Publications (30)
The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. II. Stage I release of NIRCam imaging and catalogs in the Abell 2744 region
Diego Paris, Emiliano Merlin, Adriano Fontana +27
We present images and a multi-wavelength photometric catalog based on all of the JWST NIRCam observations obtained to date in the region of the Abell 2744 galaxy cluster. These dat…
Unscrambling the lensed galaxies in JWST images behind SMACS0723
Massimo Pascale, Brenda L. Frye, Jose Diego +16
The first deep field images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the galaxy cluster SMACS~J0723.3-7327 reveal a wealth of new lensed images at uncharted infrared wavelengt…
JWST's PEARLS: Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results
Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen, Rolf A. Jansen +82
We give an overview and describe the rationale, methods, and first results from NIRCam images of the JWST "Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science" ("PEARLS"…
HST Grism Observations of a Gravitationally Lensed Redshift 10 Galaxy
Austin Hoag, MaruÅ¡a BradaÄ, Gabriel B. Brammer +11
We present deep spectroscopic observations of a Lyman-break galaxy candidate (hereafter MACS1149-JD) at with the Space Telescope () WFC3/…
Spectrum of density, spin and pairing fluctuations of an attractive two-dimensional Fermi gas
Christian Apostoli, Patrick Kelly, Annette Lopez +4
We leverage random phase approximation and unbiased auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo methods to compute dynamical correlations for a dilute homogeneous two-dimensional attractiv…
Enhancing Organ at Risk Segmentation with Improved Deep Neural Networks
Ilkin Isler, Curtis Lisle, Justin Rineer +4
Organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is a crucial step for treatment planning and outcome determination in radiotherapy treatments of cancer patients. Several deep learning based segme…
2020 Vision: Towards a Sustainable OIR System
Sally Oey, Tom Maccarone, Fred Walter +16
Open-access telescopes of all apertures are needed to operate a competitive and efficient national science program. While larger facilities contribute light-gathering power and ang…
Quantum algorithm for Valiant-Vazirani reduction
Patrick Kelly, Victoria S. Ordonez, Michael R. Geller +1
There is growing interest in extensions of the standard model of gate-based quantum computation to include auxiliary degrees of freedom evolving according to a nonlinear Schröding…
Self-Supervised Learning for Organs At Risk and Tumor Segmentation with Uncertainty Quantification
Ilkin Isler, Debesh Jha, Curtis Lisle +6
In this study, our goal is to show the impact of self-supervised pre-training of transformers for organ at risk (OAR) and tumor segmentation as compared to costly fully-supervised…
JWST's PEARLS: Transients in the MACS J0416.1-2403 Field
Haojing Yan, Zhiyuan Ma, Bangzheng Sun +27
With its unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new window for time-domain discoveries in the infrared. Here we report…
Supernova Siblings and Spectroscopic Host-Galaxy Properties
Laura Salo, Rui Zhou, Samuel Johnson +2
Over the past century, supernova (SN) searches have detected multiple supernovae (SNe) in hundreds of individual galaxies. So-called SN siblings discovered in the same galaxy prese…
PEARLS: 21 Transients Found in the Three-Epoch NIRCam Observations in the Continuous Viewing Zone of the James Webb Space Telescope
Haojing Yan, Bangzheng Sun, Zhiyuan Ma +39
We present 21 transients from our three-epoch, four-band NIRCam observations covering 14.16 arcmin^2 in the Spitzer IRAC Dark Field (IDF), taken by the JWST Prime Extragalactic Are…
JWST's PEARLS: a new lens model for ACT-CL J01024915, "EL Gordo'', and the first red supergiant star at cosmological distances discovered by JWST
Jose M. Diego, Ashish K. Meena, Nathan J. Adams +27
The first JWST data on the massive colliding cluster El Gordo confirm 23 known families of multiply lensed images and identify 8 new members of these families. Based on these famil…
BUFFALO/Flashlights: Constraints on the abundance of lensed supergiant stars in the Spock galaxy at redshift 1
Jose M. Diego, Sung Kei Li, Ashish K. Meena +27
We present a constraint on the abundance of supergiant (SG) stars at redshift z approx. 1, based on recent observations of a strongly lensed arc at this redshift. First we derive a…
Covariance Analysis of Attitude and Angular Rate Estimation using Accelerometers
Koya Yamamoto, Patrick Kelly, Manoranjan Majji +1
In this work a method for using accelerometers for the determination of angular velocity and acceleration is presented. Minimum sensor requirements and insights into how an array o…
Dynamical structure factor of a fermionic supersolid on an optical lattice
Ettore Vitali, Patrick Kelly, Annette Lopez +2
