tipa -- 12/20/2006

The galactic antiproton spectrum at high energies: background expectation vs. exotic contributions

• Authors: Torsten Bringmann, Pierre Salati

Dynamics of triple black hole systems in hierarchically merging massive galaxies

• Authors: Loren Hoffman, Abraham Loeb

Early Ultraviolet, Optical and X-Ray Observations of the Type IIP SN 2005cs in M51 with Swift

• Authors: Peter J. Brown, Luc Dessart, Stephen T. Holland, Stefan Immler, Wayne Landsman, Stephane Blondin, Alexander J. Blustin, Alice Breeveld, Gulab C. Dewangan, Neil Gehrels, Robert B. Hutchins, Robert P. Kirshner, Keith O. Mason, Paolo A. Mazzali, Peter Milne, Maryam Modjaz, Peter W. A. Roming

Microlensing of an extended source by a power-law mass distribution

• Authors: Arthur B. Congdon, Charles R. Keeton, S. J. Osmer

Extensive multiband study of the X-ray rich GRB 050408. A likely off-axis event with an intense energy injection

• Authors: A de Ugarte Postigo, T.A. Fatkhullin, G. Johannesson, J. Gorosabel, V.V. Sokolov, A.J. Castro-Tirado, Yu.Yu. Balega, O.I. Spiridonova, M. Jelinek, S. Guziy, D. Perez-Ramirez, J. Hjorth, P. Laursen, D. Bersier, S.B. Pandey, M. Bremer, A. Monfardini, K.Y. Huang, Y. Urata, W.H. Ip, T. Tamagawa, D. Kinoshita, T. Mizuno, Y. Arai, H. Yamagishi, T. Soyano, F. Usui, M. Tashiro, K. Abe, K. Onda, Z. Aslan, I. Khamitov, T. Ozisik, U. Kiziloglu, I. Bikmaev, N. Sakhibullin, R. Burenin, M. Pavlinsky, R. Sunyaev, D. Bhattacharya, A.P. Kamble, C.H. Ishwara Chandra, S.A. Trushkin

MAGIC upper limits on the high energy emission from GRBs

• Authors: J. Albert, E. Aliu, H. Anderhub, P. Antoranz, A. Armada, C. Baixeras, J. A. Barrio, H. Bartko, D. Bastieri, J. Becker, W. Bednarek, K. Berger, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, R. K. Bock, P. Bordas, V. Bosch-Ramon, T. Bretz, I. Britvitch, M. Camara, E. Carmona, A. Chilingarian, S. Ciprini, J. A. Coarasa, S. Commichau, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, M.T. Costado, V. Curtef, V. Danielyan, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, C. Delgado, R. de los Reyes, B. De Lotto, E. Domingo-Santamaria, D. Dorner, M. Doro, M. Errando, M. Fagiolini, D. Ferenc, E. Fernandez, R. Firpo, J. Flix, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, M. Fuchs, N. Galante, R. Garcia-Lopez, M. Garczarczyk, M. Gaug, M. Giller, F. Goebel, D. Hakobyan, M. Hayashida, T. Hengstebeck, A. Herrero, D. Hohne, J. Hose, C. C. Hsu, et al. (MAGIC Collaboration: 84 additional authors not shown)

Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Cluster Velocity Statistics

• Authors: Suman Bhattacharya, Arthur Kosowsky

The flat decay phase in the early X-ray afterglows of Swift GRBs

• Authors: Jonathan Granot

tipa -- 12/19/2006

Dark matter annihilation or unresolved astrophysical sources? Anisotropy probe of the origin of cosmic gamma-ray background

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

H.E.S.S. observations of the supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622: shell-type morphology and spectrum of a widely extended VHE gamma-ray source

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

Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away

• Authors: K. Z. Stanek, O. Y. Gnedin, J. F. Beacom, A. P. Gould, J. A. Johnson, J. A. Kollmeier, M. Modjaz, M. H. Pinsonneault, R. Pogge, D. H. Weinberg

Combined D0 and CDF Upper Limits on Standard-Model Higgs-Boson Production

• Authors: TEVNPH working group (for the) CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration

Search for millicharged particles in reactor neutrino experiments: a probe of the PVLAS anomaly

• Authors: S.N. Gninenko, N.V. Krasnikov, A. Rubbia

tipa -- 12/18/2006

Probing ~100 AU Intergalactic MgII Absorbing "Cloudlets" with Quasar Microlensing

• Authors: Subo Dong

SN 2006gy: An extremely luminous supernova in the early-type galaxy NGC 1260

• Authors: E. O. Ofek, P. B. Cameron, M. M. Kasliwal, A. Gal-Yam, A. Rau, S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail, P. Chandra, S. B. Cenko, A. M. Soderberg, S. Immler

Strongly Variable z=1.48 MgII and FeII Absorption in the Spectra of z=4.05 GRB 060206

• Authors: H. Hao, K. Z. Stanek, A. Dobrzycki, T. Matheson, M. C. Bentz, J. Kuraszkiewicz, P. M. Garnavich, J. C. Howk, M. L. Calkins, G. Worthey, M. Modjaz, J. Serven

The maximum momentum of particles accelerated at cosmic ray modified shocks

• Authors: Pasquale Blasi (1), Elena Amato (1), Damiano Caprioli (2) ((1) INAF/Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, (2) Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)

Neutron Star Observations: Prognosis for Equation of State Constraints

• Authors: James M. Lattimer, Maddapa Prakash

New measurements of cosmic infrared background fluctuations from early epochs

• Authors: A. Kashlinsky, R. G. Arendt, J. Mather, S. H. Moseley

Gauge Mediation Simplified

• Authors: Hitoshi Murayama, Yasunori Nomura

SUSY at the Pole

• Authors: Joern Kersten

From the Mendeleev periodic table to particle physics and back to the periodic table

• Authors: M.R. Kibler (IPNL)

tipa -- 12/15/2006

Star formation rates and stellar masses in z ~ 1 gamma ray burst hosts

• Authors: J. M. Castro Cerón, M. J. Michałowski, J. Hjorth, D. Watson, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Gorosabel

Observation of very high energy gamma-rays from the AGN 1ES 2344+514 in a low emission state with the MAGIC telescope

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

GLAST sensitivity to Point Sources of Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Gianfranco Bertone, Torsten Bringmann, Riccardo Rando, Giovanni Busetto, Aldo Morselli

Discovery of A New Faint Radio SNR G108.2-0.6

• Authors: W.W. Tian, D.A. Leahy, T.J. Foster

Is astronomy possible with neutral ultra-high energy cosmic ray particles existing in the Standard Model?

• Authors: P.G. Tinyakov, I.I. Tkachev

A Combination of Preliminary Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on the Standard Model

• Authors: The LEP Collaborations: ALEPH Collaboration, DELPHI Collaboration, L3 Collaboration, OPAL Collaboration, the LEP Electroweak Working Group

Two decades of pulsar timing of Vela

• Authors: Richard Dodson, Dion Lewis, Peter McCulloch

Panchromatic Views of Large-scale Extragalactic Jets

• Authors: C.C. Cheung (NRAO & Kipac/Stanford)

Antigravity and black holes

• Authors: Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic

tipa -- 12/14/2006

Exotic Collider Signals from the Complete Phase Diagram of Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions

• Authors: Jose A. R. Cembranos, Jonathan L. Feng, Louis E. Strigari

Physics with a very long neutrino factory baseline

• Authors: Raj Gandhi, Walter Winter

Gravitational wave bursts from the Galactic massive black hole

• Authors: Clovis Hopman (Leiden University), Marc Freitag (Cambridge), Shane L. Larson (Weber State University)

Tentative detection of the gravitational magnification of type Ia supernovae

• Authors: Jakob Jonsson, Tomas Dahlen, Ariel Goobar, Edvard Mortsell, Adam Riess

Oscillation effects on high-energy neutrino fluxes from astrophysical hidden sources

• Authors: Olga Mena, Irina Mocioiu, Soebur Razzaque

tipa -- 12/13/2006

Giant Flare in SGR 1806-20 and Its Compton Reflection from the Moon

• Authors: D.D.Frederiks, S.V.Golenetskii, V.D.Palshin, R.L.Aptekar, V.N.Ilyinskii, F.P.Oleinik, E.P.Mazets, T.L.Cline

VLA and XMM-Newton observations of SNR W41/TeV Gamma-ray source HESS J1834-087

• Authors: W.W. Tian, Z. Li, D.A. Leahy, Q.D. Wang

Determination of Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and Theta_13 with a Remote Detector of Reactor Antineutrinos

• Authors: John Learned, Steve Dye, Sandip Pakvasa, Robert Svoboda

Distinguishing Supersymmetry From Universal Extra Dimensions or Little Higgs Models With Dark Matter Experiments

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Gabrijela Zaharijas

Pair production from nuclear collisions and cosmic ray transport

• Authors: John W. Norbury

The physics of GRB jets and their interaction with the progenitor star

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

tipa -- 12/12/2006

Making a Short Gamma-Ray Burst from a Long one: Implications for the Nature of GRB 060614

• Authors: Bing Zhang, Bin-Bin Zhang, En-Wei Liang, Neil Gehrels, David N. Burrows, Peter Meszaros

Second dip as a signature of ultrahigh energy proton interactions with cosmic microwave background radiation

• Authors: V. Berezinsky, A. Gazizov, M. Kachelrie\ss

The radio spectra of the compact sources in Arp 220: A mixed population of supernovae and supernova remnants

• Authors: Rodrigo Parra, John E. Conway, Philip J. Diamond, Hannah Thrall, Colin J. Lonsdale, Carol J. Lonsdale, Harding E. Smith

New Constraints on Macroscopic Compact Objects as a Dark Matter Candidate from Gravitational Lensing of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: R. Benton Metcalf, Joseph Silk

Modeling GRB 050904: Autopsy of a Massive Stellar Explosion at z=6.29

• Authors: L. J. Gou, D. B. Fox, P. Meszaros

The Gamma Ray Burst Luminosity Function in the Light of the Swift 2-year Data

• Authors: R. Salvaterra, C. Chincarini

The Hubble Diagram to Redshift >6 from 69 Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Bradley E. Schaefer

Threshold meson production and cosmic ray transport

• Authors: John W. Norbury, Lawrence W. Townsend, Ryan B. Norman

Quasielastic Charged Current Neutrino-nucleus Scattering

• Authors: J.E. Amaro, M.B. Barbaro, J.A. Caballero, T.W. Donnelly

UHECR Particle Spectra from Crypton Decays

• Authors: John Ellis, V.E. Mayes, D.V. Nanopoulos

Icecube, the World's Largest Dark Matter Detector

• Authors: Hagar Landsman (for the IceCube collaboration)

High Energy Astroparticle Physics

• Authors: Guenter Sigl (APC and IAP, Paris, France)

Atmospheric Neutrinos

• Authors: Thomas K. Gaisser

tipa -- 12/11/2006

On the Rates of Gamma Ray Bursts and Type Ib/c Supernovae

• Authors: Dafne Guetta, Massimo Della Valle

Very high energy gamma-ray production inside the massive binary system Cyg X-1/HDE 226868

• Authors: W. Bednarek, F. Giovannelli

A Revised Mass Model For The Andromeda Galaxy

• Authors: Marc S. Seigar, Aaron J. Barth, James S. Bullock (UC Irvine)

Constraints on Thermal X-ray Radiation from SAX J1808.4-3658 and Implications for Neutron Star Neutrino Emission

• Authors: C. O. Heinke, P. G. Jonker, R. Wijnands, R. E. Taam

Electromagnetic Dissociation and Space Radiation

• Authors: John W. Norbury, Khin Maung Maung

tipa -- 12/8/2006

When Do Ultra-relativistic Shocks Make Energetic Particle Populations?

• Authors: David Eichler, Donald C. Ellison

Swift GRB Afterglows and the Forward-Shock Model

• Authors: A. Panaitescu

On the nature of X-Ray Flashes in the SWIFT era

• Authors: B. Gendre (1, 2), A. Galli (1, 3), L. Piro (1) ((1) IASF-Roma/INAF; (2) University Bicocca Milano; (3) INFN-Trieste)

The hadronic models for cosmic ray physics: the FLUKA code solutions

• Authors: G. Battistoni, M.V. Garzelli, E. Gadioli, S. Muraro, P.R. Sala, A. Fassò, A. Ferrari, S. Roesler, F. Cerutti, J. Ranft, L.S. Pinsky, A. Empl, M. Pelliccioni, R. Villari

Direct Detection of Physics Beyond the Standard Model

• Authors: Ivone F. M. Albuquerque

tipa -- 12/7/2006

The Velocity Field of the Local Universe from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Troels Haugboelle, Steen Hannestad, Bjarne Thomsen, Johan Fynbo, Jesper Sollerman, Saurabh Jha

Present bounds on the relativistic energy density in the Universe from cosmological observables

• Authors: Gianpiero Mangano, Alessandro Melchiorri, Olga Mena, Gennaro Miele, Anze Slosar

Late-Time Convection in the Collapse of a 23 Solar Mass Star

• Authors: C.L. Fryer, P.A. Young (LANL/UArizona)

Low Energy Precision Test of Supersymmetry

• Authors: M.J. Ramsey-Musolf, S. Su

Enhanced Emission and Accumulation of Antiprotons and Positrons from Supersymmetric Dark Matter

• Authors: Chen Jacoby, Shmuel Nussinov

Coupled oscillators and Feynman's three papers

• Authors: Y. S. Kim

tipa -- 12/6/2006

Dark Energy with a Fine-toothed Comb

• Authors: Eric V. Linder

Redshift Filtering by Swift Apparent X-ray Column Density

• Authors: Dirk Grupe (PSU), John A. Nousek (PSU), Daniel E. vanden Berk (PSU), Peter W.A. Roming (PSU), David N. Burrows (PSU), Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)

Millisecond Dips in Sco X-1 are Likely the Result of High-Energy Particle Events

• Authors: T. A. Jones, A. M. Levine, E. H. Morgan, S. Rappaport

Effect of dark matter annihilation on gas cooling and star formation

• Authors: Y. Ascasibar (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany)

A remark on an ansatz by M.W. Evans and the so-called Einstein-Cartan-Evans unified field theory

• Authors: Friedrich W. Hehl (Cologne and Missouri-Columbia)

tipa -- 12/5/2006

Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics

• Authors: F. Weber (San Diego State University), R. Negreiros (San Diego State University), P. Rosenfield (San Diego State University), M. Stejner (University of Aarhus & San Diego State University)

Theory of Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: H.-Th. Janka (1), K. Langanke (2,3), A. Marek (1), G. Martinez-Pinedo (2), B. Mueller (1) ((1) MPI for Astrophysics, Garching; (2) GSI, Darmstadt; (3) TU Darmstadt)

Discovery and Upper Limits in Search for Exotic Physics with Neutrino Telescopes

• Authors: Jan Conrad (KTH Stockholm)

"Anomalous" Optical GRB Afterglows are Common: Two z~4 Bursts, GRB 060206 and 060210

• Authors: K. Z. Stanek, X. Dai, J. L. Prieto, D. An, P. M. Garnavich, M. L. Calkins, J. Serven, G. Worthey, H. Hao, A. Dobrzycki, C. Howk, T. Matheson

Top Quark Pairs at High Invariant Mass - A Model-Independent Discriminator of New Physics at the LHC

• Authors: Vernon Barger, Tao Han, Devin G. E. Walker

Time machines and quantum theory

• Authors: Mark J Hadley

tipa -- 12/4/2006

Fast variability of TeV gamma-rays from the radio galaxy M 87

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

Testing the standard fireball model of GRBs using late X-ray afterglows measured by Swift

• Authors: R. Willingale, P.T. O'Brien, J.P. Osborne, O. Godet, K.L. Page, M.R. Goad, D.N. Burrows, B. Zhang, E. Rol, N. Gehrels, G. Chincarini

On the rarity of double black hole binaries: consequences for gravitational-wave detection

• Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Vassiliki Kalogera, Frederic A. Rasio, Ronald E. Taam, Tomasz Bulik

Constraints on the Cosmic Near Infrared Background Excess from NICMOS Deep Field Observations

• Authors: Rodger I. Thompson, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, Marcia Rieke, Robert C. Kennicutt

On in situ Determination of Earth Matter Density in Neutrino Factory

• Authors: Hisakazu Minakata, Shoichi Uchinami

Photoabsorption cross sections at superhigh energies of real photons

• Authors: E.V. Bugaev

tipa -- 12/1/2006

Preliminary Results from the Caltech Core-Collapse Project (CCCP)

• Authors: Avishay Gal-Yam (Caltech), S. B. Cenko (Caltech), D. B. Fox (Penn State), D. C. Leonard (SDSU), D.-S. Moon (Toronto), D. J. Sand (U. of Arizona), A. M. Soderberg (Caltech)

A Survey for Supernovae in Massive High-Redshift Clusters

• Authors: Keren Sharon (TAU), A. Gal-Yam (Caltech), D. Maoz (TAU), M. Donahue (MSU), H. Ebeling (IfA), R. Ellis (Caltech), A. Filippenko (UCB), R. Foley (UCB), W. Freedman (OCIW), R. Kirshner (CfA), J.-P. Kneib (OMP), T. Matheson (NOAO), J. Mulchaey (OCIW), V. Sarajedini (UF), M. Voit (MSU)

Analytical Models for the Energetics of Cosmic Accretion Shocks, their Cosmological Evolution, and the Effect of Environment

• Authors: Vasiliki Pavlidou (University of Chicago), Brian D. Fields (University of Illinois)

Precise constraints on the dark matter content of Milky Way dwarf galaxies for gamma-ray experiments

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari (1), Savvas M. Koushiappas (2), James S. Bullock (1), Manoj Kaplinghat (1) ((1) UC-Irvine, (2) LANL)

Transitive X-ray spectrum and PeV gamma-ray cutoff in the M87 jet: Electron "Pevatron"

• Authors: Mitsuru Honda, Yasuko S. Honda

Starburst Galaxies

• Authors: T. W. B. Muxlow, R. J. Beswick, A. M. S. Richards, H. Thrall (Jodrell Bank Observatory)

Resolving the Galactic X-ray background

• Authors: M.Revnivtsev (1,2), A. Vikhlinin (3,2), S.Sazonov (1,2) ( (1) - MPA, Garching, Germany; (2) - IKI, Moscow, Russia, (3) - CfA, Harvard, Cambridge, USA)

Are monopoles hiding in monopolium?

• Authors: Vicente Vento

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