tipa -- 7/18/2008

Linking Short Gamma Ray Bursts and their Host Galaxies

• Authors: James E. Rhoads

Relativistic Spin Precession in the Double Pulsar

• Authors: Rene P. Breton (1), Victoria M. Kaspi (1), Michael Kramer (2), Maura A. McLaughlin (3,4), Maxim Lyutikov (5), Scott M. Ransom (6), Ingrid H. Stairs (7), Robert D. Ferdman (7,8), Fernando Camilo (9), Andrea Possenti (10) ((1) McGill University, (2) Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, (3) West Virginia University, (4) NRAO Green Bank, (5) Purdue University, (6) NRAO Charlottesville, (7) University of British Columbia, (8) LPCE / CNRS, (9) Columbia University, (10) INAF)

Neutrino-Nucleus Reaction Cross Sections for Light Element Synthesis in Supernova Explosions

• Authors: T. Yoshida (1), T. Suzuki (2), S. Chiba (3), T. Kajino (1), H. Yokomakura (4), K. Kimura (4), A. Takamura (5), D. H. Hartmann (6) ((1)NAOJ, (2)Nihon U., (3)JAEA, (4)Nagoya U., (5)Toyota Coll. Tech., (6)Clemson U.)

Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays from a Distant Quasar: How Transparent Is the Universe?

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration: J. Albert, et al

tipa -- 7/17/2008

Two extremely luminous WN stars in the Galactic center with circumstellar emission from dust and gas

• Authors: A. Barniske, L. M. Oskinova, W.-R. Hamann

Will the LHC Look into the Fate of the Universe?

• Authors: Steven A. Abel, John Ellis, Joerg Jaeckel, Valentin V. Khoze

tipa -- 7/16/2008

Origin of the S-Stars in the Galactic Center

• Authors: Ulf Löckmann, Holger Baumgardt, Pavel Kroupa

The Physical Scale of the Far-Infrared Emission in the Most Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies

• Authors: Joshua D. Younger, Giovanni G. Fazio, David J. Wilner, Matthew L. N. Ashby, Raymond Blundell, Mark A. Gurwell, Jia-Sheng Huang, Daisuke Iono, Alison B. Peck, Glen R. Petitpas, Kimberly S. Scott, Grant W. Wilson, Min S. Yun

A z = 3 Lyman Alpha Blob Associated with a Damped Lyman Alpha System Proximate to its Background Quasar

• Authors: Joseph F. Hennawi (1), J. Xavier Prochaska (2), Juna Kollmeier (3), Zheng Zheng (4) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) UC Berkeley, (3) Carnegie Observatories, (4) Institute for Advanced Study)

Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment

• Authors: P. Adamson, et al., for the MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 7/15/2008

Search for Oscillation of the Electron-Capture Decay Probability of $^{142}$Pm

• Authors: P. A. Vetter, R. M. Clark, J. Dvorak, S. J. Freedman, K. E. Gregorich, H. B. Jeppesen, D. Mittelberger, M. Wiedeking

tipa -- 7/14/2008

Massive Star Formation in the Molecular Ring Orbiting the Black Hole at the Galactic Center

• Authors: F. Yusef-Zadeh, J. Braatz, M. Wardle, D. Roberts

A ~1-hour X-ray periodicity in an active galaxy RE J1034+396

• Authors: Marek Gierlinski, Matthew Middleton, Martin Ward, Chris Done

Reconstructing the Guitar: Blowing Bubbles with a Pulsar Bow Shock Back Flow

• Authors: Marten H. van Kerkwijk (Toronto), Ashleigh Ingle (Toronto)

Exotic Implications of Electron and Photon Final States

• Authors: Lisa Randall, Mark B. Wise

classic papers of the week -- 74

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?

• Bohr, N. (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University, Copenhagen)

Deterministic nonperiodic flow

• Edward N. Lorenz

The Scale of the Universe

• Harlow Shapley (Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington); Heber D. Curtis (Director, Allegheny Observatory)

tipa -- 7/11/2008

Supernova 2008D associated with the Luminous X-ray Transient 080109: An Energetic Explosion of a Massive Helium Star

• Authors: Masaomi Tanaka, Nozomu Tominaga, Ken'ichi Nomoto, S. Valenti, D.K. Sahu, T. Minezaki, Y. Yoshii, M. Yoshida, G.C. Anupama, S. Benetti, G. Chincarini, M. Della Valle, P. A. Mazzali, E. Pian

The metamorphosis of Supernova SN2008D/XRF080109: a link between Supernovae and GRBs/Hypernovae

• Authors: Paolo A. Mazzali, Stefano Valenti, Massimo Della Valle, Guido Chincarini, Daniel N. Sauer, Stefano Benetti, Elena Pian, Tsvi Piran, Valerio D'Elia, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Raffaella Margutti, Francesco Pasotti, L. Angelo Antonelli, Filomena Bufano, Sergio Campana, Enrico Cappellaro, Stefano Covino, Paolo D'Avanzo, Fabrizio Fiore, Dino Fugazza, Roberto Gilmozzi, Deborah Hunter, Kate Maguire, Elisabetta Maiorano, Paola Marziani, Nicola Masetti, Felix Mirabel, Hripsime Navasardyan, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Eliana Palazzi, Andrea Pastorello, Nino Panagia, Leonardo J. Pellizza, Re'em Sari, Stephen Smartt, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Masaomi Tanaka, Stefan Taubenberger, Nozomu Tominaga, Carrie Trundle, Massimo Turatto

Neutrino Mass and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

• Authors: Petr Vogel

tipa -- 7/10/2008

A Three-Decade Outburst of the LMC Luminous Blue Variable R127 Draws to a Close

• Authors: Nolan R. Walborn (Space Telescope Science Institute), Otmar Stahl (ZAH, Landessternwarte Konigstuhl), Roberto C. Gamen (Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito, CONICET), Thomas Szeifert (European Southern Observatory), Nidia I. Morrell (Las Campanas Observatory, The Carnegie Observatories), Nathan Smith (University of California--Berkeley), Ian D. Howarth (University College London), Roberta M. Humphreys (University of Minnesota), Howard E. Bond (Space Telescope Science Institute), Daniel J. Lennon (Space Telescope Science Institute)

The short GRB070707 afterglow and its very faint host galaxy

• Authors: S. Piranomonte, P. D'Avanzo, S. Covino, L. A. Antonelli, A. P. Beardmore, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, V. D'Elia, M. Della Valle, F. Fiore, D. Fugazza, D. Guetta, C. Guidorzi, G. L. Israel, D. Lazzati, D. Malesani, A. M. Parsons, R. Perna, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, S.D. Vergani

Revealing dark matter substructure with anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background

• Authors: Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

When teaching: Out with magnitudes, in with monochromatic luminosities!

• Authors: Frank Verbunt

tipa -- 7/9/2008

Probing Electron-Capture Supernovae: X-Ray Binaries in Starbursts

• Authors: T. Linden, J. F. Sepinsky, V. Kalogera, K. Belczynski

First Penning-trap mass measurement in the millisecond half-life range: the halo nucleus 11Li

• Authors: M. Smith, M. Brodeur, T. Brunner, S. Ettenauer, A Lapierre, R. Ringle, V. L. Ryjkov, F. Ames, P. Bricault, G. W. F. Drake, P. Delheij, D Lunney, J. Dilling

tipa -- 7/8/2008

Experimental constraints on a dark matter origin for the DAMA annual modulation effect

• Authors: C.E. Aalseth, P.S. Barbeau, D.G. Cerdeno, J. Colaresi, J.I. Collar, P. de Lurgio, G. Drake, J.E. Fast, C.H. Greenberg, T.W. Hossbach, J.D. Kephart, M.G. Marino, H.S. Miley, J.L. Orrell, D. Reyna, R.G.H. Robertson, R. Talaga, O. Tench, T.D. Van Wechel, J.F. Wilkerson, K.M. Yocum

SN2007ax : An Extremely Faint Type Ia Supernova

• Authors: M. M. Kasliwal (1), E. O. Ofek (1), A. Gal-Yam (1), A. Rau (1), P. J. Brown (2), S. B. Cenko (1), P. B. Cameron (1), R. Quimby (1), S. R. Kulkarni (1), L. Bildsten (3), P. Milne (4) ((1) Caltech, (2) PSU, (3) UCSB, (4)Steward Obs.)

On Prompt High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Kohta Murase

classic papers of the week -- 73

Discussion on the theory of relativity

• Eddington, A. S.; Jeans, J. H.; Lodge, Oliver, Sir; Larmor, Joseph, Sir; Silberstein, L.; Lindemann, F. A.; Jeffreys, H.

Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation

• Dyson, Freeman J.

Transplutonium Elements in Thermonuclear Test Debris

• Fields, P. R.; Studier, M. H.; Diamond, H.; Mech, J. F.; Inghram, M. G.; Pyle, G. L.; Stevens, C. M.; Fried, S.; Manning, W. M. (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL); Ghiorso, A.; Thompson, S. G.; Higgins, G. H.; Seaborg, G. T. (University of California, Berkeley, CA)

tipa -- 7/4/2008

Properties of Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor Stars

• Authors: Pawan Kumar, Ramesh Narayan, Jarrett L. Johnson

NGC 2770 - a supernova Ib factory?

• Authors: Christina C. Thoene, Michal J. Michalowski, Giorgos Leloudas, Nick L. J. Cox, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Jesper Sollerman, Jens Hjorth, Paul M. Vreeswijk

tipa -- 7/3/2008

Tidal Disruption Flares from Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes

• Authors: Stefanie Komossa, David Merritt

Nonthermal neutrinos from supernovae leaving a magnetar

• Authors: Shunsaku Horiuchi, Yudai Suwa, Hajime Takami, Shin'ichiro Ando, Katsuhiko Sato

Gamma Ray Burst Predictions for GLAST

• Authors: Truong Le, Charles D. Dermer

tipa -- 7/2/2008

A Glimpse into the Past: The Recent Evolution of Globular Clusters

• Authors: Jasonjot S. Kalirai, Jay Strader, Harvey B. Richer, Jay Anderson

GeV Emission from Prompt and Afterglow Phases of Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando, Ehud Nakar, Re'em Sari (Caltech)

The number density of a charged relic

• Authors: Carola F. Berger (MIT & KITP), Laura Covi (DESY), Sabine Kraml (LPSC, Grenoble), Federica Palorini (Lyon, IPN)

tipa -- 7/1/2008

Jets as diagnostics of the circumstellar medium and the explosion energetics of supernovae: the case of Cas A

• Authors: K.M. Schure, J. Vink, G. García Segura, A. Achterberg

The Gravitational Wave Burst Signal from Core Collapse of Rotating Stars

• Authors: Harald Dimmelmeier, Christian D. Ott, Andreas Marek, Hans-Thomas Janka

Study of the Detonation Phase in the Gravitationally Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Casey A. Meakin, Ivo Seitenzahl, Dean Townsley, George C. Jordan IV, James Truran, Don Lamb

tipa -- 6/30/2008

Neutrino signatures and the neutrino-driven wind in Binary Neutron Star Mergers

• Authors: Luc Dessart, Christian Ott, Adam Burrows, Stefan Rosswog, Eli Livne

Hundreds of Milky Way Satellites? Luminosity Bias in the Satellite Luminosity Function

• Authors: Erik J. Tollerud, James S. Bullock, Louis E. Strigari, Beth Willman

Numerical simulations of continuum-driven winds of super-Eddington stars

• Authors: A.J. van Marle, S.P. Owocki, N.J. Shaviv

tipa -- 6/27/2008

Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x10^19eV

• Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Early-type galaxies with core collapse supernovae

• Authors: A. A. Hakobyan, A. R. Petrosian, B. McLean, D. Kunth, R. J. Allen, M. Turatto, R. Barbon

Eosphoric sterile neutrinos, supernovae, and the galactic positrons

• Authors: George M. Fuller, Alexander Kusenko, Kalliopi Petraki

tipa -- 6/26/2008

The Most Luminous Starbursts in the Universe

• Authors: Daniel W. Weedman, James R. Houck

tipa -- 6/25/2008

Characterizing the non-thermal emission of Cas A

• Authors: E. A. Helder, J. Vink

tipa -- 6/24/2008

A Comparison of the Afterglows of Short- and Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: M. Nysewander, A.S. Fruchter, A. Pe'er

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Christopher J. Pritchet, D. Andrew Howell, Mark Sullivan

Galaxies Correlating with Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Ingyin Zaw (1), Glennys R. Farrar (1), Jenny E. Greene (2) ((1) New York University, (2) Princeton University)