• High Resolution, AltitudeCorrected Monthly Satellite Precipitation Product Improves Estimates in Mountain Regions 

  Remer, Lorraine A.; Levy, Robert C.; Mattoo, Shana

  Aerosol optical properties derived from an early version of the Dark Target (DT) algorithm applied to the Moderateresolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on Terra, for 12 June 2001

• A New Raman Water Vapor Lidar Calibration Technique and Measurements in the Vicinity of Hurricane Bonnie 

  Evans, Keith D.; Demoz, Belay B.; Cadirola, Martin P.; Melfi, S.H.; Whiteman, David N.; Schwemmer, Geary K.; Start, David O'C.; Sehmidlin, F. J.; Feltz, Wayne; Tobin, David; Gutman, Seth I.

  The NAcA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scanning Raman Lidar has made measurements of water vapor and aerosols for almost ten years. Calibration of the water vapor data has typically been performed by comparison with another ...

• A first-principles Quantum Monte Carlo study of two-dimensional (2D) GaSe 

  Wines, Daniel; Saritas, Kayahan; Ataca, Can (AIP publishing, 2020-10-19)

  Two-dimensional (2D) post-transition metal chalcogenides (PTMCs) have attracted attention due to their suitable bandgaps and lower exciton binding energies, making them more appropriate for electronic, optical, and ...

• Assessing reduced-dynamic parametrizations for GRAIL orbit determination and the recovery of independent lunar gravity field solutions 

  Bertone, Stefano; Arnold, Daniel; Girardin, Valère; Lasser, Martin; Meyer, Ulrich; Jäggi, Adrian (2020-11-02)

  Orbit determination of probes orbiting Solar System bodies is currently the main source of our knowledge about their internal structure, inferred from the estimate of their gravity field and rotational state. Non-gravitational ...

• Complications and Patient-reported Outcomes after TRAM and DIEP Flaps: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 

  He, Waverley Y.; Eter, Leen El; Yesantharao, Pooja; Hung, Bethany; Owens, Haley; Persing, Sarah; Sacks, Justin M. (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2020-07-27)

  Introduction: Transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) and deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flaps are the most common abdominally based breast reconstruction procedures. Each technique has its ...

• Effects of the 10 September 2017 Solar Flare on the Density and Composition of the Thermosphere of Mars 

  Cramer, A. G.; Withers, P.; Elrod, M. K.; Benna, M.; Mahaffy, P. R. (American Geophysical Union, 2020-10-10)

  The effects of solar flares on the upper atmosphere of Mars are large but poorly constrained by observations. These effects are an important aspect of the response of Mars to space weather events and may also influence the ...

• Negative entropy production rates in Drude-Sommerfeld metals 

  Bonança, Marcus V. S.; Nazé, Pierre; Deffner, Sebastian (2020-09-30)

  It is a commonly accepted creed that in typical situations the rate of entropy production is non-negative. We show that this assertion is not entirely correct if a time-dependent, external perturbation is not compensated ...

• Large Third-Order Nonlinearities in Atomic Layer Deposition Grown Nitrogen-Enriched TiO₂ Nanoscale Films 

  Kuis, Robinson; Gougousi, Theodosia; Basaldua, Isaac; Burkins, Paul; Kropp, Jaron A.; Johnson, Anthony M. (IEEE, 2020-08)

  Nonlinear refractive index, n₂, values as high as 1±.1x10⁻⁹ cm² /W were measured in atomic layer deposition (ALD) grown TiO₂ nanoscale films, using femtosecond thermally managed Z-scan. The several order of magnitude ...

• Surface Defect Engineering of MoS₂ for Atomic Layer Deposition of TiO₂ Films 

  Kropp, Jaron A.; Sharma, Ankit; Zhu, Wenjuan; Ataca, Can; Gougousi, Theodosia (ACS Publications, 2020-09-24)

  In this manuscript, we combine experimental and computational approaches to study the atomic layer deposition (ALD) of dielectrics on MoS2 surfaces for a very common class of ALD precursors, the alkylamines. More specifically, ...

• Superorbital Modulation in the High-Mass X-ray Binary 4U 1538-52, and Possible Modulation in IGR J16393-4643 

  Corbet, Robin H. D.; Coley, Joel B.; Krimm, Hans A.; Pottschmidt, Katja; Roche, Paul

  Hard X-ray observations with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) reveal superorbital modulation in the wind-accreting supergiant high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) 4U 1538-52 at a period of 14.9130 ...

• Powerful extragalactic jets dissipate their kinetic energy far from the central black hole 

  Harvey, Adam Leah W.; Georganopoulos, Markos; Meyer, Eileen T. (Springer Nature, 2020-10-30)

  Accretion onto the supermassive black hole in some active galactic nuclei (AGN) drives relativistic jets of plasma, which dissipate a significant fraction of their kinetic energy into gamma-ray radiation. The location of ...

• Electromagnetic Emission from a Binary Black Hole Merger Remnant in Plasma: Field Alignment and Plasma Temperature 

  Kelly, Bernard J.; Eteinne, Zachariah B.; Golomb, Jacob; Schnittman, Jeremy D.; Baker, John G.; Noble, Scott C.; Ryan, Geoffrey

  Comparable-mass black-hole mergers generically result in moderate to highly spinning holes, whose spacetime curvature will significantly affect nearby matter in observable ways. We investigate how the moderate spin of a ...

• Copula-based Correlation Structure for Multivariate Emission Distributions in Hidden Markov Models 

  Majumder, Reetam; Mehta, Amita; Neerchal, Nagaraj K. (2020)

  Hidden Markov models (HMM) for multi-site daily precipitation usually assume that precipitation at each location is independently distributed conditional on the daily state; correlation in precipitation at different locations ...

• Hubble Space Telescope Observations of [O III] Emission in Nearby QSO2s: Physical Properties of the Ionised Outflows 

  Falcao, Anna Trindade; Kraemer, S. B.; Fischer, T. C.; Crenshaw, D. M.; Revalski, M.; Schmitt, H. R.; Vestergaard, M.; Elvis, M.; Gaskell, C. M.; Hamann, F.; Ho, L. C.; Hutchings, J.; Mushotzky, R.; Netzer, H.; Storchi-Bergmann, T.; Turner, T.J.; Ward, M.J.

  We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/ Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) long-slit G430M and G750M spectra to analyse the extended [O~III] 5007A emission in a sample of twelve nearby (z < 0.12) luminous (L_bol > ...

• Visualizing Heterogeneity of Monodisperse CdSe Nanocrystals by Their Assembly into Three-Dimensional Supercrystals 

  Shevchenko, Elena V.; Podsiadlo, Paul; Wu, Xiaohua; Lee, Byeongdu; Rajh, Tijana; Morin, Rachel; Pelton, Matthew (ACS Publications, 2020-10-19)

  We show that the self-assembly of monodisperse CdSe nanocrystals synthesized at lower temperature (∼310 °C) into three-dimensional supercrystals results in the formation of separate regions within the supercrystals that ...

• Simplified One-stop Protocols to Extract Collagen from Various Animal Tissues for 3D Cell Cultures 

  Terrell, John A.; Chen, Chengpeng (2020-10-05)

• Chandra Observation of Luminous and Ultraluminous X-ray Binaries in MIOI 

  Mukai, K.; Pence, W. D.; Snowden, S. L.; Kuntz, K. D.

  X-ray binaries in the Milky Way axe among the brightest objects on the Xray sky. With the increasing sensitivity of recent missions, it is now possible to study X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies. We present data on six ...

• Improvements to the Deep Learning Classification of Compton Camera Based Prompt Gamma Imaging for Proton Radiotherapy 

  Basalyga, Jonathan N.; Barajas, Carlos A.; Kroiz, Gerson C.; Gobbert, Matthias K.; Maggi, Paul; Polf, Jerimy (2020-05)

  Real-time imaging has potential to greatly increase the effectiveness of proton beam therapy for cancer treatment. One promising method of real-time imaging is the use of a Compton camera to detect prompt gamma rays, which ...

• The reward integrator 

  LeGates, Tara (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-10-02)

  Rewards are powerful stimuli that drive and reinforce goal-directed behaviors. There are a variety of factors that contribute to this process—such as motivation, anticipation, and contextual information—that are encoded ...

• NMR Studies of Retroviral Genome Packaging 

  Boyd, Patricia S.; Brown, Janae B.; Brown, Joshua D.; Catazaro, Jonathan; Chaudry, Issac; Ding, Pengfei; Dong, Xinmei; Marchant, Jan; O’Hern, Colin T.; Singh, Karndeep; Swanson, Canessa; Summers, Michael F.; Yasin, Saif (MDPI, 2020-09-30)

  Nearly all retroviruses selectively package two copies of their unspliced RNA genomes from a cellular milieu that contains a substantial excess of non-viral and spliced viral RNAs. Over the past four decades, combinations ...

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