Papers -- 8/31/2006

Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS

• Authors: Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein, David H. Weinberg, Masataka Fukugita, Adrian C. Pope, Donald P. Schneider, Alex S. Szalay, Michael S. Vogeley, Idit Zehavi, Neta A. Bahcall, Jon Brinkmann, Andrew J. Connolly, Jon Loveday, Avery Meiksin

The structure of dark matter halos: self-similar models versus N-body simulations

• Authors: Leonid Chuzhoy

0.5 Mpc-scale extended X-ray emission in 4C 23.56

• Authors: O. Johnson, O. Almaini, P.N. Best, J. Dunlop

Extremely compact massive galaxies at z~1.4

• Authors: I. Trujillo, G. Feulner, Y. Goranova, U. Hopp, M. Longhetti, P. Saracco, R. Bender, V.Braito, R. Della Ceca, N. Drory, F. Mannucci, P. Severgnini

Gravitational Lensing in Modified Gravity and the Lensing of Merging Clusters without Dark Matter

• Authors: J. W. Moffat

Could GRB 060614 and its presumed host galaxy be a chance superposition?

• Authors: B. E. Cobb, C. D. Bailyn, P. G. van Dokkum, P. Natarajan (Yale)

Is the dark matter interpretation of the EGRET gamma excess compatible with antiproton measurements?

• Authors: Lars Bergstrom, Joakim Edsjo, Michael Gustafsson, Pierre Salati

Jet Breaks in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts. II: The Collimated Afterglow of GRB 051221A

• Authors: David N. Burrows, Dirk Grupe, Milvia Capalbi, Alin Panaitescu, Sandeep K. Patel, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Bing Zhang, Peter Meszaros, Guido Chincarini, N. Gehrels, Ralph A.M. Wijers

The Compton-Getting effect on ultra-high energy cosmic rays of cosmological origin

• Authors: M. Kachelriess, P.D. Serpico

Liberties in Nature

• Authors: Petr Hajicek

Oscillations of solar atmosphere neutrinos

• Authors: G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Mirizzi (Bari U. & INFN, Bari), D. Montanino (Lecce U. & INFN, Lecce), P.D. Serpico (Munich, Max Planck Inst.)

Papers -- 8/30/2006

Can Cosmic Structure form without Dark Matter?

• Authors: Scott Dodelson, Michele Liguori

Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies

• Authors: M. Tegmark, D. Eisenstein, M. Strauss, D. Weinberg, M. Blanton, J. Frieman, M. Fukugita, J. Gunn, A. Hamilton, G. Knapp, R. Nichol, J. Ostriker, N. Padmanabhan, W. Percival, D. Schlegel, D. Schneider, R. Scoccimarro, U. Seljak, H. Seo, M. Swanson, A. Szalay, M. Vogeley, J. Yoo, I. Zehavi, K. Abazajian, S. Anderson, J. Annis, N. Bahcall, B. Bassett, A. Berlind, J. Brinkmann, T. Budavari, F. Castander, A. Connolly, I. Csabai, M. Doi, D. Finkbeiner, B. Gillespie, K. Glazebrook, G. Hennessy, D. Hogg, Z. Ivezic, B. Jain, D. Johnston, S. Kent, D. Lamb, B. Lee, H. Lin, J. Loveday, R. Lupton, J. Munn, K. Pan, C. Park, J. Peoples, J. Pier, A. Pope, M. Richmond, C. Rockosi, R. Scranton, R. Sheth, A. Stebbins, C. Stoughton, I. Szapudi, D. Tucker, D. Vanden Berk, B. Yanny, D. York

Observation of the Anisotropy of 10 TeV Primary Cosmic Ray Nuclei Flux with the Super-Kamiokande-I Detector

• Authors: Gene Guillian, for the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

The History of Cosmological Star Formation: Three Independent Approaches and a Critical Test Using the Extragalactic Background Light

• Authors: Kentaro Nagamine (UCSD), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton), Masataka Fukugita (ICRR, IAS), Renyue Cen (Princeton)

Low Luminosity Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Unique Population: Luminosity Function, Local Rate, and Beaming Factor

