today in particle astrophysics

Authors: D. Horns (1), A.I.D. Hoffmann (1), A. Santangelo (1), F.A. Aharonian (2), G.P. Rowell (3) ((1) Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Tübingen, Germany (2) Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany (3) School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Australia)

Cosmic rays from trans-relativistic supernovae

Authors: R. Budnik, B. Katz, A. MacFadyen, E. Waxman

Fifteen Years of High-Resolution Radio Imaging of Supernova 1987A

Authors: B. M. Gaensler (1), L. Staveley-Smith (2), R. N. Manchester (3), M. J. Kesteven (3), L. Ball (3), A. K. Tzioumis (3) ((1) U. Sydney, (2) U. Western Australia, (3) ATNF)

Discovery of the Putative Pulsar and Wind Nebula Associated with the TeV Gamma-ray Source HESS J1813-178

Authors: D. J. Helfand, E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern, F. Camilo, D. R. Semler (Columbia), R. H. Becker (UC Davis), R. L. White (STSI)

A Modest Proposal for the Astronomical Community

Authors: Krzysztof Zbigniew Stanek

tipa -- 5/1/2007

SPI observations of the diffuse 60Fe emission in the Galaxy

Authors: W. Wang, M.J. Harris, R. Diehl, H. Halloin, B. Cordier, A.W. Strong, K. Kretschmer, J. Knoedlseder, P. Jean, G.G. Lichti, J.P. Roques, S. Schanne, A. von Kienlin, G. Weidenspointner, C. Wunderer

Cascading on extragalactic background light

Authors: P. d'Avezac, G. Dubus, B. Giebels

Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Foreground Polarization

Authors: A. Kogut, J. Dunkley, C. L. Bennett, O. Doré, B. Gold, M. Halpern, G. Hinshaw, N. Jarosik, E. Komatsu, M. R. Nolta, N. Odegard, L. Page, D. N. Spergel, G. S. Tucker, J. L. Weiland, E. Wollack, E. L. Wright

Signals of Very High Energy Neutralinos in Future Cosmic Ray Detectors

Authors: Sascha Bornhauser, Manuel Drees

Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Muon Capture

Authors: A. Czarnecki, W. J. Marciano, A. Sirlin

Signatures of SUSY Dark Matter at the LHC and in the Spectra of Cosmic Rays

Authors: Jan Olzem

Starbursts and their contribution to metal enrichment

Authors: Kunth Daniel (Institut Astrophysique de Paris, France)

tipa -- 4/30/2007

UV Star Formation Rates in the Local Universe

Authors: Samir Salim, R. Michael Rich, Stéphane Charlot, Jarle Brinchmann, Benjamin D. Johnson, David Schiminovich, Mark Seibert, Ryan Mallery, Timothy M. Heckman, Karl Forster, Peter G. Friedman, D. Christopher Martin, Patrick Morrissey, Susan G. Neff, Todd Small, Ted K. Wyder, Luciana Bianchi, Jose Donas, Young-Wook Lee, Barry F. Madore, Bruno Milliard, Alex S. Szalay, Barry Y. Welsh, Sukyoung K. Yi

Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows as Probes of Environment and Blastwave Physics II: the Distribution of p and Structure of the Circumburst Medium

Authors: R. L. C. Starling (1,2), A. J. van der Horst (2), E. Rol (1), R. A. M. J. Wijers (2), C. Kouveliotou (3), K. Wiersema (2), P. A. Curran (2), P. Weltevrede (2) ((1) Leicester, (2) Amsterdam, (3) NASA/MSFC)

Cosmic Rays: The Second Knee and Beyond

Authors: Douglas R Bergman, John W. Belz

classic papers of the week -- 18

Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies

Arp, Halton

Thresholds for Creation of Particles

Feshbach, H. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts), Schiff, L. I. (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Particles, environments, and possible ecologies in the Jovian atmosphere

Sagan, C., Salpeter, E. E. (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.)

tipa -- 4/27/2007

Cosmic-Ray Events as Background in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

Authors: Gernot Maier, Johannes Knapp

Phenomenology of GUT-less Supersymmetry Breaking

Authors: John Ellis, Keith A. Olive, Pearl Sandick

tipa -- 4/26/2007

Production of TeV gamma-radiation in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole in the giant radiogalaxy M87

Authors: A.Neronov, F.Aharonian

Absolute Proper Motions of H2O Masers Away from the Galactic Plane Measured with VERA in the "Superbubble" Region NGC 281

Authors: Mayumi Sato, Tomoya Hirota, Mareki Honma, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Tetsuo Sasao, Takeshi Bushimata, Yoon Kyung Choi, Hiroshi Imai, Kenzaburo Iwadate, Takaaki Jike, Seiji Kameno, Osamu Kameya, Ryuichi Kamohara, Yukitoshi Kan-ya, Noriyuki Kawaguchi, Masachika Kijima, Mi Kyoung Kim, Seisuke Kuji, Tomoharu Kurayama, Seiji Manabe, Kenta Maruyama, Makoto Matsui, Naoko Matsumoto, Takeshi Miyaji, Takumi Nagayama, Akiharu Nakagawa, Kayoko Nakamura, Chung Sik Oh, Toshihiro Omodaka, Tomoaki Oyama, Satoshi Sakai, Katsuhisa Sato, Katsunori M. Shibata, Motonobu Shintani, Yoshiaki Tamura, Miyuki Tsushima, Kazuyoshi Yamashita

Suppressed radio emission in supercluster galaxies: enhanced ram pressure in merging clusters

Authors: Jean-Christophe Mauduit (1), Gary A. Mamon (1,2) ((1) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (UMR 7095: CNRS & Univ. P. & M. Curie) (2) GEPI (UMR 8111: CNRS and Univ. Denis Diderot), Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)

tipa -- 4/24/2007

Hypervelocity stars and the environment of Sgr A*

Authors: A. Sesana, F. Haardt, P. Madau

The Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background

Authors: Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

Methanol masers as tools to study high-mass star formation

Authors: Michele Pestalozzi

tipa -- 4/23/2007

Constraining GRB progenitor models by probing Wolf-Rayet wind geometries in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Authors: Jorick S. Vink (Armagh Observatory)

Are We Typical?

Authors: James B. Hartle, Mark Srednicki

classic papers of the week -- 17

The Particle Problem in the General Theory of Relativity

A. Einstein, N. Rosen (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study)

Structure in the COBE differential microwave radiometer first-year maps

Smoot, G. F.; Bennett, C. L.; Kogut, A.; Wright, E. L.; Aymon, J.; Boggess, N. W.; Cheng, E. S.; de Amici, G.; Gulkis, S.; Hauser, M. G.; Hinshaw, G.; Jackson, P. D.; Janssen, M.; Kaita, E.; Kelsall, T.; Keegstra, P.; Lineweaver, C.; Loewenstein, K.; Lubin, P.; Mather, J.; Meyer, S. S.; Moseley, S. H.; Murdock, T.; Rokke, L.; Silverberg, R. F.; Tenorio, L.; Weiss, R.; Wilkinson, D. T.

Resonant Nuclear Scattering of Gamma-Rays: Theory and Preliminary Experiments

P.B. Moon (Department of Physics, The University of Birmingham)

tipa -- 4/20/2007

Near-Infrared and X-ray Observations of the Enigmatic G70.7+1.2

Authors: P. B. Cameron, S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech)

The Spectral Index Distribution of EGRET Blazars: Prospects for GLAST

Authors: Tonia M. Venters, Vasiliki Pavlidou (KICP, U. Chicago)

Cosmological contraints to radiative dark-matter decay

Authors: Le Zhang, Xuelei Chen, Marc Kamionkowski, Zongguo Si, Zheng Zheng

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and the GeV-TeV Diffuse Gamma-Ray Flux

Authors: Oleg E. Kalashev (INR Moscow), Dmitry V. Semikoz, Guenter Sigl (APC, Paris)

Testing the gamma-ray burst variability/peak luminosity correlation on a Swift homogeneous sample

Authors: D. Rizzuto (1), C. Guidorzi (1,2), P. Romano (1,2), S. Covino (2), S. Campana (2), M. Capalbi (3), G. Chincarini (1,2), G. Cusumano (4), D. Fugazza (2), V. Mangano (4), A. Moretti (2), M. Perri (3), G. Tagliaferri (2) ((1) Univ.Bicocca, (2) INAF-OABrera, (3) ASI-ASDC, (4) INAF-IASF Pa)

Antiproton and Positron Signal Enhancement in Mini-Spikes Scenarios

Authors: P. Brun, G. Bertone, J. Lavalle, P. Salati, R. Taillet

MeV Dark Matter and Small Scale Structure

Authors: Dan Hooper, Manoj Kaplinghat, Louis E. Strigari, Kathryn M. Zurek

Another Odd Thing About Unparticle Physics

Authors: Howard Georgi (Harvard Univ)

tipa -- 4/18/2007

Very High Energy Afterglow from Gamma-ray Bursts

Authors: Yi-Zhong Fan, Tsvi Piran, Ramesh Narayan, Da-Ming Wei

Constraints on gamma-ray burst and supernova progenitors through circumstellar absorption lines. (II): Post-LBV Wolf-Rayet stars

Authors: A. J. van Marle, N. Langer, G. garcia-Segura

Selection effects shaping the Gamma Ray Burst redshift distributions

Authors: F. Fiore, D. Guetta, S. Piranomonte, V. D'Elia, L.A. Antonelli

Measurement of the Rate of Muon Capture in Hydrogen Gas and Determination of the Proton's Pseudoscalar Coupling $g_P$

Authors: V.A. Andreev, T.I. Banks, T.A. Case, D.B. Chitwood, S.M. Clayton, K.M. Crowe, J. Deutsch, J. Egger, S.J. Freedman, V.A. Ganzha, T. Gorringe, F.E. Gray, D.W. Hertzog, M. Hildebrandt, P. Kammel, B. Kiburg, S. Knaack, P.A. Kravtsov, A.G. Krivshich, B. Lauss, K.L. Lynch, E.M. Maev, O.E. Maev, F. Mulhauser, C.S. Özben, C. Petitjean, G.E. Petrov, R. Prieels, G.N. Schapkin, G.G. Semenchuk, M.A. Soroka, V. Tishchenko, A.A. Vasilyev, A.A. Vorobyov, M.E. Vznuzdaev, P. Winter

Bone Cancer in Dinosaurs

Authors: L.C. Natarajan, A.L. Melott, B.M. Rothschild, L.D. Martin (University of Kansas)

tipa -- 4/17/2007

Redefining the Missing Satellites Problem

Authors: Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Juerg Diemand, Michael Kuhlen, Piero Madau

A discriminating probe of gravity at cosmological scales

Authors: Pengjie Zhang (SHAO), Michele Liguori (Cambridge), Rachel Bean (Cornell), Scott Dodelson (Fermilab/Chicago)

Progenitors of Long Gamma-ray Bursts

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

Improved Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant

Authors: MuLan Collaboration: D.B. Chitwood, T.I. Banks, M.J. Barnes, S. Battu, R.M. Carey, S. Cheekatmalla, S.M. Clayton, J. Crnkovic, K.M. Crowe, P.T. Debevec, S. Dhamija, W. Earle, A. Gafarov, K. Giovanetti, T.P. Gorringe, F.E. Gray, M. Hance, D.W. Hertzog, M.F. Hare, P. Kammel, B. Kiburg, J. Kunkle, B. Lauss, I. Logashenko, K.R. Lynch, R. McNabb, J.P. Miller, F. Mulhauser, C.J.G. Onderwater, C.S. Ozben, Q. Peng, C.C. Polly, S. Rath, B.L. Roberts, V. Tishchenko G.D. Wait, J. Wasserman, D.M. Webber P. Winter, P.A. Zolnierczuk

tipa -- 4/16/2007

The Peculiar Velocities of Local Type Ia Supernovae and their Impact on Cosmology

Authors: James D. Neill (1), Michael J. Hudson (2), Alex Conley (3) ((1) California Institute of Technology, (2) University of Waterloo, (3) University of Toronto)

Resolving Diffuse Photon Anomalies with Dark Matter Decaying Now

Authors: Jose A. R. Cembranos, Jonathan L. Feng, Louis E. Strigari

An SiO Maser Search off the Galactic Plane

Authors: S. Deguchi, T. Fujii, Y. Ita, H. Imai, H. Izumiura, O. Kameya, N. Matsunaga, A. Miyazaki, A. Mizutani, Y. Nakada, J. Nakashima, A. Winnberg

Spectrum of cosmic rays, produced in supernova remnants

Authors: E.G.Berezhko, H.J.Voelk

Cosmic Ménage à trois: The Origin of Satellites Galaxies On Extreme Orbits

Authors: L. V. Sales, J. F. Navarro, M. G. Abadi, M. Steinmetz

classic papers of the week -- 16

On the gravitational field of a mass point according to Einstein's theory

K. Schwarzschild

Selection Rules for the Dematerialization of a Particle Into Two Photons

C. N. Yang (Chicago U., EFI)

Superfluidity and Superconductivity

R.P. Feynman (Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California)

tipa -- 4/13/2007

A Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance at the Delta m**2 ~ 1 eV**2 Scale

Authors: The MiniBooNE Collaboration

The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. The Assembly History of the Stellar Mass in Galaxies: from the Young to the Old Universe

Authors: L. Pozzetti, M. Bolzonella, F. Lamareille, G. Zamorani, P. Franzetti, O. Le Fèvre, A. Iovino, S. Temporin, O. Ilbert, S. Arnouts, S. Charlot, J. Brinchmann, E. Zucca, L. Tresse, M. Scodeggio, L. Guzzo, D. Bottini, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, J.P. Picat, R. Scaramella, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Bardelli, A. Cappi, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, S. Foucaud, I. Gavignaud, H.J. McCracken, B. Marano, C. Marinoni, A. Mazure, B. Meneux, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pellò, A. Pollo, M. Radovich, M. Bondi, A. Bongiorno, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, L. Gregorini, Y. Mellier, P. Merluzzi, D. Vergani, C.J. Walcher

GRB 061121: Broadband spectral evolution through the prompt and afterglow phases of a bright burst

Authors: K.L. Page (1), R. Willingale (1), J.P. Osborne (1), B. Zhang (2), O. Godet (1), F.E. Marshall (3), A. Melandri (4), J.P. Norris (5,6), P.T. O'Brien (1), V. Pal'shin (7), E. Rol (1), P. Romano (8,9), R.L.C. Starling (1), P. Schady (10), S.A. Yost (11), S.D. Barthelmy (3), A.P. Beardmore (1), G. Cusumano (12), D.N. Burrows (13), M. De Pasquale (10), M. Ehle (14), P.A. Evans (1), N. Gehrels (3), M.R. Goad (1), S. Golenetskii (7), C. Guidorzi (8,9), C. Mundell (4), M.J. Page (10), G. Ricker (15), T. Sakamoto (3), B.E. Schaefer (16), M. Stamatikos (3), E. Troja (1,1)}, M.Ulanov (7), F. Yuan (11), H. Ziaeepour (9) ((1) University of Leicester, (2) University of Nevada, (3) NASA/GSFC, (4) Liverpool John Moores University, (5) University of Denver, (6) Stanford University, (7) Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, (8) Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (9) Universita' di Milano-Bicocca, (10) MSSL, (11) University of Michigan, (12) INAF-IASF, Sezione di Palermo, (13) Pennsylvania State University, (14) XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre, (15) MIT, (16) Louisiana State University)