Palatini gravity with nonmetricity, torsion, and boundaries in metric and connection variables

Kavli Affiliate: J. S. Villasenor | First 5 Authors: Fernando Barbero G., Juan Margalef-Bentabol, Valle Varo, Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor, | Summary: We prove the equivalence in the covariant phase space of the metric and connection formulations for Palatini gravity, with nonmetricity and torsion, on a spacetime manifold with boundary. To this end, we will […]


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Breaching the limit: formation of GW190521-like and IMBH mergers in young massive clusters

Kavli Affiliate: Rainer Spurzem | First 5 Authors: Manuel Arca Sedda, Francesco Paolo Rizzuto, Thorsten Naab, Jeremiah Ostriker, Mirek Giersz | Summary: The LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration (LVC) discovered recently GW190521, a gravitational wave (GW) source associated with the merger between two black holes (BHs) with mass $66$ M$_odot$ and $>85$ M$_odot$. GW190521 represents the first BH […]


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A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Ronald A. Remillard | First 5 Authors: Thomas E. Riley, Anna L. Watts, Paul S. Ray, Slavko Bogdanov, Sebastien Guillot | Summary: We report on Bayesian estimation of the radius, mass, and hot surface regions of the massive millisecond pulsar PSR J0740$+$6620, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray […]


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Reverberation mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei: from X-ray corona to dusty torus

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Edward M. Cackett, Misty C. Bentz, Erin Kara, , | Summary: The central engines of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are powered by accreting supermassive black holes, and while AGNs are known to play an important role in galaxy evolution, the key physical processes occur on scales that […]


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Exploring Evaporating Primordial Black Holes with Gravitational Waves

Kavli Affiliate: Misao Sasaki | First 5 Authors: Guillem Domènech, Volodymyr Takhistov, Misao Sasaki, , | Summary: Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe have been connected with the nature of dark matter and can significantly affect cosmological history. We show that coincidence dark radiation and density fluctuation gravitational wave signatures associated with evaporation […]


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Learning Gaussian Graphical Models with Latent Confounders

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Ke Wang, Alexander Franks, Sang-Yun Oh, , | Summary: Gaussian Graphical models (GGM) are widely used to estimate the network structures in many applications ranging from biology to finance. In practice, data is often corrupted by latent confounders which biases inference of the underlying true graphical structure. […]


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