astro-ph.IM : Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics: May 2013

The Telescope Array Collaboration, T. Abu-Zayyad, R. Aida, M. Allen, R. Anderson, R. Azuma, E. Barcikowski, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, R. Cady, B. G. Cheon, J. Chiba, M. Chikawa, E. J. Cho, W. R. Cho, H. Fujii, T. Fujii, T. Fukuda, M. Fukushima, W. Hanlon, K. Hayashi, Y. Hayashi, N. Hayashida, K. Hibino, K. Hiyama, K. Honda, T. Iguchi, D. Ikeda, K. Ikuta, N. Inoue, T. Ishii, R. Ishimori, H. Ito, D. Ivanov, S. Iwamoto, C. C. H. Jui, K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto, O. Kalashev, T. Kanbe, K. Kasahara, H. Kawai, S. Kawakami, S. Kawana, E. Kido, H. B. Kim, H. K. Kim, J. H. Kim, J. H. Kim, K. Kitamoto, S. Kitamura, Y. Kitamura, K. Kobayashi, Y. Kobayashi, Y. Kondo, K. Kuramoto, V. Kuzmin, Y. J. Kwon, J. Lan, S. I. Lim, J. P. Lundquist, S. Machida, K. Martens, T. Matsuda, T. Matsuura, T. Matsuyama, J. N. Matthews, I. Myers, M. Minamino, K. Miyata, Y. Murano, S. Nagataki, T. Nakamura, S. W. Nam, T. Nonaka, S. Ogio, J. Ogura, M. Ohnishi, H. Ohoka, K. Oki, D. Oku, T. Okuda, M. Ono, A. Oshima, S. Ozawa, I. H. Park, M. S. Pshirkov, D. C. Rodriguez, S. Y. Roh, G. Rubtsov, D. Ryu, H. Sagawa, N. Sakurai, A. L. Sampson, L. M. Scott, P. D. Shah, F. Shibata, T. Shibata, H. Shimodaira, B. K. Shin, J. I. Shin, T. Shirahama, J. D. Smith, P. Sokolsky, T. J. Sonley, R. W. Springer, B. T. Stokes, S. R. Stratton, T. A. Stroman, S. Suzuki, Y. Takahashi, M. Takeda, A. Taketa, M. Takita, Y. Tameda, H. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, S. B. Thomas, G. B. Thomson, P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, H. Tokuno, T. Tomida, S. Troitsky, Y. Tsunesada, K. Tsutsumi, Y. Tsuyuguchi, Y. Uchihori, S. Udo, H. Ukai, G. Vasiloff, Y. Wada, T. Wong, Y. Yamakawa, R. Yamane, H. Yamaoka, K. Yamazaki, J. Yang, Y. Yoneda, S. Yoshida, H. Yoshii, R. Zollinger, Z. Zundel

Mapping lunar surface chemistry: new prospects with the Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft x-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) [PDF]

S. Narendranath, P. S. Athiray, P. Sreekumar, V. Radhakrishnaa, A. Tyagi, B. J. Kellett, the CLASS team

1305.5534 (Frédéric P. A. Vogt et al.)

Augmented Reality in Astrophysics [PDF]

Frédéric P. A. Vogt, Luke J. Shingles

Testing Accuracy and Precision of Existing Photometry Algorithms on Moving Targets [PDF]

Sarah Sonnett, Karen Meech, Robert Jedicke, Schelte Bus, John Tonry, Olivier Hainaut

Scaling Radio Astronomy Signal Correlation on Heterogeneous Supercomputers Using Various Data Distribution Methodologies [PDF]

Ruonan Wang, Christopher Harris

Photometric redshifts for Quasars in multi band Surveys [PDF]

M. Brescia, S. Cavuoti, R. D'Abrusco, G. Longo, A. Mercurio

Simultaneous analysis of large INTEGRAL/SPI datasets: optimizing the computation of the solution and its variance using sparse matrix algorithms [PDF]

