today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Brian C. Lacki

Population III Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: P. Meszaros, M.J. Rees

Multi-wavelength Observations of H 2356-309

Authors: HESS Collaboration

First detection of VHE gamma-rays from SN 1006 by H.E.S.S

Authors: HESS Collaboration

INTEGRAL deep observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Authors: M.J. Coe, A. J. Bird, D.A.H. Buckley, R.H.D. Corbet, A.J. Dean, M. Finger, J.L. Galache, F. Haberl, V.A. McBride, I. Negueruela, M. Schurch, L.J. Townsend, A. Udalski, J. Wilms, A. Zezas

tipa -- 4/13/2010

A High-Frequency Search for Pulsars Within the Central Parsec of SgrA*

Authors: J-P. Macquart (1,2), N. Kanekar (3,4), D. Frail (4), S. Ransom (4) ((1) California Institute of Technology, USA, (2) ICRAR/Curtin University of Technology, Australia, (3) National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India, (4) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)

The Hubble Constant

Authors: Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore

Sensitivity analyses of dense cloud chemical models

Authors: V. Wakelam, E. Herbst, J. Le Bourlot, F. Hersant, F. Selsis, S. Guilloteau

Multimessenger astronomy with the Einstein Telescope

Authors: Eric Chassande-Mottin, Martin Hendry, Patrick J. Sutton, Szabolcs Márka

Dark Matter Subhalos In the Fermi First Source Catalog

Authors: Matthew R. Buckley, Dan Hooper

Neutrino Oscillations and Entanglement

Authors: R. G. Hamish Robertson

classic papers of the week -- 144

The Quantum Theory of the Electron. Part II

Dirac, P. A. M. (St. John’s College, Cambridge)

Light curves, color curves, and expansion velocity of type I supernovae as functions of the rate of brightness decline

Pskovskii, Iu. P. (Shternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, USSR)

History of Ocean Basins

H. H. Hess (Princeton University)

tipa -- 4/9/2010

New ALPS Results on Hidden-Sector Lightweights

Authors: Klaus Ehret (1), Maik Frede (2), Samvel Ghazaryan (1), Matthias Hildebrandt (2), Ernst-Axel Knabbe (1), Dietmar Kracht (2), Axel Lindner (1), Jenny List (1), Tobias Meier (3), Niels Meyer (1), Dieter Notz (1), Javier Redondo (1 and 4), Andreas Ringwald (1), Günter Wiedemann (5), Benno Willke (3) ((1)Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, (2) Laser Zentrum Hannover, (3) Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert-Einstein-Institute, and Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Leibniz Universität, Hannover, (4) Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, (5) Hamburger Sternwarte)

A link between Random Matrix Theory and neutrino propagation in a turbulent medium

Authors: James P. Kneller

Testing the Dark Matter Annihilation Model for the WMAP Haze

Authors: Matthew McQuinn, Matias Zaldarriaga

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae: II. Are they Double-Degenerate Binaries? The Symbiotic Channel

Authors: Rosanne Di Stefano

Authors: A.A. Abdo, et al. (The Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration)

Equation of State of Dense Matter from a density dependent relativistic mean field model

Authors: G. Shen, C. J. Horowitz, S. Teige

tipa -- 4/2/2010

A Flare in the Jet of Pictor A

Authors: H. L. Marshall, M.J. Hardcastle, M. Birkinshaw, J. Croston, D. Evans, H. Landt, E. Lenc, F. Massaro, E. S. Perlman, D. A. Schwartz, A. Siemiginowska, Ł. Stawarz, C. M. Urry, D.M. Worrall

A method for setting upper limits to the extragalactic background light with Fermi-LAT and TeV observations of blazars

Authors: Markos Georganopoulos, Justin D. Finke, Luis C. Reyes

Deep, ultra-high-resolution radio imaging of submillimetre galaxies using Very Long Baseline Interferometry

Authors: A. D. Biggs, J. D. Younger, R. J. Ivison

The formation of disk galaxies in a LCDM universe

Authors: Oscar Agertz, Romain Teyssier, Ben Moore

classic papers of the week -- 143

The Quantum Theory of the Electron

Dirac, P. A. M.

The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs

Chandrasekhar, S.

The First Reactor

tipa -- 4/1/2010

Can we measure the neutrino mass hierarchy in the sky?

Authors: Raul Jimenez, Thomas Kitching, Carlos Pena-Garay, Licia Verde

Implications of diffusive shock acceleration for high-energy radiation from gamma-ray bursts

Authors: Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Pawan Kumar

On The External Shock Synchrotron Model for GRBs' GeV Emission

Authors: Tsvi Piran, Ehud Nakar

The Ages of Stars

Authors: David R. Soderblom

The Effect of Absorption Systems on Cosmic Reionization

Authors: Marcelo A. Alvarez, Tom Abel

Semi-annihilation of Dark Matter

Authors: Francesco D'Eramo, Jesse Thaler

tipa -- 3/31/2010

Direct Confirmation of the Asymmetry of the Cas A SN Explosion with Light Echoes

Authors: A. Rest, R. J. Foley, B. Sinnott, D. L. Welch, C. Badenes, A. V. Filippenko, M. Bergmann, W. A. Bhatti, S. Blondin, P. Challis, G. Damke, H. Finley, M. E. Huber, D. Kasen, R. P. Kirshner, T. Matheson, P. Mazzali, D. Minniti, R. Nakajima, G. Narayan, K. Olsen, D. Sauer, R. C. Smith, N. B. Suntzeff

The 3-D Structure of SN 1987A's inner Ejecta

Authors: K. Kjaer, B. Leibundgut, C. Fransson, A. Jerkstrand, J. Spyromilio

Super-Eddington fluxes during thermonuclear X-ray bursts

Authors: Stratos Boutloukos (1), M. Coleman Miller (1), Frederick K. Lamb (2) ((1) University of Maryland, (2) University of Illinois)

Theta_13: phenomenology, present status and prospect

Authors: Mauro Mezzetto, Thomas Schwetz

Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Matter Event Rates in Neutrino Telescopes, and Collider Implications

Authors: Prateek Agrawal, Zackaria Chacko, Can Kilic, Rashmish K. Mishra

Lattice calculations for A=3,4,6,12 nuclei using chiral effective field theory

Authors: Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Dean Lee, Ulf-G. Meißner

Tests of the Standard Electroweak Model at the Energy Frontier

Authors: John D. Hobbs, Mark S. Neubauer, Scott Willenbrock

tipa -- 3/30/2010

Periodic mass loss episodes due to an oscillation mode with variable amplitude in the hot supergiant HD50064

Authors: C. Aerts, K. Lefever, A. Baglin, P. Degroote, R. Oreiro, M. Vuckovic, K. Smolders, B. Acke, T. Verhoelst, M. Desmet, M. Godart, A. Noels, M.-A. Dupret, M. Auvergne, F. Baudin, C. Catala, E. Michel, R. Samadi

No evidence for black hole spin powering of jets in X-ray binaries

Authors: Rob Fender (Southampton and Grenoble), Elena Gallo (MIT), David Russell (Amsterdam)

Limits on inelastic dark matter from ZEPLIN-III

Authors: D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes, V. A. Belov, A. Bewick, A. A. Burenkov, R. Cashmore, V. Chepel, A. Currie, D. Davidge, J. Dawson, T. Durkin, B. Edwards, C. Ghag, A. Hollingsworth, M. Horn, A. S. Howard, A. J. Hughes, W. G. Jones, G. E. Kalmus, A. S. Kobyakin, A. G. Kovalenko, V. N. Lebedenko, A. Lindote, I. Liubarsky, M. I. Lopes, R. Luscher, K. Lyons, P. Majewski, A. StJ. Murphy, F. Neves, S. M. Paling, J. Pinto da Cunha, R. Preece, J. J. Quenby, L. Reichhart, P. R. Scovell, C. Silva, V. N. Solovov, N. J. T. Smith, P. F. Smith, V. N. Stekhanov, T. J. Sumner, C. Thorne, L. de Viveiros, R. J. Walker

tipa -- 3/29/2010

The transition from population III to population II-I star formation

Authors: U. Maio, B. Ciardi, K.Dolag, L. Tornatore, S. Khochfar

Relativistic Suppression of Black Hole Recoils

Authors: Michael Kesden, Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti

The Dependence of Type Ia Supernova Luminosities on their Host Galaxies

Authors: M. Sullivan, A. Conley, D. A. Howell, J. D. Neill, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R. G. Carlberg, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, R. Pain, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, K. M. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, S. Baumont, E. Hsiao, T. Kronborg, C. Lidman, S. Perlmutter, E. S. Walker

A Study of the Gas-Star Formation Relation over Cosmic Time

Authors: R.Genzel, L.J.Tacconi, J.Gracia-Carpio, A.Sternberg, M.C.Cooper, K.Shapiro, A.Bolatto, N.Bouche, F.Bournaud, A.Burkert, F.Combes, J.Comerford, P.Cox, M.Davis, N.M. Foerster Schreiber, S.Garcia-Burillo, D.Lutz, T.Naab, R.Neri, A.Omont, A.Shapley, B.Weiner

classic papers of the week -- 142

Dynamics of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Weinberg-Salam Theory

Leonard Susskind (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

Possible Applications of Supernovae to the Study of the Nebular Red Shifts

Wilson, O. C.

Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism. No. III. On Electro-Dynamic Induction

Joseph Henry (Professor of Natural Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, Princeton)

tipa -- 3/26/2010

A physical model for the origin of the diffuse cosmic infrared background

Authors: Joshua D. Younger (IAS), Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley)

The Deep SWIRE Field. IV. First properties of the sub-mJy galaxy population: redshift distribution, AGN activity and star formation

Authors: Veronica Strazzullo (NRAO), Maurilio Pannella (NRAO), Frazer N. Owen (NRAO), Ralf Bender (MPE, USM), Glenn E. Morrison (IfA, CFHT), Wei-Hao Wang (ASIAA), David L. Shupe (IPAC)

Major Galaxy Mergers and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars

Authors: Ezequiel Treister (IfA, Hawai), Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale), David Sanders (IfA, Hawaii), C. Megan Urry, Kevin Schawinski (Yale), Jeyhan Kartaltepe (NOAO)

Neutrino Background Flux from Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei

Authors: Kohta Murase, John F. Beacom

tipa -- 3/25/2010

The metal-poor end of the Spite plateau. 1: Stellar parameters, metallicities and lithium abundances

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)