tipa -- 7/29/2010

The Absolute Magnitudes of Type Ia Supernovae in the Ultraviolet

• Authors: Peter J. Brown, Peter W. A. Roming, Peter Milne, Filomena Bufano, Robin Ciardullo, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Neil Gehrels, Caryl Gronwall, Malcolm Hicken, Stephen T. Holland, Erik A. Hoversten, Stefan Immler, Robert P. Kirshner, Weidong Li, Paolo Mazzali, Mark M. Phillips, Tyler Pritchard, Martin Still, Massimo Turatto, Daniel Vanden Berk

No Indications of Axion-Like Particles From Fermi

• Authors: Alexander V. Belikov, Lisa Goodenough, Dan Hooper

Gamma-ray spectrum from supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds

• Authors: Yutaka Ohira, Kohta Murase, Ryo Yamazaki

Secondary atmospheric tau neutrino production

• Authors: Alexander Bulmahn, Mary Hall Reno

Search for long-range forces of a neutron and atoms with a trap of ultracold neutrons

• Authors: A.P.Serebrov, O.M.Zherebtsov, S.V.Sbitnev

tipa -- 7/28/2010

GALEX and Pan-STARRS1 Discovery of SN IIP 2010aq: The First Days After Shock Breakout in a Red Supergiant Star

• Authors: S. Gezari, A. Rest, M. E. Huber, G. Narayan, K. Forster, J. D. Neill, D. C. Martin, S. Valenti, S. J. Smartt, R. Chornock, E. Berger, A. M. Soderberg, S. Mattila, E. Kankare, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, T. Dombeck, T. Grav, J. N. Heasley, K. W. Hodapp, R. Jedicke, N. Kaiser, R. Kudritzki, G. Luppino, R. H. Lupton, E. A. Magnier, D. G. Monet, J. S. Morgan, P. M. Onaka, P. A. Price, P. H. Rhoads, W. A. Siegmund, C. W. Stubbs, J. L. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat, M. F. Waterson, C. G. Wynn-Williams

Direct Observation of the Cooling of the Cassiopeia A Neutron Star

• Authors: Craig O. Heinke (University of Alberta), Wynn C. G. Ho (University of Southampton)

On the morphology of the electron-positron annihilation emission as seen by SPI/INTEGRAL

• Authors: Laurent Bouchet, Jean-Pierre Roques, Elisabeth Jourdain

Measurement of the Neutrino Neutral-Current Elastic Differential Cross Section

• Authors: The MiniBooNE Collaboration

Combined CDF and D0 Upper Limits on Standard Model Higgs-Boson Production with up to 6.7 fb-1 of Data

• Authors: The CDF Collaboration, The D0 Collaboration, the Tevatron New Physics, Higgs Working Group

tipa -- 7/27/2010

Nonspherical similarity solutions for dark halo formation

• Authors: Mark Vogelsberger (1), Roya Mohayaee (2), Simon D.M. White (3) ((1) Harvard/CfA, (2) IAP Paris, (3) MPA)

Virialization of high redshift dark matter haloes

• Authors: Andrew Davis, Anson D'Aloisio, Priyamvada Natarajan

A Complete Spectroscopic Survey of the Milky Way Satellite Segue 1: The Darkest Galaxy

• Authors: Joshua D. Simon (Carnegie), Marla Geha (Yale), Quinn E. Minor, Gregory D. Martinez (UC Irvine), Evan N. Kirby (Caltech), James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine), Louis E. Strigari (Stanford), Beth Willman (Haverford), Philip I. Choi (Pomona), Erik J. Tollerud, Joe Wolf (UC Irvine)

Indirect Dark Matter Detection Limits from the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Segue 1

• Authors: Rouven Essig (1), Neelima Sehgal (2), Louis E. Strigari (2), Marla Geha (3), Joshua D. Simon (4) ((1) SLAC, (2) KIPAC/Stanford/SLAC, (3) Yale, (4) Carnegie Observatories)

Black hole-neutron star mergers: effects of the orientation of the black hole spin

• Authors: Francois Foucart, Matthew D. Duez, Lawrence E. Kidder, Saul A. Teukolsky

Spectropolarimetric Signatures of Clumpy Supernova Ejecta

• Authors: K. T. Hole, D. Kasen, K. H. Nordsieck

Searching for the most distant blazars with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

