today in particle astrophysics

Authors: G.B. Taylor (1 and 2), J. Granot (3) ((1) University of New Mexico, (2) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (3) Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology)

The type Ia supernova SNLS-03D3bb from a super-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf star

Authors: D. Andrew Howell, Mark Sullivan, Peter E. Nugent, Richard S. Ellis, Alexander J. Conley, Damien Le Borgne, Raymond G. Carlberg, Julien Guy, David Balam, Stephane Basa, Dominique Fouchez, Isobel M. Hook, Eric Y. Hsiao, James D. Neill, Reynald Pain, Kathryn M. Perrett, Christopher J. Pritchet

Papers -- 9/21/2006

The Warp and Spiral Arms of the Milky Way

Authors: E.S. Levine, Leo Blitz, Carl Heiles, Martin Weinberg

Production of high-energy \mu neutrinos from young neutron stars

Authors: G. F. Burgio (INFN Sezione di Catania, Italy), B. Link (Montana State University, Bozeman, USA)

Type Ia Supernova Light Curves

Authors: S.E. Woosley, Daniel Kasen, S. Blinnikov, E. Sorokina

Type Ia Supernova Rate in the Galactic Center Region

Authors: Stephane Schanne, Michel Casse, Patrick Sizun, Bertrand Cordier, Jacques Paul

Neutrinos from Supernova Remnants After the First H.E.S.S. Observations

Authors: Francesco Vissani

The signature of local cosmic structures on the ultra-high energy cosmic ray anisotropies

Authors: A. Cuoco

The short-hard GRB 051103: Observations and implications for its nature

Authors: E. O. Ofek, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Nakar, S. B. Cenko, P. B. Cameron, D. A. Frail, A. Gal-Yam, A. M. Soderberg, D. B. Fox

Status of Identification of VHE gamma-ray sources

Authors: Stefan Funk (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Formation of Neutrino Stars from Cosmological Background Neutrinos

Authors: M. H. Chan, M.-C. Chu

Papers -- 9/20/2006

Approximate formulae for exotic GCR anti-protons and anti-deuterons: fluxes and astrophysical uncertainties

Authors: D. Maurin, R. Taillet, C. Combet

A Near-Infrared and X-ray Study of W49B: A Wind Cavity Explosion

Authors: Jonathan W. Keohane, William T. Reach, Jeonghee Rho, Thomas H. Jarrett

On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes

Authors: A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Investigating AGN Heating in a Sample of Nearby Clusters

Authors: R.J.H. Dunn, A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

On the Origin of the Type Ia Supernova Width-Luminosity Relation

Authors: Daniel Kasen, S.E. Woosley

On the Possibility of Identification of a Short/Hard Burst GRB 051103 with the Giant Flare from a Soft Gamma Repeater in the M81 Group of Galaxies

Authors: D.D. Frederiks, V.D. Pal'shin, R.L. Aptekar', S.V. Golenetskii, T.L. Cline, E.P. Mazets

Swift XRT Observations of the Afterglow of XRF 050416A

Authors: Vanessa Mangano, Valentina La Parola, Giancarlo Cusumano, Teresa Mineo, Daniele Malesani, Jaroslaw Dyks, Sergio Campana, Milvia Capalbi, Guido Chincarini, Paolo Giommi, Alberto Moretti, Matteo Perri, Patrizia Romano, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, David N. Burrows, Neil Gehrels, Olivier Godet, Stephen T. Holland, Jamie A. Kennea, Kim L. Page, Judith L. Racusin, Peter W. A. Roming, Bing Zhang

Can you do quantum mechanics without Einstein?

Authors: Y. S. Kim, Marilyn E. Noz

Papers -- 9/19/2006

HI column densities of z > 2 Swift gamma-ray bursts

Authors: P. Jakobsson, J. P. U. Fynbo, C. Ledoux, P. Vreeswijk, D. A. Kann, J. Hjorth, N. R. Tanvir, D. Reichart, J. Gorosabel, S. Klose, R. S. Priddey, D. Watson, J. Sollerman, A. S. Fruchter, A. de Ugarte Postigo, K. Wiersema, G. Björnsson, C. C. Thöne, K. Pedersen, B. L. Jensen

Clustering of the IR Background Light with Spitzer: Contribution from Resolved Sources

Authors: Ian Sullivan (Caltech), Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine), Ranga-Ram Chary (Caltech), James J. Bock (JPL), Mark Brodwin (JPL), Michael J. I. Brown (Princeton), Arjun Dey (NOAO), Mark Dickinson (NOAO), Peter Eisenhardt (JPL), Henry C. Ferguson (STSCI), Mauro Giavalisco (STSCI), Brian Keating (UCSD), Andrew Lange (Caltech), Bahram Mobasher (STSCI), William T. Reach (Caltech), Daniel Stern (JPL), Edward L. Wright (UCLA)

Turbulent Combustion in Type Ia Supernova Models

Authors: F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt (MPA Garching)

Optical to Mid-Infrared observations revealing the most obscured high-energy sources of the Galaxy

Authors: Sylvain Chaty (AIME), Farid Rahoui (AIME, ESO)

Temperature profiles of a representative sample of nearby X-ray galaxy clusters

Authors: G.W. Pratt (MPE Garching), H. Boehringer, J.H. Croston, M. Arnaud, S. Borgani, A. Finoguenov, R.F. Temple

Probing the Density in the Galactic Center Region: Wind-Blown Bubbles and High-Energy Proton Constraints

Authors: Christopher L. Fryer, Siming Liu, Gabriel Rockefeller, Aimee Hungerford, Guillaume Belanger

Mass loss of rotating stars at very low metallicity

Authors: Georges Meynet, Andre Maeder, Raphael Hirschi, Sylvia Ekstroem, Cristina Chiappini

GRBs as Cosmological Probes - Cosmic Chemical Evolution

Authors: S. Savaglio (MPE)

Propagation of super high-energy cosmic rays in the Galaxy

Authors: Joerg R. Hoerandel, Nikolai N. Kalmykov, Aleksei V. Timokhin

A Testable the Stochastic Acceleration Model for Flares in Sagittarius A*

Authors: Siming Liu, Vahe Petrosian, Fulvio Melia, Christopher L. Fryer

High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic-Rays from Low-Luminosity Gamma-Ray Bursts?

Authors: Kohta Murase, Kunihito Ioka, Shigehiro Nagataki, Takashi Nakamura

Hole theory and Quantum Electrodynamics in an unknown French manuscript by Ettore Majorana

Authors: S. Esposito

A Definition for Fine Tuning in Analogy to the Chaos

Authors: Zs. Hetesi, L. Végh

Papers -- 9/18/2006

Giant Molecular Clouds in M31: I - Molecular Cloud Properties

Authors: E. Rosolowsky (Center for Astrophysics)

INTEGRAL observations of TeV plerions

Authors: A. I. D. Hoffmann, D. Horns, A. Santangelo

Swift and Suzaku Observations of the X-Ray Afterglow from the GRB 060105

Authors: M. S. Tashiro (1), K. Abe (1), L. Angelini (2), S. Barthelmy (2), N. Gehrels (2), N. Ishikawa (3), L. J. Kaluzienski (2), N. Kawai (4), R. L. Kelley (2), K. Kinugasa (5), H. Kodaira (6), T. Kohmura (7), K. Kubota (8), Y. Maeda (9), S. Maeno (10), H. Murakami (9), T. Murakami (6), Y. E. Nakagawa (3), K. Nakazawa (9), J. Nousek (11), S. Okuno (6), K. Onda (1), J. N. Reeves (2), G. Ricker (12), G. Sato (2,9), E. Sonoda (10), M. Suzuki (13), T. Takahashi (9), T. Tamagawa (13), K. Torii (14), Y. Ueda (8), Y. Urata (1), K. Yamaoka (3), M. Yamauchi (10), D. Yonetoku (6), A. Yoshida (3), S. Yoshinari (6) ((1)Saitama Univ., (2)NASA/GSFC, (3)Aoyama Gakuin Univ., (4)Tokyo Tech., (5)Gunma Astronomical Observatory, (6)Kanazawa Univ., (7)Kogakuin Univ., (8)Kyoto Univ., (9)JAXA/ISAS, (10)Univ. of Miyazaki, (11)Penn. State Univ., (12)MIT, (13)RIKEN, (14)Osaka Univ)

Hypervelocity Collisions of Binary Stars at the Galactic Centre

Authors: Idan Ginsburg, Abraham Loeb

GRB 050223: A dark GRB in a dusty starburst galaxy

Authors: L. J. Pellizza (1 and 2), P.-A. Duc (1), E. Le Floc'h (3 and 4), I. F. Mirabel (5), L. A. Antonelli (6), S. Campana (7), G. Chincarini (7 and 8), A. Cimatti (9), S. Covino (7), M. Della Valle (9), F. Fiore (6), D. Fugazza (7), P. Giommi (10), P. Goldoni (11), G. L. Israel (6), E. Molinari (7), A. Moretti (7), L. Piro (12), P. Saracco (7), L. Stella (6), G. Tagliaferri (7), M. Vietri (13) ((1) AIM CEA Saclay - France, (2) IAFE - Argentina, (3) Steward Obs. - USA, (4) Observatoire de Paris - France, (5) ESO - Chile, (6) INAF Roma - Italy, (7) INAF - Brera Italy, (8) Univ. Milano-Bicocca - Italy, (9) INAF Arcetri - Italy, (10) ASI SDC - Italy, (11) APC - France, (12) INAF-IASF Roma - Italy, (13) SNS Pisa - Italy)

Canonical Constraints on Leptonic Cp Violation using UHCR neutrino fluxes

Authors: K.R.S. Balaji, G. Couture, C. Hamzaoui

Via Aristotle, Leibnitz and Mach to a Fractal D=2 Universe

Authors: D F Roscoe

Papers -- 9/15/2006

The birth and early evolution of star clusters

Authors: Pavel Kroupa (AIfA, Bonn)

ARCADE: Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission

Authors: A. Kogut (1), D. Fixsen (2), S. Fixsen (2), S. Levin (3), M. Limon (2), L. Lowe (2), P. Mirel (2), M. Seiffert (3), J. Singal (4), P. Lubin (4), E. Wollack (1) ((1) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, (2) SSAI, (3) JPL, (4) University of California, Santa Barbara)

The MicroJansky Radio Galaxy Population

Authors: A. J. Barger, L. L. Cowie, W.-H. Wang

Nucleonic gamma-ray production in Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Authors: D. Horns (1), F. Aharonian (2), A.I.D. Hoffmann (1), A. Santangelo (1) ((1) IAAT, Univ. Tuebingen (2) Max-Planck Institut f. Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

Degenerate sterile neutrino dark matter in the cores of galaxies

Authors: Faustin Munyaneza (1), Peter L. Biermann (1,2 and 3) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany, (2) University of Bonn, Germany and (3) University of Alabama, US)

Infrared observations of the 2006 outburst of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi: the early phase

Authors: A. Evans (Keele University), T. Kerr (JACH), Bin Yang (University of Hawaii), Y. Matsuoka (University of Tokyo), Y. Tsuzuki (Tokyo), M. F. Bode (Liverpool John Moores), S. P. S. Eyres (University of Central Lancs), T. R. Geballe (Gemini Observatory), C. E. Woodward (University of Minnesota), R. D. Gehrz (Minnesota), D. K. Lynch, R. J. Rudy, R. W. Russell (Aerospace Corporation), T. J. O'Brien (University of Manchester), S. G. Starrfield (Arizona State), R. J. Davis (Manchester), Jan-Uwe Ness (Arizona State), J. Drake (CfA), J. P. Osborne, K. L. Page (University of Leicester), A. Adamson (JACH), G. Schwarz (Steward Observatory), J. Krautter (Landessternewarte Heidelberg)

CMB Anisotropies from Outflows in Lyman Break Galaxies

Authors: Daniel Babich (Caltech), Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Observation of the GZK Cutoff by the HiRes Experiment

Authors: G.B. Thomson, for the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) Collaboration

Unveiling Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters with INTEGRAL

Authors: D. Gotz, S. Mereghetti, K. Hurley

The impact of stellar rotation on the CNO abundance patterns in the Milky Way at low metallicities

Authors: C. Chiappini (1,2), R. Hirschi (3), F. Matteucci (4), G. Meynet (2), S. Ekstrom (2), A. Maeder (2) ((1) Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, (2) Observatoire Astronomique de Geneve, (3) Dept. of Physics, University of Basel, (4) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' di Trieste)

Small-Scale X-ray Variability in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant

Authors: D. J. Patnaude, R. A. Fesen

Clustering of dark matter tracers: renormalizing the bias parameters

Authors: Patrick McDonald (CITA)

The Formation of the Double Pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B}

Authors: I. H. Stairs, S. E. Thorsett, R. J. Dewey, M. Kramer, C. A. McPhee

Tests of general relativity from timing the double pulsar

Authors: M. Kramer, I.H. Stairs, R.N. Manchester, M.A. McLaughlin, A.G. Lyne, R.D. Ferdman, M. Burgay, D.R. Lorimer, A. Possenti, N. D'Amico, J.M. Sarkissian, G.B. Hobbs, J.E. Reynolds, P.C.C. Freire, F. Camilo

Gravitational diffraction radiation

Authors: Vitor Cardoso, Marco Cavaglia, Mario Pimenta

Papers -- 9/14/2006

The high-mass stellar IMF in different environments

Authors: Pavel Kroupa (AIfA, Bonn)

Galaxy Clusters Associated with Short GRBs. II. Predictions for the Rate of Short GRBs in Field and Cluster Early-Type Galaxies

Authors: Min-Su Shin (Princeton), Edo Berger (OCIW & Princeton)

Electron acceleration in relativistic GRB shocks

Authors: Mikhail V. Medvedev (U.Kansas)

Was the universe open or closed before inflation?

Authors: Eduard Masso, Subhendra Mohanty, Gabriel Zsembinszki

Source population synthesis and the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission

Authors: A. W. Strong

Forming a constant density medium close to long gamma-ray bursts

Authors: A.J. van Marle, N. Langer, A. Achterberg, G. Garcia-Segura

Papers -- 9/13/2006

Contribution of unresolved point sources to the galactic diffuse emission

Authors: Sabrina Casanova, Brenda L. Dingus

Discoveries of Diffuse Iron Line Sources from the Sgr B Region

Authors: Katsuji Koyama, Tatsuya Inui, Yoshiaki Hyodo, Hironori Matsumoto, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hiroshi Murakami, Shigeo Yamauchi, Steven E. Kissel, Kai-Wing, Chan Yang Soong

Single star progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts I: Model grids and redshift dependent GRB rate

Authors: S.-C. Yoon, N. Langer, C. Norman

A RIAF Interpretation for the Past Higher Activity of the Galactic Center Black Hole and the 511 keV Annihilation Emission

Authors: Tomonori Totani (Kyoto)

Gravitino Dark Matter and Cosmological Constraints

Authors: Frank Daniel Steffen

Papers -- 9/12/2006

SDSS 0809+1729: Connections Between Extremely Metal Poor Galaxies and Gamma Ray Burst Hosts

Authors: Lisa J. Kewley (1), Warren R. Brown (2), Margaret J. Geller (2), Scott J. Kenyon (2), Michael J. Kurtz (2) ((1) University of Hawaii, (2) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Testing X-ray Measurements of Galaxy Clusters with Cosmological Simulations

Authors: Daisuke Nagai (1), Alexey Vikhlinin (2,3), Andrey V. Kravtsov (4) ((1) Caltech, (2) SAO, Harvard, (3) IKI, Moscow, (4) KICP, U. Chicago)

Exotic Earths: Forming Habitable Worlds with Giant Planet Migration

Authors: Sean N. Raymond (Colorado), Avi M. Mandell (Penn State/NASA Goddard), Steinn Sigurdsson (Penn State)

Temporal and Angular Properties of GRB Jets Emerging from Massive Stars

Authors: Brian J. Morsony, Davide Lazzati, Mitchell C. Begelman (JILA, University of Colorado)

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Radiation: Experimental and Theoretical Status

Authors: Guenter Sigl (APC and IAP, Paris)

Hubble diagram of gamma-ray bursts and prevalence of energy conditions in Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker Cosmology

Authors: Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta, Carlos A. Bonilla Quintero, M. Habib Dumet, Cristina Furlanetto, Jefferson Morais, Rodrigo Turcati

Hydrodynamic Thermonuclear Runaways in Superbursts

Authors: Nevin N. Weinberg (1, 2), Lars Bildsten (2, 3), Edward F. Brown (4) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) KITP, (3) UCSB, (4) MSU/JINA)

Optical and X-Ray Observations of GRB 060526: A Complex Afterglow with An Achromatic Jet Break

Authors: X. Dai (1), J. P. Halpern (2), N. D. Morgan (1), E. Armstrong (3), N. Mirabal (2,4), J. B. Haislip (5), D. E. Reichart (5), K. Z. Stanek (1) ((1) Ohio State University, (2) Columbia University, (3) University of California at San Diego, (4) University of Michigan, (5) University of North Carolina)

Link between the chromospheric network and magnetic structures of the corona

Authors: Stefan Jendersie, Hardi Peter

The Lack of Halo Ultraluminous X-ray Sources

Authors: Douglas A. Swartz

B-Mode contamination by synchrotron emission from 3-years WMAP data

Authors: E. Carretti, G. Bernardi, S. Cortiglioni

On the ultra-high energy cosmic ray horizon

Authors: D. Harari, S. Mollerach, E. Roulet

Evidence for strong evolution of the cosmic star formation density at high redshift

Authors: F. Mannucci, H. Buttery, R. Maiolino, A. Marconi, L. Pozzetti

Probing long-range leptonic forces with solar and reactor neutrinos

Authors: M C Gonzalez-Garcia, P C~de Holanda, E Masso, R. Zukanovich Funchal

Particle Physics: a Progress Report

Authors: Guido Altarelli

Single-Pion Production in pp Collisions at =.95 GeV/c (I)

