today in particle astrophysics

Authors: A. Pastorello (1), M. T. Botticella (1), C. Trundle (1), S. Taubenberger (2), S. Mattila (3,4), E. Kankare (5,3), N. Elias-Rosa (6), S. Benetti (7), G. Duszanowicz (8), L. Hermansson (9), J. E. Beckman (10,11), F. Bufano (7), M. Fraser (1), A. Harutyunyan (12), H. Navasardyan (7), S. J. Smartt (1), S. D. van Dyk (6), J. S. Vink (13), R. M. Wagner (14) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, (3) University of Turku, (4) Stockholm University, (5) Nordic Optical Telescope, (6) Spitzer Science Center, (7) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (8) Moonbase Observatory, (9) Sandvretens Observatory, (10) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (11) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cienticas of Spain, (12) Fundacion Galileo Galilei - INAF, (13) Armagh Observatory, (14) Large Binocular Telescope Observatory)

Lundmark, K. (Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton)

The local structure of turbulence in incompressible viscous fluid for very large Reynolds numbers

Kolmogorov, A. N.

tipa -- 5/28/2010

Evolution of massive stars with pulsation-driven superwinds during the RSG phase

Authors: Sung-Chul Yoon, Matteo Cantiello

On the Formation of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters

Authors: Charlie Conroy, David N. Spergel

Discovery of SN 2009nz Associated with GRB 091127

Authors: B. E. Cobb, J. S. Bloom, D. A. Perley, A. N. Morgan, S. B. Cenko, A. V. Filippenko

Weighing the Galactic dark matter halo: a lower mass limit from the fastest halo star known

Authors: Norbert Przybilla, Alfred Tillich, Ulrich Heber, Ralf-Dieter Scholz

tipa -- 5/27/2010

Disentangling the Origin and Heating Mechanism of Supernova Dust: Late-Time Spitzer Spectroscopy of the Type IIn SN 2005ip

Authors: Ori D. Fox (1), Roger A. Chevalier (1), Eli Dwek (2), Michael F. Skrutskie (1), Ben E. K. Sugerman (3), Jarron M. Leisenring (1) ((1) U. Virginia, (2) NASA Goddard, (3) Goucher College)

Radiation Pressure Driven Galactic Winds from Self-Gravitating Disks

Authors: Dong Zhang, Todd A. Thompson (OSU)

Non-Thermal emission from the photospheres of Gamma-Ray Burst outflows. I: High frequency tails

Authors: Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Mitchell C. Begelman (Jila)

Ignition column depths of helium-rich thermonuclear bursts from 4U 1728-34

Authors: Zdenka Misanovic, Duncan K. Galloway, Randall L. Cooper

Fading hard X-ray emission from the Galactic Centre molecular cloud Sgr B2

Authors: R. Terrier, G. Ponti, G. Belanger, A. Decourchelle, V. Tatischeff, A. Goldwurm, G. Trap, M. R. Morris, R. Warwick

Scattering of pulsar radio emission by the interstellar plasma

Authors: W. A. Coles, B. J. Rickett, J. J. Gao, G. Hobbs, J. P. W. Verbiest

Sommerfeld Enhancements for Thermal Relic Dark Matter

Authors: Jonathan L. Feng, Manoj Kaplinghat, Hai-Bo Yu

Positronium Portal into Hidden Sector: A new Experiment to Search for Mirror Dark Matter

Authors: Paolo Crivelli, Alexander Belov, Ulisse Gendotti, Sergei Gninenko, Andre Rubbia

tipa -- 5/26/2010

Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO and Virgo Data from S5 and VSR1

Authors: the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

Radiation pressure from massive star clusters as a launching mechanism for super-galactic winds

Authors: Norman Murray, Brice Ménard, Todd A. Thompson

TANAMI: Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry I. First-Epoch 8.4 GHz Images

Authors: Roopesh Ojha, Matthias Kadler, Moritz Böck, Roy Booth, M. S. Dutka, P. G. Edwards, A. L. Fey, L. Fuhrmann, R. A. Gaume, H. Hase, S. Horiuchi, D. L. Jauncey, K. J. Johnston, U. Katz, M. Lister, J. E. J. Lovell, C. Müller, C. Plötz, J. F. H. Quick, E. Ros, G. B. Taylor, D. J. Thompson, S. J. Tingay, G. Tosti, A. K. Tzioumis, J. Wilms, J. A. Zensus

Fermi LAT Observations of the Supernova Remnant W28 (G6.4-0.1)

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al.

Radio Frequency Birefringence in South Polar Ice and Implications for Neutrino Reconstruction

Authors: Dave Besson, Ilya Kravchenko, Andres Ramos, Juliet Remmers

New limits on the population of normal and millisecond pulsars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

Authors: J.P. Ridley, D.R. Lorimer

Essence of the vacuum quark condensate

Authors: Stanley J. Brodsky, Craig D. Roberts, Robert Shrock, Peter C. Tandy

tipa -- 5/25/2010

The Submillimeter Bump in Sgr A* from Relativistic MHD Simulations

Authors: Jason Dexter, Eric Agol, P. Chris Fragile, Jonathan C. McKinney

SN2010U -- a Luminous Nova in NGC 4214

Authors: Roberta M. Humphreys, Jose L. Prieto, Philip Rosenfield, L. Andrew Helton, Christopher S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek, Rubab Khan, Dorota Szczygiel, Karen Mogren, Robert A. Fesen, Dan Milisavljevic, Benjamin Williams, Jeremiah Murphy, Julianne Dalcanton, Karoline Gilbert

Testing the wave packet approach to neutrino oscillations in future experiments

Authors: Boris Kayser, Joachim Kopp (Fermilab)

A New World Average Value for the Neutron Lifetime

Authors: A. P. Serebrov, A. K. Fomin

tipa -- 5/24/2010

Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry

Authors: The D0 Collaboration: V.M. Abazov, et al

Constraining Fundamental Physics with Future CMB Experiments

Authors: Silvia Galli, Matteo Martinelli, Alessandro Melchiorri, Luca Pagano, Blake D. Sherwin, David N. Spergel

First detection of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect increment at lambda < 650 um

Authors: M. Zemcov, M. Rex, T. D. Rawle, J. J.Bock, E. Egami, B. Altieri, A. W. Blain, F. Boone, C. R. Bridge, B. Clement, F. Combes, C. D. Dowell, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, D. Fadda, O. Ilbert, R. J. Ivison, M. Jauzac, J.-P. Kneib, D. Lutz, R. Pelló, M. J. Pereira, P. G. Pérez-González, J. Richard, G. H. Rieke, G. Rodighiero, D. Schaerer, G. P. Smith, I. Valtchanov, G. L. Walth, P. van der Werf, M. W. Werner

Probing the evolving massive star population in Orion with kinematic and radioactive tracers

Authors: R. Voss, R. Diehl, J.S. Vink, D.H. Hartmann

Jet simulations and Gamma-ray burst afterglow jet breaks

Authors: H.J. van Eerten, Z. Meliani, R.A.M.J. Wijers, R. Keppens

Who Pulled the Trigger: a Supernova or an AGB Star?

Authors: Alan P. Boss, Sandra A. Keiser

White dwarfs stripped by massive black holes: sources of coincident gravitational and electromagnetic radiation

Authors: Ivan Zalamea, Kristen Menou, Andrei M. Beloborodov

classic papers of the week -- 150

A Model of Leptons

Steven Weinberg (Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Physics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Confinement of the Crab pulsar's wind by its supernova remnant

Kennel, C. F.; Coroniti, F. V. (University of California, Los Angeles)

On the Transfer of Energy in the Electromagnetic Field

J. H. Poynting (Mason College, Birmingham)

tipa -- 5/21/2010

Ultra-luminous X-ray sources and remnants of massive metal-poor stars

Authors: M. Mapelli, E. Ripamonti, L. Zampieri, M. Colpi, A. Bressan

Co-evolution of atmospheres, life, and climate

Authors: John Lee Grenfell, Heike Rauer, Franck Selsis, Lisa Kaltenegger, Charles Beichman, William Danchi, Carlos Eiroa, Malcolm Fridlund, Thomas Henning, Tom Herbst, Helmut Lammer, Alain Léger, René Liseau, Jonathan Lunine, Francesco Paresce, Alan Penny, Andreas Quirrenbach, Huub Röttgering, Jean Schneider, Daphne Stam, Giovanna Tinetti, Glenn J. White

VHE gamma-ray emission of PKS 2155-304: spectral and temporal variability

Authors: HESS Collaboration

Response to arXiv:1005.2615

Authors: J.I. Collar, D.N. McKinsey

tipa -- 5/20/2010

Multi-Instrument X-ray Observations of Thermonuclear Bursts with Short Recurrence Times

Authors: L. Keek, D. K. Galloway, J. J. M. in 't Zand, A. Heger

Star Forming Dense Cloud Cores in the TeV γ-ray SNR RX J1713.7-3946

Authors: H. Sano, J. Sato, H. Yamamoto, T. Hayakawa, K. Torii, N. Moribe, A. Kawamura, T. Okuda, N. Mizuno, T. Onishi, H. Maezawa, T. Inoue, S. Inutsuka, T. Tanaka, A. Mizuno, H. Ogawa, J. Stutzki, F. Bertoldi, S. Anderl, L. Bronfman, B. C. Koo, M. G. Burton, A. O. Benz, Y. Fukui

Discovery of Eclipses from the Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsar SWIFT J1749.4-2807

Authors: C. B. Markwardt, T. E. Strohmayer

Timing of the first eclipsing accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar

Authors: D. Altamirano, Y. Cavecchi, A. Patruno, A. Watts, M. Linares, N. Degenaar, M. Kalamkar, M. van der Klis, N. Rea, P. Casella, M. Armas Padilla, R. Kaur, Y.J. Yang, P. Soleri, R. Wijnands

Testing gravitational parity violation with coincident gravitational waves and short gamma-ray bursts

Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Benjamin J. Owen, Stephon Alexander

tipa -- 5/19/2010

Discovery of a new Soft Gamma Repeater, SGR J1833-0832

Authors: E. Gogus, G. Cusumano, A.J. Levan, C. Kouveliotou, T. Sakamoto, S.D. Barthelmy, S. Campana, Y. Kaneko, B.W. Stappers, A. de Ugarte-Postigo, T. Strohmayer, D.M. Palmer, J. Gelbord, D.N. Burrows, A.J. van der Horst, T. Munoz-Darias, N. Gehrels, J.W.T. Hessels, A.P. Kamble, S. Wachter, K. Wiersema, R.A.M.J. Wijers, P.M. Woods

The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey: VI. The far-infrared view of M87

Authors: M. Baes, M. Clemens, E. M. Xilouris, J. Fritz, W. D. Cotton, J. I. Davies, G. J. Bendo, S. Bianchi, L. Cortese, I. De Looze, M. Pohlen, J. Verstappen, H. Boehringer, D. J. Bomans, A. Boselli, E. Corbelli, A. Dariush, S. di Serego Alighieri, D. Fadda, D. A. Garcia-Appadoo, G. Gavazzi, C. Giovanardi, M. Grossi, T. M. Hughes, L. K. Hunt, A. P. Jones, S. Madden, D. Pierini, S. Sabatini, M. W. L. Smith, C. Vlahakis, S. Zibetti

Reionization of the Local Group of Galaxies

Authors: Ilian T. Iliev (1,2), Ben Moore (2), Stefan Gottloeber (3), Gustavo Yepes (4), Yehuda Hoffman (5), Garrelt Mellema (6) ((1) University of Sussex, (2) University of Zurich, (3) Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, (4) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, (5) Hebrew University, (6) Stockholm University)

Limitations on the Photo-disintegration Process as a Source of VHE Photons