tipa -- 12/21/2015

White Dwarf Mergers on Adaptive Meshes I. Methodology and Code Verification

• Max P. Katz, Michael Zingale, Alan C. Calder, F. Douglas Swesty, Ann S. Almgren, Weiqun Zhang

DES14X3taz: A Type I Superluminous Supernova Showing a Luminous, Rapidly Cooling Initial Pre-Peak Bump

• M. Smith, M. Sullivan, C. B. D'Andrea, F. J. Castander, R. Casas, S. Prajs, A. Papadopoulos, R. C. Nichol, N. V. Karpenka, S. R. Bernard, P. Brown, R. Cartier, J. Cooke, C. Curtin, T. M. Davis, D. A. Finley, R. J. Foley, A. Gal-Yam, D. A. Goldstein, S. González-Gaitán, R. R. Gupta, D. A. Howell, C. Inserra, R. Kessler, C. Lidman, J. Marriner, P. Nugent, T. A. Pritchard, M. Sako, S. Smartt, R. C. Smith, H. Spinka, R.C. Wolf, A. Zentano, T. M. C. Abbott, A. Benoit-Lévy, D. Brooks, E. Buckley-Geer, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Crocce, C. E. Cunha, L. N. da Costa, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, J. Estrada, A. E. Evrard, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, T. S. Li, J. L. Marshall, P. Martini, C. J. Miller, R. Miquel, R. Ogando, A. A. Plazas, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, E. S. Rykoff, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Soares-Santos, F. Sobreira, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, G. Tarle, R. C. Thomas, A. R. Walker, W. Wester (the DES Collaboration)

Cosmogenic Neutrinos Challenge the Cosmic Ray Proton Dip Model

• Jonas Heinze, Denise Boncioli, Mauricio Bustamante, Walter Winter

tipa -- 12/18/2015

The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Milky Way gas. First data release

• B. Winkel, J. Kerp, L. Flöer, P.M.W. Kalberla, N. Ben Bekhti, R. Keller, D. Lenz

ETHOS - An Effective Theory of Structure Formation: Dark matter physics as a possible explanation of the small-scale CDM problems

• Mark Vogelsberger (1), Jesus Zavala (2), Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (3,4), Christoph Pfrommer (5), Torsten Bringmann (6), Kris Sigurdson (7,8) ((1) MIT, (2) Dark Cosmology Centre, (3) Harvard, (4) Caltech, (5) HITS, (6) UIO, (7) IAS Princeton, (8) UBC)

The extended halo of Centaurus A: uncovering satellites, streams and substructures

• D. Crnojević (1), D. J. Sand (1), K. Spekkens (2), N. Caldwell (3), P. Guhathakurta (4), B. McLeod (3), A. Seth (5), J. Simon (6), J. Strader (7), E. Toloba (1,4) ((1) Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA, (2) Department of Physics, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, (3) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA, (4) UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, (5) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, (6) Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Pasadena, CA, USA, (7) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)

Crab flares due to turbulent dissipation of the pulsar striped wind

• Jonathan Zrake

Second Epoch Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Kepler's Supernova Remnant: The Proper Motions of Balmer Filaments

• Ravi Sankrit, John C. Raymond, William P. Blair, Knox S. Long, Brian J. Williams, Kazimierz J. Borkowski, Daniel J. Patnaude, Stephen P. Reynolds

Electromagnetic Signatures of Neutron Star Mergers in the Advanced LIGO Era

• Rodrigo Fernández, Brian D. Metzger

Precision Mass Measurements of 129-131Cd and Their Impact on Stellar Nucleosynthesis via the Rapid Neutron Capture Process

• D. Atanasov, P. Ascher, K. Blaum, R. B. Cakirli, T. E. Cocolios, S. George, F. Herfurth, D. Kisler, M. Kowalska, S. Kreim, Yu. A. Litvinov, D. Lunney, V. Manea, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, L. Schweikhard, A. Welker, F. Wienholtz, R. N. Wolf, K. Zuber

Measurement of nuclear effects in neutrino interactions with minimal dependence on neutrino energy

• X.-G. Lu, L. Pickering, S. Dolan, G. Barr, D. Coplowe, Y. Uchida, D. Wark, M. O. Wascko, A. Weber, T. Yuan

Dodelson-Widrow Production of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Non-Trivial Initial Abundance

• Alexander Merle, Aurel Schneider, Maximilian Totzauer

tipa -- 12/17/2015

The most distant observable massive objects

• Pablo A. Rosado, Paul D. Lasky, Eric Thrane, Xingjiang Zhu, Ilya Mandel, Alberto Sesana

