tipa -- 7/21/2015

Weighing neutrinos with cosmic neutral hydrogen

• Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Philip Bull, Matteo Viel

Observing the onset of outflow collimation in a massive protostar

• C. Carrasco-González, J.M. Torrelles, J. Cantó, S. Curiel, G. Surcis, W.H.T. Vlemmings, H.J. van Langevelde, C. Goddi, G. Anglada, S.-W. Kim, J.-S. Kim, J.F. Gómez

Collisionless Weibel shocks and electron acceleration in gamma-ray bursts

• Kazem Ardaneh, Dongsheng Cai, Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, Bertrand Lembége

Hunting for Orphaned Central Compact Objects among Radio Pulsars

• J. Luo, C.-Y. Ng, W. C. G. Ho, S. Bogdanov, V. M. Kaspi, C. He

Population Synthesis of Isolated Neutron Stars with magneto-rotational evolution II: from radio-pulsars to magnetars

• M. Gullón, J.A. Pons, J.A. Miralles, D. Viganò, N. Rea, R. Perna

Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data

• The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

On the sharpness of gamma-ray burst prompt emission spectra

• Hoi-Fung Yu, Hendrik J. van Eerten, Jochen Greiner, Re'em Sari, P. Narayana Bhat, Andreas von Kienlin, William S. Paciesas, Robert D. Preece

tipa -- 7/20/2015

Dark Matter Velocity Spectroscopy

• Eric G. Speckhard, Kenny C. Y. Ng, John F. Beacom, Ranjan Laha

Simultaneous Observations of Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar, with the Murchison Widefield Array and Parkes Radio Telescope: Implications for the Giant Pulse Emission Mechanism

• S.I. Oronsaye, S.M. Ord, N.D.R. Bhat, S.E. Tremblay, S.J. McSweeney, S.J. Tingay, W. van Straten, A. Jameson, G. Bernardi, J.D. Bowman, F. Briggs, R.J. Cappallo, A.A. Deshpande, L.J. Greenhill, B.J. Hazelton, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D.L. Kaplan, C.J. Lonsdale, S.R. McWhirter, D.A. Mitchell, M.F. Morales, E. Morgan, D. Oberoi, T. Prabu, N. Udaya Shankar, K.S. Srivani, R. Subrahmanyan, R.B. Wayth, R.L. Webster, A. Williams, C.L. Williams

Adiabatic Mass Loss in Binary Stars. II. From Zero-Age Main Sequence to the Base of the Giant Branch

• Hongwei Ge, Ronald F. Webbink, Xuefei Chen, Zhanwen Han

Chiral Magnetic Effect in Protoneutron Stars and Magnetic Field Spectral Evolution

• Günter Sigl, Natacha Leite

classic papers of the week -- 208

Theory of pulsars - Polar caps, sparks, and coherent microwave radiation

• Ruderman, M. A.; Sutherland, P. G. (Columbia University, New York, N.Y.)

Relativistic theory of particles with arbitrary intrinsic momentum

• Ettore Majorana

The new star in the Great Nebula in Andromeda

• Maunder, E. W.

tipa -- 7/17/2015

Evidence for dark matter interactions in cosmological precision data?

• Julien Lesgourgues, Gustavo Marques-Tavares, Martin Schmaltz

An Origin for Multi-Phase Gas in Galactic Winds and Halos

• Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert, Dong Zhang, David Weinberg

Parkes radio searches of Fermi gamma-ray sources and millisecond pulsar discoveries

• F. Camilo, M. Kerr, P. S. Ray, S. M. Ransom, J. Sarkissian, H. T. Cromartie, S. Johnston, J. E. Reynolds, M. T. Wolff, P. C. C. Freire, B. Bhattacharyya, E. C. Ferrara, M. Keith, P. F. Michelson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, K. S. Wood

NuSTAR discovery of an unusually steady long-term spin-up of the Be binary 2RXP J130159.6-635806

• Roman A. Krivonos (1,2), Sergey S. Tsygankov (3,2), Alexander A. Lutovinov (2), John A. Tomsick (1), Deepto Chakrabarty (4), Matteo Bachetti (5,6), Steven E. Boggs (1), Masha Chernyakova (7,8), Finn E. Christensen (9), William W. Craig (10,1), Felix Fuerst (11), Charles J. Hailey (12), Fiona A. Harrison (11), George B. Lansbury (13), Farid Rahoui (14,15), Daniel Stern (16), William W. Zhang (17)

Attenuation of super-soft X-ray sources by circumstellar material

• Mikkel Nielsen, Marat Gilfanov

The X-Ray Line Feature At 3.5 Kev In Galaxy Cluster Spectra

• K. J. H. Phillips, B. Sylwester, J. Sylwester

Bayesian global analysis of neutrino oscillation data

• Johannes Bergstrom, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Michele Maltoni, Thomas Schwetz

tipa -- 7/16/2015

Observational consequences of turbulent pressure in the envelopes of massive stars

• Luca Grassitelli, Luca Fossati, Sergio Simon-Diaz, Norbert Langer, Norberto Castro, Debashis Sanyal

A combined maximum-likelihood analysis of the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux measured with IceCube

• IceCube Collaboration

Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: I. Analysis of the single WN stars

• R. Hainich, D. Pasemann, H. Todt, T. Shenar, A. Sander, W.-R. Hamann

Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube

• IceCube Collaboration

The Young and Bright Type Ia Supernova ASASSN-14lp: Discovery, Early-Time Observations, First-Light Time, Distance to NGC 4666, and Progenitor Constraints

• B. J. Shappee, A. L. Piro, T. W.-S. Holoien, J. L. Prieto, C. Contreras, K. Itagaki, C. R. Burns, C. S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek, E. Alper, U. Basu, J. F. Beacom, D. Bersier, J. Brimacombe, E. Conseil, A. B. Danilet, Subo Dong, E. Falco, D. Grupe, E. Y. Hsiao, S. Kiyota, N. Morrell, J. Nicolas, M. M. Phillips, G. Pojmanski, G. Simonian, M. Stritzinger, D. M. Szczygieł, T. A. Thompson, J. Thorstensen, M. Wagner, P. R. Woźniak

Soft X-ray Temperature Tidal Disruption Events from Stars on Deep Plunging Orbits

• Lixin Dai, Jonathan C. McKinney, M. Coleman Miller (University of Maryland)

A Sterile Neutrino at DUNE

• Jeffrey M. Berryman, Andre de Gouvea, Kevin J. Kelly, Andrew Kobach

Direct Detection Signatures of Self-Interacting Dark Matter with a Light Mediator

• Eugenio Del Nobile, Manoj Kaplinghat, Hai-Bo Yu

Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors

• MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 7/15/2015

Swift J1112.2-8238: A Candidate Relativistic Tidal Disruption Flare

• G.C. Brown, A.J. Levan, E.R. Stanway, N.R. Tanvir, S.B. Cenko, E. Berger, R. Chornock, A. Cucchiaria

NIHAO IV: Core creation and destruction in dark matter density profiles across cosmic time

• Edouard Tollet, Andrea V. Macciò, Aaron A. Dutton, Greg S. Stinson, Liang Wang, Camilla Penzo, Thales A. Gutcke, Tobias Buck, Xi Kang, Chris Brook, Arianna Di Cintio, Ben W. Keller, James Wadsley

Dynamical formation & scattering of hierarchical triples: Cross sections, Kozai-Lidov oscillations, and collisions

• Joseph M. O. Antognini, Todd A. Thompson

Monte Carlo Neutrino Transport Through Remnant Disks from Neutron Star Mergers

• S. Richers (1), D. Kasen (2), Evan O'Connor (3), Rodrigo Fernandez (2), Christian Ott (1) ((1) TAPIR, Caltech, (2) Berkeley, (3) NC State)

Magnetar Driven Shock Breakout and Double Peaked Supernova Light Curves

• Daniel Kasen, Brian D. Metzger, Lars Bildsten

Metal-Poor Stars Observed with the Magellan Telescope. III. New Extremely and Ultra Metal-Poor Stars from SDSS/SEGUE and Insights on the Formation of Ultra Metal-Poor Stars

• Vinicius M. Placco, Anna Frebel, Young Sun Lee, Heather R. Jacobson, Timothy C. Beers, Jose M. Pena, Conrad Chan, Alexander Heger

On the neutral gas content of nine new Milky Way satellite galaxy candidates

• T. Westmeier, L. Staveley-Smith, M. Calabretta, R. Jurek, B. S. Koribalski, M. Meyer, A. Popping, O. I. Wong

Re-examination of the Expected gamma-ray emission of supernova remnant SN 1987A

• E.G. Berezhko, L.T. Ksenofontov, H.J.Voelk

An Electron-Tracking Compton Telescope for a Survey of the Deep Universe by MeV gamma-rays

• T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, A. Takada, S. Iwaki, S. Komura, S. Kurosawa, Y. Matsuoka, K. Miuchi, S. Miyamoto, T. Mizumoto, Y. Mizumura, K. Nakamura, S. Nakamura, M. Oda, J. D. Parker, T. Sawano, S. Sonoda, T. Takemura, D. Tomono, K. Ueno

The first direct measurement of 12C(12C,n)23Mg at stellar energies

• B. Bucher, X.D. Tang, X. Fang, A. Heger, S. Almaraz-Calderon, A. Alongi, A.D. Ayangeakaa, M. Beard, A. Best, J. Browne, C. Cahillane, M. Couder, R.J. deBoer, A. Kontos, L. Lamm, Y.J. Li, A. Long, W. Lu, S. Lyons, M. Notani, D. Patel, N. Paul, M. Pignatari, A. Roberts, D. Robertson, K. Smith, E. Stech, R. Talwar, W.P. Tan, M. Wiescher, S.E. Woosley

tipa -- 7/14/2015

ASASSN-15lh: The Most Luminous Supernova Ever Discovered

• Subo Dong (KIAA-PKU), B. J. Shappee (Carnegie), J. L. Prieto (UDP), S. W. Jha (Rutgers), K. Z. Stanek (Ohio State), T. W.-S. Holoien (Ohio State), C. S. Kochanek (Ohio State), T. A. Thompson (Ohio State), N. Morrell (LCO), I. B. Thompson (Carnegie), U. Basu, J. F. Beacom, D. Bersier, J. Brimacombe, J. S. Brown, Ping Chen, E. Conseil, A. B. Danilet, E. Falco, D. Grupe, S. Kiyota, G. Masi, B. Nicholls, F. Olivares, G. Pignata, G. Pojmanski, G. V. Simonian, D. M. Szczygiel, P. R. Wozniak

Kepler's first view of O-star variability: K2 data of five O stars in Campaign 0 as a proof-of-concept for O-star asteroseismology

• B. Buysschaert, C. Aerts, S. Bloemen, J. Debosscher, C. Neiner, M. Briquet, J. Vos, P. Papics, R. Manick, V. Schmid, H. Van Winkel, A. Tkachenko

Stringent neutrino flux constraints on anti-quark nugget dark matter

• P. W. Gorham, B.J. Rotter

The thermal neutron capture cross section of the radioactive isotope $^{60}$Fe

• T. Heftrich, M. Bichler, R. Dressler, K. Eberhardt, A. Endres, J. Glorius, K. Göbel, G. Hampel, M. Heftrich, F. Käppeler, C. Lederer, M. Mikorski, R. Plag, R. Reifarth, C. Stieghorst, S. Schmidt, D. Schumann, Z. Slavkovská, K. Sonnabend, A. Wallner, M. Weigand, N. Wiehl, S. Zauner

Searching for MeV-Scale Gauge Bosons with IceCube

• Anthony DiFranzo, Dan Hooper

Lorentz Invariance Violation and IceCube Neutrino Events

• Gaurav Tomar, Subhendra Mohanty, Sandip Pakvasa

Observation of $J/ψp$ resonances consistent with pentaquark states in ${Λ_b^0\to J/ψK^-p}$ decays

• LHCb collaboration

tipa -- 7/13/2015

Fifteen years of XMM-Newton and Chandra monitoring of Sgr A*: Evidence for a recent increase in the bright flaring rate

• G. Ponti, B. De Marco, M. R. Morris, A. Merloni, T. Munoz-Darias, M. Clavel, D. Haggard, S. Zhang, K. Nandra, S. Gillessen, K. Mori, J. Neilsen, N. Rea, N. Degenaar, R. Terrier, A. Goldwurm

The Double Peaked SN2013ge: a Type Ib/c SN with an Early Asymmetric Mass Ejection or an Extended Progenitor Envelope

• M. R. Drout, D. Milisavljevic, J. Parrent, R. Margutti, A. Kamble, A. M. Soderberg, P. Challis, R. Chornock, W. Fong, S. Frank, N. Gehrels, M. L. Graham, E. Hsiao, K. Itagaki, M. Kasliwal, R. P. Kirshner, D. Macomb, G. H. Marion, J. Norris, M. M. Phillips

Planck 2015 results. XI. CMB power spectra, likelihoods, and robustness of parameters

• Planck Collaboration

Spectral signatures of compact sources in the inverse Compton catastrophe limit

• Maria Petropoulou, Tsvi Piran, Apostolos Mastichiadis

Magnetars: the physics behind observations

• Roberto Turolla, Silvia Zane, Anna Watts

MeV-Scale Dark Matter Deep Underground

• Eder Izaguirre, Gordan Krnjaic, Maxim Pospelov

Constraining ALP-photon coupling using galaxy clusters

• Martin Schlederer, Günter Sigl

Exploring Source and Detector Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions at ESS$ν$SB

• Mattias Blennow, Sandhya Choubey, Tommy Ohlsson, Sushant K. Raut

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