Transient Faraday-complex spectropolarimetric structure detected during radio flaring of Swift J1727 implies internal Faraday rotation from electron-proton jet plasma with rotating mass ~10^21 g, a small fraction of accreted mass.
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Forward modeling of 90 localized FRBs from DSA and ASKAP yields n_z = 1.62^{+1.48}_{-1.57} for DM_host(z) ∝ (1+z)^{n_z}, excluding n_z=0 at 1σ.
First detection of relativistic angular deformation δ_θ in PSR J1757−1854 via MeerKAT-enhanced timing, ruling out two of four prior geometric solutions while confirming GR consistency for orbital decay.
Self-regulating AGN jets in MHD simulations of cool-core clusters yield realistic FRI radio morphologies viewed along the jet axis and account for frequency-independent lobe extents via 1-50 μG fields allowing both young and old electrons to radiate.
Primordial black holes captured by stars lead to either quiet consumption or explosive disruption via disk formation, producing transients and high-spin remnants with potentially observable event rates.
MeerKAT observations detect radio halos in 27% of 30 massive clusters at z>1, a rate lower than at intermediate redshifts but above model predictions, with power-mass scaling similar to lower-z samples.
3D MHD simulations show high-thrust, magnetically stabilized jets reach 5 Mpc in 15 Myr while weaker jets disrupt at ~3 Mpc over 35 Myr.
Discovery of Thunder, a bow-shock PWN powered by PSR J1631-4722 in SNR G336.7+0.5 (Nimbus), characterized with radio, X-ray, and polarization data at assumed 7 kpc distance with age ~30-45 kyr.
Multi-phase observations of NGC 1427A indicate tidal torquing from a dwarf fly-by has pre-conditioned its gas for ram-pressure stripping by the Fornax intracluster medium, placing the galaxy at the onset of environmental quenching with a declining star formation rate.
EP250304a/SN 2025fhm is presented as a member of an emerging subclass of shocked cocoon-dominated low-luminosity GRB-SNe based on spectral, photometric, and light-curve modeling comparisons to prior events.
A multimodal transformer-based generic mixture density network estimates FRB scattering timescale τ with 94% R² on measurable events and 90% recall for unresolvable cases on CHIME/FRB data.
Describes a distributed, memory-aware implementation of the widefield measurement operator for radio interferometry that decomposes into w-bin operators and optionally uses holographic matrices.
EP J174942.2-384834 is classified as a very faint X-ray transient black hole candidate based on its hard X-ray spectra, optical/UV brightening correlated with X-rays, and lack of radio emission.
Fast radio burst dispersion measures exhibit scaling consistent with two-dimensional Kolmogorov turbulence in the intergalactic medium, constraining the outer scale to several megaparsecs.
A grid of 434 Faraday rotation measures from MeerKAT polarimetry reveals enhanced RM scatter in the Abell 3391/95 clusters and suggests a relatively ordered magnetic field in the intercluster bridge on ~10 kpc scales.
Six new Galactic radio transients found and classified into two types, proposed to originate from wide-orbit white dwarf binaries.
MeerKAT radio data yield a catalogue of 1,327 extended Galactic HII regions with distances and ionising-photon fluxes, plus power-law scaling relations between luminosity, density, and radius.
MeerKLASS applies on-the-fly imaging on MeerKAT for a 10,000 sq. deg. UHF-band continuum survey at 14 arcsec resolution and 25 μJy/beam rms, run commensally with HI intensity mapping.
Multi-wavelength data classify the Einstein Probe transient EP250916a as a faint hard-state black hole X-ray binary candidate.
Presents a non-negativity constrained iterative deconvolution method for SKA radio images that is fast and performs well on simulated point and extended sources in noise-free conditions.
Forecasts angular clustering for a 20,000 sq deg SKAO radio continuum survey reaching O(300-400 million) sources and discusses needed corrections for telescope systematics and population modeling.
MWA Phase III upgrade adds receivers and uses MWAX correlator to support full 256-tile correlation, doubling sensitivity and quadrupling baselines.
SKA-mid AA4 will enable deep, spatially resolved HI imaging over hundreds of square degrees at column densities down to 10^18 cm^{-2} to study environmental gas processes from isolated galaxies to clusters.
Overview of synergies between SKA radio observations and gamma-ray facilities for studying transient, variable, and steady GeV-TeV sources.
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Spectropolarimetric detection of baryonic mass loading in a transient relativistic jet: application to the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613
Transient Faraday-complex spectropolarimetric structure detected during radio flaring of Swift J1727 implies internal Faraday rotation from electron-proton jet plasma with rotating mass ~10^21 g, a small fraction of accreted mass.
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Fast Radio Bursts probe Galaxy Evolution: Evidence and implications of a redshift-dependent FRB host DM
Forward modeling of 90 localized FRBs from DSA and ASKAP yields n_z = 1.62^{+1.48}_{-1.57} for DM_host(z) ∝ (1+z)^{n_z}, excluding n_z=0 at 1σ.
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Detection of relativistic orbital deformation from improved timing of PSR J1757$-$1854
First detection of relativistic angular deformation δ_θ in PSR J1757−1854 via MeerKAT-enhanced timing, ruling out two of four prior geometric solutions while confirming GR consistency for orbital decay.
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Simulating realistic radio morphologies of Fanaroff-Riley I jets in a self-regulating cool-core cluster
Self-regulating AGN jets in MHD simulations of cool-core clusters yield realistic FRI radio morphologies viewed along the jet axis and account for frequency-independent lobe extents via 1-50 μG fields allowing both young and old electrons to radiate.
