Kavli Affiliate: Eric Charles | First 5 Authors: Tom Shutt, Bahrudin Trbalic, Eric Charles, Niccolo Di Lalla, Oliver Hitchcock | Summary: We present GammaTPC, a transformative 0.1-10 MeV $gamma$-ray instrument concept featuring a tracker using a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) technology with the novel GAMPix high spatial resolution and ultra low power […]
Kavli Affiliate: Noah Kurinsky | First 5 Authors: Samuel V. Hull, Joseph S. Adams, Simon R. Bandler, Matthew Cherry, James A. Chervenak | Summary: Microcalorimeter instruments aboard future X-ray observatories will require an anti-coincidence (anti-co) detector to veto charged particle events and reduce the non-X-ray background. We have developed a large-format, TES-based prototype anti-coincidence detector […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kent Irwin | First 5 Authors: Philippe Peille, Didier Barret, Edoardo Cucchetti, Vincent Albouys, Luigi Piro | Summary: The Athena mission entered a redefinition phase in July 2022, driven by the imperative to reduce the mission cost at completion for the European Space Agency below an acceptable target, while maintaining the flagship nature […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eli S. Rykoff | First 5 Authors: Constantin Payerne, Zhuowen Zhang, Michel Aguena, Céline Combet, Thibault Guillemin | Summary: Cluster scaling relations are key ingredients in cluster abundance-based cosmological studies. In optical cluster cosmology, weak gravitational lensing has proven to be a powerful tool to constrain the cluster mass-richness relation. This work is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Tom Abel | First 5 Authors: Kwanit Gangopadhyay, Arka Banerjee, Tom Abel, , | Summary: The $k$-Nearest Neighbour Cumulative Distribution Functions are measures of clustering for discrete datasets that are fast and efficient to compute. They are significantly more informative than the 2-point correlation function. Their connection to $N$-point correlation functions, void probability […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zeeshan Ahmed | First 5 Authors: Federico Bianchini, Dominic Beck, W. L. Kimmy Wu, Zeeshan Ahmed, Sebastian Belkner | Summary: We compare multiple foreground-cleaning pipelines for estimating the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, using simulated maps of the planned CMB-S4 experiment within the context of the South Pole Deep Patch. To evaluate robustness, we analyze […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zeeshan Ahmed | First 5 Authors: Tanay Bhandarkar, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Jeff Iuliano, Anna Kofman, Alex Manduca | Summary: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that currently consists of three 0.42m small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one 6m large-aperture telescope (LAT), located at an elevation of 5200m […]
Kavli Affiliate: Roger W. Romani | First 5 Authors: Jack T. Dinsmore, Roger W. Romani, , , | Summary: The Guitar nebula surrounding PSR B2224+65 boasts a pulsar X-ray filament likely aligned with the local magnetic field. We present new RoboPol stellar polarization data distributed along the line-of-sight to the pulsar. The polarizing effect of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Steven Allen | First 5 Authors: Chloe Taylor, Daniel Wilkins, Steven Allen, , | Summary: We report the analysis of ~1Ms of XMM-Newton observations of the rapidly accreting active galactic nucleus REJ1034+396. The 0.3-9 keV EPIC-pn spectra are well described by a model consisting of steep continuum emission from the corona accompanied by […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Cameron | First 5 Authors: Tanayveer Singh Bhatia, Mayukh Panja, Robert Cameron, Sami Solanki, | Summary: We compute realistic 3D radiative MHD near-surface models of starspots with substantial penumbrae on cool main-sequence stars using the MURaM simulation code. This work is an improvement on the the previous starspot models in a slab […]