today in particle astrophysics

Authors: The ATLAS Collaboration

What Drives the Expansion of Giant HII Regions?: A Study of Stellar Feedback in 30 Doradus

Authors: Laura A. Lopez (UCSC), Mark R. Krumholz (UCSC), Alberto D. Bolatto (UMd), J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC/UCO Lick), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC)

SEGUE-2 Limits on Metal-Rich Old-Population Hypervelocity Stars In the Galactic Halo

Authors: Juna A. Kollmeier, Andrew Gould, Constance Rockosi, Timothy C. Beers, Gillian Knapp, Jennifer A. Johnson, Heather Morrison, Paul Harding, Young Sun Lee, Benjamin A. Weaver

Gravitational Nanolensing from Subsolar Mass Dark Matter Halos

Authors: Jacqueline Chen, Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown U.)

Constraints on Natal Kicks in Galactic Double Neutron Star Systems

Authors: Tsing-Wai Wong, Bart Willems, Vassiliki Kalogera

η Carinae: a very large hadron collider

Authors: R. Walter, C. Farnier, J.-C. Leyder

An Energetic Magnetar in HESS J1713-381/CTB 37B

Authors: J.P. Halpern, E.V. Gotthelf

Modelling the time dependence of the TeV Gamma-ray source at the Galactic Centre

Authors: D.R. Ballantyne, M. Schumann, B. Ford (Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Tech)

Ultra-bright optical transients are linked with type Ic supernovae

Authors: A. Pastorello (1), S. J. Smartt (1), M. T. Botticella (1), K. Maguire (1), M. Fraser (1), K. Smith (1), R. Kotak (1), L. Magill (1), S. Valenti (1), D. R. Young (1), S. Gezari (2,3), F. Bresolin (4), R. Kudritzki (4), D. A. Howell (5), A. Rest (6), N. Metcalfe (7), S. Mattila (1,8,9), E. Kankare (1,8,10), K. Y. Huang (11), Y. Urata (12), W. S. Burgett (4), K. C. Chambers (4), T. Dombeck (4), T. Flewelling (4), T. Grav (2), J. N. Heasley (4), K. W. Hodapp (4), N. Kaiser (4), G. A. Luppino (4), R. H. Lupton (13), E. A. Magnier (4), D. G. Monet (14), J. S. Morgan (4), P. M. Onaka (4), P. A. Price (4), P. H. Rhoads (4), W. A. Siegmund (4), C. W. Stubbs (6), W. E. Sweeney (4), J. L. Tonry (4), R. J. Wainscoat (4), M. F. Waterson (4), C. Waters (4), C. G. Wynn-Williams (4) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3) Hubble Fellow, (4) University of Hawaii, (5) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and University of California, (6) Harvard University, (7) University of Durham, (8) University of Turku, (9) Stockholm Observatory, (10) Nordic Optical Telescope, (11) Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, (12) National Central University, (13) Princeton University, (14) US Naval Observatory - Flagstaff Station)

tipa -- 8/16/2010

Seasonal variation of atmospheric leptons as a probe of charm

Authors: Paolo Desiati, Thomas K. Gaisser

Rapid Flux Variability of Sgr A*

Authors: F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Wardle, J. Miller-Jones, D. Roberts, D. Porquet, N. Grosso

classic papers of the week -- 162

Evidence for Anomalous Lepton Production in e+ - e- Annihilation

Martin L. Perl et al.

The Einstein Redshift in White Dwarfs

Greenstein, Jesse L.; Trimble, Virginia L. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

New Method for High-Accuracy Determination of the Fine-Structure Constant Based on Quantized Hall Resistance

Klitzing, K. V. (Physikalisches Institut der Universität Würzburg and Hochfeld-Magnetlabor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Festkörperforschung, Grenoble, France); Dorda, G. (Forschungslaboratorien der Siemens AG, München); Pepper, M. (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge)

tipa -- 8/13/2010

Gamma-Ray Emission Concurrent with the Nova in the Symbiotic Binary V407 Cygni

The Fermi LAT collaboration

Magnetic reconnection as the cause of cosmic ray excess from the heliospheric tail

Authors: A. Lazarian, P. Desiati

Diffusive Nuclear Burning of Helium on Neutron Stars

Authors: Philip Chang, Lars Bildsten, Phil Arras

Detection of the Small Magellanic Cloud in gamma-rays with Fermi/LAT

Authors: The Fermi/LAT collaboration

Pulsar Discovery by Global Volunteer Computing

Authors: B. Knispel, B. Allen, J. M. Cordes, J. S. Deneva, D. Anderson, C. Aulbert, N. D. R. Bhat, O. Bock, S. Bogdanov, A. Brazier, F. Camilo, D. J. Champion, S. Chatterjee, F. Crawford, P. B. Demorest, H. Fehrmann, P. C. C. Freire, M. E. Gonzalez, D. Hammer, J. W. T. Hessels, F. A. Jenet, L. Kasian, V. M. Kaspi, M. Kramer, P. Lazarus, J. van Leeuwen, D. R. Lorimer, A. G. Lyne B. Machenschalk, M. A. McLaughlin, C. Messenger, D. J. Nice, M. A. Papa, H. J. Pletsch, R. Prix, S. M. Ransom, X. Siemens, I. H. Stairs, B. W. Stappers, K. Stovall, A. Venkataraman

