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most citedLocalization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

327 citations

28 papers

cs.DC2025★ 18 cited

A Terminology for Scientific Workflow Systems

Frédéric Suter, Tainã Coleman, İlkay Altintaş +23

The term scientific workflow has evolved over the last two decades to encompass a broad range of compositions of interdependent compute tasks and data movements. It has also become…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 12 cited

On the Extrapolation of Generative Adversarial Networks for downscaling precipitation extremes in warmer climates

Neelesh Rampal, Peter B. Gibson, Steven Sherwood +1

While deep-learning downscaling algorithms can generate fine-scale climate projections cost-effectively, it is still unclear how well they will extrapolate to unobserved climates.…

q-bio.PE2024★ 11 cited

The impact of Covid-19 vaccination in Aotearoa New Zealand: a modelling study

Samik Datta, Giorgia Vattiato, Oliver J Maclaren +3

Aotearoa New Zealand implemented a Covid-19 elimination strategy in 2020 and 2021, which enabled a large majority of the population to be vaccinated before being exposed to the vir…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Keep It Simple: Fault Tolerance Evaluation of Federated Learning with Unreliable Clients

Victoria Huang, Shaleeza Sohail, Michael Mayo +4

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging artificial intelligence (AI) approach, enables decentralized model training across multiple devices without exposing their local training da…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 37 cited

Physical drivers of ocean wave attenuation in the marginal ice zone

Fabien Montiel, Alison L. Kohout, Lettie A. Roach

Despite a recent resurgence of observational studies attempting to quantify the ice-induced attenuation of ocean waves in polar oceans, the physical processes governing this wave a…

cs.NI2021★ 9 cited

Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Request Dispatching in Distributed-Controller Software-Defined Networking

Victoria Huang, Gang Chen, Qiang Fu

Recently, distributed controller architectures have been quickly gaining popularity in Software-Defined Networking (SDN). However, the use of distributed controllers introduces a n…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 140 cited

No pulsed radio emission during a bursting phase of a Galactic magnetar

L. Lin, C. F. Zhang, P. Wang +45

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond-duration radio transients of unknown origin observed at extragalactic distances. It has been long speculated that magnetars are…

cs.AI2019★ 16 cited

Memetic EDA-Based Approaches to Comprehensive Quality-Aware Automated Semantic Web Service Composition

Chen Wang, Hui Ma, Gang Chen +1

Comprehensive quality-aware automated semantic web service composition is an NP-hard problem, where service composition workflows are unknown, and comprehensive quality, i.e., Qual…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 47 cited

Pluto's lower atmosphere and pressure evolution from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988-2016

E. Meza, B. Sicardy, M. Assafin +167

Context. Pluto's tenuous nitrogen (N2) atmosphere undergoes strong seasonal effects due to high obliquity and orbital eccentricity, and has been recently (July 2015) observed by th…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 16 cited

Translating Ecological Integrity terms into operational language to inform societies

Silvia de Juan, Judi Hewitt, Maria Dulce Subida +1

It is crucial that societies are informed on the risks of impoverished ecosystem health for their well-being. For this purpose, Ecological Integrity (EI) is a useful concept that s…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 50 cited

The benchmark halo giant HD 122563: CNO abundances revisited with three-dimensional hydrodynamic model stellar atmospheres

Remo Collet, Åke Nordlund, Martin Asplund +2

We present an abundance analysis of the low-metallicity benchmark red giant star HD 122563 based on realistic, state-of-the-art, high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) model stell…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 55 cited

Supplement: Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1538

This Supplement provides supporting material for arXiv:1602.08492 . We briefly summarize past electromagnetic (EM) follow-up efforts as well as the organization and policy of the c…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 87 cited

Pluto's atmosphere from the 29 June 2015 ground-based stellar occultation at the time of the New Horizons flyby

B. Sicardy, J. Talbot, E. Meza +65

We present results from a multi-chord Pluto stellar occultation observed on 29 June 2015 from New Zealand and Australia. This occurred only two weeks before the NASA New Horizons f…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 327 cited

Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1538

A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015 September 14. The e…

physics.ao-ph2015★ 5 cited

Wave breaking onset of two-dimensional deep-water wave groups in the presence and absence of wind

Arvin Saket, William L. Peirson, Michael L. Banner +2

The criterion for the initiation of breaking demonstrated numerically by Barthelemy et al. (2015) has been investigated in the laboratory for unidirectional wave groups in deep-wat…

physics.ao-ph2015★ 8 cited

On a unified breaking onset threshold for gravity waves in deep and intermediate depth water

X. Barthelemy, M. L. Banner, W. L. Peirson +3

We revisit the classical but as yet unresolved problem of predicting the breaking onset of 2D and 3D irrotational gravity water waves. This study focuses on domains with flat botto…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 10 cited

All-sky homogeneity of precipitable water vapour over Paranal

Richard R. Querel, Florian Kerber

A Low Humidity and Temperature Profiling (LHATPRO) microwave radiometer, manufactured by Radiometer Physics GmbH (RPG), is used to monitor sky conditions over ESO's Paranal observa…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 1 cited

Quantifying photometric observing conditions on Paranal using an IR camera

Florian Kerber, Richard R. Querel, Reinhard Hanuschik

A Low Humidity and Temperature Profiling (LHATPRO) microwave radiometer, manufactured by Radiometer Physics GmbH (RPG), is used to monitor sky conditions over ESO's Paranal observa…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 27 cited

The Earth as an extrasolar transiting planet - II: HARPS and UVES detection of water vapor, biogenic O, and O

Luc Arnold, David Ehrenreich, Alfred Vidal-Madjar +9

The atmospheric composition of transiting exoplanets can be characterized during transit by spectroscopy. For the transit of an Earth twin, models predict that biogenic and $…

q-bio.PE2013★ 40 cited

Extinction risk and conservation of the world's sharks and rays

Nicholas K. Dulvy, Sarah L. Fowler, John A. Musick +20

The rapid expansion of human activities threatens ocean-wide biodiversity loss. Numerous marine animal populations have declined, yet it remains unclear whether these trends are sy…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 1 cited

Continuum simulation of the discharge of the granular silo: a validation test for the mu(I)-visco-plastic flow law

L. Staron, P. -Y. Lagrée, S. Popinet

Using both a continuum Navier-Stokes solver, with the mu(I)-flow-law implemented to model the viscous behavior, and the discrete Contact Dynamics algorithm, the discharge of granul…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 128 cited

The granular silo as a continuum plastic flow: the hour-glass vs the clepsydra

Lydie Staron, Pierre-Yves Lagrée, Stéphane Popinet

The granular silo is one of the many interesting illustrations of the thixotropic property of granular matter: a rapid flow develops at the outlet, propagating upwards through a de…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 155 cited

Von Kármán Vortex Street within an Impacting Drop

Marie-Jean Thoraval, Kohsei Takehara, Takeharu Goji Etoh +5

The splashing of a drop impacting onto a liquid pool produces a range of different sized micro-droplets. At high impact velocities, the most significant source of these droplets is…

stat.CO2010

Using parallel computation to improve Independent Metropolis--Hastings based estimation

Pierre Jacob, Christian P. Robert, Murray H. Smith

In this paper, we consider the implications of the fact that parallel raw-power can be exploited by a generic Metropolis--Hastings algorithm if the proposed values are independent.…