tipa -- 5/13/2008

Effects of gravitational-wave recoil on the dynamics and growth of supermassive black holes

• Authors: Laura Blecha, Abraham Loeb

Neutrinos from active black holes, sources of ultra high energy cosmic rays

• Authors: Julia K. Becker, Peter L. Biermann

GRB 080319B: A Naked-Eye Stellar Blast from the Distant Universe

• Authors: J. L. Racusin, S.V. Karpov, M. Sokolowski, J. Granot, X. F. Wu, V. Pal'shin, S. Covino, A.J. van der Horst, S. R. Oates, P. Schady, R. J. Smith, J. Cummings, R.L.C. Starling, L. W. Piotrowski, B. Zhang, P.A. Evans, S. T. Holland, K. Malek, M. T. Page, L. Vetere, R. Margutti, C. Guidorzi, A. Kamble, P.A. Curran, A. Beardmore, C. Kouveliotou, L. Mankiewicz, A. Melandri, P.T. O'Brien, K.L. Page, T. Piran, N. R. Tanvir, G. Wrochna, R.L. Aptekar, C. Bartolini, S. Barthelmy, G. M. Beskin, S. Bondar, S. Campana, A. Cucchiara, M. Cwiok, P. D'Avanzo, V. D'Elia, M. Della Valle, W. Dominik, A. Falcone, F. Fiore, D. B. Fox, D. D. Frederiks, A. S. Fruchter, D. Fugazza, M. Garrett, N. Gehrels, S. Golenetskii, A. Gomboc, G. Greco, A. Guarnieri, S. Immler, G. Kasprowicz, A. J. Levan, et al. (24 additional authors not shown)

tipa -- 5/12/2008

A Lyman Break Galaxy Candidate at z~9

• Authors: Alaina L. Henry, Matthew A. Malkan, James W. Colbert, Brian Siana, Harry I. Teplitz, Patrick McCarthy

Clumps and streams in the local dark matter distribution

• Authors: J. Diemand, M. Kuhlen, P. Madau, M. Zemp, B. Moore, D. Potter, J. Stadel

On the Possible Association of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Active Galaxies

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford/KIPAC), Lukasz Stawarz (KIPAC), Troy A. Porter (SCIPP/UCSC), Chi C. Cheung (NASA/GSFC)

Discovery of Fast-Moving X-Ray--Emitting Ejecta Knots in the Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant Puppis A

• Authors: S. Katsuda (1, 2), K. Mori (3), H. Tsunemi (1), S. Park (4), U. Hwang (2, 5), D. N. Burrows (4), J. P. Hughes (6), P. O. Slane (7) ((1)Osaka U. (2)NASA/GSFC, (3)Miyazaki U. (4)PSU, (5)Johns Hopkins U. (6)Rutgers U. (7)Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

classic papers of the week -- 67

Cosmological Constant and Elementary Particles

• Zel'Dovich, Ya. B.

Radiation Through a Foggy Atmosphere

• Schuster, Arthur

C(60): Buckminsterfullerene

• Kroto, H. W.; Heath, J. R.; Obrien, S. C.; Curl, R. F.; Smalley, R. E.

tipa -- 5/9/2008

Searching for Dark Matter with X-ray Observations of Local Dwarf Galaxies

• Authors: Tesla E. Jeltema, Stefano Profumo

Delving Deeper into the Tumultuous Lives of Galactic Dwarfs: Modeling Star Formation Histories

• Authors: Chris Orban, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Daniel R. Weisz, Evan D. Skillman, Andrew E. Dolphin, John A. Holtzman

