Molecular Bremsstrahlung Radiation at GHz Frequencies in Air [Replacement]
A detection technique for ultra-high energy cosmic rays, complementary to the fluorescence technique, would be the use of the molecular Bremsstrahlung radiation emitted by low-energy ionization...
View ArticleQuasi-Normal Modes of Black Holes in Lovelock Gravity [Replacement]
We study quasinormal modes of black holes in Lovelock gravity. We formulate the WKB method adapted to Lovelock gravity for the calculation of quasinormal frequencies (QNFs). As a demonstration, we...
View ArticleModel Independent Approach to the Single Photoelectron Calibration of...
The accurate calibration of photomultiplier tubes is critical in a wide variety of applications in which it is necessary to know the absolute number of detected photons or precisely determine the...
View ArticleQuasi-Normal Modes of Black Holes in Lovelock Gravity [Replacement]
We study quasinormal modes of black holes in Lovelock gravity. We formulate the WKB method adapted to Lovelock gravity for the calculation of quasinormal frequencies (QNFs). As a demonstration, we...
View ArticleOn the capabilities of survey telescopes of moderate size
To explore capabilities of moderate-size optical telescopes in surveys, the set of 9 new wide-field designs having apertures up to 1 m is considered. All but one systems have angular field of view in a...
View ArticleGravitational wave astronomy: the current status [Cross-Listing]
In the centenary year of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, this paper reviews the current status of gravitational wave astronomy across a spectrum which stretches from attohertz to kilohertz...
View ArticleHigh-Cadence, High-Contrast Imaging for Exoplanet Mapping: Observations of...
Time-resolved photometry is an important new probe of the physics of condensate clouds in extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. Extreme adaptive optics systems can directly image planets, but precise...
View ArticleHierarchical Tree Algorithm for Collisional N-body Simulations on GRAPE
We present an implementation of the hierarchical tree algorithm on the individual timestep algorithm (the Hermite scheme) for collisional $N$-body simulations, running on GRAPE-9 system, a...
View ArticleTesting Quasar Unification: Radiative Transfer in Clumpy Winds
Various unification schemes interpret the complex phenomenology of quasars and luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) in terms of a simple picture involving a central black hole, an accretion disc and...
View ArticleQuasi-Normal Modes of Black Holes in Lovelock Gravity [Replacement]
We study quasinormal modes of black holes in Lovelock gravity. We formulate the WKB method adapted to Lovelock gravity for the calculation of quasinormal frequencies (QNFs). As a demonstration, we...
View ArticleThe LSC Glitch Group : Monitoring Noise Transients during the fifth LIGO...
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) glitch group is part of the LIGO detector characterization effort. It consists of data analysts and detector experts who, during and after science runs,...
View ArticleHigh-Cadence, High-Contrast Imaging for Exoplanet Mapping: Observations of...
Time-resolved photometry is an important new probe of the physics of condensate clouds in extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs. Extreme adaptive optics systems can directly image planets, but precise...
View ArticleProper image subtraction – optimal transient detection, photometry and...
Transient detection and flux measurement via image subtraction stand at the base of time domain astronomy. Due to the varying seeing conditions, the image subtraction process is non-trivial, and...
View ArticleNew Limits on Polarized Power Spectra at 126 and 164 MHz: Relevance to Epoch...
Polarized foreground emission is a potential contaminant of attempts to measure the fluctuation power spectrum of highly redshifted 21 cm HI emission from the epoch of reionization. Using the Donald C....
View ArticlePartition functions and equilibrium constants for diatomic molecules and...
Partition functions and dissociation equilibrium constants are presented for 291 diatomic molecules for temperatures in the range from near absolute zero to 10000 K, thus providing data for many...
View ArticleA high-resolution pointing system for fast scanning platforms: The EBEX example
The E and B experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background with 8' resolution employing a gondola scanning with speeds of order...
View ArticleWIMP detection and slow ion dynamics in carbon nanotube arrays [Cross-Listing]
Large arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), open at one end, could be used as target material for the directional detection of weakly interacting dark matter particles (WIMPs). As a result of a...
View ArticleAstroBlend: An Astrophysical Visualization Package for Blender
The rapid growth in scale and complexity of both computational and observational astrophysics over the past decade necessitates efficient and intuitive methods for examining and visualizing large...
View ArticleWIMP detection and slow ion dynamics in carbon nanotube arrays [Cross-Listing]
Large arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), open at one end, could be used as target material for the directional detection of weakly interacting dark matter particles (WIMPs). As a result of a...
View ArticleSimProp v2r3: Monte Carlo simulation code of UHECR propagation [Replacement]
We introduce the new version of SimProp, a Monte Carlo code for simulating the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in intergalactic space. This version, SimProp v2r3, allows the choice of many...
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