today in particle astrophysics

Authors: Vallia Antoniou (1,2,3), Andreas Zezas (1,2,4), Despina Hatzidimitriou (4,5), Vicky Kalogera (6) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Physics Department, University of Crete, Greece, (3) Iowa State University, (4) IESL/FORTH, Greece, (5) Physics Department, University of Athens, Greece, (6) Northwestern University)

The distribution of annihilation luminosities in dark matter substructure

Authors: Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown U.), Andrew R. Zentner (U. Pittsburgh), Andrey V. Kravtsov (U. Chicago/KICP)

Constraining Dark Matter in Galactic Substructure

Authors: Eric J. Baxter, Scott Dodelson, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Louis E. Strigari

Analytic calculations of the spectra of ultra high energy cosmic ray nuclei. II. The general case of background radiation

Authors: R. Aloisio, V. Berezinsky, S. Grigorieva

Annihilation emission from young supernova remnants

Authors: Pierrick Martin, Jacco Vink, Sarka Jiraskova, Pierre Jean, Roland Diehl

Neutrino-nucleus interactions in the T2K experiment

Authors: T. Leitner, U. Mosel

First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star

Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration

tipa -- 6/14/2010

Eight gamma-ray pulsars discovered in blind frequency searches of Fermi LAT data

Authors: P.M. Saz Parkinson, M. Dormody, M. Ziegler, P.S. Ray, A.A. Abdo, J. Ballet, M.G. Baring, A. Belfiore, T.H. Burnett, G.A. Caliandro, F. Camilo, P.A. Caraveo, A. de Luca, E.C. Ferrara, P.C.C. Freire, J.E. Grove, C. Gwon, A.K. Harding, R.P. Johnson, T.J. Johnson, S. Johnston, M. Keith, M. Kerr, J. Knödlseder, A. Makeev, M. Marelli, P.F. Michelson, D. Parent, S.M. Ransom, O. Reimer, R.W. Romani, D.A. Smith, D.J. Thompson, K. Watters, P. Weltevrede, M.T. Wolff, K.S. Wood

Multi-Angle Simulation of Flavor Evolution in the Neutrino Neutronization Burst From an O-Ne-Mg Core-Collapse Supernova

Authors: John F. Cherry, George M. Fuller, Joe Carlson, Huaiyu Duan, Yong-Zong Qian

Observations of the Optical Transient in NGC 300 with AKARI/IRC: Possibilities of Asymmetric Dust Formation

Authors: R. Ohsawa, I. Sakon, T. Onaka, M. Tanaka, T. Moriya, T. Nozawa, K. Maeda, K. Nomoto, N. Tominaga, F. Usui, H. Matsuhara, T. Nakagawa, H. Murakami

Photospheric radius expansion during magnetar bursts

Authors: Anna L. Watts, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Alexander J. van der Horst, Ersin Gogus, Yuki Kaneko, Michiel van der Klis, Ralph A.M.J. Wijers, Alice K. Harding, Matthew G. Baring

Determining the main-sequence mass of Type II supernova progenitors

Authors: Luc Dessart, Eli Livne, Roni Waldman

Self-induced suppression of collective neutrino oscillations in a supernova

Authors: Huaiyu Duan, Alexander Friedland

On a theory of neutrino oscillations with entanglement

Authors: Boris Kayser, Joachim Kopp (Fermilab), R. G. Hamish Roberston (U of Washington), Petr Vogel (Caltech)

classic papers of the week -- 153

Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons

F. Englert, R. Brout (Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Hyper-velocity and tidal stars from binaries disrupted by a massive Galactic black hole

Hills, J. G. (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time-Varying Analyzers

Aspect, Alain; Dalibard, Jean; Roger, Gérard (Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée, F-91406 Orsay Cédex, France)

tipa -- 6/11/2010

The Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey - A 690-Square-Degree, 12-Epoch Radio Dataset - I: Catalog and Long-Duration Transient Statistics

Authors: Steve Croft, Geoffrey C. Bower, Rob Ackermann, Shannon Atkinson, Don Backer, Peter Backus, William C. Barott, Amber Bauermeister, Leo Blitz, Douglas Bock, Tucker Bradford, Calvin Cheng, Chris Cork, Mike Davis, Dave DeBoer, Matt Dexter, John Dreher, Greg Engargiola, Ed Fields, Matt Fleming, James R. Forster, Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill, Gerry Harp, Tamara Helfer, Chat Hull, Jane Jordan, Susanne Jorgensen, Garrett Keating, Tom Kilsdonk, Casey Law, Joeri van Leeuwen, John Lugten, Dave MacMahon, Peter McMahon, Oren Milgrome, Tom Pierson, Karen Randall, John Ross, Seth Shostak, Andrew Siemion, Ken Smolek, Jill Tarter, Douglas Thornton, Lynn Urry, Artyom Vitouchkine, Niklas Wadefalk, Jack Welch, Dan Werthimer, David Whysong, Peter K. G. Williams, Melvyn Wright

Comments on arXiv:1006.0972 "XENON10/100 dark matter constraints in comparison with CoGeNT and DAMA: examining the Leff dependence"

Authors: J.I. Collar

Consequences of a Dark Disk for the Fermi and PAMELA Signals in Theories with a Sommerfeld Enhancement

Authors: Ilias Cholis, Lisa Goodenough

DUAL Gamma-Ray Mission

Authors: S. Boggs, C. Wunderer, P. von Ballmoos, T. Takahashi, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, M. Baring, J. Beacom, R. Diehl, J. Greiner, E. Grove, D. Hartmann, M. Hernanz, P. Jean, N. Johnson, G. Kanbach, M. Kippen, J. Knödlseder, M. Leising, G. Madejski, M. McConnell, P. Milne, K. Motohide, K. Nakazawa, U. Oberlack, B. Phlips, J. Ryan, G. Skinner, S. Starrfield, H. Tajima, E. Wulf, A. Zoglauer, A. Zych

VLBI Observations of SN 2009bb

Authors: M. F. Bietenholz, A. M. Soderberg, N. Bartel, S. P. Ellingsen, S. Horiuchi, C. J. Phillips, A. K. Tzioumis, M. H. Wieringa, N. N. Chugai

Constraints on Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions and Unparticle Physics with Neutrino-Electron Scattering at the Kuo-Sheng Nuclear Power Reactor

Authors: M. Deniz er al., TEXONO Collaboration

Gallium experiments with artificial neutrino sources as a tool for investigation of transition to sterile states

Authors: V. N. Gavrin, V. V. Gorbachev, E. P. Veretenkin, B. T. Cleveland

tipa -- 6/10/2010

Local-Group tests of dark-matter Concordance Cosmology: Towards a new paradigm for structure formation?

Authors: P. Kroupa, B. Famaey, K. S. de Boer, J. Dabringhausen, M. S. Pawlowski, C. M. Boily, H. Jerjen, D. Forbes, G. Hensler, A. Del Popolo, M. Metz

Implications of Fermi Observations for Hadronic Models of Radio Halos in Clusters of Galaxies

Authors: Tesla E. Jeltema, Stefano Profumo

Probing Explosion Geometry of Core-collapse Supernovae with Light Curves of the Shock Breakout

Authors: Akihiro Suzuki, Toshikazu Shigeyama

On the chemical composition of cosmic rays of highest energy

Authors: Grzegorz Wilk, Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

Fast time variations of supernova neutrino fluxes and their detectability

Authors: Tina Lund, Andreas Marek, Cecilia Lunardini, Hans-Thomas Janka, Georg Raffelt

Sensitivity of Neutrino Mass Experiments to the Cosmic Neutrino Background

Authors: A. Kaboth, J. A. Formaggio, B. Monreal

Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions

Authors: Palash B. Pal

tipa -- 6/9/2010

Observation of a first $\nu_\tau$ candidate in the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam

Authors: N. Agafonova et al. (OPERA Collaboration)

The return of the bursts: Thermonuclear flashes from Circinus X-1

Authors: M. Linares (1,2), A. Watts (3), D. Altamirano (3), P. Soleri (4), N. Degenaar (3), Y. Yang (3), R. Wijnands (3), P. Casella (5), J. Homan (1), D. Chakrabarty (1), N. Rea (6), M. Armas-Padilla (3), Y. Cavecchi (3), M. Kalamkar (3), R. Kaur (3), A. Patruno (3), M. van der Klis (3), ((1) MIT, (2) Rubicon Fellow, (3) Amsterdam, (4) Groningen, (5) Southampton, (6) CSIC-IEEC)

Wide-field global VLBI and MERLIN combined monitoring of supernova remnants in M82

Authors: D. Fenech, R. Beswick, T. W. B. Muxlow, A. Pedlar, M. K. Argo

Gravitational fragmentation in turbulent primordial gas and the initial mass function of Population III stars

Authors: Paul C. Clark, Simon C.O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen, Volker Bromm

Fermi-LAT Sensitivity to Dark Matter Annihilation in Via Lactea II Substructure

Authors: Brandon Anderson, Michael Kuhlen, Robert Johnson, Piero Madau, Juerg Diemand

Solitary Magnetic Bubbles

Authors: Andrei Gruzinov (NYU)

Improved Constraints on Isotropic Shift and Anisotropies of the Speed of Light using Rotating Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillators

Authors: Michael A. Hohensee, Paul. L. Stanwix, Michael Edmund Tobar, Stephen R. Parker, David F. Phillips, Ronald L. Walsworth

The magic nature of 132Sn explored through the single-particle states of 133Sn

Authors: K. L. Jones, A. S. Adekola, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, K. Y. Chae, K. A. Chipps, J. A. Cizewski, L. Erikson, C. Harlin, R. Hatarik, R. Kapler, R. L. Kozub, J. F. Liang, R. Livesay, Z. Ma, B. H. Moazen, C. D. Nesaraja, F. M. Nunes, S. D. Pain, N. P. Patterson, D. Shapira, J. F. Shriner Jr, M. S. Smith, T. P. Swan, J. S. Thomas

tipa -- 6/8/2010

New constraints on muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS

Authors: The MINOS Collaboration

Angular, spectral, and time distributions of highest energy protons and associated secondary gamma-rays and neutrinos propagating through extragalactic magnetic and radiation fields

Authors: F.A. Aharonian, S.R. Kelner, A.Y. Prosekin

Systematic uncertainties in the determination of the local dark matter density

Authors: Miguel Pato, Oscar Agertz, Gianfranco Bertone, Ben Moore, Romain Teyssier

The GMRT-EoR Experiment: A new upper limit on the neutral hydrogen power spectrum at z \approx 8.6

Authors: Gregory Paciga, Tzu-Ching Chang, Yashwant Gupta, Rajaram Nityanada, Julia Odegova, Ue-Li Pen, Jeffrey Peterson, Jayanta Roy, Kris Sigurdson

Model Independent Bounds on Kinetic Mixing

Authors: Anson Hook, Eder Izaguirre, Jay G. Wacker

General Analysis of Antideuteron Searches for Dark Matter

Authors: Yanou Cui, John D. Mason, Lisa Randall

Combined analysis of KamLAND and Borexino neutrino signals from Th and U decays in the Earth's interior

Authors: G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Palazzo, A.M. Rotunno

tipa -- 6/7/2010

GeV Gamma-ray Flux Upper Limits from Clusters of Galaxies

Authors: M. Ackermann et al. (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

The afterglow and host galaxy of GRB 090205: evidence for a Ly-alpha emitter at z=4.65

Authors: P. D'Avanzo, M. Perri, D. Fugazza, R. Salvaterra, G. Chincarini, R. Margutti, X. F. Wu, C. C. Thoene, A. Fernandez-Soto, T. N. Ukwatta, D. N. Burrows, N. Gehrels, P. Meszaros, K. Toma, B. Zhang, S. Covino, S. Campana, V. D'Elia, M. Della Valle, S. Piranomonte

Cometary shaped sources at the Galactic Center - Evidence for a wind from the central 0.2 pc

Authors: K. Muzic, A. Eckart, R. Schoedel, R. Buchholz, M. Zamaninasab

The Three-Dimensional Structure of Interior Ejecta in Cassiopeia A at High Spectral Resolution

Authors: Karl Isensee, Lawrence Rudnick, Tracey DeLaney, J.D. Smith, Jeonghee Rho, William T. Reach, Takashi Kozasa, Haley Gomez

Observational constraints on the progenitor metallicities of core-collapse supernovae

Authors: J. P. Anderson, R. A. Covarrubias, P. A. James, M. Hamuy, S. M. Habergham

XENON10/100 dark matter constraints in comparison with CoGeNT and DAMA: examining the Leff dependence

Authors: Christopher Savage, Graciela Gelmini, Paolo Gondolo, Katherine Freese

Turbulence effects on supernova neutrinos

Authors: James P. Kneller, Cristina Volpe

classic papers of the week -- 152

Baryogenesis Without Grand Unification

M. Fukugita (Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University), T. Yanagida (Institute of Physics, Tohoku University)

Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae

Hoyle, F. (St. John’s College, Cambridge; California Institute of Technology); Fowler, William A. (California Institute of Technology)

How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension

Mandelbrot, Benoit (International Business Machines, Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

tipa -- 6/4/2010

Discovery of the afterglow and host galaxy of the low redshift short GRB 080905A

Authors: A. Rowlinson, K. Wiersema, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, P. T. O'Brien, E. Rol, J. Hjorth, C. C. Thone, A. de Ugarte Postigo, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, C. Pagani, M. Stamatikos

Probing thermonuclear supernova explosions with neutrinos

Authors: A. Odrzywolek, T. Plewa

Multiple Major Outbursts from a Restless Luminous Blue Variable in NGC 3432

Authors: A. Pastorello (1), M. T. Botticella (1), C. Trundle (1), S. Taubenberger (2), S. Mattila (3,4), E. Kankare (5,3), N. Elias-Rosa (6), S. Benetti (7), G. Duszanowicz (8), L. Hermansson (9), J. E. Beckman (10,11), F. Bufano (7), M. Fraser (1), A. Harutyunyan (12), H. Navasardyan (7), S. J. Smartt (1), S. D. van Dyk (6), J. S. Vink (13), R. M. Wagner (14) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, (3) University of Turku, (4) Stockholm University, (5) Nordic Optical Telescope, (6) Spitzer Science Center, (7) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, (8) Moonbase Observatory, (9) Sandvretens Observatory, (10) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (11) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cienticas of Spain, (12) Fundacion Galileo Galilei - INAF, (13) Armagh Observatory, (14) Large Binocular Telescope Observatory)