classic papers of the week -- 50

Can quantum mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?

• Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen

Bringing home the atomic world: Quantum mysteries for anybody

• Mermin, N. D.

Gravitational radiation and the evolution of cataclysmic binaries

• Paczynski, B.; Sienkiewicz, R.

Historical Supernovae

• Green, D. A.; Stephenson, F. R.

tipa -- 12/21/2007

Swift and Chandra Detections of Supernova 2006jc: Evidence for Interaction of the Supernova Shock with a Circumstellar Shell

• Authors: S. Immler, M. Modjaz, W. Landsman, F. Bufano, P. J. Brown, P. Milne, L. Dessart, S. T. Holland, M. Koss, D. Pooley, R. P. Kirshner, A. V. Filippenko, N. Panagia, R. A. Chevalier, P. A. Mazzali, N. Gehrels, R. Petre, D. N. Burrows, J. A. Nousek, P. W. A. Roming, E. Pian, A. M. Soderberg, J. Greiner

The Spitzer Gould Belt Survey of Large Nearby Interstellar Clouds: Discovery of a Dense Embedded Cluster in the Serpens-Aquila Rift

• Authors: R. A. Gutermuth, T. L. Bourke, L. E. Allen, P. C. Myers, S. T. Megeath, B. C. Matthews, J. K. Jørgensen, J. Di Francesco, D. Ward-Thompson, T. L. Huard, T. Y. Brooke, M. M. Dunham, L. A. Cieza, P. M. Harvey, N. L. Chapman

Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts in Young Host Galaxies: the Effect of Prompt Twins

• Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, K.Z. Stanek, Chris L. Fryer

Heavy Cosmic Ray Nuclei from Extragalactic Sources above 'The Ankle'

• Authors: Tadeusz Wibig, Arnold W. Wolfendale

First results from the OSQAR photon regeneration experiment: No light shining through a wall

• Authors: OSQAR Collaboration: Pierre Pugnat (1), Lionel Duvillaret (2), Remy Jost (3), Guy Vitrant (2), Daniele Romanini (3), Andrzej Siemko (1), Rafik Ballou (4), Bernard Barbara (4), Michael Finger (5), Miroslav Finger (5), Jan Hosek (6), Miroslav Kral (1 and 6), Krzysztof A. Meissner (7), Miroslav Sulc (8), Josef Zicha (6) ((1) CERN, (2) MINATEC-INPG, (3) LSP-CNRS/UJF, (4) Institut Neel-CNRS/UJF, (5) Charles University, (6) Czech Technical University, (7) University of Warsaw, (8) Technical University of Liberec)

tipa -- 12/20/2007

Supernova explosions and the birth of neutron stars

• Authors: H.-Th. Janka, A. Marek, B. Mueller, L. Scheck (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)

tipa -- 12/19/2007

GRB070125: The First Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst in a Halo Environment

• Authors: S. B. Cenko, D. B. Fox, B. E. Penprase, A. Cucchiara, P. A. Price, E. Berger, S. R. Kulkarni, F. A. Harrison, A. Gal-Yam, E. O. Ofek, A. Rau, P. Chandra, D. A. Frail, M. K. Kasliwal, B. P. Schmidt, A. M. Soderberg, P. B. Cameron, K. C. Roth

Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei

• Authors: The Pierre auger Collaboration

Nucleosynthesis in early supernova winds III: No significant contribution from neutron-rich pockets

• Authors: R. D. Hoffman, J. Pruet, J. L. Fisker, H.-T. Janka, R. Burras, S. E. Woosley

Variable VHE gamma-ray emission from non-blazar AGNs

• Authors: F.M. Rieger, F.A. Aharonian

tipa -- 12/18/2007

Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers

• Authors: Zachariah B. Etienne, Joshua A. Faber, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, Keisuke Taniguchi, Thomas W. Baumgarte

Atypical Thermonuclear Supernovae from Tidally Crushed White Dwarfs

• Authors: S. Rosswog, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, W.R. Hix

Linking optical and infrared observations with gravitational wave sources through variability

• Authors: Christopher W. Stubbs

The Relic Abundance of Massive Colored Particles after a Late Hadronic Annihilation Stage

• Authors: Chen Jacoby, Shmuel Nussinov

tipa -- 12/17/2007

Go Long, Go Deep: Finding Optical Jet Breaks for Swift-Era GRBs with the LBT

• Authors: X. Dai, P. M. Garnavich, J. L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, C. S. Kochanek, J. Bechtold, N. Bouche, P. Buschkamp, E. Diolaiti, X. Fan, E. Giallongo, R. Gredel, J. M. Hill, L. Jiang, C. McClellend, P. Milne, F. Pedichini, R. W. Pogge, R. Ragazzoni, J. Rhoads, R. Smareglia, D. Thompson, R. M. Wagner

An Interaction of a Magellanic Leading Arm High Velocity Cloud with the Milky Way Disk

• Authors: N. M. McClure-Griffiths, L. Staveley-Smith, F. J. Lockman, M. R. Calabretta, H. A. Ford, P. M. W. Kalberla, T. Murphy, H. Nakanishi, D. J. Pisano

classic papers of the week -- 49

Neutrino Oscillations and Stellar Collapse

• L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

The Unit of Stellar Distance

• Heber D. Curtis

tipa -- 12/14/2007

The Afterglows of Swift-era Gamma-Ray Bursts. I. Comparing pre-Swift and Swift era Long/Soft (Type II) GRB Optical Afterglows

• Authors: D. A. Kann, S. Klose, B. Zhang, D. Malesani, E. Nakar, A. C. Wilson, N. R. Butler, L. A. Antonelli, G. Chincarini, B. E. Cobb, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, V. D'Elia, M. Della Valle, P. Ferrero, D. Fugazza, J. Gorosabel, G. L. Israel, F. Mannucci, S. Piranomonte, S. Schulze, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, K. Wiersema

Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al

tipa -- 12/13/2007

An extreme IMF as an explanation for high M/L ratios in UCDs? The CO index as a tracer of bottom heavy IMFs

• Authors: Steffen Mieske, Pavel Kroupa

Low Metallicity Indicates that the Hypervelocity Star HE 0437-5439 was Ejected from the LMC

• Authors: Alceste Z. Bonanos, Mercedes Lopez-Morales (Carnegie-DTM)

Ultra-high energy Neutrinos from Centaurus A and the Auger hot spot

• Authors: Alessandro Cuoco, Steen Hannestad

Upper limit on the diffuse flux of UHE tau neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Model-Independent Bound on the Dark Matter Lifetime

• Authors: Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (Durham U., IPPP)

A celestial gamma-ray foreground due to the albedo of small solar system bodies and a remote probe of the interstellar cosmic ray spectrum

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford), Troy A. Porter (UCSC), Seth W. Digel (SLAC), Peter F. Michelson (Stanford), Jonathan F. Ormes (DU)

tipa -- 12/12/2007

Massive-Star Forming Infrared Loop around the Crab-like Supernova Remnant G54.1+0.3: Post Main-Sequence Triggered Star Formation?

• Authors: Bon-Chul Koo, Christopher F. McKee, Jae-Joon Lee, Ho-Gyu Lee, Jeong-Eun Lee, Dae-Sik Moon, Seung Soo Hong, Hidehiro Kaneda, Takashi Onaka

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray production in the polar cap regions of black hole magnetospheres

• Authors: A.Neronov, D.Semikoz, I.Tkachev

Imaging the Gamma-Ray Sky with SPI aboard INTEGRAL

• Authors: Jürgen Knödlseder (CESR), Georg Weidenspointner (CESR), Pierre Jean (CESR), Roland Diehl (MPE), Andrew Strong (MPE), Hubert Halloin (APC), Bertrand Cordier (SAp), Stéphane Schanne (SAp), Chris Winkler (ESA/ESTEC)

tipa -- 12/11/2007

Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts with Extended Emission from Proto-Magnetar Spin-Down

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

Hard X-ray emission from Eta Carinae

• Authors: Jean-Christophe Leyder, Roland Walter, Gregor Rauw

The Stellar Initial Mass Function at the Epoch of Reionization

• Authors: Ranga-Ram Chary

A Giant Flare from a Soft Gamma Repeater in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31

• Authors: E.P. Mazets, R.L. Aptekar, T.L. Cline, D.D. Frederiks, J.O. Goldsten, S.V. Golenetskii, K. Hurley, A. von Kienlin, V.D. Pal'shin

Gravitational Wave Detection with Atom Interferometry

• Authors: Savas Dimopoulos, Peter W. Graham, Jason M. Hogan, Mark A. Kasevich, Surjeet Rajendran

tipa -- 12/10/2007

The lowest-mass stellar black holes: catastrophic death of neutron stars in gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: K. Belczynski, R. O'Shaughnessy, V. Kalogera, F. Rasio, R. Taam, T. Bulik

How rapidly do neutron stars spin at birth? Constraints from archival X-ray observations of extragalactic supernovae

• Authors: Rosalba Perna (1), Roberto Soria (2), Dave Pooley (3), Luigi Stella (4) ((1) CU-Boulder/JILA; (2) MSSL; (3) U. of Wisconsin-Madison; (4) INAF-OAR)

Primordial Nucleosynthesis in the Precision Cosmology Era

• Authors: Gary Steigman

Mu-tau neutrino refraction and collective three-flavor transformations in supernovae

• Authors: Andreu Esteban-Pretel, Sergio Pastor, Ricard Tomas, Georg G. Raffelt, Gunter Sigl

Pre-Merger Localization of Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens With LISA: Triggered Search for an Electromagnetic Counterpart

• Authors: Bence Kocsis (Harvard), Zoltan Haiman (Columbia), Kristen Menou (Columbia)

Upper limit on the cosmic-ray photon flux above 10^19 eV using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

HESS VHE Gamma-Ray Sources Without Identified Counterparts

• Authors: HESS Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

The Importance of Being First: Position Dependent Citation Rates on arXiv:astro-ph

• Authors: J. P. Dietrich

classic papers of the week -- 48

A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257 + 12

• Wolszczan, A. (Arecibo Observatory, PR); Frail, D. A. (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM)

Internal Pair Production Associated with the Emission of High-Energy Gamma Rays

• Kroll, Norman M. (Columbia University, New York, New York); Wada, Walter (Naval Research Laboratories, Washington, D.C.)

Parity of the Neutral Pion

• Plano, R.; Prodell, A.; Samios, N.; Schwartz, M.; Steinberger, J. (Columbia University, New York, New York)

tipa -- 12/7/2007

Thermal Balance in the Intracluster Medium: Is AGN Feedback Necessary?

• Authors: Charlie Conroy, Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton)

The Contribution of Halo White Dwarf Binaries to the LISA Signal

• Authors: Ashley J. Ruiter (1), Krzysztof Belczynski (2,1), Matthew Benacquista (3), Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (4) ((1) NMSU, (2) LANL, (3) CGWA at UTB, (4) Vanderbilt)

Discovery of Extended X-Ray emission from the unidentified TeV source HESS J1614-518 using the Suzaku Satellite

• Authors: Hironori Matsumoto (1), Hideki Uchiyama (1), Makoto Sawada (1), Takeshi G. Tsuru (1), Katsuji Koyama (1), Hideaki Katagiri (2), Ryo Yamazaki (2), Aya Bamba (3), Kazunori Kohri (4), Koji Mori (5), Yasunobu Uchiyama (3) ((1) Kyoto University, (2) Hiroshima University, (3) ISAS/JAXA, (4) Lancaster University, (5) Miyazaki University)

Suzaku Spectroscopy of an X-Ray Reflection Nebula and a New Supernova Remnant Candidate in the Sgr B1 Region

• Authors: Masayoshi Nobukawa, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Yojiro Takikawa, Yoshiaki Hyodo, Tatsuya Inui, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hironori Matsumoto, Katsuji Koyama, Hiroshi Murakami, Shigeo Yamauchi

Estimating the total infrared luminosity of galaxies up to z~2 from mid- and far-infrared observations

• Authors: N. Bavouzet, H. Dole, E. Le Floc'h, K.I. Caputi, G. Lagache, C.S. Kochanek

Precision Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on the Standard Model

