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physics.optics2004★ 16 cited

Enhanced diffraction by a rectangular grating made of a negative phase--velocity (or negative index) material

Ricardo A. Depine, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, David R. Smith

The diffraction of electromagnetic plane waves by a rectangular grating formed by discrete steps in the interface of a homogeneous, isotropic, linear, negative phase--velocity (neg…

gr-qc2004★ 7 cited

Plans for the LIGO-TAMA Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts

Patrick J. Sutton, Masaki Ando, Patrick Brady +18

We describe the plans for a joint search for unmodelled gravitational wave bursts being carried out by the LIGO and TAMA collaborations using data collected during February-April 2…

astro-ph2004★ 11 cited

A photometric study of the newly discovered eclipsing cataclysmic variable SDSS J040714.78-064425.1

T. Ak, A. Retter, A. Liu +1

We present the results obtained from unfiltered photometric CCD observations of the newly discovered cataclysmic variable SDSS J040714.78-064425.1 made during 7 nights in November…

astro-ph2004★ 87 cited

Iron Fluorescent Line Emission from Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Nebula

M. Tsujimoto, E. D. Feigelson, N. Grosso +5

We present the result of a systematic search for the iron Kalpha fluorescent line at 6.4 keV among 1616 X-ray sources detected by ultra-deep Chandra observations of the Orion Nebul…

hep-ph2004

Transversity of quarks and nucleons in SIDIS and Drell Yan

Leonard P. Gamberg

We consider the leading and sub-leading twist -odd and even contributions to the azimuthal asymmetry in unpolarized dilepton production in Drell-Yan Scattering and sem…

astro-ph2004★ 23 cited

The influence of gravitational lensing on the spectra of lensed QSOs

L. C. Popovic, G. Chartas

We consider the influence of (milli/micro)lensing on the spectra of lensed QSOs. We propose a method for the observational detection of microlensing in the spectra of lensed QSOs a…

astro-ph2004★ 35 cited

A Simultaneous RXTE and XMM-Newton Observation of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy 3C 111

Karen T. Lewis, Michael Eracleous, Mario Gliozzi +2

We present the results of simultaneous XMM-Newton and RXTE observations of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy 3C 111. We find that the Compton reflection bump is extremely weak, however,…

astro-ph2004★ 28 cited

A survey for Fe 6.4 keV emission in young stellar objects in rho Oph: the strong fluorescence from Elias 29

F. Favata, G. Micela, B. Silva +2

We report the results of a search for 6.4 keV Fe fluorescent emission in Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) with measured accretion luminosities in the rho Oph cloud, using all existing…

astro-ph2004★ 178 cited

An Overabundance of Transient X-ray Binaries within 1 pc of the Galactic Center

M. P. Muno, E. Pfahl, F. K. Baganoff +4

During five years of Chandra observations, we have identified seven X-ray transients located within 23 pc of Sgr A*. These sources each vary in luminosity by more than a factor of…

physics.ins-det2004★ 8 cited

Microscale application of column theory for high resolution force and displacement sensing

B. A. Samuel, A. V. Desai, M. A. Haque

We present the design, fabrication and experimental validation of a novel device that exploits the amplification of displacement and attenuation of structural stiffness in the post…

math.DG2004

BV-generators and Lie algebroids

Sebastien Michea, Gleb Novitchkov

Let be a Gerstenhaber algebra generated by and . Given a degree -1 operator on , we find the condition on that makes a BV-alge…

astro-ph2004★ 38 cited

The Absorption Signature of Six MgII-Selected Systems Over 0.5<z<0.9

Jie Ding, Jane C. Charlton, Christopher W. Churchill

We present the following results of photoionization modeling of six MgII-selected absorption systems, at redshift 0.5 < z 0.9, along lines of sight toward three quasars: PG 1241+17…

astro-ph2004★ 77 cited

Discovery of Two Gravitationally Lensed Quasars with Image Separations of 3 Arcseconds from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Masamune Oguri, Naohisa Inada, Joseph F. Hennawi +15

We report the discovery of two doubly-imaged quasars, SDSS J100128.61+502756.9 and SDSS J120629.65+433217.6, at redshifts of 1.838 and 1.789 and with image separations of 2.86'' an…

astro-ph2004★ 41 cited

Search for extraterrestrial point sources of high energy neutrinos with AMANDA-II using data collected in 2000-2002

The AMANDA Collaboration, M. Ackermann

The results of a search for point sources of high energy neutrinos in the northern hemisphere using data collected by AMANDA-II in the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 are presented. In p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2004★ 17 cited

Reconstructing the electron in a fractionalized quantum fluid

Jainendra K. Jain, Michael R. Peterson

The low energy physics of the fractional Hall liquid is described in terms quasiparticles that are qualitatively distinct from electrons. We show, however, that a long-lived electr…

astro-ph2004★ 47 cited

The Luminosity Functions of the Galaxy Cluster MS1054-0321 at z=0.83 based on ACS Photometry

Tomotsugu Goto, Marc Postman, Nicholas J. G. Cross +41

We present new measurements of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) and its dependence on local galaxy density, color, morphology, and clustocentric radius for the massive z=0.83 cl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2004★ 1 cited

Composite-fermionization of bosons in rapidly rotating atomic traps

Chia-Chen Chang, Nicolas Regnault, Thierry Jolicoeur +1

The non-perturbative effect of interaction can sometimes make interacting bosons behave as though they were free fermions. The system of neutral bosons in a rapidly rotating atomic…

astro-ph2004★ 219 cited

New Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Fraction from 5 to 15 GeV

J. J. Beatty, A. Bhattacharyya, C. Bower +12

We present a new measurement of the cosmic-ray positron fraction at energies between 5 and 15 GeV with the balloon-borne HEAT-pbar instrument in the spring of 2000. The data presen…

astro-ph2004★ 25 cited

Close-coupling calculations of low-energy inelastic and elastic processes in He collisions with H: A comparative study of two potential energy surfaces

T. G. Lee, C. Rochow, R. Martin +7

The two most recently published potential energy surfaces (PESs) for the HeH complex, the so-called MR (Muchnick and Russek) and BMP (Boothroyd, Martin, and Peterson) surfaces,…

hep-ph2004★ 16 cited

On the universality of cross sections of hadron-hadron(nuclei) collisions at superhigh energies

L. Frankfurt, M. Strikman, M. Zhalov

We analyze the pattern of the onset of complete absorption (the black limit) in the high energy hadron-hadron collisions. The black limit arises due to the hard and soft interactio…

astro-ph2004★ 72 cited

Stars in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

N. Pirzkal, K. C. Sahu, A. Burgasser +11

We identified 46 unresolved source candidates in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, down to i775 = 29.5. Unresolved objects were identified using a parameter S, which measures the deviat…

astro-ph2004★ 49 cited

The Transformation of Cluster Galaxies at Intermeidate Redshift

N. L. Homeier, R. Demarco, P. Rosati +17

We combine imaging data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) with VLT/FORS optical spectroscopy to study the properties of star-forming galaxies in the z=0.837 cluster CL0152…

nucl-ex2004★ 181 cited

K(892)* Resonance Production in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

The short-lived resonance provides an efficient tool to probe properties of the hot and dense medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report measureme…

gr-qc2004★ 50 cited

Mechanics of multidimensional isolated horizons

M. Korzynski, J. Lewandowski, T. Pawlowski

Recently a multidimensional generalization of Isolated Horizon framework has been proposed by Lewandowski and Pawlowski (gr-qc/0410146). Therein the geometric description was easil…