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cs.IT2016★ 99 cited

When the map is better than the territory

Erik P Hoel

The causal structure of any system can be analyzed at a multitude of spatial and temporal scales. It has long been thought that while higher scale (macro) descriptions of causal st…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 67 cited

Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +290

We present an extensive study of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 based on a data set collected during the multi-instrument campaign spanning from 2009 March 15 to 2009 August 1 which inc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 31 cited

Towards Self-Consistent Modelling of the Sgr A* Accretion Flow: Linking Theory and Observation

Shawn R. Roberts, Yan-Fei Jiang, Q. Daniel Wang +1

The interplay between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their environments is believed to command an essential role in galaxy evolution. The majority of these SMBHs are in the r…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 28 cited

Frictional magneto-Coulomb drag in graphene double-layer heterostructure

Xiaomeng Liu, Lei Wang, Kin Chung Fong +7

Coulomb interaction between two closely spaced parallel layers of electron system can generate the frictional drag effect by interlayer Coulomb scattering. Employing graphene doubl…

hep-ph2016★ 854 cited

Multiquark Resonances

A. Esposito, A. Pilloni, A. D. Polosa

Multiquark resonances are undoubtedly experimentally observed. The number of states and the amount of details on their properties has been growing over the years. It is very recent…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 721 cited

Theoretical Challenges in Galaxy Formation

Thorsten Naab, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Numerical simulations have become a major tool for understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Over the decades the field has made significant progress. It is now possible to sim…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 14 cited

A 16-Year Photometric Campaign on the Eclipsing Novalike Variable DW Ursae Majoris

D. R. S. Boyd, E. de Miguel, J. Patterson +29

We present an analysis of photometric observations of the eclipsing novalike variable DW UMa made by the CBA consortium between 1999 and 2015. Analysis of 372 new and 260 previousl…

math-ph2016★ 14 cited

Wavepackets in inhomogeneous periodic media: effective particle-field dynamics and Berry curvature

Alexander B. Watson, Jianfeng Lu, Michael I. Weinstein

We consider a model of an electron in a crystal moving under the influence of an external electric field: Schrödinger's equation with a potential which is the sum of a periodic fun…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 112 cited

Nanobubble induced formation of quantum emitters in monolayer semiconductors

Gabriella D. Shepard, Obafunso Ajayi, Xiangzhi Li +3

The recent discovery of exciton quantum emitters in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) has triggered renewed interest of localized excitons in low-dimensional systems. Open q…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 66 cited

The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: The 40 month Catalog and the Properties of the Distant High Energy X-ray Source Population

G. B. Lansbury, D. Stern, J. Aird +35

We present the first full catalog and science results for the NuSTAR serendipitous survey. The catalog incorporates data taken during the first 40 months of NuSTAR operation, which…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 21 cited

The spectroscopic indistinguishability of red giant branch and red clump stars

Thomas Masseron, Keith Hawkins

Stellar spectroscopy provides useful information on the physical properties of stars such as effective temperature, metallicity and surface gravity (log g). However, those photosph…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 80 cited

Gaia FGK Benchmark stars: Opening the black box of stellar element abundance determination

P. Jofre, U. Heiter, C. C. Worley +10

Gaia and its complementary spectroscopic surveys combined will yield the most comprehensive database of kinematic and chemical information of stars in the Milky Way. The Gaia FGK b…

cs.CL2016★ 96 cited

Improving Neural Language Models with a Continuous Cache

Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin, Nicolas Usunier

We propose an extension to neural network language models to adapt their prediction to the recent history. Our model is a simplified version of memory augmented networks, which sto…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 75 cited

SU-8 clamped CVD graphene drum resonators

Sunwoo Lee, Changyao Chen, Vikram V. Deshpande +8

Graphene mechanical resonators are the ultimate two-dimensional nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) with applications in sensing and signal processing. While initial devices have…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 9 cited

Collective electronic excitation in a trapped ensemble of photogenerated dipolar excitons and free holes revealed by inelastic light scattering

Sebastian Dietl, Sheng Wang, Dieter Schuh +5

Photogenerated excitonic ensembles confined in coupled GaAs quantum wells are probed by a complementary approach of emission spectroscopy and resonant inelastic light scattering. L…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 306 cited

Graphene mechanical oscillators with tunable frequency

Changyao Chen, Sunwoo Lee, Vikram V. Deshpande +4

Oscillators, which produce continuous periodic signals from direct current power, are central to modern communications systems, with versatile applications such as timing reference…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 453 cited

Magnetic brightening and control of dark excitons in monolayer WSe2

Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Ting Cao, Zhengguang Lu +9

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) crystals, as direct-gap materials with unusually strong light-matter interaction, have attracted much recent attention. In contrast…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited

NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the Arches cluster in 2015: fading hard X-ray emission from the molecular cloud

Roman Krivonos, Maica Clavel, JaeSub Hong +6

We present results of long NuSTAR (200 ks) and XMM-Newton (100 ks) observations of the Arches stellar cluster, a source of bright thermal (kT~2 keV) X-rays with prominent Fe XXV K_…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 66 cited

Modulation of mechanical resonance by chemical potential oscillation in graphene

Changyao Chen, Vikram V. Deshpande, Mikito Koshino +5

The classical picture of the force on a capacitor assumes a large density of electronic states, such that the electrochemical potential of charges added to the capacitor is given b…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 116 cited

The NANOGrav Nine-Year Data Set: Measurement and Interpretation of Variations in Dispersion Measures

M. L. Jones, M. A. McLaughlin, M. T. Lam +21

We analyze dispersion measure (DM) variations of 37 millisecond pulsars in the 9-year NANOGrav data release and constrain the sources of these variations. Variations are significan…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 134 cited

The distribution of radioactive Ti in Cassiopeia A

Brian W. Grefenstette, Chris L. Fryer, Fiona A. Harrison +28

The distribution of elements produced in the inner-most layers of a supernova explosion is a key diagnostic for studying the collapse of massive stars. Here we present the results…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 56 cited

The metallicity distribution and hot Jupiter rate of the Kepler field: Hectochelle High-resolution spectroscopy for 776 Kepler target stars

Xueying Guo, John A. Johnson, Andrew W. Mann +3

The occurrence rate of hot Jupiters from the Kepler transit survey is roughly half that of radial velocity surveys targeting solar neighborhood stars. One hypothesis to explain thi…

cs.CV2016

Explaining Radiological Emphysema Subtypes with Unsupervised Texture Prototypes: MESA COPD Study

Jie Yang, Elsa D. Angelini, Benjamin M. Smith +5

Pulmonary emphysema is traditionally subcategorized into three subtypes, which have distinct radiological appearances on computed tomography (CT) and can help with the diagnosis of…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 92 cited

The NANOGrav Nine-Year Data Set: Excess Noise in Millisecond Pulsar Arrival Times

M. T. Lam, J. M. Cordes, S. Chatterjee +22

Gravitational wave astronomy using a pulsar timing array requires high-quality millisecond pulsars, correctable interstellar propagation delays, and high-precision measurements of…