tipa -- 12/7/2009

Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on its redshift

• Authors: The VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, et al., The Fermi Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al., S. D. Barber, D. M. Terndrup

Early and Late-Time Observations of SN 2008ha: Additional Constraints for the Progenitor and Explosion

• Authors: Ryan J. Foley, Peter J. Brown, Armin Rest, Peter J. Challis, Robert P. Kirshner, W. Michael Wood-Vasey

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae: Are They Supersoft Sources?

• Authors: Rosanne Di Stefano

First results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using Ge cryogenic detectors with interleaved electrodes

• Authors: E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. Benoit, L. Berge, O. Besida, J. Blumer, A. Broniatowski, A. Chantelauze, M. Chapellier, G. Chardin, F. Charlieux, S. Collin, X. Defay, M. De Jesus, P. Di Stefano, Y. Dolgorouki, J. Domange, L. Dumoulin, K. Eitel, J. Gascon, G. Gerbier, M. Gros, M. Hannawald, S. Herve, A. Juillard, H. Kluck, V. Kozlov, R. Lemrani, P. Loaiza, A. Lubashevskiy, S. Marnieros, X-F. Navick, E. Olivieri, P. Pari, B. Paul, S. Rozov, V. Sanglard, S. Scorza, S. Semikh, A.S. Torrento-Coello, L. Vagneron, M-A. Verdier, E. Yakushev, the EDELWEISS Collaboration

Hubble Residuals of Nearby SN Ia Are Correlated with Host Galaxy Masses

• Authors: Patrick L. Kelly (1 and 2), Malcolm Hicken (3), David L. Burke (1 and 2), Kaisey S. Mandel (3), Robert P. Kirshner (3) ((1) Stanford, (2) KIPAC, (3) CfA)

classic papers of the week -- 127

Coherence in Spontaneous Radiation Processes

• Dicke, R. H. (Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University)

Evolution of Very Massive Stars

• Schwarzschild, M.; Härm, R.

A Serie's of Quere's Propounded by Mr. Isaac Newton, to be Determin'd by Experiments, Positively and Directly Concluding His New Theory of Light and Colours; and Here Recommended to the Industry of the Lovers of Experimental Philosophy, as they Were Generously Imparted to the Publisher in a Letter of the Said Mr. Newtons of July 8, 1672

• Isaac Newton

tipa -- 12/4/2009

The Sensitivity of the IceCube Neutrino Detector to Dark Matter Annihilating in Dwarf Galaxies

• Authors: Pearl Sandick, Douglas Spolyar, Matthew Buckley, Katherine Freese, Dan Hooper

Identifying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis

• Authors: Yue Shen, Abraham Loeb (CfA)

The luminosity function and the rate of Swift's Gamma Ray Bursts

• Authors: David Wanderman, Tsvi Piran

Gravitational waves from neutron stars: Promises and challenges

• Authors: N. Andersson, V. Ferrari, D.I. Jones, K.D. Kokkotas, B. Krishnan, J. Read, L. Rezzolla, B. Zink

tipa -- 12/3/2009

Neutrino Signal of Electron-Capture Supernovae from Core Collapse to Cooling

• Authors: L. Huedepohl (1), B. Mueller (1), H.-Th. Janka (1), A. Marek (1), G.G Raffelt (2) ((1) MPI Astrophysik, Garching; (2) MPI Physik, Muenchen)

New Constraints on the Highest-Energy Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons

• Authors: Matthew D. Kistler (Ohio State), Hasan Yuksel (Bartol/Delaware)

Observation of TeV Gamma Rays from the Fermi Bright Galactic Sources with the Tibet Air Shower Array

• Authors: M. Amenomori, X. J. Bi, D. Chen, S. W. Cui, Danzengluobu, L. K. Ding, X. H. Ding, C. Fan, C. F. Feng, Zhaoyang Feng, Z. Y. Feng, X. Y. Gao, Q. X. Geng, Q. B. Gou, H. W. Guo, H. H. He, M. He, K. Hibino, N. Hotta, Haibing Hu, H. B. Hu, J. Huang, Q. Huang, H. Y. Jia, L. Jiang, F. Kajino, K. Kasahara, Y. Katayose, C. Kato, K. Kawata, Labaciren, G. M. Le, A. F. Li, H. C. Li, J. Y. Li, C. Liu, Y.-Q. Lou, H. Lu, X. R. Meng, K. Mizutani, J. Mu, K. Munakata, H. Nanjo, M. Nishizawa, M. Ohnishi, I. Ohta, S. Ozawa, T. Saito, T. Y. Saito, M. Sakata, T. K. Sako, M. Shibata, A. Shiomi, T. Shirai, H. Sugimoto, M. Takita, Y. H. Tan, N. Tateyama, S. Torii, H. Tsuchiya, S. Udo, B. Wang, H. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. G. Wang, H. R. Wu, L. Xue, Y. Yamamoto, C. T. Yan, X. C. Yang, S. Yasue, Z. H. Ye, G. C. Yu, A. F. Yuan, T. Yuda, H. M. Zhang, J. L. Zhang, N. J. Zhang, X. Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Yi Zhang, Ying Zhang, Zhaxisangzhu, X. X. Zhou (The Tibet ASgamma Collaboration)

