tipa -- 10/5/2009

Soft gamma-ray constraints on a bright flare from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole

• Authors: G. Trap, A. Goldwurm, R. Terrier, K. Dodds-Eden, S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, E. Pantin, P.O. Lagage, P. Ferrando, G. Belanger, D. Porquet, N. Grosso, F. Yusef-Zadeh, F. Melia

classic papers of the week -- 118

Direct Approach to Resolve the Solar Neutrino Problem

• H.H. Chen (Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine)

Gravitational Radiation and the Motion of Two Point Masses

• Peters, P. C. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

Of flying frogs and levitrons

• Berry, M. V. (H H Wills Physics Laboratory); Geim, A. K. (High Field Magnet Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Nijmegen)

tipa -- 10/2/2009

Very blue UV-continuum slopes of low luminosity z~7 galaxies from WFC3/IR: Evidence for extremely low metallicities?

• Authors: R.J. Bouwens (UCSC), G.D. Illingworth (UCSC), P.A. Oesch (ETH Zurich), M. Trenti (Colorado), M. Stiavelli (STScI), M. Carollo (ETH Zurich), M. Franx (Leiden), P.G. van Dokkum (Yale), I. Labbe (OCIW), D. Magee (UCSC)

Black hole mergers: the first light

• Authors: Elena M. Rossi, G. Lodato, P. J. Armitage, J. E. Pringle, A. R. King

Robust Neutrino Constraints by Combining Low Redshift Observations with the CMB

• Authors: Beth A. Reid, Licia Verde, Raul Jimenez, Olga Mena

A Direct Measurement of the IGM Opacity to HI Ionizing Photons

• Authors: J. Xavier Prochaska (1), Gabor Worseck (1), John M. O'Meara (2) ((1) IMPS, UCO/Lick Observatory, UCSC; (2) St. Michael's College)

The Far-Infrared--Radio Correlation at High Redshifts: Physical Considerations and Prospects for the Square Kilometer Array

• Authors: Eric J. Murphy

Accurate calculations of the WIMP halo around the Sun and prospects for its gamma ray detection

• Authors: Sofia Sivertsson, Joakim Edsjo

Supernova Kicks and Misaligned Microquasars

• Authors: Rebecca G. Martin, Christopher A. Tout, J. E. Pringle

Mysterious transients unmasked as the bright blue death throes of massive stars

• Authors: R. M. Quimby, S. R. Kulkarni, M. M. Kasliwal, A. Gal-Yam, I. Arcavi, M. Sullivan, P. Nugent, R. Thomas, D. A. Howell, L. Bildsten, J. S. Bloom, C. Theissen, N. Law, R. Dekany, G. Rahmer, D. Hale, R. Smith, E. O. Ofek, J. Zolkower, V. Velur, R. Walters, J. Henning, K. Bui, D. McKenna, D. Poznanski, S. B. Cenko, D. Levitan

Galaxy Formation In The Reionization Epoch As Hinted By Wide Field Camera 3 Observations Of The Hubble Ultra Deep Field

• Authors: Haojing Yan, Rogier Windhorst, Nimish Hathi, Seth Cohen, Russell Ryan, Robert O'Connell, Patrick McCarthy

Particle-in-cell simulation of a mildly relativistic collision of an electron-ion plasma carrying a quasi-parallel magnetic field: Electron acceleration and magnetic field amplification at supernova shocks

• Authors: M E Dieckmann, G Murphy, A Meli, L O C Drury

High-energy emission as a test of the prior emission model for gamma-ray burst afterglows

• Authors: Kohta Murase, Kenji Toma, Ryo Yamazaki, Shigehiro Nagataki, Kunihito Ioka

tipa -- 10/1/2009

Effects of cosmological parameters and star formation models on the cosmic star formation history in LambdaCDM cosmological simulations

• Authors: Jun-Hwan Choi (UNLV), Kentaro Nagamine (UNLV, Ipmu)

Gadolinium study for a water Cherenkov detector

• Authors: Atsuko Kibayashi, for the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

Solar Neutrino Measurement at SK-III

• Authors: The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration: B.S. Yang, et al

Nuclear Astrophysics with Radioactive Beams

• Authors: C.A. Bertulani, A. Gade

tipa -- 9/30/2009

Structure and Morphologies of z~7-8 Galaxies from ultra-deep WFC3/IR Imaging of the HUDF

• Authors: P.A. Oesch, R.J. Bouwens, C.M. Carollo, G.D. Illingworth, M. Trenti, M. Stiavelli, D. Magee, I. Labbe, M. Franx

From Finance to Cosmology: The Copula of Large-Scale Structure

• Authors: Robert J. Scherrer, Andreas A. Berlind, Qingqing Mao, Cameron K. McBride (Vanderbilt University)

The physics driving the cosmic star formation history

• Authors: Joop Schaye, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, C. M. Booth, Robert P. C. Wiersma, Tom Theuns, Marcel R. Haas, Serena Bertone, Alan R. Duffy, I. G. McCarthy, Freeke van de Voort

The atmospheric charged kaon/pion ratio using seasonal variation methods

• Authors: E. W. Grashorn, J. K. de Jong, M. C. Goodman, A. Habig, M. L. Marshak, S. Mufson, S. Osprey, P. Schreiner

tipa -- 9/29/2009

Search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

Discovery of Precursor LBV Outbursts in Two Recent Optical Transients: The Fitfully Variable Missing Links UGC 2773-OT and SN 2009ip

• Authors: Nathan Smith, Adam A. Miller, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Andrew W. Howard (UC Berkeley), Peter Nugent (LBNL) Geoffrey W. Marcy, Joshua S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), Andrea M. Ghez, Jessica Lu, Sylvana Yelda (UCLA), Rebecca A. Bernstein, Janet E. Colucci (UCO/Lick Observatory)

Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Tools

• Authors: Vahe Petrosian, Aurelien Bouvier, Felix Ryde

tipa -- 9/28/2009

Detection of Gamma Rays From a Starburst Galaxy

• Authors: The HESS Collaboration: F. Acero, et al

Supernovae as seen by off-center observers in a local void

• Authors: Michael Blomqvist, Edvard Mortsell

classic papers of the week -- 117

Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure with cold dark matter

• Blumenthal, G. R.; Faber, S. M. (Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, CA); Primack, J. R. (University of California, Santa Cruz; Stanford University); Rees, M. J. (Cambridge University; University of California, Santa Barbara)

Fourth Test of General Relativity

• Shapiro, Irwin I. (Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA)

Evidence of Heavy Neutrino Emission in beta Decay

• J.J. Simpson (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)

tipa -- 9/25/2009

Prompt Ia Supernovae Are Significantly Delayed

• Authors: Cody Raskin, Evan Scannapieco, James Rhoads, Massimo Della Valle

Stellar Binary Companions to Supernova Progenitors

• Authors: C. S. Kochanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University)

Stellar Kinematics of Young Clusters in Turbulent Hydrodynamic Simulations

• Authors: S. S. R. Offner, C. E. Hansen, M. R. Krumholz

tipa -- 9/24/2009

UV Continuum Slope and Dust Obscuration from z~6 to z~2: The Star Formation Rate Density at High Redshift

• Authors: R.J. Bouwens (UCSC), G.D. Illingworth (UCSC), M. Franx (Leiden Observatory), R-R. Chary (SSC), G.R. Meurer (JHU), C.J. Conselice (Nottingham), H. Ford (JHU), M. Giavalisco (U Mass), P. van Dokkum (Yale)

Thermal Relic Abundances of Particles with Velocity-Dependent Interactions

• Authors: James B. Dent, Sourish Dutta, Robert J. Scherrer

Constraints on Star Forming Galaxies at z> 6.5 from HAWK-I Y-band Imaging of GOODS-South

• Authors: Samantha Hickey (1), Andrew Bunker (2,3), Matt J. Jarvis (1), Kuenley Chiu (3), David Bonfield (1) ((1) Hertfordshire, (2) Oxford, (3) AAO/Exeter)

VLTI/AMBER unveils a possible dusty pinwheel nebula in WR118

• Authors: Florentin Millour (MPIFR), Thomas Driebe (MPIFR), Olivier Chesneau (FIZEAU), José Groh (MPIFR), Karl-Heinz Hofmann (MPIFR), Koji Murakawa (MPIFR), Keiichi Ohnaka (MPIFR), Dieter Schertl (MPIFR), Gerd Weigelt (MPIFR)

Pamela, FGST and Sub-Tev Dark Matter

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Kathryn M. Zurek

tipa -- 9/23/2009

The Gas Consumption History to z ~ 4

• Authors: Amber Bauermeister, Leo Blitz, Chung-Pei Ma

The discovery of a pulsar wind nebula around the magnetar candidate AXP 1E1547.0-5408

• Authors: Jacco Vink (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Aya Bamba (ISAS/JAXA, Japan)

A weak lensing detection of a deviation from General Relativity on cosmic scales

• Authors: Rachel Bean

Does the Universe Accelerate Equally in all Directions?

• Authors: R. Cooke, D. Lynden-Bell (IoA, Cambridge)

An extremely prolific supernova factory in the buried nucleus of the starburst galaxy IC 694

• Authors: M.A. Perez-Torres, C. Romero-Canizales, A. Alberdi, A. Polatidis

Positron transport in the interstellar medium

• Authors: P. Jean, W. Gillard, A. Marcowith, K. Ferrière

tipa -- 9/22/2009

The Stellar Mass Density and Specific Star Formation Rates of the Universe at z~7

• Authors: Valentino Gonzalez (UCSC), Ivo Labbe (OCIW), Rychard J. Bouwens (UCSC), Garth Illingworth (UCSC), Marijn Franx (Leiden Observatory), Mariska Kriek (Princeton University), Gabriel B. Brammer (Yale University)

Radio Emission from Young Supernovae and Supernova Remnants in Arp 299

• Authors: James S. Ulvestad

Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with S5 LIGO data

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration

Going out with a bang: compact object collisions resulting from supernovae in binary systems

• Authors: Eleonora Troja, Graham A. Wynn, Paul T. O'Brien, Stephan Rosswog

Extensive optical and near-infrared observations of the nearby, narrow-lined type Ic SN 2007gr: days 5 to 415

• Authors: Deborah J. Hunter (1), Stefano Valenti (1), Rubina Kotak (1), Peter Meikle (2), Stefan Taubenberger (3), Andrea Pastorello (1), Stefano Benetti (4), Vallery Stanishev (4), Steven J. Smartt (1), Carrie Trundle (1), Arkady A. Arkharov (5, 6), Milena Bufano (7), Enrico Cappellaro (7), Elisa Di Carlo (7), Mauro Dolci (7), Nancy Elias-Rosa (8), Soeren Frandsen (9), Johan U. Fynbo (10), Ulrich Hopp (11, 12), Valeri M. Larionov (5,6), Peter Laursen (10), Paolo Mazzali (3, 4, 13), Hripsime Navasardyan (4), Christoph Ries (11), Arno Riffeser (11), Luca Rizzi (14), Dmitrii Y. Tsvetkov (15), Massimo Turatto (4), Silona Wilke (11) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, UK (2) Imperial College London, UK (3) MPA Garching (4) INAF Padova (5) Pulkovo Central Astronomical Observatory (6) Astronomical Institute of St Petersburg (7) INAF Teramo (8) Spitzer Science Centre (9) Arhus University (10) Dark Cosmology Centre (11) University of Munich (12) MPE Garching (13) Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (14) JAC, Hawaii (15) Sternberg Astronomical Institute)

Gamma-ray Astronomy with Muons: Sensitivity of IceCube to PeVatrons in the Southern Sky

• Authors: Francis Halzen, Alexander Kappes, Aongus O'Murchadha

tipa -- 9/21/2009

The SPLASH Survey: A Spectroscopic Analysis of the Metal-Poor, Low-Luminosity M31 dSph Satellite Andromeda X

• Authors: Jason S. Kalirai, Daniel B. Zucker, Puragra Guhathakurta, Marla Geha, Alexei Y. Kniazev, David Martinez-Delgado, Eric F. Bell, Eva K. Grebel, Karoline M. Gilbert

Direct Constraints on Minimal Supersymmetry from Fermi-LAT Observations of the Dwarf Galaxy Segue 1

• Authors: Pat Scott (1), Jan Conrad (1), Joakim Edsjö (1), Lars Bergström (1), Christian Farnier (2), Yashar Akrami (1) ((1) OKC/Stockholm U., (2) LPTA, CNRS/IN2P3)

The High Energy Emission of the Crab Nebula from 20 keV to 6 MeV with INTEGRAL

• Authors: E. Jourdain, J. P. Roques

The small scale clustering properties of ultra-high energy cosmic rays as a constraint on the particle charge and intervening magnetic fields

• Authors: Patrick Younk

Fundamental Theoretical Bias in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework

• Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Frans Pretorius

classic papers of the week -- 116

The Cosmological Constant Problem

• Steven Weinberg (Theory Group, Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX)

Strange Matter

• Edward Farhi, R.L. Jaffe, (Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games

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• John F. Nash, Jr. (Princeton University)

tipa -- 9/18/2009

Multi-Element Abundance Measurements from Medium-Resolution Spectra. I. The Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

• Authors: Evan N. Kirby (1), Puragra Guhathakurta (1), Michael Bolte (1), Christopher Sneden (2), Marla C. Geha (3) ((1) University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, (2) University of Texas Austin, (3) Yale University)

