tipa -- 5/3/2016

Tidal stirring of satellites with shallow density profiles prevents them from being too big to fail

• Mihai Tomozeiu, Lucio Mayer, Thomas Quinn

Lowering IceCube's Energy Threshold for Point Source Searches in the Southern Sky

• IceCube Collaboration

The first low-mass black hole X-ray binary identified in quiescence outside of a globular cluster

• B.E. Tetarenko, A. Bahramian, R.M. Arnason, J.C.A. Miller-Jones, S. Repetto, C.O. Heinke, T.J. Maccarone, L. Chomiuk, G.R. Sivakoff, J. Strader, F. Kirsten, W. Vlemmings

tipa -- 5/2/2016

MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST). I: Solar-Scaled Models

• Jieun Choi, Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy, Matteo Cantiello, Bill Paxton, Benjamin D. Johnson

Resolved atomic lines reveal outflows in two ultraluminous X-ray sources

• Ciro Pinto, Matthew J. Middleton, Andrew C. Fabian

Are Some Milky Way Globular Clusters Hosted by Undiscovered Galaxies?

• Dennis Zaritsky (1), Denija Crnojević (2), David J. Sand (2) ((1) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, (2) Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA)

tipa -- 4/29/2016

Host-Galaxy Properties of 32 Low-Redshift Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory

• Daniel A. Perley, Robert Quimby, Lin Yan, Paul Vreeswijk, Annalisa De Cia, Ragnhild Lunnan, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ofer Yaron, Alexei V. Filippenko, Melissa L. Graham, Peter E. Nugent

A Distant Echo of Milky Way Central Activity closes the Galaxy's Baryon Census

• F. Nicastro (1,2), F. Senatore (1,3), Y. Krongold (4), S. Mathur (5,6), M. Elvis (2) ((1) Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma - INAF (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (3) Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (4) Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (5) Ohio State University, Columbus (6) Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University)

On the Detectability of Light Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium

• Katelin Schutz, Kathryn M. Zurek

tipa -- 4/28/2016

General Relativistic Three-Dimensional Multi-Group Neutrino Radiation-Hydrodynamics Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Luke F. Roberts, Christian D. Ott, Roland Haas, Evan P. O'Connor, Peter Diener, Erik Schnetter

Magnetar-Powered Supernovae in Two Dimensions. I. Superluminous Supernovae

• Ke-Jung Chen (NAOJ, ASIAA, UCSC), S. E. Woosley (UCSC), Tuguldur Sukhbold (UCSC)

Revisiting the Contributions of Supernova and Hypernova Remnants to the Diffuse High-Energy Backgrounds: Constraints on Very-High-Redshift Injections

• Di Xiao, Peter Mészáros, Kohta Murase, Zi-gao Dai

Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist

• Brian C. Lacki

tipa -- 4/27/2016

Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays, The Diffuse High Energy Gamma Ray Background and Anti-protons

• David Eichler, Raz Idan, Eyal Gavish

Simulating cosmic ray physics on a moving mesh

• C. Pfrommer (1), R. Pakmor (1), K. Schaal (1,2), C. M. Simpson (1), V. Springel (1,2) ((1) Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, (2) Heidelberg University, Zentrum für Astronomie)

Binary Stellar Mergers with Marginally-Bound Ejecta: Excretion Disks, Inflated Envelopes, Outflows, and their Luminous Transients

• Ondrej Pejcha, Brian D. Metzger, Kengo Tomida

On the Deuterium-to-Hydrogen Ratio of the Interstellar Medium

• David H. Weinberg

A Hard X-ray Study of the Normal Star-Forming Galaxy M83 with NuSTAR

• M. Yukita, A. E. Hornschemeier, B. D. Lehmer, A. Ptak, D. R. Wik, A. Zezas, V. Antoniou, T. J. Maccarone, V. Replicon, J. B. Tyler, T. Venters, M. K. Argo, K. Bechtol, S. Boggs, F. E. Christensen, W. W. Craig, C. Hailey, F. Harrison, R. Krivonos, K. Kuntz, D. Stern, W. W. Zhang

Evidence that widespread star formation may be underway in G0.253+016, "The Brick"

• K.A. Marsh, S.E. Ragan, A.P. Whitworth, P.C. Clark

tipa -- 4/26/2016

Disappearance of the Progenitor of Supernova iPTF13bvn

• Gastón Folatelli, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Keiichi Maeda, Melina C. Bersten, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Giuliano Pignata, Mario Hamuy, Robert M. Quimby, Weikang Zheng, Alexei V. Filippenko, Kelsey I. Clubb, Nathan Smith, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Ryan J. Foley, Adam A. Miller

Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL prototype trapping detector in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC

• MoEDAL Collaboration

tipa -- 4/25/2016

Swift J1644+57: an Ideal Test Bed of Radiation Mechanisms in a Relativistic Super-Eddington Jet

• Patrick Crumley, Wenbin Lu, Rodolfo Santana, Roberto A. Hernández, Pawan Kumar, Sera Markoff

The wind nebula around magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846

• G. Younes, C. Kouveliotou, O. Kargaltsev, R. Gill, J. Granot, A. L. Watts, J. Gelfand, M. G. Baring, A. Harding, G. G. Pavlov, A. J. van der Horst, D. Huppenkothen, E. Göğüş, L. Lin, O. J. Roberts

tipa -- 4/22/2016

Hello Darkness My Old Friend: The Fading of the Nearby TDE ASASSN-14ae

• Jonathan S. Brown, Benjamin J. Shappee, T. W.-S Holoien, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, J. L. Prieto

A new probe of magnetic fields in the pre-reionization epoch: II. Detectability

• Vera Gluscevic, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Xiao Fang, Christopher Hirata, Antonija Oklopcic, Abhilash Mishra

tipa -- 4/21/2016

Low-radio-frequency eclipses of the redback pulsar J2215+5135 observed in the image plane with LOFAR

• J. W. Broderick, R. P. Fender, R. P. Breton, A. J. Stewart, A. Rowlinson, J. D. Swinbank, J. W. T. Hessels, T. D. Staley, A. J. van der Horst, M. E. Bell, D. Carbone, Y. Cendes, S. Corbel, J. Eislöffel, H. Falcke, J.-M. Grießmeier, T. E. Hassall, P. Jonker, M. Kramer, M. Kuniyoshi, C. J. Law, S. Markoff, G. J. Molenaar, M. Pietka, L. H. A. Scheers, M. Serylak, B. W. Stappers, S. ter Veen, J. van Leeuwen, R. A. M. J. Wijers, R. Wijnands, M. W. Wise, P. Zarka

The peculiar Type Ia supernova iPTF14atg: Chandrasekhar-mass explosion or violent merger?

• M. Kromer, C. Fremling, R. Pakmor, S. Taubenberger, R. Amanullah, S. B. Cenko, C. Fransson, A. Goobar, G. Leloudas, F. Taddia, F. K. Roepke, I. R. Seitenzahl, S. A. Sim, J. Sollerman

Hi-GAL, the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey: photometric maps and compact source catalogues. First data release for Inner Milky Way: +68°> l > -70°

• S. Molinari, E. Schisano, D. Elia, M. Pestalozzi, A. Traficante, S. Pezzuto, B. M. Swinyard, A. Noriega-Crespo, J. Bally, T. J. T. Moore, R. Plume, A. Zavagno, A. M. di Giorgio, S. J. Liu, G. L. Pilbratt, J. C. Mottram, D. Russeil, L. Piazzo, M. Veneziani, M. Benedettini, L. Calzoletti, F. Faustini, P. Natoli, F. Piacentini, M. Merello, A. Palmese, R. Del Grande, D. Polychroni, K. L. J. Rygl, G. Polenta, M. J. Barlow, J.-P. Bernard, P. G. Martin, L. Testi, B. Ali, P. Andrè, M.T. Beltrán, N. Billot, C. Brunt, S. Carey, R. Cesaroni, M. Compiègne, D. Eden, Y. Fukui, P. Garcia-Lario, M. G. Hoare, M. Huang, G. Joncas, T. L. Lim, S. D. Lord, S. Martinavarro-Armengol, F. Motte, R. Paladini, D. Paradis, N. Peretto, T. Robitaille, P. Schilke, N. Schneider, B. Schulz, B. Sibthorpe, F. Strafella, M. A. Thompson, G. Umana, D. Ward-Thompson, F. Wyrowski

tipa -- 4/20/2016

Implications of solar wind measurements for solar models and composition

• Aldo Serenelli (ICE/CSIC-IEEC), Pat Scott (Imperial Coll.), Francesco L. Villante (Univ. L'Aquila & LNGS), Aaron C. Vincent (IPPP, Durham), Martin Asplund (ANU), Sarbani Basu (Yale Univ.), Nicolas Grevesse (Univ. Leige), Carlos Pena-Garay (IFIC/CSIC & Canfranc)

Radio polarimetry of Galactic centre pulsars

• D.H.F.M. Schnitzeler, R.P. Eatough, K. Ferrière, M. Kramer, K.J. Lee, A. Noutsos, R.M. Shannon

A significant hardening and rising shape detected in the MeV/GeV nuFnu spectrum from the recently-discovered very-high-energy blazar S4 0954+65 during the bright optical flare in 2015 February

• Y. T. Tanaka, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Itoh, J. D. Finke, Y. Inoue, R. Ojha, B. Carpenter, E. Lindfors, F. Krauss, R. Desiante, K. Shiki, Y. Fukazawa, F. Longo, J. McEnery, S. Buson, K. Nilsson, V. Fallah Ramazani, R. Reinthal, L. Takalo, T. Pursimo, W. Boschin

Spatial Distribution of Pair Production over the Pulsar Polar Cap

• Mikhail A. Belyaev, Kyle Parfrey

tipa -- 4/19/2016

Pulsar Magnetospheres: Beyond the Flat Spacetime Dipole

• Samuel E. Gralla, Alexandru Lupsasca, Alexander Philippov

The supernova impostor PSN J09132750+7627410 and its progenitor

• L. Tartaglia, N. Elias-Rosa, A. Pastorello, S. Benetti, S. Taubenberger, E. Cappellaro, G. Cortini, V. Granata, E. E. O. Ishida, A. Morales-Garoffolo, U. M. Noebauer, P. Ochner, L. Tomasella, S. Zaggia

The disappearance of the helium-giant progenitor of the type Ib supernova iPTF13bvn and constraints on its companion

• J. J. Eldridge, J. R. Maund

Search for Screened Interactions Below the Dark Energy Length Scale Using Optically Levitated Microspheres

• Alexander D. Rider, David C. Moore, Charles P. Blakemore, Maxime Louis, Marie Lu, Giorgio Gratta

tipa -- 4/18/2016

Metallicity-constrained merger rates of binary black holes and the stochastic gravitational wave background

• Irina Dvorkin, Elisabeth Vangioni, Joseph Silk, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Keith A. Olive

Measurement of coherent π+ production in low energy neutrino-Carbon scattering

• T2K collaboration

tipa -- 4/15/2016

Most Double Degenerate Low Mass White Dwarf Binaries Merge

• Warren R. Brown, Mukremin Kilic, Scott J. Kenyon, A. Gianninas

A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight

• Philip Lubin

tipa -- 4/14/2016

Identifying IGR J14091-6108 as a magnetic CV with a massive white dwarf using X-ray and optical observations

• John A. Tomsick (SSL/UCB), Farid Rahoui (ESO and Harvard), Roman Krivonos (Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences), Maica Clavel (SSL/UCB), Jay Strader (MSU), Laura Chomiuk (MSU)

A Comprehensive Statistical Description of Radio-Through-γ-Ray Spectral Energy Distributions of All Known Blazars

• Peiyuan Mao, C. Megan Urry, Francesco Massaro, Alessandro Paggi, Joe Cauteruccio, Soren R. Künzel

An Arabic report about supernova SN 1006 by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

• Ralph Neuhaeuser (AIU, U Jena, Germany), Carl Ehrig-Eggert (Institut fuer Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, Frankfurt, Germany), Paul Kunitzsch (LMU Muenchen, Germany)

tipa -- 4/13/2016

Earth-mass haloes and the emergence of NFW density profiles

• Raul E. Angulo, Oliver Hahn, Aaron Ludlow, Silvia Bonoli

Kinetic study of radiation-reaction-limited particle acceleration during the relaxation of unstable force-free equilibria

• Yajie Yuan (1), Krzysztof Nalewajko (1 and 2), Jonathan Zrake (1), William E. East (1), Roger D. Blandford (1) ((1) KIPAC, Stanford University and SLAC, (2) Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

The ACS LCID Project XI. On the early time resolution of LG dwarf galaxy SFHs: Comparing the effects of reionization in models with observations

• Antonio Aparicio, Sebastian L. Hidalgo, Evan Skillman, Santi Cassisi, Lucio Mayer, Julio Navarro, Andrew Cole, Carme Gallart, Matteo Monelli, Daniel Weisz, Edouard Bernard, Andrew Dolphin, Peter Stetson

Measurement of the high-energy gamma-ray emission from the Moon with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, P. R. Sala, The Fermi LAT Collaboration

Diffusion in Pulsar Wind Nebulae: An Investigation using Magnetohydrodynamic and Particle Transport Models

• O. Porth, M. J. Vorster, M. Lyutikov, N. E. Engelbrecht

Millimeter Transient Point Sources in the SPTpol 100 Square Degree Survey

• N. Whitehorn, T. Natoli, P. A. R. Ade, J. E. Austermann, J. A. Beall, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H. C. Chiang, H-M. Cho, R. Citron, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, W. Everett, J. Gallicchio, E. M. George, A. Gilbert, N. W. Halverson, N. Harrington, J. W. Henning, G. C. Hilton, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, Z. Hou, J. D. Hrubes, N. Huang, J. Hubmayr, K. D. Irwin, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, D. Li, J. J. McMahon, S. S. Meyer, L. Mocanu, J. P. Nibarger, V. Novosad, S. Padin, C. Pryke, C. L. Reichardt, J. E. Ruhl, B. R. Saliwanchik, J.T. Sayre, K. K. Schaffer, G. Smecher, A. A. Stark, K. T. Story, C. Tucker, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, G. Wang, V. Yefremenko

tipa -- 4/12/2016

The limits of astrophysics with gravitational wave backgrounds

• Thomas Callister, Letizia Sammut, Eric Thrane, Shi Qiu, Ilya Mandel

Sub-photospheric shocks in relativistic explosions

• Andrei M. Beloborodov (Columbia University)

Characterising the rotational irregularities of the Vela pulsar from 21 yr of phase-coherent timing

• R. M. Shannon, L. T. Lentati, M. Kerr, S. Johnston, G. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester

The Darkest Hour Before Dawn: Contributions to Cosmic Reionisation from Dark Matter Annihilation and Decay

• Hongwan Liu, Tracy R. Slatyer, Jesús Zavala

Binary neutron star mergers: a jet engine for short gamma-ray burst

• Milton Ruiz, Ryan N. Lang, Vasileios Paschalidis, Stuart L. Shapiro

Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in a Low-beta Pair Plasma

• Fan Guo, Hui Li, William Daughton, Xiaocan Li, Yi-Hsin Liu

tipa -- 4/11/2016

Microarcsecond VLBI pulsar astrometry with PSRPI I. Two binary millisecond pulsars with white dwarf companions

• A. T. Deller, S. J. Vigeland, D. L. Kaplan, W. M. Goss, W. F. Brisken, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes, G. H. Janssen, T. J. W. Lazio, L. Petrov, B. W. Stappers, A. Lyne

GRB off-axis afterglows and the emission from the accompanying supernovae

• Adithan Kathirgamaraju, Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Dimitrios Giannios

tipa -- 4/8/2016

Radial Profile of the 3.55 keV line out to R200 in the Perseus Cluster

• Jeroen Franse, Esra Bulbul, Adam Foster, Alexey Boyarsky, Maxim Markevitch, Mark Bautz, Dmytro Iakubovskyi, Mike Loewenstein, Michael McDonald, Eric Miller, Scott W. Randall, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Randall K. Smith

An X-ray and Radio Study of the Varying Expansion Velocities in Tycho's Supernova Remnant

• Brian J. Williams, Laura Chomiuk, John W. Hewitt, John M. Blondin, Kazimierz J. Borkowski, Parviz Ghavamian, Robert Petre, Stephen P. Reynolds

The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program. I. A New Approach to the Distance Ladder Using Only Distance Indicators of Population II

• Rachael L. Beaton, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Giuseppe Bono, Erika K. Carlson, Gisella Clementini, Meredith J. Durbin, Alessia Garofalo, Dylan Hatt, In Sung Jang, Myung Gyoon Lee, Andrew J. Monson, Jeffrey A. Rich, Victoria Scowcroft, Mark Seibert, Laura Sturch, Soung-Chul Yang

Neutron star radii and crusts: uncertainties and unified equations of state

• M. Fortin, C. Providencia, A. R. Raduta, F. Gulminelli, J. L Zdunik, P. Haensel, M. Bejger

First detection in gamma-rays of a young radio galaxy: Fermi-LAT observations of the Compact Symmetric Object PKS 1718-649

• Giulia Migliori, Aneta Siemiginowska, Malgorzata Sobolewska, Alan Loh, Stéphane Corbel, Łukasz Stawarz

Effects of Bound States on Dark Matter Annihilation

• Haipeng An, Mark B. Wise, Yue Zhang

tipa -- 4/7/2016

Magnetic field evolution in magnetar crusts through three dimensional simulations

• Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos, Toby Wood, Rainer Hollerbach

Investigating the Uniformity of the Excess Gamma rays towards the Galactic Center Region

• Shunsaku Horiuchi, Manoj Kaplinghat, Anna Kwa

A study of broadband Faraday rotation and polarization behaviour over 1.3--10 GHz in 36 discrete radio sources

