tipa -- 10/17/2011

First evidence of pep solar neutrinos by direct detection in Borexino

• Authors: The Borexino Collaboration

The Dust Extinction Curves of Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies

• Authors: P.Schady, T.Dwelly, M.J.Page, T.Krühler, J.Greiner, S.R.Oates, M.De Pasquale, M.Nardini, P.W.A.Roming, A.Rossi, M.Still

The Role of Structured Magnetic Fields on Constraining Properties of Transient Sources of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Hajime Takami, Kohta Murase

tipa -- 10/14/2011

Low-mass X-ray binaries indicate a top-heavy stellar initial mass function in ultra compact dwarf galaxies

• Authors: Jörg Dabringhausen, Pavel Kroupa, Jan Pflamm-Altenburg, Steffen Mieske

Discovery of Variability of the Progenitor of SN 2011dh in M51 Using the Large Binocular Telescope

• Authors: D. M. Szczygieł, J. R. Gerke, C. S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek

Low-Mach-number turbulence in interstellar gas revealed by radio polarization gradients

• Authors: Bryan M. Gaensler, Marijke Haverkorn, Blakesley Burkhart, Katherine J. Newton-McGee, Ronald D. Ekers, Alex Lazarian, Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths, Timothy Robishaw, John M. Dickey, Anne J. Green

Tenth-Order QED Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment --- Eighth-Order Vertices Containing a Second-Order Vacuum Polarization

• Authors: Tatsumi Aoyama, Masashi Hayakawa, Toichiro Kinoshita, Makiko Nio

tipa -- 10/13/2011

Magnetic field decay in neutron stars: from Soft Gamma Repeaters to "weak field magnetars"

• Authors: S. Dall'Osso, J. Granot, T. Piran

On the Nature of the Progenitor of the Type Ia SN2011fe in M101

• Authors: Jifeng Liu, Rosanne Di Stefano, Tao Wang, Maxwell Moe

A Swift Look at SN 2011fe: The Earliest Ultraviolet Observations of a Type Ia Supernova

• Authors: Peter J. Brown, Kyle S. Dawson, Massimiliano de Pasquale, Caryl Gronwall, Stephen Holland, Stefan Immler, Paul Kuin, Paolo Mazzali, Peter Milne, Samantha Oates, Michael Siegel

tipa -- 10/12/2011

Multi-Zone Models of Superbursts from Accreting Neutron Stars

• Authors: L. Keek, A. Heger

SN 2010ay is a Luminous and Broad-lined Type Ic Supernova within a Low-metallicity Host Galaxy

• Authors: Nathan E. Sanders (1), A. M. Soderberg (1), S. Valenti (2), L. Chomiuk (1,3), E. Berger (1), S. Smartt (2), K. Hurley (4), S. D. Barthelmy (5), R. Chornock (1), R. J. Foley (1), E. M. Levesque (6), G. Narayan (7), R. P. Kirshner (1), M.T. Botticella (2), M. S. Briggs (8), V. Connaughton (8), Y. Terada (9), N. Gehrels (5), S. Golenetskii (10), E. Mazets (10), T. Cline (11), A. von Kienlin (12), W. Boynton (13), K. C. Chambers (14), T. Grav (15), J. N. Heasley (14), K. W. Hodapp (14), R. Jedicke (14), N. Kaiser (14), R.-P. Kudritzki (14), G. A. Luppino (14), R. H. Lupton (16), E. A. Magnier (14), D. G. Monet (17), J. S. Morgan (14), P. M. Onaka (14), P. A. Price (14), C. W. Stubbs (7), J. L. Tonry (14), R. J. Wainscoat (14), M. F. Waterson (18) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Queens University, (3) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (4) University of California Berkeley, (5) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (6) University of Colorado, (7) Department of Physics, Harvard University, (8) CSPAR, University of Alabama in Huntsville, (9) Saitama University, (10) Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, (11) Emeritus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (12) Max-Planck Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, (13) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, (14) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, (15) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, (16) Princeton University, (17) US Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station, (18) The University of Western Australia)

Charged Particle Decay at Finite Temperature

• Authors: Andrzej Czarnecki, Marc Kamionkowski, Samuel K. Lee, Kirill Melnikov

Probing Superluminal Neutrinos Via Refraction

• Authors: Albert Stebbins

tipa -- 10/11/2011

Radio bursts from superconducting strings

• Authors: Yi-Fu Cai, Eray Sabancilar, Tanmay Vachaspati

The Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey: type Ia supernova rate measurement in z~0.1 clusters and the late-time delay time distribution

• Authors: David J. Sand, Melissa L. Graham, Chris Bildfell, Dennis Zaritsky, Chris Pritchet, Henk Hoekstra, Dennis W. Just, Stéphane Herbert-Fort, Suresh Sivanandam, Ryan Foley, Andisheh Mahdavi

The star formation history of the Milky Way's Nuclear Star Cluster

• Authors: O. Pfuhl, T. K. Fritz, M. Zilka, H. Maness, F. Eisenhauer, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, T. Ott, K. Dodds-Eden, A. Sternberg

Missing Black Holes Unveil The Supernova Explosion Mechanism

• Authors: K. Belczynski, G. Wiktorowicz, C. Fryer, D. Holz, V. Kalogera

Compact Remnant Mass Function: Dependence on the Explosion Mechanism and Metallicity

• Authors: C.L. Fryer, K. Belczynski, G. Wiktorowicz, M. Dominik, V. Kalogera, D. Holz

Impact of eV-mass sterile neutrinos on neutrino-driven supernova outflows

• Authors: Irene Tamborra, Georg G. Raffelt, Lorenz Huedepohl, Hans-Thomas Janka

Impact of the Relative Motion between the Dark Matter and Baryons on the First Stars

• Authors: Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, Dmitriy Tseliakhovich, Christopher M. Hirata

tipa -- 10/10/2011

Core-Collapse Supernovae and Host Galaxy Stellar Populations

• Authors: Patrick L. Kelly (Stanford), Robert P. Kirshner (CfA)

First measurement of the total proton-proton cross section at the LHC energy of {\surd} s =7 TeV

• Authors: G. Antchev, P. Aspell, I. Atanassov, V. Avati, J. Baechler, V. Berardi, M. Berretti, E. Bossini, M. Bozzo, P. Brogi, E. Brücken, A. Buzzo, F. Cafagna, M. Calicchio, M. G. Catanesi, C. Covault, T. Csörgö, M. Deile, K. Eggert, V. Eremin, R. Ferretti, F. Ferro, A. Fiergolski, F. Garcia, S. Giani, V. Greco, L. Grzanka, J. Heino, T. Hilden, M.R. Intonti, J. Kašpar, J. Kopal, V. Kundrát, K. Kurvinen, S. Lami, G. Latino, R. Lauhakangas, T. Leszko, E. Lippmaa, M. Lokajíček, M. Lo Vetere, F. Lucas Rodríguez, M. Macrí, L. Magaletti, A. Mercadante, S. Minutoli, F. Nemes, H. Niewiadomski, E. Oliveri, F. Oljemark, R. Orava, M. Oriunno, K. Österberg, P. Palazzi, J. Procházka, M. Quinto, E. Radermacher, E. Radicioni, F. Ravotti, E. Robutti, L. Ropelewski, G. Ruggiero, H. Saarikko, G. Sanguinetti, A. Santroni, A. Scribano, W. Snoeys, J. Sziklai, C. Taylor, N. Turini, V. Vacek, M. Vítek, J. Welti, J. Whitmore

tipa -- 10/7/2011

Measuring Sizes of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

• Authors: R. R. Munoz (U. de Chile/Yale), N. Padmanabhan (Yale), M. Geha (Yale)

Stellar, brown dwarf and multiple star properties from a radiation hydrodynamical simulation of star cluster formation

• Authors: Matthew R. Bate

A Sino-German 6cm polarization survey of the Galactic plane VII. Small supernova remnants

• Authors: X. H. Sun (1 and 2), P. Reich (2), W. Reich (2), L. Xiao (1), X. Y. Gao (1), J. L. Han (1) ((1) NAOC, (2) MPIfR)

Pulsed Gamma Rays from the Original Millisecond and Black Widow Pulsars: a case for Caustic Radio Emission?

• Authors: L. Guillemot, T. J. Johnson, C. Venter, M. Kerr, B. Pancrazi, M. Livingstone, G. H. Janssen, P. Jaroenjittichai, M. Kramer, I. Cognard, B. W. Stappers, A. K. Harding, F. Camilo, C. M. Espinoza, P. C. C. Freire, F. Gargano, J. E. Grove, S. Johnston, P. F. Michelson, A. Noutsos, D. Parent, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, R. Shannon, D. A. Smith, G. Theureau, S. E. Thorsett, N. Webb

tipa -- 10/6/2011

The Fermi Bubbles II: The Potential Roles of Viscosity and Cosmic Ray Diffusion in Jet Models

• Authors: Fulai Guo, William G. Mathews, Gregory Dobler, S. Peng Oh

Lower limits on ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray and jet powers of TeV blazars

• Authors: Soebur Razzaque, Charles D. Dermer, Justin D. Finke

tipa -- 10/5/2011

Infall Times for Milky Way Satellites From Their Present-Day Kinematics

• Authors: Miguel Rocha, Annika H.G. Peter, James S. Bullock (Center for Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine)

Resonant Shattering of Neutron Star Crusts

• Authors: David Tsang, Jocelyn S. Read, Tanja Hinderer, Anthony L. Piro, Ruxandra Bondarescu

Extreme particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection layers. Application to the gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula

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

tipa -- 10/4/2011

Observation and Spectral Measurements of the Crab Nebula with Milagro

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, B. T. Allen, T. Aune, W. Benbow, D. Berley, C. Chen, G. E. Christopher, T. DeYoung, B. L. Dingus, R. W. Ellsworth, A. Falcone, L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, M. M. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, J. B. Gordo, E. Hays, C. M. Hoffman, P. H. Huentemeyer, B. E. Kolterman, J. T. Linnemann, J. E. McEnery, T. Morgan, A. I. Mincer, P. Nemethy, J. Pretz, J. M. Ryan, P. M. Saz Parkinson, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, V. Vasileiou, G. P. Walker, D. A. Williams, and G. B. Yodh

Particle Spectra from Acceleration at Forward and Reverse Shocks of Young Type Ia Supernova Remnants

• Authors: Igor Telezhinsky, Vikram Dwarkadas, Martin Pohl

Head-Tail Clouds: Drops to Probe the Diffuse Galactic Halo

• Authors: M.E. Putman, D.R. Saul, E. Mets (Columbia University)

On The Origin Of The Gamma Rays From The Galactic Center

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Tim Linden

Instability in the dense supernova neutrino gas with flavor-dependent angular distributions

• Authors: Alessandro Mirizzi (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Pasquale D. Serpico (LAPTh, Annecy-Le-Vieux)

tipa -- 10/3/2011

Multimoment Radio Transient Detection

• Authors: Laura Spitler, Jim Cordes, Shami Chatterjee, Julia Stone

Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares

• Authors: Nicholas Stone, Abraham Loeb

tipa -- 9/30/2011

Searching for Dark Matter in the CMB: A Compact Parameterization of Energy Injection from New Physics

• Authors: Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Silvia Galli, Tongyan Lin, Tracy R. Slatyer

Tidal disruption rate of stars by spinning supermassive black holes

• Authors: Michael Kesden

Gravitational redshift of galaxies in clusters as predicted by general relativity

• Authors: Radoslaw Wojtak, Steen H. Hansen, Jens Hjorth

Upper limits on bolometric luminosities of ten type Ia supernova progenitors from Chandra observations

• Authors: Mikkel T.B. Nielsen, Rasmus Voss, Gijs Nelemans

New Constraints on Neutrino Velocities

• Authors: Andrew G. Cohen, Sheldon L. Glashow

tipa -- 9/29/2011

Suzaku Observations of 4U 1957+11: Potentially the Most Rapidly Spinning Black Hole in (the Halo of) the Galaxy

• Authors: Michael A. Nowak, Joern Wilms, Katja Pottschmidt, Norbert Schulz, Dipankar Maitra, Jon Miller

The size of the jet launching region in M87

• Authors: Jason Dexter, Jonathan C. McKinney, Eric Agol

The Design and Performance of IceCube DeepCore

• Authors: The IceCube Collaboration

Phase-resolved energy spectra of the Crab Pulsar in the range of 50-400 GeV measured with the MAGIC Telescopes

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

Rotating massive stars through the ages, with applications to WR stars, Pop III stars and Gamma Ray Bursts

• Authors: Andre Maeder, Georges Meynet

Optical Polarization and Spectral Variability in the M87 Jet

• Authors: Eric S. Perlman (FIT), Steven C. Adams (U. Georgia), Mihai Cara (FIT), Matthew Bourque (FIT), D. E. Harris (CfA), Juan P. Madrid (Swinburne), Raymond C. Simons (FIT), Eric Clausen-Brown (Purdue), C. C. Cheung (NRL), Lukasz Stawarz (JAXA), Markos Georganopoulos (UMBC and GSFC), William B. Sparks (STScI), John A. Biretta (STScI)

Search for Sterile Neutrinos with a Radioactive Source at Daya Bay

• Authors: D.A. Dwyer, K.M. Heeger, B.R. Littlejohn, P. Vogel

tipa -- 9/28/2011

A filamentation instability for streaming cosmic-rays

• Authors: B. Reville, A. R. Bell

The Spin-down of Swift J1822.3-1606: A New Galactic Magnetar

• Authors: Margaret A. Livingstone, Paul Scholz, Victoria M. Kaspi, C.-Y. Ng, Fotis P. Gavriil

The Rise-Time of Normal and Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: S. Gonzalez-Gaitan, A. Conley, F. B. Bianco, D. A. Howell, M. Sullivan, K. Perrett, R. Carlberg, P. Astier, D. Balam, C. Balland, S. Basa, D. Fouchez, N. Fourmanoit, M. L. Graham, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, C. Lidman, R. Pain, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider

tipa -- 9/27/2011

The merger of binary white dwarf--neutron stars: Simulations in full general relativity

• Authors: Vasileios Paschalidis, Yuk Tung Liu, Zachariah Etienne, Stuart L. Shapiro

Magnetars vs. high magnetic field pulsars: a theoretical interpretation of the apparent dichotomy

• Authors: Jose A. Pons (U. of Alicante, Spain), Rosalba Perna (Colorado/JILA)

Limiting properties of light and the universe with high energy photons from Fermi-detected Gamma Ray Bursts

• Authors: Robert J. Nemiroff, Justin Holmes, Ryan Connolly

Neutrino Luminosity and Matter-Induced Modification of Collective Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Supernovae

• Authors: John F. Cherry, Meng-Ru Wu, Joe Carlson, Huaiyu Duan, George M. Fuller, Yong-Zhong Qian

High-Precision Timing of 5 Millisecond Pulsars: Space Velocities, Binary Evolution and Equivalence Principles

• Authors: M. E. Gonzalez, I. H. Stairs, R. D. Ferdman, P. C. C. Freire, D. J. Nice, P. B. Demorest, S. M. Ransom, M. Kramer, F. Camilo, G. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester, A. G. Lyne

Time-of-flight mass measurements for nuclear processes in neutron star crusts

• Authors: A. Estrade, M. Matos, H. Schatz, A. M. Amthor, D. Bazin, M. Beard, A. Becerril, E. F. Brown, R. Cyburt, T. Elliot, A. Gade, D. Galaviz, S. George, S. S. Gupta, W. R. Hix, R. Lau, G. Lorusso, P. Moller, J. Pereira, M. Portillo, A. M. Rogers, D. Shapira, E. Smith, A. Stolz, M. Wallace, M. Wiescher

tipa -- 9/26/2011

Crustal failure during binary inspiral

• Authors: A.J. Penner, N. Andersson, D.I. Jones, L Samuelsson, I. Hawke

The Extended Pulsar Magnetosphere

• Authors: Constantinos Kalapotharakos, Ioannis Contopoulos, Demos Kazanas

The Photometric and Spectral Evolution of the 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in NGC 300

• Authors: Roberta M. Humphreys, Howard E. Bond, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Kris Davidson, L. A. G. Berto Monard, Jose Prieto, Frederick M. Walter

Eccentric binary neutron star mergers

• Authors: Roman Gold, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Marcus Thierfelder, Bernd Bruegmann, Frans Pretorius

tipa -- 9/23/2011

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

• Authors: The OPERA Collaboraton

Circumstellar dust as a solution to the red supergiant supernova progenitor problem

• Authors: Joseph J. Walmswell, John J. Eldridge

Gamma-Ray Observations of the Supernova Remnant RX J0852.0-4622 with the Fermi LAT

• Authors: T. Tanaka, A. Allafort, J. Ballet, S. Funk, F. Giordano, J. Hewitt, M. Lemoine-Goumard, H. Tajima, O. Tibolla, Y. Uchiyama

Search for Gamma-ray Emission from X-ray Selected Seyfert Galaxies with Fermi-LAT

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

tipa -- 9/22/2011

Massive Neutrinos and the Non-linear Matter Power Spectrum

• Authors: Simeon Bird, Matteo Viel, Martin G. Haehnelt

A Last Look at the Microwave Haze/Bubbles with WMAP

• Authors: Gregory Dobler (KITP/UCSB)

Numerical simulations of diffusive shock acceleration in SNRs

• Authors: V.N.Zirakashvili, V.S.Ptuskin

Was the "naked burst" GRB 050421 really naked ?

• Authors: R. Hascoët (1 and 2), Z. L. Uhm (1 and 2), R. Mochkovitch (1 and 2), F. Daigne (1 and 2) ((1) UPMC Univ Paris, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (2) CNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

tipa -- 9/21/2011

Galactic Centre star formation: the case of the missing gas disc

• Authors: R. D. Alexander, S. L. Smedley, S. Nayakshin, A. R. King

A Universal, Local Star Formation Law in Galactic Clouds, Nearby Galaxies, High-Redshift Disks, and Starbursts

• Authors: Mark R. Krumholz, Avishai Dekel, Christopher F. McKee

The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey IV: Discovery and polarimetry of millisecond pulsars

• Authors: M. J. Keith, S. Johnston, M. Bailes, S. D. Bates, N. D. R. Bhat, M. Burgay, S. Burke-Spolaor, N. D'Amico, A. Jameson, M. Kramer, L. Levin, S. Milia, A. Possenti, B. W. Stappers, W. van Straten, D. Parent

Magnetic fields during the early stages of massive star formation - II. A generalised outflow criterion

• Authors: D. Seifried, R. E. Pudritz, R. Banerjee, D. Duffin, R. S. Klessen

The search for n-nbar oscillation in Super-Kamiokande I

• Authors: Super-Kamiokande collaboration

tipa -- 9/20/2011

The origin of metals in the circum-galactic medium of massive galaxies at z=3

• Authors: Sijing Shen, Piero Madau, Anthony Aguirre, Javiera Guedes, Lucio Mayer, James Wadsley

Multiscale magnetic fields in spiral galaxies: evolution and reversals

• Authors: David Moss, Rodion Stepanov, Tigran Arshakian, Rainer Beck, Marita Krause, Dmitri Sokoloff

Temporal Deconvolution study of Long and Short Gamma-Ray Burst Light curves

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

The First Magnetic Fields

• Authors: Lawrence M. Widrow (Queen's University, Canada), Dongsu Ryu (Chungnam National University, Korea), Dominik Schleicher (Georg-August-Universitat, Germany), Kandaswamy Subramanian (Pune University Campus, India), Christos G. Tsagas (Aristotle University, Greece), Rudolf A. Treumann (ISSI, Switzerland)

Seasonal modulation in the Borexino cosmic muon signal

• Authors: Davide D'Angelo, for the Borexino Collaboration