classic papers of the week -- 184

Sweet's Mechanism for Merging Magnetic Fields in Conducting Fluids

• Parker, E. N. (Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, The University of Chicago)

B¹², C¹², and the Red Giants

• Cook, C. W.; Fowler, W. A.; Lauritsen, C. C.; Lauritsen, T. (Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

Derivation of the Brueckner Many-Body Theory

• Goldstone, J. (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)

tipa -- 2/11/2011

Arp220: extinction and merger-induced star formation

• Authors: H. Engel, R. I. Davies, R. Genzel, L. J. Tacconi, E. Sturm, D. Downes

The Cosmic Core-collapse Supernova Rate does not match the Massive-Star Formation Rate

• Authors: Shunsaku Horiuchi, John F. Beacom, Christopher S. Kochanek, Jose L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, Todd A. Thompson

Metallicity and the Universality of the IMF

• Authors: Andrew T. Myers, Mark R. Krumholz, Richard I. Klein, Christopher F. McKee

A Constraint on the Organization of the Galactic Center Magnetic Field Using Faraday Rotation

• Authors: C. J. Law (1), M. A. Brentjens (2), G. Novak (3) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) ASTRON, (3) Northwestern Univ.)

COrE (Cosmic Origins Explorer) A White Paper

• Authors: The COrE Collaboration

tipa -- 2/10/2011

Binary progenitor models of type IIb supernovae

• Authors: J.S.W. Claeys, S.E. de Mink, O.R. Pols, J.J. Eldridge, M. Baes

Penrose At Work

• Authors: Renyue Cen (Princeton University Observatory)

Measurement of the neutrino component of an anti-neutrino beam observed by a non-magnetized detector

• Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, S. J. Brice, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, B. T. Fleming, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, J. A. Green, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, S. K. Linden, W. C. Louis, K. B. M. Mahn, W. Marsh, C. Mauger, W. Metcalf, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, R. H. Nelson, V. Nguyen, P. Nienaber, J. A. Nowak, B. Osmanov, A. Patch, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov, C. C. Polly, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, A. D. Russell, M. H. Shaevitz, M. Sorel, J. Spitz, I. Stancu, R. J. Stefanski, R. Tayloe, M. Tzanov, R. G. Van de Water, M. O. Wascko, D. H. White, M. J. Wilking, G. P. Zeller, E. D. Zimmerman

tipa -- 2/9/2011

Spectral evolution of long Gamma Ray Burst prompt emission: electrostatic acceleration and adiabatic expansion

• Authors: F. Massaro (SAO), J. E. Grindlay (Harvard - SAO)

Radio transients from stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes

• Authors: Dimitrios Giannios, Brian D. Metzger (Princeton)

Supernova cosmology: legacy and future

• Authors: Ariel Goobar, Bruno Leibundgut

The neutrino-neutrino interaction effects in supernovae: the point of view from the matter basis

• Authors: S. Galais, J. Kneller, C. Volpe

Spectroscopic Determination of the Low Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

• Authors: K. Simon Krughoff, Andrew Connolly, Joshua Frieman, Mark SubbaRao, Gary Kilper, Donald Schneider

The Angular Momenta of Neutron Stars and Black Holes as a Window on Supernovae

• Authors: J. M. Miller (1), M. C. Miller (2), C. S. Reynolds (2) ((1) University of Michigan, (2) University of Maryland)

Is the metallicity of their hosts a good measure of the metallicity of Type Ia supernovae?

