today in particle astrophysics

Authors: E. Caffau (1,2,3), P. Bonifacio (2,3), P. François (2,4), M. Spite (2), F. Spite (2), S. Zaggia (5), H.-G. Ludwig (1,2), M. Steffen (6), L. Mashonkina (7), L. Monaco (3), L. Sbordone (1,2), P. Molaro (8), R. Cayrel (2), B. Plez (9), V. Hill (10), F. Hammer (2), S. Randich (11) ((1) ZAH-LSW Heidelberg, (2) GEPI - Obs. de Paris, CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot, (3) ESO - Santiago, (4) Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne,(5) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (6) Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, (7) Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, (8) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, (9) LUPM - Univ. Montpellier 2, CNRS, (10) Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, OCA, Lab. Cassiopée, (11) INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

Radiation-Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Formation of Orion-Like Star Clusters II. The Initial Mass Function from Winds, Turbulence, and Radiation

Authors: Mark R. Krumholz, Richard I. Klein, Christopher F. McKee

The S-Star Cluster at the Center of the Milky Way: On the nature of diffuse NIR emission in the inner tenth of a parsec

Authors: Nadeen Sabha, Andreas Eckart, David Merritt, Mohammad Zamaninasab, Gunther Witzel, Macarena García-Marín, Behrang Jalali, Monica Valencia-S., Senol Yazici, Rainer Buchholz, Banafsheh Shahzamanian, Christian Straubmeier

High-velocity clouds as streams of ionized and neutral gas in the halo of the Milky Way

Authors: N. Lehner, J.C. Howk, C. Thom, A.J. Fox, J. Tumlinson, T.M. Tripp, J.D. Meiring

Gravity darkening and brightening in binaries

Authors: Helen E. White, Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro

Multi-wavelength Observations of the Radio Magnetar PSR J1622-4950 and Discovery of its Possibly Associated Supernova Remnant

Authors: Gemma E. Anderson, B. M. Gaensler, Patrick O. Slane, Nanda Rea, David L. Kaplan, Bettina Posselt, Lina Levin, Simon Johnston, Stephen S. Murray, Crystal L. Brogan, Matthew Bailes, Samuel Bates, Robert A. Benjamin, N.D. Ramesh Bhat, Marta Burgay, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Deepto Chakrabarty, Nichi D'Amico, Jeremy J. Drake, Paolo Esposito, Jonathan E. Grindlay, Jaesub Hong, G. L. Israel1, Michael J. Keith, Michael Kramer, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Julia C. Lee, Jon C. Mauerhan, Sabrina Milia, Andrea Possenti, Ben Stappers, Danny T. H. Steeghs

Building up the spectrum of cosmic-rays in star-forming regions

Authors: Diego F. Torres, Analia Cillis, Brian Lacki, Yoel Rephaeli

Detection of VHE γ-rays from HESS J0632+057 during the 2011 February X-ray outburst with the MAGIC Telescopes

Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration

Sensitivity Achieved by the LIGO and Virgo Gravitational Wave Detectors during LIGO's Sixth and Virgo's Second and Third Science Runs

Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration

Polarized nuclear target based on parahydrogen induced polarization

Authors: D. Budker, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Appelt, L. S. Bouchard, B. Wojtsekhowski

Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos

Authors: D.D. Stancil, P. Adamson, M. Alania, L. Aliaga, M. Andrews, C. Araujo Del Castillo, L. Bagby, J.L. Bazo Alba, A. Bodek, D. Boehnlein, R. Bradford, W.K. Brooks, H. Budd, A. Butkevich, D.A.M. Caicedo, D.P. Capista, C.M. Castromonte, A. Chamorro, E. Charlton, M.E. Christy, J. Chvojka, P.D. Conrow, I. Danko, M. Day, J. Devan, J.M. Downey, S.A. Dytman, B. Eberly, J.R. Fein, J. Felix, L. Fields, G.A. Fiorentini, A.M. Gago, H. Gallagher, R. Gran, J. Grange, J. Griffin, T. Griffin, E. Hahn, D.A. Harris, A. Higuera, J.A. Hobbs, C.M. Hoffman, B.L. Hughes, K. Hurtado, A. Judd, T. Kafka, K. Kephart, J. Kilmer, M. Kordosky, S.A. Kulagin, V.A. Kuznetsov, M. Lanari, T. Le, H. Lee, L. Loiacono, G. Maggi, E. Maher, S.Manly, W.A. Mann, C.M. Marshall, K.S. McFarland, A. Mislivec, A. M. McGowan, J.G. Morfin, H. da Motta, J. Mousseau, J.K. Nelson, J.A. Niemiec-Gielata, N. Ochoa, B. Osmanov, J. Osta, J.L. Palomino, J.S. Paradis, V. Paolone, J. Park, C. Pena, G. Perdue, C.E. Perez Lara, A.M. Peterman, A. Pla-Dalmau, B. Pollock, F. Prokoshin, R.D. Ransome, H. Ray, M. Reyhan, P. Rubinov, D. Ruggiero, O.S. Sands, H. Schellman, D.W. Schmitz, E.C. Schulte, C. Simon, C.J. Solano Salinas, R. Stefanski, R.G. Stevens, N. Tagg, V. Takhistov, B.G. Tice, R.N. Tilden, J.P. Velasquez, I. Vergalosova, J. Voirin, J. Walding, B.J. Walker, T. Walton, J. Wolcott, T.P. Wytock, G. Zavala, D. Zhang, L.Y. Zhu, B.P. Ziemer

tipa -- 3/13/2012

Modeling high-energy light curves of the PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 binary based on 3-D SPH simulation

Authors: J. Takata, A.T. Okazaki, S. Nagataki, T. Naito, S.-H. Lee, M. Mori, K. Hayasaki, M.S. Yamaguchi, S.P. Owocki

Probing axion-like particles with the ultraviolet photon polarization from active galactic nuclei in radio galaxies

Authors: D. Horns, L. Maccione, A. Mirizzi, M. Roncadelli

An Inverse Compton Scattering Origin of X-ray Flares from Sgr A*

Authors: F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Wardle, K. Dodds-Eden, C. O. Heinke, S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, H. Bushouse, N. Grosso, D. Porquet

MHD Simulations of AGN Jets in a Dynamic Galaxy Cluster Medium

Authors: Peter Mendygral, Tom Jones, Klaus Dolag

Semiconductor Probes of Light Dark Matter

Authors: Peter W. Graham, David E. Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran, Matthew T. Walters

tipa -- 3/12/2012

HerMES: deep number counts at 250, 350, and 500 microns in the COSMOS and GOODS-N fields and the build-up of the cosmic infrared background

Authors: M. Béthermin, E. Le Floc'h, O. Ilbert, A. Conley, G. Lagache, A. Amblard, V. Arumugam, H. Aussel, S. Berta, J. Bock, A. Boselli, V. Buat, C.M. Casey, N. Castro-Rodríguez, A. Cava, D.L. Clements, A. Cooray, C.D. Dowell, S. Eales, D. Farrah, A. Franceschini, J. Glenn, M. Griffin, E. Hatziminaoglou, S. Heinis, E. Ibar, R.J. Ivison, J.S. Kartaltepe, L. Levenson, G. Magdis, L. Marchetti, G. Marsden, H.T. Nguyen, B. O'Halloran, S.J. Oliver, A. Omont, M.J. Page, P. Panuzzo, A. Papageorgiou, C.P. Pearson, I. Pérez-Fournon, M. Pohlen, D. Rigopoulou, I.G. Roseboom, M. Rowan-Robinson, M. Salvato, B. Schulz, Douglas Scott, N. Seymour, D.L. Shupe, A.J. Smith, M. Symeonidis, M. Trichas, K.E. Tugwell, M. Vaccari, I. Valtchanov, J.D. Vieira, M. Viero, L. Wang, C.K. Xu, M. Zemcov

The Arduous Journey to Black-Hole Formation in Potential Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors

Authors: Luc Dessart, Evan O'Connor, Christian D. Ott

Impact of type ia supernova ejecta on binary companions in the single-degenerate scenario

Authors: Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul Ricker, Ronald Taam

A spectroscopically normal type Ic supernova from a very massive progenitor

Authors: Stefano Valenti (1), Stefan Taubenberger, Andrea Pastorello, Levon Aramyan, Maria Teresa Botticella, Morgan Fraser, Stefano Benetti, Stephen J. Smartt, Enrico Cappellaro, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Mattias Ergon, Lindsay Magill, Eugene Magnier, Rubina Kotak, Paul A. Price, Jesper Sollerman, Lina Tomasella, Massimo Turatto, Darryl Edmund Wright. - (1) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova

An Updated Look at Binary Characteristics of Massive Stars in the Cygnus OB2 Association

Authors: Daniel C. Kiminki, Henry A. Kobulnicky

Thermonuclear burst oscillations

Authors: Anna L. Watts (University of Amsterdam)

tipa -- 3/9/2012

Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay

Authors: Daya Bay Collaboration

Strong Evolution of X-Ray Absorption in the Type IIn Supernova SN 2010jl

Authors: Poonam Chandra, Roger A. Chevalier, Christopher M. Irwin, Nikolai Chugai, Claes Fransson, Alicia M. Soderberg

Characterizing Cosmic-Ray Propagation in Massive Star-Forming Regions: The Case of 30 Doradus and the Large Magellanic Cloud

Authors: E.J. Murphy, T.A. Porter, I.V. Moskalenko, G. Helou, A.W. Strong

Probing Interstellar Dust with Infrared Echoes from the Cas A Supernova

Authors: Frédéric P.A. Vogt, Marc-André Besel, Oliver Krause, Cornelis P. Dullemond

The gamma-ray spectrum of Geminga and the inverse Compton model of pulsar high energy emission

Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University)

The metal-enriched host of an energetic gamma-ray burst at z ~ 1.6

Authors: T. Krühler, J. P. U. Fynbo, S. Geier, J. Hjorth, D. Malesani, B. Milvang-Jensen, M. Sparre, D. J. Watson, T. Zafar

A side-by-side comparison of Daya Bay antineutrino detectors

Authors: Daya Bay Collaboration

tipa -- 3/8/2012

Timing properties of gamma-ray bursts detected by SPI-ACS detector on board of INTEGRAL

Authors: V. Savchenko, A. Neronov. T. J.-L. Courvoisier

Dip after Precursor of Super-Luminous Supernovae: An Evidence of Shock Breakout in Dense Circumstellar Medium

Authors: Takashi J. Moriya, Keiichi Maeda

Stability analysis of collective neutrino oscillations in the supernova accretion phase with realistic energy and angle distributions

Authors: Ninetta Saviano (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Sovan Chakraborty (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Tobias Fischer (GSI and Technische Univ. Darmstadt), Alessandro Mirizzi (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.)

Neutrino scattering and flavor transformation in supernovae

Authors: John F. Cherry, J. Carlson, Alexander Friedland, George M. Fuller, Alexey Vlasenko

tipa -- 3/7/2012

Galactic winds driven by cosmic-ray streaming

Authors: M. Uhlig (1,2), C. Pfrommer (3), M. Sharma (4), B. B. Nath (4), T. A. Ensslin (1), V. Springel (3,5) ((1) MPA Garching, (2) MPIDS Goettingen, (3) HITS Heidelberg, (4) RRI Bangalore, (5) ZAU/ARI Heidelberg)

Cosmological Implications of a Stellar Initial Mass Function that Varies with the Jeans Mass in Galaxies