today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 12/13/2010

Discovery of an Energetic 38.5 ms Pulsar Powering the Gamma-ray Source IGR J18490-0000/HESS J1849-000

Authors: E. V. Gotthelf (1), J. P. Halpern (1), R. Terrier (2), F. Mattana (2), ((1) Columbia University, (2) APC/CNRS University Paris 7)

Time-Integrated Searches for Point-like Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String IceCube Detector

Authors: The IceCube Collaboration: R. Abbasi, et al

Long gravitational-wave transients and associated detection strategies for a network of terrestrial interferometers

Authors: Eric Thrane, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Christian D Ott, Warren G Anderson, Nelson L Christensen, Michael W Coughlin, Steven Dorsher, Stefanos Giampanis, Vuk Mandic, Antonis Mytidis, Tanner Prestegard, Peter Raffai, Bernard Whiting

Spectral Energy Distribution of Markarian 501: Quiescent State vs. Extreme Outburst

Authors: The VERITAS Collaboration

Experimental Studies of Magnetically Driven Plasma Jets

Authors: F. Suzuki-Vidal (1), S. V. Lebedev (1), S. N. Bland (1), G. N. Hall (1), G. Swadling (1), A. J. Harvey-Thompson (1), G. Burdiak (1), P. de Grouchy (1), J. P. Chittenden (1), A. Marocchino (1), M. Bocchi (1), A. Ciardi (2), A. Frank (3), S. C. Bott (4) ((1) The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2) LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS and UPMC, Meudon, France, (3) University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, (4) Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)

Precision Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on the Standard Model

Authors: ALEPH Collaboration, CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration, DELPHI Collaboration, L3 Collaboration, OPAL Collaboration, SLD Collaboration, LEP Electroweak Working Group, Tevatron Electroweak Working Group, SLD electroweak heavy flavour groups

classic papers of the week -- 178

On a New Action of the Magnet on Electric Currents

Hall, E. H. (Johns Hopkins University)

History of the Space Telescope

Spitzer, Lyman, Jr. (Princeton University Observatory)

“Where is everybody?” An account of Fermi's question

Jones, Eric M.

tipa -- 12/10/2010

Dynamics and Gravitational Wave Signature of Collapsar Formation

Authors: C. D. Ott (1), C. Reisswig (1), E. Schnetter (2), E. O'Connor (1), U. Sperhake (3), F. Loeffler (2), P. Diener (2), E. Abdikamalov (2), I. Hawke (4), A. Burrows (5) ((1) Caltech, (2) LSU, (3) CSIC-IEEC Barcelona, (4) Southampton, (5) Princeton)

LMXB and IMXB Evolution: I. The Binary Radio Pulsar PSR J1614-2230

Authors: Jinrong Lin, S. Rappaport, Ph. Podsiadlowski, L. Nelson, B. Paxton, P. Todorov

Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of Local Group galaxies: Detection of M31 and search for M33

Authors: The Fermi/LAT collaboration

First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation

Authors: Stephen M. Feeney (UCL), Matthew C. Johnson (Perimeter Institute), Daniel J. Mortlock (Imperial College London), Hiranya V. Peiris (UCL)

Recent MEG results

Authors: G.Cavoto

tipa -- 12/9/2010

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon processing by cosmic rays

Authors: E. R. Micelotta (1,2,3,4), A. P. Jones (2), A. G. G. M. Tielens (1,5) ((1) Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden University, The Netherlands, (2) Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris Sud and CNRS, Orsay, France, (3) CRESST and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA, (4) Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, USA, (5) NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA)

Clearing the Gas from Globular Clusters & Dwarf Spheroidals with Classical Novae

Authors: Kevin Moore, Lars Bildsten

Rapid TeV variability in Blazars: Proton-Synchrotron Radiation of blobs produced at interactions of Jet-Star Interaction

Authors: Maxim V. Barkov, Felix A. Aharonian, Sergey V. Bogovalov, Stanislav R. Kelner, Dmitriy Khangulyan

tipa -- 12/8/2010

A tale of two GRB-SNe at a common redshift of z = 0.54

Authors: Z. Cano, D. Bersier, C. Guidorzi, R. Margutti, K.M Svensson, S. Kobayashi, A. Melandri, K. Wiersema, A. Pozanenko, A.J. van der Horst, G. G. Pooley, A. Fernandez-Soto, A.J. Castro-Tirado, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Im, A. P. Kamble, D. Sahu, J. Alonso-Lorite, G. Anupama, J. L. Bibby, M. J. Burgdorf, N. Clay, P.A. Curran, T. A. Fatkhullin, A. S. Fruchter, P. Garnavich, A. Gomboc, J. Gorosabel, J. F. Graham, U. Gurugubelli, J. Haislip, K. Huang, A. Huxor, M. Ibrahimov, Y. Jeon, Y-B. Jeon, K. Ivarsen, D. Kasen, E. Klunko, C. Kouveliotou, A. LaCluyze, A. J. Levan, V. Loznikov, P.A. Mazzali, A. S. Moskvitin, C. Mottram, C. G. Mundell, P.E. Nugent, M. Nysewander, P. T. O'Brien, W. -K. Park, V. Peris, E. Pian, D. Reichart, J. E. Rhoads, E. Rol, V. Rumyantsev, V. Scowcroft, D. Shakhovskoy, E. Small, R. J. Smith, V. V. Sokolov, R.L.C. Starling, I. Steele, R. G. Strom, N. R. Tanvir, Y. Tsapras, Y. Urata, O. Vaduvescu, A. Volnova, A. Volvach, R. A. M. J. Wijers, S. E. Woosley, D. R. Young

Multi-angle effects in self-induced oscillations for different supernova neutrino fluxes

Authors: Alessandro Mirizzi (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Ricard Tomàs (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.)

tipa -- 12/7/2010

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Acceleration in Engine-driven Relativistic Supernovae

Authors: Sayan Chakraborti, Alak Ray, Alicia Soderberg, Abraham Loeb, Poonam Chandra

The Blazar Spectral Energy Distribution Sequence Model of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background and its Implications for Dark Matter Detection

Authors: Kevork N. Abazajian, Steve Blanchet, J. Patrick Harding

Neutrinos from failed supernovae at future water and liquid argon detectors

Authors: James G. Keehn, Cecilia Lunardini

Sensitivity Studies for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories

Authors: S. Hild, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese, P. Amaro-Seoane, N. Andersson, K. Arun, F. Barone, B. Barr, M. Barsuglia, M. Beker, N. Beveridge, S. Birindelli, S. Bose, L. Bosi, S. Braccini, C. Bradaschia, T. Bulik, E. Calloni, G. Cella, E. Chassande Mottin, S. Chelkowski, A. Chincarini, J. Clark, E. Coccia, C. Colacino, J. Colas, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, S. Danilishin, K. Danzmann, R. De Salvo, T. Dent, R. De Rosa, L. Di Fiore, A. Di Virgilio, M. Doets, V. Fafone, P. Falferi, R. Flaminio, J. Franc, F. Frasconi, A. Freise, D. Friedrich, P. Fulda, J. Gair, G. Gemme, E. Genin, A. Gennai, A. Giazotto, K. Glampedakis, C. Gräf, M. Granata, H. Grote, G. Guidi, A. Gurkovsky, G. Hammond, M. Hannam, J. Harms, D. Heinert, M. Hendry, I. Heng, E. Hennes, J. Hough, S. Husa, S. Huttner, G. Jones, F. Khalili, K. Kokeyama, K. Kokkotas, B. Krishnan, T.G.F. Li, M. Lorenzini, H. Lück, E. Majorana, I. Mandel, V. Mandic, M. Mantovani, I. Martin, C. Michel, Y. Minenkov, N. Morgado, S. Mosca, B Mours, H. Müller-Ebhardt, P. Murray, R. Nawrodt, J. Nelson, R. Oshaughnessy, C. D. Ott, C. Palomba, A. Paoli, G. Parguez, A. Pasqualetti, R. Passaquieti, D. Passuello, L. Pinard, W. Plastino, R. Poggiani1, P. Popolizio, M. Prato, M. Punturo, P. Puppo, D. Rabeling, P. Rapagnani, J. Read, T. Regimbau, H. Rehbein, S. Reid, F. Ricci, F. Richard, A. Rocchi, S. Rowan, A. Rüdiger, L. Santamaría, B. Sassolas, B. Sathyaprakash, R. Schnabel, C. Schwarz, P. Seidel, A. Sintes, K. Somiya, F. Speirits, K. Strain, S Strigin, P. Sutton, S. Tarabrin, A. Thüring, J. van den Brand, M. van Veggel, C. van den Broeck, A. Vecchio, J. Veitch, F. Vetrano, A. Vicere, S. Vyatchanin, B. Willke, G. Woan, K. Yamamoto

