tipa -- 8/6/2007

Progress Toward a VLBA Movie of the Jet Collimation Region in M87

• Authors: R. C. Walker, C. Ly, W. Junor, P. E. Hardee

Conversion of electron spectrum associated with fission into the antineutrino spectrum

• Authors: Petr Vogel

classic papers of the week -- 32

A test of a new type of stellar interferometer on Sirius

• Hanbury Brown, R.; Twiss, R. Q.

Universal Neutrino Degeneracy

• Steven Weinberg (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England)

tipa -- 8/3/2007

GRB070610 : A Curious Galactic Transient

• Authors: M. M. Kasliwal, S. B. Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, P. B. Cameron, E. Nakar, E. O. Ofek, A. Rau, A. M. Soderberg, S. Campana, J. S. Bloom, D. A. Perley, L. Pollack, S. Barthelmy, J. Cummings, N. Gehrels, H. A. Krimm, C. B. Markwardt, G. Sato, P. Chandra, D. Frail, D. B. Fox, P. Price, E. Berger, S. A. Grebenev, R. A. Krivonos, R. A. Sunyaev

The Chemical Evolution Of High Z Galaxies From The Relative Abundances Of N, Si, S, And Fe In Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

• Authors: R.B.C. Henry (U. Oklahoma), Jason X. Prochaska (UCSC/Lick)

Type Ia and II supernovae contributions to the metal enrichment in intra-cluster medium observed with Suzaku

• Authors: Kosuke Sato, Kazuyo Tokoi, Kyoko Matsushita, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Manabu Ishida, Takaya Ohashi

tipa -- 8/2/2007

1E 1547.0-5408: a radio-emitting magnetar with a rotation period of 2 seconds

• Authors: F. Camilo (Columbia), S. M. Ransom (NRAO), J. P. Halpern (Columbia), J. Reynolds (ATNF)

Soft gamma-ray galactic ridge emission as unveiled by SPI aboard INTEGRAL

• Authors: Jürgen Knödlseder (CESR), Vincent Lonjou (CESR, CENBG), Georg Weidenspointner (CESR), Pierre Jean (CESR), Andy Strong (MPE), Roland Diehl (MPE), Bertrand Cordier (DAPNIA), Stéphane Schanne (DAPNIA), Christoph Winkler (ESTEC)

SuperAGILE: the hard X-ray Imager for the AGILE space mission

• Authors: M. Feroci, E. Costa, P. Soffitta, E. Del Monte, G. Di Persio, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Frutti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, M. Mastropietro, E. Morelli, L. Pacciani, G. Porrovecchio, M. Rapisarda, A. Rubini, M. Tavani, A. Argan

A Compton Thick AGN Powering the Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxy IRAS 00182--7112

• Authors: K. Nandra (Imperial College London), K. Iwasawa (MPE)

Pulsar model of the high energy phenomenology of LS 5039

• Authors: Agnieszka Sierpowska-Bartosik, Diego F. Torres

A Side of Mercury Not Seen By Mariner 10

• Authors: Gerald Cecil, Dmitry Rashkeev (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

tipa -- 8/1/2007

GRB Energetics in the Swift Era

• Authors: Daniel Kocevski, Nathaniel Butler

HST and Spitzer imaging of red and blue galaxies at z~2.5: A correlation between size and star formation activity from compact quiescent galaxies to extended star forming galaxies

• Authors: S. Toft, P. van Dokkum, M. Franx, I. Labbe, N.M. Forster Schreiber, S. Wuyts, T. Webb, G. Rudnick, A. Zirm, M. Kriek, P. van der Werf, J.P. Blakeslee, G. Illingworth, H.-W. Rix, C. Papovich, A. Moorwood

The Far-Infrared Luminosity Function from GOODS-N: Constraining the Evolution of Infrared Galaxies for z \leq 1

• Authors: Minh T. Huynh, David T. Frayer, Bahram Mobasher, Mark Dickinson, Ranga-Ram Chary, Glenn Morrison

On the fraction of intermediate-mass close binaries that explode as type-Ia supernovae

• Authors: Dan Maoz

The First Swift BAT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog

• Authors: T. Sakamoto, S. D. Barthelmy, L. Barbier, J. R. Cummings, E. E. Fenimore, N. Gehrels, D. Hullinger, H. A. Krimm, C. B. Markwardt, D. M. Palmer, A. M. Parsons, G. Sato, M. Stamatikos, J. Tueller, T. N. Ukwatta, B. Zhang

