today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 12/18/2009

How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?

Authors: Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert (Berkeley)

Probing star formation across cosmic time with absorption line systems

Authors: Brice Ménard, Vivienne Wild, Daniel Nestor, Anna Quider, Stefano Zibetti

On the nature of the progenitors of three type II-P supernovae: 2004et, 2006my and 2006ov

Authors: R. M. Crockett (1) (2), S. J. Smartt (1), A. Pastorello (1), A. W. Stephens (3), J. R. Maund (4), S. Mattila (5) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) University of Oxford, (3) Gemini North Observatory, (4) Dark Cosmology Center, University of Copenhagen, (5) University of Turku)

Environments for Magnetic Field Amplification by Cosmic Rays

Authors: Ellen G. Zweibel, John E. Everett

The Case Against Warm or Self-Interacting Dark Matter as Explanations for Cores in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

Authors: Rachel Kuzio de Naray, Gregory D. Martinez, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

New Physics at the LHC

Authors: David E. Morrissey, Tilman Plehn, Tim M.P. Tait

Computational Tools for Supersymmetry Calculations

Authors: Howard Baer

tipa -- 12/17/2009

A single sub-km Kuiper Belt object from a stellar Occultation in archival data

Authors: H. E. Schlichting, E. O. Ofek, M. Wenz, R. Sari, A. Gal-Yam, M. Livio, E. Nelan, S. Zucker

Evidence for Supernova-Synthesised Dust from the Rising Afterglow of GRB 071025 at z~5

Authors: Daniel A. Perley, J. S. Bloom, C. R. Klein, S. Covino, T. Minezaki, P. Wozniak, W. T. Vestrand, G. G. Williams, P. Milne, N. R. Butler, A. C. Updike, T. Krühler, P. Afonso, A. Antonelli, L. Cowie, P. Ferrero, J. Greiner, Y. Kakazu, A. Küpcü Yoldas, A. N. Morgan, P. A. Price, J. X. Prochaska, Y. Yoshii

On the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of low-metallicity high-redshift galaxies

Authors: Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Andrey V. Kravtsov

Optical and near infrared coverage of SN 2004et: physical parameters and comparison with other type IIP supernovae

Authors: K. Maguire (1), E. Di Carlo (2), S. J. Smartt (1), A. Pastorello (1), D. Yu. Tsvetkov (3), S. Benetti (4), S. Spiro (5,6), A. A. Arkharov (7,8), G. Beccari (9), M. T. Botticella (1), E. Cappellaro (4), S. Cristallo (2,10), M. Dolci (2), N. Elias-Rosa (4,11), M. Fiaschi (12), Gorshanov D. (7), A. Harutyunyan (4,13), V. M. Larionov (7,8), H. Navasardyan (4), A. Pietrinferni (2), G. Raimondo (2), G. Di Rico (2), S. Valenti (1), G. Valentini (2), L. Zampieri (4) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (5) Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata, (6) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, (7) Pulkovo Central Astronomical Observatory, (8) Astronomical Institute of St Petersburg State University, (9) ESA/ESTEC, (10) Universidad de Granada, (11) Spitzer Science Center, (12) Universitá di Padova, (13) Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF)

tipa -- 12/16/2009

Radio lobes and X-ray hot spots of the extraordinary microquasar in NGC 7793

Authors: Roberto Soria (MSSL/UCL), Manfred Pakull (Strasbourg), Jess Broderick (Southampton), Stephane Corbel (CEA Saclay), Christian Motch (Strasbourg)

Constraining Parity Violation in Gravity with Measurements of Neutron-Star Moments of Inertia

Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel, Abraham Loeb

Subaru and Gemini Observations of SS 433: New Constraint on the Mass of the Compact Object

Authors: K. Kubota, Y. Ueda, S. Fabrika, A. Medvedev, E.A. Barsukova, O. Sholukhova, V.P. Goranskij

Resonant Spin-Flavor Conversion of Supernova Neutrinos: Dependence on Electron Mole Fraction

Authors: T. Yoshida (1), A. Takamura (2), K. Kimura (3), H. Yokomakura (3), S. Kawagoe (1), T. Kajino (4) ((1) Univ. of Tokyo, (2) Toyota Coll. Tech., (3)Nagoya Univ., (4) NAOJ)