Authors: S Abd El-Samad, R. Bilger, K.-Th. Brinkmann, H. Clement, M. Dietrich, E. Doroshkevich, S. Dshemuchadse, A.Erhardt, W. Eyrich, A.Filippi, H. Freiesleben, M. Fritsch, R. Geyer, A. Gillitzer, J. Hauffe, D. Hesselbarth, R. Jaekel, B. Jakob, L. Karsch, K. Kilian, H. Koch, J. Kress, E. Kuhlmann, S. Marcello, S. Marwinski, R. Meier, K. Moeller, H.P. Morsch, L. Naumann, E. Roderburg, P. Schoenmeier, M. Schulte-Wissermann, W. Schroeder, M. Steinke, F. Stinzing, G.Y. Sun, J. Waechter, G.J. Wagner, M. Wagner, U. Weidlich, A. Wilms, S. Wirth, G. Zhang, P. Zupranski

Papers -- 9/11/2006

Pair-Production Supernovae: Theory and Observation

Authors: Evan Scannapieco

Iron and Nickel Line Diagnostics for the Galactic Center Diffuse Emission

Authors: Katsuji Koyama, Yoshiaki Hyodo, Tatsuya Inui, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hironori Matsumoto, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Tadayuki Takahashi, Yoshitomo Maeda, Noriko Yamazaki, Hiroshi Murakami, Shigeo Yamauchi, Yohko Tsuboi, Atsushi Senda, Jun Kataoka, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Stephen S Holt, Gregory V Brown

New X-ray views of the Galactic center observed with Suzaku

Authors: Katsuji Koyama, Yoshiaki Hyodo, Tatsuya Inui

The ultra-compact binary 4U1850-087 observed with INTEGRAL: hard X-ray emission from an X-ray burster

Authors: L. Sidoli (1), A. Paizis (1), A. Bazzano (2), S. Mereghetti (1) ((1)-INAF-IASF Milano; (2)-INAF-IASF Roma, ITALY)

Ultra High Energy Neutrinos in the Mediterranean: detecting nu_tau and nu_mu with a km^3 Telescope

Authors: A. Cuoco, G. Mangano, G. Miele, S. Pastor, L. Perrone, O. Pisanti, P.D. Serpico

Clues for the origin of the fundamental metallicity relations. I: The hierarchical building up of the structure

Authors: Maria E. De Rossi, Patricia B. Tissera, Cecilia Scannapieco

A Comment on: hep-th/0608078

Authors: S. Deser

Measurement of the proton electric to magnetic form factor ratio from \vec ^1H(\vec e, e'p)

Authors: C.B. Crawford, A. Sindile, T. Akdogan, R. Alarcon, W. Bertozzi, E. Booth, T. Botto, J. Calarco, B. Clasie, A. DeGrush, T.W. Donnelly, K. Dow, D. Dutta, M. Farkhondeh, R. Fatemi, O. Filoti, W. Franklin, H. Gao, E. Geis, S. Gilad, W. Haeberli, D. Hasell, W. Hersman, M. Holtrop, P. Karpius, M. Kohl, H. Kolster, T. Lee, A. Maschinot, J. Matthews, K. McIlhany, N. Meitanis, R.G. Milner, J. Rapaport, R.P. Redwine, J. Seely, A. Shinozaki, S. Sirca, E. Six, T. Smith, B. Tonguc, C. Tschalaer, E. Tsentalovich, W. Turchinetz, J.F.J. van den Brand, J. van der Laan, F. Wang, T. Wise, Y. Xiao, W. Xu, C. Zhang, Z. Zhou, V. Ziskin, T. Zwart

Papers -- 9/8/2006

The ERO Host Galaxy of GRB 020127: Implications for the Metallicity of GRB Progenitors

Authors: E. Berger, D.B. Fox, S.R. Kulkarni, D.A. Frail, S.G. Djorgovski

GRB Fireball Physics: Prompt and Early Emission

Authors: D. B. Fox, P. Meszaros (Penn State University)

Critical Mass Transfer in Double-Degenerate Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Rebecca G. Martin, Christopher A. Tout, Pierre Lesaffre

Constraints on dark matter and the shape of the Milky Way dark halo from the 511 keV line

Authors: Y. Ascasibar (1), P. Jean (2), C. Boehm (3,4), J. Knoedlseder (2) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, USA, (2) Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, France, (3) LAPTH UMR-5108, France, (4) CERN, Switzerland)

Tracking quintessence and k-essence in a general cosmological background

Authors: Rupam Das, Thomas W. Kephart, Robert J. Scherrer

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