title string | abstract string | authors list | date date32 | keywords list | bibcode string | arxiv_id string | cites int64 | umap_x float64 | umap_y float64 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Running cosmological constant with observational tests | We investigate the running cosmological constant model with dark energy linearly proportional to the Hubble parameter, Λ = σH +Λ<SUB>0</SUB>, in which the ΛCDM limit is recovered by taking σ = 0. We derive the linear perturbation equations of gravity under the Friedmann-Lemaïtre-Robertson-Walker cosmology, and show the... | [
"Geng, Chao-Qiang",
"Lee, Chung-Chi",
"Zhang, Kaituo"
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"other cosmological parameters",
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"SUB>0</SUB",
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"the running cosmological constant model",
"CMB",
"Hubble",
"Monte Carlo",
"the Hubble parameter",
"the current observational data",
"the ΛCDM lim... | 2016PhLB..760..422G | 1607.02567 | 11 | 11.501476 | 1.152585 |
Dark matter density spikes around primordial black holes | We show that density spikes begin to form from dark matter particles around primordial black holes immediately after their formation at the radiation-dominated cosmological stage. This stems from the fact that in the thermal velocity distribution of particles there are particles with low velocities that remain in finit... | [
"Eroshenko, Yu. N."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"primordial black holes",
"other known constraints",
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"Ω",
"density spikes",
"dark matter particles",
"particle annihilation",
"such particles",
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"several orders",
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... | 2016AstL...42..347E | 1607.00612 | 59 | 9.219693 | -0.70094 |
Effective photon mass by Super and Lorentz symmetry breaking | In the context of Standard Model Extensions (SMEs), we analyse four general classes of Super Symmetry (SuSy) and Lorentz Symmetry (LoSy) breaking, leading to observable imprints at our energy scales. The photon dispersion relations show a non-Maxwellian behaviour for the CPT (Charge-Parity-Time reversal symmetry) odd a... | [
"Bonetti, Luca",
"dos Santos Filho, Luís R.",
"Helayël-Neto, José A.",
"Spallicci, Alessandro D. A. M."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"odd CPT",
"low radio frequencies",
"Lorentz Symmetry",
"tensor",
"an inverse squared frequency behaviour",
"Super Symmetry",
"Charge-Parity-Time reversal symmetry",
"observable imprints",
"a non-Maxwellian behaviour",
"ground measurements",
"observation",
"non-Maxwellian",
"even CPT",
"th... | 2017PhLB..764..203B | 1607.08786 | 32 | 8.539769 | 0.507883 |
A radio-pulsing white dwarf binary star | White dwarfs are compact stars, similar in size to Earth but approximately 200,000 times more massive. Isolated white dwarfs emit most of their power from ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths, but when in close orbits with less dense stars, white dwarfs can strip material from their companions and the resulting mas... | [
"Marsh, T. R.",
"Gänsicke, B. T.",
"Hümmerich, S.",
"Hambsch, F. -J.",
"Bernhard, K.",
"Lloyd, C.",
"Breedt, E.",
"Stanway, E. R.",
"Steeghs, D. T.",
"Parsons, S. G.",
"Toloza, O.",
"Schreiber, M. R.",
"Jonker, P. G.",
"van Roestel, J.",
"Kupfer, T.",
"Pala, A. F.",
"Dhillon, V. S.",... | 2016-07-01 | [
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"white dwarfs",
"compact stars",
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"radio frequencies",
"X-ray emission",
"radio wavelengths",
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"electromagnetic radiation",
"synchrotron radiation",
"close orbits",
"AR Scorpii",
"relativist... | 2016Natur.537..374M | 1607.08265 | 135 | 16.392759 | 13.133673 |
The Kepler Catalog of Stellar Flares | A homogeneous search for stellar flares has been performed using every available Kepler light curve. An iterative light curve de-trending approach was used to filter out both astrophysical and systematic variability to detect flares. The flare recovery completeness has also been computed throughout each light curve usi... | [
"Davenport, James R. A."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"Rossby number",
"X-ray activity decay",
"artificial flare injection tests",
"stellar flares",
"typical measurements",
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"Rossby",
"flare stars",
"flare activity",
"flare activity saturation",
"stars",
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"stellar mass",
"every available Kepler light curve",
"rapid rotation",
... | 2016ApJ...829...23D | 1607.03494 | 254 | 8.531192 | 13.257398 |
Cosmic rays in a galactic breeze | Motivated by the discovery of the nonthermal Fermi bubble features both below and above the Galactic plane, we investigate a scenario in which these bubbles are formed through galacto-centric outflow. Cosmic rays (CR) both diffusing and advecting within a galactic breeze outflow, interacting with the ambient gas presen... | [
"Taylor, Andrew M.",
"Giacinti, Gwenael"
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"equal CR diffusion coefficients",
"CR",
"≈200 GV",
"the observable CR spectral properties",
"halo",
"the same outflow profile",
"rise",
"galacto-centric outflow",
"a galactic breeze outflow",
"an approximately flat surface brightness profile",
"the ambient gas present",
"Galactic",
"the res... | 2017PhRvD..95b3001T | 1607.08862 | 13 | 7.488508 | 4.059526 |
The warm absorber in the radio-loud quasar 4C +74.26 | Outflows of photoionized gas are commonly detected in the X-ray spectra of Seyfert 1 galaxies. However, the evidence for this phenomenon in broad line radio galaxies, which are analogous to Seyfert 1 galaxies in the radio-loud regime, has so far been scarce. Here, we present the analysis of the X-ray absorption in the ... | [
"Di Gesu, L.",
"Costantini, E."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"broad line radio galaxies",
"source",
"the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer",
"SUB",
"the Galactic interstellar medium",
"Outflows",
"out</SUB",
"Galactic",
"the heavy soft X-ray absorption",
"photoionized gas",
"the X-ray absorption",
"ξ",
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"cm",
"the X-ray cou... | 2016A&A...594A..88D | 1607.01943 | 9 | 15.406651 | 7.579167 |
Finding binaries from phase modulation of pulsating stars with Kepler - IV. Detection limits and radial velocity verification | We explore the detection limits of the phase modulation (PM) method of finding binary systems among multiperiodic pulsating stars. The method is an attractive way of finding non-transiting planets in the habitable zones of intermediate-mass stars, whose rapid rotation inhibits detections via the radial velocity (RV) me... | [
"Murphy, Simon J.",
"Shibahashi, Hiromoto",
"Bedding, Timothy R."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"orbital periods",
"short orbital periods",
"multiperiodic pulsating stars",
"many δ Scuti stars",
"RV solutions",
"method",
"orbital configurations",
"RV",
"non-transiting planets",
"orbits",
"oscillation amplitudes",
"robust uncertainties",
"planets",
"intermediate-mass stars",
"binary... | 2016MNRAS.461.4215M | 1607.07879 | 30 | 6.928959 | 11.720815 |
A combined view of sterile-neutrino constraints from CMB and neutrino oscillation measurements | We perform a comparative analysis of constraints on sterile neutrinos from the Planck experiment and from current and future neutrino oscillation experiments (MINOS, IceCube, SBN). For the first time, we express joint constraints on N<SUB>eff</SUB> and m<SUB>eff</SUB><SUP>sterile</SUP> from the CMB in the Δm<SUP>2</SUP... | [
"Bridle, Sarah",
"Elvin-Poole, Jack",
"Evans, Justin",
"Fernandez, Susana",
"Guzowski, Pawel",
"Söldner-Rembold, Stefan"
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"oscillation experiments",
"SUB",
"current and future neutrino oscillation experiments",
"sterile neutrinos",
"similar sensitivity",
"SBN",
"the oscillation experiments",
"standard assumptions",
"eff</SUB><SUP",
"m",
"the Planck experiment",
"eff</SUB",
"2 θ parameter space",
"joint constr... | 2017PhLB..764..322B | 1607.00032 | 20 | 6.99586 | -1.46747 |
Systematic treatment of non-linear effects in Baryon Acoustic Oscillations | In this contribution we will discuss the non-linear effects in the baryon acoustic oscillations and present a systematic and controllable way to account for them within time-sliced perturbation theory. | [
"Ivanov, Mikhail M."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"time-sliced perturbation theory",
"the baryon acoustic oscillations",
"the non-linear effects",
"a systematic and controllable way",
"this contribution",
"them",
"we"
] | 2016EPJWC.12503006I | 1607.05329 | 0 | 12.056767 | 2.420104 |
Precise measurements of inflationary features with 21 cm observations | Future observations of 21 cm emission using neutral hydrogen intensity mapping will enable us to probe the large scale structure of the Universe over very large survey volumes within a reasonable observation time. We demonstrate that the three-dimensional information contained in such surveys will be an extremely power... | [
