tipa -- 1/21/2008

Gemini and Hubble Space Telescope Evidence for an Intermediate Mass Black Hole in omega Centauri

• Authors: Eva Noyola (1,2), Karl Gebhardt (2), Marcel Bergmann (3) ((1) MPE, (2) UT Austin, (3) Gemini)

High-energy cosmic-ray nuclei from high- and low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts and implications for multi-messenger astronomy

• Authors: Kohta Murase, Kunihito Ioka, Shigehiro Nagataki, Takashi Nakamura

A Search for the Progenitors of Two Type-Ia Supernovae in NGC 1316

• Authors: Dan Maoz, Filippo Mannucci

classic papers of the week -- 53

Neutrino Oscillations and the Number of Neutrino Types

• A.K. Mann, H. Primakoff (Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania)

Cosmological Production of Superheavy Magnetic Monopoles

• John Preskill (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University)

On the origin of the forms and the present condition of some of the clusters of stars, and several of the nebulae

• Alexander, Stephen

tipa -- 1/18/2008

Precision timing of PSR J0437-4715: an accurate pulsar distance, a high pulsar mass and a limit on the variation of Newton's gravitational constant

• Authors: J.P.W. Verbiest, M. Bailes, W. van Straten, G.B. Hobbs, R.T. Edwards, R.N. Manchester, N.D.R. Bhat, J.M. Sarkissian, B.A. Jacoby, S.R. Kulkarni

Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Chandra Era

• Authors: O. Kargaltsev, G. G. Pavlov

tipa -- 1/17/2008

MAGIC observations of the unidentified TeV gamma-ray source TeV J2032+4130

• Authors: J. Albert, et al, for the MAGIC Collaboration

Spectral Properties of Prompt Emission of Four Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by the Suzaku-WAM and the Konus-Wind

• Authors: Masanori Ohno (1), Yasushi Fukazawa (1) Takuya Takahashi (1), Kazutaka Yamaoka (2), Satoshi Sugita (2), Valentin Pal'shin (3), Takanori Sakamoto (4), Goro Sato (4), Kevin Hurley (5), Dmitry Frederiks (3), Philipp Oleynik (3), Mikhail Ulanov (3) Makoto Tashiro (6), Yuji Urata (6), Kaori Onda (6), Toru Tamagawa (7), Yukikatsu Terada (7), Motoko Suzuki (7), Hong Soojing (8) ((1) Department of Physical Sciences, School of Science, Hiroshima University (2) Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University (3) Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Laboratory for Experimental Astrophysics (4) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (5) University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory (6) Department of Physics, Saitama University (7) Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) (8) Laboratory of Physics College of Science and Technology, Nihon University)

tipa -- 1/16/2008

Non-thermal Emission in Sagittarius B?

• Authors: Cornelia C. Lang, Patrick Palmer, W. M. Goss

The Baryon Content of Dark Matter Halos: Empirical Constraints from MgII Absorbers

• Authors: Hsiao-Wen Chen, Jeremy L. Tinker (U Chicago, KICP)

Gamma-ray emission from the solar halo and disk: a study with EGRET data

• Authors: Elena Orlando, Andrew W. Strong

Implications for Galaxy Evolution from the Cosmic Evolution of Supernova Rate Density

• Authors: T. Oda, T. Totani, N. Yasuda, T. Sumi, T. Morokuma, M. Doi, G. Kosugi

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. I. Type Ibn (SN 2006jc-like) events

• Authors: A. Pastorello, S. Mattila, L. Zampieri, M. Della Valle, S. J. Smartt, S. Valenti, I. Agnoletto, S. Benetti, C. R. Benn, D. Branch, E. Cappellaro, M. Dennefeld, J. J. Eldridge, A. Gal-Yam, A. Harutyunyan, I. Hunter, H. Kjeldsen, Y. Lipkin, P. A. Mazzali, P. Milne, H. Navasardyan, E. O. Ofek, E. Pian, O. Shemmer, S. Spiro, R. A. Stathakis, S. Taubenberger, M. Turatto, H. Yamaoka

tipa -- 1/15/2008

INTEGRAL SPI All-Sky View in Soft Gamma Rays: Study of Point Source and Galactic Diffuse Emissions

• Authors: L. Bouchet, E.Jourdain, J. P.Roques, A. Strong, R. Diehl, F. Lebrun, R. Terrier

Broadband Spectral Properties of Bright High-Energy Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed with BATSE and EGRET

• Authors: Y. Kaneko, M.M. Gonzalez, R. Preece, B.L. Dingus, M.S. Briggs

Supersymmetry in Elementary Particle Physics

• Authors: Michael E. Peskin

What is the entropy of the universe?

• Authors: Paul Frampton, Stephen D.H. Hsu, Thomas W. Kephart, David Reeb

tipa -- 1/14/2008

The all-particle spectrum of primary cosmic rays in the wide energy range from 10^14 eV to 10^17 eV observed with the Tibet-III air-shower array

• Authors: M. Amenomori, et al, (The Tibet ASgamma Collaboration)

Precise Measurement of the Cosmological Power Spectrum With a Dedicated 21cm Survey After Reionization

• Authors: Abraham Loeb (Harvard), Stuart Wyithe (Melbourne)

classic papers of the week -- 52

The Flatness of the Universe: Reconciling Theoretical Prejudices with Observational Data

• Michael S. Turner (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia; Chicago University, Chicago, IL), Gary Steigman (Bartol Research Foundation, University of Delaware, Newark, DE), Lawrence M. Krauss (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

Lepton Number as the Fourth Color

• Jogesh C. Pati (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD) , Abdus Salam (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; Imperial College, London)

On Nuclear Reactions Occuring in Very Hot Stars. I. The Synthesis of Elements from Carbon to Nickel

• Hoyle, F.

Hoyle's Equation

• Donald D. Clayton (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC)

tipa -- 1/11/2008

The Evolution of Stellar Mass and the Implied Star Formation History

• Authors: Stephen M. Wilkins (1), Neil Trentham (1), Andrew M. Hopkins (2) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (2) University of Sydney, Australia)

Methods for point source analysis in high energy neutrino telescopes

• Authors: Jim Braun, Jon Dumm, Francesco De Palma, Chad Finley, Albrecht Karle, Teresa Montaruli

The Maximum Patch Method for Directional Dark Matter Detection

• Authors: Shawn Henderson, Jocelyn Monroe, Peter Fisher

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)