classic papers of the week -- 207

Neutrino astronomy and lepton charge

• V.N. Gribov, B. Pontecorvo (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR)

Neutron Star Models

• Cameron, A. G. (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada)

On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum

• Max Planck

tipa -- 7/10/2015

The Impact of Baryonic Physics on the Structure of Dark Matter Halos: the View from the FIRE Cosmological Simulations

• T. K. Chan, D. Kereš, J. Oñorbe, P.F. Hopkins, A.L. Muratov, C.-A. Faucher-Giguère, E. Quataert

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXI. Stellar spin rates of O-type spectroscopic binaries

• O.H. Ramírez-Agudelo, H. Sana, S.E. de Mink, V. Hénault-Brunet, A. de Koter, N. Langer, F. Tramper, G. Gräfener, C.J. Evans, J.S. Vink, P.L. Dufton, W.D. Taylor

An Over-Massive Black Hole in a Typical Star-Forming Galaxy, 2 Billion Years After the Big Bang

• Benny Trakhtenbrot, C. Megan Urry, Francesca Civano, David J. Rosario, Martin Elvis, Kevin Schawinski, Hyewon Suh, Angela Bongiorno, Brooke D. Simmons

Spectrum of Relativistic and Subrelativistic Cosmic Rays in the 100 pc Central Region

• V. A. Dogiel, D. O. Chernyshov, A. M. Kiselev, M. Nobukawa, K. S. Cheng, C. Y. Hui, C. M. Ko, K. K. Nobukawa, T. G. Tsuru

Time-Dependent Modeling of Gamma-ray Flares in Blazar PKS1510-089

• Shinya Saito, Lukasz Stawarz, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Tadayuki Takahashi, Marek Sikora, Rafal Moderski

Milky Way Scattering Properties and Intrinsic Sizes of AGN Cores Probed by VLBI Surveys of Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources

• A. B. Pushkarev (CrAO, ASC Lebedev), Y. Y. Kovalev (ASC Lebedev, MPIfR)

Measuring nickel masses in Type Ia supernovae using cobalt emission in nebular phase spectra

• Michael J. Childress, D. John Hillier, Ivo Seitenzahl, Mark Sullivan, Kate Maguire, Stefan Taubenberger, Richard Scalzo, Ashley Ruiter, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Yssavo Camacho, Jayden Castillo, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Morgan Fraser, Avishay Gal-Yam, Melissa Graham, D. Andrew Howell, Cosimo Inserra, Saurabh W. Jha, Sahana Kumar, Paolo A. Mazzali, Curtis McCully, Antonia Morales-Garoffolo, Viraj Pandya, Joe Polshaw, Brian Schmidt, Stephen Smartt, Ken W. Smith, Jesper Sollerman, Jason Spyromilio, Brad Tucker, Stefano Valenti, Nicholas Walton, Christian Wolf, Ofer Yaron, D. R. Young, Fang Yuan, Bonnie Zhang

MACHETE: A transit Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope to survey half of the Very High Energy $γ$-ray sky

• J. Cortina, R. López-Coto, A. Moralejo

Searches for millisecond pulsar candidates among the unidentified Fermi objects

• C. Y. Hui (1), S. M. Park (1), C. P. Hu (2), L. C. C. Lin (3), K. L. Li (4), A. K. H. Kong (4), P. H. T. Tam (5), J. Takata (6), K. S. Cheng (6), Ruolan Jin (4), T.-C. Yen (4), Chunglee Kim (7) ((1) Chungnam National University, Korea, (2) National Central University, Taiwan, (3) ASIAA, Taiwan, (4) National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, (5) Sun Yat-Sen University, China, (6) University of Hong Kong, (7) Yonsei University, Korea)

tipa -- 7/9/2015

Self-similar energetics in large clusters of galaxies

• Francesco Miniati (ETH Zürich), Andrey Beresnyak (Nordita)

Entrainment in Trouble: Cool Cloud Acceleration and Destruction in Hot Supernova-Driven Galactic Winds

• Dong Zhang, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert, Norman Murray

Diluted Equilibrium Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter

• Amol V. Patwardhan, George M. Fuller, Chad T. Kishimoto, Alexander Kusenko

Planck 2015 results. XXVI. The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources

• Planck Collaboration

A low pre-infall mass for the Carina dwarf galaxy from disequilibrium modelling

• Uğur Ural, Mark I. Wilkinson, Justin I. Read, Matthew G. Walker

The rapid decay phase of the afterglow as the signature of the Blandford-Znajek mechanism

• Antonios Nathanail, Achillies Strantzalis, Ioannis Contopoulos

Neutrino Physics with Non-Standard Interactions at INO

• Sandhya Choubey, Anushree Ghosh, Tommy Ohlsson, Deepak Tiwari

tipa -- 7/8/2015

Probing Galactic Structure with the Spatial Correlation Function of SEGUE G-dwarf Stars

• Qingqing Mao, Andreas A. Berlind, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Katharine J. Schlesinger, Jennifer A. Johnson, Constance M. Rockosi, Timothy C. Beers, Donald P. Schneider, Kaike Pan, Dmitry Bizyaev, Elena Malanushenko

Six Months of Multi-Wavelength Follow-up of the Tidal Disruption Candidate ASASSN-14li and Implied TDE Rates from ASAS-SN

• T. W.-S. Holoien, C. S. Kochanek, J. L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, Subo Dong, B. J. Shappee, D. Grupe, J. S. Brown, U. Basu, J. F. Beacom, D. Bersier, J. Brimacombe, A. B. Danilet, E. Falco, Z. Guo, J. Jose, G. J. Herczeg, F. Long, G. Pojmanski, G. V. Simonian, D. M. Szczygiel, T. A. Thompson, J. R. Thorstensen, P. R. Wozniak

tipa -- 7/7/2015

Fast radio bursts: the observational case for a Galactic origin

• Dan Maoz, Abraham Loeb, Yossi Shvartzvald, Monika Sitek, Michael Engel, Flavien Kiefer, Marcin Kiraga, Amir Levi, Tsevi Mazeh, Michal Pawlak, R. Michael Rich, Lukasz Wyrzykowski

A Three-Dimensional Map of Milky-Way Dust

• Gregory M. Green, Edward F. Schlafly, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Hans-Walter Rix, Nicolas Martin, William Burgett, Peter W. Draper, Heather Flewelling, Klaus Hodapp, Nicholas Kaiser, Rolf Peter Kudritzki, Eugene Magnier, Nigel Metcalfe, Paul Price, John Tonry, Richard Wainscoat

Microlensing constraint on the size of the gamma-ray emission region in blazar B0218+357

• Ievgen Vovk, Andrii Neronov

A morphological analysis of gamma-ray burst early optical afterglows

• He Gao, Xiang-Gao Wang, Peter Mészáros, Bing Zhang

Dark matter line emission constraints from NuSTAR observations of the Bullet Cluster

• S. Riemer-Sørensen, D. Wik, G. Madejski, S. Molendi, F. Gastaldello, F. A. Harrison, W. W. Craig, C. J. Hailey, S. E. Boggs, F. E. Christensen, D. Stern, W. W. Zhang, A. Hornstrup

Taking the Universe's Temperature with PIXIE

• J. Colin Hill, Nick Battaglia, Jens Chluba, Simone Ferraro, Emmanuel Schaan, David N. Spergel

Discovery of tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with the OPERA experiment

• OPERA Collaboration

tipa -- 7/6/2015

Massive stars on the verge of exploding: the properties of oxygen sequence Wolf-Rayet stars

• F. Tramper, S.M. Straal, D. Sanyal, H. Sana, A. de Koter, G. Gräfener, N. Langer, J.S. Vink, S.E. de Mink, L. Kaper

Hydrodynamic properties of gamma-ray bursts outflows deduced from thermal component

• Asaf Pe'er, Hugh Barlow, Shane O'Mahony, Raffaella Margutti, Felix Ryde, Josefin Larsson, Davide Lazzatti, Mario Livio

Pulsar lensing geometry

• Siqi Liu, Ue-Li Pen, J-P Macquart, Walter Brisken, Adam Deller

Astrophysical constraints on massive black hole binary evolution from Pulsar Timing Arrays

• Hannah Middleton, Walter Del Pozzo, Will M. Farr, Alberto Sesana, Alberto Vecchio

Nuclear Effect-Independent Reconstruction of Energy Spectra of Neutrino Beams

• X.-G. Lu, D. Coplowe, R. Shah, G. Barr, D. Wark, A. Weber

Symmetric and Standard Matter-Neutrino Resonances Above Merging Compact Objects

• A. Malkus, G. C. McLaughlin, R. Surman

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