May 2021 – Page 5 – Kavli Institute Pre-Print Publications

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: UV-Optical Accretion Disk Measurements with Hubble Space Telescope

Posted by klaurent May 6, 2021Peking

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: Y. Homayouni, Megan R. Sturm, Jonathan R. Trump, Keith Horne, C. J. Grier | Summary: We present accretion-disk structure measurements from UV-optical reverberation mapping observations of a sample of eight quasars at 0.24<z<0.85. Ultraviolet photometry comes from two cycles of Hubble Space Telescope monitoring, accompanied by […]

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The Polarized Image of a Synchrotron Emitting Ring of Gas Orbiting a Black Hole

Posted by May 5, 2021Chicago

Kavli Affiliate: John E. Carlstrom | First 5 Authors: Ramesh Narayan, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Michael D. Johnson, Zachary Gelles, Elizabeth Himwich | Summary: Synchrotron radiation from hot gas near a black hole results in a polarized image. The image polarization is determined by effects including the orientation of the magnetic field in the emitting […]

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Design Requirements for the Wide-field Infrared TransientExplorer (WINTER)

Posted by klaurent May 3, 2021MIT

Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | Summary:The Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a 1×1 degree infrared survey telescope under development at MIT and Caltech, and slated for commissioning at Palomar Observatory in 2021. WINTER is a seeing-limited infrared time-domain survey and has two main science goals: (1) the discovery of IR kilonovae and r-process […]

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Design Requirements for the Wide-field Infrared TransientExplorer (WINTER)

Posted by klaurent May 3, 2021MIT

Kavli Affiliate: Gabor Furesz | First 5 Authors: Danielle Frostig, John W. Baker, Joshua Brown, Richard S. Burruss, Kristin Clark | Summary: The Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a 1×1 degree infrared survey telescope under development at MIT and Caltech, and slated for commissioning at Palomar Observatory in 2021. WINTER is a seeing-limited infrared […]

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Heritable differences in synaptic zinc-transporter levels drive variation in learned birdsong

Posted by klaurent May 2, 2021November 14, 2022UCSF

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Brainard | Authors: DG. Mets, W. H. Mehaffey, B. M. Colquitt and M. S. Brainard | Summary: Abstract The authors have withdrawn this manuscript. During revision of our manuscript, we carried out several lines of additional experiments and analyses that failed to fully support and reproduce the results previously presented in Figure […]

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