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hep-ex2018★ 3 cited

Measurements of branching fraction and direct asymmetry in and a search for

The Belle Collaboration, A. B. Kaliyar, P. Behera +197

We study charmless hadronic decays of charged mesons to the final states and using a data sample that cont…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 42 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Validation of weak lensing cluster member contamination estimates from P(z) decomposition

T. N. Varga, J. DeRose, D. Gruen +68

Weak lensing source galaxy catalogs used in estimating the masses of galaxy clusters can be heavily contaminated by cluster members, prohibiting accurate mass calibration. In this…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 80 cited

Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Fifteen Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1129

We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from sixteen well localized candidate neutron stars assuming none of the stars has a binary companion. The searches…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 75 cited

A New RASS Galaxy Cluster Catalog with Low Contamination Extending to in the DES Overlap Region

Matthias Klein, Sebastian Grandis, Joseph Mohr +2

We present the MARD-Y3 catalog of between 1086 and 2171 galaxy clusters (52\% and 65\% new) produced using multi-component matched filter (MCMF) followup in 5000\,deg of DES-Y3…

hep-ph2018★ 11 cited

A meta-analysis of neutron lifetime measurements

Ashwani Rajan, Shantanu Desai

We calculated the median as well as weighted mean central estimates for the neutron lifetime, from a subset of measurements compiled in the 2019 update of the Particle Data Group (…

hep-ph2018

A Mini-review on Vector-like Leptonic Dark Matter, Neutrino Mass and Collider Signatures

Subhaditya Bhattacharya, Purusottam Ghosh, Nirakar Sahoo +1

We review a class of models in which the Standard Model (SM) is augmented by vector-like leptons: one doublet and a singlet, which are odd under an unbroken discrete symmetry…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 105 cited

Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey

C. R. Angus, M. Smith, M. Sullivan +72

We present a sample of 21 hydrogen-free superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), and one hydrogen-rich SLSN (SLSN-II) detected during the five-year Dark Energy Survey (DES). These SNe,…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 104 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Detection of Intra-cluster Light at Redshift 0.25

Y. Zhang, B. Yanny, A. Palmese +69

Using data collected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we report the detection of intracluster light (ICL) with galaxy clusters in the redshift range of 0.2-0.3. We design…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 368 cited

Cluster Cosmology Constraints from the 2500 deg SPT-SZ Survey: Inclusion of Weak Gravitational Lensing Data from Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope

S. Bocquet, J. P. Dietrich, T. Schrabback +77

We derive cosmological constraints using a galaxy cluster sample selected from the 2500~deg SPT-SZ survey. The sample spans the redshift range and contains 343 c…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 21 cited

A Search for Optical Emission from Binary-Black-Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

Z. Doctor, R. Kessler, K. Herner +96

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers found by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are of immense scientific interest to the astrophysics community, but are considered unlikely to be sources of…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 59 cited

Chemical Abundance Analysis of Tucana III, the Second -process Enhanced Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy

J. L. Marshall, T. Hansen, J. D. Simon +56

We present a chemical abundance analysis of four additional confirmed member stars of Tucana III, a Milky Way satellite galaxy candidate in the process of being tidally disrupted a…

hep-ex2018★ 10 cited

Observation of and search for and at near 10.6 GeV at Belle

Belle Collaboration, S. Jia, X. L. Wang +190

Using data samples of 89.5~fb, 711.0~fb, and 121.4~fb collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy collider at center-of-mass energ…

cs.SI2018★ 4 cited

Understanding and Predicting Links in Graphs: A Persistent Homology Perspective

Sumit Bhatia, Bapi Chatterjee, Deepak Nathani +1

Persistent Homology is a powerful tool in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) to capture topological properties of data succinctly at different spatial resolutions. For graphical data,…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 901 cited

Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1138

We present results on the mass, spin, and redshift distributions with phenomenological population models using the ten binary black hole mergers detected in the first and second ob…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 3.5k cited

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1148

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 during the first and second observing…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Effect of induced seismicity on advanced gravitational wave interferometers

Nikhil Mukund, Brian O'Reilly, Surendra Nadh Somala +1

Advanced LIGO and the next generation of ground-based detectors aim to capture many more binary coalescences through improving sensitivity and duty cycle. Earthquakes have always b…

cs.CV2018★ 14 cited

Universal Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Tarun Kalluri, Girish Varma, Manmohan Chandraker +1

In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limit…

hep-ex2018★ 52 cited

First measurements of absolute branching fractions of at Belle

Belle Collaboration, Y. B. Li, C. P. Shen +158

We present the first measurements of absolute branching fractions of decays into , , and final states. The measurements are made using a…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 10 cited

Bound on the graviton mass from Chandra X-ray cluster sample

Sajal Gupta, Shantanu Desai

We present new limits on the graviton mass using a sample of 12 relaxed galaxy clusters, for which temperature and gas density profiles were derived by Vikhlinin et al (astro-ph/05…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 72 cited

More out of less: an excess integrated Sachs-Wolfe signal from supervoids mapped out by the Dark Energy Survey

A. Kovács, C. Sánchez, J. García-Bellido +68

The largest structures in the cosmic web probe the dynamical nature of dark energy through their integrated Sachs-Wolfe imprints. In the strength of the signal, typical cosmic void…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 94 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Constraints on Intrinsic Alignments and their Colour Dependence from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

S. Samuroff, J. Blazek, M. A. Troxel +70

We perform a joint analysis of intrinsic alignments and cosmology using tomographic weak lensing, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from Year 1 (Y1) of the D…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 80 cited

Measurement of the Splashback Feature around SZ-selected Galaxy Clusters with DES, SPT and ACT

T. Shin, S. Adhikari, E. J. Baxter +107

We present a detection of the splashback feature around galaxy clusters selected using their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal. Recent measurements of the splashback feature around op…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 105 cited

Finding high-redshift strong lenses in DES using convolutional neural networks

C. Jacobs, T. Collett, K. Glazebrook +63

We search Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 imaging data for galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural networks. We generate 250,000 simulated lenses at re…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 64 cited

Quasar Accretion Disk Sizes from Continuum Reverberation Mapping in the DES Standard Star Fields

Zhefu Yu, Paul Martini, T. M. Davis +72

Measurements of the physical properties of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei are important for better understanding the growth and evolution of supermassive black holes. We…