Publications (40)
Study of at BESIII
The BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +363
The decay has been studied, using events accumulated at BESIII. No significant enhancement near the invariant-m…
The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey IX. The fourth XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue
N. A. Webb, M. Coriat, I. Traulsen +28
Sky surveys produce enormous quantities of data on extensive regions of the sky. The easiest way to access this information is through catalogues of standardised data products. {\e…
The kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations during the Z and atoll phases of the unique transient XTE J1701--462
A. Sanna, M. Mendez, D. Altamirano +6
We analysed 866 observations of the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary XTE J1701-462 during its 2006-2007 outburst. XTE J1701-462 is the only example so far of a source that during…
The Energy Dependence of the Aperiodic Variability for Cygnus X-1, GX 339-4, GRS 1758-258, & 1E 1740.7-2942
D. Lin, I. A. Smith, M. Bottcher +1
Using the data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we report the different energy dependence of the variability of the four persistent hard X-ray sources in the low-hard s…
LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing
M. Feroci, J. W. den Herder, E. Bozzo +245
The LOFT mission concept is one of four candidates selected by ESA for the M3 launch opportunity as Medium Size missions of the Cosmic Vision programme. The launch window is curren…
A Census of Exoplanets in Orbits Beyond 0.5 AU via Space-based Microlensing
David P. Bennett, J. Anderson, J. -P. Beaulieu +16
A space-based gravitational microlensing exoplanet survey will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses greater than 0.1 Earth-masses and orbital separations ranging…
Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) Flight Baseline Concept
Marie Levine, D. Lisman, S. Shaklan +52
The Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) mission presented here is an existence proof for a flagship-class internal coronagraph space mission capable of detecting and char…
Complex Phase Lag Behaviors of the 0.5 - 10 Hz QPOs in GRS 1915+105
D. Lin, I. A. Smith, E. P. Liang +1
Through studying the hard lags between the soft (3.3 - 5.8 keV) and hard (13.0 - 41.0 keV) photons of the 0.5 - 10 Hz QPOs in GRS 1915+105, we have classified them into three types…
Potential Vorticity Evolution of a Protoplanetary Disk with An Embedded Protoplanet
H. Li, S. Li, J. Koller +5
We present two-dimensional inviscid hydrodynamic simulations of a protoplanetary disk with an embedded planet, emphasizing the evolution of potential vorticity (the ratio of vortic…
Completing the Census of Exoplanets with the Microlensing Planet Finder (MPF)
David P. Bennett, J. Anderson, J. -P. Beaulieu +17
The MPF mission will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses greater than 0.1 Earth-masses and orbital separations ranging from 0.5AU to infinity. This includes anal…
Partial wave analysis of
M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, O. Albayrak +360
Using a sample of events collected with the BESIII detector at BEPCII, the decay is studied. A partial wave analysis determin…
Different accretion heating of the neutron star crust during multiple outbursts in MAXI J0556-332
A. S. Parikh, J. Homan, R. Wijnands +11
The transient neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary MAXI J0556332 provides a rare opportunity to study NS crust heating and subsequent cooling for multiple outbursts of the sa…
A Thermal-Nonthermal Inverse Compton Model for Cyg X-1
A. Crider, E. P. Liang, I. A. Smith +2
Using Monte Carlo methods to simulate the inverse Compton scattering of soft photons, we model the spectrum of the Galactic black hole candidate Cyg X-1, which shows evidence of a…
The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey. VII. The third XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue
S. R. Rosen, N. A. Webb, M. G. Watson +37
Thanks to the large collecting area (3 x ~1500 cm at 1.5 keV) and wide field of view (30' across in full field mode) of the X-ray cameras on board the European Space Agency X-r…
The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing
M. Feroci, J. W. den Herder, E. Bozzo +341
The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) was studied within ESA M3 Cosmic Vision framework and participated in the final down-selection for a launch slot in 2022-2024. Thanks…
Observation of a charged charmoniumlike structure in e+e- to pi+pi-J/psi at \sqrt{s}=4.26 GeV
BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +367
We study the process e+e- to pi+pi-J/psi at a center-of-mass energy of 4.260 GeV using a 525 pb^{-1} data sample collected with the BESIII detector operating at the Beijing Electro…
Multiwavelength Observations of GX 339-4 in 1996. I. Daily Light Curves and X-ray and Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy
I. A. Smith, E. P. Liang, D. Lin +6
As part of our multiwavelength campaign of GX 339-4 observations in 1996 we present our radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations made in July, when the source was in a hard state (…
Study of the near-threshold mass enhancement in doubly OZI suppressed decays
M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, O. Albayrak +348
A 2.25 $\jpsi$ event sample accumulated with the BESIII detector is used to study the doubly OZI suppressed decay modes $\jpsi\toγ\of$, $Ï\to\ppp$, $Ï\to\kk$. A stro…
Partial wave analysis of
M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, O. Albayrak +358
Based on a sample of events collected with the BESIII detector at BEPCII, a full partial wave analysis on was performed using the relativ…
Search for Baryonic Decays of Ï(3770) and Ï(4040)
BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +361
By analyzing data samples of 2.9 fb^{-1} collected at \sqrt s=3.773 GeV, 482 pb^{-1} collected at \sqrt s=4.009 GeV and 67 pb^{-1} collected at \sqrt s=3.542, 3.554, 3.561, 3.600 a…
How Jupiter's Unusual Magnetospheric Topology Structures Its Aurora
Binzheng Zhang, Peter A. Delamere, Zhonghua Yao +10
Jupiter's bright persistent polar aurora and Earth's dark polar region indicate that the planets' magnetospheric topologies are very different. High-resolution global simulations s…
Emission and Cooling Processes in a Hybrid Thermal-Nonthermal Plasma
D. Lin, E. P. Liang
In a hybrid thermal-nonthermal plasma, we find that the dominant emission and absorption mechanisms are synchrotron by nonthermal electrons and bremsstrahlung by thermal electrons.…
An Extrasolar Planet Census with a Space-based Microlensing Survey
D. P. Bennett, J. Anderson, J. -P. Beaulieu +14
A space-based gravitational microlensing exoplanet survey will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses down to 0.1 Earth-masses and orbital separations ranging from…
Measurement of and
BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +361
Based on a sample of 225.3 million J/Ïevents accumulated with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII, the decays of η' to pi+pi-l+l- are studied via J/Ïto γη'. A clear η' signal i…
Experimental access to Transition Distribution Amplitudes with the PANDA experiment at FAIR
PANDA Collaboration, B. P. Singh, W. Erni +532
Baryon-to-meson Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDAs) encoding valuable new information on hadron structure appear as building blocks in the collinear factorized description fo…
Observation of a structure at 1.84 GeV/c in the mass spectrum in decays
BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +362
With a sample of 225.3 million events taken with the BESIII detector, the decay is analyzed. A structure at 1.84 GeV/c is observed in the…
Constraints on Relativistic Jets from the Fast X-ray Transient 210423 using Prompt Radio Follow-Up Observations
Dina Ibrahimzade, R. Margutti, J. S. Bright +16
Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are a new observational class of phenomena with no clear physical origin. This is at least partially a consequence of limited multi-wavelength follow u…
Search for the Lepton Flavor Violation Process at BESIII
BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +361
We search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay of the into an electron and a muon using events collected with the BESIII detector at the…
Simultaneous Observations of GRS 1758-258 in 1997 by VLA, IRAM, SEST, RXTE and OSSE: Spectroscopy and Timing
D. Lin, I. A. Smith, E. P. Liang +6
We report the results of our multi-wavelength observations of GRS 1758-258 made in August 1997. The energy bands include radio, millimeter, X-ray, and gamma-ray. The observations e…
Two new magnetic cataclysmic variables discovered in the 3XMM catalogue
N. A. Webb, A. Schwope, I. Zolotukhin +2
X-ray catalogues provide a wealth of information on many source types, ranging from compact objects to galaxies, clusters of galaxies, stars, and even planets. Thanks to the huge v…
The accretion disc, jets and environment of the intermediate mass black hole candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1
N. A. Webb, D. Barret, V. Braito +13
The Ultra Luminous X-ray (ULX) source HLX-1 in the galaxy ESO 243-49 has an observed maximum unabsorbed X-ray luminosity of 1.3e42 erg/s (0.2-10.0 keV). From the conservative assum…
Observations of GX 339-4 in 1996
I. A. Smith, E. P. Liang, D. Lin +9
GX 339-4 is an unusual black hole candidate in that it is a persistent source, being detected by X-ray telescopes most of the time, but it also has nova-like flaring states. In 199…
Technical Design Report for the PANDA Endcap Disc DIRC
Panda Collaboration, F. Davi, W. Erni +460
PANDA (anti-Proton ANnihiliation at DArmstadt) is planned to be one of the four main experiments at the future international accelerator complex FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and I…
Measurements of Baryon Pair Decays of Mesons
M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, O. Albayrak +348
Using 106 decays collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII, three decays of () with baryon pairs ($\llb$, $\ssb$, $\SSB$) in…
Exoplanet Characterization and the Search for Life
J. Kasting, W. Traub, A. Roberge +119
Over 300 extrasolar planets (exoplanets) have been detected orbiting nearby stars. We now hope to conduct a census of all planets around nearby stars and to characterize their atmo…
Feasibility studies of time-like proton electromagnetic form factors at PANDA at FAIR
PANDA Collaboration, B. Singh, W. Erni +502
Simulation results for future measurements of electromagnetic proton form factors at \PANDA (FAIR) within the PandaRoot software framework are reported. The statistical precision w…
Spectral Properties of a Hybrid Thermal-Nonthermal Isotropic Plasma
D. Lin, E. P. Liang
The spectral properties of a hybrid steady thermal-nonthermal isotropic plasma are studied. The involved emission mechanisms are thermal bremsstrahlung, nonthermal bremsstrahlung,…
Expression of Interest for Evolution of the Mu2e Experiment
F. Abusalma, D. Ambrose, A. Artikov +124
We propose an evolution of the Mu2e experiment, called Mu2e-II, that would leverage advances in detector technology and utilize the increased proton intensity provided by the Fermi…
Feasibility study for the measurement of TDAs at PANDA in
PANDA Collaboration, B. Singh, W. Erni +508
The exclusive charmonium production process in annihilation with an associated meson is studied in the framework of QCD collinear factoriza…
Search for and decays in $\jpsi \to Ïη$ and
M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov, O. Albayrak +362
Using a sample of 225.3 million $\jpsi$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider in 2009, searches for the decays of and $η^\prime\toÏ^+ e^-…