Low Energy Phonon Bursts Created By Fast Neutron Damage

Kavli Affiliate: Roger Romani | Summary:Solid state athermal phonon calorimeters used in the search for low mass dark matter or coherent neutrino-nucleus interactions have long observed a large excess of events below several hundred eV. The relaxation of damage created by the interaction of fast cosmic ray neutrons with the detector has been proposed as […]


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Far-infrared Polarization Properties of Nearby Star-forming Regions: A New Compendium of SOFIA/HAWC+ Observations

Kavli Affiliate: Susan Clark | Summary:We present a comprehensive polarimetric study of 26 nearby molecular clouds in four far-infrared bands (53 $μ$m to 214 $μ$m) using 52 archival SOFIA/HAWC+ datasets. Far-infrared dust polarization observations probe the plane-of-sky magnetic field. To investigate scale-dependent trends, we group the molecular clouds by distance and analyze the data at […]


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BICEP/Keck XXI: Constraints on Early-Universe Parity Violation from Multipole-Dependent Birefringence

Kavli Affiliate: Kent Irwin | Summary:We present the first constraints on multipole-dependent cosmic birefringence using CMB polarization data from the BK18 dataset, which combines observations from BICEP2, Keck Array, and BICEP3 at frequencies of 95, 150, and 220 GHz. Photon coupling to an axion-like field leads to the rotation of CMB polarization, inducing non-zero EB […]


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BICEP/Keck XXI: Constraints on Early-Universe Parity Violation from Multipole-Dependent Birefringence

Kavli Affiliate: Kent Irwin | Summary:We present the first constraints on multipole-dependent cosmic birefringence using CMB polarization data from the BK18 dataset, which combines observations from BICEP2, Keck Array, and BICEP3 at frequencies of 95, 150, and 220 GHz. Photon coupling to an axion-like field leads to the rotation of CMB polarization, inducing non-zero EB […]


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Exploring gas thermodynamics around galaxies from the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effects: impact of galaxy-halo connection, 2D projection and velocity field

Kavli Affiliate: Risa Wechsler | Summary:A complete picture of the gas thermodynamics around galaxies is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Indeed, the thermal, kinematic, and relativistic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ, rSZ) measure the gas density, temperature, pressure of baryonic feedback and bulk velocity around galaxies, along with the gravitational potential it sits in. […]


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A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman

Kavli Affiliate: Susan Clark | Summary:A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to come. In this white paper, we present a concrete and feasible path to imaging the entire sky at $sim0.1”$ resolution, beginning with high-impact fields in Cycle […]


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Low-Energy Radon Backgrounds from Electrode Grids in Dual-Phase Xenon TPCs

Kavli Affiliate: C. M. Ignarra | Summary:The dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) is a powerful technology to detect rare interactions such as scatters of dark matter particles on nuclei. In particular, the built-in gain of ionization signals in a dual-phase TPC makes it sensitive to events in the few-electron regime, as expected from low-mass […]


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Chandra Proper Motions and Milliarcsecond Astrometry of Nineteen Pulsars

Kavli Affiliate: Roger Romani | Summary:We present X-ray proper motion (PM) measurements of 19 pulsars using new and archival data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, including pulsar wind trails and X-ray filaments. Precise X-ray PMs are often limited by uncertainties in aligning observations to a common reference frame. Our analysis uses unresolved X-ray flux from […]


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SPT-CL J0417-4748: A Deep Chandra Study of a Relaxed Galaxy Cluster Without Central Star Formation

Kavli Affiliate: Steven Allen | Summary:We present an in-depth Chandra X-ray analysis of the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J0417$-$4748 (hereafter SPT J0417), at z = 0.58, with a focus on its thermodynamic properties and the apparent absence of central star formation. Utilizing a total Chandra exposure of 103 ks, we find that the large-scale X-ray morphology […]


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Preserve-Then-Quantize: Balancing Rank Budgets for Quantization Error Reconstruction in LLMs

Kavli Affiliate: Hsiao-Mei (Sherry) Cho| First 5 Authors: [#item_custom_name[1, [#item_custom_name[2, [#item_custom_name[3, [#item_custom_name[4, [#item_custom_name[5| Summary:Quantization Error Reconstruction (QER) reduces accuracy loss in Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) by approximating weights as $mathbfW approx mathbfQ + mathbfLmathbfR$, using a rank-$r$ correction to reconstruct quantization error. Prior methods devote the full rank budget to error reconstruction, which is suboptimal when […]


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