tipa -- 7/16/2009

Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

• Authors: Elena D'Onghia, Gurtina Besla, Thomas J. Cox, Lars Hernquist (Harvard-Cfa)

The energy spectrum, time history, and IPN error ellipse of GRB051103, a possible extragalactic SGR giant flare

• Authors: K. Hurley, E. Bellm, D. Perley, I. G. Mitrofanov, D. V. Golovin, A. S. Kozyrev, M. L. Litvak, A. B. Sanin, W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshmann, M. Ohno, K. Yamaoka, Y. E. Nakagawa, D. M. Smith, T. Cline, N. Gehrels, H. Krimm, D. M. Palmer, R. C. Duncan, C. Wigger, W. Hajdas, J.-L. Atteia, G. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, A. Rau, A. von Kienlin

Radio monitoring of NGC 7469: Late time radio evolution of SN 2000ft and the circumnuclear starburst in NGC 7469

• Authors: M.A. Perez-Torres, A. Alberdi, L. Colina, J.M. Torrelles, N. Panagia, A. Wilson, E. Kankare, S. Mattila

Chern-Simons Modified General Relativity

• Authors: Stephon Alexander, Nicolas Yunes

Astrometric Solar-System Anomalies

• Authors: John D. Anderson, Michael Martin Nieto

tipa -- 7/15/2009

Search for muon neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the IceCube neutrino telescope

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration: R. U. Abbasi, et al

GRB afterglow plateaus and Gravitational Waves: multi-messenger signature of a millisecond magnetar?

• Authors: Alessandra Corsi, Peter Meszaros

Propagation of ultrahigh energy nuclei in clusters of galaxies: resulting composition and secondary emissions

• Authors: K. Kotera, D. Allard, K. Murase, J. Aoi, Y. Dubois, T. Pierog, S. Nagataki

Physics Capabilities of the IceCube DeepCore Detector

• Authors: Christopher Wiebusch, for the IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 7/14/2009

Determining the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with Cosmology

• Authors: Francesco De Bernardis, Thomas D.Kitching, Alan Heavens, Alessandro Melchiorri

The disappearance of Lyman alpha blobs: a GALEX search at z=0.8

• Authors: William C. Keel, Raymond E. White III., Scott Chapman, Rogier A. Windhorst

tipa -- 7/13/2009

Dynamically Driven Evolution of the Interstellar Medium in M51

• Authors: J. Koda (1,2), N. Scoville (1), T. Sawada (3), M. A. La Vigne, S. N. Vogel (4), A. E. Potts, J. M. Carpenter, S. A. Corder (1), M. C. H. Wright (5), S. M. White, B. A. Zauderer (4), J. Patience, A. I. Sargent (1), D. C. -J. Bock (6), D. Hawkins, M. Hodges (7), A. Kemball (8), J.W. Lamb (7), R.L. Plambeck (5), M.W. Pound (4), S. L. Scott (7), P. Teuben (4), D.P. Woody (7), ((1) Caltech, (2) Stony Brook, (3) NRO, (4) U. Maryland, (5) Berkeley, (6) CARMA, (7) OVRO, (8) UIUC)

Cosmological Constraints from the Clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Luminous Red Galaxies

• Authors: Beth A. Reid, Will J. Percival, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Licia Verde, David N. Spergel, Ramin A. Skibba, Neta A. Bahcall, Tamas Budavari, Masataka Fukugita, J. Richard Gott, James E. Gunn, Zeljko Ivezic, Gillian R. Knapp, Richard G. Kron, Robert H. Lupton, Timothy A. McKay, Avery Meiksin, Robert C. Nichol, Adrian C. Pope, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Michael A. Strauss, Chris Stoughton, Alexander S. Szalay, Max Tegmark, David H. Weinberg, Donald G. York, Idit Zehavi

GRB 090426: The Environment of a Rest-Frame 0.35-second Gamma-Ray Burst at Redshift z=2.609

• Authors: Emily M. Levesque, Joshua S. Bloom, Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel A. Perley, S. Bradley Cenko, J. Xavier Prochaska, Lisa J. Kewley, Andrew Bunker, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, Karl Glazebrook, Sebastian Lopez, Joseph Masiero, Maryam Modjaz, Adam N. Morgan, Dovi Poznanski

