today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 4/27/2012

NGC 5466: a unique probe of the Galactic halo shape

Authors: H. Lux, J.I. Read, G. Lake, K.V.Johnston

Spectrum of Kinetic Alfven Turbulence

Authors: Stanislav Boldyrev, Jean C Perez

MAXI J1659-152: The shortest orbital period black-hole transient in outburst

Authors: E. Kuulkers, C. Kouveliotou, T. Belloni, M. Cadolle Bel, M. Diaz Trigo, J. Homan, A. Ibarra, J.A. Kennea, T. Munoz-Darias, J.-U. Ness, A.N. Parmar, A.M.T. Pollock, E.P.J. van den Heuvel, A.J. van der Horst

On the determination of the spin of the black hole in Cyg X-1 from X-ray reflection spectra

Authors: A.C. Fabian, D.R. Wilkins, J.M. Miller, R.C. Reis, C.S. Reynolds, E.M. Cackett, M.A. Nowak, G.G. Pooley, K. Pottschmidt, J.S. Sanders, R.R. Ross, J. Wilms

Thermalisation of light sterile neutrinos in the early universe

Authors: Steen Hannestad, Irene Tamborra, Thomas Tram

The Remarkable High Pressure of the Local Leo Cold Cloud

Authors: David M. Meyer (Northwestern), J. T. Lauroesch (Louisville), J. E. G. Peek (Columbia), Carl Heiles (UC-Berkeley)

First Large Scale Production of Low Radioactivity Argon From Underground Sources

Authors: Henning O. Back, Frank Calaprice, Christopher Condon, Ernst de Haas, Richard Ford, Cristiano Galbiati, Augusto Goretti, Tristan Hohman, Andrea Inanni, Ben Loer, David Montanari, Allan Nelson, Andrea Pocar

Weibel-instability-mediated collisionless shocks in laboratory with ultraintense lasers

Authors: F. Fiuza, R. A. Fonseca, J. Tonge, W. B. Mori, L. O. Silva

tipa -- 4/26/2012

A Jet Break in the X-ray Light Curve of Short GRB 111020A: Implications for Energetics and Rates

Authors: Wen-fai Fong, Edo Berger, Raffaella Margutti, B. Ashley Zauderer (Harvard), Eleonora Troja (NASA-GSFC), Ian Czekala, Ryan Chornock (Harvard), Neil Gehrels, Takanori Sakamoto (NASA-GSFC), Derek B. Fox (PSU), Philipp Podsiadlowski (Oxford)

The observed neutron star mass distribution as a probe of the supernova explosion mechanism

Authors: Ondrej Pejcha, Todd A. Thompson, Christopher S. Kochanek

How long does it take to form a molecular cloud?

Authors: Paul C. Clark, Simon C.O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen, Ian A. Bonnell

H.E.S.S. observations of the Carina nebula and its enigmatic colliding wind binary Eta Carinae

Authors: HESS Collaboration

Recognizing magnetic structures by present and future radio telescopes with RM Synthesis

Authors: R. Beck, P. Frick, R. Stepanov, D. Sokoloff

tipa -- 4/25/2012

Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper

Authors: K. N. Abazajian, M. A. Acero, S. K. Agarwalla, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. H. Albright, S. Antusch, C. A. Arguelles, A. B. Balantekin, G. Barenboim, V. Barger, P. Bernardini, F. Bezrukov, O. E. Bjaelde, S. A. Bogacz, N. S. Bowden, A. Boyarsky, A. Bravar, D. Bravo Berguno, S. J. Brice, A. D. Bross, B. Caccianiga, F. Cavanna, E. J. Chun, B. T. Cleveland, A. P. Collin, P. Coloma, J. M. Conrad, M. Cribier, A. S. Cucoanes, J. C. D'Olivo, S. Das, A. de Gouvea, A. V. Derbin, R. Dharmapalan, J. S. Diaz, X. J. Ding, Z. Djurcic, A. Donini, D. Duchesneau, H. Ejiri, S. R. Elliott, D. J. Ernst, A. Esmaili, J. J. Evans, E. Fernandez-Martinez, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, B. T. Fleming, J. A. Formaggio, D. Franco, J. Gaffiot, R. Gandhi, Y. Gao, G. T. Garvey, V. N. Gavrin, P. Ghoshal, D. Gibin, C. Giunti, S. N. Gninenko, V. V. Gorbachev, D. S. Gorbunov, R. Guenette, A. Guglielmi, F. Halzen, J. Hamann, S. Hannestad, W. Haxton, K. M. Heeger, R. Henning, P. Hernandez, P. Huber, W. Huelsnitz, A. Ianni, T. V. Ibragimova, Y. Karadzhov, G. Karagiorgi, G. Keefer, Y. D. Kim, J. Kopp, V. N. Kornoukhov, A. Kusenko, P. Kyberd, P. Langacker, Th. Lasserre, M. Laveder, A. Letourneau, D. Lhuillier, Y. F. Li, M. Lindner, J. M. Link, B. L. Littlejohn, P. Lombardi, K. Long, J. Lopez-Pavon, W. C. Louis, L. Ludhova, J. D. Lykken, P. A. N. Machado, M. Maltoni, W. A. Mann, D. Marfatia, C. Mariani, V. A. Matveev, N. E. Mavromatos, A. Melchiorri, D. Meloni, O. Mena, G. Mention, A. Merle, E. Meroni, M. Mezzetto, G. B. Mills, D. Minic, L. Miramonti, D. Mohapatra, R. N. Mohapatra, C. Montanari, Y. Mori, Th. A. Mueller, H. P. Mumm, V. Muratova, A. E. Nelson, J. S. Nico, E. Noah, J. Nowak, O. Yu. Smirnov, M. Obolensky, S. Pakvasa, O. Palamara, M. Pallavicini, S. Pascoli, L. Patrizii, Z. Pavlovic, O. L. G. Peres, H. Pessard, F. Pietropaolo, M. L. Pitt, M. Popovic, J. Pradler, G. Ranucci, H. Ray, S. Razzaque, B. Rebel, R. G. H. Robertson, W. Rodejohann, S. D. Rountree, C. Rubbia, O. Ruchayskiy, P. R. Sala, K. Scholberg, T. Schwetz, M. H. Shaevitz, M. Shaposhnikov, R. Shrock, S. Simone, M. Skorokhvatov, M. Sorel, A. Sousa, D. N. Spergel, J. Spitz, L. Stanco, I. Stancu, A. Suzuki, T. Takeuchi, I. Tamborra, J. Tang, G. Testera, X. C. Tian, A. Tonazzo, C. D. Tunnell, R. G. Van de Water, L. Verde, E. P. Veretenkin, C. Vignoli, M. Vivier, R. B. Vogelaar, M. O. Wascko, J. F. Wilkerson, W. Winter, Y. Y. Y. Wong, T. T. Yanagida, O. Yasuda, M. Yeh, F. Yermia, Z. W. Yokley, G. P. Zeller, L. Zhan, H. Zhang

Authors: Igor Rogachevskii (1,2), Nathan Kleeorin (1,2), Axel Brandenburg (2,3), David Eichler (1) ((1) Ben-Gurion Univ, (2) NORDITA, (3) Stockholm Univ)

Neutrino Capture on $^{13}$C

Authors: T. Suzuki, A.B. Balantekin, T. Kajino

tipa -- 4/19/2012

Particle Transport in Young Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Authors: Xiaping Tang, Roger A. Chevalier

Double bow shocks around young, runaway red supergiants: application to Betelgeuse

Authors: Jonathan Mackey (1), Shazrene Mohamed (2 and 1), Hilding R. Neilson (1), Norbert Langer (1), Dominique M.-A. Meyer (1) ((1) AIfA, Bonn, Germany, (2) SAAO, South Africa)

The end of super AGB and massive AGB stars I. The instabilities that determine the final mass of AGB stars

Authors: Herbert H. B. Lau, Pilar Gil-Pons, Carolyn Doherty, John Lattanzio

The relativistic pulsar-white dwarf binary PSR J1738+0333 I. Mass determination and evolutionary history

Authors: J. Antoniadis, M. H. van Kerkwijk, D. Koester, P. C. C. Freire, N. Wex, T. M. Tauris, M. Kramer, C. G. Bassa

Penning-trap mass spectrometry of highly charged, neutron-rich Rb and Sr isotopes in the vicinity of $A\approx100$

Authors: V. V. Simon, T. Brunner, U. Chowdhury, B. Eberhardt, S. Ettenauer, A. T. Gallant, E. Mané, M. C. Simon, P. Delheij, M. R. Pearson, G. Audi, G. Gwinner, D. Lunney, H. Schatz, J. Dilling

tipa -- 4/18/2012

Optical Intensity Interferometry with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Authors: Dainis Dravins (Lund Observatory), Stephan LeBohec (University of Utah), Hannes Jensen (Lund Observatory and Stockholm University), Paul D. Nuñez (University of Utah), for the CTA Consortium

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey IV: Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus

Authors: E. Bressert, N. Bastian, C. J. Evans, H. Sana, V. Hénault-Brunet, S. P. Goodwin, R. J. Parker, M. Gieles, J. M. Bestenlehner, J. S. Vink, W. D. Taylor, P. A. Crowther, S. N. Longmore, G. Gräfener, J. Maíz Apellániz, A. de Koter, M. Cantiello, J.M.D. Kruijssen

The Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies Survey: Constraints on the Bright End of the z~8 Luminosity Function

Authors: L.D. Bradley, M. Trenti, P.A. Oesch, M. Stiavelli, T. Treu, R.J. Bouwens, J.M. Shull, B.W. Holwerda, N. Pirzkal

Wide-band Simultaneous Observations of Pulsars: Disentangling Dispersion Measure and Profile Variations

Authors: T. E. Hassall, B. W. Stappers, J. W. T. Hessels, M. Kramer, A. Alexov, K. Anderson, T. Coenen, A. Karastergiou, E. F. Keane, V. I. Kondratiev, K. Lazaridis, J. van Leeuwen, A. Noutsos, M. Serylak, C. Sobey, J. P. W. Verbiest, P. Weltevrede, K. Zagkouris, R. Fender, R. A. M. J. Wijers, L. Bahren, M. E. Bell, J. W. Broderick, S. Corbel, E. J. Daw, V. S. Dhillon, J. Eisloffel, H. Falcke, J.-M. Griessmeier, P. Jonker, C. Law, S. Markoff, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, R. Osten, E. Rol, A. M. M. Scaife, B. Scheers, P. Schellart, H. Spreeuw, J. Swinbank, S. ter Veen, M. W. Wise, R. Wijnands, O. Wucknitz, P.Zarka, A. Asgekar, M. R. Bell, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, A. Bonafede, A. J. Boonstra, M. Brentjens, W. N. Brouw, M. Bruggen, H. R. Butcher, B. Ciardi, M. A. Garrett, M. Gerbers, A. W. Gunst, M. P. van Haarlem, G. Heald, M. Hoeft, H. Holties, A. de Jong, L. V. E. Koopmans, M. Kuniyoshi, G. Kuper, G. M. Loose, P. Maat, J. Masters, J. P. McKean, H. Meulman, M. Mevius, H. Munk, J. E. Noordam, E. Orru, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, V. N. Pandey, R. Pizzo, A. Polatidis, W. Reich, H. Rottgering, J. Sluman, M. Steinmetz, C. G. M. Sterks, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, R. Vermeulen, R. J. van Weeren, S. J. Wijnholds, S. Yatawatta

The Search for a Primordial Magnetic Field

Authors: Dai G. Yamazaki, Toshitaka Kajino, Grant J. Mathew, Kiyotomo Ichiki

Precise Relic WIMP Abundance and its Impact on Searches for Dark Matter Annihilation

Authors: Gary Steigman, Basudeb Dasgupta, John F. Beacom

Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Authors: Joshua A. Faber, Frederic A. Rasio

tipa -- 4/17/2012

An Investigation into the Character of Pre-Explosion Core-Collapse Supernova Shock Motion

Authors: Adam Burrows, Joshua C. Dolence, Jeremiah W. Murphy

First Dark Matter Search Results from a 4-kg CF$_3$I Bubble Chamber Operated in a Deep Underground Site

Authors: E. Behnke, J. Behnke, S.J. Brice, D. Broemmelsiek, J.I. Collar, A. Conner, P.S. Cooper, M. Crisler, C.E. Dahl, D. Fustin, E. Grace, J. Hall, M. Hu, I. Levine, W. H. Lippincott, T. Moan, T. Nania, E. Ramberg, A.E. Robinson, A. Sonnenschein, M. Szydagis, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

Common Envelope Evolution Leading to Supernovae with Dense Interaction

Authors: Roger A. Chevalier

Missing Dark Matter in the Local Universe

Authors: I. D. Karachentsev

Evidence for Low Extinction in Actively Star Forming Galaxies at z$>$6.5

Authors: F. Walter, R. Decarli, C. Carilli, D. Riechers, F. Bertoldi, A. Weiss, P. Cox, R. Neri, R. Maiolino, M. Ouchi, E. Egami, K. Nakanishi

A Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Low-Energy CDMS Data

Authors: J. I. Collar, N. E. Fields

Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies

Authors: Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., Neal J. Evans II

tipa -- 4/16/2012

The hidden AGN main sequence: Evidence for a universal SMBH accretion to star formation rate ratio since z~2 producing a M_BH-M* relation

Authors: J. R. Mullaney (1), E. Daddi (1), M. Béthermin (1), D. Elbaz (1), S. Juneau (1), M. Pannella (1), M. T. Sargent (1), D. M. Alexander (2), R. C. Hickox (3) ((1) CEA-Saclay, (2) Durham University, (3) Dartmouth College)

Universal IMF vs dark halo response in early-type galaxies: breaking the degeneracy with the fundamental plane

Authors: Aaron A. Dutton (MPIA, UVic), Andrea V. Maccio' (MPIA), J. Trevor Mendel (UVic), Luc Simard (HIA)

Variations in the Stellar IMF: from Bottom to Top

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley)

Is IGR J11014-6103 a Pulsar with the Highest Known Kick Velocity?

Authors: John A. Tomsick (SSL/UC Berkeley), Arash Bodaghee (SSL/UC Berkeley), Jerome Rodriguez (AIM - Univ. Paris VII and CEA Saclay), Sylvain Chaty (AIM - Univ. Paris VII and CEA Saclay), Fernando Camilo (Columbia University), Francesca Fornasini (UC Berkeley), Farid Rahoui (Harvard University and CfA)

SimProp: a Simulation Code for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Propagation

Authors: R. Aloisio, D. Boncioli, A.F. Grillo, S. Petrera, F. Salamida

VVV-WIT-01: An Extreme Transient of Unknown Astrophysical Origin in the VVV Survey

ATel #4041; D. Minniti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), P. W. Lucas (University of Hertfordshire), N. Cross (Royal Observatory Edinburgh), V. D. Ivanov (European Southern Observatory), I. Dekany (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), R. Kurtev (Universidad de Valparaiso)

tipa -- 4/13/2012

The physics of galactic winds driven by AGN

Authors: C.-A. Faucher-Giguere, E. Quataert (UC Berkeley)

Gamma-Ray Dominated Regions: Extending the Reach of Cosmic Ray Ionization in Starburst Environments

Authors: Brian C. Lacki

Starbursts and High-Redshift Galaxies are Radioactive: High Abundances of ^{26}Al and Other Short Lived Radionuclides

Authors: Brian C. Lacki

A close halo of large transparent grains around extreme red giant stars

Authors: Barnaby R. M. Norris, Peter G. Tuthill, Michael J. Ireland, Sylvestre Lacour, Albert A. Zijlstra, Foteini Lykou, Thomas M. Evans, Paul Stewart, Timothy R. Bedding

