Kavli Affiliate: Tom Melia | First 5 Authors: Yu Watanabe, Shigeki Matsumoto, Christopher M. Karwin, Tom Melia, Michela Negro | Summary: Light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), whose masses are in the sub-GeV scale, have been attracting more attention due to the negative results searching for traditional WIMPs. The light WIMPs are expected to produce […]
Kavli Affiliate: Shigeki Matsumoto | First 5 Authors: Yu Watanabe, Shigeki Matsumoto, Christopher M. Karwin, Tom Melia, Michela Negro | Summary: Light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), whose masses are in the sub-GeV scale, have been attracting more attention due to the negative results searching for traditional WIMPs. The light WIMPs are expected to produce […]
Shubo Li, Ran Li, Kaihao Wang, Zixiang Jia, Xiaoyue Cao | Summary: [[{“value”:”Previous studies, based on precise modeling of a gravitationally lensing image, have identified what may be a extremely compact, dark perturber in the well-known lensing system SDSSJ0946+1006 (the "Jackpot"). Its remarkable compactness challenges the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. In this paper, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Christian Aganze, Vedant Chandra, Risa H. Wechsler, Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov | Summary: The census of stellar streams and dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way provides direct constraints on galaxy formation models and the nature of dark matter. The DESI Milky Way survey (with […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nickolay Y. Gnedin | First 5 Authors: Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Hanjue Zhu, , , | Summary: Recently, several observational detections of damping-wing-like features at the edges of “dark gaps" in the spectra of distant quasars (the “Malloy-Lidz effect") have been reported, rendering strong support for the existence of “neutral islands" in the universe […]
Kavli Affiliate: Pau Amaro Seoane | First 5 Authors: Pau Amaro Seoane, Josep V. Arnau, Màrius Josep Fullana i Alfonso, , | Summary: The gravitational capture of a small compact object by a supermassive black hole is one of the most intriguing sources of gravitational waves to be detected by space-borne observatories. Modeling gravitational waves […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | First 5 Authors: Kazutaka Kimura, Kohei Inayoshi, Kazuyuki Omukai, , | Summary: Direct collapse of pristine gas in early galaxies is a promissing pathway for forming supermassive black holes (BHs) powering active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at the epoch of reionization (EoR). This seeding mechanism requires suppression of molecular hydrogen (H$_2$) […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nickolay Y. Gnedin | First 5 Authors: Nickolay Y. Gnedin, , , , | Summary: I compare the power spectra of the radiation fields from two recent sets of fully-coupled simulations that model cosmic reionization: "Cosmic Reionization On Computers" (CROC) and "Thesan". While both simulations have similar power spectra of the radiation sources, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zhuo Li | First 5 Authors: Qinyuan Zhang, Tian-Qi Huang, Zhuo Li, , | Summary: Cosmogenic neutrinos (CNs) are produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) interacting with cosmic background radiation. We investigated the properties of CN point/extended sources, i.e, the neutrino spectrum, and angular profile as functions of time, by assuming that […]
Kavli Affiliate: Pau Amaro Seoane | First 5 Authors: Rui Xu, Dandan Xu, Lars Andersson, Pau Amaro Seoane, Lijing Shao | Summary: We put into test the idea of replacing dark energy by a vector field against the cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation using the simplest vector-tensor theory, where a massive vector field couples to […]