tipa -- 2/29/2012

A Hybrid Magnetically/Thermally-Driven Wind in the Black Hole GRO J1655-40?

• Authors: Joseph Neilsen, Jeroen Homan (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)

Cosmological constraints from CMB distortion

• Authors: James B. Dent, Damien A. Easson, Hiroyuki Tashiro

Synchrotron Emission from VHE Gamma-Ray Induced Pair Cascades in AGN Environments

• Authors: Parisa Roustazadeh, Markus Boettcher (Ohio University)

Probing the Equation of State of Nuclear Matter via Neutron Star Asteroseismology

• Authors: Hajime Sotani, Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Kei Iida, Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

Exploring nu signals in dark matter detectors

• Authors: Roni Harnik (Fermilab), Joachim Kopp (Fermilab), Pedro A. N. Machado (University of São Paulo, IPhT CEA-Saclay, Fermilab)

Halo independent comparison of direct dark matter detection data

• Authors: Paolo Gondolo, Graciela B. Gelmini

Theoretical Aspects of the Equivalence Principle

• Authors: Thibault Damour

tipa -- 2/28/2012

Formation and evolution of primordial protostellar systems

• Authors: Thomas H. Greif, Volker Bromm, Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover, Rowan J. Smith, Ralf S. Klessen, Naoki Yoshida, Volker Springel

Solution to Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis in Hybrid Axion Dark Matter Model

• Authors: Motohiko Kusakabe, A.B. Balantekin, Toshitaka Kajino, Y. Pehlivan

Spitzer Imaging and Spectral Mapping of the Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8

• Authors: Parviz Ghavamian, Knox S. Long, William P. Blair, Sangwook Park, Robert Fesen, Bryan M. Gaensler, John P. Hughes, Jeonghee Rho, P. Frank Winkler

Early evolution of spherical ejecta expanding into the circumstellar matter at ultra-relativistic speeds

• Authors: Toshikazu Shigeyama, Akihiro Suzuki, Ko Nakamura

Interpretation of the flares of M87 at TeV energies in the cloud-jet interaction scenario

• Authors: Maxim V. Barkov, Valenti Bosch-Ramon, Felix A. Aharonian

The electromagnetic model of short GRBs, the nature of prompt tails and highly efficient episodic accretion

• Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue)

tipa -- 2/27/2012

Cross-correlation of WISE Galaxies with the Cosmic Microwave Background

• Authors: Tomotsugu Goto, Istvan Szapudi (ifa/Univ. of Hawaii), Benjamin R. Granett (INAF)

Joint anisotropy and source count constraints on the contribution of blazars to the diffuse gamma-ray background

• Authors: Alessandro Cuoco, Eiichiro Komatsu, Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins

Characterizing the Galactic White Dwarf Binary Population with Sparsely Sampled Radial Velocity Data

• Authors: Dan Maoz, Carles Badenes, Steven J. Bickerton

The Merger Rate of Binary White Dwarfs in the Galactic Disk

• Authors: Carles Badenes, Dan Maoz

Search for Dark Matter Annihilation Signals from the Fornax Galaxy Cluster with H.E.S.S

• Authors: HESS Collaboration

A star disrupted by a stellar black hole as the origin of the cloud falling towards the Galactic center

• Authors: Jordi Miralda-Escude

Thermal decoupling and the smallest subhalo mass in dark matter models with Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation rates

• Authors: Laura G. van den Aarssen, Torsten Bringmann, Yasar C Goedecke

tipa -- 2/24/2012

Probing the Local Velocity Distribution of WIMP Dark Matter with Directional Detectors

• Authors: Samuel K. Lee, Annika H. G. Peter

Wave-Driven Mass Loss in the Last Year of Stellar Evolution: Setting the Stage for the Most Luminous Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: Eliot Quataert, Josh Shiode

The Energy Spectrum of Telescope Array's Middle Drum Detector and the Direct Comparison to the High Resolution Fly's Eye Experiment

• Authors: T. Abu-Zayyad, R. Aida, M. Allen, R. Anderson, R. Azuma, E. Barcikowski, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, R. Cady, B. G. Cheon, J. Chiba, M. Chikawa, E. J. Cho, W. R. Cho, H. Fujii, T. Fujii, T. Fukuda, M. Fukushima, D. Gorbunov, W. Hanlon, K. Hayashi, Y. Hayashi, N. Hayashida, K. Hibino, K. Hiyama, K. Honda, T. Iguchi, D. Ikeda, K. Ikuta, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, R. Ishimori, D. Ivanov, S. Iwamoto, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, T. Kanbe, K. Kasahara, H. Kawai, S. Kawakami, S. Kawana, E. Kido, H. B. Kim, H. K. Kim, J. H. Kim, J. H. Kim, K. Kitamoto, S. Kitamura, Y. Kitamura, K. Kobayashi, Y. Kobayashi, Y. Kondo, K. Kuramoto, V. Kuzmin, Y. J. Kwon, S. I. Lim, S. Machida, K. Martens, J. Martineau, T. Matsuda, T. Matsuura, T. Matsuyama, J. N. Matthews, M. Minamino, K. Miyata, Y. Murano, S. Nagataki, T. Nakamura, S. W. Nam, T. Nonaka, S. Ogio, M. Ohnishi, H. Ohoka, K. Oki, D. Oku, T. Okuda, A. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I. H. Park, M. S. Pshirkov, D. C. Rodriguez, S. Y. Roh, G. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, N. Sakurai, A. L. Sampson, L. M. Scott, P. D. Shah, F. Shibata, T. Shibata, H. Shimodaira, B. K. Shin, J. I. Shin, T. Shirahama, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, T. J. Sonley, R. W. Springer, B. T. Stokes, S. R. Stratton, T. Stroman, S. Suzuki, Y. Takahashi, M. Takeda, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, H. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, S. B. Thomas, G. B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, Y. Tsunesada, K. Tsutsumi, Y. Tsuyuguchi, Y. Uchihori, S. Udo, H. Ukai, G. Vasiloff, Y. Wada, T. Wong, M. Wood, Y. Yamakawa, R. Yamane, H. Yamaoka, K. Yamazaki, J. Yang, Y. Yoneda, S. Yoshida, H. Yoshii, R. Zollinger, Z. Zundel

The cosmological 7Li problem from a nuclear physics perspective

• Authors: C. Broggini, L. Canton, G. Fiorentini, F.L. Villante

Physical Structure and Nature of Supernova Remnants in M101

• Authors: N. A. Franchetti (1), R. A. Gruendl (1), Y.-H. Chu (1), B. C. Dunne (1), T. G. Pannuti (2), K. D. Kuntz (3), C.-H. R. Chen (4,5), C. K. Grimes (2), T. M. Aldridge (6) ((1) University of Illinois, (2) Morehead State University, (3) Johns Hopkins University,(4) University of Virginia, (5) MPIfR, (6) Northern Illinois University)

Particle Acceleration in Turbulence and Weakly Stochastic Reconnection

• Authors: Grzegorz Kowal, Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Alex Lazarian

Constraints on the low-mass end of the mass-metallicity relation at z=1-2 from lensed galaxies

• Authors: Eva Wuyts, Jane R. Rigby, Keren Sharon, Michael D. Gladders

tipa -- 2/23/2012

Evidence for top-heavy stellar initial mass functions with increasing density and decreasing metallicity

• Authors: Michael Marks, Pavel Kroupa, Jörg Dabringhausen, Marcel S. Pawlowski

Spatial variation in the fine-structure constant -- new results from VLT/UVES

• Authors: Julian A. King, John K. Webb, Michael T. Murphy, Victor V. Flambaum, Robert F. Carswell, Matthew B. Bainbridge, Michael R. Wilczynska, F. Elliot Koch

The Unusual Temporal and Spectral Evolution of the Type IIn Supernova 2011ht

• Authors: P. W. A. Roming, T. A. Pritchard, J. L. Prieto, C. S. Kochanek, C. L. Fryer, K. Davidson, R. M. Humphreys, A. J. Bayless, J. F. Beacom, P. J. Brown, S. T. Holland, S. Immler, N. P. M. Kuin, S. R. Oates, R. W. Pogge, G. Pojmanski, R. Stoll, B. J. Shappee, K. Z. Stanek, D. M. Szczygiel

Double Compact Objects I: The Significance Of The Common Envelope On Merger Rates

• Authors: Michal Dominik, Krzysztof Belczynski, Christopher Fryer, Daniel Holz, Emanuele Berti, Tomasz Bulik, Ilya Mandel, Richard O'Shaughnessy

tipa -- 2/22/2012

Spectroscopic detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Young Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

• Authors: Jeonghee Rho, Takashi Onaka, Jan Cami, William Reach

A Search for UHE Tau Neutrinos with IceCube

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Assessing the Feasibility of Cosmic-Ray Acceleration by Magnetic Turbulence at the Galactic Center