On the Metallicity and Origin of the Smith High-Velocity Cloud

• Andrew J. Fox, Nicolas Lehner, Felix J. Lockman, Bart P. Wakker, Alex S. Hill, Fabian Heitsch, David V. Stark, Kathleen A. Barger, Kenneth R. Sembach, Mubdi Rahman

Ultra-high-energy-cosmic-ray hot spots from tidal disruption events

• Daniel N. Pfeffer, Ely D. Kovetz, Marc Kamionkowski

An HST Survey of the Highest-Velocity Ejecta in Cassiopeia A

• Robert A. Fesen, Dan Milisavljevic

tipa -- 12/16/2015

Three-dimensional Relativistic MHD Simulations of Active Galactic Nuclei Jets: Magnetic Kink Instability and Fanaroff-Riley Dichotomy

• Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Omer Bromberg (2) ((1) Berkeley, (2) Princeton)

Hydrodynamic moving-mesh simulations of the common envelope phase in binary stellar systems

• Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Friedrich K. Roepke, Ruediger Pakmor, Volker Springel

Resonant Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter in the Local and High-z Universe

• Brandon Bozek, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Kevork Abazajian, James S. Bullock

Properties of Resonantly Produced Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Subhalos

• Shunsaku Horiuchi, Brandon Bozek, Kevork N. Abazajian, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Jose Onorbe

Deja Vu All Over Again: The Reappearance of Supernova Refsdal

• P. L. Kelly, S. A. Rodney, T. Treu, L. G. Strolger, R. J. Foley, S. W. Jha, J. Selsing, G. Brammer, M. Bradac, S. B. Cenko, M. L. Graham, O. Graur, A. V. Filippenko, J. Hjorth, T. Matheson, C. McCully, A. Molino, M. Nonino, A. G. Riess, K. B. Schmidt, B. Tucker, A. von der Linden, B. J. Weiner, A. Zitrin

Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron. I. Imaging BL Lacertae at 21 microarcsecond resolution

• José L. Gómez, Andrei P. Lobanov, Gabriele Bruni, Yuri Y. Kovalev, Alan P. Marscher, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Yosuke Mizuno, Uwe Bach, Kirill V. Sokolovsky, James M. Anderson, Pablo Galindo, Nikolay S. Kardashev, Mikhail M. Lisakov

Magnetohydrodynamical simulations of a tidal disruption in general relativity

• A. Sadowski, E. Tejeda, E. Gafton, S. Rosswog, D. Abarca

tipa -- 12/15/2015

The NuSTAR view of the non-thermal emission from PSR J0437-4715

• Sebastien Guillot, Victoria M. Kaspi, Robert F. Archibald, Matteo Bachetti, Chris Flynn, Fabian Jankowski, Matthew Bailes, Steven Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Charles A. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Daniel Stern, Willam W. Zhang

Gamma rays from the quasar PKS 1441+25: story of an escape

• A. U. Abeysekara, S. Archambault, A. Archer, T. Aune, A. Barnacka, W. Benbow, R. Bird, J. Biteau, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, J. V Cardenzana, M. Cerruti, X. Chen, J. L. Christiansen, L. Ciupik, M. P. Connolly, P. Coppi, W. Cui, H. J. Dickinson, J. Dumm, J. D. Eisch, M. Errando, A. Falcone, Q. Feng, J. P. Finley, H. Fleischhack, A. Flinders, P. Fortin, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, G. H. Gillanders, S. Griffin, J. Grube, G. Gyuk, M. Hütten, N. Håkansson, D. Hanna, J. Holder, T. B. Humensky, C. A. Johnson, P. Kaaret, P. Kar, N. Kelley-Hoskins, Y. Khassen, D. Kieda, M. Krause, F. Krennrich, S. Kumar, M. J. Lang, G. Maier, S. McArthur, A. McCann, K. Meagher, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, D. Nieto, A. O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, N. Park, J. S. Perkins, A. Petrashyk, et al.

Very-high-energy gamma-rays from the Universe's middle age: detection of the z=0.940 blazar PKS 1441+25 with MAGIC

• MAGIC Collaboration

How Soft Gamma Repeaters May Make Fast Radio Bursts

• J. I. Katz

tipa -- 12/14/2015

Exploring the Potential Diversity of Early Type Ia Supernova Light Curves

• Anthony L. Piro (Carnegie Observatories), Viktoriya S. Morozova (Caltech)

The interplay between chemistry and nucleation in the formation of carbonaceous dust in supernova ejecta

• Davide Lazzati (Oregon State), Alexander Heger (Monash)

Improved WIMP scattering limits from the LUX experiment

• LUX Collaboration

X-Ray Detection of Warm Ionized Matter in the Galactic Halo

• F. Nicastro (1,2,3), F. Senatore (1,4), A. Gupta (5,6), M. Guainazzi (7), S. Mathur (5,8), Y. Krongold (9), M. Elvis (2), L. Piro (10) ((1) Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma - INAF, Monte Porzio Catone, RM, Italy, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA, (3) University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, (4) Universita' degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy, (5) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, (6) Columbus State Community College, Columbus, OH, USA, (7) European Space Astronomy Center of ESA, Madrid, Spain, (8) Center for Cosmology and Astro-particle Physics, Columbus, OH, USA, (9) Instituto de Astronomia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (10) Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF, Roma, Italy)

High-Sensitivity 86GHz (3.5mm) VLBI Observations of M87: Deep Imaging of the Jet Base at a 10 Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution

• Kazuhiro Hada, Motoki Kino, Akihiro Doi, Hiroshi Nagai, Mareki Honma, Kazunori Akiyama, Fumie Tazaki, Rocco Lico, Marcello Giroletti, Gabriele Giovannini, Monica Orienti, Yoshiaki Hagiwara

tipa -- 12/11/2015

Feeling the pull, a study of natural Galactic accelerometers. I: photometry of the delicate stellar stream of the Palomar 5 globular cluster

• Rodrigo A. Ibata, Geraint F. Lewis, Nicolas F. Martin

Abundance Anomalies In Tidal Disruption Events

• C.S. Kochanek (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University)

Long Term Study of the Double Pulsar J0737-3039 with XMM-Newton: pulsar timing

• M. N. Iacolina (1), A. Pellizzoni (1), E. Egron (1), A. Possenti (1), R. Breton (2), M. Lyutikov (3), M. Kramer (2,4), M. Burgay (1), S. E. Motta (5), A. De Luca (6), A. Tiengo (6,7,8) ((1) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Selargius (CA), Italy (2) Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester, UK (3) Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (4) Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany (5) University of Oxford - Department of Physics, Astrophysics, Oxford, UK (6) INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica Milano, Milano, Italy (7) Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia, Italy (8) INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Italy)

On the Spin of the Black Hole in IC 10 X-1

• James F. Steiner, Dominic J. Walton, Javier A. Garcia, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Silas G. T. Laycock, Matthew J. Middleton, Robin Barnard, Kristin K. Madsen

Impact of nuclear mass uncertainties on the $r$-process

• Dirk Martin, Almudena Arcones, Witold Nazarewicz, Erik Olsen

Toward terrestrial detection of millihertz gravitational waves with magnetically assisted torsion pendulums

• Eric Thrane, R P Anderson, Yuri Levin, L D Turner

Tritium calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment

• LUX Collaboration

tipa -- 12/10/2015

Testing General Relativity with the Shadow Size of Sgr A*

• Tim Johannsen, Avery E. Broderick, Philipp M. Plewa, Sotiris Chatzopoulos, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Frank Eisenhauer, Vincent L. Fish, Reinhard Genzel, Ortwin Gerhard, Michael D. Johnson

A pilot ASKAP survey of radio transient events in the region around the intermittent pulsar PSR J1107-5907

• G. Hobbs, I. Heywood, M. E. Bell, M. Kerr, A. Rowlinson, S. Johnston, R. M. Shannon, M. A. Voronkov, C. Ward, J. Banyer, P. J. Hancock, Tara Murphy, J. R. Allison, S. W. Amy, L. Ball, K. Bannister, D. C.-J. Bock, D. Brodrick, M. Brothers, A. J. Brown, J. D. Bunton, J. Chapman, A. P. Chippendale, Y. Chung, D. DeBoer, P. Diamond, P. G. Edwards, R. Ekers, R. H. Ferris, R. Forsyth, R. Gough, A. Grancea, N. Gupta, L. Harvey-Smith, S. Hay, D. B. Hayman, A. W. Hotan, S. Hoyle, B. Humphreys, B. Indermuehle, C. E. Jacka, C. A. Jackson, S. Jackson, K. Jeganathan, J Joseph, R. Kendall, D. Kiraly, B. Koribalski, M. Leach, E. Lenc, A. MacLeod, S. Mader, M. Marquarding, J. Marvil, N. McClure-Griffiths, D. McConnell, P. Mirtschin, S. Neuhold, A. Ng, R. P. Norris, J. O'Sullivan, S. Pearce, C. J. Phillips, A. Popping, R. Y. Qiao, J. E. Reynolds, P. Roberts, R. J. Sault, A. E. T. Schinckel, P. Serra, R. Shaw, T. W. Shimwell, M. Storey, A. W. Sweetnam, A. Tzioumis, T. Westmeier, M. Whiting, C. D. Wilson

Are the distributions of Fast Radio Burst properties consistent with a cosmological population?

• M.Caleb, C.Flynn, M.Bailes, E.D.Barr, R.W.Hunstead, E.F.Keane, V.Ravi, W. van Straten

Planck intermediate results. XLI. A map of lensing-induced B-modes

• Planck Collaboration

Particle spectra and efficiency in nonlinear relativistic shock acceleration: survey of scattering models

• Donald C. Ellison, Donald C. Warren, Andrei M. Bykov

tipa -- 12/9/2015

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013

• M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski, A. Furniss, J. Chiang, the NuSTAR team, the VERITAS collaboration

Particle Acceleration by a Solar Flare Termination Shock

• Bin Chen (1), Timothy S. Bastian (2), Chengcai Shen (1), Dale E. Gary (3), Sam Krucker (4, 5), Lindsay Glesener (4, 6) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA (2) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA, USA (3) New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA (4) University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (5) University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland (6) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA)

Photodisintegrated gamma rays and neutrinos from heavy nuclei in the gamma-ray burst jet of GRB 130427A

• Jagdish C. Joshi, Soebur Razzaque, Reetanjali Moharana

Classifying RRATs and FRBs

• E. F. Keane (SKA Organisation)

Measurement of muon anti-neutrino oscillations with an accelerator-produced off-axis beam

• T2K collaboration

tipa -- 12/8/2015

Copious r-process enrichment from a single event in an ancient dwarf galaxy

• Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Anirudh Chiti, Joshua D. Simon

Inspecting the supernova gamma-ray burst connection with high-energy neutrinos

• Irene Tamborra, Shin'ichiro Ando (U. of Amsterdam)

The Spatial Morphology of the Secondary Emission in the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess

• Thomas Lacroix, Oscar Macias, Chris Gordon, Paolo Panci, Celine Boehm, Joseph Silk

Lyman-alpha Forests cool Warm Dark Matter

• Julien Baur, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Christophe Yèche, Christophe Magneville, Matteo Viel

Evolving into a remnant: optical observations of SN 1978K at three decades

• H. Kuncarayakti, K. Maeda, J. P. Anderson, M. Hamuy, K. Nomoto, L. Galbany, M. Doi

The impulsive phase of magnetar giant flares: assessing linear tearing as the trigger mechanism

• Chris Elenbaas, Anna L. Watts, Roberto Turolla, Jeremy Heyl

Neutrino energy transport in weak decoupling and big bang nucleosynthesis

• E. Grohs, G. M. Fuller, C. T. Kishimoto, M. W. Paris, A. Vlasenko

The PROSPECT Physics Program

• J. Ashenfelter, B. Balantekin, H. R. Band, G. Barclay, C. D. Bass, D. Berish, N. S. Bowden, A. Bowes, C. D. Bryan, J. P. Brodsky, J. J. Cherwinka, R. Chu, T. Classen, K. Commeford, D. Davee, D. Dean, G. Deichert, M. V. Diwan, M. J. Dolinski, J. Dolph, J. K. Gaison, A. Galindo-Uribarri, K. Gilje, A. Glenn, B. W. Goddard, M. Green, K. Han, S. Hans, K. M. Heeger, B. Heffron, D. E. Jaffe, D. Jones, T. J. Langford, B. R. Littlejohn, D. A. Martinez Caicedo, R. D. McKeown, M. P. Mendenhall, P. Mueller, H. P. Mumm, J. Napolitano, R. Neilson, D. Norcini, D. Pushin, X. Qian, E. Romero, R. Rosero, B. S. Seilhan, R. Sharma, S. Sheets, P. T. Surukuchi, R. L. Varner, B. Viren, W. Wang, B. White, C. White, J. Wilhelmi, C. Williams, T. Wise, H. Yao, M. Yeh, Y.-R. Yen, G. Zangakis, C. Zhang, X. Zhang