today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 10/10/2006

The Nature of the Variable Galactic Center Source GCIRS 16SW Revisited: A Massive Eclipsing Binary

Authors: Molly S. Peeples (1), A. Z. Bonanos (2), D. L. DePoy (1), K. Z. Stanek (1), J. Pepper (1), Richard W. Pogge (1), M. H. Pinsonneault (1), K. Sellgren (1) ((1) Ohio State, (2) Carnegie Institute of Washington)

WMAP-normalized Inflationary Model Predictions and the Search for Primordial Gravitational Waves with Direct Detection Experiments

Authors: Brett C. Friedman, Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine), Alessandro Melchiorri (Rome U. & INFN, Rome)

Propagation of ultra-high energy neutrinos in the cosmic neutrino background

Authors: V. Van Elewyck

Supernovae in Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters: the Type-Ia Supernova Rate

Authors: Keren Sharon (1), Avishay Gal-Yam (2), Dan Maoz (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (3), Puragra GuhaThakurta (4). ((1) Tel Aviv University, (2) Caltech, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) UCO/Lick Observatory)

Primordial magnetic field constrained from CMB anisotropies,and its generation and evolution before, during and after the BBN

Authors: Dai G. Yamazaki, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Toshitaka Kajino, Grant J. Mathews

INTEGRAL Observations of SS433: Analysis of Precessional and Orbital X-ray Periodicities

Authors: A.M. Cherepashchuk, R.A. Sunyaev, E.V. Seifina, E.A. Antokhina, D.I. Kosenko, S.V. Molkov, N.I. Shakura, K.A. Postnov, A.N. Timokhin, I.E. Panchenko

Gamma Ray Bursts as standard candles to constrain the cosmological parameters

Authors: G. Ghirlanda (1), G. Ghisellini (1), C. Firmani (1,2) ((1) INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera; (2) Instituto de Astronomia, U.N.A.M., Mexico)

Particle Acceleration at Multiple Internal Relativistic Shocks

Authors: Paul Dempsey, Peter Duffy

Constraints on an optical afterglow and on supernova light following the short burst GRB 050813

Authors: P. Ferrero, S.F. Sanchez, D.A. Kann, S. Klose, J.Greiner, J. Gorosabel, D.H. Hartmann, A.A. Henden, P. M\oller, E. Palazzi, A. Rau, B. Stecklum, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, C. Kouveliotou, N. Masetti, E. Pian, N. Tanvir, R.A.M.J. Wijers

Virtual Laboratories

Authors: Piet Hut (IAS, Princeton)

Strangelets accelerated by pulsars in galactic cosmic rays

Authors: K.S. Cheng, V.V. Usov

Cosmological zoo -- accelerating models with dark energy

Authors: Marek Szydlowski

Hubble law may explain the anomalous acceleration of the pioneer 10 & 11 spacecraft

Authors: Firmin J. Oliveira

Does PIONEER measure local spacetime expansion?

Authors: Hans-Joerg Fahr, Mark Siewert (Argelander-Institut f. Astronomie, Abt. Astrophysik)

Is Our Universe Likely to Decay within 20 Billion Years?

Authors: Don N. Page

Papers -- 10/9/2006

Why does the clustering of haloes depend on their formation history

Authors: H.B. Sandvik (1), O. Moeller (1), J. Lee (2), S.D.M. White (1) ((1) MPA Garching, (2) Seoul National University)

The first generation of stars in LCDM cosmology

Authors: L. Gao, T. Abel, C. S. Frenk, A. Jenkins, V. Springel, N. Yoshida

The 2dF BL Lac Survey II

Authors: D. Londish (Univ of Sydney, ATNF), S.M. Croom (AAO, Univ of Sydney), J.Heidt (Landessternwarte Heidleberg), B.J. Boyle (ATNF), E.M. Sadler (Univ of Sydney), M. Whiting (ATNF), T. A. Rector (Anchorage Alaska), T. Pursimo (NOT), K. Chynoweth (NRAO)

GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs vs. XRFs, Long vs. Short

Authors: Bing Zhang, Enwei Liang, Kim L. Page, Dirk Grupe, Bin-Bin Zhang, Scott D. Barthelmy, David N. Burrows, Sergio Campana, Guido Chincarini, Neil Gehrels, Shiho Kobayashi, Peter Meszaros, Alberto Moretti, John A. Nousek, Paul T. O'Brien, Julian P. Osborne, Peter W. A. Roming, Takanori Sakamoto, Patricia Schady, Richard Willingale