CANGAROO-III Search for Gamma Rays from Kepler's Supernova Remnant

• Authors: R.Enomoto, Y.Higashi, T.Yoshida, T.Tanimori, et al

Early spectroscopic identification of SN 2008D

• Authors: D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, G. Leloudas, J. Sollerman, M. D. Stritzinger, P. M. Vreeswijk, D. J. Watson, J. Gorosabel, M. J. Michałowski, C. C. Thöne, T. Augusteijn, D. Bersier, P. Jakobsson, A. O. Jaunsen, C. Ledoux, A. J. Levan, B. Milvang-Jensen, E. Rol, N. R. Tanvir, K. Wiersema, D. Xu, L. Albert, M. Bayliss, C. Gall, L. F. Grove, B. P. Koester, E. Leitet, T. Pursimo, I. Skillen

tipa -- 5/8/2008

Young energetic PSR J1617-5055, its underluminous nebula and unidentified TeV source HESS J1616-508

• Authors: O. Kargaltsev, G. G. Pavlov, J. A. Wong

tipa -- 5/7/2008

A search for star-forming galaxies at z~7-10 in deep HST NICMOS imaging data around massive galaxy clusters

• Authors: Rychard J. Bouwens (UCSC), Garth D. Illingworth (UCSC), Larry D. Bradley (JHU), Holland Ford (JHU), Marijn Franx (Leiden), Wei Zheng (JHU), Tom Broadhurst (Tel Aviv), Dan Coe (JPL), M. James Jee (UCD)

Deuterium Abundance in the Most Metal-Poor Damped Lyman alpha System: Converging on Omega_baryons

• Authors: Max Pettini (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge), Berkeley J. Zych (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge), Michael T. Murphy (Swinburne University of Technology), Antony Lewis (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge), Charles C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

Direct dark matter identification with a hybrid detection technique

• Authors: A Bueno, M C Carmona, A J Melgarejo

Observation of Very High Energy Gamma Rays from HESS J1804-216 with CANGAROO-III Telescopes

• Authors: Y. Higashi, H. Kubo, T. Yoshida, R. Enomoto, T. Tanimori, P. G. Edwards, T. Naito, et al, for the CANGAROO-III Collaboration

tipa -- 5/6/2008

A Measurement of the Spatial Distribution of Diffuse TeV Gamma Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane with Milagro

• 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. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, C. M. Hoffman, P. H. H"untemeyer, B. E. Kolterman, C. P. Lansdell, J. T. Linnemann, J. E. McEnery, A. I. Mincer, I. V. Moskalenko P. Nemethy, D. Noyes, T. A. Porter, J. Pretz, J. M. Ryan, P. M. Saz Parkinson, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, A. W. Strong, G. W. Sullivan, V. Vasileiou, G. P. Walker, D. A. Williams, G. B. Yodh

The Host Galaxies of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: Luminosities, Metallicities, and Star Formation Rates

• Authors: E. Berger (Princeton/OCIW)

Fermi at Los Alamos and the early Britain's way to nuclear energy

• Authors: S. Esposito

tipa -- 5/5/2008

X-ray flares, neutrino cooled disks, and the dynamics of late accretion in GRB engines

• Authors: Davide Lazzati, Rosalba Perna, Mitchell C. Begelman (JILA)

What did we learn from gamma-ray burst 080319B ?

• Authors: P. Kumar, A. Panaitescu

In situ formation of the massive stars around SgrA*

• Authors: M. Mapelli (1), T. Hayfield (1,2), L. Mayer (1,2), J. Wadsley (3) ((1) University of Zürich, (2) ETH Zürich, (3) McMaster University)

The oldest X-ray supernovae: discovery of X-ray emission from 1941C, 1959D, 1968D

• Authors: Roberto Soria (MSSL/UCL), Rosalba Perna (JILA)

Measurement of single charged pion production in the charged-current interactions of neutrinos in a 1.3 GeV wide band beam

• Authors: A. Rodriguez, L. Whitehead, et al, for the K2K Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 66

Are gamma-ray bursts optically thick?

