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astro-ph.IM2013★ 69 cited

Self-Calibration of BICEP1 Three-Year Data and Constraints on Astrophysical Polarization Rotation

J. P. Kaufman, N. J. Miller, M. Shimon +33

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimeters aspire to measure the faint -mode signature predicted to arise from inflationary gravitational waves. They also have the potential…

hep-th2013★ 74 cited

A no-go theorem for generalized vector Galileons on flat spacetime

Cedric Deffayet, A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu, Shinji Mukohyama +1

We explore the possibility for generalized electromagnetism on flat spacetime. For a single copy of gauge theory, we show that the Galileon-type generalization of electromag…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 37 cited

A Rare Encounter with Very Massive Stars in NGC 3125-A1

Aida Wofford, Claus Leitherer, Rupali Chandar +1

Super star cluster A1 in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 3125 is characterized by broad He\ii \lam1640 emission (full width at half maximum, km s) of unpreced…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 175 cited

A Sub-Earth-Mass Moon Orbiting a Gas Giant Primary or a High Velocity Planetary System in the Galactic Bulge

D. P. Bennett, V. Batista, I. A. Bond +90

We present the first microlensing candidate for a free-floating exoplanet-exomoon system, MOA-2011-BLG-262, with a primary lens mass of M_host ~ 4 Jupiter masses hosting a sub-Eart…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1 cited

Compressed convolution

F. Elsner, B. D. Wandelt

We introduce the concept of compressed convolution, a technique to convolve a given data set with a large number of non-orthogonal kernels. In typical applications our technique dr…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 4 cited

Identifying clustering at high redshift through actively star-forming galaxies

L. J. M. Davies, M. N. Bremer, E. R. Stanway +3

Identifying galaxy clustering at high redshift (i.e. z > 1) is essential to our understanding of the current cosmological model. However, at increasing redshift, clusters evolve co…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 46 cited

A Search for Methane in the Atmosphere of GJ 1214b via GTC Narrow-Band Transmission Spectrophotometry

P. A. Wilson, K. D. Colón, D. K. Sing +11

We present narrow-band photometric measurements of the exoplanet GJ 1214b using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the OSIRIS instrument. Using tuneable filters we obser…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 36 cited

Structure and substructure analysis of DAFT/FADA galaxy clusters in the [0.4-0.9] redshift range

L. Guennou, C. Adami, F. Durret +29

We analyse the structures of all the clusters in the DAFT/FADA survey for which XMM-Newton and/or a sufficient number of galaxy redshifts in the cluster range is available, with th…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 1 cited

Relative frequencies of supernovae versus properties of spiral hosts

A. A. Hakobyan, T. A. Nazaryan, V. Zh. Adibekyan +8

In this work, we present an analysis of SNe number ratios in spiral galaxies with different morphological subtypes, luminosities, sSFR, and metallicities, to provide important info…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 207 cited

The bright end of the galaxy luminosity function at z ~ 7: before the onset of mass quenching?

R. A . A. Bowler, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure +9

We present the results of a new search for bright star-forming galaxies at z ~ 7 within the UltraVISTA DR2 and UKIDSS UDS DR10 data, which together provide 1.65 sq deg of near-infr…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 177 cited

Planck intermediate results. XVII. Emission of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium from the far-infrared to microwave frequencies

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +196

The dust-HI correlation is used to characterize the emission properties of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium. We cross-correlate sky maps from Planck, WMAP, and DIRBE, at 17…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 1.9k cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 10 and 11 galaxy samples

Lauren Anderson, Eric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey +62

We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 1 cited

Close pairs of galaxies with different activity levels

T. A. Nazaryan, A. R. Petrosian, A. A. Hakobyan +2

We selected and studied 180 pairs with dV < 800 km/s and Dp < 60 kpc containing Markarian (MRK) galaxies to investigate the dependence of galaxies' integral parameters, star-format…

astro-ph.CO2013

Supernovae in paired galaxies

T. A. Nazaryan, A. R. Petrosian, A. A. Hakobyan +5

We investigate the influence of close neighbor galaxies on the properties of supernovae (SNe) and their host galaxies using 56 SNe located in pairs of galaxies with different level…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 17 cited

Spectral distortions in the cosmic microwave background polarization

Sebastien Renaux-Petel, Christian Fidler, Cyril Pitrou +1

We compute the spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization induced by non-linear effects in the Compton interactions between CMB photons and cold int…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 302 cited

The Best Inflationary Models After Planck

Jerome Martin, Christophe Ringeval, Roberto Trotta +1

We compute the Bayesian evidence and complexity of 193 slow-roll single-field models of inflation using the Planck 2013 Cosmic Microwave Background data, with the aim of establishi…

gr-qc2013★ 37 cited

Half-integral conservative post-Newtonian approximations in the redshift factor of black hole binaries

Luc Blanchet, Guillaume Faye, Bernard F. Whiting

Recent perturbative self-force computations (Shah, Friedman & Whiting, submitted to Phys. Rev. {\bf D}, arXiv:1312.1952 [gr-qc]), both numerical and analytical, have determined tha…

gr-qc2013★ 73 cited

Finding high-order analytic post-Newtonian parameters from a high-precision numerical self-force calculation

Abhay G Shah, John L Friedman, Bernard F Whiting

We present a novel analytic extraction of high-order post-Newtonian (pN) parameters that govern quasi-circular binary systems. Coefficients in the pN expansion of the energy of a b…

hep-ph2013★ 16 cited

Cosmologically probing ultra-light particle dark matter using 21 cm signals

Kenji Kadota, Yi Mao, Kiyomoto Ichiki +1

There can arise ubiquitous ultra-light scalar fields in the Universe, such as the pseudo-Goldstone bosons from the spontaneous breaking of an approximate symmetry, which can make a…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 827 cited

Planck 2013 results. XI. All-sky model of thermal dust emission

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +244

This paper presents an all-sky model of dust emission from the Planck 857, 545 and 353 GHz, and IRAS 100 micron data. Using a modified black-body fit to the data we present all-sky…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 91 cited

On incorporating post-Newtonian effects in N-body dynamics

Clifford M. Will

The increasing role of general relativity in the dynamics of stellar systems with central massive black holes and in the evolution of hierarchical triple systems inspires a close e…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 53 cited

Cosmic shear full nulling: sorting out dynamics, geometry and systematics

Francis Bernardeau, Takahiro Nishimichi, Atsushi Taruya

An explicit full nulling scheme for cosmic shear observations is presented. It makes possible the construction of shear maps from extended source distributions for which the lens d…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 17 cited

Diffuse Gamma Ray Background from Annihilating Dark Matter in Density Spikes around Supermassive Black Holes

Alexander Belikov, Joseph Silk

Dark matter annihilation is proportional to the square of the density and is especially efficient in places of highest concentration of dark matter, such as dark matter spikes. The…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 3 cited

The Dark Matter Contribution to Galactic Diffuse Gamma Ray Emission

Lin F. Yang, Joseph Silk, Alexander S. Szalay +3

Observations of diffuse Galactic gamma ray emission (DGE) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allow a detailed study of cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. However, diffus…