tipa -- 11/7/2007

Gravitational Wave Sirens as a Triple Probe of Dark Energy

• Authors: Eric V. Linder

Supernovae in Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters: Observations by the Wise Observatory Optical Transient Search (WOOTS)

• Authors: Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute), Dan Maoz (TAU), Puragra Guhathakurta (UCSC), Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB)

A Study of Muon Neutrino Disappearance Using the Fermilab Main Injector Neutrino Beam

• Authors: Michael Kordosky, David Petyt, for the MINOS Collaboration

Imaging the Internal Structure of the Earth with Atmospheric Neutrinos

• Authors: M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Francis Halzen, Michele Maltoni, Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka

tipa -- 11/6/2007

Neutrinos from Fallback onto Newly Formed Neutron Stars

• Authors: Chris L. Fryer

A first measurement of the interaction cross section of the tau neutrino

• Authors: The DONuT Collaboration

KM3NeT: A Next Generation Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea

• Authors: A. Kappes (University Erlangen-Nuremberg), for the KM3NeT Consortium

Symmetry and Supersymmetry in Nuclear Physics

• Authors: A.B. Balantekin (Wisconsin U., Madison)

tipa -- 11/5/2007

High-Redshift QSOs in the SWIRE Survey and the z~3 QSO Luminosity Function

• Authors: Brian Siana (1), Maria del Carmen Polletta (2), Harding E. Smith (2), Carol J. Lonsdale (3), Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares (4), Duncan Farrah (5), Tom S. R. Babbedge (6), Michael Rowan-Robinson (6), Jason Surace (1), David Shupe (1), Fan Fang (1), Alberto Franceschini (7), Seb Oliver (8) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, (2) UC San Diego, (3) IPAC, (4) IoA Cambridge, (5) Cornell, (6) Imperial, (7) Padova, (8) Sussex)

The IceCube Collaboration: contributions to the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2007)

• Authors: The IceCube Collaboration

M31N-2007-06b: A Nova in the M31 Globular Cluster Bol 111

• Authors: A. W. Shafter, R. M. Quimby

Where are the missing gamma ray burst redshifts?

• Authors: D. M. Coward, D. Guetta, R. R. Burman, A. Imerito

classic papers of the week -- 45

The Rate of Star Formation

• Schmidt, Maarten

CP Conservation in the Presence of Instantons

• R.D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Stanford University)

A Century of Gamma Ray Burst Models

• Robert J. Nemiroff (NASA/GSFC and George Mason U.)

tipa -- 11/2/2007

Study of TeV Neutrinos with Upward Showering Muons in Super-Kamiokande

• Authors: Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

The Varied Fates of z~2 Star-forming Galaxies

• Authors: Charlie Conroy, Alice E. Shapley, Jeremy L. Tinker, Michael R. Santos, Gerard Lemson

Search method for coincident events from LIGO and IceCube detectors

• Authors: Yoichi Aso, Zsuzsa Marka, Chad Finley, John Dwyer, Kei Kotake, Szabolcs Marka

tipa -- 11/1/2007

Variations in Stellar Clustering with Environment: Dispersed Star Formation and the Origin of Faint Fuzzies

• Authors: Bruce G. Elmegreen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

The Proto-neutron Star Phase of the Collapsar Model and the Route to Long-soft Gamma-ray Bursts and Hypernovae

• Authors: Luc Dessart, Adam Burrows, Eli Livne, Christian Ott

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)