classic papers of the week -- 214

Radiative decays of massive neutrinos

• Palash B. Pal, Lincoln Wolfenstein (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

Stellar Coalescence and the Multiple Supernova Interpretation of Quasi-Stellar Sources

• Colgate, Stirling A. (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro)

Telemark Workshop on Neutrino Mass: Cosmological, Theoretical and Experimental Considerations

tipa -- 9/11/2015

Temporal instability enables neutrino flavor conversions deep inside supernovae

• Basudeb Dasgupta (TIFR), Alessandro Mirizzi (Bari U. & INFN Bari)

Massive black hole and gas dynamics in mergers of galaxy nuclei - II. Black hole sinking in star-forming nuclear discs

• Alessandro Lupi, Francesco Haardt, Massimo Dotti, Monica Colpi

A Decade of Short-duration Gamma-ray Burst Broad-band Afterglows: Energetics, Circumburst Densities, and Jet Opening Angles

• Wen-fai Fong (Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona), Edo Berger, Raffaella Margutti, B. Ashley Zauderer (Harvard)

Data Selection Criteria for Spectroscopic Measurements of Neutron Star Radii with X-ray Bursts

• Feryal Ozel, Dimitrios Psaltis, Tolga Guver

Known Radio Pulsars Do Not Contribute to the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess

• Tim Linden

Ultraviolet Luminosity Density of the Universe During the Epoch of Reionization

• Ketron Mitchell-Wynne, Asantha Cooray, Yan Gong, Matthew Ashby, Timothy Dolch, Henry Ferguson, Steven Finkelstein, Norman Grogin, Dale Kocevski, Anton Koekemoer, Joel Primack, Joseph Smidt

The Multi-Phase Cold Fountain in M82 Revealed by a Wide, Sensitive Map of the Molecular ISM

• Adam K. Leroy, Fabian Walter, Paul Martini, Hélène Roussel, Karin Sandstrom, Juergen Ott, Axel Weiss, Alberto D. Bolatto, Karl Schuster, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky

Probing dark matter substructure with pulsar timing: I. Constraints on ultracompact minihalos

• Hamish A. Clark, Geraint F. Lewis, Pat Scott

Probing dark matter substructure with pulsar timing: II. Improved limits on small-scale cosmology

• Hamish A. Clark, Geraint F. Lewis, Pat Scott

On the Origin of Broad Iron Lines in Neutron Star Low-mass X-ray Binaries

• Chia-Ying Chiang, Edward M. Cackett, Jon M. Miller, Didier Barret, Andy C. Fabian, Antonino D'Ai, Michael L. Parker, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Luciano Burderi, Tiziana Di Salvo, Elise Egron, Jeroen Homan, Rosario Iaria, Dacheng Lin, M. Coleman Miller

Three-dimensional simulations of super-critical black hole accretion disks --- luminosities, photon trapping and variability

• Aleksander Sadowski, Ramesh Narayan

A very luminous magnetar-powered supernova associated with an ultra-long gamma-ray burst

• Jochen Greiner, Paolo A. Mazzali, D. Alexander Kann, Thomas Krühler, Elena Pian, Simon Prentice, Felipe Olivares E., Andrea Rossi, Sylvio Klose, Stefan Taubenberger, Fabian Knust, Paulo M.J. Afonso, Chris Ashall, Jan Bolmer, Corentin Delvaux, Roland Diehl, Jonathan Elliott, Robert Filgas, Johan P.U. Fynbo, John F. Graham, Ana Nicuesa Guelbenzu, Shiho Kobayashi, Giorgos Leloudas, Sandra Savaglio, Patricia Schady, Sebastian Schmid, Tassilo Schweyer, Vladimir Sudilovsky, Mohit Tanga, Adria C. Updike, Hendrik van Eerten, Karla Varela

Evidence of Bulk Acceleration of the GRB X-ray Flare Emission Region

• Z. Lucas Uhm, Bing Zhang (UNLV)

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Conceptual Design Report

• The LZ Collaboration

tipa -- 9/10/2015

Evaluating the Morphology of the Local Interstellar Medium: Using New Data to Distinguish Between Multiple Discrete Clouds and a Continuous Medium

• Seth Redfield, Jeffrey L. Linsky

An anisotropic minijets model for the GRB prompt emission

• Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Mingbin Leng, Dimitrios Giannios

Linear and Circular polarization in ultra-relativistic synchrotron sources - implications to GRB afterglows

• Lara Nava, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran

Cool and Luminous Transients from Mass-Losing Binary Stars

• Ondrej Pejcha, Brian D. Metzger, Kengo Tomida

Deep radio imaging of 47 Tuc identifies the peculiar X-ray source X9 as a new black hole candidate

• J. C. A. Miller-Jones (1), J. Strader (2), C. O. Heinke (3,4), T. J. Maccarone (5), M. van den Berg (6, 7), C. Knigge (8), L. Chomiuk (2), E. Noyola (9), T. D. Russell (1), A. C. Seth (10), G. R. Sivakoff (3) ((1) ICRAR-Curtin, (2) Michigan State, (3) Alberta, (4) MPIfR, (5) Texas Tech, (6) Amsterdam, (7) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (8) Southampton, (9) UT Austin, (10) Utah)

Perspective of monochromatic gamma-ray line detection with the High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility onboard China's Space Station

• Xiaoyuan Huang, Anna S. Lamperstorfer, Yue-Lin Sming Tsai, Ming Xu, Qiang Yuan, Jin Chang, Yong-Wei Dong, Bing-Liang Hu, Jun-Guang Lü, Le Wang, Bo-Bing Wu, Shuang-Nan Zhang

Toward the full test of the nuMSM sterile neutrino dark matter model with Athena

• A. Neronov, D. Malyshev

Multi-wavelength observations of the transitional millisecond pulsar binary XSSJ12270-4859

• Domitilla de Martino, Alessandro Papitto, Tomaso Belloni, Marta Burgay, Emma De Ona Wilhelmi, J. Li, Alberto Pellizzoni, Andrea Possenti, Nanda Rea, Diego F. Torres

New insights on the spin-up of a neutron star during core-collapse

• Rémi Kazeroni, Jérôme Guilet, Thierry Foglizzo

Gamma-ray flare activity from PSR B1259-63 during 2014 periastron passage and comparison to its 2010 passage

• G. A. Caliandro, C. C. Cheung, J. Li, J. D. Scargle, D. F. Torres, K. S. Wood, M. Chernyakova

A Prototype Neutron Veto for Dark Matter Detectors

• Shawn Westerdale, Emily Shields, Frank Calaprice

tipa -- 9/9/2015

Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter indirect searches

• F. Calore, N. Bozorgnia, M. Lovell, G. Bertone, M. Schaller, C. S. Frenk, R. A. Crain, J. Schaye, T. Theuns, J. W. Trayford

European Pulsar Timing Array Limits on Continuous Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

• Stanislav Babak, Antoine Petiteau, Alberto Sesana, Patrick Brem, Pablo A. Rosado, Stephen R. Taylor, Antoine Lassus, Jason W.T. Hessels, Cees G. Bassa, Marta Burgay, R. Nicolas Caballero, David J. Champion, Ismael Cognard, Gregory Desvignes, Jonathan R. Gair, Lucas Guillemot, Gemma H. Janssen, Ramesh Karuppusamy, Michael Kramer, Patrick Lazarus, K.J. Lee, Lindley Lentati, Kuo Liu, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Stefan Oslowsky, Delphine Perrodin, Andrea Possenti, Mark B. Purver, Sotiris Sanidas, Roy Smits, Ben Stappers, Gilles Theureau, Caterina Tiburzi, Rutger van Haasteren, Alberto Vecchio, Joris P.W. Verbiest

Dark matter annihilation radiation in hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way haloes

• Matthieu Schaller (1), Carlos S. Frenk (1), Tom Theuns (1), Francesca Calore (2), Gianfranco Bertone (2), Nassim Bozorgnia (2), Robert A. Crain (3), Azadeh Fattahi (4), Julio F. Navarro (4), Till Sawala (1), Joop Schaye (5) ((1) ICC, Durham University, (2) GRAPPA/Amsterdam, (3) Liverpool John Moores, (4) University of Victoria, (5) Leiden Observatory)

A unified model for the spatial and mass distribution of subhaloes

• Jiaxin Han (1), Shaun Cole (1), Carlos S. Frenk (1), Yipeng Jing (2) ((1) ICC Durham, (2) SJTU)

Properties of GRB Lightcurves from Magnetic Reconnection

• Paz Beniamini, Jonathan Granot

Tomographic Constraints on High-Energy Neutrinos of Hadronuclear Origin

• Shin'ichiro Ando, Irene Tamborra, Fabio Zandanel

WIMP-Search Results from the Second CDMSlite Run

• SuperCDMS Collaboration

POLARBEAR Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence and Primordial Magnetic Fields

• POLARBEAR Collaboration

Stochasticity and efficiency of convection-dominated vs. SASI-dominated supernova explosions

• Christian Y. Cardall, Reuben D. Budiardja

tipa -- 9/8/2015

Dense gas in the Galactic central molecular zone is warm and heated by turbulence

• Adam Ginsburg, Christian Henkel, Yiping Ao, Denise Riquelme, Jens Kauffmann, Thushara Pillai, Elisabeth A.C. Mills, Miguel A. Requena-Torres, Katharina Immer, Leonardo Testi, Juergen Ott, John Bally, Cara Battersby, Jeremy Darling, Susanne Aalto, Thomas Stanke, Sarah Kendrew, J.M. Diederik Kruijssen, Steven Longmore, James Dale, Rolf Guesten, Karl M. Menten

Transition radiation at radio frequencies from ultra-high energy neutrino-induced showers

• Pavel Motloch, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Paolo Privitera, Enrique Zas

Early ultraviolet signatures from the interaction of Type Ia supernova ejecta with a stellar companion

• Zheng-Wei Liu (AIfA, Bonn), Takashi J. Moriya (AIfA, Bonn), Richard J. Stancliffe (AIfA, Bonn)

The Progenitor of the Type IIb SN 2008ax Revisited

• Gastón Folatelli, Melina C. Bersten, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Omar G. Benvenuto, Keiichi Maeda, Ken'ichi Nomoto

Extra-galactic high-energy transients: event rate densities and luminosity functions

• Hui Sun (1, 2), Bing Zhang (1, 2 and 3), Zhuo Li (1, 2) ((1) Peking University, (2) Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, PKU, (3) UNLV)

Extensive Spectroscopy and Photometry of the Type IIP Supernova 2013ej

• G. Dhungana, R. Kehoe, J. Vinko, J. M. Silverman, J. C. Wheeler, G. H. Marion, W. Zheng, O. D. Fox, C. Akerlof, B. I. Biro, T. Borkovits, S. B. Cenko, K. I. Clubb, A. V. Filippenko, F. V. Ferrante, M. L. Graham, T. Hegedus, P. Kelly, J. Kelemen, W. H. Lee, G. Marschalko, L. Molnár, A. P. Nagy, A. Ordasi, A. Pal, K. Sarneczky, I. Shivvers, R. Szakats, T. Szalai, E. Szegedi-Elek, P. Székely, A. Szing, K. Takáts, K. Vida

Suzaku observations of a shock front tracing the western edge of the giant radio halo in the Coma Cluster

• Y. Uchida, A. Simionescu, T. Takahashi, N. Werner, Y. Ichinohe, S. W. Allen, O. Urban, K. Matsushita

Evidence for Quasi-periodic Modulation in the Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113

• The Fermi Lat collaboration

Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter with Semiconductor Targets

• Rouven Essig, Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Jeremy Mardon, Adrian Soto, Tomer Volansky, Tien-Tien Yu

tipa -- 9/7/2015

Push it to the limit: Local Group constraints on high-redshift stellar mass functions for Mstar > 10^5 Msun

• Andrew S. Graus, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Daniel R. Weisz

