Kavli Affiliate: Nicola Omodei | First 5 Authors: Krista Lynne Smith, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Michael Fausnaugh, Tansu Daylan, Nicola Omodei | Summary: The TESS exoplanet-hunting mission detected the rising and decaying optical afterglow of GRB 191016A, a long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detected by Swift-BAT but without prompt XRT or UVOT follow-up due to proximity to the […]

Kavli Affiliate: R. Morris | First 5 Authors: Cuc K. Dinh, Jesus M. Salas, Mark R. Morris, Smadar Naoz, | Summary: A Circumnuclear Disk (CND) of molecular gas occupies the central few parsecs of the Galactic Center. It is likely subject to turbulent disruptions from violent events in its surrounding environment, but the effect of […]

Kavli Affiliate: C. M. Ignarra | First 5 Authors: D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum, H. M. Araújo, X. Bai, J. Balajthy | Summary: We report here the results of an Effective Field Theory (EFT) WIMP search analysis using LUX data. We build upon previous LUX analyses by extending the search window to include nuclear recoil […]

Kavli Affiliate: Giorgio Gratta | First 5 Authors: Charles P. Blakemore, Alexander Fieguth, Akio Kawasaki, Nadav Priel, Denzal Martin | Summary: We report on a search for non-Newtonian forces that couple to mass, with a characteristic scale of ${sim}10~mu$m, using an optically levitated microsphere as a precision force sensor. A silica microsphere trapped in an […]

Kavli Affiliate: W. L. Kimmy Wu | First 5 Authors: Silvia Galli, W. L. Kimmy Wu, Karim Benabed, François Bouchet, Thomas M. Crawford | Summary: Accurate cosmological parameter estimates using polarization data of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) put stringent requirements on map calibration, as highlighted in the recent results from the Planck satellite. In […]

Kavli Affiliate: Peter Graham | First 5 Authors: Pete Barry, Karl Berggren, A. Baha Balantekin, John Bollinger, Ray Bunker | Summary: A subset of QuantISED Sensor PIs met virtually on May 26, 2020 to discuss a response to a charge by the DOE Office of High Energy Physics. In this document, we summarize the QuantISED […]

Kavli Affiliate: Tom Abel | First 5 Authors: Arka Banerjee, Tom Abel, , , | Summary: Cross-correlations between datasets are used in many different contexts in cosmological analyses. Recently, $k$-Nearest Neighbor Cumulative Distribution Functions ($k{rm NN}$-${rm CDF}$) were shown to be sensitive probes of cosmological (auto) clustering. In this paper, we extend the framework of […]

Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Nickolas Kokron, Joseph DeRose, Shi-Fan Chen, Martin White, Risa H. Wechsler | Summary: We implement a model for the two-point statistics of biased tracers that combines dark matter dynamics from $N$-body simulations with an analytic Lagrangian bias expansion. Using Aemulus, a suite of $N$-body simulations built […]

Kavli Affiliate: Sven C. Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Adam Coogan, Alexander Moiseev, Logan Morrison, Stefano Profumo, Matthew G. Baring | Summary: We outline the science opportunities in the areas of searches for dark matter and new physics offered by a proposed future MeV gamma-ray telescope, the Galactic Explorer with a Coded Aperture Mask Compton […]