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General Relativity and Cosmology: Unsolved Questions and Future Directions by Debono, Ivan, Smoot, George

“…For the last 100 years, General Relativity (GR) has taken over the gravitational theory mantle held by Newtonian Gravity for the previous 200 years. This…”
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Inferring the lensing rate of LIGO–Virgo sources from the stochastic gravitational wave background by Mukherjee, Suvodip, Broadhurst, Tom, Diego, Jose M, Silk, Joseph, Smoot, George F

“…ABSTRACT Strong lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) is more likely for distant sources but predicted event rates are highly uncertain with many astrophysical…”
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Impact of astrophysical binary coalescence time-scales on the rate of lensed gravitational wave events by Mukherjee, Suvodip, Broadhurst, Tom, Diego, Jose M, Silk, Joseph, Smoot, George F

“…ABSTRACT The expected event rate of lensed gravitational wave sources scales with the merger rate at redshift z ≥ 1, where the optical depth for lensing is…”
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Joining Bits and Pieces of Reionization History by Hazra, Dhiraj Kumar, Paoletti, Daniela, Finelli, Fabio, Smoot, George F.

“…Cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies from Planck have estimated a lower value of the optical depth to reionization (τ)…”
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Einstein rings modulated by wavelike dark matter from anomalies in gravitationally lensed images by Amruth, Alfred, Broadhurst, Tom, Lim, Jeremy, Oguri, Masamune, Smoot, George F., Diego, Jose M., Leung, Enoch, Emami, Razieh, Li, Juno, Chiueh, Tzihong, Schive, Hsi-Yu, Yeung, Michael C. H., Li, Sung Kei

“…Unveiling the true nature of dark matter, which manifests itself only through gravity, is one of the principal quests in physics. Leading candidates for dark…”
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Interstellar photovoltaics by Schopp, Nora, Abdikamalov, Ernazar, Mostovyi, Andrii I., Parkhomenko, Hryhorii P., Solovan, Mykhailo M., Asare, Ernest A., Bazan, Guillermo C., Nguyen, Thuc-Quyen, Smoot, George F., Brus, Viktor V.

“…The term 'Solar Cell’ is commonly used for Photovoltaics that convert light into electrical energy. However, light can be harvested from various sources not…”
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The Unsettled Number: Hubble’s Tension by Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L., Galindo-Uribarri, Salvador, Smoot, George F.

“…One of main sources of uncertainty in modern cosmology is the present rate of the universe’s expansion, H0, called the Hubble constant. Once again, different…”
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A Brief History of Gravitational Waves by Cervantes-Cota, Jorge, Galindo-Uribarri, Salvador, Smoot, George

“…This review describes the discovery of gravitational waves. We recount the journey of predicting and finding those waves, since its beginning in the early…”
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The Legacy of Einstein’s Eclipse, Gravitational Lensing by Cervantes-Cota, Jorge, Galindo-Uribarri, Salvador, Smoot, George

“…A hundred years ago, two British expeditions measured the deflection of starlight by the Sun’s gravitational field, confirming the prediction made by…”
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Evolution of the afterglow optical spectral shape of GRB 201015A in the first hour: evidence for dust destruction by Komesh, Toktarkhan, Grossan, Bruce, Maksut, Zhanat, Abdikamalov, Ernazar, Krugov, Maxim, Smoot, George F

“…ABSTRACT Instruments, such as the ROTSE, TORTORA, Pi of the Sky, MASTER-net, and others have recorded single-band optical flux measurements of gamma-ray bursts…”
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Probing features in the primordial perturbation spectrum with large-scale structure data by L'Huillier, Benjamin, Shafieloo, Arman, Hazra, Dhiraj Kumar, Smoot, George F, Starobinsky, Alexei A

“…Abstract The form of the primordial power spectrum (PPS) of cosmological scalar (matter density) perturbations is not yet constrained satisfactorily in spite…”
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Inflation with whip-shaped suppressed scalar power spectra by Hazra, Dhiraj Kumar, Shafieloo, Arman, Smoot, George F, Starobinsky, Alexei A

“…Motivated by the idea that inflation occurs at the grand unified theory symmetry breaking scale, in this Letter we construct a new class of large field…”
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Wave dark matter and ultra-diffuse galaxies by Pozo, Alvaro, Broadhurst, Tom, de Martino, Ivan, Luu, Hoang Nhan, Smoot, George F, Lim, Jeremy, Neyrinck, Mark

“…ABSTRACT Dark matter (DM) as a Bose–Einstein condensate, such as the axionic scalar field particles of String Theory, can explain the coldness of DM on large…”
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Entropic accelerating universe by Easson, Damien A., Frampton, Paul H., Smoot, George F.

“…To accommodate the observed accelerated expansion of the universe, one popular idea is to invoke a driving term in the Friedmann–Lemaître equation of dark…”
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Constraints on features in the inflationary potential from future Euclid data by Debono, Ivan, Hazra, Dhiraj Kumar, Shafieloo, Arman, Smoot, George F, Starobinsky, Alexei A

“…ABSTRACT With Planck cosmic microwave background observations, we established the spectral amplitude and tilt of the primordial power spectrum. Evidence of a…”
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Some implications of inverse-Compton scattering of hot cocoon radiation by relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts by Kumar, Pawan, Smoot, George F.

“…Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) relativistic jets are surrounded by hot cocoons which confine jets during their punch out from the progenitor star. These cocoons…”
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Probing massive stars around gamma-ray burst progenitors by Lu, Wenbin, Kumar, Pawan, Smoot, George F.

“…Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by ultra-relativistic jets launched from core collapse of massive stars. Most massive stars form in binaries and/or…”
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A SiPM photon-counting readout system for Ultra-Fast Astronomy by Lau, Albert Wai Kit, Chan, Yan Yan, Shafiee, Mehdi, Smoot, George F., Grossan, Bruce

“…Very little work has been done searching for astrophysical transient optical emission in the millisecond to nanosecond regime with significant sensitivity. We…”
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Initial On-Sky Performance Testing of the Single-Photon Imager for Nanosecond Astrophysics (SPINA) System by Lau, Albert Wai Kit, Shaimoldin, Nurzhan, Maksut, Zhanat, Chan, Yan Yan, Shafiee, Mehdi, Grossan, Bruce, Smoot, George F.

“…This work presents an initial on-sky performance measurement of the Single-Photon Imager for Nanosecond Astrophysics (SPINA) system, part of our Ultra-Fast…”
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Uphold the nuclear weapons test moratorium by King, Jonathan, Chalfie, Martin, Chomsky, Noam, Cirincione, Joseph, Decatur, Sean, Franklin, Melissa, Gerson, Joseph, Goldenberg, David P., Goldstein, Gary, Hartung, William, Helfand, Ira, Holz, Daniel, Kahn, Peter C., Krimsky, Sheldon, Loechler, Edward, Moghadam, Val, Newman, Stuart A., Ozonoff, David, Parthasarathi, Prasannan, Phillips, William, Politzer, H. David, Redwine, Robert P., Roberts, Richard J., Robock, Alan, Royer, Catherine Ann, Scarlata, Suzanne, Scarry, Elaine, Smoot, George F., Socolow, Robert, Solomon, Susan, Strominger, Andrew, Sundberg, Eric J., Sur, Mriganka, Tegmark, Max, Tierney, John F., van der Ziel, Cornelia, VanElzakker, Michael, von Hippel, Frank N., Wittner, Lawrence, Wortis, Henry H.

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