today in particle astrophysics

classic papers of the week -- 146

An Identity in Quantum Electrodynamics

J. C. Ward (The Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, England)

A spiral nebula as a stellar system, Messier 31

Edwin Hubble (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory)

A mathematical theory of communication

C. E. Shannon

tipa -- 4/23/2010

On the Interpretation of Supernova Light Echo Profiles and Spectra

Authors: A. Rest, B. Sinnott, D. L. Welch, R. J. Foley, G. Narayan, K. Mandel

Measuring Gas Accretion and Angular Momentum near Simulated Supermassive Black Holes

Authors: Robyn Levine, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Andrew J.S. Hamilton

A change in the optical polarization associated with a gamma-ray flare in the blazar 3C 279

Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration, members of the 3C 279 multi-band campaign

A possible generation mechanism for the IBEX ribbon from outside the heliosphere

Authors: S. Grzedzielski (1), M. Bzowski (1), A. Czechowski (1), H.O. Funsten (2), D.J. McComas (3), N.A. Schwadron (4) ((1) Space Research Centre PAS, Warsaw, Poland, (2) Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos NM, (3) Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio TX, (4) Boston University, Boston MA)

Reducing the weak lensing noise for the gravitational wave Hubble diagram using the non-Gaussianity of the magnification distribution

Authors: Christopher M. Hirata, Daniel E. Holz, Curt Cutler

tipa -- 4/22/2010

Satellite galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way sized galaxies

Authors: M. Wadepuhl, V. Springel

Non-Uniform Cosmological Birefringence and Active Galactic Nuclei

Authors: Marc Kamionkowski

MAGIC observation of the GRB080430 afterglow

Authors: MAGIC Collaboration

tipa -- 4/21/2010

Cosmological Tests of Gravity

Authors: Bhuvnesh Jain, Justin Khoury (U. Penn)

The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background

Authors: John F. Beacom (Ohio State)

The Exceptionally Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2007if

Authors: F. Yuan, R. M. Quimby, J. C. Wheeler, J. Vinko, E. Chatzopoulos, C. W. Akerlof, S. Kulkarni, J. M. Miller, T. A. McKay, F. Aharonian

Atmospheric neutrino oscillations and tau neutrinos in ice

Authors: Gerardo Giordano, Olga Mena, Irina Mocioiu

tipa -- 4/20/2010

Discovery of the nearby long, soft GRB 100316D with an associated supernova

Authors: R.L.C. Starling (U. Leicester), K. Wiersema, A.J. Levan, T. Sakamoto, D. Bersier, P. Goldoni, S.R. Oates, A. Rowlinson, S. Campana, J. Sollerman, N.R. Tanvir, D. Malesani, J.P.U. Fynbo, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, P.T. O'Brien, K.L. Page, J.P. Osborne, S.D. Vergani, S. Barthelmy, D.N. Burrows, Z. Cano, P.A. Curran, M. De Pasquale, V. D'Elia, P.A. Evans, H. Flores, A.S. Fruchter, P. Garnavich, N. Gehrels, J. Gorosabel, J. Hjorth, S.T. Holland, A.J. van der Horst, P. Jakobsson, A.P. Kamble, N.P.M. Kuin, L. Kaper, P.A. Mazzali, P.E. Nugent, E. Pian, C.C. Thoene, S.E. Woosley

Fermi Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula HESS J1640-465

Authors: P. Slane, D. Castro, S. Funk, Y. Uchiyama, A. Lemiere, J. D. Gelfand, M. Lemoine-Goumard

A Core-Collapse Supernova Model for the Extremely Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007bi: An Alternative to the Pair-Instability Supernova Model

Authors: Takashi Moriya, Nozomu Tominaga, Masaomi Tanaka, Keiichi Maeda, Ken'ichi Nomoto

The Swift Burst Analyser I: BAT and XRT spectral and flux evolution of Gamma Ray Bursts

Authors: P. A. Evans, R.Willingale, J.P. Osborne, P.T. O'Brien, K.L. Page, C.B. Markwardt, S.D. Barthelmy, A.P. Beardmore, D.N. Burrows, C. Pagani, R.L.C. Starling, P. Romano

An extremely metal poor Damped Lyman-alpha system revealed through GRB 090926A

Authors: Arne Rau (1), S. Savaglio (1), T. Krühler (1 and 2), P. Afonso (1), J. Greiner (1), S. Klose (3), P. Schady (1), S. McBreen (1 and 4), R. Filgas (1), F. Olivares E. (1), A. Rossi (3), A. Updike (5) ((1) MPE Garching, (2) TUM, (3) TLS Tautenburg, (4) University College Dublin, (5) Clemson University)

Using cosmic neutrinos to search for non-perturbative physics at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors: Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Dariusz Gora, Thomas Paul, Markus Roth, Subir Sarkar, Lisa Lee Winders

tipa -- 4/19/2010

Ultracold Neutron Production in a Pulsed Neutron Beam Line

Authors: C. M. Lavelle, W. Fox, G. Manus, P. M. McChesney, D. J. Salvat, Y. Shin, M. Makela, C. Morris, A. Saunders, A. Couture, A. R. Young, C.-Y. Liu

Dynamical constraints on the origin of the young B-stars in the Galactic center

Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Alessia Gualandris

The cut-sky cosmic microwave background is not anomalous

Authors: Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris

A Bound on the Light Emitted During the TP-AGB Phase

Authors: Jonathan C. Bird, Marc H. Pinsonneault (The Ohio State University)

Time-dependent particle acceleration in supernova remnants in different environments

Authors: K.M. Schure, A. Achterberg, R. Keppens, Jacco Vink

Structure of a strong supernova shock wave and rapid electron acceleration confined in its transition region

Authors: Nobue Shimada, Masahiro Hoshino, Takanobu Amano

Numerical models of collisions between core-collapse supernovae and circumstellar shells

Authors: Allard Jan van Marle, Nathan Smith, Stanley P. Owocki, Bob van Veelen

Suzaku Observations of Luminous Quasars: Revealing the Nature of High-Energy Blazar Emission in Quiescent States

Authors: The Fermi/LAT Collaboration: A. A. Abdo, et al., F. Tavecchio, M. Sikora, P. Schady, P. Roming, M. M. Chester, L. Maraschi

Afterglow Observations of Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Emerging Class of Hyper-Energetic Events

Authors: S. B. Cenko, D. A. Frail, F. A. Harrison, J. B. Haislip, D. E. Reichart, N. R. Butler, B. E. Cobb, A. Cucchiara, E. Berger, J. S. Bloom, P. Chandra, D. B. Fox, D. A. Perley, J. X. Prochaska, A. V. Filippenko, K. Glazebrook, K. M. Ivarsen, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, A. P. LaCluyze, S. Lopez, A. N. Morgan, M. Pettini, V. R. Rana

classic papers of the week -- 145

On the Quantum Correction For Thermodynamic Equilibrium

Wigner, E. (Department of Physics, Princeton University)

The Mass-Radius Relation for Cold Spheres of Low Mass

Zapolsky, H. S. (University of Maryland, College Park); Salpeter, E. E. (Cornell University)

Weakly-Bound States of Three Resonantly-Interacting Particles

V.N. Efimov (A. F. Ioffe Physico-technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences)

tipa -- 4/16/2010

Cosmological Non-Linearities as an Effective Fluid

Authors: Daniel Baumann, Alberto Nicolis, Leonardo Senatore, Matias Zaldarriaga

Early supernovae light-curves following the shock-breakout

Authors: Ehud Nakar, Re'em Sari

Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmology

Authors: Lawrence Krauss (1), Scott Dodelson (2,3) Stephan Meyer (3), ((1) Arizona State University, (2)Fermi National Laboratory, (3) University of Chicago)

Authors: J-P. Macquart (1,2), N. Kanekar (3,4), D. Frail (4), S. Ransom (4) ((1) California Institute of Technology, USA, (2) ICRAR/Curtin University of Technology, Australia, (3) National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India, (4) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)

The Hubble Constant

Authors: Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore

Sensitivity analyses of dense cloud chemical models

Authors: V. Wakelam, E. Herbst, J. Le Bourlot, F. Hersant, F. Selsis, S. Guilloteau

Multimessenger astronomy with the Einstein Telescope

Authors: Eric Chassande-Mottin, Martin Hendry, Patrick J. Sutton, Szabolcs Márka

Dark Matter Subhalos In the Fermi First Source Catalog

Authors: Matthew R. Buckley, Dan Hooper

Neutrino Oscillations and Entanglement

Authors: R. G. Hamish Robertson

classic papers of the week -- 144

The Quantum Theory of the Electron. Part II

Dirac, P. A. M. (St. John’s College, Cambridge)

Light curves, color curves, and expansion velocity of type I supernovae as functions of the rate of brightness decline

Pskovskii, Iu. P. (Shternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, USSR)

History of Ocean Basins

H. H. Hess (Princeton University)

tipa -- 4/9/2010

New ALPS Results on Hidden-Sector Lightweights

Authors: Klaus Ehret (1), Maik Frede (2), Samvel Ghazaryan (1), Matthias Hildebrandt (2), Ernst-Axel Knabbe (1), Dietmar Kracht (2), Axel Lindner (1), Jenny List (1), Tobias Meier (3), Niels Meyer (1), Dieter Notz (1), Javier Redondo (1 and 4), Andreas Ringwald (1), Günter Wiedemann (5), Benno Willke (3) ((1)Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, (2) Laser Zentrum Hannover, (3) Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert-Einstein-Institute, and Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Leibniz Universität, Hannover, (4) Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, (5) Hamburger Sternwarte)