today in particle astrophysics

Garwin, Richard L.; Lederman, Leon M.; Weinrich, Marcel (Physics Department, Nevis Cyclotron Laboratories, Columbia University, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, NY)

The Atmospheres of A-Type Subdwarfs and 95 Leonis

Chamberlain, Joseph W.; Aller, Lawrence H. (Observatory, University of Michigan)

Fermi Questions

Morrison, Philip (Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

Authors: C.S. Kochanek (1), D.M. Szczygiel (1), K.Z. Stanek (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University)

Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Luminous Blue Variable eruptions and related transients: Diversity of progenitors and outburst properties

Authors: Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mo Ganeshalingam, Alexei V. Filippenko

The Formation of Low-Mass Binary Star Systems Via Turbulent Fragmentation

Authors: S. S. R. Offner, K. M. Kratter, C. D. Matzner, M. R. Krumholz, R. I. Klein

A Revised Historical Light Curve of Eta Carinae and the Timing of Close Periastron Encounters

Authors: Nathan Smith, David J. Frew

tipa -- 10/19/2010

Spectral Energy Distribution of z>1 Type Ia Supernova Hosts in GOODS: Constraints on Evolutionary Delay and the Initial Mass Function

Authors: M. G. Thomson (U. Sussex), R. Chary (Caltech)

Cosmic Ray e^+/(e^- + e^+) and pbar/p Ratios Explained by an Injection Model Based on Gamma-ray Observations

Authors: T. Kamae (1), S.-H. Lee (1), L. Baldini (2), F. Giordano (3,4), M.-H. Grondin (5), L. Latronico (2), M. Lemoine-Goumard (5), C. Sgró (2), T. Tanaka (1), Y. Uchiyama (1) ((1) KIPAC and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, (2) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, (3) Dipartimento di Fisica "M. Merlin" dell'Universita e del Politecnico di Bari, (4) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, (5) Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS/IN2p3, Centre d'Études Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan)

Measurement of $\nu_\mu$-induced charged-current neutral pion production cross sections on mineral oil at $E_\nu\in0.5-2.0$ GeV

Authors: A.A.Aguilar-Arevalo, C.E.Anderson, A.O.Bazarko, S.J.Brice, B.C.Brown, L.Bugel, J.Cao, L.Coney, J.M.Conrad, D.C.Cox, A.Curioni, Z.Djurcic, D.A.Finley, B.T.Fleming, R.Ford, F.G.Garcia, G.T.Garvey, J.Grange, C.Green, J.A.Green, T.L.Hart, E.Hawker, R.Imlay, R.A.Johnson, G.Karagiorgi, P.Kasper, T.Katori, T.Kobilarcik, I.Kourbanis, S.Koutsoliotas, E.M.Laird, S.K.Linden, J.M.Link, Y.Liu, Y.Liu, W.C.Louis, K.B.M.Mahn, W.Marsh, C.Mauger, V.T.McGary, G.McGregor, W.Metcalf, P.D.Meyers, F.Mills, G.B.Mills, J.Monroe, C.D.Moore, J.Mousseau, R.H.Nelson, P.Nienaber, J.A.Nowak, B.Osmanov, S.Ouedraogo, R.B.Patterson, Z.Pavlovic, D.Perevalov, C.C.Polly, E.Prebys, J.L.Raaf, H.Ray, B.P.Roe, A.D.Russell, V.Sandberg, R.Schirato, D.Schmitz, M.H.Shaevitz, F.C.Shoemaker, D.Smith, M.Soderberg, M.Sorel, P.Spentzouris, J.Spitz, I.Stancu, R.J.Stefanski, M.Sung, H.A.Tanaka, R.Tayloe, M.Tzanov, R.G.VandeWater, M.O.Wascko, D.H.White, M.J.Wilking, H.J.Yang, G.P.Zeller, E.D.Zimmerman

A Highly Efficient Neutron Veto for Dark Matter Experiments

Authors: Alex Wright, Pablo Mosteiro, Ben Loer, Frank Calaprice

tipa -- 10/18/2010

Spin-Dependent Limits from the DRIFT-IId Directional Dark Matter Detector

Authors: E. Daw, J.R. Fox, J.-L. Gauvreau, C. Ghag, L.J. Harmon, M. Gold, E. Lee, D. Loomba, E. Miller, A.StJ. Murphy, S.M. Paling, J.M. Landers, M. Pipe, K. Pushkin, M. Robinson, D.P. Snowden-Ifft, N.J.C. Spooner, D. Walker

Diffuse Hard X-ray Emission in Starburst Galaxies as Synchrotron from Very High Energy Electrons

Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson

CRT: A numerical tool for propagating ultra-high energy cosmic rays through Galactic magnetic field models

Authors: Michael S. Sutherland, Brian M. Baughman, James J. Beatty

Analytic Solutions of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei Revisited

Authors: Markus Ahlers, Andrew M. Taylor

Investigating the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate Near the Supernova Remnant IC 443 Through H3+ Observations

Authors: Nick Indriolo, Geoffrey A. Blake, Miwa Goto, Tomonori Usuda, Takeshi Oka, T. R. Geballe, Brian D. Fields, Benjamin J. McCall

classic papers of the week -- 170

On the Possibility of Electric Dipole Moments for Elementary Particles and Nuclei

Purcell, E. M.; Ramsey, N. F. (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

The Ability of the 200-inch Telescope to Discriminate Between Selected World Models

Sandage, Allan (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition

Onsager, Lars (Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University)

tipa -- 10/15/2010

A low-magnetic-field Soft Gamma Repeater

Authors: N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC), P. Esposito (INAF), R. Turolla (U. Padova), G. L. Israel (INAF), S. Zane (MSSL), L. Stella, S. Mereghetti, A. Tiengo (INAF), D. Gotz (CEA-Saclay), E. Gogus (Sabanci), C. Kouveliotou (NASA)

The Production of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays during the Early Epochs of Radio-loud AGN

Authors: Hajime Takami, Shunsaku Horiuchi

Diffusive Cosmic Ray Acceleration at the Galactic Centre

Authors: Fulvio Melia, Marco Fatuzzo

Cores and Cusps in Warm Dark Matter Halos

Authors: Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Neal Dalal

Dark Matter Annihilation in The Galactic Center As Seen by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope

Authors: Dan Hooper, Lisa Goodenough

Simulating merging binary black holes with nearly extremal spins

Authors: Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark. A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi

tipa -- 10/14/2010

Bound and unbound substructures in Galaxy-scale Dark Matter haloes

Authors: Michal Maciejewski (1), Mark Vogelsberger (1,2), Simon D.M. White (1), Volker Springel (1,3) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (2) Harvard/CfA (3) Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)

Gas accretion as the origin of chemical abundance gradients in distant galaxies