tipa -- 4/22/2010

Satellite galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way sized galaxies

• Authors: M. Wadepuhl, V. Springel

Non-Uniform Cosmological Birefringence and Active Galactic Nuclei

• Authors: Marc Kamionkowski

MAGIC observation of the GRB080430 afterglow

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

tipa -- 4/21/2010

Cosmological Tests of Gravity

• Authors: Bhuvnesh Jain, Justin Khoury (U. Penn)

The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background

• Authors: John F. Beacom (Ohio State)

The Exceptionally Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2007if

• Authors: F. Yuan, R. M. Quimby, J. C. Wheeler, J. Vinko, E. Chatzopoulos, C. W. Akerlof, S. Kulkarni, J. M. Miller, T. A. McKay, F. Aharonian

Atmospheric neutrino oscillations and tau neutrinos in ice

• Authors: Gerardo Giordano, Olga Mena, Irina Mocioiu

tipa -- 4/20/2010

Discovery of the nearby long, soft GRB 100316D with an associated supernova

• Authors: R.L.C. Starling (U. Leicester), K. Wiersema, A.J. Levan, T. Sakamoto, D. Bersier, P. Goldoni, S.R. Oates, A. Rowlinson, S. Campana, J. Sollerman, N.R. Tanvir, D. Malesani, J.P.U. Fynbo, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, P.T. O'Brien, K.L. Page, J.P. Osborne, S.D. Vergani, S. Barthelmy, D.N. Burrows, Z. Cano, P.A. Curran, M. De Pasquale, V. D'Elia, P.A. Evans, H. Flores, A.S. Fruchter, P. Garnavich, N. Gehrels, J. Gorosabel, J. Hjorth, S.T. Holland, A.J. van der Horst, P. Jakobsson, A.P. Kamble, N.P.M. Kuin, L. Kaper, P.A. Mazzali, P.E. Nugent, E. Pian, C.C. Thoene, S.E. Woosley

Fermi Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula HESS J1640-465

• Authors: P. Slane, D. Castro, S. Funk, Y. Uchiyama, A. Lemiere, J. D. Gelfand, M. Lemoine-Goumard

A Core-Collapse Supernova Model for the Extremely Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007bi: An Alternative to the Pair-Instability Supernova Model

• Authors: Takashi Moriya, Nozomu Tominaga, Masaomi Tanaka, Keiichi Maeda, Ken'ichi Nomoto

The Swift Burst Analyser I: BAT and XRT spectral and flux evolution of Gamma Ray Bursts

• Authors: P. A. Evans, R.Willingale, J.P. Osborne, P.T. O'Brien, K.L. Page, C.B. Markwardt, S.D. Barthelmy, A.P. Beardmore, D.N. Burrows, C. Pagani, R.L.C. Starling, P. Romano

An extremely metal poor Damped Lyman-alpha system revealed through GRB 090926A

• Authors: Arne Rau (1), S. Savaglio (1), T. Krühler (1 and 2), P. Afonso (1), J. Greiner (1), S. Klose (3), P. Schady (1), S. McBreen (1 and 4), R. Filgas (1), F. Olivares E. (1), A. Rossi (3), A. Updike (5) ((1) MPE Garching, (2) TUM, (3) TLS Tautenburg, (4) University College Dublin, (5) Clemson University)

Using cosmic neutrinos to search for non-perturbative physics at the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Dariusz Gora, Thomas Paul, Markus Roth, Subir Sarkar, Lisa Lee Winders

tipa -- 4/19/2010

Ultracold Neutron Production in a Pulsed Neutron Beam Line

• Authors: C. M. Lavelle, W. Fox, G. Manus, P. M. McChesney, D. J. Salvat, Y. Shin, M. Makela, C. Morris, A. Saunders, A. Couture, A. R. Young, C.-Y. Liu

Dynamical constraints on the origin of the young B-stars in the Galactic center

• Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Alessia Gualandris

The cut-sky cosmic microwave background is not anomalous

• Authors: Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris

A Bound on the Light Emitted During the TP-AGB Phase

• Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, Marc H. Pinsonneault (The Ohio State University)

Time-dependent particle acceleration in supernova remnants in different environments

• Authors: K.M. Schure, A. Achterberg, R. Keppens, Jacco Vink

Structure of a strong supernova shock wave and rapid electron acceleration confined in its transition region

• Authors: Nobue Shimada, Masahiro Hoshino, Takanobu Amano

Numerical models of collisions between core-collapse supernovae and circumstellar shells

• Authors: Allard Jan van Marle, Nathan Smith, Stanley P. Owocki, Bob van Veelen

Suzaku Observations of Luminous Quasars: Revealing the Nature of High-Energy Blazar Emission in Quiescent States

• Authors: The Fermi/LAT Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al., F. Tavecchio, M. Sikora, P. Schady, P. Roming, M. M. Chester, L. Maraschi

Afterglow Observations of Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Emerging Class of Hyper-Energetic Events

• Authors: S. B. Cenko, D. A. Frail, F. A. Harrison, J. B. Haislip, D. E. Reichart, N. R. Butler, B. E. Cobb, A. Cucchiara, E. Berger, J. S. Bloom, P. Chandra, D. B. Fox, D. A. Perley, J. X. Prochaska, A. V. Filippenko, K. Glazebrook, K. M. Ivarsen, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, A. P. LaCluyze, S. Lopez, A. N. Morgan, M. Pettini, V. R. Rana

classic papers of the week -- 145

On the Quantum Correction For Thermodynamic Equilibrium

• Wigner, E. (Department of Physics, Princeton University)

The Mass-Radius Relation for Cold Spheres of Low Mass

• Zapolsky, H. S. (University of Maryland, College Park); Salpeter, E. E. (Cornell University)

Weakly-Bound States of Three Resonantly-Interacting Particles

• V.N. Efimov (A. F. Ioffe Physico-technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences)

tipa -- 4/16/2010

Cosmological Non-Linearities as an Effective Fluid

• Authors: Daniel Baumann, Alberto Nicolis, Leonardo Senatore, Matias Zaldarriaga

Early supernovae light-curves following the shock-breakout

• Authors: Ehud Nakar, Re'em Sari

Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmology

• Authors: Lawrence Krauss (1), Scott Dodelson (2,3) Stephan Meyer (3), ((1) Arizona State University, (2)Fermi National Laboratory, (3) University of Chicago)

tipa -- 4/15/2010

Solar fusion cross sections II: the pp chain and CNO cycles

• Authors: E. G. Adelberger, A. B. Balantekin, D. Bemmerer, C. A. Bertulani, J.-W. Chen, H. Costantini, M. Couder, R. Cyburt, B. Davids, S. J. Freedman, M.Gai, A. Garcia, D. Gazit, L. Gialanella, U. Greife, M. Hass, K. Heeger, W. C. Haxton, G. Imbriani, T. Itahashi, A. Junghans, K. Kubodera, K. Langanke, D. Leitner, M. Leitner, L. E. Marcucci, T. Motobayashi, A. Mukhamedzhanov, Kenneth M. Nollett, F. M. Nunes, T.-S. Park, P. D. Parker, P. Prati, M. J. Ramsey-Musolf, R. G. Hamish Robertson, R. Schiavilla, E. C. Simpson, K. A. Snover, C. Spitaleri, F. Strieder, K. Suemmerer, H.-P. Trautvetter, R. E. Tribble, S. Typel, E. Uberseder, P. Vetter, M. Wiescher, L. Winslow

Spectroscopic Discovery of the Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernova 2010bh Associated with the Low-Redshift GRB 100316D

• Authors: Ryan Chornock, Edo Berger, Emily M. Levesque, Alicia M. Soderberg, Ryan J. Foley, Derek B. Fox, Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon, John J. Bochanski, Peter J. Challis, Robert P. Kirshner, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Katherine Roth, Robert E. Rutledge, Brian P. Schmidt, Scott S. Sheppard, Robert A. Simcoe

The Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Neutrinos between 2 and 200 TeV with the AMANDA-II Detector

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

tipa -- 4/14/2010

Star Formation Signatures in Optically Quiescent Early-type Galaxies

• Authors: Samir Salim, R. Michael Rich

The End of the Rainbow: What Can We Say About the Extragalactic Sub-Megahertz Radio Sky?

