today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 2/6/2012

Spin-Down of Radio Millisecond Pulsars at Genesis

Authors: Thomas M. Tauris (AIfA, Bonn University / MPIfR)

Vertical structure of a supernova-driven turbulent magnetized ISM

Authors: Alex S. Hill, M. Ryan Joung, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Robert A. Benjamin, L. Matthew Haffner, Christian Klingenberg, Knut Waagan

Cuspy No More: How Outflows Affect the Central Dark Matter and Baryon Distribution in Lambda CDM Galaxies

Authors: F. Governato (1), A. Zolotov (2), A. Pontzen (3), C. Christensen (4), S.H. Oh (5,6), A.M. Brooks (7), T. Quinn (1), S. Shen (8), J. Wadsley (9) ((1) Univ of Washington, (2) Hebrew Univ. (3) Univ. of Oxford, (4) Univ. of Arizona, (5) Univ. of Western Australia, (6) CAASTRO, (7) Univ. of Wisconson, (8) UCSC, (9) McMaster Univ.)

In situ formation of SgrA* stars via disk fragmentation: parent cloud properties and thermodynamics

Authors: M. Mapelli, T. Hayfield, L. Mayer, J. Wadsley

Inverse Compton X-ray Emission from Supernovae with Compact Progenitors: Application to SN2011fe

Authors: R. Margutti, A.M. Soderberg, L. Chomiuk, R. Chevalier, K. Hurley, D. Milisavljevic, R.J. Foley, J.P. Hughes, P. Slane, C. Fransson, M. Moe, S. Barthelmy, W. Boynton, M. Briggs, V. Connaughton, E. Costa, J. Cummings, E. Del Monte, H. Enos, C. Fellows, M. Feroci, Y. Fukazawa, N. Gehrels, J. Goldsten, D. Golovin, Y. Hanabata, K. Harshman, H. Krimm, M. L. Litvak, K. Makishima, M. Marisaldi, I. G. Mitrofanov, T. Murakami, M. Ohno, D. M. Palmer, A. B. Sanin, R. Starr, D. Svinkin

A New Multi-Dimensional General Relativistic Neutrino Hydrodynamics Code for Core-Collapse Supernovae II. Relativistic Explosion Models of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: B. Mueller, H.-Th. Janka, A. Marek

Stimulated Neutrino Transformation in Supernovae

Authors: James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin, Kelly M. Patton

tipa -- 2/3/2012

Dust to Dust: 3 years in the Evolution of the Unusual SN 2008S

Authors: D. M. Szczygiel, J. L. Prieto, C. S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek, T. A. Thompson, J. F. Beacom, P. M. Garnavich, C. E. Woodward

Unmasking the Supernova Impostors

Authors: C. S. Kochanek (1 and 2), D. M. Szczygiel (1 and 2), K. Z. Stanek (1 and 2) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University (2) Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University)

Energetic feedback and $^{26}$Al from massive stars and their supernovae in the Carina region

Authors: R. Voss, P. Martin, R. Diehl, J.S. Vink, D.H. Hartmann, T. Preibisch

Neutral interstellar helium parameters based on IBEX-Lo observations and test particle calculations

Authors: M. Bzowski (1), M.A. Kubiak (1), E. Moebius (2), P. Bochsler (2,3), T. Leonard (2), D. Heirtzler, (2), H. Kucharek (2), J.M. Sokol (1), M. Hlond (1), G.B. Crew (4), N.A. Schwadron (2), S.A. Fuselier (5), D.J. McComas (6,7) ((1) Space Research Centre PAS, Poland (2) University of New Hampshire, (3) University of Bern, Switzerland (4) Haystack Observatory, MIT (5) Space Physics Lab, Lockheed martin, (6) Southwest Research Institute (7) University of Texas in San Antonio)

Local Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen sampled in-situ by IBEX

