PHYSICAL REVIEW D PERIODICALS 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 100, NUMBER 6 CONTENTS D15 SEPTEMBER 2019 The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of articles 061101–064022, and Part B articles 064023–068302(R) PART A RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO’s second observing run (16 pages) ..... 061101(R) B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration) Origin and impacts of the first cosmic rays (7 pages) ............................................................................... 061301(R) Yutaka Ohira and Kohta Murase Stress-tensor commutators in conformal field theories near the lightcone (6 pages) ........................................... 061701(R) Kuo-Wei Huang SQED3 and SQCD3: Phase transitions and integrability (7 pages) ................................................................ 061702(R) Leonardo Santilli and Miguel Tierz Late time approach to Hawking radiation: Terms beyond leading order (5 pages) ............................................. 061703(R) Paul R. Anderson, Raymond D. Clark, Alessandro Fabbri, and Michael R. R. Good Vortex lattice in a rotating holographic superfluid (6 pages) ....................................................................... 061901(R) Chuan-Yin Xia, Hua-Bi Zeng, Hai-Qing Zhang, Zhang-Yu Nie, Yu Tian, and Xin Li ARTICLES Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO’s first two observing runs (14 pages) 062001 B. P. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration) Characterization of the varying flux of atmospheric muons measured with the Large Volume Detector for 24 years (13 pages) ............................................................................................................................... 062002 N. Yu. Agafonova, M. Aglietta, P. Antonioli, V. V. Ashikhmin, G. Bari, G. Bruno, E. A. Dobrynina, R. I. Enikeev, W. Fulgione, P. Galeotti, M. Garbini, P. L. Ghia, P. Giusti, E. Kemp, A. S. Malgin, A. Molinario, R. Persiani, I. A. Pless, S. Rubinetti, O. G. Ryazhskaya, G. Sartorelli, I. R. Shakiryanova, M. Selvi, C. Taricco, G. C. Trinchero, C. F. Vigorito, V. F. Yakushev, and A. Zichichi (LVD Collaboration) Novel methods to measure the gravitational constant in space (13 pages) ....................................................... 062003 M. Armano et al. (LISA Pathfinder Collaboration) Gravitational wave detection beyond the standard quantum limit using a negative-mass spin system and virtual rigidity (12 pages) ............................................................................................................................... 062004 Emil Zeuthen, Eugene S. Polzik, and Farid Ya. Khalili How effective is machine learning to detect long transient gravitational waves from neutron stars in a real search? (11 pages) ............................................................................................................................... 062005 Andrew L. Miller, Pia Astone, Sabrina D’Antonio, Sergio Frasca, Giuseppe Intini, Iuri La Rosa, Paola Leaci, Simone Mastrogiovanni, Federico Muciaccia, Andonis Mitidis, Cristiano Palomba, Ornella J. Piccinni, Akshat Singhal, Bernard F. Whiting, and Luca Rei Copyright 2019 American Physical Society (Continued) 2470-0010(20190915)100:6;1-F This paper was highlighted in the APS publication Physics (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 100, NUMBER 6 D15 SEPTEMBER 2019 Searching for black hole echoes from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1 (7 pages) ........................................... 062006 Nami Uchikata, Hiroyuki Nakano, Tatsuya Narikawa, Norichika Sago, Hideyuki Tagoshi, and Takahiro Tanaka Tidal effects in eccentric coalescing neutron star binaries (11 pages) ............................................................. 063001 Michelle Vick and Dong Lai Global view of QCD axion stars (13 pages) .......................................................................................... 063002 Joshua Eby, Madelyn Leembruggen, Lauren Street, Peter Suranyi, and L. C. R. Wijewardhana Are gravitating magnetic monopoles stable? (12 pages) ............................................................................ 063003 Ben Kain Properties of the stochastic astrophysical gravitational wave background: Astrophysical sources dependencies (23 pages) 063004 Giulia Cusin, Irina Dvorkin, Cyril Pitrou, and Jean-Philippe Uzan Constraining the axion mass through gamma-ray observations of pulsars (13 pages) ......................................... 