tipa -- 2/28/2011

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Haze from Dark Matter Annihilations and Anisotropic Diffusion

• Authors: Gregory Dobler (KITP/UCSB), Ilias Cholis (SISSA), Neal Weiner (NYU/IAS)

Core-collapse explosions of Wolf-Rayet stars and the connection to type IIb/Ib/Ic supernovae

• Authors: Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Eli Livne, Sung-Chul Yoon, Stan Woosley, Roni Waldman, Norbert Langer

On the unreasonable effectiveness of the post-Newtonian approximation in gravitational physics

• Authors: Clifford M. Will

classic papers of the week -- 186

Radiation Around the Earth to a Radial Distance of 107,400 km

• van Allen, James A.; Frank, Louis A. (State University of Iowa, Iowa City)

Invariant Variation Problems

• Emmy Noether

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

• Turing, A. M. (Victoria University of Manchester)

tipa -- 2/25/2011

11B and Constraints on Neutrino Oscillations and Spectra from Neutrino Nucleosynthesis

• Authors: Sam M. Austin, Alex Heger, Clarisse Tur

Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

• Authors: Miguel Preto, Ingo Berentzen, Peter Berczik, Rainer Spurzem

tipa -- 2/24/2011

Spectropolarimetric Evidence for Radiatively Inefficient Accretion in an Optically Dull Active Galaxy

• Authors: Jonathan R. Trump, Tohru Nagao, Hiro Ikeda, Takashi Murayama, Christopher D. Impey, John T. Stocke, Francesca Civano, Martin Elvis, Knud Jahnke, Brandon C. Kelly, Anton M. Koekemoer, Yoshi Taniguchi

The First Galaxies

• Authors: Volker Bromm, Naoki Yoshida

Detection of Jet-like Radio Emission Associated to Geminga

• Authors: A. Pellizzoni, F. Govoni, P. Esposito, M. Murgia, A. Possenti

Constraints on massive sterile neutrino species from current and future cosmological data

• Authors: Elena Giusarma, Martina Corsi, Maria Archidiacono, Roland de Putter, Alessandro Melchiorri, Olga Mena, Stefania Pandolfi

An Introduction to the Chandra Carina Complex Project

• Authors: Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, Michael F. Corcoran, Eric D. Feigelson, Marc Gagné, Thierry Montmerle, M. S. Oey, Nathan Smith, Gordon P. Garmire, Konstantin V. Getman, Matthew S. Povich, Nancy Remage Evans, Yaël Nazé, E. R. Parkin, Thomas Preibisch, Junfeng Wang, Scott J. Wolk, You-Hua Chu, David H. Cohen, Robert A. Gruendl, Kenji Hamaguchi, Robert R. King, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Mark J. McCaughrean, Anthony F. J. Moffat, L. M. Oskinova, Julian M. Pittard, Keivan G. Stassun, Asif ud-Doula, Nolan R. Walborn, Wayne L. Waldron, Ed Churchwell, J. S. Nichols, Stanley P. Owocki, N. S. Schulz

tipa -- 2/23/2011

Equivalence Principle and Gravitational Redshift

• Authors: Michael A. Hohensee, Steven Chu, Achim Peters, Holger Mueller

Spin-Up/Spin-Down models for Type Ia Supernovae

• Authors: R. Di Stefano, R. Voss, J.S.W. Claeys

Cosmic recycling of millisecond pulsars

• Authors: Wynn C. G. Ho, Thomas J. Maccarone, Nils Andersson (University of Southampton)

Synthetic off-axis light curves for short gamma-ray bursts

• Authors: H.J. van Eerten, A. I. MacFadyen

tipa -- 2/22/2011

Discovery of two millisecond pulsars in Fermi sources with the Nancay Radio Telescope

• Authors: I. Cognard, L. Guillemot, T. J. Johnson, D. A. Smith, C. Venter, A. K. Harding, M. T. Wolff, C. C. Cheung, D. Donato, A. A. Abdo, J. Ballet, F. Camilo, G. Desvignes, D. Dumora, E. C. Ferrara, P. C. C. Freire, J. E. Grove, M. Keith, M. Kramer, A. G. Lyne, P. F. Michelson, D. Parent, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, R. W. Romani, P. M. Saz Parkinson, B. W. Stappers, G. Theureau, D. J. Thompson, P. Weltevrede, K. S. Wood

Faraday Rotation Measure Synthesis for Magnetic Fields of Galaxies

• Authors: P. Frick, D. Sokoloff, R. Stepanov, R. Beck

Long-duration gamma-ray emissions from 2007 and 2008 winter thunderstorms

• Authors: H. Tsuchiya, T. Enoto, S. Yamada, T. Yuasa, K. Nakazawa, T. Kitaguchi, M. Kawaharada, M. Kokubun, H. Kato, M. Okano, K. Makishima

tipa -- 2/21/2011

Discovery of TeV Gamma Ray Emission from Tycho's Supernova Remnant

• Authors: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, T. Aune, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, E. Collins-Hughes, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, C. Duke, M. Errando, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, N. Galante, D. Gall, G. H. Gillanders, S. Godambe, S. Griffin, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, J. Holder, J. P. Hughes, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, A. S Madhavan, G. Maier, P. Majumdar, S. McArthur, A. McCann, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, R. A. Ong, M. Orr, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, N. Park, J. S. Perkins, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, D. B. Saxon, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, G. Demet Senturk, P. Slane, A. W. Smith, G. Tešić, M. Theiling, S. Thibadeau, K. Tsurusaki, A. Varlotta, V. V. Vassiliev, S. Vincent, M. Vivier, S. P. Wakely, J. E. Ward, T. C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, T. Weisgarber, D. A. Williams, M. Wood, B. Zitzer

Stability of quasi-Keplerian shear flow in a laboratory experiment

• Authors: Ethan Schartman, Hantao Ji, Michael J. Burin, Jeremy Goodman

The ExaVolt Antenna: A Large-Aperture, Balloon-embedded Antenna for Ultra-high Energy Particle Detection

• Authors: P. W. Gorham (1), F. E. Baginski (2), P. Allison (1,3), K. M. Liewer (4), C. Miki (1) B. Hill (1), G. S. Varner (1), ((1) Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, (2) George Washington Univ., (3) Ohio State Univ., (4) Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Gamma-ray emission of accelerated particles escaping a supernova remnant in a molecular cloud

• Authors: Donald C. Ellison, Andrei M. Bykov

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown

• Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 185

The Hydrodynamic Behavior of Supernovae Explosions

• Colgate, Stirling A.; White, Richard H. (Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA)

On the Quantum Mechanics of Neutrino Oscillation

• Boris Kayser (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University and Division of Physics, National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C.)

World-Wide Effects of Hydromagnetic Waves Due to Argus

• Berthold, W. K.; Harris, A. K.; Hope, H. J. (U. S. Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, NJ)

tipa -- 2/18/2011

Confirmation of enhanced dwarf-sensitive absorption features in the spectra of massive elliptical galaxies: further evidence for a non-universal initial mass function

• Authors: Pieter van Dokkum, Charlie Conroy

Density Variations in the NW Star Stream of M31

• Authors: R. G. Carlberg, Harvey B. Richer, Alan W. McConnachie, Mike Irwin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Aaron L. Dotter, Scott Chapman, Mark Fardal, A. M. N. Ferguson, G. F. Lewis, Julio F. Navarro, Thomas H. Puzia, David Valls-Gabaud

tipa -- 2/17/2011

The First Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Fluence from Gamma-ray Bursts

• Authors: A. G. Vieregg, K. Palladino, P. Allison, B. M. Baughman, J. J. Beatty, K. Belov, D. Z. Besson, S. Bevan, W. R. Binns, C. Chen, P. Chen, J. M. Clem, A. Connolly, M. Detrixhe, D. De Marco, P. F. Dowkontt, M. DuVernois, P. W. Gorham, E. W. Grashorn, B. Hill, S. Hoover, M. Huang, M. H. Israel, A. Javaid, K. M. Liewer, S. Matsuno, B. C. Mercurio, C. Miki, M. Mottram, J. Nam, R. J. Nichol, A. Romero-Wolf, L. Ruckman, D. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, G. S. Varner, Y. Wang

No Evidence for Evolution in the Far-Infrared-Radio Correlation out to z ~ 2 in the eCDFS

• Authors: Minnie Y. Mao, Minh Huynh, Ray P. Norris, Mark Dickinson, David Frayer, George Helou, Jacqueline Monkiewicz

Discovery of a faint X-ray counterpart and of a parsec-long X-ray tail for the middle-aged, gamma-ray only pulsar PSR J0357+3205

