tipa -- 12/16/2009

Radio lobes and X-ray hot spots of the extraordinary microquasar in NGC 7793

• Authors: Roberto Soria (MSSL/UCL), Manfred Pakull (Strasbourg), Jess Broderick (Southampton), Stephane Corbel (CEA Saclay), Christian Motch (Strasbourg)

Constraining Parity Violation in Gravity with Measurements of Neutron-Star Moments of Inertia

• Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel, Abraham Loeb

Subaru and Gemini Observations of SS 433: New Constraint on the Mass of the Compact Object

• Authors: K. Kubota, Y. Ueda, S. Fabrika, A. Medvedev, E.A. Barsukova, O. Sholukhova, V.P. Goranskij

Resonant Spin-Flavor Conversion of Supernova Neutrinos: Dependence on Electron Mole Fraction

• Authors: T. Yoshida (1), A. Takamura (2), K. Kimura (3), H. Yokomakura (3), S. Kawagoe (1), T. Kajino (4) ((1) Univ. of Tokyo, (2) Toyota Coll. Tech., (3)Nagoya Univ., (4) NAOJ)

The Massive Progenitor Candidate of the Typle II-Linear SN 2009kr

• Authors: N. Elias-Rosa (1), S. D. Van Dyk (1), W. Li (2), A. A. Miller (2), M. Ganeshalingam (2), A. F. Boden (3), S. R. Kulkarni (3), J. Vinko (4,5), J.-C. Cuillandre (6), T. N. Steele (2), R. J. Foley (7,8), J. S. Bloom (2), A. V. Filippenko (2) ((1) Spitzer Science Center, Caltech; (2) UC Berkeley; (3) Caltech; (4) U. Szeged (5) U. Texas; (6) CFHT corporation; (7) CfA; (8) Clay Fellow)

Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula with AGILE

• Authors: A. Pellizzoni, A. Trois, M. Tavani, M. Pilia, A. Giuliani, G. Pucella, P. Esposito, S. Sabatini, G. Piano, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, A. Bulgarelli, M. Burgay, P. Caraveo, P. W. Cattaneo, A. W. Chen, V. Cocco, T. Contessi, E. Costa, F. D'Ammando, E. Del Monte, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, G. Di Persio, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, A. Ferrari, M. Fiorini, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, A. Hotan, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, M. Mastropietro, S. Mereghetti, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, J. Palfreyman, F. Perotti, P. Picozza, C. Pittori, A. Possenti, M. Prest, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, E. Rossi, A. Rubini, P. Santolamazza, E. Scalise, P. Soffitta, E. Striani, M. Trifoglio, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, F. Verrecchia, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, P. Giommi, S. Colafrancesco, A. Antonelli, L. Salotti, N. D'Amico, G. F. Bignami

Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton's constant with gravitational wave observations

• Authors: Nicolas Yunes, Frans Pretorius, David Spergel

tipa -- 12/15/2009

The Persistence of Cool Galactic Winds in High Stellar Mass Galaxies Between z~1.4 and ~1

• Authors: Kate H. R. Rubin (1), Benjamin J. Weiner (2), David C. Koo (1), Crystal L. Martin (3), J. Xavier Prochaska (1), Alison L. Coil (4), Jeffrey A. Newman (5) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) Steward Observatory, (3) UCSB, (4) UCSD, (5) Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow

• Authors: Stuart L. Shapiro

Dark Matter Direct Detection with Non-Maxwellian Velocity Structure

• Authors: M. Kuhlen, N. Weiner, J. Diemand, P. Madau, B. Moore, D. Potter, J. Stadel, M. Zemp

A New Open-Source Code for 1D Stellar Collapse A New Open-Source Code for Spherically-Symmetric Stellar Collapse to Neutron Stars and Black Holes

• Authors: Evan O'Connor, Christian D. Ott (TAPIR, Caltech)

Large Late-time Asphericities in Three Type IIP Supernovae

• Authors: Ryan Chornock (1,2), Alexei V. Filippenko (1), Weidong Li (1), Jeffrey M. Silverman (1); ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) Harvard)

Detecting the QCD phase transition in the next Galactic supernova neutrino burst

• Authors: Basudeb Dasgupta, Tobias Fischer, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Matthias Liebendoerfer, Alessandro Mirizzi, Irina Sagert, Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

Swift BAT, Fermi LAT, and the Blazar Sequence

• Authors: R.M.Sambruna, D.Donato, M.Ajello, L.Maraschi, the GSFC BAT Team

XYZ particles at Belle

• Authors: Shen Cheng-Ping (for the Belle Collaboration)

tipa -- 12/14/2009

Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: "Binary Bondi" and "Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton" Accretion

• Authors: Brian D. Farris, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro (UIUC)

Non-thermal emission from Cassiopeia A: Probing shock properties with non-thermal filaments

• Authors: Miguel Araya, David Lomiashvili, Chulhoon Chang, Maxim Lyutikov, Wei Cui

Powerful high energy emission of the remarkable BL Lac object S5 0716+714

• Authors: V. Vittorini, M. Tavani, A. Paggi, A. Cavaliere, A. Bulgarelli, A.W. Chen, F. D'Ammando, I. Donnarumma, A. Giuliani, F. Longo, L. Pacciani, G. Pucella, S. Vercellone, A. Ferrari, S. Colafrancesco, P. Giommi

Radio Sources from a 31 GHz Sky Survey with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

• Authors: Stephen Muchovej, Erik Leitch, John E. Carlstrom, Thomas Culverhouse, Chris Greer, David Hawkins, Ryan Hennessy, Marshall Joy, James Lamb, Michael Loh, Daniel P. Marrone, Amber Miller, Tony Mroczkowski, Clem Pryke, Matthew Sharp, David Woody

Extragalactic millimeter-wave sources in South Pole Telescope survey data: source counts, catalog, and statistics for an 87 square-degree field

• Authors: J. D. Vieira, T. M. Crawford, E. R. Switzer, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, M. L. N. Ashby, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, M. Brodwin, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H.-M. Cho, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, W. Everett, E. M. George, M. Gladders, N. R. Hall, N. W. Halverson, F. W. High, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, R. Keisler, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, D. P. Marrone, V. McIntyre, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, C. L. Reichardt, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, B. Stalder, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Vanderlinde, W. Walsh, R. Williamson, Y. Yang, O. Zahn, A. Zenteno

classic papers of the week -- 128

The electromagnetic field of an idealized star in rigid rotation in vacuo

• Deutsch, Arnim J. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Relations Between the Spectra and Other Characteristics of the Stars

• Russell, Henry Norris

Characteristic forms and geometric invariants

• Shiin-Shen Chern (University of California at Berkeley), James Simons (University of New York at Stony Brook)

tipa -- 12/11/2009

The detectability of dark matter annihilation with Fermi using the anisotropy energy spectrum of the gamma-ray background

• Authors: Brandon S. Hensley, Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins, Vasiliki Pavlidou

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Cosmic-Ray Induced gamma-ray Emission of the Earth's Atmosphere

• Authors: the Fermi-LAT collaboration

Stealth Galaxies in the Halo of the Milky Way

• Authors: James S. Bullock, Kyle R. Stewart, Manoj Kaplinghat, Erik J. Tollerud (UC Irvine)

The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

• Authors: the Fermi-LAT collaboration

On the progenitor and early evolution of the type II supernova 2009kr

• Authors: M. Fraser (1), K. Takats (2,1), A. Pastorello (1), S.J. Smartt (1), S. Mattila (3) M-T. Botticella (1), S. Valenti (1), M. Ergon (4), J. Sollerman (4), S. Benetti (5), F. Bufano (5), R.M. Crockett (6), I.J. Danziger (7), J.R. Maund (8) S. Taubenberger (9) M. Turatto (10) ((1) Queens University Belfast (2) University of Szeged, Hungary (3) University of Turku, Finland (4) Stockholm University, Sweden (5) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy (6) Oxford Astrophysics, UK (7) Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy (8) University of Copenhagen, Denmark (9) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Germany (10) Osservatorio Astronomico di Catania, Italy)

Are astronomical papers with more authors cited more?

