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Exoplanetary atmospheric observations require an exquisite precision in the measurement of the relative flux among wavelengths. In this paper, we aim to provide a new adaptive method to treat light curves before fitting transit parameters…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi , Alejandro Diaz , Patricio Rojo , Ismael Soto , Rodrigo Mahu , Nestor Becerra Yoma , Elyar Sedaghati

We analyze stochasticity in the magnetic fields of magnetic confinement fusion reactors by calculating the lobe areas of turnstiles - a method developed for characterizing transport into and out of resonance zones in Hamiltonian dynamical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Christopher Berg Smiet , Ludovic Rais , Joaquim Loizu , Robert Davies

This paper presents a strategy for optimal manoeuvre design of multi-satellite formation flying in low Earth orbit environment, with the aim of providing a tool for mission operation design. The proposed methodology for formation flying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Francesca Scala , Gabriella Gaias , Camilla Colombo , Manuel Martìn-Neira

This paper studies the Nesterov-Spokoiny Acceleration (NSA), a variant of the accelerated gradient method by Nesterov and Spokoiny. For smooth convex optimization, NSA achieves a strict $o(1/k^2)$ convergence rate in function value and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Weibin Peng , Yu Liu , Tianyu Wang

In modern inertial fusion experiments there is a complex interplay between non-locality and magnetisation that can greatly influence transport. In this work we use a matrix recursion method to include higher-order corrections beyond the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 H. C. Watkins , R. J. Kingham

This work proposes a novel Energy-Aware Network Operator Search (ENOS) approach to address the energy-accuracy trade-offs of a deep neural network (DNN) accelerator. In recent years, novel inference operators have been proposed to improve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Shamma Nasrin , Ahish Shylendra , Yuti Kadakia , Nick Iliev , Wilfred Gomes , Theja Tulabandhula , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

In this paper, a novel stochastic extra-step quasi-Newton method is developed to solve a class of nonsmooth nonconvex composite optimization problems. We assume that the gradient of the smooth part of the objective function can only be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Minghan Yang , Andre Milzarek , Zaiwen Wen , Tong Zhang

A realistic and detailed description of neutrinos in binary neutron star (BNS) mergers is essential to build reliable models of such systems. To this end, we present BNS_NURATES, a novel open-source numerical library designed for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-20 Leonardo Chiesa , Maitraya Bhattacharyya , Filippo Mazzini , Federico Maria Guercilena , Albino Perego , David Radice

We introduce a new second order stochastic algorithm to estimate the entropically regularized optimal transport cost between two probability measures. The source measure can be arbitrary chosen, either absolutely continuous or discrete,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Sébastien Gadat , Emilia Siviero

A collision-based hybrid algorithm for the discrete ordinates approximation of the neutron transport equation is extended to the multigroup setting. The algorithm uses discrete energy and angle grids at two different resolutions and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Ben Whewell , Ryan G. McClarren , Cory D. Hauck , Minwoo Shin

We describe a novel method to compute the components of dynamo tensors from direct magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. Our method relies upon an extension and generalisation of the standard H\"ogbom CLEAN algorithm widely used in radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Abhijit B. Bendre , Jennifer Schober , Prasun Dhang , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We present a method for very fast repeated computations of higher-order cross sections in hadron-induced processes for arbitrary parton density functions. A full implementation of the method for computations of jet cross sections in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 T. Kluge , K. Rabbertz , M. Wobisch

We provide stability estimates, obtained by implementing the Nekhoroshev theorem, in reference to the orbital motion of a small body (satellite or space debris) around the Earth. We consider a Hamiltonian model, averaged over fast angles,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-14 Alessandra Celletti , Irene De Blasi , Christos Efthymiopoulos

Variational quantum eigensolver ans\"atze hold considerable promise for ground-state energy calculations on near-term quantum hardware, yet most promising ansatz designs currently strongly depend on how well the molecular orbital basis…

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging reconstructs the shape and depth of hidden objects from picosecond-resolved transient signals, offering potential applications in autonomous driving, security, and medical diagnostics. However, current NLOS…

Using an analogy between the density expansion of the transport coefficients of moderately dense gases and the inverse-Knudsen-number expansion of the drag on objects in nearly free molecular flows, we formulate the collision integrals that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. V. Sengers , Y. -Y. Lin Wang , B. Kagmar-Parsi , J. R. Dorfman

In this paper, we consider stochastic second-order methods for minimizing a finite summation of nonconvex functions. One important key is to find an ingenious but cheap scheme to incorporate local curvature information. Since the true…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Minghan Yang , Dong Xu , Hongyu Chen , Zaiwen Wen , Mengyun Chen

A novel numerical approach to solving the shallow-water equations on the sphere using high-order numerical discretizations in both space and time is proposed. A space-time tensor formalism is used to express the equations of motion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Stéphane Gaudreault , Martin Charron , Valentin Dallerit , Mayya Tokman

The purpose of this document is to find an analytical solution for the gyrokinetic equation under specific, simplificative hypotheses. The case I am considering is that of a collisional plasma in the presence of a chain of magnetic islands.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-16 Andrea Casolari

A new form of the Cunningham correction factor is presented that requires no experimental fitting. It is expanded to provide a predictive heuristic for non-spherical particles, via definition of a "correction tensor''. Its accuracy is…

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