today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Guido Altarelli

tipa -- 3/16/2010

Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment

Authors: The ANITA Collaboration: P. W. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), B. M. Baughman (2), J. J. Beatty (2), K. Belov (3), D. Z. Besson (4), S. Bevan (5), W. R. Binn (6), C. Chen (7), P. Chen (7), J. M. Clem (8), A. Connolly (5), M. Detrixhe (4), D. DeMarco (8), P. F. Dowkontt (6), M. DuVernois (1), E. W. Grashorn (2), B. Hill (1), S. Hoover (3), M. Huang (7), M. H. Israel (6), A. Javaid (8), K. M. Liewer (9), S. Matsuno (1), B. C. Mercurio (2), C. Miki (1), M. Mottram (5), J. Nam (7), R. J. Nichol (5), K. Palladino (2), A. Romero-Wolf (1), L. Ruckman (1), D. Saltzberg (3), D. Seckel (8), G. S. Varner (1), A. G. Vieregg (3), Y. Wang (7) ((1) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, (2) Dept. of Physics, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, (3) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of California Los Angeles, CA, (4) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (5) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. College London, London, United Kingdom (6) Dept. of Physics, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, MO (7) Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, (8) Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, (9) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA)

Detonations in Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass C+O White Dwarfs

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

The first spectral line surveys searching for signals from the Dark Ages

Authors: C.M. Persson, R. Maoli, P. Encrenaz, Å. Hjalmarson, M. Olberg, G. Rydbeck, M. Signore, U. Frisk, Aa. Sandqvist, J.Y. Daniel

First Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search

Authors: M. Felizardo, T. Morlat, A.C. Fernandes, F. Giuliani, TA Girard, J.G. Marques, A.R. Ramos, M. Auguste, D. Boyer, A. Cavaillou, C. Sudre, J. Poupeney, R.F. Payne, H.S. Miley

Probing the Nuclear Symmetry Energy with Heavy Ion Collisions

Authors: M. Di Toro, V. Baran, M. Colonna, V. Greco

Exploring the "Island of Inversion" by in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich sodium isotopes 31,32,33Na

Authors: P. Doornenbal, H. Scheit, N. Kobayashi, N. Aoi, S. Takeuchi, K. Li, E. Takeshita, Y. Togano, H. Wang, S. Deguchi, Y. Kawada, Y. Kondo, T. Motobayashi, T. Nakamura, Y. Satou, K. N. Tanaka, H. Sakurai

tipa -- 3/15/2010

Ten Months of Observations of the Possible Super-Chandrasekhar Mass Type Ia Supernova 2009dc

Authors: Jeffrey M. Silverman (1), Mohan Ganeshalingam (1), Weidong Li (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (1), Adam A. Miller (1), Dovi Poznanski (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA)

The effect of neutrinos on the matter distribution as probed by the Intergalactic Medium

Authors: Matteo Viel, Martin G. Haehnelt, Volker Springel

The Massive Star Forming Region Cygnus OB2. II. Integrated Stellar Properties and the Star Formation History

Authors: Nicholas J. Wright (CfA), Jeremy J. Drake (CfA), Janet E. Drew (University of Hertfordshire), Jorick S. Vink (Armagh Observatory)

Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

Supernova radiative-transfer modeling: A new approach using non-LTE and full time dependence

Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier

Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run

Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 140

Highly Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: The Central Rapidity Region

J.D. Bjorken (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Double white dwarfs as progenitors of R Coronae Borealis stars and Type I supernovae

Webbink, R. F. (University of Illinois)

Method and apparatus for controlling electric currents

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (Brooklyn, NY)

tipa -- 3/12/2010

Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2007if: First Total Mass Measurement of a Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass Progenitor

Authors: R. A. Scalzo, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Bongard, C. Buton, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, A. Gal-Yam, E. Gangler, S. Hoyer, M. Kasliwal, S. Loken, P. E. Nugent, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, A. Rau, G. Rigaudier, K. Runge, G. Smadja, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. Weaver, C. Wu

tipa -- 3/11/2010

Observation of an Antimatter Hypernucleus

Authors: The STAR Collaboration: B.I. Abelev, et al

Discovery of a superluminal Fe K echo at the Galactic Center: The glorious past of Sgr A* preserved by molecular clouds

Authors: Gabriele Ponti (1,2), Regis Terrier (1), Andrea Goldwurm (1,3), Guillaume Belanger (4), Guillaume Trap (1,3) ((1) Laboratoire APC, Paris, (2) University of Southampton, (3) CNRS-CEA/Saclay, (4) ESA Madrid)

The (Double) White Dwarf Binary SDSS 1257+5428

Authors: S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech), M. H. van Kerkwijk (Caltech, Toronto)

Confirmation of general relativity on large scales from weak lensing and galaxy velocities

Authors: Reinabelle Reyes, Rachel Mandelbaum, Uros Seljak, Tobias Baldauf, James E. Gunn, Lucas Lombriser, Robert E. Smith

