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math.OC2013★ 70 cited

An Existence Result for Hierarchical Stackelberg v/s Stackelberg Games

Ankur A. Kulkarni, Uday V. Shanbhag

In Stackelberg v/s Stackelberg games a collection of leaders compete in a Nash game constrained by the equilibrium conditions of another Nash game amongst the followers. The result…

astro-ph.IM2013

Fitting the Continuum Component of A Composite SDSS Quasar Spectrum Using CMA-ES

Jian Wu, Daniel E. Vanden Berk

Fitting the continuum component of a quasar spectrum in UV/optical band is challenging due to contamination of numerous emission lines. Traditional fitting algorithms such as the l…

cond-mat.str-el2013★ 3 cited

Structural and metal-insulator transitions in ionic liquid-gated Ca3Ru2O7 surface

Conor P. Puls, Xinxin Cai, Yuhe Zhang +3

We report the fabrication and measurements of ionic liquid gated Hall bar devices prepared on thin CaRuO flakes exfoliated from bulk single crystals that were grown by…

cond-mat.supr-con2013★ 589 cited

Majorana mode in vortex core of Bi2Te3/NbSe2 topological insulator-superconductor heterostructure

Jin-Peng Xu, Mei-Xiao Wang, Zhi Long Liu +12

Majorana fermions have been intensively studied in recent years for their importance to both fundamental science and potential applications in topological quantum computing1,2. Maj…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 86 cited

A Three-Year Multi-Wavelength Study of the Very High Energy Gamma-ray Blazar 1ES 0229+200

E. Aliu, S. Archambault, T. Arlen +83

The high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object 1ES 0229+200 is a relatively distant (z = 0.1396), hard-spectrum (Gamma ~ 2.5), very-high-energy-emitting (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray blaza…

cond-mat.supr-con2013★ 12 cited

Single-crystal superconducting nanowires of NbSe fabricated by reactive plasma etching

Shaun A. Mills, Neal E. Staley, Jacob J. Wisser +3

We present the preparation and measurements of nanowires of single-crystal NbSe. These nanowires were prepared on ultrathin () flakes of NbSe mechanic…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 155 cited

Remote Life Detection Criteria, Habitable Zone Boundaries, and the Frequency of Earthlike Planets around M and Late-K Stars

James F. Kasting, Ravi Kopparapu, Ramses M. Ramirez +1

The habitable zone (HZ) around a star is typically defined as the region where a rocky planet can maintain liquid water on its surface. That definition is appropriate, because this…

astro-ph.GA2013

FeLoBAL Outflow Variability Constraints from Multi-Year Observations

Sean M. McGraw, Joseph C. Shields, Frederick W. Hamann +3

The physical properties and dynamical behavior of Broad Absorption Line (BAL) outflows are crucial themes in understanding the connections between galactic centers and their hosts.…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 32 cited

The PRL Stabilized High Resolution Echelle Fiber-fed Spectrograph: Instrument Description & First Radial Velocity Results

Abhijit Chakraborty, Suvrath Mahadevan, Arpita Roy +8

We present spectrograph design details and initial radial velocity results from the PRL optical fiber-fed high-resolution cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph (PARAS), which has re…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 231 cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler IV: Planet Sample From Q1-Q8 (22 Months)

Christopher J. Burke, Stephen T. Bryson, F. Mullally +37

We provide updates to the Kepler planet candidate sample based upon nearly two years of high-precision photometry (i.e., Q1-Q8). From an initial list of nearly 13,400 Threshold Cro…

astro-ph.HE2013

Simultaneous optical/gamma-ray observations of GRB 121217's prompt emission

J. Elliott, H. -F. Yu, S. Schmidl +20

Since the advent of the Swift satellite it has been possible to obtain precise localisations of GRB positions of sub-arcsec accuracy within seconds, facilitating ground-based robot…

cs.IT2013★ 2 cited

Analysis of MIMO Systems used in planning a 4G-WiMAX Network in Ghana

E. T. Tchao, K. Diawuo, W. K. Ofosu +1

With the increasing demand for mobile data services, Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) is emerging as one of the fastest growing areas within mobile communications. Innovative wirele…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 27 cited

SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Analysis of Potential Systematics in Fitting of Baryon Acoustic Feature

Mariana Vargas Magaña, Shirley Ho, Xiaoying Xu +12

Extraction of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) to percent level accuracy is challenging and demands an understanding of many potential systematic to an accuracy well below 1…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 176 cited

Evolution of Broad-line Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei

Moshe Elitzur, Luis C. Ho, Jonathan R. Trump

Apart from viewing-dependent obscuration, intrinsic broad-line emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) follows an evolutionary sequence: Type …

astro-ph.CO2013★ 20 cited

Black Hole Spin Properties of 130 AGN

Ruth A. Daly, Trevor B. Sprinkle

Supermassive black holes may be described by their mass and spin. When supermassive black holes are active, the activity provides a probe of the state of the black hole system. The…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 169 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the full shape of the clustering wedges in the data release 10 and 11 galaxy samples

Ariel G. Sanchez, Francesco Montesano, Eyal A. Kazin +25

We explore the cosmological implications of the angle-averaged correlation function, xi(s), and the clustering wedges, xi_perp(s) and xi_para(s), of the LOWZ and CMASS galaxy sampl…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 253 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Including covariance matrix errors

Will J. Percival, Ashley J. Ross, Ariel G. Sanchez +19

We present improved methodology for including covariance matrices in the error budget of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) galaxy clustering measurements, revisiting D…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 26 cited

Prompt emission of GRB 121217A from gamma-rays to the NIR

J. Elliott, H. -F. Yu, S. Schmidl +20

The mechanism that causes the prompt-emission episode of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still widely debated despite there being thousands of prompt detections. The favoured internal s…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 1.6k cited

Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +275

We report on results of an all-sky search for high-energy neutrino events interacting within the IceCube neutrino detector conducted between May 2010 and May 2012. The search follo…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 206 cited

Dust Production and Particle Acceleration in Supernova 1987A Revealed with ALMA

R. Indebetouw, M. Matsuura, E. Dwek +23

Supernova (SN) explosions are crucial engines driving the evolution of galaxies by shock heating gas, increasing the metallicity, creating dust, and accelerating energetic particle…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 2 cited

Optical selection of quasars: SDSS and LSST

Zeljko Ivezic, W. Niel Brandt, Xiaohui Fan +3

Over the last decade, quasar sample sizes have increased from several thousand to several hundred thousand, thanks mostly to SDSS imaging and spectroscopic surveys. LSST, the next-…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 21 cited

A Herschel view of IC 1396 A: Unveiling the different sequences of star formation

Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar, Veronica Roccatagliata, Konstantin Getman +5

The IC1396A globule in the young cluster Tr37, hosting many young stars and protostars, is assumed to be a site of triggered star formation. We mapped IC1396A with Herschel/PACS at…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 282 cited

Topological Superconductor Bi2Te3/NbSe2 heterostructures

Jin-Peng Xu, Canhua Liu, Mei-Xiao Wang +11

Topological superconductors (TSCs) have a full gap in the bulk and gapless surface states consisting of Majorana fermions, which have potential applications in fault-tolerant topol…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 23 cited

The dynamic X-ray nebula powered by the pulsar B1259-63

Oleg Kargaltsev, George G. Pavlov, Martin Durant +2

We present observations of the eccentric gamma-ray binary B1259-63/LS2883 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The images reveal a variable, extended about 4'', or about 1000 times…