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The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign - I. Overview and classification of candidates selected by two techniques
(2018)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyThe primary goals of the STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) collaboration are to measure the dark energy equation of state parameter and the free streaming length of dark matter. To this aim, STRIDES is discovering strongly lensed quasars in the imaging data of the Dark Energy Survey and following them up to measure time delays, high resolution imaging, and spectroscopy sufficient to construct accurate lens ...Journal Article -
Models of the strongly lensed quasar DES J0408-5354
(2017)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyWe present detailed modelling of the recently discovered, quadruply lensed quasar J0408−5354, with the aim of interpreting its remarkable configuration: besides three quasar images (A,B,D) around the main deflector (G1), a fourth image (C) is significantly reddened and dimmed by a perturber (G2) which is not detected in the Dark Energy Survey imaging data. From lens models incorporating (dust-corrected) flux ratios, we find a perturber ...Journal Article -
The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 - a worst case
(2014)Climatic ChangeThe heat waves of 2003 in Western Europe and 2010 in Russia, commonly labelled as rare climatic anomalies outside of previous experience, are often taken as harbingers of more frequent extremes in the global warming-influenced future. However, a recent reconstruction of spring–summer temperatures for WE resulted in the likelihood of significantly higher temperatures in 1540. In order to check the plausibility of this result we investigated ...Journal Article -
DPHL: A DIA Pan-human Protein Mass Spectrometry Library for Robust Biomarker Discovery
(2020)Genomics, Proteomics & BioinformaticsTo address the increasing need for detecting and validating protein biomarkers in clinical specimens, mass spectrometry (MS)-based targeted proteomic techniques, including the selected reaction monitoring (SRM), parallel reaction monitoring (PRM), and massively parallel data-independent acquisition (DIA), have been developed. For optimal performance, they require the fragment ion spectra of targeted peptides as prior knowledge. In this ...Journal Article -
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Optimal Tiling of Dense Surveys with a Multi-Object Spectrograph
(2010)Publications of the Astronomical Society of AustraliaJournal Article -
MAGIC observations of the microquasar V404 Cygni during the 2015 outburst
(2017)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyThe microquasar V404 Cygni underwent a series of outbursts in 2015, June 15–31, during which its flux in hard X-rays (20–40 keV) reached about 40 times the Crab nebula flux. Because of the exceptional interest of the flaring activity from this source, observations at several wavelengths were conducted. The MAGIC telescopes, triggered by the INTEGRAL alerts, followed-up the flaring source for several nights during the period June 18–27, ...Journal Article -
MAGIC detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the low-luminosity blazar 1ES 1741+196
(2017)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyWe present the first detection of the nearby (z = 0.084) low-luminosity BL Lac object 1ES 1741+196 in the very high energy (E > 100 GeV) band. This object lies in a triplet of interacting galaxies. Early predictions had suggested 1ES 1741+196 to be, along with several other high-frequency BL Lac sources, within the reach of MAGIC detectability. Its detection by MAGIC, later confirmed by VERITAS, helps to expand the small population of ...Journal Article -
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Cross-correlation redshifts - methods and systematics characterization
(2018)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyWe use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensing source galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 sample with redMaGiC galaxies (luminous red galaxies with secure photometric redshifts) to estimate the redshift distribution of the former sample. The recovered redshift distributions are used to calibrate ...Journal Article -
Cosmology from large scale galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data
(2017)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyJournal Article -
International Waist Circumference Percentile Cutoffs for Central Obesity in Children and Adolescents Aged 6 to 18 Years
(2020)The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & MetabolismContext No universal waist circumference (WC) percentile cutoffs used have been proposed for screening central obesity in children and adolescents. Objective To develop international WC percentile cutoffs for children and adolescents with normal weight based on data from 8 countries in different global regions and to examine the relation with cardiovascular risk. Design and Setting We used pooled data on WC in 113,453 children ...Journal Article