tipa -- 1/26/2011

Magnetic fields in Local Group dwarf irregulars

• Authors: Krzysztof T. Chyzy, Marek Wezgowiec, Rainer Beck, Dominik J. Bomans

Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter halos of galaxies

• Authors: John Kormendy, Ralf Bender

Bounding the Time Delay between High-energy Neutrinos and Gravitational-wave Transients from Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: Bruny Baret, Imre Bartos, Boutayeb Bouhou, Alessandra Corsi, Irene Di Palma, Corinne Donzaud, Véronique Van Elewyck, Chad Finley, Gareth Jones, Antoine Kouchner, Szabolcs Màrka, Zsuzsa Màrka, Luciano Moscoso, Eric Chassande-Mottin, Maria Alessandra Papa, Thierry Pradier, Peter Raffai, Jameson Rollins, Patrick Sutton

On the Detectability of High-Energy Galactic Neutrino Sources

• Authors: Francesco Vissani, Felix Aharonian, Narek Sahakyan

Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments

• Authors: Tanja Bode, Tamara Bogdanovic, Roland Haas, James Healy, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker

tipa -- 1/25/2011

Mean Interplanetary Magnetic Field Measurement Using the ARGO-YBJ Experiment

• Authors: G. Aielli, C. Bacci, B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini, X.J. Bi, C. Bleve, P. Branchini, A. Budano, S. Bussino, A.K. Calabrese Melcarne, P. Camarri, Z. Cao, A. Cappa, R. Cardarelli, S. Catalanotti, C. Cattaneo, P. Celio, S.Z. Chen, T.L. Chen, Y. Chen, P. Creti, S.W. Cui, B.Z. Dai, G. D'Alí Staiti, Danzengluobu, M. Dattoli, I. De Mitri, B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli, M. De Vincenzi, T. Di Girolamo, X.H. Ding, G. Di Sciascio, C.F. Feng, Z.Y. Feng, Zhenyong Feng, F. Galeazzi, P. Galeotti, R. Gargana, Q.B. Gou, Y.Q. Guo, H.H. He, Haibing Hu, Hongbo Hu, Q. Huang, M. Iacovacci, R. Iuppa, I. James, H.Y. Jia, Labaciren, H.J. Li, J.Y. Li, X.X. Li, B. Liberti, G. Liguori, C. Liu, C.Q. Liu, M.Y. Liu, J. Liu, H. Lu, X. H. Ma, G. Mancarella, S.M. Mari, G.Marsella, D. Martello, S. Mastroianni, X.R. Meng, P. Montini, C.C. Ning, A. Pagliaro, M. Panareo, L. Perrone, P. Pistilli, X.B. Qu, E. Rossi, F. Ruggieri, L. Saggese, P. Salvini, R. Santonico, P.R. Shen, X.D. Sheng, F. Shi, C. Stanescu, A. Surdo, Y.H. Tan, P. Vallania, S. Vernetto, C. Vigorito, B. Wang, H. Wang, C.Y. Wu, H.R. Wu, Z.G. Yao, B. Xu, L. Xue, Y.X. Yan, Q.Y. Yang, X.C. Yang, A.F. Yuan, M. Zha, H.M. Zhang, JiLong Zhang, JianLi Zhang, L. Zhang, P. Zhang, X.Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Zhaxisangzhu, Zhaxiciren, X.X. Zhou, F.R. Zhu, Q.Q. Zhu, G. Zizzi (The ARGO-YBJ Collaboration)

Dependences of Type Ia Supernovae Lightcurve Parameters on the Host Galaxy Star Formation Rate and Metallicity

• Authors: Kohki Konishi, David Cinabro, Peter M. Garnavich, Yutaka Ihara, Richard Kessler, John Marriner, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Harold Spinka, J. Craig Wheeler, Naoki Yasuda

The missing link: Merging neutron stars naturally produce jet-like structures and can power short Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Luciano Rezzolla, Bruno Giacomazzo, Luca Baiotti, Jonathan Granot, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Miguel A. Aloy

MAGIC discovery of VHE Emission from the FSRQ PKS 1222+21

• Authors: J. Aleksić, L. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, M. Backes, J. Barrio, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, A. Berdyugin, K. Berger, E. Bernardini, A. Biland, O. Blanch, R. Bock, A. Boller, G. Bonnoli, D. Borla Tridon, I. Braun, Dr. Thomas Bretz, A. Cañellas, E. Carmona, A. Carosi, P. Colin, E. Colombo, J. Contreras, J. Cortina, L. Cossio, S. Covino, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, E. De Cea del Pozo, Dr. Barbara De Lotto, Dr. Carlos Delgado Mendez, A. Diago Ortega, M. Doert, A. Domìnguez, D. Dominis Prester, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsaesser, D. Ferenc, M. Fonseca, L. Font, C. Fruck, R. Garcìa Lòpez, M. Garczarczyk, D. Garrido, G. Giavitto, N. Godinović, D. Hadasch, D. Häfner, A. Herrero, D. Hildebrand, D. Höhne-Mönch, J. Hose, D. Hrupec, B. Huber, T. Jogler, S. Klepser, T. Krahenbuhl, J. Krause, A. La Barbera, D. Lelas, E. Leonardo, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, M. López, E. Lorenz, M. Makariev, G. Maneva, N. Mankuzhiyil, K. Mannheim, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, M. Martínez, Dr. Daniel Mazin, M. Meucci, J. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, H. Miyamoto, Mr. Javier Moldón, A. Moralejo, D. Nieto, Dr. Kari Nilsson, R. Orito, I. Oya, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, S. Pardo, J. Paredes, S. Partini, M. Pasanen, F. Pauss, M. Perez-Torres, Dr. Massimo Persic, L. Peruzzo, M. Pilia, J. Pochon, F. Prada, Dr. P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, I. Puljak, I. Reichardt, R. Reinthal, W. Rhode, Marc Ribó, Dr. Javier Rico, S. Rügamer, A. Saggion, Mr. Koji Saito, T. Saito, M. Salvati, K. Satalecka, V. Scalzotto, V. Scapin, C. Schultz, T. Schweizer, M. Shayduk, S. Shore, A. Sillanpää, J. Sitarek, D. Sobczynska, F. Spanier, S. Spiro, A. Stamerra, B. Steinke, J. Storz, N. Strah, T. Surić, L. Takalo, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzić, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, M. Thom, O. Tibolla, Dr. Miguel-Angel Perez-Torres, A. Treves, H. Vankov, P. Vogler, R. Wagner, Q. Weitzel, V. Zabalza, F. Zandanel, R. Zanin (the MAGIC collaboration), Y. Tanaka, D. Wood, S. Buson

The Astrophysics of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Kumiko Kotera, Angela V. Olinto

Dark matter at DeepCore and IceCube

• Authors: V. Barger, Y. Gao, D. Marfatia

tipa -- 1/24/2011

Heavy Nuclei Synthesized in Gamma-Ray Burst Outflows as the Source of UHECRs

• Authors: Brian D. Metzger, Dimitrios Giannios, Shunsaku Horiuchi

PTF 10bzf (SN 2010ah): a broad-line Ic supernova discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory

• Authors: A. Corsi, E. O. Ofek, D. A. Frail, D. Poznanski, I. Arcavi, A. Gal-Yam, S. R. Kulkarni, K. Hurley, P. A. Mazzali, D. A. Howell, M. M. Kasliwal, Y. Green, D. Murray, D. Xu, S. Ben-ami, J. S. Bloom, B. Cenko, N. M. Law, P. Nugent, R. M. Quimby, V. Pal'shin, J. Cummings, V. Connaughton, K. Yamaoka, A. Rau, W. Boynton, I. Mitrofanov, J. Goldsten

Extreme Feedback and the Epoch of Reionization: Clues in the Local Universe

• Authors: Timothy M. Heckman, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Roderik Overzier, Guinevere Kauffmann, Antara Basu-Zych, Claus Leitherer, Ken Sembach, D. Chris Martin, R. Michael Rich, David Schiminovich, Mark Seibert

Search for light gauge bosons of the dark sector at MAMI

• Authors: H. Merkel, P. Achenbach, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, J. C. Bernauer, R. Böhm, D. Bosnar, L. Debenjak, A. Denig, M. O. Distler, A. Esser, H. Fonvieille, I. Friščić, D. G. Middleton, U. Müller, L. Nungesser, J. Pochodzalla, M. Rohrbeck, S. Sánchez Majos, B. S. Schlimme, M. Schoth, S. Širca, M. Weinriefer

classic papers of the week -- 181

On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

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• Einstein, A.

