tipa -- 11/17/2009

An Unusually Fast-Evolving Supernova

• Authors: Dovi Poznanski, Ryan Chornock, Peter E. Nugent, Joshua S. Bloom, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Douglas C. Leonard, Weidong Li, Rollin C. Thomas

The Baryon Content of Cosmic Structures

• Authors: Stacy S. McGaugh, James M. Schombert, W.J.G. de Blok, Matthew J. Zagursky

PKS 2005-489 at VHE: Four Years of Monitoring with HESS and Simultaneous Multi-wavelength Observations

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

The low-mass Initial Mass Function in the 30 Doradus starburst cluster

• Authors: M. Andersen, H. Zinnecker, A. Moneti, M. J. McCaughrean, B. Brandl, W. Brandner, G. Meylan, D. Hunter

Gamma-ray and Radio Properties of Six Pulsars Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: The Fermi LAT collaboration, the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium (P.Weltevrede, A.A. Abdo, et al)

tipa -- 11/16/2009

Precision Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on the Standard Model

• Authors: ALEPH Collaboration, CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration, DELPHI Collaboration, L3 Collaboration, OPAL Collaboration, SLD Collaboration, LEP Electroweak Working Group, Tevatron Electroweak Working Group, SLD electroweak heavy flavour groups

Detecting the orientation of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters

• Authors: Christoph Pfrommer (1), L. Jonathan Dursi (2, 1), ((1) CITA, (2) SciNet)

Photodissociation chemistry footprints in the Starburst galaxy NGC 253

• Authors: Sergio Martin, J. Martin-Pintado, S. Viti

classic papers of the week -- 124

On the theory of superconductivity

• V. L. Ginzburg (P. N. Lebedev Institute of Physics of the Academy of Science of the USSR, Moscow)

Cosmic Magnetobremsstrahlung (synchrotron Radiation)

• Ginzburg, V. L.; Syrovatskii, S. I.

On superconductivity and superfluidity (what I have and have not managed to do), as well as on the 'physical minimum' at the beginning of the XXI century

• Vitalii L Ginzburg (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation)

The Disappearance of the resistance of mercury

• Kamerlingh Onnes, H.

tipa -- 11/13/2009

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula

• Authors: The Fermi LAT collaboration, the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium: A.A. Abdo, et al

Extending the search for neutrino point sources with IceCube above the horizon

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

Two white dwarfs with oxygen-rich atmospheres

• Authors: B.T. Gaensicke, D. Koester, J. Girven, T.R. Marsh, D. Steeghs

At the heart of the matter: the origin of bulgeless dwarf galaxies and Dark Matter cores

• Authors: Fabio Governato, Chris Brook, Lucio Mayer, Alyson Brooks, George Rhee, James Wadsley, Patrik Jonsson, Beth Willman, Greg Stinson, Thomas Quinn, Piero Madau

Testing adiabatic contraction with SDSS elliptical galaxies

• Authors: A.E. Schulz, Rachel Mandelbaum, Nikhil Padmanabhan

Dark matter response to galaxy formation

• Authors: Patricia B. Tissera (1,2), Simon D. M. White (3), Susana Pedrosa (1,2), Cecilia Scannapieco (4) ((1) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, CONICET, Argentina (2) Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, Argentina (3) Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany (4) Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany)

Black Hole Spin and the Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy of Active Galactic Nuclei

• Authors: Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Ramesh Narayan (1), Jonathan C. McKinney (2) ((1) Harvard-CfA, (2) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University)

HST/NICMOS Paschen-alpha Survey of the Galactic Center: Overview

• Authors: Q. D. Wang, H. Dong, A. Cotera, S. Stolovy, M. Morris, C. C. Lang, M. P. Muno, G. Schneider, D. Calzetti

Galaxy Counts on the CMB Cold Spot

• Authors: Benjamin R. Granett (IfA Hawaii), István Szapudi (IfA), Mark C. Neyrinck (JHU)

tipa -- 11/12/2009

The SPLASH Survey: Internal Kinematics, Chemical Abundances, and Masses of the Andromeda I, II, III, VII, X, and XIV dSphs

• Authors: Jason S. Kalirai, Rachael L. Beaton, Marla C. Geha, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta, Evan N. Kirby, Steven R. Majewski, James C. Ostheimer, Richard J. Patterson, Joe Wolf

Pushing the Boundaries of Conventional Core-Collapse Supernovae: The Extremely Energetic Supernova SN 2003ma

• Authors: A. Rest, R. J. Foley, S. Gezari, G. Narayan, B. Draine, K. Olsen, M. Huber, T. Matheson, A. Garg, D. L. Welch, A. C. Becker, P. Challis, A. Clocchiatti, K. H. Cook, G. Damke, M. Meixner, G. Miknaitis, D. Minniti, L. Morelli, S. Nikolaev, G. Pignata, J. L. Prieto, R. C. Smith, C. Stubbs, N. B. Suntzeff, A. R. Walker, W. M. Wood-Vasey, A. Zenteno, L. Wyrzykowski, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, K. Ulaczyk, R. Poleski

Hubble Space Telescope Observations of a Spectacular New Strong-lensing Galaxy Cluster - MACSJ1149.5+2223 at z=0.544

• Authors: Graham P. Smith, Harald Ebeling, Marceau Limousin, Jean-Paul Kneib, A. M. Swinbank, Cheng-Jiun Ma, Mathilde Jauzac, Johan Richard, Eric Jullo, David J. Sand, Alastair C. Edge, Ian Smail

Identification and properties of the photospheric emission in GRB090902B

• Authors: F.Ryde, M.Axelsson, B.B.Zhang, S.McGlynn, A.Pe'er, C.Lundman, S.Larsson, M.Battelino, B.Zhang, E.Bissaldi, M.S.Briggs, F.Longo, N.Omodei, R.Preece

Neutrino emission from high-energy component gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: J.K. Becker, F. Halzen, A. O'Murchadha, M. Olivo

Measurement of \nu_\mu and \bar\nu_\mu induced neutral current single $\pi^0$ production cross sections on mineral oil at E_\nu~O(1 GeV)

• Authors: The MiniBooNE Collaboration: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A. O. Bazarko, S. J. Brice, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, J. Cao, L. Coney, J. M. Conrad, D. C. Cox, A. Curioni, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, B. T. Fleming, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Gonzales, J. Grange, C. Green, J. A. Green, T. L. Hart, E. Hawker, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, P. Kasper, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kourbanis, S. Koutsoliotas, E. M. Laird, S. K. Linden, J. M. Link, Y. Liu, W. C. Louis, K. B. M. Mahn, W. Marsh, C. Mauger, V. T. McGary, G. McGregor, W. Metcalf, P. D. Meyers, F. Mills, G. B. Mills, J. Monroe, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, R. H. Nelson, P. Nienaber, J. A. Nowak, B. Osmanov, S. Ouedraogo, R. B. Patterson, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov, C. C. Polly, E. Prebys, J. L. Raaf, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, A. D. Russell, V. Sandberg, R. Schirato, D. Schmitz, M. H. Shaevitz, F. C. Shoemaker, D. Smith, M. Soderberg, M. Sorel, P. Spentzouris, J. Spitz, I. Stancu, R. J. Stefanski, M. Sung, H. A. Tanaka, R. Tayloe, M. Tzanov, R. G. Van de Water, M. O. Wascko, D. H. White, M. J. Wilking, H. J. Yang, G. P. Zeller, E. D. Zimmerman

tipa -- 11/11/2009

Localising the VHE gamma-ray source at the Galactic Centre

• Authors: The HESS Collaboration

Energy spectra of cosmic-ray nuclei at high energies

• Authors: H. S. Ahn, P. Allison, M.G. Bagliesi, L. Barbier, J. J. Beatty, G. Bigongiari, T.J. Brandt, J.T. Childers, N.B. Conklin, S. Coutu, M.A. DuVernois, O. Ganel, J.H. Han, J.A. Jeon, K.C. Kim, M.H. Lee, P. Maestro, A. Malinine, P.S. Marrocchesi, S. Minnick, S.I. Mognet, S.W. Nam, S. Nutter, I.H. Park, N.H. Park, E.S. Seo, R. Sina, P. Walpole, J. Wu, J. Yang, Y. S. Yoon, R. Zei, S.Y. Zinn

Physical constraints on the central mass and baryon content of satellite galaxies

• Authors: Martin Stringer, Shaun Cole, Carlos Frenk

Twins: The Two Shortest Period Non-Interacting Double Degenerate White Dwarf Stars

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

The Discovery of Binary White Dwarfs that will Merge within 500 Myr

• Authors: Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, Carlos Allende Prieto, S. J. Kenyon

The Millisecond Radio Sky: Transients from a Blind Single Pulse Search

• Authors: S. Burke-Spolaor, M. Bailes

The Observed Growth of Massive Galaxy Clusters IV: Robust Constraints on Neutrino Properties

• Authors: Adam Mantz (1,2), Steven W. Allen (2), David Rapetti (2) ((1)NASA/GSFC, (2) KIPAC, Stanford/SLAC)

Radio Quiet AGNs as Possible Sources of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Asaf Pe'er, Kohta Murase, Peter Mészáros

tipa -- 11/10/2009

A Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic survey of the faint M31 satellites And IX, And XI, And XII, and And XIII

• Authors: M. L. M. Collins, S. C. Chapman, M. J. Irwin, N. F. Martin, R. A. Ibata, D. B. Zucker, A. Blain, A. M. N. Ferguson, G. F. Lewis, A. W. McConnachie, J. Penarrubia

The long rapid decay phase of the extended emission from the short GRB 080503

• Authors: Franck Genet, Nathaniel R. Butler, Jonathan Granot

Black Hole Outflows

• Authors: A.R. King

XMM-Newton and Swift observations prove GRB 090709A to be a distant, standard, long GRB

• Authors: A. De Luca, P. Esposito, G. L. Israel, D. Götz, F. Novara, A. Tiengo, S. Mereghetti

Measurement of Neutrino-Electron Scattering Cross-Section with a CsI(Tl) Scintillating Crystal Array at the Kuo-Sheng Nuclear Power Reactor

• Authors: TEXONO Collaboration

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