Kavli Affiliate: Susan Clark | Summary:We present a three-dimensional model of the local interstellar radiation field (ISRF) in the ultraviolet (UV). Using UV flux measurements from the TD1 catalog and stellar distances from Gaia and Hipparcos, we construct a catalog of stars that we expect to dominate the UV flux in the nearby Galaxy. We […]
Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | Summary:Recent JWST observations challenge the traditional ‘cosmic shoreline’ from both sides, revealing thick volatile atmospheres on the hottest close-in ‘lava worlds,’ where irradiation should drive the most extreme escape, and bare rocky surfaces on cooler terrestrial planets around M dwarfs, where atmospheres would be expected to survive. Using a coupled […]
Kavli Affiliate: Steven Allen | Summary:VERITAS 2.3.1 is the next iteration of the VErsatile Readout based on Integrated Trapezoidal Analogue Shapers (VERITAS) integrated circuit (IC) architecture for high-speed, low-noise readout of DEPleted Field Effect Transistor (DEPFET) detectors in the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on ESA’s NewAthena X-ray satellite. Building on VERITAS 2.3, which demonstrated a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | Summary:The upcoming Roman Coronagraph will be the first high-contrast instrument in space capable of high-order wavefront sensing and control technologies, a critical technology demonstration for the proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) that aims to directly image and characterize habitable exoEarths. The nominal Roman Coronagraph observing plan involves alternating observations of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | Summary:AF Lep b is one of the closest analogs to Jupiter in terms of mass ($3-4~M_rmJup$) and semi-major axis ($9$ AU) amenable to spectroscopic characterization. We present JWST/NIRSpec high-contrast spectroscopy of the planet from $2.85-5.3~μ$m at $Rsim3000$, which provide detections of CO$_2$, H$_2$S, CH$_4$, $^12$CO (and $^13$CO), and H$_2$O, as […]
Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | Summary:JWST defines a new era for the data-driven approach of retrieval modelling, which has become a cornerstone tool for the statistical inference of exoplanetary and brown dwarf properties. The Early Release Science program #1386 observations of VHS 1256 b represent a huge jump in data quality, data quantity and spectral […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nicola Omodei | Summary:The discovery of delayed GeV emission from the extragalactic magnetar giant flare (MGF) GRB 200415A, located in the nearby Sculptor galaxy, revealed for the first time that these rare transients can launch relativistic outflows that power high-energy afterglows. Motivated by the recent identification of additional nearby MGF candidates in the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel R. Wilkins | Summary:Nuclear transients are powerful probes of supermassive black hole properties, offering insight into black hole mass, accretion physics, and the structure of galactic nuclei. Among these, a growing class of events cannot be classified as either tidal disruption events (TDEs) or active galactic nuclei (AGN) flares, and their physical […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zeeshan Ahmed | Summary:Electronic health record (EHR) feature engineering is a major bottleneck in clinical research and AI, accounting for 39-45% of data scientists’ workload. This is especially pronounced in heart failure, which affects an estimated 6.7 million U.S. adults and requires integrating fragmented EHR data with disease-specific, guideline-based clinical reasoning. Existing rule-based […]
Kavli Affiliate: Susan Clark | Summary:Native noise processes in quantum processors are often difficult to isolate because multiple error mechanisms contribute to the same measured loss of coherence. Here we use dephasing-robust quantum noise spectroscopy to identify and characterize control noise induced by axial motion in an individually-addressed trapped-ion processor. When the ion motion is […]