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Probing the origin of our universe through primordial gravitational waves by...

This is a research highlight invited by SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy.

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ELLC – a fast, flexible light curve model for detached eclipsing binary stars...

Very high quality light curves are now available for thousands of detached eclipsing binary stars and transiting exoplanet systems as a result of surveys for transiting exoplanets and other large-scale...

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Development Toward a Ground-Based Interferometric Phased Array for Radio...

A promising method for further measurements of high energy neutrinos at the PeV scale and above is through an in-ice radio interferometric phased array, designed to look for Askaryan emission from...

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HMI Synoptic Maps Produced by NSO/NISP

Recently, the National Solar Observatory (NSO) Solar-atmosphere Pipeline Working Group has undertaken the production of synoptic maps from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) magnetograms. A set of...

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Compressed Sensing for Time-Frequency Gravitational Wave Data Analysis

The potential of compressed sensing for obtaining sparse time-frequency representations for gravitational wave data analysis is illustrated by comparison with existing methods, as regards i) shedding...

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Comprehensive All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Sixth...

We report on a comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 100-1500 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of $[-1.18, +1.00]\times 10^{-8}$ Hz/s....

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J-GEM Follow-Up Observations to Search for an Optical Counterpart of The...

We present our optical follow-up observations to search for an electromagnetic counterpart of the first gravitational wave source GW150914 in the framework of the Japanese collaboration for...

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Stellar classification from single-band imaging using machine learning

Information on the spectral types of stars is of great interest in view of the exploitation of space-based imaging surveys. In this article, we investigate the classification of stars into spectral...

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Multi-scale Planck corrections to Herschel dust continuum emission maps:...

We present a Fourier space method to combine the publicly available Herschel PACS and SPIRE data with the Planck thermal dust emission model. The method effectively combines the Planck large angular...

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Compressed Sensing for Time-Frequency Gravitational Wave Data Analysis...

The potential of compressed sensing for obtaining sparse time-frequency representations for gravitational wave data analysis is illustrated by comparison with existing methods, as regards i) shedding...

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Comprehensive All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Sixth...

We report on a comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 100-1500 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of $[-1.18, +1.00]\times 10^{-8}$ Hz/s....

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ELLC – a fast, flexible light curve model for detached eclipsing binary stars...

Very high quality light curves are now available for thousands of detached eclipsing binary stars and transiting exoplanet systems as a result of surveys for transiting exoplanets and other large-scale...

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A Deep Search for Additional Satellites around the Dwarf Planet Haumea

Haumea is a dwarf planet with two known satellites, an unusually high spin rate, and a large collisional family, making it one of the most interesting objects in the outer solar system. A fully...

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Monte Carlo radiation transfer simulations of photospheric emission in...

We present MCRaT, a Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer code for self-consistently computing the light curves and spectra of the photospheric emission from relativistic, unmagnetized jets. We apply MCRaT to...

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New estimates of Herschel PACS point spread function

The knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) of imaging instruments represents a fundamental requirement for astronomical observations. The Herschel PACS PSFs delivered by the instrument control...

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The moving mesh code Shadowfax

We introduce the moving mesh code Shadowfax, which can be used to evolve a mixture of gas, subject to the laws of hydrodynamics and gravity, and any collisionless fluid only subject to gravity, such as...

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A Novel High-Order, Entropy Stable, 3D AMR MHD Solver with Guaranteed...

We describe a high-order numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver built upon a novel non-linear entropy stable numerical flux function that supports eight travelling wave solutions. By construction...

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Variable stars identification in digitized photographic data

We identify 339 known and 316 new variable stars of various types among 250000 lightcurves obtained by digitizing 167 30x30cm photographic plates of the Moscow collection. We use these data to conduct...

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Compressed Sensing for Time-Frequency Gravitational Wave Data Analysis...

The potential of compressed sensing for obtaining sparse time-frequency representations for gravitational wave data analysis is illustrated by comparison with existing methods, as regards i) shedding...

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Supplement: Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo...

This is an online supplement to https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07333 . In the main Letter, we demonstrated a rapid algorithm for obtaining joint three-dimensional estimates of sky location and luminosity...

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