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gr-qc2014★ 3 cited

Free-flight experiments in LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano, H. Audley, G. Auger +89

The LISA Pathfinder mission will demonstrate the technology of drag-free test masses for use as inertial references in future space-based gravitational wave detectors. To accomplis…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 12 cited

Star Formation in High-Redshift Cluster Ellipticals

Cory R. Wagner, Mark Brodwin, Gregory F. Snyder +11

We measure the star formation rates (SFRs) of massive () early-type galaxies (ETGs) in a sample of 11 high-redshift () galaxy clusters…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 74 cited

Protostellar Outflows and Radiative Feedback from Massive Stars

Rolf Kuiper, Harold W. Yorke, Neal J. Turner

We carry out radiation hydrodynamical simulations of the formation of massive stars in the super-Eddington regime including both their radiative feedback and protostellar outflows.…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 45 cited

Seasonal Evolution of Saturn's Polar Temperatures and Composition

Leigh N. Fletcher, P. G. J. Irwin, J. A. Sinclair +7

The seasonal evolution of Saturn's polar atmospheric temperatures and hydrocarbon composition is derived from a decade of Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) 7-16 m t…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 28 cited

Direct Spectrum of the Benchmark T dwarf HD 19467 B

Justin R. Crepp, Emily L. Rice, AAron Veicht +18

HD 19467 B is presently the only directly imaged T dwarf companion known to induce a measurable Doppler acceleration around a solar type star. We present spectroscopy measurements…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 59 cited

Coronal Properties of the Seyfert 1.9 Galaxy MCG -05-23-016 Determined from Hard X-ray Spectroscopy with NuSTAR

M. Baloković, G. Matt, F. A. Harrison +15

Measurements of the high-energy cut-off in the coronal continuum of active galactic nuclei have long been elusive for all but a small number of the brightest examples. We present a…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 64 cited

The hard X-ray spectrum of NGC 5506 as seen by NuSTAR

G. Matt, M. Balokovic, A. Marinucci +12

NuSTAR observed the bright Compton-thin, narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy, NGC 5506, for about 56 ks. In agreement with past observations, the spectrum is well fit by a power law with…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 192 cited

A spectral-timing model for ULXs in the super-critical regime

Matthew Middleton, Lucy Heil, Fabio Pintore +2

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) with luminosities lying between ~3x10^{39} - 2x10^{40} erg/s represent a contentious sample of objects as their brightness, together with a lack…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 62 cited

Designing an Inflation Galaxy Survey: how to measure using scale-dependent galaxy bias

Roland de Putter, Olivier Doré

The most promising method for measuring primordial non-Gaussianity in the post-Planck era is to detect large-scale, scale-dependent galaxy bias. Considering the information in the…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 33 cited

A Focused, Hard X-ray Look at Arp 299 with NuSTAR

A. Ptak, A. Hornschemeier, A. Zezas +19

We report on simultaneous observations of the local starburst system Arp 299 with NuSTAR and Chandra, which provides the first resolved images of this galaxy up to energies of ~ 45…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 68 cited

The Chandra Planetary Nebulae Survey (ChanPlaNS): III. X-ray Emission from the Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae

R. Montez, J. H. Kastner, B. Balick +25

We present X-ray spectral analysis of 20 point-like X-ray sources detected in Chandra Planetary Nebula Survey (ChanPlaNS) observations of 59 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the solar ne…

astro-ph.IM2014

All Sky Survey Mission Observing Scenario Strategy

Sara C. Spangelo, Raj M. Katti, Stephen C. Unwin +1

This paper develops a general observing strategy for missions performing all-sky surveys, where a single spacecraft maps the celestial sphere subject to realistic constraints. The…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 70 cited

The VLTI / PIONIER near-infrared interferometric survey of southern T Tauri stars. I. First results

Fabien Anthonioz, François Ménard, Christophe Pinte +15

Context : The properties of the inner disks of bright Herbig AeBe stars have been studied with near infrared (NIR) interferometry and high resolution spectroscopy. The continuum an…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 16 cited

NEOWISE observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) as it approaches Mars

R. Stevenson, J. M. Bauer, R. M. Cutri +2

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission observed comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) three times at 3.4 μm and 4.6 μm as the comet approached Mars i…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 7 cited

Dark Ages Radio Explorer Mission: Probing the Cosmic Dawn

Dayton L. Jones, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Jack O. Burns

The period between the creation of the cosmic microwave background at a redshift of ~1000 and the formation of the first stars and black holes that re-ionize the intergalactic medi…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 17 cited

Binary Candidates in the Jovian Trojan and Hilda Populations from NEOWISE Lightcurves

S. Sonnett, A. Mainzer, T. Grav +2

Determining the binary fraction for a population of asteroids, particularly as a function of separation between the two components, helps describe the dynamical environment at the…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 42 cited

On the Progenitor System of the Type Iax Supernova 2014dt in M61

Ryan J. Foley, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Saurabh W. Jha +5

We present pre-explosion and post-explosion Hubble Space Telescope images of the Type Iax supernova (SN Iax) 2014dt in M61. After astrometrically aligning these images, we do not d…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 6 cited

Three-dimensional Tomography of the Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetoionic Medium with the SKA

J. L. Han, W. van Straten, T. J. W. Lazio +9

The magneto-ionic structures of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and the intergalactic medium are still poorly understood, especially at distances larger than a few kilopar…

cs.CV2014★ 3 cited

Pooled Motion Features for First-Person Videos

M. S. Ryoo, Brandon Rothrock, Larry Matthies

In this paper, we present a new feature representation for first-person videos. In first-person video understanding (e.g., activity recognition), it is very important to capture bo…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 20 cited

Mesh-free free-form lensing I: Methodology and application to mass reconstruction

Julian Merten

Many applications and algorithms in the field of gravitational lensing make use of meshes with a finite number of nodes to analyze and manipulate data. Specific examples in lensing…

physics.ins-det2014★ 146 cited

HOLMES - The Electron Capture Decay of 163Ho to Measure the Electron Neutrino Mass with sub-eV sensitivity

B. Alpert, M. Balata, D. Bennett +35

The European Research Council has recently funded HOLMES, a new experiment to directly measure the neutrino mass. HOLMES will perform a calorimetric measurement of the energy relea…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 24 cited

Optical & Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations of a New Sample of Distant Rich Galaxy Clusters in the ROSAT All Sky Survey

A. Buddendiek, T. Schrabback, C. H. Greer +15

Finding a sample of the most massive clusters with redshifts can provide an interesting consistency check of the cold dark matter (CDM) model. Here we present result…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 167 cited

GREAT3 results I: systematic errors in shear estimation and the impact of real galaxy morphology

Rachel Mandelbaum, Barnaby Rowe, Robert Armstrong +40

We present first results from the third GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) challenge, the third in a sequence of challenges for testing methods of inferring weak gravi…

physics.ins-det2014★ 16 cited

Ultraviolet, Optical, and Near-IR Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Materials Developments

P. Szypryt, B. A. Mazin, B. Bumble +2

We have fabricated 2024 pixel microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays in the ultraviolet/optical/near-IR (UVOIR) regime that are currently in use in astronomical instru…