today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Sovan Chakraborty (II Inst. Theor. Phys., Hamburg University), Tobias Fischer (GSI & Tech. Univ. Darmstadt), Lorenz Hudepohl, Hans-Thomas Janka (MPA, Garching), Alessandro Mirizzi (II Inst. Theor. Phys., Hamburg University), Pasquale Dario Serpico (LAPTh, Annecy)

Contemporaneous VLBA 5 GHz Observations of LAT-Detected Blazars

Authors: Justin D. Linford, Gregory B. Taylor, Roger W. Romani, Joseph F. Helmboldt, Anthony C.S. Readhead, Rodrigo Reeves, Joseph L. Richards

The Fast and Faint SN 2010bh Associated with GRB 100316D

Authors: Filomena Bufano (1), Elena Pian, Jesper Sollerman, Stefano Benetti, Giuliano Pignata, Stefano Valenti, Stefano Covino, Paolo D'Avanzo, Daniele Malesani, Enrico Cappellaro, Massimo Della Valle, Johan Fynbo, Jens Hjorth, Paolo A. Mazzali, Daniel E. Reichart, Rhaana L. C. Starling, Massimo Turatto, Susanna D. Vergani, Klass Wiersema, Lorenzo Amati, David Bersier, Sergio Campana, Zach Cano, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Guido Chincarini, Valerio D'Elia, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, Jinsong Deng, Patrizia Ferrero, Alexei V. Filippenko, Paolo Goldoni, Javier Gorosabel, Jochen Greiner, Francois Hammer, Pall Jakobsson, Lex Kaper, Koji S. Kawabata, Sylvio Klose, Andrew J. Levan, Keiichi Maeda, Nicola Masetti, Bo Milvang-Jensen, Felix I. Mirabel, Palle Moller, Kenichi Nomoto, Eliana Palazzi, Silvia Piranomonte, Ruben Salvaterra, Giulia Stratta, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Masaomi Tanaka, Ralph A.M.J. Wijers ((1) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Catania)

Voids as Alternatives to Dark Energy and the Propagation of Gamma Rays through the Universe

Authors: Arnaud De Lavallaz, Malcolm Fairbairn

Extended clustering analyses to constrain the deflection angular scale and source density of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

Authors: Guillaume Decerprit, Nicolas G. Busca, Etienne Parizot

Neutral pion emission from accelerated protons in the supernova remnant W44

Authors: A. Giuliani, M. Cardillo, M. Tavani, Y. Fukui, S. Yoshiike, K. Torii, G. Dubner, G. Castelletti, G. Barbiellini, A. Bulgarelli, P. Caraveo, E. Costa, P. W. Cattaneo, A. Chen, T. Contessi, E. Del Monte, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Gianotti, F. Lazzarotto, F. Lucarelli, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, S. Mereghetti, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, G. Piano, P. Picozza, C. Pittori, G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, S. Sabatini, P. Soffitta, E. Striani, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, S. Vercellone, F. Verrecchia, V. Vittorini, S. Colafrancesco, P. Giommi, G. Bignami

The non-thermal emission of extended radio galaxy lobes with curved electron spectra

Authors: Peter Duffy, Katherine M. Blundell

Type-Ia supernova rates and the progenitor problem, a review

Authors: Dan Maoz, Filippo Mannucci

Nuclear correlations and the r-process

Authors: A. Arcones, G. F. Bertsch

tipa -- 11/21/2011

Evidence for dark matter contraction and a Salpeter IMF in a massive early-type galaxy

Authors: Alessandro Sonnenfeld, Tommaso Treu, Raphael Gavazzi, Philip J. Marshall, Mattew W. Auger, Sherry H. Suyu, Leon V. E. Koopmans, Adam S. Bolton

Multiwavelength Constraints on Pulsar Populations in the Galactic Center

Authors: R. S. Wharton, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes, J. S. Deneva, T. J. W. Lazio

Constraining Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter with Chandra Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy

Authors: Casey R. Watson (Millikin U.), Zhiyuan Li (CfA), Nicholas K. Polley (Millikin U.)

The peak energy of dissipative GRB photospheres

Authors: Dimitrios Giannios (Princeton)

PSR J2030+3641: radio discovery and gamma-ray study of a middle-aged pulsar in the now identified Fermi-LAT source 1FGL J2030.0+3641

Authors: F. Camilo, M. Kerr, P.S. Ray, S.M. Ransom, S. Johnston, R.W. Romani, D. Parent, M.E. DeCesar, A.K. Harding, D. Donato, P.M. Saz Parkinson, E.C. Ferrara, P.C.C. Freire, L. Guillemot, M. Keith, M. Kramer, K.S. Wood

Statistical Tests of Noise and Harmony in Dark Matter Modulation Signals

Authors: Spencer Chang, Josef Pradler, Itay Yavin

tipa -- 11/18/2011

Constraining Sources of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Using High Energy Observations with the Fermi Satellite

Authors: Asaf Pe'er, Abraham Loeb

The Large, Oxygen-Rich Halos of Star-Forming Galaxies Are A Major Reservoir of Galactic Metals

Authors: Jason Tumlinson, Christopher Thom, Jessica K. Werk, J. Xavier Prochaska, Todd M. Tripp, David H. Weinberg, Molly S. Peeples, John M. O'Meara, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Joseph D. Meiring, Neal S. Katz, Romeel Dave, Amanda Brady Ford, Kenneth R. Sembach

A Reservoir of Ionized Gas in the Galactic Halo to Sustain Star Formation in the Milky Way

Authors: Nicolas Lehner, J. Christopher Howk

The Hidden Mass and Large Spatial Extent of a Poststarburst Galaxy Outflow

Authors: Todd M. Tripp, Joseph D. Meiring, J. Xavier Prochaska, Christopher N. A. Willmer, J. Christopher Howk, Jessica K. Werk, Edward B. Jenkins, David V. Bowen, Nicolas Lehner, Kenneth R. Sembach, Christopher Thom, Jason Tumlinson

The r-Process in Metal Poor Stars and Black Hole Formation

Authors: Richard Boyd, Michael Famiano, Bradley Meyer, Yuko Motizuki, Toshitaka Kajino, Ian Roederer

Gamma Rays from the Tycho Supernova Remnant: Leptonic or Hadronic?

Authors: Armen Atoyan, Charles Dermer

tipa -- 11/17/2011

The Origin of OB Runaway Stars

Authors: Michiko Fujii, Simon Portegies Zwart

Pair-Instability Supernovae via Collision Runaway in Young Dense Star Clusters

Authors: Tony Pan, Abraham Loeb, Daniel Kasen

Protostellar Feedback Halts the Growth of the First Stars in the Universe

Authors: Takashi Hosokawa, Kazuyuki Omukai, Naoki Yoshida, Harold W. Yorke

Was The Sun Born In A Massive Cluster?

Authors: Donald Dukes, Mark R. Krumholz

Fermi Detection of a Luminous Gamma-ray Pulsar in a Globular Cluster

Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration

Strangelet dwarfs

Authors: Mark G. Alford, Sophia Han, Sanjay Reddy

A Search for Single Photon Events in Neutrino Interactions

Authors: C. T. Kullenberg, S. R. Mishra (NOMAD Collaboration)

tipa -- 11/15/2011

An Excursion-Set Model for the Structure of GMCs and the ISM

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley)

The X-ray Counterpart of the High-B Pulsar PSR J0726-2612

Authors: J. S. Speagle (1,2), D. L. Kaplan (1,3), M. H. van Kerkwijk (4) ((1) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (2) Harvard College, (3) corresponding author, (4) University of Toronto)

Unusual Central Engine Activity in the Double Burst GRB 110709B

Authors: Bin-Bin Zhang, David N. Burrows, Bing Zhang, Peter Meszaros, Giulia Stratta, Valerio D'Elia, Dmitry Frederiks, S. Golenetskii, Jay R. Cummings, Xiang-Yu Wang, Abraham D. Falcone, Scott D. Barthelmy, Neil Gehrels

Eccentric black hole-neutron star mergers: effects of black hole spin and equation of state

Authors: William E. East, Frans Pretorius, Branson C. Stephens

The Orbit and Companion of Probable gamma-ray Pulsar J2339-0533

Authors: Roger W. Romani, Michael S. Shaw

Anisotropy of TeV Cosmic Rays and the Outer Heliospheric Boundaries

Authors: P. Desiati, A. Lazarian

High-Resolution Simulations of Convection Preceding Ignition in Type Ia Supernovae Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Authors: A. Nonaka, A. J. Aspden, M. Zingale, A. S. Almgren, J. B. Bell, S. E. Woosley

Simultaneous multi-wavelength campaign on PKS 2005-489 in a high state

Authors: The H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Gamma-ray burst afterglow scaling relations for the full blast wave evolution

Authors: H. J. van Eerten, A. I. MacFadyen

Olber's Paradox for Superluminal Neutrinos: Constraining ExtremeNeutrino Speeds at TeV-ZeV Energies with the Diffuse Neutrino Background

Authors: Brian C. Lacki

Authors: Christian Knigge (1), Malcolm Coe (1), Philipp Podsiadlowski (2) ((1) University of Southampton, (2) University of Oxford)

2D simulations of the double-detonation model for thermonuclear transients from low-mass carbon-oxygen white dwarfs

Authors: S. A. Sim, M. Fink, M. Kromer, F. K. Roepke, A. J. Ruiter, W. Hillebrandt

Extended hard X-ray emission from the Vela pulsar wind nebula

Authors: Fabio Mattana, Diego Götz, Régis Terrier, Laurent Bouchet, Gabriele Ponti, Maurizio Falanga, Matthieu Renaud, Isabel Caballero, Simona Soldi, Juan Antonio Zurita Heras, Stephane Schanne

tipa -- 11/9/2011

HST-COS Observations of Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon and Nitrogen Emission from the SN 1987A Reverse Shock

