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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2026 August 20
- The Mass Function of Neutron Stars from Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations
Waly M Z Karim, Adam Burrows, David Vartanyan, Anthony Fisher, James Burry
[ arXiv:2608.18198 | PDF File ]
- Quasar Impostors: Two Extremely UV-Bright ($M_{\rm UV}\approx-23.5$) Reionisation-Epoch Galaxies Powered by Very Massive Stars
Daming Yang, Joseph F. Hennawi, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Frederick B. Davies, Rychard Bouwens, Timo Kist, Eduardo Ba\~nados, Jiamu Huang, Alice E. Shapley, Marianne Vestergaard, et al. [22 co-authors]
[ arXiv:2608.18212 | PDF File ]
- Continuum Variability in AGN: Evidence for Systematically Suppressed Fluctuations in the BAL Population
A. Aliaga (U. Valpara\'iso, Chile, TITANS), P. Ar\'evalo (U. Valpara\'iso, Chile, TITANS), M. L. Mart\'inez-Aldama (U. Concepci\'on, Chile, TITANS), W. Zuo (SHAO, et al. [13 co-authors]
[ arXiv:2608.18287 | PDF File ]
- High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae Exhibit Enhanced Calcium Abundances
Xingzhuo Chen, Ulisses Braga-Neto, Lifan Wang
[ arXiv:2608.18342 | PDF File ]
- The Inbound Gas and Dust Evolution of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS from Optical Spectroscopy and Multi-band Photometry
Toni Santana-Ros, Alexey Sergeyev, Oleksandra Ivanova, Sofiia Mykhailova, Johannes Markkanen, Igor Luk'yanyk, Tomasz Kwiatkowski, Dagmara Oszkiewicz, Antti Penttil\"a, Nicolas Erasmus, et al. [11 co-authors]
[ arXiv:2608.18371 | PDF File ]
- Dynamics of tidal dwarf galaxies in the system Arp 72
Osvan M. Portilla-Narvaez, Javier Zaragoza-Cardiel, Gisela N. Ortiz-Le\'on, Y. D. Mayya, Beverly J. Smith, Chandreyee Sengupta, Mark L. Giroux, S. Comer\'on, Luz I. Alvarez-Cruz
[ arXiv:2608.18385 | PDF File ]
- Beyond Idealized PAHs: Infrared Signatures of Carbon-Chain Defects from Shock Synthesis
Xiaoting Tan, Zhao Wang, Zu-Jia Lu, Houda Haidar, Dimitra Rigopoulou
[ arXiv:2608.18505 | PDF File ]
- A metallicity sweet spot for disc fragmentation and planet formation
Ethan J. Carter, Dimitris Stamatellos, George Blaylock-Squibbs, Alison Young, Ken Rice
[ arXiv:2608.18830 | PDF File ]
- Inferring the Dark from the Observable: Estimating Halo Masses Using Galaxy Properties
Alice Chen, Syeda Lammim Ahad
[ arXiv:2608.19154 | PDF File ]
- Diffuse HI emission in the circumgalactic medium of NGC891 and NGC4565 - III: azimuthal profiles
Mary Rickel, Sanskriti Das, Nickolas M. Pingel, D. J. Pisano, Adam Leroy, Smita Mathur, George Heald
[ arXiv:2608.19186 | PDF File ]
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