Dynamic temperature selection for parallel-tempering in Markov chain Monte...
Modern problems in astronomical Bayesian inference require efficient methods for sampling from complex, high-dimensional, often multi-modal probability distributions. Most popular methods, such as...
View ArticlePSR B0329+54: Statistics of Substructure Discovered within the Scattering...
We discovered fine-scale structure within the scattering disk of PSR B0329+54 in observations with the RadioAstron ground-space radio interferometer. Here, we describe this phenomenon, characterize it...
View ArticleLine Spread Functions of Blazed Off-Plane Gratings Operated in the Littrow...
Future soft X-ray (10 - 50 Angstrom) spectroscopy missions require higher effective areas and resolutions to perform critical science that cannot be done by instruments on current missions. An X-ray...
View ArticleInfrared dielectric properties of low-stress silicon oxide [Cross-Listing]
Silicon oxide thin films play an important role in the realization of optical coatings and high-performance electrical circuits. Estimates of the dielectric function in the far- and mid-infrared regime...
View ArticleRadio Weak Lensing Shear Measurement in the Visibility Domain – I. Methodology
The high sensitivity of the new generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will allow cosmological weak lensing measurements at radio wavelengths that are competitive with...
View ArticleThe Small Contribution of Molecular Bremsstrahlung Radiation to the...
A small contribution of molecular Bremsstrahlung radiation to the air-fluorescence yield in the UV range is estimated based on an approach previously developed in the framework of the radio-detection...
View ArticleA Radio Detection Survey of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies using...
We conducted a high-sensitivity radio detection survey for forty narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) at 22 GHz through phase-referencing long-time...
View ArticleFOTOMCAp: a new quasi-automatic code for high-precision photometry
The search for Earth-like planets using the transit technique has encouraged the development of strategies to obtain light curves with increasingly precision. In this context we developed the FOTOMCAp...
View ArticleThe systematic spectral analysis of radio surveys
Current and future continuum surveys being undertaken by the new generation of radio telescopes are now poised to address many important science questions, ranging from the earliest galaxies, to the...
View ArticleDAMEWARE – Data Mining & Exploration Web Application Resource [Replacement]
Astronomy is undergoing through a methodological revolution triggered by an unprecedented wealth of complex and accurate data. DAMEWARE (DAta Mining & Exploration Web Application and REsource) is a...
View ArticleAssessment of Systematic Chromatic Errors that Impact Sub-1% Photometric...
Meeting the science goals for many current and future ground-based optical large-area sky surveys requires that the calibrated broadband photometry is stable in time and uniform over the sky to 1%...
View ArticleDetecting compact galactic binaries using a hybrid swarm-based algorithm...
Compact binaries in our galaxy are expected to be one of the main sources of gravitational waves for the future eLISA mission. During the mission lifetime, many thousands of galactic binaries should be...
View ArticleLight propagation in the gravitational field of N arbitrarily moving bodies...
The light-trajectory in the gravitational field of N extended bodies in arbitrary motion is determined in the first post-Newtonian approximation. According to the theory of reference systems, the...
View ArticleFirst Upper Limits on the Radar Cross Section of Cosmic-Ray Induced Extensive...
TARA (Telescope Array Radar) is a cosmic ray radar detection experiment colocated with Telescope Array, the conventional surface scintillation detector (SD) and fluorescence telescope detector (FD)...
View Articlegadfly: A pandas-based Framework for Analyzing GADGET Simulation Data
We present the first public release (v0.1) of the open-source GADGET Dataframe Library: gadfly. The aim of this package is to leverage the capabilities of the broader python scientific computing...
View ArticleFifty Years of Pulsar Candidate Selection: From simple filters to a new...
Improving survey specifications are causing an exponential rise in pulsar candidate numbers and data volumes. We study the candidate filters used to mitigate these problems during the past fifty years....
View ArticleDetecting compact galactic binaries using a hybrid swarm-based algorithm...
Compact binaries in our galaxy are expected to be one of the main sources of gravitational waves for the future eLISA mission. During the mission lifetime, many thousands of galactic binaries should be...
View ArticleLight propagation in the gravitational field of N arbitrarily moving bodies...
The light-trajectory in the gravitational field of N extended bodies in arbitrary motion is determined in the first post-Newtonian approximation. According to the theory of reference systems, the...
View ArticleNeutral Current Coherent Cross Sections — Implications on Gaseous Spherical...
The detection of galactic supernova (SN) neutrinos represents one of the future frontiers of low-energy neutrino physics and astrophysics. The neutron coherence of neutral currents (NC) allows quite...
View ArticleRadioLensfit: Bayesian weak lensing measurement in the visibility domain...
Observationally, weak lensing has been served so far by optical surveys due to the much larger number densities of background galaxies achieved, which is typically by two to three orders of magnitude...
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