astro-ph.IM : Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Thursday, October 11, 2012

1210.2719 (Hajime Sugai et al.)

Prime Focus Spectrograph - Subaru's future - [PDF]

Hajime Sugai, Hiroshi Karoji, Naruhisa Takato, Naoyuki Tamura, Atsushi Shimono, Youichi Ohyama, Akitoshi Ueda, Hung-Hsu Ling, Marcio Vital de Arruda, Robert H. Barkhouser, Charles L. Bennett, Steve Bickerton, David F. Braun, Robin J. Bruno, Michael A. Carr, João Batista de Carvalho Oliveira, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Richard G. Dekany, Tania Pereira Dominici, Richard S. Ellis, Charles D. Fisher, James E. Gunn, Timothy M. Heckman, Paul T. P. Ho, Yen-Shan Hu, Marc Jaquet, Jennifer Karr, Masahiko Kimura, Olivier Le Fèvre, David Le Mignant, Craig Loomis, Robert H. Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Lucas Souza Marrara, Laurent Martin, Hitoshi Murayama, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Joe D. Orndorff, Rodrigo de Paiva Vilaça, Vanessa Bawden de Paula Macanhan, Eric Prieto, Jesulino Bispo dos Santos, Michael D. Seiffert, Stephen A. Smee, Roger M. Smith, Laerte Sodré Jr, David N. Spergel, Christian Surace, Sebastien Vives, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chi-Hung Yan

A spectrograph instrument concept for the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) on Subaru Telescope [PDF]

Sébastien Vives, David Le Mignant, Fabrice Madec, Marc Jaquet, Eric Prieto, Laurent Martin, Olivier Le Fèvre, James Gunn, Michael Carr, Stephen Smee, Robert Barkhouser, Hajime Sugai, Naoyuki Tamura

The system software development for Prime Focus Spectrogrsph on Subaru Telescope [PDF]

Atsushi Shimono, Naoyuki Tamura, Hajime Sugai, Hiroshi Karoji

The metrology cameras for Subaru PFS and FMOS [PDF]

Shiang-Yu Wang, Yen-Shan Hu, Chi-Hung Yan, Yin-Chang Chang, Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Atsushi Shimono, Jennifer Karr, Youichi Ohyama, Hsin-Yo Chen, Hung-Hsu Ling, Hiroshi Karoji, Hajime Sugai, Akitoshi Ueda

Developments in high-density Cobra fiber positioners for the Subaru Telescope's Prime Focus Spectrograph [PDF]

Charles D. Fisher, David F. Braun, Joel V. Kaluzny, Michael D. Seiffert, Richard G. Dekany, Richard S. Ellis, Roger M. Smith

Detectors and cryostat design for the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) [PDF]

James E. Gunn, Michael Carr, Stephen A. Smee, Joe D. Orndorff, Robert H. Barkhouser, Murdock Hart, Charles L. Bennett, Jenny E. Greene, Timothy Heckman, Hiroshi Karoji, Olivier LeFevre, Hung-Hsu Ling, Laurent Martin, Brice Menard, Hitoshi Murayama, Eric Prieto, David Spergel, Michael A. Strauss, Hajime Sugai, Akitoshi Ueda, Shiang-Yu Wang, Rosemary Wyse, Nadia Zakamska

FOCCoS for Subaru PFS [PDF]

Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Marcio Vital de Arruda, Jesulino Bispo dos Santos, Lucas Souza Marrara, Vanessa Bawden de Paula Macanhan, Joao Batista de Carvalho Oliveira, Rodrigo de Paiva Vilacca, Tania Pereira Dominici, Laerte Sodre Junior, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Hiroshi Karoji, Hajime Sugai, Atsushi Shimono, Naoyuki Tamura, Naruhisa Takato, Akitoshi Ueda

Pulsar Timing Arrays: Status and Techniques [PDF]

G. Hobbs

Observing the Galaxy's massive black hole with gravitational wave bursts [PDF]

C. P. L. Berry, J. R. Gair

The GREGOR Fabry-Pérot Interferometer [PDF]

K. G. Puschmann, C. Denker, F. Kneer, N. Al Erdogan, H. Balthasar, S. M. Bauer, C. Beck, N. Bello González, M. Collados, T. Hahn, J. Hirzberger, A. Hofmann, R. E. Louis, H. Nicklas, O. Okunev, V. Martínez Pillet, E. Popow, T. Seelemann, R. Volkmer, A. D. Wittmann, M. Woche

Difference Image Analysis: Extension to a Spatially Varying Photometric Scale Factor and Other Considerations [PDF]

D. M. Bramich, Keith Horne, M. D. Albrow, Y. Tsapras, C. Snodgrass, R. A. Street, M. Hundertmark, Noe Kains, A. Arellano Ferro, R. Figuera Jaimes, Sunetra Giridhar

The VISTA Science Archive [PDF]

Nicholas J. G. Cross, Ross S. Collins, Robert G. Mann, Mike A. Read, Eckhard T. W. Sutorius, Robert P. Blake, Mark S. Holliman, Nigel C. Hambly, Jim P. Emerson, Andrew Lawrence, Keith T. Noddle

The EXoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE) [PDF]

Olivier Guyon, Glenn Schneidera, Ruslan Belikov, Domenick J. Tenerelli

1009.4179 (ANTARES collaboration et al.)

AMADEUS - The Acoustic Neutrino Detection Test System of the ANTARES Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope [PDF]

ANTARES collaboration, J. A. Aguilar, I. Al Samarai, A. Albert, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, S. Anvar, M. Ardid, A. C. Assis Jesus, T. Astraatmadja, J. -J. Aubert, R. Auer, E. Barbarito, B. Baret, S. Basa, M. Bazzotti, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, C. Bigongiari, M. Bou-Cabo, M. C. Bouwhuis, A. Brown, J. Brunner, J. Busto, F. Camarena, A. Capone, C. Cârloganu, G. Carminati, J. Carr, B. Cassano, E. Castorina, V. Cavasinni, S. Cecchini, A. Ceres, Ph. Charvis, T. Chiarusi, N. Chon Sen, M. Circella, R. Coniglione, H. Costantini, N. Cottini, P. Coyle, C. Curtil, G. De Bonis, M. P. Decowski, I. Dekeyser, A. Deschamps, C. Distefano, C. Donzaud, D. Dornic, D. Drouhin, T. Eberl, U. Emanuele, J. -P. Ernenwein, S. Escoffier, F. Fehr, C. Fiorello, V. Flaminio, U. Fritsch, J. -L. Fuda, P. Gay, G. Giacomelli, J. P. Gómez-González, K. Graf, G. Guillard, G. Halladjian, G. Hallewell, H. van Haren, A. J. Heijboer, E. Heine, Y. Hello, J. J. Hernández-Rey, B. Herold, J. Hößl, M. de Jong, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, O. Kalekin, A. Kappes, U. Katz, P. Keller, P. Kooijman, C. Kopper, A. Kouchner, W. Kretschmer, R. Lahmann, P. Lamare, G. Lambard, G. Larosa, H. Laschinsky, H. Le Provost, D. Lefèvre, G. Lelaizant, G. Lim, D. Lo Presti, H. Loehner, S. Loucatos, F. Louis, F. Lucarelli, S. Mangano, M. Marcelin, A. Margiotta, J. A. Martinez-Mora, A. Mazure, M. Mongelli, T. Montaruli, M. Morganti, L. Moscoso, H. Motz, C. Naumann, M. Neff, R. Ostasch, D. Palioselitis, G. E. Pavalas, P. Payre, J. Petrovic, N. Picot-Clemente, C. Picq, V. Popa, T. Pradier, E. Presani, C. Racca, A. Radu, C. Reed, G. Riccobene, C. Richardt, M. Rujoiu, M. Ruppi, G. V. Russo, F. Salesa, P. Sapienza, F. Schöck, J. -P. Schuller, R. Shanidze, F. Simeone, M. Spurio, J. J. M. Steijger, Th. Stolarczyk, M. Taiuti, C. Tamburini, L. Tasca, S. Toscano, B. Vallage, V. Van Elewyck, G. Vannoni, M. Vecchi, P. Vernin, G. Wijnker, E. de Wolf, H. Yepes, D. Zaborov, J. D. Zornoza, J. Zúñiga

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Broadband and Broad-beam Array: Design Overview and Sensitivity Forecasts [PDF]

Jonathan C. Pober, Aaron R. Parsons, David R. DeBoer, Patrick McDonald, Matthew McQuinn, James E. Aguirre, Zaki Ali, Richard F. Bradley, Tzu-Ching Chang, Miguel F. Morales

The Benefits of VLBI Astrometry to Pulsar Timing Array Searches for Gravitational Radiation [PDF]

D. R. Madison, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes

Gamma rays, electrons and positrons up to 3 TeV with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope [PDF]

Philippe Bruel

RRI-GBT Multi-Band Receiver: Motivation, Design & Development [PDF]

Yogesh Maan, Avinash A. Deshpande, Vinutha Chandrashekar, Jayanth Chennamangalam, K. B. Raghavendra Rao, R. Somashekar, Gary Anderson, M. S. Ezhilarasi, S. Sujatha, S. Kasturi, P. Sandhya, Jonah Bauserman, R. Duraichelvan, Shahram Amiri, H. A. Aswathappa, Indrajit V. Barve, G. Sarabagopalan, H. M. Ananda, Carla Beaudet, Marty Bloss, Deepa B. Dhamnekar, Dennis Egan, John Ford, S. Krishnamurthy, Nikhil Mehta, Anthony H. Minter, H. N. Nagaraja, M. Narayanaswamy, Karen O'Neil, Wasim Raja, Harshad Sahasrabudhe, Amy Shelton, K. S. Srivani, H. V. Venugopal, Salna T. Viswanathan

Atmospheric extinction properties above Mauna Kea from the Nearby Supernova Factory spectro-photometric data set [PDF]

C. Buton, Y. Copin, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, J. Guy, E. Y. Hsiao, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, S. Loken, P. Nugent K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pécontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weave, C. Wu

Large-scale calculations of supernova neutrino-induced reactions in Z=8-82 target nuclei [PDF]

N. Paar, H. Tutman, T. Marketin, T. Fischer

Extracting information from the data flood of new solar telescopes. Brainstorming [PDF]

A. Asensio Ramos

Study of Cosmogenic Neutron Backgrounds at LNGS [PDF]

A. Empl, R. Jasim, E. Hungerford, P. Mosteiro

1210.1850 (Nicola Da Rio et al.)

TA-DA: a Tool for Astrophysical Data Analysis [PDF]

Nicola Da Rio, Massimo Robberto

Sense and sensitivity: How ALMA receivers work [PDF]

T. L. Wilson, R. Mauersberger, A. Hales

How ALMA is calibrated: I Antenna-based pointing, focus and amplitude calibration [PDF]

T. van Kempen, S. Corder, R. Lucas, R. Mauersberger

Image Analysis for Cosmology: Results from the GREAT10 Star Challenge [PDF]

T. D. Kitching, B. Rowe, M. Gill, C. Heymans, R. Massey, D. Witherick, F. Courbin, K. Georgatzis, M. Gentile, D. Gruen, M. Kilbinger, G. L. Li, A. P. Mariglis, G. Meylan, A. Storkey, B. Xin

Atmospheric turbulence profiling using multiple laser star wavefront sensors [PDF]

Angela Cortés, Benoit Neichel, Andrés Guesalaga, James Osborn, Francois Rigaut, Dani Guzman

Neutrino Astronomy - A Review of Future Experiments [PDF]

Albrecht Karle

Fifty Years in Fifteen Minutes: The Impact of the Parkes Observatory [PDF]

Philip Edwards

Efficient deconvolution methods for astronomical imaging: algorithms and IDL-GPU codes [PDF]

M. Prato, R. Cavicchioli, L. Zanni, P. Boccacci, M. Bertero

LOFT: the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing [PDF]

E. Bozzo, P. Esposito, P. Romano

1210.1584 (Ellie Hadjiyska et al.)

