tipa -- 3/31/2011

The End of Helium Reionization at z~2.7 Inferred from Cosmic Variance in HST/COS HeII Lyman Alpha Absorption Spectra

• Authors: Gábor Worseck (1), J. Xavier Prochaska (1), Matthew McQuinn (2), Aldo Dall'Aglio (3), Cora Fechner (4), Joseph F. Hennawi (5), Dieter Reimers (6), Philipp Richter (4), Lutz Wisotzki (3) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory at University of California Santa Cruz, (2) University of California Berkeley, (3) Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, (4) Universität Potsdam, (5) Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, (6) Hamburger Sternwarte/Universität Hamburg)

Antimatter production in supernova remnants

• Authors: M.Kachelriess, S.Ostapchenko, R.Tomas

A Robust Approach to Constraining Dark Matter from Gamma-Ray Data

• Authors: Eric J. Baxter, Scott Dodelson

Gravity modes as a way to distinguish between hydrogen- and helium-burning red giant stars

• Authors: Timothy R. Bedding, Benoit Mosser, Daniel Huber, Josefina Montalban, Paul Beck, Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Rafael A. Garcia, Andrea Miglio, Dennis Stello, Timothy R. White, Joris De Ridder, Saskia Hekker, Conny Aerts, Caroline Barban, Kevin Belkacem, Anne-Marie Broomhall, Timothy M. Brown, Derek L. Buzasi, Fabien Carrier, William J. Chaplin, Maria Pia Di Mauro, Marc-Antoine Dupret, Soeren Frandsen, Ronald L. Gilliland, Marie-Jo Goupil, Jon M. Jenkins, Thomas Kallinger, Steven Kawaler, Hans Kjeldsen, Savita Mathur, Arlette Noels, Victor Silva Aguirre, Paolo Ventura

Solar neutrino-electron scattering as background limitation for double beta decay

• Authors: N. F. de Barros, K. Zuber

First Evidence for the Suppressed Decay B- -> DK-, D -> K+pi-

• Authors: Belle Collaboration

Measurements of Direct CP Violating Asymmetries in Charmless Decays of Strange Bottom Mesons and Bottom Baryons

• Authors: CDF Collaboration: T. Aaltonen, et al

tipa -- 3/30/2011

The correlation structure of dark matter halo properties

• Authors: Akila Jeeson-Daniel (1,2), Claudio Dalla Vecchia (2,3), Marcel R. Haas (2,4), Joop Schaye (2) ((1) MPA (2) Leiden (3) MPE (4) STScI)

High Energy Neutrino Emission from the Earliest Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Shan Gao, Kenji Toma, Peter Meszaros

The Discovery and Nature of Optical Transient CSS100217:102913+404220

• Authors: A.J. Drake, S.G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, J. Anderson, R. Roy, V. Mohan, S. Ravindranath, D. Frail, S. Gezari, James D. Neill, L.C. Ho, J.L. Prieto, D. Thompson, J. Thorstensen, M. Wagner, R. Kowalski, J. Chiang, J.E. Grove, F.K. Schinzel, D.L. Wood, L. Carrasco, E. Recillas, L. Kewley, K.N. Archana, Aritra Basu, Yogesh Wadadekar, Brijesh Kumar, A.D. Myers, E.S. Phinney, R. Williams, M.J. Graham, M. Catelan, E. Beshore, S. Larson, E. Christensen

Internal gamma gamma-opacity in Active Galactic Nuclei and the consequences for the TeV observations of M87 and Cen A

• Authors: Katharina A. Brodatzki, David J. S. Pardy, Julia K. Becker, Reinhard Schlickeiser

A search for Very High Energy gamma-ray emission from Sco X-1 with the MAGIC telescopes

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

Observations of the young supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, Fermi LAT Collaboration

tipa -- 3/29/2011

Cosmological and Astrophysical Neutrino Mass Measurements

• Authors: K. N. Abazajian, E. Calabrese, A. Cooray, F. De Bernardis, S. Dodelson, A. Friedland, G. M. Fuller, S. Hannestad, B. G. Keating, E. V. Linder, C. Lunardini, A. Melchiorri, R. Miquel, E.Pierpaoli, J. Pritchard, P. Serra, M. Takada, Y. Y. Y. Wong

High energy cosmic-ray interactions with particles from the Sun

• Authors: Kristoffer K. Andersen, Spencer R. Klein

WIMP astronomy with liquid-noble and cryogenic direct-detection experiments

• Authors: Annika H. G. Peter

Supernova discoveries 2010: statistics and trends

• Authors: Avishay Gal-Yam, Paolo Mazzali

Extended X-ray emission in the vicinity of the microquasar LS 5039: pulsar wind nebula?

