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Y.M. is also grateful for the suggestions from Xiaowei Ou and Jiaxuan Li on figure improvement. M.A. acknowledges support by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through an award (RSA 1628138) issued by JPL/Caltech. D.M., L.R., and A.S. acknowledge support by NASA under award No. 80NSSC21K0630, issued through the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP).\r\n\r\nThe Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) collaboration includes the astronomical communities of Japan, Taiwan, and Princeton University. The HSC instrumentation and software were developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), the University of Tokyo, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan (ASIAA), and Princeton University. Funding was contributed by the FIRST program from the Japanese Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Toray Science Foundation, NAOJ, Kavli IPMU, KEK, ASIAA, and Princeton University.\r\n\r\nThis Letter is based in part on data collected at the Subaru Telescope and retrieved from the HSC data archive system, which is operated by Subaru Telescope and Astronomy Data Center (ADC) at NAOJ. Data analysis was in part carried out with the cooperation of Center for Computational Astrophysics (CfCA) at NAOJ. We are honored and grateful for the opportunity of observing the Universe from Maunakea, which has the cultural, historical, and natural significance in Hawai‘i.\r\n\r\nThis Letter makes use of software developed for Vera C. Rubin Observatory (M. Juric et al. 2017; J. Bosch et al. 2019; Ž. Ivezić et al. 2019). We thank the Rubin Observatory for making their code available as free software at http://pipelines.lsst.io/.\r\n\r\nThis Letter also partially makes use of the CLAUDS data (M. Sawicki et al. 2019), whose data products can be accessed from https://www.clauds.net.","DOAJ_listed":"1","OA_place":"publisher","supplementarymaterial":"yes","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","abstract":[{"text":"One of the most surprising results of early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations is the discovery of an abundance of red, compact, broad-line objects dubbed “little red dots” (LRDs) at z > 4. Their spatial density (∼10−4–10−5 cMpc−3) is 100 times more abundant than UV-selected quasars at that redshift if one extrapolates the quasar luminosity function (QLF) down to the LRD regime. However, whether LRDs dominate black hole accretion at quasar-like luminosities (Lbol ≳ 1045−46 erg s−1) remains unanswered, as probing the bright end of the LRD luminosity function requires a much larger area than that which is able to be surveyed by JWST. In this work, we present our search for the brightest LRDs (K < 23.7) at 4.5 < z < 4.9 using wide-area multiwavelength imaging surveys from the near-UV to the infrared bands. With over 15 deg2 of sky coverage, we only identify one single LRD candidate at zphot ≈ 4.6, which translates into a spatial density of n(M5100 < −23.5) ≈ 10−8 cMpc−3—this is nearly 10 times less abundant than the UV-selected quasars at similar optical luminosity. When combined with the LRD sample identified by JWST at the same redshift range, we find a sharp cutoff in the optical luminosity function at λL5100 ≈ 2.2 × 1044 erg s−1, while the quasar luminosity function (QLF) turnover occurs at ≳20 times higher luminosity. We therefore confirm the exclusively low-luminosity nature of LRDs, ruling out that LRDs are the counterparts of quasars. Furthermore, we speculate that, if the shape of the luminosity function holds up, it points to LRDs being powered by low-mass black holes with a narrow range of Eddington-level accretion rates.","lang":"eng"}],"year":"2026","title":"No luminous Little Red Dots: A sharp cutoff in their luminosity function","status":"public","publication_status":"published","has_accepted_license":"1","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"file":[{"file_size":2895298,"date_updated":"2026-10-07T10:30:30Z","access_level":"open_access","date_created":"2026-10-07T10:30:30Z","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","relation":"main_file","checksum":"1d17f212c0ef64b99b5947591d61216f","success":1,"file_id":"23071","file_name":"2026_AstrophysicalJourLetters_Ma.pdf"}],"_id":"23042","citation":{"ista":"Ma Y, Greene JE, Volonteri M, Goulding AD, Setton DJ, Annunziatella M, Egami E, Fan X, Kokorev V, Labbe I, Lin X, Marchesini D, Matthee JJ, Nanayakkara T, Robbins L, Sajina A, Sawicki M. 2026. No luminous Little Red Dots: A sharp cutoff in their luminosity function. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 1008(2), L64.","short":"Y. Ma, J.E. Greene, M. Volonteri, A.D. Goulding, D.J. Setton, M. Annunziatella, E. Egami, X. Fan, V. Kokorev, I. Labbe, X. Lin, D. Marchesini, J.J. Matthee, T. Nanayakkara, L. Robbins, A. Sajina, M. Sawicki, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 (2026).","mla":"Ma, Yilun, et al. “No Luminous Little Red Dots: A Sharp Cutoff in Their Luminosity Function.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters</i>, vol. 1008, no. 2, L64, IOP Publishing, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aea071\">10.3847/2041-8213/aea071</a>.","chicago":"Ma, Yilun, Jenny E. Greene, Marta Volonteri, Andy D. Goulding, David J. Setton, Marianna Annunziatella, Eiichi Egami, et al. “No Luminous Little Red Dots: A Sharp Cutoff in Their Luminosity Function.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters</i>. IOP Publishing, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aea071\">https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aea071</a>.","apa":"Ma, Y., Greene, J. E., Volonteri, M., Goulding, A. D., Setton, D. J., Annunziatella, M., … Sawicki, M. (2026). No luminous Little Red Dots: A sharp cutoff in their luminosity function. <i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters</i>. IOP Publishing. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aea071\">https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aea071</a>","ieee":"Y. Ma <i>et al.</i>, “No luminous Little Red Dots: A sharp cutoff in their luminosity function,” <i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters</i>, vol. 1008, no. 2. IOP Publishing, 2026.","ama":"Ma Y, Greene JE, Volonteri M, et al. No luminous Little Red Dots: A sharp cutoff in their luminosity function. <i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters</i>. 