Kavli Affiliate: John Reynolds | Authors: Tom P. Franken and John H. Reynolds | Summary: Our perception of how objects are laid out in visual scenes is remarkably stable, despite rapid shifts in the patterns of light that fall on the retina with each saccade. One mechanism that may help establish perceptual stability is border […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]