Leiden Preprints

arXiv:2603.02643v1 [pdf]
Title: The MUSE-Faint survey V. The binary fraction of Leo T
Authors: Daniel Vaz, Jarle Brinchmann, Sebastian Kamann, Sara Saracino, P. A. C. Cunha, Mariana P. Júlio
Comments: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 15 pages, 17 figures
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2603.01899v1 [pdf]
Title: B-fields And dust in interstelLar fiLAments using Dust POLarization (BALLAD-POL): VI. Grain alignment mechanisms in the massive quiescent filament G16.96+0.27 using dust polarization observations from JCMT/POL-2
Authors: Saikhom Pravash, Thiem Hoang, Archana Soam, Qi-Lao Gu, Tie Liu, Pham Ngoc Diep, Le Ngoc Tram, Nguyen Bich Ngoc
Comments: 29 pages, 18 Figures, 4 Tables. Accepted for publication in ApJS
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2603.01662v1 [pdf]
Title: $\mathcal{H}$-EFTCAMB: A Cobaya-Integrated, Python-Wrapped Extension of EFTCAMB for Covariant Horndeski Gravity
Authors: Gen Ye, Shijie Lin, Jiaming Pan, Dani de Boe, Stan Verhoeve, Marco Raveri, Bin Hu, Noemi Frusciante, Alessandra Silvestri
Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures, code available at https://github.com/EFTCAMB/EFTCAMB
Subjects: gr-qc, astro-ph.IM
arXiv:2602.24035v1 [pdf]
Title: A Quality Framework for Testing Gravity with Wide Binaries: No Evidence for MOND
Authors: Stephen A. Cookson, Indranil Banik, Kareem El-Badry, Will Sutherland, Zephyr Penoyre, Charalambos Pittordis, Cathie J. Clarke
Comments: 22 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables. Published in MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.23016v1 [pdf]
Title: Phase-Induced Amplitude Apodization Complex Mask Coronagraph (PIAACMC) on-sky demonstration with MagAO-X
Authors: Elena Tonucci, Sebastiaan Haffert, Warren Foster, Jared Males, Olivier Guyon, Laird M. Close, Kyle van Gorkom, Alexander Hedglen, Parker Johnson, Maggie Kautz, Jay Kueny, Jialin Li, Joshua Liberman, Joseph Long, Jennifer Lumbres, Matthijs Mars, Eden McEwen, Avalon McLeod, Logan Pearce, Lauren Schatz, Katie Twitchell
Comments: 12 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Subjects: astro-ph.IM
arXiv:2602.23356v1 [pdf]
Title: Revisiting the Perseus Cluster III: Role of Aspherical Explosions on its Chemical Composition and Extension to Metal-Poor Stars and Galaxies
Authors: Shing-Chi Leung, Henry Yerdon, Seth Walther, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Aurora Simionescu
Comments: 23 pages, 39 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal on Nov 10 2025, accepted on Feb 7 2026
Subjects: astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE
arXiv:2602.23354v1 [pdf]
Title: Revisiting the Perseus Cluster II: Metallicity-Dependence of Massive Stars and Chemical Enrichment History
Authors: Shing-Chi Leung, Seth Walther, Henry Yerdon, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Aurora Simionescu
Comments: 18 pages, 25 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal on Jul 18 2025, accepted on Feb 21 2026
Subjects: astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.21863v1 [pdf]
Title: Impact and interplay of $Λ$CDM analysis choices for LSST cosmic shear
Authors: N. C. Robertson, C. Heymans, J. Zuntz, P. Burger, C. D. Leonard, I. G. McCarthy, J. C. Paine, J. Salcido, N. Šarčević, M. Schaller, J. Schaye, M. P. van Daalen
Comments: 22 pages, 13 figures
Subjects: astro-ph.CO
arXiv:2602.22476v1 [pdf]
Title: High Spectral Resolution X-ray Observations of the Evolved Supermassive Stellar Binary System $η$ Carinae - Iron K$α$ Band Profile Revealed with XRISM
Authors: XRISM Collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Ralf Ballhausen, Aya Bamba, Ehud Behar, Rozenn Boissay-Malaquin, Laura Brenneman, Gregory V. Brown, Michael F. Corcoran, Lia Corrales, Elisa Costantini, Renata Cumbee, Maria Diaz Trigo, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, Ken Ebisawa, Megan E. Eckart, Dominique Eckert, Satoshi Eguchi, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, Adam Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yutaka Fujita, Yasushi Fukazawa, Kotaro Fukushima, Akihiro Furuzawa, Luigi Gallo, Javier A. Garcia, Emi Goto, Liyi Gu, Matteo Guainazzi, Kouichi Hagino, Kenji Hamaguchi, Isamu Hatsukade, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Takayuki Hayashi, Natalie Hell, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Ann Hornschemeier, Yuto Ichinohe, Shun Inoue, Daiki Ishi, Manabu Ishida, Yukiko Ishihara, Kumi Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Francisco Junqueira, Jelle Kaastra, Timothy Kallman, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Erin Kara, Satoru Katsuda, Richard L. Kelley, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Shunji Kitamoto, Shogo Kobayashi, Takayoshi Kohmura, Aya Kubota, Maurice Leutenegger, Michael Loewenstein, Yoshitomo Maeda, Maxim Markevitch, Hironori Matsumoto, Kyoko Matsushita, Dan McCammon, Brian McNamara, Francois Mernier, Bert Vander Meulen, Eric D. Miller, Jon M. Miller, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Asca Miyamoto, Misaki Mizumoto, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Koji Mori, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Richard Mushotzky, Hiroshi Nakajima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Jan-Uwe Ness, Kumiko Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, Shoji Ogawa, Anna Ogorzalek, Takashi Okajima, Naomi Ota, Stephane Paltani, Robert Petre, Paul Plucinsky, Frederick S. Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Kosuke Sato, Toshiki Sato, Makoto Sawada, Hiromi Seta, Megumi Shidatsu, Aurora Simionescu, Randall Smith, Hiromasa Suzuki, Andrew Szymkowiak, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Mai Takeo, Toru Tamagawa, Keisuke Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Atsushi Tanimoto, Makoto Tashiro, Yukikatsu Terada, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Tsuru, Aysegul Tumer, Hiroyuki Uchida, Nagomi Uchida, Yuusuke Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Shutaro Ueda, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shinichiro Uno, Jacco Vink, Shin Watanabe, Brian J. Williams, Satoshi Yamada, Shinya Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Noriko Yamasaki, Makoto Yamauchi, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tahir Yaqoob, Tomokage Yoneyama, Tessei Yoshida, Mihoko Yukita, Irina Zhuravleva
Comments: 29 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Subjects: astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR
arXiv:2602.22366v1 [pdf]
Title: Detection of CO$_2$ ice in the planetary nebula NGC 6302
Authors: Charmi Bhatt, Simon W. Cao, Jan Cami, Nicholas Clark, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Els Peeters, Mikako Matsuura, G. C. Sloan, Harriet L. Dinerstein, Patrick Kavanagh, Kevin Volk, Isabel Aleman, Michael J. Barlow, Kay Justannont, Kathleen E. Kraemer, Joel H. Kastner, Francisca Kemper, Hektor Monteiro, Raghvendra Sahai, N. C. Sterling, Jeremy R. Walsh, L. B. F. M. Waters, Albert Zijlstra
Comments: No journal ref found
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.22151v1 [pdf]
Title: Stellar associations powering HII regions $\unicode{x2013}$ II. Escape fraction of ionizing photons
Authors: Fabian Scheuermann, Kathryn Kreckel, Jia Wei Teh, Francesco Belfiore, Brent Groves, Ashley T. Barnes, Médéric Boquien, Mélanie Chevance, Daniel A. Dale, Oleg Egorov, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Stephen Hannon, Ralf S. Klessen, Kirsten L. Larson, Janice C. Lee, Fu-Heng Liang, Laura A. Lopez, J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, Justus Neumann, Eve Ostriker, Hsi-An Pan, Lise Ramambason, Francesco Santoro, Eva Schinnerer, David A. Thilker, Qiushi Chris Tian, Leonardo Úbeda, Bradley C. Whitmore, Thomas G. Williams
Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.20445v1 [pdf]
Title: ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES)-IV. Data of the two intermediate-width spectral windows
Authors: Xing Lu, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes, Pei-Ying Hsieh, Alvaro Sanchez-Monge, Savannah R. Gramze, Nazar Budaiev, Marc W. Pound, Jaime E. Pineda, Alyssa Bulatek, Claire Cook, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Katharina Immer, Namitha Issac, Desmond Jeff, Fu-Heng Liang, Steven N. Longmore, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Sergio Martin, Xing Pan, Qizhou Zhang, John Bally, Cara Battersby, Laura Colzi, Paul T. P. Ho, Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Maya A. Petkova, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress, Jennifer Wallace, J. Armijos-Abendano, Lucia Armillotta, N. Bijas, Rojita Buddhacharya, Laura A. Busch, Natalie O. Butterfield, Melanie Chevance, Ana Karla Diaz-Rodriguez, Christoph Federrath, Ruben Fedriani, Pablo Garcia, Qi-Lao Gu, H Perry Hatchfield, Rebecca J. Houghton, Yue Hu, Janik Karoly, Ralf S. Klessen, Mark R. Krumholz, Xunchuan Liu, Farideh Mazoochi, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Dylan Pare, Denise Riquelme-Vasquez, Victor M. Rivilla, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Anika Schmiedeke, Yoshiaki Sofue, Volker Tolls, Q. Daniel Wang, Gwenllian M. Williams, Fengwei Xu, Suinan Zhang
Comments: Accepted to MNRAS. High-resolution figures will be available in the journal paper. Website is https://sites.google.com/view/aces-cmz/home and data release is linked from there. Pipeline code is at https://github.com/ACES-CMZ/reduction_ACES/releases/tag/2026-02-18
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.21280v1 [pdf]