La Silla-QUEST Variability Survey in the Southern Hemisphere [PDF]

Ellie Hadjiyska, David Rabinowitz, Charles Baltay, Nancy Ellman, Peter Nugent, Robert Zinn, Benjamin Horowitz, Ryan McKinnon, Lissa R. Miller

Accurate Geodetic Coordinates for Observatories on Cerro Tololo and Cerro Pachon [PDF]

Eric E. Mamajek

Simulating Sinking Satellites with SUPERBOX-10 [PDF]

Reinhold Bien, Tobias Brandt, Andreas Just

Correlations in energy in cosmic ray air showers radio-detected by CODALEMA [PDF]

Ahmed Rebai, Pascal Lautridou, Alain Lecacheux, Olivier Ravel

Measurements of Cosmic Rays with IceTop/IceCube: Status and Results [PDF]

Alessio Tamburro

CUTE solutions for two-point correlation functions from large cosmological datasets [PDF]

David Alonso

1210.1319 (B. Keilhauer et al.)

Nitrogen fluorescence in air for observing extensive air showers [PDF]

B. Keilhauer, M. Bohacova, M. Fraga, J. Matthews, N. Sakaki, Y. Tameda, Y. Tsunesada, A. Ulrich

Status of the SPHERE experiment [PDF]

R. A. Antonov, S. P. Beschapov, E. A. Bonvech, D. V. Chernov, T. A. Dzhatdoev, Mir. Finger, M. Finger, V. I. Galkin, N. N. Kabanova, A. S. Petkun, D. A. Podgrudkov, T. M. Roganova, S. B. Shaulov, T. I. Sysoeva

Design and Performance of the GAMMA-400 Gamma-Ray Telescope for the Dark Matter Searches [PDF]

A. M. Galper, O. Adriani, R. L. Aptekar, I. V. Arkhangelskaja, A. I. Arkhangelskiy, M. Boezio, V. Bonvicini, K. A. Boyarchuk, M. I. Fradkin, Yu. V. Gusakov, V. A. Kaplin, V. A. Kachanov, M. D. Kheymits, A. A. Leonov, F. Longo, E. P. Mazets, P. Maestro, P. Marrocchesi, I. A. Mereminskiy, V. V. Mikhailov, A. A. Moiseev, E. Mocchiutti, N. Mori, I. V. Moskalenko, P. Yu. Naumov, P. Papini, P. Picozza, V. G. Rodin, M. F. Runtso, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, S. I. Suchkov, M. Tavani, N. P. Topchiev, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, Yu. T. Yurkin, N. Zampa, V. G. Zverev, V. N. Zirakashvili

The Transient Optical Sky Survey Data Pipeline [PDF]

E. Hadjiyska, G. Hughes, P. Lubin, S. Taylor, R. Hartong-Redden, J. Zierten

1210.0976 (R. N. Manchester)

Pulsars at Parkes [PDF]

R. N. Manchester

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array: What we've done and what we're doing [PDF]

G. Hobbs

Understanding our Galaxy - key contributions from the Parkes telescope [PDF]

J. L. Caswell

The Methanol Multibeam Survey [PDF]

J. A. Green, the Methanol Multibeam Survey Collaboration

Dishing up the Data: A Decade of Space Missions [PDF]

John Sarkissian

The first search for glycine and other biomolecules [PDF]

J. W. V. Storey

Circumstellar masers in the Magellanic Clouds [PDF]

Jacco Th. van Loon

Early Parkes Observations of Planets and Cosmic Radio Sources [PDF]

K. I. Kellermann

The Double Pulsar System in its 8th anniversary [PDF]

Marta Burgay

The First Observations with the GRT at Parkes [PDF]

R. M. Price

An Australian Icon - Planning and Construction of the Parkes Telescope [PDF]

Peter Robertson

The Life and Times of the Parkes-Tidbinbilla Interferometer [PDF]

Ray P. Norris, M. J. Kesteven

Towards accelerating Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations for free-surface flows on multi-GPU clusters [PDF]

Daniel Valdez-Balderas, José M. Domínguez, Benedict D. Rogers, Alejandro J. C. Crespo