• Authors: K. Z. Stanek (The Ohio State University)

tipa -- 12/10/2009

The Type Ia Supernova Rate in Radio and Infrared Galaxies from the CFHT Supernova Legacy Survey

• Authors: M.L. Graham, C.J. Pritchet, M. Sullivan, D.A. Howell, S.D.J. Gwyn, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R.G. Carlberg, A. Conley, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I.M. Hook, R. Pain, K. Perrett, N. Regnault, J. Rich, D. Balam, S. Fabbro, E.Y. Hsiao, A. Mourao, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, S. Perlmutter, V. Ruhlman-Kleider, N. Suzuki, H.K. Fakhouri, E.S. Walker

tipa -- 12/9/2009

On the Stellar Populations and Evolution of Star-Forming Galaxies at 6.3 < z < 8.6

• Authors: Steven L. Finkelstein (TAMU), Casey Papovich (TAMU), Mauro Giavalisco (UMass), Naveen A. Reddy (NOAO), Henry C. Ferguson (STScI), Anton A. Koekemoer (STScI), Mark Dickinson (NOAO)

Astrophysical turbulence

• Authors: Axel Brandenburg (Nordita), Aake Nordlund (NBI)

Gravitational Waves From Low Mass Neutron Stars

• Authors: C. J. Horowitz

Evidence for a Black Hole Remnant in the Type IIL Supernova 1979C

• Authors: D.J. Patnaude, A. Loeb, C. Jones

Time-Dependent Point Source Search Methods in High Energy Neutrino Astronomy

• Authors: Jim Braun, Mike Baker, Jon Dumm, Chad Finley, Albrecht Karle, Teresa Montaruli

tipa -- 12/8/2009

Probing the Nature of the unidentified TeV Gamma-ray source HESS J0632+057 with Swift

• Authors: A. D. Falcone, J. Grube, J. Hinton, J. Holder, G. Maier, R. Mukherjee, J. Skilton, M. Stroh

Fermi Large Area Telescope Measurements of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes

• Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

The Early Years: Lyman Spitzer, Jr. and the Physics of Star Formation

• Authors: Bruce G. Elmegreen (1) ((1) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

In Search for Extraterrestrial High Energy Neutrinos

• Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Teresa Montaruli

Explosion geometry of a rotating 13 $M_{\odot}$ star driven by the SASI-aided neutrino-heating supernova mechanism

• Authors: Yudai Suwa, Kei Kotake, Tomoya Takiwaki, Stuart C. Whitehouse, Matthias Liebendoerfer, Katsuhiko Sato

tipa -- 12/7/2009

Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on its redshift

• Authors: The VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, et al., The Fermi Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al., S. D. Barber, D. M. Terndrup

Early and Late-Time Observations of SN 2008ha: Additional Constraints for the Progenitor and Explosion

• Authors: Ryan J. Foley, Peter J. Brown, Armin Rest, Peter J. Challis, Robert P. Kirshner, W. Michael Wood-Vasey

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae: Are They Supersoft Sources?

• Authors: Rosanne Di Stefano

First results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using Ge cryogenic detectors with interleaved electrodes

• Authors: E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. Benoit, L. Berge, O. Besida, J. Blumer, A. Broniatowski, A. Chantelauze, M. Chapellier, G. Chardin, F. Charlieux, S. Collin, X. Defay, M. De Jesus, P. Di Stefano, Y. Dolgorouki, J. Domange, L. Dumoulin, K. Eitel, J. Gascon, G. Gerbier, M. Gros, M. Hannawald, S. Herve, A. Juillard, H. Kluck, V. Kozlov, R. Lemrani, P. Loaiza, A. Lubashevskiy, S. Marnieros, X-F. Navick, E. Olivieri, P. Pari, B. Paul, S. Rozov, V. Sanglard, S. Scorza, S. Semikh, A.S. Torrento-Coello, L. Vagneron, M-A. Verdier, E. Yakushev, the EDELWEISS Collaboration

Hubble Residuals of Nearby SN Ia Are Correlated with Host Galaxy Masses

• Authors: Patrick L. Kelly (1 and 2), Malcolm Hicken (3), David L. Burke (1 and 2), Kaisey S. Mandel (3), Robert P. Kirshner (3) ((1) Stanford, (2) KIPAC, (3) CfA)

classic papers of the week -- 127

Coherence in Spontaneous Radiation Processes

• Dicke, R. H. (Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University)

Evolution of Very Massive Stars

• Schwarzschild, M.; Härm, R.

A Serie's of Quere's Propounded by Mr. Isaac Newton, to be Determin'd by Experiments, Positively and Directly Concluding His New Theory of Light and Colours; and Here Recommended to the Industry of the Lovers of Experimental Philosophy, as they Were Generously Imparted to the Publisher in a Letter of the Said Mr. Newtons of July 8, 1672

• Isaac Newton

tipa -- 12/4/2009

The Sensitivity of the IceCube Neutrino Detector to Dark Matter Annihilating in Dwarf Galaxies

• Authors: Pearl Sandick, Douglas Spolyar, Matthew Buckley, Katherine Freese, Dan Hooper

Identifying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis

• Authors: Yue Shen, Abraham Loeb (CfA)

The luminosity function and the rate of Swift's Gamma Ray Bursts

• Authors: David Wanderman, Tsvi Piran

Gravitational waves from neutron stars: Promises and challenges

• Authors: N. Andersson, V. Ferrari, D.I. Jones, K.D. Kokkotas, B. Krishnan, J. Read, L. Rezzolla, B. Zink

tipa -- 12/3/2009

Neutrino Signal of Electron-Capture Supernovae from Core Collapse to Cooling

• Authors: L. Huedepohl (1), B. Mueller (1), H.-Th. Janka (1), A. Marek (1), G.G Raffelt (2) ((1) MPI Astrophysik, Garching; (2) MPI Physik, Muenchen)

New Constraints on the Highest-Energy Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons

• Authors: Matthew D. Kistler (Ohio State), Hasan Yuksel (Bartol/Delaware)

Observation of TeV Gamma Rays from the Fermi Bright Galactic Sources with the Tibet Air Shower Array

• Authors: M. Amenomori, X. J. Bi, D. Chen, S. W. Cui, Danzengluobu, L. K. Ding, X. H. Ding, C. Fan, C. F. Feng, Zhaoyang Feng, Z. Y. Feng, X. Y. Gao, Q. X. Geng, Q. B. Gou, H. W. Guo, H. H. He, M. He, K. Hibino, N. Hotta, Haibing Hu, H. B. Hu, J. Huang, Q. Huang, H. Y. Jia, L. Jiang, F. Kajino, K. Kasahara, Y. Katayose, C. Kato, K. Kawata, Labaciren, G. M. Le, A. F. Li, H. C. Li, J. Y. Li, C. Liu, Y.-Q. Lou, H. Lu, X. R. Meng, K. Mizutani, J. Mu, K. Munakata, H. Nanjo, M. Nishizawa, M. Ohnishi, I. Ohta, S. Ozawa, T. Saito, T. Y. Saito, M. Sakata, T. K. Sako, M. Shibata, A. Shiomi, T. Shirai, H. Sugimoto, M. Takita, Y. H. Tan, N. Tateyama, S. Torii, H. Tsuchiya, S. Udo, B. Wang, H. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. G. Wang, H. R. Wu, L. Xue, Y. Yamamoto, C. T. Yan, X. C. Yang, S. Yasue, Z. H. Ye, G. C. Yu, A. F. Yuan, T. Yuda, H. M. Zhang, J. L. Zhang, N. J. Zhang, X. Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Yi Zhang, Ying Zhang, Zhaxisangzhu, X. X. Zhou (The Tibet ASgamma Collaboration)

tipa -- 12/2/2009

A High Rate of White Dwarf-Neutron Star Mergers & Their Transients

• Authors: Todd A. Thompson, Matthew D. Kistler, K. Z. Stanek

Evaluating the Calorimeter Model with Broadband, Continuous Spectra of Starburst Galaxies Observed with the Allen Telescope Array

• Authors: Peter K. G. Williams (1), Geoffrey C. Bower (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley)

The cluster Terzan 5 as a remnant of a primordial building block of the Galactic bulge

• Authors: F. R. Ferraro (1), E. Dalessandro (1), A. Mucciarelli (1), G. Beccari (2), R. M. Rich (3), L. Origlia (4), B. Lanzoni (1), R. T. Rood (5), E. Valenti (6,7), M. Bellazzini (4), S. M. Ransom (8), G. Cocozza (4) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna, (2) ESA, Space Science Department, The Netherlands, (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (5) Astronomy Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, (6) ESO, Santiago, Chile, (7) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Departamento de Astronomia)

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

• Authors: LSST Science Collaborations

Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures

• Authors: Tanja Bode, Roland Haas, Tamara Bogdanovic, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker

tipa -- 12/1/2009

Particle mesh simulations of the Lyman-alpha forest and the signature of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the intergalactic medium

• Authors: Martin White, Adrian Pope, Jordan Carlson, Katrin Heitmann, Salman Habib, Patricia Fasel, David Daniel, Zarija Lukic

Optical Transients from the Unbound Debris of Tidal Disruption

• Authors: Daniel Kasen, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Nebular Spectra and Explosion Asymmetry of Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: Keiichi Maeda, Stefan Taubenberger, Jesper Sollerman, Paolo A. Mazzali, Giorgos Leloudas, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Kentaro Motohara

Hyperaccreting Disks around Magnetars for Gamma-Ray Bursts: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields

• Authors: Dong Zhang (OSU), Z. G. Dai (NJU)

Discovery of a new Soft Gamma Repeater: SGR J0418+5729

• Authors: A.J. van der Horst, V. Connaughton, C. Kouveliotou, E. Gogus, Y. Kaneko, S. Wachter, M.S. Briggs, J. Granot, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, P.M. Woods, R.L. Aptekar, S.D. Barthelmy, J.R. Cummings, M.H. Finger, D.D. Frederiks, N. Gehrels, C.R. Gelino, D.M. Gelino, S. Golenetskii, K. Hurley, H.A. Krimm, E.P. Mazets, J.E. McEnery, C.A. Meegan, P.P. Oleynik, D.M. Palmer, V.D. Pal'shin, A. Pe'er, D. Svinkin, M.V. Ulanov, M. van der Klis, A. von Kienlin, A.L. Watts, C.A. Wilson-Hodge

Massive protostars as gamma-ray sources

• Authors: V. Bosch-Ramon, G. E. Romero, A. T. Araudo, J. M. Paredes

Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger

• Authors: Julian H. Krolik

First proton--proton collisions at the LHC as observed with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged particle pseudorapidity density at sqrt(s) = 900 GeV

• Authors: ALICE Collaboration

tipa -- 11/30/2009

MiXDM: Cosmic Ray Signals from Multiple States of Dark Matter

• Authors: Ilias Cholis, Neal Weiner (CCPP, NYU)

A Puzzle Involving Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events

• Authors: Judith G. Cohen, Andrew Gould, Ian B. Thompson, Sofia Feltzing, Thomas Bensby, Jennifer A. Johnson, Wenjin Huang, Jorge Melendez, Sara Lucatello, Martin Asplund

The international pulsar timing array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