Authors: A. M. Beloborodov (1), F. Daigne (2), R. Mochkovitch (2), Z. L. Uhm (3) ((1)Columbia University, (2)Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (3)Institute for the Early Universe and Research Center of MEMS Space Telescope)

X-raying Galaxies: A Chandra Legacy

Authors: Q. Daniel Wang (University of Massachusetts)

classic papers of the week -- 139

Nuclear Reactions in Stars and Nucleogenesis

Cameron, A. G. W. (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, Ontario)

Relationship between Systems of Impenetrable Bosons and Fermions in One Dimension

Girardeau, M. (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA)

Quantum mechanical computers

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Feynman, Richard P. (Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology)

tipa -- 3/5/2010

The Fermi-LAT high-latitude Survey: Source Count Distributions and the Origin of the Extragalactic Diffuse Background

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection

Authors: Jonathan L. Feng

Massive Neutrinos in Cosmology: Analytic Solutions and Fluid Approximation

Authors: Masatoshi Shoji, Eiichiro Komatsu

The Calibration of Monochromatic Far-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators

Authors: D. Calzetti (UMass), S.-Y. Wu (UMass), S. Hong (UMass), R. C. Kennicutt (IofA, Cambridge), J. C. Lee (Carnegie Obs.), D.A. Dale (U Wyoning), C. W. Engelbracht (U Arizona), L. van Zee (U Indiana), B. T. Draine (Princeton U), C.-N. Hao (Tianjin Normal U; IofA, Cambridge), K. D. Gordon (STScI), J. Moustakas (UCSD), E.J. Murphy (SSC-Caltech), M. Regan (STScI), A. Begum (IofA, Cambridge), M. Block (U Arizona), J. Dalcanton (U Washington), J. Funes (Vatican Obs, U Arizona), A. Gil de Paz (U Computense de Madrid), B. Johnson (IofA, Cambridge), S. Sakai (UCLA), E. Skillman (U Minnesota), F. Walter (MPIA-Heidelberg), D. Weisz (U Minesota), B. Williams (U Washington), Y. Wu (IPAC-Caltech)

Simulations of Magnetized Disks Around Black Holes: Effects of Black Hole Spin, Disk Thickness, and Magnetic Field Geometry

Authors: Robert F. Penna (1), Jonathan C. McKinney (2), Ramesh Narayan (1), Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Rebecca Shafee (3), Jeffrey E. McClintock (1) ((1) Harvard CfA, (2) Stanford/KIPAC, (3) Harvard Center for Brain Science)

Discovery of an unusual new radio source in the star-forming galaxy M82: Faint supernova, supermassive blackhole, or an extra-galactic microquasar?

Authors: T. W. B. Muxlow (1), R. J. Beswick (1), S. T. Garrington (1), A. Pedlar (1), D. M. Fenech (2), M. K. Argo (3), J. van Eymeren (1), M. Ward (4), A. Zezas (5,6), A. Brunthaler (7) ((1)Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester, (2)UCL, (3) ICRAR, Curtin, (4) Durham, (5)IESL, Crete, (6) Harvard CfA, (7) MPIfR, Bonn)

An ultra-massive fast-spinning white dwarf in a peculiar binary system

Authors: S. Mereghetti, A. Tiengo, P. Esposito, N. La Palombara (1), G.L. Israel, L. Stella (2) ((1) INAF-IASF MILANO, Italy, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy)

On the use of X-ray telescopes for identifying the origin of electrons and positrons observed by Fermi and PAMELA

Authors: Antoine Calvez, Warren Essey, Malcolm Fairbairn, Alexander Kusenko, Michael Loewenstein

tipa -- 3/4/2010

What is the Matter with Dwarf Galaxies?

Authors: Till Sawala, Qi Guo, Cecilia Scannapieco, Adrian Jenkins, Simon D.M. White

Non-detection of a statistically anisotropic power spectrum in large-scale structure

Authors: Anthony R. Pullen, Christopher M. Hirata

Large scale outflows from z ~ 0.7 starburst galaxies identified via ultra-strong MgII quasar absorption lines

Authors: Daniel B. Nestor, Benjamin D. Johnson, Vivienne Wild, Brice Ménard, David A. Turnshek, Sandhya Rao, Max Pettini

Neutrino heating near hyper-accreting black holes

Authors: Ivan Zalamea, Andrei M. Beloborodov (Columbia University)

tipa -- 3/3/2010

Probing fundamental constant evolution with neutral atomic gas lines

Authors: N. Kanekar (1,2), J. X. Prochaska (3), S. L. Ellison (4), J. N. Chengalur (1) ((1) National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India; (2) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA; (3) UCO/Lick Observatory, USA; (4) University of Victoria, Canada)

On Radiation Pressure in Static, Dusty HII Regions

Authors: B. T. Draine (Princeton University)

FERMI constraints on the high energy, ~1 GeV, emission of long GRBs

Authors: Dafne Guetta, Elena Pian, Eli Waxman

tipa -- 3/2/2010

Observation of Geo-Neutrinos

Authors: Borexino Collaboration

Systematic Effects in Extracting a "Gamma-Ray Haze" from Spatial Templates

Authors: Tim Linden (UC Santa Cruz), Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)

Galaxy Clusters Selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from 2008 South Pole Telescope Observations

Authors: K. Vanderlinde, T. M. Crawford, T. de Haan, J. P. Dudley, L. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, M. Brodwin, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, A. T. Crites, S. Desai, M. A. Dobbs, R. J. Foley, E. M. George, M. D. 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, A. Loehr, M. Lueker, D. P. Marrone, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, C.-C. Ngeow, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, C. L. Reichardt, A. Rest, J. Ruel, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, E. Shirokoff, J. Song, H. G. Spieler, B. Stalder, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, C. W. Stubbs, A. van Engelen, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson, Y. Yang, O. Zahn, A. Zenteno

Galaxy Formation Spanning Cosmic History

Authors: Andrew J. Benson (1), Richard G. Bower (2) ((1)California Institute of Technology, (2)University of Durham)

Ionization near-zones associated with quasars at z ~ 6

Authors: C.L. Carilli (NRAO), Ran Wang (PMO), X. Fan (Arizona), F. Walter (MPIA), J. Kurk (ESO), D. Riechers (Caltech), J. Wagg (ESO), J. Hennawi (MPIA), L. Jiang (Arizona), K.M.Menten (MPIfR), F. Bertoldi (Bonn), Michael A. Strauss (Princeston), P. Cox (IRAM)

A Runaway Black Hole in COSMOS: Gravitational Wave or Slingshot Recoil?

Authors: F. Civano (1), M. Elvis (1), G. Lanzuisi (1,2), K. Jahnke (3), G. Zamorani (4), L. Blecha (5), A. Bongiorno (6), M. Brusa (6), A. Comastri (4), H. Hao (1), A. Leauthaud (7), A. Loeb (5), M. Mignoli (4), V. Mainieri (8), E. Piconcelli (9), M. Salvato (10), N. Scoville (10), J. Trump (11), C. Vignali (12), T. Aldcroft (1), M. Bolzonella (4), E. Bressert (1), A. Finoguenov (6), A. Fruscione (1), A. M. Koekemoer (13), N. Cappelluti (6), F. Fiore (9), S. Giodini (6), R. Gilli (4), C. D. Impey (11), S. J. Lilly (14), E. Lusso (4,12), S. Puccetti (15), J. D. Silverman (14), H. Aussel (16), P. Capak (10), D. Frayer (10), E. Le Floc'h (17), H. J. McCracken (18), D. B. Sanders (17), D. Schiminovich (19), Y. Taniguchi (20) ((1)Harvard Smithsonian Center for astrophysics, (2)Universita` di Roma La Sapienza, (3)Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie, Heidelberg, (4)INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (5)Harvard University, (6)MPE Garching, (7)LBNL, University of California, (8)ESO Garching, (9)INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, (10) California Institute of Technology, (11) University of Arizona, (12)Universita` degli Studi di Bologna, (13)Space Telescope Science Institute, (14)ETH, (15)ASI Science Data Center, (16)AIM Unite' Mixte de Recherche CEA CNRS, (17)University of Hawaii, (18)Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (19)Columbia University, (20)Ehime University)

Reaction rate sensitivity of 44Ti production in massive stars and implications of a thick target yield measurement of 40Ca(alpha,gamma)44Ti

Authors: R. D. Hoffman, S. A. Sheets, J. T. Burke, N. D. Scielzo, T. Rauscher, E. B. Norman, S. Tumey, T. A. Brown, P. G. Grant, A. M. Hurst, L. Phair, M. A. Stoyer, T. Wooddy, J. L. Fisker, D. Bleuel

Modeling the gamma-ray emission produced by runaway cosmic rays in the environment of RX J1713.7-3946

Authors: S.Casanova, D.I. Jones, F.A.Aharonian, Y.Fukui, S. Gabici, A. Kawamura, T. Onishi, G. Rowell, K. Torii, H. Yamamoto

Dark-Matter Decays and Self-Gravitating Halos

Authors: Annika H. G. Peter, Christopher E. Moody, Marc Kamionkowski

tipa -- 3/1/2010

Slow Diffusion of Cosmic-Rays around a Supernova Remnant

Authors: Yutaka Fujita, Yutaka Ohira, Fumio Takahara (Osaka U.)

Evidence for a Galactic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-like Signal in WMAP Data

Authors: Shahab Joudaki, Joseph Smidt, Alexandre Amblard, Asantha Cooray

Escape of about five per cent of Lyman-alpha photons from high-redshift star-forming galaxies

Authors: Matthew Hayes (1), Goran Ostlin (2), Daniel Schaerer (1 and 3), J. Miguel Mas-Hesse (4), Claus Leitherer (5), Hakim Atek (6), Daniel Kunth (6), Anne Verhamme (7), Stephane de Barros (1), Jens Melinder (2) ((1) Observatoire de l'Universite de Geneve, (2) Stockholms Observatorium, (3) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, (4) CSIC-INTA, (5) STScI, (6) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (7) Oxford University Astrophysics.)