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physics.ins-det2017★ 4 cited

Low Background Materials and Fabrication Techniques for Cables and Connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator

M. Busch, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +67

The MAJORANA Collaboration is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the nucleus Ge-76. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of germanium detectors deployed with the…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 21 cited

A method of immediate detection of objects with a near-zero apparent motion in series of CCD-frames

V. E. Savanevych, S. V. Khlamov, I. B. Vavilova +9

The paper deals with a computational method for detection of the solar system minor bodies (SSOs), whose inter-frame shifts in series of CCD-frames during the observation are comme…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

An Infrared Study of the Circumstellar Material Associated with the Carbon Star R Sculptoris

Matthew J. Hankins, Terry L. Herter, Matthias Maercker +2

The asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star R Sculptoris (R Scl) is one of the most extensively studied stars on the AGB. R Scl is a carbon star with a massive circumstellar shell ($M_{…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 11 cited

Robo-AO Discovery and Basic Characterization of Wide Multiple Star Systems in the Pleiades, Praesepe, and NGC 2264 Clusters

Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Celia Zhang, Reed L. Riddle +4

We identify and roughly characterize 66 candidate binary star systems in the Pleiades, Praesepe, and NGC 2264 star clusters based on robotic adaptive optics imaging data obtained u…

math.PR2017★ 28 cited

Supermarket Model on Graphs

Amarjit Budhiraja, Debankur Mukherjee, Ruoyu Wu

We consider a variation of the supermarket model in which the servers can communicate with their neighbors and where the neighborhood relationships are described in terms of a suit…

math.AP2017★ 1 cited

Collapsing cavities and converging shocks in non-ideal materials

Zachary M. Boyd, Emma M. Schmidt, Scott D. Ramsey +1

As modern hydrodynamic codes increase in sophistication, the availability of realistic test problems becomes increasingly important. In gas dynamics, one common unrealistic aspect…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 79 cited

Are ultracompact minihalos really ultracompact?

M. Sten Delos, Adrienne L. Erickcek, Avery P. Bailey +1

Ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) have emerged as a valuable probe of the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations at small scales. UCMHs are expected to form at early times…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 46 cited

Robo-AO Kepler Survey IV: the effect of nearby stars on 3857 planetary candidate systems

Carl Ziegler, Nicholas M. Law, Christoph Baranec +7

We present the overall statistical results from the Robo-AO Kepler planetary candidate survey, comprising of 3857 high-angular resolution observations of planetary candidate system…

math.DS2017

Tree shift topological entropy

Karl Petersen, Ibrahim Salama

We give a definition of topological entropy for tree shifts, prove that the limit in the definition exists, and show that it dominates the topological entropy of the associated one…

cs.CV2017★ 5 cited

Visual to Sound: Generating Natural Sound for Videos in the Wild

Yipin Zhou, Zhaowen Wang, Chen Fang +2

As two of the five traditional human senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch), vision and sound are basic sources through which humans understand the world. Often correlate…

cs.SI2017★ 132 cited

The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds

Feng Shi, Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede +1

As political polarization in the United States continues to rise, the question of whether polarized individuals can fruitfully cooperate becomes pressing. Although diversity of ind…

physics.ins-det2017★ 2 cited

Contamination Control and Assay Results for the Majorana Demonstrator Ultra Clean Components

C. D. Christofferson, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +67

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment utilizing enriched Ge-76 detectors in 2 separate modules inside of a common solid shield at the Sanford Und…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 81 cited

Luminosities and mass-loss rates of Local Group AGB stars and Red Supergiants

Martin A. T. Groenewegen, Greg C. Sloan

We aim to investigate mass loss and luminosity in a large sample of evolved stars in several Local Group galaxies with a variety of metalliticies and star-formation histories: the…

cond-mat.dis-nn2017★ 3 cited

Rigid Graph Compression: Motif-based rigidity analysis for disordered fiber networks

Samuel Heroy, Dane Taylor, Feng Shi +2

Using particle-scale models to accurately describe property enhancements and phase transitions in macroscopic behavior is a major engineering challenge in composite materials scien…

stat.ME2017★ 23 cited

Causal Inference from Observational Studies with Clustered Interference

Brian G. Barkley, Michael G. Hudgens, John D. Clemens +2

Inferring causal effects from an observational study is challenging because participants are not randomized to treatment. Observational studies in infectious disease research prese…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 3 cited

Laser-only adaptive optics achieves significant image quality gains compared to seeing-limited observations over the entire sky

Ward S. Howard, Nicholas M. Law, Carl A. Ziegler +2

Adaptive optics laser guide star systems perform atmospheric correction of stellar wavefronts in two parts: stellar tip-tilt and high-spatial-order laser-correction. The requiremen…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 126 cited

The early detection and follow-up of the highly obscured Type II supernova 2016ija/DLT16am

L. Tartaglia, D. J. Sand, S. Valenti +45

We present our analysis of the Type II supernova DLT16am (SN~2016ija). The object was discovered during the ongoing (DLT40) one day cadence supernova search a…

math.OC2017★ 1 cited

Smooth Primal-Dual Coordinate Descent Algorithms for Nonsmooth Convex Optimization

Ahmet Alacaoglu, Quoc Tran-Dinh, Olivier Fercoq +1

We propose a new randomized coordinate descent method for a convex optimization template with broad applications. Our analysis relies on a novel combination of four ideas applied t…

cs.DC2017★ 10 cited

RPYFMM: Parallel Adaptive Fast Multipole Method for Rotne-Prager-Yamakawa Tensor in Biomolecular Hydrodynamics Simulations

W. Guan, X. Cheng, J. Huang +4

RPYFMM is a software package for the efficient evaluation of the potential field governed by the Rotne-Prager-Yamakawa (RPY) tensor interactions in biomolecular hydrodynamics simul…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 44 cited

An Infrared Census of DUST in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer (DUSTiNGS). IV. Discovery of High-Redshift AGB Analogs

M. L. Boyer, K. B. W. McQuinn, M. A. T. Groenewegen +13

The survey for DUST in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer (DUSTiNGS) identified several candidate Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in nearby dwarf galaxies and showed that dust can fo…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 24 cited

2FGL J0846.0+2820: A new neutron star binary with a giant secondary and variable -ray emission

Samuel J. Swihart, Jay Strader, Tyrel J. Johnson +11

We present optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of the likely stellar counterpart to the unassociated \emph{Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) -ray source 2FGL J084…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 24 cited

Probing the structure of Kepler ZZ Ceti stars with full evolutionary models-based asteroseismology

Alejandra D. Romero, A. H. Córsico, B. Castanheira +8

We present an asteroseismological analysis of four ZZ Ceti stars observed with \emph{Kepler}: GD 1212, SDSS J113655.17+040952.6, KIC 11911480 and KIC 4552982, based on a grid of fu…

cs.AI2017★ 1.2k cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning for De-Novo Drug Design

Mariya Popova, Olexandr Isayev, Alexander Tropsha

We propose a novel computational strategy for de novo design of molecules with desired properties termed ReLeaSE (Reinforcement Learning for Structural Evolution). Based on deep an…

math.QA2017★ 6 cited

Modules over plane curve singularities in any ranks and DAHA

Ivan Cherednik, Ian Philipp

We generalize the construction of geometric superpolynomials for unibranch plane curve singularities from our prior paper from rank one to any ranks. The new feature is the definit…