2011

December 20th - Horiuchi

December 13th - Murase

• ATRAS search for Higgs Boson

• CMS search for Higgs Boson

• A peculiar superlong GRB 111209A

• A cocoon of freshly accelerated cosmic rays detected by Fermi in the Cygnus superbubble (Science 334 1103)

• 1112.2240 Note on normalization of predicted GRB neutrino flux

• 1112.2534 Fermi/LAT observations of 1ES 0229+200: implications for extragalactic magnetic fields and extragalactic background light

• 1112.0335 Proto-neutron star cooling with convection; the effect of the symmetric energy

• Protostellar feedback halts the growth of the first stars in the universe (Science 334 1250)

• 1111.6599 Non-thermal dark matter mimicking an additional species in the early universe

December 7th - Murase

• The unusual gamma-ray burst GRB 101225A from a helium star/neutron star merger at redshift 0.33 (Nature 480 72)

• The unusual gamma-ray burst GRB 101225A explained as a minor body falling onto a neutron star (Nature 480 69)

• Record-breaking black holes fill a cosmic gap (Nature 480 215)

• 1112.1076 Neutrino emission from gamma-ray burst fireballs revisited

November 30th - Dasgupta

1. Probing the neutrino mass hierarchy with the rise time of a supernova burst.

2. Dark matter seeding and the kinematics and rotation of neutron stars (arXiv:1111:2275 and earlier papers 1 2)

November 16th - Laha

1. Dark matter seeding and the kinematics and rotation of neutron stars (axXiv:1111:2275 and earlier papers 1 2)

2. Two Populations of X-ray Pulsars Produced by Two Types of Supernovae (arXiv:1111.2051)

3. Olber's Paradox for Superluminal Neutrinos: Constraining ExtremeNeutrino Speeds at TeV-ZeV Energies with the Diffuse Neutrino Background (arXiv:1111.3045)

4. DAMA vs the annually modulated muon background (arXiv:1110.0857)

x. Galactic restrictions on iron production by various Types of supernovae (arXiv:1111.2152)

October 24th - Murase

• • 1110.0133 Cosmic Ray in the Northern Hemisphere: Results from the Telescope Array Experiment

  • 1110.4352 Detection of the Crab Pulsar with VERITAS above 100 GeV

  • 1110.4471 Short time scale variability at gamma rats in FSRQs and implications on the current models

  • 1110.2498 Magnetic field decay in neutron stars: from soft gamma-ray repeaters to weak field magnetars

• Detection of Polarization from GRB 100826A

• AKARI detected the light from the first stars

  • 1110.0857 DAMA vs the annually modulated muon background

October 17th - Murase

On running astro-lunch in fall quarter 2011

• 1109.6562 New Constraints on Neutrino Velocities

• 1109,4897 Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

June 24th - Horiuchi

• 1106.4069 Very-high-energy γ-ray emission from the direction of the Galactic globular cluster Terzan

• 1106.4397 Finding short GRB remnants in globular clusters: the VHE γ-ray source in Terzan 5 1106.4498 Expansion of the Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant G1.9+0.3

• 1106.3438 Neutrino analysis of the September 2010 Crab Nebula flare and time-integrated constraints on neutrino emission from the Crab using IceCube

• 1106.3510 A Single Degenerate Progenitor Model of Type Ia Supernovae Highly Exceeding the Chandrasekhar Mass Limit

June 17th - Dasgupta

• 1106.2822 Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-produced Off-axis Muon Neutrino Beam: T2K Collaboration

• 1106.3048 Anisotropy and chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using arrival directions measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

• 1106.2556 Relativistic shock breakouts - a variety of gamma-ray flares: from low luminosity gamma-ray bursts to type Ia supernovae

• 1106.1167 The Role of Collective Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Core-Collapse Supernova Shock Revival

June 10th - Stamatikos *Canceled* (Due to finals week.)

