Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Bas Dorsman, Tuomo Salmi, Anna L. Watts, Mason Ng, Satish Kamath | Summary: Pulse profile modelling (PPM) is a technique for inferring mass, radius and hotspot properties of millisecond pulsars. PPM is now regularly used for analysis of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (RMPs) with data from the Neutron […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrew M. Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Lizhou Sha, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Luke G. Bouma, Chelsea X. Huang, | Summary: Blanco 1 is an $approx 130,mathrm{Myr}$ open cluster located 240 pc from the Sun below the Galactic plane. Recent studies have reported the existence of diffuse tidal tails extending 50-60 pc from the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Erica Thygesen, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Zoë L. De Beurs, Andrew Vanderburg, John H. Livingston | Summary: K2-2 b/HIP 116454 b, the first exoplanet discovery by K2 during its Two-Wheeled Concept Engineering Test, is a sub-Neptune (2.5 $pm$ 0.1 $R_oplus$, 9.7 $pm$ 1.2 $M_oplus$) orbiting a relatively bright […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller | First 5 Authors: Benjamin Schneider, Gregory Prigozhin, Richard F. Foster, Marshall W. Bautz, Hope Fu | Summary: The advent of back-illuminated complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors and their well-known advantages over charge-coupled devices (CCDs) make them an attractive technology for future X-ray missions. However, numerous challenges remain, including improving their […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marshall W. Bautz | First 5 Authors: Benjamin Schneider, Gregory Prigozhin, Richard F. Foster, Marshall W. Bautz, Hope Fu | Summary: The advent of back-illuminated complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors and their well-known advantages over charge-coupled devices (CCDs) make them an attractive technology for future X-ray missions. However, numerous challenges remain, including improving their […]
Kavli Affiliate: Saul Rappaport | First 5 Authors: Rahul Jayaraman, Saul Rappaport, Brian Powell, Gerald Handler, Mark Omohundro | Summary: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has enabled the discovery of numerous tidally tilted pulsators (TTPs), which are pulsating stars in close binaries where the presence of a tidal bulge has the effect of tilting […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Tri Nguyen, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Paul Torrey | Summary: The connection between galaxies and their host dark matter (DM) halos is critical to our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation, and DM physics. To maximize the return of upcoming cosmological surveys, we need an accurate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Tri Nguyen, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Paul Torrey | Summary: The connection between galaxies and their host dark matter (DM) halos is critical to our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation, and DM physics. To maximize the return of upcoming cosmological surveys, we need an accurate […]
Kavli Affiliate: David P. Huenemoerder | First 5 Authors: Ralf K. Heilmann, David P. Huenemoerder, Jake A. McCoy, Randall L. McEntaffer, | Summary: X-ray diffraction gratings play an essential role in high-resolution spectroscopy of astrophysical phenomena. We present some scientific highlights from the X-ray grating spectrometers (XGS) on board of the Chandra and XMM/Newton missions, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ralf K. Heilmann | First 5 Authors: Ralf K. Heilmann, David P. Huenemoerder, Jake A. McCoy, Randall L. McEntaffer, | Summary: X-ray diffraction gratings play an essential role in high-resolution spectroscopy of astrophysical phenomena. We present some scientific highlights from the X-ray grating spectrometers (XGS) on board of the Chandra and XMM/Newton missions, […]