astro-ph.IM : Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Friday, March 9, 2012

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]

Anthony Boccaletti, Jean Schneider, Wes Traub, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Daphne Stam, Raffaele Gratton, John Trauger, Kerri Cahoy, Frans Snik, Pierre Baudoz, Raphael Galicher, Jean-Michel Reess, Dimitri Mawet, Jean-Charles Augereau, Jennifer Patience, Marc Kuchner, Mark Wyatt, Eric Pantin, Anne-Lise Maire, Christophe Verinaud, Samuel Ronayette, Didier Dubreuil, Michiel Min, Michiel Rodenhuis, Dino Mesa, Ruslan Belikov, Olivier Guyon, Motohide Tamura, Naoshi Murakami, Ingrid Mary Beerer, the SPICES team

Quasi full-disk maps of solar horizontal velocities using SDO/HMI data [PDF]

Th. Roudier, M. Rieutord, J. M. Malherbe, N. Renon, T. Berger, Z. Frank, V. Prat, L. Gizon, M. Svanda

1106.0426 (J. A. Aguilar et al.)

A method for detection of muon induced electromagnetic showers with the ANTARES detector [PDF]

J. A. Aguilar, I. Al. Samarai, A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, S. Anvar, M. Ardid, A. C. Assis Jesus, T. Astraatmadja, J. J. Aubert, B. Baret, S. Basa, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, A. Bigi, C. Bigongiari, C. Bogazzi, M. Bou-Cabo, B. Bouhou, M. C. Bouwhuis, J. Brunner, J. Busto, F. Camarena, A. Capone, C. Carloganu, G. Carminati, J. Carr, S. Cecchini, Z. Charif, P. Charvis, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, R. Coniglione, H. Costantini, P. Coyle, C. Curtil, M. P. Decowski, I. Dekeyser, A. Deschamps, C. Distefano, C. Donzaud, D. Dornic, Q. Dorosti, D. Drouhin, T. Eberl, U. Emanuele, A. Enzenhöfer, J. P. Ernenwein, S. Escoffier, P. Fermani, M. Ferri, V. Flaminio, F. Folger, U. Fritsch, J. L. Fuda, S. Galatà, P. Gay, G. Giacomelli, V. Giordano, J. P. Gómez-González, K. Graf, G. Guillard, G. Halladjian, G. Hallewell, H. van Haren, J. Hartman, A. J. Heijboer, Y. Hello, J. J. Hernández-Rey, B. Herold, J. Hö\ssl, C. C. Hsu, M. de Jong, M. Kadler, O. Kalekin, A. Kappes, U. Katz, O. Kavatsyuk, P. Kooijman, C. Kopper, A. Kouchner, I. Kreykenbohm, V. Kulikovskiy, R. Lahmann, P. Lamare, G. Larosa, D. Lattuada, D. Lefèvre, G. Lim, D. Lo Presti, H. Loehner, S. Loucatos, S. Mangano, M. Marcelin, A. Margiotta, J. A. Martinez-Mora, A. Meli, T. Montaruli, L. Moscoso, H. Motz, M. Neff, E. Nezri, D. Palioselitis, G. E. P\uav\uala\cs, K. Payet, P. Payre, J. Petrovic, P. Piattelli, N. Picot-Clemente, V. Popa, T. Pradier, E. Presani, C. Racca, C. Reed, C. Richardt, R. Richter, C. Rivière, A. Robert, K. Roensch, A. Rostovtsev, J. Ruiz-Rivas, M. Rujoiu, G. V. Russo, F. Salesa, P. Sapienza, F. Schöck, J. P. Schuller, F. Schüssler, R. Shanidze, F. Simeone, A. Spies, M. Spurio, J. J. M. Steijger, T. Stolarczyk, A. Sánchez-Losa, M. Taiuti, C. Tamburini, S. Toscano, B. Vallage, V. Van Elewyck, G. Vannoni, M. Vecchi, P. Vernin, G. Wijnker, J. Wilms, E. de Wolf, H. Yepes, D. Zaborov, J. D. Zornoza, J. Zúñiga

Cosmic-muon flux and annual modulation in Borexino at 3800 m water-equivalent depth [PDF]

