Vibronic coupling in energy transfer dynamics and two-dimensional electronic-vibrational spectra

Kavli Affiliate: Graham R. Fleming | First 5 Authors: Eric A. Arsenault, Addison J. Schile, David T. Limmer, Graham R. Fleming, | Summary: We introduce a heterodimer model in which multiple mechanisms of vibronic coupling and their impact on energy transfer can be explicitly studied. We consider vibronic coupling that arises through either Franck-Condon activity […]


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On the origin of observed cosmic ray spectrum below 100 TV

Kavli Affiliate: Igor V. Moskalenko | First 5 Authors: Mikhail A. Malkov, Igor V. Moskalenko, , , | Summary: Significant progress in cosmic ray (CR) studies was achieved over the past decade. Particularly important are precise measurements of primary and secondary species in the TV rigidity domain that show a bump in the spectra of […]


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Searching for a subpopulation of primordial black holes in LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave data

Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | First 5 Authors: Gabriele Franciolini, Vishal Baibhav, Valerio De Luca, Ken K. Y. Ng, Kaze W. K. Wong | Summary: With several dozen binary black hole events detected by LIGO/Virgo to date and many more expected in the next few years, gravitational-wave astronomy is shifting from individual-event analyses to population […]


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

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

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)

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)

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

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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Strange pentaquarks and excited $Ξ$ hyperons in $Ξ_b^- to J/ψ ΛK^-$ final states

Kavli Affiliate: Jonathan L. Rosner | First 5 Authors: Marek Karliner, Jonathan L. Rosner, , , | Summary: We comment on the recent evidence by the LHCb Collaboration for a structure in the $J/psi Lambda$ final state produced in the decay $Xi^-_b to J/psi Lambda K^-$, with minimal quark content $c bar c u d […]


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The missing link in gravitational-wave astronomy: A summary of discoveries waiting in the decihertz range

Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen | First 5 Authors: Manuel Arca Sedda, Christopher P L Berry, Karan Jani, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Pierre Auclair | Summary: Since 2015 the gravitational-wave observations of LIGO and Virgo have transformed our understanding of compact-object binaries. In the years to come, ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as LIGO, Virgo, and their successors will […]


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