High-Energy Cosmology: gamma rays and neutrinos from beyond the galaxy

Authors: Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

Upper Limits to Fluxes of Neutrinos and Gamma-Rays from Starburst Galaxies

Authors: F. W. Stecker

Graviton mediated photon-photon scattering in general relativity

Authors: G. Brodin, D. Eriksson, M. Marklund

Papers -- 10/6/2006

Bayesian Single-Epoch Photometric Classification of Supernovae

Authors: Dovi Poznanski, Dan Maoz, Avishay Gal-Yam

The X-Ray Concentration-Virial Mass Relation

Authors: David A. Buote (1), Fabio Gastaldello (1), Philip J. Humphrey (1), Luca Zappacosta (1), James S. Bullock (1), Fabrizio Brighenti (2,3), William G. Mathews (2) ((1) UC Irvine, (2) UC Santa Cruz, (3) Bologna)

Fermi acceleration in astrophysical jets

Authors: Frank M. Rieger, Valenti Bosch-Ramon, Peter Duffy

Angular power spectrum of gamma-ray sources for GLAST: blazars and clusters of galaxies

Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando (Caltech), Eiichiro Komatsu (Univ. Texas at Austin), Takuro Narumoto, Tomonori Totani (Kyoto Univ.)

X-ray Flashes or soft Gamma-ray Bursts? The case of the likely distant XRF 040912

Authors: G. Stratta, S. Basa, N. Butler, J. L. Atteia, B. Gendre, A. Pelangeon, F. Malacrino, Y. Mellier, D. A. Kann, S. Klose, A. Zeh, N. Masetti, E. Palazzi, J. Gorosabel, A. J. Castro-Tirado, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Jelinek, J. Cepa, H. Castaneda, D. Martinez-Delgado, M. Boer, J. Braga, G. Crew, T. Q. Donaghy, J.-P. Dezalay, J. Doty, E. E. Fenimore, M. Galassi, C. Graziani, J. G. Jernigan, N. Kawai, D. Q. Lamb, A. Levine, J. Manchanda, F. Martel, M. Matsuoka, Y. Nakagawa, J.-F. Olive, G. Pizzichini, G. Prigozhin, G. Ricker, T. Sakamoto, Y. Shirasaki, S. Sugita, M. Suzuki, K. Takagishi, T. Tamagawa, R. Vanderspek, J. Villasenor, S. E. Woosley, M. Yamauchi, A. Yoshida

Inflation without Inflaton(s)

Authors: Scott Watson, Malcolm J. Perry, Gordon L. Kane, Fred C. Adams

Extending cosmological natural selection

Authors: Gordon McCabe

Creation and use of Citations in the ADS

Authors: Alberto Accomazzi, Gunther Eichhorn, Michael J. Kurtz, Carolyn S. Grant, Edwin Henneken, Markus Demleitner, Donna Thompson, Elizabeth Bohlen, Stephen S. Murray

Papers -- 10/5/2006

Luminous Blue Variables as the progenitors of supernovae with quasi-periodic radio modulations

Authors: Rubina Kotak (ESO), Jorick S. Vink (Keele University)

In-situ acceleration of subrelativistic electrons in the Coma halo and the halo's influence on the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Authors: V. A. Dogiel, S. Colafrancesco, C.M. Ko, P.H. Kuo, C.Y. Hwang, W.H. Ip, M. Birkinshaw, D.A. Prokhorov

New Physics contributions to the lifetime difference in D0-anti-D0 mixing

Authors: Eugene Golowich, Sandip Pakvasa, Alexey A. Petrov

Probing the Earth's interior with the LENA detector

Authors: Kathrin A. Hochmuth, Franz v.Feilitzsch, Brian D. Fields, Teresa Marrodan Undagoitia, Lothar Oberauer, Walter Potzel, Michael Wurm

Can we learn something more on oscillations from atmospheric neutrinos?

Authors: Thomas Schwetz

On cosmic natural selection

Authors: Alexander Vilenkin

Solar X-ray Flare Hazards on the Surface of Mars

Authors: David S. Smith, John M. Scalo

Is Gravity the Culprit for Volcanic Eruptions?

Authors: Promita Chakraborty

Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics

Authors: Edwin A. Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz, Guenther Eichhorn, Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn Grant, Donna Thompson, Stephen S. Murray

Papers -- 10/4/2006

Higher Order Contributions to the 21 cm Power Spectrum

Authors: Adam Lidz, Oliver Zahn, Matthew McQuinn, Matias Zaldarriaga, Suvendra Dutta, Lars Hernquist (Harvard-CfA)

A New Survey for Giant Arcs

Authors: Joseph F. Hennawi, Michael D. Gladders, Masamune Oguri, Neal Dalal, Benjamin Koester, Priyamvada Natarajan, Michael A. Strauss, Naohisa Inada, Issha Kayo, Huan Lin, Hubert Lampeitl, James Annis, Neta A. Bahcall, Donald P. Schneider

The prompt emission & peculiar break of GRB 060124

Authors: P.A. Curran (1), D.A. Kann (2), P. Ferrero (2), E. Rol (3), R.A.M.J. Wijers (1) ((1) University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2) Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany, (3) University of Leicester, UK)

Soft Gamma Repeaters and Short Gamma Ray Bursts: making magnetars from WD-WD mergers

Authors: R. Chapman, A. J. Levan, G. A. Wynn, M. B. Davies, A. R. King, R. S. Priddey, N. R. Tanvir

Constraining population synthesis models via observations of compact-object binaries and supernovae

Authors: R. O'Shaughnessy (1), C. Kim (2) V. Kalogera (1), K. Belczynski (3) ((1) Northwestern University, (2) Cornell university, (3) New Mexico State University)

Reconstructing Dark Energy

Authors: Varun Sahni, Alexei Starobinsky

Whether can the decision of the orthopositronium problem to stimulate studying the problem of a dark matter in the Universe?

Authors: B.M.Levin, V.I.Sokolov

Papers -- 10/3/2006

Discovery of a Central Compact Object in the Galactic Nonthermal SNR G330.2+1.0

Authors: Sangwook Park (Penn State), Koji Mori (Miyazaki), Oleg Kargaltsev (Penn State), Patrick O. Slane (CfA), John P. Hughes (Rutgers), David N. Burrows, Gordon P. Garmire, George G. Pavlov (Penn State)

Separating the Weak Lensing and Kinetic SZ Effects from CMB Temperature Maps

Authors: Mario A. Riquelme, David N. Spergel

An S-shaped arc in the galaxy cluster RXJ0054.0-2823

Authors: C. Faure, E. Giraud, J. Melnick, H. Quintana, F. Selman, J. Wambsganss

Cosmic-ray spectra of primary protons and high altitude muons deconvolved from observed atmospheric gamma rays

Authors: K. Yoshida, R. Ohmori, T. Kobayashi, Y. Komori, Y. Sato, J. Nishimura

The Lack of Gamma-Ray Bursts from Population III Binaries

Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Tomasz Bulik, Alexander Heger, Chris Fryer

Gamma rays from molecular clouds

Authors: Stefano Gabici (MPIK), Felix Aharonian (MPIK), Pasquale Blasi (INAF/Arcetri)

Probing the nature of dark matter with Cosmic X-rays: Constraints from "Dark blobs" and grating spectra of galaxy clusters

Authors: Signe Riemer-Sorensen, Kristian Pedersen, Steen H. Hansen, Haakon Dahle

On the Redshift Distribution of Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

Authors: Truong Le, Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

Big-Bang nucleosynthesis (Particle Data Group mini-review)

Authors: Brian Fields (Illinois), Subir Sarkar (Oxford)

Potential Neutrino Signals from Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources

Authors: Alexander Kappes (1), Jim Hinton (2), Christian Stegmann (1), Felix A. Aharonian (2) ((1) Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, (2) Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

Methods and Models for the Study of Decoherence

Authors: Sarben Sarkar

Falsifying Models of New Physics Via WW Scattering

Authors: Jacques Distler, Benjamin Grinstein, Rafael A. Porto, Ira Z. Rothstein

Papers -- 10/2/2006

The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: An Explanation for the Observed Faintness of Starbursting Galaxies

Authors: Aristotle Socrates, Shane W. Davis, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

On SN 2003fg: The Probable Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass SN Ia

Authors: David J. Jeffery, David Branch, E. Baron

Gamma--ray Burst Models

Authors: Andrew King

3D Collapse of Rotating Stellar Iron Cores in General Relativity with Microphysics

Authors: C. D. Ott (1), H. Dimmelmeier (2), A. Marek (2), H.-T. Janka (2), I. Hawke (3), B. Zink (2,4), E. Schnetter (4) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Potsdam, (2) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching, (3) School of Mathematics, U Southampton, (4) Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge)

The effect of stellar feedback and quasar winds on the AGN population

Authors: Fabio Fontanot (DAUT, Trieste and MPIA, HEidelberg), Pierluigi Monaco (DAUT, Trieste and INAF-OATs), Stefano Cristiani, Paolo Tozzi (INAF-OATs)

UVES/VLT high resolution spectroscopy of GRB 050730 afterglow: probing the features of the GRB environment

Authors: V. D'Elia, F. Fiore, E. Meurs, G. Chincarini, A. Melandri, L. Norci, L. Pellizza, R. Perna, S. Piranomonte, L. Sbordone, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, S. Vergani, P. Ward, L. Angelini, L. A. Antonelli, D.N. Burrows, S. Campana, M. Capalbi, P.A. Caraveo, A. Cimatti, E. Costa, G. Cusumano, P. D'Avanzo, M. Della Valle, P. Filliatre, A. Fontana F. Frontera, D. Fugazza, N. Gehrels, T. Giannini, P. Giommi, P. Goldoni, D. Guetta, G. Israel, D. Lazzati, D. Malesani, G. Marconi, K. Mason, S. Mereghetti, E. Molinari, A. Moretti, J. Nousek, M. Perri, L. Piro, G. Stratta, V. Testa, M. Vietri

An Improved Limit on Invisible Decays of Positronium

Authors: A. Badertscher, P. Crivelli, W. Fetscher, U. Gendotti, S. Gninenko, V. Postoev, A. Rubbia, V. Samoylenko, D. Sillou

Study of the effect of neutrino oscillations on the supernova neutrino signal in the LVD detector

Authors: N.Yu.Agafonova, M.Aglietta, P.Antonioli, G.Bari, V.V.Boyarkin, G.Bruno, W.Fulgione, P.Galeotti, M.Garbini, P.L.Ghia, P.Giusti, E.Kemp, V.V.Kuznetsov, V.A.Kuznetsov, A.S.Malguin, H.Menghetti, A.Pesci, I.A.Pless, A.Porta, V.G.Ryasny, O.G.Ryazhskaya, O.Saavedra, G.Sartorelli, M.Selvi, C.Vigorito, F.Vissani, L.Votano, V.F.Yakushev, G.T.Zatsepin, A.Zichichi

Few Body Reserch - Summary

Authors: Ivo Slaus

Re-wilding North America

Authors: Josh Donlan

Papers -- 9/29/2006

Understanding limitations in the determination of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission

Authors: I. V. Moskalenko (Stanford), S. W. Digel (SLAC), T. A. Porter (UCSC), O. Reimer (Stanford), A. W. Strong (MPE)

A Radial Velocity Survey of the Cygnus OB2 Association

Authors: Daniel C. Kiminki, Henry A. Kobulnicky, K. Kinemuchi, Jennifer S. Irwin, Christopher L. Fryer, R. C. Berrington, B. Uzpen, Andy J. Monson, Michael A. Pierce, S. E. Woosley

Simultaneous INTEGRAL and RXTE observations of the accreting millisecond pulsar HETE J1900.1-2455

Authors: M. Falanga, J. Poutanen, E. W. Bonning, L. Kuiper, J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud, A. Goldwurm, W. Hermsen, L. Stella

Proper motion of gamma-rays from microhalo sources

Authors: Savvas M. Koushiappas (LANL)

Increasing the Neutralino Relic Abundance with Slepton Coannihilations: Consequences for Indirect Dark Matter Detection

Authors: Stefano Profumo, Alessio Provenza

Quantum Theory of Neutrino Oscillations for Pedestrians - Simple Answers to Confusing Questions

Authors: Harry J. Lipkin

Far Field Monitoring of Rogue Nuclear Activity with an Array of Large anti-neutrino Detectors

Authors: Eugene Guillian

Comment on "An Improved Experimental Limit on the Electric-Dipole Moment of the Neutron," C.A.Baker et al [hep-ex/0602020]

Authors: S.K. Lamoreaux, R. Golub

Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference

Authors: Guido Bacciagaluppi, Antony Valentini

Papers -- 9/28/2006

The Effect of Star Formation on the Far-Infrared--Radio Correlation within Galaxies

Authors: E.J. Murphy, G. Helou, R. Braun, J.D.P. Kenney, L. Armus, D. Calzetti, B.T. Draine, R.C. Kennicutt, Jr., H. Roussel, F. Walter, G.J. Bendo, B. Buckalew, D.A. Dale, C.W. Engelbracht, J.D.T. Smith, M.D. Thornley

The end of the galactic cosmic ray spectrum

Authors: Todor Stanev

Time evolution of the radio continuum of young starbursts: The importance of synchrotron emission

Authors: H. Hirashita (1), L. K. Hunt (2) ((1) University of Tsukuba, Japan, (2) Istituto di Radioastronomia-Sezione Firenze, Italy)

The correlation between the distribution of galaxies and 21cm emission at high redshifts

Authors: Stuart Wyithe, Avi Loeb

The Local Universe as Seen in Far-Infrared and in Far-Ultraviolet: A Global Point of View on the Local Recent Star Formation

Authors: V. Buat, T. T. Takeuchi, J. Iglesias-Paramo, C. K. Xu, D. Burgarella, A. Boselli, T. Barlow, L. Bianchi, J. Donas, K. Forster, P. G. Friedman, T. M. Heckman, Y. -W. Lee, B. F. Madore, D. C. Martin, B. Milliard, P. Morissey, S. Neff, M. Rich, D. Schiminovich, M. Seibert, T. Small, A. S. Szalay, B. Welsh, T. Wyder, S. K. Yi

The hot subdwarf B + white dwarf binary KPD 1930+2752 - a Supernova Type Ia progenitor candidate

Authors: S. Geier, S. Nesslinger, U. Heber, N. Przybilla, R. Napiwotzki, R.-P. Kudritzki

The BAIKAL Neutrino Experiment: From NT200 to NT200+

Authors: R. Wischnewski (for the Baikal Collaboration)

The existence and detection of optically dark galaxies by 21cm surveys

Authors: J. I. Davies, M. J. Disney, R. F. Minchin, R. Auld, R. Smith

Detection of optical linear polarization in the SN2006aj/GRB060218 non-spherical expansion

Authors: J. Gorosabel (1), V. Larionov (2), A.J. Castro-Tirado (1), S. Guziy (1,3), L. Larionova (2), A. Del Olmo (1), M.A. Martinez (1), J. Cepa (4), B. Cedres (4), A. de Ugarte Postigo (1), M. Jelinek (1), O. Bogdanov (3), A. LLorente (5) ((1) IAA-CSIC, (2) St. Petersburg Univ., (3) Nikolaev State Univ., (4) IAC, (5) ESAC)

Observation of CP violation in B^0 -> eta' K^0 Decays

Authors: The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert, et al

The Standard Model: Alchemy and Astrology

Authors: Joseph D. Lykken

Papers -- 9/27/2006

Intermittent pulsations in an accretion-powered millisecond pulsar

Authors: Duncan K. Galloway (1), Edward H. Morgan (2), Miriam I. Krauss (2,3), Philip Kaaret (4), Deepto Chakrabarty (2,3) ((1) University of Melbourne, (2) MIT Kavli Institute, (3) Department of Physics, MIT, (4) University of Iowa)

Spitzer measurements of atomic and molecular abundances in the Type IIP SN 2005af

Authors: Rubina Kotak (ESO), Peter Meikle, Monica Pozzo (Imperial College London), Schuyler D. van Dyk (SSC), Duncan Farrah (Cornell Uni.), Robert Fesen (Dartmouth College), Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan Foley (Berkeley), Claes Fransson (Stockholm Obs.), Christopher L. Gerardy (Imperial College London), Peter A. Hoeflich (Florida State Uni.), Peter Lundqvist (Stockholm Obs.), Seppo Mattila (Queen's Uni. Belfast), Jesper Sollerman (DARK Cosmology Centre), J. Craig Wheeler (Uni. Texas at Austin)

INTEGRAL serendipitous detection of the gamma-ray microquasar LS 5039

Authors: P.Goldoni (APC, DSM/Dapnia/Sap), M. Ribo (Universitat de Barcelona), T. Di Salvo (Universita' di Palermo), J.M. Paredes (Universitat de Barcelona), V. Bosch-Ramon (MPIK, Heidelberg), M. Rupen (NRAO/VLA, Socorro)

BAIKAL Experiment: main results obtained with the neutrino telescope NT200