tipa -- 3/18/2011

Metallicity Gradient of a Lensed Face-on Spiral Galaxy at Redshift 1.49

• Authors: T.-T. Yuan (1), L. J. Kewley (1), A. M. Swinbank (2), J. Richard (2,3), R. C. Livermore (2) ((1) IfA, Hawaii (2) Durham, UK (3) Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute)

Mechanisms of Baryon Loss for Dark Satellites in Cosmological SPH Simulations

• Authors: S. Nickerson, G. Stinson, H. M. P. Couchman, J. Bailin, J. Wadsley

Interstellar Sonic and Alfvénic Mach Numbers and the Tsallis Distribution

• Authors: Benjamin M. Tofflemire, Blakesley Burkhart, A. Lazarian

Cooling Rates for Relativistic Electrons Undergoing Compton Scattering in Strong Magnetic Fields

• Authors: Matthew G. Baring, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Peter L. Gonthier

GRBs on probation: testing the UHE CR paradigm with IceCube

• Authors: M. Ahlers, M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, F. Halzen

Observation of Diffuse Cosmic and Atmospheric Gamma Rays at Balloon Altitudes with an Electron-tracking Compton Camera

• Authors: Atsushi Takada, Hidetoshi Kubo, Hironobu Nishimura, Kazuki Ueno, Kaori Hattori, Shigeto Kabuki, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Kentaro Miuchi, Eiichi Mizuta, Tsutomu Nagayoshi, Naoki Nonaka, Yoko Okada, Reiko Orito, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Atsushi Takeda, Toru Tanimori

A comparison between the low-energy spectra from CoGeNT and CDMS

• Authors: J.I. Collar

Extragalactic Very-High-Energy gamma-ray background

• Authors: A.Neronov, D.V.Semikoz

Dark Matter Detection With Electron Neutrinos in Liquid Scintillation Detectors

• Authors: Jason Kumar, John G. Learned, Michinari Sakai, Stefanie Smith

Observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus

• Authors: STAR Collaboration

tipa -- 3/17/2011

A VLA search for 5 GHz radio transients and variables at low Galactic latitudes

• Authors: E. O. Ofek, D. A. Frail, B. Breslauer, S. R. Kulkarni, P. Chandra, A. Gal-Yam, M. M. Kasliwal, N. Gehrels

A more accurate numerical scheme for diffusive shock acceleration

• Authors: A. Achterberg, K.M. Schure

A Magnetar Strength Surface Magnetic Field for the Slowly Spinning Down SGR 0418+5729

• Authors: Tolga Guver, Ersin Gogus, Feryal Ozel

Asymmetry and the Nucleosynthetic Signature of Nearly Edge-Lit Detonation in White Dwarf Cores

• Authors: David A. Chamulak, Casey A. Meakin, Ivo R. Seitenzahl, James W. Truran

Effects of Neutral Hydrogen on Cosmic Ray Precursors in Supernova Remnant Shock Waves

• Authors: John C. Raymond, J. Vink, E.A. Helder, A. de Laat

Gamma-ray observations of the Be/pulsar binary 1A 0535+262 during a giant X-ray outburst

• Authors: VERITAS collaboration

Search for a Dark Matter annihilation signal from the Galactic Center halo with H.E.S.S

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Odd Tracks at Hadron Colliders

• Authors: Patrick Meade, Michele Papucci, Tomer Volansky

Neutrino Physics with Dark Matter Experiments and the Signature of New Baryonic Neutral Currents

• Authors: Maxim Pospelov

Combined CDF and D0 Upper Limits on Standard Model Higgs Boson Production with up to 8.2 fb-1 of Data

• Authors: The CDF, D0 Collaborations, the TEVNPHWG Working Group

tipa -- 3/16/2011

The cosmic-ray electron flux measured by the PAMELA experiment between 1 and 625 GeV

• Authors: PAMELA Collaboration

Constraining the coalescence rate of supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing

• Authors: Z. L. Wen, F. A. Jenet, D. Yardley, G. B. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester

A 3% Solution: Determination of the Hubble Constant with the Hubble Space Telescope and Wide Field Camera 3

• Authors: Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI), Lucas Macri (Texas A&M), Stefano Casertano (STScI), Hubert Lampeitl (U of Portsmouth), Henry C. Ferguson (STScI), Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB), Saurabh W. Jha (Rutgers), Weidong Li (UCB), Ryan Chornock (Harvard CfA)

Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Reconnection and Particle Acceleration: Three-Dimensional Effects

• Authors: Grzegorz Kowal, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, A. Lazarian

Reconstruction of supernova mu/tau-neutrino spectra at scintillator detectors

• Authors: Basudeb Dasgupta, John. F. Beacom

N-mode coherence in collective neutrino oscillations

• Authors: Georg G. Raffelt

Measurement of the mass difference between $t$ and $\bar{t}$ quarks

• Authors: CDF Collaboration

tipa -- 3/15/2011

The formation of the eccentric-orbit millisecond pulsar J1903+0327 and the origin of single millisecond pulsars

• Authors: Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden Observatory), Ed van den Heuvel (UvA), Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON), Gijs Nelemans (Radboud University)

The bright unidentified gamma-ray source 1FGL J1227.9-4852: Can it be associated with an LMXB?

• Authors: A. B. Hill, A. Szostek, S. Corbel, F. Camilo, R. H. D. Corbet, R. Dubois, G. Dubus, P. G. Edwards, E. C. Ferrara, M. Kerr, E. Koerding, D. Kozieł, Ł. Stawarz

Understanding hadronic gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants

• Authors: Damiano Caprioli

Prospects for a Dark Matter annihilation signal towards the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy with ground based Cherenkov telescopes

• Authors: A. Viana, C.M. Medina, J. Peñarrubia, P. Brun, J.F. Glicenstein, K. Kosack, E. Moulin, M. Naumann-Godo, B. Peyaud

Search for First Harmonic Modulation in the Right Ascension Distribution of Cosmic Rays Detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

WMAP7 and future CMB constraints on annihilating dark matter: implications on GeV-scale WIMPs

• Authors: Gert Hütsi, Jens Chluba, Andi Hektor, Martti Raidal

Elliptic flow in 200 A GeV Au+Au collisions and 2.76 A TeV Pb+Pb collisions: insights from viscous hydrodynamics + hadron cascade hybrid model

• Authors: Huichao Song (LBNL), Steffen A. Bass (Duke U.), Ulrich W. Heinz (Ohio State)

The Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector

• Authors: S. J. Waldman (the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

tipa -- 3/14/2011

The Shortest Period Detached Binary White Dwarf System

• Authors: Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, S. J. Kenyon, Carlos Allende Prieto, J. Andrews, S. J. Kleinman, K. I. Winget, D. E. Winget, J. J. Hermes

Keck Observations of the Young Metal-Poor Host Galaxy of the Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass Type Ia Supernova SN 2007if

• Authors: M. Childress, G. Aldering, C. Aragon, P. Antilogus, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, E. Y. Hsiao, S. Loken, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas, G. Smadja, C. Tao, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu

No Confirmed New Isolated Neutron Stars In The SDSS Data Release 4

• Authors: Marcel Agüeros, Bettina Posselt, Scott Anderson, Philip Rosenfield, Frank Haberl, Lee Homer, Bruce Margon, Emily Newsom, Wolfgang Voges

Improving Sensitivity to Weak Pulsations with Photon Probability Weighting

• Authors: Matthew Kerr

classic papers of the week -- 188

Thermal infrared and nonthermal radio - Remarkable correlation in disks of galaxies

• Helou, G.; Soifer, B. T. (California Institute of Technology); Rowan-Robinson, M. (Queen Mary College, London)

Asymptotic behavior and subtractions in the Mandelstam representation

• Marcel Froissart (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

Radiation from Electrons in a Synchrotron

• Elder, F. R.; Gurewitsch, A. M.; Langmuir, R. V.; Pollock, H. C. (Research Laboratory, General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY)

tipa -- 3/11/2011

Small-Scale Structure in the SDSS and LCDM: Isolated L* Galaxies with Bright Satellites

• Authors: Erik J. Tollerud, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Elizabeth J. Barton, James S. Bullock, Christopher Q. Trinh

Runaway stars as progenitors of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: John J. Eldridge, Norbert Langer, Christopher A. Tout

Fast Magnetic Reconnection and Spontaneous Stochasticity

• Authors: Gregory L. Eyink (Johns Hopkins), Alex Lazarian (U Wisconsin), Ethan T. Vishniac (McMaster U)

Upper Bound on the Energy of Particles and Their Secondary Neutrinos

• Authors: Todd A. Thompson, Brian C. Lacki

Locally Cold Flows from Large-Scale Structure

• Authors: M.A. Aragon-Calvo (1), J. Silk (2 and 1), A. S. Szalay (1) ((1) The Johns Hopkins University (2) Oxford University)

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the Power Spectrum of Gravitational Lensing

• Authors: Sudeep Das, Blake D. Sherwin, Paula Aguirre, John W. Appel, J. Richard Bond, C. Sofia Carvalho, Mark J. Devlin, Joanna Dunkley, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Joseph W. Fowler, Amir Hajian, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Adam D. Hincks, Renee Hlozek, Kevin M. Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Kent D. Irwin, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Robert H. Lupton, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Kavilan Moodley, Michael D. Niemack, Michael R. Nolta, Lyman A. Page, Lucas Parker, Erik D. Reese, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Neelima Sehgal, Jon Sievers, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Robert Thornton, Katerina Visnjic, Ed Wollack

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

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