14,609 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Measuring masses of transiting Earth-like planets: first insights from the PLATO RV data challenge

M. Cretignier, N. C. Hara, S. Aigrain +24

The PLATO Stellar Variability Mitigation Working Group designed a radial-velocity (RV) data challenge to assess the precision and accuracy achievable on RV semi-amplitudes in the c…

cs.AR2026

DiffRouter: A Differentiable Routing Framework for UltraScale FPGAs

Xiaohan Gao, Zhili Xiong, Yusu Wang +1

Routing has become a major bottleneck in large-scale FPGA design flows, where traditional routers rely on sequential net-by-net processing and rip-up-reroute heuristics. This inher…

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Single Line-Emitter Identified in an Unbiased Search with JWST/NIRSpec: Multi-Object Coronagraphy for Slitless Spectroscopy

Mason S. Huberty, Claudia Scarlata, Matthew J. Hayes +13

We report the detection of a previously unknown object with a single emission line within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, using a new JWST NIRSpec technique called Multi-Object Corona…

astro-ph.CO2026

The BUFFALO Survey : The Subhalo Mass Function for Abell 2744 with Strong+Weak Gravitational Lensing

Nency R. Patel, Mathilde Jauzac, Anna Niemiec +16

We present a combined strong and weak gravitational lensing mass model of the massive merging galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z = 0.308). The mass reconstruction combines strong-lensing…

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Nanodiamond Sensing of Stray Fields during Domain Reversal

Kin On Ho, Hamza Abudayyeh, Andrew Perez +6

Quantitative measurement of nanoscale stray magnetic fields during domain reversal is important for understanding and optimizing magnetic memory and logic devices. Yet, achieving h…

astro-ph.EP2026

Time-resolved JWST Retrieval Analysis of the Coldest Brown Dwarf: Temperature and Chemical Variations in WISE 0855-07

Harshil Kothari, Caroline V. Morley, Brittany E. Miles +12

WISE J0855-07 is the coldest known brown dwarf (estimated Teff~250 K), offering a rare opportunity to probe atmospheric physics in the temperature and mass regime that overlaps dir…

cs.DB2026

SKYE: Write-Optimized Key-Value Store with Fine-Grained Control over Persistent Memory Accesses

Soujanya Ponnapalli, Sekwon Lee, Rohan Kadekodi +1

State-of-the-art key-value stores built for persistent memory (PM) provide low latency as they allow application threads to directly access the data on PM and rely on hardware to m…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Treasury of Extremely Metal-Poor O Stars

O. Grace Telford, Christiana Erba, Kristen B. W. McQuinn +10

The Treasury of Extremely Metal-Poor O Stars (TEMPOS) is a Hubble Space Telescope survey of hot and massive O-type stars in nearby, low-metallicity galaxies (20% of the s…

astro-ph.SR2026

SDSS-IV MaStar: Determination of Stellar Parameters Using Bayesian Averaging

Yan-Ping Chen, Renbin Yan, Szabolcs Mészáros +12

We present the stellar parameters for 59,266 high-quality spectra of 24,130 unique stars from the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release…

astro-ph.SR2026

Uncovering the Origin of Slow Rotators among Intermediate-Mass Stars in the Star-Forming Cluster Trumpler 14

Khushboo K. Rao, Wen-Ping Chen, Hsiang-Yu Chen +2

Intermediate-mass (about 1.5-8 M) stars exhibit a wide range of rotation rates and have gained attention for their roles in the extended main-sequence turnoffs (eMSTO) se…

cs.AI2026

Data-Driven Discovery of Composition-Dependent Constitutive Models for Hyperelasticity and Viscoelasticity of Digital Materials

Josué García-Ávila, Beijun Shen, Manuel K. Rausch +2

Digital materials fabricated by multi-material 3D printing are designed as controlled mixtures of stiff and compliant constituents, yielding effective responses that span more than…

cs.CV2026

GradeTrap: Authority Cues in Images Shift VLM Judgments Despite Explicit Instructions to Ignore Them

Deep Dessai

As vision-language models (VLMs) become increasingly capable and are deployed in consequential real-world settings, they must evaluate evidence independently rather than defer uncr…

astro-ph.SR2026

SN 2021pfs: A Type Ia Supernova Likely Affected by Progenitor Metallicity, as Revealed by Comparison with Its Twin Counterpart

Abdusamatjan Iskandar, Xiaofeng Wang, Ali Esamdin +16

We present extensive photometric and spectroscopic observations of the normal type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) 2021pfs, which occurred in the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 5427 at a redshift 0.0…

cs.SI2026★ 1 cited

Agent-Enhanced Heterogeneous Graph RAG for Academic Question Answering

Runsong Jia, Mengjia Wu, Ying Ding +2

Academic question answering requires reasoning over heterogeneous scholarly graphs, where queries range from simple attribute lookups to multi-hop inference across author--paper--v…

astro-ph.IM2026

The MegaWave Radio Surveyor

T. Joseph W. Lazio, Evgenya Shkolnik, James Aguirre +40

Several Decadal-level questions in astrophysics, exoplanets, astrobiology, and cosmology can be addressed only at low radio frequencies inaccessible from Earth. The MegaWave Radio…

astro-ph.CO2026

Paleo-Detectors as a Novel Probe of Dark Matter-Nucleus Effective Interactions

Dionysios P. Theodosopoulos

Paleo-detectors are a proposed approach to the direct detection of dark matter (DM) based on the observation of DM-induced nuclear recoils. Rather than relying on large detector ma…

econ.EM2026

Accelerating the Adoption of Residential Solar Power Systems: Policy Analysis using a Dynamic Structural Model

Sebastián Souyris, Jason A. Duan, Anantaram Balakrishnan +1

Problem definition: Solar electricity generation is a strategic component of energy portfolios designed to meet growing demand and reduce carbon emissions. Governments and municipa…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA EGO-10 Survey of Massive Protoclusters: Correlation of 1.3 mm Continuum Source Clustering with Evolutionary State

Michael C. Logue, Claudia J. Cyganowski, Crystal L. Brogan +4

Massive stars characteristically form in clustered environments. Characterising young massive 'protoclusters' is therefore crucial to constraining the mechanism(s) of massive star…

astro-ph.SR2026

Non-ideal MHD and protostellar feedback effects on disc formation and evolution in numerical simulations of star cluster formation

Nina Filippova, Stella S. R. Offner, Michael Y. Grudic +1

While recent surveys have resolved hundreds of nearby protostellar discs, numerical simulations assuming ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) have historically struggled to achieve dis…

astro-ph.GA2026

How can we finally see the first light? Status and perspective in the search for Population III stars

Alessandra Venditti, Daniel Schaerer, Erik Zackrisson +26

Finding the first (Population III or Pop III) stars is one of the fundamental quests of astronomy, aiming to deliver the missing link in how stars form at early cosmic times. Yet t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Electron correlation in semiconductors and insulators via symbolic regression

Nick Pant, Viet-Anh Ha, Donghwan Kim +1

Predicting quasiparticle energies in materials requires expensive numerical evaluations of the electron self-energy. This limits calculations to ordered systems with small unit cel…

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…