tipa -- 10/30/2009

Fermi LAT Observations of LS 5039

• Authors: The Fermi LAT collaboration

Type II-P Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey and the Standardized Candle Method

• Authors: Chris B. D'Andrea, Masao Sako, Benjamin Dilday, Joshua A. Frieman, Jon Holtzman, Richard Kessler, Kohki Konishi, Donald P. Schneider, Jesper Sollerman, J. C. Wheeler, Naoki Yasuda, David Cinabro, Saurabh Jha, Robert C. Nichol, Hubert Lampeitl, Mathew Smith, David W. Atlee, Bruce Basset, Francisco J. Castander, Ariel Goobar, Ramon Miquel, Jakob Nordin, Linda Östman, Jose Luis Prieto, Robert Quimby, Adam G. Riess, Maximilian Stritzinger

The Sommerfeld enhancement for dark matter with an excited state

• Authors: Tracy R. Slatyer

tipa -- 10/29/2009

Discovery of extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnus X-3

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

The first accurate parallax distance to a black hole

• Authors: J. C. A. Miller-Jones (1), P. G. Jonker (2,3), V. Dhawan (1), W. Brisken (1), M. P. Rupen (1), G. Nelemans (4), E. Gallo (5) ((1) NRAO, (2) SRON, (3) CfA, (4) Nijmegen, (5) MIT)

Relic density and CMB constraints on dark matter annihilation with Sommerfeld enhancement

• Authors: Jesus Zavala (1), Mark Vogelsberger (1,2), Simon D. M. White (1) ((1) MPA, (2) Harvard/CfA)

tipa -- 10/28/2009

The Deuterium Abundance in the Local Interstellar Medium

• Authors: Tijana Prodanovic, Gary Steigman, Brian D. Fields

Collapsar Accretion and the Gamma-Ray Burst X-Ray Light Curve

• Authors: Christopher C. Lindner, Milos Milosavljevic, Sean M. Couch, Pawan Kumar

SDSS J013655.91+242546.0 - an A-type hyper-velocity star from the outskirts of the Galaxy

• Authors: A. Tillich, N. Przybilla, R.-D. Scholz, U. Heber

Discriminating Strange Star Mergers from Neutron Star Mergers by Gravitational-Wave Measurements

• Authors: A. Bauswein, R. Oechslin, H.-Th. Janka (MPI Astrophysik, Garching)

tipa -- 10/27/2009

The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze

• Authors: Gregory Dobler (KITP/UCSB, Harvard/CfA), Douglas P. Finkbeiner (Harvard/CfA), Ilias Cholis (NYU), Tracy R. Slatyer (Harvard/CfA), Neal Weiner (NYU)

Improved flux limits for neutrinos with energies above 10^22 eV from observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope

• Authors: O. Scholten, S. Buitink, J. Bacelar, R. Braun, A.G. de Bruyn, H. Falcke, K. Singh, B. Stappers, R.G. Strom, R. al Yahyaoui

Getting the astrophysics and particle physics of dark matter out of next-generation direct detection experiments

• Authors: Annika H. G. Peter

The progenitor mass of the magnetar SGR1900+14

• Authors: Ben Davies (Leeds/RIT), Don F. Figer (RIT), Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (IfA, Hawaii), Christine Trombley (RIT), Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA - MSFC), Stefanie Wachter (SSC, Caltech)

Fermi observations of TeV-selected AGN

• Authors: S. J. Fegan, D. Sanchez, Fermi LAT Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al

Balancing the Cosmic Energy Budget: The Cosmic X-ray Background, Blazars and the Compton Thick AGN Fraction

• Authors: A.R. Draper, D.R. Ballantyne

A new measurement of the bulk flow of X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies

• Authors: A. Kashlinsky (GSFC), F. Atrio-Barandela (U Salamanca, Spain), H. Ebeling (IfA, Hawaii), A. Edge (U of Durham, UK), D. Kocevski (UCD)

tipa -- 10/26/2009

Evolution of supermassive stars as a pathway to black hole formation

• Authors: Mitchell C. Begelman

Limits on a muon flux from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun from the IceCube 22-string detector

• Authors: The IceCube collaboration: R. Abbasi, et al

The Indirect Search for Dark Matter with IceCube

• Authors: Francis Halzen, Dan Hooper

Neutrino Oscillations, Lorentz/CPT Violation, and Dark Energy

• Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando, Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech), Irina Mocioiu (Penn State)

classic papers of the week -- 121

Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes

• Blandford, R. D.; Znajek, R. L. (Institute of Astronomy, The Observatories, Cambridge)

"Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics

• Everett, Hugh (Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University)

Assessment of Everett's "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Theory

• Wheeler, John A. (Plamer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University)

tipa -- 10/23/2009

Was reionization complete by z ~ 5-6?

