A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman

Kavli Affiliate: Susan Clark | Summary:A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to come. In this white paper, we present a concrete and feasible path to imaging the entire sky at $sim0.1”$ resolution, beginning with high-impact fields in Cycle […]


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The DECam MAGIC Survey: Uncovering the Tidal Tails of the Crater II Dwarf Galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander Ji | Summary:Crater II (CraII), a large and low-density dwarf spheroidal galaxy, has unusual observed properties that are difficult to reproduce in cold dark matter simulations. Ongoing tidal disruption may help explain the discrepancies, as evidenced by the recent discovery of tidal tails. Here we present metallicity-sensitive narrowband photometry of the Ca […]


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Low-Energy Radon Backgrounds from Electrode Grids in Dual-Phase Xenon TPCs

Kavli Affiliate: C. M. Ignarra | Summary:The dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) is a powerful technology to detect rare interactions such as scatters of dark matter particles on nuclei. In particular, the built-in gain of ionization signals in a dual-phase TPC makes it sensitive to events in the few-electron regime, as expected from low-mass […]


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Machine Learning on Heterogeneous, Edge, and Quantum Hardware for Particle Physics (ML-HEQUPP)

Kavli Affiliate: David W. Miller | Summary:The next generation of particle physics experiments will face a new era of challenges in data acquisition, due to unprecedented data rates and volumes along with extreme environments and operational constraints. Harnessing this data for scientific discovery demands real-time inference and decision-making, intelligent data reduction, and efficient processing architectures […]


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Machine Learning on Heterogeneous, Edge, and Quantum Hardware for Particle Physics (ML-HEQUPP)

Kavli Affiliate: David W. Miller | Summary:The next generation of particle physics experiments will face a new era of challenges in data acquisition, due to unprecedented data rates and volumes along with extreme environments and operational constraints. Harnessing this data for scientific discovery demands real-time inference and decision-making, intelligent data reduction, and efficient processing architectures […]


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ASKAP J005512.2-255834: A Luminous, Long-Lived Radio Transient at z = 0.1 — an Orphan Afterglow or an off-nuclear TDE from an IMBH?

Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | Summary:We report the discovery of a slowly evolving, extragalactic radio transient, ASKAP J005512.2–255834 (hereafter ASKAP J0055-2558), identified using the Australian SKA Pathfinder in a search for orphan afterglows associated with archival gravitational wave events. Although discovered in this context, there is no evidence that the transient is associated with any […]


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Time-variable Scattered Light in Herbig Disks Observed with Subaru/SCExAO

Kavli Affiliate: Ruobing Dong | Summary:Using the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument, we present near-infrared K-band polarimetric imaging of nine Herbig stars selected from a volume-limited sample within 200 pc. We detect the disks around MWC 480, HD 163296, and HD 143006 for the first time with SCExAO, and compare these observations with […]


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Time-variable Scattered Light in Herbig Disks Observed with Subaru/SCExAO

Kavli Affiliate: Ruobing Dong | Summary:Using the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument, we present near-infrared K-band polarimetric imaging of nine Herbig stars selected from a volume-limited sample within 200 pc. We detect the disks around MWC 480, HD 163296, and HD 143006 for the first time with SCExAO, and compare these observations with […]


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Time-variable Scattered Light in Herbig Disks Observed with Subaru/SCExAO

Kavli Affiliate: Ruobing Dong | Summary:Using the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument, we present near-infrared K-band polarimetric imaging of nine Herbig stars selected from a volume-limited sample within 200 pc. We detect the disks around MWC 480, HD 163296, and HD 143006 for the first time with SCExAO, and compare these observations with […]


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BASS LV. Connecting X-ray variability with AGN physical properties and a new path to Cosmological distances

Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | Summary:X-ray variability is a well-established characteristic of active galactic nuclei (AGN), known to correlate inversely with both the supermassive black hole mass and luminosity, although the degree of each remains a topic of debate. The potential of X-ray variability as a proxy for MBH or for intrinsic LX has led […]


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