Cosmological Constraints from Gas Mass Fractions of Massive, Relaxed Galaxy Clusters

Kavli Affiliate: Steven Allen, Lindsey E. Bleem, Bradford Benson, Adam B. Mantz | First 5 Authors: Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen, Rebecca E. A. Canning, Lucie Baumont, Bradford Benson | Summary: We present updated cosmological constraints from measurements of the gas mass fractions ($f_{gas}$) of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Our new data set […]


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Synthesizing Stellar Populations in South Pole Telescope Galaxy Clusters: I. Ages of Quiescent Member Galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.4

Kavli Affiliate: Michael D. Gladders | First 5 Authors: Gourav Khullar, Matthew B. Bayliss, Michael D. Gladders, Keunho J. Kim, Michael S Calzadilla | Summary: Using stellar population synthesis models to infer star formation histories (SFHs), we analyse photometry and spectroscopy of a large sample of quiescent galaxies which are members of Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ)-selected galaxy […]


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Strong Lensing Science Collaboration input to the on-sky commissioning of the Vera Rubin Observatory

Kavli Affiliate: Paul L. Schechter | First 5 Authors: Graham P. Smith, Timo Anguita, Simon Birrer, Paul L. Schechter, Aprajita Verma | Summary: We present the Strong Lensing Science Collaboration’s (SLSC) recommended observing targets for the science verification and science validation phases of commissioning. Our recommendations have been developed in collaboration with the Dark Energy […]


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Strong Lensing Science Collaboration input to the on-sky commissioning of the Vera Rubin Observatory

Kavli Affiliate: Paul L. Schechter | First 5 Authors: Graham P. Smith, Timo Anguita, Simon Birrer, Paul L. Schechter, Aprajita Verma | Summary: We present the Strong Lensing Science Collaboration’s (SLSC) recommended observing targets for the science verification and science validation phases of commissioning. Our recommendations have been developed in collaboration with the Dark Energy […]


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In-flight polarization angle calibration for LiteBIRD: blind challenge and cosmological implications

Kavli Affiliate: Eiichiro Komatsu | First 5 Authors: Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Tomotake Matsumura, Elena de la Hoz, Soumen Basak, Alessandro Gruppuso | Summary: We present a demonstration of the in-flight polarization angle calibration for the JAXA/ISAS second strategic large class mission, LiteBIRD, and estimate its impact on the measurement of the tensor-to-scalar ratio parameter, r, using […]


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Plasmon Coupling Induced Photon Scattering Torque

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Yang Li, Jing Wang, Hai-Qing Lin, Lei Shao, | Summary: Bio-compatible Au nanoparticles exhibit great advantages in the application of biomedical researches, such as bio-sensing, medical diagnosis, and cancer therapy. Bio-molecules can even be manipulated by laser tweezers with the optically trapped Au nanoparticles as handles. In […]


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Scintillation Timescales of Bright FRBs Detected by CHIME/FRB

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi Masui | First 5 Authors: Eve Schoen, Calvin Leung, Kiyoshi Masui, Daniele Michilli, Pragya Chawla | Summary: We describe a pipeline to measure scintillation in fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by CHIME/FRB in the 400-800 MHz band by analyzing the frequency structure of the FRB’s spectrum. We use the pipeline to measure […]


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Galaxy shapes of Light (GaLight): a 2D modeling of galaxy images

Kavli Affiliate: John D. Silverman | First 5 Authors: Xuheng Ding, Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu, John D. Silverman, | Summary: Galight is a Python-based open-source package that can be used to perform two-dimensional model fitting of optical and near-infrared images to characterize the light distribution of galaxies with components including a disk, bulge, bar, and […]


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