Eclipsing Binary Populations across the Northern Galactic Plane from the KISOGP survey

Kavli Affiliate: Huawei Zhang | First 5 Authors: Fangzhou Ren, Richard de Grijs, Huawei Zhang, Licai Deng, Xiaodian Chen | Summary: We present a catalog of eclipsing binaries in the northern Galactic Plane from the Kiso Wide-Field Camera Intensive Survey of the Galactic Plane (KISOGP). We visually identified 7055 eclipsing binaries spread across $sim$330 square […]


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Improved Treatment of Host-Galaxy Correlations in Cosmological Analyses With Type Ia Supernovae

Kavli Affiliate: Richard Kessler | First 5 Authors: Brodie Popovic, Dillon Brout, Richard Kessler, Dan Scolnic, Lisa Lu | Summary: Improving the use of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) as standard candles requires a better approach to incorporate the relationship between SNIa and the properties of their host galaxies. Using a spectroscopically-confirmed sample of $sim$1600 SNIa, […]


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Measuring solar neutrinos over Gigayear timescales with Paleo Detectors

Kavli Affiliate: Shunsaku Horiuchi | First 5 Authors: Natalia Tapia Arellano, Shunsaku Horiuchi, , , | Summary: Measuring the solar neutrino flux over gigayear timescales could provide a new window to inform the Solar Standard Model as well as studies of the Earth’s long-term climate. We demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the time-evolution of the […]


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Substructure at High Speed I: Inferring the Escape Velocity in the Presence of Kinematic Substructure

Kavli Affiliate: Lina Necib | First 5 Authors: Lina Necib, Tongyan Lin, , , | Summary: The local escape velocity provides valuable inputs to the mass profile of the Galaxy, and requires understanding the tail of the stellar speed distribution. Following Leonard $&$ Tremaine (1990), various works have since modeled the tail of the stellar […]


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“A more probable explanation” is still impossible to explain GN-z11-flash: in response to Steinhardt et al. (arXiv:2101.12738)

Kavli Affiliate: Linhua Jiang | First 5 Authors: Linhua Jiang, Shu Wang, Bing Zhang, Nobunari Kashikawa, Luis C. Ho | Summary: In Jiang et al. (2020), we reported a possible bright flash (hereafter GN-z11-flash) from a galaxy GN-z11 at z ~ 11. Recently, Steinhardt et al. (2021; arXiv:2101.12738) found 27 images with transient signals in […]


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Cosmological cross-correlations and nearest neighbor distributions

Kavli Affiliate: Tom Abel | First 5 Authors: Arka Banerjee, Tom Abel, , , | Summary: Cross-correlations between datasets are used in many different contexts in cosmological analyses. Recently, $k$-Nearest Neighbor Cumulative Distribution Functions ($k{rm NN}$-${rm CDF}$) were shown to be sensitive probes of cosmological (auto) clustering. In this paper, we extend the framework of […]


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The wide-field infrared transient explorer (WINTER)

Kavli Affiliate: Gabor Furesz | First 5 Authors: Nathan P. Lourie, John W. Baker, Richard S. Burruss, Mark Egan, Gábor Fűrész | Summary: The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new infrared time-domain survey instrument which will be deployed on a dedicated 1 meter robotic telescope at Palomar Observatory. WINTER will perform a seeing-limited […]


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The wide-field infrared transient explorer (WINTER)

Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Nathan P. Lourie, John W. Baker, Richard S. Burruss, Mark Egan, Gábor Fűrész | Summary: The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new infrared time-domain survey instrument which will be deployed on a dedicated 1 meter robotic telescope at Palomar Observatory. WINTER will perform a […]


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Delensing the CMB with the cosmic infrared background: the impact of foregrounds

Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Challinor | First 5 Authors: Antón Baleato Lizancos, Anthony Challinor, Blake D. Sherwin, Toshiya Namikawa, | Summary: The most promising avenue for detecting primordial gravitational waves from cosmic inflation is through measurements of degree-scale CMB $B$-mode polarisation. This approach must face the challenge posed by gravitational lensing of the CMB, which obscures […]


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Constraining reionization with the first measurement of the cross-correlation between the CMB optical-depth fluctuations and the Compton y-map

Kavli Affiliate: Toshiya Namikawa | First 5 Authors: Toshiya Namikawa, Anirban Roy, Blake D. Sherwin, Nicholas Battaglia, David N. Spergel | Summary: We propose a new reionization probe that uses cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations; the cross-correlation between fluctuations in the CMB optical depth which probes the integrated electron density, $deltatau$, and the Compton $y$-map […]


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