astro-ph.IM : Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics: March 2012

Friday, March 30, 2012

1203.6394 (Alan B. Whiting)

Visual Photometry: Colour and Brightness Spacing of Comparison Stars [PDF]

Alan B. Whiting

Daemons: Detection at Pulkovo, Gran Sasso, and Soudan [PDF]

E. M. Drobyshevski, M. E. Drobyshevski, S. A. Ponyaev, I. S. Guseva

0906.0993 (Bruce A. Bassett et al.)

Fisher Matrix Preloaded -- Fisher4Cast [PDF]

Bruce A. Bassett, Yabebal Fantaye, Renée Hlozek, Jacques Kotze

Search for high-amplitude Delta Scuti and RR Lyrae stars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 using principal component analysis [PDF]

M. Süveges, B. Sesar, M. Váradi, N. Mowlavi, A. C. Becker, Ž. Ivezić, M. Beck, K. Nienartowicz, L. Rimoldini, P. Dubath, P. Bartholdi, L. Eyer

Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency: why human space exploration will tell us more about the Solar System than will robotic exploration alone [PDF]

Ian A. Crawford

Designing Large-Scale Imaging Surveys for a Retrospective Relative Photometric Calibration [PDF]

Rory Holmes, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix

Circumstellar disks and planets. Science cases for next-generation optical/infrared long-baseline interferometers [PDF]

Sebastian Wolf, Fabien Malbet, Richard Alexander, Jean-Philippe Berger, Michelle Creech-Eakman, Gaspard Duchene, Anne Dutrey, Christophe Mordasini, Eric Pantin, Frederic Pont, Joerg-Uwe Pott, Eric Tatulli, Leonardo Testi

1203.5790 (Christopher L. Williams et al.)

Low Frequency Imaging of Fields at High Galactic Latitude with the Murchison Widefield Array 32-Element Prototype [PDF]

Christopher L. Williams, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Alan M. Levine, Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, Judd D. Bowman, Frank H. Briggs, B. M. Gaensler, Lars L. Hernquist, Daniel A. Mitchell, Miguel F. Morales, Shiv K. Sethi, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Elaine M. Sadler, Wayne Arcus, David G. Barnes, Gianni Bernardi, John D. Bunton, Roger C. Cappallo, Brian W. Crosse, Brian E. Corey, Avinash Deshpande, Ludi deSouza, David Emrich, Robert F. Goeke, Lincoln J. Greenhill, Bryna J. Hazelton, David Herne, David L. Kaplan, Justin C. Kasper, Barton B. Kincaid, Ronald Koenig, Eric Kratzenberg, Colin J. Lonsdale, Mervyn J. Lynch, S. Russell McWhirter, %Daniel A. Mitchell, %Miguel F. Morales, Edward H. Morgan, Divya Oberoi, Stephen M. Ord, Joseph Pathikulangara, Thiagaraj Prabu, Ronald A. Remillard, Alan E. E. Rogers, Anish A. Roshi, Joseph E. Salah, Robert J. Sault, N. Udaya Shankar, K. S. Srivani, Jamie B. Stevens, Steven J. Tingay, Randall B. Wayth, Mark Waterson, Rachel L. Webster, Alan R. Whitney, Andrew J. Williams, J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Variability Flagging in the WISE Preliminary Data Release [PDF]

Douglas I. Hoffman, R. M. Cutri, F. J. Masci, J. W. Fowler, K. A. Marsh, T. H. Jarrett

The Los Alamos Supernova Light Curve Project [PDF]

Lucille H. Frey, Wesley Even, Daniel J. Whalen, Chris L. Fryer, Aimee L. Hungerford, Christopher J. Fontes, James Colgan

A readout for large arrays of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors [PDF]

Sean McHugh, Benjamin A. Mazin, Bruno Serfass, Seth Meeker, Kieran O'Brien, Ran Duan, Rick Raffanti, Dan Werthimer

High-angular-precision gamma-ray astronomy and polarimetry [PDF]

Denis Bernard, Alain Delbart

A new approach to the optimization of the extraction of astrometric and photometric information from multi-wavelength images in cosmological fields [PDF]

Maria Jose Marquez

1203.5568 (Akito Tajitsu et al.)

