tipa -- 7/27/2009

Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star-Forming Galaxies

• Authors: Carolin N. Cardamone, Kevin Schawinski, Marc Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, Nicola Bennert, C. M. Urry, Chris Lintott, William C. Keel, John Parejko, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel Thomas, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex Szalay, Jan VandenBerg

BLAST: the Redshift Survey

• Authors: Stephen Eales, Edward L. Chapin, Mark J. Devlin, Simon Dye, Mark Halpern, David H. Hughes, Gaelen Marsden, Philip Mauskopf, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Calvin B. Netterfield, Enzo Pascale, Guillaume Patanchon, Gwenifer Raymond, Marie Rex, Douglas Scott, Christopher Semisch, Brian Siana, Matthew D. P. Truch, Marco P. Viero

The Physics of the FIR-Radio Correlation: I. Calorimetry, Conspiracy, and Implications

• Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert

Fermi LAT Observations of LS I +61 303: First detection of an orbital modulation in GeV Gamma Rays

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, et al., for the Fermi LAT collaboration

Chandra Observations of 1RXS J141256.0+792204 (Calvera)

• Authors: Andrew S. H. Shevchuk, Derek B. Fox, Robert E. Rutledge

Dark matter, the CMSSM and lattice QCD

• Authors: Joel Giedt, Anthony W. Thomas, Ross D. Young

How Far Are We from the Quantum Theory of Gravity?

• Authors: R. P. Woodard (University of Florida)

classic papers of the week -- 110

The redshift of extragalactic nebulae

• Zwicky, F.

On Continued Gravitational Contraction

• Oppenheimer, J. R.; Snyder, H. (University of California, Berkeley)

Theories of gamma-ray bursts

• Ruderman, M. (Columbia University, New York, N.Y.)

tipa -- 7/24/2009

The Fermi gamma-ray spectrum of the inner galaxy: Implications for annihilating dark matter

• Authors: Ilias Cholis, Gregory Dobler, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Lisa Goodenough, Tracy R. Slatyer, Neal Weiner

Very High Energy Gamma-ray Afterglow Emission of Nearby Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: R. R. Xue, P. H. Tam, S. J. Wagner, B. Behera, Y. Z. Fan, D. M. Wei

Computational Models of Stellar Collapse and Core-Collapse Supernovae

• 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

tipa -- 7/17/2009

Cosmic Neutrino Last Scattering Surface

• Authors: Scott Dodelson, Mika Vesterinen

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