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PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW Dä For editorial and subscription correspondence, Postmaster send address changes to: please see inside front cover (ISSN: 1550-7998) APS Subscription Services P.O. Box 41 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 92, NUMBER 4 CONTENTS D15 AUGUST 2015 The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of articles 041101–044037, and Part B articles 044038–049902(E) PART A RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Spontaneous crystallization noise in mirrors of gravitational wave detectors (6 pages) ........................................... 041101(R) N. M. Kondratiev, V. B. Braginsky, S. P. Vyatchanin, and M. L. Gorodetsky Hyperbolic geometry of cosmological attractors (6 pages) ............................................................................ 041301(R) John Joseph M. Carrasco, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Diederik Roest Gauss-Bonnet inflation (5 pages) ........................................................................................................... 041302(R) Panagiota Kanti, Radouane Gannouji, and Naresh Dadhich Vacuum spacetimes with controlled singularities and without symmetries (3 pages) .............................................. 041501(R) Piotr T. Chruściel and Paul Klinger Constraining higher derivative supergravity with scattering amplitudes (5 pages) ................................................. 041701(R) Yifan Wang and Xi Yin When electric charge becomes also magnetic (5 pages) ................................................................................ 041702(R) T. C. Adorno, D. M. Gitman, and A. E. Shabad ARTICLES When is a gravitational-wave signal stochastic? (14 pages) ........................................................................... 042001 Neil J. Cornish and Joseph D. Romano Time-delay interferometry with optical frequency comb (12 pages) ................................................................. 042002 Massimo Tinto and Nan Yu Phase-coherent mapping of gravitational-wave backgrounds using ground-based laser interferometers (22 pages) .......... 042003 Joseph D. Romano, Stephen R. Taylor, Neil J. Cornish, Jonathan Gair, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, and Rutger van Haasteren Mapping the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder parametrization onto physical dark energy Models (7 pages) ........................ 043001 Robert J. Scherrer Nonaxisymmetric Poynting jets (12 pages) ............................................................................................... 043002 Samuel E. Gralla and Ted Jacobson Topology beyond the horizon: How far can it be probed? (21 pages) ............................................................... 043003 Ophélia Fabre, Simon Prunet, and Jean-Philippe Uzan Magnetohydrodynamics of chiral relativistic fluids (19 pages) ........................................................................ 043004 Alexey Boyarsky, Jürg Fröhlich, and Oleg Ruchayskiy Delensing the CMB with the cosmic infrared background (16 pages) ............................................................... 043005 Blake D. Sherwin and Marcel Schmittfull Copyright 2015 American Physical Society (Continued) 1550-7998(20150815)92:4;1-L Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics. Please visit http://physics.aps.org/. By suggesting a few manuscripts each week, we hope to promote reading across fields. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. D 90, 020001 (2014). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 92, NUMBER 4 D15 AUGUST 2015 Polarized gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions (9 pages) ...................................................... 043006 Leonard Kisslinger and Tina Kahniashvili Prospects for searches for long-duration gravitational-waves without time slides (9 pages) ..................................... 043007 Michael Coughlin, Patrick Meyers, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Eric Thrane, and N. Christensen Timelike geodesics of a modified gravity black hole immersed in an axially symmetric magnetic field (13 pages) ........ 043008 Saqib Hussain and Mubasher Jamil Gravitational wave asteroseismology of neutron and strange stars in R2 gravity (9 pages) ...................................... 043009 Kalin V. Staykov, Daniela D. Doneva, Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev, and Kostas D. Kokkotas Gluon effects on the equation of state of color superconducting strange stars (10 pages) ....................................... 043010 E. J. Ferrer, V. de la Incera, and L. Paulucci Gravitational, lensing, and stability properties of Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter halos (18 pages) .................... 043011 Tiberiu Harko and Francisco S. N. Lobo Running from features: Optimized evaluation of inflationary power spectra (21 pages) .......................................... 043501 Hayato Motohashi and Wayne Hu Time asymmetric extensions of general relativity (10 pages) ......................................................................... 043502 Marina Cortês, Henrique Gomes, and Lee Smolin Improved limits on sterile neutrino dark matter using full-sky Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor data (16 pages) .......... 043503 Kenny C. Y. Ng, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Jennifer M. Gaskins, Miles Smith, and Robert Preece Testing and extending the inflationary consistency relation for tensor modes (6 pages) .......................................... 043504 Latham Boyle, Kendrick M. Smith, Cora Dvorkin, and Neil Turok Geometrical measures of non-Gaussianity generated from single field inflationary models (15 pages) ........................ 043505 M. Junaid and D. Pogosyan Leptogenesis via Higgs condensate relaxation (19 pages) ............................................................................. 043506 Louis Yang, Lauren Pearce, and Alexander Kusenko Cosmic microwave background radiation temperature in a dissipative universe (12 pages) ...................................... 043507 Nobuyoshi Komatsu and Shigeo Kimura New geometric representations of the CMB two-point correlation function (11 pages) .......................................... 043508 Andre L. D. Froes, Thiago S. Pereira, Armando Bernui, and Glenn D. Starkman Planck trispectrum constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity at cubic order (6 pages) .......................................... 043509 Chang Feng, Asantha Cooray, Joseph Smidt, Jon O’Bryan, Brian Keating, and Donough Regan Ruling out thermal dark matter with a black hole induced spiky profile in the M87 galaxy (13 pages) ...................... 043510 Thomas Lacroix, Céline Bœhm, and Joseph Silk Interacting realization of cosmological singularities with variable vacuum energy (11 pages) .................................. 043511 Luis P. Chimento and Martín G. Richarte Dynamical de Sitter phase and nontrivial holonomy in strongly coupled gauge theories in an expanding universe (18 pages) 043512 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky Electroweak vacuum angle at finite temperature and implications for baryogenesis (9 pages) .................................. 043513 Andrew J. Long, Hiren H. 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CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 92, NUMBER 4 D15 AUGUST 2015 Primordial quantum nonequilibrium and large-scale cosmic anomalies (22 pages) ................................................ 043520 Samuel Colin and Antony Valentini Inflationary magnetogenesis, derivative couplings, and relativistic Van der Waals interactions (23 pages) .................... 043521 Massimo Giovannini Consistent modified gravity analysis of anisotropic galaxy clustering using BOSS DR11 (13 pages) ......................... 043522 Yong-Seon Song, Atsushi Taruya, Eric Linder, Kazuya Koyama, Cristiano G. Sabiu, Gong-Bo Zhao, Francis Bernardeau, Takahiro Nishimichi, and Teppei Okumura Directional dark matter by polar angle direct detection and application of columnar recombination (10 pages) ............. 043523 Jin Li Phenomenological models of dark energy interacting with dark matter (8 pages) ................................................. 043524 Nicola Tamanini Cosmological attractors from α-scale supergravity (6 pages) .......................................................................... 043525 Diederik Roest and Marco Scalisi Tensor modes in bigravity: Primordial
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