tipa -- 10/5/2007

Constraints on Galactic populations of gamma-ray emitters from the unidentified EGRET sources

• Authors: J. M. Siegal-Gaskins, V. Pavlidou, A. V. Olinto, C. Brown, B. D. Fields

Evidence of Cosmic Evolution of the Stellar Initial Mass Function

• Authors: Pieter van Dokkum

The Total Merger Rate of Compact Object Binaries In The Local Universe

• Authors: Aleksander Sadowski, Krzysztof Belczynski, Tomasz Bulik, Natalia Ivanova, Frederic A. Rasio, Richard O'Shaughnessy

Probing the Neutral Fraction of the IGM with GRBs during the Epoch of Reionization

• Authors: Matthew McQuinn, Adam Lidz, Matias Zaldarriaga, Lars Hernquist, Suvendra Dutta

tipa -- 10/4/2007

Unresolved Unidentified Source Contribution to the Gamma-ray Background

• Authors: V. Pavlidou (U. Chicago), J. M. Siegal-Gaskins (U. Chicago), B. D. Fields (U. Illinois), A. V. Olinto (U. Chicago, APC Paris 7), C. Brown (U. Chicago)

Towards unravelling the structural distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray sources

• Authors: Hajime Takami, Katsuhiko Sato

Cosmic rays and Radio Halos in galaxy clusters : new constraints from radio observations

• Authors: G. Brunetti, T. Venturi, D. Dallacasa, R. Cassano, K. Dolag, S. Giacintucci, G. Setti

Nuclear Structure Relevant to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: 76Ge and 76Se

• Authors: J.P. Schiffer, S.J. Freeman, J.A. Clark, C.Deibel, C.R. Fitzpatrick, S. Gros, A. Heinz, D. Hirata, C.L. Jiang, B.P. Kay, A. Parikh, P.D. Parker, K.E. Rehm, A.C.C.Villari, V.Werner, C.Wrede

tipa -- 10/3/2007

The galaxy stellar mass-star formation rate relation: Evidence for an evolving stellar initial mass function?

• Authors: Romeel Davé

CP Violation and Neutrino Oscillations

• Authors: Hiroshi Nunokawa, Stephen Parke, Jose W. F. Valle

tipa -- 10/2/2007

The Spectral Shape of the Gamma-ray Background from Blazars

• Authors: Vasiliki Pavlidou (U. Chicago), Tonia M. Venters (U. Chicago, APC Paris 7)

Discovery of an X-ray nebula around PSR J1718-3825 and implications for the nature of the gamma-ray source HESS J1718-385

• Authors: J.A. Hinton, S. Funk, S. Carrigan, Y.A. Gallant, O.C. de Jager, K. Kosack, A. Lemière, G. Pühlhofer

Stellar Intensity Interferometry with Air Cherenkov Telescope arrays

• Authors: S. Le Bohec, M. Daniel, W.J. de Wit, J.A. Hinton, E. Jose, J.A. Holder, J. Smith, R.J. White

Expected discovery potential and sensitivity of the ANTARES neutrino telescope to neutrino point-like sources

• Authors: J.A. Aguilar, for the ANTARES Collaboration

tipa -- 10/1/2007

Three episodes of jet activity in the FRII radio galaxy B0925+420

• Authors: C. Brocksopp (MSSL/UCL), C.R.Kaiser, A.P. Schoenmakers, A.G. de Bruyn

New constraints on the Mid-IR EBL from the HESS discovery of VHE gamma rays from 1ES 0229+200

• Authors: HESS Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

Adiabaticity and spectral splits in collective neutrino transformations

• Authors: Georg G. Raffelt, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

classic papers of the week -- 40

A new class of radio pulsars

• Alpar, M. A.; Cheng, A. F.; Ruderman, M. A.; Shaham, J.

Evidence For The Production Of Neutral Mesons By Photons

• W.K.H. Panofsky, J. Steinberger, J. Steller

MAD versus NUTS

• S.M. Keeny Jr., W.K.H. Panofsky (SLAC)

tipa -- 9/28/2007

Radio Detection of Supernova 2004ip in the Circumnuclear Region of the Luminous Infrared Galaxy IRAS 18293-3413

• Authors: M. A. Pérez-Torres, S. Mattila, A. Alberdi, L. Colina, J. M. Torrelles, P. Väisänen, N. Panagia, A. Wilson

A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin

• Authors: D. R. Lorimer, M. Bailes, M. A. McLaughlin, D. J. Narkevic, F. Crawford

