today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 9/25/2008

A global autocorrelation analysis of the Auger data

Authors: A. Cuoco, S. Hannestad, T. Haugboelle, M. Kachelriess, P. D. Serpico

Off-nuclear AGN as a signature of recoiling massive black holes

Authors: M. Volonteri, P. Madau

Very fast optical flaring from a possible new Galactic magnetar

Authors: A. Stefanescu, G. Kanbach, A. Słowikowska, J. Greiner, S. McBreen, G. Sala

Signals of the QCD phase transition in core-collapse supernovae

Authors: I. Sagert, M. Hempel, G. Pagliara, J. Schaffner-Bielich, T. Fischer, A. Mezzacappa, F.-K. Thielemann, M. Liebendörfer

Optical and infrared flares from a transient Galactic soft gamma-ray repeater

Authors: A.J. Castro-Tirado (1), A. de Ugarte Postigo (2,1), J. Gorosabel (1), M. Jelinek (1), T.A. Fatkhullin (3), V.V. Sokolov (3), P. Ferrero (4), D.A. Kann (4), S. Klose (4), D. Sluse (5), M. Bremer (6), J.M. Winters (6), D. Nuernberger (2), D. Perez-Ramirez (7), M.A. Guerrero (1), J. French (8), G. Melady (8), L. Hanlon (8), B. McBreen (8), F.J. Aceituno (1), R. Cunniffe (1), P. Kubanek (1), S. Vitek (1), S. Schulze (4), A.C. Wilson (9), R. Hudec (10), J.M. Gonzalez-Perez (11), T. Shahbaz (11), S. Guziy (12), S.B. Pandey (13), L. Pavlenko (14), E. Sonbas (3,15), S.A. Trushkin (3), N.N. Bursov (3), N.A. Nizhelskij (3), L. Sabau-Graziati (16) ((1) IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain, (2) ESO, Chile, (3) SAO-RAS, Russia, (4) TLS, Tautenburg, Germany, (5) EFPL, Switzerland, (6) IRAM, France, (7) Univ. of Jaen, Jaen, Spain, (8) Univ. College, Dublin, Ireland, (9) Univ. of Texas, Austin, USA, (10) Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov, Czech Republic, (11) IAC, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, (12) Nikolaev State Univ., Nikolaev, Ukraine, (13) ARIES, Nainital, India, (14) Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchny, Ukraine, (15) Univ. of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey, (16) INTA, Torrejon de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain)

The muon g-2 discrepancy: errors or new physics?

Authors: M. Passera, W.J. Marciano, A. Sirlin

There is no explosion risk associated with superfluid Helium in the LHC cooling system

Authors: Malcolm Fairbairn, Bob McElrath

tipa -- 9/24/2008

HD molecules at high redshift: A low astration factor of deuterium in a solar-metallicity DLA system at z=2.418

Authors: P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, C. Ledoux, R. Srianand, A. Ivanchik

Constraints on the Local Sources of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Authors: Eli Waxman (Weizmann), Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Quasars Are Not Light-Bulbs: Testing Models of Quasar Lifetimes with the Observed Eddington Ratio Distribution

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (1), Lars Hernquist (2) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) CfA)

A search for a dark matter annihilation signal towards the Canis Major overdensity with H.E.S.S

Authors: HESS Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

Gamma-ray burst detection with the AGILE mini-calorimeter

Authors: M. Marisaldi, C. Labanti, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, M. Basset, F. Boffelli, A. Bulgarelli, P. Caraveo, P. W. Cattaneo, A. Chen, V. Cocco, E. Costa, F. D'Ammando, E. Del Monte, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, G. Di Persio, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, A. Ferrari, M. Fiorini, L. Foggetta, T. Froysland, M. Frutti, F. Gianotti, A. Giuliani, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, F. Liello, P. Lipari, F. Longo, M. Mastropietro, E. Mattaini, A. Mauri, F. Mauri, S. Mereghetti, E. Morelli, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, F. Perotti, P. Picozza, C. Pontoni, G. Porrovecchio, M. Prest, G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, E. Rossi, A. Rubini, P. Soffitta, M. Tavani, A. Traci, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, C. Pittori, et al.

tipa -- 9/23/2008

Progenitor mass of the type IIP supernova 2005cs

Authors: V.P. Utrobin (1 and 2), N.N. Chugai (3) ((1) MPA, Garching; (2) ITEP, Moscow; (3) Institute of Astronomy, RAS, Moscow)

Global Search for New Physics with 2.0/fb at CDF

Authors: CDF Collaboration: T. Aaltonen, et al

Authors: Pengjie Zhang (SHAO), Rachel Bean (Cornell), Michele Liguori (Cambridge), Scott Dodelson (Fermilab/Chicago)

First Measurement of the Neutron $\beta$-Asymmetry with Ultracold Neutrons

Authors: R.W. Pattie Jr, et al. (The UCNA Collaboration)

tipa -- 9/17/2008

High-Redshift Starbursting Dwarf Galaxies Revealed by GRB Afterglows

Authors: Hsiao-Wen Chen, Daniel A. Perley, Lindsey K. Pollack, J. X. Prochaska, J. S. Bloom, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, M. Pettini, S. Lopez, A. Dall'Aglio, G. D. Becker

tipa -- 9/16/2008

H.E.S.S. Observations of the Prompt and Afterglow Phases of GRB 060602B

Authors: HESS Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

Inverse Compton gamma-ray models for remnants of Galactic type Ia supernovae?

