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tipa -- 9/29/2010

Supernova PTF 09uj: A possible shock breakout from a dense circumstellar wind

Authors: E. O. Ofek, I. Rabinak, J. D. Neill, I. Arcavi, S. B. Cenko, E. Waxman, S. R. Kulkarni, A. Gal Yam, P. E. Nugent, L. Bildsten, J. S. Bloom, A. V. Filippenko, K. Forster, D. A. Howell, J. Jacobsen, M. M. Kasliwal, N. Law, C. Martin, D. Poznanski, R. M. Quimby, K. J. Shen, M. Sullivan, R. Dekany, G. Rahmer, D. Hale, R. Smith, J. Zolkower, V. Velur, R. Walters, J. Henning, K. Bui, D. McKenna

Radio Bursts with Extragalactic Spectral Characteristics Show Terrestrial Origins

Authors: Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Matthew Bailes, Ronald Ekers, Jean-Pierre Macquart, Fronefield Crawford III

Evidence for a Massive Neutron Star from a Radial-Velocity Study of the Companion to the Black Widow Pulsar PSR B1957+20

Authors: M. H. van Kerkwijk (1), R. Breton (1), S. R. Kulkarni (2) ((1) U. Toronto, (2) Caltech)

Study of the gamma-ray source 1AGL J2022+4032 in the Cygnus Region

Authors: A. W. Chen, G. Piano, M. Tavani, A. Trois, G. Dubner, E.~Giacani, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, A. Bulgarelli, P. Caraveo, P. W. Cattaneo, E. Costa, F. D'Ammando, G. De Paris, E. Del Monte, G. Di Cocco, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, A. Ferrari, M. Fiorini, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, A. Giuliani, M. Giusti, C. Labanti, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, S. Mereghetti, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, F. Perotti, P. Picozza, M. Pilia, M. Prest, G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, S. Sabatini, E. Scalise, P. Soffitta, E. Striani, M. Trifoglio, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, C. Pittori, P. Giommi, F. Verrecchia, F. Lucarelli, P. Santolamazza, S. Colafrancesco, L. A. Antonelli, L. Salotti

Gamma-Ray Localization of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes

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

Walsh, D. (University of Manchester, Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK); Carswell, R. F. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge); Weymann, R. J. (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona)

Shift of an Electron Interference Pattern by Enclosed Magnetic Flux

Chambers, R. G. (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, England)

On the height of the land and the depth of the ocean

John Murray (Challenger Expedition)

tipa -- 9/24/2010

The Ubiquity of the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process

Authors: I.U. Roederer, J.J. Cowan, A.I. Karakas, K.-L. Kratz, M. Lugaro, J. Simmerer, K. Farouqi, C. Sneden

Mapping the Diffuse Ultraviolet Sky with GALEX

Authors: Jayant Murthy, Richard C. Henry, N. V. Sujatha

The 511 keV emission from positron annihilation in the Galaxy

Authors: N. Prantzos, C. Boehm, A. M. Bykov, R. Diehl, K. Ferriere, N. Guessoum, P. Jean, J. Knoedlseder, A. Marcowith, I. V. Moskalenko, A. Strong, G. Weidenspointner

Results From Core-Collapse Simulations with Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Angle Neutrino Transport

Authors: Timothy D. Brandt, Adam Burrows, Christian D. Ott

Notes on the Missing Satellites Problem

Authors: James S. Bullock (UC Irvine)

Neutrinos, WMAP, and BBN

Authors: Lawrence M. Krauss (1), Cecilia Lunardini (1,2), Christel Smith (1) ((1) Arizona State University, (2) Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Observation of Long-Range Near-Side Angular Correlations in Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC

Authors: CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 9/23/2010

Astrometric Effects of a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

Authors: Laura G. Book (1), Éanna É. Flanagan (2), ((1) California Institute of Technology, (2) Cornell University)

Supernova Explosions inside Carbon-Oxygen Circumstellar Shells

Authors: S.I.Blinnikov (1,2,3), E.I.Sorokina (2,3) ((1) ITEP,(2) SAI,(3) MPA)

Type IIP Supernova 2009kf: Explosion Driven by Black Hole Accretion?

Authors: V.P. Utrobin (1 and 2), N.N. Chugai (3), M. T. Botticella (4) ((1) ITEP, Moscow; (2) MPA, Garching; (3) Institute of Astronomy, RAS, Moscow; (4) Astrophysics Research Centre, Queens University, Belfast)

tipa -- 9/22/2010

Time of primordial Be-7 conversion into Li-7, energy release and doublet of narrow cosmological neutrino lines

Authors: Rishi Khatri, Rashid A. Sunyaev

Confirmation of the Copernican principle at Gpc radial scale and above from the kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect power spectrum

Authors: Pengjie Zhang (SHAO), Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)

tipa -- 9/21/2010

Helium Shell Detonations on Low Mass White Dwarfs as a Possible Explanation for SN 2005E

Authors: Roni Waldman, Daniel Sauer, Eli Livne, Hagai Perets, Ami Glasner, Paolo Mazzali, James W. Truran, Avishay Gal-Yam

Ultra-high energy nuclei source in the direction to Virgo cluster

Authors: Dmitri V.Semikoz

Effects of Velocity-Dependent Dark Matter Annihilation on the Energy Spectrum of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background

Authors: Sheldon Campbell, Bhaskar Dutta, Eiichiro Komatsu

Absolute Determination of the 22Na(p,g) Reaction Rate in Novae

Authors: A. L. Sallaska, C. Wrede, A. Garcia, D. W. Storm, T. A. D. Brown, C. Ruiz, K. A. Snover, D. F. Ottewell, L. Buchmann, C. Vockenhuber, D. A. Hutcheon, J. A. Caggiano, J. Jose

classic papers of the week -- 166

Breakdown of Predictability in Gravitational Collapse

S.W. Hawking (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology)

On Relativistic Cosmogony

Gamow, G. (The George Washington University, Washington, D. C.)

Searching for Interstellar Communications

Cocconi, Giuseppe; Morrison, Philip (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

tipa -- 9/17/2010

Revisiting the Westerlund 2 Field with the H.E.S.S. Telescope Array

Authors: The HESS Collaboration

Trends in Ti44 and Ni56 from Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: Georgios Magkotsios, Francis X. Timmes, Aimee L. Hungerford, Christopher L. Fryer, Patrick A. Young, Michael Wiescher

An Atomic Gravitational Wave Interferometric Sensor in Low Earth Orbit (AGIS-LEO)

Authors: Jason M. Hogan, David M. S. Johnson, Susannah Dickerson, Tim Kovachy, Alex Sugarbaker, Sheng-wey Chiow, Peter W. Graham, Mark A. Kasevich, Babak Saif, Surjeet Rajendran, Philippe Bouyer, Bernard D. Seery, Lee Feinberg, Ritva Keski-Kuha

tipa -- 9/16/2010

The Red Nova-like Variable in M31 - A Blue Candidate in Quiescence

Authors: Michael M. Shara, David Zurek, Dina Prialnik, Ofer Yaron, Attay Kovetz

The Nature of Starbursts : II. The Duration of Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies

Authors: Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Evan D. Skillman, John M. Cannon, Julianne Dalcanton, Andrew Dolphin, Sebastian Hidalgo-Rodríguez, Jon Holtzman, David Stark, Daniel Weisz, Benjamin Williams

A Tale of Two Current Sheets

Authors: Jonathan Arons

tipa -- 9/15/2010

Heavily Obscured AGN in High Redshift Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Authors: Ezequiel Treister (IfA, Hawaii), C. Megan Urry, Kevin Schawinski, Carolin N. Cardamone (Yale), David Sanders (IfA, Hawaii)

56Ni Production in Double Degenerate White Dwarf Collisions

Authors: Cody Raskin, Evan Scannapieco, Gabriel Rockefeller, Chris Fryer, Steven Diehl, F.X. Timmes

W/Z Bremsstrahlung as the Dominant Annihilation Channel for Dark Matter

Authors: Nicole F. Bell, James B. Dent, Thomas D. Jacques, Thomas J. Weiler

tipa -- 9/14/2010

Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the Perseus cluster head-tail galaxy IC 310 by the MAGIC telescopes

Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

H-alpha Emission Variability in the gamma-ray Binary LS I +61 303

Authors: M. Virginia McSwain, Erika D. Grundstrom, Douglas R. Gies, Paul S. Ray

GBT Zpectrometer CO(1-0) Observations of the Strongly-Lensed Submillimeter Galaxies from the Herschel ATLAS

Authors: D. T. Frayer, A. I. Harris, A. J. Baker, R. J. Ivison, Ian Smail, M. Negrello, R. Maddalena, A. Amblard, R. Auld, M. Baes, M. Birkinshaw, D. G. Bonfield, D. Burgarella, S. Buttiglione, A. Cava, D. L. Clements, A. Cooray, H. Dannerbauer, A. Dariush, G. De Zotti, J. S. Dunlop, L. Dunne, S. Dye, S. Eales, J. Fritz, J. Gonzalez-Nuev, D. Herranz, R. Hopwood, E. Ibar, M. J. Jarvis, G. Lagache, L. L. Leeuw, M. Lopez-Caniego, S. Maddox, M. J. Michalowski, A. Omont, E. Pascale, M. Pohlen, E. Rigby, G. Rodighiero, S. Samui, D. Scott, S. Serjeant, B. Sibthorpe, D. J. B. Smith, A. M. Swinbank, P. Temi, M. Thompson, I. Valtchanov, P. P. van der Werf, A. Verma

The Jets of TeV Blazars at Higher Resolution: 43 GHz and Polarimetric VLBA Observations from 2005-2009

Authors: B. Glenn Piner, Niraj Pant, Philip G. Edwards

Superfluid dynamics in neutron star crusts

Authors: C. J. Pethick, N. Chamel, S. Reddy

Diffractive X-ray Telescopes

Authors: Gerald K. Skinner

Detection of Anomalous Reactor Activity Using Antineutrino Count Rate Evolution Over the Course of a Reactor Cycle

Authors: Vera Bulaevskaya, Adam Bernstein

tipa -- 9/13/2010

Dark-matter decays and Milky Way satellite galaxies

Authors: Annika H. G. Peter, Andrew J. Benson

Star Clusters Under Stress: Why Small Systems Cannot Dynamically Relax

Authors: Joseph M. Converse, Steven W. Stahler

Probing dark matter models with neutrinos from the Galactic center

Authors: Arif Emre Erkoca, Mary Hall Reno, Ina Sarcevic

classic papers of the week -- 165

A New Extended Model of Hadrons

A. Chodos, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, Charles B. Thorn, V.F. Weisskopf (Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Red giants and supergiants with degenerate neutron cores

Thorne, K. S. (California Institute of Technology); Zytkow, A. N. (Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Astronomiczny, Warsaw; University of Cambridge, England; California Institute of Technology)

A New Species of the Genus Homo From Olduvai Gorge

L. S. B. Leakey (Coryndon Museum, Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology), P. V. Tobias (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), J. R. Napier (Unit of Primatology and Human Evolution, Royal Free Hospital Medical School)