Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics

JINA - Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics, 21 April 2006

Volume 4, Issue 16 (33 Articles)

# 1 - Most Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts Are Not in Moderately Bright Nearby Host Galaxies
- Bradley E. Schaefer
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume642, Issue 1
- ABSTRACT, FULL TEXT, PDF (59 kB), PS
# 2 - Effects of Neutrino-driven Kicks on the Supernova Explosion Mechanism
- Christopher L. Fryer and Alexander Kusenko
- Astrophysical Journal_Supplement - Volume 163, Issue 2 - April, 2006
- ABSTRACT, FULL TEXT WITH ENHANCEMENTS, PDF (5334 kB), PS
# 3 - Comment on: Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away by Stanek et al
- Adrian L. Melott (University of Kansas)
- astro-ph/0604440 [abs, pdf]
# 4 - Cosmological parameters from combining the Lyman-alpha forest with CMB, galaxy clustering and SN constraints
- Uros Seljak, Anze Slosar, Patrick McDonald
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604335 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 5 - Pulsational Instabilities in Accreting White Dwarfs
- Phil Arras, Dean M. Townsley, Lars Bildsten
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604319 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 6 - Secondary Star Formation in a Population III Object
- Hajime Susa, Masayuki Umemura
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604423 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 7 - Strangeness in Neutron Stars
- Fridolin Weber, Alexander Ho, Rodrigo P. Negreiros, Philip Rosenfield (San Diego State University)
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604422 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 8 - Magnetars' Giant Flares: the case of SGR 1806-20
- Nanda Rea (SRON - Netherlands Institute for Space Research), et al
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604386 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 9 - Automated derivation of stellar atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances: the MATISSE algorithm
- A. Recio-Blanco, A. Bijaoui, P. de Laverny
- astro-ph/0604385 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 10 - Two populations of metal-free stars in the early Universe
- Thomas H. Greif, Volker Bromm
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604367 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 11 - Analysis of White Dwarfs with Strange-Matter Cores
- G. J. Mathews, I.-S. Suh, B. O'Gorman, N. Q. Lan, W. Zech, K. Otsuki, F. Weber
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604366 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 12 - The Environments around Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors
- Chris L. Fryer, Gabriel Rockefeller, Patrick A. Young
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604432 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 13 - A Faint New Milky Way Satellite in Bootes
- V. Belokurov (1), D. B. Zucker (1), N. W. Evans (1), M. I. Wilkinson (1), M. J. Irwin (1), S. Hodgkin (1), D. M. Bramich (1), J. M. Irwin (1), G. Gilmore (1), B. Willman (2), S. Vidrih (1), H. J. Newberg (3), R. F. G. Wyse (4), M. Fellhauer (1), P. C. Hewett (1), N. Cole (3), E. F. Bell (5), T. C. Beers (6), C. M. Rockosi (7), B. Yanny (8), E. K. Grebel (9), D. P. Schneider (10), R. Lupton (11), J. C. Barentine (12), H. Brewington (12), J. Brinkmann (12), M. Harvanek (12), S. J.Kleinman (12), J. Krzesinski (12,13), D. Long (12), A. Nitta (12), J. A. Smith (14), S. A. Snedden (12) ((1) Cambridge University, (2) New York University, (3) Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute, (4) JHU, (5) MPIA, Heidelberg, (6) Michigan State University, (7) Lick Observatory, UCSC, (8) FNAL, (9) University of Basel, (10) Pennsylvania State University, (11) Princeton University, (12) Apache Point Observatory, (13) Cracow Pedagogical University, (14) LANL)
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604355 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 14 - A New Milky Way Dwarf Satellite in Canes Venatici
- D. B. Zucker (1), V. Belokurov (1), N. W. Evans (1), M. I. Wilkinson (1), M. J. Irwin (1), T. Sivarani (2), S. Hodgkin (1), D. M. Bramich (1), J. M. Irwin (1), G. Gilmore (1), B. Willman (3), S. Vidrih (1), M. Fellhauer (1), P. C. Hewett (1), T. C. Beers (2), E. F. Bell (4), E. K. Grebel (5), D. P. Schneider (6), H. J. Newberg (7), R. F. G. Wyse (8), C. M. Rockosi (9), B. Yanny (10), R. Lupton (11), J. A. Smith (12), J. C. Barentine (13), H. Brewington (13), J. Brinkmann (13), M. Harvanek (13), S. J.Kleinman (13), J. Krzesinski (13,14), D. Long (13), A. Nitta (13), S. A. Snedden (13) ((1) Cambridge University, (2) Michigan State University, (3) New York University, (4) MPIA, Heidelberg, (5) University of Basel, (6) Pennsylvania State University, (7) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (8) JHU, (9) Lick Observatory/UCSC, (10) FNAL, (11) Princeton University, (12) LANL, (13) Apache Point Observatory, (14) Cracow Pedagogical University)
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0604354 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 15 - Comment on "187Re(gamma,n) cross section close to and above the neutron threshold"
- T. Rauscher (Univ. Basel)
- ArXiv - Nuclear Experiment
- astro-ph/0604237 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 16 - Exploring the extended density-dependent Skyrme effective forces for normal and isospin-rich nuclei to neutron stars
- B. K. Agrawal, Shashi K. Dhiman, Raj Kumar
- ArXiv - Nuclear Theory
- nucl-th/0604045 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 17 - Effect of deformation on two-neutrino double beta decay matrix elements
- R. Alvarez-Rodriguez, P. Sarriguren, E. Moya de Guerra, L. Pacearescu, A. Faessler, F. Simkovic
- Journal-ref: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 57 (2006) 251
- nucl-th/0604036 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 18 - Reconstructing supernova-neutrino spectra using low-energy beta-beams
- N. Jachowicz, G. C. McLaughlin
- ArXiv - Nuclear Theory
- nucl-th/0604046 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 19 - Are ⁴⁴Ti-producing supernovae exceptional?
- L.-S. The, D. D. Clayton, R. Diehl, D. H. Hartmann, A. F. Iyudin, M. D. Leising, B. S. Meyer, Y. Motizuki and V. Schönfelder
- Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume 450, Issue 3 - April, 2006
- Abstract, Full HTML, PDF file (473 KB), PS file (526 KB), References
# 20 - Stable magnetic fields in stellar interiors
- J. Braithwaite and Å. Nordlund
- Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume 450, Issue 3 - April, 2006
- Abstract, Full HTML, PDF file (1.55 MB), PS file (2.46 MB), References
# 21 - Evolution of the magnetic field in magnetars
- J. Braithwaite and H. C. Spruit
- Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume 450, Issue 3 - April, 2006
- Abstract, Full HTML, PDF file (1.08 MB), PS file (1.14 MB), References
# 22 - Axisymmetric simulations of magneto-rotational core collapse: dynamics and gravitational wave signal
- M. Obergaulinger, M. A. Aloy and E. Müller
- Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume 450, Issue 3 - April, 2006
- Abstract, Full HTML, PDF file (7.03 MB), PS file (2.34 MB), References
# 23 - Lithium abundances and rotational behavior for bright giant stars
- A. Lèbre, P. de Laverny, J. D. do Nascimento Jr. and J. R. De Medeiros
- Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume 450, Issue 3 - April, 2006
- Abstract, Full HTML, PDF file (217 KB), PS file (443 KB), References
# 24 - Photodisintegration of polarized deuterons at astrophysical energies
- G Ramachandran, Yee Yee Oo and S P Shilpashree
- Journal of Physics G, Volume 32, Issue 5
- Abstract, References Full text: Acrobat PDF (106 KB)
# 25 - Early star formation, nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution in proto-galactic clouds
- Lamya Saleh, Timothy C Beers and Grant J Mathews
- Journal of Physics G, Volume 32, Issue 5
- Abstract, References Full text: Acrobat PDF (1.89 MB)
# 26 - Astronomy: Trouble at first light
- Piero Madau
- Nature - Volume 440, Issue 7087
- Full Text, PDF (264K) See also: Editor's summary
# 27 - A low level of extragalactic background light as revealed by γ-rays from blazars
- F. Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, A. R. Bazer-Bachi, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, D. Berge, K. Bernlöhr, C. Boisson, O. Bolz, V. Borrel, I. Braun, F. Breitling, A. M. Brown, P. M. Chadwick, L.-M. Chounet, R. Cornils, L. Costamante, B. Degrange, H. J. Dickinson, A. Djannati-Ataï, L. O'C. Drury, G. Dubus, D. Emmanoulopoulos, P. Espigat, F. Feinstein, G. Fontaine, Y. Fuchs, S. Funk, Y. A. Gallant, B. Giebels, S. Gillessen, J. F. Glicenstein, P. Goret, C. Hadjichristidis, D. Hauser, M. Hauser, G. Heinzelmann, G. Henri, G. Hermann, J. A. Hinton, W. Hofmann, M. Holleran, D. Horns, A. Jacholkowska, O. C. de Jager, B. Khélifi, S. Klages, Nu. Komin, A. Konopelko, I. J. Latham, R. Le Gallou, A. Lemière, M. Lemoine-Goumard, N. Leroy, T. Lohse, J. M. Martin, O. Martineau-Huynh, A. Marcowith, C. Masterson, T. J. L. McComb, M. de Naurois, S. J. Nolan, A. Noutsos, K. J. Orford, J. L. Osborne, M. Ouchrif, M. Panter, G. Pelletier, S. Pita, G. Pühlhofer, M. Punch, B. C. Raubenheimer, M. Raue, J. Raux, S. M. Rayner, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, J. Ripken, L. Rob, L. Rolland, G. Rowell, V. Sahakian, L. Saugé, S. Schlenker, R. Schlickeiser, C. Schuster, U. Schwanke, M. Siewert, H. Sol, D. Spangler, R. Steenkamp, C. Stegmann, J.-P. Tavernet, R. Terrier, C. G. Théoret, M. Tluczykont, C. van Eldik, G. Vasileiadis, C. Venter, P. Vincent, H. J. Völk and S. J. Wagner
- Nature - Volume 440, Issue 7087
- First paragraph, Full Text, PDF (218K) , Supplementary informationSee also: Editor's summary, News and Views by Madau
# 28 - Glint from tenth planet dazzles astronomers
- Jim Giles
- Nature - Volume 440, Issue 7087
- Full Text, PDF (517K)
# 29 - Gamma-ray bursts and the origin of galactic positrons
- <i&gt, </i&gt, Gianfranco Bertone, Alexander Kusenko, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Silvia Pascoli and Dmitry Semikoz
- Physics Letters B - Volume 636 Issue 1
- SummaryPlus, Full Text + Links, PDF (130 K)
# 30 - Quantum Nature of the Big Bang
- Abhay Ashtekar, Tomasz Pawlowski, and Parampreet Singh
- Physics Review Letters - Vol.96, Issue 14 - 12 April 2006
- 141301 Abstract Full Text: [ PDF (1171 kB) GZipped PS ]
# 31 - Neutrino-Induced Nucleosynthesis of A>64 Nuclei: The νp Process
- C. Fröhlich, G. Martínez-Pinedo, M. Liebendörfer, F.-K. Thielemann, E. Bravo, W. R. Hix, K. Langanke, and N. T. Zinner
- Physics Review Letters - Vol.96, Issue 14 - 10 April 2006
- 142502 Abstract Full Text: [ PDF (182 kB) GZipped PS ]
# 32 - Making Forecasts for Chaotic Physical Processes
- Christopher M. Danforth and James A. Yorke
- Physics Review Letters - Vol.96, Issue 14 - 14 April 2006
- 144102 Abstract Full Text: [ PDF (392 kB) GZipped PS ]
# 33 - COSMOLOGY: Skewed Starlight Suggests Particle Masses Changed Over Eons
- Adrian Cho
- Science - Volume 312, Issue 5772 - 21 April 2006: 348.
- Summary, Full Text, PDF,