Pulse Shape Discrimination in liquid argon and its implications for Dark Matter searches using depleted argon [PDF]

Pawel Kryczynski, for the WArP Research, Development Group

Image reconstruction for observations with a high dynamic range: LINC-NIRVANA simulations of a stellar jet [PDF]

Andrea La Camera, Simone Antoniucci, Mario Bertero, Patrizia Boccacci, Dario Lorenzetti, Brunella Nisini

Optical photometric monitoring of gamma-ray binaries [PDF]

Xavier Paredes-Fortuny, Marc Ribó, Octavi Fors, Jorge Núñez

1210.0224 (J. P. W. Verbiest et al.)

PSR J1141-6545: a powerful laboratory of GR and tensor-scalar theories of gravity [PDF]

J. P. W. Verbiest, N. D. R. Bhat, M. Bailes

SEDfit: Software for Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting of Photometric Data [PDF]

Marcin Sawicki

Re-calibration of SDF/SXDS Photometric Catalogs of Suprime-Cam with SDSS Data Release 8 [PDF]

Masafumi Yagi, Nao Suzuki, Hitomi Yamanoi, Hisanori Furusawa, Fumiaki Nakata, Yutaka Komiyama

The electromagnetic calorimeter of the AMS-02 experiment [PDF]

M. Vecchi, L. Basara, G. Bigongiari, F. Cervelli, G. Chen, G. M. Chen, H. S. Chen, G. Coignet, S. Di Falco, S. Elles, A. Fiasson, D. Fougeron, G. Gallucci, C. Goy, M. Incagli, R. Kossakowki, V. Lepareur, Z. H. Li, M. Maire, M. Paniccia, F. Pilo, S. Rosier-Lees, X. W. Tang, C. Vannini, J. P. Vialle, H. L. Zhuang

Measurements of Antenna Surface for a Millimeter-Wave Space Radio Telescope II; Metal Mesh Surface for Large Deployable Reflector [PDF]

Kazuhisa Kamegai, Masato Tsuboi

The LOFAR radio environment [PDF]

A. R. Offringa, A. G. de Bruyn, S. Zaroubi, G. van Diepen, O. Martinez-Ruby, P. Labropoulos, M. A. Brentjens, B. Ciardi, S. Daiboo, G. Harker, V. Jelic, S. Kazemi, L. V. E. Koopmans, G. Mellema, V. N. Pandey, R. F. Pizzo, J. Schaye, H. Vedantham, V. Veligatla, S. J. Wijnholds, S. Yatawatta, P. Zarka, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, M. Avruch, R. Beck, M. Bell, M. R. Bell, M. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, L. Birzan, A. Bonafede, F. Breitling, J. W. Broderick, M. Bruggen, H. Butcher, J. Conway, M. de Vos, R. J. Dettmar, J. Eisloeffel, H. Falcke, R. Fender, W. Frieswijk, M. Gerbers, J. M. Griessmeier, A. W. Gunst, T. E. Hassall, G. Heald, J. Hessels, M. Hoeft, A. Horneffer, A. Karastergiou, V. Kondratiev, Y. Koopman, M. Kuniyoshi, G. Kuper, P. Maat, G. Mann, J. McKean, H. Meulman, M. Mevius, J. D. Mol, R. Nijboer, J. Noordam, M. Norden, H. Paas, M. Pandey, R. Pizzo, A. Polatidis, D. Rafferty, S. Rawlings, W. Reich, H. J. A. Rottgering, A. P. Schoenmakers, J. Sluman, O. Smirnov, C. Sobey, B. Stappers, M. Steinmetz, J. Swinbank, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, A. van Ardenne, W. van Cappellen, A. P. van Duin, M. van Haarlem, J. van Leeuwen, R. J. van Weeren, R. Vermeulen, C. Vocks, R. A. M. J. Wijers, M. Wise, O. Wucknitz

A wide-band, active antenna system for long wavelength radio astronomy [PDF]

Brian C. Hicks, Nagini Paravastu-Dalal, Kenneth P. Stewart, William C. Erickson, Paul S. Ray, Namir E. Kassim, Steve Burns, Tracy Clarke, Henrique Schmitt, Joe Craig, Jake Hartman, Kurt W. Weiler

gamma-ray DBSCAN: a clustering algorithm applied to Fermi-LAT gamma-ray data. I. Detection performances with real and simulated data [PDF]

A. Tramacere, C. Vecchio

Robo-AO: autonomous and replicable laser-adaptive-optics and science system [PDF]

C. Baranec, R. Riddle, A. N. Ramaprakash, N. Law, S. Tendulkar, S. Kulkarni, R. Dekany, K. Bui, J. Davis, M. Burse, H. Das, S. Hildebrandt, S. Punnadi, R. Smith

Accelerating pulsar timing data analysis [PDF]

Rutger van Haasteren

Starlight Demonstration of the Dragonfly Instrument: an Integrated Photonic Pupil Remapping Interferometer for High Contrast Imaging [PDF]

N. Jovanovic, P. G. Tuthill, B. Norris, S. Gross, P. Stewart, N. Charles, S. Lacour, M. Ams, J. S. Lawrence, A. Lehmann, C. Niel, J. G. Robertson, G. D. Marshall, M. Ireland, A. Fuerbach, M. J. Withford

AAO Observer Number 122 (August 2012) [PDF]

Andrew Green

Reduction and analysis of MUSE data [PDF]

J. Richard, R. Bacon, P. M. Weilbacher, O. Streicher, L. Wisotzki, E. C. Herenz, E. Slezak, M. Petremand, A. Jalobeanu, C. Collet, M. Louys, the MUSE, DAHLIA teams

Open Science Project in White Dwarf Research [PDF]

Tommi Vornanen

The first INTEGRAL-OMC catalogue of optically variable sources [PDF]

J. Alfonso-Garzón, A. Domingo, J. M. Mas-Hesse, A. Giménez

ADS Labs - Supporting Information Discovery in Science Education [PDF]

Edwin A. Henneken, Donna Thompson

1009.5573 (Jinyi Shangguan et al.)

Study of Interplanetary Magnetic Field with Ground State Alignment [PDF]

Jinyi Shangguan, Huirong Yan

1209.6424 (Zhou jian-jun et al.)

22GHz water maser survey of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory [PDF]

Zhou jian-jun, Esimbek Jarken, Wu Gang

Applying Bayesian Inference to the first International Pulsar Timing Array data challenge [PDF]

Neil J. Cornish

Exploring Design Tradeoffs Of A Distributed Algorithm For Cosmic Ray Event Detection [PDF]

Suhail Yousaf, Rena Bakhshi, Maarten van Steen, Spyros Voulgaris, John L. Kelley

Development of simple quantitative test for lack of field emission orthodoxy [PDF]

Richard G. Forbes

1209.6106 (Peter Vereš et al.)

Improved Asteroid Astrometry and Photometry with Trail Fitting [PDF]

Peter Vereš, Robert Jedicke, Larry Denneau, Richard Wainscoat, Matthew J. Holman, Hsing-Wen Lin

1209.5788 (D. Jack et al.)

A 3D radiative transfer framework IX. Time dependence [PDF]

D. Jack, P. H. Hauschildt, E. Baron

GPU Acceleration of Image Convolution using Spatially-varying Kernel [PDF]

Steven Hartung, Hemant Shukla, J. Patrick Miller, Carlton Pennypacker

1209.5621 (Rhita-Maria Ouazzani et al.)

Pulsations of rapidly rotating stars: I. The ACOR numerical code [PDF]

Rhita-Maria Ouazzani, Marc-Antoine Dupret, Daniel Reese

Growing supermassive black holes: sub-grid modelling and intermediate-scale processes [PDF]

Alexander Hobbs

On the interpolation of calibration solutions obtained in radio interferometry [PDF]

Sarod Yatawatta

Optimized analysis method for indirect dark matter searches with Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes [PDF]

Jelena Aleksic, Javier Rico, Manel Martinez

1209.4905 (M. -A. Bigot-Sazy et al.)

