TOI-2005b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-Orbit Alignment

Kavli Affiliate: Avi Shporer | First 5 Authors: Allyson Bieryla, Jiayin Dong, George Zhou, Jason D. Eastman, L. C. Mayorga | Summary: We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-2005b, a warm Jupiter on an eccentric (e~0.59), 17.3-day orbit around a V_mag = 9.867 rapidly rotating F-star. The object was detected as a candidate by […]


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TOI-2005b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-Orbit Alignment

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Allyson Bieryla, Jiayin Dong, George Zhou, Jason D. Eastman, L. C. Mayorga | Summary: We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-2005b, a warm Jupiter on an eccentric (e~0.59), 17.3-day orbit around a V_mag = 9.867 rapidly rotating F-star. The object was detected as a candidate by […]


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Backlighting extended gas halos around luminous red galaxies: kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect from DESI Y1 x ACT

Kavli Affiliate: David N. Spergel | First 5 Authors: Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Emmanuel Schaan, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Simone Ferraro, Jessica N. Aguilar | Summary: The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (kSZ). We precisely measure […]


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Dip and non-linearity in the curvature perturbation from inflation with a transient non-slow-roll stage

Kavli Affiliate: Misao Sasaki | First 5 Authors: Tomohiro Fujita, Ryodai Kawaguchi, Misao Sasaki, Yuichiro Tada, | Summary: We consider models of inflation that contain a transient non-slow-roll stage and investigate the conditions under which a dip appears in the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation. Using the $delta N$ formalism, we derive a general […]


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Singular instantons with finite action

Kavli Affiliate: Misao Sasaki | First 5 Authors: Misao Sasaki, Vicharit Yingcharoenrat, Ying-li Zhang, , | Summary: Recently, it was shown that in the absence of gravity there exist non-$O(4)$-symmetric instanton solutions with finite action beyond Coleman’s instantons. In this paper, focusing on the false-vacuum decay in a single scalar field in flat Euclidean space, […]


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Flipping of the tidal tails of the Ophiuchus stream due to the decelerating Galactic bar

Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Yong Yang, Geraint F. Lewis, Denis Erkal, Ting S. Li, Andrew P. Li | Summary: The Ophiuchus stellar stream presents a puzzle due to its complicated morphology, with a substructure perpendicular to the main track (spur), a broadened tail (fanning), and a shorter than expected angular […]


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Observing Dark Matter Decays to Gravitons via Graviton-Photon Conversion

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: David I. Dunsky, Gordan Krnjaic, Elena Pinetti, , | Summary: Since dark matter is only known to have gravitational interactions, it may plausibly decay to gravitons on cosmological timescales. Although such a scenario can be easily realized, there are currently no known limits on this possibility based […]


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Discovery of Quasi-periodic Eruptions in the Tidal Disruption Event and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter AT2022upj: implications for the QPE/TDE fraction and a connection to ECLEs

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Riccardo Arcodia, Johannes Buchner, Margherita Giustini | Summary: Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring soft X-ray transients emerging from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby, low-mass galaxy nuclei; about ten QPE hosts have been identified thus far. Here we report the […]


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Discovery of Quasi-periodic Eruptions in the Tidal Disruption Event and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter AT2022upj: implications for the QPE/TDE fraction and a connection to ECLEs

Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Riccardo Arcodia, Johannes Buchner, Margherita Giustini | Summary: Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring soft X-ray transients emerging from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby, low-mass galaxy nuclei; about ten QPE hosts have been identified thus far. Here we report the […]


Continue.. Discovery of Quasi-periodic Eruptions in the Tidal Disruption Event and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter AT2022upj: implications for the QPE/TDE fraction and a connection to ECLEs