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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

Authors: Zh.-A. Dzhilkibae (for the BAIKAL Collaboration)

Optical, Infrared, and Ultraviolet Observations of the X-Ray Flash GRB 050416A

Authors: S. T. Holland (1,2), P. T. Boyd (3), J. Gorosabel (4), J. Hjorth (5), P. Schady (6,7), B. Thomsen (8), T. Augusteijn (9), A. J. Blustin (6), A. Breeveld (6), M. De Pasquale (6), J. P. U. Fynbo (5), N. Gehrels (3), C. Gronwall (7), S. Hunsberger (7), M. Ivanushkina (7,10), W. Landsman (3,11), P. Laursen (5), K. McGowan (6,12), V. Mangano (13), C. B. Markwardt (3), F. Marshall (3), K. O. Mason (6,14), A. Moretti (15), M. J. Page (6), T. Poole (6), P. Roming (7), S. Rosen (6), M. Still (2,3,16) ((1) NASA's GSFC, (2) USRA, (3) NASA's GSFC, (4) CSIC, (5) DARK, (6) MSSL, (7) Penn State, (8) Aarhus, (9) NOT, (10) Brigham Young, (11) SSAI, (12) Southampton, (13) INAF Palermo, (14) PPARC, (15) INAF Brera (16) SAAO)

Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy

Authors: Murray Gell-Mann (Santa Fe Institute), James Hartle (University of California Santa Barbara)

Papers -- 9/26/2006

Efficient approximations of neutrino physics for three-dimensional simulations of stellar core collapse

Authors: M. Liebendoerfer, U.-L. Pen, C. Thompson

GRB 051028: an intrinsically faint GRB at high redshift?

Authors: A.J. Castro-Tirado, M. Jelinek, S.B. Pandey, S. McBreen, J. de Jong, D.K. Sahu, P. Ferrero, J.A. Caballero, J. Gorosabel, D.A. Kann, S. Klose, A. de Ugarte Postigo, G.C. Anupama, C. Gry, S. Guziy, S. Srividya, L. Valdivielso, S. Vanniarajan, A. A. Henden

Search for Correlations between Nearby AGNs and Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays

Authors: J. D. Hague, J. A. J. Matthews, B. R. Becker, M. S. Gold

High-energy particles in the wind nebula of pulsar B1509-58 as seen by INTEGRAL

Authors: M. Forot, W. Hermsen, M. Renaud, P. Laurent, I. Grenier, P. Goret, B. Khelifi, L. Kuiper

Tracing the evolution in the Iron content of the ICM

Authors: I. Balestra, P. Tozzi, S. Ettori, P. Rosati, S. Borgani, V. Mainieri, C. Norman, M. Viola

Are Wolf-Rayet winds driven by radiation?

Authors: G. Gräfener, W.-R. Hamann

On the nature of the hard X-ray source IGR J2018+4043

Authors: A.M.Bykov, A.M.Krassilchtchikov, Yu.A.Uvarov, J.A.Kennea, G.G.Pavlov, G.M.Dubner, E.B.Giacani, H.Bloemen, W.Hermsen, J.Kaastra, F.Lebrun, M.Renaud, R.Terrier, M.DeBecker, G.Rauw, J.-P.Swings

Bulk Viscosity, Decaying Dark Matter, and the Cosmic Acceleration

Authors: James R. Wilson, Grant J. Mathews, George M. Fuller

Nuclear Astrophysics of Worlds in the String Landscape

Authors: Craig J. Hogan

Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decay at D0

Authors: D0 Collaboration, V.M. Abazov, et al

Earth Radioactivity Measurements with a Deep Ocean Anti-neutrino Observatory

Authors: S.T. Dye, E. Guillian, J.G. Learned, J. Maricic, S. Matsuno, S. Pakvasa, G. Varner, M. Wilcox

Indirect detection of light neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM

Authors: Francesc Ferrer, Lawrence M. Krauss, Stefano Profumo

Papers -- 9/25/2006

The Origin and Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relationship of Galaxies: Results from Cosmological N-Body Simulations

Authors: A.M. Brooks (UW), F. Governato (UW), C.M. Booth (Durham), B.Willman (CfA), J.P. Gardner (U.Pittsburgh), J. Wadsley (MacMaster), G. Stinson (UW), T. Quinn (UW)

The Impact of Baryonic Cooling on Giant Arc Abundances

Authors: Eduardo Rozo (Chicago/Ohio State), Daisuke Nagai (Caltech), Charles Keeton (Rutgers), Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago)

Discovery of Very High Energy $\gamma$-Rays from Markarian~180 Triggered by an Optical Outburst

Authors: J. Albert et al. (MAGIC collaboration)

Observation of Bs-Bsbar Oscillations

Authors: CDF Collaboration

A Relational Quantum Theory Incorporating Gravity

Authors: Charles Francis

Papers -- 9/22/2006

The Star Formation Epoch of the Most Massive Early-Type Galaxies

Authors: Pieter G. van Dokkum, Roeland P. van der Marel

A Direct Upper Limit on the Density of Cosmological Dust from the Absence of an X-ray Scattering Halo around the z=4.3 QSO 1508+5714

Authors: A. O. Petric, G. A. Telis, F. Paerels, D. J. Helfand

Report of the Dark Energy Task Force

Authors: Andreas Albrecht, Gary Bernstein, Robert Cahn, Wendy L. Freedman, Jacqueline Hewitt, Wayne Hu, John Huth, Marc Kamionkowski, Edward W. Kolb, Lloyd Knox, John C. Mather, Suzanne Staggs, Nicholas B. Suntzeff

A Cosmology Calculator for the World Wide Web

Authors: Edward L. Wright (UCLA)

The Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20 and its Radio Afterglow

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