tipa -- 9/1/2015

Cosmic variance in the nanohertz gravitational wave background

• Elinore Roebber, Gilbert Holder, Daniel Holz, Michael Warren

The Sensitivity of Core-Collapse Supernovae to Nuclear Electron Capture

• Chris Sullivan, Evan O'Connor, Remco G. T. Zegers, Thomas Grubb, Sam M. Austin

Beyond the Horizon Distance: LIGO-Virgo can Boost Gravitational Wave Detection Rates by Exploiting the Mass Distribution of Neutron Stars

• Imre Bartos, Szabolcs Marka

Electromagnetic emission from long-lived binary neutron star merger remnants II: lightcurves and spectra

• Daniel M. Siegel, Riccardo Ciolfi

Modulation Effects in Dark Matter-Electron Scattering Experiments

• Samuel K. Lee, Mariangela Lisanti, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Benjamin R. Safdi

The impact of individual nuclear properties on $r$-process nucleosynthesis

• M. R. Mumpower, R. Surman, G. C. McLaughlin, A. Aprahamian

tipa -- 8/31/2015

Neutral hydrogen structures trace dust polarization angle: Implications for the interstellar medium and CMB foregrounds

• S.E. Clark, J. Colin Hill, J.E.G. Peek, M.E. Putman, B.L. Babler

LOFAR discovery of a 700-kpc remnant radio galaxy at low redshift

• M. Brienza, L. Godfrey, R. Morganti, N. Vilchez, N. Maddox, M. Murgia, E. Orru, A. Shulevski, P. N. Best, M. Brüggen, J. J. Harwood, M. Jamrozy, M. J. Jarvis, E. K. Mahony, J. McKean, H. J. A. Röttgering

A multi-wavelength polarimetric study of the blazar CTA 102 during a Gamma-ray flare in 2012

• Carolina Casadio, José L. Gómez, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher, Valeri M. Larionov, Paul S. Smith, Mark A. Gurwell, Anne Lähteenmäki, Iván Agudo, Sol N. Molina, Vishal Bala, Manasvita Joshi, Brian Taylor, Karen E. Williamson, Arkady A. Arkharov, Dmitry A. Blinov, George A. Borman, Andrea Di Paola, Tatiana S. Grishina, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, Ryosuke Itoh, Evgenia N. Kopatskaya, Elena G. Larionova, Liudmila V. Larionova, Daria A. Morozova, Elizaveta Rastorgueva-Foi, Sergey G. Sergeev, Merja Tornikoski, Ivan S. Troitsky, Clemens Thum, Helmut Wiesemeyer

JUNO Conceptual Design Report

• JUNO collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 212

Cosmic Rays from Super-novae

• Baade, W.; Zwicky, F. (Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)

Theory of the Effective Range in Nuclear Scattering

• Bethe, H. A. (Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

Induction Effects in Terrestrial Magnetism Part I. Theory

• Elsasser, Walter M. (Columbia University, Division of War Research, New York)

tipa -- 8/28/2015

Carbon production on accreting neutron stars in a new regime of stable nuclear burning

• L. Keek, A. Heger

Spitzer Microlens Measurement of a Massive Remnant in a Well-Separated Binary

• Y. Shvartzvald, A. Udalski, A. Gould, C. Han, V. Bozza, M. Friedmann, M. Hundertmark, C. Beichman, G. Bryden, S. Calchi Novati, S. Carey, M. Fausnaugh, B. S. Gaudi, C. B. Henderson, T. Kerr, R. W. Pogge, W. Varricatt, B. Wibking, J. C. Yee, W. Zhu, R. Poleski, M. Pawlak, M. K. Szymański, J. Skowron, P. Mróz, S. Kozłowski, Ł. Wyrzykowski, P. Pietrukowicz, G. Pietrzyński, I. Soszyński, K. Ulaczyk, J.-Y.Choi, H. Park, Y. K. Jung, I.-G. Shin, M. D. Albrow, B.-G. Park, S.-L. Kim, C.-U. Lee, S.-M. Cha, D.-J. Kim, Y. Lee, D. Maoz, S. Kaspi, R. A. Street, Y. Tsapras, E. Bachelet, M. Dominik, D. M. Bramich, Keith Horne, C. Snodgrass, I. A. Steele, J. Menzies, R. Figuera Jaimes, J. Wambsganss, R. Schmidt, A. Cassan, C. Ranc, S. Mao, Subo Dong, G. D'Ago, G. Scarpetta, P. Verma, U.G. Jørgensen, E. Kerins, J. Skottfelt