The Massive Progenitor Candidate of the Typle II-Linear SN 2009kr

Authors: N. Elias-Rosa (1), S. D. Van Dyk (1), W. Li (2), A. A. Miller (2), M. Ganeshalingam (2), A. F. Boden (3), S. R. Kulkarni (3), J. Vinko (4,5), J.-C. Cuillandre (6), T. N. Steele (2), R. J. Foley (7,8), J. S. Bloom (2), A. V. Filippenko (2) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, Caltech; (2) UC Berkeley; (3) Caltech; (4) U. Szeged (5) U. Texas; (6) CFHT corporation; (7) CfA; (8) Clay Fellow)

Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula with AGILE

Authors: A. Pellizzoni, A. Trois, M. Tavani, M. Pilia, A. Giuliani, G. Pucella, P. Esposito, S. Sabatini, G. Piano, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, A. Bulgarelli, M. Burgay, P. Caraveo, P. W. Cattaneo, A. W. Chen, V. Cocco, T. Contessi, E. Costa, F. D'Ammando, E. Del Monte, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, G. Di Persio, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, A. Ferrari, M. Fiorini, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, A. Hotan, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, M. Mastropietro, S. Mereghetti, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, J. Palfreyman, F. Perotti, P. Picozza, C. Pittori, A. Possenti, M. Prest, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, E. Rossi, A. Rubini, P. Santolamazza, E. Scalise, P. Soffitta, E. Striani, M. Trifoglio, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, F. Verrecchia, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, P. Giommi, S. Colafrancesco, A. Antonelli, L. Salotti, N. D'Amico, G. F. Bignami

Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton's constant with gravitational wave observations

Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Frans Pretorius, David Spergel

tipa -- 12/15/2009

The Persistence of Cool Galactic Winds in High Stellar Mass Galaxies Between z~1.4 and ~1

Authors: Kate H. R. Rubin (1), Benjamin J. Weiner (2), David C. Koo (1), Crystal L. Martin (3), J. Xavier Prochaska (1), Alison L. Coil (4), Jeffrey A. Newman (5) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) Steward Observatory, (3) UCSB, (4) UCSD, (5) Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow

Authors: Stuart L. Shapiro

Dark Matter Direct Detection with Non-Maxwellian Velocity Structure

Authors: M. Kuhlen, N. Weiner, J. Diemand, P. Madau, B. Moore, D. Potter, J. Stadel, M. Zemp

A New Open-Source Code for 1D Stellar Collapse A New Open-Source Code for Spherically-Symmetric Stellar Collapse to Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Authors: Evan O'Connor, Christian D. Ott (TAPIR, Caltech)

Large Late-time Asphericities in Three Type IIP Supernovae

Authors: Ryan Chornock (1,2), Alexei V. Filippenko (1), Weidong Li (1), Jeffrey M. Silverman (1); ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) Harvard)

Detecting the QCD phase transition in the next Galactic supernova neutrino burst

Authors: Basudeb Dasgupta, Tobias Fischer, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Matthias Liebendoerfer, Alessandro Mirizzi, Irina Sagert, Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

Swift BAT, Fermi LAT, and the Blazar Sequence

Authors: R.M.Sambruna, D.Donato, M.Ajello, L.Maraschi, the GSFC BAT Team

XYZ particles at Belle

Authors: Shen Cheng-Ping (for the Belle Collaboration)

tipa -- 12/14/2009

Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: "Binary Bondi" and "Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton" Accretion

Authors: Brian D. Farris, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro (UIUC)

Non-thermal emission from Cassiopeia A: Probing shock properties with non-thermal filaments

Authors: Miguel Araya, David Lomiashvili, Chulhoon Chang, Maxim Lyutikov, Wei Cui

Powerful high energy emission of the remarkable BL Lac object S5 0716+714

Authors: V. Vittorini, M. Tavani, A. Paggi, A. Cavaliere, A. Bulgarelli, A.W. Chen, F. D'Ammando, I. Donnarumma, A. Giuliani, F. Longo, L. Pacciani, G. Pucella, S. Vercellone, A. Ferrari, S. Colafrancesco, P. Giommi

Radio Sources from a 31 GHz Sky Survey with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

Authors: Stephen Muchovej, Erik Leitch, John E. Carlstrom, Thomas Culverhouse, Chris Greer, David Hawkins, Ryan Hennessy, Marshall Joy, James Lamb, Michael Loh, Daniel P. Marrone, Amber Miller, Tony Mroczkowski, Clem Pryke, Matthew Sharp, David Woody

Extragalactic millimeter-wave sources in South Pole Telescope survey data: source counts, catalog, and statistics for an 87 square-degree field

Authors: J. D. Vieira, T. M. Crawford, E. R. Switzer, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, M. L. N. Ashby, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, M. Brodwin, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H.-M. Cho, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, W. Everett, E. M. George, M. Gladders, N. R. Hall, N. W. Halverson, F. W. High, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, D. P. Marrone, V. McIntyre, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, C. L. Reichardt, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, B. Stalder, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Vanderlinde, W. Walsh, R. Williamson, Y. Yang, O. Zahn, A. Zenteno

classic papers of the week -- 128

The electromagnetic field of an idealized star in rigid rotation in vacuo

Deutsch, Arnim J. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Relations Between the Spectra and Other Characteristics of the Stars

Russell, Henry Norris

Characteristic forms and geometric invariants

Shiin-Shen Chern (University of California at Berkeley), James Simons (University of New York at Stony Brook)

tipa -- 12/11/2009

The detectability of dark matter annihilation with Fermi using the anisotropy energy spectrum of the gamma-ray background

Authors: Brandon S. Hensley, Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins, Vasiliki Pavlidou

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Cosmic-Ray Induced gamma-ray Emission of the Earth's Atmosphere

Authors: the Fermi-LAT collaboration

Stealth Galaxies in the Halo of the Milky Way

Authors: James S. Bullock, Kyle R. Stewart, Manoj Kaplinghat, Erik J. Tollerud (UC Irvine)

The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

Authors: the Fermi-LAT collaboration

On the progenitor and early evolution of the type II supernova 2009kr

Authors: M. Fraser (1), K. Takats (2,1), A. Pastorello (1), S.J. Smartt (1), S. Mattila (3) M-T. Botticella (1), S. Valenti (1), M. Ergon (4), J. Sollerman (4), S. Benetti (5), F. Bufano (5), R.M. Crockett (6), I.J. Danziger (7), J.R. Maund (8) S. Taubenberger (9) M. Turatto (10) ((1) Queens University Belfast (2) University of Szeged, Hungary (3) University of Turku, Finland (4) Stockholm University, Sweden (5) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy (6) Oxford Astrophysics, UK (7) Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy (8) University of Copenhagen, Denmark (9) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Germany (10) Osservatorio Astronomico di Catania, Italy)

Are astronomical papers with more authors cited more?

Authors: K. Z. Stanek (The Ohio State University)

Authors: Bruce G. Elmegreen (1) ((1) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

In Search for Extraterrestrial High Energy Neutrinos

Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Teresa Montaruli

Explosion geometry of a rotating 13 $M_{\odot}$ star driven by the SASI-aided neutrino-heating supernova mechanism

Authors: Yudai Suwa, Kei Kotake, Tomoya Takiwaki, Stuart C. Whitehouse, Matthias Liebendoerfer, Katsuhiko Sato

tipa -- 12/7/2009

Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on its redshift

Authors: The VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, et al., The Fermi Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al., S. D. Barber, D. M. Terndrup

Early and Late-Time Observations of SN 2008ha: Additional Constraints for the Progenitor and Explosion

Authors: Ryan J. Foley, Peter J. Brown, Armin Rest, Peter J. Challis, Robert P. Kirshner, W. Michael Wood-Vasey

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae: Are They Supersoft Sources?

Authors: Rosanne Di Stefano

First results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using Ge cryogenic detectors with interleaved electrodes

Authors: E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. Benoit, L. Berge, O. Besida, J. Blumer, A. Broniatowski, A. Chantelauze, M. Chapellier, G. Chardin, F. Charlieux, S. Collin, X. Defay, M. De Jesus, P. Di Stefano, Y. Dolgorouki, J. Domange, L. Dumoulin, K. Eitel, J. Gascon, G. Gerbier, M. Gros, M. Hannawald, S. Herve, A. Juillard, H. Kluck, V. Kozlov, R. Lemrani, P. Loaiza, A. Lubashevskiy, S. Marnieros, X-F. Navick, E. Olivieri, P. Pari, B. Paul, S. Rozov, V. Sanglard, S. Scorza, S. Semikh, A.S. Torrento-Coello, L. Vagneron, M-A. Verdier, E. Yakushev, the EDELWEISS Collaboration

Hubble Residuals of Nearby SN Ia Are Correlated with Host Galaxy Masses

Authors: Patrick L. Kelly (1 and 2), Malcolm Hicken (3), David L. Burke (1 and 2), Kaisey S. Mandel (3), Robert P. Kirshner (3) ((1) Stanford, (2) KIPAC, (3) CfA)

classic papers of the week -- 127

Coherence in Spontaneous Radiation Processes

Dicke, R. H. (Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University)

Evolution of Very Massive Stars

Schwarzschild, M.; Härm, R.

A Serie's of Quere's Propounded by Mr. Isaac Newton, to be Determin'd by Experiments, Positively and Directly Concluding His New Theory of Light and Colours; and Here Recommended to the Industry of the Lovers of Experimental Philosophy, as they Were Generously Imparted to the Publisher in a Letter of the Said Mr. Newtons of July 8, 1672

Isaac Newton

tipa -- 12/4/2009

The Sensitivity of the IceCube Neutrino Detector to Dark Matter Annihilating in Dwarf Galaxies

Authors: Pearl Sandick, Douglas Spolyar, Matthew Buckley, Katherine Freese, Dan Hooper

Identifying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis

Authors: Yue Shen, Abraham Loeb (CfA)

The luminosity function and the rate of Swift's Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: David Wanderman, Tsvi Piran

Gravitational waves from neutron stars: Promises and challenges

Authors: N. Andersson, V. Ferrari, D.I. Jones, K.D. Kokkotas, B. Krishnan, J. Read, L. Rezzolla, B. Zink

tipa -- 12/3/2009

Neutrino Signal of Electron-Capture Supernovae from Core Collapse to Cooling

Authors: L. Huedepohl (1), B. Mueller (1), H.-Th. Janka (1), A. Marek (1), G.G Raffelt (2) ((1) MPI Astrophysik, Garching; (2) MPI Physik, Muenchen)

New Constraints on the Highest-Energy Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons

Authors: Matthew D. Kistler (Ohio State), Hasan Yuksel (Bartol/Delaware)

Observation of TeV Gamma Rays from the Fermi Bright Galactic Sources with the Tibet Air Shower Array

Authors: M. Amenomori, X. J. Bi, D. Chen, S. W. Cui, Danzengluobu, L. K. Ding, X. H. Ding, C. Fan, C. F. Feng, Zhaoyang Feng, Z. Y. Feng, X. Y. Gao, Q. X. Geng, Q. B. Gou, H. W. Guo, H. H. He, M. He, K. Hibino, N. Hotta, Haibing Hu, H. B. Hu, J. Huang, Q. Huang, H. Y. Jia, L. Jiang, F. Kajino, K. Kasahara, Y. Katayose, C. Kato, K. Kawata, Labaciren, G. M. Le, A. F. Li, H. C. Li, J. Y. Li, C. Liu, Y.-Q. Lou, H. Lu, X. R. Meng, K. Mizutani, J. Mu, K. Munakata, H. Nanjo, M. Nishizawa, M. Ohnishi, I. Ohta, S. Ozawa, T. Saito, T. Y. Saito, M. Sakata, T. K. Sako, M. Shibata, A. Shiomi, T. Shirai, H. Sugimoto, M. Takita, Y. H. Tan, N. Tateyama, S. Torii, H. Tsuchiya, S. Udo, B. Wang, H. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. G. Wang, H. R. Wu, L. Xue, Y. Yamamoto, C. T. Yan, X. C. Yang, S. Yasue, Z. H. Ye, G. C. Yu, A. F. Yuan, T. Yuda, H. M. Zhang, J. L. Zhang, N. J. Zhang, X. Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Yi Zhang, Ying Zhang, Zhaxisangzhu, X. X. Zhou (The Tibet ASgamma Collaboration)

tipa -- 12/2/2009

A High Rate of White Dwarf-Neutron Star Mergers & Their Transients

Authors: Todd A. Thompson, Matthew D. Kistler, K. Z. Stanek

Evaluating the Calorimeter Model with Broadband, Continuous Spectra of Starburst Galaxies Observed with the Allen Telescope Array

Authors: Peter K. G. Williams (1), Geoffrey C. Bower (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley)

The cluster Terzan 5 as a remnant of a primordial building block of the Galactic bulge

Authors: F. R. Ferraro (1), E. Dalessandro (1), A. Mucciarelli (1), G. Beccari (2), R. M. Rich (3), L. Origlia (4), B. Lanzoni (1), R. T. Rood (5), E. Valenti (6,7), M. Bellazzini (4), S. M. Ransom (8), G. Cocozza (4) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna, (2) ESA, Space Science Department, The Netherlands, (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (5) Astronomy Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, (6) ESO, Santiago, Chile, (7) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Departamento de Astronomia)