• C. S. Anderson, B. M. Gaensler, I. J. Feain

A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant

• Adam G. Riess, Lucas M. Macri, Samantha L. Hoffmann, Dan Scolnic, Stefano Casertano, Alexei V. Filippenko, Brad E. Tucker, Mark J. Reid, David O. Jones, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Ryan Chornock, Peter Challis, Wenlong Yuan, Ryan J. Foley

Neutron drops radii probed by the neutron skin thickness of nuclei

• P. W. Zhao, S. Gandolfi

Measurement of the Double-Beta Decay Half-Life and Search for the Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of 48Ca with the NEMO-3 Detector

• NEMO-3 Collaboration

Evidence for neutral-current diffractive neutral pion production from hydrogen in neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon

• MINERvA Collaboration

tipa -- 4/6/2016

Ultraviolet Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae

• Ryan J. Foley, Yen-Chen Pan, P. Brown, A. V. Filippenko, O. D. Fox, W. Hillebrandt, R. P. Kirshner, G. H. Marion, P. A. Milne, J. T. Parrent, G. Pignata, M. D. Stritzinger

Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: II. Analysis of the binaries

• T. Shenar, R. Hainich, H. Todt, A. Sander, W.-R. Hamann, A. F. J. Moffat, J. J. Eldridge, H. Pablo, L. M. Oskinova, N. D. Richardson

The High-Energy Tail of the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess

• Tim Linden, Nicholas L. Rodd, Benjamin R. Safdi, Tracy R. Slatyer

Planck intermediate results. XLIV. The structure of the Galactic magnetic field from dust polarization maps of the southern Galactic cap

• Planck Collaboration

Are LGRBs biased tracers of star formation? Clues from the host galaxies of the Swift/BAT6 complete sample of bright LGRBs. II: star formation rates and metallicities at z < 1

• J. Japelj, S. D. Vergani, R. Salvaterra, P. D'Avanzo, F. Mannucci, A. Fernandez-Soto, S. Boissier, L. K. Hunt, H. Atek, L. Rodríguez-Muñoz, M. Scodeggio, S. Cristiani, E. Le Floc'h, H. Flores, J. Gallego, G. Ghirlanda, A. Gomboc, F. Hammer, D. A. Perley, A. Pescalli, P. Petitjean, M. Puech, M. Rafelski, G. Tagliaferri

Deep Chandra study of the truncated cool core of the Ophiuchus cluster

• N. Werner, I. Zhuravleva, R. E. A. Canning, S. W. Allen, A. L. King, J. S. Sanders, A. Simionescu, G. B. Taylor, R. G. Morris, A. C. Fabian

On the nature of Hydrogen-rich Superluminous Supernovae

• C. Inserra, S. J. Smartt, E. E. E. Gall, G. Leloudas, T.-W. Chen, S. Schulze, A. Jerkstarnd, M. Nicholl, J. P. Anderson, I. Arcavi, S. Benetti, R. A. Cartier, M. Childress, M. Della Valle, H. Flewelling, M. Fraser, A. Gal-Yam, C. P. Gutierrez, G. Hosseinzadeh, D. A. Howell, M. Huber, E. Kankare, E. A. Magnier, K. Maguire, C. McCully, S. Prajs, N. Primak, R. Scalzo, B. P. Schmidt, K. W. Smith, B. E. Tucker, S. Valenti, M. Wilman, D. R. Young, F. Yuan

Physics from solar neutrinos in dark matter direct detection experiments

• David G. Cerdeño (IPPP, Durham U.), Malcolm Fairbairn (King's Coll. London), Thomas Jubb (IPPP, Durham U.), Pedro A. N. Machado (Madrid, IFT & Madrid, Autonoma U.), Aaron C. Vincent (IPPP, Durham U.), Céline Boehm (IPPP, Durham U. & Annecy, LAPTH)

Detectability of galactic supernova neutrinos coherently scattered on xenon nuclei in XMASS

• XMASS Collaboration

Results of the engineering run of the Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE)

• A. Aguilar-Arevalo, X. Bertou, C. Bonifazi, M. Butner, G. Cancelo, A. Castaneda Vazquez, C.R. Chavez, H. Da Motta, J.C. DOlivo, J. Dos Anjos, J. Estrada, G. Fernandez Moroni, R. Ford, A. Foguel, K.P. Hernandez Torres, F. Izraelevitch, H.P. Lima Jr., B. Kilminster, K. Kuk, M. Makler, J. Molina, G. Moreno-Granados, J.M. Moro, E.E. Paolini, M. Sofo Haro, J. Tiffenberg, F. Trillaud, S. Wagner