tipa -- 12/2/2011

The Very Massive and Hot LMC Star VFTS 682: Progenitor of a Future Dark Gamma-Ray Burst?

• Authors: Dong Zhang, K. Z. Stanek

A minor body falling onto a neutron star as an explanation for the unusual gamma-ray burst GRB 101225A

• Authors: S. Campana, G. Lodato, P. D'Avanzo, N. Panagia, E. M. Rossi, M. Della Valle, G. Tagliaferri, L. A. Antonelli, S. Covino, G. Ghirlanda, G. Ghisellini, A. Melandri, E. Pian, R. Salvaterra, G. Cusumano, V. D'Elia, D. Fugazza, E. Palazzi, B. Sbarufatti, S. D. Vergani

Relation of Astrophysical Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection

• Authors: A. Lazarian, G. Eyink, E. Vishniac

Multi-epoch high-resolution spectroscopy of SN2011fe - Linking the progenitor to its environment

• Authors: F. Patat, M. A. Cordiner, N. L. J. Cox, R. I. Anderson, A. Harutyunyan, R. Kotak, L. Palaversa, V. Stanishev, L. Tomasella, S. Benetti, A. Goobar, A. Pastorello, J. Sollerman

It's Alive! The Supernova Impostor 1961V

• Authors: Schuyler D. Van Dyk (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech), Thomas Matheson (NOAO)

Allan Sandage and the Cosmic Expansion

• Authors: G. A. Tammann, B. Reindl (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Basel)

tipa -- 12/1/2011

Yellow supergiants as supernova progenitors: an indication of strong mass loss for red supergiants?

• Authors: Cyril Georgy

Fermi Detection of γ-ray emission from the M2 Soft X-ray Flare on 2010 June 12

• Authors: Fermi GBM Collaboration, Fermi LAT Collaboration, B. R. Dennis, R. A. Schwartz, A. K. Tolbert

Searching for soft relativistic jets in Core-collapse Supernovae with the IceCube Optical Follow-up Program

• Authors: The IceCube Collaboration

The effect of the geomagnetic field on cosmic ray energy estimates and large scale anisotropy searches on data from the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

A Chandra X-ray Survey of Ejecta in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant

• Authors: Una Hwang, J. Martin Laming

Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO's Sixth Science Run and Virgo's Science Runs 2 and 3

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Colaboration, Virgo Collaboration

tipa -- 11/30/2011

Type Ia supernovae in globular clusters: observational upper limits

• Authors: R. Voss, G. Nelemans

Multi-epoch Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011fe

• Authors: Paul S. Smith, G. Grant Williams, Nathan Smith, Peter A. Milne, Buell T. Jannuzi, E. M. Green

Simulations of GRB Jets in a Stratified External Medium: Dynamics, Afterglow Lightcurves, Jet Breaks and Radio Calorimetry

• Authors: Fabio De Colle, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Jonathan Granot, Diego Lopez-Camara

Spectrum of cosmic-ray nucleons and the atmospheric muon charge ratio

• Authors: Thomas K. Gaisser

Acoustic Signatures of the Helium Core Flash

• Authors: Lars Bildsten, Bill Paxton, Kevin Moore, Phillip J. Macias

Investigating the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate in the Galactic Diffuse Interstellar Medium through Observations of H3+

• Authors: Nick Indriolo, Benjamin J. McCall

tipa -- 11/29/2011

Calcium-rich gap transients in the remote outskirts of galaxies

• Authors: Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Avishay Gal-Yam, Peter E. Nugent, Mark Sullivan, Lars Bildsten, Ofer Yaron, Hagai B. Perets, Iair Arcavi, Sagi Ben-Ami, Varun B. Bhalerao, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Alexei V. Filippenko, Dale A. Frail, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Assaf Horesh, D. Andrew Howell, Nicholas M. Law, Douglas C. Leonard, Weidong Li, Eran O. Ofek, David Polishook, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Assaf Sternberg, Dong Xu

An improved map of the Galactic Faraday sky

• Authors: N. Oppermann, H. Junklewitz, G. Robbers, M. R. Bell, T. A. Enßlin, A. Bonafede, R. Braun, J. C. Brown, T. E. Clarke, I. J. Feain, B. M. Gaensler, A. Hammond, L. Harvey-Smith, G. Heald, M. Johston-Hollitt, U. Klein, P. P. Kronberg, S. A. Mao, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, S. P. O'Sullivan, L. Pratley, T. Robishaw, S. Roy, D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler, C. Sotomayor-Beltran, J. Stevens, J. M. Stil, C. Sunstrum, A. Tanna, A. R. Taylor, C. L. Van Eck

Ring-like features in directional dark matter detection

• Authors: Nassim Bozorgnia, Graciela B. Gelmini, Paolo Gondolo

Cosmic microwave background constraints on the duration and timing of reionization from the South Pole Telescope

• Authors: O. Zahn, C. L. Reichardt, L. Shaw, A. Lidz, K. A. Aird, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H. M. Cho, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, O. Dore, J. Dudley, E. M. George, N. W. Halverson, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, Z. Hou, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, D. Luong-Van, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, M. Millea, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, T. Natoli, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Story, A. van Engelen, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson

Very High Angular Resolution Science with the Square Kilometre Array

• Authors: L. E. H. Godfrey, H. Bignall, S. Tingay, L. Harvey-Smith, M. Kramer, S. Burke-Spolaor, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, M. Johnston-Hollitt, R. Ekers, S. Gulyaev

Detection of the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 in a low flux state at Very High Energy gamma-rays with the MAGIC Telescopes in 2009

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

tipa -- 11/28/2011

A New Time-Dependent Finite Difference Method for Relativistic Shock Acceleration

• Authors: Sean Delaney, Paul Dempsey, Peter Duffy, Turlough P. Downes

In pursuit of gamma-ray burst progenitors: the identification of a sub-population of rotating Wolf-Rayet stars

• Authors: Jorick S. Vink (Armagh Observatory), G. Graefener (Armagh Observatory), T.J. Harries (Exeter)

PSR J1841-0500: a radio pulsar that mostly is not there

• Authors: F. Camilo, S. M. Ransom, S. Chatterjee, S. Johnston, P. Demorest

Soft nuclear equation-of-state from heavy-ion data and implications for compact stars

• Authors: Irina Sagert, Laura Tolos, Debarati Chatterjee, Juergen Schaffner-Bielich, Christian Sturm

Geo-neutrinos as indicators of the origin and thermal history of the Earth

• Authors: Steve Dye

Allan R. Sandage, 18 June 1926 - 13 November 2010

• Authors: Donald Lynden-Bell (IoA, Cambridge), Francois Schweizer (OCIS, Pasadena)

tipa -- 11/24/2011

Basic Properties of MHD Turbulence in the Inertial Range

• Authors: Andrey Beresnyak

The 2010 very high energy gamma-ray flare & 10 years of multi-wavelength observations of M 87

• Authors: The H.E.S.S. Collaboration

An Experiment to Locate the Site of TeV Flaring in M87

• Authors: D. E. Harris, F. Massaro, C. C. Cheung, D. Horns, M. Raue, L. Stawarz, S. Wagner, P. Colin, D. Mazin, R. Wagner, M. Beilicke, S. LeBohec, M. Hui, R. Mukherjee

Photon Trapping Enables Super-Eddington Growth of Black-Hole Seeds in Galaxies at High Redshift

• Authors: Stuart Wyithe, Abraham Loeb

Constraining Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Fields in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with TeV observations by the MAGIC telescopes

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

Probing Nonstandard Standard Model Backgrounds with LHC Monojets

• Authors: Alexander Friedland, Michael L. Graesser, Ian M. Shoemaker, Luca Vecchi (Los Alamos)

Leptonic CP violation

• Authors: G. C. Branco, R. Gonzalez Felipe, F. R. Joaquim

The 1953 Cosmic Ray Conference at Bagneres de Bigorre

• Authors: James W. Cronin

tipa -- 11/23/2011

Supernova Relic Neutrino Search at Super-Kamiokande

• Authors: The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

Generalized Semi-Analytical Models of Supernova Light Curves

• Authors: Emmanouil Chatzopoulos, J. Craig Wheeler, Jozsef Vinko

First Double-Chooz Results and the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly

• Authors: Carlo Giunti, Marco Laveder

An additional study of multi-muon events produced in {\boldmath $p\bar{p}$} collisions at {\boldmath $\sqrt{s}=1.96$} TeV

• Authors: T. Aaltonen, et al (CDF Collaboration)

tipa -- 11/22/2011

Probing the neutrino mass hierarchy with the rise time of a supernova burst

• 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 -- 11/16/2011

New Electrodynamics of Pulsars

• Authors: Andrei Gruzinov

First HARPSpol discoveries of magnetic fields in massive stars

• Authors: E. Alecian, O. Kochukhov, C. Neiner, G. A. Wade, B. de Batz, H. Henrichs, J. H. Grunhut, J.-C. Bouret, M. Briquet, M. Gagne, Y. Naze, M. E. Oksala, T. Rivinius, R .H. D. Townsend, N. R. Walborn, W. Weiss, the MiMeS collaboration

Properties of Interstellar Turbulence from Gradients of Linear Radio Polarization Maps

• Authors: Blakesley Burkhart, A. Lazarian, B. M. Gaensler

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

tipa -- 11/14/2011

The Cosmic Abundance of Classical Milky Way Satellites

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari, Risa H. Wechsler

The alignment of molecular cloud magnetic fields with the spiral arms in M33

• Authors: Hua-bai Li, Thomas Henning

A Stable, Accurate Methodology for High Mach Number, Strong Magnetic Field MHD Turbulence with Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Resolution and Refinement Studies

• Authors: Pak Shing Li, Daniel F. Martin, Richard I. Klein, Christopher F. McKee

What Shapes the Structure of Molecular Clouds: Turbulence or Gravity?

• Authors: Alexei G. Kritsuk, Michael L. Norman

Lower Limits on the Strengths of Gamma Ray Lines from WIMP Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Kevork N. Abazajian, Prateek Agrawal, Zackaria Chacko, Can Kilic

tipa -- 11/11/11

Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years after the Big Bang

• Authors: Michele Fumagalli, John M. O'Meara, J. Xavier Prochaska

Cosmic Ray streaming from SNRs and gamma ray emission from nearby molecular clouds

• Authors: Huirong Yan, A. Lazarian, R. Schlickeiser

Search for signatures of magnetically-induced alignment in the arrival directions measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

SN 2009E: a faint clone of SN 1987A

• Authors: A. Pastorello, M. L. Pumo, H. Navasardyan, L. Zampieri, M. Turatto, J. Sollerman, F. Taddia, E. Kankare, S. Mattila, J. Nicolas, E. Prosperi, A. San Segundo Delgado, S. Taubenberger, T. Boles, M. Bachini, S. Benetti, F. Bufano, E. Cappellaro, A. D. Cason, G. Cetrulo, M. Ergon, L. Germany, A. Harutyunyan, S. Howerton, G. M. Hurst, F. Patat, M. Stritzinger, L.-G. Strolger, W. Wells

The Type II supernovae 2006V and 2006au: two SN 1987A-like events

• Authors: F. Taddia, M. D. Stritzinger, J. Sollerman, M. M. Phillips, J. P. Anderson, M. Ergon, G. Folatelli, C. Fransson, W. Freedman, M. Hamuy, N. Morrell, A. Pastorello, S. E. Persson, S. Gonzalez

Local Magnetic Turbulence and TeV-PeV Cosmic Ray Anisotropies

• Authors: G. Giacinti, G. Sigl

tipa -- 11/10/2011

Discovery of extended VHE γ-ray emission from the vicinity of the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1

• Authors: HESS Collaboration

Relativistic Outflow Drives Gamma-Ray Emission in 3C345

• Authors: F. K. Schinzel, A. P. Lobanov, G. B. Taylor, S. G. Jorstad, A. P. Marscher, J. A. Zensus

The Milky Way's bright satellites as an apparent failure of LCDM

• Authors: Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

Two Populations of X-ray Pulsars Produced by Two Types of Supernovae

• 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