tipa -- 3/14/2008

Precise Measurement of the Spin Parameter of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole M33 X-7

• Authors: Jifeng Liu, Jeffery McClintock, Ramesh Narayan, Shane Davis, Jerome Orosz

The Spectral Lag of GRB060505: A Likely Member of the Long Duration Class

• Authors: S. McBreen, S. Foley, D. Watson, L. Hanlon, D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, D. A. Kann, N. Gehrels, S. McGlynn, D. Palmer

tipa -- 3/13/2008

A z=0.9 supercluster of X-ray luminous, optically-selected, massive galaxy clusters

• Authors: David G. Gilbank, H. K. C. Yee, E. Ellingson, A. K. Hicks, M. D. Gladders, L. F. Barrientos, B. Keeney

r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Hot Accretion Disk Flows from Black Hole - Neutron Star Mergers

• Authors: R. Surman, G.C. McLaughlin, M. Ruffert, H.-Th. Janka, W.R. Hix

tipa -- 3/12/2008

The Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant: G1.9+0.3

• Authors: S.P. Reynolds, K.J. Borkowski, D.A. Green, U. Hwang, I. Harrus, R. Petre

The contribution of star formation and merging to stellar mass buildup in galaxies

• Authors: Niv Drory (1), Marcelo Alvarez (2) ((1) MPE, Garching, Germany, (2) KIPAC-Stanford, USA)

Massive Star Formation in the Galactic Center

• Authors: D. F. Figer

tipa -- 3/11/2008

Discovery of a Young, Energetic 70.5 ms Pulsar Associated with the TeV Gamma-ray Source HESS J1837-069

• Authors: E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern (Columbia University)

tipa -- 3/10/2008

Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe

• Authors: Joshua Frieman (Chicago/Fermilab), Michael Turner (Chicago), Dragan Huterer (Michigan)

The energy spectrum of all-particle cosmic rays around the knee region observed with the Tibet-III air-shower array

• Authors: M. Amenomori, et al

The Extended HST Supernova Survey: The Rate of SNe Ia at z>1.4 Remains Low

• Authors: Tomas Dahlen (1), Louis-Gregory Strolger (1,2), Adam G. Riess (1,3) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) Western Kentucky University, (3) Johns Hopkins University)

Diffusive Shock Acceleration in Radiation Dominated Environments

• Authors: G. Vannoni, S. Gabici, F. A. Aharonian

classic papers of the week -- 58

Lens-Like Action of a Star by the Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field

• Einstein, Albert

On the Probability of Detecting Nebulae Which Act as Gravitational Lenses

• Zwicky, F. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

Gravitational microlensing by the galactic halo

• Paczynski, B. (Princeton University Observatory)

tipa -- 3/7/2008

The Cosmic Microwave Background for Pedestrians: A Review for Particle and Nuclear Physicists

• Authors: Dorothea Samtleben, Suzanne Staggs, Bruce Winstein

tipa -- 3/6/2008

Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation

• Authors: E. Komatsu, J. Dunkley, M. R. Nolta, C. L. Bennett, B. Gold, G. Hinshaw, N. Jarosik, D. Larson, M. Limon, L. Page, D. N. Spergel, M. Halpern, R. S. Hill, A. Kogut, S. S. Meyer, G. S. Tucker, J. L. Weiland, E. Wollack, E. L. Wright

New Determinations of the rest-frame UV luminosity functions at z~7-10

• Authors: Rychard J. Bouwens (UC Santa Cruz), Garth D. Illingworth (UC Santa Cruz), Marijn Franx (Leiden), Holland Ford (John Hopkins University)

A search for Extragalactic Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: A.A. Ivanov, for the Yakutsk array group

SS433: Observation of the circumbinary disc and extraction of the system mass

• Authors: Katherine Blundell, Michael Bowler, Linda Schmidtobreick

Chandra and H.E.S.S. observations of the Supernova Remnant CTB 37B

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

Energy spectra of gamma-rays, electrons and neutrinos produced at interactions of relativistic protons with low energy radiation

• Authors: S.R. Kelner, F.A. Aharonian

Discovery of a VHE gamma-ray source coincident with the supernova remnant CTB 37A

• Authors: HESS Collaboration: F Aharonian, et al

Radio detections towards unidentified variable EGRET sources

• Authors: J.M. Paredes, J.Marti, C.H. Ishwara-Chandra, D.F. Torres, G.E. Romero, J.A. Combi, V. Bosch-Ramon, A.J. Munoz-Arjonilla, J.R. Sanchez-Sutil

tipa -- 3/5/2008

Discovery of the Dust-Enshrouded Progenitor of the Type IIn SN 2008S with Spitzer

• Authors: J.L. Prieto, M.D. Kistler, T.A. Thompson, H. Yuksel, C.S. Kochanek, K.Z. Stanek, J.F. Beacom, P. Martini, A. Pasquali, J. Bechtold

The SuperNova Early Warning System

• Authors: K. Scholberg

tipa -- 3/4/2008

Brightening of an Accretion Disk Due to Viscous Dissipation of Gravitational Waves During the Coalescence of Supermassive Black Holes

• Authors: Bence Kocsis, Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Conservative Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation into Gamma Rays

• Authors: Gregory D. Mack, Thomas D. Jacques, John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell, Hasan Yuksel

Self-Enrichment in Globular Clusters: Is There a Role for the Super-Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars?

• Authors: M. L. Pumo, F. D'Antona, P. Ventura

Late-Time HST Photometry of SN 1994I: Hints of Positron Annihilation Energy Deposition

• Authors: Alejandro Clocchiatti, J. Craig Wheeler, Robert P. Kirshner, David Branch, Peter Challis, Roger A. Chevalier, Alexei V. Filippenko, Claes Fransson, Peter Garnavich, Bruno Leibundgut, Nino Panagia, Mark M. Phillips, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Peter A. Hoflich, Jose Gallardo

Identifying the Sources of the Galactic Cosmic Rays with IceCube

• Authors: Francis Halzen, Alexander Kappes, Aongus O'Murchadha (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, USA)

tipa -- 3/3/2008

The puzzling MILAGRO hot spots

• Authors: Luke Drury, Felix Aharonian

The H alpha Galaxy Survey. IV. Star formation in the local Universe

• Authors: P. A. James (1), J. H. Knapen (2), N. S. Shane (1 and 3), I. K. Baldry (1), R. S. de Jong (4) ((1) Liverpool John Moores University, (2) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (3) Mullard Space Science Laboratory, (4) Space Telescope Science Institute)

Analytic calculations of the spectra of ultra-high energy cosmic ray nuclei. I. The case of CMB radiation

• Authors: R. Aloisio, V. Berezinsky, S. Grigorieva

Astrophysically Triggered Searches for Gravitational Waves: Status and Prospects

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 57

Quantum electrodynamics at small distances

• Murray Gell-Mann, F.E. Low (Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois)

Energy Losses due to Neutrino Processes

• Beaudet, Gilles; Petrosian, Vahé; Salpeter, E. E. (Laboratory of Nuclear Studies and Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University)

Čerenkov Radiation from the Night Sky, and its Application to γ-Ray Astronomy

• Jelley, J. V.; Porter, N. A.

tipa -- 2/29/2008

The Star Formation History of the Universe as Revealed by Deep Radio Observations

• Authors: N. Seymour (1), T. Dwelly (2), D. Moss (2), I. McHardy (2), A. Zoghbi (2,3), G. Rieke (4), M. Page (5), A. Hopkins (6), N. Loaring (7) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, (2) University of Southampton, (3) IoA, University of Cambridge, (4) Steward Observatory, (5) Mullard Space Science Laboratory, (6) University of Sydney, (7) SALT)

Confirmation of the remarkable compactness of massive quiescent galaxies at z~2.3: early-type galaxies did not form in a simple monolithic collapse

• Authors: Pieter van Dokkum, Marijn Franx, Mariska Kriek, Bradford Holden, Garth Illingworth, Daniel Magee, Rychard Bouwens, Danilo Marchesini, Ryan Quadri, Greg Rudnick, Edward Taylor, Sune Toft

tipa -- 2/28/2008

Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from the high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object RGB J0152+017

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

IRS 13N: a new comoving group of sources at the Galactic Center

• Authors: K. Muzic, R. Schoedel, A. Eckart, L. Meyer, A. Zensus

Alignment Timescale of the Microquasar GRO J1655-40

• Authors: Rebecca G. Martin, Christopher A. Tout, J. E. Pringle

tipa -- 2/27/2008

Discovery of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the vicinity of PSR J1913+1011 with H.E.S.S

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

A Cosmic Ray Resolution to the Superbubble Energy-Crisis

• Authors: Yousaf M. Butt, Andrei M. Bykov

Discovery of a New X-ray Filled Radio Supernova Remnant Around the Pulsar Wind Nebula in 3EG J1809-2328

• Authors: Mallory S.E. Roberts (Eureka Scientific), Crystal L. Brogan (NRAO)

tipa -- 2/26/2008

Tests for Selection Effects in GRB High-Energy Correlations

• Authors: Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel Kocevski, Joshua S. Bloom

A Search for WIMPs with the First Five-Tower Data from CDMS

• Authors: CDMS Collaboration

The Infrared Afterglow of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

• Authors: Jeremy D. Schnittman, Julian H. Krolik (JHU)

Lecture Notes on CMB Theory: From Nucleosynthesis to Recombination

• Authors: Wayne Hu (KICP, U. Chicago)

tipa -- 2/25/2008

Particle acceleration in relativistic collisionless shocks: Fermi process at last?

• Authors: Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University)

Magnetic field evolution in relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks

• Authors: Uri Keshet, Boaz Katz, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Eli Waxman

First Detection of Cosmic Structure in the 21-cm Intensity Field

• Authors: Ue-Li Pen, Lister Staveley-Smith, Jeffrey Peterson, Tzu-Ching Chang

Optimal angular window for observing Dark Matter annihilation from the Galactic Center region: the case of gamma-ray lines

• Authors: Pasquale D. Serpico, Gabrijela Zaharijas

classic papers of the week -- 56

On a Method of Making Visible the Paths of Ionising Particles through a Gas

• C. T. R. Wilson

Fluctuations and Irreversible Processes

• Onsager, L. (Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University), Machlup, S. (Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University and Bell Telephone Laboratories)

Particle creation by black holes

• Hawking, S. W. (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, W. K. Kellogg Radiation Lab)

tipa -- 2/22/2008

'Slow' and Fast Rotators among Hypervelocity Stars

• Authors: Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Alceste Z. Bonanos

X-ray Observations of Parsec-Scale Tails behind Two Middle-Aged Pulsars

• Authors: O. Kargaltsev, Z. Misanovic, G. G. Pavlov, J. A. Wong, G. P. Garmire

The Molecular Environment of the Gamma-ray Source TeV J2032+4130

• Authors: Yousaf M. Butt, Nicola Schneider, T. M. Dame, Christopher Brunt

Kaon Condensation, Black Holes and Cosmological Natural Selection

• Authors: G.E. Brown, C.-H. Lee, M. Rho

tipa -- 2/21/2008

On IC 10 X-1, the Most Massive Known Stellar-Mass Black Hole

• Authors: Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko

Prospects for a direct dark matter search using high resistivity CCD detectors

• Authors: J. Estrada, H. Cease, H.T. Diehl, B. Flaugher, J. Jones, D. Kubik, A. Sonnenschein