today in particle astrophysics

Authors: L. Sbordone (1 and 2 and 3), P. Bonifacio (1 and 2 and 4), E. Caffau (2), H.-G. Ludwig (1 and 2 and 5), N. T. Behara (1 and 2 and 6), J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez (1 and 2 and 7), M. Steffen (8), R. Cayrel (9), B. Freytag (9), C. Van't Veer (2), P. Molaro (4), B. Plez (10), T. Sivarani (11), M. Spite (2), F. Spite (2), T. C. Beers (12), N. Christlieb (5), P. Francois (2), V. Hill (2 and 13) ((1) CIFIST Marie Curie Excellence Team, (2) GEPI - Observatoire de Paris France, (3) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Garching Germany, (4) INAF - Oss. Trieste Italy, (5) Landessternwarte Heidelberg Germany, (6) Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Belgium, (7) Universidad Complutense de Madrid Spain, (8) Astrophysikalische Institut Pottsdam Germany, (9) Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon France, (10) Universite' Montpellier France, (11) Indian Institute for Astrophysiscs Bangalore India, (12) Michigan State University USA, (13) Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur Nice France)

A Survey of Extragalactic Faraday Rotation at High Galactic Latitude: The Vertical Magnetic Field of the Milky Way towards the Galactic Poles

Authors: S. A. Mao (CfA/ATNF), B. M. Gaensler (U. Sydney), M. Haverkorn (ASTRON), E. G. Zweibel (UW Madison), G. J. Madsen (U. Sydney), N. M. McClure-Griffiths (ATNF), A. Shukurov (U. Newcastle), P. P. Kronberg (LANL/U. Toronto)

Detection of high-velocity material from the wind-wind collision zone of Eta Carinae across the 2009.0 periastron passage

Authors: Jose H. Groh (MPI for Radioastronomy), Krister E. Nielsen (NASA/GSFC & CUA), Augusto Damineli (IAG/U Sao Paulo), Theodore R. Gull (NASA/GSFC), Thomas I. Madura (U Delaware), D. J. Hillier (U Pittsburgh), Mairan Teodoro (IAG/U Sao Paulo), Thomas Driebe (MPIfR), Gerd Weigelt (MPIfR), Henrik Hartman (Lund U), Florian Kerber (ESO), Atsuo T. Okazaki (Hokkai-Gakuen U), Stan P. Owocki (U Delaware), Florentin Millour (MPIfR), Koji Murakawa (MPIfR), Stefan Kraus (U Michigan), Karl-Heinz Hofmann (MPIfR), Dieter Schertl (MPIfR)

VLBI observations of SN 2008iz: I. Expansion velocity and limits on anisotropic expansion

Authors: A. Brunthaler (1), I. Marti-Vidal (1), K.M. Menten (1), M.J. Reid (2), C. Henkel (1), G.C. Bower (3), H. Falcke (4,5), H. Feng (6), P. Kaaret (7), N.R. Butler (3), A.N. Morgan (3), A. Weiss (1) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) UC Berkeley (4) Universiteit Nijmegen, (5) ASTRON, (6) Tsinghua University, (7) University of Iowa)

Neutrino emission from high-energy component gamma-ray bursts

Authors: Julia K. Becker, Francis Halzen, Aongus O'Murchadha, Martino Olivo

tipa -- 3/24/2010

The physical scale of the far-infrared emission in the most luminous submillimetre galaxies II: evidence for merger-driven star formation

Authors: J. D. Younger, G. G. Fazio, M. L. N. Ashby, F. Civano, M. Elvis, M. A. Gurwell, J.-S. Huang, D. Iono, A. B. Peck, G. R. Petitpas, K. S. Scott, D. J. Wilner, G. W. Wilson, M. S. Yun

Kinematics of Milky Way Satellites in a Lambda Cold Dark Matter Universe

Authors: Louis E. Strigari, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White

No Evolution in the IR-Radio Relation for IR-Luminous Galaxies at z < 2

Authors: Mark T. Sargent, E. Schinnerer, E. Murphy, C. L. Carilli, G. Helou, H. Aussel, E. Le Floc'h, D. T. Frayer, O. Ilbert, P. Oesch, M. Salvato, V. Smolcic, J. Kartaltepe, D. B. Sanders

tipa -- 3/23/2010

21cmFAST: A Fast, Semi-Numerical Simulation of the High-Redshift 21-cm Signal

Authors: Andrei Mesinger, Steven Furlanetto, Renyue Cen

Optical and near-infrared follow-up observations of four Fermi/LAT GRBs : Redshifts, afterglows, energetics and host galaxies

Authors: S. McBreen, T. Krühler, A. Rau, J. Greiner, D. A. Kann, S. Savaglio, P. Afonso, C. Clemens, R. Filgas, S. Klose, A. Küpüc Yoldas, F. Olivares E., A. Rossi, G. P. Szokoly, A. Updike, A. Yoldas

Different star formation laws for disks versus starbursts at low and high redshifts

Authors: E. Daddi, D. Elbaz, F. Walter, F. Bournaud, F. Salmi, C. Carilli, H. Dannerbauer, M. Dickinson, P. Monaco, D. Riechers

A Limit on the Number of Isolated Neutron Stars Detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog

Authors: Monica L. Turner, Robert E. Rutledge, Ryan Letcavage, Andrew S. H. Shevchuk, Derek B. Fox

Binaries discovered by the SPY project V. GD 687 - a massive double degenerate binary progenitor that will merge within a Hubble time

Authors: S. Geier, U. Heber, T. Kupfer, R. Napiwotzki

GRB 090902B: afterglow observations and implications

Authors: S. B. Pandey, C. A. Swenson, D. A. Perley, C. Guidorzi, K. Wiersema, D. Malesani, C. Akerlof, M. C. B. Ashley, D. Bersier, Z. Cano, A. Gomboc, I. Ilyin, P. Jakobsson, I. K. W. Kleiser, S. Kobayashi, C. Kouveliotou, A. J. Levan, T. A. McKay, A. Melandri, C. J. Mottram, C. G. Mundell, P. T. O'Brien, A. Phillips, J. M. Rex, M. H. Siegel, R. J. Smith, I. A. Steele, G. Stratta, N. R. Tanvir, D. Weights, S. A. Yost, F. Yuan, W. Zheng

tipa -- 3/22/2010

Intense Star Formation within Resolved Compact Regions in a Galaxy at z=2.3

Authors: Mark Swinbank (1), Ian Smail (1), Steve Longmore (2), Andrew Harris (3), Andrew Baker (4), Carlos De Breuck (5), Johan Richard (1), Alastair Edge (1), Rob Ivison (6,7), Ray Blundell (2), Kristen Coppin (1), Pierre Cox (8), Mark Gurwell (2), Laura Hainline (3), Melanie Krips (8), Andreas Lundgren (9), Roberto Neri (8), Brian Siana (10), Dan Stark (11), David Wilner (2), Josh Younger (12) ((1) ICC, Durham, (2) CfA, Harvard, (3) Maryland, (4) Rutgers, (5) ESO, Germany, (6) UK-ATC, (7) IfA, ROE, (8) IRAM, (9) ESO, Chile, (10) Caltech, (11) IfA Cambridge, (12) Princeton)

Detection of the energetic pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its pulsar wind nebula in MSH 15-52 using the Fermi-Large Area Telescope

Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

The rest-frame ultraviolet spectra of GRBs from massive rapidly-rotating stellar progenitors

Authors: Peter B. Robinson (Colorado), Rosalba Perna (Colorado/JILA), Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Allard J. van Marle (Leuven Science center)

A General Formula for Black Hole Gravitational Wave Kicks

Authors: James R. van Meter, M. Coleman Miller, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Bernard J. Kelly

Three editions of the Star Catalogue of Tycho Brahe

Authors: Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent

The Star Catalogue of Hevelius

Authors: Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent

classic papers of the week -- 141

Non-Adiabatic Crossing of Energy Levels

Zener, Clarence (National Research Fellow of U.S.A.)

Core condensation in heavy halos - A two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering

White, S. D. M.; Rees, M. J. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

tipa -- 3/19/2010

Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals: Correlated Deviations from the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation

Authors: Stacy S. McGaugh, Joe Wolf

Rapid Cooling of the Neutron Star in the Quiescent Super-Eddington Transient XTE J1701-462

Authors: Joel K. Fridriksson, Jeroen Homan, Rudy Wijnands, Mariano Mendez, Diego Altamirano, Edward M. Cackett, Edward F. Brown, Tomaso M. Belloni, Nathalie Degenaar, Walter H. G. Lewin

Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: All or Nothing

Authors: Brian C. Lacki, John F. Beacom

A population of gamma-ray emitting globular clusters seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: The Fermi LAT collaboration

Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background from Star-Forming Galaxies

Authors: Brian D. Fields, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Tijana Prodanovic

tipa -- 3/17/2010

Towards a Complete Census of AGNs in Nearby Galaxies: The Incidence of Growing Black Holes

Authors: Andy D. Goulding, David M. Alexander, Bret D. Lehmer, James R. Mullaney

On the size distribution of supernova remnants in the Magellanic Clouds

Authors: Carles Badenes, Dan Maoz, Bruce Draine

The supernova rate and delay times in the Magellanic Clouds

Authors: Dan Maoz, Carles Badenes

Embedding realistic surveys in simulations through volume remapping

Authors: Jordan Carlson, Martin White

The Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Riddle

Authors: Guido Altarelli

tipa -- 3/16/2010

Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment

Authors: The ANITA Collaboration: P. W. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), B. M. Baughman (2), J. J. Beatty (2), K. Belov (3), D. Z. Besson (4), S. Bevan (5), W. R. Binn (6), C. Chen (7), P. Chen (7), J. M. Clem (8), A. Connolly (5), M. Detrixhe (4), D. DeMarco (8), P. F. Dowkontt (6), M. DuVernois (1), E. W. Grashorn (2), B. Hill (1), S. Hoover (3), M. Huang (7), M. H. Israel (6), A. Javaid (8), K. M. Liewer (9), S. Matsuno (1), B. C. Mercurio (2), C. Miki (1), M. Mottram (5), J. Nam (7), R. J. Nichol (5), K. Palladino (2), A. Romero-Wolf (1), L. Ruckman (1), D. Saltzberg (3), D. Seckel (8), G. S. Varner (1), A. G. Vieregg (3), Y. Wang (7) ((1) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, (2) Dept. of Physics, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, (3) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of California Los Angeles, CA, (4) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (5) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. College London, London, United Kingdom (6) Dept. of Physics, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, MO (7) Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, (8) Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, (9) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA)