tipa -- 2/13/2007

Constraints on accretion in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources from Spitzer IRS observations of NGC 4485/90: Infrared diagnostic diagrams

• Authors: Gerardo A. Vazquez, Ann E. Hornschemeier, Edward Colbert, Tymothy P. Roberts, Martin J. Ward, Sangeeta Malhotra

Generic Gravitational Wave Signals from the Collapse of Rotating Stellar Cores

• Authors: Harald Dimmelmeier, Christian D. Ott, Hans-Thomas Janka, Andreas Marek, Ewald Mueller

tipa -- 2/12/2007

GRB 050822: Detailed analysis of an XRF observed by Swift

• Authors: O. Godet, K.L. Page, J. Osborne, B. Zhang, D.N. Burrows, P.T. O'Brien, J. E. Hill, J. Racusin, A.P. Beardmore, M.R. Goad, A. Falcone, D.C. Morris, H. Ziaeepour

Search for neutrino-induced cascades from gamma-ray bursts with AMANDA

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration: A. Achterberg, et al

cpow -- 7

Revival of a stalled supernova shock by neutrino heating

• Bethe, H. A.; Wilson, J. R. (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, California, University, Livermore)

An evolution free test for non-zero cosmological constant

• Alcock, C.; Paczynski, B.

On a Diffuse Reflection of the α-Particles

• H. Geiger; E. Marsden

tipa -- 2/9/2007

The dependence of Star Formation on Galaxy Stellar Mass

• Authors: Xian Zhong Zheng (1), Eric F. Bell (1), Casey Papovich (2), Christian Wolf (3), Klaus Meisenheimer (1), Hans-Walter Rix (1), George H. Rieke (2), Rachel Somerville (1) ((1) MPIA; (2) Steward Observatory; (3) University of Oxford)

The kinetic luminosity function and the jet production efficiency of growing black holes

• Authors: Sebastian Heinz, Andrea Merloni, Josiah Schwab

Swift observations of GRB 070110: an extraordinary X-ray afterglow powered by the central engine

• Authors: E. Troja, G. Cusumano, P. O'Brien, B. Zhang, B. Sbarufatti, V. Mangano, R. Willingale, G. Chincarini, J. P. Osborne, F. E. Marshall, D. N. Burrows, S. Campana, N. Gehrels, C. Guidorzi, H. A. Krimm, V. La Parola, E. W. Liang, T. Mineo, A. Moretti, K. L. Page, P. Romano, G. Tagliaferri, B. B. Zhang

Gravitational waves from relativistic neutron star mergers with nonzero-temperature equations of state

• Authors: R. Oechslin, H.-T. Janka (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)

tipa -- 2/8/2007

Nucleosynthesis and Remnants in Massive Stars of Solar Metallicity

• Authors: S.E. Woosley (1), A. Heger (1,2) ((1)UCSC, (2)LANL)

The Most Massive Black Holes in the Universe: Effects of Mergers in Massive Galaxy Clusters

• Authors: Jaiyul Yoo, Jordi Miralda-Escude, David H. Weinberg, Zheng Zheng, Christopher W. Morgan

It's Never Too Late For Matter

• Authors: Lawrence M. Krauss (Case Western Reserve University and Vanderbilt University), Robert J. Scherrer (Vanderbilt University)

INTEGRAL and Magnetars

• Authors: D. Gotz, S. Mereghetti, K. Hurley, I.F. Mirabel, P. Esposito, A. Tiengo, G. Weidenspointner, A. von Kienlin

Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al, M. Kramer, A. G. Lyne

tipa -- 2/7/2007

Formation & evolution of the Galactic bulge: constraints from stellar abundances

• Authors: Silvia K. Ballero, Francesca Matteucci, Livia Origlia, R. Michael Rich

Transport of positrons in the interstellar medium

• Authors: W. Gillard, P. Jean, A. Marcowith, K. Ferriere

An improved limit on the axion-photon coupling from the CAST experiment

• Authors: CAST Collaboration

The Bullet Cluster 1E0657-558 evidence shows Modified Gravity in the absence of Dark Matter

• Authors: J. R. Brownstein, J. W. Moffat

An Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity Through Cosmology

• Authors: Abhay Ashtekar

tipa -- 2/6/2007

Angular Anisotropies in the Cosmic Gamma-ray Background as a Probe of its Origin

• Authors: Francesco Miniati (ETH), Savvas M. Koushiappas (LANL), Tiziana Di Matteo (CMU)

