Kavli Affiliate: Rebecca Masterson | First 5 Authors: Jaesub Hong, Richard P. Binzel, Branden Allen, David Guevel, Jonathan Grindlay | Summary: The REgolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu is a Class-D student collaboration experiment designed to detect fluoresced X-rays from the asteroid’s surface to measure elemental […]

Kavli Affiliate: Rebecca Masterson | First 5 Authors: Jaesub Hong, Richard P. Binzel, Branden Allen, David Guevel, Jonathan Grindlay | Summary: The REgolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu is a Class-D student collaboration experiment designed to detect fluoresced X-rays from the asteroid’s surface to measure elemental […]

Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Nicholas Scarsdale, Joseph M. Akana Murphy, Natalie M. Batalha, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Courtney D. Dressing | Summary: We present the discovery of two nearly identically-sized sub-Neptune transiting planets orbiting HD 63935, a bright ($V=8.6$ mag), sun-like ($T_{eff}=5560K$) star at 49 pc. TESS identified the first planet, […]

Kavli Affiliate: Paul L. Schechter | First 5 Authors: Derek Baldwin, Paul L. Schechter, , , | Summary: Quadruply lensed quasars are visible only when the source quasar lies within the diamond caustic of the lensing galaxy. This condition creates a Malmquist-like selection effect in the population of observed quadruply lensed quasars, increasing the true […]

Kavli Affiliate: Paul L. Schechter | First 5 Authors: Derek Baldwin, Paul L. Schechter, , , | Summary: Quasars are quadruply lensed only when they lie within the diamond caustic of a lensing galaxy. This precondition produces a Malmquist-like selection effect in observed populations of quadruply lensed quasars, overestimating the true caustic area. The bias […]

Kavli Affiliate: George Ricker | First 5 Authors: Michelle Kunimoto, Chelsea Huang, Evan Tey, Willie Fong, Katharine Hesse | Summary: We present a magnitude-limited set of lightcurves for stars observed over the TESS Extended Mission, as extracted from full-frame images (FFIs) by MIT’s Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP). QLP uses multi-aperture photometry to produce lightcurves for ~1 […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Silvia Bonoli, Massimo Dotti, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Alessandro Lupi | Summary: We use the magnetic-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 to study the evolution of barred massive disc galaxies. Massive spiral galaxies are already present as early as $z=4$, and bar formation takes place already at those early times. […]

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Enrico Garaldi, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor | Summary: The high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and the primeval galaxy population are rapidly becoming the new frontier of extra-galactic astronomy. We investigate the IGM properties and their connection to galaxies at $zgeq5.5$ under different assumptions for […]

Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Danielle Frostig, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Geoffrey Mo, Viraj Karambelkar, Tito Dal Canton | Summary: The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new 1 $text{deg}^2$ seeing-limited time-domain survey instrument designed for dedicated near-infrared follow-up of kilonovae from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole mergers. WINTER […]

Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Danielle Frostig, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Geoffrey Mo, Viraj Karambelkar, Tito Dal Canton | Summary: The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new 1 $text{deg}^2$ seeing-limited time-domain survey instrument designed for dedicated near-infrared follow-up of kilonovae from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole mergers. WINTER […]