tipa -- 5/11/2016

Search for Majorana Neutrinos near the Inverted Mass Hierarchy region with KamLAND-Zen

• KamLAND-Zen Collaboration

The low abundance and insignificance of dark discs in simulated Milky Way galaxies

• Matthieu Schaller (1), Carlos S. Frenk (1), Azadeh Fattahi (2), Julio F. Navarro (2), Kyle A. Oman (2), Till Sawala (3), ((1) ICC, Durham University, (2) University of Victoria, (3) University of Helsinki)

A Dynamical Model for Gas Flows, Star Formation, and Nuclear Winds in Galactic Centres

• Mark R. Krumholz., J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Roland M. Crocker

Cosmic-ray energy spectrum and composition up to the ankle - the case for a second Galactic component

• S. Thoudam, J.P. Rachen, A. van Vliet, A. Achterberg, S. Buitink, H. Falcke, J.R. Hörandel

Finite-amplitude shear-Alfvén waves do not propagate in weakly magnetized collisionless plasmas

• J. Squire, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin

tipa -- 5/10/2016

Plasmoids in relativistic reconnection, from birth to adulthood: first they grow, then they go

• L. Sironi (Harvard), D. Giannios (Purdue), M. Petropoulou (Purdue)

The connection between the host halo and the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way

• Yu Lu, Andrew Benson, Yao-Yuan Mao, Stephanie Tonnesen, Annika H. G. Peter, Andrew R. Wetzel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Risa H. Wechsler

Fermi LAT Stacking Analysis of Swift Localized Gamma-ray Bursts

• The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

The force-free twisted magnetosphere of a neutron star

• Taner Akgün, Juan Antonio Miralles, José A. Pons, Pablo Cerdá-Durán

Regulation of black-hole accretion by a disk wind during a violent outburst of V404 Cygni

• T. Muñoz-Darias, J. Casares, D. Mata Sánchez, R. P. Fender, M. Armas Padilla, M. Linares, G. Ponti, P. A. Charles, K. P. Mooley, J. Rodriguez

PTF 13efv - An outburst 500 days prior to the SNHunt 275 explosion and its radiative efficiency

• E. O. Ofek, S. B. Cenko, N. J. Shaviv, G. Duggan, N.-L. Strotjohann, A. Rubin, S. R. Kulkarni, A. Gal-Yam, M. Sullivan, Y. Cao, P. E. Nugent, M. M. Kasliwal, J. Sollerman, C. Fransson, A. V. Filippenko, D. A. Perley, O. Yaron, R. Laher

iPTF15dtg: a double-peaked Type Ic Supernova from a massive progenitor

• F. Taddia, C. Fremling, J. Sollerman, A. Corsi, A. Gal-Yam, E. Karamehmetoglu, R. Lunnan, B. Bue, M. Ergon, M. Kasliwal, P. M. Vreeswijk, P. R. Wozniak

Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy

• The Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 5/9/2016

Hard X-ray Luminosity Function of Tidal Disruption Events: First Results from MAXI Extragalactic Survey

• Taiki Kawamuro, Yoshihiro Ueda, Megumi Shidatsu, Takafumi Hori, Nobuyuki Kawai, Hitoshi Negoro, Tatehiro Mihara

Time-Varying Sodium Absorption in the Type Ia Supernova 2013gh

• R. Ferretti, R. Amanullah, A. Goobar, J. Johansson, P. M. Vreeswijk, R. P. Butler, Y. Cao, S. B. Cenko, G. Doran, A. V. Filippenko, E. Freeland, G. Hosseinzadeh, D. A. Howell, P. Lundqvist, S. Mattila, J. Nordin, P. E. Nugent, T. Petrushevska, S. Valenti, S. Vogt, P. Wozniak

Cosmicflows-3

• R. Brent Tully, Helene M. Courtois, Jenny G. Sorce

Sensitivity Projections for Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Eric Charles, Miguel Sanchez-Conde, Brandon Anderson, Regina Caputo, Alessandro Cuoco, Mattia Di Mauro, Alex Drlica-Wagner, German Gomez-Vargas, Manuel Meyer, Luigi Tibaldo, Matthew Wood, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Stephan Zimmer, Marco Ajello, Andrea Albert, Luca Baldini, Keith Bechtol, Elliott Bloom, Francesco Ceraudo, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Seth Digel, Jennifer Gaskins, Michael Gustafsson, Nestor Mirabal, Massimiliano Razzano

Searching for the 3.5 keV Line in the Stacked Suzaku Observations of Galaxy Clusters

• Esra Bulbul, Maxim Markevitch, Adam Foster, Eric Miller, Mark Bautz, Mike Loewenstein, Scott W. Randall, Randall K. Smith

A First Targeted Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Core-Collapse Supernovae in Data of First-Generation Laser Interferometer Detectors

• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

Searches for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector

• The IceCube Collaboration

Reactor Neutrino Spectra

• A. C. Hayes, Petr Vogel

tipa -- 5/6/2016

Modelling the cosmic ray electron propagation in M 51

• D.D. Mulcahy, A. Fletcher, R. Beck, D. Mitra, A. M. M. Scaife

Neutrinos from Type Ia Supernovae I: The Deflagration-To-Detonation Transition Scenario

• Warren P. Wright, Gautam Nagaraj, James P. Kneller, Kate Scholberg, Ivo R. Seitenzahl

Detecting gravitational-wave memory with LIGO: implications of GW150914

• Paul D. Lasky, Eric Thrane, Yuri Levin, Jonathan Blackman, Yanbei Chen

How else can we detect Fast Radio Bursts?

• Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Duncan R. Lorimer (West Virginia University)

The Onset of a Common Envelope Episode: Lessons from the Remarkable M31 2015 Luminous Red Nova Outburst

• Morgan MacLeod, Philip Macias, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Jonathan Grindlay, Aldo Batta, Gabriela Montes

Extra-galactic background light measurements from the far-UV to the far-IR from deep ground and space-based galaxy counts

• Simon P. Driver, Stephen K. Andrews, Luke J. Davies, Aaron S.G. Robotham, Angus H. Wright, Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth Cohen, Kim Emig, Rolf A. Jansen, Loretta Dunne

Analysis of the 4-year IceCube HESE data

• Aaron C. Vincent (Durham U., IPPP), Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Olga Mena (Valencia U., IFIC)

The millisecond pulsar mass distribution: Evidence for bimodality and constraints on the maximum neutron star mass

• John Antoniadis, Thomas M. Tauris, Feryal Ozel, Ewan Barr, David J. Champion, Paulo C. C. Freire

tipa -- 5/5/2016

Pair Fireball Precursors of Neutron Star Mergers

• Brian D. Metzger, Charles Zivancev

Tracing the Milky Way Nuclear Wind with 21cm Atomic Hydrogen Emission

• Felix J. Lockman, N. M. McClure-Griffiths

An Empirical Determination of the Intergalactic Background Light from UV to FIR Wavelengths Using FIR Deep Galaxy Surveys and the Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe

• Floyd W. Stecker (NASA/GSFC, UCLA), Sean T. Scully (JMU), Matthew A. Malkan (UCLA)

The Last Minutes of Oxygen Shell Burning in a Massive Star

• Bernhard Müller (1,2,6), Maxime Viallet (3), Alexander Heger (2,4,5,6), Hans-Thomas Janka (3) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) Monash University, (3) Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, (4) University of Minnesota, (5) Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, (6) JINA-CEE University of Notre Dame)

tipa -- 5/4/2016

The Unexpected, Long-Lasting, UV Rebrightening of the Super-Luminous Supernova ASASSN-15lh

• D. Godoy-Rivera, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, Ping Chen, Subo Dong, J. L. Prieto, B. J. Shappee, S. W. Jha, R. J. Foley, Y.-C. Pan, T. W.-S. Holoien, Todd. A. Thompson, D. Grupe, J. F. Beacom

Three-dimensional Boltzmann-Hydro code for core-collapse in massive stars II. The Implementation of moving-mesh for neutron star kicks

• Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami, Shun Furusawa, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Yamada, Hideo Matsufuru, Akira Imakura

3FGL Demographics Outside the Galactic Plane using Supervised Machine Learning: Pulsar and Dark Matter Subhalo Interpretations

• N. Mirabal, E. Charles, E. C. Ferrara, P. L. Gonthier, A. K. Harding, M. A. Sánchez-Conde, D. J. Thompson

A Correlation Between the Intrinsic Brightness and Average Decay Rate of Gamma-ray Burst X-ray Afterglow Light Curves

• J. L. Racusin, S. R. Oates, M. de Pasquale, D. Kocevski

Production of keV Sterile Neutrinos in Supernovae: New Constraints and Gamma Ray Observables

• Carlos A. Argüelles, Vedran Brdar, Joachim Kopp

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)