tipa -- 8/22/2007

The Gamma-ray Albedo of the Moon

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford), Troy A. Porter (UCSC)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary

• Authors: Joshua A. Frieman, B. Bassett, A. Becker, C. Choi, D. Cinabro, F. DeJongh, D. L. Depoy, B. Dilday, M. Doi, P. M. Garnavich, C. J. Hogan, J. Holtzman, M. Im, S. Jha, R. Kessler, K. Konishi, H. Lampeitl, J. Marriner, J. L. Marshall, D. McGinnis, G. Miknaitis, R. C. Nichol, J. L. Prieto, 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. Adelman-McCarthy, J. Annis, R. J. Assef, J. Barentine, R. Bender, R. D. Blandford, W. N. Boroski, M. Bremer, H. Brewington, C. A. Collins, A. Crotts, J. Dembicky, J. Eastman, A. Edge, E. Edmondson, E. Elson, M. E. Eyler, A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, S. Frank, A. Goobar, T. Gueth, J. E. Gunn, M. Harvanek, U. Hopp, Y. Ihara, Ž. Ivezić, S. Kahn, J. Kaplan, et al (37 additional authors not shown)

Probing Quantum Gravity using Photons from a Mkn 501 Flare Observed by MAGIC

• Authors: J. Albert, et al. (MAGIC Collaboration), John Ellis, N.E. Mavromatos, D.V. Nanopoulos, A.S. Sakharov, E.K.G. Sarkisyan

tipa -- 8/21/2007

Cosmic Reionization and the 21cm signal: simulations and analytical models

• Authors: Mario G. Santos (1), Alexandre Amblard (2), Jonathan Pritchard (3), Hy Trac (4), Renyue Cen (4), Asantha Cooray (2) ((1) CENTRA - IST, (2) UC Irvine, (3) Caltech, (4) Princeton)

Spitzer Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies: A Unique Window into High Redshift Chemical Evolution and Star-formation

• Authors: Ranga-Ram Chary, Edo Berger, Len Cowie

Detection of the high energy component of Jovian electrons in Low Earth Orbit with the PAMELA experiment

• Authors: M. Casolino, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, P. Picozza

The Inner Jet of the Radio Galaxy M87

• Authors: Y. Y. Kovalev (MPIfR & ASC Lebedev), M. L. Lister (Purdue U.), D. C. Homan (Denison U.), K. I. Kellermann (NRAO)

tipa -- 8/20/2007

Relating gravitational wave constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis, pulsar timing, laser interferometers, and the CMB: implications for the early universe

• Authors: Latham A. Boyle (CITA/Princeton), Alessandra Buonanno (Maryland)

X-ray flaring from the young stars in CygnusOB2

• Authors: J. F. Albacete Colombo, M. Caramazza, E. Flaccomio, G. Micela, S. Sciortino

classic papers of the week -- 34

Accretion of Interstellar Matter by Massive Objects

• Salpeter, E. E. (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)

The formation of deuterium by proton combination

• H.A. Bethe (Cornell U., Phys. Dept.) , C.L. Critchfield (George Washington U.)

tipa -- 8/17/2007

How common are long Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Local Universe?

• Authors: Robert Chapman (1), Nial R. Tanvir (2), Robert S. Priddey (1), Andrew J. Levan (3) ((1) University of Hertfordshire, (2) University of Leicester, (3) University of Warwick)

Prospects for Charged Particle Astronomy

• Authors: Paul Sommers

First real time detection of Be7 solar neutrinos by Borexino

• Authors: Borexino Collaboration

tipa -- 8/16/2007

Pair creation supernovae at low and high redshift

• Authors: N. Langer, C. A. Norman, A. de Koter, Jorick Vink, M. Cantiello, S.-C.Yoon

Measuring the Broad-band X-Ray Spectrum from 400 eV to 40 keV in the Southwest Part of the Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7-3946

• Authors: Tadayuki Takahashi, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Junko S. Hiraga, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shin Watanabe, Aya Bamba, John P. Hughes, Hideaki Katagiri, Jun Kataoka, Motohide Kokubun, Katsuji Koyama, Koji Mori, Robert Petre, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Yoko Tsuboi

A survey of the Wolf-Rayet population of the barred, spiral galaxy NGC 1313

• Authors: L. J. Hadfield, P. A. Crowther

Ultra-high energy neutrino scattering on an isoscalar nucleon

• Authors: Edmond L. Berger, Martin M. Block, Douglas W. McKay, Chung-I Tan

Feasibility of acoustic neutrino detection in ice: First results from the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS)

