Monday, March 24, 2014

• Co56 gamma-ray line from Type Ia Supernova in M82. http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5992 [Jacco]
• Killing the Straw Man: Does BICEP Prove Inflation? Dent et al.  http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5166 [Francesca]

Monday, March 17

• We will discuss - and vote! - for the GRAPPA logo
• Jan Pieter van der Schaar will tell us all we need to know about CMB polarization, B-modes, and the implications for inflationary scenarios
• Don't forget to print your own BICEP2 Bingo Cards

Monday, March 10

• Physics: Broaden the search for dark matter, Mario Livio & Joe Silk, http://www.nature.com/news/physics-broaden-the-search-for-dark-matter-1.14795 [David B.]
• Self-interacting asymmetric dark matter coupled to a light massive dark photon, Kalliopi Petraki et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1403.1077 [Kallia]
• Sequestering the Standard Model Vacuum Energy, Nemanja Kaloper & Antonio Padilla, http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6562 [Ben]
• The Fermi Bubbles Revisited, Rui-zhi Yang et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1402.0403 [David B.]
• Annihilation Signals from Asymmetric Dark Matter, E. Hardy et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1402.4500 [Christoph]

Monday, February 24

• Asymmetries in core-collapse supernovae from maps of radioactive 44Ti in Cassiopeia A, B. W. Grefenstette et al., http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7488/full/nature12997.html [Jacco]

Monday, February 17

• A single low-energy, iron-poor supernova as the source of metals in the star SMSS J 031300.36-670839.3, S. C. Keller et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1517 [Ralph]
• Energy carries Information, I. Ilgin & I-S. Yang, http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0878 [I-Sheng]
• New Constraints on Dark Matter Effective Theories from Standard Model Loops, Andreas Crivellin et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1173 [Christoph]
• Search for Invisible Decays of a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Z Boson in ATLAS, ATLAS Collaboration, http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3244 [David B.]
• Detection of An Unidentified Emission Line in the Stacked X-ray spectrum of Galaxy Clusters, Esra Bulbul et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1402.2301 [Christoph/Mark]

Monday, February 10

• The Local Void: for or against LCDM?, Lizhi Xie et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1401.6459 [Mark]
• The observable signature of late heating of the Universe during cosmic reionization, Anastasia Fialkov et al., http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12999.html [Omer]
• Gamma-ray anisotropies from dark matter in the Milky Way: the role of the radial distribution, F. Calore et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1402.0512 [Francesca]
• UHE neutrino and cosmic ray emission from GRBs: revising the models and clarifying the cosmic ray-neutrino connection, Mauricio Bustamante et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1497 [Ralph]
• A single low-energy, iron-poor supernova as the source of metals in the star SMSS J 031300.36-670839.3, S. C. Keller et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1517 [Ralph]
• Energy carries Information, I. Ilgin & I-S. Yang, http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0878 [I-Sheng]
• New Constraints on Dark Matter Effective Theories from Standard Model Loops, Andreas Crivellin et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1173 [Christoph]

Monday, February 3

• Constraining Dark Matter-Neutrino Interactions using the CMB and Large-Scale Structure, Ryan J. Wilkinson et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7597 [Roberta]
• The Local Void: for or against LCDM?, Lizhi Xie et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1401.6459 [Mark]