L. Bouchet, P. Amestoy, A. Buttari, F. -H. Rouet, M. Chauvin

INTEGRAL/SPI data segmentation to retrieve source intensity variations [PDF]

L. Bouchet, P. -R Amestoy, A. Buttari, F. -H. Rouet, M. Chauvin

Gravitational-Wave Detection using Multivariate Analysis [PDF]

Thomas S. Adams, Duncan Meacher, James Clark, Patrick J. Sutton, Gareth Jones, Ariana Minot

Preliminary DIMM and MASS Nighttime Seeing Measurements at PEARL, in the Canadian High Arctic [PDF]

Eric Steinbring, Max Millar-Blanchaer, Wayne Ngan, Rick Murowinski, Brian Leckie, Ray Carlberg

1305.5389 (M. Trifoglio et al.)

The AGILE Science Alert System (ASAS) [PDF]

M. Trifoglio, A. Bulgarelli, F. Gianotti, F. Fuschino, M. Marisaldi, M. Tavani, E. Del Monte, Y. Evangelista, F. Lazzarotto, S. Sabatini, F. Longo, E. Moretti, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia

Searches for Large-Scale Anisotropies of Cosmic Rays: Harmonic Analysis and Shuffling Technique [PDF]

Olivier Deligny, Francesco Salamida

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA Final Report [PDF]

D. Spergel, N. Gehrels, J. Breckinridge, M. Donahue, A. Dressler, B. S. Gaudi, T. Greene, O. Guyon, C. Hirata, J. Kalirai, N. J. Kasdin, W. Moos, S. Perlmutter, M. Postman, B. Rauscher, J. Rhodes, Y. Wang, D. Weinberg, J. Centrella, W. Traub, C. Baltay, J. Colbert, D. Bennett, A. Kiessling, B. Macintosh, J. Merten, M. Mortonson, M. Penny, E. Rozo, D. Savransky, K. Stapelfeldt, Y. Zu, C. Baker, E. Cheng, D. Content, J. Dooley, M. Foote, R. Goullioud, K. Grady, C. Jackson, J. Kruk, M. Levine, M. Melton, C. Peddie, J. Ruffa, S. Shaklan

WFIRST-2.4: What Every Astronomer Should Know [PDF]

Information Criteria for Deciding between Normal Regression Models [PDF]

Robert S. Maier

On the Importance of Conceptual Thinking Outside the Simulation Box [PDF]

Abraham Loeb

1305.5248 (Paolo Salucci et al.)

Dark Matter and MOOCs [PDF]

Paolo Salucci, Claudia Antolini

Estimating Photometric Redshifts of Quasars via K-nearest Neighbor Approach Based on Large Survey Databases [PDF]

Zhang Yanxia, Ma He, Peng Nanbo, Zhao Yongheng, Wu Xue-bing

Principal Component Analysis of Spectral Line Data: Analytic Formulation [PDF]

C. M. Brunt, M. H. Heyer

Excellent daytime seeing at Dome Fuji on the Antarctic plateau [PDF]

H. Okita, T. Ichikawa, M. C. B. Ashley, N. Takato

Apodization in high-contrast long-slit spectroscopy [PDF]

A. Vigan, M. N'Diaye, K. Dohlen

Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in exoplanet direct imaging instruments with a Zernike phase mask sensor [PDF]

M. N'Diaye, K. Dohlen, T. Fusco, B. Paul

Dark Matter Search Backgrounds from Primordial Radionuclide Chain Disequilibrium [PDF]

D. C. Malling, S. Fiorucci, M. Pangilinan, J. J. Chapman, C. H. Faham, J. R. Verbus, R. J. Gaitskell

Gravitational Radiation Detection with Laser Interferometry [PDF]

Rana X Adhikari

1305.4684 (David G. Messerschmitt)

End-to-end interstellar communication system design for power efficiency [PDF]

