Milky Way-est: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Large Magellanic Cloud and Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus Analogs

Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Deveshi Buch, Ethan O. Nadler, Risa H. Wechsler, Yao-Yuan Mao, | Summary: We present Milky Way-est, a suite of 20 cosmological cold-dark-matter-only zoom-in simulations of Milky Way (MW)-like host halos. Milky Way-est hosts are selected such that they: ($i$) are consistent with the MW’s measured halo […]


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Photon Counting Interferometry to Detect Geontropic Space-Time Fluctuations with GQuEST

Kavli Affiliate: Lee McCuller | First 5 Authors: Sander M. Vermeulen, Torrey Cullen, Daniel Grass, Ian A. O. MacMillan, Alexander J. Ramirez | Summary: The GQuEST (Gravity from the Quantum Entanglement of Space-Time) experiment uses tabletop-scale Michelson laser interferometers to probe for fluctuations in space-time. We present an interferometer design featuring a novel photon counting […]


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Geometric deformation and redshift structure caused by plane gravitational waves

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Ke Wang, Chao-Jun Feng, , , | Summary: The curved spacetime induced by gravitational waves can give rise to visual effects such as geometric distortions and redshift structures in the observed image. By establishing a mapping from the object’s surface coordinates to the observer’s screen coordinates, we […]


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Gate-tunable phase transition in a bosonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain

Kavli Affiliate: Eliska Greplova | First 5 Authors: Lukas Johannes Splitthoff, Miguel Carrera Belo, Guliuxin Jin, Yu Li, Eliska Greplova | Summary: Metamaterials engineered to host topological states of matter in controllable quantum systems hold promise for the advancement of quantum simulations and quantum computing technologies. In this context, the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model has gained […]


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Monitoring AGNs with H$β$ Asymmetry. IV. First Reverberation Mapping Results of 14 AGNs

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: T. E. Zastrocky, Michael S. Brotherton, Pu Du, Jacob N. McLane, Kianna A. Olson | Summary: We report first-time reverberation mapping results for 14 AGNs from the ongoing Monitoring AGNs with H$beta$ Asymmetry campaign (MAHA). These results utilize optical spectra obtained with the Long Slit Spectrograph […]


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Ultra-high density electrodes improve detection, yield, and cell type identification in neuronal recordings

Kavli Affiliate: Xiaoqin Wang | Authors: Liam Paninski and Nathaniel Sawtell | Summary: To understand the neural basis of behavior, it is essential to sensitively and accurately measure neural activity at single neuron and single spike resolution. Extracellular electrophysiology delivers this, but it has biases in the neurons it detects and it imperfectly resolves their […]


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Tonotopic organization of auditory cortex in awake marmosets revealed by multi-modal wide-field optical imaging

Kavli Affiliate: Xiaoqin Wang | Authors: Xindong Song, Yueqi Guo, Chenggang Chen, Jong Hoon Lee and Xiaoqin Wang | Summary: Tonotopic organization of the auditory cortex has been extensively studied in many mammalian species using various methodologies and physiological preparations. Tonotopy mapping in primates, however, is more limited due to constraints such as cortical folding, […]


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Chronic hyperactivation of midbrain dopamine neurons causes preferential dopamine neuron degeneration

Kavli Affiliate: Jin Kang | Authors: Alexandra Nelson and Anatol Kreitzer | Summary: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the death of substantia nigra (SNc) dopamine (DA) neurons, but the pathophysiological mechanisms that precede and drive their death remain unknown. The activity of DA neurons is likely altered in PD, but we understand little about […]


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Searching for Cosmological Collider in the Planck CMB Data

Kavli Affiliate: E. P. S. Shellard | First 5 Authors: Wuhyun Sohn, Dong-Gang Wang, James R. Fergusson, E. P. S. Shellard, | Summary: In this paper, we present the first comprehensive CMB data analysis of cosmological collider physics. New heavy particles during inflation can leave imprints in the primordial correlators which are observable in today’s […]


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Data-driven quasiconformal morphodynamic flows

Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Salem Mosleh, Gary P. T. Choi, L. Mahadevan, , | Summary: Temporal imaging of biological epithelial structures yields shape data at discrete time points, leading to a natural question: how can we reconstruct the most likely path of growth patterns consistent with these discrete observations? We present […]


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