• Authors: The LEP Collaborations: ALEPH Collaboration, DELPHI Collaboration, L3 Collaboration, OPAL Collaboration, the LEP Electroweak Working Group

tipa -- 12/6/2007

Trouble for AGN Feedback ? The puzzle of the core of the Galaxy Cluster AWM 4

• Authors: Fabio Gastaldello (1,2), David A. Buote (1), Fabrizio Brighenti (2,3), William G. Mathews (3) ((1) UC Irvine, (2) Universita' di Bologna, (3) UC Santa Cruz)

Spiral inflow feeding the nuclear starburst in M83, observed in H-alpha emission with the GHAFAS Fabry-Perot interferometer

• Authors: Kambiz Fathi, John E. Beckman, Andreas A. Lundgren, Claude Carignan, Olivier Hernandez, Philippe Amram, Philippe Balard, Jacques Boulesteix, Jean-Luc Gach, Johan H. Knapen, Monica Relaño

tipa -- 12/5/2007

Interactions, star formation and AGN activity

• Authors: Cheng Li, Guinevere Kauffmann, Timothy M. Heckman, Simon D. M. White, Y. P. Jing

Galaxy Mergers at z>1 in the HUDF: Evidence for a Peak in the Major Merger Rate of Massive Galaxies

• Authors: R. E. Ryan, S. H. Cohen, R. A. Windhorst, J. Silk

Long Gamma-Ray Bursts and Type Ic Core Collapse Supernovae Have Similar Environments

• Authors: P. L. Kelly (1 and 2), R. P. Kirshner (2), M. Pahre (2) ((1) Stanford University, (2) CfA)

A Global Probe of Cosmic Magnetic Fields to High Redshifts

• Authors: P. P. Kronberg, M. L. Bernet, F. Miniati, S. J. Lilly, M. B. Short, D. M. Higdon

Test of the Equivalence Principle Using a Rotating Torsion Balance

• Authors: S. Schlamminger, K.-Y. Choi, T. A. Wagner, J. H. Gundlach, E. G. Adelberger

tipa -- 12/4/2007

The Broadband Spectrum of Galaxy Clusters

• Authors: Brandon Wolfe, Fulvio Melia

Spectral imaging of the Sagittarius B2 region in multiple 3-mm molecular lines with the Mopra telescope

• Authors: P. A. Jones, M. G. Burton, M. R. Cunningham, K. M. Menten, P. Schilke, A. Belloche, S. Leurini, J. Ott, A. J. Walsh

tipa -- 12/3/2007

On the variability of quasars: a link between Eddington ratio and optical variability?

• Authors: B. C. Wilhite, R. J. Brunner, C. J. Grier, D. P. Schneider, D. E. Vanden Berk

Clues to the Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation: Dependence on Star Formation Rate and Galaxy Size

• Authors: Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Luc Simard, Alan W. McConnachie

Dark Matter and Baryons in the Most X-ray Luminous and Merging Galaxy Cluster RX J1347.5-1145

• Authors: Maruša Bradač (1 and 2), Tim Schrabback (3), Thomas Erben (3), Michael McCourt (1), Evan Million (1), Adam Mantz (1), Steve Allen (1), Roger Blandford (1), Aleksi Halkola (3), Hendrik Hildebrand (3), Marco Lombardi (4 and 5), Phil Marshall (2), Peter Schneider (3), Tommaso Treu (2), Jean-Paul Kneib (6) ((1) KIPAC, Stanford, (2) UC Santa Barbara, (3) AIfA, Bonn, (4) ESO, (5) Universita degli Studi, Milano, (6) OAMP, Marseille)

The impact of going beyond the Maxwell distribution in direct dark matter detection rates

• Authors: J. D. Vergados, S. H. Hansen, O. Host

Vigorous star formation with low efficiency in massive disk galaxies at z=1.5

• Authors: E. Daddi, H. Dannerbauer, D. Elbaz, M. Dickinson, G. Morrison, D. Stern, S. Ravindranath

EeV neutrinos associated with UHECR sources

• Authors: Zhuo Li, Eli Waxman

Majorana Neutrinos, Neutrino Mass Spectrum and the || ~ 0.001 eV Frontier in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

• Authors: S. Pascoli, S. T. Petcov

classic papers of the week -- 47

Perturbations of a Cosmological Model and Angular Variations of the Microwave Background

• Sachs, R. K.; Wolfe, A. M.

