Monday, Jan 30, 2012

Articles for discussion today:

• arXiv:1201.4664: "Measurement of the Double-Beta Decay Half-life of ^{136}Xe in KamLAND-Zen", A. Gando et al. (KamLAND-Zen Collaboration). [Patrick]

Monday, Jan 23

• arXiv:1201.0753 Fermi-LAT constraints on dark matter annihilation cross section with the Fornax cluster; Shin'ichiro Ando, Daisuke Nagai 
• arXiv:1201.1003 Evidence for extended gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters
• Jiaxin Han, Carlos S. Frenk, Vincent R. Eke, Liang Gao, Simon D. M. White
• arXiv:1201.2691 Search for Dark Matter Satellites using the FERMI-LAT The Fermi LAT Collaboration

Monday, Jan 9, 2012

Articles for discussion today:

• arXiv:1112.6353: "Indication for the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos in the Double Chooz experiment", Y. Abe et al. [Double Chooz Collaboration]. (Patrick)
• arXiv:1201.1386v1: "First Muon-Neutrino Disappearance Study with an Off-Axis Beam", K. Abe et al. [T2K Collaboration]. (Patrick)

Monday, December 12, 2011

Articles for discussion today:

• arXiv:1112.1840: "Multi–year search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA–II and IceCube detectors",  R. Abbasi et al. [IceCube collaboration]. (Patrick )
• arXiv.org:1112.0569: Observational Evidence for a Correlation Between Jet Power and Black Hole Spin (Sera)
• Light Higgs on Tuesday... ? 
• Two ten-billion-solar-mass black holes at the centres of giant elliptical galaxies - Nicholas J. McConnell et al. Nature 480, 215–218 (Gf)

Monday, December 5

Articles that will be discussed today:


- arXiv:1111.1165: Dwarf spheroidal galaxy kinematics and spiral galaxy scaling laws. Paolo Salucci, Mark I. Wilkinson, Matthew G. Walker, Gerard F. Gilmore, Eva K. Grebel, Andreas Koch, Christiane Frigerio Martins, Rosemary F.G. Wyse (Gf)

- arXiv:1111.6609: The dark matter halos of dwarf galaxies: a challenge for the LCDM paradigm? Ismael Ferrero, Mario G. Abadi, Julio F. Navarro, Laura V. Sales, Sebastian Gurovich (Gf)

- arXiv:1111.5780: The effects of baryonic cooling on the concentration-mass relation. C. Fedeli (SA)

Monday, Nov 28 (2011)

We discuss today:

- arXiv:1111.5620
Halo expansion in cosmological hydro simulations: towards a baryonic solution of the cusp/core problem in massive spirals Andrea V. Maccio', Greg Stinson, Chris B. Brook, James Wadsley, H.M.P. Couchman, Sijing Shen, Brad K. Gibson, Tom Quinn

Monday, November 21, 2011

- Constraining Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter with Chandra Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy (Watson, Li, Polley)

- Halos and Voids in f(R) Gravity (Li, Zhao, Koyama)