Gravitational Lenses

• Liebes, Sidney (Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University)

A single quantum cannot be cloned

• Wootters, W. K. (Center for Theoretical Physics, The University of Texas at Austin); Zurek, W. H. (Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology)

tipa -- 1/21/2011

Supermassive black holes do not correlate with galaxy disks or pseudobulges

• Authors: John Kormendy, R. Bender, M. E. Cornell

High-efficiency photospheric emission of long-duration gamma-ray burst jets: the effect of the viewing angle

• Authors: Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Brian J. Morsony (Wisconsin), Mitchell C. Begelman (JILA)

Distortion of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray flux from rare transient sources in inhomogeneous extragalactic magnetic fields

• Authors: Sihem Kalli, Martin Lemoine, Kumiko Kotera

Effects of Explosion Asymmetry and Viewing Angle on the Type Ia Supernova Color and Luminosity Calibration

• Authors: K. Maeda, G. Leloudas, S. Taubenberger, M. Stritzinger, J. Sollerman, N. Elias-Rosa, S. Benetti, M. Hamuy, G. Folatelli, P. A. Mazzali

Constraints on high-energy neutrino emission from SN 2008D

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

New muon decay experiment to search for heavy sterile neutrino

• Authors: S.N. Gninenko

tipa -- 1/20/2011

A Second Order Godunov Method for Multidimensional Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics

• Authors: Kris Beckwith, James M. Stone

SN2008am: A Super-Luminous Type IIn Supernova

• Authors: E. Chatzopoulos, J. Craig Wheeler, J. Vinko, R. Quimby, E. L. Robinson, A. A. Miller, R. J. Foley, D. A. Perley, F. Yuan, C. Akerlof, J. S. Bloom

Search for Lorentz Invariance breaking with a likelihood fit of the PKS 2155-304 Flare Data Taken on MJD 53944

• Authors: HESS Collaboration

Transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge into a spinning black hole

• Authors: Michael Kesden

tipa -- 1/19/2011

First-year Results of Broadband Spectroscopy of the Brightest Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Authors: Elisabetta Bissaldi, Andreas von Kienlin, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Michael S. Briggs, Valerie Connaughton, Jochen Greiner, David Gruber, Giselher Lichti, P. N. Bhat, J. Michael Burgess, Vandiver Chaplin, Roland Diehl, Gerald J. Fishman, Gerard Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Foley, Melissa Gibby, Misty Giles, Adam Goldstein, Sylvain Guiriec, Alexander J. van der Horst, Marc Kippen, Lin Lin, Sheila McBreen, Charles A. Meegan, William S. Paciesas, Robert D. Preece, Arne Rau, Dave Tierney, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

Pair Instability Supernovae: Light Curves, Spectra, and Shock Breakout

• Authors: Daniel Kasen, S.E. Woosley, Alexander Heger

Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Halo with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

When Microquasar Jets and Supernova Collide: Hydrodynamically Simulating the SS433-W50 Interaction

• Authors: Paul T. Goodall, Fathallah Alouani-Bibi, Katherine M. Blundell

Strong New Constraints on the Extragalactic Background Light in the Near- to Mid-IR

• Authors: Matthew Orr, Frank Krennrich, Eli Dwek

Dark Matter Annihilation Signatures from Electroweak Bremsstrahlung

• Authors: Nicole F. Bell, James B. Dent, Thomas D. Jacques, Thomas J. Weiler

tipa -- 1/18/2011

Pulsar Magnetosphere

• Authors: Andrei Gruzinov

Muon and Cosmogenic Neutron Detection in Borexino

• Authors: Borexino Collaboration

tipa -- 1/17/2011

PG 1553+113: five years of observations with MAGIC

• Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration

Common envelope: on the mass and the fate of the remnant

• Authors: Natalia Ivanova

Daily modulation due to channeling in direct dark matter crystalline detectors

• Authors: Nassim Bozorgnia, Graciela B. Gelmini, Paolo Gondolo

The Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly

• Authors: G. Mention, M. Fechner, Th. Lasserre, Th. A. Mueller, D. Lhuillier, M. Cribier, A. Letourneau

