tipa -- 7/13/2007

On the formation of TeV radiation in LS 5039

• Authors: Dmitry Khangulyan, Felix Aharonian, Valenti Bosch-Ramon

Simulating cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies - III. Non-thermal scaling relations and comparison to observations

• Authors: Christoph Pfrommer (CITA)

Gamma-ray absorption in the microquasar SS433

• Authors: Matias M. Reynoso, Hugo R. Christiansen, Gustavo E. Romero

tipa -- 7/12/2007

The Next Geminga: Search for Radio and X-ray Pulsations from the Neutron Star Identified with 3EG J1835+5918

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

The Reionization and Galaxy Evolution Probed by z=7 Lyman Alpha Emitters

• Authors: Kazuaki Ota, Masanori Iye, Nobunari Kashikawa, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Masakazu A.R. Kobayashi, Tomonori Totani, Masahiro Nagashima, Tomoki Morokuma, Hisanori Furusawa, Takashi Hattori, Yuichi Matsuda, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Masami Ouchi

tipa -- 7/11/2007

Evidence for short-lived SN Ia progenitors

• Authors: Eric Aubourg (APC/Princeton), Rita Tojeiro (Edinburgh), Raul Jimenez (Penn/Princeton), Alan F. Heavens (Edinburgh), Michael A. Strauss (Princeton), David N. Spergel (Princeton)

Gravitational Wave Recoil and the Retention of Intermediate Mass Black Holes

• Authors: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Kayhan Gultekin, Deirdre Shoemaker, Nico Yunes

On the Distance and Molecular Environment of Westerlund 2 and HESS J1023-575

• Authors: T. M. Dame

Population III stars: hidden or disappeared ?

• Authors: L. Tornatore, A. Ferrara, R. Schneider

tipa -- 7/10/2007

The Effect of Binarity on Stellar Rotation - Beyond the Reach of Tides

• Authors: S. Meibom, R. D. Mathieu, K. G. Stassun

The Unpredictability of the Most Energetic Solar Events

• Authors: Hugh S. Hudson

High energy neutrino early afterglows gamma-ray bursts revisited

• Authors: Kohta Murase

No light shining through a wall

• Authors: Cecile Robilliard, Remy Battesti, Mathilde Fouche, Julien Mauchain, Anne-Marie Sautivet, Francois Amiranoff, Carlo Rizzo

tipa -- 7/9/2007

Cosmic-Ray Heating of Molecular Gas in the Nuclear Disk: Low Star Formation Efficiency

• Authors: F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Wardle, S. Roy

VLT observations of the Central Compact Object in the Vela Jr. supernova remnant

• Authors: R. P. Mignani (UCL-MSSL), A. De Luca (INAF-Iasf), S. Zaggia (INAF-Oap), D. Sester, A. Pellizzoni, S. Mereghetti, P. A. Caraveo (IASF-Inaf)

A three-dimensional deflagration model for Type Ia supernovae confronted with observations

• Authors: F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt, W. Schmidt, J. C. Niemeyer, S. I. Blinnikov, P. A. Mazzali

classic papers of the week -- 28

A new basis for cosmology

• Paul A.M. Dirac (St. John’s College, Cambridge)

Fact and fancy in neutrino physics

• A. De Rujula, Howard Georgi, S.L. Glashow, Helen R. Quinn (Harvard U.)

tipa -- 7/6/2007

Characterizing Supernova Progenitors via the Metallicities of their Host Galaxies, from Poor Dwarfs to Rich Spirals

• Authors: Jose L. Prieto, Krzysztof Z. Stanek, John F. Beacom (Ohio State)

HESS J1616-508: likely powered by PSR J1617-5055

• Authors: R. Landi, A. De Rosa, A.J. Dean, L. Bassani, P. Ubertini, A.J. Bird

tipa -- 7/5/2007

The Galactic Deuterium Abundance and Dust Depletion: Insights From an Expanded Ti/H Sample

• Authors: Sara L. Ellison, Jason X. Prochaska, Sebastian Lopez

The Distance to SS433/W50 and its Interaction with the ISM

• Authors: Felix J. Lockman, Katherine M. Blundell, W. M. Goss

High Energy neutrino signals from the Epoch of Reionization

• Authors: F. Iocco, K. Murase, S. Nagataki, P.D. Serpico

j4ipa -- 7/4/2007

Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: An Initial Sample, and Type Ia Rate, out to Redshift 1.6

• Authors: Dovi Poznanski, Dan Maoz, Naoki Yasuda, Ryan J. Foley, Mamoru Doi, Alexei V. Filippenko, Masataka Fukugita, Avishay Gal-Yam, Buell T. Jannuzi, Tomoki Morokuma, Takeshi Oda, Heidi Schweiker, Keren Sharon, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Tomonori Totani

On the onset of runaway stellar collisions in dense star clusters I. Dynamics of the first collision

• Authors: E. Gaburov, A. Gualandris, S. Portegies Zwart

The primary cosmic ray spectrum in supernova remnants from very high energy gamma-ray data

• Authors: F.L. Villante, F. Vissani

tipa -- 7/3/2007

The Spatial Structure of An Accretion Disk

• Authors: Shawn Poindexter, Nicholas Morgan, Christopher S. Kochanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University)

Neutrino Constraints on the Dark Matter Total Annihilation Cross Section

• Authors: Hasan Yuksel (Ohio State U.), Shunsaku Horiuchi (Tokyo University), John F. Beacom (Ohio State U.), Shin'ichiro Ando (Caltech)

Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and Stepwise Spectral Swapping of Supernova Neutrino Flavors

• Authors: Huaiyu Duan (UCSD), George M. Fuller (UCSD), J. Carlson (LANL), Yong-Qian Zhong (UMN)

Model-independent dark matter annihilation bound from the diffuse gamma ray flux

• Authors: M. Kachelriess, P.D. Serpico

tipa -- 7/2/2007

Systematic search for VHE gamma-ray emission from X-ray bright high-frequency BL Lac objects

• Authors: Albert, et al. (MAGIC collaboration)

Discovery of Very High Energy gamma-rays from 1ES1011+496 at z=0.212

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

Fossil AGN jets as ultra high energy particle accelerators

• Authors: Gregory Benford, R.J. Protheroe

Diffuse Gamma-ray Emission from the Galactic Center - A Multiple Energy Injection Model

• Authors: K. S. Cheng, D. O. Chernyshov, V. A. Dogiel

classic papers of the week -- 27

Equation of state calculations by fast computing machines

• N. Metropolis, A.W. Rosenbluth, M.N. Rosenbluth, A.H. Teller (Los Alamos) , E. Teller (Chicago U.)

Surface brightness and evolution of galaxies

• Petrosian, V. (Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.)

First Results from a Superconductive Detector for Moving Magnetic Monopoles

• Blas Cabrera (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.)

tipa -- 6/29/2007

A Study of the Type Ia/IIn Supernova 2005gj from X-ray to the Infrared: Paper I

• Authors: J.L. Prieto, P.M. Garnavich, M.M. Phillips, D.L. DePoy, J.Parrent, D. Pooley, V.V. Dwarkadas, E. Baron, B. Bassett, A. Becker, D. Cinabro, F. DeJongh, B. Dilday, M. Doi, J.A. Frieman, C.J. Hogan, J. Holtzman, S. Jha, R. Kessler, K. Konishi, H. Lampeitl, J. Marriner, J. L. Marshall, G. Miknaitis, R.C. Nichol, A.G. Riess, M.W. Richmond, R. Romani, M. Sako, D.P. Schneider, M. Smith, N. Takanashi, K. Tokita, K. van der Heyden, N. Yasuda, C. Zheng, J.C. Wheeler, J. Barentine, J. Dembicky, J. Eastman, S. Frank, W. Ketzeback, R.J. McMillan, N. Morrell, G. Folatelli, C. Contreras, C.R. Burns, W. L. Freedman, S. Gonzalez, M. Hamuy, W. Krzeminski, B.F. Madore, D. Murphy, S.E. Persson, M. Roth, N.B. Suntzeff

Formation and evolution of compact binaries in globular clusters: II. Binaries with neutron stars

• Authors: N. Ivanova, C. Heinke, F.A. Rasio, K. Belczynski, J. Fregeau

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and Binary Mergers in Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies: Redshift Distribution and Hosts

• Authors: R. O'Shaughnessy (1), V. Kalogera (1), K. Belczynski (2) ((1) Northwestern University, (2) New Mexico State University)

Searching for Gravitational-Wave Bursts with LIGO

• Authors: K. A. Thorne (for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

tipa -- 6/28/2007

Strong Upper Limits on Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter

• Authors: Hasan Yuksel, John F. Beacom (Ohio State U.), Casey R. Watson (Millikin U.)

Observation of VHE gamma-rays from Cassiopeia A with the MAGIC telescope

• Authors: J. Albert, et al, for the MAGIC collaboration

The Northern Site of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: D. Nitz, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Reconstructing WIMP properties with neutrino detectors

• Authors: Olga Mena, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Silvia Pascoli

Ungravity and Its Possible Test

• Authors: Haim Goldberg, Pran Nath

tipa -- 6/27/2007

The Magellanic Squall: Gas Replenishment from the Small to Large Magellanic Cloud

• Authors: Kenji Bekki, Masashi Chiba

Evidence for a parsec scale X-ray jet from the accreting neutron star Circinus X-1

• Authors: S. Heinz, N. S. Schulz, W. N. Brandt, D. K. Galloway

Sterile Neutrino-Enhanced Supernova Explosions

• Authors: Jun Hidaka, George M. Fuller

tipa -- 6/26/2007

Radio Synchrotron Emission from Secondary Leptons in the Vicinity of Sgr A*

• Authors: Roland M. Crocker, David Jones, David R. Ballantyne, Fulvio Melia

In which shell-type SNRs should we look for gamma-rays and neutrinos from p-p collisions?

• Authors: Boaz Katz, Eli Waxman

Gravitational Wave Background from Population III Stars

• Authors: Yudai Suwa, Tomoya Takiwaki, Kei Kotake, Katsuhiko Sato

Testing gravity with motion of satellites around galaxies: Newtonian gravity against Modified Newtonian Dynamics

• Authors: A. Klypin, F. Prada

Formation of Massive Primordial Stars in a Reionized Gas

• Authors: Naoki Yoshida (Nagoya), Kazuyuki Omukai (NAOJ), Lars Hernquist (CfA)

New PVLAS results and limits on magnetically induced optical rotation and ellipticity in vacuum

• Authors: E. Zavattini (Deceased January 9, 2007), G. Zavattini, G. Raiteri, G. Ruoso, E. Polacco, E. Milotti, V. Lozza, M. Karuza, U. Gastaldi, G. Di Domenico, F. Della Valle, R. Cimino, S. Carusotto, G. Cantatore, M. Bregant (PVLAS Collaboration)

tipa -- 6/25/2007

SN 2001em: No Jet-Driven Gamma Ray Burst Event

• Authors: M. F. Bietenholz, N. Bartel

classic papers of the week -- 26

Calculated Spectrum of Inverse-Compton-Scattered Photons

• Frank C. Jones (Laboratory for Theoretical Studies, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland)

The Paths of Ions in the Cyclotron I. Orbits in the Magnetic Field

• L.H. Thomas (Mendenhall Laboratory of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

Actual Path Length of Electrons in Foils

• C. N. Yang (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois)

tipa -- 6/22/2007

Carbon Detonation and Shock-Triggered Helium Burning in Neutron Star Superbursts

• Authors: Nevin N. Weinberg (UC Berkeley), Lars Bildsten (KITP, UCSB)

GRB060218 and GRBs associated with Supernovae Ib/c

• Authors: Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Maria Grazia Bernardini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Letizia Caito, Roberto Guida, Remo Ruffini

Detecting Axion-Like Particles With Gamma Ray Telescopes

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Pasquale D. Serpico

tipa -- 6/21/2007

Evidence for nearby universe structures in the ultra-high energy sky

• Authors: A. Cuoco, G. Miele, P. D. Serpico

Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and the Stellar IMF in the Early Universe

• 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