today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Thomas J. Maccarone (University of Southampton) Arunav Kundu, Stephen E. Zepf (Michigan State University) Katherine L. Rhode (Wesleyan University and Yale University)

tipa -- 1/10/2007

Cosmological constraints in the presence of ionizing and resonance radiation at recombination

Authors: Rachel Bean (Cornell University), Alessandro Melchiorri (Rome I University), Joe Silk (University of Oxford)

Measured Metallicities at the Sites of Nearby Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernovae and Implications for the SN-GRB Connection

Authors: M. Modjaz (1), L. Kewley (2), R. P. Kirshner (1), K. Z. Stanek (3), P. Challis (1), P. M. Garnavich (4), J. E. Greene (5), J. L. Prieto (3) ((1) CfA, (2) University of Hawaii, (3) Ohio State, (4) Notre-Dame, (5) Princeton)

The Environment of Local Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies

Authors: B. A. Zauderer, S. Veilleux, H. K. C. Yee

The INTEGRAL Galactic bulge monitoring program: the first 1.5 years

Authors: E. Kuulkers (ESA/ESAC, Spain), S.E. Shaw (Southampton, UK/ ISDC, Switzerland), A. Paizis (INAF-IASF, Italy), J. Chenevez, S. Brandt (DNSC, Denmark), T.J.-L. Courvoisier (ISDC/ Observatoire de Geneve, Switzerland), A. Domingo (LAEFF/INTA, Spain), K. Ebisawa (ISAS, Japan), P. Kretschmar (ESA/ESAC, Spain), C.B. Markwardt (Univ.of Maryland/ NASA/GSFC, USA), N. Mowlavi (ISDC, Switzerland), T. Oosterbroek, A. Orr (ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands), D. Risquez (LAEFF/INTA, Spain), C. Sanchez-Fernandez (ESA/ESAC, Spain), R. Wijnands (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Constraining the fraction of primary gamma rays at ultra-high energies from the muon data of the Yakutsk extensive-air-shower array

Authors: A.V. Glushkov, D.S. Gorbunov, I.T. Makarov, M.I. Pravdin, G.I. Rubtsov, I.E. Sleptsov, S.V. Troitsky

tipa -- 1/9/2007

Discovery of a Probable Physical Triple Quasar

Authors: S.G. Djorgovski, F. Courbin, G. Meylan, D. Sluse, D.J. Thompson, A. Mahabal, E. Glikman

XMM-Newton observations reveal the X-ray counterpart of the very-high-energy gamma-ray source HESSJ1640-465

Authors: S.Funk, J.A.Hinton, G.Puehlhofer, F.A.Aharonian, W.Hofmann, O.Reimer, S.Wagner

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays as heavy nuclei from cluster accretion shocks

Authors: Susumu Inoue (NAOJ), Guenter Sigl (APC/IAP), Francesco Miniati (ETHZ), Eric Armengaud (DSM/DAPNIA)

Do long-duration GRBs follow star formation?

Authors: Dafne Guetta, Tsvi Piran

Ruling out a massive-asymptotic giant-branch star as the progenitor of supernova 2005cs

Authors: J.J. Eldridge, S. Mattila, S.J. Smartt

Neutrino astronomy and gamma-ray bursts

Authors: E. Waxman (Weizmann Inst.)

Can the early X-ray afterglow of GRBs be explained by a contribution from the reverse shock?

Authors: Franck Genet (1), Frederic Daigne (1), Robert Mochkovitch (1) ((1) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, UMR7095 CNRS-Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6)

Large-Mass Ultra-Low Noise Germanium Detectors: Performance and Applications in Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics

Authors: P.S. Barbeau, J.I. Collar, O. Tench

cpow -- 2

Theory of the Fermi Interaction

Feynman, R. P.; Gell-Mann, M. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California)

Detection of the Free Neutrino

Reines, F.; Cowan, C. L. (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico)

Collision of Two Light Quanta

Breit, G.; Wheeler, John A. (Department of Physics, New York University)

Twentieth-Century Man Against Antarctica

Raymond Priestley (President of the British Association)

tipa -- 1/5/2007

Fallback and Black Hole Production in Massive Stars

Authors: Weiqun Zhang, S. E. Woosley, A. Heger

The prompt to late-time multiwavelength analysis of GRB 060210

Authors: P.A. Curran (1), A.J. van der Horst (1), A.P. Beardmore (2), K.L. Page (2), E. Rol (2), A. Melandri (3), I.A. Steele (3), C.G. Mundell (3), A. Gomboc (4), P.T. O'Brien (2), D.F. Bersier (3), M.F. Bode (3), D. Carter (3), C. Guidorzi (3,5), J.E. Hill (6), C.P. Hurkett (2), S. Kobayashi (3), A. Monfardini (3,7), C.J. Mottram (3), R.J. Smith (3), R.A.M.J. Wijers (1), R. Willingale (2) ((1)Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, (2)Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, (3)Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, (4)Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, (5)INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (7)Institut Neel, CNRS)

Measuring the mass of a sterile neutrino with a very short baseline reactor experiment

Authors: D. C. Latimer, J. Escamilla, D. J. Ernst

Group Theoretic Bases for Tribimaximal Mixing

Authors: Paul D. Carr, Paul H. Frampton

Supernova neutrino detection

Authors: K. Scholberg

tipa -- 1/4/2007

Observational Constraints on the Nature of the Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey

Authors: W. M. Wood-Vasey, G. Miknaitis, C. W. Stubbs, S. Jha, A. G. Riess, P. M. Garnavich, R. P. Kirshner, C. Aguilera, A. C. Becker, J. W. Blackman, S. Blondin, P. Challis, A. Clocchiatti, A. Conley, R. Covarrubias, T. M. Davis, A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, A. Garg, M. Hicken, K. Krisciunas, B. Leibundgut, W. Li, T. Matheson, A. Miceli, G. Narayan, G. Pignata, J. L. Prieto, A. Rest, M. E. Salvo, B. P. Schmidt, R. C. Smith, J. Sollerman, J. Spyromilio, J. L. Tonry, N. B. Suntzeff, A. Zenteno

On the Progenitors of Two Type II-P Supernovae in the Virgo Cluster

Authors: Weidong Li (1), Xiaofeng Wang (1,2), Schuyler D. Van Dyk (3), Jean-Charles Cuillandre (4), Ryan J. Foley (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (1) (1. UC Berkeley, 2. THCA, China, 3. Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, 4. CFHT corporation)

TeV source HESS J1804-216 in X-rays and other wavelengths

Authors: O. Kargaltsev, G. G. Pavlov, G. P. Garmire

Comments on Quantum Effects in Supergravity Theories

Authors: Michael Dine, Nathan Seiberg

Neutrino Spectra from Low and High Luminosity Populations of Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: Nayantara Gupta (UNLV), Bing Zhang (UNLV)

tipa -- 1/3/2007

Gamma-ray emission associated with Cluster-scale AGN Outbursts

Authors: J. A. Hinton, W. Domainko

The nature of the dwarf starforming galaxy associated with GRB 060218 / SN2006aj

Authors: K. Wiersema (1), S. Savaglio, P. M. Vreeswijk, S. L. Ellison, C. Ledoux, S.-C. Yoon, P. Moller, J. Sollerman, J. P. U. Fynbo, E. Pian, R. L. C. Starling, R. A. M. J. Wijers ((1) University of Amsterdam)

A VLBI Search for Radio Supernovae in Wolf Rayet Galaxies

Authors: James S. Ulvestad, Kelsey E. Johnson, Susan G. Neff

Probing Low-x QCD With Very High Energy Prompt Muons

Authors: Namit Mahajan, Sukanta Panda

Experiments in Fundamental Neutron Physics

Authors: J. S. Nico, W. M. Snow

Dark matter clustering: a simple renormalization group approach

Authors: Patrick McDonald (CITA)

Dark matter from late decays and the small-scale structure problems

Authors: Torsten Bringmann, Francesca Borzumati, Piero Ullio

cpow--1

A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s

Penzias, A. A.; Wilson, R. W. (Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc.)

Resonant Scattering of Antineutrinos

Glashow, Sheldon L. (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, Denmark)

The Positive Electron

Anderson, Carl D. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California)

A Letter of Benjamin Franklin, Esq; to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S. concerning an Electrical Kite

Benjamin Franklin

At the start of this new year, we introduce a new feature to tipa: classic papers of the week (cpow). Each week will feature some number of classic, novel, or overlooked papers from years past. Every attempt will be made to choose papers that are readable in a finite period of time. Enjoy.