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Astro-Ph — Im explores the cosmic origins of light, tracing how stars and galaxies form and evolve across the vast expanse of the universe. This field examines the electromagnetic radiation emitted by celestial objects, helping us decode the history of everything from newborn stars to ancient black holes without needing a telescope in your backyard.
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NeuralDMD is an interpretable, untrained framework that combines neural implicit representations with Dynamic Mode Decomposition to reconstruct and forecast continuous spatio-temporal dynamics directly from sparse, noisy, and indirect measurements without requiring ground truth data or numerical simulators.
This paper introduces a physics-informed conditional variational autoencoder that achieves interpretable, low-dimensional compression of cosmic microwave background power spectra to enable rapid, amortized diagnostics for cosmological model discrimination and anomaly detection beyond the standard CDM framework.
This paper proposes and validates a computationally efficient *uv*-grid stacking method for deep spectral line imaging with ASKAP and SKA, demonstrating that it significantly outperforms the default image-stacking approach by recovering nearly 100% of HI flux and minimizing systematic artifacts while avoiding the prohibitive storage costs of traditional joint imaging.
This study evaluates target selection strategies for ESA's Ariel mission, demonstrating that leverage-based optimization methods offer the most effective balance between maximizing sample diversity and maintaining a robust number of exoplanet targets within limited observation time.
The paper introduces Cosmo3DFlow, a novel generative framework that combines 3D Discrete Wavelet Transforms with flow matching to overcome dimensionality and sparsity challenges in cosmological inference, enabling the reconstruction of early universe initial conditions up to 46 times faster than existing diffusion models.
This paper presents a real-time, GPU-accelerated full-physics framework using AVIRIS-3 VSWIR data to accurately retrieve sub-pixel wildfire temperatures, demonstrating high precision on airborne data and successful generalization to space-borne spectrometers like EMIT.
This review article examines the critical challenges of environmental noise, particularly in the 2–10 Hz range, that threaten the unprecedented sensitivity of the next-generation Einstein Telescope, while summarizing ongoing research into site characterization, infrastructure design, and mitigation strategies essential for its scientific success.
The paper introduces \celephais, an efficient spectral initial-data code built on the \texttt{Kadath} library that utilizes adaptive $hp$-refinement and Jacobian-free Newton--Krylov iterations to generate accurate, non-symmetric initial data for precessing binary-neutron-star and black-hole--neutron-star systems with arbitrary spin orientations.
This paper presents a multi-pipeline follow-up study of a continuous gravitational-wave outlier from supernova remnant G347.3-0.5, confirming its presence in O3 data but finding no evidence of a standard signal in subsequent O4a and O4b observations, thereby serving as a critical test case for future candidate verification.
This paper presents the architecture, real-time implementation, and preliminary on-sky results of the Keck All Sky Precision Adaptive Optics (KAPA) system, demonstrating that its four-laser guide star tomography significantly reduces wavefront error and improves image quality compared to single-laser systems, thereby validating a critical technology for future extremely large telescopes.