Formation of the Little Red Dots from the Core-collapse of Self-interacting Dark Matter Halos

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Fangzhou Jiang, Zixiang Jia, Haonan Zheng, Luis C. Ho, Kohei Inayoshi | Summary: We present a statistical study on the formation and growth of black holes (BHs) seeded by gravothermal core-collapse of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos at high redshifts, using a semi-analytical framework based on Monte-Carlo […]


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Supermassive Black Holes in X-rays: From Standard Accretion to Extreme Transients

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Erin Kara, Javier GarcĂ­a, , , | Summary: X-rays are a critical wavelength for understanding supermassive black holes (SMBHs). X-rays probe the inner accretion flow, closest to the event horizon, where gas inspirals, releasing energy and driving black hole growth. This region also governs the launching of […]


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X-ray Polarization of the High-Synchrotron-Peak BL Lacertae Object 1ES 1959+650 during Intermediate and High X-ray Flux States

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Luigi Pacciani, Dawoon E. Kim, Riccardo Middei, Herman L. Marshall, Alan P. Marscher | Summary: We report the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) polarimetric and simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the high-energy-peaked BL Lacertae (HBL) object 1ES 1959+650, performed in 2022 October and 2023 August. In 2022 […]


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X-ray Polarization of the High-Synchrotron-Peak BL Lacertae Object 1ES 1959+650 during Intermediate and High X-ray Flux States

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Luigi Pacciani, Dawoon E. Kim, Riccardo Middei, Herman L. Marshall, | Summary: We report the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) polarimetric and simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the high-energy-peaked BL Lacertae (HBL) object 1ES 1959+650, performed in 2022 October and 2023 August. In 2022 October IXPE measured […]


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TOI-2005b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-Orbit Alignment

Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Allyson Bieryla, Jiayin Dong, George Zhou, Jason D. Eastman, L. C. Mayorga | Summary: We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-2005b, a warm Jupiter on an eccentric (e~0.59), 17.3-day orbit around a V_mag = 9.867 rapidly rotating F-star. The object was detected as a candidate by […]


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TOI-2005b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-Orbit Alignment

Kavli Affiliate: George R. Ricker | First 5 Authors: Allyson Bieryla, Jiayin Dong, George Zhou, Jason D. Eastman, L. C. Mayorga | Summary: We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-2005b, a warm Jupiter on an eccentric (e~0.59), 17.3-day orbit around a V_mag = 9.867 rapidly rotating F-star. The object was detected as a candidate […]


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Discovery of Quasi-periodic Eruptions in the Tidal Disruption Event and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter AT2022upj: implications for the QPE/TDE fraction and a connection to ECLEs

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Riccardo Arcodia, Johannes Buchner, Margherita Giustini | Summary: Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring soft X-ray transients emerging from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby, low-mass galaxy nuclei; about ten QPE hosts have been identified thus far. Here we report the […]


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Discovery of Quasi-periodic Eruptions in the Tidal Disruption Event and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter AT2022upj: implications for the QPE/TDE fraction and a connection to ECLEs

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Riccardo Arcodia, Johannes Buchner, Margherita Giustini | Summary: Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring soft X-ray transients emerging from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby, low-mass galaxy nuclei; about ten QPE hosts have been identified thus far. Here we report the […]


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Deciphering the Origins of the Elements Through Galactic Archeology

Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Khalil Farouqi, Anna Frebel, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, , | Summary: Low-metallicity stars preserve the signatures of the first stellar nucleosynthesis events in the Galaxy, as their surface abundances reflect the composition of the interstellar medium from which they were born. Aside from primordial Big Bang nucleosynthesis, massive stars, […]


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Strong LensIng and Cluster Evolution (SLICE) with JWST: Early Results, Lens Models, and High-Redshift Detections

Kavli Affiliate: Michael McDonald | First 5 Authors: Catherine Cerny, Guillaume Mahler, Keren Sharon, Mathilde Jauzac, Gourav Khullar | Summary: We leverage JWST’s superb resolution to derive strong lensing mass maps of 14 clusters, spanning a redshift range of $zsim0.25 – 1.06$ and a mass range of $M_{500}sim2-12 times 10^{14}M_odot$, from the Strong LensIng and […]


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