The image slicer for the Subaru Telescope High Dispersion Spectrograph [PDF]

Akito Tajitsu, Wako Aoki, Tomoyasu Yamamuro

Intensity and polarization of the atmospheric emission at millimetric wavelengths at Dome Concordia [PDF]

E. S. Battistelli, G. Amico, A. Baù, L. Bergé, É. Bréelle, R. Charlassier, S. Collin, A. Cruciani, P. de Bernardis, C. Dufour, L. Dumoulin, M. Gervasi, M. Giard, C. Giordano, Y. Giraud-Héraud, L. Guglielmi, J. -C. Hamilton, J. Landé, B. Maffei, M. Maiello, S. Marnieros, S. Masi, A. Passerini, F. Piacentini, M. Piat, L. Piccirillo, G. Pisano, G. Polenta, C. Rosset, M. Salatino, A. Schillaci, R. Sordini, S. Spinelli, A. Tartari, M. Zannoni

Combined Source Analyses for Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes [PDF]

Hugh Dickinson, Jan Conrad

Gravitation Astrometric Measurement Experiment [PDF]

Mario Gai, Alberto Vecchiato, Sebastiano Ligori, Alessandro Sozzetti, Mario G. Lattanzi

IVOA Recommendation: Simple Spectral Access Protocol Version 1.1 [PDF]

Doug Tody, Markus Dolensky, Jonathan McDowell, Francois Bonnarel, Tamas Budavari, Ivo Busko, Alberto Micol, Pedro Osuna, Jesus Salgado, Petr Skoda, Randy Thompson, Frank Valdes, the Data Access Layer working group

Modeling Inter-Pixel Crosstalk in Teledyne Imaging Sensors H4RG Detectors [PDF]

R. P. Dudik, M. Jordan, B. N. Dorland, D. Veillette, A. Waczynski, B. Lane, M. Loose, E. Kan, J. Waterman, S. Pravdo

1203.5111 (S. G. Djorgovski et al.)

Sky Surveys [PDF]

S. G. Djorgovski, A. A. Mahabal, A. J. Drake, M. J. Graham, C. Donalek

IPS Observation System for Miyun 50m Radio Telescope and Its Acceptance Observation [PDF]

Xin-Ying Zhu, Xi-Zhen Zhang, Hong-Bo Zhang, De-Qing Kong, Hui-Peng Qu

1203.4842 (Frank Steier et al.)

The end-to-end testbed of the Optical Metrology System on-board LISA Pathfinder [PDF]

Frank Steier, Felipe Guzmán Cervantes, Antonio F. García Marín, Domenico Gerardi, Gerhard Heinzel, Karsten Danzmann

The Performance of the Thin NaI(Tl) Detector Pico-Lon for Dark Matter Search [PDF]

K. Harada, K. Fushimi, S. Nakayama, R. Orito, S. Iida, S. Ito, H. Ejiri, T. Shima, R. Hazama, E. Matsumoto, H. Ito, K. Imagawa

Speckle Temporal Stability in eXtreme Adaptive Optics Coronagraphic Images [PDF]

P. Martinez, C. Loose, E. Aller Carpentier, M. Kasper

Spectroscopic identification of habitable extra-solar planets [PDF]

Eyal Schwartz, Stephen G. Lipson, Erez N. Ribak

FIRST, a fibered aperture masking instrument. I. First on-sky test results [PDF]

E. Huby, G. Perrin, F. Marchis, S. Lacour, T. Kotani, G. Duchêne, E. Choquet, E. L. Gates, J. M. Woillez, O. Lai, P. Fédou, C. Collin, F. Chapron, V. Arslanyan, K. J. Burns

Design of the wavefront sensor unit of ARGOS, the LBT laser guide star system [PDF]

Marco Bonaglia

1203.4584 (R. R. Thomson et al.)

