today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Dominik A. Riechers (1,2,5), Fabian Walter (1), Christopher L. Carilli (3), Frank Bertoldi (4), Emmanuel Momjian (3) ((1) MPIA, Germany; (2) Caltech, USA; (3) NRAO, USA; (4) AIfA Bonn, Germany; (5) Hubble Fellow)

A Disk of Young Stars at the Galactic Center as Determined by Individual Stellar Orbits

Authors: J. R. Lu, A. M. Ghez, S. D. Hornstein, M. R. Morris, E. E. Becklin, K. Matthews

Minimal Dark Matter predictions and the PAMELA positron excess

Authors: Marco Cirelli, Alessandro Strumia

XAX: a multi-ton, multi-target detection system for dark matter, double beta decay and pp solar neutrinos

Authors: K. Arisaka, H. Wang, P. F. Smith, D. Cline, A. Teymourian, E. Brown, W. Ooi, D. Aharoni, C. W. Lam, K. Lung, S. Davies, M. Price

tipa -- 8/28/2008

High-(Energy)-Lights -- The Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky

Authors: D. Horns (University of Hamburg, Institute for Experimental Physics, Hamburg)

New Positron Spectral Features from Supersymmetric Dark Matter - a Way to Explain the PAMELA Data?

Authors: Lars Bergstrom, Torsten Bringmann, Joakim Edsjo

tipa -- 8/27/2008

Suzaku Observation of HESS J1825-137: Discovery of Largely-Extended X-rays near from PSR J1826-1334

Authors: H. Uchiyama, H. Matsumoto, T. G. Tsuru, K. Koyama, A. Bamba

The Hydrodynamics of Gamma-Ray Burst Remnants

Authors: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Andrew I. MacFadyen

Long-term AGILE monitoring of the puzzling gamma-ray source 3EG J1835+5918

Authors: A.Bulgarelli, for the AGILE Collaboration

tipa -- 8/26/2008

Relic density of neutrinos with primordial asymmetries

Authors: Sergio Pastor, Teguayco Pinto, Georg Raffelt

Blazar Studies with GLAST: Synchro-Compton Analysis of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars

Authors: Charles D. Dermer, Justin D. Finke, Hannah Krug, Markus Boettcher

Cosmic X-ray background and Earth albedo Spectra with Swift/BAT

Authors: M. Ajello, J. Greiner, G. Sato, D. R. Willis, G. Kanbach, A. W. Strong, R. Diehl, G. Hasinger, N. Gehrels, C. B. Markwardt, J. Tueller

Correlations of Prompt and Afterglow Emission in Swift Long and Short Gamma Ray Bursts

tipa -- 8/25/2008

LHC Startup

Authors: Wesley H. Smith

classic papers of the week -- 80

Pulsar Electrodynamics

Goldreich, Peter; Julian, William H.

Significance of electromagnetic potentials in the quantum theory

Y. Aharonov, D. Bohm (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, England)

Yoji Totsuka (1942–2008)

Henry W. Sobel (School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine), Yoichiro Suzuki (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

tipa -- 8/22/2008

Discovery of the Ultra-Bright Type II-L Supernova 2008es

Authors: S. Gezari, J. P. Halpern, D. Grupe, F. Yuan, R. Quimby, T. McKay, D. Chamarro, M. D. Sisson, C. Akerlof, J. C. Wheeler, P. J. Brown, S. B. Cenko, A. Rau, J. O. Djordjevic, D. M. Terndrup

Is there an upper limit to black hole masses?

Authors: Priyamvada Natarajan, Ezequiel Treister

A Bitter Pill: The Primordial Lithium Problem Worsens

Authors: Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive

Measurement of the solar 8B neutrino flux with 246 live days of Borexino and observation of the MSW vacuum-matter transition

Authors: The Borexino Collaboration

Non-Gaussian Correlations Outside the Horizon

Authors: Steven Weinberg

tipa -- 8/21/2008

Fitting the Gamma-Ray Spectrum from Dark Matter with DMFIT: GLAST and the Galactic Center Region

Authors: Tesla E. Jeltema, Stefano Profumo

Structure and star formation in galaxies out to z=3: evidence for surface density dependent evolution and upsizing

Authors: Marijn Franx, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Natascha M. Foerster Schreiber, Stijn Wuyts, Ivo Labbe, Sune Toft

Ubiquitous Water Masers in Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies

Authors: Jeremy Darling (University of Colorado), Crystal Brogan (NRAO), Kelsey Johnson (University of Virginia and NRAO)

Relation Between Stellar Mass and Star Formation Activity in Galaxies

Authors: Bahram Mobasher (1), T. Dahlen (2), A. Hopkins (3), N. Z. Scoville (4), P. Capak (5), R. M. Rich (6), D. B. Sanders (7), Eva Schinnerer (8), Olivier Ilbert (7), Mara Salvato (4), Kartik Sheth (5) ((1)University of California, Riverside; (2)STScI; (3)University of Sydney; (4)Caltech; (5)Spitzer Science Center; (6)University of California, Los Angles; (7)University of Hawaii; (8)Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg)

High energy neutrinos from charm in astrophysical sources

Authors: Rikard Enberg (Arizona), Mary Hall Reno (Iowa), Ina Sarcevic (Arizona)

tipa -- 8/20/2008

MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey

Authors: Warren R. Brown, Margaret J. Geller, Scott J. Kenyon (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Telescopes versus Microscopes: the puzzle of Iron-60

Authors: Jonathan P. Williams

GRB 070714B - Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short Burst Redshift

Authors: J. F. Graham (1 and 2), A. S. Fruchter (1), A. J. Levan (3), A. Melandri (4), L. J. Kewley (5), E. M. Levesque (5), M. Nysewander (1), N. R. Tanvir (6), T. Dahlen (1), D. Bersier (4), K. Wiersema (6) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3) University of Warwick, (4) Liverpool John Moores University, (5) University of Hawaii, (6) University of Leicester)

The New DAMA Dark-Matter Window and Energetic-Neutrino Searches

Authors: Dan Hooper, Frank Petriello, Kathryn M. Zurek, Marc Kamionkowski

Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors

Authors: Jonathan L. Feng, Huitzu Tu, Hai-Bo Yu

tipa -- 8/19/2008

The Exceptionally Luminous Type II-L SN 2008es

Authors: A. A. Miller, R. Chornock, D. A. Perley, M. Ganeshalingam, N. R. Butler, J. S. Bloom, N. Smith, M. Modjaz, D. Poznanski, A. V. Filippenko, J. H. Shiode, J. M. Silverman (UC Berkeley)

The Nature of a Cosmic-ray Accelerator CTB37B Observed with Suzaku and Chandra

Authors: Ryoko Nakamura, Aya Bamba, Manabu Ishida, Hiroshi Nakajima, Ryo Yamazaki, Yukikatsu Terada, Gerd Puhlhofer, Stefan J. Wagner

Sound waves in the intracluster medium of the Centaurus cluster

Authors: J.S Sanders, A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Search for Supersymmetry in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV Using the Trilepton Signature of Chargino-Neutralino Production

Authors: CDF Collaboration: T. Aaltonen, et al

tipa -- 8/18/2008

Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters

Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, K. C. Hurley, D. Palmer

Measurement of the dark matter velocity anisotropy in galaxy clusters

Authors: Ole Host, Steen H. Hansen, Rocco Piffaretti, Andrea Morandi, Stefano Ettori, Scott T. Kay, Riccardo Valdarnini

classic papers of the week -- 79

Experimental Test Of Parity Conservation In Beta Decay

C.S. Wu (Columbia University, New York, New York) , E. Ambler, R.W. Hayward, D.D. Hoppes, R.P. Hudson (National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.)

Nebulae

Slipher, V. M.

Interaction of "Solitons" in a Collisionless Plasma and the Recurrence of Initial States

Zabusky, N. J. (Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, New Jersey); Kruskal, M. D. (Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey)

tipa -- 8/13/2008

Measurements of cosmic-ray secondary nuclei at high energies with the first flight of the CREAM balloon-borne experiment

Authors: H.S. Ahn (1), P.S. Allison (2), M.G. Bagliesi (3), J.J. Beatty (2), G. Bigongiari (3), P.J. Boyle (4), T.J. Brandt (2), J.T. Childers (5), N.B. Conklin (6), S. Coutu (6), M.A. Duvernois (5), O. Ganel (1), J.H. Han (7), H. J. Hyun (7), J.A. Jeon (7), K.C. Kim (1), J.K. Lee (7), M.H. Lee (1), L. Lutz (1), P. Maestro (3), A. Malinin (1), P.S. Marrocchesi (3), S.A. Minnick (8), S.I. Mognet (6), S. Nam (7), S.L. Nutter (9), I.H. Park (7), N.H. Park (7), E.S. Seo (1), R. Sina (1), S.P. Swordy (4), S.P. Wakely (4), J. Wu (1), J. Yang (7), Y.S. Yoon (1), R. Zei (3), S.Y. Zinn (1) ((1) Institute for Physical Science and Tech., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, (2) Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, (3) Department of Physics, University of Siena & INFN, Siena, Italy, (4) Enrico Fermi Institute and Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, (5) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, (6) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, (7) Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, (8) Department of Physics, Kent State University, Tuscarawas, New Philadelphia, OH, USA, (9) Department of Physics, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Height, KY, USA)

High-energy Particle Acceleration and Production of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays in the Giant Lobes of Centaurus A

Authors: M.J. Hardcastle, C.C. Cheung, I.J. Feain, L. Stawarz

tipa -- 8/12/2008

Delayed X-ray emission from fallback in compact-object mergers

Authors: Elena M. Rossi, Mitchell C. Begelman (JILA, University of Colorado)

All-particle primary energy spectrum in the 3-200 PeV energy range

Authors: A.P. Garyaka, R.M. Martirosov, S.V. Ter-Antonyan, A.D. Erlykin, N.M. Nikolskaya, Y.A. Gallant, L.W. Jones, J. Procureur

Injection of Short-Lived Radionuclides into the Early Solar System from a Faint Supernova with Mixing-Fallback

Authors: A. Takigawa, J. Miki, S. Tachibana, G. R. Huss, N. Tominaga, H. Umeda, K. Nomoto

A low background facility inside the LVD detector at Gran Sasso

Authors: F. Arneodo, W. Fulgione

The effect of stellar winds on the formation of a protocluster

Authors: J. E. Dale, I.A. Bonnell

On the magnetic field and the TeV emitter location in Cygnus X-1 and LS 5039

Authors: V. Bosch-Ramon, D. Khangulyan, F. A. Aharonian

tipa -- 8/11/2008

When Clusters Collide: Constraints On Antimatter On The Largest Scales

Authors: Gary Steigman

Edward Teller and Nuclei: Along the Trail to the Neutrino

Authors: W. C. Haxton

classic papers of the week -- 78

On Compton's Latitude Effect of Cosmic Radiation

Lemaitre, G.; Vallarta, M. S. (University of Louvain and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Forces in Molecules

Feynman, R. P. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

Wave function of the Universe

Hartle, J. B.; Hawking, S. W.

tipa -- 8/8/2008

Observations of the Gas Reservoir around a Star Forming Galaxy in the Early Universe

Authors: Brenda L. Frye (1), David. V. Bowen (2), Mairead Hurley (1), Todd M. Tripp (3), Xiaohui Fan (4), Bradley Holden (5), Puragra Guhathakurta (5), Dan Coe (6), Tom Broadhurst (7), Eiichi Egami (4), G. Meylan (8) ((1) Dublin City University, Ireland; (2) Princeton University; (3) University of Massachusetts at Amherst; (4) Steward Observatory; (5) UCO/Lick Observatory; (6) Jet Propulsion Laboratory; (7) Tel Aviv University, Israel; (8) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, EPFL Observatoire)

Commissioning of the ATLAS Experiment

Authors: Juergen Thomas, for the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN