tipa -- 12/6/2010

The old environment of the faint calcium-rich supernova SN 2005cz

• Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Avishay Gal-yam, R. Mark Crockett, Joseph P. Anderson, Phil A. James, Mark Sullivan, James D. Neill, Douglas C. Leonard

Pulsar-Black Hole Binaries in the Galactic Center

• Authors: C.-A. Faucher-Giguere (1), Abraham Loeb (2) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) Harvard University)

Gravitational Wave Extraction in Simulations of Rotating Stellar Core Collapse

• Authors: Christian Reisswig, Christian D. Ott, Ulrich Sperhake, Erik Schnetter

classic papers of the week -- 177

Steps toward the Hubble constant. V - The Hubble constant from nearby galaxies and the regularity of the local velocity field

• Sandage, A.; Tammann, G. A. (Hale Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Correlation Energy of an Electron Gas at High Density

• Gell-Mann, Murray (California Institute of Technology); Brueckner, Keith A. (University of Pennsylvania)

The Activated Complex in Chemical Reactions

• Henry Eyring (Frick Chemical Laboratory, Princeton University)

tipa -- 12/3/2010

The influence of collective neutrino oscillations on a supernova r-process

• Authors: Huaiyu Duan, Alexander Friedland, Gail C. McLaughlin, Rebecca Surman

Quantum Statistical Corrections to Astrophysical Photodisintegration Rates

• Authors: G. J. Mathews, Yamac Pehlivan, Toshitaka Kajino, A. B. Balantekin, Motohiko Kusakabe

tipa -- 12/2/2010

The Proto-Magnetar Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: B.D. Metzger, D. Giannios, T.A. Thompson, N. Bucciantini, E. Quataert

Cooling neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant: Evidence for superfluidity in the core

• Authors: Peter S. Shternin, Dmitry G. Yakovlev, Craig O. Heinke, Wynn C. G. Ho, Daniel J. Patnaude

V1309 Scorpii: merger of a contact binary

• Authors: R. Tylenda, M. Hajduk, T. Kamiński, A. Udalski, I. Soszyński, M. K. Szymański, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzyński, R. Poleski, Ł. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk

Accurate dynamical mass determination of a classical Cepheid in an eclipsing binary system

• Authors: G. Pietrzynski, I.B. Thompson, W. Gieren, D. Graczyk, G. Bono A. Udalski, I. Soszynski, D. Minniti, B. Pilecki

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) - Hunt for dark matter using low-energy antideuterons

• Authors: Ph. von Doetinchem, T. Aramaki, St.Boggs, W. Craig, H. Fuke, F. Gahbauer, Ch. Hailey, J. Koglin, N. Madden, I. Mognet, K. Mori, R. Ong, T. Yoshida, T. Zhang, J. Zweerink

A Model For Late Dark Matter Decay

• Authors: Nicole F. Bell, Ahmad J. Galea, Raymond R. Volkas

tipa -- 12/1/2010

Cores in Dwarf Galaxies from Dark Matter with a Yukawa Potential

• Authors: Abraham Loeb, Neal Weiner

Gravitational Wave Emission from the Single-Degenerate Channel of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: David Falta, Robert T. Fisher, Gaurav Khanna

Location of gamma-ray Flare Emission in the Jet of the BL Lacertae Object OJ287 more than 14pc from the Central Engine

• Authors: Ivan Agudo, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher, Valeri M. Larionov, Jose L. Gomez, Anne Lahteenmaki, Mark A. Gurwell, Paul S. Smith, Helmut Wiesemeyer, Clemens Thum, Jochen Heidt, Dmitriy A. Blinov, Francesca D. D'Arcangelo, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, Daria A. Morozova, Elina Nieppola, Mar Roca-Sogorb, Gary D. Schmidt, Brian Taylor, Merja Tornikoski, Ivan S. Troitsky

SN 2009md: Another faint supernova from a low mass progenitor

• Authors: M. Fraser, M. Ergon, J.J. Eldridge, S. Valenti, A. Pastorello, J. Sollerman, S.J. Smartt, I. Agnoletto, I. Arcavi, S. Benetti, M.-T. Botticella, F. Bufano, A. Campillay, R.M. Crockett, A. Gal-Yam, E. Kankare, G. Leloudas, K. Maguire, S. Mattila, J.R. Maund, F. Salgado, A. Stephens, S. Taubenberger, M. Turatto

