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    • Keldysh approach for nonequilibrium phase transitions in quantum optics: Beyond the Dicke model in optical cavities 

      Dalla Torre, Emanuele; Diehl, Sebastian; Lukin, Mikhail D.; Sachdev, Subir; Strack, Philipp (American Physical Society, 2013)
      We investigate non-equilibrium phase transitions for driven atomic ensembles, interacting with a cavity mode, coupled to a Markovian dissipative bath. In the thermodynamic limit and at low-frequencies, we show that the ...

    • Kepler 's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b 

      Batalha, Natalie M.; Borucki, William J.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Ciardi, David; Dunham, Edward W.; Fressin, Francois; Gautier, Thomas N.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Haas, Michael R.; Howell, Steve B.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Kjeldsen, Hans; Koch, David G.; Latham, David W.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Rowe, Jason F.; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; Seager, Sara; Steffen, Jason H.; Torres, Guillermo; Basri, Gibor S.; Brown, Timothy M.; Charbonneau, David; Christiansen, Jessie; Clarke, Bruce; Cochran, William D.; Dupree, Andrea; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Fischer, Debra; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan; Girouard, Forrest R.; Holman, Matthew J.; Johnson, John; Isaacson, Howard; Klaus, Todd C.; Machalek, Pavel; Moorehead, Althea V.; Morehead, Robert C.; Ragozzine, Darin; Tenenbaum, Peter; Twicken, Joseph; Quinn, Samuel; VanCleve, Jeffrey; Walkowicz, Lucianne M.; Welsh, William F.; Devore, Edna; Gould, Alan (American Astronomical Society, 2011)
      NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that goal: the discovery of its ...

    • Kepler Monitoring of an L Dwarf I. The Photometric Period and White Light Flares 

      Gizis, John E.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Berger, Edo; Williams, Peter Kelsey George; Vrba, Frederick J.; Cruz, Kelle L.; Metchev, Stanimir (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      We report on the results of fifteen months of monitoring the nearby field L1 dwarf WISEP J190648.47+401106.8 (W1906+40) with the Kepler mission. Supporting observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Gemini ...

    • Kepler Monitoring of an L Dwarf II. Clouds With Multiyear Lifetimes 

      Gizis, John E.; Dettman, Kyle G.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Camnasio, Sara; Alam, Munazza Khalida; Filippazzo, Joseph C.; Cruz, Kelle L.; Metchev, Stanimir; Berger, Edo; Williams, Peter Kelsey George (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      We present Kepler, Spitzer Space Telescope, Gemini-North, MMT, and Kitt Peak observations of the L1 dwarf WISEP J190648.47+401106.8. We find that the Kepler optical light curve is consistent in phase and amplitude over the ...

    • The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N: A hot rocky world and a solid Neptune-mass planet. 

      Dumusque, Xavier; Bonomo, Aldo S.; Haywood, Raphaelle D.; Malavolta, Luca; Ségransan, Damien; Buchhave, Lars A.; Cameron, Andrew Collier; Latham, David Winslow; Molinari, Emilio; Pepe, Francesco; Udry, Stéphane; Charbonneau, David; Cosentino, Rosario; Dressing, Courtney; Figueira, Pedro; Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M.; Gettel, Sara; Harutyunyan, Avet; Horne, Keith; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Lovis, Christophe; Mayor, Michel; Micela, Giusi; Motalebi, Fatemeh; Nascimbeni, Valerio; Phillips, David F.; Piotto, Giampaolo; Pollacco, Don; Queloz, Didier; Rice, Ken; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; Sozzetti, Alessandro; Szentgyorgyi, Andrew H.; Watson, Chris (IOP Publishing, 2014)
      Kepler-10b was the first rocky planet detected by the Kepler satellite and confirmed with radial velocity follow-up observations from Keck-HIRES. The mass of the planet was measured with a precision of around 30%, which ...

