Publications by authors named "M S Loewenstein"

An accretion disk formed around a supermassive black hole after it disrupts a star is expected to be initially misaligned with respect to the equatorial plane of the black hole. This misalignment induces relativistic torques (the Lense-Thirring effect) on the disk, causing the disk to precess at early times, whereas at late times the disk aligns with the black hole and precession terminates. Here we report, using high-cadence X-ray monitoring observations of a tidal disruption event (TDE), the discovery of strong, quasi-periodic X-ray flux and temperature modulations.

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Unlabelled: This paper examines employment patterns by wage group over the course of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States using microdata from two well-known data sources from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: the Current Employment Statistics and the Current Population Survey.

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Hitomi X-ray studies of Giant Radio Pulses from the Crab pulsar.

Publ Astron Soc Jpn Nihon Tenmon Gakkai

April 2018

To search for giant X-ray pulses correlated with the giant radio pulses (GRPs) from the Crab pulsar, we performed a simultaneous observation of the Crab pulsar with the X-ray satellite Hitomi in the 2 - 300 keV band and the Kashima NICT radio observatory in the 1.4 - 1.7 GHz band with a net exposure of about 2 ks on 25 March 2016, just before the loss of the Hitomi mission.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates methods to improve the accuracy of measuring greenhouse gas emissions from specific local sources through airborne observations.
  • Major uncertainties in previous measurements are addressed by changing flight paths, refining covariance and anisotropy modeling, and enhancing interpolation techniques.
  • The new cylindrical flight profile is demonstrated to be advantageous and is applied to quantify methane emissions from an oil field in California, offering a comparison to existing bottom-up estimates.
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