Minimal Warm Inflation

Kavli Affiliate: Peter W. Graham | First 5 Authors: Kim V. Berghaus, Peter W. Graham, David E. Kaplan, , | Summary: Slow-roll inflation is a successful paradigm. However we find that even a small coupling of the inflaton to other light fields can dramatically alter the dynamics and predictions of inflation. As an example, the […]


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Investigating the Complex Velocity Structures within Dense Molecular Cloud Cores with GBT-Argus

Kavli Affiliate: Sarah Church | First 5 Authors: Che-Yu Chen, Shaye Storm, Zhi-Yun Li, Lee G. Mundy, David Frayer | Summary: We present the first results of high-spectral resolution (0.023 km/s) N$_2$H$^+$ observations of dense gas dynamics at core scales (~0.01 pc) using the recently commissioned Argus instrument on the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). While […]


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MFB: A Mid-Frequency-Band Space Gravitational Wave Observer for the 2020 Decade

Kavli Affiliate: Peter F. Michelson | First 5 Authors: Peter F. Michelson, Robert L. Byer, Sasha Buchman, Ilya Mandel, John Lipa | Summary: We make the case for the early development of a Mid-Frequency-Band (MFB) gravitational wave (GW) observatory in geosynchronous orbit (73,000 km arm), optimized for the frequency band 10 mHz to 1 Hz. […]


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CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper

Kavli Affiliate: Hsiao-Mei (Sherry) Cho | First 5 Authors: Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead, Zeeshan Ahmed, Steven W. Allen | Summary: We provide an overview of the science case, instrument configuration and project plan for the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4, for consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey. | Search Query: ArXiv […]


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CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper

Kavli Affiliate: Hsiao-Mei (Sherry) Cho | First 5 Authors: Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead, Zeeshan Ahmed, Steven W. Allen | Summary: We provide an overview of the science case, instrument configuration and project plan for the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4, for consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey. | Search Query: ArXiv […]


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CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper

Kavli Affiliate: Hsiao-Mei (Sherry) Cho | First 5 Authors: Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead, Zeeshan Ahmed, Steven W. Allen | Summary: We provide an overview of the science case, instrument configuration and project plan for the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4, for consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey. | Search Query: ArXiv […]


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Better support for collaborations preparing for large-scale projects: the case study of the LSST Science Collaborations Astro2020 APC White Paper

Kavli Affiliate: Patricia Burchat | First 5 Authors: Federica B. Bianco, Manda Banerji, John Bochanski, William N. Brandt, Patricia Burchat | Summary: Through the lens of the LSST Science Collaborations’ experience, this paper advocates for new and improved ways to fund large, complex collaborations at the interface of data science and astrophysics as they work […]


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All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory: Exploring the Extreme Multimessenger Universe

Kavli Affiliate: Igor Moskalenko | First 5 Authors: Julie McEnery, Juan Abel Barrio, Ivan Agudo, Marco Ajello, José-Manuel Álvarez | Summary: The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a probe class mission concept that will provide essential contributions to multimessenger astrophysics in the late 2020s and beyond. AMEGO combines high sensitivity in the 200 […]


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The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

Kavli Affiliate: Ethan D. Karpel | First 5 Authors: The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi, Peter Ade, James Aguirre | Summary: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough discoveries in fundamental physics, […]


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Shear measurement bias due to spatially varying spectral energy distributions in galaxies

Kavli Affiliate: Patricia R. Burchat | First 5 Authors: Sowmya Kamath, Joshua E. Meyers, Patricia R. Burchat, , | Summary: Galaxy color gradients – i.e., spectral energy distributions that vary across the galaxy profile – will impact galaxy shape measurements when the modeled point spread function (PSF) corresponds to that for a galaxy with spatially […]


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