Kavli Affiliate: Lihong V. Wang | First 5 Authors: Huanhao Li, Zhipeng Yu, Yunqi Luo, Shengfu Cheng, Lihong V. Wang | Summary: Speckles arise when coherent light interacts with biological tissues. Information retrieval from speckles is desired yet challenging, requiring understanding or mapping of the multiple scattering process, or reliable capability to reverse or compensate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael McDonald | First 5 Authors: Yu Qiu, Tamara Bogdanovic, Yuan Li, Michael McDonald, Brian R. McNamara | Summary: Galaxy clusters are the most massive collapsed structures in the universe whose potential wells are filled with hot, X-ray emitting intracluster medium. Observations however show that a significant number of clusters (the so-called cool-core […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert F. Goeke | First 5 Authors: John P. Ahlers, Marshall C. Johnson, Keivan G Stassun, Knicole D. Colon, Jason W. Barnes | Summary: KELT-9 b is an ultra hot Jupiter transiting a rapidly rotating, oblate early-A-type star in a polar orbit. We model the effect of rapid stellar rotation on KELT-9 b’s […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hirosi Ooguri | First 5 Authors: Stefano Andriolo, Tzu-Chen Huang, Toshifumi Noumi, Hirosi Ooguri, Gary Shiu | Summary: The axionic weak gravity conjecture predicts the existence of instantons whose actions are less than their charges in appropriate units. We show that the conjecture is satisfied for the axion-dilaton-gravity system if we assume duality […]
Kavli Affiliate: Naoki Yasuda | First 5 Authors: Tian Qiu, Wenting Wang, Masahiro Takada, Naoki Yasuda, Željko Ivezić | Summary: We present proper motion measurements for more than $0.55$ million main-sequence stars, by comparing astrometric positions of matched stars between the multi-band imaging datasets from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Survey and the SDSS Stripe 82. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Lasenby | First 5 Authors: Kamran Javid, Will Handley, Mike Hobson, Anthony Lasenby, | Summary: We conduct a thorough analysis of the relationship between the out-of-sample performance and the Bayesian evidence (marginal likelihood) of Bayesian neural networks (BNNs), as well as looking at the performance of ensembles of BNNs, both using the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ralf K. Heilmann | First 5 Authors: Brandon D. Chalifoux, Ralf K. Heilmann, Herman L. Marshall, Mark L. Schattenburg, | Summary: Astronomical imaging with micro-arcsecond ($mu$as) angular resolution could enable breakthrough scientific discoveries. Previously-proposed $mu$as X-ray imager designs have been interferometers with limited effective collecting area. Here we describe X-ray telescopes achieving diffraction-limited […]
Kavli Affiliate: Tomotake Matsumura | First 5 Authors: Tommaso Ghigna, Tomotake Matsumura, Guillaume Patanchon, Hirokazu Ishino, Masashi Hazumi | Summary: Current and future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation experiments are targeting the polarized $B$-mode signal. The small amplitude of this signal makes a successful measurement challenging for current technologies. Therefore, very accurate studies to mitigate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu | First 5 Authors: Shuang Du, Weihua Wang, Xuhao Wu, Renxin Xu, | Summary: We propose a geometrical explanation for periodically and nonperiodically repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) under neutron star (NS)-companion systems. We suggest a constant critical binary separation, $r_{rm c}$, within which the interaction between the NS and companion […]
Kavli Affiliate: Giorgio Gratta | First 5 Authors: Akio Kawasaki, Alexander Fieguth, Nadav Priel, Charles P. Blakemore, Denzal Martin | Summary: A high sensitivity force sensor based on dielectric microspheres in vacuum, optically trapped by a single, upward-propagating laser beam, is described. Off-axis parabolic mirrors are used both to focus the 1064~nm trapping beam and […]