today in particle astrophysics

Authors: A. Tramacere (1), P. Giommi (2), E. Massaro (1,2), M. Perri (2) R. Nesci (1), S. Colafrancesco (3), G. Tagliaferri (4), G. Chincarini (4), A. Falcone (5), D.N. Burrows (5), P. Roming (5), M. McMath Chester (5), N. Gehrels (6) ((1)Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (2) ASI Science Data Center, ESRIN, via G. Galilei, Frascati, Italy, (3) INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monteporzio Catone, Italy, (4) INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy, (5) Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, USA, (6) NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA)

The Star Formation History of the Universe

Authors: Andrew M. Hopkins

Observations of the Li, Be, and B isotopes and constraints on cosmic-ray propagation

Authors: G. A. de Nolfo, I. V. Moskalenko, W. R. Binns, E.R. Christian, A. C. Cummings, A. J. Davis, J. S. George, P. L. Hink, M. H. Israel, R. A. Leske, M. Lijowski, R. A. Mewaldt, E. C. Stone, A. W. Strong, T. T. von Rosenvinge, M. E. Wiedenbeck, N. E. Yanasak

A metal rich molecular cloud surrounds GRB 050904 at redshift 6.3

Authors: S. Campana (Brera obs.), D. Lazzati (JILA, Colorado Univ.), E. Ripamonti (Kapteyn Inst., Groningen Univ.), R. Perna (JILA, Colorado Univ.), S. Covino (Brera obs.), G. Tagliaferri (Brera obs.), A. Moretti (Brera obs.), P. Romano (Brera obs.), G. Cusumano (IASF Palermo), G. Chincarini (Bicocca-Milano Univ. & Brera obs.)

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

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

Models of Neutrino Masses and Mixings

Authors: Guido Altarelli

tipa -- 11/9/2006

The Low-Mass X-ray Binary and Globular Cluster Connection in Virgo Cluster Early-type Galaxies: Optical Properties

Authors: Gregory R. Sivakoff (1,2), Andrés Jordán (3), Craig L. Sarazin (1), John P. Blakeslee (4), Patrick C{\^ o}t{\' e} (5), Laura Ferrarese (5), Adrienne M. Juett (1), Simona Mei (6,7), Eric W. Peng (5) ((1) University of Virginia, (2) The Ohio State University, (3) European Southern Observatory, (4) Washington State University, (5) Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, (6) Observatoire de Paris, (7) Johns Hopkins University)

Swift and XMM-Newton Observations of the Extraordinary GRB 060729: An afterglow with a more than 100 days X-ray light curve

Authors: Dirk Grupe (PSU), Caryl Gronwall (PSU), Xiang-Yu Wang (PSU), Peter Roming (PSU), Jay Cummings (NASA/GSFC), Bing Zhang (Univ of NV), Peter Meszaros (PSU, Maria Diaz Trigo (ESO/SCIOPS), Paul T. O'Brien (U Leicester), Kim Page (U Leicester), Andy Beardmore (U Leicester), Olivier Godet (U Leicester), Daniel vanden Berk (PSU), Peter Brown (PSU), Scott Koch (PSU), David Morris (PSU), Michael Stroh (PSU), David N. Burrows (PSU), John A. Nousek (PSU), Margaret McMath Chester (PSU), Stefan Immler (NASA/GSFC), Vanessa Mangano (INAF-OAB), Patrizia Romano INAF-OAB), Guido Chincarini (INAF-OAB), Takanori Sakamoto (NASA/GSFC), Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)

GRB progenitors and their environments

Authors: Davide Lazzati (JILA, University of Colorado)

Massive star evolution at high metallicity

Authors: Georges Meynet, Nami Mowlavi, Andre Maeder

Uncertainties in Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes

Authors: G.D. Barr, T.K. Gaisser, S. Robbins, T. Stanev

Upper limits to surface force disturbances on LISA proof masses and the possibility of observing galactic binaries

Authors: Ludovico Carbone, Giacomo Ciani, Rita Dolesi, Mauro Hueller, David Tombolato, Stefano Vitale, William Joseph Weber (Department of Physics, University of Trento and INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, Italy) Antonella Cavalleri (Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie CNR-ITC and INFN Gruppo Collegato di Trento, Italy)

tipa -- 11/8/2006

Best-Bet Astrophysical Neutrino Sources

Authors: Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

Gamma-Ray Burst jet dynamics and their interaction with the progenitor star

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

External Shocks, UHECRs, and the Early Afterglow of GRBs

Authors: Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

Improved Measurements of the CMB Power Spectrum with ACBAR

Authors: C.L. Kuo (1,2), P.A.R. Ade (3), J.J. Bock (1,2), J.R. Bond (4), C.R. Contaldi (4,5), M.D. Daub (6), J.H. Goldstein (7), W.L. Holzapfel (6), A.E. Lange (1,2), M. Lueker (6), M. Newcomb (8), J.B. Peterson (9), C. Reichardt (1), J. Ruhl (7), M.C. Runyan (10), Z. Staniszweski (7), ((1) Caltech, (2) JPL, (3) Cardiff, (4) CITA, (5) Imperial, (6) Berkeley, (7) CWRU, (8) Yerkes, (9) CMU, (10) Chicago)

Supermassive binary black holes among cosmic gamma-ray sources

Authors: Frank M. Rieger

How large is the population of heavily obscured X-ray sources?

Authors: Filippo Frontera (1,2), Mauro Orlandini (1), Raffaella Landi (1), Andrea Comastri (3), Fabrizio Fiore (4), Giancarlo Setti (5,6), Lorenzo Amati (1), Enrico Costa (7), Nicola Masetti (1), Eliana Palazzi (1) ((1) INAF/IASF Bologna, (2) Uni Ferrara, (3) INAF/OA Bologna, (4) INAF/OA Roma, (5) Uni Bologna, (6) INAF/IRA, (7) INAF/IASF Roma)

Stable Massive Particles at Colliders

Authors: M. Fairbairn, A.C. Kraan, D.A. Milstead, T. Sjostrand, P. Skands, T. Sloan

A new way to detect the Higgs

Authors: S. Reucroft, Y. Srivastava, J. Swain, A Widom

An upper limit to the photon fraction in cosmic rays above 10^19 eV from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: Pierre Auger Collaboration

tipa -- 11/7/2006

A New Population of High Redshift Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: E. Berger, D.B. Fox, P.A. Price, E. Nakar, A. Gal-Yam, D.E. Holz, B.P. Schmidt, A. Cucchiara, S.B. Cenko, S.R. Kulkarni, A.M. Soderberg, D.A. Frail, B.E. Penprase, A. Rau, E. Ofek, S.J. Bell Burnell, P.B. Cameron, L.L. Cowie, M.A. Dopita, I. Hook, B.A. Peterson, Ph. Podsiadlowski, K.C. Roth, R.E. Rutledge, S.S. Sheppard, A. Songaila

The Shadow of Dark Matter

Authors: Stefano Profumo (Caltech), Kris Sigurdson (IAS and UBC)

Limits on the Radiative Decay of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter from the Unresolved Cosmic and Soft X-ray Backgrounds

Authors: Kevork N. Abazajian, Maxim Markevitch, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Ryan C. Hickox

Swift Discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts without Jet Break Feature in their X-Ray Afterglows

Authors: G. Sato, R. Yamazaki, K. Ioka, T. Sakamoto, T. Takahashi, K. Nakazawa, T. Nakamura, K. Toma, D. Hullinger, M. Tashiro, A. M. Parsons, H. A. Krimm, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, D. N. Burrows, P. T. O'Brien, J. P. Osborne, G. Chincarini, D. Q. Lamb

Long gamma-ray bursts without visible supernovae: a case study of redshift estimators and alleged novel objects

Authors: Shlomo Dado, Arnon Dar, A. De Rujula

Constraints on parameters of radiatively decaying dark matter from the galaxy cluster 1E0657-56

Authors: Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Maxim Markevitch

Galactic centre X-ray sources

Authors: Andrew J. Gosling, Reba M. Bandyopadhyay, Katherine M. Blundell

The Interplay Between Collider Searches For Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons and Direct Dark Matter Experiments

Authors: Marcela Carena, Dan Hooper, Alberto Vallinotto

Determination of Dark Matter Properties at High-Energy Colliders

Authors: Edward A. Baltz, Marco Battaglia, Michael E. Peskin, Tommer Wizansky

tipa -- 11/6/2006

On the absence of Wolf-Rayet Signatures in GRB Afterglow Spectra: Constraints on the GRB Progenitor Environment

Authors: Hsiao-Wen Chen (U of Chicago), Jason X. Prochaska (UCO/Lick Observatory), Josha S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (IAS), Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky (Geneva Observatory), Ryan J. Foley (UC Berkeley)

Extreme Properties Of GRB061007: A Highly Energetic Or A Highly Collimated Burst?

Authors: P. Schady, M.De Pasquale, M.J.Page, L.Vetere, S.B.Pandey, X.Y.Wang, J.Cummings, B.Zhang, S.Zane, A.Breeveld, D.N.Burrows, N.Gehrels. C.Gronwall, S.Hunsberger, C.Markwardt, K.O.Mason, P.Meszaros, S.R.Oates, C.Pagani, T.S.Poole, P.W.A.Roming, P.J.Smith, D.E.Vanden Berk

The Interstellar Medium of GRB Host Galaxies I. Echelle Spectra of Swift GRB Af terglows

Authors: J.X. Prochaska (1), H.-W. Chen (2), J. S. Bloom (3), M. Dessauges-Zavadsky (4), J. M. O'Meara (5), R. J. Foley (3), R. Bernstein (6), S. Burles (7), A. K. Dupree (8), E. Falco (8), I. B. Thompson (9) ((1) UCO/Lick, (2) U Chicago, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) Geneva Observatory, (5) Penn State-Worthington, (6) U Michigan, (7) MIT, (8) Harvard CfA, (9) Carnegie Observatories)

Direct Reconstruction of the Dark Energy Scalar-Field Potential

Authors: Chao Li (Caltech), Daniel E. Holz (LANL), Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine)

Status of the NEMO Project

Authors: Piera Sapienza (for the NEMO collaboration)

The host galaxies of long-duration GRBs in a cosmological hierarchical scenario

Authors: Sebastian E. Nuza, Patricia B. Tissera, Leonardo J. Pellizza, Diego G. Lambas, Cecilia Scannapieco, Maria E. De Rossi

Supernova 2002ic: the collapse of a stripped-envelope, massive star in a dense medium ?

Authors: S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, M. Turatto, S. Taubenberger, A. Harutyunyan, S. Valenti

Observations of the Askaryan Effect in Ice

Authors: The ANITA collaboration: S. W. Barwick (1), J. J. Beatty (2), D. Z. Besson (3), W. R. Binns (4), P. Chen (5), J. M. Clem (6), A. Connolly (7), P. F. Dowkontt (4), M. A. DuVernois (8), R. C. Field (5), D. Goldstein (1), A. Goodhue (7) P. W. Gorham (9), C. Hast (5), C. L. Hebert (9), S. Hoover (7), M. H. Israel (4), J. Kowalski, (9) J. G. Learned (9), K. M. Liewer (10), J. T. Link (9), E. Lusczek (8), S. Matsuno (9), B. Mercurio (2), C. Miki (9), P. Miocinovic (9), J. Nam (1), C. J. Naudet (11), J. Ng (5), R. Nichol (2), K. Palladino (2), K. Reil (5), A. Romero-Wolf (9) M. Rosen (9), D. Saltzberg (7), D. Secke (6), G. S. Varner (9), D. Walz (5), F. Wu (11), ((1)U.C. Irvine,(2)Ohio State Univ.,(3)Univ. of Kansas, (4)Washington Univ. in St. Louis, (5)Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, (6)University of Delaware, (7)UCLA, (8)Univ. of Minnesota,(9)Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory.)

tipa -- 11/3/2006

Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

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

Simulating cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies: I. effects on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and the X-ray emission

Authors: Christoph Pfrommer (1), Torsten A. Ensslin (2), Volker Springel (2), Martin Jubelgas (2), Klaus Dolag (2) ((1) CITA, (2) MPA)

Deep Mixing of He-3: Reconciling Big Bang and Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Authors: Peter P Eggleton, David S P Dearborn, John C Lattanzio

Star formation in the central regions of galaxies

Authors: J. H. Knapen (1), E. L. Allard (1), L. M. Mazzuca (2), M. Sarzi (1), R. F. Peletier (3) ((1) Univ. of Hertfordshire, (2) NASA-GSFC, (3) Univ. of Groningen)

Guaranteed and Prospective Galactic TeV Neutrino Sources