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Avishai Dekel, Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury, Sharon Lapiner, Zhiyuan Yao et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea145Chromospheric and Transition Region Responses of Activities at the Base of Coronal Plumes
Biswanath Malaker, Vishal Upendran, Durgesh Tripathi
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea3ffInductive Biases in Field-level Cosmological Inference from Galaxy Catalogs
James O. Baldwin, Shy Genel, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea400Patchy Reionization Delays Quenching in Isolated Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies
Juyoung Kim, Myoungwon Jeon, Yumi Choi, Sangmo Tony Sohn et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea834The Ambipolar Electric Field in Multispecies Plasma Atmospheres: Effects of α -particles and Stochastic Heating
Luca Barbieri, Pascal Démoulin, Daniel Verscharen
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea986A Comprehensive Active Galactic Nuclei Inventory for the Dwarf-dominated RESOLVE and ECO Surveys: Mass-dependent Active Galactic Nuclei Types and Occupation Fractions
Mugdha S. Polimera, Sheila J. Kannappan, Chris T. Richardson, David V. Stark et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae9bafTesting the Isothermal Jeans Model for Self-interacting Dark Matter Halos in the Collapse Phase
Shubo Li, Moritz S. Fischer, Zixiang Jia, Fangzhou Jiang et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea78aImprovements to Asteroseismic Fitting of White Dwarfs in the Gaia Era
Andrew H. Dublin, Keaton J. Bell, Agnès Bischoff-Kim
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea20fNo Evidence of Vorticity Production from Irrotational Turbulent Gravitational Collapse Yet
Axel Brandenburg, Evangelia Ntormousi, Jennifer Schober
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea846The Carbon-dependent Binary Frequency of CEMP-no Stars
John D. Dixon, Terese T. Hansen, Jennifer Marshall, Vinicius M. Placco et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aeaa34The Impact of Planetary Phase Functions on Exo-Earth Detectability with EXOSIMS
Searra Foote, Tyler D. Robinson, Rhonda Morgan, Dmitry Savransky et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea149A Statistical Study of Ion-scale Waves at 1 au Using Machine Learning
Samuel Fordin, Michael A. Shay, Lynn B. Wilson, Jaye L. Verniero et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea41bStrong Polarization Signatures from Magnetically Stabilized Luminous Thin Accretion Disks
P. Chris Fragile, Peter Anninos, Madeline Breiling, Derrick Pickrel et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea836E peak – α Correlation in Time Resolved GRB Spectra: A Bottom-up Approach with Optically Thin Inverse Compton Scattering Model
Pragyan Pratim Bordoloi, Ayush Shivkumar, Shabnam Iyyani
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea6a8Self-consistent Evolution Models Show Weak Double-diffusive Mixing in Jupiter and Saturn
J. R. Fuentes, Ankan Sur, David J. Stevenson, Peter Bodenheimer et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aeacc1Interplanetary Dust Ablation Seeds Silicate Clouds in Exoplanet Atmospheres
Sven Kiefer, Gregory J. Gosselin, Caroline V. Morley, Sean P. S. Gulick et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea404Studying the Intermittency of the Magnetized Interstellar Medium by Synchrotron Polarization Intensity and Its Gradient
Ru-Yue Wang, Jian-Fu Zhang
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea406Using Spectra to Characterize the Hot, Dense Ridge in a Two-ribbon Flare
Dana Longcope, Roy Smart
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea900Asteroseismic Detection of a Massive Unseen Companion to the δ Scuti Star TIC 160582982
Chenglong Lv, J. Pascual-Granado, Ali Esamdin, Angela Gardini et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea560Low-angular-momentum Accretion Shocks Can Power Weak-to-moderate X-Ray Flares from Sgr A*
Samik Mitra, Bożena Czerny, Michal Zajaček, Zach Sumners et al.
2026-10-20 · DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea3f2Reviews
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