G. Bellini, J. Benziger, D. Bick, G. Bonfini, D. Bravo, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice, C. Carraro, P. Cavalcante, A. Chavarria, A. Chepurnov, D. D'Angelo, S. Davini, A. Derbin, A. Etenko, F. von Feilitzsch, K. Fomenko, D. Franco, C. Galbiati, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, M. Giammarchi, M. Goeger-Neff, A. Goretti, L. Grandi, E. Guardincerri, C. Hagner, S. Hardy, Aldo Ianni, Andrea Ianni, D. Korablev, G. Korga, Y. Koshio, D. Kryn, M. Laubenstein, T. Lewke, E. Litvinovich, B. Loer, F. Lombardi, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, I. Machulin, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, G. Manuzio, Q. Meindl, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, M. Misiaszek, D. Montanari, P. Mosteiro, V. Muratova, L. Oberauer, M. Obolensky, F. Ortica, K. Otis, M. Pallavicini, L. Papp, L. Perasso, S. Perasso, A. Pocar, R. S. Raghavan, G. Ranucci, A. Razeto, A. Re, A. Romani, A. Sabelnikov, R. Saldanha, C. Salvo, S. Schönert, H. Simgen, M. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, S. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, D. Vignaud, R. B. Vogelaar, J. Winter, M. Wojcik, A. Wright, M. Wurm, J. Xu, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Zavatarelli, G. Zuzel

Research of the active reflector antenna using laser angle metrology system [PDF]

Yong Zhang, Jie Zhang, Dehua Yang, Guohua Zhou, Aihua Li, Guoping Li

Mechanic: a new numerical MPI framework for the dynamical astronomy [PDF]

Mariusz Slonina, Krzysztof Gozdziewski, Cezary Migaszewski

1202.6082 (Meguru Ito et al.)

Suppresion of Self-Phase Modulation in a Laser Transfer System using Optical Fiber on the Subaru Telescope [PDF]

Meguru Ito, Yutaka Hayano, Yoshihiko Saito, Hideki Takami, Norihito Saito, Kazuyuki Akagawa, Masanori Iye

1108.0849 (Stefano Minardi)

Photonic lattices for astronomical interferometry [PDF]

Stefano Minardi

Cherenkov Tau Shower Earth-Skimming Method for PeV-EeV Tau Neutrino Observation [PDF]

Yoichi Asaoka, Makoto Sasaki

Turbulence in the ICM from mergers, cool-core sloshing and jets: results from a new multi-scale filtering approach [PDF]

F. Vazza, E. Roediger, M. Brueggen

IEAD: A Novel One-Line Interface to Query Astronomical Science Archives [PDF]

Marco Lombardi

Understanding and analysing time-correlated stochastic signals in pulsar timing [PDF]

Rutger van Haasteren, Yuri Levin

Toward Reliable Benchmarking of Solar Flare Forecasting Methods [PDF]

D. Shaun Bloomfield, Paul A. Higgins, R. T. James McAteer, Peter T. Gallagher

1202.5314 (Rosanne Di Stefano et al.)

Searching for Planets During Predicted Mesolensing Events: II. PLAN-IT: An Observing Program and its Application to VB 10 [PDF]

Rosanne Di Stefano, James Matthews, Sebastien Lepine

Pseudo-Newtonian Potentials for Nearly Parabolic Orbits [PDF]

Christopher Wegg

Angular momentum changing transitions in proton-Rydberg atom collisions [PDF]

D. Vrinceanu, R. Onofrio, H. R. Sadeghpour

Moment analysis of focus-diverse point spread functions for modal wavefront sensing of uniformly illuminated circular-pupil systems [PDF]

Hanshin Lee

1202.5141 (T. Abu-Zayyad et al.)

The Energy Spectrum of Telescope Array's Middle Drum Detector and the Direct Comparison to the High Resolution Fly's Eye Experiment [PDF]

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, D. Gorbunov, 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, 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, S. I. Lim, S. Machida, K. Martens, J. Martineau, T. Matsuda, T. Matsuura, T. Matsuyama, J. N. Matthews, M. Minamino, K. Miyata, Y. Murano, S. Nagataki, T. Nakamura, S. W. Nam, T. Nonaka, S. Ogio, M. Ohnishi, H. Ohoka, K. Oki, D. Oku, T. Okuda, 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. 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, M. Wood, Y. Yamakawa, R. Yamane, H. Yamaoka, K. Yamazaki, J. Yang, Y. Yoneda, S. Yoshida, H. Yoshii, R. Zollinger, Z. Zundel

Quasometry, Its Use and Purpose [PDF]

Valeri Makarov, Ciprian Berghea, David Boboltz, Christopher Dieck, Bryan Dorland, Rachel Dudik, Alan Fey, Ralph Gaume, Norbert Zacharias, Xuming Lei, Henrique Schmitt

1202.4763 (Flavio Gatti et al.)