Authors: Lukas Saul, Peter Wurz, Diego Rodriguez, Jürgen Scheer, Eberhard Möbius, Nathan Schwadron, Harald Kucharek, Trevor Leonard, Maciej Bzowski, Stephen Fuselier, Geoff Crew, Dave McComas

A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using South Pole Telescope data

Authors: A. van Engelen, R. Keisler, O. Zahn, 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, J. Dudley, E. M. George, N. W. Halverson, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, Z. Hou, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, 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, C. L. Reichardt, J. E. Ruhl, J. T. Sayre, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Story, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson

Authors: Mark Vogelsberger (1), Jesus Zavala (2,3), Abraham Loeb (1) ((1) Harvard/CfA, (2) UW, (3) PI)

Could Cosmic Rays Affect Instabilities in the Transition Layer of Nonrelativistic Collisionless Shocks?

Authors: Thomas Stroman, Martin Pohl, Jacek Niemiec, Antoine Bret

Star formation in the early universe: beyond the tip of the iceberg

Authors: N. R. Tanvir, A. J. Levan, A. S. Fruchter, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, K. Wiersema, M. N. Bremer, J. Rhoads, P. Jakobsson, P. T. O'Brien, E. R. Stanway, D. Bersier, P. Natarajan, J. Greiner, D. Watson, A. J. Castro-Tirado, R. A. M. J. Wijers, R. L. C. Starling, K. Misra, J. F. Graham

WISPy Cold Dark Matter

Authors: Paola Arias, Davide Cadamuro, Mark Goodsell, Joerg Jaeckel, Javier Redondo, Andreas Ringwald

A Historical Profile of the Higgs Boson

Authors: John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos

tipa -- 1/30/2012

X-ray Emission from an Asymmetric Blast Wave and a Massive White Dwarf in the Gamma-ray Emitting Nova V407 Cyg

Authors: Thomas Nelson, Davide Donato, Koji Mukai, Jeno Sokoloski, Laura Chomiuk

Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

Authors: R. Davies, M. Kasper

A non-equilibrium ionization model of the Local Bubble (I)

Authors: Miguel A. de Avillez (University of Evora, Portugal), Dieter Breitschwerdt (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Comparison of Atom Interferometers and Light Interferometers as Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors

Authors: John G. Baker, James Ira Thorpe

tipa -- 1/27/2012

The Chemical Signature of a Relic Star Cluster in the Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy - Implications for Near-Field Cosmology

Authors: Torgny Karlsson, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Ken Freeman, Joe Silk

Signatures of photon-axion conversion in the thermal spectra and polarization of neutron stars

Authors: Rosalba Perna (JILA/Colorado), Wynn Ho (U. of Southampton), Licia Verde (ICREA, Barcelona), Matthew van Adelsberg (Georgia Tech), Raul Jimenez (ICREA, Barcelona)

SN 2006oz: rise of a super-luminous supernova observed by the SDSS-II SN Survey

Authors: G. Leloudas, E. Chatzopoulos, B. Dilday, J. Gorosabel, J. Vinko, A. Gallazzi, J. C. Wheeler, B. Bassett, J. Fischer, J. A. Frieman, J. P. U. Fynbo, A. Goobar, M. Jelinek, D. Malesani, R. C. Nichol, J. Nordin, L. Ostman, M. Sako, D. P. Schneider, M. Smith, J. Sollerman, M. D. Stritzinger, C. C. Thoene, A. de Ugarte Postigo

Radioactively-Powered Rising Lightcurves of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Anthony L. Piro (Caltech)

X-Rays from Supernova Shocks in Dense Mass Loss

Authors: Roger A. Chevalier, Christopher M. Irwin

Search for decays of stopped, long-lived particles from 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Authors: ATLAS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/26/2012

Radio Observations Reveal Unusual Circumstellar Environments for Some Type Ibc Supernova Progenitors

