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Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Mind the second gap: The impact of gaps on noise and signal parameter inference ↗
Gravitational-wave data is never analysed without some conditioning: filtering and tapering act multiplicatively on the noise, destroying the stationarity on which the Whittle likelihood --- the backbone of nearly all gravitational-wave inference --- rests. The problem is particularly evident for LISA, where gaps are expected to overlap almost all signals and the noise must be estimated jointly with those astrophysical signals. We provide an analytical and numerical framework to assess the impact of noise mis-modelling when signal and noise parameters are inferred jointly in the presence of ga…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Cosmic Heterogeneity Shapes the Evolution of Dark Energy and Time ↗
Early- and late-Universe measurements of the Hubble constant disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. We derive cosmological parameters from first principles, using only the dynamics of cosmic volume and the possibility that matter can be unevenly distributed. Within this framework, three of the six parameters of the standard model are obtained from the underlying dynamics rather than fitted to observations: volume formation determines the dark-energy density parameter to be two thirds, spatial curvature vanishes, and the matter density follows from the remaining cosmic energy budget. T…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Physics-induced impact on the properties of Kepler/K2 solar analogs in the light of PLATO's requirements ↗
Solar analogs are useful laboratories for tests of stellar structure and evolution, particularly in the context of the upcoming PLATO mission. Our study focuses on six seismic solar analogs observed by Kepler and K2. We investigate the impact of the model physical ingredients on these six targets in order to evaluate how well one can satisfy the PLATO precision requirements for stellar parameters with the data quality that is currently available to us. We used as reference values the stellar mass, age, and chemical composition obtained with the Forward and Inverse COmbination (FICO) procedure,…
- NASA · Source date · First archived
Hubble Spots Chaotic Secret in Galaxy ↗
ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team A chaotic secret hides within this seemingly serene image of spiral galaxy NGC 4698 taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and released on Sept. 18, 2026. As a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way galaxy, NGC 4698 has spiral arms that curl around within a thin disk of stars, gas, and dust. These arms are marked by opaque clumps of brown dust and dotted with small collections of bright blue stars. Unlike many other spiral galaxies, NGC 4698’s delicate spiral arms are only prominent in the outer reaches of the disk; spiral arms often wind down to…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Kruglov-entropy cosmology from apparent-horizon thermodynamics: background dynamics and observational constraints ↗
We investigate two late-time cosmological models generated by Kruglov's nonadditive entropy at the apparent horizon. Model I, originally derived by Kruglov, follows the Cai--Kim thermodynamic construction and leads to an implicit modified Friedmann equation, whereas Model II, proposed and derived in this work, is obtained from an entropy-integral prescription and contains an effective vacuum contribution. We formulate both models in terms of the dimensionless Hubble parameter, include radiation, impose exact present-day closure, and evolve the physical branch using analytic derivatives of the…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Natural Saturation Of The Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Resonant Production By a High Lepton Flavor Asymmetry In Primordial Plasma ↗
Sterile neutrinos remain a well-motivated dark-matter candidate whose cosmological abundance can be enhanced by resonant active--sterile conversion in the presence of a lepton asymmetry in primordial plasma. In the standard picture, a larger initial asymmetry increases the matter potential and can therefore promote resonant production. However, the same increase also shifts the resonance to later stages of the cosmological evolution when the plasma temperature is lower. We show that this delayed production epoch can overlap with the onset of active neutrino oscillations, which redistribute the…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
MATISSE-py: a high-level Python interface for efficient, automated VLTI/MATISSE data reduction ↗
The Multi AperTure mid-Infrared SpectroScopic Experiment (MATISSE) at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) delivers rich mid-infrared interferometric datasets that are reduced through a robust, multi-stage ESO pipeline. In its native form, however, the reduction relies on command-line calls to esorex, hand-edited set-of-files (SOF) and configuration files, and manual iterations that are difficult to automate, reproduce, or integrate into modern Python workflows. We present MATISSE-py, a modular Python interface that wraps the official ESO esorex recipes behind a single, user-friendly…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
N-Body Dynamics as a Mechanism for Mean Motion Resonance Formation in the Post-Gas Era ↗
Mean motion resonances (MMRs) are traditionally thought to form during the gas-rich phase of protoplanetary disks via disk-driven migration. Whether MMRs can form solely through collisional damping after disk dispersal has not been systematically investigated. To study MMR formation in the post-gas-disk era, we perform a large suite of N-body simulations, each containing 10,000 planetesimals around an M-dwarf star and evolving over 10 Myr. We compare two groups of simulations that differ only in their initial mass distributions. Each group consists of 10 runs with statistically identical initi…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
From Image Morphology to Multiphysics Earth Posteriors ↗
Structural learning and physical-property inference can draw on different sources of knowledge. We learn morphology from 33,140 natural, satellite, and texture images, without geological training models, then infer Earth properties from physical observations. Identical frozen weights map 128 coordinates into each $256\times256$ compressional-velocity, shear-velocity, or density field. Fixed adapters assign physical meaning; observation-specific likelihoods determine new posteriors without retraining. Across 256 unseen Earth models, image coordinates reduce projection error fourfold relative to…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
JWST detection of methane emission from a young brown dwarf ↗
In recent studies, we have used low-resolution spectroscopy (R~100) with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover low-mass brown dwarfs (2-10 MJup) in the young cluster IC 348 that exhibit the so-called 3.4um absorption band from aliphatic hydrocarbons. Atmospheric models have not predicted the presence of that band in brown dwarfs at any age. Instead, methane absorption was expected in the coolest newborn brown dwarfs, but it was not detected. We have performed JWST spectroscopy at higher resolution (R~1000) on one of the brown dwarfs in IC 348, LRL 11001 (~6 MJup). The new measuremen…
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