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 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nickolay Y. Gnedin | First 5 Authors: Ryan Hausen, Brant E. Robertson, Hanjue Zhu, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Piero Madau | Summary: Understanding the connections between galaxy stellar mass, star formation rate, and dark matter halo mass represents a key goal of the theory of galaxy formation. Cosmological simulations that include hydrodynamics, physical treatments […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Elias K. Oakes, Taylor J. Hoyt, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Quang H. Tran | Summary: We determine three independent Population II distance moduli to the Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy, using wide-field, ground-based $VI$ imaging acquired with the Magellan-Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Elias K. Oakes, Taylor J. Hoyt, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Quang H. Tran | Summary: We determine three independent Population II distance moduli to the Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy, using wide-field, ground-based $VI$ imaging acquired with the Magellan-Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. […]