Kavli Affiliate: Bruce A. Macintosh | First 5 Authors: Vanessa P. Bailey, Lisa A. Poyneer, Bruce A. Macintosh, Dmitry Savransky, Jason J. Wang | Summary: The Gemini Planet Imager is a high-contrast near-infrared instrument specifically designed to image exoplanets and circumstellar disks over a narrow field of view. We use science data and AO telemetry […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Akerib | First 5 Authors: Jim Alexander, Marco Battaglieri, Bertrand Echenard, Rouven Essig, Matthew Graham | Summary: This report, based on the Dark Sectors workshop at SLAC in April 2016, summarizes the scientific importance of searches for dark sector dark matter and forces at masses beneath the weak-scale, the status of this […]
Kavli Affiliate: Grzegorz M. Madejski | First 5 Authors: Hitomi Collaboration, Felix A. Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, Steven W. Allen | Summary: High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with Hitomi was expected to resolve the origin of the faint unidentified E=3.5 keV emission line reported in several low-resolution studies of various massive systems, such as galaxies and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Stuart L. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Mariko Kimura, Keisuke Isogai, Taichi Kato, Yoshihiro Ueda, Satoshi Nakahira | Summary: How black holes accrete surrounding matter is a fundamental, yet unsolved question in astrophysics. It is generally believed that matter is absorbed into black holes via accretion disks, the state of which depends primarily […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Byer | First 5 Authors: Shailendhar Saraf, Sasha Buchman, Karthik Balakrishnan, Chin Yang Lui, Michael Soulage | Summary: The UV LED mission demonstrates the precise control of the potential of electrically isolated test masses that is essential for the operation of space accelerometers and drag free sensors. Accelerometers and drag free sensors […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Byer | First 5 Authors: Shailendar Saraf, Paul Berceau, Alberto Stochino, Robert Byer, John Lipa | Summary: We report on an ultrastable molecular clock based on the interrogation of the 3{nu} rotational-vibrational combination band at 1563nm of carbon monoxide 12C16O. The laser stabilization scheme is based on frequency modulation (FM) saturation spectroscopy […]
Kavli Affiliate: Philip J. Marshall | First 5 Authors: Rachel Mandelbaum, Barnaby Rowe, Robert Armstrong, Deborah Bard, Emmanuel Bertin | Summary: We present first results from the third GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) challenge, the third in a sequence of challenges for testing methods of inferring weak gravitational lensing shear distortions from simulated galaxy images. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Steven Kahn | First 5 Authors: Andrew Rasmussen, Pierre Antilogus, Pierre Astier, Chuck Claver, Peter Doherty | Summary: Near-future astronomical survey experiments, such as LSST, possess system requirements of unprecedented fidelity that span photometry, astrometry and shape transfer. Some of these requirements flow directly to the array of science imaging sensors at the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Homer Neal | First 5 Authors: Marco Battaglieri, Sergey Boyarinov, Stephen Bueltmann, Volker Burkert, Andrea Celentano | Summary: The Heavy Photon Search (HPS), an experiment to search for a hidden sector photon in fixed target electroproduction, is preparing for installation at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in the Fall of 2014. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Sven C. Herrmann | First 5 Authors: Andreas Koch, Matthew Hart, Tim Nicholls, Christian Angelsen, John Coughlan | Summary: A MHz frame rate X-ray area detector (LPD – Large Pixel Detector) is under development by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for the European XFEL. The detector will have 1 million pixels and allows analogue […]