Kavli Affiliate: Lee McCuller | First 5 Authors: Chris Whittle, Lee McCuller, Vivishek Sudhir, Matthew Evans, | Summary: Contemporary gravitational-wave detectors are fundamentally limited by thermal noise — due to dissipation in the mechanical elements of the test mass — and quantum noise — from the vacuum fluctuations of the optical field used to probe […]
Kavli Affiliate: Sarah N. T. Heine | First 5 Authors: Joseph S. Adams, Robert Baker, Simon R. Bandler, Noemie Bastidon, Daniel Castro | Summary: The flight of the Micro-X sounding rocket on July 22, 2018 marked the first operation of Transition-Edge Sensors and their SQUID readouts in space. The instrument combines the microcalorimeter array with […]
Kavli Affiliate: Dheeraj R. Pasham | First 5 Authors: Yanan Wang, Ranieri D. Baldi, Santiago del Palacio, Muryel Guolo, Xiaolong Yang | Summary: AT 2019avd is a nuclear transient detected from infrared to soft X-rays, though its nature is yet unclear. The source has shown two consecutive flaring episodes in the optical and the infrared […]
Kavli Affiliate: Dheeraj Pasham | First 5 Authors: Yukta Ajay, Muryel Guolo, Dheeraj Pasham, , | Summary: We present multiwavelength analyses of an active optical transient AT2021fxu which shows the appearance of previously absent broad emission lines in a recent optical spectrum, suggesting a Changing-look (CL) Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN). During the spectral transition, the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Josh Borrow, Rahul Kannan, Enrico Garaldi, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: Early galaxies were the radiation source for reionization, with the photoheating feedback from the reionization process expected to reduce the efficiency of star formation in low mass haloes. Hence, to fully understand reionization and galaxy […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark L. Schattenburg | First 5 Authors: Sabrina L. Savage, Amy R. Winebarger, Ken Kobayashi, P. S. Athiray, Dyana Beabout | Summary: The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) sounding rocket experiment launched on July 30, 2021 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. MaGIXS is a unique solar observing telescope […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark L. Schattenburg | First 5 Authors: Sabrina L. Savage, Amy R. Winebarger, Ken Kobayashi, P. S. Athiray, Dyana Beabout | Summary: The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) sounding rocket experiment launched on July 30, 2021 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. MaGIXS is a unique solar observing telescope […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark L. Schattenburg | First 5 Authors: Sabrina L. Savage, Amy R. Winebarger, Ken Kobayashi, P. S. Athiray, Dyana Beabout | Summary: The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) sounding rocket experiment launched on July 30, 2021 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. MaGIXS is a unique solar observing telescope […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ronald Remillard | First 5 Authors: Dheeraj R. Pasham, Matteo Lucchini, Tanmoy Laskar, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Shubham Srivastav | Summary: A black hole can launch a powerful relativistic jet after it tidally disrupts a star. If this jet fortuitously aligns with our line of sight, the overall brightness is Doppler boosted by several […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Principe | First 5 Authors: Philipp Weber, Sebastián Pérez, Greta Guidi, Nicolás T. Kurtovic, Alice Zurlo | Summary: Dense stellar environments as hosts of ongoing star formation increase the probability of gravitational encounters among stellar systems during the early stages of evolution. Stellar interaction may occur through non-recurring, hyperbolic or parabolic passages […]