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most citedCharacterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

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astro-ph.HE2026

AT2025agpz in Rubin commissioning data: distinguishing a luminous interacting supernova from nuclear transients in compact galaxies

C. R. Angus, M. Quilt, H. F. Stevance +37

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time will discover unprecedented numbers of rare, long-lived optical transients, many of which will be too faint or too n…

physics.gen-ph2026

Multiplicity of Massive Stars at Low Metallicity: Early Results from the BLOeM Campaign

T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner, M. Abdul-Masih +73

Massive stars at low metallicity (Z) play a central role in shaping the high-redshift Universe, yet their multiplicity remains poorly constrained. The Binarity at Low Metallicity (…

astro-ph.HE2026

Gamma-ray burst progenitors revisited

Andrew J. Levan, Jillian C. Rastinejad, Helena-Margaret S. Grabham +11

Recently, several long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with kilonovae have cast doubt on the traditional, dichotomous mapping between gamma-ray duration and progenitor…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Sun's chemical peculiarity: disentangling Galactic chemical evolution and planetary engulfment in solar twins

Mia Babatsikos, Fan Liu, Amanda Karakas +5

Recent observational studies have suggested that the Sun may be chemically peculiar relative to the majority of solar twins. Here, we re-analyse high-resolution, high signal-to-noi…

astro-ph.SR2025

Implications of modern mass-loss rates for massive stars

JD Merritt, Simon Stevenson, Andreas Sander +7

Massive stars lose a significant fraction of their mass through stellar winds at various stages of their lives, including on the main sequence, during the red supergiant phase, and…

gr-qc2024★ 12 cited

Rarity of precession and higher-order multipoles in gravitational waves from merging binary black holes

Charlie Hoy, Stephen Fairhurst, Ilya Mandel

The latest binary black hole population estimates argue for a subpopulation of unequal component mass binaries with spins that are likely small but isotropically distributed. This…