The path to metallicity: synthesis of CNO elements in standard BBN

• Authors: F. Iocco, G. Mangano, G. Miele, O. Pisanti, P.D. Serpico

Population statistics study of radio and gamma-ray pulsars in the Galactic plane

• Authors: Peter L. Gonthier, Sarah A. Story, Brian D. Clow, Alice K. Harding

On the Detectability of Prompt Coherent GRB Radio Emission

• Authors: J.-P. Macquart

Signatures of Delayed Detonation, Asymmetry, and Electron Capture in the Mid-Infrared Spectra of Supernovae 2003hv and 2005df

• Authors: Christopher L. Gerardy, W. P. S. Meikle, Rubina Kotak, Peter Hoeflich, Duncan Farrah, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Peter Lundqvist, Seppo Mattila, Monica Pozzo, Jesper Sollerman, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, J. Craig Wheeler

Dust and Gas in the Local Environments of Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: P.Schady, K.O.Mason, M.J.Page, M.De Pasquale, D.C.Morris, P.Romano, P.W.A.Roming, S.Immler, D.E.Vanden Berk

tipa -- 2/5/2007

The Cosmic Ray Distribution in Sagittarius B

• Authors: Roland M. Crocker, David Jones, Raymond J. Protheroe, Juergen Ott, Ron Ekers, Fulvio Melia, Todor Stanev, Anne Green

Testing the universal stellar IMF on the metallicity distribution in the bulges of the Milky Way and M31

• Authors: Silvia K. Ballero, Pavel Kroupa, Francesca Matteucci

Constraints on the steady and pulsed VHE gamma-ray emission from observation of PSR B1951+32 / CTB 80 with the MAGIC Telescope

• Authors: J. Albert, et al

High Performance Direct Gravitational N-body Simulations on Graphics Processing Unit

• Authors: Simon Portegies Zwart, Robert Belleman, Peter Geldof

cpow -- 6

On the Origin of the Cosmic Radiation

• Fermi, Enrico (Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois)

Detectability of certain dark-matter candidates

• Goodman, Mark W.; Witten, Edward (Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544)

The last three minutes - Issues in gravitational-wave measurements of coalescing compact binaries

• Cutler, Curt; Apostolatos, Theocharis A.; Bildsten, Lars; Finn, Lee S.; Flanagan, Eanna E.; Kennefick, Daniel; Markovic, Dragoljub M.; Ori, Amos; Poisson, Eric; Sussman, Gerald J. (California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL)

tipa -- 2/2/2007

Variable VHE gamma-ray emission from Markarian 501

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration, (J. Albert, et al)

Is the time lag-luminosity relation of GRBs a consequence of the Amati relation?

• Authors: Mimoza Hafizi, Robert Mochkovitch

On the observability of high-energy neutrinos from gamma ray bursts

• Authors: Nick van Eijndhoven

tipa -- 2/1/2007

Predicted and observed evolution in the mean properties of Type Ia supernovae with redshift

• Authors: D. Andrew Howell, Mark Sullivan, Alex Conley, Ray Carlberg (University of Toronto)

On the temporal variability classes found in long gamma-ray bursts with known redshift

• Authors: L. Borgonovo, F. Frontera, C. Guidorzi, E. Montanari, L. Vetere, P. Soffitta

Observations of TeV gamma-rays from Mrk 421 during Dec. 2005 to Apr. 2006 with the TACTIC telescope

• Authors: K.K.Yadav, P.Chandra, A.K.Tickoo, R.C.Rannot, S.Godambe, M.K.Koul, V.K.Dhar, S.Thoudam, N.Bhatt, S.Bhattacharyya, K.Chanchalani, H.C.Goyal, R.K.Kaul, M.Kothari, S.Kotwal, R.Koul, S.Sahayanathan, M.Sharma, K.Venugopal

On astrophysical solution to ultra high energy cosmic rays

• Authors: V.Berezinsky, A.Z.Gazizov, S.I.Grigorieva

The Pion Cloud of the Nucleon: Facts and popular Fantasies

• Authors: Ulf-G. Meißner

tipa -- 1/31/2007

An XMM-Newton Observation of the Local Bubble Using a Shadowing Filament in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere

• Authors: David B. Henley (1), Robin L. Shelton (1), K. D. Kuntz (2,3) ((1) University of Georgia, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3) GSFC)

INTEGRAL/IBIS all-sky survey in hard X-rays

• Authors: R. Krivonos (1,2), M. Revnivtsev (1,2), A. Lutovinov (1,2), S. Sazonov (1,2), E. Churazov (1,2), R. Sunyaev (1,2) ((1) - IKI, Moscow, Russia; (2) - MPA, Garching, Germany)

High Resolution Mappings of the L=1.3 deg Complex in Molecular Lines : Discovery of a Proto-Superbubble

• Authors: Kunihiko Tanaka, Kazuhisa Kamegai, Makoto Nagai, Tomoharu Oka

First limits on WIMP nuclear recoil signals in ZEPLIN-II: a two phase xenon detector for dark matter detection

