classic papers of the week -- 206

μ→e γ at a rate of one out of 10^9 muon decays?

• Peter Minkowski (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Berne)

Explorer XI Experiment on Cosmic Gamma Rays

• Kraushaar, W.; Clark, G. W.; Garmire, G.; Helmken, H.; Higbie, P.; Agogino, M.

On the theoretical temperature of the Sun, under the hypothesis of a gaseous mass maintaining its volume by its internal heat, and depending on the laws of gases as known to terrestrial experiment

• J. Homer Lane

tipa -- 7/3/2015

Turbulent Amplification and Structure of the Intracluster Magnetic Field

• Andrey Beresnyak, Francesco Miniati

Heliosphere for a wide range of interstellar magnetic field strengths as a source of energetic neutral atoms

• A. Czechowski, J. Grygorczuk, D.J. McComas

Theoretical Estimate of the Sensitivity of the CUORE Detector to Solar Axions

• Dawei. Li, R.J. Creswick, F.T. Avignone III, Yuanxu. Wang

tipa -- 7/2/2015

SOFIA Observations of SN 2010jl: Another Non-Detection of the 9.7 $μ$m Silicate Dust Feature

• Brian J. Williams, Ori D. Fox

Constraints on the Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Flux from Gamma-Ray Bursts from a Prototype Station of the Askaryan Radio Array

• P. Allison, J. Auffenberg, R. Bard, J. J. Beatty, D. Z. Besson, C. Bora, C.-C. Chen, P. Chen, A. Connolly, J. P. Davies, M. A. DuVernois, B. Fox, P. W. Gorham, K. Hanson, B. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, E. Hong, L.-C. Hu, A. Ishihara, A. Karle, J. Kelley, I. Kravchenko, H. Landsman, A. Laundrie, C.-J. Li, T. Liu, M.-Y. Lu, R. Maunu, K.Mase, T.Meures, C.Miki, J.Nam, R.J.Nichol, G.Nir, A. O'Murchadha, C.G.Pfendner, K. Ratzlaff, M. Richman, B. Rotter, P. Sandstrom, D. Seckel, A. Shultz, M. Song, J. Stockham, M. Stockham, M. Sullivan, J. Touart, H.-Y. Tu, G. S. Varner, S. Yoshida, R. Young, D. Guetta

Fourier Analysis of Blazar Variability: Klein-Nishina Effects and the Jet Scattering Environment

• Justin D. Finke, Peter A. Becker

tipa -- 7/1/2015

Limits on anisotropy in the nanohertz stochastic gravitational-wave background

• S. R. Taylor, C. M. F. Mingarelli, J. R. Gair, A. Sesana, G. Theureau, S. Babak, C. G. Bassa, P. Brem, M. Burgay, R. N. Caballero, D. J. Champion, I. Cognard, G. Desvignes, L. Guillemot, J. W. T. Hessels, G. H. Janssen, R. Karuppusamy, M. Kramer, A. Lassus, P. Lazarus, L. Lentati, K. Liu, S. Osłowski, D. Perrodin, A. Petiteau, A. Possenti, M. B. Purver, P. A. Rosado, S. A. Sanidas, R. Smits, B. Stappers, C. Tiburzi, R. van Haasteren, A. Vecchio, J. P. W. Verbiest

Neutrino-driven explosions of ultra-stripped type Ic supernovae generating binary neutron stars

• Yudai Suwa (YITP, Kyoto Univ. & MPA, Garching), Takashi Yoshida, Masaru Shibata (YITP, Kyoto Univ.), Hideyuki Umeda, Koh Takahashi (Univ. of Tokyo)

Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011dh in M51: geometric insights on a Type IIb supernova progenitor and explosion

• Jon C. Mauerhan, G. Grant Williams, Douglas C. Leonard, Paul S. Smith, Alexei V. Filippenko, Nathan Smith, Jennifer L. Hoffman, Leah Huk, Kelsey I. Clubb, Jeffrey M. Silverman, S. Bradley Cenko, Peter Milne, Avishay Gal-Yam, Sagi Ben-Ami

Low-metallicity massive single stars with rotation. Evolutionary models applicable to I Zwicky 18

• D. Szécsi, N. Langer, S.-C. Yoon, D. Sanyal, S. de Mink, C.J. Evans, T. Dermine

Measurement of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum above $10^{16}$ eV with the LOFAR Radboud Air Shower Array

• S. Thoudam, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, J. E. Enriquez, H. Falcke, J. R. Hörandel, A. Nelles, J. P. Rachen, L. Rossetto, P. Schellart, O. Scholten, S. ter Veen, L. van Kessel

A simplified view of blazars: the neutrino background

• P. Padovani (1), M. Petropoulou (2), P. Giommi (3), E. Resconi (4) ((1) ESO, (2) Purdue University, IN, (3) ASDC, (4) TUM)

Precessional instability in binary black holes with aligned spins

• Davide Gerosa, Michael Kesden, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Antoine Klein, Emanuele Berti, Ulrich Sperhake, Daniele Trifirò

Production of light nuclei and anti-nuclei in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies

• ALICE Collaboration

Measurement of pi^0 photoproduction on the proton at MAMI C

• P. Adlarson, F. Afzal, C. S. Akondi, J. R. M. Annand, H. J. Arends, Ya. I. Azimov, R. Beck, N. Borisov, A. Braghieri, W. J. Briscoe, S. Cherepnya, F. Cividini, C. Collicott, S. Costanza, A. Denig, E. J. Downie, M. Dieterle, M. I. Ferretti Bondy, L. V. Fil'kov, A. Fix, S. Gardner, S. Garni, D. I. Glazier, D. Glowa, W. Gradl, G. Gurevich, D. J. Hamilton, D. Hornidge, G. M. Huber, A. Käser, V. L. Kashevarov, S. Kay, I. Keshelashvili, R. Kondratiev, M. Korolija, B. Krusche, V. V. Kulikov, A. Lazarev, J. Linturi, V. Lisin, K. Livingston, I. J. D. MacGregor, D. M. Manley, P. P. Martel, M. Martemianov, J. C. McGeorge, W. Meyer, D. G. Middleton, R. Miskimen, A. Mushkarenkov, A. Neganov, A. Neiser, M. Oberle, M. Ostrick, P. Ott, P. B. Otte, B. Oussena, D. Paudyal, P. Pedroni, A. Polonski, V. V. Polyanski, S. Prakhov, A. Rajabi, G. Reicherz, G. Ron, T. Rostomyan, A. Sarty, D. M. Schott, S. Schumann, C. Sfienti, V. Sokhoyan, K. Spieker, O. Steffen, I. I. Strakovsky, Th. Strub, I. Supek, M. F. Taragin, A. Thiel, M. Thiel, L. Tiator, A. Thomas, M. Unverzagt, Yu. A. Usov, S. Wagner, D. P. Watts, D. Werthmüller, J. Wettig, L. Witthauer, M. Wolfes, R. L. Workman, L. A. Zana

tipa -- 6/30/2015

Variability in tidal disruption events: gravitationally unstable streams

• Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon

Sensitivity to interlopers in stellar-kinematic samples for ultrafaint dwarf galaxies: Uncertainty about the dark matter annihilation profile of Segue I

• V. Bonnivard, D. Maurin, M. G. Walker

Magnetized Interstellar Molecular Clouds. I. Comparison Between Simulations and Zeeman Observations

• Pak Shing Li, Christopher F. McKee, Richard I. Klein

The early days of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy

• P. Jablonka, P. North, L. Mashonkina, V. Hill, Y. Revaz, M. Shetrone, E. Starkenburg, M. Irwin, E. Tolstoy, G. Battaglia, K. Venn, A. Helmi, F. Primas, P. Francois

A Scintillator Purification Plant and Fluid Handling System for SNO+

• Richard J. Ford, for the SNO+ Collaboration

tipa -- 6/29/2015

Dark Matter Superfluidity and Galactic Dynamics

• Lasha Berezhiani, Justin Khoury

Discovery of low-metallicity stars in the central parsec of the Milky Way

• Tuan Do (1 and 2), Wolfgang Kerzendorf (3 and 4), Nathan Winsor (1 and 5), Morten Støstad (3), Mark R. Morris (2), Jessica R. Lu (6), Andrea M. Ghez (2) ((1) Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto, (2) Physics and Astronomy Department, UCLA, (3) Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, (4) ESO, (5) Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, (6) IfA, University of Hawaii)

Core-Collapse Supernova Rate Synthesis Within 11 Mpc

• Lin Xiao, J.J. Eldridge

Pulsar Observations of Extreme Scattering Events

• W. A. Coles, M. Kerr, R. M. Shannon, G. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester, X. P. You, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, S. Dai, M. J. Keith, Y. Levin, S. Oslowski, V. Ravi, D. Reardon, L. Toomey, W. van Straten, J. B. Wang, L. Wen, X. J. Zhu

Characterization of the Atmospheric Muon Flux in IceCube

• IceCube Collaboration

Early optical spectra of nova V1369 Cen show presence of Lithium

• L. Izzo, M. Della Valle, E. Mason, F. Matteucci, D. Romano, L. Pasquini, L.Vanzi, A. Jordan, J. M. Fernandez, P. Bluhm, R. Brahm, N. Espinoza, R. Williams

On the Implications of Recent Observations of the Inner Knot in the Crab Nebula

• Yajie Yuan, Roger Blandford (KIPAC, Stanford University)

Prospects for Measurement of the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

• R. B. Patterson

On the Trail of the Higgs Boson

• Michael E. Peskin

classic papers of the week -- 205

Neutrino Astronomy

• Morrison, Philip

On the growth of condensations in an expanding universe

• Michie, R. W.

