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cs.SI2016★ 46 cited

User characterization for online social networks

Tayfun Tuna, Esra Akbas, Ahmet Aksoy +4

Online social network analysis has attracted great attention with a vast number of users sharing information and availability of APIs that help to crawl online social network data.…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 69 cited

Validating gravitational-wave detections: The Advanced LIGO hardware injection system

C. Biwer, D. Barker, J. C. Batch +44

Hardware injections are simulated gravitational-wave signals added to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The detectors' test masses are physically disp…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 34 cited

Multi-wavelength study of the supernova remnant Kes 79 (G33.6+0.1): On its supernova properties and expansion into a molecular environment

Ping Zhou, Yang Chen, Samar Safi-Harb +4

Kes 79 (G33.6+0.1) is an aspherical thermal composite supernova remnant (SNR) observed across the electromagnetic spectrum and showing an unusual highly-structured morphology, in a…

physics.space-ph2016★ 82 cited

Heliosheath Processes and the Structure of the Heliopause: Modeling Energetic Particles, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields

N. V. Pogorelov, H. Fichtner, A. Czechowski +11

This paper summarizes the results obtained by the team "Heliosheath Processes and the Structure of the Heliopause: Modeling Energetic Particles, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields" s…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 33 cited

A new method to quantify and reduce projection error in whole-solar-active-region parameters measured from vector magnetograms

David A. Falconer, Sanjiv K. Tiwari, Ronald L. Moore +1

Projection error limits the use of vector magnetograms of active regions (ARs) far from disk center. In this Letter, for ARs observed up to 60o from disk center, we demonstrate a m…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 1 cited

The role of Cerenkov radiation in the pressure balance of cool core clusters of galaxies

Richard Lieu

Despite the substantial progress made recently in understanding the role of AGN feedback and associated non-thermal effects, the precise mechanism that prevents the core of some cl…

gr-qc2016★ 312 cited

Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +992

A wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources are expected to contribute to a stochastic gravitational-wave background. Following the observations of GW150914 and GW1512…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 42 cited

A Microfilament-Eruption Mechanism for Solar Spicules

Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore

Recent investigations indicate that solar coronal jets result from eruptions of small-scale chromospheric filaments, called minifilaments; that is, the jets are produced by scaled-…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1 cited

Improvement in the accuracy of flux measurement of radio sources by exploiting an arithmetic pattern in photon bunching noise

Richard Lieu

A hierarchy of statistics of increasing sophistication and accuracy is proposed, to exploit an interesting and fundamental arithmetic structure in the photon bunching noise of inco…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 8 cited

Are fast radio bursts the birthmark of magnetars?

Richard Lieu

A model of fast radio bursts, which enlists young, short period extragalactic magnetars satisfying ~G~s (1~G = 1~statvolt~cm) as the source, i…

gr-qc2016★ 102 cited

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +986

We present the results from an all-sky search for short-duration gravitational waves in the data of the first run of the Advanced LIGO detectors between September 2015 and January…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 4 cited

Particle-in-cell Simulations of Global Relativistic Jets with Helical Magnetic Fields

Ioana Duţan, Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, Yosuke Mizuno +11

We study the interaction of relativistic jets with their environment, using 3-dimensional relativistic particle-in-cell simulations for two cases of jet composition: (i) electron-p…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 76 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, IPN Collaboration +1002

We present the results of the search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with -ray bursts detected during the first observing run of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravi…

gr-qc2016★ 138 cited

Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +999

Parameter estimates of GW150914 were obtained using Bayesian inference, based on three semi-analytic waveform models for binary black hole coalescences. These waveform models diffe…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 138 cited

Magnetic Flux Cancellation as the Trigger of Solar Quiet-Region Coronal Jets

Navdeep K. Panesar, Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore +1

We report observations of ten random on-disk solar quiet region coronal jets found in high resolution Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)/Atm…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 22 cited

High-Energy Non-Thermal and Thermal Emission from GRB141207A detected by Fermi

Makoto Arimoto, Katsuaki Asano, Masanori Ohno +5

The bright long gamma-ray burst GRB 141207A was observed by the {\it Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} and detected by both instruments onboard. The observations show that the spect…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited

TeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy from the Magnetic Field at the Heliospheric Boundary

Vanessa López-Barquero, S. Xu, P. Desiati +3

We performed numerical calculations to test the suggestion by Desiati & Lazarian (2013) that the anisotropies of TeV cosmic rays may arise from their interactions with the heliosph…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 10 cited

Microscopic Processes in Global Relativistic Jets Containing Helical Magnetic Fields

Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, Yosuke Mizuno, Jacek Niemiec +11

In the study of relativistic jets one of the key open questions is their interaction with the environment on the microscopic level. Here, we study the initial evolution of both ele…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 5 cited

Interstellar Pickup Ion Production in the Global Heliosphere and Heliosheath

Yihong Wu, Vladimir Florinski, Xiaocheng Guo

Interstellar Pickup ions (PUIs) play a significant part in mediating the solar wind (SW) interaction with the interstellar medium. In this paper, we examine the details of spatial…

cs.CV2016★ 1 cited

The CUDA LATCH Binary Descriptor: Because Sometimes Faster Means Better

Christopher Parker, Matthew Daiter, Kareem Omar +2

Accuracy, descriptor size, and the time required for extraction and matching are all important factors when selecting local image descriptors. To optimize over all these requiremen…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 5 cited

Probing shock geometry via the charge to mass ratio dependence of heavy ion spectra from multiple spacecraft observations of the 2013 November 4 event

Lulu Zhao, Gang Li, G. M. Mason +5

In large SEP events, ions can be accelerated at CME-driven shocks to very high energies. Spectra of heavy ions in many large SEP events show features such as roll-overs or spectral…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 26 cited

Pickup Ion Effect of the Solar Wind Interaction with the Local Interstellar Medium

Nikolai V. Pogorelov, Matthew C. Bedford, Igor A. Kryukov +1

Pickup ions are created when interstellar neutral atoms resonantly exchange charge with the solar wind (SW) ions, especially in the supersonic part of the wind, where they carry mo…

physics.space-ph2016★ 34 cited

Modeling the Solar Wind at the Ulysses, Voyager, and New Horizons Spacecraft

T. K. Kim, N. V. Pogorelov, G. P. Zank +2

The outer heliosphere is a dynamic region shaped largely by the interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar medium. While interplanetary magnetic field and plasma obser…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 228 cited

A Comparison of Flare Forecasting Methods, I: Results from the "All-Clear" Workshop

G. Barnes, K. D. Leka, C. J. Schrijver +15

Solar flares produce radiation which can have an almost immediate effect on the near-Earth environment, making it crucial to forecast flares in order to mitigate their negative eff…