today in particle astrophysics

Authors: A. Corsi, E. O. Ofek, D. A. Frail, D. Poznanski, I. Arcavi, A. Gal-Yam, S. R. Kulkarni, K. Hurley, P. A. Mazzali, D. A. Howell, M. M. Kasliwal, Y. Green, D. Murray, D. Xu, S. Ben-ami, J. S. Bloom, B. Cenko, N. M. Law, P. Nugent, R. M. Quimby, V. Pal'shin, J. Cummings, V. Connaughton, K. Yamaoka, A. Rau, W. Boynton, I. Mitrofanov, J. Goldsten

Extreme Feedback and the Epoch of Reionization: Clues in the Local Universe

Authors: Timothy M. Heckman, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Roderik Overzier, Guinevere Kauffmann, Antara Basu-Zych, Claus Leitherer, Ken Sembach, D. Chris Martin, R. Michael Rich, David Schiminovich, Mark Seibert

Search for light gauge bosons of the dark sector at MAMI

Authors: H. Merkel, P. Achenbach, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, J. C. Bernauer, R. Böhm, D. Bosnar, L. Debenjak, A. Denig, M. O. Distler, A. Esser, H. Fonvieille, I. Friščić, D. G. Middleton, U. Müller, L. Nungesser, J. Pochodzalla, M. Rohrbeck, S. Sánchez Majos, B. S. Schlimme, M. Schoth, S. Širca, M. Weinriefer

classic papers of the week -- 181

On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

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Einstein, A.

Gravitational Lenses

Liebes, Sidney (Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University)

A single quantum cannot be cloned

Wootters, W. K. (Center for Theoretical Physics, The University of Texas at Austin); Zurek, W. H. (Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology)

Hideki Yukawa (Department of Physics, Osaka Imperial University)

The Polarization of Starlight by Aligned Dust Grains

Davis, Leverett, Jr.; Greenstein, Jesse L. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Localized visible Ba+ mono-ion oscillator

Neuhauser, W.; Hohenstatt, M.; Toschek, P. E. (Institut für Angewandte Physik I der Universität Heidelberg); Dehmelt, H. (Department of Physics, University of Washington)

tipa -- 1/14/2011

Ab initio calculation of the Hoyle state

Authors: Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Dean Lee, Ulf-G. Meißner

Stellar variability on time-scales of minutes: results from the first 5 years of the Rapid Temporal Survey (RATS)

Authors: Thomas Barclay (1 and 2), Gavin Ramsay (1), Pasi Hakala (3), Ralf Napiwotzki (4), Gijs Nelemans (5), Stephen Potter (6), Ian Todd (7) ((1) Armagh Observatory, (2) MSSL-UCL, (3) Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, (4) University of Hertfordshire, (5) Radboud University Nijmegen, (6) SAAO, (7) Queen's University Belfast)

A New Derivation of GRB Jet Opening Angles from the Prompt Gamma-Ray Emission

Authors: Adam Goldstein, Robert D. Preece, Michael S. Briggs, Alexander J. van der Horst, Sheila McBreen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Valerie Connaughton, William S. Paciesas, Charles A. Meegan, P. N. Bhat, Elisabetta Bissaldi, J. Michael Burgess, Vandiver Chaplin, Roland Diehl, Gerald J. Fishman, Gerard Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Foley, Melissa Gibby, Misty Giles, Jochen Greiner, David Gruber, Sylvain Guiriec, Andreas von Kienlin, Marc Kippen, Arne Rau, Dave Tierney, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

Refined Neutron-Star Mass Determinations for Six Eclipsing X-Ray Pulsar Binaries

Authors: Meredith L. Rawls, Jerome A. Orosz, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Manuel A. P. Torres, Charles D. Bailyn, Michelle M. Buxton

Hunting 1-500 GeV Dark Matter Gamma-Ray Lines with the Fermi LAT

Authors: Gilles Vertongen, Christoph Weniger

Improved Predictions of Reactor Antineutrino Spectra

Authors: Th. A. Mueller, D. Lhuillier, M. Fallot, A. Letourneau, S. Cormon, M. Fechner, L. Giot, T. Lasserre, J. Martino, G. Mention, A. Porta, F. Yermia

tipa -- 1/13/2011

A Deep Photometric Look at Two of Andromeda's Dwarf Spheroidals: X and XVII

Authors: Crystal Brasseur, Hans-Walter Rix, Nicolas F. Martin, Mike Irwin, Annette M. Ferguson, Alan W. McConnachie, Jelte de Jong

A distortion of very--high--redshift galaxy number counts by gravitational lensing

Authors: J. Stuart B. Wyithe (University of Melbourne), Haojing Yan (Ohio State University), Rogier A. Windhorst (Arizona State University), Shude Mao (University of Manchester and NAOC, China)

Discovery of Powerful Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula

Authors: M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli, V. Vittorini, A. Pellizzoni, E. Striani, P. Caraveo, M.C. Weisskopf, A. Tennant, G. Pucella, A. Trois, E. Costa, Y. Evangelista, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, E. Del Monte, R. Campana, M. Pilia, A. De Luca, I. Donnarumma, D. Horns, C. Ferrigno, C.O. Heinke, M. Trifoglio, F. Gianotti, S. Vercellone, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, P.W. Cattaneo, A.W. Chen, T. Contessi, F. D'Ammando, G. DeParis, G. Di Cocco, G. Di Persio, M. Feroci, A. Ferrari, M. Galli, A. Giuliani, M. Giusti, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, F. Fuschino, M. Marisaldi, S. Mereghetti, E. Morelli, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, F. Perotti, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Prest, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, A. Rubini, S. Sabatini, P. Soffitta, E. Vallazza, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, F. Lucarelli, P. Santolamazza, P. Giommi, L. Salotti, G.F. Bignami

Unraveling the Nature of Unidentified High Galactic Latitude Fermi/LAT Gamma-ray Sources with Suzaku

Authors: Koto Maeda, Jun Kataoka, Takeshi Nakamori, Lukasz Stawarz, Ryu Makiya, Tomonori Totani, Chi Chiu Cheung, Davide Donato, Neil Gehrels, Pablo Saz Parkinson, Yoshikazu Kanai, Nobuyuki Kawai, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Rie Sato, Tadayuki Takahashi, Yosuke Takahashi

tipa -- 1/12/2011

On Machine-Learned Classification of Variable Stars with Sparse and Noisy Time-Series Data

Authors: Joseph W. Richards, Dan L. Starr, Nathaniel R. Butler, Joshua S. Bloom, John M. Brewer, Arien Crellin-Quick, Justin Higgins, Rachel Kennedy, Maxime Rischard

Electromagnetic extraction of energy from black hole-neutron star binaries

Authors: Sean T. McWilliams, Janna Levin

Planck Early Results: The all-sky Early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample

Authors: Planck Collaboration

Planck Early Results: Properties of the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane

Authors: Planck Collaboration

Planck Early Results: The Galactic Cold Core Population revealed by the first all-sky survey

Authors: Planck Collaboration

Detection of a spectral break in the extra hard component of GRB 090926A

Authors: Johan Bregeon, Adam Goldstein, Rob Preece, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kenji Toma, Takeshi Uehara (the Fermi Collaboration)

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)