today in particle astrophysics: 01/01/2012

Authors: Rosalba Perna (JILA/Colorado), Wynn Ho (U. of Southampton), Licia Verde (ICREA, Barcelona), Matthew van Adelsberg (Georgia Tech), Raul Jimenez (ICREA, Barcelona)

SN 2006oz: rise of a super-luminous supernova observed by the SDSS-II SN Survey

Authors: G. Leloudas, E. Chatzopoulos, B. Dilday, J. Gorosabel, J. Vinko, A. Gallazzi, J. C. Wheeler, B. Bassett, J. Fischer, J. A. Frieman, J. P. U. Fynbo, A. Goobar, M. Jelinek, D. Malesani, R. C. Nichol, J. Nordin, L. Ostman, M. Sako, D. P. Schneider, M. Smith, J. Sollerman, M. D. Stritzinger, C. C. Thoene, A. de Ugarte Postigo

Radioactively-Powered Rising Lightcurves of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Anthony L. Piro (Caltech)

X-Rays from Supernova Shocks in Dense Mass Loss

Authors: Roger A. Chevalier, Christopher M. Irwin

Search for decays of stopped, long-lived particles from 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Authors: ATLAS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/26/2012

Radio Observations Reveal Unusual Circumstellar Environments for Some Type Ibc Supernova Progenitors

Authors: Sarah Wellons, Alicia M. Soderberg, Roger A. Chevalier

Normal Type Ia supernovae from violent mergers of white dwarf binaries

Authors: R. Pakmor, M. Kromer, S. Taubenberger, S. A. Sim, F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt

On particle acceleration rate in GRB afterglows

Authors: Eran Sagi, Ehud Nakar

Five New Millisecond Pulsars From a Radio Survey of 14 Unidentified Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Sources

Authors: M. Kerr, F. Camilo, T. J. Johnson, E. C. Ferrara, L. Guillemot, A. K. Harding, J. Hessels, S. Johnston, M. Keith, M. Kramer, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, J. E. Reynolds, J. Sarkissian, K. S. Wood

Newly-born pulsars as sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

Authors: Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera, Angela V. Olinto

New limits on radiative sterile neutrino decays from a search for single photons in neutrino interactions

Authors: S. N. Gninenko

tipa -- 1/24/2012

The Stellar IMF, Core Mass Function, & The Last-Crossing Distribution

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley)

Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs from Ultra-Close Encounters with Intermediate Mass Spinning Black Holes

Authors: Roland Haas, Roman V. Shcherbakov, Tanja Bode, Pablo Laguna

Probing the Intergalactic Magnetic Field with the Anisotropy of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background

Authors: Tonia M. Venters, Vasiliki Pavlidou

Implications For The Origin Of GRB 051103 From LIGO Observations

Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Magnetic substructure in the northern Fermi Bubble revealed by polarized WMAP emission

Authors: David I. Jones (1), Roland M. Crocker (1), Wolfgang Reich (2), Jürgen Ott (3), Felix A. Aharonian (4,1) ((1) MPIK, (2) MPIfR, (3) NRAO, (4) DIAS)

Gravitational-wave emission from compact Galactic binaries

Authors: Samaya Nissanke, Michele Vallisneri, Gijs Nelemans, Thomas A. Prince

Cosmic-ray-induced ionization in molecular clouds adjacent to supernova remnants - Tracing hadonic origin of GeV gamma radiation

Authors: F. Schuppan, J. K. Becker, J. H. Black, S. Casanova

The proper motion of PSR J1550-5418 measured with VLBI: a second magnetar velocity measurement

Authors: A. T. Deller, F. Camilo, J. E. Reynolds, J. P. Halpern

Indications for a pair-production anomaly from the propagation of VHE gamma-rays

Authors: Dieter Horns, Manuel Meyer (Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg)

Measurement of the Double-Beta Decay Half-life of ^{136}Xe in KamLAND-Zen

Authors: The KamLAND-Zen Collaboration

tipa -- 1/23/2012

Broadband study of GRB 091127: a sub-energetic burst at higher redshift?

Authors: E. Troja, T. Sakamoto, C. Guidorzi, J. P. Norris, A. Panaitescu, S. Kobayashi, N. Omodei, J. C. Brown, D. N. Burrows, P. A. Evans, N. Gehrels, F. E. Marshall, N. Mawson, A. Melandri, C. G. Mundell, S. R. Oates, V. Pal'shin, R. D. Preece, J. L. Racusin, I. A. Steele, N. R. Tanvir, V. Vasileiou, C. Wilson-Hodge, K. Yamaoka

What Sets the Initial Rotation Rates of Massive Stars?