• 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

tipa -- 4/12/2010

Discovery of a GeV blazar shining through the Galactic plane

• Authors: J. Vandenbroucke, R. Buehler, M. Ajello, K. Bechtol, A. Bellini, M. Bolte, C. C. Cheung, F. Civano, D. Donato, L. Fuhrmann, S. Funk, S. E. Healey, A. B. Hill, C. Knigge, G. M. Madejski, R. W. Romani, M. Santander-García, M. S. Shaw, D. Steeghs, M. A. P. Torres, A. Van Etten, K. A. Williams

On the Spectral Break in the Fermi-LAT Spectrum of 3C 454.3

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

Constraints on the Dark Matter Particle Mass from the Number of Milky Way Satellites

• Authors: Emil Polisensky, Massimo Ricotti

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

tipa -- 4/8/2010

Acceleration of an Impulsive High-Sigma Relativistic Flow: the Magnetic Rocket Effect

• Authors: Jonathan Granot, Serguei Komissarov, Anatoly Spitkovsky

The Electron Injection Spectrum Determined by Anomalous Cosmic Ray, Gamma Ray, and Microwave Signals

• Authors: Tongyan Lin, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Gregory Dobler

Lifetime Constraints for Late Dark Matter Decay

• Authors: Nicole F. Bell, Ahmad J. Galea, Kalliopi Petraki

Search for an extended VHE gamma-ray emission from Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 with the MAGIC Telescope

• Authors: J. Aleksić, L. A. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, M. Backes, C. Baixeras, J. A. Barrio, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, A. Berdyugin, K. Berger, E. Bernardini, A. Biland, O. Blanch, R. K. Bock, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, D. Borla Tridon, V. Bosch-Ramon, D. Bose, I. Braun, T. Bretz, D. Britzger, M. Camara, E. Carmona, A. Carosi, P. Colin, S. Commichau, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, M. T. Costado, S. Covino, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, E. De Cea del Pozo, R. De los Reyes, B. De Lotto, M. De Maria, F. De Sabata, C. Delgado Mendez, M. Doert, A. Domínguez, D. Dominis Prester, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsaesser, M. Errando, D. Ferenc, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, R. J. García López, M. Garczarczyk, M. Gaug, N. Godinovic, D. Hadasch, A. Herrero, D. Hildebrand, D. Höhne-Mönch, J. Hose, D. Hrupec, C. C. Hsu, T. Jogler, S. Klepser, T. Krähenbühl, D. Kranich, A. La Barbera, A. Laille, E. Leonardo, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, M. López, E. Lorenz, P. Majumdar, G. Maneva, N. Mankuzhiyil, K. Mannheim, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, M. Martínez, D. Mazin, M. Meucci, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, H. Miyamoto, J. Moldón, M. Moles, A. Moralejo, D. Nieto, K. Nilsson, J. Ninkovic, R. Orito, I. Oya, S. Paiano, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, S. Partini, M. Pasanen, D. Pascoli, F. Pauss, R. G. Pegna, M. A. Perez-Torres, M. Persic, L. Peruzzo, F. Prada, E. Prandini, N. Puchades, I. Puljak, I. Reichardt, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, J. Rico, M. Rissi, S. Rügamer, A. Saggion, T. Y. Saito, M. Salvati, M. Sánchez-Conde, K. Satalecka, V. Scalzotto, V. Scapin, C. Schultz, T. Schweizer, M. Shayduk, S. N. Shore, A. Sierpowska-Bartosik, A. Sillanpää, J. Sitarek, D. Sobczynska, F. Spanier, S. Spiro, A. Stamerra, B. Steinke, J. C. Struebig, T. Suric, L. Takalo, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzic, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, D. F. Torres, H. Vankov, R. M. Wagner, Q. Weitzel, V. Zabalza, F. Zandanel, R. Zanin, A. Neronov, D. V. Semikoz

Antimatter spectra from a time-dependent modeling of supernova remnants

• Authors: M.Kachelriess, S.Ostapchenko, R.Tomas

Discrepant hardening observed in cosmic-ray elemental spectra

• Authors: H. S. Ahn, P. Allison, M. G. Bagliesi, J. J. Beatty, G. Bigongiari, J. T. Childers, N. B. Conklin, S. Coutu, M. A. DuVernois, O. Ganel, J. H. Han, J. A. Jeon, K. C. Kim, M. H. Lee, L. Lutz, P. Maestro, A. Malinin, P. S. Marrocchesi, S. Minnick, S. I. Mognet, J. Nam, S. Nam, S. L. Nutter, I. H. Park, N. H. Park, E. S. Seo, R. Sina, J. Wu, J. Yang, Y. S. Yoon, R. Zei, S. Y. Zinn

GRB 021004: Tomography of a gamma-ray burst progenitor and its host galaxy

• Authors: A. J. Castro-Tirado, P. Möller, G. García-Segura, J. Gorosabel, E. Pérez, A. de Ugarte Postigo, E. Solano, D. Barrado-Navascués, S. Klose, D. A. Kann, J. M. Castro Cerón, C. Kouveliotou, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, H. Pedersen, E. Pian, E. Rol, E. Palazzi, N. Masetti, N. R. Tanvir, P. M. Vreeswijk, M. I. Andersen, A. S. Fruchter, J. Greiner, R. A. M. J. Wijers, E. P. J. van den Heuvel

Optical Scattering Lengths in Large Liquid-Scintillator Neutrino Detectors

• Authors: Michael Wurm (1), Franz von Feilitzsch (1), Marianne Goeger-Neff (1), Martin Hofmann (1), Tobias Lachenmaier (2), Timo Lewke (1), Teresa Marrodan Undagoitita (1 and 3), Quirin Meindl (1), Randoplh Moellenberg (1), Lothar Oberauer (1), Walter Potzel (1), Marc Tippmann (1), Sebastian Todor (1), Christoph Traunsteiner (1), Juergen Winter (1) ((1) Technische Universitaet Muenchen, (2) Excellence Cluster Universe Muenchen, (3) Universitaet Zuerich)

Indirect search for dark matter with micrOMEGAs2.4

• Authors: G. Belanger, F. Boudjema, P. Brun, A. Pukhov, S. Rosier-Lees, P. Salati, A. Semenov

tipa -- 4/7/2010

Type Ib/c supernovae in binary systems I. Evolution and properties of the progenitor stars

• Authors: Sung-Chul Yoon, Stan E. Woosley, Norbert Langer

Unveiling the origin of X-ray flares in Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: G. Chincarini, J. Mao, R. Margutti, M.G. Bernardini, C. Guidorzi, F. Pasotti, D. Giannios, M. Della Valle, A. Moretti, P. Romano, P. D'Avanzo, G. Cusumano, P. Giommi

Electronic screening and damping in magnetars

• Authors: Rishi Sharma, Sanjay Reddy

Five Years of Mid-Infrared Evolution of the Remnant of SN 1987A: The Encounter Between the Blast Wave and the Dusty Equatorial Ring

• Authors: Eli Dwek, Richard G. Arendt, Patrice Bouchet, David N. Burrows, Peter Challis, I. John Danziger, James M. De Buizer, Robert D. Gehrz, Sangwook Park, Elisha F. Polomski, Jonathan D. Slavin, Charles E. Woodward

tipa -- 4/6/2010

Core-Collapse Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Indications for a Different Population in Dwarf Galaxies

• Authors: Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Robert M. Quimby, Eran O. Ofek, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Peter E. Nugent, S. Bradley Cenko, Joshua S. Bloom, Mark Sullivan, D. Andrew Howell, Dovi Poznanski, Alexei V. Filippenko, Nicholas Law, Isobel Hook, Jakob Jonsson, Sarah Blake, Jeff Cooke, Richard Dekany, Gustavo Rahmer, David Hale, Roger Smith, Jeff Zolkower, Viswa Velur, Richard Walters, John Henning, Kahn Bui, Dan McKenna, Janet Jacobsen

The effect of metallicity on the detection prospects for gravitational waves

• Authors: K. Belczynski, M. Dominik, T. Bulik, R. O'Shaughnessy, C.L. Fryer, D.E. Holz

The Galaxy Luminosity Function during the Reionization Epoch

• Authors: M. Trenti, M. Stiavelli, R.J. Bouwens, P. Oesch, J.M. Shull, G.D. Illingworth, L.D. Bradley, C.M. Carollo

tipa -- 4/5/2010

Extending the north-east limit of the chart of nuclides

• Authors: J. Benlliure, H. Alvarez-Pol, T. Kurtukian-Nieto, K.-H. Schmidt, L. Audouin, B. Blank, F. Becker, E. Casarejos, D. Cortina-Gil, T. Enqvist, B. Fernández, M. Fernández-Ordóñez, J. Giovinazzo, D. Henzlova, A.R. Junghans, B. Jurado, P. Napolitani, J. Pereira, F. Rejmund, O. Yordanov

Constraints on the flux of Ultra-High Energy neutrinos from WSRT observations

• Authors: S. Buitink, O. Scholten, J. Bacelar, R. Braun, A.G. de Bruyn, H. Falcke, K. Singh, B. Stappers, R.G. Strom, R. al Yahyaoui

Impact of Type Ia Supernova Ejecta on a Helium-star Binary Companion

• Authors: Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul M. Ricker, Ronald E. Taam

Exploring Hadron Physics in Black Hole Formations: a New Promising Target of Neutrino Astronomy

• Authors: Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Hideyuki Suzuki, Shoichi Yamada

Gamma-ray Light Curves and Variability of Bright Fermi-Detected Blazars

• 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