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tipa -- 11/25/2010

Insights Into the High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era

Authors: The Fermi-LAT collaboration: A. A. Abdo et al., the MAGIC collaboration: J. Aleksić et al., the VERITAS collaboration: V. A. Acciari et al., the GASP-WEBT consortium, multi-wavelength partners

The Disappearance of the Red Supergiant Progenitor of Supernova 2008bk

Authors: Seppo Mattila (1,2), Stephen Smartt (3), Justyn Maund (4), Stefano Benetti (5), Mattias Ergon (1) ((1) Stockholm University, Sweden, (2) University of Turku, Finland, (3) Queens University Belfast, UK, (4) University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (5) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy)

Low Multiplicity Burst Search at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Authors: SNO Collaboration

tipa -- 11/24/2010

Multi-Element Abundance Measurements from Medium-Resolution Spectra. III. Metallicity Distributions of Milky Way Dwarf Satellite Galaxies

Authors: Evan N. Kirby (1), Gustavo A. Lanfranchi (2), Joshua D. Simon (3), Judith G. Cohen (1), Puragra Guhathakurta (4) ((1) Caltech, (2) Nucleo de Astrofisica Teorica, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, (3) Carnegie Observatories, (4) UC Santa Cruz)

The First Systematic Study of Type Ibc Supernova Multi-color Light-curves

Authors: Maria R. Drout (1), Alicia M. Soderberg (1), A. Gal-Yam (2), S. B. Cenko (3), D. B. Fox (4), D. C. Leonard (5), D. J. Sand (6,7), D.-S. Moon (8), I. Arcavi (2), Y. Green (2) ((1) Harvard U., (2) Weizmann, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) PSU, (5) SDSU, (6) LCOGT, (7) UCSB, (8) U. of Toronto)

Can IBEX Identify Variations in the Galactic Environment of the Sun using Energetic Neutral Atom (ENAs)?

Authors: P. C. Frisch, J. Heerikhuisen, N. V. Pogorelov, B. DeMajistre, G. B. Crew, H. O. Funsten, P. Janzen, D. J. McComas, E. Moebius, H.-R. Mueller, D. B. Reisenfeld, N. A. Schwadron, J. D. Slavin, G. P.Zank

Enhanced Dark Matter Sensitivity from Fermi-LAT Resolution of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background

Authors: Kevork N. Abazajian, Steve Blanchet, J. Patrick Harding

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

Authors: 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. Binns (6), C. Chen (7), P. Chen (7), J. M. Clem (8), A. Connolly (5), M. Detrixhe (4), D. De Marco (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), R. Y. Shang (7), G. S. Varner (1), A. G. Vieregg (3), Y. Wang (7)

tipa -- 11/23/2010

Measuring Ejecta Velocity Improves Type Ia Supernova Distances

Authors: Ryan J. Foley, Daniel Kasen

Gravitational Pulse Astronomy

Authors: Andrew Gould (Ohio State)

Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae at High Redshift from the Supernova Legacy Survey

Authors: S. Gonzalez-Gaitan, K. Perrett, M. Sullivan, A. Conley, D. A. Howell, R. G. Carlberg, P. Astier, D. Balam, C. Balland, S. Basa, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, R. Pain, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, J. Rich

Instabilities in neutrino systems induced by interactions with scalars

Authors: R. F. Sawyer

Radioactivity and Electron Acceleration in Supernova Remnants

Authors: V.N.Zirakashvili, F.A.Aharonian

Search for beta plus/EC double beta decay of 120Te

Authors: E. Andreotti, C. Arnaboldi, F. T. Avignone III, M. Balata, I. Bandac, M. Barucci, J. W. Beeman, F. Bellini, C. Brofferio, A. Bryant, C. Bucci, L. Canonica, S. Capelli, L. Carbone, M. Carrettoni, M. Clemenza, O. Cremonesi, R. J. Creswick, S. Di Domizio, M. J. Dolinski, L. Ejzak, R. Faccini, H. A. Farach, E. Ferri, E. Fiorini, L. Foggetta, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, A. Giuliani, P. Gorla, E. Guardincerri, T. D. Gutierrez. E. E. Haller, K. Kazkaz, S. Kraft, L. Kogler, C. Maiano, R. H. Maruyama, C. Martinez, M. Martinez, L. Mizouni, S. Newman, S. Nisi, C. Nones, E. B. Norman, A. Nucciotti, F. Orio, M. Pallavicini, V. Palmieri, L. Pattavina, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, L. Risegari, C. Rosenfeld, C. Rusconi, C. Salvioni, S. Sangiorgio, D. Schaeffer, N. D. Scielzo, M. Sisti, A. R. Smith, C. Tomei, G. Ventura, M. Vignati

