Finding Evidence for Inflation and the Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields with CMB Surveys

Kavli Affiliate: Toshiya Namikawa | First 5 Authors: Sayan Mandal, Neelima Sehgal, Toshiya Namikawa, , | Summary: The origin of the $mumathrm{G}$ magnetic fields observed in galaxies is unknown. One promising scenario is that magnetic fields generated during inflation, larger than 0.1 $mathrm{nG}$ on Mpc scales, were adiabatically compressed to $mumathrm{G}$ strengths in galaxies during […]


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Cosmology with one galaxy?

Kavli Affiliate: David N. Spergel | First 5 Authors: Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Jupiter Ding, Shy Genel, Stephanie Tonnesen, Valentina La Torre | Summary: Galaxies can be characterized by many internal properties such as stellar mass, gas metallicity, and star-formation rate. We quantify the amount of cosmological and astrophysical information that the internal properties of individual galaxies […]


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Tidally Tilted Pulsators

Kavli Affiliate: Saul A. Rappaport | First 5 Authors: Gerald Handler, Rahul Jayaraman, Donald W. Kurtz, Jim Fuller, Saul A. Rappaport | Summary: The tidally tilted pulsators are a new type of oscillating star in close binary systems that have their pulsation axis in the orbital plane because of the tidal distortion caused by their […]


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Percent-level constraints on baryonic feedback with spectral distortion measurements

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Leander Thiele, Digvijay Wadekar, J. Colin Hill, Nicholas Battaglia, Jens Chluba | Summary: High-significance measurements of the monopole thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich CMB spectral distortions have the potential to tightly constrain poorly understood baryonic feedback processes. The sky-averaged Compton-y distortion and its relativistic correction are measures of the total […]


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A census of 163 large-scale (>=10 pc), velocity-coherent filaments in inner Galactic plane: physical properties, dense gas fraction, and association with spiral arms

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Yifei Ge, Ke Wang, , , | Summary: The interstellar medium has a highly filamentary and hierarchical structure, which may play a significant role in star formation. A systematical study on the large-scale filaments towards their physical parameters, distribution, structures and kinematics will inform us of what […]


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Augmenting astrophysical scaling relations with machine learning : application to reducing the SZ flux-mass scatter

Kavli Affiliate: David N. Spergel | First 5 Authors: Digvijay Wadekar, Leander Thiele, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, J. Colin Hill, Miles Cranmer | Summary: Complex systems (stars, supernovae, galaxies, and clusters) often exhibit low scatter relations between observable properties (e.g., luminosity, velocity dispersion, oscillation period, temperature). These scaling relations can illuminate the underlying physics and can provide […]


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The CAMELS project: public data release

Kavli Affiliate: David N. Spergel | First 5 Authors: Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shy Genel, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Lucia A. Perez, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo | Summary: The Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS) project was developed to combine cosmology with astrophysics through thousands of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and machine learning. CAMELS contains 4,233 cosmological simulations, 2,049 N-body […]


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Evidence of large recoil velocity from a black hole merger signal

Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | First 5 Authors: Vijay Varma, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Tousif Islam, Feroz H. Shaik, Carl-Johan Haster | Summary: The final black hole left behind after a binary black hole merger can attain a recoil velocity, or a "kick", reaching values up to 5000 km/s. This phenomenon has important implications for gravitational wave […]


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Classification of solutions to several semi-linear polyharmonic equations and fractional equations

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Yuan | First 5 Authors: Zhuoran Du, Zhenping Feng, Yuan Li, , | Summary: We are concerned with the following semi-linear polyharmonic equation with integral constraint begin{align} left{begin{array}{rl} &(-Delta)^pu=u^gamma_+ ~~ mbox{ in }{mathbb{R}^n},\ nonumber &int_{mathbb{R}^n}u_+^{gamma}dx<+infty, end{array}right. end{align} where $n>2p$, $pgeq2$ and $pinmathbb{Z}$. We obtain for $gammain(1,frac{n}{n-2p})$ that any nonconstant solution satisfying certain […]


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Current Challenges in Cepheid Distance Calibrations Using Gaia EDR3

Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Kayla A. Owens, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Abigail J. Lee, | Summary: Using parallaxes from Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), we determine multi-wavelength BVI, JHK, and [3.6] & [4.5] micron absolute magnitudes for 37 nearby Milky Way Cepheids, covering the period range between […]


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