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Discovery of a Featureless Tidal Disruption Event at z ∼ 1 with the Wide Field Survey Telescope

31 July 2026 at 17:00
Jiazheng Zhu et al 2026 ApJL 1004 L10
Discovered just 6 billion years after the Big Bang, AT2025wet is the highest-redshift non-jetted tidal disruption event known, allowing researchers to probe the missing-energy puzzle.

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Disk Lifetime Distribution as a Function of the Mass of Host Star

30 July 2026 at 17:00
Susanne Pfalzner et al 2026 ApJ 1003 119
The disks around young high-mass stars survive for roughly 3.72 million years, and those around low-mass stars survive for 7.20 million years, though the distributions for both populations are quite broad.

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A Natural ≳100Γ— Telescope: Discovery of the Strongly Lensed Type II SN 2025mkn at z = 1.37

29 July 2026 at 17:00
Cameron Lemon et al 2026 ApJL 1003 L47
Researchers have discovered a supernova that occurred when the universe was roughly 5 billion years old; if the supernova’s luminosity is similar to that of nearby events, it must have been magnified by a factor of 250.

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Magnetic Activity in X-Ray Stars from eROSITA: Insights from the TESS and LAMOST Surveys

28 July 2026 at 17:00
Lulu Xu et al 2026 ApJS 284 54
Of 7,229 flares from 1,430 stars, most came from stars with temperatures below 4000K and rotation periods shorter than 4 days; most flares lasted less than 2 hours.

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Trends in the Population of Binary Black Holes Following the Fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog: A Data-Driven Analysis

27 July 2026 at 17:00
Nir Guttman et al 2026 ApJ 996 144
An analysis of the fourth gravitational wave catalog supports the existence of a gap at 45 solar masses in the secondary black hole mass distribution, among other findings.

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An Enhanced Formation Channel for Galactic Dual-Line Gravitational-Wave Sources: von Zeipel–Lidov–Kozai Effect in Triples Involving Sgr A*

24 July 2026 at 17:00
Wen-Fan Feng et al 2026 ApJL 1003 L35
According to calculations, in a 4-year period researchers may detect of order one compact binary system in which the binary’s inspiral and the spin of its neutron star component both produce gravitational waves.

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Trajectory-Agnostic Asteroid Detection in TESS with Deep Learning

23 July 2026 at 17:00
Brian P. Powell et al 2026 AJ 172 14
Unlike traditional β€œshift and stack” algorithms, a newly developed asteroid-detection method requires no assumptions on speed or direction; this method can be applied to upcoming time-domain surveys.

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Turbulence-Coupled Electrodynamics of the Martian Year 34 Global Dust Storm on Mars

22 July 2026 at 17:00
Chali Idosa Uga et al 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 126
Researchers show that the global martian dust storm in Mars year 34 warmed the lower atmosphere and led to greater electrical charging and stronger electric fields compared to a dust-free atmosphere.

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Nonthermal X-Ray Emission Associated with Supra-Arcade Downflows in the Late Decay Phase of a Solar Flare

21 July 2026 at 17:00
Hanya Pan et al 2026 ApJ 1001 89
Researchers show a connection between non-thermal hard X-ray emission and a tadpole-shaped downflow, strengthening the association between these flows and magnetic reconnection.

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Postperihelion Optical Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

20 July 2026 at 17:00
Hideyo Kawakita et al 2026 ApJL 1000 L60
Spectra of 3I/ATLAS as it retreated from its encounter with the Sun show that the comet’s mixing ratios of CN, C3, and C2 with respect to water are similar to those of solar system comets, while NH2 is depleted.

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Quantifying the Impact of Starspot-Crossing Events on Retrieved Parameters from Transit Lightcurves

17 July 2026 at 17:00
Catriona A. Murray and Zachory Berta-Thompson 2026 AJ 171 344
An analysis of synthetic starspot-crossing events suggests that while starspot longitudes are tightly constrained in high signal-to-noise data, other properties are more loosely determined.

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A Study of HH 270 with the James Webb Space Telescope

16 July 2026 at 17:00
A. N. Ortiz Capeles et al 2026 ApJ 1003 65
Using data from JWST, the Subaru Telescope, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, researchers have identified a previously unseen collimated protostellar jet in a Herbig–Haro object.

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Chemical Fingerprints of Accreted Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies in the Milky Way Halo

15 July 2026 at 17:00
Diala M. Taneenah et al 2026 ApJL 1003 L11
Researchers have discovered two chemically distinct populations in a sample of 97 metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo, potentially providing a way to identify accreted halo stars.

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Revisiting the Evidence for Double Sequences of Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters

14 July 2026 at 17:00
Gourav Kumawat et al 2026 AJ 171 306
Analysis of blue straggler stars in 56 Milky Way globular clusters finds no evidence for a bimodal distribution in color–magnitude space due to differing formation pathways.

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Warped and Hooked: Mapping the Magellanic Clouds in Three Dimensions Using Red Clump Stars

13 July 2026 at 17:00
Slater J. Oden et al 2026 ApJ 1003 9
By constructing a detailed distance map to the Magellanic Clouds, researchers have revealed substructures within this interacting galaxy pair, including an azimuthal warp in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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Potential Interaction of 99942 Apophis with the High Earth Orbit Population During the 2029 Close Approach

10 July 2026 at 17:00
Giulia Schettino and Alessandro Rossi 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 110
Though the asteroid Apophis will not collide with Earth in 2029, there is a slim but present possibility that it will strike an artificial object orbiting Earth, potentially compromising future missions to the asteroid.

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The First Systematic Survey of Stellar Halos in High-Inclination Galaxies Reveals Unusually Quiescent Merger Histories of Nearby Galaxies

9 July 2026 at 17:00
Bojun Tao et al 2026 ApJS 284 31
Analysis of 93 stellar halos detected in a sample of 169 high-inclination galaxies showed that high-mass galaxies have more extended halos and more active merger histories, among other findings.

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Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Large and Luminous Galaxy with Weak Emission Lines at z = 13.53

8 July 2026 at 17:00
Callum T. Donnan et al 2026 ApJ 1002 134
PAN-z14-1 is the fourth most distant galaxy known to date, and its properties are consistent with the emerging picture of two separate galaxy populations at redshifts greater than 10.

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Traces of Helium Detected in Type Ic Supernova 2014L

6 July 2026 at 17:00
Jing Lu et al 2026 ApJL 1002 L11
Though Type Ic supernovae are classified in part by the lack of helium lines in their spectra, recent modeling of a near-infrared supernova spectrum suggests that helium is present but undetectable in the optical.

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