Long-term activity cycles in planetary M stars observed with SOPHIE

Using 13 years of high-resolution SOPHIE spectroscopic data, this study identifies and characterizes distinct long-term magnetic activity cycles of approximately 4.8 and 4.9 years in the exoplanet-hosting M dwarfs GJ 617A and GJ 411, respectively, confirming their magnetic origin and distinguishing them from planetary signals to improve future exoplanet detection efforts.

C. G. Oviedo, A. P. Buccino, R. F. Díaz + 5 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Stellar Chromospheric Activity Database of Solar-like Stars Based on the LAMOST Low-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey III. Calibrating the Chromospheric Basal Flux and the Connection to Stellar Rotation

This study utilizes LAMOST spectroscopic data to calibrate chromospheric activity indices for over 11,000 solar-like stars, revealing that activity levels increase with rotation rate until reaching a saturation threshold that varies systematically with effective temperature and convective zone depth.

Weitao Zhang, Han He, Jun Zhang2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Scalar quasinormal modes of rotating black holes in parity-violating gravity

This paper investigates the quasinormal modes of a scalar field on a parity-violating rotating black hole background, deriving perturbative frequency corrections for low spins and revealing significant deviations from Kerr predictions in the near-extremal regime, thereby offering a new method to probe parity-violating gravity in strong gravitational fields.

Hiroaki W. H. Tahara, Hayato Motohashi, Kazufumi Takahashi + 1 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

The Effect of Planetary Rotation Period on Clouds in a Global Climate Model with a Bin Microphysics Scheme

This study integrates the size-resolved CARMA bin microphysics scheme into the CAM6 global climate model to simulate exoplanets across various rotation rates, revealing that while the native Morrison-Gettelman parameterization yields reasonable habitability assessments, the resolved microphysics significantly alters cloud properties and ice size distributions, which has critical implications for interpreting exoplanet transmission spectra.

Huanzhou Yang, Eric T. Wolf, Cheng-Cheng Liu + 3 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

The Stellar Mass Function for Nine Massive Galaxy Clusters in the Local Universe

This study utilizes complete spectroscopic samples from nine massive local galaxy clusters to characterize their stellar mass functions, revealing distinct shapes for quiescent and star-forming populations and identifying a significant excess of intermediate-mass galaxies compared to IllustrisTNG-300 simulations, thereby providing critical constraints for galaxy formation models in dense environments.

Jong-In Park, Jubee Sohn, Margaret J. Geller + 2 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

The influence of galaxy mergers, black-hole growth, and gas processes on the evolution of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation of galaxies in different cosmic environments

This study reveals that minor mergers, supermassive black hole growth, and gas accretion-starvation balance are the primary drivers of scatter in the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation across cosmic environments, with their specific impacts varying significantly by redshift and environment, particularly showing dominant effects in galaxy nodes.

Aaron R. Rowntree, Fiorenzo Vincenzo, Ankit Singh + 3 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

A Short-Timescale Optical Quasi-Periodic Oscillation in PKS\,0805-07 from High-Cadence TESS Observations

High-cadence TESS observations of the high-redshift quasar PKS 0805−07 reveal a statistically significant, transient optical quasi-periodic oscillation with a period of approximately 1.7 days, which is interpreted as likely arising from either a hotspot orbiting a supermassive black hole or magnetohydrodynamic instabilities within the relativistic jet.

Sikandar Akbar, Zahir Shah, Naseer Iqbal2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Morphologies for DECaLS Galaxies through a combination of non-parametric indices and machine learning methods: A comprehensive catalog using the Galaxy Morphology Extractor (galmex) code

This paper introduces the galmex Python package to generate a comprehensive catalog of non-parametric morphological indices for DECaLS galaxies, demonstrating their effectiveness—particularly when combined with LightGBM machine learning—in reliably classifying spiral and elliptical galaxies for future southern hemisphere surveys.

V. M. Sampaio, Y. Jaffé, C. Lima-Dias + 5 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Properties of Galaxies with Counter-rotating Stellar Disks in the MaNGA Survey

Using the largest sample to date from the MaNGA survey, this study identifies 147 galaxies with counter-rotating stellar disks, classifies them into distinct kinematic types to reveal their origins in gas accretion and evolutionary stages, and demonstrates that the impact of this accretion on galaxy evolution depends primarily on the abundance of pre-existing gas in their progenitors.

Min Bao, Zhenyu Tang, Yanmei Chen + 2 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph

Modified-gradient methods for exact divergence-free in meshless magnetohydrodynamics

This paper introduces a novel modified-gradient (MG) method that employs an implicit projection to reformulate magnetic field gradients, thereby achieving exact divergence-free results with round-off precision in meshless magnetohydrodynamics and demonstrating superior performance over constrained-gradient techniques and the GIZMO code across various test cases.

Xiongbiao Tu, Qiao Wang, Liang Gao + 1 more2026-03-05🔭 astro-ph