tipa -- 1/11/2011

The maximum mass and radius of neutron stars and the nuclear symmetry energy

• Authors: S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, Sanjay Reddy

The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

• Authors: SDSS-III collaboration

Heterogeneity in Short Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: Jay P. Norris, Neil Gehrels, Jeffrey D. Scargle

First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

Search for Supersymmetry in pp Collisions at 7 TeV in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/10/2011

Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Peculiar Type II Supernovae from Blue Supergiants

• Authors: Io K. W. Kleiser, Dovi Poznanski, Daniel Kasen, Timothy R. Young, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, Peter Challis, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert P. Kirshner, Weidong Li, Thomas Matheson, Peter E. Nugent, Jeffrey M. Silverman

Pulsar Kicks from Active-Sterile Neutrino Transformation in Supernovae

• Authors: Chad T. Kishimoto

Chandra observation of the TeV source HESS J1834-087

• Authors: Zdenka Misanovic, Oleg Kargaltsev, George Pavlov

Evidence For Particle Acceleration to the Knee of the Cosmic Ray Spectrum in Tycho's Supernova Remnant

• Authors: Kristoffer A. Eriksen, John P. Hughes, Carles Badenes, Robert Fesen, Parviz Ghavamian, David Moffett, Paul P. Plucinsky, Cara E. Rakowski, Estela M. Reynoso, Patrick Slane

Supernova Shock Breakout Through a Wind

• Authors: Shmuel Balberg, Abraham Loeb

Correlations in the (Sub)millimeter background from ACTxBLAST

• Authors: Amir Hajian, Marco P. Viero, Graeme Addison, Paula Aguirre, John William Appel, Nick Battaglia, James J. Bock, J. Richard Bond, Sudeep Das, Mark J. Devlin, Simon R. Dicker, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dunner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, John P. Hughes, Joseph W. Fowler, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Renee Hlozek, Kent D. Irwin, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Yen-Ting Lin, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Gaelen Marsden, Felipe Menanteau, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Kavilan Moodley, Calvin B. Netterfield, Michael D. Niemack, Michael R. Nolta, Lyman A. Page, Lucas Parker, Douglas Scott, Neelima Sehgal, Jon Sievers, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Robert Thornton, Ed Wollack

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

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• 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