• Authors: Marco Fatuzzo, Fulvio Melia

Publication Trends in Astronomy: The Lone Author

• Authors: Edwin A. Henneken

tipa -- 2/21/2012

Fermi-LAT Observations of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission: Implications for Cosmic Rays and the Interstellar Medium

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Identification campaign of supernova remnant candidates in the Milky Way - I: Chandra observation of G308.3-1.4

• Authors: C. Y. Hui (1), K. A. Seo (1), R. H. H. Huang (2), L. Trepl (3), Y. J. Woo (1), T.-N. Lu (2), A. K. H. Kong (2), F. M. Walter (4) ((1) Chungnam National University, (2) National Tsing Hua University, (3) Universitaet Jena, (4), Stony Brook University)

No role for muons in the DAMA annual modulation results

• Authors: R. Bernabei (1), P. Belli (1), F. Cappella (2), V. Caracciolo (3), R. Cerulli (3), C. J. Dai (4), A. d'Angelo (2), A. Di Marco (1), H. L. He (4), A. Incicchitti (2), X. H. Ma (4), F. Montecchia (1,5), X. D. Sheng (4), R. G. Wang (4), Z. P. Ye (4,6) ((1) Univ. and INFN Roma Tor Vergata, (2) Univ. and INFN Roma, (3) INFN LNGS, (4) IHEP Beijing, (5) Univ. Tor Vergata, (6) Univ. Jing Gangshan)

A Search for Infrared Emission from Core-Collapse Supernovae at the Transitional Phase

• Authors: Masaomi Tanaka, Takaya Nozawa, Itsuki Sakon, Takashi Onaka, Ko Arimatsu, Ryo Ohsawa, Keiichi Maeda, Takehiko Wada, Hideo Matsuhara, Hidehiro Kaneda

3 to 12 millimetre studies of dense gas towards the western rim of supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946

• Authors: Nigel I. Maxted, Gavin P. Rowell, Bruce R. Dawson, Michael G. Burton, Brent P. Nicholas, Yasuo Fukui, Andrew J. Walsh, Akiko Kawamura, Hirotaka Horachi, Hidetoshi Sano

Yellow and Red Supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Authors: Kathryn F. Neugent, Philip Massey, Brian Skiff, Georges Meynet

tipa -- 2/20/2012

Carbon Detection in Early-Time Optical Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko

Chandra pulsar survey (ChaPS)

• Authors: Oleg Kargaltsev, Martin Durant, George G. Pavlov, Gordon Garmire

The Detonation Mechanism of the Pulsationally-Assisted Gravitationally-Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: G. C. Jordan IV, C.Graziani, R. T. Fisher, D. M. Townsley, C. Meakin, K. Weide, L. B. Reid, J. Norris, R. Hudson, D. Q. Lamb

tipa -- 2/17/2012

Optical to X-rays supernovae light curves following shock breakout through a thick wind

• Authors: Gilad Svirski, Ehud Nakar, Re'em Sari

Constraints on the origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic-rays using cosmic diffuse neutrino flux limits: An analytical approach

• Authors: Shigeru Yoshida, Aya Ishihara

Role of ejecta clumping and back-reaction of accelerated cosmic rays in the evolution of Type Ia supernova remnants

• Authors: S. Orlando, F. Bocchino, M. Miceli, O. Petruk, M.L. Pumo

Detectability of High-Redshift Superluminous Supernovae with Upcoming Optical and Near-Infrared Surveys

• Authors: Masaomi Tanaka, Takashi J. Moriya, Naoki Yoshida, Ken'ichi Nomoto

tipa -- 2/16/2012

The 60-month all-sky BAT Survey of AGN and the Anisotropy of Nearby AGN

• Authors: M. Ajello, D. M. Alexander, J. Greiner, G. M. Madejski, N. Gehrels, D. Burlon

The Low-Velocity, Rapidly Fading Type Ia Supernova 2002es

• Authors: Mohan Ganeshalingam, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Ryan Chornock, Ryan J. Foley, Thomas Matheson, Robert P. Kirshner, Peter Milne, Mike Calkins, Ken J. Shen

SGR J1550-5418 bursts detected with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor during its most prolific activity

• Authors: A. J. van der Horst, C. Kouveliotou, N. M. Gorgone, Y. Kaneko, M. G. Baring, S. Guiriec, E. Gogus, J. Granot, A. L. Watts, L. Lin, P. N. Bhat, E. Bissaldi, V. L. Chaplin, V. Connaughton, M. H. Finger, N. Gehrels, M. H. Gibby, M. M. Giles, A. Goldstein, D. Gruber, A. K. Harding, L. Kaper, A. von Kienlin, M. van der Klis, S. McBreen, J. Mcenery, C. A. Meegan, W. S. Paciesas, A. Pe'er, R. D. Preece, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, A. Rau, S. Wachter, C. Wilson-Hodge, P. M. Woods, R. A. M. J. Wijers