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The Life and Death of Stars That Capture Primordial Black Holes
Primordial black holes captured by stars lead to either quiet consumption or explosive disruption via disk formation, producing transients and high-spin remnants with potentially observable event rates.
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The MeerKAT Massive Distant Clusters Survey: a search for diffuse radio emission in 30 massive SZ-selected clusters at $z > 1$
MeerKAT observations detect radio halos in 27% of 30 massive clusters at z>1, a rate lower than at intermediate redshifts but above model predictions, with power-mass scaling similar to lower-z samples.
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Simulating megaparsec-scale jets of radio galaxies: Magneto-hydrodynamics of jets reaching 5 Mpc
3D MHD simulations show high-thrust, magnetically stabilized jets reach 5 Mpc in 15 Myr while weaker jets disrupt at ~3 Mpc over 35 Myr.
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EMU discovery of Thunder: a bow-shock PWN powered by PSR J1631-4722 escaping Nimbus SNR (G336.7+0.5)
Discovery of Thunder, a bow-shock PWN powered by PSR J1631-4722 in SNR G336.7+0.5 (Nimbus), characterized with radio, X-ray, and polarization data at assumed 7 kpc distance with age ~30-45 kyr.
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Tidal pre-conditioning and ram-pressure stripping in NGC 1427A. Deep VLT/MUSE spectroscopy and FUV-to-radio observations trace a Fornax Cluster dwarf in transformation
Multi-phase observations of NGC 1427A indicate tidal torquing from a dwarf fly-by has pre-conditioned its gas for ram-pressure stripping by the Fornax intracluster medium, placing the galaxy at the onset of environmental quenching with a declining star formation rate.
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Probing a new subclass of llGRB-SN transients: Insights from EP250304a and its associated supernova
EP250304a/SN 2025fhm is presented as a member of an emerging subclass of shocked cocoon-dominated low-luminosity GRB-SNe based on spectral, photometric, and light-curve modeling comparisons to prior events.
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Multimodal Transformer Based Generic Mixture Density Network for Scattering Timescale Estimation of Fast Radio Bursts
A multimodal transformer-based generic mixture density network estimates FRB scattering timescale τ with 94% R² on measurable events and 90% recall for unresolvable cases on CHIME/FRB data.
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A distributed resource-adaptive implementation of the widefield radio-interferometric measurement model for scalable image formation
Describes a distributed, memory-aware implementation of the widefield measurement operator for radio interferometry that decomposes into w-bin operators and optionally uses holographic matrices.
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Multi-wavelength outburst activity from EP J174942.2-384834: a very faint X-ray transient discovered by Einstein Probe
EP J174942.2-384834 is classified as a very faint X-ray transient black hole candidate based on its hard X-ray spectra, optical/UV brightening correlated with X-rays, and lack of radio emission.
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Utilizing Dispersion Measure of Fast Radio Bursts to Probe the Intergalactic Medium Turbulence
Fast radio burst dispersion measures exhibit scaling consistent with two-dimensional Kolmogorov turbulence in the intergalactic medium, constraining the outer scale to several megaparsecs.
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Magnetic properties of the Abell 3391-3395 system revealed using wide-field MeerKAT polarimetry
A grid of 434 Faraday rotation measures from MeerKAT polarimetry reveals enhanced RM scatter in the Abell 3391/95 clusters and suggests a relatively ordered magnetic field in the intercluster bridge on ~10 kpc scales.
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A sample of short-lived Galactic radio transients from ASKAP VAST
Six new Galactic radio transients found and classified into two types, proposed to originate from wide-orbit white dwarf binaries.
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SMGPS: A study of Galactic HII regions with extended morphology
MeerKAT radio data yield a catalogue of 1,327 extended Galactic HII regions with distances and ionising-photon fluxes, plus power-law scaling relations between luminosity, density, and radius.
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Fast Simultaneous Surveys with On-the-Fly Mapping
MeerKLASS applies on-the-fly imaging on MeerKAT for a 10,000 sq. deg. UHF-band continuum survey at 14 arcsec resolution and 25 μJy/beam rms, run commensally with HI intensity mapping.
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On The Nature of Einstein Probe Transient EP250916a: Insights from X-ray, Optical, and Radio Observations
Multi-wavelength data classify the Einstein Probe transient EP250916a as a faint hard-state black hole X-ray binary candidate.
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A Non-Negativity Iterative Approach to Image Deconvolution for SKA
Presents a non-negativity constrained iterative deconvolution method for SKA radio images that is fast and performs well on simulated point and extended sources in noise-free conditions.
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Cosmology from Clustering of Continuum Galaxies
Forecasts angular clustering for a 20,000 sq deg SKAO radio continuum survey reaching O(300-400 million) sources and discusses needed corrections for telescope systematics and population modeling.
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The Murchison Widefield Array Phase III upgrade: Sensitivity Doubled, Number of Baselines Quadrupled, Flexibility Enhanced, and EoR Observations Optimised
MWA Phase III upgrade adds receivers and uses MWAX correlator to support full 256-tile correlation, doubling sensitivity and quadrupling baselines.
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Resolved HI and Environmental Dynamics
SKA-mid AA4 will enable deep, spatially resolved HI imaging over hundreds of square degrees at column densities down to 10^18 cm^{-2} to study environmental gas processes from isolated galaxies to clusters.
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SKAO and Gamma-Ray Synergies
Overview of synergies between SKA radio observations and gamma-ray facilities for studying transient, variable, and steady GeV-TeV sources.
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Solar Radio Burst Fine Structures
Recent sub-second imaging spectroscopy of solar radio burst fine structures challenges existing theoretical models, with the SKA positioned to enable new frameworks for electron acceleration and coronal turbulence.