Kavli Affiliate: Carlos E. M. Wagner | First 5 Authors: Jia Liu, Navin McGinnis, Carlos E. M. Wagner, Xiao-Ping Wang, | Summary: We report on an interesting realization of the QCD axion, with mass in the range $mathcal{O}(10)$ MeV. It has previously been shown that although this scenario is stringently constrained from multiple sources, the […]
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 […]
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} […]
Kavli Affiliate: Naoyuki Tamura| First 5 Authors: Naoyuki Katayama, Naoyuki Katayama, , , | Summary:Electronic instabilities in transition metal compounds often spontaneously form orbital molecules, which consist of orbital-coupled metal ions at low temperature. Recent local structural studies utilizing the pair distribution function revealed that preformed orbital molecules appear disordered even in the high-temperature paramagnetic […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kavli Affiliate: R. Morris | First 5 Authors: Cuc K. Dinh, Jesus M. Salas, Mark R. Morris, Smadar Naoz, | Summary: A Circumnuclear Disk (CND) of molecular gas occupies the central few parsecs of the Galactic Center. It is likely subject to turbulent disruptions from violent events in its surrounding environment, but the effect of […]
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 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael F. Crommie | First 5 Authors: Hongyuan Li, Shaowei Li, Mit H. Naik, Jingxu Xie, Xinyu Li | Summary: Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) moir’e heterostructures provide an ideal platform to explore the extended Hubbard model1 where long-range Coulomb interactions play a critical role in determining strongly correlated electron states. This has led […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paul L. Schechter | First 5 Authors: Richard Luhtaru, Paul L. Schechter, Kaylee M. de Soto, , | Summary: Among known strongly lensed quasar systems, ~25% have gravitational potentials sufficiently flat (and sources sufficiently well aligned) to produce four images rather than two. The projected flattening of the lensing galaxy and tides from […]