Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu | First 5 Authors: Xiangyun Long, Hua Feng, Hong Li, Jiahuan Zhu, Qiong Wu | Summary: We report follow-up observations of the Crab nebula with the PolarLight X-ray polarimeter, which revealed a possible variation in polarization associated with a pulsar glitch in 2019. The new observations confirm that the polarization has […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vogelsberger | First 5 Authors: Oliver Newton, Noam I. Libeskind, Alexander Knebe, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Jenny G. Sorce | Summary: The Local Group is a unique environment in which to study the astrophysics of galaxy formation. The proximity of the Milky Way and M31 enhances the frequency of interactions of the low-mass […]
Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | First 5 Authors: Wei Yan, Ryan C. Hickox, Chien-Ting J. Chen, Claudio Ricci, Alberto Masini | Summary: In active galactic nuclei (AGN), fluorescent Fe K$alpha$ (iron) line emission is generally interpreted as originating from obscuring material around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) on the scale of a few parsecs (pc). […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hitoshi Murayama | First 5 Authors: Djuna Croon, Eleanor Hall, Hitoshi Murayama, , | Summary: We propose a simple non-perturbative formalism for false vacuum decay using functional methods. We introduce the quasi-stationary effective action, a bounce action that non-perturbatively incorporates radiative corrections and is robust to strong couplings. The quasi-stationary effective action obeys […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jacqueline N. Hewitt | First 5 Authors: James E. Aguirre, Steven G. Murray, Robert Pascua, Zachary E. Martinot, Jacob Burba | Summary: We describe the validation of the HERA Phase I software pipeline by a series of modular tests, building up to an end-to-end simulation. The philosophy of this approach is to validate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | First 5 Authors: Maggie A. Thompson, Myriam Telus, Laura Schaefer, Jonathan J. Fortney, Toyanath Joshi | Summary: Terrestrial exoplanets likely form initial atmospheres through outgassing during and after accretion, although there is currently no first-principles understanding of how to connect a planet’s bulk composition to its early atmospheric properties. Important […]
Kavli Affiliate: Clarence Chang | First 5 Authors: Kristin Dona, Jesse Liu, Noah Kurinsky, David Miller, Pete Barry | Summary: Dedicated spectrometers for terahertz radiation with [0.3, 30] THz frequencies using traditional optomechanical interferometry are substantially less common than their infrared and microwave counterparts. This paper presents the design and initial performance measurements of a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yingjie Peng | First 5 Authors: Chengpeng Zhang, Yingjie Peng, Luis C. Ho, Roberto Maiolino, Alvio Renzini | Summary: The phenomenological study of evolving galaxy populations has shown that star forming galaxies can be quenched by two distinct processes: mass quenching and environment quenching (Peng et al. 2010). To explore the mass quenching […]
Kavli Affiliate: Li Xin Li | First 5 Authors: Zhengyao Lv, Xiaoming Li, Xin Li, Fu Li, Tianwei Lin | Summary: Human pose transfer has received great attention due to its wide applications, yet is still a challenging task that is not well solved. Recent works have achieved great success to transfer the person image […]
Kavli Affiliate: John D. Silverman | First 5 Authors: Takuma Izumi, Yoshiki Matsuoka, Seiji Fujimoto, Masafusa Onoue, Michael A. Strauss | Summary: We present ALMA [CII] 158 $mu$m line and underlying far-infrared (FIR) continuum emission observations ($0”.70 times 0”.56$ resolution) toward HSC J124353.93$+$010038.5 (J1243$+$0100) at $z = 7.07$, the only low-luminosity ($M_{rm 1450} > -25$ […]