QCD effects on "stable" micro black holes at the LHC

• Authors: Itzhak Goldman, Yuval Grossman, Shmuel Nussinov

classic papers of the week -- 108

A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Planck's "h"

also

• Millikan, R. A. (Ryerson Physical Laboratory, University of Chicago)

Spontaneous creation of almost scale-free density perturbations in an inflationary universe

• Bardeen, James M. (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA); Steinhardt, Paul J. (Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA); Turner, Michael S. (Astronomy and Astrophysics Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL)

Entropy Generation and the Survival of Protogalaxies in an Expanding Universe

• Weinberg, Steven

tipa -- 7/10/2009

Search for Astrophysical Neutrino Point Sources at Super-Kamiokande

• Authors: E. Thrane, et al. (The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Analysis of the low-energy electron-recoil spectrum of the CDMS experiment

• Authors: Z. Ahmed, D.S. Akerib, S. Arrenberg, C.N. Bailey, D. Balakishiyeva, L. Baudis, D.A. Bauer, J. Beaty, P.L. Brink, T. Bruch, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D.O. Caldwell, J. Cooley, P. Cushman, F. DeJongh, M.R. Dragowsky, L. Duong, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, J. Filippini, M. Fritts, S.R. Golwala, D.R. Grant, J. Hall, R. Hennings-Yeomans, S. Hertel, D. Holmgren, L. Hsu, M.E. Huber, O. Kamaev, M. Kiveni, M. Kos, S.W. Leman, R. Mahapatra, V. Mandic, D. Moore, K.A. McCarthy, N. Mirabolfathi, H. Nelson, R.W. Ogburn, M. Pyle, X. Qiu, E. Ramberg, W. Rau, A. Reisetter, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, J. Sander, R.W. Schnee, D.N. Seitz, B. Serfass, K.M. Sundqvist, G. Wang, S. Yellin, J. Yoo, B.A. Young, the CDMS Collaboration

Anisotropy vs chemical composition at ultra-high energies

• Authors: Martin Lemoine (IAP), Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute of Science)

tipa -- 7/9/2009

Type IIn supernovae at redshift z = 2 from archival data

• Jeff Cooke, Mark Sullivan, Elizabeth J. Barton, James S. Bullock, Ray G. Carlberg, Avishay Gal-Yam & Erik Tollerud

The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution

• A. Cattaneo, S. M. Faber, J. Binney, A. Dekel, J. Kormendy, R. Mushotzky, A. Babul, P. N. Best, M. Brüggen, A. C. Fabian, C. S. Frenk, A. Khalatyan, H. Netzer, A. Mahdavi, J. Silk, M. Steinmetz & L. Wisotzki

Radio Imaging of the Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Region in the Central Engine of a Radio Galaxy

• The VERITAS Collaboration, The VLBA 43 GHz M 87 Monitoring Team, The H.E.S.S. Collaboration, The MAGIC Collaboration

Detection of 16 Gamma-Ray Pulsars Through Blind Frequency Searches Using the Fermi LAT

A Population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars Seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

tipa -- 7/8/2009

Variable Sodium Absorption in a Low-Extinction Type Ia Supernova

• Authors: Joshua D. Simon (Carnegie Observatories), Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute), Orly Gnat, Robert M. Quimby (Caltech), Mohan Ganeshalingam, Jeffrey M. Silverman (UC Berkeley), Stephane Blondin (ESO), Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), J. Craig Wheeler (Texas), Robert P. Kirshner (CfA), Ferdinando Patat (ESO), Peter Nugent (LBL), Ryan J. Foley (CfA), Steven S. Vogt (UCSC), R. Paul Butler (Carnegie DTM), Kathryn M. G. Peek (UC Berkeley), Erik Rosolowsky (UBC Okanagan), Gregory J. Herczeg (MPE), Daniel N. Sauer (Stockholm), Paolo A. Mazzali (MPA)

Constraining the Milky Way potential with a 6-D phase-space map of the GD-1 stellar stream

• Authors: Sergey E. Koposov (1,2,3), Hans-Walter Rix (1), David W. Hogg (1,4) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia, (4) New York University, New York, USA)

The hydrodynamics of the supernova remnant Cas A: The influence of the progenitor evolution on the velocity structure and clumping

• Authors: B. van Veelen, N. Langer, J. Vink, G. García-Segura, A.J. van Marle

tipa -- 7/7/2009

A Scale-Dependent Power Asymmetry from Isocurvature Perturbations

• Authors: Adrienne L. Erickcek, Christopher M. Hirata, Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

The Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae from Broken Symmetries

• Authors: Daniel Kasen, Fritz Roepke, S.E. Woosley

The NGC 300 Transient: An Alternative Method For Measuring Progenitor Masses

• Authors: Stephanie M. Gogarten, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Benjamin F. Williams, Karoline Gilbert, Andrew Dolphin

Constraints on Dark Matter annihilations from reionization and heating of the intergalactic gas

• Authors: Marco Cirelli, Fabio Iocco, Paolo Panci

Constraints on the multi-TeV particle population in the Coma Galaxy Cluster with H.E.S.S. observations

• Authors: The HESS Collaboration: F.A. Aharonian, et al

Simulations of Recoiling Massive Black Holes in the Via Lactea Halo

• Authors: Javiera Guedes, Piero Madau, Micheal Kuhlen, Jürg Diemand, Marcel Zemp

Observation of shadowing of the cosmic electrons and positrons by the Moon with IACT

• Authors: P. Colin, D. Borla Tridon, D. Britzger, E. Lorenz, R. Mirzoyan, T. Schweizer, M. Teshima, for the MAGIC Collaboration

Extending the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey

• Authors: R.C.G. Chaves, for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Fermi-LAT Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Nicola Omodei, for the Fermi LAT, Fermi GBM collaborations

MAGIC Collaboration: Contributions to the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2009)

• Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration

tipa -- 7/6/2009

Large Scale Cosmic Ray Anisotropy With IceCube

• Authors: Rasha Abbasi, Paolo Desiati, for the IceCube Collaboration

New unidentified H.E.S.S. Galactic sources

• Authors: O. Tibolla, R. C. G. Chaves, O. de Jager, W. Domainko, A. Fiasson, N. Komin, K. Kosack

classic papers of the week -- 107

Rotational properties of 21 SC galaxies with a large range of luminosities and radii, from NGC 4605 (R = 4kpc) to UGC 2885 (R = 122 kpc)

• Rubin, V. C.; Ford, W. K., Jr.; Thonnard, N (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.)

Field Theories with Superconductor Solutions

• J. Goldstone (CERN, Geneva)

Principes de Phonautographie

• Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

tipa -- 7/3/2009

A Spitzer/IRS Spectrum of the 2008 Luminous Transient in NGC 300: Connection to Proto-Planetary Nebulae

• Authors: Jose L. Prieto, Kris Sellgren, Todd A. Thompson, Christopher S. Kochanek (Ohio State University)

The destruction and survival of dust in the shell around SN 2008S

• Authors: R. Wesson, M. J. Barlow, B. Ercolano, J. E. Andrews, Geoffrey C. Clayton, J. Fabbri, Joseph S. Gallagher, M. Meixner, B. E. K. Sugerman, D. L. Welch

The Star Formation Rate of Supersonic MHD Turbulence

• Authors: Paolo Padoan, AAke Nordlund

Fermi LAT Measurements of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes

• Authors: T. A. Porter, for the Fermi LAT Collaboration

Fermi observations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus: gamma-ray diffuse emission in the outer Galaxy

• Authors: L. Tibaldo, I. A. Grenier, for the Fermi LAT Collaboration

First results on Cosmic Ray electron spectrum below 20 GeV from the Fermi LAT

• Authors: Melissa Pesce-Rollins, for the Fermi LAT collaboration

Dark Matter Spin-Dependent Limits for WIMP Interactions on 19-F by PICASSO

• Authors: S. Archambault, F. Aubin, M. Auger, E. Behnke, B. Beltran, K. Clark, X. Dai, A. Davour, J. Farine, R. Faust, M.-H. Genest, G. Giroux, R. Gornea, C. Krauss, S. Kumaratunga, I. Lawson, C. Leroy, L. Lessard, C. Levy, I. Levine, R. MacDonald, J.-P. Martin, P. Nadeau, A. Noble, M.-C. Piro, S. Pospisil, T. Shepherd, N. Starinski, I. Stekl, C. Storey, U. Wichoski, V. Zacek

tipa -- 7/2/2009

Discovery of a Highly Energetic X-ray Pulsar Powering HESS J1813-178 in the Young Supernova Remnant G12.82-0.02

• Authors: E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern (Columbia University)

Comparisons of the radial distributions of core-collapse supernovae with those of young and old stellar populations

