Publications (104)
Collisionless Damping of Fast MHD Waves in Magneto-rotational Winds
T. K. Suzuki, H. Yan, A. Lazarian +1
We propose collisionless damping of fast MHD waves as an important mechanism for the heating and acceleration of winds from rotating stars. Stellar rotation causes magnetic field l…
Searching for Exotic Spin-Dependent Interactions Using Rotationally Modulated Source Masses and an Atomic Magnetometer Array
K. Y. Wu, S. Y. Chen, J. Gong +2
We describe a proposed experimental search for exotic spin-dependent interactions using rotationally modulated source masses and an atomic magnetometer array. Rather than further i…
A Panchromatic Catalog of Early-Type Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift in the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Early Release Science Field
M. J. Rutkowski, S. H. Cohen, S. Kaviraj +24
In the first of a series of forthcoming publications, we present a panchromatic catalog of 102 visually-selected early-type galaxies (ETGs) from observations in the Early Release S…
A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591
The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…
PEARLS: JWST counterparts of micro-Jy radio sources in the Time Domain Field
S. P. Willner, H. B. Gim, M. del Carmen Polletta +38
The Time Domain Field (TDF) near the North Ecliptic Pole in JWST's continuous-viewing zone will become a premier "blank field" for extragalactic science. JWST/NIRCam data in a 16 a…
Spectroscopy of the Supernova H0pe Host Galaxy at Redshift 1.78
M. Polletta, M. Nonino, B. Frye +42
Supernova (SN) H0pe was discovered as a new transient in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam images of the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0 taken as part of the "Prime Extragal…
A high-performance quantum memory for quantum interconnects
H. -X Luo, C. Li, J. -L. Ren +7
Single photons are the flying qubits of choice for distributing entanglement in a quantum internet. Quantum memories embedded in quantum repeaters are crucial to overcome transmiss…
New Experimental Limits on Exotic Spin- and Velocity-dependent Interactions Using Rotationally Modulated Source-masses and an Atomic-magnetometer Array
K. Y. Wu, S. Y. Chen, G. A. Sun +3
We conducted laboratory searching for the exotic spin- and velocity-dependent new interactions according to the previously proposed experimental scheme. Two 6Kg heavy source…
A universal structural and star-forming relation since : connecting compact star-forming and quiescent galaxies
G. Barro, S. M. Faber, D. C. Koo +13
We study the evolution of the core (r<1 kpc) and effective (r<r_e) stellar-mass surface densities, in star-forming and quiescent galaxies. Since z=3, both populations occupy distin…
Hole Spin Coherence in a Ge/Si Heterostructure Nanowire
A. P. Higginbotham, T. W. Larsen, J. Yao +4
Relaxation and dephasing of hole spins are measured in a gate-defined Ge/Si nanowire double quantum dot using a fast pulsed-gate method and dispersive readout. An inhomogeneous dep…
Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT Campaign including a Very High Energy Flaring Episode
J. C. Algaba, M. Balokovic, S. Chandra +738
The nearby elliptical galaxy M87 contains one of the only two supermassive black holes whose emission surrounding the event horizon has been imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (…
The Size Evolution of Passive Galaxies: Observations from the Wide Field Camera 3 Early Release Science Program
R. E. Ryan, P. J. McCarthy, S. H. Cohen +28
We present results on the size evolution of passively evolving galaxies at 1<z<2 drawn from the Wide Field Camera 3 Early Release Science program. Our sample was constructed using…
Ionic modulation at the LaAlO/KTaO interface for extreme high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas
H. Yan, S. W. Zeng, K. Rubi +5
Due to the coexistence of many emergent phenomena, including 2D superconductivity and a large Rashba spin-orbit coupling, 5d transition metal oxides based two-dimensional electron…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. IX. Velocity-Delay Maps for Broad Emission Lines in NGC 5548
Keith Horne, G. De Rosa, B. M. Peterson +155
We report velocity-delay maps for prominent broad emission lines, Ly_alpha, CIV, HeII and H_beta, in the spectrum of NGC5548. The emission-line responses inhabit the interior of a…
Study of even-parity Rydberg and autoionizing states of lutetium by laser resonance ionization spectroscopy
R. Li, J. Lassen, Z. P. Zhong +6
Multi-step laser resonance ionization spectroscopy of lutetium (Lu) has been performed at TRIUMF's off-line laser ion source test stand. The even-parity Rydberg series $^2…
The Galaxy Luminosity Function at z~1 in the HUDF: Probing the Dwarf Population
R. E. Ryan, N. P. Hathi, S. H. Cohen +10
We present a catalog of spectro-photometric redshifts for 1308 galaxies from the GRism ACS Program for Extragalactic Science (GRAPES) observations with the Hubble Space Telescope.…
Missed prediction of the neutron halo in Mg
K. Y. Zhang, S. Q. Yang, J. L. An +5
Halo phenomena have long been an important frontier in both experimental and theoretical nuclear physics. Mg was identified as a halo nucleus in 2014 and remains the heavies…
Optical Line Emission from z6.8 Sources with Deep Constraints on Ly Visibility
M. Castellano, L. Pentericci, A. Fontana +15
We analyze a sample of -dropout galaxies in the CANDELS GOODS South and UDS fields that have been targeted by a dedicated spectroscopic campaign aimed at detecting their Ly…
Anatomy of a z=6 Lyman-α emitter down to parsec scales: extreme UV slopes, metal-poor regions and possibly leaking star clusters
Matteo Messa, E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono +31
We present a detailed JWST/NIRSpec and NIRCam analysis of a gravitationally-lensed galaxy () at redshift 6.14 magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MA…
Notes on highest weight modules of the elliptic algebra
O. Foda, K. Iohara, M. Jimbo +3
We discuss a construction of highest weight modules for the recently defined elliptic algebra , and make several conjectures concerning them. The mo…
Thermostatistics of a q-deformed Relativistic Ideal Fermi Gas
Xu-Yang Hou, H. Yan, Hao Guo
In this paper, we formulate a q-deformed many-body theory for the relativistic Fermi gas and discuss the effects of the deformation parameter q on physical properties of such syste…
CANDELS Multiwavelength Catalogs: Source Identification and Photometry in the CANDELS COSMOS Survey Field
H. Nayyeri, S. Hemmati, B. Mobasher +36
We present a multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the COSMOS field as part of the observations by the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). T…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VIII. Time Variability of Emission and Absorption in NGC 5548 Based on Modeling the Ultraviolet Spectrum
G. A. Kriss, G. De Rosa, J. Ely +164
We model the ultraviolet spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC~5548 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope during the 6-month reverberation-mapping campaign in 2014. Our model of t…
Properties and selected implications of magnetic turbulence for interstellar medium, Local Bubble and solar wind
A. Lazarian, A. Beresnyak, H. Yan +2
Astrophysical fluids, including interstellar and interplanetary medium, are magnetized and turbulent. Their appearance, evolution, and overall properties are determined by the magn…
An Ultra Deep Field survey with WFIRST
Anton M. Koekemoer, R. J. Foley, D. N. Spergel +69
Studying the formation and evolution of galaxies at the earliest cosmic times, and their role in reionization, requires the deepest imaging possible. Ultra-deep surveys like the HU…
Efficiency and Its Bounds for Thermal Engines at Maximum Power using a Newton's Law of Cooling
H. Yan, Hao Guo
We study a thermal engine model for which Newton's cooling law is obeyed during heat transfer processes. The thermal efficiency and its bounds at maximum output power are derived a…
Spitzer Observations of Massive Red Galaxies at High Redshift
Casey Papovich, L. A. Moustakas, M. Dickinson +18
We investigate the properties of massive galaxies at z=1-3.5 using HST observations, ground-based near-IR imaging, and Spitzer Space Telescope observations at 3-24 micron. We ident…
A Compact Cluster of Massive Red Galaxies at a Redshift of 1.51
P. J. McCarthy, H. Yan, R. G. Abraham +15
We describe a compact cluster of massive red galaxies at z=1.51 discovered in one of the Gemini Deep Deep Survey (GDDS) fields. Deep imaging with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi…
Experimental Observation of Simultaneous Wave and Particle Behaviors in a Narrowband Single Photon's Wave Packe
H. Yan, K. Liao, Z. Deng +4
Light's wave-particle duality is at the heart of quantum mechanics and can be well illustrated by Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment. The choice of inserting or removing the secon…
New continuum and polarization observations of the Cygnus Loop with FAST II. Images and analyses
X. H. Sun, X. Y. Gao, W. Reich +4
We present total-intensity and polarized-intensity images of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant (SNR) observed by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). T…
Efficient quantum memory for single photon polarization qubits
Y. Wang, J. Li, S. Zhang +6
A quantum memory, for storing and retrieving flying photonic quantum states, is a key interface for realizing long-distance quantum communication and large-scale quantum computatio…
SN 2010jl in UGC 5189: Yet another luminous type IIn supernova in a metal-poor galaxy
R. Stoll, J. L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek +5
We present ASAS data starting 25 days before the discovery of the recent type IIn SN 2010jl, and we compare its light curve to other luminous IIn SNe, showing that it is a luminous…
Detecting somatic mutations in genomic sequences by means of Kolmogorov-Arnold analysis
V. G. Gurzadyan, H. Yan, G. Vlahovic +7
The Kolmogorov-Arnold stochasticity parameter technique is applied for the first time to the study of cancer genome sequencing, to reveal mutations. Using data generated by next ge…
Probe Spin-Velocity Dependent New Interactions by Spin Relaxation Times of Polarized Gas
H. Yan, G. A. Sun, S. M. Peng +4
We have constrained possible new interactions which produce nonrelativistic potentials between polarized neutrons and unpolarized matter proportional to wher…
Spurious contribution to CR scattering calculations
A. Shalchi, H. Yan, A. Lazarian
The quasilinear theory for cosmic ray propagation is a well known and widely accepted theory. In this paper, we discuss the different contributions to the pitch-angle Fokker-Planck…
An elliptic quantum algebra for
Omar Foda, K. Iohara, M. Jimbo +3
An elliptic deformation of is proposed. Our presentation of the algebra is based on the relation , where and are eight-vertex -matrices wit…
Constraining New Muonic Interactions Meditated by Axion-Like-Particles
H. Yan, G. A. Sun, S. M. Peng +4
ALPs (Axion Like Particle) beyond the standard model are solutions to several important problems of modern physics. One way to detect these particles is to detect the new interacti…
The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of faint galaxies at z~3.3 in the CANDELS/GOODS-North, EGS, and COSMOS fields with LBC
A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, D. Paris +41
The reionization of the Universe is one of the most important topics of present day astrophysical research. The most plausible candidates for the reionization process are star-form…
The Nature of Faint 24 micron Sources Seen in Spitzer Observations of ELAIS-N1
R. Chary, S. Casertano, M. E. Dickinson +7
The Spitzer Space Telescope has undertaken the deepest ever observations of the 24 micron sky in the ELAIS-N1 field as part of GOODS Science Verification observations. We present t…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. II. Swift and HST Reverberation Mapping of the Accretion Disk of NGC 5548
R. Edelson, J. M. Gelbord, K. Horne +47
Recent intensive Swift monitoring of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 yielded 282 usable epochs over 125 days across six UV/optical bands and the X-rays. This is the densest extended…
Determination of the Axial-Vector Weak Coupling Constant with Ultracold Neutrons
UCNA Collaboration, J. Liu, M. P. Mendenhall +37
A precise measurement of the neutron decay -asymmetry has been carried out using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN) from the pulsed spallation UCN source at the Los Alamo…
JWST Photometric Time-Delay and Magnification Measurements for the Triply-Imaged Type Ia "Supernova H0pe" at z = 1.78
J. D. R. Pierel, B. L. Frye, M. Pascale +60
Supernova (SN) H0pe is a gravitationally lensed, triply-imaged, Type Ia SN (SN Ia) discovered in James Webb Space Telescope imaging of the PLCK G165.7+67.0 cluster of galaxies. Wel…
How JWST can measure First Light, Reionization and Galaxy Assembly
R. A. Windhorst, S. H. Cohen, R. A. Jansen +2
We summarize the design and performance of the James Webb Space Telescope that is to be launched to an L2 orbit in 2011, and how it is designed, in particular, to study the epochs…
Stellar Populations of Lyman Break Galaxies at z=1-3 in the HST/WFC3 Early Release Science Observations
N. P. Hathi, S. H. Cohen, R. E. Ryan +24
We analyze the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z=1-3 selected using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) UVIS channel…
Antilocalization of Coulomb Blockade in a Ge-Si Nanowire
A. P. Higginbotham, F. Kuemmeth, T. W. Larsen +5
The distribution of Coulomb blockade peak heights as a function of magnetic field is investigated experimentally in a Ge-Si nanowire quantum dot. Strong spin-orbit coupling in this…
Field electron emission mechanism in an ultrathin multilayer planar cold cathode
R. Z. Wang, H. Yan, B. Wang +2
