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astro-ph.SR2014★ 35 cited

A search for non-pulsating, chemically normal stars in the Scuti instability strip using Kepler data

Simon J. Murphy, Timothy R. Bedding, Ewa Niemczura +2

We identify stars in the Sct instability strip that do not pulsate in p modes at the 50-mag limit, using Kepler data. Spectral classification and abundance analyses from hig…

quant-ph2014★ 44 cited

Heat transport in harmonic oscillator systems with correlated baths: Application to optomechanical arrays

André Xuereb, Alberto Imparato, Aurélien Dantan

We investigate the transport of phonons between harmonic oscillators in contact with independent thermal baths and coupled to a common oscillator, and derive an expression for…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 42 cited

Variable stars in two open clusters within the Kepler 2-Campaign-0 field: M 35 and NGC 2158

D. Nardiello, L. R. Bedin, V. Nascimbeni +15

We present a multi-year survey aimed at collecting (1) high-precision (~5 milli-mag), (2) fast-cadence (~3 min), and (3) relatively long duration (~10 days) multi-band photometric…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 173 cited

Asteroseismic measurement of slow, nearly-uniform surface-to-core rotation in the main sequence F star KIC 9244992

Hideyuki Saio, Donald W. Kurtz, Masao Takata +4

We have found a rotationally split series of core g-mode triplets and surface p-mode multiplets in a main sequence F star, KIC 9244992. Comparison with models shows that the star h…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 52 cited

Renewable build-up pathways for the US: Generation costs are not system costs

Sarah Becker, Bethany A. Frew, Gorm B. Andresen +3

The transition to a future electricity system based primarily on wind and solar PV is examined for all regions in the contiguous US. We present optimized pathways for the build-up…

physics.atom-ph2014★ 45 cited

Microwave control of Rydberg atom interactions

Sevilay Sevinçli, Thomas Pohl

We investigate the interaction between Rydberg atoms, whose electronic states are dressed by multiple microwave fields. Numerical calculations are used for an exact description of…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 14 cited

Coexistence of density wave and superfluid order in a dipolar Fermi gas

Zhigang Wu, Jens K. Block, Georg M. Bruun

We analyse the coexistence of superfluid and density wave (stripe) order in a quasi-two-dimensional gas of dipolar fermions aligned by an external field. Remarkably, the anisotropi…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 83 cited

Kepler photometry of RRc stars: peculiar double-mode pulsations and period doubling

P. Moskalik, R. Smolec, K. Kolenberg +11

We present the analysis of four first overtone RR Lyrae stars observed with the Kepler space telescope, based on data obtained over nearly 2.5yr. All four stars are found to be mul…

physics.bio-ph2014★ 44 cited

Cavity as a source of conformational fluctuation and high-energy state: High-pressure NMR study of a cavity-enlarged mutant of T4 lysozyme

Akihiro Maeno, Daniel Sindhikara, Fumio Hirata +6

Although the structure, function, conformational dynamics, and controlled thermodynamics of proteins are manifested by their corresponding amino acid sequences, the natural rules f…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 18 cited

Automated determination of g-mode period spacing of red-giant stars

Abhisek Datta, Anwesh Mazumdar, Umang Gupta +1

The Kepler satellite has provided photometric timeseries data of unprecedented length, duty cycle and precision. To fully analyse these data for the tens of thousands of stars obse…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 3 cited

What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets

Vincent Van Eylen, Mikkel N. Lund, Victor Silva Aguirre +12

We describe three useful applications of asteroseismology in the context of exoplanet science: (1) the detailed characterisation of exoplanet host stars; (2) the measurement of ste…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 14 cited

The lost sunspot cycle: New support from Be10 measurements

C. Karoff, F. Inceoglu, M. F. Knudsen +2

It has been suggested that the deficit in the number of spots on the surface of the Sun between 1790 and 1830, known as the Dalton minimum, contained an extra cycle that was not id…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 4 cited

PLATO: PSF modelling using a microscanning technique

R-M. Ouazzani, J. J. Green, R. Samadi

The PLATO space mission is designed to detect telluric planets in the habitable zone of solar type stars, and simultaneously characterise the host star using ultra high precision p…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 55 cited

The Two-Colour EMCCD Instrument for the Danish 1.54m Telescope and SONG

Jesper Skottfelt, D. M. Bramich, M. Hundertmark +13

We report on the implemented design of a two-colour instrument based on electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD) detectors. This instrument is currently installed at the Danish 1.54m teles…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 20 cited

Strongly anisotropic spin-orbit splitting in a two-dimensional electron gas

Matteo Michiardi, Marco Bianchi, Maciej Dendzik +8

Near-surface two-dimensional electron gases on the topological insulator BiTeSe are induced by electron doping and studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. A p…

math.AP2014★ 1 cited

Optimal magnetic Sobolev constants in the semiclassical limit

Soeren Fournais, Nicolas Raymond

This paper is devoted to the semiclassical analysis of the best constants in the magnetic Sobolev embeddings in the case of a bounded domain of the plane carrying Dirichlet conditi…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 72 cited

Dust Destruction Rates and Lifetimes in the Magellanic Clouds

Tea Temim, Eli Dwek, Kirill Tchernyshyov +4

The nature, composition, abundance, and size distribution of dust in galaxies is determined by the rate at which it is created in the different stellar sources and destroyed by int…

quant-ph2014★ 4 cited

Femtosecond wavepacket interferometry using the rotational dynamics of a trapped cold molecular ion

J. Martin Berglund, Michael Drewsen, Christiane P. Koch

A Ramsey-type interferometer is suggested, employing a cold trapped ion and two time-delayed off-resonant femtosecond laser pulses. The laser light couples to the molecular polariz…

cs.GT2014

Cryptographically Blinded Games: Leveraging Players' Limitations for Equilibria and Profit

Pavel Hubáček, Sunoo Park

In this work we apply methods from cryptography to enable any number of mutually distrusting players to implement broad classes of mediated equilibria of strategic games without th…

astro-ph.SR2014

The SAGA so far: reading the history of the Galaxy with asteroseismology

Luca Casagrande, Victor Silva Aguirre, Aldo M. Serenelli +3

Asteroseismology has the capability of delivering stellar properties which would otherwise be inaccessible, such as radii, masses and thus ages of stars. When this information is c…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014

Universality of three-body systems in 2D: parametrization of the bound states energies

F. F. Bellotti, T. Frederico, M. T. Yamashita +3

Universal properties of mass-imbalanced three-body systems in 2D are studied using zero-range interactions in momentum space. The dependence of the three-particle binding energy on…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014

Mass-imbalanced Three-body Systems in 2D: bound states and the analytical approach to the adiabatic potential

F. F. Bellotti, T. Frederico, M. T. Yamashita +3

Three-body systems in two dimensions with zero-range interactions are considered for general masses and interaction strengths. The problem is formulated in momentum space and the n…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 61 cited

High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing. VII. The ultra-short period planet WASP-103

John Southworth, L. Mancini, S. Ciceri +25

We present 17 transit light curves of the ultra-short period planetary system WASP-103, a strong candidate for the detection of tidally-induced orbital decay. We use these to estab…

cs.IT2014★ 33 cited

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma is optimal for linear dimensionality reduction

Kasper Green Larsen, Jelani Nelson

For any and , we show the existence of an -point subset of such that any linear map from to with disto…