"Xu, Yidong",
"Hamann, Jan",
"Chen, Xuelei"
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"current cosmic microwave background experiments",
"inflation",
"neutral hydrogen intensity mapping",
"several orders",
"magnitude",
"features",
"such surveys",
"upcoming 21 cm experiments",
"the observable power spectrum",
"the full scale Tianlai experiment",
"the primordial power spectrum",
... | 2016PhRvD..94l3518X | 1607.00817 | 52 | 11.745753 | -0.163518 |
Ultra-High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Detection, and the Search for Lorentz Invariance Violations | A growing class of ultra-high energy neutrino (UHE-nu) observatories based on the Askaryan effect and Antarctic ice is able to search for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). The ARA, ARIANNA, ANITA and EVA collaborations have the power to constrain the Standard Model Extension (SME) by measuring the flux and energy dis... | [
"Hanson, J. C."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"Lorentz invariance violation",
"ultra-high energy neutrino",
"LIV",
"Antarctic ice",
"neutrinos",
"Lorentz",
"GZK",
"Antarctic",
"Askaryan",
"SME",
"UHE",
"the GZK process",
"the Standard Model Extension",
"the Askaryan effect",
"the flux and energy distribution",
"the discovery poten... | 2016arXiv160705745H | 1607.05745 | 0 | 5.914657 | -0.686966 |
Spectropolarimetry of Superluminous Supernovae: Insight into Their Geometry | We present the first spectropolarimetric observations of a hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN) at z = 0.1136, namely SN 2015bn. The transient shows significant polarization at both of the observed epochs: one 24 days before maximum light in the rest-frame, and the other at 27 days after peak luminosity. Analys... | [
"Inserra, C.",
"Bulla, M.",
"Sim, S. A.",
"Smartt, S. J."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"less spherical layers",
"peak luminosity",
"the inner layers",
"maximum light",
"significant polarization",
"polarization",
"second",
"the photosphere",
"the ejecta",
"the second epoch",
"a strong wavelength dependence",
"the fact",
"SLSN",
"SN",
"GRB",
"an axisymmetric ellipsoidal co... | 2016ApJ...831...79I | 1607.02353 | 83 | 14.080951 | -0.533359 |
Detecting pulsars with interstellar scintillation in variance images | Pulsars are the only cosmic radio sources known to be sufficiently compact to show diffractive interstellar scintillations. Images of the variance of radio signals in both time and frequency can be used to detect pulsars in large-scale continuum surveys using the next generation of synthesis radio telescopes. This tech... | [
"Dai, S.",
"Johnston, S.",
"Bell, M. E.",
"Coles, W. A.",
"Hobbs, G.",
"Ekers, R. D.",
"Lenc, E."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"variance images",
"diffractive interstellar scintillations",
"synthesis radio telescopes",
"other radio sources",
"different scintillation properties",
"radio signals",
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"pulsars",
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"expensive pixel-by-pixel high time resolution searches",
"a given radio continuum survey",
... | 2016MNRAS.462.3115D | 1607.07740 | 23 | 6.457396 | 4.078109 |
High-energy gamma-rays from Cyg X-1 | We have obtained a firm detection of Cyg X-1 during its hard and intermediate spectral states in the energy range of 40 MeV-60 GeV based on observations by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, confirming the independent results at ≥60 MeV of a previous work. The detection significance is ≃8σ in the 0.1-10 GeV range. In the ... | [
"Zdziarski, Andrzej A.",
"Malyshev, Denys",
"Chernyakova, Maria",
"Pooley, Guy G."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
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"stellar blackbody photons",
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"a γ-ray soft excess",
"similar origin",
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"MeV",
"the energy range",
... | 2017MNRAS.471.3657Z | 1607.05059 | 51 | 16.096653 | 9.135248 |
Accretion of pristine gas and dilution during the formation of multiple-population globular clusters | We study the interaction of the early spherical GC wind powered by Type II supernovae (SNe II) with the surrounding ambient medium consisting of the gaseous disc of a star-forming galaxy at redshift z ≳ 2. The bubble formed by the wind eventually breaks out of the disc, and most of the wind moves directly out of the ga... | [
"D'Ercole, A.",
"D'Antona, F.",
"Vesperini, E."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"stars",
"Extreme populations",
"Type II supernovae",
"SNe II",
"SN II",
"delayed SN II",
"multiple populations",
"massive clusters",
"asymptotic giant branch",
"GC",
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"helium",
"very O-poor stars",
"the early spherical GC wind",
"SN",
"a star-forming galaxy",
"ejecta",
"... | 2016MNRAS.461.4088D | 1607.00951 | 54 | 9.233585 | 8.613374 |
Galactic cosmic-ray propagation in the light of AMS-02: Analysis of protons, helium, and antiprotons | We present novel constraints on cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy using the recent precise measurements of proton and helium spectra from AMS-02, together with preliminary AMS-02 data on the antiproton over proton ratio. To explore efficiently the large (up to 11-dimensional) parameter space we employ the nested-sam... | [
"Korsmeier, Michael",
"Cuoco, Alessandro"
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"Systematic uncertainties",
"preliminary AMS-02 data",
"systematic effects",
"AMS-02 measurements",
"data",
"uncertainties",
"the solar modulation potential",
"proton ratio",
"AMS-02",
"carbon",
"Convection",
"convection",
"VOYAGER proton and helium data",
"the solar modulation",
"the lo... | 2016PhRvD..94l3019K | 1607.06093 | 63 | 6.854311 | 0.282234 |
Scalar-tensor extension of the ΛCDM model | We construct a cosmological scalar-tensor-theory model in which the Brans-Dicke type scalar Φ enters the effective (Jordan-frame) Hubble rate as a simple modification of the Hubble rate of the ΛCDM model. This allows us to quantify differences between the background dynamics of scalar-tensor theories and general relati... | [
"Algoner, W. C.",
"Velten, H. E. S.",
"Zimdahl, W."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
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"potential deviations",
"Hubble",
"baryon acoustic oscillations",
"the ΛCDM model",
"GR",
"the standard model",
"the Hubble rate",
"an effective fluid description",
"general relativity",
"old galaxies",
"terms",
"a simple modification",
"the effectiv... | 2016JCAP...11..034A | 1607.03952 | 6 | 10.375244 | 0.529473 |
Far-reaching dust distribution in galaxy discs | In most studies of dust in galaxies, dust is only detected from its emission to approximately the optical radius of the galaxy. By combining the signal of 110 spiral galaxies observed as part of the Herschel Reference Survey, we are able to improve our sensitivity by an order of magnitude over that for a single object.... | [
"Smith, Matthew W. L.",
"Eales, Stephen A.",
"De Looze, Ilse",
"Baes, Maarten",
"Bendo, George J.",
"Bianchi, Simone",
"Boquien, Médéric",
"Boselli, Alessandro",
"Buat, Veronique",
"Ciesla, Laure",
"Clemens, Marcel",
"Clements, David L.",
"Cooray, Asantha R.",
"Cortese, Luca",
"Davies, J... | 2016-07-01 | [
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"... | 2016MNRAS.462..331S | 1607.01020 | 27 | 12.325392 | 8.056973 |
Gain and Polarization Properties of a Large Radio Telescope from Calculation and Measurement: The John A. Galt Telescope | Measurement of the brightness temperature of extended radio emission demands knowledge of the gain (or aperture efficiency) of the telescope and measurement of the polarized component of the emission requires correction for the conversion of unpolarized emission from sky and ground to apparently polarized signal. Radia... | [
"Du, X.",
"Landecker, T. L.",
"Robishaw, T.",
"Gray, A. D.",
"Douglas, K. A.",
"Wolleben, M."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"polarized emission",
"measured values",
"∼1%",
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"aperture efficiency",
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"unpolarized emission",
"spurious polarized signal",
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"extended radio e... | 2016PASP..128k5006D | 1607.06436 | 12 | 14.955645 | 4.540839 |
On the estimation of stellar parameters with uncertainty prediction from Generative Artificial Neural Networks: application to Gaia RVS simulated spectra | <BR /> Aims: We present an innovative artificial neural network (ANN) architecture, called Generative ANN (GANN), that computes the forward model, that is it learns the function that relates the unknown outputs (stellar atmospheric parameters, in this case) to the given inputs (spectra). Such a model can be integrated ... | [
"Dafonte, C.",
"Fustes, D.",
"Manteiga, M.",
"Garabato, D.",
"Álvarez, M. A.",
"Ulla, A.",
"Allende Prieto, C."