Field electron emission from an ultrathin multilayer planar cold cathode (UMPC) including quantum well structure has been both experimentally and theoretically investigated. We fou…
Numerical study of Cosmic Ray Diffusion in MHD turbulence
A. Beresnyak, H. Yan, A. Lazarian
We study diffusion of Cosmic Rays (CRs) in turbulent magnetic fields using test particle simulations. Electromagnetic fields are produced in direct numerical MHD simulations of tur…
Extreme Ionizing Properties of Metal-Poor, Muv ~ -12 Star Complex in the first Gyr
E. Vanzella, F. Loiacono, M. Messa +38
We report the serendipitous discovery of a faint (M_UV > -12.2), low-metallicity (Z ~ 0.02 Zsun), ionizing source (dubbed T2c) with a spectroscopic redshift of z=6.146. T2c is part…
Efficiency and Its Bounds for a Quantum Einstein Engine at Maximum Power
H. Yan, Hao Guo
We study a quantum thermal engine model for which the heat transfer law is determined by Einstein's theory of radiation. The working substance of the quantum engine is assumed to b…
Hubble Space Telescope images of submillimeter sources: large, irregular galaxies at high redshift
S. C. Chapman, R. Windhorst, S. Odewahn +2
We present new Hubble Space Telescope STIS, high-resolution optical imaging of a sample of 13 submillimeter (submm) luminous galaxies, for which the optical emission has been pinpo…
QED with massive photons for precision physics: zero modes and first result for the hadron spectrum
M. A. Clark, M. Della Morte, Z. Hall +6
The current precision reached by lattice QCD calculations of low-energy hadronic observables, requires not only the introduction of electromagnetic corrections, but also control ov…
Probing the Short Range Spin Dependent Interactions by Polarized Atom Beams
H. Yan
Experiments using polarized atom beams to search for short range spin dependent forces are proposed. High intensity, high polarization, small beam size atom beams…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. I. Ultraviolet Observations of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on Hubble Space Telescope
G. De Rosa, B. M. Peterson, J. Ely +47
We describe the first results from a six-month long reverberation-mapping experiment in the ultraviolet based on 170 observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 with the Cosmic O…
JWST's PEARLS: resolved study of the stellar and dust components in starburst galaxies at cosmic noon
M. Polletta, B. L. Frye, N. Garuda +35
Dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) contribute significantly to the stellar buildup at cosmic noon. Major mergers and gas accretion are often invoked to explain DSFGs' prodigious s…
GRAPES, Grism Spectroscopy of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Description and Data Reduction
N. Pirzkal, C. Xu, S. Malhotra +19
We present deep unbiased spectroscopy of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) carried out using the slitless grism spectroscopy mode of the Advance Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Sp…
Breaking Kirchhoff's Law in Nonlinear Thermal Emission
R. Ma, Y. Yu, Y. Sun +2
Thermal radiation is strictly governed by Kirchhoff s law to reach thermal equilibrium. The violation of Kirchhoff s law decouples nonreciprocally the equity between absorptivity a…
Absolute measurement of thermal noise in a resonant short-range force experiment
H. Yan, E. A. Housworth, H. O. Meyer +3
Planar, double-torsional oscillators are especially suitable for short-range macroscopic force search experiments, since they can be operated at the limit of instrumental thermal n…
TeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy from the Magnetic Field at the Heliospheric Boundary
Vanessa López-Barquero, S. Xu, P. Desiati +3
We performed numerical calculations to test the suggestion by Desiati & Lazarian (2013) that the anisotropies of TeV cosmic rays may arise from their interactions with the heliosph…
The Hubble Space Telescope GOODS NICMOS Survey: Overview and the Evolution of Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3
C. J. Conselice, A. F. L. Bluck, F. Buitrago +27
We present the details and early results from a deep near-infrared survey utilising the NICMOS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope centred around massive M_* > 10^11 M_0 galax…
Tunable coupler for realizing a controlled-phase gate with dynamically decoupled regime in a superconducting circuit
X. Li, T. Cai, H. Yan +13
Controllable interaction between superconducting qubits is desirable for large-scale quantum computation and simulation. Here, based on a theoretical proposal by Yan et al. [Phys.…
Final results for the neutron -asymmetry parameter from the UCNA experiment
B. Plaster, E. Adamek, B. Allgeier +91
