Thursday, January 31, 2013

1301.7307 (Fiona A. Harrison et al.)

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission    [PDF]

Fiona A. Harrison, William W. Craig, Finn E. Christensen, Charles J. Hailey, Will W. Zhang, Steven E. Boggs, Daniel Stern, W. Rick Cook, Karl Forster, Paolo Giommi, Brian W. Grefenstette, Yunjin Kim, Takao Kitaguchi, Jason E Koglin, Kristin K. Madsen, Peter H. Mao, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Kaya Mori, Matteo Perri, Michael J. Pivovaroff, Simonetta Puccetti, Vikram R. Rana, Niels J. Westergaard, Jason Willis, Andreas Zoglauer, Hongjun An, Matteo Bachetti, Nicolas M. Barriere, Eric C. Bellm, Varun Bhalerao, Nicolai F. Brejnholt, Felix Fuerst, Carl C. Liebe, Craig B. Markwardt, Melania Nynka, Julia K. Vogel, Dominic J. Walton, Daniel R. Wik, David M. Alexander, Lynn R. Cominsky, Ann E. Hornschemeier, Allan Hornstrup, Victoria M. Kaspi, Greg M. Madejski, Giorgio Matt, Silvano Molendi, David M. Smith, John A. Tomsick, Marco Ajello, David R. Ballantyne, Mislav Balokovic, Diddier Barret, Franz E. Bauer, Roger D. Blandford, W. Niel Brandt, Laura W. Brenneman, James Chiang, Deepto Chakrabarty, Jerome Chenevez, Andrea Comastri, Martin Elvis, Andrew C. Fabian, Duncan Farrah, Chris L. Fryer, Eric V. Gotthelf, Jonathan E. Grindlay, David J. Helfand, Roman Krivonos, David L. Meier, Jon M. Miller, Lorenzo Natalucci, Patrick Ogle, Eran O. Ofek, Andrew Ptak, Stephen P. Reynolds, Jand R. Rigby, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Stephen E. Thorsett, Ezequiel Treister, C. Megan Urry

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

1301.6790 (Reed L. Riddle et al.)

The Robo-AO software: Fully autonomous operation of a laser guide star adaptive optics and science system    [PDF]

Reed L. Riddle, Mahesh P. Burse, Nicholas M. Law, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Christoph Baranec, Alexander R. Rudy, Marland Sitt, Ankit Arya, Athanasios Papadopoulos, A. N. Ramaprakash, Richard G. Dekany

1301.6808 (S. G. Djorgovski et al.)

The MICA Experiment: Astrophysics in Virtual Worlds    [PDF]

S. G. Djorgovski, Piet Hut, Rob Knop, Giuseppe Longo, Steve McMillan, Enrico Vesperini, Ciro Donalek, Matthew Graham, Asish Mahabal, Franz Sauer, Charles White, Crista Lopes

1301.6902 (O. Vaduvescu et al.)

Mining the ESO WFI and INT WFC archives for known Near Earth Asteroids. Mega-Precovery software    [PDF]

O. Vaduvescu, M. Popescu, I. Comsa, A. Paraschiv, D. Lacatus, A. Sonka, A. Tudorica, M. Birlan, O. Suciu, F. Char, M. Constantinescu, T. Badescu, M. Badea, D. Vidican, C. Opriseanu

1301.6942 (S. Fiorucci et al.)

The LUX Dark Matter Search -- Status Update    [PDF]

S. Fiorucci, for the LUX Collaboration

1301.6988 (P. Brun et al.)

Composite mirror facets for ground based gamma ray astronomy    [PDF]

P. Brun, P. -H. Carton, D. Durand, J-F. Glicenstein, C. Jeanney, M. C. Medina, P. Micolon, B. Peyaud

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

1301.6171 (Stacey Alberts et al.)

Submm/mm Galaxy Counterpart Identification Using a Characteristic Density Distribution    [PDF]

Stacey Alberts, Grant W. Wilson, Yu Lu, Seth Johnson, Min S. Yun, Kimberly S. Scott, Alexandra Pope, Itziar Aretxaga, Hajime Ezawa, David H. Hughes, Ryohei Kawabe, Sungeun Kim, Kotaro Kohno, Tai Oshima

1301.6205 (Michael J. Ireland)

Phase Errors in Diffraction-Limited Imaging: Contrast Limits for Sparse Aperture Masking    [PDF]

Michael J. Ireland

1301.6290 (David R. Thompson et al.)

