WarmAndFuzzy: the halo model beyond CDM [Cross-Listing]
Cold dark matter (CDM) is a well established paradigm to describe cosmological structure formation, and works extraordinarily well on large, linear, scales. Progressing further in dark matter physics...
View ArticleImplementation and performance of FDPS: A Framework Developing Parallel...
We present the basic idea, implementation, measured performance and performance model of FDPS (Framework for developing particle simulators). FDPS is an application-development framework which helps...
View ArticleThe offline software framework of the DAMPE experiment [Replacement]
A software framework has been developed for the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) mission, a satellite based experiment. The software framework of DAMPE is mainly written in C++ while the...
View ArticleBokeh Mirror Alignment for Cherenkov Telescopes
Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) need imaging optics with large apertures and high image intensities to map the faint Cherenkov light emitted from cosmic ray air showers onto their...
View ArticleNormalized and Asynchronous Mirror Alignment for Cherenkov Telescopes
Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) need imaging optics with large apertures and high image intensities to map the faint Cherenkov light emitted from cosmic ray air showers onto their...
View ArticleBabcock-Leighton solar dynamo: the role of downward pumping and the...
The key elements of the Babcock-Leighton dynamo are the generation of poloidal field through the decay of tilted bipolar active regions and the generation of toroidal field through the observed...
View ArticleA Sodium laser guide star coupling efficiency measurement method
Large telescope's adaptive optics (AO) system requires one or several bright artificial laser guide stars to improve its sky coverage. The recent advent of high power sodium laser is perfect for such...
View ArticleHigh Resolution Linear Polarimetric Imaging for the Event Horizon Telescope
Images of the linear polarization of synchrotron radiation around Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) identify their projected magnetic field lines and provide key data for understanding the physics of...
View ArticleRemote Operations and Nightly Automation of The Red Buttes Observatory
We have implemented upgrades to the University of Wyoming's Red Buttes Observatory (RBO) to allow remote and autonomous operations using the 0.6 m telescope. Detailed descriptions of hardware and...
View ArticleThe offline software framework of the DAMPE experiment [Replacement]
A software framework has been developed for the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) mission, a satellite based experiment. The software framework of DAMPE is mainly written in C++ while the...
View ArticleMeasurements of the position-dependent photo-detection sensitivity of the...
The Hamamatsu R11410 and R8520 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are designed for applications in dark matter detectors using liquid xenon, featuring excellent sensitivity to VUV light and stable...
View ArticleLimit cycles can reduce the width of the habitable zone
The liquid water habitable zone (HZ) describes the orbital distance at which a terrestrial planet can maintain above-freezing conditions through regulation by the carbonate-silicate cycle. Recent...
View ArticleProgress on VLBI Ecliptic Plane Survey
We launched the VLBI Ecliptic Plane Survey program in 2015. The goal of this program is to find all compact sources within 7.5 degrees of the ecliptic plane which are suitable as phase calibrators for...
View ArticleFaster GPU-based convolutional gridding via thread coarsening
Convolutional gridding is a processor-intensive step in interferometric imaging. While it is possible to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate this operation, existing methods use only a...
View ArticleThe Murchison Widefield Array 21 cm Power Spectrum Analysis Methodology
We present the 21 cm power spectrum analysis approach of the Murchison Widefield Array Epoch of Reionization project. In this paper, we compare the outputs of multiple pipelines for the purpose of...
View ArticleVARTOOLS: A Program for Analyzing Astronomical Time-Series Data
This paper describes the VARTOOLS program, which is an open-source command-line utility, written in C, for analyzing astronomical time-series data, especially light curves. The program provides a...
View ArticleMicro-pulse upconversion Doppler lidar for wind and visibility detection in...
For the first time, a versatile, eyesafe, compact and direct detection Doppler lidar is developed using upconversion single-photon detection method. An all-fiber and polarization maintaining...
View ArticleWAHRSIS: A Low-cost, High-resolution Whole Sky Imager With Near-Infrared...
Cloud imaging using ground-based whole sky imagers is essential for a fine-grained understanding of the effects of cloud formations, which can be useful in many applications. Some such imagers are...
View ArticleAstrometry of mutual approximations between natural satellites. Application...
Typically we can deliver astrometric positions of natural satellites with errors in the 50-150 mas range. Apparent distances from mutual phenomena, have much smaller errors, less than 10 mas. However,...
View ArticleThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The polarization-sensitive ACTPol instrument
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is designed to make high angular resolution measurements of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at millimeter wavelengths. We describe ACTPol, an...
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