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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

14.2k citations

8,024 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

The July 2023 Outburst of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks: Observations and Modeling of Dust Coma and Arc Structure

Hitoshi Hasegawa, Mitsunori Tsumura, Shin-ichi Watanabe +2

We conducted continuous imaging observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which has experienced multiple outbursts since 2023 July. Among these, we determined the dust coma expansion…

astro-ph.GA2026

First Trigonometric Parallax Measurements with the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA)

Nobuyuki Sakai, Daisuke Sakai, Noriyuki Kawaguchi +26

To demonstrate the astrometric capability of the combined Korean VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) Network (KVN) and VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA) Array (KaVA)…

astro-ph.EP2026

Upside down: GJ3090 b the first retrograde exoplanet around an M dwarf detected with NIRPS

Y. Carteret, V. Bourrier, L. Parc +57

The angle between stellar spin axis and planetary orbital plane can provide key insights into the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems. In particular, this measur…

astro-ph.IM2026

Development of a Temperature-Variable Cold Blackbody Calibrator for Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Detectors

Kazuki Watanabe, Taiki Sato, Shuhei Inoue +3

We report the design, fabrication, and characterization of a cryogenic blackbody calibrator intended for laboratory-based detector characterization, providing multi-temperature cal…

astro-ph.SR2026

Cause of chromospheric opposite polarity intrusions discovered in Sunrise III/SCIP data: MURaM-ChE simulations point to twisted flux ropes

Patrick A. Ondratschek, Damien F. Przybylski, Robert H. Cameron +33

The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) instrument onboard the balloon-borne Sunrise III observatory provided new high-resolution observations of the solar chr…

astro-ph.CO2026

Running Hubble Constant with the Redshift as a Marker of Evolutionary Dark Energy

Nakia Carlevaro, Giovanni Montani, Maria Giovanna Dainotti

We discuss the interpretation of an observed running Hubble constant with the redshift, in terms of the possible underlying physical scenario. Assuming, like in the CDM model, t…

astro-ph.SR2026

Science operation, data handling, and ground support system of the SOLAR-C mission

Shin Toriumi, Mari Nishiyama, Keiichi Matsuzaki +16

SOLAR-C is an international solar-observing satellite mission led by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It aims to elucidate mass and energy transport in solar atmospheres…

astro-ph.SR2026

An Eccentric Massive Protobinary Assembled via a Core-merger Parabolic Encounter

Yao Wang, Yichen Zhang, Rubén Fedriani +14

Most massive stars form in binary systems, which profoundly influence their subsequent evolution. However, how such systems form remains poorly understood, with several competing s…

astro-ph.GA2026

Magnetic Fields in Massive Star-forming Regions (MagMaR). IX. Radiative Torque Alignment and Disruption in NGC6334I

Vineet Rawat, Thiem Hoang, Patricio Sanhueza +18

Intense radiation from high-mass stars is expected to significantly affect dust grain alignment and evolution through RAdiative Torques (RATs). We investigate this effect in a mass…

astro-ph.GA2026

H I Absorbers as Beacons of Hidden Structure at : Multi-Component, Metal-Rich Absorption System near a Protocluster

Kentaro Koretomo, Nobunari Kashikawa, Toru Misawa +12

H I gas traces the large-scale structure and provides the primary fuel for star formation. High- protoclusters are ideal laboratories to study how H I gas is accreted and consum…

astro-ph.SR2026

Systematic and Statistical Properties of Prominence Eruptions on the M-dwarf YZ CMi

Yuto Kajikiya, Kosuke Namekata, Yuta Notsu +4

M-dwarfs produce frequent flares, and their associated mass ejections are expected to significantly affect the habitability of close-in exoplanets. Recent spectroscopic observation…

astro-ph.GA2026

ACES VII. Compact Continuum Source Catalog of the Central Molecular Zone

Jennifer Wallace, Cara Battersby, Nazar Budaiev +58

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) resides in the inner few hundred parsecs of our Galaxy, and despite being the largest reservoir of dense molecular gas in the Milky Way, it has a r…

astro-ph.IM2026

AO3k + SCExAO: on-sky wavefront quality and demonstration of novel WFS techniques with the double XAO system

Julien Lozi, Kyohoon Ahn, Vincent Deo +5

The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) system, fed by its upstream 3000-actuator "woofer" (AO3k), serves both as a platform for high contrast imaging (HCI) techn…

astro-ph.HE2026

Synchrotron self-Compton Reverse Shock in Energy-Injection and Radiative Scenarios

Fraija Nissim, Betancourt-Kamenetskaia Boris, Galván Antonio +1

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic extragalactic transients, providing a unique laboratory to investigate the physical origin of the diverse morphologies observed…

astro-ph.IM2026

Forward modelling coronagraphic images with a fully physical, differentiable digital twin of MagAO-X: first laboratory results

Matthijs Mars, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Louis Desdoigts +10

Post-processing of high contrast imaging data relies on an accurate model of the stellar point spread function (PSF). Current techniques build this model from the science images th…

astro-ph.IM2026

Digging dark holes on-sky with the Self-Coherent Camera: Preliminary results

Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males +17

Current high-contrast imaging instruments are limited by wavefront errors originating from non-common path aberrations (NCPAs) due, for example, to manufacturing errors in the opti…

astro-ph.IM2026

The final design of GMagAO-X: the wavefront sensing and control (WFS&C) architecture of GMagAO-X

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close +10

The Giant Magellan Adaptive Optics eXtreme (GMagAO-X) instrument has now been selected as an official part of the Giant Magellan Telescope's (GMT) instrument suite. The instrument…

astro-ph.IM2026

Demonstration of simultaneous PIAA- coronagraphy and wavefront sensing using a single metasurface-based focal-plane optic

Dhwanil Patel, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Skyler Palatnick +23

Controlling residual wavefront aberrations downstream of an extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system is a major challenge in high-contrast imaging. These aberrations produce quasi-sta…

astro-ph.IM2026

Instrumental artifacts in photonic lantern spectroastrometry and their mitigation with PLred

Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Malena Bloom +10

Spectroastrometry is a powerful spectral-differential technique for probing angular scales below the resolution limit, but it is also well known to be susceptible to instrumental a…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Search for helium in the atmospheres of three sub-Neptunes and a super-Earth around M-dwarfs

Kiyoe Kawauchi, Norio Narita, Yuichi Ito +26

Thousands of sub-Neptunes have been discovered mainly through space-based surveys such as Kepler and TESS. Their bulk compositions and internal structures are thought to reflect th…

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

astro-ph.HE2026

Radio Constraints on the Circumstellar Environment of the Type IIb Supernova SN 2024iss

Yuhei Iwata, Tomoki Matsuoka, Masanori Akimoto +6

Type~IIb supernovae exhibit diverse progenitor properties, and radio observations offer a unique probe of their mass-loss histories shortly before the explosion. We present Japanes…

astro-ph.GA2026

Molecular absorption lines toward the Galactic ISM detected at 89 GHz with VLBI

Keisuke Nakashima, Hiroshi Imai, Youngjoo Yun

As the first step to explore the Galactic foreground interstellar medium (ISM) with high angular resolution, we investigated the detectability of molecular absorption lines with ve…

astro-ph.GA2026

XRISM Resolves the Circum-nuclear Environment of NGC 4945

Peter G. Boorman, Poshak Gandhi, Yoshihiro Ueda +31

Compton-thick Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) represent one of the most elusive phases of massive black hole growth, yet are expected to contribute substantially to the Cosmic X-ray B…