Nuclear Physics from QCD : The Anticipated Impact of Exa-Scale Computing

Authors: Martin J. Savage

tipa -- 12/6/2010

The old environment of the faint calcium-rich supernova SN 2005cz

Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Avishay Gal-yam, R. Mark Crockett, Joseph P. Anderson, Phil A. James, Mark Sullivan, James D. Neill, Douglas C. Leonard

Pulsar-Black Hole Binaries in the Galactic Center

Authors: C.-A. Faucher-Giguere (1), Abraham Loeb (2) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) Harvard University)

Gravitational Wave Extraction in Simulations of Rotating Stellar Core Collapse

Authors: Christian Reisswig, Christian D. Ott, Ulrich Sperhake, Erik Schnetter

classic papers of the week -- 177

Steps toward the Hubble constant. V - The Hubble constant from nearby galaxies and the regularity of the local velocity field

Sandage, A.; Tammann, G. A. (Hale Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Correlation Energy of an Electron Gas at High Density

Gell-Mann, Murray (California Institute of Technology); Brueckner, Keith A. (University of Pennsylvania)

The Activated Complex in Chemical Reactions

Henry Eyring (Frick Chemical Laboratory, Princeton University)

Authors: Andrei M. Beloborodov (Columbia University)

SN 2009bb: a Peculiar Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernova

Authors: Giuliano Pignata, Maximilian Stritzinger, Alicia Soderberg, Paolo Mazzali, M. M. Phillips, Nidia Morrell, J. P. Anderson, Luis Boldt, Abdo Campillay, Carlos Contreras, Gastón Folatelli, Francisco Förster, Sergio González, Mario Hamuy, Wojtek Krzeminski, José Maza, Miguel Roth, Francisco Salgado Emily M. Levesque, Armin Rest, J. Adam Crain, Andrew C. Foster, Joshua B. Haislip, Kevin M. Ivarsen, Aaron P. LaCluyze, Melissa C. Nysewander, Daniel E. Reichart

Rapid Cooling of the Neutron Star in Cassiopeia A Triggered by Neutron Superfluidity in Dense Matter

Authors: Dany Page (1), Madappa Prakash (2), James M. Lattimer (3), Andrew W. Steiner (4) ((1) Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, (2) Department of Physics and Astrononmy, Ohio University (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook (4) Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astrononmy, Michigan State University)

A Magnetized Jet from a Massive Protostar

Authors: Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, Luis F. Rodriguez, Guillem Anglada, Josep Marti, Jose M. Torrelles, Mayra Osorio

Three-Dimensional Simulations of MHD Turbulence Behind Relativistic Shock Waves and Their Implications for GRBs

Authors: Tsuyoshi Inoue, Katsuaki Asano, Kunihito Ioka

Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at sqrt(S(NN))= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

Authors: The ATLAS Collaboration

High-energy break-up of 6Li as a tool to study the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis reaction 2H(alpha,gamma)6Li

Authors: F.Hammache, M.Heil, S.Typel, D.Galaviz, K.Sümmerer, A.Coc, F.Uhlig, F.Attallah, M.Caamano, D.Cortina, H.Geissel, M.Hellström, N.Iwasa, J.Kiener, P.Koczon, B.Kohlmeyer, P.Mohr, E.Schwab, K.Schwarz, F.Schümann, P.Senger, O.Sorlin, V.Tatischeff, J.P.Thibaud, E.Vangioni, A.Wagner, W.Walus

tipa -- 11/29/2010

Search for Stopped Gluinos in pp collisions at sqrt s = 7 TeV

Authors: CMS Collaboration

Anisotropy Constraints on Millisecond Pulsars in the Diffuse Gamma Ray Background

Authors: Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins, Rebecca Reesman, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Stefano Profumo, Terry P. Walker

High luminosity, slow ejecta and persistent carbon lines: SN 2009dc challenges thermonuclear explosion scenarios

Authors: S. Taubenberger, S. Benetti, M. Childress, R. Pakmor, S. Hachinger, P. A. Mazzali, V. Stanishev, N. Elias-Rosa, I. Agnoletto, F. Bufano, M. Ergon, A. Harutyunyan, C. Inserra, E. Kankare, M. Kromer, H. Navasardyan, J. Nicolas, A. Pastorello, E. Prosperi, F. Salgado, J. Sollerman, M. Stritzinger, M. Turatto, S. Valenti, W. Hillebrandt

Chandra Observations of the High-Magnetic-Field Radio Pulsar J1718-3718

Authors: W. W. Zhu, V. M. Kaspi, M. A. McLaughlin, G. G. Pavlov, C.-Y. Ng, R. N. Manchester, B. M. Gaensler, P. M. Woods

Supernova 2008bk and Its Red Supergiant Progenitor

Authors: Schuyler D. Van Dyk (1), Tim J. Davidge (2), Nancy Elias-Rosa (1), Stefan Taubenberger (3), Weidong Li (4), Stanley Howerton (5), Giuliano Pignata (6), Nidia Morrell (7), Mario Hamuy (8), Alexei V. Filippenko (4) ((1) Spitzer Science Center/Caltech, (2) HIA/NRC, Canada, (3) MPIfA, Garching, (4) Univ. of California, Berkeley, (5) Arkansas City, KS, (6) Univ. Andres Bello, Chile, (7) Las Campanas Obs., (8) Univ. de Chile)

Multiple Tidal Disruptions as an Indicator of Binary Super-Massive Black Hole Systems

Authors: Christopher Wegg, J. Nate Bode

classic papers of the week -- 176

Existence of Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Waves

Alfvén, H. (Kgl. Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm)

Catalysis of Nuclear Reactions by μ Mesons

Alvarez, L. W.; Bradner, H.; Crawford, F. S.; Crawford, J. A.; Falk-Vairant, P.; Good, M. L.; Gow, J. D.; Rosenfeld, A. H.; Solmitz, F.; Stevenson, M. L.; Ticho, H. K.; Tripp, R. D. (Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley)

Note on the Frequency of Use of the Different Digits in Natural Numbers

Simon Newcomb

tipa -- 11/25/2010

Insights Into the High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era

Authors: The Fermi-LAT collaboration: A. A. Abdo et al., the MAGIC collaboration: J. Aleksić et al., the VERITAS collaboration: V. A. Acciari et al., the GASP-WEBT consortium, multi-wavelength partners

The Disappearance of the Red Supergiant Progenitor of Supernova 2008bk

Authors: Seppo Mattila (1,2), Stephen Smartt (3), Justyn Maund (4), Stefano Benetti (5), Mattias Ergon (1) ((1) Stockholm University, Sweden, (2) University of Turku, Finland, (3) Queens University Belfast, UK, (4) University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (5) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy)

Low Multiplicity Burst Search at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Authors: SNO Collaboration

tipa -- 11/24/2010

Multi-Element Abundance Measurements from Medium-Resolution Spectra. III. Metallicity Distributions of Milky Way Dwarf Satellite Galaxies

Authors: Evan N. Kirby (1), Gustavo A. Lanfranchi (2), Joshua D. Simon (3), Judith G. Cohen (1), Puragra Guhathakurta (4) ((1) Caltech, (2) Nucleo de Astrofisica Teorica, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, (3) Carnegie Observatories, (4) UC Santa Cruz)

The First Systematic Study of Type Ibc Supernova Multi-color Light-curves

Authors: Maria R. Drout (1), Alicia M. Soderberg (1), A. Gal-Yam (2), S. B. Cenko (3), D. B. Fox (4), D. C. Leonard (5), D. J. Sand (6,7), D.-S. Moon (8), I. Arcavi (2), Y. Green (2) ((1) Harvard U., (2) Weizmann, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) PSU, (5) SDSU, (6) LCOGT, (7) UCSB, (8) U. of Toronto)