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astro-ph.CO2013★ 52 cited

Finding the First Cosmic Explosions. III. Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae

Daniel J. Whalen, Joseph Smidt, Wesley Even +4

Population III supernovae have been the focus of growing attention because of their potential to directly probe the properties of the first stars, particularly the most energetic e…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 86 cited

A Three-Year Multi-Wavelength Study of the Very High Energy Gamma-ray Blazar 1ES 0229+200

E. Aliu, S. Archambault, T. Arlen +83

The high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object 1ES 0229+200 is a relatively distant (z = 0.1396), hard-spectrum (Gamma ~ 2.5), very-high-energy-emitting (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray blaza…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 231 cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler IV: Planet Sample From Q1-Q8 (22 Months)

Christopher J. Burke, Stephen T. Bryson, F. Mullally +37

We provide updates to the Kepler planet candidate sample based upon nearly two years of high-precision photometry (i.e., Q1-Q8). From an initial list of nearly 13,400 Threshold Cro…

hep-ph2013★ 158 cited

The Dark Z' Portal: Direct, Indirect and Collider Searches

Alexandre Alves, Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz

We perform a detailed study of the dark Z' portal using a generic parametrization of the Z'-quarks couplings, both for light (8-15)GeV and heavy (130-1000)GeV dark matter scenarios…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 176 cited

Evolution of Broad-line Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei

Moshe Elitzur, Luis C. Ho, Jonathan R. Trump

Apart from viewing-dependent obscuration, intrinsic broad-line emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) follows an evolutionary sequence: Type …

hep-ph2013★ 8 cited

IceCube, DeepCore, PINGU and the indirect search for supersymmetric dark matter

Paul Bergeron, Stefano Profumo

The discovery of a particle that could be the lightest CP-even Higgs of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) and the lack of evidence so far for supers…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 23 cited

Discovery of a transparent sightline at ρ < 20 kpc from an interacting pair of galaxies

Sean D. Johnson, Hsiao-Wen Chen, John S. Mulchaey +3

We report the discovery of a transparent sightline at projected distances of ρ < 20 kpc to an interacting pair of mature galaxies at z = 0.12. The sightline of the UV-bright quasar…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 107 cited

The spin temperature of high-redshift damped Lyman- systems

N. Kanekar, J. X. Prochaska, A. Smette +10

We report results from a programme aimed at investigating the temperature of neutral gas in high-redshift damped Lyman- absorbers (DLAs). This involved (1) HI 21cm absorption st…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 71 cited

The Structure of Exoplanets

David S. Spiegel, Jonathan J. Fortney, Christophe Sotin

The hundreds of exoplanets that have been discovered in the past two decades offer a new perspective on planetary structure. Instead of being the archetypal examples of planets, th…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 112 cited

A Comparison between Semi-Analytic Model Predictions for the CANDELS Survey

Yu Lu, Risa H. Wechsler, Rachel S. Somerville +13

We compare the predictions of three independently developed semi-analytic galaxy formation models that are being used to aid in the interpretation of results from the CANDELS surve…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 72 cited

Formation of Molecular Clouds and Global Conditions for Star Formation

Clare L. Dobbs, Mark R. Krumholz, Javier Ballesteros-Paredes +6

Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are the primary reservoirs of cold, star-forming molecular gas in the Milky Way and similar galaxies, and thus any understanding of star formation mus…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 119 cited

Efficiency of attack strategies on complex model and real-world networks

Michele Bellingeri, Davide Cassi, Simone Vincenzi

We investigated the efficiency of attack strategies to network nodes when targeting several complex model and real-world networks. We tested 5 attack strategies, 3 of which were in…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 293 cited

Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-ray Burst GRB 130427A

LAT collaboration, GBM collaboration

The observations of the exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provide constraints on the nature…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 69 cited

AGN X-ray variability in the XMM-COSMOS survey

G. Lanzuisi, G. Ponti, M. Salvato +18

We took advantage of the observations carried out by XMM in the COSMOS field during 3.5 years, to study the long term variability of a large sample of AGN (638 sources), in a wide…

hep-ex2013★ 19 cited

Search for a multi-Higgs-boson cascade in WWbb events with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

A search is presented for new particles in an extension to the Standard Model that includes a heavy Higgs boson H0, an intermediate charged Higgs boson pair H+-, and a light Higgs…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 7 cited

The Pressure of the Star Forming ISM in Cosmological Simulations

Ferah Munshi, Charlotte Christensen, Thomas R. Quinn +4

We examine the pressure of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM) of Milky-Way sized disk galaxies using fully cosmological SPH+N-body, high resolution simulations. These simul…

physics.ins-det2013★ 42 cited

Performance of Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors

N. Cartiglia, M. Baselga, G. Dellacasa +14

The development of Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors has opened up the possibility of manufacturing silicon detectors with signal larger than that of traditional sensors. In this paper…

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…

hep-ex2013★ 94 cited

Search for long-lived stopped R-hadrons decaying out-of-time with pp collisions using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

An updated search is performed for gluino, top squark, or bottom squark R-hadrons that have come to rest within the ATLAS calorimeter, and decay at some later time to hadronic jets…

hep-ex2013★ 4 cited

Search for the decay

The BABAR Collaboration

We report a search for the decay . Using a data sample of pairs collect…

gr-qc2013★ 46 cited

Schwarzschild scalar wigs: spectral analysis and late time behavior

Juan Barranco, Argelia Bernal, Juan Carlos Degollado +5

Using the Green's function representation technique, the late time behavior of localized scalar field distributions on Schwarzschild spacetimes is studied. Assuming arbitrary initi…

hep-ph2013★ 136 cited

Precise Estimates of the Higgs Mass in Heavy SUSY

Patrick Draper, Gabriel Lee, Carlos E. M. Wagner

In supersymmetric models, very heavy stop squarks introduce large logarithms into the computation of the Higgs boson mass. Although it has long been known that in simple cases thes…

hep-ex2013★ 101 cited

Measurement of the B->Xsl+l- branching fraction and search for direct CP violation from a sum of exclusive final states

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We present a measurement of the total branching fraction of the flavor-changing neutral-current process B->Xsl+l-, along with partial branching fractions in bins of dilepton and ha…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 37 cited

Pair-Instability Supernovae in the Local Universe

Daniel J. Whalen, Wesley Even, Joseph Smidt +7

The discovery of 150 - 300 M stars in the Local Group and pair-instability supernova candidates at low redshifts has excited interest in this exotic explosion mechanism.…