tipa -- 5/24/2007

VHE Gamma-Ray Observation of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with MAGIC

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

Helium abundance in galaxy clusters and Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

• Authors: Maxim Markevitch (CfA)

tipa -- 5/23/2007

The First Supernova Explosions: Energetics, Feedback, and Chemical Enrichment

• Authors: Thomas H. Greif, Jarrett L. Johnson, Volker Bromm, Ralf S. Klessen

Prospects for Constraining Neutrino Mass Using Planck and Lyman-Alpha Forest Data

• Authors: Steven Gratton, Antony Lewis, George Efstathiou

Discovery of VHE Gamma Radiation from IC443 with the MAGIC Telescope

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

SubmilliJansky Transients in Archival Radio Observations

• Authors: Geoffrey C. Bower, Destry Saul, Joshua S. Bloom, Alberto Bolatto, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Daniel Perley (UC Berkeley)

Cosmic ray confinement in fossil cluster bubbles

• Authors: M. Ruszkowski (1), T.A. Ensslin (1), M. Bruggen (2), M.C. Begelman (3), E. Churazov (1) ((1) MPA, (2) Jacobs University, (3) JILA)

tipa -- 5/22/2007

Detection of VHE gamma-ray emission from the distant blazar 1ES 1101-232 with H.E.S.S. and broadband characterisation

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

Prompt GeV-TeV Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts Due to High-Energy Protons, Muons and Electron-Positron Pairs

• Authors: Katsuaki Asano, Susumu Inoue

Searching for galactic cosmic ray pevatrons with multi-TeV gamma rays and neutrinos

• Authors: Stefano Gabici (1), Felix A. Aharonian (1,2) (1 - MPIK Heidelberg, 2 - DIAS Dublin)

Masers as Probes of Massive Star Formation in the Nuclear Disk

• Authors: F. Yusef-Zadeh, R. G. Arendt, C. O. Heinke, J. L. Hinz, J. W. Hewitt, P. Pratap, S. V. Ramirez, G. H. Rieke, D. A. Roberts, S. R. Stolovy, M. Wardle, B. A. Whitney

tipa -- 5/21/2007

Observations of Microwave Continuum Emission from Air Shower Plasmas

• Authors: P. W. Gorham, N. G. Lehtinen, G. S. Varner, J. J. Beatty, A. Connolly, P. Chen, M. E. Conde, W. Gai, C. Hast, C. L. Hebert, C. Miki, R. Konecny, J. Kowalski, J. Ng, J. G. Power, K. Reil, D. Saltzberg, B. T. Stokes, D. Walz

A deeper X-ray study of the core of the Perseus galaxy cluster: the power of sound waves and the distribution of metals and cosmic rays

• Authors: J.S. Sanders, A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

South-West extension of the hard X-ray emission from the Coma cluster

• Authors: D. Eckert, A. Neronov, T. J.-L. Courvoisier, N. Produit

Developing the Theory of Flux Limits from $\gamma$-Ray Cascades

• Authors: John A. Cairns

Detecting atmospheric neutrino oscillations in ATLAS

• Authors: Joachim Kopp, Manfred Lindner

classic papers of the week -- 21

Gravitational instability: An Approximate theory for large density perturbations

• Ya.B. Zeldovich (Moscow, IPM)

The Theory of magnetic poles

• Paul A.M. Dirac (Cambridge U.)

Evidence for the Molecular Origin of Some Hitherto Unidentified Interstellar Lines

• Andrew McKellar

tipa -- 5/18/2007

Superluminal Radio Features in the M87 Jet and the Site of Flaring TeV Gamma-ray Emission

• Authors: C.C. Cheung (NRAO and Stanford), D.E. Harris (Harvard-CfA), L. Stawarz (Stanford/KIPAC)

Constraints on the Abundance of Highly Ionized Proto-Cluster Regions from the Absence of Large Voids in the Lyman Alpha Forest

• Authors: Cien Shang, Arlin Crotts, Zoltán Haiman (Columbia University)

Gamma-ray probe of cosmic-ray pressure in galaxy clusters and cosmological implications

• Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando, Daisuke Nagai (Caltech)

Can we ever distinguish between quintessence and a cosmological constant?

• Authors: Sirichai Chongchitnan, George Efstathiou

Observations of Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources with H.E.S.S

• Authors: D. Berge (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

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