today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Nathan Smith, S. Bradley Cenko, Nat Butler, Joshua S. Bloom, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Assaf Horesh, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law, Peter E. Nugent, Eran O. Ofek, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Branimir Sesar, Sagi Ben-Ami, Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, David Polishook, Dong Xu, Ofer Yaron, Dale A. Frail, Mark Sullivan

Exclusion of canonical WIMPs by the joint analysis of Milky Way dwarfs with Fermi

Authors: Alex Geringer-Sameth, Savvas M. Koushiappas

Searches for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Observational Constraints on Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos

Authors: Imre Bartos, Chad Finley, Szabolcs Márka

Evolution of Fluorine Abundances with the ν-Process

Authors: Chiaki Kobayashi, Natsuko Izutani, Amanda I. Karakas, Takashi Yoshida, David Yong, Hideyuki Umeda

Search for a new gauge boson in the $A'$ Experiment (APEX)

Authors: S.Abrahamyan, Z.Ahmed, K.Allada, D.Anez, T.Averett, A.Barbieri, K.Bartlett, J.Beacham, J.Bono, J.R.Boyce, P.Brindza, A.Camsonne, K.Cranmer, M.M.Dalton, C.W.deJager, J.Donaghy, R.Essig, C.Field, E.Folts, A.Gasparian, N.Goeckner-Wald, J.Gomez, M.Graham, J.-O.Hansen, D.W.Higinbotham, T.Holmstrom, J.Huang, S.Iqbal, J.Jaros, E.Jensen, A.Kelleher, M.Khandaker, J.J.LeRose, R.Lindgren, N.Liyanage, E.Long, J.Mammei, P.Markowitz, T.Maruyama, V.Maxwell, S.Mayilyan, J.McDonald, R.Michaels, K.Moffeit, V.Nelyubin, A.Odian, M.Oriunno, R.Partridge, M.Paolone, E.Piasetzky, I.Pomerantz, Y.Qiang, S.Riordan, Y.Roblin, B.Sawatzky, P.Schuster, J.Segal, L.Selvy, A.Shahinyan, R.Subedi, V.Sulkosky, S.Stepanyan, N.Toro, D.Walz, B.Wojtsekhowski, J.Zhang

tipa -- 8/15/2011

Weak Primordial Magnetic Fields and Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Authors: Karsten Jedamzik, Tom Abel

The Massive Progenitor of the Possible Type II-Linear Supernova 2009hd in Messier 66

Authors: Nancy Elias-Rosa (1,2,3), Schuyler D. Van Dyk (1), Weidong Li (2), Jeffrey M. Silverman (2), Ryan J. Foley (4,5), Mohan Ganeshalingam (2), Jon C. Mauerhan (1), Erkki Kankare (6,7), Saurabh Jha (8), Alexei V. Filippenko (2), John E. Beckman (9,10), Edo Berger (4), Jean-Charles Cuillandre (11), Nathan Smith (2,12) ((1) Spitzer Science Center/Caltech, (2) UC Berkeley, (3) ICE (IEEC-CSIC), (4) CfA, (5) Clay Fellow, (6) Tuorla Observatory, (7) NOT, (8) Rutgers University, (9) IAC, (10) CSIC, (11) IfA/Hawaii, (12) University of Arizona)

Radio Emission from SN 1994I in NGC 5194 (M 51) - The Best Studied Type Ib/c Radio Supernova

Authors: Kurt W. Weiler, Nino Panagia, Christopher Stockdale, Michael Rupen, Richard A. Sramek, Christopher L. Williams

Real-time spectroscopy of solar pp neutrinos using Nd-150

Authors: K. Zuber

It was twenty years ago today ...

Authors: Paul Ginsparg (Cornell University)

classic papers of the week -- 202

Bose-Einstein Condensation and Liquid Helium

Penrose, Oliver; Onsager, Lars (Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University)

On Synchrotron Radiation from Messier 87

Burbidge, G. R. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Imprisonment of Resonance Radiation in Gases

Holstein, T. (Research Laboratories, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

tipa -- 8/12/2011

Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations

Authors: M. Brockamp, H. Baumgardt, P. Kroupa

On the Origin of the Salpeter Slope for the Initial Mass Function

Authors: M. S. Oey (U. Michigan)

Radio Cherenkov signals from the Moon: neutrinos and cosmic rays

Authors: Yu Seon Jeong, Mary Hall Reno, Ina Sarcevic

tipa -- 8/11/2011

Origin of Ultrahigh Energy Galactic Cosmic Rays: The Isotropy Problem

Authors: Martin Pohl, David Eichler

Towards a Realistic Pulsar Magnetosphere

Authors: Constantinos Kalapotharakos, Demosthenes Kazanas, Alice Harding, Ioannis Contopoulos

Turbulent transport in stratified and/or rotating turbulence

Authors: A. Brandenburg (1,2), K.-H. Rädler (3), K. Kemel (1,2) ((1) NORDITA, (2) Stockholm University, (3) Astrophys. Inst. Potsdam)

Tajima, T.; Dawson, J. M. (Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles)

The distribution of Lyman-alpha absorption lines in the spectra of six QSOs - Evidence for an intergalactic origin

Sargent, W. L. W.; Young, P. J. (Hale Observatories, California Institute of Technology); Boksenberg, A.; Tytler, D. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London)

Inertial-Range Spectrum of Hydromagnetic Turbulence

Kraichnan, Robert H. (Peterborough, New Hampshire)

tipa -- 8/5/2011

Testing the Origin of High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Authors: Andrey E. Vladimirov, Gu\ethlaugur Jóhannesson, Igor V. Moskalenko, Troy A. Porter

Simultaneous Planck, Swift, and Fermi observations of X-ray and gamma-ray selected blazars

Authors: P. Giommi, G. Polenta, A. Lahteenmaki, D. J. Thompson, M. Capalbi, S. Cutini, D. Gasparrini, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, J. Leon-Tavares, M. Lopez-Caniego, M. N. Mazziotta, C. Monte, M. Perri, S. Raino, G. Tosti, A. Tramacere, F. Verrecchia, H. D. Aller, M. F. Aller, E. Angelakis, D. Bastieri, A. Berdyugin, A. Bonaldi, L. Bonavera, C. Burigana, D. N. Burrows, S. Buson, E. Cavazzuti, G. Chincarini, S. Colafrancesco, L. Costamante, F. Cuttaia, F. D'Ammando, G. de Zotti, M. Frailis, L. Fuhrmann, S. Galeotta, F. Gargano, N. Gehrels, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, E. Keihanen, O. King, T. P. Krichbaum, A. Lasenby, N. Lavonen, C. R. Lawrence, C. Leto, E. Lindfors, N. Mandolesi, M. Massardi, W. Max-Moerbeck, P. F. Michelson, M. Mingaliev, P. Natoli, I. Nestoras, E. Nieppola, K. Nilsson, B. Partridge, V. Pavlidou, T. J. Pearson, P. Procopio, J. P. Rachen, A. Readhead, R. Reeves, A. Reimer, R. Reinthal, S. Ricciardi, J. Richards, D. Riquelme, J. Saarinen, A. Sajina, M. Sandri, P. Savolainen, A. Sievers, A. Sillanpaa, Y. Sotnikova, M. Stevenson, G. Tagliaferri, L. Takalo, J. Tammi, D. Tavagnacco, L. Terenzi, L. Toffolatti, M. Tornikoski, C. Trigilio, M. Turunen, G. Umana, H. Ungerechts, F. Villa, J. Wu, A. Zacchei, J. A. Zensus, X. Zhou

Dynamical Friction around Supermassive Black Holes

Authors: Fabio Antonini, David Merritt

Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory - Preliminary Design Report

Authors: Kevin T. Lesko, Steven Acheson, Jose Alonso, Paul Bauer, Yuen-Dat Chan, William Chinowsky, Steve Dangermond, Jason A. Detwiler, Syd De Vries, Richard DiGennaro, Elizabeth Exter, Felix B. Fernandez, Elizabeth L. Freer, Murdock G. D. Gilchriese, Azriel Goldschmidt, Ben Grammann, William Griffing, Bill Harlan, Wick C. Haxton, Michael Headley, Jaret Heise, Zbigniew Hladysz, Dianna Jacobs, Michael Johnson, Richard Kadel, Robert Kaufman, Greg King, Robert Lanou, Alberto Lemut, Zoltan Ligeti, Steve Marks, Ryan D. Martin, John Matthesen, Brendan Matthew, Warren Matthews, Randall McConnell, William McElroy, Deborah Meyer, Margaret Norris, David Plate, Kem E. Robinson, William Roggenthen, Rohit Salve, Ben Sayler, John Scheetz, Jim Tarpinian, David Taylor, David Vardiman, Ron Wheeler, Joshua Willhite, James Yeck

tipa -- 8/4/2011

A New Candidate Magnetar Located Outside the Galactic Plane

Authors: Joseph R. Callingham (1), Sean A. Farrell (1,2), Bryan M. Gaensler (1,2), Geraint F. Lewis (1), Matthew J. Middleton (3) ((1) The University of Sydney, Australia, (2) ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), Australia, (3) University of Durham, UK)

Preference for an Inverted Neutrino Mass Hierarchy from nu-Process Nucleosynthesis with Finite theta_{1 3} Mixing

Authors: G. J. Mathews, T. Kajino, W. Aoki, W. Fujiya

New equations of state in core-collapse supernova simulations

Authors: Matthias Hempel, Tobias Fischer, Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich, Matthias Liebendörfer

tipa -- 8/3/2011

Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole

Authors: Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Ramesh Narayan (2), Jonathan C. McKinney (3) ((1) Princeton, (2) Harvard, (3) Stanford)

PTF10ops - a subluminous, normal-width lightcurve Type Ia supernova in the middle of nowhere

Authors: Kate Maguire, Mark Sullivan, Rollin C. Thomas, Peter E. Nugent, D. Andrew Howell, Avishay Gal-Yam, Iair Arcavi, Sagi Ben-Ami, Sarah Blake, Janos Botyanszki, Clement Buton, Jeffery Cooke, Richard S. Ellis, Isobel M. Hook, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Yen-Chen Pan, Rui Pereira, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Assaf Sternberg, Nao Suzuki, Dong Xu, Ofer Yaron, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas Law, Eran O. Ofek, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby

The radio/gamma-ray connection in Active Galactic Nuclei in the era of the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort, E. Angelakis, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, A. Bouvier, J. Bregeon, A. Brez, M. Brigida, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, A. Cannon, P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, E. Cavazzuti, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, C. C. Cheung, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, S. Cutini, F. de Palma, C. D. Dermer, E. do Couto e Silva, P. S. Drell, R. Dubois, D. Dumora, L. Escande, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, W. B. Focke, P. Fortin, M. Frailis, L. Fuhrmann, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Gehrels, N. Giglietto, P. Giommi, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, P. Grandi, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, D. Hadasch, M. Hayashida, E. Hays, S. E. Healey, G. J, A. S. Johnson, T. Kamae, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, J. Kn, M. Kuss, J. Lande, S.-H. Lee, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, A. Makeev, W. Max-Moerbeck, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, J. Mehault, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, M. Naumann-Godo, S. Nishino, P. L. Nolan, J. P. Norris, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, A. Okumura, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Ozaki, D. Paneque, V. Pavlidou, V. Pelassa, M. Pepe, M. Pesce-Rollins, M. Pierbattista, F. Piron, T. A. Porter, S. Rain, M. Razzano, A. Readhead, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, J. L. Richards, R. W. Romani, H. F.-W. Sadrozinski, J. D. Scargle, C. Sgr, E. J. Siskind, P. D. Smith, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, M. S. Strickman, D. J. Suson, H. Takahashi, T. Tanaka, G. B. Taylor, J. G. Thayer, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, A. Tramacere, E. Troja, J. Vandenbroucke, G. Vianello, V. Vitale, A. P. Waite, P. Wang, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, Z. Yang, M. Ziegler

Cosmic ray acceleration at oblique shocks

Authors: A.R. Bell, K.M. Schure, B. Reville

tipa -- 8/2/2011

Improved search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS

Authors: MINOS Collaboration

Discovery of gamma and X-ray pulsations from the young and energetic PSR J1357-6429 with Fermi and XMM-Newton

Authors: M. Lemoine-Goumard, V. E. Zavlin, M.-H. Grondin, R. Shannon, D. A. Smith, M. Burgay, F. Camilo, J. Cohen-Tanugi, P. C. C. Freire, J. E. Grove, L. Guillemot, S. Johnston, M. Keith, M. Kramer, R. N. Manchester, P. F. Michelson, D. Parent, A. Possenti, P. S. Ray, M. Renaud, S. E. Thorsett, P. Weltevrede, M. T. Wolff

IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

In-flight measurement of the absolute energy scale of the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration

Fermi-LAT Detection of the Young SuperNova Remnant Tycho

Authors: F. Giordano, M. Naumann-Godo, J. Ballet, K. Bechtol, S. Funk, J. Lande, M. N. Mazziotta, S. Rain`o, T. Tanaka, O. Tibolla, Y. Uchiyama

First Search for Point Sources of High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

Authors: Antares Collaboration

The Galactic Centre in the Far Infrared

Authors: M. Etxaluze, H. A. Smith, V. Tolls, A. A. Stark, E. Gonzalez-Alfonso

tipa -- 8/1/2011

Dark Matter distribution in the Milky Way: microlensing and dynamical constraints

Authors: Fabio Iocco, Miguel Pato, Gianfranco Bertone, Philippe Jetzer

Variability in Blazars: Clues from PKS 2155-304

Authors: Ramesh Narayan, Tsvi Piran

A knee-like structure in the spectrum of the heavy component of cosmic rays observed with KASCADE-Grande

Authors: The KASCADE-Grande Collaboration

Measurement of cosmic-ray antiproton spectrum at solar minimum with a long-duration balloon flight in Antarctica

Authors: K. Abe, H. Fuke, S. Haino, T. Hams, M. Hasegawa, A. Horikoshi, K.C. Kim, A. Kusumoto, M.H. Lee, Y. Makida, S. Matsuda, Y. Matsukawa, J.W. Mitchell, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, R. Orito, J.F. Ormes, K. Sakai, M. Sasaki, E.S. Seo, R. Shinoda, R.E. Streitmatter, J. Suzuki, K. Tanaka, N. Thakur, T. Yamagami, A. Yamamoto, T. Yoshida, K. Yoshimura

Improved Constraints on Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxy Properties using Multi-Wavelength Photometry and their Correlations with Supernova Properties

Authors: Ravi R. Gupta, Chris B. D'Andrea, Masao Sako, Charlie Conroy, Mathew Smith, Bruce Bassett, Joshua A. Frieman, Peter M. Garnavich, Saurabh W. Jha, Richard Kessler, Hubert Lampeitl, John Marriner, Robert C. Nichol, Donald P. Schneider

Constraints on the Synchrotron Shock Model for the Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst 090820A

Authors: J. Michael Burgess, Robert D. Preece, Matthew G. Baring, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaughton, Sylvain Guiriec, William S. Paciesas, Charles A. Meegan, P. N. Bhat, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Vandiver Chaplin, Roland Diehl, Gerald J. Fishman, Gerard Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Foley, Melissa Gibby, Misty Giles, Adam Goldstein, Jochen Greiner, David Gruber, Alexander J. van der Horst, Andreas von Kienlin, Marc Kippen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Sheila McBreen, Arne Rau, Dave Tierney, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

The Progenitor Mass of SN 2011dh from Stellar Populations Analysis

Authors: Jeremiah W. Murphy (1), Zachary G. Jennings (1), Benjamin Williams (1), Julianne J. Dalcanton (1), Andrew E. Dolphin (2), ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, (2) Raytheon)

Search for B(s) and B to dimuon decays in pp collisions at 7 TeV

Authors: CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 7/29/2011

Galaxy-Scale Outflows Driven by Active Galactic Nuclei

Authors: Jackson DeBuhr, Eliot Quataert, Chung-Pei Ma

On Identifying the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Mario Livio (STScI), J. E. Pringle (STScI and Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University)

Do Fermi-LAT observations really imply very large Lorentz factors in GRB outflows?

Authors: R. Hascoët (1 and 2), F. Daigne (1 and 2), R. Mochkovitch (1 and 2), V. Vennin (1 and 2) ((1) UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7095, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (2) CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Measuring a cosmological distance-redshift relationship using only gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star coalescences