tipa -- 8/31/2012

Two accurate time-delay distances from strong lensing: Implications for cosmology

• S. H. Suyu, M. W. Auger, S. Hilbert, P. J. Marshall, M. Tewes, T. Treu, C. D. Fassnacht, L. V. E. Koopmans, D. Sluse, R. D. Blandford, F. Courbin, G. Meylan

The Contribution of High Redshift Galaxies to the Near-Infrared Background

• Bin Yue, Andrea Ferrara, Ruben Salvaterra, Xuelei Chen

tipa -- 8/30/2012

Discovery and Early Multi-Wavelength Measurements of the Energetic Type Ic Supernova PTF12gzk: A Massive-Star Explosion in a Dwarf Host Galaxy

• Sagi Ben-Ami, Avishay Gal-Yam, Alexei V. Filippenko, Paolo A. Mazzali, Maryam Modjaz, Ofer Yaron, Iair Arcavi, S. Bradley Cenko, Assaf Horesh, D. Andrew Howell, Melissa L. Graham, J. Chuck Horst, Myunshin Im, Yiseul Jeon, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Douglas C. Leonard, Elena Pian, David J. Sand, Mark Sullivan, Juliette C. Becker, David Bersier, Joshua S. Bloom, Michael Bottom, Peter J. Brown, Kelsey I. Clubb, Ben Dilday, Richard C. Dixon, Aryeh L. Fortinsky, Derek B. Fox, Luis A. Gonzalez, Avet Harutyunyan, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Weidong Li, Matthew A. Malkan, Ilan Manulis, Thomas Matheson, Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Philip S. Muirhead, Peter E. Nugent, Eran O. Ofek, Robert M. Quimby, Joseph W. Richards, Nathaniel R. Ross, Kinchen J. Searcy, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Nathan Smith, Andrew Vanderburg, Emma S. Walker

Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters

• Planck Collaboration

XMM-Newton evidence of shocked ISM in SN 1006: indications of hadronic acceleration

• M. Miceli, F. Bocchino, A. Decourchelle, G. Maurin, J. Vink, S. Orlando, F. Reale, S. Broersen

Pulsar Wind Nebulae as Cosmic Pevatrons: A Current Sheet's Tale

• Jonathan Arons

tipa -- 8/29/2012

Planck Intermediate Results. IX. Detection of the Galactic haze with Planck

• Planck Collaboration

Constraining the Vela Pulsar's Radio Emission Region Using Nyquist-Limited Scintillation Statistics

• Michael D. Johnson, Carl R. Gwinn, Paul Demorest

The importance of cooling in triggering the collapse of hypermassive neutron stars

• Vasileios Paschalidis, Zachariah B. Etienne, Stuart L. Shapiro

Galactic Center Radio Constraints on Gamma-Ray Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation

• Ranjan Laha, Kenny Chun Yu Ng, Basudeb Dasgupta, Shunsaku Horiuchi

Surveys with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

• G. Dubus, J. L. Contreras, S. Funk, Y. Gallant, T. Hassan, J. Hinton, Y. Inoue, J. Knödlseder, P. Martin, N. Mirabal, M. de Naurois, M. Renaud, for the CTA consortium

Solar Neutrinos: Status and Prospects

• W. C. Haxton. R. G. Hamish Robertson, Aldo M. Serenelli

Comment on "On the subtleties of searching for dark matter with liquid xenon detectors"

• The XENON Collaboration

tipa -- 8/28/2012

Rapid Orbital Decay in the 12.75-minute WD+WD Binary J0651+2844

• J. J. Hermes, Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, D. E. Winget, Carlos Allende Prieto, A. Gianninas, Anjum S. Mukadam, Antonio Cabrera-Lavers, Scott J. Kenyon

Failed-Detonation Supernovae: Sub-Luminous Low-Velocity Ia Supernovae and Their Remnant-Kicked Iron-Core White Dwarfs

• George C. Jordan IV, Hagai B. Perets, Robert T. Fisher, Daniel R. van Rossum

A direct measurement of the baryonic mass function of galaxies & implications for the galactic baryon fraction

• Emmanouil Papastergis (1), Andrea Cattaneo (2), Shan Huang (1), Riccardo Giovanelli (1), Martha P. Haynes (1) ((1) Cornell University, USA, (2) Laboratoire d' Astrophysique de Marseille, France)

