Adaptive Ridge-Regularized Hotelling Change-Point Tests for Functional Data

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Long| Summary: We propose a unified ridge-regularized Hotelling framework for detecting and locating mean changes in functional time series. A growing basis expansion converts the functional observations into high-dimensional score vectors. Their long-run covariance is estimated by an edge-corrected difference-based procedure. Ridge regularization stabilizes inference under spectral decay. An explicit local-power formula […]


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Harnessing disorder to decouple extension and shear in kirigami metamaterials

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Long| Summary: Kirigami turns stiff sheets into compliant, shape-morphing structures, but its reliance on periodic cut patterns comes at a cost: correlated panel rotations couple extension to shear, so stretching one axis drives a parasitic shear that cannot be suppressed, and also confine anisotropic stiffness to a narrow, discrete set of responses […]


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Dynamics and geometry of the inner sub-parsec-scale jet in 3C 279 observed with the Event Horizon Telescope

Kavli Affiliate: Luis Ho | Summary:The 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations resolve the innermost jet region of the blazar 3C279 with unprecedented detail. The reconstructed images consistently reveal a compact core elongated nearly orthogonal to the large-scale jet axis. This rarely observed morphology recurs across multiple epochs and from 22-230 GHz and is therefore intrinsic […]


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VENUS: an ultra-faint galaxy hosting the metal-poor type II supernova at $z=5.13$ Witnessing the initial metal enrichment with extremely frequent core-collapse supernovae?

Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | Summary:We present the first characterization of the host galaxy of a recently discovered type IIP SN at $z=5.13$ (SN Eos). SN Eos and its host galaxy are gravitationally lensed and multiply imaged. The total magnification $μsim53$ enables spatially resolving the system, allowing us to localize the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) position […]


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Discovery of a star sensitive to the spin of Sgr A*

Kavli Affiliate: Jinyi Shangguan | Summary:Residing in the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A* is the closest massive black hole (MBH). Its vicinity has allowed measuring individual stellar orbits around it. The stars act as test particles and probe the gravitational potential around the $4.3 times 10^6 M_odot$ MBH. These observations have determined the […]


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Pulsar anti-glitches: starquakes driven by magnetism?

Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu | Summary:In the conventional starquake model of pulsar glitches, it is usually assumed that such events arise from fault slip induced by the self-gravity of compact objects. This inevitably decreases the moment of inertia, producing a glitch with an amplitude of only $Δν/ν> 0$. However, an increasing number of anti-glitches ($Δν/ν< […]


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Subaru meets JWST: A Direct Measurement of Ly$boldsymbolα$ Escape Fraction at $boldsymbolzsimeq6.2$ with Dual Narrow-Band Imaging

Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | Summary:We present a direct measurement of the Ly$α$ escape fraction, $f^rm Lyα_rm esc$, for H$α$ emitters (HAEs) at $zsimeq6.2$ in the JWST CEERS field by combining JWST/NIRCam F470N imaging with Subaru/HSC NB872 imaging. This unique pair of narrow-band filters enables the simultaneous measurement of Ly$α$ and H$α$ fluxes from galaxies […]


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Quantifying Environmental Effects on Galaxy Properties using Non-spherical Voids Identified from SDSS DR7

Kavli Affiliate: Yingjie Peng | Summary:Cosmic voids provide a distinct low-density region for studying the environmental effects of galaxy properties. Using the SDSS DR7 catalog, we identify non-spherical voids via Voronoi tessellation and the watershed algorithm, and classify void galaxies based on their local volume. We compare and find that void galaxies classified by this […]


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Quantifying Environmental Effects on Galaxy Properties using Non-spherical Voids Identified from SDSS DR7

Kavli Affiliate: Yingjie Peng | Summary:Cosmic voids provide a distinct low-density region for studying the environmental effects of galaxy properties. Using the SDSS DR7 catalog, we identify non-spherical voids via Voronoi tessellation and the watershed algorithm, and classify void galaxies based on their local volume. We compare and find that void galaxies classified by this […]


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Constraining Pulsar Radiative Geometry via Multi-wavelength Modeling

Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu | Summary:We propose that jointly modeling the thermal X-ray pulse profiles and the polarization position angles offers an effective means of locating the polarization orientation focus of the pulsar’s coherent radiation. From the X-ray pulse-profile measurement we constrain the colatitude of the center of the thermal X-ray emission, which corresponds to […]


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