today in particle astrophysics

Authors: J. Afonso (Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon and Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Lisbon), L. Bizzocchi, E. Ibar, M. Grossi, C. Simpson, S. Chapman, M. J. Jarvis, H. Rottgering, R. P. Norris, J. Dunlop, R. J. Ivison, H. Messias, J. Pforr, M. Vaccari, N. Seymour, P. Best, E. González-Solares, D. Farrah, C.A.C. Fernandes, J.-S. Huang, M. Lacy, C. Marastron, L. Marchetti, J.-C. Mauduit, S. Oliver, D. Rigopoulou, S.A. Stanford, J. Surace, G. Zeimann

Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas

Authors: N. F. Loureiro, R. Samtaney, A. A. Schekochihin, D. A. Uzdensky

Density Fluctuation Effects on Collective Neutrino Oscillations in O-Ne-Mg Core-Collapse Supernovae

Authors: John F. Cherry, Meng-Ru Wu, Joe Carlson, Huaiyu Duan, George M. Fuller, Yong-Zhong Qian

Discovery of gamma-ray emission from the supernova remnant Kes 17 with Fermi Large Area Telescope

Authors: J. H. K. Wu (1), E. M. H. Wu (1), C. Y. Hui (2), P. H. T. Tam (3), R. H. H. Huang (3), A. K. H. Kong (3), K. S. Cheng (1) ((1) The University of Hong Kong, (2) Chungnam National University, (3) National Tsing Hua University)

Sterile neutrinos with eV masses in cosmology -- how disfavoured exactly?

Authors: Jan Hamann, Steen Hannestad, Georg G. Raffelt, Yvonne Y.Y. Wong

Constraining Galactic cosmic-ray parameters with Z<=2 nuclei

Authors: B. Coste, L. Derome, D. Maurin, A. Putze

Is Strong SASI Activity the Key to Successful Neutrino-Driven Supernova Explosions?

Authors: Florian Hanke, Andreas Marek, Bernhard Mueller, Hans-Thomas Janka (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)

Young Radio Pulsars in Galactic Globular Clusters

Authors: Jason Boyles, Duncan R. Lorimer, Phil J. Turk, Robert Mnatsakanov, Ryan S. Lynch, Scott M. Ransom, Paulo C. Freire, Khris Belczynski

Neutrino induced reactions related to the $ν$-process nucleosynthesis of ${}^{92}$Nb and ${}^{98}$Tc

Authors: Myung-Ki Cheoun, Eunja Ha, T. Hayakawa, Satoshi Chiba, Ko Nakamura, Toshitaka Kajino, Grant J. Mathews

Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200

Authors: N. Ackerman, B. Aharmim, M. Auger, D.J. Auty, P.S. Barbeau, K. Barry, L. Bartoszek, E. Beauchamp, V. Belov, C. Benitez-Medina, M. Breidenbach, A. Burenkov, B. Cleveland, R. Conley, E. Conti, J. Cook, S. Cook, A. Coppens, I. Counts, W. Craddock, T. Daniels, M.V. Danilov, C.G. Davis, J. Davis, R. deVoe, Z. Djurcic, A. Dobi, A.G. Dolgolenko, M.J. Dolinski, K. Donato, W. Fairbank Jr., J. Farine, P. Fierlinger, D. Franco, D. Freytag, G. Giroux, R. Gornea, K. Graham, G. Gratta, M.P. Green, C. Hagemann, C. Hall, K. Hall, G. Haller, C. Hargrove, R. Herbst, S. Herrin, J. Hodgson, M. Hughes, A. Johnson, A. Karelin, L.J. Kaufman, T. Koffas, A. Kuchenkov, A. Kumar, K.S. Kumar, D.S. Leonard, F. Leonard, F. LePort, D. Mackay, R. MacLellan, M. Marino, Y. Martin, B. Mong, M. Montero Diez, P. Morgan, A.R. Muller, R. Neilson, R. Nelson, A. Odian, K. O'Sullivan, C. Ouellet, A. Piepke, A. Pocar, C.Y. Prescott, K. Pushkin, A. Rivas, E. Rollin, P.C. Rowson, J.J. Russell, A. Sabourov, D. Sinclair, K. Skarpaas, S. Slutsky, V. Stekhanov, V. Strickland, M. Swift, D. Tosi, K. Twelker, P. Vogel, J.-L. Vuilleumier, J.-M. Vuilleumier, A. Waite, S. Waldman, T. Walton, K. Wamba, M. Weber, U. Wichoski, J. Wodin, J.D. Wright, L. Yang, Y.-R. Yen, O.Ya. Zeldovich

tipa -- 8/22/2011

Scaling Law of Relativistic Sweet-Parker Type Magnetic Reconnection

Authors: Hiroyuki R. Takahashi, Takahiro Kudoh, Youhei Masada, Jin Matsumoto

The Identification of the X-ray Counterpart to PSR J2021+4026

Authors: Martin C. Weisskopf, Roger W. Romani, Massimiliano Razzano, Andrea Belfiore, Pablo Saz Parkinson, Paul S. Ray, Matthew Kerr, Alice Harding, Douglas A. Swartz, Alberto Carraminana, Marcus Ziegler, Werner Becker, Andrea De Luca, Michael Dormody, David J. Thompson, Gottfried Kanbach, Ronald F. Elsner, Stephen L. O'Dell, Allyn F. Tennant

Three-dimensional Hydrodynamic Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations for an $11.2 M_{\odot}$ Star with Spectral Neutrino Transport

Authors: Tomoya Takiwaki, Kei Kotake, Yudai Suwa

classic papers of the week -- 203

Nuclear Induction

Bloch, F. (Stanford University, California)

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics - Theory and application to non-spherical stars

Gingold, R. A.; Monaghan, J. J. (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

A Geodetic Measurement of Unusually High Accuracy

Captain C. L. Garner (Retired) (U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey)

tipa -- 8/19/2011

Detection of Pulsed Gamma Rays Above 100 GeV from the Crab Pulsar

Authors: VERITAS Collaboration

Multi-Zone Modeling of HESS J1825-137

Authors: Adam Van Etten, Roger W. Romani

Supernova enhanced cosmic ray ionization and induced chemistry in a molecular cloud of W51C

Authors: C. Ceccarelli, P. Hily-Blant, T.Montmerle, G.Dubus, Y.Gallant, A.Fiasson

Circumstellar Material in Type Ia Supernovae via Sodium Absorption Features

Authors: Assaf Sternberg, Avishay Gal-Yam, Josh D. Simon, Douglas C. Leonard, Robert M. Quimby, Mark M. Phillips, Nidia Morrell, Ian B. Thompson, Inese Ivans, Jennifer L. Marshall, Alexei V. Filippenko, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Josh S. Bloom, Ferdinando Patat, Ryan J. Foley, David Yong, Bryan E. Penprase, Daniel J. Beeler, Carlos Allende Prieto, Guy S. Stringfellow

The very-high energy emission from pulsars: a case for inverse Compton scattering

Authors: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Nepomuk Otte (UCSC), Andrew McCann (McGill University)

tipa -- 8/18/2011

Central Powering of the Largest Lyman-alpha Nebula is Revealed by Polarized Radiation

Authors: Matthew Hayes (1,2,3), Claudia Scarlata (4,5), Brian Siana (6) ((1) University of Toulouse, (2) CNRS, IRAP, (3) Geneva Observatory, (4) University of Minnesota, (5) Spitzer, (6) Caltech)

An examination of magnetized outflows from active galactic nuclei in galaxy clusters

Authors: P.M. Sutter, H.-Y. Yang, P.M. Ricker, G. Foreman, D. Pugmire

An Indirect Search for WIMPs in the Sun using 3109.6 days of upward-going muons in Super-Kamiokande

Authors: Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

Constraining dark matter models from a combined analysis of Milky Way satellites with the Fermi-LAT

Authors: The Fermi-LAT collaboration

tipa -- 8/17/2011

Relativistic collapse and explosion of rotating supermassive stars with thermonuclear effects

Authors: Pedro J. Montero, Hans-Thomas Janka, Ewald Mueller (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching)

Tidal Interactions in Merging White Dwarf Binaries

Authors: Anthony L. Piro (Caltech)

Orbital variation of the X-ray emission from the double neutron star binary J1537+1155

Authors: Martin Durant, Oleg Kargaltsev, Igor Volkov, George G. Pavlov

tipa -- 8/16/2011

Discovery of the source HESS J1356-645 associated with the young and energetic PSR J1357-6429

Authors: HESS Collaboration

SN2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A Jet-Driven Type II Supernova

Authors: Nathan Smith, S. Bradley Cenko, Nat Butler, Joshua S. Bloom, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Assaf Horesh, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law, Peter E. Nugent, Eran O. Ofek, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Branimir Sesar, Sagi Ben-Ami, Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, David Polishook, Dong Xu, Ofer Yaron, Dale A. Frail, Mark Sullivan

Exclusion of canonical WIMPs by the joint analysis of Milky Way dwarfs with Fermi

Authors: Alex Geringer-Sameth, Savvas M. Koushiappas

Searches for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube

Authors: IceCube Collaboration

Observational Constraints on Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos

Authors: Imre Bartos, Chad Finley, Szabolcs Márka

Evolution of Fluorine Abundances with the ν-Process

Authors: Chiaki Kobayashi, Natsuko Izutani, Amanda I. Karakas, Takashi Yoshida, David Yong, Hideyuki Umeda

Search for a new gauge boson in the $A'$ Experiment (APEX)

Authors: S.Abrahamyan, Z.Ahmed, K.Allada, D.Anez, T.Averett, A.Barbieri, K.Bartlett, J.Beacham, J.Bono, J.R.Boyce, P.Brindza, A.Camsonne, K.Cranmer, M.M.Dalton, C.W.deJager, J.Donaghy, R.Essig, C.Field, E.Folts, A.Gasparian, N.Goeckner-Wald, J.Gomez, M.Graham, J.-O.Hansen, D.W.Higinbotham, T.Holmstrom, J.Huang, S.Iqbal, J.Jaros, E.Jensen, A.Kelleher, M.Khandaker, J.J.LeRose, R.Lindgren, N.Liyanage, E.Long, J.Mammei, P.Markowitz, T.Maruyama, V.Maxwell, S.Mayilyan, J.McDonald, R.Michaels, K.Moffeit, V.Nelyubin, A.Odian, M.Oriunno, R.Partridge, M.Paolone, E.Piasetzky, I.Pomerantz, Y.Qiang, S.Riordan, Y.Roblin, B.Sawatzky, P.Schuster, J.Segal, L.Selvy, A.Shahinyan, R.Subedi, V.Sulkosky, S.Stepanyan, N.Toro, D.Walz, B.Wojtsekhowski, J.Zhang

tipa -- 8/15/2011

Weak Primordial Magnetic Fields and Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Authors: Karsten Jedamzik, Tom Abel

The Massive Progenitor of the Possible Type II-Linear Supernova 2009hd in Messier 66

Authors: Nancy Elias-Rosa (1,2,3), Schuyler D. Van Dyk (1), Weidong Li (2), Jeffrey M. Silverman (2), Ryan J. Foley (4,5), Mohan Ganeshalingam (2), Jon C. Mauerhan (1), Erkki Kankare (6,7), Saurabh Jha (8), Alexei V. Filippenko (2), John E. Beckman (9,10), Edo Berger (4), Jean-Charles Cuillandre (11), Nathan Smith (2,12) ((1) Spitzer Science Center/Caltech, (2) UC Berkeley, (3) ICE (IEEC-CSIC), (4) CfA, (5) Clay Fellow, (6) Tuorla Observatory, (7) NOT, (8) Rutgers University, (9) IAC, (10) CSIC, (11) IfA/Hawaii, (12) University of Arizona)

Radio Emission from SN 1994I in NGC 5194 (M 51) - The Best Studied Type Ib/c Radio Supernova

Authors: Kurt W. Weiler, Nino Panagia, Christopher Stockdale, Michael Rupen, Richard A. Sramek, Christopher L. Williams

Real-time spectroscopy of solar pp neutrinos using Nd-150

Authors: K. Zuber

It was twenty years ago today ...

Authors: Paul Ginsparg (Cornell University)

classic papers of the week -- 202

Bose-Einstein Condensation and Liquid Helium

Penrose, Oliver; Onsager, Lars (Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University)

On Synchrotron Radiation from Messier 87

Burbidge, G. R. (Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology)

Imprisonment of Resonance Radiation in Gases

Holstein, T. (Research Laboratories, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

tipa -- 8/12/2011

Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations

Authors: M. Brockamp, H. Baumgardt, P. Kroupa

On the Origin of the Salpeter Slope for the Initial Mass Function

Authors: M. S. Oey (U. Michigan)

Radio Cherenkov signals from the Moon: neutrinos and cosmic rays

Authors: Yu Seon Jeong, Mary Hall Reno, Ina Sarcevic

tipa -- 8/11/2011

Origin of Ultrahigh Energy Galactic Cosmic Rays: The Isotropy Problem

Authors: Martin Pohl, David Eichler

Towards a Realistic Pulsar Magnetosphere

Authors: Constantinos Kalapotharakos, Demosthenes Kazanas, Alice Harding, Ioannis Contopoulos

