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astro-ph.EP2017★ 37 cited

Exo-Milankovitch Cycles I: Orbits and Rotation States

Russell Deitrick, Rory Barnes, Thomas R. Quinn +3

The obliquity of the Earth, which controls our seasons, varies by only ~2.5 degrees over ~40,000 years, and its eccentricity varies by only ~0.05 over 100,000 years. Nonetheless, t…

nlin.CD2017★ 12 cited

Coexistence of weak and strong wave turbulence in incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamics

Romain Meyrand, Khurom H. Kiyani, Ozgur D. Gurcan +1

We report a numerical investigation of three dimensional, incompressible, Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a relatively strong mean magnetic field. Using helicity decomposi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

Galaxy Evolution in the Cluster Abell 85: New Insights from the Dwarf Population

Rebecca Habas, Dario Fadda, Francine R. Marleau +2

We present the first results of a new spectroscopic survey of the cluster Abell 85 targeting 1466 candidate cluster members within the central 1 deg of the cluster and ha…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 5 cited

Excitation energies from G{ö}rling-Levy perturbation theory along the range-separated adiabatic connection

Elisa Rebolini, Andrew M. Teale, Trygve Helgaker +2

A G{ö}rling-Levy (GL)-based perturbation theory along the range-separated adiabatic connection is assessed for the calculation of electronic excitation energies. In comparison with…

q-bio.SC2017★ 40 cited

Lipid bilayer mediates ion-channel cooperativity in a model of hair-cell mechanotransduction

Francesco Gianoli, Thomas Risler, Andrei S. Kozlov

Mechanoelectrical transduction in the inner ear is a biophysical process underlying the senses of hearing and balance. The key players involved in this process are mechanosensitive…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 6 cited

Rotationally-resolved spectroscopy of Jupiter Trojans (624) Hektor and (911) Agamemnon

Davide Perna, Nicolas Bott, Tetiana Hromakina +3

We present the first-ever rotationally resolved spectroscopic investigation of (624) Hektor and (911) Agamemnon, the two largest Jupiter Trojans. The visible and near-infrared spec…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 30 cited

Modelling of an actuated elastic swimmer

Miguel Piñeirua, Benjamin Thiria, Ramiro Godoy-Diana

We study the force production dynamics of undulating elastic plates as a model for fish-like inertial swimmers. Using a beam model coupled with Lighthill's large-amplitude elongate…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 11 cited

A nested polyhedra model of isotropic MHD turbulence

Ö. D. Gürcan

A nested polyhedra model has been developed for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Driving only the velocity field at large scales with random, divergence free forcing results i…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 28 cited

Improving the phase response of an atom interferometer by means of temporal pulse shaping

Bess Fang, Nicolas Mielec, Denis Savoie +3

We study theoretically and experimentally the influence of temporally shaping the light pulses in an atom interferometer, with a focus on the phase response of the interferometer.…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 160 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at redshift of 0.72 with the DR14 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

Julian E. Bautista, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Kyle S. Dawson +16

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 sample includes 80,118 Luminous Red Galaxies. By combining these galaxies with the high-redshift tail o…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 13 cited

The ESO's VLT Type Ia supernova spectral set of the final two years of SNLS

C. Balland, F. Cellier-Holzem, C. Lidman +24

We aim to present 70 spectra of 68 new high-redshift type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) measured at ESO's VLT during the final two years of operation (2006-2008) of the Supernova Legacy Su…

cond-mat.dis-nn2017★ 39 cited

Review of recent developments in the random-field Ising model

Nikolaos G. Fytas, Victor Martin-Mayor, Marco Picco +1

A lot of progress has been made recently in our understanding of the random-field Ising model thanks to large-scale numerical simulations. In particular, it has been shown that, co…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 87 cited

Deep learning for galaxy surface brightness profile fitting

D. Tuccillo, M. Huertas-Company, E. Decencière +3

Numerous ongoing and future large area surveys (e.g. DES, EUCLID, LSST, WFIRST), will increase by several orders of magnitude the volume of data that can be exploited for galaxy mo…

cs.CR2017★ 22 cited

Fast Quantum Algorithm for Solving Multivariate Quadratic Equations

Jean-Charles Faug`ere, Kelsey Horan, Delaram Kahrobaei +3

In August 2015 the cryptographic world was shaken by a sudden and surprising announcement by the US National Security Agency NSA concerning plans to transition to post-quantum algo…

physics.hist-ph2017★ 15 cited

Henri Bénard: Thermal convection and vortex shedding

J. E. Wesfreid

We present in this article the work of Henri Bénard (1874-1939), French physicist who began the systematic experimental study of two hydrodynamic systems: the thermal convection of…

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★ 31 cited

Cosmic CARNage I: on the calibration of galaxy formation models

Alexander Knebe, Frazer R. Pearce, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +31

We present a comparison of nine galaxy formation models, eight semi-analytical and one halo occupation distribution model, run on the same underlying cold dark matter simulation (c…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 82 cited

Escape of ionizing radiation from high redshift dwarf galaxies: role of AGN feedback

Maxime Trebitsch, Marta Volonteri, Yohan Dubois +1

While low mass, star forming galaxies are often considered as the primary driver of reionization, their actual contribution to the cosmic ultraviolet background is still uncertain,…

physics.space-ph2017★ 50 cited

Localized Oscillatory Dissipation in Magnetopause Reconnection

J. L. Burch, R. E. Ergun, P. A. Cassak +26

Data from the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission are used to investigate asymmetric magnetic reconnection at the dayside boundary between the Earth's magnetosphere and th…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 12 cited

Studying the transfer of magnetic helicity in solar active regions with the connectivity-based helicity flux density method

K. Dalmasse, E. Pariat, G. Valori +2

In the solar corona, magnetic helicity slowly and continuously accumulates in response to plasma flows tangential to the photosphere and magnetic flux emergence through it. Analyzi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2017★ 3 cited

Tracer particle diffusion in a system with hardcore interacting particles

Simon Pigeon, Karl Fogelmark, Bo Söderberg +2

In this study, inspired by the work of K. Nakazato and K. Kitahara [Prog. Theor. Phys. 64, 2261 (1980)], we consider the theoretical problem of tracer particle diffusion in an envi…

hep-th2017★ 8 cited

2d orbifolds with exotic supersymmetry

Ioannis Florakis, Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Dieter Lust +1

We analyse various two dimensional theories arising from compactification of type II and heterotic string theory on asymmetric orbifolds. We find extra supersymmetry generators ari…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 3 cited

Photometric observations of nine Transneptunian objects and Centaurs

T. Hromakina, D. Perna, I. Belskaya +3

We present the results of photometric observations of six Transneptunian objects and three Centaurs, estimations of their rotational periods and corresponding amplitudes. For six o…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 34 cited

HD 156324: a tidally locked magnetic triple spectroscopic binary with a disrupted magnetosphere

M. Shultz, Th. Rivinius, G. A. Wade +3

HD 156324 is an SB3 (B2V/B5V/B5V) system in the Sco OB4 association. The He-strong primary possesses both a strong magnetic field, and H emission believed to originate in its Ce…