Effects of anisotropic winds on massive stars evolution

• Authors: Georgy Cyril, Meynet Georges, Maeder André

Time Delay of Cascade Radiation for TeV Blazars and the Measurement of the Intergalactic Magnetic Field

• Authors: Charles D. Dermer (NRL), Massimo Cavadini (Insubria), Soebur Razzaque (NRC/NRL), Justin D. Finke (NRL), Benoit Lott (Bordeaux)

tipa -- 11/30/2010

Asymmetries in the Type IIn SN2010jl

• Authors: F. Patat, S. Taubenberger, S. Benetti, A. Pastorello, A. Harutyunyan

Radiative transfer in ultra-relativistic outflows and photospheres of gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Andrei M. Beloborodov (Columbia University)

SN 2009bb: a Peculiar Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernova

• Authors: Giuliano Pignata, Maximilian Stritzinger, Alicia Soderberg, Paolo Mazzali, M. M. Phillips, Nidia Morrell, J. P. Anderson, Luis Boldt, Abdo Campillay, Carlos Contreras, Gastón Folatelli, Francisco Förster, Sergio González, Mario Hamuy, Wojtek Krzeminski, José Maza, Miguel Roth, Francisco Salgado Emily M. Levesque, Armin Rest, J. Adam Crain, Andrew C. Foster, Joshua B. Haislip, Kevin M. Ivarsen, Aaron P. LaCluyze, Melissa C. Nysewander, Daniel E. Reichart

Rapid Cooling of the Neutron Star in Cassiopeia A Triggered by Neutron Superfluidity in Dense Matter

• Authors: Dany Page (1), Madappa Prakash (2), James M. Lattimer (3), Andrew W. Steiner (4) ((1) Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, (2) Department of Physics and Astrononmy, Ohio University (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook (4) Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astrononmy, Michigan State University)

A Magnetized Jet from a Massive Protostar

• Authors: Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, Luis F. Rodriguez, Guillem Anglada, Josep Marti, Jose M. Torrelles, Mayra Osorio

Three-Dimensional Simulations of MHD Turbulence Behind Relativistic Shock Waves and Their Implications for GRBs

• Authors: Tsuyoshi Inoue, Katsuaki Asano, Kunihito Ioka

Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at sqrt(S(NN))= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

• Authors: The ATLAS Collaboration

High-energy break-up of 6Li as a tool to study the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis reaction 2H(alpha,gamma)6Li

• Authors: F.Hammache, M.Heil, S.Typel, D.Galaviz, K.Sümmerer, A.Coc, F.Uhlig, F.Attallah, M.Caamano, D.Cortina, H.Geissel, M.Hellström, N.Iwasa, J.Kiener, P.Koczon, B.Kohlmeyer, P.Mohr, E.Schwab, K.Schwarz, F.Schümann, P.Senger, O.Sorlin, V.Tatischeff, J.P.Thibaud, E.Vangioni, A.Wagner, W.Walus

tipa -- 11/29/2010

Search for Stopped Gluinos in pp collisions at sqrt s = 7 TeV

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

Anisotropy Constraints on Millisecond Pulsars in the Diffuse Gamma Ray Background

• Authors: Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins, Rebecca Reesman, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Stefano Profumo, Terry P. Walker

High luminosity, slow ejecta and persistent carbon lines: SN 2009dc challenges thermonuclear explosion scenarios

• Authors: S. Taubenberger, S. Benetti, M. Childress, R. Pakmor, S. Hachinger, P. A. Mazzali, V. Stanishev, N. Elias-Rosa, I. Agnoletto, F. Bufano, M. Ergon, A. Harutyunyan, C. Inserra, E. Kankare, M. Kromer, H. Navasardyan, J. Nicolas, A. Pastorello, E. Prosperi, F. Salgado, J. Sollerman, M. Stritzinger, M. Turatto, S. Valenti, W. Hillebrandt

Chandra Observations of the High-Magnetic-Field Radio Pulsar J1718-3718

• Authors: W. W. Zhu, V. M. Kaspi, M. A. McLaughlin, G. G. Pavlov, C.-Y. Ng, R. N. Manchester, B. M. Gaensler, P. M. Woods

