Kavli Affiliate: Paul L. Schechter | First 5 Authors: Anton T. Jaelani, Cristian E. Rusu, Issha Kayo, Anupreeta More, Alessandro Sonnenfeld | Summary: We present spectroscopic confirmation of three new two-image gravitationally lensed quasars, compiled from existing strong lens and X-ray catalogs. Images of HSC J091843.27$-$022007.5 show a red galaxy with two blue point sources […]

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Principe | First 5 Authors: Alice Zurlo, Lucas A. Cieza, Sebastián Pérez, Valentin Christiaens, Jonathan P. Williams | Summary: We present Adaptive Optics (AO) near infrared (NIR) observations using VLT/NACO and Keck/NIRC2 of ODISEA targets. ODISEA is an ALMA survey of the entire population of circumstellar discs in the Ophiuchus molecular […]

Kavli Affiliate: Gabor Furesz | First 5 Authors: Ismael Mireles, Avi Shporer, Nolan Grieves, George Zhou, Maximilian N. Günther | Summary: We report the discovery of TOI 694 b and TIC 220568520 b, two low-mass stellar companions in eccentric orbits around metal-rich Sun-like stars, first detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TOI 694 […]

Kavli Affiliate: David Principe | First 5 Authors: Nicolas Grosso, Kenji Hamaguchi, David Principe, Joel Kastner, | Summary: Context. Class 0 protostars represent the earliest evolutionary stage of solar-type stars, during which the majority of the system mass resides in an infalling envelope of gas and dust and is not yet in the central, nascent […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jacqueline N. Hewitt | First 5 Authors: Chuneeta D. Nunhokee, Aaron R. Parsons, Nicholas S. Kern, Bojan Nikolic, Jonathan C. Pober | Summary: The central challenge in 21~cm cosmology is isolating the cosmological signal from bright foregrounds. Many separation techniques rely on the accurate knowledge of the sky and the instrumental response, including […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jacqueline N. Hewitt | First 5 Authors: Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Chris L. Carilli, Bojan Nikolic, James Kent, Andrei Mesinger | Summary: Characterizing the epoch of reionization (EoR) at $zgtrsim 6$ via the redshifted 21 cm line of neutral Hydrogen (HI) is critical to modern astrophysics and cosmology, and thus a key science goal of […]

Kavli Affiliate: Edward H. Morgan | First 5 Authors: Carolina von Essen, Mikkel N. Lund, Rasmus Handberg, Marina S. Sosa, Julie Thiim Gadeberg | Summary: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is NASA’s latest space telescope dedicated to the discovery of transiting exoplanets around nearby stars. Besides the main goal of the mission, asteroseismology is […]

Kavli Affiliate: Edward Morgan | Summary:The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is NASA’s latest space telescope dedicated to the discovery of transiting exoplanets around nearby stars. Besides the main goal of the mission, asteroseismology is an important secondary goal and very relevant for the high-quality time series that TESS will make during its two year […]

Kavli Affiliate: Robert F. Goeke | First 5 Authors: John P. Ahlers, Marshall C. Johnson, Keivan G Stassun, Knicole D. Colon, Jason W. Barnes | Summary: KELT-9 b is an ultra hot Jupiter transiting a rapidly rotating, oblate early-A-type star in a polar orbit. We model the effect of rapid stellar rotation on KELT-9 b’s […]

Kavli Affiliate: Ralf K. Heilmann | First 5 Authors: Brandon D. Chalifoux, Ralf K. Heilmann, Herman L. Marshall, Mark L. Schattenburg, | Summary: Astronomical imaging with micro-arcsecond ($mu$as) angular resolution could enable breakthrough scientific discoveries. Previously-proposed $mu$as X-ray imager designs have been interferometers with limited effective collecting area. Here we describe X-ray telescopes achieving diffraction-limited […]