Dynamical Capture Binary Neutron Star Mergers

• William E. East, Frans Pretorius

Magnetic Structures in Gamma-Ray Burst Jets Probed by Gamma-Ray Polarization

• Daisuke Yonetoku, Toshio Murakami, Shuichi Gunji, Tatehiro Mihara, Kenji Toma, Yoshiyuki Morihara, Takuya Takahashi, Yudai Wakashima, Hajime Yonemochi, Tomonori Sakashita, Noriyuki Toukairin, Hirofumi Fujimoto, Yoshiki Kodama

Strict Limit on CPT Violation from Polarization of Gamma-Ray Burst

• Kenji Toma, Shinji Mukohyama, Daisuke Yonetoku, Toshio Murakami, Shuichi Gunji, Tatehiro Mihara, Yoshiyuki Morihara, Tomonori Sakashita, Takuya Takahashi, Yudai Wakashima, Hajime Yonemochi, Noriyuki Toukairin

The properties of non-thermal X-ray filaments in young supernova remnants

• Robert Rettig, Martin Pohl

Inverse Compton model of pulsar high energy emission

• Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University, Osservatorio di Arcetri)

Understanding TeV-band cosmic-ray anisotropy

• Martin Pohl, David Eichler

Absorption Features in the X-ray Spectrum of an Ordinary Radio Pulsar

• Oleg Kargaltsev, Martin Durant, Zdenka Misanovic, George Pavlov

tipa -- 8/27/2012

An Off-center Density Peak in the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo?

• Michael Kuhlen, Javiera Guedes, Annalisa Pillepich, Piero Madau, Lucio Mayer

Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with IceCube

• IceCube Collaboration

Subtleties of searching for dark matter with liquid xenon detectors

• Peter Sorensen

tipa -- 8/24/2012

Neutrino Decays over Cosmological Distances and the Implications for Neutrino Telescopes

• Philipp Baerwald, Mauricio Bustamante, Walter Winter

Bailing Out the Milky Way: Variation in the Properties of Massive Dwarfs Among Galaxy-Sized Systems

• Chris W. Purcell, Andrew R. Zentner

Diffusive Cosmic-ray Acceleration in Sagittarius A*

• Marco Fatuzzo, Fulvio Melia

tipa -- 8/23/2012

An XMM-Newton Survey of the Soft X-ray Background. II. An All-Sky Catalog of Diffuse O VII and O VIII Emission Intensities

• David B. Henley, Robin L. Shelton (University of Georgia)

Reconstructing the γ-ray Photon Optical Depth of the Universe to z~4 from Multiwavelength Galaxy Survey Data

• Kari Helgason, Alexander Kashlinsky

Relativistic Jets in the Radio Reference Frame Image Database II: Blazar Jet Accelerations from the First 10 Years of Data (1994 - 2003)

• B. G. Piner, A. B. Pushkarev, Y. Y. Kovalev, C. J. Marvin, J. G. Arenson, P. Charlot, A. L. Fey, A. Collioud, P. A. Voitsik

Resolving the inner jet structure of 1924-292 with the EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE

• Ru-Sen Lu, Vincent L. Fish, Jonathan Weintroub, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Geoffrey C. Bower, Robert Freund, Per Friberg, Paul T. P. Ho, Mareki Honma, Makoto Inoue, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Daniel P. Marrone, James M. Moran, Tomoaki Oyama, Richard Plambeck, Rurik Primiani, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Melvyn Wright, Ken H. Young, Lucy M. Ziurys, J. Anton Zensus

tipa -- 8/22/2012

There are no starless massive proto-clusters in the first quadrant of the Galaxy

• A. Ginsburg, E. Bressert, J. Bally, C. Battersby

The GALFA-HI Compact Cloud Catalog

• Destry R. Saul, J. E. G. Peek, J. Grcevich, M. E. Putman, K. A. Douglas, E. J. Korpela, S. Stanimirovic, C. Heiles, S. J. Gibson, M. Lee, A. Begum, A. R. H. Brown, B. Burkhart, E. T. Hamden, N. M. Pingel, S. Tonnesen

On Absorption by Circumstellar Dust, With the Progenitor of SN2012aw as a Case Study

• C.S. Kochanek (1 and 2), R. Khan (1), X. Dai (3) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, (2) Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University, (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma)

Few-Body Modes of Binary Formation in Core Collapse

• Ataru Tanikawa, Douglas C. Heggie, Piet Hut, Junichiro Makino

Evidence for Substructure in Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy using a Bayesian Object Detection Method

