A Higher Probability of Detecting Lensed Supermassive Black Hole Binaries by LISA

Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen | First 5 Authors: Zucheng Gao, Xian Chen, Yi-Ming Hu, Jian-Dong Zhang, Shunjia Huang | Summary: Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the universe. Here we revisit the wave-optics effects induced by dark matter (DM) halos on the GW signals of merging […]


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The Geometry of Cold, Metal-Enriched Gas Around Galaxies at $zsim1.2$

Kavli Affiliate: Donald G. York | First 5 Authors: Britt F. Lundgren, Samantha Creech, Gabriel Brammer, Nathan Kirse, Matthew Peek | Summary: We present the first results from a Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR program, which obtained direct imaging and grism observations of galaxies near quasar sightlines with a high frequency of uncorrelated foreground Mg II […]


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Catastrophic Production of Slow Gravitinos

Kavli Affiliate: Edward W. Kolb | First 5 Authors: Edward W. Kolb, Andrew J. Long, Evan McDonough, , | Summary: We study gravitational particle production of the massive spin-$3/2$ Rarita-Schwinger field, and its close relative, the gravitino, in FRW cosmological spacetimes. For masses lighter than the value of the Hubble expansion rate after inflation, $m_{3/2} […]


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A 21-cm power spectrum at 48 MHz, using the Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array

Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou | First 5 Authors: Hugh Garsden, Lincoln Greenhill, Gianni Bernardi, Anastasia Fialkov, Daniel C. Price | Summary: The Large-aperture Experiment to detect the Dark Age (LEDA) was designed to measure the 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen at Cosmic Dawn, $z approx $15-30. Using observations made with the $approx $ 200 m […]


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Scanning SQUID microscopy in a cryogen-free dilution refrigerator

Kavli Affiliate: Katja C. Nowack | First 5 Authors: D. Low, G. M. Ferguson, Alexander Jarjour, Brian T. Schaefer, Maja D. Bachmann | Summary: We report a scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope in a cryogen-free dilution refrigerator with a base temperature at the sample stage of at least 30 mK. The microscope is […]


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Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr)

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: S. J. Brennan, M. Fraser, J. Johansson, A. Pastorello, R. Kotak | Summary: We present the results from a high cadence, multi-wavelength observation campaign of AT 2016jbu (aka Gaia16cfr), an interacting transient. This dataset complements the current literature by adding higher cadence as well as extended coverage […]


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Two-dimensional charge order stabilized in clean polytype heterostructures

Kavli Affiliate: Lena F. Kourkoutis | First 5 Authors: Suk Hyun Sung, Noah Schnitzer, Steve Novakov, Ismail El Baggari, Xiangpeng Luo | Summary: Compelling evidence suggests distinct correlated electron behavior may exist only in clean 2D materials such as 1T-TaS2. Unfortunately, experiment and theory suggest that extrinsic disorder in free standing 2D layers disrupts correlation-driven […]


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Peeking into the $θ$ vacuum

Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | First 5 Authors: Ryuichiro Kitano, Ryutaro Matsudo, Norikazu Yamada, Masahito Yamazaki, | Summary: We propose a subvolume method to study the $theta$ dependence of the free energy density of the four-dimensional SU($N$) Yang-Mills theory on the lattice. As an attempt, the method is first applied to SU(2) Yang-Mills theory at […]


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