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

Friday, August 31, 2012

1208.6014 (Maurizio Giannotti et al.)

MESAFace, a graphical interface to analyze the MESA output [PDF]

Maurizio Giannotti, Michael Wise, Aaron Mohammed

The RRAT Trap: Interferometric Localization of Radio Pulses from J0628+0909 [PDF]

Casey J. Law, Geoffrey C. Bower, Martin Pokorny, Michael P. Rupen, Ken Sowinski

Mid-frequency aperture arrays: the future of radio astronomy [PDF]

Ilse M. van Bemmel, Arnold van Ardenne, Jan Geralt bij de Vaate, Andrew J. Faulkner, Raffaella Morganti

Atmospheric aerosols at the Pierre Auger Observatory and environmental implications [PDF]

K. Louedec, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration, R. Losno

1208.5769 (Nicholas M. Law et al.)

New Exoplanet Surveys in the Canadian High Arctic at 80 Degrees North [PDF]

Nicholas M. Law, Suresh Sivanandam, Richard Murowinski, Raymond Carlberg, Wayne Ngan, Pegah Salbi, Aida Ahmadi, Eric Steinbring, Mark Halman, James Graham

Hot electron bolometer heterodyne receiver with a 4.7-THz quantum cascade laser as a local oscillator [PDF]

Jenna L. Kloosterman, Darren J. Hayton, Yuan Ren, Tsung-Yu Kao, Neils Hovenier, Jian-Rong Gao, Teun M. Klapwijk, Qing Hu, Christopher K. Walker, John L. Reno

MOONS: a Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT [PDF]

M. Cirasuolo, J. Afonso, R. Bender, P. Bonifacio, C. Evans, L. Kaper, E. Oliva, L. Vanzi, M. Abreu, E. Atad-Ettedgui, C. Babusiaux, F. Bauer, P. Best, N. Bezawada, I. Bryson, A. Cabral, K. Caputi, M. Centrone, F. Chemla, A. Cimatti, M-R. Cioni, G. Clementini, J. Coelho, E. Daddi, J. Dunlop, S. Feltzing, A. Ferguson, H. Flores, A. Fontana, J. Fynbo, B. Garilli, A. Glauser, I. Guinouard, F. Hammer, P. Hastings, A. Hess, R. Ivison, P. Jagourel, M. Jarvis, G. Kauffman, A. Lawrence, D. Lee, G. Licausi, S. Lilly, D. Lorenzetti, R. Maiolino, F. Mannucci, R. McLure, D. Minniti, D. Montgomery, B. Muschielok, K. Nandra, R. Navarro, P. Norberg, L. Origlia, N. Padilla, J. Peacock, F. Pedicini, L. Pentericci, J. Pragt, M. Puech, S. Randich, A. Renzini, N. Ryde, M. Rodrigues, F. Royer, R. Saglia, A. Sanchez, H. Schnetler, D. Sobral, R. Speziali, S. Todd, E. Tolstoy, M. Torres, L. Venema, F. Vitali, M. Wegner, M. Wells, V. Wild, G. Wright

Nanobolometers for THz Photon Detection [PDF]

Boris S. Karasik, Andrei V. Sergeev, Daniel E. Prober

Australian participation in the Gaia Follow-Up Network for Solar System Objects [PDF]

M. Todd, D. M. Coward, P. Tanga, W. Thuillot

1208.5485 (Michael D. Johnson et al.)

Constraining the Vela Pulsar's Radio Emission Region Using Nyquist-Limited Scintillation Statistics [PDF]

Michael D. Johnson, Carl R. Gwinn, Paul Demorest

COSMOGRAIL XI: Techniques for time delay measurement in presence of microlensing [PDF]

M. Tewes, F. Courbin, G. Meylan

Comment on "On the subtleties of searching for dark matter with liquid xenon detectors" [PDF]

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, C. Balan, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, A. Behrens, P. Beltrame, K. Bokeloh, E. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, J. M. R. Cardoso, W. -T. Chen, B. Choi, D. Cline, A. P. Colijn, H. Contreras, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, W. Fulgione, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Ghag, K. -L. Giboni, L. W. Goetzke, C. Grignon, E. Gross, W. Hampel, F. Kaether, A. Kish, J. Lamblin, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, C. Levy, K. E. Lim, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, K. Lung, T. Marrodan Undagoitia, F. V. Massoli, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Y. Meng, A. Molinario, E. Nativ, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, G. Plante, N. Priel, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, P. R. Scovell, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Thers, O. Vitells, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer

1208.5104 (R. Casini et al.)

Removal of Spectro-Polarimetric Fringes by 2D Pattern Recognition [PDF]

R. Casini, P. G. Judge, T. A. Schad

Comment on "Bayesian astrostatistics: a backward look to the future" by Tom Loredo, arXiv:1208.3036 [PDF]

S. Andreon

Dark Matter and Fundamental Physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array [PDF]

M. Doro, J. Conrad, D. Emmanoulopoulos, M. A. Sanchez-Conde, J. A. Barrio, E. Birsin, J. Bolmont, P. Brun, S. Colafrancesco, S. H. Connell, J. L. Contreras, M. K. Daniel, M. Fornasa, M. Gaug, J. F. Glicenstein, A. Gonzalez-Munoz, T. Hassan, D. Horns, A. Jacholkowska, C. Jahn, R. Mazini, N. Mirabal, A. Moralejo, E. Moulin, D. Nieto, J. Ripken, H. Sandaker, U. Schwanke, G. Spengler, A. Stamerra, A. Viana, H. S. Zechlin, S. Zimmer, for the CTA collaboration

Absorption Features in the X-ray Spectrum of an Ordinary Radio Pulsar [PDF]

Oleg Kargaltsev, Martin Durant, Zdenka Misanovic, George Pavlov

Description of Atmospheric Conditions at the Pierre Auger Observatory Using Meteorological Measurements and Models [PDF]

Bianca Keilhauer, Martin Will, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

1208.4866 (Lorenzo Moncelsi et al.)

