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most citedMethods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift-XRT observations of GRBs

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astro-ph.HE2018★ 30 cited

NuSTAR Detection of X-rays Concurrent with Gamma Rays in the Nova V5855 Sgr

Thomas Nelson, Koji Mukai, Kwan-Lok Li +7

We report the first detection of hard (>10 keV) X-ray emission simultaneous with gamma rays in a nova eruption. Observations of the nova V5855 Sgr carried out with the NuSTAR satel…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 24 cited

On the broad-band synchrotron spectra of pulsar wind nebulae

Siyao Xu, Noel Klingler, Oleg Kargaltsev +1

As shown by broad-band observations, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are characterized by a broken power-law spectrum of synchrotron emission. Based on the modern magnetohydrodynamic (M…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 16 cited

Theoretical Evaluation of Electronic Density-of-states and Transport Effects on Field Emission from -type Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films

Oksana Chubenko, Stanislav S. Baturin, Sergey V. Baryshev

In the nitrogen-incorporated ultrananocrystalline diamond ((N)UNCD) films, representing an -type highly conductive two-phase material comprised of diamond grains and $sp^…

nucl-th2018

Polarisabilities from Compton Scattering on 3He

Harald W. Griesshammer, Judith A. McGovern

This executive summary of recent theory progress in Compton scattering off 3He focuses on determining neutron polarisabilities; see ref. [2] and references therein for details and…

math.GT2018★ 3 cited

Schur Multipliers and Second Quandle Homology

Rhea Palak Bakshi, Dionne Ibarra, Sujoy Mukherjee +2

We define a map from second quandle homology to the Schur multiplier and examine its properties. Furthermore, we express the second homology of Alexander quandles in terms of exter…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 34 cited

Physics and astrophysics of strong magnetic field systems with eXTP

Andrea Santangelo, Silvia Zane, Hua Feng +38

In this paper we present the science potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies of strongly magnetized objects. We will focus on the physics…

cs.DC2018★ 15 cited

SIMD-X: Programming and Processing of Graph Algorithms on GPUs

Hang Liu, H. Howie Huang

With high computation power and memory bandwidth, graphics processing units (GPUs) lend themselves to accelerate data-intensive analytics, especially when such applications fit the…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 72 cited

Observatory science with eXTP

Jean J. M. in 't Zand, Enrico Bozzo, Jinlu Qu +181

In this White Paper we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies related to Observatory Science targets. These include flaring s…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 135 cited

Dense matter with eXTP

Anna L. Watts, Wenfei Yu, Juri Poutanen +73

In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extr…

eess.SP2018★ 2 cited

A Rprop-Neural-Network-Based PV Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm with Short-Circuit Current Limitation

Yao Cui, Zhehan Yi, Jiajun Duan +2

This paper proposes a resilient-backpropagation-neural-network-(Rprop-NN) based algorithm for Photovoltaic (PV) maximum power point tracking (MPPT). A supervision mechanism is prop…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 173 cited

A -ray determination of the Universe's star-formation history

LAT Collaboration, M. Ajello, K. Helgason +4

The light emitted by all galaxies over the history of the Universe produces the extragalactic background light (EBL) at ultraviolet, optical, and infrared wavelengths. The EBL is a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 34 cited

NuSTAR Hard X-ray View of Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei: High-energy Cutoff and Truncated Thin Disk

George Younes, Andrew Ptak, Luis C. Ho +5

We report the analysis of simultaneous XMM-Newton+NuSTAR observations of two low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGN), NGC 3998 and NGC 4579. We do not detect any significant…

physics.app-ph2018★ 6 cited

A Guide for Material and Design Choices for Electro-Optic Modulators and recent 2D-Material Silicon Modulator Demonstrations

Rubab Amin, Mario Zhizhen, Rishi Maiti +4

Electro-optic modulation performs a technological relevant functionality such as for communication, beam steering, or neuromorphic computing through providing the nonlinear activat…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 6 cited

Computational nanoplasmonics in the quasistatic limit for biosensing applications

Natalia C. Clementi, Christopher D. Cooper, Lorena A. Barba

This work uses the long-wavelength limit to compute LSPR response of biosensors, expanding the open-source PyGBe code to compute the extinction cross-section of metallic nanopartic…

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…

stat.ME2018★ 6 cited

A Class of Multilevel Nonregular Designs for Studying Quantitative Factors

Lin Wang, Hongquan Xu

Fractional factorial designs are widely used for designing screening experiments. Nonregular fractional factorial designs can have better properties than regular designs, but their…

nucl-ex2018★ 12 cited

Near-threshold photoproduction on the deuteron

B. Strandberg, K. G. Fissum, J. R. M. Annand +29

The first experimental investigation of the near-threshold cross section for incoherent photoproduction on the deuteron d -> pp is presented. The experimental techn…

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★ 37 cited

Unresolved Gamma-Ray Sky through its Angular Power Spectrum

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, L. Baldini +107

The gamma-ray sky has been observed with unprecedented accuracy in the last decade by the Fermi large area telescope (LAT), allowing us to resolve and understand the high-energy Un…

math.NA2018

Energy stable semi-implicit schemes for Allen-Cahn-Ohta-Kawasaki Model in Binary System

Xiang Xu, Yanxiang Zhao

In this paper, we propose a first order energy stable linear semi-implicit method for solving the Allen-Cahn-Ohta-Kawasaki equation. By introducing a new nonlinear term in the Ohta…

physics.med-ph2018★ 3 cited

A Wearable IoT Aldehyde Sensor for Pediatric Asthma Research and Management

Baichen Li, Quan Dong, R. Scott Downen +5

Mechanistic studies of pediatric asthma require objective measures of environmental exposure metrics correlated with physiological responses. Here we report a cloud-based wearable…

physics.app-ph2018★ 5 cited

Compact Graphene Plasmonic Slot Photodetector on Silicon-on-insulator with High Responsivity

Zhizhen Ma, Kazuya Kikunage, Hao Wang +7

Graphene has extraordinary electro-optic properties and is therefore a promising candidate for monolithic photonic devices such as photodetectors. However, the integration of this…

nucl-ex2018★ 21 cited

Experimental study of the , , and reactions at the Mainz Microtron

C. S. Akondi, K. Bantawa, D. M. Manley +78

This work measured for neutral kaon photoproduction reactions from threshold up to a c.m.\ energy of 1855MeV, focussing specifically on the , $γn\righ…

cs.LG2018★ 14 cited

Coordinating Disaster Emergency Response with Heuristic Reinforcement Learning

Long Nguyen, Zhou Yang, Jiazhen Zhu +2

A crucial and time-sensitive task when any disaster occurs is to rescue victims and distribute resources to the right groups and locations. This task is challenging in populated ur…