tipa -- 11/16/2007

Consequences of dark matter self-annihilation for galaxy formation

• Authors: Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale), Darren Croton (Berkeley), Gianfranco Bertone (IAP)

Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Centaurus A

• Authors: Andres Jordan, Gregory R. Sivakoff, Dean E. McLaughlin, John P. Blakeslee, Daniel A. Evans, Ralph P. Kraft, Martin J. Hardcastle, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Cote, Judith H. Croston, Adrienne M. Juett, Dante Minniti, Somak Raychaudhury, Craig L. Sarazin, Diana M. Worrall, William E. Harris, Kristin A. Woodley, Mark Birkinshaw, Nicola J. Brassington, William R. Forman, Christine Jones, Stephen S. Murray

Spallation nuclei in substellar objects: a new dark-matter signature?

• Authors: Benjamin Monreal, Lorne A. Nelson, Joseph A. Formaggio

Average mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the superhigh energy region by Yakutsk complex EAS array data

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

Observations of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy by the H.E.S.S. experiment and search for a Dark Matter signal

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

tipa -- 11/15/2007

A runaway collision in a young star cluster as the origin of the brightest supernova

• Authors: Simon Portegies Zwart (UvA) Edward P.J. van den Heuvel (UvA)

The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: rotation and nitrogen enrichment as the key to understanding massive star evolution

• Authors: I. Hunter, I. Brott, D.J. Lennon, N. Langer, P.L. Dufton, C. Trundle, S.J. Smartt, A. de Koter, C.J. Evans, R.S.I. Ryans

On the Origin and Survival of UHE Cosmic-Ray Nuclei in GRBs and Hypernovae

• Authors: Xiang-Yu Wang, Soebur Razzaque, Peter Meszaros

tipa -- 11/14/2007

New estimation of the spectral index of high-energy cosmic rays as determined by the Compton-Getting anisotropy

• Authors: M.Amenomori, X.J.Bi, D.Chen, S.W.Cui, Danzengluobu, L.K.Ding, X.H.Ding, C.Fan, C.F.Feng, Zhaoyang Feng, Z.Y.Feng, X.Y.Gao, Q.X.Geng, H.W.Guo, H.H.He, M.He, K.Hibino, N.Hotta, Haibing Hu, H.B.Hu, J.Huang, Q.Huang, H.Y.Jia, F.Kajino, K.Kasahara, Y.Katayose, C.Kato, K.Kawata, Labaciren, G.M.Le, A.F.Li, J.Y.Li, Y.-Q.Lou, H.Lu, S.L.Lu, X.R.Meng, K.Mizutani, J.Mu, K.Munakata, A.Nagai, H.Nanjo, M.Nishizawa, M.Ohnishi, I.Ohta, H.Onuma, T.Ouchi, S.Ozawa, J.R.Ren, T.Saito, T.Y.Saito, M.Sakata, T.K.Sako, M.Shibata, A.Shiomi, T.Shirai, H.Sugimoto, M.Takita, Y.H.Tan, N.Tateyama, S.Torii, H.Tsuchiya, S.Udo, B.Wang, H.Wang, X.Wang, Y.Wang, Y.G.Wang, H.R.Wu, L.Xue, Y.Yamamoto, C.T.Yan, X.C.Yang, S.Yasue, Z.H.Ye, G.C.Yu, A.F.Yuan, T.Yuda, H.M.Zhang, J.L.Zhang, N.J.Zhang, X.Y.Zhang, Y.Zhang, Yi Zhang, Zhaxisangzhu, et al (1 additional authors not shown

tipa -- 11/13/2007

Detecting z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae

• Authors: Jeff Cooke

tipa -- 11/12/2007

The Star Formation Demographics of Galaxies in the Local Volume

• Authors: Janice C. Lee, Robert C. Kennicutt, Jose G. Funes, S.J., Shoko Sakai, Sanae Akiyama

Predicting the proton separation energy of Rh93 from supernova nucleosynthesis

• Authors: Jacob Lund Fisker, Robert D. Hoffman, Jason Pruet

tipa -- 11/9/2007

Correlation of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects

• Authors: Pierre Auger Collaboration

Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations

• Authors: B. Abbott, et al, for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Hypervelocity A & B Stars should be slow rotators

• Authors: Brad Hansen (UCLA)

Spatially Resolved Galaxy Star Formation and its Environmental Dependence I

• Authors: Niraj Welikala (1), Andrew J. Connolly (2), Andrew M. Hopkins (3), Ryan Scranton (1), Alberto Conti (4) ((1) University of Pittsburgh (2) University of Washington (3) University of Sydney (4)STScI)

Models of Type I X-ray Bursts from GS 1826-24: A Probe of rp-Process Hydrogen Burning

• Authors: Alexander Heger, Andrew Cumming, Duncan K. Galloway, Stanford E. Woosley

Evidence for a non-universal stellar initial mass function from the integrated properties of SDSS galaxies

• Authors: Erik A. Hoversten, Karl Glazebrook

tipa -- 11/8/2007

A Search for New Galactic Magnetars in Archival Chandra and XMM-Newton Observations

• Authors: M. P. Muno (Caltech), B. M. Gaensler (U. Sydney), A. Nechita (The Onion), J. M. Miller (U Michigan), P. O. Slane (Harvard CfA)

Combining CPT-conjugate Neutrino channels at Fermilab

• Authors: Andreas Jansson, Olga Mena, Stephen Parke, Niki Saoulidou

tipa -- 11/7/2007

Gravitational Wave Sirens as a Triple Probe of Dark Energy

• Authors: Eric V. Linder

Supernovae in Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters: Observations by the Wise Observatory Optical Transient Search (WOOTS)

• Authors: Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute), Dan Maoz (TAU), Puragra Guhathakurta (UCSC), Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB)

A Study of Muon Neutrino Disappearance Using the Fermilab Main Injector Neutrino Beam

• Authors: Michael Kordosky, David Petyt, for the MINOS Collaboration

Imaging the Internal Structure of the Earth with Atmospheric Neutrinos

• Authors: M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Francis Halzen, Michele Maltoni, Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka

tipa -- 11/6/2007

Neutrinos from Fallback onto Newly Formed Neutron Stars

• Authors: Chris L. Fryer

A first measurement of the interaction cross section of the tau neutrino

• Authors: The DONuT Collaboration

KM3NeT: A Next Generation Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea

• Authors: A. Kappes (University Erlangen-Nuremberg), for the KM3NeT Consortium

Symmetry and Supersymmetry in Nuclear Physics

• Authors: A.B. Balantekin (Wisconsin U., Madison)

tipa -- 11/5/2007

High-Redshift QSOs in the SWIRE Survey and the z~3 QSO Luminosity Function

• Authors: Brian Siana (1), Maria del Carmen Polletta (2), Harding E. Smith (2), Carol J. Lonsdale (3), Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares (4), Duncan Farrah (5), Tom S. R. Babbedge (6), Michael Rowan-Robinson (6), Jason Surace (1), David Shupe (1), Fan Fang (1), Alberto Franceschini (7), Seb Oliver (8) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, (2) UC San Diego, (3) IPAC, (4) IoA Cambridge, (5) Cornell, (6) Imperial, (7) Padova, (8) Sussex)

The IceCube Collaboration: contributions to the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2007)

• Authors: The IceCube Collaboration

M31N-2007-06b: A Nova in the M31 Globular Cluster Bol 111

• Authors: A. W. Shafter, R. M. Quimby

Where are the missing gamma ray burst redshifts?

• Authors: D. M. Coward, D. Guetta, R. R. Burman, A. Imerito

classic papers of the week -- 45

The Rate of Star Formation

• Schmidt, Maarten

CP Conservation in the Presence of Instantons

• R.D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Stanford University)

A Century of Gamma Ray Burst Models

• Robert J. Nemiroff (NASA/GSFC and George Mason U.)

tipa -- 11/2/2007

Study of TeV Neutrinos with Upward Showering Muons in Super-Kamiokande

• Authors: Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

The Varied Fates of z~2 Star-forming Galaxies

• Authors: Charlie Conroy, Alice E. Shapley, Jeremy L. Tinker, Michael R. Santos, Gerard Lemson

Search method for coincident events from LIGO and IceCube detectors

• Authors: Yoichi Aso, Zsuzsa Marka, Chad Finley, John Dwyer, Kei Kotake, Szabolcs Marka

tipa -- 11/1/2007

Variations in Stellar Clustering with Environment: Dispersed Star Formation and the Origin of Faint Fuzzies

• Authors: Bruce G. Elmegreen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

The Proto-neutron Star Phase of the Collapsar Model and the Route to Long-soft Gamma-ray Bursts and Hypernovae

• Authors: Luc Dessart, Adam Burrows, Eli Livne, Christian Ott

tipa -- 10/31/2007

HESS Observations and VLT Spectroscopy of PG 1553+113

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

Dirac Fields in Loop Quantum Gravity and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

• Authors: Martin Bojowald, Rupam Das, Robert J. Scherrer

tipa -- 10/30/2007

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on the Self-Gravity of Pressure

• Authors: Saul Rappaport, Josiah Schwab, Scott Burles, Gary Steigman

Are the missing X-ray breaks in Gamma-ray Burst afterglow light curves merely hidden?

• Authors: P.A. Curran (1), A.J. van der Horst (1,2), R.A.M.J. Wijers (1) ((1) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (2)University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA)

Charged current cross section for massive cosmological neutrinos impinging on radioactive nuclei

• Authors: R. Lazauskas, P. Vogel, C. Volpe

tipa -- 10/29/2007

High Energy spectra of Seyferts and Unification schemes

• Authors: Matthew Middleton, Chris Done, Nick Schurch

New Horizons and the Onset of the Pioneer Anomaly

• Authors: Michael Martin Nieto

Evidence for higher order QED in e+ e- pair production at RHIC

• Authors: A. J. Baltz (BNL)

classic papers of the week -- 44

Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance

• Shakura, N. I.; Sunyaev, R. A.

High-Energy Neutrino Detection In Deep Polar Ice

• Francis Halzen (Wisconsin U., Madison), John G. Learned (Hawaii U.)

tipa -- 10/26/2007

X-Ray Binaries and the Current Dynamical States of Galactic Globular Clusters

• Authors: John M. Fregeau

Kerr Black Holes are Not Unique to General Relativity

• Authors: Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona), Delphine Perrodin (Arizona), Keith R. Dienes (Arizona), Irina Mocioiu (Penn State)

EXIST's Gamma-Ray Burst Sensitivity

• Authors: D. L. Band, J. E. Grindlay, J. Hong, G. Fishman, D. H. Hartmann, A. Garson III, H. Krawczynski, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, G. Skinner

tipa -- 10/25/2007

How Very Massive Metal Free Stars Start Cosmological Reionization

• Authors: John H. Wise (1,2), Tom Abel (1) ((1) Kipac/Stanford, (2) NASA/GSFC)

Gamma-Ray Bursts May Be Biased Tracers of Star Formation

• Authors: Renyue Cen (Princeton), Taotao Fang (UCI)

Self-Consistent Models of the AGN and Black Hole Populations: Duty Cycles, Accretion Rates, and the Mean Radiative Efficiency

• Authors: Francesco Shankar (1), David H. Weinberg (1), Jordi Miralda-Escude' (2) ((1) Ohio State University, USA, (2)-Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (CSIC-IEEC)/ICREA, Spain)

Observations of Dense Molecular Gas in a Quasar Host Galaxy at z=6.42: Further Evidence for a Non-Linear Dense Gas - Star Formation Relation at Early Cosmic Times

• Authors: Dominik A. Riechers (1), Fabian Walter (1), Christopher L. Carilli (2), Frank Bertoldi (3) ((1)-MPIA Heidelberg, Germany; (2)-NRAO Socorro, USA; (3)-AIfA Bonn, Germany)

tipa -- 10/24/2007

Multiwavelength Observations of Markarian 421 in March 2001: an Unprecedented View on the X-ray/TeV Correlated Variability

• Authors: G. Fossati (1), J. H. Buckley (2), I. H. Bond (3), S. M. Bradbury (3), D. A. Carter-Lewis (4), Y. C. K. Chow (5), W. Cui (6), A. D. Falcone (7), J. P. Finley (6), J. A. Gaidos (6), J. Grube (3), J. Holder (8), D. Horan (9,15), D. B. Kieda (10), J. Kildea (9), H. Krawczynski (2), F. Krennrich (4), M. J. Lang (11), S. LeBohec (10), K. Lee (2), P. Moriarty (12), R. A. Ong (5), D. Petry (4,16), J. Quinn (13), G. H. Sembroski (6), S. P. Wakely (14), T. C. Weekes (9) ((1) Rice University, (2) Washington University, (3) University of Leeds, (4) Iowa State University, (5) UCLA, (6) Purdue University, (7) PennState, (8) University of Delaware, (9) Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, (10) University of Utah, (11) National University of Ireland, (12) Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, (13) University College Dublin, (14) University of Chicago, (15) Argonne National Lab, (16) MPE)

A Model for Star Formation, Gas Flows and Chemical Evolution in Galaxies at High Redshifts

• Authors: Dawn K. Erb (CfA)