tipa -- 2/27/2015

Determining the covering factor of Compton-thick active galactic nuclei with NuSTAR

• M. Brightman, M. Balokovic, D. Stern, P. Arevalo, D. R. Ballantyne, F. E. Bauer, S. E. Boggs, W. W. Craig, F. E. Christensen, A. Comastri, F. Fuerst, P. Gandhi, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, R. C. Hickox, M. Koss, S. LaMassa, S. Puccetti, E. Rivers, R. Vasudevan, D. J. Walton, W. W. Zhang

An ultra-luminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30

• Xue-Bing Wu, Feige Wang, Xiaohui Fan, Weimin Yi, Wenwen Zuo, Fuyan Bian, Linhua Jiang, Ian D. McGreer, Ran Wang, Jinyi Yang, Qian Yang, David Thompson, Yuri Beletsky

James Webb Space Telescope can Detect Kilonovae in Gravitational Wave Follow-up Search

• Imre Bartos, Tracy L. Huard, Szabolcs Marka

Reevaluation of spin-dependent WIMP-proton interactions as an explanation of the DAMA data

• Eugenio Del Nobile, Graciela B. Gelmini, Andreea Georgescu, Ji-Haeng Huh

tipa -- 2/26/2015

An X-ray Selected Sample of Candidate Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

• Sean Lemons, Amy Reines, Richard Plotkin, Elena Gallo, Jenny Greene

GALEX Detection of Shock Breakout in Type II-P Supernova PS1-13arp: Implications for the Progenitor Star Wind

• S. Gezari, D. O. Jones, N. E. Sanders, A. M. Soderberg, T. Hung, S. Heinis, S. J. Smartt, A. Rest, D. Scolnic, R. Chornock, E. Berger, R. J. Foley, M. E. Huber, P. Price C. W. Stubbs, A. G. Riess, R. P. Kirshner, K. Smith, W. M. Wood-Vasey, D. Schiminovich, D. C. Martin, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, H. Flewelling, N. Kaiser, J.L. Tonry, R. Wainscoat

High-Velocity Features of Calcium and Silicon in the Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae

• Jeffrey M. Silverman, Jozsef Vinko, G. H. Marion, J. Craig Wheeler, Barnabas Barna, Tamas Szalai, Brian Mulligan, Alexei V. Filippenko

tipa -- 2/25/2015

Turbulent spectra of the brightest gamma-ray flares of blazars

• Susanna Kohler, Krzysztof Nalewajko

The High-Mass Stellar Initial Mass Function in M31 Clusters

• Daniel R. Weisz, L. Clifton Johnson, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Andrew E. Dolphin, Lori C. Beerman, Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Hans-Walter Rix, David W. Hogg, Morgan Fouesneau, Benjamin D. Johnson, Eric F. Bell, Martha L. Boyer, Dimitrios Gouliermis, Puragra Guhathakurta, Jason S. Kalirai, Alexia R. Lewis, Anil C. Seth, Evan D. Skillman

The dynamical mass ejection from binary neutron star mergers: Radiation-hydrodynamics study in general relativity

• Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Kenta Kiuchi, Koutarou Kyutoku, Masaru Shibata

Discovery of Gamma-ray Pulsations from the Transitional Redback PSR J1227-4853

• T. J. Johnson, P. S. Ray, J. Roy, C. C. Cheung, A. K. Harding, H. J. Pletsch, S. Fort, F. Camilo, J. Deneva, B. Bhattacharyya, B. W. Stappers

Upper bound on neutrino mass based on T2K neutrino timing measurements

• T2K Collaboration

tipa -- 2/24/2015

1FGL J1417.7-4407: A gamma-ray bright binary with a massive neutron star and a giant secondary

• Jay Strader (Michigan St.), Laura Chomiuk (Michigan St.), C. C. Cheung (NRL), David J. Sand (Texas Tech), Davide Donato (CRESST/Maryland), Robin Corbet (CRESST), Dana Koeppe (Michigan St.), Philip G. Edwards (CSIRO), Jamie Stevens (CSIRO), Leonid Petrov (Astrogeo), Ricardo Salinas (Michigan St.), Mark Peacock (Michigan St.), Thomas Finzell (Michigan St.), Daniel Reichart (UNC), Joshua Haislip (UNC)