• Authors: Eduardo Bravo, Carles Badenes

tipa -- 2/8/2011

Exploring the Galaxy Mass-Metallicity Relation at z~3-5

• Authors: Tanmoy Laskar, Edo Berger, Ranga-Ram Chary

Radio Remnants of Compact Binary Mergers - the Electromagnetic Signal that will follow the Gravitational Waves

• Authors: Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran

On the Formation of Double White Dwarfs through Stable Mass Transfer and a Common Envelope

• Authors: T.E. Woods, N. Ivanova, M. van der Sluys, S. Chaichenets

Violent mergers of nearly equal-mass white dwarf as progenitors of subluminous Type Ia supernovae

• Authors: R. Pakmor, S. Hachinger, F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt

tipa -- 2/7/2011

Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the vicinity of PSR B1706-44 and G343.1-2.3 with H.E.S.S

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Fueling lobes of radio galaxies: statistical particle acceleration and the extragalactic gamma-ray background

• Authors: F. Massaro, M. Ajello

Standard GRB, Dirty Fireballs, and the Excluded Middle

• Authors: David Eichler

Contribution to the Diffuse Radio Background from Extragalactic Radio Sources

• Authors: Tessa Vernstrom, Douglas Scott, Jasper Wall

Incomplete carbon-oxygen detonation in Type Ia supernovae

• Authors: Inma Domínguez, Alexei Khokhlov

Kepler planet candidates consistent with core accretion

• Authors: Andrew Gould (OSU), Jason Eastman (OSU)

classic papers of the week -- 183

The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts. I

• Bell, A. R. (Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England)

Planck's law and the light quantum hypothesis

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• Bose (Dacca University, India)

Experimental Test of Local Hidden-Variable Theories

• Freedman, Stuart J.; Clauser, John F. (Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley)

tipa -- 2/4/2011

KOI-126: A Triply-Eclipsing Hierarchical Triple with Two Low-Mass Stars

• Authors: Joshua A. Carter, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Darin Ragozzine, Matthew J. Holman, Samuel N. Quinn, David W. Latham, Lars A. Buchhave, Jeffrey Van Cleve, William D. Cochran, Miles T. Cote, Michael Endl, Eric B. Ford, Michael R. Haas, Jon M. Jenkins, David G. Koch, Jie Li, Jack J. Lissauer, Phillip J. MacQueen, Christopher K. Middour, Jerome A. Orosz, Jason F. Rowe, Jason H. Steffen, William F. Welsh

Discovery of millisecond pulsars in radio searches of southern Fermi LAT sources

• Authors: M. J. Keith, S. Johnston, P. S. Ray, E. C. Ferrara, P. M. Saz Parkinson, O. Celik, A. Belfiore, D. Donato, C. C. Cheung, A. A. Abdo, F. Camilo, P. C. C. Freire, L. Guillemot, A. K. Harding, M. Kramer, P. F. Michelson, S. M. Ransom, R. W. Romani, D. A. Smith, D. J. Thompson, P. Weltevrede, K. S. Wood

The GeV-TeV Galactic gamma-ray diffuse emission I. Uncertainties in the predictions of the hadronic component

• Authors: Delahaye Timur, Fiasson Armand, Martin Pohl, Pierre Salati

Calculation of High Energy Neutrino-Nucleon Cross Sections and Uncertainties Using the MSTW Parton Distribution Functions and Implications for Future Experiments

• Authors: Amy Connolly, Robert S. Thorne, David Waters

tipa -- 2/3/2011

Growing Massive Black Holes in a Local Group Environment: the Central Supermassive, Slowly Sinking, and Ejected Populations

• Authors: Miroslav Micic, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Steinn Sigurdsson

The diffuse supernova neutrino background: Expectations and uncertainties derived from SN1987A

• Authors: Francesco Vissani, Giulia Pagliaroli

tipa -- 2/2/2011

The Density and Pseudo-Phase-Space Density Profiles of CDM halos

• Authors: Aaron D. Ludlow, Julio F. Navarro, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Volker Springel, Adrian Jenkins, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White

Metals at the surface of last scatter

• Authors: Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Christopher M. Hirata, Marc Kamionkowski

Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: the rate and delay-time distribution of type Ia supernovae out to redshift 2

• Authors: Or Graur, Dovi Poznanski, Dan Maoz, Naoki Yasuda, Tomonori Totani, Masataka Fukugita, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Avishay Gal-Yam, Assaf Horesh, Buell T. Jannuzi

Measuring Black Hole Spin by the Continuum-Fitting Method: Effect of Deviations from the Novikov-Thorne Disc Model

• Authors: Akshay K. Kulkarni, Robert F. Penna, Roman V. Shcherbakov, James F. Steiner, Ramesh Narayan, Aleksander S\kadowski, Yucong Zhu, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Shane W. Davis, Jonathan C. McKinney

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of the Gamma-ray Outburst from 3C 454.3 in November 2010

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT collaboration

tipa -- 2/1/2011

A terrestrial search for dark contents of the vacuum, such as dark energy, using atom interferometry

• Authors: Ronald J. Adler, Holger Mueller, Martin L. Perl

Towards Realistic Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: W. David Arnett, Casey Meakin

On the inconsistency between the estimates of cosmic star formation rate and stellar mass density of high redshift galaxies

• Authors: Jun-Hwan Choi (UNLV, UKY), Kentaro Nagamine (UNLV)

An X-ray Imaging Survey of Quasar Jets -- Testing the Inverse Compton Model

• Authors: H. L. Marshall (1), J. M. Gelbord (1,8,9), D. A. Schwartz (2), D.W. Murphy (3), J. E. J. Lovell (4,10), D. M. Worrall (2,5), M. Birkinshaw (2,5), E. S. Perlman (6,11), L. Godfrey (3,7), D. L. Jauncey (3) ((1) MIT, (2) SAO, (3) JPL, (4) CSIRO ATNF, (5) U. Bristol, (6) UMBC, (7) Curtin U. of Tech., (8) Durham U., (9) PSU, (10) U. Tasmania, (11) FIT)

Ohmic Power of Ideal Pulsars

• Authors: Andrei Gruzinov

The first Fermi multifrequency campaign on BL Lacertae: characterizing the low-activity state of the eponymous blazar

• Authors: A.A. Abdo, et al. (The Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration)

Nuclear recoil energy scale in liquid xenon with application to the direct detection of dark matter

• Authors: Peter Sorensen, Carl Eric Dahl

tipa -- 1/31/2011

Localization of gravitational wave sources with networks of advanced detectors

• Authors: S. Klimenko, G. Vedovato, M. Drago, G. Mazzolo, G. Mitselmakher, C. Pankow, G. Prodi, V. Re, F. Salemi, I. Yakushin

Prospects for Detecting Dark Matter Halo Substructure with Pulsar Timing

• Authors: Shant Baghram, Niayesh Afshordi, Kathryn M. Zurek

Simulations on a Moving Mesh: The Clustered Formation of Population III Protostars

• Authors: Thomas Greif, Volker Springel, Simon White, Simon Glover, Paul Clark, Rowan Smith, Ralf Klessen, Volker Bromm

The Delay of Population III Star Formation by Supersonic Streaming Velocities

• Authors: Thomas Greif, Simon White, Ralf Klessen, Volker Springel

Constraints from the first LHC data on hadronic event generators for ultra-high energy cosmic-ray physics

• Authors: David d'Enterria, Ralph Engel, Tanguy Pierog, Sergey Ostapchenko, Klaus Werner

classic papers of the week -- 182

Cosmology for Grand Unified Theories with Radiatively Induced Symmetry Breaking

• Andreas Albrecht, Paul J. Steinhardt (Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania)

Electromagnetic Structure of the Proton and Neutron

• Hofstadter, R.; Bumiller, F.; Yearian, M. R. (Department of Physics and High-Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford University)

The Conservation of Photons

• Lewis, Gilbert N. (Berkeley, California)

tipa -- 1/28/2011

Pop. III stars from turbulent fragmentation at redshift ~ 11

• Authors: Joaquin Prieto, Paolo Padoan, Raul Jimenez, Leopoldo Infante

The Formation and Fragmentation of Disks around Primordial Protostars

• Authors: Paul C. Clark, Simon C.O. Glover, Rowan J. Smith, Thomas H. Greif, Ralf S. Klessen, Volker Bromm

tipa -- 1/27/2011

Self-Regulated Star Formation in Galaxies via Momentum Input from Massive Stars

• Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (1), Eliot Quataert (1), Norman Murray (2) ((1) Berkeley, (2) CITA)

UHECR Acceleration at Filaments of Cosmological Structure Formation

• Authors: Mikhail Malkov, Roald Sagdeev, Patrick Diamond

Prelude to a double degenerate merger: the onset of mass transfer and its impact on gravitational waves and surface detonations

• Authors: Marius Dan, Stephan Rosswog, James Guillochon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

tipa -- 1/26/2011

Magnetic fields in Local Group dwarf irregulars

• Authors: Krzysztof T. Chyzy, Marek Wezgowiec, Rainer Beck, Dominik J. Bomans

Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter halos of galaxies

• Authors: John Kormendy, Ralf Bender

Bounding the Time Delay between High-energy Neutrinos and Gravitational-wave Transients from Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: Bruny Baret, Imre Bartos, Boutayeb Bouhou, Alessandra Corsi, Irene Di Palma, Corinne Donzaud, Véronique Van Elewyck, Chad Finley, Gareth Jones, Antoine Kouchner, Szabolcs Màrka, Zsuzsa Màrka, Luciano Moscoso, Eric Chassande-Mottin, Maria Alessandra Papa, Thierry Pradier, Peter Raffai, Jameson Rollins, Patrick Sutton

On the Detectability of High-Energy Galactic Neutrino Sources

• Authors: Francesco Vissani, Felix Aharonian, Narek Sahakyan

Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments

• Authors: Tanja Bode, Tamara Bogdanovic, Roland Haas, James Healy, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker

tipa -- 1/25/2011

Mean Interplanetary Magnetic Field Measurement Using the ARGO-YBJ Experiment

• Authors: G. Aielli, C. Bacci, B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini, X.J. Bi, C. Bleve, P. Branchini, A. Budano, S. Bussino, A.K. Calabrese Melcarne, P. Camarri, Z. Cao, A. Cappa, R. Cardarelli, S. Catalanotti, C. Cattaneo, P. Celio, S.Z. Chen, T.L. Chen, Y. Chen, P. Creti, S.W. Cui, B.Z. Dai, G. D'Alí Staiti, Danzengluobu, M. Dattoli, I. De Mitri, B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli, M. De Vincenzi, T. Di Girolamo, X.H. Ding, G. Di Sciascio, C.F. Feng, Z.Y. Feng, Zhenyong Feng, F. Galeazzi, P. Galeotti, R. Gargana, Q.B. Gou, Y.Q. Guo, H.H. He, Haibing Hu, Hongbo Hu, Q. Huang, M. Iacovacci, R. Iuppa, I. James, H.Y. Jia, Labaciren, H.J. Li, J.Y. Li, X.X. Li, B. Liberti, G. Liguori, C. Liu, C.Q. Liu, M.Y. Liu, J. Liu, H. Lu, X. H. Ma, G. Mancarella, S.M. Mari, G.Marsella, D. Martello, S. Mastroianni, X.R. Meng, P. Montini, C.C. Ning, A. Pagliaro, M. Panareo, L. Perrone, P. Pistilli, X.B. Qu, E. Rossi, F. Ruggieri, L. Saggese, P. Salvini, R. Santonico, P.R. Shen, X.D. Sheng, F. Shi, C. Stanescu, A. Surdo, Y.H. Tan, P. Vallania, S. Vernetto, C. Vigorito, B. Wang, H. Wang, C.Y. Wu, H.R. Wu, Z.G. Yao, B. Xu, L. Xue, Y.X. Yan, Q.Y. Yang, X.C. Yang, A.F. Yuan, M. Zha, H.M. Zhang, JiLong Zhang, JianLi Zhang, L. Zhang, P. Zhang, X.Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Zhaxisangzhu, Zhaxiciren, X.X. Zhou, F.R. Zhu, Q.Q. Zhu, G. Zizzi (The ARGO-YBJ Collaboration)

