SPHEREx: NASA’s Near-Infrared Spectrophotmetric All-Sky Survey

Kavli Affiliate: Salman Habib | First 5 Authors: Brendan P. Crill, Michael Werner, Rachel Akeson, Matthew Ashby, Lindsey Bleem | Summary: SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer, is a NASA MIDEX mission planned for launch in 2024. SPHEREx will carry out the first all-sky spectral survey […]


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SPHEREx: NASA’s Near-Infrared Spectrophotmetric All-Sky Survey

Kavli Affiliate: Salman Habib | First 5 Authors: Brendan P. Crill, Michael Werner, Rachel Akeson, Matthew Ashby, Lindsey Bleem | Summary: SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer, is a NASA MIDEX mission planned for launch in 2024. SPHEREx will carry out the first all-sky spectral survey […]


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The Rise of the $R$-Process in the Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus Dwarf Galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Xiaowei Ou, Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Rohan P. Naidu, Guilherme Limberg | Summary: Neutron star mergers (NSMs) produce copious amounts of heavy r-process elements after a time delayed inspiral process. Once NSMs are present in a galaxy, r-process elements, such as Eu, are expected to […]


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Stellar Metallicities from DECam $u$-band Photometry: A Study of Milky Way Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Yue Pan, Anirudh Chiti, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Alexander P. Ji, Ting S. Li | Summary: We conducted an in-depth analysis of candidate member stars located in the peripheries of three ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy satellites of the Milky Way: Bo"otes I (Boo1), Bo"otes II (Boo2), and Segue […]


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Surface Brightness Fluctuations in Two SPT clusters: a Pilot Study

Kavli Affiliate: Lindsey E. Bleem | First 5 Authors: Charles E. Romero, Massimo Gaspari, Gerrit Schellenberger, Bradford A. Benson, Lindsey E. Bleem | Summary: Studies of surface brightness fluctuations in the intracluster medium (ICM) present an indirect probe of turbulent properties such as the turbulent velocities, injection scales, and the slope of the power spectrum […]


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Inferring dark matter subhalo properties from simulated subhalo-stream encounters

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Tariq Hilmi, Denis Erkal, Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li, Sophia Lilleengen | Summary: In the cold dark matter paradigm, our Galaxy is predicted to contain >10000 dark matter subhaloes in the $10^5-10^8M_odot$ range which should be completely devoid of stars. Stellar streams are sensitive to […]


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Hitting the Thermal Target for Leptophilic Dark Matter

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Cari Cesarotti, Gordan Krnjaic, , , | Summary: We study future lepton collider prospects for testing predictive models of leptophilic dark matter candidates with a thermal origin. We calculate experimental milestones for testing the parameter space compatible with freeze-out and the associated collider signals at past, present, […]


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No need to know: astrophysics-free gravitational-wave cosmology

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel E. Holz | First 5 Authors: Amanda M. Farah, Thomas A. Callister, Jose María Ezquiaga, Michael Zevin, Daniel E. Holz | Summary: Gravitational waves from merging compact objects encode direct information about the luminosity distance to the binary. When paired with a redshift measurement, this enables standard-siren cosmology: a Hubble diagram can […]


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No need to know: astrophysics-free gravitational-wave cosmology

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel E. Holz | First 5 Authors: Amanda M. Farah, Thomas A. Callister, Jose María Ezquiaga, Michael Zevin, Daniel E. Holz | Summary: Gravitational waves from merging compact objects encode direct information about the luminosity distance to the binary. When paired with a redshift measurement, this enables standard-siren cosmology: a Hubble diagram can […]


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No need to know: astrophysics-free gravitational-wave cosmology

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel E. Holz | First 5 Authors: Amanda M. Farah, Thomas A. Callister, Jose María Ezquiaga, Michael Zevin, Daniel E. Holz | Summary: Gravitational waves from merging compact objects encode direct information about the luminosity distance to the binary. When paired with a redshift measurement, this enables standard-siren cosmology: a Hubble diagram can […]


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