today in particle astrophysics: 06/01/2011

Biermann, Ludwig; Schlüter, Arnulf (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Göttingen, Germany)

Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?

Mark Kac (The Rockefeller University, New York)

tipa -- 7/1/2011

A luminous quasar at a redshift of z = 7.085

Authors: Daniel J. Mortlock (1), Stephen J. Warren (1), Bram P. Venemans (2), Mitesh Patel (1), Paul C. Hewett (3), Richard G. McMahon (3), Chris Simpson (4), Tom Theuns (5,6), Eduardo A. Gonzales-Solares (3), Andy Adamson (7), Simon Dye (8), Nigel C. Hambly (9), Paul Hirst (10), Mike J. Irwin (3), Ernst Kuiper (11), Andy Lawrence (9), Huub J. A. Rottgering (11) ((1) Imperial College London, (2) European Southern Observatory, (3) University of Cambridge, (4) Liverpool John Moores University, (5) University of Durham, (6) Universiteit Antwerpen, (7) Joint Astronomy Centre, (8) University of Nottingham, (9) University of Edinburgh, (10) Gemini Observatory, (11) Leiden University)

Radius and magnetic field from Synchrotron-self-absorbed radio and Inverse Compton X-ray observations of Supernovae

Authors: Boaz Katz

The r-process in the neutrino-driven wind from a black-hole torus

Authors: Shinya Wanajo, Hans-Thomas Janka

A complete model of Askaryan radiation

Authors: Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Andrés Romero-Wolf, Enrique Zas

Parametrized 3D models of neutrino-driven supernova explosions: Neutrino emission asymmetries and gravitational-wave signals

Authors: E. Müller, H.-Th. Janka, A. Wongwathanarat

Short baseline neutrino oscillations: when entanglement suppresses coherence

Authors: Daniel Boyanovsky

Measurement of the anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry with 9 fb^-1 of p pbar collisions

Authors: D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov, et al

tipa -- 6/30/2011

New constraint on cosmological variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio from Q0528-250

Authors: Julian A. King, Michael T. Murphy, Wim Ubachs, John K. Webb

Evidence of theta(13)>0 from global neutrino data analysis

Authors: G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, A. Palazzo, A. M. Rotunno

tipa -- 6/29/2011

Automating Discovery and Classification of Transients and Variable Stars in the Synoptic Survey Era

Authors: J. S. Bloom, J. W. Richards (UC Berkeley), P. E. Nugent (UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), R. M. Quimby, M. M. Kasliwal (Caltech), D. L. Starr (UC Berkeley), D. Poznanski (UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), E. O. Ofek (Caltech), S. B. Cenko, N. R. Butler (UC Berkeley), S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech), A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science), N. Law (Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto)

The Cosmological Impact of Luminous TeV Blazars I: Implications of Plasma Instabilities for the Intergalactic Magnetic Field and Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background

Authors: Avery E. Broderick (1,2,3), Philip Chang (1,4), Christoph Pfrommer (5,1) ((1) Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, (2) Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, (3) University of Waterloo, (4) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (5) Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)

A Global Turbulence Model for Neutrino-Driven Convection in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: Jeremiah W. Murphy (1), Casey Meakin (2) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, (2) Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

The White Dwarf Companion of a 2 M_sun Neutron Star

Authors: Varun B. Bhalerao, S. R. Kulkarni

ELMAG: A Monte Carlo simulation of electromagnetic cascades on the extragalactic background light and in magnetic fields

Authors: M.Kachelriess, S.Ostapchenko, R.Tomas

A Radio Pulsar Search of the Gamma-ray Binaries LS I +61 303 and LS 5039

Authors: M. Virginia McSwain, Paul S. Ray, Scott M. Ransom, Mallory S. E. Roberts, Sean M. Dougherty, Guy G. Pooley

Reconstructing the assembly of the Milky Way dwarf satellite population

Authors: Valery Rashkov, Piero Madau, Michael Kuhlen, Jurg Diemand

Effect of Collective Neutrino Oscillations on the Neutrino Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: Ondrej Pejcha, Basudeb Dasgupta, Todd A. Thompson

Sub-luminous gamma-Ray pulsars

Authors: R. W. Romani, M. Kerr, H. A. Craig, S. Johnston, I. Cognard, D. A. Smith

Dual baseline search for muon neutrino disappearance at 0.5 eV^2 < Δm^2 < 40 eV^2

Authors: MiniBooNE, SciBooNE Collaborations

Limits on Electron Neutrino Disappearance from the KARMEN and LSND electron neutrino - Carbon Cross Section Data

Authors: J.M. Conrad, M.H. Shaevitz

tipa -- 6/28/2011

Are priors responsible for cosmology favoring additional neutrino species?

