Results from the CsI Calorimeter onboard the 2023 ComPair Balloon Flight

Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Daniel Shy, Richard S. Woolf, Clio Sleator, Bernard Phlips, J. Eric Grove | Summary: The ComPair gamma-ray telescope is a technology demonstrator for a future gamma-ray telescope called the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO). The instrument is composed of four subsystems, a double-sided silicon strip detector, […]


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Results from the CsI Calorimeter onboard the 2023 ComPair Balloon Flight

Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Daniel Shy, Richard S. Woolf, Clio Sleator, Bernard Phlips, J. Eric Grove | Summary: The ComPair gamma-ray telescope is a technology demonstrator for a future gamma-ray telescope called the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO). The instrument is composed of four subsystems, a double-sided silicon strip detector, […]


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Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: David “davidad” Dalrymple, Joar Skalse, Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark | Summary: Ensuring that AI systems reliably and robustly avoid harmful or dangerous behaviours is a crucial challenge, especially for AI systems with a high degree of autonomy and general intelligence, or systems used in safety-critical […]


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Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: David “davidad” Dalrymple, Joar Skalse, Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark | Summary: Ensuring that AI systems reliably and robustly avoid harmful or dangerous behaviours is a crucial challenge, especially for AI systems with a high degree of autonomy and general intelligence, or systems used in safety-critical […]


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Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: David “davidad” Dalrymple, Joar Skalse, Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark | Summary: Ensuring that AI systems reliably and robustly avoid harmful or dangerous behaviours is a crucial challenge, especially for AI systems with a high degree of autonomy and general intelligence, or systems used in safety-critical […]


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Advancing Precision Particle Background Estimation for Future X-ray Missions: Correlated Variability between AMS and Chandra/XMM-Newton

Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller | First 5 Authors: Arnab Sarkar, Catherine E. Grant, Eric D. Miller, Mark Bautz, Benjamin Schneider | Summary: Galactic cosmic ray (GCR) particles have a significant impact on the particle-induced background of X-ray observatories, and their flux exhibits substantial temporal variability, potentially influencing background levels. In this study, we present […]


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Advancing Precision Particle Background Estimation for Future X-ray Missions: Correlated Variability between AMS and Chandra/XMM-Newton

Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Miller | First 5 Authors: Arnab Sarkar, Catherine E. Grant, Eric D. Miller, Mark Bautz, Benjamin Schneider | Summary: Galactic cosmic ray (GCR) particles have a significant impact on the particle-induced background of X-ray observatories, and their flux exhibits substantial temporal variability, potentially influencing background levels. In this study, we present […]


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Measurement of cesium $8P_{J}{rightarrow}$ $6P_{J’}$ electric quadrupole transition probabilities using fluorescence spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Jing Wang, Yuki Miyamoto, Hideaki Hara, Minoru Tanaka, Motomichi Tashiro | Summary: Fluorescence spectra of the $8P_{J}{rightarrow}$ $6P_{J’}$ ($J$ and $J’$ = 3/2, 1/2) electric quadrupole transition of cesium atoms have been observed with a heated cesium vapor cell. We determined the ratio of the transition probabilities […]


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Measurement of cesium $8P_{J}rightarrow 6P_{J’}$ electric quadrupole transition probabilities using fluorescence spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Jing Wang, Yuki Miyamoto, Hideaki Hara, Minoru Tanaka, Motomichi Tashiro | Summary: Fluorescence spectra of the $8P_{J} rightarrow 6P_{J’}$ ($J$ and $J’$ = 3/2, 1/2) electric quadrupole transition of cesium atoms have been observed with a heated cesium vapor cell. We determined the ratio of the transition […]


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Effect of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the kinematics of Milky Way satellites and virial mass estimate

Kavli Affiliate: Andrey Kravtsov | First 5 Authors: Andrey Kravtsov, Sophia Winney, , , | Summary: We present a study illustrating the effects of the passage of a Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) mass satellite on the distance and velocity distributions of satellites in $Lambda+$Cold Dark Matter simulations of Milky Way (MW) sized halos. In agreement […]


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