Observation of the Supernova Remnant IC 443 with VERITAS

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: T. B. Humensky

Discovery of the candidate pulsar wind nebula HESS J1718-385 in very-high-energy gamma-rays

• Authors: H.E.S.S Collaboration: S. Carrigan, Y.A. Gallant, J. A. Hinton, Nu. Komin, K. Kosack, C. Stegmann

Charged Current Neutrino Cross Section and Tau Energy Loss at Ultra-High Energies

• Authors: N. Armesto, C. Merino, G. Parente, E. Zas

tipa -- 9/27/2007

Large amounts of optically-obscured star formation in the host galaxies of some type-2 quasars

• Authors: M. Lacy (1), A. Sajina, (1), A.O. Petric (1,2), N. Seymour (1), G. Canalizo (3), S.E. Ridgway (4), L. Armus (1), L.J. Storrie-Lombardi (1) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, (2) Columbia University, (3) University of California, Riverside, (4) NOAO)

Quasi-binarity of massive stars in young dense clusters - the case of the ONC

• Authors: S. Pfalzner, C. Olczak

Search for supernova-produced 60Fe in a marine sediment

• Authors: C. Fitoussi, G. M. Raisbeck, K. Knie, G. Korschinek, T. Faestermann, S. Goriely, D. Lunney, M. Poutivtsev, G. Rugel, C. Waelbroeck, A. Wallner

Flame-driven deflagration-to-detonation transitions in Type Ia supernovae?

• Authors: F. K. Roepke (MPA Garching and UC Santa Cruz)

Type Ia Supernova: Burning and Detonation in the Distributed Regime

• Authors: S. E. Woosley

Establishing a connection between high-power pulsars and very-high-energy gamma-ray sources

• Authors: S. Carrigan, J.A. Hinton, W. Hofmann, K. Kosack, T. Lohse, O. Reimer, for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

How certain is the distance to the most luminous supernova?

• Authors: H. Arp

tipa -- 9/26/2007

The Cosmic MeV Gamma-ray Background and Hard X-ray Spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei: Implications for the Origin of Hot AGN Coronae

• Authors: Yoshiyuki Inoue, Tomonori Totani, Yoshihiro Ueda (Kyoto University)

Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae with the VERITAS Array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

• Authors: A. Konopelko, for the VERITAS collaboration

Neutrinos from WIMP Annihilations Using a Full Three-Flavor Monte Carlo

• Authors: Mattias Blennow, Joakim Edsjo, Tommy Ohlsson

Muon internal bremsstrahlung: a conventional explanation for the excess electron-neutrino events in MiniBoone

• Authors: Arie Bodek

tipa -- 9/25/2007

Search for Pulsar Wind Nebula Associations of Unidentified TeV Gamma-Ray Sources

• Authors: Chulhoon Chang, Alexander Konopelko, Wei Cui (Purdue University)

VERITAS: Status and Latest Results

• Authors: G. Maier, et al

Observation of M87 with VERITAS

• Authors: Pierre Colin (for the VERITAS collaboration)

Localising the H.E.S.S. Galactic Centre point source

• Authors: C. van Eldik, O. Bolz, I. Braun, G. Hermann, J. Hinton, W. Hofmann (for the HESS Collaboration)

Detecting Neutrino Magnetic Moments with Conducting Loops

• Authors: Aram Apyan, Armen Apyan, Michael Schmitt

Consequences of Approximate $S_3$ Symmetry of the Neutrino Mass Matrix

• Authors: Chien-Yi Chen, L. Wolfenstein

tipa -- 9/24/2007

Cosmological Cosmic Rays: Sharpening the Primordial Lithium Problem

• Authors: Tijana Prodanovic, Brian D. Fields

Monochromatic Neutrino Signals from Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Vernon Barger, Wai-Yee Keung, Gabe Shaughnessy

Are There Enough Ionizing Photons to Reionize the Universe by z=6?