Authors: Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Robert Poltis, Blake D. Sherwin, Licia Verde

Observations of Arp 220 using Herschel-SPIRE: An Unprecedented View of the Molecular Gas in an Extreme Star Formation Environment

Authors: Naseem Rangwala, Philip R. Maloney, Jason Glenn, Christine D. Wilson, Adam Rykala, Kate Isaak, Maarten Baes, George J. Bendo, Alessandro Boselli, Charles M. Bradford, D. L. Clements, Asantha Cooray, Trevor Fulton, Peter Imhof, Julia Kamenetzky, Suzanne C. Madden, Erin Mentuch, Nicola Sacchi, Marc Sauvage, Maximilien R. P. Schirm, M. W. L. Smith, Luigi Spinoglio, Mark Wolfire

Diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays at intermediate and high latitudes. I. Constraints on the ISM properties

Authors: I. Cholis, M. Tavakoli, C. Evoli, L. Maccione, P. Ullio

Predicted power in ultra high energy cosmic rays from active galaxies

Authors: Laurentiu I. Caramete, Oana Tascau, Peter L. Biermann, Todor Stanev

The brightest gamma-ray flaring blazar in the sky: AGILE and multi-wavelength observations of 3C 454.3 during November 2010

Authors: S. Vercellone (INAF-IASF Palermo), E. Striani, V. Vittorini, I. Donnarumma, L. Pacciani, G. Pucella, M. Tavani, C.M. Raiteri, M. Villata, P. Romano, M. Fiocchi, A. Bazzano, V. Bianchin, C. Ferrigno, L. Maraschi, E. Pian, M. Türler, P. Ubertini, A. Bulgarelli, A.W. Chen, A. Giuliani, F. Longo, G. Barbiellini, M. Cardillo, P.W. Cattaneo, E. Del Monte, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, A. Ferrari, F. Fuschino, F. Gianotti, M. Giusti, F. Lazzarotto, A. Pellizzoni, G. Piano, M. Pilia, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, S. Sabatini, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, P. Giommi, F. Lucarelli, C. Pittori, P. Santolamazza, F. Verrecchia, I. Agudo, H.D. Aller, M.F. Aller, A.A. Arkharov, U. Bach, A. Berdyugin, G.A. Borman, R. Chigladze, Yu.S. Efimov, N.V. Efimova, J.L. Gómez, M.A. Gurwell, I.M. McHardy, M. Joshi, G.N. Kimeridze, T. Krajci, O.M. Kurtanidze, S.O. Kurtanidze, V.M. Larionov, E. Lindfors, S.N. Molina, D.A. Morozova, S.V.Nazarov, M.G. Nikolashvili, K. Nilsson, M. Pasanen, R. Reinthal, J.A. Ros, A.C. Sadun, T. Sakamoto, S. Sallum, S.G. Sergeev, R.D. Schwartz, L.A. Sigua, A. Sillanpää, K.V. Sokolovsky, V. Strelnitski, L. Takalo, B. Taylor, G. Walker

A giant glitch in PSR J1718-3718

Authors: Richard N Manchester G Hobbs

Impacts of Collective Neutrino Oscillations on Supernova Explosions

Authors: Yudai Suwa (Kyoto Univ.), Kei Kotake, Tomoya Takiwaki (NAOJ), Matthias Liebendoerfer (Univ. of Basel), Katsuhiko Sato (NINS & Univ. of Tokyo)

tipa -- 6/27/2011

Extracting the unresolved pulsar contribution to the gamma-ray background

Authors: Alex Geringer-Sameth, Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown U.)

Thermal Instability & the Feedback Regulation of Hot Halos in Clusters, Groups, and Galaxies

Authors: Prateek Sharma, Michael McCourt, Eliot Quataert, Ian J. Parrish

Radio data and synchrotron emission in consistent cosmic ray models

Authors: Torsten Bringmann, Fiorenza Donato, Roberto A. Lineros

WISE Discovery of Low Metallicity Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies

Authors: Roger L. Griffith (IPAC), Chao-Wei Tsai (IPAC), Daniel Stern (JPL), Andrew Blain (Leicester), Peter R. M. Eisenhardt (JPL), Fiona Harrison (Caltech), Thomas H. Jarrett (IPAC), Kristin Madsen (Caltech), Spencer A. Stanford (UC Davis), Edward L. Wright (UCLA), Jingwen Wu (JPL), Yanling Wu (IPAC), Lin Yan (IPAC)

classic papers of the week -- 198

Identification of Beta-Rays with Atomic Electrons

Goldhaber, M.; Scharff-Goldhaber, Gertrude (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL)

Velocity of the Earth with Respect to the Cosmic Background Radiation

Conklin, E. K. (Radio Astronomy Institute, Stanford University)

Diffusion in Embryogenesis

Crick, Francis (Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge)

tipa -- 6/24/2011

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of magnetic fields in Fanaroff-Riley class II radio sources

Authors: Martin Huarte-Espinosa, Martin Krause, Paul Alexander

Multiwavelength Observations of the VHE Blazar 1ES 2344+514

Authors: VERITAS collaboration

Consecutive Bright Pulses in the Vela Pulsar

Authors: Jim L. Palfreyman, Aidan W. Hotan, John M. Dickey, Timothy G. Young, Claire E. Hotan

Short GRBs with Extended Emission from Magnetar Birth: Jet Formation and Collimation

Authors: N. Bucciantini, (NORDITA, AlbaNova Univ. Center), B.D. Metzger (Dep. Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton), T.A. Thompson (Dep. of Astronomy, Ohio State Univ.), E. Quataert, (Astronomy Dep., UC Berkeley)

Dusty Explosions from Dusty Progenitors: The Physics of SN2008S and the 2008 NGC300-OT

Authors: C.S. Kochanek (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University)

Tracing the sources of cosmic rays with molecular ions

Authors: J.K. Becker, J.H. Black, M. Safarzadeh, F. Schuppan

Muon decay in orbit: spectrum of high-energy electrons

Authors: Andrzej Czarnecki, Xavier Garcia i Tormo, William J. Marciano

Observations of annual modulation in direct detection of relic particles and light neutralinos

Authors: P. Belli (INFN/Roma Tor Vergata), R. Bernabei (Univ. of Roma Tor Vergata and INFN/Roma Tor Vergata), A. Bottino (Univ. of Torino and INFN/Torino), F. Cappella (Univ. of Roma La Sapienza and INFN/Roma La Sapienza), R. Cerulli (INFN/LNGS), N. Fornengo (Univ. of Torino and INFN/Torino), S. Scopel (Sogang Univ.)

Search for New Physics with a Mono-Jet and Missing Transverse Energy in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

Authors: CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 6/23/2011

Expansion of the Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant G1.9+0.3

Authors: A.K. Carlton, K.J. Borkowski, S.P. Reynolds, U. Hwang, R. Petre, D.A. Green, K. Krishnamurthy, R. Willett

Magnetic fields during the early stages of massive star formation I: Accretion and disk evolution

Authors: D. Seifried, R. Banerjee, R. S. Klessen, D. Duffin, R. E. Pudritz

Cosmic Optical Background: the View from Pioneer 10/11

Authors: Y. Matsuoka, N. Ienaka, K. Kawara, S. Oyabu

Finding short GRB remnants in globular clusters: the VHE gamma-ray source in Terzan 5

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

Baryon Destruction by Asymmetric Dark Matter

Authors: Hooman Davoudiasl, David E. Morrissey, Kris Sigurdson, Sean Tulin

tipa -- 6/22/2011

Constraining Type Ia Supernovae progenitors from three years of SNLS data

Authors: F. B. Bianco, D. A. Howell, M. Sullivan, A. Conley, D. Kasen, S. Gonzalez-Gaitan, J. Guy, P. Astier, C. Balland, R. G. Carlberg, D. Fouchez, N. Fourmanoit, D. Hardin, I. Hook, C. Lidman, R. Pain, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, S. Perlmutter, K. M. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider

Global Simulations of Accretion Disks I: Convergence and Comparisons with Local Models

Authors: Kareem A. Sorathia, Christopher S. Reynolds, James M. Stone, Kris Beckwith

Very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the direction of the Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5

Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Formation of hard very-high energy spectra of blazars in leptonic models

Authors: E. Lefa, F.M. Rieger, F. Aharonian

The remarkable gamma-ray activity in the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211

Authors: I. Donnarumma, A. De Rosa, V. Vittorini, H. R. Miller, L. C. Popovic, S. Simic, M. Tavani, J. Eggen, J. Maune, E. Kuulkers, E. Striani, S. Vercellone, G. Pucella, F. Verrecchia, C. Pittori, P. Giommi, L. Pacciani, G. Barbiellini, A. Bulgarelli, P. W. Cattaneo, A. W. Chen, E. Costa, E. Del Monte, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Fuschino, F. Gianotti, A. Giuliani, M. Giusti, F. Lazzarotto, F. Longo, F. Lucarelli, A. Pellizzoni, G. Piano, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois

Search for Massive Neutrinos in the Decay pi --> e nu

Authors: PIENU Collaboration: M. Aoki, M. Blecher, D.A. Bryman, S. Chen, M. Ding, L. Doria, P. Gumplinger, C. Hurst, A. Hussein, Y. Igarashi, N. Ito, S.H. Kettell, L. Kurchaninov, L. Littenberg, C. Malbrunot, T. Numao, R. Poutissou, A. Sher, T. Sullivan, K. Yamada, M. Yoshida, D. Vavilov

tipa -- 6/21/2011

The Luminosity Profile and Structural Parameters of the Andromeda Galaxy

Authors: Stephane Courteau, Lawrence M. Widrow (1), Michael McDonald (2), Puragra Guhathakurta (3), Karoline M. Gilbert (4), Yucong Zhu (5), Rachael Lynn Beaton, Steven R. Majewski (6) (1. Queen's Univ, 2. MIT/Kavli, 3. UCO/Lick, 4. UWash, 5. Harvard/CfA, 6. Univ. of Virginia)

The Birth of a Relativistic Outflow in the Unusual γ-ray Transient Swift J164449.3+573451

Authors: B. A. Zauderer, E. Berger, A. M. Soderberg, A. Loeb, R. Narayan, D. A. Frail, G. R. Petitpas, A. Brunthaler, R. Chornock, J. M. Carpenter, G. G. Pooley, K. Mooley, S. R. Kulkarni, R. Margutti, D. B. Fox, E. Nakar, N. A. Patel, N. H. Volgenau, T. L. Culverhouse, M. F. Bietenholz, M. P. Rupen, W. Max-Moerbeck, A. C. S. Readhead, J. Richards, M. Shepherd, S. Storm, C. L. H. Hull

The Trigonometric Parallax of Cygnus X-1

Authors: Mark J. Reid, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ramesh Narayan, Lijun Gou, Ronald A. Remillard, Jerome A. Orosz

The Mass of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1

Authors: Jerome A. Orosz, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Jason P. Aufdenberg, Ronald A. Remillard, Mark J. Reid, Ramesh Narayan, Lijun Gou

Spontaneous Transition of Turbulent Flames to Detonations in Unconfined Media

Authors: Alexei Y. Poludnenko (1), Thomas A. Gardiner (2), Elaine S. Oran (1) ((1) Naval Research Lab, (2) Sandia National Lab)

CAST search for sub-eV mass solar axions with 3He buffer gas

Authors: S. Aune, K. Barth, A. Belov, S. Borghi, H. Bräuninger, G. Cantatore, J. M. Carmona, S. A. Cetin, J. I. Collar, T. Dafni, M. Davenport, C. Eleftheriadis, N. Elias, C. Ezer, G. Fanourakis, E. Ferrer-Ribas, P. Friedrich, J. Galán, J. A. García, A. Gardikiotis, E. N. Gazis, T. Geralis, I. Giomataris, S. Gninenko, H. Gómez, E. Gruber, T. Guthörl, R. Hartmann, F. Haug, M. D. Hasinoff, D. H. H. Hoffmann, F. J. Iguaz, I. G. Irastorza, J. Jacoby, K. Jakovčić, M. Karuza, K. Königsmann, R. Kotthaus, M. Krčmar, M. Kuster, B. Lakić, J. M. Laurent, A. Liolios, A. Ljubičić, V. Lozza, G. Lutz, G. Luzón, J. Morales, T. Niinikoski, A. Nordt, T. Papaevangelou, M. J. Pivovaroff, G. Raffelt, T. Rashba, H. Riege, A. Rodríguez, M. Rosu, J. Ruz, I. Savvidis, P. S. Silva, S. K. Solanki, L. Stewart, A. Tomás, M. Tsagri, K. van Bibber, T. Vafeiadis, J. Villar, J. K. Vogel, S. C. Yildiz, K. Zioutas (CAST Collaboration)

tipa -- 6/20/2011

The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the Local Hubble Constant

Authors: Florian Beutler, Chris Blake, Matthew Colless, D. Heath Jones, Lister Staveley-Smith, Lachlan Campbell, Quentin Parker, Will Saunders, Fred Watson

X-ray Stripes in Tycho's Supernova Remant: Synchrotron Footprints of a Nonlinear Cosmic Ray-driven Instability

Authors: A.M. Bykov, D.C. Ellison, S.M. Osipov, G.G. Pavlov, Yu.A. Uvarov

Neutrino analysis of the September 2010 Crab Nebula flare and time-integrated constraints on neutrino emission from the Crab using IceCube

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

A Single Degenerate Progenitor Model of Type Ia Supernovae Highly Exceeding the Chandrasekhar Mass Limit

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

Photodissociation of H2 in Protogalaxies: Modeling Self-Shielding in 3D Simulations

Authors: Jemma Wolcott-Green (Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory) Zoltán Haiman (Department of Astronomy, Columbia University) Greg L. Bryan (Department of Astronomy, Columbia University)

PTF11eon/SN2011dh: Discovery of a Type IIb Supernova From a Compact Progenitor in the Nearby Galaxy M51