tipa -- 8/18/2009

Properties of Type II Plateau Supernova SNLS-04D2dc: Multicolor Light Curves of Shock Breakout and Plateau

• Authors: N. Tominaga, S. Blinnikov, P. Baklanov, K. Nomoto

An Extremely Top-Heavy IMF in the Galactic Center Stellar Disks

• Authors: H. Bartko, F. Martins, S. Trippe, T. K. Fritz, R. Genzel, T. Ott, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen, T. Paumard, T. Alexander, K. Dodds-Eden, O. Gerhard, Y. Levin, L. Mascetti, S. Nayakshin, H. B. Perets, G. Perrin, O. Pfuhl, M. J. Reid, D. Rouan, M. Zilka, A. Sternberg

Reconstructing the supernova bounce time with neutrinos in IceCube

• Authors: Francis Halzen, Georg G. Raffelt

Spectral Lags and the Lag-Luminosity Relation: An Investigation with Swift BAT Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: T. N. Ukwatta, M. Stamatikos, K. S. Dhuga, T. Sakamoto, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, J. P. Norris, W. C. Parke

Searches for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decays tau -> e gamma and tau -> mu gamma

• Authors: The BABAR Collaboration: B. Aubert, et al

tipa -- 8/17/2009

Resolving Cosmic Neutrino Structure: A Hybrid Neutrino N-body Scheme

• Authors: Jacob Brandbyge, Steen Hannestad (Aarhus University)

Discovery of the Extremely Energetic Supernova 2008fz

• Authors: A.J. Drake, S.G. Djorgovski, J.L. Prieto, A. Mahabal, D. Balam, R. Williams, M.J. Graham, M. Catelan, E. Beshore, S. Larson

Interstellar magnetic fields in the Galactic center region

• Authors: Katia Ferriere

Pulsar Binary Birthrates with Spin-Opening Angle Correlations

• Authors: Richard O'Shaughnessy (1), Chunglee Kim (2) ((1) Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn State University; (2) Lund Observatory)

X-ray Evolution of SNR 1987A: The Radial Expansion

• Authors: Judith L. Racusin, Sangwook Park, Svetozar Zhekov, David N. Burrows, Gordon P. Garmire, Richard McCray

classic papers of the week -- 112

Open letter to the group of radioactive people at the Gauverein meeting in Tübingen

• W. Pauli

On the gravitational stability of a disk of stars

• Toomre, A.

Solar Neutrinos. I. Theoretical

• Bahcall, John N. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

tipa -- 8/14/2009

Testing Einstein's special relativity with Fermi's short hard gamma-ray burst GRB090510

• Authors: Fermi GBM/LAT Collaborations

Protoneutron star evolution and the neutrino driven wind in general relativistic neutrino radiation hydrodynamics simulations

• Authors: T. Fischer, S. C.Whitehouse, A. Mezzacappa, F.-K. Thielemann, M. Liebendörfer

Agile Detection of Delayed Gamma-Ray Emission from the Short Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 090510

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

Modulino Dark Matter and the INTEGRAL 511 keV Line

• Authors: Nathaniel J. Craig, Stuart Raby

tipa -- 8/13/2009

Ultra Relativistic Particle Collisions

• Authors: Matthew W. Choptuik, Frans Pretorius

CANGAROO-III Observation of TeV Gamma Rays from the vicinity of PSR B1706-44

• Authors: R.Enomoto, J.Kushida, T.Nakamori, T.Kifune, G.V.Bicknell, R.W.Clay, P.G.Edwards, S.Gunji, S.Hara, T.Hara, T.Hattori, S.Hayashi, Y.Higashi, Y.Hirai, K.Inoue, H.Ishioka, S.Kabuki, F.Kajino, H.Katagiri, A.Kawachi, R.Kiuchi, H.Kubo, T.Kunisawa, T.Matoba, Y.Matsubara, I.Matsuzawa, T.Mizukami, Y.Mizumura, Y.Mizumoto, M.Mori, H.Muraishi, T.Naito, S.Nakano, K.Nishijima, M.Ohishi, Y.Otake, S.Ryoki, K.Saito, Y.Sakamoto, A.Seki, V.Stamatescu, T.Suzuki, D.L.Swaby, T.Tanimori, G.Thornton, F.Tokanai, K.Tsuchiya, S.Watanabe, E.Yamazaki, S.Yanagita, T.Yoshida, T.Yoshikoshi, Y.Yukawa (CANGAROO-III)

Pulsar science with the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope

• Authors: R. Smits, D.R. Lorimer, M. Kramer, R. Manchester, B. Stappers, C.J. Jin, R.D. Nan, D. Li

SN2003bg: a broad-lined Type IIb Supernova with Hydrogen

• Authors: Paolo A. Mazzali (1,2,3,4), Jinsong Deng (5), Mario Hamuy (6), Ken'ichi Nomoto (7) ((1) Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, (2) INAF-OAPd, Italy, (3) MPA, Garching, Germany, (4) RESCEU, U. Tokyo, Japan, (5) NAO CAS, Beijing, China, (6) Astronomy Dept., U. Chile, (7) IPMU, U. Tokyo, Japan)

2003bg: The First Type IIb Hypernova

• Authors: Mario Hamuy, Jinsong Deng, Paolo A. Mazzali, Nidia I. Morrell, Mark M. Phillips, Miguel Roth, Sergio Gonzalez, Joanna Thomas-Osip, Wojtek Krzeminski, Carlos Contreras, Jose Maza, Luis Gonzalez, Leonor Huerta, Gaston Folatelli, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, S. E. Persson, W. L. Freedman, Kathleen Koviak, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Kevin Krisciunas

Light Dark Matter Detection Prospects at Neutrino Experiments

• Authors: Jason Kumar, John G. Learned, Stefanie Smith

tipa -- 8/12/2009

Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter

• Authors: R. Subedi, R. Shneor, P. Monaghan, B.D.Anderson, K. Aniol, J. Annand, J. Arrington, H. Benaoum, F. Benmokhtar, W. Bertozzi, W. Boeglin, J.-P.Chen, Seonho Choi, E. Cisbani, B. Craver, S. Frullani, F. Garibaldi, S. Gilad, R. Gilman, O. Glamazdin, J.-O.Hansen, D.W. Higinbotham, T. Holmstrom, H. Ibrahim, R. Igarashi, C.W. de Jager, E. Jans, X. Jiang, L. Kaufman, A. Kelleher, A. Kolarkar, G. Kumbartzki, J.J. LeRose, R. Lindgren, N. Liyanage, D.J. Margaziotis, P. Markowitz, S. Marrone, M. Mazouz, D. Meekins, R. Michaels, B. Moffit, C.F. Perdrisat, E. Piasetzky, M. Potokar, V. Punjabi, Y. Qiang, J. Reinhold, G. Ron, G. Rosner, A. Saha, B. Sawatzky, A. Shahinyan, S. Širca, K. Slifer, P. Solvignon, V. Sulkosky, G. Urciuoli, E. Voutier, J.W. Watson, L.B. Weinstein, B. Wojtsekhowski, S. Wood, X.-C.Zheng, L. Zhu

A Point-Source Catalog from Swift Observations of Unidentified Fermi Sources

• Authors: N. Mirabal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

The Star Formation History of the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Authors: Jason Harris, Dennis Zaritsky

tipa -- 8/11/2009

Fermi LAT Observation of Diffuse Gamma-Rays Produced Through Interactions between Local Interstellar Matter and High Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, et al

Discovery of Three Pulsars from a Galactic Center Pulsar Population

• Authors: J. S. Deneva, J. M. Cordes, T. J. W. Lazio

Testing the Epeak - Eiso relation for GRBs detected by Swift and Suzaku-WAM

• Authors: H. A. Krimm, K. Yamaoka, S. Sugita, M. Ohno, T. Sakamoto, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, R. Hara, J. P. Norris, N. Ohmori, K. Onda, G. Sato, H. Tanaka, M. Tashiro, M. Yamauchi

tipa -- 8/10/2009

Discovery of the Very Red Near-Infrared and Optical Afterglow of the Short-Duration GRB 070724A

• Authors: E. Berger (Harvard), S. B. Cenko (UC Berkeley), D. B. Fox (PSU), A. Cucchiara (PSU)

