Kavli Affiliate: Michael Fausnaugh | Summary:We report the discovery of Gaia23bra b, the first gravitationally bound microlensing planet detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Initially flagged as a single-lens event by the Gaia Science Alerts system, Gaia23bra was serendipitously observed by TESS over two consecutive sectors. During those TESS sectors, the light curve […]

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | Summary:We revisit the TOI-2134 planetary system with three new high-cadence TESS sectors and 98 more spectra. This new analysis confirms the two orbiting planets by simultaneously modelling a total of eight sectors of corrected TESS photometry and 280 HARPS-N and SOPHIE radial velocities: an inner mini-Neptune in a near-circular $9.229198pm0.000003$ […]

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | Summary:Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) serve as direct probes of the population of supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies and are nowadays regularly detected in optical wide-field time-domain sky surveys. Recent studies have demonstrated that a large fraction of TDEs can be uniquely identified in the infrared (IR) waveband, […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert Simcoe | Summary:JWST’s Little Red Dots (LRDs) display a unique constellation of features that do not occur simultaneously in any other class of galaxies or AGN. Here we observe that many of these features find parallels in the 19th century Great Eruption (GE) of $η$ Carinae and a sub-class of supernovae (Type […]

Kavli Affiliate: Sara Seager | Summary:Gas giant planets with periods $20~<~P~<~300~rm days$ orbiting Sun-like stars are a relatively uncommon outcome of planetary formation, and key questions about the nature and formation of this sub-population remain unanswered. Theoretical models for the location of their formation (in- or ex-situ) and for their subsequent migration predict different outcomes […]

Kavli Affiliate: Moritz Guenther | Summary:This report summarizes potential studies of the Hi-ReX Science Analysis Group for an Ultra-High Angular Resolution X-ray Observatory. Many potential science cases are presented, spanning a range of astrophysical topics from solar system planets and exoplanets to supermassive black holes and cosmology. These cases demonstrate the value of X-ray imaging […]

Kavli Affiliate: Michael McDonald | Summary:We present JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of the low-mass, metal-poor galaxy SDSS~J160135.95+311353.7 (J1601), selected for its extreme mid-infrared colors and compact nuclear emission, placing it within widely used WISE color diagnostics for active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Despite this selection, we find no evidence for coronal lines, X-ray emission, or variability typically associated […]

Kavli Affiliate: J. S. Villasenor | Summary:The Carrollian regime of gravity provides a useful ultrarelativistic framework for studying asymptotically flat spacetimes, horizon dynamics, and condensed matter systems. In this paper, we present a comprehensive Hamiltonian analysis of the most general Carroll-invariant Lagrangian that can be derived from the Holst action. To guide the analysis, Cartan […]

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi Masui | Summary:The recent release of CHIME/FRB Catalog~2 provides the largest sample to date with which to investigate the intrinsic distributions of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Leveraging an expanded campaign of 587,367 synethetic bursts injected into the live CHIME/FRB search pipeline, we perform a population analysis of the fluence, scattering timescale, pulse […]

Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | Summary:The density profiles of dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most sensitive probes of dark matter physics, yet extracting them from noisy stellar kinematics remains a fundamental obstacle. We present GraphNPE, a simulation-based inference method for dynamical mass modeling that incorporates measurement uncertainties and spectroscopic selection functions in the forward […]