DeepGhostBusters: Using Mask R-CNN to Detect and Mask Ghosting and Scattered-Light Artifacts from Optical Survey Images

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Kavli Affiliate: Brian Nord | First 5 Authors: Dimitrios Tanoglidis, Aleksandra Ćiprijanović, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Brian Nord, Michael H. L. S. Wang | Summary: Wide-field astronomical surveys are often affected by the presence of undesirable reflections (often known as "ghosting artifacts" or "ghosts") and scattered-light artifacts. The identification and mitigation of these artifacts is important for […]


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Subtle Data Crimes: Naively training machine learning algorithms could lead to overly-optimistic results

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Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Efrat Shimron, Jonathan I. Tamir, Ke Wang, Michael Lustig, | Summary: While open databases are an important resource in the Deep Learning (DL) era, they are sometimes used "off-label": data published for one task are used for training algorithms for a different one. This work aims to […]


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Monte Carlo simulations of neutrino and charged lepton propagation in the Earth with nuPyProp

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Kavli Affiliate: Angela Olinto | First 5 Authors: Sameer Patel, Mary Hall Reno, Yosui Akaike, Luis Anchordoqui, Douglas Bergman | Summary: An accurate modeling of neutrino flux attenuation and the distribution of leptons they produce in transit through the Earth is an essential component to determine neutrino flux sensitivities of underground, sub-orbital and space-based detectors. […]


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SNEWPY: A Data Pipeline from Supernova Simulations to Neutrino Signals

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Kavli Affiliate: Shunsaku Horiuchi | First 5 Authors: Amanda L. Baxter, Segev BenZvi, Joahan Castaneda Jaimes, Alexis Coleiro, Marta Colomer Molla | Summary: Current neutrino detectors will observe hundreds to thousands of neutrinos from a Galactic supernovae, and future detectors will increase this yield by an order of magnitude or more. With such a data […]


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End-to-End Partially Observable Visual Navigation in a Diverse Environment

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Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Bo Ai, Wei Gao, Vinay, David Hsu, | Summary: How can a robot navigate successfully in a rich and diverse environment, indoors or outdoors, along an office corridor or a trail in the park, on the flat ground, the staircase, or the elevator, etc.? To this end, […]


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Deep exploration of the planets HR 8799 b, c, and d with moderate resolution spectroscopy

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Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | First 5 Authors: Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Quinn M. Konopacky, Travis Barman, Bruce Macintosh, Kielan K. Wilcomb | Summary: The four directly imaged planets orbiting the star HR 8799 are an ideal laboratory to probe atmospheric physics and formation models. We present more than a decade’s worth of Keck/OSIRIS observations of these […]


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Further evidence of shocks in the first-overtone RR Lyrae pulsators: first detection of shock-triggered magnesium emissions

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Kavli Affiliate: Huawei Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiao-Wei Duan, Weijia Sun, Xiaodian Chen, Licai Deng, Huawei Zhang | Summary: The behavior of the shock wave in the atmosphere of the non-fundamental mode RR Lyrae pulsator remains a mystery. In this work, we firstly report a blueshifted Mg triplet emission in continuous spectroscopic observations for […]


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Investigating the Nature of the Luminous Ambiguous Nuclear Transient ASASSN-17jz

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Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: Thomas W. -S. Holoien, Jack M. M. Neustadt, Patrick J. Vallely, Katie Auchettl, Jason T. Hinkle | Summary: We present observations of the extremely luminous but ambiguous nuclear transient (ANT) ASASSN-17jz, spanning roughly 1200 days of the object’s evolution. ASASSN-17jz was discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey […]


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Dark matter transient annihilations in the early Universe

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Kavli Affiliate: Jia Liu | First 5 Authors: Katsuya Hashino, Jia Liu, Xiao-Ping Wang, Ke-Pan Xie, | Summary: The cosmological evolution can modify the dark matter (DM) properties in the early Universe to be vastly different from the properties today. Therefore, the relation between the relic abundance and the DM constraints today needs to be […]


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Categorical wall-crossing formula for Donaldson-Thomas theory on the resolved conifold

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Kavli Affiliate: Yukinobu Toda | First 5 Authors: Yukinobu Toda, , , , | Summary: We prove wall-crossing formula for categorical Donaldson-Thomas invariants on the resolved conifold, which categorifies Nagao-Nakajima wall-crossing formula for numerical DT invariants on it. The categorified Hall products are used to describe the wall-crossing formula as semiorthogonal decompositions. A successive application […]


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