today in particle astrophysics

Authors: C. Guidorzi, S. Kobayashi, D.A. Perley, G. Vianello, J.S. Bloom, P. Chandra, D.A. Kann, W. Li, C.G. Mundell, A. Pozanenko, J.X. Prochaska, K. Antoniuk, D. Bersier, A.V. Filippenko, D.A. Frail, A. Gomboc, E. Klunko, A. Melandri, S. Mereghetti, V. Rumyantsev, R.J. Smith, I.A. Steele, N.R. Tanvir, A. Volnova

Relativistic Equation of State for Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations

Authors: H. Shen, H. Toki, K. Oyamatsu, K. Sumiyoshi

The energy source of the filaments around the giant galaxy NGC1275

Authors: A.C. Fabian (1), J.S. Sanders (1), R.J.R.Williams (2), A. Lazarian (3), G.J. Ferland (4), R.M. Johnstone (1) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, (2) AWE plc, Aldermaston, UK, (3) Astronomy Dept., University of Wisconsin, USA, Dept of Physics, University of Kentucky, USA)

tipa -- 5/9/2011

Resolving the Reactor Neutrino Anomaly with the KATRIN Neutrino Experiment

Authors: J. A. Formaggio J. Barrett

Invariants of Collective Neutrino Oscillations

Authors: Y. Pehlivan, A. B. Balantekin, Toshitaka Kajino, Takashi Yoshida

The nebular spectrum of the type Ia supernova 2003hv: evidence for a non-standard event

Authors: Paolo A. Mazzali, I. Maurer, M. Stritzinger, S. Taubenberger, S. Benetti, S. Hachinger

GRB 090426: Discovery of a jet break in a short burst afterglow

Authors: A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, S. Klose, A. Rossi, D. A. Kann, T. Krühler, J. Greiner, A. Rau, F. Olivares E., P. M. J. Afonso, R. Filgas, A. Küpcü Yoldaş, S. McBreen, M. Nardini, P. Schady, S. Schmidl, A. C. Updike, A. Yoldaş

pMSSM Dark Matter Searches on Ice

Authors: R.C. Cotta, K.T.K. Howe, J.L. Hewett, T.G. Rizzo

classic papers of the week -- 194

A numerical approach to the testing of the fission hypothesis

Lucy, L. B. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge; European Southern Observatory, Geneva)

Is Baryon Number Conserved?

Jogesh C. Pati (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy & University of Maryland, College Park, MD), Abdus Salam (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy & Imperial College, London)

Two Prehistoric Drawings of Possible Astronomical Significance

Miller, William C. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories)

tipa -- 5/6/2011

On the nature of the extremely fast optical rebrightening of the afterglow of GRB 081029

Authors: M. Nardini, J. Greiner, T. Kruehler, R. Filgas, S. Klose, P. Afonso, C. Clemens, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, F. Olivares E., A. Rau, A. Rossi, A. Updike, A. Kupcu Yoldas, A. Yoldas, D. Burlon, J. Elliott, D.A. Kann

G-Mode Excitation During the Pre-explosive Simmering of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Anthony L. Piro (Caltech)

Reconnection-Powered Linear Accelerator and Gamma-Ray Flares in the Crab Nebula

Authors: Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Benoit Cerutti, Mitchell C. Begelman

Deep Spitzer observations of infrared-faint radio sources: high-redshift radio-loud AGN?

Authors: Ray P. Norris, Jose Afonso, Antonio Cava, Duncan Farrah, Minh T. Huynh, R. J. Ivison, Matt Jarvis, Mark Lacy, Minnie Mao, Claudia Maraston, Jean-Christophe Mauduit, Enno Middelberg, Seb Oliver, Nick Seymour, Jason Surace

Lifting the Veil on Obscured Accretion: Active Galactic Nuclei Number Counts and Survey Strategies for Imaging Hard X-ray Missions

Authors: D.R. Ballantyne (1), A.R. Draper (1), K.K. Madsen (2), J.R. Rigby (3,4), E. Treister (5,6) ((1) Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Tech (2) SRL, Caltech (3) Carnegie Observatories (4) NASA/GSFC (5) University of Hawaii (6) Universidad de Concepcion)

Formation of Dust in the Ejecta of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Takaya Nozawa, Keiichi Maeda, Takashi Kozasa, Masaomi Tanaka, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Hideyuki Umeda

Analysis of matter suppression in collective neutrino oscillations during the supernova accretion phase

