tipa -- 1/6/2009

Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background: Cosmic-Ray Induced Albedo from Debris in the Solar System?

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko, Troy A. Porter

Nucleosynthesis of 56Ni in wind-driven Supernova Explosions and Constraints on the Central Engine of Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Nozomu Tominaga

Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGO's S5 Data

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Non-Abelian Dark Sectors and Their Collider Signatures

• Authors: Matthew Baumgart, Clifford Cheung, Joshua T. Ruderman, Lian-Tao Wang, Itay Yavin

tipa -- 1/5/2009

The 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 300

• Authors: Howard E. Bond (1), Alceste Z. Bonanos (1), Roberta M. Humphreys (2), L.A.G. Berto Monard (3), Jose L. Prieto (4), Frederick M. Walter (5) ((1) STScI, (2) U. Minnesota, (3) Bronberg Obs., (4) Ohio State U., (5) Stony Brook U.)

Microwave Background Constraints on Mixing of Photons with Hidden Photons

• Authors: Alessandro Mirizzi (Max Planck Institut, Munich), Javier Redondo (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg), Guenter Sigl (Hamburg University)

Introduction to the Standard Model and Electroweak Physics

• Authors: Paul Langacker

classic papers of the year -- 2008

Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions

• T.D. Lee (Columbia University, New York, New York) , Chen-Ning Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

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.)

The strength of the weak interactions

• Lincoln Wolfenstein (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

The Connection Between Spin and Statistics

• W. Pauli (Physikalisches Institut, Eidg. Technischen Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland)

Spinning Electrons and the Structure of Spectra

• Uhlenbeck, G. E., Goudsmit, S.

See also: The discovery of the electron spin

Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays

• N. Cabibbo (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

Violation of CP Invariance, c Asymmetry, and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

• A.D. Sakharov

See also

Remarks on the Evolution of the Expanding Universe

• Alpher, Ralph A.; Herman, Robert C. (Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, MD)

On the Stopping of fast particles and on the creation of positive electrons

• H. Bethe (Manchester), W. Heitler (Bristol)

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)

A Generalist Looks Back

• Salpeter, Edwin E.

tipa -- 12/25/2008

Dissecting Pamela (and ATIC) with Occam's Razor: existing, well-known Pulsars naturally account for the "anomalous" Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Data

• Authors: Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz)

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)