tipa -- 5/12/2009

Capture of Inelastic Dark Matter in the Sun

• Authors: S. Nussinov, L. T. Wang, I. Yavin

Probing the Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor by Lyman-Alpha Emission of Host Galaxies

• Authors: Yuu Niino, Tomonori Totani, Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi

tipa -- 5/11/2009

GeV Gamma-Ray Attenuation and the High-Redshift UV Background

• Authors: Rudy C. Gilmore, Piero Madau, Joel R. Primack, Rachel S. Somerville, Francesco Haardt

classic papers of the week -- 104

Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant States

• ARTHUR H. ROSENFELD, ANGELA BARBARO-GALTIERI, WALTER H. BARKAS, PIERRE L. BASTIEN, JANOS KIRZ (Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA) , MATTS ROOS (Nordita, Copenhagen, Denmark)

The force exerted by the stellar system in the direction perpendicular to the galactic plane and some related problems

• Oort, J. H.

Energy loss of muons in the energy range 1-10000 GeV

• W. Lohmann, R. Kopp, R. Voss (CERN)

tipa -- 5/8/2009

The first magnetic fields in the universe

• Authors: Andrei Gruzinov

Modeling the Extragalactic Background Light from Stars and Dust

• Authors: Justin D. Finke, Soebur Razzaque, Charles D. Dermer

tipa -- 5/7/2009

The Collimation and Energetics of the Brightest Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: S. B. Cenko, D. A. Frail, F. A. Harrison, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Nakar, P. Chandra, N. R. Butler, D. B. Fox, A. Gal-Yam, M. M. Kasliwal, J. Kelemen, D.-S. Moon, P. A. Price, A. Rau, A. M. Soderberg, H. I. Teplitz, M. W. Werner, D. C.-J. Bock, J. S. Bloom, D. A. Starr, A. V. Filippenko, R. A. Chevalier, N. Gehrels, J. N. Nousek, T. Piran

A Redetermination of the Hubble Constant with the Hubble Space Telescope from a Differential Distance Ladder

• Authors: Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI), Lucas Macri (Texas A&M), Stefano Casertano (STScI), Megan Sosey (STScI), Hubert Lampeitl (UPort), Henry C. Ferguson (STScI), Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB), Saurabh W. Jha (Rutgers), Weidong Li (UCB), Ryan Chornock (UCB), Devdeep Sarkar (UCI)

How old are SN Ia Progenitor Systems? New Observational Constraints on the Distribution of Time Delays from GALEX

• Authors: Kevin Schawinski

Feasibility of measuring the Shapiro time delay over meter-scale distances

• Authors: S. Ballmer (LIGO-Caltech), S. Márka (Columbia University), P. Shawhan (University of Maryland)

tipa -- 5/6/2009

The Evolution of Swift/BAT blazars and the origin of the MeV background

• Authors: M. Ajello, L. Costamante, R. M. Sambruna, N. Gehrels, J. Chiang, A. Rau, A. Escala, J. Greiner, J. Tueller, J. V. Wall, R. F. Mushotzky

Optical Classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

• Authors: A.J. van der Horst, C. Kouveliotou, N. Gehrels, E. Rol, R.A.M.J. Wijers, J.K. Cannizzo, J. Racusin, D.N. Burrows

On possible interpretations of the high energy electron-positron spectrum measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: D. Grasso, S. Profumo, A.W. Strong, L. Baldini, R. Bellazzini, E.D. Bloom, J. Bregeon, G. Di Bernardo, D. Gaggero, N. Giglietto, T. Kamae, L. Latronico, F. Longo, M.N. Mazziotta, A.A. Moiseev, A. Morselli, J.F. Ormes, M. Pesce-Rollins, M. Pohl, M. Razzano, C. Sgro, G. Spandre, T.E. Stephens

tipa -- 5/5/2009

Relative Role of Stars and Quasars in Cosmic Reionization

• Authors: Marta Volonteri, Nick Gnedin

Dark matter interpretation of recent electron and positron data

• Authors: Lars Bergstrom, Joakim Edsjo, Gabrijela Zaharijas

Multi-messenger constraints on the annihilating dark matter interpretation of the positron excess