• Authors: Enwei Liang, Bing Zhang, Francisco Virgili, Z. G. Dai

Loop Quantum Gravity Modification of the Compton Effect

• Authors: Kourosh Nozari, S. Davood Sadatian

Loop Quantum Gravity: An Inside View

• Authors: Thomas Thiemann

1951 Lectures on Advanced Quantum Mechanics Second Edition

• Authors: Freeman J. Dyson

Papers -- 8/29/2006

Bound-State Effects on Light-Element Abundances in Gravitino Dark Matter Scenarios

• Authors: Richard H. Cyburt, John Ellis, Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive, Vassilis C. Spanos

Gravitational Wave Sources from New Physics

• Authors: Craig J. Hogan

Search for the possible emission regions for different categories of gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Zhibin Zhang, G. Z. Xie, J. G. Deng, B. T.Wei

The Metallicity of Galaxy Disks: Infall versus Outflow

• Authors: J. J. Dalcanton

"Anomalous" Optical GRB Afterglows are Common: Two z~4 Bursts, GRB 060206 and 060210

• Authors: K. Z. Stanek, X. Dai, J. L. Prieto, D. An, P. M. Garnavich, M. L. Calkins, J. Serven, G. Worthey, H. Hao, A. Dobrzycki, C. Howk, T. Matheson

A neutron-star-driven X-ray flash associated with supernova SN 2006aj

• Authors: Paolo A. Mazzali (1,3,4,5), Jinsong Deng (2,3,5), Ken'ichi Nomoto (3,5), Daniel N. Sauer (4,5), Elena Pian (4,5), Nozomu Tominaga (3,5), Masaomi Tanaka (3), Keiichi Maeda (3,5), Alexei V. Filippenko (6) ((1) MPA, Germany, (2) NAOC, China, (3) U. Tokyo, Japan, (4) INAF-OATs, Italy, (5) KITP-UCSB, CA, (6) UC Berkeley, CA)

See also: Nature

Does a Teleconnection between Quantum States account for Missing Mass, Galaxy Ageing, Lensing Anomalies, Supernova Redshift, MOND, and Pioneer Blueshift?

• Authors: Charles Francis

Papers -- 8/28/2006

The star formation histories of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

• Authors: Ben Panter (MPA), Raul Jimenez (UPenn), Alan F. Heavens (IfA, Edinburgh), Stephane Charlot (MPA, IAP)

The Advanced Compton Telescope Mission

• Authors: Steven E. Boggs, James Kurfess, James Ryan, Elena Aprile, Neil Gehrels, Marc Kippen, Mark Leising, Uwe Oberlack, Cornelia Wunderer, Allen Zych, Peter Bloser, Michael Harris, Andrew Hoover, Alexei Klimenk, Dan Kocevski, Mark McConnell, Peter Milne, Elena I. Novikova, Bernard Phlips, Mark Polsen, Steven Sturner, Derek Tournear, Georg Weidenspointner, Eric Wulf, Andreas Zoglauer, Matthew Baring, John Beacom, Lars Bildsten, Charles Dermer, Dieter Hartmann, Margarita Hernanz, David Smith, Sumner Starrfield, for the larger ACT collaboration

Dark matter burners

• Authors: I. V. Moskalenko (Stanford), L. Wai (SLAC)

Cosmic Rays at the Knee

• Authors: Thomas K. Gaisser

Puzzled by GRB 060218

• Authors: G. Ghisellini, G. Ghirlanda, F. Tavecchio (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

Synchrotron emission in small scale magnetic field as possible explanation for prompt emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Asaf Pe'er, Bing Zhang

Continuum gamma-ray emission from light dark matter positrons and electrons

• Authors: P. Sizun (1), M. Casse (1 and 2), S. Schanne (1) ((1) CEA Saclay/DAPNIA/Service d'Astrophysique, (2) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Search for Neutral Q-balls in Super-Kamiokande II

• Authors: The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration: Y. Takenaga, et al

Papers -- 8/25/2006

The survival and disruption of CDM micro-haloes: implications for direct and indirect detection experiments

• Authors: Tobias Goerdt (1), Oleg Y. Gnedin (2), Ben Moore (1), Jürg Diemand (3), Joachim Stadel (1), ((1) University of Zürich, (2) Ohio State University, (3) UC Santa Cruz)

Galaxy Clusters Associated with Short GRBs. I. The Fields of GRBs 050709, 050724, 050911 and 051221a

• Authors: E. Berger, M.-S. Shin, J.S. Mulchaey, T.E. Jeltema

Intracluster Medium through three years of WMAP

• Authors: Niayesh Afshordi (Harvard College Observatory)

Neutrino signals from the formation of black hole: a probe of equation of state of dense matter

• Authors: K. Sumiyoshi (Numazu CT and NAOJ), S. Yamada (Waseda Univ.), H. Suzuki (Tokyo Univ. of Science), S. Chiba (JAEA)

Detection of point-like neutrino sources with the NEMO-km3 telescope

• Authors: C. Distefano (for the NEMO Collaboration)

Baryon loading and the Weibel instability in gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: M. Fiore, L. O. Silva, C. Ren, M. A. Tzoufras, W. B. Mori

Discovery of Extensive Optical Emission Associated with the X-ray Bright, Radio Faint Galactic SNR G156.2+5.7

• Authors: Christopher L. Gerardy (1), Robert A. Fesen (2) ((1) Imperial College London, (2) Dartmouth College)

Three component model of cosmic ray spectra from 10 GeV to 100 PeV

• Authors: V.I. Zatsepin, N.V. Sokolskaya

No-go theorem for k-essence dark energy

• Authors: Camille Bonvin, Chiara Caprini, Ruth Durrer

Colliders as a simultaneous probe of supersymmetric dark matter and Terascale cosmology

• Authors: Gabriela Barenboim, Joseph Lykken

Papers -- 8/24/2006

The Anatomy of a Magnetar: XMM Monitoring of the Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197

• Authors: E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern (Columbia University)

Suzaku Observations of HESS J1616-508: Evidence for a Dark Particle Accelerator

• Authors: Hironori Matsumoto (1), Masaru Ueno (2), Aya Bamba (3), Yoshiaki Hyodo (1), Hideyuki Mori (1), Hideki Uchiyama (1), Takeshi Tsuru (1), Katsuji Koyama (1), Jun Kataoka (2), Hideaki Katagiri (4), Tadayuki Takahashi (5), Junko Hiraga (3), Shigeo Yamauchi (6), John P. Hughes (7), Atsushi Senda (3), Motohide Kokubun (8), Takayoshi Kohmura (9), Frederick S. Porter (10) ((1) Kyoto Univ., (2) Tokyo Institute of Technology, (3) RIKEN, (4) Hiroshima Univ., (5) ISAS/JAXA, (6) Iwate Univ., (7) Rutgers Univ., (8) Univ. of Tokyo, (9) Kogakuin Univ. and (10) NASA/GSFC)

Faint X-ray Structure in the Crab Pulsar-Wind Nebula

• Authors: F. D. Seward, W. H. Tucker, R. A. Fesen

Astrophysical tau neutrino detection in kilometer-scale Cherenkov detectors via muonic tau decay

• Authors: T. DeYoung, S. Razzaque, D. F. Cowen (Pennsylvania State University)

The Galactic magnetic field as spectrograph for ultra-high energy cosmic rays

• Authors: M. Kachelriess, P.D. Serpico, M. Teshima

Observations of the intense and ultra-long burst GRB041219a with the Germanium Spectrometer on INTEGRAL

• Authors: S. McBreen, L. Hanlon, S. McGlynn, B. McBreen, S. Foley, R. Preece, A. von Kienlin, O.R. Williams

Supersymmetry without the Desert

• Authors: Yasunori Nomura, David Poland

Notes on Perelman's papers

• Authors: Bruce Kleiner, John Lott

Ricci Flow and the Poincare Conjecture

• Authors: John W. Morgan, Gang Tian

Papers -- 8/23/2006

Finite extinction time for the solutions to the Ricci flow on certain three-manifolds

• Authors: Grisha Perelman

Ricci flow with surgery on three-manifolds

• Authors: Grisha Perelman

The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications

• Authors: Grisha Perelman

Spectroscopic Identification of Massive Galaxies at z~2.3 with Strongly Suppressed Star Formation

• Authors: Mariska Kriek, Pieter van Dokkum, Marijn Franx, Ryan Quadri, Eric Gawiser, David Herrera, Garth Illingworth, Ivo Labbe, Paulina Lira, Danilo Marchesini, Hans-Walter Rix, Gregory Rudnick, Edward Taylor, Sune Toft, Megan Urry, Stijn Wuyts

The First Stars in the Universe and Cosmic Reionization

• Authors: Rennan Barkana (1) ((1) Tel Aviv University)

See also: Science link

Analysis and Interpretation of Hard X-ray Emission from the Bullet Cluster (1E0657-56), the Most Distant Cluster of Galaxies Observed by RXTE

• Authors: Vahe' Petrosian, Greg Madejski, Kevin Luli (KIPAC and Physics Dept., Stanford University)

Astrophysics of extreme mass ratio inspiral sources

• Authors: Clovis Hopman (Leiden Observatory)

A current driven instability in parallel, relativistic shocks

• Authors: B. Reville, J.G. Kirk, P. Duffy

Using Radio Bubbles to Constrain the Matter Content of AGN Jets

• Authors: R.J.H. Dunn (1), A.C. Fabian (1), A. Celotti (2) ((1) IoA, Cambridge, (2) SISSA)

A three stage model for the inner engine of Gamma Ray Burst: Prompt emission and early afterglow

• Authors: Jan Staff, Rachid Ouyed, Manjari Bagchi

Are GRB 980425 and GRB 031203 real outliers or twins of GRB 060218?

• Authors: G. Ghisellini (1), G. Ghirlanda (1), S. Mereghetti (2), Z. Bosnjak (1), F. Tavecchio (1), C. Firmani (1,3) ((1)INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (2)INAF-IASF-Milano, (3)Instituto de Astronomia, U.N.A.M. Mexico)

Implications of Direct Dark Matter Constraints for Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron

• Authors: Marcela Carena, Dan Hooper, Peter Skands

Illuminating the Hidden Sector of String Theory by Shining Light through a Magnetic Field

• Authors: Steven A. Abel, Joerg Jaeckel, Valentin V. Khoze, Andreas Ringwald

Perfect match to the new experimental fine structure constant value

• Authors: E. M. Lipmanov

High Impact but Less Popular

• Authors: T. Mart

The superburst recurrence time in luminous persistent LMXBs

• Authors: L. Keek, J.J.M. in 't Zand, A. Cumming

Papers -- 8/22/2006

A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter

• Authors: Douglas Clowe (1), Marusa Bradac (2), Anthony H. Gonzalez (3), Maxim Markevitch (4), Scott W. Randall (4), Christine Jones (4), Dennis Zaritsky (1) ((1) Steward Observatory, Tucson, (2) KIPAC, Stanford, (3) Department of Astronomy, Gainesville, (4) CfA, Cambridge)

Strong and weak lensing united III: Measuring the mass distribution of the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56

• Authors: Marusa Bradac (1,2), Douglas Clowe (3), Anthony H. Gonzalez (4), Phil Marshall (1), William Forman (5), Christine Jones (5), Maxim Markevitch (5), Scott Randall (5), Tim Schrabback (2), Dennis Zaritsky (3) ((1) KIPAC, Stanford, (2) AIfA, Bonn, (3) Steward Observatory, Tucson, (4) Department of Astronomy, Gainesville, (5) CfA, Cambridge)

Radioactive Probes of the Supernova-Contaminated Solar Nebula: Evidence that the Sun was Born in a Cluster

• Authors: Leslie W. Looney, John J. Tobin, Brian D. Fields (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

GRBs with the Swift satellite

• Authors: G. Chincarini

Hard X-ray luminosity function and absorption distribution of nearby AGN: INTEGRAL all-sky survey

• Authors: S. Sazonov, M. Revnivtsev, R. Krivonos, E. Churazov, R. Sunyaev

CANGAROO-III Observations of the supernova remnant RX J0852.0$-$4622

• Authors: R. Enomoto, S. Watanabe, T. Tanimori et al (CANGAROO-III collaboration)

A statistically-selected Chandra sample of 20 galaxy clusters -- I. Temperature and cooling time profiles

