A wide range of scientific results were discussed in about 100 oral and about 200 poster
contributions during nine parallel afternoon sessions and one highlight evening session.
Further information, including the full program, can be found on the conference webpage:
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/texas2010/
The papers published here in these proceedings represent the contributions accepted for the parallel sessions and the main poster session at TEXAS 2010.
The TEXAS 2010 SOC included: F. Aharonian (Chair), G. Barbiellini, M. Bartelmann, P. Binetruy, G. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, R. Blandford, J. Bluemer, C. Cesarsky, B. Czerny, R. Genzel, W. Hermsen, W. Hofmann, R. Kolb, A. Loeb, K. Makishima, L. Maraschi, A. Melatos, H. Murayama, J.M. Paredes, M. Rees, S. Ritz, R. Ruffini, D.J. Saikia, J. Silk, R. Sunyaev, V. Trimble (Co-Chair), L. van Waerbeke and Q. Yu.
The TEXAS 2010 LOC included: W. Hofmann (Chair), F. Rieger (Co-Chair), F. Aharonian, V. Bosch-Ramon, S. Casanova, R. Crocker, W. Domainko, C. van Eldik, B. Feuerstein, A. Foerster, H. Gast, D. Jones, E. de Ona Wilhelmi and G. Weese.
Editorial Board of these Proceedings: Frank M. Rieger (Chair), Christopher van Eldik and Werner Hofmann.
| Main session |
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Preface
PoS(Texas 2010)277 pdf |
| SESSION P1 Black Holes, accretion and jets (chairs: Bozena Czerny & Silke Britzen) |
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Accretion disks with a large scale magnetic field around black holes, and magnetic jet collimation
PoS(Texas 2010)008 pdf |
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Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M_BH -sigma_* Relation
PoS(Texas 2010)009 pdf |
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Relativistic Jet Feedback in Galaxy Formation
PoS(Texas 2010)010 pdf |
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Episodic Activity in Active Galactic Nuclei
PoS(Texas 2010)014 pdf |
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A model for jets of low mass microquasars
PoS(Texas 2010)016 pdf |
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Accreting Magnetofluids around a Rotating Compact Object with a Dipolar Magnetic Field
PoS(Texas 2010)019 pdf |
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Numerical Simulations of QPOs in Bondi-Hoyle type accretion: the case of SgrA*
PoS(Texas 2010)020 pdf |
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Disk accretion onto relativistic object due to wind of the magnetized plasma and jet formation.
PoS(Texas 2010)021 pdf |
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Rapid VHE variability in blazars
PoS(Texas 2010)023 pdf |
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Subrelativistic Jets' Heating Mechanisms
PoS(Texas 2010)026 pdf |
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Energy shifts of spectral lines from accretion discs near a black hole with negative spin
PoS(Texas 2010)027 pdf |
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Gravitational Lensing in Plasma
PoS(Texas 2010)030 pdf |
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X-ray spectral and timing investigations of XTE J1752-223
PoS(Texas 2010)032 pdf |
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Searching for the most distant blazars with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
PoS(Texas 2010)036 pdf |
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AGN and starburst galaxies at low radio flux densities
PoS(Texas 2010)038 pdf |
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3D Collapse and Accretion in Slowly Rotating Polytropes
PoS(Texas 2010)040 pdf |
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Steady-state rarefaction waves in relativistic magnetized flows: Theory and application to gamma-ray burst outflows
PoS(Texas 2010)041 pdf |
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Charge-starved jets and rapid variability in blazars
PoS(Texas 2010)042 pdf |
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Searching for a pulsar black hole binary
PoS(Texas 2010)043 pdf |
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Understanding the light curves of the HST-1 knot in M87
PoS(Texas 2010)046 pdf |
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TeV emission and jet formation in M87
PoS(Texas 2010)047 pdf |
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Active galaxy unification in the era of X-ray polarimetry
PoS(Texas 2010)048 pdf |
| SESSION P2: Gravitational waves (chairs: Andrew Melatos & Stefano Vitale) |
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Stellar mass black holes in star clusters: gravitational waves and 'dark remnants'
PoS(Texas 2010)058 pdf |
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Gravitational-wave signatures in successful and failed core-collapse supernova explosions
PoS(Texas 2010)060 pdf |
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Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves Generated by Compact Binary Systems
PoS(Texas 2010)062 pdf |
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Gravitational Wave Background from Supermassive Black Holes
PoS(Texas 2010)063 pdf |
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Supra-thermal viscosity of magnetized neutron star matter
PoS(Texas 2010)064 pdf |
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Enabling PTAs for gravitational wave detection: The all-sky HTRU pulsar survey
PoS(Texas 2010)066 pdf |
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Gravitational Wave sources in Ultralow frequency band
PoS(Texas 2010)067 pdf attachments |
| SESSION P3: Transient phenomena (chairs: Chryssa Kouveliotou & Jochen Greiner) |
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Type Ia Supernovae (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)074 pdf |
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Gamma-ray burst spectral evolution in the internal shock model: confrontation with Fermi observations
PoS(Texas 2010)080 pdf |
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Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)082 pdf |
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Supernovae Type Ia: non-standard candles of the Universe
PoS(Texas 2010)083 pdf |
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A New Mechanism of Hypernovae Explosions
PoS(Texas 2010)085 pdf |
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Gamma ray emission from magnetized relativistic GRB outflows
PoS(Texas 2010)086 pdf |
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Results of the sixth Waseda Nasu radio transient survey using a new system
PoS(Texas 2010)088 pdf |
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Gravitational waves from precessing GRBs
PoS(Texas 2010)089 pdf |
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Three different types of the gamma-ray bursts
PoS(Texas 2010)093 pdf attachments |
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AGILE Observations of Variable and transient $\gamma$-ray sources in the Galactic plane, Catalog improvements
PoS(Texas 2010)095 pdf |
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Observation of GRBs and TGFs with AGILE
PoS(Texas 2010)096 pdf |
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A tight correlation for GRB afterglows with “canonical” light curves
PoS(Texas 2010)097 pdf |
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Effects of the upper cutoff of the electron distribution on the light curves of GRB afterglows
PoS(Texas 2010)098 pdf |
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GRB 090618: a possible case of multiple GRB?
PoS(Texas 2010)101 pdf attachments |
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The height distribution of type II supernovae in spiral galaxies
PoS(Texas 2010)103 pdf |
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Do Fermi-LAT observations really imply very large Lorentz factors in GRB outflows ?
PoS(Texas 2010)104 pdf attachments |
| SESSION P4: Reports from space-based gamma-ray telescopes (chairs: Isabelle Grenier & Marco Tavani) |
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The variable Crab Nebula
PoS(Texas 2010)106 pdf |
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The "Crazy Diamond" 3C 454.3 and its siblings: confirmations and surprises
PoS(Texas 2010)110 pdf |
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Constraints on the gamma-ray opacity of the Universe with the Fermi-LAT instrument
PoS(Texas 2010)111 pdf |
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Fermi observations of gamma-ray pulsars (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)112 pdf |
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AGILE observations of PSR B1509-58: a new class of highly magnetized, 'soft' gamma-ray pulsars?
