Kavli Affiliate: Jacqueline Hewitt | First 5 Authors: Adrian Liu, James Aguirre, Yacine Ali-Haimoud, Marcelo Alvarez, Adam Beardsley | Summary: In addition to being a probe of Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization astrophysics, the 21cm line at $z>6$ is also a powerful way to constrain cosmology. Its power derives from several unique capabilities. First, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Goeke | First 5 Authors: Davide Gandolfi, Luca Fossati, John H. Livingston, Keivan G. Stassun, Sascha Grziwa | Summary: We report the discovery of a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting the star HD 15337 (TOI-402, TIC 120896927), a bright (V=9) K1 dwarf observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in Sectors […]
Kavli Affiliate: Slawomir Gras | First 5 Authors: David Reitze, Rich Abbott, Carl Adams, Rana Adhikari, Nancy Aggarwal | Summary: Recent gravitational-wave observations from the LIGO and Virgo observatories have brought a sense of great excitement to scientists and citizens the world over. Since September 2015,10 binary black hole coalescences and one binary neutron star […]
Kavli Affiliate: Slawomir Gras | First 5 Authors: David Reitze, Rich Abbott, Carl Adams, Rana Adhikari, Nancy Aggarwal | Summary: Recent gravitational-wave observations from the LIGO and Virgo observatories have brought a sense of great excitement to scientists and citizens the world over. Since September 2015,10 binary black hole coalescences and one binary neutron star […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luis Ho | First 5 Authors: Yue Shen, Scott Anderson, Edo Berger, W. N. Brandt, Gisella De Rosa | Summary: The ubiquitous variability of quasars across a wide range of wavelengths and timescales encodes critical information about the structure and dynamics of the circumnuclear emitting regions that are too small to be directly […]
Kavli Affiliate: Patricia R. Burchat | First 5 Authors: Keith Bechtol, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Kevork N. Abazajian, Muntazir Abidi, Susmita Adhikari | Summary: Astrophysical observations currently provide the only robust, empirical measurements of dark matter. In the coming decade, astrophysical observations will guide other experimental efforts, while simultaneously probing unique regions of dark matter parameter space. […]
Kavli Affiliate: A. C. Davis | First 5 Authors: Y. Ali-Haimoud, S. Clesse, J. Garcia-Bellido, A. Kashlinsky, L. Wyrzykowski | Summary: The LIGO discoveries have rekindled suggestions that primordial black holes (BHs) may constitute part to all of the dark matter (DM) in the Universe. Such suggestions came from 1) the observed merger rate of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nickolay Gnedin | First 5 Authors: Enrico Garaldi, Nickolay Gnedin, Piero Madau, , | Summary: We investigate Lyman-$alpha$ transmission spikes at $z > 5$ in synthetic quasar spectra, and discuss their connection to the properties of the intergalactic medium and their ability to constrain reionization models. We use state-of-the-art radiation-hydrodynamic simulations from the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert J. Wood | First 5 Authors: Neel Doshi, Kaushik Jayaram, Samantha Castellanos, Scott Kuindersma, Robert J Wood | Summary: Limitations in actuation, sensing, and computation have forced small legged robots to rely on carefully tuned, mechanically mediated leg trajectories for effective locomotion. Recent advances in manufacturing, however, have enabled the development of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Hartz | First 5 Authors: Aysel Kayis Topaksu, Edward Blucher, Bernard Andrieu, Jianming Bian, Byron Roe | Summary: With the discovery of non-zero value of $theta_{13}$ mixing angle, the next generation of long-baseline neutrino (LBN) experiments offers the possibility of obtaining statistically significant samples of muon and electron neutrinos and anti-neutrinos with […]