Kavli Affiliate: Peter Graham | Summary:Paleodetectors have been proposed as a new approach to direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), through the search for damage tracks in ancient minerals induced by WIMP-nucleon scattering. However, for inelastic dark matter such as the Higgsino, existing paleodetector targets lack sufficiently heavy nuclei to overcome the kinematic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Steven Kahn | Summary:Rare $α$-particle-induced charge clusters appear in LSST images as compact, PSF-like sources with a median FWHM of $0.!!^primeprime95$ and median ellipticity consistent with zero, closely resembling unresolved astrophysical point sources. These events are detected in both dark and science exposures at a rate of approximately $10^-12 mathrmpixel^-1 mathrms^-1$. Their collected […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Cameron | Summary:Spicules are ubiquitous, small-scale features in the solar atmosphere, exhibiting a jet-like appearance most clearly identified by their apparent motion in off-limb observations. While they are often interpreted as narrow, thread-like structures, their true three-dimensional (3D) structure remains unknown. We aim to uncover the 3D morphology and dynamics of fast-evolving […]
Kavli Affiliate: Tom Abel | Summary:We introduce a halo solving and tracking procedure that intrinsically treats dark matter halos as non-spherical objects by leveraging the bound particle searching techniques used in Haskap Pie. The AGORA Collaboration’s hydrodynamic simulation CosmoRun}project provides a useful laboratory to explore trends in dark matter halo morphology that are revealed by […]
Kavli Affiliate: Adam Mantz | Summary:Galaxy cluster abundance provides a powerful probe of the $Λ$CDM model and enables precise constraints on cosmological parameters. Millimeter-wavelength surveys detect clusters through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect, and are particularly effective at high redshifts. However, the SZ signal can be significantly contaminated by emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), particularly […]
Kavli Affiliate: Risa Wechsler | Summary:We generalize lower limits on the dark matter (DM) particle mass $m$ derived from Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxy abundances to scenarios in which DM is an ultralight scalar field produced with a field power spectrum peaked at a subhorizon wavenumber $k_*$. In these models, the DM field free-streams similar […]
Kavli Affiliate: Peter Graham | Summary:Atom interferometers represent a promising approach for gravitational wave detection in the decihertz frequency band, complementary to existing light-based detectors. The South Pole offers unique advantages for such experiments: exceptionally low seismic noise, established infrastructure for large scientific projects, and a location that strengthens gravitational wave source localization through global […]
Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | Summary:With recent advances in exoplanet observational techniques enabling the discovery of increasingly smaller planets, a crucial question emerges in the search for habitable planets: how small can a planet be and still maintain an atmosphere? We present results from the Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM) which examines how small […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Cameron | Summary:Solar prominences are cool and dense plasma structures floating in the hot solar corona. They are ubiquitous features in the solar atmosphere, but their formation mechanism is still unclear. Here we perform comprehensive fully three-dimensional numerical simulations of prominence formation including the physics necessary to describe all atmospheric layers of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | Summary:JWST has opened a new era in the study of rocky exoplanets, enabling direct characterization of their surfaces with mid-infrared spectroscopy. Different types of rock have distinct spectral features that are diagnostic of the chemical composition and other physical properties like surface texture. Measurements of these features can provide valuable […]