tipa -- 1/11/2013

The death of massive stars - II. Observational constraints on the progenitors of type Ibc supernovae

• John J. Eldridge, Morgan Fraser, Stephen J. Smartt, Justyn R. Maund, R. Mark Crockett

Swift J1644+57 gone MAD: the case for dynamically-important magnetic flux threading the black hole in a jetted tidal disruption event

• Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Brian D. Metzger (2), Dimitrios Giannios (3), Luke Zoltan Kelley (4) ((1) Princeton, (2) Columbia, (3) Purdue, (4) Harvard-CfA)

Global HI Kinematics in Dwarf Galaxies

• Adrienne M. Stilp, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Steven R. Warren, Evan Skillman, Juergen Ott, Baerbel Koribalski

A bright thermonuclear X-ray burst simultaneously observed with Chandra and RXTE

• J. J. M. in t Zand (SRON), D. K. Galloway (Monash Univ.), H. L. Marshall (MIT), D. R. Ballantyne (Georgia Tech), P. G. Jonker (SRON, Radboud Univ. and CfA), F. B. S. Paerels (Columbia Univ.), D. M. Palmer (LANL), A. Patruno (UvA), N. N. Weinberg (MIT)

Interpretation of searches for supersymmetry with simplified models

• CMS Collaboration

tipa -- 1/10/2013

Search for Very-high-energy γ-ray emission from Galactic globular clusters with H.E.S.S

• H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Cosmic PeV Neutrinos and the Sources of Ultrahigh Energy Protons

• Matthew D. Kistler (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley), Todor Stanev (Bartol Research Institute, Univ. of Delaware), Hasan Yuksel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

X-ray emission from the Ultramassive Black Hole candidate NGC1277: implications and speculation on its origin

• A. C. Fabian, J. S. Sanders, M. Haehnelt, M. J. Rees, J. M. Miller

Varying the light quark mass: impact on the nuclear force and Big Bang nucleosynthesis

• J. C. Berengut, E. Epelbaum, V. V. Flambaum, C. Hanhart, U.-G. Meißner, J. Nebreda, J. R. Peláez

tipa -- 1/9/2013

The Galactic Center Cloud G0.253+0.016: A Massive Dense Cloud with low Star Formation Potential

• Jens Kauffmann (1), Thushara Pillai (1), Qizhou Zhang (2) ((1) Caltech, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

The closest black holes

• Rob Fender (Southampton), Tom Maccarone (Southampton), Ian Heywood (Oxford)

Rapidly accreting white dwarfs as supernova type Ia progenitors

• Kelly Lepo, Marten van Kerkwijk

Thermal plasma in the giant lobes of the radio galaxy Centaurus A

• S. P. O'Sullivan, I. J. Feain, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, R. D. Ekers, E. Carretti, T. Robishaw, S. A. Mao, B. M. Gaensler, J. Bland-Hawthorn, L. Stawarz

Electron acceleration to relativistic energies at a strong quasi-parallel shock wave

• A. Masters, L. Stawarz, M. Fujimoto, S. J. Schwartz, N. Sergis, M. F. Thomsen, A. Retinò, H. Hasegawa, G. R. Lewis, A. J. Coates, P. Canu, M. K. Dougherty

Population synthesis of triple systems in the context of mergers of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs

• Adrian S. Hamers, Onno R. Pols, Joke S. W. Claeys, Gijs Nelemans

Massive star evolution: Luminous Blue Variables as unexpected Supernova progenitors

• Jose H. Groh, Georges Meynet, Sylvia Ekström

Enhanced One-Loop Corrections to WIMP Annihilation and their Thermal Relic Density in the Coannihilation Region

• Manuel Drees, Jie Gu

tipa -- 1/8/2013

The mass and the radius of the neutron star in the transient low mass X-ray binary SAX J1748.9-2021

• Tolga Guver, Feryal Ozel

Two-phase galaxy evolution: the cosmic star-formation histories of spheroids and discs

• Simon P. Driver, Aaron S.G. Robotham, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Michael Brown, Andrew Hopkins, Jochen Liske, Steven Phillipps, Steve Wilkins

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Temperature and Gravitational Lensing Power Spectrum Measurements from Three Seasons of Data

• Sudeep Das, Thibaut Louis, Michael R. Nolta, Graeme E. Addison, Elia S. Battistelli, J Richard Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Devin Crichton Mark J. Devlin, Simon Dicker, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dünner, Joseph W. Fowler, Megan Gralla, Amir Hajian, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Renée Hlozek, Kevin M. Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Kent D. Irwin, Arthur Kosowsky, Robert H. Lupton, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Felipe Menanteau, Kavilan Moodley, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Bruce Partridge, Erik D. Reese, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Neelima Sehgal, Blake D. Sherwin, Jonathan L. Sievers, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Robert Thornton, Hy Trac, Ed Wollack

Double-detonation explosions as progenitors of type Iax supernovae

• Bo Wang, Stephen Justham, Zhanwen Han

Search for muon signal from dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the Baksan Underground Scintillator Telescope for 24.12 years

• M.M. Boliev, S.V. Demidov, S.P. Mikheyev, O.V. Suvorova

Search for photon line-like signatures from Dark Matter annihilations with H.E.S.S

• H.E.S.S. Collaboration

X-ray Luminosities of Optically-Selected Cataclysmic Variables and Application to the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission

• R. C. Reis, P. J. Wheatley, B. T. Gansicke, J. P. Osborne

New Constraints on Cosmic Reionization from the 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field Campaign

• Brant E. Robertson (Arizona), Steven R. Furlanetto, Evan Schneider, Stephane Charlot, Richard S. Ellis, Daniel P. Stark, Ross J. McLure, James S. Dunlop, Anton Koekemoer, Matthew A. Schenker, Masami Ouchi, Yoshiaki Ono, Emma Curtis-Lake, Alexander B. Rogers, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, Michele Cirasuolo

Pulsar Spin-Velocity Alignment: Kinematic Ages, Birth Periods and Braking Indices

• Aristeidis Noutsos, Dominic Schnitzeler, Evan Keane, Michael Kramer, Simon Johnston

Characterization of the optical and X-ray properties of the northwestern wisps in the Crab Nebula

• Thomas Schweizer, Niccolo Bucciantini, Wojciech Idec, Kari Nilsson, Allyn Tennant, Martin Weisskopf, Roberta Zanin

Empirical Survey of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Matrix Elements

• R. G. H. Robertson

Muonic hydrogen and the proton radius puzzle

• Randolf Pohl, Ronald Gilman, Gerald A. Miller, Krzysztof Pachucki

tipa -- 1/7/2013

The Galactic Supernova Remnant W49B Likely Originates from a Jet-Driven, Core-Collapse Explosion

• Laura A. Lopez (MIT), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Daniel Castro (MIT), Sarah Pearson (DARK Cosmology Centre)

Towards a resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt law at high redshift

• J. Freundlich, F. Combes, L. J. Tacconi, M. C. Cooper, R. Genzel, R. Neri, A. Bolatto, F. Bournaud, A. Burkert, P. Cox, M. Davis, N. M. Förster Schreiber, S. Garcia-Burillo, J. Gracia-Carpio, D. Lutz, T. Naab, S. Newman, A. Sternberg, B. Weiner

