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hep-th2016★ 29 cited

Integrable Abelian Vortex-like solitons

Felipe Contatto

We propose a modified version of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional admitting static solitons and determine all the Painlevé-integrable cases of its Bogomolny equations of a giv…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 32 cited

VALES: II. The physical conditions of interstellar gas in normal star-forming galaxies up to z=0.2 revealed by ALMA

T. M. Hughes, E. Ibar, V. Villanueva +18

We use new Band-3 CO(1-0) observations taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the physical conditions in the interstellar gas of a sample of 27…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 146 cited

The Herschel-ATLAS: a sample of 500μm-selected lensed galaxies over 600 square degrees

M. Negrello, S. Amber, A. Amvrosiadis +43

We present a sample of 80 candidate strongly lensed galaxies with flux density above 100mJy at 500μm extracted from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS)…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 32 cited

Dynamical Formation of Cataclysmic Variables in Globular Clusters

Jongsuk Hong, Enrico Vesperini, Diogo Belloni +1

The formation and evolution of X-ray sources in globular clusters is likely to be affected by the cluster internal dynamics and the stellar interactions in the cluster dense enviro…

gr-qc2016★ 46 cited

Investigation on Finsler geometry as a generalization to curved spacetime of Planck-scale-deformed relativity in the de Sitter case

Iarley P. Lobo, Niccoló Loret, Francisco Nettel

In recent years, Planck-scale modifications to particles' dispersion relation have been deeply studied for the possibility to formulate some phenomenology of Planckian effects in a…

physics.optics2016★ 2 cited

Magnetic liquids under high electric fields as optical diodes

Jonas P. Pereira, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova

We show and give examples of how unidirectional propagation of light rays in the limit of geometric optics could arise in some magnetic fluids due to the magnetoelectric effect und…

gr-qc2016★ 18 cited

Rainbows without unicorns: Metric structures in theories with Modified Dispersion Relations

Iarley P. Lobo, Niccoló Loret, Francisco Nettel

Rainbow metrics are a widely used approach to metric formalism for theories with Modified Dispersion Relations. They have had a huge success in the Quantum Gravity Phenomenology li…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 57 cited

Herschel-ATLAS: Revealing dust build-up and decline across gas, dust and stellar mass selected samples: I. Scaling relations

P. De Vis, L. Dunne, S. Maddox +19

We present a study of the dust, stars and atomic gas (HI) in an HI-selected sample of local galaxies (z<0.035) in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) f…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 52 cited

The Asteroid Belt as a Relic From a Chaotic Early Solar System

Andre Izidoro, Sean N. Raymond, Arnaud Pierens +3

The orbital structure of the asteroid belt holds a record of the Solar System's dynamical history. The current belt only contains Earth masses yet the asteroid…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 16 cited

MOCCA-SURVEY database I. Accreting white dwarf binary systems in globular clusters -- II. Cataclysmic variables -- progenitors and population at birth

Diogo Belloni, Mirek Giersz, Helio J. Rocha-Pinto +2

This is the second in a series of papers associated with cataclysmic variables (CVs) and related objects, formed in a suite of simulations for globular cluster evolution performed…

cs.IR2016★ 1 cited

Infusing Collaborative Recommenders with Distributed Representations

Greg Zanotti, Miller Horvath, Lucas Nunes Barbosa +2

Recommender systems assist users in navigating complex information spaces and focus their attention on the content most relevant to their needs. Often these systems rely on user ac…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 37 cited

MOCCA-SURVEY database I. Accreting white dwarf binary systems in globular clusters -- I. cataclysmic variables -- present-day population

Diogo Belloni, Mirek Giersz, Abbas Askar +2

In this paper, which is the first in a series of papers associated with cataclysmic variables and related objects, we introduce the CATUABA code, a numerical machinery written for…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 12 cited

CMB-S4 and the Hemispherical Variance Anomaly

Marcio O'Dwyer, Craig J. Copi, Lloyd Knox +1

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) full-sky temperature data show a hemispherical asymmetry in power nearly aligned with the Ecliptic. In real space, this anomaly can be quantified…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 2 cited

Defects as a factor limiting carrier mobility in WSe2: a spectroscopic investigation

Zhangting Wu, Zhongzhong Luo, Yuting Shen +8

The electrical performance of two dimensional transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is strongly influenced by the amount of structural defects inside. In this work, we provide…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 58 cited

Constraints on the Broad Line Region Properties and Extinction in Local Seyferts

Allan Schnorr-Müller, R. I. Davies, K. T. Korista +22

We use high spectral resolution (R > 8000) data covering 3800-13000Å to study the physical conditions of the broad line region (BLR) of nine nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies. Up to six br…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 202 cited

The Herschel-ATLAS Data Release 1 Paper I: Maps, Catalogues and Number Counts

E. Valiante, M. W. L. Smith, S. Eales +11

We present the first major data release of the largest single key-project in area carried out in open time with the Herschel Space Observatory. The Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 96 cited

The Herschel-ATLAS Data Release 1 Paper II: Multi-wavelength counterparts to submillimetre sources

N. Bourne, L. Dunne, S. J. Maddox +27

This paper is the second in a pair of articles presenting data release 1 (DR1) of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS), the largest single open-time key…

cs.DB2016

PIWD: A Plugin-based Framework for Well-Designed SPARQL

Xiaowang Zhang, Zhenyu Song, Zhiyong Feng +1

In the real world datasets (e.g.,DBpedia query log), queries built on well-designed patterns containing only AND and OPT operators (for short, WDAO-patterns) account for a large pr…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 38 cited

A Neural Network Gravitational Arc Finder based on the Mediatrix filamentation Method

C. R. Bom, M. Makler, M. P. Albuquerque +1

Automated arc detection methods are needed to scan the ongoing and next-generation wide-field imaging surveys, which are expected to contain thousands of strong lensing systems. Ar…

gr-qc2016★ 10 cited

Which quantum theory must be reconciled with gravity? (And what does it mean for black holes?)

Matthew J. Lake

We consider the nature of quantum properties in non-relativistic quantum mechanics (QM) and relativistic QFTs, and examine the connection between formal quantization schemes and in…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 76 cited

VDES J2325-5229 a z=2.7 gravitationally lensed quasar discovered using morphology independent supervised machine learning

Fernanda Ostrovski, Richard G. McMahon, Andrew J. Connolly +56

We present the discovery and preliminary characterization of a gravitationally lensed quasar with a source redshift and image separation of lensed by a foregrou…

gr-qc2016★ 47 cited

Mass bounds for compact spherically symmetric objects in generalized gravity theories

Piyabut Burikham, Tiberiu Harko, Matthew J. Lake

We derive upper and lower bounds on the mass-radius ratio of stable compact objects in extended gravity theories, in which modifications of the gravitational dynamics via-{\' a}-vi…

cs.CL2016★ 2 cited

Learning Word Sense Embeddings from Word Sense Definitions

Qi Li, Tianshi Li, Baobao Chang

Word embeddings play a significant role in many modern NLP systems. Since learning one representation per word is problematic for polysemous words and homonymous words, researchers…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 13 cited

The ISW effect and the lack of large-angle CMB temperature correlations

Craig J. Copi, Márcio O'Dwyer, Glenn D. Starkman

It is by now well established that the magnitude of the two-point angular-correlation function of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies is anomalously low for an…