astro-ph.HE

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Cosmic ray production, acceleration, propagation, detection. Gamma ray astronomy and bursts, X-rays, charged particles, supernovae and other explosive phenomena, stellar remnants and accretion systems, jets, microquasars, neutron stars, pulsars, black holes

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gr-qc arXiv:2610.18973

Two spins tell nearly all we learn from black-hole mergers

Component spin posteriors in GWTC-5 are almost fully compressed into χ_eff and χ_p; noise can fake extra structure.

By Cailin Plunkett, Jack Heinzel, Noah E. Wolfe and 2 more · “Spinformation: do gravitational-wave events carry information beyond effective spins?”

arXiv submitted 2026-10-13 · Pith reviewed 2026-10-15 Pith rank: recent upvotes, halved daily

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nucl-th arXiv:2610.11095

2.456 days: the minimum age for a 10% actinium fraction in mergers

Radioactive clock reveals production-history memory and predicts a photon pivot at day 25.6

By Hisham Anwer · “Production Memory of the ²²⁵Ra-²²⁵Ac Clock in Neutron-Star Merger Ejecta”

arXiv submitted 2026-10-08 · Pith reviewed 2026-10-11 Pith rank: recent upvotes, halved daily

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astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.13288

This paper derives an analytic prediction for the rate at which an inclined black-hole…

A first-principles derivation of the resistive alignment rate of a tilted Blandford–Znajek current sheet, confirmed by resistive-GRMHD…

By Ruben Lier, Oliver Porth · “Resistive alignment of a black-hole magnetosphere”

arXiv submitted 2026-10-09 · Pith reviewed 2026-10-12 Pith rank: recent upvotes, halved daily

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Census finds no X-ray sources tied to Cen A's giant radio lobes

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.22168 reviewed 2026-10-16

No X-point needed: magnetized fields inject particles in reconnection

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.22118 reviewed 2026-10-16

All causal fluid frames fail for the most viscous neutron stars

gr-qc arXiv:2610.21966 reviewed 2026-10-16

Gamma-ray halo images can map interstellar turbulence

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21863 reviewed 2026-10-16

eRO-QPE2 flies nearly circular

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21844 reviewed 2026-10-16

Sound speed at neutron-star centers: about 0.52 c²

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21806 reviewed 2026-10-16

ALMA2040 set to transform neutron-star physics at mm wavelengths

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21589 reviewed 2026-10-16

Shell collision links prompt and afterglow in GRB 251222A

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21583 reviewed 2026-10-16

Eccentric BHNS mergers reveal magnetic damping of disk oscillations

gr-qc arXiv:2610.21560 reviewed 2026-10-16

Non-monotonic polarization from deformed spheroids

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21499 reviewed 2026-10-16

Vertical showers open a new neutrino window for surface arrays

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21495 reviewed 2026-10-16

ILMT discovers six supernova candidates

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21277 reviewed 2026-10-16

DAMPE finds all primary nuclei soften at 15 TV

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21168 reviewed 2026-10-16

Neutrinos from NGC 1068 come from within 3 Schwarzschild radii

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21110 reviewed 2026-10-16

Supernovae in AGN disks shine for weeks in UV/optical bands

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.21104 reviewed 2026-10-16

One jet model fits M87* from horizon to kiloparsec scales

astro-ph.HE arXiv:2610.20961 reviewed 2026-10-16

JWST links a black hole to extreme ionization in a metal-poor galaxy

astro-ph.GA arXiv:2610.20948 reviewed 2026-10-16

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GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs 345 rely on it · 35 use its method · 3 build on it · 2 contest it
The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3 323 rely on it · 43 use its method · 1 build on it · 2 contest it
Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation from Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Six Years of Fermi-LAT Data 282 rely on it · 46 use its method · 1 build on it
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A 192 rely on it · 1 use its method · 1 build on it
A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary 172 rely on it · 3 contest it
The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV 167 rely on it · 9 use its method
Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog Data Release 4 (4FGL-DR4) 154 rely on it · 10 use its method
The Radius of PSR J0740+6620 from NICER and XMM-Newton Data 148 rely on it · 3 use its method · 1 contest it