Periodic Emission from the Gamma-ray Binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856

• Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration: M.J. Coe, F. Di Mille, P.G. Edwards, M.D. Filipović, J.L. Payne, J. Stevens, M.A.P. Torres

Supernova-driven outflows and chemical evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

• Authors: Yong-Zhong Qian, Gerald J. Wasserburg

A systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

• Authors: Michele Cappellari, Richard M. McDermid, Katherine Alatalo, Leo Blitz, Maxime Bois, Frederic Bournaud, M. Bureau, Alison F. Crocker, Roger L. Davies, Timothy A. Davis, P. T. de Zeeuw, Pierre-Alain Duc, Eric Emsellem, Sadegh Khochfar, Davor Krajnovic, Harald Kuntschner, Pierre-Yves Lablanche, Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Tom Oosterloo, Marc Sarzi, Nicholas Scott, Paolo Serra, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Lisa M. Young

Origin of strong magnetic fields in Milky-Way like galactic haloes

• Authors: Alexander M. Beck, Harald Lesch, Klaus Dolag, Hanna Kotarba, Annette Geng, Federico A. Stasyszyn

A Broadband Study of the Emission from the Composite Supernova Remnant MSH 11-62

• Authors: Patrick Slane, John P. Hughes, Tea Temim, Romain Rousseau, Daniel Castro, Dillon Foight, B. M. Gaensler, Stefan Funk, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard, Joseph D. Gelfand, David A. Moffett, Richard G. Dodson, Joseph P. Bernstein

Inferring Core-Collapse Supernova Physics with Gravitational Waves

• Authors: J. Logue (1), C. D. Ott (2), I. S. Heng (1), P. Kalmus (2), J. Scargill (3) ((1) Glasgow, (2) Caltech, (3) Oxford)

Deep Crustal Heating in a Multicomponent Accreted Neutron Star Crust

• Authors: Andrew W. Steiner

tipa -- 2/15/2012

Quantifying the Universality of the Stellar Initial Mass Function in Old Star Clusters

• Authors: Nathan Leigh, Stefan Umbreit, Alison Sills, Christian Knigge, Guido de Marchi, Evert Glebbeek, Ata Sarajedini

Anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi LAT

• Authors: Fermi LAT Collaboration

Limits on the extragalactic background light in the Fermi era

• Authors: Manuel Meyer, Martin Raue, Daniel Mazin, Dieter Horns

Estimating the Star Formation Rate at 1 kpc Scales in Nearby Galaxies

• Authors: Adam K. Leroy, Frank Bigiel, W.J.G. de Blok, Samuel Boissier, Alberto Bolatto, Elias Brinks, Barry Madore, Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos, Eric Murphy, Karin Sandstrom, Andreas Schruba, Fabian Walter

Propagation of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei in Cosmic Magnetic Fields and Implications for Anisotropy Measurements

• Authors: Hajime Takami, Susumu Inoue, Tokonatsu Yamamoto

TeV Gamma-ray Observations of Markarian 421 using TACTIC during 2009-10

• Authors: P. Chandra, R.C. Rannot, K.K. Yadav, A.K. Tickoo, K. K. Singh, K. Chanchalani, M. Kothari, N.K. Agarwal, A. Goyal, H.C. Goyal, S. Kotwal, N. Kumar, P. Marandi, K.Venugopal, C.K. Bhat, N. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharya, C. Borwankar, N. Chouhan, V.K. Dhar, S.R. Kaul, S.K. Koul, M.K. Koul, R. Koul, A.K. Mitra, S. Sahayanathan, M. Sharma

All-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured with 26 IceTop stations

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Thirty years of SN 1980K: Evidence for light echoes

• Authors: Ben E. K. Sugerman, Jennifer E. Andrews, Michael J. Barlow, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Barbara Ercolano, Parviz Ghavamian, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., Oliver Krause, Margaret Meixner, Masaaki Otsuka

The structure of a collisionless shock in a partially ionized medium: I. Cosmic rays as test particles

• Authors: P. Blasi, G. Morlino, R. Bandiera, E. Amato, D. Caprioli

tipa -- 2/14/2012

An improved measurement of muon antineutrino disappearance in MINOS

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

Critical Conditions for Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: Uri Keshet, Shmuel Balberg