2026;1008(2). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aea071\">10.3847/2041-8213/aea071</a>"},"day":"10","das_tickbox":"0","quality_controlled":"1","publication":"The Astrophysical Journal Letters"},{"external_id":{"arxiv":["2603.12335"]},"publication_identifier":{"issn":["2470-0010"],"eissn":["2470-0029"]},"researchdata_availability":"yes","doi":"10.1103/CLVJ-GL8P","date_published":"2026-07-16T00:00:00Z","arxiv":1,"month":"07","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.12335","open_access":"1"}],"type":"journal_article","acknowledgement":"We thank Will Coulton, Adrian Bayer, and Max Lee for useful discussions. S. F. C., J. C. H., and Z. H. acknowledge support from NASA Grant No. 80NSSC24K1093 [ATP]. J. C. H. also acknowledges support from NASA Grant No. 80NSSC23K0463 [ADAP]. J. C. H. thanks the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) for hospitality during the completion of this work; this research was supported in part by Grant No. NSF PHY-2309135 to the KITP. The authors also acknowledge the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin for providing computational resources that have contributed to the research results reported within this paper. We acknowledge computing resources from Columbia University’s Shared Research Computing Facility project, which is supported by NIH Research Facility Improvement Grant No. 1G20RR030893-01, and associated funds from the New York State Empire State Development, Division of Science Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) Contract No. C090171, both awarded April 15, 2010. This is not an official Simons Observatory collaboration paper.","OA_place":"repository","supplementarymaterial":"no","dataavailabilitystatement":"The data that support the findings of this article are openly available [https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.023535].","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"We investigate the cosmological information in higher-order statistics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence field for a near-term experiment with noise properties similar to the Simons Observatory (SO). Using a fully field-level forward-modeling pipeline based on ray-traced simulations from the massivenus suite and realistic SO-like CMB lensing reconstruction, we naturally include nonlinear structure formation, post-Born effects, and higher-order reconstruction noise. We measure several non-Gaussian statistics, including Minkowski functionals, peak and minima counts, moments, and wavelet-scattering coefficients. We train Gaussian-process emulators to model each statistic’s dependence on the matter density fraction Ω𝑚, the scalar power spectrum amplitude 𝐴𝑠, and the neutrino mass sum 𝑀𝜈. We quantify the relative information gain these statistics provide beyond the lensing power spectrum and identify which are most robust to reconstruction noise. We find that morphology-based statistics, particularly Minkowski functionals and peak/minima counts, offer significant complementary constraining power: combining all non-Gaussian statistics with the power spectrum yields reductions of 40% and 38% in the marginalized uncertainties on Ω𝑚 and 𝐴𝑠, respectively, and a 70% reduction in the one-sided uncertainty on 𝑀𝜈. These gains remain non-negligible even when the power spectrum is extended to larger scales and combined with primary CMB and BAO data, with Minkowski functionals providing an additional 11% improvement in 𝜎⁡(𝑀𝜈) and 35% in 𝜎⁡(Ω𝑚) beyond the extended power spectrum. By contrast, moments and wavelet-scattering coefficients provide more limited gains at SO noise levels. Our results highlight the potential of non-Gaussian statistics to enhance cosmological constraints from SO and future CMB surveys."}],"year":"2026","status":"public","title":"Probing cosmology through higher-order CMB lensing statistics","publication_status":"published","_id":"23054","day":"16","citation":{"mla":"Chen, Shu Fan, et al. “Probing Cosmology through Higher-Order CMB Lensing Statistics.” <i>Physical Review D</i>, vol. 114, no. 2, 023535, American Physical Society, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/CLVJ-GL8P\">10.1103/CLVJ-GL8P</a>.","chicago":"Chen, Shu Fan, J. Colin Hill, and Zoltán Haiman. “Probing Cosmology through Higher-Order CMB Lensing Statistics.” <i>Physical Review D</i>. American Physical Society, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/CLVJ-GL8P\">https://doi.org/10.1103/CLVJ-GL8P</a>.","short":"S.F. Chen, J.C. Hill, Z. 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(2026). <i>Microscale electrical behavior of highly charged individual aerosol particles using optical tweezers</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033\">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033</a>","ieee":"A. Stöllner, “Microscale electrical behavior of highly charged individual aerosol particles using optical tweezers,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026.","ama":"Stöllner A. Microscale electrical behavior of highly charged individual aerosol particles using optical tweezers. 2026. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033\">10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033</a>","ista":"Stöllner A. 2026. Microscale electrical behavior of highly charged individual aerosol particles using optical tweezers. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.","short":"A. Stöllner, Microscale Electrical Behavior of Highly Charged Individual Aerosol Particles Using Optical Tweezers, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026.","mla":"Stöllner, Andrea. <i>Microscale Electrical Behavior of Highly Charged Individual Aerosol Particles Using Optical Tweezers</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033\">10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033</a>.","chicago":"Stöllner, Andrea. “Microscale Electrical Behavior of Highly Charged Individual Aerosol Particles Using Optical Tweezers.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033\">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033</a>."},"day":"02","_id":"23033","acknowledgement":"This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under \r\nthe European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant \r\nagreements No. 949120 and No. 805041). This research was supported by the \r\nScientific Service Units of The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) \r\nthrough resources provided by the Miba Machine Shop and the Imaging & Optics \r\nFacility. ","OA_place":"publisher","OA_embargo":"6","corr_author":"1","title":"Microscale electrical behavior of highly charged individual aerosol particles using optical tweezers","status":"public","year":"2026","month":"10","page":"88","ec_funded":1,"type":"dissertation","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"]},"keyword":["aerosol physics","electrostatics","optics","optical tweezers","atmospheric electricity"],"doi_confirm":"1","doi":"10.15479/AT-ISTA-23033","date_published":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"},{"publication_status":"draft","publication":"arXiv","day":"17","citation":{"ista":"Stöllner A, Lenton ICD, Muller CJ, Waitukaitis SR. Discharge at the microscale: Using optical tweezers to observe Muon-induced discharges of a levitated microparticle in air. arXiv, <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040\">10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040</a>.","short":"A. Stöllner, I.C.D. Lenton, C.J. Muller, S.R. Waitukaitis, ArXiv (n.d.).","chicago":"Stöllner, Andrea, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Caroline J Muller, and Scott R Waitukaitis. “Discharge at the Microscale: Using Optical Tweezers to Observe Muon-Induced Discharges of a Levitated Microparticle in Air.” <i>ArXiv</i>, n.d. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040</a>.","mla":"Stöllner, Andrea, et al. “Discharge at the Microscale: Using Optical Tweezers to Observe Muon-Induced Discharges of a Levitated Microparticle in Air.” <i>ArXiv</i>, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040\">10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040</a>.","apa":"Stöllner, A., Lenton, I. C. D., Muller, C. J., &#38; Waitukaitis, S. R. (n.d.). Discharge at the microscale: Using optical tweezers to observe Muon-induced discharges of a levitated microparticle in air. <i>arXiv</i>. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040\">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040</a>","ama":"Stöllner A, Lenton ICD, Muller CJ, Waitukaitis SR. Discharge at the microscale: Using optical tweezers to observe Muon-induced discharges of a levitated microparticle in air. <i>arXiv</i>. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040\">10.48550/arXiv.2604.16040</a>","ieee":"A. Stöllner, I. C. D. Lenton, C. J. Muller, and S. R. Waitukaitis, “Discharge at the microscale: Using optical tweezers to observe Muon-induced discharges of a levitated microparticle in air,” <i>arXiv</i>. ."},"_id":"23038","acknowledgement":"We thank Todor Asenov and Abdulhamid Baghdadi\r\nfor their outstanding technical support. This project\r\nhas received funding from the European Research Council\r\n(ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research\r\nand innovation programme (Grant agreements No. 949120\r\nand No. 805041). This research was supported by the\r\nScientific Service Units of The Institute of Science and\r\nTechnology Austria (ISTA) through resources provided\r\nby the Miba Machine Shop.","OA_place":"repository","corr_author":"1","title":"Discharge at the microscale: Using optical tweezers to observe Muon-induced discharges of a levitated microparticle in air","status":"public","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Electrical discharge at the smallest possible length and charge scales is not well understood. Using optical tweezers, we investigate spontaneous discharges of a single micron-scale particle levitated in air. These ``microdischarges'' have a typical size of $\\sim$40 $|e|$, but can be as small as a few $|e|$ and as large as several hundred. The absence of a well-defined trigger charge and the weak dependence on particle size suggest events are not classical gaseous breakdown. Instead, we show that microdischarge events arise from the rapid capture of ions left in the tracks of nearby passing ionizing radiation. 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The Stripped-Star Ultraviolet Magellanic Cloud Survey (SUMS): The ultraviolet photometric catalog and stripped-star candidate selection. <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. 2026;999(1). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2d13\">10.3847/1538-4357/ae2d13</a>","ieee":"B. Ludwig, M. R. Drout, Y. L. L. Götberg, D. Lang, and A. Laroche, “The Stripped-Star Ultraviolet Magellanic Cloud Survey (SUMS): The ultraviolet photometric catalog and stripped-star candidate selection,” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 999, no. 1. IOP Publishing, 2026.","short":"B. Ludwig, M.R. Drout, Y.L.L. Götberg, D. Lang, A. Laroche, The Astrophysical Journal 999 (2026).","ista":"Ludwig B, Drout MR, Götberg YLL, Lang D, Laroche A. 2026. The Stripped-Star Ultraviolet Magellanic Cloud Survey (SUMS): The ultraviolet photometric catalog and stripped-star candidate selection. 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IOP Publishing, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2d13\">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2d13</a>."