today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Jason Tumlinson

Constraints on top-down models for the origin of UHECRs from the Pierre Auger Observatory data

Authors: D.V. Semikoz, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Discovery of diffuse radio emission at the center of the most X-ray-luminous cluster RX J1347.5-1145

Authors: Myriam Gitti (1), Chiara Ferrari (2), Wilfried Domainko (3), Luigina Feretti (4), Sabine Schindler (2) ((1) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (2) Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck (3) Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (4) INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna)

Neutrino Backgrounds to Dark Matter Searches

Authors: Jocelyn Monroe, Peter Fisher

Astrophysical Violations of the Kerr Bound as a Possible Signature of String Theory

Authors: Eric G. Gimon, Petr Horava

tipa -- 6/20/2007

Intracluster Short Gamma-Ray Bursts by Compact Binary Mergers

Authors: Yuu Niino, Tomonori Totani

Ultra High Energy Cosmic ray and gamma-ray signatures of inductive acceleration in AGN jets

Authors: Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada), Guenter Sigl (AstroParticules et Cosmologie, Paris, France & Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France), Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)

Signatures of the transition from galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays

Authors: R. Aloisio (1), V. Berezinsky (1), P. Blasi (2), S. Ostapchenko (3) ((1) INFN/LNGS, (2)INAF/Arcetri, (3) Karlsruhe)

tipa -- 6/19/2007

Magnetorotational collapse of very massive stars in full general relativity

Authors: Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, Branson C. Stephens (UIUC)

Super Star Cluster NGC1705-1: A Local Analogue to the Birthsite of Long-duration Gamma-ray Bursts

Authors: Hsiao-Wen Chen (University of Chicago), J. X. Prochaska (UCO/Lick Observatory), Joshua S. Bloom (UC Berkeley)

Decoherence in supernova neutrino transformations suppressed by deleptonization

Authors: Andreu Esteban-Pretel, Sergio Pastor, Ricard Tomas, Georg G. Raffelt, Gunter Sigl

Swift-XRT observation of 34 new INTEGRAL/IBIS AGNs: discovery of Compton thick and other peculiar sources

Authors: A. Malizia, R. Landi, L. Bassani, A.J. Bird, M. Molina, A. De Rosa, M. Fiocchi, N. Gehrels, J.Kennea, M. Perri

Black hole in the West Nucleus of Arp 220

Authors: D. Downes, A. Eckart

Search for large-scale anisotropies with the Auger Observatory

Authors: E. Armengaud, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Measurement of the UHECR energy spectrum from hybrid data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: Lorenzo Perrone, for the the Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 6/18/2007

Search for Supernova Neutrino Bursts at Super-Kamiokande

Authors: M.Ikeda, A.Takeda, Y.Fukuda, M.R.Vagins, M.Sakuda

The $^{15}$O($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^{19}$Ne Breakout Reaction and Impact on X-Ray Bursts

Authors: W. P. Tan, J. L. Fisker, J. Goerres, M. Couder, M. Wiescher

classic papers of the week -- 25

The Correlation Function for the Distribution of Galaxies

Totsuji, H.; Kihara, T.

Axial vector vertex in spinor electrodynamics

Stephen L. Adler (Princeton U.)

Drag and Propulsion of Large Satellites in the Ionosphere; An Alfvén Propulsion Engine in Space

Drell, S. D.; Foley, H. M.; Ruderman, M. A. (Jason Division, Institute for Defense Analyses, Arlington, Virginia)

tipa -- 6/15/2007

Measurement of the UHECR energy spectrum using data from the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: Markus Roth, for the Auger Collaboration

Dark Matter Annihilation in Substructures Revised

Authors: L. Pieri, G. Bertone, E Branchini

tipa -- 6/14/2007

Chandra Observations of SN 2004et and the X-ray Emission of Type IIp Supernovae

Authors: J. Rho, T. H. Jarrett, N. N. Chugai, R. A. Chevalier

Inhomogeneous extragalactic magnetic fields and the second knee in the cosmic ray spectrum

Authors: Kumiko Kotera, Martin Lemoine (IAP)

TASI Lectures on Astrophysical Aspects of Neutrinos

Authors: John F. Beacom (Ohio State U.)

