The thermal-radiative wind in the neutron star low mass X-ray binary GX 13+1

Kavli Affiliate: Tadayuki Takahashi | First 5 Authors: Ryota Tomaru, Chris Done, Ken Ohsuga, Hirokazu Odaka, Tadayuki Takahashi | Summary: We fit the observed high ionisation X-ray absorption lines in the neutron star binary GX13+1 with a full simulation of a thermal-radiative wind. This uses a radiation hydrodynamic code coupled to Monte Carlo radiation transfer […]


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Structure of neutron stars in massive scalar-tensor gravity

Kavli Affiliate: Ulrich Sperhake | First 5 Authors: Roxana Rosca-Mead, Christopher J. Moore, Ulrich Sperhake, Michalis Agathos, Davide Gerosa | Summary: We compute families of spherically symmetric neutron-star models in two-derivative scalar-tensor theories of gravity with a massive scalar field. The numerical approach we present allows us to compute the resulting spacetimes out to infinite […]


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Probing Feedback via IGM tomography and Ly$α$ forest with Subaru PFS, TMT/ELT, and JWST

Kavli Affiliate: John Silverman | First 5 Authors: Kentaro Nagamine, Ikkoh Shimizu, Katsumi Fujita, Nao Suzuki, Khee-Gan Lee | Summary: In preparation for the IGM tomography study by Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) survey and other large future telescopes such as TMT/ELT/GMT, we present the results of our pilot study on Ly$alpha$ forest and IGM […]


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Covariance of the redshift-space matter power spectrum after reconstruction

Kavli Affiliate: Chiaki Hikage | First 5 Authors: Chiaki Hikage, Ryuichi Takahashi, Kazuya Koyama, , | Summary: We explore the covariance of redshift-space matter power spectra after a standard density-field reconstruction. We derive perturbative formula of the covariance at the tree-level order and find that the amplitude of the off-diagonal components from the trispectrum decreases […]


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Merging stellar and intermediate-mass black holes in dense clusters: implications for LIGO, LISA and the next generation of gravitational wave detectors

Kavli Affiliate: Xian Chen | First 5 Authors: Manuel Arca-Sedda, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Xian Chen, , | Summary: We study the formation of intermediate-mass ratio inspirals (IMRIs) triggered by the interactions between two stellar black holes (BHs) and an intermediate-mass BH (IMBH) inhabiting the centre of a dense star cluster. We exploit $N$-body models varying the […]


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Nearest Neighbor distributions: new statistical measures for cosmological clustering

Kavli Affiliate: Tom Abel | First 5 Authors: Arka Banerjee, Tom Abel, , , | Summary: The use of summary statistics beyond the two-point correlation function to analyze the non-Gaussian clustering on small scales is an active field of research in cosmology. In this paper, we explore a set of new summary statistics — the […]


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Revisiting AGN as the Source of IceCube’s Diffuse Neutrino Flux

Kavli Affiliate: Abigail Vieregg | First 5 Authors: Daniel Smith, Dan Hooper, Abigail Vieregg, , | Summary: The origin of the astrophysical neutrino flux reported by the IceCube Collaboration remains an open question. In this study, we use three years of publicly available IceCube data to search for evidence of neutrino emission from the blazars […]


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Crystalline symmetry-protected non-trivial topology in prototype compound BaAl$_4$

Kavli Affiliate: Alessandra Lanzara | First 5 Authors: Kefeng Wang, Ryo Mori, Zhijun Wang, Limin Wang, Jonathan Han Son Ma | Summary: The BaAl$_4$ prototype crystal structure is the most populous of all structure types, and is the building block for a diverse set of sub-structures including the famous ThCr$_2$Si$_2$ family that hosts high-temperature superconductivity […]


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An Ising Hamiltonian Solver using Stochastic Phase-Transition Nano- Oscillators

Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | First 5 Authors: Sourav Dutta, Abhishek Khanna, Adou S. Assoa, Hanjong Paik, Darrell Schlom | Summary: Computationally hard problems, including combinatorial optimization, can be mapped into the problem of finding the ground-state of an Ising Hamiltonian. Building physical systems with collective computational ability and distributed parallel processing capability can accelerate […]


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Planetary Systems in a Star Cluster II: intermediate-mass black holes and planetary systems

Kavli Affiliate: Rainer Spurzem | First 5 Authors: Francesco Flammini Dotti, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, Qi Shu, Wei Hao, Rainer Spurzem | Summary: Most stars form in dense stellar environments. It is speculated that some dense star clusters may host intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), which may have formed from runaway collisions between high-mass stars, or […]


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