• Authors: Martin Durant (1), Oleg Kargaltsev (1), George G. Pavlov (2,3), Chulhoon Chang (2), Gordon P. Garmire (2), ((1) University of Florida, (2) Pennsylvania State University, (3) St.-Petersburg State Polytechnical University)

A Second Relativistic Mean Field and Virial Equation of State for Astrophysical Simulations

• Authors: G. Shen, C. J. Horowitz, E. O'Connor

Non-relativistic radiation mediated shock breakouts: II. Bolometric properties of SN shock breakout

• Authors: Boaz Katz, Nir Sapir, Eli Waxman

The neutrino spectral split in core-collapse supernovae: a magnetic resonance phenomenon

• Authors: Sebastien Galais, Cristina Volpe

The Progenitor-Independent Nature of Gamma-Ray Burst Pulses

• Authors: Jon Hakkila, Robert D. Preece

Mass measurements of very neutron-deficient Mo and Tc isotopes and their impact on rp process nucleosynthesis

• Authors: E. Haettner, D. Ackermann, G. Audi, K. Blaum, M. Block, S. Eliseev, T. Fleckenstein, F. Herfurth, F. P. Heßberger, S. Hofmann, J. Ketelaer, J. Ketter, H.-J. Kluge, G. Marx, M. Mazzocco, Yu. N. Novikov, W. R. Plaß, S. Rahaman, T. Rauscher, D. Rodríguez, H. Schatz, C. Scheidenberger, L. Schweikhard, B. Sun, P. G. Thirolf, G. Vorobjev, M. Wang, C. Weber

tipa -- 3/28/2011

A cross-correlation study of the Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray diffuse extragalactic signal

• Authors: Jun-Qing Xia, Alessandro Cuoco, Enzo Branchini, Mattia Fornasa, Matteo Viel

The Physics of the Neutrino Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: Ondrej Pejcha, Todd A. Thompson

The Vela and Geminga pulsars in the mid-infrared

• Authors: Andrey A. Danilenko, Dmitry A. Zyuzin, Yuri A. Shibanov, Sergey V. Zharikov

Suzaku Detection of Diffuse Hard X-Ray Emission outside Vela X

• Authors: Satoru Katsuda (1), Koji Mori (2), Robert Petre (1), Hiroya Yamaguchi (3), Hiroshi Tsunemi (4), Fabrizio Bocchino (5), Aya Bamba (6,7), Marco Miceli (8,5), John W. Hewitt (1), Tea Temim (1), Hiroyuki Uchida (4), Rie Yoshii (3) (1. NASA/GSFC, 2. University of Miyazaki, 3. RIKEN, 4. Osaka University, 5. INAF, 6. DIAS, 7. ISAS/JAXA, 8. Università di Palermo)

Formation of millisecond pulsars with CO white dwarf companions - I. PSR J1614-2230: Evidence for a neutron star born massive

• Authors: Thomas M. Tauris, Norbert Langer, Michael Kramer

Coherent Neutrino Scattering in Dark Matter Detectors

• Authors: A.J. Anderson, J.M. Conrad, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, K. Scholberg, J. Spitz

classic papers of the week -- 189

Electron Screening and Thermonuclear Reactions

• Salpeter, E. E. (Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra)

The Effect of Wave-Particle Interactions on the Propagation of Cosmic Rays

• Kulsrud, Russell; Pearce, William P. (Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University)

A Production of Amino Acids under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions

• Miller, Stanley L. (G. H. Jones Chemical Laboratory, University of Chicago)

tipa -- 3/25/2011

Imprint of Accretion Disk-Induced Migration on Gravitational Waves from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

• Authors: Nicolás Yunes, Bence Kocsis, Abraham Loeb, Zoltán Haiman

Revealing local failed supernovae with neutrino telescopes

• Authors: Lili Yang, Cecilia Lunardini

Astrophysical parameters of LS2883 and implications for the PSR B1259-63 gamma-ray binary

• Authors: Ignacio Negueruela (Alicante), Marc Ribó (Barcelona), Artemio Herrero (IAC and La Laguna), Javier Lorenzo (Alicante), Dmitry Khangulyan (ISAS/JAXA), Felix A. Aharonian (DIAS and MPIK)

Possible Origin of Rapid Variability of Gamma-Ray Bursts due to Convective Energy Transfer in Hyperaccretion Disks

• Authors: Norita Kawanaka, Kazunori Kohri

Gamma-ray bursts afterglows in magnetized stellar winds

• Authors: Martin Lemoine (IAP), Guy Pelletier (LAOG)

Consistency Test of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with one Isotope

