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Charge diffusion and modulation transfer function in a Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope detector

Emily Macbeth, Katherine Laliotis, Christopher M. Hirata, Christopher Merchant ยท 2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) is an observatory motivated by the search to understand dark energy, exoplanets, and general astrophysics. Roman will bring unprecedented amounts of preciโ€ฆ

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Diffusion-based Galaxy Simulations for the Roman High Latitude Survey

Diana Scognamiglio, Jake H. Lee, Eric Huff, Sergi R. Hildebrandt, Shoubaneh Hemmati ยท 2026

Future weak lensing analyses with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will require highly realistic image simulations to control shear systematics at unprecedented precision. A key limitation of exiโ€ฆ

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Photometric Super-Resolution for Improving Galaxy Morphological Measurements using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Samuel Kahn (UCSC), Ryan Hausen (Johns Hopkins), Hubert Bretonniere (UCSC), Nicole Drakos (UH), Brant Robertson (UCSC) ยท 2026

The measurement of galaxy morphological parameters from astronomical images features in a wide range of modern analyses, including galaxy evolution and cosmological weak lensing studies. The precisionโ€ฆ

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Calibration-Induced Systematics in SALT3 Training and Their Impact on Dark Energy Constraints from Stage IV Supernova Surveys

Kene Anumba, David 0. Jones, Richard Kessler, Daniel Scolnic, W. D'Arcy Kenworthy, Rebecca C. Chen, Bastien Carreres, Maria Vincenzi, Erik R. Peterson, Maria Acevedo, Ben Rose, Dillon Brout, Jillian Paulin, Rujuta A. Purohit, Rebekah Hounsell, The Roman Supernova Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team ยท 2026

In the coming years, the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rubin-LSST) and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's (Roman) High Latitude Time Domain Survey (HLTDS) are expectedโ€ฆ

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Resolved UV-Optical HST Imaging and Spectral Energy Distribution Modeling of Nearby BAT Active Galactic Nuclei

Connor Auge, Michael Koss, Kriti K. Gupta, Claudio Ricci, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Franz E. Bauer, Ezequiel Treister, Alessandro Peca, Brad Cenko, Kohei Ichikawa, Arghajit Janna, Darshan Kakkad, Richard Mushotzky, Kyuseok Oh, Alejandra Rojas Lilayu, David Sanders, Roberto Serafinelli, Matilde Signorini, Alessia Tortosa, C. Megan Urry ยท 2026

We use high-resolution UV-to-optical imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to construct spatially resolved spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for seven nearby ($z<0.07$) hard (14--195$\,$keVโ€ฆ

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Forecasting neutrino mass constraints from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Francesco Spezzati, Yun Wang, Andrew Hearin ยท 2026

We present realistic forecasts for the constraining power of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on fundamental cosmological parameters, with particular emphasis on the absolute neutrino mass scale,โ€ฆ

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Self-Lensing Signals in Binary Systems Containing White Dwarfs with Neutron star or Stellar-mass Black hole Companions

Sedighe Sajadian, Man Ho Chan ยท 2026

Light curves from binary systems containing white dwarfs with neutron star or stellar-mass black hole companions (WD+NS and WD+BH) with edge-on orbital planes potentially show self-lensing/eclipsing sโ€ฆ

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Band-basis decomposition of superfluid weight in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene: Quantifying geometric and conventional contributions

Jian Zhou ยท 2026

We decompose the superfluid weight D_s of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) into conventional (band-velocity) and geometric (interband-coherence) contributions using a band-basis current opโ€ฆ

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Superconformal index for $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super Yang-Mills and Elliptic Macdonald Polynomials

Gao-fu Ren, Min-xin Huang ยท 2026

We establish a connection between the superconformal index of $\mathcal{N}=4$ $U(N)$ SYM and the elliptic Ruijsenaars-Schneider integrable system. The index admits an expression in terms of elliptic Mโ€ฆ

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Macdonald Index from VOA and Graded Unitarity

Hongliang Jiang ยท 2026

The SCFT/VOA correspondence provides a powerful framework for studying 4d $\mathcal N=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) through the mathematical machinery of 2d vertex operator algebras (VOAs).โ€ฆ

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A scalable Bayesian framework for galaxy emission line detection and redshift estimation

Alexander Kuhn, Bonnabelle Zabelle, Sara Algeri, Galin L. Jones, Claudia Scarlata ยท 2026

Estimating galaxy redshifts is crucial for constraining key physical quantities like those in the equation of state of dark energy. Modern telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, the Euclidโ€ฆ

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Self-Force of a Dirac String: An Explicit Calculation

Alberto G. Rojo ยท 2026

A Dirac string can be modeled as a semi-infinite solenoid carrying a fixed magnetic flux. Dirac pointed out that such a string should experience a nonvanishing and divergent self-force, but explicit cโ€ฆ

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A near field guide to Roman's wide-area surveys

Robyn E. Sanderson, Kevin A. McKinnon, Adrien C.R. Thob, Benjamin Williams, Kiyan Tavangar, Andrew B Pace, Saurabh W. Jha, Javier Sanchez, Abigail Lee, Sarah Pearson ยท 2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope currently plans to survey nearly 6000 square degrees of the sky, mainly in the High-Latitude Wide-Area Survey (HLWAS) and Galactic Plane Survey (GPS). Although thโ€ฆ

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An Updated SynthPop Model for Microlensing Simulations I: Model Description & Evaluation

Macy J. Huston, Alison L. Crisp, Marz Newman, Riley Patlak, Matthew T. Penny, Jonas Kluter, Samson A. Johnson, Peter McGill, Leigh C. Smith, Victor Karkour, Natasha S. Abrams, Rachel B. Fernandes, B. Scott Gaudi, Casey Y. Lam, Jessica R. Lu, Carissma McGee, Sebastiano Calchi Novati, Keivan G. Stassun, Sean K. Terry, Himanshu Verma, Farzaneh Zohrabi ยท 2026

The optimization and interpretation of microlensing surveys depends on having an accurate model of the Milky Way. However, existing population synthesis Galactic modeling tools often perform poorly inโ€ฆ

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Numerical Simulations of the Circularized Accretion Flow in Population III Star Tidal Disruption Events. II. Radiative Properties

Yu-Heng Sheng, De-Fu Bu, Liang Chen, Shi-Yin Shen, Bo-Yan Chen, Xiao-Hong Yang ยท 2026

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) release enormous amounts of energy, offering a promising avenue for detecting Population III (Pop III) stars. However, the radiative properties of TDEs of Pop III stars โ€ฆ

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Going Wide and Deep with Roman: The z~6-9 UV luminosity function in a Roman Deep Field

Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein, James Rhoads, Sangeeta Malhotra, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville, Casey Papovich ยท 2026

We present a trade study of possible ultra-deep surveys with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, optimizing the depth-area-filter parameter space for high-redshift galaxy science. Using a mock galaโ€ฆ

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The diagnostic temperature discrepancy as evidence for non-Maxwellian coronal electrons

Victor Edmonds ยท 2026

Two independent electron temperature diagnostics applied to the quiet solar corona yield systematically different results. Radio brightness temperatures from the Nancay Radioheliograph indicate T_e ~ โ€ฆ

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Time-dependent Magnetic Fields and the Quantum Hall Effect

T.R. Govindarajan, V.P. Nair ยท 2026

Ermakov has shown how the solution to the classical harmonic oscillator in one spatial dimension with general time-dependent frequency can be reduced to the time-independent case and an associated nonโ€ฆ

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A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman

Jiwon Jesse Han, Anirudh Chiti, Kai-Feng Chen, Keith Bechtol, Andrea Bellini, Robert Benjamin, Adam Bolton, Ana Bonaca, Alex Broughton, Esra Bulbul, Susan Clark, Charlie Conroy, Suchetha Cooray, John Franklin Crenshaw, Tansu Daylan, Arjun Dey, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Tim Eifler, Kareem El-Badry, Richard M. Feder, Peter Ferguson, Shenming Fu, Sebastian Gomez, Ryan Hickox, Christopher Hirata, Easton J. Honaker, Xiaosheng Huang, Alexander P. Ji, Michael Liu, Kevin A. McKinnon, Geoffrey Mo, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Alessandro Savino, David J. Schlegel, Nora Shipp, Jay Strader, Federica Tarsitano, Adrien C.R. Thob, Kim-Vy Tran, Roeland P. van der Marel, Feige Wang, Risa Wechsler, Daniel R. Weisz, Dennis Zaritsky, Tianqing Zhang, Shreya Anand, Amirnezam Amiri, Abhijeet Anand, Matthew L. N. Ashby, Finian Ashmead, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Aliza Beverage, Michael R. Blanton, Warren R. Brown, Anthony G.A. Brown, Priyanka Chakraborty, Yi-Kuan Chiang, Jose M. Diego, Denis Erkal, Simone Ferraro, Lluis Galbany, Marla Geha, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Lars Hernquist, Jason A. S. Hunt, Valentin D. Ivanov, Venu Kalari, Nitya Kallivayalil, Andras Kovacs, Kyle Kremer, Ting-Wen Lan, Denis Leahy, Jiaxuan Li, Ivan Minchev, GyuChul Myung, Ethan O. Nadler, Joan R. Najita, Melissa K. Ness, Jacob Nibauer, Fabio Pacucci, David Parkinson, Ekta Patel, R. Michael Rich, Marina Ricci, Graziano Rossi, Nikolina Sarcevic, Arnab Sarkar, Andrew K. Saydjari, Arman Shafieloo, Zachary Slepian, Sangmo Tony Sohn, David N. Spergel, Robert Szabo, Christina C. Williams, John F. Wu ยท 2026

A deep, space-based, all-sky near-infrared survey carried out with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope would constitute a foundational astronomical infrastructure for decades to come. In this white โ€ฆ

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Generalized GMP Algebra for Three-Dimensional Quantum Hall Fluids of Extended Objects

Giandomenico Palumbo ยท 2026

We develop a geometric framework for three-dimensional quantum Hall fluids of extended objects (quasi-strings) in the presence of a strong three-form background field associated with a bundle gerbe. Iโ€ฆ

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