tipa -- 6/2/2008

Outliers from the mainstream: how a massive star can produce a gamma-ray burst

• Authors: S. Campana (OABrera), N. Panagia (STSci), D. Lazzati (JILA), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), G. Cusumano (IASF-Pa), O. Godet (U. Leicester), G. Chincarini (U. Bicocca), S. Covino (OABrera), M. Della Valle (OACapodimonte), C. Guidorzi (OABrera), D. Malesani (Dark), A. Moretti (OABrera), R. Perna (JILA), P. Romano (IASF-Pa), G. Tagliaferri (OABrera)

Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al

Implications of the cosmic ray spectrum for the mass composition at the highest energies

• Authors: D. Allard, N.G Busca, G. Decerprit, A. V. Olinto, E. Parizot

An infrared ring around the magnetar SGR 1900+14

• Authors: S. Wachter, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, V. V. Dwarkadas, C. Kouveliotou, J. Granot, S. K. Patel, D. Figer

classic papers of the week -- 70

On dense matter

• Fowler, R. H.

Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

• Leavitt, Henrietta S.; Pickering, Edward C.

Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations

• Kardashev, N. S.

tipa -- 5/30/2008

Time-Dependent Models of Accretion Disks Formed from Compact Object Mergers

• Authors: B. D. Metzger, A. L. Piro, E. Quataert

The Dark Matter Annihilation Signal from Galactic Substructure: Predictions for GLAST

• Authors: Michael Kuhlen, Jürg Diemand, Piero Madau

The Star Formation Rate - Dense Gas Relation in Galaxies as Measured by HCN (3-2) Emission

• Authors: R. S. Bussmann, D. Narayanan, Y. L. Shirley, S. Juneau, J. Wu, P. M. Solomon, P. A. Vanden Bout, J. Moustakas, C. K. Walker

The Cassiopeia A Supernova was of Type IIB

• Authors: Oliver Krause, Stephan M. Birkmann, Tomonori Usuda, Takashi Hattori, Miwa Goto, George H. Rieke, Karl A. Misselt

Scattered-Light Echoes from the Historical Galactic Supernovae Cassiopeia A and Tycho (SN 1572)

• Authors: A. Rest, D. L. Welch, N. B. Suntzeff, L. Oaster, H. Lanning, K. Olsen, R. C. Smith, A. C. Becker, M. Bergmann, P. Challis, A. Clocchiatti, K. H. Cook, G. Damke, A. Garg, M. E. Huber, T. Matheson, D. Minniti, J. L. Prieto, W. M. Wood-Vasey

Comparison of cosmic ray flux at sqrt(s) > 14 TeV with LHC luminosity

• Authors: Frank E. Taylor

tipa -- 5/29/2008

Supernovae in Early-Type Galaxies: Directly Connecting Age and Metallicity with Type Ia Luminosity

• Authors: J. S. Gallagher, P. M. Garnavich, N. Caldwell, R. P. Kirshner, S. W. Jha, W. Li, M. Ganeshalingam, A. V. Filippenko

Upper limits on the diffuse supernova neutrino flux from the SuperKamiokande data

• Authors: Cecilia Lunardini, Orlando L. G. Peres

tipa -- 5/28/2008

Detections of Lyman Continuum from Star-forming Galaxies at z~3 Through Subaru/Suprime-Cam Narrow-band Imaging

• Authors: I. Iwata, A. K. Inoue, Y. Matsuda, H. Furusawa, T. Hayashino, K. Kousai, M. Akiyama, T. Yamada, D. Burgarella, J.-M. Deharveng

The Star Formation Rate - Dense Gas Relation in the Nuclei of Nearby Galaxies

• Authors: Desika Narayanan, Thomas J. Cox, Lars Hernquist (CfA)

Evidence for Luminosity Evolution of Long Gamma-ray Bursts in Swift Data

• Authors: R. Salvaterra, C. Guidorzi, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, G. Tagliaferri

Reconciling Grand Unification with Strings by Anisotropic Compactifications

• Authors: Ben Dundee, Stuart Raby, Akin Wingerter

tipa -- 5/27/2008

Influence of light nuclei on neutrino-driven supernova outflows

• Authors: A.Arcones, G.Martinez-Pinedo, E.O'Connor, A.Schwenk, H.-Th.Janka, C.J.Horowitz, K.Langanke

New results on solar neutrino fluxes from 192 days of Borexino data

• Authors: The Borexino Collaboration

Clustering of supernova Ia host galaxies

• Authors: R. G. Carlberg, M. Sullivan, D. Le Borgne, A. Conley, D. A. Howell, K. Perrett, P. Astier, D. Balam, C. Balland, S. Basa, D. Hardin, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, I. Hook, R. Pain, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, S. Perlmutter

tipa -- 5/26/2008

CMB and 21-cm Signals for Dark Matter with a Long-Lived Excited State

• Authors: Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Neal Weiner

classic papers of the week -- 69

A New and Curious Theory of Light and Heat

• Benjamin Franklin

Diffuse fluxes of cosmic high-energy neutrinos

• 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.