Ultrafast Laser Inscription of a 121-Waveguide Fan-Out for Astrophotonics [PDF]

R. R. Thomson, R. J. Harris, T. A. Birks, G. Brown, J. Allington-Smith, J. Bland-Hawthorn

Germanium Detector Response to Nuclear Recoils in Searching for Dark Matter [PDF]

D. Barker, D. -M. Mei

The wideband backend at the MDSCC in Robledo. A new facility for radio astronomy at Q- and K- bands [PDF]

J. R. Rizzo, A. Pedreira, M. Gutiérrez, I. Sotuela, J. R. Larrañaga, L. Ojalvo, M. Franco, J. Cernicharo, C. García Miró, J. M. Castro Cerón, T. B. H. Kuiper, M. Vázquez, J. Calvo, A. Baquero

Anti-positivism, theoretical sciences and relativity in the Argentina of the 1920s [PDF]

Alejandro Gangui, Eduardo L. Ortiz

On the Estimation of Systematic Uncertainties of Star Formation Histories [PDF]

Andrew E. Dolphin

A prescription and fast code for the long-term evolution of star clusters [PDF]

Poul E. R. Alexander, Mark Gieles

1105.6344 (Joseph W. Richards et al.)

Prototype selection for parameter estimation in complex models [PDF]

Joseph W. Richards, Ann B. Lee, Chad M. Schafer, Peter E. Freeman

GNOMOS: The Gemini NIR-Optical Multi Object Spectrograph [PDF]

Ricardo P. Schiavon, Andy Adamson, Kristin Chiboucas, Ruben Diaz, Tom Geballe, German Gimeno, Percy Gomez, Pascale Hibon, Paul Hirst, Inger Jorgensen, Kathleen Labrie, Sandy Leggett, Marie Lemoine-Busserolle, Nancy Levenson, Rachel Mason, Richard McDermid, Bryan Miller, Atsuko Nitta, Peter Pessev, Bernadette Rodgers, Mischa Schirmer, Chad Trujillo, James Turner

Spacecraft VLBI and Doppler tracking: algorithms and implementation [PDF]

Dmitry A. Duev, Guifre Molera Calves, Sergei V. Pogrebenko, Leonid I. Gurvits, Giuseppe Cimo, Tatiana Bocanegra Bahamon

Kalman-filter control schemes for fringe tracking. Development and application to VLTI/GRAVITY [PDF]

J. Menu, G. Perrin, E. Choquet, S. Lacour

Subtraction of test mass angular noise in the LISA Technology Package interferometer [PDF]

Felipe Guzmán Cervantes, Frank Steier, Gudrun Wanner, Gerhard Heinzel, Karsten Danzmann

Real-time phasefront detector for heterodyne interferometers [PDF]

Felipe Guzmán Cervantes, Gerhard Heinzel, Antonio F. García Marín, Vinzenz Wand, Frank Steier, Oliver Jennrich, Karsten Danzmann

Position and energy-resolved particle detection using phonon-mediated microwave kinetic inductance detectors [PDF]

D. C. Moore, S. R. Golwala, B. Bumble, B. Cornell, P. K. Day, H. G. LeDuc, J. Zmuidzinas

1203.3816 (Martin D. Weinberg)

Computational statistics using the bBayesian Inference Engine [PDF]

Martin D. Weinberg

Experimental evidence for the sensitivity of the air-shower radio signal to the longitudinal shower development [PDF]

W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga, L. Bähren, K. Bekk, M. Bertaina, P. L. Biermann, J. Blümer, H. Bozdog, I. M. Brancus, P. Buchholz, E. Cantoni, A. Chiavassa, K. Daumiller, V. de Souza, F. Di Pierro, P. Doll, R. Engel, H. Falcke, M. Finger, B. Fuchs, D. Fuhrmann, H. Gemmeke, C. Grupen, A. Haungs, D. Heck, J. R. Hörandel, A. Horneffer, D. Huber, T. Huege, P. G. Isar, K. -H. Kampert, D. Kang, O. Krömer, J. Kuijpers, K. Link, P. Luczak, M. Ludwig, H. J. Mathes, M. Melissas, C. Morello, J. Oehlschläger, N. Palmieri, T. Pierog, J. Rautenberg, H. Rebel, M. Roth, C. Rühle, A. Saftoiu, H. Schieler, A. Schmidt, F. G. Schröder, O. Sima, G. Toma, G. C. Trinchero, A. Weindl, J. Wochele, M. Wommer, J. Zabierowski, J. A. Zensus

High-resolution wide-band Fast Fourier Transform spectrometers [PDF]

Bernd Klein, Stefan Hochgürtel, Ingo Krämer, Andreas Bell, Klaus Meyer, Rolf Güsten

Atmospheric Retrieval for Super-Earth Atmospheres: Uniquely Constraining the Atmospheric Composition with Transmission Spectroscopy [PDF]

Bjoern Benneke, Sara Seager

Phantom-GRAPE: numerical software library to accelerate collisionless $N$-body simulation with SIMD instruction set on x86 architecture [PDF]

Ataru Tanikawa, Kohji Yoshikawa, Keigo Nitadori, Takashi Okamoto

Modeling an array of encapsulated germanium detectors [PDF]

Ritesh Kshetri

A low-resolution, GSa/s streaming digitizer for a correlation-based trigger system [PDF]

Kurtis Nishimura, Matthew Andrew, Zhe Cao, Michael Cooney, Peter Gorham, Luca Macchiarulo, Lisa Ritter, Andres Romero-Wolf, Gary Varner

The Astro-WISE [PDF]

J. P. McFarland, E. M. Helmich, E. A. Valentijn

1203.3702 (J. Sanchez-Bermudez et al.)

NACO/SAM observations of sources at the Galactic Center [PDF]

J. Sanchez-Bermudez, R. Schoedel, A. Alberdi, J. U. Pott

Sensitive and accurate dual wavelength UV-VIS polarization detector for optical remote sensing of tropospheric aerosols [PDF]

G. David, A. Miffre, B. Thomas, P. Rairoux

1110.3473 (Jack Sayers et al.)

143 GHz brightness measurements of Uranus, Neptune, and other secondary calibrators with Bolocam between 2003 and 2010 [PDF]

Jack Sayers, Nicole G. Czakon, Sunil R. Golwala

Photonic spin control for solar wind electric sail [PDF]

P. Janhunen

Summary Report of JEM-EUSO Workshop at KICP in Chicago [PDF]

J. H. Adams Jr., L. A. Anchordoqui, M. Bertaina, M. J. Christl, V. Connaughton, S. E. Csorna, T. Ebisuzaki, G. Medina-Tanco, A. V. Olinto, T. Paul, P. Picozza, A. Santangelo, K. Shinozaki, T. J. Weiler, L. Wiencke

1203.2615 (Andrew J. Skemer et al.)

First Light LBT AO Images of HR 8799 bcde at 1.65 and 3.3 Microns: New Discrepancies between Young Planets and Old Brown Dwarfs [PDF]

Andrew J. Skemer, Philip M. Hinz, Simone Esposito, Adam Burrows, Jarron Leisenring, Michael Skrutskie, Silvano Desidera, Dino Mesa, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Filippo Mannucci, Timothy J. Rodigas, Laird Close, Don McCarthy, Craig Kulesa, Guido Agapito, Daniel Apai, Javier Argomedo, Vanessa Bailey, Konstantina Boutsia, Runa Briguglio, Guido Brusa, Lorenzo Busoni, Riccardo Claudi, Joshua Eisner, Luca Fini, Katherine B. Follette, Peter Garnavich, Raffaele Gratton, Juan Carlos Guerra, John M. Hill, William F. Hoffmann, Terry Jones, Megan Krejny, Jared Males, Elena Masciadri, Michael R. Meyer, Douglas L. Miller, Katie Morzinski, Matthew Nelson, Enrico Pinna, Alfio Puglisi, Sascha P. Quanz, Fernando Quiros-Pacheco, Armando Riccardi, Paolo Stefanini, Vidhya Vaitheeswaran, John C. Wilson, Marco Xompero

On the reliability of polarization estimation using Rotation Measure Synthesis [PDF]

J. -P. Macquart, R. D. Ekers, I. Feain, M. Johnston-Hollitt

Large Binocular Telescope Adaptive Optics System: New achievements and perspectives in adaptive optics [PDF]

Simone Esposito, Armando Riccardi, Enrico Pinna, Alfio Puglisi, Fernando Quirós-Pacheco, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Marco Xompero, Runa Briguglio, Guido Agapito, Lorenzo Busoni, Luca Fini, Javier Argomedo, Alessandro Gherardi, Guido Brusa, Douglas Miller, Juan Carlos Guerra, Paolo Stefanini, Piero Salinari

Atmospheric characterization of cold exoplanets using a 1.5-m coronagraphic space telescope [PDF]

A. -L. Maire, R. Galicher, A. Boccaletti, P. Baudoz, J. Schneider, K. L. Cahoy, D. M. Stam, W. A. Traub

GREAT: the SOFIA high-frequency heterodyne instrument [PDF]

S. Heyminck, U. U. Graf, R. Güsten, J. Stutzki, H. W. Hübers, P. Hartogh

Deep phase modulation interferometry [PDF]

Gerhard Heinzel, Felipe Guzmán Cervantes, Antonio F. García Marín, Joachim Kullmann, Wang Feng, Karsten Danzmann

Characterization of photoreceivers for LISA [PDF]

Felipe Guzmán Cervantes, Jeffrey Livas, Robert Silverberg, Ernest Buchanan, Robin Stebbins

1203.2407 (K. Ishidoshiro et al.)

Innovative Demodulation Scheme for Coherent Detectors in CMB Experiments [PDF]

K. Ishidoshiro, Y. Chinone, M. Hasegawa, M. Hazumi, M. Nagai, O. Tajima

The LOFAR Magnetism Key Science Project [PDF]

James Anderson, Rainer Beck, Michael Bell, Ger de Bruyn, Krzysztof Chyzy, Jochen Eislöffel, Torsten Enßlin, Andrew Fletcher, Marijke Haverkorn, George Heald, Andreas Horneffer, Aris Noutsos, Wolfgang Reich, Anna Scaife

A way to deal with the fringe-like pattern in VIMOS-IFU data [PDF]

Carina Lagerholm, Harald Kuntschner, Michele Cappellari, Davor Krajnovic, Richard McDermid, Marina Rejukba

An Introduction to Dark Matter Direct Detection Searches & Techniques [PDF]

Tarek Saab

The Structure of Galaxies: I. Surface Photometry Techniques [PDF]

James Schombert, Anna K. Smith

1203.1931 (A. Solarz et al.)

Star-galaxy separation in the AKARI NEP Deep Field [PDF]

A. Solarz, A. Pollo, T. T. Takeuchi, A. Pepiak, H. Matsuhara, T. Wada, S. Oyabu, T. Takagi, T. Goto, Y. Ohyama, C. P. Pearson, H. Hanami, T. Ishigaki

Reliable Identifications of AGN from the WISE, 2MASS and Rosat all-sky surveys [PDF]

Rick Edelson, Matthew A. Malkan

Over-resolution of compact sources in interferometric observations [PDF]

I. Marti-Vidal, M. A. Perez-Torres, A. P. Lobanov

Photon orbital angular momentum and torque metrics for single telescopes and interferometers [PDF]

N. M. Elias II

A Demonstration of Spectral and Spatial Interferometry at THz Frequencies [PDF]

William F. Grainger, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Peter A. R. Ade, Matt Griffin, Flo Liggins, Enzo Pascale, Giorgio Savini, Bruce Swinyard

Thinking Outside the Band: Absorptive Filtering [PDF]

Matthew A. Morgan

1110.2261 (R. Schoedel et al.)

Holographic imaging of crowded fields: an effective poor man's adaptive optics system [PDF]

R. Schoedel, S. Yelda, A. Ghez, J. H. V. Girard, L. Labadie, R. Rebolo, A. Perez-Garrido, M. Morris

The First Stray Light Corrected EUV Images of Solar Coronal Holes [PDF]

Paul Shearer, Richard A. Frazin, Alfred O. Hero III, Anna C. Gilbert

GREAT/SOFIA atmospheric calibration [PDF]

Xin Guan, Jürgen Stutzki, Urs U. Graf, Rolf Güsten, Yoko Okada, Miguel Angel Requena Torres, Robert Simon, Helmut Wiesemeyer

The non-linearity between and induced by the acceptance of fluorescence telescopes [PDF]

L. Cazon, R. Ulrich

GALAPAGOS: From Pixels to Parameters [PDF]

Marco Barden, Boris Häußler, Chien Y. Peng, Daniel H. McIntosh, Yicheng Guo

Flux calibrated emission line imaging of extended sources using GTC/OSIRIS Tunable Filters [PDF]

Y. D. Mayya, D. Rosa Gonzalez, O. Vega, J. Mendez-Abreu, R. Terlevich, E. Terlevich, E. Bertone, L. H. Rodriguez-Merino, C. Munoz-Tunon, J. M. Rodriguez-Espinosa, J. Sanchez Almeida, J. A. L. Aguerri

1111.1315 (Yuyang Wang et al.)

Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of Periodic Functions [PDF]

Yuyang Wang, Roni Khardon, Pavlos Protopapas

Tests of PMT Signal Read-out in a Liquid Argon Dark Matter Detector with a New Fast Waveform Digitizer [PDF]

R. Acciarri, N. Canci, F. Cavanna, A. Cortopassi, M. D'Incecco, G. Mini, F. Pietropaolo, A. Romboli, E. Segreto, A. M. Szelc

Multimessenger Astronomy and Astrophysics Synergies [PDF]

Maurice H. P. M. van Putten, Graziano Rossi

Kepler Presearch Data Conditioning I - Architecture and Algorithms for Error Correction in Kepler Light Curves [PDF]

Martin C. Stumpe, Jeffrey C. Smith, Jeffrey E. Van Cleve, Joseph D. Twicken, Thomas S. Barclay, Michael N. Fanelli, Forrest R. Girouard, Jon M. Jenkins, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Sean D. McCauliff, Robert L. Morris

Kepler Presearch Data Conditioning II - A Bayesian Approach to Systematic Error Correction [PDF]

Jeffrey C. Smith, Martin C. Stumpe, Jeffrey E. Van Cleve, Jon M. Jenkins, Thomas S. Barclay, Michael N. Fanelli, Forrest R. Girouard, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Sean D. McCauliff, Robert L. Morris, Joseph D. Twicken

On the Calibration of Full-polarization 86GHz Global VLBI Observations [PDF]

I. Marti-Vidal, T. P. Krichbaum, A. Marscher, W. Alef, A. Bertarini, U. Bach, F. K. Schinzel, H. Rottmann, J. M. Anderson, J. A. Zensus, M. Bremer, S. Sanchez, M. Lindqvist, A. Mujunen

Probabilistic positional association of astrophysical sources between catalogs [PDF]

Michel Fioc

Surface roughness interpretation of 730 kg days CRESST-II results [PDF]

M. Kuźniak, M. G. Boulay, T. Pollmann

Results from the XENON100 Dark Matter Search Experiment [PDF]

Laura Baudis, for the XENON Collaboration

1203.1037 (Diego Muñoz et al.)

Multi-Dimensional, Compressible Viscous Flow on a Moving Voronoi Mesh [PDF]

Diego Muñoz, Volker Springel, Robert Marcus, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist

A new layout optimization technique for interferometric arrays, applied to the MWA [PDF]

A. P. Beardsley, B. J. Hazelton, M. F. Morales, R. C. Cappallo, R. Goeke, D. Emrich, C. J. Lonsdale, W. Arcus, D. Barnes, G. Bernardi, J. D. Bowman, J. D. Bunton, B. E. Corey, A. Deshpande, L. deSouza, B. M. Gaensler, L. J. Greenhill, D. Herne, J. N. Hewitt, D. L. Kaplan, J. C. Kasper, B. B. Kincaid, R. Koeing, E. Kratzenberg, M. J. Lynch, S. R. McWhirter, D. A. Mitchell, E. Morgan, D. Oberoi, S. M. Ord, J. Pathikulangara, T. Prabu, R. A. Remillard, A. E. E. Rogers, A. Roshi, J. E. Salah, R. J. Sault, N. Uday Shankar, K. S. Srivani, J. Stevens, R. Subrahmanyan, S. J. Tingay, R. B. Wayth, M. Waterson, R. L. Webster, A. R. Whitney, A. Williams, C. L. Williams, J. S. B. Wyithe

1106.1869 (Hanno Rein)

Planet-disk interaction in highly inclined systems [PDF]

Hanno Rein

Understanding and reducing statistical uncertainties in nebular abundance determinations [PDF]

R. Wesson, D. J. Stock, P. Scicluna

NOAO 4-m Telescopes for Future Surveys [PDF]

David Schlegel, Michael Sholl

LSST is Not "Big Data" [PDF]

David Schlegel

DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search at SNOLAB [PDF]

M. G. Boulay for the DEAP Collaboration

Unbiased flux calibration methods for spectral-line radio observations [PDF]

B. Winkel, A. Kraus, U. Bach

Leveraging Data Lineage to Infer Logical Relationships between Astronomical Catalogs [PDF]

Hugo Buddelmeijer, Edwin A. Valentijn

Study of nuclear recoils in liquid argon with monoenergetic neutrons [PDF]

C. Regenfus, Y. Allkofer, C. Amsler, W. Creus, A. Ferella, J. Rochet, M. Walter

Infinite Shift-invariant Grouped Multi-task Learning for Gaussian Processes [PDF]

Yuyang Wang, Roni Khardon, Pavlos Protopapas

A broadband flux scale for low frequency radio telescopes [PDF]

Anna M. M. Scaife, George H. Heald

1104.5620 (Michael Wurm et al.)

The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA [PDF]

Michael Wurm, John F. Beacom, Leonid B. Bezrukov, Daniel Bick, Johannes Blümer, Sandhya Choubey, Christian Ciemniak, Davide D'Angelo, Basudeb Dasgupta, Amol Dighe, Grigorij Domogatsky, Steve Dye, Sergey Eliseev, Timo Enqvist, Alexey Erykalov, Franz von Feilitzsch, Gianni Fiorentini, Tobias Fischer, Marianne Göger-Neff, Peter Grabmayr, Caren Hagner, Dominikus Hellgartner, Johannes Hissa, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Hans-Thomas Janka, Claude Jaupart, Josef Jochum, Tuomo Kalliokoski, Pasi Kuusiniemi, Tobias Lachenmaier, Ionel Lazanu, John G. Learned, Timo Lewke, Paolo Lombardi, Sebastian Lorenz, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, Livia Ludhova, Kai Loo, Jukka Maalampi, Fabio Mantovani, Michela Marafini, Jelena Maricic, Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia, William F. McDonough, Lino Miramonti, Alessandro Mirizzi, Quirin Meindl, Olga Mena, Randolph Möllenberg, Rolf Nahnhauer, Dmitry Nesterenko, Yuri N. Novikov, Guido Nuijten, Lothar Oberauer, Sandip Pakvasa, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Marco Pallavicini, Silvia Pascoli, Thomas Patzak, Juha Peltoniemi, Walter Potzel, Tomi Räihä, Georg G. Raffelt, Gioacchino Ranucci, Soebur Razzaque, Kari Rummukainen, Juho Sarkamo, Valerij Sinev, Christian Spiering, Achim Stahl, Felicitas Thorne, Marc Tippmann, Alessandra Tonazzo, Wladyslaw H. Trzaska, John D. Vergados, Christopher Wiebusch, Jürgen Winter

Experience with the Hubble Space Telescope: 20 years of an archetype [PDF]

Matthew Lallo

Dust SEDs in the era of Herschel and Planck: a Hierarchical Bayesian fitting technique [PDF]

Brandon C. Kelly, Rahul Shetty, Amelia M. Stutz, Jens Kauffmann, Alyssa A. Goodman, Ralf Launhardt

The Pan-STARRS1 Photometric System [PDF]

J. L. Tonry, C. W. Stubbs, K. R. Lykke, P. Doherty, I. S. Shivvers, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, K. W. Hodapp, N. Kaiser, R. -P. Kudritzki, E. A. Magnier, J. S. Morgan, P. A. Price, R. J. Wainscoat

Search for Electromagnetic Counterparts to LIGO-Virgo Candidates: Expanded Very Large Array [PDF]

Joseph Lazio, Katie Keating, F. A. Jenet, N. E. Kassim, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

Observing the Earth as an exoplanet with LOUPE, the Lunar Observatory for Unresolved Polarimetry of Earth [PDF]

T. Karalidi, D. M. Stam, F. Snik, S. Bagnulo, W. B. Sparks, C. U. Keller

Observations of Cool-Star Magnetic Fields [PDF]

Ansgar Reiners

An Inexpensive Liquid Crystal Spectropolarimeter for the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Plaskett Telescope [PDF]

D. Monin, D. Bohlender, T. Hardy, L. Saddlemyer, M. Fletcher

Rapid Development of Interferometric Software Using MIRIAD and Python [PDF]

Peter K. G. Williams, Casey J. Law, Geoffrey C. Bower

Cost-effective aperture arrays for SKA Phase 1: single or dual-band? [PDF]

T. M. Colegate, P. J. Hall, A. W. Gunst

SPICES: Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems [PDF]

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