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"stellar atmospheric parameters",
"atmospheric parameters",
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"different Galactic populations",
"Generative ANN",
"log g",
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"quality assessment",
"Gaia magnitude G<SUB",
"the stellar parameters",
"t... | 2016A&A...594A..68D | 1607.05954 | 17 | 8.336719 | 9.659922 |
HIRAX: a probe of dark energy and radio transients | The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is a new 400{800MHz radio interferometer under development for deployment in South Africa. HIRAX will comprise 1024 six meter parabolic dishes on a compact grid and will map most of the southern sky over the course of four years. HIRAX has two primary sci... | [
"Newburgh, L. B.",
"Bandura, K.",
"Bucher, M. A.",
"Chang, T. -C.",
"Chiang, H. C.",
"Cliche, J. F.",
"Davé, R.",
"Dobbs, M.",
"Clarkson, C.",
"Ganga, K. M.",
"Gogo, T.",
"Gumba, A.",
"Gupta, N.",
"Hilton, M.",
"Johnstone, B.",
"Karastergiou, A.",
"Kunz, M.",
"Lokhorst, D.",
"Maa... | 2016-07-01 | [
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"current BAO measurements",
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"many wavelengths",
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"long... | 2016SPIE.9906E..5XN | 1607.02059 | 211 | 12.410657 | 3.229301 |
Precision velocimetry planet hunting with PARAS: current performance and lessons to inform future extreme precision radial velocity instruments | The PRL Advanced Radial-velocity Abu-sky Search (PARAS) instrument is a fiber-fed stabilized high-resolution cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph, located on the 1.2 m telescope in Mt. Abu India. Designed for exoplanet detection, PARAS is capable of single-shot spectral coverage of 3800 - 9600 Å, and currently achievin... | [
"Roy, Arpita",
"Chakraborty, Abhijit",
"Mahadevan, Suvrath",
"Chaturvedi, Priyanka",
"Prasad, Neelam J. S. S. V.",
"Shah, Vishal",
"Pathan, F. M.",
"Anandarao, B. G."
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"P... | 2016SPIE.9908E..6RR | 1607.06485 | 4 | 13.768001 | 10.386393 |
Quasi-periodic Pulsations during the Impulsive and Decay phases of an X-class Flare | Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are often observed in X-ray emission from solar flares. To date, it is unclear what their physical origins are. Here, we present a multi-instrument investigation of the nature of QPP during the impulsive and decay phases of the X1.0 flare of 2013 October 28. We focus on the character of... | [
"Hayes, L. A.",
"Gallagher, P. T.",
"Dennis, B. R.",
"Ireland, J.",
"Inglis, A. R.",
"Ryan, D. F."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
"X-ray emission",
"solar flares",
"thermal pulsations",
"the vertical kink mode",
"the non-thermal emission",
"the non-thermal emissions",
"the co-existing multi-wavelength QPPs",
"hard X-ray and microwave emission",
"the thermal and non-thermal emissions",
"the fast sausage mode",
"SXR pulsatio... | 2016ApJ...827L..30H | 1607.06957 | 44 | 13.588286 | 15.68149 |
Study of WIMP annihilations into a pair of on-shell scalar mediators | In this article, we focus on new scalar ϕ mediated scalar/vectorial weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with ϕ 's mass slightly below the WIMP mass. To explain the Galactic center 1-3 GeV gamma-ray excess, here we consider the case that a WIMP pair predominantly annihilates into an on-shell ϕ ϕ pair with ϕ mai... | [
"Jia, Lian-Bao"
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"t... | 2016PhRvD..94i5028J | 1607.00737 | 7 | 8.191719 | -1.677402 |
Formation mechanisms of IMBH in globular clusters | We very briefly discuss proposed in the literature possible scenarios for intermediate mass black holes formation in globular clusters. We also discuss the results of the MOCCA simulations of about 2000 models (BigSurvey) regarding the distribution of events connected with electromagnetic and gravitational radiations, ... | [
"Giersz, M.",
"Leigh, N.",
"Hypki, A.",
"Askar, A.",
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General formalism for Fourier-based wave front sensing: application to the pyramid wave front sensors | We compare a set of wave front sensors (WFS) based on Fourier filtering technique. In particular, this study explores the "class of pyramidal WFS" defined as the 4-faces pyramid WFS, all its recent variations, and also some WFSs as the 3-faces pyramid WFS. First, we describe such a sensors class due to the optical para... | [
"Fauvarque, Olivier",
"Neichel, Benoit",
"Fusco, Thierry",
"Sauvage, Jean-Francois",
"Girault, Orion"
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"incoming flux",
"wave front sensors",
"size",
"Fourier",
"influence",
"the modulation... | 2017JATIS...3a9001F | 1607.03269 | 11 | 14.311027 | 10.560057 |
Infrared High-resolution Integrated Light Spectral Analyses of M31 Globular Clusters from APOGEE | Chemical abundances are presented for 25 M31 globular clusters (GCs), based on moderately high resolution (R = 22,500) H-band integrated light (IL) spectra from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). Infrared (IR) spectra offer lines from new elements, lines of different strengths, and lin... | [
"Sakari, Charli M.",
"Shetrone, Matthew D.",
"Schiavon, Ricardo P.",
"Bizyaev, Dmitry",
"Allende Prieto, Carlos",
"Beers, Timothy C.",
"Caldwell, Nelson",
"García-Hernández, D. A.",
"Lucatello, Sara",
"Majewski, Steven",
"O'Connell, Robert W.",
"Pan, Kaike",
"Strader, Jay"
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"Chemical abundances",
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"different strengths"... | 2016ApJ...829..116S | 1607.06811 | 34 | 9.236642 | 8.67336 |
Solar Coronal Jets: Observations, Theory, and Modeling | Coronal jets represent important manifestations of ubiquitous solar transients, which may be the source of significant mass and energy input to the upper solar atmosphere and the solar wind. While the energy involved in a jet-like event is smaller than that of "nominal" solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), j... | [
"Raouafi, N. E.",
"Patsourakos, S.",
"Pariat, E.",
"Young, P. R.",
"Sterling, A. C.",
"Savcheva, A.",
"Shimojo, M.",
"Moreno-Insertis, F.",
"DeVore, C. R.",
"Archontis, V.",
"Török, T.",
"Mason, H.",
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"Meyer, K.",
"Dalmasse, K.",
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High-energy Neutrinos from Sources in Clusters of Galaxies | High-energy cosmic rays can be accelerated in clusters of galaxies, by mega-parsec scale shocks induced by the accretion of gas during the formation of large-scale structures, or by powerful sources harbored in clusters. Once accelerated, the highest energy particles leave the cluster via almost rectilinear trajectorie... | [
"Fang, Ke",
"Olinto, Angela V."
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Features from the non-attractor beginning of inflation | We study the effects of the non-attractor initial conditions for the canonical single-field inflation. The non-attractor stage can last only several e-folding numbers, and should be followed by hilltop inflation. This two-stage evolution leads to large scale suppression in the primordial power spectrum, which is favore... | [
"Cai, Yi-Fu",
"Gong, Jinn-Ouk",
"Wang, Dong-Gang",
"Wang, Ziwei"
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"the primordial power spectrum",
"the canonical s... | 2016JCAP...10..017C | 1607.07872 | 45 | 11.143055 | -0.766307 |
Location of γ-ray emission and magnetic field strengths in OJ 287 | Context. The γ-ray BL Lac object OJ 287 is known to exhibit inner-parsec "jet-wobbling", high degrees of variability at all wavelengths and quasi-stationary features, including an apparent (≈100°) position-angle change in projection on the sky plane. <BR /> Aims: Sub-50 micro-arcsecond resolution 86 GHz observations wi... | [
"Hodgson, J. A.",
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Influence of a second satellite on the rotational dynamics of an oblate moon | The gravitational influence of a second satellite on the rotation of an oblate moon is numerically examined. A simplified model, assuming the axis of rotation perpendicular to the (Keplerian) orbit plane, is derived. The differences between the two models, i.e. in the absence and presence of the second satellite, are i... | [
"Tarnopolski, Mariusz"
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MOCCA-SURVEY database I. Accreting white dwarf binary systems in globular clusters - I. Cataclysmic variables - present-day population | In this paper, which is the first in a series of papers associated with cataclysmic variables and related objects, we introduce the CATUABA code, a numerical machinery written for analysis of the MOCCA simulations, and show some first results by investigating the present-day population of cataclysmic variables in globu... | [
"Belloni, Diogo",
"Giersz, Mirek",
"Askar, Abbas",
"Leigh, Nathan",
"Hypki, Arkadiusz"
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Satellite quenching time-scales in clusters from projected phase space measurements matched to simulated orbits | We measure the star formation quenching efficiency and time-scale in cluster environments. Our method uses N-body simulations to estimate the probability distribution of possible orbits for a sample of observed Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies in and around clusters based on their position and velocity offsets from th... | [
"Oman, Kyle A.",
"Hudson, Michael J."
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Using baseline-dependent window functions for data compression and field-of-interest shaping in radio interferometry | In radio interferometry, observed visibilities are intrinsically sampled at some interval in time and frequency. Modern interferometers are capable of producing data at very high time and frequency resolution; practical limits on storage and computation costs require that some form of data compression be imposed. The t... | [
"Atemkeng, M. T.",
"Smirnov, O. M.",
"Tasse, C.",
"Foster, G.",
"Jonas, J."
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... | 2016MNRAS.462.2542A | 1607.04106 | 10 | 11.14849 | 3.786665 |
LAMOST Observations in the Kepler Field. Analysis of the Stellar Parameters Measured with LASP Based on Low-resolution Spectra | All 14 subfields of the Kepler field were observed at least once with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (lamost, Xinglong Observatory, China) during the 2012-2014 observation seasons. There are 88,628 reduced spectra with a signal-to-noise ratio in the g band (S/N<SUB> g </SUB>) ≥ 6 after th... | [
"Ren, Anbing",
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"Shi, Jianrong",
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"Dong, Subo",
"Zhang, Ruyuan",
"Zhang, Yong",
"Hou, Yonghui",
"Wang, Yuefei",
"Cao, Zihuang",
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Radial stability of anisotropic strange quark stars | The influence of the anisotropy in the equilibrium and stability of strange stars is investigated through the numerical solution of the hydrostatic equilibrium equation and the radial oscillation equation, both modified from their original version to include this effect. The strange matter inside the quark stars is des... | [
"Arbañil, José D. V.",
"Malheiro, M."
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Enhanced Star Formation of Less Massive Galaxies in a Protocluster at z = 2.5 | We investigate a correlation between star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass for Hα emission-line galaxies (HAEs) in one of the richest protoclusters ever known at z ∼ 2.5, the USS 1558-003 protocluster. This study is based on a 9.7 hr narrowband imaging data with MOIRCS on the Subaru telescope. We are able to const... | [
"Hayashi, Masao",
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"Koyama, Yusei",
"Tadaki, Ken-ichi",
"Suzuki, Tomoko L.",
"Yamamoto, Moegi"
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Polarized Scattering and Biosignatures in Exoplanetary Atmospheres | Polarized scattering in planetary atmospheres is computed in the context of exoplanets. The problem of polarized radiative transfer is solved for a general case of absorption and scattering, while Rayleigh and Mie polarized scattering are considered as most relevant examples. We show that (1) relative contributions of ... | [
"Berdyugina, S. V."
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... | 2016arXiv160706874B | 1607.06874 | 4 | 7.209954 | 14.877765 |
Precision prediction of the log power spectrum | At translinear scales, the log power spectrum captures significantly more cosmological information than the standard power spectrum. At high wavenumbers k, the Fisher information in the standard power spectrum P(k) fails to increase in proportion to k, in part due to correlations between large- and small-scale modes. A... | [
"Repp, A.",
"Szapudi, I."
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Perturbative approach to covariance matrix of the matter power spectrum | We evaluate the covariance matrix of the matter power spectrum using perturbation theory up to dominant terms at 1-loop order and compare it to numerical simulations. We decompose the covariance matrix into the disconnected (Gaussian) part, trispectrum from the modes outside the survey (supersample variance) and trispe... | [
"Mohammed, Irshad",
"Seljak, Uroš",
"Vlah, Zvonimir"
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"... | 2017MNRAS.466..780M | 1607.00043 | 56 | 11.997189 | 2.752573 |
Orphan γ-ray flares from relativistic blobs encountering luminous stars | We propose that γ-rays in blazars can be produced during encounters of relativistic blobs of plasma with radiation field produced by luminous stars within (or close to) the jet. The blob is expected to contain relativistic electrons which Comptonize stellar radiation to the GeV-TeV energies. Produced γ-rays can initiat... | [
"Banasiński, P.",
"Bednarek, W.",
"Sitarek, J."
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"luminous stars",
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"relativistic blobs",
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"the extreme orphan γ-ray flare",
"the stellar radiation",
"the GeV-TeV energies",
"the flat-spectrum radio",
"the relativistic blob/lumin... | 2016MNRAS.463L..26B | 1607.07725 | 14 | 16.782362 | 5.103937 |
Dynamics of stellar spin driven by planets undergoing Lidov-Kozai migration: paths to spin-orbit misalignment | Many exoplanetary systems containing hot Jupiters (HJs) exhibit significant misalignment between the spin axes of the host stars and the orbital angular momentum axes of the planets ('spin-orbit misalignment'). High-eccentricity migration involving Lidov-Kozai oscillations of the planet's orbit induced by a distant per... | [
"Storch, Natalia I.",
"Lai, Dong",
"Anderson, Kassandra R."
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"stellar rotation period",
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"stellar binaries",
"the stellar spin evolution",
"the stellar spin axis",
"Secular spin-orbit resonances",
"spin-orbit angles",
"the stellar spin precession freque... | 2017MNRAS.465.3927S | 1607.03937 | 25 | 8.184191 | 14.199554 |
JUDE: An Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope pipeline | The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) was launched as part of the multi-wavelength Indian AstroSat mission on 28 September, 2015 into a low Earth orbit. A 6-month performance verification (PV) phase ended in March 2016, and the instrument is now in the general observing phase. UVIT operates in three channels: visibl... | [
"Murthy, J.",
"Rahna, P. T.",
"Sutaria, F.",
"Safonova, M.",
"Gudennavar, S. B.",
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Numerical simulation of vertical oscillations in an axisymmetric thick accretion flow around a black hole | We study time evolution of rotating, axisymmetric, two-dimensional inviscid accretion flows around black holes using a grid-based finite difference method. We do not use reflection symmetry on the equatorial plane in order to inspect if the disc along with the centrifugal barrier oscillated vertically. In the inviscid ... | [
"Deb, Arnab",
"Giri, Kinsuk",
"Chakrabarti, Sandip K."
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"t... | 2016MNRAS.462.3502D | 1607.06453 | 5 | 7.818083 | 5.458817 |
Taking stock of superluminous supernovae and long gamma-ray burst host galaxy comparison using a complete sample of LGRBs | Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) and superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are both explosive transients with very massive progenitor stars. Clues about the nature of the progenitors can be found by investigating environments in which such transients occur. While studies of LGRB host galaxies have a long history, dedicated obs... | [
"Japelj, J.",
"Vergani, S. D.",
"Salvaterra, R.",
"Hunt, L. K.",
"Mannucci, F."
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"specific star formation rate",
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"stellar mas... | 2016A&A...593A.115J | 1607.01045 | 25 | 2.7552 | 4.588006 |
A Second-order Divergence-constrained Multidimensional Numerical Scheme for Relativistic Two-fluid Electrodynamics | A new multidimensional simulation code for relativistic two-fluid electrodynamics (RTFED) is described. The basic equations consist of the full set of Maxwell’s equations coupled with relativistic hydrodynamic equations for separate two charged fluids, representing the dynamics of either an electron-positron or an elec... | [
"Amano, Takanobu"
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"Maxwel... | 2016ApJ...831..100A | 1607.08487 | 9 | 8.792454 | 4.513117 |
H0LiCOW - V. New COSMOGRAIL time delays of HE 0435-1223: H<SUB>0</SUB> to 3.8 per cent precision from strong lensing in a flat ΛCDM model | We present a new measurement of the Hubble Constant H<SUB>0</SUB> and other cosmological parameters based on the joint analysis of three multiply imaged quasar systems with measured gravitational time delays. First, we measure the time delay of HE 0435-1223 from 13-yr light curves obtained as part of the COSMOGRAIL pro... | [
"Bonvin, V.",
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Star-forming Activity in the H II Regions Associated with the IRAS 17160-3707 Complex | We present a multiwavelength investigation of star formation activity toward the southern H II regions associated with IRAS 17160-3707, located at a distance of 6.2 kpc with a bolometric luminosity of 8.3 × 10<SUP>5</SUP> L <SUB>⊙</SUB>. The ionized gas distribution and dust clumps in the parental molecular cloud are e... | [
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Merger Hydrodynamics of the Luminous Cluster RX J1347.5-1145 | We present an analysis of the complex gas hydrodynamics in the X-ray-luminous galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145 caught in the act of merging with a subcluster to its southeast using a combined 186 ks Chandra exposure, 2.5 times greater than previous analyses. The primary cluster hosts a sloshing cold front spiral traced b... | [
"Kreisch, C. D.",
"Machacek, M. E.",
"Jones, C.",
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The stability of tidal equilibrium for hierarchical star-planet-moon systems | Motivated by the current search for exomoons, this paper considers the stability of tidal equilibrium for hierarchical three-body systems containing a star, a planet, and a moon. In this treatment, the energy and angular momentum budgets include contributions from the planetary orbit, lunar orbit, stellar spin, planeta... | [
"Adams, Fred C.",
"Bloch, Anthony M."
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"angular momentum budgets",
"constant angular momentum",
"no stable tidal equilibrium states",
"the lunar orbit",
"the planetary orbit",
"a tidal equilibrium state",
"saddle points",
... | 2016MNRAS.462.2527A | 1607.08170 | 10 | 8.021957 | 14.763345 |
Self-consistent Modeling of Reionization in Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations | The ultraviolet background (UVB) emitted by quasars and galaxies governs the ionization and thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM), regulates the formation of high-redshift galaxies, and is thus a key quantity for modeling cosmic reionization. The vast majority of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations implem... | [
"Oñorbe, Jose",
"Hennawi, Joseph F.",
"Lukić, Zarija"
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"photoheating rates",
"photoionization feedback",
"UVB synthesis models",
"high-... | 2017ApJ...837..106O | 1607.04218 | 102 | 13.421252 | 5.607582 |
A spectroscopic analysis of a sample of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | We revisited the spectroscopic characteristics of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) by analysing a homogeneous sample of 296 NLS1s at redshift between 0.028 and 0.345, extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7) public archive. We confirm that NLS1s are mostly characterized by Balmer lines with Lorentzi... | [
"Cracco, V.",
"Ciroi, S.",
"Berton, M.",
"Di Mille, F.",
"Foschini, L.",
"La Mura, G.",
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... | 2016MNRAS.462.1256C | 1607.03438 | 73 | 15.522787 | 7.587042 |
Lighting the Dark Molecular Gas: H<SUB>2</SUB> as a Direct Tracer | Robust knowledge of molecular gas mass is critical for understanding star formation in galaxies. The {{{H}}}<SUB>2</SUB> molecule does not emit efficiently in the cold interstellar medium, hence the molecular gas content of galaxies is typically inferred using indirect tracers. At low metallicity and in other extreme e... | [
"Togi, Aditya",
"Smith, J. D. T."
