Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Erin Kara, Javier García, , , | Summary: X-rays are a critical wavelength for understanding supermassive black holes (SMBHs). X-rays probe the inner accretion flow, closest to the event horizon, where gas inspirals, releasing energy and driving black hole growth. This region also governs the launching of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Luigi Pacciani, Dawoon E. Kim, Riccardo Middei, Herman L. Marshall, Alan P. Marscher | Summary: We report the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) polarimetric and simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the high-energy-peaked BL Lacertae (HBL) object 1ES 1959+650, performed in 2022 October and 2023 August. In 2022 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Luigi Pacciani, Dawoon E. Kim, Riccardo Middei, Herman L. Marshall, | Summary: We report the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) polarimetric and simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the high-energy-peaked BL Lacertae (HBL) object 1ES 1959+650, performed in 2022 October and 2023 August. In 2022 October IXPE measured […]
Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Allyson Bieryla, Jiayin Dong, George Zhou, Jason D. Eastman, L. C. Mayorga | Summary: We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-2005b, a warm Jupiter on an eccentric (e~0.59), 17.3-day orbit around a V_mag = 9.867 rapidly rotating F-star. The object was detected as a candidate by […]
Kavli Affiliate: George R. Ricker | First 5 Authors: Allyson Bieryla, Jiayin Dong, George Zhou, Jason D. Eastman, L. C. Mayorga | Summary: We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-2005b, a warm Jupiter on an eccentric (e~0.59), 17.3-day orbit around a V_mag = 9.867 rapidly rotating F-star. The object was detected as a candidate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Riccardo Arcodia, Johannes Buchner, Margherita Giustini | Summary: Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring soft X-ray transients emerging from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby, low-mass galaxy nuclei; about ten QPE hosts have been identified thus far. Here we report the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Riccardo Arcodia, Johannes Buchner, Margherita Giustini | Summary: Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring soft X-ray transients emerging from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby, low-mass galaxy nuclei; about ten QPE hosts have been identified thus far. Here we report the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Khalil Farouqi, Anna Frebel, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, , | Summary: Low-metallicity stars preserve the signatures of the first stellar nucleosynthesis events in the Galaxy, as their surface abundances reflect the composition of the interstellar medium from which they were born. Aside from primordial Big Bang nucleosynthesis, massive stars, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael McDonald | First 5 Authors: Catherine Cerny, Guillaume Mahler, Keren Sharon, Mathilde Jauzac, Gourav Khullar | Summary: We leverage JWST’s superb resolution to derive strong lensing mass maps of 14 clusters, spanning a redshift range of $zsim0.25 – 1.06$ and a mass range of $M_{500}sim2-12 times 10^{14}M_odot$, from the Strong LensIng and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert A. Simcoe | First 5 Authors: Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Harley Katz, Anna de Graaff, Pascal Oesch | Summary: The physical processes that led to the formation of billion solar mass black holes within the first 700 million years of cosmic time remain a puzzle. Several theoretical scenarios have been proposed […]