Authors: Sarah Wellons, Alicia M. Soderberg, Roger A. Chevalier

Normal Type Ia supernovae from violent mergers of white dwarf binaries

Authors: R. Pakmor, M. Kromer, S. Taubenberger, S. A. Sim, F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt

On particle acceleration rate in GRB afterglows

Authors: Eran Sagi, Ehud Nakar

Five New Millisecond Pulsars From a Radio Survey of 14 Unidentified Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Sources

Authors: M. Kerr, F. Camilo, T. J. Johnson, E. C. Ferrara, L. Guillemot, A. K. Harding, J. Hessels, S. Johnston, M. Keith, M. Kramer, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, J. E. Reynolds, J. Sarkissian, K. S. Wood

Newly-born pulsars as sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

Authors: Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera, Angela V. Olinto

New limits on radiative sterile neutrino decays from a search for single photons in neutrino interactions

Authors: S. N. Gninenko

tipa -- 1/24/2012

The Stellar IMF, Core Mass Function, & The Last-Crossing Distribution

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley)

Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs from Ultra-Close Encounters with Intermediate Mass Spinning Black Holes

Authors: Roland Haas, Roman V. Shcherbakov, Tanja Bode, Pablo Laguna

Probing the Intergalactic Magnetic Field with the Anisotropy of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background

Authors: Tonia M. Venters, Vasiliki Pavlidou

Implications For The Origin Of GRB 051103 From LIGO Observations

Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Magnetic substructure in the northern Fermi Bubble revealed by polarized WMAP emission

Authors: David I. Jones (1), Roland M. Crocker (1), Wolfgang Reich (2), Jürgen Ott (3), Felix A. Aharonian (4,1) ((1) MPIK, (2) MPIfR, (3) NRAO, (4) DIAS)

Gravitational-wave emission from compact Galactic binaries

Authors: Samaya Nissanke, Michele Vallisneri, Gijs Nelemans, Thomas A. Prince

Cosmic-ray-induced ionization in molecular clouds adjacent to supernova remnants - Tracing hadonic origin of GeV gamma radiation

Authors: F. Schuppan, J. K. Becker, J. H. Black, S. Casanova

The proper motion of PSR J1550-5418 measured with VLBI: a second magnetar velocity measurement

Authors: A. T. Deller, F. Camilo, J. E. Reynolds, J. P. Halpern

Indications for a pair-production anomaly from the propagation of VHE gamma-rays

Authors: Dieter Horns, Manuel Meyer (Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg)

Measurement of the Double-Beta Decay Half-life of ^{136}Xe in KamLAND-Zen

Authors: The KamLAND-Zen Collaboration

tipa -- 1/23/2012

Broadband study of GRB 091127: a sub-energetic burst at higher redshift?

Authors: E. Troja, T. Sakamoto, C. Guidorzi, J. P. Norris, A. Panaitescu, S. Kobayashi, N. Omodei, J. C. Brown, D. N. Burrows, P. A. Evans, N. Gehrels, F. E. Marshall, N. Mawson, A. Melandri, C. G. Mundell, S. R. Oates, V. Pal'shin, R. D. Preece, J. L. Racusin, I. A. Steele, N. R. Tanvir, V. Vasileiou, C. Wilson-Hodge, K. Yamaoka

What Sets the Initial Rotation Rates of Massive Stars?

Authors: Anna L. Rosen, Mark R. Krumholz, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Hadronic-Origin TeV gamma-Rays and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Centaurus A

Authors: Sarira Sahu, Bing Zhang, Nissim Fraija

Constraining viewing geometries of pulsars with single-peaked gamma-ray profiles using a multiwavelength approach

Authors: A.S. Seyffert (1), C Venter (1), T. J. Johnson (2 and 3), A. K. Harding (2) ((1) Centre for Space Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa, (2) Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA, (3) Department of Physics, University of Maryland, USA)

Picogauss magnetic fields in voids from ultra-high energy cosmic rays