Kavli Affiliate: Brian Lantz | First 5 Authors: Tomislav Andric, Tomislav Andric, , , | Summary: GEMINI is an underground research and development facility dedicated to advancing seismic isolation and control technologies for future gravitational-wave observatories, including the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna (LGWA). This paper presents the technical design and theoretical […]

Kavli Affiliate: Roger W. Romani | First 5 Authors: Michael Zhang, Michael Zhang, , , | Summary: A handful of enigmatic Jupiter-mass objects have been discovered orbiting pulsars. One such object, PSR J2322-2650b, uniquely resembles a hot Jupiter exoplanet due to its minimum density of 1.8 g/cm^3 and its ~1900 K equilibrium temperature. We use […]

Kavli Affiliate: Susan E. Clark | First 5 Authors: Diego Maglione, Diego Maglione, , , | Summary: Magnetic fields are a fundamental part of the interstellar medium (ISM) and remain a challenge for building a comprehensive understanding of galactic properties. Their study requires far-infrared polarimetric observations, which provide an unrivaled probe of the dynamics, magnetization, […]

Kavli Affiliate: Peter W. Graham | First 5 Authors: Peter W. Graham, Peter W. Graham, , , | Summary: Recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) show some tension with a $Lambda$CDM cosmology. For one, the cosmological parameters determined by the CMB are at odds with the expansion history […]

Kavli Affiliate: D. B. Macfarlane | First 5 Authors: M. F. Albakry, M. F. Albakry, , , | Summary: SuperCDMS SNOLAB uses kilogram-scale germanium and silicon detectors to search for dark matter. Each detector has Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) patterned on the top and bottom faces of a large crystal substrate, with the TESs electrically […]

Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | First 5 Authors: Aditya R. Sengupta, Aditya R. Sengupta, , , | Summary: Photonic lanterns (PLs) are fiber-based waveguides that are capable of focal-plane wavefront sensing while simultaneously directing light to downstream science instruments. The optimal choice of wavefront reconstruction algorithm has yet to be determined, and likely depends on […]

Kavli Affiliate: Susan E. Clark | First 5 Authors: Marta Nowotka, Marta Nowotka, , , | Summary: We present a joint analysis of HI absorption Zeeman measurements and the morphology of filamentary HI emission to investigate the three-dimensional structure of the magnetic field in the diffuse neutral interstellar medium (ISM). Our analysis is based on […]

Kavli Affiliate: Sven Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Hugo Camacho, Hugo Camacho, , , | Summary: LuSEE-Night is a pathfinder radio telescope on the lunar far side employing four 3-m monopole antennas arranged as two horizontal cross pseudo-dipoles on a rotational stage and sensitive to the radio sky in the 1-50 MHz frequency band. LuSEE-Night […]

Kavli Affiliate: Peter Orel | First 5 Authors: Abigail Y. Pan, Abigail Y. Pan, , , | Summary: The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is one of two candidate mission concepts selected for Phase-A study for the new NASA Astrophysics Probe Explorer (APEX) mission class, with a planned launch in 2032. The X-ray camera for […]

Kavli Affiliate: R. Glenn Morris | First 5 Authors: Catherine E. Grant, Catherine E. Grant, , , | Summary: The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), an astrophysics NASA probe mission currently in phase A, will provide high-throughput, high-spatial resolution X-ray imaging in the 0.3 to 10 keV band. We report on the notional ground calibration […]