today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 6/20/2011

The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the Local Hubble Constant

Authors: Florian Beutler, Chris Blake, Matthew Colless, D. Heath Jones, Lister Staveley-Smith, Lachlan Campbell, Quentin Parker, Will Saunders, Fred Watson

X-ray Stripes in Tycho's Supernova Remant: Synchrotron Footprints of a Nonlinear Cosmic Ray-driven Instability

Authors: A.M. Bykov, D.C. Ellison, S.M. Osipov, G.G. Pavlov, Yu.A. Uvarov

Neutrino analysis of the September 2010 Crab Nebula flare and time-integrated constraints on neutrino emission from the Crab using IceCube

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

A Single Degenerate Progenitor Model of Type Ia Supernovae Highly Exceeding the Chandrasekhar Mass Limit

Authors: Izumi Hachisu (Univ. of Tokyo), Mariko Kato (Keio Univ.), Hideyuki Saio (Tohoku Univ.), Ken'ichi Nomoto (Univ. of Tokyo)

Photodissociation of H2 in Protogalaxies: Modeling Self-Shielding in 3D Simulations

Authors: Jemma Wolcott-Green (Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory) Zoltán Haiman (Department of Astronomy, Columbia University) Greg L. Bryan (Department of Astronomy, Columbia University)

PTF11eon/SN2011dh: Discovery of a Type IIb Supernova From a Compact Progenitor in the Nearby Galaxy M51

Authors: Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ofer Yaron, Assaf Sternberg, Itay Rabinak, Eli Waxman, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Robert M. Quimby, Eran O. Ofek, Assaf Horesh, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, S. Bradley Cenko, Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Mark Sullivan, Derek B. Fox, Peter E. Nugent, Dovi Poznanski, Evgeny Gorbikov, Amedee Riou, Stephane Lamotte-Bailey, Thomas Griga, Judith G. Cohen, David Polishook, Dong Xu, Sagi Ben-Ami, Ilan Manulis, Emma S. Walker, Paulo A. Mazzali, Elena Pian, Thomas Matheson, Kate Maquire, Yen-Chen Pan, David Bersier, Philip James, Jonathan M. Marchant, Robert J. Smith, Chris J. Mottram, Robert M. Barnsley, Michael T. Kandrashoff, Kelsey I. Clubb

Comments on "Final Analysis and Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search"

Authors: J.I. Collar

tipa -- 6/17/2011

Building the cosmic infrared background brick by brick with Herschel/PEP

Authors: S. Berta, B. Magnelli, R. Nordon, D. Lutz, S. Wuyts, B. Altieri, P. Andreani, H. Aussel, H. Castaneda, J. Cepa, A. Cimatti, E. Daddi, D. Elbaz, N.M. Foerster Schreiber, R. Genzel, E. Le Floc'h, R. Maiolino, I. Perez-Fournon, A. Poglitsch, P. Popesso, F. Pozzi, L. Riguccini, G. Rodighiero, M. Sanchez-Portal, E. Sturm, L.J. Tacconi, I. Valtchanov

Super-Chandrasekhar SNe Ia Strongly Prefer Metal-Poor Environments

Authors: Rubab Khan, K. Z. Stanek, R. Stoll, J. L. Prieto

The Spectroscopic Classification and Explosion Properties of SN2009nz Associated with GRB091127 at z=0.490

Authors: E. Berger, R. Chornock, T. R. Holmes, R. J. Foley, A. Cucchiara, C. Wolf, Ph. Podsiadlowski, D. B. Fox, K. C. Roth

Black hole growth in the early Universe is self-regulated and largely hidden from view

Authors: Ezequiel Treister, Kevin Schawinski, Marta Volonteri, Priyamvada Natarajan, Eric Gawiser

Toward Understanding the Cosmic-ray Acceleration at Young Supernova Remnants Interacting with Interstellar Clouds: Possible Applications to RX J1713.7-3946

Authors: Tsuyoshi Inoue, Ryo Yamazaki, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Yasuo Fukui

Cherenkov Telescopes as Optical Telescopes for Bright Sources: Today's Specialised Thirty Metre Telescopes?

Authors: Brian C. Lacki

On the Flux and Photon Spectral Index Distributions of Fermi-LAT Blazars

Authors: J. Singal, V. Petrosian, M. Ajello

The Impact of Metallicity on the Rate of Type Ia Supernovae

Authors: Matthew D. Kistler, K. Z. Stanek, Christopher S. Kochanek, Jose L. Prieto, Todd A. Thompson

tipa -- 6/16/2011

Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-produced Off-axis Muon Neutrino Beam

Authors: T2K Collaboration

Anisotropy and chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using arrival directions measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Final Analysis and Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search

Authors: M. Felizardo, TA Girard, T. Morlat, A.C. Fernandes, F. Giuliani, A.R. Ramos, J.G. Marques, M. Auguste, D. Boyer, A. Cavaillou, J. Poupeney, C. Sudre, J. Puibasset, H.S. Miley, R.F. Payne, F.P. Carvalho, M.I. Prudêncio, R. Marques

X-ray Constraints on the Lyman-Alpha Escape Fraction

Authors: Zhen-Ya Zheng (USTC, ASU), Sangeeta Malhotra (ASU), Jun-Xian Wang (USTC), James E. Rhoads (ASU), Steven L. Finkelstein (Texas A&M), Eric Gawiser (Rutgers U.), Caryl Gronwall (PSU), Lucia Guaita (Stockholm U.), Kim K. Nilsson (ESO), Robin Ciardullo (PSU)

No X-Ray Excess from the HESS J1741-302 Region except a New Intermediate Polar Candidate

Authors: Hideki Uchiyama, Katsuji Koyama, Hironori Matsumoto, Omar Tibolla, Sarah Kaufmann, Stefan Wagner

The Progenitor of Supernova 2011dh/PTF11eon in Messier 51

Authors: Schuyler D. Van Dyk (1), Weidong Li (2), S. Bradley Cenko (2), Mansi M. Kasliwal (3), Assaf Horesh (3), Eran O. Ofek (3,4), Adam L. Kraus (5,6), Jeffrey M. Silverman (2), Iair Arcavi (7), Alexei V. Filippenko (2), Avishay Gal-Yam (7), Robert M. Quimby (3), Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (3), Ofer Yaron (7), David Polishook (7) ((1) Spitzer Science Center/Caltech, (2) UC Berkeley, (3) Caltech, (4) Einstein Fellow, (5) IfA/Hawaii, (6) Hubble Fellow, (7) Weizmann Institute)

Does External Pressure Explain Recent Results for Molecular Clouds?

Authors: George Field, Eric Blackman, Eric Keto

SN 2009jf: a slow-evolving stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova

Authors: S. Valenti (1,2), M. Fraser, S. Benetti, G. Pignata, J. Sollerman, C. Inserra, E. Cappellaro, A. Pastorello, S. J. Smartt, M. Ergon, M. T. Botticella, J. Brimacombe, F. Bufano, M. Crockett, I. Eder, D. Fugazza, J. B Haislip, M. Hamuy, A. Harutyunyan, K. M. Ivarsen, E. Kankare, R. Kotak, A. P. LaCluyze, L. Magill, S. Mattila, J. Maza, P. A. Mazzali, D. E. Reichart, S. Taubenberger, M. Turatto, L. Zampieri. ((1) Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, (2) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)

Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray acceleration in newly born magnetars and their associated gravitational wave signatures

Authors: Kumiko Kotera

Accurate Measurement in the Field of the Earth of the General-Relativistic Precession of the LAGEOS II Pericenter and New Constraints on Non-Newtonian Gravity

Authors: David M. Lucchesi, Roberto Peron

tipa -- 6/15/2011

Neutrino Signatures on the High Transmission Regions of the Lyman-alpha Forest

Authors: Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (1,2), Mark Vogelsberger (2), Matteo Viel (3), Abraham Loeb (2) ((1) IFIC, (2) Harvard/CfA, (3) INAF-OATs/INFN Trieste)

Relativistic shock breakouts - a variety of gamma-ray flares: from low luminosity gamma-ray bursts to type Ia supernovae

Authors: Ehud Nakar, Re'em Sari

The Yellow Supergiant Progenitor of the Type II Supernova 2011dh in M51

Authors: J. R. Maund, M. Fraser, M. Ergon, A. Pastorello, S.J. Smartt, J. Sollerman, S. Benetti, M.-T. Botticella, F. Bufano, I.J. Danziger, R. Kotak, L. Magill, A.W. Stephens, S. Valenti

Measurement of the Electric Current in a Kpc-Scale Jet

Authors: Philipp P. Kronberg, Richard V.E. Lovelace, Giovanni Lapenta, Stirling A. Colgate

Observational Search for PeV-EeV Tau Neutrino from GRB081203A

Authors: Y. Aita (1), T. Aoki (1), Y. Asaoka (1), T. Chonan (1), M. Jobashi (1), M. Masuda (1), Y. Morimoto (1), K. Noda (1), M. Sasaki (1), J. Asoh (2), N. Ishikawa (2), S. Ogawa (2), J. G. Learned (3), S. Matsuno (3), S. Olsen (3), P. -M. Binder (4), J. Hamilton (4), N. Sugiyama (5), Y. Watanabe (6) ((1) ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo, (2) Toho Univ., (3) Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, (4) Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo, (5) Nagoya Univ., (6) Kanagawa University)

Explosive nucleosynthesis in the neutrino-driven aspherical supernova explosion of a non-rotating 15$M_{\odot}$ star with solar metallicity

Authors: Shin-ichiro Fujimoto, Kei Kotake, Masa-aki Hashimoto, Masaomi Ono, Naofumi Ohnishi

Authors: A. Bauswein, H.-Th. Janka (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching)

tipa -- 6/8/2011

The Role of Collective Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Core-Collapse Supernova Shock Revival

Authors: Basudeb Dasgupta, Evan P. O'Connor, Christian D. Ott

TeV and Multi-wavelength Observations of Mrk 421 in 2006-2008

Authors: VERITAS collaboration

A New Model for Gamma-Ray Cascades in Extragalactic Magnetic Fields

Authors: H. Huan, T. Weisgarber, T. Arlen, S. P. Wakely

Fermi-LAT Observations of Markarian 421: the Missing Piece of its Spectral Energy Distribution

Authors: The Fermi-LAT collaboration: A. A. Abdo et al., the MAGIC collaboration: J. Aleksić, et al., the GASP-WEBT consortium, multi-wavelength partners

Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay and Particle Physics

Authors: Werner Rodejohann

The T2K Experiment

Authors: T2K Collaboration

tipa -- 6/7/2011

Measurement of the 8B Solar Neutrino Flux with KamLAND

Authors: S. Abe, K. Furuno, A. Gando, Y. Gando, K. Ichimura, H. Ikeda, K. Inoue, Y. Kibe, W. Kimura, Y. Kishimoto, M. Koga, Y. Minekawa, T. Mitsui, T. Morikawa, N. Nagai, K. Nakajima, K. Nakamura, M. Nakamura, K. Narita, I. Shimizu, Y. Shimizu, J. Shirai, F. Suekane, A. Suzuki, H. Takahashi, N. Takahashi, Y. Takemoto, K. Tamae, H. Watanabe, B.D. Xu, H. Yabumoto, E. Yonezawa, H. Yoshida, S. Yoshida, S. Enomoto, A. Kozlov, H. Murayama, C. Grant, G. Keefer, D. McKee, A. Piepke, T.I. Banks, T. Bloxham, J.A. Detwiler, S.J. Freedman, B.K. Fujikawa, K. Han, R. Kadel, T. O'Donnell, H.M. Steiner, L.A. Winslow, D.A. Dwyer, C. Mauger, R.D. McKeown, C. Zhang, B.E. Berger, C.E. Lane, J. Maricic, T. Miletic, M. Batygov, J.G. Learned, S. Matsuno, S. Pakvasa, M. Sakai, G.A. Horton-Smith, A. Tang, K.E. Downum, G. Gratta, K. Tolich, Y. Efremenko, Y. Kamyshkov, O. Perevozchikov, H.J. Karwowski, D.M. Markoff, W. Tornow, K.M. Heeger, F. Piquemal, J.-S. Ricol, M.P. Decowski

Long-term monitoring of the TeV emission from Mrk 421 with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Authors: The ARGO-YBJ Collaboration

Swift J1644+57: A White Dwarf Tidally Disrupted by a 10^4 M_{odot} Black Hole?

Authors: Julian H. Krolik, Tsvi Piran

Magnetic Fields in Large Diameter HII Regions Revealed by the Faraday Rotation of Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources

Authors: Lisa Harvey-Smith, Gregory J. Madsen, Bryan M. Gaensler

Dark Matter Cores and Cusps: The Case of Multiple Stellar Populations in Dwarf Spheroidals

Authors: N.C. Amorisco (Cambridge), N. W. Evans (Cambridge)

Updated Neutrino Flux Limits from the RICE Experiment at the South Pole

Authors: Ilya Kravchenko, Dave Seckel, Dave Besson, John Ralston, John Taylor, Ken Ratzlaff, Rob Young

A Search for the Dark Matter Annual Modulation in South Pole Ice

Authors: J. Cherwinka, R. Co, D. F. Cowen, D. Grant, F. Halzen, K. M. Heeger, L. Hsu, A. Karle, V. A. Kudryavtsev, R. Maruyama, W. Pettus, M. Robinson, N. J. C. Spooner

Underground operation of the ICARUS T600 LAr-TPC: first results

Authors: C. Rubbia, M. Antonello, P. Aprili, B. Baibussinov, M. Baldo Ceolin, L. Barzè, P. Benetti, E. Calligarich, N. Canci, F. Carbonara, F. Cavanna, S. Centro, A. Cesana, K. Cieslik, D. B. Cline, A. G. Cocco, A. Dabrowska, D. Dequal, A. Dermenev, R. Dolfini, C. Farnese, A. Fava, A. Ferrari, G. Fiorillo, D. Gibin, A. Gigli Berzolari, S. Gninenko, T. Golan, A. Guglielmi, M. Haranczyk, J. Holeczek, P. Karbowniczek, M. Kirsanov, J. Kisiel, I. Kochanek, J. Lagoda, M. Lantz, S. Mania, G. Mannocchi, F. Mauri, A. Menegolli, G. Meng, C. Montanari, S. Muraro, S. Otwinowski, O. Palamara, T. J. Palczewski, L. Periale, A. Piazzoli, P. Picchi, F. Pietropaolo, P. Plonski, M. Prata, P. Przewlocki, A. Rappoldi, G. L. Raselli, M. Rossella, P. Sala, E. Scantamburlo, A. Scaramelli, E. Segreto, F. Sergiampietri, J. Sobczyk, D. Stefan, J. Stepaniak, R. Sulej, M. Szarska, M. Terrani, F. Varanini, S. Ventura, C. Vignoli, T. Wachala, H. Wang, X. Yang, A. Zalewska, K. Zaremba, J. Zmuda

tipa -- 6/6/2011

How supernova feedback turns dark matter cusps into cores

Authors: Andrew Pontzen (1), Fabio Governato (2) ((1) Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, (2) University of Washington, Seattle)

The Expanded Very Large Array -- a New Telescope for New Science

Authors: R.A. Perley, C.J. Chandler, B.J. Butler, J.M. Wrobel (NRAO)

Reheating Effects in the Matter Power Spectrum and Implications for Substructure

Authors: Adrienne L. Erickcek (CITA/Perimeter Institute), Kris Sigurdson (UBC)

Effects of Rotation on Stochasticity of Gravitational Waves in Nonlinear Phase of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: Kei Kotake, Wakana Iwakami Nakano, Naofumi Ohnishi

Type Ia Supernovae as Sites of p-process: Two-Dimensional Models Coupled to Nucleosynthesis

Authors: Claudia Travaglio, Fritz Roepke, Roberto Gallino, Wolfgang Hillebrandt

Search for an Annual Modulation in a P-type Point Contact Germanium Dark Matter Detector

Authors: C.E. Aalseth, P.S. Barbeau, J. Colaresi, J.I. Collar, J. Diaz Leon, J.E. Fast, N. Fields, T.W. Hossbach, M.E. Keillor, J.D. Kephart, A. Knecht, M.G. Marino, H.S. Miley, M.L. Miller, J.L. Orrell, D.C. Radford, J.F. Wilkerson, K.M. Yocum

A Realistic Assessment of the Sensitivity of XENON10 and XENON100 to Light-Mass WIMPs

Authors: J.I. Collar

Nuclear recoil scintillation and ionisation yields in liquid xenon from ZEPLIN-III data

Authors: M. Horn, V. A. Belov, D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araújo, E. J. Barnes, A. A. Burenkov, V. Chepel, A. Currie, B. Edwards, C. Ghag, A. Hollingsworth, G. E. Kalmus, A. S. Kobyakin, A. G. Kovalenko, V. N. Lebedenko, A. Lindote, M. I. Lopes, R. Lüscher, 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

On the determination of anti-neutrino spectra from nuclear reactors

Authors: Patrick Huber

classic papers of the week -- 197

Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles

G.S. Guralnik, C.R. Hagen, T.W.B. Kibble (Department of Physics, Imperial College, London)

On the problem of distribution in globular star clusters

Plummer, H. C.

Results of a study to build a gamma-ray telescope in an external tank

Koch, D. (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA)

tipa -- 6/3/2011

The Physics of the 'Heartbeat' State of GRS 1915+105

Authors: Joseph Neilsen (1,2), Ronald A. Remillard (3), Julia C. Lee (1,2) ((1) Harvard University, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)

Dark Energy and Neutrino Masses from Future Measurements of the Expansion History and Growth of Structure