Kavli Affiliate: David Charbonneau | First 5 Authors: David Charbonneau, , , , | Summary: In late August 2005, 80 researchers from more than 15 countries convened for a 4-day conference entitled “The Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg b: Status and Prospects for Hot Jupiter Studies”. The meeting was held at l’Observatoire de Haute-Provence, the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Wald | First 5 Authors: Robert M. Wald, , , , | Summary: This Resource Letter provides some guidance on issues that arise in teaching general relativity at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Particular emphasis is placed on strategies for presenting the mathematical material needed for the formulation of general relativity. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Clarence Chang | First 5 Authors: CDMS Collaboration, , , , | Summary: The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS-II) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to seek Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their elastic scattering interactions with nuclei. Simultaneous measurements of both ionization and phonon energy provide discrimination against interactions of background […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chao-Lin Kuo | First 5 Authors: R. S. Bussmann, W. L. Holzapfel, C. L. Kuo, , | Summary: We report measurements of the millimeter wavelength brightness fluctuations produced by the atmosphere above the South Pole made with the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR). The data span the 2002 Austral winter during which […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luca Grandi | First 5 Authors: R. Brunetti, E. Calligarich, M. Cambiaghi, F. Carbonara, F. Cavanna | Summary: The WARP programme for dark matter search with a double phase argon detector is presented. In such a detector both excitation and ionization produced by an impinging particle are evaluated by the contemporary measurement of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wendy Freedman | First 5 Authors: Wendy L. Freedman, , , , | Summary: The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is aimed at providing an independent measure of change in the the Hubble expansion as a function of redshift, and setting constraints dark energy contribution to the total energy content of the universe. Using […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Gladders | First 5 Authors: Michael D. Gladders, Howard K. C. Yee, , , | Summary: The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a $sim$100 square degree, two-filter imaging survey in the $R_C$ and $z’$ filters, designed primarily to locate and characterise galaxy clusters to redshifts as high as $z=1.4$. This paper provides […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Charbonneau | First 5 Authors: David Charbonneau, , , , | Summary: The Hubble Space Telescope is uniquely able to study planets that are observed to transit their parent stars. The extremely stable platform afforded by an orbiting spacecraft, free from the contaminating effects of the Earth’s atmosphere, enables HST to conduct […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marcela Carena | First 5 Authors: Marcela Carena, Ariel Megevand, Mariano Quiros, Carlos E. M. Wagner, | Summary: New fermions, strongly coupled to the Standard Model Higgs boson provide a well motivated extension of the Standard Model (SM). In this work we show that, once new physics at heavier scales is added to […]
Kavli Affiliate: John Carlstrom | First 5 Authors: Erik M. Leitch, J. M. Kovac, N. W. Halverson, J. E. Carlstrom, C. Pryke | Summary: We present the analysis of the complete 3-year data set obtained with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI) polarization experiment, operating from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station. Additional data obtained […]