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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
Quasinormal-Mode Collider Spectroscopy ↗
Black-hole (BH) quasinormal modes encode the properties of merger remnants and provide powerful tests of strong-field gravity. The BH spectroscopy has predominantly treated them as independent linear oscillations. Nonlinear ringdown can additionally reveal how these modes interact and which intermediate states mediate their interactions. Inspired by cosmological collider physics, we introduce quasinormal-mode collider spectroscopy (QCS), a framework for organizing and predicting nonlinear BH responses. We establish two structural results. First, at an isolated, nondegenerate intermediate pole,…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Cross-Modal Solar Image Synthesis: Adapting the Surya Foundation Model from He I 10830 Å to EUV Translation and Coronal Hole Segmentation ↗
The long observational record of He I 10830 Å offers a means to investigate solar morphology before modern extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) imaging. We adapt the Surya solar foundation model to predict Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (SDO/AIA) 94, 193, and 304 Å images and a coronal hole (CH) probability map from full-disk helium observations. A convolutional input adapter, low-rank backbone updates, and dedicated output decoders learn from temporally paired, geometrically registered observations, with Spatial Possibilistic Clustering Algorithm (SPOCA) catalog polygons providi…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
An RFSoC-Based 100 GbE Spectrometer/Correlator for the Baryon Mapping Experiment: Digital Backend Design and On-Sky Validation ↗
We describe the implementation and on-sky commissioning of a two-input spectrometer/correlator built on a Xilinx ZCU208 Radio Frequency System-on-Chip (RFSoC) and deployed on the Baryon Mapping eXperiment (BMX) interferometric array at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The system combines direct RF sampling, FPGA-based correlation, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) visibility transport. Two inputs are digitized directly at 1050 MHz without analog downconversion and channelized into 2048 frequency channels. The correlator forms two autocorrelations and the real and imaginary parts of the cross-corre…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Stellar magnetic activity and rocky planets in cool dwarf stars ↗
Exoplanetary astronomy has entered its Golden Age, with humanity having found over 6000 exoplanets to date. The majority of these discoveries have been achieved through transit-photometry and radial-velocity (RV) techniques. While transit surveys lead in discovery numbers, the RV method persists as a vital and indispensable technique in exoplanetary science, particularly in the most prevalent stellar population -- M dwarfs. Their low masses make them the theoretical favourites for RV detections, since exoplanet signals are stronger over the same period, and are therefore easier to detect and m…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Forecasting cosmological constraints from the nonlinear halo density field with Zel'dovich-inspired transform ↗
The Zel'dovich-inspired (ZI) transform is a local nonlinear transform of the density field that can Gaussianize the late-time matter field and recover information from higher-order $N$-point correlation functions through its power spectrum, with the parameter $η$ controlling the weighting of higher-order information. Using Fisher-matrix analyses of halo catalogs from the Quijote and Quijote-PNG simulations, we study the redshift-space monopole power spectrum of the ZI-transformed halo density field. The joint statistic $P_{\rm ZI,0}$, constructed from three representative transforms with $η=1$…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
The Robots are Coming: Artificial Intelligence Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ↗
Breakthrough Listen, humanity's most ambitious search for technosignatures, or evidence of extraterrestrial technology, is carrying out surveys across the sky and across the electromagnetic spectrum, in images, spectra, time series, catalogs, and alerts. Classical techniques still play a major role in the search, but the recent rapid growth in the capabilities of artificial intelligence is enabling new and more powerful algorithms and approaches to be deployed across enormous datasets. Surveys designed to look for technosignatures are still a major focus for the Breakthrough Listen program, bu…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
How dust particles orbiting white dwarfs can reveal undetected co-orbiting exoplanets II. Exoplanets on elliptic orbits ↗
Abridged. We aim to extend Paper I to the eccentric secondary orbit case and now analyse the elliptic restricted three-body problem (ERTBP). Our secondary masses include Ceres, Mercury, Earth, and Neptune so that we can help infer the presence of both large asteroids and planets through our analysis. We study dust particles on both planar (2D-ERTBP) and non-coplanar (3D-ERTBP) orbits. We computed families of 1/1 resonant symmetric and asymmetric periodic orbits in the 2D-ERTBP and 3D-ERTBP. Doing so produces novel results in their own right and diagnostic tools for precise guidance for our nex…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Stellar parameters and abundances for 3.2 million DESI DR1 spectra using machine learning ↗
We present a machine-learning pipeline for determining stellar parameters and chemical abundances from spectra observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Building on the model-driven Payne framework, we train an artificial neural network on ~370,000 synthetic spectra spanning FGK stars, and fit the network directly to the flux-calibrated, un-normalised spectral energy distribution (SED) of each star, rather than to a continuum-normalised spectrum as done by DESI's official Stellar Parameter (SP) pipeline. Internal accuracy tests show a median interpolation error of less than…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Beyond dust in local cosmography: covariant kinetic theory ↗
Modelling cold dark matter as dust makes the matter congruence geodesic and therefore removes any intrinsic dipole from the local Hubble flow. The dust model breaks down as stream crossing develops, whereas a collisionless gas accommodates stream crossing via velocity dispersion in phase space. We develop a covariant kinetic framework for this regime without assuming a background spacetime or any geometrical symmetry. Starting from the exact massive Vlasov hierarchy, we construct its energy-integrated moments and organise these by velocity weight. A self-consistent truncation at the quadrupole…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Shared Geometry Is Not Shared Physics: A Layerwise Test of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis in Astronomy ↗
In this paper we investigate whether geometrically aligned astronomical representations are also scientifically interchangeable. We analyze every layer's representation from 36 pretrained models using cross-matched optical images, infrared images, and spectra. All 139 analyzed model-survey comparisons show significant local-neighborhood alignment somewhere in the network after accounting for the search over depth. However, alignment does not generally increase with network depth and can be stronger for the changes between consecutive computational blocks than for the block outputs themselves.…
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