Maximum Likelihood Foreground Cleaning for Cosmic Microwave Background...
We extend a general maximum likelihood foreground estimation for cosmic microwave background polarization data to include estimation of instrumental systematic effects. We focus on two particular...
View ArticleThe Very High Energy source catalog at the ASI Science Data Center
The increasing number of Very High Energy (VHE) sources discovered by the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes made particularly relevant the creation of a dedicated source catalogs as well as...
View ArticleEFTCAMB/EFTCosmoMC: Numerical Notes v2.0 [Replacement]
EFTCAMB/EFTCosmoMC are publicly available patches to the CAMB/CosmoMC codes implementing the effective field theory approach to single scalar field dark energy and modified gravity models. With the...
View ArticleDetection and Characterization of Micrometeoroids with LISA Pathfinder...
The Solar System contains a population of dust and small particles originating from asteroids, comets, and other bodies. These particles have been studied using a number of techniques ranging from...
View ArticleWide-Band, Low-Frequency Pulse Profiles of 100 Radio Pulsars with LOFAR...
LOFAR offers the unique capability of observing pulsars across the 10-240 MHz frequency range with a fractional bandwidth of roughly 50%. This spectral range is well-suited for studying the frequency...
View ArticleEfficient, uninformative sampling of limb-darkening coefficients for a...
Stellar limb-darkening impacts a wide range of astronomical measurements. The accuracy to which it is modelled limits the accuracy in any covariant parameters of interest, such as the radius of a...
View ArticleAstrophysical hydrodynamics with a high-order discontinuous Galerkin scheme...
Solving the Euler equations of ideal hydrodynamics as accurately and efficiently as possible is a key requirement in many astrophysical simulations. It is therefore important to continuously advance...
View ArticleIdentification of Light Cosmic-Ray Nuclei with AMS-02 [Cross-Listing]
AMS-02 is a wide acceptance (0.5 m2 sr) and long duration (up to 20 years) magnetic spectrometer operating onboard the International Space Station since May 2011. Its main scientific objectives are the...
View ArticleThe noise properties of 42 millisecond pulsars from the European Pulsar...
The sensitivity of Pulsar Timing Arrays to gravitational waves depends critically on the noise present in the individual pulsar timing data. Noise may be either intrinsic or extrinsic to the pulsar....
View ArticleA PSF-based approach to Kepler/K2 data. I. Variability within the K2 Campaign...
Kepler and K2 data analysis reported in the literature is mostly based on aperture photometry. Because of Kepler's large, undersampled pixels and the presence of nearby sources, aperture photometry is...
View ArticleTheoretical Framework and Simulation Results for Implementing Weighted...
The Digital Correlated Double Sampling (DCDS) is a technique based on multiple analog-to-digital conversions of every pixel when reading a CCD out. This technique allows to remove analog integrators,...
View ArticleMeasuring Metrics – A forty year longitudinal cross-validation of citations,...
Citation measures, and newer altmetric measures such as downloads are now commonly used to inform personnel decisions. How well do or can these measures measure or predict the past, current of future...
View ArticleThe Scaling of the RMS with Dwell Time in NANOGrav Pulsars
Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are collections of well-timed millisecond pulsars that are being used as detectors of gravitational waves (GWs). Given current sensitivity, projected improvements in PTAs...
View ArticleCosine directions using Rao-Blackwell Theorem and Hausdorff metric in Quasars
This analysis will determine the equations of the cosine directions for all flux of the optical spectrum in quasars. Studies on Hausdorff metric will greatly enhance our understanding of quasars...
View ArticleIdentification of Light Cosmic-Ray Nuclei with AMS-02 [Cross-Listing]
AMS-02 is a wide acceptance (0.5 m2 sr) and long duration (up to 20 years) magnetic spectrometer operating onboard the International Space Station since May 2011. Its main scientific objectives are the...
View ArticleOff-disk straylight measurements for the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope...
Context. Accurate photometry with ground based solar telescopes requires characterization of straylight. Scattering in Earth's atmosphere and in the telescope optics are potentially significant sources...
View ArticleThe deflection of light induced by the Sun’s gravitational field and measured...
The Sun's gravitational field deflects the apparent positions of close objects in accordance with the formulae of general relativity. Optical astrometry is used to test the prediction, but only with...
View ArticleBack-Tracing and Flux Reconstruction for Solar Events with PAMELA [Replacement]
The PAMELA satellite-borne experiment is providing first direct measurements of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) with energies from $\sim$80 MeV to several GeV in near-Earth space. Its unique...
View ArticleMeasurement of camera image sensor depletion thickness with cosmic rays...
Camera image sensors can be used to detect ionizing radiation in addition to optical photons. In particular, cosmic-ray muons are detected as long, straight tracks passing through multiple pixels. The...
View ArticleBoltzmann electron PIC simulation of the E-sail effect
The solar wind electric sail (E-sail) is a planned in-space propulsion device that uses the natural solar wind momentum flux for spacecraft propulsion with the help of long, charged, centrifugally...
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