Kavli Affiliate: Marshall W. Bautz | First 5 Authors: Catherine E. Grant, Catherine E. Grant, , , | Summary: The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), an astrophysics NASA probe mission currently in phase A, will provide high-throughput, high-spatial resolution X-ray imaging in the 0.3 to 10 keV band. We report on the notional ground calibration […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marshall W. Bautz | First 5 Authors: Haley R. Stueber, Haley R. Stueber, , , | Summary: Future strategic X-ray missions, such as the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) and those targeted by the Great Observatories Maturation Program (GOMaP), require fast, low-noise X-ray imaging spectrometers. To achieve the speed and noise capabilities required […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gregory Prigozhin | First 5 Authors: Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, , , | Summary: The first generation of Single electron Sensitive Read Out (SiSeRO) amplifiers, employed as on-chip charge detectors for charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have demonstrated excellent noise and spectral performance: a responsivity of around 800 pA per electron, an equivalent noise charge […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Goeke | First 5 Authors: Eric D. Miller, Eric D. Miller, , , | Summary: AXIS, a Probe mission concept now in a Phase A study, will provide transformative studies of high-energy astrophysical phenomena thanks to its high-resolution X-ray spectral imaging. These capabilities are enabled by improvements to the mirror design that […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Arkadip Basak, Arkadip Basak, , , | Summary: Cygnus X-1 is a persistent, high-mass black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) which in the hard state shows many similar properties to transient BHXRBs, along with intriguing differences, such as the lack of quasi-periodic oscillations. Here, we compare for the […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Shoemaker | First 5 Authors: Karan Jani, Karan Jani, , , | Summary: The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) is a next-generation gravitational-wave (GW) facility on the Moon. By harnessing the Moon’s unique environment, LILA fills a critical observational gap in the mid-band GW spectrum ($0.1 – 10$ Hz) between terrestrial detectors […]
Kavli Affiliate: Sara Seager | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: The discovery of thousands of exoplanets and the emergence of telescopes capable of exoplanet atmospheric characterization have intensified the search for habitable worlds. Due to selection biases, many exoplanets under study are planets deemed inhospitable because their surfaces are too warm […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Andrew Wetzel, Andrew Wetzel, , , | Summary: We describe the second data release (DR2) of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, available at http://flathub.flatironinstitute.org/fire. DR2 includes all snapshots for most simulations, starting at z ~ 99, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Andrew Wetzel, Andrew Wetzel, , , | Summary: We describe the second data release (DR2) of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, available at http://flathub.flatironinstitute.org/fire. DR2 includes all snapshots for most simulations, starting at z ~ 99, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Unnati Kashyap, Unnati Kashyap, , , | Summary: We report the X-ray and radio polarization study of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) GX 13+1 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Very Large Array (VLA). Simultaneous Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) […]