#supernovae — Public Fediverse posts
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Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 23/05/2026
It’s Saturday once again, so time for another 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 110 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 558.
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 Monday 18th May in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics is “Edges In Coadded Images” by Erin Sheldon (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA). This paper describes a study exploring how image discontinuities and noise impact weak gravitational lensing measurements, finding no significant biases under typical conditions. Biases occur only in extreme cases, but can be mitigated.
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/116594222032390191
The second paper for this week, also published on Monday 18th May but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Joint cosmological fits to DESI-DR1 full-shape clustering and weak gravitational lensing in configuration space” by A. Semenaite (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia) and 72 other authors from all round the world. This paper presents a cosmological analysis of correlations between the DESI-DR1 Bright Galaxy Survey and Luminous Red Galaxy samples and overlapping shear measurements from various weak lensing surveys.
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/116594256215421009
Next one up, the third paper of the week, and the third published on Monday 18th May, also published on Tuesday 12th May, and in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Probing Dark Energy Microphysics with kSZ Tomography” by Julius Adolff, Selim Hotinli and Neal Dalal (all of the Perimeter Institute, Canada). This paper explores how kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich tomography and galaxy clustering can enhance our understanding of dark energy and its effects, potentially revealing its microphysical properties in future surveys.
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/116594304124291605
The fourth paper this week, published on Wednesday May 20th “A Census of Variable Radio Sources at 3 GHz” by Yjan A. Gordon, Peter S. Ferguson, Michael N. Martinez and Eric J. Hooper (all of the University of Wisconsin, USA). This article, published in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, uses data from the Very Large Array Sky Survey to analyze variability in the radio sky, finding most changes consistent with blazars and quasars.
The overlay is here:
The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116607468481260244
The fifth article of this week was published on Friday 22nd May in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics. The title is “Uncovering the Next Galactic Supernova with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory” by John Banovetz (Lawrence Berkeley Lab., USA), Claire-Alice Hebert & Peter B. Denton (Brookhaven National Lab., USA), Dan Scolnic (Duke University, USA), Anze Slosar (Brookhaven) and Chris Walter (Duke). The paper presents a study simulating how effectively the Vera C. Rubin Observatory can localize supernovae using neutrino triggers, finding a 57-97% success rate based on stellar mass density predictions.
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/116617293753093751
Last, but by no means least, this week we have “Pulsar timing solutions for 17 pulsars at 150 MHz from the Irish LOFAR station” by David J. McKenna (ASTRON, The Netherlands), Evan F. Keane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Peter T. Gallagher (DIAS, Ireland) and Joe McCauley (Trinity). This was published on Friday 22nd May in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena. It presents a demonstration of the use of international Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) stations in tracking and characterizing pulsars, providing new insights into these neutron stars’ emission properties.
The overlay for this one 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/116617404344791486
And that concludes this week’s update. I’ll do another one next Saturday.
#arXiv250800976v2 #arXiv250906929v3 #arXiv251105653v2 #arXiv251215961v2 #arXiv260112094v2 #arXiv260522516v1 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #blazars #cosmicShear #cosmologicalSimulations #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DarkEnergy #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DarkEnergySurvey #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #galaxyClustering #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #kineticSunyaevZeDovichEffect #LOFAR #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PointSpreadFunction #pulsars #quasars #radioAstronomy #stackedImages #SunyaevZeDovichEffect #supernova #supernovae #Tomography #VeraCRubinObservatory #VeryLargeArray #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 23/05/2026
It’s Saturday once again, so time for another 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 110 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 558.
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 Monday 18th May in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics is “Edges In Coadded Images” by Erin Sheldon (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA). This paper describes a study exploring how image discontinuities and noise impact weak gravitational lensing measurements, finding no significant biases under typical conditions. Biases occur only in extreme cases, but can be mitigated.
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/116594222032390191
The second paper for this week, also published on Monday 18th May but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Joint cosmological fits to DESI-DR1 full-shape clustering and weak gravitational lensing in configuration space” by A. Semenaite (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia) and 72 other authors from all round the world. This paper presents a cosmological analysis of correlations between the DESI-DR1 Bright Galaxy Survey and Luminous Red Galaxy samples and overlapping shear measurements from various weak lensing surveys.
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/116594256215421009
Next one up, the third paper of the week, and the third published on Monday 18th May, also published on Tuesday 12th May, and in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Probing Dark Energy Microphysics with kSZ Tomography” by Julius Adolff, Selim Hotinli and Neal Dalal (all of the Perimeter Institute, Canada). This paper explores how kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich tomography and galaxy clustering can enhance our understanding of dark energy and its effects, potentially revealing its microphysical properties in future surveys.
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/116594304124291605
The fourth paper this week, published on Wednesday May 20th “A Census of Variable Radio Sources at 3 GHz” by Yjan A. Gordon, Peter S. Ferguson, Michael N. Martinez and Eric J. Hooper (all of the University of Wisconsin, USA). This article, published in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, uses data from the Very Large Array Sky Survey to analyze variability in the radio sky, finding most changes consistent with blazars and quasars.
The overlay is here:
The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116607468481260244
The fifth article of this week was published on Friday 22nd May in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics. The title is “Uncovering the Next Galactic Supernova with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory” by John Banovetz (Lawrence Berkeley Lab., USA), Claire-Alice Hebert & Peter B. Denton (Brookhaven National Lab., USA), Dan Scolnic (Duke University, USA), Anze Slosar (Brookhaven) and Chris Walter (Duke). The paper presents a study simulating how effectively the Vera C. Rubin Observatory can localize supernovae using neutrino triggers, finding a 57-97% success rate based on stellar mass density predictions.
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/116617293753093751
Last, but by no means least, this week we have “Pulsar timing solutions for 17 pulsars at 150 MHz from the Irish LOFAR station” by David J. McKenna (ASTRON, The Netherlands), Evan F. Keane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Peter T. Gallagher (DIAS, Ireland) and Joe McCauley (Trinity). This was published on Friday 22nd May in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena. It presents a demonstration of the use of international Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) stations in tracking and characterizing pulsars, providing new insights into these neutron stars’ emission properties.
The overlay for this one 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/116617404344791486
And that concludes this week’s update. I’ll do another one next Saturday.
#arXiv250800976v2 #arXiv250906929v3 #arXiv251105653v2 #arXiv251215961v2 #arXiv260112094v2 #arXiv260522516v1 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #blazars #cosmicShear #cosmologicalSimulations #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DarkEnergy #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DarkEnergySurvey #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #galaxyClustering #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #kineticSunyaevZeDovichEffect #LOFAR #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PointSpreadFunction #pulsars #quasars #radioAstronomy #stackedImages #SunyaevZeDovichEffect #supernova #supernovae #Tomography #VeraCRubinObservatory #VeryLargeArray #weakGravitationalLensing -
https://www.europesays.com/at/152559/ Gravitationswellen: Rätsel um schwere Schwarze Löcher gelöst #Astronomie #AT #Austria #Gravitationswellen #Österreich #Paarinstabilität #SchwarzeLöcher #Science #Science&Technology #Supernovae #Technik #Technology #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaft&Technik
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New in the #VirtualObservatory: “AST3-2 SN point source automatic survey” by Yang X. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/520/5635
#Supernovae #Photometry #Astrometry #Exoplanets -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 09/05/2026
It’s Saturday once again, so time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further five papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 99 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 547. We didn’t quite make it to a hundred for the year last week, but will do so with the next paper.
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 “Formation of Close Binaries through Massive Black Hole Perturbations and Chaotic Tides” by Howard Hao-Tse Huang and Wenbin Lu (University of California at Berkeley, USA). This one was published on Wednesday 6th May 2026 in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The paper presents a model of massive black hole-binary systems, showing that repeated tidal interactions can lead to the creation of hyper-velocity stars and other nuclear transients.
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/116526323790020433
The second paper for this week, also Wednesday 6th May, but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Detection of supernova magnitude fluctuations induced by large-scale structure” by Andrew Nguyen (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia) and 58 others based all around the world. This study uses supernovae and galaxy velocities to measure the universe’s structure growth rate, confirming the Planck LambdaCDM model prediction. The methodology is validated and shows potential for future research.
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/116526449130876366
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 6th May in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Comparing cosmic shear nulling methods for Stage-IV surveys” by Naomi Clare Robertson and Alex Hall (University of Edinburgh, UK). This study compares three strategies for reducing baryon feedback impact on cosmic shear measurements. All methods effectively mitigate bias, with varying degrees of efficiency and information preservation.
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/116526251813375105
The fourth paper this week, published on Thursday May 7th, is “Egent: An Autonomous Agent for Equivalent Width Measurement” by Yuan-Sen Ting & Serat Mahmud Saad (Ohio State University, USA), Fan Liu (National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing, China), and Yuting Shen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA). Egent is an autonomous agent that combines multi-Voigt profile fitting with large language model visual inspection for efficient, automated analysis of raw flux spectra, validated against expert measurements. This one is in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics. The associated software can be found here.
The overlay is here:
The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116531924397498394
The fifth and final article of this week was published on Friday 8th May in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The title is “DiffstarPop: A generative physical model of galaxy star formation history” and it is by Alex Alarcon (Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain), Andrew P. Hearin , Matthew R. Becker & Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann (Argonne National Laborarory, USA), and Andrew Benson & Sachi Weerasooriya (Carnegie Observatories, USA). DiffstarPop is a model that accurately and rapidly reproduces statistical distributions of galaxy star formation histories (SFH), using parameters related to galaxy formation physics.
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/116537709130989142
Here endeth this week’s update. There shall be another next Saturday.
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.
#arXiv251007673v2 #arXiv251027604v3 #arXiv251111965v2 #arXiv251201270v2 #arXiv251215604v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #BaryonicFeedback #blackHoleBinaries #cosmicShear #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #Egent #EquivalentWidth #galaxyEvolution #hyperVelocityStars #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #nuclearTransients #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #peculiarVelocities #supernovae #VoigtProfiles #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 09/05/2026
It’s Saturday once again, so time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further five papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 99 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 547. We didn’t quite make it to a hundred for the year last week, but will do so with the next paper.
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 “Formation of Close Binaries through Massive Black Hole Perturbations and Chaotic Tides” by Howard Hao-Tse Huang and Wenbin Lu (University of California at Berkeley, USA). This one was published on Wednesday 6th May 2026 in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The paper presents a model of massive black hole-binary systems, showing that repeated tidal interactions can lead to the creation of hyper-velocity stars and other nuclear transients.
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/116526323790020433
The second paper for this week, also Wednesday 6th May, but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Detection of supernova magnitude fluctuations induced by large-scale structure” by Andrew Nguyen (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia) and 58 others based all around the world. This study uses supernovae and galaxy velocities to measure the universe’s structure growth rate, confirming the Planck LambdaCDM model prediction. The methodology is validated and shows potential for future research.
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/116526449130876366
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 6th May in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Comparing cosmic shear nulling methods for Stage-IV surveys” by Naomi Clare Robertson and Alex Hall (University of Edinburgh, UK). This study compares three strategies for reducing baryon feedback impact on cosmic shear measurements. All methods effectively mitigate bias, with varying degrees of efficiency and information preservation.
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/116526251813375105
The fourth paper this week, published on Thursday May 7th, is “Egent: An Autonomous Agent for Equivalent Width Measurement” by Yuan-Sen Ting & Serat Mahmud Saad (Ohio State University, USA), Fan Liu (National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing, China), and Yuting Shen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA). Egent is an autonomous agent that combines multi-Voigt profile fitting with large language model visual inspection for efficient, automated analysis of raw flux spectra, validated against expert measurements. This one is in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics. The associated software can be found here.
The overlay is here:
The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116531924397498394
The fifth and final article of this week was published on Friday 8th May in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The title is “DiffstarPop: A generative physical model of galaxy star formation history” and it is by Alex Alarcon (Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain), Andrew P. Hearin , Matthew R. Becker & Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann (Argonne National Laborarory, USA), and Andrew Benson & Sachi Weerasooriya (Carnegie Observatories, USA). DiffstarPop is a model that accurately and rapidly reproduces statistical distributions of galaxy star formation histories (SFH), using parameters related to galaxy formation physics.
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/116537709130989142
Here endeth this week’s update. There shall be another next Saturday.
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.
#arXiv251007673v2 #arXiv251027604v3 #arXiv251111965v2 #arXiv251201270v2 #arXiv251215604v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #BaryonicFeedback #blackHoleBinaries #cosmicShear #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #Egent #EquivalentWidth #galaxyEvolution #hyperVelocityStars #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #nuclearTransients #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #peculiarVelocities #supernovae #VoigtProfiles #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 09/05/2026
It’s Saturday once again, so time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further five papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 99 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 547. We didn’t quite make it to a hundred for the year last week, but will do so with the next paper.
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 “Formation of Close Binaries through Massive Black Hole Perturbations and Chaotic Tides” by Howard Hao-Tse Huang and Wenbin Lu (University of California at Berkeley, USA). This one was published on Wednesday 6th May 2026 in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The paper presents a model of massive black hole-binary systems, showing that repeated tidal interactions can lead to the creation of hyper-velocity stars and other nuclear transients.
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/116526323790020433
The second paper for this week, also Wednesday 6th May, but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Detection of supernova magnitude fluctuations induced by large-scale structure” by Andrew Nguyen (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia) and 58 others based all around the world. This study uses supernovae and galaxy velocities to measure the universe’s structure growth rate, confirming the Planck LambdaCDM model prediction. The methodology is validated and shows potential for future research.
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/116526449130876366
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 6th May in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Comparing cosmic shear nulling methods for Stage-IV surveys” by Naomi Clare Robertson and Alex Hall (University of Edinburgh, UK). This study compares three strategies for reducing baryon feedback impact on cosmic shear measurements. All methods effectively mitigate bias, with varying degrees of efficiency and information preservation.
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/116526251813375105
The fourth paper this week, published on Thursday May 7th, is “Egent: An Autonomous Agent for Equivalent Width Measurement” by Yuan-Sen Ting & Serat Mahmud Saad (Ohio State University, USA), Fan Liu (National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing, China), and Yuting Shen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA). Egent is an autonomous agent that combines multi-Voigt profile fitting with large language model visual inspection for efficient, automated analysis of raw flux spectra, validated against expert measurements. This one is in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics. The associated software can be found here.
The overlay is here:
The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116531924397498394
The fifth and final article of this week was published on Friday 8th May in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The title is “DiffstarPop: A generative physical model of galaxy star formation history” and it is by Alex Alarcon (Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain), Andrew P. Hearin , Matthew R. Becker & Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann (Argonne National Laborarory, USA), and Andrew Benson & Sachi Weerasooriya (Carnegie Observatories, USA). DiffstarPop is a model that accurately and rapidly reproduces statistical distributions of galaxy star formation histories (SFH), using parameters related to galaxy formation physics.
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/116537709130989142
Here endeth this week’s update. There shall be another next Saturday.
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.
#arXiv251007673v2 #arXiv251027604v3 #arXiv251111965v2 #arXiv251201270v2 #arXiv251215604v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #BaryonicFeedback #blackHoleBinaries #cosmicShear #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #Egent #EquivalentWidth #galaxyEvolution #hyperVelocityStars #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #nuclearTransients #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #peculiarVelocities #supernovae #VoigtProfiles #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 09/05/2026
It’s Saturday once again, so time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further five papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 99 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 547. We didn’t quite make it to a hundred for the year last week, but will do so with the next paper.
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 “Formation of Close Binaries through Massive Black Hole Perturbations and Chaotic Tides” by Howard Hao-Tse Huang and Wenbin Lu (University of California at Berkeley, USA). This one was published on Wednesday 6th May 2026 in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The paper presents a model of massive black hole-binary systems, showing that repeated tidal interactions can lead to the creation of hyper-velocity stars and other nuclear transients.
