tipa -- 10/31/2007

HESS Observations and VLT Spectroscopy of PG 1553+113

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

Dirac Fields in Loop Quantum Gravity and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

• Authors: Martin Bojowald, Rupam Das, Robert J. Scherrer

tipa -- 10/30/2007

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on the Self-Gravity of Pressure

• Authors: Saul Rappaport, Josiah Schwab, Scott Burles, Gary Steigman

Are the missing X-ray breaks in Gamma-ray Burst afterglow light curves merely hidden?

• Authors: P.A. Curran (1), A.J. van der Horst (1,2), R.A.M.J. Wijers (1) ((1) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (2)University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA)

Charged current cross section for massive cosmological neutrinos impinging on radioactive nuclei

• Authors: R. Lazauskas, P. Vogel, C. Volpe

tipa -- 10/29/2007

High Energy spectra of Seyferts and Unification schemes

• Authors: Matthew Middleton, Chris Done, Nick Schurch

New Horizons and the Onset of the Pioneer Anomaly

• Authors: Michael Martin Nieto

Evidence for higher order QED in e+ e- pair production at RHIC

• Authors: A. J. Baltz (BNL)

classic papers of the week -- 44

Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance

• Shakura, N. I.; Sunyaev, R. A.

High-Energy Neutrino Detection In Deep Polar Ice

• Francis Halzen (Wisconsin U., Madison), John G. Learned (Hawaii U.)

tipa -- 10/26/2007

X-Ray Binaries and the Current Dynamical States of Galactic Globular Clusters

• Authors: John M. Fregeau

Kerr Black Holes are Not Unique to General Relativity

• Authors: Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona), Delphine Perrodin (Arizona), Keith R. Dienes (Arizona), Irina Mocioiu (Penn State)

EXIST's Gamma-Ray Burst Sensitivity

• Authors: D. L. Band, J. E. Grindlay, J. Hong, G. Fishman, D. H. Hartmann, A. Garson III, H. Krawczynski, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, G. Skinner

tipa -- 10/25/2007

How Very Massive Metal Free Stars Start Cosmological Reionization

• Authors: John H. Wise (1,2), Tom Abel (1) ((1) Kipac/Stanford, (2) NASA/GSFC)

Gamma-Ray Bursts May Be Biased Tracers of Star Formation

• Authors: Renyue Cen (Princeton), Taotao Fang (UCI)

Self-Consistent Models of the AGN and Black Hole Populations: Duty Cycles, Accretion Rates, and the Mean Radiative Efficiency

• Authors: Francesco Shankar (1), David H. Weinberg (1), Jordi Miralda-Escude' (2) ((1) Ohio State University, USA, (2)-Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (CSIC-IEEC)/ICREA, Spain)

Observations of Dense Molecular Gas in a Quasar Host Galaxy at z=6.42: Further Evidence for a Non-Linear Dense Gas - Star Formation Relation at Early Cosmic Times

• Authors: Dominik A. Riechers (1), Fabian Walter (1), Christopher L. Carilli (2), Frank Bertoldi (3) ((1)-MPIA Heidelberg, Germany; (2)-NRAO Socorro, USA; (3)-AIfA Bonn, Germany)

tipa -- 10/24/2007

Multiwavelength Observations of Markarian 421 in March 2001: an Unprecedented View on the X-ray/TeV Correlated Variability

• Authors: G. Fossati (1), J. H. Buckley (2), I. H. Bond (3), S. M. Bradbury (3), D. A. Carter-Lewis (4), Y. C. K. Chow (5), W. Cui (6), A. D. Falcone (7), J. P. Finley (6), J. A. Gaidos (6), J. Grube (3), J. Holder (8), D. Horan (9,15), D. B. Kieda (10), J. Kildea (9), H. Krawczynski (2), F. Krennrich (4), M. J. Lang (11), S. LeBohec (10), K. Lee (2), P. Moriarty (12), R. A. Ong (5), D. Petry (4,16), J. Quinn (13), G. H. Sembroski (6), S. P. Wakely (14), T. C. Weekes (9) ((1) Rice University, (2) Washington University, (3) University of Leeds, (4) Iowa State University, (5) UCLA, (6) Purdue University, (7) PennState, (8) University of Delaware, (9) Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, (10) University of Utah, (11) National University of Ireland, (12) Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, (13) University College Dublin, (14) University of Chicago, (15) Argonne National Lab, (16) MPE)

A Model for Star Formation, Gas Flows and Chemical Evolution in Galaxies at High Redshifts

• Authors: Dawn K. Erb (CfA)

tipa -- 10/23/2007

H.E.S.S. ICRC 2007 contributions

• Authors: The H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Constraining Muon Internal Bremsstrahlung as a Contribution to the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess

• Authors: MiniBooNE Collaboration

tipa -- 10/22/2007

Supernova rates from the Southern inTermediate Redshift ESO Supernova Search (STRESS)