• Goodman, J. (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)

Extension of the Algebra of Poincare Group Generators and Violation of P Invariance

• Yu.A. Golfand, E.P. Likhtman (Physics Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences)

An analytic expression for the luminosity function for galaxies

• Schechter, P.

tipa -- 5/1/2008

Ubiquitous outflows in DEEP2 spectra of star-forming galaxies at z=1.4

• Authors: Benjamin J. Weiner (1), Alison L. Coil (1), Jason X. Prochaska (2), Jeffrey A. Newman (3), Michael C. Cooper (1), Kevin Bundy (4), Christopher J. Conselice (5), Aaron A. Dutton (2), S. M. Faber (2), David C. Koo (2), Jennifer M. Lotz (6), G.H. Rieke (1), K.H.R. Rubin (2) (1-Steward Observatory, 2-UCO/Lick, 3-U. of Pittsburgh, 4-U. of Toronto, 5-U. of Nottingham, 6-NOAO)

The radial distribution of type Ia supernovae in early-type galaxies: implications for progenitor scenarios

• Authors: Francisco Forster, Kevin Schawinski

Detectability of gamma-ray emission from classical novae with Swift/BAT

• Authors: F. Senziani, G.K. Skinner, P. Jean, M. Hernanz

Charge amplification concepts for direction-sensitive dark matter detectors

• Authors: D.Dujmic, P.Fisher, G.Sciolla, S.Ahlen, V.Dutta, S.Henderson, A.Kaboth, G.Kohse, R.Lanza, J.Monroe, A.Roccaro, N.Skvorodnev, H.Tomita, R.Vanderspek, H.Wellenstein, R.Yamamoto

The UDF05 Follow-up of the HUDF: II. Constraints on Reionization from z-dropout Galaxies

• Authors: P. A. Oesch, C. M. Carollo, M. Stiavelli, M. Trenti, L. E. Bergeron, A. M. Koekemoer, R. A. Lucas, C. M. Pavlovsky, T. Dahlen, H. C. Ferguson, Jonathan P. Gardner, S. J. Lilly, B. Mobasher, N. Panagia

Measurement of branching fractions, isospin and CP-violating asymmetries for exclusive $b \to d\gamma$ modes

• Authors: N.Taniguchi, M.Nakao, S.Nishida, for the Belle Collaboration

Monitoring the Thermal Power of Nuclear Reactors with a Prototype Cubic Meter Antineutrino Detector

• Authors: A. Bernstein, N. S. Bowden, A. Misner, T. Palmer

tipa -- 4/30/2008

A Survey for Fast Transients in the Fornax Cluster of Galaxies

• Authors: A.Rau (1), E.O. Ofek (1), S.R. Kulkarni (1), B.F. Madore (2), O. Pevunova (3), M. Ajello (4) ((1) Caltech, (2) Carnegie, (3) IPAC, (4) MPE)

A recoiling supermassive black hole in the quasar SDSSJ092712.65+294344.0?

• Authors: S. Komossa, H. Zhou, H. Lu (MPE)

tipa -- 4/29/2008

Infall caustics in dark matter halos?

• Authors: J. Diemand (UCSC), M. Kuhlen (IAS Princeton)

New (and Old) Perspectives on Higgs Physics

• Authors: John F. Gunion

Higgs at LHC

• Authors: Sara Bolognesi, Giuseppe Bozzi, Andrea Di Simone

tipa -- 4/28/2008

Revealing the High-Redshift Star Formation Rate with Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Hasan Yuksel, Matthew D. Kistler, John F. Beacom (Ohio State University), Andrew M. Hopkins (University of Sydney)

The most massive progenitors of neutron stars: CXO J164710.2-455216

• Authors: K.Belczynski (LANL), R.Taam (NU)

classic papers of the week -- 65

On Transition Probabilities in Double Beta-Disintegration

• Furry, W. H. (Physics Research Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

Supersymmetry and the Scale of Unification

• S. Dimopoulos (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Michigan) , S. Raby (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) , Frank Wilczek (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Type I supernovae come from short-lived stars

• Oemler, A., Jr.; Tinsley, B. M.

tipa -- 4/25/2008

Effects of Supernova Feedback on the Formation of Galaxy Disks

• Authors: Cecilia Scannapieco (1), Patricia B. Tissera (2), Simon D.M. White (1), Volker Springel (1) ((1) Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics - Garching; (2) Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics - Buenos Aires)

