Temperature Profiles of Accretion Disks in Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei derived from Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Variability

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: Suyeon Son, Minjin Kim, Luis C. Ho, , | Summary: The characteristic timescale ($tau$) of continuum variability of the accretion disk in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is known to be related to the thermal timescale, which is predicted to scale with AGN luminosity ($L$) and restframe […]


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H I absorption line and anomalous dispersion in the radio pulses of PSR B1937+21

Kavli Affiliate: Kejia Lee | First 5 Authors: Jinchen Jiang, Shunshun Cao, Kejia Lee, Bojun Wang, Heng Xu | Summary: We use the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to observe the bright millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR B1937+21 (J1939+2134) and record the data in the band from 1.0 GHz to 1.5 GHz. We measure the […]


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A convoy of magnetic millirobots transports endoscopic instruments for minimally-invasive surgery

Kavli Affiliate: Felix Fischer | First 5 Authors: Moonkwang Jeon, Xiangzhou Tan, Felix Fischer, Tian Qiu, | Summary: Small-scale robots offer significant potential in minimally-invasive medical procedures. Due to the nature of soft biological tissues, however, robots are exposed to complex environments with various challenges in locomotion, which is essential to overcome for useful medical […]


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The Massive and Distant Clusters of $WISE$ Survey. XII. Exploring X-ray AGN in Dynamically Active Massive Galaxy Clusters at z~1

Kavli Affiliate: Michael McDonald | First 5 Authors: Mustafa Muhibullah, Mark Brodwin, Michael McDonald, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Emily Moravec | Summary: We present an analysis of the cluster X-ray morphology and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity in nine $zsim1$ galaxy clusters from the Massive and Distant Clusters of $WISE$ Survey (MaDCoWS) observed with $Chandra$. Using […]


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Data-driven fine-grained region discovery in the mouse brain with transformers

Kavli Affiliate: Reza Abbasi Asl | Authors: Alex Jihun Lee, Shenqin Yao, Nicholas Lusk, Hongkui Zeng, Bosiljka Tasic and Reza Abbasi-Asl | Summary: Spatial transcriptomics offers unique opportunities to define the spatial organization of tissues and organs, such as the mouse brain. We address a key bottleneck in the analysis of organ-scale spatial transcriptomic data […]


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Dopamine D1 receptor expression in prefrontal parvalbumin neurons influences distractibility across species

Kavli Affiliate: Anirvan Nandy | Authors: Mary Kate P Joyce, Tsvetoslav G Ivanov, Fenna Krienen, Jude Mitchell, Shaojie Ma, Wataru Inoue, Anirvan P Nandy, Dibyadeep Datta, Alvaro Duque, Jon I Arellano, Rahul Gupta, Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, David A Lewis, Nenad Sestan, Steven A McCarroll, Julio C Martinez-Trujillo, Seán Froudist-Walsh and Amy FT Arnsten | Summary: Marmosets […]


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Lysosome damage triggers acute formation of ER to lysosomes membrane tethers mediated by the bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C

Kavli Affiliate: Pietro De Camilli and Shawn Ferguson | Authors: Xinbo Wang, Peng Xu, Amanda Bentley-DeSousa, William Hancock-Cerutti, Shujun Cai, Benjamin T Johnson, Francesca Tonelli, Lin Shao, Gabriel Talaia, Dario R Alessi, Shawn M Ferguson and Pietro De Camilli | Summary: Based on genetic studies, lysosome dysfunction is thought to play a pathogenetic role in […]


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Does 3D Gaussian Splatting Need Accurate Volumetric Rendering?

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Wimmer | First 5 Authors: Adam Celarek, George Kopanas, George Drettakis, Michael Wimmer, Bernhard Kerbl | Summary: Since its introduction, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become an important reference method for learning 3D representations of a captured scene, allowing real-time novel-view synthesis with high visual quality and fast training times. Neural Radiance […]


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Epitaxial high-K AlBN barrier GaN HEMTs

Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | First 5 Authors: Chandrashekhar Savant, Thai-Son Nguyen, Kazuki Nomoto, Saurabh Vishwakarma, Siyuan Ma | Summary: We report a polarization-induced 2D electron gas (2DEG) at an epitaxial AlBN/GaN heterojunction grown on a SiC substrate. Using this 2DEG in a long conducting channel, we realize ultra-thin barrier AlBN/GaN high electron mobility transistors […]


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Spectroastrometry and Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Measuring Geometric Distances and Black Hole Masses of Four Nearby Quasars

Kavli Affiliate: Jinyi Shangguan | First 5 Authors: Yan-Rong Li, Jinyi Shangguan, Jian-Min Wang, Ric Davies, Daryl J. Santos | Summary: The geometric distances of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are challenging to measure because of their exceptionally compact structure yet vast cosmic distances. A combination of spectroastrometry and reverberation mapping (SARM) of broad-line regions (BLRs) […]


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