today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Mark R. Krumholz

Observations of Energetic High Magnetic Field Pulsars with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: D. Parent, M. Kerr, P. R. Den Hartog, M. G. Baring, M. E. DeCesar, C. M. Espinoza, E. V. Gotthelf, A. K. Harding, S. Johnston, V. M. Kaspi, M. Livingstone, R. W. Romani, B. W. Stappers, K. Watters, P. Weltevrede, A. A. Abdo, M. Burgay, F. Camilo, H. A. Craig, P. C. C. Freire, F. Giordano, L. Guillemot, G. Hobbs, M. Keith, M. Kramer, A. G. Lyne, R. N. Manchester, A. Noutsos, A. Possenti, D. A. Smith

Constraints on the Progenitor System of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2011fe/PTF11kly

Authors: Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Adam A. Miller, S. Bradley Cenko, Saurabh W. Jha, Mark Sullivan, D. Andrew Howell, Peter E. Nugent, Nathaniel R. Butler, Eran O. Ofek, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Joseph W. Richards, Alan Stockton, Hsin-Yi Shih, Lars Bildsten, Michael M. Shara, Joanne Bibby, Alexei V. Filippenko, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Jeffrey M. Silverman, S. R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Curtis McCully, Brandon Patel, Kate Maguire

Pulsar Wind Nebulae with Thick Toroidal Structure

Authors: Roger A. Chevalier, Stephen P. Reynolds

Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data

Authors: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. S. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, R. S. Amin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, F. Antonucci, M. A. Arain, M. C. Araya, M. Aronsson, K. G. Arun, Y. Aso, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. Ballmer, D. Barker, S. Barnum, F. Barone, B. Barr, P. Barriga, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, B. Behnke, M.G. Beker, A. Belletoile, M. Benacquista, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge, P. T. Beyersdorf, S. Bigotta, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, S. Birindelli, R. Biswas, M. Bitossi, M. A. Bizouard, E. Black, J. K. Blackburn, L. Blackburn, D. Blair, B. Bland, et al.

Recent results on the low mass dark matter WIMP controversy: 2011

Authors: David B. Cline

tipa -- 9/8/2011

Turbulent Pressure Support in the Outer Parts of Galaxy Clusters

Authors: Ian J. Parrish (1), Michael McCourt (1), Eliot Quataert (1), Prateek Sharma (1 and 2) ((1) UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy and Theoretical Astrophysics Center, (2) Indian Institute of Science)

Type Ia Supernova Carbon Footprints

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

CXOM31 J004253.1+411422: The first ultra-luminous X-ray transient in M 31

Authors: A. Kaur, M. Henze, F. Haberl, W. Pietsch, J. Greiner, A. Rau, D.H. Hartmann, G. Sala, M. Hernanz

tipa -- 9/7/2011

Observation of an Anisotropy in the Galactic Cosmic Ray arrival direction at 400 TeV with IceCube

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Very Early Ultraviolet and Optical Observations of the Type Ia Supernova 2009ig

Authors: Ryan J. Foley, P. J. Challis, A. V. Filippenko, M. Ganeshalingam, W. Landsman, W. Li, G. H. Marion, J. M. Silverman, R. L. Beaton, V. N. Bennert, S. B. Cenko, M. Childress, P. Guhathakurta, L. Jiang, R. P. Kirshner, A. Stockton, E. Tollerud, J. Vinko, J. C. Wheeler, J.-H. Woo

Connecting the Gamma Ray Burst Rate and the Cosmic Star Formation History: Implications for Reionization and Galaxy Evolution

Authors: Brant E. Robertson (Caltech, Arizona), Richard S. Ellis (Caltech)

Testing General Relativity on Horizon Scales and the Primordial non-Gaussianity

Authors: Jaiyul Yoo, Nico Hamaus, Uros Seljak, Matias Zaldarriaga

Crab GeV flares from corrugated termination shock

Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Dinshaw Balsara (University of Notre Dame), Chris Matthews (University of Notre Dame)

tipa -- 9/6/2011

Combined Analysis of all Three Phases of Solar Neutrino Data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Authors: SNO Collaboration

Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the combustion of a neutron star into a quark star

Authors: Matthias Herzog, Friedrich K. Roepke

Slowly balding black holes

Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Jonathan C. McKinney (Stanford University)

Constraining the near-IR background light from Population-III stars using high redshift gamma-ray sources

Authors: Rudy C. Gilmore

The Lag-Luminosity Relation in the GRB Source-Frame: An Investigation with Swift BAT Bursts

Authors: T. N. Ukwatta, K. S. Dhuga, M. Stamatikos, C. D. Dermer, T. Sakamoto, E. Sonbas, W. C. Parke, L. C. Maximon, J. T. Linnemann, P. N. Bhat, A. Eskandarian, N. Gehrels, U. Abeysekara, K. Tollefson, J. P. Norris

Results from 730 kg days of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search

Authors: G. Angloher, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina, A. Bento, C. Bucci, C. Ciemniak, G. Deuter, F. von Feilitzsch, D. Hauff, P. Huff, C. Isaila, J. Jochum, M. Kiefer, M. Kimmerle, J.-C. Lanfranchi, F. Petricca, S. Pfister, W. Potzel, F. Pröbst, F. Reindl, S. Roth, K. Rottler, C. Sailer, K. Schäffner, J. Schmaler, S. Scholl, W. Seidel, M. von Sivers, L. Stodolsky, C. Strandhagen, R. Strauß, A. Tanzke, I. Usherov, S. Wawoczny, M. Willers, A. Zöller

Phase Diagram for Magnetic Reconnection in Heliophysical, Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

Authors: Hantao Ji, William Daughton

Systematic effects in the estimate of the local gamma-ray emissivity

Authors: Timur Delahaye, Pierre Salati, Armand Fiasson, Martin Pohl

Core-collapse model of broadband emission from SNR RX J1713.7-3946 with thermal X-rays and Gamma-rays from escaping cosmic rays

Authors: Donald C. Ellison, Patrick Slane, Daniel J. Patnaude, Andrei M. Bykov

New Sources of Gravitational Waves during Inflation

Authors: Leonardo Senatore, Eva Silverstein, Matias Zaldarriaga

tipa -- 9/5/2011

Measurement of separate cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration

tipa -- 9/2/2011

The MultiDark Database: Release of the Bolshoi and MultiDark Cosmological Simulations

Authors: Kristin Riebe, Adrian M. Partl, Harry Enke, Jaime Forero-Romero, Stefan Gottloeber, Anatoly Klypin, Gerard Lemson, Francisco Prada, Joel R. Primack, Matthias Steinmetz, Victor Turchaninov

VERITAS Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Swift

Authors: VERITAS Collaboration

Time Evolution of the Reverse Shock in SN 1006

Authors: P. Frank Winkler, Andrew J. S. Hamilton, Knox S. Long, Robert A. Fesen

Cosmic rays and the magnetic field in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC253 III. Helical magnetic fields in the nuclear outflow

Authors: Volker Heesen (1), Rainer Beck (2), Marita Krause (2), Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (3) ((1) University of Hertfordshire, (2) MPIfR, (3) Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

tipa -- 9/1/2011

What is the Most Promising Electromagnetic Counterpart of a Neutron Star Binary Merger?

Authors: Brian D. Metzger, Edo Berger

classic papers of the week -- 204

Inhomogeneous Electron Gas

Hohenberg, P. (École Normale Superieure, Paris, France); Kohn, W. (École Normale Superieure, Paris, France and Faculté des Sciences, Orsay, France and University of California at San Diego)

On the variations of the proper motions of Procyon and Sirius

Bessel, F. W.

Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon

Iijima, Sumio (NEC Corp., Tsukuba, Japan)

Authors: J. H. K. Wu (1), E. M. H. Wu (1), C. Y. Hui (2), P. H. T. Tam (3), R. H. H. Huang (3), A. K. H. Kong (3), K. S. Cheng (1) ((1) The University of Hong Kong, (2) Chungnam National University, (3) National Tsing Hua University)

Sterile neutrinos with eV masses in cosmology -- how disfavoured exactly?

Authors: Jan Hamann, Steen Hannestad, Georg G. Raffelt, Yvonne Y.Y. Wong

Constraining Galactic cosmic-ray parameters with Z<=2 nuclei

Authors: B. Coste, L. Derome, D. Maurin, A. Putze

Is Strong SASI Activity the Key to Successful Neutrino-Driven Supernova Explosions?

Authors: Florian Hanke, Andreas Marek, Bernhard Mueller, Hans-Thomas Janka (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)

Young Radio Pulsars in Galactic Globular Clusters

Authors: Jason Boyles, Duncan R. Lorimer, Phil J. Turk, Robert Mnatsakanov, Ryan S. Lynch, Scott M. Ransom, Paulo C. Freire, Khris Belczynski

Neutrino induced reactions related to the $ν$-process nucleosynthesis of ${}^{92}$Nb and ${}^{98}$Tc

Authors: Myung-Ki Cheoun, Eunja Ha, T. Hayakawa, Satoshi Chiba, Ko Nakamura, Toshitaka Kajino, Grant J. Mathews

Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200

Authors: N. Ackerman, B. Aharmim, M. Auger, D.J. Auty, P.S. Barbeau, K. Barry, L. Bartoszek, E. Beauchamp, V. Belov, C. Benitez-Medina, M. Breidenbach, A. Burenkov, B. Cleveland, R. Conley, E. Conti, J. Cook, S. Cook, A. Coppens, I. Counts, W. Craddock, T. Daniels, M.V. Danilov, C.G. Davis, J. Davis, R. deVoe, Z. Djurcic, A. Dobi, A.G. Dolgolenko, M.J. Dolinski, K. Donato, W. Fairbank Jr., J. Farine, P. Fierlinger, D. Franco, D. Freytag, G. Giroux, R. Gornea, K. Graham, G. Gratta, M.P. Green, C. Hagemann, C. Hall, K. Hall, G. Haller, C. Hargrove, R. Herbst, S. Herrin, J. Hodgson, M. Hughes, A. Johnson, A. Karelin, L.J. Kaufman, T. Koffas, A. Kuchenkov, A. Kumar, K.S. Kumar, D.S. Leonard, F. Leonard, F. LePort, D. Mackay, R. MacLellan, M. Marino, Y. Martin, B. Mong, M. Montero Diez, P. Morgan, A.R. Muller, R. Neilson, R. Nelson, A. Odian, K. O'Sullivan, C. Ouellet, A. Piepke, A. Pocar, C.Y. Prescott, K. Pushkin, A. Rivas, E. Rollin, P.C. Rowson, J.J. Russell, A. Sabourov, D. Sinclair, K. Skarpaas, S. Slutsky, V. Stekhanov, V. Strickland, M. Swift, D. Tosi, K. Twelker, P. Vogel, J.-L. Vuilleumier, J.-M. Vuilleumier, A. Waite, S. Waldman, T. Walton, K. Wamba, M. Weber, U. Wichoski, J. Wodin, J.D. Wright, L. Yang, Y.-R. Yen, O.Ya. Zeldovich

tipa -- 8/22/2011

Scaling Law of Relativistic Sweet-Parker Type Magnetic Reconnection

Authors: Hiroyuki R. Takahashi, Takahiro Kudoh, Youhei Masada, Jin Matsumoto

The Identification of the X-ray Counterpart to PSR J2021+4026

Authors: Martin C. Weisskopf, Roger W. Romani, Massimiliano Razzano, Andrea Belfiore, Pablo Saz Parkinson, Paul S. Ray, Matthew Kerr, Alice Harding, Douglas A. Swartz, Alberto Carraminana, Marcus Ziegler, Werner Becker, Andrea De Luca, Michael Dormody, David J. Thompson, Gottfried Kanbach, Ronald F. Elsner, Stephen L. O'Dell, Allyn F. Tennant

Three-dimensional Hydrodynamic Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations for an $11.2 M_{\odot}$ Star with Spectral Neutrino Transport

Authors: Tomoya Takiwaki, Kei Kotake, Yudai Suwa

classic papers of the week -- 203

Nuclear Induction

Bloch, F. (Stanford University, California)

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics - Theory and application to non-spherical stars

Gingold, R. A.; Monaghan, J. J. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

A Geodetic Measurement of Unusually High Accuracy

Captain C. L. Garner (Retired) (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey)

tipa -- 8/19/2011

Detection of Pulsed Gamma Rays Above 100 GeV from the Crab Pulsar

Authors: VERITAS Collaboration

Multi-Zone Modeling of HESS J1825-137

Authors: Adam Van Etten, Roger W. Romani

Supernova enhanced cosmic ray ionization and induced chemistry in a molecular cloud of W51C

Authors: C. Ceccarelli, P. Hily-Blant, T.Montmerle, G.Dubus, Y.Gallant, A.Fiasson

Circumstellar Material in Type Ia Supernovae via Sodium Absorption Features

Authors: Assaf Sternberg, Avishay Gal-Yam, Josh D. Simon, Douglas C. Leonard, Robert M. Quimby, Mark M. Phillips, Nidia Morrell, Ian B. Thompson, Inese Ivans, Jennifer L. Marshall, Alexei V. Filippenko, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Josh S. Bloom, Ferdinando Patat, Ryan J. Foley, David Yong, Bryan E. Penprase, Daniel J. Beeler, Carlos Allende Prieto, Guy S. Stringfellow

The very-high energy emission from pulsars: a case for inverse Compton scattering

Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Nepomuk Otte (UCSC), Andrew McCann (McGill University)

tipa -- 8/18/2011

Central Powering of the Largest Lyman-alpha Nebula is Revealed by Polarized Radiation

Authors: Matthew Hayes (1,2,3), Claudia Scarlata (4,5), Brian Siana (6) ((1) University of Toulouse, (2) CNRS, IRAP, (3) Geneva Observatory, (4) University of Minnesota, (5) Spitzer, (6) Caltech)

An examination of magnetized outflows from active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters