Kavli Affiliate: Clarence L. Chang | First 5 Authors: Clarence L. Chang, Laura Newburgh, Deirdre Shoemaker, Stefan W. Ballmer, Daniel Green | Summary: This report summarizes the envisioned research activities as gathered from the Snowmass 2021 CF5 working group concerning Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration: Cosmic Dawn and Before. The scientific goals are to study […]

Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Barry F. Madore, Wendy L. Freedman, Abigail J. Lee, Kayla Owens, | Summary: We present a new calibration of the J-band absolute magnitude of the JAGB method based on thermally pulsing AGB stars that are members of Milky Way open clusters, having distances and reddenings, independently […]

Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: M. M. Phillips, C. Ashall, Christopher R. Burns, Carlos Contreras, L. Galbany | Summary: 1991T-like supernovae are the luminous, slow-declining extreme of the Branch shallow-silicon (SS) subclass of Type Ia supernovae. They are distinguished by extremely weak Ca II H & K and Si II $lambda6355$ […]

Kavli Affiliate: Brian Nord | First 5 Authors: Yunchong Zhang, Brian Nord, Amanda Pagul, Michael Lepori, | Summary: In observational astronomy, noise obscures signals of interest. Large-scale astronomical surveys are growing in size and complexity, which will produce more data and increase the workload of data processing. Developing automated tools, such as convolutional neural networks […]

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Stefania Gori, Mike Williams, Phil Ilten, Nhan Tran, Gordan Krnjaic | Summary: Is Dark Matter part of a Dark Sector? The possibility of a dark sector neutral under Standard Model (SM) forces furnishes an attractive explanation for the existence of Dark Matter (DM), and is a compelling […]

Kavli Affiliate: Michael D. Gladders | First 5 Authors: Michael N. Martinez, Kate A. Napier, Aidan P. Cloonan, Ezra Sukay, Katya Gozman | Summary: In the third paper from the COOL-LAMPS Collaboration, we report the discovery of COOL J0542-2125, a gravitationally lensed quasar at $z=1.84$, observed as three images due to an intervening massive galaxy […]

Kavli Affiliate: Michael D. Gladders | First 5 Authors: Keren Sharon, Guillaume Mahler, T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, Hakon Dahle, Michael D. Gladders | Summary: We present a strong lensing analysis of the cluster PSZ1 G311.65-18.48, based on Hubble Space Telescope imaging, archival VLT/MUSE spectroscopy, and Chandra X-ray data. This cool-core cluster (z=0.443) lenses the brightest lensed […]

Kavli Affiliate: Andrey Kravtsov | First 5 Authors: Khanh Pham, Andrey Kravtsov, Viraj Manwadkar, , | Summary: We examine the spatial distribution and orbital pole correlations of satellites in a suite of zoom-in high-resolution dissipationless simulations of Miky Way (MW) sized haloes. We use the measured distribution to estimate the incidence of satellite configurations as […]

Kavli Affiliate: Edward W. Kolb | First 5 Authors: Edward Basso, Daniel J. H. Chung, Edward W. Kolb, Andrew J. Long, | Summary: Previous numerical investigations of gravitational particle production during the coherent oscillation period of inflation displayed unexplained fluctuations in the spectral density of the produced particles. We argue that these features are due […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey J. McMahon | First 5 Authors: Johannes Hubmayr, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall, Jake A. Connors, Shannon M. Duff | Summary: Planar Orthomode Transducers (OMTs) are commonly used for polarization measurements at millimeter wavelengths. We present an optical coupling study of an octave bandwidth planar OMT in circular waveguide based on […]