tipa -- 4/2/2010

A Flare in the Jet of Pictor A

• Authors: H. L. Marshall, M.J. Hardcastle, M. Birkinshaw, J. Croston, D. Evans, H. Landt, E. Lenc, F. Massaro, E. S. Perlman, D. A. Schwartz, A. Siemiginowska, Ł. Stawarz, C. M. Urry, D.M. Worrall

A method for setting upper limits to the extragalactic background light with Fermi-LAT and TeV observations of blazars

• Authors: Markos Georganopoulos, Justin D. Finke, Luis C. Reyes

Deep, ultra-high-resolution radio imaging of submillimetre galaxies using Very Long Baseline Interferometry

• Authors: A. D. Biggs, J. D. Younger, R. J. Ivison

The formation of disk galaxies in a LCDM universe

• Authors: Oscar Agertz, Romain Teyssier, Ben Moore

classic papers of the week -- 143

The Quantum Theory of the Electron

• Dirac, P. A. M.

The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs

• Chandrasekhar, S.

The First Reactor

tipa -- 4/1/2010

Can we measure the neutrino mass hierarchy in the sky?

• Authors: Raul Jimenez, Thomas Kitching, Carlos Pena-Garay, Licia Verde

Implications of diffusive shock acceleration for high-energy radiation from gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Pawan Kumar

On The External Shock Synchrotron Model for GRBs' GeV Emission

• Authors: Tsvi Piran, Ehud Nakar

The Ages of Stars

• Authors: David R. Soderblom

The Effect of Absorption Systems on Cosmic Reionization

• Authors: Marcelo A. Alvarez, Tom Abel

Semi-annihilation of Dark Matter

• Authors: Francesco D'Eramo, Jesse Thaler

tipa -- 3/31/2010

Direct Confirmation of the Asymmetry of the Cas A SN Explosion with Light Echoes

• Authors: A. Rest, R. J. Foley, B. Sinnott, D. L. Welch, C. Badenes, A. V. Filippenko, M. Bergmann, W. A. Bhatti, S. Blondin, P. Challis, G. Damke, H. Finley, M. E. Huber, D. Kasen, R. P. Kirshner, T. Matheson, P. Mazzali, D. Minniti, R. Nakajima, G. Narayan, K. Olsen, D. Sauer, R. C. Smith, N. B. Suntzeff

The 3-D Structure of SN 1987A's inner Ejecta

• Authors: K. Kjaer, B. Leibundgut, C. Fransson, A. Jerkstrand, J. Spyromilio

Super-Eddington fluxes during thermonuclear X-ray bursts

• Authors: Stratos Boutloukos (1), M. Coleman Miller (1), Frederick K. Lamb (2) ((1) University of Maryland, (2) University of Illinois)

Theta_13: phenomenology, present status and prospect

• Authors: Mauro Mezzetto, Thomas Schwetz

Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Matter Event Rates in Neutrino Telescopes, and Collider Implications

• Authors: Prateek Agrawal, Zackaria Chacko, Can Kilic, Rashmish K. Mishra

Lattice calculations for A=3,4,6,12 nuclei using chiral effective field theory

• Authors: Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Dean Lee, Ulf-G. Meißner

Tests of the Standard Electroweak Model at the Energy Frontier

• Authors: John D. Hobbs, Mark S. Neubauer, Scott Willenbrock

tipa -- 3/30/2010

Periodic mass loss episodes due to an oscillation mode with variable amplitude in the hot supergiant HD50064

• Authors: C. Aerts, K. Lefever, A. Baglin, P. Degroote, R. Oreiro, M. Vuckovic, K. Smolders, B. Acke, T. Verhoelst, M. Desmet, M. Godart, A. Noels, M.-A. Dupret, M. Auvergne, F. Baudin, C. Catala, E. Michel, R. Samadi

No evidence for black hole spin powering of jets in X-ray binaries

• Authors: Rob Fender (Southampton and Grenoble), Elena Gallo (MIT), David Russell (Amsterdam)

Limits on inelastic dark matter from ZEPLIN-III

• Authors: D. Yu. Akimov, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes, V. A. Belov, A. Bewick, A. A. Burenkov, R. Cashmore, V. Chepel, A. Currie, D. Davidge, J. Dawson, T. Durkin, B. Edwards, C. Ghag, A. Hollingsworth, M. Horn, A. S. Howard, A. J. Hughes, W. G. Jones, G. E. Kalmus, A. S. Kobyakin, A. G. Kovalenko, V. N. Lebedenko, A. Lindote, I. Liubarsky, M. I. Lopes, R. Luscher, K. Lyons, P. Majewski, A. StJ. Murphy, F. Neves, S. M. Paling, J. Pinto da Cunha, R. Preece, J. J. Quenby, L. Reichhart, P. R. Scovell, C. Silva, V. N. Solovov, N. J. T. Smith, P. F. Smith, V. N. Stekhanov, T. J. Sumner, C. Thorne, L. de Viveiros, R. J. Walker

tipa -- 3/29/2010

The transition from population III to population II-I star formation

• Authors: U. Maio, B. Ciardi, K.Dolag, L. Tornatore, S. Khochfar

Relativistic Suppression of Black Hole Recoils

• Authors: Michael Kesden, Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti

The Dependence of Type Ia Supernova Luminosities on their Host Galaxies

• Authors: M. Sullivan, A. Conley, D. A. Howell, J. D. Neill, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R. G. Carlberg, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, R. Pain, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, K. M. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, S. Baumont, E. Hsiao, T. Kronborg, C. Lidman, S. Perlmutter, E. S. Walker

A Study of the Gas-Star Formation Relation over Cosmic Time

• Authors: R.Genzel, L.J.Tacconi, J.Gracia-Carpio, A.Sternberg, M.C.Cooper, K.Shapiro, A.Bolatto, N.Bouche, F.Bournaud, A.Burkert, F.Combes, J.Comerford, P.Cox, M.Davis, N.M. Foerster Schreiber, S.Garcia-Burillo, D.Lutz, T.Naab, R.Neri, A.Omont, A.Shapley, B.Weiner

classic papers of the week -- 142

Dynamics of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Weinberg-Salam Theory

• Leonard Susskind (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

Possible Applications of Supernovae to the Study of the Nebular Red Shifts

• Wilson, O. C.

Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism. No. III. On Electro-Dynamic Induction

• Joseph Henry (Professor of Natural Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, Princeton)

tipa -- 3/26/2010

A physical model for the origin of the diffuse cosmic infrared background

• Authors: Joshua D. Younger (IAS), Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley)

The Deep SWIRE Field. IV. First properties of the sub-mJy galaxy population: redshift distribution, AGN activity and star formation

• Authors: Veronica Strazzullo (NRAO), Maurilio Pannella (NRAO), Frazer N. Owen (NRAO), Ralf Bender (MPE, USM), Glenn E. Morrison (IfA, CFHT), Wei-Hao Wang (ASIAA), David L. Shupe (IPAC)

Major Galaxy Mergers and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars

• Authors: Ezequiel Treister (IfA, Hawai), Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale), David Sanders (IfA, Hawaii), C. Megan Urry, Kevin Schawinski (Yale), Jeyhan Kartaltepe (NOAO)

Neutrino Background Flux from Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei

• Authors: Kohta Murase, John F. Beacom

tipa -- 3/25/2010

The metal-poor end of the Spite plateau. 1: Stellar parameters, metallicities and lithium abundances

• Authors: L. Sbordone (1 and 2 and 3), P. Bonifacio (1 and 2 and 4), E. Caffau (2), H.-G. Ludwig (1 and 2 and 5), N. T. Behara (1 and 2 and 6), J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez (1 and 2 and 7), M. Steffen (8), R. Cayrel (9), B. Freytag (9), C. Van't Veer (2), P. Molaro (4), B. Plez (10), T. Sivarani (11), M. Spite (2), F. Spite (2), T. C. Beers (12), N. Christlieb (5), P. Francois (2), V. Hill (2 and 13) ((1) CIFIST Marie Curie Excellence Team, (2) GEPI - Observatoire de Paris France, (3) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Garching Germany, (4) INAF - Oss. Trieste Italy, (5) Landessternwarte Heidelberg Germany, (6) Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Belgium, (7) Universidad Complutense de Madrid Spain, (8) Astrophysikalische Institut Pottsdam Germany, (9) Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon France, (10) Universite' Montpellier France, (11) Indian Institute for Astrophysiscs Bangalore India, (12) Michigan State University USA, (13) Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur Nice France)

A Survey of Extragalactic Faraday Rotation at High Galactic Latitude: The Vertical Magnetic Field of the Milky Way towards the Galactic Poles

• Authors: S. A. Mao (CfA/ATNF), B. M. Gaensler (U. Sydney), M. Haverkorn (ASTRON), E. G. Zweibel (UW Madison), G. J. Madsen (U. Sydney), N. M. McClure-Griffiths (ATNF), A. Shukurov (U. Newcastle), P. P. Kronberg (LANL/U. Toronto)

Detection of high-velocity material from the wind-wind collision zone of Eta Carinae across the 2009.0 periastron passage

• Authors: Jose H. Groh (MPI for Radioastronomy), Krister E. Nielsen (NASA/GSFC & CUA), Augusto Damineli (IAG/U Sao Paulo), Theodore R. Gull (NASA/GSFC), Thomas I. Madura (U Delaware), D. J. Hillier (U Pittsburgh), Mairan Teodoro (IAG/U Sao Paulo), Thomas Driebe (MPIfR), Gerd Weigelt (MPIfR), Henrik Hartman (Lund U), Florian Kerber (ESO), Atsuo T. Okazaki (Hokkai-Gakuen U), Stan P. Owocki (U Delaware), Florentin Millour (MPIfR), Koji Murakawa (MPIfR), Stefan Kraus (U Michigan), Karl-Heinz Hofmann (MPIfR), Dieter Schertl (MPIfR)

VLBI observations of SN 2008iz: I. Expansion velocity and limits on anisotropic expansion

• Authors: A. Brunthaler (1), I. Marti-Vidal (1), K.M. Menten (1), M.J. Reid (2), C. Henkel (1), G.C. Bower (3), H. Falcke (4,5), H. Feng (6), P. Kaaret (7), N.R. Butler (3), A.N. Morgan (3), A. Weiss (1) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) UC Berkeley (4) Universiteit Nijmegen, (5) ASTRON, (6) Tsinghua University, (7) University of Iowa)

Neutrino emission from high-energy component gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: Julia K. Becker, Francis Halzen, Aongus O'Murchadha, Martino Olivo

tipa -- 3/24/2010

The physical scale of the far-infrared emission in the most luminous submillimetre galaxies II: evidence for merger-driven star formation

• Authors: J. D. Younger, G. G. Fazio, M. L. N. Ashby, F. Civano, M. Elvis, M. A. Gurwell, J.-S. Huang, D. Iono, A. B. Peck, G. R. Petitpas, K. S. Scott, D. J. Wilner, G. W. Wilson, M. S. Yun

Kinematics of Milky Way Satellites in a Lambda Cold Dark Matter Universe

• Authors: Louis E. Strigari, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White

No Evolution in the IR-Radio Relation for IR-Luminous Galaxies at z < 2

• Authors: Mark T. Sargent, E. Schinnerer, E. Murphy, C. L. Carilli, G. Helou, H. Aussel, E. Le Floc'h, D. T. Frayer, O. Ilbert, P. Oesch, M. Salvato, V. Smolcic, J. Kartaltepe, D. B. Sanders

tipa -- 3/23/2010

21cmFAST: A Fast, Semi-Numerical Simulation of the High-Redshift 21-cm Signal

• Authors: Andrei Mesinger, Steven Furlanetto, Renyue Cen

Optical and near-infrared follow-up observations of four Fermi/LAT GRBs : Redshifts, afterglows, energetics and host galaxies

• Authors: S. McBreen, T. Krühler, A. Rau, J. Greiner, D. A. Kann, S. Savaglio, P. Afonso, C. Clemens, R. Filgas, S. Klose, A. Küpüc Yoldas, F. Olivares E., A. Rossi, G. P. Szokoly, A. Updike, A. Yoldas

Different star formation laws for disks versus starbursts at low and high redshifts

• Authors: E. Daddi, D. Elbaz, F. Walter, F. Bournaud, F. Salmi, C. Carilli, H. Dannerbauer, M. Dickinson, P. Monaco, D. Riechers

A Limit on the Number of Isolated Neutron Stars Detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog

• Authors: Monica L. Turner, Robert E. Rutledge, Ryan Letcavage, Andrew S. H. Shevchuk, Derek B. Fox

Binaries discovered by the SPY project V. GD 687 - a massive double degenerate binary progenitor that will merge within a Hubble time

• Authors: S. Geier, U. Heber, T. Kupfer, R. Napiwotzki

GRB 090902B: afterglow observations and implications

• Authors: S. B. Pandey, C. A. Swenson, D. A. Perley, C. Guidorzi, K. Wiersema, D. Malesani, C. Akerlof, M. C. B. Ashley, D. Bersier, Z. Cano, A. Gomboc, I. Ilyin, P. Jakobsson, I. K. W. Kleiser, S. Kobayashi, C. Kouveliotou, A. J. Levan, T. A. McKay, A. Melandri, C. J. Mottram, C. G. Mundell, P. T. O'Brien, A. Phillips, J. M. Rex, M. H. Siegel, R. J. Smith, I. A. Steele, G. Stratta, N. R. Tanvir, D. Weights, S. A. Yost, F. Yuan, W. Zheng

tipa -- 3/22/2010

Intense Star Formation within Resolved Compact Regions in a Galaxy at z=2.3

• Authors: Mark Swinbank (1), Ian Smail (1), Steve Longmore (2), Andrew Harris (3), Andrew Baker (4), Carlos De Breuck (5), Johan Richard (1), Alastair Edge (1), Rob Ivison (6,7), Ray Blundell (2), Kristen Coppin (1), Pierre Cox (8), Mark Gurwell (2), Laura Hainline (3), Melanie Krips (8), Andreas Lundgren (9), Roberto Neri (8), Brian Siana (10), Dan Stark (11), David Wilner (2), Josh Younger (12) ((1) ICC, Durham, (2) CfA, Harvard, (3) Maryland, (4) Rutgers, (5) ESO, Germany, (6) UK-ATC, (7) IfA, ROE, (8) IRAM, (9) ESO, Chile, (10) Caltech, (11) IfA Cambridge, (12) Princeton)

Detection of the energetic pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its pulsar wind nebula in MSH 15-52 using the Fermi-Large Area Telescope

• Authors: Fermi-LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

The rest-frame ultraviolet spectra of GRBs from massive rapidly-rotating stellar progenitors

• Authors: Peter B. Robinson (Colorado), Rosalba Perna (Colorado/JILA), Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Allard J. van Marle (Leuven Science center)

A General Formula for Black Hole Gravitational Wave Kicks

• Authors: James R. van Meter, M. Coleman Miller, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Bernard J. Kelly

Three editions of the Star Catalogue of Tycho Brahe

• Authors: Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent

The Star Catalogue of Hevelius

• Authors: Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent

classic papers of the week -- 141

Non-Adiabatic Crossing of Energy Levels

• Zener, Clarence (National Research Fellow of U.S.A.)

Core condensation in heavy halos - A two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering

• White, S. D. M.; Rees, M. J. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering

• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

tipa -- 3/19/2010

Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals: Correlated Deviations from the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation

• Authors: Stacy S. McGaugh, Joe Wolf

Rapid Cooling of the Neutron Star in the Quiescent Super-Eddington Transient XTE J1701-462

• Authors: Joel K. Fridriksson, Jeroen Homan, Rudy Wijnands, Mariano Mendez, Diego Altamirano, Edward M. Cackett, Edward F. Brown, Tomaso M. Belloni, Nathalie Degenaar, Walter H. G. Lewin

Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: All or Nothing

• Authors: Brian C. Lacki, John F. Beacom

A population of gamma-ray emitting globular clusters seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

• Authors: The Fermi LAT collaboration

Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background from Star-Forming Galaxies

• Authors: Brian D. Fields, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Tijana Prodanovic

tipa -- 3/18/2010

On The GeV & TeV Detections of the Starburst Galaxies M82 & NGC 253

• Authors: Brian C. Lacki, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert, Abraham Loeb, Eli Waxman

Dust-free quasars in the early Universe

• Authors: Linhua Jiang, Xiaohui Fan, W. N. Brandt, Chris L. Carilli, Eiichi Egami, Dean C. Hines, Jaron D. Kurk, Gordon T. Richards, Yue Shen, Michael A. Strauss, Marianne Vestergaard, Fabian Walter

tipa -- 3/17/2010

Towards a Complete Census of AGNs in Nearby Galaxies: The Incidence of Growing Black Holes

• Authors: Andy D. Goulding, David M. Alexander, Bret D. Lehmer, James R. Mullaney

On the size distribution of supernova remnants in the Magellanic Clouds

• Authors: Carles Badenes, Dan Maoz, Bruce Draine

The supernova rate and delay times in the Magellanic Clouds

• Authors: Dan Maoz, Carles Badenes

Embedding realistic surveys in simulations through volume remapping

• Authors: Jordan Carlson, Martin White

The Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Riddle

• Authors: Guido Altarelli

tipa -- 3/16/2010

Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment

• Authors: The ANITA Collaboration: P. W. Gorham (1), P. Allison (1), B. M. Baughman (2), J. J. Beatty (2), K. Belov (3), D. Z. Besson (4), S. Bevan (5), W. R. Binn (6), C. Chen (7), P. Chen (7), J. M. Clem (8), A. Connolly (5), M. Detrixhe (4), D. DeMarco (8), P. F. Dowkontt (6), M. DuVernois (1), E. W. Grashorn (2), B. Hill (1), S. Hoover (3), M. Huang (7), M. H. Israel (6), A. Javaid (8), K. M. Liewer (9), S. Matsuno (1), B. C. Mercurio (2), C. Miki (1), M. Mottram (5), J. Nam (7), R. J. Nichol (5), K. Palladino (2), A. Romero-Wolf (1), L. Ruckman (1), D. Saltzberg (3), D. Seckel (8), G. S. Varner (1), A. G. Vieregg (3), Y. Wang (7) ((1) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, (2) Dept. of Physics, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, (3) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of California Los Angeles, CA, (4) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (5) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. College London, London, United Kingdom (6) Dept. of Physics, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, MO (7) Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, (8) Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, (9) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA)

Detonations in Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass C+O White Dwarfs

• Authors: S. A. Sim, F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt, M. Kromer, R. Pakmor, M. Fink, A. J. Ruiter, I. R. Seitenzahl

The first spectral line surveys searching for signals from the Dark Ages

• Authors: C.M. Persson, R. Maoli, P. Encrenaz, Å. Hjalmarson, M. Olberg, G. Rydbeck, M. Signore, U. Frisk, Aa. Sandqvist, J.Y. Daniel

First Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search

• Authors: M. Felizardo, T. Morlat, A.C. Fernandes, F. Giuliani, TA Girard, J.G. Marques, A.R. Ramos, M. Auguste, D. Boyer, A. Cavaillou, C. Sudre, J. Poupeney, R.F. Payne, H.S. Miley

Probing the Nuclear Symmetry Energy with Heavy Ion Collisions

• Authors: M. Di Toro, V. Baran, M. Colonna, V. Greco

Exploring the "Island of Inversion" by in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich sodium isotopes 31,32,33Na

• Authors: P. Doornenbal, H. Scheit, N. Kobayashi, N. Aoi, S. Takeuchi, K. Li, E. Takeshita, Y. Togano, H. Wang, S. Deguchi, Y. Kawada, Y. Kondo, T. Motobayashi, T. Nakamura, Y. Satou, K. N. Tanaka, H. Sakurai

tipa -- 3/15/2010

Ten Months of Observations of the Possible Super-Chandrasekhar Mass Type Ia Supernova 2009dc

• Authors: Jeffrey M. Silverman (1), Mohan Ganeshalingam (1), Weidong Li (1), Alexei V. Filippenko (1), Adam A. Miller (1), Dovi Poznanski (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA)

The effect of neutrinos on the matter distribution as probed by the Intergalactic Medium

• Authors: Matteo Viel, Martin G. Haehnelt, Volker Springel

The Massive Star Forming Region Cygnus OB2. II. Integrated Stellar Properties and the Star Formation History

• Authors: Nicholas J. Wright (CfA), Jeremy J. Drake (CfA), Janet E. Drew (University of Hertfordshire), Jorick S. Vink (Armagh Observatory)

Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

Supernova radiative-transfer modeling: A new approach using non-LTE and full time dependence

• Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier

Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run

• Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 140

Highly Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: The Central Rapidity Region

• J.D. Bjorken (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Double white dwarfs as progenitors of R Coronae Borealis stars and Type I supernovae

• Webbink, R. F. (University of Illinois)

Method and apparatus for controlling electric currents

• Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (Brooklyn, NY)

tipa -- 3/12/2010

Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2007if: First Total Mass Measurement of a Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass Progenitor

• Authors: R. A. Scalzo, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Bongard, C. Buton, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, A. Gal-Yam, E. Gangler, S. Hoyer, M. Kasliwal, S. Loken, P. E. Nugent, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, A. Rau, G. Rigaudier, K. Runge, G. Smadja, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. Weaver, C. Wu