• Authors: S. Böser, C. Bohm, F. Descamps, J. Fischer, A. Hallgren, R. Heller, S. Hundertmark, K. Krieger, R. Nahnhauer, M. Pohl, P. B. Price, K.-H. Sulanke, D. Tosi, J. Vandenbroucke

tipa -- 8/15/2007

Launch of the Space experiment PAMELA

• Authors: M. Casolino, P. Picozza, F. Altamura, A. Basili, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, M. P. De Pascale, L. Marcelli, M. Minori, M. Nagni, R. Sparvoli, A. M. Galper, V. V. Mikhailov, M. F. Runtso, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, V. G. Zverev, G. Castellini, O. Adriani, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, E. Taddei, E. Vannuccini, D. Fedele, P. Papini, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Spillantini, M. Ambriola, F. Cafagna, C. De Marzo, G. C. Barbarino, D. Campana, G. De Rosa, G. Osteria, S. Russo, G. A. Bazilevskaja, A. N. Kvashnin, O. Maksumov, S. Misin, Yu. I. Stozhkov, E. A. Bogomolov, S. Yu. Krutkov, N. N. Nikonov, V. Bonvicini, M. Boezio, J. Lundquist, E. Mocchiutti, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, L. Bongiorno, M. Ricci, P. Carlson, P. Hofverberg, J. Lund, S. Orsi, M. Pearce, W. Menn, M. Simon

tipa -- 8/14/2007

Connecting GRBs and galaxies: the probability of chance coincidence

• Authors: Bethany E. Cobb, Charles D. Bailyn

Prospects for GMRT to Observe Radio Waves from UHE Particles Interacting with the Moon

• Authors: Sukanta Panda, Subhendra Mohanty, Padmanabhan Janardhan, Oscar Stål

Using gamma-rays to probe the clumped structure of stellar winds

• Authors: G. E. Romero, S. P. Owocki, A.T. Araudo, R. Townsend, P. Benaglia

tipa -- 8/13/2007

Are There Any Redshift >8 Gamma-Ray Bursts in the BATSE Catalog?

• Authors: Teresa Ashcraft, Bradley E. Schaefer

H.E.S.S. observations of galaxy clusters

• Authors: W. Domainko, W. Benbow, J. A. Hinton, O. Martineau-Huynh, M. de Naurois, D. Nedbal, G. Pedaletti, G. Rowell, for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Preliminary Results from MINOS on Muon Neutrino Disappearance Based on an Exposure of 2.5x10^20 120 GeV Protons on the NuMI Target

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 33

Comparison of grand unified theories with electroweak and strong coupling constants measured at LEP

• Ugo Amaldi (CERN) , Wim de Boer, Hermann Furstenau (Karlsruhe U., EKP)

Clustering in a neutrino-dominated universe

• White, S. D. M.; Frenk, C. S.; Davis, M. (California, University, Berkeley, CA)

tipa -- 8/10/2007

A Thousand Invisible Cords Binding Astronomy and High-Energy Physics

• Authors: Rocky Kolb (Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Enrico Fermi Institute, and The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago)

Anomaly mediated neutrino-photon interactions at finite baryon density

• Authors: Jeffrey A. Harvey, Christopher T. Hill, Richard J. Hill

tipa -- 8/9/2007

The Radio Evolution of SN 2001gd

• Authors: Christopher J. Stockdale, Christopher L. Williams, Kurt W. Weiler, Nino Panagia, Richard A. Sramek, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Matthew T. Kelley

Double Beta Decay, Majorana Neutrinos, and Neutrino Mass

• Authors: Frank T. Avignone III, Steven R. Elliott, Jonathan Engel

tipa -- 8/8/2007

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. III. Constraints on Dark Energy from the Third Data Release Quasar Lens Catalog

• Authors: Masamune Oguri, Naohisa Inada, Michael A. Strauss, Christopher S. Kochanek, Gordon T. Richards, Donald P. Schneider, Robert H. Becker, Masataka Fukugita, Michael D. Gregg, Patrick B. Hall, Joseph F. Hennawi, David E. Johnston, Issha Kayo, Charles R. Keeton, Bartosz Pindor, Min-Su Shin, Edwin L. Turner, Richard L. White, Donald G. York, Scott F. Anderson, Neta A. Bahcall, Robert J. Brunner, Scott Burles, Francisco J. Castander, Kuenley Chiu, Alejandro Clocchiatti, Daniel Eisenstein, Joshua A. Frieman, Yozo Kawano, Robert Lupton, Tomoki Morokuma, Hans-Walter Rix, Ryan Scranton, Erin Scott Sheldon

The Host Galaxy of GRB 060505: Host ISM Properties

• Authors: Emily M. Levesque, Lisa J. Kewley

tipa -- 8/7/2007

A massive cluster of Red Supergiants at the base of the Scutum-Crux arm

• Authors: Ben Davies (RIT), Don F. Figer (RIT), Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (IfA, Hawaii), John MacKenty (STScI), Francisco Najarro (CSIC, Madrid), Artemio Herrero (IAC, Spain)

A synchrotron superbubble in the IC 10 Galaxy: a hypernova remnant?

• Authors: T.A. Lozinskaya (1), A.V. Moiseev (2) ((1) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Russia, (2) Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia)

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