• Authors: G. J. Alner, H. M. Araujo, A. Bewick, C. Bungau, B. Camanzi, M. J. Carson, R. J. Cashmore, H. Chagani, V. Chepel, D. Cline, D. Davidge, J. C. Davies, E. Daw, J. Dawson, T. Durkin, B. Edwards, T. Gamble, J. Gao, C. Ghag, A. S. Howard, W. G. Jones, M. Joshi, E. V. Korolkova, V. A. Kudryavtsev, T. Lawson, V. N. Lebedenko, J. D. Lewin, P. Lightfoot, A. Lindote, I. Liubarsky, M. I. Lopes, R. Luscher, P. Majewski, K Mavrokoridis, J. E. McMillan, B. Morgan, D. Muna, A. St.J. Murphy, F. Neves, G. G. Nicklin, W. Ooi, S. M. Paling, J. Pinto da Cunha, S. J. S. Plank, R. M. Preece, J. J. Quenby, M. Robinson, F. Sergiampietri, C. Silva, V. N. Solovov, N. J. T. Smith, P. F. Smith, N. J. C. Spooner, T. J. Sumner, C. Thorne, D. R. Tovey, E. Tziaferi, R. J. Walker, H. Wang, J. White, F. L. H. Wolfs

The Progenitors of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: William H. Lee, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Diffuse Neutrino and Gamma-ray Emissions of the Galaxy above the TeV

• Authors: Carmelo Evoli (SISSA), Dario Grasso (INFN, Pisa), Luca Maccione (SISSA & INFN, Trieste)

A low energy neutrino factory for large $\theta_{13}$

• Authors: Steve Geer, Olga Mena, Silvia Pascoli

tipa -- 1/30/2007

Probing the Largest Cosmological Scales with the CMB-Velocity Correlation

• Authors: Pablo Fosalba (IEEC-CSIC), Olivier Dore (CITA)

INTEGRAL and Swift observations of EXO 2030+375 during a giant outburst

• Authors: D. Klochkov, D. Horns, A. Santangelo, R. Staubert, A. Segreto, C. Ferrigno, P. Kretschmar, I. Kreykenbohm, A. La Barbera, N. Masetti, M. McCollough, K. Pottschmidt, G. Schoenherr, J. Wilms

Six new candidate ultracompact X-ray binaries

• Authors: J.J.M. in 't Zand (SRON & Utrecht University), P.G. Jonker (SRON, Utrecht University & Harvard CfA), C.B. Markwardt (University of Maryland & NASA-GSFC)

Supernova neutrinos, from back of the envelope to supercomputer

• Authors: Christian Y. Cardall

First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam

• Authors: Brian J. Rebel, for the MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/29/2007

Dissecting the Cygnus Region with TeV Gamma Rays and Neutrinos

• Authors: John F. Beacom, Matthew D. Kistler (Ohio State University)

21 cm radiation - a new probe of variation in the fine structure constant

• Authors: Rishi Khatri, Benjamin D. Wandelt

Numerical counterparts of GRB host galaxies

• Authors: Stephanie Courty, Gunnlaugur Bjornsson, Einar H. Gudmundsson

First ground based measurement of atmospheric Cherenkov light from cosmic rays

• Authors: HESS Collaboration: F.A. Aharonian, et al

On the Contribution of AGN to the Cosmic Background Radiation

• Authors: D.R. Ballantyne (1), C. Papovich (2) ((1) Physics Dept., Univ. of Arizona (2) Steward Observatory)

Observations of GRBs at High Redshift

• Authors: N. R. Tanvir, P. Jakobsson

cpow -- 5

Unity of All Elementary-Particle Forces

• Georgi, Howard; Glashow, S. L. (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138)

Cosmology Confronts Particle Physics

• Steigman, G.

Isaac Newton

• Einstein, A.

tipa -- 1/26/2007

A More Fundamental Plane

• Authors: Adam S. Bolton (CfA), Scott Burles (MIT), Tommaso Treu (UCSB), Leon V. E. Koopmans (Kapteyn), Leonidas A. Moustakas (JPL/Caltech)

Asymmetric Wolf-Rayet winds: implications for GRB afterglows

• Authors: J.J. Eldridge

A Possible Link Between the Galactic Center HESS Source and Sgr A*

• Authors: D.R. Ballantyne (1), Fulvio Melia (1,2), Siming Liu (3), Roland M. Crocker (4) ((1) Physics Dept., U. of Arizona (2) Steward Observatory (3) LANL (4) Univ. of Adelaide)

Constraining the rate of GRB visible afterglows with the CFHTLS Very Wide Survey

• Authors: Frederic Malacrino (LATT), Jean-Luc Atteia (LATT), Michel Boer (OHP), Alain Klotz (OHP, CESR), Christian Veillet (CFHT), Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT)

Charge-Separated Atmospheric Neutrino-Induced Muons in the MINOS Far Detector

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/25/2007

Intrinsic galaxy alignments from the 2SLAQ and SDSS surveys: luminosity and redshift scalings and implications for weak lensing surveys

• Authors: Christopher M. Hirata, Rachel Mandelbaum, Mustapha Ishak, Uros Seljak, Robert Nichol, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Nicholas P. Ross, David Wake

Dark Energy, A Cosmological Constant, and Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Lawrence M. Krauss, Katherine Jones-Smith (CERCA, Case Western Reserve University), Dragan Huterer (KICP, University of Chicago)

New limits on the density of the extragalactic background light in the optical to the far-infrared from the spectra of all known TeV blazars

• Authors: Daniel Mazin, Martin Raue

Very high energy gamma-ray emission from X-ray transients during major outbursts

• Authors: M. Orellana, G.E. Romero, L.J. Pellizza, S. Vidrih

Cosmological neutrino mass detection: The best probe of neutrino lifetime

• Authors: Pasquale D. Serpico

Dark Matter and Collider Phenomenology of Universal Extra Dimensions

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Stefano Profumo

Supernova neutrino observations: What can we learn?

• Authors: Georg G. Raffelt (MPI Physik)

tipa -- 1/24/2007

Pre-Merger Localization of Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens With LISA I: Harmonic Mode Decomposition

• Authors: Bence Kocsis (1,2), Zoltán Haiman (3), Kristen Menou (3), Zsolt Frei (1) ((1) Eotvos, (2) CFA, (3) Columbia)

A new superwind galaxy: XMM-Newton observations of NGC 6810

• Authors: David K. Strickland

Automatic quenching of high energy gamma-ray sources by synchrotron photons

• Authors: L. Stawarz, J. Kirk

Evidence for 1809 keV Gamma-Ray Emission from 26Al Decays in the Vela Region with INTEGRAL/SPI

• Authors: Stephane Schanne, Patrick Sizun, David Maurin, Bertrand Cordier, Andreas von Kienlin, Clarisse Hamadache

Production of Mesons and Baryons at High Rapidity and High Pt in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV

• Authors: BRAHMS Collaboration: I. Arsene, et al

Detecting MeV Gauge Bosons With High-Energy Neutrino Telescopes

• Authors: Dan Hooper

tipa -- 1/23/2007

Determining the Nature of Dark Matter with Astrometry

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

Constraints on Dark Energy from Supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts, Acoustic Oscillations, Nucleosynthesis and Large Scale Structure and the Hubble constant

• Authors: Edward L. Wright (UCLA)

Testing the cosmic ray content in galaxy clusters

• Authors: P. Marchegiani, G.C. Perola, S. Colafrancesco

Dark matter maps reveal cosmic scaffolding

• Authors: Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Richard Ellis, Nick Scoville, Alexie Leauthaud, Alexis Finoguenov, Peter Capak, David Bacon, Herve Aussel, Jean-Paul Kneib, Anton Koekemoer, Henry McCracken, Bahram Mobasher, Sandrine Pires, Alexandre Refregier, Shunji Sasaki, Jean-Luc Starck, Yoshi Taniguchi, Andy Taylor, James Taylor

See also: Nature

Hypervelocity Stars II. The Bound Population

• Authors: Warren R. Brown (1), Margaret J. Geller (1), Scott J. Kenyon (1), Michael J. Kurtz (1), Benjamin C. Bromley (2) ((1) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (2) University of Utah)

XMM-Newton Observations of the Black Widow Pulsar PSR B1957+20

• Authors: Hsiu-Hui Huang, Werner Becker

Detecting neutrino-transients with optical follow-up observations

• Authors: Marek Kowalski, Anna Mohr

The MiniBooNE Experiment : An Overview

• Authors: H. Ray (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

tipa -- 1/22/2007

Constraining supernova models using the hot gas in clusters of galaxies

• Authors: J. de Plaa, N. Werner, J.A.M. Bleeker, Jacco Vink, J.S. Kaastra, M. Mendez

A new constraint for gamma-ray burst progenitor mass

• Authors: Josefin Larsson, Andrew J. Levan, Melvyn B. Davies, Andrew S. Fruchter

Cross-correlation studies as a probe of reionization physics

• Authors: Anze Slosar, Asantha Cooray, Joseph Silk

Advancement or Retardation of Phase of Neutrino Oscillation; Another Method for Determining Mass Hierarchy

• Authors: Hisakazu Minakata, Hiroshi Nunokawa, Stephen Parke, Renata Zukanovich Funchal