tipa -- 1/18/2007

COSMOS: 3D weak lensing and the growth of structure

• Authors: Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Alexie Leauthaud, Peter Capak, Richard Ellis, Anton Koekemoer, Alexandre Refregier, Nick Scoville, James E. Taylor, Justin Albert, Joel Berge, Catherine Heymans, David Johnston, Jean-Paul Kneib, Yannick Mellier, Bahram Mobasher, Elisabetta Semboloni, Patrick Shopbell, Lidia Tasca, Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Chandra and XMM-Newton Detection of Large-scale Diffuse X-ray Emission from the Sombrero Galaxy

• Authors: Zhiyuan Li, Q. Daniel Wang, Salman Hameed

Wind anisotropies and GRB progenitors

• Authors: Georges Meynet, Andre Maeder

LSST: Comprehensive NEO Detection, Characterization, and Orbits

• Authors: Z. Ivezic, J.A. Tyson, M. Juric, J. Kubica, A. Connolly, F. Pierfederici, A.W. Harris, E. Bowell, the LSST Collaboration

tipa -- 1/17/2007

"Late prompt" emission in Gamma Ray Bursts?

• Authors: G. Ghisellini (1), G. Ghirlanda (1), L. Nava (1,2), C. Firmani (1,3) ((1) INAF-OAB; (2) Univ. Insubria; (3) U.N.A.M.)

The superorbital variability and triple nature of the X-ray source 4U 1820-303

• Authors: A. A. Zdziarski, L. Wen, M. Gierlinski

A physical interpretation of the jet-like X-ray emission from supernova remnant W49B

• Authors: M. Miceli, A. Decourchelle, J. Ballet, F. Bocchino, J.P. Hughes, U. Hwang, R. Petre

VHE Gamma-ray supernova remnants

• Authors: S.Funk (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology)

Attributes of flares in Gamma Ray Bursts: sample I

• Authors: G. Chincarini, A. Moretti, P. Romano, A.D. Falcone, S. Campana, S. Covino, C. Guidorzi, G. Tagliaferri, D.N. Burrows, M. Capalbi, G. Cusumano, P. Giommi, V. Mangano, V. La Parola, T. Mineo, M. Perri, E. Troja

Explaining Disparate Absorption Statistics towards Quasars and Gamma-Ray with Patchy MgII Absorbers

• Authors: Stephan Frank, Misty C. Bentz, Krzysztof Z. Stanek, Matthias Dietrich, Smita Mathur, Bradley M. Peterson, David W. Atlee (The Ohio State University)

tipa -- 1/16/2007

Probing the Formation of the First Low-Mass Stars with Stellar Archaeology

• Authors: Anna Frebel, Jarrett L. Johnson, Volker Bromm

Optical observations of GRB 060124 afterglow: A case for an injection break

• Authors: Kuntal Misra (1), D. Bhattacharya (2), D. K. Sahu (3), Ram Sagar (1), G. C. Anupama (4), A. J. Castro-Tirado (5), S. S. Guziy (5,6), B. C. Bhatt (3) ((1) ARIES, Nainital (2) RRI, Bangalore (3) CREST, Hosakote, Bangalore (4) IIA, Bangalore (5) IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain (6) Nikolaev State University, Nikolskaya, Ukraine)

Dark Matter annihilation in Draco: new considerations of the expected gamma flux

• Authors: M. A. Sanchez-Conde (1), F. Prada (1), E. L. Lokas (2), M. E. Gomez (3), R. Wojtak (2), M. Moles (1) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia - CSIC, (2) Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, (3) Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva)

Formation and early evolution of massive black holes

• Authors: Piero Madau

A hypervelocity star from the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Authors: Alessia Gualandris, Simon Portegies Zwart

tipa -- 1/15/2007

Where are the Old-Population High Velocity Stars?

• Authors: Juna A. Kollmeier (1), Andrew Gould (2) ((1) Carnegie Observatories and Princeton University, (2) The Ohio State University)

Imprints of a Primordial Preferred Direction on the Microwave Background

• Authors: Lotty Ackerman, Sean M. Carroll, Mark B. Wise

Astrophysical implications of high energy neutrino limits

• Authors: Julia K. Becker, Andreas Gross, Kirsten Muenich, Jens Dreyer, Wolfgang Rhode, Peter L. Biermann

cpow -- 3

Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance

• Yang, C. N.; Mills, R. L. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

Photo-Production of Neutral Mesons in Nuclear Electric Fields and the Mean Life of the Neutral Meson

• Primakoff, H. (Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae

• Hubble, Edwin (Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Novae in the Spiral Nebulae and the Island Universe Theory

• Curtis, Heber D.

tipa -- 1/12/2007

Models for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Diverse Transients

• Authors: S. E. Woosley, Weiqun Zhang

The evolution of very massive stars

• Authors: H. Belkus, J. Van Bever, D. Vanbeveren

First Results from AMANDA using the TWR System

• Authors: Andrea Silvestri, for the IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 1/11/2007

Cluster Mass Estimators from CMB Temperature and Polarization Lensing

• Authors: Wayne Hu, Simon DeDeo (KICP, UChicago), Chris Vale (FNAL)

Very High Energy Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Locations with the Whipple Telescope

• Authors: D. Horan, R. W. Atkins, H. M. Badran, G. Blaylock, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, K. L. Byrum, O. Celik, Y. C. K. Chow, P. Cogan, W. Cui, M. K. Daniel, I. de la Calle Perez, C. Dowdall, A. D. Falcone, D. J. Fegan, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, P. Fortin, L. F. Fortson, G. H. Gillanders, J. Grube, K. J. Gutierrez, J. Hall, D. Hanna, J. Holder, S. B. Hughes, T. B. Humensky, G. E. Kenny, M. Kertzman, D. B. Kieda, J. Kildea, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, P. Moriarty, T. Nagai, R. A. Ong, J. S. Perkins, D. Petry, J. Quinn, M. Quinn, K. Ragan, P. T. Reynolds, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, D. Steele, S. P. Swordy, J. A. Toner, L. Valcarcel, V. V. Vassiliev, R. G. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, T. C. Weekes, R. J. White, D. A. Williams

Constraining DM through 21 cm observations

• Authors: M. Valdes, A. Ferrara, M. Mapelli, E. Ripamonti

Detection potential for the diffuse supernova neutrino background in the large liquid-scintillator detector LENA

• Authors: M. Wurm, F. von Feilitzsch, M. Goeger-Neff, K. A. Hochmuth, T. Marrodan Undagoitia, L. Oberauer, W. Potzel

A black hole in a globular cluster

• Authors: Thomas J. Maccarone (University of Southampton) Arunav Kundu, Stephen E. Zepf (Michigan State University) Katherine L. Rhode (Wesleyan University and Yale University)

See also: Nature

tipa -- 1/10/2007

Cosmological constraints in the presence of ionizing and resonance radiation at recombination

• Authors: Rachel Bean (Cornell University), Alessandro Melchiorri (Rome I University), Joe Silk (University of Oxford)

Measured Metallicities at the Sites of Nearby Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernovae and Implications for the SN-GRB Connection

• Authors: M. Modjaz (1), L. Kewley (2), R. P. Kirshner (1), K. Z. Stanek (3), P. Challis (1), P. M. Garnavich (4), J. E. Greene (5), J. L. Prieto (3) ((1) CfA, (2) University of Hawaii, (3) Ohio State, (4) Notre-Dame, (5) Princeton)

The Environment of Local Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies

• Authors: B. A. Zauderer, S. Veilleux, H. K. C. Yee

The INTEGRAL Galactic bulge monitoring program: the first 1.5 years

• Authors: E. Kuulkers (ESA/ESAC, Spain), S.E. Shaw (Southampton, UK/ ISDC, Switzerland), A. Paizis (INAF-IASF, Italy), J. Chenevez, S. Brandt (DNSC, Denmark), T.J.-L. Courvoisier (ISDC/ Observatoire de Geneve, Switzerland), A. Domingo (LAEFF/INTA, Spain), K. Ebisawa (ISAS, Japan), P. Kretschmar (ESA/ESAC, Spain), C.B. Markwardt (Univ.of Maryland/ NASA/GSFC, USA), N. Mowlavi (ISDC, Switzerland), T. Oosterbroek, A. Orr (ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands), D. Risquez (LAEFF/INTA, Spain), C. Sanchez-Fernandez (ESA/ESAC, Spain), R. Wijnands (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Constraining the fraction of primary gamma rays at ultra-high energies from the muon data of the Yakutsk extensive-air-shower array

