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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday 2026 August 10
- Atmospheric Light Pollution by Proposed Reflect Orbital Space Mirrors
Miroslav Kocifaj, G\'asp\'ar Bakos, Franti\v{s}ek Kundracik
[ arXiv:2608.06433 | PDF File ]
- Spectroscopic follow-up of compact object binary candidates from Gaia DR3: White dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, and the parallax zeropoint
Kareem El-Badry, David W. Latham, Hans-Walter Rix, Allyson Bieryla, Lars A. Buchhave, Sahar Shahaf, Tsevi Mazeh, Johanna M\"uller-Horn, Pranav Nagarajan, Natsuko Yamaguchi, et al. [14 co-authors]
[ arXiv:2608.06453 | PDF File ]
- AT2021yky: A Fast-Rising Optical Transient with Evolving Broad Hydrogen Emission Consistent with an Ambiguous Nuclear Transient
Paarmita Pandey, Jason T. Hinkle, Christopher Kochanek, Michael A. Tucker, Mark T. Reynolds, Katie Auchettl, C. Ashall, Dhvanil D. Desai, Aaron Do, Willem B. Hoogendam, et al. [16 co-authors]
[ arXiv:2608.06462 | PDF File ]
- The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems VIII: patchy forsterite and enstatite clouds in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b, retrieval lessons learned and outlook to the future
Niall Whiteford, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Ben Burningham, Johanna M. Vos, Simon Petrus, Polychronis Patapis, Beth A. Biller, Andrew Skemer, Sasha Hinkley, Emily Calamari, et al. [125 co-authors]
[ arXiv:2608.06583 | PDF File ]
- The Maunder Model and Catalog: Stellar Rotation, Bimodal Activity, and Magnetic Braking in Kepler Main-Sequence Stars
Ilay Kamai, Lavi Somers, Hagai B. Perets
[ arXiv:2608.06604 | PDF File ]
- Detailed Abundance Determination of Metal-Poor Stars with X-Shooter II. - Chemically Disentangling the Halo, Disk and GSE
Benjamin D. C. Lowe, Luca Casagrande, Thomas Nordlander, Gary S. Da Costa, Norbert Christlieb
[ arXiv:2608.06666 | PDF File ]
- Formation of globular cluster-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies through mergers
Truman Tapia, Hidenori Matsui, Kenji Bekki, O. Ivy Wong, Connor Bottrell, Brent Groves, Duncan A. Forbes, Jean P. Brodie, Warrick J. Couch
[ arXiv:2608.07080 | PDF File ]
- A clear detection of proper motion confirms that the claimed $\mathbf{z\simeq32}$ galaxy candidate, "Capotauro'', is a Y-type brown dwarf
F. -Y. F. Liu, D. J. McLeod, B. J. Sutlieff, T. J. Dupuy, J. S. Dunlop, X. Chen, R. J. McLure, H. -H. Leung, S. Antonogiannaki, C. Bondestam, et al. [15 co-authors]
[ arXiv:2608.07461 | PDF File ]
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