Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | Summary:Recent JWST observations challenge the traditional ‘cosmic shoreline’ from both sides, revealing thick volatile atmospheres on the hottest close-in ‘lava worlds,’ where irradiation should drive the most extreme escape, and bare rocky surfaces on cooler terrestrial planets around M dwarfs, where atmospheres would be expected to survive. Using a coupled […]
Kavli Affiliate: Cory Miller | Authors: Jingwen Li, Vikram Pal Singh, Jude F. Mitchell, Alexander C. Huk and Cory T. Miller | Summary: Human and nonhuman primates rely heavily on vision to actively explore and navigate their environment. Although primate visual cortex has been studied extensively in head-fixed animals, little is known about how the […]
Kavli Affiliate: David T. Limmer | Summary:Biological and artificial networks compute by transforming time-dependent inputs into functional outputs. Because the internal state of a stochastic network relaxes on finite timescales, its output generally lags behind a changing environment, producing computational errors. We show that for reversible continuous-time Markov networks the error admits a universal thermodynamic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Simcoe | Summary:We investigate the distribution and kinematics of cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) gas across the star-forming to quiescent transition using MgII absorption for 716 galaxies spanning $0.07<z<2.7$ (169 new and 547 archival galaxies). To compare galaxies uniformly across 10 billion years of cosmic time, we introduce a star-formation offset metric ($σ_mathrmSFO$), […]