today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 1/7/2011

Sub-millimetre galaxies reside in dark matter halos with masses greater than 3x10^11 solar masses

Authors: Alexandre Amblard, Asantha Cooray, Paolo Serra (UC Irvine), B. Altieri, V. Arumugam, H. Aussel, A. Blain, J. Bock, A. Boselli, V. Buat, N. Castro-Rodriguez, A. Cava, P. Chanial, E. Chapin, D.L. Clements, A. Conley, L. Conversi, C.D. Dowell, E. Dwek, S. Eales, D. Elbaz, D. Farrah, A. Franceschini, W. Gear, J. Glenn, M. Griffin, M. Halpern, E. Hatziminaoglou, E. Ibar, K. Isaak, R.J. Ivison, A.A. Khostovan, G. Lagache, L. Levenson, N. Lu, S. Madden, B. Maffei, G. Mainetti, L. Marchetti, G. Marsden, K. Mitchell-Wynne, H.T. Nguyen, B. O'Halloran, S.J. Oliver, A. Omont, M.J. Page, P. Panuzzo, A. Papageorgiou, C.P. Pearson, I. Perez-Fournon, M. Pohlen, N. Rangwala, I.G. Roseboom, M. Rowan-Robinson, M. Sanchez Portal, B. Schulz, Douglas Scott, N. Seymour, D.L. Shupe, A.J. Smith, J.A. Stevens, M. Symeonidis, M. Trichas, K. Tugwell, M. Vaccari, E. Valiante, I. Valtchanov, J. D. Vieira, L. Vigroux, L. Wang, R. Ward, G. Wright, C.K. Xu, M. Zemcov

Implications for the origin of short gamma-ray bursts from their observed positions around their host galaxies

Authors: Ross P. Church, Andrew J. Levan, Melvyn B. Davies, Nial Tanvir

The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury VIII. The Global Star Formation Histories of 60 Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume

Authors: Daniel R. Weisz (1,2), Julianne J. Dalcanton (1), Benjamin F. Williams (1), Karoline M. Gilbert (1,9), Evan D. Skillman (2), Anil C. Seth (3), Andrew E. Dolphin (4), Kristen B. W. McQuinn (2), Stephanie M. Gogarten (1), Jon Holtzman (5), Keith Rosema (1), Andrew Cole (6), Igor D. Karachentsev (7), Dennis Zaritsky (8) ((1) University of Washington, (2) University of Minnesota, (3) CfA Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (4) Raytheon, (5) New Mexico State University, (6) University of Tasmania, (7) Russian Academy of Sciences, (8) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, (9) Hubble Fellow)

A unified model of the magnetar and radio pulsar bursting phenomenology

Authors: Rosalba Perna (JILA/Colorado), Jose A. Pons (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain)

Shock Breakout in Dense Mass Loss: Luminous Supernovae

Authors: Roger A. Chevalier, Christopher M. Irwin

Magnetic field amplification in collapsing, non-rotating stellar cores

Authors: Martin Obergaulinger (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Hans-Thomas Janka (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)

Discovery and Cosmological Implications of SPT-CL J2106-5844, the Most Massive Known Cluster at z > 1

Authors: R. J. Foley, K. Andersson, G. Bazin, T. de Haan, J. Ruel, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, R. Armstrong, M. L. N. Ashby, M. Bautz, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, M. Bonamente, M. Brodwin, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, A. Clocchiatti, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, S. Desai, M. A. Dobbs, J. P. Dudley, G. G. Fazio, W. R. Forman, G. Garmire, E. M. George, M. D. Gladders, A. H. Gonzalez, N. W. Halverson, F. W. High, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, J. D. Hrubes, C. Jones, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, D. Luong-Van, D. P. Marrone, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. S. Murray, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, C. L. Reichardt, A. Rest, J. E. Ruhl, B. R. Saliwanchik, A. Saro, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, J. Song, H. G. Spieler, B. Stalder, S. A. Stanford, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Story, C. W. Stubbs, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, A. Vikhlinin, R. Williamson, A. Zenteno

tipa -- 1/6/2011

The X-Ray Polarization Signature of Quiescent Magnetars: Effect of Magnetospheric Scattering and Vacuum Polarization

Authors: Rodrigo Fernández (IAS), Shane W. Davis (IAS, CITA)

EGMF Constraints from Simultaneous GeV-TeV Observations of Blazars

Authors: A. M. Taylor, I. Vovk, A. Neronov

tipa -- 1/5/2011

A Beaming-Independent Estimate of the Energy Distribution of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts: Initial Results and Future Prospects

Authors: Isaac Shivvers, Edo Berger (Harvard)

Progenitor for the Extremely Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007bi

Authors: Takashi Yoshida, Hideyuki Umeda (University of Tokyo)

tipa -- 1/4/2011

What Does a Submillimeter Galaxy Selection Actually Select? The Dependence of Submillimeter Flux Density on Star Formation Rate and Dust Mass

Authors: Christopher C. Hayward (CfA), Dušan Kereš (Berkeley), Patrik Jonsson (CfA), Desika Narayanan (Arizona), T. J. Cox (Carnegie), Lars Hernquist (CfA)

A Search for Radio Transients in VLA Archival Images of the 3C 286 Field

Authors: Geoffrey C. Bower, Destry Saul

Is GeV Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts of External Shock Origin?

Authors: Amanda Maxham, Bin-Bin Zhang, Bing Zhang

Hydrodynamical models of Type II-Plateau Supernovae

Authors: Melina C. Bersten, Omar Benvenuto, Mario Hamuy

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)

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)