259 citations · 1.3k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for
Showing 2017Show all
2 papers · 1 filter
astro-ph.IM2017★ 32 cited
Umbrella sampling: a powerful method to sample tails of distributions
Charles Matthews, Jonathan Weare, Andrey Kravtsov +1
We present the umbrella sampling (US) technique and show that it can be used to sample extremely low probability areas of the posterior distribution that may be required in statist…
astro-ph.SR2017★ 208 cited
Angular momentum transport by heat-driven g-modes in slowly pulsating B stars
R. H. D. Townsend, J. Goldstein, E. G. Zweibel
Motivated by recent interest in the phenomenon of waves transport in massive stars, we examine whether the heat-driven gravity (g) modes excited in slowly-pulsating B (SPB) stars c…