Dependences of Type Ia Supernovae Lightcurve Parameters on the Host Galaxy Star Formation Rate and Metallicity

• Authors: Kohki Konishi, David Cinabro, Peter M. Garnavich, Yutaka Ihara, Richard Kessler, John Marriner, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Harold Spinka, J. Craig Wheeler, Naoki Yasuda

The missing link: Merging neutron stars naturally produce jet-like structures and can power short Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Luciano Rezzolla, Bruno Giacomazzo, Luca Baiotti, Jonathan Granot, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Miguel A. Aloy

MAGIC discovery of VHE Emission from the FSRQ PKS 1222+21

• Authors: J. Aleksić, L. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, M. Backes, J. Barrio, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, A. Berdyugin, K. Berger, E. Bernardini, A. Biland, O. Blanch, R. Bock, A. Boller, G. Bonnoli, D. Borla Tridon, I. Braun, Dr. Thomas Bretz, A. Cañellas, E. Carmona, A. Carosi, P. Colin, E. Colombo, J. Contreras, J. Cortina, L. Cossio, S. Covino, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, E. De Cea del Pozo, Dr. Barbara De Lotto, Dr. Carlos Delgado Mendez, A. Diago Ortega, M. Doert, A. Domìnguez, D. Dominis Prester, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsaesser, D. Ferenc, M. Fonseca, L. Font, C. Fruck, R. Garcìa Lòpez, M. Garczarczyk, D. Garrido, G. Giavitto, N. Godinović, D. Hadasch, D. Häfner, A. Herrero, D. Hildebrand, D. Höhne-Mönch, J. Hose, D. Hrupec, B. Huber, T. Jogler, S. Klepser, T. Krahenbuhl, J. Krause, A. La Barbera, D. Lelas, E. Leonardo, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, M. López, E. Lorenz, M. Makariev, G. Maneva, N. Mankuzhiyil, K. Mannheim, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, M. Martínez, Dr. Daniel Mazin, M. Meucci, J. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, H. Miyamoto, Mr. Javier Moldón, A. Moralejo, D. Nieto, Dr. Kari Nilsson, R. Orito, I. Oya, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, S. Pardo, J. Paredes, S. Partini, M. Pasanen, F. Pauss, M. Perez-Torres, Dr. Massimo Persic, L. Peruzzo, M. Pilia, J. Pochon, F. Prada, Dr. P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, I. Puljak, I. Reichardt, R. Reinthal, W. Rhode, Marc Ribó, Dr. Javier Rico, S. Rügamer, A. Saggion, Mr. Koji Saito, T. Saito, M. Salvati, K. Satalecka, V. Scalzotto, V. Scapin, C. Schultz, T. Schweizer, M. Shayduk, S. Shore, A. Sillanpää, J. Sitarek, D. Sobczynska, F. Spanier, S. Spiro, A. Stamerra, B. Steinke, J. Storz, N. Strah, T. Surić, L. Takalo, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzić, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, M. Thom, O. Tibolla, Dr. Miguel-Angel Perez-Torres, A. Treves, H. Vankov, P. Vogler, R. Wagner, Q. Weitzel, V. Zabalza, F. Zandanel, R. Zanin (the MAGIC collaboration), Y. Tanaka, D. Wood, S. Buson

The Astrophysics of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Kumiko Kotera, Angela V. Olinto

Dark matter at DeepCore and IceCube

• Authors: V. Barger, Y. Gao, D. Marfatia

tipa -- 1/24/2011

Heavy Nuclei Synthesized in Gamma-Ray Burst Outflows as the Source of UHECRs

• Authors: Brian D. Metzger, Dimitrios Giannios, Shunsaku Horiuchi

PTF 10bzf (SN 2010ah): a broad-line Ic supernova discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory

• 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)