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It’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further six papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 151 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 599.

I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

The first paper to report this week, published on Tuesday 14th July, is “On combining estimated and analytic covariance matrices” by Alan Heavens (Imperial College London, UK), Lorne Whiteway (University College, London, UK) and Elena Sellentin (Leiden University, The Netherlands). This article, published in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, presents an accurate approximation for the combined likelihood function in cosmological data analysis, improving upon previous methods by better representing the heavy tails of the true distribution.

The overlay for this paper is here

You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116916991519124229

The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday 14th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is: “Line-of-sight shear in SLACS strong lenses II: validation tests with an extended sample” by Natalie B. Hogg (U. Cambridge, UK), Daniel P. Johnson (Université de Montpellier, France), Anowar J. Shajib (U. Chicago, USA) and Julien Larena (Montpellier). The study described in this paper models 27 additional gravitational lenses, finding a significant fraction with unexpectedly large line-of-sight shears. Factors like redshift, filter, and signal-to-noise ratio don’t significantly affect shear magnitudes.

The overlay looks like this:

The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116917026598474399

The third paper of the week, published on Wednesday 15th July, again in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics “Investigating the Dark Energy Constraint from Strongly Lensed AGN at LSST-Scale” by Sydney Erickson (Stanford University, USA) and 13 others on behalf of The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. The study uses a new technique to analyze a large sample of lensed Active Galactic Nuclei, providing an independent probe of dark energy and improving constraints on the Universe’s expansion.

The overlay for this one is here:

The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116922734297811558

The fourth paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 15th July but in the folder Earth and Planetary Astrophysics is “University of Hawaii 88-inch Telescope Observations of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Spectrophotometric Blue-Sensitive Spectral Time Series Spanning Two Months from Discovery” by W. B. Hoogendam (University of Hawaii, USA) and 24 others from around the world. The study presents observations of the third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, using the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph, revealing its properties and comparing it to bodies in our solar system.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116925616134490970

The fifth paper of the week, published on Friday 17th July in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, is “The birth of the intracluster medium: the evolution of multiphase gas and Lyman-α haloes in a z~3 simulated protocluster” by Jake S. Bennett (Harvard Smithsonian CfA, USA), Aaron Smith (U. Nottingham, UK), Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia (MPA Garching, Germany), Debora Sijacki (U. Cambridge, UK) , Cassandra Lochhaas (CfA) and Lars Hernquist (CfA). This study uses a cosmological simulation to explore the transition from complex galactic haloes to mature galaxy clusters, focusing on gas distribution, ionisation, and emission changes during this evolution.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934117289387295

The sixth and final paper of this week is “Density reconstruction from biased tracers: Testing the equivalence principle through consistency relations” by Lawrence Dam and Omar Darwish (Université de Genève, Switzerland). This was published on Friday 17th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It proposes using quadratic estimators to test the weak equivalence principle on cosmological scales, offering a practical alternative to the conventional bispectrum approach.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can find the final accepted version on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934191977670070

As you can see we have now published over 150 papers this year and are just one shy of 600 in total. I expect we’ll pass that milestone next week. I’ll do another update next Saturday.

#3IAtlas #ActiveGalacticNuclei #arXiv251013803v2 #arXiv251113669v3 #arXiv251205050v2 #arXiv251209020v2 #arXiv260316991v2 #arXiv260419463v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #biasedGalaxyFormation #CircumgalacticMedium #cosmologicalParameters #cosmologicalSimulations #Cosmology #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #covarianceMatrices #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DensityReconstruction #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #EarthAndPlanetaryAstrophysics #equivalencePrinciple #galaxyClusters #galaxyHaloes #interstellarComets #lineOfSightShear #LSSTDarkEnergyScienceCollaboration #LymanAlpha #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #protoclusters #SLACS #statisticalCosmology #strongGravitationalLensing

#3iatlas #activegalacticnuclei #arxiv251013803v2 #arxiv251113669v3 #arxiv251205050v2 #arxiv251209020v2

In the Dark @[email protected] · 2026-07-18 · 10:48 UTC

Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics 18/07/2026

It’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further six papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 151 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 599.

I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

The first paper to report this week, published on Tuesday 14th July, is “On combining estimated and analytic covariance matrices” by Alan Heavens (Imperial College London, UK), Lorne Whiteway (University College, London, UK) and Elena Sellentin (Leiden University, The Netherlands). This article, published in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, presents an accurate approximation for the combined likelihood function in cosmological data analysis, improving upon previous methods by better representing the heavy tails of the true distribution.

The overlay for this paper is here

You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116916991519124229

The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday 14th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is: “Line-of-sight shear in SLACS strong lenses II: validation tests with an extended sample” by Natalie B. Hogg (U. Cambridge, UK), Daniel P. Johnson (Université de Montpellier, France), Anowar J. Shajib (U. Chicago, USA) and Julien Larena (Montpellier). The study described in this paper models 27 additional gravitational lenses, finding a significant fraction with unexpectedly large line-of-sight shears. Factors like redshift, filter, and signal-to-noise ratio don’t significantly affect shear magnitudes.

The overlay looks like this:

The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116917026598474399

The third paper of the week, published on Wednesday 15th July, again in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics “Investigating the Dark Energy Constraint from Strongly Lensed AGN at LSST-Scale” by Sydney Erickson (Stanford University, USA) and 13 others on behalf of The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. The study uses a new technique to analyze a large sample of lensed Active Galactic Nuclei, providing an independent probe of dark energy and improving constraints on the Universe’s expansion.

The overlay for this one is here:

The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116922734297811558

The fourth paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 15th July but in the folder Earth and Planetary Astrophysics is “University of Hawaii 88-inch Telescope Observations of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Spectrophotometric Blue-Sensitive Spectral Time Series Spanning Two Months from Discovery” by W. B. Hoogendam (University of Hawaii, USA) and 24 others from around the world. The study presents observations of the third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, using the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph, revealing its properties and comparing it to bodies in our solar system.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116925616134490970

The fifth paper of the week, published on Friday 17th July in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, is “The birth of the intracluster medium: the evolution of multiphase gas and Lyman-α haloes in a z~3 simulated protocluster” by Jake S. Bennett (Harvard Smithsonian CfA, USA), Aaron Smith (U. Nottingham, UK), Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia (MPA Garching, Germany), Debora Sijacki (U. Cambridge, UK) , Cassandra Lochhaas (CfA) and Lars Hernquist (CfA). This study uses a cosmological simulation to explore the transition from complex galactic haloes to mature galaxy clusters, focusing on gas distribution, ionisation, and emission changes during this evolution.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934117289387295

The sixth and final paper of this week is “Density reconstruction from biased tracers: Testing the equivalence principle through consistency relations” by Lawrence Dam and Omar Darwish (Université de Genève, Switzerland). This was published on Friday 17th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It proposes using quadratic estimators to test the weak equivalence principle on cosmological scales, offering a practical alternative to the conventional bispectrum approach.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can find the final accepted version on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934191977670070

As you can see we have now published over 150 papers this year and are just one shy of 600 in total. I expect we’ll pass that milestone next week. I’ll do another update next Saturday.

#3IAtlas #ActiveGalacticNuclei #arXiv251013803v2 #arXiv251113669v3 #arXiv251205050v2 #arXiv251209020v2 #arXiv260316991v2 #arXiv260419463v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #biasedGalaxyFormation #CircumgalacticMedium #cosmologicalParameters #cosmologicalSimulations #Cosmology #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #covarianceMatrices #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DensityReconstruction #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #EarthAndPlanetaryAstrophysics #equivalencePrinciple #galaxyClusters #galaxyHaloes #interstellarComets #lineOfSightShear #LSSTDarkEnergyScienceCollaboration #LymanAlpha #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #protoclusters #SLACS #statisticalCosmology #strongGravitationalLensing

#3iatlas #activegalacticnuclei #arxiv251013803v2 #arxiv251113669v3 #arxiv251205050v2 #arxiv251209020v2

In the Dark @[email protected] · 2026-07-18 · 10:48 UTC

Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics 18/07/2026

It’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further six papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 151 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 599.

I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

The first paper to report this week, published on Tuesday 14th July, is “On combining estimated and analytic covariance matrices” by Alan Heavens (Imperial College London, UK), Lorne Whiteway (University College, London, UK) and Elena Sellentin (Leiden University, The Netherlands). This article, published in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, presents an accurate approximation for the combined likelihood function in cosmological data analysis, improving upon previous methods by better representing the heavy tails of the true distribution.

The overlay for this paper is here

You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116916991519124229

The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday 14th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is: “Line-of-sight shear in SLACS strong lenses II: validation tests with an extended sample” by Natalie B. Hogg (U. Cambridge, UK), Daniel P. Johnson (Université de Montpellier, France), Anowar J. Shajib (U. Chicago, USA) and Julien Larena (Montpellier). The study described in this paper models 27 additional gravitational lenses, finding a significant fraction with unexpectedly large line-of-sight shears. Factors like redshift, filter, and signal-to-noise ratio don’t significantly affect shear magnitudes.

The overlay looks like this:

The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116917026598474399

The third paper of the week, published on Wednesday 15th July, again in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics “Investigating the Dark Energy Constraint from Strongly Lensed AGN at LSST-Scale” by Sydney Erickson (Stanford University, USA) and 13 others on behalf of The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. The study uses a new technique to analyze a large sample of lensed Active Galactic Nuclei, providing an independent probe of dark energy and improving constraints on the Universe’s expansion.

The overlay for this one is here:

The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116922734297811558

The fourth paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 15th July but in the folder Earth and Planetary Astrophysics is “University of Hawaii 88-inch Telescope Observations of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Spectrophotometric Blue-Sensitive Spectral Time Series Spanning Two Months from Discovery” by W. B. Hoogendam (University of Hawaii, USA) and 24 others from around the world. The study presents observations of the third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, using the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph, revealing its properties and comparing it to bodies in our solar system.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116925616134490970

The fifth paper of the week, published on Friday 17th July in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, is “The birth of the intracluster medium: the evolution of multiphase gas and Lyman-α haloes in a z~3 simulated protocluster” by Jake S. Bennett (Harvard Smithsonian CfA, USA), Aaron Smith (U. Nottingham, UK), Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia (MPA Garching, Germany), Debora Sijacki (U. Cambridge, UK) , Cassandra Lochhaas (CfA) and Lars Hernquist (CfA). This study uses a cosmological simulation to explore the transition from complex galactic haloes to mature galaxy clusters, focusing on gas distribution, ionisation, and emission changes during this evolution.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934117289387295

The sixth and final paper of this week is “Density reconstruction from biased tracers: Testing the equivalence principle through consistency relations” by Lawrence Dam and Omar Darwish (Université de Genève, Switzerland). This was published on Friday 17th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It proposes using quadratic estimators to test the weak equivalence principle on cosmological scales, offering a practical alternative to the conventional bispectrum approach.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can find the final accepted version on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934191977670070

As you can see we have now published over 150 papers this year and are just one shy of 600 in total. I expect we’ll pass that milestone next week. I’ll do another update next Saturday.

