Publications (29)
Development status of the UV-VIS detector system of SOXS for the ESO-NTT telescope
Rosario Cosentino, Marcos Hernandez, Hector Ventura +47
SOXS will be the new spectroscopic facility for the ESO NTT telescope able to cover the optical and NIR bands by using two different arms: the UV-VIS (350-850 nm), and the NIR (800…
The integration of the SOXS control electronics towards the PAE
Mirko Colapietro, Sergio D'Orsi, Giulio Capasso +51
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new single object spectrograph for the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory, able to cover simultaneously both the UV-VIS a…
Narrowband Electromagnetic Coupling Matrix in Coupled-Resonator Microwave Circuits
Valentin de la Rubia, David Young
A novel methodology to unleash electromagnetic coupling matrix information in coupled-resonator microwave circuits has been recently proposed [1]. This information is derived from…
Smule Renaissance Small: Efficient General-Purpose Vocal Restoration
Yongyi Zang, Chris Manchester, David Young +9
Vocal recordings on consumer devices commonly suffer from multiple concurrent degradations: noise, reverberation, band-limiting, and clipping. We present Smule Renaissance Small (S…
High Accuracy and Low Regret for User-Cold-Start Using Latent Bandits
David Young, Douglas Leith
We develop a novel latent-bandit algorithm for tackling the cold-start problem for new users joining a recommender system. This new algorithm significantly outperforms the state of…
The SOXS Spectrograph Instrument Control Software
Davide Ricci, Bernardo Salasnich, Andrea Baruffolo +51
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a new spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory (ESO), recently installed at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory, Chi…
Physical properties of the non-centrosymmetric superconductor Nb0.18Re0.82
Amar B. Karki, Yimin M. Xiong, Neel Haldolaarachchige +6
We report the synthesis and measurements of magnetic, transport, and thermal properties of polycrystalline Nb0.18Re0.82, which has a superconducting transition at Tc ~ 8.8 K. The n…
The SOXS Instrument Control Software approaching the PAE
Davide Ricci, Bernardo Salasnich, Andrea Baruffolo +50
The Instrument Control Software of SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter), the forthcoming spectrograph for the ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory, has reached a mature stat…
Higher-Order Specifications for Deductive Synthesis of Programs with Pointers (Extended Version)
David Young, Ziyi Yang, Ilya Sergey +1
Synthetic Separation Logic (SSL) is a formalism that powers SuSLik, the state-of-the-art approach for the deductive synthesis of provably-correct programs in C-like languages that…
Type Ia supernovae with and without blueshifted narrow Na I D lines - how different is their structure?
Stephan Hachinger, Friedrich K. Roepke, Paolo A. Mazzali +13
In studies on intermediate- and high-resolution spectra of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), some objects exhibit narrow Na-I D absorptions often blueshifted with respect to the rest wa…
The status of the NIR arm of the SOXS Instrument toward the PAE
Fabrizio Vitali, Matteo Genoni, Matteo Aliverti +57
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph, built by an international consortium for the 3.58-m ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory [1]. It of…
Design and development of the SOXS calibration unit
Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Jani Achren, Sergio Campana +43
SOXS is a new spectrograph for the New Technology Telescope (NTT), optimized for transient and variable objects, covering a wide wavelength range from 350 to 2000 nm. SOXS is equip…
Development status of the SOXS instrument control software
Davide Ricci, Andrea Baruffolo, Bernardo Salasnich +43
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a forthcoming instrument for ESO-NTT, mainly dedicated to the spectroscopic study of transient events and is currently starting the AIT (Assembly, Integr…
SN 2016dsg: A Thermonuclear Explosion Involving A Thick Helium Shell
Yize Dong, Stefano Valenti, Abigail Polin +29
A thermonuclear explosion triggered by a helium-shell detonation on a carbon-oxygen white dwarf core has been predicted to have strong UV line blanketing at early times due to the…
Apparatus for Operando X-ray Diffraction of Fuel Electrodes in High Temperature Solid State Electrochemical Cells
Jesse D. Benck, Daniel Rettenwander, Ariel Jackson +2
Characterizing electrochemical energy conversion devices during operation is an important strategy for correlating device performance with the properties of cell materials under re…
Producing High Concentrations of Hydrogen in Palladium via Electrochemical Insertion from Aqueous and Solid Electrolytes
Jesse D. Benck, Ariel Jackson, David Young +2
Metal hydrides are critical materials in numerous technologies including hydrogen storage, gas separation, and electrocatalysis. Here, using Pd-H as a model metal hydride, we perfo…
Progress on the SOXS NIR Spectrograph AIT
Fabrizio Vitali, Matteo Aliverti, Francesco D'Alessio +50
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph, built by an international consortium for the 3.58-m ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory, ranging f…
SOXS AIT: a paradigm for system engineering of a medium class telescope instrument
Riccardo Claudi, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Federico Battaini +40
SOXS (SOn of X-Shooter) is a high-efficiency spectrograph with a mean Resolution-Slit product of 3500 over the entire band capable of simultaneously observing the complete spectral…
A dwarf planet class object in the 21:5 resonance with Neptune
Matthew J. Holman, Matthew J. Payne, Wesley Fraser +33
We report the discovery of a dwarf planet candidate by the Pan-STARRS Outer Solar System Survey. 2010 JO is red with , roughly round,…
SOXS: Effects on optical performances due to gravity flexures, temperature variations, and subsystems alignment
Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Matteo Aliverti, Matteo Munari +43
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new medium resolution wide-band spectrograph to be installed at the 3.6m New Technology Telescope (NTT) in La Silla. SOXS will offer simultaneous wav…
Preference-based Antibody Expression Ranking: Scaling with Large-scale Weak Supervision
Josh Qixuan Sun, Morteza Babaie, Wenyang Hou +2
Antibody expression ranking is a critical task in antibody design, yet its modelling is severely hindered by the scarcity of labeled experimental data. To address this, we propose…
Bandit Convex Optimisation Revisited: FTRL Achieves Regret
David Young, Douglas Leith, George Iosifidis
We show that a kernel estimator using multiple function evaluations can be easily converted into a sampling-based bandit estimator with expectation equal to the original kernel est…
Energy-Conserved Neural Pipelines: Attenuating Error Propagation in Modular Neural Networks via Physical Conservation Constraints
David Young, Swan Yi Htet
Modular neural network pipelines suffer from error compounding: noise at any module boundary propagates and potentially amplifies through subsequent modules. We introduce energy co…
The AIV strategy of the Common Path of Son of X-Shooter
Federico Biondi, Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Riccardo Claudi +48
Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a double-armed (UV-VIS, NIR) spectrograph designed to be mounted at the ESO-NTT in La Silla, now in its Assembly Integration and Verification (AIV) phase…
What is your favorite transient event? SOXS is almost ready to observe!
Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Federico Battaini, Simone Di Filippo +56
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) will be the specialized facility to observe any transient event with a flexible scheduler at the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla, Chile.…
LSQ13ddu: A rapidly-evolving stripped-envelope supernova with early circumstellar interaction signatures
Peter Clark, Kate Maguire, Cosimo Inserra +30
This paper describes the rapidly evolving and unusual supernova LSQ13ddu, discovered by the La Silla-QUEST survey. LSQ13ddu displayed a rapid rise of just 4.80.9 d to reach a…
An operando calorimeter for high temperature electrochemical cells
David Young, Ariel Jackson, David Fork +4
Operando calorimetry has previously been utilized to study degradation, side reactions, and other electrochemical effects in electrochemical cells such as batteries at or near room…
Laboratory test of the VIS detector system of SOXS for the ESO-NTT telescope
Rosario Cosentino, Marcos Hernandez, Hector Ventura +45
SOXS is the new spectrograph for the ESO NTT telescope able to cover the optical and NIR bands thanks to two different arms: the UV-VIS (350-850 nm), and the NIR (800-2000 nm). In…
Progress on the UV-VIS arm of SOXS
Adam Rubin, Sagi Ben-Ami, Ofir Hershko +45
We present our progress on the UV-VIS arm of Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS), a new spectrograph for the NTT. Our design splits the spectral band into four sub-bands that are imaged onto a…