Real Time Event Detection in Astronomical Data Streams: Lessons from the VLBA    [PDF]

David R. Thompson, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Adam T. Deller, Walid A. Majid, Divya Palaniswamy, Steven J. Tingay, Kiri L. Wagstaff, Randall B. Wayth

1301.6346 (R. P. Eatough et al.)

A coherent acceleration search of the Parkes multi-beam pulsar survey - techniques and the discovery and timing of 16 pulsars    [PDF]

R. P. Eatough, M. Kramer, A. G. Lyne, M. J. Keith

1301.6403 (B. von Krosigk et al.)

Measurement of the proton light response of various LAB based scintillators and its implication for supernova neutrino detection via neutrino-proton scattering    [PDF]

B. von Krosigk, L. Neumann, R. Nolte, S. Röttger, K. Zuber

1301.6414 (S. J. Tingay et al.)

The Murchison Widefield Array: solar science with the low frequency SKA Precursor    [PDF]

S. J. Tingay, D. Oberoi, I. Cairns, A. Donea, R. Duffin, W. Arcus, G. Bernardi, J. D. Bowman, F. Briggs, J. D. Bunton, R. J. Cappallo, B. E. Corey, A. Deshpande, L. deSouza, D. Emrich, B. M. Gaensler, R. Goeke, L. J. Greenhill, B. J. Hazelton, D. Herne, J. N. Hewitt, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. L. Kaplan, J. C. Kasper, J. A. Kennewell, B. B. Kincaid, R. Koenig, E. Kratzenberg, C. J. Lonsdale, M. J. Lynch, S. R. McWhirter, D. A. Mitchell, M. F. Morales, E. Morgan, S. M. Ord, J. Pathikulangara, T. Prabu, R. A Remillard, A. E. E. Rogers, A. Roshi, J. E. Salah, R. J. Sault, N. Udaya-Shankar, K. S. Srivani, J. Stevens, R. Subrahmanyan, M. Waterson, R. B. Wayth, R. L. Webster, A. R. Whitney, A. Williams, C. L. Williams, J. S. B. Wyithe

1301.6434 (Juan P. Treviño et al.)

Segmented Vortex Telescope and its Tolerance to Diffraction Effects and Primary Aberrations    [PDF]

Juan P. Treviño, Omar López-Cruz, Sabino Chávez-Cerda

1301.6450 (Ewan Cameron et al.)

Recursive Pathways to Marginal Likelihood Estimation with Prior-Sensitivity Analysis    [PDF]

Ewan Cameron, Anthony Pettitt

1301.6490 (J. D. Bray et al.)

LUNASKA neutrino search with the Parkes and ATCA telescopes    [PDF]

J. D. Bray, R. D. Ekers, R. J. Protheroe, C. W. James, C. J. Phillips, P. Roberts, A. Brown, J. E. Reynolds, R. A. McFadden, M. Aartsen

1301.6556 (Thomas Bretz et al.)

Design constraints on Cherenkov telescopes with Davies-Cotton reflectors    [PDF]

Thomas Bretz, Mathieu Ribordy

1301.6160 (Thomas Essinger-Hileman)

Transfer matrix for treating stratified media including birefringent crystals    [PDF]

Thomas Essinger-Hileman

1301.6620 (XENON100 collaboration et al.)

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data    [PDF]

XENON100 collaboration, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, C. Balan, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, A. Behrens, P. Beltrame, K. Bokeloh, A. Brown, E. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, J. M. R. Cardoso, W. -T. Chen, B. Choi, 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, D. Lellouch, 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, M. Messina, A. Molinario, 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

1301.6673 (Rutger van Haasteren et al.)

Analysis of the first IPTA Mock Data Challenge by the EPTA timing data analysis working group    [PDF]

Rutger van Haasteren, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Alberto Vecchio, Antoine Lassus

Monday, January 28, 2013

1301.5951 (Cathryn M. Trott et al.)

A framework for interpreting fast radio transients search experiments: application to the V-FASTR experiment    [PDF]

Cathryn M. Trott, Steven J. Tingay, Randall B. Wayth, David R. Thompson, Adam T. Deller, Walter F. Brisken, Kiri L. Wagstaff, Walid A. Majid, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Jean-Pierre R. Macquart, Divya Palaniswamy