Kavli Affiliate: E. P. S. Shellard | First 5 Authors: C. J. A. P. Martins, Patrick Peter, I. Yu. Rybak, E. P. S. Shellard, | Summary: We develop an analytic model to quantitatively describe the evolution of superconducting cosmic string networks. Specifically, we extend the velocity-dependent one-scale (VOS) model to incorporate arbitrary currents and charges […]
Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou | First 5 Authors: Marta Spinelli, Gianni Bernardi, Hugh Garsden, Lincoln J. Greehill, Anastasia Fialkov | Summary: Total-power radiometry with individual meter-wave antennas is a potentially effective way to study the Cosmic Dawn ($zsim20$) through measurement of sky brightness arising from the $21$~cm transition of neutral hydrogen, provided this can be […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ulrich Sperhake | First 5 Authors: Tomas Andrade, Pau Figueras, Ulrich Sperhake, , | Summary: We study collisions of boosted rotating black holes in $D=6$ and 7 spacetime dimensions with a non-zero impact parameter. We find that there exists an open set of initial conditions such that the intermediate state of the collision […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Challinor | First 5 Authors: Thibaut Louis, Sigurd Naess, Xavier Garrido, Anthony Challinor, | Summary: We present a simple approximation that can speed up the computation of the mode-coupling matrices, which are usually the bottleneck for computing unbiased angular power spectra, as well as their associated covariance matrices, of the cosmic microwave […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Challinor | First 5 Authors: Antón Baleato Lizancos, Anthony Challinor, Julien Carron, , | Summary: Efforts to detect a primordial $B$-mode of CMB polarization generated by inflationary gravitational waves ought to mitigate the large variance associated with the $B$-modes produced by gravitational lensing, a process known as delensing. A popular approach to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Lasenby | First 5 Authors: Michael Hobson, Anthony Lasenby, , , | Summary: We consider Weyl gauge theories of gravity (WGTs), which are invariant both under local Poincar’e transformations and local changes of scale. Such theories may be interpreted as gauge theories in Minkowski spacetime, but their gravitational interactions are most often […]
Kavli Affiliate: Debora Sijacki | First 5 Authors: Martin A. Bourne, Debora Sijacki, , , | Summary: While there is overwhelming observational evidence of AGN-driven jets in galaxy clusters and groups, if and how the jet energy is delivered to the ambient medium remains unanswered. Here we perform very high resolution AGN jet simulations within […]
Kavli Affiliate: R. G. McMahon | First 5 Authors: Wei-Ting Liao, Yu-Ching Chen, Xin Liu, A. Miguel Holgado, Hengxiao Guo | Summary: Binary supermassive black holes (BSBHs) are expected to be a generic byproduct from hierarchical galaxy formation. The final coalescence of BSBHs is thought to be the loudest gravitational wave (GW) siren, yet no […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Lasenby | First 5 Authors: Michael Hobson, Anthony Lasenby, , , | Summary: We consider the construction of gauge theories of gravity that are invariant under local conformal transformations. We first clarify the geometric nature of global conformal transformations, in both their infinitesimal and finite forms, and the consequences of global conformal […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ulrich Sperhake | First 5 Authors: Roxana Rosca-Mead, Christopher J. Moore, Ulrich Sperhake, Michalis Agathos, Davide Gerosa | Summary: We compute families of spherically symmetric neutron-star models in two-derivative scalar-tensor theories of gravity with a massive scalar field. The numerical approach we present allows us to compute the resulting spacetimes out to infinite […]