• Andrew B. Pace (1), Gregory D. Martinez (1,2), Manoj Kaplinghat (1), Ricardo R. Muñoz (3, 4), ((1) Center for Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, (2) The Oskar Klein Center, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, (3) Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, (4) Department of Astronomy, Yale University)

Minimal Cosmogenic Neutrinos

• Markus Ahlers, Francis Halzen

Variations in the Galactic star formation rate and density thresholds for star formation

• S. N. Longmore, J. Bally, L. Testi, C. R. Purcell, A. J. Walsh, E. Bressert, M. Pestalozzi, S. Molinari, J. Ott, L. Cortese, C. Battersby, N. Murray, E. Lee, D. Kruijssen

Limits on MeV Dark Matter from the Effective Number of Neutrinos

• Chiu Man Ho, Robert J. Scherrer

Are Light Sterile Neutrinos Preferred or Disfavored by Cosmology?

• Shahab Joudaki, Kevork N. Abazajian, Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine)

tipa -- 8/21/2012

A Simple Law of Star Formation

• Paolo Padoan, Troels Haugboelle, AAke Nordlund

On the Pulse Intensity Modulation of PSR B0823+26

• N. J. Young, B. W. Stappers, P. Weltevrede, A. G. Lyne, M. Kramer

Nucleosynthetic Layers in the Shocked Ejecta of Cassiopeia A

• Karl Isensee, Greg Olmschenk, Lawrence Rudnick, Tracey DeLaney, Jeonghee Rho, J.D. Smith, William T. Reach, Takashi Kozasa, Haley Gomez

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Final Report

• J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay, R. Bean, D. Bennett, R. Brown, C. Conselice, M. Donahue, X. Fan, B. S. Gaudi, C. Hirata, J. Kalirai, T. Lauer, B. Nichol, N. Padmanabhan, S. Perlmutter, B. Rauscher, J. Rhodes, T. Roellig, D. Stern, T. Sumi, A. Tanner, Y. Wang, D. Weinberg, E. Wright, N. Gehrels, R. Sambruna, W. Traub, J. Anderson, K. Cook, P. Garnavich, L. Hillenbrand, Z. Ivezic, E. Kerins, J. Lunine, P. McDonald, M. Penny, M. Phillips, G. Rieke, A. Riess, R. van der Marel, R. K. Barry, E. Cheng, D. Content, R. Cutri, R. Goullioud, K. Grady, G. Helou, C. Jackson, J. Kruk, M. Melton, C. Peddie, N. Rioux, M. Seiffert

New antineutrino energy spectra predictions from the summation of beta decay branches of the fission products

• M. Fallot, S. Cormon, M. Estienne, A. Algora, V.M. Bui, A. Cucoanes, M. Elnimr, L. Giot, D. Jordan, J. Martino, A. Onillon, A. Porta, G. Pronost, J. L. Taín, F. Yermia, A.-A. Zakari-Issoufou

tipa -- 8/20/2012

Planck Intermediate Results. X. Physics of the hot gas in the Coma cluster

• Planck Collaboration

Development of a pulsar-based timescale

• G. Hobbs, W. Coles, R. N. Manchester, M. J. Keith, R. M. Shannon, D. Chen, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. Champion, A. Chaudhary, A. Hotan, J. Khoo, J. Kocz, Y. Levin, S. Oslowski, B. Preisig, V. Ravi, J. E. Reynolds, J. Sarkissian, W. van Straten, J. P. W. Verbiest, D. Yardley, X. P. You

Do High-Velocity Clouds trace the Dark Matter subhalo population?

• Sylvia Ploeckinger, Gerhard Hensler

tipa -- 8/17/2012

Rotational evolution of young pulsars due to superfluid decoupling

• Wynn C. G. Ho, Nils Andersson (Univ of Southampton)

Chemical Analysis of a Diffuse Cloud along a Line of Sight Toward W51: Molecular Fraction and Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate

• Nick Indriolo, D. A. Neufeld, M. Gerin, T. R. Geballe, J. H. Black, K. M. Menten, J. R. Goicoechea

A Novel Approach to Visualizing Dark Matter Simulations

• Ralf Kaehler, Oliver Hahn, Tom Abel

Luminous Supernovae

• Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute)

Carnegie Hubble Program: A Mid-Infrared Calibration of the Hubble Constant

• Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Victoria Scowcroft, Chris Burns, Andy Monson, S. Eric Persson, Mark Seibert, Jane Rigby

SN 2007bg: The Complex Circumstellar Environment Around One of the Most Radio-Luminous Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernovae

• P. Salas, F. E. Bauer, C. Stockdale, J. L. Prieto

An improved method for measuring muon energy using the truncated mean of dE/dx

• IceCube collaboration

tipa -- 8/16/2012

A Massive, Cooling-Flow-Induced Starburst in the Core of a Highly Luminous Galaxy Cluster

• M. McDonald, M. Bayliss, B. A. Benson, R. J. Foley, J. Ruel, P. Sullivan, S. Veilleux, K. A. Aird, M. L. N. Ashby, M. Bautz, G. Bazin, L. E. Bleem, M. Brodwin, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H. M. Cho, A. Clocchiatti, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, S. Desai, M. A. Dobbs, J. P. Dudley, E. Egami, W. R. Forman, G. P. Garmire, E. M. George, M. D. Gladders, A. H. Gonzalez, N. W. Halverson, N. L. Harrington, F. W. High, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, J. D. Hrubes, C. Jones, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, J. Lieu, M. Lueker, D. Luong-Van, A. Mantz, D. P. Marrone, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, E. D. Miller, L. Mocanu, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. S. Murray, T. Natoli, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, T. D. Rawle, C. L. Reichardt, A. Rest, M. Rex, J. E. Ruhl, B. R. Saliwanchik, A. Saro, J. T. Sayre, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, R. Simcoe, J. Song, H. G. Spieler, B. Stalder, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Story, C. W. Stubbs, R. Suhada, A. van Engelen, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, A. Vikhlinin, R. Williamson, O. Zahn, A. Zenteno

A theory of photospheric emission from collimated outflows

• Christoffer Lundman, Asaf Pe'er, Felix Ryde

Two new bursting neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries: Swift J185003.2-005627 and Swift J1922.7-1716

• N. Degenaar, M. Linares, D. Altamirano, R. Wijnands

Lateral Distribution of Muons in IceCube Cosmic Ray Events

• IceCube Collaboration

The Most Metal-Poor Stars. II. Chemical Abundances of 190 Metal-Poor Stars Including 10 New Stars With [Fe/H] < -3.5

• David Yong, John E. Norris, M. S. Bessell, N. Christlieb, M. Asplund, Timothy C. Beers, P. S. Barklem, Anna Frebel, S. G. Ryan

Cosmological Simulations with Self-Interacting Dark Matter I: Constant Density Cores and Substructure

• Miguel Rocha (1), Annika H.G. Peter (1), James S. Bullock (1), Manoj Kaplinghat (1), Shea Garrison-Kimmel (1), Jose Onorbe (1), Leonidas A. Moustakas (2) ((1) Center for Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA, (2) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

Cosmological Simulations with Self-Interacting Dark Matter II: Halo Shapes vs. Observations

• Annika H. G. Peter, Miguel Rocha, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

Modelling the Galactic distribution of free electrons

• D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler

tipa -- 8/15/2012

SN2002bu -- Another SN2008S-like Transient

• D. M. Szczygiel (1), C. S. Kochanek (1,2), X. Dai (3) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, (2) Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University, (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma)

Identifying the Radio Bubble Nature of the Microwave Haze

• Gregory Dobler (KITP/UCSB)

The magnetic fields of large Virgo cluster spirals: Paper II

• M. Wezgowiec, M. Urbanik, R. Beck, K. T. Chyzy, M. Soida

The MIDAS telescope for microwave detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays

• J. Alvarez-Muñiz, E. Amaral Soares, A. Berlin, M. Bogdan, M. Boháčová, C. Bonifazi, W. R. Carvalho Jr, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, P. Facal San Luis, J. F. Genat, N. Hollon, E. Mills, M. Monasor, P. Privitera, A. Ramos de Castro, L. C. Reyes, B. Rouille d'Orfeuil, E. M. Santos, S. Wayne, C. Williams, E. Zas, J. Zhou

Measurements of atmospheric neutrinos and antineutrinos in the MINOS Far Detector

• MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 8/14/2012

Dynamics and Afterglow Light Curves of GRB Blast Waves with a Long-lived Reverse Shock

• Z. Lucas Uhm, Bing Zhang, Romain Hascoet, Frederic Daigne, Robert Mochkovitch, Il H. Park

High Mass X-ray Binaries: Future Evolution and Fate

• Krzysztof Belczynski (Warsaw/UTB), Tomasz Bulik (Warsaw), Chris L. Fryer (LANL)

