Annals of the Lowell Observatory

Converting from Classical to Robotic Astronomy: The Lowell Observatory 0.8-m Telescope

The Lowell Observatory 0.8-m (31-in) Telescope was augmented by the addition of a robotic mode of operation in early 2001. This system executes any predetermined sequence of observing instructions without supervision. Described herein is a general description of the system, lessons learned from the conversion, and a few general algorithms for focusing, collecting twilight flat field images, and...

The 2004 Las Campanas/Lowell Observatory campaign II. Surface properties of Hayabusa target Asteroid 25143 Itokawa inferred from Hapke modeling

1Dept. of Physics, CSUSB, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407 2Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd, Laurel, MD 20723 3The Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Las Campanas Observatory, Colina El Pino, Casilla 601, La Serena, Chile 4Planetary Astronomy Group, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, NASA Johnson Spac...

THE ANNALS of PROBABILITY

On the boundary of the support of super-Brownian notion CARL MUELLER, LEONID MYTNIK AND EDWIN PERKINS 3481 How to initialize a second class particle? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MÁRTON BALÁZS AND ATTILA LÁSZLÓ NAGY 3535 Outliers in the spectrum of large deformed unitarily invariant models SERBAN T. BELINSCHI, HARI BERCOVICI, MIREILLE CAPITAINE AND MAXIME FÉVRIER 3571 Bulk eigenv...

The Annals of Probability

(To appear) Brownian Sheet and Capacity By Davar Khoshnevisan* and Zhan Shi University of Utah & Universit e Paris VI Summary. The main goal of this paper is to present an explicit capacity estimate for hitting probabilities of the Brownian sheet. As applications, we determine the escape rates of the Brownian sheet, and also obtain a local intersection equivalence between the Brownian sheet and...

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.