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Eccentricity as a signature of hierarchical subsolar-mass mergers in collapsar disks

Jiaxi Wu, Elias R. Most, Nils L. Vu, Nils Deppe, Lawrence E. Kidder, Kyle C. Nelli, William Throwe ยท 2026

In this work, we investigate gravitational-wave signatures of a proposed subsolar-mass merger scenario resulting from fragmentation inside a collapsar accretion disk. This scenario has gained recent iโ€ฆ

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Population synthesis of Be X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud: angular momentum recycling and stable mass transfer

Victor Lopez Oller, Boyuan Liu, Michela Mapelli, Stefano Rinaldi, Cecilia Sgalletta, Julia Bodensteiner, Giuliano Iorio, Rebekka Schupp ยท 2026

Be X-ray binaries (BeXRBs) are key laboratories to constrain binary interaction processes such as mass transfer, angular-momentum transport, and natal kicks. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), hosting โ€ฆ

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Numerical investigation of particle acceleration at interplanetary shocks: diffusive and superdiffusive scenarios

Giuseppe Prete, Gaetano Zimbardo, Silvia Perri ยท 2026

Energetic particles are ubiquitous in space and astrophysical plasmas, and interplanetary shocks are widely regarded as one of the main particle accelerators in the heliosphere. Indeed, in-situ measurโ€ฆ

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The role of accretion efficiency, natal kicks, and angular momentum transport in the formation of the Gaia black holes

Michela Mapelli, Cecilia Sgalletta, Johanna Muller-Horn, Giuliano Iorio, Stefano Rinaldi, Christian Burt, Daniel Marin Pina, Amedeo Romagnolo ยท 2026

Gaia has the potential to deliver several tens of new dormant black holes (BHs) with low-mass stellar companions (hereafter, Gaia BHs) in the upcoming fourth data release. Three Gaia BHs are already kโ€ฆ

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A Path to Constraints on Common Envelope Ejection in Massive Binaries: Full Evolutionary Reconstruction of Three Black Hole X-ray Binaries

Zhenwei Li, Dandan Wei, Shi Jia, Hailiang Chen, Hongwei Ge, Zhuo Chen, Yangyang Zhang, Xuefei Chen, Zhanwen Han ยท 2026

The massive binary common envelope (CE) phase plays a pivotal role in the formation of close black hole/neutron star (BH/NS) binaries, yet significant uncertainties remain in our understanding of thisโ€ฆ

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Repopulating the pair-instability mass gap without sustained growth to massive IMBHs: the case of 47\,Tuc

Debatri Chattopadhyay, Daniel Marin Pina, Mark Gieles, Fabio Antonini, Fotios Fronimos Pouliasis ยท 2026

We model the formation and retention of the most massive black hole (BH) in 47~Tuc using the semi-analytical code \texttt{cBHBd}, coupling cluster evolution with binary BH dynamics and computing mergeโ€ฆ

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Numerical Modeling of Solvent Diffusion through the Transition Metal Dichalcogenides based Nanomaterials

Geetika Sahu ยท 2026

This article presents a numerical simulation of solvent diffusion in transition metal dichalcogenide based nanomaterials during solvothermal reaction, leading to layer exfoliation and, consequently, aโ€ฆ

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Remnant recoil and host environments of GWTC-4.0 binary black-hole mergers

Joan Llobera-Querol, Eleanor Hamilton, Neha Singh, Marta Colleoni, Felip A. Ramis Vidal, Abbas Askar, Tomasz Bulik, Aleksandra Olejak, Sascha Husa, Yumeng Xu, Jorge Valencia ยท 2026

Determining the astrophysical origin of binary black holes and whether merger remnants are retained in their birth environments is essential for understanding hierarchical mergers and the growth of inโ€ฆ

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Inference of recoil kicks from binary black hole mergers up to GWTC--4 and their astrophysical implications

Tousif Islam ยท 2026

We infer recoil (kick) velocities for all binary black hole merger events reported up to the GWTC--4 catalog, together with candidate intermediate-mass black hole events. We obtain informative kick coโ€ฆ

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Direct N-body simulations of rotating and extremely massive Population III star clusters