PAPER-64 Constraints on Reionization: The 21cm Power Spectrum at z=8.4

• Zaki S. Ali, Aaron R. Parsons, Haoxuan Zheng, Jonathan C. Pober, Adrian Liu, James E. Aguirre, Richard F. Bradley, Gianni Bernardi, Chris L. Carilli, Carina Cheng, David R. DeBoer, Matthew R. Dexter, Jasper Grobbelaar, Jasper Horrell, Daniel C. Jacobs, Pat Klima, David H. E. MacMahon, Matthys Maree, David F. Moore, Nima Razavi, Irina I. Stefan, William P. Walbrugh, Andre Walker

SN 2009ip at late times - an interacting transient at +2 years

• Morgan Fraser, Rubina Kotak, Andrea Pastorello, Anders Jerkstrand, Stephen J. Smartt, Ting-Wan Chen, Michael Childress, Gerard Gilmore, Cosimo Inserra, Erkki Kankare, Steve Margheim, Seppo Mattila, Stefano Valenti, Christopher Ashall, Stefano Benetti, Maria Teresa Botticella, Franz Erik Bauer, Heather Campbell, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Mathilde Fleury, Avishay Gal-Yam, Stephan Hachinger, D. Andrew Howell, Laurent Le Guillou, Pierre-François Léget, Antonia Morales-Garoffolo, Joe Polshaw, Susanna Spiro, Mark Sullivan, Stefan Taubenberger, Massimo Turatto, Emma S. Walker, David R. Young, Bonnie Zhang

A comparative study of Type II-P and II-L supernova rise times as exemplified by the case of LSQ13cuw

• E.E.E. Gall, J. Polshaw, R. Kotak, A. Jerkstrand, B. Leibundgut, D. Rabinowitz, J. Sollerman, M. Sullivan, S.J. Smartt, J.P. Anderson, S. Benetti, C. Baltay, U. Feindt, M. Fraser, S. González-Gaitán, C. Inserra, K. Maguire, R. McKinnon, S. Valenti, D. Young

The origin of the cosmic gamma-ray background in the MeV range

• Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, Lih-Sin The, Dieter Hartmann, Marco Ajello, Ramon Canal, Friedrich K Röpke, Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Wolfgang Hillebrandt

Long-term evolution of double white dwarf binaries accreting through direct impact

• Kyle Kremer, Jeremy Sepinsky, Vassiliki Kalogera

A radio-polarisation and rotation measure study of the Gum Nebula and its environment

• C. R. Purcell, B. M. Gaensler, X. H. Sun, E. Carretti, G. Bernardi, M. Haverkorn, M. J. Kesteven, S. Poppi, D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler, L. Staveley-Smith

Analysis of GeV-band gamma-ray emission from SNR RX J1713.7-3946

• S. Federici, M. Pohl, I. Telezhinsky, A. Wilhelm, V.V. Dwarkadas

Constraints on particle acceleration sites in the Crab Nebula from relativistic MHD simulations

• Barbara Olmi, Luca Del Zanna, Elena Amato, Niccolò Bucciantini

Radio and Millimeter Monitoring of Sgr A*: Spectrum, Variability, and Constraints on the G2 Encounter

• Geoffrey C. Bower, Sera Markoff, Jason Dexter, Mark A. Gurwell, James M. Moran, Andreas Brunthaler, Heino Falcke, P. Chris Fragile, Dipankar Maitra, Dan Marrone, Alison Peck, Anthony Rushton, Melvyn C.H. Wright

New physics with ultra-high-energy neutrinos

• D. Marfatia, D. W. McKay, T. J. Weiler

tipa -- 2/23/2015

Test for Radial Mixing of Stars in M31

• Andrew Gould (OSU), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA)

The Massive Star Population of Cygnus OB2

• Nicholas J. Wright, Janet E. Drew, Michael Mohr-Smith

Ultra-Close Encounters of Stars With Massive Black Holes: Tidal Disruption Events With Prompt Hyperaccretion

• Christopher Evans, Pablo Laguna, Michael Eracleous

"Circularization" vs. Accretion -- What Powers Tidal Disruption Events?