• Authors: A. De Luca, M. Marelli, R.P. Mignani, P.A. Caraveo, W. Hummel, S. Collins, A. Shearer, P.M. Saz Parkinson, A. Belfiore, G.F. Bignami

Maximum gravitational-wave energy emissible in magnetar flares

• Authors: Alessandra Corsi, Benjamin J. Owen

tipa -- 2/16/2011

PAndAS' progeny: extending the M31 dwarf galaxy cabal

• Authors: Jenny C. Richardson, Mike Irwin, Alan W. McConnachie, Nicolas F. Martin, Aaron Dotter, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Scott Chapman, Geraint F. Lewis, Nial R. Tanvir, R. Michael Rich

Enhanced neutrino signals from dark matter annihilation in the Sun via metastable mediators

• Authors: Nicole F. Bell, Kalliopi Petraki

tipa -- 2/15/2011

4U 1907+09: a HMXB running away from the Galactic plane

• Authors: V.V.Gvaramadze, S.Roeser, R.-D.Scholz, E.Schilbach

Re-acceleration of Nonthermal Particles at Weak Cosmological Shock Waves

• Authors: Hyesung Kang (Pusan National University, Korea), Dongsu Ryu (Chungnam National University, Korea)

Cosmic-Ray Proton and Helium Spectra from the First CREAM Flight

• Authors: Y.S. Yoon, H.S. Ahn, P.S. Allison, M.G. Bagliesi, J.J. Beatty, G. Bigongiari, P.J. Boyle, J.T. Childers, N.B. Conklin, S. Coutu, M.A. DuVernois, O. Ganel, J.H. Han, J.A. Jeon, K.C. Kim, M.H. Lee, L. Lutz, P. Maestro, A. Malinine, P.S. Marrocchesi, S.A. Minnick, S.I. Mognet, S. Nam, S. Nutter, I.H. Park, N.H. Park, E.S. Seo, R. Sina, S. Swordy, S.P. Wakely, J. Wu, J. Yang, R. Zei, S.Y. Zinn

Improvement of low energy atmospheric neutrino flux calculation using the JAM nuclear interaction model

• Authors: Morihiro Honda, Takaaki Kajita, Katsuaki Kasahara, Shoichi Midorikawa

tipa -- 2/14/2011

The Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey -- A 700-Square-Degree, Multi-Epoch Radio Dataset -- II: Individual Epoch Transient Statistics

• Authors: Steve Croft, Geoffrey C. Bower, Garrett Keating, Casey Law, David Whysong, Peter K. G. Williams, Melvyn Wright

On detection of the stochastic gravitational-wave background using the Parkes pulsar timing array

• Authors: D. R. B. Yardley, W. A. Coles, G. B. Hobbs, J. P. W. Verbiest, R. N. Manchester, W. van Straten, F. A. Jenet, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. J. Champion, A. W. Hotan, S. Oslowski, J. E. Reynolds, J. M. Sarkissian

The properties of SN Ib/c locations

• Authors: G. Leloudas, A. Gallazzi, J. Sollerman, M.D. Stritzinger, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, D. Malesani, M.J. Michałowski, B. Milvang-Jensen, M. Smith

Shock Breakout in Type II Plateau Supernovae: Prospects for High Redshift Supernova Surveys

• Authors: N. Tominaga, T. Morokuma, S. I. Blinnikov, P. Baklanov, E. I. Sorokina, K. Nomoto

Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in sqrt{s} = 7 TeV pp

• Authors: The ATLAS Collaboration

classic papers of the week -- 184

Sweet's Mechanism for Merging Magnetic Fields in Conducting Fluids

• Parker, E. N. (Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, The University of Chicago)

B¹², C¹², and the Red Giants

• Cook, C. W.; Fowler, W. A.; Lauritsen, C. C.; Lauritsen, T. (Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

Derivation of the Brueckner Many-Body Theory

• Goldstone, J. (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)

tipa -- 2/11/2011

Arp220: extinction and merger-induced star formation

• Authors: H. Engel, R. I. Davies, R. Genzel, L. J. Tacconi, E. Sturm, D. Downes

The Cosmic Core-collapse Supernova Rate does not match the Massive-Star Formation Rate

• Authors: Shunsaku Horiuchi, John F. Beacom, Christopher S. Kochanek, Jose L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, Todd A. Thompson

Metallicity and the Universality of the IMF

• Authors: Andrew T. Myers, Mark R. Krumholz, Richard I. Klein, Christopher F. McKee

A Constraint on the Organization of the Galactic Center Magnetic Field Using Faraday Rotation

• Authors: C. J. Law (1), M. A. Brentjens (2), G. Novak (3) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) ASTRON, (3) Northwestern Univ.)

COrE (Cosmic Origins Explorer) A White Paper

• Authors: The COrE Collaboration

tipa -- 2/10/2011

Binary progenitor models of type IIb supernovae

• Authors: J.S.W. Claeys, S.E. de Mink, O.R. Pols, J.J. Eldridge, M. Baes

Penrose At Work

• Authors: Renyue Cen (Princeton University Observatory)

Measurement of the neutrino component of an anti-neutrino beam observed by a non-magnetized detector

• Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, S. J. Brice, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, B. T. Fleming, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, J. A. Green, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, S. K. Linden, W. C. Louis, K. B. M. Mahn, W. Marsh, C. Mauger, W. Metcalf, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, R. H. Nelson, V. Nguyen, P. Nienaber, J. A. Nowak, B. Osmanov, A. Patch, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov, C. C. Polly, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, A. D. Russell, M. H. Shaevitz, M. Sorel, J. Spitz, I. Stancu, R. J. Stefanski, R. Tayloe, M. Tzanov, R. G. Van de Water, M. O. Wascko, D. H. White, M. J. Wilking, G. P. Zeller, E. D. Zimmerman

tipa -- 2/9/2011

Spectral evolution of long Gamma Ray Burst prompt emission: electrostatic acceleration and adiabatic expansion

• Authors: F. Massaro (SAO), J. E. Grindlay (Harvard - SAO)

Radio transients from stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes

• Authors: Dimitrios Giannios, Brian D. Metzger (Princeton)

Supernova cosmology: legacy and future

• Authors: Ariel Goobar, Bruno Leibundgut

The neutrino-neutrino interaction effects in supernovae: the point of view from the matter basis

• Authors: S. Galais, J. Kneller, C. Volpe

Spectroscopic Determination of the Low Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

• Authors: K. Simon Krughoff, Andrew Connolly, Joshua Frieman, Mark SubbaRao, Gary Kilper, Donald Schneider

The Angular Momenta of Neutron Stars and Black Holes as a Window on Supernovae

• Authors: J. M. Miller (1), M. C. Miller (2), C. S. Reynolds (2) ((1) University of Michigan, (2) University of Maryland)

Is the metallicity of their hosts a good measure of the metallicity of Type Ia supernovae?

• Authors: Eduardo Bravo, Carles Badenes

tipa -- 2/8/2011

Exploring the Galaxy Mass-Metallicity Relation at z~3-5

• Authors: Tanmoy Laskar, Edo Berger, Ranga-Ram Chary

Radio Remnants of Compact Binary Mergers - the Electromagnetic Signal that will follow the Gravitational Waves

• Authors: Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran

On the Formation of Double White Dwarfs through Stable Mass Transfer and a Common Envelope

• Authors: T.E. Woods, N. Ivanova, M. van der Sluys, S. Chaichenets

Violent mergers of nearly equal-mass white dwarf as progenitors of subluminous Type Ia supernovae

• Authors: R. Pakmor, S. Hachinger, F. K. Roepke, W. Hillebrandt

tipa -- 2/7/2011

Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the vicinity of PSR B1706-44 and G343.1-2.3 with H.E.S.S

• Authors: H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Fueling lobes of radio galaxies: statistical particle acceleration and the extragalactic gamma-ray background

• Authors: F. Massaro, M. Ajello

Standard GRB, Dirty Fireballs, and the Excluded Middle

• Authors: David Eichler

Contribution to the Diffuse Radio Background from Extragalactic Radio Sources

• Authors: Tessa Vernstrom, Douglas Scott, Jasper Wall

Incomplete carbon-oxygen detonation in Type Ia supernovae

• Authors: Inma Domínguez, Alexei Khokhlov

Kepler planet candidates consistent with core accretion

• Authors: Andrew Gould (OSU), Jason Eastman (OSU)

classic papers of the week -- 183

The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts. I

• Bell, A. R. (Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England)

Planck's law and the light quantum hypothesis

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• Bose (Dacca University, India)

Experimental Test of Local Hidden-Variable Theories

• Freedman, Stuart J.; Clauser, John F. (Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley)