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Impact of non-Gaussian likelihood on cosmological constraints from the thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich power spectrum: a simulation-based inference analysis

Posted by klaurent June 12, 2026June 15, 2026Cambridge, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Challinor | Summary:The thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (tSZ) power spectrum is a sensitive probe of cosmology and cluster astrophysics, but its statistics are non-Gaussian because the signal receives a significant contribution from rare, massive, low-redshift galaxy clusters. As a result, a Gaussian likelihood fails to describe the statistics of its power spectrum on large […]

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GATOS N: Extended circumnuclear dust emission in nearby Seyfert galaxies surveyed by JWST/MIRI

Posted by klaurent June 12, 2026June 15, 2026Peking, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | Summary:The subarcsecond angular resolution and stable background of JWST has given us the first high-fidelity images of the arcsecond-scale environment around Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) in the nearby Universe. With mid-infrared (MIR) surface brightness sensitivities that are much deeper than the best ground-based instruments, the Mid-InfraRed Instrument imager (MIRIM) now […]

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Cauchy Aggregation of Ridge-Regularized Hotelling Tests for High-Dimensional Change-Point Detection

Posted by klaurent June 12, 2026June 15, 2026Peking, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Long| Summary: Ridge-regularized Hotelling-type (RHT) change-point tests depend on a ridge parameter $λ$, but the power-optimal value is determined by the unknown covariance structure and the unknown mean shift. We avoid selecting a single ridge value by computing fixed-ridge p-values on a finite deterministic grid and aggregating them with the Cauchy combination […]

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Prime Focus Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope: Overview of Science Operations

Posted by klaurent June 12, 2026June 15, 2026This Week: Astrophysics, Tokyo

Kavli Affiliate: Naoyuki Tamura | Summary:The paper presents the science operation framework for Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS or ‘Onohi’ula in its Hawaiian name) installed at the 8.2m Subaru Telescope on the summit of Maunakea. PFS is a massively multiplexed, wide-field, fiber-fed spectrograph covering 1.25 square degrees with 2386 science fibers. The instrument has been offered […]

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Mutant SOD1 expressed by oligodendrocytes aggregates in myelinic nanochannels and accelerates disease progression in familial ALS mice

Posted by dbos June 11, 2026June 17, 2026Hopkins, This Week: Neuroscience

Kavli Affiliate: Dwight Bergles | Authors: Alexandra I Mot, Ying Li, Payam Dibaj, Iva D Tzvetanova, Ulrike C Gerwig, Tizibt A Bogale, Sandra Goebbels, Wiebke Möbius, Dwight E Bergles, Brett M Morrison, Jeffrey D Rothstein, Don W Cleveland, Julia M Edgar and Klaus-Armin Nave | Summary: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a highly debilitating and […]

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Ultralow frequency vaso-oscillations in human cerebral arteries are independent from Mayer waves

Posted by dbos June 11, 2026June 17, 2026This Week: Neuroscience, UCSD / Salk

Kavli Affiliate: David Kleinfeld | Authors: Aiman Alzetani, Jacob Duckworth, Anthony A Birch, David M Simpson, David Kleinfeld and Roxana O Carare | Summary: This study tests the hypothesis that vasomotion, an ∼ 0.1 Hz oscillation in arteriole diameter, is generated by intrinsic oscillations within the arterioles that perfuse the brain, and not by external […]

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SPOTTER: Automated Tissue-Barcoding Platform for Spatial Proteomics and Phosphoproteomics

Posted by dbos June 11, 2026June 17, 2026Hopkins, This Week: Neuroscience

Kavli Affiliate: Xingde Li | Authors: Yuanwei Xu, Hyeoncheol Park, Jason Li, Yuehan Liu, T. Mamie Lih, Chengyu Lee, Xingde Li and hui Zhan | Summary: Spatial proteomics aims to characterize proteome in situ with regional resolution, linking molecular states to tissue architecture and microenvironments. While recent advances have expanded our access to spatially resolved […]

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Complexity as a Potential Neurophysiological Correlate of Awe

Posted by dbos June 11, 2026June 17, 2026This Week: Neuroscience, UCSF

Kavli Affiliate: Reza Abbasi Asl | Authors: oseph Chih Chien Chen, Gabriella Mace, Avery Ostrand, Christian Valtierra, Sydney Griffith, Richard Campusano, Andrew Li, Erin Vinson, Jonas Schlomberg, Maya Eshel, John Matthew Suntay, Syed Rahim, Roger Anguera-Singla, Bijurika Nandi, Isabella Hartley, Daniel A Brown, Nicole C Swann, Luca Mazzucato, Xin Hu, Dan Zhang, Christopher Timmermann, Maryam […]

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Functional brain organization is stable within individuals across years

Posted by dbos June 11, 2026June 17, 2026This Week: Neuroscience, UCSD / Salk

Kavli Affiliate: Deanna J. Greene | Authors: Hyejin J. Lee, Ally Dworetsky, Alexis Porter, Sihan Fei, Ashley N. Nielsen, Benjamin A. Seitzman, Babatunde Adeyemo, Patrick G. Bissett, Russell A. Poldrack, Jessica R. Cohen, Mark D’Esposito, Maital Neta, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, Steven E. Petersen, Evan M. Gordon, Deanna J. Greene and Caterina Gratton | Summary: Brain […]

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Galaxy clusters in the VIDEO fields: detection and characterisation in the context of MOONRISE

Posted by klaurent June 11, 2026June 15, 2026Cambridge, This Week: Astrophysics

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We analyse the cluster content of the $sim 4.5 text deg^2$ XMM-LSS and CDFS VIDEO fields which are expected to be partially covered by the upcoming MOONRISE survey. Using AMICO and WaZP photometric redshift-based cluster finders, we construct a sample of $519$ cluster candidates detected by both finders in the […]

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