• Authors: Yoshiyuki Inoue, Susumu Inoue, Tomonori Totani, Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi, Jun Kataoka, Rie Sato

Radioactive 26Al from the Scorpius-Centaurus Association

• Authors: Roland Diehl, Michael G. Lang, Pierrick Martin, Henrike Ohlendorf, Thomas Preibisch, Rasmus Voss, Pierre Jean, Jean-Pierre Roques, Peter von Ballmoos, Wei Wang

tipa -- 7/26/2010

Nucleosynthesis in High-Entropy Hot-Bubbles of SNe and Abundance Patterns of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars

• Authors: Natsuko Izutani, Hideyuki Umeda

Neutron-rich chromium isotope anomalies in supernova nanoparticles

• Authors: Nicolas Dauphas, Laurent Remusat, James Chen, Mathieu Roskosz, Dimitri Papanastassiou, Julien Stodolna, Yunbin Guan, Chi Ma, John Eiler

Nuclear Reaction Uncertainties, Massive Gravitino Decays and the Cosmological Lithium Problem

• Authors: Richard H. Cyburt, John Ellis, Brian D. Fields, Feng Luo, Keith A. Olive, Vassilis C. Spanos

classic papers of the week -- 159

Resonance Absorption by Nuclear Magnetic Moments in a Solid

• Purcell, E. M.; Torrey, H. C.; Pound, R. V. (Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

A Search for Faint Blue Stars

• Humason, M. L.; Zwicky, F. (Mount Wilson Observatory and California Institute of Technology)

Unrealistic optimism about future life events

• Neil D. Weinstein (Department of Human Ecology and Social Sciences, Cook College, Rutgers—The State University)

tipa -- 7/23/2010

Determination of the Axial-Vector Weak Coupling Constant with Polarized Ultracold Neutrons

• Authors: UCNA Collaboration: J. Liu, M. P. Mendenhall, A. T. Holley, H. O. Back, T. J. Bowles, L. J. Broussard, R. Carr, S. Clayton, S. Currie, B. W. Filippone, A. Garcia, P. Geltenbort, K. P. Hickerson, J. Hoagland, G. E. Hogan, B. Hona, T. M. Ito, C.-Y. Liu, M. Makela, R. R. Mammei, J. W. Martin, D. Melconian, C. L. Morris, R. W. Pattie Jr., A. Perez Galvan, M. L. Pitt, B. Plaster, J. C. Ramsey, R. Rios, R. Russell, A. Saunders, S. Seestrom, W. E. Sondheim, E. Tatar, R. B. Vogelaar, B. VornDick, C. Wrede, H. Yan, A. R. Young

A Search for Hidden Sector Photons with ADMX

• Authors: A. Wagner, G. Rybka, M. Hotz, L. J Rosenberg, S.J. Asztalos, G. Carosi, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, K. van Bibber, J. Hoskins, C. Martin, P. Sikivie, D.B. Tanner, R. Bradley, J. Clarke

tipa -- 7/22/2010

A Galactic Center Origin for HE 0437-5439, the Hypervelocity Star near the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Authors: Warren R. Brown (1), Jay Anderson (2), Oleg Y. Gnedin (3), Howard E. Bond (2), Margaret J. Geller (1), Scott J. Kenyon (1), Mario Livio (2) ((1) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, (2) Space Telescope Science Institute, (3) University of Michigan)

Willman 1 - a probable dwarf galaxy with an irregular kinematic distribution

• Authors: Beth Willman, Marla Geha, Jay Strader, Louis E. Strigari, Joshua D. Simon, Evan Kirby, Alex Warres

Aspherical Supernova Shock Breakout and the Observations of Supernova 2008D

• Authors: Sean M. Couch, David Pooley, J. Craig Wheeler, Milos Milosavljevic

tipa -- 7/21/2010

The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit

• Authors: Paul A Crowther (Sheffield), Olivier Schnurr (Sheffield, AIP), Raphael Hirschi (Keele, Tokyo), Norhasliza Yusof (Malaya), Richard J Parker (Sheffield), Simon P Goodwin (Sheffield), Hasan Abu Kassim (Malaya)

MAGIC Upper Limits for two Milagro-detected, Bright Fermi Sources in the Region of SNR G65.1+0.6

• Authors: J. Aleksić, L. A. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, M. Backes, J. A. Barrio, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, A. Berdyugin, K. Berger, E. Bernardini, A. Biland, O. Blanch, R. K. Bock, A. Boller, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, D. Borla Tridon, V. Bosch-Ramon, D. Bose, I. Braun, T. Bretz, M. Camara, E. Carmona, A. Carosi, P. Colin, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Covino, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, E. De Cea del Pozo, B. De Lotto, M. De Maria, F. De Sabata, C. DelgadoMendez, A. Diago Ortega, 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, G. Giavitto, N. Godinović, D. Hadasch, A. Herrero, D. Hildebrand, D. Höhne-Mönch, J. Hose, D. Hrupec, T. Jogler, S. Klepser, T. Krähenbühl, D. Kranich, J. Krause, A. La Barbera, 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, A. Moralejo, D. Nieto, K. Nilsson, R. Orito, I. Oya, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, S. Partini, M. Pasanen, F. Pauss, R. G. Pegna, M. A. Perez-Torres, M. Persic, L. Peruzzo, J. Pochon, F. Prada, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, N. Puchades, I. Puljak, I. Reichardt, R. Reinthal, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, J. Rico, M. Rissi, S. Rügamer, A. Saggion, K. Saito, 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. Storz, N. Strah, J. C. Struebig, T. Suric, L. Takalo, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzić, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, D. F. Torres, H. Vankov, R. M. Wagner, Q. Weitzel, V. Zabalza, F. Zandanel, R. Zanin

Fermi observations of high-energy gamma-ray emission from GRB 090217A

• Authors: Fermi-LAT, Fermi-GBM Collaborations

Dark Matter decay and annihilation in the Local Universe: CLUES from Fermi

• Authors: A.J. Cuesta (IAA-CSIC), T.E. Jeltema (UCO/Lick), F. Zandanel (IAA-CSIC), S. Profumo (UCSC), F. Prada (IAA-CSIC), G. Yepes (UAM), A. Klypin (NMSU), Y. Hoffman (HU), S. Gottloeber (AIP), J. Primack (UCSC), M.A. Sanchez-Conde (IAC), C. Pfrommer (CITA)

tipa -- 7/20/2010

The Subluminous Supernova 2007qd: A Missing Link in a Family of Low-Luminosity Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Colin M. McClelland, Peter M. Garnavich, Lluís Galbany, Ramon Miquel, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko, Bruce Bassett, J. Craig Wheeler, Ariel Goobar, Saurabh W. Jha, Masao Sako, Joshua A. Frieman, Jesper Sollerman, Jozsef Vinko, Donald P. Schneider

Cosmic-Ray Acceleration Efficiency vs Temperature Equilibration: the Case of SNR 0509-67.5

• Authors: E.A. Helder, D. Kosenko, J. Vink

X-ray Evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae

• Authors: Aya Bamba (1,2), Takayasu Anada (2), Tadayasu Dotani (2), Koji Mori (3), Ryo Yamazaki (4), Ken Ebisawa (2), Jacco Vink (5) ((1) DIAS (2) ISAS/JAXA (3) Miyazaki U. (4) Aoyama-Gakuin U. (5) Utrecht U.)

Diffuse supernova neutrinos at underground laboratories

• Authors: Cecilia Lunardini

LSND reloaded

• Authors: Sanjib K. Agarwalla, Patrick Huber

tipa -- 7/19/2010

Phenomenology of the Equivalence Principle with Light Scalars

• Authors: Thibault Damour, John F. Donoghue

Evolutionary and pulsational properties of white dwarf stars

• Authors: Leandro G. Althaus, Alejandro H. Córsico, Jordi Isern, Enrique Garcí a-Berro

The exotic fraction among unassociated Fermi sources

• Authors: N. Mirabal, D. Nieto, S. Pardo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Impure Thoughts on Inelastic Dark Matter

• Authors: Spencer Chang, Rafael F. Lang, Neal Weiner

A Search for Lorentz Invariance and CPT Violation with the MINOS Far Detector

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 158

Secular perturbations of asteroids with high inclination and eccentricity

• Kozai, Yoshihide (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA)

The Scattering of Positrons by Electrons with Exchange on Dirac's Theory of the Positron