Authors: H.J. Voelk (1), L.T. Ksenofontov (2), E.G. Berezhko (2) ((1) Max-Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Yu.G. Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy, Yakutsk, Russia)

Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre

Authors: Sheperd Doeleman (1), Jonathan Weintroub (2), Alan E.E. Rogers (1), Richard Plambeck (3), Robert Freund (4), Remo P.J. Tilanus (5 and 6), Per Friberg (5), Lucy M. Ziurys (4), James M. Moran (2), Brian Corey (1), Ken H. Young (2), Daniel L. Smythe (1), Michael Titus (1), Daniel P. Marrone (7 and 8), Roger J. Cappallo (1), Douglas C.J. Bock (9), Geoffrey C. Bower (3), Richard Chamberlin (10), Gary R. Davis (5), Thomas P. Krichbaum (11), James Lamb (12), Holly Maness (3), Arthur E. Niell (1), Alan Roy (11), Peter Strittmatter (4), Daniel Werthimer (13), Alan R. Whitney (1), David Woody (12) ((1) MIT Haystack Observatory, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) University of Arizona - Arizona Radio Observatory, (5) James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, (6) Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, (7) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (8) Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, (9) Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy, (10) Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, (11) Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, (12) Owens Valley Radio Observatory, (13) UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory)

SCP06F6: A carbon-rich extragalactic transient at redshift z~0.14

Authors: B.T. Gaensicke, A.J. Levan, T.R. Marsh, P.J. Wheatley

First Measurement of $\nu_\mu$ and $\nu_e$ Events in an Off-Axis Horn-Focused Neutrino Beam

Authors: P. Adamson, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko, M. Bishai, S. J. Brice, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, J. Cao, B. C. Choudhary, L. Coney, J. M. Conrad, D. C. Cox, A. Curioni, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, B. T. Fleming, R. Ford, H. R. Gallagher, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, C. Green, J. A. Green, D. Harris, T. L. Hart, E. Hawker, J. Hylen, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, P. Kasper, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, S. Kopp, I. Kourbanis, S. Koutsoliotas, E. M. Laird, S. K. Linden, J. M. Link, Y. Liu, Y. Liu, L. Loiacono, W. C. Louis, A. Marchionni, K. B. M. Mahn, W. Marsh, G. McGregor, M. D. Messier, W. Metcalf, P. D. Meyers, F. Mills, G. B. Mills, J. Monroe, C. D. Moore, J. K. Nelson, R. H. Nelson, V. T. Nguyen, P. Nienaber, J. A. Nowak, S. Ouedraogo, R. B. Patterson, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov, et al. (33 additional authors not shown)

tipa -- 9/15/2008

The Galactic potential and the asymmetric distribution of hypervelocity stars

Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Xufen Wu, HongSheng Zhao, Benoit Famaey, Gianfranco Gentile, Tal Alexander

Acceleration of Galactic Supershells by Lyman Alpha Radiation

Authors: Mark Dijkstra, Abraham Loeb

classic papers of the week -- 82

Electrical Disturbances Apparently of Extraterrestrial Origin

Jansky, K. G. (Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., New York City)

Processes Involving Charged Mesons

C.M.G. Lattes, H. Muirhead, G.P.S. Occhialini, C.F. Powell (H. H. Wills Physical Laboratory, University of Bristol)

An SU(3) model for strong interaction symmetry and its breaking

G. Zweig (CERN)

tipa -- 9/12/2008

An Upper Mass Limit on a Red Supergiant Progenitor for the Type II-Plateau Supernova SN 2006my

Authors: Douglas C. Leonard, Avishay Gal-Yam, Derek B. Fox, P. B. Cameron, Erik M. Johansson, Adam L. Kraus, David Le Mignant, Marcos A. van Dam

tipa -- 9/11/2008

Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope

Authors: K. Barbary, K. S. Dawson, K. Tokita, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, N. V. Connolly, M. Doi, L. Faccioli, V. Fadeyev, A. S. Fruchter, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, A. Gude, X. Huang, Y. Ihara, K. Konishi, M. Kowalski, C. Lidman, J. Meyers, T. Morokuma, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, D. Rubin, D. Schlegel, A. L. Spadafora, N. Suzuki, H. K. Swift, N. Takanashi, R. C. Thomas, N. Yasuda, for the Supernova Cosmology Project

A Blast Wave from the 1843 Eruption of Eta Carinae

Authors: Nathan Smith

Commissioning Run of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search

Authors: G. Angloher, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina, A. Bento, A. Brown, C. Bucci, C.Ciemniak, C. Coppi, G. Deuter, F. von Feilitzsch, D. Hauff, S. Henry, P.Huff, J. Imber, S. Ingleby, C. Isaila, J. Jochum, M. Kiefer, M. Kimmerle, H. Kraus, J.-C. Lanfranchi, R. F. Lang, B. Majorovits, M. Malek, R. McGowan, V. B. Mikhailik, E. Pantic, F. Petricca, S. Pfister, W. Potzel, F. Proebst, W. Rau, S. Roth, K. Rottler, C. Sailer, K. Schaeffner, J. Schmaler, S.Scholl, W. Seidel, L. Stodolsky, A. J. B. Tolhurst, I. Usherov, W.Westphal

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

Authors: S. Burgos, E. Daw, J. Forbes, C. Ghag, M. Gold, C. Hagemann, V.A. Kudryavtsev, T.B. Lawson, D. Loomba, P. Majewski, D. Muna, A.StJ. Murphy, G.G. Nicklin, S.M. Paling, A. Petkov, S.J.S. Plank, M. Robinson, N. Sanghi, D.P. Snowden-Ifft, N.J.C. Spooner, J. Turk, E. Tziaferi

High Energy Positrons From Annihilating Dark Matter

Authors: Ilias Cholis, Lisa Goodenough, Dan Hooper, Melanie Simet, Neal Weiner

tipa -- 9/10/2008

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

Authors: Maaike Damen, Ivo Labbe, Marijn Franx, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Edward N. Taylor, Eric J. Gawiser

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

Authors: Dominik R. G. Schleicher, Simon C. O. Glover, Robi Banerjee, Ralf S. Klessen

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

Authors: The IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 9/9/2008

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

Authors: M. P. Muno, F. E. Bauer, F. K. Baganoff, R. M. Bandyopadhyay, G. C. Bower, W. N. Brandt, P. S. Broos, A. Cotera, S. S. Eikenberry, G. P. Garmire, S. D. Hyman, N. E. Kassim, C. C. Lang, T. J. W. Lazio, C. Law, J. C. Mauerhan, M. R. Morris, T. Nagata, S. Nishiyama, S. Park, S. V. Ramirez, S. R. Stolovy, R. Wijnands, Q. D. Wang, Z. Wang, F. Yusef-Zadeh

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

Authors: A. Giuliani, S. Mereghetti, F. Fornari, E. Del Monte, M. Feroci, M. Marisaldi, P. Esposito, F. Perotti, M. Tavani, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, F. Boffelli, A. Bulgarelli, P. Caraveo, P. W. Cattaneo, A.W. Chen, E. Costa, F. D'Ammando, G. Di Cocco, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Fiorini, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Prest, G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, D. Zanello, L. Salotti, S. Cutini, C. Pittori, B. Preger, P. Santolamazza, F. Verrecchia, N. Gehrels, K. Page, D. Burrows, A. Rossi, K. Hurley, I. Mitrofanov, W. Boynton

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

Authors: M. Forot (AIME, Sap), Philippe Laurent (SAp, Apc), I A. Grenier (AIME, Sap), C. Gouiffes (AIME, Sap), F. Lebrun (SAp, Apc)

tipa -- 9/8/2008

Can proper motions of dark-matter subhalos be detected?

Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando, Marc Kamionkowski, Samuel K. Lee (Caltech), Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown Univ.)

A blueprint for detecting supersymmetric dark matter in the Galactic halo

Authors: Volker Springel (1), Simon D.M. White (1), Carlos S. Frenk (2), Julio F. Navarro (3,4), Adrian Jenkins (2), Mark Vogelsberger (1), Jie Wang (1), Aaron Ludlow (3), Amina Helmi (5) ((1) MPA, (2) Durham, (3) UVic, (4) UMass, (5) Groningen)

Photon and Graviton Mass Limits

Authors: Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Michael Martin Nieto

classic papers of the week -- 81

Prompt gamma rays and X-rays from supernovae

Colgate, S. A.

The Isolation of an Ion, A Precision Measurement of Its Charge, and the Correction of Stokes's Law

Millikan, R. A. (Ryerson Laboratory, University of Chicago)

Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship

Project RAND

tipa -- 9/5/2008

The Gravitational Wave Signature of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: Christian D. Ott (TAPIR, Caltech)

Cosmic rays from active galactic nuclei

Authors: E.G.Berezhko (Yu.G. Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy, Yakutsk, Russia)

High-energy electron observations by PPB-BETS flight in Antarctica

tipa -- 9/4/2008

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

Authors: Todd A. Thompson, Jose L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, Matthew D. Kistler, John F. Beacom, Christopher S. Kochanek (Ohio State University)

The Extragalactic Distance Scale without Cepheids

Authors: Jeremy Mould, Shoko Sakai

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

Authors: Jonay I. González Hernández, Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Avishay Gal-Yam, Joshua D. Simon

Primordial Nucleosynthesis: from precision cosmology to fundamental physics

Authors: F. Iocco, G. Mangano, G. Miele, O. Pisanti, P.D. Serpico

tipa -- 9/3/2008

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

Authors: S.J. Smartt (1), J.J. Eldridge (2), R.M. Crockett (1), J.R. Maund (3) ((1) Queen's University Belfast; (2) IoA, Cambridge; (3) Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen)

Reopening the window on charged dark matter

Authors: Leonid Chuzhoy, Edward W. Kolb

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