Authors: Kevin France, Richard McCray, Steven V. Penton, Robert P. Kirshner, Peter Challis, J. Martin Laming, Patrice Bouchet, Roger Chevalier, Claes Fransson, Peter M. Garnavich, Kevin Heng, Josefin Larsson, Stephen Lawrence, Peter Lundqvist, Nino Panagia, Chun S. J. Pun, Nathan Smith, Jesper Sollerman, George Sonneborn, Ben Sugerman, J. Craig Wheeler

Detection of Gamma-Ray Polarization in Prompt Emission of GRB 100826A

Authors: Daisuke Yonetoku, Toshio Murakami, Shuichi Gunji, Tatehiro Mihara, Kenji Toma, Tomonori Sakashita, Yoshiyuki Morihara, Takuya Takahashi, Noriyuki Toukairin, Hirofumi Fujimoto, Yoshiki Kodama, Shin Kubo, IKAROS Demonstration Team

Supernovae without host galaxies? The low surface brightness host of SN 2009Z

Authors: P.-C. Zinn, M. Stritzinger, J. Braithwaite, A. Gallazzi, P. Grunden, D. J. Bomans, N. I. Morrell, U. Bach

Escape from Vela X

Authors: James Hinton, Stefan Funk, Robert Parsons, Stefan Ohm

tipa -- 11/8/2011

The first Infrared study of the close environment of a long Gamma-Ray Burst

Authors: E.Le Floc'h (1), V.Charmandaris (2,3,4), K.Gordon (5), W.J.Forrest (6), B.Brandl (7), D.Schaerer (8,9), M.Dessauges-Zavadsky (8), L.Armus (10) ((1) CEA/AIM, France, (2) Univ.of Crete, Greece, (3) Obs.de Paris, France, (4) IESL, Greece, (5) STScI, Baltimore, USA, (6) Univ.of Rochester, USA, (7) Leiden Obs., Netherlands, (8) Geneva Obs., Switzerland, (9) CNRS/IRAP, France, (10) Spitzer Science Center, Pasadena, USA)

A nearby GRB host galaxy: VLT/X-shooter observations of HG 031203

Authors: N. G. Guseva (1,2), Y. I. Izotov (1,2), K. J. Fricke (1,3), C. Henkel (1) ((1) Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany, (2) Main Astronomical Observatory, Kyiv, Ukraine, (3) Institute for Astrophysics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany)

Effect of Population III Multiplicity on Dark Star Formation

Authors: Athena Stacy, Andreas H. Pawlik, Volker Bromm, Abraham Loeb

Enhancing the Relative Fe-to-Proton Abundance in Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Authors: Carl Blaksley, Etienne Parizot

Pulsar Pair Cascades in Magnetic Fields with Offset Polar Caps

Authors: Alice K. Harding, Alex G. Muslimov

A comparison between star formation rate diagnostics and rate of core collapse supernovae within 11 Mpc

Authors: M. T. Botticella, S. J. Smartt, R. C. Kennicutt Jr., E. Cappellaro, M. Sereno, J. C. Lee

Black hole-neutron star mergers for 10 solar mass black holes

Authors: Francois Foucart, Matthew D. Duez, Lawrence E. Kidder, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Saul A. Teukolsky

Neutrino mass in cosmology: status and prospects

Authors: Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Nuclear condensate and helium white dwarfs

Authors: Paulo F. Bedaque, Evan Berkowitz, Aleksey Cherman

Shining a Gluon Beam Through Quark-Gluon Plasma

Authors: Paul M. Chesler, Ying-Yu Ho, Krishna Rajagopal

tipa -- 11/7/2011

A Compact Degenerate Primary-Star Progenitor of SN 2011fe

Authors: Joshua S. Bloom, Daniel Kasen, Ken J. Shen, Peter E. Nugent, Nathaniel R. Butler, Melissa L. Graham, D. Andrew Howell, Ulrich Kolb, Stefan Holmes, Carole Haswell, Vadim Burwitz, Juan Rodriguez, Mark Sullivan

Unifying the Zoo of Jet-Driven Stellar Explosions

Authors: Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Brian J. Morsony (UWi Madison), Christopher H. Blackwell (NCSU & UAH), Micthell C. Begelman (CU Boulder)

tipa -- 11/4/2011

Cosmic flows in the nearby universe from Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Stephen J. Turnbull, Michael J. Hudson, Hume A. Feldman, Malcolm Hicken, Robert P. Kirshner, Richard Watkin

Hydrodynamics of Core-Collapse Supernovae at the Transition to Explosion. I. Spherical Symmetry

Authors: Rodrigo Fernández (IAS)

Discovery of a giant, highly-collimated jet from Sanduleak's star in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Authors: R. Angeloni (1), F. Di Mille (2), J. Bland-Hawthorn (3), D. Osip (4)- ((1) Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, (2) Australian Astronomical Observatory - Carnegie Observatories, (3) Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney, (4) Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Observatories)

A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies with two years of South Pole Telescope observations