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    • A Hard X-ray Survey of Radio-Selected Blazars 

      Langejahn, Marcus; Kadler, Matthias; Wilms, Jorn; Bock, M.; Baumgartner, W.H.; Gehrels, N.; Markwardt, C.B.; Tueller, J.
      The MOJAVE program has been monitoring a statistically complete sample of 135 radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) of the northern hemisphere using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). This sample, dominated by low-peaked ...

    • Heralded two-photon entanglement from probabilistic quantum logic operations on multiple parametric down-conversion sources 

      Pittman, T.B.; Donegan, M. M.; Fitch, M. J.; Jacobs, B. C.; Franson, J.D.; Kok, P.; Lee, Hwang; Dowling, J. P. (IEEE, 2018-10-29)
      An ideal controlled-NOT gate followed by projective measurements can be used to identify specific Bell states of its two input qubits. When the input qubits are each members of independent Bell states, these projective ...

    • Heralding single photons from pulsed parametric down-conversion 

      Pittman, T.B.; Jacobs, B. C.; Franson, J.D. (Elsevier, 2004-11-23)
      We describe an experiment in which photon pairs from a pulsed parametric down-conversion source were coupled into single-mode fibers. Detecting one of the photons heralded the presence of the other photon in its fiber with ...

    • HESS and Fermi-LAT discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312−423 

      Ojha, R.; Perkins, J. S. (Oxford University Press, 2013-08-01)
      A deep observation campaign carried out by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) on Centaurus A enabled the discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312−423, 2° away from the radio galaxy. With a differential flux at ...

    • High resolution rapid response observations of compact radio sources with the Ceduna Hobart Interferometer (CHI) 

      Blanchard, J. M.; Lovell, J. E. J.; Ojha, R.; Kadler, M.; Dickey, J. M.; Edwards, P. G. (EDP sciences, 2012-02-17)
      Context. Frequent, simultaneous observations across the electromagnetic spectrum are essential to the study of a range of astrophysical phenomena including active galactic nuclei. A key tool of such studies is the ability ...

    • 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

    • High upward fluxes of formic acid from a boreal forest canopy 

      Schobesberger, Siegfried; Lopez‐Hilfiker, Felipe D.; Taipale, Ditte; Millet, Dylan B.; D'Ambro, Emma L.; Rantala, Pekka; Mammarella, Ivan; Zhou, Putian; Wolfe, Glenn M.; Lee, Ben H.; Boy, Michael; Thornton, Joel A. (AGU Pubication, 2016-08-26)
      Eddy covariance fluxes of formic acid, HCOOH, were measured over a boreal forest canopy in spring/summer 2014. The HCOOH fluxes were bidirectional but mostly upward during daytime, in contrast to studies elsewhere that ...

    • High-energy emission from a magnetar giant flare in the Sculptor galaxy 

      The Fermi-LAT Collaboration; M. Ajello; et al
      Magnetars are the most highly magnetized neutron stars in the cosmos (with magnetic field 10¹³–10¹⁵ G). Giant flares from magnetars are rare, short-duration (about 0.1 s) bursts of hard X-rays and soft γ rays1,2. Owing to ...

    • High-Fidelity Quantum Logic Operations and Entangled Ancilla States 

      Franson, J.D.; Donegan, M. M.; Fitch, M. J.; Jacobs, B. C.; Pittman, T. B. (OSA Publishing, 2003-06)
      We describe a high-fidelity approach to linear optics quantum computing in which the quantum logic operations always produce an output. A method for generating the required entangled states is also described.

    • High-Fidelity Quantum Logic Operations Using Linear Optical Elements 

      Franson, J.D.; Donegan, M. M.; Fitch, M.J.; Jacobs, B. C.; Pittman, T.B. (American Physical Society (APS), 2002-09-04)
      Knill, Laflamme, and Milburn [Nature (London) 409, 46 (2001)] have shown that quantum logic operations can be performed using linear optical elements and additional ancilla photons. Their approach is probabilistic in the ...

    • High-Resolution Grating Spectroscopy of GRB 020405 with the Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer 

      Mirabal, N.; Paerels, F.; Halpern, J. P. (IOP, 2002-12-16)
      We present high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of GRB 020405 obtained with the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS) on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory starting 1.68 days after the burst. The spectrum ...

    • High-resolution observations of 6.7-GHz methanol masers with the Long Baseline Array 

      Dodson, R.; Ojha, R.; Ellingsen, S. P. (Oxford University Press, 2004-07-01)
      We have used the Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA) to produce milliarcsecond images of five sites of methanol (CH3OH) maser emission at 6.7 GHz. These are all sites that have linear morphologies at arcsecond resolutions, ...

    • High-Resolution Observations of Centaurus A 

      Muller, Cornelia; Blanchard, J.; Bock, M.; Carpenter, B.; Dutka, M.; Furst, F.; Grafe, C.; Großberger, C.; Kadler, M.; Krauß, F.; Markowitz, A.; Ojha, R.; Perucho, M.; Pottschmidt, K.; Ros, E.; Rothschild, R.; Schulz, R.; Trustedt, J.; Wilms, J.; the TANAMI Collaboration (European Space Agency, 2011)
      The closest active galaxy Centaurus A is regularly observed at milliarcsecond resolution within the framework of the Southern Hemisphere AGN monitoring program TANAMI. Additional multiwavelength observations up to gamma-ray ...

    • Highest gamma-ray flux level detected from very high redshift blazar B3 1343+451 

      Ojha, Roopesh; Dutka, Michael; Torresi, Eleonora (The Astronomer's Telegram, 2011-12-01)

    • Highly Spherical Nanoparticles Probe Gigahertz Viscoelastic Flows of Simple Liquids Without the No-Slip Condition 

      Uthe, Brian; Collis, Jesse F.; Madadi, Mahyar; Sader, John E.; Pelton, Matthew (ACS Publications, 2021-05-06)
      Simple liquids are conventionally described by Newtonian fluid mechanics, based on the assumption that relaxation processes in the flow occur much faster than the rate at which the fluid is driven. Nanoscale solids, however, ...

    • Highly structured wind in Vela X-1 

      Kreykenbohm, Ingo; Wilms, Jörn; Kretschmar, Peter; Torrejón, José Miguel; Pottschmidt, Katja; Hanke, Manfred; Santangelo, Andrea; Ferrigno, Carlo; Staubert, Rüdiger (Proceedings of Science, 2008-09-08)
      We present an in-depth analysis of the spectral and temporal behavior of a long almost uninterrupted INTEGRAL observation of Vela X-1 in Nov/Dec 2003. In addition to an already high activity level, Vela X-1 exhibited ...

    • High‐accuracy zenith delay prediction at optical wavelengths 

      Mendes, V. B.; Pavlis, Erricos C. (AGU Pubication, 2004-07-16)
      A major limitation in accuracy in modern satellite laser ranging is the modeling of atmospheric refraction. Recent improvements in this area include the development of mapping functions to project the atmospheric delay ...

    • Holevo's bound from a general quantum fluctuation theorem 

      Kafri, Dvir; Deffner, Sebastian (American Physical Society (APS), 2012-10-22)
      We give a derivation of Holevo's bound using an important result from nonequilibrium statistical physics, the fluctuation theorem. To do so we develop a general formalism of quantum fluctuation theorems for two-time ...

    • Holey Fiber Microcavities 

      Hendrickson, S. M.; Pittman, T.B.; Franson, J.D. (OSA Publishing, 2008)
      Microcavities have been formed by placing mirrors on the ends of a short section of holey fiber. The resonant behavior of these devices was analyzed and their suitability for use in nonlinear optics experiments at single-photon ...

    • Hot-Carrier Relaxation in CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Nanoplatelets 

      Pelton, Matthew; Wang, Yana; Fedin, Igor; Talapin, Dmitri V.; O’Leary, Stephen K. (ACS Publications, 2019-12-11)
      We present time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy of a series of colloidal CdSe/CdS core/shell nanoplatelets with different core and shell thicknesses. Exciton numbers are determined from the integrated PL ...