tipa -- 11/9/2009

Hyper Velocity Stars and the Restricted Parabolic 3-body Problem

• Authors: Re'em Sari, Shiho Kobayashi, Elena M. Rossi

Solar cycle dependence of the diurnal anisotropy of 0.6 TeV cosmic ray intensity observed with the Matsushiro underground muon detector

• Authors: K. Munakata, Y. Mizoguchi, C. Kato, S. Yasue, S. Mori, M. Takita, J. Kota

The X-ray absorbing column densities of Swift Gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: S. Campana, C.C. Thone, A. de Ugarte Postigo, G. Tagliaferri, A. Moretti, S. Covino (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

Population III Star Clusters in the Reionized Universe

• Authors: Jarrett L. Johnson

Critical angular momentum distributions in collapsars: quiescent periods from accretion state transitions in long gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: D. Lopez-Camara, W.H. Lee, E. Ramirez-Ruiz

Cosmic Strings and Superstrings

• Authors: Edmund J. Copeland, T.W.B. Kibble

classic papers of the week -- 123

A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field

• J. Clerk Maxwell

Cosmic Static

• Reber, Grote

Disintegration of Lithium by Swift Protons

• Cockcroft, J. D.; Walton, E. T. S.

tipa -- 11/6/2009

Sub-luminous type Ia supernovae from the mergers of equal-mass white dwarfs with M~0.9 M_sun

• Authors: Ruediger Pakmor, Markus Kromer, Friedrich K. Roepke, Stuart A. Sim, Ashley J. Ruiter, Wolfgang Hillebrandt (MPA Garching)

Optimum Acceptance Regions for Direct Dark Matter Searches

• Authors: Rafael F. Lang

Freeze-In Production of FIMP Dark Matter

• Authors: Lawrence J. Hall, Karsten Jedamzik, John March-Russell, Stephen M. West

Antiproton and Radio Constraints on the Dark Matter Interpretation of the Fermi Gamma Ray Observations of the Galactic Center

• Authors: Torsten Bringmann

Constraining the energy-momentum dispersion relation with Planck-scale sensitivity using cold atoms

• Authors: Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Claus Laemmerzahl, Flavio Mercati, Guglielmo M. Tino

tipa -- 11/5/2009

A connection between star formation activity and cosmic rays in the starburst galaxy M 82

• Authors: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, T. Aune, M. Bautista, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, D. Boltuch, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, Y. C. Chow, L. Ciupik, P. Cogan, P. Colin, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, C. Duke, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, P. Fortin, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, N. Galante, D. Gall, K. Gibbs, G. H. Gillanders, S. Godambe, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, J. Holder, D. Horan, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, J. Kildea, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, S. McArthur, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, J. Millis, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nagai, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, F. Pizlo, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, A. W. Smith, D. Steele, S. P. Swordy, M. Theiling, S. Thibadeau, A. Varlotta, V. V. Vassiliev, S. Vincent, R. G. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, J. E. Ward, T. C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, T. Weisgarber, D. A. Williams, S. Wissel, M. Wood, B. Zitzer

A Neutron Star with a Carbon Atmosphere in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant

• Authors: Wynn C.G. Ho (U Southampton), Craig O. Heinke (U Alberta)

Supernova Light Curves Powered by Young Magnetars

• Authors: Daniel Kasen, Lars Bildsten

The Local Hosts of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: James D. Neill, Mark Sullivan, D. Andy Howell, Alex Conley, Mark Seibert, D. Christopher Martin, Tom A. Barlow, Karl Foster, Peter G. Friedman, Patrick Morrissey, Susan G. Neff, David Schiminovich, Ted K. Wyder, Luciana Bianchi, José Donas, Timothy M. Heckman, Young-Wook Lee, Barry F. Madore, Bruno Milliard, R. Michael Rich, Alex S. Szalay

Bright Supernovae from Magnetar Birth

• Authors: S. E. Woosley

A Multi-Wavelength Investigation of the Unidentified Gamma-Ray Source HESS J1708-410

• Authors: Adam Van Etten, Stefan Funk, Jim Hinton

VERITAS Upper Limit on the VHE Emission from the Radio Galaxy NGC 1275

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, T. Aune, M. Bautista, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, D. Boltuch, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, P. Cogan, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, C. Duke, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, P. Fortin, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, N. Galante, D. Gall, K. Gibbs, G. H. Gillanders, S. Godambe, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, J. Holder, D. Horan, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, J. Millis, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, A. W. Smith, D. Steele, S. P. Swordy, M. Theiling, J. A. Toner, A. Varlotta, V. V. Vassiliev, S. Vincent, R. G. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, J. E. Ward, T. C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, T. Weisgarber, D. A. Williams, S. Wissel, M. Wood, B. Zitzer, for the VERITAS Collaboration, J. Kataoka, E. Cavazzuti, C. C. Cheung, B. Lott, D. J. Thompson, G. Tosti, for the Fermi Collaboration

Probing millisecond pulsar emission geometry using light curves from the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: C. Venter, A.K. Harding, L. Guillemot

tipa -- 11/4/2009

Hierarchy in the Phase Space and Dark Matter Astronomy

• Authors: Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter/Waterloo), Roya Mohayaee (IAP), Edmund Bertschinger (MIT)

Surface Detonations in Double Degenerate Binary Systems Triggered by Accretion Stream Instabilities

• Authors: James Guillochon (1), Marius Dan (2), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (1), Stephan Rosswog (2), ((1) Univ. of California Santa Cruz, (2) Jacobs University Bremen)

