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1. A New Unifying Field Spacetime Structure

   Analysis of the data and equations for the solar system and the hydrogen atom identified a unifying spacetime structure intrinsic to the fields. The...

   Bruce Feigler, Margaret Joseph in Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

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2. High Energy Photon Flux Prediction from Neutralino Annihilation in M 31

   Considering a NFW halo of M 31 made of neutralinos, predictions for the...

   Alain Falvard, Edmond Giraud, ... Richard Taillet in Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

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3. Cosmic Shear from STIS Pure Parallels - II. Analysis

   The tidal gravitational field due to the inhomogeneous distribution of matter in the Universe causes the distortion of light bundles from distant...

   H. Hämmerle, J.-M. Miralles, ... S. D. M. White in Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

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4. APPLES: A Parallel Slitless Imaging Survey for ACS

   We present APPLES, the ACS Pure Parallel Ly $\alpha$ Emission...

   Anna Pasquali, Norbert Pirzkal, ... the APPLES Team in Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

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5. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis of Lithium-7 and the Baryon Density of the Universe

   Thanks to recent nuclear physic compilations, we update Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (SBBN) calculations. By a Monte-Carlo technique, we...

   Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam, Alain Coc, Michel Cassé in Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

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6. Problems of Cosmological Darwinian Selection and the Origin of Habitable Universes

   For the cosmologist and physicist Lee Smolin, our universe is only one in a much larger cosmos (the Multiverse), a member of a growing community of...

   Rüdiger Vaas in Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

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7. Hot Massive Planets Around Nearby Young Stars – A Search with NACO at the VLT

   The detection of massive planets (3-10 M J ) around nearby (D ≤ 50 pc) young late-type stars (10-200 Myr) is possible...

   Elena Masciadri, Reinhard Mundt, ... Ralph Neuhäuser in Science with Adaptive Optics

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8. Selected Examples of Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Science with AO

   High spatial resolution planetary science has seen a large boost from AO observations complementing space missions. Adaptive optics is particularly...

   Laird M. Close, Rainer Lenzen, ... Markus Hartung in Science with Adaptive Optics

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9. Quality Control and Data Flow Operations of NAOS-CONICA

   The verification of data and the monitoring of instrument performance – known collectively as quality control (QC) – are an integral part of the...

   Wolfgang Hummel, Chris Lidman, ... Danuta Dobrzycka in Science with Adaptive Optics

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10. NACO and PUEO-GriF Investigating Small Scale Structures and Velocity Fields in OMC1

    Infrared observations of the OMC1 star forming region obtained at the CFHT and at the ESO VLT, both in imaging mode with adaptive optics, are...

    Jean Louis Lemaire, David Field in Science with Adaptive Optics

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11. Lyot Coronagraphy at the Palomar and Phase-Mask Coronagraphy at the VLT

    In this paper, we report on observations of faint companions and circumstellar disks at the Palomar 200-inch telescope. As a result, we present...

    Anthony Boccaletti, Jean-Charles Augereau, ... Pierre Baudoz in Science with Adaptive Optics

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12. NACO-SDI: A Novel Simultaneous Differential Imager for the Direct Imaging of Giant Extra-Solar Planets

    Young (100 Myr old) extra-solar planets are 100000 times more self-luminous than old (5 Gyr) extra-solar planets, whereas their primary stars are...

    Rainer Lenzen, Laird Close, ... Beth Biller in Science with Adaptive Optics

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13. AO-Assisted Observations of Ultra-Compact H II Regions

    High-spatial resolution observations in the near-infrared (NIR) with Adaptive Optics (AO) represent a powerful tool to investigate massive star...

    Elena Puga, Markus Feldt, ... Bringfried Stecklum in Science with Adaptive Optics

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14. Near-Infrared High Resolution Spectroscopy of High-z QSO Absorption Systems with the Subaru Adaptive Optics System

    We are conducting a near-infrared (1.0–1.35 μm) high resolution spectroscopic survey of high-z QSOs to study the QSO absorption systems at high...

    Naoto Kobayashi, Takuji Tsujimoto, Yosuke Minowa in Science with Adaptive Optics

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15. Introduction to Mining the Sky: Mining 101

    For more than one hundred years, astronomers have had access to large data sets. A typical photographic plate contains 100 Megabytes of data. But...

    Edward L. Wright in Mining the Sky

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16. Mining the Local Universe: the QSO Space Density

    We present progress results of a new survey for bright QSOs (V < 14.5, R < 15.4, B J...

    Stefano Cristiani, Andrea Grazian, ... Christopher Corbally in Mining the Sky

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17. Field Galaxy Evolution from the Munich Near-Infrared Cluster Survey (MUNICS)

    The Munich Near-IR Cluster Survey (MUNICS) is a K’-selected survey covering 1 square degree in the K’ and J near-infrared bands with complementary...

    Georg Feulner, Niv Drory, ... Claudia Mendes de Oliveira in Mining the Sky

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18. Nonlinear Peculiar-Velocity Analysis and PCA

    We allow for nonlinear effects in the likelihood analysis of peculiar velocities, and obtain...

    Avishai Dekel, Amiram Eldar, ... Idit Zehavi in Mining the Sky

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19. Regularization and Inverse Problems

    An overview is given of Bayesian inversion and regularization procedures. In particular, the conceptual basis of the maximum entropy method (MEM) is...

    Anthony Lasenby, Belén Barreiro, Michael Hobson in Mining the Sky

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20. The Hierarchy of Minkowski Valuations and the Morphometry of Cosmic Structure

    Minkowski valuations provide a unique morphometric description of cosmic structure. We introduce the hierarchy of Minkowski valuations and exemplify...

    Claus Beisbart, Jens Schmalzing, Martin Kerscher in Mining the Sky

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