Authors: Sovan Chakraborty (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Tobias Fischer (GSI & Technische Univ. Darmstadt), Alessandro Mirizzi (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Ninetta Saviano (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Ricard Tomas (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.)

tipa -- 5/5/2011

The Protostellar Luminosity Function

Authors: Stella S. R. Offner (1), Christopher F. McKee (2) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (2) UC Berkeley)

Alfven Wave Amplification and Self-Containment of Cosmic-Rays Escaping from a Supernova Remnant

Authors: Yutaka Fujita, Fumio Takahara (Osaka), Yutaka Ohira (KEK), Kazunari Iwasaki (Nagoya)

Binary population synthesis study on supersoft X-ray phase of single degenerate type Ia supernova progenitors

Authors: Xiangcun Meng, Wuming Yang

On the nature of the prototype LBV AG Carinae II. Witnessing a massive star evolving close to the Eddington and bistability limits

Authors: Jose H. Groh (Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Germany), D. John Hillier (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Augusto Damineli (IAG-Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)

tipa -- 5/4/2011

Spectroscopic evidence for SN 2010ma associated with GRB 101219B

Authors: M. Sparre, J. Sollerman, J.P.U. Fynbo, D. Malesani, P. Goldoni, A. de Ugarte Postigo, S. Covino, V. D'Elia, H. Flores, F. Hammer, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, L. Kaper, G. Leloudas, A.J. Levan, B. Milvang-Jensen, S. Schulze, G. Tagliaferri, N.R. Tanvir, D.J. Watson, K. Wiersema, R.A.M.J. Wijers

VERITAS Observations of the TeV Binary LS I +61 303 During 2008-2010

Authors: VERITAS collaboration

A Search for Pulsations in Helium White Dwarfs

Authors: Justin D. R. Steinfadt, Lars Bildsten, David L. Kaplan, Benjamin J. Fulton, Steve B. Howell, T. R. Marsh, Eran O. Ofek, Avi Shporer

On the Location of the Gamma-ray Emission in the 2008 Outburst in the BL Lacertae Object AO 0235+164 through Observations across the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Authors: Ivan Agudo, Alan P. Marscher, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Valeri M. Larionov, Jose L. Gomez, Anne Lahteenmaki, Paul S. Smith, Kari Nilsson, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Margo F. Aller, Jochen Heidt, Mark Gurwell, Clemens Thum, Ann E. Wehrle, Hugh D. Aller, Erika Benitez, Dmitriy A. Blinov, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, David Hiriart, Buell T. Jannuzi, Manasvita Joshi, Elina Lindfors, Sol N. Molina, Daria A. Morozova, Elina Nieppola, Alice R. Olmstead, Riho Reinthal, Mar Roca--Sogorb, Gary D. Schmidt, Aimo Sillanpaa, Leo Takalo, Brian Taylor, Merja Tornikoski, Ivan S. Troitsky, Alma C. Zook, Helmut Wiesemeyer

Wind modelling of very massive stars up to 300 solar masses

Authors: Jorick S. Vink (Armagh Observatory), L.E. Muijres, B. Anthonisse, A. de Koter, G. Graefener, N. Langer

The TeV binary HESS J0632+057 in the low and high X-ray state

Authors: Nanda Rea (CSIC/IEEC), Diego F. Torres (CSIC/IEEC, ICREA)

Particle Transport in intense small scale magnetic turbulence with a mean field

Authors: I. Plotnikov, G. Pelletier, M. Lemoine

Production of neutron-rich nuclei in fragmentation reactions of 132Sn projectiles at relativistic energies

Authors: D. Pérez-Loureiro, J. Benlliure, H. Álvarez-Pol, B. Blank, E. Casarejos, D. Dragosavac, V. Föhr, M. Gascón, W. Gawlikowicz, A. Heinz, K. Helariutta, A. Kelić, S. Lukić, F. Montes, L. Pieńkowski, K-H. Schmidt, M. Staniou, K. Subotić, K. Sümmerer, J. Taieb, A. Trzcińska

tipa -- 5/3/2011

Constraints on Cold Magnetized Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: Ramesh Narayan (1), Pawan Kumar (2), Alexander Tchekhovskoy (3) ((1) Harvard-CfA, (2) University of Texas, (3) Princeton)

