Astrophysics

Weak gravitational lensing imprints a coherent distortion onto the observed shapes of distant galaxies. At the image level, this gravitational shear is degenerate with the intrinsic shape of galaxies, and the weak lensing signal-to-noise from an...

The death of massive stars in extraordinary explosions known as core collapse supernovae is directly or indirectly responsible for the origin of the lion’s share of the elements in the periodic table. Nearly sixty years of effort have been devoted...