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astro-ph.GA2026

Non-Axisymmetric Pillar Structures due to Embedded Stars in AGN Accretion Discs

Jiamu Huang, Douglas N. C. Lin, Keith Horne

Gravitationally unstable outer regions of AGN discs may host in situ formation of massive stars whose heating produces localized vertical "pillars" on the disc surface, in the same…

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

Paleo-heat flux estimates across Enceladus derived from flexural response of the ice shell

Chelsea Eakins, Francis Nimmo, Paul Schenk

Saturn's moon Enceladus has active plumes suggestive of locally high heat fluxes at present, and the present-day heating is reasonably well characterized. However, the moon's therm…

astro-ph.CO2026

A census of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 redMaPPer galaxy clusters in a high exposure eROSITA All Sky Survey region

P. A. Giles, A. K. Romer, J. Pilling +64

We present the cross-match of galaxy clusters detected by redMaPPer using the first three years of Dark Energy Survey (DESY3RM) operations, and the first release of the eROSITA-All…

physics.ao-ph2026

AI Emulation of Stochastic Sudden Stratospheric Warming with Interpretable Latent Structure

C. Daniel Boscu, Daniel Hernandez, Fabio Alvarez Ventura +4

Rare weather regime transitions pose a challenge for data-driven modeling due to class imbalance. In this study, we develop a probabilistic deep learning emulator for a prototypica…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Science Potential of Characterizing Gas Giant Exoplanets with HWO

Beck Dacus, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Quinn Konopacky +19

With the ability to directly image Earth-like exoplanets and search their atmospheres for biosignatures, the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will also collect high sign…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Delegate Survey: KOALA/AAOmega-IFU spectroscopy of three nearby dwarf galaxies

Kyungdo Ko, Helmut Jerjen, Sarah M. Sweet +6

Assessing the cosmological typicality of the Local Group is crucial for establishing whether its dwarf galaxy population is representative. To this end, the Delegate Survey targets…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Cross-Laboratory Comparison Study of Titan Haze Analogs: Surface Energy II

Eric C. Austin, Xinting Yu, Chao He +10

The organic haze particles on Titan play important roles in atmospheric cloud formation and aerosol-lake interactions. These processes are strongly influenced by the surface energy…

astro-ph.SR2026

The relationship between solar and stellar tachoclines, dynamos, and spin-down

Loren I. Matilsky, Lydia Korre, Nicholas Brummell

The solar tachocline, a thin shear layer separating the differentially rotating convective zone (CZ) from the underlying rigidly rotating radiative zone (RZ), remains a dynamical m…

astro-ph.IM2026

Pre-shipment optical characterization of the SCALES instrument

Isabel J. Kain, Reni Kupke, Daren Dillon +31

The Slicer Combined with an Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES) instrument is a 1-5 micron imager and 2-5 micron integral field spectrograph, currently being comm…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Individual Vanadium Dopants Form Deep In-Gap States in Monolayer WS2

Tianhui Zhu, Carlos A. Gonzalez, Shihao Tu +11

Point defects in atomically thin materials have a strong impact on physical properties and those that induce in-gap states are advantageous for quantum information science and engi…

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

Radiative Transfer Modeling of Stripped-envelope Supernovae II: Neural Network Emulation of Light Curves

S. Karthik Yadavalli, V. Ashley Villar, Maria R. Drout +3

We present the first neural-network emulator of stripped-envelope supernova (SESN) lightcurves, trained on a grid of 4499 light curves simulated with the radiative transfer (RT) co…

astro-ph.GA2026

Formation of globular cluster-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies through mergers

Truman Tapia, Hidenori Matsui, Kenji Bekki +6

We use high-resolution, idealized hydrodynamic simulations of gas-rich dwarf-galaxy mergers to test whether such encounters can form ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) with globular clu…

eess.SP2026

Deep Learning-Assisted UAV Localization Framework for Post-Disaster Search and Rescue Missions

Xiangjian Gao, Hamid R. Sadjadpour

The precise locating of trapped victims is arguably the most challenging issue in SAR operations, particularly when infrastructure is destroyed and SAR teams only have low-power be…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Alkali Metallicity, Mineral Clouds, and Deep Atmospheric Variability on Jupiter

Xi Zhang, Jiheng Hu, Cheng Li +1

The bulk elemental abundances of Jupiter provide critical insights into its formation history and interior structure. Recent observations by the Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR) rev…

cs.HC2026

Dynamic Surveys: Using LLMs to Blend Qualitative Depth,Quantitative Structure, and Collaborative Interaction

Kehua Lei, Aidan Ladenburg, Zahra Petiwala +5

Surveys are a powerful tool for collecting data and eliciting insights on social phenomena, and are critical in product design, marketing, scientific research. However, traditional…

astro-ph.EP2026

Setting the Stage: The Early History of the Solar System

Antgona Segura, Rachel L. Smith, Myriam Telus +3

This article reviews the early history of our solar system from an astrobiological perspective and presents evidence from meteorites and astronomical observations. The purpose is t…

physics.ins-det2026★ 2 cited

Gamma irradiation of ATLAS18 ITk strip sensors affected by static charge

M. Mikestikova, V. Fadeyev, P. Federicova +13

Construction of the new all-silicon ITk, developed by the ATLAS collaboration to be able to track charged particles produced at the HL- LHC, started in 2021 and is expected to cont…

cs.AI2026

Representation Robustness Under Executable Reasoning Constraints in Large Language Models for Mathematical Problem Solving

Sagnik Nath, Edith Aurora Graf, Liang Zhang +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated on mathematical problem solving, yet prior work often treats representationally equivalent formulations as interchangeable a…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026★ 2 cited

What Is a Pattern in Statistical Mechanics? Formalizing Structure and Patterns in One-Dimensional Spin Lattice Models with Computational Mechanics

Omar Aguilar

This work formalizes the notions of structure and pattern for three distinct one-dimensional spin-lattice models (finite-range Ising, solid-on-solid, and three-body), using informa…

cs.DC2026

Totoro: An Adaptive and Scalable Edge Federated Learning System

Cheng-Wei Ching, Xin Chen, Taehwan Kim +3

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning (ML) technique that enables in-situ model training and inference on decentralized edge devices. We propose Totor…

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury (PHAST). II. The Spatially Resolved Recent Star Formation History in M31

Tobin M. Wainer, Benjamin F. Williams, Zhuo Chen +19

We use Hubble Space Telescope optical imaging from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury (PHAST) to measure the spatially resolved recent star formation history (SFH)…