Neutrino Interactions

• Authors: Kevin McFarland

tipa -- 4/24/2008

Time Dilation in Type Ia Supernova Spectra at High Redshift

• Authors: S. Blondin, T. M. Davis, K. Krisciunas, B. P. Schmidt, J. Sollerman, W. M. Wood-Vasey, A. C. Becker, P. Challis, A. Clocchiatti, G. Damke, A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, P. M. Garnavich, S. W. Jha, R. P. Kirshner, B. Leibundgut, W. Li, T. Matheson, G. Miknaitis, G. Narayan, G. Pignata, A. Rest, A. G. Riess, J. M. Silverman, R. C. Smith, J. Spyromilio, M. Stritzinger, C. W. Stubbs, N. B. Suntzeff, J. L. Tonry, B. E. Tucker, A. Zenteno

Supernova 1996cr: SN 1987A's Wild Cousin?

• Authors: F. E. Bauer (1), V. V. Dwarkadas (2), W. N. Brandt (3), S. Immler (4), S. Smartt (5), N. Bartel (6), M. F. Bietenholz (6 and 7) ((1) Columbia, (2) Chicago, (3) Penn State, (4) GSFC, (5) Queen's Belfast, (6) York, (7) Hartebeesthoek Radio Observatory)

tipa -- 4/23/2008

Gravitational Instability in Radiation Pressure Dominated Backgrounds

• Authors: Todd A. Thompson

Overdensity of i'-Dropout Galaxies in the Subaru Deep Field: A Candidate Protocluster at z ~ 6

• Authors: Kazuaki Ota, Nobunari Kashikawa, Matthew A. Malkan, Masanori Iye, Tadashi Nakajima, Tohru Nagao, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Poshak Gandhi

The Hard VHE Gamma-ray Emission in High-Redshift TeV Blazars: Comptonization of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in an Extended Jet?

• Authors: Markus Boettcher, Charles D. Dermer, Justin D. Finke

Combined CDF and D0 Upper Limits on Standard Model Higgs-Boson Production with up to 2.4 fb-1 of data

• Authors: The TEVNPH Working Group, for the CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration

tipa -- 4/22/2008

The Cosmic Evolution of Metallicity from the SDSS Fossil Record

• Authors: Benjamin Panter, Raul Jimenez, Alan F. Heavens, Stephane Charlot

FUSE Deuterium Observations: A Strong Case For Galactic Infall

• Authors: Tijana Prodanovic, Brian D. Fields

Diffuse TeV Emission at the Galactic Centre

• Authors: Elizabeth Wommer, Fulvio Melia, Marco Fatuzzo

Contrasting solar and reactor neutrinos with a non-zero value of theta13

• Authors: A.B. Balantekin, D. Yilmaz (Wisconsin U., Madison)

The "Top Priority" at the LHC

• Authors: Tao Han

tipa -- 4/21/2008

Improved Spin-Dependent WIMP Limits from a Bubble Chamber

• Authors: E. Behnke, J.I. Collar, P.S. Cooper, K. Crum, M. Crisler, M. Hu, I. Levine, D. Nakazawa, H. Nguyen, B. Odom, E. Ramberg, J. Rasmussen, N. Riley, A. Sonnenschein, M. Szydagis, R. Tschirhart

Detecting the Milky Way's Dark Disk

• Authors: T. Bruch, J. Read, L. Baudis, G. Lake (University of Zurich)

classic papers of the week -- 64

Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation

• Wheeler, John Archibald; Feynman, Richard Phillips (Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)

The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission

• Bohr, Niels (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark); Wheeler, John Archibald (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)

Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction

• Meitner, Lise (Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Stockholm); Frisch, Otto R. (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University, Copenhagen)

Neutron Capture and Nuclear Constitution

• Bohr, Niels

See also

Über den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle

• Hahn, O.; Strassmann, F.