today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 8/27/2010

Displaying the Heterogeneity of the SN 2002cx-like Subclass of Type Ia Supernovae with Observations of the Pan-STARRS-1 Discovered SN2009ku

Authors: G. Narayan, R. J. Foley, E. Berger, M. T. Botticella, R. Chornock, M. E. Huber, A. Rest, D. Scolnic, S. Smartt, A. M. Soderberg, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, G. Gates, T. Grav, N. Kaiser, R. P. Kirshner, E. A. Magnier, J .S. Morgan, P. A. Price, A. G. Riess, C. W. Stubbs, W. E. Sweeney, J. L. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat, W. M. Wood-Vasey

The relation between post-shock temperature, cosmic-ray pressure and cosmic-ray escape for non-relativistic shocks

Authors: Jacco Vink (1), R. Yamazaki (2), E. A. Helder (1), K. M. Schure (1) ((1) Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, (2) (Aoyama Gakuin University))

Incidence of MgII absorbers towards Blazars and the GRB/QSO puzzle

Authors: Jacqueline Bergeron (1), Patrick Boissé (1), Brice Ménard (2) ((1) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (2) CITA)

The Crab Nebula as a standard candle in very high-energy astrophysics

Authors: M. Meyer, D. Horns, H.-S. Zechlin

Revised Supernova Rates from the IfA Deep Survey

Authors: Steven A. Rodney, John L. Tonry

Ultrahigh energy neutrino scattering: an update

Authors: Martin M. Block, Phuoc Ha, Douglas W. McKay

tipa -- 8/26/2010

Global cosmic-ray related luminosity and energy budget of the Milky Way

Authors: A. W. Strong, T. A. Porter, S. W. Digel, G. Johannesson, P. Martin, I. V. Moskalenko, E. J. Murphy

The Resolved Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background

Authors: Ryan C. Keenan, Amy J. Barger, Lennox L. Cowie, Wei-Hao Wang

Fermi-LAT Study of Gamma-ray Emission in the Direction of Supernova Remnant W49B

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Pre-discovery and Follow-up Observations of the Nearby SN 2009nr: Implications for Prompt Type Ia SNe

Authors: Rubab Khan, J. L. Prieto, G. Pojmanski, K. Z. Stanek, J. F. Beacom, D. M. Szczygiel, B. Pilecki, K. Mogren, J. D. Eastman, P. Martini, R. Stoll

tipa -- 8/25/2010

A spectropolarimetric view on the nature of the peculiar Type I SN 2005hk

Authors: J.R. Maund (1,2,3), J.C. Wheeler (4), L. Wang (5), D. Baade (6), A. Clocchiatti (7), F. Patat (6), P. Hoeflich (8), J. Quinn (7), P. Zelaya (7) ((1) DARK, (2) UCSC, (3) Brahe Fellow, (4) UT Austin, (5) Texas A&M, (6) ESO, (7) PUC, (8) FSU)

Fermi LAT observations of cosmic-ray electrons from 7 GeV to 1 TeV

Authors: Fermi LAT collaboration

Testing Lorentz Invariance with Neutrinos from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions

Authors: Sean T. Scully, Floyd W. Stecker

Evidence for spatial variation of the fine structure constant

Authors: J. K. Webb, J. A. King, M. T. Murphy, V. V. Flambaum, R. F. Carswell, M. B. Bainbridge

tipa -- 8/23/2010

Constraining the Molecular Gas in the Environs of a z~8 Gamma Ray Burst Host Galaxy

Authors: Elizabeth R. Stanway, Malcolm N. Bremer, Nial R. Tanvir, Andrew J. Levan, Luke J. M. Davies

Low-ionization Line Emission from Starburst Galaxies: A New Probe of Galactic-Scale Outflows

Authors: Kate H. R. Rubin (1), J. Xavier Prochaska (1), Brice Ménard (2), Norman Murray (2), Daniel Kasen (1), David C. Koo (1), Andrew C. Phillips (1) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) CITA)

Helium Ignition on Accreting Neutron Stars with a New Triple-alpha Reaction Rate

Authors: Fang Peng, Christian D. Ott

Improved Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Proton Interactions from a Two Liter CF$_3$I Bubble Chamber

Authors: E. Behnke, J. Behnke, S.J. Brice, D. Broemmelsiek, J.I. Collar, P.S. Cooper, M. Crisler, C.E. Dahl, D. Fustin, J. Hall, J.H. Hinnefeld, M. Hu, I. Levine, E. Ramberg, T. Shepherd, A. Sonnenschein, M. Szydagis

Search for quirks at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

Authors: D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov et al.

Spectroscopy as a test of Coulomb's law -- A probe of the hidden sector

Authors: Joerg Jaeckel, Sabyasachi Roy

A simple radionuclide-driven single-ion source

Authors: M. Montero Díez, K. Twelker, W. Fairbank Jr., G. Gratta, P.S. Barbeau, K. Barry, R. DeVoe, M.J. Dolinski, M. Green, F. LePort, A.R. Müller, R. Neilson, K. O'Sullivan, N. Ackerman, B. Aharmin, M. Auger, C. Benitez-Medina, M. Breidenbach, A. Burenkov, S. Cook, T. Daniels, K. Donato, J. Farine, G. Giroux, R. Gornea, K. Graham, C. Hagemann, C. Hall, K. Hall, D. Hallman, C. Hargrove, S. Herrin, A. Karelin, L.J. Kaufman, A. Kuchenkov, K. Kumar, J. Lacey, D.S. Leonard, D. Mackay, R. MacLellan, B. Mong, E. Niner, A. Odian, A. Piepke, A. Pocar, C.Y. Prescott, K. Pushkin, E. Rollin, P.C. Rowson, D. Sinclair, S. Slutsky, V. Stekhanov, J.-L. Vuilleumier, U. Wichoski, J. Wodin, L. Yang, Y.-R. Yen

classic papers of the week -- 163

High Energy Elastic Scattering of Electrons on Protons

Rosenbluth, M. N. (Stanford University)

The structure of star clusters. I. an empirical density law

King, Ivan (University of Illinois Observatory, Urbana, Illinois)

Laser Compression of Matter to Super-High Densities: Thermonuclear (CTR) Applications

Nuckolls, John; Wood, Lowell; Thiessen, Albert; Zimmerman, George (University of California Lawrence Livermore Laboratory)

tipa -- 8/20/2010

Measuring the 3D Clustering of Undetected Galaxies Through Cross Correlation of their Cumulative Flux Fluctuations from Multiple Spectral Lines

Authors: Eli Visbal, Abraham Loeb

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observation of a Gamma-ray Source at the Position of Eta Carinae

Authors: The Fermi LAT collaboration

Non-LTE time-dependent spectroscopic modelling of type II-plateau supernovae from the photospheric to the nebular phase: case study for 15 and 25Msun progenitor stars

Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier

The Sound of the Little Bangs

Authors: Agnes Mocsy (Pratt Institute & FIAS), Paul Sorensen (BNL)

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

tipa -- 8/10/2010

Population III GRB Afterglows: Constraints on Stellar Masses and External Medium Densities

Authors: Kenji Toma, Takanori Sakamoto, Peter Meszaros

Ultra-Relativistic Magnetic Monopole Search with the ANITA-II Balloon-borne Radio Interferometer

Authors: M. Detrixhe, D. Besson, P. W. Gorham, P. Allison, B. Baughmann, J. J. Beatty, K. Belov, S. Bevan, W. R. Binns, C. Chen, P. Chen, J. M. Clem, A. Connolly, D. DeMarco, P. F. Dowkontt, M. A. Duvernois, C. Frankenfeld, E. W. Grashorn, D. P. Hogan, N. Griffith, B. Hill, S. Hoover, M. H. Israel, A. Javaid, K. M. Liewer, S. Matsuno, B. C. Mercurio, C. Miki, M. Mottram, J. Nam, R. J. Nichol, K. Palladino, A. Romero-Wolf, L. Ruckman, D. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, G. S. Varner, A. G. Vieregg, Y. Wang

Three Dimensional Magneto Hydrodynamical Simulations of Gravitational Collapse of a 15Msun Star

Authors: Takami Kuroda, Hideyuki Umeda

Detecting sterile neutrinos with KATRIN like experiments

Authors: Anna Sejersen Riis, Steen Hannestad

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)

Authors: Fiona A. Harrison, Steven Boggs, Finn Christensen, William Craig, Charles Hailey, Daniel Stern, William Zhang, Lorella Angelini, HongJun An, Varun Bhalereo, Nicolai Brejnholt, Lynn Cominsky, W. Rick Cook, Melania Doll, Paolo Giommi, Brian Grefenstette, Allan Hornstrup, Victoria M. Kaspi, Yunjin Kim, Takao Kitaguchi, Jason Koglin, Carl Christian Liebe, Greg Madejski, Kristin Kruse Madsen, Peter Mao, David Meier, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Kaya Mori, Matteo Perri, Michael Pivovaroff, Simonetta Puccetti, Vikram Rana, Andreas Zoglauer

tipa -- 8/9/2010

Non-Thermal X-ray Emission from the Northwestern Rim of the Galactic Supernova Remnant G266.2-1.2 (RX J0852.0-4622)

Authors: Thomas G. Pannuti, Glenn E. Allen, Miroslav D. Filipovic, Ain De Horta, Milorad Stupar, Rashika Agrawal

The Evolution of PSR J0737-3039B and a Model for Relativistic Spin Precession

Authors: Benetge Perera, Maura McLaughlin, Michael Kramer, Ingrid Stairs, Robert Ferdman, Paulo Freire, Andrea Possenti, Rene Breton, Richard N. Manchester, Marta Burgay, Andrew Lyne, Fernando Camilo

Imprints of magnetic power and helicity spectra on radio polarimetry statistics

Authors: H. Junklewitz, T. A. Enßlin

Schizophrenic Neutrinos and $\nu$-less Double Beta Decay

Authors: Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Bhaskar Dutta, Rabindra N. Mohapatra

classic papers of the week -- 161

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On the Theory of the Brownian Motion

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

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