today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 8/20/2009

Radio detection of LAT PSRs J1741-2054 and J2032+4127: no longer just gamma-ray pulsars

Authors: F. Camilo, P. S. Ray, S. M. Ransom, M. Burgay, T. J. Johnson, M. Kerr, E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern, J. Reynolds, R. W. Romani, P. Demorest, S. Johnston, W. van Straten, P. M. Saz Parkinson, M. Ziegler, M. Dormody, D. J. Thompson, D. A. Smith, A. K. Harding, A. A. Abdo, F. Crawford, P. C. C. Freire, M. Keith, M. Kramer, M. S. E. Roberts, P. Weltevrede, K. S. Wood

Insight Into the Formation of the Milky Way Through Cold Halo Substructure. I. The ECHOS of Milky Way Formation

Authors: Kevin C. Schlaufman, Constance M. Rockosi, Timothy C. Beers, Dmitry Bizyaev, Howard Brewington, Young Sun Lee, Viktor Malanushenko, Elena Malanushenko, Dan Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Audrey Simmons, Stephanie Snedden, Brian Yanny

tipa -- 8/19/2009

Out of the frying pan: a young pulsar with a long radio trail emerging from SNR G315.9-0.0

Authors: F. Camilo (1), C.-Y. Ng (2), B. M. Gaensler (2), S. M. Ransom (3), S. Chatterjee (4), J. Reynolds (5), J. Sarkissian (5) ((1) Columbia U., (2) U. of Sydney, (3) NRAO, (4) Cornell U., (5) ATNF)

Extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation from dark matter annihilation

Authors: Jesus Zavala, Volker Springel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin

A New Approach to Searching for Dark Matter Signals in Fermi-LAT Gamma Rays

Authors: Spencer Chang, Lisa Goodenough

A Non-thermal WIMP Miracle

Authors: Bobby Samir Acharya, Piyush Kumar, Gordon Kane, Scott Watson

Spectra of magnetic fluctuations and relativistic particles produced by a nonresonant wave instability in supernova remnant shocks

Authors: Andrey E. Vladimirov, Andrei M. Bykov, Donald C. Ellison

Using Atom Interferometery to Search for New Forces

Authors: Jay G. Wacker

A limit for the mu -> e gamma decay from the MEG experiment

Authors: MEG collaboration: J. Adam, X. Bai, A. Baldini, E. Baracchini, A. Barchiesi, C. Bemporad, G. Boca, P. W. Cattaneo, G. Cavoto, G. Cecchet, F. Cei, C. Cerri, A. De Bari, M. De Gerone, T. Doke, S. Dussoni, J. Egger, L. Galli, G. Gallucci, F. Gatti, B. Golden, M. Grassi, D. N. Grigoriev, T. Haruyama, M. Hildebrandt, Y. Hisamatsu, F. Ignatov, T. Iwamoto, D. Kaneko, P.-R. Kettle, B. I. Khazin, O. Kiselev, A. Korenchenko, N. Kravchuk, A. Maki, S. Mihara, W. Molzon, T. Mori, D. Mzavia, H. Natori, R. Nardò, D. Nicolò, H. Nishiguchi, Y. Nishimura, W. Ootani, M. Panareo, A. Papa, R. Pazzi, G. Piredda, A. Popov, F. Renga, S. Ritt, M. Rossella, R. Sawada, M. Schneebeli, F. Sergiampietri, G. Signorelli, S. Suzuki, C. Topchyan, V. Tumakov, Y. Uchiyama, R. Valle, C. Voena, F. Xiao, S. Yamada, A. Yamamoto, S. Yamashita, Yu. V. Yudin, D. Zanello

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

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