tipa -- 4/9/2008

Probing Shock Breakout with Serendipitous GALEX Detections of Two SNLS Type II-P Supernovae

• Authors: Suvi Gezari, Luc Dessart, Stephane Basa, D. Chris Martin, James D. Neill, S.E. Woosley, D. John Hillier, Pierre Astier, Dave Balam, Christophe Balland, Gurvan Bazin, Ray Carlberg, Alex Conley, Karl Forster, Dominique Fouchez, Peter G. Friedman, Julien Guy, Delphine Hardin, Isobel Hook, D. Andrew Howell, Jeremy Le Du, Chris Lidman, Alain Mazure, Patrick Morrissey, Susan G. Neff, Reynald Pain, Kathy Perrett, Chris Pritchet, Nicolas Regnault, David Schiminovich, Mark Sullivan, Ted K. Wyder

tipa -- 4/8/2008

The Early-time Optical Properties of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows

• Authors: A.Melandri, C.G.Mundell, S.Kobayashi, C.Guidorzi, A.Gomboc, I.A.Steele, R.J.Smith, D.Bersier, C.J.Mottram, D.Carter, M.F.Bode, P.T.O'Brien, N.R.Tanvir, E.Rol, R.Chapman

Direct Measurement of the Delay Time Distribution of Type Ia Supernovae by the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey and Implications for the Progenitor

• Authors: Tomonori Totani, Tomoki Morokuma, Takeshi Oda, Mamoru Doi, Naoki Yasuda

On the interpretation of the cosmic-ray anisotropy at ultra-high energies

• Authors: D.S. Gorbunov, P.G. Tinyakov, I.I. Tkachev, S.V. Troitsky

Evidence for CP violation in B0->J/Psi pi0 decays

• Authors: B. Aubert, et al

Neutrino Oscillation Phenomenology

• Authors: Boris Kayser

classic papers of the week -- 62

Shock Waves and Radiation

• Zel'Dovich, Y. B.; Raizer, Y. P.

Cosmological Constraints on the Properties of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles

• Gary Steigman (Bartol Research Foundation, University of Delaware, Newark, DE), Michael S. Turner (Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

tipa -- 4/4/2008

The (Re-)Discovery of G350.1-0.3: A Young, Luminous Supernova Remnant and Its Neutron Star

• Authors: B. M. Gaensler (1), A. Tanna (1), P. O. Slane (2), C. L. Brogan (3), J. D. Gelfand (4), N. M. McClure-Griffiths (5), F. Camilo (6), C.-Y. Ng (1), J. M. Miller (7) ((1) U. Sydney, (2) CfA, (3) NRAO, (4) NYU, (5) ATNF, (6) Columbia U., (7) U. Michigan)

SN 1994W: a Type IIn Supernova without Core Collapse?

• Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Suvi Gezari, Stephane Basa, Tom Matheson

tipa -- 4/3/2008

2D Multi-Angle, Multi-Group Neutrino Radiation-Hydrodynamic Simulations of Postbounce Supernova Cores

• Authors: Christian D. Ott (1), Adam Burrows (2,1), Luc Dessart (2,1), Eli Livne (3) ((1) Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, (2) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, (3) Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University)

Search for Correlations between HiRes Stereo Events and Active Galactic Nuclei

• Authors: R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen, J. F. Amman, G. Archbold, K. Belov, J. W. Belz, S. Y. BenZvi, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, J. H. Boyer, O. A. Brusova, G. W. Burt, C. Cannon, Z. Cao, W. Deng, Y. Fedorova, J. Findlay, C. B. Finley, R. C. Gray, W. F. Hanlon, C. M. Hoffman, M. H. Holzscheiter, G. Hughes, P. Huntemeyer, D. Ivanov, B. F Jones, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kim, M. A. Kirn, B. C. Knapp, E. C. Loh, M. M. Maestas, N. Manago, E. J. Mannel, L. J. Marek, K. Martens, J. N. Matthews, S. A. Moore, A. O'Neill, C. A. Painter, L. Perera, K. Reil, R. Riehle, M. D. Roberts, D. Rodriguez N. Sasaki, S. R. Schnetzer, L. M. Scott, M. Seman, G. Sinnis, J. D. Smith, R. Snow, P. Sokolsky, C. Song, R. W. Springer, B. T. Stokes, S. R. Stratton, J. R. Thomas, S. B. Thomas, G. B. Thomson, D. Tupa, L. R. Wiencke, et al (1 additional authors not shown)

The Galactic gamma-ray club

• Authors: Isabelle A. Grenier

tipa -- 4/2/2008

SN 2006tf: Precursor Eruptions and the Optically Thick Regime of Extremely Luminous Type IIn Supernovae

• Authors: Nathan Smith, Ryan Chornock, Weidong Li, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko, Aaron J. Barth

Observations of the Corona Borealis supercluster with the superextended Very Small Array: further constraints on the nature of the non-Gaussian CMB cold spot

• Authors: Ricardo Genova-Santos, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Rafael Rebolo, Richard A. Battye, Francisco Blanco, Rod D. Davies, Richard J. Davis, Thomas Franzen, Keith Grainge, Michael P. Hobson, Anthony Lasenby, Carmen P. Padilla-Torres, Guy G. Pooley, Richard D.E. Saunders, Anna Scaife, Paul F. Scott, David Titterington, Marco Tucci, Robert A. Watson

A Cosmic Ray Positron Anisotropy due to Two Middle-Aged, Nearby Pulsars?

• Authors: I. Buesching, O. C. de Jager, M.S. Potgieter, C. Venter

tipa -- 4/1/2008

Solar neutrino measurements in Super-Kamiokande-II

• Authors: The Super-Kamiokande collaboration

A Hubble & Spitzer Space Telescope Survey for Gravitationally-Lensed Galaxies: Further Evidence for a Significant Population of Low Luminosity Galaxies beyond Redshift Seven

• Authors: Johan Richard (Caltech), Daniel P. Stark (Caltech), Richard S. Ellis (Caltech), Matthew R. George (Caltech), Eiichi Egami (Steward Observatory), Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM/OAMP), Graham P. Smith (U. Birmingham)

Model-Independent Determination of the WIMP Mass from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

• Authors: Manuel Drees, Chung-Lin Shan

tipa -- 3/31/2008

The Kinematics of Kepler's Supernova Remnant as revealed by Chandra

• Authors: J. Vink (Utrecht University)

GRB 070306: A Highly Extinguished Afterglow

• Authors: A. O. Jaunsen, E. Rol, D. J. Watson, D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, B. Milvang-Jensen, J. Hjorth, P. M. Vreeswijk, J. -E. Ovaldsen, K. Wiersema, N. R. Tanvir, J. Gorosabel, A. J. Levan, M. Schirmer, A. J. Castro-Tirado

The star formation efficiency and its relation to variations in the initial mass function

• Authors: Paul C. Clark, Ian A. Bonnell, Ralf S. Klessen

classic papers of the week -- 61

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

• A.D. Sakharov

See also

Remarks on the quantum theory of the absolute zero of temperature

• Beck, G.; Bethe, H.; Riezler, W.

See also

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)