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Tidal phenomena in the Galactic Center: The Curious Case of X7
Several enigmatic dusty sources have been detected in the central parsec of the Galactic Center. Among them is X7, located at only $\sim$0.02 pc from the central super-massive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Recent observations have shown that it is becoming...
Cosmology in Extended Parameter Space with DESI DR2 BAO: A 2$σ$+ Detection of Non-zero Neutrino Masses with an Update on Dynamical Dark Energy and Lensing Anomaly
We obtain constraints in a 12 parameter cosmological model using the recent DESI Data Release (DR) 2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data, combined with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra (Planck Public Release (PR) 4) and lensing (Planck PR4 + Atacama Cosmology...
No evidence for excess AGN activity in recently quenched massive galaxies at cosmic noon
We present an analysis of AGN activity within recently quenched massive galaxies at cosmic noon ($z\sim 2$), using deep Chandra X-ray observations of the Ultra-Deep Survey (UDS) field. Our sample includes over 4000 massive galaxies ($M_\ast > 10^{10.5}$ M$_{\odot}$) in the redshift...
Phase transitions, symmetries, and tunneling in Kerr parametric oscillators
Quantum Kerr parametric oscillators (KPOs) are systems out of equilibrium with a wide range of applications in quantum computing, quantum sensing, and fundamental research. They have been realized in superconducting circuits and photonic platforms. In this work, we explore the onset of...
Joint 21-cm and CMB Forecasts for Constraining Self-Interacting Massive Neutrinos
Self-interacting neutrinos provide an intriguing extension to the Standard Model, motivated by both particle physics and cosmology. Recent cosmological analyses suggest a bimodal posterior for the coupling strength $G_{\rm eff}$, favoring either strong or moderate interactions. These interactions modify the scale-dependence of...
Randomized Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for data-driven reduced order modeling of a two-layer quasi-geostrophic ocean model
The two-layer quasi-geostrophic equations (2QGE) serve as a simplified model for simulating wind-driven, stratified ocean flows. However, their numerical simulation remains computationally expensive due to the need for high-resolution meshes to capture a wide range of turbulent scales. This becomes especially problematic...
Efficiently learning fermionic unitaries with few non-Gaussian gates
Fermionic Gaussian unitaries are known to be efficiently learnable and simulatable. In this paper, we present a learning algorithm that learns an $n$-mode circuit containing $t$ parity-preserving non-Gaussian gates. While circuits with $t = \textrm{poly}(n)$ are unlikely to be efficiently learnable, for...
Dual Laser Self-Injection Locking to a Micro Fabry-Perot for Low Phase Noise Millimeter-wave Generation
Low-noise and accessible millimeter-wave sources are critical for emergent telecommunications, radar and sensing applications. Current limitations to realizing low-noise, deployable millimeter-wave systems include size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements, along with complex operating principles. In this paper we provide a compact photonic...
LongPerceptualThoughts: Distilling System-2 Reasoning for System-1 Perception
Recent reasoning models through test-time scaling have demonstrated that long chain-of-thoughts can unlock substantial performance boosts in hard reasoning tasks such as math and code. However, the benefit of such long thoughts for system-2 reasoning is relatively less explored in other domains...
Logos-Zoe: A contact binary triple system in the trans-neptunian belt
The trans-neptunian object (58534) 1997 CQ$_{29}$ (a.k.a. Logos) is a resolved wide binary in the dynamically Cold Classical population. With Hubble Space Telescope resolved observations where the primary Logos is well separated from its secondary Zoe it can be established that Logos...