• Authors: M.T. Botticella, M. Riello, E. Cappellaro, S.Benetti, G. Altavilla, A. Pastorello, M. Turatto, L. Greggio, F. Patat, S. Valenti, L. Zampieri, A. Harutyunyan, G. Pignata, S. Taubenberger

A very faint core-collapse supernova in M85

• Authors: A. Pastorello, M. Della Valle, S. J. Smartt, L. Zampieri, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, P. Mazzali, F. Patat, S. Spiro, M. Turatto, S. Valenti

A universal GRB photon energy-peak luminosity relation

• Authors: R. Willingale, P.T. O'Brien, M.R. Goad, J.P. Osborne, K.L. Page, N.R. Tanvir

The Milky Way's Kiloparsec Scale Wind: A Hybrid Cosmic-Ray and Thermally Driven Outflow

• Authors: John E. Everett, Ellen G. Zweibel, Robert A. Benjamin, Dan McCammon, Lindsay Rocks, John S. Gallagher, III

The evolution of the peculiar Type Ia supernova SN 2005hk over 400 days

• Authors: D.K. Sahu, Masaomi Tanaka, G.C. Anupama, Koji S. Kawabata, Keiichi Maeda, Nozomu Tominaga, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Paolo A. Mazzali

The Interaction of Stellar Objects within a Common Envelope

• Authors: Paul M. Ricker, Ronald E. Taam

Probing the Cosmic Metallicity Evolution with Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Li-Xin Li

classic papers of the week -- 43

Consequences of Dirac's theory of positrons

• W. Heisenberg, H. Euler (Leipzig U.)

Nuclear Emission in Spiral Nebulae

• Seyfert, Carl K.

How I spent my summer vacation

• V. Gates, E. Kangaroo, M. Roachcock, W.C. Gall (SUNY, Stony Brook)

tipa -- 10/19/2007

Spitzer Constraints on the Stellar Populations of Lyman-Alpha Emitting Galaxies at z = 3.1

• Authors: Kamson Lai, Jia-Sheng Huang, Giovanni Fazio, Eric Gawiser, Robin Ciardullo, Maaike Damen, Marijn Franx, Caryl Gronwall, Ivo Labbe, Georgios Magdis, Pieter van Dokkum

Shell-shocked diffusion model for the light curve of SN2006gy

• Authors: Nathan Smith, Richard McCray

tipa -- 10/18/2007

A 15.65 solar mass black hole in an eclipsing binary in the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 33

• Authors: Jerome A. Orosz (San Diego State), Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ramesh Narayan (CfA), Charles D. Bailyn (Yale), Joel D. Hartman (CfA), Lucas Mracri (NOAO), Jiefeng Liu (CfA), Wolfgang Pietsch (Max Planck, Garching), Ronald A. Remillard (MIT), Avi Shporer, Tsevi Mazeh (Wise Observatory)

Constraining the Type Ia Supernova Progenitor: The Search for Hydrogen in Nebular Spectra

• Authors: Douglas C. Leonard

Chandra Observations of Type Ia Supernovae: Upper Limits to the X-ray Flux of SN 2002bo, SN 2002ic, SN 2005gj, and SN 2005ke

• Authors: John P. Hughes (1), Nikolai Chugai (2), Roger Chevalier (3), Peter Lundqvist (4), Eric Schlegel (5) ((1) Rutgers University, (2) Institute of Astronomy, RAS, (3) University of Virginia, (4) Stockholm Observatory, (5) University of Texas at San Antonio)

The Environment of M85 optical transient 2006-1: constraints on the progenitor age and mass

• Authors: E. O. Ofek, S. R. Kulkarni, A. Rau, S. B. Cenko, E. W. Peng, J. P. Blakeslee, P. Cote, L. Ferrarese, A. Jordan, S. Mei, T. Puzia, L. D. Bradley, D. Magee, R. Bouwens

On the gamma-ray emission of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: S. A. Sim (1), P. A. Mazzali (1 and 2 and 3) ((1) MPA Garching, (2) Trieste, (3) KITP UCSB)

Pulsational pair instability as an explanation for the most luminous supernovae

• Authors: S. E. Woosley (1), S. Blinnikov (1,2,3), Alexander Heger (1,4,5) ((1) Ucsc, (2) Itep, (3) Mpa, (4) Lanl, (5) Umn)

New Gamma-Ray Contributions to Supersymmetric Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Torsten Bringmann, Lars Bergstrom, Joakim Edsjo

tipa -- 10/17/2007

A Half-Megasecond Chandra Observation of the Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8

• Authors: Sangwook Park (Penn State), John P. Hughes (Rutgers) Patrick O. Slane (CfA), David N. Burrows (Penn State), B. M. Gaensler (Sydney), Parviz Ghavamian (Johns Hopkins)

Short Gamma Ray Bursts: a bimodal origin?

• Authors: R. Salvaterra, A. Cerutti, G. Chincarini, M. Colpi, C. Guidorzi, P. Romano

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)