tipa -- 3/7/2013

Determination of the Point-spread Function for the Fermi Large Area Telescope from On-orbit Data and Limits on Pair Halos of Active Galactic Nuclei

• The Fermi-LAT collaboration

Atmospheric leptons, the search for a prompt component

• Thomas K. Gaisser

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernova Explosions are Head-On Collisions of White Dwarfs in Triple Systems

• Doron Kushnir, Boaz Katz, Subo Dong, Eli Livne, Rodrigo Fernández

The Impact of Starbursts on the Circumgalactic Medium

• Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Timothy Heckman, David Strickland, Vivienne Wild, David Schiminovich

Entropy at the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters as Implications for Cosmological Cosmic-Ray Acceleration

• Yutaka Fujita, Yutaka Ohira, Ryo Yamazaki

Fast Diffusion of Magnetic Field in Turbulence and Origin of Cosmic Magnetism

• Jungyeon Cho

Evolution Of Post-Impact Remnant Helium Stars In Type Ia Supernova Remnants Within The Single-Degenerate Scenario

• Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul Ricker, Ronald Taam

The Kinematics and Ionization of Nuclear Gas Clouds in Centaurus A

• Geoffrey V. Bicknell, Ralph S. Sutherland, Nadine Neumayer

Observation of TeV gamma-rays from the unidentified source HESS J1841-055 with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

• The ARGO-YBJ Collaboration

Magnetic energy production by turbulence in binary neutron star mergers

• Jonathan Zrake, Andrew I. MacFadyen

tipa -- 3/6/2013

Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly with known θ_{13}

• C. Zhang, X. Qian, P. Vogel

The Most Precise Extra-Galactic Black-Hole Mass Measurement

• Andrew Gould (OSU)

X-ray absorption evolution in Gamma-Ray Bursts: intergalactic medium or evolutionary signature of their host galaxies?

• R.L.C. Starling, R. Willingale, N.R. Tanvir, A.E. Scott, K. Wiersema, P.T. O'Brien, A.J. Levan, G.C. Stewart

CMB bounds on dark matter annihilation: nucleon energy-losses after recombination

• Christoph Weniger, Pasquale D. Serpico, Fabio Iocco, Gianfranco Bertone

Limits on spin-independent couplings of WIMP dark matter with a p-type point-contact germanium detector

• TEXONO Collaboration

tipa -- 3/5/2013

New constraint on the existence of the mu+-> e+ gamma decay

• MEG Collaboration

GRB Flares: UV/Optical Flaring (Paper I)

• C. A. Swenson, P. W. A. Roming, M. De Pasquale, S. R. Oates

PeV neutrinos from intergalactic interactions of cosmic rays emitted by active galactic nuclei

• Oleg E. Kalashev, Alexander Kusenko, Warren Essey

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of SN2009ip's 2012 Brightening Reveals a Dusty Pre-Supernova Environment

• Nathan Smith, Jon C. Mauerhan, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Adam J. Burgasser

Multi-Dimensional Double Detonation of Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarfs

• Rainer Moll, Stanford E. Woosley

The pGAPS experiment: an engineering balloon flight of prototype GAPS

• Hideyuki Fuke, Rene A One, Tsuguo Aramaki, Nobutaka Bando, Steven E Boggs, Philip v Doetinchem, Florian H Gahbauer, Charles J Hailey, Jason E Koglin, Norm Madden, Samuel Adam I Mognet, Kaya Mori, Shun Okazaki, Kerstin M Perez, Tetsuya Yoshida, Jeffrey Zweerink

The spectroscopic evolution of the $γ$-ray emitting classical nova Nova Mon 2012. I. Implications for the ONe subclass of classical novae

• S. N. Shore (Univ. Pisa, INFN-Pisa), I. De Gennaro Aquino (Univ. Pisa), G. J. Schwarz (AAS), T. Augusteijn (NOT), C. C. Cheung (NRL), F. M. Walter (SUNY-SB), S. Starrfield (ASU)

Gravitino Decays and the Cosmological Lithium Problem in Light of the LHC Higgs and Supersymmetry Searches

• Richard H. Cyburt, John Ellis, Brian D. Fields, Feng Luo, Keith A. Olive, Vassilis C. Spanos

Early UV/Optical Emission of The Type Ib SN 2008D

• Melina C. Bersten, Masaomi Tanaka, Nozomu Tominaga, Omar G. Benvenuto, Ken'ichi Nomoto

A potential sterile neutrino search using a two-reactor/one-detector configuration

• M. Bergevin, C. Grant, R. Svoboda

Improving the neutrino mass hierarchy identification with inelasticity measurement in PINGU and ORCA

• Mathieu Ribordy, Alexei Yu Smirnov

tipa -- 3/4/2013

The Einstein@Home search for radio pulsars and PSR J2007+2722

• B. Allen, B. Knispel, J. M. Cordes, J. S. Deneva, J. W. T. Hessels, D. Anderson, C. Aulbert, O. Bock, A. Brazier, S. Chatterjee, P. B. Demorest, H. B. Eggenstein, H. Fehrmann, E. V. Gotthelf, D. Hammer, V. M. Kaspi, M. Kramer, A. G. Lyne, B. Machenschalk, M. A. McLaughlin, C. Messenger, H. J. Pletsch, S. M. Ransom, I. H. Stairs, B. W. Stappers, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Bogdanov, F. Camilo, D. J. Champion, F. Crawford, G. Desvignes, P. C. C. Freire, G. Heald, F. A. Jenet, P. Lazarus, K. J. Lee, J. van Leeuwen, R. Lynch, M. A. Papa, R. Prix, R. Rosen, P. Scholz, X. Siemens, K. Stovall, A. Venkataraman, W. Zhu

A Black Hole Nova Obscured by an Inner Disk Torus

• J. M. Corral-Santana, J. Casares, T. Muñoz-Darias, P. Rodríguez-Gil, T. Shahbaz, M. A. P. Torres, C. Zurita, A. A. Tyndall

Equivalent Neutrinos, Light WIMPs, and the Chimera of Dark Radiation

• Gary Steigman

The NDL Equation of State for Supernova Simulations

• Matthew Meixner, J. Pocahontas Olson, Grant Mathews, N. Q. Lan, H. E. Dalhed

Neutrino and Dark Radiation properties in light of latest CMB observations

• Maria Archidiacono, Elena Giusarma, Alessandro Melchiorri, Olga Mena

tipa -- 3/1/2013

Unravelling obese black holes in the first galaxies

• Bhaskar Agarwal, Andrew J. Davis, Sadegh Khochfar, Priyamvada Natarajan, James S. Dunlop

A rapidly spinning supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 1365

• G. Risaliti, F. A. Harrison, K. K. Madsen, D. J. Walton, S. E. Boggs, F. E. Christensen, W. W. Craig, B. W. Grefenstette, C. J. Hailey, E. Nardini, Daniel Stern, W. W. Zhang

Probing the Extended Gaseous Regions of M31 with Quasar Absorption Lines

• Sandhya Rao, Gendith Sardane, David Turnshek, David Thilker, Rene Walterbos, Daniel Vanden Berk, Donald York

The progenitor of SN 2011ja: Clues from circumstellar interaction

• Sayan Chakraborti, Alak Ray, Randall Smith, Stuart Ryder, Naveen Yadav, Firoza Sutaria, Vikram V. Dwarkadas, Poonam Chandra, David Pooley, Rupak Roy

A Late-Time View of the Progenitors of Five Type IIP Supernovae

• J. Maund (1,2), E. Reilly (1), S. Mattila (3) ((1) Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, (2) Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, (3) Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku)

Evidence for a second component in the high-energy core emission from Centaurus A?

• N. Sahakyan, R. Yang, F.A. Aharonian, F.M. Rieger

Can active-sterile neutrino oscillations lead to chaotic behavior of the cosmological lepton asymmetry?

• Steen Hannestad, Rasmus Sloth Hansen, Thomas Tram

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Relativistic Fireball on a Moving Computational Grid

• Paul C. Duffell, Andrew I. MacFadyen

tipa -- 2/28/2013

Two Emission Mechanisms in the Fermi Bubbles: A Possible Signal of Annihilating Dark Matter

• Dan Hooper, Tracy R. Slatyer

A kinematic study of the Andromeda dwarf spheroidal system

• Michelle L. M. Collins, Scott C. Chapman, R. Michael Rich, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Nicolas F. Martin, Michael J. Irwin, Nicholas F. Bate, Geraint F. Lewis, Jorge Peñarrubia, Nobuo Arimoto, Caitlin M. Casey, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Andreas Koch, Alan W. McConnachie, Nial Tanvir