• Authors: Miguel Pato, Lidia Pieri, Gianfranco Bertone

The Cosmic-Ray Positron and Electron Excess: An Experimentalist's Point of View

• Authors: Michael Schubnell (University of Michigan)

tipa -- 5/4/2009

Measurement of the Cosmic Ray e+ plus e- spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: Fermi/LAT Collaboration

Probing the ATIC peak in the cosmic-ray electron spectrum with H.E.S.S

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

The Host Galaxies of Swift Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts: Observational Constraints on Highly Obscured and Very High-Redshift GRBs

• Authors: D. A. Perley, S. B. Cenko, J. S. Bloom, H.-W. Chen, N. R. Butler, D. Kocevski, J. X. Prochaska, M. Brodwin, K. Glazebrook, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, S. Lopez, E. O. Ofek, M. Pettini, A. M. Soderberg, D. Starr

Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, et al

CMB constraints on Dark Matter models with large annihilation cross-section

• Authors: S. Galli, F. Iocco, G. Bertone, A. Melchiorri

Stacked Search for Gravitational Waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 Storm

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Energy dependence of Ti/Fe ratio in the Galactic cosmic rays measured by the ATIC-2 experiment

• Authors: V.I. Zatsepin, A.D. Panov, N.V. Sokolskaya, J.H.Adams, Jr., H.S. Ahn, G.L. Bashindzhagyan, J. Chang, M. Christl, A.R. Fazely, T.G. Guzik, J.B. Isbert, K.C. Kim, E.N. Kouznetsov, M.I. Panasyuk, E.S. Seo, J. Watts, J.P. Wefel, J. Wu

classic papers of the week -- 103

On a New Kind of Rays

• W. C. Röntgen

Remarks on the phenomenological analysis of resonances

• J. D. Jackson (CERN, Geneva)

Early particles

• J. Steinberger (CERN)

tipa -- 5/1/2009

A Unique Star in the Outer Halo of the Milky Way

• Authors: David K. Lai, Constance M. Rockosi, Michael Bolte, Jennifer A. Johnson, Timothy C. Beers, Young Sun Lee, Carlos Allende Prieto, Brian Yanny

Wavelength Accuracy of the Keck HIRES Spectrograph and Measuring Changes in the Fine Structure Constant

• Authors: Kim Griest, Jonathan B. Whitmore, Arthur M. Wolfe, J. Xavier Prochaska, J. Christopher Howk, Geoffrey W. Marcy

Synchrotron Emission from Elliptical Galaxies Consequent to AGN outbursts

• Authors: Y.-F. Jiang, L. Ciotti, J. P. Ostriker, A. Spitkovsky

How photon astronomy affects searches for continuous gravitational waves

• Authors: Benjamin J. Owen (Penn State)

Search for High Frequency Gravitational Wave Bursts in the First Calendar Year of LIGO's Fifth Science Run

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al

tipa -- 4/30/2009

Measurement of the Flux of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays by the Stereo Technique

• Authors: R.U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Al-Seady, M. Allen, J.F. Amann, G. Archbold, K. Belov, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S.A. Blake, O.A. Brusova, G.W. Burt, C. Cannon, Z. Cao, W. Deng, Y.Fedorova, J. Findlay, C.B. Finley, R.C. Gray, W.F. Hanlon, C.M. Hoffman, M.H. Holzscheiter, G. Hughes, P. Huntemeyer, D. Ivanov, B.F. Jones, C.C.H. Jui, K. Kim, M.A. Kirn, E.C. Loh, M.M. Maestas, N. Manago, L.J. Marek, K. Martens, J.A.J. Matthews, J. N. Matthews, S.A. Moore, A. O'Neil, C.A. Painter, L. Perera, K. Reil, R. Riehle, M.D. Roberts, D. Rodriguez, M. Sasaki, S.R. Schnetzer, L.M. Scott, G. Sinnis, J.D. Smith, R. Snow, P. Sokolsky, R.W. Springer, B.T. Stokes, S.R. Stratton, J.R. Thomas, S.B. Thomas, G.B. Thomson, D. Tupa, L.R. Wiencke, A. Zech, B.K. Zhang, X. Zhang, Y.Zhang

Star Formation Histories, Abundances and Kinematics of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group

• Authors: E. Tolstoy, V. Hill, M. Tosi

Discrete sources as the origin of the Galactic X-ray ridge emission

• Authors: Revnivtsev M. (1,2), Sazonov S. (2,3), Churazov E. (3,2), Forman W. (4), Vikhlinin A. (4,2), Sunyaev R. (3,2) ((1) Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching, Germany; (2) IKI, Moscow, Russia, (3) MPA, Garching, Germany, (4) CfA, Cambridge, USA)

Seeing through the String Landscape - a String Hunter's Companion in Particle Physics and Cosmology

• Authors: Dieter Lust

tipa -- 4/29/2009

Pulsed Gamma-rays from the millisecond pulsar J0030+0451 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: Fermi/LAT Collaboration

Stochastic Nature of Gravitational Waves from Supernova Explosions with Standing Accretion Shock Instability

• Authors: Kei Kotake, Wakana Iwakami, Naofumi Ohnishi, Shoichi Yamada

Early Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of the Quasar 3C 454.3

• Authors: Fermi/LAT Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al

Correlations between Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and Infrared-Luminous Galaxies

• Authors: Glennys R. Farrar, Andreas A. Berlind, Ingyin Zaw

Angular Momentum Transfer and Lack of Fragmentation in Self-Gravitating Accretion Flows

• Authors: Mitchell Begelman, Isaac Shlosman (JILA/CU Boulder)

tipa -- 4/28/2009

Protohalo Constraints to the Resonant Annihilation of Dark Matter

• Authors: Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (UBC), Stefano Profumo (UCSC), Kris Sigurdson (UBC)

Proton-air cross section measurement with the ARGO-YBJ cosmic ray experiment

• Authors: The ARGO-YBJ Collaboration

tipa -- 4/27/2009

Phase transitions and He-synthesis driven winds in neutrino cooled accretion disks: prospects for late flares in short gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: William H. Lee (1), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (2), Diego-Lopez-Camara (1) ((1) Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, (2) Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz)

Inverse Compton constraints on the Dark Matter e+e- excesses

• Authors: Marco Cirelli, Paolo Panci

Identifying Nearby UHECR Accelerators using UHE (and VHE) Photons

• Authors: A. M. Taylor, J. A. Hinton, P. Blasi, M. Ave

Variability Timescales in the M87 Jet: Signatures of E-Squared Losses, Discovery of a Quasi-period in HST-1, and the Site of TeV Flaring

• Authors: D. E. Harris (SAO), C. C. Cheung (GSFC), Lukasz Stawarz (KIP/Stanford), J. A. Biretta (STScI), E. S. Perlman (FIT)

classic papers of the week -- 102

Symmetries of baryons and mesons

• Murray Gell-Mann (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

Gravitational Collapse: The Role of General Relativity

• R. Penrose (Department of Mathematics, Birkbeck College - London)

The Origin of the Moon

• Cameron, A. G. W.; Ward, W. R. (Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA)

Satellite-sized planetesimals and lunar origin

• Hartmann, W. K.; Davis, D. R. (Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ)

tipa -- 4/24/2009

Hubble Space Telescope observations of an extraordinary flare in the M87 jet

• Authors: Juan P. Madrid (McMaster U. Canada)

Multiple Spectral Splits of Supernova Neutrinos

• Authors: Basudeb Dasgupta, Amol Dighe, Georg G. Raffelt, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

tipa -- 4/23/2009

Detection of Very High Energy radiation from HESS J1908+063 confirms the Milagro unidentified source MGRO J1908+06

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

Model in-dependence of electron and positron flux from Dark Matter

• Authors: Michael Kuhlen, Dmitry Malyshev

tipa -- 4/22/2009

Measurement of the \nu_\mu charged current \pi^+ to quasi-elastic cross section ratio on mineral oil in a 0.8 GeV neutrino beam

• Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko, S. J. Brice, B. C. Brown, L. Buge, J. Cao, L. Coney, J. M. Conrad, D. C. Cox, A. Curioni, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, B. T. Fleming, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, C. Green, J. A. Green, T. L. Hart, E. Hawker, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, P. Kasper, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kourbanis, S. Koutsoliotas, E. M. Laird, S. K. Linden, J. M. Link, Y. Liu, Y. Liu, W. C. Louis, K. B. M. Mahn, W. Marsh, V. T. McGary, G. McGregor, W. Metcalf, P. D. Meyers, F. Mills, G. B. Mills, J. Monroe, C. D. Moore, R. H. Nelson, P. Nienaber, J. A. Nowak, B. Osmanov, S. Ouedraogo, R. B. Patterson, D. Perevalov, C. C. Polly, E. Prebys, J. L. Raaf, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, A. D. Russell, V. Sandberg, R. Schirato, D. Schmitz, M. H. Shaevitz, F. C. Shoemaker, D. Smith, M. Soderberg, M. Sorel, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, I. Stancu, R. J. Stefanski, M. Sung, H. A. Tanaka, R. Tayloe, M. Tzanov, R. Van de Water, M. O. Wascko, D. H. White, M. J. Wilking, H. J. Yang, G. P. Zeller, E. D. Zimmerman

On the constancy of the high-mass slope of the initial mass function

• Authors: Paul C. Clark, Simon C.O. Glover, Ian A. Bonnell, Ralf S. Klessen

The Pulsar Contribution to the Gamma-Ray Background

• Authors: C.-A. Faucher-Giguere, Abraham Loeb (Harvard University)

tipa -- 4/21/2009

Very high efficiency photospheric emission in long duration gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Brian J. Morsony (Wisconsin), Mitch Begelman (JILA)

On The Maximum Mass of Stellar Black Holes

• Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Tomasz Bulik, Chris L. Fryer, Ashley Ruiter, Jorick S. Vink, Jarrod R. Hurley

The Scientific Life Of John Bahcall

• Authors: W. C. Haxton

Molecular Clouds as Cosmic-Ray Barometers

• Authors: S. Casanova, F. A. Aharonian, Y. Fukui, S. Gabici, D. I. Jones, A. Kawamura, T. Onishi, G. Rowell, K. Torii, H. Yamamoto

Evidence of a non-baryonic composition in GRB 080916C

• Authors: Bing Zhang (UNLV), Asaf Pe'er (STScI)

The density, the cosmic microwave background, and the proton-to-electron mass ratio in a cloud at redshift 0.9

• Authors: C. Henkel, K.M. Menten, M.T. Murphy, N. Jethava, V.V. Flambaum, J.A. Braatz, S. Muller, J. Ott, R.Q. Mao

The Thermal Abundance of Semi-Relativistic Relics

• Authors: Manuel Drees, Mitsuru Kakizaki, Suchita Kulkarni

Relativistic Cyclotron Radiation Detection of Tritium Decay Electrons as a New Technique for Measuring the Neutrino Mass

• Authors: Benjamin Monreal (1), Joseph A. Formaggio (2) ((1) University of California, Santa Barbara, (2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

tipa -- 4/20/2009

Detection of Gamma-ray Emission from the Eta-Carinae Region

• Authors: M. Tavani, S. Sabatini, E. Pian, A. Bulgarelli, P. Caraveo, R.F. Viotti, M.F. Corcoran, A. Giuliani, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, S. Vercellone, S. Mereghetti, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, F. Boffelli, P. W. Cattaneo, A. W. Chen, V. Cocco, F. D'Ammando, E. Costa, G. De Paris, E. Del Monte, G. Di Cocco, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, A. Ferrari, M. Feroci, M. Fiorini, T. Froysland, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, M. Mastropietro, E. Morelli, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, F. Perotti, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Pilia, G. Porrovecchio, G. Pucella, M. Prest, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, A. Rubini, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, E. Vallazza, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, P. Santolamazza, P. Giommi, S. Colafrancesco, L.A. Antonelli, L. Salotti

On electromagnetic instabilities at ultra-relativistic shock waves

• Authors: Martin Lemoine (IAP), Guy Pelletier (LAOG)

Constraints on the Extragalactic Background Light from Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Observations of Blazars

• Authors: Justin D. Finke, Soebur Razzaque