today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 4/14/2009

A Search for Electron Antineutrino Appearance at the $\Delta m^2 \sim$ 1 $\mathrm{eV}^{2}$ Scale

Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, S. J. Brice, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, J. M. Conrad, Z. Djurcic, B. T. Fleming, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Gonzales, J. Grange, C. Green, J. A. Green, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, S. K. Linden, W. C. Louis, K. B. M. Mahn, W. Marsh, C. Mauger, V. T. McGary, W. Metcalf, G. B. Mills, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, R. H. Nelson, P. Nienaber, J. A. Nowak, B. Osmanov, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov, C. C. Polly, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, A. D. Russell, M. H. Shaevitz, M. Sorel, J. Spitz, I. Stancu, R. J. Stefanski, R. Tayloe, M. Tzanov, R. G. Van de Water, M. O. Wascko, D. H. White, M. J. Wilking, G. P. Zeller, E. D. Zimmerman

Short Gamma Ray Bursts and their Afterglow Signatures in Dense Stellar Systems

Authors: Rion K. Parsons, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, William H. Lee

Episodic Random Accretion and the Cosmological Evolution of Supermassive Black Hole Spins

Authors: J.-M. Wang (1), C. Hu (1), Y.-R. Li (1), Y.-M. Chen (1), A. R. King (2), A. Marconi (3), L. C. Ho (4), C.-S. Yan (1), R. Staubert (5), S. Zhang (1) (1 IHEP, Beijing; 2 Leicester; 3 Florence, Italy; 4 OCIW, USA; 5 Tuebingen, Germany)

Fermi Discovery of Gamma-Ray Emission from NGC 1275

Authors: The Fermi/LAT Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al, H.D. Aller, M.F. Aller, K.I. Kellermann, Y.Y. Kovalev, Y.A. Kovalev, M. L. Lister, A. B. Pushkarev

The Breaking Strain of Neutron Star Crust and Gravitational Waves

Authors: C. J. Horowitz (Indiana), Kai Kadau (LANL)

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: The Strong Force meets the Weak Anthropic Principle

Authors: J. MacDonald, D. J. Mullan

tipa -- 4/13/2009

Luminous Thermal Flares from Quiescent Supermassive Black Holes

Authors: Suvi Gezari, Tim Heckman, S. Bradley Cenko, Michael Eracleous, Karl Forster, Thiago S. Goncalves, D. Chris Martin, Patrick Morrissey, Susan G. Neff, Mark Seibert, David Schiminovich, Ted K. Wyder

Supernova Propagation And Cloud Enrichment: A new model for the origin of $^{60}$Fe in the early solar system

Authors: M. Gounelle, A. Meibom, P. Hennebelle, S.-I. Inutsuka

Suzaku Detection of Super-hard X-ray Emission from the Classical Nova V2491 Cygni

Authors: D. Takei, M. Tsujimoto, S. Kitamoto, J.-U. Ness, J. J. Drake, H. Takahashi, K. Mukai

classic papers of the week -- 100

On gamma-ray astronomy

P. Morrison (Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

Remarks on the unified model of elementary particles

Z. Maki, M. Nakagawa, S. Sakata (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Nagoya University)

Game Theory

Herman Kahn, Irwin Mann (RAND Corporation)

tipa -- 4/10/2009

The molecular gas content of z > 6.5 Lyman-alpha emitters

Authors: Jeff Wagg, Nissim Kanekar, Chris Carilli (NRAO-Socorro)

tipa -- 4/9/2009

Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z >= 1.2

Authors: Mark J. Devlin, Peter A. R. Ade, Itziar Aretxaga, James J. Bock, Edward L. Chapin, Matthew Griffin, Joshua O. Gundersen, Mark Halpern, Peter C. Hargrave, David H. Hughes, Jeff Klein, Gaelen Marsden, Peter G. Martin, Philip Mauskopf, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Calvin B. Netterfield, Henry Ngo, Luca Olmi, Enzo Pascale, Guillaume Patanchon, Marie Rex, Douglas Scott, Christopher Semisch, Nicholas Thomas, Matthew D. P. Truch, Carole Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, Marco P. Viero, Donald V. Wiebe

BLAST: A Far-Infrared Measurement of the History of Star Formation

Authors: Enzo Pascale, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock, Edward L. Chapin, Mark J. Devlin, Simon Dye, Steve A. Eales, Matthew Griffin, Joshua O. Gundersen, Mark Halpern, Peter C. Hargrave, David H. Hughes, Jeff Klein, Gaelen Marsden, Philip Mauskopf, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Calvin B. Netterfield, Luca Olmi, Guillaume Patanchon, Marie Rex, Douglas Scott, Christopher Semisch, Nicholas Thomas, Matthew D. P. Truch, Carole Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, Marco P. Viero, Donald V. Wiebe

Suzaku Observations of PSR B1259-63: A New Manifestation of Relativistic Pulsar Wind

Authors: Yasunobu Uchiyama (SLAC/KIPAC), Takaaki Tanaka (SLAC/KIPAC), Tadayuki Takahashi (ISAS/JAXA), Koji Mori (Miyazaki U.), Kazuhiro Nakazawa (U. Tokyo)

The Population of Viscosity- and Gravitational Wave-Driven Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Among Luminous AGN

Authors: Zoltán Haiman (Columbia University), Bence Kocsis (IAS, Princeton; Harvard University; and Eötvös Loránd University), Kristen Menou (Columbia University)

Constraining Emission Models of Luminous Blazar Sources

Authors: Marek Sikora (CAMK), Lukasz Stawarz (SLAC/KIPAC), Rafal Moderski (CAMK), Krzysztof Nalewajko (CAMK), Greg Madejski (SLAC/KIPAC)

tipa -- 4/8/2009

Exploring short gamma-ray bursts as gravitational-wave standard sirens

Authors: Samaya Nissanke, Scott A. Hughes, Daniel E. Holz, Neal Dalal, Jonathan L. Sievers

Milagro Observations of TeV Emission from Galactic Sources in the Fermi Bright Source List

Authors: A. A. Abdo, B. T. Allen, T. Aune, D. Berley, C. Chen, G. E. Christopher, T. DeYoung, B. L. Dingus, R. W. Ellsworth, M. M. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, E. Hays, C. M. Hoffman, P. H. Huentemeyer, B. E. Kolterman, J. T. Linnemann, J. E. McEnery, T. Morgan, A. I. Mincer, P. Nemethy, J. Pretz, J. M. Ryan, P. M. Saz Parkinson, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, V. Vasileiou, G. P. Walker, D. A. Williams, G. B. Yodh

The Core-collapse rate from the Supernova Legacy Survey

Authors: G. Bazin (1), N. Palanque-Delabrouille (1), J. Rich (1), V. Ruhlmann-Kleider (1), E. Aubourg (1,2), L. Le Guillou (3), P. Astier (3), C. Balland (3,4), S. Basa (5), R. G. Carlberg (7), A. Conley (7), D. Fouchez (8), J. Guy (3), D. Hardin (3), I. M. Hook (10), D. A. Howell (7), R. Pain (3), K. Perrett (7), C. J. Pritchet (9), N. Regnault (3), M. Sullivan (10), P. Antilogus (3), V. Arsenijevic (11), S. Baumont (3), S. Fabbro (11), J. Le Du (8), C. Lidman (12), M. Mouchet (2,6), A. Mourão (11), E. S. Walker (10)

tipa -- 4/7/2009

Cosmic Rays from the Knee to the Highest Energies

Authors: J. Bluemer, R. Engel, J.R. Hoerandel

The cosmic ray lepton puzzle in the light of cosmological N-body simulations

Authors: Pierre Brun, Timur Delahaye, Juerg Diemand, Stefano Profumo, Pierre Salati

High-energy antiprotons from old supernova remnants

Authors: Pasquale Blasi, Pasquale D. Serpico

Neutrino flavour transformation in supernovae

Authors: Huaiyu Duan (INT, U of Washington), James P Kneller (UMN, U of Paris-XI)

tipa -- 4/6/2009

The Chandra Deep Protocluster Survey: Ly-alpha Blobs are powered by heating, not cooling

Authors: J. E. Geach (1), D. M. Alexander (1), B. D. Lehmer (1), Ian Smail (1), Y. Matsuda (1), S. C. Chapman (2), C. A. Scharf (3), R. J. Ivison (4), M. Volonteri (5), T. Yamada (6), A. W. Blain (7), R. G. Bower (1), F. E. Bauer (3), A. Basu-Zych (3) ((1) Durham, (2) IoA Cambridge/Victoria, (3) Columbia, (4) SUPA/ATC Edinburgh, (5) Michigan Ann Arbor, (6) NAOJ, (7) Caltech)

classic papers of the week -- 99

On a Relativistically Invariant Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Wave Fields

Tomonaga, S.

Dynamics of the Interplanetary Gas and Magnetic Fields

Parker, E. N. (Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago)

Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century

tipa -- 4/3/2009

Looking Into the Fireball: ROTSE-III and Swift Observations of Early GRB Afterglows

Authors: E. S. Rykoff (UCSB), F. Aharonian (MPIK), C. W. Akerlof (UMich), M. C. B. Ashley (UNSW), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), H. A. Flewelling (UMich), N. Gehrels (GSFC), E. Gogus (Sabanci), T. Guver (Arizona), U. Kiziloglu (METU), H. A. Krimm (GSFC, USRA), T. A. McKay (UMich), M. Ozel (Cag), A. Phillips (UNSW), R. M. Quimby (Caltech), G. Rowell (Adelaide), W. Rujopakarn (Steward), B. E. Schaefer (LSU), D. A. Smith (Guilford), W. T. Vestrand (LANL), J. C. Wheeler (UTexas), J. Wren (LANL), F. Yuan (UMich), S. A. Yost (CSB/SJU)

H.E.S.S. upper limit on the very high energy gamma-ray emission from the globular cluster 47 Tucanae