Empirical modelling of the BLASTPol achromatic half-wave plate for precision submillimetre polarimetry [PDF]

Lorenzo Moncelsi, Peter Ade, Francesco Elio Angile, Steven Benton, Mark Devlin, Laura Fissel, Natalie Gandilo, Joshua Gundersen, Tristan Matthews, C. Barth Netterfield, Giles Novak, David Nutter, Enzo Pascale, Frederick Poidevin, Giorgio Savini, Douglas Scott, Juan Soler, Locke Spencer, Matthew Truch, Gregory Tucker, Jin Zhang

Ab initio modelling of steady rotating stars [PDF]

Michel Rieutord, Francisco Espinosa Lara

3D Extinction Mapping Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models [PDF]

S. E. Sale

Subtleties of searching for dark matter with liquid xenon detectors [PDF]

Peter Sorensen

1208.4622 (Jessica T. Dempsey et al.)

A new era of wide-field submillimetre imaging: on-sky performance of SCUBA-2 [PDF]

Jessica T. Dempsey, Wayne S. Holland, Antonio Chrysostomou, David S. Berry, Daniel Bintley, Edward L. Chapin, Simon C. Craig, Iain M. Coulson, Gary R. Davis, Per Friberg, Tim Jenness, Andy G. Gibb, Harriet A. L. Parsons, Douglas Scott, Holly S. Thomas, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Ian Robson, Craig A. Walther

The SWAP EUV Imaging Telescope Part I: Instrument Overview and Pre-Flight Testing [PDF]

D. B. Seaton, D. Berghmans, B. Nicula, J. -P. Halain, A. De Groof, T. Thibert, D. S. Bloomfield, C. L. Raftery, P. T. Gallagher, F. Auchère, J. -M. Defise, E. D'Huys, J. -H. Lecat, E. Mazy, P. Rochus, L. Rossi, U. Schühle, V. Slemzin, M. S. Yalim, J. Zender

Compact high-resolution spectrographs for large and extremely large telescopes: using the diffraction limit [PDF]

J. Gordon Robertson, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on ASTROSAT [PDF]

Amit Kumar, S. K. Ghosh, J. Hutchings, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, P. K. Mahesh, J. Murthy, Nagbhushana. S, A. K. Pati, M. N. Rao, N. K. Rao, S. Sriram, S. N. Tandon

Tests & Calibration on Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) [PDF]

Amit Kumar, S. K. Ghosh, P. U. Kamath, Joe Postma, S. Kathiravan, P. K. Mahesh, Nagbhushana. S, K. H. Navalgund, N Rajkumar, M. N. Rao, K. S. Sarma, S. Sriram, C. S. Stalin, S. N. Tandon

The 4MOST facility simulator: instrument and science optimisation [PDF]

Th. Boller, T. Dwelly

Preparing Undergraduates for Research Careers: Using Astrobites in the Classroom [PDF]

Nathan E. Sanders, Susanna Kohler, Elisabeth Newton, the Astrobites collaboration

Evolutionary algorithm-based analysis of gravitational microlensing lightcurves [PDF]

Vinesh Rajpaul

1208.4418 (N. Cvetojevic et al.)

First starlight spectrum captured using an integrated photonic micro-spectrograph [PDF]

N. Cvetojevic, N. Jovanovic, C. Betters, J. S. Lawrence, S. C. Ellis, G. Robertson, J. Bland-Hawthorn

Identification and Removal of Noise Modes in Kepler Photometry [PDF]

Erik A. Petigura, Geoffrey W. Marcy

1208.4095 (Christoph U. Keller)

Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht: The Last Years [PDF]

Christoph U. Keller

Radio interferometric imaging of spatial structure that varies with time and frequency [PDF]

U. Rau

Principal Component Analysis with Noisy and/or Missing Data [PDF]

Stephen Bailey

Discovery of planetary nebulae using predictive mid-infrared diagnostics [PDF]

Quentin A. Parker, Martin Cohen, Milorad Stupar, David J. Frew, Anne J. Green, Ivan Bojicic, Lizette Guzman-Ramirez, Laurence Sabin, Frederic Vogt

1208.3741 (K. G. Strassmeier et al.)

Rotation, activity, and lithium abundance in cool binary stars [PDF]

K. G. Strassmeier, M. Weber, T. Granzer, S. Järvinen

DMP Planning for Big Science Projects [PDF]

Juan Bicarregui, Norman Gray, Rob Henderson, Roger Jones, Simon Lambert, Brian Matthews

Comparison of the scintillation noise above different observatories measured with MASS instruments [PDF]

V. Kornilov, M. Sarazin, A. Tokovinin, T. Travouillon, O. Voziakova

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Final Report [PDF]

J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay, R. Bean, D. Bennett, R. Brown, C. Conselice, M. Donahue, X. Fan, B. S. Gaudi, C. Hirata, J. Kalirai, T. Lauer, B. Nichol, N. Padmanabhan, S. Perlmutter, B. Rauscher, J. Rhodes, T. Roellig, D. Stern, T. Sumi, A. Tanner, Y. Wang, D. Weinberg, E. Wright, N. Gehrels, R. Sambruna, W. Traub, J. Anderson, K. Cook, P. Garnavich, L. Hillenbrand, Z. Ivezic, E. Kerins, J. Lunine, P. McDonald, M. Penny, M. Phillips, G. Rieke, A. Riess, R. van der Marel, R. K. Barry, E. Cheng, D. Content, R. Cutri, R. Goullioud, K. Grady, G. Helou, C. Jackson, J. Kruk, M. Melton, C. Peddie, N. Rioux, M. Seiffert

1208.3462 (Tyler D. Groff et al.)

Kalman Filter Estimation for Focal Plane Wavefront Correction [PDF]

Tyler D. Groff, N. Jeremy Kasdin

Ill-posedness formulation of the emission source localization in the radio-detection experiments of extensive air showers [PDF]

Ahmed Rebai, Tarek Salhi, Pascal Lautridou, Olivier Ravel

Development of a pulsar-based timescale [PDF]

G. Hobbs, W. Coles, R. N. Manchester, M. J. Keith, R. M. Shannon, D. Chen, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. Champion, A. Chaudhary, A. Hotan, J. Khoo, J. Kocz, Y. Levin, S. Oslowski, B. Preisig, V. Ravi, J. E. Reynolds, J. Sarkissian, W. van Straten, J. P. W. Verbiest, D. Yardley, X. P. You

Elliptical Weighted HOLICs for Weak Lensing Shear Measurement part3:Random Count Noise Effect for Image's Moments in Weak Lensing Analysis [PDF]

Yuki Okura, Toshifumi Futamase

Simulation of Light Antinucleus-Nucleus Interactions [PDF]

A. Galoyan, V. Uzhinsky

Cosmological Calculations on the GPU [PDF]

Deborah Bard, Matthew Bellis, Mark T. Allen, Hasmik Yepremyan, Jan M. Kratochvil

1208.3194 (D. B. Jess et al.)

The Source of Three-minute Magneto-acoustic Oscillations in Coronal Fans [PDF]

D. B. Jess, I. De Moortel, M. Mathioudakis, D. J. Christian, K. P. Reardon, P. H. Keys, F. P. Keenan

A Novel Approach to Visualizing Dark Matter Simulations [PDF]

Ralf Kaehler, Oliver Hahn, Tom Abel

ASTRA: ASTrometry and phase-Referencing Astronomy on the Keck interferometer [PDF]

J. Woillez, R. Akeson, M. Colavita, J. Eisner, A. Ghez, J. Graham, L. Hillenbrand, R. Millan-Gabet, J. Monnier, J. -U. Pott, S. Ragland, P. Wizinowich, E. Appleby, B. Berkey, A. Cooper, C. Felizardo, J. Herstein, M. Hrynevych, O. Martin, D. Medeiros, D. Morrison, T. Panteleeva, B. Smith, K. Summers, K. Tsubota, C. Tyau, E. Wetherell

Light Pollution as Part of the Environmental Problems [PDF]

Nancy Quaranta, Rodolfo Gustavo Cionco

VIS: the visible imager for Euclid [PDF]

Mark Cropper, R. Cole, A. James, Y. Mellier, J. Martignac, A. -M. di Giorgio, S. Paltani, L. Genolet, J. -J. Fourmond, C. Cara, J. Amiaux, P. Guttridge, D. Walton, P. Thomas, K. Rees, P. Pool, J. Endicott, A. Holland, J. Gow, N. Murray, L. Duvet, J. -L. Augueres, R. Laureijs, P. Gondoin, T. Kitching, R. Massey, H. Hoekstra, the Euclid collaboration

An improved method for measuring muon energy using the truncated mean of dE/dx [PDF]

IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, J. Auffenberg, X. Bai, M. Baker, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, K. Beattie, J. J. Beatty, S. Bechet, J. Becker Tjus, K. -H. Becker, M. Bell, M. L. Benabderrahmane, S. BenZvi, J. Berdermann, P. Berghaus, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, D. Z. Besson, D. Bindig, M. Bissok, E. Blaufuss, J. Blumenthal, D. J. Boersma, C. Bohm, D. Bose, S. Böser, O. Botner, L. Brayeur, A. M. Brown, R. Bruijn, J. Brunner, S. Buitink, M. Carson, J. Casey, M. Casier, D. Chirkin, B. Christy, F. Clevermann, S. Cohen, D. F. Cowen, A. H. Cruz Silva, M. Danninger, J. Daughhetee, J. C. Davis, C. De Clercq, F. Descamps, P. Desiati, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, J. Dreyer, J. P. Dumm, M. Dunkman, R. Eagan, J. Eisch, C. Elliott, R. W. Ellsworth, O. Engdegård, S. Euler, P. A. Evenson, O. Fadiran, A. R. Fazely, A. Fedynitch, J. Feintzeig, T. Feusels, K. Filimonov, C. Finley, T. Fischer-Wasels, S. Flis, A. Franckowiak, R. Franke, K. Frantzen, T. Fuchs, T. K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, L. Gerhardt, L. Gladstone, T. Glüsenkamp, A. Goldschmidt, J. A. Goodman, D. Góra, D. Grant, A. Groß, S. Grullon, M. Gurtner, C. Ha, A. Haj Ismail, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, D. Heereman, P. Heimann, D. Heinen, K. Helbing, R. Hellauer, S. Hickford, G. C. Hill, K. D. Hoffman, R. Hoffmann, A. Homeier, K. Hoshina, W. Huelsnitz, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hussain, A. Ishihara, E. Jacobi, J. Jacobsen, G. S. Japaridze, O. Jlelati, A. Kappes, T. Karg, A. Karle, J. Kiryluk, F. Kislat, J. Kläs, S. R. Klein, S. Klepser, J. -H. Köhne, G. Kohnen, H. Kolanoski, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, S. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, M. Krasberg, G. Kroll, J. Kunnen, N. Kurahashi, T. Kuwabara, M. Labare, K. Laihem, H. Landsman, M. J. Larson, R. Lauer, M. Lesiak-Bzdak, J. Lünemann, J. Madsen, R. Maruyama, K. Mase, H. S. Matis, A. McDermott, F. McNally, K. Meagher, M. Merck, P. Mészáros, T. Meures, S. Miarecki, E. Middell, N. Milke, J. Miller, L. Mohrmann, T. Montaruli, R. Morse, S. M. Movit, R. Nahnhauer, U. Naumann, P. Nießen, S. C. Nowicki, D. R. Nygren, A. Obertacke, S. Odrowski, A. Olivas, M. Olivo, A. O'Murchadha, S. Panknin, L. Paul, J. A. Pepper, C. Pérez de los Heros, D. Pieloth, N. Pirk, J. Posselt, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, L. Rädel, K. Rawlins, P. Redl, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, M. Richman, B. Riedel, J. P. Rodrigues, J. Roth, F. Rothmaier, C. Rott, C. Roucelle, T. Ruhe, B. Ruzybayev, D. Ryckbosch, S. M. Saba, T. Salameh, H. -G. Sander, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, K. Schatto, M. Scheel, F. Scheriau, T. Schmidt, M. Schmitz, S. Schoenen, S. Schöneberg, L. Schönherr, A. Schönwald, A. Schukraft, L. Schulte, O. Schulz, D. Seckel, S. H. Seo, Y. Sestayo, S. Seunarine, L. Shulman, M. W. E. Smith, M. Soiron, D. Soldin, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, A. Stasik, T. Stezelberger, R. G. Stokstad, A. Stößl, S. Stoyanov, E. A. Strahler, R. Ström, K-H. Sulanke, G. W. Sullivan, H. Taavola, I. Taboada, A. Tamburro, S. Ter-Antonyan, S. Tilav, P. A. Toale, S. Toscano, M. Usner, D. van der Drift, N. van Eijndhoven, A. Van Overloop, J. van Santen, M. Vehring, M. Voge, C. Walck, T. Waldenmaier, M. Wallraff, M. Walter, R. Wasserman, Ch. Weaver, C. Wendt, S. Westerhoff, N. Whitehorn, K. Wiebe, C. H. Wiebusch, D. R. Williams, H. Wissing, M. Wolf, T. R. Wood, K. Woschnagg, C. Xu, D. L. Xu, X. W. Xu, J. P. Yanez, G. Yodh, S. Yoshida, P. Zarzhitsky, J. Ziemann, A. Zilles, M. Zoll

1208.3006 (Sergio G. Leon-Saval et al.)

The Photonic TIGER: a multicore fiber-fed spectrograph [PDF]

Sergio G. Leon-Saval, Christopher H. Betters, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

On the future of astrostatistics: statistical foundations and statistical practice [PDF]

Thomas J. Loredo

Bayesian astrostatistics: a backward look to the future [PDF]

Thomas J. Loredo

Radial velocities for the Hipparcos-Gaia Hundred-Thousand-Proper-Motion project [PDF]

J. H. J. de Bruijne, A. -C. Eilers

Conceptual Design of the Coronagraphic High Angular Resolution Imaging Spectrograph (CHARIS) for the Subaru Telescope [PDF]

Mary Anne Peters, Tyler Groff, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Michael W. McElwain, Michael Galvin, Michael A. Carr, Robert Lupton, James E. Gunn, Gillian Knapp, Qian Gong, Alexis Carlotti, Timothy Brandt, Markus Janson, Olivier Guyon, Frantz Martinache, Masahiko Hayashi, Naruhisa Takato

Broadband Focal Plane Wavefront Control of Amplitude and Phase Aberrations [PDF]

Tyler D. Groff, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Alexis Carlotti, A J Eldorado Riggs

1208.2734 (J. Alvarez-Muñiz et al.)

The MIDAS telescope for microwave detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays [PDF]

J. Alvarez-Muñiz, E. Amaral Soares, A. Berlin, M. Bogdan, M. Boháčová, C. Bonifazi, W. R. Carvalho Jr, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, P. Facal San Luis, J. F. Genat, N. Hollon, E. Mills, M. Monasor, P. Privitera, A. Ramos de Castro, L. C. Reyes, B. Rouille d'Orfeuil, E. M. Santos, S. Wayne, C. Williams, E. Zas, J. Zhou

DeSSpOt: an instrument for stellar spin orientation determination [PDF]

Anna-Lea Lesage, Magnus Schneide, Günter Wiedemann

1208.2330 (Rafael E. Carrillo et al.)

Sparsity Averaging for Compressive Imaging [PDF]

Rafael E. Carrillo, Jason D. McEwen, Dimitri Van De Ville, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Yves Wiaux

Source-finding for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder [PDF]

Matthew Whiting, Ben Humphreys

Data challenges of time domain astronomy [PDF]

Matthew J. Graham, S. G. Djorgovski, Ashish Mahabal, Ciro Donalek, Andrew Drake, Giuseppe Longo

Influence of the Earth on the background and the sensitivity of the GRM and ECLAIRs instruments aboard the Chinese-French mission SVOM [PDF]

Donghua Zhao, Bertrand Cordier, Patrick Sizun, Bobing Wu, Yongwei Dong, Stéphane Schanne, Liming Song, Jiangtao Liu

1107.2939 (Daniel Gottesman et al.)

Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters [PDF]

Daniel Gottesman, Thomas Jennewein, Sarah Croke

Prospects of performing Lorentz invariance tests with VHE emission from pulsars [PDF]

A. Nepomuk Otte

A Bayesian approach to the inference of parametric configuration of the signal-to-noise ratio in an adaptive refinement of the measurements [PDF]

Maria Jose Marquez

Regions of Dynamical Stability for Discs and Planets in Binary Stars of the Solar Neighborhood [PDF]

Luisa G. Jaime, Barbara Pichardo, Luis Aguilar

Seeing Earth's Orbit in the Stars: Parallax and Aberration [PDF]

Todd K. Timberlake

Benchmarking atomic data for astrophysics: a first look at the soft X-ray lines [PDF]

G. Del Zanna

The Offline Software of the Pierre Auger Observatory: Lessons Learned [PDF]

Javier G. Gonzalez, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey [PDF]

Stephen Smee, James E. Gunn, Alan Uomoto, Natalie Roe, David Schlegel, Constance M. Rockosi, Michael A. Carr, French Leger, Kyle S. Dawson, Matthew D. Olmstead, Jon Brinkmann, Russell Owen, Robert H. Barkhouser, Klaus Honscheid, Paul Harding, Dan Long, Robert H. Lupton, Craig Loomis, Lauren Anderson, James Annis, Mariangela Bernardi, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Dmitry Bizyaev, Adam S. Bolton, Howard Brewington, John W. Briggs, Scott Burles, James G. Burns, Francisco Castander, Andrew Connolly, James R. Davenport, Garrett Ebelke, Harland Epps, Paul D. Feldman, Scott Friedman, Joshua Frieman, Timothy Heckman, Charles L. Hull, Gillian R. Knapp, David M. Lawrence, Jon Loveday, Edward J. Mannery, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Aronne Merrelli, Demitri Muna, Peter Newman, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Adrian C. Pope, Paul G. Ricketts, Alaina Shelden, Dale Sandford, Walter Siegmund, Audrey Simmons, D. Smith, Stephanie Snedden, Donald P. Schneider, Michael Strauss, Mark SubbaRao, Christy Tremonti, Patrick Waddell, Donald G. York

1208.1759 (G. M. Kennedy et al.)

Coplanar Circumbinary Debris Disks [PDF]

G. M. Kennedy, M. C. Wyatt, B. Sibthorpe, N. M. Phillips, B. Matthews, J. S. Greaves

A New Way to Conserve Total Energy for Eulerian Hydrodynamic Simulations with Self-Gravity [PDF]

Yan-Fei Jiang, Mikhall Belyaev, Jeremy Goodman, James M. Stone

Near-infrared proper motions and spectroscopy of infrared excess sources at the Galactic Center [PDF]

A. Eckart, K. Muzic, S. Yazici, B. Shahzamanian, G. Witzel, N. Sabha, L. Moser, M. Garcia-Marin, M. Valencia-S., B. Jalali, M. Bremer, C. Straubmeier, D. Kunneriath, J. Moultaka

Future Science Prospects for AMI [PDF]

Keith Grainge, Paul Alexander, Richard Battye, Mark Birkinshaw, Andrew Blain, Malcolm Bremer, Sarah Bridle, Michael Brown, Richard Davis, Clive Dickinson, Alastair Edge, George Efstathiou, Robert Fender, Martin Hardcastle, Michael Hobson, Matthew Jarvis, Benjamin Maughan, Ian McHardy, Matthew Middleton, Anthony Lasenby, Richard Saunders, Giorgio Savini, Anna Scaife, Graham Smith, Mark Thompson, Glenn White, Kris Zarb-Adami, James Allison, Jane Buckle, Alberto Castro-Tirado, Farhan Feroz, Ricardo Genova Santos, David Green, Ian Heywood, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Ruediger Kneissl, Shrinivas Kulkarni, Sera Markoff, Carrie MacTavish, Michael McCollough, Jon M. Miller, James Miller-Jones, Malak Olamaie, Zsolt Paragi, Timothy Pearson, Guy Pooley, Katja Pottschmidt, Rafael Rebolo, John Richer, Julia Riley, Jerome Rodriguez, Carmen Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, Anthony Rushton, Petri Savolainen, Paul Scott, Timothy Shimwell, Marco Tavani, John Tomsick, Valeriu Tudose, Alexander van der Horst, Elizabeth Waldram, Joern Wilms, Andrzej Zdziarski, Jonathan Zwart, Yvette Perrott, Clare Rumsey, Michel Schammel

Template RR Lyrae H alpha, H beta, and H gamma Velocity Curves [PDF]

Branimir Sesar

Advances in the RXTE Proportional Counter Array Calibration: Nearing the Statistical Limit [PDF]

Nikolai Shaposhnikov, Keith Jahoda, Craig Markwardt, Jean Swank, Tod Strohmayer

1208.1696 (B. Husemann et al.)

PyCosmic: A robust method to detect cosmics in CALIFA and other fiber-fed integral-field spectroscopy datasets [PDF]

B. Husemann, S. Kamann, C. Sandin, S. F. Sánchez, R. García-Benito, D. Mast

A Bayesian Analysis of the Correlations Among Sunspot Cycles [PDF]

Yaming Yu, David A. van Dyk, Vinay L. Kashyap, C. Alex Young

1208.1264 (N. V. Karpenka et al.)

A simple and robust method for automated photometric classification of supernovae using neural networks [PDF]

N. V. Karpenka, F. Feroz, M. P. Hobson

ArtDeco: A beam deconvolution code for absolute CMB measurements [PDF]

Elina Keihänen, Martin Reinecke

The SPOCA-suite: a software for extraction and tracking of Active Regions and Coronal Holes on EUV images [PDF]

Véronique Delouille, Benjamin Mampaey, Cis Verbeeck, Ruben de Visscher

1208.0829 (Arthur D. Eigenbrot et al.)

Impact of surface-polish on the angular and wavelength dependence of fiber focal ratio degradation [PDF]

Arthur D. Eigenbrot, Matthew A. Bershady, Corey M. Wood

Scientific Design of a High Contrast Integral Field Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope [PDF]

Michael W. McElwain, Timothy D. Brandt, Markus Janson, Gillian R. Knapp, Mary Anne Peters, Adam Burrows, Alexis Carlotti, Michael A. Carr, Tyler Groff, James E. Gunn, Olivier Guyon, Masahiko Hayashi, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Robert H. Lupton, Frantz Martinache, David Spiegel, Naruhisa Takato, Motohide Tamura, Edwin L. Turner, Robert J. Vanderbei

NIMBUS: The Near-Infrared Multi-Band Ultraprecise Spectroimager for SOFIA [PDF]

Michael W. McElwain, Avi Mandell, Bruce Woodgate, David S. Spiegel, Nikku Madhusudhan, Edward Amatucci, Cullen Blake, Jason Budinoff, Adam Burgasser, Adam Burrows, Mark Clampin, Charlie Conroy, L. Drake Deming, Edward Dunham, Roger Foltz, Qian Gong, Heather Knutson, Theodore Muench, Ruth Murray-Clay, Hume Peabody, Bernard Rauscher, Stephen A. Rinehart, Geronimo Villanueva

XENON100 Implications for Naturalness in the MSSM, NMSSM and lambda-SUSY [PDF]

Maxim Perelstein, Bibhushan Shakya

Optical Characterization of the Keck Array Polarimeter at the South Pole [PDF]

A. G. Vieregg, P. A. R. Ade, R. Aikin, C. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, J. A. Bonetti, K. J. Bradford, J. A. Brevik, C. D. Dowell, L. Duband, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, S. R. Golwala, M. S. Gordon, M. Halpern, G. Hilton, V. V. Hristov, K. Irwin, S. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, E. Leitch, M. Lueker, T. Montroy, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. O'Brient, R. W. Ogburn IV, C. Pryke, J. E. Ruhl, M. Runyan, R. Schwarz, C. Sheehy, Z. Staniszewski, R. Sudiwala, G. Teply, J. Tolan, A. D. Turner, P. Wilson, C. L. Wong

Optimization and sensitivity of the Keck Array [PDF]

S. Kernasovskiy, P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin, M. Amiri, S. Benton, C. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, J. A. Bonetti, J. A. Brevik, B. Burger, G. Davis, C. D. Dowell, L. Duband, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, S. R. Golwala, M. Halpern, M. Hasselfield, G. Hiltion, V. V. Hristov, K. Irwin, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, E. Leitch, M. Lueker, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. O'Brient, R. W. Ogburn IV, C. L. Pryke, C. Reintsema, J. E. Ruhl, M. C. Runyan, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, Z. Staniszewski, R. Sudiwala, G. Teply, J. E. Tolan, A. D. Turner, A. Vieregg, D. V. Wiebe, P. Wilson, C. L. Wongg