Title: A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman
Authors: Jiwon Jesse Han, Anirudh Chiti, Kai-Feng Chen, Keith Bechtol, Andrea Bellini, Robert Benjamin, Adam Bolton, Ana Bonaca, Alex Broughton, Esra Bulbul, Susan Clark, Charlie Conroy, Suchetha Cooray, John Franklin Crenshaw, Tansu Daylan, Arjun Dey, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Tim Eifler, Kareem El-Badry, Richard M. Feder, Peter Ferguson, Shenming Fu, Sebastian Gomez, Ryan Hickox, Christopher Hirata, Easton J. Honaker, Xiaosheng Huang, Alexander P. Ji, Michael Liu, Kevin A. McKinnon, Geoffrey Mo, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Alessandro Savino, David J. Schlegel, Nora Shipp, Jay Strader, Federica Tarsitano, Adrien C. R. Thob, Kim-Vy Tran, Roeland P. van der Marel, Feige Wang, Risa Wechsler, Daniel R. Weisz, Dennis Zaritsky, Tianqing Zhang, Shreya Anand, Amirnezam Amiri, Abhijeet Anand, Matthew L. N. Ashby, Finian Ashmead, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Aliza Beverage, Michael R. Blanton, Warren R. Brown, Anthony G. A. Brown, Priyanka Chakraborty, Yi-Kuan Chiang, Jose M. Diego, Denis Erkal, Simone Ferraro, Lluís Galbany, Marla Geha, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Lars Hernquist, Jason A. S. Hunt, Valentin D. Ivanov, Venu Kalari, Nitya Kallivayalil, András Kovács, Kyle Kremer, Ting-Wen Lan, Denis Leahy, Jiaxuan Li, Ivan Minchev, GyuChul Myung, Ethan O. Nadler, Joan R. Najita, Melissa K. Ness, Jacob Nibauer, Fabio Pacucci, David Parkinson, Ekta Patel, R. Michael Rich, Marina Ricci, Graziano Rossi, Nikolina Sarcevic, Arnab Sarkar, Andrew K. Saydjari, Arman Shafieloo, Zachary Slepian, Sangmo Tony Sohn, David N. Spergel, Róbert Szabó, Christina C. Williams, John F. Wu
Comments: Comments are welcome and encouraged
Subjects: astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR
arXiv:2602.21126v1 [pdf]
Title: Experimental and computational studies of the hydrogenation of carbon disulfide (CS2) on ice analogues
Authors: Thanh Nguyen, Germán Molpeceres, Yasuhiro Oba, Marcelino Agúndez, Gisela Esplugues, José Cernicharo, Naoki Watanabe
Comments: Accepted in MNRAS
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.20340v1 [pdf]
Title: ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) I: Overview
Authors: Steven N. Longmore, John Bally, Ashley T. Barnes, Cara Battersby, Laura Colzi, Adam Ginsburg, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Paul T. P. Ho, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Maya A. Petkova, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress, Daniel L. Walker, Jennifer Wallace, Emad Alkhuja, Lucia Armillotta, Nazar Budaiev, Rojita Buddhacharya, Alyssa Bulatek, Michael Burton, Natalie O. Butterfield, Laura A. Busch, Paola Caselli, Mélanie Chevance, Claire Cook, Samuel Crowe, Ana Karla Díaz-Rodríguez, Enrico DiTeodoro, Simon R. Dicker, Katarzyna M. Dutkowska, Adam Fairley, Christoph Federrath, Rubén Fedriani, Zi-Xuan Feng, Karl Fiteni, Gary Fuller, Pablo García, Javier Goicoechea, Philipp Girichidis, Simon C. O. Glover, Mark Gorski, Savannah R. Gramze, Qi-Lao Gu, H. Perry Hatchfield, Christian Henkel, Rebecca J. Houghton, Pei-Ying Hsieh, Yue Hu, Katharina Immer, Desmond Jeff, Janik Karoly, Jens Kauffmann, Ralf S. Klessen, Mark R. Krumholz, Alex Lazarian, Emily M. Levesque, Fu-Heng Liang, Dani Lipman, Xunchuan Liu, Xing Lu, Qiu-yi Luo, Alessandro Lupi, Laura McCafferty, S. Martín, Farideh Mazoochi, Mark R. Morris, Marie Nonhebel, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Tomoharu Oka, Juergen Ott, Marco Padovani, Xing Pan, Jaime E. Pineda, Thushara G. S. Pillai, Marc W. Pound, Miguel Requena Torres, Denise Riquelme-Vásquez, Víctor M. Rivilla, Galaxy Salo, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Rainer Schoedel, Anika Schmiedeke, Matthias Schultheis, Howard A. Smith, Yoshiaki Sofue, Leonardo Testi, Grant R. Tremblay, Arianna Vasini, Gijs Vermariën, Alexey Vikhlinin, Serena Viti, Q. Daniel Wang, Fengwei Xu, Suinan Zhang, Qizhou Zhang
Comments: Accepted to MNRAS. Website is https://sites.google.com/view/aces-cmz/home and data release is linked from there. Pipeline code is at https://github.com/ACES-CMZ/reduction_ACES/releases/tag/2026-02-18
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.20276v1 [pdf]
Title: ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) III: Molecular line data reduction and HNCO and HCO$^{+}$ data
