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Rectified diameters and albedo estimates of 1517 main belt asteroid selected from the IRAS and MSX asteroid photometry catalogues are derived from updated infrared thermal models, the Standard Thermal Model (STM) and the Near Earth Asteroid…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Erin Lee Ryan , Charles E. Woodward

We extend the most recent orbital and absolute magnitude Near Earth Object (NEO) model (Granvik et al., 2018) to provide a statistical description of NEO geometric albedos. Our model is calibrated on NEOWISE albedo data for the NEO…

The WISE satellite surveyed the entire sky multiple times in four infrared (IR) wavelengths ($3.4,\ 4.6,\ 12,$ and $22\, \mu$m, Wright et al. 2010). This all-sky IR photometric survey makes it possible to leverage many of the large publicly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 S. E. Lake , E. L. Wright , R. J. Assef , T. H. Jarrett , S. Petty , S. A. Stanford , D. Stern , C. -W. Tsai

Using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey, we use ratios of small-scale galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements around the same lens sample to constrain source redshift uncertainties, intrinsic alignments and other nuisance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 C. Sánchez , J. Prat , G. Zacharegkas , S. Pandey , E. Baxter , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , E. Krause , P. Lemos , Y. Park , M. Raveri , J. Sanchez , M. A. Troxel , A. Amon , X. Fang , O. Friedrich , D. Gruen , A. Porredon , L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Chen , A. Choi , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , E. Di Valentino , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , B. Jain , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

In the present comment we discuss the qualitative and the quantitative differences between the neutron stars models in $f(R)$ gravity presented in the recent paper \cite{Capozziello2015} (Capozziello et al. (2015)) and in our paper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-18 Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Daniela D. Doneva

We present a comparative study of three infrared asteroid surveys based on the size and albedo data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), the Japanese infrared satellite AKARI, and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Fumihiko Usui , Sunao Hasegawa , Masateru Ishiguro , Thomas G. Mueller , Takafumi Ootsubo

With the improvement in sensitivity of gravitational wave (GW) detectors and the increasing diversity of GW sources, there is a strong need for accurate GW waveform models for data analysis. While the current model accuracy assessments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-22 Qian Hu , John Veitch

The Hubble Space Telescope has been a pioneering instrument for studying the atmospheres of exoplanets, specifically its WFC3 and STIS instruments. With the launch of JWST, we are able to observe larger spectral ranges at higher precision.…

The detection of GW170817, the first neutron star-neutron star merger observed by Advanced LIGO and Virgo, and its following analyses represent the first contributions of gravitational wave (GW) data to understanding dense matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Rossella Gamba , Jocelyn S. Read , Leslie E. Wade

We present new near-infrared spectra, obtained at Gemini Observatory, for two Y dwarfs: WISE J035000.32-565830.2 (W0350) and WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 (W1738). A FLAMINGOS-2 R=540 spectrum was obtained for W0350, covering 1.0 < lambda um <…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 S. K. Leggett , P. Tremblin , D. Saumon , M. S. Marley , Caroline V. Morley , D. S. Amundsen , I. Baraffe , G. Chabrier

We report follow-up observations of 477 program Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) using nine telescopes of the EURONEAR network having apertures between 0.3 and 4.2 m. Adding these NEAs to our previous results we now count 739 program NEAs…

In the absence of dense photometry for a large population of Near Earth Objects (NEOs), the best method of obtaining a shape distribution comes from sparse photometry and partial lightcurves. We have used 867 partial lightcurves obtained by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Andrew McNeill , Joseph L. Hora , Annika Gustafsson , David E. Trilling , Michael Mommert

One of the open problems in developing binary black hole (BBH) waveforms for gravitational wave astronomy is to model the intermediate mass ratio regime and connect it to the extreme mass ratio regime. A natural approach is to employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Alessandro Nagar , James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Angelica Albertini

We estimate the total population of near-Earth objects (NEOs) in the Solar System, using an extensive, `Solar System to pixels' fake-asteroid simulation to debias detections of real NEOs by the ATLAS survey. Down to absolute magnitudes…

A comment has been recently posted on the arXiv (arXiv:1902.07504) that discuss our recent work on encircling multiple exceptional points in Nat. Commun. 9, 4808 (2018). In that comment, the authors claim that our approach is prone to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Q. Zhong , M. Khajavikhan , D. N. Christodoulides , R. El-Ganainy

We use a large data-set of realistic synthetic observations (PaperI) to assess how observational techniques affect the measurement of physical properties of star-forming regions. In this paper (PaperII), we explore the reliability of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Christine M. Koepferl , Thomas P. Robitaille , James E. Dale

Context. [...] One of the most efficient methods is the measurement of the equivalent width (EW) of the Calcium II Triplet (CaT), corrected for the luminosity and temperature effects via magnitude differences from the horizontal branch…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Mauro , C. Moni Bidin , D. Geisler , I. Saviane , G. S. Da Costa , A. C. Gormaz-Matamala , S. Vasquez , A. -N. Chené , R. Cohen , B. Dias

Optical lightcurves can be used for the shape and spin reconstruction of asteroids. Due to unknown albedo, these models are scale-free. When thermal infrared data are available, they can be used for scaling the shape models and for deriving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Josef Durech , Marco Delbo , Benoit Carry , Josef Hanus , Victor Ali-Lagoa

Understanding the dynamical evolution of asteroids through the secular Yarkovsky effect requires the determination of many physical properties, including the rotation period. We propose a method aimed at obtaining a robust determination of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 D. E. Vavilov , B. Carry