{"paper":{"title":"Resolving the physics of Quasar Ly$\\alpha$ Nebulae (RePhyNe): II. The dense and clumpy CGM of Quasars at $z \\sim$ 3.5","arxiv_id":"2610.01400","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-10-01T10:05:41+00:00","version_compiled":"v1"},"notice":"Every quoted sentence is the authors' text from the arXiv listing abstract. Labels and probabilities are the outputs of classifier-1.13.0 on the question bank abstract-p1-20260923, exactly as returned. 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