classic papers of the week -- 36

Fluctuations at the threshold of classical cosmology

• Harrison, E. R. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts)

On the Recombination of Electrons and Positrons

• Fermi, Enrico; Uhlenbeck, George E. (Department of Physics, University of Michigan)

tipa -- 8/31/2007

A Search for Binary Stars at Low Metallicity

• Authors: David K. Lai (UCSC), Sara Lucatello (INAF-OAPD), Michael Bolte (UCSC), Debra A. Fischer (SFSU), Jennifer A. Johnson (OSU)

Equation of state at high densities and modern compact star observations

• Authors: D. Blaschke, T. Klahn, F. Sandin

tipa -- 8/30/2007

The nature of GRB-selected submillimeter galaxies: hot and young

• Authors: M. J. Michałowski, J. Hjorth, J. M. Castro Cerón, D. Watson (Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

A Deep Chandra Observation of Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A Type Ia Event with Circumstellar Interaction

• Authors: S. P. Reynolds, K. J. Borkowski, U. Hwang, J. P. Hughes, C. Badenes, J. M. Laming, J. M. Blondin

tipa -- 8/29/2007

Upper limit for circumstellar gas around the Type Ia SN 2000cx

• Authors: F. Patat, S. Benetti, S. Justham, P. A. Mazzali, L. Pasquini, E. Cappellaro, M. Della Valle, Ph. Podsiadlowski, M. Turatto, A. Gal-Yam, J. D. Simon

Radio Detection of Neutrinos from Behind a Mountain

• Authors: O. Brusova, L. Anchordoqui, T. Huege, K. Martens

tipa -- 8/28/2007

Relativistic iron emission lines in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries as probes of neutron star radii

• Authors: Edward M. Cackett, Jon M. Miller (Michigan), Sudip Bhattacharyya (NASA/GSFC), Jonathan E. Grindlay (CfA), Jeroen Homan (MIT), Michiel van der Klis (Amsterdam), Tod E. Strohmayer (NASA/GSFC), Rudy Wijnands (Amsterdam)

tipa -- 8/27/2007

Swift/XRT monitoring of five orbital cycles of LSI +61 303

• Authors: P. Esposito, P. A. Caraveo, A. Pellizzoni, A. De Luca, N. Gehrels, M. A. Marelli

A radio air shower surface detector as an extension for IceCube and IceTop

• Authors: J. Auffenberg, T. Gaisser, K. Helbing, T. Huege, T. Karg, A. Karle

classic papers of the week -- 35

Search for neutrinos from the sun

• Raymond Davis, Jr., Don S. Harmer, Kenneth C. Hoffman (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973)

The neutrino and the recoil of nuclei in beta disintegrations

• Pontecorvo, B. (National Research Council, Chalk River, Ontario)

The Case for Neutrino Oscillations

• P. Ramond (Physics Department, University of Florida)

tipa -- 8/24/2007

Detecting a unique EBL signature with TeV gamma rays

• Authors: Asif Imran, Frank Krennrich

Nucleosynthesis from massive stars 50 years after B2FH

• Authors: Georges Meynet

tipa -- 8/23/2007

Isolating Triggered Star Formation

• Authors: Elizabeth J. Barton (1), Jacob A. Arnold (1,2), Andrew R. Zentner (3,4) James S. Bullock (1), Risa H. Wechsler (5) ((1) Center for Cosmology, UC Irvine, (2) UC Santa Cruz, (3) KICP/Chicago, (4) University of Pittsburgh, (5) KIPAC/Stanford)

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Swift/XRT Data: III. Jet Break Candidates in the X-ray and Optical Afterglow Lightcurves

• Authors: En-Wei Liang, Judith L. Racusin, Bing Zhang, Bin-Bin Zhang, David N. Burrows

Detection of high-energy gamma rays from winter thunderclouds

• Authors: H. Tsuchiya, T. Enoto, S. Yamada, T. Yuasa, M. Kawaharada, T. Kitaguchi, M. Kokubun, H. Kato, M. Okano, S. Nakamura, K. Makishima

Gamma-ray emission from massive young stellar objects

• Authors: A. T. Araudo, G. E. Romero, V. Bosch-Ramon, J. M. Paredes

High energy neutrino yields from astrophysical sources II: Magnetized sources

• Authors: M. Kachelriess, S. Ostapchenko, R. Tomas

tipa -- 8/22/2007

The Gamma-ray Albedo of the Moon

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford), Troy A. Porter (UCSC)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary

• Authors: Joshua A. Frieman, B. Bassett, A. Becker, C. Choi, D. Cinabro, F. DeJongh, D. L. Depoy, B. Dilday, M. Doi, P. M. Garnavich, C. J. Hogan, J. Holtzman, M. Im, S. Jha, R. Kessler, K. Konishi, H. Lampeitl, J. Marriner, J. L. Marshall, D. McGinnis, G. Miknaitis, R. C. Nichol, J. L. Prieto, A. G. Riess, M. W. Richmond, R. Romani, M. Sako, D. P. Schneider, M. Smith, N. Takanashi, K. Tokita, K. van der Heyden, N. Yasuda, C. Zheng, J. Adelman-McCarthy, J. Annis, R. J. Assef, J. Barentine, R. Bender, R. D. Blandford, W. N. Boroski, M. Bremer, H. Brewington, C. A. Collins, A. Crotts, J. Dembicky, J. Eastman, A. Edge, E. Edmondson, E. Elson, M. E. Eyler, A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, S. Frank, A. Goobar, T. Gueth, J. E. Gunn, M. Harvanek, U. Hopp, Y. Ihara, Ž. Ivezić, S. Kahn, J. Kaplan, et al (37 additional authors not shown)

Probing Quantum Gravity using Photons from a Mkn 501 Flare Observed by MAGIC

• Authors: J. Albert, et al. (MAGIC Collaboration), John Ellis, N.E. Mavromatos, D.V. Nanopoulos, A.S. Sakharov, E.K.G. Sarkisyan

tipa -- 8/21/2007

Cosmic Reionization and the 21cm signal: simulations and analytical models

• Authors: Mario G. Santos (1), Alexandre Amblard (2), Jonathan Pritchard (3), Hy Trac (4), Renyue Cen (4), Asantha Cooray (2) ((1) CENTRA - IST, (2) UC Irvine, (3) Caltech, (4) Princeton)

Spitzer Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies: A Unique Window into High Redshift Chemical Evolution and Star-formation

• Authors: Ranga-Ram Chary, Edo Berger, Len Cowie

Detection of the high energy component of Jovian electrons in Low Earth Orbit with the PAMELA experiment

• Authors: M. Casolino, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, P. Picozza

The Inner Jet of the Radio Galaxy M87

• Authors: Y. Y. Kovalev (MPIfR & ASC Lebedev), M. L. Lister (Purdue U.), D. C. Homan (Denison U.), K. I. Kellermann (NRAO)

tipa -- 8/20/2007

Relating gravitational wave constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis, pulsar timing, laser interferometers, and the CMB: implications for the early universe

• Authors: Latham A. Boyle (CITA/Princeton), Alessandra Buonanno (Maryland)

X-ray flaring from the young stars in CygnusOB2

• Authors: J. F. Albacete Colombo, M. Caramazza, E. Flaccomio, G. Micela, S. Sciortino

classic papers of the week -- 34

Accretion of Interstellar Matter by Massive Objects

• Salpeter, E. E. (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)

The formation of deuterium by proton combination

• H.A. Bethe (Cornell U., Phys. Dept.) , C.L. Critchfield (George Washington U.)

tipa -- 8/17/2007

How common are long Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Local Universe?

• Authors: Robert Chapman (1), Nial R. Tanvir (2), Robert S. Priddey (1), Andrew J. Levan (3) ((1) University of Hertfordshire, (2) University of Leicester, (3) University of Warwick)

Prospects for Charged Particle Astronomy

• Authors: Paul Sommers

First real time detection of Be7 solar neutrinos by Borexino

• Authors: Borexino Collaboration

tipa -- 8/16/2007

Pair creation supernovae at low and high redshift

• Authors: N. Langer, C. A. Norman, A. de Koter, Jorick Vink, M. Cantiello, S.-C.Yoon

Measuring the Broad-band X-Ray Spectrum from 400 eV to 40 keV in the Southwest Part of the Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7-3946

• Authors: Tadayuki Takahashi, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Junko S. Hiraga, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shin Watanabe, Aya Bamba, John P. Hughes, Hideaki Katagiri, Jun Kataoka, Motohide Kokubun, Katsuji Koyama, Koji Mori, Robert Petre, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Yoko Tsuboi

A survey of the Wolf-Rayet population of the barred, spiral galaxy NGC 1313

• Authors: L. J. Hadfield, P. A. Crowther

Ultra-high energy neutrino scattering on an isoscalar nucleon

• Authors: Edmond L. Berger, Martin M. Block, Douglas W. McKay, Chung-I Tan

Feasibility of acoustic neutrino detection in ice: First results from the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS)

• Authors: S. Böser, C. Bohm, F. Descamps, J. Fischer, A. Hallgren, R. Heller, S. Hundertmark, K. Krieger, R. Nahnhauer, M. Pohl, P. B. Price, K.-H. Sulanke, D. Tosi, J. Vandenbroucke

tipa -- 8/15/2007

Launch of the Space experiment PAMELA

• Authors: M. Casolino, P. Picozza, F. Altamura, A. Basili, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, M. P. De Pascale, L. Marcelli, M. Minori, M. Nagni, R. Sparvoli, A. M. Galper, V. V. Mikhailov, M. F. Runtso, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, V. G. Zverev, G. Castellini, O. Adriani, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, E. Taddei, E. Vannuccini, D. Fedele, P. Papini, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Spillantini, M. Ambriola, F. Cafagna, C. De Marzo, G. C. Barbarino, D. Campana, G. De Rosa, G. Osteria, S. Russo, G. A. Bazilevskaja, A. N. Kvashnin, O. Maksumov, S. Misin, Yu. I. Stozhkov, E. A. Bogomolov, S. Yu. Krutkov, N. N. Nikonov, V. Bonvicini, M. Boezio, J. Lundquist, E. Mocchiutti, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, L. Bongiorno, M. Ricci, P. Carlson, P. Hofverberg, J. Lund, S. Orsi, M. Pearce, W. Menn, M. Simon

tipa -- 8/14/2007

Connecting GRBs and galaxies: the probability of chance coincidence

• Authors: Bethany E. Cobb, Charles D. Bailyn

Prospects for GMRT to Observe Radio Waves from UHE Particles Interacting with the Moon

• Authors: Sukanta Panda, Subhendra Mohanty, Padmanabhan Janardhan, Oscar Stål

Using gamma-rays to probe the clumped structure of stellar winds

• Authors: G. E. Romero, S. P. Owocki, A.T. Araudo, R. Townsend, P. Benaglia

tipa -- 8/13/2007

Are There Any Redshift >8 Gamma-Ray Bursts in the BATSE Catalog?

• Authors: Teresa Ashcraft, Bradley E. Schaefer

H.E.S.S. observations of galaxy clusters

• Authors: W. Domainko, W. Benbow, J. A. Hinton, O. Martineau-Huynh, M. de Naurois, D. Nedbal, G. Pedaletti, G. Rowell, for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Preliminary Results from MINOS on Muon Neutrino Disappearance Based on an Exposure of 2.5x10^20 120 GeV Protons on the NuMI Target

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 33

Comparison of grand unified theories with electroweak and strong coupling constants measured at LEP

• Ugo Amaldi (CERN) , Wim de Boer, Hermann Furstenau (Karlsruhe U., EKP)

Clustering in a neutrino-dominated universe

• White, S. D. M.; Frenk, C. S.; Davis, M. (California, University, Berkeley, CA)

tipa -- 8/10/2007

A Thousand Invisible Cords Binding Astronomy and High-Energy Physics

• Authors: Rocky Kolb (Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Enrico Fermi Institute, and The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago)

Anomaly mediated neutrino-photon interactions at finite baryon density

• Authors: Jeffrey A. Harvey, Christopher T. Hill, Richard J. Hill