Supernova 2008bk and Its Red Supergiant Progenitor

• Authors: Schuyler D. Van Dyk (1), Tim J. Davidge (2), Nancy Elias-Rosa (1), Stefan Taubenberger (3), Weidong Li (4), Stanley Howerton (5), Giuliano Pignata (6), Nidia Morrell (7), Mario Hamuy (8), Alexei V. Filippenko (4) ((1) Spitzer Science Center/Caltech, (2) HIA/NRC, Canada, (3) MPIfA, Garching, (4) Univ. of California, Berkeley, (5) Arkansas City, KS, (6) Univ. Andres Bello, Chile, (7) Las Campanas Obs., (8) Univ. de Chile)

Multiple Tidal Disruptions as an Indicator of Binary Super-Massive Black Hole Systems

• Authors: Christopher Wegg, J. Nate Bode

classic papers of the week -- 176

Existence of Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Waves

• Alfvén, H. (Kgl. Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm)

Catalysis of Nuclear Reactions by μ Mesons

• Alvarez, L. W.; Bradner, H.; Crawford, F. S.; Crawford, J. A.; Falk-Vairant, P.; Good, M. L.; Gow, J. D.; Rosenfeld, A. H.; Solmitz, F.; Stevenson, M. L.; Ticho, H. K.; Tripp, R. D. (Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley)

Note on the Frequency of Use of the Different Digits in Natural Numbers

• Simon Newcomb

tipa -- 11/25/2010

Insights Into the High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT collaboration: A. A. Abdo et al., the MAGIC collaboration: J. Aleksić et al., the VERITAS collaboration: V. A. Acciari et al., the GASP-WEBT consortium, multi-wavelength partners

The Disappearance of the Red Supergiant Progenitor of Supernova 2008bk

• Authors: Seppo Mattila (1,2), Stephen Smartt (3), Justyn Maund (4), Stefano Benetti (5), Mattias Ergon (1) ((1) Stockholm University, Sweden, (2) University of Turku, Finland, (3) Queens University Belfast, UK, (4) University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (5) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy)

Low Multiplicity Burst Search at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

• Authors: SNO Collaboration

tipa -- 11/24/2010

Multi-Element Abundance Measurements from Medium-Resolution Spectra. III. Metallicity Distributions of Milky Way Dwarf Satellite Galaxies

• Authors: Evan N. Kirby (1), Gustavo A. Lanfranchi (2), Joshua D. Simon (3), Judith G. Cohen (1), Puragra Guhathakurta (4) ((1) Caltech, (2) Nucleo de Astrofisica Teorica, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, (3) Carnegie Observatories, (4) UC Santa Cruz)

The First Systematic Study of Type Ibc Supernova Multi-color Light-curves

• Authors: Maria R. Drout (1), Alicia M. Soderberg (1), A. Gal-Yam (2), S. B. Cenko (3), D. B. Fox (4), D. C. Leonard (5), D. J. Sand (6,7), D.-S. Moon (8), I. Arcavi (2), Y. Green (2) ((1) Harvard U., (2) Weizmann, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) PSU, (5) SDSU, (6) LCOGT, (7) UCSB, (8) U. of Toronto)

Can IBEX Identify Variations in the Galactic Environment of the Sun using Energetic Neutral Atom (ENAs)?

• Authors: P. C. Frisch, J. Heerikhuisen, N. V. Pogorelov, B. DeMajistre, G. B. Crew, H. O. Funsten, P. Janzen, D. J. McComas, E. Moebius, H.-R. Mueller, D. B. Reisenfeld, N. A. Schwadron, J. D. Slavin, G. P.Zank

Enhanced Dark Matter Sensitivity from Fermi-LAT Resolution of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background

• Authors: Kevork N. Abazajian, Steve Blanchet, J. Patrick Harding

Erratum: Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment

• Authors: P. W. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), B. M. Baughman (2), J. J. Beatty (2), K.~Belov (3), D. Z. Besson (4), S. Bevan (5), W. R. Binns (6), C. Chen (7), P. Chen (7), J. M. Clem (8), A. Connolly (5), M. Detrixhe (4), D. De Marco (8), P. F. Dowkontt (6), M. DuVernois (1), E. W. Grashorn (2), B. Hill (1), S. Hoover (3), M. Huang (7), M. H. Israel (6), A. Javaid (8), K. M. Liewer (9), S. Matsuno (1), B. C. Mercurio (2), C. Miki (1), M. Mottram (5), J. Nam (7), R. J. Nichol (5), K. Palladino (2), A. Romero-Wolf (1), L. Ruckman (1), D. Saltzberg (3), D. Seckel (8), R. Y. Shang (7), G. S. Varner (1), A. G. Vieregg (3), Y. Wang (7)

tipa -- 11/23/2010

Measuring Ejecta Velocity Improves Type Ia Supernova Distances

• Authors: Ryan J. Foley, Daniel Kasen

Gravitational Pulse Astronomy

• Authors: Andrew Gould (Ohio State)

Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae at High Redshift from the Supernova Legacy Survey

• Authors: S. Gonzalez-Gaitan, K. Perrett, M. Sullivan, A. Conley, D. A. Howell, R. G. Carlberg, P. Astier, D. Balam, C. Balland, S. Basa, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, R. Pain, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich

Instabilities in neutrino systems induced by interactions with scalars

• Authors: R. F. Sawyer

Radioactivity and Electron Acceleration in Supernova Remnants

• Authors: V.N.Zirakashvili, F.A.Aharonian

Search for beta plus/EC double beta decay of 120Te

• Authors: E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone III, M. Balata, I. Bandac, M. Barucci, J. W. Beeman, F. Bellini, C. Brofferio, A. Bryant, C. Bucci, L. Canonica, S. Capelli, L. Carbone, M. Carrettoni, M. Clemenza, O. Cremonesi, R. J. Creswick, S. Di Domizio, M. J. Dolinski, L. Ejzak, R. Faccini, H. A. Farach, E. Ferri, E. Fiorini, L. Foggetta, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, A. Giuliani, P. Gorla, E. Guardincerri, T. D. Gutierrez. E. E. Haller, K. Kazkaz, S. Kraft, L. Kogler, C. Maiano, R. H. Maruyama, C. Martinez, M. Martinez, L. Mizouni, S. Newman, S. Nisi, C. Nones, E. B. Norman, A. Nucciotti, F. Orio, M. Pallavicini, V. Palmieri, L. Pattavina, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, L. Risegari, C. Rosenfeld, C. Rusconi, C. Salvioni, S. Sangiorgio, D. Schaeffer, N. D. Scielzo, M. Sisti, A. R. Smith, C. Tomei, G. Ventura, M. Vignati

tipa -- 11/22/2010

The Neutron Star Mass Distribution

• Authors: Bulent Kiziltan, Athanasios Kottas, Stephen E. Thorsett

Accelerating Compact Object Mergers in Triple Systems with the Kozai Resonance: A Mechanism for "Prompt'' Type Ia Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Other Exotica

• Authors: Todd A. Thompson

Effect of Streaming Motion of Baryons Relative to Dark Matter on the Formation of the First Stars

• Authors: Athena Stacy, Volker Bromm, Abraham Loeb

Complementarity of direct dark matter detection and indirect detection through gamma-rays

• Authors: Lars Bergstrom, Torsten Bringmann, Joakim Edsjo

classic papers of the week -- 175

Measurability of Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments

• Schiff, L. I. (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stanford University)

The birth of neutron stars

• Burrows, A.; Lattimer, J. M. (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

A Method for the Numerical Calculation of Hydrodynamic Shocks

• Von Neumann, J.; Richtmyer, R. D. (Institute for Advanced Study)

tipa -- 11/19/2010

Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

Stellar Structure and Tests of Modified Gravity

• Authors: Philip Chang, Lam Hui

A Massive Progenitor of the Luminous Type IIn Supernova 2010jl

• Authors: Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Adam A. Miller, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Michael C. Cooper, Thomas Matheson, Schuyler D. Van Dyk

The Consistency of the Dark-Matter-Interpreted Fermi-LAT Observations of the Galactic Center with a Millisecond Pulsar Population in the Central Stellar Cluster

• Authors: Kevork N. Abazajian

tipa -- 11/18/2010

Gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula

• Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration

The Three-Dimensional Structure of Cassiopeia A

• Authors: Tracey DeLaney, Lawrence Rudnick, M. D. Stage, J. D. Smith, Karl Isensee, Jeonghee Rho, Glenn E. Allen, Haley Gomez, Takashi Kozasa, William T. Reach, J. E. Davis, J. C. Houck