• Authors: Michael Duerr, Manfred Lindner, Kai Zuber

Arrival time and magnitude of airborne fission products from the Fukushima, Japan, reactor incident as measured in Seattle, WA, USA

• Authors: J. Diaz Leon, J. Kaspar, A. Knecht, M. L. Miller, R. G. H. Robertson, A. G. Schubert

tipa -- 3/24/2011

The ANTARES Telescope Neutrino Alert System

• Authors: The ANTARES Collaboration

Local Group Dwarf Galaxies: Nature And Nurture

• Authors: Till Sawala, Cecilia Scannapieco, Simon White

Testing matter effects in propagation of atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos

• Authors: M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Michele Maltoni, Jordi Salvado

Perturbation Theory of Neutrino Oscillation for Long-Baseline Experiments

• Authors: Katsuhiro Asano, Hisakazu Minakata

New Constraints (and Motivations) for Abelian Gauge Bosons in the MeV-TeV Mass Range

• Authors: M. Williams, C.P. Burgess, Anshuman Maharana, F. Quevedo

Are there sterile neutrinos at the eV scale?

• Authors: Joachim Kopp, Michele Maltoni, Thomas Schwetz

tipa -- 3/23/2011

Limits on Dark Radiation, Early Dark Energy, and Relativistic Degrees of Freedom

• Authors: Erminia Calabrese, Dragan Huterer, Eric V. Linder, Alessandro Melchiorri, Luca Pagano

Constraints on the Extremely-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 Data

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Positron annihilation as a cosmic-ray probe

• Authors: Yutaka Ohira, Kazunori Kohri, Norita Kawanaka

Global amount of dust in the universe

• Authors: Masataka Fukugita

On the influence of the Sun on the rapid variability of compact extragalactic sources

• Authors: N. Marchili, T. P. Krichbaum, X. Liu, H.-G. Song, J. M. Anderson, A. Witzel, J. A. Zensus

Constraining the Rate of Relativistic Jets from Tidal Disruptions Using Radio Surveys

• Authors: Geoffrey C. Bower

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, the Inverted Hierarchy and Precision Determination of theta(12)

• Authors: Alexander Dueck, Werner Rodejohann, Kai Zuber

Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum and b-jets

• Authors: The ATLAS Collaboration

Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Final State at the Large Hadron Collider

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 3/22/2011

PAMELA Measurements of Cosmic-ray Proton and Helium Spectra

• Authors: O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, M. Boezio, E. A. Bogomolov, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, V. Bonvicini, S. Borisov, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, R. Carbone, P. Carlson, M. Casolino, G. Castellini, L. Consiglio, M. P. De Pascale, C. De Santis, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, A. M. Galper, W. Gillard, L. Grishantseva, G. Jerse, A. V. Karelin, S. V. Koldashov, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malakhov, V. Malvezzi, L. Marcelli, A. G. Mayorov, W. Menn, V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, N. Nikonov, G. Osteria, F. Palma, P. Papini, M. Pearce, P. Picozza, C. Pizzolotto, M. Ricci, S. B. Ricciarini, L. Rossetto, R. Sarkar, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, J. Wu, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, V. G. Zverev

Magnetic fields in massive stars, their winds, and their nebulae

• Authors: Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, Georges Meynet

Electron capture rates in a plasma

• Authors: R. F. Sawyer

Contribution of the Gamma-ray Loud Radio Galaxies Core Emissions to the Cosmic MeV and GeV Gamma-Ray Background Radiation

• Authors: Yoshiyuki Inoue

Catalog of Nearby Isolated Galaxies in the Volume z < 0.01

• Authors: I.D. Karachentsev, D.I. Makarov, V.E. Karachentseva, O.V. Melnyk

Final results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using a 4-kg array of cryogenic germanium detectors with interleaved electrodes

• Authors: EDELWEISS Collaboration

Discovery of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Binary System PSR B1259-63/SS 2883 Around Periastron with Fermi

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Chernyakova, A. Neronov, M. Roberts, the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

Search for New Physics in Dijet Mass and Angular Distributions in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV Measured with the ATLAS Detector

• Authors: The ATLAS Collaboration

tipa -- 3/21/2011

Will black hole-neutron star binary inspirals tell us about the neutron star equation of state?

• Authors: Francesco Pannarale, Luciano Rezzolla, Frank Ohme, Jocelyn S. Read

Constraining Emissivity of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays in the Distant Universe with the Diffuse Gamma-ray Emission

• Authors: Xiang-Yu Wang, Ruo-Yu Liu, Felix Aharonian

The 44Ti-powered spectrum of SN 1987A

• Authors: Anders Jerkstrand, Claes Fransson, Cecilia Kozma

The gauge-string duality and heavy ion collisions

• Authors: Steven S. Gubser

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