today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 2/11/2009

Bright AGN Source List from the First Three Months of the Fermi Large Area Telescope All-Sky Survey

Authors: A. A. Abdo, et al

Constraints on Neutron Star Crusts From Oscillations in Giant Flares

Authors: Andrew W. Steiner (JINA and NSCL, Michigan State), Anna L. Watts (Amsterdam)

classic papers of the week -- 93

Attempt to Detect the Antineutrinos from a Nuclear Reactor by the Cl^37(ν¯, e-)A^37 Reaction

Davis, Raymond (Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, New York)

Limits on Massless Particles

Steven Weinberg, Edward Witten (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

The New Star in Andromeda

tipa -- 2/6/2009

On the protection of extrasolar Earth-like planets around K/M stars against galactic cosmic rays

Authors: J. M. Grießmeier (1 and 2), A. Stadelmann (3), J. L. Grenfell (4 and 5), H. Lammer (6), U. Motschmann (3) ((1) LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France, (2) Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, (3) Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, (4) Institut für Planetenforschung, DLR, Berlin, Germany, (5) Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, (6) Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria)

tipa -- 2/5/2009

A Kiloparsec-Scale Hyper-Starburst in a Quasar Host Less than 1 Gigayear after the Big Bang

Authors: F. Walter, D. Riechers, P. Cox, R. Neri, C. Carilli, F. Bertoldi, A. Weiss, R. Maiolino

Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II

Authors: The IceCube Collaboration

The redshift and afterglow of the extremely energetic gamma-ray burst GRB 080916C

Authors: J. Greiner, C. Clemens, T. Kruehler, A. v. Kienlin, A. Rau, R. Sari, D.B. Fox, N. Kawai, P. Afonso, M. Ajello, E. Berger, S.B. Cenko, A. Cucchiara, R. Filgas, S. Klose, A. Kuepue Yoldas, G.G. Lichti, S. Loew, S. McBreen, T. Nagayama, A. Rossi, S. Sato, G. Szokoly, A. Yoldas, X.-L. Zhang

tipa -- 2/4/2009

Dark Matter Annihilation Rates with Velocity-Dependent Annihilation Cross Sections

Authors: Brant Robertson (KICP/UChicago), Andrew Zentner (UPitt)

Natural explanation for the anomalous positron to electron ratio with supernova remnants as the sole cosmic ray source

Authors: Nir J. Shaviv, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran

Evidence for a Non-Uniform Initial Mass Function in the Local Universe

Authors: Gerhardt R. Meurer, O.I. Wong, J.H. Kim, D.J. Hanish, T.M. Heckman, J. Werk, J. Bland-Hawthorn, M.A. Dopita, M.A. Zwaan, B. Koribalski, M. Seibert, D.A. Thilker, H.C. Ferguson, R.L. Webster, M.E. Putman, P.M. Knezek, M.T. Doyle, M.J. Drinkwater, C.G. Hoopes, V.A. Kilborn, M. Meyer, E.V. Ryan-Weber, R.C. Smith, L. Staveley-Smith

Type-Ia Supernova-driven Galactic Bulge Wind

Authors: Shikui Tang, Q. Daniel Wang, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, M. Ryan Joung

The path to the enhanced and advanced LIGO gravitational-wave detectors

Authors: Joshua R Smith, for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

tipa -- 2/3/2009

A dark matter disc in three cosmological simulations of Milky Way mass galaxies

Authors: J. I. Read, L. Mayer, A. M. Brooks, F. Governato, G. Lake

Can the WMAP Haze really be a signature of annihilating neutralino dark matter?

Authors: Daniel T. Cumberbatch, Joe Zuntz, Hans Kristian Kamfjord Eriksen, Joe Silk

Search for high-energy muon neutrinos from the "naked-eye" GRB 080319B with the IceCube neutrino telescope

Authors: IceCube Collaboration: R. Abbasi, et al

Spectral and intensity variations of Galactic 26^Al emission

Authors: W. Wang, M.G. Lang, R. Diehl, H. Halloin, P. Jean, J. Knödlseder, K. Kretschmer, P. Martin, P. Roques, A.W. Strong, C. Winkler, X.L. Zhang

tipa -- 2/2/2009

Efficiency of Magnetic to Kinetic Energy Conversion in a Monopole Magnetosphere

Authors: Alexander Tchekhovskoy (1), Jonathan C. McKinney (2), Ramesh Narayan (1) ((1) Harvard-CfA, (2) Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University)

Buoyancy Instabilities in Galaxy Clusters: Convection Due to Adiabatic Cosmic Rays and Anisotropic Thermal Conduction

Authors: P. Sharma, B. D. G. Chandran, E. Quataert, I. J. Parrish

Estimating the Explosion Time of Core-Collapse Supernovae from Their Optical Light Curves

Authors: D.F. Cowen, A. Franckowiak, M. Kowalski

HI in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and Stripping by the Galactic Halo

Authors: Jana Grcevich, Mary E Putman

Fake Dark Matter at Colliders

Authors: Spencer Chang, Andre de Gouvea

classic papers of the week -- 92

Theory of Superconductivity

Bardeen, J.; Cooper, L. N.; Schrieffer, J. R. (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois)

A theory of the interstellar medium - Three components regulated by supernova explosions in an inhomogeneous substrate

McKee, C. F. (University of California, Berkeley); Ostriker, J. P. (Princeton University Observatory)

Tests for neutral currents in neutrino reactions

E.A. Paschos (National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL), L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

tipa -- 1/30/2009

Optical polarisation of the Crab pulsar: precision measurements and comparison to the radio emission

Authors: Agnieszka Słowikowska (1 and 2), Gottfried Kanbach (3), Michael Kramer (4), Alexander Stefanescu (5 and 3) ((1) IESL - FORTH Heraklion, Greece, (2) NCAC Toruń, Poland, (3) MPE Garching, Germany, (4) JBCA, University of Manchester, UK, (5) MPI Semiconductor Lab Munich, Germany)

VERITAS observations of the BL Lac 1ES 1218+304

Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V.A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, S.M. Bradbury, J.H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, K.L. Byrum, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, Y.C.K. Chow, P. Cogan, P. Colin, W. Cui, M.K. Daniel, T. Ergin, A.D. Falcone, S.J. Fegan, J.P. Finley, P. Fortin, L.F. Fortson, A. Furniss, G.H. Gillanders, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, E. Hays, J. Holder, D. Horan, C.M. Hui, T.B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D.B. Kieda, J. Kildea, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M.J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nagai, J. Niemiec, R.A. Ong, D. Pandel, J.S. Perkins, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L.C. Reyes, P.T. Reynolds, H.J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G.H. Sembroski, A.W. Smith, D. Steele, S.P. Swordy, J.A. Toner, L. Valcarcel, V.V. Vassiliev, R. Wagner, S.P. Wakely, J.E. Ward, T.C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, R.J. White, D.A. Williams, S.A. Wissel, M. Wood, B. Zitzer

Authors: N. Bucciantini (1), E. Quataert (1), B.D. Metzger (1), T.A. Thompson (2), J. Arons (1), L. Del Zanna (3) ((1) U.C. Berkeley, (2) Ohio State Univ., (3) Univ. di Firenze)