tipa -- 9/8/2011

Turbulent Pressure Support in the Outer Parts of Galaxy Clusters

• Authors: Ian J. Parrish (1), Michael McCourt (1), Eliot Quataert (1), Prateek Sharma (1 and 2) ((1) UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy and Theoretical Astrophysics Center, (2) Indian Institute of Science)

Type Ia Supernova Carbon Footprints

• Authors: R. C. Thomas, G. Aldering, C. Aragon, P. Antilogus, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, E. Y. Hsiao, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, S. Loken, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, D. Rubin, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu, P. J. Brown, P. A. Milne

CXOM31 J004253.1+411422: The first ultra-luminous X-ray transient in M 31

• Authors: A. Kaur, M. Henze, F. Haberl, W. Pietsch, J. Greiner, A. Rau, D.H. Hartmann, G. Sala, M. Hernanz

tipa -- 9/7/2011

Observation of an Anisotropy in the Galactic Cosmic Ray arrival direction at 400 TeV with IceCube

• Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Very Early Ultraviolet and Optical Observations of the Type Ia Supernova 2009ig

• Authors: Ryan J. Foley, P. J. Challis, A. V. Filippenko, M. Ganeshalingam, W. Landsman, W. Li, G. H. Marion, J. M. Silverman, R. L. Beaton, V. N. Bennert, S. B. Cenko, M. Childress, P. Guhathakurta, L. Jiang, R. P. Kirshner, A. Stockton, E. Tollerud, J. Vinko, J. C. Wheeler, J.-H. Woo

Connecting the Gamma Ray Burst Rate and the Cosmic Star Formation History: Implications for Reionization and Galaxy Evolution

• Authors: Brant E. Robertson (Caltech, Arizona), Richard S. Ellis (Caltech)

Testing General Relativity on Horizon Scales and the Primordial non-Gaussianity

• Authors: Jaiyul Yoo, Nico Hamaus, Uros Seljak, Matias Zaldarriaga

Crab GeV flares from corrugated termination shock

• Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Dinshaw Balsara (University of Notre Dame), Chris Matthews (University of Notre Dame)

tipa -- 9/6/2011

Combined Analysis of all Three Phases of Solar Neutrino Data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

• Authors: SNO Collaboration

Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the combustion of a neutron star into a quark star

• Authors: Matthias Herzog, Friedrich K. Roepke

Slowly balding black holes

• Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Jonathan C. McKinney (Stanford University)

Constraining the near-IR background light from Population-III stars using high redshift gamma-ray sources

• Authors: Rudy C. Gilmore

The Lag-Luminosity Relation in the GRB Source-Frame: An Investigation with Swift BAT Bursts

• Authors: T. N. Ukwatta, K. S. Dhuga, M. Stamatikos, C. D. Dermer, T. Sakamoto, E. Sonbas, W. C. Parke, L. C. Maximon, J. T. Linnemann, P. N. Bhat, A. Eskandarian, N. Gehrels, U. Abeysekara, K. Tollefson, J. P. Norris

Results from 730 kg days of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search

• Authors: G. Angloher, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina, A. Bento, C. Bucci, C. Ciemniak, G. Deuter, F. von Feilitzsch, D. Hauff, P. Huff, C. Isaila, J. Jochum, M. Kiefer, M. Kimmerle, J.-C. Lanfranchi, F. Petricca, S. Pfister, W. Potzel, F. Pröbst, F. Reindl, S. Roth, K. Rottler, C. Sailer, K. Schäffner, J. Schmaler, S. Scholl, W. Seidel, M. von Sivers, L. Stodolsky, C. Strandhagen, R. Strauß, A. Tanzke, I. Usherov, S. Wawoczny, M. Willers, A. Zöller

Phase Diagram for Magnetic Reconnection in Heliophysical, Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

• Authors: Hantao Ji, William Daughton

Systematic effects in the estimate of the local gamma-ray emissivity

• Authors: Timur Delahaye, Pierre Salati, Armand Fiasson, Martin Pohl

Core-collapse model of broadband emission from SNR RX J1713.7-3946 with thermal X-rays and Gamma-rays from escaping cosmic rays

• Authors: Donald C. Ellison, Patrick Slane, Daniel J. Patnaude, Andrei M. Bykov

New Sources of Gravitational Waves during Inflation

• Authors: Leonardo Senatore, Eva Silverstein, Matias Zaldarriaga

tipa -- 9/5/2011

Measurement of separate cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: The Fermi LAT Collaboration

tipa -- 9/2/2011

The MultiDark Database: Release of the Bolshoi and MultiDark Cosmological Simulations

• Authors: Kristin Riebe, Adrian M. Partl, Harry Enke, Jaime Forero-Romero, Stefan Gottloeber, Anatoly Klypin, Gerard Lemson, Francisco Prada, Joel R. Primack, Matthias Steinmetz, Victor Turchaninov

VERITAS Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Swift

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration

Time Evolution of the Reverse Shock in SN 1006

• Authors: P. Frank Winkler, Andrew J. S. Hamilton, Knox S. Long, Robert A. Fesen

Cosmic rays and the magnetic field in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC253 III. Helical magnetic fields in the nuclear outflow

• Authors: Volker Heesen (1), Rainer Beck (2), Marita Krause (2), Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (3) ((1) University of Hertfordshire, (2) MPIfR, (3) Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

tipa -- 9/1/2011

What is the Most Promising Electromagnetic Counterpart of a Neutron Star Binary Merger?

