October 26, 2021 – Kavli Institute Pre-Print Publications

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) IV: The Complex Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium as Revealed by Partial Lyman Limit Systems

Posted by klaurent October 26, 2021MIT

Kavli Affiliate: Robert A. Simcoe | First 5 Authors: Thomas J. Cooper, Gwen C. Rudie, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Sean D. Johnson, Fakhri S. Zahedy | Summary: We present a detailed study of two partial Lyman limit systems (pLLSs) of neutral hydrogen column density $N_mathrm{H,I}approx(1-3)times10^{16},mathrm{cm}^{-2}$ discovered at $z=0.5$ in the Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS). Available far-ultraviolet […]

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Measurement of the Relativistic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Corrections in RX J1347.5-1145

Posted by klaurent October 26, 2021Stanford

Kavli Affiliate: Adam B. Mantz | First 5 Authors: Victoria Butler, Richard M. Feder, Tansu Daylan, Adam B. Mantz, Dale Mercado | Summary: We present a measurement of the relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect spectrum, the rSZ effect, toward the massive galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145 by combining sub-mm images from Herschel-SPIRE with […]

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Measuring the Density Fields around Bright Quasars at $zsim 6$ with XQR-30 Spectra

Posted by klaurent October 26, 2021Chicago

Kavli Affiliate: Nickolay Y. Gnedin | First 5 Authors: Huanqing Chen, Anna-Christina Eilers, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Xiaohui Fan | Summary: Measuring the density of the intergalactic medium using quasar sightlines in the epoch of reionization is challenging due to the saturation of Lyman-$alpha$ absorption. Near a luminous quasar, however, the enhanced […]

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Global optimization of multilayer dielectric coatings for precision measurements

Posted by klaurent October 26, 2021Caltech

Kavli Affiliate: Rana Adhikari | Summary:We describe the design of optimized multilayer dielectric coatings for precision laser interferometry. By setting up an appropriate cost function and then using a global optimizer to find a minimum in the parameter space, we were able to realize coating designs that meet the design requirements for spectral reflectivity, thermal […]

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Intersonic Detachment Surface Waves in Elastomer Frictional Sliding

Posted by klaurent October 26, 2021Harvard

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Weitz | First 5 Authors: Huifeng Du, Emmanuel Virot, Liying Wang, Sam Kharchenko, Md Arifur Rahman | Summary: Elastomeric materials when sliding on clean and rough surfaces generate wrinkles at the interface due to tangential stress gradients. These interfacial folds travel along the bottom of elastomer as surface detachment waves to […]

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