tipa -- 3/8/2011

A Long, Cold, Early r-process? Neutrino-induced Nucleosynthesis in Supernova He Shells Revisited

• Authors: P. Banerjee (1), W. C. Haxton (2), Y.-Z. Qian (1) ((1) UMN, (2) UCB/LBNL)

Carina OB Stars: X-ray Signatures of Wind Shocks and Magnetic Fields

• Authors: Marc Gagne, Garrett Fehon, Michael R. Savoy, David H. Cohen, Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, Matthew S. Povich, Michael F. Corcoran, Nolan R. Walborn, Nancy Remage Evans, Anthony F.J. Moffat, Yael Naze, Lida M. Oskinova

Background studies for acoustic neutrino detection at the South Pole

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

A robust upper limit on N_eff from BBN, circa 2011

• Authors: Gianpiero Mangano, Pasquale D. Serpico

Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in Opposite-Sign Dilepton Events at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 3/7/2011

Search for Supersymmetry in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in Events with Two Photons and Missing Transverse Energy

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

PTF10iya: A short-lived, luminous flare from the nuclear region of a star-forming galaxy

• Authors: S. Bradley Cenko, Joshua S. Bloom, S. R. Kulkarni, Linda E. Strubbe, Adam A. Miller, Nathaniel R. Butler, Robert M. Quimby, Avishay Gal-Yam, Eran O. Ofek, Eliot Quataert, Lars Bildsten, Dovi Poznanski, Daniel A. Perley, Adam N. Morgan, Alexei V. Filippenko, Iair Arcavi, Sagi Ben-Ami, Antonio Cucchiara, Christopher D. Fassnacht, Yoav Green, Isobel M. Hook, D. Andrew Howell, David J. Lagattuta, Nicholas M. Law, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Peter E. Nugent, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mark Sullivan, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Ofer Yaron

The cosmic X-ray and gamma-ray background from dark matter annihilation

• Authors: Jesus Zavala (1), Mark Vogelsberger (2), Tracy R. Slatyer (3), Abraham Loeb (2), Volker Springel (4) ((1) MPA, (2) Harvard/CfA, (3) IAS, (4) HITS)

Deriving global structure of the Galactic Magnetic Field from Faraday Rotation Measures of extragalactic sources

• Authors: M. S. Pshirkov, P.G.Tinyakov, P.P.Kronberg, K. J. Newton-McGee

classic papers of the week -- 187

The Origin of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

• Hillas, A. M. (University of Leeds)

Test of relativistic gravitation with a space-borne hydrogen maser

• R.F.C. Vessot, M.W. Levine, E.M. Mattison, E.L. Blomberg, T.E. Hoffman, G.U. Nystrom, B.F. Farrel (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA); R. Decher, P.B. Eby, C.R. Baugher, J.W. Watts, D.L. Teuber, F.D. Wills (George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL)

Stability of a Viscous Liquid Contained between Two Rotating Cylinders

• Taylor, G. I.

tipa -- 3/4/2011

A multiwavelength study on the high-energy behaviour of Fermi/LAT pulsars

• Authors: Martino Marelli, Andrea De Luca, Patrizia A. Caraveo

Placing limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background using European Pulsar Timing Array data

• Authors: R. van Haasteren, Y. Levin, G.H. Janssen, K. Lazaridis, M. Kramer B.W. Stappers, G. Desvignes, M.B. Purver, A.G. Lyne, R.D. Ferdman, A. Jessner, I. Cognard, G. Theureau, N. D'Amico, A. Possenti, M. Burgay, A. Corongiu, J.W.T. Hessels, R. Smits, J.P.W. Verbiest

Observational evidence of dissipative photospheres in gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Felix Ryde, Asaf Pe'er, Tanja Nymark, Magnus Axelsson, Elena Moretti, Christoffer Lundman, Milan Battelino, Elisabeth Bissaldi, James Chiang, Miranda S. Jackson, Stefan Larsson, Francesco Longo, Sinead McGlynn, Nicola Omodei

Limits on the GeV Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: P. Beniamini D. Guetta E. Nakar, T. Piran

HESS J1943+213: a candidate extreme BL Lacertae object

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration

The Chandra Carina Complex Project: Deciphering the Enigma of Carina's Diffuse X-ray Emission