PreCam, a Precursor Observational Campaign for Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey [PDF]

K. Kuehn, S. Kuhlmann, S. Allam, J. T. Annis, T. Bailey, E. Balbinot, J. P. Bernstein, T. Biesiadzinski, D. L. Burke, M. Butner, J. I. B. Camargo, L. A. N. da Costa, D. DePoy, H. T. Diehl, J. P. Dietrich, J. Estrada, A. Fausti, B. Gerke, V. Guarino, H. H. Head, R. Kessler, H. Lin, W. Lorenzon, M. A. G. Maia, L. Maki, J. Marshall, B. Nord, E. Neilsen, R. L. C. Ogando, D. Park, J. Peoples, D. Rastawicki, J. -P. Rheault, B. Santiago, M. Schubnell, P. Seitzer, J. A. Smith, H. Spinka, A. Sypniewski, G. Tarle, D. L. Tucker, A. Walker, W. Wester

Astrometric Reverberation Mapping [PDF]

Yue Shen

A titanium-nitride near-infrared kinetic inductance photon-counting detector and its anomalous electrodynamics [PDF]

J. Gao, M. R. Visser, M. O. Sandberg, F. C. S. da Silva, S. W. Nam, D. P. Pappas, K. D. Irwin, D. S. Wisbey, E. Langman, S. R. Meeker, B. A. Mazin, H. G. Leduc, J. Zmuidzinas

Beating the confusion limit: The necessity of high angular resolution for probing the physics of Sagittarius A* and its environment: Opportunities for LINC-NIRVANA (LBT), GRAVITY (VLTI) and and METIS (E-ELT) [PDF]

A. Eckart, N. Sabha, G. Witzel, C. Straubmeier, B. Shahzamanian, M. Valencia-S., M. Garcia-Marin, M. Horrobin, L. Moser, J. Zuther, S. Fischer, C. Rauch, S. Rost, C. Iserlohe, S. Yazici, S. Smajic, M. Wiest, C. Araujo-Hauck, I. Wank

Flare emission from Sagittarius A* [PDF]

A. Eckart, M. Garcia-Marin, S. N. Vogel, P. Teuben, M. R. Morris, F. Baganoff, J. Dexter, R. Schoedel, G. Witzel, M. Valencia-S., V. Karas, D. Kunneriath, M. Bremer, C. Straubmeier, L. Moser, N. Sabha, R. Buchholz, M. Zamaninasab, K. Muzic, J. Moultaka, J. A. Zensus

Swarm-NG: a CUDA Library for Parallel n-body Integrations with focus on Simulations of Planetary Systems [PDF]

Saleh Dindar, Eric B. Ford, Mario Juric, Young In Yeo, Jianwei Gao, Aaron C. Boley, Benjamin Nelson, Jorg Peters

Antenna-coupled TES bolometers for the Keck Array, Spider, and Polar-1 [PDF]

R. O'Brient, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, R. W. Aikin, M. Amiri, S. Benton, C. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, J. A. Bonetti, J. A. Brevik, B. Burger, G. Davis, P. Day, C. D. Dowell, L. Duband, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, S. R. Golwala, J. Grayson, M. Halpern, M. Hasselfield, G. Hilton, V. V. Hristov, H. Hui, K. Irwin, S. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, E. Leitch, M. Lueker, K. Megerian, L. Moncelsi, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. W. Ogburn IV, C. L. Pryke, C. Reintsema, J. E. Ruhl, M. C. Runyan, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, Z. Staniszewski, R. Sudiwala, G. Teply, J. E. Tolan, A. D. Turner, R. S. Tucker, A. Vieregg, D. V. Wiebe, P. Wilson, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, K. W. Yoon

1208.0602 (Patrick L. Kelly et al.)

Weighing the Giants II: Improved Calibration of Photometry from Stellar Colors and Accurate Photometric Redshifts [PDF]

Patrick L. Kelly, Anja von der Linden, Douglas E. Applegate, Mark T. Allen, Steven W. Allen, Patricia R. Burchat, David L. Burke, Harald Ebeling, Peter Capak, Oliver Czoske, David Donovan, Adam Mantz, R. Glenn Morris

A Bayesian algorithm for model selection applied to caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing events [PDF]

N. Kains, P. Browne, K. Horne, M. Hundertmark, A. Cassan

Measuring x-ray polarization in the presence of systematic effects: Known background [PDF]

Ronald F. Elsner, Stephen L. O'Dell, Martin C. Weisskopf

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Progress Report and Highlights [PDF]

Martin C. Weisskopf

BICEP2 and Keck Array operational overview and status of observations [PDF]

R. W. Ogburn IV, P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin, M. Amiri, S. J. Benton, C. A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, J. A. Bonetti, J. A. Brevik, E. Bullock, B. Burger, G. Davis, C. D. Dowell, L. Duband, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, S. R. Golwala, M. Gordon, M. Halpern, M. Hasselfield, G. Hilton, V. V. Hristov, H. Hui, K. Irwin, J. P. Kaufman, B. G. Keating, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, T. Montroy, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. O'Brient, A. Orlando, C. L. Pryke, C. Reintsema, S. Richter, J. E. Ruhl, M. C. Runyan, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, Z. K. Staniszewski, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, K. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, A. D. Turner, A. G. Vieregg, D. V. Wiebe, P. Wilson, C. L. Wong

The impact of point source subtraction residuals on 21 cm Epoch of Reionization estimation [PDF]

Cathryn M. Trott, Randall B. Wayth, Steven J. Tingay

Measurement of High-Energy Neutrons by SEDA-AP on the ISS [PDF]

K. Koga, T. Goka, H. Matsumoto, T. Obara, O. Okudaira, S. Shibata, T. Yamamoto, Y. Muraki

A 20 GHz bright sample for δ > +72°: I. Catalogue [PDF]

S. Righini, E. Carretti, R. Ricci, A. Zanichelli, K. -H. Mack, M. Massardi, I. Prandoni, P. Procopio, R. Verma, M. López-Caniego, L. Gregorini, F. Mantovani

Time-Correlated Structure in Spin Fluctuations in Pulsars [PDF]

Steve Price, Bennett Link, Steve Shore, David Nice

1208.0033 (Camilo Delgado-Correal et al.)

Radiometric in-situ calibration of satelital sensors of Earth observation using a spectroradiometer [PDF]

Camilo Delgado-Correal, José E. García

Noise in the Cross-Power Spectrum of the Vela Pulsar [PDF]

C. R. Gwinn, M. D. Johnson, J. E. Reynolds, D. L. Jauncey, A. K. Tzioumis, S. Dougherty, B. Carlson, D. Del Rizzo, H. Hirabayashi, H. Kobayashi, Y. Murata, P. G. Edwards, J. F. H. Quick, C. S. Flanagan, P. M. McCulloch

Size of the Vela Pulsar's Emission Region at 18 cm Wavelength [PDF]

C. R. Gwinn, M. D. Johnson, J. E. Reynolds, D. L. Jauncey, A. K. Tzioumis, H. Hirabayashi, H. Kobayashi, Y. Murata, P. G. Edwards, S. Dougherty, B. Carlson, D. del Rizzo, J. F. H. Quick, C. S. Flanagan, P. M. McCulloch

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Data Characterization and Map Making [PDF]

Rolando Dünner, Matthew Hasselfield, Tobias A. Marriage, Jon Sievers, Viviana Acquaviva, Graeme E. Addison, Peter A. R. Ade, Paula Aguirre, Mandana Amiri, John William Appel, L. Felipe Barrientos, Elia S. Battistelli, J. Richard Bond, Ben Brown, Bryce Burger, Erminia Calabarese, Jay Chervenak, Sudeep Das, Mark J. Devlin, Simon R. Dicker, W. Bertrand Doriese, Joanna Dunkley, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Ryan P. Fisher, Megan B. Gralla, Joseph W. Fowler, Amir Hajian, Mark Halpern, Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo, Gene C. Hilton, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Renée Hlozek, Kevin M. Huffenberger, David H. Hughes, John P. Hughes, Leopoldo Infante, Kent D. Irwin, Jean Baptiste Juin, Madhuri Kaul, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Judy M. Lau, Michele Limon, Yen-Ting Lin, Thibaut Louis, Robert H. Lupton, Danica Marsden, Krista Martocci, Phil Mauskopf, Felipe Menanteau, Kavilan Moodley, Harvey Moseley, Calvin B. Netterfield, Michael D. Niemack, Michael R. Nolta, Lyman A. Page, Lucas Parker, Bruce Partridge, Hernán Quintana, Beth Reid, Neelima Sehgal, Blake D. Sherwin, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Robert Thornton, Hy Trac, Carole Tucker, Ryan Warne, Grant Wilson, Ed Wollack, Yue Zhao

An experimental testbed for NEAT to demonstrate micro-pixel accuracy [PDF]

A. Crouzier, F. Malbet, O. Preis, F. Henault, P. Kern, M. Guillermo, P. Feautrier, c. Cara, P. Lagage, A. Léger, J. M. LeDuigou, M. Shao, R. Goullioud

A coherent polarimeter array for the Large Scale Polarization Explorer balloon experiment [PDF]

M. Bersanelli, A. Mennella, G. Morgante, M. Zannoni, G. Addamo, A. Baschirotto, P. Battaglia, A. Baù, B. Cappellini, F. Cavaliere, F. Cuttaia, F. Del Torto, S. Donzelli, Z. Farooqui, M. Frailis, C. Franceschet, E. Franceschi, T. Gaier, S. Galeotta, M. Gervasi, A. Gregorio, P. Kangaslahti, N. Krachmalnicoff, C. Lawrence, G. Maggio, R. Mainini, D. Maino, N. Mandolesi, B. Paroli, A. Passerini, O. A. Peverini, S. Poli, S. Ricciardi, M. Rossetti, M. Sandri, M. Seiffert, L. Stringhetti, A. Tartari, R. Tascone, D. Tavagnacco, L. Terenzi, M. Tomasi, E. Tommasi, F. Villa, G. Virone, A. Zacchei

The Large-Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) [PDF]

The LSPE collaboration, S. Aiola, G. Amico, P. Battaglia, E. Battistelli, A. Baù, P. de Bernardis, M. Bersanelli, A. Boscaleri, F. Cavaliere, A. Coppolecchia, A. Cruciani, F. Cuttaia, A. D' Addabbo, G. D'Alessandro, S. De Gregori, F. Del Torto, M. De Petris, L. Fiorineschi, C. Franceschet, E. Franceschi, M. Gervasi, D. Goldie, A. Gregorio, V. Haynes, N. Krachmalnicoff, L. Lamagna, B. Maffei, D. Maino, S. Masi, A. Mennella, Ng Ming Wah, G. Morgante, F. Nati, L. Pagano, A. Passerini, O. Peverini, F. Piacentini, L. Piccirillo, G. Pisano, S. Ricciardi, P. Rissone, G. Romeo, M. Salatino, M. Sandri, A. Schillaci, L. Stringhetti, A. Tartari, R. Tascone, L. Terenzi, M. Tomasi, E. Tommasi, F. Villa, G. Virone, S. Withington, A. Zacchei, M. Zannoni

SWIPE: a bolometric polarimeter for the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer [PDF]

P. de Bernardis, S. Aiola, G. Amico, E. Battistelli, A. Coppolecchia, A. Cruciani, A. D' Addabbo, G. D' Alessandro, S. De Gregori, M. De Petris, D. Goldie, R. Gualtieri, V. Haynes, L. Lamagna, B. Maffei, S. Masi, F. Nati, M. Wah Ng, L. Pagano, F. Piacentini, L. Piccirillo, G. Pisano, G. Romeo, M. Salatino, A. Schillaci, E. Tommasi, S. Withington

The cosmic microwave background: observing directly the early universe [PDF]

Paolo de Bernardis, Silvia Masi

Performance of the HgCdTe Detector for MOSFIRE, an Imager and Multi-Object Spectrometer for Keck Observatory [PDF]

Kristin R. Kulas, Ian S. McLean, Charles C. Steidel

HexPak and GradPak: variable-pitch dual-head IFUs for the WIYN 3.5m Telescope Bench Spectrograph [PDF]

Corey M. Wood, Matthew A. Bershady, Arthur D. Eigenbrot, Scott A. Buckley, John S. Gallagher III, Eric J. Hooper, Andrew I. Sheinis, Michael P. Smith, Marsha J. Wolf

The Astro-WISE datacentric information system [PDF]

K. Begeman, A. N. Belikov, D. R. Boxhoorn, E. A. Valentijn

1207.7137 (SDSS-III Collaboration: Christopher P. Ahn et al.)

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey [PDF]

SDSS-III Collaboration: Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto, Scott F. Anderson, Timothy Anderton, Brett H. Andrews, Éric Aubourg Stephen Bailey, Rory Barnes, Julian Bautista, Timothy C. Beers, Alessandra Beifiori, Andreas A. Berlind, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Dmitry Bizyaev, Cullen H. Blake, Michael R. Blanton, Michael Blomqvist, John J. Bochanski, Adam S. Bolton, Arnaud Borde, Jo Bovy, W. N. Brandt, J. Brinkmann, Peter J. Brown, Joel R. Brownstein, Kevin Bundy, N. G. Busca, William Carithers, Aurelio R. Carnero, Michael A. Carr, Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Yanmei Chen, Cristina Chiappini, Johan Comparat, Natalia Connolly, Justin R. Crepp, Stefano Cristiani, Rupert A. C. Croft, Antonio J. Cuesta, Luiz N. da Costa, James R. A. Davenport, Kyle S. Dawson, Roland de Putter, Nathan De Lee, Timothée Delubac, Saurav Dhital, Anne Ealet, Garrett L. Ebelke, Edward M. Edmondson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, S. Escoffier, Massimiliano Esposito, Michael L. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Bruno Femení a Castellá, Emma Fernández Alvar, Leticia D. Ferreira, N. Filiz Ak, Hayley Finley, Scott W. Fleming, Andreu Font-Ribera, Peter M. Frinchaboy, D. A. García-Hernández, A. E. García Pérez, Jian Ge, R. Génova-Santos, Bruce A. Gillespie, Léo Girardi, Jonay I. González Hernández, Eva K. Grebel, James E. Gunn, Daryl Haggard, Jean-Christophe Hamilton, David W. Harris, Suzanne L. Hawley, Frederick R. Hearty, Shirley Ho, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Klaus Honscheid, J. Huehnerhoff, Inese I. Ivans, Zeljko Ivezić, Heather R. Jacobson, Linhua Jiang, Jonas Johansson, Jennifer A. Johnson, Guinevere Kauffmann, David Kirkby, Jessica A. Kirkpatrick, Mark A. Klaene, Gillian R. Knapp, Jean-Paul Kneib, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Alexie Leauthaud, Khee-Gan Lee, Young Sun Lee, Daniel C. Long, Craig P. Loomis, Sara Lucatello, Britt Lundgren, Robert H. Lupton, Bo Ma, Zhibo Ma, Nicholas MacDonald, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marcio A. G. Maia, Steven R. Majewski, Martin Makler, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, A. Manchado, Rachel Mandelbaum, Marc Manera, Claudia Maraston, Daniel Margala, Sarah L. Martell, Cameron K. McBride, Ian D. McGreer, Richard G. McMahon, Brice Ménard, Sz. Meszaros, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Francesco Montesano, Heather L. Morrison, Demitri Muna, Jeffrey A. Munn, Hitoshi Murayama, Adam D. Myers, A. F. Neto, Duy Cuong Nguyen, Robert C. Nichol, David L. Nidever, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Matthew D. Olmstead, Daniel J. Oravetz, Russell Owen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Kaike Pan, John K. Parejko, Prachi Parihar, Isabelle Pâris, Petchara Pattarakijwanich, Joshua Pepper, Will J. Percival, Ismael Pérez-Fournon, Ignasi Pérez-Ráfols, Patrick Petitjean, Janine Pforr, Matthew M. Pieri, Marc H. Pinsonneault, G. F. Porto de Mello, Francisco Prada, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, M. Jordan Raddick, Rafael Rebolo, James Rich, Gordon T. Richards, Annie C. Robin, Helio J. Rocha-Pinto, Constance M. Rockosi, Natalie A. Roe, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, J. A. Rubiño-Martin, Lado Samushia, J. Sanchez Almeida, Ariel G. Sánchez, Basílio Santiago, Conor Sayres, David J. Schlegel, Katharine J. Schlesinger, Sarah J. Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Axel D. Schwope, C. G. Scóccola, Uros Seljak, Erin Sheldon, Yue Shen, Yiping Shu, Jennifer Simmerer, Audrey E. Simmons, Ramin A. Skibba, A. Slosar, Flavia Sobreira, Jennifer S. Sobeck, Keivan G. Stassun, Oliver Steele, Matthias Steinmetz, Michael A. Strauss, Molly E. C. Swanson, Tomer Tal, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Daniel Thomas, Benjamin A. Thompson, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Christy A. Tremonti, M. Vargas Magaña, Licia Verde, Matteo Viel, Shailendra K. Vikas, Nicole P. Vogt, David A. Wake, Ji Wang, Benjamin A. Weaver, David H. Weinberg, Benjamin J. Weiner, Andrew A. West, Martin White, John C. Wilson, John P. Wisniewski, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Brian Yanny, Christophe Yèche, Donald G. York, O. Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Idit Zehavi, Gong-Bo Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Guangtun Zhu, Joel C. Zinn

The 2012 Interferometric Imaging Beauty Contest [PDF]

Fabien Baron, William D. Cotton, Peter R. Lawson, Steve T. Ridgway, Alicia Aarnio, John D. Monnier, Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Dieter Schertl, Gerd Weigelt, Eric Thiébaut, Férréol Soulez, David Mary, Florentin Millour, Martin Vannier, John Young, Nicholas M. Elias II, Henrique R. Schmitt, Sridharan Rengaswamy

Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data [PDF]

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