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cond-mat.str-el2018★ 2 cited

Investigation of Thermodynamic Properties of Cu(NH3)4SO4.H2O, a Heisenberg Spin Chain Compound

Tanmoy Chakraborty, Harkirat Singh, Dipanjan Chaudhuri +3

Detailed experimental investigations of thermal and magnetic properties are presented for Cu(NH3)4SO4.H2O, an ideal uniform Heisenberg spin half chain compound. A comparison of the…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 99 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Exploring the gas-phase Mass-Metallicity Relation

S. F. Sanchez, J. K. Barrera-Ballesteros, C. Lopez-Coba +13

We present a detailed exploration of the stellar mass vs. gas-phase metallicity relation (MZR) using integral field spectroscopy data obtained from ~1000 galaxies observed by the S…

cs.CV2018★ 6 cited

Deep Learning for Automated Classification of Tuberculosis-Related Chest X-Ray: Dataset Specificity Limits Diagnostic Performance Generalizability

Seelwan Sathitratanacheewin, Krit Pongpirul

Machine learning has been an emerging tool for various aspects of infectious diseases including tuberculosis surveillance and detection. However, WHO provided no recommendations on…

hep-th2018★ 51 cited

A Bound on Massive Higher Spin Particles

Nima Afkhami-Jeddi, Sandipan Kundu, Amirhossein Tajdini

According to common lore, massive elementary higher spin particles lead to inconsistencies when coupled to gravity. However, this scenario was not completely ruled out by previous…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 5 cited

HST FUV spectroscopy of the short orbital period recurrent nova CI Aql: Implications for white dwarf mass evolution

Edward M. Sion, R. E. Wilson, Patrick Godon +3

An HST COS Far UV spectrum (1170 A to 1800 A) was obtained for the short orbital period recurrent novae (T Pyxidis subclass), CI Aquilae. CI Aql is the only classical CV known to h…

cs.RO2018

FBG-Based Position Estimation of Highly Deformable Continuum Manipulators: Model-Dependent vs. Data-Driven Approaches

Shahriar Sefati, Rachel Hegeman, Farshid Alambeigi +2

Conventional shape sensing techniques using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) involve finding the curvature at discrete FBG active areas and integrating curvature over the length of the co…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 13 cited

The Neutral Hydrogen Properties of Galaxies in Gas-rich Groups

Robert Džudžar, Virginia Kilborn, Gerhardt Meurer +23

We present an analysis of the integrated neutral hydrogen (HI) properties for 27 galaxies within nine low mass, gas-rich, late-type dominated groups which we denote "Choirs". We fi…

hep-th2018★ 18 cited

The Most Irrational Rational Theories

Nathan Benjamin, Ethan Dyer, A. Liam Fitzpatrick +1

We propose a two-parameter family of modular invariant partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) holographically dual to pure three-dimensional gravity…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 38 cited

SOFIA Far Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of M82 and NGC 253: Exploring the Super-Galactic Wind

Terry Jay Jones, C. Darren Dowell, Enrique Lopez Rodriguez +22

We present Far-Infrared polarimetry observations of M82 at 53 and and NGC 253 at , which were taken with HAWC+ in polarimetry mode on the Stratospheric Ob…

stat.ML2018★ 35 cited

Linking Gaussian Process regression with data-driven manifold embeddings for nonlinear data fusion

Seungjoon Lee, Felix Dietrich, George E. Karniadakis +1

In statistical modeling with Gaussian Process regression, it has been shown that combining (few) high-fidelity data with (many) low-fidelity data can enhance prediction accuracy, c…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 40 cited

Nebular Spectroscopy of Kepler's Brightest Supernova

G. Dimitriadis, C. Rojas-Bravo, C. D. Kilpatrick +9

We present late-time (240-260 days after peak brightness) optical photometry and nebular (+236 and +264 days) spectroscopy of SN 2018oh, the brightest Type Ia supernova (SN I…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 48 cited

[CII] 158 Micron Emission from z~4 HI Absorption-Selected Galaxies

Marcel Neeleman, Nissim Kanekar, J. Xavier Prochaska +2

We report on a search for the [CII] 158 micron emission line from galaxies associated with four high-metallicity damped Ly-alpha absorbers (DLAs) at z ~ 4 using the Atacama Large M…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 21 cited

The course of the Orphan Stream in the Northern Galactic Hemisphere traced with Gaia DR2

Mark A. Fardal, Roeland P. van der Marel, Sangmo Tony Sohn +1

The Orphan Stream is one of the most prominent tidal streams in the Galactic halo. Using data on red giants, RR Lyrae, and horizontal branch stars from Gaia and other surveys, we d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 1 cited

Synthesis, crystal growth and characterization of the pyrochlore Er2Ti2O7

Q. Wang, A. Ghasemi, A. Scheie +1

Pyrochlore erbium titanate samples in the form of powders (with nominal compositions of Er2Ti2+xO7) and bulk single crystals were prepared to elucidate the effect of synthesis and…

cs.LG2018

Generative Adversarial Networks for Recovering Missing Spectral Information

Dung N. Tran, Trac D. Tran, Lam Nguyen

Ultra-wideband (UWB) radar systems nowadays typical operate in the low frequency spectrum to achieve penetration capability. However, this spectrum is also shared by many others co…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 144 cited

Investigating the properties of stripped-envelope supernovae, what are the implications for their progenitors?

S. J. Prentice, C. Ashall, P. A. James +41

We present observations and analysis of 18 stripped-envelope supernovae observed during 2013 -- 2018. This sample consists of 5 H/He-rich SNe, 6 H-poor/He-rich SNe, 3 narrow lined…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 206 cited

Hubble PanCET: An extended upper atmosphere of neutral hydrogen around the warm Neptune GJ 3470 b

V. Bourrier, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, D. Ehrenreich +16

GJ 3470b is a warm Neptune transiting an M-dwarf star at the edge of the evaporation desert. It offers the possibility of investigating how low-mass, close-in exoplanets evolve und…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 25 cited

Evidence for mass accretion driven by spiral shocks onto the white dwarf in SDSS J123813.73-033933.0

A. F. Pala, B. T. Gänsicke, T. R. Marsh +21

We present high-time-resolution photometry and phase-resolved spectroscopy of the short-period () cataclysmic variable SDSS J123813.73-033933.…

cs.CV2018

Evaluating the Impact of Intensity Normalization on MR Image Synthesis

Jacob C. Reinhold, Blake E. Dewey, Aaron Carass +1

Image synthesis learns a transformation from the intensity features of an input image to yield a different tissue contrast of the output image. This process has been shown to have…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 54 cited

Anomalously low metallicity regions in MaNGA star-forming galaxies: Accretion Caught in Action?

Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Timothy M. Heckman +14

We use data from 1222 late-type star-forming galaxies in the SDSS IV MaNGA survey to identify regions in which the gas-phase metallicity is anomalously-low compared to expectations…

cs.CV2018

Identity-Enhanced Network for Facial Expression Recognition

Yanwei Li, Xingang Wang, Shilei Zhang +4

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task, arguably because of large intra-class variations and high inter-class similarities. The core drawback of the existing approache…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 4 cited

Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with LSST

R. Margutti, P. Cowperthwaite, Z. Doctor +79

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of GW+EM multi-messenger astronomy. Exploiting this breakthrough req…

hep-th2018★ 21 cited

Class Anomalies from M-theory Inflow

Ibrahima Bah, Federico Bonetti, Ruben Minasian +1

We present a first principles derivation of the anomaly polynomials of 4d class theories of type with arbitrary regular punctures, using a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 7 cited

X-ray reflectivity with a twist: quantitative time-resolved X-ray reflectivity using monochromatic synchrotron radiation

Howie Joress, Shane Quinlan Arlington, Timothy P. Weihs +2

We have developed an improved method of time-resolved x-ray reflectivity (XRR) using monochromatic synchrotron radiation. Our method utilizes a polycapillary x-ray optic to create…