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astro-ph.CO2010★ 30 cited

HerMES: SPIRE/Sub-millimetre Emission from Radio Selected AGN

N. Seymour, M. Symeonidis, M. Page +1

We examine the rest-frame far-infrared emission from powerful radio sources with 1.4GHz luminosity densities of 25<=log(L_1.4/WHz^-1)<=26.5 in the extragalactic Spitzer First Look…

gr-qc2010★ 100 cited

A targeted coherent search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences

Ian Harry, Stephen Fairhurst

We present the details of a method for conducting a targeted, coherent search for compact binary coalescences. The search is tailored to be used as a followup to electromagnetic tr…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 57 cited

The lower limits of disc fragmentation and the prospects for observing fragmenting discs

Dimitris Stamatellos, Anaelle Maury, Anthony Whitworth +1

A large fraction of brown dwarfs and low-mass H-burning stars may form by gravitational fragmentation of protostellar discs. We explore the conditions for disc fragmentation and we…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 25 cited

The QUaD Galactic Plane Survey II: A Compact Source Catalog

T. Culverhouse, P. Ade, J. Bock +28

We present a catalog of compact sources derived from the QUaD Galactic Plane Survey. The survey covers ~800 square degrees of the inner galaxy (|b|<4 degrees) in Stokes I, Q and U…

gr-qc2010★ 174 cited

Tracking the precession of compact binaries from their gravitational-wave signal

Patricia Schmidt, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa +1

We present a simple method to track the precession of a black-hole-binary system, using only information from the gravitational-wave (GW) signal. Our method consists of locating th…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 134 cited

MESS (Mass-loss of Evolved StarS), a Herschel Key Program

M. A. T. Groenewegen, C. Waelkens, M. J. Barlow +39

MESS (Mass-loss of Evolved StarS) is a Guaranteed Time Key Program that uses the PACS and SPIRE instruments on board the Herschel Space Observatory to observe a representative samp…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 22 cited

A Constraint On the Integrated Mass Power Spectrum out to z = 1100 from Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Joseph Smidt, Asantha Cooray, Alexandre Amblard +4

The temperature fluctuations and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are now a well-known probe of the Universe at an infant age of 400,000 years. During the tran…

gr-qc2010★ 1.1k cited

Sensitivity Studies for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories

S. Hild, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese +136

Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are expected to directly observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin. The Einstein Telescope, a…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 248 cited

Herschel-ATLAS: Rapid evolution of dust in galaxies in the last 5 billion years

L. Dunne, H. Gomez, E. da Cunha +38

We present the first direct and unbiased measurement of the evolution of the dust mass function of galaxies over the past 5 billion years of cosmic history using data from the Scie…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 93 cited

Improved constraints on cosmic microwave background secondary anisotropies from the complete 2008 South Pole Telescope data

E. Shirokoff, C. L. Reichardt, L. Shaw +43

We report measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum from the complete 2008 South Pole Telescope (SPT) data set. We analyze twice as much data as the firs…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 10 cited

A blind detection of a large, complex, Sunyaev--Zel'dovich structure

AMI Consortium, :, T. W. Shimwell +58

We present an interesting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) detection in the first of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) 'blind', degree-square fields to have been observed down to our t…

math.OC2010

LLL-reduction for Integer Knapsacks

Iskander Aliev, Martin Henk

Given an integer mxn matrix A satisfying certain regularity assumptions, a well-known integer programming problem asks to find an integer point in the associated knapsack polytope…

math.KT2010★ 3 cited

Modular Invariants and Twisted Equivariant K-theory II: Dynkin diagram symmetries

David E. Evans, Terry Gannon

The most basic structure of chiral conformal field theory (CFT) is the Verlinde ring. Freed-Hopkins-Teleman have expressed the Verlinde ring for the CFT's associated to loop groups…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 33 cited

Anatomy of a post-starburst minor merger: a multi-wavelength WFC3 study of NGC 4150

R. Mark Crockett, Sugata Kaviraj, Joseph I. Silk +22

(Abridged) We present a spatially-resolved near-UV/optical study of NGC 4150, using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Previous studies of this ear…

gr-qc2010★ 3 cited

A search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott +499

The physical mechanisms responsible for pulsar timing glitches are thought to excite quasi-normal mode oscillations in their parent neutron star that couple to gravitational wave e…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 165 cited

The Three-Dimensional Structure of Cassiopeia A

Tracey DeLaney, Lawrence Rudnick, M. D. Stage +9

We used the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph to map nearly the entire extent of Cassiopeia A between 5-40 micron. Using infrared and Chandra X-ray Doppler velocity m…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 13 cited

Which halos host Herschel-ATLAS galaxies in the local Universe?

Qi Guo, Shaun Cole, Cedric G. Lacey +40

We measure the projected cross-correlation between low redshift (z < 0.5) far-IR selected galaxies in the SDP field of the Herschel-ATLAS (H-ATLAS) survey and optically selected ga…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 437 cited

The Detection of a Population of Submillimeter-Bright, Strongly-Lensed Galaxies

Mattia Negrello, R. Hopwood, G. De Zotti +86

Gravitational lensing is a powerful astrophysical and cosmological probe and is particularly valuable at submillimeter wavelengths for the study of the statistical and individual p…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 16 cited

The new generation CMB B-mode polarization experiment: POLARBEAR

The Polarbear Collaboration, J. Errard, P. A. R. Ade +43

We describe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment called Polarbear. This experiment will use the dedicated Huan Tran Telescope equipped with a powerful 1,20…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 42 cited

Herschel-ATLAS: Statistical Properties of Galactic Cirrus in the GAMA-9 Hour Science Demonstration Phase Field

Andrea Bracco, Asantha Cooray, M. Veneziani +35

We study the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) and the power spectrum of Galactic cirrus emission observed in the 14 deg^2 Science Demonstration Phase field of the Herschel-ATLAS…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 25 cited

New Approaches to Probing Minkowski Functionals

Dipak Munshi, Joseph Smidt, Asantha Cooray +3

We generalize the concept of the ordinary skew-spectrum to probe the effect of non-Gaussianity on the morphology of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps in several domains: in re…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 21 cited

Spitzer Imaging of Herschel-ATLAS Gravitationally Lensed Submillimeter Sources

R. Hopwood, J. Wardlow, A. Cooray +49

We present physical properties of two submillimeter selected gravitationally lensed sources, identified in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. These submillimet…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 114 cited

Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars

J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott +765

Soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are thought to be magnetars: neutron stars powered by extreme magnetic fields. These rare objects are characterized b…

nlin.CD2010★ 66 cited

Stationary scattering from a nonlinear network

Sven Gnutzmann, Uzy Smilansky, Stanislav Derevyanko

Transmission through a complex network of nonlinear one-dimensional leads is discussed by extending the stationary scattering theory on quantum graphs to the nonlinear regime. We s…