{"total":18,"items":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2607.08604","ref_index":5,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Active galactic nuclei are not responsible for systematics in the empirical properties of type Ia supernovae","primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","submitted_at":"2026-07-09T15:34:03+00:00","verdict":"ACCEPT","verdict_confidence":"HIGH","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Using ZTF DR2 data, AGN presence in Type Ia supernova host galaxies at z<0.15 shows no significant systematic effect on Hubble residuals.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2607.07568","ref_index":112,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Transient and Variable Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources in NGC 4552","primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","submitted_at":"2026-07-08T15:57:44+00:00","verdict":"CONDITIONAL","verdict_confidence":"MODERATE","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Archival Chandra and XMM-Newton observations reveal two transient X-ray sources in NGC 4552 exceeding 10^39 erg/s, classifying them as new transient ULXs.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2607.02366","ref_index":51,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"The Road to Identifying the Earliest Radio-Powerful AGN with the SKA","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-07-02T16:08:22+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":3.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Synthesizes simulation predictions and pathfinder data to outline a broadband radio SED and spectral curvature strategy for identifying the earliest radio AGN with the SKA.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.27675","ref_index":199,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"OzSSy1: The Australian Southern Seyfert-1 Spectroscopic Atlas and Catalogue at z < 0.1","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-06-26T03:13:18+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Presents a public spectroscopic atlas of 887 Southern broad-line AGNs at low redshift, including continuum decompositions and emission-line fits.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.23784","ref_index":45,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"First Results from the LSST Shadow Survey: The Restless Luminous Blue Variable AT2017des in the Virgo-Cluster Galaxy, NGC4532","primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","submitted_at":"2026-06-22T18:00:01+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The DECam Shadow Survey has detected variable LBV eruptions in AT2017des with peaks brightening by ~0.05 mag per year, reaching luminosities similar to extreme SN impostors.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"dataset","top_context_polarity":"use_dataset","context_text":"tection in both filters to rule out moving objects) before producing a final list of candidates (a detailed descrip- tion of the pipeline is given by L. Hu et al. 2026). The final candidate list is then automatically ingested into the SAGUARO TOM. The candidates are cross- matched with additional catalogs, such as list of active galactic nuclei (AGNs; E. W. Flesch 2023), the Minor Planet Center, and other variable-star catalogs57 (as de- scribed by J. C. Rastinejad et al. 2022; N. Franz et al. 2025). SAGUARO also associates the transients with the most probable host galaxies using a probability of chance coincidence metric (see G. Hosseinzadeh et al. templates for LSST fields; therefore, our observing plan has been focused on the development of project infrastructure."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.05310","ref_index":23,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"A Decade to Map the Diffuse Universe: FRB-QSO Pairs with HST/COS Spectroscopy","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-06-03T18:02:17+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Forecasts ~thousands of FRB-QSO pairs at <10' separation by 2035 for CGM, cosmic web, and Milky Way halo studies with HST/COS.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.28948","ref_index":14,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Closing the UV Gap: Rest-frame EUV science from high-redshift QSOs as a legacy-defining capability","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-05-27T18:00:06+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Expanding HST observations of intermediate-redshift quasars can deliver the first systematic rest-frame EUV census of QSOs and warm-hot gas in the CGM/IGM as a low-redshift anchor for future UV missions.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.13514","ref_index":35,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"COOL-LAMPS IX: A Rare Duo of Quasars Each Lensed by a Single Massive Galaxy Cluster","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-05-13T13:33:24+00:00","verdict":"ACCEPT","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A single galaxy cluster lenses two quasars (one Type I at z=1.524, one dust-obscured Type II at z=1.939) into four images each, yielding a projected mass of ~3.3e14 solar masses within 500 kpc and time delays of hundreds to over 1000 days.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.27065","ref_index":27,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Dwarf Galaxies Hosting Extreme Star-Forming Regions and (Variable) AGNs at Radio Wavelengths","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-04-29T18:01:37+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Dwarf galaxies host compact thermal HII regions powered by up to 100,000 O-type stars and exhibit radio variability consistent with AGNs.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"dataset","top_context_polarity":"use_dataset","context_text":"Five of these (IDs 4, 15, 44, 45, and 63) are AGN candidates (as mentioned above), but their clas- sification as AGN candidates in dwarf galaxies should be treated with caution, as they could represent back- ground quasars. We note, however, that crossmatching our sources with the SDSS DR16 list of quasars (Lyke et al. 2020) and the MILLIQUAS catalog (Flesch 2023), which contains over one million quasars, yields no coun- terparts for any of these sources. 5.COMPARISONS ACROSS SAMPLES In this section, we examine the host galaxy proper- ties of the SF and 9GHz-ND samples in comparison to the AGN sample from R20, where ID 92 has been moved from the AGN sample to the SF sample. We do so to assess whether the 9GHz-ND sources more"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.14546","ref_index":38,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"The GECKOS survey: Resolving the molecular and ionised gas in the galactic outflow of ESO~484-036","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-04-16T02:24:22+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Multiphase observations show molecular gas mass loading factors 10 times higher than ionised gas in ESO 484-036, creating a 3.5 dex discrepancy with cosmological simulations that underpredict cold gas outflows.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.11881","ref_index":26,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"A sample of short-lived Galactic radio transients from ASKAP VAST","primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","submitted_at":"2026-04-13T18:00:02+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Six new Galactic radio transients found and classified into two types, proposed to originate from wide-orbit white dwarf binaries.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"dataset","top_context_polarity":"use_dataset","context_text":"The next step was to look for bright sources. We re- quired that the maximum signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio of the source be at least 8. Doing so reduced the number of candidates to 90,000. We then cross-matched these sources with existing databases/catalogs, includingSim- bad(Wenger et al. 2000), known active galactic nuclei (AGN) catalogs (Assef et al. 2018; Flesch 2023; Lyke et al. 2020), pulsar catalog (Manchester et al. 2005), and the X-ray binary catalog (Corral-Santana et al. 2016), to remove VAST sources that are within 2.5′′ of a known source. The choice of this radius was motivated by the current positional uncertainties from ASKAP data - up to 2.5 ′′ including systematic errors. After removing known sources, we ended up with a sample of∼76,000"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.05332","ref_index":16,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"A Catalog of Mid-infrared Variable Sources in the Ecliptic Poles","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2026-04-07T02:08:43+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"New catalog identifies 30,345 mid-IR variable sources at ecliptic poles from NEOWISE data, with AGN dominating in the north and stars in the south plus three transients linked to obscured QSOs.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"diagrams are ideal for narrowing down the physical origin of the MIR variable sources. We identify three MIR transients in the NEP. Interestingly, all coincide with obscured QSOs, suggesting a physical connection between transient events and circumnuclear obscuration. Finally, we discuss the potential applications of our catalog in synergy with existing and future time-domain surveys. Keywords:Active galactic nuclei (16) 1.INTRODUCTION While the brightness of most astronomical objects re- mains constant with time, occasional flux variations pro- vide critical insights into the physical properties of vari- able objects (e.g., W. Herbst et al. 1994; A. Gautschy & H. Saio 1995; M.-H. Ulrich et al. 1997). Excluding tran- sient events and eclipses, variability is most frequently"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2512.23157","ref_index":33,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. V. 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