Effect of Instrumental Polarization with a Half-Wave Plate on the $B$-Mode Signal: Prediction and Correction

Posted by klaurent Tokyo

Kavli Affiliate: Tomotake Matsumura | First 5 Authors: Guillaume Patanchon, Hiroaki Imada, Hirokazu Ishino, Tomotake Matsumura, | Summary: We evaluate the effect of half-wave plate (HWP) imperfections inducing intensity leakage to the measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization signal with future satellite missions focusing on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. The HWP is modeled […]


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Batch Effects are Causal Effects: Applications in Human Connectomics

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Kavli Affiliate: Brian Caffo, Joshua Vogelstein | Authors: Eric W. Bridgeford, Michael Powell, Gregory Kiar, Stephanie Noble, Jaewon Chung, Sambit Panda, Ross Lawrence, Ting Xu, Michael Milham, Brian Caffo and Joshua T. Vogelstein | Summary: Batch effects, undesirable sources of variance across multiple experiments, present significant challenges for scientific and clinical discoveries. Specifically, batch effects […]


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Cosmological Distance Measurement of 12 Nearby Supernovae IIP with ROTSE-IIIB

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Kavli Affiliate: Eli Rykoff | First 5 Authors: Govinda Dhungana, Robert Kehoe, Ryan Staten, Jozsef Vinko, J. Craig Wheeler | Summary: We present cosmological analysis of 12 nearby ($z<0.06$) Type IIP supernovae (SNe IIP) observed with the ROTSE-IIIb telescope. To achieve precise photometry, we present a new image differencing technique that is implemented for the […]


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On the detectability of strong lensing in near-infrared surveys

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Kavli Affiliate: Philip J. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Philip Holloway, Aprajita Verma, Philip J. Marshall, Anupreeta More, Matthias Tecza | Summary: We present new lensing frequency estimates for existing and forthcoming deep near-infrared surveys, including those from JWST and VISTA. The estimates are based on the JAdes extraGalactic Ultradeep Artificial Realisations (JAGUAR) galaxy catalogue […]


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Survey of X-rays from Massive Stars Observed at High Spectral Resolution with Chandra

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Kavli Affiliate: David P. Huenemoerder | First 5 Authors: Pragati Pradhan, David P. Huenemoerder, Richard Ignace, Joy S. Nichols, A. M. T. Pollock | Summary: Identifying trends between observational data and the range of physical parameters of massive stars is a critical step to the still-elusive full understanding of the source, structure, and evolution of […]


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Supermassive Primordial Black Holes From Inflation

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Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic, Albert Stebbins | First 5 Authors: Dan Hooper, Aurora Ireland, Gordan Krnjaic, Albert Stebbins, | Summary: There is controversy surrounding the origin and evolution of our universe’s largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In this study, we consider the possibility that some of these black holes formed from the direct collapse of […]


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AGN STORM 2: V. Anomalous Behavior of the CIV Light Curve in Mrk 817

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Kavli Affiliate: Erin A. Kara | First 5 Authors: Y. Homayouni, Gerard A. Kriss, Gisella De Rosa, Rachel Plesha, Edward M. Cackett | Summary: An intensive reverberation mapping campaign on the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revealed significant variations in the response of the […]


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AGN STORM 2: V. Anomalous Behavior of the CIV Light Curve in Mrk 817

Posted by klaurent MIT

Kavli Affiliate: Erin A. Kara | First 5 Authors: Y. Homayouni, Gerard A. Kriss, Gisella De Rosa, Rachel Plesha, Edward M. Cackett | Summary: An intensive reverberation mapping campaign on the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk817 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revealed significant variations in the response of the […]


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Structure-activity studies of Streptococcus pyogenes enzyme SpyCEP reveal high affinity for CXCL8 in the SpyCEP C-terminal

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Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Max Pearson, Carl Haslam, Andrew Fosberry, Emma J Jones, Mark Reglinski, Robert J Edwards, Richard Ashley Lawrenson, Jonathan C Brown, Danuta Mossakowska, James Edward Pease and Shiranee Sriskandan | Summary: The Streptococcus pyogenes cell envelope protease (SpyCEP) is vital to streptococcal pathogenesis and disease progression. Despite its strong association […]


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Demonstrating Autonomous 3D Path Planning on a Novel Scalable UGV-UAV Morphing Robot

Posted by klaurent Caltech

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib | First 5 Authors: Eric Sihite, Filip Slezak, Ioannis Mandralis, Adarsh Salagame, Milad Ramezani | Summary: Some animals exhibit multi-modal locomotion capability to traverse a wide range of terrains and environments, such as amphibians that can swim and walk or birds that can fly and walk. This capability is extremely beneficial […]


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