PoS(Texas 2010)113 pdf |
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Recent detections of TeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope
PoS(Texas 2010)114 pdf |
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On the origin of the GeV and TeV emission in gamma-ray binaries (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)115 pdf |
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The Swift Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients Project: recent results
PoS(Texas 2010)117 pdf |
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Radio and Gamma-ray Observations of PSR J2043+2740
PoS(Texas 2010)119 pdf |
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Gamma-ray emission from Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068
PoS(Texas 2010)122 pdf |
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Seyfert 2 galaxies in the GeV band: jets and starburst
PoS(Texas 2010)124 pdf |
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Middle-aged Supernova Remnants with AGILE
PoS(Texas 2010)125 pdf |
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Studies on blazar variability in gamma rays with Fermi-LAT
PoS(Texas 2010)127 pdf attachments |
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LS I +61 303 and LS5039 behavior in the high energy regime during two years of Fermi monitoring
PoS(Texas 2010)128 pdf |
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Long-term Fermi-LAT and multi-band observations of blazar 3C 279
PoS(Texas 2010)129 pdf |
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Geometric modeling of radio and gamma-ray light curves of 6 Fermi-LAT pulsars
PoS(Texas 2010)130 pdf |
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Report of the observations of AGL J1238+0406 (Fermi-LAT J123939+044409)
PoS(Texas 2010)131 pdf |
| SESSION P5: Galactic and Extragalactic Cosmic Rays (chairs: Andrei Bykov & Reinhard Schlickeiser) |
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Latest results of the Pierre Auger Observatory and astrophysical interpretations (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)132 pdf |
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The propagation of UHE cosmic rays (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)135 pdf |
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Cosmic ray transport in magnetised turbulence (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)136 pdf |
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Tunka-133: the New EAS Cherenkov Light Array for Cosmic Ray Study
PoS(Texas 2010)138 pdf |
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Shock acceleration of relativistic particles in galaxy-galaxy collisions
PoS(Texas 2010)139 pdf |
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Cosmic-ray acceleration efficiency of the supernova remnants RCW 86 and SNR 0509-67.5
PoS(Texas 2010)142 pdf |
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GeV Gamma-Rays from Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds
PoS(Texas 2010)143 pdf |
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Supernova remants as cosmic ray factories
PoS(Texas 2010)144 pdf |
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Propagation and interaction of nuclei within massive binary system
PoS(Texas 2010)145 pdf |
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Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in Centaurus A
PoS(Texas 2010)147 pdf |
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The role of ionization in the shock acceleration theory
PoS(Texas 2010)148 pdf |
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Nuclear lines revealing the injection of cosmic rays in supernova remnants
PoS(Texas 2010)149 pdf |
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Fermi-LAT observation of Intermediate Synchrotron Peaked blazars
PoS(Texas 2010)151 pdf attachments |
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Contribution from Star-Forming Galaxies to the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background Radiation
PoS(Texas 2010)153 pdf |
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Molecular Clouds as Cosmic Ray Laboratories
PoS(Texas 2010)156 pdf |
| SESSION P6: VHE gamma-ray sources (chairs: Brenda Dingus & Stefan Wagner) |
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Searching for extended Pair Halo emission
PoS(Texas 2010)192 pdf |
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A two-component model of the HE radiation from LS 5039 as observed by Fermi/LAT
PoS(Texas 2010)193 pdf |
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A lepto-hadronic model for the multiwavelength emission from the jets of radiogalaxies
PoS(Texas 2010)195 pdf |
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Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from the vicinity of the shell-type SNR G318.2+0.1 with H.E.S.S.
PoS(Texas 2010)196 pdf |
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H.E.S.S. Observations of strong flaring activity of Mrk421 in February 2010
PoS(Texas 2010)197 pdf |
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Gamma-ray emission from AP Librae (PKS1514-241)
PoS(Texas 2010)199 pdf |
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Discovery of VHE emission from PKS 0447-439 with H.E.S.S. and MWL studies
PoS(Texas 2010)200 pdf |
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Discovery of VHE gamma-ray emission from the W49 region with H.E.S.S.
PoS(Texas 2010)201 pdf |
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Discovery of VHE and HE emission from the blazar 1ES 0414+009 with H.E.S.S and Fermi-LAT
PoS(Texas 2010)203 pdf |
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Luminosity function of BATSE GRBs whose prompt emission is not dominated by the P-GRB
PoS(Texas 2010)204 pdf attachments |
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The formation of hard TeV gamma-ray spectra in blazars
PoS(Texas 2010)205 pdf |
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A new ordering parameter of SEDs from SSC-emitting blazars
PoS(Texas 2010)159 pdf |
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MAGIC discovery of the distant quasar 4C +21.35 in VHE gamma rays
PoS(Texas 2010)160 pdf |
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Gamma-ray flares from red giant/jet interactions in AGN
PoS(Texas 2010)162 pdf |
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Modeling GeV observations of gamma-ray bursts
PoS(Texas 2010)163 pdf |
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Eta Carinae: a very Large Hadron Collider
PoS(Texas 2010)164 pdf |
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Galactic TeV Gamma Ray Sources and Diffuse Emission - Results from Milagro
PoS(Texas 2010)165 pdf |
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Gamma astronomy with the ARGO-YBJ experiment
PoS(Texas 2010)166 pdf |
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New AGNs discovered at VHE by H.E.S.S.
PoS(Texas 2010)167 pdf |
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Fermi acceleration at relativistic shocks and its radiative signatures
PoS(Texas 2010)168 pdf |
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On the TeV Gamma-ray Emission from Cyg X-3
PoS(Texas 2010)169 pdf |
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Gamma-rays from Cataclismic Variables
PoS(Texas 2010)170 pdf |
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Time dependent production of gamma-rays in the inverse Compton $e^+e^-$ pair cascades in AGNs.
PoS(Texas 2010)172 pdf |
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High-energy radiation from T-Tauri stars
PoS(Texas 2010)173 pdf |
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Gamma-ray flares from black hole coronae
PoS(Texas 2010)174 pdf |
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Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from IC 310 by the MAGIC telescopes.
PoS(Texas 2010)175 pdf |
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Recent results of extra-galactic observations with the MAGIC telescope system
PoS(Texas 2010)176 pdf |
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Monitoring the synchrotron and Compton emission of PKS 2155-304 Fermi-LAT and RXTE long term observations
PoS(Texas 2010)177 pdf |
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Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from 1FGL J2001.1+4351 by MAGIC
PoS(Texas 2010)178 pdf |
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Gamma-ray emission in binary systems
PoS(Texas 2010)179 pdf |
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The Milky Way Heart: Investigating molecular gas and gamma-ray morphologies in the Central Molecular Zone
PoS(Texas 2010)180 pdf |
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Testing quantum gravity on extragalactic sources
PoS(Texas 2010)182 pdf |
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Galactic centre star formation writ large in gamma-rays
PoS(Texas 2010)183 pdf |
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Transient gamma-ray emission from Cygnus X-3
PoS(Texas 2010)184 pdf |
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Chandra X-ray observations of the HII region G5.89-0.39 and TeV Source HESSJ1800-240B
PoS(Texas 2010)187 pdf |
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X-ray observations of HESS J1702-420 and HESS J1427-608 with Suzaku
PoS(Texas 2010)188 pdf |
| SESSION P7:Astroparticle Physics (chairs: Laura Baudis & Veronique van Elewyck) |
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Direct dark matter search using liquid noble gases
PoS(Texas 2010)209 pdf |
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Theory of indirect dark matter detection
PoS(Texas 2010)210 pdf |
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Search for a DM annihilation signal from the Galactic Center halo with H.E.S.S.