David G. Messerschmitt

Feasibility of utilizing Cherenkov Telescope Array gamma-ray telescopes as free-space optical communication ground stations [PDF]

Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Mariafernanda Vilera, Ricardo Vergaz, Juan Francisco Cabrero

Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation With Pulsars [PDF]

Werner Becker, Mike G. Bernhardt, Axel Jessner

VLBI astrometry of PSR J2222-0137: a pulsar distance measured to 0.4% accuracy [PDF]

A. T. Deller, J. Boyles, D. R. Lorimer, V. M. Kaspi, M. A. McLaughlin, S. Ransom, I. H. Stairs, K. Stovall

1007.1149 (G. Hurier et al.)

MILCA, a Modified Internal Linear Combination Algorithm to extract astrophysical emissions from multi-frequency sky maps [PDF]

G. Hurier, J. F. Macias-Perez, S. R. Hildebrandt

The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing: LOFT [PDF]

E. Bozzo, for the LOFT Consortium

Building a Hydrodynamics Code with Kinetic Theory [PDF]

Irina Sagert, Wolfgang Bauer, Dirk Colbry, Rodney Pickett, Terrance Strother

Operation of a titanium nitride superconducting microresonator detector in the nonlinear regime [PDF]

L. J. Swenson, P. K. Day, B. H. Eom, H. G. Leduc, N. Llombart, C. M. McKenney, O. Noroozian, J. Zmuidzinas

HERMES: Simulating the Propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays [PDF]

Manlio De Domenico

An explicit scheme for ohmic dissipation with smoothed particle magneto-hydrodynamics [PDF]

Yusuke Tsukamoto, Kazunari Iwasaki, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Summary of the 2013 IACHEC Meeting [PDF]

Catherine E. Grant, Matteo Guainazzi, Lorenzo Natalucci, Jukka Nevalainen, Paul P. Plucinsky, Andrew Pollock, Steve Sembay

A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Estimating Correlation Functions [PDF]

Eric Jones Baxter, Eduardo Rozo

High Angular Resolution Stellar Imaging with Occultations from the Cassini Spacecraft I: Observational Technique [PDF]

Paul N. Stewart, Peter G. Tuthill, Matthew M. Hedman, Philip D. Nicholson, James P. Lloyd

1305.4050 (R. Vio et al.)

An approach for the detection of point-sources in very high resolution microwave maps [PDF]

R. Vio, P. Andreani, E. P. R. G. Ramos, A. da Silva

Statistically optimal fitting of astrometric signals [PDF]

M. Gai, D. Busonero, R. Cancelliere

1305.3176 (E. Oliva et al.)

A GIANO-TNG high resolution IR spectrum of the airglow emission [PDF]

E. Oliva, L. Origlia, R. Maiolino, C. Baffa, V. Biliotti, P. Bruno, G. Falcini, V. Gavriousev, F. Ghinassi, E. Giani, M. Gonzalez, F. Leone, M. Lodi, F. Massi, P. Montegriffo, I. Mochi, M. Pedani, E. Rossetti, S. Scuderi, M. Sozzi, A. Tozzi, E. Valenti

The stochastic background: scaling laws and time to detection for pulsar timing arrays [PDF]

Xavier Siemens, Justin Ellis, Fredrick Jenet, Joseph D. Romano

Science with the ASTRI prototype [PDF]

N. Sartore on behalf of the ASTRI Collaboration

Relative photometry of HAT-P-1b occultations [PDF]

Bence Béky, Matthew J. Holman, Ronald L. Gilliland, Gáspár Á. Bakos, Joshua N. Winn, Robert W. Noyes, Dimitar D. Sasselov

Fine-scale structure of the quasar 3C 279 Measured with 1.3 mm very long baseline interferometry [PDF]

Ru-Sen Lu, Vincent L. Fish, Kazunori Akiyama, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Juan C. Algaba, Geoffrey C. Bower, Christiaan Brinkerink, Richard Chamberlin, Geoffrey Crew, Roger J. Cappallo, Matt Dexter, Robert Freund, Per Friberg, Mark A. Gurwell, Paul T. P. Ho, Mareki Honma, Makoto Inoue, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Laurent Loinard, David MacMahon, Daniel P. Marrone, Alan P. Marscher, James M. Moran, Richard Plambeck, Nicolas Pradel, Rurik Primiani, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Jonathan Weintroub, Melvyn Wright, Ken H. Young, Lucy M. Ziurys

LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray [PDF]

M. P. van Haarlem, M. W. Wise, A. W. Gunst, G. Heald, J. P. McKean, J. W. T. Hessels, A. G. de Bruyn, R. Nijboer, J. Swinbank, R. Fallows, M. Brentjens, A. Nelles, R. Beck, H. Falcke, R. Fender, J. Hörandel, L. V. E. Koopmans G. Mann, G. Miley, H. Röttgering, B. W. Stappers, R. A. M. J. Wijers, S. Zaroubi, M. van den Akker, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, K. Anderson, A. van Ardenne, M. Arts, A. Asgekar, I. M. Avruch, F. Batejat, L. Bähren, M. E. Bell, M. R. Bell, I. van Bemmel, P. Bennema, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, L. Bîrzan, A. Bonafede, A. -J. Boonstra, R. Braun, J. Bregman, F. Breitling, R. H. van de Brink, J. Broderick, P. C. Broekema, W. N. Brouw, M. Brüggen, H. R. Butcher, W. van Cappellen, B. Ciardi, T. Coenen, J. Conway, A. Coolen, A. Corstanje, S. Damstra, O. Davies, A. T. Deller, R. -J. Dettmar, G. van Diepen, K. Dijkstra, P. Donker, A. Doorduin, J. Dromer, M. Drost, A. van Duin, J. Eislöffel, J. van Enst, C. Ferrari, W. Frieswijk, H. Gankema, M. A. Garrett, F. de Gasparin, M. Gerbers, E. de Geus, J. -M. Grießmeier, T. Grit, P. Gruppen, J. P. Hamaker, T. Hassall, M. Hoeft, H. Holties, A. Horneffer, A. van der Horst, A. van Houwelingen, A. Huijgen, M. Iacobelli, H. Intema, N. Jackson, V. Jelic, A. de Jong, D. Kant, A. Karastergiou, A. Koers, H. Kollen, V. I. Kondratiev, E. Kooistra, Y. Koopman, A. Koster, M. Kuniyoshi, M. Kramer, G. Kuper, P. Lambropoulos, C. Law, J. van Leeuwen, J. Lemaitre, M. Loose, P. Maat, G. Macario, S. Markoff, J. Masters, D. McKay-Bukowski, H. Meijering, H. Meulman, M. Mevius, R. Millenaar, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, R. N. Mohan, J. D. Mol, J. Morawietz, R. Morganti, D. D. Mulcahy, E. Mulder, H. Munk, L. Nieuwenhuis, R. van Nieuwpoort, J. E. Noordam, M. Norden, A. Noutsos, A. R. Offringa, H. Olofsson, A. Omar, E. Orrú, R. Overeem, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, V. N. Pandey, R. Pizzo, A. Polatidis, D. Rafferty, S. Rawlings, W. Reich, J. -P. de Reijer, J. Reitsma, A. Renting, P. Riemers, E. Rol, J. W. Romein, J. Roosjen, M. Ruiter, A. Scaife, K. van der Schaaf, B. Scheers, P. Schellart, A. Schoenmakers, G. Schoonderbeek, M. Serylak, A. Shulevski, J. Sluman, O. Smirnov, C. Sobey, H. Spreeuw, M. Steinmetz, C. G. M. Sterks, H. -J. Stiepel, K. Stuurwold, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, I. Thomas, S. Thoudam, M. C. Toribio, B. van der Tol, O. Usov, M. van Veelen, A. -J. van der Veen, S. ter Veen, J. P. W. Verbiest, R. Vermeulen, N. Vermaas, C. Vocks, C. Vogt, M. de Vos, E. van der Wal, R. van Weeren, H. Weggemans, P. Weltevrede, S. White, S. J. Wijnholds, T. Wilhelmsson, O. Wucknitz, S. Yatawatta, P. Zarka, A. Zensus, J. van Zwieten

Instrumental Methods for Professional and Amateur Collaborations in Planetary Astronomy [PDF]

O. Mousis, R. Hueso, J. -P. Beaulieu, S. Bouley, B. Carry, F. Colas, A. Klotz, C. Pellier, J. -M. Petit, P. Rousselot, M. Ali Dib, W. Beisker, M. Birlan, C. Buil, A. Delsanti, E. Frappa, H. B. Hammel, A. -C. Levasseur-Regourd, G. S. Orton, A. Sanchez-Lavega, A. Santerne, P. Tanga, J. Vaubaillon, B. Zanda, D. Baratoux, T. Boehm, V. Boudon, A. Bouquet, L. Buzzi, J. -L. Dauvergne, A. Decock, M. Delcroix, P. Drossart, N. Esseiva, G. Fischer, L. N. Fletcher, S. Foglia, J. M. Gomez-Forrellad, J. Guarro-Flo, D. Herald, F. Kugel, J. -P. Lebreton, J. Lecacheux, A. Leroy, L. Maquet, G. Masi, A. Maury, F. Meyer, S. Pérez-Hoyos, A. S. Rajpurohit, C. Rinner, J. H. Rogers, F. Roques, R. W. Schmude, Jr., B. Sicardy, B. Tregon, M. Vanhuysse, A. Wesley, T. Widemann

Background simulations for the Large Area Detector onboard LOFT [PDF]

R. Campana, M. Feroci, E. Del Monte, T. Mineo, N. Lund, G. W. Fraser

1305.1703 (Yu-Wei Liao et al.)

Platform Deformation Phase Correction for the AMiBA-13 Co-planar Interferometer [PDF]

Yu-Wei Liao, Kai-Yang Lin, Yau-De Huang, Jiun-Huei Proty Wu, Paul T. P. Ho, Ming-Tang Chen, Chih-Wei Locutus Huang, Patrick M. Koch, Hiroaki Nishioka, Tai-An Cheng, Szu-Yuan Fu, Guo-Chin Liu, Sandor M. Molnar, Keiichi Umetsu, Fu-Cheng Wang, Yu-Yen Chang, Chih-Chiang Han, Chao-Te Li, Pierre Martin-Cocher, Peter Oshiro

Computer vision applications for coronagraphic optical alignment and image processing [PDF]

Dmitry Savransky, Sandrine J. Thomas, Lisa A. Poyneer, Bruce A. Macintosh

1305.1329 (J. T. Brack et al.)

Absolute Calibration of a Large-diameter Light Source [PDF]

J. T. Brack, R. Cope, A. Dorofeev, B. Gookin, J. L. Harton, Y. Petrov, A. C. Rovero

Realistic Filter Cavities for Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors [PDF]

M. Evans, L. Barsotti, J. Harms, P. Kwee, H. Miao

Dark Matter in the Coming Decade: Complementary Paths to Discovery and Beyond [PDF]

Daniel Bauer, James Buckley, Matthew Cahill-Rowley, Randel Cotta, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Jonathan Feng, Stefan Funk, JoAnne Hewett, Dan Hooper, Ahmed Ismail, Manoj Kaplinghat, Alexander Kusenko, Konstantin Matchev, Daniel McKinsey, Tom Rizzo, William Shepherd, Tim M. P. Tait, Alexander M. Wijangco, Matthew Wood

1305.0835 (Justin Ellis)

A Bayesian analysis pipeline for continuous GW sources in the PTA band [PDF]

Justin Ellis

Measurement of Cosmic Ray Flux in China JinPing underground Laboratory [PDF]

Yu-Cheng Wu, Xi-Qing Hao, Qian Yue, Yuan-Jing LI, Jian-Ping Cheng, Ke-Jun Kang, Yun-Hua Chen, Jin Li, Jian-Min Li, Yu-Lan Li, Shu-Kui Liu, Hao Ma, Jin-Bao Ren, Man-Bin Shen, Ji-Min Wang, Shi-Yong Wu, Tao Xue, Nan YI, Xiong-Hui Zeng, Zhi Zeng, Zhong-Hua Zhu

Analysis techniques and performance of the Domino Ring Sampler version 4 based readout for the MAGIC telescopes [PDF]

Julian Sitarek, Markus Gaug, Daniel Mazin, Riccardo Paoletti, Diego Tescaro

1305.0573 (N. R. Mawson et al.)

STILT: System Design & Performance [PDF]

N. R. Mawson, I. A. Steele, R. J. Smith

Astronomical seeing and ground-layer turbulence in the Canadian High Arctic [PDF]

P. Hickson, R. Gagne, T. Pfrommer, E. Steinbring

LOFT (Large Observatory For X-ray Timing): a candidate X-ray mission for the next decade [PDF]

M. Hernanz, on behalf of the LOFT collaboration

Unformatted Digital Fiber-Optic Data Transmission for Radio Astronomy Front-Ends [PDF]

Matthew A. Morgan, J. Richard Fisher, Jason J. Castro

Polarimetry in the hard X-ray domain with INTEGRAL SPI [PDF]

M. Chauvin, J. P. Roques, D. J. Clark, E. Jourdain

1305.0022 (J. Vandenbroucke et al.)

Fundamental Physics with Charged Particle Measurements at the Cherenkov Telescope Array [PDF]

J. Vandenbroucke, B. Humensky, J. Holder, R. A. Ong

On-sky characterisation of the VISTA NB118 narrow-band filters at 1.19 micron [PDF]

B. Milvang-Jensen, W. Freudling, J. Zabl, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Moller, K. K. Nilsson, H. Joy McCracken, J. Hjorth, O. Le Fevre, L. Tasca, J. S. Dunlop, D. Sobral

Generating artificial light curves: Revisited and updated [PDF]

D. Emmanoulopoulos, I. M. McHardy, I. E. Papadakis

The Influence of Motion and Stress on Optical Fibers [PDF]

Jeremy D. Murphy, Gary J. Hill, Phillip J. MacQueen, Trey Taylor, Ian Soukup, Walter Moreira, Mark E. Cornell, John Good, Seth Anderson, Lindsay Fuller, Hanshin Lee, Andreas Kelz, Marc Rafal, Tom Rafferty, Sarah Tuttle, Brian Vattiat

Ionospheric dispersion compensation using a novel microwave de-dispersion filter [PDF]

Paul Roberts

The CDEX-1 1 kg Point-Contact Germanium Detector for Low Mass Dark Matter Searches [PDF]