Axion Dark Matter Detection with Cold Molecules

• Authors: Peter W. Graham, Surjeet Rajendran

classic papers of the week -- 180

On the Interaction of Elementary Particles. I

• Hideki Yukawa (Department of Physics, Osaka Imperial University)

The Polarization of Starlight by Aligned Dust Grains

• Davis, Leverett, Jr.; Greenstein, Jesse L. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Localized visible Ba+ mono-ion oscillator

• Neuhauser, W.; Hohenstatt, M.; Toschek, P. E. (Institut für Angewandte Physik I der Universität Heidelberg); Dehmelt, H. (Department of Physics, University of Washington)

tipa -- 1/14/2011

Ab initio calculation of the Hoyle state

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

Stellar variability on time-scales of minutes: results from the first 5 years of the Rapid Temporal Survey (RATS)

• Authors: Thomas Barclay (1 and 2), Gavin Ramsay (1), Pasi Hakala (3), Ralf Napiwotzki (4), Gijs Nelemans (5), Stephen Potter (6), Ian Todd (7) ((1) Armagh Observatory, (2) MSSL-UCL, (3) Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, (4) University of Hertfordshire, (5) Radboud University Nijmegen, (6) SAAO, (7) Queen's University Belfast)

A New Derivation of GRB Jet Opening Angles from the Prompt Gamma-Ray Emission

• Authors: Adam Goldstein, Robert D. Preece, Michael S. Briggs, Alexander J. van der Horst, Sheila McBreen, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Valerie Connaughton, William S. Paciesas, Charles A. Meegan, P. N. Bhat, Elisabetta Bissaldi, J. Michael Burgess, Vandiver Chaplin, Roland Diehl, Gerald J. Fishman, Gerard Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Foley, Melissa Gibby, Misty Giles, Jochen Greiner, David Gruber, Sylvain Guiriec, Andreas von Kienlin, Marc Kippen, Arne Rau, Dave Tierney, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

Refined Neutron-Star Mass Determinations for Six Eclipsing X-Ray Pulsar Binaries

• Authors: Meredith L. Rawls, Jerome A. Orosz, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Manuel A. P. Torres, Charles D. Bailyn, Michelle M. Buxton

Hunting 1-500 GeV Dark Matter Gamma-Ray Lines with the Fermi LAT

• Authors: Gilles Vertongen, Christoph Weniger

Improved Predictions of Reactor Antineutrino Spectra

• Authors: Th. A. Mueller, D. Lhuillier, M. Fallot, A. Letourneau, S. Cormon, M. Fechner, L. Giot, T. Lasserre, J. Martino, G. Mention, A. Porta, F. Yermia

tipa -- 1/13/2011

A Deep Photometric Look at Two of Andromeda's Dwarf Spheroidals: X and XVII

• Authors: Crystal Brasseur, Hans-Walter Rix, Nicolas F. Martin, Mike Irwin, Annette M. Ferguson, Alan W. McConnachie, Jelte de Jong

A distortion of very--high--redshift galaxy number counts by gravitational lensing

• Authors: J. Stuart B. Wyithe (University of Melbourne), Haojing Yan (Ohio State University), Rogier A. Windhorst (Arizona State University), Shude Mao (University of Manchester and NAOC, China)

Discovery of Powerful Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula

• Authors: M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli, V. Vittorini, A. Pellizzoni, E. Striani, P. Caraveo, M.C. Weisskopf, A. Tennant, G. Pucella, A. Trois, E. Costa, Y. Evangelista, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, E. Del Monte, R. Campana, M. Pilia, A. De Luca, I. Donnarumma, D. Horns, C. Ferrigno, C.O. Heinke, M. Trifoglio, F. Gianotti, S. Vercellone, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, P.W. Cattaneo, A.W. Chen, T. Contessi, F. D'Ammando, G. DeParis, G. Di Cocco, G. Di Persio, M. Feroci, A. Ferrari, M. Galli, A. Giuliani, M. Giusti, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, F. Fuschino, M. Marisaldi, S. Mereghetti, E. Morelli, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, F. Perotti, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Prest, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, A. Rubini, S. Sabatini, P. Soffitta, E. Vallazza, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, F. Lucarelli, P. Santolamazza, P. Giommi, L. Salotti, G.F. Bignami

