tipa -- 5/17/2007

X-ray emission from PSR J1809-1917 and its pulsar wind nebula, possibly associated with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1809-193

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

The Answer is Blowing in the Wind

• Authors: Yousaf Butt

tipa -- 5/16/2007

Discovery of a Ringlike Dark Matter Structure in the Core of the Galaxy Cluster Cl 0024+17

• Authors: M.J. Jee, H.C. Ford, G.D. Illingworth, R.L. White, T.J. Broadhurst, D.A. Coe, G.R. Meurer, A. Van Der Wel, N. Benitez, J.P. Blakeslee, R.J. Bouwens, L.D. Bradley, R. Demarco, N.L. Homeier, A.R. Martel, S. Mei

Ultrahigh-energy neutrino flux as a probe of large extra-dimensions

• Authors: Joseph Lykken, Olga Mena, Soebur Razzaque

tipa -- 5/15/2007

Detection of Atmospheric Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 9-String Detector

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

Numerical propagation of high energy cosmic rays in the Galaxy I: technical issues

• Authors: Daniel De Marco, Pasquale Blasi, Todor Stanev

Simulation of Cosmogenic Neutrino Spectra with the GZKFast Event Generator

• Authors: John A. Cairns

Self-induced spectral splits in supernova neutrino fluxes

• Authors: Georg G. Raffelt (MPI Physik), Alexei Yu. Smirnov (ICTP Trieste)

Neutrinos from Cosmic Ray Accelerators in the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy

• Authors: Francis Halzen, Aongus O' Murchada

tipa -- 5/14/2007

On the optical counterpart of NGC300 X-1 and the global Wolf-Rayet content of NGC300

• Authors: Paul A Crowther (Sheffield), S. Carpano (ESAC Madrid), L.J. Hadfield (Sheffield), A.M.T. Pollock (ESAC Madrid)

GLAST Prospects for Swift-Era Afterglows

• Authors: L. J. Gou, P. Meszaros

Milagro Constraints on Very High Energy Emission from Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: A.A. Abdo, B.T. Allen, D. Berley, E. Blaufuss, S. Casanova, B.L. Dingus, R.W. Ellsworth, M.M. Gonzalez, J.A. Goodman, E. Hays, C.M. Hoffman, B.E. Kolterman, C.P. Lansdell, J.T. Linnemann, J.E. McEnery, A.I. Mincer, P. Nemethy, D.Noyes, J.M. Ryan, F.W. Samuelson, 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 (Milagro Collaboration).

Discovery of two candidate pulsar wind nebulae in very-high-energy gamma rays

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

On the nature of the short duration GRB 050906

• Authors: A.J. Levan, N.R. Tanvir, P. Jakobsson, R. Chapman, J. Hjorth, R.S. Priddey, J.P.U. Fynbo, K. Hurley, B.L. Jensen, R. Johnson, J. Gorosabel, A.J. Castro-Tirado, M. Jarvis, D. Watson, K. Wiersema

Is There a Universal Mass Function?

• Authors: Bruno Binggeli, Tatjana Hascher

classic papers of the week -- 20

Gamma-ray bursters at cosmological distances

• Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton U. Observ.)

Stimulated Optical Radiation in Ruby

• T. H. Maiman (Hughes Research Laboratories, A Division of Hughes Aircraft Co., Malibu, California)

Plasmons, Gauge Invariance, and Mass

• Philip W. Anderson (Bell Labs)

tipa -- 5/11/2007

Missing Mass in Collisional Debris from Galaxies

• Authors: F. Bournaud, P.-A. Duc, E. Brinks, M. Boquien, P. Amram, U. Lisenfeld, B. S. Koribalski, F. Walter, V. Charmandaris

The redshift-dependence of gamma-ray absorption in the environments of strong-line AGN

• Authors: A. Reimer

Studies of Cosmic Rays with GeV Gamma Rays

• Authors: Hiroyasu Tajima (1), Tuneyoshi Kamae (1), Stefano Finazzi (2), Johann Cohen-Tanugi (1), James Chiang (1 and 3) ((1) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, (2) Scuola Normale Superiore, (3) CRESST, University of Maryland)

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