today in particle astrophysics

Stecker, F. W. (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, Greenbelt, Md.)

A Generalist Looks Back

Salpeter, Edwin E.

tipa -- 5/23/2008

The End of Amnesia: A New Method for Measuring the Metallicity of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors Using Manganese Lines in Supernova Remnants

Authors: Carles Badenes, Eduardo Bravo, John P. Hughes

Criteria for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions by the Neutrino Mechanism

Authors: Jeremiah W. Murphy (1), Adam Burrows (2,1) ((1) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, (2) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University)

Electroweak Bremsstrahlung in Dark Matter Annihilation

Authors: Nicole F. Bell, James B. Dent, Thomas D. Jacques, Thomas J. Weiler

tipa -- 5/22/2008

Black Hole Growth from Cosmological N-body Simulations

Authors: Miroslav Micic, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Steinn Sigurdsson

On the Formation of Compact Stellar Disks Around Sgr A*

Authors: Mark Wardle (Macquarie University), Farhad Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern University)

tipa -- 5/21/2008

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from the XENON10 experiment

Authors: J. Angle, E. Aprile, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, A. Bernstein, A. Bolozdynya, P. Brusov, L.C.C. Coelho, C.E. Dahl, L. DeViveiros, A.D. Ferella, L.M.P. Fernandes, S. Fiorucci, R.J. Gaitskell, K.L. Giboni, R. Gomez, R. Hasty, L. Kastens, J. Kwong, J.A.M. Lopes, N. Madden, A. Manalaysay, A. Manzur, D.N. McKinsey, M.E. Monzani, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, J. Orboeck, G. Plante, R. Santorelli, J.M.F. dos Santos, P. Shagin, T. Shutt, P. Sorensen, S. Schulte, C. Winant, M. Yamashita, for the XENON10 Collaboration

Very Broad [O III]4959,5007 Emission from the NGC 4472 Globular Cluster RZ2109 and Implications for the Mass of Its Black Hole X-ray Source

Authors: Stephen E. Zepf, Daniel Stern, Thomas J. Maccarone, Arunav Kundu, Marc Kamionkowski, Katherine L. Rhode, John J. Salzer, Robin Ciardullo, Caryl Gronwall

Dark Energy Detected with Supervoids and Superclusters

Authors: Benjamin R. Granett, Mark C. Neyrinck, István Szapudi (IfA, Hawaii)

tipa -- 5/20/2008

High energy radiation from Centaurus A

Authors: M. Kachelriess, S. Ostapchenko, R. Tomas

No evidence for the cold spot in the NVSS radio survey

Authors: Kendrick M. Smith, Dragan Huterer

tipa -- 5/19/2008

GRB 071003: Broadband Follow-up Observations of a Very Bright Gamma-Ray Burst in a Galactic Halo

Authors: D. A. Perley, W. Li, R. Chornock, J. X. Prochaska, N. R. Butler, P. Chandra, L. K. Pollack, J. S. Bloom, A. V. Filippenko, C. Akerlof, M. W. Auger, S. B. Cenko, H.-W. Chen, C. D. Fassnacht, D. Fox, D. Frail, E. M. Johansson, D. Le Mignant, M. Modjaz, M. A. Skinner, G. H. Smith, H. Swan, M. A. van Dam, F. Yuan

An Eccentric Binary Millisecond Pulsar in the Galactic Plane

Authors: D. J. Champion, S. M. Ransom, P. Lazarus, F. Camilo, C. Bassa, V. M. Kaspi, D. J. Nice, P. C. C. Freire, I. H. Stairs, J. van Leeuwen, B. W. Stappers, J. M. Cordes, J. W. T. Hessels, D. R. Lorimer, Z. Arzoumanian, D. C. Backer, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Chatterjee, I. Cognard, J. S. Deneva, C.-A. Faucher-Giguere, B. M. Gaensler, J. L. Han, F. A. Jenet, L. Kasian, V. I. Kondratiev, M. Kramer, J. Lazio, M. A. McLaughlin, A. Venkataraman, W. Vlemmings

classic papers of the week -- 68

Light Pulses from the Night Sky associated with Cosmic Rays

W. Galbraith & J. V. Jelley (Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Didcot, Berks.)

Visible Radiation Produced by Electrons Moving in a Medium with Velocities Exceeding that of Light

Čerenkov, P. A. (The Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of U.S.S.R., Moscow)

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

J. D. Watson & F. H. C. Crick

tipa -- 5/16/2008

From Shock Breakout to Peak and Beyond: Extensive Panchromatic Observations of the Aspherical Type Ib Supernova 2008D associated with Swift X-ray Transient 080109

Authors: Maryam Modjaz, W. Li, N. Butler, R. Chornock, D. Perley, S. Blondin, J. S. Bloom, A. V. Filippenko, R. P. Kirshner, D. Kocevski, D. Poznanski, M. Hicken, R. J. Foley, G. S. Stringfellow, P. Berlind, D. Barrado y Navascues, C. H. Blake, H. Bouy, W. Brown, P. Challis, H. Chen, W. H. de Vries, P. Dufour, E. Falco, A. Friedman, M. Ganeshalingam, P. Garnavich, B. Holden, G. Illingworth, J. Liebert, G. H. Marion, N. Lee, S. S. Olivier, E. Olszewski, J. X. Prochaska, J. M. Silverman, N. Smith, D. Starr, T. N. Steele, A. Stockton, G. G. Williams, W. M. Wood-Vasey

Effect of energy deposited by cosmic-ray particles on interferometric gravitational wave detectors

Authors: Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Hideaki Hayakawa, Atsushi Okada, Takashi Uchiyama, Shinji Miyoki, Masatake Ohashi, Kazuaki Kuroda, Nobuyuki Kanda, Daisuke Tatsumi, Yoshiki Tsunesada

Current NuMI/MINOS Oscillation Results

Authors: A. Habig, for the MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 5/15/2008

CN-Cycle Solar Neutrinos and Sun's Primordial Core Metalicity

Authors: W. C. Haxton, A. M. Serenelli

Constraining massive neutrinos using cosmological 21 cm observations

Authors: Jonathan R. Pritchard (CfA), Elena Pierpaoli (USC)

On Active Galactic Nuclei as Sources of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

Authors: Matthew R. George (1), Andrew C. Fabian (1), Wayne H. Baumgartner (2 and 3), Richard F. Mushotzky (2), Jack Tueller (2) ((1) IoA Cambridge, (2) NASA/GSFC, (3) UMBC)

The Delay Time Distribution of Type Ia Supernovae and the Single Degenerate Model

Authors: Izumi Hachisu (Univ. of Tokyo), Mariko Kato (Keio Univ.), Ken'ichi Nomoto (Univ. of Tokyo)

tipa -- 5/14/2008

A comment on the Auger events correlation with AGN

Authors: Todor Stanev

Measurement of cosmic-ray low-energy antiproton spectrum with the first BESS-Polar Antarctic flight

Authors: K. Abe, H. Fuke, S. Haino, T. Hams, A. Itazaki, K. C. Kim, T. Kumazawa, M. H. Lee, Y. Makida, S. Matsuda, K. Matsumoto, J. W. Mitchell, A. A. Moiseev, Z. Myers, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, R. Orito, J. F. Ormes, M. Sasaki, E. S. Seo, Y. Shikaze, R. E. Streitmatter, J. Suzuki, Y. Takasugi, K. Takeuchi, K. Tanaka, T. Yamagami, A. Yamamoto, T. Yoshida, K. Yoshimura

The type IIb SN 2008ax: the nature of the progenitor

Authors: R. M. Crockett, J. J. Eldridge, S. J. Smartt, A. Pastorello, A. Gal-Yam, D. B. Fox, D. C. Leonard, M. M. Kasliwal, S. Mattila, J. R. Maund, A. W. Stephens, I. J. Danziger

Compatibility of high-$\Delta \mathrm{m}^2$ $\nue$ and $\nuebar$ neutrino oscillation searches

Authors: The MiniBooNE Collaboration

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