The Galactic Center Cloud G2 -- a Young Low-Mass Star with a Stellar Wind

• Nick Scoville, Andi Burkert

The Distribution of Alpha Elements in Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

• Luis C. Vargas (1), Marla Geha (1), Evan N. Kirby (2), Joshua D. Simon (3) ((1) Yale University, (2) UC Irvine, (3) Carnegie Observatories)

The Vast Population of Wolf-Rayet and Red Supergiant Stars in M101: I. Motivation and First Results

• Michael M. Shara, Joanne L. Bibby, David Zurek, Paul A. Crowther, Anthony F.J. Moffat, Laurent Drissen

Sterile Neutrinos: Cosmology vs Short-BaseLine Experiments

• Maria Archidiacono, Nicolao Fornengo, Carlo Giunti, Steen Hannestad, Alessandro Melchiorri

The AD775 cosmic event revisited: the Sun is to blame

• I.G. Usoskin, B. Kromer, F. Ludlow, J. Beer, M. Friedrich, G. A. Kovaltsov, S. K. Solanki, L. Wacker

Nucleosynthetic Constraints on the Mass of the Heaviest Supernovae

• Justin M. Brown, S. E. Woosley

Finite size source effects and the correlation of neutrino transition probabilities through supernova turbulence

• James P Kneller, Alex W Mauney

Naturalness and the Status of Supersymmetry

• Jonathan L. Feng

tipa -- 2/27/2013

Conditions For Successful Helium Detonations In Astrophysical Environments

• Cole Holcomb (1), James Guillochon (1), Fabio De Colle (1 and 2), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (1) ((1) University of California - Santa Cruz, (2) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

Widefield VLBI observations of M31: A Unique Probe of the Ionized ISM of a nearby galaxy

• John S. Morgan, Megan K. Argo, Cathryn M. Trott, Jean-Pierre Macquart, Adam Deller, Enno Middelberg, James Miller-Jones, Steven J. Tingay

Simulations of particle acceleration beyond the classical synchrotron burnoff limit in magnetic reconnection: An explanation of the Crab flares

• Benoit Cerutti, Gregory R. Werner, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Mitchell C. Begelman

CAST constraints on the axion-electron coupling

• K. Barth, A. Belov, B. Beltran, H. Brauninger, J. M. Carmona, J.I. Collar, T. Dafni, M. Davenport, L. Di Lella, C. Eleftheriadis, J. Englhauser, G. Fanourakis, E. Ferrer Ribas, H. Fischer, J. Franz, P. Friedrich, J. Galan, J. A. Garcia, T. Geralis, I. Giomataris, S. Gninenko, H. Gomez, M. D. Hassinoff, F. H. Heinsius, D. H. H. Hoffmann, I.G. Irastorza, J. Jacoby, K. Jakovcic, D. Kang, K. Konigsmann, R. Kotthaus, K. Kousouris, M. Krcmar, M. Kuster, B. Lakic, A. Liolios, A. Ljubicic, G. Lutz, G. Luzon, D.W. Miller, T. Papaevangelou, M.J. Pivovaroff, G. Raffelt, J. Redondo, H. Riege, A. Rodriguez, J. Ruz, I. Savvidis, Y. Semertzidis, L. Stewart, K. Van Bibber, J.D. Vieira, J.A. Villar, J.K. Vogel, L. Walckiers, K. Zioutas

Serendipitous Discovery of An Infrared Bow Shock Near PSR J1549-4848 with Spitzer

• Z. Wang, D. L. Kaplan, P. Slane, N. Morrell, V. M. Kaspi

Evolution of progenitors for electron capture supernovae

• Koh Takahashi, Takashi Yoshida, Hideyuki Umeda (The University of Tokyo)

First Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun Using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

• ANTARES Collaboration

Systematics of dynamical mass ejection, nucleosynthesis, and radioactively powered electromagnetic signals from neutron-star mergers

• A. Bauswein (1), S. Goriely (2), H.-T. Janka (1) ((1) MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, (2) Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

Massive disk formation in the tidal disruption of a neutron star by a nearly extremal black hole

• Geoffrey Lovelace, Matthew D. Duez, Francois Foucart, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi

Low Energy Measurements of the Weak Mixing Angle

• K.S. Kumar, Sonny Mantry, W.J. Marciano, P.A. Souder

Determination of the X(3872) meson quantum numbers

• LHCb collaboration

tipa -- 2/26/2013

The Post-Merger Magnetized Evolution of White Dwarf Binaries: The Double-Degenerate Channel of Sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia Supernovae and the Formation of Magnetized White Dwarfs

• Suoqing Ji, Robert T. Fisher, Enrique Garcia-Berro, Petros Tzeferacos, George Jordan, Dongwook Lee, Pablo Loren-Aguilar, Pascal Cremer, Jan Behrends

Stochastic acceleration by multi-island contraction during turbulent magnetic reconnection

• Nicolas Bian, Eduard Kontar

Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the blazar 1ES 1727+502 with the MAGIC Telescopes

• MAGIC Collaboration

Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources in the Most Metal Poor Galaxies

• A. H. Prestwich, M. Tsantaki, A. Zezas, F. E. Jackson, T. P. Roberts, R. Foltz, T. Linden, V. Kalogera

Meter-baseline tests of sterile neutrinos at Daya Bay

• Y. Gao, D. Marfatia

Implications of a Froissart bound saturation of $γ^*$-$p$ deep inelastic scattering. Part II. Ultra-high energy neutrino interactions

• Martin M. Block, Loyal Durand, Phuoc Ha, Douglas W. McKay

tipa -- 2/25/2013

Performing a stellar autopsy using the radio-bright remnant of SN 1996cr

• C. Meunier (PUC), F. E. Bauer (PUC/SSI), V. V. Dwarkadas (Chicago), B. Koribalski (ATNF), B. Emonts (ATNF), R. W. Hunstead (Sydney), D. Campbell-Wilson (Sydney), C. Stockdale (Marquette), S. J. Tingay (Curtin)

A Super-Solar Metallicity for the Progenitor of Kepler's Supernova

• Sangwook Park (U of Texas at Arlington), Carles Badenes (U of Pittsburgh), Koji Mori, Ryohei Kaida (U of Miyazaki), Eduardo Bravo (U Politecnica de Catalunya), Andrew Schenck (U of Texas at Arlington), Kristoffer A. Eriksen (LANL), John P. Hughes (Rutgers), Patrick O. Slane (CfA), David N. Burrows (Penn State), Jae-Joon Lee (KASI)

Milli-Charged Dark Matter in Quantum Gravity and String Theory

• Gary Shiu, Pablo Soler, Fang Ye

tipa -- 2/22/2013

The Velocity Anisotropy of Distant Milky Way Halo Stars from Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motions

• A. J. Deason (UCSC), R. P. Van der Marel (STScI), P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), S.T. Sohn (STScI), T.M. Brown (STScI)

Is the Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectrum Constant in Time?

• David Eichler, Rahul Kumar, Martin Pohl

Observational Quantification of the Energy Dissipated by Alfvén Waves in a Polar Coronal Hole: Evidence that Waves Drive the Fast Solar Wind

• Michael Hahn, Daniel W. Savin

A preliminary reconstruction of the orbit of the Chelyabinsk Meteoroid

• Jorge I. Zuluaga, Ignacio Ferrin

tipa -- 2/21/2013

Cluster Cosmology at a Crossroads: Neutrino Masses

• Eduardo Rozo, Eli S. Rykoff, James G. Bartlett, August E. Evrard

The Host Galaxies of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Emily M. Levesque

Measurement of the Inclusive NuMu Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon in the Near Detector of the T2K Experiment

• T2K Collaboration

tipa -- 2/20/2013

Numerical Simulations of Radiatively-Driven Dusty Winds

• Mark R. Krumholz, Todd A. Thompson

Timing Noise in Pulsars and Magnetars and the Magnetospheric Moment of Inertia

• David Tsang, Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

Kepler observations of rapid optical variability in the BL Lac object W2R1926+42

• R. Edelson, R. Mushotzky, S. Vaughan, J. Scargle, P. Gandhi, M. Malkan, W. Baumgartner

Metallicity Differences in Type Ia Supernova Progenitors Inferred from Ultraviolet Spectra

• Ryan J. Foley, Robert P. Kirshner

Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei from Extragalactic Pulsars and the effect of their Galactic counterparts

• Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera, Angela V. Olinto

A CR-hydro-NEI Model of Multi-wavelength Emission from the Vela Jr. Supernova Remnant (SNR RX J0852.0-4622)