The Role of Column Density in the Formation of Stars and Black Holes

• Authors: Richard B. Larson

First redshift determination of an optically/UV faint submillimeter galaxy using CO emission lines

• Authors: A. Weiss, R.J. Ivison, D. Downes, F. Walter, M. Cirasuolo, K.M. Menten

MAGIC Gamma-Ray Observation of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster

• Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration: J. Aleksic, et al., C. Pfrommer, A. Pinzke, T.A. Ensslin, S. Inoue, G. Ghisellini

From the LHC to Future Colliders

• Authors: A. De Roeck, J. Ellis, C. Grojean, S. Heinemeyer, K. Jakobs, G. Weiglein, J. Wells, G. Azuelos, S. Dawson, B. Gripaios, T. Han, J. Hewett, M. Lancaster, C. Mariotti, F. Moortgat, G. Moortgat-Pick, G. Polesello, S. Riemann, M. Schumacher, K. Assamagan, P. Bechtle, M. Carena, G. Chachamis, K.F. Chen, S. De Curtis, K. Desch, M. Dittmar, H. Dreiner, M. Dührssen, B. Foster, M.T. Frandsen, A. Giammanco, R. Godbole, P. Govoni, J. Gunion, W. Hollik, W.S. Hou, G. Isidori, A. Juste, J. Kalinowski, A. Korytov, E. Kou, S. Kraml, M. Krawczyk, A. Martin, D. Milstead, V. Morton-Thurtle, K. Moenig, B. Mele, E. Ozcan, M. Pieri, T. Plehn, L. Reina, E. Richter-Was, T. Rizzo, K. Rolbiecki, F. Sannino, M. Schram, J. Smillie, S. Sultansoy, J. Tattersall, P. Uwer, B. Webber, P. Wienemann

tipa -- 9/17/2009

Short gamma-ray bursts from tidal capture and collisions of compact stars in globular clusters

• Authors: William H. Lee (IA-UNAM), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Glenn van de Ven (IAS, MPIA)

Note on galaxy catalogues in UHECR flux modelling

• Authors: Hylke B. J. Koers, Peter Tinyakov

Dark Force Detection in Low Energy e-p Collisions

• Authors: Marat Freytsis, Grigory Ovanesyan, Jesse Thaler

tipa -- 9/16/2009

Shock Breakout from Type Ia Supernova

• Authors: Anthony L. Piro (1), Philip Chang (1, 2), Nevin N. Weinberg (1) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) CITA)

New Solar Composition: The Problem With Solar Models Revisited

• Authors: Aldo Serenelli (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics), Sarbani Basu (Yale University), Jason W. Ferguson (Wichita State University), Martin Asplund (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

Correlation of Supernova Remnant Masers and Gamma-Ray Sources

• Authors: John W. Hewitt, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, Mark Wardle

tipa -- 9/15/2009

Fermi Observations of GRB 090902B: A Distinct Spectral Component in the Prompt and Delayed Emission

• Authors: The Fermi/GBM collaboration, The Fermi/LAT Collaborations, The Swift Team

The Contribution of High Redshift Galaxies to Cosmic Reionization: New Results from Deep WFC3 Imaging of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

• Authors: Andrew Bunker (1), Stephen Wilkins (1), Richard Ellis (2), Daniel Stark (3), Silvio Lorenzoni (1), Kuenley Chiu (2), Mark Lacy (4) ((1) Physics Department, University of Oxford, (2) Caltech Astophysics, (3) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, (4) NRAO, Charlottesville)

Nonthermal Radiation of Young Supernova Remnants

• Authors: V.N.Zirakashvili, F.A.Aharonian

Galaxies at z = 6 - 9 from the WFC3/IR imaging of the HUDF

• Authors: R.J. McLure, J.S. Dunlop, M. Cirasuolo, A.M. Koekemoer, E. Sabbi, D.P. Stark, T.A. Targett, R.S. Ellis

Measurement of sound speed vs. depth in South Pole ice for neutrino astronomy

• Authors: The IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 9/14/2009

Neutrino mass limit from tritium beta decay

• Authors: E. W. Otten, C. Weinheimer

String Phenomenology at the LHC

• Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Dieter Lust, Stephan Stieberger, Tomasz R. Taylor

classic papers of the week -- 115

Evidence from the motions of old stars that the Galaxy collapsed

• Eggen, O. J.; Lynden-Bell, D.; Sandage, A. R.

Supersymmetric Relics from the Big Bang

• John R. Ellis, J.S. Hagelin (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, Keith A. Olive, M. Srednicki (CERN)

The Highest Aim of the Physicist

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• Henry A. Rowland