• Authors: Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, You-Hua Chu, Marc Gagné, Gordon P. Garmire, Robert A. Gruendl, Kenji Hamaguchi, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Thierry Montmerle, Yaël Nazé, M. S. Oey, Sangwook Park, Robert Petre, Julian M. Pittard

tipa -- 3/3/2011

Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS

• Authors: The MINOS Collaboration

Effects of Massive Neutrinos on the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe

• Authors: Federico Marulli, Carmelita Carbone, Matteo Viel, Lauro Moscardini, Andrea Cimatti

A Millimeter-Wave Galactic Plane Survey With The BICEP Polarimeter

• Authors: E. M. Bierman, T. Matsumura, C. D. Dowell, B. G. Keating, P. Ade, D. Barkats, D. Barron, J. O. Battle, J. J. Bock, H. C. Chiang, T. L. Culverhouse, L. Duband, E. F. Hivon, W. L. Holzapfel, V. V. Hristov, J. P. Kaufman, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, A. E. Lange, E. M. Leitch, P. V. Mason, N. J. Miller, H. T Nguyen, C. Pryke, S. Richter, G. M. Rocha, C. Sheehy, Y. D. Takahashi, K. W. Yoon

Searches for Dark Matter annihilation signatures in the Segue 1 satellite galaxy with the MAGIC-I telescope

• Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration (and others)

An automated archival VLA transients survey

• Authors: M.E.Bell (Southampton), R.P. Fender, J. Swinbank, J.C.A. Miller-Jones, C.J. Law, B. Scheers, H. Spreeuw, M.W. Wise, B.W. Stappers, R.A.M.J. Wijers, J. Hessels, J. Masters

Likelihood Approach to the First Dark Matter Results from XENON100

• Authors: XENON100 Collaboration

tipa -- 3/2/2011

SGR 1806-20 distance and dust properties in molecular clouds by analysis of a flare x-ray echoes

• Authors: Gilad Svirski, Ehud Nakar, Eran O. Ofek

Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhalos

• Authors: Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

A new model for the satellites of the Milky Way in the Lambda CDM cosmology

• Authors: Andreea S. Font, Andrew J. Benson, Richard G. Bower, Carlos F. Frenk, Andrew P. Cooper, Gabriella De Lucia, John C. Helly, Amina Helmi, Yang-Shyang Li, Ian G. McCarthy, Julio F. Navarro, Volker Springel, Else Starkenburg, Jie Wang

Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Antoine Letessier-Selvon, Todor Stanev

Fermi Bubbles: Evidence for a Possible Recent AGN Jet Activity in the Galaxy

• Authors: Fulai Guo, William G. Mathews (UC Santa Cruz)

Efficient Merger of Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies

• Authors: Fazeel Khan, Andreas Just, David Merritt

Zonal shear and super-rotation in a magnetized spherical Couette flow experiment

• Authors: Daniel Brito (LFC), Thierry Alboussière (ISTerre), Philippe Cardin (ISTerre), Nadège Gagnière (ISTerre), Dominique Jault (ISTerre), Patrick La Rizza (ISTerre), Jean-Paul Masson (ISTerre), Henri-Claude Nataf (ISTerre), Denys Schmitt (ISTerre)

tipa -- 3/1/2011

Arecibo PALFA Survey and Einstein@Home: Binary Pulsar Discovery by Volunteer Computing

• Authors: B. Knispel, P. Lazarus, B. Allen, D. Anderson, C. Aulbert, N. D. R. Bhat, O. Bock, S. Bogdanov, A. Brazier, F. Camilo, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes, F. Crawford, J. S. Deneva, G. Desvignes, H. Fehrmann, P. C. C. Freire, D. Hammer, J. W. T. Hessels, F. A. Jenet, V. M. Kaspi, M. Kramer, J. van Leeuwen, D. R. Lorimer, A. G. Lyne, B. Machenschalk, M. A. McLaughlin, C. Messenger, D. J. Nice, M. A. Papa, H. J. Pletsch, R. Prix, S. M. Ransom, X. Siemens, I. H. Stairs, B. W. Stappers, K. Stovall, A. Venkataraman

Networks of gravitational wave detectors and three figures of merit

• Authors: Bernard F. Schutz

Relativistic Jet Dynamics and Calorimetry of Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: N. Wygoda, E. Waxman, D. Frail

The Total Mass of Dark Matter Haloes

• Authors: Donnino Anderhalden, Juerg Diemand

A low energy theory for superfluid and solid matter and its application to the neutron star crust

• Authors: Vincenzo Cirigliano, Sanjay Reddy, Rishi Sharma

Long-Range Lepton Flavor Interactions and Neutrino Oscillations

• Authors: Hooman Davoudiasl, Hye-Sung Lee, William J. Marciano

Measurement of W+W- Production and Search for the Higgs Boson in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 2/28/2011

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Haze from Dark Matter Annihilations and Anisotropic Diffusion

• Authors: Gregory Dobler (KITP/UCSB), Ilias Cholis (SISSA), Neal Weiner (NYU/IAS)

Core-collapse explosions of Wolf-Rayet stars and the connection to type IIb/Ib/Ic supernovae

• Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Eli Livne, Sung-Chul Yoon, Stan Woosley, Roni Waldman, Norbert Langer

On the unreasonable effectiveness of the post-Newtonian approximation in gravitational physics

• Authors: Clifford M. Will

classic papers of the week -- 186

Radiation Around the Earth to a Radial Distance of 107,400 km

• van Allen, James A.; Frank, Louis A. (State University of Iowa, Iowa City)

Invariant Variation Problems

• Emmy Noether

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

• Turing, A. M. (Victoria University of Manchester)

tipa -- 2/25/2011

11B and Constraints on Neutrino Oscillations and Spectra from Neutrino Nucleosynthesis

• Authors: Sam M. Austin, Alex Heger, Clarisse Tur

Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

• Authors: Miguel Preto, Ingo Berentzen, Peter Berczik, Rainer Spurzem

tipa -- 2/24/2011

Spectropolarimetric Evidence for Radiatively Inefficient Accretion in an Optically Dull Active Galaxy

• Authors: Jonathan R. Trump, Tohru Nagao, Hiro Ikeda, Takashi Murayama, Christopher D. Impey, John T. Stocke, Francesca Civano, Martin Elvis, Knud Jahnke, Brandon C. Kelly, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yoshi Taniguchi

The First Galaxies

• Authors: Volker Bromm, Naoki Yoshida

Detection of Jet-like Radio Emission Associated to Geminga

• Authors: A. Pellizzoni, F. Govoni, P. Esposito, M. Murgia, A. Possenti

Constraints on massive sterile neutrino species from current and future cosmological data

• Authors: Elena Giusarma, Martina Corsi, Maria Archidiacono, Roland de Putter, Alessandro Melchiorri, Olga Mena, Stefania Pandolfi

An Introduction to the Chandra Carina Complex Project

• Authors: Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, Michael F. Corcoran, Eric D. Feigelson, Marc Gagné, Thierry Montmerle, M. S. Oey, Nathan Smith, Gordon P. Garmire, Konstantin V. Getman, Matthew S. Povich, Nancy Remage Evans, Yaël Nazé, E. R. Parkin, Thomas Preibisch, Junfeng Wang, Scott J. Wolk, You-Hua Chu, David H. Cohen, Robert A. Gruendl, Kenji Hamaguchi, Robert R. King, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Mark J. McCaughrean, Anthony F. J. Moffat, L. M. Oskinova, Julian M. Pittard, Keivan G. Stassun, Asif ud-Doula, Nolan R. Walborn, Wayne L. Waldron, Ed Churchwell, J. S. Nichols, Stanley P. Owocki, N. S. Schulz

tipa -- 2/23/2011

Equivalence Principle and Gravitational Redshift

• Authors: Michael A. Hohensee, Steven Chu, Achim Peters, Holger Mueller

Spin-Up/Spin-Down models for Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: R. Di Stefano, R. Voss, J.S.W. Claeys

Cosmic recycling of millisecond pulsars

• Authors: Wynn C. G. Ho, Thomas J. Maccarone, Nils Andersson (University of Southampton)

Synthetic off-axis light curves for short gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: H.J. van Eerten, A. I. MacFadyen

tipa -- 2/22/2011

Discovery of two millisecond pulsars in Fermi sources with the Nancay Radio Telescope