Collapse of Massive Stars

• Michel, F. C.

tipa -- 6/26/2015

A ~50,000 solar mass black hole in the nucleus of RGG 118

• Vivienne Baldassare, Amy Reines, Elena Gallo, Jenny Greene

GRB host galaxies with VLT/X-Shooter: properties at 0.8 < z < 1.3

• S. Piranomonte, J. Japelj, S.D. Vergani, S. Savaglio, E. Palazzi, S. Covino, H. Flores, P. Goldoni, G. Cupani, T. Kruhler, F. Mannucci, F. Onori, A. Rossi, V. D'Elia, E. Pian, P. D'Avanzo, A. Gomboc, F. Hammer, S. Randich, F. Fiore, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri

On the determination of the leptonic CP phase

• Jessica Elevant, Thomas Schwetz

tipa -- 6/25/2015

NuSTAR observations of the powerful radio-galaxy Cygnus A

• Christopher S. Reynolds, Anne M. Lohfink, Patrick M. Ogle, Fiona A. Harrison, Kristin K. Madsen, Andrew C. Fabian, Daniel R. Wik, Grzegorz Madejski, David R. Ballantyne, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Felix Fuerst, Charles J. Hailey, Lauranne Lanz, Jon M. Miller, Cristian Saez, Daniel Stern, Dominic J. Walton, William Zhang

Compact Radio Sources within 30" of Sgr A*: Proper Motions, Stellar Winds and the Accretion Rate onto Sgr A*

• F. Yusef-Zadeh, H. Bushouse, R. Schödel, M. Wardle, W. Cotton, D. A. Roberts, F. Nogueras-Lara, E. Gallego-Cano

The importance of 56Ni in shaping the light curves of type II supernovae

• Ehud Nakar, Dovi Poznanski, Boaz Katz

The inner knot of the Crab nebula

• Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Serguei Komissarov (The University of Leeds), Oliver Porth (The University of Leeds)

Search for muon-neutrino emission from GeV and TeV gamma-ray flaring blazars using five years of data of the ANTARES telescope

• ANTARES Collaboration

Swift/XRT counterparts to unassociated Fermi high-energy LAT sources

• R. Landi, L. Bassani, J. B. Stephen, N. Masetti, A. Malizia, P. Ubertini

Optical inverse Compton emission from clusters of galaxies

• Ryo Yamazaki, Abraham Loeb

Monte Carlo Studies of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

• M. Wood, T. Jogler, J. Dumm, S. Funk

Constraints on neutrino mass from Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure

• Pan Zhen, Knox Lloyd

The Wisconsin Plasma Astrophysics Laboratory

• C.B. Forest, K. Flanagan, M. Brookhart, C.M. Cooper, M. Clark, V. Desangles, J. Egedal, D. Endrizzi, M. Miesch, I.V. Khalzov, H. Li, J. Milhone, M. Nornberg, J. Olson, E. Peterson, F. Roesler, A. Schekochihin, O. Schmitz, R. Siller, A. Spitkovsky, A. Stemo, J. Wallace, D. Weisberg, E. Zweibel

tipa -- 6/24/2015

A Mock Data and Science Challenge for Detecting an Astrophysical Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

• Duncan Meacher, Michael Coughlin, Sean Morris, Tania Regimbau, Nelson Christensen, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Vuk Mandic, Joseph D. Romano, Eric Thrane

The Accreting Black Hole Swift J1753.5-0127 from Radio to Hard X-Ray

• John A. Tomsick (SSL/UCB), Farid Rahoui (ESO and Harvard), Mari Kolehmainen (Oxford), James Miller-Jones (Curtin University), Felix Fuerst (Caltech), Kazutaka Yamaoka (Nagoya University), Hiroshi Akitaya (Hiroshima University), Stephane Corbel (AIM and Observatoire de Paris), Mickael Coriat (IRAP), Chris Done (University of Durham), Poshak Gandhi (University of Southampton), Fiona A. Harrison (Caltech), Kuiyun Huang (Taiwan Normal University), Philip Kaaret (University of Iowa), Emrah Kalemci (Sabanci University), Yuka Kanda (Hiroshima University), Simone Migliari (ESAC), Jon M. Miller (University of Michigan), Yuki Moritani (Nagoya University and University of Tokyo), Daniel Stern (JPL), Makoto Uemura (Nagoya University), Yuji Urata (National Central Univeristy)

High-resolution magnetohydrodynamics simulation of black hole-neutron star merger: Mass ejection and short gamma-ray burst

• Kenta Kiuchi, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Koutarou Kyutoku, Masaru Shibata, Keisuke Taniguchi, Tomohide Wada

Planck 2015 results. XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB

• Planck Collaboration

Breaking the symmetries of the bulb model in two-dimensional self-induced supernova neutrino flavor conversions

• Alessandro Mirizzi (Univ. of Bari and Sez. INFN Bari, Italy)

The light neutrino exchange mechanism of the $0νββ$-decay with left- and right-handed leptonic and hadronic currents revisited

• Dusan Stefanik, Rastislav Dvornicky, Fedor Simkovic, Petr Vogel

tipa -- 6/23/2015

Lord of the Rings: A Kinematic Distance to Circinus X-1 from a Giant X-Ray Light Echo

• Sebastian Heinz, Michael G. Burton, Catherine Braiding, William N. Brandt, Peter G. Jonker, Paul Sell, Robert P. Fender, Michael A. Nowak, Norbert S. Schulz

The radial profile and flattening of the Milky Way's stellar halo to $\rm 80~$kpc from the SEGUE K-giant Survey

• Xiang-Xiang Xue, Hans-Walter Rix, Zhibo Ma, Heather Morrison, Jo Bovy, Branimir Sesar, William Janesh

A Uniform Contribution of Core-Collapse and Type Ia Supernovae to the Chemical Enrichment Pattern in the Outskirts of the Virgo Cluster

• A. Simionescu, N. Werner, O. Urban, S. W. Allen, Y. Ichinohe, I. Zhuravleva

3C 273 with NuSTAR: Unveiling the AGN

• Kristin K. Madsen, Felix Fürst, Dominic J. Walton, Fiona A. Harrison, David R. Ballantyne, Steve E. Boggs, Laura W. Brenneman, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Andrew C. Fabian, Karl Forster, Brian W. Grefenstette, Matteo Guainazzi, Charles J. Hailey, Greg M. Madejski, Giorgio Matt, Daniel Stern, William W. Zhang

VERITAS detection of $γ$-ray flaring activity from the BL Lac object 1ES 1727+502 during bright moonlight observations

• VERITAS Collaboration

Observational Properties of Type Ib/c Supernova Progenitors in Binary Systems

• Hyun-Jeong Kim, Sung-Chul Yoon, Bon-Chul Koo

Fast magnetic field amplification in the early Universe: growth of collisionless plasma instabilities in turbulent media

• D. Falceta-Goncalves, G. Kowal

Deep Chandra observation and numerical studies of the nearest cluster cold front in the sky

• N. Werner, J.A. ZuHone, I. Zhuravleva, Y. Ichinohe, A. Simionescu, S.W. Allen, M. Markevitch, A.C. Fabian, U. Keshet, E. Roediger, M. Ruszkowski, J.S. Sanders

Does the CO-to-H2 conversion factor depend on the star formation rate?

• Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover

Green's function of the cosmological thermalization problem II: effect of photon injection and constraints

• Jens Chluba

Planck 2015 results. XXV. Diffuse low-frequency Galactic foregrounds

• Planck Collaboration

Comments on Backreaction

• Stephen R. Green, Robert M. Wald

Cosmological inference using gravitational wave observations alone

• Walter Del Pozzo, Tjonnie G. F. Li, Chris Messenger

Probing flavor models with Ge-76-based experiments on neutrinoless double-beta decay

• Matteo Agostini, Alexander Merle, Kai Zuber

Gravitational Depolarization of Ultracold Neutrons: Comparison with Data

• S. Afach, N.J. Ayres, C.A. Baker, G. Ban, G. Bison, K. Bodek, M. Fertl, B. Franke, P. Geltenbort, K. Green, W.C. Griffith, M. van der Grinten, Z.D. Grujic, P.G. Harris, W. Heil, V. Helaine, P. Iaydjiev, S.N. Ivanov, M. Kasprzak, Y. Kermaidic, K. Kirch, H.-C. Koch, S. Komposch, A. Kozela, J. Krempel, B. Lauss, T. Lefort, Y. Lemiere, M. Musgrave, O. Naviliat-Cunic, J.M. Pendlebury, F.M. Piegsa, G. Pignol, C. Plonka-Spehr, P.N. Prashanth, G. Quemener, M. Rawlik, D. Rebreyend, D. Ries, S. Roccia, D. Rozpedzik, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, N. Severijns, D. Shiers, J.A. Thorne, A. Weis, E. Wursten, J. Zejma, J. Zenner, G. Zsigmond

Extending theories on muon-specific interactions

• Carl E. Carlson (W&M), Michael Freid (W&M and JLab)

Baryon mass splittings and strong CP violation in SU(3) Chiral Perturbation Theory

• Jordy de Vries (Institute for Advanced Simulation, Institut fur Kernphysik, and Julich Center for Hadron Physics), Emanuele Mereghetti (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Andre Walker-Loud (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and The College of William and Mary)

tipa -- 6/22/2015

Long-baseline optical intensity interferometry: Laboratory demonstration of diffraction-limited imaging

• Dainis Dravins, Tiphaine Lagadec, Paul D. Nuñez

Cluster Mergers and the Origin of the ARCADE-2 Excess

• Ke Fang, Tim Linden

Type Ia supernovae from exploding oxygen-neon white dwarfs

• Kai S. Marquardt, Stuart A. Sim, Ashley J. Ruiter, Ivo R. Seitenzahl, Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Markus Kromer, Ruediger Pakmor, Friedrich K. Roepke

Cosmology with Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum

• Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Christophe Yeche, Julien Baur, Christophe Magneville, Graziano Rossi, Julien Lesgourgues, Arnaud Borde, Etienne Burtin, Jean-Marc LeGoff, James Rich, Matteo Viel, David Weinberg

On The braking index of the unusual high-B rotation-powered pulsar PSR J1846-0258

• R. F. Archibald, V. M. Kaspi, A. P. Beardmore, N. Gehrels, J. A. Kennea

The 23Na(α,p) 26Mg reaction rate at astrophysically relevant energies

• A.M. Howard, M. Munch, H.O.U. Fynbo, O.S. Kirsebom, K.L. Laursen, C.Aa. Diget, N.J. Hubbard

A Decisive Disappearance Search at High-$Δm^2$ with Monoenergetic Muon Neutrinos

• S Axani, G Collin, JM Conrad, MH Shaevitz, J Spitz, T Wongjirad

Result of the search for neutrinoless double-$β$ decay in $^{100}$Mo with the NEMO-3 experiment

• R. Arnold, C. Augier, J.D. Baker, A.S. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville, S. Blondel, S. Blot, M. Bongrand, V. Brudanin, J. Busto, A.J. Caffrey, C. Cerna, A. Chapon, E. Chauveau, D. Duchesneau, D. Durand, V. Egorov, G. Eurin, J.J. Evans, L. Fajt, D. Filosofov, R. Flack, X. Garrido, H. Gómez, B. Guillon, P. Guzowski, R. Hodák, P. Hubert, C. Hugon, S. Jullian, A. Klimenko, O. Kochetov, S.I. Konovalov, V. Kovalenko, D. Lalanne, K. Lang, Y. Lemière, Z. Liptak, P. Loaiza, G. Lutter, F. Mamedov, C. Marquet, F. Mauger, B. Morgan, J. Mott, I. Nemchenok, M. Nomachi, F. Nova, F. Nowacki, H. Ohsumi, R.B. Pahlka, F. Perrot, F. Piquemal, P. Povinec, P. Přidal, Y.A. Ramachers, A. Remoto, J.L. Reyss, B. Richards, C.L. Riddle, E. Rukhadze, R. Saakyan, X. Sarazin, Yu. Shitov, L. Simard, F. Simkovic, A. Smetana, K. Smolek, A. Smolnikov, S. Söldner-Rembold, B. Soulé, I. Štekl, J. Suhonen, C.S. Sutton, G. Szklarz, J. Thomas, V. Timkin, S. Torre, Vl.I. Tretyak, V.I. Tretyak, V.I. Umatov, I. Vanushin, C. Vilela, V. Vorobel, D. Waters, A. Žukauskas (NEMO-3 Collaboration)

Measurement of the $π\rightarrow \mbox{e} ν$ branching ratio

• A.Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Aoki, M. Blecher, D.I. Britton, D.A. Bryman, D. vom Bruch, S. Chen, J. Comfort, M. Ding, L. Doria, S. Cuen-Rochin, P. Gumplinger, A. Hussein, Y. Igarashi, S. Ito, S.H. Kettell, L. Kurchaninov, L.S. Littenberg, C. Malbrunot, R.E. Mischke, T. Numao, D. Protopopescu, A. Sher, T. Sullivan, D. Vavilov, K. Yamada