Supernova 2008J: early time observations of a heavily reddened SN 2002ic-like transient

• F. Taddia, M. D. Stritzinger, M. M. Phillips, C. R. Burns, E. Heinrich-Josties, N. Morrell, J. Sollerman, S. Valenti, J. P. Anderson, L. Boldt, A. Campillay, S. Castellon, C. Contreras, G. Folatelli, W. L. Freedman, M. Hamuy, W. Krzeminski, G. Leloudas, K. Maeda, S. E. Persson, M. Roth, N. B. Suntzeff

tipa -- 8/13/2012

Satellites and Haloes of Dwarf Galaxies

• Laura V. Sales, Wenting Wang, Simon D. M. White, Julio F. Navarro

Muon Acceleration in Cosmic-ray Sources

• Spencer R. Klein, Rune Mikkelsen, Julia K. Becker Tjus

Prospect of Studying Hard X- and Gamma-Rays from Type Ia Supernovae

• K. Maeda, Y. Terada, D. Kasen, F. K. Roepke, A. Bamba, R. Diehl, K. Nomoto, M. Kromer, I. R. Seitenzahl, H. Yamaguchi, T. Tamagawa, W. Hillebrandt

The progenitor mass of the Type IIP supernova SN 2004et from late-time spectral modeling

• Anders Jerkstrand, Claes Fransson, Kate Maguire, Stephen Smartt, Mattias Ergon, Jason Spyromilio

tipa -- 8/10/2012

Relaxation of Blazar Induced Pair Beams in Cosmic Voids: Measurement of Magnetic Field in Voids and Thermal History of the IGM

• Francesco Miniati (ETHZ), Andrii Elyiv (ULg, MAO)

The extremely high peak energy of GRB 110721A in the context of a dissipative photosphere synchrotron emission model

• P. Veres, B.-B. Zhang, P. Mészáros

GRB 110721A: photosphere "death line" and the physical origin of the GRB "Band" function

• Bing Zhang, Rui-Jing Lu, En-Wei Liang, Xue-Feng Wu

A correlation between intrinsic brightness and average decay rate of Swift UVOT GRB optical/UV light curves

• S. R. Oates, M. J. Page, M. De Pasquale, P. Schady, A. A. Breeveld, S. T. Holland, N. P. M. Kuin, F. E. Marshall

Evaluating Systematic Dependencies of Type Ia Supernovae: The Influence of Central Density

• Brendan K. Krueger, Aaron P. Jackson, Alan C. Calder, Dean M. Townsley, Edward F. Brown, Francis X. Timmes

Nuclear structure and double beta decay

• Petr Vogel

tipa -- 8/9/2012

Discovery of gamma-ray emission from the extragalactic pulsar wind nebula N157B with the High Energy Stereoscopic System

• HESS Collaboration

Measurement of the proton-air cross-section at $\sqrt{s}=57$ TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Auger Collaboration

Mass Hierarchy Resolution in Reactor Anti-neutrino Experiments: Parameter Degeneracies and Detector Energy Response

• X. Qian, D. A. Dwyer, R. D. McKeown, P. Vogel, W. Wang, C. Zhang

tipa -- 8/8/2012

The UV/optical spectra of the type Ia supernova SN 2010jn: A bright supernova with outer layers rich in iron-group elements

• S. Hachinger, P. A. Mazzali, M. Sullivan, R. Ellis, K. Maguire, A. Gal-Yam, D. A. Howell, P. E. Nugent, E. Baron, I. Arcavi, D. Bersier, B. Dilday, P. James, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, E. O. Ofek, R. R. Laher, J. Parrent, J. Surace, E. S. Walker

More than meets the eye: magnetars in disguise

• Wynn C. G. Ho (University of Southampton)

Constraints on the gamma-ray emission from the cluster-scale AGN outburst in the Hydra A galaxy cluster

• HESS Collaboration

Chandra observations of SGR 1627-41 near quiescence

• Hongjun An, Victoria M. Kaspi, John A. Tomsick, Andrew Cumming, Arash Bodaghee, Eric Gotthelf, Farid Rahoui

DEM L241, a Supernova Remnant containing a High-Mass X-ray Binary

• F. D. Seward, P. A. Charles, D. L. Foster, J. R. Dickel, P. S. Romero, Z. I. Edwards, M. Perry, R. M. Williams

Structure and rotations of the Hoyle state

• Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Timo Lähde, Dean Lee, Ulf-G. Meißner