AEOS: Star-by-Star Cosmological Simulations of Early Chemical Enrichment and Galaxy Formation

Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Kaley Brauer, Andrew Emerick, Jennifer Mead, Alexander P. Ji, John H. Wise | Summary: The AEOS project introduces a series of high-resolution cosmological simulations that model star-by-star chemical enrichment and galaxy formation in the early Universe, achieving 1 pc resolution. These simulations capture the complexities of galaxy […]


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The disappearance of a massive star marking the birth of a black hole in M31

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Kishalay De, Morgan MacLeod, Jacob E. Jencson, Elizabeth Lovegrove, Andrea Antoni | Summary: Stellar mass black holes are formed from the terminal collapse of massive stars if the ensuing neutrino shock is unable to eject the stellar envelope. Direct observations of black hole formation remain inconclusive. We […]


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Decomposing The Dark Matter of Sparse Autoencoders

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Joshua Engels, Logan Riggs, Max Tegmark, , | Summary: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a promising technique for decomposing language model activations into interpretable linear features. However, current SAEs fall short of completely explaining model performance, resulting in "dark matter": unexplained variance in activations. This work investigates dark […]


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A diverse, overlooked population of Type Ia supernovae exhibiting mid-infrared signatures of delayed circumstellar interaction

Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Geoffrey Mo, Kishalay De, Eli Wiston, Nayana A. J., Raffaella Margutti | Summary: Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in multiple star systems. A rare sub-class of SNe Ia exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), allowing for direct constraints […]


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A diverse, overlooked population of Type Ia supernovae exhibiting mid-infrared signatures of delayed circumstellar interaction

Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Geoffrey Mo, Kishalay De, Eli Wiston, Nayana A. J., Raffaella Margutti | Summary: Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in multiple star systems. A rare sub-class of SNe Ia exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), allowing for direct constraints […]


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HD 28185 Revisited: An Outer Planet, Instead of a Brown Dwarf, On a Saturn-like Orbit

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Alexander Venner, Qier An, Chelsea X. Huang, Timothy D. Brandt, Robert A. Wittenmyer | Summary: As exoplanet surveys reach ever-higher sensitivities and durations, planets analogous to the solar system giant planets are increasingly within reach. HD 28185 is a Sun-like star known to host a $msin i=6 […]


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Most High-density Exoplanets Are Unlikely to Be Remnant Giant-planet Cores

Kavli Affiliate: Sara Seager | First 5 Authors: Zifan Lin, Saverio Cambioni, Sara Seager, , | Summary: Some exoplanets have much higher densities than expected from stellar abundances of planet-forming elements. There are two theories – metal-rich formation hypothesis and naked core hypothesis – that explain how formation and evolution can alter the compositions and […]


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Dynamical time and Ashtekar variables for the Husain-Kuchař model

Kavli Affiliate: J. S. Villasenor | First 5 Authors: J. Fernando Barbero G., Juan Margalef-Bentabol, Aitor Vicente-Cano, Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor, | Summary: The relation between the Husain-Kuchav{r} model and some extensions thereof that incorporate a dynamical time variable is explored. To this end, we rely on the geometric approach to the Hamiltonian dynamics of […]


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K-Contact Distance for Noisy Nonhomogeneous Spatial Point Data with application to Repeating Fast Radio Burst sources

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi W. Masui | First 5 Authors: A. M. Cook, Dayi Li, Gwendolyn M. Eadie, David C. Stenning, Paul Scholz | Summary: This paper introduces an approach to analyze nonhomogeneous Poisson processes (NHPP) observed with noise, focusing on previously unstudied second-order characteristics of the noisy process. Utilizing a hierarchical Bayesian model with noisy […]


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Revealing EMRI/IMRI candidates with quasiperiodic ultrafast outflows

Kavli Affiliate: Dheeraj R. Pasham | First 5 Authors: Michal Zajaček, Petra Suková, Vladimír Karas, Dheeraj R. Pasham, Francesco Tombesi | Summary: The first detection of the quasiperiodic ultrafast outflow in the ASASSN-20qc system was reported by Pasham et al. (2024). The outflow is revealed in the soft X-ray spectra as an absorption feature, which […]


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