Authors: Anna L. Rosen, Mark R. Krumholz, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Hadronic-Origin TeV gamma-Rays and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Centaurus A

Authors: Sarira Sahu, Bing Zhang, Nissim Fraija

Constraining viewing geometries of pulsars with single-peaked gamma-ray profiles using a multiwavelength approach

Authors: A.S. Seyffert (1), C Venter (1), T. J. Johnson (2 and 3), A. K. Harding (2) ((1) Centre for Space Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa, (2) Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA, (3) Department of Physics, University of Maryland, USA)

Picogauss magnetic fields in voids from ultra-high energy cosmic rays

Authors: M. S. Pshirkov, P. G. Tinyakov

tipa -- 1/20/2012

Constraining the High-Energy Emission from Gamma-ray Bursts with Fermi

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration, The Fermi-GBM Collaboration

The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: III. Correlated Properties of Type Ia Supernovae and Their Hosts at 0.9 < z < 1.46

Authors: J. Meyers, G. Aldering, K. Barbary, L. F. Barrientos, M. Brodwin, K. S. Dawson, S. Deustua, M. Doi, P. Eisenhardt, L. Faccioli, H. K. Fakhouri, A. S. Fruchter, D. G. Gilbank, M. D. Gladders, G. Goldhaber, A. H. Gonzalez, T. Hattori, E. Hsiao, Y. Ihara, N. Kashikawa, B. Koester, K. Konishi, C. Lidman, L. Lubin, T. Morokuma, T. Oda, S. Perlmutter, M. Postman, P. Ripoche, P. Rosati, D. Rubin, E. Rykoff, A. Spadafora, S. A. Stanford, N. Suzuki, N. Takanashi, K. Tokita, N. Yasuda, for the Supernova Cosmology Project

Morphological and spectral properties of the W51 region measured with the MAGIC telescopes

Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

A multiwavelength view of the flaring state of PKS 2155-304 in 2006

Authors: HESS Collaboration

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Magnetically Choked Accretion Flows around Black Holes

Authors: Jonathan C. McKinney (1), Alexander Tchekhovskoy (2), Roger D. Blandford (1) ((1) Stanford, (2) Princeton)

Neutrino production coherence and oscillation experiments

Authors: Evgeny Akhmedov (MPIK Heidelberg), Daniel Hernandez (ICTP Trieste), Alexei Smirnov (ICTP Trieste)

Authors: Marius Dan (1), Stephan Rosswog (1 and 2), James Guillochon (2), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (2) ((1) Jacobs University Bremen, (2) UC Santa Cruz)

Effects of Unstable Dark Matter on Large-Scale Structure and Constraints from Future Surveys

Authors: Mei-Yu Wang, Andrew R. Zentner

Limits on Large Extra Dimensions Based on Observations of Neutron Stars with the Fermi-LAT

Authors: Bijan Berenji, Elliott Bloom, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, for the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

A Type Ia Supernova at Redshift 1.55 in Hubble Space Telescope Infrared Observations from CANDELS

Authors: Steven A. Rodney, Adam G. Riess, Tomas Dahlen, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Henry C. Ferguson, Jens Hjorth, Teddy F. Frederiksen, Benjamin J. Weiner, Bahram Mobasher, Stefano Casertano, David O. Jones, Peter Challis, S. M. Faber, Alexei V. Filippenko, Peter Garnavich, Or Graur, Norman A. Grogin, Brian Hayden, Saurabh W. Jha, Robert P. Kirshner, Dale Kocevski, Anton Koekemoer, Curtis McCully, Brandon Patel, Abhijith Rajan, Claudia Scarlata

Spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy and modeling of the nonthermal emission of the PWN in G0.9+0.1

Authors: M. Holler, F. M. Schöck, P. Eger, D. Kießling, K. Valerius, C. Stegmann

Discovery of VHE gamma-ray emission from the BL Lac object B3 2247+381 with the MAGIC telescopes

Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration

The Double Pulsar Eclipses I: Phenomenology and Multi-frequency Analysis

Authors: R. P. Breton (1,2), V. M. Kaspi (2), M. A. McLaughlin (3,4), M. Lyutikov (5), M. Kramer (6), I. H. Stairs (7), S. M. Ransom (8), R. D. Ferdman (9), F. Camilo (10), A. Possenti (11) ((1) University of Toronto, (2) McGill University, (3) West Virginia University, (4) NRAO Green Bank, (5) Purdue University, (6) MPIfR, (7) University of British Columbia, (8) NRAO Charlottesville, (9) University of Manchester, (10) Columbia University, (11) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)