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Environmental sustainability in basic research. A perspective from HECAP+ (2025)
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Banerjee, S., Chen, T. Y., David, C., Düren, M., Erbin, H., Ghiglieri, J., Gill, M. S., Glaser, L., Gütschow, C., Hall, J. J., Hampp, J., Koppenburg, P., Koschnitzke, M., Lohwasser, K., Mahbubani, R., Mehta, V., Millington, P., Paul, A., Poblotzki, F., Potamianos, K., …Zurita, P. (2025). Environmental sustainability in basic research. A perspective from HECAP+. Journal of Instrumentation, 20(03), Article P03012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/20/03/p03012

The climate crisis and the degradation of the world's ecosystems require humanity to take immediate action. The international scientific community has a responsibility to limit the negative environmental impacts of basic research. The HECAP+ communit... Read More about Environmental sustainability in basic research. A perspective from HECAP+.

Modelling spectra of hot alkali vapour in the saturation regime (2025)
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Häupl, D. R., Higgins, C. R., Pizzey, D., Briscoe, J. D., Wrathmall, S. A., Hughes, I. G., Löw, R., & Joly, N. Y. (2025). Modelling spectra of hot alkali vapour in the saturation regime. New Journal of Physics, 27, Article 033003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/adb77c

Laser spectroscopy of hot atomic vapours has been studied extensively. Theoretical models that predict the absolute value of the electric susceptibility are crucial for optimising the design of photonic devices that use hot vapours, and for extractin... Read More about Modelling spectra of hot alkali vapour in the saturation regime.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Searching for Dark Companions to Bright Stars with the Large Binocular Telescope and SHARK-VIS (2025)
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Rowan, D. M., Thompson, T. A., Kochanek, C. S., Li Causi, G., Roth, J., Vaccari, P., Pedichini, F., Piazzesi, R., Antoniucci, S., Testa, V., Johnson, M. C., Crass, J., Crepp, J. R., Bechter, A., Bechter, E. B., Sands, B. L., Harris, R. J., & Fulton, B. J. (2025). Hidden in Plain Sight: Searching for Dark Companions to Bright Stars with the Large Binocular Telescope and SHARK-VIS. Astrophysical Journal, 981(1), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adad6e

We report the results from a pilot study to search for black holes and other dark companions in binary systems using direct imaging with SHARK-VIS and the iLocater pathfinder “Lili” on the Large Binocular Telescope. Starting from known single-lined s... Read More about Hidden in Plain Sight: Searching for Dark Companions to Bright Stars with the Large Binocular Telescope and SHARK-VIS.

Systematic collapse of the accretion disc in AGN confirmed by UV photometry and broad-line spectra (2025)
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Kang, J. L., Done, C., Hagen, S., Temple, M. J., Silverman, J. D., Li, J., & Liu, T. (2025). Systematic collapse of the accretion disc in AGN confirmed by UV photometry and broad-line spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 538(1), 121-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf145

A recent study on the spectral energy distribution (SED) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) combined unobscured X-ray sources from the eROSITA eFEDS Survey with high quality optical imaging from Subaru’s Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC). The HSC data enabled ac... Read More about Systematic collapse of the accretion disc in AGN confirmed by UV photometry and broad-line spectra.

COSMOS-Web: Stellar mass assembly in relation to dark matter halos across 0.2 < z < 12 of cosmic history (2025)
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Shuntov, M., Ilbert, O., Toft, S., Arango-Toro, R. C., Akins, H. B., Casey, C. M., Franco, M., Harish, S., Kartaltepe, J. S., Koekemoer, A. M., McCracken, H. J., Paquereau, L., Laigle, C., Bethermin, M., Dubois, Y., Drakos, N. E., Faisst, A., Gozaliasl, G., Gillman, S., Hayward, C. C., …Yang, L. (2025). COSMOS-Web: Stellar mass assembly in relation to dark matter halos across 0.2 < z < 12 of cosmic history. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 695, Article A20. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452570

We study the stellar mass assembly of galaxies via the stellar mass function (SMF) and the coevolution with dark matter halos via abundance matching in the largest redshift range to date, 0.2 < z < 12. We used the 0.53 deg2 imaged by JWST from the CO... Read More about COSMOS-Web: Stellar mass assembly in relation to dark matter halos across 0.2 < z < 12 of cosmic history.

Field-orientation-dependent magnetic phases in GdRu₂Si₂ probed with muon-spin spectroscopy (2025)
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Huddart, B. M., Hernández-Melián, A., Wood, G. D. A., Mayoh, D. A., Gomilšek, M., Guguchia, Z., Wang, C., Hicken, T. J., Blundell, S. J., Balakrishnan, G., & Lancaster, T. (2025). Field-orientation-dependent magnetic phases in GdRu₂Si₂ probed with muon-spin spectroscopy. Physical Review B, 111(5), Article 054440. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.054440

Centrosymmetric GdRu₂Si₂ exhibits a variety of multi-𝑄 magnetic states as a function of temperature and applied magnetic field, including a square skyrmion-lattice phase. The material's behavior is strongly dependent on the direction of the applied f... Read More about Field-orientation-dependent magnetic phases in GdRu₂Si₂ probed with muon-spin spectroscopy.

The FLAMINGO project: cosmology with the redshift dependence of weak gravitational lensing peaks (2025)
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Broxterman, J. C., Schaller, M., Hoekstra, H., Schaye, J., Mcgibbon, R. J., Forouhar Moreno, V. J., Kugel, R., & Elbers, W. (2025). The FLAMINGO project: cosmology with the redshift dependence of weak gravitational lensing peaks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 538(2), 755-774. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf357

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) convergence peaks contain valuable cosmological information in the regime of non-linear collapse. Using the FLAMINGO suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, we study the physical origin and redshift distribut... Read More about The FLAMINGO project: cosmology with the redshift dependence of weak gravitational lensing peaks.

Fractional-charge hadrons and leptons to tell the Standard Model group apart (2025)
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Alonso, R., Dimakou, D., & West, M. (2025). Fractional-charge hadrons and leptons to tell the Standard Model group apart. Physics Letters B, 863, Article 139354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139354

The gauge group of strong and electroweak interactions in Nature could be any of the four that share the same Lie algebra, SU(3)c×SU(2)L×U(1)Y/Zp≡Gp with Zp={Z6,Z3,Z2,Z1}. Each of these cases allows in its spectrum for the matter fields of the SM but... Read More about Fractional-charge hadrons and leptons to tell the Standard Model group apart.

Pure gravitational wave estimation of Hubble's constant using neutron star-black hole mergers (2025)
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Fung, L. W., Broadhurst, T., & Smoot, G. F. (2025). Pure gravitational wave estimation of Hubble's constant using neutron star-black hole mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 538(2), 711-725. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf316

It has been predicted before the first detection of such events by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) that the gravitational wave (GW) emission from compact binary coalescence can be used to constrain the expansion rate of the... Read More about Pure gravitational wave estimation of Hubble's constant using neutron star-black hole mergers.

KiDS-Legacy: Angular galaxy clustering from deep surveys with complex selection effects (2025)
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Yan, Z., Wright, A. H., Chisari, N. E., Georgiou, C., Joudaki, S., Loureiro, A., Reischke, R., Asgari, M., Bilicki, M., Dvornik, A., Heymans, C., Hildebrandt, H., Jalan, P., Joachimi, B., Lesci, G. F., Li, S. S., Linke, L., Mahony, C., Moscardini, L., Napolitano, N. R., …Yoon, M. (2025). KiDS-Legacy: Angular galaxy clustering from deep surveys with complex selection effects. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 694, Article A259. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452808

Photometric galaxy surveys, despite their limited resolution along the line of sight, encode rich information about the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe thanks to the high number density and extensive depth of the data. However, the compli... Read More about KiDS-Legacy: Angular galaxy clustering from deep surveys with complex selection effects.

Testing Galaxy Formation Models with the Stellar Mass–Halo Mass Relations for Star-forming and Quiescent Galaxies (2025)
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Wang, K., & Peng, Y. (2025). Testing Galaxy Formation Models with the Stellar Mass–Halo Mass Relations for Star-forming and Quiescent Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal, 980(2), Article 233. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adaf1a

The tight relationship between the stellar mass and halo mass of galaxies is one of the most fundamental scaling relations in galaxy formation and evolution. It has become a critical constraint for galaxy formation models. Over the past decade, growi... Read More about Testing Galaxy Formation Models with the Stellar Mass–Halo Mass Relations for Star-forming and Quiescent Galaxies.

Pressure-Induced Phase Transition and Broadband Light Emission of Lead-Free Double Perovskite Cs2TiBr6 (2025)
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Pakornchote, T., Sukmas, W., Chatraphorn, S., Clark, S. J., & Bovornratanaraks, T. (2025). Pressure-Induced Phase Transition and Broadband Light Emission of Lead-Free Double Perovskite Cs2TiBr6. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1020, Article 179278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2025.179278

Lead-free halide double perovskite have been of great scientific attraction for optoelectronics devices. However, exploring a feasible method to enhance their optical abilities remains a considerable challenge. Here, we report the first of the pressu... Read More about Pressure-Induced Phase Transition and Broadband Light Emission of Lead-Free Double Perovskite Cs2TiBr6.

The PARADIGM project – I. How early merger histories shape the present-day sizes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies (2025)
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Joshi, G. D., Pontzen, A., Agertz, O., Rey, M. P., Read, J., & Pillepich, A. (2025). The PARADIGM project – I. How early merger histories shape the present-day sizes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(4), 3792-3813. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf276

How mergers affect galaxy formation depends on both feedback processes, and on the geometry and strength of the mergers themselves. We introduce the PARADIGM project, where we study the response of a simulated Milky-Way-mass galaxy (M200c ∼ 1012 M at... Read More about The PARADIGM project – I. How early merger histories shape the present-day sizes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies.

Structural chirality and related properties in the periodic inorganic solids: Review and perspectives (2025)
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Bousquet, E., Fava, M., Romestan, Z., Gómez-Ortiz, F., McCabe, . E. E., & Romero, A. H. (online). Structural chirality and related properties in the periodic inorganic solids: Review and perspectives. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/adb674

Chirality refers to the asymmetry of objects that cannot be superimposed on their mirror image. It is a concept that exists in various scientific fields and has profound consequences. Although these are perhaps most widely recognized within biology,... Read More about Structural chirality and related properties in the periodic inorganic solids: Review and perspectives.

Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence from a Liquid Arene. (2025)
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Sérgio Dos Santos, G., Aparecido de Oliveira, W., da Silva Kutz, M., Gomes Franca, L., Farias, G., Monkman, A. P., Bock, H., Bechtold, I. H., & Westphal, E. (online). Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence from a Liquid Arene. Chemistry: A European Journal, Article e202404698. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202404698

Delayed emission (DF) of fluorescence is generally observed either in solution or in the crystalline state. In the latter, well-defined intermolecular interactions may play a significant role in defining the emission characteristics. Here, we present... Read More about Delayed Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence from a Liquid Arene..

Accretion disc reverberation mapping of the quasar 3C 273 (2025)
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Thorne, J. P., Landt, H., Huang, J., Hernández Santisteban, J. V., Horne, K., Cackett, E. M., Winkler, H., & Sanmartim, D. (2025). Accretion disc reverberation mapping of the quasar 3C 273. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(4), 3746-3768. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf258

We present accretion disc size measurements for the well-known quasar 3C 273 using reverberation mapping performed on high-cadence light curves in seven optical filters collected with the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO). Lag estimates obtained using Ja... Read More about Accretion disc reverberation mapping of the quasar 3C 273.

Hubble Space Telescope Observations within the Sphere of Influence of the Powerful Supermassive Black Hole in PKS 0745-191 (2025)
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Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Choi, H., Guo, M., Richard-Laferrière, A., Rhea, C., Prunier, M., Russell, H., Fabian, A., Walsh, J. L., Gingras, M.-J., McNamara, B., Allen, S., Chené, A.-N., Edge, A., Gendron-Marsolais, M.-L., McDonald, M., Natarajan, P., Sanders, J., Steiner, J. F., Vigneron, B., & von der Linden, A. (2025). Hubble Space Telescope Observations within the Sphere of Influence of the Powerful Supermassive Black Hole in PKS 0745-191. The Astrophysical Journal, 980(2), Article 170. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ada7ed

We present Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph observations from the Hubble Space Telescope of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of PKS 0745-191, a brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) undergoing powerful radio-mode active galactic nucleus... Read More about Hubble Space Telescope Observations within the Sphere of Influence of the Powerful Supermassive Black Hole in PKS 0745-191.

ForestFlow: predicting the Lyman-α forest clustering from linear to nonlinear scales (2025)
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Chaves-Montero, J., Cabayol-Garcia, L., Lokken, M., Font-Ribera, A., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bianchi, D., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., Cole, S., de la Macorra, A., Ferraro, S., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gontcho A Gontcho, S., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Kehoe, R., Kirkby, D., Kremin, A., …Weaver, B. A. (2025). ForestFlow: predicting the Lyman-α forest clustering from linear to nonlinear scales. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 694, Article A187. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452039

On large scales, the Lyman-α forest provides insights into the expansion history of the Universe, while on small scales, it imposes strict constraints on the growth history, the nature of dark matter, and the sum of neutrino masses. This work introdu... Read More about ForestFlow: predicting the Lyman-α forest clustering from linear to nonlinear scales.

Shear banding as a cause of nonmonotonic stress relaxation after flow cessation (2025)
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Ward, V. K., & Fielding, S. M. (2025). Shear banding as a cause of nonmonotonic stress relaxation after flow cessation. Physical Review Materials, 9(2), Article L022601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.9.L022601

Recent flow cessation experiments on soft materials have shown a counter-intuitive non-monotonic relaxation of the shear stress: following the switch-off of a steady imposed shear flow, the stress initially decays before later increasing again. By si... Read More about Shear banding as a cause of nonmonotonic stress relaxation after flow cessation.

Suppression of Motional Dephasing Using State Mapping. (2025)
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Jiao, Y., Li, C., Shi, X.-F., Fan, J., Bai, J., Jia, S., Zhao, J., & Adams, C. S. (2025). Suppression of Motional Dephasing Using State Mapping. Physical Review Letters, 134(5), Article 053604. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.053604

Rydberg-mediated quantum optics is a useful route toward deterministic quantum information processing based on single photons and quantum networks but is bottlenecked by the fast motional dephasing of Rydberg atoms. Here, we propose and experimentall... Read More about Suppression of Motional Dephasing Using State Mapping..