Ke-Jun Kang, Qian Yue, Yu-Cheng Wu, Jian-Ping Cheng, Yuan-Jing Li, Yang Bai, Yong Bi, Jian-Ping Chang, Nan Chen, Ning Chen, Qing-Hao Chen, Yun-Hua Chen, You-Chun Chuang, Zhi Dend, Qiang Du, Hui Gong, Xi-Qing Hao, Qing-Ju He, Xin-Hui Hu, Han-Xiong Huang, Teng-Rui Huang, Hao Jiang, Hau-Bin Li, Jian-Min Li, Jin Li, Jun Li, Xia Li, Xin-Ying Li, Xue-Qian Li, Yu-Lan Li, Heng-Ye Liao, Fong-Kay Lin, Shin-Ted Lin, Shu-Kui Liu, Lan-Chun Lv, Hao Ma, Shao-Ji Mao, Jian-Qiang Qin, Jie Ren, Jing Ren, Xi-Chao Ruan, Man-Bin Shen, Lakhwinder Singh, Manoj Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar Soma, Jian Su, Chang-Jian Tang, Chao-Hsiung Tseng, Ji-Min Wang, Li Wang, Qing Wang, Tsz-King Henry Wong, Shi-Yong Wu, Wei Wu, Yu-Cheng Wu, Hao-Yang Xing, Yin Xu, Tao Xue, Li-Tao Yang, Song-Wei Yang, Nan Yi, Chun-Xu Yu, Hao Yu, Xun-Zhen Yu, Xiong-Hui Zeng, Zhi Zeng, Lan Zhang, Yun-Hua Zhang, Ming-Gang Zhao, Wei Zhao, Su-Ning Zhong, Zu-Ying Zhou, Jing-Jun Zhu, Wei-Bin Zhu, Xue-Zhou Zhu, Zhong-Hua Zhu

A convergent blind deconvolution method for post-adaptive-optics astronomical imaging [PDF]

M. Prato, A. La Camera, S. Bonettini, M. Bertero

PEACE: Pulsar Evaluation Algorithm for Candidate Extraction -- A software package for post-analysis processing of pulsar survey candidates [PDF]

K. J. Lee, K. Stovall, F. A. Jenet, J. Martinez, L. P. Dartez, A. Mata, G. Lunsford, S. Cohen, C. . M. Biwer, M. Rohr, J. Flanigan, A. Walker, S. Banaszak, B. Allen, E. D. Barr, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Bogdanov, A. Brazier, F. Camilo, D. J. Champion, S. Chatterjee, J. Cordes, F. Crawford, J. Deneva, G. Desvignes, R. D. Ferdman, P. Freire, J. W. T. Hessels, R. Karuppusamy, V. M. Kaspi, B. Knispel, M. Kramer, P. Lazarus, R. Lynch, A. Lyne, M. McLaughlin, S. Ransom, P. Scholz, X. Siemens, L. Spitler, I. Stairs, M. Tan, J. van Leeuwen, W. W. Zhu

Mirror actively deformed and regulated for applications in space: design and performance [PDF]

Marie Laslandes, Emmanuel Hugot, Marc Ferrari, Claire Hourtoule, Christian Singer, Christophe Devilliers, Celine Lopez, Frederic Chazallet

Using spherical wavelets to search for magnetically-induced alignment in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays [PDF]

M. Zimbres, R. Alves Batista, E. Kemp

Friday, May 31, 2013

How to Zoom: Bias, Contamination, and Lagrange Volumes in Multimass Cosmological Simulations [PDF]

Cosmology on Ultra-Large Scales with HI Intensity Mapping: Limits on Primordial non-Gaussianity [PDF]

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Denoising observational data [PDF]

High Performance Lyot and PIAA Coronagraphy for Arbitrarily shaped Telescope Apertures [PDF]

LARES succesfully launched in orbit: satellite and mission description [PDF]

The Galway Astronomical Stokes Polarimeter: An All-Stokes Optical Polarimeter with Ultra-High Time Resolution [PDF]

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Forecasts of non-Gaussian parameter spaces using Box-Cox transformations [PDF]

Parasitic interference in nulling interferometry [PDF]

An Atom Trap Trace Analysis System for Measuring Krypton Contamination in Xenon Dark Matter Detectors [PDF]

Effects of diffuse background emission and source crowding on photometric completeness in Spitzer Space Telescope IRAC surveys: The GLIMPSE Catalogs and Archives [PDF]

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Diurnal astronomy: using sticks and threads to find our latitude on Earth [PDF]

The Energy Spectrum of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Measured by the Telescope Array FADC Fluorescence Detectors in Monocular Mode [PDF]