Evaluating Systematic Dependencies of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Alan C. Calder, Brendan K. Krueger, Aaron P. Jackson, Dean M. Townsley, Francis X. Timmes, Edward F. Brown, David A. Chamulak

High Magnetic Shear Gain in a Liquid Sodium Stable Couette Flow Experiment; A Prelude to an alpha-Omega Dynamo

• Authors: Stirling A. Colgate, Hui Li, Vladimir Pariev, John Finn, Howard Beckley, Jiahe Si, Joe Martinic, David Westpfahl, James Slutz, Cebastian Westrom, Brianna Klein, Paul Schendel, Cletus Scharle, Travis McKinney, Rocky Ginanni, Ian Bentley, Timothy Mickey

Elliptic flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV

• Authors: The ALICE Collaboration

tipa -- 11/17/2010

The Extreme Hosts of Extreme Supernovae

• Authors: James D. Neill (1), Mark Sullivan (2), Avishay Gal-Yam (3), Robert Quimby (1), Eran Ofek (1), Ted K. Wyder (1), D. Andrew Howell (4), Peter Nugent (5), Mark Seibert (6), D. Christopher Martin (1), Roderik Overzier (7), Tom A. Barlow (1), Karl Foster (1), Peter G. Friedman (1), Patrick Morrissey (1), Susan G. Neff (8), David Schiminovich (9), Luciana Bianchi (10), José Donas (11), Timothy M. Heckman (12), Young-Wook Lee (13), Barry F. Madore (6), Bruno Milliard (11), R. Michael Rich (14), Alex S. Szalay (12) ((1) CalTech, (2) Oxford, (3) Weizmann Institute, (4) LCOGT, (5) LBNL, (6) Carnegie, (7) Max-Planck, (8) LASP NASA Goddard, (9) Columbia, (10) CAS Johns Hopkins, (11) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (12) Department of Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins, (13) Yonsei University, (14) University of California Los Angeles)

Search for a diffuse flux of high-energy $\nu_\mu$ with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

• Authors: ANTARES Collaboration

Proton size anomaly

• Authors: Vernon Barger, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Wai-Yee Keung, Danny Marfatia

Cosmological bounds on sub-MeV mass axions

• Authors: Davide Cadamuro, Steen Hannestad, Georg Raffelt, Javier Redondo

tipa -- 11/16/2010

The Merger Rate of Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf Binaries: Links to the Formation of AM CVn Stars and Underluminous Supernovae

• Authors: Warren R. Brown, Mukremin Kilic, Carlos Allende Prieto, Scott J. Kenyon

Impact of the spectral hardening of TeV cosmic rays on the prediction of the secondary positron flux

• Authors: Julien Lavalle

Blazars in the Fermi Era: The OVRO 40-m Telescope Monitoring Program

• Authors: Joseph L. Richards (1), Walter Max-Moerbeck (1), Vasiliki Pavlidou (1), Oliver G. King (1), Timothy J. Pearson (1), Anthony C. S. Readhead (1), Rodrigo Reeves (1), Martin C. Shepherd (1), Matthew A. Stevenson (1), Lawrence C. Weintraub (1), Lars Fuhrmann (2), Emmanouil Angelakis (2), J. Anton Zensus (2), Stephen E. Healey (3), Roger W. Romani (3), Michael S. Shaw (3), Keith Grainge (4), Mark Birkinshaw (5), Katy Lancaster (5), Diana M. Worrall (5), Gregory B. Taylor (6), Garret Cotter (7), Ricardo Bustos (8) ((1) California Institute of Technology, (2) Max-Planck-Institut-für-Radioastronomie, (3) Stanford University, (4) University of Cambridge / Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge, (5) University of Bristol, (6) University of New Mexico, (7) University of Oxford, (8) Universidad de Concepción / Universidad de Chile)

Identification of a Population of X-ray Emitting Massive Stars in the Galactic Plane

• Authors: G. E. Anderson (1), B. M. Gaensler (1), D. L. Kaplan (2), B. Posselt (3), P. O. Slane (3), S. S. Murray (3), J. C. Mauerhan (4), R. A. Benjamin (5), C. L. Brogan (6), D. Chakrabarty (7), J. J. Drake (3), J. E. Drew (8), J. E. Grindlay (3), J. Hong (3), T. J. W. Lazio (9), J. C. Lee (3), D. T. H. Steeghs (1), M. H. van Kerkwijk (11) ((1) U. Sydney, (2) U. California, (3) CfA, (4) Caltech, (5) U. Wisconsin, (6) NRAO, (7) MIT, (8) U. Hertfordshire, (9) NRL, (10) U. Warwick, (11) U. Toronto)

The revival of an explosion mechanism of massive stars - the quark hadron phase transition during the early post bounce phase of core collapse supernovae

• Authors: T. Fischer, I. Sagert, G. Pagliara, M. Hempel, J. Schaffner-Bielich, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thielemann, R. Käppeli, G. Martínez-Pinedo, M. Liebendörfer

On Luminous Blue Variables as the Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae, especially Type IIn Supernovae

• Authors: Vikram V Dwarkadas

Muon Capture Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Properties

• Authors: David McKeen, Maxim Pospelov

Consistent Scenarios for Cosmic-Ray Excesses from Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Lisa Goodenough, Tracy R. Slatyer, Mark Vogelsberger, Neal Weiner

Anthropic Argument for Three Generations

• Authors: Andrew Gould

Superkicks in ultrarelativistic encounters of spinning black holes

• Authors: Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Frans Pretorius, Nicolas Yunes

tipa -- 11/15/2010

Evidence for Low Black Hole Spin and Physically Motivated Accretion Models from Millimeter VLBI Observations of Sagittarius A*

• Authors: Avery E. Broderick (1), Vincent L. Fish (2), Sheperd S. Doeleman (2), Abraham Loeb (3) ((1) CITA, (2) MIT Haystack, (3) Harvard)

Weak Gravitational Lensing as a Method to Constrain Unstable Dark Matter

• Authors: Mei-Yu Wang, Andrew R. Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

200 A GeV Au+Au collisions serve a nearly perfect quark-gluon liquid

• Authors: Huichao Song (LBNL & Ohio State), Steffen A. Bass (Duke U.), Ulrich W. Heinz (Ohio State), Tetsufumi Hirano (Tokyo U. & LBNL), Chun Shen (Ohio State)

classic papers of the week -- 174

A slice of the universe

• de Lapparent, V.; Geller, M. J.; Huchra, J. P. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Radiative Corrections to Fermi Interactions

• Kinoshita, Toichiro (Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University); Sirlin, Alberto (Physics Department, Columbia University)

Noah, Joseph, and Operational Hydrology

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• Mandelbrot, Benoit B.; Wallis, James R. (International Business Machines Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY)

tipa -- 11/12/2010

The Spectral Slope and Kolmogorov Constant of MHD turbulence

• Authors: Andrey Beresnyak

Detailed Radio View on Two Stellar Explosions and Their Host Galaxy: XRF080109/SN2008D and SN2007uy in NGC2770

• Authors: A.J. van der Horst, A.P. Kamble, Z. Paragi, L.J. Sage, S. Pal, G.B. Taylor, C. Kouveliotou, J. Granot, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, C.H. Ishwara-Chandra, T.A. Oosterloo, R.A.M.J. Wijers, K. Wiersema, R.G. Strom, D. Bhattacharya, E. Rol, R.L.C. Starling, P.A. Curran, M.A. Garrett

The Birth of a Galaxy: Primoridal Metal Enrichment and Population II Stellar Populations

• Authors: John H. Wise (Princeton), Matthew J. Turk, Michael L. Norman (UCSD), Tom Abel (Stanford)

Constraining the S factor of 15N(p,g)16O at Astrophysical Energies

• Authors: P. J. LeBlanc, G. Imbriani, J. Goerres, M. Junker, R. Azuma, M. Beard, D. Bemmerer, A. Best, C. Broggini, A. Caciolli, P. Corvisiero, H. Costantini, M. Couder, R. deBoer, Z. Elekes, S. Falahat, A. Formicola, Zs. Fulop, G. Gervino, A. Guglielmetti, C. Gustavino, Gy. Gyurky, F. Kaeppeler, A. Kontos, R. Kuntz, H. Leiste, A. Lemut, Q. Li, B. Limata, M. Marta, C. Mazzocchi, R. Menegazzo, S. O'Brien, A. Palumbo, P. Prati, V. Roca, C. Rolfs, C. Rossi Alvarez, E. Somorjai, E. Stech, O. Straniero, F. Strieder, W. Tan, F. Terrasi, H.P. Trautvetter, E. Uberseder, M. Wiescher