Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Abigail J. Lee, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni | Summary: The J-region asymptotic giant branch (JAGB) method is a new standard candle that is based on the stable intrinsic J-band magnitude of color-selected carbon stars, and has a precision comparable […]

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel E. Holz | First 5 Authors: Michael Zevin, Daniel E. Holz, , , | Summary: The population of binary black hole mergers identified through gravitational waves has uncovered unexpected features in the intrinsic properties of black holes in the Universe. One particularly surprising and exciting result is the possible existence of black […]

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel E. Holz | First 5 Authors: Michael Zevin, Daniel E. Holz, , , | Summary: The population of binary black hole mergers identified through gravitational waves has uncovered unexpected features in the intrinsic properties of black holes in the Universe. One particularly surprising and exciting result is the possible existence of black […]

Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Quang H. Tran, Taylor J. Hoyt, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Elias K. Oakes | Summary: We determine the distance to the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal via three Population II stellar distance indicators: (a) the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB), (b) RR Lyrae variables […]

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Abhish Dev, Gordan Krnjaic, Pedro Machado, Harikrishnan Ramani, | Summary: If ultralight $(ll$ eV), bosonic dark matter couples to right handed neutrinos, active neutrino masses and mixing angles depend on the ambient dark matter density. When the neutrino Majorana mass, induced by the dark matter background, is […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert M. Wald | First 5 Authors: Daine L. Danielson, Gautam Satishchandran, Robert M. Wald, , | Summary: We show that if a massive body is put in a quantum superposition of spatially separated states, the mere presence of a black hole in the vicinity of the body will eventually destroy the coherence […]

Kavli Affiliate: Albert Stebbins | First 5 Authors: Olivier Perdereau, Réza Ansari, Albert Stebbins, Peter T. Timbie, Xuelei Chen | Summary: We present the science case for surveys with the Tianlai dish array interferometer tuned to the $left[ 1300, 1400 right] mathrm{MHz}$ frequency range. Starting from a realistic generation of mock visibility data according to […]

Kavli Affiliate: John E. Carlstrom, Bradford A. Benson | First 5 Authors: Karia R. Dibert, Adam J. Anderson, Amy N. Bender, Bradford A. Benson, Federico Bianchini | Summary: The Rayleigh scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off the neutral hydrogen produced during recombination effectively creates an additional scattering surface after recombination that encodes new […]

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Sophia Lilleengen, Michael S. Petersen, Denis Erkal, Jorge Peñarrubia, Sergey E. Koposov | Summary: It has recently been shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a substantial effect on the Milky Way’s stellar halo and stellar streams. Here, we explore how deformations of the Milky […]

Kavli Affiliate: Emil J. Martinec | First 5 Authors: Iosif Bena, Emil J. Martinec, Samir D. Mathur, Nicholas P. Warner, | Summary: The black-hole information paradox provides one of the sharpest foci for the conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity and has become the proving-ground of would-be theories of quantum gravity. String theory has […]