Kavli Affiliate: Hu Zhan | First 5 Authors: Zhen-Ya Zheng, Zhen-Ya Zheng, , , | Summary: The Multi-Channel Imager (MCI) is a powerful near-ultraviolet (NUV) and visible imager onboard the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST). The MCI provides three imaging channels, which are the NUV channel, the Optical-blue channel and the Optical-red channel, with […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: Accretion discs in strong gravity ubiquitously produce winds, seen as blueshifted absorption lines in the X-ray band of both stellar mass X-ray binaries (black holes and neutron stars), and supermassive black holes. Some of the most powerful winds (termed Eddington winds) […]
Kavli Affiliate: Melania Nynka | First 5 Authors: Shifra Mandel, Shifra Mandel, , , | Summary: For the first time in nearly a decade, a new, bright transient was detected in the central parsec (pc) of the Galaxy. MAXI J1744-294 was never observed in outburst prior to January 2025. We present the results of a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Clarence Chang | First 5 Authors: Juliang Li, Juliang Li, , , | Summary: Superconducting thin films with high intrinsic kinetic inductance $L_k$ are important for high-sensitivity detectors, enabling strong coupling in hybrid quantum systems, and enhancing nonlinearities in quantum devices. We report the room-temperature reactive sputtering of titanium nitride thin films with […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gregory Herczeg | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: Submillimeter astronomy is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe by revealing cosmic phenomena hidden from optical and near-infrared observations, particularly those associated with interstellar dust, molecular gas, and star formation. The Xue-shan-mu-chang 15-meter submillimeter telescope (XSMT-15m), to be constructed […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mikhail Kapranov | First 5 Authors: Mikhail Kapranov, Mikhail Kapranov, , , | Summary: This survey paper, based on a talk at the International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing in July 2025, summarizes joint work of the authors with M. Kontsevich [1408.2673] establishing the relation between the “Algebra of the Infrared" of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Jennifer Mead, Jennifer Mead, , , | Summary: Stellar surface abundances are records of the state of the gas from which stars formed, and thus trace how individual elements have mixed into the surrounding medium following their ejection from stars. In this work, we test the common […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | First 5 Authors: Yuji Tachikawa, Yuji Tachikawa, , , | Summary: Strongly motivated by a mathematical result by Lin and Yamashita (arXiv:2412.02298), we describe a long exact sequence formed by groups of equivalence classes of two-dimensional $mathcalN=(0,1)$ supersymmetric quantum field theories (SQFTs) with and without $SU(2)$ symmetry. As an application, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Pau Amaro Seoane | First 5 Authors: Pau Amaro Seoane, Pau Amaro Seoane, , , | Summary: Stellar collisions in dense galactic nuclei might play an important role in fueling supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and shaping their environments. The gas released during these collisions can contribute to SMBH accretion, influencing phenomena such as […]
Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | First 5 Authors: Jun-ichi Sakamoto, Jun-ichi Sakamoto, , , | Summary: The four-dimensional Chern-Simons (CS) theory provides a systematic procedure for realizing two-dimensional integrable field theories. It is therefore a natural question to ask whether integrable deformations of the theories can be realized in the four-dimensional CS theory. In this […]