Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr)

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: S. J. Brennan, M. Fraser, J. Johansson, A. Pastorello, R. Kotak | Summary: We present the results from a high cadence, multi-wavelength observation campaign of AT 2016jbu (aka Gaia16cfr), an interacting transient. This dataset complements the current literature by adding higher cadence as well as extended coverage […]


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Rethinking the Optimization of Average Precision: Only Penalizing Negative Instances before Positive Ones is Enough

Kavli Affiliate: Zhuo Li | First 5 Authors: Zhuo Li, Weiqing Min, Jiajun Song, Yaohui Zhu, Liping Kang | Summary: Optimising the approximation of Average Precision (AP) has been widely studied for image retrieval. Limited by the definition of AP, such methods consider both negative and positive instances ranking before each positive instance. However, we […]


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WheaCha: A Method for Explaining the Predictions of Models of Code

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Yu Wang, Ke Wang, Linzhang Wang, , | Summary: Attribution methods have emerged as a popular approach to interpreting model predictions based on the relevance of input features. Although the feature importance ranking can provide insights of how models arrive at a prediction from a raw input, […]


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How does the Polar Dust affect the Correlation between Dust Covering Factor and Eddington Ratio in Type 1 Quasars Selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16?

Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | First 5 Authors: Yoshiki Toba, Yoshihiro Ueda, Poshak Gandhi, Claudio Ricci, Denis Burgarella | Summary: We revisit the dependence of covering factor (CF) of dust torus on physical properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by taking into account an AGN polar dust emission. The CF is converted from a ratio […]


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BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey-XXIII. A New Mid-Infrared Diagnostic for Absorption in Active Galactic Nuclei

Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | First 5 Authors: Ryan W. Pfeifle, Claudio Ricci, Peter G. Boorman, Marko Stalevski, Daniel Asmus | Summary: In this study, we use the SWIFT/BAT AGN sample, which has received extensive multiwavelength follow-up analysis as a result of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS), to develop a diagnostic for nuclear obscuration […]


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Eclipsing Binary Populations across the Northern Galactic Plane from the KISOGP survey

Kavli Affiliate: Huawei Zhang | First 5 Authors: Fangzhou Ren, Richard de Grijs, Huawei Zhang, Licai Deng, Xiaodian Chen | Summary: We present a catalog of eclipsing binaries in the northern Galactic Plane from the Kiso Wide-Field Camera Intensive Survey of the Galactic Plane (KISOGP). We visually identified 7055 eclipsing binaries spread across $sim$330 square […]


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“A more probable explanation” is still impossible to explain GN-z11-flash: in response to Steinhardt et al. (arXiv:2101.12738)

Kavli Affiliate: Linhua Jiang | First 5 Authors: Linhua Jiang, Shu Wang, Bing Zhang, Nobunari Kashikawa, Luis C. Ho | Summary: In Jiang et al. (2020), we reported a possible bright flash (hereafter GN-z11-flash) from a galaxy GN-z11 at z ~ 11. Recently, Steinhardt et al. (2021; arXiv:2101.12738) found 27 images with transient signals in […]


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The Parallax Zero-Point of Gaia Early Data Release 3 from LAMOST Primary Red Clump Stars

Kavli Affiliate: Huawei Zhang | First 5 Authors: Yang Huang, Haibo Yuan, Timothy C. Beers, Huawei Zhang, | Summary: We present an independent examination of the parallax zero-point of the Third Gaia Early Data Release (hereafter EDR3), using the LAMOST primary red clump (PRC) stellar sample. A median parallax offset of around $26 mu$as, slightly […]


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Dynamical Masses and Stellar Evolutionary Model Predictions of M-Stars

Kavli Affiliate: Gregory J. Herczeg | First 5 Authors: Jamila Pegues, Ian Czekala, Sean M. Andrews, Karin I. Öberg, Gregory J. Herczeg | Summary: In this era of Gaia and ALMA, dynamical stellar mass measurements provide benchmarks that are independent of observations of stellar characteristics and their uncertainties. These benchmarks can then be used to […]


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Symmetry energy effect on the secondary component of GW190814 as a neutron star

Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu | First 5 Authors: Xuhao Wu, Shishao Bao, Hong Shen, Renxin Xu, | Summary: The secondary component of GW190814 with a mass of 2.50-2.67 $M_{odot}$ may be the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron star ever observed in a binary compact object system. To explore the possible equation of state […]


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