June 3rd - Carsten

• Can Planck constrain indirect detection of dark matter in our galaxy? arXiv:1105.4689

• Limits on the local dark matter density. Silvia Garbari, Justin I. Read, George Lake.

• A method for detection of muon induced electromagnetic showers with the ANTARES detector.arXiv:1106.0426 [astro-ph.IM]

• Study of the High Energy Gamma-ray Emission from the Crab Pulsar with the MAGIC telescope and Fermi-LAT.

May 27th - Siegal-Gaskins *Some Highlights from the 2011 Fermi Symposium*

• Fermi cosmic-ray positron measurement (Mitthumsiri for Fermi-LAT)

• Dark matter constraints from a Fermi search of cosmic-ray electrons from the Sun (Loparco, Mazziotta, JSG for Fermi-LAT)

• Dark matter limits from combined analysis of dwarf satellites (Garde for Fermi-LAT)

• Gamma-ray point sources below the Fermi detection limit (Malyshev & Hogg)

• Anisotropy analysis of the diffuse gamma-ray background (JSG for Fermi-LAT + Komatsu)

• Dark matter implications of Fermi anisotropy measurement (Fornasa for Fermi-LAT + MultiDark)

May 20th - Dasgupta

• • 1105.3516 A study of extraterrestrial antineutrino sources with the KamLAND detector

  • 1105.3246 Constraints on neutrino interactions using cosmological observations

  • 1105.3377 Combined Limits on WIMPs from the CDMS and EDELWEISS Experiments

  • 1105.2829 Ultrahigh-energy neutrino-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering and the Froissart bound

• CoGENT annual modulation

• Fermi measurement of positron fraction

May 13th - *CCAPP seminar* (Nicole Bell)

May 6th - Rott

• 1104.5187 A search for a Diffus Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector

• 1104.5620 The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA

• *** Visitor *** Lan Luenemann - IceCube Search for Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheriodal Galaxies

April 29th - Murase

• 1104.4787 Discovery of the Onset of Rapid Accretion by a Dormant Massive Black Hole

• 1104.5187 A search for a Diffuse Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector

• 1104.5314 How Robust is the Froissart Bound?

• 1104.5443 The Milky Way's Fermi Bubbles: Echoes of the Las Quasar Outburst?

April 22nd - Horiuchi

• 1104.2093 Fermi-LAT Observations of Two Gamma-Ray Emission Components from the Quiescent Sun

• 1104.2549 Dark Matter Results from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Dataa

• 1104.3088 A search for light dark matter in XENON10 data

• 1104.3356 An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy [and related papers 1 2 3]

• 1104.2150 Absence of day-night asymmetry of 862 keV Be-7 solar neutrino rate in Borexino and MSW oscillation parameters

• 1104.3145 Dark Forces At The Tevatron

April 15th - Stamatikos

• • summary of the ISS Workshop

March 18th - Horiuchi

• 1103.3266 Search for a Dark Matter annihilation signal from the Galactic Center halo with H.E.S.S (HESS collaboration)

• 1103.2768 Reconstruction of supernova mu/tau-neutrino spectra at scintillator detectors (Dasgupta & Beacom)

• 1103.2880 The cosmic-ray electron flux measured by the PAMELA experiment between 1 and 625 GeV (PAMELA collaboration)

• 1103.2771 Asymmetric WIMP dark matter (Graesser, Shoemaker, Vecchi)

• 1103.2377 Constraining the Milky Way Dark Matter Density Profile with Gamma-Rays with Fermi-LAT (Bernal & Palomares-Ruiz)

March 11th - Siegal-Gaskins

• 1103.0776 The cosmic X-ray and gamma-ray background from dark matter annihilation (Zavala et)

• 1012.1247 The Blazar Spectral Energy Distribution Sequence Model of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background and its Implications for Dark Matter Detection (Abazajian, Blanchet, Harding)

• 1103.1886 Upper Bound on the Energy of Particles and Their Secondary Neutrinos (Thompson & Lacki)

March 4th - Rott

• 1102.2548 Predictive Signatures of Supersymmetry: Measuring the Dark Matter Mass and Gluino Mass with Early LHC data

• 1102.4858 11B and Constraints on Neutrino Oscillations and Spectra from Neutrino Nucleosynthesis

• 1102.0815 A testable conventional hypothesis for the DAMA-LIBRA annual modulation

• 1102.3883 The ExaVolt Antenna: A Large-Aperture, Balloon-embedded Antenna for Ultra-high Energy Particle Detection.

