tipa -- 8/5/2015

Optical and near-infrared observations of SN 2013dx associated with GRB 130702A

• V. L. Toy, S. B. Cenko, J. M. Silverman, N. R. Butler, A. Cucchiara, A. M. Watson, D. Bersier, D. A. Perley, R. Margutti, E. Bellm, J. S. Bloom, Y. Cao, J. I. Capone, K. Clubb, A. Corsi, J. A. de Diego, A. V. Filippenko, O. D. Fox, A. Gal-Yam, N. Gehrels, L. Georgiev, J. J. González, M. M. Kasliwal, P. L. Kelly, S. R. Kulkarni, A. S. Kutyrev, W. H. Lee, J. X. Prochaska, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, M. G. Richer, C. Román, L. Singer, D. Stern, E. Troja, S. Veilleux

B fields in OB stars (BOB): low-resolution FORS2 spectropolarimetry of the first sample of 50 massive stars

• L. Fossati, N. Castro, M. Schoeller, S. Hubrig, N. Langer, T. Morel, M. Briquet, A. Herrero, N. Przybilla, H. Sana, F. R. N. Schneider, A. de Koter, the BOB collaboration

PSR J1906+0722: An Elusive Gamma-ray Pulsar

• C. J. Clark, H. J. Pletsch, J. Wu, L. Guillemot, M. Ackermann, B. Allen, A. de Angelis, C. Aulbert, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, O. Bock, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, T. J. Brandt, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, C. Cecchi, D. J. Champion, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, A. Cuéllar, S. Cutini, F. D'Ammando, R. Desiante, P. S. Drell, H. B. Eggenstein, C. Favuzzi, H. Fehrmann, E. C. Ferrara, W. B. Focke, A. Franckowiak, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, I. A. Grenier, J. E. Grove, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, E. Hays, J. W. Hewitt, A. B. Hill, D. Horan, X. Hou, T. Jogler, et al.

An Extended Magnetohydrodynamics Model for Relativistic Weakly Collisional Plasmas

• Mani Chandra, Charles F. Gammie, Francois Foucart, Eliot Quataert

Supernova Neutrinos: Production, Oscillations and Detection

• Alessandro Mirizzi (Bari Univ. & INFN, Bari), Irene Tamborra (GRAPPA Inst., Amsterdam), Hans-Thomas Janka (Max Planck Inst. for Astrophysics, Garching), Ninetta Saviano (IPPP, Durham), Kate Scholberg (Department of Physics, Duke Univ., Durham), Robert Bollig (TUM, Munich), Lorenz Hudepohl (MPCDF, Garching), Sovan Chakraborty (MPI, Munich)

tipa -- 8/4/2015

On the Nature of X-ray Surface Brightness Fluctuations in M87

• P. Arévalo (UV, Chile), E. Churazov (MPA, IKI), I. Zhuravleva (KIPAC, Stanford), W. R. Forman (CfA), C. Jones (CfA)

G2 and Sgr A*: A Cosmic Fizzle At The Galactic Center

• Brian Morsony, Brandon Gracey, Jared Workman, DooSoo Yoon

tipa -- 8/3/2015

Chaotic Dispersal of Tidal Debris

• Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Kathryn V. Johnston, Monica Valluri, Sarah Pearson, Andreas H. W. Kupper, David W. Hogg

Hard X-ray Morphological and Spectral Studies of The Galactic Center Molecular Cloud Sgr B2: Constraining Past Sgr A* Flaring Activity

• Shuo Zhang, Charles J. Hailey, Kaya Mori, Maïca Clavel, Régis Terrier, Gabriele Ponti, Andrea Goldwurm, Franz E. Bauer, Steven E. Boggs, William W. Craig, Finn E. Christensen, Fiona A. Harrison, Jaesub Hong, Melania Nynka, Daniel Stern, Simona Soldi, John A. Tomsick, William W. Zhang

NuSTAR observations of the young, energetic radio pulsar PSR B1509-58

• Ge Chen, Hongjun An, Victoria M. Kaspi, Fiona Harrison, Kristen Madsen, Daniel Stern

Performance of two Askaryan Radio Array stations and first results in the search for ultra-high energy neutrinos

• ARA Collaboration

Search for gamma-ray emission from the Coma Cluster with six years of Fermi-LAT data

• The Fermi-LAT Collaboration, Y. Rephaeli

Flavor instabilities in the multi-angle neutrino line model

• Sajad Abbar, Huaiyu Duan, Shashank Shalgar (UNM)

tipa -- 7/31/2015

An Integral Condition for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions

• Jeremiah W. Murphy, Joshua C. Dolence

The ACS LCID Project: On the origin of dwarf galaxy types: a manifestation of the halo assembly bias?

• C. Gallart (IAC), M. Monelli (IAC), L. Mayer (U. Zurich), A. Aparicio (IAC), G. Battaglia (IAC), E.J. Bernard (ROE), S. Cassisi (INAF), A. A. Cole (U. Tasmania), A. E. Dolphin (Raytheon), I. Drozdovsky (IAC), S.L. HIdalgo (IAC), J. F. Navarro (U. Victoria), S. Salvadori (Kapteyn), E.D. Skillman (U. Minnesota), P. B. Stetson (NRC, Canada), D.R.Weisz (U. Washington)

A non-parametric method for measuring the local dark matter density

• Hamish Silverwood, Sofia Sivertsson, Pascal Steger, Justin I. Read, Gianfranco Bertone

Torque Enhancement, Spin Equilibrium, and Jet Power from Disk-Induced Opening of Pulsar Magnetic Fields

• Kyle Parfrey, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Andrei M. Beloborodov

Comparison of the calorimetric and kinematic methods of neutrino energy reconstruction in disappearance experiments

• Artur M. Ankowski, Omar Benhar, Pilar Coloma, Patrick Huber, Chun-Min Jen, Camillo Mariani, Davide Meloni, Erica Vagnoni

The $ν$ generation: present and future constraints on neutrino masses from cosmology and laboratory experiments

• Martina Gerbino, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Alessandro Melchiorri

Gravitational Lensing in Plasmic Medium

• G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, O. Yu. Tsupko

tipa -- 7/30/2015

A Chandra search for the pulsar wind nebula around PSR B1055-52

• B. Posselt, G. Spence, G.G. Pavlov

Ram Pressure Stripping of the Large Magellanic Cloud's Disk as a Probe of the Milky Way's Circumgalactic Medium

• Munier Salem (Columbia), Gurtina Besla (U. Arizona), Greg Bryan (Columbia), Mary Putman (Columbia), Roeland P. van der Marel (STScI), Stephanie Tonnesen (Carnegie Obs.)

Near-ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Star-forming Galaxies from eBOSS: Signatures of Ubiquitous Galactic-scale Outflows

• Guangtun Ben Zhu (JHU), Johan Comparat, Jean-Paul Kneib, Timothée Delubac, Anand Raichoor, Kyle S. Dawson, Jeffrey Newman, Christophe Yèche, Xu Zhou, Donald P. Schneider

Multi-wavelength analysis of the Galactic supernova remnant MSH 11-61A

• Katie Auchettl, Patrick Slane, Daniel Castro, Adam R. Foster, Randall K. Smith

Constraining the formation of black-holes in short-period Black-Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binaries

• Serena Repetto, Gijs Nelemans

tipa -- 7/29/2015

Sagittarius II, Draco II and Laevens 3: three new Milky Way satellites discovered in the Pan-STARRS 1 3pi Survey

• Benjamin P. M. Laevens, Nicolas F. Martin, Edouard J. Bernard, Edward F. Schlafly, Branimir Sesar, Hans-Walter Rix, Eric F. Bell, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Colin T. Slater, William E. Sweeney, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Avon P. Huxor, William S. Burgett, Kenneth C. Chambers, Peter W. Draper, Eugene A. Magnier, Nigel Metcalfe, John L. Tonry, Richard J. Wainscoat, Christopher Waters

Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

• ALICE Collaboration

Capabilities of future intensity interferometers for observing fast-rotating stars: imaging with two- and three-telescope correlations

• Paul D. Nunez, Armando Domiciano de Souza

Exclusion of Leptophilic Dark Matter Models using XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

• The XENON Collaboration

Search for Event Rate Modulation in XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

• The XENON Collaboration

Radiative-transfer models for supernovae IIb/Ib/Ic from binary-star progenitors

• Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Stan Woosley, Eli Livne, Roni Waldman, Sung-Chul Yoon, Norbert Langer

Self-induced flavor conversion of supernova neutrinos on small scales

• Sovan Chakraborty, Rasmus Sloth Hansen, Ignacio Izaguirre, Georg Raffelt

Analytic solution of the Boltzmann equation in the early universe

• D. Bazow (Ohio State U.), G. S. Denicol (McGill U.), U. Heinz (Ohio State U.), M. Martinez (Ohio State U.), J. Noronha (Sao Paulo U. & Columbia U.)

tipa -- 7/28/2015

Limits on Planet Formation Around Young Pulsars and Implications for Supernova Fallback Disks

• Matthew Kerr, Simon Johnston, George Hobbs, Ryan M. Shannon

Dark matter vs. astrophysics in the interpretation of AMS-02 electron and positron data

• Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato, Nicolao Fornengo, Andrea Vittino

The Evolution of Dust Mass in the Ejecta of SN1987A

• Eli Dwek, Richard G. Arendt

Matter Mixing in Core-collapse Supernova Ejecta: Large Density Perturbations in the Progenitor Star?

• J. Mao, M. Ono, S. Nagataki, M. Hashimoto, H. Ito, J. Matsumoto, M. G. Dainotti, S.-H. Lee

SN~2012cg: Evidence for Interaction Between a Normal Type Ia Supernova and a Non-Degenerate Binary Companion

• G. H. Marion, Peter J. Brown, Jozsef Vinkó, Jeffrey M. Silverman, David J. Sand, Peter Challis, Robert P. Kirshner, J. Craig Wheeler, Perry Berlind, Warren R. Brown, Michael L. Calkins, Govinda Dhungana, Ryan J. Foley, Andrew S. Friedman, Melissa L. Graham, D. Andrew Howell, Eric Y. Hsiao, Jonathan M. Irwin, Robert Kehoe, Lucas M. Macri, Kaisey Mandel, Curtis McCully, Kenneth J. Rines, Steven Wilhelmy, Weikang Zheng

Accelerator measurements of magnetically-induced radio emission from particle cascades with applications to cosmic-ray air showers

• K. Belov, K. Mulrey, A. Romero-Wolf, S. A. Wissel, A. Zilles, K. Bechtol, K. Borch, P. Chen, J. Clem, P. W. Gorham, C. Hast, T. Huege, R. Hyneman, K. Jobe, K. Kuwatani, J. Lam, T. Liu, J. Nam, C. Naudet, R. Nichol, B. F. Rauch, B. Rotter, D. Saltzberg, H. Schoorlemmer, D. Seckel, B. Strutt, A. G. Vieregg, C. Williams

Unified model for cosmic rays above $10^{17}$ eV and the diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds

• G. Giacinti, M. Kachelriess, O. Kalashev, A. Neronov. D.V. Semikoz

Binary Neutron Stars with Generic Spin, Eccentricity, Mass ratio, and Compactness - Quasi-equilibrium Sequences and First Evolutions

• Tim Dietrich, Niclas Moldenhauer, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Charalampos M. Markakis, Bernd Bruegmann, Wolfgang Tichy

Pulsed UCN production using a Doppler shifter at J-PARC

• S. Imajo, K. Mishima, M. Kitaguchi, Y. Iwashia, N. L. Yamada, M. Hino, T. Oda, T. Ino, H. M. Shimizu, S. Yamashita, R. Katayama

Measurement of interaction between antiprotons

• STAR Collaboration

tipa -- 7/27/2015

HST astrometry in the 30 Doradus region: measuring proper motions of individual stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

• I. Platais (1), R. P. van der Marel (2), D. J. Lennon (2,3), J. Anderson (2), A. Bellini (2), E. Sabbi (2), H. Sana (2), L. R. Bedin (4) ((1) JHU, (2) STScI, (3) ESAC, (4) INAF-OAPd)

Sterile neutrino dark matter: A tale of weak interactions in the strong coupling epoch

• Tejaswi Venumadhav, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Kevork N. Abazajian, Christopher M. Hirata

Correlated optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray flaring activity seen with INTEGRAL during the 2015 outburst of V404 Cygni

• J. Rodriguez, M. Cadolle Bel, J. Alfonso-Garzón, T. Siegert, X.-L. Zhang, V. Grinberg, V. Savchenko, J. A. Tomsick, J. Chenevez, M. Clavel, S. Corbel, R. Diehl, A. Domingo, C. Gouiffès, J. Greiner, M. G. H. Krause, P. Laurent, A. Loh, S. Markoff, J. M. Mas-Hesse, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, D. M. Russell, J. Wilms

Low Mach Number Modeling of Convection in Helium Shells on Sub-Chandrasekhar White Dwarfs II: Bulk Properties of Simple Models

• Adam M. Jacobs, Michael Zingale, Andy Nonaka, Ann S. Almgren, John B. Bell

Study of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane with ARGO-YBJ

• ARGO-YBJ Collaboration

Tracing the tidal streams of the Sagittarius dSph, and halo Milky Way features, with carbon-rich long-period variables

• Avon Huxor, Eva Grebel

classic papers of the week -- 209

Theory of the alternating gradient synchrotron

• E.D. Courant, H.S. Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

The Resolution of Messier 32, NGC 205, and the Central Region of the Andromeda Nebula

• Baade, W. (Mount Wilson Observatory)

On the origin of inertia

• Sciama, D. W. (Trinity College, Cambridge)

tipa -- 7/24/2015

Newly Determined Explosion Center of Tycho's Supernova and the Implications for Proposed Ex-Companion Stars of the Progenitor

• Zhichao Xue, Bradley E. Schaefer

The disappearance of the progenitor of SN 2012aw in late-time imaging

• M. Fraser

tipa -- 7/23/2015

XMM-Newton observations of SGR 1806-20 over seven years following the 2004 Giant Flare

• G. Younes, C. Kouveliotou, V. M. Kaspi

Spectral and temporal properties of the ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar in M82 from 15 years of Chandra observations and analysis of the pulsed emission using NuSTAR

• Murray Brightman, Fiona Harrison, Dominic J. Walton, Felix Fuerst, Ann Hornschemeier, Andreas Zezas, Matteo Bachetti, Brian Grefenstette, Andrew Ptak, Shriharsh Tendulkar, Mihoko Yukita

X-ray and radio emission from Type In supernova SN 2010jl

• Poonam Chandra, Roger A. Chevalier, Nikolai Chugai, Claes Fransson, Alicia M. Soderberg

tipa -- 7/22/2015

Disrupted Globular Clusters Can Explain the Galactic Center Gamma Ray Excess

• Timothy D. Brandt, Bence Kocsis

The Systematic Properties of the Warm Phase of Starburst-Driven Galactic Winds

• Timothy M. Heckman, Rachel M. Alexandroff, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Roderik Overzier, Claus Leitherer

Constraining Neutrino Cooling using the Hot White Dwarf Luminosity Function in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae

• Bradley Hansen, Harvey Richer, Jason Kalirai, Ryan Goldsbury, Shane Frewen, Jeremy Heyl

Do high energy astrophysical neutrinos trace star formation?

• Kimberly Emig, Cecilia Lunardini, Rogier Windhorst

Gone without a bang: An archival HST survey for disappearing massive stars

• Thomas Reynolds, Morgan Fraser, Gerard Gilmore

Type Ia Supernovae: Can Coriolis force break the symmetry of the gravitational confined detonation explosion mechanism?

• D. García-Senz, R.M. Cabezón, I. Domínguez, F.K. Thielemann

Nucleosynthesis in neutrino-driven winds in hypernovae

• Sho Fujibayashi, Takashi Yoshida, Yuichiro Sekiguchi

Neutrino Physics with JUNO

• Fengpeng An, Guangpeng An, Qi An, Vito Antonelli, Eric Baussan, John Beacom, Leonid Bezrukov, Simon Blyth, Riccardo Brugnera, Margherita Buizza Avanzini, Jose Busto, Anatael Cabrera, Hao Cai, Xiao Cai, Antonio Cammi, Guofu Cao, Jun Cao, Yun Chang, Shaomin Chen, Shenjian Chen, Yixue Chen, Davide Chiesa, Massimiliano Clemenza, Barbara Clerbaux, Janet Conrad, Davide D'Angelo, Herve De Kerret, Zhi Deng, Ziyan Deng, Yayun Ding, Zelimir Djurcic, Damien Dornic, Marcos Dracos, Olivier Drapier, Stefano Dusini, Stephen Dye, Timo Enqvist, Donghua Fan, Jian Fang, Laurent Favart, Richard Ford, Marianne Goger-Neff, Haonan Gan, Alberto Garfagnini, Marco Giammarchi, Maxim Gonchar, Guanghua Gong, Hui Gong, Michel Gonin, Marco Grassi, Christian Grewing, Mengyun Guan, Vic Guarino, Gang Guo, Wanlei Guo, Xin-Heng Guo, Caren Hagner, Ran Han, Miao He, Yuekun Heng, Yee Hsiung, Jun Hu, Shouyang Hu, Tao Hu, Hanxiong Huang, Xingtao Huang, Lei Huo, Ara Ioannisian, Manfred Jeitler, Xiangdong Ji, Xiaoshan Jiang, Cecile Jollet, Li Kang, Michael Karagounis, Narine Kazarian, Zinovy Krumshteyn, Andre Kruth, Pasi Kuusiniemi, Tobias Lachenmaier, Rupert Leitner, Chao Li, Jiaxing Li, Weidong Li, Weiguo Li, Xiaomei Li, Xiaonan Li, Yi Li, Yufeng Li, Zhi-Bing Li, Hao Liang, Guey-Lin Lin, Tao Lin, Yen-Hsun Lin, Jiajie Ling, Ivano Lippi, Dawei Liu, Hongbang Liu, Hu Liu, Jianglai Liu, Jianli Liu, Jinchang Liu, Qian Liu, Shubin Liu, Shulin Liu, Paolo Lombardi, Yongbing Long, Haoqi Lu, Jiashu Lu, Jingbin Lu, Junguang Lu, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, Livia Ludhova, Shu Luo, Vladimir Lyashuk, Randolph Mollenberg, Xubo Ma, Fabio Mantovani, Yajun Mao, Stefano M. Mari, William F. McDonough, Guang Meng, Anselmo Meregaglia, Emanuela Meroni, Mauro Mezzetto, Lino Miramonti, Thomas Mueller, Dmitry Naumov, Lothar Oberauer, Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, Alexander Olshevskiy, Fausto Ortica, Alessandro Paoloni, Haiping Peng, Jen-Chieh Peng, Ezio Previtali, Ming Qi, Sen Qian, Xin Qian, Yongzhong Qian, Zhonghua Qin, Georg Raffelt, Gioacchino Ranucci, Barbara Ricci, Markus Robens, Aldo Romani, Xiangdong Ruan, Xichao Ruan, Giuseppe Salamanna, Mike Shaevitz, Valery Sinev, Chiara Sirignano, Monica Sisti, Oleg Smirnov, Michael Soiron, Achim Stahl, Luca Stanco, Jochen Steinmann, Xilei Sun, Yongjie Sun, Dmitriy Taichenachev, Jian Tang, Igor Tkachev, Wladyslaw Trzaska, Stefan van Waasen, Cristina Volpe, Vit Vorobel, Lucia Votano, Chung-Hsiang Wang, Guoli Wang, Hao Wang, Meng Wang, Ruiguang Wang, Siguang Wang, Wei Wang, Yi Wang, Yi Wang, Yifang Wang, Zhe Wang, Zheng Wang, Zhigang Wang, Zhimin Wang, Wei Wei, Liangjian Wen, Christopher Wiebusch, Bjorn Wonsak, Qun Wu, Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz, Michael Wurm, Yufei Xi, Dongmei Xia, Yuguang Xie, Zhi-zhong Xing, Jilei Xu, Baojun Yan, Changgen Yang, Chaowen Yang, Guang Yang, Lei Yang, Yifan Yang, Yu Yao, Ugur Yegin, Frederic Yermia, Zhengyun You, Boxiang Yu, Chunxu Yu, Zeyuan Yu, Sandra Zavatarelli, Liang Zhan, Chao Zhang, Hong-Hao Zhang, Jiawen Zhang, Jingbo Zhang, Qingmin Zhang, Yu-Mei Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Zhenghua Zhao, Yangheng Zheng, Weili Zhong, Guorong Zhou, Jing Zhou, Li Zhou, Rong Zhou, Shun Zhou, Wenxiong Zhou, Xiang Zhou, Yeling Zhou, Yufeng Zhou, Jiaheng Zou

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