tipa -- 12/2/2009

A High Rate of White Dwarf-Neutron Star Mergers & Their Transients

• Authors: Todd A. Thompson, Matthew D. Kistler, K. Z. Stanek

Evaluating the Calorimeter Model with Broadband, Continuous Spectra of Starburst Galaxies Observed with the Allen Telescope Array

• Authors: Peter K. G. Williams (1), Geoffrey C. Bower (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley)

The cluster Terzan 5 as a remnant of a primordial building block of the Galactic bulge

• Authors: F. R. Ferraro (1), E. Dalessandro (1), A. Mucciarelli (1), G. Beccari (2), R. M. Rich (3), L. Origlia (4), B. Lanzoni (1), R. T. Rood (5), E. Valenti (6,7), M. Bellazzini (4), S. M. Ransom (8), G. Cocozza (4) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna, (2) ESA, Space Science Department, The Netherlands, (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (5) Astronomy Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, (6) ESO, Santiago, Chile, (7) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Departamento de Astronomia)

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

• Authors: LSST Science Collaborations

Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures

• Authors: Tanja Bode, Roland Haas, Tamara Bogdanovic, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker

tipa -- 12/1/2009

Particle mesh simulations of the Lyman-alpha forest and the signature of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the intergalactic medium

• Authors: Martin White, Adrian Pope, Jordan Carlson, Katrin Heitmann, Salman Habib, Patricia Fasel, David Daniel, Zarija Lukic

Optical Transients from the Unbound Debris of Tidal Disruption

• Authors: Daniel Kasen, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Nebular Spectra and Explosion Asymmetry of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Stefan Taubenberger, Jesper Sollerman, Paolo A. Mazzali, Giorgos Leloudas, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Kentaro Motohara

Hyperaccreting Disks around Magnetars for Gamma-Ray Bursts: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields

• Authors: Dong Zhang (OSU), Z. G. Dai (NJU)

Discovery of a new Soft Gamma Repeater: SGR J0418+5729

• Authors: A.J. van der Horst, V. Connaughton, C. Kouveliotou, E. Gogus, Y. Kaneko, S. Wachter, M.S. Briggs, J. Granot, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, P.M. Woods, R.L. Aptekar, S.D. Barthelmy, J.R. Cummings, M.H. Finger, D.D. Frederiks, N. Gehrels, C.R. Gelino, D.M. Gelino, S. Golenetskii, K. Hurley, H.A. Krimm, E.P. Mazets, J.E. McEnery, C.A. Meegan, P.P. Oleynik, D.M. Palmer, V.D. Pal'shin, A. Pe'er, D. Svinkin, M.V. Ulanov, M. van der Klis, A. von Kienlin, A.L. Watts, C.A. Wilson-Hodge

Massive protostars as gamma-ray sources

• Authors: V. Bosch-Ramon, G. E. Romero, A. T. Araudo, J. M. Paredes

Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger

• Authors: Julian H. Krolik

First proton--proton collisions at the LHC as observed with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged particle pseudorapidity density at sqrt(s) = 900 GeV

• Authors: ALICE Collaboration

tipa -- 11/30/2009

MiXDM: Cosmic Ray Signals from Multiple States of Dark Matter

• Authors: Ilias Cholis, Neal Weiner (CCPP, NYU)

A Puzzle Involving Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events

• Authors: Judith G. Cohen, Andrew Gould, Ian B. Thompson, Sofia Feltzing, Thomas Bensby, Jennifer A. Johnson, Wenjin Huang, Jorge Melendez, Sara Lucatello, Martin Asplund

The international pulsar timing array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