• Authors: Brian D. Metzger, Edo Berger

tipa -- 8/31/2011

Halo Contraction Effect in Hydrodynamic Simulations of Galaxy Formation

• Authors: Oleg Y. Gnedin, Daniel Ceverino, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Anatoly A. Klypin, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Robyn Levine, Daisuke Nagai, Gustavo Yepes

The Shocking Truth: The small contribution to hydrogen reionization from gravitational infall

• Authors: Stuart Wyithe, Jeremy Mould, Abraham Loeb

On the sensitivity of the HAWC observatory to gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: HAWC collaboration

Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the two photon decay channel with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

• Authors: ATLAS Collaboration

tipa -- 8/30/2011

Observations of the Crab pulsar above 25 GeV with the MAGIC I telescope

• Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

The First MAXI/GSC Catalog in the High Galactic-Latitude Sky

• Authors: MAXI Collaboration

Early emission from type Ia supernovae

• Authors: Itay Rabinak, Eli Livne, Eli Waxman

tipa -- 8/29/2011

Simulations of Early Baryonic Structure Formation with Stream Velocity: I. Halo Abundance

• Authors: Smadar Naoz, Naoki Yoshida, Nickolay Y. Gnedin

classic papers of the week -- 204

Inhomogeneous Electron Gas

• Hohenberg, P. (École Normale Superieure, Paris, France); Kohn, W. (École Normale Superieure, Paris, France and Faculté des Sciences, Orsay, France and University of California at San Diego)

On the variations of the proper motions of Procyon and Sirius

• Bessel, F. W.

Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon

• Iijima, Sumio (NEC Corp., Tsukuba, Japan)

tipa -- 8/26/2011

Jet formation from massive young stars: Magnetohydrodynamics versus radiation pressure

• Authors: Bhargav Vaidya, Christian Fendt, Henrik Beuther, Oliver Porth

tipa -- 8/25/2011

The interstellar cosmic-ray electron spectrum from synchrotron radiation and direct measurements

• Authors: A. W. Strong, E. Orlando, T.R. Jaffe

Energy spectra of primary and secondary cosmic-ray nuclei measured with TRACER

• Authors: A. Obermeier, M. Ave, P. Boyle, Ch. Höppner, J. Hörandel, D. Müller

The SDSS-II Supernova Survey: Parameterizing the Type Ia Supernova Rate as a Function of Host Galaxy Properties

• Authors: Mathew Smith (ACGC Cape Town, ICG Portsmouth, AIMS), Robert C Nichol, Benjamin Dilday, John Marriner, Richard Kessler, Bruce Bassett, David Cinabro, Joshua Frieman, Peter Garnavich, Saurabh W Jha, Hubert Lampeitl, Masao Sako, Donald P Schneider, Jesper Sollerman

tipa -- 8/24/2011

Ultra-fine dark matter structure in the Solar neighbourhood

• Authors: Daniele S. M. Fantin, Anne M. Green, Michael R. Merrifield

High angular resolution imaging with stellar intensity interferometry using air Cherenkov telescope arrays

• Authors: Paul D. Nunez, Richard Holmes, David Kieda, Stephan LeBohec

tipa -- 8/23/2011

The Long-Term Evolution of Double White Dwarf Mergers

• Authors: Ken J. Shen, Lars Bildsten, Daniel Kasen, Eliot Quataert

Ultra Steep Spectrum radio sources in the Lockman Hole: SERVS identifications and redshift distribution at the faintest radio fluxes

• Authors: J. Afonso (Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon and Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Lisbon), L. Bizzocchi, E. Ibar, M. Grossi, C. Simpson, S. Chapman, M. J. Jarvis, H. Rottgering, R. P. Norris, J. Dunlop, R. J. Ivison, H. Messias, J. Pforr, M. Vaccari, N. Seymour, P. Best, E. González-Solares, D. Farrah, C.A.C. Fernandes, J.-S. Huang, M. Lacy, C. Marastron, L. Marchetti, J.-C. Mauduit, S. Oliver, D. Rigopoulou, S.A. Stanford, J. Surace, G. Zeimann

Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas

• Authors: N. F. Loureiro, R. Samtaney, A. A. Schekochihin, D. A. Uzdensky

Density Fluctuation Effects on Collective Neutrino Oscillations in O-Ne-Mg Core-Collapse Supernovae

• Authors: John F. Cherry, Meng-Ru Wu, Joe Carlson, Huaiyu Duan, George M. Fuller, Yong-Zhong Qian

Discovery of gamma-ray emission from the supernova remnant Kes 17 with Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: J. H. K. Wu (1), E. M. H. Wu (1), C. Y. Hui (2), P. H. T. Tam (3), R. H. H. Huang (3), A. K. H. Kong (3), K. S. Cheng (1) ((1) The University of Hong Kong, (2) Chungnam National University, (3) National Tsing Hua University)

Sterile neutrinos with eV masses in cosmology -- how disfavoured exactly?

• Authors: Jan Hamann, Steen Hannestad, Georg G. Raffelt, Yvonne Y.Y. Wong

Constraining Galactic cosmic-ray parameters with Z<=2 nuclei

• Authors: B. Coste, L. Derome, D. Maurin, A. Putze

Is Strong SASI Activity the Key to Successful Neutrino-Driven Supernova Explosions?

• Authors: Florian Hanke, Andreas Marek, Bernhard Mueller, Hans-Thomas Janka (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)

Young Radio Pulsars in Galactic Globular Clusters

• Authors: Jason Boyles, Duncan R. Lorimer, Phil J. Turk, Robert Mnatsakanov, Ryan S. Lynch, Scott M. Ransom, Paulo C. Freire, Khris Belczynski

Neutrino induced reactions related to the $ν$-process nucleosynthesis of ${}^{92}$Nb and ${}^{98}$Tc

• Authors: Myung-Ki Cheoun, Eunja Ha, T. Hayakawa, Satoshi Chiba, Ko Nakamura, Toshitaka Kajino, Grant J. Mathews

Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200

• Authors: N. Ackerman, B. Aharmim, M. Auger, D.J. Auty, P.S. Barbeau, K. Barry, L. Bartoszek, E. Beauchamp, V. Belov, C. Benitez-Medina, M. Breidenbach, A. Burenkov, B. Cleveland, R. Conley, E. Conti, J. Cook, S. Cook, A. Coppens, I. Counts, W. Craddock, T. Daniels, M.V. Danilov, C.G. Davis, J. Davis, R. deVoe, Z. Djurcic, A. Dobi, A.G. Dolgolenko, M.J. Dolinski, K. Donato, W. Fairbank Jr., J. Farine, P. Fierlinger, D. Franco, D. Freytag, G. Giroux, R. Gornea, K. Graham, G. Gratta, M.P. Green, C. Hagemann, C. Hall, K. Hall, G. Haller, C. Hargrove, R. Herbst, S. Herrin, J. Hodgson, M. Hughes, A. Johnson, A. Karelin, L.J. Kaufman, T. Koffas, A. Kuchenkov, A. Kumar, K.S. Kumar, D.S. Leonard, F. Leonard, F. LePort, D. Mackay, R. MacLellan, M. Marino, Y. Martin, B. Mong, M. Montero Diez, P. Morgan, A.R. Muller, R. Neilson, R. Nelson, A. Odian, K. O'Sullivan, C. Ouellet, A. Piepke, A. Pocar, C.Y. Prescott, K. Pushkin, A. Rivas, E. Rollin, P.C. Rowson, J.J. Russell, A. Sabourov, D. Sinclair, K. Skarpaas, S. Slutsky, V. Stekhanov, V. Strickland, M. Swift, D. Tosi, K. Twelker, P. Vogel, J.-L. Vuilleumier, J.-M. Vuilleumier, A. Waite, S. Waldman, T. Walton, K. Wamba, M. Weber, U. Wichoski, J. Wodin, J.D. Wright, L. Yang, Y.-R. Yen, O.Ya. Zeldovich

tipa -- 8/22/2011

Scaling Law of Relativistic Sweet-Parker Type Magnetic Reconnection

• Authors: Hiroyuki R. Takahashi, Takahiro Kudoh, Youhei Masada, Jin Matsumoto

The Identification of the X-ray Counterpart to PSR J2021+4026

• Authors: Martin C. Weisskopf, Roger W. Romani, Massimiliano Razzano, Andrea Belfiore, Pablo Saz Parkinson, Paul S. Ray, Matthew Kerr, Alice Harding, Douglas A. Swartz, Alberto Carraminana, Marcus Ziegler, Werner Becker, Andrea De Luca, Michael Dormody, David J. Thompson, Gottfried Kanbach, Ronald F. Elsner, Stephen L. O'Dell, Allyn F. Tennant

Three-dimensional Hydrodynamic Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations for an $11.2 M_{\odot}$ Star with Spectral Neutrino Transport

• Authors: Tomoya Takiwaki, Kei Kotake, Yudai Suwa

classic papers of the week -- 203

Nuclear Induction

• Bloch, F. (Stanford University, California)

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics - Theory and application to non-spherical stars

• Gingold, R. A.; Monaghan, J. J. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

A Geodetic Measurement of Unusually High Accuracy

• Captain C. L. Garner (Retired) (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey)

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