tipa -- 10/16/2007

Ly Alpha-Emitting Galaxies at z=3.1: L* Progenitors Experiencing Rapid Star Formation

• Authors: Eric Gawiser, Harold Francke, Kamson Lai, Kevin Schawinski, Caryl Gronwall, Robin Ciardullo, Ryan Quadri, Alvaro Orsi, L. Felipe Barrientos, Guillermo A. Blanc, Giovanni Fazio, John J. Feldmeier, Jia-Sheng Huang, Leopoldo Infante, Paulina Lira, Nelson Padilla, Edward N. Taylor, Ezequiel Treister, C. Megan Urry, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Shanil N. Virani, for the MUSYC Collaboration

A synchrotron self-Compton scenario for the very high energy gamma-ray emission of the radiogalaxy M87

• Authors: Jean-Philippe Lenain, Catherine Boisson, Hélène Sol, Krzysztof Katarzynski

The IMF of the massive star-forming region NGC 3603 from NIR AO observations

• Authors: Y. Harayama, F. Eisenhauer, F. Martins (MPE Garching, Germany)

tipa -- 10/15/2007

H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey unveils a Milagro Hotspot

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration: A. Djannati-Atai, E. Ona-Wilhelmi, M. Renaud, S. Hoppe

Visual Observability of the Cassiopeia A Supernova

• Authors: J. A. Morgan

classic papers of the week -- 42

On gauge invariance and vacuum polarization

• Julian S. Schwinger (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Detection and Generation of Gravitational Waves

• Weber, J. (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland)

The total eclipse of 1919 May 29 and the influence of gravitation on light

• Eddington, A. S.

tipa -- 10/12/2007

AEGIS: New Evidence Linking Active Galactic Nuclei to the Quenching of Star Formation

• Authors: Kevin Bundy (1), Antonis Georgakakis (2), Kirpal Nandra (2), Richard S. Ellis (3), Christopher J. Conselice (4), Elise Laird (2), Alison Coil (5), Michael Cooper (5), Sandra M. Faber (6), Jeff A. Newman (7), Christy M. Pierce (6), Joel R. Primack (6), Renbin Yan (7) ((1) U. of Toronto, (2) Imperial, (3) Caltech, (4) U. of Nottingham, (5) U. of Arizona, (6) UC Santa Cruz, (7) UC Berkeley)

The Spectrum of 1ES0229 + 200 and the Cosmic Infrared Background

• Authors: F.W. Stecker (NASA/GSFC) and S.T. Scully (James Madison Univ.)

New Companions for the lonely Crab? VHE emission from young pulsar wind nebulae revealed by H.E.S.S

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration: A. Djannati-Atai, O.C. De Jager, R. Terrier, Y.A. Gallant, S. Hoppe

Solar Neutrinos: Models, Observations, and New Opportunities

• Authors: W. C. Haxton

tipa -- 10/11/2007

Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with Inspiral Signals of Spinning Compact-Object Binaries

• Authors: M.V. van der Sluys, C. Roever, A. Stroeer, N. Christensen, V. Kalogera, R. Meyer, A. Vecchio

tipa -- 10/10/2007

GOODS 850-5 -- A z>4 Galaxy Discovered in the Submillimeter?

• Authors: Wei-Hao Wang (NRAO), Lennox L. Cowie (U. Hawaii), Jennifer van Saders (Rutgers, NRAO) Amy J. Barger (U. Wisconsin-Madison, U. Hawaii), Jonathan P. Williams (U. Hawaii)

Impact of Dark Matter Annihilation on the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium

• Authors: Leonid Chuzhoy

tipa -- 10/9/2007

Type Ia supernovae as speed sensors at intermediate redshifts

• Authors: Pengjie Zhang (SHAO), Xuelei Chen (NAOC)

The GeV-TeV Connection in Galactic gamma-ray sources

• Authors: S. Funk (1), O. Reimer (2), D.F. Torres (3), J.A. Hinton (4)

Neutronization During Type Ia Supernova Simmering

• Authors: Anthony L. Piro (KITP, UC Berkeley), Lars Bildsten (KITP)

tipa -- 10/8/2007

The supernova rate in local galaxy clusters

• Authors: F. Mannucci, D. Maoz, K. Sharon, M. T. Botticella, M. Della Valle, A. Gal-Yam, N. Panagia

Flavor Evolution of the Neutronization Neutrino Burst from an O-Ne-Mg Core-Collapse Supernova

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

New results on particle acceleration in the Centaurus A jet and counterjet from a deep Chandra observation

• Authors: M. J. Hardcastle, R. P. Kraft, G. R. Sivakoff, J. L. Goodger, J. H. Croston, A. Jordan, D. A. Evans, D. M. Worrall, M. Birkinshaw, S. Raychaudhury, N. J. Brassington, W. R. Forman, W. E. Harris, C. Jones, A. M. Juett, S. S. Murray, P. E. J. Nulsen, C. L. Sarazin, K. A. Woodley

The 3He + 4He --> 7Be Astrophysical S-factor

• Authors: T. A. D. Brown, C. Bordeanu, K. A. Snover, D. W. Storm, D. Melconian, A. L. Sallaska, S. K. L. Sjue, S. Triambak

classic papers of the week -- 41

On the Consequences of the Symmetry of the Nuclear Hamiltonian on the Spectroscopy of Nuclei

• E. Wigner (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)

Neutrino Annihilation In Type II Supernovae

• Jeremy Goodman, Arnon Dar, Shmuel Nussinov (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)

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