today in particle astrophysics

cipa -- 12/25/2009

Linking dwarf galaxies to halo building blocks with the most metal-poor star in Sculptor

Authors: Anna Frebel (1), Evan Kirby (2), Joshua D. Simon (3) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (2) Caltech, (3) Carnegie Observatories)

Self-Convergence of Radiatively Cooling Clumps

Authors: Kristopher Yirak (1), Adam Frank (1), Andrew J. Cunningham (2) ((1) University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, (2) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

3D simulations of supernova remnants evolution including non-linear particle acceleration

Authors: Gilles Ferrand (SAp, AIME), Anne Decourchelle (SAp, AIME), Jean Ballet (SAp, AIME), Romain Teyssier (SAp, AIME), Federico Fraschetti (LUTH)

tipa -- 12/24/2009

An analysis of the timing irregularities for 366 pulsars

Authors: G. Hobbs, A. G. Lyne, M. Kramer

Deep Chandra Observations of the Crab-like Pulsar Wind Nebula G54.1+0.3 and Spitzer Spectroscopy of the Associated Infrared Shell

Authors: Tea Temim, Patrick Slane, Stephen P. Reynolds, John C. Raymond, Kazimierz J. Borkowski

tipa -- 12/23/2009

Direct Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Multi-Scale Gas Inflows in Galaxy Mergers

Authors: Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich), Stelios Kazantzidis (CCAPP, Ohio State University), Andres Escala (KIPAC Stanford/UChile), Simone Callegari (University of Zurich)

Constraints on the First Galaxies: z~10 Galaxy Candidates from HST WFC3/IR

Authors: R.J. Bouwens (UC Santa Cruz), G.D. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), I. Labbe (Carnegie Observatories), P.A. Oesch (ETH Zurich), M. Trenti (U Colorado), M. Carollo (ETH Zurich), P.G. van Dokkum (Yale), M. Franx (Leiden), M. Stiavelli (STScI), V. Gonzalez (UC Santa Cruz), D. Magee (UC Santa Cruz)

Scaling stellar jets to the laboratory: the power of simulations

Authors: Chantal Stehle, Andrea Ciardi, Jean-Philippe Colombier, Matthias Gonzalez, Thierry Lanz, Alberto Marocchino, Michaela Kozlova, Bedrich Rus

The z = 0.0777 C III Absorber Towards PHL 1811 as a Case Study of a Low Redshift Weak Metal Line Absorber

Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Jane C. Charlton

Angular Power Spectra of the Millimeter Wavelength Background Light from Dusty Star-forming Galaxies with the South Pole Telescope

Authors: N. R. Hall, L. Knox, C. L. Reichardt, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H.-M. Cho, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, E. M. George, N. W. Halverson, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, R. Keisler, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, E. R. Switzer, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson, O. Zahn

Measurements of Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies with the South Pole Telescope

Authors: M. Lueker, C. L. Reichardt, K. K. Schaffer, O. Zahn, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H. M. Cho, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, E. M. George, N. R. Hall, N. W. Halverson, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, J. E. Ruhl, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson

Comprehensive Photometric Histories of All Known Galactic Recurrent Novae

Authors: Bradley E. Schaefer (Louisiana State University)

Origin of the Cosmic Network: Nature vs Nurture

Authors: Sergei Shandarin, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann

Constraining Decaying Dark Matter with Fermi LAT Gamma-rays

Authors: Le Zhang, Christoph Weniger, Luca Maccione, Javier Redondo, Guenter Sigl

Secondary photons and neutrinos from cosmic rays produced by distant blazars

Authors: Warren Essey, Oleg E. Kalashev, Alexander Kusenko, John F. Beacom

From Pamela to CDMS and Back

Authors: Qing-Hong Cao, Ian Low, Gabe Shaughnessy

Measurement of the W^+W^- Production Cross Section and Search for Anomalous WW\gamma and WWZ Couplings in p \bar p Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

Authors: The CDF Collaboration: T. Aaltonen, et al

Effective Theories and Modifications of Gravity

Authors: C.P. Burgess

R.P. Feynman (Department of Physics, Cornell University)

On the Infall of Matter Into Clusters of Galaxies and Some Effects on Their Evolution

Gunn, James E. (Hale Observatories, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institution of Washington); Gott, J. Richard, III (Princeton University Observatory)

Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer

Peter W. Shor (AT&T Research)

tipa -- 12/18/2009

How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert (Berkeley)

Probing star formation across cosmic time with absorption line systems

Authors: Brice Ménard, Vivienne Wild, Daniel Nestor, Anna Quider, Stefano Zibetti

On the nature of the progenitors of three type II-P supernovae: 2004et, 2006my and 2006ov

Authors: R. M. Crockett (1) (2), S. J. Smartt (1), A. Pastorello (1), A. W. Stephens (3), J. R. Maund (4), S. Mattila (5) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) University of Oxford, (3) Gemini North Observatory, (4) Dark Cosmology Center, University of Copenhagen, (5) University of Turku)