February 25th - Murase

February 18th 2011 - Dasgupta

• 1102.2958 Enhanced neutrino signals from dark matter annihilation in the Sun via metastable mediators (Bell, Petraki)

• Discussion on possible Science Budget cuts (summary by Carsten Rott)

• Anita limits on GRB neutrino fluxes

February 11th - Stamatikos

• The International Space Station [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html]

• The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) [http://ams.cern.ch/]

• The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) [http://kibo.jaxa.jp/en/experiment/ef/maxi/].

February 4th - Siegal-Gaskins

• 0810.0713 A theory of dark matter (Arkani-Hamed, Finkbeiner, Slatyer, Weiner)

• 0807.2250 Inelastic dark matter in light of DAMA/LIBRA (Chang, Kribs, Tucker-Smith, Weiner)

• 1012.5078 Search for inelastic dark matter with the CDMS II experiment (CDMS collaboration)

• 1012.5839 A comment on the emission from the Galactic Center as seen by the Fermi telescope (Boyarsky, Malyshev, Ruchayskiy)

January 28th - Rott

• 1101.3349 Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Halo with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube Collaboration)

  • 1101.3942 Constraints on high-energy neutrino emission from SN 2008D (IceCube Collaboration)

  • 1101.1448 Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector (IceCube Collaboration)

  • 1101.1692 First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector (IceCube Collaboration)

  • 1101.4256 The Astrophysics of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (Kumiko Kotera, Angela V. Olinto)

January 21st - Murase

• • 1101.2903 Lorentz Invariance Violation and Chemical Composition of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

  • 1101.3650 Search for Lorentz Invariance breaking with a likelihood fit of the PKS 2155-304 Flare Data Taken on MJD 53944

  • 1012.3678 Components of the Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background (Stecker & Venters)

  • 1101.1489 The X-ray quiescence of Swift J195509.6+261406 (GRB 070610): an optical bursting X-ray binary?

  • 1101.1692 First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector

  • 1101.1448 Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

  • 1101.3325 First-year Results of Broadband Spectroscopy of the Brightest Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts

  • 1101.2082 Detection of a spectral break in the extra hard component of GRB 090926A

January 14th - Horiuchi

• 1101.1111 Shock Breakout in Dense Mass Loss: Luminous Supernova (Chevalier & Irvin)

• 1012.3678 Components of the Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background (Stecker & Venters)

• 1101.1489 Supernova Shock Breakout Through a Wind (Balberb & Loeb)

• 1012.5627 Solar neutrino spectrum, sterile neutrinos and additional radiation in the Universe (de Holanda & Smirnov)

• 1012.1274 Neutrinos from failed supernovae at future water and liquid argon detectors (Keehn & Lunardini)

January 7th - Dasgupta

• • Gamma Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula: Tavani et al , Abdo et al

  • Concentric CMB Circles and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Gurzadyan & Penrose 1011.3706, 1012.1486; Wehus & Eriksen 1012.1268; Moss, Scott, & Zibin 1012.1305; Hajian 1012.1656

  • No Merger-AGN Connection: Cisternas et al 1009.3265

  • Shock Breakout in Dense Mass Loss: Luminous Supernova: Chevalier & Irvin 1101.1111

  • EGMF Constraints from Simultaneous GeV-TeV Observations of Blazars: Taylor, Vovk & Neronov 1101.0932