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Publications (6)

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI DR2 Results II: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +184

We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (…

physics.soc-ph2026

Let There Be Claws: An Early Social Network Analysis of AI Agents on Moltbook

H. C. W. Price, H. AlMuhanna, P. M. Bassani +2

Within twelve days of launch, an AI-native social platform exhibits extreme attention concentration, hierarchical role separation, and one-way attention flow, consistent with the h…

astro-ph.CO2025

Construction of the Damped Ly Absorber Catalog for DESI DR2 Ly BAO

A. Brodzeller, M. Wolfson, D. M. Santos +96

We present the Damped Ly Toolkit for automated detection and characterization of Damped Ly absorbers (DLA) in quasar spectra. Our method uses quasar spectral templates with…

astro-ph.IM2023

Constructing Impactful Machine Learning Research for Astronomy: Best Practices for Researchers and Reviewers

D. Huppenkothen, M. Ntampaka, M. Ho +19

Machine learning has rapidly become a tool of choice for the astronomical community. It is being applied across a wide range of wavelengths and problems, from the classification of…

quant-ph2020

Noisy pre-processing facilitating a photonic realisation of device-independent quantum key distribution

M. Ho, P. Sekatski, E. Y. -Z. Tan +3

Device-independent quantum key distribution provides security even when the equipment used to communicate over the quantum channel is largely uncharacterized. An experimental demon…

astro-ph.CO2021

CLMM: a LSST-DESC Cluster weak Lensing Mass Modeling library for cosmology

M. Aguena, C. Avestruz, C. Combet +22

We present the v1.0 release of CLMM, an open source Python library for the estimation of the weak lensing masses of clusters of galaxies. CLMM is designed as a standalone toolkit o…