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physics.chem-ph2020★ 75 cited

Global optimization of atomistic structure enhanced by machine learning

Malthe K. Bisbo, Bjørk Hammer

Global Optimization with First-principles Energy Expressions (GOFEE) is an efficient method for identifying low energy structures in computationally expensive energy landscapes suc…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 5 cited

Observing the changing surface structures of the active K giant sigma Gem with SONG

H. Korhonen, R. M. Roettenbacher, S. Gu +6

Aims: We aim to study the spot evolution and differential rotation in the magnetically active cool K-type giant star sigma Gem from broadband photometry and continuous spectroscopi…

q-bio.PE2020★ 13 cited

Infection dynamics of COVID-19 virus under lockdown and reopening

Jakub Svoboda, Josef Tkadlec, Andreas Pavlogiannis +2

Motivated by COVID-19, we develop and analyze a simple stochastic model for a disease spread in human population. We track how the number of infected and critically ill people deve…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 25 cited

Vacuum ultraviolet photoabsorption spectroscopy of space-related ices: Formation and destruction of solid carbonic acid upon 1~keV electron irradiation

S. Ioppolo, Z. Kanuchová, R. L. James +7

Carbonic acid (H2CO3) is a weak acid relevant to astrobiology which, to date, remains undetected in space. Experimental work has shown that the beta-polymorph of H2CO3 forms under…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

Age-metallicity dependent stellar kinematics of the Milky Way disc from LAMOST and Gaia

Yaqian Wu, Maosheng Xiang, Yuqin Chen +5

We investigate the stellar kinematics of the Galactic disc in 7 13\,kpc using a sample of 118\,945 red giant branch (RGB) stars from LAMOST and Gaia. We characterize th…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 4 cited

Mode Angular Degree Identification in Subgiant Stars with Convolutional Neural Networks based on Power Spectrum

Minghao Du, Shaolan Bi, Xianfei Zhang +3

Identifying the angular degrees of oscillation modes is essential for asteroseismology and depends on visual tagging before fitting power spectra in a so-called peakbagging ana…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 4 cited

Inverse analysis of asteroseismic data: a review

Earl P. Bellinger, Sarbani Basu, Saskia Hekker

Asteroseismology has emerged as the best way to characterize the global and internal properties of nearby stars. Often, this characterization is achieved by fitting stellar evoluti…

astro-ph.IM2020

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

The SOXS scheduler for remote operation at LaSilla:Concept and design

Marco Landoni, Dave Young, Laurent Marty +46

In this paper we present the SOXS Scheduler, a web-based application aimed at optimising remote observations at the NTT-ESO in the context of scientific topics of both the SOXS Con…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 22 cited

Asteroseismology of luminous red giants with Kepler. II. Dependence of mass loss on pulsations and radiation

Jie Yu, Saskia Hekker, Timothy R. Bedding +5

Mass loss by red giants is an important process to understand the final stages of stellar evolution and the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium. Mass-loss rates are thou…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 44 cited

Charged polarons and molecules in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Esben Rohan Christensen, Arturo Camacho-Guardian, Georg M. Bruun

We investigate the properties a mobile ion immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using different theoretical approaches. A coherent state variational ansatz predicts that th…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 194 cited

The updated BaSTI stellar evolution models and isochrones: II. alpha-enhanced calculations

A. Pietrinferni, S. L. Hidalgo, S. Cassisi +7

This is the second paper of a series devoted to present an updated release of the BaSTI ( a Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones) stellar model and isochrone library. Following the…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 29 cited

Testing the intrinsic scatter of the asteroseismic scaling relations with Kepler red giants

Yaguang Li, Timothy R. Bedding, Dennis Stello +3

Asteroseismic scaling relations are often used to derive stellar masses and radii, particulaly for stellar, exoplanet, and Galactic studies. It is therefore important that their pr…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 39 cited

Luminous Red Nova AT 2019zhd, a new merger in M 31

A. Pastorello, M. Fraser, G. Valerin +20

We present the follow-up campaign of the luminous red nova (LRN) AT~2019zhd, the third event of this class observed in M 31. The object was followed by several sky surveys for abou…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 45 cited

TESS observations of Cepheid stars: first light results

E. Plachy, A. Pál, A. Bódi +33

We present the first analysis of Cepheid stars observed by the TESS space mission in Sectors 1 to 5. Our sample consists of 25 pulsators: ten fundamental mode, three overtone and t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 50 cited

Prospects for Galactic and stellar astrophysics with asteroseismology of giant stars in the Continuous Viewing Zones and beyond

J. Ted Mackereth, Andrea Miglio, Yvonne Elsworth +30

The NASA- mission presents a treasure trove for understanding the stars it observes and the Milky Way, in which they reside. We present a first look at the prospects for…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 16 cited

Short-term variability and mass loss in Be stars VI. Frequency groups in Cas detected by TESS

Jonathan Labadie-Bartz, Dietrich Baade, Alex C. Carciofi +5

In photometry of Cas (B0.5 IVe) from the SMEI and BRITE-Constellation satellites, indications of low-order non-radial pulsation have recently been found, which would establish…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 6 cited

Photoionization of aligned excited states in neon by attosecond laser pulses

Juan J. Omiste, Lars Bojer Madsen

We describe numerically the ionization process induced by linearly and circularly polarized XUV attosecond laser pulses on an aligned atomic target, specifically, the excited state…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 28 cited

The K2 Galactic Archaeology Program Data Release 2: Asteroseismic results from campaigns 4, 6, & 7

Joel C. Zinn, Dennis Stello, Yvonne Elsworth +18

Studies of Galactic structure and evolution have benefitted enormously from Gaia kinematic information, though additional, intrinsic stellar parameters like age are required to bes…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

The GALAH+ Survey: A New Library of Observed Stellar Spectra Improves Radial Velocities and Hints at Motions within M67

Tomaž Zwitter, Janez Kos, Sven Buder +25

GALAH+ is a magnitude-limited survey of high resolution stellar spectra obtained by the HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Its third data release provi…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 7 cited

Model wavefunctions for an interface between lattice Laughlin and Moore-Read states

Błażej Jaworowski, Anne E. B. Nielsen

We use conformal field theory to construct model wavefunctions for a gapless interface between lattice versions of a bosonic Laughlin state and a fermionic Moore-Read state, both a…

cs.PL2020★ 9 cited

Extracting Smart Contracts Tested and Verified in Coq

Danil Annenkov, Mikkel Milo, Jakob Botsch Nielsen +1

We implement extraction of Coq programs to functional languages based on MetaCoq's certified erasure. As part of this, we implement an optimisation pass removing unused arguments.…

math.RT2020★ 1 cited

On the direct integral decomposition in branching laws for real reductive groups

Jan Frahm

The restriction of an irreducible unitary representation of a real reductive group to a reductive subgroup decomposes into a direct integral of irreducible unitary repr…

nucl-ex2020★ 14 cited

Evidence against the Efimov effect in from spectroscopy and astrophysics

J. Bishop, G. V. Rogachev, S. Ahn +16

Background: The Efimov effect is a universal phenomenon in physics whereby three-body systems are stabilized via the interaction of an unbound two-body sub-systems. A hypothetical…