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math.CA2017★ 1 cited

Finite field analogue of restriction theorem for general measures

Changhao Chen

We study restriction problem in vector spaces over finite fields. We obtain finite field analogue of Mockenhaupt-Mitsis-Bak-Seenger restriction theorem, and we show that the range…

quant-ph2017★ 59 cited

New ideas for tests of Lorentz invariance with atomic systems

Ravid Shaniv, Roee Ozeri, Marianna S. Safronova +4

We describe a broadly applicable experimental proposal to search for the violation of local Lorentz invariance (LLI) with atomic systems. The new scheme uses dynamic decoupling and…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 52 cited

Mass and Age of Red Giant Branch Stars Observed with LAMOST and \emph{Kepler}

Yaqian Wu, Maosheng Xiang, Shaolan Bi +13

Obtaining accurate and precise masses and ages for large numbers of giant stars is of great importance for unraveling the assemblage history of the Galaxy. In this paper, we estima…

cs.PL2017★ 27 cited

A New Proof Rule for Almost-Sure Termination

Annabelle McIver, Carroll Morgan, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski +1

An important question for a probabilistic program is whether the probability mass of all its diverging runs is zero, that is that it terminates "almost surely". Proving that can be…

math.NA2017★ 1 cited

Wider contours and adaptive contours

Shev MacNamara, William McLean, Kevin Burrage

Contour integrals in the complex plane are the basis of effective numerical methods for computing matrix functions, such as the matrix exponential and the Mittag-Leffler function.…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 46 cited

The K2-HERMES Survey. I. Planet Candidate Properties from K2 Campaigns 1-3

Robert A. Wittenmyer, Sanjib Sharma, Dennis Stello +31

Accurate and precise radius estimates of transiting exoplanets are critical for understanding their compositions and formation mechanisms. To know the planet, we must know the host…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 45 cited

Radio Evolution of Supernova Remnants Including Non-linear Particle Acceleration: Insights from Hydrodynamic Simulations

Marko Z. Pavlović, Dejan Urošević, Bojan Arbutina +3

We present a model for the radio evolution of supernova remnants (SNRs) obtained by using three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic simulations, coupled with nonlinear kinetic theory of…

cs.DB2017★ 4 cited

An Optimal and Progressive Approach to Online Search of Top-k Influential Communities

Fei Bi, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin +1

Community search over large graphs is a fundamental problem in graph analysis. Recent studies propose to compute top-k influential communities, where each reported community not on…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 13 cited

HATS-50b through HATS-53b: four transiting hot Jupiters orbiting G-type stars discovered by the HATSouth survey

Th. Henning, L. Mancini, P. Sarkis +26

We report the discovery of four close-in transiting exoplanets, HATS-50 through HATS-53, discovered using the HATSouth three-continent network of homogeneous and automated telescop…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 31 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Blue spheroids within 87 Mpc

Smriti Mahajan, Michael J. Drinkwater, S. Driver +7

In this paper we test if nearby blue spheroid (BSphs) galaxies may become the progenitors of star-forming spiral galaxies or passively-evolving elliptical galaxies. Our sample comp…

cs.CR2017★ 483 cited

LSB: A Lightweight Scalable BlockChain for IoT Security and Privacy

Ali Dorri, Salil S. Kanhere, Raja Jurdak +1

BlockChain (BC) has attracted tremendous attention due to its immutable nature and the associated security and privacy benefits. BC has the potential to overcome security and priva…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 69 cited

Modelling Kepler Red Giants in Eclipsing Binaries:Calibrating the Mixing Length Parameter with Asteroseismology

Tanda Li, Timothy R. Bedding, Daniel Huber +4

Stellar models rely on a number of free parameters. High-quality observations of eclipsing binary stars observed by Kepler offer a great opportunity to calibrate model parameters f…

math.PR2017★ 2 cited

On the Euler-Maruyama scheme for spectrally one-sided Lévy driven SDEs with Hölder continuous coefficients

Libo Li, Dai Taguchi

We study in this article the strong rate of convergence of the Euler-Maruyama scheme and associated with the jump-type equation introduced in Li and Mytnik. We obtain the strong ra…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 42 cited

GAMA/H-ATLAS: The Local Dust Mass Function and Cosmic Density as a Function of Galaxy Type - A Benchmark for Models of Galaxy Evolution

R. A. Beeston, A. H. Wright, S. Maddox +22

We present the dust mass function (DMF) of 15,750 galaxies with redshift , drawn from the overlapping area of the GAMA and {\it H-}ATLAS surveys. The DMF is derived using t…

math.NA2017

Digital net properties of a polynomial analogue of Frolov's construction

Josef Dick, Friedrich Pillichshammer, Kosuke Suzuki +2

Frolov's cubature formula on the unit hypercube has been considered important since it attains an optimal rate of convergence for various function spaces. Its integration nodes are…

cond-mat.stat-mech2017★ 27 cited

Variable Order Fractional Fokker-Planck Equations derived from Continuous Time Random Walks

Peter Straka

Continuous Time Random Walk models (CTRW) of anomalous diffusion are studied, where the anomalous exponent varies in space. This type of situation occurs e.g. in b…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 10 cited

Relevance of analytical Buckley-Leverett solution for immiscible oil displacement by various gases

Aleksandr Zhuravljov, Zakhar Lanetc

In order to generate the valid numerical simulation model, the sufficient amount of gathered data from the oil field is required. However, it is not always possible to acquire such…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 258 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the G02 field, Herschel-ATLAS target selection and Data Release 3

I. K. Baldry, J. Liske, M. J. I. Brown +39

We describe data release 3 (DR3) of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The GAMA survey is a spectroscopic redshift and multi-wavelength photometric survey in three equator…

cs.GT2017★ 22 cited

Proportionally Representative Participatory Budgeting: Axioms and Algorithms

Haris Aziz, Barton Lee, Nimrod Talmon

Participatory budgeting is one of the exciting developments in deliberative grassroots democracy. We concentrate on approval elections and propose proportional representation axiom…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 17 cited

The MASIV Survey IV: relationship between intra-day scintillation and intrinsic variability of radio AGNs

J. Y. Koay, J. -P. Macquart, D. L. Jauncey +8

We investigate the relationship between 5 GHz interstellar scintillation (ISS) and 15 GHz intrinsic variability of compact, radio-selected AGNs drawn from the Microarcsecond Scinti…

math.NA2017★ 12 cited

Subdiffusive discrete time random walks via Monte Carlo and subordination

J. A. Nichols, B. I. Henry, C. N. Angstmann

A class of discrete time random walks has recently been introduced to provide a stochastic process based numerical scheme for solving fractional order partial differential equation…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 7 cited

A study of the interstellar medium towards the unidentified dark TeV -ray sources HESS J1614-518 and HESS J1616-508

J. C. Lau, G. Rowell, F. Voisin +7

HESS J1614518 and HESS J1616508 are two tera-electron volt (TeV) -ray sources that are not firmly associated with any known counterparts at other wavelengths. We investiga…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 599 cited

Entangled massive mechanical oscillators

C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi, E. Damskagg, J. -M. Pirkkalainen +4

An entangled quantum state of two or more particles or objects exhibits some of the most peculiar features of quantum mechanics. Entangled systems cannot be described independently…