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astro-ph.IM2026

On-sky commissioning and technical performance of Proto-NUX at Pic du Midi

Rasjied Sloot, Rudy Wijnands, Steven Bloemen +3

The Near-Ultraviolet eXplorer (NUX) is a proposed ground-based observing facility designed to expand near-ultraviolet (NUV) astronomy by enabling observations in the 300--350 nm ra…

astro-ph.IM2026

The SHARPEx space-to-space VLBI experiment

Freek Roelofs, Christiaan Brinkerink, Albert Catalan Artigas +16

Space is the next frontier for ultra-high resolution imaging of astrophysical sources with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). The limited size of the Earth and atmospheric a…

astro-ph.IM2026

First Very Long Baseline Interferometry Fringe Detection at 690GHz

Ming-Tang Chen, Geoffrey B. Crew, Dan Bintley +42

We report the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment conducted in the 690 GHz atmospheric window. On 2024 November 21, observations with the Atacama Large Millim…

astro-ph.IM2026

The beamformed trigger of RNO-G: its design and in-field performance

G Collaboration, S. Agarwal, J. A. Aguilar +76

The Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) is a neutrino detector under construction at Summit Station, with 8 out of a planned 35 stations currently deployed. We have des…

astro-ph.IM2026

Shaping the future of Global Interferometric Arrays: Imaging Strong Gravity and Magnetic Fields

Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Violette Impellizzeri, Chi-Kwan Chan +7

The observational validation of General Relativity (GR) has been propelled in recent years by recent breakthroughs in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) augmented by ALMA. We…

astro-ph.IM2026

ESO Expanding Horizon White Paper: Revealing the properties of matter at supranuclear densities with gravitational waves

Tim Dietrich, Tanja Hinderer, Micaela Oertel +40

Understanding dense matter under extreme conditions is one of the most fundamental puzzles in modern physics. Complex interactions give rise to emergent, collective phenomena. Whil…

astro-ph.IM2025

ESO Expanding Horizons: Underluminous Thermonuclear Supernovae

Paul J. Groot, Simone Scaringi, Nancy Elias-Rosa

Underluminous Thermonuclear Supernovae (uTSNe) are an emerging class of transient events that resemble classic Supernovae Type Ia, but peak at much lower luminosities. Suspected to…

astro-ph.IM2025

Nova Explosions in 2040

Alessandro Ederoclite, Domitilla De Martino, Paul Groot +7

Novae are thermonuclear explosions on the surface of accreting white dwarfs and are key laboratories for studying explosive nucleosynthesis, particle acceleration, shock physics, a…

astro-ph.IM2025

Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Resolved Stellar Populations Studies in M31 and its Satellites

C. Gallart, E. Fernández-Alvar, A. B. A. Queiroz +48

A 30 m class optical/near-IR telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, equipped for diffraction-limited imaging and high-resolution, multi-object spectroscopy of faint stars, would ena…

astro-ph.IM2025

How Mass Flows Through Accretion Discs: A Spectral-Timing Vision for the 2040s

Simone Scaringi, Domitilla de Martino, Anna F. Pala +17

Understanding how mass and angular momentum flow through accretion discs remains a fundamental unsolved problem in astrophysics. Accreting white dwarfs offer an ideal laboratory fo…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The impact of lunar topography on the 21-cm power spectrum for grid-based arrays : Insights for the Dark-ages EXplorer (DEX)

S. Ghosh, L. V. E. Koopmans, C. Brinkerink +17

The Dark Ages (DA) provides a crucial window into the physics of the infant Universe, with the 21-cm signal offering the only direct probe for mapping out the three-dimensional dis…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

The Northern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey: II. Single-pulse search set-up and simulations

L. J. M. Houben, H. Falcke, L. G. Spitler +5

The High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey is an all-sky survey looking for pulsars and other radio transients. A new single-pulse (SP) search pipeline is presented, tailored…

astro-ph.IM2025

Bayesian polarization calibration and imaging in very long baseline interferometry

Jong-Seo Kim, Jakob Roth, Jongho Park +6

Extracting polarimetric information from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data is demanding but vital for understanding the synchrotron radiation process and the magnetic f…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Textual interpretation of transient image classifications from large language models

Fiorenzo Stoppa, Turan Bulmus, Steven Bloemen +4

Modern astronomical surveys deliver immense volumes of transient detections, yet distinguishing real astrophysical signals (for example, explosive events) from bogus imaging artefa…

astro-ph.IM2025

BGRem: A background noise remover for astronomical images based on a diffusion model

Rodney Nicolaas, Sascha Caron, Fiorenzo Stoppa +4

Context: Astronomical imaging aims to maximize signal capture while minimizing noise. Enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio directly on detectors is difficult and expensive, leading…

astro-ph.IM2025

VIPCALs: A fully automated calibration pipeline for very long baseline interferometry data

Diego Álvarez-Ortega, Carolina Casadio, Felix M. Pötzl +2

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a powerful technique that can achieve sub-milliarcsecond resolution. However, it requires complex and often manual post-correlation cali…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 6 cited

Deep learning inference with the Event Horizon Telescope II. The Zingularity framework for Bayesian artificial neural networks

M. Janssen, C. -k. Chan, J. Davelaar +1

(abridged) In this second paper in our publication series, we present the open-source Zingularity framework for parameter inference with deep Bayesian artificial neural networks. W…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 6 cited

Deep learning inference with the Event Horizon Telescope I. Calibration improvements and a comprehensive synthetic data library

M. Janssen, C. -k. Chan, J. Davelaar +6

(abridged) In a series of publications, we describe a comprehensive comparison of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data with theoretical models of Sgr A* and M87*. Here, we report on…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Analysis of the accuracy of GNSS inferred precipitable water vapour against that from a 210 GHz WVR at the H.E.S.S. site

Lott Frans, Michael Backes, Heino Falcke +1

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) site and the Gamsberg Mountain have been identified as potential sites for the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT). The AMT is poised t…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

A comparative analysis of GNSS-inferred precipitable water vapour at the potential sites for the Africa Millimetre Telescope

Lott Frans, Michael Backes, Heino Falcke +1

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a network of antennas across the globe currently used to image super-massive black holes (SMBHs) at a frequency of 230 GHz. Since the release o…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Learning novel representations of variable sources from multi-modal data via autoencoders

P. Huijse, J. De Ridder, L. Eyer +18

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) published for the first time epoch photometry, BP/RP (XP) low-resolution mean spectra, and supervised classification results for millions of variable sour…

astro-ph.IM2025

Probing the Firn Refractive Index Profile Using Antenna Response

S. Agarwal, J. A. Aguilar, N. Alden +70

The Radio Neutrino Observatory-Greenland (RNO-G, at Summit Station) experiment comprises an extensive fat-dipole antenna array deployed into ice boreholes over an eventual area of…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Strategic White Paper on AI Infrastructure for Particle, Nuclear, and Astroparticle Physics: Insights from JENA and EuCAIF

Sascha Caron, Andreas Ipp, Gert Aarts +16

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming scientific research, with deep learning methods playing a central role in data analysis, simulations, and signal detection across parti…

astro-ph.IM2025

Chorus: Optimizing Synchrotron Transfer Coefficients with Weighted Sums

David van Duren, Monika Mościbrodzka

Accurate synchrotron transfer coefficients are essential for modeling radiation processes in astrophysics. However, their current calculation methods face significant challenges. A…