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/116526323790020433
The second paper for this week, also Wednesday 6th May, but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Detection of supernova magnitude fluctuations induced by large-scale structure” by Andrew Nguyen (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia) and 58 others based all around the world. This study uses supernovae and galaxy velocities to measure the universe’s structure growth rate, confirming the Planck LambdaCDM model prediction. The methodology is validated and shows potential for future research.
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/116526449130876366
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 6th May in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Comparing cosmic shear nulling methods for Stage-IV surveys” by Naomi Clare Robertson and Alex Hall (University of Edinburgh, UK). This study compares three strategies for reducing baryon feedback impact on cosmic shear measurements. All methods effectively mitigate bias, with varying degrees of efficiency and information preservation.
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/116526251813375105
The fourth paper this week, published on Thursday May 7th, is “Egent: An Autonomous Agent for Equivalent Width Measurement” by Yuan-Sen Ting & Serat Mahmud Saad (Ohio State University, USA), Fan Liu (National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing, China), and Yuting Shen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA). Egent is an autonomous agent that combines multi-Voigt profile fitting with large language model visual inspection for efficient, automated analysis of raw flux spectra, validated against expert measurements. This one is in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics. The associated software can be found here.
The overlay is here:
The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116531924397498394
The fifth and final article of this week was published on Friday 8th May in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The title is “DiffstarPop: A generative physical model of galaxy star formation history” and it is by Alex Alarcon (Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain), Andrew P. Hearin , Matthew R. Becker & Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann (Argonne National Laborarory, USA), and Andrew Benson & Sachi Weerasooriya (Carnegie Observatories, USA). DiffstarPop is a model that accurately and rapidly reproduces statistical distributions of galaxy star formation histories (SFH), using parameters related to galaxy formation physics.
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/116537709130989142
Here endeth this week’s update. There shall be another next Saturday.
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.
#arXiv251007673v2 #arXiv251027604v3 #arXiv251111965v2 #arXiv251201270v2 #arXiv251215604v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #BaryonicFeedback #blackHoleBinaries #cosmicShear #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #Egent #EquivalentWidth #galaxyEvolution #hyperVelocityStars #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #nuclearTransients #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #peculiarVelocities #supernovae #VoigtProfiles #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 09/05/2026
It’s Saturday once again, so time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further five papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 99 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 547. We didn’t quite make it to a hundred for the year last week, but will do so with the next paper.
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 “Formation of Close Binaries through Massive Black Hole Perturbations and Chaotic Tides” by Howard Hao-Tse Huang and Wenbin Lu (University of California at Berkeley, USA). This one was published on Wednesday 6th May 2026 in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The paper presents a model of massive black hole-binary systems, showing that repeated tidal interactions can lead to the creation of hyper-velocity stars and other nuclear transients.
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/116526323790020433
The second paper for this week, also Wednesday 6th May, but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Detection of supernova magnitude fluctuations induced by large-scale structure” by Andrew Nguyen (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia) and 58 others based all around the world. This study uses supernovae and galaxy velocities to measure the universe’s structure growth rate, confirming the Planck LambdaCDM model prediction. The methodology is validated and shows potential for future research.
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/116526449130876366
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Wednesday 6th May in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Comparing cosmic shear nulling methods for Stage-IV surveys” by Naomi Clare Robertson and Alex Hall (University of Edinburgh, UK). This study compares three strategies for reducing baryon feedback impact on cosmic shear measurements. All methods effectively mitigate bias, with varying degrees of efficiency and information preservation.
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/116526251813375105
The fourth paper this week, published on Thursday May 7th, is “Egent: An Autonomous Agent for Equivalent Width Measurement” by Yuan-Sen Ting & Serat Mahmud Saad (Ohio State University, USA), Fan Liu (National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing, China), and Yuting Shen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA). Egent is an autonomous agent that combines multi-Voigt profile fitting with large language model visual inspection for efficient, automated analysis of raw flux spectra, validated against expert measurements. This one is in the folder Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics. The associated software can be found here.
The overlay is here:
The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116531924397498394
The fifth and final article of this week was published on Friday 8th May in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies. The title is “DiffstarPop: A generative physical model of galaxy star formation history” and it is by Alex Alarcon (Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona, Spain), Andrew P. Hearin , Matthew R. Becker & Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann (Argonne National Laborarory, USA), and Andrew Benson & Sachi Weerasooriya (Carnegie Observatories, USA). DiffstarPop is a model that accurately and rapidly reproduces statistical distributions of galaxy star formation histories (SFH), using parameters related to galaxy formation physics.
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/116537709130989142
Here endeth this week’s update. There shall be another next Saturday.
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.
#arXiv251007673v2 #arXiv251027604v3 #arXiv251111965v2 #arXiv251201270v2 #arXiv251215604v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #BaryonicFeedback #blackHoleBinaries #cosmicShear #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #Egent #EquivalentWidth #galaxyEvolution #hyperVelocityStars #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #nuclearTransients #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #peculiarVelocities #supernovae #VoigtProfiles #weakGravitationalLensing -
New in the #VirtualObservatory: “SN 2020lao light curves” by Stritzinger M.D. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/708/A305
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New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Characterization of type Ibn SNe” by Farias D. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/708/A270
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Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 04/04/2026
It may be the Easter weekend, but it’s still time for a Saturday morning update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further four papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 71 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 519. This update coimpletes the first quarter of 2026, which suggests that if we continue to publish at the same rate we’ll reach about 280 for the year.
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 “Testing halo models for constraining astrophysical feedback with multi-probe modeling: I. 3D Power spectra and mass fractions” by Pranjal R. S. (U. Arizona, USA), Shivam Pandey Johns Hopkins U., USA), Dhayaa Anbajagane (U. Chicago, USA), Elisabeth Krause (U. Arizona) and Klaus Dolag (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany). This paper was published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics.
The overlay is here:
You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116322295318460212
The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Validation of the DESI-DR1 3×2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests” by Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and an international cast of 56 others. This study validates the combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing data from various surveys, ensuring accurate tests of the standard cosmological model using future Stage-IV surveys
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/116322348900996677
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Differentiable Stochastic Halo Occupation Distribution with Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments” by Sneh Pandya and Jonathan Blazek (both of Northeastern University, USA). This is a paper introducing diffHOD-IA, a differentiable model for galaxy population analysis that incorporates intrinsic alignments and halo occupation distribution. It’s validated against existing models and can be used in next-generation weak-lensing analyses.
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/116322403314492269
The fourth and final paper this week, published on Wednesday April 1st (but not a joke), is “The Growth of Dust in Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Applications to Blue Monsters” by Desika Narayanan (U. Florida, USA) and 11 others based in the USA and Europe. This one is in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies; it presents a simulation-based study of dust accumulation in early galaxies via supernovae production and rapid growth on tiny dust grains, with local density and grain size being important factors.
The overlay is here:
The finally accepted version of this paper can be found here and the Mastodon announcement is here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116328145696781139
And that concludes the update for this week. I’ll do another next week, but I’m expecting a fairly low number of papers owing to the Easter vacation.
#3x2ptAnalysis #arXiv250713317v2 #arXiv250918266v2 #arXiv251005539v2 #arXiv260204977v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #diffHODIA #dust #dustGrains #galaxyFormation #haloModels #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #intrinsicAlignments #MilkyWay #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #supernovae #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 04/04/2026
It may be the Easter weekend, but it’s still time for a Saturday morning update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further four papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 71 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 519. This update coimpletes the first quarter of 2026, which suggests that if we continue to publish at the same rate we’ll reach about 280 for the year.
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 “Testing halo models for constraining astrophysical feedback with multi-probe modeling: I. 3D Power spectra and mass fractions” by Pranjal R. S. (U. Arizona, USA), Shivam Pandey Johns Hopkins U., USA), Dhayaa Anbajagane (U. Chicago, USA), Elisabeth Krause (U. Arizona) and Klaus Dolag (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany). This paper was published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics.
The overlay is here:
You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116322295318460212
The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Validation of the DESI-DR1 3×2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests” by Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and an international cast of 56 others. This study validates the combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing data from various surveys, ensuring accurate tests of the standard cosmological model using future Stage-IV surveys
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/116322348900996677
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Differentiable Stochastic Halo Occupation Distribution with Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments” by Sneh Pandya and Jonathan Blazek (both of Northeastern University, USA). This is a paper introducing diffHOD-IA, a differentiable model for galaxy population analysis that incorporates intrinsic alignments and halo occupation distribution. It’s validated against existing models and can be used in next-generation weak-lensing analyses.
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/116322403314492269
The fourth and final paper this week, published on Wednesday April 1st (but not a joke), is “The Growth of Dust in Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Applications to Blue Monsters” by Desika Narayanan (U. Florida, USA) and 11 others based in the USA and Europe. This one is in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies; it presents a simulation-based study of dust accumulation in early galaxies via supernovae production and rapid growth on tiny dust grains, with local density and grain size being important factors.
The overlay is here:
The finally accepted version of this paper can be found here and the Mastodon announcement is here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116328145696781139
And that concludes the update for this week. I’ll do another next week, but I’m expecting a fairly low number of papers owing to the Easter vacation.
#3x2ptAnalysis #arXiv250713317v2 #arXiv250918266v2 #arXiv251005539v2 #arXiv260204977v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #diffHODIA #dust #dustGrains #galaxyFormation #haloModels #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #intrinsicAlignments #MilkyWay #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #supernovae #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 04/04/2026
It may be the Easter weekend, but it’s still time for a Saturday morning update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further four papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 71 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 519. This update coimpletes the first quarter of 2026, which suggests that if we continue to publish at the same rate we’ll reach about 280 for the year.
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 “Testing halo models for constraining astrophysical feedback with multi-probe modeling: I. 3D Power spectra and mass fractions” by Pranjal R. S. (U. Arizona, USA), Shivam Pandey Johns Hopkins U., USA), Dhayaa Anbajagane (U. Chicago, USA), Elisabeth Krause (U. Arizona) and Klaus Dolag (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany). This paper was published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics.
The overlay is here:
You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116322295318460212
The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Validation of the DESI-DR1 3×2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests” by Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and an international cast of 56 others. This study validates the combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing data from various surveys, ensuring accurate tests of the standard cosmological model using future Stage-IV surveys
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/116322348900996677
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Differentiable Stochastic Halo Occupation Distribution with Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments” by Sneh Pandya and Jonathan Blazek (both of Northeastern University, USA). This is a paper introducing diffHOD-IA, a differentiable model for galaxy population analysis that incorporates intrinsic alignments and halo occupation distribution. It’s validated against existing models and can be used in next-generation weak-lensing analyses.
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/116322403314492269
The fourth and final paper this week, published on Wednesday April 1st (but not a joke), is “The Growth of Dust in Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Applications to Blue Monsters” by Desika Narayanan (U. Florida, USA) and 11 others based in the USA and Europe. This one is in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies; it presents a simulation-based study of dust accumulation in early galaxies via supernovae production and rapid growth on tiny dust grains, with local density and grain size being important factors.
The overlay is here:
The finally accepted version of this paper can be found here and the Mastodon announcement is here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116328145696781139
And that concludes the update for this week. I’ll do another next week, but I’m expecting a fairly low number of papers owing to the Easter vacation.
#3x2ptAnalysis #arXiv250713317v2 #arXiv250918266v2 #arXiv251005539v2 #arXiv260204977v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #diffHODIA #dust #dustGrains #galaxyFormation #haloModels #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #intrinsicAlignments #MilkyWay #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #supernovae #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 04/04/2026
It may be the Easter weekend, but it’s still time for a Saturday morning update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further four papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 71 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 519. This update coimpletes the first quarter of 2026, which suggests that if we continue to publish at the same rate we’ll reach about 280 for the year.
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 “Testing halo models for constraining astrophysical feedback with multi-probe modeling: I. 3D Power spectra and mass fractions” by Pranjal R. S. (U. Arizona, USA), Shivam Pandey Johns Hopkins U., USA), Dhayaa Anbajagane (U. Chicago, USA), Elisabeth Krause (U. Arizona) and Klaus Dolag (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany). This paper was published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics.
The overlay is here:
You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116322295318460212
The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Validation of the DESI-DR1 3×2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests” by Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and an international cast of 56 others. This study validates the combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing data from various surveys, ensuring accurate tests of the standard cosmological model using future Stage-IV surveys
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/116322348900996677
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Differentiable Stochastic Halo Occupation Distribution with Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments” by Sneh Pandya and Jonathan Blazek (both of Northeastern University, USA). This is a paper introducing diffHOD-IA, a differentiable model for galaxy population analysis that incorporates intrinsic alignments and halo occupation distribution. It’s validated against existing models and can be used in next-generation weak-lensing analyses.
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/116322403314492269
The fourth and final paper this week, published on Wednesday April 1st (but not a joke), is “The Growth of Dust in Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Applications to Blue Monsters” by Desika Narayanan (U. Florida, USA) and 11 others based in the USA and Europe. This one is in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies; it presents a simulation-based study of dust accumulation in early galaxies via supernovae production and rapid growth on tiny dust grains, with local density and grain size being important factors.
The overlay is here:
The finally accepted version of this paper can be found here and the Mastodon announcement is here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116328145696781139
And that concludes the update for this week. I’ll do another next week, but I’m expecting a fairly low number of papers owing to the Easter vacation.
#3x2ptAnalysis #arXiv250713317v2 #arXiv250918266v2 #arXiv251005539v2 #arXiv260204977v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #diffHODIA #dust #dustGrains #galaxyFormation #haloModels #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #intrinsicAlignments #MilkyWay #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #supernovae #weakGravitationalLensing -
Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 04/04/2026
It may be the Easter weekend, but it’s still time for a Saturday morning update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further four papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 71 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 519. This update coimpletes the first quarter of 2026, which suggests that if we continue to publish at the same rate we’ll reach about 280 for the year.
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 “Testing halo models for constraining astrophysical feedback with multi-probe modeling: I. 3D Power spectra and mass fractions” by Pranjal R. S. (U. Arizona, USA), Shivam Pandey Johns Hopkins U., USA), Dhayaa Anbajagane (U. Chicago, USA), Elisabeth Krause (U. Arizona) and Klaus Dolag (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany). This paper was published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics.
The overlay is here:
You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116322295318460212
The second paper for this week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Validation of the DESI-DR1 3×2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests” by Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and an international cast of 56 others. This study validates the combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing data from various surveys, ensuring accurate tests of the standard cosmological model using future Stage-IV surveys
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/116322348900996677
Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Tuesday March 31st in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, is “Differentiable Stochastic Halo Occupation Distribution with Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments” by Sneh Pandya and Jonathan Blazek (both of Northeastern University, USA). This is a paper introducing diffHOD-IA, a differentiable model for galaxy population analysis that incorporates intrinsic alignments and halo occupation distribution. It’s validated against existing models and can be used in next-generation weak-lensing analyses.
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/116322403314492269
The fourth and final paper this week, published on Wednesday April 1st (but not a joke), is “The Growth of Dust in Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Applications to Blue Monsters” by Desika Narayanan (U. Florida, USA) and 11 others based in the USA and Europe. This one is in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies; it presents a simulation-based study of dust accumulation in early galaxies via supernovae production and rapid growth on tiny dust grains, with local density and grain size being important factors.
The overlay is here:
The finally accepted version of this paper can be found here and the Mastodon announcement is here:
https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116328145696781139
And that concludes the update for this week. I’ll do another next week, but I’m expecting a fairly low number of papers owing to the Easter vacation.
#3x2ptAnalysis #arXiv250713317v2 #arXiv250918266v2 #arXiv251005539v2 #arXiv260204977v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DESI #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #diffHODIA #dust #dustGrains #galaxyFormation #haloModels #InstrumentationAndMethodsForAstrophysics #intrinsicAlignments #MilkyWay #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #supernovae #weakGravitationalLensing -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/403340/ NASA-JAXA’s XRISM Telescope Clocks Hot Wind of Galaxy M82 #astrophysics #ChandraXRayObservatory #CosmicRays #Éire #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #IE #Ireland #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope(JWST) #Science #SpitzerSpaceTelescope #Supernovae #TheUniverse #XRayAstronomy #XRISM(XRayImagingAndSpectroscopyMission)
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/403047/ NASA X-Ray Mission Gets Fresh Look at 2,000-Year-Old Supernova #ChandraXRayObservatory #Éire #IE #Ireland #IXPE(ImagingXRayPolarimetryExplorer) #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #Science #Space #SupernovaRemnants #Supernovae #TheUniverse #XMMNewton(XRayMultiMirrorNewton)
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NASA X-Ray Mission Gets Fresh Look at 2,000-Year-Old Supernova
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #ChandraX-RayObservatory #IXPE(ImagingX-rayPolarimetryExplorer) #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #Science #SupernovaRemnants #Supernovae #TheUniverse #UK #UnitedKingdom #XMM-Newton(X-rayMulti-MirrorNewton)
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La rara supernova di tipo Icn SN 2024abvb è tra le più luminose conosciute
Un team internazionale di astronomi ha effettuato osservazioni fotometriche e spettroscopiche di SN 2024abvb, una supernova recentemente scoperta appartenente al raro tipo Icn. La nuova campagna osservativa fornisce informazioni importanti sulle proprietà e sulla natura di questa supernova.
https://umbertogaetani.substack.com/p/la-rara-supernova-di-tipo-icn-sn
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Cosa succede all'interno di una stella massiccia prima che esploda come una supernova?
#astrofisica @astronomia
#supernovaeI ricercatori hanno ricostruito gran parte dei complessi dettagli che stanno dietro alle supernovae di tipo II. Tuttavia gli astrofisici hanno ancora alcune domande aperte. Una di queste riguarda gli inviluppi estesi delle stelle progenitrici e le loro curve di luce.
https://umbertogaetani.substack.com/p/cosa-succede-allinterno-di-una-stella
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Cosa succede all'interno di una stella massiccia prima che esploda come una supernova?
#astrofisica @astronomia
#supernovaeI ricercatori hanno ricostruito gran parte dei complessi dettagli che stanno dietro alle supernovae di tipo II. Tuttavia gli astrofisici hanno ancora alcune domande aperte. Una di queste riguarda gli inviluppi estesi delle stelle progenitrici e le loro curve di luce.
https://umbertogaetani.substack.com/p/cosa-succede-allinterno-di-una-stella
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/374106/ Ancient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tension #AgeOfTheUniverse #Astronomy #Cepheids #CosmicMicrowaveBackground #cosmology #Éire #GaiaMission #HubbleConstant #HubbleTension #IE #Ireland #MilkyWayStars #Research #Science #Space #SpaceNews #StellarAges #Supernovae
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Ancient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tension
The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments.…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #ageoftheuniverse #astronomy #Cepheids #cosmicmicrowavebackground #Cosmology #Gaiamission #HubbleConstant #Hubbletension #MilkyWaystars #research #Science #SpaceNews #stellarages #Supernovae #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Ancient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tension
The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments.…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #ageoftheuniverse #Astronomy #CA #Canada #Cepheids #cosmicmicrowavebackground #Cosmology #Gaiamission #Hubbleconstant #HubbleTension #MilkyWaystars #research #SpaceNews #stellarages #Supernovae
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La supernova SN 2024abfl, scoperta di recente, è una supernova di tipo IIP a bassa luminosità, secondo quanto scoperto dagli astronomi
Un team internazionale di astronomi ha condotto osservazioni fotometriche e spettroscopiche di una supernova recentemente scoperta, denominata SN 2024abfl. I risultati orniscono importanti informazioni sulle proprietà di questa esplosione stellare.
https://umbertogaetani.substack.com/p/la-supernova-sn-2024abfl-scoperta
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/784827/ NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova #Astrophysics #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope(JWST) #Science #Science&Research #SpiralGalaxies #Stars #SuperNovae #TheUniverse #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/352617/ NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova #astrophysics #Éire #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #IE #Ireland #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope(JWST) #Science #Science&Research #Space #SpiralGalaxies #stars #Supernovae #TheUniverse
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Supernovae come in two types. Core-collapse supernovae result from massive stars exhausting fuel. Thermonuclear supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs accreting mass or merging. Both produce expanding SNRs that can leave neutron stars or black holes.
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-telescope-locates-former-star-that-exploded-as-supernova/ #NASA #Astrophysics #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #ScienceResearch #SpiralGalaxies #Stars #Supernovae #TheUniverse
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-telescope-locates-former-star-that-exploded-as-supernova/ #NASA #Astrophysics #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #ScienceResearch #SpiralGalaxies #Stars #Supernovae #TheUniverse
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-telescope-locates-former-star-that-exploded-as-supernova/ #NASA #Astrophysics #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #ScienceResearch #SpiralGalaxies #Stars #Supernovae #TheUniverse
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-telescope-locates-former-star-that-exploded-as-supernova/ #NASA #Astrophysics #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #ScienceResearch #SpiralGalaxies #Stars #Supernovae #TheUniverse
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The MARK16 / Bubbleverse model has now been tested against all major probes:
H(z), SNe, BAO, and Planck 2018 CMB distance priors.Using a hybrid setup, late-time expansion is modified while early-universe physics remains standard.
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Il video dei resti di una supernova realizzato dal telescopio Chandra della NASA è frutto di decenni di lavoro
#chandra #supernovae @astronomia
Questo nuovo video include dati X raccolti nel 2000, 2004, 2006, 2014 e 2025. Si tratta quindi del video con l’arco temporale più lungo mai pubblicato da Chandra, reso possibile dalla sua eccezionale longevità.
https://umbertogaetani.substack.com/p/il-video-dei-resti-di-una-supernova
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(FNF vs. Dave & Bambi) ArchWK, MoldyGH - Supernovae (TKb0iZ's Piano Cover/Variation)
https://makertube.net/w/gikCdfxuqZdLgu5G8du5Wc
I have released a new piano cover and thus new content. This took me like 4-6 months to get right. Will embed on the website shortly.
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#TKb0iZMusic #music #video #audio #visualizer #piano #cover #PeerTube #MakerTube #HappyNewYear #FNF #FridayNightFunkin #DaveAndBambi #Supernovae
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(FNF vs. Dave & Bambi) ArchWK, MoldyGH - Supernovae (TKb0iZ's Piano Cover/Variation)
https://makertube.net/w/gikCdfxuqZdLgu5G8du5Wc
I have released a new piano cover and thus new content. This took me like 4-6 months to get right. Will embed on the website shortly.
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#TKb0iZMusic #music #video #audio #visualizer #piano #cover #PeerTube #MakerTube #HappyNewYear #FNF #FridayNightFunkin #DaveAndBambi #Supernovae
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(FNF vs. Dave & Bambi) ArchWK, MoldyGH - Supernovae (TKb0iZ's Piano Cover/Variation)
https://makertube.net/w/gikCdfxuqZdLgu5G8du5Wc
I have released a new piano cover and thus new content. This took me like 4-6 months to get right. Will embed on the website shortly.
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#TKb0iZMusic #music #video #audio #visualizer #piano #cover #PeerTube #MakerTube #HappyNewYear #FNF #FridayNightFunkin #DaveAndBambi #Supernovae
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(FNF vs. Dave & Bambi) ArchWK, MoldyGH - Supernovae (TKb0iZ's Piano Cover/Variation)
https://makertube.net/w/gikCdfxuqZdLgu5G8du5Wc
I have released a new piano cover and thus new content. This took me like 4-6 months to get right. Will embed on the website shortly.
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#TKb0iZMusic #music #video #audio #visualizer #piano #cover #PeerTube #MakerTube #HappyNewYear #FNF #FridayNightFunkin #DaveAndBambi #Supernovae
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(FNF vs. Dave & Bambi) ArchWK, MoldyGH - Supernovae (TKb0iZ's Piano Cover/Variation)
https://makertube.net/w/gikCdfxuqZdLgu5G8du5Wc
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#TKb0iZMusic #music #video #audio #visualizer #piano #cover #PeerTube #MakerTube #HappyNewYear #FNF #FridayNightFunkin #DaveAndBambi #Supernovae
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Webb Traces Distant Explosion to Oldest Supernova Ever Observed
Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #ESA #NASA #Supernovae #webbspacetelescope
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Webb Traces Distant Explosion to Oldest Supernova Ever Observed
Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #ESA #NASA #Supernovae #webbspacetelescope
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/227911/ Webb Traces Distant Explosion to Oldest Supernova Ever Observed #Éire #esa #IE #Ireland #nasa #Science #Space #Supernovae #WebbSpaceTelescope
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NASA’s Webb Identifies Earliest Supernova to Date, Shows Host Galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a supernova that exploded when the universe was only 730 million…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #Astrophysics #CA #Canada #galaxies #Gammaraybursts #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope(JWST) #Science #Science&Research #Supernovae #TheUniverse
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/224016/ NASA’s Webb Identifies Earliest Supernova to Date, Shows Host Galaxy #astrophysics #Éire #Galaxies #GammaRayBursts #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #IE #Ireland #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope(JWST) #Science #Science&Research #Space #Supernovae #TheUniverse
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NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant https://science.nasa.gov/missions/xrism/nasa-jaxa-xrism-finds-elemental-bounty-in-supernova-remnant/ #NASA #Astrophysics #ChandraXRayObservatory #GalaxiesStarsBlackHolesResearch #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Stars #SupernovaRemnants #Supernovae #TheUniverse #XRayAstronomy #XRISMXRayImagingAndSpectroscopyMission
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NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant https://science.nasa.gov/missions/xrism/nasa-jaxa-xrism-finds-elemental-bounty-in-supernova-remnant/ #NASA #Astrophysics #ChandraXRayObservatory #GalaxiesStarsBlackHolesResearch #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Stars #SupernovaRemnants #Supernovae #TheUniverse #XRayAstronomy #XRISMXRayImagingAndSpectroscopyMission
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NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant https://science.nasa.gov/missions/xrism/nasa-jaxa-xrism-finds-elemental-bounty-in-supernova-remnant/ #NASA #Astrophysics #ChandraXRayObservatory #GalaxiesStarsBlackHolesResearch #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Stars #SupernovaRemnants #Supernovae #TheUniverse #XRayAstronomy #XRISMXRayImagingAndSpectroscopyMission
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NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant https://science.nasa.gov/missions/xrism/nasa-jaxa-xrism-finds-elemental-bounty-in-supernova-remnant/ #NASA #Astrophysics #ChandraXRayObservatory #GalaxiesStarsBlackHolesResearch #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Stars #SupernovaRemnants #Supernovae #TheUniverse #XRayAstronomy #XRISMXRayImagingAndSpectroscopyMission
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NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant