tipa -- 1/30/2007

Probing the Largest Cosmological Scales with the CMB-Velocity Correlation

• Authors: Pablo Fosalba (IEEC-CSIC), Olivier Dore (CITA)

INTEGRAL and Swift observations of EXO 2030+375 during a giant outburst

• Authors: D. Klochkov, D. Horns, A. Santangelo, R. Staubert, A. Segreto, C. Ferrigno, P. Kretschmar, I. Kreykenbohm, A. La Barbera, N. Masetti, M. McCollough, K. Pottschmidt, G. Schoenherr, J. Wilms

Six new candidate ultracompact X-ray binaries

• Authors: J.J.M. in 't Zand (SRON & Utrecht University), P.G. Jonker (SRON, Utrecht University & Harvard CfA), C.B. Markwardt (University of Maryland & NASA-GSFC)

Supernova neutrinos, from back of the envelope to supercomputer

• Authors: Christian Y. Cardall

First MINOS Results with the NuMI Beam

• Authors: Brian J. Rebel, for the MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/29/2007

Dissecting the Cygnus Region with TeV Gamma Rays and Neutrinos

• Authors: John F. Beacom, Matthew D. Kistler (Ohio State University)

21 cm radiation - a new probe of variation in the fine structure constant

• Authors: Rishi Khatri, Benjamin D. Wandelt

Numerical counterparts of GRB host galaxies

• Authors: Stephanie Courty, Gunnlaugur Bjornsson, Einar H. Gudmundsson

First ground based measurement of atmospheric Cherenkov light from cosmic rays

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

On the Contribution of AGN to the Cosmic Background Radiation

• Authors: D.R. Ballantyne (1), C. Papovich (2) ((1) Physics Dept., Univ. of Arizona (2) Steward Observatory)

Observations of GRBs at High Redshift

• Authors: N. R. Tanvir, P. Jakobsson

cpow -- 5

Unity of All Elementary-Particle Forces

• Georgi, Howard; Glashow, S. L. (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138)

Cosmology Confronts Particle Physics

• Steigman, G.

Isaac Newton

• Einstein, A.

tipa -- 1/26/2007

A More Fundamental Plane

• Authors: Adam S. Bolton (CfA), Scott Burles (MIT), Tommaso Treu (UCSB), Leon V. E. Koopmans (Kapteyn), Leonidas A. Moustakas (JPL/Caltech)

Asymmetric Wolf-Rayet winds: implications for GRB afterglows

• Authors: J.J. Eldridge

A Possible Link Between the Galactic Center HESS Source and Sgr A*

• Authors: D.R. Ballantyne (1), Fulvio Melia (1,2), Siming Liu (3), Roland M. Crocker (4) ((1) Physics Dept., U. of Arizona (2) Steward Observatory (3) LANL (4) Univ. of Adelaide)

Constraining the rate of GRB visible afterglows with the CFHTLS Very Wide Survey

• Authors: Frederic Malacrino (LATT), Jean-Luc Atteia (LATT), Michel Boer (OHP), Alain Klotz (OHP, CESR), Christian Veillet (CFHT), Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT)

Charge-Separated Atmospheric Neutrino-Induced Muons in the MINOS Far Detector

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/25/2007

Intrinsic galaxy alignments from the 2SLAQ and SDSS surveys: luminosity and redshift scalings and implications for weak lensing surveys

• Authors: Christopher M. Hirata, Rachel Mandelbaum, Mustapha Ishak, Uros Seljak, Robert Nichol, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Nicholas P. Ross, David Wake

Dark Energy, A Cosmological Constant, and Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Lawrence M. Krauss, Katherine Jones-Smith (CERCA, Case Western Reserve University), Dragan Huterer (KICP, University of Chicago)

New limits on the density of the extragalactic background light in the optical to the far-infrared from the spectra of all known TeV blazars

• Authors: Daniel Mazin, Martin Raue

Very high energy gamma-ray emission from X-ray transients during major outbursts

• Authors: M. Orellana, G.E. Romero, L.J. Pellizza, S. Vidrih

Cosmological neutrino mass detection: The best probe of neutrino lifetime

• Authors: Pasquale D. Serpico

Dark Matter and Collider Phenomenology of Universal Extra Dimensions

• Authors: Dan Hooper, Stefano Profumo

Supernova neutrino observations: What can we learn?

• Authors: Georg G. Raffelt (MPI Physik)

tipa -- 1/24/2007

Pre-Merger Localization of Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens With LISA I: Harmonic Mode Decomposition

• Authors: Bence Kocsis (1,2), Zoltán Haiman (3), Kristen Menou (3), Zsolt Frei (1) ((1) Eotvos, (2) CFA, (3) Columbia)

A new superwind galaxy: XMM-Newton observations of NGC 6810

• Authors: David K. Strickland

Automatic quenching of high energy gamma-ray sources by synchrotron photons

• Authors: L. Stawarz, J. Kirk

Evidence for 1809 keV Gamma-Ray Emission from 26Al Decays in the Vela Region with INTEGRAL/SPI

• Authors: Stephane Schanne, Patrick Sizun, David Maurin, Bertrand Cordier, Andreas von Kienlin, Clarisse Hamadache

Production of Mesons and Baryons at High Rapidity and High Pt in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV

• Authors: BRAHMS Collaboration: I. Arsene, et al

Detecting MeV Gauge Bosons With High-Energy Neutrino Telescopes

• Authors: Dan Hooper

tipa -- 1/23/2007

Determining the Nature of Dark Matter with Astrometry

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

Constraints on Dark Energy from Supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts, Acoustic Oscillations, Nucleosynthesis and Large Scale Structure and the Hubble constant

• Authors: Edward L. Wright (UCLA)

Testing the cosmic ray content in galaxy clusters

• Authors: P. Marchegiani, G.C. Perola, S. Colafrancesco

Dark matter maps reveal cosmic scaffolding

• Authors: Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Richard Ellis, Nick Scoville, Alexie Leauthaud, Alexis Finoguenov, Peter Capak, David Bacon, Herve Aussel, Jean-Paul Kneib, Anton Koekemoer, Henry McCracken, Bahram Mobasher, Sandrine Pires, Alexandre Refregier, Shunji Sasaki, Jean-Luc Starck, Yoshi Taniguchi, Andy Taylor, James Taylor

See also: Nature

Hypervelocity Stars II. The Bound Population

• Authors: Warren R. Brown (1), Margaret J. Geller (1), Scott J. Kenyon (1), Michael J. Kurtz (1), Benjamin C. Bromley (2) ((1) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (2) University of Utah)

XMM-Newton Observations of the Black Widow Pulsar PSR B1957+20

• Authors: Hsiu-Hui Huang, Werner Becker

Detecting neutrino-transients with optical follow-up observations

• Authors: Marek Kowalski, Anna Mohr

The MiniBooNE Experiment : An Overview

• Authors: H. Ray (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

tipa -- 1/22/2007

Constraining supernova models using the hot gas in clusters of galaxies

• Authors: J. de Plaa, N. Werner, J.A.M. Bleeker, Jacco Vink, J.S. Kaastra, M. Mendez

A new constraint for gamma-ray burst progenitor mass

• Authors: Josefin Larsson, Andrew J. Levan, Melvyn B. Davies, Andrew S. Fruchter

Cross-correlation studies as a probe of reionization physics

• Authors: Anze Slosar, Asantha Cooray, Joseph Silk

Advancement or Retardation of Phase of Neutrino Oscillation; Another Method for Determining Mass Hierarchy

• Authors: Hisakazu Minakata, Hiroshi Nunokawa, Stephen Parke, Renata Zukanovich Funchal

cpow -- 4

A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-rays by Light Elements

• Compton, Arthur H. (Washington University, Saint Louis)

Nebulae as Gravitational Lenses

• Zwicky, F. (Norman Bridge Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California)

On Quantum-Electrodynamics and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron

• Schwinger, Julian (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Cramming more components onto integrated circuits

• Gordon E. Moore (Director, Research and Development Laboratories, Fairchild Semiconductor)

tipa -- 1/19/2007

High Frequency VLBI Imaging of the Jet Base of M87

• Authors: Chun Ly (UCLA), R. Craig Walker (NRA0), William Junor (LANL)

On the faint end of the high redshift AGN luminosity function

• Authors: Francesco Shankar, Smita Mathur (The Ohio State University)

Spectroscopy of SMC Wolf-Rayet Stars Suggests that Wind-Clumping does not Depend on Ambient Metallicity

• Authors: S.V. Marchenko, C. Foellmi, A.F.J. Moffat, F. Martins, J.-C. Bouret, E. Depagne

Cosmic-ray propagation and interactions in the Galaxy

• Authors: Andrew W. Strong (MPE), Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford), Vladimir S. Ptuskin (IZMIRAN)

High Energy Gamma-rays from Globular Clusters

• Authors: W. Bednarek, J. Sitarek

Generalized Tests for Eight GRB Luminosity Relations

• Authors: Bradley E. Schaefer, Andrew C. Collazzi

Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

• Authors: Bing Zhang (UNLV)

tipa -- 1/18/2007

COSMOS: 3D weak lensing and the growth of structure

• Authors: Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Alexie Leauthaud, Peter Capak, Richard Ellis, Anton Koekemoer, Alexandre Refregier, Nick Scoville, James E. Taylor, Justin Albert, Joel Berge, Catherine Heymans, David Johnston, Jean-Paul Kneib, Yannick Mellier, Bahram Mobasher, Elisabetta Semboloni, Patrick Shopbell, Lidia Tasca, Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Chandra and XMM-Newton Detection of Large-scale Diffuse X-ray Emission from the Sombrero Galaxy

• Authors: Zhiyuan Li, Q. Daniel Wang, Salman Hameed

Wind anisotropies and GRB progenitors

• Authors: Georges Meynet, Andre Maeder

LSST: Comprehensive NEO Detection, Characterization, and Orbits

• Authors: Z. Ivezic, J.A. Tyson, M. Juric, J. Kubica, A. Connolly, F. Pierfederici, A.W. Harris, E. Bowell, the LSST Collaboration

tipa -- 1/17/2007

"Late prompt" emission in Gamma Ray Bursts?

• Authors: G. Ghisellini (1), G. Ghirlanda (1), L. Nava (1,2), C. Firmani (1,3) ((1) INAF-OAB; (2) Univ. Insubria; (3) U.N.A.M.)

The superorbital variability and triple nature of the X-ray source 4U 1820-303

• Authors: A. A. Zdziarski, L. Wen, M. Gierlinski

A physical interpretation of the jet-like X-ray emission from supernova remnant W49B

• Authors: M. Miceli, A. Decourchelle, J. Ballet, F. Bocchino, J.P. Hughes, U. Hwang, R. Petre

VHE Gamma-ray supernova remnants

• Authors: S.Funk (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology)

Attributes of flares in Gamma Ray Bursts: sample I

• Authors: G. Chincarini, A. Moretti, P. Romano, A.D. Falcone, S. Campana, S. Covino, C. Guidorzi, G. Tagliaferri, D.N. Burrows, M. Capalbi, G. Cusumano, P. Giommi, V. Mangano, V. La Parola, T. Mineo, M. Perri, E. Troja

Explaining Disparate Absorption Statistics towards Quasars and Gamma-Ray with Patchy MgII Absorbers

• Authors: Stephan Frank, Misty C. Bentz, Krzysztof Z. Stanek, Matthias Dietrich, Smita Mathur, Bradley M. Peterson, David W. Atlee (The Ohio State University)

tipa -- 1/16/2007

Probing the Formation of the First Low-Mass Stars with Stellar Archaeology

• Authors: Anna Frebel, Jarrett L. Johnson, Volker Bromm

Optical observations of GRB 060124 afterglow: A case for an injection break

• Authors: Kuntal Misra (1), D. Bhattacharya (2), D. K. Sahu (3), Ram Sagar (1), G. C. Anupama (4), A. J. Castro-Tirado (5), S. S. Guziy (5,6), B. C. Bhatt (3) ((1) ARIES, Nainital (2) RRI, Bangalore (3) CREST, Hosakote, Bangalore (4) IIA, Bangalore (5) IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain (6) Nikolaev State University, Nikolskaya, Ukraine)

Dark Matter annihilation in Draco: new considerations of the expected gamma flux

• Authors: M. A. Sanchez-Conde (1), F. Prada (1), E. L. Lokas (2), M. E. Gomez (3), R. Wojtak (2), M. Moles (1) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia - CSIC, (2) Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, (3) Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva)

Formation and early evolution of massive black holes

• Authors: Piero Madau

A hypervelocity star from the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Authors: Alessia Gualandris, Simon Portegies Zwart

tipa -- 1/15/2007

Where are the Old-Population High Velocity Stars?

• Authors: Juna A. Kollmeier (1), Andrew Gould (2) ((1) Carnegie Observatories and Princeton University, (2) The Ohio State University)

Imprints of a Primordial Preferred Direction on the Microwave Background

• Authors: Lotty Ackerman, Sean M. Carroll, Mark B. Wise

Astrophysical implications of high energy neutrino limits

• Authors: Julia K. Becker, Andreas Gross, Kirsten Muenich, Jens Dreyer, Wolfgang Rhode, Peter L. Biermann

cpow -- 3

Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance

• Yang, C. N.; Mills, R. L. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

Photo-Production of Neutral Mesons in Nuclear Electric Fields and the Mean Life of the Neutral Meson

• Primakoff, H. (Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae

• Hubble, Edwin (Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Novae in the Spiral Nebulae and the Island Universe Theory

• Curtis, Heber D.

tipa -- 1/12/2007

Models for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Diverse Transients

• Authors: S. E. Woosley, Weiqun Zhang

The evolution of very massive stars

• Authors: H. Belkus, J. Van Bever, D. Vanbeveren

First Results from AMANDA using the TWR System

• Authors: Andrea Silvestri, for the IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 1/11/2007

Cluster Mass Estimators from CMB Temperature and Polarization Lensing

• Authors: Wayne Hu, Simon DeDeo (KICP, UChicago), Chris Vale (FNAL)

Very High Energy Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Locations with the Whipple Telescope

• Authors: D. Horan, R. W. Atkins, H. M. Badran, G. Blaylock, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, K. L. Byrum, O. Celik, Y. C. K. Chow, P. Cogan, W. Cui, M. K. Daniel, I. de la Calle Perez, C. Dowdall, A. D. Falcone, D. J. Fegan, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, P. Fortin, L. F. Fortson, G. H. Gillanders, J. Grube, K. J. Gutierrez, J. Hall, D. Hanna, J. Holder, S. B. Hughes, T. B. Humensky, G. E. Kenny, M. Kertzman, D. B. Kieda, J. Kildea, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, P. Moriarty, T. Nagai, R. A. Ong, J. S. Perkins, D. Petry, J. Quinn, M. Quinn, K. Ragan, P. T. Reynolds, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, D. Steele, 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

Constraining DM through 21 cm observations

• Authors: M. Valdes, A. Ferrara, M. Mapelli, E. Ripamonti

Detection potential for the diffuse supernova neutrino background in the large liquid-scintillator detector LENA

• Authors: M. Wurm, F. von Feilitzsch, M. Goeger-Neff, K. A. Hochmuth, T. Marrodan Undagoitia, L. Oberauer, W. Potzel

A black hole in a globular cluster

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

See also: Nature

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

tipa -- 1/8/2007

Simulations of star formation in a gaseous disc around sgr A* - a failed AGN

• Authors: Sergei Nayakshin, Jorge Cuadra, Volker Springel

Compactified pulsar wind nebula model of gamma-ray loud binary LSI +61 303

• Authors: A.Neronov, M.Chernyakova

Differential cross section for neutron-proton bremsstrahlung

• Authors: Y. Safkan, T. Akdogan, W. A. Franklin, J. L. Matthews, W. M. Schmitt, V. V. Zelevinsky, P. A. M. Gram, T. N. Taddeucci, S. A. Wender, S. F. Pate