Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | Summary:Kilonovae (KNe) are the electromagnetic signatures of neutron star mergers and are likely the dominant site of cosmic $r$-process nucleosynthesis. However, their intrinsic rate remains poorly constrained due to a paucity of confirmed events. We use the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) to place limits on the rate of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gregory Herczeg | Summary:Angular momentum removal is a fundamental requirement for star and planet formation, yet the mechanisms driving this process remain debated. Magnetohydrodynamic disk winds, launched along magnetic field lines from extended disk regions, offer a promising solution, particularly in regions where magnetorotational turbulence is weak. Here we present high-resolution Atacama Large […]
Kavli Affiliate: Pau Amaro Seoane | Summary:We establish the multi-messenger mechanics of episodic mass transfer in supermassive black hole binaries stalled within circumbinary discs. Utilizing continuous wavelet transforms, we isolate localized gas clumps at the cavity edge and track their evolution. By regularizing the forced fluid equations at Lindblad resonances via the inhomogeneous Airy differential […]
Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu | Summary:Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) are a class of pulsar-like objects characterized by intermittent radio emissions. Among them, RRATs that exhibit both RRAT and normal pulsar (NP) states may represent a key evolutionary stage from nulling pulsars to RRATs. We performed a detailed analysis of RRAT J1574+4703 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture […]
Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | Summary:Sentiment signals derived from sparse news are commonly used in financial analysis and technology monitoring, yet transforming raw article-level observations into reliable temporal series remains a largely unsolved engineering problem. Rather than treating this as a classification challenge, we propose to frame it as a causal signal reconstruction problem: given […]
Kavli Affiliate: Huawei Zhang | Summary:It has long been predicted that the Milky Way (MW) will eventually merge with Andromeda (M31), a view reinforced by textitHST measurements indicating a small M31 transverse velocity. However, using updated textitGaia-based proper motions (PMs) and including the dynamical influence of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and M33, Sawala et […]
Kavli Affiliate: Pau Amaro Seoane | Summary:The coalescence of degenerate helium cores during red giant collisions – a process we term erythrohenosis – introduces a novel class of transient astrophysical sources of high-energy neutrinos. Using stellar models generated with MESA and SPH simulations of the final inspiral phase, we develop a semi-analytical model to estimate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luis Ho | Summary:Measuring star formation in quasar host galaxies is crucial for understanding the coevolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and galaxies, yet remains observationally challenging due to severe contamination from active galactic nucleus (AGN) emission. In this work, we present a new method to robustly isolate the AGN contribution to the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Luis Ho | Summary:Near-IR Paschen lines are potentially an excellent tracer of Type 1 AGNs that is hardly affected by dust extinction. JWST allows us, for the first time, to explore Paschen-line objects at redshift z>1. Here we present a study of 62 AGNs with broad Pa$α$ and Pa$β$ lines at 1<z<3 using […]
Kavli Affiliate: Claudio Ricci | Summary:We present high spatial resolution ($lesssim$1.0”), multi-wavelength observations of UGC 2369S, a nearby luminous infrared galaxy showing three distinct cores separated on kpc scales in near-infrared (NIR) imaging with significant X-ray emission. Utilizing optical/NIR adaptive optics (AO), radio, chandra X-ray, as well as archival HST imaging, we perform a comprehensive […]