August 21, 2026 – Kavli Institute Pre-Print Publications

When the stars don’t align: Investigating inconsistencies in binary black hole formation across population synthesis codes

Posted by klaurent August 21, 2026Chicago

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Holz | Summary:Binary population synthesis (BPS) codes are valuable tools for investigating the end-to-end lives of binary stars as well as a myriad of observed astrophysical phenomena. Many “rapid" BPS codes rely on semi-analytical single-star evolutionary tracks and disjointed prescriptions for binary physics. Updated “hybrid" or “detailed" BPS codes incorporate improved methodologies, […]

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When the stars don’t align: Investigating inconsistencies in binary black hole formation across population synthesis codes

Posted by klaurent August 21, 2026Chicago

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Holz | Summary:Binary population synthesis (BPS) codes are extremely useful tools for investigating both the end-to-end lives of binary stars as well as a myriad of astrophysical phenomena observed in the Universe. Given the widespread use of BPS in modern astrophysical research, it is imperative to systematically compare BPS codes across the […]

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Population-scale subcellular proteomics reveals intracellular remodelling across the Alzheimer’s disease-resilience spectrum

Posted by dbos August 21, 2026August 31, 2026Oxford

Kavli Affiliate: Becky Carlyle | Authors: Helen A. Jolly, Paula Seghers, Kaleah Balcomb, Amelia J. Smith, Laura Pearson, Ishan Agrawal, Bethany Geary, David A. Bennett, Thomas Wisniewski, Stephanie L. Fowler, Eleanor Drummond, Oliver M. Crook and Becky C. Carlyle | Summary: Proteome-wide analyses of human tissue have transformed our understanding of disease, but provide limited […]

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Hippocampal representations of alternative possibilities are flexibly generated to meet cognitive demands

Posted by dbos August 21, 2026August 31, 2026UCSF

Kavli Affiliate: Joshua Berke and Loren Frank | Authors: Alison E. Comrie, Emily J. Monroe, Ari E. Kahn, Eric L. Denovellis, Abhilasha Joshi, Jennifer A. Guidera, Timothy A. Krausz, Joshua D. Berke, Nathaniel D. Daw and Loren M. Frank | Summary: The cognitive ability to go beyond the present to consider alternative possibilities, including potential […]

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Tools for Reducing Service Time in Near-Term Quantum Networks

Posted by klaurent August 21, 2026August 31, 2026Delft

Kavli Affiliate: Stephanie Wehner | Summary:Architectures have been proposed to control entanglement generation in multi-user quantum networks. To allow time for local operations and classical communication at end nodes, these architectures insert fixed separations between consecutive batches of entanglement generation attempts. This reduces network utilization when attempts fail, leaving the network idle during the scheduled […]

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EXPO: a quantum leap in fast, wide-band X-ray polarimetry for astrophysics

Posted by klaurent August 21, 2026August 31, 2026MIT

Kavli Affiliate: Herman Marshall | Summary:The Enhanced X-ray Polarimetry Observatory (EXPO) is a mission concept proposed to ESA as an M8 candidate, with a prospective launch in 2041. Building on the scientific success of IXPE, EXPO is designed to overcome its two main limitations, the narrow 2-8 keV energy band and the very slow repointing […]

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Pandora cluster Lensing, AGN, and Transient Exploration (PLATE) from JWST Multi-Epoch Imaging. I. Discovery of a type II supernova candidate in a spiral galaxy at $z=0.7$

Posted by klaurent August 21, 2026August 31, 2026Peking

Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | Summary:We report the discovery and multi-wavelength analysis of a $zsim0.7$ transient PLATE-23a in the Abell 2744 field, as the first results of the Pandora Lensing, AGN, and Transient Exploration (PLATE) project. Using multi-epoch JWST NIRCam imaging spanning from 2022 to 2025, we detect PLATE-23a in 12 filters. Difference-imaging analysis reveals […]

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