• Authors: G. Hobbs, A. Archibald, Z. Arzoumanian, D. Backer, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, M. Burgay, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. Champion, I. Cognard, W. Coles, J. Cordes, P. Demorest, G. Desvignes, R. D. Ferdman, L. Finn, P. Freire, M. Gonzalez, J. Hessels, A. Hotan, G. Janssen, F. Jenet, A. Jessner, C. Jordan, V. Kaspi, M. Kramer, V. Kondratiev, J. Lazio, K. Lazaridis, K. J. Lee, Y. Levin, A. Lommen, D. Lorimer, R. Lynch, A. Lyne, R. Manchester, M. McLaughlin, D. Nice, S. Oslowski, M. Pilia, A. Possenti, M. Purver, S. Ransom, J. Reynolds, S. Sanidas, J. Sarkissian, A. Sesana, R. Shannon, X. Siemens, I. Stairs, B. Stappers, D. Stinebring, G. Theureau, R. van Haasteren, W. van Straten, J. P. W. Verbiest, D. R. B. Yardley, X. P. You

Upper Bound of 0.28eV on the Neutrino Masses from the Largest Photometric Redshift Survey

• Authors: Shaun A. Thomas, Filipe B. Abdalla, Ofer Lahav

Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Starburst Galaxies M82 and NGC 253 with the Large Area Telescope on Fermi

• Authors: Fermi LAT Collaboration: A.A. Abdo, et al

Thermodynamical Aspects of Gravity: New insights

• Authors: T.Padmanabhan

Effective One Body description of tidal effects in inspiralling compact binaries

• Authors: Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar

Cascade Events at IceCube+DeepCore as a Definitive Constraint on the Dark Matter Interpretation of the PAMELA and Fermi Anomalies

• Authors: Sourav K. Mandal, Matthew R. Buckley, Katherine Freese, Douglas Spolyar, Hitoshi Murayama

classic papers of the week -- 126

Parametrization of the Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix

• Lincoln Wolfenstein (Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

The Formation of a Blast Wave by a Very Intense Explosion. I. Theoretical Discussion

• Taylor, Geoffrey, F.R.S.

The Unity of the Universe

• Curtis, Heber D. (Allegheny Observatory)

tipa -- 11/26/2009

Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits

• Authors: David Merritt, Tal Alexander, Seppo Mikkola, Clifford M. Will

tipa -- 11/25/2009

There's no place like home? Statistics of Milky Way-mass dark matter halos

• Authors: Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, Adrian Jenkins

Magnetar Twists: Fermi/Gamma ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detection of SGR 1550-5418

• Authors: Y. Kaneko, E. Gogus, C. Kouveliotou, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, J. Granot, A.J. van der Horst, A.L. Watts, M.H. Finger, N. Gehrels, A. Pe'er, M. van der Klis, A. von Kienlin, S. Wachter, C.A. Wilson-Hodge, P.M. Woods

Detection of Extended VHE Gamma Ray Emission from G106.3+2.7 with VERITAS

• 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, Y. Butt, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, A. Cesarini, Y. C. Chow, L. Ciupik, P. Cogan, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, T. Ergin, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, P. Fortin, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, D. Gall, G. H. Gillanders, E. V. Gotthelf, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, J. Holder, D. Horan, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, 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, 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, J. A. Toner, 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

Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: James W. Cronin

tipa -- 11/24/2009

Are Newly Discovered HI High Velocity Clouds Minihalos in the Local Group?

• Authors: Riccardo Giovanelli (1), Martha P. Haynes (1), Brian R. Kent (2), Elizabeth K. Adams (1) (1 Cornell University, 2 National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

A search for VHE counterparts of Galactic Fermi bright sources and GeV to TeV spectral characterization

• Authors: P.H. Thomas Tam, Stefan Wagner, Omar Tibolla, Ryan Chaves

tipa -- 11/23/2009

Mapping the stellar structure of the Milky Way

• Authors: Jelte T. A. de Jong (1), Brian Yanny (2), Hans-Walter Rix (1), Andrew E. Dolphin (3), Nicolas F. Martin (1), Timothy C. Beers (4) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, (2) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, (3) Raytheon Company, (4) Michigan State University)

GRB 090313: X-shooter's first shot at a GRB

• Authors: A. de Ugarte Postigo, V. D'Elia, P. Goldoni, C.C. Thöne, S. Piranomonte, S.D. Vergani, D. Malesani, S. Covino, H. Flores, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, R.A.M.J. Wijers, S. D'Odorico, F. Hammer, L. Kaper, P. Kjærgaard, S. Randich, M.I. Andersen, L.A. Antonelli, L. Christensen, P. D'Avanzo, F. Fiore, P.J. Groot, E. Maiorano, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, G. Tagliaferri, M.E. van den Ancker, J. Vernet, P.M. Vreeswijk

Understanding the Geometry of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields

• Authors: Avery E. Broderick (1), Roger D. Blandford (2) ((1) CITA, (2) KIPAC)

Magnetic fields in nearby galaxies

• Authors: G. Heald (ASTRON), R. Braun (CSIRO-Atnf)