• Authors: Andrei Mesinger

Evidence for Proton-Dominated Cosmic Ray Composition above 1.6 EeV

• Authors: R.U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Al-Seady, M. Allen, J.F. Amman, R.J. Anderson, G. Archbold, K. Belov, J.W. Belz, D.R. Bergman, S.A. Blake, O.A. Brusova, G.W. Burt, C. Cannon, Z. Cao, W. Deng, Y. Fedorova, C.B. Finley, R.C. Gray, W.F. Hanlon, C.M. Hoffman, M.H. Holzscheiter, G. Hughes, P. Huentemeyer, B.F Jones, C.C.H. Jui, K. Kim, M.A. Kirn, E.C. Loh, J.P. Lundquist, M.M. Maestas, N. Manago, L.J. Marek, K. Martens, J.A.J. Matthews, J.N. Matthews, S.A. Moore, A. O'Neill, C.A. Painter, L. Perera, K. Reil, R. Riehle, M. Roberts, D. Rodriguez, N. Sasaki, S.R. Schnetzer, L.M. Scott, G. Sinnis, J.D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, C. Song, R.W. Springer, B.T. Stokes, S. Stratton, S.B. Thomas, J.R. Thomas, G.B. Thomson, D. Tupa, L.R. Wiencke, X. Zhang, A. Zech

Fermi observations of high-energy gamma-ray emission from GRB 080825C

• Authors: Fermi GBM/LAT Collaborations

Discovery of Radio Afterglow from the Most Distant Cosmic Explosion

• Authors: Poonam Chandra, Dale A. Frail, Derek Fox, Shrinivas Kulkarni, Edo BErger, S. Bradley Cenko, Douglas C.-J. Bock, Fiona Harrison, Mansi Kasliwal

Correlated X-ray and Very High Energy emission in the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303

• Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration

Searches for Long Lived Neutral Particles

• Authors: Patrick Meade, Shmuel Nussinov, Michele Papucci, Tomer Volansky

tipa -- 10/22/2009

X-Ray Localization of the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster G1 with Chandra

• Authors: A.K.H. Kong, C.O. Heinke, R. Di Stefano, P. Barmby, W.H.G. Lewin, F.A. Primini

The Search for Celestial Positronium via the Recombination Spectrum

• Authors: S. C. Ellis, J. Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney)

Weighing dark matter haloes with gravitationally lensed supernovae

• Authors: Jakob Jonsson, Tomas Dahlen, Isobel Hook, Ariel Goobar, Edvard Mortsell

tipa -- 10/21/2009

Long duration radio transients lacking optical counterparts are possibly Galactic Neutron Stars

• Authors: E. O. Ofek, B. Breslauer, A. Gal-Yam, D. Frail, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Waxman

Constraints on inelastic dark matter from XENON10

• Authors: XENON10 Collaboration

Multiwavelength observations of a TeV-Flare from W Comae

• Authors: VERITAS collaboration

tipa -- 10/20/2009

Typing Supernova Remnants Using X-ray Line Emission Morphologies

• Authors: Laura A. Lopez (UCSC), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Carles Badenes (Princeton), Daniela Huppenkothen (Amsterdam), Tesla E. Jeltema (UCO/Lick Observatories), David A. Pooley (Wisconsin)

The Cosmic Rate, Luminosity Function and Intrinsic Correlations of Long GRBs

• Authors: Nathaniel R. Butler, Joshua S. Bloom, Dovi Poznanski

Intergalactic Magnetic Field and Arrival Direction of Ultra-High-Energy Protons

• Authors: Dongsu Ryu (Chungnam National University, Korea), Santabrata Das (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India), Hyesung Kang (Pusan National University, Korea)

Fermi Large Area Telescope Gamma-Ray Detection of the Radio Galaxy M87

• Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration: A.A. Abdo, et al., D.E. Harris, F. Massaro, L. Stawarz

Shock-heating of stellar envelopes: A possible unifying mechanism at the origin of explosions and eruptions in massive stars

• Authors: Luc Dessart, Eli Livne, Roni Waldman

Could the Cosmological Recombination Spectrum Help Us Understand Annihilating Dark Matter?