Inverse-Compton ghosts and double-lobed radio sources in the X-ray sky

Authors: P. Mocz, A.C. Fabian, Katherine M. Blundell

Neutrino oscillations: Entanglement, energy-momentum conservation and QFT

Authors: E. Kh. Akhmedov, A. Yu. Smirnov

Neutrino scattering on atomic electrons in searches for neutrino magnetic moment

Authors: M.B. Voloshin

tipa -- 8/12/2010

The Plerionic Supernova Remnant G21.5-0.9 Powered by PSR J1833-1034: New Spectroscopic and Imaging Results Revealed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Authors: Heather Matheson, Samar Safi-Harb

The lithium content of omega Centauri. New clues to the cosmological Li problem from old stars in external galaxies

Authors: L. Monaco (1,2), P. Bonifacio (3,4), L. Sbordone (5), S. Villanova (1), E. Pancino (6) ((1) Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, (2) ESO - European Southern Observatory, (3) GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France, (4) Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica -- Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, (5) Max Planck Institut for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, (6) Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica -- Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Gamma-ray Emission from Crushed Clouds in Supernova Remnants

Authors: Yasunobu Uchiyama, Roger Blandford, Stefan Funk, Hiroyasu Tajima, Takaaki Tanaka

Radio pulsar populations

Authors: D.R. Lorimer

Constraints on Dark Matter from Colliders

Authors: Jessica Goodman, Masahiro Ibe, Arvind Rajaraman, William Shepherd, Tim M.P. Tait, Hai-Bo Yu

tipa -- 8/11/2010

Observation in the MINOS far detector of the shadowing of cosmic rays by the sun and moon

Authors: The MINOS Collaboration

Non-universality of halo profiles and implications for dark matter experiments

Authors: Darren S. Reed (ITP, Univ. of Zurich), Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown Univ.), Liang Gao (NAO, Chinese Academy of Science)

Taking "The Road Not Taken'': On the Benefits of Diversifying Your Academic Portfolio

Authors: Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Non-relativistic effective theory of dark matter direct detection

Authors: JiJi Fan, Matthew Reece, Lian-Tao Wang

Uhlenbeck, G. E.; Ornstein, L. S. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Physisch Laboratorium der R. U. Utrecht, Holland)

Tool-Using and Aimed Throwing in a Community of Free-Living Chimpanzees

Goodall, Jane (University of Cambridge, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley, Cambridge)

tipa -- 8/6/2010

Nucleosynthesis-relevant conditions in neutrino-driven supernova outflows. II. The reverse shock in two-dimensional simulations

Authors: A. Arcones, H.-T. Janka

Small scale aspects of warm dark matter : power spectra and acoustic oscillations

Authors: Daniel Boyanovsky, Jun Wu

Background Study on nu_e Appearance from a nu_mu Beam in Very Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments with a Large Water Cherenkov Detector

Authors: Chiaki Yanagisawa, Chang Kee Jung, Trung Le, Brett Viren

tipa -- 8/5/2010

Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Lyman Alpha Emission at z=4.4

Authors: Steven L. Finkelstein, Seth H. Cohen, Rogier A. Windhorst, Russell E. Ryan, Nimish P. Hathi, Keely D. Finkelstein, Jay Anderson, Norman A. Grogin, Anton M. Koekemoer, Sangeeta Malhotra, Max Mutchler, James E. Rhoads, Patrick J. McCarthy, Robert W. O'Connell, Bruce Balick, Howard E. Bond, Daniela Calzetti, Michael J. Disney, Michael A. Dopita, Jay A. Frogel, Donald N. B. Hall, Jon A. Holtzman, Randy A. Kimble, Gerard Luppino, Francesco Paresce, Abhijit Saha, Joseph I. Silk, John T. Trauger, Alistair R. Walker, Bradley C. Whitmore, Erick T. Young

On the Progenitor and Supernova of the SN 2002cx-like Supernova 2008ge

Authors: Ryan J. Foley, Armin Rest, Maximilian Stritzinger, Giuliano Pignata, Joseph P. Anderson, Mario Hamuy, Nidia I. Morrell, Mark M. Phillips, Francisco Salgado