Directional detection as a strategy to discover galactic Dark Matter

• Authors: J. Billard (1), F. Mayet (1), J. F. Macias-Perez (1), D. Santos (1) ((1) LPSC Grenoble)

Statistical Model for a Complete Supernova Equation of State

• Authors: Matthias Hempel, Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Dark Matter Self-Interactions and Light Force Carriers

• Authors: Matthew R. Buckley Patrick J. Fox

New insights into the neutron electric dipole moment

• Authors: K. Ottnad, B. Kubis, U.-G. Meißner, F.-K. Guo

Combined CDF and D0 Upper Limits on Standard Model Higgs-Boson Production with 2.1 - 5.4 fb-1 of Data

• Authors: The CDF Collaboration, the D0 Collaboration, the Tevatron New Physics, Higgs Working Group

classic papers of the week -- 125

Topology of cosmic domains and strings

• Kibble, T. W. B. (Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll., London)

Stellar evolution in early phases of gravitational contraction

• Hayashi, C. (Department of Nuclear Science, Kyoto University)

The Electrodynamics of Substances with Simultaneously Negative Values of ɛ and μ

• Veselago, V. G. ( P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R.)

tipa -- 11/20/2009

Local Group Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: II. Stellar Kinematics to Large Radii in NGC 147 and NGC 185

• Authors: M. Geha, R. P. van der Marel, P. Guhathakurta, K. M. Gilbert, J. Kalirai, E. N. Kirby

Derivation of a Relation for the Steepening of TeV Selected Blazar Gamma-ray Spectra with Energy and Redshift

• Authors: Floyd W. Stecker (NASA/GSFC), Sean T. Scully (JMU)

Slow Diffusive Gravitational Instability Before Decoupling

• Authors: Todd A. Thompson

Search for chameleon-like scalar fields with the ammonia method

• Authors: S. A. Levshakov, P. Molaro, A. V. Lapinov, D. Reimers, C. Henkel, T. Sakai

Characteristic velocities of stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova cores

• Authors: I. Maurer, P. A. Mazzali, J. Deng, A. V. Filippenko, M. Hamuy, R. P. Kirshner, T. Matheson, M. Modjaz, E. Pian, M. Stritzinger, S. Taubenberger, S. Valenti

The discovery of a massive white dwarf in the peculiar binary system HD 49798/RX J0648.0-4418

• Authors: S.Mereghetti, A.Tiengo, P.Esposito, N.La Palombara (1), G.L.Israel, L.Stella (2) ((1) INAF-IASF Milano, (2) INAF, Oss. Astron. Roma)

The multi-channel low energy neutrino factory

• Authors: Alan Bross, Malcolm Ellis, Enrique Fernandez-Martinez, Steve Geer, Tracey Li, Olga Mena, Silvia Pascoli

Potentially Large One-loop Corrections to WIMP Annihilation

• Authors: M. Drees, J. M. Kim, K. I. Nagao

tipa -- 11/19/2009

Type IIB Supernovae with Compact and Extended Progenitors

Authors: Roger A. Chevalier, Alicia M. Soderberg

Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 as a New Class of Gamma-Ray AGN

Authors: Fermi/LAT Collaboration, G. Ghisellini, L. Maraschi, F. Tavecchio

Tidal deformability of neutron stars with realistic equations of state and their gravitational wave signatures in binary inspiral

Authors: Tanja Hinderer, Benjamin D. Lackey, Ryan N. Lang, Jocelyn S. Read

Thermonuclear explosions of rapidly rotating white dwarfs - II. Detonations

Authors: J.M.M. Pfannes, J.C. Niemeyer, W. Schmidt

tipa -- 11/18/2009

Unveiling the Origin of GRB 090709A: Lack of Periodicity in a Reddened Cosmological Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst

• Authors: S. B. Cenko, N. R. Butler, E. O. Ofek, D. A. Perley, A. N. Morgan, D. A. Frail, J. Gorosabel, J. S. Bloom, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Cepa, P. C. Chandra, A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. V. Filippenko, C. R. Klein, S. R. Kulkarni, A. A. Miller, P. E. Nugent, D. L. Starr

The Quasar Mass-Luminosity Plane II: High Mass Turnoff Evolution and a Synchronization Puzzle

• Authors: Charles L. Steinhardt, Martin Elvis

Limits on spin determination from disc spectral fitting in GX 339-4

• Authors: Mari Kolehmainen, Chris Done

Short-duration gamma-ray bursts from off-axis collapsars

• Authors: Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Brian J. Morsony (UW Madison), Mitchell C. Begelman (JILA)

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)