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Alfonso F. Agnew

Publications and source records attributed to Alfonso F. Agnew.

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arXiv2018

Identifying correlations between LIGO's astronomical range and auxiliary sensors using lasso regression

The range to which the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) can observe astrophysical systems varies over time, limited by noise in the instruments and their environments. Identifying and removing the sources of noise that limit LIGO's range enables higher signal-to-noise observations and increases the number of observations. The LIGO observatories are continuously monitored by hundreds of thousands of auxiliary channels that may contain information about these noise sources. This paper describes an algorithm that uses linear regression, namely lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) regression, to analyze all of these channels and identify a small subset of them that can be used to reconstruct variations in LIGO's astrophysical range. Exemplary results of the application of this method to three different periods of LIGO Livingston data are presented, along with computational performance and current limitations.

astro-ph.IM↗

arXiv2007

Semiclassical Density of States for the Quantum Asymmetric Top

In the quantization of a rotating rigid body, a {\it top,} one is concerned with the Hamiltonian operator $L_α=α_0^2 L_x^2 + α_1^2 L_y^2 + α_2^2 L_z^2,$ where $α_0 < α_1 <α_2.$ An explicit formula is known for the eigenvalues of $L_α$ in the case of the spherical top ($α_1 = α_2 = α_3$) and symmetrical top ($α_1 = α_2 \neq α_3$) \cite{LL}. However, for the asymmetrical top, no such explicit expression exists, and the study of the spectrum is much more complex. In this paper, we compute the semiclassical density of states for the eigenvalues of the family of operators $L_α=α_0^2 L_x^2 + α_1^2 L_y^2 + α_2^2 L_z^2$ for any $α_0 < α_1 <α_2$.

math-ph↗

arXiv2000

Distributional Modes for Scalar Field Quantization

We propose a mode-sum formalism for the quantization of the scalar field based on distributional modes, which are naturally associated with a slight modification of the standard plane-wave modes. We show that this formalism leads to the standard Rindler temperature result, and that these modes can be canonically defined on any Cauchy surface.

gr-qc↗