Simulating FRB Morphologies and Coherent Phase Correlation Signatures from Multi-Plane Astrophysical Lensing

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi W. Masui | First 5 Authors: Zarif Kader, Matt Dobbs, Calvin Leung, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Mawson W. Sammons | Summary: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), like pulsars, display radio emission from compact regions such that they can be treated as point sources. As this radiation propagates through space, they encounter sources of lensing […]


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Aligning Planet-Hosting Binaries via Dissipative Precession in Circumstellar Disks

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Konstantin Gerbig, Malena Rice, J. J. Zanazzi, Sam Christian, Andrew Vanderburg | Summary: Recent observations have demonstrated that some subset of even moderately wide-separation planet-hosting binaries are preferentially configured such that planetary and binary orbits appear to lie within the same plane. In this work, we explore […]


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The Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Vedang Lad, Wes Gurnee, Max Tegmark, , | Summary: We demonstrate and investigate the remarkable robustness of Large Language Models by deleting and swapping adjacent layers. We find that deleting and swapping interventions retain 72-95% of the original model’s prediction accuracy without fine-tuning, whereas models with more […]


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Curved detectors for future X-ray astrophysics missions

Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller | First 5 Authors: Eric D. Miller, James A. Gregory, Marshall W. Bautz, Harry R. Clark, Michael Cooper | Summary: Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small […]


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Curved detectors for future X-ray astrophysics missions

Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller | First 5 Authors: Eric D. Miller, James A. Gregory, Marshall W. Bautz, Harry R. Clark, Michael Cooper | Summary: Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small […]


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Curved detectors for future X-ray astrophysics missions

Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller | First 5 Authors: Eric D. Miller, James A. Gregory, Marshall W. Bautz, Harry R. Clark, Michael Cooper | Summary: Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small […]


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Curved detectors for future X-ray astrophysics missions

Kavli Affiliate: Catherine E. Grant | First 5 Authors: Eric D. Miller, James A. Gregory, Marshall W. Bautz, Harry R. Clark, Michael Cooper | Summary: Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small […]


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Curved detectors for future X-ray astrophysics missions

Kavli Affiliate: Catherine E. Grant | First 5 Authors: Eric D. Miller, James A. Gregory, Marshall W. Bautz, Harry R. Clark, Michael Cooper | Summary: Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small […]


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Absence of a Correlation between White Dwarf Planetary Accretion and Primordial Stellar Metallicity

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Sydney Jenkins, Andrew Vanderburg, Allyson Bieryla, David W. Latham, Mariona Badenas-Agusti | Summary: Over a quarter of white dwarfs have photospheric metal pollution, which is evidence for recent accretion of exoplanetary material. While a wide range of mechanisms have been proposed to account for this pollution, there […]


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A Potential Second Shutoff from AT2018fyk: An updated Orbital Ephemeris of the Surviving Star under the Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event Paradigm

Kavli Affiliate: Dheeraj Pasham | First 5 Authors: Dheeraj Pasham, Eric Coughlin, Muryel Guolo, Thomas Wevers, Chris Nixon | Summary: The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018dyk/ASASSN-18UL showed a rapid dimming event 500 days after discovery, followed by a re-brightening roughly 700 days later. It has been hypothesized that this behavior results from a repeating partial […]


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