Environments for Magnetic Field Amplification by Cosmic Rays

Authors: Ellen G. Zweibel, John E. Everett

The Case Against Warm or Self-Interacting Dark Matter as Explanations for Cores in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

Authors: Rachel Kuzio de Naray, Gregory D. Martinez, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

New Physics at the LHC

Authors: David E. Morrissey, Tilman Plehn, Tim M.P. Tait

Computational Tools for Supersymmetry Calculations

Authors: Howard Baer

tipa -- 12/17/2009

A single sub-km Kuiper Belt object from a stellar Occultation in archival data

Authors: H. E. Schlichting, E. O. Ofek, M. Wenz, R. Sari, A. Gal-Yam, M. Livio, E. Nelan, S. Zucker

Evidence for Supernova-Synthesised Dust from the Rising Afterglow of GRB 071025 at z~5

Authors: Daniel A. Perley, J. S. Bloom, C. R. Klein, S. Covino, T. Minezaki, P. Wozniak, W. T. Vestrand, G. G. Williams, P. Milne, N. R. Butler, A. C. Updike, T. Krühler, P. Afonso, A. Antonelli, L. Cowie, P. Ferrero, J. Greiner, Y. Kakazu, A. Küpcü Yoldas, A. N. Morgan, P. A. Price, J. X. Prochaska, Y. Yoshii

On the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of low-metallicity high-redshift galaxies

Authors: Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Andrey V. Kravtsov

Optical and near infrared coverage of SN 2004et: physical parameters and comparison with other type IIP supernovae

Authors: K. Maguire (1), E. Di Carlo (2), S. J. Smartt (1), A. Pastorello (1), D. Yu. Tsvetkov (3), S. Benetti (4), S. Spiro (5,6), A. A. Arkharov (7,8), G. Beccari (9), M. T. Botticella (1), E. Cappellaro (4), S. Cristallo (2,10), M. Dolci (2), N. Elias-Rosa (4,11), M. Fiaschi (12), Gorshanov D. (7), A. Harutyunyan (4,13), V. M. Larionov (7,8), H. Navasardyan (4), A. Pietrinferni (2), G. Raimondo (2), G. Di Rico (2), S. Valenti (1), G. Valentini (2), L. Zampieri (4) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (5) Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata, (6) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, (7) Pulkovo Central Astronomical Observatory, (8) Astronomical Institute of St Petersburg State University, (9) ESA/ESTEC, (10) Universidad de Granada, (11) Spitzer Science Center, (12) Universitá di Padova, (13) Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF)

tipa -- 12/16/2009

Radio lobes and X-ray hot spots of the extraordinary microquasar in NGC 7793

Authors: Roberto Soria (MSSL/UCL), Manfred Pakull (Strasbourg), Jess Broderick (Southampton), Stephane Corbel (CEA Saclay), Christian Motch (Strasbourg)

Constraining Parity Violation in Gravity with Measurements of Neutron-Star Moments of Inertia

Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel, Abraham Loeb

Subaru and Gemini Observations of SS 433: New Constraint on the Mass of the Compact Object

Authors: K. Kubota, Y. Ueda, S. Fabrika, A. Medvedev, E.A. Barsukova, O. Sholukhova, V.P. Goranskij

Resonant Spin-Flavor Conversion of Supernova Neutrinos: Dependence on Electron Mole Fraction

Authors: T. Yoshida (1), A. Takamura (2), K. Kimura (3), H. Yokomakura (3), S. Kawagoe (1), T. Kajino (4) ((1) Univ. of Tokyo, (2) Toyota Coll. Tech., (3)Nagoya Univ., (4) NAOJ)

The Massive Progenitor Candidate of the Typle II-Linear SN 2009kr

Authors: N. Elias-Rosa (1), S. D. Van Dyk (1), W. Li (2), A. A. Miller (2), M. Ganeshalingam (2), A. F. Boden (3), S. R. Kulkarni (3), J. Vinko (4,5), J.-C. Cuillandre (6), T. N. Steele (2), R. J. Foley (7,8), J. S. Bloom (2), A. V. Filippenko (2) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, Caltech; (2) UC Berkeley; (3) Caltech; (4) U. Szeged (5) U. Texas; (6) CFHT corporation; (7) CfA; (8) Clay Fellow)

Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula with AGILE

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

Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton's constant with gravitational wave observations

Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Frans Pretorius, David Spergel

tipa -- 12/15/2009

The Persistence of Cool Galactic Winds in High Stellar Mass Galaxies Between z~1.4 and ~1

Authors: Kate H. R. Rubin (1), Benjamin J. Weiner (2), David C. Koo (1), Crystal L. Martin (3), J. Xavier Prochaska (1), Alison L. Coil (4), Jeffrey A. Newman (5) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) Steward Observatory, (3) UCSB, (4) UCSD, (5) Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow

Authors: Stuart L. Shapiro

Dark Matter Direct Detection with Non-Maxwellian Velocity Structure

Authors: M. Kuhlen, N. Weiner, J. Diemand, P. Madau, B. Moore, D. Potter, J. Stadel, M. Zemp

A New Open-Source Code for 1D Stellar Collapse A New Open-Source Code for Spherically-Symmetric Stellar Collapse to Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Authors: Evan O'Connor, Christian D. Ott (TAPIR, Caltech)

Large Late-time Asphericities in Three Type IIP Supernovae

Authors: Ryan Chornock (1,2), Alexei V. Filippenko (1), Weidong Li (1), Jeffrey M. Silverman (1); ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) Harvard)

Detecting the QCD phase transition in the next Galactic supernova neutrino burst

Authors: Basudeb Dasgupta, Tobias Fischer, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Matthias Liebendoerfer, Alessandro Mirizzi, Irina Sagert, Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

Swift BAT, Fermi LAT, and the Blazar Sequence

Authors: R.M.Sambruna, D.Donato, M.Ajello, L.Maraschi, the GSFC BAT Team

XYZ particles at Belle

Authors: Shen Cheng-Ping (for the Belle Collaboration)

tipa -- 12/14/2009

Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: "Binary Bondi" and "Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton" Accretion

Authors: Brian D. Farris, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro (UIUC)

Non-thermal emission from Cassiopeia A: Probing shock properties with non-thermal filaments

Authors: Miguel Araya, David Lomiashvili, Chulhoon Chang, Maxim Lyutikov, Wei Cui

Powerful high energy emission of the remarkable BL Lac object S5 0716+714

Authors: V. Vittorini, M. Tavani, A. Paggi, A. Cavaliere, A. Bulgarelli, A.W. Chen, F. D'Ammando, I. Donnarumma, A. Giuliani, F. Longo, L. Pacciani, G. Pucella, S. Vercellone, A. Ferrari, S. Colafrancesco, P. Giommi

Radio Sources from a 31 GHz Sky Survey with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

Authors: Stephen Muchovej, Erik Leitch, John E. Carlstrom, Thomas Culverhouse, Chris Greer, David Hawkins, Ryan Hennessy, Marshall Joy, James Lamb, Michael Loh, Daniel P. Marrone, Amber Miller, Tony Mroczkowski, Clem Pryke, Matthew Sharp, David Woody

Extragalactic millimeter-wave sources in South Pole Telescope survey data: source counts, catalog, and statistics for an 87 square-degree field

Authors: J. D. Vieira, T. M. Crawford, E. R. Switzer, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, M. L. N. Ashby, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, M. Brodwin, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H.-M. Cho, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, W. Everett, E. M. George, M. Gladders, N. R. Hall, N. W. Halverson, F. W. High, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, D. P. Marrone, V. McIntyre, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, C. L. Reichardt, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, B. Stalder, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Vanderlinde, W. Walsh, R. Williamson, Y. Yang, O. Zahn, A. Zenteno

classic papers of the week -- 128

The electromagnetic field of an idealized star in rigid rotation in vacuo

Deutsch, Arnim J. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Relations Between the Spectra and Other Characteristics of the Stars

Russell, Henry Norris

Characteristic forms and geometric invariants

Shiin-Shen Chern (University of California at Berkeley), James Simons (University of New York at Stony Brook)

tipa -- 12/11/2009

The detectability of dark matter annihilation with Fermi using the anisotropy energy spectrum of the gamma-ray background

Authors: Brandon S. Hensley, Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins, Vasiliki Pavlidou

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Cosmic-Ray Induced gamma-ray Emission of the Earth's Atmosphere

Authors: the Fermi-LAT collaboration

Stealth Galaxies in the Halo of the Milky Way

Authors: James S. Bullock, Kyle R. Stewart, Manoj Kaplinghat, Erik J. Tollerud (UC Irvine)

The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

Authors: the Fermi-LAT collaboration

On the progenitor and early evolution of the type II supernova 2009kr

Authors: M. Fraser (1), K. Takats (2,1), A. Pastorello (1), S.J. Smartt (1), S. Mattila (3) M-T. Botticella (1), S. Valenti (1), M. Ergon (4), J. Sollerman (4), S. Benetti (5), F. Bufano (5), R.M. Crockett (6), I.J. Danziger (7), J.R. Maund (8) S. Taubenberger (9) M. Turatto (10) ((1) Queens University Belfast (2) University of Szeged, Hungary (3) University of Turku, Finland (4) Stockholm University, Sweden (5) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy (6) Oxford Astrophysics, UK (7) Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy (8) University of Copenhagen, Denmark (9) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Germany (10) Osservatorio Astronomico di Catania, Italy)