tipa -- 8/19/2011

Detection of Pulsed Gamma Rays Above 100 GeV from the Crab Pulsar

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration

Multi-Zone Modeling of HESS J1825-137

• Authors: Adam Van Etten, Roger W. Romani

Supernova enhanced cosmic ray ionization and induced chemistry in a molecular cloud of W51C

• Authors: C. Ceccarelli, P. Hily-Blant, T.Montmerle, G.Dubus, Y.Gallant, A.Fiasson

Circumstellar Material in Type Ia Supernovae via Sodium Absorption Features

• Authors: Assaf Sternberg, Avishay Gal-Yam, Josh D. Simon, Douglas C. Leonard, Robert M. Quimby, Mark M. Phillips, Nidia Morrell, Ian B. Thompson, Inese Ivans, Jennifer L. Marshall, Alexei V. Filippenko, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Josh S. Bloom, Ferdinando Patat, Ryan J. Foley, David Yong, Bryan E. Penprase, Daniel J. Beeler, Carlos Allende Prieto, Guy S. Stringfellow

The very-high energy emission from pulsars: a case for inverse Compton scattering

• Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Nepomuk Otte (UCSC), Andrew McCann (McGill University)

tipa -- 8/18/2011

Central Powering of the Largest Lyman-alpha Nebula is Revealed by Polarized Radiation

• Authors: Matthew Hayes (1,2,3), Claudia Scarlata (4,5), Brian Siana (6) ((1) University of Toulouse, (2) CNRS, IRAP, (3) Geneva Observatory, (4) University of Minnesota, (5) Spitzer, (6) Caltech)

An examination of magnetized outflows from active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters

• Authors: P.M. Sutter, H.-Y. Yang, P.M. Ricker, G. Foreman, D. Pugmire

An Indirect Search for WIMPs in the Sun using 3109.6 days of upward-going muons in Super-Kamiokande

• Authors: Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

Constraining dark matter models from a combined analysis of Milky Way satellites with the Fermi-LAT

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT collaboration

tipa -- 8/17/2011

Relativistic collapse and explosion of rotating supermassive stars with thermonuclear effects

• Authors: Pedro J. Montero, Hans-Thomas Janka, Ewald Mueller (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching)

Tidal Interactions in Merging White Dwarf Binaries

• Authors: Anthony L. Piro (Caltech)

Orbital variation of the X-ray emission from the double neutron star binary J1537+1155

• Authors: Martin Durant, Oleg Kargaltsev, Igor Volkov, George G. Pavlov

tipa -- 8/16/2011

Discovery of the source HESS J1356-645 associated with the young and energetic PSR J1357-6429

• Authors: HESS Collaboration

SN2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A Jet-Driven Type II Supernova

• Authors: Nathan Smith, S. Bradley Cenko, Nat Butler, Joshua S. Bloom, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Assaf Horesh, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law, Peter E. Nugent, Eran O. Ofek, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Branimir Sesar, Sagi Ben-Ami, Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, David Polishook, Dong Xu, Ofer Yaron, Dale A. Frail, Mark Sullivan

Exclusion of canonical WIMPs by the joint analysis of Milky Way dwarfs with Fermi

• Authors: Alex Geringer-Sameth, Savvas M. Koushiappas

Searches for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Observational Constraints on Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos

• Authors: Imre Bartos, Chad Finley, Szabolcs Márka

Evolution of Fluorine Abundances with the ν-Process

• Authors: Chiaki Kobayashi, Natsuko Izutani, Amanda I. Karakas, Takashi Yoshida, David Yong, Hideyuki Umeda

Search for a new gauge boson in the $A'$ Experiment (APEX)

• Authors: S.Abrahamyan, Z.Ahmed, K.Allada, D.Anez, T.Averett, A.Barbieri, K.Bartlett, J.Beacham, J.Bono, J.R.Boyce, P.Brindza, A.Camsonne, K.Cranmer, M.M.Dalton, C.W.deJager, J.Donaghy, R.Essig, C.Field, E.Folts, A.Gasparian, N.Goeckner-Wald, J.Gomez, M.Graham, J.-O.Hansen, D.W.Higinbotham, T.Holmstrom, J.Huang, S.Iqbal, J.Jaros, E.Jensen, A.Kelleher, M.Khandaker, J.J.LeRose, R.Lindgren, N.Liyanage, E.Long, J.Mammei, P.Markowitz, T.Maruyama, V.Maxwell, S.Mayilyan, J.McDonald, R.Michaels, K.Moffeit, V.Nelyubin, A.Odian, M.Oriunno, R.Partridge, M.Paolone, E.Piasetzky, I.Pomerantz, Y.Qiang, S.Riordan, Y.Roblin, B.Sawatzky, P.Schuster, J.Segal, L.Selvy, A.Shahinyan, R.Subedi, V.Sulkosky, S.Stepanyan, N.Toro, D.Walz, B.Wojtsekhowski, J.Zhang

tipa -- 8/15/2011

Weak Primordial Magnetic Fields and Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

• Authors: Karsten Jedamzik, Tom Abel

The Massive Progenitor of the Possible Type II-Linear Supernova 2009hd in Messier 66

• Authors: Nancy Elias-Rosa (1,2,3), Schuyler D. Van Dyk (1), Weidong Li (2), Jeffrey M. Silverman (2), Ryan J. Foley (4,5), Mohan Ganeshalingam (2), Jon C. Mauerhan (1), Erkki Kankare (6,7), Saurabh Jha (8), Alexei V. Filippenko (2), John E. Beckman (9,10), Edo Berger (4), Jean-Charles Cuillandre (11), Nathan Smith (2,12) ((1) Spitzer Science Center/Caltech, (2) UC Berkeley, (3) ICE (IEEC-CSIC), (4) CfA, (5) Clay Fellow, (6) Tuorla Observatory, (7) NOT, (8) Rutgers University, (9) IAC, (10) CSIC, (11) IfA/Hawaii, (12) University of Arizona)

Radio Emission from SN 1994I in NGC 5194 (M 51) - The Best Studied Type Ib/c Radio Supernova

• Authors: Kurt W. Weiler, Nino Panagia, Christopher Stockdale, Michael Rupen, Richard A. Sramek, Christopher L. Williams

Real-time spectroscopy of solar pp neutrinos using Nd-150

• Authors: K. Zuber

It was twenty years ago today ...

• Authors: Paul Ginsparg (Cornell University)

classic papers of the week -- 202

Bose-Einstein Condensation and Liquid Helium

• Penrose, Oliver; Onsager, Lars (Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University)

On Synchrotron Radiation from Messier 87

• Burbidge, G. R. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Imprisonment of Resonance Radiation in Gases

• Holstein, T. (Research Laboratories, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

tipa -- 8/12/2011

Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations

• Authors: M. Brockamp, H. Baumgardt, P. Kroupa

On the Origin of the Salpeter Slope for the Initial Mass Function

• Authors: M. S. Oey (U. Michigan)

Radio Cherenkov signals from the Moon: neutrinos and cosmic rays

• Authors: Yu Seon Jeong, Mary Hall Reno, Ina Sarcevic

tipa -- 8/11/2011

Origin of Ultrahigh Energy Galactic Cosmic Rays: The Isotropy Problem

• Authors: Martin Pohl, David Eichler

Towards a Realistic Pulsar Magnetosphere

• Authors: Constantinos Kalapotharakos, Demosthenes Kazanas, Alice Harding, Ioannis Contopoulos

Turbulent transport in stratified and/or rotating turbulence

• Authors: A. Brandenburg (1,2), K.-H. Rädler (3), K. Kemel (1,2) ((1) NORDITA, (2) Stockholm University, (3) Astrophys. Inst. Potsdam)

tipa -- 8/10/2011

Magnetohydrodynamics on an unstructured moving grid

• Authors: Ruediger Pakmor, Andreas Bauer, Volker Springel

Pre-ALMA observations of GRBs in the mm/submm range

• Authors: A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. Lundgren, S. Martín, D. Garcia-Appadoo, I. de Gregorio Monsalvo, M. J. Michałowski, C. C. Thöne, S. Campana, J. Gorosabel, N. R. Tanvir, K. Wiersema, A. J. Castro-Tirado, S. Schulze, C. De Breuck, G.Petitpas, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, S. Covino, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. M. Winters, M. Bremer, A. J. Levan, R. Salvaterra

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant

• Authors: H. Katagiri, L. Tibaldo, J. Ballet, F. Giordano, I. A. Grenier, T. A. Porter, M. Roth, O. Tibolla, Y. Uchiyama, R. Yamazaki

Numerical Simulations of Driven Relativistic MHD Turbulence

• Authors: Jonathan Zrake, Andrew MacFadyen

tipa -- 8/9/2011

Simulations of Accretion Powered Supernovae in the Progenitors of Gamma Ray Bursts

• Authors: Christopher C. Lindner, Milos Milosavljevic, Rongfeng Shen, Pawan Kumar

The Second Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT collaboration

Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Performance of the MAGIC stereo system obtained with Crab Nebula data

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

Search for the disappearance of muon antineutrinos in the NuMI neutrino beam

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

tipa -- 8/8/2011

A Statistical Approach to Recognizing Source Classes for Unassociated Sources in the First Fermi-LAT Catalog

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

RCW 86: A Type Ia Supernova in a Wind-Blown Bubble

• Authors: Brian J. Williams, William P. Blair, John M. Blondin, Kazimierz J. Borkowski, Parviz Ghavamian, Knox S. Long, John C. Raymond, Stephen P. Reynolds, Jeonghee Rho, P. Frank Winkler

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Interim Report

• Authors: James Green, Paul Schechter, Charles Baltay, Rachel Bean, David Bennett, Robert Brown, Christopher Conselice, Megan Donahue, Scott Gaudi, Tod Lauer, Saul Perlmutter, Bernard Rauscher, Jason Rhodes, Thomas Roellig, Daniel Stern, Takahiro Sumi, Angelle Tanner, Yun Wang, Edward Wright, Neil Gehrels, Rita Sambruna, Wesley Traub

classic papers of the week -- 201

Laser electron accelerator

• Tajima, T.; Dawson, J. M. (Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles)

The distribution of Lyman-alpha absorption lines in the spectra of six QSOs - Evidence for an intergalactic origin

• Sargent, W. L. W.; Young, P. J. (Hale Observatories, California Institute of Technology); Boksenberg, A.; Tytler, D. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London)

Inertial-Range Spectrum of Hydromagnetic Turbulence

• Kraichnan, Robert H. (Peterborough, New Hampshire)

tipa -- 8/5/2011

Testing the Origin of High-Energy Cosmic Rays

• Authors: Andrey E. Vladimirov, Gu\ethlaugur Jóhannesson, Igor V. Moskalenko, Troy A. Porter

Simultaneous Planck, Swift, and Fermi observations of X-ray and gamma-ray selected blazars

• Authors: P. Giommi, G. Polenta, A. Lahteenmaki, D. J. Thompson, M. Capalbi, S. Cutini, D. Gasparrini, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, J. Leon-Tavares, M. Lopez-Caniego, M. N. Mazziotta, C. Monte, M. Perri, S. Raino, G. Tosti, A. Tramacere, F. Verrecchia, H. D. Aller, M. F. Aller, E. Angelakis, D. Bastieri, A. Berdyugin, A. Bonaldi, L. Bonavera, C. Burigana, D. N. Burrows, S. Buson, E. Cavazzuti, G. Chincarini, S. Colafrancesco, L. Costamante, F. Cuttaia, F. D'Ammando, G. de Zotti, M. Frailis, L. Fuhrmann, S. Galeotta, F. Gargano, N. Gehrels, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, E. Keihanen, O. King, T. P. Krichbaum, A. Lasenby, N. Lavonen, C. R. Lawrence, C. Leto, E. Lindfors, N. Mandolesi, M. Massardi, W. Max-Moerbeck, P. F. Michelson, M. Mingaliev, P. Natoli, I. Nestoras, E. Nieppola, K. Nilsson, B. Partridge, V. Pavlidou, T. J. Pearson, P. Procopio, J. P. Rachen, A. Readhead, R. Reeves, A. Reimer, R. Reinthal, S. Ricciardi, J. Richards, D. Riquelme, J. Saarinen, A. Sajina, M. Sandri, P. Savolainen, A. Sievers, A. Sillanpaa, Y. Sotnikova, M. Stevenson, G. Tagliaferri, L. Takalo, J. Tammi, D. Tavagnacco, L. Terenzi, L. Toffolatti, M. Tornikoski, C. Trigilio, M. Turunen, G. Umana, H. Ungerechts, F. Villa, J. Wu, A. Zacchei, J. A. Zensus, X. Zhou

Dynamical Friction around Supermassive Black Holes

• Authors: Fabio Antonini, David Merritt

Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory - Preliminary Design Report

• Authors: Kevin T. Lesko, Steven Acheson, Jose Alonso, Paul Bauer, Yuen-Dat Chan, William Chinowsky, Steve Dangermond, Jason A. Detwiler, Syd De Vries, Richard DiGennaro, Elizabeth Exter, Felix B. Fernandez, Elizabeth L. Freer, Murdock G. D. Gilchriese, Azriel Goldschmidt, Ben Grammann, William Griffing, Bill Harlan, Wick C. Haxton, Michael Headley, Jaret Heise, Zbigniew Hladysz, Dianna Jacobs, Michael Johnson, Richard Kadel, Robert Kaufman, Greg King, Robert Lanou, Alberto Lemut, Zoltan Ligeti, Steve Marks, Ryan D. Martin, John Matthesen, Brendan Matthew, Warren Matthews, Randall McConnell, William McElroy, Deborah Meyer, Margaret Norris, David Plate, Kem E. Robinson, William Roggenthen, Rohit Salve, Ben Sayler, John Scheetz, Jim Tarpinian, David Taylor, David Vardiman, Ron Wheeler, Joshua Willhite, James Yeck

tipa -- 8/4/2011

A New Candidate Magnetar Located Outside the Galactic Plane

• Authors: Joseph R. Callingham (1), Sean A. Farrell (1,2), Bryan M. Gaensler (1,2), Geraint F. Lewis (1), Matthew J. Middleton (3) ((1) The University of Sydney, Australia, (2) ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), Australia, (3) University of Durham, UK)

Preference for an Inverted Neutrino Mass Hierarchy from nu-Process Nucleosynthesis with Finite theta_{1 3} Mixing

• Authors: G. J. Mathews, T. Kajino, W. Aoki, W. Fujiya

New equations of state in core-collapse supernova simulations

• Authors: Matthias Hempel, Tobias Fischer, Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich, Matthias Liebendörfer

tipa -- 8/3/2011

Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole

• Authors: Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Ramesh Narayan (2), Jonathan C. McKinney (3) ((1) Princeton, (2) Harvard, (3) Stanford)

PTF10ops - a subluminous, normal-width lightcurve Type Ia supernova in the middle of nowhere

• Authors: Kate Maguire, Mark Sullivan, Rollin C. Thomas, Peter E. Nugent, D. Andrew Howell, Avishay Gal-Yam, Iair Arcavi, Sagi Ben-Ami, Sarah Blake, Janos Botyanszki, Clement Buton, Jeffery Cooke, Richard S. Ellis, Isobel M. Hook, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Yen-Chen Pan, Rui Pereira, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Assaf Sternberg, Nao Suzuki, Dong Xu, Ofer Yaron, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas Law, Eran O. Ofek, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby

The radio/gamma-ray connection in Active Galactic Nuclei in the era of the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort, E. Angelakis, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, A. Bouvier, J. Bregeon, A. Brez, M. Brigida, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, A. Cannon, P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, E. Cavazzuti, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, C. C. Cheung, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, S. Cutini, F. de Palma, C. D. Dermer, E. do Couto e Silva, P. S. Drell, R. Dubois, D. Dumora, L. Escande, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, W. B. Focke, P. Fortin, M. Frailis, L. Fuhrmann, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Gehrels, N. Giglietto, P. Giommi, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, P. Grandi, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, D. Hadasch, M. Hayashida, E. Hays, S. E. Healey, G. J, A. S. Johnson, T. Kamae, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, J. Kn, M. Kuss, J. Lande, S.-H. Lee, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, A. Makeev, W. Max-Moerbeck, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, J. Mehault, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, M. Naumann-Godo, S. Nishino, P. L. Nolan, J. P. Norris, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, A. Okumura, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Ozaki, D. Paneque, V. Pavlidou, V. Pelassa, M. Pepe, M. Pesce-Rollins, M. Pierbattista, F. Piron, T. A. Porter, S. Rain, M. Razzano, A. Readhead, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, J. L. Richards, R. W. Romani, H. F.-W. Sadrozinski, J. D. Scargle, C. Sgr, E. J. Siskind, P. D. Smith, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, M. S. Strickman, D. J. Suson, H. Takahashi, T. Tanaka, G. B. Taylor, J. G. Thayer, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, A. Tramacere, E. Troja, J. Vandenbroucke, G. Vianello, V. Vitale, A. P. Waite, P. Wang, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, Z. Yang, M. Ziegler

Cosmic ray acceleration at oblique shocks

• Authors: A.R. Bell, K.M. Schure, B. Reville

tipa -- 8/2/2011

Improved search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS

• Authors: MINOS Collaboration

Discovery of gamma and X-ray pulsations from the young and energetic PSR J1357-6429 with Fermi and XMM-Newton

• Authors: M. Lemoine-Goumard, V. E. Zavlin, M.-H. Grondin, R. Shannon, D. A. Smith, M. Burgay, F. Camilo, J. Cohen-Tanugi, P. C. C. Freire, J. E. Grove, L. Guillemot, S. Johnston, M. Keith, M. Kramer, R. N. Manchester, P. F. Michelson, D. Parent, A. Possenti, P. S. Ray, M. Renaud, S. E. Thorsett, P. Weltevrede, M. T. Wolff

IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

In-flight measurement of the absolute energy scale of the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration

Fermi-LAT Detection of the Young SuperNova Remnant Tycho

• Authors: F. Giordano, M. Naumann-Godo, J. Ballet, K. Bechtol, S. Funk, J. Lande, M. N. Mazziotta, S. Rain`o, T. Tanaka, O. Tibolla, Y. Uchiyama

First Search for Point Sources of High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

• Authors: Antares Collaboration

The Galactic Centre in the Far Infrared

• Authors: M. Etxaluze, H. A. Smith, V. Tolls, A. A. Stark, E. Gonzalez-Alfonso

tipa -- 8/1/2011

Dark Matter distribution in the Milky Way: microlensing and dynamical constraints

• Authors: Fabio Iocco, Miguel Pato, Gianfranco Bertone, Philippe Jetzer

Variability in Blazars: Clues from PKS 2155-304

• Authors: Ramesh Narayan, Tsvi Piran

A knee-like structure in the spectrum of the heavy component of cosmic rays observed with KASCADE-Grande

• Authors: The KASCADE-Grande Collaboration

Measurement of cosmic-ray antiproton spectrum at solar minimum with a long-duration balloon flight in Antarctica

• Authors: K. Abe, H. Fuke, S. Haino, T. Hams, M. Hasegawa, A. Horikoshi, K.C. Kim, A. Kusumoto, M.H. Lee, Y. Makida, S. Matsuda, Y. Matsukawa, J.W. Mitchell, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, R. Orito, J.F. Ormes, K. Sakai, M. Sasaki, E.S. Seo, R. Shinoda, R.E. Streitmatter, J. Suzuki, K. Tanaka, N. Thakur, T. Yamagami, A. Yamamoto, T. Yoshida, K. Yoshimura

Improved Constraints on Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxy Properties using Multi-Wavelength Photometry and their Correlations with Supernova Properties

• Authors: Ravi R. Gupta, Chris B. D'Andrea, Masao Sako, Charlie Conroy, Mathew Smith, Bruce Bassett, Joshua A. Frieman, Peter M. Garnavich, Saurabh W. Jha, Richard Kessler, Hubert Lampeitl, John Marriner, Robert C. Nichol, Donald P. Schneider

Constraints on the Synchrotron Shock Model for the Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst 090820A

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

The Progenitor Mass of SN 2011dh from Stellar Populations Analysis

• Authors: Jeremiah W. Murphy (1), Zachary G. Jennings (1), Benjamin Williams (1), Julianne J. Dalcanton (1), Andrew E. Dolphin (2), ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, (2) Raytheon)

Search for B(s) and B to dimuon decays in pp collisions at 7 TeV

• Authors: CMS Collaboration