Turbulent transport in stratified and/or rotating turbulence

Authors: A. Brandenburg (1,2), K.-H. Rädler (3), K. Kemel (1,2) ((1) NORDITA, (2) Stockholm University, (3) Astrophys. Inst. Potsdam)

Tajima, T.; Dawson, J. M. (Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles)

The distribution of Lyman-alpha absorption lines in the spectra of six QSOs - Evidence for an intergalactic origin

Sargent, W. L. W.; Young, P. J. (Hale Observatories, California Institute of Technology); Boksenberg, A.; Tytler, D. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London)

Inertial-Range Spectrum of Hydromagnetic Turbulence

Kraichnan, Robert H. (Peterborough, New Hampshire)

tipa -- 8/5/2011

Testing the Origin of High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Authors: Andrey E. Vladimirov, Gu\ethlaugur Jóhannesson, Igor V. Moskalenko, Troy A. Porter

Simultaneous Planck, Swift, and Fermi observations of X-ray and gamma-ray selected blazars

Authors: P. Giommi, G. Polenta, A. Lahteenmaki, D. J. Thompson, M. Capalbi, S. Cutini, D. Gasparrini, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, J. Leon-Tavares, M. Lopez-Caniego, M. N. Mazziotta, C. Monte, M. Perri, S. Raino, G. Tosti, A. Tramacere, F. Verrecchia, H. D. Aller, M. F. Aller, E. Angelakis, D. Bastieri, A. Berdyugin, A. Bonaldi, L. Bonavera, C. Burigana, D. N. Burrows, S. Buson, E. Cavazzuti, G. Chincarini, S. Colafrancesco, L. Costamante, F. Cuttaia, F. D'Ammando, G. de Zotti, M. Frailis, L. Fuhrmann, S. Galeotta, F. Gargano, N. Gehrels, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, E. Keihanen, O. King, T. P. Krichbaum, A. Lasenby, N. Lavonen, C. R. Lawrence, C. Leto, E. Lindfors, N. Mandolesi, M. Massardi, W. Max-Moerbeck, P. F. Michelson, M. Mingaliev, P. Natoli, I. Nestoras, E. Nieppola, K. Nilsson, B. Partridge, V. Pavlidou, T. J. Pearson, P. Procopio, J. P. Rachen, A. Readhead, R. Reeves, A. Reimer, R. Reinthal, S. Ricciardi, J. Richards, D. Riquelme, J. Saarinen, A. Sajina, M. Sandri, P. Savolainen, A. Sievers, A. Sillanpaa, Y. Sotnikova, M. Stevenson, G. Tagliaferri, L. Takalo, J. Tammi, D. Tavagnacco, L. Terenzi, L. Toffolatti, M. Tornikoski, C. Trigilio, M. Turunen, G. Umana, H. Ungerechts, F. Villa, J. Wu, A. Zacchei, J. A. Zensus, X. Zhou

Dynamical Friction around Supermassive Black Holes

Authors: Fabio Antonini, David Merritt

Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory - Preliminary Design Report

Authors: Kevin T. Lesko, Steven Acheson, Jose Alonso, Paul Bauer, Yuen-Dat Chan, William Chinowsky, Steve Dangermond, Jason A. Detwiler, Syd De Vries, Richard DiGennaro, Elizabeth Exter, Felix B. Fernandez, Elizabeth L. Freer, Murdock G. D. Gilchriese, Azriel Goldschmidt, Ben Grammann, William Griffing, Bill Harlan, Wick C. Haxton, Michael Headley, Jaret Heise, Zbigniew Hladysz, Dianna Jacobs, Michael Johnson, Richard Kadel, Robert Kaufman, Greg King, Robert Lanou, Alberto Lemut, Zoltan Ligeti, Steve Marks, Ryan D. Martin, John Matthesen, Brendan Matthew, Warren Matthews, Randall McConnell, William McElroy, Deborah Meyer, Margaret Norris, David Plate, Kem E. Robinson, William Roggenthen, Rohit Salve, Ben Sayler, John Scheetz, Jim Tarpinian, David Taylor, David Vardiman, Ron Wheeler, Joshua Willhite, James Yeck

tipa -- 8/4/2011

A New Candidate Magnetar Located Outside the Galactic Plane

Authors: Joseph R. Callingham (1), Sean A. Farrell (1,2), Bryan M. Gaensler (1,2), Geraint F. Lewis (1), Matthew J. Middleton (3) ((1) The University of Sydney, Australia, (2) ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), Australia, (3) University of Durham, UK)

Preference for an Inverted Neutrino Mass Hierarchy from nu-Process Nucleosynthesis with Finite theta_{1 3} Mixing