Kavli Affiliate: Joshua A. Frieman | First 5 Authors: Henrique S. Xavier, Ravi R. Gupta, Masao Sako, Chris B. D’Andrea, Joshua A. Frieman | Summary: We used the GMBCG galaxy cluster catalogue and SDSS-II supernovae data with redshifts measured by the BOSS project to identify 48 SNe Ia residing in rich galaxy clusters and compare […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erotokritos Katsavounidis | First 5 Authors: Rahul Biswas, Lindy Blackburn, Junwei Cao, Reed Essick, Kari Alison Hodge | Summary: The sensitivity of searches for astrophysical transients in data from the LIGO is generally limited by the presence of transient, non-Gaussian noise artifacts, which occur at a high-enough rate such that accidental coincidence across […]
Kavli Affiliate: E. P. S. Shellard | First 5 Authors: Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan, M. Arnaud | Summary: We describe the detection, interpretation, and removal of the signal resulting from interactions of high energy particles with the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI). There are two types of interactions: heating […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Bowick | First 5 Authors: Mark Bowick, Rastko Sknepnek, , , | Summary: The interplay between geometry, topology and order can lead to geometric frustration that profoundly affects the shape and structure of a curved surface. In this commentary we show how frustration in this context can result in the faceting of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Toshitake Kohno | First 5 Authors: Toshitake Kohno, Andrei Pajitnov, , , | Summary: Let X be a finite CW-complex, denote its fundamental group by G. Let R be an n-dimensional complex repesentation of G. Any element A of the first cohomology group of X with complex coefficients gives rise to the exponential […]
Kavli Affiliate: John W. Belcher | First 5 Authors: Richard H. Price, John W. Belcher, David A. Nichols, , | Summary: We compare the nature of electromagnetic fields and of gravitational fields in linearized general relativity. We carry out this comparison both mathematically and visually. In particular the "lines of force" visualizations of electromagnetism are […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ralf Kaehler | First 5 Authors: Ralf Kaehler, Tom Abel, , , | Summary: Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (SAMR) is a popular numerical technique to study processes with high spatial and temporal dynamic range. It reduces computational requirements by adapting the lattice on which the underlying differential equations are solved to most efficiently […]
Kavli Affiliate: Axel Scherer | First 5 Authors: Se-Heon Kim, Jingqing Huang, Axel Scherer, , | Summary: The use of an optically thick slab may provide versatile solutions for the realization of a current injection type laser using photonic crystals. Here, we show that a transversely higher-order defect mode can be designed to be confined […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ralf Kaehler | First 5 Authors: Oliver Hahn, Tom Abel, Ralf Kaehler, , | Summary: Recently, we have shown how current cosmological N-body codes already follow the fine grained phase-space information of the dark matter fluid. Using a tetrahedral tesselation of the three-dimensional manifold that describes perfectly cold fluids in six-dimensional phase space, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. Sternberg | First 5 Authors: Shuo Pang, Chao Han, Mihoko Kato, Paul W. Sternberg, Changhuei Yang | Summary: The fluorescence microscope is one of the most important tools in modern clinical diagnosis and biological science. However, its expense, size and limited field-of-view (FOV) are becoming bottlenecks in key applications such as […]