Young Faithful: The Eruptions of EC 53 as It Cycles through Filling and Draining the Inner Disk

Kavli Affiliate: Gregory Herczeg | First 5 Authors: Yong-Hee Lee, Doug Johnstone, Jeong-Eun Lee, Gregory Herczeg, Steve Mairs | Summary: While young stellar objects sometimes undergo bursts of accretion, these bursts usually occur sporadically, making them challenging to study observationally and to explain theoretically. We build a schematic description of cyclical bursts of the young […]


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Heated Poles on the Companion of Redback PSR J2339$-$0533

Kavli Affiliate: Roger W. Romani | First 5 Authors: D. Kandel, Roger W. Romani, Alexei V. Filippenko, Thomas G. Brink, WeiKang Zheng | Summary: We analyze photometry and spectra of the "redback" millisecond pulsar binary J2339$-$0533. These observations include new measurements from Keck and GROND, as well as archival measurements from the OISTER, WIYN, SOAR, […]


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Tautological stable pair invariants of Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Kavli Affiliate: Yukinobu Toda | First 5 Authors: Yalong Cao, Yukinobu Toda, , , | Summary: Let $X$ be a Calabi-Yau 4-fold and $D$ a smooth divisor on it. We consider tautological complex associated with $L=mathcal{O}_X(D)$ on the moduli space of Le Potier stable pairs and define its counting invariant by integrating the Euler class […]


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ASASSN-14ko is a Periodic Nuclear Transient in ESO 253-G003

Kavli Affiliate: Michael M. Fausnaugh | First 5 Authors: Anna V. Payne, Benjamin J. Shappee, Jason T. Hinkle, Patrick J. Vallely, Christopher S. Kochanek | Summary: We present the discovery that ASASSN-14ko is a periodically flaring AGN at the center of the galaxy ESO 253-G003. At the time of its discovery by the All-Sky Automated […]


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Completely Dark Photons from Gravitational Particle Production During Inflation

Kavli Affiliate: Edward W. Kolb | First 5 Authors: Edward W. Kolb, Andrew J. Long, , , | Summary: Starting with the de Broglie–Proca Lagrangian for a massive vector field, we calculate the number density of particles resulting from gravitational particle production (GPP) during inflation, with detailed consideration to the evolution of the number density […]


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Sign of hard X-ray pulsation from the gamma-ray binary system LS 5039

Kavli Affiliate: Tadayuki Takahashi | First 5 Authors: Hiroki Yoneda, Kazuo Makishima, Teruaki Enoto, Dmitry Khangulyan, Takahiro Matsumoto | Summary: To understand the nature of the brightest gamma-ray binary system LS 5039, hard X-ray data of the object, taken with the Suzaku and NuSTAR observatories in 2007 and 2016, respectively, were analyzed. The two data […]


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2, 12, 117, 1959, 45171, 1170086, …: A Hilbert series for the QCD chiral Lagrangian

Kavli Affiliate: Tom Melia | First 5 Authors: Lukas Graf, Brian Henning, Xiaochuan Lu, Tom Melia, Hitoshi Murayama | Summary: We apply Hilbert series techniques to the enumeration of operators in the mesonic QCD chiral Lagrangian. Existing Hilbert series technologies for non-linear realizations are extended to incorporate the external fields. The action of charge conjugation […]


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Dark Matter Density Profiles in Dwarf Galaxies: Linking Jeans Modeling Systematics and Observation

Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Laura J. Chang, Lina Necib, , , | Summary: The distribution of dark matter in dwarf galaxies can have important implications on our understanding of galaxy formation as well as the particle physics properties of dark matter. However, accurately characterizing the dark matter content of dwarf galaxies […]


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