#3IAtlas #ActiveGalacticNuclei #arXiv251013803v2 #arXiv251113669v3 #arXiv251205050v2 #arXiv251209020v2 #arXiv260316991v2 #arXiv260419463v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #biasedGalaxyFormation #CircumgalacticMedium #cosmologicalParameters #cosmologicalSimulations #Cosmology #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #covarianceMatrices #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DensityReconstruction #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #EarthAndPlanetaryAstrophysics #equivalencePrinciple #galaxyClusters #galaxyHaloes #interstellarComets #lineOfSightShear #LSSTDarkEnergyScienceCollaboration #LymanAlpha #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #protoclusters #SLACS #statisticalCosmology #strongGravitationalLensing

#3iatlas #activegalacticnuclei #arxiv251013803v2 #arxiv251113669v3 #arxiv251205050v2 #arxiv251209020v2

In the Dark @[email protected] · 2026-07-18 · 10:48 UTC

Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics 18/07/2026

It’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further six papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 151 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 599.

I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

The first paper to report this week, published on Tuesday 14th July, is “On combining estimated and analytic covariance matrices” by Alan Heavens (Imperial College London, UK), Lorne Whiteway (University College, London, UK) and Elena Sellentin (Leiden University, The Netherlands). This article, published in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, presents an accurate approximation for the combined likelihood function in cosmological data analysis, improving upon previous methods by better representing the heavy tails of the true distribution.

The overlay for this paper is here

You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116916991519124229

The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday 14th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is: “Line-of-sight shear in SLACS strong lenses II: validation tests with an extended sample” by Natalie B. Hogg (U. Cambridge, UK), Daniel P. Johnson (Université de Montpellier, France), Anowar J. Shajib (U. Chicago, USA) and Julien Larena (Montpellier). The study described in this paper models 27 additional gravitational lenses, finding a significant fraction with unexpectedly large line-of-sight shears. Factors like redshift, filter, and signal-to-noise ratio don’t significantly affect shear magnitudes.

The overlay looks like this:

The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116917026598474399

The third paper of the week, published on Wednesday 15th July, again in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics “Investigating the Dark Energy Constraint from Strongly Lensed AGN at LSST-Scale” by Sydney Erickson (Stanford University, USA) and 13 others on behalf of The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. The study uses a new technique to analyze a large sample of lensed Active Galactic Nuclei, providing an independent probe of dark energy and improving constraints on the Universe’s expansion.

The overlay for this one is here:

The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116922734297811558

The fourth paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 15th July but in the folder Earth and Planetary Astrophysics is “University of Hawaii 88-inch Telescope Observations of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Spectrophotometric Blue-Sensitive Spectral Time Series Spanning Two Months from Discovery” by W. B. Hoogendam (University of Hawaii, USA) and 24 others from around the world. The study presents observations of the third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, using the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph, revealing its properties and comparing it to bodies in our solar system.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116925616134490970

The fifth paper of the week, published on Friday 17th July in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, is “The birth of the intracluster medium: the evolution of multiphase gas and Lyman-α haloes in a z~3 simulated protocluster” by Jake S. Bennett (Harvard Smithsonian CfA, USA), Aaron Smith (U. Nottingham, UK), Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia (MPA Garching, Germany), Debora Sijacki (U. Cambridge, UK) , Cassandra Lochhaas (CfA) and Lars Hernquist (CfA). This study uses a cosmological simulation to explore the transition from complex galactic haloes to mature galaxy clusters, focusing on gas distribution, ionisation, and emission changes during this evolution.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934117289387295

The sixth and final paper of this week is “Density reconstruction from biased tracers: Testing the equivalence principle through consistency relations” by Lawrence Dam and Omar Darwish (Université de Genève, Switzerland). This was published on Friday 17th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It proposes using quadratic estimators to test the weak equivalence principle on cosmological scales, offering a practical alternative to the conventional bispectrum approach.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can find the final accepted version on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934191977670070

As you can see we have now published over 150 papers this year and are just one shy of 600 in total. I expect we’ll pass that milestone next week. I’ll do another update next Saturday.

#3IAtlas #ActiveGalacticNuclei #arXiv251013803v2 #arXiv251113669v3 #arXiv251205050v2 #arXiv251209020v2 #arXiv260316991v2 #arXiv260419463v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #biasedGalaxyFormation #CircumgalacticMedium #cosmologicalParameters #cosmologicalSimulations #Cosmology #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #covarianceMatrices #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DensityReconstruction #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #EarthAndPlanetaryAstrophysics #equivalencePrinciple #galaxyClusters #galaxyHaloes #interstellarComets #lineOfSightShear #LSSTDarkEnergyScienceCollaboration #LymanAlpha #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #protoclusters #SLACS #statisticalCosmology #strongGravitationalLensing

#stronggravitationallensing #statisticalcosmology #slacs #protoclusters #openaccesspublishing #openaccess

In the Dark @[email protected] · 2026-07-18 · 10:48 UTC

Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics 18/07/2026

It’s time once more for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further six papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 151 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 599.

I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

The first paper to report this week, published on Tuesday 14th July, is “On combining estimated and analytic covariance matrices” by Alan Heavens (Imperial College London, UK), Lorne Whiteway (University College, London, UK) and Elena Sellentin (Leiden University, The Netherlands). This article, published in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, presents an accurate approximation for the combined likelihood function in cosmological data analysis, improving upon previous methods by better representing the heavy tails of the true distribution.

The overlay for this paper is here

You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116916991519124229

The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday 14th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is: “Line-of-sight shear in SLACS strong lenses II: validation tests with an extended sample” by Natalie B. Hogg (U. Cambridge, UK), Daniel P. Johnson (Université de Montpellier, France), Anowar J. Shajib (U. Chicago, USA) and Julien Larena (Montpellier). The study described in this paper models 27 additional gravitational lenses, finding a significant fraction with unexpectedly large line-of-sight shears. Factors like redshift, filter, and signal-to-noise ratio don’t significantly affect shear magnitudes.

The overlay looks like this:

The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116917026598474399

The third paper of the week, published on Wednesday 15th July, again in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics “Investigating the Dark Energy Constraint from Strongly Lensed AGN at LSST-Scale” by Sydney Erickson (Stanford University, USA) and 13 others on behalf of The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. The study uses a new technique to analyze a large sample of lensed Active Galactic Nuclei, providing an independent probe of dark energy and improving constraints on the Universe’s expansion.

The overlay for this one is here:

The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116922734297811558

The fourth paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 15th July but in the folder Earth and Planetary Astrophysics is “University of Hawaii 88-inch Telescope Observations of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Spectrophotometric Blue-Sensitive Spectral Time Series Spanning Two Months from Discovery” by W. B. Hoogendam (University of Hawaii, USA) and 24 others from around the world. The study presents observations of the third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, using the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph, revealing its properties and comparing it to bodies in our solar system.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116925616134490970

The fifth paper of the week, published on Friday 17th July in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, is “The birth of the intracluster medium: the evolution of multiphase gas and Lyman-α haloes in a z~3 simulated protocluster” by Jake S. Bennett (Harvard Smithsonian CfA, USA), Aaron Smith (U. Nottingham, UK), Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia (MPA Garching, Germany), Debora Sijacki (U. Cambridge, UK) , Cassandra Lochhaas (CfA) and Lars Hernquist (CfA). This study uses a cosmological simulation to explore the transition from complex galactic haloes to mature galaxy clusters, focusing on gas distribution, ionisation, and emission changes during this evolution.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can read the final version of this one on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934117289387295

The sixth and final paper paper of this week is “”Density reconstruction from biased tracers: Testing the equivalence principle through consistency relations” by Lawrence Dam and Omar Darwish (Université de Genève, Switzerland). This was published on Friday 17th July in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It proposes using quadratic estimators to test the weak equivalence principle on cosmological scales, offering a practical alternative to the conventional bispectrum approach.

The overlay for this one is here:

You can find the final accepted version on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116934191977670070

As you can see we have now published over 150 papers this year and are just one shy of 600 in total. I expect we’ll pass that milestone next week. I’ll do another update next Saturday.

#3IAtlas #ActiveGalacticNuclei #arXiv251013803v2 #arXiv251113669v3 #arXiv251205050v2 #arXiv251209020v2 #arXiv260316991v2 #arXiv260419463v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #biasedGalaxyFormation #CircumgalacticMedium #cosmologicalParameters #cosmologicalSimulations #Cosmology #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #covarianceMatrices #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DensityReconstruction #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #EarthAndPlanetaryAstrophysics #equivalencePrinciple #galaxyClusters #galaxyHaloes #interstellarComets #lineOfSightShear #LSSTDarkEnergyScienceCollaboration #LymanAlpha #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #protoclusters #SLACS #statisticalCosmology #strongGravitationalLensing

#3iatlas #activegalacticnuclei #arxiv251013803v2 #arxiv251113669v3 #arxiv251205050v2 #arxiv251209020v2

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 06:46 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “OJ 287 polarisation in radio, mm and optical” by Jormanainen J. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/694/A206
#SubmillimeterAstronomy #ActiveGalacticNuclei #BlLacertaeObjects #Polarimetry

#virtualobservatory #submillimeterastronomy #activegalacticnuclei #bllacertaeobjects #polarimetry

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-07-11 · 16:46 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “High-energy polarimetry emission models” by Capecchiacci S. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/711/A83
#ActiveGalacticNuclei #Polarimetry #XRaySources

#virtualobservatory #activegalacticnuclei #polarimetry #xraysources

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-07-04 · 06:58 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “FRIs and FRIIs in LoTSS DR2 with galaxy clusters” by Pan T. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/710/A326
#GalaxyClusters #ActiveGalacticNuclei #RadioGalaxies

#virtualobservatory #galaxyclusters #activegalacticnuclei #radiogalaxies

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-06-30 · 16:43 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “NGC 7213 ATCA 5.5 and 9GHz and Swift/XRT obs.” by Bruni G. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/710/A217
#XRaySources #ActiveGalacticNuclei #RadioSources

#virtualobservatory #xraysources #activegalacticnuclei #radiosources

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-06-22 · 16:52 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “The X-ray ExSeSS source sample from 2SXPS” by Delaney J.N. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/521/1620
#XRaySources #Spectroscopy #Photometry #ActiveGalacticNuclei

#virtualobservatory #xraysources #spectroscopy #photometry #activegalacticnuclei

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-06-07 · 06:46 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “SED analysis of X-ray selected AGN in Stripe 82” by Setoguchi K. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/961/246
#VisibleAstronomy #ActiveGalacticNuclei #Redshifted #XRaySources

#virtualobservatory #visibleastronomy #activegalacticnuclei #redshifted #xraysources

UK @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 18:12 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1009644/ Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge #ActiveGalacticNuclei #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #CosmicVoids #GalaxyCores #HubbleSpaceTelescope #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #jwst #Physics #Science #SpaceExploration #StellarDynamics #SupermassiveBlackHoles #UK #UnitedKingdom

#unitedkingdom #uk #supermassiveblackholes #stellardynamics #spaceexploration #science

United Kingdom News Beep @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 17:00 UTC

Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge

Artistic depiction, for illustrative purposes online. Space is usually crowded at the center of a giant galaxy. Stars…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #activegalacticnuclei #Astrophysics #Blackholes #cosmicvoids #galaxycores #HubbleSpaceTelescope #jameswebbspacetelescope #jwst #Science #SpaceExploration #stellardynamics #supermassiveblackholes #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/624689/

#unitedkingdom #uk #supermassiveblackholes #stellardynamics #spaceexploration #science

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 06:52 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Optically variable AGNs with double-peaked emission” by Ward C. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/961/172
#GalaxyClassificationSystems #ActiveGalacticNuclei #VisibleAstronomy #Spectroscopy

#virtualobservatory #galaxyclassificationsystems #activegalacticnuclei #visibleastronomy #spectroscopy

Ireland @[email protected] · 2026-06-06 · 06:08 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/ie/521295/ Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge #ActiveGalacticNuclei #astrophysics #BlackHoles #CosmicVoids #Éire #GalaxyCores #HubbleSpaceTelescope #IE #Ireland #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #jwst #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #StellarDynamics #SupermassiveBlackHoles

#supermassiveblackholes #stellardynamics #spaceexploration #space #science #jwst

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-29 · 17:01 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “LBT-MODS long-slit opt. sp. of SDSS-FIRST galaxies” by Bhat H.K. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/960/119
#RadioGalaxies #ActiveGalacticNuclei #VisibleAstronomy #Spectroscopy

#virtualobservatory #radiogalaxies #activegalacticnuclei #visibleastronomy #spectroscopy

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-21 · 06:52 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Supermassive BH with accretion rates in AGN. XIV.” by Hu C. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/278/61
#Redshifted #Spectroscopy #Quasars #ActiveGalacticNuclei

#virtualobservatory #redshifted #spectroscopy #quasars #activegalacticnuclei

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-21 · 06:49 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “SEAMBH in AGNs. XIII. Mrk142 GMOS and LJT spectra” by Khatu V.C. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/958/127
#Spectroscopy #ActiveGalacticNuclei #VisibleAstronomy

#virtualobservatory #spectroscopy #activegalacticnuclei #visibleastronomy

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-16 · 07:03 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “CL-AGN from the DESI. II. Stat. properties from DR1” by Guo W.-J. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/278/28
#ActiveGalacticNuclei #Spectroscopy #Redshifted #VisibleAstronomy

#virtualobservatory #activegalacticnuclei #spectroscopy #redshifted #visibleastronomy

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-15 · 16:50 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “3C 84 jet images” by Paraschos G.F. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/709/A92
#Interferometry #Polarimetry #ActiveGalacticNuclei

#virtualobservatory #interferometry #polarimetry #activegalacticnuclei

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-15 · 06:58 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Extended cluster radio sources catalog” by van der Jagt S. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/699/A66
#Redshifted #ActiveGalacticNuclei #RadioGalaxies #GalaxyClusters

#virtualobservatory #redshifted #activegalacticnuclei #radiogalaxies #galaxyclusters

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-11 · 16:42 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Kilioparsec morphology OIII catalog” by Escott E.L. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/547/G274
#Quasars #InfraredAstronomy #RadioSources #ActiveGalacticNuclei

#virtualobservatory #quasars #infraredastronomy #radiosources #activegalacticnuclei

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-07 · 17:00 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “IceCube neutrinos-CAZ blazar light curves assoc.” by Kouch P.M. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/708/A383
#NeutrinoAstronomy #ActiveGalacticNuclei #RadioSources

#virtualobservatory #neutrinoastronomy #activegalacticnuclei #radiosources

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-04 · 16:49 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “7918 blazar-selected AGN CAZ catalog and LC” by Kouch P.M. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/708/A382
#VisibleAstronomy #RadioSources #Quasars #ActiveGalacticNuclei

#virtualobservatory #visibleastronomy #radiosources #quasars #activegalacticnuclei

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 06:52 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “EMU/GAMA. AGN diagnostics” by Prathap J. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/other/PASA/43.47
#ActiveGalacticNuclei #RadioSources

#virtualobservatory #activegalacticnuclei #radiosources

In the Dark @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 10:13 UTC

Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 02/05/2026

Here we are, on schedule, with another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further seven papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 94 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 542. I checked the corresponding update for last year (on 3rd May 2025), and we’ve had an increase from 54 to 94 in papers published (about 74%) between the first four months of 2025 and the first four months of 2026.

I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience) to encourage you to visit it. Mastodon is a really excellent service, and a more than adequate replacement for X/Twitter (which nobody should be using); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

The first paper to report this week is “DESI-DR1 3 × 2-pt analysis: consistent cosmology across weak lensing surveys” by Anna Porredon (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain) and 72 others (DESI Colllaboration). This paper was published on Tuesday 28th April in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. This paper presents a joint cosmological analysis of galaxy clustering and gravitational lensing observations, providing consistent constraints on cosmological parameters. The analysis also introduces a new blinding procedure to prevent confirmation bias. See this post for news of an important DESI milestone.

The overlay for this paper is here

You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116480407578621011

The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday 28th April but in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena is “Masers and Broad-Line Mapping Favor Magnetically-Dominated AGN Accretion Disks” by Philip F. Hopkins (Caltech, USA), Dalya Baron (Stanford U., USA) and Joanna M. Piotrowska (Caltech). This one presents a new constraint on supermassive black hole accretion disks physics, suggesting that outer regions are likely in a ‘hyper-magnetized’ state, as thermal or radiation pressure models appear inconsistent.

The overlay for this one is here:

The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116480505354195181

Next one up, the third paper of the week, is “Galaxy mergers and disk angular momentum evolution: stellar halos as a critical test” by Eric F. Bell (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), Richard D’Souza (Vatican Observatory), Monica Valluri & Katya Gozman (U. Michigan). This was published on Wednesday 29th April in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The paper argues that satellite accretion impacts the angular momentum evolution of galaxies, often causing significant reorientation. This process is detectable in Milky Way-mass galaxies so the idea is testable observationally.

The overlay for this one is here:

The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116486649450860283

The fourth paper this week, published on Thursday April 30th, is “Time-Dilation Methods for Extreme Multiscale Timestepping Problems” by Philip F. Hopkins and Elias R. Most (Caltech, USA). This paper is in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics: it presents a new method for astrophysical simulations that modulates time evolution with a variable dilation/stretch factor, improving efficiency and accuracy in modeling processes across different scales.

The overlay is here:

The finally accepted version of this paper can be found here and the Mastodon announcement follows:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116492226856595031

The fifth article of this week was also published on Thursday 30th April, but in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The title is “Cosmic Rays on Galaxy Scales: Progress and Pitfalls for CR-MHD Dynamical Models” and the author is Philip F. Hopkins (Caltech, USA) who has three papers featured this week. The paper presents an overview of cosmic ray (CR) modeling, highlighting its influence on galactic physics and star formation. It addresses previous modeling errors and presents new methods for full-spectrum dynamics.

The overlay is here:

You can find the authorized version of this paper on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116492282488422075

The sixth paper of the week is “Baryonification III: An accurate analytical model for the dispersion measure probability density function of fast radio bursts” by MohammadReza Torkamani (Universität Bonn, Germany) and 8 others based in Germany, Switzerland, UK and Sweden. This article was also published on Thursday April 30th in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It presents a framework for predicting dispersion measures of fast radio bursts using the baryonification model, providing a cost-effective alternative to hydrodynamical simulations. The model’s accuracy is validated through full numerical simulations. The overlay is here:

You can find the officially-accepted version on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116492403170125062

Seventh and finally for this week we have “The stellar and dark matter distributions in early-type galaxies measured by stacked weak gravitational lensing” by Momoka Fujikawa and Masamune Oguri (Chiba University, Japan). This study uses weak gravitational lensing to investigate stellar mass and dark matter density in red galaxies, suggesting a stronger feedback effect than current simulations predict. This was published on Friday 1st May 2026 in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The overlay is here:

You can find the officially-accepted version on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116497987401632687

And that concludes this week’s update. I’ll do another one at the end of next week. Will Vol. 9 have reached a hundred by then?

P.S. Just a reminder that, thanks to the efforts of a member of our Editorial Board, the Open Journal of Astrophysics now has a Wikipedia page.

#32PtAnalysis #ActiveGalacticNuclei #AGN #arXiv250907104v2 #arXiv251009756v2 #arXiv251209342v2 #arXiv251215960v3 #arXiv260106253v2 #arXiv260118784v2 #arXiv260424965v1 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #baryonification #ComputationalAstrophysics #cosmicRays #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #DispersionMeasures #fastRadioBursts #galacticCosmicRays #galaxyEvolution #galaxyFormation #galaxyMergers #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #magnetohydrodynamics #masers #MilkyWay #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #SolarAndStellarAstrophysics #SolarCorona #supermassiveBlackHoles #VeraCRubinObservatory #weakGravitationalLensing #wikipedia

#32ptanalysis #activegalacticnuclei #agn #arxiv250907104v2 #arxiv251009756v2 #arxiv251209342v2

In the Dark @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 10:13 UTC

Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 02/05/2026

Here we are, on schedule, with another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further seven papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 94 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 542. I checked the corresponding update for last year (on 3rd May 2025), and we’ve had an increase from 54 to 94 in papers published (about 74%) between the first four months of 2025 and the first four months of 2026.

I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience) to encourage you to visit it. Mastodon is a really excellent service, and a more than adequate replacement for X/Twitter (which nobody should be using); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

The first paper to report this week is “DESI-DR1 3 × 2-pt analysis: consistent cosmology across weak lensing surveys” by Anna Porredon (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain) and 72 others (DESI Colllaboration). This paper was published on Tuesday 28th April in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. This paper presents a joint cosmological analysis of galaxy clustering and gravitational lensing observations, providing consistent constraints on cosmological parameters. The analysis also introduces a new blinding procedure to prevent confirmation bias. See this post for news of an important DESI milestone.