Self-calibration: an efficient method to control systematic effects in bolometric interferometry [PDF]

M. -A. Bigot-Sazy, R. Charlassier, J. -Ch. Hamilton, J. Kaplan, G. Zahariade

Acrylic purification and coatings [PDF]

Marcin Kuźniak

Adaptive Real Time Imaging Synthesis Telescopes [PDF]

Melvyn Wright

A Bayesian Approach to Locating the Red Giant Branch Tip Magnitude (Part II); Distances to the Satellites of M31 [PDF]

Anthony R. Conn, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Geraint F. Lewis, Quentin A. Parker, Daniel B. Zucker, Nicolas F. Martin, Alan W. McConnachie, Mike J. Irwin, Nial Tanvir, Mark A. Fardal, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Scott C. Chapman, David Valls-Gabaud

Long-term stability of fibre-optic transmission for multi-object spectroscopy [PDF]

R. Sharp, S. Brough, R. D. Cannon

Design of Optically Path Length Matched, Three-Dimensional Photonic Circuits Comprising Uniquely Routed Waveguides [PDF]

Ned Charles, Nemanja Jovanovic, Simon Gross, Paul Stewart, Barnaby Norris, John O'Byrne, Jon S. Lawrence, Michael J. Withford, Peter G. Tuthill

PUCHEROS Early Science: A New Be+sdO Candidate [PDF]

Th. Rivinius, L. Vanzi, J. Chacon, P. Leyton, K. G. Helminiak, M. Baffico, S. Štefl, D. Baade, G. Avila, C. Guirao

1209.4699 (Chow-Choong Ngeow et al.)

The SED Machine: A Spectrograph to Efficiently Classify Transient Events Discovered by PTF [PDF]

Chow-Choong Ngeow, Nick Konidaris, Robert Quimby, Andreas Ritter, Alexander R. Rudy, Edward Lin, Sagi Ben-Ami

Production of Phase Screens for Simulation of Atmospheric Turbulence [PDF]

Rachel Rampy, Don Gavel, Daren Dillon, Sandrine Thomas

Deep blank field catalogue for medium- and large-size telescopes [PDF]

F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, A. Cabrera-Lavers, N. Cardiel, J. M. Alacid

1209.4454 (A. Richichi et al.)

A catalog of near-IR sources found unresolved with milliarcsecond resolution [PDF]

A. Richichi, O. Fors, F. Cusano, M. Moerchen

1209.4098 (Siddharth Hegde et al.)

Colors of extreme exoEarth environments [PDF]

Siddharth Hegde, Lisa Kaltenegger

The Pulsar Search Collaboratory: Discovery and Timing of Five New Pulsars [PDF]

R. Rosen, J. Swiggum, M. A. McLaughlin, D. R. Lorimer, M. Yun, S. Heatherly, J. Boyles, R. Lynch, V. I. Kondratiev, S. Scoles, S. M. Ransom, M. L. Moniot, A. Cottrill, M. Weaver, A. Snider, C. Thompson, M. Raycraft, J. Dudenhoefer, L. Allphin, J. Thorley, B. Meadows, G. Marchiny, A. Liska, A. M. O'Dwyer, B. Butler, S. Bloxton, H. Mabry, H. Abate, J. Boothe, S. Pritt, J. Alberth, A. Green, R. J. Crowley, A. Agee, S. Nagley, N. Sargent, E. Hinson, K. Smith, R. McNeely, H. Quigley, A. Pennington, S. Chen, T. Maynard, L. Loope, N. Bielski, J. R. McGough, J. C. Gural, S. Colvin, S. Tso, Z. Ewen, M. Zhang, N. Ciccarella, B. Bukowski, C. B. Novotny, J. Gore, K. Sarver, S. Johnson, H. Cunningham, D. Collins, D. Gardner, A. Monteleone, J. Hall, R. Schweinhagen, J. Ayers, S. Jay, B. Uosseph, D. Dunkum, J. Pal, S. Dydiw, M. Sterling, E. Phan

Estimating distance, pressure, and dust opacity using submillimeter observations of self-gravitating filaments [PDF]

Joerg Fischera, Peter G. Martin

Estimation of Radio Interferometer Beam Shapes Using Riemannian Optimization [PDF]