• Authors: J. Chluba

tipa -- 10/19/2009

Low Energy Threshold Analysis of the Phase I and Phase II Data Sets of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

• Authors: The SNO Collaboration

Reionization and Cosmology with 21 cm Fluctuations

• Authors: Miguel F. Morales, J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Discovery of a highly energetic pulsar associated with IGR J14003-6326 and a young uncataloged Galactic supernova remnant G310.6-1.6

• Authors: M. Renaud (1), V. Marandon (1), E. V. Gotthelf (2), J. Rodriguez (3), R. Terrier (1), F. Mattana (1), F. Lebrun (1), J. A. Tomsick (4), R. N. Manchester (5) ((1) APC-CNRS/Paris 7 University, France, (2) Columbia University, USA, (3) CEA-Saclay/AIM, France, (4) UC Berkeley, USA, (5) ATNF-CSIRO, Australia)

Obtaining supernova directional information using the neutrino matter oscillation pattern

• Authors: Kate Scholberg, Armin Burgmeier, Roger Wendell

A Search for Core-Collapse Supernovae using the MiniBooNE Neutrino Detector

• Authors: MiniBooNE Collaboration

Possible Evidence For Dark Matter Annihilation In The Inner Milky Way From The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope

• Authors: Lisa Goodenough, Dan Hooper

classic papers of the week -- 120

The World as a hologram

• Leonard Susskind (Department of Physics, Stanford University)

Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity

• Gerard 't Hooft (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University)

Supernova mechanisms

• H.A. Bethe (Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

tipa -- 10/16/2009

A Proper Motion for the Pulsar Wind Nebula G359.23-0.82, "the Mouse," Associated with the Energetic Radio Pulsar J1747-2958

• Authors: C. A. Hales, B. M. Gaensler, S. Chatterjee, E. van der Swaluw, F. Camilo

The correlation of UHECRs with nearby galaxies in the Local Volume

• Authors: Antonio J. Cuesta, Francisco Prada (IAA-CSIC)

Axisymmetric General Relativistic Simulations of the Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs

• Authors: E. B. Abdikamalov, C. D. Ott, L. Rezzolla, L. Dessart, H. Dimmelmeier, A. Marek, H.-T. Janka

First Results from the Swarms Survey. SDSS 1257+5428: A Nearby, Massive White Dwarf Binary with a Likely Neutron Star or Black Hole Companion

• Authors: Carles Badenes, Fergal Mullally, Susan E. Thompson, Robert H. Lupton

Yoctosecond photon pulses from quark-gluon plasmas

• Authors: Andreas Ipp, Christoph H. Keitel, Jörg Evers

tipa -- 10/15/2009

How cold is Dark Matter? Constraints from Milky Way Satellites

• Authors: Andrea V. Maccio' (1), Fabio Fontanot (1,2) ((1) MPIA, Heidelberg, (2) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste)

Magnetic Field-Decay-Induced Electron Captures: a Strong Heat Source in Magnetar Crusts

• Authors: Randall L. Cooper, David L. Kaplan (KITP)

High Resolution X-ray Observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Associated with the Gamma-ray Source HESS$ $J1640-465

• Authors: A. Lemiere, P. Slane, B. M. Gaensler, S. Murray

tipa -- 10/14/2009

Stellar Feedback in Molecular Clouds and its Influence on the Mass Function of Young Star Clusters

• Authors: S. Michael Fall, Mark R. Krumholz, Christopher D. Matzner

Two Type Ic supernovae in low-metallicity, dwarf galaxies: diversity of explosions

• Authors: D. R. Young (1), S. J. Smartt (1), S. Valenti (1), A. Pastorello (1), S. Benetti (2), C. R. Benn (3), D. Bersier (4), M. T. Botticella (1), R. L. M. Corradi (3), A. H. Harutyunyan (2), M. Hrudkova (3 and 5), I. Hunter (1), S. Mattila (6), E. J. W. de Mooij (7), H. Navasardyan (2), I. A. G. Snellen (7), N. R. Tanvir (8), L. Zampieri (2) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) INAF-OAPD Padova, (3) Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, (4) Liverpool John Moores University, (5) Charles University, (6) University of Turku, (7) Leiden University, (8) University of Leicester)

Fermi LAT detection of pulsed gamma-rays from the Vela-like pulsars PSR J1048-5832 and PSR J2229+6114

• Authors: Fermi LAT collaboration, Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

On the Progenitor of the Type II-Plateau SN 2008cn in NGC 4603

• Authors: N. Elias-Rosa (1), S. D. Van Dyk (1), W. Li (2), N. Morrell (3), S. Gonzalez (3), M. Hamuy (4), A. V. Filippenko (2), J.-C. Cuillandre (5), R. J. Foley (2, 6, 7), N. Smith (2) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, Caltech; (2) UC Berkeley; (3) LCO; (4) U. Chile; (5) CFHT corporation; (6) CfA; (7) Clay Fellow)

Cen A as TeV gamma-ray and possible UHE cosmic-ray source

• Authors: F.M. Rieger, F.A. Aharonian

Searches for High Frequency Variations in the $^8$B Solar Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

• Authors: SNO Collaboration

Threshold for Extended Emission in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Jay P. Norris, Neil Gehrels, Jeffrey D. Scargle

tipa -- 10/13/2009

On The Heavy Chemical Composition of the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Andrew M. Taylor

Simultaneous Multiwavelength observation of Mkn 501 in a low state in 2006

• Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration: H. Anderhub, et al., R. Sato, M. Ushio, J. Kataoka, G. Madejski, T. Takahashi

Neutrino and Antineutrino Inclusive Charged-current Cross Section Measurements with the MINOS Near Detector

• Authors: The MINOS Collaboration

High Energy Electron Signals from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun

• Authors: Philip Schuster, Natalia Toro, Neal Weiner, Itay Yavin

tipa -- 10/12/2009

Type II Supernovae: Model Light Curves and Standard Candle Relationships

• Authors: Daniel Kasen, S.E. Woosley

Halo Retention and Evolution of Coalescing Compact Binaries in Cosmological Simulations of Structure Formation: Implications for Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Marcel Zemp, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Jürg Diemand

The First Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

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

Swift and Fermi observations of the early afterglow of the short Gamma-Ray Burst 090510

• Authors: M. De Pasquale, P. Schady, N.P.M. Kuin, M.J. Page, P.A. Curran, S. Zane, S.R. Oates, S.T. Holland, E.A. Hoversten, G. Chincarini, D. Grupe, Fermi/LAT, Fermi/GBM collaborations

The Fermi/LAT sky as seen by INTEGRAL/IBIS

• Authors: P. Ubertini, V. Sguera, J.B. Stephen, L. Bassani, A. Bazzano, A.J. Bird

The radial distribution of core-collapse supernovae in spiral host galaxies

• Authors: A. A. Hakobyan, G. A. Mamon, A. R. Petrosian, D. Kunth, M. Turatto

Terrestrial and Solar Limits on Long-Lived Particles in a Dark Sector

• Authors: Philip Schuster, Natalia Toro, Itay Yavin

classic papers of the week -- 119

Forms of Relativistic Dynamics

• Paul A.M. Dirac (St. John's College, Cambridge)

Dynamical Role of Light Neutral Leptons in Cosmology

• S. Tremaine, J.E. Gunn (W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

Vacuum Quantum Fluctuations in Curved Space and the Theory of Gravitation

• Sakharov, A. D.

tipa -- 10/9/2009

A new low mass for the Hercules dSph: the end of a common mass scale for the dwarfs?

• Authors: D. Adén, M. I. Wilkinson, J. I. Read, S. Feltzing, A. Koch, G. F. Gilmore, E. K. Grebel, I. Lundström

Detecting neutrinos from black hole neutron stars mergers

• Authors: O. L. Caballero, G. C. McLaughlin, R. Surman

Solar Gamma Rays Powered by Secluded Dark Matter

• Authors: Brian Batell, Maxim Pospelov, Adam Ritz, Yanwen Shang

tipa -- 10/8/2009

BLAST: the far-infrared/radio correlation in distant galaxies

• Authors: R. J. Ivison, David M. Alexander, Andy D. Biggs, W.N. Brandt, Edward L. Chapin, Kristen E.K. Coppin, Mark J. Devlin, Mark Dickinson, James Dunlop, Simon Dye, Stephen A. Eales, David T. Frayer, Mark Halpern, David H. Hughes, Edo Ibar, A. Kovacs, Gaelen Marsden, L. Moncelsi, Calvin B. Netterfield, Enzo Pascale, Guillaume Patanchon, D.A. Rafferty, Marie Rex, Eva Schinnerer, Douglas Scott, C. Semisch, Ian Smail, A.M. Swinbank, Matthew D. P. Truch, Gregory S. Tucker, Marco P. Viero, Fabian Walter, Axel Weiss, Donald V. Wiebe, Y.Q. Xue

AKARI and BLAST Observations of the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant and Surrounding Interstellar Medium

• Authors: B. Sibthorpe, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock, E. L. Chapin, M. J. Devlin, S. Dicker, M. Griffin, J. O. Gundersen, M. Halpern, P. C. Hargrave, D. H. Hughes, W.-S. Jeong, H. Kaneda, J. Klein, B.-C. Koo, H.-G. Lee, G. Marsden, P. G. Martin, P. Mauskopf, D.-S. Moon, C. B. Netterfield, L. Olmi, E. Pascale, G. Patanchon, M. Rex, A. Roy, D. Scott, C. Semisch, M. D. P. Truch, C. Tucker, G. S. Tucker, M. P. Viero, D. V. Wiebe