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astro-ph.GA2010★ 11 cited

Radio and Gamma-Ray Constraints on the Emission Geometry and Birthplace of PSR J2043+2740

A. Noutsos, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +146

We report on the first year of Fermi gamma-ray observations of pulsed high-energy emission from the old PSR J2043+2740. The study of the gamma-ray efficiency of such old pulsars gi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 24 cited

Carbon nanotubes adhesion and nanomechanical behavior from peeling force spectroscopy

Julien Buchoux, Ludovic Bellon, Sophie Marsaudon +1

Applications based on Single Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) are good example of the great need to continuously develop metrology methods in the field of nanotechnology. Contact and…

physics.atom-ph2010★ 128 cited

High-order Harmonic Spectroscopy of the Cooper Minimum in Argon: Experimental and Theoretical Study

J. Higuet, H. Ruf, N. ThirÉ +9

We study the Cooper minimum in high harmonic generation from argon atoms using long wavelength laser pulses. We find that the minimum in high harmonic spectra is systematically shi…

cond-mat.soft2010★ 38 cited

Undulation instabilities in the meniscus of smectic membranes

J. C. Loudet, P. V. Dolganov, P. Patrício +2

Using optical microscopy, phase shifting interferometry and atomic force microscopy, we demonstrate the existence of undulated structures in the meniscus of ferroelectric smectic-C…

math.GT2010★ 7 cited

Parallelogram decompositions and generic surfaces in H^{hyp}(4)

Duc-Manh Nguyen

In this paper we are interested in the stratum H^{hyp}(4) of translation surfaces, which consists of pairs (M,ω), where M is a hyper-elliptic Riemann surface of genus 3, and ωis a…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 239 cited

Insights Into the High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo et al., the MAGIC collaboration +6

We report on the gamma-ray activity of the blazar Mrk 501 during the first 480 days of Fermi operation. We find that the average LAT gamma-ray spectrum of Mrk 501 can be well descr…

nucl-th2010★ 4 cited

Regularization of Multi-Reference Energy Density Functional Calculations

M. Bender, T. Duguet, P. -H. Heenen +1

We report the first application of a recently proposed regularization procedure for multi-reference energy density functionals, which removes spurious divergent or non-continuous c…

stat.ME2010★ 1 cited

Efficient Bayesian Inference for Generalized Bradley-Terry Models

Francois Caron, Arnaud Doucet

The Bradley-Terry model is a popular approach to describe probabilities of the possible outcomes when elements of a set are repeatedly compared with one another in pairs. It has fo…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 265 cited

Reaction Networks For Interstellar Chemical Modelling: Improvements and Challenges

V. Wakelam, I. W. M. Smith, E. Herbst +10

We survey the current situation regarding chemical modelling of the synthesis of molecules in the interstellar medium. The present state of knowledge concerning the rate coefficien…

math.NA2010★ 9 cited

Degenerate anisotropic elliptic problems and magnetized plasma simulations

Stéphane Brull, Pierre Degond, Fabrice Deluzet

This paper is devoted to the numerical approximation of a degenerate anisotropic elliptic problem. The numerical method is designed for arbitrary space-dependent anisotropy directi…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 41 cited

PSRs J0248+6021 and J2240+5832: Young Pulsars in the Northern Galactic Plane. Discovery, Timing, and Gamma-ray observations

G. Theureau, D. Parent, I. Cognard +15

Pulsars PSR J0248+6021 (rotation period P=217 ms and spin-down power Edot = 2.13E35 erg/s) and PSR J2240+5832 (P=140 ms, Edot = 2.12E35 erg/s) were discovered in 1997 with the Nanc…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 51 cited

Star Formation in Collision Debris: Insights from the modeling of their Spectral Energy Distribution

M. Boquien, P. -A. Duc, F. Galliano +4

During galaxy-galaxy interactions, massive gas clouds can be injected into the intergalactic medium which in turn become gravitationally bound, collapse and form stars, star cluste…

nucl-ex2010★ 109 cited

Early onset of ground-state deformation in the neutron-deficient polonium isotopes

T. E. Cocolios, W. Dexters, M. D. Seliverstov +28

In-source resonant ionization laser spectroscopy of the even- polonium isotopes Po has been performed using the to ($λ=843.…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 20 cited

Towards a new full-sky list of radial velocity standard stars

F. Crifo, G. Jasniewicz, C. Soubiran +4

The calibration of the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) onboard the ESA Gaia satellite (to be launched in 2012) requires a list of standard stars with a radial velocity (RV) know…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 5 cited

Cosmic Ray e^+/(e^- + e^+) and pbar/p Ratios Explained by an Injection Model Based on Gamma-ray Observations

S. -H. Lee, T. Kamae, L. Baldini +7

We present a model of cosmic ray injection into the Galactic space based on recent gamma-ray observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) and pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) by the Fermi L…

math.CO2010★ 8 cited

Weakly directed self-avoiding walks

Axel Bacher, Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

We define a new family of self-avoiding walks (SAW) on the square lattice, called weakly directed walks. These walks have a simple characterization in terms of the irreducible brid…

math.AP2010★ 1 cited

Instability of bound states for abstract nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Masahito Ohta

We study the instability of bound states for abstract nonlinear Schrödinger equations. We prove a new instability result for a borderline case between stability and instability. We…

cond-mat.stat-mech2010★ 5 cited

Offsprings of a point vortex

Xavier Leoncini, Alain Barrat, Christophe Josserand +1

The distribution engendered by successive splitting of one point vortex are considered. The process of splitting a vortex in three using a reverse three-point vortex collapse cours…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 20 cited

Mesoscopic spin Hall effect along a potential step in graphene

Ai Yamakage, Ken-Ichiro Imura, Jérôme Cayssol +1

We consider a straight one-dimensional potential step created across a graphene flake. Charge and spin transport through such a potential step are studied in the presence of both i…

math.CA2010★ 45 cited

Strong annihilating pairs for the Fourier-Bessel transform

Saifallah Ghobber, Philippe Jaming

The aim of this paper is to prove two new uncertainty principles for the Fourier-Bessel transform (or Hankel transform). The first of these results is an extension of a result of A…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 118 cited

Gas dynamics in Massive Dense Cores in Cygnus-X

T. Csengeri, S. Bontemps, N. Schneider +2

We study the kinematic properties of dense gas surrounding massive protostars recognized by Bontemps et a. (2010) in a sample of five Massive Dense Cores in Cygnus-X. We investigat…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 93 cited

Galaxy Evolution and Star Formation Efficiency at 0.2 < z < 0.6

F. Combes, S. Garcia-Burillo, J. Braine +3

We present the results of a CO line survey of 30 galaxies at moderate redshift (z \sim 0.2-0.6), with the IRAM 30m telescope, with the goal to follow galaxy evolution and in partic…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 88 cited

Searches for Cosmic-Ray Electron Anisotropies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

The Fermi LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope on board the \textit{Fermi} satellite (\textit{Fermi}-LAT) detected more than 1.6 million cosmic-ray electrons/positrons with energies above 60 GeV during…

physics.chem-ph2010★ 7 cited

Classical photo-dissociation dynamics with Bohr quantization

Laurent Bonnet

The standard classical expression of the state-resolved photo-dissociation cross section is not consistent with an efficient Bohr quantization of product internal motions. A new an…