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  1. Phases of two-dimensional spinless lattice fermions with first-quantized deep neural-network quantum states

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    First-quantized deep neural network techniques are developed for analyzing strongly coupled fermionic systems on the lattice. Using a Slater-Jastrow inspired ansatz which exploits deep residual networks …
  2. Influence of point defects on the electronic and topological properties of monolayer WTe\(_2\)

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  3. Lyapunov spectrum of random neural networks

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    The Lyapunov spectrum of a nonlinear recurrent neural network with random asymmetric couplings is calculated in the limit N→∞. The calculation is based on a finite-N identity …
  4. ​From stuff to things: Responses of neurons in macaque V4 to textures and objects

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    Humans and monkeys can rapidly recognize objects in everyday scenes. It is not fully understood where this computation arises, but previous work suggests selectivity for object shape first …
  5. GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries

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    We detail the population properties of merging compact objects using 158 mergers from the cumulative Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 4.0, which includes three types of binary mergers …
  6. The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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    Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map …
  7. Semantic Search for 100M+ Galaxy Images Using AI-generated Captions

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    Finding scientifically interesting phenomena through slow, manual labeling campaigns severely limits our ability to explore the billions of galaxy images produced by telescopes. In this work, we develop …
  8. Narrowband Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from known Pulsars in the First Two Parts of the Fourth LIGO─Virgo─KAGRA Observing Run

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    Rotating non-axisymmetric neutron stars (NSs) are promising sources for continuous gravitational waves (CWs). Such CWs can, if detected, inform us about the internal structure and equation of …
  9. Ceci n'est pas une Couche de Mélange: The Meaning of Resolved Turbulent Radiative Mixing

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    Turbulent Radiative Mixing Layers (TRMLs) are of fundamental importance to the transport of energy and momentum in multi-phase, astrophysical fluids. We use measurements of the "micro" and …
  10. Reconnection-driven Turbulent Fluctuations in the Magnetically Dominated Collisionless Regime

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    Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process that converts magnetic energy into bulk flow energy, thermal energy, and nonthermal particle acceleration. Despite its importance, the statistical properties of …
  11. The Keck Planet Finder SURFS-UP Survey. I. Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76 b

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    We introduce the KPF SURFS-UP (Spectroscopy of the Upper-atmospheres and ReFractory Species in Ultra-hot Planets) Survey, a high-resolution survey to investigate the atmospheric composition …
  12. Protostellar Jets in Star Cluster Formation and Evolution. I. Implementation and Initial Results

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    Stars form in clusters from the gravitational collapse of giant molecular clouds, which is opposed by a variety of physical processes, including stellar feedback. The interplay between these …
  13. Directional search for persistent gravitational waves: Results from the first part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's fourth observing run

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    The angular distribution of gravitational-wave power from persistent sources may exhibit anisotropies arising from the large-scale structure of the Universe. This motivates directional searches for astrophysical …
  14. Self-Confinement of Relativistic Pair Beams in Magnetized Interstellar Plasmas: The Case of Pulsar X-Ray Filaments

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    The observation of filamentary X-ray structures near bow-shock pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) -- such as the Guitar, Lighthouse, and PSR J2030$+ …
  15. Milky Way Mapper decoded abundances ─ II. From patterns to paths

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    The element abundances of Milky Way disc stars encode entangled imprints of multiple enrichment processes, making it difficult to uncover the underlying chemical evolution. Here we re-project …
  16. Quantifying the Milky Way, LMC and their interaction using all-sky kinematics of outer halo stars

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    The recent pericentric passage of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has dislodged the Milky Way's (MW) centre of mass, inducing dynamical disequilibrium, the reflex motion, in the …
  17. gr8stars II: judgement day for spectroscopic parameter model systematics

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    Many areas of astrophysics, including exoplanetary studies, rely on precise and accurate stellar parameters. This demands that uncertainties on these parameters truly reflect all biases and systematics. Within …
  18. Extremely ultraviolet-bright starbursts at the end of cosmic reionization

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    We present a study of 27 very UV-bright (-22.0
  19. The Squealer: Sensification of model exploration and model misfit

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    We introduce a method for visual and auditory feedback when exploring the fit of a model to data. Starting with a best-fit curve fit to data, the …
  20. Similarity of Neural Network Representations in Superposition

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    Comparing internal representations is a central goal in neuroscience and machine learning, but standard linear alignment metrics (Representational Similarity Analysis, Centered Kernel Alignment, and linear regression) are frequently …
  21. GEOPHYS: The Geometry of Physical Plausibility

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    While humans can identify physically implausible events within milliseconds, machine learning approaches addressing the same problem are extremely slow and expensive. They either rely on external multimodal-LLM …
  22. Learning a Maximum Entropy Model for Visual Textures using Diffusion

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    Visual textures -- spatially homogeneous image regions containing repeated elements (e.g. a field of grass, the bark of a tree) -- are ubiquitous in visual scenes and provide important …
  23. Stochastic Thermodynamics of Score Matching in Diffusion Models

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    Score-based diffusion models are a powerful class of generative AI systems capable of sampling from complex, high-dimensional probability distributions. Their dynamics consist of a forward diffusion …
  24. A Massive Hot-Jupiter Companion that Disfavors Giant Planet Formation beyond the Water-ice Line

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    We report evidence for a brown-dwarf companion with mass 34+30−11 MJ in the KELT-20 system, in which an ultra-hot Jupiter transits an A2 …
  25. Implications of the Nanohertz Gravitational-wave Background for Galactic Feedback and Massive Black Hole Growth

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    We investigate how pulsar timing array (PTA) measurements of the nanoHertz gravitational-wave background (GWB) can constrain models for the growth history of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and …
  26. Spectral Appearance of Self-gravitating Disks Powered by Stellar Objects: Universal Effective Temperature in the Optical Continuum and Application to Little Red Dots

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    We revisit the spectral appearance of extended self-gravitating accretion disks surrounding compact central objects such as supermassive black holes. Using dust-poor opacities, we show that all …
  27. GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients

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    The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of candidate gravitational-wave transient signals identified and characterized by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. Producing the contents of …
  28. GW230814: Investigation of a Loud Gravitational-wave Signal Observed with a Single Detector

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    GW230814, detected by the LIGO Livingston observatory with a signal-to-noise ratio of 42.4, represents the loudest gravitational-wave signal in the GWTC-4.0 catalog …
  29. A Unified Model for Shock Interaction and \(\gamma\)-Ray Emission in Classical Novae

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    We present a parameterized ("toy") model for shock interaction and γ-ray emission in classical novae, in which a white dwarf envelope of mass Menv is removed over …
  30. Too Quiet for Comfort: Local Little Red Dots Lack Variability over Decades

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    Several local (\(z\lesssim 0.2\)) metal-poor dwarf AGNs have remarkably similar properties to those of high-redshift Little Red Dots (LRDs), and are recently proposed to …
  31. Measurement of Substructure from the Kinematics of the GD-1 Stellar Stream

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    Stellar streams are sensitive tracers of low-mass dark matter subhalos and provide a means to test the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm on small scales. In this …
  32. Molecular Outflows in the Nucleus of the Nearby Compton-thick AGN NGC 3079

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    We present Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) observations of the CO (2-1) molecular gas kinematics in the nearby Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3079, with an …
  33. To Survive or To Shatter: The Impact of Cosmic Rays on the Fate of Stripped Cold Clouds

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    Does cosmic ray (CR) pressure matter for the circumgalactic medium (CGM)? Despite growing interest, this remains a debated question, complicated by limited observational constraints and differing implementations of …
  34. Maximum Energy of Particles Accelerated in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Shocks

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    Particle acceleration in relativistic collisionless shocks remains an open problem in high-energy astrophysics. Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations predict that electron acceleration in weakly magnetized shocks proceeds …
  35. The ALPINE─CRISTAL─JWST Survey: The Fast Metal Enrichment of Massive Galaxies at z \(\sim\) 5

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    We present the stellar mass-metallicity relation (MZR) and mass-metallicity-star formation relation ("fundamental metallicity relation"; FMR) of 18 massive (log(M/M\(_\odot\)) = 9.5-11 …
  36. Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). XIV. The Observability of Emission from Accretion and Feedback in the Circumgalactic Medium with Current and Future Instruments

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    Observing the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in emission lines from ionized gas enables direct mapping of its spatial and kinematic structure, offering new insight into the gas flows that …
  37. FOGGIE: Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies In Enzo. XII. The Formation and Evolution of Extended H I Galactic Disks and Warps with a Dynamic Circumgalactic Medium

    Publication
    Atomic hydrogen (HI) is an important component of gas in and around galaxies and forms extended disk-like structures well beyond the extent of starlight. Here we investigate …
  38. The Formation of Dwarf Galaxy Disks

    Publication
    Dwarf galaxies are dark matter-dominated systems that are sensitive to feedback and display a diversity of baryonic morphologies. This makes them excellent probes for understanding dark matter …
  39. Cosmology with One Galaxy: An Analytic Formula Relating \(\Omega_{m}\) with Galaxy Properties

    Publication
    Standard cosmological analyses typically treat galaxy formation and cosmological parameter inference as decoupled problems, relying on population-level statistics such as clustering, lensing, or halo abundances. However, classical …
  40. Neutrinos and Gamma Rays from Seyfert Galaxies Constrain the Properties of Coronal Turbulence

    Publication
    The TeV neutrino signal observed by IceCube from the active galactic nucleus (AGN) NGC 1068 can probe its innermost coronal regions. If these neutrinos originate from hadrons accelerated …
  41. Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supernova Remnants in the First Part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Fourth Observing Run

    Publication
    We present results from directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from a sample of 15 nearby supernova remnants, likely hosting young neutron star candidates, using data from the …
  42. Super-Eddington Chimneys: On the Cooling Evolution of Tidal Disruption Event Envelopes

    Publication
    The formation of a compact accretion disk following a tidal disruption event (TDE) requires that the shocked stellar debris cool efficiently as it settles toward the black hole …
  43. Blue Monsters and Dusty Descendants: Reconciling UV and IR Emission from Galaxies from z \(\sim\) 7, up to z = 14

    Publication
    Recent JWST observations reveal massive, UV-bright galaxies at z>10 with little apparent dust attenuation, whereas ALMA detections at z≃7 show similarly massive systems that are …
  44. A Nonparametric Method for the Inference of Halo Occupation Distributions

    Publication
    The galaxy-halo connection traces processes by which galaxies form and evolve. The halo occupation distribution (HOD) describes the relationship between galaxies and their host dark matter haloes …
  45. Exposure-averaged Gaussian Processes for Combining Overlapping Datasets

    Publication
    Physically motivated Gaussian process (GP) kernels for stellar variability, like the commonly used damped, driven simple harmonic oscillators that model stellar granulation and p-mode oscillations, quantify the …
  46. The relationship between galaxy size and halo properties: insights from the IllustrisTNG simulations and differential clustering

    Publication
    The physical origin of the radial sizes of galaxies and how galaxy sizes are correlated with the properties of their host dark matter halos is an open question …
  47. Milky Way Mapper decoded abundances ─ I. Shared disc enrichment patterns

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    Elemental abundances in the Milky Way disc trace its star-formation and enrichment history, but predicting these abundances from theory is limited by uncertain nucleosynthetic yields and poorly …
  48. Spectral Ratio Analysis: probing of a new suite of stellar activity indicators as a tool for astrophysical noise mitigation

    Publication
    Stellar activity is the main barrier to detecting and/or confirming low-mass/long-period (and Earth-analogue) planets using radial-velocity (RV) measurements. Searching for reliable indicators …
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