tipa -- 5/10/2007

The Search for Muon Neutrinos from Northern Hemisphere Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA

• Authors: The IceCube Collaboration: A. Achterberg, et al., the IPN Collaboration: K. Hurley, et al

Multi-year search for a diffuse flux of muon neutrinos with AMANDA-II

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

The Collision Between The Milky Way And Andromeda

• Authors: T.J. Cox, Abraham Loeb (Harvard/CfA)

tipa -- 5/9/2007

X-ray Timing of PSR J1852+0040 in Kesteven 79: Evidence of Neutron Stars Weakly Magnetized at Birth

• Authors: J. P. Halpern, E. V. Gotthelf, F. Camilo, F. D. Seward

A new method to derive star formation histories of galaxies from their star cluster distributions

• Authors: Thomas Maschberger, Pavel Kroupa (AIfA, Bonn)

Jet-breaks in the X-ray Light-Curves of Swift GRB Afterglows

• Authors: A. Panaitescu

tipa -- 5/8/2007

Primordial nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental physics parameters

• Authors: Thomas Dent, Steffen Stern, Christof Wetterich

TeV Gamma-Ray Sources from a Survey of the Galactic Plane with Milagro

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, B. Allen, D. Berley, S. Casanova, C. Chen, D. G. Coyne, B. L. Dingus, R. W. Ellsworth, L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, M. M. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, E. Hays, C. M. Hoffman, B. Hopper, P. H. Huntemeyer, B. E. Kolterman, C. P. Lansdell, J. T. Linnemann, J. E. McEnery, A. I. Mincer, P. Nemethy, D. Noyes, J. M. Ryan, P. M. Saz Parkinson, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, G. W. Sullivan, V. Vasileiou, G. P. Walker, D. A. Williams, X. W. Xu, G. B. Yodh

Light Curve Calculations of Supernovae from Fallback Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Chris L. Fryer (LANL/UA), Aimee L. Hungerford (LANL), Patrick A. Young (LANL/UA)

Constraints on CPT violation from WMAP three year polarization data: a wavelet analysis

• Authors: Paolo Cabella, Paolo Natoli, Joseph Silk

tipa -- 5/7/2007

Formation of OB Associations in Galaxies

Authors: Frank H. Shu, Ronald J. Allen, Susana Lizano, Daniele Galli

classic papers of the week -- 19

Cosmic Separation of Phases

• Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study)

On the Density of Neutral Hydrogen in Intergalactic Space

• Gunn, James E.; Peterson, Bruce A.

The Infancy And Youth Of Neutrino Physics: Some Recollections

• B. Pontecorvo (Dubna, JINR)

tipa -- 5/4/2007

On the Incidence of C IV Absorbers Along the Sightlines to Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Nicolas Tejos, Sebastian Lopez, Jason X. Prochaska, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky

Observational bounds on the cosmic radiation density

• Authors: Jan Hamann, Steen Hannestad, Georg G. Raffelt, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Dark matter and the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution

• Authors: Douglas Spolyar, Katherine Freese, Paolo Gondolo

tipa -- 5/3/2007

PArthENoPE: Public Algorithm Evaluating the Nucleosynthesis of Primordial Elements

• Authors: O. Pisanti, A. Cirillo, S. Esposito, F. Iocco, G. Mangano, G. Miele, P.D. Serpico

tipa -- 5/2/2007

XMM-Newton observations of the first unidentified TeV gamma-ray source TeV J2032+4130

• 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 -- 4/25/2007

The distance and neutral environment of the massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1

• Authors: R. Kothes, S.M. Dougherty

Rigidity-dependent cosmic ray energy spectra in the knee region obtained with the GAMMA experiment

• Authors: A. P. Garyaka, R. M. Martirosov, S. V. Ter-Antonyan, N. Nikolskaya, Y. A. Gallant, L. Jones, J. Procureur

XMM-Newton X-ray Observations of the Wolf-Rayet Binary System WR 147

• Authors: S.L. Skinner, S.A. Zhekov, M. Guedel, W. Schmutz

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 -- 4/19/2007

Swift observations of GRB 060614: an anomalous burst with a well behaved afterglow

• Authors: V. Mangano, S.T. Holland, D. Malesani, E. Troja, G. Chincarini, B. Zhang, V. La Parola, P.J. Brown, D.N. Burrows, S. Campana, M. Capalbi, G. Cusumano, M. Della Valle, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, D. Grupe, C. Guidorzi, T. Mineo, A. Moretti, J.P. Osborne, S.B. Pandey, M. Perri, P. Romano, P.W.A. Roming, G. Tagliaferri

Hot Coal for Christmas: Dust Formation in the Swept-Up Shell Around The Peculiar Type Ib Supernova 2006jc

• Authors: Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko

Fundamentalist physics: why Dark Energy is bad for Astronomy

• Authors: Simon D.M. White

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)