• Authors: A.V. Glushkov, D.S. Gorbunov, I.T. Makarov, M.I. Pravdin, G.I. Rubtsov, I.E. Sleptsov, S.V. Troitsky

tipa -- 1/9/2007

Discovery of a Probable Physical Triple Quasar

• Authors: S.G. Djorgovski, F. Courbin, G. Meylan, D. Sluse, D.J. Thompson, A. Mahabal, E. Glikman

XMM-Newton observations reveal the X-ray counterpart of the very-high-energy gamma-ray source HESSJ1640-465

• Authors: S.Funk, J.A.Hinton, G.Puehlhofer, F.A.Aharonian, W.Hofmann, O.Reimer, S.Wagner

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays as heavy nuclei from cluster accretion shocks

• Authors: Susumu Inoue (NAOJ), Guenter Sigl (APC/IAP), Francesco Miniati (ETHZ), Eric Armengaud (DSM/DAPNIA)

Do long-duration GRBs follow star formation?

• Authors: Dafne Guetta, Tsvi Piran

Ruling out a massive-asymptotic giant-branch star as the progenitor of supernova 2005cs

• Authors: J.J. Eldridge, S. Mattila, S.J. Smartt

Neutrino astronomy and gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: E. Waxman (Weizmann Inst.)

Can the early X-ray afterglow of GRBs be explained by a contribution from the reverse shock?

• Authors: Franck Genet (1), Frederic Daigne (1), Robert Mochkovitch (1) ((1) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, UMR7095 CNRS-Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6)

Large-Mass Ultra-Low Noise Germanium Detectors: Performance and Applications in Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics

• Authors: P.S. Barbeau, J.I. Collar, O. Tench

tipa -- 1/8/2007

Simulations of star formation in a gaseous disc around sgr A* - a failed AGN

• Authors: Sergei Nayakshin, Jorge Cuadra, Volker Springel

Compactified pulsar wind nebula model of gamma-ray loud binary LSI +61 303

• Authors: A.Neronov, M.Chernyakova

Differential cross section for neutron-proton bremsstrahlung

• Authors: Y. Safkan, T. Akdogan, W. A. Franklin, J. L. Matthews, W. M. Schmitt, V. V. Zelevinsky, P. A. M. Gram, T. N. Taddeucci, S. A. Wender, S. F. Pate

cpow -- 2

Theory of the Fermi Interaction

• Feynman, R. P.; Gell-Mann, M. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California)

Detection of the Free Neutrino

• Reines, F.; Cowan, C. L. (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico)

Collision of Two Light Quanta

• Breit, G.; Wheeler, John A. (Department of Physics, New York University)

Twentieth-Century Man Against Antarctica

• Raymond Priestley (President of the British Association)

tipa -- 1/5/2007

Fallback and Black Hole Production in Massive Stars

• Authors: Weiqun Zhang, S. E. Woosley, A. Heger

The prompt to late-time multiwavelength analysis of GRB 060210

• Authors: P.A. Curran (1), A.J. van der Horst (1), A.P. Beardmore (2), K.L. Page (2), E. Rol (2), A. Melandri (3), I.A. Steele (3), C.G. Mundell (3), A. Gomboc (4), P.T. O'Brien (2), D.F. Bersier (3), M.F. Bode (3), D. Carter (3), C. Guidorzi (3,5), J.E. Hill (6), C.P. Hurkett (2), S. Kobayashi (3), A. Monfardini (3,7), C.J. Mottram (3), R.J. Smith (3), R.A.M.J. Wijers (1), R. Willingale (2) ((1)Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, (2)Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, (3)Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, (4)Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, (5)INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (7)Institut Neel, CNRS)

Measuring the mass of a sterile neutrino with a very short baseline reactor experiment

• Authors: D. C. Latimer, J. Escamilla, D. J. Ernst

Group Theoretic Bases for Tribimaximal Mixing

• Authors: Paul D. Carr, Paul H. Frampton

Supernova neutrino detection

• Authors: K. Scholberg

tipa -- 1/4/2007

Observational Constraints on the Nature of the Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey

• Authors: W. M. Wood-Vasey, G. Miknaitis, C. W. Stubbs, S. Jha, A. G. Riess, P. M. Garnavich, R. P. Kirshner, C. Aguilera, A. C. Becker, J. W. Blackman, S. Blondin, P. Challis, A. Clocchiatti, A. Conley, R. Covarrubias, T. M. Davis, A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, A. Garg, M. Hicken, K. Krisciunas, B. Leibundgut, W. Li, T. Matheson, A. Miceli, G. Narayan, G. Pignata, J. L. Prieto, A. Rest, M. E. Salvo, B. P. Schmidt, R. C. Smith, J. Sollerman, J. Spyromilio, J. L. Tonry, N. B. Suntzeff, A. Zenteno

On the Progenitors of Two Type II-P Supernovae in the Virgo Cluster

• Authors: Weidong Li (1), Xiaofeng Wang (1,2), Schuyler D. Van Dyk (3), Jean-Charles Cuillandre (4), Ryan J. Foley (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (1) (1. UC Berkeley, 2. THCA, China, 3. Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, 4. CFHT corporation)

TeV source HESS J1804-216 in X-rays and other wavelengths

• Authors: O. Kargaltsev, G. G. Pavlov, G. P. Garmire

Comments on Quantum Effects in Supergravity Theories

• Authors: Michael Dine, Nathan Seiberg

Neutrino Spectra from Low and High Luminosity Populations of Gamma Ray Bursts

• Authors: Nayantara Gupta (UNLV), Bing Zhang (UNLV)

tipa -- 1/3/2007

Gamma-ray emission associated with Cluster-scale AGN Outbursts

• Authors: J. A. Hinton, W. Domainko

The nature of the dwarf starforming galaxy associated with GRB 060218 / SN2006aj

• Authors: K. Wiersema (1), S. Savaglio, P. M. Vreeswijk, S. L. Ellison, C. Ledoux, S.-C. Yoon, P. Moller, J. Sollerman, J. P. U. Fynbo, E. Pian, R. L. C. Starling, R. A. M. J. Wijers ((1) University of Amsterdam)

A VLBI Search for Radio Supernovae in Wolf Rayet Galaxies

• Authors: James S. Ulvestad, Kelsey E. Johnson, Susan G. Neff

Probing Low-x QCD With Very High Energy Prompt Muons

• Authors: Namit Mahajan, Sukanta Panda

Experiments in Fundamental Neutron Physics

• Authors: J. S. Nico, W. M. Snow

Dark matter clustering: a simple renormalization group approach

• Authors: Patrick McDonald (CITA)

Dark matter from late decays and the small-scale structure problems

• Authors: Torsten Bringmann, Francesca Borzumati, Piero Ullio

cpow--1

A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s

• Penzias, A. A.; Wilson, R. W. (Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc.)

Resonant Scattering of Antineutrinos

• Glashow, Sheldon L. (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, Denmark)

The Positive Electron

• Anderson, Carl D. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California)

A Letter of Benjamin Franklin, Esq; to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. concerning an Electrical Kite

• Benjamin Franklin

classic papers of the week

At the start of this new year, we introduce a new feature to tipa: classic papers of the week (cpow). Each week will feature some number of classic, novel, or overlooked papers from years past. Every attempt will be made to choose papers that are readable in a finite period of time. Enjoy.

nydipa -- 1/1/2007

G315.1+2.7: a new Galactic SNR from the AAO/UKST HAlpha survey

• Authors: M.Stupar, Q. A. Parker, M. D. Filipovic

Additional bounds on the pre Big--Bang--Nucleosynthesis Expansion by means of $\gamma$-rays from the Galactic Center

• Authors: F. Donato, N. Fornengo, M. Schelke

On sigma model RG flow, "central charge" action and Perelman's entropy

• Authors: A.A. Tseytlin

christmas week in particle astrophysics

Anisotropy of dark matter annihilation with respect to the Galactic plane

• Authors: Veniamin Berezinsky, Vyacheslav Dokuchaev, Yury Eroshenko

Wide field Ritchey-Chretien telescope for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy

• Authors: V. V. Vassiliev, P. F. Brousseau, S. J. Fegan

Analytical solutions for energy spectra of electrons accelerated by nonrelativistic shock-waves in shell type supernova remnants

• Authors: V.N.Zirakashvili, F.Aharonian

Testing neutrino spectra formation in collapsing stars with the diffuse supernova neutrino flux

• Authors: Cecilia Lunardini

Neutrino Flux from Cosmic Ray Accelerators in the Cygnus Spiral Arm of the Galaxy

• Authors: Luis Anchordoqui, Francis Halzen, Teresa Montaruli, Aongus O'Murchadha

Naturalized and simplified gauge mediation

• Authors: Ofer Aharony, Nathan Seiberg

Ultra High Energy Neutrino Signature in Top-Down Scenario

• Authors: Roberto Aloisio (INFN - LNGS)

