Kavli Affiliate: Eric Peng | First 5 Authors: The MSE Science Team, Carine Babusiaux, Maria Bergemann, Adam Burgasser, Sara Ellison | Summary: (Abridged) The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is an end-to-end science platform for the design, execution and scientific exploitation of spectroscopic surveys. It will unveil the composition and dynamics of the faint Universe and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jin Suntivich | First 5 Authors: Padtaraporn Chanhom, Kevin E. Fritz, Lee Burton, Jan Kloppenburg, Yaroslav Filinchuk | Summary: Electrides are ionic crystals in which the electrons prefer to occupy free space, serving as anions. Because the electrons prefer to be in the pockets, channels, or layers to the atomic orbitals around the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jin Suntivich | First 5 Authors: Padtaraporn Chanhom, Kevin E. Fritz, Lee Burton, Jan Kloppenburg, Yaroslav Filinchuk | Summary: Electrides are ionic crystals in which the electrons prefer to occupy free space, serving as anions. Because the electrons prefer to be in the pockets, channels, or layers to the atomic orbitals around the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hiroaki Aihara | First 5 Authors: Toshiya Namikawa, Yuji Chinone, Hironao Miyatake, Masamune Oguri, Ryuichi Takahashi | Summary: We present the first measurement of cross-correlation between the lensing potential, reconstructed from cosmic microwave background (CMB) {it polarization} data, and the cosmic shear field from galaxy shapes. This measurement is made using data from […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luis Ho | First 5 Authors: Kayhan Gültekin, Aaron Barth, Karl Gebhardt, Jenny Greene, Luis Ho | Summary: Supermassive black holes are located at the center of most, if not all, massive galaxies. They follow close correlations with global properties of their host galaxies (scaling relations), and are thought to play a crucial […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jacqueline Hewitt | First 5 Authors: Tzu-Ching Chang, Angus Beane, Olivier Dore, Adam Lidz, Lluis Mas-Ribas | Summary: The Cosmic Dawn and Reionization epochs remain a fundamental but challenging frontier of astrophysics and cosmology. We advocate a large-scale, multi-tracer approach to develop a comprehensive understanding of the physics that led to the formation […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luca Grandi | First 5 Authors: Daniel Ahlin, Boris Bauermeister, Jan Conrad, Robert Gardner, Luca Grandi | Summary: The XENON experiment is looking for non-baryonic particle dark matter in the universe. The setup is a dual phase time projection chamber (TPC) filled with 3200 kg of ultra-pure liquid xenon. The setup is operated […]
Kavli Affiliate: Rob Simcoe | First 5 Authors: Mansi M. Kasliwal, Scott Adams, Igor Andreoni, Michael Ashley, Nadia Blagorodnova | Summary: Opening up the dynamic infrared sky for systematic time-domain exploration would yield many scientific advances. Multi-messenger pursuits such as localizing gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and quantifying the nucleosynthetic yields require the infrared. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luis Ho | First 5 Authors: Carine Brum, Marlon R. Diniz, Rogemar A. Riffel, Alberto Rodriguez-Ardila, Luis Ho | Summary: Intermediate mass black holes (10$^3$-10$^5$ M$_odot$) in the center of dwarf galaxies are believed to be analogous to growing Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the early Universe. Their characterization can provide insight about […]
Kavli Affiliate: Joseph Falson | First 5 Authors: Joseph Falson, Yong Xu, Menghan Liao, Yunyi Zang, Kejing Zhu | Summary: Spin-orbit coupling has proven indispensable in realizing topological materials and more recently Ising pairing in two-dimensional superconductors. This pairing mechanism relies on inversion symmetry breaking and sustains anomalously large in-plane polarizing magnetic fields whose upper […]