classic papers of the week -- 61

Violation of CP Invariance, c Asymmetry, and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

• A.D. Sakharov

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Remarks on the quantum theory of the absolute zero of temperature

• Beck, G.; Bethe, H.; Riezler, W.

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Exposition of a new theory on the measurement of risk

• Bernoulli, Daniel

tipa -- 3/28/2008

Simulations of Ultrarelativistic Magnetodynamic Jets from Gamma-ray Burst Engines

• Authors: Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Jonathan C. McKinney (2), Ramesh Narayan (1) ((1) Harvard CfA/ITC, (2) Stanford University/KIPAC)

tipa -- 3/27/2008

Time Structure of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Sources and Consequences for Multi-messenger Signatures

• Authors: Guenter Sigl (Universitaet Hamburg)

tipa -- 3/26/2008

Constraining The Early-Universe Baryon Density And Expansion Rate

• Authors: Vimal Simha, Gary Steigman

IC10 X-1: the immediate progenitor of a double black hole binary

• Authors: Tomasz Bulik, Krzysztof Belczynski, Andrea Prestwich

Supernova Shock Breakout from a Red Supergiant

• Authors: Kevin Schawinski, Stephen Justham, Christian Wolf, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Mark Sullivan, Katrien C. Steenbrugge, Tony Bell, Hermann-Josef Roeser, Emma Walker, Pierre Astier, Dave Balam, Christophe Balland, Stephane Basa, Ray Carlberg, Alex Conley, Dominque Fouchez, Julien Guy, Delphine Hardin, Isobel Hook, Andy Howell, Reynald Pain, Kathy Perrett, Chris Pritchet, Nicolas Regnault, Sukyoung K. Yi

tipa -- 3/25/2008

Observations of the Naked-Eye GRB 080319B: Implications of Nature's Brightest Explosion

• Authors: J.S. Bloom (1,2), D. A. Perley (1), W. Li (1), N. R. Butler (1), A. A. Miller (1), D. Kocevski (1), D. A. Kann (3), R. J. Foley (1), H.-W. Chen (4), A. V. Filippenko (1), D. L. Starr (1,5), B. Macomber (1), J. X. Prochaska (6), R. Chornock (1), D. Poznanski (1), S. Klose (3) (1. UCB, 2. Sloan, 3. Tautenburg, 4. U of Chicago, 5. LCOGT, 6. UCO/Lick Observatory)

The Slow X-Ray Expansion of the Northwestern Rim of the Supernova Remnant RX J0852.0-4622

• Authors: S. Katsuda (Osaka U.), H. Tsunemi (Osaka U.), K. Mori (Miyazaki U.)

Fast Variability of Nonthermal X-Ray Emission in Cassiopeia A: Probing Electron Acceleration in Reverse-Shocked Ejecta

• Authors: Yasunobu Uchiyama (ISAS/JAXA), Felix Aharonian (DIAS/MPI-K)

First Observation of Coherent $\pi^0$ Production in Neutrino Nucleus Interactions with $E_{\nu}<$ 2 GeV

• Authors: The MiniBooNE Collaboration: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko, S. J. Brice, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, J. Cao, L. Coney, J. M. Conrad, D. C. Cox, A. Curioni, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, B. T. Fleming, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, C. Green, J. A. Green, T. L. Hart, E. Hawker, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiori, P. Kasper, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kourbanis, S. Koutsoliotas, E. M. Laird, S. K. Linden, J. M. Link, Y. Liu, Y. Liu, W. C. Louis, K. B. M. Mahn, W. Marsh, P. S. Martin, G. McGregor, W. Metcalf, P. D. Meyers, F. Mills, G. B. Mills, J. Monroe, C. D. Moore, R. H. Nelson, V. T. Nguyen, P. Nienaber, J. A. Nowak, S. Ouedraogo, R. B. Patterson, D. Perevalov, C. C. Polly, E. Prebys, J. L. Raaf, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, A. D. Russell, V. Sandberg, R. Schirato, D. Schmitz, et al (18 additional authors not shown)

tipa -- 3/24/2008

Nucleosynthesis and Evolution of Massive Metal-Free Stars

• Authors: Alexander Heger (1 and 2), S. E. Woosley (2) ((1) LANL, (2) UCSC)

classic papers of the week -- 60

Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays

• N. Cabibbo (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

Remarks on the Evolution of the Expanding Universe

• Alpher, Ralph A.; Herman, Robert C. (Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, MD)

On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics

• John S. Bell (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA)

tipa -- 3/21/2008

A Direct Measurement of the Dust Extinction Curve in an Intermediate-Redshift Galaxy

• Authors: Kevin Heng, Davide Lazzati, Rosalba Perna, Peter Garnavich, Alberto Noriega-Crespo, David Bersier, Thomas Matheson, Michael Pahre

tipa -- 3/20/2008

Exploring a SNR/Molecular Cloud Association Within HESS J1745-303

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

The Galaxy Population Hosting Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: S. Savaglio (MPE), K. Glazebrook (Swinburne University), D. Le Borgne (CEA/Saclay)

The Origins and the Early Evolution of Quasars and Supermassive Black Holes

• Authors: S.G. Djorgovski, M. Volonteri, V. Springel, V. Bromm, G. Meylan

tipa -- 3/19/2008

Swift J1753.5-0127: The Black Hole Candidate with the shortest orbital period

• Authors: C.Zurita (1), M. Durant (2), M.A.P. Torres (3), T. Shahbaz (2), J.Casares (2), D. Steeghs (3,4) ((1) Instituto de Astronomia UNAM, Mexico; (2) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain; (3) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA; (4) Department of Physics, University of Warwick, UK)

SDSS J142625.71+575218.3, a Prototype for a New Class of Variable White Dwarf

• Authors: M. H. Montgomery (1), Kurtis A. Williams (1 and 2), D. E. Winget (1), Patrick Dufour (3), Steven Degennaro (1), James Liebert (3) ((1) Univ. of Texas at Austin, (2) NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, (3) Univ. of Arizona)

tipa -- 3/18/2008

On the distribution of stellar masses in gamma-ray burst host galaxies

• Authors: J. M. Castro Cerón (1), M. J. Michałowski (1), J. Hjorth (1), D. Malesani (1), J. Gorosabel (2), D. Watson (1), J. P. U. Fynbo (1); (1. Dark Cosmology Centre (NBI) Copenhagen; 2. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC) Granada)

Next Generation Redshift Surveys and the Origin of Cosmic Acceleration

• Authors: Viviana Acquaviva, Amir Hajian, David N. Spergel, Sudeep Das

The First Galaxies: Assembly, Cooling and the Onset of Turbulence

• Authors: Thomas H. Greif, Jarrett L. Johnson, Ralf S. Klessen, Volker Bromm

Secondary Photons from High-energy Protons Accelerated in Hypernovae

• Authors: K. Asano, P. Mészáros

Secondary protons from ultra high energy cosmic ray nuclei: is the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff unavoidable?

• Authors: R. Aloisio, V. Berezinsky, A. Gazizov

Matching the Local and Cosmic Star Formation Histories

• Authors: Igor Drozdovsky (1), Andrew M. Hopkins (2), Antonio Aparicio (1), Carme Gallart (1), the LCID team ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (2) University of Sydney)

tipa -- 3/17/2008

Estimating the birth period of pulsars through GLAST/LAT observations of their wind nebulae

• Authors: O.C. de Jager (1) ((1) Unit for Space Physics, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)

classic papers of the week -- 59

Discussion on Ultra-Penetrating Rays

• H. Geiger; Lord Rutherford; E. Regener; F. A. Lindemann; C. T. R. Wilson; J. Chadwick; L. H. Gray; G. T. P. Tarrant; G. M. B. Dobson; William Bragg; O. W. Richardson; Arthur Eddington; F. Soddy; S. Chapman

Behavior of Neutral Particles under Charge Conjugation

• Gell-Mann, M. (Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY); Pais, A. (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)

tipa -- 3/14/2008

Precise Measurement of the Spin Parameter of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole M33 X-7

• Authors: Jifeng Liu, Jeffery McClintock, Ramesh Narayan, Shane Davis, Jerome Orosz

The Spectral Lag of GRB060505: A Likely Member of the Long Duration Class

• Authors: S. McBreen, S. Foley, D. Watson, L. Hanlon, D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, D. A. Kann, N. Gehrels, S. McGlynn, D. Palmer

tipa -- 3/13/2008

A z=0.9 supercluster of X-ray luminous, optically-selected, massive galaxy clusters

• Authors: David G. Gilbank, H. K. C. Yee, E. Ellingson, A. K. Hicks, M. D. Gladders, L. F. Barrientos, B. Keeney

r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Hot Accretion Disk Flows from Black Hole - Neutron Star Mergers

• Authors: R. Surman, G.C. McLaughlin, M. Ruffert, H.-Th. Janka, W.R. Hix

tipa -- 3/12/2008

The Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant: G1.9+0.3

• Authors: S.P. Reynolds, K.J. Borkowski, D.A. Green, U. Hwang, I. Harrus, R. Petre

The contribution of star formation and merging to stellar mass buildup in galaxies

• Authors: Niv Drory (1), Marcelo Alvarez (2) ((1) MPE, Garching, Germany, (2) KIPAC-Stanford, USA)

Massive Star Formation in the Galactic Center

• Authors: D. F. Figer

tipa -- 3/11/2008

Discovery of a Young, Energetic 70.5 ms Pulsar Associated with the TeV Gamma-ray Source HESS J1837-069

• Authors: E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern (Columbia University)

tipa -- 3/10/2008

Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe

• Authors: Joshua Frieman (Chicago/Fermilab), Michael Turner (Chicago), Dragan Huterer (Michigan)

The energy spectrum of all-particle cosmic rays around the knee region observed with the Tibet-III air-shower array

• Authors: M. Amenomori, et al

The Extended HST Supernova Survey: The Rate of SNe Ia at z>1.4 Remains Low

• Authors: Tomas Dahlen (1), Louis-Gregory Strolger (1,2), Adam G. Riess (1,3) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) Western Kentucky University, (3) Johns Hopkins University)

Diffusive Shock Acceleration in Radiation Dominated Environments

• Authors: G. Vannoni, S. Gabici, F. A. Aharonian

classic papers of the week -- 58

Lens-Like Action of a Star by the Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field

• Einstein, Albert

On the Probability of Detecting Nebulae Which Act as Gravitational Lenses

• Zwicky, F. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

Gravitational microlensing by the galactic halo

• Paczynski, B. (Princeton University Observatory)

tipa -- 3/7/2008

The Cosmic Microwave Background for Pedestrians: A Review for Particle and Nuclear Physicists

• Authors: Dorothea Samtleben, Suzanne Staggs, Bruce Winstein