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astro-ph.EP2014★ 45 cited

Evolution of HO, CO, and CO Production in Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd During the 2011-2012 Apparition

Adam J. McKay, Anita L. Cochran, Michael A. DiSanti +6

We present analysis of high spectral resolution NIR spectra of CO and HO in comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) taken during its 2011-2012 apparition with the CSHELL instrument on NASA's…

nucl-ex2014★ 5 cited

Separated Response Functions in Exclusive, Forward Electroproduction on Deuterium

G. M. Huber, H. P. Blok, C. Butuceanu +86

Background: Measurements of forward exclusive meson production at different squared four-momenta of the exchanged virtual photon, , and at different four-momentum transfer, t,…

nucl-th2014★ 1 cited

Quark Orbital Angular Momentum and Final State Interactions

Matthias Burkardt

Definitions of orbital angular momentum based on Wigner distributions are used to discuss the connection between the Ji definition of the quark orbital angular momentum and that of…

hep-lat2014★ 37 cited

Double-winding Wilson loops and monopole confinement mechanisms

Jeff Greensite, Roman Höllwieser

We consider "double-winding" Wilson loops in SU(2) gauge theory. These are contours which wind once around a loop and once around a loop , where the two co-planar loops…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 483 cited

The MaNGA Integral Field Unit Fiber Feed System for the Sloan 2.5 m Telescope

N. Drory, N. MacDonald, M. A. Bershady +22

We describe the design, manufacture, and performance of bare-fiber integral field units (IFUs) for the SDSS-IV survey MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO) on the the Sloan 2.5 m…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 84 cited

nIFTy Cosmology: Galaxy/halo mock catalogue comparison project on clustering statistics

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Cheng Zhao, Francisco Prada +21

We present a comparison of major methodologies of fast generating mock halo or galaxy catalogues. The comparison is done for two-point and the three-point clustering statistics. Th…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 8 cited

Back-Tracing and Flux Reconstruction for Solar Events with PAMELA

A. Bruno, O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino +64

The PAMELA satellite-borne experiment is providing first direct measurements of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) with energies from 80 MeV to several GeV in near-Earth space.…

nucl-ex2014★ 34 cited

Systematic Study of Azimuthal Anisotropy in CuCu and AuAu Collisions at and 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +421

We have studied the dependence of azimuthal anisotropy for inclusive and identified charged hadrons in AuAu and CuCu collisions on collision energy, species, and centra…

nucl-ex2014★ 56 cited

Measurement of the higher-order anisotropic flow coefficients for identified hadrons in AuAu collisions at = 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +384

New PHENIX measurements of the anisotropic flow coefficients , , and for identified particles (, , and $p+\bar{p…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 3 cited

Qualities of Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings Observed in Optical and UV Images

Michael S. Kirk, K. S. Balasubramaniam, Jason Jackiewicz +1

Chromospheric flare ribbons observed in H-alpha appear well-organized when first examined: ribbons impulsively brighten, morphologically evolve, and exponentially decay back to pre…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 27 cited

Hunting down systematics in baryon acoustic oscillations after cosmic high noon

Francisco Prada, Claudia G. Scoccola, Chia-Hsun Chuang +5

Future dark energy experiments will require better and more accurate theoretical predictions for the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) signature in the spectrum of cosmological…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 7 cited

Probing the circumgalactic medium of active galactic nuclei with background quasars

Glenn G. Kacprzak, Christopher W. Churchill, Michael T. Murphy +1

We performed a detailed study of the extended cool gas, traced by MgII absorption [~Å], surrounding 14 narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at 0.12<z<0.22 us…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 37 cited

Investigating Disk-Halo Flows and Accretion: A Kinematic and Morphological Analysis of Extraplanar HI in NGC 3044 and NGC 4302

Laura K. Zschaechner, Richard J. Rand, Rene A. M. Walterbos

To further understand the origins of and physical processes operating in extra-planar gas, we present observations and kinematic models of HI in the two nearby, edge-on spiral gala…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 78 cited

Sodium and Oxygen Abundances in the Open Cluster NGC 6791 from APOGEE H-Band Spectroscopy

Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith, Jennifer A. Johnson +27

The open cluster NGC 6791 is among the oldest, most massive and metal-rich open clusters in the Galaxy. High-resolution -band spectra from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 972 cited

MultiDark simulations: the story of dark matter halo concentrations and density profiles

Anatoly Klypin, Gustavo Yepes, Stefan Gottlober +2

Accurately predicting structural properties of dark matter halos is one of the fundamental goals of modern cosmology. We use the new suite of MultiDark cosmological simulations to…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 17 cited

Seismology of Giant Planets

Patrick Gaulme, Benoit Mosser, Francois-Xavier Schmider +2

Seismology applied to giant planets could drastically change our understanding of their deep interiors, as it has happened with the Earth, the Sun, and many main-sequence and evolv…

hep-ph2014★ 17 cited

Pre-Town Meeting on Spin Physics at an Electron-Ion Collider

Elke-Caroline Aschenauer, Ian Balitsky, Leslie Bland +29

A polarized collider (Electron--Ion Collider, or EIC), with polarized proton and light-ion beams and unpolarized heavy-ion beams with a variable center--of--mass energy $\s…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 229 cited

Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) with The Hubble Space Telescope. I. Survey Description

D. Calzetti, J. C. Lee, E. Sabbi +46

The Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) is a Cycle 21 Treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope, aimed at the investigation of star formation and its relation with galactic…

cond-mat.quant-gas2014★ 1 cited

Superfluid (Amplitude) Fluctuations Above in a Unitary Fermi Gas

Hua Li, Jason Jackiewicz, Kevin S. Bedell

We study the transport properties of a Fermi gas with strong attractive interactions close to the unitary limit. In particular, we compute the spin diffusion lifetime of the Fermi…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 344 cited

The APOKASC Catalog: An Asteroseismic and Spectroscopic Joint Survey of Targets in the Kepler Fields

Marc H. Pinsonneault, Yvonne Elsworth, Courtney Epstein +42

We present the first APOKASC catalog of spectroscopic and asteroseismic properties of 1916 red giants observed in the Kepler fields. The spectroscopic parameters provided from the…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 50 cited

Coronal Fourier power spectra: implications for coronal seismology and coronal heating

Jack Ireland, R. T. James McAteer, Andrew R. Inglis

The dynamics of regions of the solar corona are investigated using Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 171Å and 193Å data. The coronal emission from the quiet Sun, coronal loop foot…

math.AC2014

Affine schemes and topological closures in the Zariski-Riemann space of valuation rings

Bruce Olberding

Let be a field, let be a subring of , and let be the Zariski-Riemann space of valuation rings containing and having quotient field . We consider…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 61 cited

High-resolution, H band Spectroscopy of Be Stars with SDSS-III/APOGEE: I. New Be Stars, Line Identifications, and Line Profiles

S. Drew Chojnowski, David G. Whelan, John P. Wisniewski +26

APOGEE has amassed the largest ever collection of multi-epoch, high-resolution (R~22,500), H-band spectra for B-type emission line (Be) stars. The 128/238 APOGEE Be stars for which…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 209 cited

Tracing chemical evolution over the extent of the Milky Way's Disk with APOGEE Red Clump Stars

David L. Nidever, Jo Bovy, Jonathan C. Bird +40

We employ the first two years of data from the near-infrared, high-resolution SDSS-III/APOGEE spectroscopic survey to investigate the distribution of metallicity and alpha-element…