tipa -- 1/10/2008

GLAST testing of a pulsar model matching H.E.S.S. observations of LS 5039

• Authors: Agnieszka Sierpowska-Bartosik, Diego F. Torres

The optical depth of the Universe for ultra-high energy cosmic ray scattering in the magnetized large scale structure

• Authors: Kumiko Kotera, Martin Lemoine (IAP)

Senenmut: An Ancient Egyptian Astronomer

• Authors: Bojan Novakovic

tipa -- 1/9/2008

Faint arc-minute extended radio emission around Cygnus X-3

• Authors: J. R. Sanchez-Sutil, J. Marti, J. A. Combi, P. Luque-Escamilla, A. J. Munoz-Arjonilla, J. M. Paredes, G. Pooley

Isolated X-ray -- infrared sources in the region of interaction of the supernova remnant IC 443 with a molecular cloud

• Authors: A. M. Bykov, A. M. Krassilchtchikov, Yu. A. Uvarov (Ioffe Inst., St.Petersburg), H. Bloemen (SRON, Utrecht), F. Bocchino (INAF, Palermo), G. M. Dubner, E. B. Giacani (IAFE, Buenos Aires), G. G. Pavlov (Penn. State Univ.)

The diffuse GeV-TeV $\gamma$-ray emission of the Cygnus region

• Authors: X. J. Bi, T. L. Chen, Y. Wang, Q. Yuan

tipa -- 1/8/2008

Prompt Shocks in the Gas Disk Around a Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole Binary

• Authors: Zoltan Lippai (1), Zsolt Frei (1), Zoltan Haiman (2) ((1) Inst. of Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary, (2) Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, NY)

Non-thermal X-rays from the Ophiuchus cluster and dark matter annihilation

• Authors: Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)

Could the Ultra Metal-poor Stars be Chemically Peculiar and Not Related to the First Stars?

• Authors: K.A. Venn, D.L. Lambert

Possible signature of hypernova nucleosynthesis in a beryllium rich halo dwarf

• Authors: R. Smiljanic (1,2), L. Pasquini (2), F. Primas (2), P. Mazzali (3,4), D. Galli (5), G. Valle (6) ((1) Universidade de Sao Paulo - Brazil, (2) ESO - Germany, (3) Max-Planck Institut fur Astrophysik - Germany, (4) Osservatorio Astronomico de Trieste - Italy, (5) Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri - Italy, (6) Universita di Pisa - Italy)

An evolution of the IR-Radio correlation at very low flux densities?

• Authors: R. J. Beswick, T. W. B. Muxlow, H. Thrall, A. M. S. Richards, S. T. Garrington (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester)

Asymmetry in Supernova Explosions from Late-Time Spectroscopy

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Koji Kawabata, Paolo A. Mazzali, Masaomi Tanaka, Stefano Valenti, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Takashi Hattori, Jinsong Deng, Elena Pian, Stefan Taubenberger, Masanori Iye, Thomas Matheson, Alexei V. Filippenko, Kentaro Aoki, George Kosugi, Youichi Ohyama, Toshiyuki Sasaki, Tadafumi Takata

Novae as a Class of Transient X-ray Sources

• Authors: K. Mukai (1,2), M. Orio (3,4,5), M. Della Valle (5,6) ((1)NASA/GSFC/CRESST (2) UMBC (3) University of Wisconsin (4)INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (5) Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara (6) INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

Search for Matter-Dependent Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in Super-Kamiokande

• Authors: The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, et al

tipa -- 1/7/2008

Chandra monitoring of the very massive binary WR20a and the young massive cluster Westerlund2

• Authors: Yael Naze, Gregor Rauw, Jean Manfroid

Diffuse MeV Gamma-rays and Galactic 511 keV Line from Decaying WIMP Dark Matter

• Authors: Jose A. R. Cembranos, Louis E. Strigari

Spine-sheath layer radiative interplay in subparsec-scale jets and the TeV emission from M87

• Authors: F. Tavecchio, G. Ghisellini (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy)

classic papers of the week -- 51

Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions

• T.D. Lee (Columbia University, New York, New York) , Chen-Ning Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

The absolute magnitudes of Type Ia supernovae

• Phillips, M. M. (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, La Serena, Chile)

Nuclear forces from chiral Lagrangians

• Steven Weinberg (Theory Group, Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX)

tipa -- 1/4/2008

The Coincidence of Nuclear Star Clusters and Active Galactic Nuclei

• Authors: Anil Seth, Marcel Agueros, Duane Lee, Antara Basu-Zych

A Minimum Column Density of 1 g cm^-2 for Massive Star Formation

• Authors: Mark R. Krumholz (Princeton University), Christopher F. McKee (UC Berkeley)

Composition of Primary Cosmic-Ray Nuclei at High Energies

• Authors: M. Ave, P.J. Boyle, F. Gahbauer, C. Hoppner, J.R. Horandel, M. Ichimura, D. Muller, A. Romero-Wolf

LMC X-3 May Be a Relic of a GRB Similar to Cosmological GRBs

• Authors: G.E. Brown, C.-H. Lee, E. Moreno Mendez

tipa -- 1/3/2008

Excited-state OH Masers and Supernova Remnants

• Authors: Ylva M. Pihlström, Vincent L. Fish, Loránt O. Sjouwerman, Laura K. Zschaechner, Philip B. Lockett, Moshe Elitzur

Observation of an extended VHE gamma-ray emission from MSH 15-52 with CANGAROO-III

• Authors: T. Nakamori, H. kubo, T. Yoshida, T. Tanimori, R. Enomoto, et al (for the CANGAROO-III collaboration)

Double-peaked Oxygen Lines Are not Rare in Nebular Spectra of Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: Maryam Modjaz (1,2), Robert P. Kirshner (2), Pete Challis (2) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Experimental study of the atmospheric neutrino backgrounds for proton decay to positron and neutral pion searches in water Cherenkov detectors

• Authors: K2K Collaboration: S. Mine, et al

Christmas week in particle astrophysics

Nucleosynthesis in O-Ne-Mg Supernovae

• Authors: R.D. Hoffman, B. Muller, H.-T. Janka

UV/Optical Detections of Candidate Tidal Disruption Events by GALEX and CFHTLS

• Authors: S. Gezari, S. Basa, D. C. Martin, G. Bazin, K. Forster, B. Milliard, J. P. Halpern, P. G. Friedman, P. Morrissey, S. G. Neff, D. Schiminovich, M. Seibert, T. Small, T. K. Wyder

A Massive Neutron Star in the Globular Cluster M5

• Authors: Paulo C. C. Freire, Alex Wolszczan, Maureen van den Berg, Jason W. T. Hessels

GRB 070201: A possible Soft Gamma Ray Repeater in M31

• Authors: E. O. Ofek, M. Muno, R. Quimby, S. R. Kulkarni, H. Stiele, W. Pietsch, E. Nakar, A. Gal-Yam, A. Rau, P. B. Cameron, S. B. Cenko, M. M. Kasliwal, D. B. Fox, P. Chandra, A. K. H. Kong, R. Barnard

Interplay between Yukawa and Tomonaga in the Birth of Mesons

• Authors: Toshimitsu Yamazaki

classic papers of the week -- 50

Can quantum mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?

• Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen

Bringing home the atomic world: Quantum mysteries for anybody

• Mermin, N. D.

Gravitational radiation and the evolution of cataclysmic binaries

• Paczynski, B.; Sienkiewicz, R.

Historical Supernovae

• Green, D. A.; Stephenson, F. R.

tipa -- 12/21/2007

Swift and Chandra Detections of Supernova 2006jc: Evidence for Interaction of the Supernova Shock with a Circumstellar Shell

• Authors: S. Immler, M. Modjaz, W. Landsman, F. Bufano, P. J. Brown, P. Milne, L. Dessart, S. T. Holland, M. Koss, D. Pooley, R. P. Kirshner, A. V. Filippenko, N. Panagia, R. A. Chevalier, P. A. Mazzali, N. Gehrels, R. Petre, D. N. Burrows, J. A. Nousek, P. W. A. Roming, E. Pian, A. M. Soderberg, J. Greiner

The Spitzer Gould Belt Survey of Large Nearby Interstellar Clouds: Discovery of a Dense Embedded Cluster in the Serpens-Aquila Rift

• Authors: R. A. Gutermuth, T. L. Bourke, L. E. Allen, P. C. Myers, S. T. Megeath, B. C. Matthews, J. K. Jørgensen, J. Di Francesco, D. Ward-Thompson, T. L. Huard, T. Y. Brooke, M. M. Dunham, L. A. Cieza, P. M. Harvey, N. L. Chapman

Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts in Young Host Galaxies: the Effect of Prompt Twins

• Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, K.Z. Stanek, Chris L. Fryer

Heavy Cosmic Ray Nuclei from Extragalactic Sources above 'The Ankle'

• Authors: Tadeusz Wibig, Arnold W. Wolfendale

First results from the OSQAR photon regeneration experiment: No light shining through a wall

• Authors: OSQAR Collaboration: Pierre Pugnat (1), Lionel Duvillaret (2), Remy Jost (3), Guy Vitrant (2), Daniele Romanini (3), Andrzej Siemko (1), Rafik Ballou (4), Bernard Barbara (4), Michael Finger (5), Miroslav Finger (5), Jan Hosek (6), Miroslav Kral (1 and 6), Krzysztof A. Meissner (7), Miroslav Sulc (8), Josef Zicha (6) ((1) CERN, (2) MINATEC-INPG, (3) LSP-CNRS/UJF, (4) Institut Neel-CNRS/UJF, (5) Charles University, (6) Czech Technical University, (7) University of Warsaw, (8) Technical University of Liberec)

tipa -- 12/20/2007

Supernova explosions and the birth of neutron stars

• Authors: H.-Th. Janka, A. Marek, B. Mueller, L. Scheck (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)

tipa -- 12/19/2007

GRB070125: The First Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst in a Halo Environment

• Authors: S. B. Cenko, D. B. Fox, B. E. Penprase, A. Cucchiara, P. A. Price, E. Berger, S. R. Kulkarni, F. A. Harrison, A. Gal-Yam, E. O. Ofek, A. Rau, P. Chandra, D. A. Frail, M. K. Kasliwal, B. P. Schmidt, A. M. Soderberg, P. B. Cameron, K. C. Roth

Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei

• Authors: The Pierre auger Collaboration

Nucleosynthesis in early supernova winds III: No significant contribution from neutron-rich pockets

• Authors: R. D. Hoffman, J. Pruet, J. L. Fisker, H.-T. Janka, R. Burras, S. E. Woosley

Variable VHE gamma-ray emission from non-blazar AGNs

• Authors: F.M. Rieger, F.A. Aharonian

tipa -- 12/18/2007

Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers

• Authors: Zachariah B. Etienne, Joshua A. Faber, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, Keisuke Taniguchi, Thomas W. Baumgarte

Atypical Thermonuclear Supernovae from Tidally Crushed White Dwarfs

• Authors: S. Rosswog, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, W.R. Hix

Linking optical and infrared observations with gravitational wave sources through variability

• Authors: Christopher W. Stubbs

The Relic Abundance of Massive Colored Particles after a Late Hadronic Annihilation Stage

• Authors: Chen Jacoby, Shmuel Nussinov

tipa -- 12/17/2007

Go Long, Go Deep: Finding Optical Jet Breaks for Swift-Era GRBs with the LBT

• Authors: X. Dai, P. M. Garnavich, J. L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, J. Bechtold, N. Bouche, P. Buschkamp, E. Diolaiti, X. Fan, E. Giallongo, R. Gredel, J. M. Hill, L. Jiang, C. McClellend, P. Milne, F. Pedichini, R. W. Pogge, R. Ragazzoni, J. Rhoads, R. Smareglia, D. Thompson, R. M. Wagner

An Interaction of a Magellanic Leading Arm High Velocity Cloud with the Milky Way Disk

• Authors: N. M. McClure-Griffiths, L. Staveley-Smith, F. J. Lockman, M. R. Calabretta, H. A. Ford, P. M. W. Kalberla, T. Murphy, H. Nakanishi, D. J. Pisano

classic papers of the week -- 49

Neutrino Oscillations and Stellar Collapse

• L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

The Unit of Stellar Distance

• Heber D. Curtis

tipa -- 12/14/2007

The Afterglows of Swift-era Gamma-Ray Bursts. I. Comparing pre-Swift and Swift era Long/Soft (Type II) GRB Optical Afterglows

• Authors: D. A. Kann, S. Klose, B. Zhang, D. Malesani, E. Nakar, A. C. Wilson, N. R. Butler, L. A. Antonelli, G. Chincarini, B. E. Cobb, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, V. D'Elia, M. Della Valle, P. Ferrero, D. Fugazza, J. Gorosabel, G. L. Israel, F. Mannucci, S. Piranomonte, S. Schulze, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, K. Wiersema

Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al

tipa -- 12/13/2007

An extreme IMF as an explanation for high M/L ratios in UCDs? The CO index as a tracer of bottom heavy IMFs

• Authors: Steffen Mieske, Pavel Kroupa

Low Metallicity Indicates that the Hypervelocity Star HE 0437-5439 was Ejected from the LMC

• Authors: Alceste Z. Bonanos, Mercedes Lopez-Morales (Carnegie-DTM)

Ultra-high energy Neutrinos from Centaurus A and the Auger hot spot

• Authors: Alessandro Cuoco, Steen Hannestad

Upper limit on the diffuse flux of UHE tau neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Model-Independent Bound on the Dark Matter Lifetime

• Authors: Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (Durham U., IPPP)

A celestial gamma-ray foreground due to the albedo of small solar system bodies and a remote probe of the interstellar cosmic ray spectrum

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford), Troy A. Porter (UCSC), Seth W. Digel (SLAC), Peter F. Michelson (Stanford), Jonathan F. Ormes (DU)

tipa -- 12/12/2007

Massive-Star Forming Infrared Loop around the Crab-like Supernova Remnant G54.1+0.3: Post Main-Sequence Triggered Star Formation?

• Authors: Bon-Chul Koo, Christopher F. McKee, Jae-Joon Lee, Ho-Gyu Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Dae-Sik Moon, Seung Soo Hong, Hidehiro Kaneda, Takashi Onaka

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray production in the polar cap regions of black hole magnetospheres

• Authors: A.Neronov, D.Semikoz, I.Tkachev

Imaging the Gamma-Ray Sky with SPI aboard INTEGRAL

• Authors: Jürgen Knödlseder (CESR), Georg Weidenspointner (CESR), Pierre Jean (CESR), Roland Diehl (MPE), Andrew Strong (MPE), Hubert Halloin (APC), Bertrand Cordier (SAp), Stéphane Schanne (SAp), Chris Winkler (ESA/ESTEC)

tipa -- 12/11/2007

Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts with Extended Emission from Proto-Magnetar Spin-Down

• Authors: B.D. Metzger, E. Quataert, T.A. Thompson

Hard X-ray emission from Eta Carinae

• Authors: Jean-Christophe Leyder, Roland Walter, Gregor Rauw

The Stellar Initial Mass Function at the Epoch of Reionization

• Authors: Ranga-Ram Chary

A Giant Flare from a Soft Gamma Repeater in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31

• Authors: E.P. Mazets, R.L. Aptekar, T.L. Cline, D.D. Frederiks, J.O. Goldsten, S.V. Golenetskii, K. Hurley, A. von Kienlin, V.D. Pal'shin

Gravitational Wave Detection with Atom Interferometry

• Authors: Savas Dimopoulos, Peter W. Graham, Jason M. Hogan, Mark A. Kasevich, Surjeet Rajendran

tipa -- 12/10/2007

The lowest-mass stellar black holes: catastrophic death of neutron stars in gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: K. Belczynski, R. O'Shaughnessy, V. Kalogera, F. Rasio, R. Taam, T. Bulik

How rapidly do neutron stars spin at birth? Constraints from archival X-ray observations of extragalactic supernovae

• Authors: Rosalba Perna (1), Roberto Soria (2), Dave Pooley (3), Luigi Stella (4) ((1) CU-Boulder/JILA; (2) MSSL; (3) U. of Wisconsin-Madison; (4) INAF-OAR)

Primordial Nucleosynthesis in the Precision Cosmology Era

• Authors: Gary Steigman

Mu-tau neutrino refraction and collective three-flavor transformations in supernovae

• Authors: Andreu Esteban-Pretel, Sergio Pastor, Ricard Tomas, Georg G. Raffelt, Gunter Sigl

Pre-Merger Localization of Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens With LISA: Triggered Search for an Electromagnetic Counterpart

• Authors: Bence Kocsis (Harvard), Zoltan Haiman (Columbia), Kristen Menou (Columbia)

Upper limit on the cosmic-ray photon flux above 10^19 eV using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

HESS VHE Gamma-Ray Sources Without Identified Counterparts

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

The Importance of Being First: Position Dependent Citation Rates on arXiv:astro-ph

• Authors: J. P. Dietrich