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tipa -- 9/6/2010

A multi-wavelength study of Supernova Remnants in six nearby galaxies. I: Detection of new X-ray selected Supernova Remnants with Chandra

Authors: Ioanna Leonidaki (1,2), Andreas Zezas (3,4,5), Panayotis Boumis (1) ((1) Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens, Greece, (2) Astronomical Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece, (3) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA, (4) Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece, (5) IESL/FORTH, Greece)

Magnetic Field Configuration at the Galactic Center Investigated by Wide Field Near-Infrared Polarimetry: Transition from a Toroidal to a Poloidal Magnetic Field

Authors: Shogo Nishiyama, Hirofumi Hatano, Motohide Tamura, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Tatsuhito Yoshikawa, Takuya Suenaga, James H. Hough, Koji Sugitani, Takahiro Nagayama, Daisuke Kato, Tetsuya Nagata

Discovery of Double Ring Nebulae Around Twin Wolf-Rayet Stars

Authors: Jon Mauerhan, Stefanie Wachter, Pat Morris, Schuyler Van Dyk, D. W. Hoard

classic papers of the week -- 164

Gravitational Field of a Spinning Mass as an Example of Algebraically Special Metrics

Kerr, Roy P. (University of Texas, Austin; Aerospace Research Laboratories, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio)

Measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Georges Charpak, F.J.M. Farley, R.L. Garwin, T. Muller, J.C. Sens, V.L. Telegdi, A. Zichichi (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

My Observations During the Explosion at Trinity on July 16, 1945

E. Fermi

tipa -- 9/3/2010

Nuclear weak interaction rates in primordial nucleosynthesis

Authors: George M. Fuller, Christel J. Smith

Steady X-Ray Synchrotron Emission in the Northeastern Limb of SN 1006

Authors: Satoru Katsuda (1), Robert Petre (1), Koji Mori (2), Stephen P. Reynolds (3), Knox S. Long (4), P. Frank Winkler (5), Hiroshi Tsunemi (6) ((1) NASA/GSFC, (2) Miyazaki University, (3) North Carolina State University, (4) Space Telescope Science Institute, (5) Middlebury College, (6) Osaka University)

The Cosmic Far-Infrared Background Buildup Since Redshift 2 at 70 and 160 microns in the COSMOS and GOODS fields

Authors: M. Jauzac, H. Dole, E. Le Floc'h, H. Aussel, K. Caputi, O. Ilbert, M.Salvato, N. Bavouzet, A. Beelen, M. Béthermin, J.-P. Kneib, G. Lagache, J.-L. Puget

Observing Supernova 1987A with the Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope

Authors: Kevin France (CASA/University of Colorado), Richard McCray (JILA/University of Colorado), Kevin Heng (ETH Zurich, IAS), Robert Kirshner (CfA/Harvard), Peter Challis (CfA/Harvard), Patrice Bouchet (CEA - Saclay), Arlin Crotts (Columbia), Eli Dwek (GSFC), Claes Fransson (Stockholm), Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame), Josefin Larsson (Stockholm), Stephen Lawrence (Hofstra), Peter Lundqvist (Stockholm), Nino Panagia (STScI), Chun Pun (Hong Kong), Nathan Smith (UC-Berkeley), Jesper Sollerman (Stockholm), George Sonneborn (GSFC), John Stocke (CASA/Colorado), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M), Craig Wheeler (Texas)

Analytic modelling of tidal effects in the relativistic inspiral of binary neutron stars

Authors: Luca Baiotti, Thibault Damour, Bruno Giacomazzo, Alessandro Nagar, Luciano Rezzolla

tipa -- 9/2/2010

Monster in the Dark: The Ultraluminous GRB 080607 and its Dusty Environment

Authors: Daniel A. Perley, A. N. Morgan, A. Updike, F. Yuan, C. W. Akerlof, A. A. Miller, J. S. Bloom, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, A. V. Filippenko, J. X. Prochaska, D. A. Kann, N. R. Butler, P. Christian, D. H. Hartmann, P. Milne, E. S. Rykoff, W. Rujopakarn, J. C. Wheeler, G. G. Williams

Agile Observations of the "Soft" Gamma-Ray Pulsar PSR B1509-58

Authors: M. Pilia, A. Pellizzoni, A. Trois, F. Verrecchia, P. Esposito, P. Weltevrede, S. Johnston, M. Burgay, A. Possenti, E. Del Monte, F. Fuschino, P. Santolamazza, A. Chen, A. Giuliani, P. Caraveo, S. Mereghetti, M. Tavani, A. Argan, E. Costa, N. D'Amico, A. De Luca, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, G. Barbiellini, A. Bulgarelli, P. W. Cattaneo, V. Cocco, F. D'Ammando, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, I. Donnarumma, M. Fiorini, T. Froysland, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, F. Perotti, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Prest, G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, S. Sabatini, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, C. Pittori, F. Lucarelli, P. Giommi, L. Salotti, G. F. Bignami

Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Collisionless Electron-Ion Shocks

Authors: Lorenzo Sironi, Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University)

Optical Discovery of an Apparent Galactic Supernova Remnant G159.6+7.3

Authors: Robert Fesen, Dan Milisavljevic

Gamma Ray Line Constraints on Effective Theories of Dark Matter

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

Interpretation of MINOS data in terms of non-standard neutrino interactions

Authors: Joachim Kopp, Pedro A. N. Machado, Stephen J. Parke (Fermilab)

tipa -- 9/1/2010

Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos

Authors: Jillian Bellovary, Fabio Governato, Tom Quinn, James Wadsley, Sijing Shen, Marta Volonteri

The Deuterium-Burning Mass Limit for Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets

Authors: David S. Spiegel (1), Adam Burrows (1), John A. Milsom (2) ((1) Princeton University, (2) The University of Arizona)

High Energy Neutrinos from Novae in Symbiotic Binaries: The Case of V407 Cygni

Authors: Soebur Razzaque, Pierre Jean, Olga Mena

Tidal breakup of binary stars at the Galactic Center. II. Hydrodynamic simulations

Authors: Fabio Antonini, James C. Lombardi, David Merritt

tipa -- 8/31/2010

Single or Double Degenerate Progenitors? Searching for Shock Emission in the SDSS-II Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Brian T. Hayden, Peter M. Garnavich, Daniel Kasen, Benjamin Dilday, Joshua A. Frieman, Saurabh W. Jha, Hubert Lampeitl, Robert C. Nichol, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Jesper Sollerman, J. Craig Wheeler

Relative Composition and Energy Spectra of Light Nuclei in Cosmic Rays. Results from AMS-01

Authors: The AMS-01 Collaboration

Assembly History and Structure of Galactic Cold Dark Matter Halos

Authors: Jie Wang, J. F. Navarro, C. S. Frenk, S. D. M. White, V. Springel, A. Jenkins, A. Helmi, A. Ludlow, M. Vogelsberger

Searches for Cosmic-Ray Electron Anisotropies with the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope

Authors: M. Ackermann, for the Fermi LAT Collaboration

A Study of Detector Configurations for the DUSEL CP Violation Searches Combining LBNE and DAEdALUS

Authors: The DAEdALUS Collaboration

tipa -- 8/30/2010

A Complete Spectroscopic Survey of the Milky Way satellite Segue 1: Dark matter content, stellar membership and binary properties from a Bayesian analysis

Authors: Gregory D. Martinez, Quinn E. Minor, James Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha

Multiband lightcurves of tidal disruption events

Authors: Giuseppe Lodato (1), Elena Rossi (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' Degli Studi di Milano, Italy (2) Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

Cosmic ray transport in galaxy clusters: implications for radio halos, gamma-ray signatures, and cool core heating

Authors: Torsten A. Ensslin, Christoph Pfrommer, Francesco Miniati, Kandaswamy Subramanian

Atmospheric neutrinos in ice and measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters

Authors: Enrique Fernandez-Martinez, Gerardo Giordano, Olga Mena, Irina Mocioiu

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)