Authors: HESS collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al

Stellar and total baryon mass fractions in groups and clusters since redshift 1

Authors: S.Giodini (1), D. Pierini (1), A. Finoguenov (1,2), G. W. Pratt (1), H. Boehringer (1), A. Leauthaud (7), L. Guzzo (3), H. Aussel (13), M. Bolzonella (18), P. Capak (4,14), M. Elvis (5), G. Hasinger (17), O. Ilbert (6), J. S.Kartaltepe (6), A. M. Koekemoer (16), S. J. Lilly (8), H. J. McCracken (9), M. Salvato (14), D. B. Sanders (6), N. Z. Scoville (4), S. Sasaki (10,11), V. Smolcic (14), Y. Taniguchi (12), D. Thompson (14,15), the COSMOS collaboration ((1) Max Planck Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik,(2) University of Maryland,(3) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (4)Spitzer Science Center,(5) Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics,(6)Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, (7) LBNL & Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, (8) ETH Zurich,(9) Institut d Astrophysique de Paris, (10) Tohoku University, Japan,(11) Ehime University,(12) Research Center for Space and Cosmic Evolution, Ehime University,(13) AIM Paris,(14) California Institute of Technology,(15)Large Binocular Telescope Observatory,(16) Space Telescope Science Institute,(17)Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik,(18) INAF - Bologna Astronomical Observatory)

tipa -- 4/2/2009

Fermi Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from GRB 080916C

Authors: The Fermi LAT and Fermi GBM Collaborations

Early assembly of the most massive galaxies

Authors: Chris A. Collins (LJMU), John P. Stott, Matt Hilton, Scott T. Kay, S. Adam Stanford, Michael Davidson, Mark Hosmer, Ben Hoyle, Andrew Liddle, Ed Lloyd-Davies, Robert G. Mann, Nicola Mehrtens, Christopher J. Miller, Robert C. Nichol, A. Kathy Romer, Martin Sahlen, Pedro T. P. Viana, Michael J. West

Nature article

Approaches to Understanding Cosmic Acceleration

Authors: Alessandra Silvestri, Mark Trodden

Evidence of Asymmetry in SN 2007rt, a Type IIn Supernova

Authors: C. Trundle (1), A. Pastorello (1), S. Benetti (2), R. Kotak (1), S. Valenti (1), I. Agnoletto (2), F. Bufano (2), M. Dolci (3), N. Elias-Rosa (4), T. Greiner (5), D. Hunter (1), F.P. Keenan (1), V. Lorenzi (6), K. Maguire (1), S. Taubenberger (7) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (3) Spitzer Science Center, (4) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania, (5) SLOOH Telescopes, (6) TNG, (7) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik)

tipa -- 3/31/2009

The time-dependent rebrightenings in classical novae outbursts: a late-time episodic fuel burning?

Authors: Ondrej Pejcha

The M-sigma and M-L Relations in Galactic Bulges and Determinations of their Intrinsic Scatter

Authors: Kayhan Gultekin (1), Douglas O. Richstone (1), Karl Gebhardt (2), Tod R. Lauer (3), Scott Tremaine (4), M. C. Aller (5), Ralf Bender (6), Alan Dressler (7), S. M. Faber (8), Alexei V. Filippenko (9), Richard Green (10), Luis C. Ho (7), John Kormendy (2), John Magorrian (11), Jason Pinkney (12), Christos Siopis (13) ((1) Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, (2) Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, (3) National Optical Astronomy Observatory, (4) School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, (5) Department of Physics, Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich, (6) Universitaets-Sternwarte der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, (7) Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, (8) University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, Board of Studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, (9) Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, (10) LBT Observatory, University of Arizona, (11) Department of Physics, University of Durham (12) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio Northern University, (13) Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Search for stable Strange Quark Matter in lunar soil

Authors: Ke Han, Jeffrey Ashenfelter, Alexei Chikanian, William Emmet, Evan Finch, Andreas Heinz, Jes Madsen, Richard Majka, Benjamin Monreal, Jack Sandweiss

tipa -- 3/30/2009

Gamma-ray background anisotropy from galactic dark matter substructure

Authors: Shin'ichiro Ando (Caltech)

Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries

Authors: Scott A. Hughes

classic papers of the week -- 98

Photo-Fission in Heavy Elements

Baldwin, G. C.; Klaiber, G. S. (Research Laboratory, General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York)

On Nuclear Dipole Vibrations

Goldhaber, M. (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois); Teller, E. (Institute of Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois)

On spherically symmetrical accretion

Bondi, H.

tipa -- 3/27/2009

The sensitivities of large scintillators and scintillator arrays for solar-axion searches to probe the cosmological axion-photon oscillation proposal

Authors: F.T. Avignone III, R. J. Creswick, S. Nussinov

On the origin and properties of Ultrafaint Milky Way Satellites in a LCDM Universe

Authors: Andrea V. Maccio' (1), Xi Kang (1), Fabio Fontanot (1), Rachel S. Somerville (1,2), Sergey E. Koposov (1,3,4), Pierluigi Monaco (5,6) ((1) MPIA, Heidelberg; (2) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore;(3) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (4) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia, (5) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste; (6) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' di Trieste)