classic papers of the year -- 2010

The Atomicity of Electricity as a Quantum Theory Law

• O. Klein

A Proposed Experimental Test of the Neutrino Theory

• Luis W. Alvarez (University of California Radiation Laboratory)

On the Transfer of Energy in the Electromagnetic Field

• J. H. Poynting (Mason College, Birmingham)

Evidence for the 2π Decay of the K₂⁰ Meson

• J.H. Christenson, J.W. Cronin, V.L. Fitch, R. Turlay (Princeton University)

The local structure of turbulence in incompressible viscous fluid for very large Reynolds numbers

• Kolmogorov, A. N.

How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension

• Mandelbrot, Benoit (International Business Machines, Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

Baryogenesis Without Grand Unification

• M. Fukugita (Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University), T. Yanagida (Institute of Physics, Tohoku University)

Broken Symmetries

• Jeffrey Goldstone (Trinity College, Cambridge University); Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England)

Secular perturbations of asteroids with high inclination and eccentricity

• Kozai, Yoshihide (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA)

Tentativo di una Teoria Dei Raggi β

Also

• Enrico Fermi

Space Quantization in a Gyrating Magnetic Field

• Rabi, I. I. (Columbia University, New York, NY)

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)

Life at low Reynolds number

• Purcell, E. M. (Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University)

Existence of Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Waves

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

tipa -- 12/30/2010

H.E.S.S. constraints on Dark Matter annihilations towards the Sculptor and Carina Dwarf Galaxies

• Authors: HESS Collaboration

Tycho SN 1572: A Naked Ia Supernova Remnant without Associated Ambient Molecular Cloud

• Authors: Wenwu Tian, Denis A. Leahy

New estimate for the time-dependent thermal nucleosynthesis of $^{180}$Ta$^m$

• Authors: T. Hayakawa, T. Kajino, S. Chiba, G. J. Mathews

SNR 0104-72.3: A remnant of Type Ia SN in a Star-forming region?

• Authors: Jae-Joon Lee, Sangwook Park, John Patrick Hughes, Patrick O. Slane, David N. Burrows

Astrometry of Galactic Star-Forming Region ON2N with VERA: Estimation of the Galactic Constants

• Authors: Kazuma Ando, Takumi Nagayama, Toshihiro Omodaka, Toshihiro Handa, Hiroshi Imai, Akiharu Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Mareki Honma, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Miyaji

tipa -- 12/24/2010

The binary companion of PSR J1740-3052

• Authors: C.G. Bassa, W.F. Brisken, G. Nelemans, I.H. Stairs, B.W. Stappers, M. Kramer

Jets and Gamma-Ray Burst Unification Schemes

• Authors: Jonathan Granot, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

tipa -- 12/23/2010

Type Ia supernova diversity in three-dimensional delayed detonation models from variations in the central white dwarf density at ignition

• Authors: I. R. Seitenzahl, F. Ciaraldi-Schoolmann, F. K. Roepke

Search for inelastic dark matter with the CDMS II experiment

• Authors: CDMS Collaboration

First VLBI Detection of the Radio Remnant of Supernova 1987A: Evidence for Small-scale Features

• Authors: C.-Y. Ng, T. M. Potter, L. Staveley-Smith, S. Tingay, B. M. Gaensler, C. Phillips, A. K. Tzioumis, G. Zanardo

Frame-Dragging Vortexes and Tidal Tendexes Attached to Colliding Black Holes: Visualizing the Curvature of Spacetime

• Authors: Robert Owen, Jeandrew Brink, Yanbei Chen, Jeffrey D. Kaplan, Geoffrey Lovelace, Keith D. Matthews, David A. Nichols, Mark A. Scheel, Fan Zhang, Aaron Zimmerman, Kip S. Thorne

tipa -- 12/22/2010

Radio and Gamma-Ray Constraints on the Emission Geometry and Birthplace of PSR J2043+2740

• Authors: A. Noutsos, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, M. G. Baring, D. Bastieri, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, J. Bregeon, A. Brez, M. Brigida, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, G. Busetto, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, F. Camilo, P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, C. Cecchi, O. Celik, S. Chaty, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, I. Cognard, J. Cohen-Tanugi, S. Colafrancesco, S. Cutini, C. D. Dermer, F. de Palma, P. S. Drell, D. Dumora, C. M. Espinoza, C. Favuzzi, E. C. Ferrara, W. B. Focke, M. Frailis, P. C. C. Freire, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, S. Germani, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, G. Godfrey, P. Grandi, I. A. Grenier, J. E. Grove, L. Guillemot, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, R. E. Hughes, M. S. Jackson, G. Johannesson, A. S. Johnson, T. J. Johnson, W. N. Johnson, S. Johnston, T. Kamae, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, J. Knoedlseder, M. Kramer, M. Kuss, J. Lande, S.-H. Lee, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, A. G. Lyne, A. Makeev, M. Marelli, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, J. Mehault, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, M. Naumann-Godo, P. L. Nolan, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, A. Okumura, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, J. H. Panetta, D. Parent, V. Pelassa, M. Pepe, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, F. Piron, T. A. Porter, S. Rain, P. S. Ray, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, T. Reposeur, R. W. Romani, H. F.-W. Sadrozinski, A. Sander, P. M. Saz Parkinson, C. Sgro, E. J. Siskind, D. A. Smith, P. D. Smith, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, B. W. Stappers, M. S. Strickman, D. J. Suson, H. Takahashi, T. Tanaka, G. Theureau, D. J. Thompson, S. E. Thorsett, O. Tibolla, D. F. Torres, A. Tramacere, T. L. Usher, J. Vandenbroucke, G. Vianello, N. Vilchez, M. Villata, V. Vitale, A. von Kienlin, A. P. Waite, P. Wang, K. Watters, P. Weltevrede, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Ziegler

Improved constraints on cosmic microwave background secondary anisotropies from the complete 2008 South Pole Telescope data

• Authors: E. Shirokoff, C. L. Reichardt, L. Shaw, M. Millea, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H. M. Cho, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, J. Dudley, E. M. George, N. W. Halverson, G. P. Holder, W. L. HOlzapfel, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, D. Luong-Van, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, H. G. Spieler, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Story, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson, O. Zahn

Two Questions About Neutrinos

• Authors: Boris Kayser

Search For Trapped Antihydrogen

• Authors: Gorm B. Andresen, Mohammad D. Ashkezari, Marcelo Baquero-Ruiz, William Bertsche, Paul D. Bowe, Crystal C. Bray, Eoin Butler, Claudio L. Cesar, Steven Chapman, Michael Charlton, Joel Fajans, Tim Friesen, Makoto C. Fujiwara, David R. Gill, Jeffrey S. Hangst, Walter N. Hardy, Ryugo S. Hayano, Michael E. Hayden, Andrew J. Humphries, Richard Hydomako, Svante Jonsell, Lars V. J\orgensen, Lenoid Kurchaninov, Ricardo Lambo, Niels Madsen, Scott Menary, Paul Nolan, Konstantin Olchanski, Art Olin, Alexander Povilus, Petteri Pusa, Francis Robicheaux, Eli Sarid, Sarah Seif El Nasr, Daniel M. Silveira, Chukman So, James W. Storey, Robert I. Thompson, Dirk P. van der Werf, Dean Wilding, Jonathan S. Wurtele, Yasunori Yamazaki

tipa -- 12/21/2010

The Optical Afterglow and z=0.92 Early-type Host Galaxy of the Short GRB 100117A

• Authors: Wen-fai Fong, Edo Berger, Ryan Chornock (Harvard), Nial R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), Andrew J. Levan (U. Warwick), John F. Graham, Andrew S. Fruchter (STScI), Antonino Cucchiara (LBNL), Derek B. Fox (PSU)

A blind detection of a large, complex, Sunyaev--Zel'dovich structure

• Authors: AMI Consortium

Cosmological Limits on Hidden Sector Dark Matter

• Authors: Subinoy Das, Kris Sigurdson (UBC)

Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in central PbPb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV

• Authors: ALICE Collaboration

tipa -- 12/20/2010

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Galaxies at the faint end of the Halpha luminosity function

• Authors: S. Brough (AAO), A.M. Hopkins, R.G. Sharp, M. Gunawardhana, D. Wijesinghe, A.S.G. Robotham, S.P. Driver, I.K. Baldry, S.P. Bamford, J. Liske, J. Loveday, P. Norberg, J.A. Peacock, J.H. Bland-Hawthorn, M.J.I. Brown, E. Cameron, S.M. Croom, C.S. Frenk, C. Foster, D.T. Hill, D.H. Jones, L.S. Kelvin, K. Kuijken, R.C. Nichol, H.R. Parkinson, K. Pimbblet, C.C. Popescu, M. Prescott, W.J. Sutherland, E. Taylor, D. Thomas, R.J. Tuffs, E. van Kampen

Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions at One Loop

• Authors: Brando Bellazzini, Yuval Grossman, Itay Nachshon, Paride Paradisi

Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g-2: a Dyson-Schwinger equation approach

• Authors: Tobias Goecke, Christian S. Fischer, Richard Williams

classic papers of the week -- 179

On Quantum-Electrodynamics and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron

• Schwinger, Julian (Harvard University)

A Model of Pulsars

• Sturrock, P. A. (Applied Physics Department, Institute for Plasma Research, Stanford University)

Statistical Theory of the Energy Levels of Complex Systems. I

• Dyson, Freeman J. (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)

tipa -- 12/17/2010

Object-X: The Brightest Mid-IR Point Source in M33

• Authors: Rubab Khan, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, A. Z. Bonanos

Complementarity of Dark Matter Direct Detection Targets

• Authors: Miguel Pato, Laura Baudis, Gianfranco Bertone, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Louis E. Strigari, Roberto Trotta

SN 2010jl in UGC 5189: Yet another luminous type IIn supernova in a metal-poor galaxy

