Antoine de La Sale's 'La Sale': the cannonball and the prince's head

The elderly tutor La Sale's didactic treatise for his charges (dated 1451) includes an eye-witness account of the siege of Anjou-held Naples by the Aragonese in 1438. It narrates the accidental death (or miracle, depending on the perspective of the chroniclers) of the infante Pedro of Castille, brother of King Alfonso the Magnanimous of Aragon. This article explores how "La Sale", an adapted version of the Middle French translation of Valerius Maximus's 'Facta et dicta memorabilia', frames and skews the anecdote towards an exploration of the reliability and authority of the tutor-narrator.

The SARS algorithm: detrending CoRoT light curves with Sysrem using simultaneous external parameters

Surveys for exoplanetary transits are usually limited not by photon noise but rather by the amount of red noise in their data. In particular, although the CoRoT space-based survey data are being carefully scrutinized, significant new sources of systematic noises are still being discovered. Recently, a magnitude-dependant systematic effect was discovered in the CoRoT data by Mazeh et al. and a phenomenological correction was proposed. Here we tie the observed effect to a particular type of effect, and in the process generalize the popular Sysrem algorithm to include external parameters in a simultaneous solution with the unknown effects. We show that a post-processing scheme based on this algorithm performs well and indeed allows for the detection of new transit-like signals that were not previously detected.

December 2009: Can PASCAL Be Saved?

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April 2008: PASCAL Delivers...and How!

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April 2007: New PASCAL Delivers Becomes Reality

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May 2005: A PASCAL Primer

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July 2004: PASCAL to Receive $2 Million from S.C. Legislature

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PASCAL

PASCAL is not about the famous French philosopher, but is a pensee of which he would approve

A PASCAL Primer

PASCAL is the Palmetto State's new academic consortium. But can it survive in a state committed to exiguous state funding for higher ed?