tipa -- 8/20/2008

MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey

• Authors: Warren R. Brown, Margaret J. Geller, Scott J. Kenyon (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Telescopes versus Microscopes: the puzzle of Iron-60

• Authors: Jonathan P. Williams

GRB 070714B - Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short Burst Redshift

• Authors: J. F. Graham (1 and 2), A. S. Fruchter (1), A. J. Levan (3), A. Melandri (4), L. J. Kewley (5), E. M. Levesque (5), M. Nysewander (1), N. R. Tanvir (6), T. Dahlen (1), D. Bersier (4), K. Wiersema (6) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3) University of Warwick, (4) Liverpool John Moores University, (5) University of Hawaii, (6) University of Leicester)

The New DAMA Dark-Matter Window and Energetic-Neutrino Searches

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Frank Petriello, Kathryn M. Zurek, Marc Kamionkowski

Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors

• Authors: Jonathan L. Feng, Huitzu Tu, Hai-Bo Yu

tipa -- 8/19/2008

The Exceptionally Luminous Type II-L SN 2008es

• Authors: A. A. Miller, R. Chornock, D. A. Perley, M. Ganeshalingam, N. R. Butler, J. S. Bloom, N. Smith, M. Modjaz, D. Poznanski, A. V. Filippenko, J. H. Shiode, J. M. Silverman (UC Berkeley)

The Nature of a Cosmic-ray Accelerator CTB37B Observed with Suzaku and Chandra

• Authors: Ryoko Nakamura, Aya Bamba, Manabu Ishida, Hiroshi Nakajima, Ryo Yamazaki, Yukikatsu Terada, Gerd Puhlhofer, Stefan J. Wagner

Sound waves in the intracluster medium of the Centaurus cluster

• Authors: J.S Sanders, A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Search for Supersymmetry in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV Using the Trilepton Signature of Chargino-Neutralino Production

• Authors: CDF Collaboration: T. Aaltonen, et al

tipa -- 8/18/2008

Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, K. C. Hurley, D. Palmer

Measurement of the dark matter velocity anisotropy in galaxy clusters

• Authors: Ole Host, Steen H. Hansen, Rocco Piffaretti, Andrea Morandi, Stefano Ettori, Scott T. Kay, Riccardo Valdarnini

classic papers of the week -- 79

Experimental Test Of Parity Conservation In Beta Decay

• C.S. Wu (Columbia University, New York, New York) , E. Ambler, R.W. Hayward, D.D. Hoppes, R.P. Hudson (National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.)

Nebulae

• Slipher, V. M.

Interaction of "Solitons" in a Collisionless Plasma and the Recurrence of Initial States

• Zabusky, N. J. (Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, New Jersey); Kruskal, M. D. (Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey)

tipa -- 8/15/2008

Proton-Rich Nuclear Statistical Equilibrium

• Authors: I. R. Seitenzahl, F. X. Timmes, A. Marin-Laflèche, E. Brown, G. Magkotsios, J. Truran

Magnetic field measurements of O stars with FORS1 at the VLT

• Authors: S. Hubrig, M. Schoeller, R.S. Schnerr, J.F. Gonzalez, R. Ignace, H.F. Henrichs

Three-flavour neutrino oscillation update

• Authors: Thomas Schwetz, Mariam Tortola, Jose W.F. Valle

tipa -- 8/14/2008

Broadband Radiation from Primary Electrons in Very Energetic Supernovae

• Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando (Caltech), Peter Meszaros (Penn State)

Gamma-Ray Emission from the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy 3C111

• Authors: R. C. Hartman, M. Kadler, J. Tueller

First bounds on the high-energy emission from isolated Wolf-Rayet binary systems

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration: E. Aliu, et al

Diffusion of cosmic-rays and the Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope: Phenomenology at the 1-100 GeV regime

• Authors: Ana Y. Rodriguez Marrero, Diego F. Torres, Elsa de Cea del Pozo, Olaf Reimer, Analia N. Cillis

tipa -- 8/13/2008

Measurements of cosmic-ray secondary nuclei at high energies with the first flight of the CREAM balloon-borne experiment