PoS(Texas 2010)211 pdf |
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Recent results from searches for high energy neutrinos with IceCube
PoS(Texas 2010)213 pdf |
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The Search for neutrinoless double beta-decay
PoS(Texas 2010)214 pdf |
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Observation of neutrinos from sun and earth with the Borexino detector
PoS(Texas 2010)215 pdf |
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Future limits on isotropic LV from UHECRs and TeV gamma rays
PoS(Texas 2010)216 pdf |
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A new mechanism for dark matter generation from an interacting cosmological constant
PoS(Texas 2010)218 pdf |
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Self-interacting Dark Matter Energy Density
PoS(Texas 2010)219 pdf |
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Dark Matter searches with H.E.S.S. towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies
PoS(Texas 2010)220 pdf |
| SESSION P8:Intergalactic magnetic and radiation fields (chairs: Ruth Durrer & Andrea Ferrara) |
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Large-scale, intergalactic magnetic and radiation fields (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)221 pdf |
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Limits for primordial magnetic fields (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)222 pdf |
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Constraints from electromagnetic cascades in the EBL
PoS(Texas 2010)224 pdf |
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Evolution of the Cosmological UV Background (invited talk)
PoS(Texas 2010)226 pdf |
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Extragalactic Background Light Inferred from AEGIS Galaxy SED-type Fractions
PoS(Texas 2010)228 pdf attachments |
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Constraints on dark matter powered stars from the extragalactic background light
PoS(Texas 2010)229 pdf |
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MHD simulations of accretion onto magnetized neutron star in the "propeller" regime
PoS(Texas 2010)232 pdf |
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The first galaxies - assembly of disks and prospects for direct detection
PoS(Texas 2010)233 pdf |
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Pulsar Rotation Measures and the Large-Scale Magnetic Structure of the Milky Way
PoS(Texas 2010)234 pdf |
| SESSION P9:Next generation major instruments (chairs: Catherine Cesarsky/Richard Tuffs) |
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KM3NeT: A km^3-scale neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea
PoS(Texas 2010)235 pdf |
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The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) - Dark matter search using cosmic-ray antideuterons
PoS(Texas 2010)238 pdf |
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Simulation of the expected performance for the proposed gamma-ray detector HiSCORE
PoS(Texas 2010)245 pdf |
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Exploring the Universe from hard X-rays to gamma rays with GRIPS
PoS(Texas 2010)249 pdf |
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Instrumentation at the UC Centre for Astro-Engineering (AIUC)
PoS(Texas 2010)250 pdf |
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Potential of the next generation VHE instruments to probe the EBL
PoS(Texas 2010)251 pdf |
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Single electromagnetic sub-cascades in hadronic showers as the background in IACT observations
PoS(Texas 2010)252 pdf |
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Patch effect in drag-free satelites
PoS(Texas 2010)253 pdf |
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The COSPIX mission: focusing on the energetic and obscured Universe
PoS(Texas 2010)254 pdf |
| SESSION OG (general) |
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A search for young stellar objects as possible counterparts of Fermi sources.
PoS(Texas 2010)256 pdf |
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H.E.S.S. observations of the massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
PoS(Texas 2010)257 pdf |
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Monotonous and thousands-of-years cyclic components of isolated radio pulsars spindown.
PoS(Texas 2010)258 pdf |
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Variability of the Naked-Eye Burst prompt optical emission as a manifestation of its central engine periodic activity.
PoS(Texas 2010)259 pdf |
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Search for pairs of isolated radio pulsars - components in disrupted binary systems
PoS(Texas 2010)260 pdf |
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Search for connections between isolated radio pulsars and supernova remnants
PoS(Texas 2010)261 pdf |
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Impact of general reionization scenarios on extracting inflationary parameters
PoS(Texas 2010)263 pdf attachments |
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Cosmic Equation of state from Strong Gravitational Lensing Systems
PoS(Texas 2010)268 pdf |
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The general relativistic Thomas-Fermi theory of white-dwarfs
PoS(Texas 2010)269 pdf |
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The influence of the core on the structure of the outer crust of neutron stars
PoS(Texas 2010)270 pdf |
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A general relativistic Thomas-Fermi treatment of neutron star cores
PoS(Texas 2010)271 pdf |
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Cosmological brane solutions
PoS(Texas 2010)272 pdf |
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Excitation and destruction of nuclei in hot astrophysical plasmas around black holes
PoS(Texas 2010)274 pdf |
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On Magnetic Fields in Rotating Nuclear Matter Cores of Stellar Dimensions
PoS(Texas 2010)275 pdf attachments |
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Fermi Observation of Solar System Gamma-Ray sources
PoS(Texas 2010)276 pdf |