tipa -- 9/8/2009

The chemical composition of the Sun

• Authors: Martin Asplund, Nicolas Grevesse, A. Jacques Sauval, Pat Scott

Multi-Wavelength Properties of the Type IIb SN 2008ax

• Authors: P.W.A. Roming, T.A. Pritchard, P.J. Brown, S.T. Holland, S. Immler, C.J. Stockdale, K.W. Weiler, N. Panagia, S.D. Van Dyk, E.A. Hoversten, P.A. Milne, S.R. Oates, B. Russell, C. Vandrevala

Search for cosmic neutrino point sources with the 5-line ANTARES telescope

• Authors: Antares Collaboration

A formalism for the construction of binary neutron stars with arbitrary circulation

• Authors: Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro

Bayesian reconstruction of gravitational wave burst signals from simulations of rotating stellar core collapse and bounce

• Authors: Christian Röver, Marie-Anne Bizouard, Nelson Christensen, Harald Dimmelmeier, Ik Siong Heng, Renate Meyer

Status of the global electroweak fit of the Standard Model

• Authors: Andreas Hoecker (CERN) for the Gfitter Group

tipa -- 9/7/2009

The size-star formation relation of massive galaxies at 1.5 < z < 2.5

• Authors: S. Toft, M. Franx, P. G. van Dokkum, N. M. Forster-Schreiber, I. Labbe, S. Wuyts, D. Marchesini

Testing the Gamma-Ray Burst Pulse Start Conjecture

• Authors: Jon Hakkila, Robert J. Nemiroff

Supercollapsars and their X-ray Bursts

• Authors: S.S. Komissarov, M.V. Barkov

General physical properties of bright Fermi blazars

• Authors: G. Ghisellini (1), F. Tavecchio (1), L. Foschini (1), G. Ghirlanda (1), L. Maraschi (1), A. Celotti (2) ((1) INAF-Brera Observ., (2) SISSA)

tipa -- 9/4/2009

Gamma-ray signatures of annihilation to charged leptons in dark matter substructure

• Authors: Matthew D. Kistler, Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins (Ohio State University)

Discovery of a new Wolf-Rayet star and its ring nebula in Cygnus

• Authors: V.V.Gvaramadze, S.Fabrika, W.-R.Hamann, O.Sholukhova, A.F.Valeev, V.P.Goranskij, A.M.Cherepashchuk, D.J.Bomans, L.M.Oskinova

tipa -- 9/3/2009

An Electromagnetic Signature of Galactic Black Hole Binaries That Enter Their Gravitational-Wave Induced Inspiral

• Authors: Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Seeing the Collision of a Supernova with its Companion Star

• Authors: Daniel Kasen

X-ray Astronomy in the Laboratory with a Miniature Compact Object Produced by Laser-Driven Implosion

• Authors: Shinsuke Fujioka, Hideaki Takabe, Norimasa Yamamoto, David Salzmann, Feilu Wang, Hiroaki Nishimura, Yutong Li, Quanli Dong, Shoujun Wang, Yi Zhang, Yong-Joo Rhee, Yong-Woo Lee, Jae-Min Han, Minoru Tanabe, Takashi Fujiwara, Yuto Nakabayashi, Gang Zhao, Jie Zhang, Kunioki Mima

The remnants of galaxy formation from a panoramic survey of the region around M31

• Authors: Alan W. McConnachie, Michael J. Irwin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, John Dubinski, Lawrence M. Widrow, Nicolas F. Martin, Patrick Cote, Aaron L. Dotter, Julio F. Navarro, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Thomas H. Puzia, Geraint F. Lewis, Arif Babul, Pauline Barmby, Olivier Bienayme, Scott C. Chapman, Robert Cockcroft, Michelle L. M. Collins, Mark A. Fardal, William E. Harris, Avon Huxor, A. Dougal Mackey, Jorge Penarrubia, R. Michael Rich, Harvey B. Richer, Arnaud Siebert, Nial Tanvir, David Valls-Gabaud, Kimberly A. Venn

Radio continuum and near-infrared study of the MGRO J2019+37 region

• Authors: J.M. Paredes, J.Marti, C.H. Ishwara-Chandra, J.R. Sanchez-Sutil, A.J. Munoz-Arjonilla, J. Moldon, M. Peracaula, P.L. Luque-Escamilla, V. Zabalza, V. Bosch-Ramon, P. Bordas, G.E. Romero, M. Ribo

tipa -- 9/2/2009

Omniscopes: Large Area Telescope Arrays with only N log N Computational Cost

• Authors: Max Tegmark (MIT), Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)

Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Gamma-Ray Burst Jets: Beyond the Progenitor Star

• Authors: Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Ramesh Narayan (1), Jonathan C. McKinney (2) ((1) Harvard-CfA, (2) Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University)

A Spatially Resolved Map of the Kinematics, Star-Formation and Stellar Mass Assembly in a Star-Forming Galaxy at z=4.9

• Authors: Mark Swinbank (1), Tracy Webb (2), Johan Richard (1), Richard Bower (1) Richard Ellis (3), Garth Illingworth (4), Tucker Jones (3), Mariska Kriek (5), Ian Smail (1), Dan Stark (6), Pieter Van Dokkum (7) ((1) Durham, (2) McGill, (3) Caltech, (4) UCSC, (5) Princeton, (6) Cambridge, (7) Yale)

tipa -- 9/1/2009

First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters

• Authors: Richard Kessler, Andrew Becker, David Cinabro, Jake Vanderplas, Joshua A. Frieman, John Marriner, Tamara M Davis, Benjamin Dilday, Jon Holtzman, Saurabh Jha, Hubert Lampeitl, Masao Sako, Mathew Smith, Chen Zheng, Robert C. Nichol, Bruce Bassett, Ralf Bender, Darren L. Depoy, Mamoru Doi, Ed Elson, Alex V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Peter M. Garnavich, Ulrich Hopp, Yutaka Ihara, William Ketzeback, W. Kollatschny, Kohki Konishi, Jennifer L. Marshall, Russet J. McMillan, Gajus Miknaitis, Tomoki Morokuma, Edvard M"ortsell, Kaike Pan, Jose Luis Prieto, Michael W. Richmond, Adam G. Riess, Roger Romani, Donald P. Schneider, Jesper Sollerman, Naohiro Takanashi, Kouichi Tokita, Kurt van der Heyden, J. C. Wheeler, Naoki Yasuda, Donald York

Production of 26Al, 44Ti, and 60Fe in Core-Collapse Supernovae: Sensitivity to the Rates of the Triple Alpha and 12C(a,g)16O Reactions

• Authors: Clarisse Tur, Alexander Heger, Sam M. Austin

Radial Distribution of X-ray Point Sources near the Galactic Center

• Authors: Jaesub Hong, Maureen van den Berg, Jonathan E. Grindlay, Silas Laycock

Nuclear Security Applications of Antineutrino Detectors: Current Capabilities and Future Prospects

• Authors: A. Bernstein, G. Baldwin, B. Boyer, M. Goodman, J. Learned, J. Lund, D. Reyna, R. Svoboda

tipa -- 8/31/2009

A Maximum Stellar Surface Density in Dense Stellar Systems

• Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (1), Norman Murray (2), Eliot Quataert (1), Todd A. Thompson (3) ((1) Berkeley, (2) CITA, (3) OSU)

Identification of the Early Fermi LAT Gamma-Ray Bright Objects with Extragalactic VLBI sources

• Authors: Y. Y. Kovalev (MPIfR and ASC Lebedev)

Near-IR Search for Lensed Supernovae Behind Galaxy Clusters: I. Observations and transient detection efficiency

• Authors: V. Stanishev, A. Goobar, K. Paech, R. Amanullah, T. Dahlén, J. Jönsson, J. P. Kneib, C. Lidman, M. Limousin, E. Mörtsell, S. Nobili, J. Richard, T. Riehm, M. von Strauss

Constraints on Extragalactic Point Source Flux from Diffuse Neutrino Limits

• Authors: Andrea Silvestri, Steven W. Barwick

Relativistic Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics

• Authors: Katherine Jones-Smith, Harsh Mathur

classic papers of the week -- 114

On the Nature of Pulsars. I. Theory

• Ostriker, J. P.; Gunn, J. E.

