tipa -- 12/24/2008

Vetoing atmospheric neutrinos in a high energy neutrino telescope

• Authors: Stefan Schönert, Thomas K. Gaisser, Elisa Resconi, Olaf Schulz

tipa -- 12/23/2008

Aspherical Core-Collapse Supernovae in Red Supergiants Powered by Nonrelativistic Jets

• Authors: Sean M. Couch, J. Craig Wheeler, Milos Milosavljevic

An Atlas For Interpreting Gamma-Ray Pulsar Light Curves

• Authors: Kyle P. Watters (1), Roger W. Romani (1), Patrick Weltevrede (2), Simon Johnston (2) ((1) Stanford University, (2) ATNF)

CNO "Breakout" and Nucleosynthesis in Classical Novae

• Authors: S.Ami Glasner, Jame.W. Truran

Mass Ejection by Strange Star Mergers and Observational Implications

• Authors: A. Bauswein (1), H.-Th. Janka (1), R. Oechslin (1), G. Pagliara (2), I. Sagert (3), J. Schaffner-Bielich (2), M.M. Hohle (4,5), R. Neuhaeuser (4) ((1) MPI Astrophysik, Garching; (2) Inst. Theor. Physik, Univ. Heidelberg; (3) Inst. Theor. Physik, Goethe Univ. Frankfurt; (4) Astrophysik. Inst., Univ. Jena; (5) MPI Extraterr. Physik, Garching)

Cosmological Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter

• Authors: Santiago De Lope Amigo, William Man-Yin Cheung, Zhiqi Huang, Siew-Phang Ng

tipa -- 12/22/2008

Nickel-Rich Outflows from Accretion Disks Formed by the Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs

• Authors: B.D. Metzger, A.L. Piro, E. Quataert

Simultaneous H.E.S.S. and Chandra observations of Sagittarius A* during an X-ray flare

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

Gamma-ray and Radio Constraints of High Positron Rate Dark Matter Models Annihilating into New Light Particles

• Authors: Lars Bergstrom, Gianfranco Bertone, Torsten Bringmann, Joakim Edsjo, Marco Taoso

classic papers of the week -- 88

The birth of high-energy neutrino astronomy: A personal history of the DUMAND project

• A. Roberts (Hawaii DUMAND Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii)

Small Dark Nebulae

• Bok, Bart J.; Reilly, Edith F.

The Suez Canal

• T. LOGIN

tipa -- 12/19/2008

Connecting Reionization to the Local Universe

• Authors: Marcelo A. Alvarez, Michael T. Busha, Tom Abel, Risa H. Wechsler

Neutrino electromagnetic properties

• Authors: Carlo Giunti, Alexander Studenikin

tipa -- 12/18/2008

The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background is detectable in Super-Kamiokande

• Authors: Shunsaku Horiuchi (Tokyo, Ohio State), John F. Beacom (Ohio State), Eli Dwek (NASA Goddard)

Probing Dark Matter Dynamics via Earthborn Neutrinos at IceCube

• Authors: Cedric Delaunay, Patrick J. Fox, Gilad Perez

tipa -- 12/17/2008

Swift-UVOT captures the earliest ultraviolet spectrum of a Gamma Ray Burst

• Authors: N.P.M. Kuin, W. Landsman, M.J. Page, P. Schady, M. Still, A.A. Breeveld, M. De Pasquale, P.J. Brown, M.Carter, C. James, P.A. Curran, A. Cucciara, C. Gronwall, S.T. Holland, E. Hoversten, S. Hunsberger, T. Kennedy, S. Koch, H. Lamoureux, F.E. Marshall, S.R. Oates, A. Parsons, D. Palmer, P. Roming, P.J. Smith

Fermi LAT Observations of the Vela Pulsar

• Authors: A.A. Abdo, et al

tipa -- 12/16/2008

New Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the ANITA Experiment

• Authors: ANITA collaboration: P. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), S. Barwick (2), J. Beatty (3), D. Besson (4), W. Binns (5), C. Chen (6), P. Chen (6,13), J. Clem (7), A. Connolly (8), P. Dowkontt (5), M. DuVernois (10), R. Field (6), D. Goldstein (2), A. Goodhue (9), C. Hast (6), C. Hebert (1), S. Hoover (9), M. Israel (5), J. Kowalski (1), J. Learned (1), K. Liewer (11), J. Link (1,13), E. Lusczek (10), S. Matsuno (1), B. Mercurio (3), C. Miki (1), P. Miocinovic (1), J. Nam (2,12), C. Naudet (11), R. Nichol (8), K. Palladino (3), K. Reil (6), A. Romero-Wolf (1), M. Rosen (1), L. Ruckman (1), D. Saltzberg (9), D. Seckel (7), G. Varner (1), D. Walz (6), Y. Wang (12), F. Wu (2) ((1) Univ. Hawaii,(2) UC Irvine, (3) Ohio State Univ., (4) Univ. of Kansas, (5) Wash. Univ. St. Louis, (6) SLAC, (7) Univ. of Delaware, (8) Univ. College London, UK, (9) UCLA, (10) Univ. of Minnesota, (11) NASA/JPL, (12) National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, (13) NASA/Goddard.)

Search for Redshifted 2.2 MeV Neutron Capture Line From A0535+262 in Outburst

• Authors: Sirin Caliskan, Emrah Kalemci, Matthew G. Baring, Steven E. Boggs, Peter Kretschmar

Constraining the energy budget of GRB 080721

• Authors: R.L.C. Starling (1), E. Rol (1), A.J. van der Horst (2), S.-C. Yoon, V. Pal'shin, C. Ledoux, K.L. Page, J.P.U. Fynbo, K. Wiersema, N.R. Tanvir, P. Jakobsson, C. Guidorzi, P.A. Curran, A.J. Levan, P.T. O'Brien, J.P. Osborne, D. Svinkin, A. de Ugarte Postigo, T. Oosting ((1) University of Leicester, (2) NSSTC)

tipa -- 12/15/2008

Unexplained Excess of Electron-Like Events From a 1-GeV Neutrino Beam

• Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, et al

Observational Evidence for Cosmological-Scale Extra Dimensions

• Authors: Niayesh Afshordi, Ghazal Geshnizjani, Justin Khoury (Perimeter Institute)

On The Origin Of The Highest Redshift Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 080913

• Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Dieter H. Hartmann, Chris L. Fryer, Daniel E. Holz, Brian O'Shea

classic papers of the week -- 87

3C 273 : A Star-Like Object with Large Red-Shift

• Schmidt, M. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)

A Nonlinear field theory

• T.H.R. Skyrme (Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell)

The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities

• Fischer Black (University of Chicago), Myron Scholes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

tipa -- 12/12/2008

The Graininess of Dark Matter Haloes

• Authors: Marcel Zemp, Jürg Diemand, Michael Kuhlen, Piero Madau, Ben Moore, Doug Potter, Joachim Stadel, Lawrence Widrow

Triggered Star Formation and the Creation of the Supergiant HI Shell in IC 2574

• Authors: Daniel R. Weisz, Evan D. Skillman, John M. Cannon, Fabian Walter, Elias Brinks, Juergen Ott, Andrew E. Dolphin

Astrophysical Probes of Unification

• Authors: Asimina Arvanitaki, Savas Dimopoulos, Sergei Dubovsky, Peter W. Graham, Roni Harnik, Surjeet Rajendran

tipa -- 12/11/2008

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Detector Design, Performance, and Sensitivity for 2006-2007 Balloon Flight

• Authors: ANITA collaboration: P. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), S. Barwick (2), J. Beatty (3), D. Besson (4), W. Binns (5), C. Chen (6), P. Chen (6,13), J. Clem (7), A. Connolly (8), P. Dowkontt (5), M. DuVernois (10), R. Field (6), D. Goldstein (2), A. Goodhue (9), C. Hast (6), C. Hebert (1), S. Hoover (9), M. Israel (5), J. Kowalski (1), J. Learned (1), K. Liewer (11), J. Link (1,13), E. Lusczek (10), S. Matsuno (1), B. Mercurio (3), C. Miki (1), P. Miocinovic (1), J. Nam (2,12), C. Naudet (11), R. Nichol (8), K. Palladino (3), K. Reil (6), A. Romero-Wolf (1), M. Rosen (1), L. Ruckman (1), D. Saltzberg (9), D. Seckel (7), G. Varner (1), D. Walz (6), Y. Wang (12), F. Wu (2) ((1) Univ. Hawaii,(2) UC Irvine, (3) Ohio State Univ., (4) Univ. of Kansas, (5) Wash. Univ. St. Louis, (6) SLAC, (7) Univ. of Delaware, (8) Univ. College London, UK, (9) UCLA, (10) Univ. of Minnesota, (11) NASA/JPL, (12) National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, (13) NASA/Goddard.)

tipa -- 12/10/2008

The Young, Massive, Star Cluster Sandage-96 After the Explosion of SN 2004dj in NGC 2403

• Authors: J.Vinko, K.Sarneczky, Z.Balog, S.Immler, B.E.K.Sugerman, P.J. Brown, K.Misselt, Gy.M.Szabo, Sz.Csizmadia, M.Kun, P.Klagyivik, R.J.Foley, A.V.Filippenko, B.Csak, L.L.Kiss

Very high energy gamma-ray observations of the galaxy clusters Abell 496 and Abell 85 with H.E.S.S

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

Two-component spinor techniques and Feynman rules for quantum field theory and supersymmetry

• Authors: Herbi K. Dreiner, Howard E. Haber, Stephen P. Martin

tipa -- 12/9/2008

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with Independent Neutrino Distribution Functions

• Authors: Christel J. Smith, George M. Fuller, Michael S. Smith

Galactic vs. Extragalactic Origin of the Peculiar Transient SCP 06F6

• Authors: Noam Soker, Adam Frankowski, Amit Kashi (Technion, Israel)

Could the Fermi-LAT detect gamma-rays from dark matter annihilation in the dwarf galaxies of the Local Group?

• Authors: L. Pieri, A. Pizzella, E. M. Corsini, E. Dalla Bonta', F. Bertola

The June 2008 flare of Markarian 421 from optical to TeV energies

• Authors: The Agile, Gasp-Webt, Magic, Veritas Collaborations: I. Donnarumma, et al

tipa -- 12/8/2008

Stability of Relativistic Jets from Rotating, Accreting Black Holes via Fully Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations

• Authors: Jonathan C. McKinney, Roger D. Blandford (Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University)

Result from the First Science Run of the ZEPLIN-III Dark Matter Search Experiment

• Authors: V. N. Lebedenko, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes, A. Bewick, R. Cashmore, V. Chepel, D. Davidge, J. Dawson, T. Durkin, B. Edwards, C. Ghag, V. Graffagnino, M. Horn, A. S. Howard, A. J. Hughes, W. G. Jones, M. Joshi, G. E. Kalmus, A. G. Kovalenko, A. Lindote, I. Liubarsky, M. I. Lopes, R. Luscher, P. Majewski, A. StJ. Murphy, F. Neves, J. Pinto da Cunha, R. Preece, J. J. Quenby, P. R. Scovell, C. Silva, V. N. Solovov, N. J. T. Smith, P. F. Smith, V. N. Stekhanov, T. J. Sumnery, C. Thorne, R. J. Walker

Cosmic-ray electron signatures of dark matter

• Authors: Martin Pohl

Late time observations of GRB080319B: jet break, host galaxy and accompanying supernova

• Authors: Nial R. Tanvir, Evert Rol, Andrew Levan, Andrew Fruchter, Jonathan Granot, Karl M. Svensson, Paul T. O'Brien, Klaas Wiersema, Rhaana L. C. Starling, Pall Jakobsson, Johan Fynbo, Jens Hjorth, Peter Curran, Alexander J. van der Horst, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Judith L. Racusin, David N. Burrows, Frank Genet

classic papers of the week -- 86

A Relativistic Equation for Bound-State Problems

• Salpeter, E. E.; Bethe, H. A. (Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)

See also

On the Masses of Nebulae and of Clusters of Nebulae

• Zwicky, F.

Interaction between Four Half-Spin Particles and the Decay of the μ-Meson

• Michel, L. (Physics Department, University of Manchester)

tipa -- 12/5/2008

Discovery of Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Radiation from the BL Lac 1ES 0806+524

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, M. Bautista, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, M. Böttcher, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, Y. C. Chow, L. Ciupik, P. Cogan, P. Colin, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, C. Duke, T. Ergin, A. Falcone, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, P. Fortin, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, D. Gall, K. Gibbs, 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. Kieda, J. Kildea, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, J. Millis, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nagai, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, D. Petry, M. Pohl, et al.

In search of progenitors for supernova-less GRBs 060505 and 060614: re-examination of their afterglows

• Authors: D. Xu, R. L. C. Starling, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Sollerman, S. Yost, D. Watson, S. Foley, P. T. O'Brien, J. Hjorth

tipa -- 12/4/2008

Gamma Rays from Clusters and Groups of Galaxies: Cosmic Rays versus Dark Matter

• Authors: Tesla E. Jeltema, John Kehayias, Stefano Profumo

INTEGRAL observation of hard X-ray variability of the TeV binary LS5039 / RX J1826.2-1450

• Authors: A. D. Hoffmann, D. Klochkov, A. Santangelo, D. Horns, A. Segreto, R. Staubert, G. Puehlhofer

Backgrounds and Projected Limits from Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments

• Authors: Scott Dodelson

Gravitino Dark Matter and the Cosmic Lithium Abundances

• Authors: Sean Bailly, Karsten Jedamzik, Gilbert Moultaka

tipa -- 12/3/2008

Phase-space structure in the local dark matter distribution and its signature in direct detection experiments

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

Imaging the Black Hole Silhouette of M87: Implications for Jet Formation and Black Hole Spin

• Authors: Avery Broderick, Abraham Loeb

tipa -- 12/2/2008

XMM-Newton discovery of 2.6 s pulsations in the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1627-41

• Authors: P. Esposito, A. Tiengo, S. Mereghetti, G. L. Israel, A. De Luca, D. Götz, N. Rea, R. Turolla, S. Zane

A Turbulent Model of Gamma-Ray Burst Variability

• Authors: Ramesh Narayan, Pawan Kumar

Degeneracy, the virial theorem, and stellar collapse

• Authors: Christian Y. Cardall

Cosmic rays and the magnetic field in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 I. The distribution and transport of cosmic rays

• Authors: V. Heesen, R. Beck, M. Krause, R.-J. Dettmar

Breit-Wigner Enhancement of Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Masahiro Ibe, Hitoshi Murayama, T. T. Yanagida

Neutrino Signals from Annihilating/Decaying Dark Matter in the Light of Recent Measurements of Cosmic Ray Electron/Positron Fluxes

• Authors: Junji Hisano, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kazunori Kohri, Kazunori Nakayama