tipa -- 5/16/2011

GRB 110328A/Swift J164449.3+573451: The Tidal Obliteration of a Deeply Plunging Star?

• Authors: J. K. Cannizzo, E. Troja, G. Lodato

The History of Star Formation in Galaxy Disks in the Local Volume as Measured by the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury

• Authors: Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, L. C. Johnson, Daniel R. Weisz, Anil C. Seth, Andrew Dolphin, Karoline M. Gilbert, Evan Skillman, Keith Rosema, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Jon Holtzman, Roelof S. de Jong

Thermal Instability in Gravitationally-Stratified Plasmas: Implications for Multi-Phase Structure in Clusters and Galaxy Halos

• Authors: Michael McCourt, Prateek Sharma, Eliot Quataert, Ian J. Parrish

classic papers of the week -- 195

Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. I

• Yoichiro Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies and the Department of Physics, The University of Chicago)

A survey of galaxy redshifts. V. The two-point position and velocity correlations

• Davis, M. (University of California, Berkeley); Peebles, P. J. E. (Princeton University)

The Magnetic Field of Massive Rotating Bodies

• Blackett, P. M. S. (The University, Manchester)

tipa -- 5/13/2011

Observation of Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Galactic Cosmic Rays at Multiple Angular Scales with IceCube

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

The Effects of Patchy Reionization on Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way

• Authors: Ragnhild Lunnan (1), Mark Vogelsberger (1), Anna Frebel (1), Lars Hernquist (1), Adam Lidz (2), Michael Boylan-Kolchin (3) ((1) Harvard/CfA, (2) UPenn, (3) UC Irvine)

Expanded Search for z~10 Galaxies from HUDF09, ERS, and CANDELS Data: Evidence for Accelerated Evolution at z>8?

• Authors: P. A. Oesch, R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, I. Labbe, M. Trenti, V. Gonzalez, C. M. Carollo, M. Franx, P. G. van Dokkum, D. Magee

Chandra Detection of SN 2010da Four Months After Outburst: Evidence for a Supergiant X-ray Binary in NGC 300

• Authors: B. Binder, B. F. Williams, A. K. H. Kong, T. J. Gaetz, P. P. Plucinsky, J. J. Dalcanton, D. R. Weisz

Hubble-COS Observations of Galactic High-Velocity Clouds: Four AGN Sight Lines through Complex-C

• Authors: Michael Shull, Matthew Stevans, Charles Danforth, Steven Penton, Felix J. Lockman, Nahum Arav

Episodic mass loss in binary evolution to the Wolf-Rayet phase: Keck and HST proper motions of RY Scuti's nebula

• Authors: Nathan Smith, Robert D. Gehrz, Randy Campbell, Marc Kassis, David Le Mignant, Kawailehua Kuluhiwa, Alexei V. Filippenko

Dwarf galaxy formation with H2-regulated star formation

• Authors: M. Kuhlen, M. Krumholz, P. Madau, B. Smith, J. Wise

The decompression of the outer neutron star crust and r-process nucleosynthesis

• Authors: S. Goriely, N. Chamel, H.-T. Janka, J.M. Pearson

CASTRO: A New Compressible Astrophysical Solver. II. Gray Radiation Hydrodynamics

• Authors: W. Zhang (LBNL), L. Howell (LLNL), A. Almgren (LBNL), A. Burrows (Princeton), J. Bell (LBNL)

A Molecular Spiral Arm in the Far Outer Galaxy

• Authors: T. M. Dame, P. Thaddeus

tipa -- 5/12/2011

Lower-Luminosity Galaxies could reionize the Universe: Very Steep Faint-End Slopes to the UV Luminosity Functions at z>=5-8 from the HUDF09 WFC3/IR Observations

• Authors: R. J. Bouwens (Leiden), G. D. Illingworth (UCSC), P. A. Oesch (UCSC), M. Trenti (Colorado), I. Labbe (Leiden), M. Franx (Leiden), M. Stiavelli (STScI), C. M. Carollo (ETH Zurich), P. van Dokkum (Yale), D. Magee (UCSC)

Radiative transfer in a clumpy universe: IV. New synthesis models of the cosmic UV/X-ray background

• Authors: Francesco Haardt, Piero Madau

Pulsars with gigahertz-peaked spectra

• Authors: J. Kijak, W. Lewandowski, O. Maron, Y. Gupta, A. Jessner

Resonances Driven by a Neutrino Gyroscope and Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Supernovae

• Authors: Meng-Ru Wu, Yong-Zhong Qian (UMN)

Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity with the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework

• Authors: Neil Cornish, Laura Sampson, Nico Yunes, Frans Pretorius

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): A Nulling Polarimeter for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations

• Authors: A. Kogut, D.J. Fixsen, D.T. Chuss, J. Dotson, E. Dwek, M. Halpern, G.F. Hinshaw, S.M. Meyer, S.H. Moseley, M.D. Seiffert, D.N. Spergel, E.J. Wollack

Large-scale Gadolinium-doped Water Cerenkov Detector for Non-Proliferation

• Authors: M. Sweany, A. Bernstein, N.S. Bowden, S. Dazeley, G. Keefer, R. Svoboda, M. Tripathi

tipa -- 5/11/2011

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey III: A very massive star in apparent isolation from the massive cluster R136

• Authors: Joachim M. Bestenlehner, Jorick S. Vink, G. Gräfener, F. Najarro, C. J. Evans, N. Bastian, A. Z. Bonanos, E. Bressert, P. A. Crowther, E. Doran, K. Friedrich, V. Hénault-Brunet, A. Herrero, A. de Koter, N. Langer, D. J. Lennon, J. Maíz Apellániz, H. Sana, I. Soszynski, W. D. Taylor

Turbulence in Global Simulations of Magnetized Thin Accretion Disks

• Authors: Kris Beckwith, Philip J. Armitage, Jacob B. Simon

Non-variable cosmologically distant gamma-ray emitters as an imprint of propagation of ultra-high-energy protons

• Authors: A.Yu. Prosekin, S.R. Kelner, F.A. Aharonian

tipa -- 5/10/2011

Hydrodynamic Interaction between the Be Star and the Pulsar in the TeV Binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883

• Authors: Atsuo T. Okazaki, Shigehiro Nagataki, Tsuguya Naito, Akiko Kawachi, Kimitake Hayasaki, Stanley P. Owocki, Jumpei Takata

Mass and radius estimation for the neutron star in X-ray burster 4U 1820-30

• Authors: K. Kusmierek, J. Madej, E. Kuulkers

Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Gases

• Authors: Leonid M. Malyshkin, Ellen G. Zweibel

A faint optical flash in dust-obscured GRB 080603A - implications for GRB prompt emission mechanisms

• Authors: C. Guidorzi, S. Kobayashi, D.A. Perley, G. Vianello, J.S. Bloom, P. Chandra, D.A. Kann, W. Li, C.G. Mundell, A. Pozanenko, J.X. Prochaska, K. Antoniuk, D. Bersier, A.V. Filippenko, D.A. Frail, A. Gomboc, E. Klunko, A. Melandri, S. Mereghetti, V. Rumyantsev, R.J. Smith, I.A. Steele, N.R. Tanvir, A. Volnova

Relativistic Equation of State for Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations

• Authors: H. Shen, H. Toki, K. Oyamatsu, K. Sumiyoshi

The energy source of the filaments around the giant galaxy NGC1275

• Authors: A.C. Fabian (1), J.S. Sanders (1), R.J.R.Williams (2), A. Lazarian (3), G.J. Ferland (4), R.M. Johnstone (1) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, (2) AWE plc, Aldermaston, UK, (3) Astronomy Dept., University of Wisconsin, USA, Dept of Physics, University of Kentucky, USA)

tipa -- 5/9/2011

Resolving the Reactor Neutrino Anomaly with the KATRIN Neutrino Experiment

• Authors: J. A. Formaggio J. Barrett

Invariants of Collective Neutrino Oscillations

• Authors: Y. Pehlivan, A. B. Balantekin, Toshitaka Kajino, Takashi Yoshida

The nebular spectrum of the type Ia supernova 2003hv: evidence for a non-standard event

• Authors: Paolo A. Mazzali, I. Maurer, M. Stritzinger, S. Taubenberger, S. Benetti, S. Hachinger

GRB 090426: Discovery of a jet break in a short burst afterglow

• Authors: A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, S. Klose, A. Rossi, D. A. Kann, T. Krühler, J. Greiner, A. Rau, F. Olivares E., P. M. J. Afonso, R. Filgas, A. Küpcü Yoldaş, S. McBreen, M. Nardini, P. Schady, S. Schmidl, A. C. Updike, A. Yoldaş

pMSSM Dark Matter Searches on Ice

• Authors: R.C. Cotta, K.T.K. Howe, J.L. Hewett, T.G. Rizzo

classic papers of the week -- 194

A numerical approach to the testing of the fission hypothesis

• Lucy, L. B. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge; European Southern Observatory, Geneva)

Is Baryon Number Conserved?

• Jogesh C. Pati (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy & University of Maryland, College Park, MD), Abdus Salam (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy & Imperial College, London)

Two Prehistoric Drawings of Possible Astronomical Significance

• Miller, William C. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories)

tipa -- 5/6/2011

On the nature of the extremely fast optical rebrightening of the afterglow of GRB 081029

• Authors: M. Nardini, J. Greiner, T. Kruehler, R. Filgas, S. Klose, P. Afonso, C. Clemens, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, F. Olivares E., A. Rau, A. Rossi, A. Updike, A. Kupcu Yoldas, A. Yoldas, D. Burlon, J. Elliott, D.A. Kann

G-Mode Excitation During the Pre-explosive Simmering of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Anthony L. Piro (Caltech)

Reconnection-Powered Linear Accelerator and Gamma-Ray Flares in the Crab Nebula

• Authors: Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Benoit Cerutti, Mitchell C. Begelman

Deep Spitzer observations of infrared-faint radio sources: high-redshift radio-loud AGN?

• Authors: Ray P. Norris, Jose Afonso, Antonio Cava, Duncan Farrah, Minh T. Huynh, R. J. Ivison, Matt Jarvis, Mark Lacy, Minnie Mao, Claudia Maraston, Jean-Christophe Mauduit, Enno Middelberg, Seb Oliver, Nick Seymour, Jason Surace

Lifting the Veil on Obscured Accretion: Active Galactic Nuclei Number Counts and Survey Strategies for Imaging Hard X-ray Missions

• Authors: D.R. Ballantyne (1), A.R. Draper (1), K.K. Madsen (2), J.R. Rigby (3,4), E. Treister (5,6) ((1) Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Tech (2) SRL, Caltech (3) Carnegie Observatories (4) NASA/GSFC (5) University of Hawaii (6) Universidad de Concepcion)

Formation of Dust in the Ejecta of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Takaya Nozawa, Keiichi Maeda, Takashi Kozasa, Masaomi Tanaka, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Hideyuki Umeda

Analysis of matter suppression in collective neutrino oscillations during the supernova accretion phase

• Authors: Sovan Chakraborty (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Tobias Fischer (GSI & Technische Univ. Darmstadt), Alessandro Mirizzi (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Ninetta Saviano (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Ricard Tomas (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.)

tipa -- 5/5/2011

The Protostellar Luminosity Function

• Authors: Stella S. R. Offner (1), Christopher F. McKee (2) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (2) UC Berkeley)

Alfven Wave Amplification and Self-Containment of Cosmic-Rays Escaping from a Supernova Remnant

• Authors: Yutaka Fujita, Fumio Takahara (Osaka), Yutaka Ohira (KEK), Kazunari Iwasaki (Nagoya)

Binary population synthesis study on supersoft X-ray phase of single degenerate type Ia supernova progenitors

• Authors: Xiangcun Meng, Wuming Yang

On the nature of the prototype LBV AG Carinae II. Witnessing a massive star evolving close to the Eddington and bistability limits

• Authors: Jose H. Groh (Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Germany), D. John Hillier (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Augusto Damineli (IAG-Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)

tipa -- 5/4/2011

Spectroscopic evidence for SN 2010ma associated with GRB 101219B

• Authors: M. Sparre, J. Sollerman, J.P.U. Fynbo, D. Malesani, P. Goldoni, A. de Ugarte Postigo, S. Covino, V. D'Elia, H. Flores, F. Hammer, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, L. Kaper, G. Leloudas, A.J. Levan, B. Milvang-Jensen, S. Schulze, G. Tagliaferri, N.R. Tanvir, D.J. Watson, K. Wiersema, R.A.M.J. Wijers

VERITAS Observations of the TeV Binary LS I +61 303 During 2008-2010

• Authors: VERITAS collaboration

A Search for Pulsations in Helium White Dwarfs

• Authors: Justin D. R. Steinfadt, Lars Bildsten, David L. Kaplan, Benjamin J. Fulton, Steve B. Howell, T. R. Marsh, Eran O. Ofek, Avi Shporer

