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most citedThe clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

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astro-ph.HE2018★ 60 cited

Influence of Nuclear Reaction Rate Uncertainties on Neutron Star Properties Extracted From X-ray Burst Model-Observation Comparisons

Zach Meisel, Grant Merz, Sophia Medvid

Type-I X-ray bursts can be used to determine properties of accreting neutron stars via comparisons between model calculations and astronomical observations, exploiting the sensitiv…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

nucl-ex2018★ 31 cited

Exploring the Structure of the Bound Proton with Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

M. Hattawy, N. A. Baltzell, R. Dupré +125

In the past two decades, deeply virtual Compton scattering of electrons has been successfully used to advance our knowledge of the partonic structure of the free proton and investi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 27 cited

A faint halo star cluster discovered in the Blanco Imaging of the Southern Sky Survey

S. Mau, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol +13

We present the discovery of a faint, resolved stellar system, BLISS J0321+0438 (BLISS 1), found in Dark Energy Camera data from the first observing run of the Blanco Imaging of the…

nucl-th2018★ 12 cited

Is the unusual near-threshold potential behavior in elastic scattering of weakly bound nuclei a precision error?

Rodrigo Navarro Pérez, Jin Lei

We present the first example of a rigorous uncertainty quantification on elastic Nucleus-Nucleus scattering at energies near the Coulomb barrier. Experimental data has been analyze…

nucl-ex2018

First Measurements of the Double-Polarization Observables , , and in Photoproduction off Transversely Polarized Protons in the Resonance Region

P. Roy, S. Park, V. Crede +145

First measurements of double-polarization observables in photoproduction off the proton are presented using transverse target polarization and data from the CEBAF Large Accepta…

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…

nucl-th2018★ 22 cited

Simultaneous Fitting of Neutron Star Structure and Cooling Data

Spencer Beloin, Sophia Han, Andrew W. Steiner +1

Using a model for the equation of state and composition of dense matter and the magnitude of singlet proton superconductivity and triplet neutron superfluidity, we perform the firs…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 51 cited

Quantifying Chemical Structure and Atomic Energies in Amorphous Silicon Networks

Noam Bernstein, Bishal Bhattarai, Gábor Csányi +3

Amorphous materials are coming within reach of realistic computer simulations, but new approaches are needed to fully understand their intricate atomic structures. Here, we show ho…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 3 cited

PS1-13cbe: The Rapid "Turn on" of a Seyfert 1

Reza Katebi, Ryan Chornock, Edo Berger +11

We present a nuclear transient event, PS1-13cbe, that was first discovered in the Pan-STARRS1 survey in 2013. The outburst occurred in the nucleus of the galaxy SDSS J222153.87+003…

math.QA2018★ 6 cited

Hopf algebra actions in tensor categories

Marcel Bischoff, Alexei Davydov

We prove that commutative algebras in braided tensor categories do not admit faithful Hopf algebra actions unless they come from group actions. We also show that a group action all…

math.ST2018

Minimax adaptive wavelet estimator for the anisotropic functional deconvolution model with unknown kernel

Rida Benhaddou, Qing Liu

In the present paper, we consider the estimation of a periodic two-dimensional function based on observations from its noisy convolution, and convolution kernel $g…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 96 cited

The Foundation Supernova Survey: Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Supernovae from a Single Telescope

D. O. Jones, D. M. Scolnic, R. J. Foley +27

Measurements of the dark energy equation-of-state parameter, , have been limited by uncertainty in the selection effects and photometric calibration of Type Ia supernova…

nucl-ex2018★ 55 cited

Observation of a Be double-Lambda hypernucleus in the J-PARC E07 experiment

H. Ekawa, K. Agari, J. K. Ahn +100

A double- hypernucleus, , was observed by the J-PARC E07 collaboration in nuclear emulsions tagged by the reaction. This event was interprete…

nucl-ex2018★ 23 cited

Measurement of Nuclear Transparency Ratios for Protons and Neutrons

M. Duer, O. Hen, E. Piasetzky +6

This paper presents, for the first time, measurements of neutron transparency ratios for nuclei relative to C measured using the (e,e'n) reaction, spanning measured neutron momenta…

math.QA2018★ 19 cited

Spontaneous symmetry breaking from anyon condensation

Marcel Bischoff, Corey Jones, Yuan-Ming Lu +1

In a physical system undergoing a continuous quantum phase transition, spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when certain symmetries of the Hamiltonian fail to be preserved in the g…

cs.SD2018★ 1 cited

Chord Recognition in Symbolic Music: A Segmental CRF Model, Segment-Level Features, and Comparative Evaluations on Classical and Popular Music

Kristen Masada, Razvan Bunescu

We present a new approach to harmonic analysis that is trained to segment music into a sequence of chord spans tagged with chord labels. Formulated as a semi-Markov Conditional Ran…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 30 cited

A Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernova with Enhanced Iron-Group Absorption: A New Link Between SLSNe and Broad-Lined Type Ic SNe

P. K. Blanchard, M. Nicholl, E. Berger +4

We present optical observations of the Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) SN2017dwh at , which reached mag at peak. Spectra taken a few…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 267 cited

An embedded X-ray source shines through the aspherical AT2018cow: revealing the inner workings of the most luminous fast-evolving optical transients

Raffaella Margutti, B. D. Metzger, R. Chornock +41

We present the first extensive radio to gamma-ray observations of a fast-rising blue optical transient (FBOT), AT2018cow, over its first ~100 days. AT2018cow rose over a few days t…

nucl-th2018★ 24 cited

Can magnetic fields stabilize or destabilize twin stars?

R. O. Gomes, V. Dexheimer, S. Han +1

Sharp phase transitions described by stiff equations of state allow for the existence of a third family of stable compact stars (besides white dwarfs and neutron stars), twin stars…

nucl-th2018★ 49 cited

Ab initio Folding Potentials for Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering based on NCSM One-Body Densities

M. Burrows, Ch. Elster, S. P. Weppner +4

Calculating microscopic optical potentials for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering has already led to large body of work in the past. For folding first-order calculations the nucleo…

cond-mat.dis-nn2018

First principles modeling of the structural, electronic, and vibrational properties of NiPdP bulk metallic glass

Raymond Atta-Fynn, David A. Drabold, Parthapratim Biswas

The structural, vibrational, and electronic properties of NiPdP bulk metallic glass have been studied using molecular-dynamics simulations a…

math.OA2018★ 5 cited

Cartan Triples

Allan P. Donsig, Adam H. Fuller, David R. Pitts

We introduce the class of Cartan triples as a generalization of the notion of a Cartan MASA in a von Neumann algebra. We obtain a one-to-one correspondence between Cartan triples a…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 93 cited

The Berkeley Sample of Stripped-Envelope Supernovae

Isaac Shivvers, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman +22

We present the complete sample of stripped-envelope supernova (SN) spectra observed by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) collaboration over the last three decades: 888 s…