The Unification of Asymmetry Signatures of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: J.R. Maund (1,2), P.A. Hoeflich (3), F. Patat (4), J.C. Wheeler (5), P. Zelaya (6), D. Baade (4), L. Wang (7), A. Clocchiatti (6), J. Quinn (6) ((1) DARK, (2) UCSC, (3) FSU, (4) ESO, (5) UT Austin, (6) PUC, (7) Texas A&M)

New Nuclear Physics for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Authors: Richard N. Boyd, Carl R. Brune, George M. Fuller, Christel J. Smith

tipa -- 8/4/2010

A Search for Neutron Star Precession and Interstellar Magnetic Field Variations via Multiepoch Pulsar Polarimetry

Authors: Joel M. Weisberg, John E. Everett, James M. Cordes, Justin J. Morgan, Drew G. Brisbin

tipa -- 8/3/2010

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Gamma-ray Pulsars PSR J1057-5226, J1709-4429, and J1952+3252

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

Acceleration of primary and secondary particles in galaxy clusters by compressible MHD turbulence: from radio halos to gamma rays

Authors: G. Brunetti, A. Lazarian

Signatures of collective and matter effects on supernova neutrinos at large detectors

Authors: Sandhya Choubey, Basudeb Dasgupta, Amol Dighe, Alessandro Mirizzi

First detection and energy measurement of recoil ions following beta decay in a Penning trap with the WITCH experiment

Authors: M. Beck, S. Coeck, V.Yu. Kozlov, M. Breitenfeld, P. Delahaye, P. Friedag, M. Herbane, A. Herlert, I.S. Kraev, J. Mader, M. Tandecki, S. Van Gorp, F. Wauters, Ch. Weinheimer, F. Wenander, N. Severijns

tipa -- 8/2/2010

From Galaxy Clusters to Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidals: A Fundamental Curve Connecting Dispersion-supported Galaxies to Their Dark Matter Halos

Authors: Erik J. Tollerud, James S. Bullock, Genevieve J. Graves, Joe Wolf

Photoionization of High Altitude Gas in a Supernova-Driven Turbulent Interstellar Medium

Authors: Kenneth Wood, Alex S. Hill, M. Ryan Joung, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Robert A. Benjamin, L. Matthew Haffner, R.J. Reynolds, G.J. Madsen

Probing Early Cosmic Magnetic Fields through Pair Echos from High-Redshift GRBs

Authors: Keitaro Takahashi, Susumu Inoue, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Takashi Nakamura

Search for Acoustic Signals from Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos in 1500 km^3 of Sea Water

Authors: Naoko Kurahashi, Justin Vandenbroucke, Giorgio Gratta

Production of new neutron-rich isotopes of heavy elements in fragmentation reactions of $^{238}$U projectiles at 1 A GeV

Authors: H. Alvarez-Pol, J. Benlliure, L. Audouin, E. Casarejos, D. Cortina-Gil, T. Enqvist, B. Fernandez, A. R. Junghans, B. Jurado, P. Napolitani, J. Pereira, F. Rejmund, K.-H. Schmidt, O. Yordanov

classic papers of the week -- 160

Massive Lepton Pair Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions at High-Energies

S.D. Drell, Tung-Mow Yan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

On the Nature of the Optical Emission from the Crab Nebula

Shklovskii, I. S.

The Constitution of the Elements

Aston, F. W. (Cavendish Laboratory.)

tipa -- 7/30/2010

A Comparison Between the Half-Light Radii, Luminosities, and UBV Colors of Globular Clusters in M31 and the Galaxy

Authors: Sidney van den Bergh

The Luminosity, Mass, and Age Distributions of Compact Star Clusters in M83 Based on HST/WFC3 Observations

Authors: Rupali Chandar (1), Bradley C. Whitmore (2), Hwihyun Kim (3), Catherine Kaleida (3), Max Mutchler (2), Daniela Calzetti (4), Abhijit Saha (5), Robert O'Connell (6), Bruce Balick (7), Howard Bond (2), Marcella Carollo (8), Michael Disney (9), Michael A. Dopita (10), Jay A. Frogel (11), Donald Hall (12), Jon A. Holtzman (13), Randy A. Kimble (14), Patrick McCarthy (15), Francesco Paresce (16), Joe Silk (17), John Trauger (18), Alistair R. Walker (19), Rogier A. Windhorst (3), Erick Young (20) ((1) The University of Toledo, (2) Space Telescope Science Institute, (3) Arizona State University, (4) University of Massachusetts, (5) NOAO, (6) University of Virginia, (7) University of Washington, (8) Institute of Astronomy, ETH-Zurich, (9) Cardiff University, (10) The Australian National University, (11) AURA, Washington, DC, (12) Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, (13) New Mexico State University, (14) Goddard Space Flight Center, (15) Carnegie Institute of Washington, (16) ESTEC, Noordwijk, (17) University of Oxford, (18) NASA JPL, (19) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, (20) NASA-Ames Research Center)