NICER Discovery of the Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsar SRGA J144459.2-604207

Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Mason Ng, Paul S. Ray, Andrea Sanna, Tod E. Strohmayer, Alessandro Papitto | Summary: We present the discovery, with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), of the 447.9 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) SRGA J144459.2-604207, which underwent a four-week long outburst starting on 2024 February […]


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NICER Discovery that SRGA J144459.2-604207 is an Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsar

Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Mason Ng, Paul S. Ray, Andrea Sanna, Tod E. Strohmayer, Alessandro Papitto | Summary: We present the discovery, with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), that SRGA J144459.2-604207 is a 447.9 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP), which underwent a four-week long outburst starting on 2024 […]


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KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Ziming Liu, Yixuan Wang, Sachin Vaidya, Fabian Ruehle, James Halverson | Summary: Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have fixed activation functions on nodes ("neurons"), KANs have learnable activation functions on edges ("weights"). […]


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KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Ziming Liu, Yixuan Wang, Sachin Vaidya, Fabian Ruehle, James Halverson | Summary: Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have fixed activation functions on nodes ("neurons"), KANs have learnable activation functions on edges ("weights"). […]


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KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Ziming Liu, Yixuan Wang, Sachin Vaidya, Fabian Ruehle, James Halverson | Summary: Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have fixed activation functions on nodes ("neurons"), KANs have learnable activation functions on edges ("weights"). […]


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The Nature of X-Rays from Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster — A Chandra HETGS Legacy Project

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Principe | First 5 Authors: Norbert S. Schulz, David P. Huenemoerder, David A. Principe, Marc Gagne, Hans Moritz Günther | Summary: The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is the closest site of very young ($sim$ 1 Myrs) massive star formation. The ONC hosts more than 1600 young and X-ray bright stars with […]


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The Nature of X-Rays from Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster — A Chandra HETGS Legacy Project

Kavli Affiliate: David P. Huenemoerder | First 5 Authors: Norbert S. Schulz, David P. Huenemoerder, David A. Principe, Marc Gagne, Hans Moritz Günther | Summary: The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is the closest site of very young ($sim$ 1 Myrs) massive star formation. The ONC hosts more than 1600 young and X-ray bright stars with […]


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The Nature of X-Rays from Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster — A Chandra HETGS Legacy Project

Kavli Affiliate: Norbert S. Schulz | First 5 Authors: Norbert S. Schulz, David P. Huenemoerder, David A. Principe, Marc Gagne, Hans Moritz Günther | Summary: The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is the closest site of very young ($sim$ 1 Myrs) massive star formation. The ONC hosts more than 1600 young and X-ray bright stars with […]


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Planet Hunters TESS V: a planetary system around a binary star, including a mini-Neptune in the habitable zone

Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Nora L. Eisner, Samuel K. Grunblatt, Oscar Barragán, Thea H. Faridani, Chris Lintott | Summary: We report on the discovery and validation of a transiting long-period mini-Neptune orbiting a bright (V = 9.0 mag) G dwarf (TOI 4633; R = 1.05 RSun, M = 1.10 MSun). The […]


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Current laboratory performance of starlight suppression systems, and potential pathways to desired Habitable Worlds Observatory exoplanet science capabilities

Kavli Affiliate: Sara Seager | First 5 Authors: Bertrand Mennesson, Ruslan Belikov, Emiel Por, Eugene Serabyn, Garreth Ruane | Summary: We summarize the current best polychromatic (10 to 20 % bandwidth) contrast performance demonstrated in the laboratory by different starlight suppression approaches and systems designed to directly characterize exoplanets around nearby stars. We present results […]


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