tipa -- 4/8/2010

Acceleration of an Impulsive High-Sigma Relativistic Flow: the Magnetic Rocket Effect

• Authors: Jonathan Granot, Serguei Komissarov, Anatoly Spitkovsky

The Electron Injection Spectrum Determined by Anomalous Cosmic Ray, Gamma Ray, and Microwave Signals

• Authors: Tongyan Lin, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Gregory Dobler

Lifetime Constraints for Late Dark Matter Decay

• Authors: Nicole F. Bell, Ahmad J. Galea, Kalliopi Petraki

Search for an extended VHE gamma-ray emission from Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 with the MAGIC Telescope

• Authors: J. Aleksić, L. A. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, M. Backes, C. Baixeras, J. A. Barrio, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, A. Berdyugin, K. Berger, E. Bernardini, A. Biland, O. Blanch, R. K. Bock, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, D. Borla Tridon, V. Bosch-Ramon, D. Bose, I. Braun, T. Bretz, D. Britzger, M. Camara, E. Carmona, A. Carosi, P. Colin, S. Commichau, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, M. T. Costado, S. Covino, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, E. De Cea del Pozo, R. De los Reyes, B. De Lotto, M. De Maria, F. De Sabata, C. Delgado Mendez, M. Doert, A. Domínguez, D. Dominis Prester, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsaesser, M. Errando, D. Ferenc, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, R. J. García López, M. Garczarczyk, M. Gaug, N. Godinovic, D. Hadasch, A. Herrero, D. Hildebrand, D. Höhne-Mönch, J. Hose, D. Hrupec, C. C. Hsu, T. Jogler, S. Klepser, T. Krähenbühl, D. Kranich, A. La Barbera, A. Laille, E. Leonardo, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, M. López, E. Lorenz, P. Majumdar, G. Maneva, N. Mankuzhiyil, K. Mannheim, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, M. Martínez, D. Mazin, M. Meucci, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, H. Miyamoto, J. Moldón, M. Moles, A. Moralejo, D. Nieto, K. Nilsson, J. Ninkovic, R. Orito, I. Oya, S. Paiano, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, S. Partini, M. Pasanen, D. Pascoli, F. Pauss, R. G. Pegna, M. A. Perez-Torres, M. Persic, L. Peruzzo, F. Prada, E. Prandini, N. Puchades, I. Puljak, I. Reichardt, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, J. Rico, M. Rissi, S. Rügamer, A. Saggion, T. Y. Saito, M. Salvati, M. Sánchez-Conde, K. Satalecka, V. Scalzotto, V. Scapin, C. Schultz, T. Schweizer, M. Shayduk, S. N. Shore, A. Sierpowska-Bartosik, A. Sillanpää, J. Sitarek, D. Sobczynska, F. Spanier, S. Spiro, A. Stamerra, B. Steinke, J. C. Struebig, T. Suric, L. Takalo, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzic, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, D. F. Torres, H. Vankov, R. M. Wagner, Q. Weitzel, V. Zabalza, F. Zandanel, R. Zanin, A. Neronov, D. V. Semikoz

Antimatter spectra from a time-dependent modeling of supernova remnants

• Authors: M.Kachelriess, S.Ostapchenko, R.Tomas

Discrepant hardening observed in cosmic-ray elemental spectra

• Authors: H. S. Ahn, P. Allison, M. G. Bagliesi, J. J. Beatty, G. Bigongiari, 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, L. Lutz, P. Maestro, A. Malinin, P. S. Marrocchesi, S. Minnick, S. I. Mognet, J. Nam, S. Nam, S. L. Nutter, I. H. Park, N. H. Park, E. S. Seo, R. Sina, J. Wu, J. Yang, Y. S. Yoon, R. Zei, S. Y. Zinn

GRB 021004: Tomography of a gamma-ray burst progenitor and its host galaxy

• Authors: A. J. Castro-Tirado, P. Möller, G. García-Segura, J. Gorosabel, E. Pérez, A. de Ugarte Postigo, E. Solano, D. Barrado-Navascués, S. Klose, D. A. Kann, J. M. Castro Cerón, C. Kouveliotou, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, H. Pedersen, E. Pian, E. Rol, E. Palazzi, N. Masetti, N. R. Tanvir, P. M. Vreeswijk, M. I. Andersen, A. S. Fruchter, J. Greiner, R. A. M. J. Wijers, E. P. J. van den Heuvel

Optical Scattering Lengths in Large Liquid-Scintillator Neutrino Detectors

• Authors: Michael Wurm (1), Franz von Feilitzsch (1), Marianne Goeger-Neff (1), Martin Hofmann (1), Tobias Lachenmaier (2), Timo Lewke (1), Teresa Marrodan Undagoitita (1 and 3), Quirin Meindl (1), Randoplh Moellenberg (1), Lothar Oberauer (1), Walter Potzel (1), Marc Tippmann (1), Sebastian Todor (1), Christoph Traunsteiner (1), Juergen Winter (1) ((1) Technische Universitaet Muenchen, (2) Excellence Cluster Universe Muenchen, (3) Universitaet Zuerich)

Indirect search for dark matter with micrOMEGAs2.4

• Authors: G. Belanger, F. Boudjema, P. Brun, A. Pukhov, S. Rosier-Lees, P. Salati, A. Semenov

tipa -- 4/7/2010

Type Ib/c supernovae in binary systems I. Evolution and properties of the progenitor stars

• Authors: Sung-Chul Yoon, Stan E. Woosley, Norbert Langer

Unveiling the origin of X-ray flares in Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: G. Chincarini, J. Mao, R. Margutti, M.G. Bernardini, C. Guidorzi, F. Pasotti, D. Giannios, M. Della Valle, A. Moretti, P. Romano, P. D'Avanzo, G. Cusumano, P. Giommi

Electronic screening and damping in magnetars

• Authors: Rishi Sharma, Sanjay Reddy

Five Years of Mid-Infrared Evolution of the Remnant of SN 1987A: The Encounter Between the Blast Wave and the Dusty Equatorial Ring

• Authors: Eli Dwek, Richard G. Arendt, Patrice Bouchet, David N. Burrows, Peter Challis, I. John Danziger, James M. De Buizer, Robert D. Gehrz, Sangwook Park, Elisha F. Polomski, Jonathan D. Slavin, Charles E. Woodward

tipa -- 4/6/2010

Core-Collapse Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Indications for a Different Population in Dwarf Galaxies

• Authors: Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Robert M. Quimby, Eran O. Ofek, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Peter E. Nugent, S. Bradley Cenko, Joshua S. Bloom, Mark Sullivan, D. Andrew Howell, Dovi Poznanski, Alexei V. Filippenko, Nicholas Law, Isobel Hook, Jakob Jonsson, Sarah Blake, Jeff Cooke, Richard Dekany, Gustavo Rahmer, David Hale, Roger Smith, Jeff Zolkower, Viswa Velur, Richard Walters, John Henning, Kahn Bui, Dan McKenna, Janet Jacobsen

The effect of metallicity on the detection prospects for gravitational waves

• Authors: K. Belczynski, M. Dominik, T. Bulik, R. O'Shaughnessy, C.L. Fryer, D.E. Holz

The Galaxy Luminosity Function during the Reionization Epoch

• Authors: M. Trenti, M. Stiavelli, R.J. Bouwens, P. Oesch, J.M. Shull, G.D. Illingworth, L.D. Bradley, C.M. Carollo

tipa -- 4/5/2010

Extending the north-east limit of the chart of nuclides

• Authors: J. Benlliure, H. Alvarez-Pol, T. Kurtukian-Nieto, K.-H. Schmidt, L. Audouin, B. Blank, F. Becker, E. Casarejos, D. Cortina-Gil, T. Enqvist, B. Fernández, M. Fernández-Ordóñez, J. Giovinazzo, D. Henzlova, A.R. Junghans, B. Jurado, P. Napolitani, J. Pereira, F. Rejmund, O. Yordanov

Constraints on the flux of Ultra-High Energy neutrinos from WSRT observations

• Authors: S. Buitink, O. Scholten, J. Bacelar, R. Braun, A.G. de Bruyn, H. Falcke, K. Singh, B. Stappers, R.G. Strom, R. al Yahyaoui

Impact of Type Ia Supernova Ejecta on a Helium-star Binary Companion

• Authors: Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul M. Ricker, Ronald E. Taam

Exploring Hadron Physics in Black Hole Formations: a New Promising Target of Neutrino Astronomy

• Authors: Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Hideyuki Suzuki, Shoichi Yamada

Gamma-ray Light Curves and Variability of Bright Fermi-Detected Blazars

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

Equation of State of Dense Matter from a density dependent relativistic mean field model

• Authors: G. Shen, C. J. Horowitz, S. Teige

tipa -- 4/2/2010

A Flare in the Jet of Pictor A

• Authors: H. L. Marshall, M.J. Hardcastle, M. Birkinshaw, J. Croston, D. Evans, H. Landt, E. Lenc, F. Massaro, E. S. Perlman, D. A. Schwartz, A. Siemiginowska, Ł. Stawarz, C. M. Urry, D.M. Worrall

A method for setting upper limits to the extragalactic background light with Fermi-LAT and TeV observations of blazars

• Authors: Markos Georganopoulos, Justin D. Finke, Luis C. Reyes

Deep, ultra-high-resolution radio imaging of submillimetre galaxies using Very Long Baseline Interferometry

• Authors: A. D. Biggs, J. D. Younger, R. J. Ivison

The formation of disk galaxies in a LCDM universe

• Authors: Oscar Agertz, Romain Teyssier, Ben Moore

classic papers of the week -- 143

The Quantum Theory of the Electron

• Dirac, P. A. M.

The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs

• Chandrasekhar, S.

The First Reactor

tipa -- 4/1/2010

Can we measure the neutrino mass hierarchy in the sky?

• Authors: Raul Jimenez, Thomas Kitching, Carlos Pena-Garay, Licia Verde

Implications of diffusive shock acceleration for high-energy radiation from gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Pawan Kumar

On The External Shock Synchrotron Model for GRBs' GeV Emission

• Authors: Tsvi Piran, Ehud Nakar

The Ages of Stars

• Authors: David R. Soderblom

The Effect of Absorption Systems on Cosmic Reionization

• Authors: Marcelo A. Alvarez, Tom Abel

Semi-annihilation of Dark Matter

• Authors: Francesco D'Eramo, Jesse Thaler

tipa -- 3/31/2010

Direct Confirmation of the Asymmetry of the Cas A SN Explosion with Light Echoes

• Authors: A. Rest, R. J. Foley, B. Sinnott, D. L. Welch, C. Badenes, A. V. Filippenko, M. Bergmann, W. A. Bhatti, S. Blondin, P. Challis, G. Damke, H. Finley, M. E. Huber, D. Kasen, R. P. Kirshner, T. Matheson, P. Mazzali, D. Minniti, R. Nakajima, G. Narayan, K. Olsen, D. Sauer, R. C. Smith, N. B. Suntzeff

The 3-D Structure of SN 1987A's inner Ejecta

• Authors: K. Kjaer, B. Leibundgut, C. Fransson, A. Jerkstrand, J. Spyromilio

Super-Eddington fluxes during thermonuclear X-ray bursts

• Authors: Stratos Boutloukos (1), M. Coleman Miller (1), Frederick K. Lamb (2) ((1) University of Maryland, (2) University of Illinois)

Theta_13: phenomenology, present status and prospect

• Authors: Mauro Mezzetto, Thomas Schwetz

Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Matter Event Rates in Neutrino Telescopes, and Collider Implications

• Authors: Prateek Agrawal, Zackaria Chacko, Can Kilic, Rashmish K. Mishra

Lattice calculations for A=3,4,6,12 nuclei using chiral effective field theory

• Authors: Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Dean Lee, Ulf-G. Meißner

Tests of the Standard Electroweak Model at the Energy Frontier

• Authors: John D. Hobbs, Mark S. Neubauer, Scott Willenbrock

tipa -- 3/30/2010

Periodic mass loss episodes due to an oscillation mode with variable amplitude in the hot supergiant HD50064

• Authors: C. Aerts, K. Lefever, A. Baglin, P. Degroote, R. Oreiro, M. Vuckovic, K. Smolders, B. Acke, T. Verhoelst, M. Desmet, M. Godart, A. Noels, M.-A. Dupret, M. Auvergne, F. Baudin, C. Catala, E. Michel, R. Samadi

No evidence for black hole spin powering of jets in X-ray binaries

• Authors: Rob Fender (Southampton and Grenoble), Elena Gallo (MIT), David Russell (Amsterdam)

Limits on inelastic dark matter from ZEPLIN-III

• Authors: D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes, V. A. Belov, A. Bewick, A. A. Burenkov, R. Cashmore, V. Chepel, A. Currie, D. Davidge, J. Dawson, T. Durkin, B. Edwards, C. Ghag, A. Hollingsworth, M. Horn, A. S. Howard, A. J. Hughes, W. G. Jones, G. E. Kalmus, A. S. Kobyakin, A. G. Kovalenko, V. N. Lebedenko, A. Lindote, I. Liubarsky, M. I. Lopes, R. Luscher, K. Lyons, P. Majewski, A. StJ. Murphy, F. Neves, S. M. Paling, J. Pinto da Cunha, R. Preece, J. J. Quenby, L. Reichhart, P. R. Scovell, C. Silva, V. N. Solovov, N. J. T. Smith, P. F. Smith, V. N. Stekhanov, T. J. Sumner, C. Thorne, L. de Viveiros, R. J. Walker

tipa -- 3/29/2010

The transition from population III to population II-I star formation

• Authors: U. Maio, B. Ciardi, K.Dolag, L. Tornatore, S. Khochfar

Relativistic Suppression of Black Hole Recoils

• Authors: Michael Kesden, Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti

The Dependence of Type Ia Supernova Luminosities on their Host Galaxies

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

A Study of the Gas-Star Formation Relation over Cosmic Time

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

classic papers of the week -- 142

Dynamics of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Weinberg-Salam Theory

• Leonard Susskind (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

Possible Applications of Supernovae to the Study of the Nebular Red Shifts

• Wilson, O. C.

Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism. No. III. On Electro-Dynamic Induction

• Joseph Henry (Professor of Natural Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, Princeton)

tipa -- 3/26/2010

A physical model for the origin of the diffuse cosmic infrared background

• Authors: Joshua D. Younger (IAS), Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley)

The Deep SWIRE Field. IV. First properties of the sub-mJy galaxy population: redshift distribution, AGN activity and star formation

• Authors: Veronica Strazzullo (NRAO), Maurilio Pannella (NRAO), Frazer N. Owen (NRAO), Ralf Bender (MPE, USM), Glenn E. Morrison (IfA, CFHT), Wei-Hao Wang (ASIAA), David L. Shupe (IPAC)

Major Galaxy Mergers and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars

• Authors: Ezequiel Treister (IfA, Hawai), Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale), David Sanders (IfA, Hawaii), C. Megan Urry, Kevin Schawinski (Yale), Jeyhan Kartaltepe (NOAO)

Neutrino Background Flux from Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei

• Authors: Kohta Murase, John F. Beacom

tipa -- 3/25/2010

The metal-poor end of the Spite plateau. 1: Stellar parameters, metallicities and lithium abundances

• Authors: L. Sbordone (1 and 2 and 3), P. Bonifacio (1 and 2 and 4), E. Caffau (2), H.-G. Ludwig (1 and 2 and 5), N. T. Behara (1 and 2 and 6), J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez (1 and 2 and 7), M. Steffen (8), R. Cayrel (9), B. Freytag (9), C. Van't Veer (2), P. Molaro (4), B. Plez (10), T. Sivarani (11), M. Spite (2), F. Spite (2), T. C. Beers (12), N. Christlieb (5), P. Francois (2), V. Hill (2 and 13) ((1) CIFIST Marie Curie Excellence Team, (2) GEPI - Observatoire de Paris France, (3) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Garching Germany, (4) INAF - Oss. Trieste Italy, (5) Landessternwarte Heidelberg Germany, (6) Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Belgium, (7) Universidad Complutense de Madrid Spain, (8) Astrophysikalische Institut Pottsdam Germany, (9) Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon France, (10) Universite' Montpellier France, (11) Indian Institute for Astrophysiscs Bangalore India, (12) Michigan State University USA, (13) Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur Nice France)

A Survey of Extragalactic Faraday Rotation at High Galactic Latitude: The Vertical Magnetic Field of the Milky Way towards the Galactic Poles

• Authors: S. A. Mao (CfA/ATNF), B. M. Gaensler (U. Sydney), M. Haverkorn (ASTRON), E. G. Zweibel (UW Madison), G. J. Madsen (U. Sydney), N. M. McClure-Griffiths (ATNF), A. Shukurov (U. Newcastle), P. P. Kronberg (LANL/U. Toronto)

Detection of high-velocity material from the wind-wind collision zone of Eta Carinae across the 2009.0 periastron passage

• Authors: Jose H. Groh (MPI for Radioastronomy), Krister E. Nielsen (NASA/GSFC & CUA), Augusto Damineli (IAG/U Sao Paulo), Theodore R. Gull (NASA/GSFC), Thomas I. Madura (U Delaware), D. J. Hillier (U Pittsburgh), Mairan Teodoro (IAG/U Sao Paulo), Thomas Driebe (MPIfR), Gerd Weigelt (MPIfR), Henrik Hartman (Lund U), Florian Kerber (ESO), Atsuo T. Okazaki (Hokkai-Gakuen U), Stan P. Owocki (U Delaware), Florentin Millour (MPIfR), Koji Murakawa (MPIfR), Stefan Kraus (U Michigan), Karl-Heinz Hofmann (MPIfR), Dieter Schertl (MPIfR)

VLBI observations of SN 2008iz: I. Expansion velocity and limits on anisotropic expansion

• Authors: A. Brunthaler (1), I. Marti-Vidal (1), K.M. Menten (1), M.J. Reid (2), C. Henkel (1), G.C. Bower (3), H. Falcke (4,5), H. Feng (6), P. Kaaret (7), N.R. Butler (3), A.N. Morgan (3), A. Weiss (1) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) UC Berkeley (4) Universiteit Nijmegen, (5) ASTRON, (6) Tsinghua University, (7) University of Iowa)

Neutrino emission from high-energy component gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Julia K. Becker, Francis Halzen, Aongus O'Murchadha, Martino Olivo

tipa -- 3/24/2010

The physical scale of the far-infrared emission in the most luminous submillimetre galaxies II: evidence for merger-driven star formation

• Authors: J. D. Younger, G. G. Fazio, M. L. N. Ashby, F. Civano, M. Elvis, M. A. Gurwell, J.-S. Huang, D. Iono, A. B. Peck, G. R. Petitpas, K. S. Scott, D. J. Wilner, G. W. Wilson, M. S. Yun

Kinematics of Milky Way Satellites in a Lambda Cold Dark Matter Universe

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White

No Evolution in the IR-Radio Relation for IR-Luminous Galaxies at z < 2

• Authors: Mark T. Sargent, E. Schinnerer, E. Murphy, C. L. Carilli, G. Helou, H. Aussel, E. Le Floc'h, D. T. Frayer, O. Ilbert, P. Oesch, M. Salvato, V. Smolcic, J. Kartaltepe, D. B. Sanders

tipa -- 3/23/2010

21cmFAST: A Fast, Semi-Numerical Simulation of the High-Redshift 21-cm Signal

• Authors: Andrei Mesinger, Steven Furlanetto, Renyue Cen

Optical and near-infrared follow-up observations of four Fermi/LAT GRBs : Redshifts, afterglows, energetics and host galaxies

• Authors: S. McBreen, T. Krühler, A. Rau, J. Greiner, D. A. Kann, S. Savaglio, P. Afonso, C. Clemens, R. Filgas, S. Klose, A. Küpüc Yoldas, F. Olivares E., A. Rossi, G. P. Szokoly, A. Updike, A. Yoldas

Different star formation laws for disks versus starbursts at low and high redshifts

• Authors: E. Daddi, D. Elbaz, F. Walter, F. Bournaud, F. Salmi, C. Carilli, H. Dannerbauer, M. Dickinson, P. Monaco, D. Riechers

A Limit on the Number of Isolated Neutron Stars Detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog

• Authors: Monica L. Turner, Robert E. Rutledge, Ryan Letcavage, Andrew S. H. Shevchuk, Derek B. Fox

Binaries discovered by the SPY project V. GD 687 - a massive double degenerate binary progenitor that will merge within a Hubble time

• Authors: S. Geier, U. Heber, T. Kupfer, R. Napiwotzki

GRB 090902B: afterglow observations and implications

• Authors: S. B. Pandey, C. A. Swenson, D. A. Perley, C. Guidorzi, K. Wiersema, D. Malesani, C. Akerlof, M. C. B. Ashley, D. Bersier, Z. Cano, A. Gomboc, I. Ilyin, P. Jakobsson, I. K. W. Kleiser, S. Kobayashi, C. Kouveliotou, A. J. Levan, T. A. McKay, A. Melandri, C. J. Mottram, C. G. Mundell, P. T. O'Brien, A. Phillips, J. M. Rex, M. H. Siegel, R. J. Smith, I. A. Steele, G. Stratta, N. R. Tanvir, D. Weights, S. A. Yost, F. Yuan, W. Zheng

tipa -- 3/22/2010

Intense Star Formation within Resolved Compact Regions in a Galaxy at z=2.3

• Authors: Mark Swinbank (1), Ian Smail (1), Steve Longmore (2), Andrew Harris (3), Andrew Baker (4), Carlos De Breuck (5), Johan Richard (1), Alastair Edge (1), Rob Ivison (6,7), Ray Blundell (2), Kristen Coppin (1), Pierre Cox (8), Mark Gurwell (2), Laura Hainline (3), Melanie Krips (8), Andreas Lundgren (9), Roberto Neri (8), Brian Siana (10), Dan Stark (11), David Wilner (2), Josh Younger (12) ((1) ICC, Durham, (2) CfA, Harvard, (3) Maryland, (4) Rutgers, (5) ESO, Germany, (6) UK-ATC, (7) IfA, ROE, (8) IRAM, (9) ESO, Chile, (10) Caltech, (11) IfA Cambridge, (12) Princeton)

Detection of the energetic pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its pulsar wind nebula in MSH 15-52 using the Fermi-Large Area Telescope

• Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

The rest-frame ultraviolet spectra of GRBs from massive rapidly-rotating stellar progenitors

• Authors: Peter B. Robinson (Colorado), Rosalba Perna (Colorado/JILA), Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Allard J. van Marle (Leuven Science center)

A General Formula for Black Hole Gravitational Wave Kicks

• Authors: James R. van Meter, M. Coleman Miller, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Bernard J. Kelly

Three editions of the Star Catalogue of Tycho Brahe

• Authors: Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent

The Star Catalogue of Hevelius

• Authors: Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent

classic papers of the week -- 141

Non-Adiabatic Crossing of Energy Levels

• Zener, Clarence (National Research Fellow of U.S.A.)

Core condensation in heavy halos - A two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering

• White, S. D. M.; Rees, M. J. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering

• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

tipa -- 3/19/2010

Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals: Correlated Deviations from the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation

• Authors: Stacy S. McGaugh, Joe Wolf

Rapid Cooling of the Neutron Star in the Quiescent Super-Eddington Transient XTE J1701-462

• Authors: Joel K. Fridriksson, Jeroen Homan, Rudy Wijnands, Mariano Mendez, Diego Altamirano, Edward M. Cackett, Edward F. Brown, Tomaso M. Belloni, Nathalie Degenaar, Walter H. G. Lewin

Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: All or Nothing

• Authors: Brian C. Lacki, John F. Beacom

A population of gamma-ray emitting globular clusters seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: The Fermi LAT collaboration

Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background from Star-Forming Galaxies

• Authors: Brian D. Fields, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Tijana Prodanovic

tipa -- 3/18/2010

On The GeV & TeV Detections of the Starburst Galaxies M82 & NGC 253

• Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert, Abraham Loeb, Eli Waxman

Dust-free quasars in the early Universe

• Authors: Linhua Jiang, Xiaohui Fan, W. N. Brandt, Chris L. Carilli, Eiichi Egami, Dean C. Hines, Jaron D. Kurk, Gordon T. Richards, Yue Shen, Michael A. Strauss, Marianne Vestergaard, Fabian Walter