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🔭 astrophysics

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, St (…)2026-03-06✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

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 Martíne (…)2026-03-06✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

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, Cal (…)2026-03-06✓ Author reviewed
🔬 physics

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
🔬 instrumentation

Position-Sensitive Silicon Photomultiplier Array with Enhanced Position Reconstruction by means of a Deep Neural Network

This paper demonstrates that applying Deep Neural Networks to a 2x2 array of linearly-graded Silicon Photomultipliers significantly improves position resolution and linearity while increasing the number of resolvable pixels by a factor of 5.7 to 12.1 compared to traditional reconstruction methods.

Cyril Alispach, Fabio Acerbi, Hossein Arabi, Domenico della Volpe, Alberto Gola, Aramis Raiola, Habib Zaidi2026-03-06✓ Author reviewed