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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

14.2k citations

8,596 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

In-orbit anomaly and recovery of IXPE detector 2

Fabio Muleri, Luca Baldini, Sudip Chakraborty +18

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a joint NASA-ASI mission launched in December 2021 to measure the linear polarization of celestial X-ray sources in the 2-8 keV ene…

cs.RO2026

Reinforced Iterative Learning Control for elastic joint arms: Guaranteed cross-trajectory generalization under model uncertainties

Yuri De Santis, Michele Pierallini, Franco Angelini +1

Trajectory tracking for compliant robots is challenging due to nonlinear dynamics and modeling uncertainties, often requiring learning-based methods to avoid explicit parameter ide…

math.OC2026★ 2 cited

Continuous-Time Constrained Linear Quadratic Regulator for Switched Linear Systems

Pietro Gori, Michele Pierallini, Franco Angelini +1

Switched systems, characterized by a family of subsystems governed by a switching rule, widely apply to complex real-world scenarios. However, their inherent switching dynamics pos…

hep-ex2026

Operation and performance of the Probe for Luminosity Measurement at LHCb

F. Alessio, S. Barsuk, C. Beigbeder +40

The Probe for LUminosity MEasurement (PLUME) detector is a dedicated luminosity monitor at the LHCb interaction point. It is a hodoscope comprising 48 Hamamatsu R760 photomultiplie…

astro-ph.HE2026

Revisiting EBL Constraints from Gamma-Ray Observations: A Critical Assessment and Methodological Improvements

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +185

The extragalactic background light (EBL), ranging from the infrared to the ultraviolet bands, is the second most intense photon field in the universe, surpassed only by the cosmic…

physics.ins-det2026

Toward High-Resolution Detection of Target Fragmentation: TEA-Sensitized NIT for Proton Therapy Applications

V. Boccia, T. Asada, A. Alexandrov +96

Nano Imaging Trackers (NIT) are fine-grained nuclear emulsions capable of tracking charged particles with sub-micrometric spatial resolution. The DAMON (Direct Measurement of Targe…

physics.class-ph2026

Modeling Newtonian noise of acoustic origin in the Virgo gravitational wave detector

Lionel Maurin, François Gautier, Maël Brun +9

Since the first gravitational-wave (GW) detection of September 14th 2015 and with hundreds of gravitational-wave sources identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network, GW have produce…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on the VHE counterpart of two binary black hole mergers observed by the MAGIC and CTAO LST-1 telescopes

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +358

We present very-high-energy gamma-ray observations of two binary black hole merger candidates, GW240615_113620 and GW241125_010116, performed with the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imagi…

cs.SI2026★ 5 cited

IMMENSE: Inductive Multi-perspective User Classification in Social Networks

Francesco Benedetti, Antonio Pellicani, Gianvito Pio +1

Online social networks increasingly expose people to users who propagate discriminatory, hateful, and violent content. Young users, in particular, are vulnerable to exposure to suc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 6 cited

Epitaxial SiGeSn alloys for CMOS-compatible thermoelectric devices

Patrizio Graziosi, Damiano Marian, Andrea Tomadin +7

The integration of thermoelectric devices into mainstream microelectronic technological platform could be a major breakthrough in various fields within the \emph{so-called} Green-I…

astro-ph.GA2026

Two stellar clocks, one history: a Gaia colour-magnitude-diagram reconstruction of the solar-neighbourhood star-formation history tested against white dwarfs

Michele Cignoni, Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni, Martina Gabbanini +2

The solar-neighbourhood star-formation history (SFH) can be constrained from the colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) of non-degenerate stars and tested independently with the white-dwar…

astro-ph.EP2026

The recent crossing of the 7:3 resonance between Ganymede and Callisto

Giacomo Lari, Mattia Rossi

Io, Europa and Ganymede are locked in the well-known Laplace resonance, while Callisto is not, even though it is very close to the 7:3 mean motion resonance with Ganymede. When con…

cs.HC2026★ 1 cited

A Systematic Survey on Image Description Techniques for STEM Domains

Marco Cardia, Letizia Angileri, Marina Buzzi +2

The proliferation of visual data in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields presents accessibility barrier for individuals with blindness or visual impairme…

astro-ph.SR2026

Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Low Mass Ratio Contact Binaries: Definition, Dynamical Stability, and Parameter Relationships

A. Poro, R. Poggiani, A. Foroutanfar +3

This study explores multiple aspects of W Ursae Majoris (W UMa) contact binary systems with low mass ratios, providing empirical insights into their definition, structure, rotation…

cs.LG2026

Federated Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Roles, Architectures, Evaluation, and Open Challenges

Masoume Gholizade, Fabrizio Ruffini, Pietro Ducange +1

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative model training across distributed and heterogeneous data sources. By keeping raw data loc…

quant-ph2026

How Many Shots Are Enough for a Quantum Circuit?

Giuseppe Bisicchia, Alessandro Bocci, Ernesto Pimentel +1

Quantum algorithms require repeated circuit executions, known as shots, to estimate output distributions accurately. Determining the minimal number of shots needed to meet a target…

astro-ph.HE2026

Exploring the nature of Galactic unassociated sources detected by the Fermi-LAT

F. Acero, A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio +120

We investigate the nature of the unassociated sources detected by the Fermi-LAT close (|b|<10°) to the Galactic plane, representing 16% of all sources in the 4FGL-DR4 catalog. The…

cs.LG2026

Federated continual learning: A comprehensive survey on lifelong and privacy-preserving learning over distributed and non-stationary data

Masoume Gholizade, Fabrizio Ruffini, Pietro Ducange +1

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative and privacy-preserving model training across distributed clients, but most existing FL systems implicitly assume data stationarity. In…

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraining AGN accretion physics with black hole mass-luminosity scaling relations

F. Fiore, M. Gaspari, S. Puccetti +3

We test how supermassive black holes are fed by combining new black hole mass-luminosity relations with physically motivated feeding models. We build a uniform sample of 1729 unobs…

cs.SE2026

Imperfect Visual Verification for Code Edition : A Case Study on TikZ

Charly Reux, Mathieu Acher, Djamel Eddine Khelladi +2

LLMs have significantly advanced code generation, enabling the synthesis of functional programs. While recent systems achieve strong performance on many coding benchmarks, tasks in…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

Gamma-ray signature of superluminous supernovae: Fermi-LAT GeV detection of SN 2017egm and evidence of a central engine

F. Acero, A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio +116

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a rare class of transients with peak luminosities 10-100 times greater than those of standard core-collapse supernovae (SNe). The mechanisms po…

quant-ph2026

Dynamic Entanglement Packet Scheduling for Quantum Networks

Quang-Phong Tran, Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti +1

Sharing entanglement among multiple users remains a central challenge for scalable quantum networks. Recent work proposed an on-demand entanglement packet architecture in which a c…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Spinodal-like scaling behavior after a temperature quench across the first-order phase transition in three-dimensional -state Potts models

Andrea Pelissetto, Davide Rossini, Ettore Vicari

We study the out-of-equilibrium spinodal-like behavior of three-dimensional (3D) -state Potts models (for ), observed when the temperature is quenched across the first-o…

cs.CL2026

ThreatCore: A Benchmark for Explicit and Implicit Threat Detection

Davide Bruni, Carlo Bardazzi, Maurizio Tesconi

Threat detection in Natural Language Processing lacks consistent definitions and standardized benchmarks, and is often conflated with broader phenomena such as toxicity, hate speec…