tipa -- 8/6/2009

The effects of r-process heating on fall-back accretion in compact object mergers

• Authors: B. D. Metzger, A. Arcones, E. Quataert, G. Martinez-Pinedo

Circumstellar interaction in type Ibn supernovae and SN 2006jc

• Authors: N. N. Chugai

Progenitors of core-collapse supernovae

• Authors: Stephen J. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast)

Spectra and Light Curves of Failed Supernovae

• Authors: Chris L. Fryer, Peter J. Brown, Filomena Bufano, Jon A. Dahl, Christopher J. Fontes, Lucille H. Frey, Stephen T. Holland, Aimee L. Hungerford, Stefan Immler, Paolo Mazzali, Peter A. Milne, Evan Scannapieco, Nevin Weinberg, Patrick A. Young

The first stars: formation of binaries and small multiple systems

• Authors: A. Stacy, T. H. Greif, V. Bromm

tipa -- 8/5/2009

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor

• Authors: Charles Meegan, Giselher Lichti, P. N. Bhat, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaughton, Roland Diehl, Gerald Fishman, Jochen Greiner, Andrew S. Hoover, Alexander J. van der Horst, Andreas von Kienlin, R. Marc Kippen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Sheila McBreen, W. S. Paciesas, Robert Preece, Helmut Steinle, Mark S. Wallace, Robert B. Wilson, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

Supernova Search with the AMANDA / IceCube Detectors

• Authors: Thomas Kowarik, Timo Griesel, Alexander Piégsa, for the Icecube Collaboration

Synchrotron radiation from ultra-high energy protons and the Fermi observations of GRB 080916C

• Authors: Soebur Razzaque, Charles D. Dermer, Justin D. Finke

tipa -- 8/4/2009

Modeling Flows Around Merging Black Hole Binaries

• Authors: James R. van Meter, John H. Wise, M. Coleman Miller, Christopher S. Reynolds, Joan M. Centrella, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Bernard J. Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams

Limits on Radioactive-Powered Emission Associated With a Short-Hard GRB 070724A in a Star-Forming Galaxy

• Authors: Daniel Kocevski, Christina C Thone, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Joshua S. Bloom, Jonathan Granot, Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel A. Perley, Maryam Modjaz, William H. Lee, Bethany E. Cobb, Andrew J. Levan, Nial Tanvir, Stefano Covino

Determining the escape fraction of ionizing photons during reionization with the GRB derived star-formation rate

• Authors: Stuart Wyithe, Andrew M. Hopkins, Matthew D. Kistler, Hasan Yuksel, John F. Beacom

Implications of High-Resolution Simulations on Indirect Dark Matter Searches

• Authors: Lidia Pieri, Julien Lavalle, Gianfranco Bertone, Enzo Branchini

VERITAS Collaboration Contributions to the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference

• Authors: Veritas Collaboration

tipa -- 8/3/2009

Positional Effects on Citation and Readership in arXiv

• Authors: Asif-ul Haque, Paul Ginsparg

Galactic masers and the Milky Way circular velocity

• Authors: Jo Bovy (NYU), David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA)

Runaway Stars, Hypervelocity Stars, and Radial Velocity Surveys

• Authors: Benjamin C. Bromley (1), Scott J. Kenyon (2), Warren R. Brown (2), Margaret J. Geller (2) ((1) University of Utah (2) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

On the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from dark matter annihilation or decay in galaxy clusters

• Authors: Julien Lavalle, Celine Boehm, Julien Barthes

tipa -- 7/31/2009

Time resolved spectral behavior of bright BATSE precursors

• Authors: D. Burlon, G. Ghirlanda, G. Ghisellini, J. Greiner, A. Celotti

Tracing the Magellanic Clouds Back in Time

• Authors: P. J. E. Peebles

Using population synthesis of massive stars to study the interstellar medium near OB associations

• Authors: R. Voss, R. Diehl, D.H. Hartmann, M. Cervino, J.S. Vink, G. Meynet, M. Limongi, A. Chieffi

tipa -- 7/30/2009

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: The disappointing model

• Authors: R. Aloisio, V. Berezinsky, A. Gazizov

Nucleosynthesis Constraints on a Massive Gravitino in Neutralino Dark Matter Scenarios

• Authors: Richard H. Cyburt, John Ellis, Brian D. Fields, Feng Luo, Keith A. Olive, Vassilis C. Spanos

On the Apparent Lack of Be X-ray Binaries with Black Holes

• Authors: Krzysztof Belczynski, Janusz Ziolkowski

The Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts I: ISM Properties of Ten Nearby Long-Duration GRB Hosts

• Authors: Emily M. Levesque, Edo Berger, Lisa J. Kewley, Megan M. Bagley

tipa -- 7/29/2009

Suzaku Observation of the Diffuse X-Ray Emission from the Open Cluster Westerlund 2: a Hypernova Remnant?

• Authors: Yutaka Fujita, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Hiroaki Takahashi, Fumio Takahara (Osaka U.)