• Authors: Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Gamma-ray emission from dark matter wakes of recoiled black holes

• Authors: Roya Mohayaee, Jacques Colin, Joe Silk

Composition of UHECR and the Pierre Auger Observatory Spectrum

• Authors: Katsushi Arisaka, Graciela B. Gelmini, Matthew Healy, Oleg Kalashev, Joong Lee

High Energy Neutrinos with a Mediterranean Neutrino Telescope

• Authors: E. Borriello, A. Cuoco, G. Mangano, G. Miele, S. Pastor, O. Pisanti, P. D. Serpico

classic papers of the week -- 39

Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

• Sidney R. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

On the Origin of Great Nebulae

• Gamow, G.; Teller, E. (The George Washington University, Washington, D. C.)

tipa -- 9/21/2007

[OIII] 5007 Emission from the Black-Hole X-ray Binary in a NGC 4472 Globular Cluster

• Authors: Stephen E. Zepf, Thomas J. Maccarone, Gilles Bergond, Arunav Kundu, Katherine L. Rhode, John J. Salzer

Prospects For Detecting Dark Matter With GLAST In Light Of The WMAP Haze

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Gregory Dobler

Cosmology and the Unexpected

• Authors: Edward W. Kolb

tipa -- 9/20/2007

IGR J22517+2218=MG3 J225155+2217: a new gamma-ray lighthouse in the distant Universe

• Authors: L. Bassani, R. Landi, A. Malizia, M.T. Fiocchi, A. Bazzano, A. J. Bird, A. J. Dean, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, P. Ubertini

Cosmic ray acceleration in subluminal and superluminal relativistic shock environments

• Authors: Athina Meli (1,2), Julia K. Becker (2), John J. Quenby (3) ((1) Physics Department, National University of Athens, Greece (2) Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Dortmund, Germany (3) Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK)

Cosmic Ray Physics with ACORDE at LHC

• Authors: C. Pagliarone, A. Fernandez-Tellez

tipa -- 9/19/2007

Clustering properties of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays and the search for their astrophysical sources

• Authors: Alessandro Cuoco, Steen Hannestad, Troels Haugboelle, Michael Kachelriess, Pasquale D. Serpico

Freshly Formed Dust in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope

• Authors: J. Rho, T. Kozasa, W. T. Reach, L. Rudnick, T. DeLaney, J. D. Smith, J. A. Ennis, H. Gomez, A. Tappe

The Orbital Period of the Wolf-Rayet Binary IC 10 X-1; Dynamic Evidence that the Compact Object is a Black Hole

• Authors: A. H. Prestwich, R. Kilgard, P. A. Crowther, S. Carpano, A. M. T. Pollock, A. Zezas, S. H. Saar, T. P. Roberts, M. J. Ward

tipa -- 9/18/2007

LBT Discovery of a Yellow Supergiant Eclipsing Binary in the Dwarf Galaxy Holmberg IX

• Authors: J. L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, D. R. Weisz, A. Baruffolo, J. Bechtold, V. Burwitz, C. DeSantis, S. Gallozzi, P. M. Garnavich, E. Giallongo, J. M. Hill, R. W. Pogge, R. Ragazzoni, R. Speziali, D. J. Thompson, R. M. Wagner

Neutrino Triggered Target of Opportunity (NToO) test run with AMANDA-II and MAGIC

• Authors: M. Ackermann, E. Bernardini, N. Galante, F. Goebel, M. Hayashida, K. Satalecka, M. Tluczykont, R.M. Wagner

tipa -- 9/17/2007

The birth place of the progenitor of the type Ic Supernova 2007gr

• Authors: R. Mark Crockett, Justyn R. Maund, Stephen J. Smartt, Seppo Mattila, Andrea Pastorello, Jonathan Smoker, Andrew W. Stevens, Johan Fynbo, John J. Eldridge, I. John Danziger, Christopher R. Benn

Gamma-Rays from Decaying Dark Matter

• Authors: Gianfranco Bertone (IAP), Wilfried Buchmuller, Laura Covi, Alejandro Ibarra (DESY)

Extra dimensions, orthopositronium decay, and stellar cooling

• Authors: Alexander Friedland, Maurizio Giannotti

classic papers of the week -- 38

Discovery of a pulsar in a binary system

• Hulse, R. A.; Taylor, J. H. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Resonant Neutrino Oscillations and the Neutrino Signature of Supernovae

• Terry P. Walker (Fermilab) , David N. Schramm (Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Fermilab)

Quantized space-time

• Hartland S. Snyder (Department of Physics, Northwestern University)

tipa -- 9/14/2007

Cherenkov Telescope Array: The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory

• Authors: G. Hermann, W. Hofmann, T. Schweizer, M. Teshima, for the CTA consortium

tipa -- 9/13/2007

CGRaBS: An All-Sky Survey of Gamma-Ray Blazar Candidates

• Authors: Stephen E. Healey, Roger W. Romani, Garret Cotter, Peter F. Michelson, Edward F. Schlafly, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Paolo Giommi, Sylvain Chaty, Isabelle A. Grenier, Lawrence C. Weintraub