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astro-ph.HE2012★ 102 cited

Constraints on the origin of cosmic rays above eV from large scale anisotropy searches in data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search for large scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is reported. For…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 139 cited

How Gravitational-wave Observations Can Shape the Gamma-ray Burst Paradigm

Imre Bartos, Patrick Brady, Szabolcs Marka

By reaching through shrouding blastwaves, efficiently discovering off-axis events, and probing the central engine at work, gravitational wave (GW) observations will soon revolution…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 321 cited

Science with the Murchison Widefield Array

Judd D. Bowman, Iver Cairns, David L. Kaplan +58

Significant new opportunities for astrophysics and cosmology have been identified at low radio frequencies. The Murchison Widefield Array is the first telescope in the Southern Hem…

math.GR2012★ 23 cited

Relations between various boundaries of relatively hyperbolic groups

Hung Cong Tran

Suppose a group is relatively hyperbolic with respect to a collection $\PP$ of its subgroups and also acts properly, cocompactly on a $\CAT(0)$ (or --hyperbolic) space .…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 23 cited

Electronic thermal conductivity as derived by density functional theory

M. X. Chen, R. Podloucky

Reliable evaluation of the lattice thermal conductivity is of importance for optimizing the figure-of-merit of thermoelectric materials. Traditionally, when deriving the phonon med…

stat.ME2012★ 1 cited

The functional singular value decomposition for bivariate stochastic processes

Daniel Gervini

In this article we present some statistical applications of the functional singular value decomposition (FSVD). This tool allows us to decompose the sample mean of a bivariate stoc…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 115 cited

Binary Millisecond Pulsar Discovery via Gamma-Ray Pulsations

H. J. Pletsch, L. Guillemot, H. Fehrmann +150

Millisecond pulsars, old neutron stars spun-up by accreting matter from a companion star, can reach high rotation rates of hundreds of revolutions per second. Until now, all such "…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 77 cited

A Search for Point Sources of EeV Neutrons

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search of the sky exposed at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory reveals no statistically significant excess of events in any small solid angle that would be indicat…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 41 cited

Low Frequency Observations of the Moon with the Murchison Widefield Array

B. McKinley, F. Briggs, D. L. Kaplan +49

A new generation of low frequency radio telescopes is seeking to observe the redshifted 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), requiring innovative methods of calibrati…

physics.optics2012★ 50 cited

Multiple-beam Propagation in an Anderson Localized Optical Fiber

Salman Karbasi, Karl W. Koch, Arash Mafi

We investigate the simultaneous propagation of multiple beams in a disordered Anderson localized optical fiber. The profiles of each beam fall off exponentially, enabling multiple…

hep-ph2012★ 58 cited

Right-Handed Neutrinos as the Dark Radiation: Status and Forecasts for the LHC

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Gary Steigman

Precision data from cosmology (probing the CMB decoupling epoch) and light-element abundances (probing the BBN epoch) have hinted at the presence of extra relativistic degrees of f…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 11 cited

Comparing H-alpha and HI Surveys as Means to a Complete Local Galaxy Catalog in the Advanced LIGO/Virgo Era

Brian D. Metzger, David L. Kaplan, Edo Berger

Identifying the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by upcoming networks of advanced ground-based interferometers will be challenging due in pa…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 10 cited

A search for anisotropy in the arrival directions of ultra high energy cosmic rays recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

Observations of cosmic ray arrival directions made with the Pierre Auger Observatory have previously provided evidence of anisotropy at the 99% CL using the correlation of ultra hi…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 76 cited

Search for Point-Like Sources of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory and Improved Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Tau Neutrinos

Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Surface Detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory can detect neutrinos with energy between 10^17 eV and 10^20 eV from point-like sources across the sky south of +55 deg an…

math.QA2012★ 17 cited

Isomorphisms of some quantum spaces

Jason Gaddis

We consider a series of questions that grew out of determining when two quantum planes are isomorphic. In particular, we consider a similar question for quantum matrix algebras and…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 55 cited

Large scale distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search for large scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is presented. Th…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 63 cited

A Parameter-Space Study of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Mergers

Chenchong Zhu, Philip Chang, Marten van Kerkwijk +1

The merger of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs can lead either to a spectacular transient, stable nuclear burning or a massive, rapidly rotating white dwarf. Simulations of mergers h…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 158 cited

Galactic Outflows in Absorption and Emission: Near-UV Spectroscopy of Galaxies at 1<z<2

Dawn K. Erb, Anna M. Quider, Alaina L. Henry +1

We study large-scale outflows in a sample of 96 star-forming galaxies at 1<z<2, using near-UV spectroscopy of FeII and MgII absorption and emission. The average blueshift of the Fe…

gr-qc2012★ 78 cited

Gravitational waves from BH-NS binaries: Effective Fisher matrices and parameter estimation using higher harmonics

Hee-Suk Cho, Evan Ochsner, Richard O'Shaughnessy +2

Inspiralling black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries emit a complicated gravitational wave signature, produced by multiple harmonics sourced by their strong local gravitational fi…

math.OC2012

A nonsmooth program for jamming hard spheres

Peter Hinow

We study packings of hard spheres of equal radius in the -dimensional unit cube. We present a nonsmooth function whose local extrema are the radii of jammed packings (where…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 80 cited

Parameter Estimation in Searches for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

Vuk Mandic, Eric Thrane, Stefanos Giampanis +1

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to arise from the superposition of many independent and unresolved gravitational-wave signals of either cosmological…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 148 cited

Antennas for the Detection of Radio Emission Pulses from Cosmic-Ray induced Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, M. Ahlers +512

The Pierre Auger Observatory is exploring the potential of the radio detection technique to study extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Auger Engineer…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 107 cited

Fast Holographic Deconvolution: a new technique for precision radio interferometry

Ian Sullivan, Miguel Morales, Bryna Hazelton +48

We introduce the Fast Holographic Deconvolution method for analyzing interferometric radio data. Our new method is an extension of A-projection/software-holography/forward modeling…

gr-qc2012★ 120 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +800

We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the…