tipa -- 11/30/2006

SGRs in nearby galaxies: rate, luminosity function and fraction among short GRBs

• Authors: Eran O. Ofek (Caltech)

Recent results from Yakutsk experiment: development of EAS, energy spectrum and primary particle mass composition in the energy region of 10^15-10^19 eV

• Authors: S.P. Knurenko, A.A. Ivanov, M.I. Pravdin, A.V. Sabourov, I.Ye. Sleptsov

The Galactic positron flux and dark matter substructures

• Authors: Qiang Yuan, Xiao-Jun Bi

The population of radio sources in the field of the unidentified gamma-ray source TeV J2032+4130

• Authors: Josep M. Paredes, Josep Marti, Ishwara Chandra C.H., Valenti Bosch-Ramon

Study on Cosmic Ray Background Rejection with a 30 m Stand-Alone IACT using Non-parametric Multivariate Methods in a sub-100 GeV Energy Range

• Authors: A. Konopelko, A. Chilingarian, A. Reimers

Cosmic Neutrinos from the Sources of Galactic and Extragalactic Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Francis Halzen

Gamma Ray Burst Neutrinos Probing Quantum Gravity

• Authors: M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, F. Halzen

The vicissitudes of "cannonballs": a response to criticisms by A.M. Hillas and a brief review of our claims

• Authors: Arnon Dar, A. De Rujula

Fractional Brane State in the Early Universe

• Authors: Borun D. Chowdhury, Samir D. Mathur

Recent Results from RHIC & Some Lessons for Cosmic-Ray Physicists

• Authors: Spencer R. Klein

tipa -- 11/29/2006

Revisiting the Black Hole Masses of Soft X-ray Selected AGNs

• Authors: Linda C. Watson (1), Smita Mathur (1), Dirk Grupe (2) ((1) Ohio State University, (2) Pennsylvania State University)

Mass Transfer in Close, Rapidly Accreting Protobinaries: An Origin for Massive Twins?

• Authors: Mark R. Krumholz, Todd A. Thompson (Princeton University)

Gamma-Rays Produced in Cosmic-Ray Interactions and the TeV-band Spectrum of RX J1713-3946

• Authors: C.-Y. Huang, S.-E. Park, M. Pohl, C. D. Daniels

Quantum Zeno effect and the impact of flavor in leptogenesis

• Authors: S. Blanchet, P. Di Bari, G.G. Raffelt

The metallicity dependence of the long-duration GRB rate from host galaxy luminosities

• Authors: Christian Wolf, Philipp Podsiadlowski

On Some Nonlinear Integral Equation in the (Super)String Theory

• Authors: D.V. Prokhorenko

tipa -- 11/28/2006

Primary particle acceleration above 100 TeV in the shell-type Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with deep H.E.S.S. observations

• Authors: The HESS Collaboration: F.Aharonian, et al

First bounds on the very high energy gamma-ray emission from Arp 220

• Authors: J. Albert et al. (MAGIC Collaboration)

The EHE Neutrino Search Capability of the IceCube Observatory

• Authors: Aya Ishihara

Simulations of Cosmic Chemical Enrichment with Hypernova

• Authors: Chiaki Kobayashi

Models for the circumstellar medium of long gamma-ray burst progenitor candidates

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

Break in the VHE spectrum of PG 1553+113: new upper limit on its redshift?

• Authors: D. Mazin, F. Goebel

tipa -- 11/27/2006

A Possible Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation of Galaxies

• Authors: J. Koeppen, C. Weidner, P. Kroupa

Observations of the Unidentified TeV Gamma-Ray Source TeV J2032+4130 with the Whipple Observatory 10 m Telescope

• Authors: A. Konopelko, R. W. Atkins, G. Blaylock, J. H. Buckley, Y. Butt, D. A. Carter-Lewis, O. Celik, P. Cogan, Y. C. K. Chow, W. Cui, C. Dowdall, T. Ergin, A. D. Falcone, D. J. Fegan, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, P. Fortin, G. H. Gillanders, K. J. Gutierrez, J. Hall, D. Hanna, D. Horan, S. B. Hughes, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, I. Jung, P. Kaaret, G. E. Kenny, M. Kertzman, D. B. Kieda, J. Kildea, J. Knapp, K. Kosack, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nagai, R. A. Ong, J. S. Perkins, M. Pohl, K. Ragan, P. T. Reynolds, H. J. Rose, G. H. Sembroski, M. Schroedter, A. W. Smith, D. Steele, A. Syson, S. P Swordy, J. A. Toner, L. Valcarcel, V. V. Vassiliev, R. G. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, T. C. Weekes, R. J. White, D. A. Williams, B. Zitzer

TeV J2032+4130: a not-so-dark Accelerator?

• Authors: Yousaf M. Butt, Jorge A. Combi, Jeremy Drake, John P. Finley, Alexander Konopelko, Matthew Lister, Jerome Rodriguez

The circumburst environment of a FRED GRB: study of the prompt emission and X-ray/optical afterglow of GRB 051111

• Authors: C. Guidorzi (1), A. Gomboc (2), S. Kobayashi (1), C.G. Mundell (1), E. Rol (3), M.F. Bode (1), D. Carter (1), V. La Parola (4), A. Melandri (1), A. Monfardini (1), C.J. Mottram (1), P.T. O'Brien (3), K.L. Page (3), T. Sakamoto (6), R.J. Smith (1), I.A. Steele (1), N.R. Tanvir (3,7) ((1) ARI, Liverpool John Moores University UK, (2) Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia, (3) Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Leicester, UK, (4) INAF-Palermo, Italy, (5) ITC-IRST-INFN Trento, Italy, (6) GSFC-NASA, USA, (7) University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Pre-supernova mass loss predictions for massive stars

• Authors: Jorick S. Vink (Keele University), Alex de Koter (University of Amsterdam), Rubina Kotak (ESO)

Hidden Trigger for the Giant Starburst Arc in M 83?

• Authors: Ruben J. Diaz, Horacio Dottori, Maria P. Aguero, Evencio Mediavilla, Irapuan Rodrigues, Damian Mast

ISM studies of GRB 030329 with high resolution spectroscopy

• Authors: Christina C. Thoene (MPE, DARK), Jochen Greiner (MPE), Sandra Savaglio (MPE), Emmanuel Jehin (ESO)

Neutrino astronomy with IceCube and AMANDA

• Authors: Gary C. Hill, for the IceCube collaboration

Gamma-ray burst afterglows

• Authors: Bing Zhang (UNLV)

Observation of Exclusive Electron-Positron Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions

• Authors: CDF Collaboration

Neutrino Flavor States and the Quantum Theory of Neutrino Oscillations

• Authors: Carlo Giunti

The double Compton emissivity in a mildly relativistic thermal plasma within the soft photon limit

• Authors: J. Chluba, S.Yu. Sazonov, R.A. Sunyaev

thanksgiving tipa -- 11/23/2006

The Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud: FIR Emission and Cold Gas in the SMC

• Authors: Adam Leroy, Alberto Bolatto, Snezana Stanimirovic, Norikazu Mizuno, Frank Israel, Caroline Bot

Rapid-Response Mode VLT/UVES spectroscopy of GRB060418: Conclusive evidence for UV pumping from the time evolution of FeII and NiII excited- and metastable-level populations

• Authors: P.M. Vreeswijk, C. Ledoux, A. Smette, S.L. Ellison, A. Jaunsen, M. I. Andersen, A.S. Fruchter, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, A. Kaufer, P. Moller, P. Petitjean, S. Savaglio, R.A.M.J. Wijers

Discovery of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, B. Allen, D. Berley, E. Blaufuss, S. Casanova, C. Chen, D. G. Coyne, R. S. Delay, B. L. Dingus, R. W. Ellsworth, L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, M. M. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, E. Hays, C. M. Hoffman, B. E. Kolterman, L. A. Kelley, C. P. Lansdell, J. T. Linnemann, J. E. McEnery, A. I. Mincer, I. V. Moskalenko, P. Nemethy, D. Noyes, J. M. Ryan, F. W. Samuelson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, M. Schneider, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, A. W. Strong, G. W. Sullivan, V. Vasileiou, G. P. Walker, D. A. Williams, X. W. Xu, G. B. Yodh

