A Case for a Binary Black Hole System Revealed via Quasi-Periodic Outflows

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Dheeraj R. Pasham, Francesco Tombesi, Petra Sukova, Michal Zajacek, Suvendu Rakshit | Summary: Binaries containing a compact object orbiting a supermassive black hole are thought to be precursors of gravitational wave events, but their identification has been extremely challenging. Here, we report quasi-periodic variability in X-ray absorption […]


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A Case for a Binary Black Hole System Revealed via Quasi-Periodic Outflows

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Dheeraj R. Pasham, Francesco Tombesi, Petra Sukova, Michal Zajacek, Suvendu Rakshit | Summary: Binaries containing a compact object orbiting a supermassive black hole are thought to be precursors of gravitational wave events, but their identification has been extremely challenging. Here, we report quasi-periodic variability in X-ray absorption […]


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Alive but Barely Kicking: News from 3+ years of Swift and XMM-Newton X-ray Monitoring of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions from eRO-QPE1

Kavli Affiliate: Dheeraj R. Pasham | First 5 Authors: Dheeraj R. Pasham, Eric R. Coughlin, Michal Zajacek, Itai Linial, Petra Sukova | Summary: Quasi-periodic Eruptions (QPEs) represent a novel class of extragalactic X-ray transients that are known to repeat at roughly regular intervals of a few hours to days. Their underlying physical mechanism is a […]


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Lense-Thirring Precession after a Supermassive Black Hole Disrupts a Star

Kavli Affiliate: Dheeraj R. Pasham | First 5 Authors: Dheeraj R. Pasham, Michal Zajacek, C. J. Nixon, Eric R. Coughlin, Marzena Sniegowska | Summary: An accretion disk formed around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) after it disrupts a star is expected to be initially misaligned with respect to the black hole’s equatorial plane. This misalignment […]


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The Simons Observatory: Development and Optical Evaluation of Achromatic Half-Wave Plates

Kavli Affiliate: Tomotake Matsumura | First 5 Authors: Junna Sugiyama, Tomoki Terasaki, Kana Sakaguri, Bryce Bixler, Yuki Sakurai | Summary: The Simons Observatory (SO) experiment is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The SO’ s small aperture telescopes (SATs) consist of three telescopes designed for precise CMB polarimetry at […]


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The Simons Observatory: Development and Optical Evaluation of Achromatic Half-Wave Plates

Kavli Affiliate: Tomotake Matsumura | First 5 Authors: Junna Sugiyama, Tomoki Terasaki, Kana Sakaguri, Bryce Bixler, Yuki Sakurai | Summary: The Simons Observatory (SO) experiment is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The SO’ s small aperture telescopes (SATs) consist of three telescopes designed for precise CMB polarimetry at […]


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A pulsar-like swing in the polarisation position angle of a nearby fast radio burst

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi W. Masui | First 5 Authors: Ryan Mckinven, Mohit Bhardwaj, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Aida Kirichenko | Summary: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for milliseconds and arrive at Earth from cosmological distances. While their origin(s) and emission mechanism(s) are presently unknown, their signals bear similarities with the much less luminous radio […]


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New constraints on ultraheavy dark matter from the LZ experiment

Kavli Affiliate: C. M. Ignarra | First 5 Authors: J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, C. S. Amarasinghe, A. Ames | Summary: Searches for dark matter with liquid xenon time projection chamber experiments have traditionally focused on the region of the parameter space that is characteristic of weakly interacting massive particles, ranging […]


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Image deconvolution and PSF reconstruction with STARRED: a wavelet-based two-channel method optimized for light curve extraction

Kavli Affiliate: Philip J. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Martin Millon, Kevin Michalewicz, Frédéric Dux, Frédéric Courbin, Philip J. Marshall | Summary: We present STARRED, a Point Spread Function (PSF) reconstruction, two-channel deconvolution, and light curve extraction method designed for high-precision photometric measurements in imaging time series. An improved resolution of the data is targeted […]


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Image deconvolution and PSF reconstruction with STARRED: a wavelet-based two-channel method optimized for light-curve extraction

Kavli Affiliate: Philip J. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Martin Millon, Kevin Michalewicz, Frédéric Dux, Frédéric Courbin, Philip J. Marshall | Summary: We present STARRED, a Point Spread Function (PSF) reconstruction, two-channel deconvolution, and light curve extraction method designed for high-precision photometric measurements in imaging time series. An improved resolution of the data is targeted […]


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