today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Nissim Kanekar (1,2), Jayaram N. Chengalur (1), Tapasi Ghosh (3) ((1) National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India, (2) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA, (3) Arecibo Observatory, USA)

A massive runaway star from 30 Doradus

Authors: C. J. Evans (UKATC), N. R. Walborn, P. A. Crowther, V. Henault-Brunet, D. Massa, W. D. Taylor, I. D. Howarth, H. Sana, D. J. Lennon, J. Th. van Loon

Witnessing the Birth of a Quasar

Authors: Takamitsu Tanaka, Zoltan Haiman, Kristen Menou

Impact of Dark Matter Microhalos on Signatures for Direct and Indirect Detection

Authors: Aurel Schneider (1), Lawrence M. Krauss (2), Ben Moore (1) ((1) University of Zurich, (2) Arizona State University)

The GSF Instability and Turbulence do not Account for the Relatively Low Rotation Rate of Pulsars

Authors: Raphael Hirschi (1,2), André Maeder (3) ((1) Keele University, UK, (2) IPMU, Japan, (3) Geneva Observatory, CH)

Proceedings for TASI 2009 Summer School on "Physics of the Large and the Small": Introduction to the LHC experiments

Authors: E. Halkiadakis

New method of precise measurement of positronium hyperfine splitting

Authors: A. Ishida, G. Akimoto, Y. Sasaki, T. Suehara, T. Namba, S. Asai, T. Kobayashi, H. Saito, M. Yoshida, K. Tanaka, A. Yamamoto

Limitations on the attainable intensity of high power lasers

Authors: A.M. Fedotov, N.B. Narozhny, G. Mourou, G. Korn

classic papers of the week -- 147

Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method

Lamb, Willis E.; Retherford, Robert C. (Columbia Radiation Laboratory, Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY)

The Physical State of Interstellar Hydrogen

Strömgren, Bengt (Copenhagen Observatory)

An Account of Mr. Benjamin Franklin's Treatise, Lately Published, Intituled, Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America

Benjamin Franklin and Wm. Watson, F.R.S.

Authors: Brian D. Metzger (Princeton University)

Acceleration of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays in the Colliding Shells of Blazars and GRBs: Constraints from the Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope

Authors: Charles D. Dermer (NRL), Soebur Razzaque (NRL)

Uncertainties in the nu p-process: supernova dynamics versus nuclear physics

Authors: Shinya Wanajo, Hans-Thomas Janka, Shigeru Kubono

Theories of the solar cycle : a critical view

Authors: H.C. Spruit

Light Gravitinos at Colliders and Implications for Cosmology

Authors: Jonathan L. Feng, Marc Kamionkowski, Samuel K. Lee

tipa -- 4/26/2010

The Morphology of the Galactic Dark Matter Synchrotron Emission with Self-Consistent Cosmic Ray Diffusion Models

Authors: Tim Linden, Stefano Profumo, Brandon Anderson

Neutrinos in Non-linear Structure Formation - The Effect on Halo Properties

Authors: Jacob Brandbyge, Steen Hannestad, Troels Haugboelle, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Charged-Particle Thermonuclear Reaction Rates: I. Monte Carlo Method and Statistical Distributions

Authors: Richard Longland, Christian Iliadis, Art Champagne, Joe Newton, Claudio Ugalde, Alain Coc, Ryan Fitzgerald

classic papers of the week -- 146

An Identity in Quantum Electrodynamics

J. C. Ward (The Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, England)

A spiral nebula as a stellar system, Messier 31

Edwin Hubble (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory)

A mathematical theory of communication

C. E. Shannon

tipa -- 4/23/2010

On the Interpretation of Supernova Light Echo Profiles and Spectra

Authors: A. Rest, B. Sinnott, D. L. Welch, R. J. Foley, G. Narayan, K. Mandel

Measuring Gas Accretion and Angular Momentum near Simulated Supermassive Black Holes

Authors: Robyn Levine, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Andrew J.S. Hamilton

A change in the optical polarization associated with a gamma-ray flare in the blazar 3C 279

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration, members of the 3C 279 multi-band campaign

A possible generation mechanism for the IBEX ribbon from outside the heliosphere

Authors: S. Grzedzielski (1), M. Bzowski (1), A. Czechowski (1), H.O. Funsten (2), D.J. McComas (3), N.A. Schwadron (4) ((1) Space Research Centre PAS, Warsaw, Poland, (2) Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos NM, (3) Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio TX, (4) Boston University, Boston MA)

Reducing the weak lensing noise for the gravitational wave Hubble diagram using the non-Gaussianity of the magnification distribution

Authors: Christopher M. Hirata, Daniel E. Holz, Curt Cutler

tipa -- 4/22/2010

Satellite galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way sized galaxies

Authors: M. Wadepuhl, V. Springel

Non-Uniform Cosmological Birefringence and Active Galactic Nuclei

Authors: Marc Kamionkowski

MAGIC observation of the GRB080430 afterglow

Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

tipa -- 4/21/2010

Cosmological Tests of Gravity

Authors: Bhuvnesh Jain, Justin Khoury (U. Penn)

The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background

Authors: John F. Beacom (Ohio State)

The Exceptionally Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2007if

Authors: F. Yuan, R. M. Quimby, J. C. Wheeler, J. Vinko, E. Chatzopoulos, C. W. Akerlof, S. Kulkarni, J. M. Miller, T. A. McKay, F. Aharonian

Atmospheric neutrino oscillations and tau neutrinos in ice

Authors: Gerardo Giordano, Olga Mena, Irina Mocioiu

tipa -- 4/20/2010

Discovery of the nearby long, soft GRB 100316D with an associated supernova

Authors: R.L.C. Starling (U. Leicester), K. Wiersema, A.J. Levan, T. Sakamoto, D. Bersier, P. Goldoni, S.R. Oates, A. Rowlinson, S. Campana, J. Sollerman, N.R. Tanvir, D. Malesani, J.P.U. Fynbo, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, P.T. O'Brien, K.L. Page, J.P. Osborne, S.D. Vergani, S. Barthelmy, D.N. Burrows, Z. Cano, P.A. Curran, M. De Pasquale, V. D'Elia, P.A. Evans, H. Flores, A.S. Fruchter, P. Garnavich, N. Gehrels, J. Gorosabel, J. Hjorth, S.T. Holland, A.J. van der Horst, P. Jakobsson, A.P. Kamble, N.P.M. Kuin, L. Kaper, P.A. Mazzali, P.E. Nugent, E. Pian, C.C. Thoene, S.E. Woosley

Fermi Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula HESS J1640-465

Authors: P. Slane, D. Castro, S. Funk, Y. Uchiyama, A. Lemiere, J. D. Gelfand, M. Lemoine-Goumard

A Core-Collapse Supernova Model for the Extremely Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007bi: An Alternative to the Pair-Instability Supernova Model

Authors: Takashi Moriya, Nozomu Tominaga, Masaomi Tanaka, Keiichi Maeda, Ken'ichi Nomoto

The Swift Burst Analyser I: BAT and XRT spectral and flux evolution of Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: P. A. Evans, R.Willingale, J.P. Osborne, P.T. O'Brien, K.L. Page, C.B. Markwardt, S.D. Barthelmy, A.P. Beardmore, D.N. Burrows, C. Pagani, R.L.C. Starling, P. Romano

An extremely metal poor Damped Lyman-alpha system revealed through GRB 090926A

Authors: Arne Rau (1), S. Savaglio (1), T. Krühler (1 and 2), P. Afonso (1), J. Greiner (1), S. Klose (3), P. Schady (1), S. McBreen (1 and 4), R. Filgas (1), F. Olivares E. (1), A. Rossi (3), A. Updike (5) ((1) MPE Garching, (2) TUM, (3) TLS Tautenburg, (4) University College Dublin, (5) Clemson University)

Using cosmic neutrinos to search for non-perturbative physics at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Dariusz Gora, Thomas Paul, Markus Roth, Subir Sarkar, Lisa Lee Winders

tipa -- 4/19/2010

Ultracold Neutron Production in a Pulsed Neutron Beam Line

Authors: C. M. Lavelle, W. Fox, G. Manus, P. M. McChesney, D. J. Salvat, Y. Shin, M. Makela, C. Morris, A. Saunders, A. Couture, A. R. Young, C.-Y. Liu

Dynamical constraints on the origin of the young B-stars in the Galactic center

Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Alessia Gualandris

The cut-sky cosmic microwave background is not anomalous

Authors: Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris

A Bound on the Light Emitted During the TP-AGB Phase

Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, Marc H. Pinsonneault (The Ohio State University)

Time-dependent particle acceleration in supernova remnants in different environments

Authors: K.M. Schure, A. Achterberg, R. Keppens, Jacco Vink

Structure of a strong supernova shock wave and rapid electron acceleration confined in its transition region

Authors: Nobue Shimada, Masahiro Hoshino, Takanobu Amano

Numerical models of collisions between core-collapse supernovae and circumstellar shells

Authors: Allard Jan van Marle, Nathan Smith, Stanley P. Owocki, Bob van Veelen

Suzaku Observations of Luminous Quasars: Revealing the Nature of High-Energy Blazar Emission in Quiescent States

Authors: The Fermi/LAT Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al., F. Tavecchio, M. Sikora, P. Schady, P. Roming, M. M. Chester, L. Maraschi

Afterglow Observations of Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Emerging Class of Hyper-Energetic Events

Authors: S. B. Cenko, D. A. Frail, F. A. Harrison, J. B. Haislip, D. E. Reichart, N. R. Butler, B. E. Cobb, A. Cucchiara, E. Berger, J. S. Bloom, P. Chandra, D. B. Fox, D. A. Perley, J. X. Prochaska, A. V. Filippenko, K. Glazebrook, K. M. Ivarsen, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, A. P. LaCluyze, S. Lopez, A. N. Morgan, M. Pettini, V. R. Rana

classic papers of the week -- 145

On the Quantum Correction For Thermodynamic Equilibrium

Wigner, E. (Department of Physics, Princeton University)

The Mass-Radius Relation for Cold Spheres of Low Mass

Zapolsky, H. S. (University of Maryland, College Park); Salpeter, E. E. (Cornell University)

Weakly-Bound States of Three Resonantly-Interacting Particles

V.N. Efimov (A. F. Ioffe Physico-technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences)

tipa -- 4/16/2010

Cosmological Non-Linearities as an Effective Fluid

Authors: Daniel Baumann, Alberto Nicolis, Leonardo Senatore, Matias Zaldarriaga

Early supernovae light-curves following the shock-breakout

Authors: Ehud Nakar, Re'em Sari

Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmology

Authors: Lawrence Krauss (1), Scott Dodelson (2,3) Stephan Meyer (3), ((1) Arizona State University, (2)Fermi National Laboratory, (3) University of Chicago)

tipa -- 4/15/2010

Solar fusion cross sections II: the pp chain and CNO cycles

Authors: E. G. Adelberger, A. B. Balantekin, D. Bemmerer, C. A. Bertulani, J.-W. Chen, H. Costantini, M. Couder, R. Cyburt, B. Davids, S. J. Freedman, M.Gai, A. Garcia, D. Gazit, L. Gialanella, U. Greife, M. Hass, K. Heeger, W. C. Haxton, G. Imbriani, T. Itahashi, A. Junghans, K. Kubodera, K. Langanke, D. Leitner, M. Leitner, L. E. Marcucci, T. Motobayashi, A. Mukhamedzhanov, Kenneth M. Nollett, F. M. Nunes, T.-S. Park, P. D. Parker, P. Prati, M. J. Ramsey-Musolf, R. G. Hamish Robertson, R. Schiavilla, E. C. Simpson, K. A. Snover, C. Spitaleri, F. Strieder, K. Suemmerer, H.-P. Trautvetter, R. E. Tribble, S. Typel, E. Uberseder, P. Vetter, M. Wiescher, L. Winslow

Spectroscopic Discovery of the Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernova 2010bh Associated with the Low-Redshift GRB 100316D

Authors: Ryan Chornock, Edo Berger, Emily M. Levesque, Alicia M. Soderberg, Ryan J. Foley, Derek B. Fox, Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon, John J. Bochanski, Peter J. Challis, Robert P. Kirshner, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Katherine Roth, Robert E. Rutledge, Brian P. Schmidt, Scott S. Sheppard, Robert A. Simcoe

The Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Neutrinos between 2 and 200 TeV with the AMANDA-II Detector

Authors: IceCube Collaboration: R. Abbasi et al.

tipa -- 4/14/2010

Star Formation Signatures in Optically Quiescent Early-type Galaxies

Authors: Samir Salim, R. Michael Rich

The End of the Rainbow: What Can We Say About the Extragalactic Sub-Megahertz Radio Sky?

Authors: Brian C. Lacki

Population III Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: P. Meszaros, M.J. Rees

Multi-wavelength Observations of H 2356-309

Authors: HESS Collaboration

First detection of VHE gamma-rays from SN 1006 by H.E.S.S

Authors: HESS Collaboration

INTEGRAL deep observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Authors: M.J. Coe, A. J. Bird, D.A.H. Buckley, R.H.D. Corbet, A.J. Dean, M. Finger, J.L. Galache, F. Haberl, V.A. McBride, I. Negueruela, M. Schurch, L.J. Townsend, A. Udalski, J. Wilms, A. Zezas

tipa -- 4/13/2010

A High-Frequency Search for Pulsars Within the Central Parsec of SgrA*

Authors: J-P. Macquart (1,2), N. Kanekar (3,4), D. Frail (4), S. Ransom (4) ((1) California Institute of Technology, USA, (2) ICRAR/Curtin University of Technology, Australia, (3) National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India, (4) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)