Kavli Affiliate: Gabor Furesz | First 5 Authors: Ismael Mireles, Avi Shporer, Nolan Grieves, George Zhou, Maximilian N. Günther | Summary: We report the discovery of TOI 694 b and TIC 220568520 b, two low-mass stellar companions in eccentric orbits around metal-rich Sun-like stars, first detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TOI 694 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hirosi Ooguri | First 5 Authors: Hirosi Ooguri, Tadashi Takayanagi, , , | Summary: McNamara and Vafa conjectured that any pair of consistent quantum gravity theories can be connected by a domain wall. We test the conjecture in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. There are topological constraints on existence of an interface […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrey V. Kravtsov | First 5 Authors: Clarke J. Esmerian, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Zachary Hafen, Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, Eliot Quataert | Summary: We examine the thermodynamic state and cooling of the low-$z$ Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM) in five FIRE-2 galaxy formation simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies. We find that the CGM in these simulations is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kerry Vahala | First 5 Authors: Peter Plavchan, Gautam Vasisht, Chas Beichman, Heather Cegla, Xavier Dumusque | Summary: EarthFinder is a NASA Astrophysics Probe mission concept selected for study as input to the 2020 Astrophysics National Academies Decadal Survey. The EarthFinder concept is based on a dramatic shift in our understanding of how […]