• Authors: I. Cognard, L. Guillemot, T. J. Johnson, D. A. Smith, C. Venter, A. K. Harding, M. T. Wolff, C. C. Cheung, D. Donato, A. A. Abdo, J. Ballet, F. Camilo, G. Desvignes, D. Dumora, E. C. Ferrara, P. C. C. Freire, J. E. Grove, M. Keith, M. Kramer, A. G. Lyne, P. F. Michelson, D. Parent, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, R. W. Romani, P. M. Saz Parkinson, B. W. Stappers, G. Theureau, D. J. Thompson, P. Weltevrede, K. S. Wood

Faraday Rotation Measure Synthesis for Magnetic Fields of Galaxies

• Authors: P. Frick, D. Sokoloff, R. Stepanov, R. Beck

Long-duration gamma-ray emissions from 2007 and 2008 winter thunderstorms

• Authors: H. Tsuchiya, T. Enoto, S. Yamada, T. Yuasa, K. Nakazawa, T. Kitaguchi, M. Kawaharada, M. Kokubun, H. Kato, M. Okano, K. Makishima

tipa -- 2/21/2011

Discovery of TeV Gamma Ray Emission from Tycho's Supernova Remnant

• Authors: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, T. Aune, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, E. Collins-Hughes, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, C. Duke, M. Errando, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, N. Galante, D. Gall, G. H. Gillanders, S. Godambe, S. Griffin, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, J. Holder, J. P. Hughes, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, A. S Madhavan, G. Maier, P. Majumdar, S. McArthur, A. McCann, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, R. A. Ong, M. Orr, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, N. Park, J. S. Perkins, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, D. B. Saxon, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, G. Demet Senturk, P. Slane, A. W. Smith, G. Tešić, M. Theiling, S. Thibadeau, K. Tsurusaki, A. Varlotta, V. V. Vassiliev, S. Vincent, M. Vivier, S. P. Wakely, J. E. Ward, T. C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, T. Weisgarber, D. A. Williams, M. Wood, B. Zitzer

Stability of quasi-Keplerian shear flow in a laboratory experiment

• Authors: Ethan Schartman, Hantao Ji, Michael J. Burin, Jeremy Goodman

The ExaVolt Antenna: A Large-Aperture, Balloon-embedded Antenna for Ultra-high Energy Particle Detection

• Authors: P. W. Gorham (1), F. E. Baginski (2), P. Allison (1,3), K. M. Liewer (4), C. Miki (1) B. Hill (1), G. S. Varner (1), ((1) Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, (2) George Washington Univ., (3) Ohio State Univ., (4) Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Gamma-ray emission of accelerated particles escaping a supernova remnant in a molecular cloud

• Authors: Donald C. Ellison, Andrei M. Bykov

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 185

The Hydrodynamic Behavior of Supernovae Explosions

• Colgate, Stirling A.; White, Richard H. (Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA)

On the Quantum Mechanics of Neutrino Oscillation

• Boris Kayser (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University and Division of Physics, National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C.)

World-Wide Effects of Hydromagnetic Waves Due to Argus

• Berthold, W. K.; Harris, A. K.; Hope, H. J. (U. S. Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, NJ)

tipa -- 2/18/2011

Confirmation of enhanced dwarf-sensitive absorption features in the spectra of massive elliptical galaxies: further evidence for a non-universal initial mass function

• Authors: Pieter van Dokkum, Charlie Conroy

Density Variations in the NW Star Stream of M31

• Authors: R. G. Carlberg, Harvey B. Richer, Alan W. McConnachie, Mike Irwin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Aaron L. Dotter, Scott Chapman, Mark Fardal, A. M. N. Ferguson, G. F. Lewis, Julio F. Navarro, Thomas H. Puzia, David Valls-Gabaud

tipa -- 2/17/2011

The First Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Fluence from Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: A. G. Vieregg, K. Palladino, P. Allison, B. M. Baughman, J. J. Beatty, K. Belov, D. Z. Besson, S. Bevan, W. R. Binns, C. Chen, P. Chen, J. M. Clem, A. Connolly, M. Detrixhe, D. De Marco, P. F. Dowkontt, M. DuVernois, P. W. Gorham, E. W. Grashorn, B. Hill, S. Hoover, M. Huang, M. H. Israel, A. Javaid, K. M. Liewer, S. Matsuno, B. C. Mercurio, C. Miki, M. Mottram, J. Nam, R. J. Nichol, A. Romero-Wolf, L. Ruckman, D. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, G. S. Varner, Y. Wang

