The STROBE-X Low Energy Modular Array (LEMA) Instrument

Kavli Affiliate: Ronald A. Remillard | First 5 Authors: Keith C. Gendreau, Dominic Maes, Ronald A. Remillard, Paul S. Ray, Zaven Arzoumanian | Summary: The Low Energy Modular Array (LEMA) is one of three instruments that compose the STROBE-X mission concept. The LEMA is a large effective-area, high throughput, non-imaging pointed instrument based on the […]


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STROBE-X Mission Overview

Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Paul S. Ray, Peter W. A. Roming, Andrea Argan, Zaven Arzoumanian, David R. Ballantyne | Summary: We give an overview of the science objectives and mission design of the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) observatory, which has been proposed as a NASA probe-class (~$1.5B) […]


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STROBE-X Mission Overview

Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Paul S. Ray, Peter W. A. Roming, Andrea Argan, Zaven Arzoumanian, David R. Ballantyne | Summary: We give an overview of the science objectives and mission design of the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) observatory, which has been proposed as a NASA probe-class (~$1.5B) […]


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Efficient Dictionary Learning with Switch Sparse Autoencoders

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Anish Mudide, Joshua Engels, Eric J. Michaud, Max Tegmark, Christian Schroeder de Witt | Summary: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a recent technique for decomposing neural network activations into human-interpretable features. However, in order for SAEs to identify all features represented in frontier models, it will be necessary […]


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The Geometry of Concepts: Sparse Autoencoder Feature Structure

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Yuxiao Li, Eric J. Michaud, David D. Baek, Joshua Engels, Xiaoqing Sun | Summary: Sparse autoencoders have recently produced dictionaries of high-dimensional vectors corresponding to the universe of concepts represented by large language models. We find that this concept universe has interesting structure at three levels: 1) […]


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JWST-TST DREAMS: A Super-Solar Metallicity in WASP-17 b Dayside Atmosphere from NIRISS SOSS Eclipse Spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Sara Seager | First 5 Authors: Amélie Gressier, Ryan J. MacDonald, Néstor Espinoza, Hannah R. Wakeford, Nikole K. Lewis | Summary: We present the first emission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-17 b using one eclipse observation from the JWST Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) Single Object Slitless Spectroscopy (SOSS) mode. […]


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JWST-TST DREAMS: Non-Uniform Dayside Emission for WASP-17b from MIRI/LRS

Kavli Affiliate: Sara Seager | First 5 Authors: Daniel Valentine, Hannah R. Wakeford, Ryan C. Challener, Natasha E. Batalha, Nikole K. Lewis | Summary: We present the first spectroscopic characterisation of the dayside atmosphere of WASP-17b in the mid-infrared using a single JWST MIRI/LRS eclipse observation. From forward-model fits to the 5-12 $mu$m emission spectrum, […]


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Generalization from Starvation: Hints of Universality in LLM Knowledge Graph Learning

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: David D. Baek, Yuxiao Li, Max Tegmark, , | Summary: Motivated by interpretability and reliability, we investigate how neural networks represent knowledge during graph learning, We find hints of universality, where equivalent representations are learned across a range of model sizes (from $10^2$ to $10^9$ parameters) and […]


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Investigating the sightline of a highly scattered FRB through a filamentary structure in the local Universe

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi W. Masui | First 5 Authors: Kaitlyn Shin, Calvin Leung, Sunil Simha, Bridget C. Andersen, Emmanuel Fonseca | Summary: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are unique probes of extragalactic ionized baryonic structure as each signal, through its burst properties, holds information about the ionized matter it encounters along its sightline. FRB 20200723B is […]


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A long spin period for a sub-Neptune-mass exoplanet

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Ellen M. Price, Juliette Becker, Zoë L. de Beurs, Leslie A. Rogers, Andrew Vanderburg | Summary: HIP 41378 f is a sub-Neptune exoplanet with an anomalously low density. Its long orbital period and deep transit make it an ideal candidate for detecting oblateness photometrically. We present a […]


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