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GA-NIFS: Dissecting The Alchemised: NIRSpec/IFU reveals turbulent gas inflows in a complex system at z=10.17z=10.17

This study presents the first spatially resolved NIRSpec/IFU analysis of the z=10.17z=10.17 MACS0647-JD system, revealing a merger-driven starburst fueled by turbulent, metal-poor gas inflows that create distinct chemical and kinematic differences between the system's two stellar components.

Robert G. Pascalau, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino, Qiao Duan, Yuki Isobe, Santiago Arribas, Andrew J. Bunker, Stéphane Charlot, Michele Perna, Bruno Rodriguez Del Pino, Hannah Ubler, Elena Ber (…)2026-03-06✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

Augmenting representations with scientific papers

This paper introduces a contrastive learning framework that aligns X-ray spectra with scientific literature to create shared multimodal representations, significantly improving the estimation of physical variables and enabling the discovery of rare astrophysical sources through integrated data analysis.

Nicolò Oreste Pinciroli Vago, Rocco Di Tella, Carolina Cuesta-Lázaro, Michael J. Smith, Cecilia Garraffo, Rafael Martínez-Galarza2026-03-06✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

MXDFz4.4: A LyC emitter 250Myr after the epoch of reionization and a first test of Ly-alpha morphology as a tracer of LyC escape at high redshift

The paper reports the detection of MXDFz4.4, the highest-redshift Lyman continuum emitter found to date at z=4.442, which exhibits high ionizing photon escape fractions likely driven by a recent starburst and supports the use of Ly-alpha morphology as a tracer for LyC escape in the early Universe.

Ilias Goovaerts, Marc Rafelski, Alexander Beckett, Grecco Oyarzùn, Annalisa Citro, Farhanul Hasan, Kalina V Nedkova, Calum Hawcroft, Anton M Koekemoer, Mitchell Revalski, Matthew J Hayes, Claudia Scar (…)2026-03-06✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

The Statistical Mechanics of Indistinguishable Energy States and the Glass Transition

This paper explores the statistical mechanics of particles in indistinguishable energy states by adapting combinatorial counting methods to derive exact distribution functions, revealing that classical particles within this framework exhibit a definitive glass transition characterized by the vanishing of configurational entropy below a finite temperature.

Shimul Akhanjee2026-03-06✓ Author reviewed 🔬 physics