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physics.class-ph2016★ 31 cited

Harnessing Geometric Frustration to Form Band Gaps in Acoustic Channel Lattices

Pai Wang, Yue Zheng, Matheus C. Fernandes +6

We demonstrate both numerically and experimentally that geometric frustration in two-dimensional periodic acoustic networks consisting of arrays of narrow air channels can be harne…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 22 cited

Probing microplasticity in small scale FCC crystals via Dynamic Mechanical Analysis

Xiaoyue Ni, Stefanos Papanikolaou, Gabriele Vajente +2

In small-scale metallic systems, collective dislocation activity has been correlated with size effects in strength and with a step-like plastic response under uniaxial compression…

q-bio.CB2016★ 63 cited

A mechano-chemical feedback underlies co-existence of qualitatively distinct cell polarity patterns within diverse cell populations

JinSeok Park, William R. Holmes, Sung-Hoon Lee +7

Cell polarization and directional cell migration can display random, persistent and oscillatory dynamic patterns. However, it is not clear if these polarity patterns can be explain…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 39 cited

Dissecting the Extended Main Sequence Turn-off of the Young Star Cluster NGC1850

Matteo Correnti, Paul Goudfrooij, Andrea Bellini +2

We use the Wide Field Camera 3 onboard the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain deep, high-resolution photometry of the young (~ 100 Myr) star cluster NGC1850 in the Large Magellanic C…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 155 cited

CANDELS Multiwavelength Catalogs: Source Identification and Photometry in the CANDELS COSMOS Survey Field

H. Nayyeri, S. Hemmati, B. Mobasher +36

We present a multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the COSMOS field as part of the observations by the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). T…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 46 cited

First scattered-light images of the gas-rich debris disk around 49 Ceti

É. Choquet, J. Milli, Z. Wahhaj +31

We present the first scattered-light images of the debris disk around 49 ceti, a ~40 Myr A1 main sequence star at 59 pc, famous for hosting two massive dust belts as well as large…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 8 cited

Challenges in Cosmology from the Big Bang to Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation

Joseph Silk

I review the current status of Big Bang Cosmology, with emphasis on current issues in dark matter, dark energy, and galaxy formation. These topics motivate many of the current goal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 3 cited

Tetrahedral Bonding in Twisted Bilayer Graphene by Carbon Intercalation

Anindya Roy, Hridis K. Pal

Based on ab initio calculations, we study the effect of intercalating twisted bilayer graphene with carbon. Surprisingly, we find that the intercalant pulls the atoms in the two la…

math.OC2016★ 5 cited

iDroop: A dynamic droop controller to decouple power grid's steady-state and dynamic performance

Enrique Mallada

This paper presents a novel Dynam-i-c Droop (iDroop) control mechanism to perform primary frequency control with gird-connected inverters that improves the network dynamic performa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 56 cited

Electric Properties of Dirac Fermions Captured into 3D Nanoporous Graphene Networks

Yoichi Tanabe, Yoshikazu Ito, Katsuaki Sugawara +12

Graphene, as a promising material of post-silicon electronics, opens a new paradigm for the novel electronic properties and device applications. On the other hand, the 2D feature o…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 40 cited

SDSS IV MaNGA: Deep observations of extra-planar, diffuse ionized gas around late-type galaxies from stacked IFU spectra

A. Jones, G. Kauffmann, R. D'Souza +16

We have conducted a study of extra-planar diffuse ionized gas using the first year data from the MaNGA IFU survey. We have stacked spectra from 49 edge-on, late-type galaxies as a…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 77 cited

The Galah Survey: Classification and diagnostics with t-SNE reduction of spectral information

G. Traven, G. Matijevič, T. Zwitter +24

Galah is an ongoing high-resolution spectroscopic survey with the goal of disentangling the formation history of the Milky Way, using the fossil remnants of disrupted star formatio…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 134 cited

The distribution of radioactive Ti in Cassiopeia A

Brian W. Grefenstette, Chris L. Fryer, Fiona A. Harrison +28

The distribution of elements produced in the inner-most layers of a supernova explosion is a key diagnostic for studying the collapse of massive stars. Here we present the results…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 30 cited

Chromospherically Active Stars in the RAVE Survey. II. Young dwarfs in the Solar neighborhood

M. Žerjal, T. Zwitter, G. Matijevič +19

A large sample of over 38,000 chromospherically active candidate solar-like stars and cooler dwarfs from the RAVE survey is addressed in this paper. An improved activity identifica…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 13 cited

Chandra Reveals Heavy Obscuration and Circumnuclear Star Formation in Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 4968

Stephanie M. LaMassa, Tahir Yaqoob, N. A. Levenson +6

We present the Chandra imaging and spectral analysis of NGC 4968, a nearby (z = 0.00986) Seyfert 2 galaxy. We discover extended (1 kpc) X-ray emission in the soft band (0.5 -…

cs.RO2016★ 4 cited

Do What I Want, Not What I Did: Imitation of Skills by Planning Sequences of Actions

Chris Paxton, Felix Jonathan, Marin Kobilarov +1

We propose a learning-from-demonstration approach for grounding actions from expert data and an algorithm for using these actions to perform a task in new environments. Our approac…

cs.LG2016★ 165 cited

The Neural Hawkes Process: A Neurally Self-Modulating Multivariate Point Process

Hongyuan Mei, Jason Eisner

Many events occur in the world. Some event types are stochastically excited or inhibited---in the sense of having their probabilities elevated or decreased---by patterns in the seq…

cs.LG2016★ 11 cited

Symmetry, Saddle Points, and Global Optimization Landscape of Nonconvex Matrix Factorization

Xingguo Li, Junwei Lu, Raman Arora +4

We propose a general theory for studying the \xl{landscape} of nonconvex \xl{optimization} with underlying symmetric structures \tz{for a class of machine learning problems (e.g.,…

hep-ex2016★ 45 cited

Search for heavy gauge W' bosons in events with an energetic lepton and large missing transverse momentum at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for W' bosons in events with an electron or muon and large missing transverse momentum, using proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV collected with…

hep-ex2016★ 40 cited

Measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma with two jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings

CMS Collaboration

A measurement of electroweak-induced production of W gamma and two jets is performed, where the W boson decays leptonically. The data used in the analysis correspond to an integrat…

hep-ex2016★ 48 cited

Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for new massive resonances decaying to WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in l nu quark anti-quark and quark anti-quark quark anti-quark final states. Results are based on d…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 146 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Inflation

CORE Collaboration, Fabio Finelli, Martin Bucher +129

We forecast the scientific capabilities to improve our understanding of cosmic inflation of CORE, a proposed CMB space satellite submitted in response to the ESA fifth call for a m…

cs.CV2016★ 6 cited

A Fixed-Point Model for Pancreas Segmentation in Abdominal CT Scans

Yuyin Zhou, Lingxi Xie, Wei Shen +3

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted for automatic organ segmentation from abdominal CT scans. However, the segmentation accuracy of some small organs (e.g., the pancreas)…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 22 cited

Cluster-Void Degeneracy Breaking: Modified Gravity in the Balance

Martin Sahlén, Joseph Silk

Combining galaxy cluster and void abundances is a novel, powerful way to constrain deviations from General Relativity and the CDM model. For a flat CDM model with growth of l…