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"o... | 2016ApJ...830...18T | 1607.08036 | 35 | 12.399895 | 8.986918 |
Particle dynamics in discs with turbulence generated by the vertical shear instability | Context. Among the candidates for generating turbulence in accretion discs in situations with low intrinsic ionization, the vertical shear instability (VSI) has become an interesting candidate, since it relies purely on a vertical gradient in the angular velocity. Existing numerical simulations have shown that α-values... | [
"Stoll, Moritz H. R.",
"Kley, Wilhelm"
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"young stars",
"accretion discs",
"full 3D protoplanetary discs",
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"dimensionless s... | 2016A&A...594A..57S | 1607.02322 | 76 | 10.234127 | 13.661409 |
Close-in planetesimal formation by pile-up of drifting pebbles | Context. The consistency of planet formation models suffers from the disconnection between the regime of small and large bodies. This is primarily caused by so-called growth barriers: the direct growth of larger bodies is halted at centimetre-sized objects and particular conditions are required for the formation of lar... | [
"Drążkowska, J.",
"Alibert, Y.",
"Moore, B."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
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"dust growth",
"protoplanetary discs",
"planet formation models",
"dust evolution",
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"planetesimals",
"viscous protoplanetary disc evolution",
"particular conditions",
"local conditions",
"semi-analy... | 2016A&A...594A.105D | 1607.05734 | 177 | 9.384138 | 14.048794 |
Magnetic field amplification during the common envelope phase | During the common envelope (CE) phase, a giant star in a binary system overflows its Roche lobe and unstable mass transfer leads to a spiral-in of the companion, resulting in a close binary system or in a merger of the stellar cores. Dynamo processes during the CE phase have been proposed as a mechanism to generate mag... | [
"Ohlmann, Sebastian T.",
"Röpke, Friedrich K.",
"Pakmor, Rüdiger",
"Springel, Volker",
"Müller, Ewald"
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Constraints on SME Coefficients from Lunar Laser Ranging, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, and Asteroid Orbital Dynamics | Lorentz symmetry violations can be parametrized by an effective field theory framework that contains both General Relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics, called the Standard-Model Extension or SME. We consider in this work only the pure gravitational sector of the minimal SME. We present new constraints ... | [
"Le Poncin-Lafitte, C.",
"Bourgoin, A.",
"Hees, A.",
"Bouquillon, S.",
"Lambert, S.",
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"Bailey, Q. G.",
"Hestroffer, D.",
"David, P.",
"Meynadier, F.",
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NIBLES: an H I census of stellar mass selected SDSS galaxies. I. The Nançay H I survey | To investigate galaxy properties as a function of their total stellar mass, we obtained 21 cm H I line observations at the 100-m class Nançay Radio Telescope of 2839 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in the Local Volume (900 < cz < 12 000 km s<SUP>-1</SUP>), dubbed the Nançay Interstellar Baryons ... | [
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High-velocity extended molecular outflow in the star-formation dominated luminous infrared galaxy ESO 320-G030 | We analyze new high spatial resolution (~60 pc) ALMA CO(2-1) observations of the isolated luminous infrared galaxy ESO 320-G030 (d = 48 Mpc) in combination with ancillary Hubble Space Telescope optical and near infrared (IR) imaging, as well as VLT/SINFONI near-IR integral field spectroscopy. We detect a high-velocity ... | [
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"Piqueras López, J.",
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"Storchi Bergmann, T.",
"Usero, A.",
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Discovery of a high state AM CVn binary in the Galactic Bulge Survey | We report on the discovery of a hydrogen-deficient compact binary (CXOGBS J175107.6-294037) belonging to the AM CVn class in the Galactic Bulge Survey. Deep archival X-ray observations constrain the X-ray positional uncertainty of the source to 0.57 arcsec, and allow us to uniquely identify the optical and UV counterpa... | [
"Wevers, T.",
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"Steeghs, D.",
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"Udalski, A.",
"Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z.",
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"Szymański, M. K.",
"Britt, C. T.",
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Outbursts in Two New Cool Pulsating DA White Dwarfs | The unprecedented extent of coverage provided by Kepler observations recently revealed outbursts in two hydrogen-atmosphere pulsating white dwarfs (DAVs) that cause hours-long increases in the overall mean flux of up to 14%. We have identified two new outbursting pulsating white dwarfs in K2, bringing the total number ... | [
"Bell, Keaton J.",
"Hermes, J. J.",
"Montgomery, M. H.",
"Gentile Fusillo, N. P.",
"Raddi, R.",
"Gänsicke, B. T.",
"Winget, D. E.",
"Dennihy, E.",
"Gianninas, A.",
"Tremblay, P. -E.",
"Chote, P.",
"Winget, K. I."
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Constraining the baryon-dark matter relative velocity with the large-scale three-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies | We search for a galaxy clustering bias due to a modulation of galaxy number with the baryon-dark matter relative velocity resulting from recombination-era physics. We find no detected signal and place the constraint b<SUB>v</SUB> < 0.01 on the relative velocity bias for the CMASS galaxies. This bias is an important ... | [
"Slepian, Zachary",
"Eisenstein, Daniel J.",
"Blazek, Jonathan A.",
"Brownstein, Joel R.",
"Chuang, Chia-Hsun",
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"Ho, Shirley",
"Kitaura, Francisco-Shu",
"McEwen, Joseph E.",
"Percival, Will J.",
"Ross, Ashley J.",
"Rossi, Graziano",
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Empirically Constrained Predictions for Metal-line Emission from the Circumgalactic Medium | The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is one of the remaining least constrained components of galaxies and as such has significant potential for advancing galaxy formation theories. In this work, we vary the extragalactic ultraviolet background for a high-resolution cosmological simulation of a Milky-Way-like galaxy and exam... | [
"Corlies, Lauren",
"Schiminovich, David"
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Quasi-periodicities in the anomalous emission events in pulsars B1859+07 and B0919+06 | A quasi-periodicity has been identified in the strange emission shifts in pulsar B1859+07 and possibly B0919+06. These events, first investigated by Rankin, Rodriguez & Wright in 2006, originally appeared disordered or random, but further mapping as well as Fourier analysis has revealed that they occur on a fairly ... | [
"Wahl, Haley M.",
"Orfeo, Daniel J.",
"Rankin, Joanna M.",
"Weisberg, Joel M."
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A Brown Dwarf Census from the SIMP Survey | We have conducted a near-infrared (NIR) proper motion survey, the Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre, in order to discover field ultracool dwarfs (UCD) in the solar neighborhood. The survey was conducted by imaging ∼28% of the sky with the Caméra PAnoramique Proche-InfraRouge both in the southern hemisphere at the ... | [
"Robert, Jasmin",
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"Doyon, René",
"Malo, Lison",
"Albert, Loïc",
"Simard, Corinne",
"Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella C.",
"Burgasser, Adam J."
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... | 2016ApJ...830..144R | 1607.06117 | 37 | 7.017281 | 12.392218 |
Multiwavelength study of the low-luminosity outbursting young star HBC 722 | Context. HBC 722 (V2493 Cyg) is a young eruptive star in outburst since 2010. Spectroscopic evidence suggests that the source is an FU Orionis-type object, with an atypically low outburst luminosity. <BR /> Aims: Because it was well characterized in the pre-outburst phase, HBC 722 is one of the few FUors from which we ... | [
"Kóspál, Á.",
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"Acosta-Pulido, J. A.",
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"Farkas, A.",
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"a constant plateau... | 2016A&A...596A..52K | 1607.05925 | 35 | 9.492707 | 11.706551 |
The effects of magnetic-field geometry on longitudinal oscillations of solar prominences: Cross-sectional area variation for thin tubes | Context. Solar prominences are subject to both field-aligned (longitudinal) and transverse oscillatory motions, as evidenced by an increasing number of observations. Large-amplitude longitudinal motions provide valuable information on the geometry of the filament-channel magnetic structure that supports the cool promin... | [
"Luna, M.",
"Díaz, A. J.",
"Oliver, R.",
"Terradas, J.",
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"the dipped field lines",
"the magnetic field strength",
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"the field lines",... | 2016A&A...593A..64L | 1607.02996 | 9 | 12.57048 | 15.813916 |
The supermassive black hole and double nucleus of the core elliptical NGC 5419 | We obtained adaptive-optics assisted SINFONI observations of the central regions of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5419 with a spatial resolution of 0.2 arcsec (≈55 pc). NGC 5419 has a large depleted stellar core with a radius of 1.58 arcsec (430 pc). HST and SINFONI images show a point source located at the galaxy's ... | [
"Mazzalay, Ximena",
"Thomas, Jens",
"Saglia, Roberto P.",
"Wegner, Gary A.",
"Bender, Ralf",
"Erwin, Peter",
"Fabricius, Maximilian H.",
"Rusli, Stephanie P."
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Testing the black hole ‘no-hair’ hypothesis | Black holes (BHs) in general relativity (GR) are very simple objects. This property, that goes under the name of ‘no-hair’, has been refined in the last few decades and admits several versions. The simplicity of BHs makes them ideal testbeds of fundamental physics and of GR itself. Here we discuss the no-hair property ... | [
"Cardoso, Vitor",
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Multi-wavelength Study of Transition Region Penumbral Subarcsecond Bright Dots Using IRIS and NST | Using high-resolution transition region (TR) observations taken by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission, Tian et al. revealed numerous short-lived subarcsecond bright dots (BDs) above sunspots (mostly located in the penumbrae), which indicate yet unexplained small-scale energy releases. Moreover, wh... | [
"Deng, Na",
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"Tian, Hui",
"Kleint, Lucia",
"Liu, Chang",
"Xu, Yan",
"Wang, Haimin"
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"coronal heigh... | 2016ApJ...829..103D | 1607.00306 | 15 | 12.366167 | 15.753475 |
VLA and ALMA Imaging of Intense Galaxy-wide Star Formation in z ∼ 2 Galaxies | We present ≃0.″4 resolution extinction-independent distributions of star formation and dust in 11 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at z = 1.3-3.0. These galaxies are selected from sensitive blank-field surveys of the 2‧ × 2‧ Hubble Ultra-Deep Field at λ = 5 cm and 1.3 mm using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Atacam... | [
"Rujopakarn, W.",
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"Rieke, G. H.",
"Ivison, R. J.",
"Cibinel, A.",
"Nyland, K.",
"Jagannathan, P.",
"Silverman, J. D.",
"Alexander, D. M.",
"Biggs, A. D.",
"Bhatnagar, S.",
"Ballantyne, D. R.",
"Dickinson, M.",
"Elbaz, D.",
"Geach, J. E.",
"Hayward, C. C.",
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On dynamical systems approaches and methods in f(R) cosmology | We discuss dynamical systems approaches and methods applied to flat Robertson-Walker models in f(R)-gravity. We argue that a complete description of the solution space of a model requires a global state space analysis that motivates globally covering state space adapted variables. This is shown explicitly by an illustr... | [
"Alho, Artur",
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"mono... | 2016JCAP...08..064A | 1607.05715 | 48 | 10.287642 | 1.052683 |
Ensemble X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei. II. Excess variance and updated structure function | Context. Most investigations of the X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been concentrated on the detailed analyses of individual, nearby sources. A relatively small number of studies have treated the ensemble behaviour of the more general AGN population in wider regions of the luminosity-redshift pla... | [
"Vagnetti, F.",
"Middei, R.",
"Antonucci, M.",
"Paolillo, M.",
"Serafinelli, R."
] | 2016-07-01 | [
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"X-ray luminosities",
"different X-ray bands",
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"SF studies",
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"nearby sources",
"appropriate corrections",
"the X-ray luminosity",
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"the ensemble variabi... | 2016A&A...593A..55V | 1607.02629 | 52 | 16.173054 | 7.052226 |
An `analytic dynamical magnetosphere' formalism for X-ray and optical emission from slowly rotating magnetic massive stars | Slowly rotating magnetic massive stars develop `dynamical magnetospheres' (DMs), characterized by trapping of stellar wind outflow in closed magnetic loops, shock heating from collision of the upflow from opposite loop footpoints, and subsequent gravitational infall of radiatively cooled material. In 2D and 3D magnetoh... | [
"Owocki, Stanley P.",
"ud-Doula, Asif",
"Sundqvist, Jon O.",
"Petit, Veronique",
"Cohen, David H.",
"Townsend, Richard H. D."
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... | 2016MNRAS.462.3830O | 1607.08568 | 60 | 8.867357 | 11.75889 |
Dynamical formation of black hole low-mass X-ray binaries in the field: an alternative to the common envelope | Very wide binaries (>500 au) are subject to numerous encounters with fly-by stars in the Galactic field and can be perturbed into highly eccentric orbits (e ∼ 0.99). For such systems, the tidal interactions at close pericentre passages can lead to orbit circularization and, possibly, to mass transfer, consequently p... | [
"Klencki, Jakub",
"Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz",
"Gładysz, Wojciech",
"Belczynski, Krzysztof"
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"close pericentre passages... | 2017MNRAS.469.3088K | 1607.05186 | 12 | 6.648624 | 6.220695 |
Time-series Doppler imaging of the red giant HD 208472. Active longitudes and differential rotation | Context. HD 208472 is among the most active RS CVn binaries with cool starspots. Decade-long photometry has shown that the spots seem to change their longitudinal appearance with a period of about six years, coherent with brightness variations. <BR /> Aims: Our aim is to spatially resolve the stellar surface of <ASTROB... | [
"Özdarcan, O.",
"Carroll, T. A.",
"Künstler, A.",
"Strassmeier, K. G.",
"Evren, S.",
"Weber, M.",
"Granzer, T."
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"new spot-corrected orbital elements",
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The power and production efficiency of blazar jets | We use published data on the power and production efficiency of jets in blazars with double radio lobes in order to compare results obtained using different methods. In order to eliminate selection effects, we use cross-matched sub-samples containing only luminous blazars. We compare the three main existing methods, na... | [
"Pjanka, Patryk",
"Zdziarski, Andrzej A.",
"Sikora, Marek"
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"core-shift modelling",
"∼15 pairs",
"jets",
"only luminous blazars",... | 2017MNRAS.465.3506P | 1607.08895 | 39 | 16.337254 | 5.22619 |
A Hypothesis for the Color Bimodality of Jupiter Trojans | One of the most enigmatic and hitherto unexplained properties of Jupiter Trojans is their bimodal color distribution. This bimodality is indicative of two sub-populations within the Trojans, which have distinct size distributions. In this paper, we present a simple, plausible hypothesis for the origin and evolution of ... | [
"Wong, Ian",
"Brown, Michael E."
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"this primordial population",
"observational constraints",
"both minor body populations",
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"this primordial color bimodal... | 2016AJ....152...90W | 1607.04133 | 60 | 8.012424 | 16.31444 |
The complex star cluster system of NGC 1316 (Fornax A) | This paper presents Gemini-gri' high-quality photometry for cluster candidates in the field of NGC 1316 (Fornax A) as part of a study that also includes GMOS spectroscopy. A preliminary discussion of the photometric data indicates the presence of four stellar cluster populations with distinctive features in terms of ag... | [
"Sesto, Leandro A.",
"Faifer, Favio R.",
"Forte, Juan C."
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"an intermediate... | 2016MNRAS.461.4260S | 1607.04305 | 26 | 10.095769 | 8.025351 |
3D WKB solution for fast magnetoacoustic wave behaviour around an X-line | Context. We study the propagation of a fast magnetoacoustic wave in a 3D magnetic field created from two magnetic dipoles. The magnetic topology contains an X-line. <BR /> Aims: We aim to contribute to the overall understanding of MHD wave propagation within inhomogeneous media, specifically around X-lines. <BR /> Meth... | [
"McLaughlin, J. A.",
"Botha, G. J. J.",
"Régnier, S.",
"Spoors, D. L."
