The Gravitational-Wave Physics II: Progress

Kavli Affiliate: Kejia Lee | First 5 Authors: Ligong Bian, Rong-Gen Cai, Shuo Cao, Zhoujian Cao, He Gao | Summary: It has been a half-decade since the first direct detection of gravitational waves, which signifies the coming of the era of the gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave cosmology. The increasing number of the detected gravitational-wave events […]


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Optical coherent dot-product chip for sophisticated deep learning regression

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Shaofu Xu, Jing Wang, Haowen Shu, Zhike Zhang, Sicheng Yi | Summary: Optical implementations of neural networks (ONNs) herald the next-generation high-speed and energy-efficient deep learning computing by harnessing the technical advantages of large bandwidth and high parallelism of optics. However, due to the problems of incomplete […]


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External Calibrator in Global Signal Experiment for Detection of the Epoch of Reionization

Kavli Affiliate: Kejia Lee | First 5 Authors: Yan Huang, Xiang-Ping Wu, Quan Guo, Qian Zheng, Biying Li | Summary: We present a conceptual design study of external calibrators in the 21 cm experiment towards detecting the globally averaged radiation of the epoch of reionization (EoR). Employment of external calibrator instead of internal calibrator commonly […]


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Energy conversion from heat to electricity by highly reversible phase-transforming ferroelectrics

Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen | First 5 Authors: Chenbo Zhang, Zhuohui Zeng, Zeyuan Zhu, Nobumichi Tamura, Xian Chen | Summary: Searching for performant multiferroic materials attracts general research interests in energy science as they have been increasingly exploited as the conversion media among thermal, electric, magnetic and mechanical energies by using their temperature-dependent ferroic properties. […]


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Learning Gaussian Graphical Models with Latent Confounders

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Ke Wang, Alexander Franks, Sang-Yun Oh, , | Summary: Gaussian Graphical models (GGM) are widely used to estimate the network structures in many applications ranging from biology to finance. In practice, data is often corrupted by latent confounders which biases inference of the underlying true graphical structure. […]


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Smart Name Lookup for NDN Forwarding Plane via Neural Networks

Kavli Affiliate: Zhuo Li | First 5 Authors: Zhuo Li, Jindian Liu, Liu Yan, Beichuan Zhang, Peng Luo | Summary: Name lookup is a key technology for the forwarding plane of content router in Named Data Networking (NDN). To realize the efficient name lookup, what counts is deploying a highperformance index in content routers. So […]


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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: UV-Optical Accretion Disk Measurements with Hubble Space Telescope

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: Y. Homayouni, Megan R. Sturm, Jonathan R. Trump, Keith Horne, C. J. Grier | Summary: We present accretion-disk structure measurements from UV-optical reverberation mapping observations of a sample of eight quasars at 0.24<z<0.85. Ultraviolet photometry comes from two cycles of Hubble Space Telescope monitoring, accompanied by […]


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The missing link in gravitational-wave astronomy: A summary of discoveries waiting in the decihertz range

Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen | First 5 Authors: Manuel Arca Sedda, Christopher P L Berry, Karan Jani, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Pierre Auclair | Summary: Since 2015 the gravitational-wave observations of LIGO and Virgo have transformed our understanding of compact-object binaries. In the years to come, ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as LIGO, Virgo, and their successors will […]


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Hubble Space Telescope UV and H$α$ Measurements of the Accretion Excess Emission from the Young Giant Planet PDS 70 b

Kavli Affiliate: Gregory J. Herczeg | First 5 Authors: Yifan Zhou, Brendan P. Bowler, Kevin R. Wagner, Glenn Schneider, Dániel Apai | Summary: Recent discoveries of young exoplanets within their natal disks offer exciting opportunities to study ongoing planet formation. In particular, a planet’s mass accretion rate can be constrained by observing the accretion-induced excess […]


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