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Photometric searches for exoplanets and variability in star clusters
Full text linkThis thesis is focused on the photometric analysis of stellar light curves (LCs), to search for variable stars and transiting extrasolar planets. In particular, this study is carried out on crowded fields which include open clusters (OCs).
The context of my work is the photometric preparatory survey “The Asiago Pathfinder for HARPS-N” (APHN; PI: Bedin) aimed at characterising OCs (i.e. M44, NGC752, M35, NGC2158 and M67) to be observed with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern hemisphere (HARPS-N), mounted at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG). The APHN survey was also recently extended to an additional sample of OCs which were chosen as targets for the Kepler extended mission K2 (Howell et al. 2014), in view of creating astrophotometric master input catalogues for high-precision photometry of Kepler and K2 data, following the method developed by (Libralato et al. 2015a). We also analysed data coming from other ground-based facilities, such as the SuperWASP or the STELLA1 Telescope. Searches for transiting exoplanets within OCs, while challenging (van Saders & Gaudi 2011), are particularly useful to constrain the properties of both the host star and planet, and to unveil the planetary formation and evolution mechanisms (Janes 1996; Fischer & Valenti 2005).
The first part of the thesis reviews the different photometric techniques so far developed and present in the literature to search for exoplanets and, in general, for stellar variability studies (chapter 1). A short review of the principal ground and space-based projects is also given at the end of this chapter.
Chapter 2 describes the origin of systematics errors (“red noise”) and gives a description of the methods developed to correct the LCs before the search for variability. A description of the different type of stellar variability and of the algorithms used to search for periodical signals is given in chapter 3.
My original analysis of the OCs data is described in the last four chapters, starting from M44 in chapter 4. There, after a description of the observational setup, I discuss the detrending algorithms, the procedure to detect periodic signal, and my results in terms of newly discovered variables, including a study of the gyrochronological period versus colour relation. The following chapters are organised in a similar way, but covering NGC752 (chapter 5), M35 & NGC2158 (chapter 6) and M67 (chapter 7), respectively
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variable stars in one open cluster within the Kepler/K2-Campaign-5 field: M 67 (NGC 2682)
Full text linkVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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