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astro-ph.SR2015

A Survey for hot Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae I. Methods and First Results

Graham C. Kanarek, Michael M. Shara, Jacqueline K. Faherty +2

We present the results of initial spectrographic followup with the Very Large Telescope (UT3, Melipal) for Galactic plane CIV emission-line candidates in the near-infr…

physics.ins-det2015★ 16 cited

MPX Detectors as LHC Luminosity Monitor

Andre Sopczak, Babar Ali, Nedaa Asbah +15

A network of 16 Medipix-2 (MPX) silicon pixel devices was installed in the ATLAS detector cavern at CERN. It was designed to measure the composition and spectral characteristics of…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 43 cited

Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere from Kepler K2 Observations: Implications for Brown Dwarf Light Curve Analyses

Amy A. Simon, Jason F. Rowe, Patrick Gaulme +9

Observations of Neptune with the Kepler Space Telescope yield a 49-day light curve with 98% coverage at a 1-minute cadence. A significant signature in the light curve comes from di…

q-bio.CB2015★ 71 cited

A mathematical model of granulopoiesis incorporating the negative feedback dynamics and kinetics of G-CSF/neutrophil binding and internalisation

Morgan Craig, Antony R Humphries, Michael C Mackey

We develop a physiological model of granulopoiesis which includes explicit modelling of the kinetics of the cytokine granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) incorporating bot…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89

We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…

hep-ex2015★ 16 cited

Time-dependent analysis of decays and studies of the system in decays

P. del Amo Sanchez, others

We measure the time-dependent asymmetry in the radiative-penguin decay , using a sample of million $Υ(4S) \to B{\kern 0.18em\overline{\kern…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 35 cited

A comparative analysis of the observed white dwarf cooling sequence from globular clusters

Fabíola Campos, P. Bergeron, A. D. Romero +8

We report our study of features at the observed red end of the white dwarf cooling sequences for three Galactic globular clusters: NGC\,6397, 47\,Tucanae and M\,4. We use deep colo…

math-ph2015★ 1 cited

A superintegrable discrete harmonic oscillator based on bivariate Charlier polynomials

Vincent X. Genest, Hiroshi Miki, Luc Vinet +1

A simple discrete model of the two dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator is presented. It is superintegrable with su(2) as its symmetry algebra. It is constructed with the help…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 22 cited

Stable and unstable accretion in the classical T Tauri stars IM Lup and RU Lup as observed by MOST

Michal Siwak, Waldemar Ogloza, Slavek M. Rucinski +8

Results of the time variability monitoring of the two classical T Tauri stars, RU Lup and IM Lup, are presented. Three photometric data sets were utilised: (1) simultaneous (same f…

math.CA2015★ 21 cited

Cubature formulas of multivariate polynomials arising from symmetric orbit functions

Jiří Hrivnák, Lenka Motlochová, Jiří Patera

The paper develops applications of symmetric orbit functions, known from irreducible representations of simple Lie groups, in numerical analysis. It is shown that these functions h…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 46 cited

The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: A First Look at Dense Cores in Orion B

H. Kirk, J. Di Francesco, D. Johnstone +54

We present a first look at the SCUBA-2 observations of three sub-regions of the Orion B molecular cloud: LDN 1622, NGC 2023/2024, and NGC 2068/2071, from the JCMT Gould Belt Legacy…

cs.CV2015

Improving Facial Analysis and Performance Driven Animation through Disentangling Identity and Expression

David Rim, Sina Honari, Md Kamrul Hasan +1

We present techniques for improving performance driven facial animation, emotion recognition, and facial key-point or landmark prediction using learned identity invariant represent…

math-ph2015★ 32 cited

Ramifications of Hurwitz theory, KP integrability and quantum curves

A. Alexandrov, D. Lewanski, S. Shadrin

In this paper we revisit several recent results on monotone and strictly monotone Hurwitz numbers, providing new proofs. In particular, we use various versions of these numbers to…

hep-ex2015★ 75 cited

Reconstruction of hadronic decay products of tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper presents a new method of reconstructing the individual charged and neutral hadrons in tau decays with the ATLAS detector. The reconstructed hadrons are used to classify…

hep-ex2015★ 28 cited

Search for new phenomena with photon+jet events in proton-proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is performed for the production of high-mass resonances decaying into a photon and a jet in 3.2 fb of proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt…

hep-ex2015★ 40 cited

Measurement of the Production Cross Section in Collisions at = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The production cross section in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy is measured using 3.2 fb of data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large…

hep-ex2015★ 85 cited

Search for charged Higgs bosons in the decay channel in collisions at TeV using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Charged Higgs bosons heavier than the top quark and decaying via are searched for in proton--proton collisions measured with the ATLAS experiment at $\sqrt…

hep-ex2015★ 84 cited

Measurement of the differential cross-sections of prompt and non-prompt production of and in collisions at and TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The production rates of prompt and non-prompt and mesons are measured using 2.1 and 11.4 of data collected with the ATLAS experiment at t…

hep-ex2015★ 37 cited

Search for strong gravity in multijet final states produced in pp collisions at 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is conducted for new physics in multijet final states using 3.6 inverse femtobarns of data from proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV taken at the CERN Large Had…

hep-ex2015★ 195 cited

Measurement of the transverse momentum and distributions of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in proton-proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Distributions of transverse momentum and the angular variable of Drell--Yan lepton pairs are measured in 20.3 fb of proton--proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 145 cited

Secure TTV Mass Measurements: Ten Kepler Exoplanets between 3 and 8 Earth Masses with Diverse Densities and Incident Fluxes

Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Eric B. Ford, Jason F. Rowe +7

We infer dynamical masses in eight multi-planet systems using transit times measured from Kepler's complete dataset, including short-cadence data where available. Of the eighteen d…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 48 cited

A coupled 22D Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model. I. Surface magnetic flux evolution

Alexandre Lemerle, Paul Charbonneau, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas

The need for reliable predictions of the solar activity cycle motivates the development of dynamo models incorporating a representation of surface processes sufficiently detailed t…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 232 cited

The MiMeS Survey of Magnetism in Massive Stars: Introduction and overview

G. A. Wade, C. Neiner, E. Alecian +47

The MiMeS project is a large-scale, high resolution, sensitive spectropolarimetric investigation of the magnetic properties of O and early B type stars. Initiated in 2008 and compl…

cs.DL2015★ 5.2k cited

The Journal Coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a Comparative Analysis

Philippe Mongeon, Adele Paul-Hus

Bibliometric methods are used in multiple fields for a variety of purposes, namely for research evaluation. Most bibliometric analyses have in common their data sources: Thomson Re…