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tipa -- 3/10/2011

A Study of Carbon Features in Type Ia Supernova Spectra

Authors: Jerod T. Parrent, R. C. Thomas, Robert A. Fesen, G. H. Marion, Peter Challis, Peter M. Garnavich, Dan Milisavljevic, Jòzsef Vinkò, J. Craig Wheeler

The Subluminous and Peculiar Type Ia Supernova PTF09dav

Authors: M. Sullivan, M. M. Kasliwal, P. E. Nugent, D. A. Howell, R. C. Thomas, E. O. Ofek, I. Arcavi, S. Blake, J. Cooke, A. Gal-Yam, I. M. Hook, P. Mazzali, P. Podsiadlowski, R. Quimby, L. Bildsten, J. S. Bloom, S. B. Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, N. Law, D. Poznanski

tipa -- 3/9/2011

Discovery of extended and variable radio structure from the gamma-ray binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883

Authors: J. Moldon (1), S. Johnston (2), M. Ribo (1), J.M. Paredes (1), A.T.Deller (3,4) ((1) Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC-UB), (2) ATNF, CSIRO, (3) NRAO/Univ. Berkeley)

The Galactic Bulge Survey: outline and X-ray observations

Authors: P.G. Jonker, C.G. Bassa, G. Nelemans, D. Steeghs, M.A.P. Torres, T.J. Maccarone, R.I. Hynes, S. Greiss, J. Clem, A. Dieball, V.J. Mikles, C.T. Britt, L. Gossen, A.C. Collazzi, R. Wijnands, J.J.M. In 't Zand, M. Mendez, N. Rea, E. Kuulkers, E.M. Ratti, L.M. van Haaften, C. Heinke, F. Ozel, P.J. Groot, F. Verbunt

Ionizing feedback from massive stars in massive clusters: Fake bubbles and untriggered star formation

Authors: James E. Dale, Ian Bonnell

The Integrated Diffuse X-ray Emission of the Carina Nebula Compared to Other Massive Star-forming Regions

Authors: Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, You-Hua Chu, Robert A. Gruendl, M. S. Oey, Julian M. Pittard

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

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