Circumstellar Interaction Around Type Ib/c Supernovae and the GRB Connection

• Authors: R. A. Chevalier

Fundamentals of Quantum Gravity

• Authors: John R. Klauder

Neutrino Physics around MeV Energies

• Authors: Kunio Inoue, Hisakazu Minakata

tipa -- 12/22/2006

A direct measurement of the relativistic expansion velocity of gamma-ray burst fireballs

• Authors: E. Molinari, S.D. Vergani, D. Malesani, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, G. Chincarini, F.M. Zerbi, L.A. Antonelli, P. Conconi, V. Testa, G. Tosti, F. Vitali, F. D'Alessio, G. Malaspina, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, D. Guetta, S. Campana, P. Goldoni, N. Masetti, E.J.A. Meurs, A. Monfardini, L. Norci, E. Pian, S. Piranomonte, D. Rizzuto, M. Stefanon, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, P.A. Ward, G. Ihle, L. Gonzalez, A. Pizarro, P. Sinclair, J. Valenzuela

IR Background Anisotropies in Spitzer GOODS images and constraints on first galaxies

• Authors: Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine), Ian Sullivan (Caltech), Ranga-Ram Chary (Caltech), James J. Bock (JPL), Mark Dickinson (NOAO), Henry C. Ferguson (STSCI), Brian Keating (UCSD), Andrew Lange (Caltech), Edward L. Wright (UCLA)

Quasars with Super Metal Rich Emission Line Regions

• Authors: Neelam Dhanda, Jack A. Baldwin, Misty C. Bentz, Patrick S. Osmer

Astrophysics: A burst of new ideas

• Authors: Bing Zhang (UNLV)

See also: Nature

Constraints on Braneworld Gravity Models from a Kinematic Limit on the Age of the Black Hole XTE J1118+480

• Authors: Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)

The brightest supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star

• Authors: Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Ryan J. Foley, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, David Pooley, Robert Quimby, J. Craig Wheeler, Joshua S. Bloom, Charles Hansen

Early-type stars in the core of the young open cluster Westerlund2

• Authors: G. Rauw (1), J. Manfroid (1), E. Gosset (1), Y. Naze (1), H. Sana (1,2), M. De Becker (1), C. Foellmi (2,3), A.F.J. Moffat (4) (1= IAGL, ULg, Belgium; 2=ESO-Chile; 3=Obs. de Grenoble, France; 4= Univ. de Montreal, Canada)

Constraints on power spectrum of density fluctuations from PBH evaporations

• Authors: Edgar Bugaev, Peter Klimai

Evidence for production of single top quarks and first direct measurement of |Vtb|

• Authors: D0 Collaboration, V.M. Abazov, et al

Neutrino Mass and New Physics

• Authors: R. N. Mohapatra, A. Y. Smirnov

Recent Observations of EGRET Pulsar Wind Nebulae

• Authors: Mallory S.E. Roberts, E. V. Gotthelf, Jules P. Halpern, Crystal L. Brogan, Scott M. Ransom

tipa -- 12/21/2006

The Signature of Large Scale Structures on the Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky

• Authors: A. Cuoco, S. Hannestad, T. Haugbølle, G. Miele, P. D. Serpico, H. Tu

The Energy Spectrum of the Blazar Markarian 421 Above 130 GeV

• Authors: J.E. Carson, J. Kildea, R. A. Ong, J. Ball, D. A. Bramel, C. E. Covault, D. Driscoll, P. Fortin, D. M. Gingrich, D. S. Hanna, T. Lindner, C. Mueller, A. Jarvis, R. Mukherjee, K. Ragan, R. A. Scalzo, D. A. Williams, J. Zweerink

The Curvaceous Early Spectra of Swift X-ray Afterglows: Late Time GRB Activity Without N_H Variations

• Authors: Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel Kocevski

Searching for hidden Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galactic Plane - 15 new Wolf-Rayet stars

• Authors: L. J. Hadfield, S. D. Van Dyk, P. W. Morris, J. D. Smith, A. P. Marston, D. E. Peterson

Nucleosynthesis-relevant conditions in neutrino-driven supernova outflows. I. Spherically symmetric hydrodynamic simulations

• Authors: A. Arcones, H.-Th. Janka, L. Scheck (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)

Status of direct searches for WIMP dark matter

• Authors: Richard W. Schnee

MSW Oscillations - LMA and Subdominant Effects

• Authors: Alexander Friedland