tipa -- 5/31/2011

Thermo-Resistive Instability in Magnetar Crusts

• Authors: Steven Price, Bennett Link, Richard I. Epstein, Hui Li

Cosmic ray diffusion fronts in the Virgo cluster

• Authors: William G. Mathews, Fulai Guo

Connecting Synchrotron, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields in the Plane of the Galaxy

• Authors: T. R. Jaffe, A. J. Banday, J. P. Leahy, S. Leach, A. W. Strong

Modeling supernova remnants: effects of diffusive cosmic-ray acceleration on the evolution, application to observations

• Authors: D. Kosenko, S. I. Blinnikov, J. Vink

Improved determination of the sample composition of dimuon events produced in {\boldmath $p\bar{p}$} collisions at {\boldmath $\sqrt{s}=1.96$} TeV

• Authors: CDF Collaboration

tipa -- 5/30/2011

A 100-parsec elliptical and twisted ring of cold and dense molecular clouds revealed by Herschel around the Galactic Center

• Authors: S. Molinari, J. Bally, A. Noriega-Crespo, M. Compiègne, J.P. Bernard, D. Paradis, P. Martin, L. Testi, M. Barlow, T. Moore, R. Plume, B. Swinyard, A. Zavagno, L. Calzoletti, A.M. Di Giorgio, D. Elia, F. Faustini, P. Natoli, M. Pestalozzi, S. Pezzuto, F. Piacentini, G. Polenta, D. Polychroni, E. Schisano, A. Traficante, M. Veneziani, C. Battersby, M. Burton, S. Carey, Y. Fukui, J.Z. Li, S.D. Lord, L. Morgan, F. Motte, F. Schuller, G.S. Stringfellow, J.C. Tan, M. A. Thompson, D. Ward-Thompson, G. White, G. Umana

Deep Chandra observations of TeV binaries II: LS 5039

• Authors: N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC), D. F. Torres (CSIC-IEEC, ICREA), G. A. Caliandro (CSIC-IEEC), D. Hadasch (CSIC-IEEC), M. van der Klis (Amsterdam), P. G. Jonker (SRON), M. Mendez (Groningen), A. Sierpowska-Bartosik (Lodz)

A Dynamical Model of the Local Group

• Authors: P. J. E. Peebles, R. Brent Tully, Edward J. Shaya

tipa -- 5/27/2011

Red Eyes on Wolf-Rayet Stars: 60 New Discoveries via Infrared Color Selection

• Authors: Jon C. Mauerhan, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Patrick. W. Morris

Direct Search for Low Mass Dark Matter Particles with CCDs

• Authors: J. Barreto, H. Cease, H.T. Diehl, J. Estrada, B. Flaugher, N. Harrison, J. Jones, B. Kilminster, J. Molina, J. Smith, A. Sonnenschein

Molecular and Atomic Gas toward HESS J1745-303 in the Galactic Center: Further Support for the Hadronic Scenario

• Authors: Takahiro Hayakawa, Kazufumi Torii, Rei Enokiya, Takanobu Amano, Yasuo Fukui

The effect of metallicity on the delay-time distribution of type Ia supernova

• Authors: Xiangcun Meng, Zhongmu Li, Wuming Yang

Effect of collective neutrino flavor oscillations on vp-process nucleosynthesis

• Authors: G. Martínez-Pinedo, B. Ziebarth, T. Fischer, K. Langanke

Tenth-Order Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment -- Sixth-Order Vertices Containing Vacuum-Polarization Subdiagrams

• Authors: Tatsumi Aoyama, Masashi Hayakawa, Toichiro Kinoshita, Makiko Nio

tipa -- 5/26/2011

A Photometric Redshift of z ~ 9.4 for GRB 090429B

• Authors: A. Cucchiara, A. J. Levan, D. B. Fox, N. R. Tanvir, T. N. Ukwatta, E. Berger, T. Krühler, A. Küpcü Yoldaş, X. F. Wu, K. Toma, J. Greiner, F. Olivares E., A. Rowlinson, L. Amati, T. Sakamoto, K. Roth, A. Stephens, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, D. Malesani, P. Jakobsson, K. Wiersema, P. T. O'Brien, A. M. Soderberg, R. J. Foley, A. S. Fruchter, J. Rhoads, R. E. Rutledge, B. P. Schmidt, M. A. Dopita, P. Podsiadlowski, R. Willingale, C. Wolf, S. R. Kulkarni, P. D'Avanzo

Calibrating Extinction-Free Star Formation Rate Diagnostics with 33GHz Free-Free Emission in NGC6946

• Authors: E.J. Murphy, J.J. Condon, E. Schinnerer, R.C. Kennicutt Jr., D. Calzetti, L. Armus, G. Helou, J.L. Turner, G. Aniano, P. Beirão, A.D. Bolatto, B.R. Brandl, K.V. Croxall, D.A. Dale, J.L. Donovan Meyer, B.T. Draine, C. Engelbracht, L.K. Hunt, C.-N. Hao, J. Koda, H. Roussel, R. Skibba, J.-D.T. Smith

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a measurement of the primordial power spectrum

• Authors: Renée Hlozek, Joanna Dunkley, Graeme Addison, John William Appel, J. Richard Bond, C. Sofia Carvalho, Sudeep Das, Mark Devlin, Rolando Dünner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Joseph Fowler, Patricio Gallardo, Amir Hajian, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, John P. Hughes, Kent Irwin, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Felipe Menanteau, Kavilan Moodley, Michael D. Niemack, Michael R. Nolta, Lyman Page, Lucas Parker, Bruce Partridge, Felipe Rojas, Neelima Sehgal, Blake Sherwin, Jon Sievers, David Spergel, Suzanne Staggs, Daniel Swetz, Eric Switzer, Robert Thornton, Ed Wollack

The Crab Nebula super-flare in April 2011: extremely fast particle acceleration and gamma-ray emission

• Authors: E. Striani, M. Tavani, G. Piano, I. Donnarumma, G. Pucella, V. Vittorini, A. Bulgarelli, A. Trois, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, E. Costa, M. Weisskopf, A.Tennant, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, P. Caraveo, M Cardillo, P. W. Cattaneo, A. W. Chen, G. De Paris, E. Del Monte, G. Di Cocco, Y. Evangelista, A. Ferrari, M. Feroci, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, A. Giuliani, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, S. Mereghetti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, F. Perotti, P. Picozza, M. Pilia, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, S.Sabatini, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, S. Vercellone, F. Lucarelli, P. Santolamazza, P. Giommi

Cosmogenic gamma-rays and the composition of cosmic rays

• Authors: Markus Ahlers, Jordi Salvado

Short-baseline Neutrino Oscillation Waves in Ultra-large Liquid Scintillator Detectors

• Authors: Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, J.M. Conrad, M.H. Shaevitz

tipa -- 5/25/2011

A Molecular Star Formation Law in the Atomic Gas Dominated Regime in Nearby Galaxies

• Authors: Andreas Schruba, Adam K. Leroy, Fabian Walter, Frank Bigiel, Elias Brinks, W.J.G. de Blok, Gaelle Dumas, Carsten Kramer, Erik Rosolowsky, Karin Sandstrom, Karl Schuster, Antonio Usero, Axel Weiss, Helmut Wiesemeyer

Statistical Description of Synchrotron Intensity Fluctuations: Studies of Astrophysical Magnetic Turbulence

• Authors: Alex Lazarian, Dmitri Pogosyan

Gamma-ray burst rate: high-redshift excess and its possible origins

• Authors: Francisco J. Virgili, Bing Zhang, Kentaro Nagamine, Jun-Hwan Choi

Instability of Superfluid Flow in the Neutron Star Inner Crust

• Authors: Bennett Link (Montana State University)

Tidally-Induced Apsidal Precession in Double White Dwarfs: a new mass measurement tool with LISA

• Authors: Francesca Valsecchi, Will M. Farr, Bart Willems, Christopher .J. Deloye, Vassiliki Kalogera

tipa -- 5/24/2011

Dark Matter Debris Flows in the Milky Way

• Authors: Mariangela Lisanti, David N. Spergel

New Optical/UV Counterparts and the Spectral Energy Distributions of Nearby, Thermally Emitting, Isolated Neutron Stars

• Authors: David L. Kaplan, Atish Kamble, Marten H. van Kerkwijk, Wynn C. G. Ho

Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Dependence on the Nuclear Equation of State

• Authors: Kenta Hotokezaka, Koutarou Kyutoku, Hirotada Okawa, Masaru Shibata, Kenta Kiuchi

Diffusive propagation of cosmic rays from supernova remnants in the Galaxy. I: spectrum and chemical composition

• Authors: Pasquale Blasi, Elena Amato (INAF/Arcetri)

Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Outburst Site of M31 RV. II. No Blue Remnant in Quiescence

• Authors: Howard E. Bond (Space Telescope Science Institute)

tipa -- 5/23/2011

The RMS Survey: Critical Tests of Accretion Models for the Formation of Massive Stars

• Authors: Ben Davies (IoA, Cambridge/Leeds), Melvin G. Hoare (Leeds), Stuart L. Lumsden (Leeds), Takashi Hosokawa (JPL/Kyoto), Rene D. Oudmaijer (Leeds), James S. Urquhart (CSIRO), Joseph C. Mottram (Exeter), Joseph Stead (Leeds)

Weakening dark-matter cusps by clumpy baryonic infall

• Authors: David Cole, Walter Dehnen, Mark Wilkinson

X-ray emission from protostellar jet HH 154: the first evidence of a diamond shock?

• Authors: R. Bonito, S. Orlando, M. Miceli, G. Peres, G. Micela, F. Favata

Accurate Stellar Kinematics at Faint Magnitudes: application to the Bootes~I dwarf spheroidal galaxy

• Authors: Sergey E. Koposov, G. Gilmore, M. G. Walker, V. Belokurov, N.Wyn Evans, M. Fellhauer, W. Gieren, D. Geisler, L. Monaco, J.E. Norris, S. Okamoto, J. Penarrubia, M. Wilkinson, R.F.G. Wyse, D.B. Zucker

Jet Formation in the magnetospheres of supermassive black holes: analytic solutions describing energy loss through Blandford-Znajek processes

• Authors: Govind Menon, Charles D. Dermer

classic papers of the week -- 196

Masses of quasars

• Soltan, A. (N. Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Warsaw)

Asymptotic Sum Rules at Infinite Momentum

• J.D. Bjorken (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

The True Theory of the Tides, Extracted from That Admired Treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton

• Newton, Isaac; Halley, Edmund

tipa -- 5/20/2011

The Mass-Radius Relation at z ~ 1.5-3.0

• Authors: Sarah R. Nagy, David R. Law, Alice E. Shapley, Charles C. Steidel

The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

• Authors: Raphael Bousso, Leonard Susskind

tipa -- 5/19/2011

Suzaku measurement of electron and magnetic energy densities in the east lobe of the giant radio galaxy DA 240

• Authors: Naoki Isobe, Hiromi Seta, Makoto S. Tashiro

Accurate Predictions for the Scale-Dependent Galaxy Bias from Primordial Non-Gaussianity

• Authors: Vincent Desjacques, Donghui Jeong, Fabian Schmidt

The structure function of variable 1.4 GHz radio sources based on NVSS and FIRST observations

• Authors: Eran O. Ofek, Dale A. Frail

A study of extraterrestrial antineutrino sources with the KamLAND detector

• Authors: The KamLAND Collaboration

Unbound or Distant Planetary Mass Population Detected by Gravitational Microlensing

• Authors: T. Sumi, K. Kamiya, A. Udalski, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, F. Abe, C.S. Botzler, A. Fukui, K. Furusawa, J.B. Hearnshaw, Y. Itow, P.M. Kilmartin, A. Korpela, W. Lin, C.H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, N. Miyake, M. Motomura, Y. Muraki, M. Nagaya, S. Nakamura, K. Ohnishi, T. Okumura, Y.C. Perrott, N. Rattenbury, To. Saito, T. Sako, D.J. Sullivan, W.L. Sweatman, P.J. Tristram, P.C.M. Yock, M.K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, R. Poleski, I. Soszynski, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk

Blindly Detecting Merging Supermassive Black Holes with Radio Surveys

• Authors: David L. Kaplan, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Alberto Sesana, Marta Volonteri

The neutron and its role in cosmology and particle physics

• Authors: Dirk Dubbers, Michael G. Schmidt

tipa -- 5/18/2011

Gravity Probe B: Final Results of a Space Experiment to Test General Relativity

• Authors: C. W. F. Everitt, D. B. DeBra, B. W. Parkinson, J. P. Turneaure, J. W. Conklin, M. I. Heifetz, G. M. Keiser, A. S. Silbergleit, T. Holmes, J. Kolodziejczak, M. Al-Meshari, J. C. Mester, B. Muhlfelder, V. Solomonik, K. Stahl, P. Worden, W. Bencze, S. Buchman, B. Clarke, A. Al-Jadaan, H. Al-Jibreen, J. Li, J. A. Lipa, J. M. Lockhart, B. Al-Suwaidan, M. Taber, S. Wang

A new SNR with TeV shell-type morphology: HESS J1731-347

• Authors: HESS Collaboration: A. Abramowski, et al

Swift 1644+57: The Longest Gamma-ray Burst?

• Authors: Eliot Quataert, Dan Kasen

Constraints on neutrino interactions using cosmological observations

• Authors: Tristan L. Smith, Sudeep Das, Oliver Zahn (UC Berkeley)

Prospects of detecting gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters: cosmic rays and dark matter annihilations

• Authors: Anders Pinzke, Christoph Pfrommer, Lars Bergstrom

Afterglow of binary neutron star merger

• Authors: Masaru Shibata, Yudai Suwa, Kenta Kiuchi (Kyoto U.), Kunihito Ioka (KEK)

Comparative Analysis of Peculiar Type Ia 1991bg-like Supernovae Spectra

• Authors: Brandon Doull, E. Baron

Combined Limits on WIMPs from the CDMS and EDELWEISS Experiments

• Authors: CDMS, EDELWEISS Collaborations

The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: V. Improving the Dark Energy Constraints Above z>1 and Building an Early-Type-Hosted Supernova Sample

• Authors: N. Suzuki, D. Rubin, C. Lidman, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, K. Barbary, L.F. Barrientos, J. Botyanszki, M. Brodwin, N. Connolly, K.S. Dawson, A. Dey, M. Doi, M. Donahue, S. Deustua, P. Eisenhardt, E. Ellingson, L. Faccioli, V. Fadeyev, H.K. Fakhouri, A.S. Fruchter, D.G. Gilbank, M.D. Gladders, G. Goldhaber, A.H. Gonzalez, A. Goobar, A. Gude, T. Hattori, H. Hoekstra, E. Hsiao, X. Huang, Y. Ihara, M.J. Jee, D. Johnston, N. Kashikawa, B. Koester, K. Konishi, M. Kowalski, E.V. Linder, L. Lubin, J. Melbourne, J. Meyers, T. Morokuma, F. Munshi, C. Mullis, T. Oda, N. Panagia, S. Perlmutter, M. Postman, T. Pritchard, J. Rhodes, P. Ripoche, P. Rosati, D.J. Schlegel, A. Spadafora, S. A. Stanford, V. Stanishev, D. Stern, M. Strovink, N. Takanashi, K. Tokita, M. Wagner, L. Wang, N. Yasuda, H.K.C. Yee, (The Supernova Cosmology Project)

tipa -- 5/17/2011

A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope

• Authors: R. Keisler, C. L. Reichardt, K. A. Aird, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, H. M. Cho, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, T. de Haan, M. A. Dobbs, J. Dudley, E. M. George, N. W. Halverson, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, S. Hoover, Z. Hou, J. D. Hrubes, M. Joy, L. Knox, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, D. Luong-Van, J. J. McMahon, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, M. Millea, J. J. Mohr, T. E. Montroy, T. Natoli, S. Padin, T. Plagge, C. Pryke, J. E. Ruhl, K. K. Schaffer, L. Shaw, E. Shirokoff, H. G. Spieler, Z. Staniszewski, A. A. Stark, K. Story, A. van Engelen, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, R. Williamson, O. Zahn

The Magnetic Field of the Irregular Galaxy NGC 4214

• Authors: Amanda Kepley, Ellen Zweibel, Eric Wilcots, Kelsey Johnson, Timothy Robishaw

Design and Initial Performance of the Askaryan Radio Array Prototype EeV Neutrino Detector at the South Pole

• Authors: P. Allison, J. Auffenberg, R. Bard, J. J. Beatty, D. Z. Besson, S. Boeser, C. Chen, P. Chen, A. Connolly, J. Davies, M. DuVernois, B. Fox, P. W. Gorham, E. W. Grashorn, K. Hanson, J. Haugen, K. Helbing, B. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, M. Huang, M. H. A. Huang, A. Ishihara, A. Karle, D. Kennedy, H. Landsman, A. Laundrie, T.-C. Liu, L. Macchiarulo, K. Mase, T. Meures, R. Meyhandan, C. Miki, R. Morse, M. Newcomb, R. J. Nichol, K. Ratzlaff, M. Richman, L. Ritter, B. Rotter, P. Sandstrom, D. Seckel, J. Touart, G. S. Varner, Y. Wang, C. Weaver, A. Wendorff, S. Yoshida, R. Young

Binary black hole mergers in gaseous disks: Simulations in general relativity

• Authors: Brian D. Farris, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro

Radiative efficiency and thermal spectrum of accretion onto Schwarzschild black holes

• Authors: Scott C. Noble (Rochester Institute of Technology), Julian H. Krolik (Johns Hopkins University), Jeremy D. Schnittman (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), John F. Hawley (University of Virginia)

On the multiple supernova population of Arp 299: constraints on progenitor properties and host galaxy star formation characteristics

• Authors: J. P. Anderson, S. M. Habergham, P. A. James

The correlation between C/O ratio, metallicity and the initial WD mass for SNe Ia

• Authors: Xiangcum Meng, Wuming Yang

An unusual stellar death on Christmas Day

• Authors: C. C. Thöne, A. de Ugarte Postigo, C. L. Fryer, K. L. Page, J. Gorosabel, D. A. Perley, C. Kouveliotou, H. T. Janka, M. A. Aloy, P. Mimica, J. L. Racusin, H. Krimm, J. Cummings, S. R. Oates, S. T. Holland, M. H. Siegel, M. De Pasquale, E. Sonbas, M. Im, W.-K. Park, D. A. Kann, S. Guziy, L. Hernandez Garcia, K. Bundy, A. J. Castro-Tirado, C. Choi, H. Jeong, H. Korhonen, P. Kubanek, J. Lim, A. Llorente, A. Moskvitin, T. Muñoz Darias, S. Pak, I. Parrish

Is molecular gas necessary for star formation?

• Authors: S. C. O. Glover, P. C. Clark

Eccentric Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers

• Authors: Branson C. Stephens (1), William E. East (2), Frans Pretorius (2) ((1) UW-Milwaukee, (2) Princeton University)

Localizing compact binary inspirals on the sky using ground-based gravitational wave interferometers

• Authors: Samaya M. Nissanke, Jonathan L. Sievers, Neal Dalal, Daniel E. Holz

Discovery of an Energetic Pulsar Associated with SNR G76.9+1.0

• Authors: Z. Arzoumanian, E. V. Gotthelf, S. M. Ransom, S. Safi-Harb, R. Kothes, T. L. Landecker

Scaling Relations and Overabundance of Massive Clusters at z>~1 from Weak-Lensing Studies with HST

• Authors: M.J. Jee, K.S. Dawson, H. Hoekstra, S. Perlmutter, P. Rosati, M. Brodwin, N. Suzuki, B. Koester, M. Postman, L. Lubin, J. Meyers, S.A. Stanford, K. Barbary, F. Barrientos, P. Eisenhardt, H.C. Ford, D.G. Gilbank, M.D. Gladders, A. Gonzalez, D.W. Harris, X. Huang, C. Lidman, E.S. Rykoff, D. Rubin, A.L. Spadafora

Ultrahigh-energy neutrino-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering and the Froissart bound

• Authors: Alexey Yu. Illarionov, Bernd A. Kniehl, Anatoly V. Kotikov

Radiative Correction to the anti-nu_e (nu_e) Spectrum in beta-Decay

• Authors: A. Sirlin

Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

• Authors: Daniele Alves, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Sanjay Arora, Yang Bai, Matthew Baumgart, Joshua Berger, Matthew Buckley, Bart Butler, Spencer Chang, Hsin-Chia Cheng, Clifford Cheung, R. Sekhar Chivukula, Won Sang Cho, Randy Cotta, Mariarosaria D'Alfonso, Sonia El Hedri, Rouven Essig (Editor), Jared A. Evans, Liam Fitzpatrick, Patrick Fox, Roberto Franceschini, Ayres Freitas, James S. Gainer, Yuri Gershtein, Richard Gray, Thomas Gregoire, Ben Gripaios, Jack Gunion, Tao Han, Andy Haas, Per Hansson, JoAnne Hewett, Dmitry Hits, Jay Hubisz, Eder Izaguirre, Jared Kaplan, Emanuel Katz, Can Kilic, Hyung-Do Kim, Ryuichiro Kitano, Sue Ann Koay, Pyungwon Ko, David Krohn, Eric Kuflik, Ian Lewis, Mariangela Lisanti (Editor), Tao Liu, Zhen Liu, Ran Lu, Markus Luty, Patrick Meade, David Morrissey, Stephen Mrenna, Mihoko Nojiri, Takemichi Okui, Sanjay Padhi, Michele Papucci, Michael Park, Myeonghun Park, Maxim Perelstein, Michael Peskin, Daniel Phalen, Keith Rehermann, Vikram Rentala, Tuhin Roy, Joshua T. Ruderman, Veronica Sanz, Martin Schmaltz, Stephen Schnetzer, Philip Schuster (Editor), Pedro Schwaller, Matthew D. Schwartz, Ariel Schwartzman, Jing Shao, Jessie Shelton, David Shih, Jing Shu, Daniel Silverstein, Elizabeth Simmons, Sunil Somalwar, Michael Spannowsky, Christian Spethmann, Matthew Strassler, Shufang Su, Tim Tait (Editor), Brooks Thomas, Scott Thomas, Natalia Toro (Editor), Tomer Volansky, Jay Wacker (Editor), Wolfgang Waltenberger, Itay Yavin, Felix Yu, Yue Zhao, Kathryn Zurek