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Comment on: "The Preprint Evolution: The Rise of Unreviewed Drafts on arXiv and its Implications for Astronomy"
Noam Soker
I argue against the proposal of arXiv:2609.35787 to divide arXiv astrophysics submissions into two streams: peer-reviewed papers and pre-review discussion drafts. I contend that su…
Common Envelope Evolution: Too stochastic to be deterministic
Noam Soker
I argue for significant stochastic behavior in the common envelope evolution (CEE) of cool giants and main-sequence companions to the degree that it is almost impossible to know th…
The 2025.6 X-ray Minimum of Eta Carinae
Amit Kashi, Noam Soker
We present observations of the recent 2025.6 X-ray minimum and recovery of ~Carinae, obtained with NICER/XTI, Swift/XRT, XRISM/Xtend, and Chandra/HRC-I. We construct light curve…
A pair of unequal jets imparted the kick velocity to the neutron star of Cassiopeia A
Dmitry Shishkin, Muhammad Akashi, Noam Soker
We analyze observations of the Cassiopeia A core-collapse supernova remnant (CCSNR) and identify a pair of opposite rings, attributing their formation to unequal-energy explosion j…
One Precessing Jet Pair, Diverse Core-Collapse Supernova Remnant Morphologies
Jessica Braudo, Noam Soker
We produce a diverse set of observed core-collapse supernova (CCSN)-type morphologies using a precessing pair of opposite jets within the jittering-jets explosion mechanism (JJEM)…
Supernova 1987A was a "failed supernova" twenty thousand years before its jet-driven explosion
Noam Soker
I show that the progenitor of supernova (SN) 1987A faded substantially and became red for hundreds of years to observers in and near the plane of the equatorial ring, because the e…