Kavli Affiliate: Catherine E. Grant | First 5 Authors: Eric D. Miller, James A. Gregory, Marshall W. Bautz, Harry R. Clark, Michael Cooper | Summary: Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small […]
Kavli Affiliate: Catherine E. Grant | First 5 Authors: Eric D. Miller, James A. Gregory, Marshall W. Bautz, Harry R. Clark, Michael Cooper | Summary: Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small […]
Kavli Affiliate: Richard Foster | Summary:Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small as 2 m, requiring a large area detector system that closely conforms to the curved focal surface. We have embarked […]
Kavli Affiliate: Peter Ford | Summary:As the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) on the Chandra X-ray Observatory completes a quarter century of on orbit operations, it continues to perform well and produce spectacular scientific results. The response of ACIS has evolved over the lifetime of the observatory due to radiation damage, molecular contamination, changing particle […]
Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | Summary:Formation channels of merging compact binaries imprint themselves on the distributions and correlations of their source parameters, but current understanding of this population is hindered by simplified parametric models. We overcome such limitations using PixelPop [Heinzel et al. (2025)]-our Bayesian nonparametric multidimensional population model. We analyze data from the first […]
Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | Summary:The origins of merging compact binaries observed by gravitational-wave detectors remains highly uncertain. Several astrophysical channels may contribute to the overall merger rate, with distinct formation processes imprinted on the structure and correlations in the underlying distributions of binary source parameters. In the absence of confident theoretical models, the current […]
Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Tuomo Salmi, Devarshi Choudhury, Yves Kini, Thomas E. Riley, Serena Vinciguerra | Summary: We report an updated analysis of the radius, mass, and heated surface regions of the massive pulsar PSR J0740+6620 using Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) data from 2018 September 21 to 2022 April […]
Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | First 5 Authors: Tuomo Salmi, Devarshi Choudhury, Yves Kini, Thomas E. Riley, Serena Vinciguerra | Summary: We report an updated analysis of the radius, mass, and heated surface regions of the massive pulsar PSR J0740+6620 using Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) data from 2018 September 21 to 2022 April […]
Kavli Affiliate: Deepto Chakrabarty | Summary:We report an updated analysis of the radius, mass, and heated surface regions of the massive pulsar PSR J0740+6620 using Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) data from 2018 September 21 to 2022 April 21, a substantial increase in data set size compared to previous analyses. Using a tight mass […]
Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: James F. Steiner, Edward Nathan, Kun Hu, Henric Krawczynski, Michal Dovciak | Summary: We present the first X-ray spectropolarimetric results for Cygnus X-1 in its soft state from a campaign of five IXPE observations conducted during 2023 May-June. Companion multiwavelength data during the campaign are likewise […]