• Authors: J. P. Anderson, P. A. James

A novel determination of the local dark matter density

• Authors: Riccardo Catena, Piero Ullio

Exploring Dark Matter with Milky Way substructure

• Authors: M. Kuhlen (IAS, Princeton), P. Madau (UC Santa Cruz), J. Silk (U. of Oxford)

Study of the Production of Radioactive Isotopes through Cosmic Muon Spallation in KamLAND

• Authors: The KamLAND Collaboration

General bounds on non-standard neutrino interactions

• Authors: Carla Biggio, Mattias Blennow, Enrique Fernandez-Martinez

TASI 2008 Lectures: Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supersymmetry Breaking

• Authors: Yuri Shirman

tipa -- 7/1/2009

The Dark Disk of the Milky Way

• Authors: Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

Shrinking the Braneworld: Black Hole in a Globular Cluster

• Authors: Oleg Y. Gnedin, Thomas J. Maccarone, Dimitrios Psaltis, Stephen E. Zepf

Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory

• Authors: Arne Rau (1,2), Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (2), Nicholas M. Law (2), Joshua S. Bloom (3), David Ciardi (2), George S. Djorgovski (2), Derek B. Fox (4), Avishay Gal-Yam (5), Carl C. Grillmair (2), Mansi M. Kasliwal (2), Peter E. Nugent (6), Eran O. Ofek (2), Robert M. Quimby (2), William T. Reach (2), Michael Shara (7), Lars Bildsten (8), S. Bradley Cenko (3), Andrew J. Drake (2), Alexei V. Filippenko (3), David J. Helfand (9), George Helou (2), D. Andrew Howell (8,10), Dovi Poznanski (3), Mark Sullivan (11) ((1) MPE, (2) Caltech, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) Pennstate, (5) Weizman, (6) LBLN, (7) AMNH, (8) UC Santa Barbara, (9) Columbia, (10) LCOGT, (11) Oxford)

The Disruption of Giant Molecular Clouds by Radiation Pressure and the Efficiency of Star Formation in Galaxies

• Authors: Norman Murray, Eliot Quataert, Todd A. Thompson

Reconstructing WIMP Properties in Direct Detection Experiments Including Galactic Dark Matter Distribution Uncertainties

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari, Roberto Trotta

Exploring Portals to a Hidden Sector Through Fixed Targets

• Authors: Brian Batell, Maxim Pospelov, Adam Ritz

tipa -- 6/30/2009

The Dark Universe

• Authors: Matthias Bartelmann (Zentrum fuer Astronomie, Universitaet Heidelberg, Institut fuer Theoretische Astrophysik)

Theory of cosmic ray and gamma-ray production in the supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622

• Authors: E. G. Berezhko (1), G. Pühlhofer (2), H. J. Völk (3) ((1) Yu.G. Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy, (2) Landessternwarte, (3) Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik)

Galaxy Zoo : 'Hanny's Voorwerp', a quasar light echo?

• Authors: Chris Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, William Keel, Hanny van Arkel, Nicola Bennert, Edward Edmondson, Daniel Thomas, Daniel Smith, Peter Herbert, Matt Jarvis, Shanil Virani, Dan Andreescu, Steven Bamford, Kate Land, Phil Murray, Robert Nichol, Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex Szalay, Jan Vandenberg

Shockwaves in Supernovae: New Implications on the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background

• Authors: Sebastien Galais, James Kneller, Cristina Volpe, Jerome Gava

tipa -- 6/29/2009

Density and kinematic cusps in M54 at the heart of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy: evidence for a 10^4 M_sun Black Hole?

• Authors: R. Ibata, M. Bellazzini, S.C. Chapman, E. Dalessandro, F.R. Ferraro, M.Irwin, B. Lanzoni, G.F. Lewis, A.D. Mackey, P. Miocchi, A. Varghese

Reanalysis of Data Taken by the CANGAROO 3.8 Meter Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope: PSR B1706-44, SN 1006, and Vela

• Authors: T. Yoshikoshi, M. Mori, P. G. Edwards, S. Gunji, S. Hara, T. Hara, A. Kawachi, Y. Mizumoto, T. Naito, K. Nishijima, T. Tanimori, G. J. Thornton, T. Yoshida

A Possible Supernova Remnant high above the Galactic Disk

• Authors: David B. Henley, Robin L. Shelton (University of Georgia)

tipa -- 6/26/2009

Measuring the cosmic ray acceleration efficiency of a supernova remnant

• Authors: E.A.Helder, J. Vink, C.G. Bassa, A. Bamba, J.A.M. Bleeker, S. Funk, P. Ghavamian, K. J. van der Heyden, F. Verbunt, R. Yamazaki

tipa -- 6/25/2009

Polarization signature of gamma-ray bursts from fragmented fireballs

• Authors: Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Mitchell Begelman (JILA)

Caustics in growing Cold Dark Matter Haloes

• Authors: Mark Vogelsberger (1), Simon D.M. White (1), Roya Mohayaee (2), Volker Springel (1) ((1) MPA, (2) IAP Paris)

Can substructure in the Galactic Halo explain the ATIC and PAMELA results?

