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quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Switchable Damping for a One-Particle Oscillator

X. Fan, S. E. Fayer, T. G. Myers +3

The possibility to switch the damping rate for a one-electron oscillator is demonstrated, for an electron that oscillates along the magnetic field axis in a Penning trap. Strong ax…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

First Co-spatial Comparison of Stellar, Neutral-, and Ionized-gas Metallicities in a metal-rich galaxy: M83

Svea Hernandez, Alessandra Aloisi, Bethan L. James +14

We carry out a comparative analysis of the metallicities from the stellar, neutral-gas, and ionized-gas components in the metal-rich spiral galaxy M83. We analyze spectroscopic obs…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 26 cited

SN 2017gci: a nearby Type I Superluminous Supernova with a bumpy tail

Achille Fiore, Ting-Wan Chen, Anders Jerkstrand +26

We present and discuss the optical spectro-photometric observations of the nearby (z=0.087) Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN I) SN 2017gci, whose peak K-corrected absolute magn…

eess.IV2020★ 44 cited

Adorym: A multi-platform generic x-ray image reconstruction framework based on automatic differentiation

Ming Du, Saugat Kandel, Junjing Deng +7

We describe and demonstrate an optimization-based x-ray image reconstruction framework called Adorym. Our framework provides a generic forward model, allowing one code framework to…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 37 cited

Searches after Gravitational Waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO): Observations and Analysis from Advanced LIGO/Virgo's Third Observing Run

K. Paterson, M. J. Lundquist, J. C. Rastinejad +34

With the conclusion of the third observing run for Advanced LIGO/Virgo (O3), we present a detailed analysis of both triggered and serendipitous observations of 17 gravitational wav…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 25 cited

Recent Star-formation in a Massive Slowly-Quenched Lensed Quiescent Galaxy at z=1.88

Mohammad Akhshik, Katherine E. Whitaker, Joel Leja +10

In this letter, we reconstruct the formation pathway of MRG-S0851, a massive, , strongly lensed, red, galaxy at . While the global p…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 8 cited

Delocalization Transition in Colloidal Crystals

Hector Lopez-Rios, Ali Ehlen, Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Sublattice melting is the loss of order of one lattice component in binary or ternary ionic crystals upon increase in temperature. A related transition has been predicted in colloi…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 8 cited

The Last Journey. II. SMACC -- Subhalo Mass-loss Analysis using Core Catalogs

Imran Sultan, Nicholas Frontiere, Salman Habib +4

This paper introduces SMACC -- Subhalo Mass-loss Analysis using Core Catalogs. SMACC adds a mass model to substructure merger trees based on halo "core tracking." Our approach avoi…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 24 cited

WOCS 5379: Detailed Analysis of the Evolution of a Post-Mass-Transfer Blue Straggler

Meng Sun, Robert D. Mathieu, Emily M. Leiner +1

The blue-straggler binary WOCS 5379 is a member of the old (6-7 Gyr) open cluster NGC 188. WOCS 5379 comprises a blue straggler star with a white dwarf companion in a 120-day eccen…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

Classifying blazar candidates from the 3FGL unassociated catalog into BL Lacs and FSRQs using Swift and WISE data

Amanpreet Kaur, Abraham D. Falcone, Michael C. Stroh

We utilize machine learning methods to distinguish BL Lacertae objects (BL Lac) from Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQ) within a sample of likely X-ray blazar counterparts to Fermi…

cs.RO2020★ 9 cited

Dynamical System Segmentation for Information Measures in Motion

Thomas A. Berrueta, Ana Pervan, Kathleen Fitzsimons +1

Motions carry information about the underlying task being executed. Previous work in human motion analysis suggests that complex motions may result from the composition of fundamen…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 147 cited

First Multimessenger Observations of a Neutron Star Merger

Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock

We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and light. * GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational w…

physics.ins-det2020★ 10 cited

The DAQ system of the 12,000 Channel CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype

B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC will be upgraded to accommodate the 5-fold increase in the instantaneous luminosity expected at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). Concomitant wit…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 35 cited

The role of core-collapse physics in the observability of black-hole neutron-star mergers as multi-messenger sources

Jaime Román-Garza, Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos +10

Recent detailed 1D core-collapse simulations have brought new insights on the final fate of massive stars, which are in contrast to commonly used parametric prescriptions. In this…

q-bio.NC2020★ 3 cited

Paradoxical phase response of gamma rhythms facilitates their entrainment in heterogeneous networks

Xize Xu, Hermann Riecke

The synchronization of different -rhythms arising in different brain areas has been implicated in various cognitive functions. Here, we focus on the effect of the ubiquitous neu…

cond-mat.dis-nn2020★ 9 cited

Emergence of disconnected clusters in heterogeneous complex systems

István A. Kovács, Róbert Juhász

Percolation theory dictates an intuitive picture depicting correlated regions in complex systems as densely connected clusters. While this picture might be adequate at small scales…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 8 cited

Spatial Mapping of Electrostatics and Dynamics across 2D Heterostructures

Akshay A. Murthy, Stephanie M. Ribet, Teodor K. Stanev +6

In situ electron microscopy is a key tool for understanding the mechanisms driving novel phenomena in 2D structures. Unfortunately, due to various practical challenges, technologic…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 51 cited

Diving below the spin-down limit: Constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsar PSR J0537-6910

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1589

We present a search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the young, energetic X-ray pulsar PSR J0537-6910 using data from the second and third observing runs of LIGO and…

physics.ins-det2020★ 44 cited

Design and Characterization of a Phonon-Mediated Cryogenic Particle Detector with an eV-Scale Threshold and 100 keV-Scale Dynamic Range

R. Ren, C. Bathurst, Y. Y. Chang +27

We present the design and characterization of a cryogenic phonon-sensitive 1-gram Si detector exploiting the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke effect to detect single-charge excitations. This…

gr-qc2020★ 71 cited

All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1369

Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of persistent, continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 87 cited

A High-Resolution View of Fast Radio Burst Host Environments

Alexandra G. Mannings, Wen-fai Fong, Sunil Simha +11

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST/WFC3) ultraviolet and infrared observations of eight fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies with sub-arcsecond localizations, including the hos…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 18 cited

GRB 180418A: A possibly-short GRB with a wide-angle outflow in a faint host galaxy

Alicia Rouco Escorial, Wen-fai Fong, Peter Veres +20

We present X-ray and multi-band optical observations of the afterglow and host galaxy of GRB 180418A, discovered by /BAT and /GBM. We present a reanalysis…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 8 cited

The observability of plasmoid-powered -ray flares with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Manuel Meyer, Maria Petropoulou, Ian Christie

The exact mechanism for the production of fast -ray variability in blazars remains debated. Magnetic reconnection, in which plasmoids filled with relativistic particles and magn…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 7 cited

Ground Vibrational State SiO Emission in the VLA BAaDE Survey

V. Dike, M. R. Morris, R. M. Rich +5

Using a subsample of the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution (BAaDE) survey of stellar SiO masers, we explore the prevalence and characteristics of SiO em…