Probing Atomic Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in Milky Way-Mass Galaxies

Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | Summary:We present the first detailed analysis of the effects of dissipative dark matter on stellar streams. As a concrete example, we generate a cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-mass galaxy, assuming that the dark matter consists of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) with a sub-component ($sim6%$) of Atomic Dark […]


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The Pristine HeII Emitter near GN-z11: Constraining the Mass Distribution of the First Stars

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:The properties of the first metal-free stars remain largely unknown, and so far, the only data-driven constraints on their mass distribution (IMF) come from near-field cosmology. Here, we interpret new observations of the C1 and C2 components of Hebe, the HeII emitter near the galaxy GN-z11. Using a locally calibrated […]


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The Pristine HeII Emitter near GN-z11: Constraining the Mass Distribution of the First Stars

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:The properties of the first metal-free stars remain largely unknown, and so far, the only data-driven constraints on their mass distribution (IMF) come from near-field cosmology. Here, we interpret new observations of the C1 and C2 components of Hebe, the HeII emitter near the galaxy GN-z11. Using a locally calibrated […]


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The search for Population III: Confirmation of a HeII emitter with no metal lines at z=10.6

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We report the confirmation of a HeII$λ$1640 emitter located at 3 pkpc from the galaxy GN-z11, at z=10.6. The detection, based on JWST NIRSpec-IFU high-resolution spectroscopy, confirms a previous claim based on medium-resolution spectroscopy. The HeII$λ$1640 identification is further supported by the independent detection of H$γ$ obtained by Übler et […]


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The search for Population III: Confirmation of a HeII emitter with no metal lines at z=10.6

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We report the confirmation of a HeII$λ$1640 emitter located at 3 pkpc from the galaxy GN-z11, at z=10.6. The detection, based on JWST NIRSpec-IFU high-resolution spectroscopy, confirms a previous claim based on medium-resolution spectroscopy. The HeII$λ$1640 identification is further supported by the independent detection of H$γ$ obtained by Übler et […]


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GA-NIFS and JADES: Confirmation of pristine gas near GN-z11

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:According to the leading cosmological model, a first generation of stars called Population III (PopIII), condensed almost entirely out of hydrogen and helium, must have initiated the creation of all heavier chemical elements. We report the detection of ionised hydrogen (H$γ_4342$) with a signal-to-noise ratio of $S/N$=5.9 in a region […]


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GA-NIFS & JADES: Confirmation of pristine gas near GN-z11

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:According to the leading cosmological model, a first generation of stars called Population III (PopIII), condensed almost entirely out of hydrogen and helium, must have initiated the creation of all heavier chemical elements. Here we report the detection of ionised hydrogen (H$γ_4342$) with $S/N$=5.9 in a region about 3 pkpc […]


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COSMOS-3D: Black Hole Mass Estimators and Luminosity Functions of Paschen-line AGNs

Kavli Affiliate: Luis Ho | Summary:Near-IR Paschen lines are potentially an excellent tracer of Type 1 AGNs that is hardly affected by dust extinction. JWST allows us, for the first time, to explore Paschen-line objects at redshift z>1. Here we present a study of 62 AGNs with broad Pa$α$ and Pa$β$ lines at 1<z<3 using […]


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A Planetary Illusion’s Funeral: Non-detection of a Gaia DR3 Exoplanet Candidate, and the Role of Intermediate-precision Radial Velocities in Gaia Exoplanet Follow-up

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | Summary:The detection of exoplanets using astrometry has long been an area of interest, but is fraught with challenges. The Gaia mission is fundamentally reshaping this field thanks to its unprecedentedly precise all-sky astrometric observations. The 2022 release of Gaia DR3 brought the first exoplanets discovered from the Gaia astrometry, including […]


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Rethinking MLLM Itself as a Segmenter with a Single Segmentation Token

Kavli Affiliate: Anqi Zhang| Summary:Recent segmentation methods leveraging Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown reliable object-level segmentation and enhanced spatial perception. However, almost all previous methods predominantly rely on specialist mask decoders to interpret masks from generated segmentation-related embeddings and visual features, or incorporate multiple additional tokens to assist. This paper aims to investigate […]


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