A Model for Gravitational Wave Emission from Neutrino-Driven Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: Jeremiah W. Murphy (1), Christian D. Ott (2), Adam Burrows (3) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, (2) Tapir, Caltech, (3) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton)

Galactic Substructure and Energetic Neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth

• Authors: Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

A Universal Luminosity Function for Radio Supernova Remnants

• Authors: Laura Chomiuk, Eric M. Wilcots (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

tipa -- 7/28/2009

An Observational Determination of the Proton to Electron Mass Ratio in the Early Universe

• Authors: Rodger I. Thompson, Jill Bechtold, John H. Black, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, Robert C. Kennicutt, Carlos Martins, J. Xavier Prochaska, Yancey L. Shirley

The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7

• Authors: Wendy L. Freedman, Christopher R. Burns, M. M. Phillips, Pamela Wyatt, S. E. Persson, Barry F. Madore, Carlos Contreras, Gaston Folatelli, E.Sergio Gonzalez, Mario Hamuy, Eric Hsiao, Daniel D. Kelson, Nidia Morrell, D. C. Murphy, Miguel Roth, Maximilian Stritzinger, Laura Sturch, Nick B. Suntzeff, P. Astier, C. Balland, Bruce Bassett, Luis Boldt, R. G. Carlberg, Alexander J. Conley, Joshua A. Frieman, Peter M. Garnavich, J. Guy, D. Hardin, D. Andrew Howell, Richard Kessler, Hubert Lampeitl, John Marriner, R. Pain, Kathy Perrett, N. Regnault, Adam G. Riess, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mark Sullivan, Michael Wood-Vasey

The uncertainty in Galactic parameters

• Authors: Paul J. McMillan, James J. Binney

Search for High Energetic Neutrinos from Supernova Explosions with AMANDA

• Authors: Dirk Lennarz, Jan-Patrick Hülß, Christopher Wiebusch, for the IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 7/27/2009

Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star-Forming Galaxies

• Authors: Carolin N. Cardamone, Kevin Schawinski, Marc Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, Nicola Bennert, C. M. Urry, Chris Lintott, William C. Keel, John Parejko, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel Thomas, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Anze Slosar, Alex Szalay, Jan VandenBerg

BLAST: the Redshift Survey

• Authors: Stephen Eales, Edward L. Chapin, Mark J. Devlin, Simon Dye, Mark Halpern, David H. Hughes, Gaelen Marsden, Philip Mauskopf, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Calvin B. Netterfield, Enzo Pascale, Guillaume Patanchon, Gwenifer Raymond, Marie Rex, Douglas Scott, Christopher Semisch, Brian Siana, Matthew D. P. Truch, Marco P. Viero

The Physics of the FIR-Radio Correlation: I. Calorimetry, Conspiracy, and Implications

• Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert

Fermi LAT Observations of LS I +61 303: First detection of an orbital modulation in GeV Gamma Rays

• Authors: A. A. Abdo, et al., for the Fermi LAT collaboration

Chandra Observations of 1RXS J141256.0+792204 (Calvera)

• Authors: Andrew S. H. Shevchuk, Derek B. Fox, Robert E. Rutledge

Dark matter, the CMSSM and lattice QCD

• Authors: Joel Giedt, Anthony W. Thomas, Ross D. Young

How Far Are We from the Quantum Theory of Gravity?

• Authors: R. P. Woodard (University of Florida)

classic papers of the week -- 110

The redshift of extragalactic nebulae

• Zwicky, F.

On Continued Gravitational Contraction

• Oppenheimer, J. R.; Snyder, H. (University of California, Berkeley)

Theories of gamma-ray bursts

• Ruderman, M. (Columbia University, New York, N.Y.)

tipa -- 7/24/2009

The Fermi gamma-ray spectrum of the inner galaxy: Implications for annihilating dark matter

• Authors: Ilias Cholis, Gregory Dobler, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Lisa Goodenough, Tracy R. Slatyer, Neal Weiner

Very High Energy Gamma-ray Afterglow Emission of Nearby Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: R. R. Xue, P. H. Tam, S. J. Wagner, B. Behera, Y. Z. Fan, D. M. Wei

Computational Models of Stellar Collapse and Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: C. D. Ott (1,2,3), E. Schnetter (3,4), A. Burrows (5), E. Livne (6), E. O'Connor (1), F. Loeffler (3) ((1) TAPIR, Caltech, (2) Niels Bohr Institute, (3) Center for Computation and Technology, LSU, (4) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, LSU, (5) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, (6) Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University)

tipa -- 7/23/2009

Primordial Core-Collapse Supernovae and the Chemical Abundances of Metal-Poor Stars

• Authors: C. C. Joggerst, A. Almgren, J. Bell, Alexander Heger, Daniel Whalen, S. E. Woosley

On Type Ia Supernovae From The Collisions of Two White Dwarfs

• Authors: Cody Raskin, F.X. Timmes, Evan Scannapieco, Steven Diehl, Chris Fryer

tipa -- 7/22/2009

Substructure depletion in the Milky Way halo by the disk

• Authors: Elena D'Onghia (1), Volker Springel (2), Lars Hernquist (1), Dusan Keres (1) ((1) Harvard/Cfa, (2) MPA, Garching)

Observations of "wisps" in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Crab Nebula

• Authors: N.F. Camus, S.S. Komissarov, N. Buccantini, P.A. Hughes

tipa -- 7/21/2009

Collisions of white dwarfs as a new progenitor channel for type Ia supernovae

• Authors: S. Rosswog, D. Kasen, J. Guillochon, E. Ramirez-Ruiz

High-Energy Neutrinos From Dark Matter Particle Self-Capture Within the Sun

• Authors: Andrew R. Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-ray Burst Optical Afterglows: Biases in the Swift Sample and Characterization of the Absorbers

• Authors: J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, J. X. Prochaska, D. Malesani, C. Ledoux, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Nardini, P. M. Vreeswijk, J. Hjorth, J. Sollerman, H.-W. Chen, C. C. Thoene, G. Bjoernsson, J. S. Bloom, A. Castro-Tirado, L. Christensen, A. De Cia, J. U. Gorosabel, A. Jaunsen, B. L. Jensen, A. Levan, J. Maund, N. Masetti, B. Milvang-Jensen, E. Palazzi, D. A. Perley, E. Pian, E. Rol, P. Schady, R. Starling, N. Tanvir, D. J. Watson, K. Wiersema, D. Xu, T. Augusteijn, F. Grundahl, J. Telting, P.-O. Quirion

tipa -- 7/20/2009

The Formation of Population III Binaries from Cosmological Initial Conditions

• Authors: Matthew J. Turk (1), Tom Abel (1), Brian W. O'Shea (2) ((1) Stanford/KIPAC, (2) Michigan State University)

Measuring Black Hole Spin via the X-ray Continuum Fitting Method: Beyond the Thermal Dominant State

• Authors: James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard, Ramesh Narayan, Lijun Gou

Cosmological and astrophysical constraints from the Lyman-alpha forest flux probability distribution function

• Authors: M. Viel, J.S. Bolton, M.G. Haehnelt

classic papers of the week -- 109

CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction

• Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)

The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matter

• Davis, M.; Efstathiou, G.; Frenk, C. S.; White, S. D. M.

On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, in Consequence of the Diminution of the Velocity of Their Light, in Case Such a Diminution Should be Found to Take Place in any of Them, and Such Other Data Should be Procured from Observations, as Would be Farther Necessary for That Purpose. By the Rev. John Michell, B. D. F. R. S. In a Letter to Henry Cavendish, Esq. F. R. S. and A. S.

• John Michell

tipa -- 7/17/2009

Cosmic Neutrino Last Scattering Surface

• Authors: Scott Dodelson, Mika Vesterinen

tipa -- 7/16/2009

Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

• Authors: Elena D'Onghia, Gurtina Besla, Thomas J. Cox, Lars Hernquist (Harvard-Cfa)

The energy spectrum, time history, and IPN error ellipse of GRB051103, a possible extragalactic SGR giant flare

• Authors: K. Hurley, E. Bellm, D. Perley, I. G. Mitrofanov, D. V. Golovin, A. S. Kozyrev, M. L. Litvak, A. B. Sanin, W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshmann, M. Ohno, K. Yamaoka, Y. E. Nakagawa, D. M. Smith, T. Cline, N. Gehrels, H. Krimm, D. M. Palmer, R. C. Duncan, C. Wigger, W. Hajdas, J.-L. Atteia, G. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, A. Rau, A. von Kienlin

Radio monitoring of NGC 7469: Late time radio evolution of SN 2000ft and the circumnuclear starburst in NGC 7469

• Authors: M.A. Perez-Torres, A. Alberdi, L. Colina, J.M. Torrelles, N. Panagia, A. Wilson, E. Kankare, S. Mattila

Chern-Simons Modified General Relativity

• Authors: Stephon Alexander, Nicolas Yunes

Astrometric Solar-System Anomalies

• Authors: John D. Anderson, Michael Martin Nieto

tipa -- 7/15/2009

Search for muon neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the IceCube neutrino telescope

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration: R. U. Abbasi, et al

GRB afterglow plateaus and Gravitational Waves: multi-messenger signature of a millisecond magnetar?

• Authors: Alessandra Corsi, Peter Meszaros

Propagation of ultrahigh energy nuclei in clusters of galaxies: resulting composition and secondary emissions

• Authors: K. Kotera, D. Allard, K. Murase, J. Aoi, Y. Dubois, T. Pierog, S. Nagataki

Physics Capabilities of the IceCube DeepCore Detector

• Authors: Christopher Wiebusch, for the IceCube Collaboration

tipa -- 7/14/2009

Determining the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with Cosmology

• Authors: Francesco De Bernardis, Thomas D.Kitching, Alan Heavens, Alessandro Melchiorri

The disappearance of Lyman alpha blobs: a GALEX search at z=0.8

• Authors: William C. Keel, Raymond E. White III., Scott Chapman, Rogier A. Windhorst