OB Associations, Wolf-Rayet Stars, and the Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays

• Authors: W. R. Binns, M. E. Wiedenbeck, M. Arnould, A. C. Cummings, G. A. de Nolfo, S. Goriely, M. H. Israel, R. A. Leske, R. A. Mewaldt, G. Meynet, L. M. Scott, E. C. Stone, T. T. von Rosenvinge

Blazar Gamma-Rays, Shock Acceleration, and the Extragalactic Background Light

• Authors: Floyd W. Stecker, Matthew G. Baring, Errol J. Summerlin

A New Look at the Binary Characteristics of Massive Stars

• Authors: Henry A. Kobulnicky (1), Chris L. Fryer (2), ((1) University of Wyoming, (2) Los Alamos National Laboratory)

GRI: focusing on the evolving violent Universe

• Authors: Jürgen Knödlseder (CESR), Peter Von Ballmoos (CESR), Filippo Frontera (UNIFE), Angela Bazzano, Finn E. Christensen (DNSC), Margarida Hernanz (CSIC-IEEC), Cornelia Wunderer (SSL)

Higgs Hadroproduction at Large Feynman x

• Authors: Stanley J. Brodsky, Alfred S. Goldhaber, Boris Z. Kopeliovich, Ivan Schmidt

The Grand View of Physics

• Authors: Gerard 't Hooft

tipa -- 7/31/2007

The Cosmic Neutrino Background and the Age of the Universe

• Authors: Francesco de Bernardis (Rome), Alessandro Melchiorri (Rome), Licia Verde (Penn, Princeton), Raul Jimenez (Penn, Princeton)

Modeling Dense Stellar Systems

• Authors: Piet Hut, Shin Mineshige, Douglas C. Heggie, Junichiro Makino

Expected performance of the GAW Cherenkov Telescopes Array. Simulation and Analysis

• Authors: M.C. Maccarone (IASF-Palermo/INAF, Italy), P. Assis (LIP-Lisbon, Portugal), O. Catalano (IASF-Palermo/INAF, Italy), G. Cusumano (IASF-Palermo/INAF, Italy), M.C. Espirito Santo (LIP-Lisbon, Portugal), P. Goncalves (LIP-Lisbon, Portugal), M. Moles (IAA-Granada, Spain), M. Pimenta (LIP-Lisbon, Portugal), A. Pina (LIP-Lisbon, Portugal), B. Sacco (IASF-Palermo/INAF, Italy), B. Tome' (LIP-Lisbon, Portugal)

Relative abundances of cosmic ray nuclei B-C-N-O in the energy region from 10 GeV/n to 300 GeV/n. Results from ATIC-2 (the science flight of ATIC)

• Authors: A. D. Panov, N. V. Sokolskaya, J. H. Adams, Jr., H. S. Ahn, G. L. Bashindzhagyan, K. E. Batkov, J. Chang, M. Christl, A. R. Fazely, O. Ganel, R. M. Gunasingha, T. G. Guzik, J. Isbert, K. C. Kim, E. N. Kouznetsov, M. I. Panasyuk, W. K. H. Schmidt, E. S. Seo, J. Watts, J. P. Wefel, J. Wu, V. I. Zatsepin

tipa -- 7/30/2007

GRBs and Hypernova Explosions of Some Galactic Sources

• Authors: G. E. Brown, C. -H. Lee, E. Moreno Mendez

EDGE: Explorer of Diffuse emission and Gamma-ray burst Explosions

• Authors: L. Piro, J.W. den Herder, T. Ohashi, et al

classic papers of the week -- 31

Evidence for x Rays From Sources Outside the Solar System

• Giacconi, Riccardo, Gursky, Herbert, Paolini, Frank R. (American Science and Engineering, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts), Rossi, Bruno B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Weak Interactions at Very High-Energies: The Role of the Higgs Boson Mass

• Benjamin W. Lee, C. Quigg, H.B. Thacker (Fermilab)

tipa -- 7/27/2007

A proposal for the missing mass: it is just the outer, far one

• Authors: A. Carati, L. Galgani

tipa -- 7/26/2007

A Model for Fast Rising, Slowly Decaying Subpulses in Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: David Eichler, Hadar Manis

Permafrost - An Alternative Target Material for Ultra High Energy Neutrino Detection?

• Authors: R. Nahnhauer (1), A. A. Rostovtsev (2), D. Tosi (1) ((1)Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany (2)Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ITEP, Moscow, Russia)

Scenarios for ILC in 2010

• Authors: Francois Richard

tipa -- 7/25/2007

Type IIP Supernova SN 2004et: A Multi-Wavelength Study in X-Ray, Optical and Radio

• Authors: Kuntal Misra (1), Dave Pooley (2), Poonam Chandra (3,4), D. Bhattacharya (5), Alak K. Ray (6), Ram Sagar (1), Walter H. G. Lewin (7) ((1) Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Manora Peak, Nainital, India, (2) Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley (3) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville (4) University of Virginia, Charlottesville (5) Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India, (6) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai, India, (7) Center for Space Research and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)

Chandra Observation of PSR B1823-13 and its Pulsar Wind Nebula

• Authors: G. G. Pavlov, O. Kargaltsev, W. F. Brisken

Constraints on the Self-Gravity of Radiation Pressure via Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

• Authors: Saul Rappaport (1), Josiah Schwab (1), Scott Burles (1) ((1) Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT)

tipa -- 7/24/2007

Detecting Early Galaxies Through Their 21-cm Signature

• Authors: Smadar Naoz (1), Rennan Barkana (1) ((1) Tel Aviv University)

Moon Shadow by Cosmic Rays under the Influence of Geomagnetic Field and Search for Antiprotons at Multi-TeV Energies

• Authors: The Tibet AS Gamma Collaboration: M. Amenomori, et al

tipa -- 7/23/2007

Mixing in massive stellar mergers

• Authors: E. Gaburov (1 and 2), J. C. Lombardi (3), S. Portegies Zwart (1 and 2) ((1) Astronomical Institute 'Anton Pannekoek' University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, (2) Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, (3) Department of Physics, Allegheny College, USA)

The Dark Side of ROTSE-III Prompt GRB Observations

• Authors: S. A. Yost, F. Aharonian, C. W. Akerlof, M. C. B. Ashley, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, E. Gogus, T. Guver, D. Horns, U. Kiziloglu, H. A. Krimm, T. A. McKay, M. Ozel, A. Phillips, R. M. Quimby, G. Rowell, W. Rujopakarn, E. S. Rykoff, B. E. Schaefer, D. A. Smith, H. F. Swan, W. T. Vestrand, J. C. Wheeler, J. Wren, F. Yuan

The Continuing Saga of the Explosive Event(s) in the M87 Jet: Is M87 a Blazar?

• Authors: D. E. Harris, (SAO), C. C. Cheung, L. Stawarz (KIPAC, Stanford U.), J. A. Biretta, W. Sparks (STScI), E. S. Perlman (Florida Inst. Tech.), A. S. Wilson (U. Maryland)

classic papers of the week -- 30

The origin of binary systems

• Jeans, J. H.

Motion of the Moon

• W. B. Gibbs

Example of Anticascade (Ξ¯+) Particle Production in p¯-p Interactions at 3.0 Gev/c

• unknown (Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)

tipa -- 7/20/2007

Detection of circumstellar material in a normal Type Ia Supernova

• Authors: F. Patat, P. Chandra, R. Chevalier, S. Justham, Ph. Podsiadlowski, C. Wolf, A. Gal-Yam, L. Pasquini, I.A. Crawford, P.A. Mazzali, A.W.A. Pauldrach, K. Nomoto, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, N. Elias-Rosa, W. Hillebrandt, D.C. Leonard, A. Pastorello, A. Renzini, F. Sabbadin, J.D. Simon, M. Turatto

Very high energy observations of the BL Lac objects 3C 66A and OJ 287

• Authors: T. Lindner, D.S. Hanna, J. Kildea, J.Ball, D.A. Bramel, J. Carson, C.E. Covault, D. Driscoll, P. Fortin, D.M. Gingrich, A. Jarvis, C. Mueller, R. Mukherjee, R.A. Ong, K. Ragan, R.A. Scalzo, D.A. Williams, J. Zweerink

Multiwavelength Monitoring of the Unusual Ultraluminous Supernova SN 1978K in NGC 1313 and the Search for an Associated Gamma-Ray Burst

• Authors: I. A. Smith, S. D. Ryder, M. Boettcher, S. J. Tingay, A. Stacy, M. Pakull, E. P. Liang

tipa -- 7/19/2007

A New Constraint on the Escape Fraction in Distant Galaxies Using Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow Spectroscopy

• Authors: Hsiao-Wen Chen (U Chicago), Jason X. Prochaska (UCO/Lick Observatory), Nickolay Y. Gnedin (Fermi Lab)

The UHECR spectrum measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory and its astrophysical implications

• Authors: T.Yamamoto, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 7/18/2007

Evidence for a Long-Standing Top-Heavy IMF in the Central Parsec of the Galaxy

• Authors: H. Maness, F. Martins, S. Trippe, R. Genzel, J. R. Graham, C. Sheehy, M. Salaris, S. Gillessen, T. Alexander, T. Paumard, T. Ott, R. Abuter, F. Eisenhauer

Red Density Perturbations and Inflationary Gravitational Waves

• Authors: Luca Pagano, Asantha Cooray, Alessandro Melchiorri, Marc Kamionkowski

tipa -- 7/17/2007

UV Luminosity Functions at z~4, 5, and 6 from the HUDF and other Deep HST ACS Fields: Evolution and Star Formation History

• Authors: Rychard J. Bouwens (UCSC), Garth D. Illingworth (UCSC), Marijn Franx (Leiden), Holland Ford (JHU)

Cosmic Ray production of Beryllium and Boron at high redshift

• Authors: Emmanuel Rollinde, David Maurin, Elisabeth Vangioni, Keith A. Olive, Susumu Inoue

Detection of $1.6\times 10^{10}$ M$_\odot$ of molecular gas in the host galaxy of the $z=5.77$ SDSS quasar J0927+2001

• Authors: C. Carilli (NRAO), R. Neri (IRAM), R. Wang (NRAO/PU), P. Cox (IRAM), F. Bertoldi (Bonn U.), F. Walter (MPIA), X. Fan (Arizona), K. Menten (MPIfR), J. Wagg (NRAO), R. Maiolino (Arcetri), A. Omont (IAP), M. Strauss (Princeton), D. Riechers (MPIA), K.Y. Lo (NRAO), A. Bolatto (Berkely), N.Scoville (Caltech)

tipa -- 7/16/2007

Hypervelocity binary stars: smoking gun of massive binary black holes

• Authors: Youjun Lu, Qingjuan Yu, D.N.C. Lin

A Catalog of Diffuse X-ray-Emitting Features within 20 pc of Sgr A*: Twenty Pulsar Wind Nebulae?

• Authors: M. P. Muno (Caltech), F. K. Baganoff (MIT), W. N. Brandt (Penn State), M. R. Morris (UCLA), J.-L. Starck (CEA Saclay)

INTEGRAL-ISGRI observations of the CygOB2 region: earching for hard X-ray point sources in a region containing several non-thermal emitting massive stars

• Authors: M. De Becker, G. Rauw, J. M. Pittard, H. Sana, I. R. Stevens, G. E. Romero

Suppression of H_2 Cooling in the Ultraviolet Background

• Authors: John H. Wise, Tom Abel (KIPAC, Stanford)

Collective neutrino flavor transitions in supernovae and the role of trajectory averaging

• Authors: G.L.Fogli, E.Lisi, A.Marrone (Bari U. & INFN, Bari), A.Mirizzi (Munich, Max Planck Institut & Bari U. & INFN, Bari)

classic papers of the week -- 29

On the Synthesis of Elements at Very High Temperatures

• Wagoner, Robert V.; Fowler, William A.; Hoyle, F.

Observation of TeV gamma rays from the Crab nebula using the atmospheric Cerenkov imaging technique

• Weekes, T. C.; Cawley, M. F.; Fegan, D. J.; Gibbs, K. G.; Hillas, A. M.; Kowk, P. W.; Lamb, R. C.; Lewis, D. A.; Macomb, D.; Porter, N. A.; Reynolds, P. T.; Vacanti, G.

Astronomical Research with the Large Space Telescope

• Spitzer, Lyman, Jr.