tipa -- 8/7/2008

Self-Regulated Fueling of Galaxy Centers: Evidence for Star-Formation Feedback in IC342's Nucleus

• Authors: E. Schinnerer (MPIA), T. Boeker (ESTEC), D.S. Meier (NRAO), D. Calzetti (UMASS)

VERITAS Discovery of >200GeV Gamma-ray Emission from the Intermediate-frequency-peaked BL Lac Object W Comae

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, Y. C. K. Chow, P. Cogan, P. Colin, W. Cui, M. K. Daniel, T. Ergin, A. D. Falcone, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, P. Fortin, L. F. Fortson, A. Furniss, D. Gall, G. H. Gillanders, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, E. Hays, J. Holder, D. Horan, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. B. Kieda, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, K. Lee, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nagai, J. Niemiec, R. A. Ong, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, D. Petry, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, et al. (16 additional authors not shown)

Neutrino Astrophysics

• Authors: W. C. Haxton

Uncertainties in the Anti-neutrino Production at Nuclear Reactors

• Authors: Z. Djurcic, J. A. Detwiler, A. Piepke, V.R. Foster Jr., L. Miller, G. Gratta

tipa -- 8/6/2008

Proper Motions and Brightness Variations of Nonthermal X-ray Filaments in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant

• Authors: Daniel J. Patnaude, Robert A. Fesen

Combined CDF and Dzero Upper Limits on Standard Model Higgs Boson Production at High Mass (155-200 GeV/c2) with 3 fb-1 of data

• Authors: Tevatron New Phenomena, Higgs working group, CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration

Observation of the Isotopic Evolution of PWR Fuel Using an Antineutrino Detector

• Authors: N. S. Bowden, A. Bernstein, S. Dazeley, R. Svoboda, A. Misner, T. Palmer

tipa -- 8/5/2008

What is the largest Einstein radius in the universe?

• Authors: Masamune Oguri, Roger D. Blandford (KIPAC, Stanford)

Erasing Dark Matter Cusps in Cosmological Galactic Halos with Baryons

• Authors: Emilio Romano-Diaz (UK Lexington), Isaac Shlosman (UK Lexington), Yehuda Hoffman (HU Jerusalem), Clayton Heller (GSU)

Proton and Neutrino Extragalactic Astronomy

• Authors: Paolo Lipari

Dynamics and neutrino signal of black hole formation in non-rotating failed supernovae. II. progenitor dependence

• Authors: K. Sumiyoshi (Numazu CT), S. Yamada (Waseda Univ.), H. Suzuki (Tokyo Univ. of Science)

Problems in High Energy Astrophysics

Authors: Paolo Lipari

tipa -- 8/4/2008

Subaru and Keck Observations of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 2006gz at Late Phases

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Koji Kawabata, Weidong Li, Masaomi Tanaka, Paolo A. Mazzali, Takashi Hattori, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Alex V. Filippenko

Gamma Rays from Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays in Cygnus A

• Authors: Armen Atoyan (1), Charles D. Dermer (2) ((1) Concordia University, (2) NRL)

classic papers of the week -- 77

The cochlear compromise

• Zweig, G.; Lipes, R.; Pierce, J. R.

On the Structure of the Universe, Lecture 5

• Charlier, C. V. L.

The Infrared Detectability of Dyson Civilizations

• Sagan, Carl; Walker, Russell G. (Harvard College Observatory/Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory, Cambridge, MA)

tipa -- 8/1/2008

Using Ultra Long Period Cepheids to Extend the Cosmic Distance Ladder to 100 Mpc and Beyond

• Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, K. Z. Stanek, Jose L. Prieto

Protostar Formation in the Early Universe

• Authors: Naoki Yoshida (Nagoya University), Kazuyuki Omukai (NAOJ), Lars Hernquist (CfA-Harvard)

tipa -- 7/31/2008

Is the Universe More Transparent to Gamma Rays Than Previously Thought?

• Authors: Floyd W. Stecker, Sean T. Scully

tipa -- 7/30/2008

Discovery of a young massive stellar cluster near HESS J1813-178

• Authors: Maria Messineo, Donald F. Figer, Ben Davies, R. Michael Rich, E. Valenti, R.P. Kudritzki

Gravitational Radiation Driven Supermassive Black Hole Binary Inspirals as Periodically Variable Electromagnetic Sources

• Authors: Zoltaán Haiman (Columbia University), Bence Kocsis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Etvös Loránd University), Kristen Menou (Columbia University)

tipa -- 7/29/2008

Dynamical Feedback of Self-generated Magnetic Fields in Cosmic Rays Modified Shocks

• Authors: D. Caprioli (1), P. Blasi (2 and 3), E. Amato (2), M. Vietri (1) ((1) Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy, (3) Fermilab, Center for Particle Astrophysics, Batavia, IL, USA)

The AGILE Mission

• Authors: M. Tavani, et al., for the AGILE Collaboration

Determination of the angular momentum distribution of supernovae from gravitational wave observations

• Authors: Kazuhiro Hayama, Shantanu Desai, Kei Kotake, Soumya D. Mohanty, Malik Rakhmanov, Tiffany Summerscales, Sanichiro Yoshida

tipa -- 7/28/2008

Observational Limits on Inverse Compton Processes in GRBs

• Authors: Tsvi Piran, Re'em Sari, Yuan-Chuan Zou

Shock Vorticity Generation from Accelerated Ion Streaming in the Precursor of Ultrarelativistic Gamma-Ray Burst External Shocks

• Authors: Sean M. Couch, Milos Milosavljevic, Ehud Nakar

Size evolution of the most massive galaxies at 1.7<.z<.3 from GOODS NICMOS survey imaging

• Authors: Fernando Buitrago, Ignacio Trujillo, Christopher J. Conselice, Rychard J. Bouwens, Mark Dickinson, Haojing Yan

How precisely neutrino emission from supernova remnants can be constrained by gamma ray observations?

• Authors: F.L. Villante, F. Vissani

Reach of Future Accelerator and Reactor Neutrino Efforts

• Authors: Y. Obayashi (for the T2K Collaboration)

classic papers of the week -- 76

On Super-novae

• Baade, W.; Zwicky, F.

The Observations of Relic Radiation as a Test of the Nature of X-Ray Radiation from the Clusters of Galaxies

• Sunyaev, R. A.; Zeldovich, Ya. B. (USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, USSR)

The strength of the weak interactions

• Lincoln Wolfenstein (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

tipa -- 7/25/2008

Towards an Accurate Determination of Parameters for Very Massive Stars: the Eclipsing Binary LMC-SC1-105

• Authors: Alceste Z. Bonanos (Carnegie Institution of Washington - DTM)

Air Fluorescence Relevant for Cosmic-Ray Detection - Review of Pioneering Measurements

• Authors: Fernando Arqueros, Joerg R. Hoerandel, Bianca Keilhauer

tipa -- 7/23/2008

The impact of type Ia supernovae on main sequence binary companions

• Authors: R. Pakmor, F. K. Roepke, A. Weiss, W. Hillebrandt

Strong magnetic fields in normal galaxies at high redshifts

• Authors: Martin L. Bernet, Francesco Miniati, Simon J. Lilly (ETHZ), Philipp P. Kronberg (LANL), Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky (Geneva)

tipa -- 7/22/2008

Can binary mergers produce maximally spinning black holes?

• Authors: Michael Kesden

Multiple ring nebulae around blue supergiants

• Authors: S. M. Chita, N. Langer, A. J. van Marle, G. Garcia-Segura, A. Heger

Core-collapse supernovae in low-metallicity environments and future all-sky transient surveys

• Authors: D. R. Young, S. J. Smartt, S. Mattila, N. R. Tanvir, D. Bersier, K. C. Chambers, N. Kaiser, J. L. Tonry

Could the GSI Oscillations be Observed in a Standard Electron Capture Decay Experiment?

• Authors: Thomas Faestermann, Fritz Bosch, Ralf Hertenberger, Ludwig Maier, Reiner Kruecken, Georg Rugel

Comment on the paper "Search for oscillation of the electron-capture decay probability of $^{142}$Pm" at arXiv:0807.0649v1

• Authors: Yu.A. Litvinov, F. Bosch, N. Winckler, D. Boutin, H.G. Essel, T. Faestermann, H. Geissel, S. Hess, P. Kienle, R. Knöbel, C. Kozhuharov, J. Kurcewicz, L. Maier, K. Beckert, C. Brandau, L. Chen, C. Dimopoulou, B. Fabian, A. Fragner, E. Haettner, M. Hausmann, S.A. Litvinov, M. Mazzocco, F. Montes, A. Musumarra, C. Nociforo, F. Nolden, W.R. Plass, A. Prochazka, R. Reda, R. Reuschl, C. Scheidenberger, M. Steck, T. Stöhlker, S. Torilov, M. Trassinelli, B. Sun, H. Weick, M. Winkler

tipa -- 7/21/2008

Electroweak Physics

• Authors: Jens Erler, Paul Langacker

classic papers of the week -- 75

On the Stopping of fast particles and on the creation of positive electrons

• H. Bethe (Manchester), W. Heitler (Bristol)

Galactic Nuclei as Collapsed Old Quasars

• Lynden-Bell, D.

A Spot in One of the Belts of Jupiter

tipa -- 7/18/2008

Linking Short Gamma Ray Bursts and their Host Galaxies

• Authors: James E. Rhoads

Relativistic Spin Precession in the Double Pulsar

• Authors: Rene P. Breton (1), Victoria M. Kaspi (1), Michael Kramer (2), Maura A. McLaughlin (3,4), Maxim Lyutikov (5), Scott M. Ransom (6), Ingrid H. Stairs (7), Robert D. Ferdman (7,8), Fernando Camilo (9), Andrea Possenti (10) ((1) McGill University, (2) Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, (3) West Virginia University, (4) NRAO Green Bank, (5) Purdue University, (6) NRAO Charlottesville, (7) University of British Columbia, (8) LPCE / CNRS, (9) Columbia University, (10) INAF)

Neutrino-Nucleus Reaction Cross Sections for Light Element Synthesis in Supernova Explosions

• Authors: T. Yoshida (1), T. Suzuki (2), S. Chiba (3), T. Kajino (1), H. Yokomakura (4), K. Kimura (4), A. Takamura (5), D. H. Hartmann (6) ((1)NAOJ, (2)Nihon U., (3)JAEA, (4)Nagoya U., (5)Toyota Coll. Tech., (6)Clemson U.)

Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays from a Distant Quasar: How Transparent Is the Universe?

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration: J. Albert, et al

tipa -- 7/17/2008

Two extremely luminous WN stars in the Galactic center with circumstellar emission from dust and gas

• Authors: A. Barniske, L. M. Oskinova, W.-R. Hamann

Will the LHC Look into the Fate of the Universe?

• Authors: Steven A. Abel, John Ellis, Joerg Jaeckel, Valentin V. Khoze

tipa -- 7/16/2008

Origin of the S-Stars in the Galactic Center

• Authors: Ulf Löckmann, Holger Baumgardt, Pavel Kroupa

The Physical Scale of the Far-Infrared Emission in the Most Luminous Submillimeter Galaxies

• Authors: Joshua D. Younger, Giovanni G. Fazio, David J. Wilner, Matthew L. N. Ashby, Raymond Blundell, Mark A. Gurwell, Jia-Sheng Huang, Daisuke Iono, Alison B. Peck, Glen R. Petitpas, Kimberly S. Scott, Grant W. Wilson, Min S. Yun

A z = 3 Lyman Alpha Blob Associated with a Damped Lyman Alpha System Proximate to its Background Quasar

• Authors: Joseph F. Hennawi (1), J. Xavier Prochaska (2), Juna Kollmeier (3), Zheng Zheng (4) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) UC Berkeley, (3) Carnegie Observatories, (4) Institute for Advanced Study)

Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment

• Authors: P. Adamson, et al., for the MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 7/15/2008

Search for Oscillation of the Electron-Capture Decay Probability of $^{142}$Pm

• Authors: P. A. Vetter, R. M. Clark, J. Dvorak, S. J. Freedman, K. E. Gregorich, H. B. Jeppesen, D. Mittelberger, M. Wiedeking