tipa -- 1/23/2009

A candidate tidal disruption event in the Galaxy cluster Abell 3571

• Authors: N. Cappelluti, M. Ajello, P. Rebusco, S. Komossa, A. Bongiorno, C. Clemens, M. Salvato, P. Esquej, T. Aldcroft, J. Greiner, H. Quintana

Al-26 and the formation of the Solar System from a molecular cloud contaminated by Wolf-Rayet winds

• Authors: Eric Gaidos, Alexander N. Krot, Jonathan P. Williams, Sean N. Raymond

tipa -- 1/22/2009

The Formation of Massive Star Systems by Accretion

• Authors: Mark R. Krumholz, Richard I. Klein, Christopher F. McKee, Stella S. R. Offner, Andrew J. Cunningham

tipa -- 1/21/2009

The Physics of Crystallization from Globular Cluster White Dwarf Stars in NGC 6397

• Authors: D. E. Winget, S. O. Kepler, Fabiola Campos, M. H. Montgomery, Leo Girardi, P. Bergeron, Kurtis Williams

A dark matter disc in the Milky Way

• Authors: J. I. Read, V. Debattista, O. Agertz, L. Mayer, A. M. Brooks, F. Governato, G. Lake

Are Most Low-Luminosity AGN Really Obscured?

• Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (1), Ryan Hickox (2), Eliot Quataert (1), Lars Hernquist (2) ((1) Berkeley, (2) CfA)

Gravitational-wave confusion background from cosmological compact binaries: Implications for future terrestrial detectors

• Authors: Tania Regimbau, Scott A. Hughes

Using Cold Atoms to Measure Neutrino Mass

• Authors: M. Jerkins, J. R. Klein, J. H. Majors, M. G. Raizen

tipa -- 1/20/2009

Evolution of the cosmic ray anisotropy above 10^{14} eV

• Authors: M. Aglietta, V.V. Alekseenko, B. Alessandro, P. Antonioli, F. Arneodo, L. Bergamasco, M. Bertaina, R. Bonino, A. Castellina, A. Chiavassa, B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli, G. Di Sciascio, W. Fulgione, P. Galeotti, P.L. Ghia, M. Iacovacci, G. Mannocchi, C. Morello, G. Navarra, O. Saavedra, A. Stamerra, G.C. Trinchero, S. Valchierotti, P. Vallania, S. Vernetto, C. Vigorito (The EAS-TOP Collaboration)

tipa -- 1/19/2009

A Binary Origin for Blue Stragglers in Globular Clusters

• Authors: Christian Knigge (University of Southampton), Nathan Leigh (McMaster University), Alison Sills (McMaster University)

The Mean Type Ia Supernova Spectrum Over the Past 9 Gigayears

• Authors: M. Sullivan, R. S. Ellis, D. A. Howell, A. Riess, P. E. Nugent, A. Gal-Yam

Nucleosynthesis Modes in the High-Entropy-Wind of Type II Supernovae: Comparison of Calculations with Halo-Star Observations

• Authors: K. Farouqi, K.-L. Kratz, L.I. Mashonkina, B.Pfeiffer, J.J Cowan, F.-K. Thielemann, J.W. Truran

classic papers of the week -- 90

The Maser-New Type of Microwave Amplifier, Frequency Standard, and Spectrometer

• Gordon, J. P.; Zeiger, H. J.; Townes, C. H. (Columbia University, New York, NY)

Anomaly Cancellation in Supersymmetric D=10 Gauge Theory and Superstring Theory

• Michael B. Green (Queen Mary College, University of London & California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) , John H. Schwarz (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

The morphology of extragalactic radio sources of high and low luminosity

• Fanaroff, B. L.; Riley, J. M.

tipa -- 1/16/2009

A quantitative explanation of the observed population of Milky Way satellite galaxies

• Authors: Sergey E. Koposov (1,2,3), Jaiyul Yoo (4), Hans-Walter Rix (1), David H. Weinberg (5), Andrea V. Macciò (1), Jordi Miralda-Escudé (6) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA, (5) Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, (6) Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Barcelona, Spain)

H.E.S.S. observations of gamma-ray bursts in 2003-2007

• Authors: F. Aharonian (HESS collaboration), et al

Measurement of the solar neutrino capture rate with gallium metal, Part III

• Authors: SAGE Collaboration: J. N. Abdurashitov, V. N. Gavrin, V. V. Gorbachev, P. P. Gurkina, T. V. Ibragimova, A. V. Kalikhov, N. G. Khairnasov, T. V. Knodel, I. N. Mirmov, A. A. Shikhin, E. P. Veretenkin, V. E. Yants, G. T. Zatsepin, T. J. Bowles, S. R. Elliott, W. A. Teasdale, J. S. Nico, B. T. Cleveland, J. F. Wilkerson

tipa -- 1/15/2009

An extremely faint stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova and its implications

• Authors: Stefano Valenti, Andrea Pastorello, Enrico Cappellaro, Stefano Benetti, Paolo Mazzali, Jose Manteca, Stefan Taubenberger, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Rafael Ferrando, Avet Harutyunyan, Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Markku Nissinen, Elena Pian, Massimo Turatto, Luca Zampieri, Stephen J. Smartt

tipa -- 1/14/2009

Do Moderate-Luminosity AGN Suppress Star Formation?

• Authors: Kevin Schawinski, Shanil Virani, Brooke Simmons, C. Megan Urry, Ezequiel Treister, Sugata Kaviraj, Bronika Kushkuley

Cosmic Rays VI - Starburst galaxies at multiwavelengths

• Authors: Julia K. Becker, Peter L. Biermann, Jens Dreyer, Tanja M. Kneiske

tipa -- 1/13/2009

High-energy particle acceleration at the radio-lobe shock of Centaurus A

• Authors: J.H. Croston, R.P. Kraft, M.J. Hardcastle, M. Birkinshaw, D.M. Worrall, P.E.J. Nulsen, R.F. Penna, G.R. Sivakoff, A. Jordan, N.J. Brassington, D.A. Evans, W.R. Forman, M. Gilfanov, J.L. Goodger, W.E. Harris, C. Jones, A.M. Juett, S.S. Murray, S. Raychaudhury, C.L. Sarazin, R. Voss, K.A. Woodley

Kinematic reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino events in a large water Cherenkov detector with proton identification

• Authors: Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

tipa -- 1/12/2009

A gravitationally lensed water maser in the early Universe

• Authors: C.M.V. Impellizzeri (1), J.P. McKean (1), P. Castangia (1,2), A.L. Roy (1), C. Henkel (1), A. Brunthaler (1), O. Wucknitz (3) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn; (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari; (3) Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, Bonn)

GRB Light Curves in the Relativistic Turbulence Model

• Authors: Ayah Lazar, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran

The Implications of a High Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate in Diffuse Interstellar Clouds

• Authors: Nick Indriolo, Brian D. Fields, Benjamin J. McCall

classic papers of the week -- 89

Experimental Observation of Isolated Large Transverse Energy Electrons with Associated Missing Energy at s**(1/2) = 540-GeV

• By UA1 Collaboration (G. Arnison et al.)

Cosmic Black-Body Radiation and Galaxy Formation

• Silk, Joseph

An experiment to search for discrete sources of cosmic gamma rays in the 10^11 to 10^12 eV region

• Fazio, G. G.; Helmken, H. F.; Rieke, G. H.; Weekes, T. C.

tipa -- 1/9/2009

A top-heavy stellar initial mass function in starbursts as an explanation for the high mass-to-light ratios of ultra compact dwarf galaxies

• Authors: J. Dabringhausen, P. Kroupa, H. Baumgardt

CMB Lensing Constraints on Neutrinos and Dark Energy

• Authors: Roland de Putter, Oliver Zahn, Eric V. Linder

On the nature of the AGILE galactic transient sources

• Authors: Gustavo E. Romero, Gabriela S. Vila

CMSSM Spectroscopy in light of PAMELA and ATIC

• Authors: Ilia Gogoladze, Rizwan Khalid, Qaisar Shafi, Hasan Yuksel

tipa -- 1/8/2009

An Intermediate Luminosity Transient in NGC300: The Eruption of a Dust-Enshrouded Massive Star

• Authors: E. Berger, A. M. Soderberg, R. A. Chevalier, C. Fransson, R. J. Foley, D. C. Leonard, J. H. Debes, A. M. Diamond-Stanic, A. K. Dupree, I. I. Ivans, J. Simmerer, I. B. Thompson, C. A. Tremonti

Hypernova and Gamma-Ray Burst Remnants as TeV Unidentified Sources

• Authors: Kunihito Ioka (KEK), Peter Meszaros (Penn State)

Cosmological Parameters from the QUaD CMB polarization experiment

• Authors: QUaD collaboration: P. G. Castro (1 and 2), P. Ade (3), J. Bock (4 and 5), M. Bowden (3 and 6), M. L. Brown (1 and 8), G. Cahill (9), S. Church (6), T. Culverhouse (7), R. B. Friedman (7), K. Ganga (10), W. K. Gear (3), S. Gupta (3), J. Hinderks (6 and 11), J. Kovac (5), A. E. Lange (5), E. Leitch (4 and 5), S. J. Melhuish (12), Y. Memari (1), J. A. Murphy (9), A. Orlando (3 and 5), C. Pryke (7), R. Schwarz (7), C. O'Sullivan (9), L. Piccirillo (12), N. Rajguru (3 and 13), B. Rusholme (6), A. N. Taylor (1), K. L. Thompson (6), A. H. Turner (3), E. Y. S. Wu (6), M. Zemcov (3, 4 and 5) ((1) Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, (2) CENTRA, Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, (3) School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, (4) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (5) California Institute of Technology, (6) Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University, (7) Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, (8) Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, (9) Department of Experimental Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, (10) Laboratoire APC UMR 7164, Univ. Paris Diderot-Paris 7 - CNRS - CEA - Obs. de Paris, (11) NASA Goddard, (12) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, (13) UCL)

tipa -- 1/7/2009

The First Positive Detection of Molecular Gas in a GRB Host Galaxy

• Authors: J. X. Prochaska (1,2), Y. Sheffer (3), D.A. Perley (4), J. S. Bloom (4), L. A. Lopez (2), M. Dessauges-Zavadsky (5), H.-W. Chen (6), A. V. Filippenko (4), M. Ganeshalingam (4), W. Li (4), A. A. Miller (4), D. Starr (4,7) ((1) UC Santa Cruz, (2) UCO/Lick, (3) University of Toledo, (4) UC Berkeley, (5) Observatoire de Geneve, (6) U Chicago, (7) Las Cumbres Observatory)

Interpretation of the Extragalactic Radio Background

• Authors: M. Seiffert, D. J. Fixsen, A. Kogut, S. M. Levin, M. Limon, P. M. Lubin, P. Mirel, J. Singal, T. Villela, E. Wollack, C. A. Wuensche

Diffuse neutrino flux from failed supernovae

• Authors: Cecilia Lunardini

An "archaeological" quest for galactic supernova neutrinos

• Authors: Rimantas Lazauskas, Cecilia Lunardini, Cristina Volpe

Candidates for Inelastic Dark Matter

• Authors: Yanou Cui, David E. Morrissey, David Poland, Lisa Randall

tipa -- 1/6/2009

Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background: Cosmic-Ray Induced Albedo from Debris in the Solar System?

• Authors: Igor V. Moskalenko, Troy A. Porter

Nucleosynthesis of 56Ni in wind-driven Supernova Explosions and Constraints on the Central Engine of Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Nozomu Tominaga

Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGO's S5 Data

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Non-Abelian Dark Sectors and Their Collider Signatures

• Authors: Matthew Baumgart, Clifford Cheung, Joshua T. Ruderman, Lian-Tao Wang, Itay Yavin

tipa -- 1/5/2009

The 2008 Luminous Optical Transient in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 300

• Authors: Howard E. Bond (1), Alceste Z. Bonanos (1), Roberta M. Humphreys (2), L.A.G. Berto Monard (3), Jose L. Prieto (4), Frederick M. Walter (5) ((1) STScI, (2) U. Minnesota, (3) Bronberg Obs., (4) Ohio State U., (5) Stony Brook U.)

Microwave Background Constraints on Mixing of Photons with Hidden Photons

• Authors: Alessandro Mirizzi (Max Planck Institut, Munich), Javier Redondo (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg), Guenter Sigl (Hamburg University)

Introduction to the Standard Model and Electroweak Physics

• Authors: Paul Langacker

classic papers of the year -- 2008

Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions

• T.D. Lee (Columbia University, New York, New York) , Chen-Ning Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

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.)

The strength of the weak interactions

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

The Connection Between Spin and Statistics

• W. Pauli (Physikalisches Institut, Eidg. Technischen Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland)

Spinning Electrons and the Structure of Spectra

• Uhlenbeck, G. E., Goudsmit, S.

See also: The discovery of the electron spin

Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays

• N. Cabibbo (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

Violation of CP Invariance, c Asymmetry, and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

• A.D. Sakharov

See also

Remarks on the Evolution of the Expanding Universe

• Alpher, Ralph A.; Herman, Robert C. (Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, MD)

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

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

Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin

• Klebesadel, Ray W.; Strong, Ian B.; Olson, Roy A. (University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

A Generalist Looks Back

• Salpeter, Edwin E.

tipa -- 12/25/2008

Dissecting Pamela (and ATIC) with Occam's Razor: existing, well-known Pulsars naturally account for the "anomalous" Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Data

• Authors: Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz)

tipa -- 12/24/2008

Vetoing atmospheric neutrinos in a high energy neutrino telescope

• Authors: Stefan Schönert, Thomas K. Gaisser, Elisa Resconi, Olaf Schulz