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astro-ph.CO2011★ 5 cited

AzTEC 1.1 mm Observations of the MBM12 Molecular Cloud

M. J. Kim, S. Kim, S. Youn +11

We present 1.1 mm observations of the dust continuum emission from the MBM12 high-latitude molecular cloud observed with the Astronomical Thermal Emission Camera (AzTEC) mounted on…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 2 cited

The Statistics of Cosmological Lyman-alpha Absorption

Dipak Munshi, Peter Coles, Matteo Viel

We study the effect of the non-Gaussianity induced by gravitational evolution upon the statistical properties of absorption in quasar (QSO) spectra. Using the generic hierarchical…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 60 cited

Spin--flip Limited Exciton Dephasing in CdSe/ZnS Colloidal Quantum Dots

Francesco Masia, Nicolò Accanto, Wolfgang Langbein +1

The dephasing time of the lowest bright exciton in CdSe/ZnS wurtzite quantum dots is measured from 5 K to 170 K and compared with density dynamics within the exciton fine structure…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 1 cited

Primordial Planets Explain Interstellar Dust, the Formation of Life; and Falsify Dark Energy

Carl H. Gibson, N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Rudolph E. Schild

Hydrogravitional-dynamics (HGD) cosmology of Gibson/Schild 1996 predicts proto-globular-star-cluster PGC clumps of Earth-mass planets fragmented from plasma at ~0.3 Myr. Protogalax…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 116 cited

EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory

G. Tinetti, J. P. Beaulieu, T. Henning +131

A dedicated mission to investigate exoplanetary atmospheres represents a major milestone in our quest to understand our place in the universe by placing our Solar System in context…

physics.comp-ph2011★ 1 cited

On the role of enrichment and statical admissibility of recovered fields in a-posteriori error estimation for enriched finite element methods

Octavio A. González-Estrada, Juan José Ródenas, Stéphane P. A. Bordas +3

Purpose: This paper aims at assessing the effect of (1) the statical admissibility of the recovered solution; (2) the ability of the recovered solution to represent the singular so…

gr-qc2011★ 11 cited

Search for gravitational waves associated with the InterPlanetary Network short gamma ray bursts

V. Predoi, K. Hurley

We outline the scientific motivation behind a search for gravitational waves associated with short gamma ray bursts detected by the InterPlanetary Network (IPN) during LIGO's fifth…

astro-ph.CO2011

FIR/submm spectroscopy with Herschel: first results from the VNGS and H-ATLAS surveys

Maarten Baes, Jacopo Fritz, Naseem Rangwala +6

The FIR/submm window is one of the least-studied regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet this wavelength range is absolutely crucial for understanding the physical processes a…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 16 cited

Tomography and Weak lensing Statistics

Dipak Munshi, Peter Coles, Martin Kilbinger

Extending previous studies, we derive generic predictions for lower order cumulants and their correlators for individual tomographic bins as well as between two different bins. We…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 47 cited

Planck Intermediate Results. I. Further validation of new Planck clusters with XMM-Newton

The Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +182

We present further results from the ongoing XMM-Newton validation follow-up of Planck cluster candidates, detailing X-ray observations of eleven candidates detected at a signal-to-…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 115 cited

Evidence for Environmental Changes in the Submillimeter Dust Opacity

Peter G. Martin, Arabindo Roy, Sylvain Bontemps +25

The submillimeter opacity of dust in the diffuse Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) has been quantified using a pixel-by-pixel correlation of images of continuum emission with a pr…

gr-qc2011★ 59 cited

Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz

J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott +782

A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of many incoherent sources of gravitational waves, of either cosmological or astrophysical…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 10 cited

Spitzer IRAC identification of Herschel-ATLAS SPIRE sources

Sam Kim, Julie L. Wardlow, Asantha Cooray +28

We use spitzer-IRAC data to identify near-infrared counterparts to submillimeter galaxies detected with Herschel-SPIRE at 250um in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area S…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 85 cited

The Herschel Exploitation of Local Galaxy Andromeda (HELGA). I: Global far-infrared and sub-mm morphology

J. Fritz, G. Gentile, M. W. L. Smith +30

We have obtained Herschel images at five wavelengths from 100 to 500 micron of a ~5.5x2.5 degree area centred on the local galaxy M31 (Andromeda), our nearest neighbour spiral gala…

gr-qc2011★ 6 cited

From black holes to their progenitors: A full population study in measuring black hole binary parameters from ringdown signals

Ioannis Kamaretsos

A perturbed black hole emits gravitational radiation, usually termed the ringdown signal, whose frequency and time-constant depends on the mass and spin of the black hole. I invest…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 198 cited

The Herschel Reference Survey: Dust in Early-Type Galaxies and Across the Hubble Sequence

M. W. L. Smith, H. L. Gomez, S. A. Eales +24

We present Herschel observations of 62 Early-Type Galaxies (ETGs), including 39 galaxies morphologically classified as S0+S0a and 23 galaxies classified as ellipticals using SPIRE…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 38 cited

Multimessenger Science Reach and Analysis Method for Common Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos

Bruny Baret, Imre Bartos, Boutayeb Bouhou +23

We present the baseline multimessenger analysis method for the joint observations of gravitational waves (GW) and high-energy neutrinos (HEN), together with a detailed analysis of…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 52 cited

Two long HI tails in the outskirts of Abell 1367

T. C. Scott, L. Cortese, E. Brinks +3

We present VLA D-array HI observations of the RSCG42 and FGC1287 galaxy groups, in the outskirts of the Abell 1367 cluster. These groups are projected ~ 1.8 and 2.7 Mpc west from t…

math.PR2011

Martingale approach to subexponential asymptotics for random walks

Denis Denisov, Vitali Wachtel

Consider the random walk with independent and identically distributed increments and negative mean . Let be the supremum of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 16 cited

Polariton states bound to defects in GaAs/AlAs planar microcavities

Joanna M Zajac, Wolfgang Langbein, Maxime Hugues +1

We report on polariton states bound to defects in planar GaAs/AlAs microcavities grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The defect types relevant for the spatial polariton dynamics in th…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 90 cited

Importance of the Initial Conditions for Star Formation - III: Statistical Properties of Embedded Protostellar Clusters

Philipp Girichidis, Christoph Federrath, Richard Allison +2

We investigate the formation of protostellar clusters during the collapse of dense molecular cloud cores with a focus on the evolution of potential and kinetic energy, the degree o…

cond-mat.other2011★ 123 cited

Direct and indirect excitons in semiconductor coupled quantum wells in an applied electric field

K. Sivalertporn, L. Mouchliadis, A. L. Ivanov +2

An accurate calculation of the exciton ground and excited states in AlGaAs and InGaAs coupled quantum wells (CQWs) in an external electric field is presented. An efficient and stra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 17 cited

Room temperature ballistic transport in InSb quantum well nanodevices

A. M. Gilbertson, A. Kormanyos, P. D. Buckle +5

We report the room temperature observation of significant ballistic electron transport in shallow etched four-terminal mesoscopic devices fabricated on an InSb/AlInSb quantum well…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 85 cited

Importance of the Initial Conditions for Star Formation - II. Fragmentation Induced Starvation and Accretion Shielding

Philipp Girichidis, Christoph Federrath, Robi Banerjee +1

We investigate the impact of different initial conditions for the initial density profile and the initial turbulence on the formation process of protostellar clusters. We study the…