UHECRs deflections in the IRAS PSCz catalogue based models of extragalactic magnetic field

• Authors: Andrii Elyiv

WIMPs search by exclusive measurements with thin multilayer NaI(Tl) scintillators (PICO-LON)

• Authors: K. Fushimi, H.Kawasuso, K.Yasuda, Y.Kameda, N.Koori, S.Nakayama, K.Ichihara, M.Nomachi, S.Umehara, S.Yoshida, H.Ejiri, K.Imagawa, H.Ito

Regions of star formation as gamma-ray sources: Analytic formulae for hadronic production in a single stellar wind

• Authors: Diego F. Torres

Science Potential of a Deep Ocean Antineutrino Observatory

• Authors: Steve Dye

Neutrino Phenomenology, Dark Energy and Leptogenesis from pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Bosons

• Authors: C.T. Hill, I. Mocioiu, E.A. Paschos, U. Sarkar

The ArDM project: a Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiment based on Liquid Argon

• Authors: L. Kaufmann, A. Rubbia

Is there a problem with low energy SN1987A neutrinos?

• Authors: Maria Laura Costantini, Aldo Ianni, Giulia Pagliaroli, Francesco Vissani

tipa -- 11/22/2006

XMM-Newton observations of HESS J1813-178 reveal a composite Supernova remnant

• Authors: S. Funk, J. A. Hinton, Y. Moriguchi, F. A. Aharonian, Y. Fukui, W. Hofmann, D. Horns, G. Puehlhofer, O. Reimer, G. Rowell, R. Terrier, J. Vink, S. Wagner

Identification of high energy gamma-ray sources and source populations in the era of deep all-sky coverage

• Authors: Olaf Reimer, Diego F. Torres

Discovery of Variable Iron Fluorescence from Reflection Nebulae in the Galactic Center

• Authors: M. P. Muno (Caltech), F. K. Baganoff (MIT), W. N. Brandt, S. Park (Penn State), M. R. Morris (UCLA)

Demystifying an unidentified EGRET source by VHE gamma-ray observations

• Authors: Olaf Reimer, Stefan Funk

Formation and Evolution of Structure in Loop Cosmology

• Authors: Martin Bojowald, Hector Hernandez, Mikhail Kagan, Parampreet Singh, Aureliano Skirzewski

tipa -- 11/21/2006

TeV gamma-rays from photo-disintegration/de-excitation of cosmic-ray nuclei

• Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, John F. Beacom, Haim Goldberg, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Thomas J. Weiler

Contributions to 2^nd TeV Particle Astrophysics Conference (TeV PA II) Madison Wisconsin - 28-31 August 2006

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration: A. Achterberg, et al

VERITAS: Status and Performance

• Authors: J. Holder, the VERITAS collaboration

IceCube : Toward a km^3 Neutrino Telescope

• Authors: Paolo Desiati, for the IceCube Collaboration

Neutrinoless double beta decay

• Authors: Petr Vogel

Shortcuts in extra dimensions and neutrino physics

• Authors: Heinrich Päs (Alabama), Sandip Pakvasa (Hawaii), Thomas J. Weiler (Vanderbilt)

Topical Review on "Beta-beams"

• Authors: Cristina Volpe (Institut de Physique Nucleaire Orsay, France)

Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic Landscape

• Authors: Oleg Lebedev, Hans-Peter Nilles, Stuart Raby, Saul Ramos-Sanchez, Michael Ratz, Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange, Akin Wingerter

tipa -- 11/20/2006

The Physics and Early History of the Intergalactic Medium

• Authors: Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv U.), Abraham Loeb (Harvard U.)

A Solution to the Galactic Foreground Problem for LISA

• Authors: Jeff Crowder, Neil Cornish

The host galaxy of GRB 011121: Morphology and Spectral Energy Distribution

• Authors: Aybuke Kupcu Yoldas (MPE), Mara Salvato (MPE, Caltech), Jochen Greiner (MPE), Daniele Pierini (MPE), Elena Pian (INAF), Arne Rau (MPE, Caltech, INAF)

Fundamental Properties of GRB-Selected Galaxies: A Swift/VLT Legacy Survey

• Authors: P. Jakobsson, J. Hjorth, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Gorosabel, A. O. Jaunsen

New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy

• Authors: Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI), Louis-Gregory Strolger (UWK), Stefano Casertano (STScI), Henry C. Ferguson (STScI), Bahram Mobasher (STScI), Ben Gold (JHU), Peter J. Challis (CfA), Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB), Saurabh Jha (UCB), Weidong Li (UCB), John Tonry (IfA), Ryan Foley (UCB), Robert P. Kirshner (CfA), Mark Dickinson (NOAO), Emily MacDonald (NOAO), Daniel Eisenstein (UofA), Mario Livio (STScI), Josh Younger (CfA), Chun Xu (STScI), Tomas Dahlen (STScI), Daniel Stern (JPL)

Statistics of Cosmological Black Hole Jet Sources: Blazar Predictions for GLAST

• Authors: Charles D. Dermer (1) ((1) NRL)

Quantum Graphity

• Authors: Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin

tipa -- 11/17/2006

A Telescope Search for Decaying Relic Axions

• Authors: Daniel Grin, Giovanni Covone, Jean-Paul Kneib, Marc Kamionkowski, Andrew Blain, Eric Jullo

Summary: Acoustic Detection of EHE Neutrinos

• Authors: Justin Vandenbroucke

The Axis of Evil revisited

• Authors: Kate Land, Joao Magueijo

High-Energy Aspects of Astrophysical Jets

• Authors: Amir Levinson

Constraining the number of compact remnants near Sgr A*

• Authors: Patrick Deegan, Sergei Nayakshin

Scattering of Gravitational Radiation: Intensity Fluctuations

• Authors: Jean-Pierre Macquart

Towards absolute neutrino masses

• Authors: Petr Vogel

Parameterization of the energy and rapidity distributions of secondary pions and kaons produced in energetic proton-proton collisions

• Authors: Hylke B. J. Koers, Asaf Pe'er, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers

Constraints on Exotic Interactions from a Recent Test of the Gravitational Inverse Sqaure Law

• Authors: E.G. Adelberger, B.R. Heckel, S. Hoedl, C.D. Hoyle, D.J. Kapner

Dark Antimatter as a Galactic Heater: X-rays from the Core of our Galaxy

• Authors: Michael McNeil Forbes, Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

tipa -- 11/16/2006

The Excursion Set Theory of Halo Mass Functions, Halo Clustering, and Halo Growth

• Authors: Andrew R. Zentner (KICP, The University of Chicago)

Exploring the Edge of the Stellar Universe with Gamma-Ray Observations

• Authors: F. W. Stecker (NASA/GSFC and Ucla)

Milagro Search for VHE Emission from GRBs in the Swift Era

• Authors: P. M. Saz Parkinson (Milagro Collaboration)

The 3rd IBIS/ISGRI soft gamma-ray survey catalog

• Authors: A. J. Bird, A. Malizia, A. Bazzano, E. J. Barlow, L. Bassani, A. B. Hill, G. Belanger, F. Capitanio, D. J. Clark, A. J. Dean, M. Fiocchi, D. Gotz, F. Lebrun, M. Molina, N. Produit, M. Renaud, V. Sguera, J. B. Stephen, R. Terrier, P. Ubertini, R. Walter, C. Winkler, J. Zurita

BBN And The CBR Probe The Early Universe

• Authors: Gary Steigman

Microlensing of Lensed Supernovae

• Authors: Gregory Dobler, Charles R. Keeton

tipa -- 11/15/2006

Calculation of atmospheric neutrino flux using the interaction model calbrated with atmospheric muon data

• Authors: M. Honda, T. Kajita, K. Kasahara, S. Midorikawa, T. Sanuki

A new view of the dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way from VLT/FLAMES: Where are the very metal poor stars?

• Authors: Amina Helmi, M.J. Irwin, E. Tolstoy, G. Battaglia, V. Hill, P. Jablonka, K. Venn, M. Shetrone, B. Letarte, N. Arimoto, T. Abel, P. Francois, A. Kaufer, F. Primas, K. Sadakane, T. Szeifert

Cosmic Dust Induced Flux Fluctuations: Bad and Good Aspects

• Authors: Pengjie Zhang (SHAO), Pier Stefano Corasaniti (ISCAP)

Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale

• Authors: D.J. Kapner, T.S. Cook, E.G. Adelberger, J.H. Gundlach, B.R. Heckel, C.D. Hoyle, H.E. Swanson

Determining Neutrino and Supernova Parameters with a Galactic Supernova

• Authors: Solveig Skadhauge, Renata Zukanovich Funchal

tipa -- 11/14/2006

Late Forming Dark Matter in Theories of Neutrino Dark Energy

• Authors: Subinoy Das, Neal Weiner (CCPP, NYU)

Our CMB Motion: The Role of the Local Void

• Authors: R Brent Tully

Collective effects of stellar winds and unidentified gamma-ray sources

• Authors: Diego F. Torres, Eva Domingo-Santamaria

Radiowave Neutrino Detection

• Authors: Dave Besson

Dark matter substructure and gamma-ray annihilation in the Milky Way halo

• Authors: Juerg Diemand (1), Michael Kuhlen (1,2), Piero Madau (1,3), ((1) UC Santa Cruz, (2) IAS, Princeton, (3) MPA, Garching)

Spectral and timing properties of a dissipative GRB photosphere

• Authors: Dimitrios Giannios, Henk C. Spruit (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

Measurements of 0.2 to 20 GeV/n cosmic-ray proton and helium spectra from 1997 through 2002 with the BESS spectrometer

• Authors: Y. Shikaze, S. Haino, K. Abe, H. Fuke, T. Hams, K. C. Kim, Y. Makida, S. Matsuda, J. W. Mitchell, A. A. Moiseev, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, S. Orito, J. F. Ormes, T. Sanuki, M. Sasaki, E. S. Seo, R. E. Streitmatter, J. Suzuki, K. Tanaka, T. Yamagami, A. Yamamoto, T. Yoshida, K. Yoshimura

Neutrino Mass, Dark Matter, and Leptogenesis

• Authors: Ernest Ma (UC Riverside)

Nonlinear electrodynamics and the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft anomaly

• Authors: Jean Paul Mbelek, Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta, M. Novello, Jose M. Salim

tipa -- 11/13/2006

The Giant Flare of December 27, 2004 from SGR 1806-20

• Authors: Steven E. Boggs, A. Zoglauer, E. Bellm, K. Hurley, R. P. Lin, D. M. Smith, C. Wigger, W. Hajdas

Be born slow or die fast: spin evolution of neutron stars with alignment or counteralignment

• Authors: S.A. Eliseeva, S.B. Popov, V.S. Beskin

Revised Upper Limits of the Diffuse Tev Gamma Rays from the Galactic Planes with the Tibet II and III Air Shower Arrays

• Authors: The Tibet AS Gamma Collaboration: M. Amenomori, et al

tipa -- 11/10/2006

MHD Simulations of Accretion onto Sgr A*: Quiescent Fluctuations, Outbursts, and Quasi-Periodicity

• Authors: Chi-kwan Chan, Siming Liu, Christopher L. Fryer, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel, Gabriel Rockefeller, Fulvio Melia

Unidentified EGRET Sources and the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background

• Authors: V. Pavlidou, J. M. Siegal-Gaskins, C. Brown, B. D. Fields, A. V. Olinto

Population Studies of the Unidentified EGRET Sources

• Authors: J. M. Siegal-Gaskins, V. Pavlidou, A. V. Olinto, C. Brown, B. D. Fields

SWIFT observations of TeV BL Lac objects

• 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)