The UCNA experiment was designed to measure the neutron -asymmetry parameter using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN). UCN produced via downscattering in solid deuterium…
Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Turbulence, Energy Transfer and Reconnection
A. Lazarian, V. Petrosian, H. Yan +1
Understanding of the nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is one of the challenging problem facing the astrophysics community. The field of gamma ray bursts is a rapidly developing on…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. III. Optical Continuum Emission and Broad-Band Time Delays in NGC 5548
M. M. Fausnaugh, K. D. Denney, A. J. Barth +94
We present ground-based optical photometric monitoring data for NGC 5548, part of an extended multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign. The light curves have nearly daily ca…
Measurement of the neutron -asymmetry parameter with ultracold neutrons
UCNA Collaboration, B. Plaster, R. Rios +43
We present a detailed report of a measurement of the neutron -asymmetry parameter , the parity-violating angular correlation between the neutron spin and the decay electro…
A Cosmic Archipelago of lensed metal-poor galaxies at
A. Bolamperti, M. Messa, A. Zanella +21
The Cosmic Archipelago is an ensemble of galaxies, strongly lensed by the cluster MACSJ0416, showing extreme physical properties at . We combine JWST/NIRCam with deep VL…
Tunable Magnetic Properties in SrFeReO Double-Perovskite
Z. T. Zhang, H. Yan, Z. Huang +8
Double-perovskite oxides have attracted recent attention due to their attractive functionalities and application potential. In this paper, we demonstrate the effect of dual control…
Resonant Ionization Laser Ion Source (RILIS) Development on Lu and Pr
R. Li, J. Lassen, F. Ames +5
Resonance ionization laser ion sources are efficient and element selective ion sources, which are particularly well suited for radioactive ion beam facilities. Using TRIUMF's off-l…
UV-dropout Galaxies in the GOODS-South Field from WFC3 Early Release Science Observations
N. P. Hathi, R. E. Ryan, S. H. Cohen +22
We combine new high sensitivity ultraviolet (UV) imaging from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) with existing deep HST/Advanced Camera for Surveys…
TREASUREHUNT: Transients and Variability Discovered with HST in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field
Rosalia O'Brien, Rolf A. Jansen, Norman A. Grogin +56
The JWST North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time Domain Field (TDF) is a 14 arcmin diameter field optimized for multi-wavelength time-domain science with JWST. It has been observed acros…
Using the Sun and the Moon as Source masses and the Earth's Rotation as a Modulation to Search for Exotic Spin-Dependent Interactions at Astronomical Distances
L. Y. Wu, K. Y. Zhang, M. Peng +2
Exotic spin-dependent interactions mediated by new light particles led to solutions to several important questions in modern physics. Such interactions involving a scalar coupling…
The Hawk-I UDS and GOODS Survey (HUGS): Survey design and deep K-band number counts
A. Fontana, J. S. Dunlop, D. Paris +40
We present the results of a new, ultra-deep, near-infrared imaging survey executed with the Hawk-I imager at the ESO VLT, of which we make all the data public. This survey, named H…
New Limits on Exotic Muon Interactions Mediated by Axion-Like Particles
L. Y. Wu, H. Yan
The precise measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment provides a sensitive probe of exotic interactions between muons mediated by light beyond the Standard Model (BS…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XII. Broad-Line Region Modeling of NGC 5548
P. R. Williams, A. Pancoast, T. Treu +155
We present geometric and dynamical modeling of the broad line region for the multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign focused on NGC 5548 in 2014. The dataset includes photo…
Electric-Field Control of Magnetic Order: From FeRh to Topological Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
Z. X. Feng, H. Yan, Z. Q. Liu
Using an electric field instead of an electric current (or a magnetic field) to tailor the electronic properties of magnetic materials is promising for realizing ultralow energy-co…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VII. Understanding the UV anomaly in NGC 5548 with X-Ray Spectroscopy
S. Mathur, A. Gupta, K. Page +147
During the Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project (STORM) observations of NGC 5548, the continuum and emission-line variability became de-correlated during the s…
A near-infrared excess in the continuum of high-redshift galaxies: a tracer of star formation and circumstellar disks?
E. Mentuch, R. G. Abraham, K. Glazebrook +13
A broad continuum excess in the near-infrared, peaking in the rest-frame at 2-5 micron, is detected in a spectroscopic sample of 88 galaxies at 0.5<z<2.0 taken from the Gemini Deep…
Tracing the reionization epoch with ALMA: [CII] emission in z~7 galaxies
L. Pentericci, S. Carniani, M. Castellano +12
We present new results on [CII]158 m emission from four galaxies in the reionization epoch. These galaxies were previously confirmed to be at redshifts between 6.6 and 7.15 fro…
New Limits on Ultralight Axionlike Dark Matter from Reanalyzed Data
K. Y. Zhang, L. Y. Wu, H. Yan
New limits on the axion-nucleon coupling over the axion mass region eV are derived by reanalyzing data from laboratory measurements on Lo…
Technique for high axial shielding factor performance of large-scale, thin, open-ended, cylindrical Metglas magnetic shields
S. Malkowski, R. Adhikari, B. Hona +4
Metglas 2705M is a low-cost commercially-available, high-permeability Cobalt-based magnetic alloy, provided as a 5.08-cm wide and 20.3-m thick ribbon foil. We present an optimi…
Magnetically limited X-ray filaments in young SNR
M. Pohl, H. Yan, A. Lazarian
We discuss the damping of strong magnetic turbulence downstream of the forward shock of young supernova remnants (SNR). We find that strong magnetic fields, that have been produced…
A First Experimental Limit on In-matter Torsion from Neutron Spin Rotation in Liquid He-4
Ralf Lehnert, H. Yan, W. M. Snow
We report the first experimental upper bound to our knowledge on possible in-matter torsion interactions of the neutron from a recent search for parity violation in neutron spin ro…
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Field Ultracool Dwarfs at High Galactic Latitude
R. E. Ryan, P. A. Thorman, H. Yan +8
We present a sample of 17 newly discovered ultracool dwarf candidates later than ~M8, drawn from 231.90 arcmin2 of {\it Hubble Space Telescope} Wide Field Camera 3 infrared imaging…
Overlap Technique for End-Cap Seals on Cylindrical Magnetic Shields
S. Malkowski, R. Y. Adhikari, J. Boissevain +6
We present results from studies of the effectiveness of an overlap technique for forming a magnetic seal across a gap at the boundary between a cylindrical magnetic shield and an e…
Collapse of the shell closure in the newly discovered Na and the development of deformed halos towards the neutron dripline
K. Y. Zhang, P. Papakonstantinou, M. -H. Mun +3
Halos and changes of nuclear magicities have been extensively investigated in exotic nuclei during past decades. The newly discovered Na with the neutron number provi…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project VI: reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548
D. Starkey, Keith Horne, M. M. Fausnaugh +90
We conduct a multiwavelength continuum variability study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 to investigate the temperature structure of its accretion disk. The 19 overlapping continu…
High-quality NiFe thin films on oxide/non-oxide platforms via pulsed laser deposition at room temperature
H. Yan, G. J. Omar, Z. T. Zhao +2
Soft ferromagnetic NiFe thin films are promising for applications in spintronic devices because of their constituent electrical and magnetic properties. Electron beam evaporation a…
Exotic spin-dependent interactions through unparticle exchange
L. Y. Wu, K. Y. Zhang, H. Yan
The potential discovery of unparticles could have far-reaching implications for particle physics and cosmology. For over a decade, high-energy physicists have extensively studied t…
Turbulence, Magnetic Reconnection in Turbulent Fluids and Energetic Particle Acceleration
A. Lazarian, L. Vlahos, G. Kowal +3
Turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysics. It radically changes many astrophysical phenomena, in particular, the propagation and acceleration of cosmic rays. We present the modern u…
On the observability of individual Population III stars and their stellar-mass black hole accretion disks through cluster caustic transits
Rogier A. Windhorst, M. Alpaslan, S. Andrews +44
Recent near-IR power-spectra and panchromatic Extragalactic Background Light measurements provide upper limits on the near-IR surface brightness (SB>31 mag/arcsec^2) that may come…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. V. Optical Spectroscopic Campaign and Emission-Line Analysis for NGC 5548
L. Pei, M. M. Fausnaugh, A. J. Barth +153
We present the results of an optical spectroscopic monitoring program targeting NGC 5548 as part of a larger multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign. The campaign spanned s…
A frequency determination method for digitized NMR signals
H. Yan, K. Li, R. Khatiwada +6
We present a high precision frequency determination method for digitized NMR FID signals. The method employs high precision numerical integration rather than simple summation as in…
Limits on the ions temperature anisotropy in turbulent intracluster medium
R. Santos-Lima, H. Yan, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino +1
Turbulence in the weakly collisional intracluster medium of galaxies (ICM) is able to generate strong thermal velocity anisotropies in the ions (with respect to the local magnetic…
An overdensity of galaxies at z=5.9 +/-0.2 in the Ultra Deep Field confirmed using the ACS grism
S. Malhotra, J. E. Rhoads, N. Pirzkal +17
We present grism spectra taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys to identify 29 red sources with (i'-z') > 0.9 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). Of these 23 are found to be…
Light-induced Frequency Shift and Relaxation of Ground-State 3He via Metastability-Exchange Collisions
L. Y. Wu, H. Yan
Metastability-exchange collisions (MECs) lie at the heart of metastability-exchange optical pumping (MEOP) in 3He, enabling the transfer of polarization from the metastable state t…
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. IV. Anomalous behavior of the broad ultraviolet emission lines in NGC 5548
M. R. Goad, K. T. Korista, G. De Rosa +99
During an intensive Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) UV monitoring campaign of the Seyfert~1 galaxy NGC 5548 performed from 2014 February to July, the…
A Complete 16 micron-Selected Galaxy Sample at : Mid-infrared Spectral Energy Distributions
J. -S. Huang, Y. -S. Dai, S. P. Willner +21
We describe a complete, flux-density-limited sample of galaxies at redshift selected at 16 micron. At the selection wavelength near 8 micron rest, the observed emis…
Impact of motion along the field direction on geometric-phase-induced false electric dipole moment signals
H. Yan, B. Plaster
Geometric-phase-induced false electric dipole moment (EDM) signals, resulting from interference between magnetic field gradients and particle motion in electric fields, have been s…
Coulomb Interaction Effects on the Terahertz Photon-Assisted Tunneling through a InAs Quantum Dot
R. -Y. Yuan, G. -B. Zhu, X. Zhao +4
Recently, the terahertz (THz) photon-assisted tunneling (PAT) through a two-level InAs quantum dot (QD) has been successfully realized in experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 109}, 07…
A Laboratory Search for a Long-Range T-odd, P-odd Interaction from Axion-Like Particles using Dual Species Nuclear Magnetic Resonance with Polarized Xe-129 and Xe-131 Gas
M. Bulatowicz, R. Griffith, M. Larsen +6
We place new limits on potential T- and P- violating monopole-dipole interactions between unpolarized nucleons and neutrons using dual species magnetic resonance in polarzed Xe gas…
A New Limit on Possible Long-Range Parity-odd Interactions of the Neutron from Neutron Spin Rotation in Liquid
H. Yan, W. M. Snow
Various theories beyond the Standard Model predict new particles with masses in the sub-eV range with very weak couplings to ordinary matter. A parity-odd interaction between polar…