tipa -- 2/18/2016

Massive-Star Mergers and the Recent Transient in NGC4490: A More Massive Cousin of V838 Mon and V1309 Sco

• Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Jon C. Mauerhan, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Howard E. Bond, Alexei V. Filippenko, Kelsey I. Clubb, Melissa L. Graham, Daniel A. Perley, Jacob Jencson, John Bally, Leonardo Ubeda, Elena Sabbi

MAGIC observations of the February 2014 flare of 1ES 1011+496 and ensuing constraint of the EBL density

• MAGIC Collaboration

High-energy Neutrino follow-up search of Gravitational Wave Event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube

• ANTARES Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

Persistent Asymmetric Structure of Sagittarius A* on Event Horizon Scales

• Vincent L. Fish, Michael D. Johnson, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Avery E. Broderick, Dimitrios Psaltis, Ru-Sen Lu, Kazunori Akiyama, Walter Alef, Juan Carlos Algaba, Keiichi Asada, Christopher Beaudoin, Alessandra Bertarini, Lindy Blackburn, Ray Blundell, Geoffrey C. Bower, Christiaan Brinkerink, Roger Cappallo, Andrew A. Chael, Richard Chamberlin, Chi-Kwan Chan, Geoffrey B. Crew, Jason Dexter, Matt Dexter, Sergio A. Dzib, Heino Falcke, Robert Freund, Per Friberg, Christopher H. Greer, Mark A. Gurwell, Paul T. P. Ho, Mareki Honma, Makoto Inoue, Tim Johannsen, Junhan Kim, Thomas P. Krichbaum, James Lamb, Jonathan León-Tavares, Abraham Loeb, Laurent Loinard, David MacMahon, Daniel P. Marrone, James M. Moran, Monika Mościbrodzka, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, Tomoaki Oyama, Feryal Özel, Richard L. Plambeck, Nicolas Pradel, Rurik A. Primiani, Alan E. E. Rogers, Katherine Rosenfeld, Helge Rottmann, Alan L. Roy, Chester Ruszczyk, Daniel L. Smythe, Jason SooHoo, Justin Spilker, Jordan Stone, Peter Strittmatter, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Laura Vertatschitsch, Jan Wagner, John F. C. Wardle, Jonathan Weintroub, David Woody, Melvyn Wright, Paul Yamaguchi, André Young, Ken H. Young, J. Anton Zensus, Lucy M. Ziurys

No ν floors: Effective field theory treatment of the neutrino background in direct dark matter detection experiments

• James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Jayden L. Newstead, Louis E. Strigari