The Caterpillar Project: A Large Suite of Milky Way Sized Halos

• Brendan F. Griffen, Alexander P. Ji, Gregory A. Dooley, Facundo A. Gómez, Mark Vogelsberger, Brian W. O'Shea, Anna Frebel

Results on light dark matter particles with a low-threshold CRESST-II detector

• The CRESST Collaboration

Neutrino flavor instabilities in a time-dependent supernova model

• Sajad Abbar, Huaiyu Duan (UNM)

classic papers of the week -- 213

Supernovae of type I as end products of the evolution of binaries with components of moderate initial mass (M<9 solar masses)

• Iben, I., Jr.; Tutukov, A. V. (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)

The Existence of a Neutron

• Chadwick, J.

The proper vibrations of the expanding universe

• Schrodinger, E.

tipa -- 9/4/2015

The impact of stellar feedback on the structure, size and morphology of galaxies in Milky Way size dark matter haloes

• Oscar Agertz, Andrey V. Kravtsov

Segue 1 - A Compressed Star Formation History Before Reionization

• David Webster, Anna Frebel, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Energy Dependence of Synchrotron X-Ray Rims in Tycho's Supernova Remnant

• Aaron Tran, Brian J. Williams, Robert Petre, Sean M. Ressler, Stephen P. Reynolds

Cosmic Ray Small Scale Anisotropies and Local Turbulent Magnetic Fields

• Vanessa López-Barquero, R. Farber, S. Xu, P. Desiati, A. Lazarian

A test of electric charge conservation with Borexino

• Borexino Collaboration

tipa -- 9/3/2015

Radiation from a Relativistic Poynting Jet: some general considerations

• Pawan Kumar, Patrick Crumley

A supernova distance to the anchor galaxy NGC 4258

• J. Polshaw (1), R. Kotak (1), K.C. Chambers (2), S.J. Smartt (1), S. Taubenberger (3,4), M. Kromer (5), E.E.E. Gall (1), W. Hillebrandt (4), M. Huber (2), K.W. Smith (1), R.J. Wainscoat (2) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) University of Hawaii, (3) European Southern Observatory, (4) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, (5) Stockholm University)

Using rotation measure grids to detect cosmological magnetic fields -- a Bayesian approach

• V. Vacca, N. Oppermann, T. Ensslin, J. Jasche, M. Selig, M. Greiner, H. Junklewitz, M. Reinecke, M. Brueggen, E. Carretti, L. Feretti, C. Ferrari, C. A. Hales, C. Horellou, S. Ideguchi, M. Johnston-Hollitt, R. F. Pizzo, H. Roettgering, T. W. Shimwell, K. Takahashi

Hidden Cosmic-Ray Accelerators as an Origin of TeV-PeV Cosmic Neutrinos

• Kohta Murase, Dafne Guetta, Markus Ahlers

An Ultrasoft X-ray Flare from 3XMM J152130.7+074916: a Tidal Disruption Event Candidate

• Dacheng Lin, Peter W. Maksym, Jimmy A. Irwin, S. Komossa, Natalie A. Webb, Olivier Godet, Didier Barret, Dirk Grupe, Stephen D. J. Gwyn

Aligned spin neutron star-black hole mergers: a gravitational waveform amplitude model

• Francesco Pannarale, Emanuele Berti, Koutarou Kyutoku, Benjamin D. Lackey, Masaru Shibata

Non-thermal cosmic neutrino background

• Mu-Chun Chen, Michael Ratz, Andreas Trautner

tipa -- 9/2/2015

r-Process enrichment by magnetorotational core-collapse supernovae in the early dwarf spheroidal galaxies

• Takuji Tsujimoto, Nobuya Nishimura

The Excess Radio Background and Fast Radio Transients

• John Kehayias, Thomas W. Kephart, Thomas J. Weiler

Heating of Baryons due to Scattering with Dark Matter During the Dark Ages

• Julian B. Munoz, Ely D. Kovetz, Yacine Ali-Haimoud

Cosmic Transients Test Einstein's Equivalence Principle out to GeV Energies

• He Gao, Xue-Feng Wu, Peter Mészáros

Shape and evolution of wind-blown bubbles of massive stars: on the effect of the interstellar magnetic field

• Allard Jan van Marle, Zakaria Meliani, Alexandre Marcowith

New Identification of the Mixed-Morphology Supernova Remnant G298.6-0.0 with Possible Gamma-ray Association

• Aya Bamba (1), Makoto Sawada (1), Yuto Nakano (1), Yukikatsu Terada (2), John Hewitt (3,4), Robert Petre (3), Lorella Angelini (3) ((1) Aoyama Gakuin U., (2) Saitama U., (3) NASA/GSFC, (4) CRESST)

Discovery of a red supergiant counterpart to RX~J004722.4-252051, a ULX in NGC 253

• M. Heida, M. A. P. Torres, P. G. Jonker, M. Servillat, S. Repetto, T. P. Roberts, D. J. Walton, D.-S. Moon, F. A. Harrison

Freely decaying turbulence in force-free electrodynamics

• Jonathan Zrake, William E. East

Parking-garage structures in astrophysics and biophysics

• C. J. Horowitz, D. K. Berry, M. E. Caplan, Greg Huber, A. S. Schneider

tipa -- 9/1/2015

Cosmic variance in the nanohertz gravitational wave background

• Elinore Roebber, Gilbert Holder, Daniel Holz, Michael Warren

The Sensitivity of Core-Collapse Supernovae to Nuclear Electron Capture

• Chris Sullivan, Evan O'Connor, Remco G. T. Zegers, Thomas Grubb, Sam M. Austin

Beyond the Horizon Distance: LIGO-Virgo can Boost Gravitational Wave Detection Rates by Exploiting the Mass Distribution of Neutron Stars

• Imre Bartos, Szabolcs Marka

Electromagnetic emission from long-lived binary neutron star merger remnants II: lightcurves and spectra

• Daniel M. Siegel, Riccardo Ciolfi

Modulation Effects in Dark Matter-Electron Scattering Experiments

• Samuel K. Lee, Mariangela Lisanti, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Benjamin R. Safdi

The impact of individual nuclear properties on $r$-process nucleosynthesis

• M. R. Mumpower, R. Surman, G. C. McLaughlin, A. Aprahamian

tipa -- 8/31/2015

Neutral hydrogen structures trace dust polarization angle: Implications for the interstellar medium and CMB foregrounds

• S.E. Clark, J. Colin Hill, J.E.G. Peek, M.E. Putman, B.L. Babler

LOFAR discovery of a 700-kpc remnant radio galaxy at low redshift

• M. Brienza, L. Godfrey, R. Morganti, N. Vilchez, N. Maddox, M. Murgia, E. Orru, A. Shulevski, P. N. Best, M. Brüggen, J. J. Harwood, M. Jamrozy, M. J. Jarvis, E. K. Mahony, J. McKean, H. J. A. Röttgering

A multi-wavelength polarimetric study of the blazar CTA 102 during a Gamma-ray flare in 2012

• Carolina Casadio, José L. Gómez, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher, Valeri M. Larionov, Paul S. Smith, Mark A. Gurwell, Anne Lähteenmäki, Iván Agudo, Sol N. Molina, Vishal Bala, Manasvita Joshi, Brian Taylor, Karen E. Williamson, Arkady A. Arkharov, Dmitry A. Blinov, George A. Borman, Andrea Di Paola, Tatiana S. Grishina, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, Ryosuke Itoh, Evgenia N. Kopatskaya, Elena G. Larionova, Liudmila V. Larionova, Daria A. Morozova, Elizaveta Rastorgueva-Foi, Sergey G. Sergeev, Merja Tornikoski, Ivan S. Troitsky, Clemens Thum, Helmut Wiesemeyer

JUNO Conceptual Design Report

• JUNO collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 212

Cosmic Rays from Super-novae

• Baade, W.; Zwicky, F. (Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)

Theory of the Effective Range in Nuclear Scattering

• Bethe, H. A. (Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

Induction Effects in Terrestrial Magnetism Part I. Theory

• Elsasser, Walter M. (Columbia University, Division of War Research, New York)