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math.DS2014★ 2 cited

Distance function design and Lyapunov techniques for the stability of hybrid trajectories

J. J. Benjamin Biemond, W. P. Maurice H. Heemels, Ricardo G. Sanfelice +1

The comparison between time-varying hybrid trajectories is crucial for tracking, observer design and synchronisation problems for hybrid systems with state-triggered jumps. In this…

hep-ph2014★ 28 cited

Dark Matter from Late Invisible Decays to/of Gravitinos

Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Bhaskar Dutta, Farinaldo S. Queiroz +2

In this work, we sift a simple supersymmetric framework of late invisible decays to/of the gravitino. We investigate two cases where the gravitino is the lightest supersymmetric pa…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 54 cited

Multiwaveband photometry of the irradiated brown dwarf WD0137-349B

S. L. Casewell, K. A. Lawrie, P. F. L. Maxted +7

WD0137-349 is a white dwarf-brown dwarf binary system in a 116 minute orbit. We present radial velocity observations and multiwaveband photometry from V, R and I in the optical, to…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 5 cited

Recent stellar mass assembly of low-mass star-forming galaxies at redshifts 0.3 < z < 0.9

Lucía Rodríguez-Muñoz, Jesús Gallego, Camilla Pacifici +5

The epoch when low-mass star forming galaxies (LMSFGs) form the bulk of their stellar mass is uncertain. While some models predict an early formation, others favor a delayed scenar…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 37 cited

Simultaneous Linear and Circular Optical Polarimetry of Asteroid (4) Vesta

Sloane J. Wiktorowicz, Larissa A. Nofi

From a single, 3.8-hour observation of asteroid (4) Vesta at phase angle with the POLISH2 polarimeter at the Lick Observatory Shane 3-m telescope, we confirm rotationa…

hep-ex2014★ 42 cited

Measurement of the differential decay branching fraction as a function of and study of form factor parameterizations

J. P. Lees

Based on a sample of 500 million events recorded by the BaBar detector at c.m. energies of close to 10.6 GeV, we report on a study of the decay $D^0 \to π^- e^…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 18 cited

The most metal-rich damped Lyman alpha systems at z>1.5 I: The Data

Trystyn A. M. Berg, Marcel Neeleman, J. Xavier Prochaska +2

We present HIRES observations for 30 damped Lyman alpha systems, selected on the basis of their large metal column densities from previous, lower resolution data. The measured meta…

cs.DC2014★ 1 cited

A Scalable Asynchronous Distributed Algorithm for Topic Modeling

Hsiang-Fu Yu, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Hyokun Yun +2

Learning meaningful topic models with massive document collections which contain millions of documents and billions of tokens is challenging because of two reasons: First, one need…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 22 cited

A Search for Pulsations from Geminga Above 100 GeV with VERITAS

E. Aliu, S. Archambault, A. Archer +81

We present the results of 71.6 hours of observations of the Geminga pulsar (PSR J0633+1746) with the VERITAS very-high-energy gamma-ray telescope array. Data taken with VERITAS bet…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 74 cited

An Exploration of Double Diffusive Convection in Jupiter as a Result of Hydrogen-Helium Phase Separation

N. Nettelmann, J. J. Fortney, K. Moore +1

Jupiter's atmosphere has been observed to be depleted in helium (Yatm~0.24), suggesting active helium sedimentation in the interior. This is accounted for in standard Jupiter struc…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 30 cited

H.E.S.S. detection of TeV emission from the interaction region between the supernova remnant G349.7+0.2 and a molecular cloud

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +224

G349.7+0.2 is a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) located at the distance of 11.5 kpc and observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio to high energy (HE) Ga…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 149 cited

ZFOURGE/CANDELS: On the Evolution of M* Galaxy Progenitors from z=3 to 0.5

Casey Papovich, I. Labbé, R. Quadri +38

Galaxies with stellar masses near M* contain the majority of stellar mass in the universe, and are therefore of special interest in the study of galaxy evolution. The Milky Way (MW…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 20 cited

Detection of the secondary eclipse of WASP-10b in the Ks-band

Patricia Cruz, David Barrado, Jorge Lillo-Box +5

WASP-10b, a non-inflated hot Jupiter, was discovered around a K-dwarf in a near circular orbit (). Since its discovery in 2009, different published parameters for this…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 41 cited

Detection of a distinct metal-poor stellar halo in the early-type galaxy NGC 3115

Mark B. Peacock, Jay Strader, Aaron J. Romanowsky +1

We present the resolved stellar populations in the inner and outer halo of the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC~3115. Using deep HST observations, we analyze stars two magnitudes faint…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 367 cited

The SILCC (SImulating the LifeCycle of molecular Clouds) project: I. Chemical evolution of the supernova-driven ISM

S. K. Walch, P. Girichidis, T. Naab +7

The SILCC project (SImulating the Life-Cycle of molecular Clouds) aims at a more self-consistent understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) on small scales and its link to gala…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 1.7k cited

Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Kevin Bundy, Matthew A. Bershady, David R. Law +65

We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the fourth-gen…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 46 cited

Investigating Broadband Variability of the TeV Blazar 1ES 1959+650

E. Aliu, S. Archambault, T. Arlen +92

We summarize broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar 1ES 1959+650, including optical R-band observations by the robotic telescopes Super-LOTIS and iTelescope, UV observat…

stat.AP2014★ 7 cited

A nonparametric Bayesian analysis of heterogeneous treatment effects in digital experimentation

Matt Taddy, Matt Gardner, Liyun Chen +1

Randomized controlled trials play an important role in how Internet companies predict the impact of policy decisions and product changes. In these `digital experiments', different…

math.QA2014★ 13 cited

The irreducible modules and fusion rules for the parafermion vertex operator algebras

Chunrui Ai, Chongying Dong, Xiangyu Jiao +1

The irreducible modules for the parafermion vertex operator algebra associated to any finite dimensional Lie algebra and any positive integer are identified, the quantum dimensions…

hep-ex2014★ 134 cited

Identification and energy calibration of hadronically decaying tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment in collisions at =8 TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

This paper describes the trigger and offline reconstruction, identification and energy calibration algorithms for hadronic decays of tau leptons employed for the data collected fro…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 29 cited

H.E.S.S. reveals a lack of TeV emission from the supernova remnant Puppis A

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +224

Puppis A is an interesting ~4 kyr-old supernova remnant (SNR) that shows strong evidence of interaction between the forward shock and a molecular cloud. It has been studied in deta…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 63 cited

The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system

A. -L. Maire, A. J. Skemer, P. M. Hinz +36

Context. Astrometric monitoring of directly-imaged exoplanets allows the study of their orbital parameters and system architectures. Because most directly-imaged planets have long…

hep-ex2014★ 40 cited

Dalitz plot analyses of and decays

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We present Dalitz plot analyses for the decays of mesons to and . We report the observation of the resonance in these…

hep-ex2014★ 129 cited

Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying via in fully hadronic final states using collision data at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

The results of a search for charged Higgs bosons decaying to a lepton and a neutrino, , are presented. The analysis is based on 19.5 fb of…