063005 Sheridan J. Lloyd, Paula M. Chadwick, and Anthony M. Brown Time-dependent solar modulation of cosmic rays from solar minimum to solar maximum (10 pages) ..................... 063006 Bing-Bing Wang, Xiao-Jun Bi, Kun Fang, Su-Jie Lin, and Peng-Fei Yin Diverse dark matter density at sub-kiloparsec scales in Milky Way satellites: Implications for the nature of dark matter (10 pages) ............................................................................................................................... 063007 Jesús Zavala, Mark R. Lovell, Mark Vogelsberger, and Jan D. Burger Relativistic Thomas-Fermi equation of state for magnetized white dwarfs (11 pages) ......................................... 063008 Sujan Kumar Roy, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Joydev Lahiri, and D. N. Basu Astrophysical jets from boosted compact objects (15 pages) ....................................................................... 063009 Ramiro Cayuso, Federico Carrasco, Barbara Sbarato, and Oscar Reula Cosmic tau neutrino detection via Cherenkov signals from air showers from Earth-emerging taus (26 pages) ........... 063010 Mary Hall Reno, John F. Krizmanic, and Tonia M. Venters Anomalous ANITA air shower events and tau decays (12 pages) ................................................................. 063011 Shoshana Chipman, Rebecca Diesing, Mary Hall Reno, and Ina Sarcevic Detecting the beaming effect of gravitational waves (10 pages) ................................................................... 063012 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela, Xian Chen, Zhoujian Cao, Pau Amaro-Seoane, and Peng Peng Not as big as a barn: Upper bounds on dark matter-nucleus cross sections (17 pages) ....................................... 063013 Matthew C. Digman, Christopher V. Cappiello, John F. Beacom, Christopher M. Hirata, and Annika H. G. Peter Growth of massive scalar hair around a Schwarzschild black hole (10 pages) .................................................. 063014 Katy Clough, Pedro G. Ferreira, and Macarena Lagos Convolutional neural networks: A magic bullet for gravitational-wave detection? (19 pages) ................................ 063015 Timothy D. Gebhard, Niki Kilbertus, Ian Harry, and Bernhard Schölkopf Gravitational-wave-driven tidal secular instability in neutron star binaries (11 pages) ......................................... 063016 Pantelis Pnigouras Electron-interacting dark matter: Implications from DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 and prospects for liquid xenon detectors and NaI detectors (11 pages) .............................................................................................................. 063017 B. M. Roberts and V. V. Flambaum Effects of the standing accretion-shock instability and the lepton-emission self-sustained asymmetry in the neutrino emission of rotating supernovae (20 pages) ................................................................................................... 063018 Laurie Walk, Irene Tamborra, Hans-Thomas Janka, and Alexander Summa Angular distribution of gamma-ray emission from velocity-dependent dark matter annihilation in subhalos (8 pages) 063019 Kimberly K. Boddy, Jason Kumar, Jack Runburg, and Louis E. Strigari Interpretation of the excess of antiparticles within a modified paradigm of galactic cosmic rays (10 pages) .............. 063020 Ruizhi Yang and Felix Aharonian Distinguishing the nature of comparable-mass neutron star binary systems with multimessenger observations: GW170817 case study (8 pages) ................................................................................................................... 063021 Tanja Hinderer, Samaya Nissanke, Francois Foucart, Kenta Hotokezaka, Trevor Vincent, Mansi Kasliwal, Patricia Schmidt, Andrew R. Williamson, David A. Nichols, Matthew D. Duez, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, and Mark A. Scheel (Continued) This paper was highlighted in the APS publication Physics (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 100, NUMBER 6 D15 SEPTEMBER 2019 Large disparity in cosmic reference frames determined from the sky distributions of radio sources and the microwave background radiation (8 pages) ...................................................................................................... 063501 Ashok K. Singal Primordial gravitational waves in nonstandard cosmologies (17 pages) .......................................................... 063502 Nicolás Bernal and Fazlollah Hajkarim BAO