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astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

Distances to Galactic methanol masers

K. L. J. Rygl, A. Brunthaler, K. M. Menten +2

We present the first EVN parallax measurements of 6.7 GHz methanol masers in star forming regions of the Galaxy. The 6.7 GHz methanol maser transition is a very valuable astrometri…

astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

CMBPol Mission Concept Study: A Mission to Map our Origins

Daniel Baumann, Asantha Cooray, Scott Dodelson +7

Quantum mechanical metric fluctuations during an early inflationary phase of the universe leave a characteristic imprint in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB…

q-bio.SC2008★ 154 cited

Stochasticity and traffic jams in the transcription of ribosomal RNA: Intriguing role of termination and antitermination

Stefan Klumpp, Terence Hwa

In fast growing bacteria, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is required to be transcribed at very high rates to sustain the high cellular demand on ribosome synthesis. This results in dense tra…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Planets in Stellar Clusters Extensive Search. V. Search for planets and identification of 18 new variable stars in the old open cluster NGC 188

B. J. Mochejska, K. Z. Stanek, D. D. Sasselov +7

We have undertaken a long-term project, Planets in Stellar Clusters Extensive Search (PISCES), to search for transiting planets in open clusters. In this paper we present the resul…

stat.AP2008★ 842 cited

For objective causal inference, design trumps analysis

Donald B. Rubin

For obtaining causal inferences that are objective, and therefore have the best chance of revealing scientific truths, carefully designed and executed randomized experiments are ge…

math.CV2008

Analytic continuation of Dirichlet series with almost periodic coefficients

Oliver Knill, John Lesieutre

We prove that an ordinary Dirichlet series with coefficients a(n)=g(n b) has an abscissa of convergence 0 if g is an odd 1-periodic, real-analytic function and b is Diophantine. We…

astro-ph2008★ 17 cited

The Race Between Stars and Quasars in Reionizing Cosmic Hydrogen

Abraham Loeb

The cosmological background of ionizing radiation has been dominated by quasars once the Universe aged by ~2 billion years. At earlier times (redshifts z>3), the observed abundance…

q-bio.NC2008★ 856 cited

Accurate path integration in continuous attractor network models of grid cells

Yoram Burak, Ila R. Fiete

Grid cells in the rodent entorhinal cortex display strikingly regular firing responses to the animal's position in 2-D space, and have been hypothesized to form the neural substrat…

astro-ph2008★ 7 cited

Parametrization and Classification of 20 Billion LSST Objects: Lessons from SDSS

Z. Ivezic, T. Axelrod, A. C. Becker

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain, starting in 2015, multiple images of the sky that is visible from Cer…

astro-ph2008★ 56 cited

Molecular gas in NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA). XI. A complete gravity torque map of NGC4579: new clues on bar evolution

S. Garcia-Burillo, S. Fernandez-Garcia, F. Combes +6

We create a complete gravity torque map of the disk of the LINER/Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC4579. We quantify the efficiency of angular momentum transport and search for signatures of s…

astro-ph2008★ 74 cited

The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury I. The Star Formation History of the M81 Outer Disk

Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Anil C. Seth +16

The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) is a large Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) treasury program to obtain resolved stellar photometry for a…

astro-ph2008★ 57 cited

High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the evolving shock in the 2006 outburst of RS Ophiuchi

J. -U. Ness, J. J. Drake, S. Starrfield +9

The evolution of the 2006 outburst of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi was followed with 12 X-ray grating observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton. We present detailed spectral analy…

math.CO2008

The number of occurrences of a fixed spread among n directions in vector spaces over finite fields

Le Anh Vinh

We study a finite analog of a problem of Erdos, Hickerson and Pach on the maximum number of occurrences of a fixed angle among n directions in three-dimensional spaces.

astro-ph2008★ 23 cited

Constraints on the Local Sources of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Eli Waxman, Abraham Loeb

Ultra high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are believed to be protons accelerated in magnetized plasma outflows of extra-Galactic sources. The acceleration of protons to ~10^{20} eV re…

astro-ph2008★ 105 cited

High redshift quasars in the COSMOS survey: the space density of z>3 X-ray selected QSOs

M. Brusa, A. Comastri, R. Gilli +19

We present a new measurement of the space density of high redshift (3.0<z<4.5), X-ray selected QSOs obtained by exploiting the deep and uniform multiwavelength coverage of the COSM…

astro-ph2008★ 184 cited

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Magnetized Thin Accretion Disks around Black Holes: Stress in the Plunging Region

Rebecca Shafee, Jonathan C. McKinney, Ramesh Narayan +3

We describe three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a geometrically thin accretion disk around a non-spinning black hole. The disk has a thickness…

q-bio.PE2008★ 99 cited

Strategy abundance in 2x2 games for arbitrary mutation rates

Tibor Antal, Martin A. Nowak, Arne Traulsen

We study evolutionary game dynamics in a well-mixed populations of finite size, N. A well-mixed population means that any two individuals are equally likely to interact. In particu…

math.PR2008★ 114 cited

Efficient rare-event simulation for the maximum of heavy-tailed random walks

Jose Blanchet, Peter Glynn

Let be a sequence of i.i.d. r.v.'s with negative mean. Set and define . We propose an importance sampling algorithm to estimate the tail o…

astro-ph2008★ 26 cited

First Results From The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS)

Z. -W. Zhang, F. B. Bianco, M. J. Lehner +22

Results from the first two years of data from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) are presented. Stars have been monitored photometrically at 4 Hz or 5 Hz to search fo…

astro-ph2008★ 183 cited

Real-Time Calibration of the Murchison Widefield Array

D. A. Mitchell, L. J. Greenhill, R. B. Wayth +5

The interferometric technique known as peeling addresses many of the challenges faced when observing with low-frequency radio arrays, and is a promising tool for the associated cal…

stat.ME2008★ 4 cited

Comment: Microarrays, Empirical Bayes and the Two-Groups Model

Carl N. Morris

Brad Efron's paper [arXiv:0808.0572] has inspired a return to the ideas behind Bayes, frequency and empirical Bayes. The latter preferably would not be limited to exchangeable mode…

math.CO2008★ 1 cited

On Universal Cycles of Labeled Graphs

Greg Brockman, Bill Kay, Emma E. Snively

A universal cycle is a compact listing of a class of combinatorial objects. In this paper, we prove the existence of universal cycles of classes of labeled graphs, including simple…

hep-th2008★ 100 cited

Holographic Systematics of D-brane Inflation

Daniel Baumann, Anatoly Dymarsky, Shamit Kachru +2

We provide a systematic treatment of possible corrections to the inflaton potential for D-brane inflation in the warped deformed conifold. We consider the D3-brane potential in the…

astro-ph2008

Seyfert Galaxies in the Local Universe: Analysis of Spitzer Spectra of a Complete Sample

S. Tommasin, L. Spinoglio, K. Hainline +2

The Spitzer high resolution spectra of 72 Seyfert galaxies from the 12m Galaxy Sample are presented and discussed. The presence of starburst components in these galaxies can be…