tipa -- 1/24/2014

Background-independent measurement of $θ_{13}$ in Double Chooz

• Double Chooz Collaboration

CLASH-VLT: Constraints on the Dark Matter Equation of State from Accurate Measurements of Galaxy Cluster Mass Profiles

• Barbara Sartoris, Andrea Biviano, Piero Rosati, Stefano Borgani, Keiichi Umetsu, Matthias Bartelmann, Marisa Girardi, Claudio Grillo, Doron Lemze, Adi Zitrin, Italo Balestra, Amata Mercurio, Mario Nonino, Marc Postman, Nicole Czakon, Larry Bradley, Tom Broadhurst, Dan Coe, Elinor Medezinski, Peter Melchior, Massimo Meneghetti, Julian Merten, Marianna Annunziatella, Narciso Benitez, Oliver Czoske, Megan Donahue, Stefano Ettori, Holland Ford, Alexander Fritz, Dan Kelson, Anton Koekemoer, Ulrike Kuchner, Marco Lombardi, Christian Maier, Leonidas A. Mou, Emiliano Munari, Valentina Presotto, Marco Scodeggio, Stella Seitz, Paolo Tozzi, Wei Zheng, Bodo Ziegler

Star Cluster Formation in Turbulent, Magnetized Dense Clumps with Radiative and Outflow Feedback

• Andrew Myers, Richard Klein, Mark Krumholz, Chris McKee

Classification of Supernova in M82 as a young, reddened Type Ia Supernova

• Y. Cao (Caltech), M. M. Kasliwal (Carnegie/Princeton), A. McKay (UT Austin), A. Bradley (APO) report on behalf of the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory Collaboration

Near-IR Adaptive Optics Localization of PSN J09554214+6940260

• S. P. Tendulkar (Caltech), M. C. Liu (IfA/Hawaii), T. J. Dupuy (CfA/SAO), Y. Cao (Caltech) on behalf of the larger intermediate Palomar Transient Factory collaboration

Prediscovery Observations of SN 2014J in M82 from the Antarctic Survey Telescope

• Bin Ma, Peng Wei (National Astronomical Observatories , CAS), Zhaohui Shang (Tianjin Normal Univ.), Lifan Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory), Xiaofeng Wang (Tsinghua Univ.), on behalf of the Chinese Antarctic Survey Collaboration