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astro-ph.SR2020★ 10 cited

Chemical Compositions of Red Giant Stars from Habitable Zone Planet Finder Spectroscopy

Christopher Sneden, Melike Afsar, Zeynep Bozkurt +15

We have used the Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) to gather high resolution, high signal-to-noise near-infrared spectra of 13 field red horizontal-branch (RHB) stars, one open-cl…

math.DS2020★ 4 cited

Intensity -- A Metric Approach to Quantifying Attractor Robustness in ODEs

Katherine J. Meyer, Richard P. McGehee

Although mathematical models do not fully match reality, robustness of dynamical objects to perturbation helps bridge from theoretical to real-world dynamical systems. Classical th…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 2 cited

Ghosts of NEID's Past

Shubham Kanodia, Joe P. Ninan, Andrew J. Monson +14

The NEID spectrograph is a R 120,000 resolution fiber-fed and highly stabilized spectrograph for extreme radial velocity (RV) precision. It is being commissioned at the 3.5…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 51 cited

Diving below the spin-down limit: Constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsar PSR J0537-6910

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1589

We present a search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the young, energetic X-ray pulsar PSR J0537-6910 using data from the second and third observing runs of LIGO and…

gr-qc2020★ 71 cited

All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1369

Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of persistent, continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter…

gr-qc2020★ 54 cited

Inference of proto-neutron star properties from gravitational-wave data in core-collapse supernovae

Marie-Anne Bizouard, Patricio Maturana-Russel, Alejandro Torres-Forné +5

The eventual detection of gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae (CCSN) will help improve our current understanding of the explosion mechanism of massive stars. The stoc…

nlin.AO2020★ 11 cited

Ordinal Patterns in the Duffing Oscillator: Analyzing Powers of Characterization

I. Gunther, Arjendu K. Pattanayak, Andrés Aragoneses

Ordinal Patterns are a time-series data analysis tool used as a preliminary step to construct the Permutation Entropy which itself allows the same characterization of dynamics as c…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

Optical Frequency Comb Calibrated Near Infrared Solar Heterodyne Spectroscopy

Connor Fredrick, Freja Olsen, Ryan Terrien +3

We perform heterodyne spectroscopy at 1.56 micron with a tunable laser and thermal radiation from the Sun. The laser tuning is calibrated with a frequency comb, providing a simple…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Chaos in the quantum Duffing oscillator in the semiclassical regime under parametrized dissipation

Andrew D. Maris, Bibek Pokharel, Sharan Ganjam Seshachallam +2

We study the quantum dissipative Duffing oscillator across a range of system sizes and environmental couplings under varying semiclassical approximations. Using spatial (based on K…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 55 cited

Comparing inclination dependent analyses of kilonova transients

J. Heinzel, M. W. Coughlin, T. Dietrich +7

The detection of AT2017gfo proved that binary neutron star mergers are progenitors of kilonovae. Using a combination of numerical-relativity and radiative-transfer simulations, the…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Conditional Level Generation and Game Blending

Anurag Sarkar, Zhihan Yang, Seth Cooper

Prior research has shown variational autoencoders (VAEs) to be useful for generating and blending game levels by learning latent representations of existing level data. We build on…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1250

We search for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the first part of the third observing run of Advanced…

gr-qc2020★ 807 cited

Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1344

Gravitational waves enable tests of general relativity in the highly dynamical and strong-field regime. Using events detected by LIGO-Virgo up to 1 October 2019, we evaluate the co…

gr-qc2020★ 2.4k cited

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham +1349

We report on gravitational wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between…

physics.ed-ph2020★ 10 cited

3D Printing an External Cavity Diode Laser Housing

E. Brekke, T. Bennett, H. Rook +1

The ability to control the frequency of an external-cavity diode laser (ECDL) is an essential component for undergraduate laboratories and atomic physics research. Typically the ho…

gr-qc2020★ 1.3k cited

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1253

On May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise ratio…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 47 cited

Measuring the Hubble Constant with a sample of kilonovae

Michael W. Coughlin, Sarah Antier, Tim Dietrich +7

Kilonovae produced by the coalescence of compact binaries with at least one neutron star are promising standard sirens for an independent measurement of the Hubble constant ()…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Game Level Clustering and Generation using Gaussian Mixture VAEs

Zhihan Yang, Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have been shown to be able to generate game levels but require manual exploration of the learned latent space to generate outputs with desired attri…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 74 cited

The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b

Gudmundur Stefansson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marissa Maney +27

Using radial-velocity data from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder, we have measured the mass of the Neptune-sized planet K2-25b, as well as the obliquity of its M4.5-dwarf host star…

cs.NE2020

Artificial Life in Game Mods for Intuitive Evolution Education

Anya E. Vostinar, Barbara Z. Johnson, Kevin Connors

The understanding and acceptance of evolution by natural selection has become a difficult issue in many parts of the world, particularly the United States of America. The use of ga…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 99 cited

Gravitational-wave constraints on the equatorial ellipticity of millisecond pulsars

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1333

We present a search for continuous gravitational waves from five radio pulsars, comprising three recycled pulsars (PSR J0437-4715, PSR J0711-6830, and PSR J0737-3039A) and two youn…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 38 cited

A warm Jupiter transiting an M dwarf: A TESS single transit event confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

Caleb I. Cañas, Gudmundur Stefansson, Shubham Kanodia +30

We confirm the planetary nature of a warm Jupiter transiting the early M dwarf TOI-1899, using a combination of available TESS photometry; high-precision, near-infrared spectroscop…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 106 cited

On the nature of GW190814 and its impact on the understanding of supranuclear matter

Ingo Tews, Peter T. H. Pang, Tim Dietrich +5

The observation of a compact object with a mass of on August 14, 2019, by the LIGO Scientific and Virgo collaborations (LVC) has the potential to improve our u…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 25 cited

TOI-1728b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a warm super Neptune orbiting an M dwarf host

Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Canas, Gudmundur Stefansson +23

We confirm the planetary nature of TOI-1728b using a combination of ground-based photometry, near-infrared Doppler velocimetry and spectroscopy with the Habitable-zone Planet Finde…