Kavli Affiliate: Scott A. Hughes | Summary:Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are expected to be a major source of gravitational waves (GWs) for the future it Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (it LISA). An EMRI occurs when a compact object, driven by the emission of gravitational radiation, slowly inspirals into a massive black hole (MBH). The […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | Summary:Merging galaxy clusters provide an ideal laboratory for testing the self-interacting nature of dark matter. In this paper, we present a pilot study of magnetohydrodynamical cosmological zoom-in simulations of two cluster mergers selected from TNG-Cluster, with $M_rm 200c sim 9times10^14~M_odot$ and $M_rm 200csim 2times10^14~M_odot$. The simulations are performed with both […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | Summary:We present a unified theory-to-simulation framework for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), combining a self-contained introduction to its particle-physics foundations and representative benchmark models with an explicit, systematic mapping to simulation inputs and validated numerical implementations in the moving-mesh code AREPO-2. We characterize representative elementary and composite dark-sector models through their […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | Summary:We establish a unified theory-to-simulation framework for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) that integrates three components: (i) a comprehensive, self-contained treatment of its particle-physics foundations and a broad range of model classes; (ii) a systematic, quantitative mapping from microscopic dark-sector physics to structure-formation simulation inputs through explicit expressions and numerical prescriptions; […]
Kavli Affiliate: George Clark | Summary:The properties and origins of Jupiter’s UV main auroral emission are, at present, not yet fully understood, particularly the extent to which its two distinct zones, the Zone-I and Zone-II aurora, originate from a common source. In this work, remote-sensing and in-situ data from the Juno spacecraft are used to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | Summary:We present a detailed chemo-dynamical analysis of the chemically peculiar very metal-poor ([Fe/H]$=-2.22pm 0.11$) Milky Way (MW) halo star, 2MASS J00101758$-$1735387 (hereafter J0010-1735), discovered by the $R$-Process Alliance. We derive abundances for 45 elements, including 28 neutron-capture elements, and confirm that thestar is highly $r$-process-enhanced, with [Eu/Fe]=$+1.30$. The light, $α$, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | Summary:Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeating X-ray transients from galactic nuclei potentially caused by a stellar-mass orbiter repeatedly colliding with the accretion disk of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI). In this picture, the eruption arrival times encode the orbit and its relativistic precessions, while the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | Summary:Transiting Warm Jupiters orbiting bright stars are scarcely known, but a substantial number of these planets have been uncovered by the TESS mission. In this work we report the discovery and confirmation of a transiting Warm Jupiter orbiting the bright ($V$ = 8.70) subgiant star HD 715 (TOI-6893). HD 715 […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi Masui | Summary:Magnetar sources are the leading theory for Fast Radio Burst (FRB) progenitors. If magnetars are indeed the dominant sources, we may thus expect any metallicity preference for magnetar formation to be reflected in the FRB site in host galaxies. Here, we leverage Integral Field Unit (IFU) spectroscopy to spatially resolve […]
Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | Summary:Measuring rapid astrophysical phenomena requires many short exposures, which suffer from repeated read noise. A variety of recent technologies are achieving sub-electron read noise, which enable rapid time-domain studies of faint sources. These data can be analyzed with traditional methods, but the ability to resolve individual electrons enables a new […]