Detection of the Second r-process Peak Element Tellurium in Metal-Poor Stars

• Authors: Ian U. Roederer, James E. Lawler, John J. Cowan, Timothy C. Beers, Anna Frebel, Inese I. Ivans, Hendrik Schatz, Jennifer S. Sobeck, Christopher Sneden

Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae with An Approximate Neutrino Transport

• Authors: Takami Kuroda, Kei Kotake, Tomoya Takiwaki

A Search for Diffuse X-ray Emission from GeV Detected Galactic Globular Clusters

• Authors: P. Eger, W. Domainko

The vertical motions of mono-abundance sub-populations in the Milky Way disk

• Authors: Jo Bovy (IAS), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA), David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA), Timothy C. Beers (NOAO, Michigan State), Young Sun Lee (Michigan State), Lan Zhang (MPIA)

Single- and Two-Component GRB Spectra in the Fermi GBM-LAT Energy Range

• Authors: P. Veres, P. Mészáros

Sources of GeV Photons and the Fermi Results

• Authors: Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run

• Authors: the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

tipa -- 2/13/2012

A New Ultraluminous X-ray Source in the Nearby Edge-on Spiral NGC 891

• Authors: Edmund J. Hodges-Kluck, Joel N. Bregman, Jon M. Miller, Eric W. Pellegrini

Why Do Stars Form In Clusters? An Analytic Model for Stellar Correlation Functions

• Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley)

Energetic Constraints on a Rapid Gamma-Ray Flare in PKS 1222+216

• Authors: Krzysztof Nalewajko, Mitchell C. Begelman, Benoit Cerutti, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Marek Sikora

Berkeley Supernova Ia Program II: Initial Analysis of Spectra Obtained Near Maximum Brightness

• Authors: Jeffrey M. Silverman, Jason J. Kong, Alexei V. Filippenko

VERITAS Deep Observations of the Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Segue 1

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration

The Swift short gamma-ray burst rate density: implications for binary neutron star merger rates

• Authors: David Coward, Eric Howell, Tsvi Piran, Giulia Stratta, Marica Branchesi, Omer Bromberg, Bruce Gendre, Ronald Burman, Dafne Guetta

Constraining the optical emission from the double pulsar system J0737-3039

• Authors: F. R. Ferraro, R. P. Mignani, C. Pallanca, E. Dalessandro, B. Lanzoni, A. Pellizzoni, A. Possenti, M. Burgay, F. Camilo, N. D'Amico, A. G. Lyne, M. Kramer, R. N. Manchester

The discovery of high power - high synchrotron peak blazars

• Authors: P. Padovani (ESO), P. Giommi (ASDC), A. Rau (MPE)

Measurement of the electron density and magnetic field of the solar wind using millisecond pulsars

• Authors: X. P. You, W. A. Coles, G. B. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester

tipa -- 2/10/2012

Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars: Substructure in the Local Halo as Seen in the Grid Giant Star Survey Including Extended Tidal Debris from Omega Centauri

• Authors: Steven R. Majewski, David L. Nidever, Verne V. Smith, Guillermo J. Damke, William E. Kunkel, Richard J. Patterson, Dmitry Bizyaev, Ana E. Garcia Perez

Long-term monitoring of the high-energy gamma-ray emission from LS I +61° 303 and LS 5039

• Authors: D. Hadasch, D. F. Torres, T. Tanaka, R. H. D. Corbet, A. B. Hill, R. Dubois, G. Dubus, T. Glanzman, S. Corbel, J. Li, Y. P. Chen, S. Zhang, G. A. Caliandro, M. Kerr, J. L. Richards, W. Max-Moerbeck, A. Readhead, G. Pooley

tipa -- 2/9/2012

High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy reveals the special nature of Wolf-Rayet star winds

• Authors: L. M. Oskinova, K. G. Gayley, W.-R. Hamann, D. P. Huenemoerder, R. Ignace, A. M. T. Pollock

XMM-Newton Finds That SAX J1750.8-2900 May Harbor the Hottest, Most Luminous Known Neutron Star

• Authors: Alexander W. Lowell, John A. Tomsick, Craig O. Heinke, Arash Bodaghee, Steven E. Boggs, Philip Kaaret, Sylvain Chaty, Jerome Rodriguez, Roland Walter

The Rare Earth Peak : An Overlooked r-Process Diagnostic

• Authors: M. Mumpower, G. McLaughlin, R. Surman

Dark Matter Detection with Polarized Detectors

• Authors: Chi-Ting Chiang, Marc Kamionkowski, Gordan Z. Krnjaic