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astro-ph.GA2018★ 34 cited

APOGEE [C/N] Abundances Across the Galaxy: Migration and Infall from Red Giant Ages

Sten Hasselquist, Jon A. Holtzman, Matthew Shetrone +14

We present [C/N]-[Fe/H] abundance trends from the SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey, Data Release 14 (DR14), for red giant branch stars…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

math.AC2018★ 6 cited

Spectral spaces versus distributive lattices: a dictionary

Henri Lombardi

The category of distributive lattices is, in classical mathematics, antiequivalent to the category of spectral spaces. We give here some examples and a short dictionary for this an…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 128 cited

SDSS-IV MaStar -- A Large and Comprehensive Empirical Stellar Spectral Library: First Release

Renbin Yan, Yanping Chen, Daniel Lazarz +45

We present the first release of the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar), which is a large, well-calibrated, high-quality empirical library covering the wavelength range of 3,622-10,354A…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 32 cited

The Relation Between Galaxy ISM and Circumgalactic OVI Gas Kinematics Derived from Observations and CDM Simulations

Glenn G. Kacprzak, Jacob R. Vander Vliet, Nikole M. Nielsen +8

We present the first galaxy-OVI absorption kinematic study for 20 absorption systems (EW>0.1~Å) associated with isolated galaxies (0.150.55) that have accurate redshifts and r…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 41 cited

Detecting Radio-AGN signatures in Red geysers

Namrata Roy, Kevin Bundy, Edmond Cheung +19

A new class of quiescent galaxies harboring possible AGN-driven winds has been discovered using spatially resolved optical spectroscopy from the ongoing SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. These…

hep-ex2018★ 39 cited

First Measurement of Charged-Current Production on Argon with a LArTPC

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +172

We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of charged-current single production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBooNE…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 73 cited

APOGEE DR14/DR15 Abundances in the Inner Milky Way

G. Zasowski, M. Schultheis, S. Hasselquist +14

We present an overview of the distributions of 11 elemental abundances in the Milky Way's inner regions, as traced by APOGEE stars released as part of SDSS Data Release 14/15 (DR14…

nucl-th2018★ 24 cited

Singularities in Twist-3 Quark Distributions

Fatma Aslan, Matthias Burkardt

We find in one-loop calculations and spectator models that twist-3 GPDs exhibit discontinuities. In the forward limit these discontinuities grow into Dirac delta functions which ar…

math.AC2018

Radical factorization in commutative rings, monoids and multiplicative lattices

Bruce Olberding, Andreas Reinhart

In this paper we study the concept of radical factorization in the context of abstract ideal theory in order to obtain a unified approach to the theory of factorization into radica…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 35 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Systematic Investigations of Short-Timescale CIV Broad Absorption Line Variability

Z. S. Hemler, C. J. Grier, W. N. Brandt +10

We systematically investigate short-timescale (10-day rest-frame) CIV broad absorption-line (BAL) variability to constrain quasar-wind properties and provide insights into BAL-v…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 143 cited

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Multi-element abundance ratios

David H. Weinberg, Jon A. Holtzman, Sten Hasselquist +25

We map the trends of elemental abundance ratios across the Galactic disk, spanning R = 3-15 kpc and midplane distance |Z|= 0-2 kpc, for 15 elements in a sample of 20,485 stars meas…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 5 cited

The Spectroscopic Signature of Variability in High-Redshift Quasars

Jamie C. Dyer, Kyle S. Dawson, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux +5

Using 16,421 spectra from a sample of 340 quasars () from the SDSS Reverberation Mapping Project, we present an analysis of quasar spectral variability. We confirm the…

physics.space-ph2018

Fitting the Galactic Electron Spectrum Measured by Voyager at Low Energies and also by CALET/AMS-2 at High Energies Using a Monte Carlo Diffusion Model for Electron Propagation - One Spectrum Fits All

W. R. Webber, J. Quenby, T. Harrison +2

In this paper we compare galactic electron spectra measured up to TeV energies by AMS2 and CALET and that measured by Voyager at the lowest energies down to 1 MeV with that calcula…

hep-ph2018★ 27 cited

Polarized hyperon production in single-inclusive electron-positron annihilation at next-to-leading order

Leonard Gamberg, Zhong-Bo Kang, Daniel Pitonyak +2

We study the production of polarized -hyperons in electron-positron annihilation. We are particularly interested in the transverse-spin dependence of the cross section for unpol…

physics.space-ph2018

Measurements in Interstellar Space of Galactic Cosmic Ray Isotopes of Li, Be, B and N, Ne Nuclei Between 40-160 MeV/nuc by the CRS Instrument on Voyager 1

W. R. Webber, N. Lal, B. Heikkila

In this paper we report a study of the isotopic composition of Li, Be, B and N, Ne nuclei from a 5 year time period beyond the heliopause using the CRS instruments on Voyager. By c…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 11 cited

Circumgalactic gas at its extreme: tidal gas streams around the Whale galaxy NGC 4631 explored with HST/COS

P. Richter, B. Winkel, B. P. Wakker +8

We present a detailed analysis of the absorption properties of one of the tidal gas streams around the Whale galaxy NGC4631 in the direction of the quasar 2MASSJ12421031+3214268. O…

hep-lat2018

Nucleon electromagnetic form factors at high from Wilson-clover fermions

Christos Kallidonis, Sergey Syritsyn, Michael Engelhardt +4

We present results on the nucleon electromagnetic form factors from Lattice QCD at momentum transfer up to about ~GeV. We analyze two gauge ensembles with the Wilson-clover…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 52 cited

The dependence of halo bias on age, concentration and spin

Gabriela Sato-Polito, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, L. Raul Abramo +2

Halo bias is the main link between the matter distribution and dark matter halos. In its simplest form, halo bias is determined by halo mass, but there are known additional depende…

math.AP2018★ 4 cited

An elementary proof of eigenvalue preservation for the co-rotational Beris-Edwards system

Andres Contreras, Xiang Xu, Wujun Zhang

We study the co-rotational Beris-Edwards system modeling nematic liquid crystals and revisit the eigenvalue preservation property discussed in \cite{XZ16}. We give an alternative b…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 47 cited

Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies from z = 0.7 to 1.2 with eBOSS Emission-line Galaxies

Hong Guo, Xiaohu Yang, Anand Raichoor +9

We study the evolution of star-forming galaxies with over the redshift range of 0.7<z<1.2 using the emission line galaxies (ELGs) in the ext…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 192 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Sample Characterization

Yue Shen, Patrick B. Hall, Keith Horne +24

We present a detailed characterization of the 849 broad-line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project. Our quasar sample covers a redshift…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 16 cited

Mildly Suppressed Star Formation in Central Regions of MaNGA Seyfert Galaxies

Longji Bing, Yong Shi, Yanmei Chen +8

Negative feedback from accretion onto super-massive black holes (SMBHs), that is to remove gas and suppress star formation in galaxies, has been widely suggested. However, for Seyf…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 26 cited

Spatial Variations in Titan's Atmospheric Temperature: ALMA and Cassini Comparisons from 2012 to 2015

A. E. Thelen, C. A. Nixon, N. J. Chanover +7

Submillimeter emission lines of carbon monoxide (CO) in Titan's atmosphere provide excellent probes of atmospheric temperature due to the molecule's long chemical lifetime and stab…