MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) 0: Methods for the construction of...
I describe a method to transform a set of stellar evolution tracks onto a uniform basis and then interpolate within that basis to construct stellar isochrones. The method accommodates a broad range of...
View ArticleXenon Bubble Chambers for Direct Dark Matter Detection
The search for dark matter is one of today's most exciting fields. As bigger detectors are being built to increase their sensitivity, background reduction is an ever more challenging issue. To this...
View ArticleShaped Pupil Lyot Coronagraphs: High-Contrast Solutions for Restricted Focal...
Coronagraphs of the apodized pupil and shaped pupil varieties use the Fraunhofer diffraction properties of amplitude masks to create regions of high contrast in the vicinity of a target star. Here we...
View ArticleA pragmatic Bayesian perspective on correlation analysis: The exoplanetary...
We apply the Bayesian framework to assess the presence of a correlation between two quantities. To do so, we estimate the probability distribution of the parameter of interest, $\rho$, characterizing...
View ArticleRepeatability and Accuracy of Exoplanet Eclipse Depths Measured with...
We examine the repeatability, reliability, and accuracy of differential exoplanet eclipse depth measurements made using the InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope during the...
View ArticleFast Radio Transient searches with UTMOST at 843 MHz [Replacement]
We report the first radio interferometric search at 843 MHz for fast transients, particularly Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The recently recommissioned Swinburne University of Technology's digital backend...
View ArticleInterferometric observation of microlensing events
Interferometric observations of microlensing events have the potential to provide unique constraints on the physical properties of the lensing systems. In this work, we first present a formalism that...
View ArticleModel-Coupled Autoencoder for Time Series Visualisation
We present an approach for the visualisation of a set of time series that combines an echo state network with an autoencoder. For each time series in the dataset we train an echo state network, using a...
View ArticleHard X-ray irradiation of cosmic silicate analogs: structural evolution and...
Protoplanetary disks, interstellar clouds, and active galactic nuclei, contain X-ray dominated regions. X-rays interact with the dust and gas present in such environments. While a few laboratory X-ray...
View ArticleMultichroic TES Bolometers and Galaxy Cluster Mass Scaling Relations with the...
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a high-resolution microwave-frequency telescope designed to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). To date, two cameras have been installed on the SPT to...
View ArticleThe Advanced LIGO Input Optics [Cross-Listing]
The Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors are nearing their design sensitivity and should begin taking meaningful astrophysical data in the fall of 2015. These resonant optical interferometers...
View ArticleLOFAR facet calibration
LOFAR, the Low-Frequency Array, is a powerful new radio telescope operating between 10 and 240 MHz. LOFAR allows detailed sensitive high-resolution studies of the low-frequency radio sky. At the same...
View ArticleThat’s How We Roll: The NASA K2 Mission Science Products and Their...
NASA's exoplanet Discovery mission Kepler was reconstituted as the K2 mission a year after the failure of the 2nd of Kepler's 4 reaction wheels in May 2013. The new spacecraft pointing method now gives...
View ArticleMethod for detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave transients with...
We present a method for detection and reconstruction of the gravitational-wave (GW) transients with the networks of advanced detectors. Originally designed to search for transients with the initial GW...
View ArticleMethod for detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave transients with...
We present a method for detection and reconstruction of the gravitational-wave (GW) transients with the networks of advanced detectors. Originally designed to search for transients with the initial GW...
View ArticleCoherent network analysis for continuous gravitational wave signals in a...
Supermassive black hole binaries are one of the primary targets for gravitational wave searches using pulsar timing arrays. Gravitational wave signals from such systems are well represented by...
View ArticleThe Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory: Cloud-Based Mock Galaxy Catalogues...
We introduce the Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory (TAO), an online virtual laboratory that houses mock observations of galaxy survey data. Such mocks have become an integral part of the modern...
View ArticleReal-time detection of transients in OGLE-IV with application of machine...
The current bottleneck of transient detection in most surveys is the problem of rejecting numerous artifacts from detected candidates. We present a triple-stage hierarchical machine learning system for...
View ArticleDesign and Construction of VUES: the Vilnius University Echelle Spectrograph
In February of 2014 the Yale Exoplanet Laboratory was commissioned to design, build, and deliver a high resolution (R = 60,000) spectrograph for the 1.65-meter telescope at the Moletai Astronomical...
View ArticleScience Learning via Participation in Online Citizen Science
We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org), including the astronomy projects...
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