Complex variations of X-ray polarization in the X-ray pulsar LS V +44 17/RX J0440.9+4431

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Victor Doroshenko, Juri Poutanen, Jeremy Heyl, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Ilaria Caiazzo | Summary: We report on Imaging X-ray polarimetry explorer (IXPE) observations of the Be-transient X-ray pulsar LS V +44 17/RX J0440.9+4431 made at two luminosity levels during the giant outburst in January–February 2023. Considering the […]


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The Supersonic Project: Star Formation in Early Star Clusters without Dark Matter

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: William Lake, Smadar Naoz, Federico Marinacci, Blakesley Burkhart, Mark Vogelsberger | Summary: The formation mechanism of globular clusters (GCs) has long been debated by astronomers. It was recently proposed that Supersonically Induced Gas Objects (SIGOs), which formed in the early Universe due to the supersonic relative motion […]


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Discovering New Interpretable Conservation Laws as Sparse Invariants

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Ziming Liu, Patrick Obin Sturm, Saketh Bharadwaj, Sam Silva, Max Tegmark | Summary: Discovering conservation laws for a given dynamical system is important but challenging. In a theorist setup (differential equations and basis functions are both known), we propose the Sparse Invariant Detector (SID), an algorithm that […]


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Resolving the Binary Components of the Outbursting Protostar HBC 494 with ALMA

Kavli Affiliate: David A. Principe | First 5 Authors: Pedro Henrique Nogueira, Alice Zurlo, Sebastián Pérez, Camilo González-Ruilova, Lucas A. Cieza | Summary: Episodic accretion is a low-mass pre-main sequence phenomenon characterized by sudden outbursts of enhanced accretion. These objects are classified into two: protostars with elevated levels of accretion that lasts for decades or […]


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X-ray polarimetry of the accreting pulsar GX 301-2

Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Valery F. Suleimanov, Sofia V. Forsblom, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Juri Poutanen, Victor Doroshenko | Summary: The phase- and energy-resolved polarization measurements of accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) allow us to test different theoretical models of their emission, and they also provide an avenue to determine the emission […]


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Machine Learning for Quantum-Enhanced Gravitational-Wave Observatories

Kavli Affiliate: Lisa Barsotti | First 5 Authors: Chris Whittle, Ge Yang, Matthew Evans, Lisa Barsotti, | Summary: Machine learning has become an effective tool for processing the extensive data sets produced by large physics experiments. Gravitational-wave detectors are now listening to the universe with quantum-enhanced sensitivity, accomplished with the injection of squeezed vacuum states. […]


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Constraints on the ultra-fast outflows in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 1044 from high-resolution time- and flux-resolved spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Yerong Xu, Ciro Pinto, Daniele Rogantini, Stefano Bianchi, Matteo Guainazzi | Summary: Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) have been revealed in a large number of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and are regarded as promising candidates for AGN feedback on the host galaxy. The nature and launching mechanism of UFOs […]


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Constraints on the ultra-fast outflows in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 1044 from high-resolution time- and flux-resolved spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Yerong Xu, Ciro Pinto, Daniele Rogantini, Stefano Bianchi, Matteo Guainazzi | Summary: Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) have been revealed in a large number of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and are regarded as promising candidates for AGN feedback on the host galaxy. The nature and launching mechanism of UFOs […]


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Extreme mass-ratio inspiral of a spinning body into a Kerr black hole I: Evolution along generic trajectories

Kavli Affiliate: Scott A. Hughes | First 5 Authors: Lisa V. Drummond, Alexandra G. Hanselman, Devin R. Becker, Scott A. Hughes, | Summary: The study of spinning bodies moving in curved spacetime has relevance to binary black hole systems with large mass ratios, as well as being of formal interest. At zeroth order in a […]


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Extreme mass-ratio inspiral of a spinning body into a Kerr black hole I: Evolution along generic trajectories

Kavli Affiliate: Scott A. Hughes | First 5 Authors: Lisa V. Drummond, Alexandra G. Hanselman, Devin R. Becker, Scott A. Hughes, | Summary: The study of spinning bodies moving in curved spacetime has relevance to binary black hole systems with large mass ratios, as well as being of formal interest. At zeroth order in a […]


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