18,128 papers

physics.space-ph2026★ 35 cited

A living catalog of stream interaction regions in the Parker Solar Probe era

R. C. Allen, G. C. Ho, L. K. Jian +15

Stream interaction regions (SIRs) and corotating interaction regions (CIRs) are important phenomena in heliospheric physics. These large-scale structures vary temporally and spatia…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

A Chiral Superlattice Route to Spin-Split Topological Antiferromagnetism

Thao Dinh, Mengke Liu, Jian-Xiang Qiu +48

The interplay between chirality and magnetism is a profound topic, spanning particle physics, condensed matter, chemistry and origin of life. In this paper, we study this interplay…

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…

cs.HC2026

Characterizing the Performance Gap in Human Activity Recognition for Older Adults

Hossein Khayami, Sungjin Hwang, Eshed Ohn-Bar +4

Human activity recognition (HAR) from wrist-worn accelerometers is increasingly used for health and behavioral tracking. Yet, most wearable HAR models are developed and evaluated o…

astro-ph.GA2026

Star Cluster Populations in 38 Spiral Galaxies: Evidence for Near-Universal Mass and Age Distributions from PHANGS

Rupali Chandar, Matthew R. Floyd, David A. Thilker +23

We present the largest study to date of star cluster mass and age distributions in nearby galaxies. The analysis is based on a uniformly selected catalog of over 15,000 (36,000) hu…

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…

physics.optics2026★ 1 cited

New Method for Path-length Equalization of Long Single-mode Fibers for Interferometry

M. Anderson, J. D. Monnier, K. Ozdowy +2

The ability to use single mode (SM) fibers for beam transport in optical interferometry offers practical advantages over conventional long vacuum pipes. One challenge facing fiber…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

The Luminosity Function of Ultra-Faint Trans-Neptunian Objects Detected by JWST

Marielle R. Eduardo, Anastasia N. Morgan, Wesley C. Fraser +8

We present a definitive discovery of 27 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) using the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). By employing a shift-an…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Combined JWST and HST Deep Imaging to Characterize the Smallest Known Trans-Neptunian Objects

Anastasia N. Morgan, Marielle R. Eduardo, David E. Trilling +9

We present optical-near-infrared (NIR) color measurements for small ( km) Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) using coordinated and nearly simultaneous observations from the Ja…

cs.LG2026

Persistent Teacher Anchoring for Tool-Using Agents

Hyun Bin Park, Kyungho Song, Sangmin Lee +1

Distillation is common in LLM post-training, where on-policy knowledge distillation (OPKD) uses student-generated trajectories to prepare the student for downstream RL. At each sta…

astro-ph.EP2026

Atmospheric Reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 f with JWST NIRISS SOSS: No Evidence for the Transit Light Source Effect

Olivia Lim, René Doyon, Ryan J. MacDonald +25

In just over three years of operation, JWST has observed all seven planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The two innermost planets were found to have little to no atmosphere, barring t…

astro-ph.SR2026

Calculation of Field Line Slippage Rates in Coronal Simulations

Valentin Aslanyan, David MacTaggart, Roger B. Scott +6

We present the Universal Slippage calculator (\texttt{USlip}), an extension of the Universal Fieldline Tracer (\texttt{UFiT}), that computes magnetic field line slippage rates from…

astro-ph.IM2026

Sub-diffraction-limited coronagraphic imaging with nano-printed PIAACMC phase masks

Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Warren B. Foster +22

Imaging Earth-like exoplanets in the habitable zone of their host star is among the main science objectives of future ground-based and space-based observatories. However, the extre…

cs.CL2026

What Reaches Expert Review? Representation, Structural Screening, and Candidate-Form Dependence in AI-Assisted Item Development

Christopher Brooks

Between AI-assisted item generation and expert review sits a computational evaluator whose decisions are usually treated as technical preliminaries. Yet representation, structural…

cs.AI2026

FLARE MCMC: Fidelity-based Layer-Adaptive REcursive proposals for MCMC

Harini Venkatesan, Christian Shelton, Ming-Feng Ho +2

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) requires only the ability to evaluate the likelihood, making it a common technique for inference in complex models. However, it can have a slow mixi…

cs.SE2026

Dissecting Software Graphs: Structural Insights for Driver-Guided Fuzzing

Baihong Chen, Hua Ming, Weifeng Pan +3

Many software systems expose multiple execution modes through command-line options, subcommands, and configuration flags. For such programs, fuzzing depends on both mutated inputs…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

Intensional Anaphora

Ezra Keshet, Steven Abney

Intensional operators are often treated as quantifiers over possible worlds, parallel to the treatment of determiners as quantifiers over individuals. Yet individuals introduced in…

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…

hep-ex2026

An improved direct limit on the muon electric dipole moment

2 Collaboration, D. P. Aguillard, T. Albahri +192

A limit on the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the positive muon is presented based on data from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment taken between 2019 and 2020. The trackin…

cs.HC2026

ChatMuse: Supporting In-Person Small-Group Conversation Experience with a Proactive Assistive AI Agent in Mixed Reality

Shaoze Zhou, Joaquin Frangi, Diana Nelly Rivera Rodriguez +6

In-person small-group conversations occur across nearly every aspect of daily life and play a crucial role in social interaction. However, achieving effective in-person group conve…

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Quiescent Host Galaxies of Extended Quasars Revealed by Spectrophotometric Decomposition

Shengxiu Sun, Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan +27

Previous works of low-redshift quasar host galaxies have focused on compact quasars and found that their host galaxies are mainly star-forming galaxies. Here we present a study of…

cond-mat.soft2026

Fast Stokesian Dynamics for Rigid Aggregates

Deepak Mangal, Avinesh Ojha, Wanjiao Liu +2

We present a fast Stokesian dynamics (FSD) framework for the dynamics and rheology of suspensions of rigid aggregates. The method extends the sphere-level formulation of Fiore and…

cs.HC2026

Reflections and Recommendations on AI Adoption Practice from a Mixed-Ability Research Group

Shalini Madan, Sreelakshmi Surabiyil Bindu, Veronica Pimenova +2

Generative AI tools have recently been rapidly adopted by academics in mixed-ability research teams for both personal and professional tasks. While previous work on adoption of AI-…