29,363 papers

cs.RO2026

A Multimodal Haptic Interface for Simultaneous Softness and Thermal Modulation

Joshua Brown, Fernando Bello, Lynette Jones

Haptic interactions, such as touching an object in virtual reality, involve detecting a plethora of sensations through the skin. Whilst tactile displays exist to simulate and manip…

astro-ph.HE2026

Harmonic brightness oscillations point to magnetar giant flares in rare short gamma-ray bursts

Run-Chao Chen, Ore Gottlieb, Bin-Bin Zhang +5

Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) have been observed in a few rare gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), but their physical origin remains uncertain. We reanalyze the two short GRBs…

astro-ph.GA2026

3-Methoxy-1-propanol Rotational Spectroscopy and Radio Astronomical Search toward NGC 6334I

D. Archie Stewart, Laurent Margulès, Roman A. Motiyenko +1

The methoxy functionalized alcohol species methoxymethanol and 2-methoxyethanol have recently been identified toward the MM1 protostellar source in the NGC 6334I massive star-formi…

cs.RO2026

SKiD-SLAM: Resource-Aware Distributed Multi-Robot LiDAR SLAM for Planetary Missions with Field Deployments at Analog Sites

Hogyun Kim, Juwon Kim, Dongjin Cho +7

Future planetary exploration missions require teams of robots to collaboratively map unknown environments under severe communication limits, constrained onboard computation, and no…

astro-ph.IM2026

Focal plane modal estimation of high-order wavefront drifts on coronagraphic testbeds

Saikrishna Manojkumar, Susan F. Redmond, Leonid Pogorelyuk +4

The upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) requires precise wavefront stability over long observation periods to directly image Exo-Earths, which are 10 orders of magnitude di…

astro-ph.EP2026

ExoVetter and a TESS Exoplanet Transit Search of Kepler Stars as Ground Truth

Matthew M. Dallas, Susan E. Mullally, Fergal Mullally +3

We introduce a Python package called exoVetter that produces vetting metrics and visualizations to evaluate transiting exoplanet signals found in high-cadence time-series photometr…

astro-ph.EP2026

Demographics of Close-In TESS Exoplanets Orbiting FGK Main-sequence Stars II. Spectral-Type Dependence and the Neptunian Landscape

Kaiming Cui, David J. Armstrong, Andreas Hadjigeorghiou +6

Understanding how planetary demographics depend on host star properties is essential for constraining planet formation and evolution theories. In this paper, we analyse close-in 0.…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Pandora SmallSat: post-launch operations and mission update

Trevor O. Foote, Elisa V. Quintana, Jessie L. Dotson +41

The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project designed to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Transmission spectroscopy of transiting exoplanets provides our best opportunity to i…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Pandora SmallSat: Target Selection and Early Science

Emily A. Gilbert, Elisa V. Quintana, Jessie L. Dotson +41

The Pandora spacecraft is a smallsat selected in NASA's inaugural class of Pioneers missions. The aim of the Pandora mission is to disentangle stellar activity signals from exoplan…

astro-ph.IM2026

Modal estimation of high-order wavefront drifts on coronagraphic testbeds for high-contrast direct imaging of exoplanets

Saikrishna Manojkumar, Susan F. Redmond, Leonid Pogorelyuk +13

Long-term wavefront stability will be critical for the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory which aims to directly image exo-Earths. Mechanical and thermal instabilities induce sl…

astro-ph.EP2026

HD 715 b, a Warm Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant Discovered from a Single TESS Transit

Alexander Venner, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Andrew Vanderburg +23

Transiting Warm Jupiters orbiting bright stars are scarcely known, but a substantial number of these planets have been uncovered by the TESS mission. In this work we report the dis…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Discovery of a second-generation planet candidate accreting onto a white dwarf

Jamie T. Williams, Boris T. Gänsicke, Nicholas C. Stone +10

Many white dwarfs accrete the debris of disrupted planetary bodies, detected in the form of metal-enrichment in their atmospheres, dusty or gaseous circumstellar discs, and photome…

cs.AI2026

Atoms to Processes: The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering

Michael Baldea, Linda J. Broadbelt, Marianthi G. Ierapetritou +17

The rapid maturation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has catalyzed a profound shift in how chemical engineering problems are formulated, analyzed, and sol…

cs.DS2026

Tight Approximation Results for Matroid Optimization with a Linear Constraint

Ilan Doron-Arad, Hadas Shachnai, Gilad Shmerler

We study the following class of matroid optimization problems with a linear constraint (P-MOL). Given a matroid M=(E,I), two weight functions , and a threshold…

hep-ph2026

Tension between MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE within a 3+1 Sterile Neutrino Framework using Simulation-Based Inference

Julia P. Woodward, Austin Schneider, Joshua Villarreal +2

The MiniBooNE low-energy excess and its subsequent exclusion by MicroBooNE provide an important test of sterile-neutrino explanations of short-baseline neutrino anomalies. Such a t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Dual Role of Mobile Interstitials in Defect Kinetics: From Retardation to Acceleration

Shihao Zhang, Shihao Zhu, Junping Du +3

Mobile interstitial atoms redistribute while defects migrate, complicating prediction of defect kinetics and leading to contradictory reports of acceleration and retardation. We fo…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Encapsulation epitaxy of air-stable monolayer superconducting films for quantum circuits and qubits

Xudong Zheng, Sameia Zaman, Kenan Zhang +22

Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors are an emerging platform for strongly correlated physics and quantum information science. Their reduced dimensionality, atomically flat interfa…

astro-ph.SR2026

Open Clusters as Laboratories for Cool Star Evolution: Highlights from the Cool Stars 23 Splinter Session

Deepak Chahal, Beatrice Caccherano, Edward Gillen +16

Open clusters remain among the most powerful laboratories for calibrating how fundamental stellar properties such as rotation, magnetic activity, surface chemistry, and internal st…

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.EP2026

Leveraging Impact Parameter to Mitigate the Transit Light Source Effect: Early Insights from TRAPPIST-1

Ana Glidden, Alexander I. Shapiro, Sara Seager +19

Stellar activity complicates exoplanet transmission spectra, particularly for smaller planets around M dwarfs with JWST. The transit light source (TLS) effect, the imprinting of sp…

cs.LG2026

Kernel Reboot: Breaking the Boundaries of Neural Tangent Kernels for Neural Fields

Amir Mallak, Alaa Maalouf, Lior Wolf +2

Neural fields (NFs) map continuous coordinates to signals such as color or density, but fast high-quality reconstruction from sparse observations remains difficult. Classical Neura…

cond-mat.soft2026

Electrospun Fields: 3D Nano-Fiber Material Computation as Design Method

Wai Lok Wan, Ayah Mahmoud, Sergio Mutis +3

We present a robotic electrospinning platform and design method for depositing nanofiber membranes onto non-planar, three-dimensional conductive geometries. Conventional electrospi…

astro-ph.IM2026

Strong Lensing Cosmology with Population-level Calibrated Neural Ratio Estimation

Sreevani Jarugula, Brian D. Nord, Aleksandra Ćiprijanović +1

Strong gravitational lensing contains key information about cosmic acceleration. Modern and next-generation galaxy imaging surveys are expected to provide high-quality data on $\ma…

cs.PF2026

When Structure is Silent: Opportunities for Algorithmic Dispatch in Linear Algebra

Emmanuel Lujan, Alan Edelman

Algorithmic dispatch is essential for performance in linear-algebra-intensive systems. A persistent challenge lies in the treatment of structured matrices. Although such matrices a…