tipa -- 9/30/2008

The Impact of Neutrino Magnetic Moments on the Evolution of Massive Stars

• Authors: Alexander Heger, Alexander Friedland, Maurizio Giannotti, Vincenzo Cirigliano

CMB Lensing and the WMAP Cold Spot

• Authors: Sudeep Das, David N. Spergel

Correlative Spectral Analysis of Gamma-Ray Bursts using Swift-BAT and GLAST-GBM

• Authors: Michael Stamatikos, Takanori Sakamoto, David L. Band

Gamma-ray halo around 3C 279: looking through the Sun on October 8

• Authors: Malcolm Fairbairn, Timur Rashba, Sergey Troitsky

tipa -- 9/29/2008

Jet breaks at the end of the slow decline phase of Swift GRB lightcurves

• Authors: M. De Pasquale, P. Evans, S. Oates, M. Page, S. Zane, P. Schady, A. Breeveld, S. Holland, P. Kuin, M. Still, P. Roming, P. Ward

A diatribe on expanding space

• Authors: J.A. Peacock

classic papers of the week -- 83

Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin

• Klebesadel, Ray W.; Strong, Ian B.; Olson, Roy A. (University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

Report on Waves: Made to the Meetings of the British Association in 1842-43

• John Scott Russell

tipa -- 9/26/2008

Nonthermal X-Rays from Supernova Remnant G330.2+1.0 and the Characteristics of its Central Compact Object

• Authors: Sangwook Park (Penn State), Oleg Kargaltsev (Florida), George G. Pavlov (Penn State), Koji Mori (Miyazaki), Patrick O. Slane (CfA), John P. Hughes (Rutgers), David N. Burrows, Gordon P. Garmire (Penn State)

The Sizes and Luminosities of Massive Star Clusters

• Authors: N. W. Murray

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

tipa -- 9/22/2008

A model of the TeV flare of Cygnus X-1: electron acceleration and extended pair cascades

• Authors: A. A. Zdziarski, J. Malzac, W. Bednarek

tipa -- 9/19/2008

Detection of pulsed gamma-ays above 25 GeV from the Crab pulsar

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

Simultaneous Triggered Collapse of the Presolar Dense Cloud Core and Injection of Short-Lived Radioisotopes by a Supernova Shock Wave

• Authors: Alan P. Boss, Sergei I. Ipatov, Sandra A. Keiser, Elizabeth A. Myhill, Harri A. T. Vanhala

tipa -- 9/18/2008

The Least Luminous Galaxy: Spectroscopy of the Milky Way Satellite Segue 1

• Authors: Marla Geha, Beth Willman, Josh D. Simon, Louis E. Strigari, Evan N. Kirby, David R. Law, Jay Strader

Weighing the spatial and temporal fluctuations of the dark universe

• 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