• Authors: P.J. Elahi (1), L.M. Widrow (1), R.J. Thacker (2) ((1) Queen's University, (2) Saint Mary's University)

Resonant enhancement of nuclear reactions as a possible solution to the cosmological lithium problem

• Authors: Richard H. Cyburt, Maxim Pospelov

Muon Fluxes From Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Arif Emre Erkoca, Mary Hall Reno, Ina Sarcevic

tipa -- 6/24/2009

A Constrain on Inelastic Dark Matter Signal using ZEPLIN-II Results

• Authors: D.B. Cline, W. Ooi, H. Wang

Cosmography with the Einstein Telescope

• Authors: B.S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff University), Bernard Schutz (MPI for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute, Cardiff University), Chris Van Den Broeck (Cardiff University)

Sibyll 2.1

• Authors: Eun-Joo Ahn, Ralph Engel, Thomas K. Gaisser, Paolo Lipari, Todor Stanev

tipa -- 6/23/2009

Ultra-high precision cosmology from gravitational waves

• Authors: Curt Cutler, Daniel E. Holz

LUNASKA Experiment Observational Limits on UHE Neutrinos from Centaurus A and the Galactic Center

• Authors: C.W. James, R.J. Protheroe, R.D. Ekers, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R.A. McFadden, C.J. Phillips, P. Roberts, J.D. Bray

Cosmic ray acceleration parameters from multi-wavelength observations. The case of SN 1006

• Authors: E.G. Berezhko, L.T. Ksenofontov, H.J. Voelk

Cosmic Ray Measurements with the KASCADE-Grande Experiment

• Authors: KASCADE-Grande Collaboration: W.D.Apel, J.C.Arteaga, F.Badea, K.Bekk, M.Bertaina, J.Bluemer, H.Bozdog, I.M.Brancus, M.Brueggemann, P.Buchholz, E.Cantoni, A.Chiavassa, F.Cossavella, K.Daumiller, V.deSouza, F.DiPierro, P.Doll, R.Engel, J.Engler, M.Finger, D.Fuhrmann, P.L.Ghia, H.J.Gils, R.Glasstetter, C.Grupen, A.Haungs, D.Heck, J.R.Hoerandel, T.Huege, P.G.Isar, K.-H.Kampert, D.Kang, D.Kickelbick, H.O.Klages, P.Luczak, H.J.Mathes, H.J.Mayer, J.Milke, B.Mitrica, C.Morello, G.Navarra, S.Nehls, J.Oehlschlaeger, S.Ostapchenko, S.Over, M.Petcu, T.Pierog, H.Rebel, M.Roth, H.Schieler, F.Schroeder, O.Sima, M.Stuempert, G.Toma, G.C.Trinchero, H.Ulrich, A.Weindl, J.Wochele, M.Wommer, J.Zabierowski

Wide and deep near-UV (360nm) galaxy counts and the extragalactic background light with the Large Binocular Camera

• Authors: A. Grazian (1), N. Menci (1), E. Giallongo (1), S. Gallozzi (1), F. Fontanot (2,3), A. Fontana (1), V. Testa (1), R. Ragazzoni (4), A. Baruffolo (4), G. Beccari (5), E. Diolaiti (6), A. Di Paola (1), J. Farinato (4), F. Gasparo (2), G. Gentile (4), R. Green (7), J. Hill (7), O. Kuhn (7), F. Pasian (2), F. Pedichini (1), M. Radovich (8), R. Smareglia (2), R. Speziali (1), D. Thompson (7), R. M. Wagner (7) ((1) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monteporzio, Italy, (2) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, (3) MPIA Max-Planck-Institute fur Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany (4) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy, (5) ESA, Space Science Department, Noordwijk, Netherlands (6) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, (7) Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, (8) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy)