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hep-ex2010★ 4 cited

Strange Quark Contribution to the Nucleon Spin from Electroweak Elastic Scattering Data

S. F. Pate, J. P. Schaub

The total contribution of strange quarks to the intrinsic spin of the nucleon can be determined from a measurement of the strange-quark contribution to the nucleon's elastic axial…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 26 cited

Infrared Spectroscopic Observations of the Secondary Stars of Short Period Sub-Gap Cataclysmic Variables

Ryan T. Hamilton, Thomas E. Harrison, Claus Tappert +1

We present K-band spectroscopy of short period, "sub-gap" cataclysmic variable (CV) systems obtained using ISAAC on the VLT. We show the infrared spectra (IR) for nine systems belo…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 194 cited

The Westerbork Hydrogen Accretion in Local Galaxies (HALOGAS) Survey I. Survey Description and Pilot Observations

George Heald, Gyula Jozsa, Paolo Serra +7

We introduce a new, very deep neutral hydrogen (HI) survey being performed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). The Westerbork Hydrogen Accretion in LOcal GAlaxieS…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 1 cited

The Galactic M Dwarf Flare Rate

Eric J. Hilton, Suzanne L. Hawley, Adam F. Kowalski +1

M dwarfs are known to flare on timescales from minutes to hours, with flux increases of several magnitudes in the blue/near-UV. These frequent, powerful events, which are caused by…

cs.IT2010★ 20 cited

Multiple-access Network Information-flow and Correction Codes

Theodoros K. Dikaliotis, Tracey Ho, Sidharth Jaggi +5

This work considers the multiple-access multicast error-correction scenario over a packetized network with malicious edge adversaries. The network has min-cut and packets o…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 33 cited

Anatomy of a post-starburst minor merger: a multi-wavelength WFC3 study of NGC 4150

R. Mark Crockett, Sugata Kaviraj, Joseph I. Silk +22

(Abridged) We present a spatially-resolved near-UV/optical study of NGC 4150, using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Previous studies of this ear…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 37 cited

MARVELS-1b: A Short-Period, Brown Dwarf Desert Candidate from the SDSS-III MARVELS Planet Search

Brian L. Lee, Jian Ge, Scott W. Fleming +59

We present a new short-period brown dwarf candidate around the star TYC 1240-00945-1. This candidate was discovered in the first year of the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exopla…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 150 cited

Propagation of an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection in three dimensions

Jason P. Byrne, Shane A. Maloney, R. T. James McAteer +2

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most significant drivers of adverse space weather at Earth, but the physics governing their propagation through the heliosphere is not w…

hep-ph2010★ 1 cited

Quark and Gluon Angular Momentum in the Nucleon

Matthias Burkardt, Hikmat BC, Abdullah Jarrah

Parton distributions in impact parameter space, which are obtained by Fourier transforming GPDs, are exhibit a significant deviation from axial symmetry when the target and/or quar…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 12 cited

Whole Earth Telescope Observations of the subdwarf B star KPD 1930+2752: A rich, short period pulsator in a close binary

M. D. Reed, S. L. Harms, S. Poindexter +58

KPD 1930+2752 is a short-period pulsating subdwarf B (sdB) star. It is also an ellipsoidal variable with a known binary period just over two hours. The companion is most likely a w…

hep-ph2010★ 1 cited

Transverse (Spin) Structure of Hadrons

Matthias Burkardt

Parton distributions in impact parameter space, which are obtained by Fourier transforming GPDs, exhibit a significant deviation from axial symmetry when the target and/or quark ar…

nucl-ex2010★ 13 cited

Azimuthal correlations of electrons from heavy-flavor decay with hadrons in p+p and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +425

Measurements of electrons from the decay of open-heavy-flavor mesons have shown that the yields are suppressed in Au+Au collisions compared to expectations from binary scaled p+p c…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 4 cited

The Space Interferometry Mission Astrometric Grid Giant-Star Survey. III. Basic Stellar Parameters for an Extended Sample

Dmitry Bizyaev, Verne V. Smith, Katia Cunha

We present results of high resolution (~ 55000) spectral observations of 830 photometrically pre-selected candidate red giants in the magnitude range of V = 9-12. We develop a pipe…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 117 cited

Statistics of Satellite Galaxies Around Milky Way-Like Hosts

Michael T. Busha, Risa H. Wechsler, Peter S. Behroozi +3

We calculate the probability that a Milky-Way-like halo in the standard cosmological model has the observed number of Magellanic Clouds (MCs). The statistics of the number of MCs i…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 106 cited

The Mass Distribution and Assembly of the Milky Way from the Properties of the Magellanic Clouds

Michael T. Busha, Philip J. Marshall, Risa H. Wechsler +2

We present a new measurement of the mass of the Milky Way (MW) based on observed properties of its largest satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds (MCs), and an assumed prior of…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 97 cited

Interpreting the Evolution of the Size - Luminosity Relation for Disk Galaxies from Redshift 1 to the Present

Alyson Brooks, Adam Solomon, Fabio Governato +6

A sample of very high resolution cosmological disk galaxy simulations is used to investigate the evolution of galaxy disk sizes back to redshift 1 within the Lambda CDM cosmology.…

hep-ex2010

PHENIX Measurement of Parity-Violating Single Spin Asymmetry in W Production in p+p Collisions at 500 GeV

Stephen Pate

The flavor-separated polarized parton distribution functions for light quarks and anti-quarks in the proton can be studied in the production of bosons in + collisions. Th…

nucl-ex2010★ 11 cited

Suppression of away-side jet fragments with respect to the reaction plane in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +424

Pair correlations between large transverse momentum neutral pion triggers (p_T=4--7 GeV/c) and charged hadron partners (p_T=3--7 GeV/c) in central (0--20%) and midcentral (20--60%)…

nucl-ex2010★ 112 cited

Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on J/psi Yields as a Function of Rapidity and Nuclear Geometry in Deuteron-Gold Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +445

We present measurements of J/psi yields in d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV recorded by the PHENIX experiment and compare with yields in p+p collisions at the same energy pe…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 3 cited

An A star on an M star during a flare within a flare

Adam F. Kowalski, Suzanne L. Hawley, Jon A. Holtzman +2

M dwarfs produce explosive flare emission in the near-UV and optical continuum, and the mechanism responsible for this phenomenon is not well-understood. We present a near-UV/optic…

cs.IT2010★ 13 cited

Analysis and Design of Tuned Turbo Codes

Christian Koller, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Joerg Kliewer +3

It has been widely observed that there exists a fundamental trade-off between the minimum (Hamming) distance properties and the iterative decoding convergence behavior of turbo-lik…

hep-ex2010★ 59 cited

Cross section and double helicity asymmetry for eta mesons and their comparison to neutral pion production in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +429

Measurements of double-helicity asymmetries for inclusive hadron production in polarized p+p collisions are sensitive to helicity--dependent parton distribution functions, in parti…

hep-ph2010★ 4 cited

Transverse Structure of Hadrons

Matthias Burkardt

Parton distributions in impact parameter space, which are obtained by Fourier transforming GPDs, exhibit a significant deviation from axial symmetry when the target and/or quark ar…

hep-ex2010★ 35 cited

Event Structure and Double Helicity Asymmetry in Jet Production from Polarized p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +372

We report on event structure and double helicity asymmetry () of jet production in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at =200 GeV. Photons and charged particle…