• Authors: G. Hobbs, A. Archibald, Z. Arzoumanian, D. Backer, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, M. Burgay, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. Champion, I. Cognard, W. Coles, J. Cordes, P. Demorest, G. Desvignes, R. D. Ferdman, L. Finn, P. Freire, M. Gonzalez, J. Hessels, A. Hotan, G. Janssen, F. Jenet, A. Jessner, C. Jordan, V. Kaspi, M. Kramer, V. Kondratiev, J. Lazio, K. Lazaridis, K. J. Lee, Y. Levin, A. Lommen, D. Lorimer, R. Lynch, A. Lyne, R. Manchester, M. McLaughlin, D. Nice, S. Oslowski, M. Pilia, A. Possenti, M. Purver, S. Ransom, J. Reynolds, S. Sanidas, J. Sarkissian, A. Sesana, R. Shannon, X. Siemens, I. Stairs, B. Stappers, D. Stinebring, G. Theureau, R. van Haasteren, W. van Straten, J. P. W. Verbiest, D. R. B. Yardley, X. P. You

Upper Bound of 0.28eV on the Neutrino Masses from the Largest Photometric Redshift Survey

• Authors: Shaun A. Thomas, Filipe B. Abdalla, Ofer Lahav

Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Starburst Galaxies M82 and NGC 253 with the Large Area Telescope on Fermi

• Authors: Fermi LAT Collaboration: A.A. Abdo, et al

Thermodynamical Aspects of Gravity: New insights

• Authors: T.Padmanabhan

Effective One Body description of tidal effects in inspiralling compact binaries

• Authors: Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar

Cascade Events at IceCube+DeepCore as a Definitive Constraint on the Dark Matter Interpretation of the PAMELA and Fermi Anomalies

• Authors: Sourav K. Mandal, Matthew R. Buckley, Katherine Freese, Douglas Spolyar, Hitoshi Murayama

classic papers of the week -- 126

Parametrization of the Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix

• Lincoln Wolfenstein (Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

The Formation of a Blast Wave by a Very Intense Explosion. I. Theoretical Discussion

• Taylor, Geoffrey, F.R.S.

The Unity of the Universe

• Curtis, Heber D. (Allegheny Observatory)

tipa -- 11/26/2009

Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits

• Authors: David Merritt, Tal Alexander, Seppo Mikkola, Clifford M. Will

tipa -- 11/25/2009

There's no place like home? Statistics of Milky Way-mass dark matter halos

• Authors: Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, Adrian Jenkins

Magnetar Twists: Fermi/Gamma ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detection of SGR 1550-5418

• Authors: Y. Kaneko, E. Gogus, C. Kouveliotou, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, J. Granot, A.J. van der Horst, A.L. Watts, M.H. Finger, N. Gehrels, A. Pe'er, M. van der Klis, A. von Kienlin, S. Wachter, C.A. Wilson-Hodge, P.M. Woods

Detection of Extended VHE Gamma Ray Emission from G106.3+2.7 with VERITAS

• Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, T. Aune, M. Bautista, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, D. Boltuch, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, A. Cesarini, Y. C. Chow, L. Ciupik, P. Cogan, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, T. Ergin, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, P. Fortin, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, D. Gall, G. H. Gillanders, E. V. Gotthelf, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, J. Holder, D. Horan, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, J. Millis, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, A. W. Smith, D. Steele, S. P. Swordy, M. Theiling, J. A. Toner, V. V. Vassiliev, S. Vincent, R. G. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, J. E. Ward, T. C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, T. Weisgarber, D. A. Williams, S. Wissel, M. Wood, B. Zitzer

Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

• Authors: James W. Cronin

tipa -- 11/24/2009

Are Newly Discovered HI High Velocity Clouds Minihalos in the Local Group?

• Authors: Riccardo Giovanelli (1), Martha P. Haynes (1), Brian R. Kent (2), Elizabeth K. Adams (1) (1 Cornell University, 2 National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

A search for VHE counterparts of Galactic Fermi bright sources and GeV to TeV spectral characterization

• Authors: P.H. Thomas Tam, Stefan Wagner, Omar Tibolla, Ryan Chaves