tipa -- 2/7/2008

A downward revision to the distance of the 1806-20 cluster and associated magnetar from Gemini near-Infrared spectroscopy

• Authors: J. L. Bibby (Sheffield), P. A. Crowther (Sheffield), J. P. Furness (Sheffield), J. S. Clark (Open University)

The Molecular Hydrogen Deficit in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows

• Authors: Daniel Whalen, Jason X. Prochaska, Alexander Heger, Jason Tumlinson

Strategies for Determining the Nature of Dark Matter

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Edward A. Baltz

tipa -- 2/6/2008

An Ultraluminous Supersoft X-ray Source in M81: An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole?

• Authors: Jifeng Liu (CfA), Rosanne Di Stefano (CfA)

tipa -- 2/5/2008

A Survey About Nothing: Monitoring a Million Supergiants for Failed Supernovae

• Authors: C.S. Kochanek (1,3), J.F. Beacom (1,2,3), M.D. Kistler (2,3), J.L. Prieto (1,3) K.Z. Stanek (1,3), T.A. Thompson (1,3), H. Yuksel (2,3) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, (2) Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, (3) Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, The Ohio State University)

Modeling kicks from the merger of generic black-hole binaries

• Authors: John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Joan Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams, M. Coleman Miller, James R. van Meter

Infrared Echoes Reveal the Shock Breakout of the Cas a Supernova

• Authors: Eli Dwek, Richard G. Arendt

Collapse of magnetized hypermassive neutron stars in general relativity: Disk evolution and outflows

• Authors: Branson C. Stephens, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro

tipa -- 2/4/2008

The transport of cosmic rays in self-excited magnetic turbulence

• Authors: B. Reville, S. O'Sullivan, P. Duffy, J.G. Kirk

The Fundamental Constants in Physics and their Time Dependence

• Authors: Harald Fritzsch

tipa -- 2/1/2008

The Persistence of Memory, or How the X-Ray Spectrum of SNR 0509-67.5 Reveals the Brightness of its Parent Type Ia Supernova

• Authors: Carles Badenes, John P. Hughes, Gamil Cassam-Chenai, Eduardo Bravo

Spectral Identification of an Ancient Supernova using Light Echoes in the LMC

• Authors: A. Rest, T. Matheson, S. Blondin, M. Bergmann, D. L. Welch, N. B. Suntzeff, R. C. Smith, K. Olsen, J. L. Prieto, A. Garg, P. Challis, C. Stubbs, M. Hicken, M. Modjaz, W. M. Wood-Vasey, A. Zenteno, G. Damke, A. Newman, M. Huber, K. H. Cook, S. Nikolaev, A. C. Becker, A. Miceli, R. Covarrubias, L. Morelli, G. Pignata, A. Clocchiatti, D. Minniti, R. J. Foley

Connecting Far-Infrared and Radio Morphologies of Disk Galaxies: Cosmic-Ray Electron Diffusion After Star Formation Episodes

• Authors: E.J. Murphy, G. Helou, J.D.P. Kenney, L. Armus, R. Braun

X-ray Hotspot Flares and Implications for Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Magnetic Field amplification in Supernova Remnants

• Authors: Yousaf Butt, Troy Porter, Boaz Katz, Eli Waxman

Type Ia Supernovae Rates and Galaxy Clustering from the CFHT Supernova Legacy Survey

• Authors: M.L. Graham, C.J. Pritchet, M. Sullivan, S.D.J. Gwyn, J.D. Neill, E.Y. Hsiao, P. Astier, D. Balam, C. Balland, S. Basa, R.G. Carlberg, A. Conley, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I.M. Hook, D.A. Howell, R. Pain, K. Perrett, N. Regnault, S. Baumont, J. Le Du, C. Lidman, S. Perlmutter, P. Ripoche, N. Suzuki, E.S. Walker, T. Zhang

Magnetic Monopole Search at high altitude with the SLIM experiment

• Authors: S. Balestra, S. Cecchini, M. Cozzi, M. Errico, F. Fabbri, G. Giacomelli, R. Giacomelli, M. Giorgini, A. Kumar, S. Manzoor, J. McDonald, G. Mandrioli, S. Marcellini, A. Margiotta, E. Medinaceli, L. Patrizii, J. Pinfold, V. Popa, I.E. Qureshi, O. Saavedra, Z. Sahnoun, G. Sirri, M. Spurio, V. Togo, A. Velarde, A. Zanini

tipa -- 1/31/2008

Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND

• Authors: The KamLAND Collaboration

Finding Evidence for Massive Neutrinos using 3D Weak Lensing

• Authors: T. D. Kitching, A. F. Heavens, L. Verde, P. Serra, A. Melchiorri

Comment on the Neutrino-Mixing Interpretation of the GSI Time Anomaly

• Authors: Carlo Giunti

tipa -- 1/30/2008

LMC origin of the hyper-velocity star HE 0437-5439. Beyond the supermassive black hole paradigm

• Authors: N. Przybilla, M. F. Nieva, U. Heber, M. Firnstein, K. Butler, R. Napiwotzki, H. Edelmann

Modeling Bell's Non-resonant Cosmic Ray Instability

• Authors: V.N.Zirakashvili V.S.Ptuskin H.J.Voelk

Searching for a Correlation Between Cosmic-Ray Sources Above 10^{19} eV and Large-Scale Structure

• Authors: Tamar Kashti, Eli Waxman

Magnetized Neutron Star Mergers and Gravitational Wave Signals

• Authors: Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, Joel E. Tohline

Sequestered Dark Matter

• Authors: B. v. Harling, A. Hebecker

Constraining Supersymmetric Dark Matter With Synchrotron Measurements

• Authors: Dan Hooper

tipa -- 1/29/2008

GBT Multiwavelength Survey of the Galactic Center Region

• Authors: C. J. Law (Amsterdam), F. Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern), W. D. Cotton (NRAO), R. J. Maddalena (NRAO)

Global Properties of X-Ray Flashes and X-Ray-Rich Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by Swift

• Authors: T. Sakamoto, D. Hullinger, G. Sato, R. Yamazaki, L. Barbier, S. D. Barthelmy, J. R. Cummings, E. E. Fenimore, N. Gehrels, H. A. Krimm, D. Q. Lamb, C. B. Markwardt, J. P. Osborne, D. M. Palmer, A. M. Parsons, M. Stamatikos, J. Tueller

The Phase Diagram of Strongly-Interacting Matter

• Authors: P. Braun-Munzinger, J. Wambach

tipa -- 1/28/2008

Gamma-Ray, Neutrino & Gravitational Wave Detection: OG 2.5,2.6,2.7 Rapporteur

• Authors: G. Rowell

Symposium Summary

• Authors: Claus Leitherer (STScI)

classic papers of the week -- 54

On the electrodynamics of moving bodies

• Albert Einstein (Bern)

The Connection Between Spin and Statistics

• W. Pauli (Physikalisches Institut, Eidg. Technischen Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland)

Upper limits for densities and temperatures in stars

• Stoner, E. C.

tipa -- 1/25/2008

The Destruction of Cosmological Minihalos by Primordial Supernovae

• Authors: Daniel Whalen, Bob van Veelen, Brian W. O'Shea, Michael L. Norman

Discovery of Localized Regions of Excess 10-TeV Cosmic Rays

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, B. Allen, T. Aune, D. Berley, E. Blaufuss, S. Casanova, C. Chen, B. L. Dingus, R. W. Ellsworth, L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, M. M. Gonzales, J. A. Goodman, C. M. Hoffman, P. H. Hüntemeyer, B. E. Kolterman, C. P. Lansdell, J. T. Linnemann, J. E. McEnery, A. I. Mincer, P. Nemethy, D. Noyes, J. Pretz, J. M. Ryan, P. M. Saz Parkinson, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, G. W. Sullivan, V. Vasileiou, G. P. Walker, D. A. Williams, G. B. Yodh

A Natural Supersymmetric Model with MeV Dark Matter

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Kathryn M. Zurek

tipa -- 1/24/2008

Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission coincident with molecular clouds in the W28 (G6.4-0.1) field

• Authors: HESS Collaboration: F Aharonian, et al

Hypervelocity Stars: From the Galactic Center to the Halo

• Authors: S. J. Kenyon, B. C. Bromley, M. J. Geller, W. R. Brown

tipa -- 1/23/2008

Galactic Substructure and Direct Detection of Dark Matter

• Authors: Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech), Savvas M. Koushiappas (LANL)

Reconciling the Metallicity Distributions of Gamma-ray Burst, Damped Lyman-alpha, and Lyman-break Galaxies at z=3

• Authors: Johan P. U. Fynbo (1), J. Xavier Prochaska (2), Jesper Sommer-Larsen (3,1), Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky (4), Palle Moller (5) ((1) Dark Cosmology Centre, NBI, Copenhagen, Denmark; (2) UCO/Lick Observatory, USA; (3) Excellence Cluster Universe, TUM, Munich, Germany; (4) Geneva Observatory, Switzerland; (5) European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany)

Simulations of cosmic ray feedback by AGN in galaxy clusters

• Authors: D. Sijacki (1,2), C. Pfrommer (3), V. Springel (1), T. A. Ensslin (1) ((1) MPA Garching, (2) IoA Cambridge, (3) CITA Toronto)

A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift $z\approx$ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

• Authors: Benjamin Dilday, R. Kessler, J. A. Frieman, J. Holtzman, J. Marriner, G. Miknaitis, R. C. Nichol, R. Romani, M. Sako, B. Bassett, A. Becker, D. Cinabro, F. DeJongh, D. L. Depoy, M. Doi, P. M. Garnavich, C. J. Hogan, S. Jha, K. Konishi, H. Lampeitl, J. L. Marshall, D. McGinnis, J. L. Prieto, A. G. Riess, M. W. Richmond, D. P. Schneider, M. Smith, N. Takanashi, K. Tokita, K. van der Heyden, N. Yasuda C. Zheng, J. Barentine, H. Brewington, C. Choi, A. Crotts, J. Dembicky, M. Harvanek, M. Im, W. Ketzeback, S. J. Kleinman, J. Krzesiński, D. C. Long, E. Malanushenko, V. Malanushenko, R. J. McMillan, A. Nitta, K. Pan, G. Saurage, S. A. Snedden, S. Watters, J. C. Wheeler, D. York

tipa -- 1/22/2008

Multi-wavelength (radio, X-ray and gamma-ray) observations of the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303

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

Formation of hard VHE gamma-ray spectra of blazars due to internal photon-photon absorption

• Authors: F. Aharonian, D. Khangulyan, L. Costamante

Discovery of the counterpart of TeV Gamma-ray source HESS J1731-347: a new SNR G353.6-0.7 with radio and X-ray images

• Authors: W.W. Tian, D.A. Leahy, M. Haverkorn, B. Jiang

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