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Looking for Stars and Finding the Moon: Effects of Lunar Gamma-ray Emission on Fermi LAT Light Curves
We are conducting a search for new gamma-ray binaries by making high
signal-to-noise light curves of all cataloged Fermi LAT sources and searching
for periodic variability using appropriately weighted power spectra. The light
curves are created using a variant of aperture photometry where photons are
weighted by the probability that they came from the source of interest. From
this analysis we find that the light curves of a number of sources near the
ecliptic plane are contaminated by gamma-ray emission from the Moon. This shows
itself as modulation on the Moon's sidereal period in the power spectra. We
demonstrate that this contamination can be removed by excluding times when the
Moon was too close to a source. We advocate that this data screening should
generally be used when analyzing LAT data from a source located close to the
path of the Moon.Comment: 2012 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C12102
Pion-Nucleus Scattering at Medium Energies with Densities from Chiral Effective Field Theories
Recently developed chiral effective field theory models provide excellent
descriptions of the bulk characteristics of finite nuclei, but have not been
tested with other observables. In this work, densities from both relativistic
point-coupling models and mean-field meson models are used in the analysis of
meson-nucleus scattering at medium energies. Elastic scattering observables for
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MeV/ on Pb are calculated in a relativistic impulse
approximation, using the Kemmer-Duffin-Petiau formalism to calculate the
nucleus optical potential.Comment: 9 page
Postal card from C. S. Tingey, as well as a letter from W. J. Kerr
Postal card and letter concerning a state warrant
Comment on "Nonlinear eigenvalue problems"
The asymptotic behaviour of solutions to was investigated by Bender, Fring and Komijani (2014). They found, for example, a relation between the initial value and the number of maxima that the solution exhibited. We present an alternative derivation of the asymptotic results that looks at the solutions in the regions , and confirms the behaviour found previously for larger values of . This method uses the small amplitude and high frequency of the oscillatory behaviour in the region
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