Signatures of magnetar central engines in short GRB lightcurves

• A. Rowlinson, P.T. O'Brien, B.D. Metzger, N.R. Tanvir, A.J. Levan

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data

• Jonathan L. Sievers, Renée A. Hlozek, Michael R. Nolta, Viviana Acquaviva, Graeme E. Addison, Peter A. R. Ade, Paula Aguirre, Mandana Amiri, John William Appel, L. Felipe Barrientos, Elia S. Battistelli, Nick Battaglia, J. Richard Bond, Ben Brown, Bryce Burger, Erminia Calabrese, Jay Chervenak, Devin Crichton, Sudeep Das, Mark J. Devlin, Simon R. Dicker, W. Bertrand Doriese, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dünner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, David Faber, Ryan P. Fisher, Joseph W. Fowler, Patricio Gallardo, Michael S. Gordon, Megan B. Gralla, Amir Hajian, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo, J. Colin Hill, Gene C. Hilton, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Dave Holtz, Kevin M. Huffenberger, David H. Hughes, John P. Hughes, Leopoldo Infante, Kent D. Irwin, David R. Jacobson, Brittany Johnstone, Jean Baptiste Juin, Madhuri Kaul, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Judy M Lau, Michele Limon, Yen-Ting Lin, Thibaut Louis, Robert H. Lupton, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Krista Martocci, Phil Mauskopf, Michael McLaren, Felipe Menanteau, Kavilan Moodley, Harvey Moseley, Calvin B Netterfield, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, William A. Page, Lucas Parker, Bruce Partridge, Reed Plimpton, Hernan Quintana, Erik D. Reese, Beth Reid, Felipe Rojas, Neelima Sehgal, Blake D. Sherwin, Benjamin L. Schmitt, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Omelan Stryzak, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Robert Thornton, Hy Trac, Carole Tucker, Masao Uehara, Katerina Visnjic, Ryan Warne, Grant Wilson, Ed Wollack, Yue Zhao, Caroline Zuncke

tipa -- 1/4/2013

A Tentative Detection of an Emission Line at 1.6 μm for the z~12 Candidate UDFj-39546284

• Gabriel B. Brammer, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Garth D. Illingworth, Rychard J. Bouwens, Ivo Labbe, Marijn Franx, Ivelina Momcheva, Pascal A. Oesch

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Giant Planets, Oscillations, Rotation, and Massive Stars

• Bill Paxton, Matteo Cantiello, Phil Arras, Lars Bildsten, Edward F. Brown, Aaron Dotter, Christopher Mankovich, M. H. Montgomery, Dennis Stello, F. X. Timmes, Richard Townsend

The Radial Distribution of Star Formation in Galaxies at z~1 from the 3D-HST Survey

• Erica June Nelson, Pieter van Dokkum, Ivelina Momcheva, Gabriel Brammer, Britt Lundgren, Rosalind Skelton, Katherine Whitaker, Elisabete Da Cunha, Natascha Forster Schreiber, Marijn Franx, Mattia Fumagalli, Mariska Kriek, Ivo Labbe, Joel Leja, Shannon Patel, Hans-Walter Rix, Kasper Schmidt, Arjen van der Wel, Stijn Wuyts

Spectroscopy of The Largest Ever Gamma-ray Selected BL Lac Sample

• Michael S. Shaw, Roger W. Romani, Garret Cotter, Stephen E. Healey, Peter F. Michelson, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Joseph L. Richards, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Oliver G. King, William J. Potter

Synthetic Light Curves of Shocked Dense Circumstellar Shells

• Takashi J. Moriya, Sergei I. Blinnikov, Petr V. Baklanov, Elena I. Sorokina, Alexander D. Dolgov

Pulsar searches of Fermi unassociated sources with the Effelsberg telescope

• E. D. Barr, L. Guillemot, D. J. Champion, M. Kramer, R. P. Eatough, K. J. Lee, J. P. W. Verbiest, C. G. Bassa, F. Camilo, Ö. \cCelik, I. Cognard, E. C. Ferrara, P. C. C. Freire, G. H. Janssen, S. Johnston, M. Keith, A. G. Lyne, P. F. Michelson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, B. W. Stappers, K. S. Wood

A Vast Thin Plane of Co-rotating Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy

• Rodrigo A. Ibata, Geraint F. Lewis, Anthony R. Conn, Michael J. Irwin, Alan W. McConnachie, Scott C. Chapman, Michelle L. Collins, Mark Fardal, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Neil G. Ibata, A. Dougal Mackey, Nicolas F. Martin, Julio Navarro, R. Michael Rich, David Valls-Gabaud, Lawrence M. Widrow

Giant Magnetized Outflows from the Centre of the Milky Way

• E. Carretti, R. M. Crocker, L. Staveley-Smith, M. Haverkorn, C. Purcell, B. M. Gaensler, G. Bernardi, M. J. Kesteven, S. Poppi

Stellar Populations in the Central 0.5 pc of the Galaxy II: The Initial Mass Function

• Jessica R. Lu, Tuan Do, Andrea M. Ghez, Mark R. Morris, Sylvana Yelda, Keith Matthews

tipa -- 1/3/2013

An X-ray and Multiwavelength Survey of Highly Radio-Loud Quasars at z > 4: Jet-Linked Emission in the Brightest Radio Beacons of the Early Universe

• Jianfeng Wu, W. N. Brandt, Brendan P. Miller, Gordon P. Garmire, Donald P. Schneider, Cristian Vignali

Molecular hydrogen regulated star formation in cosmological SPH simulations

• Robert Thompson, Kentaro Nagamine, Jason Jaacks, Jun-Hwan Choi

Measuring the non-Gaussian stochastic gravitational-wave background: a method for realistic interferometer data

• Eric Thrane

Novel shell-model analysis of the $^{136}$Xe double beta decay nuclear matrix elements

• M. Horoi, B. A. Brown

tipa -- 1/1/2013

Constraints on Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum of the 2500-square degree SPT-SZ Survey

• Z. Hou, C. L. Reichardt, K. T. Story, B. Follin, R. Keisler, 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, R. de Putter, M. A. Dobbs, S. Dodelson, J. Dudley, E. M. George, N. W. Halverson, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, 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, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, J. E. Ruhl, J.T. Sayre, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, A. van Engelen, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson, O. Zahn

Luminous supernova-like UV/optical/infrared transients associated with ultra-long gamma-ray bursts from metal-poor blue supergiants

• Kazumi Kashiyama, Daisuke Nakauchi, Yudai Suwa, Hidenobu Yajima, Takashi Nakamura

PSR J0357+3205: the tail of the turtle

• Martino Marelli, Andrea De Luca, David Salvetti, Nicola Sartore, Angelica Sartori, Patrizia Caraveo, Fabio Pizzolato, Pablo M. Saz Parkinson, Andrea Belfiore

Massive Free-Streaming Neutrinos and Rise of $N_ν$ at Recombination

• Jeremiah Birrell, Cheng-Tao Yang, Pisin Chen, Johann Rafelski

On the mass and spin-parity of the Higgs boson candidate via its decays to Z boson pairs

• CMS Collaboration

Parity- and Time-Reversal Tests in Nuclear Physics

• David Hertzog, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

tipa -- 12/28/2012

The Impact of Helium-Burning Reaction Rates on Massive Star Evolution and Nucleosynthesis

• Christopher West, Alexander Heger, Sam M. Austin

Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium of Nearby Galaxies with HST/COS and HST/STIS Absorption-Line Spectroscopy

• John T. Stocke, Brian A. Keeney, Charles W. Danforth, J. Michael Shull, Cynthia S. Froning, James C. Green, Steven V. Penton, Blair D. Savage

Theoretical Explanation of the Cosmic Ray Perpendicular Diffusion Coefficient in the Nearby Starburst Galaxy NGC 253

• Kaitlynn Buffie, Volker Heesen, Andreas Shalchi

Testing the dark matter origin of the WMAP-Planck Haze with radio observations of Spiral Galaxies

• Eric Carlson, Dan Hooper, Tim Linden, Stefano Profumo

Search for solar axions in XMASS, a large liquid-xenon detector

• K. Abe, K. Hieda, K. Hiraide, S. Hirano, Y. Kishimoto, K. Kobayashi, S. Moriyama, K. Nakagawa, M. Nakahata, H. Ogawa, N. Oka, H. Sekiya, A. Shinozaki Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, O. Takachio, K. Ueshima, D. Umemoto, M. Yamashita, B. S. Yang, S. Tasaka, J. Liu, K. Martens, K. Hosokawa, K. Miuchi, A. Murata, Y. Onishi, Y. Otsuka, Y. Takeuchi, Y. H. Kim, K. B. Lee, M. K. Lee, J. S. Lee, Y. Fukuda, Y. Itow, K. Masuda, Y. Nishitani, H. Takiya, H. Uchida, N. Y. Kim, Y. D. Kim, F. Kusaba, D. Motoki, K. Nishijima, K. Fujii, I. Murayama, S. Nakamura

tipa -- 12/21/2012

The Cosmic MeV Neutrino Background as a Laboratory for Black Hole Formation

• Hasan Yuksel (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Matthew D. Kistler (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley)

Late Spectral Evolution of the Ejecta and Reverse Shock in SN1987A

• Claes Fransson, Josefin Larsson, Jason Spyromilio, Roger Chevalier, Per Groningsson, Anders Jerkstrand, Bruno Leibundgut, Richard McCray, Peter Challis, Robert P. Kirshner, Karina Kjaer, Peter Lundqvist, Jesper Sollerman

Non-linear evolution of the cosmic neutrino background

• Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Simeon Bird, Carlos Peña-Garay, Matteo Viel

A new multi-field determination of the galaxy luminosity function at z=7-9 incorporating the 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field imaging

• R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, R.A.A. Bowler, E. Curtis-Lake, M. Schenker, R.S. Ellis, B.E. Robertson, A.M. Koekemoer, A.B. Rogers, Y. Ono, M. Ouchi, S. Charlot, V. Wild, D.P. Stark, M. Cirasuolo, T.A. Targett

Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Final Maps and Results

• C. L. Bennett, D. Larson, J. L. Weiland, N. Jarosik, G. Hinshaw, N. Odegard, K. M. Smith, R. S. Hill, B. Gold, M. Halpern, E. Komatsu, M. R. Nolta, L. Page, D. N. Spergel, E. Wollack, J. Dunkley, A. Kogut, M. Limon, S. S. Meyer, G. S. Tucker, E. L. Wright

Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Parameter Results

• G. Hinshaw, D. Larson, E. Komatsu, D. N. Spergel, C. L. Bennett, J. Dunkley, M. R. Nolta, M. Halpern, R. S. Hill, N. Odegard, L. Page, K. M. Smith, J. L. Weiland, B. Gold, N. Jarosik, A. Kogut, M. Limon, S. S. Meyer, G. S. Tucker, E. Wollack, E. L. Wright

Analysis of 3 years of data from the gravitational wave detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS

• ROG Collaboration: P. Astone, M. Bassan, E. Coccia, S. D Antonio, V. Fafone, G. Giordano, A. Marini, Y. Minenkov, I. Modena, A. Moleti, G. V. Pallottino, G. Pizzella, A. Rocchi, F. Ronga, R. Terenzi, M. Visco

Discovering the New Standard Model: Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos

• V. Cianciolo, A.B. Balantekin, A. Bernstein, V. Cirigliano, M.D. Cooper, D.J. Dean, S.R. Elliott, B.W. Filippone, S.J. Freedman, G.L. Greene, K.M. Heeger, D.W. Hertzog, B.R. Holstein, P. Huffman, T. Ito, K. Kumar, Z.-T. Lu, J.S. Nico, G.D. Orebi Gann, K. Paschke, A. Piepke, B. Plaster, D. Pocanic, A.W.P. Poon, D.C. Radford, M.J. Ramsey-Musolf, R.G.H. Robertson, G. Savard, K. Scholberg, Y. Semertzidis, J.F. Wilkerson