Sayers, Sunil R. Golwala, Silvia Ameglio, Elena Pierpaoli

The missing gas problem in GRB host galaxies: evidence for a highly ionised component

• Authors: P.Schady (1), S.Savaglio (1), T.Kruehler (1 and 2), J.Greiner (1), A.Rau (1) ((1) MPE, (2) Universe Cluster, TUM)

The Final Merger of Black-Hole Binaries

• Authors: Joan M. Centrella, John G. Baker, Bernard J. Kelly, James R. van Meter

tipa -- 10/11/2010

The formation of high-field magnetic white dwarfs from common envelopes

• Authors: J. Nordhaus (Princeton), S. Wellons (Princeton), D. S. Spiegel (Princeton), B. D. Metzger (Princeton), E. G. Blackman (Univ. Rochester)

Electron screening and its effects on Big-Bang nucleosynthesis

• Authors: Biao Wang, C.A. Bertulani, A.B. Balantekin

Searching for Needles in Haystacks - Using the Fermi/GBM to find GRB gamma-rays with the Fermi/LAT Detector

• Authors: C. W. Akerlof, W. Zheng, S. B. Pandey, T. A. McKay

classic papers of the week -- 169

Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects

• Kohn, W.; Sham, L. J. (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA)

Testing Relativity with Laser Ranging to the Moon

• Nordtvedt, K. (Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT)

Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

• Alvarez, Luis W.; Alvarez, Walter; Asaro, Frank; Michel, Helen V.