• Shiu-Hang Lee, Patrick Slane, Donald C. Ellison, Shigehiro Nagataki, Daniel J. Patnaude

Discovery of a 168.8 s X-ray pulsar transiting in front of its Be companion star in the Large Magellanic Cloud

• P. Maggi, F. Haberl, R. Sturm, W. Pietsch, A. Rau, J. Greiner, A. Udalski, M. Sasaki

On the Radio Polarization Signature of Efficient and Inefficient Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnant SN 1006

• Estela M. Reynoso, John P. Hughes, David A. Moffett

tipa -- 2/19/2013

Thermodynamics of the Coma Cluster Outskirts

• A. Simionescu, N. Werner, O. Urban, S. W. Allen, A. C. Fabian, A. Mantz, K. Matsushita, P. E. J. Nulsen, J. S. Sanders, T. Sasaki, T. Sato, Y. Takei, S. A. Walker

An Integral View of Fast Shocks around Supernova 1006

• Sladjana Nikolić, Glenn van de Ven, Kevin Heng, Daniel Kupko, Bernd Husemann, John C. Raymond, John P. Hughes, Jesús Falcón-Barroso

Variable gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula: short flares and long "waves"

• E. Striani, M. Tavani, V. Vittorini, I. Donnarumma, A. Giuliani, G. Pucella, A. Argan, A. Bulgarelli, S. Colafrancesco, M. Cardillo, E. Costa, E. Del Monte, A. Ferrari, S. Mereghetti, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, G. Piano, C. Pittori, M. Rapisarda, S. Sabatini, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, S. Vercellone, F. Verrecchia

s-Process in the Galactic Halo: the 5th signature of spinstars in the early Universe?

• Gabriele Cescutti, Cristina Chiappini, Raphael Hirschi, Georges Meynet, Urs Frischknecht

New stellar constraints on dark photons

• Haipeng An, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler

Beyond Collisionless Dark Matter: Particle Physics Dynamics for Dark Matter Halo Structure

• Sean Tulin, Hai-Bo Yu, Kathryn M. Zurek

tipa -- 2/18/2013

A Massive Protostar Forming by Ordered Collapse of a Dense, Massive Core

• Yichen Zhang, Jonathan C. Tan, James M. De Buizer, Goran Sandell, Maria T. Beltran, Ed Churchwell, Christopher F. McKee, Ralph Shuping, Jan E. Staff, Charles Telesco, Barbara Whitney

PARSEC: A Parametrized Simulation Engine for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Protons

• Hans-Peter Bretz, Martin Erdmann, Peter Schiffer, David Walz, Tobias Winchen

The consequences of large θ_13 for the turbulence signatures in supernova neutrinos

• James P. Kneller, Alex W. Mauney

Mariner 2 and its Legacy: 50 Years on

• Jeremy Bailey

tipa -- 2/15/2013

G2 can Illuminate the Black Hole Population near the Galactic Center

• Imre Bartos, Zoltan Haiman, Bence Kocsis, Szabolcs Marka

Demographics of the Galaxies Hosting Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

• Wen-fai Fong, Edo Berger, Ryan Chornock, Raffaella Margutti, Andrew J. Levan, Nial R. Tanvir, Rachel L. Tunnicliffe, Ian Czekala, Derek B. Fox, Daniel A. Perley, S. Bradley Cenko, B. Ashley Zauderer, Tanmoy Laskar, S. Eric Persson, Andrew J. Monson, Daniel D. Kelson, Christoph Birk, David Murphy, Mathieu Servillat, Guillem Anglada

Detection of the Characteristic Pion-Decay Signature in Supernova Remnants

• The Fermi-LAT collaboration

Observation of SN2011fe with INTEGRAL. I. Pre--maximum phase

• J. Isern, P. Jean, E. Bravo, R. Diehl, J. Knödlseder, A. Domingo, A. Hirschmann, P. Hoeflich, F. Lebrun, M. Renaud, S. Soldi, N. Elias-Rosa, M. Hernanz, B. Kulebi, X. Zhang, C. Badenes, I. Domínguez, D. Garcia-Senz, C. Jordi, G. Lichti, G. Vedrenne, P. Von Ballmoos

Nuclear-Astrophysics Lessons from INTEGRAL

• Roland Diehl