Adsorption of volatiles on dust grains in protoplanetary disks

Using advanced density functional theory and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, this study reveals that volatile molecules exhibit fundamentally different adsorption behaviors on carbonaceous versus silicate dust grains in protoplanetary disks, with weak physisorption on carbon leading to distinct condensation radii and potential carbon depletion, while strong chemisorption on silicates maintains molecular coatings across most disk regions.

Lile Wang, Feng Long, Haifeng Yang + 2 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates

This paper presents a new catalog of 4,110 galaxy-galaxy gravitational lens candidates, including 3,887 new discoveries, identified by detecting background [O II] emission lines in DESI spectra of foreground luminous red galaxies, which will serve as a valuable dataset for measuring dark matter substructure and enabling time-delay cosmography.

Juliana S. M. Karp, David J. Schlegel, Xiaosheng Huang + 47 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): Euclid spectroscopy of quasars. 1. Identification and redshift determination of 3500 bright quasars

This paper presents the identification and redshift determination of approximately 3,500 bright quasars from the Euclid Quick Data Release using slitless NISP spectroscopy, resulting in a new homogeneous catalogue, the first Euclid quasar composite spectrum, and an analysis of host galaxy morphologies and AGN selection techniques.

Euclid Collaboration, Y. Fu, R. Bouwens + 354 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

CUBE2: A Parallel NN-Body Simulation Code for Scalability, Accuracy, and Memory Efficiency

The paper introduces CUBE2, an open-source, memory-efficient, and scalable cosmological NN-body simulation code that combines a multi-level Particle-Mesh method with optimized Green's functions and Information Optimized Storage to achieve high precision and performance, validated by successfully running $6144^3$ particle simulations on the ACECS supercomputer.

Hao-Ran Yu, Bing-Hang Chen, Kun Xu + 4 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

The AIDA-TNG project. Abundance, radial distribution, and clustering properties of halos in alternative dark matter models

The AIDA-TNG project utilizes cosmological simulations to demonstrate that alternative dark matter models, specifically warm and self-interacting variants, significantly alter halo abundance, radial distribution, and clustering properties, with small-scale clustering emerging as a key discriminator for future observational comparisons.

Massimiliano Romanello, Giulia Despali, Federico Marulli + 3 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Prospects of Prompt Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry with POLAR-2

This paper demonstrates that the POLAR-2 mission's High-energy Polarimetry Detector (HPD) will achieve unprecedented time- and energy-resolved linear polarization measurements of prompt gamma-ray bursts, enabling the distinction between competing emission mechanisms and the precise characterization of outflow properties through a novel maximum likelihood fitting technique applied to synthetic sources.

Ramandeep Gill, Jiang He, Jonathan Granot + 6 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Virgo Filaments VI: Hαα clumps in the filaments around the Virgo galaxy cluster

This study analyzes resolved Hα\alpha maps of 685 galaxies around the Virgo cluster to characterize star-forming clumps, revealing that clump counts follow a fractal power-law relation with distance and finding that filament galaxies exhibit a slightly higher number of peripheral clumps compared to non-filament galaxies, though no conclusive differences in clump size distributions were detected.

G. Nagaraj, P. Jablonka, R. A. Finn + 9 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Fractal dimension of the cosmic web with different galaxy types

This study utilizes the COSMOS2020 dataset to demonstrate that the fractal dimension of the cosmic web varies systematically with galaxy color and redshift, revealing a distinct hierarchy where blue galaxies exhibit the highest dimensionality and green galaxies the lowest, thereby establishing fractal dimension as a sensitive diagnostic for mapping large-scale structure evolution.

Ana Elisa Lima, Julianne C. Soares, Ana Carolina S. Tavares + 4 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Stratification of the AGN-Driven multi-phase outflows in the dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC 4395

This study utilizes multi-wavelength data from JWST, ALMA, and Gemini to reveal that the intermediate-mass black hole in the dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC 4395 drives a stratified, biconical outflow where cold molecular gas dominates the mass loss and kinetic impact on the ISM, while higher ionisation gas is accelerated more efficiently closer to the AGN.

Payel Nandi, Luis Colina, Rogemar A. Riffel + 5 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph