Strong spiral arms drive secular growth of pseudo bulges in disk galaxies

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Si-Yue Yu, Dewang Xu, Luis C. Ho, Jing Wang, Wei-Bo Kao | Summary: Spiral-driven instabilities may drive gas inflow to enhance central star formation in disk galaxies. We investigate this hypothesis using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in a sample of 2779 nearby unbarred star-forming main-sequence […]


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Optimizing the topological properties of stacking semiconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Wimmer | First 5 Authors: Chun-Xiao Liu, Michael Wimmer, , , | Summary: We study the electronic properties of a planar semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure, in which a thin ferromagnetic insulator layer lies in between and acts as a spin filtering barrier. We find that in such a system one can simultaneously enhance the […]


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Integrated optical-readout of a high-Q mechanical out-of-plane mode

Kavli Affiliate: Simon Groblacher | First 5 Authors: Jingkun Guo, Simon Gröblacher, , , | Summary: The rapid development of high-Q macroscopic mechanical resonators has enabled great advances in optomechanics. Further improvements could allow for quantum-limited or quantum-enhanced applications at ambient temperature. Some of the remaining challenges include the integration of high-Q structures on a […]


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Evidence for quasar fast outflows being accelerated at the scale of tens of parsecs

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: Zhicheng He, Guilin Liu, Tinggui Wang, Guobin Mou, Richard Green | Summary: Quasar outflows may play a crucial role in regulating the host galaxy, although the spatial scale of quasar outflows remain a major enigma, with their acceleration mechanism poorly understood. The kinematic information of outflow […]


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OctAttention: Octree-based Large-scale Contexts Model for Point Cloud Compression

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Chunyang Fu, Ge Li, Rui Song, Wei Gao, Shan Liu | Summary: In point cloud compression, sufficient contexts are significant for modeling the point cloud distribution. However, the contexts gathered by the previous voxel-based methods decrease when handling sparse point clouds. To address this problem, we propose […]


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Pressure-induced ideal Weyl semimetal state in the layered antiferromagnet EuCd2As2

Kavli Affiliate: Li Xin Li | First 5 Authors: Zhenhai Yu1, Xuejiao Chen, Wei Xia, Ningning Wang, Xiaodong Lv | Summary: The rich nontrivial topological phases rooted in the interplay between magnetism and topology in the layered antiferromagnet EuCd2As2 have captured vast attention, especially the ideal Weyl semimetal state realized in the spin-polarized ferromagnetic (FM) […]


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Multi-direction and Multi-scale Pyramid in Transformer for Video-based Pedestrian Retrieval

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Xianghao Zang, Ge Li, Wei Gao, , | Summary: In video surveillance, pedestrian retrieval (also called person re-identification) is a critical task. This task aims to retrieve the pedestrian of interest from non-overlapping cameras. Recently, transformer-based models have achieved significant progress for this task. However, these models […]


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Bias on Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio Inference With Estimated Covariance Matrices

Kavli Affiliate: W. L. Kimmy Wu | First 5 Authors: Dominic Beck, Ari Cukierman, W. L. Kimmy Wu, , | Summary: We investigate simulation-based bandpower covariance matrices commonly used in cosmological parameter inferences such as the estimation of the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. We find that upper limits on $r$ can be biased low by tens […]


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Bias on Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio Inference With Estimated Covariance Matrices

Kavli Affiliate: W. L. Kimmy Wu | First 5 Authors: Dominic Beck, Ari Cukierman, W. L. Kimmy Wu, , | Summary: We investigate simulation-based bandpower covariance matrices commonly used in cosmological parameter inferences such as the estimation of the tensor-to-scalar ratio~$r$. We find that upper limits on $r$ can be biased low. The underestimation of […]


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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Observation Calibration Plan

Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | First 5 Authors: Robert T. Zellem, Bijan Nemati, Vanessa P. Bailey, Eric J. Cady, M. Mark Colavita | Summary: NASA’s next flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 2.4-meter observatory set to launch no later than May 2027. Roman features two instruments: the Wide Field Imager and […]


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