tipa -- 11/22/2010

The Neutron Star Mass Distribution

Authors: Bulent Kiziltan, Athanasios Kottas, Stephen E. Thorsett

Accelerating Compact Object Mergers in Triple Systems with the Kozai Resonance: A Mechanism for "Prompt'' Type Ia Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Other Exotica

Authors: Todd A. Thompson

Effect of Streaming Motion of Baryons Relative to Dark Matter on the Formation of the First Stars

Authors: Athena Stacy, Volker Bromm, Abraham Loeb

Complementarity of direct dark matter detection and indirect detection through gamma-rays

Authors: Lars Bergstrom, Torsten Bringmann, Joakim Edsjo

classic papers of the week -- 175

Measurability of Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments

Schiff, L. I. (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stanford University)

The birth of neutron stars

Burrows, A.; Lattimer, J. M. (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

A Method for the Numerical Calculation of Hydrodynamic Shocks

Von Neumann, J.; Richtmyer, R. D. (Institute for Advanced Study)

Authors: James D. Neill (1), Mark Sullivan (2), Avishay Gal-Yam (3), Robert Quimby (1), Eran Ofek (1), Ted K. Wyder (1), D. Andrew Howell (4), Peter Nugent (5), Mark Seibert (6), D. Christopher Martin (1), Roderik Overzier (7), Tom A. Barlow (1), Karl Foster (1), Peter G. Friedman (1), Patrick Morrissey (1), Susan G. Neff (8), David Schiminovich (9), Luciana Bianchi (10), José Donas (11), Timothy M. Heckman (12), Young-Wook Lee (13), Barry F. Madore (6), Bruno Milliard (11), R. Michael Rich (14), Alex S. Szalay (12) ((1) CalTech, (2) Oxford, (3) Weizmann Institute, (4) LCOGT, (5) LBNL, (6) Carnegie, (7) Max-Planck, (8) LASP NASA Goddard, (9) Columbia, (10) CAS Johns Hopkins, (11) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (12) Department of Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins, (13) Yonsei University, (14) University of California Los Angeles)

Search for a diffuse flux of high-energy $\nu_\mu$ with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Authors: ANTARES Collaboration

Proton size anomaly

Authors: Vernon Barger, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Wai-Yee Keung, Danny Marfatia

Cosmological bounds on sub-MeV mass axions

Authors: Davide Cadamuro, Steen Hannestad, Georg Raffelt, Javier Redondo

tipa -- 11/16/2010

The Merger Rate of Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf Binaries: Links to the Formation of AM CVn Stars and Underluminous Supernovae

Authors: Warren R. Brown, Mukremin Kilic, Carlos Allende Prieto, Scott J. Kenyon

Impact of the spectral hardening of TeV cosmic rays on the prediction of the secondary positron flux

Authors: Julien Lavalle

Blazars in the Fermi Era: The OVRO 40-m Telescope Monitoring Program

Authors: Joseph L. Richards (1), Walter Max-Moerbeck (1), Vasiliki Pavlidou (1), Oliver G. King (1), Timothy J. Pearson (1), Anthony C. S. Readhead (1), Rodrigo Reeves (1), Martin C. Shepherd (1), Matthew A. Stevenson (1), Lawrence C. Weintraub (1), Lars Fuhrmann (2), Emmanouil Angelakis (2), J. Anton Zensus (2), Stephen E. Healey (3), Roger W. Romani (3), Michael S. Shaw (3), Keith Grainge (4), Mark Birkinshaw (5), Katy Lancaster (5), Diana M. Worrall (5), Gregory B. Taylor (6), Garret Cotter (7), Ricardo Bustos (8) ((1) California Institute of Technology, (2) Max-Planck-Institut-für-Radioastronomie, (3) Stanford University, (4) University of Cambridge / Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge, (5) University of Bristol, (6) University of New Mexico, (7) University of Oxford, (8) Universidad de Concepción / Universidad de Chile)

Identification of a Population of X-ray Emitting Massive Stars in the Galactic Plane

Authors: G. E. Anderson (1), B. M. Gaensler (1), D. L. Kaplan (2), B. Posselt (3), P. O. Slane (3), S. S. Murray (3), J. C. Mauerhan (4), R. A. Benjamin (5), C. L. Brogan (6), D. Chakrabarty (7), J. J. Drake (3), J. E. Drew (8), J. E. Grindlay (3), J. Hong (3), T. J. W. Lazio (9), J. C. Lee (3), D. T. H. Steeghs (1), M. H. van Kerkwijk (11) ((1) U. Sydney, (2) U. California, (3) CfA, (4) Caltech, (5) U. Wisconsin, (6) NRAO, (7) MIT, (8) U. Hertfordshire, (9) NRL, (10) U. Warwick, (11) U. Toronto)

The revival of an explosion mechanism of massive stars - the quark hadron phase transition during the early post bounce phase of core collapse supernovae

Authors: T. Fischer, I. Sagert, G. Pagliara, M. Hempel, J. Schaffner-Bielich, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thielemann, R. Käppeli, G. Martínez-Pinedo, M. Liebendörfer

On Luminous Blue Variables as the Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae, especially Type IIn Supernovae

Authors: Vikram V Dwarkadas

Muon Capture Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Properties

Authors: David McKeen, Maxim Pospelov

Consistent Scenarios for Cosmic-Ray Excesses from Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation

Authors: Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Lisa Goodenough, Tracy R. Slatyer, Mark Vogelsberger, Neal Weiner

Anthropic Argument for Three Generations

Authors: Andrew Gould

Superkicks in ultrarelativistic encounters of spinning black holes

Authors: Ulrich Sperhake, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Frans Pretorius, Nicolas Yunes

tipa -- 11/15/2010

Evidence for Low Black Hole Spin and Physically Motivated Accretion Models from Millimeter VLBI Observations of Sagittarius A*

Authors: Avery E. Broderick (1), Vincent L. Fish (2), Sheperd S. Doeleman (2), Abraham Loeb (3) ((1) CITA, (2) MIT Haystack, (3) Harvard)

Weak Gravitational Lensing as a Method to Constrain Unstable Dark Matter

Authors: Mei-Yu Wang, Andrew R. Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

200 A GeV Au+Au collisions serve a nearly perfect quark-gluon liquid

Authors: Huichao Song (LBNL & Ohio State), Steffen A. Bass (Duke U.), Ulrich W. Heinz (Ohio State), Tetsufumi Hirano (Tokyo U. & LBNL), Chun Shen (Ohio State)

classic papers of the week -- 174

A slice of the universe

de Lapparent, V.; Geller, M. J.; Huchra, J. P. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Radiative Corrections to Fermi Interactions

Kinoshita, Toichiro (Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University); Sirlin, Alberto (Physics Department, Columbia University)

Noah, Joseph, and Operational Hydrology

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Mandelbrot, Benoit B.; Wallis, James R. (International Business Machines Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY)

tipa -- 11/12/2010

The Spectral Slope and Kolmogorov Constant of MHD turbulence

Authors: Andrey Beresnyak

Detailed Radio View on Two Stellar Explosions and Their Host Galaxy: XRF080109/SN2008D and SN2007uy in NGC2770

Authors: A.J. van der Horst, A.P. Kamble, Z. Paragi, L.J. Sage, S. Pal, G.B. Taylor, C. Kouveliotou, J. Granot, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, C.H. Ishwara-Chandra, T.A. Oosterloo, R.A.M.J. Wijers, K. Wiersema, R.G. Strom, D. Bhattacharya, E. Rol, R.L.C. Starling, P.A. Curran, M.A. Garrett

The Birth of a Galaxy: Primoridal Metal Enrichment and Population II Stellar Populations

Authors: John H. Wise (Princeton), Matthew J. Turk, Michael L. Norman (UCSD), Tom Abel (Stanford)

Constraining the S factor of 15N(p,g)16O at Astrophysical Energies

Authors: P. J. LeBlanc, G. Imbriani, J. Goerres, M. Junker, R. Azuma, M. Beard, D. Bemmerer, A. Best, C. Broggini, A. Caciolli, P. Corvisiero, H. Costantini, M. Couder, R. deBoer, Z. Elekes, S. Falahat, A. Formicola, Zs. Fulop, G. Gervino, A. Guglielmetti, C. Gustavino, Gy. Gyurky, F. Kaeppeler, A. Kontos, R. Kuntz, H. Leiste, A. Lemut, Q. Li, B. Limata, M. Marta, C. Mazzocchi, R. Menegazzo, S. O'Brien, A. Palumbo, P. Prati, V. Roca, C. Rolfs, C. Rossi Alvarez, E. Somorjai, E. Stech, O. Straniero, F. Strieder, W. Tan, F. Terrasi, H.P. Trautvetter, E. Uberseder, M. Wiescher

tipa -- 11/11/2010

Galaxy Zoo Supernovae

Authors: A. M. Smith, S. Lynn, M. Sullivan, C. J. Lintott, P. E. Nugent, J. Botyanszki, M. Kasliwal, R. Quimby, S. P. Bamford, L. F. Fortson, K. Schawinski, I. Hook, S. Blake, P. Podsiadlowski, J. Joensson, A. Gal-Yam, I. Arcavi, D. A. Howell, J. S. Bloom, J. Jacobsen, S. R. Kulkarni, N. M. Law, E. O. Ofek, R. Walters

The Mass Distribution and Assembly of the Milky Way from the Properties of the Magellanic Clouds

Authors: Michael T. Busha (Stanford Univeristy/Univeristy of Zurich), Philip J. Marshall (Stanford University/University of Oxford), Risa H. Wechsler (Stanford University), Anatoly Klypin (New Mexico State University)

Wide-field VLBA Observations of the Chandra Deep Field South

Authors: Enno Middelberg, Adam Deller, John Morgan, Helge Rottmann, Walter Alef, Steven Tingay, Ray Norris, Uwe Bach, Walter Brisken, Emil Lenc

Precise Gamma-Ray Timing and Radio Observations of 17 Fermi Gamma-Ray Pulsars

Authors: P. S. Ray, M. Kerr, D. Parent, A. A. Abdo, L. Guillemot, S. M. Ransom, N. Rea, M. T. Wolff, A. Makeev, F. Camilo, M. Dormody, P. C. C. Freire, J. E. Grove, C. Gwon, A. K. Harding, S. Johnston, M. Keith, M. Kramer, P. F. Michelson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, R. W. Romani, D. J. Thompson, P. Weltevrede, K. S. Wood, M. Ziegler

1.3 mm Wavelength VLBI of Sagittarius A*: Detection of Time-Variable Emission on Event Horizon Scales

Authors: Vincent L. Fish, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Christopher Beaudoin, Ray Blundell, David E. Bolin, Geoffrey C. Bower, Richard Chamberlin, Robert Freund, Per Friberg, Mark A. Gurwell, Mareki Honma, Makoto Inoue, Thomas P. Krichbaum, James Lamb, Daniel P. Marrone, James M. Moran, Tomoaki Oyama, Richard Plambeck, Rurik Primiani, Alan E. E. Rogers, Daniel L. Smythe, Jason SooHoo, Peter Strittmatter, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Jonathan Weintroub, Melvyn Wright, David Woody, Ken H. Young, Lucy M. Ziurys

Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data

Authors: CDMS Collaboration: Z. Ahmed, D. S. Akerib, S. Arrenberg, C. N. Bailey, D. Balakishiyeva, L. Baudis, D. A. Bauer, P. L. Brink, T. Bruch, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D. O. Caldwell, J. Cooley, P. Cushman, M. Daal, F. DeJongh, M. R. Dragowsky, L. Duong, S. Fallows, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, J. Filippini, M. Fritts, S. R. Golwala, J. Hall, R. Hennings-Yeomans, S. A. Hertel, D. Holmgren, L. Hsu, M. E. Huber, O. Kamaev, M. Kiveni, M. Kos, S. W. Leman, R. Mahapatra, V. Mandic, K. A. McCarthy, N. Mirabolfathi, D. Moore, H. Nelson, R. W. Ogburn, A. Phipps, 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, M. Tarka, P. Wikus, S. Yellin, J. Yoo, B. A. Young, J. Zhang

tipa -- 11/10/2010

A Reconnection Switch to Trigger Gamma-Ray Burst Jet Dissipation

Authors: Jonathan C. McKinney (1), Dmitri A. Uzdensky (2) ((1) Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, (2) Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder)

Quantifying Kinematic Substructure in the Milky Way's Stellar Halo