• Bhabha, H. J. (Gonville and Caius College)

The Transistor, A Semi-Conductor Triode

• Bardeen, J.; Brattain, W. H. (Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ)

tipa -- 7/16/2010

Dark Matter Contraction and the Stellar Content of Massive Early-type Galaxies: Disfavoring "Light" Initial Mass Functions

• Authors: M. W. Auger (1), T. Treu (1), R. Gavazzi (2), A. S. Bolton (3), L. V. E. Koopmans (4), P. J. Marshall (5) ((1) UCSB, (2) IAP, (3) Utah, (4) Kapteyn, (5) SLAC)

Neutron Star Radius Measurement with the Quiescent Low-Mass X-ray Binary U24 in NGC 6397

• Authors: Sebastien Guillot, Robert E. Rutledge, Edward F. Brown

Pressure Support in Galaxy Disks: Impact on Rotation Curves and Dark Matter Density Profiles

• Authors: J. J. Dalcanton, A. Stilp

An Experimental Exploration of the QCD Phase Diagram: The Search for the Critical Point and the Onset of De-confinement

• Authors: STAR Collaboration

tipa -- 7/15/2010

The unusual X-ray emission of the short Swift GRB 090515: Evidence for the formation of a magnetar?

• Authors: A. Rowlinson, P.T. O'Brien, N.R. Tanvir, B. Zhang, P.A. Evans, N. Lyons, A.J. Levan, R. Willingale, K.L. Page, O. Onal, D.N. Burrows, A.P. Beardmore, T.N. Ukwatta, E. Berger, J. Hjorth, A.S. Fruchter, R.L. Tunnicliffe, D.B. Fox, A. Cucchiara

Introduction to Astronomy with Radioactivity

• Authors: Roland Diehl

The Connection Between Thermal and Non-Thermal Emission in Gamma-ray Bursts: General Considerations and GRB090902B as a Case Study

• Authors: Asaf Pe'er, Bin-Bin Zhang, Felix Ryde, Sinéad McGlynn, Bing Zhang, Robert D. Preece, Chryssa Kouveliotou

Radio sources with ultra-high polarisation

• Authors: H. Shi, H. Liang, J.L. Han, R.W. Hunstead

tipa -- 7/14/2010

HESS J1632-478: an energetic relic

• Authors: M. Balbo, P. Saouter, R. Walter, L. Pavan, A. Tramacere, M. Pohl, J.-A. Zurita-Heras

Binary Pulsar Constraints on the Parameterized post-Einsteinian Framework

• Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Scott A. Hughes

tipa -- 7/13/2010

Constraints on neutron star radii based on chiral effective field theory interactions

• Authors: K. Hebeler, J.M. Lattimer, C.J. Pethick, A. Schwenk

Non-linear diffusive acceleration of heavy nuclei in supernova remnant shocks

• Authors: D. Caprioli, P.Blasi, E. Amato

Tau neutrino and antineutrino cross sections

• Authors: Yu Seon Jeong, Mary Hall Reno (University of Iowa)

tipa -- 7/12/2010

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Misaligned AGN

• Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Constraints on Small-Scale Structures of Dark Matter from Flux Anomalies in Quasar Gravitational Lenses

• Authors: R. Benton Metcalf, Adam Amara

UHECRs from magnetic reconnection in relativistic jets

• Authors: Dimitrios Giannios (Princeton University)

The Size Evolution of Passive Galaxies: Observations from the Wide Field Camera 3 Early Release Science Program

• Authors: R. E. Ryan Jr., P. J. McCarthy, S. H. Cohen, H. Yan, N. P. Hathi, A. M. Koekemoer, M. J. Rutkowski, M. R. Mechtley, R. A. Windhorst, R. W. O'Connell, B. Balick, H. E. Bond, H. Bushouse, D. Calzetti, R. M. Crockett, M. Disney, M. A. Dopita, J. A. Frogel, D. N. B. Hall, J. A. Holtzman, S. Kaviraj, R. A. Kimble, J. MacKenty, M. Mutchler, F. Paresce, A. Saha, J. I. Silk, J. Trauger, A. R. Walker, B. C. Whitmore, E. Young

classic papers of the week -- 157

Broken Symmetries

• Jeffrey Goldstone (Trinity College, Cambridge University); Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England)