Revisiting the double-binary-pulsar probe of non-dynamical Chern-Simons gravity

Authors: Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

Fast Shocks From Magnetic Reconnection Outflows

Authors: Jared C. Workman, Eric G. Blackman, Chuang Ren

Magnetic fields in cosmic particle acceleration sources

Authors: Andrei M. Bykov, Donald C. Ellison, Matthieu Renaud

Cosmic rays in galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields

Authors: Felix Aharonian, Andrei Bykov, Etienne Parizot, Vladimir Ptuskin, Alan Watson

Searching for 511 keV annihilation line from galactic compact objects with the IBIS gamma ray telescope

Authors: G. De Cesare

The Effect of Blazar Spectral Breaks on the Blazar Contribution to the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background

Authors: Tonia M. Venters, Vasiliki Pavlidou

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Evidence for Dark Energy from the CMB Alone

Authors: Blake D. Sherwin, Joanna Dunkley, Sudeep Das, John W. Appel, J. Richard Bond, C. Sofia Carvalho, Mark J. Devlin, Rolando Dunner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Joseph W. Fowler, Amir Hajian, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Adam D. Hincks, Renee Hlozek, John P. Hughes, Kent D. Irwin, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Kavilan Moodley, Felipe Menanteau, 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

Gravitational waves and nonaxisymmetric oscillation modes in mergers of compact object binaries

Authors: Nikolaos Stergioulas, Andreas Bauswein, Kimon Zagkouris, Hans-Thomas Janka

tipa -- 5/2/2011

Rest-frame properties of 32 gamma-ray bursts observed by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor

Authors: D.Gruber, J. Greiner, A. von Kienlin, A. Rau, M. S. Briggs, V. Connaughton, A. Goldstein, A. J. van der Horst, M. Nardini, P. N. Bhat, E. Bissaldi, J. M. Burgess, V. L. Chaplin, R. Diehl, G. J. Fishman, G. Fitzpatrick, S.Foley, M. H. Gibby, M. M. Giles, S. Guiriec, R. M. Kippen, C. Kouveliotou, L. Lin, S. McBreen, C. A. Meegan, F. Olivares E., W. S. Paciesas, R. D. Preece, D. Tierney, C. Wilson-Hodge

Detection of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission during the X-ray flaring activity in GRB100728A

Authors: The Fermi Collaboration, L. Piro

Electromagnetic Transients Powered by Nuclear Decay in the Tidal Tails of Coalescing Compact Binaries

Authors: Luke F. Roberts, Dan Kasen, William H. Lee, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Population III Gamma-Ray Bursts and Breakout Criteria for Accretion-Powered Jets

Authors: Hiroki Nagakura, Yudai Suwa, Kunihito Ioka

The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA

Authors: Michael Wurm, John F. Beacom, Leonid B. Bezrukov, Daniel Bick, Johannes Blümer, Sandhya Choubey, Christian Ciemniak, Davide D'Angelo, Basudeb Dasgupta, Amol Dighe, Grigorij Domogatsky, Steve Dye, Sergey Eliseev, Timo Enqvist, Alexey Erykalov, Franz von Feilitzsch, Gianni Fiorentini, Tobias Fischer, Marianne Göger-Neff, Peter Grabmayr, Caren Hagner, Dominikus Hellgartner, Johannes Hissa, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Hans-Thomas Janka, Claude Jaupart, Josef Jochum, Tuomo Kalliokoski, Pasi Kuusiniemi, Tobias Lachenmaier, Ionel Lazanu, John G. Learned, Timo Lewke, Paolo Lombardi, Sebastian Lorenz, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, Livia Ludhova, Kai Loo, Jukka Maalampi, Fabio Mantovani, Michela Marafini, Jelena Maricic, Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia, William F. McDonough, Lino Miramonti, Alessandro Mirizzi, Quirin Meindl, Olga Mena, Randolph Möllenberg, Rolf Nahnhauer, Dmitry Nesterenko, Yuri N. Novikov, Guido Nuijten, Lothar Oberauer, Sandip Pakvasa, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Marco Pallavicini, Silvia Pascoli, Thomas Patzak, Juha Peltoniemi, Walter Potzel, Tomi Räihä, Georg G. Raffelt, Gioacchino Ranucci, Soebur Razzaque, Kari Rummukainen, Juho Sarkamo, Valerij Sinev, Christian Spiering, Achim Stahl, Felicitas Thorne, Marc Tippmann, Alessandra Tonazzo, Wladyslaw H. Trzaska, John D. Vergados, Christopher Wiebusch, Jürgen Winter

Relic Abundance of Asymmetric Dark Matter

Authors: Hoernisa Iminniyaz, Manuel Drees, Xuelei Chen

First Observation of Radiative B^0 -> φK^0 γDecays and Measurements of Their Time-Dependent CP Violation

Authors: H. Sahoo, T. E. Browder for the Belle Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 193

Advantages of the Color Octet Gluon Picture

H. Fritzsch, Murray Gell-Mann, H. Leutwyler (California Institute of Technology)

Clustering in real space and in redshift space

Kaiser, Nick (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

A treatise of the scurvy

James Lind (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh)

tipa -- 4/29/2011

Chemical Reaction of Ultracold Atoms and Ions in a Hybrid Trap

Authors: Wade G. Rellergert, Scott T. Sullivan, Svetlana Kotochigova, Alexander Petrov, Kuang Chen, Steven J. Schowalter, Eric R. Hudson

Swift Observations of MAXI J1659-152: A Compact Binary with a Black Hole Accretor

Authors: J.A. Kennea, P. Romano, V. Mangano, A.P. Beardmore, P.A. Evans, P.A. Curran, H.A. Krimm, C.B. Markwardt, K.Yamaoka

The Local Leo Cold Cloud and New Limits on a Local Hot Bubble

Authors: J. E. G. Peek, Carl Heiles, Kathryn M. G. Peek, David M. Meyer, J. T. Lauroesch

The 2010 May Flaring Episode of Cygnus X-3 in Radio, X-Rays, and γ-Rays

Authors: Peter K. G. Williams, John A. Tomsick, Arash Bodaghee, Geoffrey C. Bower, Guy G. Pooley, Katja Pottschmidt, Jérôme Rodriguez, Jörn Wilms, Simone Migliari, Sergei A. Trushkin

Two-stream-like instability in dilute hot relativistic beams and astrophysical relativistic shocks

Authors: Ehud Nakar, Antoine Bret, Milos Milosavjevic

Synthetic line and continuum linear-polarisation signatures of axisymmetric type II supernova ejecta

Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier

tipa -- 4/28/2011

A Spitzer Survey for Dust in Type IIn Supernovae

Authors: Ori D. Fox (1), Roger A. Chevalier (2), Michael F. Skrutskie (2), Alicia M. Soderberg (3), Alexei V. Filippenko (4), Mohan Ganeshalingam (4), Jeffrey M. Silverman (4), Nathan Smith (4,5), Thea N. Steele (4) ((1) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (2) UVA, (3) Harvard-CfA, (4) UC Berkeley, (5) U Arizona/Steward)

GeV Emission from Collisional Magnetized Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: P. Mészáros, M.J. Rees

The Mass and Radius of the Neutron Star in the Bulge Low-Mass X-ray Binary KS 1731-260

Authors: Feryal Ozel, Andrew Gould, Tolga Guver

Halo concentrations in the standard LCDM cosmology

Authors: Francisco Prada, Anatoly A. Klypin, Antonio J. Cuesta, Juan E. Betancort-Rijo, Joel Primack

XRF 100316D / SN 2010bh and the Nature of Gamma Ray Burst Supernovae

Authors: Z. Cano, D. Bersier, C. Guidorzi, S. Kobayashi, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, K. Wiersema, P. D'Avanzo, A. S. Fruchter, P. Garnavich, A. Gomboc, J. Gorosabel, D. Kasen, D. Kopac, R. Margutti, P. A. Mazzali, A. Melandri, C. G. Mundell, P. E. Nugent, E. Pian, R. J. Smith, I. Steele, R. A. M. J. Wijers, S. E. Woosley

Gamma-ray halos as a measure of intergalactic magnetic fields: a classical moment problem

Authors: Markus Ahlers

A Search for a Diffuse Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 4/27/2011

Chandra X-ray spectroscopy of the very early O supergiant HD 93129A: constraints on wind shocks and the mass-loss rate

Authors: David H. Cohen (1), Marc Gagné (2), Maurice A. Leutenegger (3,4), James P. MacArthur (1), Emma E. Wollman (1,5), Jon O. Sundqvist (6), Alex W. Fullerton (7), Stanley P. Owocki (6) ((1) Swarthmore College (2) West Chester University (3) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (4) CRESST and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (5) Caltech, Department of Physics (6) University of Delaware, Bartol Research Institute (7) Space Telescope Science Institute)

Discovery of the Onset of Rapid Accretion by a Dormant Massive Black Hole