The dark and featureless surface of rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b from JWST mid-infrared spectroscopy

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 […]


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Itô tracers: continuous-trajectory Lagrangian particles for Eulerian hydrodynamics

Kavli Affiliate: Tom Abel | Summary:Lagrangian tracer particles have long been used to track the history of individual gas parcels in hydrodynamical codes. Particles advected by the cell-centered velocity carry no representation of underlying numerical diffusion, and thus exhibit systematic bias. The Monte-Carlo (MC) tracer resolves this with discrete probabilistic cell-to-cell, flux-based jumps, at the […]


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Itô tracers: continuous-trajectory Lagrangian particles for Eulerian hydrodynamics

Kavli Affiliate: Tom Abel | Summary:Lagrangian tracer particles have long been used to track the history of individual gas parcels in hydrodynamical codes. Particles advected by the cell-centered velocity carry no representation of underlying numerical diffusion, and thus exhibit systematic bias. The Monte-Carlo (MC) tracer resolves this with discrete probabilistic cell-to-cell, flux-based jumps, at the […]


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IXPE Polarizations of the Lighthouse Pulsar, Trail, and Filament

Kavli Affiliate: Roger Romani | Summary:The Lighthouse pulsar (PSR J1101$-$6101) sports a bright X-ray trail and filament. The synchrotron emission from both structures is expected to be polarized, with electric vector position angle (EVPA) perpendicular to the magnetic field direction and polarization degree (PD) indicating the local degree of magnetic turbulence. We present a 1 […]


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IXPE Polarizations of the Lighthouse Pulsar, Trail, and Filament

Kavli Affiliate: Roger Romani | Summary:The Lighthouse pulsar (PSR J1101$-$6101) sports a bright X-ray trail and filament. The synchrotron emission from both structures is expected to be polarized, with electric vector position angle (EVPA) perpendicular to the magnetic field direction and polarization degree (PD) indicating the local degree of magnetic turbulence. We present a 1 […]


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Backlighting the Cosmic Web with Fast Radio Bursts: An Anthology of Dispersion Measure Cross-Correlations with Large-Scale Structure and Baryon Tracers

Kavli Affiliate: W. L. Kimmy Wu | Summary:Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) probe baryons permeating the cosmic web through their dispersion measures (DMs), which encode the integrated electron density along cosmological sightlines. Using 3,455 unique FRB sources from CHIME/FRB with $sim 15$ arcmin localizations, we present an anthology of DM correlations with tracers of large-scale structure […]


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The Effects of Complex Accretion Disk Geometry on Broadened Iron K$α$ Lines

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel R. Wilkins | Summary:X-rays are emitted from the corona above the orbiting matter of the accretion disk and travel either directly to us or illuminate the disk. This illumination of the inner disk is enhanced by gravitational light bending, which focuses the rays towards the black hole and therefore towards the inner […]


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The Effects of Complex Accretion Disk Geometry on Broadened Iron K$α$ Lines

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel R. Wilkins | Summary:X-rays are emitted from the corona above the orbiting matter of the accretion disk and travel either directly to us or illuminate the disk. This illumination of the inner disk is enhanced by gravitational light bending, which focuses the rays towards the black hole and therefore towards the inner […]


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Geometry, Not Calorimetry, Drives the Radio/Infrared/Gamma-Ray Correlation

Kavli Affiliate: Igor Moskalenko | Summary:We investigate whether the observed radio-infrared-$γ$-ray correlation in star-forming galaxies is a geometric effect rather than a signature of local cosmic-ray (CR) calorimetry. Using the GALPROP framework, we generate synthetic observations for external viewers from a grid of 3D Milky Way models with varied CR source, gas, interstellar radiation, and […]


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Geometry, Not Calorimetry, Drives the Radio/Infrared/Gamma-Ray Correlation

Kavli Affiliate: Igor Moskalenko | Summary:We investigate whether the observed radio-infrared-$γ$-ray correlation in star-forming galaxies is a geometric effect rather than a signature of local cosmic-ray (CR) calorimetry. Using the GALPROP framework, we generate synthetic observations for external viewers from a grid of 3D Milky Way models with varied CR source, gas, interstellar radiation, and […]


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