},"_id":"23051","file":[{"content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","date_created":"2026-10-12T06:31:40Z","access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2026-10-12T06:31:40Z","file_size":25748518,"file_name":"2026_AstrophysicalJour_Ludwig.pdf","file_id":"23098","success":1,"checksum":"0d78d1da920aa065861ba98b50811058","relation":"main_file"}],"tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"has_accepted_license":"1","publication_status":"published","title":"The Stripped-Star Ultraviolet Magellanic Cloud Survey (SUMS): The ultraviolet photometric catalog and stripped-star candidate selection","status":"public","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Most massive stars (∼8–25M⊙) interact with a binary companion during their lifetimes. These interactions can remove the hydrogen-rich envelope, producing intermediate-mass (∼2–8M⊙) and helium-rich stars. These “stripped stars” are predicted to emit predominantly in the ultraviolet (UV) and can therefore be identified via a UV excess—provided they are not outshone by their companion. However, despite their importance to binary evolution, supernovae, and ionizing feedback, few stripped stars have been confirmed. This is likely due to the scarcity of wide-field, high angular-resolution, UV surveys of stellar populations with reliable distances and extinction estimates. To address this, we present the Stripped-Star Ultraviolet Magellanic Clouds Survey catalog. We use the Tractor forward modeling software to perform point-spread function photometry on 2420 Swift UVOT images of the LMC and SMC. The resulting catalog contains 734,862 sources in three UV filters to a depth of ∼20 Vega mag. We perform validation tests on the photometry pipeline and highlight the catalog’s broad applicability. We then identify sources with excess UV light compared to main-sequence stars and apply a series of quality cuts. From this, we identify 522 candidate stripped stars in the LMC and 298 in the SMC. We assess the potential contamination from other UV excess systems and argue the dominant uncertainty to be dust: early main-sequence stars can mimic the colors of stripped-star binaries when extinction is overcorrected. This survey lays the groundwork for the first systematic census of stripped stars and opens new windows into binary evolution and massive star populations."}],"year":"2026","supplementarymaterial":"yes","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledgement":"We thank Anna O’Grady, Christopher D. Matzner, Joshua S. Speagle, Carles Badenes, Marten van Kerkwijk, Selma de Mink, Hugues Sana, Kareem El-Badry, and Lisa Blomberg for helpful conversations. We would also like to thank the anonymous referee for their thoughtful and constructive comments, which helped to improve the clarity and depth of this work.\r\n\r\nB.L. has received financial support from the Flemish Government under the long-term structural Methusalem funding program by means of the project SOUL: Stellar evolution in full glory, grant METH/24/012 at KU Leuven. M.R.D. acknowledges support from the NSERC through grant RGPIN-2019-06186, the Canada Research Chairs Program, and the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto. A.L. acknowledges support from the NSERC and is funded through a NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship—Doctoral. A.L. is also supported by the Data Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto through grant number DSI- DSFY3R1P02.\r\n\r\nFacility: Swift (NASA Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Mission) - .\r\n\r\nSoftware: astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013, 2018, 2022), astroquery (A. Ginsburg et al. 2019), matplotlib (J. D. Hunter 2007), numpy (C. R. Harris et al. 2020), pandas (W. McKinney 2010; pandas development team 2020), Photutils (L. Bradley et al. 2022, 2024), SciPy (P. Virtanen et al. 2020), the Tractor (D. Lang et al. 2016a), TOPCAT(M. B. Taylor 2005, 2006).","type":"journal_article","month":"03","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/ae2d13","date_published":"2026-03-01T00:00:00Z","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1538-4357"],"issn":["0004-637X"]},"researchdata_availability":"no","external_id":{"arxiv":["2505.18632"]}},{"ddc":["520"],"file_date_updated":"2026-10-12T08:18:07Z","volume":998,"oa_version":"Published Version","article_type":"original","publisher":"IOP Publishing","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","date_created":"2026-10-04T22:01:56Z","PlanS_conform":"1","date_updated":"2026-10-12T08:21:05Z","issue":"2","intvolume":"       998","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa":1,"scopus_import":"1","department":[{"_id":"JoMa"}],"OA_type":"gold","author":[{"first_name":"Abby","last_name":"Mintz","full_name":"Mintz, Abby"},{"last_name":"Setton","full_name":"Setton, David J.","first_name":"David J."},{"first_name":"Jenny E.","full_name":"Greene, Jenny E.","last_name":"Greene"},{"first_name":"Joel","full_name":"Leja, Joel","last_name":"Leja"},{"last_name":"Wang","full_name":"Wang, Bingjie","first_name":"Bingjie"},{"first_name":"Emilie","full_name":"Burnham, Emilie","last_name":"Burnham"},{"first_name":"Katherine A.","full_name":"Suess, Katherine A.","last_name":"Suess"},{"last_name":"Atek","full_name":"Atek, Hakim","first_name":"Hakim"},{"full_name":"Bezanson, Rachel","last_name":"Bezanson","first_name":"Rachel"},{"first_name":"Gabriel","full_name":"Brammer, Gabriel","last_name":"Brammer"},{"first_name":"Sam E.","full_name":"Cutler, Sam E.","last_name":"Cutler"},{"last_name":"Dayal","full_name":"Dayal, Pratika","first_name":"Pratika"},{"first_name":"Robert","full_name":"Feldmann, Robert","last_name":"Feldmann"},{"first_name":"Lukas J.","last_name":"Furtak","full_name":"Furtak, Lukas J."},{"last_name":"Glazebrook","full_name":"Glazebrook, Karl","first_name":"Karl"},{"first_name":"Gourav","full_name":"Khullar, Gourav","last_name":"Khullar"},{"first_name":"Vasily","last_name":"Kokorev","full_name":"Kokorev, Vasily"},{"first_name":"Ivo","last_name":"Labbé","full_name":"Labbé, Ivo"},{"first_name":"Jorryt J","id":"7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720","orcid":"0000-0003-2871-127X","full_name":"Matthee, Jorryt J","last_name":"Matthee"},{"last_name":"Maseda","full_name":"Maseda, Michael V.","first_name":"Michael V."},{"first_name":"Tim B.","full_name":"Miller, Tim B.","last_name":"Miller"},{"first_name":"Ikki","last_name":"Mitsuhashi","full_name":"Mitsuhashi, Ikki"},{"first_name":"Themiya","last_name":"Nanayakkara","full_name":"Nanayakkara, Themiya"},{"last_name":"Pan","full_name":"Pan, Richard","first_name":"Richard"},{"first_name":"Sedona H.","last_name":"Price","full_name":"Price, Sedona H."},{"first_name":"John R.","full_name":"Weaver, John R.","last_name":"Weaver"},{"full_name":"Whitaker, Katherine E.","last_name":"Whitaker","first_name":"Katherine E."},{"first_name":"Belinda","last_name":"Wu","full_name":"Wu, Belinda"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes","article_number":"257","_id":"23052","day":"20","citation":{"chicago":"Mintz, Abby, David J. Setton, Jenny E. Greene, Joel Leja, Bingjie Wang, Emilie Burnham, Katherine A. Suess, et al. “Taking a Break at Cosmic Noon: Continuum-Selected Low-Mass Galaxies Require Long Burst Cycles.