Complexity Phenomena and ROMA of the Magnetospheric Cusp, Hydrodynamic Turbulence, and the Cosmic Web

Kavli Affiliate: Tom Chang | First 5 Authors: Tom Chang, Cheng-chin Wu, Marius Echim, Herve Lamy, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: Dynamic Complexity is a phenomenon exhibited by a nonlinearly interacting system within which multitudes of different sizes of large scale coherent structures emerge, resulting in a globally nonlinear stochastic behavior vastly different from that could […]


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The Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey

Kavli Affiliate: Joshua A. Frieman | First 5 Authors: Masao Sako, Bruce Bassett, Andrew C. Becker, Peter J. Brown, Heather Campbell | Summary: This paper describes the data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey conducted between 2005 and 2007. Light curves, spectra, classifications, and ancillary data are presented for 10,258 variable […]


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The Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey

Kavli Affiliate: Joshua A. Frieman | First 5 Authors: Masao Sako, Bruce Bassett, Andrew C. Becker, Peter J. Brown, Heather Campbell | Summary: This paper describes the data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey conducted between 2005 and 2007. Light curves, spectra, classifications, and ancillary data are presented for 10,258 variable […]


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Performance of an LPD prototype detector at MHz frame rates under Synchrotron and FEL radiation

Kavli Affiliate: Sven C. Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Andreas Koch, Matthew Hart, Tim Nicholls, Christian Angelsen, John Coughlan | Summary: A MHz frame rate X-ray area detector (LPD – Large Pixel Detector) is under development by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for the European XFEL. The detector will have 1 million pixels and allows analogue […]


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Vibration Isolation Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload

Kavli Affiliate: Sarah N. T. Heine | First 5 Authors: Sarah N. T. Heine, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, John M. Rutherford, Patrick Wikus, Phil Oakley | Summary: Micro-X is a NASA-funded, sounding rocket-borne X-ray imaging spectrometer that will allow high precision measurements of velocity structure, ionization state and elemental composition of extended astrophysical systems. One of the […]


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Participation And performance In 8.02x Electricity And Magnetism: The First Physics MOOC From MITx

Kavli Affiliate: John Belcher | First 5 Authors: Saif Rayyan, Daniel T. Seaton, John Belcher, David E. Pritchard, Isaac Chuang | Summary: Massive Open Online Courses are an exciting new avenue for instruction and research, yet they are full of unknowns. In the Spring of 2013, MITx released its first introductory physics MOOC through the […]


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The REgolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) for OSIRIS-REx: Identifying Regional Elemental Enrichment on Asteroids

Kavli Affiliate: Rebecca Masterson | First 5 Authors: Branden Allen, Jonathan Grindlay, Jaesub Hong, Richard P. Binzel, Rebecca Masterson | Summary: The OSIRIS-REx Mission was selected under the NASA New Frontiers program and is scheduled for launch in September of 2016 for a rendezvous with, and collection of a sample from the surface of asteroid […]


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The Third Gravitational Lensing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) Challenge Handbook

Kavli Affiliate: Aaron Roodman | First 5 Authors: Rachel Mandelbaum, Barnaby Rowe, James Bosch, Chihway Chang, Frederic Courbin | Summary: The GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 3 (GREAT3) challenge is the third in a series of image analysis challenges, with a goal of testing and facilitating the development of methods for analyzing astronomical images that will […]


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The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vagins | First 5 Authors: LBNE Collaboration, Corey Adams, David Adams, Tarek Akiri, Tyler Alion | Summary: The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early Universe, the dynamics of the supernova bursts that produced the heavy elements necessary for life and whether protons eventually decay — these mysteries at the forefront […]


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The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vagins | First 5 Authors: LBNE Collaboration, Corey Adams, David Adams, Tarek Akiri, Tyler Alion | Summary: The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early Universe, the dynamics of the supernova bursts that produced the heavy elements necessary for life and whether protons eventually decay — these mysteries at the forefront […]


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