• Authors: Alastair J. R. Sanderson, Trevor J. Ponman, Ewan O'Sullivan

Radiative pressure feedback by a quasar in a galactic bulge

• Authors: A.C. Fabian, A. Celotti, M.C. Erlund

Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster

• Authors: Peter Tuthill, John Monnier, Angelle Tanner, Donald Figer, Andrea Ghez, William Danchi

The precession of Mercury and the deflection of starlight by special relativity alone

• Authors: Robert L. Kurucz

Time resolved spectroscopy of GRB 021004 reveals a clumpy extended wind

• Authors: D. Lazzati (1), R. Perna (1), J. Flasher (1), V. Dwarkadas (2), F. Fiore (3) ((1) JILA; (2) Chicago; (3) INAF - Rome)

GRB060614 is at High Redshift, So No New Class of Gamma-Ray Bursts is Required

• Authors: Bradley E. Schaefer, Limin Xiao

The Turn-On of Mass Transfer in AM CVn Binaries: Implications for RX J0806+1527 and RX J1914+2456

• Authors: Christopher J. Deloye (Northwestern University), Ronald E. Taam (Northwestern University)

Spitzer IRAC confirmation of z_850-dropout galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: stellar masses and ages at z~7

• Authors: Ivo labbe (1), Rychard Bouwens (2), G.D. Illingworth (2), M. Franx (3)

Threat Characterization: Trajectory Dynamics

• Authors: Russell Schweickart (B612 Foundation), Clark Chapman, Dan Durda, Bill Bottke, David Nesvorny (Southwest Research Institute), Piet Hut (Institute for Advanced Studies)

Inverse Compton scattering on solar photons, heliospheric modulation, and neutrino astrophysics

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford), Troy A. Porter (UCSC), Seth W. Digel (SLAC)

The intergalactic propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray nuclei

• Authors: Dan Hooper (Fermilab), Subir Sarkar (Oxford), Andrew M. Taylor (Oxford)

Probing low-x QCD with cosmic neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Amanda M. Cooper-Sarkar, Dan Hooper, Subir Sarkar

Response to the comment by N. Severijns, O. Zimmer, H.-F. Wirth and D. Rich regarding article "Observation of the neutron radiative decay" in JETP Letters 83(1) p.5

• Authors: R.U. Khafizov (a), V.A. Solovei (b)a (RRC Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia)b (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia)

Papers -- 8/21/2006

A Simple Test of the External Shock Model for the Prompt Emission in Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Jonathan Granot

The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: AEGIS Observations of a Dual AGN at z=0.7

• Authors: Brian F. Gerke, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jennifer Lotz, Renbin Yan, P. Barmby, Alison L. Coil, Christopher J. Conselice, R. J. Ivison, Lihwai Lin, David C. Koo, Kirpal Nandra, Samir Salim, Todd Small, Benjamin J. Weiner, Michael C. Cooper, Marc Davis, S. M. Faber, Puragra Guhathakurta

A new interpretation of the remarkable X-ray spectrum of the symbiotic star CH Cyg

• Authors: Peter J. Wheatley, Timothy R. Kallman

Phase-space distribution of unbound dark matter near the Sun

• Authors: Moqbil S. Alenazi, Paolo Gondolo

Microlensing of Lensed Supernovae

• Authors: Gregory Dobler, Charles R. Keeton

Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. V. Identification and properties of 21 southern hard X-ray sources

• Authors: N. Masetti, L. Morelli, E. Palazzi, G. Galaz, L. Bassani, A. Bazzano, A.J. Bird, A.J. Dean, G.L. Israel, R. Landi, A. Malizia, D. Minniti, F. Schiavone, J.B. Stephen, P. Ubertini, R. Walter

Is there a problem with low energy SN1987A neutrinos?

• Authors: Maria Laura Costantini, Aldo Ianni, Giulia Pagliaroli, Francesco Vissani

Cosmic ray diffusion near the Bohm limit in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant

• Authors: Michael D. Stage, Glenn E. Allen, John C. Houck, John E. Davis

Are Diffuse High Energy Neutrinos and Gamma-Rays from Starburst Galaxies Observable?

• Authors: F.W. Stecker

Power law blitzkrieg in Universal Extra Dimension scenario

• Authors: Gautam Bhattacharyya, Anindya Datta, Swarup Kumar Majee, Amitava Raychaudhuri

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