The overlay for this paper is here

You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116480407578621011

The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday 28th April but in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena is “Masers and Broad-Line Mapping Favor Magnetically-Dominated AGN Accretion Disks” by Philip F. Hopkins (Caltech, USA), Dalya Baron (Stanford U., USA) and Joanna M. Piotrowska (Caltech). This one presents a new constraint on supermassive black hole accretion disks physics, suggesting that outer regions are likely in a ‘hyper-magnetized’ state, as thermal or radiation pressure models appear inconsistent.

The overlay for this one is here:

The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116480505354195181

Next one up, the third paper of the week, is “Galaxy mergers and disk angular momentum evolution: stellar halos as a critical test” by Eric F. Bell (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), Richard D’Souza (Vatican Observatory), Monica Valluri & Katya Gozman (U. Michigan). This was published on Wednesday 29th April in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The paper argues that satellite accretion impacts the angular momentum evolution of galaxies, often causing significant reorientation. This process is detectable in Milky Way-mass galaxies so the idea is testable observationally.

The overlay for this one is here:

The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116486649450860283

The fourth paper this week, published on Thursday April 30th, is “Time-Dilation Methods for Extreme Multiscale Timestepping Problems” by Philip F. Hopkins and Elias R. Most (Caltech, USA). This paper is in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics: it presents a new method for astrophysical simulations that modulates time evolution with a variable dilation/stretch factor, improving efficiency and accuracy in modeling processes across different scales.

The overlay is here:

The finally accepted version of this paper can be found here and the Mastodon announcement follows:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116492226856595031

The fifth article of this week was also published on Thursday 30th April, but in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The title is “Cosmic Rays on Galaxy Scales: Progress and Pitfalls for CR-MHD Dynamical Models” and the author is Philip F. Hopkins (Caltech, USA) who has three papers featured this week. The paper presents an overview of cosmic ray (CR) modeling, highlighting its influence on galactic physics and star formation. It addresses previous modeling errors and presents new methods for full-spectrum dynamics.

The overlay is here:

You can find the authorized version of this paper on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116492282488422075

The sixth paper of the week is “Baryonification III: An accurate analytical model for the dispersion measure probability density function of fast radio bursts” by MohammadReza Torkamani (Universität Bonn, Germany) and 8 others based in Germany, Switzerland, UK and Sweden. This article was also published on Thursday April 30th in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. It presents a framework for predicting dispersion measures of fast radio bursts using the baryonification model, providing a cost-effective alternative to hydrodynamical simulations. The model’s accuracy is validated through full numerical simulations. The overlay is here:

You can find the officially-accepted version on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116492403170125062

Seventh and finally for this week we have “The stellar and dark matter distributions in early-type galaxies measured by stacked weak gravitational lensing” by Momoka Fujikawa and Masamune Oguri (Chiba University, Japan). This study uses weak gravitational lensing to investigate stellar mass and dark matter density in red galaxies, suggesting a stronger feedback effect than current simulations predict. This was published on Friday 1st May 2026 in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The overlay is here:

You can find the officially-accepted version on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement is here:

https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116497987401632687

And that concludes this week’s update. I’ll do another one at the end of next week. Will Vol. 9 have reached a hundred by then?

P.S. Just a reminder that, thanks to the efforts of a member of our Editorial Board, the Open Journal of Astrophysics now has a Wikipedia page.

#32PtAnalysis #ActiveGalacticNuclei #AGN #arXiv250907104v2 #arXiv251009756v2 #arXiv251209342v2 #arXiv251215960v3 #arXiv260106253v2 #arXiv260118784v2 #arXiv260424965v1 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #baryonification #ComputationalAstrophysics #cosmicRays #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #DispersionMeasures #fastRadioBursts #galacticCosmicRays #galaxyEvolution #galaxyFormation #galaxyMergers #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #magnetohydrodynamics #masers #MilkyWay #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #SolarAndStellarAstrophysics #SolarCorona #supermassiveBlackHoles #VeraCRubinObservatory #weakGravitationalLensing #wikipedia

#wikipedia #weakgravitationallensing #veracrubinobservatory #supermassiveblackholes #solarcorona #solarandstellarastrophysics

grateful wolf @[email protected] · 2026-01-24 · 11:59 UTC

'There's Been a Merger!' - Taggart (allegedly) - podcast 30m30s #Euclid #BlackHoles #ActiveGalacticNuclei #SETI #SETILive https://e291bb65-fce0-4adb-8009-ecc15386b126.libsyn.com/when-galaxies-collide-euclid-reveals-what-triggers-active-black-holes

#euclid #blackholes #activegalacticnuclei #seti #setilive

grateful wolf @[email protected] · 2026-01-24 · 11:59 UTC

'There's Been a Merger!' - Taggart (allegedly) - podcast 30m30s #Euclid #BlackHoles #ActiveGalacticNuclei #SETI #SETILive https://e291bb65-fce0-4adb-8009-ecc15386b126.libsyn.com/when-galaxies-collide-euclid-reveals-what-triggers-active-black-holes

#euclid #blackholes #activegalacticnuclei #seti #setilive

grateful wolf @[email protected] · 2026-01-24 · 11:59 UTC

'There's Been a Merger!' - Taggart (allegedly) - podcast 30m30s #Euclid #BlackHoles #ActiveGalacticNuclei #SETI #SETILive https://e291bb65-fce0-4adb-8009-ecc15386b126.libsyn.com/when-galaxies-collide-euclid-reveals-what-triggers-active-black-holes

#euclid #blackholes #activegalacticnuclei #seti #setilive

grateful wolf @[email protected] · 2026-01-24 · 11:59 UTC

'There's Been a Merger!' - Taggart (allegedly) - podcast 30m30s #Euclid #BlackHoles #ActiveGalacticNuclei #SETI #SETILive https://e291bb65-fce0-4adb-8009-ecc15386b126.libsyn.com/when-galaxies-collide-euclid-reveals-what-triggers-active-black-holes

#setilive #seti #activegalacticnuclei #blackholes #euclid

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2025-10-19 · 16:45 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “5 orphaned AGNs HST/FOC UV imaging polarimetry” by Barnouin T. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/702/A96
#SeyfertGalaxies #ActiveGalacticNuclei #UltravioletAstronomy #Polarimetry

#virtualobservatory #seyfertgalaxies #activegalacticnuclei #ultravioletastronomy #polarimetry

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2025-10-19 · 16:45 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “5 orphaned AGNs HST/FOC UV imaging polarimetry” by Barnouin T. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/702/A96
#SeyfertGalaxies #ActiveGalacticNuclei #UltravioletAstronomy #Polarimetry

#virtualobservatory #seyfertgalaxies #activegalacticnuclei #ultravioletastronomy #polarimetry

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2025-10-19 · 16:45 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “5 orphaned AGNs HST/FOC UV imaging polarimetry” by Barnouin T. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/702/A96
#SeyfertGalaxies #ActiveGalacticNuclei #UltravioletAstronomy #Polarimetry

#virtualobservatory #seyfertgalaxies #activegalacticnuclei #ultravioletastronomy #polarimetry

German Virtual Observatory @[email protected] · 2025-10-19 · 16:45 UTC

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “5 orphaned AGNs HST/FOC UV imaging polarimetry” by Barnouin T. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/702/A96
#SeyfertGalaxies #ActiveGalacticNuclei #UltravioletAstronomy #Polarimetry

#polarimetry #ultravioletastronomy #activegalacticnuclei #seyfertgalaxies #virtualobservatory

In the Dark @[email protected] · 2025-03-08 · 10:10 UTC

Weekly Update at the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 08/03/2025

Time for the weekly Saturday morning update of papers published at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published four new papers, which brings the number in Volume 8 (2025) up to 25 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 260.

In chronological order of publication, the four papers published this week, with their overlays, are as follows. You can click on the images of the overlays to make them larger should you wish to do so.

The first paper to report is “Partition function approach to non-Gaussian likelihoods: information theory and state variables for Bayesian inference” by Rebecca Maria Kuntz, Heinrich von Campe, Tobias Röspel, Maximilian Philipp Herzog, and Björn Malte Schäfer, all from the University of Heidelberg (Germany). It was published on Wednesday March 5th 2025 in the folder Cosmology and NonGalactic Astrophysics and it discusses the relationship between information theory and thermodynamics with applications to Bayesian inference in the context of cosmological data sets.

You can read the officially accepted version of this paper on arXiv here.

The second paper of the week is “The Cosmological Population of Gamma-Ray Bursts from the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei” by Hoyoung D. Kang & Rosalba Perna (Stony Brook), Davide Lazzati (Oregon State), and Yi-Han Wang (U. Nevada), all based in the USA. It was published on Thursday 6th March 2025 in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena. The authors use models for GRB electromagnetic emission to simulate the cosmological occurrence and observational detectability of both long and short GRBs within AGN disks

You can find the officially accepted version of this paper on arXiv here.

The next two papers were published on Friday 7th March 2025.

“The distribution of misalignment angles in multipolar planetary nebulae” by Ido Avitan and Noam Soker (Technion, Haifa, Israel) analyzes the statistics of measured misalignment angles in multipolar planetary nebulae implies a random three-dimensional angle distribution limited to <60 degrees. It is in the folder Solar and Stellar Astrophysics.

Here is the overlay:

The official published version can be found on the arXiv here.

The last paper to report this week is “The DESI-Lensing Mock Challenge: large-scale cosmological analysis of 3×2-pt statistics” by Chris Blake (Swinburne, Australia) and 43 others; this is a large international collaboration and I apologize for not being able to list all the authors here!

This one is in the folder marked Cosmology and NonGalactic Astrophysics; it presents an end-to-end simulation study designed to test the analysis pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Year 1 galaxy redshift dataset combined with weak gravitational lensing from other surveys.

The overlay is here:

You can find the “final” version on arXiv here.

That’s all for this week. It’s good to see such an interesting variety of topics. I’ll do another update next Saturday

#3x2ptAnalysis #ActiveGalacticNuclei #arXiv241113625v2 #arXiv241212548v2 #arXiv241217714v2 #arXiv250104549v2 #BayesianInference #Cosmology #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #entropy #GammaRayBursts #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #InformationTheory #numericalSimulations #planetaryNebulae #SolarAndStellarAstrophysics #StatisticalMechanics #WeakLensing

#3x2ptanalysis #activegalacticnuclei #arxiv241113625v2 #arxiv241212548v2 #arxiv241217714v2 #arxiv250104549v2