Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Evan N. Kirby, Alexander P. Ji, Evan H. Nuñez, | Summary: We demonstrate that using up to seven stellar abundance ratios can place observational constraints on the star formation histories (SFHs) of Local Group dSphs, using the Sculptor dSph as […]
Kavli Affiliate: Stephan S. Meyer | First 5 Authors: Nathaniel Selub, Frederick Wehlen, Craig Hogan, Stephan S. Meyer, | Summary: We examine all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps on large angular scales to test consistency with a hypothesized cosmological symmetry: a universal variance of primordial curvature perturbations on great circles. This symmetry is not […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Holz | First 5 Authors: Douglas Tucker, Matthew Wiesner, Sahar Allam, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Clecio de Bom | Summary: On 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC, the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected a possible neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH), the first ever identified. An extensive search for an optical counterpart of this event, designated […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nickolay Gnedin | First 5 Authors: Nishant Mishra, Nickolay Gnedin, , , | Summary: We explore the evolution of the flux power spectrum in the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) simulations. We find that, contrary to some previous studies, the shape of the flux power spectrum is rather insensitive to the timing of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Emil J. Martinec | First 5 Authors: Emil J. Martinec, , , , | Summary: This companion paper to arXiv:2109.00065 explores the interpretation of $AdS_3/CFT_2$ duality for $k=(R_{AdS}/lstr)^2<1$ in terms of "non-critical little string theory". We review the underlying fivebrane structure of 1/2-BPS backgrounds for string theory in both the critical dimension and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Savdeep Sethi | First 5 Authors: Christian Ferko, Gautam Satishchandran, Savdeep Sethi, , | Summary: We develop a general formalism for treating radiative degrees of freedom near $mathscr{I}^{+}$ in theories with an arbitrary Ricci-flat internal space. These radiative modes are encoded in a generalized news tensor which decomposes into gravitational, electromagnetic, and scalar […]
Kavli Affiliate: Stephan S. Meyer | First 5 Authors: Craig Hogan, Stephan S. Meyer, , , | Summary: We consider the hypothesis that nonlocal, omnidirectional, causally-coherent quantum entanglement of inflationary horizons may account for some well-known measured anomalies of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy on large angular scales. It is shown that causal coherence can […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey A. Harvey | First 5 Authors: John F. R. Duncan, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Brandon C. Rayhaun, , | Summary: As Mathieu moonshine is a special case of umbral moonshine, Thompson moonshine (in half-integral weight) is a special case of a family of similar relationships between finite groups and vector-valued modular forms of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Brian Nord | First 5 Authors: Dimitrios Tanoglidis, Aleksandra Ćiprijanović, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Brian Nord, Michael H. L. S. Wang | Summary: Wide-field astronomical surveys are often affected by the presence of undesirable reflections (often known as "ghosting artifacts" or "ghosts") and scattered-light artifacts. The identification and mitigation of these artifacts is important for […]
Kavli Affiliate: Angela Olinto | First 5 Authors: Sameer Patel, Mary Hall Reno, Yosui Akaike, Luis Anchordoqui, Douglas Bergman | Summary: An accurate modeling of neutrino flux attenuation and the distribution of leptons they produce in transit through the Earth is an essential component to determine neutrino flux sensitivities of underground, sub-orbital and space-based detectors. […]