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EAS thermal neutron lateral and temporal distributions

A novel type of EAS array (PRISMA-32) has been constructed on the base of NEVOD-DECOR experiment (MEPhI,Moscow) and is now taking data. It consists of 32 specially designed scintillator en-detectors...

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Shape asymmetry: a morphological indicator for automatic detection of...

We present a new morphological indicator designed for automated recognition of galaxies with faint asymmetric tidal features suggestive of an ongoing or past merger. We use this new indicator, together...

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The Baltic Meetings 1957 to 1967 [Cross-Listing]

The Baltic meetings of astronomers from Northern Germany and Scandinavia began in 1957 and gathered up to 70 participants. Reports of the presentations are available from all meetings, providing an...

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Young astronomer in Denmark 1946 to 1958 [Cross-Listing]

This is a personal account of how I became an astronomer. Fascinated by the stars and planets in the dark sky over Lolland, an island 100 km south of Copenhagen, the interest in astronomy was growing....

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Space-Time Reference with an Optical Link

We describe a method for realizing a high-performance Space-Time Reference (STR) using a stable atomic clock in a precisely defined orbit and synchronizing the orbiting clock to high-accuracy atomic...

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TianQin: a space-borne gravitational wave detector [Cross-Listing]

TianQin is a proposal for a space-borne detector of gravitational waves in the millihertz frequencies. The experiment relies on a constellation of three drag-free spacecraft orbiting the Earth....

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Space-Time Reference with an Optical Link [Cross-Listing]

We describe a method for realizing a high-performance Space-Time Reference (STR) using a stable atomic clock in a precisely defined orbit and synchronizing the orbiting clock to high-accuracy atomic...

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A Titanium Nitride Absorber for Controlling Optical Crosstalk in Horn-Coupled...

We discuss the design and measured performance of a titanium nitride (TiN) mesh absorber we are developing for controlling optical crosstalk in horn-coupled lumped-element kinetic inductance detector...

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A Package for the Automated Classification of Periodic Variable Stars

We present a machine learning package for the classification of periodic variable stars. Our package is intended to be general: it can classify any single band optical light curve comprising at least a...

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The Impact of Interpixel Capacitance on WFIRST PSFs

Unlike optical CCDs, near-infrared detectors, which are based on CMOS hybrid readout technology, typically suffer from electrical crosstalk between the pixels. The interpixel capacitance (IPC)...

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Evaluating the effect of stellar multiplicity on the PSF of space-based weak...

The next generation of space-based telescopes used for weak lensing surveys will require exquisite point spread function (PSF) determination. Previously negligible effects may become important in the...

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A Package for the Automated Classification of Periodic Variable Stars...

We present a machine learning package for the classification of periodic variable stars. Our package is intended to be general: it can classify any single band optical light curve comprising at least a...

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A multiscale maximum entropy image restoration algorithm applied to HXMT...

This paper introduces a multiscale maximum entropy (MSME) algorithm for image restoration of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), which is a collimated scan X-ray satellite mainly devoted to a...

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Modelling telluric line spectra in the optical and infrared with an...

Earth's atmosphere imprints a large number of telluric absorption and emission lines on astronomical spectra, especially in the near infrared, that need to be removed before analysing the affected...

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Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment [Replacement]

The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold $\sim$50 eV$_{ee}$, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC...

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Pipe3D, a pipeline to analyze Integral Field Spectroscopy data: I. New...

We present an improved version of FIT3D, a fitting tool for the analysis of the spectroscopic properties of the stellar populations and the ionized gas derived from moderate resolution spectra of...

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Observation of image pair creation and annihilation from superluminal...

The invariance of the speed of light implies a series of consequences related to our perception of simultaneity and of time itself. Whilst these consequences are experimentally well studied for...

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An elastic lidar system for the H.E.S.S. Experiment

The H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia, Africa, is a high energy gamma ray tele- scope sensitive in the energy range from 100 Gev to a few tens of TeV, via the use of the atmospheric Cherenkov technique....

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Optical SETI Observations of the Anomalous Star KIC 8462852

To explore the hypothesis that KIC 8462852's aperiodic dimming is caused by artificial megastructures in orbit (Wright et al. 2015), rather than a natural cause such as cometary fragments in a highly...

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Discovery of Low DM Fast Radio Transients: Geminga Pulsar Caught in the Act

We report discovery of several energetic radio bursts at 34 MHz, using the Gauribidanur radio telescope. The radio bursts exhibit two important properties associated with the propagation of...

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