• Authors: H.S. Ahn (1), P.S. Allison (2), M.G. Bagliesi (3), J.J. Beatty (2), G. Bigongiari (3), P.J. Boyle (4), T.J. Brandt (2), J.T. Childers (5), N.B. Conklin (6), S. Coutu (6), M.A. Duvernois (5), O. Ganel (1), J.H. Han (7), H. J. Hyun (7), J.A. Jeon (7), K.C. Kim (1), J.K. Lee (7), M.H. Lee (1), L. Lutz (1), P. Maestro (3), A. Malinin (1), P.S. Marrocchesi (3), S.A. Minnick (8), S.I. Mognet (6), S. Nam (7), S.L. Nutter (9), I.H. Park (7), N.H. Park (7), E.S. Seo (1), R. Sina (1), S.P. Swordy (4), S.P. Wakely (4), J. Wu (1), J. Yang (7), Y.S. Yoon (1), R. Zei (3), S.Y. Zinn (1) ((1) Institute for Physical Science and Tech., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, (2) Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, (3) Department of Physics, University of Siena & INFN, Siena, Italy, (4) Enrico Fermi Institute and Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, (5) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, (6) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, (7) Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, (8) Department of Physics, Kent State University, Tuscarawas, New Philadelphia, OH, USA, (9) Department of Physics, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Height, KY, USA)

High-energy Particle Acceleration and Production of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays in the Giant Lobes of Centaurus A

• Authors: M.J. Hardcastle, C.C. Cheung, I.J. Feain, L. Stawarz

tipa -- 8/12/2008

Delayed X-ray emission from fallback in compact-object mergers

• Authors: Elena M. Rossi, Mitchell C. Begelman (JILA, University of Colorado)

All-particle primary energy spectrum in the 3-200 PeV energy range

• Authors: A.P. Garyaka, R.M. Martirosov, S.V. Ter-Antonyan, A.D. Erlykin, N.M. Nikolskaya, Y.A. Gallant, L.W. Jones, J. Procureur

Injection of Short-Lived Radionuclides into the Early Solar System from a Faint Supernova with Mixing-Fallback

• Authors: A. Takigawa, J. Miki, S. Tachibana, G. R. Huss, N. Tominaga, H. Umeda, K. Nomoto

A low background facility inside the LVD detector at Gran Sasso

• Authors: F. Arneodo, W. Fulgione

The effect of stellar winds on the formation of a protocluster

• Authors: J. E. Dale, I.A. Bonnell

On the magnetic field and the TeV emitter location in Cygnus X-1 and LS 5039

• Authors: V. Bosch-Ramon, D. Khangulyan, F. A. Aharonian

tipa -- 8/11/2008

When Clusters Collide: Constraints On Antimatter On The Largest Scales

• Authors: Gary Steigman

Edward Teller and Nuclei: Along the Trail to the Neutrino

• Authors: W. C. Haxton

classic papers of the week -- 78

On Compton's Latitude Effect of Cosmic Radiation

• Lemaitre, G.; Vallarta, M. S. (University of Louvain and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Forces in Molecules

• Feynman, R. P. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

Wave function of the Universe

• Hartle, J. B.; Hawking, S. W.

tipa -- 8/8/2008

Observations of the Gas Reservoir around a Star Forming Galaxy in the Early Universe

• Authors: Brenda L. Frye (1), David. V. Bowen (2), Mairead Hurley (1), Todd M. Tripp (3), Xiaohui Fan (4), Bradley Holden (5), Puragra Guhathakurta (5), Dan Coe (6), Tom Broadhurst (7), Eiichi Egami (4), G. Meylan (8) ((1) Dublin City University, Ireland; (2) Princeton University; (3) University of Massachusetts at Amherst; (4) Steward Observatory; (5) UCO/Lick Observatory; (6) Jet Propulsion Laboratory; (7) Tel Aviv University, Israel; (8) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, EPFL Observatoire)

Commissioning of the ATLAS Experiment

• Authors: Juergen Thomas, for the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN

tipa -- 8/7/2008

Self-Regulated Fueling of Galaxy Centers: Evidence for Star-Formation Feedback in IC342's Nucleus

• Authors: E. Schinnerer (MPIA), T. Boeker (ESTEC), D.S. Meier (NRAO), D. Calzetti (UMASS)

VERITAS Discovery of >200GeV Gamma-ray Emission from the Intermediate-frequency-peaked BL Lac Object W Comae

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, Y. C. K. Chow, P. Cogan, P. Colin, W. Cui, M. K. Daniel, T. Ergin, A. D. Falcone, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, P. Fortin, L. F. Fortson, A. Furniss, D. Gall, G. H. Gillanders, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, E. Hays, J. Holder, D. Horan, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. B. Kieda, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, K. Lee, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nagai, J. Niemiec, R. A. Ong, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, D. Petry, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, et al. (16 additional authors not shown)

Neutrino Astrophysics

• Authors: W. C. Haxton

Uncertainties in the Anti-neutrino Production at Nuclear Reactors

• Authors: Z. Djurcic, J. A. Detwiler, A. Piepke, V.R. Foster Jr., L. Miller, G. Gratta

tipa -- 8/6/2008

Proper Motions and Brightness Variations of Nonthermal X-ray Filaments in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant

• Authors: Daniel J. Patnaude, Robert A. Fesen

Combined CDF and Dzero Upper Limits on Standard Model Higgs Boson Production at High Mass (155-200 GeV/c2) with 3 fb-1 of data

• Authors: Tevatron New Phenomena, Higgs working group, CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration

Observation of the Isotopic Evolution of PWR Fuel Using an Antineutrino Detector

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

tipa -- 8/5/2008

What is the largest Einstein radius in the universe?

• Authors: Masamune Oguri, Roger D. Blandford (KIPAC, Stanford)

Erasing Dark Matter Cusps in Cosmological Galactic Halos with Baryons

• Authors: Emilio Romano-Diaz (UK Lexington), Isaac Shlosman (UK Lexington), Yehuda Hoffman (HU Jerusalem), Clayton Heller (GSU)

Proton and Neutrino Extragalactic Astronomy

• Authors: Paolo Lipari

Dynamics and neutrino signal of black hole formation in non-rotating failed supernovae. II. progenitor dependence

• Authors: K. Sumiyoshi (Numazu CT), S. Yamada (Waseda Univ.), H. Suzuki (Tokyo Univ. of Science)

Problems in High Energy Astrophysics

Authors: Paolo Lipari

tipa -- 8/4/2008

Subaru and Keck Observations of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 2006gz at Late Phases

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Koji Kawabata, Weidong Li, Masaomi Tanaka, Paolo A. Mazzali, Takashi Hattori, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Alex V. Filippenko

Gamma Rays from Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays in Cygnus A

• Authors: Armen Atoyan (1), Charles D. Dermer (2) ((1) Concordia University, (2) NRL)

classic papers of the week -- 77

The cochlear compromise

• Zweig, G.; Lipes, R.; Pierce, J. R.

On the Structure of the Universe, Lecture 5

• Charlier, C. V. L.

The Infrared Detectability of Dyson Civilizations

• Sagan, Carl; Walker, Russell G. (Harvard College Observatory/Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory, Cambridge, MA)

tipa -- 8/1/2008

Using Ultra Long Period Cepheids to Extend the Cosmic Distance Ladder to 100 Mpc and Beyond

• Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, K. Z. Stanek, Jose L. Prieto

Protostar Formation in the Early Universe

• Authors: Naoki Yoshida (Nagoya University), Kazuyuki Omukai (NAOJ), Lars Hernquist (CfA-Harvard)

tipa -- 7/31/2008

Is the Universe More Transparent to Gamma Rays Than Previously Thought?

• Authors: Floyd W. Stecker, Sean T. Scully

tipa -- 7/30/2008

Discovery of a young massive stellar cluster near HESS J1813-178

• Authors: Maria Messineo, Donald F. Figer, Ben Davies, R. Michael Rich, E. Valenti, R.P. Kudritzki

Gravitational Radiation Driven Supermassive Black Hole Binary Inspirals as Periodically Variable Electromagnetic Sources

• Authors: Zoltaán Haiman (Columbia University), Bence Kocsis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Etvös Loránd University), Kristen Menou (Columbia University)

tipa -- 7/29/2008

Dynamical Feedback of Self-generated Magnetic Fields in Cosmic Rays Modified Shocks

• Authors: D. Caprioli (1), P. Blasi (2 and 3), E. Amato (2), M. Vietri (1) ((1) Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy, (3) Fermilab, Center for Particle Astrophysics, Batavia, IL, USA)

The AGILE Mission

• Authors: M. Tavani, et al., for the AGILE Collaboration

Determination of the angular momentum distribution of supernovae from gravitational wave observations

• Authors: Kazuhiro Hayama, Shantanu Desai, Kei Kotake, Soumya D. Mohanty, Malik Rakhmanov, Tiffany Summerscales, Sanichiro Yoshida