The Robotic Multi-Object Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Kavli Affiliate: Kevin Reil | Summary:A system of 5,020 robotic fiber positioners was installed in 2019 on the Mayall Telescope, at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The robots automatically re-target their optical fibers every 10 – 20 minutes, each to a precision of several microns, with a reconfiguration time less than 2 minutes. Over the next […]


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Sampling with replacement vs Poisson sampling: a comparative study in optimal subsampling

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Jing Wang, Jiahui Zou, HaiYing Wang, , | Summary: Faced with massive data, subsampling is a commonly used technique to improve computational efficiency, and using nonuniform subsampling probabilities is an effective approach to improve estimation efficiency. For computational efficiency, subsampling is often implemented with replacement or through […]


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The Physics potential of the CEPC. Prepared for the US Snowmass Community Planning Exercise (Snowmass 2021)

Kavli Affiliate: Jia Liu | First 5 Authors: Huajie Cheng, Wen Han Chiu, Yaquan Fang, Yu Gao, Jiayin Gu | Summary: The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is a large-scale collider facility that can serve as a factory of the Higgs, Z, and W bosons and is upgradable to run at the ttbar threshold. This […]


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The Physics potential of the CEPC. Prepared for the US Snowmass Community Planning Exercise (Snowmass 2021)

Kavli Affiliate: Jia Liu | First 5 Authors: Huajie Cheng, Wen Han Chiu, Yaquan Fang, Yu Gao, Jiayin Gu | Summary: The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is a large-scale collider facility that can serve as a factory of the Higgs, Z, and W bosons and is upgradable to run at the ttbar threshold. This […]


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Avoiding a Cluster Catastrophe: Retention Efficiency and the Binary Black Hole Mass Spectrum

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel E. Holz | First 5 Authors: Michael Zevin, Daniel E. Holz, , , | Summary: The population of binary black hole mergers identified through gravitational waves has uncovered unexpected features in the intrinsic properties of black holes in the Universe. One particularly surprising and exciting result is the possible existence of black […]


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Avoiding a Cluster Catastrophe: Retention Efficiency and the Binary Black Hole Mass Spectrum

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel E. Holz | First 5 Authors: Michael Zevin, Daniel E. Holz, , , | Summary: The population of binary black hole mergers identified through gravitational waves has uncovered unexpected features in the intrinsic properties of black holes in the Universe. One particularly surprising and exciting result is the possible existence of black […]


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Distances to Local Group Galaxies via Population II, Stellar Distance Indicators I: The Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal

Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Quang H. Tran, Taylor J. Hoyt, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Elias K. Oakes | Summary: We determine the distance to the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal via three Population II stellar distance indicators: (a) the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB), (b) RR Lyrae variables […]


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Semi-inclusive Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering at Small-$x$

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Yuan | First 5 Authors: Yoshitaka Hatta, Bo-Wen Xiao, Feng Yuan, , | Summary: Inspired by a recent study of Iancu, Mueller and Triantafyllopoulos [1] and earlier papers by Golec-Biernat and Wusthoff [2,3], we propose semi-inclusive diffractive deep inelastic scattering (SIDDIS) to investigate the gluon tomography in the nucleon and nuclei at […]


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The Visual Survey Group: A Decade of Hunting Exoplanets and Unusual Stellar Events with Space-Based Telescopes

Kavli Affiliate: Saul A. Rappaport | First 5 Authors: Martti H. K. Kristiansen, Saul A. Rappaport, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Thomas L. Jacobs, Hans Martin Schwengeler | Summary: This article presents the history of the Visual Survey Group (VSG) – a Professional-Amateur (Pro-Am) collaboration within the field of astronomy working on data from several space missions […]


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