tipa -- 11/16/2010

The Merger Rate of Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf Binaries: Links to the Formation of AM CVn Stars and Underluminous Supernovae

• Authors: Warren R. Brown, Mukremin Kilic, Carlos Allende Prieto, Scott J. Kenyon

Impact of the spectral hardening of TeV cosmic rays on the prediction of the secondary positron flux

• Authors: Julien Lavalle

Blazars in the Fermi Era: The OVRO 40-m Telescope Monitoring Program

• Authors: Joseph L. Richards (1), Walter Max-Moerbeck (1), Vasiliki Pavlidou (1), Oliver G. King (1), Timothy J. Pearson (1), Anthony C. S. Readhead (1), Rodrigo Reeves (1), Martin C. Shepherd (1), Matthew A. Stevenson (1), Lawrence C. Weintraub (1), Lars Fuhrmann (2), Emmanouil Angelakis (2), J. Anton Zensus (2), Stephen E. Healey (3), Roger W. Romani (3), Michael S. Shaw (3), Keith Grainge (4), Mark Birkinshaw (5), Katy Lancaster (5), Diana M. Worrall (5), Gregory B. Taylor (6), Garret Cotter (7), Ricardo Bustos (8) ((1) California Institute of Technology, (2) Max-Planck-Institut-für-Radioastronomie, (3) Stanford University, (4) University of Cambridge / Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge, (5) University of Bristol, (6) University of New Mexico, (7) University of Oxford, (8) Universidad de Concepción / Universidad de Chile)

Identification of a Population of X-ray Emitting Massive Stars in the Galactic Plane

• Authors: G. E. Anderson (1), B. M. Gaensler (1), D. L. Kaplan (2), B. Posselt (3), P. O. Slane (3), S. S. Murray (3), J. C. Mauerhan (4), R. A. Benjamin (5), C. L. Brogan (6), D. Chakrabarty (7), J. J. Drake (3), J. E. Drew (8), J. E. Grindlay (3), J. Hong (3), T. J. W. Lazio (9), J. C. Lee (3), D. T. H. Steeghs (1), M. H. van Kerkwijk (11) ((1) U. Sydney, (2) U. California, (3) CfA, (4) Caltech, (5) U. Wisconsin, (6) NRAO, (7) MIT, (8) U. Hertfordshire, (9) NRL, (10) U. Warwick, (11) U. Toronto)

The revival of an explosion mechanism of massive stars - the quark hadron phase transition during the early post bounce phase of core collapse supernovae

• Authors: T. Fischer, I. Sagert, G. Pagliara, M. Hempel, J. Schaffner-Bielich, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thielemann, R. Käppeli, G. Martínez-Pinedo, M. Liebendörfer

On Luminous Blue Variables as the Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae, especially Type IIn Supernovae

• Authors: Vikram V Dwarkadas

Muon Capture Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Properties

• Authors: David McKeen, Maxim Pospelov

Consistent Scenarios for Cosmic-Ray Excesses from Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation

• Authors: Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Lisa Goodenough, Tracy R. Slatyer, Mark Vogelsberger, Neal Weiner

Anthropic Argument for Three Generations

• Authors: Andrew Gould

Superkicks in ultrarelativistic encounters of spinning black holes

• Authors: Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Frans Pretorius, Nicolas Yunes