New Limits on Interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Nucleons Obtained with CsI(Tl) Crystal Detectors

Authors: S.C. Kim, H. Bhang, J.H. Choi, W.G. Kang, B.H. Kim, H.J. Kim, K.W. Kim, S.K. Kim, Y.D. Kim, J. Lee, J.H. Lee, J.K. Lee, M.J. Lee, S.J. Lee, J. Li, J. Li, X.R. Li, Y.J. Li, S.S. Myung, S.L. Olsen, S. Ryu, I.S. Seong, J.H. So, Q. Yue

A Tentative Gamma-Ray Line from Dark Matter Annihilation at the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: Christoph Weniger

tipa -- 4/12/2012

The gamma-ray emission region in the FRII Radio Galaxy 3C 111

Authors: Paola Grandi, Eleonora Torresi, Carlo Stanghellini

A highly magnified candidate for a young galaxy seen when the Universe was 500 Myrs old

Authors: Wei Zheng, Marc Postman, Adi Zitrin, John Moustakas, Xinwen Shu, Stephanie Jouvel, Ole Host, Alberto Molino, Larry Bradley, Dan Coe, Leonidas A. Moustakas, Mauricio Carrasco, Holland Ford, Narciso Benıtez, Tod R. Lauer, Stella Seitz, Rychard Bouwens, Anton Koekemoer, Elinor Medezinski, Matthias Bartelmann, Tom Broadhurst, Megan Donahue, Claudio Grillo, Leopoldo Infante, Saurabh Jha, Daniel D. Kelson, Ofer Lahav, Doron Lemze, Peter Melchior, Massimo Meneghetti, Julian Merten, Mario Nonino, Sara Ogaz, Piero Rosati, Keiichi Umetsu, Arjen van der Wel

Near-infrared observations of type Ia supernovae: The best known standard candle for cosmology

Authors: R. L. Barone-Nugent, C. Lidman, J. S. B. Wyithe, J. Mould, D. A. Howell, I. M. Hook, M. Sullivan, P. E. Nugent, I. Arcavi, S. B. Cenko, J. Cooke, A. Gal-Yam, E. Y. Hsiao, M. M. Kasliwal, K. Maguire, E. Ofek, D. Poznanski, D. Xu

Multimessengers from core-collapse supernovae: multidimensionality as a key to bridge theory and observation

Authors: Kei Kotake, Tomoya Takiwaki, Yudai Suwa, Wakana Iwakami Nakano, Shio Kawagoe, Youhei Masada, Shin-ichiro Fujimoto

Metallicity effects on the cosmic SNIb/c and GRB rates

Authors: V. Grieco, F. Matteucci, G. Meynet, F. Longo, M. Della Valle, R. Salvaterra

Cosmological lepton asymmetry with a nonzero mixing angle θ_{13}

Authors: Emanuele Castorina, Urbano Franca, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Julien Lesgourgues, Gianpiero Mangano, Alessandro Melchiorri, Sergio Pastor

Support for the thermal origin of the Pioneer anomaly

Authors: Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth, Gary Kinsella, Siu-Chun Lee, Shing M. Lok, Jordan Ellis

tipa -- 4/10/2012

The observed properties of dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group

Authors: Alan W. McConnachie

Supernova 1998S at 14 years Postmortem: Continuing CSM Interaction and Dust Formation

Authors: Jon Mauerhan, Nathan Smith

Radio Emission in the Cosmic Web

Authors: Pablo A. Araya-Melo, Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo, Marcus Brueggen, Matthias Hoeft

Equation-of-state dependence of the gravitational-wave signal from the ring-down phase of neutron-star mergers

Authors: A. Bauswein (1), H.-T. Janka (1), K. Hebeler (2), A. Schwenk (3,4) ((1) MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, (2) Ohio State University, Columbus, (3) ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, Darmstadt, (4) Technische Universitaät Darmstadt)

Discovery of VHE γ-ray emission and multi-wavelength observations of the BL Lac object 1RXS J101015.9-311909