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astro-ph.SR2015★ 437 cited

Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. VII. The Catalog of Eclipsing Binaries Found in the Entire Kepler Data-Set

Brian Kirk, Kyle Conroy, Andrej Prša +47

The primary Kepler Mission provided nearly continuous monitoring of ~200,000 objects with unprecedented photometric precision. We present the final catalog of eclipsing binary syst…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 28 cited

On R-W1 as A Diagnostic to Discover Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei in Wide-Area X-ray Surveys

Stephanie M. LaMassa, Francesca Civano, Marcella Brusa +18

Capitalizing on the all-sky coverage of {\it WISE}, and the 35\% and 50\% sky coverage from SDSS and Pan-STARRS, respectively, we explore the efficacy of (optical) - $m_{3.…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 43 cited

Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere from Kepler K2 Observations: Implications for Brown Dwarf Light Curve Analyses

Amy A. Simon, Jason F. Rowe, Patrick Gaulme +9

Observations of Neptune with the Kepler Space Telescope yield a 49-day light curve with 98% coverage at a 1-minute cadence. A significant signature in the light curve comes from di…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 34 cited

Planck cold clumps in the Orionis complex: I. Discovery of an extremely young Class 0 protostellar object and a proto-brown dwarf candidate in a bright rimmed clump PGCC G192.32-11.88

Tie Liu, Qizhou Zhang, Kee-Tae Kim +37

We are performing a series of observations with ground-based telescopes toward Planck Galactic cold clumps (PGCCs) in the Orionis complex in order to systematically investigate…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 16 cited

Absence of Significant Cool Disks in Young Stellar Objects Exhibiting Repetitive Optical Outbursts

Hauyu Baobab Liu, Roberto Galván-Madrid, Eduard I. Vorobyov +10

We report Submillimeter Array (SMA) 1.3 mm high angular resolution observations towards the four EXor type outbursting young stellar objects (YSOs) VY Tau, V1118 Ori, V1143 Ori, an…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 199 cited

A multi-wavelength analysis for interferometric (sub-)mm observations of protoplanetary disks: radial constraints on the dust properties and the disk structure

M. Tazzari, L. Testi, B. Ercolano +20

Theoretical models of grain growth predict dust properties to change as a function of protoplanetary disk radius, mass, age and other physical conditions. We lay down the methodolo…

eess.SY2015

From Stars to Patients: Lessons from Space Science and Astrophysics for Health Care Informatics

S. G. Djorgovski, A. A. Mahabal, D. Crichton +1

Big Data are revolutionizing nearly every aspect of the modern society. One area where this can have a profound positive societal impact is the field of Health Care Informatics (HC…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 13 cited

Observations of EUV Waves in 3He-Rich Solar Energetic Particle Events

R. Bucik, D. E. Innes, L. Guo +2

Small 3He-rich solar energetic particle (SEP) events with their anomalous abundances, markedly different from solar system, provide evidence for a unique acceleration mechanism tha…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 58 cited

Cross-correlation of gravitational lensing from DES Science Verification data with SPT and Planck lensing

D. Kirk, Y. Omori, A. Benoit-Lévy +89

We measure the cross-correlation between weak lensing of galaxy images and of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The effects of gravitational lensing on different sources will…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89

We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 22 cited

On the Spin of the Black Hole in IC 10 X-1

James F. Steiner, Dominic J. Walton, Javier A. Garcia +5

The compact X-ray source in the eclipsing X-ray binary IC 10 X-1 has reigned for years as ostensibly the most massive stellar-mass black hole, with a mass estimated to be about twi…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 31 cited

Observation and Confirmation of Six Strong Lensing Systems in The Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

B. Nord, E. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin +89

We report the observation and confirmation of the first group- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems found in Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. Through visual inspect…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 22 cited

A Multiple Scattering Polarized Radiative Transfer Model: Application to HD 189733b

Pushkar Kopparla, Vijay Natraj, Xi Zhang +3

We present a multiple scattering vector radiative transfer model which produces disk integrated, full phase polarized light curves for reflected light from an exoplanetary atmosphe…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 143 cited

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013

M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 3 cited

A Titanium Nitride Absorber for Controlling Optical Crosstalk in Horn-Coupled Aluminum LEKID Arrays for Millimeter Wavelengths

H. McCarrick, D. Flanigan, G. Jones +15

We discuss the design and measured performance of a titanium nitride (TiN) mesh absorber we are developing for controlling optical crosstalk in horn-coupled lumped-element kinetic…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 29 cited

Physical properties of star clusters in the outer LMC as observed by the Dark Energy Survey

A. Pieres, B. Santiago, E. Balbinot +57

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) harbors a rich and diverse system of star clusters, whose ages, chemical abundances, and positions provide information about the LMC history of sta…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 246 cited

Flash Spectroscopy: Emission Lines from the Ionized Circumstellar Material around -Day-Old Type II Supernovae

D. Khazov, O. Yaron, A. Gal-Yam +24

Supernovae (SNe) embedded in dense circumstellar material (CSM) may show prominent emission lines in their early-time spectra ( days after the explosion), owing to recombi…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 139 cited

Tracing the fate of carbon and the atmospheric evolution of Mars

Renyu Hu, David M. Kass, Bethany L. Ehlmann +1

The climate of Mars likely evolved from a warmer, wetter early state to the cold, arid current state. However, no solutions for this evolution have previously been found to satisfy…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 143 cited

3.6 and 4.5 m Phase Curves of the Highly-Irradiated Hot Jupiters WASP-19b and HAT-P-7b

Ian Wong, Heather A. Knutson, Tiffany Kataria +15

We analyze full-orbit phase curve observations of the transiting hot Jupiters WASP-19b and HAT-P-7b at 3.6 and 4.5 m obtained using the Spitzer Space Telescope. For WASP-19b, we…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 73 cited

Campaign 9 of the Mission: Observational Parameters, Scientific Drivers, and Community Involvement for a Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey

Calen B. Henderson, Radosław Poleski, Matthew Penny +118

's Campaign 9 (C9) will conduct a 3.7 deg survey toward the Galactic bulge from 7/April through 1/July of 2016 that will leverage the spatial separation between…

gr-qc2015★ 17 cited

General relativistic observables for the ACES experiment

Slava G. Turyshev, Nan Yu, Viktor T. Toth

We develop a high-precision model for relativistic observables of the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) experiment on the International Space Station (ISS). We develop all rela…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 23 cited

Spitzer Microlensing Program as a Probe for Globular Cluster Planets. Analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448

Radosław Poleski, Wei Zhu, Grant W. Christie +83

The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was int…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 64 cited

The NANOGrav Nine-Year Data Set: Noise Budget for Pulsar Arrival Times on Intraday Timescales

M. T. Lam, J. M. Cordes, S. Chatterjee +21

The use of pulsars as astrophysical clocks for gravitational wave experiments demands the highest possible timing precision. Pulse times of arrival (TOAs) are limited by stochastic…

gr-qc2015★ 83 cited

On the accuracy and precision of numerical waveforms: Effect of waveform extraction methodology

Tony Chu, Heather Fong, Prayush Kumar +6

We present a new set of 95 numerical relativity simulations of non-precessing binary black holes (BBHs). The simulations sample comprehensively both black-hole spins up to spin mag…