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astro-ph.CO2013★ 83 cited

A novel variability-based method for quasar selection: evidence for a rest frame ~54 day characteristic timescale

Matthew J. Graham, S. G. Djorgovski, Andrew J. Drake +5

We compare quasar selection techniques based on their optical variability using data from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS). We introduce a new technique based on Slep…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 69 cited

Self-Calibration of BICEP1 Three-Year Data and Constraints on Astrophysical Polarization Rotation

J. P. Kaufman, N. J. Miller, M. Shimon +33

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimeters aspire to measure the faint -mode signature predicted to arise from inflationary gravitational waves. They also have the potential…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 3 cited

Probing the accelerating Universe with radio weak lensing in the JVLA Sky Survey

M. L. Brown, F. B. Abdalla, A. Amara +48

We outline the prospects for performing pioneering radio weak gravitational lensing analyses using observations from a potential forthcoming JVLA Sky Survey program. A large-scale…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 19 cited

Potential multi-component structure of the debris disk around HIP 17439 revealed by Herschel/DUNES

S. Ertel, J. P. Marshall, J. -C. Augereau +16

[abridged] Aims. Our Herschel Open Time Key Programme DUNES aims at detecting and characterizing debris disks around nearby, sun-like stars. In addition to the statistical analysis…

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.EP2013★ 38 cited

Can eccentric debris disks be long-lived? A first numerical investigation and application to Reticuli

V. Faramaz, H. Beust, P. Thébault +13

Imaging of debris disks has found evidence for both eccentric and offset disks. One hypothesis is that these provide evidence for massive perturbers that sculpt the observed struct…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 24 cited

NuSTAR and Swift observations of the fast rotating magnetized white dwarf AE Aquarii

Takao Kitaguchi, Hongjun An, Andrei M. Beloborodov +11

AE Aquarii is a cataclysmic variable with the fastest known rotating magnetized white dwarf (P_spin = 33.08 s). Compared to many intermediate polars, AE Aquarii shows a soft X-ray…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 137 cited

The Type IIb Supernova 2013df and Its Cool Supergiant Progenitor

Schuyler D. Van Dyk, WeiKang Zheng, Ori D. Fox +10

We have obtained early-time photometry and spectroscopy of Supernova (SN) 2013df in NGC 4414. The SN is clearly of Type IIb, with notable similarities to SN 1993J. From its luminos…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 105 cited

Bimodal Distribution of Sulfuric Acid Aerosols in the Upper Haze of Venus

Peter Gao, Xi Zhang, David Crisp +2

The upper haze (UH) of Venus is variable on the order of days and it is populated by two particle modes. We use a 1D microphysics and vertical transport model based on the Communit…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 105 cited

A Measurement of the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Signal Toward MACS J0717.5+3745

Jack Sayers, Tony Mroczkowski, Michael Zemcov +18

We report our analysis of MACS J0717.5+3745 using 140 and 268 GHz Bolocam data collected at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. We detect extended Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 40 cited

Measuring the Coronal Properties of IC4329A with NuSTAR

L. W. Brenneman, G. Madejski, F. Fuerst +16

We present an analysis of a ~160 ks NuSTAR observation of the nearby bright Seyfert galaxy IC4329A. The high-quality broadband spectrum enables us to separate the effects of distan…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 71 cited

The Structure of Exoplanets

David S. Spiegel, Jonathan J. Fortney, Christophe Sotin

The hundreds of exoplanets that have been discovered in the past two decades offer a new perspective on planetary structure. Instead of being the archetypal examples of planets, th…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 36 cited

First hard X-ray detection of the non-thermal emission around the Arches cluster: morphology and spectral studies with NuSTAR

Roman A. Krivonos, John A. Tomsick, Franz E. Bauer +15

The Arches cluster is a young, densely packed massive star cluster in our Galaxy that shows a high level of star formation activity. The nature of the extended non-thermal X-ray em…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 85 cited

Using Dimers to Measure Biosignatures and Atmospheric Pressure for Terrestrial Exoplanets

Amit Misra, Victoria Meadows, Mark Claire +1

We present a new method to probe atmospheric pressure on Earthlike planets using (O2-O2) dimers in the near-infrared. We also show that dimer features could be the most readily det…

astro-ph.IM2013

US and European Technology Roadmap for a Mid-infrared Space Interferometer

Peter A. Schuller, Peter R. Lawson, Olivier P. Lay +2

Studies of mid-infrared space interferometer concepts in the USA and in Europe have converged on a single architecture. We address the question of how the US and European communiti…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 62 cited

HiRes Deconvolved Spitzer Images of 89 Protostellar Jets and Outflows: New Data on Evolution of Outflow Morphology

T. Velusamy, W. D. Langer, T. Thompson

To study the role of protosellar jets and outflows in the time evolution of the parent cores and the protostars, the astronomical community needs a large enough data base of infrar…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 65 cited

HerMES: Point source catalogues from Herschel-SPIRE observations II

L. Wang, M. Viero, C. Clarke +16

The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) is the largest Guaranteed Time Key Programme on the Herschel Space Observatory. With a wedding cake survey strategy, it cons…

cond-mat.quant-gas2013★ 11 cited

Breakdown of the scale invariance in the vicinity of Tonks-Girardeau gas

Z. D. Zhang, G. E. Astrakharchik, D. C. Aveline +4

In this article, we consider the monopole excitations of the harmonically trapped Bose gas in the vicinity of the Tonks-Girardeau limit. Using Girardeau's Fermi-Bose duality and su…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 177 cited

Planck intermediate results. XVII. Emission of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium from the far-infrared to microwave frequencies

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +196

The dust-HI correlation is used to characterize the emission properties of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium. We cross-correlate sky maps from Planck, WMAP, and DIRBE, at 17…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 28 cited

Constraining the Lyman Alpha Escape Fraction with Far-Infrared Observations of Lyman Alpha Emitters

Julie L. Wardlow, S. Malhotra, Z. Zheng +22

We study the far-infrared properties of 498 Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) at z=2.8, 3.1 and 4.5 in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South, using 250, 350 and 500 micron data from the…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 827 cited

Planck 2013 results. XI. All-sky model of thermal dust emission

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +244

This paper presents an all-sky model of dust emission from the Planck 857, 545 and 353 GHz, and IRAS 100 micron data. Using a modified black-body fit to the data we present all-sky…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 62 cited

Three Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Behind CLASH Galaxy Clusters

Brandon Patel, Curtis McCully, Saurabh W. Jha +42

We report observations of three gravitationally lensed supernovae (SNe) in the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) Multi-Cycle Treasury program. These objects,…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 47 cited

CII in the Interstellar Medium: Excitation by H2 Revisited

Laurent Wiesenfeld, Paul F. Goldsmith

C is a critical constituent of many regions of the interstellar medium, as it can be a major reservoir of carbon and, under a wide range of conditions, the dominant gas coolant…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 44 cited

Searching for a dipole modulation in the large-scale structure of the Universe

R. Fernández-Cobos, P. Vielva, D. Pietrobon +3

Several statistical anomalies in the CMB temperature anisotropies seem to defy the assumption of a homogeneous and isotropic universe. In particular, a dipole modulation has been d…