Linear polarization structures in LOFAR observations of the interstellar medium in the 3C196 field

• V. Jelić, A. G. de Bruyn, V. N. Pandey, M. Mevius, M. Haverkorn, M. A. Brentjens, L. V. E. Koopmans, S. Zaroubi, F. B. Abdalla, K. M. B. Asad, S. Bus, E. Chapman, B. Ciardi, E. R. Fernandez, A. Ghosh, G. Harker, I. T. Iliev, H. Jensen, S. Kazemi, G. Mellema, A. R. Offringa, A. H. Patil, H. K. Vedantham, S. Yatawatta

Galactic interstellar filaments as probed by LOFAR and Planck

• S. Zaroubi, V. Jelić, A. G. de Bruyn, F. Boulanger, A. Bracco, R. Kooistra, M. I. R. Alves, M. A. Brentjens, K. Ferrière, T. Ghosh, L. V. E. Koopmans, F. Levrier, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, L. Montier, V. N. Pandey, J. D. Soler

Dark Matter and Global Symmetries

• Yann Mambrini, Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz

Nuclear forces and their impact on neutron-rich nuclei and neutron-rich matter

• K. Hebeler, J.D. Holt, J. Menendez, A. Schwenk

tipa -- 8/27/2015

First Observation of Time Variation in the Solar-Disk Gamma-Ray Flux with Fermi

• Kenny C. Y. Ng, John F. Beacom, Annika H. G. Peter, Carsten Rott

Discovery of an Apparent High Latitude Galactic Supernova Remnant

• Robert Fesen, Jack Neustadt, Christine Black, Ari Koeppel

Phases of New Physics in the CMB

• Daniel Baumann, Daniel Green, Joel Meyers, Benjamin Wallisch

Exploring the canonical behaviour of long gamma-ray bursts using an intrinsic multi-wavelength afterglow correlation

• S. R. Oates, J. L. Racusin, M. De Pasquale, M. J. Page, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, P. J. Smith, A. A. Breeveld, N. P. M Kuin

A Black Hole Mass-Variability Time Scale Correlation at Submillimeter Wavelengths

• Geoffrey C. Bower, Jason Dexter, Sera Markoff, Mark A. Gurwell, Ramprasad Rao, Ian McHardy

Testing long-distance modifications of gravity to 100 astronomical units

• Brandon Buscaino, Daniel DeBra, Peter W. Graham, Giorgio Gratta, Timothy D. Wiser

The impact of sterile neutrinos on CP measurements at long baselines

• Raj Gandhi, Boris Kayser, Mehedi Masud, Suprabh Prakash

Summary of the ATLAS experiment's sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 - interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM

• ATLAS Collaboration

tipa -- 8/26/2015

Deep Chandra, HST-COS, and Megacam Observations of the Phoenix Cluster: Extreme Star Formation and AGN Feedback on Hundred Kiloparsec Scales

• M. McDonald, B. R. McNamara, R. J. van Weeren, D. E. Applegate, M. Bayliss, M. W. Bautz, B. A. Benson, J. E. Carlstrom, L. E. Bleem, M. Chatzikos, A. C. Edge, A. C. Fabian, G. P. Garmire, J. Hlavacek-Larrondo, C. Jones-Forman, A. B. Mantz, E. D. Miller, B. Stalder, S. Veilleux, J. A. Zuhone

On Measuring the Metallicity of Supernovae Type Ia Progenitors

• Broxton J. Miles, Daniel R. van Rossum, Dean M. Townsley, F. X. Timmes, Aaron P. Jackson, Alan C. Calder, Edward F. Brown

Preserving chemical signatures of primordial star formation in the first low-mass stars

• Alexander P. Ji (MIT), Anna Frebel (MIT), Volker Bromm (UT Austin)

Confronting Galactic center and dwarf spheroidal gamma-ray observations with cascade annihilation models

• Bhaskar Dutta, Yu Gao, Tathagata Ghosh, Louis E. Strigari

Synchrotron Self-Compton Emission from the Crab and Other Pulsars

• Alice K. Harding, Constantinos Kalapotharakos

tipa -- 8/25/2015

FERMI-LAT Observations of Supernova Remnant G5.7-0.1, Believed to be Interacting with Molecular Clouds

• Timothy Joubert, Daniel Castro, Patrick Slane, Joseph Gelfand

3D Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Galactic Supernova Remnant CTB 109

• Jan Bolte, Manami Sasaki, Dieter Breitschwerdt

Tagging Spallation Backgrounds with Showers in Water-Cherenkov Detectors

• Shirley Weishi Li, John F. Beacom (Ohio State University)

Search for Nucleon and Di-nucleon Decays with an Invisible Particle and a Charged Lepton in the Final State at the Super-Kamiokande Experiment

• Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment

• SNO+ Collaboration

tipa -- 8/24/2015

X-ray-powered macronovae

• Shota Kisaka, Kunihito Ioka, Ehud Nakar

CHANG-ES IV: Radio continuum emission of 35 edge-on galaxies observed with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in D-configuration, Data Release 1

• Theresa Wiegert, Judith Irwin, Arpad Miskolczi, Philip Schmidt, Silvia Carolina Mora, Ancor Damas-Segovia, Yelena Stein, Jayanne English, Richard J. Rand, Isaiah Santistevan, Rene Walterbos, Marita Krause, Rainer Beck, Ralf-Juergen Dettmar, Amanda Kepley, Marek Wezgowiec, Q. Daniel Wang, George Heald, Jiangtao Li, Stephen MacGregor, Megan Johnson, A. W. Strong, Amanda DeSouza, Troy A. Porter

Testing the origin of ~3.55 keV line in individual galaxy clusters observed with XMM-Newton

• Dmytro Iakubovskyi, Esra Bulbul, Adam R. Foster, Denys Savchenko, Valentyna Sadova

Discovery of near-ultraviolet counterparts to millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae

• L.E. Rivera-Sandoval, M. van den Berg, C. O. Heinke, H. N. Cohn, P. M. Lugger, P. Freire, J. Anderson, A. M. Serenelli, L. G. Althaus, A. M. Cool, J. E. Grindlay, P. D. Edmonds, R. Wijnands, N. Ivanova

Efficiency of Thin Magnetically-Arrested Disks Around Black Holes

• Mark J. Avara (1), Jonathan C. McKinney (1), Chris S. Reynolds (1) ((1) University of Maryland, College Park)

Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from neutron-star binaries with spinning components

• Ben Farr, Christopher P. L. Berry, Will M. Farr, Carl-Johan Haster, Hannah Middleton, Kipp Cannon, Philip B. Graff, Chad Hanna, Ilya Mandel, Chris Pankow, Larry R. Price, Trevor Sidery, Leo P. Singer, Alex L. Urban, Alberto Vecchio, John Veitch, Salvatore Vitale

Space- and Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astrophysics

• S. Funk

Unitarity and the three flavour neutrino mixing matrix

• Stephen Parke, Mark Ross-Lonergan

classic papers of the week -- 211

Magnetic Field Annihilation

• Petschek, H. E. (Avco-Everett Research Laboratory, Everett, MA)

On the Maximal Energy Attainable in a Betatron

• Iwanenko, D.; Pomeranchuk, I. (Physical Institute of the Moscow State University, Moscow Physico-Technical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U. S. S. R., Leningrad, U. S. S. R.)

Simulating Physics with Computers

• Feynman, Richard P. (California Institute of Technology)

tipa -- 8/21/2015

Spectral Models for Early Time SN 2011fe Observations

• E. Baron, P. Hoeflich Brian Friesen, M. Sullivan, E. Hsiao, R. S. Ellis, A. Gal-Yam, D. A. Howell, P. E. Nugent, I. Dominguez, K. Krisciunas, M. M. Phillips, N. Suntzeff, L. Wang, R. C. Thomas

Search for precursor eruptions among Type IIb supernovae

• Nora L. Strotjohann, Eran O. Ofek, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mark Sullivan, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nir J. Shaviv, Christoffer Fremling, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Peter E. Nugent, Yi Cao, Iair Arcavi, Jesper Sollerman, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ofer Yaron, Russ Laher, Jason Surace

Termination of the magnetorotational instability via parasitic instabilities in core-collapse supernovae

• Tomasz Rembiasz, Martin Obergaulinger, Pablo Cerdá-Durán, Ewald Müller, Miguel-Ángel Aloy

The Galactic chemical evolution of oxygen inferred from 3D non-LTE spectral line formation calculations

• A. M. Amarsi, M. Asplund, R. Collet, J. Leenaarts

A survey of FRB fields: Limits on repeatability

• E. Petroff, S. Johnston, E. F. Keane, W. van Straten, M. Bailes, E. D. Barr, B. R. Barsdell, S. Burke-Spolaor, M. Caleb, D. J. Champion, C. Flynn, A. Jameson, M. Kramer, C. Ng, A. Possenti, B. W. Stappers

Very-high-energy γ-ray observations of novae and dwarf novae with the MAGIC telescopes

• MAGIC Collaboration

High Precision Analyses of Lyman alpha Damping Wing of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Reionization Era: On the Controversial Results from GRB 130606A at z = 5.91

• Tomonori Totani (Tokyo), Kentaro Aoki (NAOJ), Takashi Hattori (NAOJ), Nobuyuki Kawai (TITech)

tipa -- 8/20/2015

The XMM-Newton view of the central degrees of the Milky Way

• G. Ponti, M. R. Morris, R. Terrier, F. Haberl, R. Sturm, M. Clavel, S. Soldi, A. Goldwurm, P. Predehl, K. Nandra, G. Belanger, R. S. Warwick, V. Tatischeff

2FHL: The Second Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

• The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

TeV Lepton Number Violation: From Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay to the LHC

• Tao Peng, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Peter Winslow

First observation of long-lived $π^+ π^-$ atoms

• DIRAC Collaboration

tipa -- 8/19/2015

Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay

• Daya Bay Collaboration

Dark matter cores all the way down

• J. I. Read, O. Agertz, M. L. M. Collins

Planck intermediate results. XXXIX. The Planck list of high-redshift source candidates

• Planck Collaboration

Energy Estimation of Cosmic Rays with the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Multi-Messenger Tests for Fast-Spinning Newborn Pulsars Embedded in Stripped-Envelope Supernovae

• Kazumi Kashiyama, Kohta Murase, Imre Bartos, Kenta Kiuchi, Raffaella Margutti

Detection of Broad H$α$ Emission Lines in the Late-time Spectra of a Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova

• Lin Yan (Caltech), R. Quimby (SDSU), E. Ofek (Weizmann), A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann), P. Mazzali (Liverpool), D. Perley (Copenhagen), P. Vreeswijk (Weizmann), G. Leloudas (Weizmann), A. de Cia (Weizmann), F. Masci (Caltech), S. B. Cenko (GSFC), Y. Cao (Caltech), S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech), P. E. Nugent (LBNL), Umaa D. Rebbapragada (JPL), P. R. Woźniak (Los Alamos), O. Yaron (Weizmann)

Composite Fermions and the First-Landau-Level Fine Structure of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

• W. C. Haxton, Daniel J. Haxton

tipa -- 8/18/2015

Shock Revival in Core-Collapse Supernovae: A Phase-Diagram Analysis

• Daniel Gabay (1), Shmuel Balberg (1), Uri Keshet (2) ((1) HUJI, (2) BGU)

Search for hidden-sector bosons in $B^0 \!\to K^{*0}μ^+μ^-$ decays

• LHCb collaboration

Precision measurement of the mass difference between light nuclei and anti-nuclei

• ALICE collaboration

tipa -- 8/17/2015

Dark Matter Halos as Particle Colliders: A Unified Solution to Small-Scale Structure Puzzles from Dwarfs to Clusters

• Manoj Kaplinghat, Sean Tulin, Hai-Bo Yu

First measurement of HI 21cm emission from a GRB host galaxy indicates a post-merger system

• Maryam Arabsalmani, Sambit Roychowdhury, Martin Zwaan, Nissim Kanekar, Michał J. Michałowski

Asymmetric supernova remnants generated by Galactic, massive runaway stars

• D. M.-A. Meyer, N. Langer, J. Mackey, P. F. Velazquez, A. Gusdorf

Galaxy Strategy for LIGO-Virgo Gravitational Wave Counterpart Searches

• Neil Gehrels, John K. Cannizzo, Jonah Kanner, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Samaya Nissanke, Leo P. Singer

Eight Ultra-faint Galaxy Candidates Discovered in Year Two of the Dark Energy Survey

• The DES Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 210

Cosmological limits to the number of massive leptons

• G. Steigman (National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Yale University) , D.N. Schramm, J.E. Gunn (University of Chicago, California Institute of Technology)

The four laws of black hole mechanics

• Bardeen, J. M. (Department of Physics, Yale University); Carter, B.; Hawking, S. W. (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

The Pressure due to Radiation

• Nichols, E. F.; Hull, G. F. (Wilder Laboratory, Dartmouth College)

tipa -- 8/14/2015

Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs: HI observations of gamma-ray burst host galaxies

• Michał J. Michałowski (IfA, Edinburgh), G. Gentile, J. Hjorth, M. R. Krumholz, N. R. Tanvir, P. Kamphuis, D. Burlon, M. Baes, S. Basa, S. Berta, J. M. Castro Ceron, D. Crosby, V. D'Elia, J. Elliott, J. Greiner, L. K. Hunt, S. Klose, M. P. Koprowski, E. Le Floc'h, D. Malesani, T. Murphy, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, E. Palazzi, J. Rasmussen, A. Rossi, S. Savaglio, P. Schady, J. Sollerman, A. de Ugarte Postigo, D. Watson, P. van der Werf, S. D. Vergani, D. Xu

Two Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift ~2 : Improved Classification and Redshift Determination with Medium-band Infrared Imaging

• Steven A. Rodney, Adam G. Riess, Daniel M. Scolnic, David O. Jones, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Alberto Molino, Curtis McCully, Bahram Mobasher, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Or Graur, Brian Hayden, Stefano Casertano

Predicting Gaia's Parallax Distance to the Cygnus OB2 Association with Eclipsing Binaries

• Daniel C. Kiminki, Henry A. Kobulnicky, Carlos A. Vargas Álvarez, Michael J. Alexander, Michael J. Lundquist

r-Process Lanthanide Production and Heating Rates in Kilonovae

• Jonas Lippuner, Luke F. Roberts

Growing White Dwarfs to the Chandrasekhar Limit: The Parameter Space of the Single Degenerate SNIa Channel

• Yael Hillman, Dina Prialnik, Attay Kovetz, Michael M. Shara

Population synthesis of accreting white dwarfs: II. X-ray and UV emission

• Hai-Liang Chen, T. E. Woods, L. R. Yungelson, M. Gilfanov, Zhanwen Han

Centaurus A: constraints on the nature of the giant lobe filaments from XMM-Newton observations

• Sarka Wykes, Martin J. Hardcastle, Judith H. Croston

tipa -- 8/13/2015

The Diversity of Transients from Magnetar Birth

• Brian D. Metzger, Ben Margalit, Daniel Kasen, Eliot Quataert

Universal clustering of dark matter in phase space

• Jesus Zavala (Dark Cosmology Centre), Niayesh Afshordi (PI, UW)

Comprehensive Assessment of the Too-Big-to-Fail Problem

• Fangzhou Jiang (1), Frank C. van den Bosch (1) ((1) Yale University)

Relativistic MHD simulations of core-collapse GRB jets: 3D instabilities and magnetic dissipation

• Omer Bromberg (1), Alexander Tchekhovskoy (2) ((1) Princeton, (2) Berkeley)

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT: Polarization Measurements of the Galactic Plane at 43 and 95 GHz

• QUIET Collaboration

Derivation of a large isotropic diffuse sky emission component at 1.25 and 2.2um from the COBE/DIRBE data

• K. Sano, K. Kawara, S. Matsuura, H. Kataza, T. Arai, Y. Matsuoka

Constraints on the distribution of supernova remnants with Galactocentric radius

• D. A. Green

A LOFAR Census of Millisecond Pulsars

• V. I. Kondratiev, J. P. W. Verbiest, J. W. T. Hessels, A. V. Bilous, B. W. Stappers, M. Kramer, E. F. Keane, A. Noutsos, S. Osłowski, R. P. Breton, T. E. Hassall, A. Alexov, S. Cooper, H. Falcke, J.-M. Grießmeier, A. Karastergiou, M. Kuniyoshi, M. Pilia, C. Sobey, S. ter Veen, P. Weltevrede, M. E. Bell, J. W. Broderick, S. Corbel, J. Eislöffel, S. Markoff, A. Rowlinson, J. D. Swinbank, R. A. M. J. Wijers, R. Wijnands, P. Zarka

XMM-Newton Large Program on SN1006 - I: Methods and Initial Results of Spatially-Resolved Spectroscopy

• Jiang-Tao Li (CEA, Saclay, University of Michigan), Anne Decourchelle (CEA, Saclay), Marco Miceli (Universita di Palermo, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo), Jacco Vink (University of Amsterdam), Fabrizio Bocchino (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo)

The NANOGrav Nine-year Data Set: Limits on the Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

• Zaven Arzoumanian, Adam Brazier, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Sydney Chamberlin, Shami Chatterjee, Brian Christy, Jim Cordes, Neil Cornish, Paul Demorest, Xihao Deng, Tim Dolch, Justin Ellis, Rob Ferdman, Emmanuel Fonseca, Nate Garver-Daniels, Fredrick Jenet, Glenn Jones, Vicky Kaspi, Michael Koop, Michael Lam, Joseph Lazio, Lina Levin, Andrea Lommen, Duncan Lorimer, Jin Luo, Ryan Lynch, Dustin Madison, Maura McLaughlin, Sean McWilliams, Chiara Mingarelli, David Nice, Nipuni Palliyaguru, Tim Pennucci, Scott Ransom, Laura Sampson, Sotiris Sanidas, Alberto Sesana, Xavier Siemens, Joseph Simon, Ingrid Stairs, Dan Stinebring, Kevin Stovall, Joseph Swiggum, Stephen Taylor, Michele Vallisneri, Rutger van Haasteren, Yan Wang, Weiwei Zhu

tipa -- 8/12/2015

Digging deeper into the Southern skies: a compact Milky-Way companion discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data

• E. Luque, A. Queiroz, B. Santiago, A. Pieres, E. Balbinot, K. Bechtol, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. Fausti Neto, L. N. da Costa, M. A. G. Maia, B. Yanny, T. Abbott, S. Allam, A. Benoit-Lévy, E. Bertin, D. Brooks, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, C. E. Cunha, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, J. P. Dietrich, T. F. Eifler, D. A. Finley, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, G. Gutierrez, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, T. S. Li, M. March, J. L. Marshall, P. Martini, R. Miquel, E. Neilsen, R. C. Nichol, B. Nord, R. Ogando, A. A. Plazas, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, R. C. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, G. Tarle, J. Thaler, D. Tucker, A. R. Walker, Y. Zhang

Inefficient highly eccentric accretion and the low luminosity of stellar tidal disruption events

• Gilad Svirski, Tsvi Piran, Julian Krolik

On the distribution of particle acceleration sites in plasmoid-dominated relativistic magnetic reconnection

• Krzysztof Nalewajko, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Benoît Cerutti, Gregory R. Werner, Mitchell C. Begelman

Optical Thermonuclear Transients From Tidal Compression of White Dwarfs as Tracers of the Low End of the Massive Black Hole Mass Function

• Morgan MacLeod, James Guillochon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Daniel Kasen, Stephan Rosswog

Thermonuclear detonations ensuing white dwarf mergers

• Marius Dan, James Guillochon, Marcus Brüggen, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Stephan Rosswog

Efficiency of Super-Eddington Magnetically-Arrested Accretion

• Jonathan C. McKinney (1), Lixin Dai (1), Mark Avara (1) ((1) University of Maryland)

Short-range spin-dependent interactions of electrons: a probe for exotic pseudo-Goldstone bosons

• W. A. Terrano, E.G. Adelberger, J.G.Lee, B.R. Heckel