On the Location of the Gamma-ray Emission in the 2008 Outburst in the BL Lacertae Object AO 0235+164 through Observations across the Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Authors: Ivan Agudo, Alan P. Marscher, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Valeri M. Larionov, Jose L. Gomez, Anne Lahteenmaki, Paul S. Smith, Kari Nilsson, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Margo F. Aller, Jochen Heidt, Mark Gurwell, Clemens Thum, Ann E. Wehrle, Hugh D. Aller, Erika Benitez, Dmitriy A. Blinov, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, David Hiriart, Buell T. Jannuzi, Manasvita Joshi, Elina Lindfors, Sol N. Molina, Daria A. Morozova, Elina Nieppola, Alice R. Olmstead, Riho Reinthal, Mar Roca--Sogorb, Gary D. Schmidt, Aimo Sillanpaa, Leo Takalo, Brian Taylor, Merja Tornikoski, Ivan S. Troitsky, Alma C. Zook, Helmut Wiesemeyer

Wind modelling of very massive stars up to 300 solar masses

• Authors: Jorick S. Vink (Armagh Observatory), L.E. Muijres, B. Anthonisse, A. de Koter, G. Graefener, N. Langer

The TeV binary HESS J0632+057 in the low and high X-ray state

• Authors: Nanda Rea (CSIC/IEEC), Diego F. Torres (CSIC/IEEC, ICREA)

Particle Transport in intense small scale magnetic turbulence with a mean field

• Authors: I. Plotnikov, G. Pelletier, M. Lemoine

Production of neutron-rich nuclei in fragmentation reactions of 132Sn projectiles at relativistic energies

• Authors: D. Pérez-Loureiro, J. Benlliure, H. Álvarez-Pol, B. Blank, E. Casarejos, D. Dragosavac, V. Föhr, M. Gascón, W. Gawlikowicz, A. Heinz, K. Helariutta, A. Kelić, S. Lukić, F. Montes, L. Pieńkowski, K-H. Schmidt, M. Staniou, K. Subotić, K. Sümmerer, J. Taieb, A. Trzcińska

tipa -- 5/3/2011

Constraints on Cold Magnetized Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Ramesh Narayan (1), Pawan Kumar (2), Alexander Tchekhovskoy (3) ((1) Harvard-CfA, (2) University of Texas, (3) Princeton)

Revisiting the double-binary-pulsar probe of non-dynamical Chern-Simons gravity

• Authors: Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

Fast Shocks From Magnetic Reconnection Outflows

• Authors: Jared C. Workman, Eric G. Blackman, Chuang Ren

Magnetic fields in cosmic particle acceleration sources

• Authors: Andrei M. Bykov, Donald C. Ellison, Matthieu Renaud

Cosmic rays in galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields

• Authors: Felix Aharonian, Andrei Bykov, Etienne Parizot, Vladimir Ptuskin, Alan Watson

Searching for 511 keV annihilation line from galactic compact objects with the IBIS gamma ray telescope

• Authors: G. De Cesare

The Effect of Blazar Spectral Breaks on the Blazar Contribution to the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background

• Authors: Tonia M. Venters, Vasiliki Pavlidou

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Evidence for Dark Energy from the CMB Alone

• Authors: Blake D. Sherwin, Joanna Dunkley, Sudeep Das, John W. Appel, J. Richard Bond, C. Sofia Carvalho, Mark J. Devlin, Rolando Dunner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Joseph W. Fowler, Amir Hajian, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Adam D. Hincks, Renee Hlozek, John P. Hughes, Kent D. Irwin, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Kavilan Moodley, Felipe Menanteau, Michael D. Niemack, Michael R. Nolta, Lyman A. Page, Lucas Parker, Erik D. Reese, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Neelima Sehgal, Jon Sievers, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Robert Thornton, Katerina Visnjic, Ed Wollack

Gravitational waves and nonaxisymmetric oscillation modes in mergers of compact object binaries

• Authors: Nikolaos Stergioulas, Andreas Bauswein, Kimon Zagkouris, Hans-Thomas Janka

tipa -- 5/2/2011

Rest-frame properties of 32 gamma-ray bursts observed by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor

• Authors: D.Gruber, J. Greiner, A. von Kienlin, A. Rau, M. S. Briggs, V. Connaughton, A. Goldstein, A. J. van der Horst, M. Nardini, P. N. Bhat, E. Bissaldi, J. M. Burgess, V. L. Chaplin, R. Diehl, G. J. Fishman, G. Fitzpatrick, S.Foley, M. H. Gibby, M. M. Giles, S. Guiriec, R. M. Kippen, C. Kouveliotou, L. Lin, S. McBreen, C. A. Meegan, F. Olivares E., W. S. Paciesas, R. D. Preece, D. Tierney, C. Wilson-Hodge

Detection of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission during the X-ray flaring activity in GRB100728A

• Authors: The Fermi Collaboration, L. Piro

Electromagnetic Transients Powered by Nuclear Decay in the Tidal Tails of Coalescing Compact Binaries

• Authors: Luke F. Roberts, Dan Kasen, William H. Lee, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Population III Gamma-Ray Bursts and Breakout Criteria for Accretion-Powered Jets

• Authors: Hiroki Nagakura, Yudai Suwa, Kunihito Ioka

The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA

• Authors: Michael Wurm, John F. Beacom, Leonid B. Bezrukov, Daniel Bick, Johannes Blümer, Sandhya Choubey, Christian Ciemniak, Davide D'Angelo, Basudeb Dasgupta, Amol Dighe, Grigorij Domogatsky, Steve Dye, Sergey Eliseev, Timo Enqvist, Alexey Erykalov, Franz von Feilitzsch, Gianni Fiorentini, Tobias Fischer, Marianne Göger-Neff, Peter Grabmayr, Caren Hagner, Dominikus Hellgartner, Johannes Hissa, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Hans-Thomas Janka, Claude Jaupart, Josef Jochum, Tuomo Kalliokoski, Pasi Kuusiniemi, Tobias Lachenmaier, Ionel Lazanu, John G. Learned, Timo Lewke, Paolo Lombardi, Sebastian Lorenz, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, Livia Ludhova, Kai Loo, Jukka Maalampi, Fabio Mantovani, Michela Marafini, Jelena Maricic, Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia, William F. McDonough, Lino Miramonti, Alessandro Mirizzi, Quirin Meindl, Olga Mena, Randolph Möllenberg, Rolf Nahnhauer, Dmitry Nesterenko, Yuri N. Novikov, Guido Nuijten, Lothar Oberauer, Sandip Pakvasa, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Marco Pallavicini, Silvia Pascoli, Thomas Patzak, Juha Peltoniemi, Walter Potzel, Tomi Räihä, Georg G. Raffelt, Gioacchino Ranucci, Soebur Razzaque, Kari Rummukainen, Juho Sarkamo, Valerij Sinev, Christian Spiering, Achim Stahl, Felicitas Thorne, Marc Tippmann, Alessandra Tonazzo, Wladyslaw H. Trzaska, John D. Vergados, Christopher Wiebusch, Jürgen Winter

Relic Abundance of Asymmetric Dark Matter

• Authors: Hoernisa Iminniyaz, Manuel Drees, Xuelei Chen

First Observation of Radiative B^0 -> φK^0 γDecays and Measurements of Their Time-Dependent CP Violation

• Authors: H. Sahoo, T. E. Browder for the Belle Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 193

Advantages of the Color Octet Gluon Picture

• H. Fritzsch, Murray Gell-Mann, H. Leutwyler (California Institute of Technology)

Clustering in real space and in redshift space

• Kaiser, Nick (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

A treatise of the scurvy

• James Lind (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh)

tipa -- 4/29/2011

Chemical Reaction of Ultracold Atoms and Ions in a Hybrid Trap

• Authors: Wade G. Rellergert, Scott T. Sullivan, Svetlana Kotochigova, Alexander Petrov, Kuang Chen, Steven J. Schowalter, Eric R. Hudson

Swift Observations of MAXI J1659-152: A Compact Binary with a Black Hole Accretor

• Authors: J.A. Kennea, P. Romano, V. Mangano, A.P. Beardmore, P.A. Evans, P.A. Curran, H.A. Krimm, C.B. Markwardt, K.Yamaoka

The Local Leo Cold Cloud and New Limits on a Local Hot Bubble

• Authors: J. E. G. Peek, Carl Heiles, Kathryn M. G. Peek, David M. Meyer, J. T. Lauroesch

The 2010 May Flaring Episode of Cygnus X-3 in Radio, X-Rays, and γ-Rays

• Authors: Peter K. G. Williams, John A. Tomsick, Arash Bodaghee, Geoffrey C. Bower, Guy G. Pooley, Katja Pottschmidt, Jérôme Rodriguez, Jörn Wilms, Simone Migliari, Sergei A. Trushkin

Two-stream-like instability in dilute hot relativistic beams and astrophysical relativistic shocks

• Authors: Ehud Nakar, Antoine Bret, Milos Milosavjevic

Synthetic line and continuum linear-polarisation signatures of axisymmetric type II supernova ejecta

• Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier