Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Lee Sharkey, Bilal Chughtai, Joshua Batson, Jack Lindsey, Jeff Wu | Summary: Mechanistic interpretability aims to understand the computational mechanisms underlying neural networks’ capabilities in order to accomplish concrete scientific and engineering goals. Progress in this field thus promises to provide greater assurance over AI system behavior […]
Kavli Affiliate: Tadayuki Takahashi | First 5 Authors: Hannah Gulick, Hiroki Yoneda, Tadayuki Takahashi, Claire Chen, Kazuhiro Nakazawa | Summary: We present measurements of the afterglow signatures in NaI(Tl) and CsI(Tl) detector modules as part of the Background and Transient Observer (BTO) mission detector trade-study. BTO is a NASA Student Collaboration Project flying on the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | First 5 Authors: Yann Gouttenoire, Stephen F. King, Rishav Roshan, Xin Wang, Graham White | Summary: One of the simplest standard model extensions leading to a domain wall network is a real scalar $S$ with a $mathcal{Z}_2$ symmetry spontaneously broken during universe evolution. Motivated by the swampland program, we explore […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gregory J. Herczeg | First 5 Authors: Anuroop Dasgupta, Lucas A. Cieza, Camilo I. Gonzalez Ruilova, Trisha Bhowmik, Ms. Prachi Chavan | Summary: The size of a protoplanetary disk is a fundamental property, yet most remain unresolved, even in nearby star-forming regions (d $sim$ 140-200 pc). We present the complete continuum size distribution […]
Kavli Affiliate: Shunsaku Horiuchi | First 5 Authors: Kanji Mori, Tomoya Takiwaki, Kei Kotake, Shunsaku Horiuchi, | Summary: We perform three-dimensional supernova simulations with a phenomenological treatment of neutrino flavor conversions. We show that the explosion energy can increase to as high as ~10^51 erg depending on the critical density for the onset of flavor […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Jing Wang, Xiaotai Wu, Wen-Sheng Zhao, Yuhua Cheng, Yue Hu | Summary: We study the atomic collapse phenomenon in $K$ and $K’$ valley of gapped graphene. Bound states induced by Coulomb impurity in the gap turn into atomic collapse resonances as the charge increases beyond the supercritical […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hu Zhan | First 5 Authors: Yan Gong, Haitao Miao, Xingchen Zhou, Qi Xiong, Yingxiao Song | Summary: The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is the next-generation Stage~IV survey telescope. It can simultaneously perform multi-band imaging and slitless spectroscopic wide- and deep-field surveys in ten years and an ultra-deep field (UDF) survey in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Abdelaziz Hussein, Lina Necib, Manoj Kaplinghat, Stacy Y. Kim, Andrew Wetzel | Summary: We build a theoretical range for the Milky Way’s (MW) inner dark matter (DM) distribution informed by the FIRE-2, Auriga, VINTERGATAN-GM, and TNG50 simulation suites assuming the canonical cold dark matter (CDM) model. The […]
Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Abdelaziz Hussein, Lina Necib, Manoj Kaplinghat, Stacy Y. Kim, Andrew Wetzel | Summary: We build a theoretical range for the Milky Way’s (MW) inner dark matter (DM) distribution informed by the FIRE-2, Auriga, VINTERGATAN-GM, and TNG50 simulation suites assuming the canonical cold dark matter (CDM) model. The […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Xiaowei Ou, Alexander Yelland, Anirudh Chiti, Anna Frebel, Guilherme Limberg | Summary: Dwarf galaxies like Sagittarius (Sgr) provide a unique window into the early stages of galactic chemical evolution, particularly through their metal-poor stars. By studying the chemical abundances of stars in the Sgr core and tidal […]