tipa -- 5/22/2015

A Narrow Short-Duration GRB Jet from a Wide Central Engine

• Paul C. Duffell, Eliot Quataert, Andrew I. MacFadyen

Explosion of a massive, He-rich star at z=0.16

• N. Elias-Rosa, A. Pastorello, M. Nicholl, S. Valenti, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, M. Turatto, G. Altavilla, M. T. Botticella, L. A. G.Monard, M. Riello, L. Zampieri

Stability and Coalescence of Massive Twin Binaries

• Jason A. Hwang, James C. Lombardi Jr., Frederic A. Rasio, Vassiliki Kalogera

Gravitational Wave Signatures of Ab Initio Two-Dimensional Core Collapse Supernova Explosion Models for 12-25 Solar Masses Stars

• Konstantin N. Yakunin, Anthony Mezzacappa, Pedro Marronetti, Shin'ichirou Yoshida, Stephen W. Bruenn, W. Raphael Hix, Eric J. Lentz, O. E. Bronson Messer, J. Austin Harris, Eirik Endeve, John M. Blondin, Eric J. Lingerfelt

On the detection of neutrinos from solar flares using pion-decay photons to provide a time window template

• G. de Wasseige, K. Hanson, N. van Eijndhoven, P. Evenson, K.-L. Klein

Halo-independent tests of dark matter direct detection signals: local DM density, LHC, and thermal freeze-out

• Mattias Blennow, Juan Herrero-Garcia, Thomas Schwetz, Stefan Vogl

tipa -- 5/21/2015

A double white dwarf with a paradoxical origin?

• M.C.P. Bours, T.R. Marsh, B.T. Gaensicke, T.M. Tauris, A.G. Istrate, C. Badenes, V.S. Dhillon, A. Gal-Yam, J.J. Hermes, S. Kengkriangkrai, M. Kilic, D. Koester, F. Mullally, N. Prasert, D. Steeghs, S.E. Thompson, J.R. Thorstensen

A Compact Circumstellar Shell as the Source of High--velocity Features in SN 2011fe

• Brian W. Mulligan, J. Craig Wheeler

The Dense Matter Equation of State from Neutron Star Radius and Mass Measurements

• Feryal Ozel, Dimitrios Psaltis, Tolga Guver, Gordon Baym, Craig Heinke, Sebastien Guillot

Strong Ultraviolet Pulse From a Newborn Type Ia Supernova

• Yi Cao, S. R. Kulkarni, D. Andrew Howell, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Stefano Valenti, J. Johansson, R. Amanullah, A. Goobar, J. Sollerman, F. Taddia, Assaf Horesh, Ilan Sagiv, S. Bradley Cenko, Peter E. Nugent, Iair Arcavi, Jason Surace, P. R. Woźniak, Daniela I. Moody, Umaa D. Rebbapragada, Brian D. Bue, Neil Gehrels

Signatures of Young Star Formation Activity Within Two Parsecs of Sgr A*

• F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Wardle, M. Sewilo, D. A. Roberts, I. Smith, R. Arendt, W. Cotton, J. Lacy, S. Martin, M. W. Pound, M. Rickett, M. Royster

Constraints on explosive silicon burning in core-collapse supernovae from measured Ni/Fe ratios

• A. Jerkstrand, F. X. Timmes, G. Magkotsios, S. A. Sim, C. Fransson, J. Spyromilio, A. Heger, B. Müller, J. Sollerman, S. J. Smartt

Hydrogenless Superluminous Supernova PTF12dam in the Model of an Explosion inside an Extended Envelope

• Petr Baklanov, Elena Sorokina, Sergei Blinnikov

The final-parsec problem in the collisionless limit

• Eugene Vasiliev, Fabio Antonini, David Merritt

Enhanced Gamma-Ray Emission from Neutron Unbound States Populated in Beta Decay

• J. L. Tain, E. Valencia, A. Algora, J. Agramunt, B. Rubio, S. Rice, W. Gelletly, P. Regan, A.-A. Zakari-Issoufou, M. Fallot, A. Porta, J. Rissanen, T. Eronen, J. Aysto, L. Batist, M. Bowry, V. M. Bui, R. Caballero-Folch, D. Cano-Ott, V.-V. Elomaa, E. Estevez, G. F. Farrelly, A. R. Garcia, B. Gomez-Hornillos, V. Gorlychev, J. Hakala, M.D. Jordan, A. Jokinen, V. S. Kolhinen, F. G. Kondev, T. Martinez, E. Mendoza, I. Moore, H. Penttila, Zs. Podolyak, M. Reponen, V. Sonnenschein, A. A. Sonzogni

tipa -- 5/20/2015

Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project: Unraveling Tarantula's Web. II. Optical and Near Infrared Star Formation History of the Starburst Cluster NGC 2070 in 30 Doradus

• M. Cignoni (STScI), E. Sabbi (STScI), R. P. van der Marel (STScI), M. Tosi (INAF-Bologna), D. Zaritsky (University of Arizona), J. Anderson (STScI), D. J. Lennon (ESAC), A. Aloisi (STScI), G. de Marchi (ESA-ESTEC), D. A. Gouliermis (U.Heidelberg), E. K. Grebel (U.Heidelberg), L. J. Smith (ESA/STScI), P. Zeidler (U.Heidelberg)

Search of Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

• ANTARES Collaboration

Three-dimensional core-collapse supernova simulated using a 15 $M_\odot$ projenitor

• Eric J. Lentz, Stephen W. Bruenn, W. Raphael Hix, Anthony Mezzacappa, O. E. Bronson Messer, Eirik Endeve, John M. Blondin, J. Austin Harris, Pedro Marronetti, Konstantin N. Yakunin

tipa -- 5/19/2015

Fermi-LAT Observations of High- and Intermediate-Velocity Clouds: Tracing Cosmic Rays in the Halo of the Milky Way

• L. Tibaldo, S. W. Digel, J.-M. Casandjian, A. Franckowiak, I. A. Grenier, G. Johannesson, D. J. Marshall, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Orlando, T. A. Porter, O. Reimer, A. W. Strong

Star formation efficiencies of molecular clouds in a galactic center environment

• Erik Bertram, Simon C. O. Glover, Paul C. Clark, Ralf S. Klessen

Super-solar metallicity at the position of the ultra-long GRB130925A

• P.Schady, T.Kruehler, J.Greiner, J.F.Graham, D.A.Kann, J.Bolmer, C.Delvaux, J.Elliott, S.Klose, F.Knust, A.Nicuesa Guelbenzu, A.Rau, A.Rossi, S.Savaglio, S.Schmidl, T.Schweyer. V.Sudilovsky, M.Tanga, N.R.Tanvir, K.Varela, P.Wiseman

Self-generated turbulence in magnetic reconnection

• Jeffrey S. Oishi, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, David C. Collins, Moeko Tamura

Space-based Aperture Array For Ultra-Long Wavelength Radio Astronomy

• Raj Thilak Rajan, Albert-Jan Boonstra, Mark Bentum, Marc Klein-Wolt, Frederik Belien, Michel Arts, Noah Saks, Alle-Jan van der Veen

Metallicity at the explosion sites of interacting transients

• F. Taddia, J. Sollerman, C. Fremling, A. Pastorello, G. Leloudas, C. Fransson, A. Nyholm, M. D. Stritzinger, M. Ergon, R. Roy, K. Migotto

tipa -- 5/18/2015

The connection between the radio jet and the gamma-ray emission in the radio galaxy 3C 120

• Carolina Casadio, José L. Gómez, Paola Grandi, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher, Matthew L. Lister, Yuri Y. Kovalev, Tuomas Savolainen, Alexander B. Pushkarev

Sensitivity of full-sky experiments to large scale cosmic ray anisotropies

• Peter B. Denton, Thomas J. Weiler

Cosmogenic neutrinos and ultra-high energy cosmic ray models

• R. Aloisio, D. Boncioli, A di Matteo, A.F. Grillo, S. Petrera, F. Salamida

Spatially Resolved Spitzer-IRS Spectral Maps of the Superwind in M82

• P. Beirão, L. Armus, M. D. Lehnert, P. Guillard, T. Heckman, B. Draine, D. Hollenbach, F. Walter, K. Sheth, J. D. Smith, P. Shopbell, F. Boulanger, J. Surace, C. Hoopes, C. Engelbracht

Compact Neutrino Source

• John LoSecco

tipa -- 5/15/2015

GRB 140606B / iPTF14bfu: Detection of shock-breakout emission from a cosmological gamma-ray burst?

• Z. Cano, A. de Ugarte Postigo, D. Perley, T. Kruhler, R. Margutti, M. Friis, D. Malesani, P. Jakobsson, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Gorosabel, J. Hjorth, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. Schulze, N. R. Tanvir, C. C. Thone, D. Xu

Radio Timing and Optical Photometry of the Black Widow System PSR J1953+1846A in the Globular Cluster M71

• M. Cadelano, C. Pallanca, F. R. Ferraro, I. Stairs, S. M. Ransom, E. Dalessandro, B. Lanzoni, J. W. T. Hessels, P. C. C. Freire

230 GHz VLBI observations of M87: event-horizon-scale structure at the enhanced very-high-energy $\rm γ$-ray state in 2012

• Kazunori Akiyama, Ru-Sen Lu, Vincent L. Fish, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Avery E. Broderick, Jason Dexter, Kazuhiro Hada, Motoki Kino, Hiroshi Nagai, Mareki Honma, Michael D. Johnson, Juan C. Algaba, Keiichi Asada, Christiaan Brinkerink, Ray Blundell, Geoffrey C. Bower, Roger Cappallo, Geoffrey B. Crew, Matt Dexter, Sergio A. Dzib, Robert Freund, Per Friberg, Mark Gurwell, Paul T.P. Ho, Makoto Inoue, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Laurent Loinard, David MacMahon, Daniel P. Marrone, James M. Moran, Masanori Nakamura, Neil M. Nagar, Gisela Ortiz-Leon, Richard Plambeck, Nicolas Pradel, Rurik A. Primiani, Alan E. E. Rogers, Alan L. Roy, Jason SooHoo, Jonathan-Leon Tavares, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Jan Wagner, Jonathan Weintroub, Paul Yamaguchi, Ken H. Young, Anton Zensus, Lucy M. Ziurys

Deep NuSTAR and Swift Monitoring Observations of the Magnetar 1E 1841-045

• Hongjun An, Robert F. Archibald, Romain Hascoet, Anne M. Archibald, Andy Beardmore, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Niel Gehrels, Charles J. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Jamie Kennea, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Daniel Stern, George Younes, William W. Zhang

On Estimating the High-Energy Cutoff in the X-ray Spectra of Black Holes via Reflection Spectroscopy

• Javier A. Garcia, Thomas Dauser, James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Mason L. Keck, Joern Wilms

Multi-wavelength features of Fermi Bubbles as signatures of a Galactic wind

• Kartick Chandra Sarkar, Biman B. Nath, Prateek Sharma

Population synthesis of classical low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galactic Bulge

• L. M. van Haaften, G. Nelemans, R. Voss, M. V. van der Sluys, S. Toonen

High-Mass X-ray Binaries in the Milky Way: A closer look with INTEGRAL

• Roland Walter, Alexander A. Lutovinov, Enrico Bozzo, Sergey S. Tsygankov

Effects of the variability of the nucleus of NGC1275 on X-ray observations of the surrounding intracluster medium

• A.C. Fabian, S.A. Walker, C. Pinto, H.R. Russell, A.C. Edge

Nucleosynthesis in a Primordial Supernova: Carbon and Oxygen Abundances in SMSS J031300.36-670839.31

• Michael Bessell, Remo Collett, Stefan Keller, Anna Frebel, Alexander Heger, Andrew Casey, Thomas Masseron, Martin Asplund, Heather Jacobsen, Karin Lind, Anna Marino, John Norris, David Yong, Gary Da Costa, Conrad Chan, Zazralt Magic, Brian Schmidt, Patrick Tisserand

Search for the Proton Decay Mode $p \rightarrow \overlineν K^{+}$ with KamLAND

• The KamLAND-Zen Collaboration

tipa -- 5/14/2015

Constraining the r-mode saturation amplitude from a hypothetical detection of r-mode gravitational waves from a newborn neutron star - sensitivity study

• Antonis Mytidis, Michael Coughlin, Bernard Whiting

Evolution of the Crab nebula in a low energy supernova

• Haifeng Yang, Roger A. Chevalier

Confirmation of Hostless Type Ia Supernovae Using Hubble Space Telescope Imaging

• Melissa L. Graham, David J. Sand, Dennis Zaritsky, Chris J. Pritchet

Plastic damping of Alfvén waves in magnetar flares and delayed afterglow emission

• Xinyu Li, Andrei M. Beloborodov (Columbia University)

First detection of >100 MeV gamma rays associated with a behind-the-limb solar flare

• Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Nicola Omodei, Vahe' Petrosian, Wei Liu, Fatima Rubio da Costa, Alice Allafort, Qingrong Chen

Galactic TeV-PeV Neutrinos

• Markus Ahlers, Yang Bai, Vernon Barger, Ran Lu

Probing neutrino magnetic moments at Spallation Neutron Source facilities

• T. S. Kosmas, O. G. Miranda, D. K. Papoulias, M. Tortola, J. W. F. Valle

A new measurement of antineutrino oscillation with the full detector configuration at Daya Bay

• Daya Bay Collaboration

tipa -- 5/13/2015

Planck intermediate results. XXXVIII. $E$- and $B$-modes of dust polarization from the magnetized filamentary structure of the interstellar medium

• Planck Collaboration

Constraining the electron and proton acceleration efficiencies in merger shocks in galaxy clusters

• F. Vazza, D. Eckert, M. Brueggen, B. Huber

The Rise-Time of Type II Supernovae

• Santiago Gonzalez-Gaitan, N. Tominaga, J. Molina, L. Galbany, F. Bufano, J. P. Anderson, C. Gutierrez, F. Forster, G. Pignata, M. Bersten, D. A. Howell, M. Sullivan, R. Carlberg, T. de Jaeger, M. Hamuy, P. V. Baklanov, S. I. Blinnikov

LOFAR discovery of a quiet emission mode in PSR B0823+26

• C. Sobey, N. J. Young, J. W. T. Hessels, P. Weltevrede, A. Noutsos, B. W. Stappers, M. Kramer, C. Bassa, A. G. Lyne, V. I. Kondratiev, T. E. Hassall, E. F. Keane, A. V. Bilous, R. P. Breton, J.-M. Grießmeier, A. Karastergiou, M. Pilia, M. Serylak, S. ter Veen, J. van Leeuwen, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, I. M. Avruch, M. E. Bell, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, L. Bîrzan, A. Bonafede, F. Breitling, J. Broderick, M. Brüggen, A. Corstanje, D. Carbone, E. de Geus, M. de Vos, A. van Duin, S. Duscha, J. Eislöffel, H. Falcke, R. A. Fallows, R. Fender, C. Ferrari, W. Frieswijk, M. A. Garrett, A. W. Gunst, J. P. Hamaker, G. Heald, M. Hoeft, J. Hörandel, E. Jütte, G. Kuper, P. Maat, G. Mann, S. Markoff, R. McFadden, D. McKay-Bukowski, J. P. McKean, D. D. Mulcahy, H. Munk, A. Nelles, M. J. Norden, E. Orrù, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, V. N. Pandey, G. Pietka, R. Pizzo, A. G. Polatidis, D. Rafferty, A. Renting, H. Röttgering, A. Rowlinson, A. M. M. Scaife, D. Schwarz, J. Sluman, O. Smirnov, M. Steinmetz, A. Stewart, J. Swinbank, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, S. Thoudam, C. Toribio, R. Vermeulen, C. Vocks, R. J. van Weeren, R. A. M. J. Wijers, M. W. Wise, O. Wucknitz, S. Yatawatta, P. Zarka

Directional detection of dark matter in universal bound states

• Ranjan Laha

A General Analysis of Direct Dark Matter Detection: From Microphysics to Observational Signatures

• James B. Dent (1), Lawrence M. Krauss (2,3), Jayden L. Newstead (2), Subir Sabharwal (2) ((1) University of Louisiana at Lafayette, (2) Arizona State University, (3) Australian National University)

Bose-Einstein correlations in hadron-pairs from lepto-production on nuclei ranging from hydrogen to xenon

• HERMES Collaboration

Why Boltzmann Brains Don't Fluctuate Into Existence From the De Sitter Vacuum

• Kimberly K. Boddy, Sean M. Carroll, Jason Pollack

tipa -- 5/12/2015

ISM Masses and Star Formation at z = 1 to 6 ALMA Observations of Dust Continuum in 180 Galaxies in COSMOS

• N. Scoville, K. Sheth, H. Aussel, P. Vanden Bout, P. Capak, A. Bongiorno, C. M. Casey, L. Murchikova, J. Koda, A. Pope, S. Toft, R. Ivison, D. Sanders, S. Manohar, N. Lee

Nonthermally Dominated Electron Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in a Low-beta Plasma

• Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Hui Li, Gang Li

Particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification in the jets of 4C74.26

• Anabella T. Araudo, Tony Bell, Katherine M. Blundell

Design, characterization, and sensitivity of the supernova trigger system at Daya Bay

• Hanyu Wei, Logan Lebanowski, Fei Li, Zhe Wang, Shaomin Chen

Two-Dimensional Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations with the Isotropic Diffusion Source Approximation for Neutrino Transport

• Kuo-Chuan Pan, Matthias Liebendörfer, Matthias Hempel, Friedrich-Karl Thieleman

tipa -- 5/11/2015

Does the Collapse of a Supramassive Neutron Star Leave a Debris Disk?

• Ben Margalit, Brian D. Metzger, Andrei M. Beloborodov

Measurement of the Proton-Air Cross Section with Telescope Array's Middle Drum Detector and Surface Array in Hybrid Mode

• The Telescope Array Collaboration

Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data

• C. Chang, V. Vikram, B. Jain, D. Bacon, A. Amara, M. R. Becker, G. Bernstein, C. Bonnett, S. Bridle, D. Brout, M. Busha, J. Frieman, E. Gaztanaga, W. Hartley, M. Jarvis, T. Kacprzak, A. Kovacs, O. Lahav, H. Lin, P. Melchior, H. Peiris, E. Rozo, E. Rykoff, C. Sanchez, E. Sheldon, M. A. Troxel, R. Wechsler, J. Zuntz, T. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam, J. Annis, A. H. Bauer, A. Benoit-Levy, D. Brooks, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, D. Capozzi, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, F. J. Castander, M. Crocce, C. B. D'Andrea, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, J. P. Dietrich, P. Doel, T. F. Eifler, A. E. Evrard, A. Fausti Neto, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, G. Gutierrez, K. Honscheid, D. James, S. Kent, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, M. A. G. Maia, M. March, P. Martini, K. W. Merritt, C. J. Miller, R. Miquel, E. Neilsen, R. C. Nichol, R. Ogando, A. A. Plazas, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, M. Sako, E. Sanchez, I. Sevilla, R. C. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, J. Thaler, D. Thomas, D. Tucker, A. R. Walker

Self-Interacting Dark Matter Scattering Rates Through Cosmic Time

• Andrew Robertson, Richard Massey, Vincent Eke, Richard Bower (Durham)

Broadband X-ray Properties of the Gamma-ray Binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856

• Hongjun An, Eric Bellm, Varun Bhalerao, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Felix Fuerst, Charles J. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Victoria M. Kaspi, Lorenzo Natalucci, Daniel Stern, John A. Tomsick, William W. Zhang

Sensitivity to light weakly-coupled new physics at the precision frontier

• Matthias Le Dall, Maxim Pospelov, Adam Ritz

Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

• X. Qian, P. Vogel

tipa -- 5/8/2015

Fast Variability and mm/IR flares in GRMHD Models of Sgr A* from Strong-Field Gravitational Lensing

• Chi-kwan Chan (1), Dimitrios Psaltis (1), Feryal Ozel (1), Lia Medeiros (2), Daniel Marrone (1), Aleksander Sadowski (3), Ramesh Narayan (4) ((1) Steward Observatory and Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona, (2) Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara, (3) MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, (4) Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A systematic study of carbon-oxygen white dwarf mergers: mass combinations for Type Ia supernovae

• Yushi Sato, Naohito Nakasato, Ataru Tanikawa, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Keiichi Maeda, Izumi Hachisu

Mass-loading of bow shock pulsar wind nebulae

• G. Morlino, M. Lyutikov, M.J. Vorster

Simple and Compact Expressions for Neutrino Oscillation Probabilities in Matter

• Hisakazu Minakata, Stephen J Parke

Extraction of the proton radius from electron-proton scattering data

• Gabriel Lee, John R. Arrington, Richard J. Hill

tipa -- 5/7/2015

Optical observations of the luminous Type IIn Supernova 2010jl for over 900 days

• J. E. Jencson, J. L. Prieto, C. S. Kochanek, B. J. Shappee, K. Z. Stanek, R. W. Pogge