• Authors: R. Stoll, J. L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, R. W. Pogge, D. M. Szczygiel, G. Pojmanski, J. Antognini, H. Yan

Components of the Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background

• Authors: Floyd W. Stecker, Tonia M. Venters

tipa -- 12/16/2010

Search for Microscopic Black Hole Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

The evolution of the Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature: Measurements of TCMB at high redshift from carbon monoxide excitation

• Authors: P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, R. Srianand, C. Ledoux, S. Lopez

First Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of CMB Polarization Power Spectra at 43 GHz in the Multipole Range 25 <= ell <= 475

• Authors: QUIET Collaboration

What a Two Solar Mass Neutron Star Really Means

• Authors: James M. Lattimer, M. Prakash

130Te Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with CUORICINO

• Authors: E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone III, M. Balata, I. Bandac, M. Barucci, J. W. Beeman, F. Bellini, C. Brofferio, A. Bryant, C. Bucci, L. Canonica, S. Capelli, L. Carbone, M. Carrettoni, M. Clemenza, O. Cremonesi, R. J. Creswick, S. Di Domizio, M. J. Dolinski, L. Ejzak, R. Faccini, H. A. Farach, E. Ferri, E. Fiorini, L. Foggetta, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, A. Giuliani, P. Gorla, E. Guardincerri, T. D. Gutierrez, E. E. Haller, K. Kazkaz, S. Kraft, L. Kogler, C. Maiano, R. H. Maruyama, C. Martinez, M. Martinez, S. Newman, S. Nisi, C. Nones, E. B. Norman, A. Nucciotti, F. Orio, M. Pallavicini, V. Palmieri, L. Pattavina, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, L. Risegari, C. Rosenfeld, C. Rusconi, C. Salvioni, S. Sangiorgio, D. Schaeffer, N. D. Scielzo, M. Sisti, A. R. Smith, C. Tomei, G. Ventura, M. Vignati

tipa -- 12/15/2010

Three Millisecond Pulsars in FERMI LAT Unassociated Bright Sources

• Authors: S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, F. Camilo, M. S. E. Roberts, O. Celik, M. T. Wolff, C. C. Cheung, M. Kerr, T. Pennucci, M. E. DeCesar, I. Cognard, A. G. Lyne, B. W. Stappers, P. C. C. Freire, J. E. Grove, A. A. Abdo, G. Desvignes, D. Donato, E. C. Ferrara, N. Gehrels, L. Guillemot, C. Gwon, A. K. Harding, S. Johnston, M. Keith, M. Kramer, P. F. Michelson, D. Parent, P. M. Saz Parkinson, R. W. Romani, D. A. Smith, G. Theureau, D. J. Thompson, P. Weltevrede, K. S. Wood, M. Ziegler

Neutrino constraints from future nearly all-sky spectroscopic galaxy surveys

• Authors: Carmelita Carbone, Licia Verde, Yun Wang, Andrea Cimatti

Clumpy Streams from Clumpy Halos: Detecting Missing Satellites with Cold Stellar Structures

• Authors: Joo H. Yoon, Kathryn V. Johnston, David W. Hogg

Modeling the Magnetic Field in the Galactic Disk using New Rotation Measure Observations from the Very Large Array

• Authors: Cameron Van Eck, Jo-Anne Brown, Jeroen Stil, Kyle Rae, Sui Ann Mao, Bryan Gaensler, Anvar Shukurov, Russ Taylor, Marijke Haverkorn, Phil Kronberg, Naomi McClure-Griffiths

Search for modulations of the solar Be-7 flux in the next-generation neutrino observatory LENA

• Authors: Michael Wurm (1), Barbara Caccianiga (2), Davide D'Angelo (2), Stefano Davini (3), Franz von Feilitzsch (1), Marianne Göger-Neff (1), Tobias Lachenmaier (4), Timo Lewke (1), Paolo Lombardi (2), Livia Ludhova (2), Quirin Meindl (1), Emanuela Meroni (2), Lino Miramonti (2), Randolph Möllenberg (1), Lothar Oberauer (1), Walter Potzel (1), Gioacchino Ranucci (2), Marc Tippmann (1), Jürgen Winter (1) ((1) TU München, Germany, (2) Università degli Studi e INFN Milano, Italy, (3) Università e INFN Genova, Italy, (4) Universität Tübingen, Germany)

tipa -- 12/14/2010

Suppression and Spatial Variation of Early Galaxies and Minihalos

• Authors: Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, Rennan Barkana, Christopher Hirata

Three-Dimensional Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Current-Driven Instability. II. Relaxation of Pulsar Wind Nebula

• Authors: Yosuke Mizuno, Yuri Lyubarsky, Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, Philip E. Hardee

New Class of High-Energy Transients from Supernova-Circumstellar-Shell Crashes

• Authors: Kohta Murase, Todd A. Thompson, Brian C. Lacki, John F. Beacom

On the alleged duality of the Galactic halo

• Authors: Ralph Schoenrich, Martin Asplund, Luca Casagrande

Supersymmetry and Its Dynamical Breaking

• Authors: Michael Dine, John D. Mason

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.)