Cosmological Problems with Multiple Axion-like Fields

• Authors: Katherine J. Mack (1 and 2), Paul J. Steinhardt (2) ((1) IoA/KICC, University of Cambridge, (2) Princeton University)

Positron Annihilation on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon molecules in the Interstellar Medium

• Authors: N. Guessoum (1), P. Jean (2), W. Gillard (3) ((1) American University of Sharjah, (2) CESR CNRS/Universite de Toulouse, (3) KTH AlbaNova University Centre Stockholm)

Halo Shape and Relic Density Exclusions of Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Explanations of Cosmic Ray Excesses

• Authors: Jonathan L. Feng, Manoj Kaplinghat, Hai-Bo Yu

New experimental limits on the Pauli forbidden transitions in $^{12}$C nuclei obtained with 485 days Borexino data

• Authors: The Borexino Collaboration

tipa -- 11/3/2009

GRB090426: the farthest short gamma-ray burst?

• Authors: L. A. Antonelli, P. D Avanzo, R. Perna, L. Amati, S. Covino, S. Cutini, V. D Elia, S. Gallozzi, A. Grazian, E. Palazzi, S. Piranomonte, A. Rossi, S. Spiro, L. Stella, V. Testa, G. Chincarini, A. Di Paola, F. Fiore, D. Fugazza, E. Giallongo, E. Maiorano, N. Masetti, F. Pedichini, R. Salvaterra, G. Tagliaferri, S. Vergani

Spin-down Measurement of PSR J1852+0040 in Kesteven 79: Central Compact Objects as Anti-Magnetars

• Authors: J. P. Halpern, E. V. Gotthelf

High sigma model of pulsar wind nebulae

• Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University)

Kinematics of Milky Way Satellites: Mass Estimates, Rotation Limits, and Proper Motions

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari

The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts

• Authors: S. Ahlen, N. Afshordi, J. B. R. Battat, J. Billard, N. Bozorgnia, S. Burgos, T. Caldwell, J. M. Carmona, S. Cebrian, P. Colas, T. Dafni, E. Daw, D. Dujmic, A. Dushkin, W. Fedus, E. Ferrer, D. Finkbeiner, P. H. Fisher, J. Forbes, T. Fusayasu, J. Galan, T. Gamble, C. Ghag, I. Giomataris, M. Gold, H. Gomez, M. E. Gomez, P. Gondolo, A. Green, C. Grignon, O. Guillaudin, C. Hagemann, K. Hattori, S. Henderson, N. Higashi, C. Ida, F. J. Iguaz, A. Inglis, I. G. Irastorza, S. Iwaki, A. Kaboth, S. Kabuki, J. Kadyk, N. Kallivayalil, H. Kubo, S. Kurosawa, V. A. Kudryavtsev, T. Lamy, R. Lanza, T. B. Lawson, A. Lee, E. R. Lee, T. Lin, D. Loomba, J. Lopez, G. Luzon, T. Manobu, J. Martoff, F. Mayet, B. Mccluskey, E. Miller, K. Miuchi, J. Monroe, B. Morgan, D. Muna, A. St. J. Murphy, T. Naka, K. Nakamura, M. Nakamura, T. Nakano, G. G. Nicklin, H. Nishimura, K. Niwa, S. M. Paling, J. Parker, A. Petkov, M. Pipe, K. Pushkin, M. Robinson, A. Rodriguez, J. Rodriguez-Quintero, T. Sahin, R. Sanderson, N. Sanghi, D. Santos, O. Sato, T. Sawano, G. Sciolla, H. Sekiya, T. R. Slatyer, D. P. Snowden-Ifft, N. J. C. Spooner, A. Sugiyama, A. Takada, M. Takahashi, A. Takeda, T. Tanimori, K. Taniue, A. Tomas, H. Tomita, K. Tsuchiya, J. Turk, E. Tziaferi, K. Ueno, S. Vahsen, R. Vanderspek, J. Vergados, J. A. Villar, H. Wellenstein, I. Wolfe, R. K. Yamamoto, H. Yegoryan

On the role of electroweak bremsstrahlung for indirect dark matter signatures

• Authors: M. Kachelriess, P.D. Serpico, M.Aa. Solberg

tipa -- 11/2/2009

Merger of white dwarf-neutron star binaries: Prelude to hydrodynamic simulations in general relativity

• Authors: Vasileios Paschalidis, Morgan MacLeod, Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro

External forward shock origin of high energy emission for three GRBs detected by Fermi

• Authors: Pawan Kumar, Rodolfo Barniol Duran

Modeling of Gamma-Ray Pulsar Light Curves with Force-Free Magnetic Field

• Authors: Xue-Ning Bai, Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)

An Upper Limit on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background of Cosmological Origin

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

A SQUID-based microwave cavity search for dark-matter axions

• Authors: The ADMX Collaboration: S. J. Asztalos, G. Carosi, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, K. van Bibber, M. Hotz, L. Rosenberg, G. Rybka, J. Hoskins, J. Hwang, P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, R. Bradley, J. Clarke

classic papers of the week -- 122

Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry

• S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University)

Cosmological Consequences of a Rolling Homogeneous Scalar Field

• Bharat Ratra, P.J.E. Peebles (Joseph Henry Laboratories, Department of Physics, Princeton University)

Collapsed nuclei

• A.R. Bodmer (Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Oxford, England; Argonne National Laboratory; University of Illinois, Chicago, IL)

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