No Evidence for Evolution in the Far-Infrared-Radio Correlation out to z ~ 2 in the eCDFS

• Authors: Minnie Y. Mao, Minh Huynh, Ray P. Norris, Mark Dickinson, David Frayer, George Helou, Jacqueline Monkiewicz

Discovery of a faint X-ray counterpart and of a parsec-long X-ray tail for the middle-aged, gamma-ray only pulsar PSR J0357+3205

• Authors: A. De Luca, M. Marelli, R.P. Mignani, P.A. Caraveo, W. Hummel, S. Collins, A. Shearer, P.M. Saz Parkinson, A. Belfiore, G.F. Bignami

Maximum gravitational-wave energy emissible in magnetar flares

• Authors: Alessandra Corsi, Benjamin J. Owen

tipa -- 2/16/2011

PAndAS' progeny: extending the M31 dwarf galaxy cabal

• Authors: Jenny C. Richardson, Mike Irwin, Alan W. McConnachie, Nicolas F. Martin, Aaron Dotter, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Scott Chapman, Geraint F. Lewis, Nial R. Tanvir, R. Michael Rich

Enhanced neutrino signals from dark matter annihilation in the Sun via metastable mediators

• Authors: Nicole F. Bell, Kalliopi Petraki

tipa -- 2/15/2011

4U 1907+09: a HMXB running away from the Galactic plane

• Authors: V.V.Gvaramadze, S.Roeser, R.-D.Scholz, E.Schilbach

Re-acceleration of Nonthermal Particles at Weak Cosmological Shock Waves

• Authors: Hyesung Kang (Pusan National University, Korea), Dongsu Ryu (Chungnam National University, Korea)

Cosmic-Ray Proton and Helium Spectra from the First CREAM Flight

• Authors: Y.S. Yoon, H.S. Ahn, P.S. Allison, M.G. Bagliesi, J.J. Beatty, G. Bigongiari, P.J. Boyle, J.T. Childers, N.B. Conklin, S. Coutu, M.A. DuVernois, O. Ganel, J.H. Han, J.A. Jeon, K.C. Kim, M.H. Lee, L. Lutz, P. Maestro, A. Malinine, P.S. Marrocchesi, S.A. Minnick, S.I. Mognet, S. Nam, S. Nutter, I.H. Park, N.H. Park, E.S. Seo, R. Sina, S. Swordy, S.P. Wakely, J. Wu, J. Yang, R. Zei, S.Y. Zinn

Improvement of low energy atmospheric neutrino flux calculation using the JAM nuclear interaction model

• Authors: Morihiro Honda, Takaaki Kajita, Katsuaki Kasahara, Shoichi Midorikawa

tipa -- 2/14/2011

The Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey -- A 700-Square-Degree, Multi-Epoch Radio Dataset -- II: Individual Epoch Transient Statistics

• Authors: Steve Croft, Geoffrey C. Bower, Garrett Keating, Casey Law, David Whysong, Peter K. G. Williams, Melvyn Wright

On detection of the stochastic gravitational-wave background using the Parkes pulsar timing array

• Authors: D. R. B. Yardley, W. A. Coles, G. B. Hobbs, J. P. W. Verbiest, R. N. Manchester, W. van Straten, F. A. Jenet, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. J. Champion, A. W. Hotan, S. Oslowski, J. E. Reynolds, J. M. Sarkissian

The properties of SN Ib/c locations

• Authors: G. Leloudas, A. Gallazzi, J. Sollerman, M.D. Stritzinger, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, D. Malesani, M.J. Michałowski, B. Milvang-Jensen, M. Smith

Shock Breakout in Type II Plateau Supernovae: Prospects for High Redshift Supernova Surveys

• Authors: N. Tominaga, T. Morokuma, S. I. Blinnikov, P. Baklanov, E. I. Sorokina, K. Nomoto

Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in sqrt{s} = 7 TeV pp

• Authors: The ATLAS Collaboration