Kavli Affiliate: Gabor Furesz | Summary:Random telegraph noise (RTN) is a major contributor to read noise in many CMOS image sensors considered for astronomical use. While scientific CMOS image sensors deliver lower read noise than traditional charge-coupled devices, mitigating RTN would widen this gap and enable more precise photometry when using the fast readout rates […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | Summary:Patchy reionization couples the ionized-bubble morphology to the underlying density field, making the CMB Thomson optical depth sensitive to both the global ionization history and anisotropic fluctuations on the sky. Using the large-volume radiation-hydrodynamical Lumina simulation, we compute $τ_rm CMB$ in two ways: (i) from global volume- and mass-weighted ionization […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Turner | Summary:Axial algebras of Monster type are a class of commutative algebras generated by special idempotents called axes. Some motivating examples of these algebras are the Griess algebra and the Norton-Sakuma algebras, relating to the Monster simple group. A long standing open problem is to classify the 2-generated axial algebras of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:AI-assisted research is crossing a threshold: fully automated systems can now generate research papers for as little as $15, while long-horizon agents can execute experiments, draft manuscripts, and simulate critique with minimal human input. Yet this productivity frontier exposes a deeper integrity problem: under scientific pressure, even frontier LLMs still fabricate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Blake Sherwin | Summary:We present a new method for fast computation of the realization-dependent bias, a major computational bottleneck in measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum. The method accelerates the bias calculation by differencing two correlated estimates: one based on fully realistic masked simulations and the other on isotropic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | Summary:Red quasars (rQSOs) have been recognized as a short-lived, early stage in the evolutionary cycle of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), with fundamental differences in their intrinsic properties compared to blue quasars (bQSOs). In this work, we present the first large X-ray sample of 380 rQSOs, selected from the eROSITA/SDSS-V collaboration, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nergis Mavalvala | Summary:Heterogeneous integration of gain and strongly nonlinear materials with ultra-low-loss silicon nitride (SiN) photonics offers a route to scalable quantum circuits, but concurrent wafer-scale manufacturability, low interlayer loss, and high performance have been challenging to realize. Here we demonstrate a wafer-scale III-V-on-SiN quantum photonic platform that directly integrates III-V layers […]