A framework for modeling the detailed optical response of thick, multiple segment, large format sensors for precision astronomy applications

Posted by klaurent Stanford

Kavli Affiliate: Steven Kahn | First 5 Authors: Andrew Rasmussen, Pierre Antilogus, Pierre Astier, Chuck Claver, Peter Doherty | Summary: Near-future astronomical survey experiments, such as LSST, possess system requirements of unprecedented fidelity that span photometry, astrometry and shape transfer. Some of these requirements flow directly to the array of science imaging sensors at the […]


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The Heavy Photon Search Test Detector

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Kavli Affiliate: Homer Neal | First 5 Authors: Marco Battaglieri, Sergey Boyarinov, Stephen Bueltmann, Volker Burkert, Andrea Celentano | Summary: The Heavy Photon Search (HPS), an experiment to search for a hidden sector photon in fixed target electroproduction, is preparing for installation at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in the Fall of 2014. […]


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Synaptic polarity of the interneuron circuit controlling C. elegans locomotion

Posted by klaurent Caltech

Kavli Affiliate: Paul W. Sternberg | First 5 Authors: Franciszek Rakowski, Jagan Srinivasan, Paul W. Sternberg, Jan Karbowski, | Summary: C. elegans is the only animal for which a detailed neural connectivity diagram has been constructed. However, synaptic polarities in this diagram, and thus, circuit functions are largely unknown. Here, we deciphered the likely polarities […]


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

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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

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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

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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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Study of superfluid $^3$He under nanoscale confinement. A new approach to the investigation of superfluid $^3$He films

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Kavli Affiliate: Jeevak Parpia | First 5 Authors: Lev Levitin, Robert Bennett, Andrew Casey, Brian Cowan, John Saunders | Summary: We review recent experiments in which superfluid $^3$He has been studied under highly controlled confinement in nanofluidic sample chambers. We discuss the experimental challenges and their resolution. These methods open the way to a systematic […]


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Long-Lived Distributed Relative Localization of Robot Swarms

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Kavli Affiliate: Radhika Nagpal | First 5 Authors: Alejandro Cornejo, Radhika Nagpal, , , | Summary: This paper studies the problem of having mobile robots in a multi-robot system maintain an estimate of the relative position and relative orientation of near-by robots in the environment. This problem is studied in the context of large swarms […]


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Generalized master equation for modular exciton density transfer

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Kavli Affiliate: Graham Fleming | First 5 Authors: Seogjoo Jang, Stephan Hoyer, Graham Fleming, K. Birgitta Whaley, | Summary: A generalized master equation (GME) governing quantum evolution of modular exciton density (MED) is derived for large scale light harvesting systems composed of weakly interacting modules of multiple chromophores. The GME-MED offers a practical framework to […]


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