    • Kepler-20: A Sun-like Star with Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets and Two Earth-size Candidates 

      Gautier, Thomas N.; Charbonneau, David; Rowe, Jason F.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Isaacson, Howard; Torres, Guillermo; Fressin, Francois; Rogers, Leslie A.; Désert, Jean-Michel; Buchhave, Lars A.; Latham, David Winslow; Quinn, Samuel N.; Ciardi, David R.; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Ford, Eric B.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Walkowicz, Lucianne M.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Cochran, William D.; Endl, Michael; Fischer, Debra A.; Howell, Steve B.; Horch, Elliott P.; Barclay, Thomas; Batalha, Natalie; Borucki, William J.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Geary, John Charles; Henze, Christopher E.; Holman, Matthew Jon; Ibrahim, Khadeejah; Jenkins, Jon M.; Kinemuchi, Karen; Koch, David G.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Sanderfer, Dwight T.; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; Seager, Sara; Silverio, Kathryn; Smith, Jeffrey C.; Still, Martin; Stumpe, Martin C.; Tenenbaum, Peter; Van Cleve, Jeffrey (IOP Publishing, 2012)
      We present the discovery of the Kepler-20 planetary system, which we initially identified through the detection of five distinct periodic transit signals in the Kepler light curve of the host star 2MASS J19104752+4220194. ...

    • Kepler-21b: A Rocky Planet Around a V = 8.25 Mag Star 

      López-Morales, Mercedes; Haywood, Raphaëlle D.; Coughlin, Jeffrey L.; Zeng, Li; Buchhave, Lars A.; Giles, Helen A. C.; Affer, Laura; Bonomo, Aldo S.; Charbonneau, David; Cameron, Andrew Collier; Consentino, Rosario; Dressing, Courtney D.; Dumusque, Xavier; Figueira, Pedro; Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M.; Harutyunyan, Avet; Johnson, John Asher; Latham, David W.; Lopez, Eric D.; Lovis, Christophe; Malavolta, Luca; Mayor, Michel; Micela, Giusi; Molinari, Emilio; Mortier, Annelies; Motalebi, Fatemeh; Nascimbeni, Valerio; Pepe, Francesco; Phillips, David F.; Piotto, Giampaolo; Pollacco, Don; Queloz, Didier; Rice, Ken; Sasselov, Dimitar; Segransan, Damien; Sozzetti, Alessandro; Udry, Stephane; Vanderburg, Andrew; Watson, Chris (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      HD 179070, aka Kepler-21, is a V = 8.25 F6IV star and the brightest exoplanet host discovered by Kepler. An early detailed analysis by Howell et al. of the first 13 months (Q0-Q5) of Kepler light curves revealed transits ...

    • Kepler-22b: A 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star 

      Borucki, William J.; Koch, David G.; Batalha, Natalie; Bryson, Stephen T.; Rowe, Jason; Fressin, Francois; Torres, Guillermo; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Cochran, William D.; DeVore, Edna; Gautier, Thomas N.; Geary, John C.; Gilliland, Ronald; Gould, Alan; Howell, Steve B.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Latham, David W.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Sasselov, Dimitar; Boss, Alan; Charbonneau, David; Ciardi, David; Kaltenegger, Lisa; Doyle, Laurance; Dupree, Andrea K.; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan; Holman, Matthew J.; Steffen, Jason H.; Mullally, Fergal; Still, Martin; Tarter, Jill; Ballard, Sarah; Buchhave, Lars A.; Carter, Josh; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Demory, Brice-Olivier; Désert, Jean-Michel; Dressing, Courtney; Endl, Michael; Fabrycky, Daniel; Fischer, Debra; Haas, Michael R.; Henze, Christopher; Horch, Elliott; Howard, Andrew W.; Isaacson, Howard; Kjeldsen, Hans; Johnson, John Asher; Klaus, Todd; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery; Barclay, Thomas; Li, Jie; Meibom, Søren; Prsa, Andrej; Quinn, Samuel N.; Quintana, Elisa V.; Robertson, Paul; Sherry, William; Shporer, Avi; Tenenbaum, Peter; Thompson, Susan E.; Twicken, Joseph D.; Van Cleve, Jeffrey; Welsh, William F.; Basu, Sarbani; Chaplin, William; Miglio, Andrea; Kawaler, Steven D.; Arentoft, Torben; Stello, Dennis; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Verner, Graham A.; Karoff, Christoffer; Lundkvist, Mia; Lund, Mikkel N.; Handberg, Rasmus; Elsworth, Yvonne; Hekker, Saskia; Huber, Daniel; Bedding, Timothy R.; Rapin, William (American Astronomical Society, 2012)
      A search of the time-series photometry from NASA's Kepler spacecraft reveals a transiting planet candidate orbiting the 11th magnitude G5 dwarf KIC 10593626 with a period of 290 days. The characteristics of the host star ...

    • The Kepler-454 System: A Small, Not-rocky Inner Planet, a Jovian World, and a Distant Companion 

      Gettel, Sara; Charbonneau, David; Dressing, Courtney D.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Dumusque, Xavier; Vanderburg, Andrew Michael; Bonomo, Aldo S.; Malavolta, Luca; Pepe, Francesco; Cameron, Andrew Collier; Latham, David Winslow; Udry, Stéphane; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Isaacson, Howard; Howard, Andrew W.; Davies, Guy R.; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Kjeldsen, Hans; Bedding, Timothy R.; Lopez, Eric; Affer, Laura; Cosentino, Rosario; Figueira, Pedro; Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M.; Harutyunyan, Avet; Johnson, John Asher; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Lovis, Christophe; Mayor, Michel; Micela, Giusi; Molinari, Emilio; Motalebi, Fatemeh; Phillips, David F.; Piotto, Giampaolo; Queloz, Didier; Rice, Ken; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; Ségransan, Damien; Sozzetti, Alessandro; Watson, Chris; Basu, Sarbani; Campante, Tiago L.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Kawaler, Steven D.; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Handberg, Rasmus; Lund, Mikkel N.; Lundkvist, Mia S.; Huber, Daniel; Chaplin, William J. (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      Kepler-454 (KOI-273) is a relatively bright (V = 11.69 mag), Sun-like star that hosts a transiting planet candidate in a 10.6 day orbit. From spectroscopy, we estimate the stellar temperature to be 5687 ± 50 K, its metallicity ...

    • Kepler-68: Three Planets, One With a Density Between That of Earth and Ice Giants 

      Gilliland, Ronald L.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Rowe, Jason F.; Rogers, Leslie; Torres, Guillermo; Fressin, Francois; Lopez, Eric D.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Désert, Jean-Michel; Henze, Christopher E.; Isaacson, Howard; Jenkins, Jon M.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Chaplin, William J.; Basu, Sarbani; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Elsworth, Yvonne; Handberg, Rasmus; Hekker, Saskia; Huber, Daniel; Karoff, Christoffer; Kjeldsen, Hans; Lund, Mikkel N.; Lundkvist, Mia; Miglio, Andrea; Charbonneau, David; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Haas, Michael R.; Howard, Andrew W.; Howell, Steve B.; Ragozzine, Darin; Thompson, Susan E. (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      NASA's Kepler Mission has revealed two transiting planets orbiting Kepler-68. Follow-up Doppler measurements have established the mass of the innermost planet and revealed a third Jovian-mass planet orbiting beyond the two ...

    • Kepler-93b: A Terrestrial World Measured to Within 120 Km, and a Test Case for a New Spitzer Observing Mode 

      Ballard, Sarah; Chaplin, William J.; Charbonneau, David; Désert, Jean-Michel; Fressin, Francois; Zeng, Li; Werner, Michael W.; Davies, Guy R.; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Basu, Sarbani; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Stello, Dennis; Bedding, Timothy R.; Campante, Tiago L.; Handberg, Rasmus; Karoff, Christoffer; Elsworth, Yvonne; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Hekker, Saskia; Huber, Daniel; Kawaler, Steven D.; Kjeldsen, Hans; Lund, Mikkel N.; Lundkvist, Mia (IOP Publishing, 2014)
      We present the characterization of the Kepler-93 exoplanetary system, based on three years of photometry gathered by the Kepler spacecraft. The duration and cadence of the Kepler observations, in tandem with the brightness ...

