12 papers
A General-Purpose VLM Can Teach an Astronomy Foundation Model to Better Recognize Galaxy Morphology
Dichang Zhang, Jiaqi Deng, Yixuan Shao +7
Existing astronomy foundation models provide strong galaxy representations, but adapting them to new survey conditions and survey-specific morphology recognition tasks still requir…
AS-Bridge: A Bidirectional Generative Framework Bridging Next-Generation Astronomical Surveys
Dichang Zhang, Yixuan Shao, Simon Birrer +1
The upcoming decade of observational cosmology will be shaped by large sky surveys, such as the ground-based LSST at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the space-based Euclid missio…
SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package
Narayan Khadka, Simon Birrer, Henry Best +45
Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multi…
Minutes-long soft X-ray prompt emission from a compact object merger
An Li, Chen-Wei Wang, Niccolò Passaleva +78
Compact object mergers are multi-messenger sources and known progenitors of some gamma-ray bursts, bright flashes of high-energy radiation powered by a central engine, either an ac…
Pulsar Gleaners: Discovery of 19 Pulsars in FAST Archival Data at and Decl.
Shi-Jie Gao, Yi-Xuan Shao, Xiang-Dong Li
We report the discovery of 19 new pulsars identified from archival observations of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) within Galactic latitudes $|b|<5…
Search for Radio Pulsations from Neutron Star Candidates in Detached Binaries
Shi-Jie Gao, Xiang-Dong Li, Song Wang +7
Recent optical astrometric and spectroscopic surveys have identified numerous neutron star (NS) candidates in non-accreting detached binary systems, but their compact-object nature…