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astro-ph.CO2012★ 49 cited

An X-ray and Multiwavelength Survey of Highly Radio-Loud Quasars at z > 4: Jet-Linked Emission in the Brightest Radio Beacons of the Early Universe

Jianfeng Wu, W. N. Brandt, Brendan P. Miller +3

(Abridged) We present a systematic study of the X-ray and multiwavelength properties of a sample of 17 highly radio-loud quasars (HRLQs) at z > 4 with sensitive X-ray coverage from…

nlin.PS2012

A geometric method for spatiotemporal coherent structure analysis

Chuan Zhang, Kentaroh Takagaki, Xiaoying Huang +2

We describe a geometric method to quantify wave patterns observed in the nervous system, which are non-stationary and with a mixture of spiral, target, plane and irregular waves. T…

math.NA2012

Uniform shift estimates for transmission problems and optimal rates of convergence for the parametric Finite Element Method

Hengguang Li, Victor Nistor, Yu Qiao

Let $Ω\subset \RR^d$, , be a bounded domain with piecewise smooth boundary and let be an open subset of a Banach space . Motivated by questions i…

math.NT2012★ 1 cited

Divisibility properties of the Fibonacci entry point

Paul Cubre, Jeremy Rouse

For a prime , let be the smallest positive integer so that divides , the th term in the Fibonacci sequence. Paul Bruckman and Peter Anderson conjectured…

hep-ph2012★ 12 cited

Massive neutral gauge boson production as a probe of nuclear modifications of parton distributions at the LHC

Vadim Guzey, Marco Guzzi, Pavel M. Nadolsky +2

We analyze the role of nuclear modifications of parton distributions, notably, the nuclear shadowing and antishadowing corrections, in production of lepton pairs from decays of neu…

gr-qc2012★ 12 cited

A loop quantum multiverse?

Martin Bojowald

Inhomogeneous space-times in loop quantum cosmology have come under better control with recent advances in effective methods. Even highly inhomogeneous situations, for which multiv…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 216 cited

Dynamical age differences among coeval star clusters as revealed by blue stragglers

F. R. Ferraro, B. Lanzoni, E. Dalessandro +11

Globular star clusters that formed at the same cosmic time may have evolved rather differently from a dynamical point of view (because that evolution depends on the internal enviro…

gr-qc2012★ 57 cited

Deformed General Relativity

Martin Bojowald, George M. Paily

Deformed special relativity is embedded in deformed general relativity using the methods of canonical relativity and loop quantum gravity. Phase-space dependent deformations of sym…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 44 cited

Discovery of TeV Gamma-ray Emission from CTA 1 by VERITAS

E. Aliu, S. Archambault, T. Arlen +88

We report the discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission coincident with the shell-type radio supernova remnant (SNR) CTA 1 using the VERITAS gamma-ray observatory. The source, VER J0006+…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 110 cited

Cross-Correlation of SDSS DR7 Quasars and DR10 BOSS Galaxies: The Weak Luminosity Dependence of Quasar Clustering at z~0.5

Yue Shen, Cameron K. McBride, Martin White +21

We present the measurement of the two-point cross-correlation function (CCF) of 8,198 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) quasars and 349,608 DR10 CMASS galaxies f…

physics.atom-ph2012★ 20 cited

S-Wave Collisional Frequency Shift of a Fermion Clock

Eric L. Hazlett, Yi Zhang, Ronald W. Stites +2

We report an s-wave collisional frequency shift of an atomic clock based on fermions. In contrast to bosons, the fermion clock shift is insensitive to the population difference of…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 200 cited

A quantum phase transition from triangular to stripe charge order in NbSe

Anjan Soumyanarayanan, Michael M. Yee, Yang He +6

The competition between proximate electronic phases produces a complex phenomenology in strongly correlated systems. In particular, fluctuations associated with periodic charge or…

math.DS2012★ 1 cited

Semi-stable Reduction Implies Minimality of the Resultant

Lucien Szpiro, Michael Tepper, Phillip Williams

For a dynamical system on n-dimensional projective space over a number field or a function field, we show that semi-stable reduction implies the minimality of the resultant. We use…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 397 cited

Hedgehog Spin-texture and Berry's Phase tuning in a Magnetic Topological Insulator

Su-Yang Xu, Madhab Neupane, Chang Liu +18

Understanding and control of spin degrees of freedom on the surfaces of topological materials are key to future applications as well as for realizing novel physics such as the axio…

nlin.PS2012★ 18 cited

Spatial Pattern Dynamics due to the Fitness Gradient Flux in Evolutionary Games

Russ deForest, Andrew Belmonte

We introduce a non-diffusive spatial coupling term into the replicator equation of evolutionary game theory. The spatial flux is based on motion due to local gradients in the relat…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 102 cited

Constraints on the origin of cosmic rays above eV from large scale anisotropy searches in data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search for large scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is reported. For…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 82 cited

X-ray properties of the Northern Galactic Cap AGNs in the 58-month Swift-BAT catalog

Ranjan V. Vasudevan, William N. Brandt, Richard F. Mushotzky +5

We present a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of a complete sample of hard X-ray selected AGN in the Northern Galactic Cap of the 58-month Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift/BAT) c…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 54 cited

Chandra observations of SN 1987A: the soft X-ray light curve revisited

E. A. Helder, P. S. Broos, D. Dewey +6

We report on the present stage of SN 1987A as observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We reanalyze published Chandra observations and add three more epochs of Chandra data to ge…

gr-qc2012★ 11 cited

Electric Time in Quantum Cosmology

Stephon Alexander, Martin Bojowald, Antonino Marciano +1

Effective quantum cosmology is formulated with a realistic global internal time given by the electric vector potential. New possibilities for the quantum behavior of space-time are…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 4 cited

The Chandra Local Volume Survey: The X-ray Point Source Population of NGC 404

B. Binder, B. F. Williams, M. Eracleous +4

We present a comprehensive X-ray point source catalog of NGC 404 obtained as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. A new, 97 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of NGC 404 was combine…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 28 cited

Intragroup and Galaxy-Linked Diffuse X-ray Emission in Hickson Compact Groups

Tyler D. Desjardins, Sarah C. Gallagher, Panayiotis Tzanavaris +9

Isolated compact groups of galaxies (CGs) present a range of dynamical states, group velocity dispersions, and galaxy morphologies with which to study galaxy evolution, particularl…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 99 cited

Multiwavelength observations of GRB 110731A: GeV emission from onset to afterglow

LAT Collaboration, GBM Collaboration, Swift Collaboration +2

We report on the multiwavelength observations of the bright, long gamma-ray burst \GRB, by the \Fermi and \Swift observatories, and by the MOA and GROND optical telescopes. The ana…

math.AG2012★ 32 cited

Test ideals of non-principal ideals: Computations, Jumping Numbers, Alterations and Division Theorems

Karl Schwede, Kevin Tucker

Given an ideal in a (log) -Gorenstein -finite ring of characteristic , we study and provide a new perspective on the test ideal for a real…

math.AT2012★ 1 cited

Higher torsion and secondary transfer of unipotent bundles

Bernard Badzioch, Wojciech Dorabiala

Given a unipotent bundle of smooth manifolds we construct its secondary transfer map and show that this map determines the higher smooth torsion of the bundle. This approach to hig…