tipa -- 9/11/2008

Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope

A Blast Wave from the 1843 Eruption of Eta Carinae

Commissioning Run of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search

First measurement of the Head-Tail directional nuclear recoil signature at energies relevant to WIMP dark matter searches

High Energy Positrons From Annihilating Dark Matter

tipa -- 9/10/2008

The evolution of the specific star formation rate of massive galaxies to z ~ 1.8 in the E-CDFS

Constraints on the dark matter clumping factor and halo profiles from the cosmic gamma-ray background

Search for Point Sources of High Energy Neutrinos with Final Data from AMANDA-II

tipa -- 9/9/2008

A Catalog of X-ray Point Sources from Two Megaseconds of Chandra Observations of the Galactic Center

AGILE detection of delayed gamma-ray emission from GRB 080514B

Polarization of the Crab pulsar and nebula as observed by the Integral/IBIS telescope

tipa -- 9/8/2008

Can proper motions of dark-matter subhalos be detected?

A blueprint for detecting supersymmetric dark matter in the Galactic halo

Photon and Graviton Mass Limits

tipa -- 9/4/2008

A New Class of Luminous Transients and A First Census of Their Massive Stellar Progenitors

The Extragalactic Distance Scale without Cepheids

HESS J0632+057 : A new gamma-ray binary?

  • Authors: J. A. Hinton (1), J. L. Skilton (1), S. Funk (2), J. Brucker (3), F. A. Aharonian (4,5), G. Dubus (6), A. Fiasson (7), Y. Gallant (7), W. Hofmann (5), A. Marcowith (7), O. Reimer (2) ((1) School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK, (2) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC, USA, (3) Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Physikalisches Institut, Germany, (4) Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, (5) Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (6) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, INSU/CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, France, (7) Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Montpellier II, France)

The Chemical Abundances of Tycho G in Supernova Remnant 1572

Primordial Nucleosynthesis: from precision cosmology to fundamental physics

tipa -- 9/3/2008

The death of massive stars - I. Observational constraints on the progenitors of type II-P supernovae

Reopening the window on charged dark matter

tipa -- 9/1/2008

Dark Bursts in the Swift Era: The Palomar 60 inch-Swift Early Optical Afterglow Catalog

Equation-of-State Dependent Features in Shock-Oscillation Modulated Neutrino and Gravitational-Wave Signals from Supernovae

Changes in Dark Matter Properties After Freeze-Out

Testing the Dark Matter Interpretation of the DAMA/LIBRA Result with Super-Kamiokande

tipa -- 8/29/2008

Using Spatial Distributions to Constrain Progenitors of Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts

A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way

Formation of a Quasar Host Galaxy through a Wet Merger 1.4 Billion Years after the Big Bang

A Disk of Young Stars at the Galactic Center as Determined by Individual Stellar Orbits

Minimal Dark Matter predictions and the PAMELA positron excess

XAX: a multi-ton, multi-target detection system for dark matter, double beta decay and pp solar neutrinos

tipa -- 8/28/2008

High-(Energy)-Lights -- The Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky

  • Authors: D. Horns (University of Hamburg, Institute for Experimental Physics, Hamburg)

New Positron Spectral Features from Supersymmetric Dark Matter - a Way to Explain the PAMELA Data?

classic papers of the week -- 80

Pulsar Electrodynamics

Significance of electromagnetic potentials in the quantum theory

  • Y. Aharonov, D. Bohm (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, England)

Yoji Totsuka (1942–2008)

  • Henry W. Sobel (School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine), Yoichiro Suzuki (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

tipa -- 8/21/2008

Fitting the Gamma-Ray Spectrum from Dark Matter with DMFIT: GLAST and the Galactic Center Region

Structure and star formation in galaxies out to z=3: evidence for surface density dependent evolution and upsizing

Ubiquitous Water Masers in Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies

Relation Between Stellar Mass and Star Formation Activity in Galaxies

High energy neutrinos from charm in astrophysical sources

tipa -- 8/20/2008

MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey

Telescopes versus Microscopes: the puzzle of Iron-60

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

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

Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors