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Accurate, Meshless Methods for Magneto-Hydrodynamics [Replacement]

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of...

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GIZMO: A New Class of Accurate, Mesh-Free Hydrodynamic Simulation Methods...

We present two new Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics, in a systematic comparison with moving-mesh, SPH, and stationary (non-moving) grid methods. The new methods are designed to simultaneously...

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Absolute astrometry in the next 50 years [Replacement]

With Gaia in orbit since December 2013 it is time to look at the future of fundamental astrometry and a time frame of 50 years is needed in this matter. A space mission with Gaia-like astrometric...

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ROBAST: Development of a ROOT-Based Ray-Tracing Library for Cosmic-Ray...

We have developed a non-sequential ray-tracing simulation library, ROOT-based simulator for ray tracing (ROBAST), which is aimed to be widely used in optical simulations of cosmic-ray (CR) and...

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Preprocessing Solar Images while Preserving their Latent Structure

Telescopes such as the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a NASA satellite, collect massive streams of high resolution images of the Sun through multiple wavelength...

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Status of the ANAIS Dark Matter Project at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory

The ANAIS (Annual modulation with NaI(Tl) Scintillators) experiment aims at the confirmation of the DAMA/LIBRA signal using the same target and technique at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC)....

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Ultralow-density double-layer silica aerogel fabrication for the intact...

The fabrication of an ultralow-density hydrophobic silica aerogel for the intact capture cosmic dust during the Tanpopo mission is described. The Tanpopo experiment performed on the International Space...

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H2 distribution during 2-phase Molecular Cloud Formation

We performed high-resolution, 3D MHD simulations and we compared to observations of translucent molecular clouds. We show that the observed populations of rotational levels of H2 can arise as a...

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Status of the ANAIS Dark Matter Project at the Canfranc Underground...

The ANAIS (Annual modulation with NaI(Tl) Scintillators) experiment aims at the confirmation of the DAMA/LIBRA signal using the same target and technique at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC)....

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BICEP2 III: Instrumental Systematics [Replacement]

In a companion paper we have reported a $>5\sigma$ detection of degree scale $B $-mode polarization at 150 GHz by the BICEP2 experiment. Here we provide a detailed study of potential instrumental...

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SOLARPROP: Charge-sign Dependent Solar Modulation for Everyone [Replacement]

We present SOLARPROP, a tool to compute the influence of charge-sign dependent solar modulation for cosmic ray spectra. SOLARPROP is able to use the output of popular tools like GALPROP or DRAGON and...

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The Objectives of the Radioscience Experiment in Luna-Resource and Luna-Glob...

Two radio-science instruments have included into the Luna-Glob and Luna-Resource projects in the frame of Russian Luna exploration program: the lander's radio beacon and the orbiter's receiver. Three...

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Difference image analysis: Automatic kernel design using information criteria

We present a selection of methods for automatically constructing an optimal kernel model for difference image analysis which require very few external parameters to control the kernel design. Each...

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Dark matter search project PICO-LON

The PICO-LON project aims at search for cold dark matter by means of highly radio-pure and large volume NaI(Tl) scintillator. The NaI powder was purifed by chemical processing to remove lead isotopes...

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Energy calibration via correlation [Cross-Listing]

The main task of an energy calibration is to find a relation between pulse-height values and the corresponding energies. Doing this for each pulse-height channel individually requires an elaborated...

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The Case for a James Webb Space Telescope Extragalactic Key Project

The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in less than three years is certain to bring a revolution in our understanding of many area of astrophysics, with one of the key goals being...

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Exploring molecular complexity with ALMA (EMoCA): Alkanethiols and alkanols...

Over the past five decades, radio astronomy has shown that molecular complexity is a natural outcome of interstellar chemistry, in particular in star forming regions. However, the pathways that lead to...

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From Stars to Patients: Lessons from Space Science and Astrophysics for...

Big Data are revolutionizing nearly every aspect of the modern society. One area where this can have a profound positive societal impact is the field of Health Care Informatics (HCI), which faces many...

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Rotational spectra of isotopic species of methyl cyanide, CH3CN, in their v8...

Methyl cyanide is an important trace molecule in space, especially in star-forming regions where it is one of the more common molecules used to derive kinetic temperatures. We want to obtain accurate...

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A practical theorem on using interferometry to measure the global 21-cm signal

The sky-averaged, or global, background of redshifted 21-cm radiation is expected to be a rich source of information on the history of re-heating and re-ionization of the intergalactic medium. However,...

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