The Electron Capture Decay of 163-Ho to Measure the Electron Neutrino Mass with sub-eV Accuracy and Beyond [PDF]

Flavio Gatti, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Maurizio Lusignoli, Angelo Nucciotti, Stefano Ragazzi

Space Astronomy for the mid-21st Century: Robotically Maintained Space Telescopes [PDF]

N. Schartel

First Science Observations with SOFIA/FORCAST: The FORCAST Mid-infrared Camera [PDF]

T. L. Herter, J. D. Adams, J. M. De Buizer, G. E. Gull, J. Schoenwald, C. P. Henderson, L. D. Keller, T. Nikola, G. Stacey, W. D. Vacca

1102.1406 (J. Galan)

Probing eV-mass scale axions with a Micromegas detector in the CAST experiment [PDF]

J. Galan

Statistical Tests of Noise and Harmony in Dark Matter Modulation Signals [PDF]

Spencer Chang, Josef Pradler, Itay Yavin

First Science Observations with SOFIA/FORCAST: 6 to 37 micron Imaging of the Central Orion Nebula [PDF]

R. Y. Shuping, Mark R. Morris, Terry L. Herter, Joseph D. Adams, G. E. Gull, J. Schoenwald, C. P. Henderson, E. E. Becklin, James M. De Buizer, William D. Vacca, Hans Zinnecker, S. Thomas Megeath

Compact continuum source-finding for next generation radio surveys [PDF]

Paul J Hancock, Tara Murphy, Bryan M Gaensler, Andrew Hopkins, James R Curran

Distinguishing between a true period and its alias, and other tasks of model discrimination [PDF]

Roman V. Baluev

Publication Trends in Astronomy: The Lone Author [PDF]

Edwin A. Henneken

Modelling supermassive black hole growth: towards an improved sub-grid prescription [PDF]

Alexander Hobbs, Chris Power, Sergei Nayakshin, Andrew King

Southern Africa CTA Site Proposal [PDF]

P. P. Krüger, D. J. Van der Walt

1202.4051 (Katherine H. Kenyon et al.)

Citations to Australian Astronomy: 5 and 10 Year Benchmarks [PDF]

Katherine H. Kenyon, Arjun Paramasivam, Jiachin Tu, Albert Zhang, Alister W. Graham

No role for muons in the DAMA annual modulation results [PDF]

R. Bernabei, P. Belli, F. Cappella, V. Caracciolo, R. Cerulli, C. J. Dai, A. d'Angelo, A. Di Marco, H. L. He, A. Incicchitti, X. H. Ma, F. Montecchia, X. D. Sheng, R. G. Wang, Z. P. Ye

A Density Independent Formulation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics [PDF]

Saitoh R. Takayuki, Junichiro Makino

The GREGOR solar telescope on Tenerife [PDF]

Wolfgang Schmidt, Oskar von der Lühe, Reiner Volkmer, Carsten Denker, Sami Solanki, Horst Balthasar, Nazaret Bello Gonzalez, Thomas Berkefeld, Manuel Collados, Axel Hofmann, Franz Kneer, Andreas Lagg, Klaus Puschmann, Dirk Schmidt, Michal Sobotka, Dirk Soltau, Klaus Strassmeier

Electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave transient signal candidates [PDF]

M. Branchesi, for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, for the Virgo Collaboration

1109.3559 (Andrea Raponi et al.)

The Measurement of Solar Diameter and Limb Darkening Function with the Eclipse Observations [PDF]

Andrea Raponi, Costantino Sigismondi, Konrad Guhl, Richard Nugent, Andreas Tegtmeier

BAMBI: blind accelerated multimodal Bayesian inference [PDF]

Philip Graff, Farhan Feroz, Michael P. Hobson, Anthony Lasenby

High Frame-rate Imaging Based Photometry, Photometric Reduction of Data from Electron-multiplying Charge Coupled Devices (EMCCDs) [PDF]

Kennet B. W. Harpsœ, Uffe G. J\orgensen, Michael I. Andersen, Frank Grundahl

Four Fundamental Foreground Power Spectrum Shapes for 21 cm Cosmology Observations [PDF]

Miguel F. Morales, Bryna Hazelton, Ian Sullivan, Adam Beardsley

Gone with the Wind ON_Mars (GOWON): A Wind-Driven Networked System of Mobile Sensors on Mars [PDF]

Faranak Davoodi, Ali Hajimiri, Neil Murphy, Michael Mischna, Issa Nesnas, Shouleh Nikzad

The Positioning System of the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope [PDF]

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