today in particle astrophysics

Millikan, R. A. (Ryerson Laboratory, University of Chicago)

Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship

Project RAND

tipa -- 9/5/2008

The Gravitational Wave Signature of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: Christian D. Ott (TAPIR, Caltech)

Cosmic rays from active galactic nuclei

Authors: E.G.Berezhko (Yu.G. Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy, Yakutsk, Russia)

High-energy electron observations by PPB-BETS flight in Antarctica

tipa -- 9/4/2008

A New Class of Luminous Transients and A First Census of Their Massive Stellar Progenitors

Authors: Todd A. Thompson, Jose L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, Matthew D. Kistler, John F. Beacom, Christopher S. Kochanek (Ohio State University)

The Extragalactic Distance Scale without Cepheids

Authors: Jeremy Mould, Shoko Sakai

HESS J0632+057 : A new gamma-ray binary?

Authors: J. A. Hinton (1), J. L. Skilton (1), S. Funk (2), J. Brucker (3), F. A. Aharonian (4,5), G. Dubus (6), A. Fiasson (7), Y. Gallant (7), W. Hofmann (5), A. Marcowith (7), O. Reimer (2) ((1) School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK, (2) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC, USA, (3) Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Physikalisches Institut, Germany, (4) Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, (5) Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (6) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, INSU/CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, France, (7) Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Montpellier II, France)

The Chemical Abundances of Tycho G in Supernova Remnant 1572

Authors: Jonay I. González Hernández, Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Avishay Gal-Yam, Joshua D. Simon

Primordial Nucleosynthesis: from precision cosmology to fundamental physics

Authors: F. Iocco, G. Mangano, G. Miele, O. Pisanti, P.D. Serpico

tipa -- 9/3/2008

The death of massive stars - I. Observational constraints on the progenitors of type II-P supernovae

Authors: S.J. Smartt (1), J.J. Eldridge (2), R.M. Crockett (1), J.R. Maund (3) ((1) Queen's University Belfast; (2) IoA, Cambridge; (3) Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen)

Reopening the window on charged dark matter

Authors: Leonid Chuzhoy, Edward W. Kolb

tipa -- 9/1/2008

Dark Bursts in the Swift Era: The Palomar 60 inch-Swift Early Optical Afterglow Catalog

Authors: S. B. Cenko, J. Kelemen, F. A. Harrison, D. B. Fox, S. R. Kulkarni, M. M. Kasliwal, E. O. Ofek, A. Rau, A. Gal-Yam, D. A. Frail, D.-S. Moon

Equation-of-State Dependent Features in Shock-Oscillation Modulated Neutrino and Gravitational-Wave Signals from Supernovae

Authors: A. Marek, H.-Th. Janka, E. Mueller

Changes in Dark Matter Properties After Freeze-Out

Authors: Timothy Cohen, David E. Morrissey, Aaron Pierce

Testing the Dark Matter Interpretation of the DAMA/LIBRA Result with Super-Kamiokande

Authors: Jonathan L. Feng, Jason Kumar, John Learned, Louis E. Strigari

tipa -- 8/29/2008

Using Spatial Distributions to Constrain Progenitors of Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: Cody Raskin, Evan Scannapieco, James Rhoads, Massimo Della Valle

A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way

Authors: Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha, Beth Willman, Matthew G. Walker

Formation of a Quasar Host Galaxy through a Wet Merger 1.4 Billion Years after the Big Bang

Authors: Dominik A. Riechers (1,2,5), Fabian Walter (1), Christopher L. Carilli (3), Frank Bertoldi (4), Emmanuel Momjian (3) ((1) MPIA, Germany; (2) Caltech, USA; (3) NRAO, USA; (4) AIfA Bonn, Germany; (5) Hubble Fellow)

A Disk of Young Stars at the Galactic Center as Determined by Individual Stellar Orbits

Authors: J. R. Lu, A. M. Ghez, S. D. Hornstein, M. R. Morris, E. E. Becklin, K. Matthews

Minimal Dark Matter predictions and the PAMELA positron excess

Authors: Marco Cirelli, Alessandro Strumia

XAX: a multi-ton, multi-target detection system for dark matter, double beta decay and pp solar neutrinos

Authors: K. Arisaka, H. Wang, P. F. Smith, D. Cline, A. Teymourian, E. Brown, W. Ooi, D. Aharoni, C. W. Lam, K. Lung, S. Davies, M. Price

tipa -- 8/28/2008

High-(Energy)-Lights -- The Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky

Authors: D. Horns (University of Hamburg, Institute for Experimental Physics, Hamburg)

New Positron Spectral Features from Supersymmetric Dark Matter - a Way to Explain the PAMELA Data?

Authors: Lars Bergstrom, Torsten Bringmann, Joakim Edsjo

tipa -- 8/27/2008

Suzaku Observation of HESS J1825-137: Discovery of Largely-Extended X-rays near from PSR J1826-1334

Authors: H. Uchiyama, H. Matsumoto, T. G. Tsuru, K. Koyama, A. Bamba

The Hydrodynamics of Gamma-Ray Burst Remnants

Authors: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Andrew I. MacFadyen

Long-term AGILE monitoring of the puzzling gamma-ray source 3EG J1835+5918

Authors: A.Bulgarelli, for the AGILE Collaboration

tipa -- 8/26/2008

Relic density of neutrinos with primordial asymmetries

Authors: Sergio Pastor, Teguayco Pinto, Georg Raffelt

Blazar Studies with GLAST: Synchro-Compton Analysis of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars

Authors: Charles D. Dermer, Justin D. Finke, Hannah Krug, Markus Boettcher

Cosmic X-ray background and Earth albedo Spectra with Swift/BAT

Authors: M. Ajello, J. Greiner, G. Sato, D. R. Willis, G. Kanbach, A. W. Strong, R. Diehl, G. Hasinger, N. Gehrels, C. B. Markwardt, J. Tueller

Correlations of Prompt and Afterglow Emission in Swift Long and Short Gamma Ray Bursts

tipa -- 8/25/2008

LHC Startup

Authors: Wesley H. Smith

classic papers of the week -- 80

Pulsar Electrodynamics

Goldreich, Peter; Julian, William H.

Significance of electromagnetic potentials in the quantum theory

Y. Aharonov, D. Bohm (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, England)

Yoji Totsuka (1942–2008)

Henry W. Sobel (School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine), Yoichiro Suzuki (Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

tipa -- 8/22/2008

Discovery of the Ultra-Bright Type II-L Supernova 2008es

Authors: S. Gezari, J. P. Halpern, D. Grupe, F. Yuan, R. Quimby, T. McKay, D. Chamarro, M. D. Sisson, C. Akerlof, J. C. Wheeler, P. J. Brown, S. B. Cenko, A. Rau, J. O. Djordjevic, D. M. Terndrup

Is there an upper limit to black hole masses?

Authors: Priyamvada Natarajan, Ezequiel Treister

A Bitter Pill: The Primordial Lithium Problem Worsens

Authors: Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive

Measurement of the solar 8B neutrino flux with 246 live days of Borexino and observation of the MSW vacuum-matter transition

Authors: The Borexino Collaboration

Non-Gaussian Correlations Outside the Horizon

Authors: Steven Weinberg

tipa -- 8/21/2008

Fitting the Gamma-Ray Spectrum from Dark Matter with DMFIT: GLAST and the Galactic Center Region

Authors: Tesla E. Jeltema, Stefano Profumo

Structure and star formation in galaxies out to z=3: evidence for surface density dependent evolution and upsizing

Authors: Marijn Franx, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Natascha M. Foerster Schreiber, Stijn Wuyts, Ivo Labbe, Sune Toft

Ubiquitous Water Masers in Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies

Authors: Jeremy Darling (University of Colorado), Crystal Brogan (NRAO), Kelsey Johnson (University of Virginia and NRAO)

Relation Between Stellar Mass and Star Formation Activity in Galaxies

Authors: Bahram Mobasher (1), T. Dahlen (2), A. Hopkins (3), N. Z. Scoville (4), P. Capak (5), R. M. Rich (6), D. B. Sanders (7), Eva Schinnerer (8), Olivier Ilbert (7), Mara Salvato (4), Kartik Sheth (5) ((1)University of California, Riverside; (2)STScI; (3)University of Sydney; (4)Caltech; (5)Spitzer Science Center; (6)University of California, Los Angles; (7)University of Hawaii; (8)Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg)

High energy neutrinos from charm in astrophysical sources

Authors: Rikard Enberg (Arizona), Mary Hall Reno (Iowa), Ina Sarcevic (Arizona)

tipa -- 8/20/2008

MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey

Authors: Warren R. Brown, Margaret J. Geller, Scott J. Kenyon (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Telescopes versus Microscopes: the puzzle of Iron-60

Authors: Jonathan P. Williams

GRB 070714B - Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short Burst Redshift

Authors: J. F. Graham (1 and 2), A. S. Fruchter (1), A. J. Levan (3), A. Melandri (4), L. J. Kewley (5), E. M. Levesque (5), M. Nysewander (1), N. R. Tanvir (6), T. Dahlen (1), D. Bersier (4), K. Wiersema (6) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3) University of Warwick, (4) Liverpool John Moores University, (5) University of Hawaii, (6) University of Leicester)

The New DAMA Dark-Matter Window and Energetic-Neutrino Searches

Authors: Dan Hooper, Frank Petriello, Kathryn M. Zurek, Marc Kamionkowski

Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors

Authors: Jonathan L. Feng, Huitzu Tu, Hai-Bo Yu

tipa -- 8/19/2008

The Exceptionally Luminous Type II-L SN 2008es

Authors: A. A. Miller, R. Chornock, D. A. Perley, M. Ganeshalingam, N. R. Butler, J. S. Bloom, N. Smith, M. Modjaz, D. Poznanski, A. V. Filippenko, J. H. Shiode, J. M. Silverman (UC Berkeley)

The Nature of a Cosmic-ray Accelerator CTB37B Observed with Suzaku and Chandra

Authors: Ryoko Nakamura, Aya Bamba, Manabu Ishida, Hiroshi Nakajima, Ryo Yamazaki, Yukikatsu Terada, Gerd Puhlhofer, Stefan J. Wagner

Sound waves in the intracluster medium of the Centaurus cluster

Authors: J.S Sanders, A.C. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Search for Supersymmetry in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV Using the Trilepton Signature of Chargino-Neutralino Production

Authors: CDF Collaboration: T. Aaltonen, et al

tipa -- 8/18/2008

Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters

Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, K. C. Hurley, D. Palmer

Measurement of the dark matter velocity anisotropy in galaxy clusters

Authors: Ole Host, Steen H. Hansen, Rocco Piffaretti, Andrea Morandi, Stefano Ettori, Scott T. Kay, Riccardo Valdarnini

classic papers of the week -- 79

Experimental Test Of Parity Conservation In Beta Decay

C.S. Wu (Columbia University, New York, New York) , E. Ambler, R.W. Hayward, D.D. Hoppes, R.P. Hudson (National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.)

Nebulae

Slipher, V. M.

Interaction of "Solitons" in a Collisionless Plasma and the Recurrence of Initial States

Zabusky, N. J. (Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, New Jersey); Kruskal, M. D. (Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey)