Inferring Black Hole Properties from Astronomical Multivariate Time Series with Bayesian Attentive Neural Processes

Kavli Affiliate: Philip J. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Ji Won Park, Ashley Villar, Yin Li, Yan-Fei Jiang, Shirley Ho | Summary: Among the most extreme objects in the Universe, active galactic nuclei (AGN) are luminous centers of galaxies where a black hole feeds on surrounding matter. The variability patterns of the light emitted by […]


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Earth as a transducer for dark-photon dark-matter detection

Kavli Affiliate: Peter W. Graham | First 5 Authors: Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Saarik Kalia, | Summary: We propose the use of the Earth as a transducer for ultralight dark-matter detection. In particular we point out a novel signal of kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter: a monochromatic oscillating magnetic […]


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MP3 White Paper 2021 — Research Opportunities Enabled by Co-locating Multi-Petawatt Lasers with Dense Ultra-Relativistic Electron Beams

Kavli Affiliate: Roger Blandford | First 5 Authors: Sebastian Meuren, David A. Reis, Roger Blandford, Phil H. Bucksbaum, Nathaniel J. Fisch | Summary: Novel emergent phenomena are expected to occur under conditions exceeding the QED critical electric field, where the vacuum becomes unstable to electron-positron pair production. The required intensity to reach this regime, $sim10^{29},mathrm{Wcm^{-2}}$, […]


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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (Legacy Program) — I: The magnetic field in the multi-phase interstellar medium of M51

Kavli Affiliate: Susan E. Clark | First 5 Authors: Alejandro S. Borlaff, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Rainer Beck, Rodion Stepanov, Eva Ntormousi | Summary: The recent availability of high-resolution far-infrared (FIR) polarization observations of galaxies using HAWC+/SOFIA has facilitated studies of extragalactic magnetic fields in the cold and dense molecular disks.We investigate if any significant structural differences […]


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On the Existence of the Plateau Emission in High-Energy Gamma-Ray Burst LightCurves observed byFermi-LAT

Kavli Affiliate: Nicola Omodei | First 5 Authors: Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Nicola Omodei, Gokul . P. Srinivasaragavan, Giacomo Vianello, Richard Willingale | Summary: The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) shows long-lasting high-energy emission in many gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), similar to X-ray afterglows observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift […]


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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Microwave Intensity and Polarization Maps of the Galactic Center

Kavli Affiliate: Susan E. Clark | First 5 Authors: Yilun Guan, Susan E. Clark, Brandon S. Hensley, Patricio A. Gallardo, Sigurd Naess | Summary: We present arcminute-resolution intensity and polarization maps of the Galactic center made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The maps cover a 32 deg$^2$ field at 98, 150, and 224 GHz […]


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On the origin of observed cosmic ray spectrum below 100 TV

Kavli Affiliate: Igor V. Moskalenko | First 5 Authors: Mikhail A. Malkov, Igor V. Moskalenko, , , | Summary: Significant progress in cosmic ray (CR) studies was achieved over the past decade. Particularly important are precise measurements of primary and secondary species in the TV rigidity domain that show a bump in the spectra of […]


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Signatures of Recent Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in the High-Latitude $γ$-Ray Sky

Kavli Affiliate: Troy A. Porter | First 5 Authors: Guðlaugur Jóhannesson, Troy A. Porter, , , | Summary: Cosmic-ray (CR) sources temporarily enhance the relativistic particle density in their vicinity over the background distribution accumulated from the Galaxy-wide past injection activity and propagation. If individual sources are close enough to the solar system, their localised […]


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Signatures of Recent Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in the High-Latitude $γ$-Ray Sky

Kavli Affiliate: Troy A. Porter | First 5 Authors: Guðlaugur Jóhannesson, Troy A. Porter, , , | Summary: Cosmic-ray (CR) sources temporarily enhance the relativistic particle density in their vicinity over the background distribution accumulated from the Galaxy-wide past injection activity and propagation. If individual sources are close enough to the solar system, their localised […]


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Cosmological Evolution of the Formation Rate of Short Gamma-ray Bursts With and Without Extended Emission

Kavli Affiliate: Vahe Petrosian | First 5 Authors: Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Vahe’ Petrosian, Luke Bowden, , | Summary: Originating from neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) or neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) mergers, short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are the first electromagnetic emitters associated with gravitational waves. This association makes the determination of SGRB formation rate (FR) a critical […]


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