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astro-ph.GA2017★ 16 cited

The second Herschel-ATLAS Data Release - III: optical and near-infrared counterparts in the North Galactic Plane field

Cristina Furlanetto, S. Dye, N. Bourne +8

This paper forms part of the second major public data release of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS). In this work, we describe the identification of o…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 41 cited

Candidate high-z proto-clusters among the Planck compact sources, as revealed by Herschel-SPIRE

J. Greenslade, D. L. Clements, T. Cheng +19

By determining the nature of all the Planck compact sources within 808.4 deg^2 of large Herschel surveys, we have identified 27 candidate proto-clusters of dusty star forming galax…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 51 cited

CO line ratios in molecular clouds: the impact of environment

Camilo H. Peñaloza, Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover +1

Line emission is strongly dependent on the local environmental conditions in which the emitting tracers reside. In this work, we focus on modelling the CO emission from simulated g…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 60 cited

The Herschel-ATLAS Data Release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and Far-infrared Images of the South and North Galactic Poles: The Largest Herschel Survey of the Extragalactic Sky

Matthew W. L. Smith, Edo Ibar, Steve J. Maddox +11

We present the largest submillimeter images that have been made of the extragalactic sky. The Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) is a survey of 660 deg$^2…

gr-qc2017★ 32 cited

Localization of transient gravitational wave sources: beyond triangulation

Stephen Fairhurst

Rapid, accurate localization of gravitational wave transient events has proved critical to successful electromagnetic followup. In previous papers we have shown that localization e…

cs.CE2017★ 56 cited

Corotational Cut Finite Element Method for real-time surgical simulation: application to needle insertion simulation

Huu Phuoc Bui, Satyendra Tomar, Stéphane P. A. Bordas

This paper describes the use of the corotational cut Finite Element Method (FEM) for real-time surgical simulation. Users only need to provide a background mesh which is not necess…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 23 cited

Sub-structure and merger detection in resolved NIKA Sunyaev-Zel'dovich images of distant clusters

R. Adam, O. Hahn, F. Ruppin +48

Sub-structures in the hot gas of galaxy clusters are related to their formation history and to the astrophysical processes at play in the intracluster medium (ICM). The thermal Sun…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 35 cited

Far-infrared observations of a massive cluster forming in the Monoceros R2 filament hub

T. S. M. Rayner, M. J. Griffin, N. Schneider +29

We present far-infrared observations of Monoceros R2 (a giant molecular cloud at approximately 830 pc distance, containing several sites of active star formation), as observed at 7…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 71 cited

First Sunyaev-Zel'dovich mapping with the NIKA2 camera: Implication of cluster substructures for the pressure profile and mass estimate

F. Ruppin, F. Mayet, G. W. Pratt +37

The complete characterization of the pressure profile of high-redshift galaxy clusters, from their core to their outskirts, is a major issue for the study of the formation of large…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 42 cited

GAMA/H-ATLAS: The Local Dust Mass Function and Cosmic Density as a Function of Galaxy Type - A Benchmark for Models of Galaxy Evolution

R. A. Beeston, A. H. Wright, S. Maddox +22

We present the dust mass function (DMF) of 15,750 galaxies with redshift , drawn from the overlapping area of the GAMA and {\it H-}ATLAS surveys. The DMF is derived using t…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 41 cited

The Herschel-ATLAS Data Release 2 Paper II: Catalogues of far-infrared and submillimetre sources in the fields at the south and north Galactic Poles

S. J. Maddox, E. Valiante, P. Cigan +13

The {\it Herschel} Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) is a survey of 660 deg with the PACS and SPIRE cameras in five photometric bands: 100, 160, 250, 350 and…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

The NIKA2 instrument at 30-m IRAM telescope: performance and results

A. Catalano, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +84

The New IRAM KID Arrays 2 (NIKA2) consortium has just finished installing and commissioning a millimetre camera on the IRAM 30 m telescope. It is a dual-band camera operating with…

cs.GR2017★ 1 cited

Static/Dynamic Filtering for Mesh Geometry

Juyong Zhang, Bailin Deng, Yang Hong +3

The joint bilateral filter, which enables feature-preserving signal smoothing according to the structural information from a guidance, has been applied for various tasks in geometr…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 96 cited

The connection between mass, environment and slow rotation in simulated galaxies

Claudia del P. Lagos, Joop Schaye, Yannick Bahe +5

Recent observations from integral field spectroscopy (IFS) indicate that the fraction of galaxies that are slow rotators, , depends primarily on stellar mass, with no s…

gr-qc2017★ 173 cited

Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1042

Cosmic strings are topological defects which can be formed in GUT-scale phase transitions in the early universe. They are also predicted to form in the context of string theory. Th…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 107 cited

Estimation of the Sensitive Volume for Gravitational-wave Source Populations Using Weighted Monte Carlo Integration

Vaibhav Tiwari

The population analysis and estimation of merger rates of compact binaries is one of the important topics in gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. The primary ingredient in these anal…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 112 cited

On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1095

On 2017 August 17 the merger of two compact objects with masses consistent with two neutron stars was discovered through gravitational-wave (GW170817), gamma-ray (GRB 170817A), and…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

Probing the baryon cycle of galaxies with SPICA mid- and far-infrared observations

F. F. S. van der Tak, S. C. Madden, P. Roelfsema +29

The SPICA mid and far-infrared telescope will address fundamental issues in our understanding of star formation and ISM physics in galaxies. A particular hallmark of SPICA is the o…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 56 cited

SPIDER: CMB polarimetry from the edge of space

R. Gualtieri, J. P. Filippini, P. A. R. Ade +61

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky at large angular scales. SPIDER targets the B-mode signature of primordial gravitat…

math.NA2017★ 37 cited

Gradient plasticity crack tip characterization by means of the extended finite element method

Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, Sundar Natarajan, Stéphane Bordas

Strain gradient plasticity theories are being widely used for fracture assessment, as they provide a richer description of crack tip fields by incorporating the influence of geomet…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 258 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the G02 field, Herschel-ATLAS target selection and Data Release 3

I. K. Baldry, J. Liske, M. J. I. Brown +39

We describe data release 3 (DR3) of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The GAMA survey is a spectroscopic redshift and multi-wavelength photometric survey in three equator…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 33 cited

Ultra-Red Galaxies Signpost Candidate Proto-Clusters at High Redshift

A. J. R. Lewis, R. J. Ivison, P. N. Best +20

We present images obtained with LABOCA on the APEX telescope of a sample of 22 galaxies selected via their red Herschel SPIRE 250-, 350- and colors. We a…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 11 cited

280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the SPIDER-2 Suborbital Polarimeter

A. S. Bergman, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +76

We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne SPIDER instrument. The…