A High Efficiency Superconducting On-chip Filterbank with Directional Filters for Integral Field Units in the Sub-millimeter Regime

This paper demonstrates a high-efficiency superconducting on-chip filterbank for sub-millimeter integral field units using directional filters, achieving an average peak coupling efficiency of 75% across the 125–220 GHz range.

Louis H. Marting (Ton), Kenichi Karatsu (Ton), Leon G. G. Olde Scholtenhuis (Ton), Shahab O. Dabironezare (Ton), Alejandro Pascual Laguna (Ton), Arend Moerman (Ton), David J. Thoen (Ton), A. J. (Ton), van der Linden, Akira Endo, Jochem J. A. Baselmans2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Enhancing Gravitational Lens Study with Deep Learning: A Study on Effects of Dropout Regularization

This study demonstrates that incorporating dropout regularization into an AlexNet-based Convolutional Neural Network significantly enhances the precision and robustness of inferring gravitational lens parameters from simulated China Space Station Telescope images, reducing relative errors by 60–76% compared to models without dropout.

Juan J. Ancona-Flores, A. Hernández-Almada, V. Motta2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Disentangling the Galactic binary zoo: Machine learning classification of stellar remnant binaries in LISA data

This paper demonstrates that machine learning techniques, particularly gradient-boosting algorithms like XGBoost, can effectively classify and disentangle overlapping populations of stellar remnant binaries in simulated LISA data, achieving high recall rates for double white dwarf and high-mass systems while significantly outperforming statistical methods in identifying challenging neutron star-white dwarf binaries.

Irwin Khai Cheng Tay, Valeriya Korol, Thibault Lechien2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Searching for outbursts from Symbiotic Binaries in GOTO and ATLAS data

This paper presents a search for outbursts in symbiotic binaries using GOTO and ATLAS photometric data, successfully identifying five systems with confirmed or ongoing Z And-type outbursts, including the first reported event in the Large Magellanic Cloud, thereby highlighting the importance of historical photometry for characterizing these poorly understood phenomena.

G. Ramsay, K. Ackley, S. Belkin, P. Chote, D. Coppejans, M. J. Dyer, R. Eyles-Ferris, B. Godson, D. Jarvis, Y. Julakanti, L. Kelsey, M. R. Kennedy, T. L. Killestein, A. Kumar, A. Levan, S. Littlefair, J. Lyman, M. Magee, S. Mandhai, D. Mata Sánchez, S. Mattila, J. McCormac, J. Mullaney, D. O'Neill, C. Phillips, K. Pu, M. Pursiainen, A. Sahu, S. Moran, M. Shrestha, E. Stanway, R. Starling, Y. Sun, K. Ulaczyk, L. Vincetti, B. Warwick, E. Wickens, K. Wiersema, D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, V. S. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. P. Breton, L. K. Nuttall, B. Gompertz, J. Casares, D. Pollacco2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Generation of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope images using Diffusion Models

This paper demonstrates that score-based diffusion models outperform Wasserstein GANs in generating high-fidelity, analysis-ready monoscopic images of both gamma-ray and proton air showers for Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes, establishing them as the first viable surrogate models for efficient instrument response generation and optimization.

Christian Elflein, Stefan Funk, Jonas Glombitza, Vinicius Mikuni, Benjamin Nachman, Lark Wang2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Molecular Clouds Resolved at the Onset of Cosmic Noon

Using the VLA and HST, researchers discovered and spectrally resolved seven molecular clouds in the high-redshift radio galaxy B2 0902+34, marking the first detection of such structures at the onset of Cosmic Noon and opening new avenues for studying early Universe star formation physics.

Bjorn Emonts (NRAO Charlottesville), Matthew Lehnert (Univ. Lyon/CNRS), Mingyu Li (Tsinghua Univ), Azia Robinson (Agnes Scott College, NRAO Charlottesville), Stephen Curran (Univ. Wellington), Montserrat Villar-Martin (CAB/CSIC-INTA), Chris Carilli (NRAO Socorro), Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON, Kapteyn Inst), Ilsang Yoon (NRAO Charlottesville), Pierre Guillard (IAP/CNRS), George Miley (Leiden Obs), Reinout van Weeren (Leiden Obs), Zheng Cai (Tsinghua Univ)2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

The Collective Voice of Lyα\alpha Emitters: Insights from JWST Stacked Spectroscopy

This paper utilizes JWST/NIRSpec stacked spectroscopy of 287 high-redshift Lyα\alpha emitters to reveal that resonant scattering redistributes Lyα\alpha photons to low-density outskirts where escape is more efficient, while simultaneously uncovering nitrogen-enhanced chemical enrichment and bursty feedback-driven gas flows that link Lyα\alpha emission to the galaxies' ionizing photon budget.

R. Tripodi, L. Napolitano, L. Pentericci, B. Pérez-Díaz, A. Bhagwat, F. D'Eugenio, F. Arevalo-Gonzalez, A. Arroyo-Polonio, A. Calabrò, B. Ciardi, M. Dickinson, H. C. Ferguson, G. Gandolfi, M. Hirschmann, W. Hu, A. M. Koekemoer, M. Llerena, R. A. Lucas, M. S. Oey, C. Papovich, L. Y. A. Yung, X. Wang2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Ly{\alpha} Nebulae in HETDEX: The Largest Statistical Census Bridging Ly{\alpha} Halos and Blobs across Cosmic Noon

This paper presents the largest statistical census from the HETDEX survey, bridging the gap between Lyman-alpha halos and blobs at cosmic noon by characterizing the population's properties and revealing that a significant majority of those with radio counterparts are extended sources, with the radio fraction increasing with Lyman-alpha size.

Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis, Robin Ciardullo, Chris Byrohl, Chenxu Liu, Maya H. Debski, Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Maximilian Fabricius, Daniel J. Farrow, Steven L. Finkelstein, Caryl Gronwall, Gary J. Hill, Maja Lujan Niemeyer, Brianna McKay, Shiro Mukae, Masami Ouchi, Huub Röttgering, Donald P. Schneider, Sarah Tuttle, Lutz Wisotzki, Gregory Zeimann, Sai Zhai2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Velocity dispersion of Solar Energetic Particles in turbulent heliosphere

This study demonstrates that velocity dispersion analysis (VDA) often yields inaccurate solar injection times and path lengths for Solar Energetic Particles because the method is significantly biased by interplanetary magnetic turbulence and the energy dependence of the pre-event proton background.

T. Laitinen (Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Lancashire, UK), S. Dalla (Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Lancashire, UK)2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Formation of mega-parsec giant radio sources from hosts residing in dark matter halos of different masses and with normal hot baryonic gas fractions

Using magnetohydrodynamic simulations, this study demonstrates that mega-parsec giant radio sources can form in dark matter halos of varying masses ($10^{13}to to 10^{15}$ solar masses) with normal hot baryonic gas fractions, challenging the hypothesis that a low-density environment is a necessary condition for their formation.

Xiaodong Duan2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

MIGHTEE: The dark matter haloes, duty cycle and mechanical feedback from radio-AGN up to z2.5z \sim 2.5

Using MIGHTEE survey data across three fields, this study reveals that radio-AGN reside in increasingly massive dark matter haloes at lower redshifts with a duty cycle of 5–9%, suggesting that their enhanced clustering relative to non-active galaxies stems from either AGN feedback suppressing stellar growth or a preference for earlier-forming haloes.

Joel Hamlett, Catherine L. Hale, Matt J. Jarvis, David Alonso, Natalia Stylianou, Imogen H. Whittam2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Angular momentum drives proton-rich nucleosynthesis in hyperaccreting neutron stars in common envelopes

This study demonstrates that angular momentum-driven accretion disks in common envelope systems containing a neutron star and a massive companion facilitate the synthesis of significant rp-process products and alpha-rich elements like 44^{44}Ti and 56^{56}Ni, offering a new mechanism for galactic chemical evolution.

Alexander D. Hall-Smith, Sophie E. D. Abrahams, Alison M. Laird, Christian Aa. Diget, Christopher Fryer, Samuel W. Jones2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

WALLABY pilot survey: Blinded by the light -- discovery of a fourth member in the ESO 179-013 system

Using new ASKAP/WALLABY HI observations, this study discovers a previously missed fourth dwarf galaxy member in the nearby ESO 179-013 system and reveals an extended neutral gas envelope that indicates a more complex interaction history than previously thought.

Rayssa Guimarães Silva, Marco Grossi, Denise R. Gonçalves, Edvige Corbelli, Barbara Catinella, Nathan Deg, Benne W. Holwerda, Roger Ianjamasimanana, Denis A. Leahy, Pavel E. Mancera Piña, Sriram Sankar, Kristine Spekkens, S. F. Rahman, Tobias Westmeier, O. Ivy Wong2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Discovery and Timing of the First Millisecond Pulsar in NGC 6316

Using the Green Bank and Parkes radio telescopes, researchers discovered and characterized the first millisecond pulsar, PSR J1716-2808A, in the globular cluster NGC 6316, confirming its cluster membership through timing analysis despite a lower-than-expected dispersion measure and suggesting that deeper searches could reveal many more pulsars consistent with the cluster's gamma-ray emission.

Deven Bhakta, Scott M. Ransom, Megan DeCesar, Shi Dai2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

The Baryonic Mass-Halo Mass Relation of Extragalactic Systems

This paper establishes a tight relation between the baryonic mass and dynamical mass of extragalactic systems across nine orders of magnitude, revealing that the baryon fraction matches the cosmic value in massive clusters but decreases systematically in lower-mass systems according to a specific tanh-based scaling law.

Stacy McGaugh, Tobias Mistele, Francis Duey, Konstantin Haubner, Federico Lelli, Jim Schombert, Pengfei Li2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Galaxy UV Legacy Project: Survey Description and First Insights Into NGC 4449 Recent History of Star Formation

The Galaxy UV Legacy Project (GULP) presents a new Hubble Space Telescope survey of 26 nearby galaxies that, through a detailed case study of NGC 4449, reveals a recent southwestward migration of star formation and demonstrates that intense UV radiation from massive stars destroys the dust grains responsible for the 2175 Å UV-bump.

E. Sabbi, B. Meena, P. Zeidler, V. Bajaj, D. Calzetti, J. J. Eldridge, P. Facchini, S. Linden, P. A. Crowther, A. Adamo, L. Bianchi, M. Cignoni, B. G. Elmegreen, D. M. Elmegreen, J. S. Gallagher III, M. Gennaro, E. K. Grebel, R. S. Klessen, A. Pasquali, L. J. Smith, A. Wofford2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Constraining turbulent solar flare acceleration regions by connecting kinetic modeling and X-ray observations

By integrating kinetic modeling with RHESSI and Solar Orbiter/STIX X-ray observations of three large flares, this study constrains solar flare acceleration properties, revealing that extended turbulent regions covering approximately 25% of the flare loop and acceleration timescales between 7 and 22 seconds are required to match observed data.

Morgan Stores, Natasha Jeffrey, Ewan Dickson, James McLaughlin, Eduard Kontar2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph

Kinematically Coherent Multiphase Galactic Winds in Star-Forming Galaxies Revealed by Unified Radiative Transfer Modeling of UV Emission and Absorption Lines

This paper introduces PEACOCK, a unified Monte Carlo radiative transfer framework accelerated by deep learning, which analyzes 50 nearby star-forming galaxies to reveal that their multiphase galactic winds are kinematically coherent and driven by macroscopic turbulence rather than purely radial acceleration, while showing distinct kinematic structures between neutral hydrogen and metal ions.

Zhihui Li, Timothy Heckman, Max Gronke, Xinfeng Xu, Alaina Henry, Evan Schneider, Matthew Abruzzo, Danielle Berg, Bethan James, Crystal Martin, John Chisholm2026-03-09🔭 astro-ph