tipa -- 9/26/2013

Discovery of a 6.4-hr black hole binary in NGC 4490

• P. Esposito, G. L. Israel, L. Sidoli, M. Mapelli, L. Zampieri, S. E. Motta

Direct evidence for a supernova interacting with a large amount of hydrogen-free circumstellar material

• Sagi Ben-Ami, Avishay Gal-Yam, Paolo A. Mazzali, Maryam Modjaz, Itay Rabinak, Mark Sullivan, Lars Bildsten, Dovi Poznanski, Ofer Yaron, Iair Arcavi, Joshua S. Bloom, Assaf Horesh, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Peter E. Nugent, Eran O. Ofek, Daniel Perley, Robert Quimby, Dong Xu

Is Voyager 1 Inside an Interstellar Flux Transfer Event?

• N.A. Schwadron, D.J. McComas

tipa -- 9/25/2013

A search for enhanced very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the March 2013 Crab Nebula flare

• The VERITAS Collaboration

Warm Dark Matter: The End is Nigh

• Aurel Schneider, Donnino Anderhalden, Andrea Maccio, Juerg Diemand

A reconnaissance of the possible donor stars to the Kepler supernova

• Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf, Michael Childress, Julia Scharwaechter, Tuan Do, Brian P. Schmidt

3D maps of the local ISM from inversion of individual color excess measurements

• Rosine Lallement, Jean-Luc Vergely, Bernard Valette, Lucky Puspitarini, Laurent Eyer, Luca Casagrande

A search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts

• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the BL Lac object PKS 0301-243 with H.E.S.S

• H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Medium scale anisotropy in the TeV cosmic ray flux observed by ARGO-YBJ

• ARGO-YBJ Collaboration

tipa -- 9/24/2013

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

• Fermi-LAT Collaboration

The Role of Stellar Feedback in the Dynamics of HII Regions

• Laura A. Lopez (MIT), Mark R. Krumholz (UC Santa Cruz), Alberto D. Bolatto (University of Maryland), J. Xavier Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz), Daniel Castro (MIT)

Fossil imprint of a powerful flare at the Galactic Centre along the Magellanic Stream

• Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Phil Maloney, Ralph Sutherland, Greg Madsen

tipa -- 9/23/2013

The effects of magnetic field, age, and intrinsic luminosity on Crab-like pulsar wind nebulae

• D. F. Torres, J. Martin, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, A. Cillis

Constraining Light Dark Matter with Low-Energy e+e- Colliders

• Rouven Essig, Jeremy Mardon, Michele Papucci, Tomer Volansky, Yi-Ming Zhong

Using Cosmology to Establish the Quantization of Gravity

• Lawrence M. Krauss (1,2), Frank Wilczek (3) ((1) Arizona State University, (2) Australian National Univeresity, (3) MIT)

Why do Earth satellites stay up?

• Scott Tremaine, Tomer Yavetz

Oskar Klein and the fifth dimension

• Finn Ravndal

tipa -- 9/20/2013

Prospects for the Detection of Fast Radio Bursts with the Murchison Widefield Array

• Cathryn M. Trott, Steven J. Tingay, Randall B. Wayth

The Mid-Infrared Light Curve of Nearby Core-Collapse Supernova SN2011dh (PTF11eon)

• George Helou, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Eran O. Ofek, Iair Arcavi, Jason Surace, Avishay Gal-Yam

tipa -- 9/19/2013

Locating the "missing" baryons with extragalactic dispersion measure estimates

• Matthew McQuinn

Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations of the Type Iax Supernovae SN 2005hk and SN 2008A

• Curtis McCully, Saurabh W. Jha, Ryan J. Foley, Ryan Chornock, Jon A. Holtzman, David D. Balam, David Branch, Alexei V. Filippenko, Joshua Frieman, Johan Fynbo, Lluis Galbany, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Peter M. Garnavich, Melissa L. Graham, Eric Y. Hsiao, Giorgos Leloudas, Douglas C. Leonard, Weidong Li, Adam G. Riess, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Jesper Sollerman, Thea N. Steele, Rollin C. Thomas, J. Craig Wheeler, Chen Zheng

Low Masses and High Redshifts: The Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation

• Alaina Henry, Claudia Scarlata, Alberto Dominguez, Matthew Malkan, Crystal L. Martin, Brian Siana, Hakim Atek, Alejandro G. Bedregal, James W. Colbert, Marc Rafelski, Nathaniel Ross, Harry Teplitz, Andrew J. Bunker, Alan Dressler, Nimish Hathi, Daniel Masters, Patrick McCarthy, Amber Straughn

The Angular Broadening of the Galactic Center Pulsar SGR J1745-29: A New Constraint on the Scattering Medium

• Geoffrey C. Bower (UC Berkeley), Adam Deller (ASTRON), Paul Demorest (NRAO), Andreas Brunthaler (MPIfR), Ralph Eatough (MPIfR), Heino Falcke (Nijmegen, ASTRON, MPIfR), Michael Kramer (MPIfR), K.J. Lee (MPIfR), Laura Spitler (MPIfR)

Pulse Broadening Measurements from the Galactic Center Pulsar J1745--2900

• L. G. Spitler, K. J. Lee, R. P. Eatough, M. Kramer, R. Karuppusamy, C. G. Bassa, I. Cognard, G. Desvignes, A. G. Lyne, B. W. Stappers, G. C. Bower, J. M. Cordes, D. J. Champion, H. Falcke

Detection of an outburst one year prior to the explosion of SN 2011ht

• M. Fraser, M. Magee, R. Kotak, S.J. Smartt, K.W. Smith, J. Polshaw, A.J. Drake, T. Boles, C.-H. Lee, W.S. Burgett, K.C. Chambers, P.W. Draper, H. Flewelling, K.W. Hodapp, N. Kaiser, R.-P. Kudritzki, E.A. Magnier, P.A. Price, J.L. Tonry, R.J. Wainscoat, C. Waters

tipa -- 9/18/2013

Reanalysis of the Reactor Neutrino Anomaly

• A.C. Hayes, J.L. Friar, G.T. Garvey, Guy Jonkmans

Rapidly Fading Supernovae from Massive Star Explosions

• Io Kleiser, Daniel Kasen

Confirmation of Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the M81 Group

• Kristin Chiboucas, Bradley A. Jacobs, R. Brent Tully, Igor D. Karachentsev

On the progenitor of the Type IIP SN 2013ej in M74

• Morgan Fraser, Justyn R. Maund, Stephen J. Smartt, Rubina Kotak, Andy Lawrence, Alastair Bruce, Stefano Valenti, Fang Yuan, Stefano Benetti, Ting-Wan Chen, Avishay Gal-Yam, Cosimo Inserra, David R. Young

Neutrino-pair emission from nuclear de-excitation in core-collapse supernova simulations

• Tobias Fischer, Karlheinz Langanke, Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo

Constraining Light Dark Matter with Diffuse X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Observations

• Rouven Essig, Eric Kuflik, Samuel D. McDermott, Tomer Volansky, Kathryn M. Zurek

WIMP-nucleon scattering with heavy WIMP effective theory

• Richard J. Hill, Mikhail P. Solon (EFI, Univ. of Chicago)

tipa -- 9/17/2013

A Wolf in Sheepskin: Extraordinary Supernova 2012au Veiled Behind Ordinary Radio Emission

• Atish Kamble, Alicia M. Soderberg, Laura Chomiuk, Raffaella Margutti, Mikhail Medvedev, Sayan Chakraborti, Roger Chevalier, Nikolai Chugai, Jason Dittmann, Maria Drout, Claes Fransson, Dan Milisavljevic, Ehud Nakar, Nathan Sanders

The Deflagration Stage of Chandrasekhar Mass Models For Type Ia Supernovae: I. Early Evolution

• C. M. Malone, A. Nonaka, S. E. Woosley, A. S. Almgren, J. B. Bell, S. Dong, M. Zingale

Probing the Galactic Origin of the IceCube Excess with Gamma-Rays

• Markus Ahlers, Kohta Murase

How cold can you get in space? Quantum Physics at cryogenic temperatures in space

• Gerald Hechenblaikner, Fabian Hufgard, Johannes Burkhardt, Nikolai Kiesel, Ulrich Johann, Markus Aspelmeyer, Rainer Kaltenbaek

tipa -- 9/16/2013

Exceptional Optical Enhancement Observed with ARCONS for Early Crab Giant Pulses

• M. J. Strader, M. D. Johnson, B. A. Mazin, G. V. Spiro Jaeger, C. R. Gwinn, S. R. Meeker, P. Szypryt, J. C. van Eyken, D. Marsden, K. O'Brien, A. B. Walter, G. Ulbricht, C. Stoughton, B. Bumble

Basic Parameter Estimation of Binary Neutron Star Systems by the Advanced LIGO/Virgo Network

• Carl L Rodriguez, Benjamin Farr, Vivien Raymond, Will M Farr, Tyson Littenberg, Diego Fazi, Vicky Kalogera

Magnetic Fields In Relativistic Collisionless Shocks

• Rodolfo Santana, Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Pawan Kumar

NuSTAR detection of the blazar B2 1023+25 at redshift 5.3

• T. Sbarrato, G. Tagliaferri, G. Ghisellini, M. Perri, S. Puccetti, M. Balokovic, M. Nardini, D. Stern, S.E. Boggs, W.N. Brandt, F. E. Chirstensen, P. Giommi, J. Greiner, C.J. Hailey, F. Harrison, T. Hovatta, G.M. Madejski, A. Rau, P. Schady, V. Sudilovsky, C.M. Urry, W.W. Zhang

Dark matter vs. Pulsars: Catching the impostor

• N. Mirabal

The Close Binary Properties of Massive Stars in the Milky Way and Low-Metallicity Magellanic Clouds

• Maxwell Moe, Rosanne Di Stefano

tipa -- 9/13/2013

A Chandra View Of Nonthermal Emission In The Northwestern Region Of Supernova Remnant RCW 86: Particle Acceleration And Magnetic Fields

• Daniel Castro, Laura A. Lopez, Patrick O. Slane, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

Galactic synchrotron emission with cosmic-ray propagation models

• Elena Orlando, Andrew Strong

The UV-bright, Slowly Declining Transient PS1-11af as a Partial Tidal Disruption Event

• R. Chornock, E. Berger, S. Gezari, B. A. Zauderer, A. Rest, L. Chomiuk, A. Kamble, A. M. Soderberg, I. Czekala, J. Dittmann, M. Drout, R. J. Foley, W. Fong, M. E. Huber, R. P. Kirshner, A. Lawrence, R. Lunnan, G. H. Marion, G. Narayan, A. G. Riess, K. C. Roth, N. E. Sanders, D. Scolnic, S. J. Smartt, K. Smith, C. W. Stubbs, J. L. Tonry, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, H. Flewelling, K. W. Hodapp, N. Kaiser, E. A. Magnier, D. C. Martin, J. D. Neill, P. A. Price, R. Wainscoat

The masses of Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Not too small after all?

• Michelle L. M. Collins, Scott C. Chapman, R. M. 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

Physics of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with a Huge Underground Detector

• Shao-Feng Ge, Kaoru Hagiwara, Carsten Rott

CDMSlite: A Search for Low-Mass WIMPs using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment

• R. Agnese, A.J. Anderson, M. Asai, D. Balakishiyeva, R. Basu Thakur, D.A. Bauer, J. Billard, A. Borgland, M.A. Bowles, D. Brandt, P.L. Brink, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D.O. Caldwell, D.G. Cerdeno, H. Chagani, J. Cooley, B. Cornell, C.H. Crewdson, P. Cushman, M. Daal, P.C.F. Di Stefano, T. Doughty, L. Esteban, S. Fallows, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, G.L. Godfrey, S.R. Golwala, J. Hall, H.R. Harris, S.A. Hertel, T. Hofer, D. Holmgren, L. Hsu, M.E. Huber, A. Jastram, O. Kamaev, B. Kara, M.H. Kelsey, A. Kennedy, M. Kiveni, K. Koch, B. Loer, E. Lopez Asamar, R. Mahapatra, V. Mandic, C. Martinez, K.A. McCarthy, N. Mirabolfathi, R.A. Moffatt, D.C. Moore, P. Nadeau, R.H. Nelson, K. Page, R. Partridge, M. Pepin, A. Phipps, K. Prasad, M. Pyle, H. Qiu, W. Rau, P. Redl, A. Reisetter, Y. Ricci, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, J. Sander, K. Schneck, R.W. Schnee, S. Scorza, B. Serfass, B. Shank, D. Speller, A.N. Villano, B. Welliver, D.H. Wright, S. Yellin, J.J. Yen, B.A. Young, J. Zhang

tipa -- 9/12/2013

Revival of The Stalled Core-Collapse Supernova Shock Triggered by Precollapse Asphericity in the Progenitor Star

• Sean M. Couch, Christian D. Ott

Variations in a Universal Density Profile

• John R. Jardel, Karl Gebhardt

A Robust Determination of Milky Way Satellite Properties using Hierarchical Mass Modeling

• Gregory D. Martinez

Understanding the Unusual X-Ray Emission Properties of the Massive, Close Binary WR 20a: A High Energy Window into the Stellar Winds Initiation Region

• Gabriela Montes, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Fabio De Colle, Rachel Strickler

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XII. Rotational velocities of the single O-type stars

• O.H. Ramírez-Agudelo, S. Simón-Díaz, H. Sana, A. de Koter, C. Sabín-Sanjulían, S.E. de Mink, P. L. Dufton, G. Gräfener, C.J. Evans, A. Herrero, N. Langer, D.J. Lennon, J. Maíz Apellániz, N. Markova, F. Najarro, J. Puls, W.D. Taylor, J.S. Vink

tipa -- 9/11/2013

Improved Determination of the Neutron Lifetime

• A. T. Yue, M. S. Dewey, D. M. Gilliam, G. L. Greene, A. B. Laptev, J. S. Nico, W. M. Snow, F. E. Wietfeldt

The Most Luminous z~9-10 Galaxy Candidates yet Found: The Luminosity Function, Cosmic Star-Formation Rate, and the First Mass Density Estimate at 500 Myr

• P. A. Oesch (UCSC), R. J. Bouwens (Leiden), G. D. Illingworth (UCSC), I. Labbe (Leiden), R. Smit (Leiden), M. Franx (Leiden), P. G. van Dokkum (Yale), I. Momcheva (Yale), M. L. N. Ashby (Harvard), G. G. Fazio (Harvard), J. Huang (Harvard), S. P. Willner (Harvard), V. Gonzalez (UCR), D. Magee (UCSC), G. B. Brammer (STScI), R. E. Skelton (South Africa)

The effect of aberration on partial-sky measurements of the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum

• Donghui Jeong, Jens Chluba, Liang Dai, Marc Kamionkowski, Xin Wang

Leptogenesis and Primordial Magnetic Fields

• Andrew J. Long, Eray Sabancilar, Tanmay Vachaspati

Solar abundance of manganese: a case for the existence of near Chandrasekhar-mass Type Ia supernova progenitors

• Ivo R. Seitenzahl, Gabriele Cescutti, Friedrich K. Roepke, Ashley J. Ruiter

Polarized synchrotron radiation from the Andromeda Galaxy M31 and background sources at 350 MHz

• René Gießübel, George Heald, Rainer Beck

Ionized Gas in the Smith High Velocity Cloud

• Alex S. Hill, Sui Ann Mao, Robert A. Benjamin, Felix J. Lockman, Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths

The Gravitational-Wave Discovery Space of Pulsar Timing Arrays

• Curt Cutler, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Michele Vallisneri, Joseph Lazio, Walid Majid

Neutrino Quantum Kinetics

• Alexey Vlasenko, George M. Fuller, Vincenzo Cirigliano

tipa -- 9/10/2013

Modeling the non-recycled Fermi gamma-ray pulsar population

• B. B. P. Perera, M. A. McLaughlin, J. M. Cordes, M. Kerr, T. H. Burnett, A. K. Harding

A Simple Explanation of the Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Events at IceCube

• Chien-Yi Chen, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Amarjit Soni

The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment and the Pion Polarizability

• Kevin T. Engel, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

tipa -- 9/9/2013

Dark Matter Thermalization in Neutron Stars

• Bridget Bertoni, Ann E. Nelson, Sanjay Reddy

On the observed duration distribution of gamma-ray bursts from collapsars

• Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Michelle Villeneuve (UC Boulder), Diego Lopez-Camara (NCSU), Brian Morsony (UWi Madison), Rosalba Perna (UC Boulder)

On Discovering Electromagnetic Emission from Neutron Star Mergers: The Early Years of Two Gravitational Wave Detectors

• Mansi M. Kasliwal, Samaya Nissanke

tipa -- 9/6/2013

Particle acceleration and dynamics of double-double radio galaxies: theory vs. observations

• C. Konar, M.J. Hardcastle

Circum-stellar medium around rotating massive stars at solar metallicity

• Cyril Georgy, Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, Andrei Bykov, Alexandre Marcowith, Jean M. Favre

Generation of High-Energy Photons at Ultra-Relativistic Shock Breakout in Supernovae

• Yukari Ohtani, Akihiro Suzuki, Toshikazu Shigeyama

Evidence of Environmental Dependencies of Type Ia Supernovae from the Nearby Supernova Factory indicated by Local Hα

• M. Rigault, Y. Copin, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, H. K. Fakhouri, U. Feindt, M. Fleury, E. Gangler, P. Greskovic, J. Guy, A. G. Kim, M. Kowalski, S. Lombardo, J. Nordin, P. Nugent, R. Pain, E. Pécontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, K. Runge, C. Saunders, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver (The Nearby Supernova Factory)

The obscured hyper-energetic GRB 120624B hosted by a luminous compact galaxy at z = 2.20

• A. de Ugarte Postigo, S. Campana, C.C. Thoene, P. D'Avanzo, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, A. Melandri, J. Gorosabel, G. Ghirlanda, P. Veres, S. Martin, G. Petitpas, S. Covino, J.P.U. Fynbo, A.J. Levan

tipa -- 9/5/2013

A direct dynamical measurement of the Milky Way's disk surface density profile, disk scale length, and dark matter profile at 4 kpc < R < 9 kpc

• Jo Bovy (IAS), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA)

Ultra-Compact High Velocity Clouds as Minihalos and Dwarf Galaxies

• Yakov Faerman, Amiel Sternberg, Christopher F. McKee

Signatures of Dark Matter Scattering Inelastically Off Nuclei

• L. Baudis, G. Kessler, P. Klos, R. F. Lang, J. Menendez, S. Reichard, A. Schwenk

A Search for Astrophysical Burst Signals at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

• B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony, N. Barros, E. W. Beier, A. Bellerive, B. Beltran, M. Bergevin, S. D. Biller, K. Boudjemline, M. G. Boulay, B. Cai, Y. D. Chan, D. Chauhan, M. Chen, B. T. Cleveland, G. A. Cox, X. Dai, H. Deng, J. A. Detwiler, M. DiMarco, M. D. Diamond, P. J. Doe, G. Doucas, P.-L. Drouin, F. A. Duncan, M. Dunford, E. D. Earle, S. R. Elliott, H. C. Evans, G. T. Ewan, J. Farine, H. Fergani, F. Fleurot, R. J. Ford, J. A. Formaggio, N. Gagnon, J. TM. Goon, K. Graham, E. Guillian, S. Habib, R. L. Hahn, A. L. Hallin, E. D. Hallman, P. J. Harvey, R. Hazama, W. J. Heintzelman, J. Heise, R. L. Helmer, A. Hime, C. Howard, M. Huang, P. Jagam, B. Jamieson, N. A. Jelley, M. Jerkins, K. J. Keeter, J. R. Klein, L. L. Kormos, M. Kos, C. Kraus, C. B. Krauss, A. Krueger, T. Kutter, C. C. M. Kyba, R. Lange, J. Law, I. T. Lawson, K. T. Lesko, J. R. Leslie, I. Levine, J. C. Loach, R. MacLellan, S. Majerus, H. B. Mak, J. Maneira, R. Martin, N. McCauley, A. B. McDonald, S. R. McGee, M. L. Miller, B. Monreal, J. Monroe, B. G. Nickel, A. J. Noble, H. M. O'Keeffe, N. S. Oblath, R. W. Ollerhead, G. D. Orebi Gann, S. M. Oser, R. A. Ott, S. J. M. Peeters, A. W. P. Poon, G. Prior, S. D. Reitzner, K. Rielage, B. C. Robertson, R. G. H. Robertson, M. H. Schwendener, J. A. Secrest, S. R. Seibert, O. Simard, J. J. Simpson, D. Sinclair, P. Skensved, T. J. Sonley, L. C. Stonehill, G. Tesic, N. Tolich, T. Tsui, R. Van Berg, B. A. VanDevender, C. J. Virtue, B. L. Wall, D. Waller, H. Wan Chan Tseung, D. L. Wark, P. J. S. Watson, J. Wendland, N. West, J. F. Wilkerson, J. R. Wilson, J. M. Wouters, A. Wright, M. Yeh, F. Zhang, K. Zuber

The giant lobes of Centaurus A observed at 118 MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array

• B. McKinley, F. Briggs, B. M. Gaensler, I. J. Feain, G. Bernardi, R. B. Wayth, M. Johnston-Hollitt, A. R. Offringa, W. Arcus, D. G. Barnes, J. D. Bowman, J. D. Bunton, R. J. Cappallo, B. E. Corey, A. Deshpande, L. deSouza, D. Emrich, R. Goeke, L. J. Greenhill, B. J. Hazelton, D. Herne, J. N. Hewitt, D. L. Kaplan, J. C. Kasper, B. B. Kincaid, R. Koenig, E. Kratzenberg, C. J. Lonsdale, M. J. Lynch, S. R. McWhirter, D. A. Mitchell, M. F. Morales, E. Morgan, D. Oberoi, S. M. Ord, J. Pathikulangara, T. Prabu, R. A. Remillard, A. E. E. Rogers, A. Roshi, J. E. Salah, R. J. Sault, N. Udaya Shankar, K. S. Srivani, J. Stevens, R. Subrahmanyan, S. J. Tingay, M. Waterson, R. L. Webster, A. R. Whitney, A. Williams, C. L. Williams, J. S. B. Wyithe

Simultaneous X-ray and Radio Observations of Rotating Radio Transient J1819-1458

• Joshua Miller, Maura McLaughlin, Nanda Rea, Kosmas Lazaridis, Evan Keane, Michael Kramer, Andrew Lyne