Unraveling the Nature of Unidentified High Galactic Latitude Fermi/LAT Gamma-ray Sources with Suzaku

• Authors: Koto Maeda, Jun Kataoka, Takeshi Nakamori, Lukasz Stawarz, Ryu Makiya, Tomonori Totani, Chi Chiu Cheung, Davide Donato, Neil Gehrels, Pablo Saz Parkinson, Yoshikazu Kanai, Nobuyuki Kawai, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Rie Sato, Tadayuki Takahashi, Yosuke Takahashi

tipa -- 1/12/2011

On Machine-Learned Classification of Variable Stars with Sparse and Noisy Time-Series Data

• Authors: Joseph W. Richards, Dan L. Starr, Nathaniel R. Butler, Joshua S. Bloom, John M. Brewer, Arien Crellin-Quick, Justin Higgins, Rachel Kennedy, Maxime Rischard

Electromagnetic extraction of energy from black hole-neutron star binaries

• Authors: Sean T. McWilliams, Janna Levin

Planck Early Results: The all-sky Early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample

• Authors: Planck Collaboration

Planck Early Results: Properties of the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane

• Authors: Planck Collaboration

Planck Early Results: The Galactic Cold Core Population revealed by the first all-sky survey

• Authors: Planck Collaboration

Detection of a spectral break in the extra hard component of GRB 090926A

• Authors: Johan Bregeon, Adam Goldstein, Rob Preece, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kenji Toma, Takeshi Uehara (the Fermi Collaboration)

tipa -- 1/11/2011

The maximum mass and radius of neutron stars and the nuclear symmetry energy

• Authors: S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, Sanjay Reddy

The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

• Authors: SDSS-III collaboration

Heterogeneity in Short Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: Jay P. Norris, Neil Gehrels, Jeffrey D. Scargle

First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

Search for Supersymmetry in pp Collisions at 7 TeV in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy

• Authors: CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/10/2011

Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Peculiar Type II Supernovae from Blue Supergiants

• Authors: Io K. W. Kleiser, Dovi Poznanski, Daniel Kasen, Timothy R. Young, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, Peter Challis, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert P. Kirshner, Weidong Li, Thomas Matheson, Peter E. Nugent, Jeffrey M. Silverman

Pulsar Kicks from Active-Sterile Neutrino Transformation in Supernovae

• Authors: Chad T. Kishimoto

Chandra observation of the TeV source HESS J1834-087

• Authors: Zdenka Misanovic, Oleg Kargaltsev, George Pavlov

Evidence For Particle Acceleration to the Knee of the Cosmic Ray Spectrum in Tycho's Supernova Remnant

• Authors: Kristoffer A. Eriksen, John P. Hughes, Carles Badenes, Robert Fesen, Parviz Ghavamian, David Moffett, Paul P. Plucinsky, Cara E. Rakowski, Estela M. Reynoso, Patrick Slane

Supernova Shock Breakout Through a Wind

• Authors: Shmuel Balberg, Abraham Loeb

Correlations in the (Sub)millimeter background from ACTxBLAST

• Authors: Amir Hajian, Marco P. Viero, Graeme Addison, Paula Aguirre, John William Appel, Nick Battaglia, James J. Bock, J. Richard Bond, Sudeep Das, Mark J. Devlin, Simon R. Dicker, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dunner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, John P. Hughes, Joseph W. Fowler, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Renee Hlozek, Kent D. Irwin, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Yen-Ting Lin, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Gaelen Marsden, Felipe Menanteau, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Kavilan Moodley, Calvin B. Netterfield, Michael D. Niemack, Michael R. Nolta, Lyman A. Page, Lucas Parker, Douglas Scott, Neelima Sehgal, Jon Sievers, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Robert Thornton, Ed Wollack