tipa -- 1/16/2009

A quantitative explanation of the observed population of Milky Way satellite galaxies

• Authors: Sergey E. Koposov (1,2,3), Jaiyul Yoo (4), Hans-Walter Rix (1), David H. Weinberg (5), Andrea V. Macciò (1), Jordi Miralda-Escudé (6) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA, (5) Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, (6) Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Barcelona, Spain)

H.E.S.S. observations of gamma-ray bursts in 2003-2007

• Authors: F. Aharonian (HESS collaboration), et al

Measurement of the solar neutrino capture rate with gallium metal, Part III

• Authors: SAGE Collaboration: J. N. Abdurashitov, V. N. Gavrin, V. V. Gorbachev, P. P. Gurkina, T. V. Ibragimova, A. V. Kalikhov, N. G. Khairnasov, T. V. Knodel, I. N. Mirmov, A. A. Shikhin, E. P. Veretenkin, V. E. Yants, G. T. Zatsepin, T. J. Bowles, S. R. Elliott, W. A. Teasdale, J. S. Nico, B. T. Cleveland, J. F. Wilkerson

tipa -- 1/15/2009

An extremely faint stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova and its implications

• Authors: Stefano Valenti, Andrea Pastorello, Enrico Cappellaro, Stefano Benetti, Paolo Mazzali, Jose Manteca, Stefan Taubenberger, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Rafael Ferrando, Avet Harutyunyan, Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Markku Nissinen, Elena Pian, Massimo Turatto, Luca Zampieri, Stephen J. Smartt

tipa -- 1/14/2009

Do Moderate-Luminosity AGN Suppress Star Formation?

• Authors: Kevin Schawinski, Shanil Virani, Brooke Simmons, C. Megan Urry, Ezequiel Treister, Sugata Kaviraj, Bronika Kushkuley

Cosmic Rays VI - Starburst galaxies at multiwavelengths

• Authors: Julia K. Becker, Peter L. Biermann, Jens Dreyer, Tanja M. Kneiske

tipa -- 1/13/2009

High-energy particle acceleration at the radio-lobe shock of Centaurus A

• Authors: J.H. Croston, R.P. Kraft, M.J. Hardcastle, M. Birkinshaw, D.M. Worrall, P.E.J. Nulsen, R.F. Penna, G.R. Sivakoff, A. Jordan, N.J. Brassington, D.A. Evans, W.R. Forman, M. Gilfanov, J.L. Goodger, W.E. Harris, C. Jones, A.M. Juett, S.S. Murray, S. Raychaudhury, C.L. Sarazin, R. Voss, K.A. Woodley

Kinematic reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino events in a large water Cherenkov detector with proton identification

• Authors: Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

tipa -- 1/12/2009

A gravitationally lensed water maser in the early Universe

• Authors: C.M.V. Impellizzeri (1), J.P. McKean (1), P. Castangia (1,2), A.L. Roy (1), C. Henkel (1), A. Brunthaler (1), O. Wucknitz (3) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn; (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari; (3) Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, Bonn)

GRB Light Curves in the Relativistic Turbulence Model

• Authors: Ayah Lazar, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran

The Implications of a High Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate in Diffuse Interstellar Clouds

• Authors: Nick Indriolo, Brian D. Fields, Benjamin J. McCall

classic papers of the week -- 89

Experimental Observation of Isolated Large Transverse Energy Electrons with Associated Missing Energy at s**(1/2) = 540-GeV

• By UA1 Collaboration (G. Arnison et al.)

Cosmic Black-Body Radiation and Galaxy Formation

• Silk, Joseph

An experiment to search for discrete sources of cosmic gamma rays in the 10^11 to 10^12 eV region

• Fazio, G. G.; Helmken, H. F.; Rieke, G. H.; Weekes, T. C.

tipa -- 1/9/2009

A top-heavy stellar initial mass function in starbursts as an explanation for the high mass-to-light ratios of ultra compact dwarf galaxies

• Authors: J. Dabringhausen, P. Kroupa, H. Baumgardt

CMB Lensing Constraints on Neutrinos and Dark Energy

• Authors: Roland de Putter, Oliver Zahn, Eric V. Linder

On the nature of the AGILE galactic transient sources

• Authors: Gustavo E. Romero, Gabriela S. Vila

CMSSM Spectroscopy in light of PAMELA and ATIC

• Authors: Ilia Gogoladze, Rizwan Khalid, Qaisar Shafi, Hasan Yuksel

tipa -- 1/8/2009

An Intermediate Luminosity Transient in NGC300: The Eruption of a Dust-Enshrouded Massive Star

• Authors: E. Berger, A. M. Soderberg, R. A. Chevalier, C. Fransson, R. J. Foley, D. C. Leonard, J. H. Debes, A. M. Diamond-Stanic, A. K. Dupree, I. I. Ivans, J. Simmerer, I. B. Thompson, C. A. Tremonti

Hypernova and Gamma-Ray Burst Remnants as TeV Unidentified Sources

• Authors: Kunihito Ioka (KEK), Peter Meszaros (Penn State)

Cosmological Parameters from the QUaD CMB polarization experiment

• Authors: QUaD collaboration: P. G. Castro (1 and 2), P. Ade (3), J. Bock (4 and 5), M. Bowden (3 and 6), M. L. Brown (1 and 8), G. Cahill (9), S. Church (6), T. Culverhouse (7), R. B. Friedman (7), K. Ganga (10), W. K. Gear (3), S. Gupta (3), J. Hinderks (6 and 11), J. Kovac (5), A. E. Lange (5), E. Leitch (4 and 5), S. J. Melhuish (12), Y. Memari (1), J. A. Murphy (9), A. Orlando (3 and 5), C. Pryke (7), R. Schwarz (7), C. O'Sullivan (9), L. Piccirillo (12), N. Rajguru (3 and 13), B. Rusholme (6), A. N. Taylor (1), K. L. Thompson (6), A. H. Turner (3), E. Y. S. Wu (6), M. Zemcov (3, 4 and 5) ((1) Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, (2) CENTRA, Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, (3) School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, (4) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (5) California Institute of Technology, (6) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University, (7) Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, (8) Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, (9) Department of Experimental Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, (10) Laboratoire APC UMR 7164, Univ. Paris Diderot-Paris 7 - CNRS - CEA - Obs. de Paris, (11) NASA Goddard, (12) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, (13) UCL)

tipa -- 1/7/2009

The First Positive Detection of Molecular Gas in a GRB Host Galaxy

• Authors: J. X. Prochaska (1,2), Y. Sheffer (3), D.A. Perley (4), J. S. Bloom (4), L. A. Lopez (2), M. Dessauges-Zavadsky (5), H.-W. Chen (6), A. V. Filippenko (4), M. Ganeshalingam (4), W. Li (4), A. A. Miller (4), D. Starr (4,7) ((1) UC Santa Cruz, (2) UCO/Lick, (3) University of Toledo, (4) UC Berkeley, (5) Observatoire de Geneve, (6) U Chicago, (7) Las Cumbres Observatory)

Interpretation of the Extragalactic Radio Background

• Authors: M. Seiffert, D. J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, S. M. Levin, M. Limon, P. M. Lubin, P. Mirel, J. Singal, T. Villela, E. Wollack, C. A. Wuensche

Diffuse neutrino flux from failed supernovae

• Authors: Cecilia Lunardini

An "archaeological" quest for galactic supernova neutrinos

• Authors: Rimantas Lazauskas, Cecilia Lunardini, Cristina Volpe

Candidates for Inelastic Dark Matter

• Authors: Yanou Cui, David E. Morrissey, David Poland, Lisa Randall

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