September 21, 2026 – Kavli Institute Pre-Print Publications

Growth and Interface Engineering of Superconducting TiN on Sapphire by Thermal-Laser Epitaxy

Posted by klaurent September 21, 2026October 7, 2026Cornell

Kavli Affiliate: Grace Xing | Summary:Thermal-laser epitaxy (TLE) extends the accessible pressure, temperature, and growth-rate regimes of conventional molecular-beam epitaxy, enabling in situ laser annealing, high-purity buffer-layer growth, and efficient evaporation of refractory elements. These capabilities make TLE a promising platform for engineering low-loss superconducting resonators and Josephson-junction heterostructures. Here, we study the TLE growth […]

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TIC 366240660 – A Dynamically Active Triple With a Very Short Outer Period of 30.5 Days

Posted by klaurent September 21, 2026MIT

Kavli Affiliate: Saul Rappaport | Summary:Methods: We analyze TESS photometric data, radial velocity measurements, and eclipse timing variation curves for the triple star system, TIC 366240660, with a photodynamical code to infer the properties of all three stars and orbital motions. Results: With an outer orbital period of only 30.5 d, this is the second […]

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The impact of alpha synuclein overexpression on nigrostriatal transmission

Posted by dbos September 21, 2026October 7, 2026UCSF

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Nikolas Bergum, Andrew Yee, Robert Edwards and Christopher P. Ford | Summary: Accumulation of wild-type α-synuclein in dopamine neurons of the Substantia Nigra pars compacta (SNc) is a pathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD), which commonly precedes neurodegeneration. Yet how α-synuclein accumulation affects nigrostriatal neurotransmission early in the progression of PD […]

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The functional diversification of somatosensory neuron repertoires across Mammalia

Posted by dbos September 21, 2026October 7, 2026Hopkins

Kavli Affiliate: Cynthia F. Moss and Elena Gracheva | Authors: S. Andrew Shuster, Jia Yin Xiao, Bruno Gegenhuber, Shamsuddin A. Bhuiyan, Min Dai, Yongting Chen, Michelle M. DeLisle, Preston Sheng, Elizabeth Howell, Michael Brecht, Elena O. Gracheva, Cynthia F. Moss, David L. Paul, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Gord Fishell, William Renthal, Michael E. Greenberg and David D. […]

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Gone with the wind? Potential gas inflow in the broad-line region of a QSO at $z=0.287$ traced by time-varying Balmer absorption

Posted by klaurent September 21, 2026Cambridge

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We report spectroscopic observations of a remarkable QSO, J115724.80-000455.56 at $z=0.287$ from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. This QSO exhibits variability in its hydrogen Balmer absorption over a time interval of 10 months in the observed frame between 2021 and 2022. The observed Balmer absorption can be decomposed […]

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Bulk OPE Coefficients of the $E$-Series Virasoro Minimal Models

Posted by klaurent September 21, 2026Tokyo

Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | Summary:We present bulk-primary operator-product coefficients for every Virasoro minimal model with an $E_6$, $E_7$, or $E_8$ modular invariant. Dividing by a universal product of chiral generalized-minimal-model OPE coefficients reduces the conformal bootstrap problem to a finite algebraic problem governed by root-of-unity quantum-group $6j$ symbols. The exceptional factors of the OPE […]

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Bulk OPE Coefficients of the $E$-Series Virasoro Minimal Models

Posted by klaurent September 21, 2026Tokyo

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Overcoming Model Misspecification in Bayesian Inference of Molecular Signalling Networks

Posted by klaurent September 21, 2026UCSB

Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | Summary:Bayesian inference of molecular signalling networks usually relies on tractability of the marginal likelihood, enabling the set of possible networks to be efficiently explored. As such, linear models with independent errors and conjugate priors are routinely used. However, the dynamics of molecular signalling are nonlinear, and relevant confounders are often […]

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LATED: JWST integral field spectroscopy of a galaxy caught in chemical infancy at $z=4.8$ behind Abell 2744

Posted by klaurent September 21, 2026Cambridge

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:When Population III (Pop III) star formation ended remains an open question. LATED-1 is an intrinsically faint ($M_mathrmUV=-16.15$) Ly$α$ emitter at $z=4.80$ revealed by VLT/MUSE behind the lensing cluster Abell 2744 ($z=0.308$). Before any spectroscopic metallicity constraints, it was identified as an extremely metal-poor or metal-free galaxy candidate from JWST […]

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LATED: Ly$α$-anchored photometric selection of candidate metal-free and extremely metal-poor star formation from the end of reionisation to cosmic noon

Posted by klaurent September 21, 2026Cambridge

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:Cosmological simulations allow a low-level tail of Population III (Pop III) star formation to persist to $z=2-6$. Spectroscopic confirmation is expensive, so an efficient photometric pre-selection is needed. We present LATED (Lyman-Alpha Tomography of Extremely Metal-poor Domains), which selects metal-free and extremely metal-poor candidates from a Ly$α$-emitter parent sample using […]

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