    • Kernel Intensity Estimation of 2-Dimensional Spatial Poisson Point Processes From k-Tree Sampling 

      Ellison, Aaron M.; Gotelli, Nicholas J.; Hsiang, Natalie; Lavine, Michael; Maidman, Adam B (Springer Science + Business Media, 2014)
      To estimate the spatial intensity (density) of plants and animals, ecologists often sample populations by prespecifing a spatial array of points, then measuring the distance from each point to the k nearest organisms, a ...

    • Kernel Machine Methods for Risk Prediction with High Dimensional Data 

      Sinnott, Jennifer Anne (2012-10-22)
      Understanding the relationship between genomic markers and complex disease could have a profound impact on medicine, but the large number of potential markers can make it hard to differentiate true biological signal from ...

    • Kernels vs. Ears, and Other Questions for a Science of Treatment Dissemination 

      Weisz, John R; Ugueto, Ana M.; Herren, Jenny; Afienko, Sara R.; Rutt, Christopher (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
      Combining intervention diffusion with change in clinical practice and public policy is an ambitious agenda. The impressive effort in Hawaii can be instructive, highlighting questions for a science of treatment dissemination. ...

    • The Kerr/CFT Correspondence 

      Guica, Monica; Hartman, Thomas; Song, Wei; Strominger, Andrew E. (American Physical Society, 2009)
      Quantum gravity in the region very near the horizon of an extreme Kerr black hole (whose angular momentum and mass are related by \(J = GM^2\)) is considered. It is shown that consistent boundary conditions exist, for which ...

    • Key Considerations for Measuring Allelic Expression on a Genomic Scale Using High-throughput Sequencing 

      Fontanillas, Pierre; Landry, Christian R.; Wittkopp, Patricia J.; Russ, Carsten; Gruber, Jonathan D.; Nusbaum, Chad; Hartl, Daniel L. (Blackwell Publishing, 2010)
      Differences in gene expression are thought to be an important source of phenotypic diversity, so dissecting the genetic components of natural variation in gene expression is important for understanding the evolutionary ...

    • Key Currencies After the Euro 

      Cooper, Richard N. (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999)

    • Key Factors Influencing Rates of Heterotrophic Sulfate Reduction in Active Seafloor Hydrothermal Massive Sulfide Deposits 

      Frank, Kiana L.; Rogers, Karyn L.; Rogers, Daniel R.; Johnston, David T.; Girguis, Peter R. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2015)
      Hydrothermal vents are thermally and geochemically dynamic habitats, and the organisms therein are subject to steep gradients in temperature and chemistry. To date, the influence of these environmental dynamics on microbial ...

    • Key mutations stabilize antigen-binding conformation during affinity maturation of a broadly neutralizing influenza antibody lineage 

      Xu, Huafeng; Schmidt, Aaron G; O'Donnell, Timothy; Therkelsen, Matthew D; Kepler, Thomas B; Moody, M Anthony; Haynes, Barton F; Liao, Hua-Xin; Harrison, Stephen C; Shaw, David E (BlackWell Publishing Ltd, 2014)
      Affinity maturation, the process in which somatic hypermutation and positive selection generate antibodies with increasing affinity for an antigen, is pivotal in acquired humoral immunity. We have studied the mechanism of ...

    • A Keystone for ncRNA 

      Hacisuleyman, Ezgi; Cabili, Moran N; Rinn, John L (BioMed Central, 2012)
      A report on the Keystone symposium 'Non-coding RNAs' held at Snowbird, Utah, USA, 31 March to 5 April 2012.