• Tsvi Piran, Gilad Svirski, Julian Krolik, Roseanne M. Cheng, Hotaka Shiokawa

tipa -- 2/20/2015

The chemical footprint of the star formation feedback in M 82 on scales of 100 pc

• D. Ginard, A. Fuente, S. García-Burillo, T. Alonso-Albi, M. Krips, M. Gerin, R. Neri, P. Pilleri, A. Usero, S.P. Treviño-Morales

Dynamical mass ejection from black hole-neutron star binaries

• Koutarou Kyutoku, Kunihito Ioka, Hirotada Okawa, Masaru Shibata, Keisuke Taniguchi

Mapping High-velocity H-alpha and Lyman-alpha Emission from Supernova 1987A

• Kevin France, Richard McCray, Claes Fransson, Josefin Larsson, Kari A. Frank, David N. Burrows, Peter Challis, Robert P. Kirshner, Roger A. Chevalier, Peter Garnavich, Kevin Heng, Stephen S. Lawrence, Peter Lundqvist, Nathan Smith, George Sonneborn

Magnetic fields in the nearby spiral galaxy IC 342: A multifrequency radio polarization study

• Rainer Beck

Explosive lithium production in the classical nova V339 Del (Nova Delphini 2013)

• Akito Tajitsu, Kozo Sadakane, Hiroyuki Naito, Akir Arai, Wako Aoki

Low 60Fe abundance in Semarkona and Sahara 99555

• Haolan Tang, Nicolas Dauphas

No breakdown of the radiatively-driven wind theory in low-metallicity environments

• J.-C. Bouret, T. Lanz, D. J. Hillier, F. Martins, W. L. F. Marcolino, E. Depagne

Awakening of The High Redshift Blazar CGRaBS J0809+5341

• Vaidehi S. Paliya, M. L. Parker, C. S. Stalin, A.C. Fabian, S. Ramya, S. Covino, G. Tagliaferri, S. Sahayanathan, C. D. Ravikumar

Crab Nebula: five-year observation with ARGO-YBJ

• The ARGO-YBJ Collaboration

Not In Our Backyard: Spectroscopic Support for the CLASH z=11 Candidate MACS0647-JD

• Nor Pirzkal, Dan Coe, Brenda L. Frye, Gabriel Brammer, John Moustakas, Barry Rothberg, Thomas J. Broadhurst, Rychard Bouwens, Larry Bradley, Arjen van der Wel, Daniel D. Kelson, Megan Donahue, Adi Zitrin, Leonidas Moustakas, Elizabeth Barker

tipa -- 2/19/2015

Every interacting double white dwarf binary may merge

• Ken J. Shen

X-ray Emission from Charge Exchange in the Cygnus Loop SNR

• Shawn R. Roberts, Q. Daniel Wang

Proper Motions and Trajectories for 16 Extreme Runaway and Hypervelocity Stars

• Warren R. Brown (1), Jay Anderson (2), Oleg Y. Gnedin (3), Howard E. Bond (2,4), Margaret J. Geller (1), Scott J. Kenyon (1) ((1) SAO, (2) STScI, (3) UMich, (4) PSU)

The Complex North Transition Region of Centaurus A: A Galactic Wind

• Susan G. Neff, Jean A. Eilek, Frazer N. Owen

The Proton Radius Puzzle

• Carl E. Carlson (William & Mary)

Physics Potential of a Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Using J-PARC Neutrino Beam and Hyper-Kamiokande

• Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration

tipa -- 2/18/2015

Rapid Variability of Blazar 3C 279 during Flaring States in 2013-2014 with Joint Fermi-LAT, NuSTAR, Swift, and Ground-Based Multi-wavelength Observations

• M. Hayashida, K. Nalewajko, G. M. Madejski, M. Sikora, R. Itoh, M. Ajello, R. D. Blandford, S. Buson, J. Chiang, Y. Fukazawa, A. K. Furniss, C. M. Urry, I. Hasan, F. A. Harrison, D. M. Alexander, M. Baloković, D. Barret, S. E. Boggs, F. E. Christensen, W. W. Craig, K. Forster, P. Giommi, B. Grefenstette, C. Hailey, A. Hornstrup, T. Kitaguchi, J. E. Koglin, K. K. Madsen, P. H. Mao, H. Miyasaka, K. Mori, M. Perri, M. J. Pivovaroff, S. Puccetti, V. Rana, D. Stern, G. Tagliaferri, N. J. Westergaard, W. W. Zhang, A. Zoglauer, M. A. Gurwell, M. Uemura, H. Akitaya, K. S. Kawabata, K. Kawaguch, Y. Kanda, Y. Moritani, K. Takaki, T. Ui, M. Yoshida, A. Agarwal, A. C. Gupta

Cosmological and Astrophysical Probes of Vacuum Energy

• Brando Bellazzini, Csaba Csaki, Jay Hubisz, Javi Serra, John Terning

The Orion Fingers: Near-IR Adaptive Optics Imaging of an Explosive Protostellar Outflow

• John Bally, Adam Ginsburg, Devin Silvia, Allison Youngblood

Discovery of Gamma-Ray Orbital Modulation in the Black Widow PSR J1311-3430

• Yi Xing, Zhongxiang Wang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS, China)

SN 2013dx associated with GRB 130702A: a detailed photometric and spectroscopic monitoring and a study of the environment

• V. D'Elia, E. Pian, A. Melandri, P. D'Avanzo, M. Della Valle, P.A. Mazzali, S. Piranomonte, G. Tagliaferri, L.A. Antonelli, F. Bufano, S. Covino, D. Fugazza, D. Malesani P. Moller, E. Palazzi

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. IV. Transitional Type Ibn Supernovae

• A. Pastorello, S. Benetti, P. J. Brown, D. Y. Tsvetkov, C. Inserra, S. Taubenberger, L. Tomasella, M. Fraser, D. J. Rich, M. T. Botticella, F. Bufano, E. Cappellaro, M. Ergon, E. S. Gorbovskoy, A. Harutyunyan, F. Huang, R. Kotak, V. M. Lipunov, L. Magill, M. Miluzio, N. Morrell, P. Ochner, S. J. Smartt, J. Sollerman, S. Spiro, M. D. Stritzinger, M. Turatto, S. Valenti, X. Wang, D. E. Wright, V. V. Yurkov, L. Zampieri, T. Zhang

Spectrometry of the Earth using Neutrino Oscillations

• Carsten Rott, Akimichi Taketa, Debanjan Bose

Numerical relativity reaching into post-Newtonian territory: a compact-object binary simulation spanning 350 gravitational-wave cycles

• Bela Szilagyi, Jonathan Blackman, Alessandra Buonanno, Andrea Taracchini, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Tony Chu, Lawrence E. Kidder, Yi Pan

Some conclusive considerations on the comparison of the ICARUS nu_mu to nu_e oscillation search with the MiniBooNE low-energy event excess

• M. Antonello, B. Baibussinov, P. Benetti, F. Boffelli, A. Bubak, E. Calligarich, S. Centro, A. Cesana, K. Cieslik, D. B. Cline, A.G. Cocco, A. Dabrowska, A. Dermenev, A. Falcone, C. Farnese, A. Fava, A. Ferrari, D. Gibin, S. Gninenko, A. Guglielmi, M. Haranczyk, J. Holeczek, M. Kirsanov, J. Kisiel, I. Kochanek, J. Lagoda, S. Mania, A. Menegolli, G. Meng, C. Montanari, S. Otwinowski, P. Picchi, F. Pietropaolo, P. Plonski, A. Rappoldi, G.L. Raselli, M. Rossella, C. Rubbia, P. Sala, A. Scaramelli, F. Sergiampietri, D. Stefan, R. Sulej, M. Szarska, M. Terrani, M. Torti, F. Varanini, S. Ventura, C. Vignoli, H. Wang, X. Yang, A. Zalewska, A. Zani, K. Zaremba

A New Technique for Large-Area Detection of High Energy Particles using Ultra-Fast Magnetic Sensing

• David Saltzberg, Peihao Sun

tipa -- 2/17/2015

Planck intermediate results. XXXV. Probing the role of the magnetic field in the formation of structure in molecular clouds

• Planck Collaboration

Post-merger evolution of a neutron star-black hole binary with neutrino transport

• Francois Foucart, Evan O'Connor, Luke Roberts, Matthew D. Duez, Roland Haas, Lawrence E. Kidder, Christian D. Ott, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi

New calculation of antiproton production by cosmic ray protons and nuclei

• Michael Kachelriess (NTNU), Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford U.), Sergey S. Ostapchenko (Stanford U.)

The extragalactic background light, the Hubble constant, and anomalies: conclusions from 20 years of TeV gamma-ray observations

• Jonathan Biteau, David A. Williams

Effective destruction of CO by cosmic rays: implications for tracing H$_2$ gas in the Universe

• Thomas G. Bisbas, Padelis P. Papadopoulos, Serena Viti

A Chandrasekhar Mass Progenitor for the Type Ia Supernova Remnant 3C 397 from The Enhanced Abundances of Nickel and Manganese

• Hiroya Yamaguchi, Carles Badenes, Adam R. Foster, Eduardo Bravo, Brian J. Williams, Keiichi Maeda, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Kristoffer A. Eriksen, Nancy S. Brickhouse, Robert Petre, Katsuji Koyama

Spatial and Spectral Modeling of the Gamma-ray Distribution in the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Gary Foreman, You-Hua Chu, Robert Gruendl, Annie Hughes, Brian Fields, Paul Ricker

Are Models for Core-Collapse Supernova Progenitors Consistent with the Properties of Supernova Remnants?

• Daniel J. Patnaude, Shiu-Hang Lee, Patrick O. Slane, Carles Badenes, Alexander Heger, Donald C. Ellison, Shigehiro Nagataki

Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction

• A. Ekstrom, G. R. Jansen, K. A. Wendt, G. Hagen, T. Papenbrock, B. D. Carlsson, C. Forssen, M. Hjorth-Jensen, P. Navratil, W. Nazarewicz

A Storage Ring Experiment to Detect a Proton Electric Dipole Moment

• V. Anastassopoulos, S. Andrianov, R. Baartman, M. Bai, S. Baessler, J. Benante, M. Berz, M. Blaskiewicz, T. Bowcock, K. Brown, B. Casey, M. Conte, J. Crnkovic, G. Fanourakis, A. Fedotov, P. Fierlinger, W. Fischer, M.O. Gaisser, Y. Giomataris, M. Grosse-Perdekamp, G. Guidoboni, S. Haciomeroglu, G. Hoffstaetter, H. Huang, M. Incagli, A. Ivanov, D. Kawall, B. Khazin, Y.I. Kim, B. King, I.A. Koop, R. Larsen, D.M. Lazarus, V. Lebedev, M.J. Lee, S. Lee, Y.H. Lee, A. Lehrach, P. Lenisa, P. Levi Sandri, A.U. Luccio, A. Lyapin, W. MacKay, R. Maier, K. Makino, N. Malitsky, W.J. Marciano, W. Meng, F. Meot, E.M. Metodiev, L. Miceli, D. Moricciani, W.M. Morse, S. Nagaitsev, S.K. Nayak, Y.F. Orlov, C.S. Ozben, S.T. Park, A. Pesce, P. Pile, V. Polychronakos, B. Podobedov, J. Pretz, V. Ptitsyn, E. Ramberg, D. Raparia, F. Rathmann, S. Rescia, T. Roser, H. Kamal Sayed, Y.K. Semertzidis, Y. Senichev, A. Sidorin, A. Silenko, N. Simos, A. Stahl, E.J. Stephenson, H. Stroeher, M.J. Syphers, J. Talman, R.M. Talman, V. Tishchenko, C. Touramanis, N. Tsoupas, G. Venanzoni, K. Vetter, S. Vlassis, E. Won, G. Zavattini, A. Zelenski, K. Zioutas