Chronicling the reionization history at $6lesssim z lesssim 7$ with emergent quasar damping wings

Kavli Affiliate: Robert A. Simcoe | First 5 Authors: Dominika Ďurovčíková, Anna-Christina Eilers, Huanqing Chen, Sindhu Satyavolu, Girish Kulkarni | Summary: The spectra of high-redshift ($zgtrsim 6$) quasars contain valuable information on the progression of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). At redshifts $z<6$, the observed Lyman-series forest shows that the intergalactic medium (IGM) is nearly […]


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Forecasts for Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter Constraints from Dwarf Galaxy Surveys

Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Ethan O. Nadler, Vera Gluscevic, Trey Driskell, Risa H. Wechsler, Leonidas A. Moustakas | Summary: The abundance of faint dwarf galaxies is determined by the underlying population of low-mass dark matter (DM) halos and the efficiency of galaxy formation in these systems. Here, we quantify potential […]


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Polarization Leakage and the IXPE PSF

Kavli Affiliate: Roger W. Romani | First 5 Authors: Jack T. Dinsmore, Roger W. Romani, , , | Summary: By measuring photoelectron tracks, the gas pixel detectors of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite provide estimates of the photon detection location and its electric vector position angle (EVPA). However, imperfections in reconstructing event positions blur […]


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Highly-coherent quasi-periodic oscillations in the ‘heartbeat’ black hole X-ray binary IGR J17091-3624

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Jingyi Wang, Erin Kara, Jeroen Homan, James F. Steiner, Diego Altamirano | Summary: IGR J17091-3624 is a black hole X-ray binary (BHXB), often referred to as the ‘twin’ of GRS 1915+105 because it is the only other known BHXB that can show exotic ‘heartbeat’-like variability that is […]


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The 2022 Outburst of IGR J17091-3624: Connecting the exotic GRS 1915+105 to standard black hole X-ray binaries

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Jingyi Wang, Erin Kara, Javier A. García, Diego Altamirano, Tomaso Belloni | Summary: While the standard X-ray variability of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) is stochastic and noisy, there are two known BHXBs that exhibit exotic `heartbeat’-like variability in their light curves: GRS 1915+105 and IGR J17091-3624. […]


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COOL-LAMPS VI: Lens model and New Constraints on the Properties of COOL J1241+2219, a Bright z = 5 Lyman Break Galaxy and its z = 1 Cluster Lens

Kavli Affiliate: Michael D. Gladders | First 5 Authors: Maxwell Klein, Keren Sharon, Kate Napier, Michael D. Gladders, Gourav Khullar | Summary: We present a strong lensing analysis of COOL J1241+2219, the brightest known gravitationally lensed galaxy at $z geq 5$, based on new multi-band Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging data. The lensed galaxy has […]


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The Mass Dependence of Hα Emission and Stellar Spindown for Fully Convective M Dwarfs

Kavli Affiliate: David Charbonneau | First 5 Authors: Emily K. Pass, David Charbonneau, David W. Latham, Perry Berlind, Michael L. Calkins | Summary: Fully convective M dwarfs typically remain rapidly rotating and magnetically active for billions of years, followed by an abrupt and mass-dependent transition to slow rotation and quiescence. A robust understanding of this […]


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WorldDreamer: Towards General World Models for Video Generation via Predicting Masked Tokens

Kavli Affiliate: Zheng Zhu | First 5 Authors: Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu, Guan Huang, Boyuan Wang, Xinze Chen | Summary: World models play a crucial role in understanding and predicting the dynamics of the world, which is essential for video generation. However, existing world models are confined to specific scenarios such as gaming or driving, […]


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QCD challenges from pp to AA collisions — 4th edition

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Javira Altmann, Carlota Andres, Anton Andronic, Federico Antinori, Pietro Antonioli | Summary: This paper is a write-up of the ideas that were presented, developed and discussed at the fourth International Workshop on QCD Challenges from pp to AA, which took place in February 2023 in Padua, Italy. […]


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