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tipa -- 5/17/2011

A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope

Authors: R. Keisler, C. L. Reichardt, K. A. Aird, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H. M. Cho, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, J. Dudley, E. M. George, N. W. Halverson, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, Z. Hou, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, D. Luong-Van, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, M. Millea, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, T. Natoli, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Story, A. van Engelen, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson, O. Zahn

The Magnetic Field of the Irregular Galaxy NGC 4214

Authors: Amanda Kepley, Ellen Zweibel, Eric Wilcots, Kelsey Johnson, Timothy Robishaw

Design and Initial Performance of the Askaryan Radio Array Prototype EeV Neutrino Detector at the South Pole

Authors: P. Allison, J. Auffenberg, R. Bard, J. J. Beatty, D. Z. Besson, S. Boeser, C. Chen, P. Chen, A. Connolly, J. Davies, M. DuVernois, B. Fox, P. W. Gorham, E. W. Grashorn, K. Hanson, J. Haugen, K. Helbing, B. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, M. Huang, M. H. A. Huang, A. Ishihara, A. Karle, D. Kennedy, H. Landsman, A. Laundrie, T.-C. Liu, L. Macchiarulo, K. Mase, T. Meures, R. Meyhandan, C. Miki, R. Morse, M. Newcomb, R. J. Nichol, K. Ratzlaff, M. Richman, L. Ritter, B. Rotter, P. Sandstrom, D. Seckel, J. Touart, G. S. Varner, Y. Wang, C. Weaver, A. Wendorff, S. Yoshida, R. Young

Binary black hole mergers in gaseous disks: Simulations in general relativity

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

Radiative efficiency and thermal spectrum of accretion onto Schwarzschild black holes

Authors: Scott C. Noble (Rochester Institute of Technology), Julian H. Krolik (Johns Hopkins University), Jeremy D. Schnittman (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), John F. Hawley (University of Virginia)

On the multiple supernova population of Arp 299: constraints on progenitor properties and host galaxy star formation characteristics

Authors: J. P. Anderson, S. M. Habergham, P. A. James

The correlation between C/O ratio, metallicity and the initial WD mass for SNe Ia

Authors: Xiangcum Meng, Wuming Yang

An unusual stellar death on Christmas Day

Authors: C. C. Thöne, A. de Ugarte Postigo, C. L. Fryer, K. L. Page, J. Gorosabel, D. A. Perley, C. Kouveliotou, H. T. Janka, M. A. Aloy, P. Mimica, J. L. Racusin, H. Krimm, J. Cummings, S. R. Oates, S. T. Holland, M. H. Siegel, M. De Pasquale, E. Sonbas, M. Im, W.-K. Park, D. A. Kann, S. Guziy, L. Hernandez Garcia, K. Bundy, A. J. Castro-Tirado, C. Choi, H. Jeong, H. Korhonen, P. Kubanek, J. Lim, A. Llorente, A. Moskvitin, T. Muñoz Darias, S. Pak, I. Parrish

Is molecular gas necessary for star formation?

Authors: S. C. O. Glover, P. C. Clark

Eccentric Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers

Authors: Branson C. Stephens (1), William E. East (2), Frans Pretorius (2) ((1) UW-Milwaukee, (2) Princeton University)

Localizing compact binary inspirals on the sky using ground-based gravitational wave interferometers

Authors: Samaya M. Nissanke, Jonathan L. Sievers, Neal Dalal, Daniel E. Holz

Discovery of an Energetic Pulsar Associated with SNR G76.9+1.0

Authors: Z. Arzoumanian, E. V. Gotthelf, S. M. Ransom, S. Safi-Harb, R. Kothes, T. L. Landecker

Scaling Relations and Overabundance of Massive Clusters at z>~1 from Weak-Lensing Studies with HST

Authors: M.J. Jee, K.S. Dawson, H. Hoekstra, S. Perlmutter, P. Rosati, M. Brodwin, N. Suzuki, B. Koester, M. Postman, L. Lubin, J. Meyers, S.A. Stanford, K. Barbary, F. Barrientos, P. Eisenhardt, H.C. Ford, D.G. Gilbank, M.D. Gladders, A. Gonzalez, D.W. Harris, X. Huang, C. Lidman, E.S. Rykoff, D. Rubin, A.L. Spadafora

Ultrahigh-energy neutrino-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering and the Froissart bound

Authors: Alexey Yu. Illarionov, Bernd A. Kniehl, Anatoly V. Kotikov

Radiative Correction to the anti-nu_e (nu_e) Spectrum in beta-Decay

Authors: A. Sirlin

Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

Authors: Daniele Alves, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Sanjay Arora, Yang Bai, Matthew Baumgart, Joshua Berger, Matthew Buckley, Bart Butler, Spencer Chang, Hsin-Chia Cheng, Clifford Cheung, R. Sekhar Chivukula, Won Sang Cho, Randy Cotta, Mariarosaria D'Alfonso, Sonia El Hedri, Rouven Essig (Editor), Jared A. Evans, Liam Fitzpatrick, Patrick Fox, Roberto Franceschini, Ayres Freitas, James S. Gainer, Yuri Gershtein, Richard Gray, Thomas Gregoire, Ben Gripaios, Jack Gunion, Tao Han, Andy Haas, Per Hansson, JoAnne Hewett, Dmitry Hits, Jay Hubisz, Eder Izaguirre, Jared Kaplan, Emanuel Katz, Can Kilic, Hyung-Do Kim, Ryuichiro Kitano, Sue Ann Koay, Pyungwon Ko, David Krohn, Eric Kuflik, Ian Lewis, Mariangela Lisanti (Editor), Tao Liu, Zhen Liu, Ran Lu, Markus Luty, Patrick Meade, David Morrissey, Stephen Mrenna, Mihoko Nojiri, Takemichi Okui, Sanjay Padhi, Michele Papucci, Michael Park, Myeonghun Park, Maxim Perelstein, Michael Peskin, Daniel Phalen, Keith Rehermann, Vikram Rentala, Tuhin Roy, Joshua T. Ruderman, Veronica Sanz, Martin Schmaltz, Stephen Schnetzer, Philip Schuster (Editor), Pedro Schwaller, Matthew D. Schwartz, Ariel Schwartzman, Jing Shao, Jessie Shelton, David Shih, Jing Shu, Daniel Silverstein, Elizabeth Simmons, Sunil Somalwar, Michael Spannowsky, Christian Spethmann, Matthew Strassler, Shufang Su, Tim Tait (Editor), Brooks Thomas, Scott Thomas, Natalia Toro (Editor), Tomer Volansky, Jay Wacker (Editor), Wolfgang Waltenberger, Itay Yavin, Felix Yu, Yue Zhao, Kathryn Zurek

tipa -- 5/16/2011

GRB 110328A/Swift J164449.3+573451: The Tidal Obliteration of a Deeply Plunging Star?

Authors: J. K. Cannizzo, E. Troja, G. Lodato

The History of Star Formation in Galaxy Disks in the Local Volume as Measured by the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury

Authors: Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, L. C. Johnson, Daniel R. Weisz, Anil C. Seth, Andrew Dolphin, Karoline M. Gilbert, Evan Skillman, Keith Rosema, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Jon Holtzman, Roelof S. de Jong

Thermal Instability in Gravitationally-Stratified Plasmas: Implications for Multi-Phase Structure in Clusters and Galaxy Halos

Authors: Michael McCourt, Prateek Sharma, Eliot Quataert, Ian J. Parrish

classic papers of the week -- 195

Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. I

Yoichiro Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies and the Department of Physics, The University of Chicago)

A survey of galaxy redshifts. V. The two-point position and velocity correlations

Davis, M. (University of California, Berkeley); Peebles, P. J. E. (Princeton University)

The Magnetic Field of Massive Rotating Bodies

Blackett, P. M. S. (The University, Manchester)

tipa -- 5/13/2011

Observation of Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Galactic Cosmic Rays at Multiple Angular Scales with IceCube

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

The Effects of Patchy Reionization on Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way

Authors: Ragnhild Lunnan (1), Mark Vogelsberger (1), Anna Frebel (1), Lars Hernquist (1), Adam Lidz (2), Michael Boylan-Kolchin (3) ((1) Harvard/CfA, (2) UPenn, (3) UC Irvine)

Expanded Search for z~10 Galaxies from HUDF09, ERS, and CANDELS Data: Evidence for Accelerated Evolution at z>8?

Authors: P. A. Oesch, R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, I. Labbe, M. Trenti, V. Gonzalez, C. M. Carollo, M. Franx, P. G. van Dokkum, D. Magee

Chandra Detection of SN 2010da Four Months After Outburst: Evidence for a Supergiant X-ray Binary in NGC 300

Authors: B. Binder, B. F. Williams, A. K. H. Kong, T. J. Gaetz, P. P. Plucinsky, J. J. Dalcanton, D. R. Weisz

Hubble-COS Observations of Galactic High-Velocity Clouds: Four AGN Sight Lines through Complex-C

Authors: Michael Shull, Matthew Stevans, Charles Danforth, Steven Penton, Felix J. Lockman, Nahum Arav

Episodic mass loss in binary evolution to the Wolf-Rayet phase: Keck and HST proper motions of RY Scuti's nebula

Authors: Nathan Smith, Robert D. Gehrz, Randy Campbell, Marc Kassis, David Le Mignant, Kawailehua Kuluhiwa, Alexei V. Filippenko

Dwarf galaxy formation with H2-regulated star formation

Authors: M. Kuhlen, M. Krumholz, P. Madau, B. Smith, J. Wise

The decompression of the outer neutron star crust and r-process nucleosynthesis

Authors: S. Goriely, N. Chamel, H.-T. Janka, J.M. Pearson

CASTRO: A New Compressible Astrophysical Solver. II. Gray Radiation Hydrodynamics

Authors: W. Zhang (LBNL), L. Howell (LLNL), A. Almgren (LBNL), A. Burrows (Princeton), J. Bell (LBNL)

A Molecular Spiral Arm in the Far Outer Galaxy

Authors: T. M. Dame, P. Thaddeus

tipa -- 5/12/2011

Lower-Luminosity Galaxies could reionize the Universe: Very Steep Faint-End Slopes to the UV Luminosity Functions at z>=5-8 from the HUDF09 WFC3/IR Observations

Authors: R. J. Bouwens (Leiden), G. D. Illingworth (UCSC), P. A. Oesch (UCSC), M. Trenti (Colorado), I. Labbe (Leiden), M. Franx (Leiden), M. Stiavelli (STScI), C. M. Carollo (ETH Zurich), P. van Dokkum (Yale), D. Magee (UCSC)

Radiative transfer in a clumpy universe: IV. New synthesis models of the cosmic UV/X-ray background

Authors: Francesco Haardt, Piero Madau

Pulsars with gigahertz-peaked spectra

Authors: J. Kijak, W. Lewandowski, O. Maron, Y. Gupta, A. Jessner

Resonances Driven by a Neutrino Gyroscope and Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Supernovae

Authors: Meng-Ru Wu, Yong-Zhong Qian (UMN)

Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity with the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework

Authors: Neil Cornish, Laura Sampson, Nico Yunes, Frans Pretorius

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): A Nulling Polarimeter for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations

Authors: A. Kogut, D.J. Fixsen, D.T. Chuss, J. Dotson, E. Dwek, M. Halpern, G.F. Hinshaw, S.M. Meyer, S.H. Moseley, M.D. Seiffert, D.N. Spergel, E.J. Wollack

Large-scale Gadolinium-doped Water Cerenkov Detector for Non-Proliferation

Authors: M. Sweany, A. Bernstein, N.S. Bowden, S. Dazeley, G. Keefer, R. Svoboda, M. Tripathi

tipa -- 5/11/2011

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey III: A very massive star in apparent isolation from the massive cluster R136

Authors: Joachim M. Bestenlehner, Jorick S. Vink, G. Gräfener, F. Najarro, C. J. Evans, N. Bastian, A. Z. Bonanos, E. Bressert, P. A. Crowther, E. Doran, K. Friedrich, V. Hénault-Brunet, A. Herrero, A. de Koter, N. Langer, D. J. Lennon, J. Maíz Apellániz, H. Sana, I. Soszynski, W. D. Taylor

Turbulence in Global Simulations of Magnetized Thin Accretion Disks

Authors: Kris Beckwith, Philip J. Armitage, Jacob B. Simon

Non-variable cosmologically distant gamma-ray emitters as an imprint of propagation of ultra-high-energy protons

Authors: A.Yu. Prosekin, S.R. Kelner, F.A. Aharonian

tipa -- 5/10/2011

Hydrodynamic Interaction between the Be Star and the Pulsar in the TeV Binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883

Authors: Atsuo T. Okazaki, Shigehiro Nagataki, Tsuguya Naito, Akiko Kawachi, Kimitake Hayasaki, Stanley P. Owocki, Jumpei Takata

Mass and radius estimation for the neutron star in X-ray burster 4U 1820-30

Authors: K. Kusmierek, J. Madej, E. Kuulkers

Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Gases

Authors: Leonid M. Malyshkin, Ellen G. Zweibel

A faint optical flash in dust-obscured GRB 080603A - implications for GRB prompt emission mechanisms

Authors: C. Guidorzi, S. Kobayashi, D.A. Perley, G. Vianello, J.S. Bloom, P. Chandra, D.A. Kann, W. Li, C.G. Mundell, A. Pozanenko, J.X. Prochaska, K. Antoniuk, D. Bersier, A.V. Filippenko, D.A. Frail, A. Gomboc, E. Klunko, A. Melandri, S. Mereghetti, V. Rumyantsev, R.J. Smith, I.A. Steele, N.R. Tanvir, A. Volnova

Relativistic Equation of State for Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations

Authors: H. Shen, H. Toki, K. Oyamatsu, K. Sumiyoshi

The energy source of the filaments around the giant galaxy NGC1275

Authors: A.C. Fabian (1), J.S. Sanders (1), R.J.R.Williams (2), A. Lazarian (3), G.J. Ferland (4), R.M. Johnstone (1) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, (2) AWE plc, Aldermaston, UK, (3) Astronomy Dept., University of Wisconsin, USA, Dept of Physics, University of Kentucky, USA)

tipa -- 5/9/2011

Resolving the Reactor Neutrino Anomaly with the KATRIN Neutrino Experiment

Authors: J. A. Formaggio J. Barrett

Invariants of Collective Neutrino Oscillations

Authors: Y. Pehlivan, A. B. Balantekin, Toshitaka Kajino, Takashi Yoshida

The nebular spectrum of the type Ia supernova 2003hv: evidence for a non-standard event

Authors: Paolo A. Mazzali, I. Maurer, M. Stritzinger, S. Taubenberger, S. Benetti, S. Hachinger

GRB 090426: Discovery of a jet break in a short burst afterglow

Authors: A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, S. Klose, A. Rossi, D. A. Kann, T. Krühler, J. Greiner, A. Rau, F. Olivares E., P. M. J. Afonso, R. Filgas, A. Küpcü Yoldaş, S. McBreen, M. Nardini, P. Schady, S. Schmidl, A. C. Updike, A. Yoldaş

pMSSM Dark Matter Searches on Ice

Authors: R.C. Cotta, K.T.K. Howe, J.L. Hewett, T.G. Rizzo

classic papers of the week -- 194

A numerical approach to the testing of the fission hypothesis

Lucy, L. B. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge; European Southern Observatory, Geneva)

Is Baryon Number Conserved?

Jogesh C. Pati (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy & University of Maryland, College Park, MD), Abdus Salam (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy & Imperial College, London)

Two Prehistoric Drawings of Possible Astronomical Significance

Miller, William C. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories)

tipa -- 5/6/2011

On the nature of the extremely fast optical rebrightening of the afterglow of GRB 081029

Authors: M. Nardini, J. Greiner, T. Kruehler, R. Filgas, S. Klose, P. Afonso, C. Clemens, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, F. Olivares E., A. Rau, A. Rossi, A. Updike, A. Kupcu Yoldas, A. Yoldas, D. Burlon, J. Elliott, D.A. Kann

G-Mode Excitation During the Pre-explosive Simmering of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Anthony L. Piro (Caltech)

Reconnection-Powered Linear Accelerator and Gamma-Ray Flares in the Crab Nebula

Authors: Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Benoit Cerutti, Mitchell C. Begelman

Deep Spitzer observations of infrared-faint radio sources: high-redshift radio-loud AGN?

Authors: Ray P. Norris, Jose Afonso, Antonio Cava, Duncan Farrah, Minh T. Huynh, R. J. Ivison, Matt Jarvis, Mark Lacy, Minnie Mao, Claudia Maraston, Jean-Christophe Mauduit, Enno Middelberg, Seb Oliver, Nick Seymour, Jason Surace

Lifting the Veil on Obscured Accretion: Active Galactic Nuclei Number Counts and Survey Strategies for Imaging Hard X-ray Missions

Authors: D.R. Ballantyne (1), A.R. Draper (1), K.K. Madsen (2), J.R. Rigby (3,4), E. Treister (5,6) ((1) Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Tech (2) SRL, Caltech (3) Carnegie Observatories (4) NASA/GSFC (5) University of Hawaii (6) Universidad de Concepcion)

Formation of Dust in the Ejecta of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Takaya Nozawa, Keiichi Maeda, Takashi Kozasa, Masaomi Tanaka, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Hideyuki Umeda

Analysis of matter suppression in collective neutrino oscillations during the supernova accretion phase

Authors: Sovan Chakraborty (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Tobias Fischer (GSI & Technische Univ. Darmstadt), Alessandro Mirizzi (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Ninetta Saviano (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.), Ricard Tomas (Hamburg U., II Inst. Theor. Phys.)

tipa -- 5/5/2011

The Protostellar Luminosity Function

Authors: Stella S. R. Offner (1), Christopher F. McKee (2) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, (2) UC Berkeley)

Alfven Wave Amplification and Self-Containment of Cosmic-Rays Escaping from a Supernova Remnant

Authors: Yutaka Fujita, Fumio Takahara (Osaka), Yutaka Ohira (KEK), Kazunari Iwasaki (Nagoya)

Binary population synthesis study on supersoft X-ray phase of single degenerate type Ia supernova progenitors

Authors: Xiangcun Meng, Wuming Yang

On the nature of the prototype LBV AG Carinae II. Witnessing a massive star evolving close to the Eddington and bistability limits

Authors: Jose H. Groh (Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Germany), D. John Hillier (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Augusto Damineli (IAG-Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)