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"fast wave energy deposition",
"MHD wave propagation",
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"-",
"other magnetic configurations",
"specific locations",
"inhomogeneous media",
"the fast wave energy",
"the wave experience refraction",
"a fast magnetoacoustic wave",
"the fast magnetoacoustic wave... | 2016A&A...591A.103M | 1607.02379 | 1 | 12.513522 | 14.55368 |
Structure of stable binary neutron star merger remnants: A case study | In this work, we study the merger of two neutron stars with a gravitational mass of 1.4 M<SUB>⊙</SUB> each, employing the Shen-Horowitz-Teige equation of state. This equation of state is a corner case, allowing the formation of a stable neutron star with the given total baryonic mass of 3.03 M<SUB>⊙</SUB>. We investiga... | [
"Kastaun, W.",
"Ciolfi, R.",
"Giacomazzo, B."
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"numeric simulations",
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Shining Light on Quantum Gravity with Pulsar-Black hole Binaries | Pulsars are some of the most accurate clocks found in nature, while black holes offer a unique arena for the study of quantum gravity. As such, pulsar-black hole (PSR-BH) binaries provide ideal astrophysical systems for detecting the effects of quantum gravity. With the success of aLIGO and the advent of instruments li... | [
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... | 2017ApJ...837...87E | 1607.00018 | 10 | 7.047484 | 3.397921 |
Constraining dust extinction properties via the VVV survey | Near-infrared color-excess and extinction ratios are essential for establishing the cosmic distance scale and probing the Galaxy, particularly when analyzing targets attenuated by significant dust. A robust determination of those ratios followed from leveraging new infrared observations from the VVV survey, wherein num... | [
"Majaess, D.",
"Turner, D.",
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Directional detection of Dark Matter with the MIcro-tpc MAtrix of Chambers | Particles weakly interacting with ordinary matter, with an associated mass of the order of an atomic nucleus (WIMPs), are plausible candidates for Dark Matter. The direct detection of an elastic collision of a target nuclei induced by one of these WIMPs has to be discriminated from the signal produced by the neutrons, ... | [
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Effect of a magnetic field on massive-star winds - I. Mass-loss and velocity for a dipole field | We generalize the Rigid-Field Hydrodynamic equations to accommodate arbitrary magnetic field topologies, resulting in a new Arbitrary Rigid-Field Hydrodynamic (ARFHD) formalism. We undertake a critical point calculation of the steady-state ARFHD equations with a CAK-type radiative acceleration and determine the effects... | [
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Readout of two-kilopixel transition-edge sensor arrays for Advanced ACTPol | Advanced ACTPol is an instrument upgrade for the six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization with arcminute-scale angular resolution. To achieve its science goals, Advanced ACTPol utilizes a larger readout multiplexing factor than an... | [
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Hamburger Sternwarte plate archives: Historic long-term variability study of active galaxies based on digitized photographic plates | At the Hamburger Sternwarte, an effort was started in 2010 with the aim of digitizing its more than 45,000 photographic plates and films stored in its plate archives. At the time of writing, more than 31,000 plates have already been made available on the Internet for researchers, historians, and the interested public. ... | [
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Properties of strongly magnetized ultradense matter and their imprints on magnetar pulsations | We investigate the effect of strong magnetic fields on the adiabatic radial oscillations of hadronic stars. We describe magnetized hadronic matter within the framework of the relativistic nonlinear Walecka model and integrate the equations of relativistic radial oscillations to determine the fundamental pulsation mode.... | [
"Vásquez Flores, C.",
"Castro, L. B.",
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"the relativistic nonlinear Walecka model"... | 2016arXiv160704707V | 1607.04707 | 0 | 5.194882 | 3.148411 |
Gravitational Waves from Oscillons after Inflation | We investigate the production of gravitational waves during preheating after inflation in the common case of field potentials that are asymmetric around the minimum. In particular, we study the impact of oscillons, comparatively long lived and spatially localized regions where a scalar field (e.g., the inflaton) oscill... | [
"Antusch, Stefan",
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"a symmetric potential"... | 2017PhRvL.118a1303A | 1607.01314 | 102 | 10.459671 | -1.075669 |
Properties of the outer regions of spiral disks: abundances, colors and ages | We summarize the results obtained from our suite of chemical evolution models for spiral disks, computed for different total masses and star formation efficiencies. Once the gas, stars and star formation radial distributions are reproduced, we analyze the Oxygen abundances radial profiles for gas and stars, in addition... | [
"Mollá, Mercedes",
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"Gibson, Brad K.",
"Cavichia, Oscar",
"López-Sánchez, Ángel-R."
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The stellar mass-halo mass relation of isolated field dwarfs: a critical test of ΛCDM at the edge of galaxy formation | We fit the rotation curves of isolated dwarf galaxies to directly measure the stellar mass-halo mass relation (M<SUB>⋆</SUB>-M<SUB>200</SUB>) over the mass range 5 × 10<SUP>5</SUP> ≲ M<SUB>⋆</SUB>/M<SUB>⊙</SUB> ≲ 10<SUP>8</SUP>. By accounting for cusp-core transformations due to stellar feedback, we find a monotonic re... | [
"Read, J. I.",
"Iorio, G.",
"Agertz, O.",
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Chiral gravitational waves from chiral fermions | We report on a new mechanism that leads to the generation of primordial chiral gravitational waves, and hence, the violation of the parity symmetry in the Universe. We show that nonperturbative production of fermions with a definite helicity is accompanied by the generation of chiral gravitational waves. This is a gene... | [
"Anber, Mohamed M.",
"Sabancilar, Eray"
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A M ≳ 3 shock in `El Gordo' cluster and the origin of the radio relic | We present an X-ray and radio study of the famous `El Gordo', a massive and distant (z = 0.87) galaxy cluster. In the deep (340 ks) Chandra observation, the cluster appears with an elongated and cometary morphology, a sign of its current merging state. The GMRT radio observations at 610 MHz confirm the presence of a ra... | [
"Botteon, A.",
"Gastaldello, F.",
"Brunetti, G.",
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Linear stability analysis of magnetized jets: the rotating case | We perform a linear stability analysis of magnetized rotating cylindrical jet flows in the approximation of zero thermal pressure. We focus our analysis on the effect of rotation on the current driven mode and on the unstable modes introduced by rotation. We find that rotation has a stabilizing effect on the current dr... | [
"Bodo, G.",
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Ammonia excitation imaging of shocked gas towards the W28 gamma-ray source HESS J1801-233 | We present 12 mm Mopra observations of the dense (>10<SUP>3</SUP> cm<SUP>-3</SUP>) molecular gas towards the north-east of the W28 supernova remnant (SNR). This cloud is spatially well matched to the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1801-233 and is known to be an SNR-molecular cloud interaction region. Shock-disruption is... | [
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"Walsh, Andrew",
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Hidden Photon Compton and Bremsstrahlung in White Dwarf Anomalous Cooling and Luminosity Functions | We computed the contribution of the Compton and Bremsstrahlung processes with a hidden light $U(1)_D$ neutral boson $\gamma_D$ to the white dwarf G117-B15A anomalous cooling rate, as well as the white dwarf luminosity functions (WDLF). We demonstrated that for a light mass of hidden photon ($m_{\gamma_D} \ll$ a few keV... | [
"Chang, Chia-Feng"
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Simultaneous water vapor and dry air optical path length measurements and compensation with the large binocular telescope interferometer | The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer uses a near-infrared camera to measure the optical path length variations between the two AO-corrected apertures and provide high-angular resolution observations for all its science channels (1.5-13 microns). There is however a wavelength dependent component to the atmospher... | [
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"Spalding, E.",
"Stone, J.",
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Optical characterization of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole | BICEP3 is a small-aperture refracting cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescope designed to make sensitive polarization maps in pursuit of a potential B-mode signal from inflationary gravitational waves. It is the latest in the Bicep/Keck Array series of CMB experiments located at the South Pole, which has provided t... | [
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