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Arizona Space Grant Consortium Participation and Contribution during the 2017 Solar Eclipse
Students from the Arizona Space Grant Consortium attended the Montana State University (MSU) Solar Eclipse Workshop in July 2016, where the MSU-designed ground station and payloads were assembled. The team returned with the systems, making modifications and conducting tests leading up to the eclipse in the following areas: ground station tracking, payload improvements, and expanded video capability. With the initial aid of Louisiana State University, the team upgraded the tracking system to use both Automated Packet Reporting System (APRS) beacons and MSU’s Iridium tracking system. This update improved the accuracy of determining the location of the balloon and payloads. The hardware improvements for the ground station included the addition of mobile HughesNet satellite internet service. Payload improvements included using medium-gain antennas, next generation Ubiquiti modems, and Raspberry Pi 3 computers. In addition, a 360 degree video camera payload was developed. The systems were tested over six balloon flights. During the solar eclipse, the team was in Glendo, WY, and flew the following payloads: Digital Video Payload (DVP), Digital Image Payload (DIP), 360 Video Payload, ASU Scientific Payload, flight termination payloads, and tracking payloads. Each of these payloads operated correctly with the exception of DVP, which malfunctioned during an impact at launch. The team was unable to live stream video, but instead streamed a slideshow of downlinked images. However, videos from both the DVP and 360 Video Payload were recovered after the flight and later processed. Overall the mission was successful, and high quality video, images, and data were collected
The haloes and environments of nearby galaxies (HERON) -- III. A 45 kpc spiral structure in the GLSB galaxy UGC 4599
We use a 0.7-m telescope in the framework of the Halos and Environments of
Nearby Galaxies (HERON) survey to probe low surface brightness structures in
nearby galaxies. One of our targets, UGC 4599, is usually classified as an
early-type galaxy surrounded by a blue ring making it a potential Hoag's Object
analog. Prior photometric studies of UGC 4599 were focused on its bright core
and the blue ring. However, the HERON survey allows us to study its faint
extended regions. With an eight hour integration, we detect an extremely faint
outer disk with an extrapolated central surface brightness of
mag arcsec down to 31 mag arcsec and a
scale length of 15 kpc. We identify two distinct spiral arms of pitch angle
~6{\deg} surrounding the ring. The spiral arms are detected out to ~45 kpc in
radius and the faint disk continues to ~70 kpc. These features are also seen in
the GALEX FUV and NUV bands, in a deep u-band image from the 4.3m Lowell
Discovery Telescope (which reveals inner spiral structure emerging from the
core), and in HI. We compare this galaxy to ordinary spiral and elliptical
galaxies, giant low surface brightness (GLSB) galaxies, and Hoag's Object
itself using several standard galaxy scaling relations. We conclude that the
pseudobulge and disk properties of UGC 4599 significantly differ from those of
Hoag's Object and of normal galaxies, pointing toward a GLSB galaxy nature and
filamentary accretion of gas to generate its outer disk.Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
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Rand Patents and Exclusion Orders: Submission of 19 Economics and Law Professors to the International Trade Commission
In this comment to ITC Investigation 337-TA-745 (Certain Wireless Communication Devices, Motorola v. Apple) we, as teachers and scholars of economics, antitrust and intellectual property, remedies, administrative, and international intellectual property law, former Department of Justice lawyers and chief economists, a former executive official at the Patent and Trademark Office, a former counsel at the ITC Office of the General Counsel, and a former Member of the President’s Council of Economic Adviser take the position that ITC exclusion orders generally should not be granted under § 1337(d)(1) on the basis of patents subject to obligations to license on “reasonable and non-discriminatory” (RAND) terms. Doing so would undermine the significant pro-competitive and pro-consumer benefits that RAND promises produce and the investments they enable. A possible exception may arise if district court jurisdiction is lacking, the patent is valid and infringed, and the public interest favors issuing an exclusion order. We explain our position in the comment
The Antares Collaboration : Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague)
The ANTARES detector, completed in 2008, is the largest neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. Located at a depth of 2.5 km in the Mediterranean Sea, 40 km off the Toulon shore, its main goal is the search for astrophysical high energy neutrinos. In this paper we collect the 21 contributions of the ANTARES collaboration to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015). The scientific output is very rich and the contributions included in these proceedings cover the main physics results, ranging from steady point sources, diffuse searches, multi-messenger analyses to exotic physics
Search for muon-neutrino emission from GeV and TeV gamma-ray flaring blazars using five years of data of the ANTARES telescope
The ANTARES telescope is well-suited for detecting astrophysical transient
neutrino sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times
with a high duty cycle. The background due to atmospheric particles can be
drastically reduced, and the point-source sensitivity improved, by selecting a
narrow time window around possible neutrino production periods. Blazars, being
radio-loud active galactic nuclei with their jets pointing almost directly
towards the observer, are particularly attractive potential neutrino point
sources, since they are among the most likely sources of the very high-energy
cosmic rays. Neutrinos and gamma rays may be produced in hadronic interactions
with the surrounding medium. Moreover, blazars generally show high time
variability in their light curves at different wavelengths and on various time
scales. This paper presents a time-dependent analysis applied to a selection of
flaring gamma-ray blazars observed by the FERMI/LAT experiment and by TeV
Cherenkov telescopes using five years of ANTARES data taken from 2008 to 2012.
The results are compatible with fluctuations of the background. Upper limits on
the neutrino fluence have been produced and compared to the measured gamma-ray
spectral energy distribution.Comment: 27 pages, 16 figure
All-sky Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW170104 with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Advanced LIGO detected a significant gravitational wave signal (GW170104)
originating from the coalescence of two black holes during the second
observation run on January 4, 2017. An all-sky high-energy
neutrino follow-up search has been made using data from the ANTARES neutrino
telescope, including both upgoing and downgoing events in two separate
analyses. No neutrino candidates were found within s around the GW
event time nor any time clustering of events over an extended time window of
months. The non-detection is used to constrain isotropic-equivalent
high-energy neutrino emission from GW170104 to less than
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The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part I: Neutrino astronomy (diffuse fluxes and point sources)
Papers on neutrino astronomy (diffuse fluxes and point sources, prepared for
the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by
the ANTARES Collaboratio
The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part III: Searches for dark matter and exotics, neutrino oscillations and detector calibration
Papers on the searches for dark matter and exotics, neutrino oscillations and
detector calibration, prepared for the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference
(ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the ANTARES Collaboratio
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