Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. I. Type Ibn (SN 2006jc-like) events

(2008)

Authors:

A Pastorello, S Mattila, L Zampieri, M Della Valle, SJ Smartt, S Valenti, I Agnoletto, S Benetti, CR Benn, D Branch, E Cappellaro, M Dennefeld, JJ Eldridge, A Gal-Yam, A Harutyunyan, I Hunter, H Kjeldsen, Y Lipkin, PA Mazzali, P Milne, H Navasardyan, EO Ofek, E Pian, O Shemmer, S Spiro, RA Stathakis, S Taubenberger, M Turatto, H Yamaoka

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. II. The transitional case of SN 2005la

(2008)

Authors:

A Pastorello, RM Quimby, SJ Smartt, S Mattila, H Navasardyan, RM Crockett, N Elias-Rosa, P Mondol, JC Wheeler, D Young

Collider aspects of flavour physics at high Q

ArXiv 0801.1800 (2008)

Authors:

T Lari, L Pape, W Porod, JA Aguilar-Saavedra, F del Aguila, BC Allanach, J Alwall, Yu Andreev, D Aristizabal Sierra, A Bartl, M Beccaria, S Bejar, L Benucci, S Bityukov, I Borjanovic, G Bozzi, G Burdman, J Carvalho, N Castro, B Clerbaux, F de Campos, A de Gouvea, C Dennis, A Djouadi, OJP Eboli, U Ellwanger, D Fassouliotis, PM Ferreira, R Frederix, B Fuks, J-M Gerard, A Giammanco, S Gopalakrishna, T Goto, B Grzadkowski, J Guasch, T Hahn, S Heinemeyer, A Hektor, M Herquet, B Herrmann, K Hidaka, MK Hirsch, K Hohenwarter-Sodek, W Hollik, GWS Hou, T Hurth, A Ibarra, J Illana, M Kadastik, S Kalinin, C Karafasoulis, M Karagoz Unel, T Kernreiter, MM Kirsanov, M Klasen, E Kou, C Kourkoumelis, S Kraml, N Krasnikov, F Krauss, A Kyriakis, V Lemaitre, G Macorini, MB Magro, W Majerotto, F Maltoni, R Mehdiyev, M Misiak, F Moortgat, G Moreau, M Mühlleitner, M Muntel, A Onofre, E Ozcan, F Palla, L Panizzi, L Pape, S Penaranda, R Pittau, G Polesello, A Pukhov, M Raidal, AR Raklev, L Rebane, FM Renard, D Restrepo, Z Roupas, R Santos, S Schumann, G Servant, F Siegert, P Skands, P Slavich, J Sola, M Spira, S Sultansoy, A Toropin, A Tricomi, J Tseng, G Unel, JWF Valle, F Veloso, A Ventura, G Vermisoglou, C Verzegnassi, A Villanova del Moral, G Weiglein, M Yilmaz

Abstract:

This review presents flavour related issues in the production and decays of heavy states at LHC, both from the experimental side and from the theoretical side. We review top quark physics and discuss flavour aspects of several extensions of the Standard Model, such as supersymmetry, little Higgs model or models with extra dimensions. This includes discovery aspects as well as measurement of several properties of these heavy states. We also present public available computational tools related to this topic.

The Birth Place of the Type Ic Supernova 2007gr

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 672:2 (2008) l99-l102

Authors:

R Mark Crockett, Justyn R Maund, Stephen J Smartt, Seppo Mattila, Andrea Pastorello, Jonathan Smoker, Andrew W Stephens, Johan Fynbo, John J Eldridge, I John Danziger, Christopher R Benn

A decade of radio imaging the relativistic outflow in the peculiar X-ray binary Circinus X-1

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 390:1 (2008) 447-464

Authors:

V Tudose, RP Fender, AK Tzioumis, RE Spencer, M Van Der Klis

Abstract:

We present observations of the neutron star X-ray binary and relativistic jet source Circinus X-1 made at 4.8 and 8.6 GHz with the Australia Telescope Compact Array during a time interval of almost 10 yr. The system shows significant variations in the morphology and brightness of the radio features on all time-scales from days to years. Using the time delay between the successive brightening of the different components of the radio emission we were able to provide further evidence for the relativistic nature of the arcsec-scale outflow, with an apparent velocity βapp ≥ 12. No compelling evidence for an evolution of the orientation of the jet axis was found. We also place an upper limit on the proper motion of the system which is consistent with previous optical studies. Besides the previously reported radio flares close to the orbital phase 0.0 (interpreted as enhanced accretion at periastron passage), we identified outbursts with similar properties near the orbital phase 0.5. The global spectral index revealed a preferentially steep spectrum over the entire period of monitoring with a mean value and standard deviation α = -0.9 ± 0.6(Fν ∝ να), which became significantly flatter during the outbursts. Polarization was detected in one third of the epochs, and in one case Faraday rotation close to the core of the system was measured. © 2008 RAS.