Fluid dynamics of relativistic blast waves

• Blandford, R. D.; McKee, C. F. (University of California, Berkeley)

Quantal Phase Factors Accompanying Adiabatic Changes

• Berry, M. V. (H. H. Wills Physical Laboratory, University of Bristol)

tipa -- 7/9/2010

IceCube: An Instrument for Neutrino Astronomy

• Authors: Francis Halzen, Spencer R. Klein

Introducing the Fission-Fusion Reaction Process: Using a Laser-Accelerated Th Beam to produce Neutron-Rich Nuclei towards the N=126 Waiting Point of the r Process

• Authors: D. Habs, P.G. Thirolf, M. Gross, K. Allinger, J. Bin, A. Henig, D. Kiefer, W. Ma, J. Schreiber

tipa -- 7/8/2010

Observed Event Excess in the MiniBooNE Search for $\bar \nu_μ \rightarrow \bar \nu_e$ Oscillations

• Authors: The MiniBooNE Collaboration

A Radio-loud Magnetar in X-ray Quiescence

• Authors: Lina Levin, Matthew Bailes, Samuel Bates, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Marta Burgay, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Nichi D'Amico, Simon Johnston, Michael Keith, Michael Kramer, Sabrina Milia, Andrea Possenti, Nanda Rea, Ben Stappers, Willem van Straten

Evaluating Systematic Dependencies of Type Ia Supernovae: The Influence of Deflagration to Detonation Density

• Authors: Aaron P. Jackson (1), Alan C. Calder (1 and 2), Dean M. Townsley (3), David A. Chamulak (4 and 6), Edward F. Brown (5 and 6), F. X. Timmes (6 and 7) ((1) The State University of New York - Stony Brook, (2) New York Center for Computational Sciences, (3) The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, (4) Argonne National Laboratory, (5) Michigan State University - East Lansing, (6) The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, (7) School of Earth and Space Exploration - Arizona State University)

Fermi LAT observations of the Geminga pulsar

• Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al.

A Consistent Dark Matter Interpretation For CoGeNT and DAMA/LIBRA

• Authors: Dan Hooper, J.I. Collar, Jeter Hall, Dan McKinsey

Magnetospheres of Black Hole Systems in Force-Free Plasma

• Authors: Carlos Palenzuela, Travis Garrett, Luis Lehner, Steven L.Liebling

tipa -- 7/7/2010

PAMELA results on the cosmic-ray antiproton flux from 60 MeV to 180 GeV in kinetic energy

• Authors: PAMELA Collaboration: O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, M. Boezio, E. A. Bogomolov, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, V. Bonvicini, S. Borisov, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, R. Carbone, P. Carlson, M. Casolino, G. Castellini, L. Consiglio, M. P. De Pascale, C. De Santis, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, A. M. Galper, W. Gillard, L. Grishantseva, P. Hofverberg, G. Jerse, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malvezzi, L. Marcelli, A. G. Mayorov, W. Menn, V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, N. Nikonov, G. Osteria, P. Papini, M. Pearce, P. Picozza, C. Pizzolotto, M. Ricci, S. B. Ricciarini, L. Rossetto, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, J. Wu, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, V. G. Zverev

Supernovae Powered by Collapsar Accretion in Gamma-Ray Burst Sources

• Authors: Milos Milosavljevic, Christopher C. Lindner, Rongfeng Shen, Pawan Kumar

Direct Imaging of Bridged Twin Protoplanetary Disks in a Young Multiple Star

• Authors: Satoshi Mayama, Motohide Tamura, Tomoyuki Hanawa, Tomoaki Matsumoto, Miki Ishii, Tae-Soo Pyo, Hiroshi Suto, Takahiro Naoi, Tomoyuki Kudo, Jun Hashimoto, Shogo Nishiyama, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Masahiko Hayashi

On variations of the brightness of type Ia supernovae with the age of the host stellar population

• Authors: Brendan K. Krueger (1), Aaron P. Jackson (1), Dean M. Townsley (2), Alan C. Calder (1 and 3), Edward F. Brown (4), F. X. Timmes (5) ((1) The State University of New York - Stony Brook, (2) The University of Alabama, (3) New York Center for Computational Sciences, (4) Michigan State University, (5) Arizona State University)