The Magnificent Five Images of Supernova Refsdal: Time Delay and Magnification Measurements

Kavli Affiliate: Kaisey Mandel | First 5 Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Simon Birrer, Vivien Bonvin | Summary: In late 2014, four images of Supernova (SN) "Refsdal," the first known example of a strongly lensed SN with multiple resolved images, were detected in the MACS J1149 galaxy-cluster field. Following the images’ discovery, […]


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Constraints on the Hubble constant from Supernova Refsdal’s reappearance

Kavli Affiliate: Kaisey Mandel | First 5 Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Masamune Oguri, Wenlei Chen | Summary: The gravitationally lensed Supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images, produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeared in 2014, lens models of the galaxy cluster predicted an additional […]


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Constraints on the Hubble constant from Supernova Refsdal’s reappearance

Kavli Affiliate: Kaisey Mandel | First 5 Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Masamune Oguri, Wenlei Chen | Summary: The gravitationally lensed Supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images, produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeared in 2014, lens models of the galaxy cluster predicted an additional […]


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Constraints on the Hubble constant from Supernova Refsdal’s reappearance

Kavli Affiliate: Kaisey Mandel | First 5 Authors: Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Masamune Oguri, Wenlei Chen | Summary: The gravitationally lensed Supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images, produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeared in 2014, lens models of the galaxy cluster predicted an additional […]


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A 1.55 R$_{oplus}$ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715, an M4 star near the ecliptic South Pole

Kavli Affiliate: Christopher J. Burke | First 5 Authors: Georgina Dransfield, Mathilde Timmermans, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Martín Dévora-Pajares, Christian Aganze | Summary: A new generation of observatories is enabling detailed study of exoplanetary atmospheres and the diversity of alien climates, allowing us to seek evidence for extraterrestrial biological and geological processes. Now is […]


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Anderson self-duality of topological modular forms, its differential-geometric manifestations, and vertex operator algebras

Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | First 5 Authors: Yuji Tachikawa, Mayuko Yamashita, , , | Summary: Inspired by consideration in heterotic string theory, we construct a morphism of spectra from $mathrm{KO}((q))/mathrm{TMF}$ to $Sigma^{-20}I_{mathbb{Z}} mathrm{TMF}$, which we show to be an isomorphism and to implement the Anderson self-duality of $mathrm{TMF}$. We will use this to factor […]


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Anderson self-duality of topological modular forms, its differential-geometric manifestations, and vertex operator algebras

Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | First 5 Authors: Yuji Tachikawa, Mayuko Yamashita, , , | Summary: Inspired by consideration in heterotic string theory, we construct a morphism of spectra from $mathrm{KO}((q))/mathrm{TMF}$ to $Sigma^{-20}I_{mathbb{Z}} mathrm{TMF}$, which we show to be an isomorphism and to implement the Anderson self-duality of $mathrm{TMF}$. We will use this to factor […]


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Anderson self-duality of topological modular forms, its differential-geometric manifestations, and vertex operator algebras

Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | First 5 Authors: Yuji Tachikawa, Mayuko Yamashita, , , | Summary: Inspired by consideration in heterotic string theory, we construct a morphism of spectra from $mathrm{KO}((q))/mathrm{TMF}$ to $Sigma^{-20}I_{mathbb{Z}} mathrm{TMF}$, which we show to be an isomorphism and to implement the Anderson self-duality of $mathrm{TMF}$. We will use this to factor […]


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Anderson self-duality of topological modular forms, its differential-geometric manifestations, and vertex operator algebras

Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | First 5 Authors: Yuji Tachikawa, Mayuko Yamashita, , , | Summary: We construct a morphism of spectra from $mathrm{KO}((q))/mathrm{TMF}$ to $Sigma^{-20}I_{mathbb{Z}} mathrm{TMF}$, which we show to be an equivalence and to implement the Anderson self-duality of $mathrm{TMF}$. This morphism is then used to define another morphism from $mathrm{TMF}$ to $Sigma^{-20}I_{mathbb{Z}}(mathrm{MSpin}/mathrm{MString})$, […]


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