On Closed Shells in Nuclei

• Mayer, Maria G. (Argonne National Laboratory and Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago)

On the "Magic Numbers" in Nuclear Structure

• Haxel, Otto (Max Planck Institut, Göttingen); Jensen, J. Hans (Institut f. theor. Physik, Heidelberg); Suess, Hans E. (Inst. f. phys. Chemie, Hamburg)

tipa -- 11/30/2007

The circumstellar medium around a rapidly rotating, chemically homogeneously evolving, possible gamma-ray burst progenitor

• Authors: Allard Jan van Marle, Norbert Langer, Sung-Chul Yoon, Guillermo Garcia-Segura

Enhanced high-energy neutrino emission from choked gamma-ray bursts due to meson and muon acceleration

• Authors: Hylke B. J. Koers, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers

Occurrence of Metal-free Galaxies in the Early Universe

• Authors: Jarrett L. Johnson, Thomas H. Greif, Volker Bromm

Extracting the Gamma Ray Signal from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center Region

• Authors: Scott Dodelson, Dan Hooper, Pasquale D. Serpico

Dark-matter sterile neutrinos in models with a gauge singlet in the Higgs sector

• Authors: Kalliopi Petraki, Alexander Kusenko

tipa -- 11/29/2007

Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies with Spitzer: The Infrared/Radio Properties

• Authors: Yanling Wu, V. Charmandaris, J.R. Houck, J.Bernard-Salas, V.Lebouteiller, B.R. Brandl, D. Farrah

Magnetic Field Amplification and Rapid Time Variations in SNR RX J1713.7-3946

• Authors: Donald C. Ellison, Andrey Vladimirov

tipa -- 11/28/2007

Swift BAT Survey of AGN

• Authors: J. Tueller, R. F. Mushotzky, S. Barthelmy, J. K. Cannizzo, N. Gehrels, C. B. Markwardt, G. K. Skinner, L. M. Winter

Constraints on the correlation between QSO luminosity and host halo mass from high-redshift quasar clustering

• Authors: Martin White, Paul Martini, J.D. Cohn

tipa -- 11/27/2007

Interaction-induced star formation in a complete sample of 10^5 nearby star-forming galaxies

• Authors: Cheng Li, Guinevere Kauffmann, Timothy Heckman, Y. P. Jing, Simon D. M. White

A Simultaneous Solution to the ^6Li and ^7Li Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Problems from a Long-Lived Negatively-Charged Leptonic Particle

• Authors: Motohiko Kusakabe, Toshitaka Kajino, Richard N. Boyd, Takashi Yoshida, Grant J. Mathews

Contribution to Unresolved Infrared Fluctuations from Dwarf Galaxies at Redshifts of 2-3

• Authors: Ranga-Ram Chary, Asantha Cooray, Ian Sullivan

Quasistars: Accreting black holes inside massive envelopes

• Authors: Mitchell C. Begelman, Elena M. Rossi, Philip J. Armitage (JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder)

tipa -- 11/26/2007

A Test of the Copernican Principle

• Authors: R. R. Caldwell, A. Stebbins

Constraining the cosmic ray source spectrum from observations in the GZK regime

• Authors: M.Kachelriess, E.Parizot, D.V.Semikoz

When GRB afterglows get softer, hard components come into play

• Authors: A. Moretti (1), R. Margutti (1,2), F. Pasotti (1,2), A.P. Beardmore (3), S. Campana (1), G. Chincarini (2,1), S. Covino (1), O. Godet (3), C. Guidorzi (2,1) J.P. Osborne (3), P. Romano (2,1), G. Tagliaferri (1) ((1) INAF-OAB; (2) U. Bicocca; (3) U. Leicester)

thanksgiving tipa -- 11/22/2007

Rare White dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres

• Authors: P. Dufour, James Liebert, G. Fontaine, N. Behara

Supernova Relic Electron Neutrinos and anti-Neutrinos in future Large-scale Observatories

• Authors: C. Volpe, J. Welzel

On the nature of the fast moving star S2 in the Galactic Center

• Authors: F. Martins (1), S. Gillessen (1), F. Eisenhauer (1), R. Genzel (1,2), T. Ott (1), S. Trippe (1) ((1) MPE Garching, (2) Berkeley)

tipa -- 11/21/2007

Search for Ultra High-Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II

• Authors: The IceCube Collaboration: M. Ackermann, et al

Different progenitors of short hard gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Eleonora Troja, Andrew R. King, Paul T. O'Brien, Nicola Lyons, Giancarlo Cusumano

The effect of massive binaries on stellar populations and supernova progenitors

• Authors: John J. Eldridge, Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout

The Galactic Positron Annihilation Radiation & The Propagation of Positrons in the Interstellar Medium

• Authors: J. C. Higdon (Claremont Colleges), R. E. Lingenfelter (UCSD), R. E. Rothschild (UCSD)

Upper Limits from HESS AGN Observations in 2005-2007

• Authors: HESS Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

Nuclear Astrophysics Before 1957

• Authors: Edwin E. Salpeter

LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al

tipa -- 11/20/2007

Dark Matter Might Decay... Just Not Today!

• Authors: Hasan Yuksel, Matthew D. Kistler (Ohio State University)

On Gamma Ray Burst and Blazar AGN Origins of the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays in Light of First Results from Auger

• Authors: Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

Constraints on the TeV source population and its contribution to the galactic diffuse TeV emission

• Authors: Sabrina Casanova, Brenda L. Dingus

Probing new physics with long-lived charged particles produced by atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos

• Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando (Caltech), John F. Beacom (Ohio State), Stefano Profumo (UCSC/Caltech), David Rainwater (Rochester)

Neutrino Experiments: Status, Recent Progress, and Prospects

• Authors: Steve Brice

tipa -- 11/19/2007

Production of Neutrinos and Secondary Electrons in Cosmic Sources

• Authors: C.-Y. Huang, M. Pohl

Starburst galaxies in cluster-feeding filaments unveiled by Spitzer

• Authors: Dario Fadda (1), Andrea Biviano (2), Francine R. Marleau (3), Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi (3), Florence Durret (4) ((1) NHSC-Caltech (2) INAF-Trieste (3) SSC-Caltech (4) IAP-CNRS)

The Detection of a Light Echo from the Type Ia Supernova 2006X in M100

• Authors: Xiaofeng Wang (1,2), Weidong Li (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (1), Ryan J. Foley (1), Nathan Smith (1), Lifan Wang (3) (1. UC Berkeley; 2. Tsinghua University; 3. Texas A&M University)

Upper limit for gamma-ray emission above 140 GeV from the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Draco

• Authors: J. Albert, et al, for the MAGIC Collaboration

High-energy neutrinos from reverse shocks in gamma-ray burst progenitors

• Authors: Shunsaku Horiuchi (Tokyo University), Shin'ichiro Ando (Caltech)

classic papers of the week -- 46

On the Interaction of Radiation from Distant Sources with the Intervening Medium

• Bahcall, John N.; Salpeter, E. E.

A stone's throw into the universe: A memoir

• Zwicky, F. (California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena)

The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics

• Richard P. Feynman

tipa -- 11/16/2007

Consequences of dark matter self-annihilation for galaxy formation

• Authors: Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale), Darren Croton (Berkeley), Gianfranco Bertone (IAP)

Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Centaurus A

• Authors: Andres Jordan, Gregory R. Sivakoff, Dean E. McLaughlin, John P. Blakeslee, Daniel A. Evans, Ralph P. Kraft, Martin J. Hardcastle, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Cote, Judith H. Croston, Adrienne M. Juett, Dante Minniti, Somak Raychaudhury, Craig L. Sarazin, Diana M. Worrall, William E. Harris, Kristin A. Woodley, Mark Birkinshaw, Nicola J. Brassington, William R. Forman, Christine Jones, Stephen S. Murray

Spallation nuclei in substellar objects: a new dark-matter signature?

• Authors: Benjamin Monreal, Lorne A. Nelson, Joseph A. Formaggio

Average mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the superhigh energy region by Yakutsk complex EAS array data

• Authors: S.P. Knurenko, A.A. Ivanov, A.V. Sabourov, I.Ye. Sleptsov

Observations of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy by the H.E.S.S. experiment and search for a Dark Matter signal

• Authors: HESS Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al