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The NWRA Classification Infrastructure: Description and Extension to the Discriminant Analysis Flare Forecasting System (DAFFS)
A classification infrastructure built upon Discriminant Analysis has been
developed at NorthWest Research Associates for examining the statistical
differences between samples of two known populations. Originating to examine
the physical differences between flare-quiet and flare-imminent solar active
regions, we describe herein some details of the infrastructure including:
parametrization of large datasets, schemes for handling "null" and "bad" data
in multi-parameter analysis, application of non-parametric multi-dimensional
Discriminant Analysis, an extension through Bayes' theorem to probabilistic
classification, and methods invoked for evaluating classifier success. The
classifier infrastructure is applicable to a wide range of scientific questions
in solar physics. We demonstrate its application to the question of
distinguishing flare-imminent from flare-quiet solar active regions, updating
results from the original publications that were based on different data and
much smaller sample sizes. Finally, as a demonstration of "Research to
Operations" efforts in the space-weather forecasting context, we present the
Discriminant Analysis Flare Forecasting System (DAFFS), a near-real-time
operationally-running solar flare forecasting tool that was developed from the
research-directed infrastructure.Comment: J. Space Weather Space Climate: Accepted / in press; access
supplementary materials through journal; some figures are less than full
resolution for arXi
On timelike and spacelike hard exclusive reactions
We show to next-to-leading order accuracy in the strong coupling alpha_s how
the collinear factorization properties of QCD in the generalized Bjorken regime
relate exclusive amplitudes for spacelike and timelike hadronic processes. This
yields simple space--to--timelike relations linking the amplitudes for
electroproduction of a photon or meson to those for photo- or meso-production
of a lepton pair. These relations constitute a new test of the relevance of
leading twist analyzes of experimental data.Comment: v2: major text revision; results, references, and author added; v3:
matches the published version Phys. Rev. D86, rapid communication
Hot-wire anemometry in hypersonic helium flow
Hot-wire anemometry techniques are described that have been developed and used for hypersonic-helium-flow studies. The short run time available dictated certain innovations in applying conventional hot-wire techniques. Some examples are given to show the application of the techniques used. Modifications to conventional equipment are described, including probe modifications and probe heating controls
On distinguishing trees by their chromatic symmetric functions
Let be an unrooted tree. The \emph{chromatic symmetric function} ,
introduced by Stanley, is a sum of monomial symmetric functions corresponding
to proper colorings of . The \emph{subtree polynomial} , first
considered under a different name by Chaudhary and Gordon, is the bivariate
generating function for subtrees of by their numbers of edges and leaves.
We prove that , where is the Hall inner
product on symmetric functions and is a certain symmetric function that
does not depend on . Thus the chromatic symmetric function is a stronger
isomorphism invariant than the subtree polynomial. As a corollary, the path and
degree sequences of a tree can be obtained from its chromatic symmetric
function. As another application, we exhibit two infinite families of trees
(\emph{spiders} and some \emph{caterpillars}), and one family of unicyclic
graphs (\emph{squids}) whose members are determined completely by their
chromatic symmetric functions.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures. Added references [2], [13], and [15
Probing GPDs in photoproduction processes at hadron colliders
Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) enter QCD factorization theorems for
hard exclusive reactions. They encode rich information about hadron partonic
structure. We explore a possibility to constrain GPDs in experiments at LHC
considering two different exclusive processes: the timelike Compton scattering
and the photoproduction of heavy vector mesons.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures; presented at PHOTON 2015: International
Conference on the Structure and the Interactions of the Photon, Novosibirsk,
Russia, 15 - 19 June, 2015. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1411.375
Probing GPDs in Ultraperipheral Collisions
Ultraperipheral collisions in hadron colliders give new opportunites to
investigate the hadron stucture through exclusive photoproduction processes. We
describe the possibility of measuring the Generalized Parton Distributions in
the Timelike Compton Scattering process and in the production of heavy vector
meson.Comment: to appear in Proceedings Diffraction 2014, Primosten, Croatia, sept
10-16, 201
GPDs in heavy meson production and Compton scattering
Exclusive processes of heavy meson production and spacelike and timelike
deeply virtual Compton scattering allow us to investigate the hadron structure
in terms of Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs). We review recent
developments in the NLO description of such processes.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
the Physics Opportunities at an Electron-Ion Collide
Cosmic-ray induced background intercomparison with actively shielded HPGe detectors at underground locations
The main background above 3\,MeV for in-beam nuclear astrophysics studies
with -ray detectors is caused by cosmic-ray induced secondaries. The
two commonly used suppression methods, active and passive shielding, against
this kind of background were formerly considered only as alternatives in
nuclear astrophysics experiments. In this work the study of the effects of
active shielding against cosmic-ray induced events at a medium deep location is
performed. Background spectra were recorded with two actively shielded HPGe
detectors. The experiment was located at 148\,m below the surface of the Earth
in the Reiche Zeche mine in Freiberg, Germany. The results are compared to data
with the same detectors at the Earth's surface, and at depths of 45\,m and
1400\,m, respectively.Comment: Minor errors corrected; final versio
Manned simulations of the SRMS in SIMFAC
SIMFAC is a general purpose real-time simulation facility currently configured with an Orbiter-like Crew Compartment and a Displays and Controls (D and C) Subsystem to support the engineering developments of the Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator (SRMS). The simulation consists of a software model of the anthropomorphic SRMS manipulator arm including the characteristics of its control system and joint drive modules. The following are discussed: (1) simulation and scene generation subsystems; (2) the SRMS task in SIMFAC; (3) operator tactics and options; (4) workload; (5) operator errors and sources; (6) areas for further work; and (7) general observations
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