Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Arka Banerjee, Kimberly K. Boddy, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Adrienne L. Erickcek, Daniel Gilman | Summary: Over the past several decades, unexpected astronomical discoveries have been fueling a new wave of particle model building and are inspiring the next generation of ever-more-sophisticated simulations to reveal the nature of Dark […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Shin’ichiro Ando, Sebastian Baum, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Esra Bulbul, Michael Burgess | Summary: This whitepaper focuses on the astrophysical systematics which are encountered in dark matter searches. Oftentimes in indirect and also in direct dark matter searches, astrophysical systematics are a major limiting factor to sensitivity to dark […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Ali Kurmus, Sownak Bose, Mark Lovell, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: Observations of the high redshift universe provide a promising avenue for constraining the nature of the dark matter (DM). This will be even more true following the now successful launch of the James Webb Space […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Ali Kurmus, Sownak Bose, Mark Lovell, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: Observations of the high redshift universe provide a promising avenue for constraining the nature of the dark matter (DM). This will be even more true with the advent of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). […]
Kavli Affiliate: George Ricker | First 5 Authors: Rahul Jayaraman, Gerald Handler, Saul Rappaport, Jim Fuller, Donald W. Kurtz | Summary: Tidally tilted pulsators (TTPs) are an intriguing new class of oscillating stars in binary systems; in such stars, the pulsation axis coincides with the line of apsides, or semi-major axis, of the binary. All […]
Kavli Affiliate: George R. Ricker | First 5 Authors: Quang H. Tran, Brendan P. Bowler, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Phillip J. MacQueen | Summary: We report the discovery of two transiting planets around the bright ($V=9.9$ mag) main sequence F7 star TOI-1670 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TOI-1670 b is a sub-Neptune ($R_mathrm{b} […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lisa Barsotti | First 5 Authors: Dhruva Ganapathy, Victoria Xu, Wenxuan Jia, Chris Whittle, Maggie Tse | Summary: Squeezed vacuum states are now employed in gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, enhancing their sensitivity and thus enabling richer astrophysical observations. In future observing runs, the detectors will incorporate a filter cavity to suppress quantum radiation pressure […]
Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Hugh P. Osborn, Andrea Bonfanti, Davide Gandolfi, Christina Hedges, Adrien Leleu | Summary: Context: TOI-2076 is a transiting three-planet system of sub-Neptunes orbiting a bright (G = 8.9 mag), young ($340pm80$ Myr) K-type star. Although a validated planetary system, the orbits of the two outer planets were […]
Kavli Affiliate: George R. Ricker, Sara Seager | First 5 Authors: Mayuko Mori, John H. Livingston, Jerome de Leon, Norio Narita, Teruyuki Hirano | Summary: We present the discovery and validation of a temperate sub-Neptune around the nearby mid-M dwarf TIC 470381900 (TOI-1696), with a radius of $3.09 pm 0.11 ,R_oplus$ and an orbital period […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, Coral Wheeler, Robyn Sanderson, Michael Y. Grudic | Summary: Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we present the full set of updates from the FIRE-2 […]