Kai Wu, Ataru Tanikawa, Francesco Flammini Dotti, Marcelo C. Vergara, Boyuan Liu, Albrecht W. H. Kamlah, Manuel Arca Sedda, Nadine Neumayer, Rainer Spurzem ยท 2026

Aims. We present eight direct N-body simulations with NBODY6++GPU of extremely massive, initially rotating Population III star clusters with 1.01 x 10^5 stars. Methods. Our models include primordialโ€ฆ

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Misalignment from kicks: the impact of particle interactions on ultra-light dark matter

Clare Burrage, Sergio Sevillano Munoz ยท 2026

Oscillating ultra-light scalar fields are a natural explanation for the dark matter in our universe, as long as a mechanism, often called a misalignment mechanism, exists to explain the amplitude of tโ€ฆ

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The in-situ growth of stellar-mass "light" seed black holes in nuclear star clusters

Yanlong Shi, Norman Murray ยท 2026

Remnant black holes (BHs) of massive stars (``light seeds'') are a potential origin for supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We use magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the formation and growth of liโ€ฆ

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Feedback-Induced Advantage in Quantum Clockworks

Jakob Miller, Paul Erker ยท 2026

Atomic frequency standards have achieved steadily increasing precision over the past seventy years, enabled in part by feedback mechanisms that stabilise their output. In parallel, the timekeeping capโ€ฆ

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Dephasing-induced relaxation in tight-binding chains with linear and nonlinear defects

Debraj Das, Andrea Gambassi, Stefano Iubini, Stefano Lepri ยท 2026

We investigate thermalization in a tight-binding chain with an on-site defect subject to local dephasing noise implemented as random phase kicks. For a single linear defect of strength $\epsilon$, we โ€ฆ

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A positive period derivative in the quasi-periodic eruptions of ZTF19acnskyy

Joheen Chakraborty, Saul A. Rappaport, Riccardo Arcodia, Itai Linial, Giovanni Miniutti, Kevin B. Burdge, Jorge Cuadra, Margherita Giustini, Lorena Hernandez-Garcia, Erin Kara, Paula Sanchez-Saez, Philippe Yao ยท 2026

We report the first direct measurement of the period derivative in a quasi-periodic eruption (QPE), finding a smoothly increasing period with $\dot{P}\approx (1.7\pm 0.02)\times10^{-2}$ d d$^{-1}$ in โ€ฆ

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Population synthesis predictions of the Galactic compact binary gravitational wave foreground detectable by LISA

Jake McMillan, Adam Ingram, Cordelia Dashwood Brown, Andrei Igoshev, Matthew Middleton, Grzegorz Wiktorowicz, Simone Scaringi ยท 2026

We use population synthesis modelling to predict the gravitational wave (GW) signal that the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect from the Galactic population of compact binary systemโ€ฆ

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Effects of Numerical Resolution on Simulated Cloud-Wind Interactions

Hannah Leary, Helena M. Richie, Evan Schneider ยท 2026

Mixing by hydrodynamical instabilities plays a key role in cloud-wind interactions, causing cloud destruction in the adiabatic limit and facilitating cloud survival with efficient radiative cooling. Hโ€ฆ

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Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters -- VII. Comparisons with gravitational-wave events until LVK-O4a and Gaia compact binaries

Sambaran Banerjee ยท 2026

Gravitational-wave (GW) detections by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) observatories suggest multiple formation channels for GW compact binary mergers. Here I assess the role of young massive clusters (YMC)โ€ฆ

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An Exploration of the Equation of State Dependence of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion Outcomes and Signatures

Aleksandr Rusakov, Adam S. Burrows, Tianshu Wang, David Vartanyan ยท 2026

We explore, using a state-of-the-art simulation code in 3D and to late enough times to witness final observables, the dependence of core-collapse supernova explosions on the nuclear equation of state.โ€ฆ

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Quantum clock and Newtonian time

Dorje C. Brody, Lane P. Hughston ยท 2026

An extension of standard quantum mechanics is proposed in which the Newtonian time appearing as a parameter in the unitary evolution operator is replaced with the time shown by a `quantum clock'. Suchโ€ฆ

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