Authors: Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes, Xing Lu, Pei-Ying Hsieh, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Savannah R. Gramze, Nazar Budaiev, Marc W. Pound, Jaime E. Pineda, Alyssa Bulatek, Claire Cook, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Katharina Immer, Namitha Issac, Desmond Jeff, Fu-Heng Liang, Steven N. Longmore, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Sergio Martín, Xing Pan, Thushara G. S. Pillai, Qizhou Zhang, John Bally, Cara Battersby, Laura Colzi, Paul T. P. Ho, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Maya A. Petkova, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress, Jennifer Wallace, J. Armijos-Abendaño, Lucia Armillotta, N. Bijas, Rojita Buddhacharya, Laura A. Busch, Natalie O. Butterfield, Mélanie Chevance, Samuel Crowe, Ana Karla Díaz-Rodríguez, Katarzyna M. Dutkowska, Christoph Federrath, Rubén Fedriani, Pablo García, Simon C. O. Glover, Qi-Lao Gu, H Perry Hatchfield, Rebecca J. Houghton, Yue Hu, Janik Karoly, Ralf S. Klessen, Mark R. Krumholz, Farideh Mazoochi, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Dylan Paré, Denise Riquelme-Vásquez, Víctor M. Rivilla, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Anika Schmiedeke, Yoshiaki Sofue, Volker Tolls, Q. Daniel Wang, Gwenllian M. Williams, Fengwei Xu, Suinan Zhang
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Website is https://sites.google.com/view/aces-cmz/home and data release is linked from there. Pipeline code is at https://github.com/ACES-CMZ/reduction_ACES/releases/tag/2026-02-18
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.20247v1 [pdf]
Title: Little Red Dots: One Photometric Tag Concealing Diverse Spectroscopic Flavors of Massive Star Formation and Black Hole Activity
Authors: Pablo G. Pérez-González, Guillermo Barro, Stefano Carniani, Francesco D'Eugenio, George H. Rieke, Roberta Tripodi, Andrew J. Bunker, Xihan Ji, Rui Marques-Chaves, Daniel Schaerer, Giacomo Venturi, Flor Arévalo-González, Santiago Arribas, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Bruno Rodríguez Del Pino, Joris Witstok, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Leindert A. Boogaard, Stephane Charlot, Jacopo Chevallard, Luca Costantin, Mirko Curti, Emma Curtis-Lake, Emanuele Daddi, Kelcey Davis, Mark Dickinson, Callum T. Donnan, Fergus R. Donnan, James S. Dunlop, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Henry C. Ferguson, Román Fernández Aranda, Steven L. Finkelstein, Seiji Fujimoto, Giovanni Gandolfi, Mauro Giavalisco, Norman A. Grogin, Mahmoud Hamed, Michaela Hirschmann, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, Gene C. K. Leung, Cristina M. Lofaro, Ray A. Lucas, Derek J. McLeod, Jens Melinder, Goran Östlin, Casey Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Borja Pérez-Díaz, Marcia Rieke, Jan Scholtz, Rachel S. Somerville, Thomas M. Stanton, Struan D. Stevenson, Irene Shivaei, Sandro Tacchella, Jonathan R. Trump, Hannah Übler, Xin Wang, Christina C. Williams, Christopher N. A. Willmer, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Yongda Zhu
Comments: Submitted to ApJ. Comments welcome. Stacks available through https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18733578
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.20240v1 [pdf]
Title: ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) II: 3mm continuum images
Authors: Adam Ginsburg, Daniel L. Walker, Ashley T. Barnes, Xing Lu, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Jaime E. Pineda, Marc W. Pound, Pei-Ying Hsieh, Katharina Immer, Qizhou Zhang, Nazar Budaiev, Savannah R. Gramze, Desmond Jeff, Claire Cook, Alyssa Bulatek, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, John Bally, Laura Colzi, Pablo García, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, Ralf S. Klessen, Simon R. Dicker, Steven N. Longmore, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Víctor M. Rivilla, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Q. Daniel Wang, Fengwei Xu, Cara Battersby, Paul T. P. Ho, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Maya Petkova, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress, Jennifer Wallace, J. Armijos-Abendaño, Lucia Armillotta, N. Bijas, Rojita Buddhacharya, Laura A. Busch, Natalie O. Butterfield, Mélanie Chevance, Samuel Crowe, Ana Karla Díaz-Rodríguez, Katarzyna M. Dutkowska, Rubén Fedriani, Christoph Federrath, Simon C. O. Glover, Qi-Lao Gu, Rebecca J. Houghton, Yue Hu, Namitha Issac, Janik Karoly, Mark R. Krumholz, Fu-Heng Liang, Sergio Martín, Farideh Mazoochi, Xing Pan, Dylan Paré, Thushara G. S. Pillai, Denise Riquelme-Vásquez, Anika Schmiedeke, Yoshiaki Sofue, Volker Tolls, Gwenllian M. Williams, Suinan Zhang, Emily Moravec, Charles E. Romero, Brian S. Mason, John Orlowski-Scherer, H Perry Hatchfield
Comments: Accepted to MNRAS. Website is https://sites.google.com/view/aces-cmz/home and data release is linked from there. Pipeline code is at https://github.com/ACES-CMZ/reduction_ACES/releases/tag/2026-02-18
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.18173v1 [pdf]
Title: Euclid: An automated system to match Rubin transient alerts to Euclid observations
Authors: C. Duffy, I. M. Hook, C. M. Gutierrez, K. Paterson, V. Petrecca, T. J. Moriya, F. Poidevin, R. Kotak, B. Altieri, A. Amara, S. Andreon, N. Auricchio, C. Baccigalupi, M. Baldi, A. Balestra, S. Bardelli, P. Battaglia, A. Biviano, E. Branchini, M. Brescia, S. Camera, G. Cañas-Herrera, V. Capobianco, C. Carbone, J. Carretero, S. Casas, M. Castellano, G. Castignani, S. Cavuoti, K. C. Chambers, A. Cimatti, C. Colodro-Conde, G. Congedo, C. J. Conselice, L. Conversi, Y. Copin, F. Courbin, H. M. Courtois, M. Cropper, J. -C. Cuillandre, H. Degaudenzi, G. De Lucia, H. Dole, F. Dubath, X. Dupac, S. Dusini, S. Escoffier, M. Farina, R. Farinelli, S. Ferriol, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, M. Fumana, S. Galeotta, K. George, W. Gillard, B. Gillis, C. Giocoli, J. Gracia-Carpio, A. Grazian, F. Grupp, S. V. H. Haugan, M. S. Holliman, W. Holmes, F. Hormuth, A. Hornstrup, K. Jahnke, M. Jhabvala, S. Kermiche, A. Kiessling, R. Kohley, B. Kubik, M. Kunz, H. Kurki-Suonio, A. M. C. Le Brun, S. Ligori, P. B. Lilje, V. Lindholm, I. Lloro, G. Mainetti, D. Maino, E. Maiorano, O. Mansutti, S. Marcin, O. Marggraf, M. Martinelli, N. Martinet, F. Marulli, R. J. Massey, E. Medinaceli, S. Mei, Y. Mellier, M. Meneghetti, E. Merlin, G. Meylan, A. Mora, M. Moresco, L. Moscardini, R. Nakajima, C. Neissner, S. -M. Niemi, C. Padilla, S. Paltani, F. Pasian, K. Pedersen, V. Pettorino, S. Pires, G. Polenta, M. Poncet, L. A. Popa, F. Raison, A. Renzi, J. Rhodes, G. Riccio, E. Romelli, M. Roncarelli, C. Rosset, R. Saglia, Z. Sakr, D. Sapone, B. Sartoris, M. Schirmer, P. Schneider, A. Secroun, G. Seidel, S. Serrano, E. Sihvola, P. Simon, C. Sirignano, G. Sirri, J. Skottfelt, L. Stanco, J. Steinwagner, P. Tallada-Crespí, A. N. Taylor, I. Tereno, N. Tessore, S. Toft, R. Toledo-Moreo, F. Torradeflot, I. Tutusaus, L. Valenziano, J. Valiviita, T. Vassallo, Y. Wang, J. Weller, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, J. García-Bellido, E. Jullo, J. Martín-Fleitas, A. A. Nucita, V. Scottez
Comments: 16 Pages, 8 Figures, Accepted in RASTI
Subjects: astro-ph.IM
arXiv:2602.18128v1 [pdf]
Title: MIGHTEE HI observations of low surface brightness and ultra-diffuse galaxies in the XMM-LSS field
Authors: Elizabeth A. K. Adams, Barbara Šiljeg, Anastasia Ponomareva, Natasha Maddox, Pavel Enrique Mancera Piña, Maarten Baes, Bradley Frank, Marcin Glowacki, Matt Jarvis, Sambatriniaina Rajohnson, Gauri Sharma
Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.18085v1 [pdf]
Title: The attempted polarity reversal and evolving magnetic environment of AD Leo
Authors: K. G. Smith, D. Evensberget, S. Bellotti, J. Morin, A. A. Vidotto, B. J. S. Pope
Comments: 15 pages, 10 figures and 3 tables. Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Subjects: astro-ph.SR
arXiv:2602.17593v1 [pdf]
Title: MUSEQuBES: Probing Anisotropies in Gas and Metal Distributions in the Circumgalactic Medium
Authors: Sayak Dutta, Sowgat Muzahid, Joop Schaye, Sean Johnson, Edmund Christian Herenz, Ismael Pessa, Ramona Augustin, Nicolas F. Bouché, Joey Braspenning, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Sourav Das, Martin Wendt
Comments: Submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.17329v1 [pdf]
Title: MIDIS: The identification of deep MIRI-red sources as candidates for extreme Balmer-break and line emitting galaxies at high-z
Authors: I. Jermann, G. Brammer, S. Gillman, T. R. Greve, L. A. Boogaard, J. Melinder, R. A. Meyer, P. G. Pérez-González, P. Rinaldi, J. L. Colina, G. Östlin, G. Wright, J. Álvarez-Márquez, A. Bik, K. I. Caputi, A. Crespo Gómez, L. Costantin, J. Hjorth, E. Iani, S. Kendrew, A. Labiano, D. Langeroodi, F. Peissker, C. Prieto-Jiménez, J. P. Pye, T. V. Tikkanen, F. Walter, P. van der Werf, T. Henning, M. Shuntov
Comments: 19 pages, 23 figures, submitted to A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.17177v1 [pdf]
Title: PRODIGE - envelope to disk with NOEMA: VII. (Complex) organic molecules in the NGC1333 IRAS4B1 outflow: A new laboratory for shock chemistry
Authors: Laura A. Busch, J. E. Pineda, P. Caselli, D. M. Segura-Cox, S. Narayanan, C. Gieser, M. J. Maureira, T. -H. Hsieh, Y. Lin, M. T. Valdivia-Mena, L. Bouscasse, Th. Henning, D. Semenov, A. Fuente, Y. -R. Chou, L. Mason, P. C. Cortés, L. W. Looney, I. W. Stephens, M. Tafalla, A. Dutrey, W. Kwon, P. Saha
Comments: Accepted for publication in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.17766v1 [pdf]
Title: Molecular Gas Excitation in z ~ 0.7 Gas-Rich Post-starburst Galaxies from SQuIGGLE
Authors: Vincenzo R. D'Onofrio, Justin S. Spilker, Rachel Bezanson, Robert Feldmann, Andy D. Goulding, Jenny E. Greene, Mariska Kriek, Anika Kumar, Yuanze Luo, Desika Narayanan, David J. Setton, Katherine A. Suess, Margaret E. Verrico
Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ, comments welcome!
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.16030v1 [pdf]
Title: Molecular diagnostics for the mid-infrared emission of planet-forming disks. Carbon and oxygen elemental abundances
Authors: Aditya M. Arabhavi, Inga Kamp, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Peter Woitke, Christian Rab, Wing-Fai Thi, Till Kaeufer, Jayatee Kanwar, Benoît Tabone, Pacôme Esteve, Marissa Vlasblom
Comments: 22 pages, 21 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Subjects: astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR
arXiv:2602.15979v1 [pdf]
Title: Multiwavelength Campaign Observations of a Young Solar-type Star, EK Draconis. III. Comparison between Starspot Mapping, Zeeman Doppler Imaging, and Multiwavelength Variability
Authors: Kai Ikuta, Kosuke Namekata, Pascal Petit, Vladimir S. Airapetian, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yuta Notsu, Aline A. Vidotto, Keith Gendreau, Sandra V. Jeffers, Stephen Marsden, Julien Morin, Coralie Neiner, Rishi R. Paudel, Daisaku Nogami, Kazunari Shibata
Comments: 26 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM
arXiv:2602.15976v1 [pdf]
Title: Early Results from the Coma Legacy IFU Survey (CLIFS): Ram Pressure Induced Shocks and Ionization in Jellyfish Tails
Authors: Lauren M. Foster, Ian D. Roberts, Laura C. Parker, Timothy A. Davis, Alessandro Ignesti, Sean McGee, Nikki Zabel, Ming Sun, Reinout J. van Weeren
Comments: 17 pages, 11 figures, accepted by ApJ
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.15949v1 [pdf]
Title: The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: VII. Third Data Release
Authors: T. W. Shimwell, M. J. Hardcastle, C. Tasse, A. Drabent, A. Botteon, W. L. Williams, P. N. Best, H. J. A. Röttgering, M. Brüggen, G. Brunetti, J. R. Callingham, K. T. Chyży, J. E. Conway, F. De Gasperin, M. Haverkorn, C. Horellou, N. Jackson, G. K. Miley, L. K. Morabito, R. Morganti, S. P. O'Sullivan, D. J. Schwarz, D. J. B. Smith, R. J. van Weeren, H. K. Vedantham, G. J. White, A. Ahmadi, L. Alegre, M. Arias, B. Asabere, B. Bahr-Kalus, B. Barkus, M. Bilicki, L. Böhme, M. Brentjens, M. Brienza, D. J. Bomans, A. Bonafede, M. Bonato, E. Bonnassieux, J. M. Boxelaar, S. Camera, R. Cassano, J. Chilufya, M. Cianfaglione, J. H. Croston, V. Cuciti, P. Dabhade, E. De Rubeis, J. M. G. H. J. de Jong, D. Dallacasa, R. J. Dettmar, K. J. Duncan, G. Di Gennaro, H. W. Edler, C. Groeneveld, G. Gürkan, M. Hajduk, C. L. Hale, V. Heesen, D. N. Hoang, M. Hoeft, H. Holties, M. A. Horton, M. Iacobelli, M. Jamrozy, M. J. Jarvis, V. Jelic, M. Kadler, R. Kondapally, M. Kunert-Bajraszewska, M. Loose, M. Magliocchetti, K. Małek, C. Manzano, J. P. McKean, M. Mevius, B. Mingo, A. Miskolczi, A. Misra, J. Moldón, D. G. Nair, S. J. Nakoneczny, E. Orru, M. Pashapour-Ahmadabadi, T. Pasini, J. Petley, J. C. S. Pierce, I. Prandoni, D. Rafferty, K. Rajpurohit, C. J. Riseley, I. D. Roberts, S. Sethi, A. Shulevski, M. Stein, C. Stuardi, F. Sweijen, S. ter Veen, R. Timmerman, M. Vaccari, S. Wijnholds
Comments: 15 figures, 2 tables and 22 pages. The catalogues, images and uv-data associated with this data release are publicly available via https://lofar-surveys.org/
Subjects: astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM
arXiv:2602.12977v1 [pdf]
Title: TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a 180 day transiting warm super-Jupiter
Authors: Toby Rodel, Solène Ulmer-Moll, Samuel Gill, Christopher. A. Watson, Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen, Alix V. Freckelton, Annelies Mortier, Karen A. Collins, Diana Dragomir, Zahra Essack, Brett Skinner, Niamh Mallaghan, Peter J. Wheatley, David R. Anderson, Ioannis Apergis, Khalid Barkaoui, Matthew P. Battley, Daniel Bayliss, François Bouchy, Edward M. Bryant, Matthew R. Burleigh, Benjamin M. J. Cadell, Samuel J. Carlier, Yann Carteret, Sarah L. Casewell, Alastair B. Claringbold, Jean C. Costes, Benjamin D. R. Davies, Lauren Doyle, Phil Evans, Jorge Fernández Fernández, Emile Fontanet, Edward Gillen, Michael R. Goad, George Harvey, Faith Hawthorn, Katlyn L. Hobbs, Melissa Hobson, Giovanni Isopi, James S. Jenkins, Alicia Kendall, David Kipping, Monika Lendl, Franco Mallia, Christopher Mann, James McCormac, Ernst J. W. de Mooij, Maximiliano Moyano, Arianna Nigioni, Mohammad Odeh, Vera Maria Passegger, Suman Saha, Richard P. Schwarz, Amber Sedgley, Avi Shporer, Abderahmane Soubkiou, Stéphane Udry, Dimitri Veras, Jean. P. Vignes, Steven Villanueva, José I. Vinés, Richard West, Thomas G. Wilson, Hannah L. Worters, Mitchell E. Young, Aldo Zapparata
Comments: 23 pages, 13 figures, 8 tables. Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Coordinated simultaneous submission with independent paper by Rojas et al
Subjects: astro-ph.EP
arXiv:2602.12906v1 [pdf]
Title: Gaps and Rings: A Near-Universal Trait of Extended Protoplanetary Discs
Authors: Quincy Bosschaart, Osmar M. Guerra-Alvarado, Nienke van der Marel, Gijs D. Mulders
Comments: Accepted by A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.EP
arXiv:2602.12814v1 [pdf]
Title: X-ray line diagnostics of the multi-phase gas in the Centaurus cluster core with XRISM/Resolve
Authors: Marie Kondo, Kotaro Fukushima, Kazunori Suda, Anwesh Majumder, Kosuke Sato, Kyoko Matsushita, François Mernier, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Aurora Simionescu, Jean-Paul Breuer, Yasushi Fukazawa, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Isamu Hatsukade, Kokoro Hosogi, Michael Loewenstein, Tom'aš Plšek, Ming Sun, Misaki Urata, Norbert Werner, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Yutaka Fujita
Comments: 16 pages, 14 figures
Subjects: astro-ph.HE
arXiv:2602.12272v1 [pdf]
Title: The Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Powering the off-nuclear TDE AT2024tvd
Authors: M. Guolo, A. Mummery, S. van Velzen, M. Nicholl, S. Gezari, Y. Yao, K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, M. E. Huber, C. -C. Lin, T. B. Lowe, E. A. Magnier, G. Paek, R. Wainscoat
Comments: Submitted to ApJ Letters
Subjects: astro-ph.HE
arXiv:2602.11783v1 [pdf]
Title: Characterising Ly$α$ damping wings at the onset of reionisation: Evidence for highly efficient star formation driven by dense, neutral gas in UV-bright galaxies at $z>9$
Authors: Clara L. Pollock, Kasper E. Heintz, Joris Witstok, Rashmi Gottumukkala, Gabriel Brammer, Sownak Bose, Alex J. Cameron, Pratika Dayal, Pieter van Dokkum, Johan Fynbo, Viola Gelli, Matthew J. Hayes, Akio K. Inoue, Claudia del P. Lagos, Peter Laursen, Romain A. Meyer, Rohan Naidu, Pascal Oesch, Lucie E. Rowland, Nial R. Tanvir, Sandro Tacchella, Chamilla Terp, Francesco Valentino, Fabian Walter, John Weaver, Callum Witten
Comments: Submitted to A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.11751v1 [pdf]
Title: Evolution of submillimeter galaxies across cosmic-web environments
Authors: Ankit Kumar, M. Celeste Artale, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Lucia Guaita, Joop Schaye, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Alexandra Pope, Facundo Rodriguez, Eric Gawiser, Ho Seong Hwang, Paulina Troncoso Iribarren, Jaehyun Lee, Seong-Kook Lee, Changbom Park, Yujin Yang
Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures, submitted to A&A [abstract reduced to meet arXiv character limit]
Subjects: astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.11418v1 [pdf]
Title: Evidence for Shallow Nebular Attenuation Curves and Patchy Dust Geometry at z~2 with Pa-beta/H-alpha Measurements from JWST-MegaScience Medium Band Photometry
Authors: Brian Lorenz, Katherine A. Suess, Mariska Kriek, Sedona H. Price, Joel Leja, Hakim Atek, Abhiyan Barailee, Rachel Bezanson, Gabriel Brammer, Sam E. Cutler, Pratika Dayal, Anna de Graaf, Jenny E. Greene, Lukas J. Furtak, Ivo Labbe, Danilo Marchesini, Michael V. Maseda, Tim B. Miller, Abby Mintz, Ikki Mitsuhashi, Themiya Nanayakkara, Erica Nelson, Richard Pan, Natalia Porraz Barrera, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Christina C. Williams, Katherine E. Whitaker
Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJL
Subjects: astro-ph.GA
arXiv:2602.11271v1 [pdf]
Title: Gas-depleted planet formation occurred in the four-planet system around the red dwarf LHS 1903
Authors: Thomas G. Wilson, Anna M. Simpson, Andrew Collier Cameron, Ryan Cloutier, Vardan Adibekyan, Ancy Anna John, Yann Alibert, Manu Stalport, Jo Ann Egger, Andrea Bonfanti, Nicolas Billot, Pascal Guterman, Pierre F. L. Maxted, Attila E. Simon, Sergio G. Sousa, Malcolm Fridlund, Mathias Beck, Anja Bekkelien, Sebastien Salmon, Valerie Van Grootel, Luca Fossati, Alexander James Mustill, Hugh P. Osborn, Tiziano Zingales, Matthew J. Hooton, Laura Affer, Suzanne Aigrain, Roi Alonso, Guillem Anglada, Alexandros Antoniadis-Karnavas, Tamas Barczy, David Barrado Navascues, Susana C. C. Barros, Wolfgang Baumjohann, Thomas Beck, Willy Benz, Federico Biondi, Xavier Bonfils, Luca Borsato, Alexis Brandeker, Christopher Broeg, Lars A. Buchhave, Maximilian Buder, Juan Cabrera, Sebastian Carrazco Gaxiola, David Charbonneau, Sebastien Charnoz, David R. Ciardi, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Rosario Cosentino, Szilard Csizmadia, Patricio E. Cubillos, Shweta Dalal, Mario Damasso, James R. A. Davenport, Melvyn B. Davies, Magali Deleuil, Laetitia Delrez, Olivier D. S. Demangeon, Brice-Olivier Demory, Victoria DiTomasso, Diana Dragomir, Courtney D. Dressing, Xavier Dumusque, David Ehrenreich, Anders Erikson, Emma Esparza-Borges, Andrea Fortier, Izuru Fukuda, Akihiko Fukui, Davide Gandolfi, Adriano Ghedina, Steven Giacalone, Holden Gill, Michael Gillon, Yilen Gomez Maqueo Chew, Manuel Gudel, Pere Guerra, Maximilian N. Gunther, Nathan Hara, Avet Harutyunyan, Yuya Hayashi, Raphaelle D. Haywood, Rae Holcomb, Keith Horne, Sergio Hoyer, Chelsea X. Huang, Masahiro Ikoma, Kate G. Isaak, James A. G. Jackman, Jon M. Jenkins, Eric L. N. Jensen, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Yugo Kawai, Laszlo L. Kiss, Ben S. Lakeland, Jacques Laskar, David W. Latham, Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, Adrien Leleu, Monika Lendl, Jerome de Leon, Florian Lienhard, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Christophe Lovis, Michael B. Lund, Rafael Luque, Demetrio Magrin, Luca Malavolta, Aldo F. Martınez Fiorenzano, Andrew W. Mayo, Michel Mayor, Christoph Mordasini, Annelies Mortier, Felipe Murgas, Norio Narita, Valerio Nascimbeni, Belinda A. Nicholson, Goran Olofsson, Roland Ottensamer, Isabella Pagano, Larissa Palethorpe, Enric Palle, Hannu Parviainen, Marco Pedani, Francesco A. Pepe, Gisbert Peter, Matteo Pinamonti, Giampaolo Piotto, Don Pollacco, Ennio Poretti, Didier Queloz, Samuel N. Quinn, Roberto Ragazzoni, Nicola Rando, David Rapetti, Francesco Ratti, Heike Rauer, Federica Rescigno, Ignasi Ribas, Ken Rice, George R. Ricker, Paul Robertson, Thierry de Roche, Laurence Sabin, Nuno C. Santos, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Arjun B. Savel, Gaetano Scandariato, Nicole Schanche, Urs Schroffenegger, Richard P. Schwarz, Sara Seager, Ramotholo Sefako, Damien Segransan, Avi Shporer, Andre M. Silva, Alexis M. S. Smith, Alessandro Sozzetti, Manfred Steller, Gyula M. Szabo, Motohide Tamura, Nicolas Thomas, Amy Tuson, Stephane Udry, Andrew Vanderburg, Roland K. Vanderspek, Julia Venturini, Francesco Verrecchia, Nicholas A. Walton, Christopher A. Watson, Robert D. Wells, Joshua N. Winn, Roberto Zambelli, Carl Ziegler
Comments: Accepted for publication in Science
Subjects: astro-ph.EP
arXiv:2602.12303v1 [pdf]
Title: Astrophysics Wrapped 2025: Year-in-Review of Every Astrophysics arXiv Paper from 2025
Authors: Rommulus Francis Lewis, Hetansh Shah, Amruth Alfred
Comments: 27 pages, 8 tables, 23 figures, comments are welcome
Subjects: astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR
arXiv:2602.10260v1 [pdf]
Title: Cold and eccentric: a high-spectral resolution view of 51 Eri b with VLT/HiRISE
Authors: A. Denis, A. Vigan, G. Chauvin, A. Lacquement, H. Beust, M. Ravet, J. Costes, A. Radcliffe, S. Martos, W. Balmer, T. Stolkern, P. Palma Bifani, B. Rajpoot, A. Simonnin, S. Petrus, T. Forveille, M. Janson, A. Reiners, N. Godoy, D. Cont, L. Nortmann, K. Hoy, A. Zurlo, H. Anwand-Heerwart, Y. Charles, A. Costille, M. El Morsy, J. Garcia, M. Houllé, M. Lopez, G. Murray, E. Muslimov, G. P. P. L. Otten, J. Paufique, M. Phillips, U. Seemann, A. Viret, G. Zins
Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
Subjects: astro-ph.EP
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