TESS spots a hot Jupiter with an inner transiting Neptune

Kavli Affiliate: Robert F. Goeke | First 5 Authors: Chelsea X. Huang, Samuel N. Quinn, Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette Becker, Joseph E. Rodriguez | Summary: Hot Jupiters are rarely accompanied by other planets within a factor of a few in orbital distance. Previously, only two such systems have been found. Here, we report the discovery of […]


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Defect dynamics in growing bacterial colonies

Kavli Affiliate: Sander Tans | First 5 Authors: Duco van Holthe tot Echten, Gerhard Nordemann, Martijn Wehrens, Sander Tans, Timon Idema | Summary: Colonies of rod-shaped bacteria constitute a system of colloidal active matter with nematic properties. As a single initial bacterium multiplies through repeated divisions, the resulting colony quickly loses long-range orientational order, but […]


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Dark Energy Survey Identification of A Low-Mass Active Galactic Nucleus at Redshift 0.823 from Optical Variability

Kavli Affiliate: Aaron Roodman | First 5 Authors: Hengxiao Guo, Colin J. Burke, Xin Liu, Kedar A. Phadke, Kaiwen Zhang | Summary: We report the identification of a low-mass AGN, DES J0218$-$0430, in a redshift $z = 0.823$ galaxy in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova field. We select DES J0218$-$0430 as an AGN candidate […]


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The TESS-Keck Survey I: A Warm Sub-Saturn-mass Planet and a Caution about Stray Light in TESS Cameras

Kavli Affiliate: Robert F. Goeke | First 5 Authors: Paul A. Dalba, Arvind F. Gupta, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Diana Dragomir, Chelsea X. Huang | Summary: We report the detection of a Saturn-size exoplanet orbiting HD 332231 (TOI 1456) in light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). HD 332231, an F8 dwarf star with […]


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3D Radiative MHD simulations of starspots

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Cameron | First 5 Authors: Mayukh Panja, Robert Cameron, Sami K. Solanki, , | Summary: There are no direct spatially resolved observations of spots on stars other than the Sun and starspot properties are inferred indirectly through lightcurves and spectropolarimetric data. We present the first self-consistent 3D radiative MHD computations of starspots […]


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Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Readout — Cryogenic RF Amplifier and Coaxial Chain Design

Kavli Affiliate: Shawn Henderson | First 5 Authors: Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Aamir Ali, Kam Arnold, Peter Ashton | Summary: The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarization-sensitive Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment on the Cerro Toco Plateau (Chile) with large overlap with other optical and infrared surveys (e.g., DESI, LSST, HSC). To enable […]


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Quiver Yangian from Crystal Melting

Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | First 5 Authors: Wei Li, Masahito Yamazaki, , , | Summary: We find a new infinite class of infinite-dimensional algebras acting on BPS states for non-compact toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. In Type IIA superstring compactification on a toric Calabi-Yau threefold, the D-branes wrapping holomorphic cycles represent the BPS states, and the […]


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Redundant-Baseline Calibration of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Joshua S. Dillon, Max Lee, Zaki S. Ali, Aaron R. Parsons, Naomi Orosz | Summary: In 21 cm cosmology, precision calibration is key to the separation of the neutral hydrogen signal from very bright but spectrally-smooth astrophysical foregrounds. The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), an interferometer […]


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A Deep Exposure in High Resolution X-Rays Reveals the Hottest Plasma in the $ζ,$Puppis Wind

Kavli Affiliate: David P. Huenemoerder | First 5 Authors: David P. Huenemoerder, Richard Ignace, Nathan A. Miller, Kenneth G. Gayley, Wolf-Rainer Hamann | Summary: We have obtained a very deep exposure (813 ks) of $zeta,$Puppis (O4 supergiant) with the Chandra/HETG Spectrometer. Here we report on analysis of the 1-9 r{A} region, especially well suited for […]


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Bounds for exit times of Brownian motion and the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the Laplacian

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Rodrigo Banuelos, Phanuel Mariano, Jing Wang, , | Summary: For domains in $mathbb{R}^d$, $dgeq 2$, we prove universal upper and lower bounds on the product of the bottom of the spectrum for the Laplacian to the power $p>0$ and the supremum over all starting points of the […]


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