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The eccentricity of a sub-stellar companion is an important tracer of its formation history. Directly imaged companions often present poorly constrained eccentricities. A recently developed prior framework for orbit fitting called…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Clarissa R. Do Ó , Kelly K. O'Neil , Quinn M. Konopacky , Tuan Do , Gregory D. Martinez , Jean-Baptiste Ruffio , Andrea M. Ghez

Tidal dissipation due to convective turbulent viscosity shapes the evolution of a variety of astrophysical binaries. For example, this type of dissipation determines the rate of orbital circularization in a binary with a post-main sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai

We present a Bayesian inference method to characterise the dust emission properties using the well-known dust-HI correlation in the diffuse interstellar medium at Planck frequencies $\nu \ge 217$ GHz. We use the Galactic HI map from the…

We develop a method to compute low-eccentricity initial data of binary neutron stars required to perform realistic simulations in numerical relativity. The orbital eccentricity is controlled by adjusting the orbital angular velocity of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

In long adaptive optics corrected exposures, exoplanet detections are currently limited by speckle noise originating from the telescope and instrument optics, and it is expected that such noise will also limit future high-contrast imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Marois , D. Lafreniere , B. Macintosh , R. Doyon

The ultrahigh frequency emission of gravitational waves by binary systems of black holes has recently been investigated in details in the framework of new experimental ideas around resonant cavities. In this article, we consider the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Pierre Jamet , Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau

Detection of gravitational waves from compact binaries involving at least one intermediate mass black hole, and component mass ratios in the range $0.1$-$10^{-4}$, are among the primary sources for future space detectors with target strain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 M Laxman , Ryuichi Fujita , Chandra Kant Mishra

One of the major assumptions in the search for gravitational wave signatures from massive and supermassive black hole binaries with LISA, is that these systems will have circularized before entering the LISA bandwidth. Current astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-31 Edward K. Porter , Alberto Sesana

Compact object binaries formed from dynamics interactions will generically have non-zero orbital eccentricity. The gravitational waves from such binaries can change drastically depending on how large the eccentricity is, ranging from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Nicholas Loutrel

We use post-Newtonian (PN) approximations to determine the initial orbital and spin parameters of black hole binaries that lead to low-eccentricity inspirals when evolved with numerical relativity techniques. In particular, we seek initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower

Estimation of permutation entropy (PE) using Bayesian statistical methods is presented for systems where the ordinal pattern sampling follows an independent, multinomial distribution. It is demonstrated that the PE posterior distribution is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-09 Douglas J. Little , Joshua P. Toomey , Deb M. Kane

We present a new Bayesian methodology to learn the unknown material density of a given sample by inverting its two-dimensional images that are taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope. An image results from a sequence of projections of the…

Applications · Statistics 2014-03-06 Dalia Chakrabarty , Fabio Rigat , Nare Gabrielyan , Richard Beanland , Shashi Paul

We analyze the public DESI full-shape clustering data using simulation-based priors (SBPs). Our priors are obtained by fitting normalizing flows to the distribution of EFT parameters measured from field-level simulations, themselves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

Composite likelihoods are increasingly used in applications where the full likelihood is analytically unknown or computationally prohibitive. Although the maximum composite likelihood estimator has frequentist properties akin to those of…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-08 Mathieu Ribatet , Daniel Cooley , Anthony C. Davison

Inference is crucial in modern astronomical research, where hidden astrophysical features and patterns are often estimated from indirect and noisy measurements. Inferring the posterior of hidden features, conditioned on the observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 He Sun , Katherine L. Bouman , Paul Tiede , Jason J. Wang , Sarah Blunt , Dimitri Mawet

Models for tidal disruption events (TDEs) in which a supermassive black hole disrupts a star commonly assume that the highly eccentric streams of bound stellar debris promptly form a circular accretion disk at the pericenter scale. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Gilad Svirski , Tsvi Piran , Julian Krolik

An important goal of the disk instability model is to explain the superhump phenomenon. Superhumps are features found in the light curves of binary systems, characterized by a period slightly different from the binary orbital period. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Stephen H. Lubow

Inverse problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) play a critical role in model development and calibration. In many applications, there are multiple uncertain parameters in a model which must be estimated. Although the…

Planets on eccentric orbits have a higher geometric probability of transiting their host star. By application of Bayes' theorem, we reverse this logic to show that the eccentricity distribution of transiting planets is positively biased.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 David M. Kipping

This paper considers the H\infty-optimal estimation problem for linear systems with multiple delays in states, output, and disturbances. First, we formulate the H\infty-optimal estimation problem in the Delay-Differential Equation (DDE)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Shuangshuang Wu , Sachin Shivakumar , Matthew M. Peet , Changchun Hua