Monday, February 1

Title: The feeble giant. Discovery of a large and diffuse Milky Way dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Crater
Authors: G. Torrealba, S. E. Koposov, V. Belokurov, M. Irwin
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07178
Presenter: M. Lovell

Title: Searching for decaying dark matter in deep XMM-Newton observation of the Draco dwarf spheroidal
Authors: O. Ruchayskiy, A. Boyarsky, D. Iakubovskyi, E. Bulbul, D. Eckert, J. Franse, D. Malyshev, Maxim Markevitch, A. Neronov
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07217
Presenter: M. Lovell

Title: Lofar, VLA, and Chandra observations of the Toothbrush galaxy cluster
Authors: R. J. van Weeren, G. Brunetti, M. Bruggen, et al
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06029
Presenter: E. Storm

Title: ETHOS - An Effective Theory of Structure Formation: Dark matter physics as a possible explanation of the small-scale CDM problems
Authors: M. Vogelsberger, et al
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05349
Presenter: T. Edwards

Monday, January 25

Title: Detailed spectral and morphological analysis of the shell type SNR RCW 86
Authors: HESS collaboration (I Jung corr. author, J Vink, D Berge involved)
Links: http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa26545-15.pdf (and related work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwglvIfP_v0ldkxZLTkzN05iSjg/view)
Presenter: J. Vink

Title: Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry
Authors: IceCube
Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00653 
Presenter: Hamish Silverwood

Title: Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter direct searches
Authors: Bozorgnia et al.
Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04707 
Presenter: Nassim Bozorgnia

Title: The impact of baryons on the direct detection of dark matter
/ Assessing Astrophysical Uncertainties in Direct Detection with Galaxy Simulations
Authors: Kelso et al. / Sloane et al.
Link: http://arxiv/org/abs/1601.04725 & http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05402 
Presenter: Christopher McCabe

Title: Young and Millisecond Pulsar GeV Gamma-ray Fluxes from the Galactic Center & Beyond
Authors: O’Leary, Kistler, Ker and Dexter
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05797
Presenter: R. Bartels

Monday, January 18

Title: The B/C and sub-Iron/Iron Cosmic ray ratios - further evidence in favor of the spiral arm diffusion model

Authors: David Benyamin, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran, Nir j. Shaviv

Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03072

Presenter: Daniele Gaggero

Title:The Mass-Concentration-Redshift Relation of Cold and Warm Dark Matter Halos

Authors: Aaron D. Ludlow et al.

Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02624

Presenter: Richard Bartels

Title: Radio detection prospects for a bulge population of millisecond pulsars as suggested by Fermi-LAT observations of the inner Galaxy

Authors: F. Calore et al.

Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06825

Presenter: Francesca Calore

Title: The Significance of the 750 GeV Fluctuation in the ATLAS Run 2 Diphoton Data

Authors: Davis, Jonathan H. and Fairbairn, Malcolm and Heal, John and Tunney, Patrick

Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03153

Presenter: Christopher McCabe

Title: Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry

Authors: IceCube

Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00653  

Presenter: Hamish Silverwood

Monday, January 11

Title: Unveiling the Gamma-Ray Source Distribution below the Fermi Detection Limit with Photon Statistics
Authors: H-S. Zechlin, A. Cuoco, et al.
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07190
Presenter: M. Feyereisen

Title: Elastically decoupling dark matter
Authors: Kuflik et al.
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04545
Presenter: C. McCabe

Title: A 750 GeV Portal: LHC Phenomenology and Dark Matter Candidates
Authors: Francesco D’Eramo, Jordy de Vries, Paolo Panci
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01571
Presenter: R. Bartels

Title: Diphoton excesses at the LHC
Presenter: C. McCabe

Monday, December 14

Title: Warm-hot baryons comprise 5-10 per cent of filaments in the cosmic web
Authors: D. Eckert
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00454
Presenter: Fabio Zandanel

Title: Deep XMM Observations of Draco rule out a dark matter decay origin for the 3.5 keV line (or: how we learned to stop worrying and love bananas after all)
Authors: Jeltema & Profumo
Link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.01239.pdf
Presenter: Richard Bartels

Title: Hawking radiation, the Stefan-Boltzmann law, and unitarization
Authors: S. Giddings
Links: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.08221.pdf
Presenter: Fotis Dimitrakopoulos

Title: Improved WIMP scattering limits from the LUX experiment
Authors: LUX
Links: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.03506.pdf
Presenter: Christopher McCabe & Patrick Decowski

Title: Determining the local dark matter density with LAMOST data
Authors: Xia et al
Link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.06810.pdf
Presenter: Hamish Silverwood

Monday, November 30

Title: Origin of the Proton-to-Helium Ratio Anomaly in Cosmic Rays
Authors: N. Tomassetti
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04460
Presenter: Daniele Gaggero

Title: Fermi-LAT Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Toward the Galactic Center
Authors: The Fermi-LAT Collaboration
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02938
Presenter: Christoph Weniger

Title: A novel scenario for the possible X-ray line feature at ∼3.5 keV: Charge exchange with bare sulfur ions
Authors: L. Gu, J. Kaastra, A.J.J. Rasssen, et al
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06557
Presenter: Emma Storm

Title: Cross-correlation of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background with Luminonous Red Galaxies
Authors: M. Shirasaki, S. Horiuchi and N. Yoshida
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07092
Presenter: Mattia Fornasa

Title: Shocks in the Early Universe
Authors: Ue-Li Pen, Neil Turok
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02985
Presenter: Fotis Dimitrakopoulos

Monday, November 23

Title: Satellite galaxies in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation with sterile neutrino dark matter

Authors: M. R. Lovell, S. Bose, A. Boyarsky, S. Cole, C. S. Frenk, V. Gonzalez-Perez, R. Kennedy, O. Ruchayskiy, A. Smith

Links: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015arXiv151104078L

Presenter: Mark Lovell

Title: What statistics can tell us about strategy in tennis

Authors: I. Y. Kawashima, et al.

Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06163

Presenter: Michael Feyereisen

Title: The black hole spin influence on accretion disk neutrino detection

Authors: Caballero et al.

Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06011

Presenter: Irene Tamborra

Title: Parameter inference with estimated covariance matrices
Authors: Elena Sellentin, Alan F. Heavens
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05969v1
Presenter: Thomas Edwards

Title: Modulated Natural Inflation
Authors: Rolf Kappl, Hans Peter Nilles, Martin Wolfgang Winkler
Links: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05560
Presenter: Ben Freivogel