tipa -- 6/1/2012

The Age of the Milky Way Inner Halo

• Jason Kalirai (STScI)

The Submm and mm Excess of the SMC: Magnetic Dipole Emission from Magnetic Nanoparticles?

• B. T. Draine, Brandon Hensley (Princeton University)

Turbulent magnetic field amplification driven by cosmic-ray pressure gradients

• Luke O'C. Drury, Turlough P. Downes

The M31 Velocity Vector. II. Radial Orbit Towards the Milky Way and Implied Local Group Mass

• Roeland P. van der Marel (1), Mark Fardal (2), Gurtina Besla (3), Rachael L. Beaton (4), Sangmo Tony Sohn (1), Jay Anderson (1), Tom Brown (1), Puragra Guhathakurta (5) ((1) STScI, (2) U of Massachusetts, (3) Columbia U, (4) U of Virginia, (5) UC Santa Cruz)

The Afterglow and Environment of the Short GRB111117A

• R. Margutti, E. Berger, W. Fong, B. A. Zauderer, S. B. Cenko, J. Greiner, A. M. Soderberg, A. Cucchiara, S. Klose, A. Rossi, S. Schmidl, D. Milisavljevic, N. Sanders

New Two-Dimensional Models of Supernova Explosions by the Neutrino-Heating Mechanism: Evidence for Different Instability Regimes in Collapsing Stellar Cores

• B. Mueller (1), H.-Th. Janka (1), A. Heger (2) ((1) MPI for Astrophysics, (2) University of Minnesota)

The Neutron Star Mass-Radius Relation and the Equation of State of Dense Matter

• Andrew W. Steiner, James M. Lattimer, Edward F. Brown