Kavli Affiliate: Chihway Chang | First 5 Authors: Chihway Chang, Christian Monstein, Joel Akeret, Sebastian Seehars, Alexandre Refregier | Summary: We describe the design and performance of the hardware system at the Bleien Observatory. The system is designed to deliver a map of the Galaxy for studying the foreground contamination of low-redshift (z=0.13–0.43) H$_{rm I}$ […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eric Oberla | First 5 Authors: M. Bogdan, E. Oberla, H. J. Frisch, M. Wetstein, | Summary: We describe a modular multi-channel data acquisition system based on the 5-15 Gigasample-per-second waveform-recording PSEC4 chip. The system architecture incorporates two levels of hardware with FPGA-embedded system control and in-line data processing. The front-end unit is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Donald G. York | First 5 Authors: Ryan J. Oelkers, Lucas M. Macri, Lifan Wang, Michael C. B. Ashley, Xiangqun Cui | Summary: The Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) carried out high-cadence time-series observations of 20.1 square degrees centered on the South Celestial Pole during the 2008, 2009 & 2010 winter seasons from […]
Kavli Affiliate: Juan I. Collar | First 5 Authors: Craig E. Aalseth, Juan I. Collar, Jim Colaresi, James E. Fast, Todd W. Hossbach | Summary: Recent progress on the development of very low noise high purity germanium ionization spectrometers has produced an instrument of 1.2 kg mass and excellent noise performance. The detector was installed […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Gordan Krnjaic, , , , | Summary: We systematically study light (< few GeV) Dark Matter (DM) models that thermalize with visible matter through the Higgs portal and identify the remaining gaps in the viable parameter space. Such models require a comparably light scalar mediator that mixes […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eric Oberla | First 5 Authors: E. Oberla, H. J. Frisch, , , | Summary: A first experimental test of tracking relativistic charged particles by `drifting’ Cherenkov photons in a water-based optical time-projection chamber (OTPC) has been performed at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. The prototype OTPC detector consists of a 77~cm long, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Radomir Smida | First 5 Authors: Radomír Šmída, Ralph Engel, , , | Summary: Arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from the direction of ten brightest radio sources lying within 50 Mpc from our Galaxy were studied by using recent models of the largescale Galactic magnetic field. A detailed study, where also […]
Kavli Affiliate: Alexander Ji | First 5 Authors: Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Volker Bromm, , | Summary: We model early star forming regions and their chemical enrichment by Population III (Pop III) supernovae with nucleosynthetic yields featuring high [C/Fe] ratios and pair-instability supernova (PISN) signatures. We aim to test how well these chemical abundance […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chihway Chang | First 5 Authors: Chihway Chang, Christian Monstein, Alexandre Refregier, Adam Amara, Adrian Glauser | Summary: We present a multi-frequency far-field beam map for the 5m dish telescope at the Bleien Observatory measured using a commercially available drone. We describe the hexacopter drone used in this experiment, the design of the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Emil J. Martinec | First 5 Authors: Emil J. Martinec, , , , | Summary: Combining a variety of results in string theory and general relativity, a picture of the black hole interior is developed wherein spacetime caps off at an inner horizon, and the inter-horizon region is occupied by a Hagedorn gas […]