X-ray and Radio Monitoring of the Neutron Star Low Mass X-ray Binary 1A 1744-361: Quasi Periodic Oscillations, Transient Ejections, and a Disk Atmosphere

Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Mason Ng, Andrew K. Hughes, Jeroen Homan, Jon M. Miller, Sean N. Pike | Summary: We report on X-ray (NICER/NuSTAR/MAXI/Swift) and radio (MeerKAT) timing and spectroscopic analysis from a three-month monitoring campaign in 2022 of a high-intensity outburst of the dipping neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 1A […]


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X-ray and Radio Monitoring of the Neutron Star Low Mass X-ray Binary 1A 1744-361: Quasi Periodic Oscillations, Transient Ejections, and a Disk Atmosphere

Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Mason Ng, Andrew K. Hughes, Jeroen Homan, Jon M. Miller, Sean N. Pike | Summary: We report on X-ray (NICER/NuSTAR/MAXI/Swift) and radio (MeerKAT) timing and spectroscopic analysis from a three-month monitoring campaign in 2022 of a high-intensity outburst of the dipping neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 1A […]


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AGN STORM 2. VI. Mapping Temperature Fluctuations in the Accretion Disk of Mrk 817

Kavli Affiliate: Erin A. Kara | First 5 Authors: Jack M. M. Neustadt, Christopher S. Kochanek, John Montano, Jonathan Gelbord, Aaron J. Barth | Summary: We fit the UV/optical lightcurves of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 817 to produce maps of the accretion disk temperature fluctuations $delta T$ resolved in time and radius. The $delta […]


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Arcus X-ray telescope performance and alignment

Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller, Ralf K. Heilmann | First 5 Authors: Hans Moritz Günther, Peter Cheimets, Eric D. Miller, Casey DeRoo, Randall K. Smith | Summary: Arcus is a concept for a probe class mission to deliver high-resolution FUV and X-ray spectroscopy. For X-rays, it combines cost-effective silicon pore optics (SPO) with high-throughput critical-angle […]


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The Polarized Cosmic Hand: IXPE Observations of PSR B1509-58/MSH 15-52

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Roger W. Romani, Josephine Wong, Niccolo Di Lalla, Nicola Omodei, Fei Xie | Summary: We describe IXPE polarization observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) MSH15-52, the `Cosmic Hand’. We find X-ray polarization across the PWN, with B field vectors generally aligned with filamentary X-ray structures. […]


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Discovery of X-ray Polarization from the Black Hole Transient Swift J1727.8-1613

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Alexandra Veledina, Fabio Muleri, Michal Dovciak, Juri Poutanen, Ajay Ratheesh | Summary: We report the first detection of the X-ray polarization of the bright transient Swift J1727.8-1613 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. The observation was performed at the beginning of the 2023 discovery outburst, when […]


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Simulating ionization feedback from young massive stars: impact of numerical resolution

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Yunwei Deng, Hui Li, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: Modelling galaxy formation in hydrodynamic simulations has increasingly adopted various radiative transfer methods to account for photoionization feedback from young massive stars. However, the evolution of HII regions around stars begins in dense star-forming clouds […]


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Simulating ionization feedback from young massive stars: impact of numerical resolution

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Yunwei Deng, Hui Li, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: Modelling galaxy formation in hydrodynamic simulations has increasingly adopted various radiative transfer methods to account for photoionization feedback from young massive stars. However, the evolution of HII regions around stars begins in dense star-forming clouds […]


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Representing low mass black hole seeds in cosmological simulations: A new sub-grid stochastic seed model

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Aklant K Bhowmick, Laura Blecha, Paul Torrey, Rainer Weinberger, Luke Zoltan Kelley | Summary: The nature of the first seeds of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is currently unknown, with postulated initial masses ranging from $sim10^5~M_{odot}$ to as low as $sim10^2~M_{odot}$. However, most existing cosmological simulations resolve BHs […]


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TOI-199 b: A well-characterized 100-day transiting warm giant planet with TTVs seen from Antarctica

Kavli Affiliate: Robert F. Goeke | First 5 Authors: Melissa J. Hobson, Trifon Trifonov, Thomas Henning, Andrés Jordán, Felipe Rojas | Summary: We present the spectroscopic confirmation and precise mass measurement of the warm giant planet TOI-199 b. This planet was first identified in TESS photometry and confirmed using ground-based photometry from ASTEP in Antarctica […]


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