VLT Spectropolarimetry of the optical transient in NGC300. Evidences for asymmetry in the circumstellar dust

• Authors: F. Patat, J.R. Maund, M.-T. Botticella, E. Cappellaro, A. Harutyunyan, M. Turatto

On the Energy Spectra of GeV/TeV Cosmic Ray Leptons

• Authors: Lukasz Stawarz, Vahe Petrosian, Roger D. Blandford

classic papers of the week -- 111

L'Univers en expansion

• Lemaître, Georges

The axial vector current in beta decay

• Murray Gell-Mann, M Levy

Helicity of Neutrinos

• Goldhaber, M.; Grodzins, L.; Sunyar, A. W. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

tipa -- 8/7/2009

Could the GRB-Supernovae GRB 031203 and XRF 060218 be Cosmic Twins?

• Authors: Lu Feng, Derek B. Fox

A New Probe of Dark Matter and High-Energy Universe Using Microlensing

• Authors: M. Ricotti, A. Gould

A 100-kpc inverse Compton X-ray halo around 4C60.07 at z=3.79

• Authors: Ian Smail (1), B.D. Lehmer (1), R.J. Ivison (2), D.M. Alexander (1), R.G. Bower (1), J.A. Stevens (3), J.E. Geach (1), C.A. Scharf (4), K.E.K. Coppin (1), W.J.M. van Breugel (5). ((1) ICC, Durham; (2) ATC+IfA; (3) Herts; (4) Columbia; (5) UC Merced)

tipa -- 8/6/2009

The effects of r-process heating on fall-back accretion in compact object mergers

• Authors: B. D. Metzger, A. Arcones, E. Quataert, G. Martinez-Pinedo

Circumstellar interaction in type Ibn supernovae and SN 2006jc

• Authors: N. N. Chugai

Progenitors of core-collapse supernovae

• Authors: Stephen J. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast)

Spectra and Light Curves of Failed Supernovae

• Authors: Chris L. Fryer, Peter J. Brown, Filomena Bufano, Jon A. Dahl, Christopher J. Fontes, Lucille H. Frey, Stephen T. Holland, Aimee L. Hungerford, Stefan Immler, Paolo Mazzali, Peter A. Milne, Evan Scannapieco, Nevin Weinberg, Patrick A. Young

The first stars: formation of binaries and small multiple systems

• Authors: A. Stacy, T. H. Greif, V. Bromm

tipa -- 8/5/2009

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor

• Authors: Charles Meegan, Giselher Lichti, P. N. Bhat, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaughton, Roland Diehl, Gerald Fishman, Jochen Greiner, Andrew S. Hoover, Alexander J. van der Horst, Andreas von Kienlin, R. Marc Kippen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Sheila McBreen, W. S. Paciesas, Robert Preece, Helmut Steinle, Mark S. Wallace, Robert B. Wilson, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

Supernova Search with the AMANDA / IceCube Detectors

• Authors: Thomas Kowarik, Timo Griesel, Alexander Piégsa, for the Icecube Collaboration

Synchrotron radiation from ultra-high energy protons and the Fermi observations of GRB 080916C

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

tipa -- 8/4/2009

Modeling Flows Around Merging Black Hole Binaries

• Authors: James R. van Meter, John H. Wise, M. Coleman Miller, Christopher S. Reynolds, Joan M. Centrella, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Bernard J. Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams

Limits on Radioactive-Powered Emission Associated With a Short-Hard GRB 070724A in a Star-Forming Galaxy

• Authors: Daniel Kocevski, Christina C Thone, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Joshua S. Bloom, Jonathan Granot, Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel A. Perley, Maryam Modjaz, William H. Lee, Bethany E. Cobb, Andrew J. Levan, Nial Tanvir, Stefano Covino

Determining the escape fraction of ionizing photons during reionization with the GRB derived star-formation rate

• Authors: Stuart Wyithe, Andrew M. Hopkins, Matthew D. Kistler, Hasan Yuksel, John F. Beacom

Implications of High-Resolution Simulations on Indirect Dark Matter Searches

• Authors: Lidia Pieri, Julien Lavalle, Gianfranco Bertone, Enzo Branchini

VERITAS Collaboration Contributions to the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference

• Authors: Veritas Collaboration

tipa -- 8/3/2009

Positional Effects on Citation and Readership in arXiv

• Authors: Asif-ul Haque, Paul Ginsparg

Galactic masers and the Milky Way circular velocity

• Authors: Jo Bovy (NYU), David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA)

Runaway Stars, Hypervelocity Stars, and Radial Velocity Surveys

• Authors: Benjamin C. Bromley (1), Scott J. Kenyon (2), Warren R. Brown (2), Margaret J. Geller (2) ((1) University of Utah (2) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

On the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from dark matter annihilation or decay in galaxy clusters

• Authors: Julien Lavalle, Celine Boehm, Julien Barthes

tipa -- 7/31/2009

Time resolved spectral behavior of bright BATSE precursors

• Authors: D. Burlon, G. Ghirlanda, G. Ghisellini, J. Greiner, A. Celotti

Tracing the Magellanic Clouds Back in Time

• Authors: P. J. E. Peebles

Using population synthesis of massive stars to study the interstellar medium near OB associations

• Authors: R. Voss, R. Diehl, D.H. Hartmann, M. Cervino, J.S. Vink, G. Meynet, M. Limongi, A. Chieffi

tipa -- 7/30/2009

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: The disappointing model

• Authors: R. Aloisio, V. Berezinsky, A. Gazizov

Nucleosynthesis Constraints on a Massive Gravitino in Neutralino Dark Matter Scenarios

• Authors: Richard H. Cyburt, John Ellis, Brian D. Fields, Feng Luo, Keith A. Olive, Vassilis C. Spanos

On the Apparent Lack of Be X-ray Binaries with Black Holes

• Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Janusz Ziolkowski

The Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts I: ISM Properties of Ten Nearby Long-Duration GRB Hosts

• Authors: Emily M. Levesque, Edo Berger, Lisa J. Kewley, Megan M. Bagley

tipa -- 7/29/2009

Suzaku Observation of the Diffuse X-Ray Emission from the Open Cluster Westerlund 2: a Hypernova Remnant?

• Authors: Yutaka Fujita, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Hiroaki Takahashi, Fumio Takahara (Osaka U.)

A Model for Gravitational Wave Emission from Neutrino-Driven Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: Jeremiah W. Murphy (1), Christian D. Ott (2), Adam Burrows (3) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, (2) Tapir, Caltech, (3) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton)

Galactic Substructure and Energetic Neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth

• Authors: Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

A Universal Luminosity Function for Radio Supernova Remnants

• Authors: Laura Chomiuk, Eric M. Wilcots (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

tipa -- 7/28/2009

An Observational Determination of the Proton to Electron Mass Ratio in the Early Universe

• Authors: Rodger I. Thompson, Jill Bechtold, John H. Black, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, Robert C. Kennicutt, Carlos Martins, J. Xavier Prochaska, Yancey L. Shirley

The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7

• Authors: Wendy L. Freedman, Christopher R. Burns, M. M. Phillips, Pamela Wyatt, S. E. Persson, Barry F. Madore, Carlos Contreras, Gaston Folatelli, E.Sergio Gonzalez, Mario Hamuy, Eric Hsiao, Daniel D. Kelson, Nidia Morrell, D. C. Murphy, Miguel Roth, Maximilian Stritzinger, Laura Sturch, Nick B. Suntzeff, P. Astier, C. Balland, Bruce Bassett, Luis Boldt, R. G. Carlberg, Alexander J. Conley, Joshua A. Frieman, Peter M. Garnavich, J. Guy, D. Hardin, D. Andrew Howell, Richard Kessler, Hubert Lampeitl, John Marriner, R. Pain, Kathy Perrett, N. Regnault, Adam G. Riess, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mark Sullivan, Michael Wood-Vasey

The uncertainty in Galactic parameters

• Authors: Paul J. McMillan, James J. Binney

Search for High Energetic Neutrinos from Supernova Explosions with AMANDA

• Authors: Dirk Lennarz, Jan-Patrick Hülß, Christopher Wiebusch, for the IceCube Collaboration

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.)