today in particle astrophysics

Authors: C. D. Ott (1,2,3), E. Schnetter (3,4), A. Burrows (5), E. Livne (6), E. O'Connor (1), F. Loeffler (3) ((1) TAPIR, Caltech, (2) Niels Bohr Institute, (3) Center for Computation and Technology, LSU, (4) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, LSU, (5) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, (6) Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University)

tipa -- 7/23/2009

Primordial Core-Collapse Supernovae and the Chemical Abundances of Metal-Poor Stars

Authors: C. C. Joggerst, A. Almgren, J. Bell, Alexander Heger, Daniel Whalen, S. E. Woosley

On Type Ia Supernovae From The Collisions of Two White Dwarfs

Authors: Cody Raskin, F.X. Timmes, Evan Scannapieco, Steven Diehl, Chris Fryer

tipa -- 7/22/2009

Substructure depletion in the Milky Way halo by the disk

Authors: Elena D'Onghia (1), Volker Springel (2), Lars Hernquist (1), Dusan Keres (1) ((1) Harvard/Cfa, (2) MPA, Garching)

Observations of "wisps" in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Crab Nebula

Authors: N.F. Camus, S.S. Komissarov, N. Buccantini, P.A. Hughes

tipa -- 7/21/2009

Collisions of white dwarfs as a new progenitor channel for type Ia supernovae

Authors: S. Rosswog, D. Kasen, J. Guillochon, E. Ramirez-Ruiz

High-Energy Neutrinos From Dark Matter Particle Self-Capture Within the Sun

Authors: Andrew R. Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-ray Burst Optical Afterglows: Biases in the Swift Sample and Characterization of the Absorbers

Authors: J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, J. X. Prochaska, D. Malesani, C. Ledoux, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Nardini, P. M. Vreeswijk, J. Hjorth, J. Sollerman, H.-W. Chen, C. C. Thoene, G. Bjoernsson, J. S. Bloom, A. Castro-Tirado, L. Christensen, A. De Cia, J. U. Gorosabel, A. Jaunsen, B. L. Jensen, A. Levan, J. Maund, N. Masetti, B. Milvang-Jensen, E. Palazzi, D. A. Perley, E. Pian, E. Rol, P. Schady, R. Starling, N. Tanvir, D. J. Watson, K. Wiersema, D. Xu, T. Augusteijn, F. Grundahl, J. Telting, P.-O. Quirion

tipa -- 7/20/2009

The Formation of Population III Binaries from Cosmological Initial Conditions

Authors: Matthew J. Turk (1), Tom Abel (1), Brian W. O'Shea (2) ((1) Stanford/KIPAC, (2) Michigan State University)

Measuring Black Hole Spin via the X-ray Continuum Fitting Method: Beyond the Thermal Dominant State

Authors: James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard, Ramesh Narayan, Lijun Gou

Cosmological and astrophysical constraints from the Lyman-alpha forest flux probability distribution function

Authors: M. Viel, J.S. Bolton, M.G. Haehnelt

classic papers of the week -- 109

CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction

Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)

The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matter

Davis, M.; Efstathiou, G.; Frenk, C. S.; White, S. D. M.

On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, in Consequence of the Diminution of the Velocity of Their Light, in Case Such a Diminution Should be Found to Take Place in any of Them, and Such Other Data Should be Procured from Observations, as Would be Farther Necessary for That Purpose. By the Rev. John Michell, B. D. F. R. S. In a Letter to Henry Cavendish, Esq. F. R. S. and A. S.

John Michell

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