Superstrings in the Early Universe

• Robert H. Brandenberger, (Brown University, Providence, RI) , C. Vafa, (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

The New World-Picture of Modern Physics

• Sir James Jeans, F.R.S., President of the British Association

tipa -- 8/28/2009

Imprint of galaxy clustering in the cosmic gamma-ray background

• Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando, Vasiliki Pavlidou (Caltech)

Disks in the sky: A reassessment of the WMAP "cold spot"

• Authors: Ray Zhang, Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)

Hidden MeV-Scale Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors

• Authors: Jennifer Kile, Amarjit Soni

Current status of gravitational-wave observations

• Authors: Stephen Fairhurst, Gianluca M Guidi, Patrice Hello, John T Whelan, Graham Woan

tipa -- 8/27/2009

Can X-ray emission powered by a spinning-down magnetar explain some GRB light curve features?

• Authors: N. Lyons, P.T. O'Brien, B. Zhang, R. Willingale, E. Troja, R.L.C. Starling

Timing Observations of Rotating Radio Transients

• Authors: M. A. McLaughlin, A. G. Lyne, E. F. Keane, M. Kramer, J. J. Miller, D. R. Lorimer, R. N. Manchester, F. Camilo, I. H. Stairs

Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO Science Run 5 and Virgo Science Run 1

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

Experimental test of the Pauli Exclusion Principle

• Authors: A.S. Barabash

Early Universe models from Noncommutative Geometry

• Authors: Matilde Marcolli (Caltech), Elena Pierpaoli (USC)

tipa -- 8/26/2009

Binary compact object coalescence rates: The role of elliptical galaxies

• Authors: R. O'Shaughnessy (1), V. Kalogera (2), K. Belczynski (3 and 4) ((1) Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn State University, (2) Northwestern University, (3) Los Alamos National Laboratory, (4) Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw)

A Trigonometric Parallax of Sgr B2

• Authors: M. J. Reid, K. M. Menten, X. W. Zheng, A. Brunthaler, Y. Xu

tipa -- 8/25/2009

Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream

• Authors: David R. Law, Steven R. Majewski, Kathryn V. Johnston

Synthetic Spectra from PIC Simulations of Relativistic Collisionless Shocks

• Authors: Lorenzo Sironi, Anatoly Spitkovsky

Quasar Feedback from WMAP and SDSS Cross-Correlation

• Authors: Suchetana Chatterjee (University of Pittsburgh), Shirley Ho (LBNL/Princeton), Jeffrey A. Newman (University of Pittsburgh), Arthur Kosowsky (University of Pittsburgh)

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Mixing Instabilities in Supernova Explosions

• Authors: N.J. Hammer, H.-Th. Janka, E. Mueller (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching)

Nuclear physics for geo-neutrino studies

• Authors: Gianni Fiorentini, Aldo Ianni, George Korga, Marcello Lissia, Fabio Mantovani, Lino Miramonti, Lothar Oberauer, Michel Obolensky, Oleg Smirnov, Yury Suvorov

Reassessment of the NuTeV determination of the Weinberg angle

• Authors: W. Bentz, I. C. Cloet, J. T. Londergan, A. W. Thomas

An Improved Standard Model Prediction Of BR(B -> tau nu) And Its Implications For New Physics

• Authors: UTfit Collaboration: M. Bona, M. Ciuchini, E. Franco, V. Lubicz, G. Martinelli, F. Parodi, M. Pierini, C. Schiavi, L. Silvestrini, V. Sordini, A. Stocchi, C. Tarantino, V. Vagnoni

tipa -- 8/24/2009

Accurate Masses for Dispersion-supported Galaxies

• Authors: Joe Wolf, Gregory D. Martinez, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Marla Geha, Ricardo R. Munoz, Joshua D. Simon, Frank F. Avedo

Optical Spectroscopy of Bright Fermi LAT Blazars

• Authors: Michael S. Shaw, Roger W. Romani, Stephen E. Healey, Garret Cotter, Peter F. Michelson, Anthony C. S. Readhead

Frequency Limits on Naked-Eye Optical Transients Lasting from Minutes to Years

• Authors: Lior Shamir, Robert J. Nemiroff

classic papers of the week -- 113

The Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum

• Christopher T. Hill, (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), David N. Schramm (The University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

The origin of dwarf galaxies, cold dark matter, and biased galaxy formation

• Dekel, A. (Yale University and Weizmann Institute of Science); Silk, J. (University of California, Berkeley)

Super Collider Physics

• E. Eichten (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), I. Hinchliffe (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), Kenneth D. Lane (The Ohio State University), C. Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

tipa -- 8/21/2009

Interstellar Metastable Helium Absorption as a Probe of the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate

• Authors: Nick Indriolo, L. M. Hobbs, K. H. Hinkle, Benjamin J. McCall

Discovery of a Relativistic Supernova Without a Gamma-ray Trigger­

• Authors: A. M. Soderberg, S. Chakraborti, G. Pignata, R. A. Chevalier, P. Chandra, A. Ray, M. H. Wieringa, A. Copete, V. Chaplin, V. Connaughton, S. D. Barthelmy, M. F. Bietenholz, N. Chugai, M. D. Stritzinger, M. Hamuy, C. Fransson, O. Fox, E. M. Levesque, J. E. Grindlay, P. Challis, R. J. Foley, R. P. Kirshner, P. A. Milne, M. A. P. Torres

The High-Metallicity Explosion Environment of the Relativistic Supernova 2009bb

• Authors: E. M. Levesque, A. M. Soderberg, R. J. Foley, E. Berger, L. J. Kewley, S. Chakraborti, A. Ray, M. A. P. Torres, P. Challis, R. P. Kirshner, S. D. Barthelmy, M. F. Bietenholz, P. Chandra, V. Chaplin, R. A. Chevalier, N. Chugai, V. Connaughton, A. Copete, O. Fox, C. Fransson, J. E. Grindlay, M. A. Hamuy, P. A. Milne, G. Pignata, M. D. Stritzinger, M. H. Wieringa

Modeling gamma-ray burst observations by Fermi and MAGIC including attenuation due to diffuse background light

• Authors: Rudy C. Gilmore, Francisco Prada, Joel R. Primack

The Early Asymmetries of Supernova 2008D / XRF 080109

• Authors: J.R. Maund, J.C. Wheeler, D.Baade, F. Patat, P.A. Hoflich, L. Wang, A. Clocchiatti

A Search for Invisible Decays of the Upsilon(1S)

• Authors: The BABAR Collaboration: B. Aubert, et al

Search for a Narrow Resonance in e+e- to Four Lepton Final States

• Authors: The BABAR Collaboration: B. Aubert, et al

tipa -- 8/20/2009

Radio detection of LAT PSRs J1741-2054 and J2032+4127: no longer just gamma-ray pulsars

• Authors: F. Camilo, P. S. Ray, S. M. Ransom, M. Burgay, T. J. Johnson, M. Kerr, E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern, J. Reynolds, R. W. Romani, P. Demorest, S. Johnston, W. van Straten, P. M. Saz Parkinson, M. Ziegler, M. Dormody, D. J. Thompson, D. A. Smith, A. K. Harding, A. A. Abdo, F. Crawford, P. C. C. Freire, M. Keith, M. Kramer, M. S. E. Roberts, P. Weltevrede, K. S. Wood

Insight Into the Formation of the Milky Way Through Cold Halo Substructure. I. The ECHOS of Milky Way Formation

• Authors: Kevin C. Schlaufman, Constance M. Rockosi, Timothy C. Beers, Dmitry Bizyaev, Howard Brewington, Young Sun Lee, Viktor Malanushenko, Elena Malanushenko, Dan Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Audrey Simmons, Stephanie Snedden, Brian Yanny

tipa -- 8/19/2009

Out of the frying pan: a young pulsar with a long radio trail emerging from SNR G315.9-0.0

• Authors: F. Camilo (1), C.-Y. Ng (2), B. M. Gaensler (2), S. M. Ransom (3), S. Chatterjee (4), J. Reynolds (5), J. Sarkissian (5) ((1) Columbia U., (2) U. of Sydney, (3) NRAO, (4) Cornell U., (5) ATNF)

Extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation from dark matter annihilation

• Authors: Jesus Zavala, Volker Springel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin

A New Approach to Searching for Dark Matter Signals in Fermi-LAT Gamma Rays

• Authors: Spencer Chang, Lisa Goodenough

A Non-thermal WIMP Miracle

• Authors: Bobby Samir Acharya, Piyush Kumar, Gordon Kane, Scott Watson

Spectra of magnetic fluctuations and relativistic particles produced by a nonresonant wave instability in supernova remnant shocks

• Authors: Andrey E. Vladimirov, Andrei M. Bykov, Donald C. Ellison

Using Atom Interferometery to Search for New Forces

• Authors: Jay G. Wacker

A limit for the mu -> e gamma decay from the MEG experiment

• Authors: MEG collaboration: J. Adam, X. Bai, A. Baldini, E. Baracchini, A. Barchiesi, C. Bemporad, G. Boca, P. W. Cattaneo, G. Cavoto, G. Cecchet, F. Cei, C. Cerri, A. De Bari, M. De Gerone, T. Doke, S. Dussoni, J. Egger, L. Galli, G. Gallucci, F. Gatti, B. Golden, M. Grassi, D. N. Grigoriev, T. Haruyama, M. Hildebrandt, Y. Hisamatsu, F. Ignatov, T. Iwamoto, D. Kaneko, P.-R. Kettle, B. I. Khazin, O. Kiselev, A. Korenchenko, N. Kravchuk, A. Maki, S. Mihara, W. Molzon, T. Mori, D. Mzavia, H. Natori, R. Nardò, D. Nicolò, H. Nishiguchi, Y. Nishimura, W. Ootani, M. Panareo, A. Papa, R. Pazzi, G. Piredda, A. Popov, F. Renga, S. Ritt, M. Rossella, R. Sawada, M. Schneebeli, F. Sergiampietri, G. Signorelli, S. Suzuki, C. Topchyan, V. Tumakov, Y. Uchiyama, R. Valle, C. Voena, F. Xiao, S. Yamada, A. Yamamoto, S. Yamashita, Yu. V. Yudin, D. Zanello

tipa -- 8/18/2009

Properties of Type II Plateau Supernova SNLS-04D2dc: Multicolor Light Curves of Shock Breakout and Plateau

• Authors: N. Tominaga, S. Blinnikov, P. Baklanov, K. Nomoto

An Extremely Top-Heavy IMF in the Galactic Center Stellar Disks

• Authors: H. Bartko, F. Martins, S. Trippe, T. K. Fritz, R. Genzel, T. Ott, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen, T. Paumard, T. Alexander, K. Dodds-Eden, O. Gerhard, Y. Levin, L. Mascetti, S. Nayakshin, H. B. Perets, G. Perrin, O. Pfuhl, M. J. Reid, D. Rouan, M. Zilka, A. Sternberg

Reconstructing the supernova bounce time with neutrinos in IceCube

• Authors: Francis Halzen, Georg G. Raffelt

Spectral Lags and the Lag-Luminosity Relation: An Investigation with Swift BAT Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: T. N. Ukwatta, M. Stamatikos, K. S. Dhuga, T. Sakamoto, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, J. P. Norris, W. C. Parke

Searches for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decays tau -> e gamma and tau -> mu gamma

• Authors: The BABAR Collaboration: B. Aubert, et al

tipa -- 8/17/2009

Resolving Cosmic Neutrino Structure: A Hybrid Neutrino N-body Scheme

• Authors: Jacob Brandbyge, Steen Hannestad (Aarhus University)

Discovery of the Extremely Energetic Supernova 2008fz

• Authors: A.J. Drake, S.G. Djorgovski, J.L. Prieto, A. Mahabal, D. Balam, R. Williams, M.J. Graham, M. Catelan, E. Beshore, S. Larson

Interstellar magnetic fields in the Galactic center region

• Authors: Katia Ferriere

Pulsar Binary Birthrates with Spin-Opening Angle Correlations

• Authors: Richard O'Shaughnessy (1), Chunglee Kim (2) ((1) Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn State University; (2) Lund Observatory)

X-ray Evolution of SNR 1987A: The Radial Expansion

• Authors: Judith L. Racusin, Sangwook Park, Svetozar Zhekov, David N. Burrows, Gordon P. Garmire, Richard McCray

classic papers of the week -- 112

Open letter to the group of radioactive people at the Gauverein meeting in Tübingen

• W. Pauli

On the gravitational stability of a disk of stars

• Toomre, A.

Solar Neutrinos. I. Theoretical

• Bahcall, John N. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)