MUSSES2020J: The Earliest Discovery of a Fast Blue Ultra-luminous Transient at Redshift 1.063

Kavli Affiliate: Naoki Yasuda | First 5 Authors: Ji-an Jiang, Naoki Yasuda, Keiichi Maeda, Nozomu Tominaga, Mamoru Doi | Summary: In this letter we report a discovery of an ultra-luminous fast evolving transient in rest-frame UV wavelengths, MUSSES2020J, soon after its occurrence by using the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted on the 8.2m Subaru telescope. The […]


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MUSSES2020J: The Earliest Discovery of a Fast Blue Ultraluminous Transient at Redshift 1.063

Kavli Affiliate: Naoki Yasuda | First 5 Authors: Ji-an Jiang, Naoki Yasuda, Keiichi Maeda, Nozomu Tominaga, Mamoru Doi | Summary: In this Letter, we report the discovery of an ultraluminous fast-evolving transient in rest-frame UV wavelengths, MUSSES2020J, soon after its occurrence by using the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted on the 8.2 m Subaru telescope. The […]


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Study of Time Evolution of Thermal and Non-Thermal Emission from an M-Class Solar Flare

Kavli Affiliate: Tadayuki Takahashi | First 5 Authors: Shunsaku Nagasawa, Tomoko Kawate, Noriyuki Narukage, Tadayuki Takahashi, Amir Caspi | Summary: We conduct a wide-band X-ray spectral analysis in the energy range of 1.5-100 keV to study the time evolution of the M7.6 class flare of 2016 July 23, with the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) […]


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Improved Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence from the WMAP and Planck Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Data

Kavli Affiliate: Eiichiro Komatsu | First 5 Authors: Johannes R. Eskilt, Eiichiro Komatsu, , , | Summary: The observed pattern of linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons is a sensitive probe of physics violating parity symmetry under inversion of spatial coordinates. A new parity-violating interaction might have rotated the plane of linear […]


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Improved Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence from the WMAP and Planck Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Data

Kavli Affiliate: Eiichiro Komatsu | First 5 Authors: Johannes R. Eskilt, Eiichiro Komatsu, , , | Summary: The observed pattern of linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons is a sensitive probe of physics violating parity symmetry under inversion of spatial coordinates. A new parity-violating interaction might have rotated the plane of linear […]


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On odd number of fermion zero modes on solitons in quantum field theory and string/M theory

Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | First 5 Authors: Yotaro Sato, Yuji Tachikawa, Taizan Watari, , | Summary: We argue that having an odd number of Majorana fermion zero modes on a dynamical point-like soliton signifies an inconsistency in a theory with 3+1 and higher dimensions. We check this statement in a couple of examples in […]


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High-precision temperature monitoring system for room-temperature equipment in astrophysical observations

Kavli Affiliate: Nobuhiko Katayama | First 5 Authors: Daiki Tanabe, Masaya Hasegawa, Masashi Hazumi, Nobuhiko Katayama, Shuhei Kikuchi | Summary: We present a precise thermometry system to monitor room-temperature components of a telescope for radio-astronomy such as cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation. The system realizes precision of 1 mK${rm sqrt{s}}$ on a timescale of 20 […]


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High-precision temperature monitoring system for room-temperature equipment in astrophysical observations

Kavli Affiliate: Nobuhiko Katayama | First 5 Authors: Daiki Tanabe, Masaya Hasegawa, Masashi Hazumi, Nobuhiko Katayama, Shuhei Kikuchi | Summary: We present a precise thermometry system to monitor room-temperature components of a telescope for radio-astronomy such as cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation. The system realizes precision of 1 mK${rm sqrt{s}}$ on a timescale of 20 […]


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Plasmon-molecule remote coupling via column-structured silica layer for enhancing biophotonic analysis

Kavli Affiliate: Masahiro Kawasaki | First 5 Authors: Takeo Minamikawa, Reiko Sakaguchi, Yoshinori Harada, Hideharu Hase, Yasuo Mori | Summary: We demonstrated remote plasmonic enhancement (RPE) by a dense random array of Ag nanoislands (AgNIs) that were partially gold-alloyed and attached with column-structured silica (CSS) overlayer of more than 100 nm in thickness. The physical […]


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Separate universe approach to evaluate nonlinear matter power spectrum for non-flat $Λ$CDM model

Kavli Affiliate: Masahiro Takada | First 5 Authors: Ryo Terasawa, Ryuichi Takahashi, Takahiro Nishimichi, Masahiro Takada, | Summary: The spatial curvature ($Omega_K$) of the Universe is one of the most fundamental quantities that could give a link to the early universe physics. In this paper we develop an approximate method to compute the nonlinear matter […]


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