tipa -- 10/23/2006

Swift detects a remarkable gamma-ray burst, GRB 060614, that introduces a new classification scheme

• Authors: N. Gehrels, J. P. Norris, V. Mangano, S. D. Barthelmy, D. N. Burrows, J. Granot, Y. Kaneko, C. Kouveliotou, C. B. Markwardt, P. Meszaros, E. Nakar, J. A. Nousek, P. T. O'Brien, M. Page, D. M. Palmer, A. M. Parsons, P. W. A. Roming, T. Sakamoto, C. L. Sarazin, P. Schady, M. Stamatikos, S. E. Woosley

Photometry of a Galactic field at l = 232, b = -6. The old open cluster Auner 1, the Norma-Cygnus spiral arm and the signature of the warped Galactic Thick Disk

• Authors: Giovanni Carraro (Padova), Andre' Moitinho (Lisboa), Manuela Zoccali (PUC), Ruben Vazquez (LaPlata), Gustavo Baume (LaPlata)

Near real-time selection of high redshift GRBs with Swift

• Authors: S. Campana (OAB), G. Tagliaferri (OAB), D. Malesani (SISSA), L. Stella (OAR), P. D'Avanzo (OAB & Uni. Insubria), G. Chincarini (Uni. Bicocca & OAB), S. Covino (OAB)

ARIANNA: A New Concept for UHE Neutrino Detection

• Authors: Steven W. Barwick

Intense Neutrino Beams and Leptonic CP Violation

• Authors: William Marciano, Zohreh Parsa

Simple Approach to Renormalize the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix

• Authors: Bernd A. Kniehl, Alberto Sirlin

Homage to Ettore Majorana

• Authors: R. Jackiw

tipa -- 10/20/2006

The WENSS and Dwingeloo surveys and the Galactic magnetic field

• Authors: D.H.F.M. Schnitzeler, P. Katgert, M. Haverkorn, A.G. de Bruyn

Swift observations of GRB050904: the most distant cosmic explosion ever observed

• Authors: G. Cusumano, V. Mangano, G. Chincarini, A. Panaitescu, D.N. Burrows, V. La Parola, T. Sakamoto, S. Campana, T. Mineo, G. Tagliaferri, L. Angelini, S.D. Barthelemy, A.P. Beardmore, P.T. Boyd, L. Cominsky, C. Gronwall, E.E. Fenimore, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, M. Goad, K. Hurley, S. Immler, J.A. Kennea, K.O. Mason, F. Marshall, P. Meszaros, J.A. Nousek, J.P. Osborne, D.M. Palmer, P.W.A. Roming, A. Wells, N.E. White, B. Zhang

The Zoo of Neutron Stars

• Authors: S.B. Popov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)

Probing The Universe With Neutrinos At 20 Minutes And 400 Thousand Years

• Authors: Gary Steigman

tipa -- 10/19/2006

The Large Scale Structure of f(R) Gravity

• Authors: Yong-Seon Song, Wayne Hu, Ignacy Sawicki (KICP, UChicago)

The diffuse supernova neutrino flux

• Authors: Cecilia Lunardini

An almost head-on collision as the origin of two off-centre rings in the Andromeda galaxy

• Authors: D.L. Block, F. Bournaud, F. Combes, R. Groess, P. Barmby, M.L.N. Ashby, G.G. Fazio, M.A. Pahre, S.P. Willner

See also: Nature

The Stellar Mass Spectrum in Warm and Dusty Gas: Deviations from Salpeter in the Galactic Centre and in Circum-Nuclear Starburst Regions

• Authors: Ralf S. Klessen (Heidelberg University, AIP), Marco Spaans (Kapteyn Institute), Anne-Katharina Jappsen (CITA, AIP)

The Cosmological Parameters 2006

• Authors: Ofer Lahav, Andrew R Liddle

Dark matter annihilation from intermediate-mass black holes: Contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background

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

A dip in the UHECR spectrum and the transition from galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays

• Authors: R. Aloisio, V. Berezinsky, P. Blasi, A. Gazizov, S. Grigorieva, B. Hnatyk

Observation of a Broad Structure at an Invariant Mass of 4.32 GeV/$c^2$ in the Reaction $e^+e^-\to\pi^+\pi^-\psi(2S)$ Measured at BaBar

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

Susskind's Challenge to the Hartle-Hawking No-Boundary Proposal and Possible Resolutions

• Authors: Don N. Page

Quantum Physics and Human Language

• Authors: James B. Hartle (University of California, Santa Barbara)

tipa -- 10/18/2006

Solar System tests DO rule out 1/R gravity

• Authors: Adrienne L. Erickcek, Tristan L. Smith, Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

Simulation of up- and down-going neutrino induced showers at the site of the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: Dariusz Gora (a, b), Markus Roth (c), Alessio Tamburro (a) ((a) Universitat Karlsruhe, (b)Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, (c)Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

H.E.S.S. observations of the Galactic Center region and their possible dark matter interpretation

• Authors: H.E.S.S. collaboration: F.A. Aharonian, et al

Analysis of X-ray flares in GRBs

• Authors: D. Guetta, V. D'Elia, F. Fiore, M.L. Conciatore, A. Antonelli, L. Stella

Chandra and XMM-Newton Observations of the Vela-like Pulsar B1046-58

• Authors: M. E. Gonzalez, V. M. Kaspi, M. J. Pivovaroff, B. M. Gaensler

Sir James Jeans and the Stability of Gaseous Stars

• Authors: Alan B. Whiting

tipa -- 10/17/2006

Implications of a GRB-Metallicity Anti-Correlation for Cosmogenic Neutrinos

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

Collisionally Regenerated Dark Matter Structures in Galactic Nuclei

• Authors: David Merritt, Stefan Harfst, Gianfranco Bertone

A new type of long gamma--ray burst

• Authors: Andrew King, Emma Olsson, Melvyn B. Davies

Inverse Compton X-ray Flare from GRB Reverse Shock

• Authors: Shiho Kobayashi, Bing Zhang, Peter Meszaros, David N. Burrows

Inverse Compton Scenarios for the TeV Gamma-Ray Emission of the Galactic Centre

• Authors: J. A. Hinton, F. A. Aharonian

Numerically Stable Calculations of Radiative Corrections to Bremsstrahlung in Electron-Positron Annihilation

• Authors: S.A. Yost, B.F.L. Ward

Neutrino oscillations: what is magic about the "magic" baseline?

• Authors: A. Yu. Smirnov

Astrophysics of Wormholes

• Authors: N.S. Kardashev, I.D. Novikov, A.A. Shatskiy

On the quantum analogue of Galileo's leaning tower experiment

• Authors: Md. Manirul Ali, A. S. Majumdar, Dipankar Home, Alok Kumar Pan

Einstein was Wrong: Newtonian Dynamics Can Disagree Completely with Relativistic Dynamics at Low Speed

• Authors: Boon Leong Lan

tipa -- 10/16/2006

Eavesdropping on Radio Broadcasts from Galactic Civilizations with Upcoming Observatories for Redshifted 21cm Radiation

• Authors: Abraham Loeb, Matias Zaldarriaga (Harvard)

The Structure and Dynamics of GRB Jets

• Authors: Jonathan Granot (KIPAC, Stanford)

The Relevance of Mediterranean Neutrino Telescope Sites on Earth-skimming tau neutrino detection

• Authors: Gennaro Miele

Optical observations of GRB 060218/SN 2006aj and its host galaxy

• Authors: Patrizia Ferrero, Eliana Palazzi, Elena Pian, Sandra Savaglio

Atomic Data for X-ray Astrophysics

• Authors: T.R. Kallman (1), P. Palmeri (2) ((1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (2) Astrophysique et Spectroscopie, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium)

Redshift Degeneracy in the Eiso-Epeak Relation of Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Li-Xin Li (MPA)

Analytical Study of Diffusive Relativistic Shock Acceleration

• Authors: Uri Keshet

Measurement of the $\nu_e$ and Total $^{8}$B Solar Neutrino Fluxes with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Phase I Data Set

• Authors: SNO Collaboration

tipa -- 10/13/2006

Experimental approaches for 100 TeV gamma-ray astronomy

• Authors: Pierre Colin, Stephan LeBohec, Jamie Holder

Unveiling the Cygnus OB2 stellar population with Chandra

• Authors: J. F. Albacete Colombo, E. Flaccomio, G. Micela, F. Damiani, S. Sciortino

Physical Properties of Wolf-Rayet Stars

• Authors: Paul A Crowther

SWIFT/XRT follow-up observations of INTEGRAL AGNs

• Authors: R. Landi, A. Malizia, L. Bassani, N. Masetti, J.B. Stephen, F. Gianotti, F. Schiavone, A. Bazzano, P. Ubertini, A.J. Bird, A.J. Dean, R. Walter

The Transition from Atomic to Molecular Hydrogen in Interstellar Clouds: 21cm Signature of the Evolution of Cold Atomic Hydrogen in Dense Clouds

• Authors: Paul F. Goldsmith, Di Li, Marko Krco

Gamma ray signatures of ultra high energy cosmic ray accelerators: electromagnetic cascade versus synchrotron radiation of secondary electrons

• Authors: Stefano Gabici, Felix A. Aharonian (MPIK, Heidelberg)

First hints of large scale structures in the ultra-high energy sky?

• Authors: A. Cuoco, G. Miele, P.D. Serpico

Star Clusters with Primordial Binaries: III. Dynamical Interaction between Binaries and an Intermediate Mass Black Hole

• Authors: M. Trenti, E. Ardi, S. Mineshige, P. Hut

Evidence Against Astrophysical Dyadospheres

• Authors: Don N. Page

tipa -- 10/12/2006

Search with EGRET for a Gamma Ray Line from the Galactic Center

• Authors: Anthony R. Pullen, Ranga-Ram Chary, Marc Kamionkowski

A New Force in the Dark Sector?

• Authors: Glennys R. Farrar, Rachel A. Rosen

Transient X-ray sources in the field of the Unidentified Gamma-Ray Source TeV J2032+4130 in Cygnus

• Authors: R. Mukherjee, E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern

A two-zone model for the emission from RX J1713.7-3946

• Authors: K. Moraitis, A. Mastichiadis

Galactic star-formation rates gauged by stellar end-products

• Authors: M.Persic (INAF-Trieste), Y.Rephaeli (Tel-Aviv U., UC San Diego)

A New Young Galactic Supernova Remnant Containing a Compact Object: G15.9+0.2

• Authors: S.P. Reynolds, K.J. Borkowski, U. Hwang, I. Harrus, R. Petre, G. Dubner

Julian Schwinger: Nuclear Physics, the Radiation Laboratory, Renormalized QED, Source Theory, and Beyond

• Authors: K. A. Milton

What's the trouble with anthropic reasoning?

• Authors: Roberto Trotta (Oxford University), Glenn D. Starkman (Oxford University & Case Western Reserve University)

Effect on cosmic microwave background polarization of coupling of quintessence to pseudoscalar formed from the electromagnetic field and its dual

• Authors: Guo-Chin Liu, Seokcheon Lee, Kin-Wang Ng

Absolute Being vs Relative Becoming

• Authors: Joy Christian (Perimeter and Oxford)

tipa -- 10/11/2006

21-cm Background Anisotropies Can Discern Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Slow-Roll Inflation

• Authors: Asantha Cooray (Irvine)

Erratum: Detection of diffuse TeV gamma-ray emission from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253

• Authors: C.Itoh, R.Enomoto, S.Yanagita, T.Yoshida, et al (CANGAROO-II collaboration)

Asymmetric warps in disk galaxies: dependence on dark matter halo

• Authors: K. Saha, C. J. Jog

Unveiling the X-ray/TeV engine in Mkn 421

• Authors: Berrie Giebels, Guillaume Dubus, Bruno Khelifi

GRB progenitors at low metallicities

• Authors: R. Hirschi, G. Meynet, A. Maeder

Can Lambda be determined from nearby Type Ia Supernovae?

• Authors: P. Erni, G.A. Tammann

A potentially pure test of cosmic geometry: galaxy clusters and the real space Alcock-Paczynski test

• Authors: Young-Rae Kim (CMU) Rupert Croft (CMU)

Testing General Relativity with Atom Interferometry

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

Proton Decay in Teravolt Unification

• Authors: P.H. Frampton

Model Independent Bounds on Magnetic Moments of Majorana Neutrinos

• Authors: Nicole F. Bell, Mikhail Gorchtein, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Petr Vogel, Peng Wang

Introducing the H-Index in Telescope Statistics

• Authors: Uta Grothkopf (ESO), Sarah Stevens-Rayburn (ST ScI)

Axinos as Cold Dark Matter

• Authors: Laura Covi

Photon as the magnetic monopole

• Authors: Sze Kui Ng

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