Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Hong Guo, Michael G. Jones, Jing Wang, , | Summary: The growth of supermassive black holes, especially the associated state of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), is generally believed to be the key step in regulating star formation in massive galaxies. As the fuel of star formation, the […]
Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: Belle II Collaboration, F. Abudinén, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, L. Aggarwal | Summary: We report the measurement of the branching fraction of the $B^0 to K_S^0 pi^0 gamma$ decay in $e^+ e^- to Upsilon(4S) to B overline{B}$ data recorded by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB […]
Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen | First 5 Authors: Xian Chen, Zhongfu Zhang, , , | Summary: Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are important sources for space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Such a source normally consists of a stellar-mass black hole (BH) and a Kerr supermassive BH (SMBH), but recent astrophysical models predict that the small body could also […]
Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: Belle II Collaboration, F. Abudinén, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, L. Aggarwal | Summary: We present a reconstruction of the semileptonic decays $B^0 to pi^- e^+ nu_e$ and $B^+ to pi^0 e^+ nu_e$ in a sample corresponding to 189.3 fb$^{-1}$ of Belle II data, using events where the […]
Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: Belle II Collaboration, F. Abudinén, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, L. Aggarwal | Summary: We present a reconstruction of the semileptonic decays $B^0 to pi^- e^+ nu_e$ and $B^+ to pi^0 e^+ nu_e$ in a sample corresponding to 189.3 fb$^{-1}$ of Belle II data, using events where the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Lasenby | First 5 Authors: Michael Hobson, Anthony Lasenby, , , | Summary: For conformally invariant gravity theories defined on Riemannian spacetime and having the Schwarzschild–de-Sitter (SdS) metric as a solution in the Einstein gauge, we consider whether one may conformally rescale this solution to obtain flat rotation curves, such as those […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Jing Wang, Peng Yuan, Dongfang Zhang, Guoqiang Xie, Kainan Xiong | Summary: Optical quadratic nonlinearity is ultrafast in nature, while parametric interaction usually manifests only the broadband characteristic. Enormous progress has been made toward broadband phase-matching for parametric amplification and wide applications. In existing devices of broadband […]
Kavli Affiliate: Herman L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Victor Doroshenko, Juri Poutanen, Sergey Tsygankov, Valery Suleimanov, Matteo Bachetti | Summary: Using observations of X-ray pulsar Her X-1 by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, we report on a highly significant detection of the polarization signal from an accreting neutron star. The observed degree of the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Kaley Brauer, Hillary D. Andales, Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Mohammad K. Mardini | Summary: The Milky Way has accreted many ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs), and stars from these galaxies can be found throughout our Galaxy today. Studying these stars provides insight into galaxy formation and early […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nicola Omodei | First 5 Authors: Jacco Vink, Dmitry Prokhorov, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Patrick Slane, Ping Zhou | Summary: We report on a 5$sigma$ detection of polarized 3-6 keV X-ray emission from the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission. The overall polarization degree of 1.8 $pm$ 0.3% is […]