Test of hadronic interaction models with data from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: Ralph Engel, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 6/13/2007

The First Survey of X-ray Flares from Gamma Ray Bursts Observed by Swift: Spectral Properties and Energetics

Authors: A. D. Falcone (1), D. Morris (1), J. Racusin (1), G. Chincarini (2 and 3), A. Moretti (2), P. Romano (2 and 3), D. N. Burrows (1), C. Pagani (1), M. Stroh (1), D. Grupe (1), S. Campana (2), S. Covino (2), G. Tagliaferri (2), R. Willingale (4), N. Gehrels (5) ((1) Pennsylvania State University, (2)INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (3) Universita degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, (4) University of Leicester, (5) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

21-cm synthesis observations of VIRGOHI 21 - a possible dark galaxy in the Virgo Cluster

Authors: Robert Minchin (1 and 2), Jonathan Davies (2), Michael Disney (2), Marco Grossi (2 and 3), Sabina Sabatini (4), Peter Boyce (2), Diego Garcia (2 and 5), Chris Impey (6), Christine Jordan (7), Robert Lang (2), Andrew Marble (6), Sarah Roberts (2), Wim van Driel (8) ((1) Arecibo Observatory, (2) Cardiff University, (3) Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, (4) Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, (5) University of Bonn, (6) Steward Observatory, (7) Jodrell Bank Observatory, (8) Observatoire de Paris)

Effects of Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Supernova Dynamics and Radiated Neutrino Spectra

Authors: K. Langanke, G. Martinez-Pinedo, B. Mueller, H.-Th. Janka, A. Marek, W.R. Hix, A. Juodagalvis, J. M. Sampaio

Composition-sensitive parameters measured with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: M.D.Healy, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Limits to the diffuse flux of UHE tau neutrinos at EeV energies from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: O. Blanch Bigas, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Search for correlation of UHECRs and BL Lacs in Pierre Auger Observatory data

Authors: Diego Harari, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Studies of clustering in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory above 10 EeV

Authors: Silvia Mollerach, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 6/12/2007

Detection of GRB 060927 at z = 5.47: Implications for the Use of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Probes of the End of the Dark Ages

Authors: A. E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Swan, E. Troja, D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, R. L. C. Starling, D. Xu, F. Aharonian, C. Akerlof, M. I. Andersen, M. C. B. Ashley, S. D. Barthelmy, D. Bersier, J. M. Castro Cerón, A. J. Castro-Tirado, N. Gehrels, E. Göğüş, J. Gorosabel, C. Guidorzi, T. Güver, J. Hjorth, D. Horns, K. Y. Huang, P. Jakobsson, B. L. Jensen, Ü. Kızıloģlu, C. Kouveliotou, H. A. Krimm, C. Ledoux, A. J. Levan, T. Marsh, T. McKay, A. Melandri, B. Milvang-Jensen, C. G. Mundell, P. T. O'Brien, M. Özel, A. Phillips, R. Quimby, G. Rowell, W. Rujopakarn, E. S. Rykoff, B. E. Schaefer, J. Sollerman, N. R. Tanvir, C. C. Thöne, Y. Urata, W. T. Vestrand, P. M. Vreeswijk, D. Watson, J. C. Wheeler, R. A. M. J. Wijers, J. Wren, S. A. Yost, et al (2 additional authors not shown)

Feedback Heating by Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies

Authors: Fulai Guo, S. Peng OH (UCSB)

A Complete Catalog of Swift GRB Spectra and Durations: Demise of a Physical Origin for Pre-Swift High-Energy Correlations

Authors: Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel Kocevski, Joshua S. Bloom, Jason L. Curtis

Accretion vs colliding wind models for the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303: an assessment

Authors: G.E. Romero, A.T. Okazaki, M. Orellana, S.P. Owocki

Arc-like distribution of high CO(J=3-2)/CO(J=1-0) ratio gas surrounding the central star cluster of the supergiant HII region NGC 604

Authors: T. Tosaki, R. Miura, T. Sawada, N. Kuno, K. Nakanishi, K. Kohno, S. K. Okumura, R. Kawabe

Very High Energy Gamma-ray Radiation from the Stellar-mass Black Hole Cygnus X-1

Authors: MAGIC Collaboration: J. Albert, et al

Study of the Cosmic Ray Composition above 0.4 EeV using the Longitudinal Profiles of Showers observed at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: Michael Unger, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Search for Gamma Ray Bursts using the single particle technique at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: X.Bertou, for the Pierre Auger Observatory

tipa -- 6/11/2007

A multi-wavelength study of z = 3.15 Lyman-alpha emitters in the GOODS South Field

Authors: Kim K. Nilsson (1,2), P. Moeller (1), O. Moeller (3), J.P.U. Fynbo (2), M.J. Michalowski (2), D. Watson (2), C. Ledoux (4), P. Rosati (1), K. Pedersen (2), L.F. Grove (2), (1 ESO-Garching, 2 Dark Cosmology Centre, 3 MPA, 4 ESO-Chile)

Suzaku Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected in the Swift/BAT Survey: Discovery of "New Type" of Buried Supermassive Black Holes

Authors: Yoshihiro Ueda, Satoshi Eguchi (Kyoto University), Yuichi Terashima (Ehime University), Richard Mushotzky, Jack Tueller, Craig Markwardt, Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Stephen Potter (SAAO)

GRB 060206 and the quandary of achromatic breaks in afterglow light curves

Authors: P.A. Curran, A.J. van der Horst, R.A.M.J. Wijers, R.L.C. Starling, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Gorosabel, A.S. Jarvinen, D. Malesani, E. Rol, N.R. Tanvir, K. Wiersema, M.R. Burleigh, S.L. Casewell, P.D. Dobbie, S. Guziy, P. Jakobsson, M. Jelinek, P. Laursen, A.J. Levan, C.G. Mundell, J. Naranen, S. Piranomonte

classic papers of the week -- 24

Cosmological Lower Bound on Heavy Neutrino Masses

Benjamin W. Lee (Fermilab) , Steven Weinberg (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.)

The Formation of a Blast Wave by a Very Intense Explosion. II. The Atomic Explosion of 1945

Taylor, Geoffrey

Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?

Boris Peon

tipa -- 6/8/2007

Radiative Transfer Effect on Ultraviolet Pumping of the 21cm Line in the High Redshift Universe

Authors: Leonid Chuzhoy (1) Zheng Zheng (2) ((1) University of Texas at Austin, (2) Institute for Advanced Study)

Constraining Warm Dark Matter using QSO gravitational lensing

Authors: M. Miranda, A.V. Macciò

Constraining white-dwarf kicks in globular clusters

Authors: Jeremy S. Heyl

The Ultraluminous X-ray Sources near the Center of M82

Authors: A.K.H. Kong (MIT), Y.J. Yang, P.-Y. Hsieh (ASIAA, Taiwan), D.S.Y. Mak, C.S.J. Pun (The University of Hong Kong)

Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on Carbon

Authors: MiniBooNE collaboration

tipa -- 6/7/2007

An Exceptional VHE Gamma-Ray Flare of PKS 2155-304

Authors: F. Aharonian, et al. (HESS Collaboration)

Imaging the Cosmic Matter Distribution using Gravitational Lensing of Pregalactic HI

Authors: Stefan Hilbert, R. Benton Metcalf, S. D. M. White

Measuring 10-1000 GeV Cosmic Ray Electrons with GLAST/LAT

Authors: Alexander A.Moiseev, Jonathan F.Ormes, Igor V.Moskalenko

tipa -- 6/6/2007

The Kinematics of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem

Authors: Joshua D. Simon (Caltech), Marla Geha (HIA/DAO)

The Discovery of 1000 km/s Outflows in Massive Post-starburst Galaxies at z=0.6

Authors: Christy A. Tremonti (1), John Moustakas (2), Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic (1) ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) New York University)

Evidence for a Z < 8 Origin of the Source Subtracted Near Infrared Background

Authors: Rodger I. Thompson, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, Marcia Rieke, Robert C. Kennicutt

On the detection of very high redshift Gamma Ray Bursts with Swift

Authors: R. Salvaterra, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, G. Tagliaferri, S. Covino

TeV gamma-rays from photo-disintegration/de-excitation of nuclei in Westerlund 2

Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, John F. Beacom, Yousaf M. Butt, Haim Goldberg, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Thomas J. Weiler, Justin Wesolowski

tipa -- 6/5/2007

Dark matter halo abundances, clustering and assembly histories at high redshift

Authors: J.D. Cohn, Martin White

First Measurement of a Rapid Increase in the AGN Fraction in High-Redshift Clusters of Galaxies

Authors: Jason Eastman, Paul Martini, Gregory Sivakoff (Ohio State), Daniel D. Kelson, John S. Mulchaey (Carnegie Observatories), Kim-Vy Tran (ETH Zurich)

A Monte Carlo Study of the Irreducible Background in the EGRET Instrument

Authors: T. A. Porter, W. B. Atwood, B. Baughman, R. P. Johnson

CANGAROO-III Search for Gamma Rays from Centaurus A and the $\omega$ Centauri Region

Authors: S.Kabuki, R.Enomoto, CANGAROO-III collaboration

Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam

Authors: MINOS Collaboration: P. Adamson, et al

Neutrino oscillations in a variable-density medium and $\nu-$ bursts due to the gravitational collapse of stars

Authors: S. P. Mikheev, A. Yu. Smirnov

tipa -- 6/4/2007

The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo

Authors: Eric F. Bell, Daniel B. Zucker, Vasily Belokurov, Sanjib Sharma, Kathryn V. Johnston, James S. Bullock, David W. Hogg, Knud Jahnke, Jelte T. A. de Jong, Timothy C. Beers, N. W. Evans, Eva K. Grebel, Zeljko Ivezic, Sergey E. Koposov, Hans-Walter Rix, Donald P. Schneider, Matthias Steinmetz, Adi Zolotov

The discovery of two extremely low luminosity Milky Way globular clusters

Authors: S. Koposov (1,2), J. T. A. de Jong (1), V. Belokurov (2), H.-W. Rix (1), D.B. Zucker (2), N.W. Evans (2), G. Gilmore (2), M.J. Irwin (2), E. F. Bell (1) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, (2) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)