Interfacing unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations with state-of-art analytic continuation techniques, we obtain exact numerical results for dynamical density and spin correlatio…
Fermionic Superfluidity: From Cold Atoms to Neutron Stars
Annette Lopez, Patrick Kelly, Kaelyn Dauer +1
From flow without dissipation of energy to the formation of vortices when placed within a rotating container, the superfluid state of matter has proven to be a very interesting phy…
JWST's PEARLS: Mothra, a new kaiju star at z=2.091 extremely magnified by MACS0416, and implications for dark matter models
J. M. Diego, Bangzheng Sun, Haojing Yan +28
We report the discovery of Mothra, an extremely magnified monster star, likely a binary system of two supergiant stars, in one of the strongly lensed galaxies behind the galaxy clu…
An Empirical reionization history model inferred from the low-redshift Lyman continuum survey and the star-forming galaxies at
Yu-Heng Lin, Claudia Scarlata, Hayley Williams +8
We present a new analysis of the rest-frame UV and optical spectra of a sample of three galaxies discovered behind the gravitational lensing cluster RX\,J2129.4+0009. We comb…
First joint MUSE, HST, and JWST spectro-photometric analysis of the intracluster light: the case of the relaxed cluster RX J2129.7+0005
Yolanda Jiménez-Teja, Antonio Gimenez-Alcazar, Renato A. Dupke +8
We present the most detailed spectrum of the intracluster light (ICL) in an individual cluster to date, the relaxed system RX J2129.7+0005, at . Using 15 broad-band, d…
Sp1149 I: Constraints on the Balmer L-sigma Relation for HII Regions in a Spiral Galaxy at Redshift z=1.49 Strongly Lensed by the MACS J1149 Cluster
Hayley Williams, Patrick Kelly, Wenlei Chen +3
The luminosities and velocity dispersions of the extinction-corrected Balmer emission lines of giant HII regions in nearby galaxies exhibit a tight correlation (~0.35 dex scatter).…
Ultraviolet to Infrared Spectroscopy of the Type Ibn SN 2023tsz Suggests a Lower-mass Progenitor
Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Luc Dessart +42
Type Ibn supernovae are stripped-envelope explosions whose spectra indicate interaction with dense, helium-rich and hydrogen-poor circumstellar material (CSM), making them importan…
Extreme AGN Feedback and Cool Core Destruction in the X-ray Luminous Galaxy Cluster MACS J1931.8-2634
Steven Ehlert, Steve Allen, Anja von der Linden +14
We report on a deep, multiwavelength study of the galaxy cluster MACS J1931.8-2634 using Chandra X-ray, Subaru optical, and VLA 1.4 GHz radio data. This cluster (z=0.352) harbors o…
Sp1149 II: Spectroscopy of HII Regions Near the Critical Curve of MACS J1149 and Cluster Lens Models
Hayley Williams, Patrick Kelly, Wenlei Chen +3
Galaxy-cluster gravitational lenses enable the study of faint galaxies even at large lookback times, and, recently, time-delay constraints on the Hubble constant. There have been f…
JWST Imaging of Earendel, the Extremely Magnified Star at Redshift
Brian Welch, Dan Coe, Erik Zackrisson +60
The gravitationally lensed star WHL0137-LS, nicknamed Earendel, was identified with a photometric redshift based on images taken with the Hubble Space Tele…
A Highly Magnified Star at Redshift 6.2
Brian Welch, Dan Coe, Jose M. Diego +26
Galaxy clusters magnify background objects through strong gravitational lensing. Typical magnifications for lensed galaxies are factors of a few but can also be as high as tens or…
North+Lone Star Supernova Host Survey I: Local Host-Galaxy H Surface Brightness and the Hubble Residuals of Type Ia Supernovae
Ann M. Isaacs, Patrick Kelly, J. Craig Wheeler
We present optical integral-field unit (IFU) spectroscopy acquired with the George and Cynthia Mitchell Spectrograph on the Harlan J. Smith telescope at McDonald Observatory of 94…
Over 500 Days in the Life of the Photosphere of the Type Iax Supernova SN 2014dt
Yssavo Camacho-Neves, Saurabh W. Jha, Barnabas Barna +20
Type Iax supernovae (SN Iax) are the largest known class of peculiar white dwarf supernovae, distinct from normal Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia). The unique properties of SN Iax, espec…
The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: 100 Hubbles for the 2020s
Rachel Akeson, Lee Armus, Etienne Bachelet +103
The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a 2.4m space telescope with a 0.281 deg^2 field of view for near-IR imaging and slitless spectroscopy and a coronagraph designe…
Illuminating a Dark Lens : A Type Ia Supernova Magnified by the Frontier Fields Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744
Steven A. Rodney, Brandon Patel, Daniel Scolnic +27
SN HFF14Tom is a Type Ia Supernova (SN) discovered at z = 1.3457 +- 0.0001 behind the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z = 0.308). In a cosmology-independent analysis, we find that HFF14…