today in particle astrophysics

tipa -- 7/20/2009

The Formation of Population III Binaries from Cosmological Initial Conditions

Authors: Matthew J. Turk (1), Tom Abel (1), Brian W. O'Shea (2) ((1) Stanford/KIPAC, (2) Michigan State University)

Measuring Black Hole Spin via the X-ray Continuum Fitting Method: Beyond the Thermal Dominant State

Authors: James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard, Ramesh Narayan, Lijun Gou

Cosmological and astrophysical constraints from the Lyman-alpha forest flux probability distribution function

Authors: M. Viel, J.S. Bolton, M.G. Haehnelt

classic papers of the week -- 109

CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction

Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)

The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matter

Davis, M.; Efstathiou, G.; Frenk, C. S.; White, S. D. M.

On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, in Consequence of the Diminution of the Velocity of Their Light, in Case Such a Diminution Should be Found to Take Place in any of Them, and Such Other Data Should be Procured from Observations, as Would be Farther Necessary for That Purpose. By the Rev. John Michell, B. D. F. R. S. In a Letter to Henry Cavendish, Esq. F. R. S. and A. S.

John Michell

Millikan, R. A. (Ryerson Physical Laboratory, University of Chicago)

Spontaneous creation of almost scale-free density perturbations in an inflationary universe

Bardeen, James M. (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA); Steinhardt, Paul J. (Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA); Turner, Michael S. (Astronomy and Astrophysics Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL)

Entropy Generation and the Survival of Protogalaxies in an Expanding Universe

Weinberg, Steven

tipa -- 7/10/2009

Search for Astrophysical Neutrino Point Sources at Super-Kamiokande

Authors: E. Thrane, et al. (The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Analysis of the low-energy electron-recoil spectrum of the CDMS experiment

Authors: Z. Ahmed, D.S. Akerib, S. Arrenberg, C.N. Bailey, D. Balakishiyeva, L. Baudis, D.A. Bauer, J. Beaty, P.L. Brink, T. Bruch, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D.O. Caldwell, J. Cooley, P. Cushman, F. DeJongh, M.R. Dragowsky, L. Duong, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, J. Filippini, M. Fritts, S.R. Golwala, D.R. Grant, J. Hall, R. Hennings-Yeomans, S. Hertel, D. Holmgren, L. Hsu, M.E. Huber, O. Kamaev, M. Kiveni, M. Kos, S.W. Leman, R. Mahapatra, V. Mandic, D. Moore, K.A. McCarthy, N. Mirabolfathi, H. Nelson, R.W. Ogburn, M. Pyle, X. Qiu, E. Ramberg, W. Rau, A. Reisetter, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, J. Sander, R.W. Schnee, D.N. Seitz, B. Serfass, K.M. Sundqvist, G. Wang, S. Yellin, J. Yoo, B.A. Young, the CDMS Collaboration

Anisotropy vs chemical composition at ultra-high energies

Authors: Martin Lemoine (IAP), Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute of Science)

tipa -- 7/9/2009

Type IIn supernovae at redshift z = 2 from archival data

Jeff Cooke, Mark Sullivan, Elizabeth J. Barton, James S. Bullock, Ray G. Carlberg, Avishay Gal-Yam & Erik Tollerud

The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution

A. Cattaneo, S. M. Faber, J. Binney, A. Dekel, J. Kormendy, R. Mushotzky, A. Babul, P. N. Best, M. Brüggen, A. C. Fabian, C. S. Frenk, A. Khalatyan, H. Netzer, A. Mahdavi, J. Silk, M. Steinmetz & L. Wisotzki

Radio Imaging of the Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Region in the Central Engine of a Radio Galaxy

The VERITAS Collaboration, The VLBA 43 GHz M 87 Monitoring Team, The H.E.S.S. Collaboration, The MAGIC Collaboration

Detection of 16 Gamma-Ray Pulsars Through Blind Frequency Searches Using the Fermi LAT

A Population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars Seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

tipa -- 7/8/2009

Variable Sodium Absorption in a Low-Extinction Type Ia Supernova

Authors: Joshua D. Simon (Carnegie Observatories), Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute), Orly Gnat, Robert M. Quimby (Caltech), Mohan Ganeshalingam, Jeffrey M. Silverman (UC Berkeley), Stephane Blondin (ESO), Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), J. Craig Wheeler (Texas), Robert P. Kirshner (CfA), Ferdinando Patat (ESO), Peter Nugent (LBL), Ryan J. Foley (CfA), Steven S. Vogt (UCSC), R. Paul Butler (Carnegie DTM), Kathryn M. G. Peek (UC Berkeley), Erik Rosolowsky (UBC Okanagan), Gregory J. Herczeg (MPE), Daniel N. Sauer (Stockholm), Paolo A. Mazzali (MPA)

Constraining the Milky Way potential with a 6-D phase-space map of the GD-1 stellar stream

Authors: Sergey E. Koposov (1,2,3), Hans-Walter Rix (1), David W. Hogg (1,4) ((1) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (3) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia, (4) New York University, New York, USA)

The hydrodynamics of the supernova remnant Cas A: The influence of the progenitor evolution on the velocity structure and clumping

Authors: B. van Veelen, N. Langer, J. Vink, G. García-Segura, A.J. van Marle

tipa -- 7/7/2009

A Scale-Dependent Power Asymmetry from Isocurvature Perturbations

Authors: Adrienne L. Erickcek, Christopher M. Hirata, Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

The Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae from Broken Symmetries

Authors: Daniel Kasen, Fritz Roepke, S.E. Woosley

The NGC 300 Transient: An Alternative Method For Measuring Progenitor Masses

Authors: Stephanie M. Gogarten, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Benjamin F. Williams, Karoline Gilbert, Andrew Dolphin

Constraints on Dark Matter annihilations from reionization and heating of the intergalactic gas

Authors: Marco Cirelli, Fabio Iocco, Paolo Panci

Constraints on the multi-TeV particle population in the Coma Galaxy Cluster with H.E.S.S. observations

Authors: The HESS Collaboration: F.A. Aharonian, et al

Simulations of Recoiling Massive Black Holes in the Via Lactea Halo

Authors: Javiera Guedes, Piero Madau, Micheal Kuhlen, Jürg Diemand, Marcel Zemp

Observation of shadowing of the cosmic electrons and positrons by the Moon with IACT

Authors: P. Colin, D. Borla Tridon, D. Britzger, E. Lorenz, R. Mirzoyan, T. Schweizer, M. Teshima, for the MAGIC Collaboration

Extending the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey

Authors: R.C.G. Chaves, for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Fermi-LAT Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: Nicola Omodei, for the Fermi LAT, Fermi GBM collaborations

MAGIC Collaboration: Contributions to the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2009)

Authors: The MAGIC Collaboration

tipa -- 7/6/2009

Large Scale Cosmic Ray Anisotropy With IceCube

Authors: Rasha Abbasi, Paolo Desiati, for the IceCube Collaboration

New unidentified H.E.S.S. Galactic sources

Authors: O. Tibolla, R. C. G. Chaves, O. de Jager, W. Domainko, A. Fiasson, N. Komin, K. Kosack

classic papers of the week -- 107

Rotational properties of 21 SC galaxies with a large range of luminosities and radii, from NGC 4605 (R = 4kpc) to UGC 2885 (R = 122 kpc)

Rubin, V. C.; Ford, W. K., Jr.; Thonnard, N (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.)

Field Theories with Superconductor Solutions

J. Goldstone (CERN, Geneva)

Principes de Phonautographie

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

tipa -- 7/3/2009

A Spitzer/IRS Spectrum of the 2008 Luminous Transient in NGC 300: Connection to Proto-Planetary Nebulae

Authors: Jose L. Prieto, Kris Sellgren, Todd A. Thompson, Christopher S. Kochanek (Ohio State University)

The destruction and survival of dust in the shell around SN 2008S

Authors: R. Wesson, M. J. Barlow, B. Ercolano, J. E. Andrews, Geoffrey C. Clayton, J. Fabbri, Joseph S. Gallagher, M. Meixner, B. E. K. Sugerman, D. L. Welch

The Star Formation Rate of Supersonic MHD Turbulence

Authors: Paolo Padoan, AAke Nordlund

Fermi LAT Measurements of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes

Authors: T. A. Porter, for the Fermi LAT Collaboration

Fermi observations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus: gamma-ray diffuse emission in the outer Galaxy

Authors: L. Tibaldo, I. A. Grenier, for the Fermi LAT Collaboration

First results on Cosmic Ray electron spectrum below 20 GeV from the Fermi LAT

Authors: Melissa Pesce-Rollins, for the Fermi LAT collaboration

Dark Matter Spin-Dependent Limits for WIMP Interactions on 19-F by PICASSO

Authors: S. Archambault, F. Aubin, M. Auger, E. Behnke, B. Beltran, K. Clark, X. Dai, A. Davour, J. Farine, R. Faust, M.-H. Genest, G. Giroux, R. Gornea, C. Krauss, S. Kumaratunga, I. Lawson, C. Leroy, L. Lessard, C. Levy, I. Levine, R. MacDonald, J.-P. Martin, P. Nadeau, A. Noble, M.-C. Piro, S. Pospisil, T. Shepherd, N. Starinski, I. Stekl, C. Storey, U. Wichoski, V. Zacek

tipa -- 7/2/2009

Discovery of a Highly Energetic X-ray Pulsar Powering HESS J1813-178 in the Young Supernova Remnant G12.82-0.02

Authors: E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern (Columbia University)

Comparisons of the radial distributions of core-collapse supernovae with those of young and old stellar populations

Authors: J. P. Anderson, P. A. James

A novel determination of the local dark matter density

Authors: Riccardo Catena, Piero Ullio

Exploring Dark Matter with Milky Way substructure

Authors: M. Kuhlen (IAS, Princeton), P. Madau (UC Santa Cruz), J. Silk (U. of Oxford)

Study of the Production of Radioactive Isotopes through Cosmic Muon Spallation in KamLAND

Authors: The KamLAND Collaboration

General bounds on non-standard neutrino interactions

Authors: Carla Biggio, Mattias Blennow, Enrique Fernandez-Martinez

TASI 2008 Lectures: Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supersymmetry Breaking

Authors: Yuri Shirman

tipa -- 7/1/2009

The Dark Disk of the Milky Way

Authors: Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

Shrinking the Braneworld: Black Hole in a Globular Cluster

Authors: Oleg Y. Gnedin, Thomas J. Maccarone, Dimitrios Psaltis, Stephen E. Zepf

Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory

Authors: Arne Rau (1,2), Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (2), Nicholas M. Law (2), Joshua S. Bloom (3), David Ciardi (2), George S. Djorgovski (2), Derek B. Fox (4), Avishay Gal-Yam (5), Carl C. Grillmair (2), Mansi M. Kasliwal (2), Peter E. Nugent (6), Eran O. Ofek (2), Robert M. Quimby (2), William T. Reach (2), Michael Shara (7), Lars Bildsten (8), S. Bradley Cenko (3), Andrew J. Drake (2), Alexei V. Filippenko (3), David J. Helfand (9), George Helou (2), D. Andrew Howell (8,10), Dovi Poznanski (3), Mark Sullivan (11) ((1) MPE, (2) Caltech, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) Pennstate, (5) Weizman, (6) LBLN, (7) AMNH, (8) UC Santa Barbara, (9) Columbia, (10) LCOGT, (11) Oxford)

The Disruption of Giant Molecular Clouds by Radiation Pressure and the Efficiency of Star Formation in Galaxies

Authors: Norman Murray, Eliot Quataert, Todd A. Thompson

Reconstructing WIMP Properties in Direct Detection Experiments Including Galactic Dark Matter Distribution Uncertainties

Authors: Louis E. Strigari, Roberto Trotta

Exploring Portals to a Hidden Sector Through Fixed Targets

Authors: Brian Batell, Maxim Pospelov, Adam Ritz

tipa -- 6/30/2009

The Dark Universe

Authors: Matthias Bartelmann (Zentrum fuer Astronomie, Universitaet Heidelberg, Institut fuer Theoretische Astrophysik)

Theory of cosmic ray and gamma-ray production in the supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622

Authors: E. G. Berezhko (1), G. Pühlhofer (2), H. J. Völk (3) ((1) Yu.G. Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy, (2) Landessternwarte, (3) Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik)

Galaxy Zoo : 'Hanny's Voorwerp', a quasar light echo?