X-ray flares from the stellar tidal disruption by a candidate supermassive black hole binary

Kavli Affiliate: Fukun Liu | First 5 Authors: Xinwen Shu, Wenjie Zhang, Shuo Li, Ning Jiang, Liming Dou | Summary: Optical transient surveys have led to the discovery of dozens of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by massive black hole in the centers of galaxies. Despite extensive searches, X-ray follow-up observations have produced no or […]


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Discovery of A candidate Hypervelocity star originated from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy

Kavli Affiliate: Huawei Zhang | First 5 Authors: Yang Huang, Qingzheng Li, Huawei Zhang, Xinyi Li, Weixiang Sun | Summary: In this letter, we report the discovery of an intriguing HVS (J1443+1453) candidate that is probably from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph). The star is an old and very metal-poor low-mass main-sequence turn-off […]


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Discovery of a damped Ly$α$ galaxy at z $sim$ 3 towards the quasar SDSS J011852+040644

Kavli Affiliate: Linhua Jiang | First 5 Authors: Ravi Joshi, Michele Fumagalli, Raghunathan Srianand, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Patrick Petitjean | Summary: We report the detection of the host galaxy of a damped Ly$alpha$ system (DLA) with log N(HI) $ [rm cm^{-2}]$ = $21.0 pm 0.10$ at $z approx 3.0091$ towards the background quasar SDSS J011852+040644 using […]


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A possible bright ultraviolet flash from a galaxy at redshift z ~ 11

Kavli Affiliate: Linhua Jiang | First 5 Authors: Linhua Jiang, Shu Wang, Bing Zhang, Nobunari Kashikawa, Luis C. Ho | Summary: In the optical sky, minutes-duration transients from cosmological distances are rare. Known objects that give rise to such transients include gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most luminous explosions in the universe that have been detected […]


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Elliptical accretion disk as a model for tidal disruption events

Kavli Affiliate: Fukun Liu | First 5 Authors: Fukun Liu, Chunyang Cao, Marek A. Abramowicz, Maciek Wielgus, Rong Cao | Summary: Elliptical accretion disk models for tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been recently proposed and independently developed by two groups. Although these two models are characterized by a similar geometry, their physical properties differ considerably. […]


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Black holes and the supermassive compact object at the Galactic center: multi-arts of thought and nature

Kavli Affiliate: Qingjuan Yu | First 5 Authors: Qingjuan Yu, , , , | Summary: This is an invited commentary on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 which was awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity," and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea […]


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Cosmic distributions of stellar tidal disruptions by massive black holes at galactic centers

Kavli Affiliate: Qingjuan Yu | First 5 Authors: Yunfeng Chen, Qingjuan Yu, Youjun Lu, , | Summary: Stars can be consumed (either tidally disrupted or swallowed whole) by massive black holes (MBHs) at galactic centers when they move into the vicinity of the MBHs. In this study, we investigate the rates of stellar consumption by […]


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The long-term evolution of main-sequence binaries in DRAGON simulations

Kavli Affiliate: Rainer Spurzem | First 5 Authors: Qi Shu, Xiaoying Pang, Francesco Flammini Dotti, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, Manuel Arca Sedda | Summary: We present a comprehensive investigation of main-sequence (MS) binaries in the DRAGON simulations, which are the first one-million particles direct $N$-body simulations of globular clusters. We analyse the orbital parameters of […]


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Incorporating Hidden Layer representation into Adversarial Attacks and Defences

Kavli Affiliate: Ran Wang | First 5 Authors: Haojing Shen, Sihong Chen, Ran Wang, Xizhao Wang, | Summary: In this paper, we propose a defence strategy to improve adversarial robustness by incorporating hidden layer representation. The key of this defence strategy aims to compress or filter input information including adversarial perturbation. And this defence strategy […]


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On the Convergence of Reinforcement Learning in Nonlinear Continuous State Space Problems

Kavli Affiliate: Ran Wang | First 5 Authors: Raman Goyal, Suman Chakravorty, Ran Wang, Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed, | Summary: We consider the problem of Reinforcement Learning for nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems. We show that in the RL setting, there is an inherent “Curse of Variance" in addition to Bellman’s infamous “Curse of Dimensionality", in […]


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