AstroInspect: a web-based system to organize, assess, and visually inspect astronomical objects

The paper introduces AstroInspect, a web-based system designed to streamline the organization, assessment, and visual inspection of astronomical objects by integrating real-time data from multiple surveys into a single intuitive interface, as demonstrated by its successful application in identifying Hα\alpha emission-line galaxies in the Hydra I cluster.

Natanael M. Cardoso, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Angela C. Krabbe + 9 more2026-03-06🔭 astro-ph

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XVIII. Indication of a possible spiral structure in the dust-continuum emission of the protostellar disk around IRAS 16544-1604 in CB 68

Through numerical simulations and radiative transfer modeling, this study suggests that the asymmetric shoulder features observed in the dust-continuum emission of the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16544-1604 in CB 68 are likely caused by gravitational instability in a massive disk, even though the resulting spiral structures are too small to be directly resolved by current eDisk observations.

Sanemichi Z. Takahashi, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Ryosuke Nakanishi + 11 more2026-03-06🔭 astro-ph

Euclid: A blue galaxy population and a brightest cluster galaxy in the making in a z1.74z\sim1.74 MaDCoWS2 galaxy cluster candidate

This study presents a Euclid follow-up of a z1.74z\sim1.74 galaxy cluster candidate, revealing an overdense population of blue galaxies and a merging proto-Brightest Cluster Galaxy that illustrates a common multi-object merger formation process, suggesting Euclid will discover approximately 400 such assembling systems by the end of its mission.

A. Trudeau, A. H. Gonzalez, S. A. Stanford + 152 more2026-03-06🔭 astro-ph

EMU/GAMA: A statistical perspective on active galactic nuclei diagnostics

This study employs unsupervised machine learning clustering on multiwavelength data from the GAMA, EMU, and WISE surveys to quantify the fractional contributions of star formation and active galactic nuclei to galaxy energy budgets, ultimately establishing a novel, highly reliable three-dimensional IR-radio diagnostic scheme that moves beyond binary classifications to characterize galaxies as composites of multiple emission processes.

J. Prathap, A. M. Hopkins, R. Carvajal + 19 more2026-03-06🔭 astro-ph

The Local Tremaine-Weinberg Method for Galactic Pattern Speed: Theory and its Application to IllustrisTNG

This paper introduces a unified integral framework based on the continuity equation that generalizes the Tremaine-Weinberg method to measure local pattern speeds, demonstrating through TNG50 simulations that it robustly recovers both global and radially varying rotation profiles while distinguishing between bars and spirals without relying on rigid geometric approximations.

Hangci Du, Yougang Wang, Junqiang Ge + 1 more2026-03-06🔭 astro-ph

ULTIMATE deblending I. A 50-band UV-to-MIR photometric catalog combining space- and ground-based data in the JWST/PRIMER survey

This paper presents the first release of the ULTIMATE-deblending project, a comprehensive 50-band UV-to-MIR photometric catalog for the JWST/PRIMER survey that integrates space- and ground-based data to significantly improve the accuracy of photometric redshifts and enable mass-complete studies of early-universe galaxy formation.

Hanwen Sun, Tao Wang, Ke Xu + 16 more2026-03-06🔭 astro-ph

Resolving the sub-parsec circumnuclear density profiles of quiescent galaxies: Evidence for Bondi accretion flows in tidal disruption event hosts

By analyzing radio observations of 11 tidal disruption event hosts, this study introduces a new methodology that reveals quiescent galaxies possess sub-parsec circumnuclear density profiles consistent with simple Bondi accretion flows, thereby enabling the first direct constraints on gas distributions and accretion rates within the Bondi spheres of previously quiescent supermassive black holes.

Adelle J. Goodwin, Andrew Mummery2026-03-06🔭 astro-ph

Galaxy quenching across the Cosmic Web: disentangling mass and environment with SDSS DR18

Using SDSS DR18 data, this study demonstrates that while environmental quenching dominates in low-mass galaxies across the cosmic web, massive galaxies (log10(M/M)11.5\log_{10}(M_\star/M_\odot) \gtrsim 11.5) exhibit divergent evolutionary pathways where those in low-density sheets retain gas and star formation unlike their quenched, morphologically transformed cluster counterparts, highlighting the cosmic web as an active driver of galaxy evolution beyond simple mass dependence.

Anindita Nandi, Biswajit Pandey2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Confirming lensed-quasar candidates with DESI and P200 spectroscopy I. 14 lensed quasars and 8 lensed galaxies

This paper reports the confirmation of two new lensed quasars and the identification of 12 likely lensed quasars and eight new lensed galaxies by cross-matching 1,724 candidates from imaging surveys with DESI DR1 and P200 spectroscopy, demonstrating the efficiency of wide-field spectroscopic surveys in validating strong lens systems.

Zizhao He, Qihang Chen, Xiaosheng Huang + 3 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph