today in particle astrophysics

Authors: G. Leloudas (1), J. Sollerman (1,2), A. J. Levan (3), J. P. U. Fynbo (1), D. Malesani (1), J. R. Maund (1,4) ((1) DARK, (2) Stockholm Obs., (3) Univ. Warwick, (4) UCSC)

Fermi detection of delayed GeV emission from the short GRB 081024B

Authors: Fermi LAT Collaboration, Fermi GBM Collaboration

An upper limit on the contribution of accreting white dwarfs to the type Ia supernova rate

Authors: Marat Gilfanov (MPA, IKI), Akos Bogdan (MPA)

tipa -- 2/17/2010

Gamma-ray excess from a stacked sample of high-frequency peaked blazars observed with the MAGIC telescope

Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

Observations of the shell-type SNR Cassiopeia A at TeV energies with VERITAS

Authors: The VERITAS Collaboration

Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of PSR J1836+5925

Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration

The supernova delay function: recovery method and application to the Lick Observatory Supernova Search

Authors: Dan Maoz, Filippo Mannucci, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Massimo Della Valle, Nino Panagia

Domenico Pacini, the forgotten pioneer of the discovery of cosmic rays

Authors: Alessandro De Angelis, Nicola Giglietto, Sebastiano Stramaglia

tipa -- 2/16/2010

Rapid dust production in submillimeter galaxies at z>4?

Authors: Michał J. Michałowski, Darach Watson, Jens Hjorth

Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes

Authors: Michael Kesden, Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti

Numerical study of Cosmic Ray Diffusion in MHD turbulence

Authors: A. Beresnyak, H. Yan, A. Lazarian

Exploring binary-neutron-star-merger scenario of short-gamma-ray bursts by gravitational-wave observation

Authors: Kenta Kiuchi, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Masaru Shibata, Keisuke Taniguchi

The median recoil direction as a WIMP directional detection signal

Authors: Anne M. Green, Ben Morgan

The experimental challenge of detecting solar axion-like particles to test cosmological ALP-photon oscillation hypothesis

Authors: F.T. Avignone III, R.J. Creswick, S. Nussinov

Fermi LAT Observations of Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds

Authors: Daniel Castro (1,2), Patrick Slane (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)

First Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic Double Differential Cross Section

Authors: 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. 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, 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

Neutrino mass hierarchy and three-flavor spectral splits of supernova neutrinos

Authors: Basudeb Dasgupta, Alessandro Mirizzi, Irene Tamborra, Ricard Tomas

tipa -- 2/15/2010

Empirical Delay Time Distributions of Type Ia Supernovae From The Extended GOODS/HST Supernova Survey

Authors: Louis-Gregory Strolger, Tomas Dahlen, Adam G. Riess

Discovery of Pulsed $\gamma$-rays from PSR J0034-0534 with the Fermi LAT: A Case for Co-located Radio and $\gamma$-ray Emission Regions

Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

A Photosphere-Internal Shock Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Implications for the Fermi/LAT Results

Authors: Kenji Toma, Xue-Feng Wu, Peter Meszaros

Flavor sensitivity to theta_13 and the mass hierarchy for neutrinos from solar WIMP annihilation

Authors: Ralf Lehnert, Thomas J. Weiler

classic papers of the week -- 136

Theory of the Symmetry of Electrons and Positrons

Ettore Majorana

On the Continuous γ-Radiation Accompanying the β-Decay

Bloch, F. (Stanford University)

Henry Cavendish, Johann von Soldner, and the deflection of light

Will, Clifford M. (Washington University, St. Louis, MO)

tipa -- 2/12/2010

The Spin of the Black Hole in the Soft X-ray Transient A0620--00

Authors: Lijun Gou (1), Jeffrey E. McClintock (1), James F. Steiner (1), Ramesh Narayan (1), Andrew G. Cantrell (2), Charles D. Bailyn (2), Jerome A. Orosz (3) ((1) CfA (2) Yale (3) SDSU)

Deep Chandra observations of TeV binaries I: LSI +61 303

Authors: N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC), D. F. Torres (CSIC-IEEC, ICREA), M. van der Klis (Amsterdam), P. G. Jonker (SRON), M. Mendez (Groningen), A. Sierpowska-Bartosik (Lodz)

Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Thermonuclear .Ia Supernovae from Helium Shell Detonations: Explosion Models and Observables

Authors: Ken J. Shen, Daniel Kasen, Nevin N. Weinberg, Lars Bildsten, Evan Scannapieco

Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Neutrino oscillation and expected event rate of supernova neutrinos in adiabatic explosion model

Authors: S.Kawagoe, T. Yoshida, T. Kajino, H. Suzuki, K. Sumiyoshi, S. Yamada

Charged-Particle and Neutron-Capture Processes in the High-Entropy Wind of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: K. Farouqi, K.-L. Kratz, B. Pfeiffer, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thilemann, J.W. Truran

Locating the VHE source in the Galactic Centre with milli-arcsecond accuracy

Authors: A.Abramowski, S.Gillessen, D.Horns, H.-S.Zechlin

Muon Fluxes and Showers from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center

Authors: Arif Emre Erkoca, Graciela Gelmini, Mary Hall Reno, Ina Sarcevic

tipa -- 2/11/2010

Young massive star clusters

Authors: Simon Portegies Zwart (Sterrewacht Leiden), Steve McMillan (Drexel University), Mark Gieles (ESO)

Testing General Relativity with Current Cosmological Data

Authors: Scott F. Daniel, Eric V. Linder, Tristan L. Smith, Robert R. Caldwell, Asantha Cooray, Alexie Leauthaud, Lucas Lombriser

Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 10^18 eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Capture and Annihilation of Dark Matter in Milky Way Globular Clusters

Authors: Amit Misra, Glenn Starkman, J. Christopher Mihos

High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star forming galaxies in the young Universe

Authors: L. J. Tacconi, R. Genzel, R. Neri, P. Cox, M. C. Cooper, K. L. Shapiro, A. Bolatto, N. Bouche, F. Bournaud, A. Burkert, F. Combes, J. Comerford, M. Davis, N. M. Foerster Schreiber, S. Garcia-Burillo, J. Gracia-Carpio, D. Lutz, T. Naab, A. Omont, A. Shapley, A. Sternberg, B. Weiner

Nucleosynthesis in Two-Dimensional Delayed Detonation Models of Type Ia Supernova Explosions

Authors: K. Maeda, F.K. Roepke, M. Fink, W. Hillebrandt, C. Travaglio, F.-K. Thielemann

Double-detonation sub-Chandrasekhar supernovae: can minimum helium shell masses detonate the core?

Authors: M. Fink, F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt, I. R. Seitenzahl, S. A. Sim, M. Kromer

Observation of Supernova Remnant IC443 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: A.A. Abdo, et al. (Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration)

Authors: Sasha Hinkley (1,2), Ben R. Oppenheimer (3), Douglas Brenner (3), Neil Zimmerman (3,4), Lewis C Roberts Jr. (5), Ian R. Parry (6), Remi Soummer (7), Anand Sivaramakrishnan (3,8,9), Michal Simon (9), Marshall D. Perrin (10), David L. King (6), James P. Lloyd (11), Antonin Bouchez (12), Jennifer E. Roberts (5), Richard Dekany (12), Charles Beichman (13), Lynne Hillenbrand (1), Rick Burruss (5), Michael Shao (5), Gautam Vasisht (5) ((1) Caltech, (2) Sagan Fellow, (3) AMNH, (4) Columbia Univ., (5) JPL, (6) IoA Cambridge, (7) STScI, (8) CfAO, (9) Stony Brook, (10) UCLA, (11) Cornell, (12) Caltech Optical Observatories, (13) NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)

The Nuclear Stellar Disk in Andromeda: A Fossil from the Era of Black Hole Growth

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

New X-ray observations of the Geminga pulsar wind nebula

Authors: G. G. Pavlov (Penn State), S. Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India), V. E. Zavlin (USRA/NASA MSFC)

Gravitational lensing in the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)

Authors: T. Kronborg, D. Hardin, J. Guy, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R. G. Carlberg, A. Conley, D. Fouchez, I. M. Hook, D. A. Howell, J. Jönsson, R. Pain, K. Pedersen, K. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, M. Sullivan, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider

classic papers of the week -- 135

A Proposed Experimental Test of the Neutrino Theory

Luis W. Alvarez (University of California Radiation Laboratory)

Cosmic Ray anti-Protons as a Probe of a Photino Dominated Universe

Joseph Silk (University of California, Berkeley & Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara), Mark Srednicki (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Mach's principle and a relativistic theory of gravitation

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

tipa -- 2/5/2010

CMB Isotropy Anomalies and the Local Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

Authors: Hiranya V. Peiris (University of Cambridge and UCL), Tristan L. Smith (UC Berkeley)

The Ages of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors

Authors: Timothy D. Brandt, Rita Tojeiro, Éric Aubourg, Alan Heavens, Raul Jimenez, Michael A. Strauss

Nuclear fusion in a dense plasma

Authors: R. F. Sawyer

All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run

Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

Flavor Physics Constraints for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Authors: Gino Isidori, Yosef Nir, Gilad Perez

tipa -- 2/4/2010

Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 10^18 eV

Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Gas driven massive black hole binaries: signatures in the nHz gravitational wave background

Authors: Bence Kocsis, Alberto Sesana

Fermi Gamma-ray Haze via Dark Matter and Millisecond Pulsars

Authors: Dmitry Malyshev, Ilias Cholis, Joseph D. Gelfand

Supernovae-induced accretion and star formation in the inner kiloparsec of a gaseous disk

Authors: Pawan Kumar (UT Austin), Jarrett L. Johnson (MPE)

Multiflavor and multiband observations of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae

Authors: Ignacio Taboada

The Diversity of Massive Star Outbursts I: Observations of SN 2009ip, UGC 2773 OT2009-1, and Their Progenitors

Authors: Ryan J. Foley, Edo Berger, Ori Fox, Emily M. Levesque, Peter J. Challis, Inese I. Ivans, James E. Rhoads, Alicia M. Soderberg

tipa -- 2/3/2010

The origin and propagation of variability in the outflows of long duration gamma-ray bursts

Authors: Brian J. Morsony, Davide Lazzati, Mitchell C. Begelman

A panoramic view of the Milky Way analogue NGC 891

Authors: M. Mouhcine, R. Ibata, M. Rejkuba

Big fish, small fish: Two New Ultra-Faint Satellites of the Milky Way

Authors: V. Belokurov (1), M.G. Walker (1), N.W. Evans (1), G. Gilmore (1), M. J. Irwin (1), D. Just (2), S. Koposov (1), M. Mateo (3), E. Olszewski (2), L. Watkins (1), L. Wyrzykowski (1) ((1) IoA, Cambridge, (2) Steward Observatory, Tucson, (3) University of Michigan)

A precise mass measurement of the intermediate-mass binary pulsar PSR J1802-2124

Authors: Robert D. Ferdman (1,2,3), Ingrid H. Stairs (3,4,5), Michael Kramer (6,7), Maura A. McLaughlin (8,9), Duncan R. Lorimer (8,9), David J. Nice (10), Richard N. Manchester (4), George Hobbs (4), Andrew G. Lyne (7), Fernando Camilo (11), Andrea Possenti (12), Paul B. Demorest (13), Ismael Cognard (1,2), Gregory Desvignes (1,2), Gilles Theureau (1,2,14), Andrew Faulkner (7), Donald C. Backer (15) ((1) Nancay Observatory, France, (2) LPC2E/CNRS Orleans, France, (3) Univeristy of British Columbia, Canada, (4) ATNF, Australia, (5) Swinburne University, Australia, (6) MPIfR, Germany, (7) University of Manchester, UK, (8) West Virginia University, USA, (9) NRAO Green Bank, USA, (10) Bryn Mawr College, USA, (11) Columbia University, USA, (12) INAF/Cagliari, Italy, (13) NRAO Charlottesville, USA, (14) GEPI/CNRS, France, (15) UC Berkeley, USA)