tipa -- 10/7/2010

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

Cooling rates of neutron stars and the young neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant

A Monte Carlo Approach to Evolution of the Far-Infrared Luminosity Function with BLAST

Negative optical inertia for enhancing the sensitivity of future gravitational-wave detectors

Top Quark Physics at the Tevatron

tipa -- 10/6/2010

Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant to Part-per-Million Precision

Theoretical Support for the Hydrodynamic Mechanism of Pulsar Kicks

Does M31 result from an ancient major merger?

Positron annihilation spectrum from the Galactic Centre region observed by SPI/INTEGRAL, revisited: annihilation in a cooling ISM?

Laboratory constraints on chameleon dark energy and power-law fields

Rotation Speed of the First Stars

tipa -- 10/5/2010

Observations of the Blazar 3C 66A with the MAGIC Telescopes in Stereoscopic Mode

Cosmic-ray current driven turbulence in shocks with efficient particle acceleration: the oblique, long-wavelength mode instability

tipa -- 10/4/2010

Solar neutrino results in Super-Kamiokande-III

Study of solar and other unknown anti-neutrino fluxes with Borexino at LNGS

Origins of Hidden Sector Dark Matter I: Cosmology

Search for Dijet Resonances in 7 TeV pp Collisions at CMS

Strange and Multi-strange Particle Production in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 62.4 GeV

tipa -- 9/29/2010

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

Radio Bursts with Extragalactic Spectral Characteristics Show Terrestrial Origins

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

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

Gamma-Ray Localization of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes

tipa -- 9/28/2010

Head-on collisions of binary white dwarf--neutron stars: Simulations in full general relativity

First Results from Fermi GBM Earth Occultation Monitoring: Observations of Soft Gamma-Ray Sources Above 100 keV

Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of the 3 Brightest and Hardest Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed with the FGST Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor

Comparisons of the Interstellar Magnetic Field Directions obtained from the IBEX Ribbon and Interstellar Polarizations

Prompt X-ray and Optical Excess Emission due to Hadronic Cascades in Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Galactic Population of Young Gamma-ray Pulsars

The Balmer-dominated Bow Shock and Wind Nebula Structure of Gamma-ray Pulsar PSR J1741-2054

Calibration and sensitivity of the Virgo detector during its second science run

A fresh look at hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g-2

tipa -- 9/27/2010

Enhanced Constraints on $\theta_{13}$ from A Three-Flavor Oscillation Analysis of Reactor Antineutrinos at KamLAND

Large-scale BAO signatures of the smallest galaxies

A GALEX Ultraviolet Imaging Survey of Galaxies in the Local Volume

Escaping the accelerator; how, when and in what numbers do cosmic rays get out of supernova remnants?

Solar Neutrino Observables Sensitive to Matter Effects

Eternal inflation predicts that time will end

classic papers of the week -- 167

0957+561 A, B - twin quasistellar objects or gravitational lens?

  • 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

tipa -- 9/24/2010

The Ubiquity of the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process

Mapping the Diffuse Ultraviolet Sky with GALEX

The 511 keV emission from positron annihilation in the Galaxy

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

Notes on the Missing Satellites Problem

Neutrinos, WMAP, and BBN

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

tipa -- 9/23/2010

Astrometric Effects of a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

Supernova Explosions inside Carbon-Oxygen Circumstellar Shells

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)

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