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. IOP Publishing, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c\">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c</a>.","mla":"Mintz, Abby, et al. “Taking a Break at Cosmic Noon: Continuum-Selected Low-Mass Galaxies Require Long Burst Cycles.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 998, no. 2, 257, IOP Publishing, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c\">10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c</a>.","short":"A. Mintz, D.J. Setton, J.E. Greene, J. Leja, B. Wang, E. Burnham, K.A. Suess, H. Atek, R. Bezanson, G. Brammer, S.E. Cutler, P. Dayal, R. Feldmann, L.J. Furtak, K. Glazebrook, G. Khullar, V. Kokorev, I. Labbé, J.J. Matthee, M.V. Maseda, T.B. Miller, I. Mitsuhashi, T. Nanayakkara, R. Pan, S.H. Price, J.R. Weaver, K.E. Whitaker, B. Wu, The Astrophysical Journal 998 (2026).","ista":"Mintz A, Setton DJ, Greene JE, Leja J, Wang B, Burnham E, Suess KA, Atek H, Bezanson R, Brammer G, Cutler SE, Dayal P, Feldmann R, Furtak LJ, Glazebrook K, Khullar G, Kokorev V, Labbé I, Matthee JJ, Maseda MV, Miller TB, Mitsuhashi I, Nanayakkara T, Pan R, Price SH, Weaver JR, Whitaker KE, Wu B. 2026. Taking a break at cosmic noon: Continuum-selected low-mass galaxies require long burst cycles. The Astrophysical Journal. 998(2), 257.","ama":"Mintz A, Setton DJ, Greene JE, et al. Taking a break at cosmic noon: Continuum-selected low-mass galaxies require long burst cycles. <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. 2026;998(2). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c\">10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c</a>","ieee":"A. Mintz <i>et al.</i>, “Taking a break at cosmic noon: Continuum-selected low-mass galaxies require long burst cycles,” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 998, no. 2. IOP Publishing, 2026.","apa":"Mintz, A., Setton, D. J., Greene, J. E., Leja, J., Wang, B., Burnham, E., … Wu, B. (2026). Taking a break at cosmic noon: Continuum-selected low-mass galaxies require long burst cycles. <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. IOP Publishing. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c\">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c</a>"},"quality_controlled":"1","das_tickbox":"1","publication":"The Astrophysical Journal","publication_status":"published","has_accepted_license":"1","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"file":[{"access_level":"open_access","date_created":"2026-10-12T08:18:07Z","creator":"dernst","content_type":"application/pdf","file_size":3955341,"date_updated":"2026-10-12T08:18:07Z","success":1,"file_id":"23103","file_name":"2026_AstrophysicalJour_Mintz.pdf","relation":"main_file","checksum":"07b1a08dec5787883b195b73a2c4f2e5"}],"year":"2026","abstract":[{"text":"While bursty star formation in low-mass galaxies has been observed in local populations and reproduced in simulations, the dormant phase of the burst cycle has not been well studied beyond the local Universe due to observational limitations. We present a unique sample of 43 JWST PRISM spectra of low-mass galaxies (M⋆ < 10^9.5 M⊙) at cosmic noon (1 < z < 3), uniformly selected on F200W magnitude and precise photometric redshifts enabled by 20-band JWST photometry from the UNCOVER and MegaScience surveys. The spectra reveal numerous strong Balmer breaks, which are negatively correlated with the galaxies’ Hα equivalent width. By comparing these observations to synthetic samples of spectra generated using a simple parameterization of bursty star formation histories, we show that star formation in low-mass galaxies at cosmic noon is likely dominated by burst cycles with long timescales (≳100 Myr) and large deviations below the star-forming main sequence (≳0.8 dex). Our results suggest that galaxies in this population—at least those within our detection limits—should not be classified solely by their current star formation rates, but instead viewed as a unified population undergoing dynamic movement above and below the star-forming main sequence. The derived constraints demonstrate that long-timescale fluctuations are important for this class of galaxies, indicating that galaxy-scale gas cycles—rather than molecular-cloud-scale stochasticity—are the primary regulators of star formation variability in low-mass galaxies at cosmic noon.","lang":"eng"}],"status":"public","title":"Taking a break at cosmic noon: Continuum-selected low-mass galaxies require long burst cycles","DOAJ_listed":"1","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledgement":"A.M. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under grant No. DGE-2444107. A.M. thanks Helena Treiber for helpful discussions. Support for this work was provided by The Brinson Foundation through a Brinson Prize Fellowship grant.\r\n\r\nThis work is based in part on observations made with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope obtained from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5–26555. Financial support for programs JWST-GO-1837, JWST-GO-2561, JWST-GO-4111, and JWST-GO-6405 is gratefully acknowledged and is provided by NASA through grants from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Associations of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS 5-03127. These observations are associated with programs JWST-GO-2561, JWST-ERS-1324, JWST-DD-2756, JWST-GO-4111, HST-GO-11689, HST-GO-13386, HST-GO/DD-13495, HST-GO-13389, HST-GO-15117, and HST-GO/DD-17231. Some of the data presented in this article were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The specific observations analyzed can be accessed via doi:10.17909/grtw-hr67. Some of the data products presented herein were retrieved from the Dawn JWST Archive (DJA). DJA is an initiative of the Cosmic Dawn Center, which is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant No. 140.\r\n\r\nFacilities: JWST - James Webb Space Telescope (NIRCam and NIRSpec), HST - Hubble Space Telescope satellite (WFC3 and ACS).\r\n\r\nSoftware: NumPy (https://numpy.org, C. R. Harris et al. 2020), Astropy (https://astropy.org, Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013, 2018, 2022), Matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org, J. D. Hunter 2007), SciPy (https://scipy.org, P. Virtanen et al. 2020).","supplementarymaterial":"yes","type":"journal_article","month":"02","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/ae328c","date_published":"2026-02-20T00:00:00Z","arxiv":1,"external_id":{"arxiv":["2506.16510"]},"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1538-4357"],"issn":["0004-637X"]},"researchdata_availability":"no"},{"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","date_created":"2026-10-04T22:01:56Z","PlanS_conform":"1","date_updated":"2026-10-12T08:13:30Z","file_date_updated":"2026-10-12T08:12:05Z","ddc":["520"],"volume":138,"oa_version":"Published Version","article_type":"original","publisher":"IOP Publishing","oa":1,"scopus_import":"1","author":[{"full_name":"Blomberg, Lisa","last_name":"Blomberg","first_name":"Lisa"},{"first_name":"Kareem","last_name":"El-Badry","full_name":"El-Badry, Kareem"},{"first_name":"Bethany","full_name":"Ludwig, Bethany","last_name":"Ludwig"},{"last_name":"Drout","full_name":"Drout, Maria R.","first_name":"Maria R."},{"first_name":"Ylva Louise Linsdotter","id":"d0648d0c-0f64-11ee-a2e0-dd0faa2e4f7d","orcid":"0000-0002-6960-6911","full_name":"Götberg, Ylva Louise Linsdotter","last_name":"Götberg"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","OA_type":"hybrid","department":[{"_id":"YlGo"}],"article_number":"024202","intvolume":"       138","issue":"2","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ae3a19","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"dataavailabilitystatement":"This research has made use of data and/or software provided by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), which is a service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC. This research has made use of the SVO Filter Profile Service “Carlos Rodrigo,” funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ through grant PID2023-146210NB-I00.\r\n\r\nSoftware: The Tractor (Lang et al. 2016), HEASARC (NASA High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center 2024), Astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013, 2018, 2022).","year":"2026","abstract":[{"text":"Stripped stars are hot, helium-rich stars formed when binary interactions remove a star’s hydrogen envelope. While low-mass (≲1 M⊙) and high-mass (≳8 M⊙) stripped stars are well studied as hot subdwarfs and Wolf–Rayet stars, their intermediate-mass counterparts (1–8 M⊙) have only recently been discovered. The Stripped-Star Ultraviolet Magellanic Cloud Survey (SUMS) identified UV-excess sources (i.e., sources lying blueward of the main sequence) in the Magellanic Clouds using Swift-UVOT photometry and selected 820 photometric stripped-star candidates. However, the completeness and purity of this sample remain poorly understood. We forward model the population of stripped stars in the Magellanic Clouds using a binary population synthesis model combined with spatially resolved star formation histories and simulated UV photometry. To assess survey sensitivity, we inject simulated sources into real Swift-UVOT images and reproduce the SUMS selection process, including crowding, extinction, and photometric quality cuts. For the SMC and LMC, we respectively recover 31% and 15% of sources with intrinsic UV excess, and 11% and 7% of all stripped stars. The rest are missed due to dilution by luminous companions, crowding, high extinction, and limited survey coverage. The observed population is biased toward systems with low-mass companions formed by common envelope evolution and systems with compact object companions. We predict contamination of the observed stripped-star candidates by main-sequence stars with spurious UV excess due to crowding and provide guidelines for selecting higher-purity subsamples. Our population synthesis model matches the number and properties of observed stripped star candidates with masses of (2–5) M⊙ well. It underpredicts the number of lower- and higher-mass candidates, perhaps due to contamination.","lang":"eng"}],"title":"Intermediate-mass stripped stars in the Magellanic Clouds: Forward modeling the observed population discovered via UV excess","status":"public","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledgement":"We thank the referee for their constructive comments. We thank Hugues Sana’s group at KU Lueven and Greg Green for useful discussions. This research was supported by NSF grants AST-2508988 and AST-2307232. B.L. has received financial support from the Flemish Government under the long-term structural Methusalem funding program by means of the project SOUL: Stellar evolution in full glory, grant METH/24/012 at KU Leuven. M.R.D. acknowledges support from the NSERC through grant RGPIN-2019-06186, the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Ontario Early Researchers Award ER22-17-164, and the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto.\r\n\r\nThis project was developed in part at the Lorentz Center workshop “From discovery to a population: benchmarking stripped stars and companions” held in 2024 July in Leiden, Netherlands.\r\n\r\nThis research has made use of data and/or software provided by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), which is a service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC. This research has made use of the SVO Filter Profile Service “Carlos Rodrigo,” funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ through grant PID2023-146210NB-I00.\r\n\r\nSoftware: The Tractor (Lang et al. 2016), HEASARC (NASA High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center 2024), Astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013, 2018, 2022).","supplementarymaterial":"yes","_id":"23053","citation":{"apa":"Blomberg, L., El-Badry, K., Ludwig, B., Drout, M. R., &#38; Götberg, Y. L. L. (2026). Intermediate-mass stripped stars in the Magellanic Clouds: Forward modeling the observed population discovered via UV excess. <i>Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific</i>. IOP Publishing. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ae3a19\">https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ae3a19</a>","ama":"Blomberg L, El-Badry K, Ludwig B, Drout MR, Götberg YLL. Intermediate-mass stripped stars in the Magellanic Clouds: Forward modeling the observed population discovered via UV excess. <i>Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific</i>. 2026;138(2). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ae3a19\">10.1088/1538-3873/ae3a19</a>","ieee":"L. Blomberg, K. El-Badry, B. Ludwig, M. R. Drout, and Y. L. L. Götberg, “Intermediate-mass stripped stars in the Magellanic Clouds: Forward modeling the observed population discovered via UV excess,” <i>Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific</i>, vol. 138, no. 2. IOP Publishing, 2026.","short":"L. Blomberg, K. El-Badry, B. Ludwig, M.R. Drout, Y.L.L. Götberg, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 138 (2026).","ista":"Blomberg L, El-Badry K, Ludwig B, Drout MR, Götberg YLL. 2026. Intermediate-mass stripped stars in the Magellanic Clouds: Forward modeling the observed population discovered via UV excess. 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Kiem, M. Nauman, J. Choi, D. Graf, J. Kim, H. Yang, J.G. Park, Y. Jo, M.J. Han, Small (2026).","ista":"Kiem DH, Nauman M, Choi J, Graf D, Kim J, Yang H, Park JG, Jo Y, Han MJ. 2026. Crucial role of magnetic dipole and anomalous field dependence in NiPS3. Small., e75903.","chicago":"Kiem, Do Hoon, Muhammad Nauman, Joonyoung Choi, David Graf, Junghyun Kim, Heejun Yang, Je Geun Park, Younjung Jo, and Myung Joon Han. “Crucial Role of Magnetic Dipole and Anomalous Field Dependence in NiPS3.” <i>Small</i>. Wiley, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.75903\">https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.75903</a>.","mla":"Kiem, Do Hoon, et al. “Crucial Role of Magnetic Dipole and Anomalous Field Dependence in NiPS3.” <i>Small</i>, e75903, Wiley, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.75903\">10.1002/smll.75903</a>.","apa":"Kiem, D. H., Nauman, M., Choi, J., Graf, D., Kim, J., Yang, H., … Han, M. J. (2026). Crucial role of magnetic dipole and anomalous field dependence in NiPS3. <i>Small</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.75903\">https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.75903</a>","ieee":"D. H. Kiem <i>et al.</i>, “Crucial role of magnetic dipole and anomalous field dependence in NiPS3,” <i>Small</i>. Wiley, 2026.","ama":"Kiem DH, Nauman M, Choi J, et al. Crucial role of magnetic dipole and anomalous field dependence in NiPS3. <i>Small</i>. 2026. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.75903\">10.1002/smll.75903</a>"},"day":"26","_id":"23058","supplementarymaterial":"yes","acknowledgement":"M. J. H. was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (Grant No. RS-2025-00559042). This work was supported by the Samsung Science & Technology Foundation (Grant No. SSTF-BA2101-05). Y. J. was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant (RS-2024-00337640, RS-2023-00301914). A portion of this work was performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, which is supported by National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement No. DMR-2128556 and the State of Florida. This work was also supported by the Leading Researcher Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (Grant No. RS-2020-NR049405).","OA_place":"publisher","status":"public","title":"Crucial role of magnetic dipole and anomalous field dependence in NiPS3","year":"2026","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"NiPS3 has attracted considerable attention, yet the origin of its intriguing magnetic behaviors remains elusive due to limited insight into its low-energy anisotropy. Here, high-field torque magnetometry measurements are performed, revealing a previously unrecognized anisotropic spin response that reflects interaction terms beyond the standard XY or XXZ models. In combination with relativistic density functional theory calculations and magnetic force response theory, an effective low-energy spin Hamiltonian is constructed, elucidating not only the observed anomalous magnetic behavior but also other recent experiments. Remarkably, the magnetic dipole interaction and the associated spin-flop transition play a crucial role in driving the deviation from two-dimensional spin alignment, providing direct insight into the underlying anisotropic energy hierarchy. The generalized Hamiltonian can serve as the important fundamental ground for future study, and our approach adopted here will hopefully be relevant to many other related material systems."}],"dataavailabilitystatement":"The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.","month":"09","type":"journal_article","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.75903","open_access":"1"}],"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1613-6829"],"issn":["1613-6810"]},"researchdata_availability":"upon request","external_id":{"pmid":["42799549"]},"date_published":"2026-09-26T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1002/smll.75903"},{"date_published":"2026-09-01T00:00:00Z","scopus_import":"1","author":[{"full_name":"De Zordo, Nikolaus","last_name":"De Zordo","first_name":"Nikolaus"},{"full_name":"Borja Espinosa, Carla N","last_name":"Borja Espinosa","first_name":"Carla N","id":"18777c01-896a-11ed-bdf8-e4851dc07d16"},{"full_name":"Al Hyder, Ragheed","last_name":"Al Hyder","first_name":"Ragheed","id":"d1c405be-ae15-11ed-8510-ccf53278162e"},{"full_name":"Li, Jinglun","last_name":"Li","first_name":"Jinglun","id":"ff19510a-0d2c-11ef-b018-c338ad2f4325"},{"first_name":"Wenzel","full_name":"Kersten, Wenzel","last_name":"Kersten"},{"first_name":"Andrew","full_name":"Kanagin, Andrew","last_name":"Kanagin"},{"last_name":"Koutentakis","full_name":"Koutentakis, Georgios","id":"d7b23d3a-9e21-11ec-b482-f76739596b95","first_name":"Georgios"},{"orcid":"0000-0003-4695-5526","id":"7499e70e-eb2c-11ec-b98b-f925648bc9d9","first_name":"Florian","last_name":"Kluibenschedl","full_name":"Kluibenschedl, Florian"},{"last_name":"Lemeshko","full_name":"Lemeshko, Mikhail","id":"37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Mikhail","orcid":"0000-0002-6990-7802"},{"id":"4B591CBA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Johannes M","orcid":"0000-0001-8112-028X","last_name":"Fink","full_name":"Fink, Johannes M"},{"full_name":"Schmiedmayer, Jörg","last_name":"Schmiedmayer","first_name":"Jörg"},{"id":"2C21D6E8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Elena","last_name":"Redchenko","full_name":"Redchenko, Elena"}],"department":[{"_id":"JoFi"},{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"MiLe"}],"OA_type":"closed access","article_processing_charge":"No","article_number":"QM4D.3","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9781957171616"]},"type":"conference","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"month":"09","year":"2026","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"We report progress toward strong electric-dipole coupling of polar molecules in cryogenic crystals to superconducting microwave resonators for hybrid quantum computing. We detect crystal-shifted inversion transitions of ammonia in neon using a multimode resonator."}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","status":"public","title":"Detecting polar molecules with superconducting microwave resonators","date_created":"2026-10-04T22:01:56Z","date_updated":"2026-10-12T07:52:45Z","conference":{"name":"Quantum 2.0","end_date":"2026-06-18","start_date":"2026-06-15","location":"Glasgow, United Kingdom"},"_id":"23055","citation":{"ama":"De Zordo N, Borja Espinosa CN, Al Hyder R, et al. Detecting polar molecules with superconducting microwave resonators. In: <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>. Optica Publishing Group; 2026.","ieee":"N. De Zordo <i>et al.</i>, “Detecting polar molecules with superconducting microwave resonators,” in <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2026.","apa":"De Zordo, N., Borja Espinosa, C. N., Al Hyder, R., Li, J., Kersten, W., Kanagin, A., … Redchenko, E. (2026). Detecting polar molecules with superconducting microwave resonators. In <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>. Glasgow, United Kingdom: Optica Publishing Group.","mla":"De Zordo, Nikolaus, et al. “Detecting Polar Molecules with Superconducting Microwave Resonators.” <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>, QM4D.3, Optica Publishing Group, 2026.","chicago":"De Zordo, Nikolaus, Carla N Borja Espinosa, Ragheed Al Hyder, Jinglun Li, Wenzel Kersten, Andrew Kanagin, Georgios Koutentakis, et al. “Detecting Polar Molecules with Superconducting Microwave Resonators.” In <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>. Optica Publishing Group, 2026.","ista":"De Zordo N, Borja Espinosa CN, Al Hyder R, Li J, Kersten W, Kanagin A, Koutentakis G, Kluibenschedl F, Lemeshko M, Fink JM, Schmiedmayer J, Redchenko E. 2026. Detecting polar molecules with superconducting microwave resonators. Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition. Quantum 2.0, Technical Digest Series, , QM4D.3.","short":"N. De Zordo, C.N. Borja Espinosa, R. Al Hyder, J. Li, W. Kersten, A. Kanagin, G. Koutentakis, F. Kluibenschedl, M. Lemeshko, J.M. Fink, J. Schmiedmayer, E. Redchenko, in:, Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition, Optica Publishing Group, 2026."},"alternative_title":["Technical Digest Series"],"day":"01","publication":"Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition","quality_controlled":"1","das_tickbox":"0","oa_version":"None","publication_status":"published","publisher":"Optica Publishing Group"},{"pmid":1,"publisher":"Springer Nature","oa_version":"Published Version","article_type":"original","volume":17,"file_date_updated":"2026-10-12T09:00:06Z","ddc":["500"],"date_updated":"2026-10-12T09:03:58Z","PlanS_conform":"1","date_created":"2026-10-11T22:02:03Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"project":[{"_id":"9106a876-16d5-11f0-9cad-bbf11c9952f9","name":"Quantitative Unbiased Shape Analysis with Geometry &amp; Topology","grant_number":"ESP 9584724"}],"fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w","intvolume":"        17","article_number":"10343","OA_type":"gold","article_processing_charge":"Yes","author":[{"first_name":"Matteo","full_name":"Pegoraro, Matteo","last_name":"Pegoraro"},{"first_name":"Rasmus","last_name":"Christensen","full_name":"Christensen, Rasmus"},{"full_name":"Sørensen, Søren S.","last_name":"Sørensen","first_name":"Søren S."},{"full_name":"Lindbjerg, Anders R.","last_name":"Lindbjerg","first_name":"Anders R."},{"first_name":"Tao","last_name":"Du","full_name":"Du, Tao"},{"full_name":"Bleile, Yossi","last_name":"Bleile","orcid":"0000-0002-4861-9174","first_name":"Yossi","id":"920a7385-7995-11ef-9bfd-8c434cd8f3c2"},{"last_name":"Svane","full_name":"Svane, Anne Marie","first_name":"Anne Marie"},{"first_name":"Christophe A.N.","last_name":"Biscio","full_name":"Biscio, Christophe A.N."},{"full_name":"Fajstrup, Lisbeth","last_name":"Fajstrup","first_name":"Lisbeth"},{"last_name":"Smedskjaer","full_name":"Smedskjaer, Morten M.","first_name":"Morten M."}],"department":[{"_id":"HeEd"}],"scopus_import":"1","oa":1,"tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"file":[{"access_level":"open_access","date_created":"2026-10-12T09:00:06Z","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","file_size":1889857,"date_updated":"2026-10-12T09:00:06Z","success":1,"file_id":"23104","file_name":"2026_NatureComm_Pegoraro.pdf","relation":"main_file","checksum":"eba760f5982a89f59664957e00c5d2d6"}],"publication_status":"published","has_accepted_license":"1","citation":{"mla":"Pegoraro, Matteo, et al. “Predicting Ionic Conductivity of Sulfide Glass Solid-State Electrolytes Using Max-Flow Methodology.” <i>Nature Communications</i>, vol. 17, 10343, Springer Nature, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w\">10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w</a>.","chicago":"Pegoraro, Matteo, Rasmus Christensen, Søren S. Sørensen, Anders R. Lindbjerg, Tao Du, Yossi Bokor Bleile, Anne Marie Svane, Christophe A.N. Biscio, Lisbeth Fajstrup, and Morten M. Smedskjaer. “Predicting Ionic Conductivity of Sulfide Glass Solid-State Electrolytes Using Max-Flow Methodology.” <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w</a>.","short":"M. Pegoraro, R. Christensen, S.S. Sørensen, A.R. Lindbjerg, T. Du, Y. Bokor Bleile, A.M. Svane, C.A.N. Biscio, L. Fajstrup, M.M. Smedskjaer, Nature Communications 17 (2026).","ista":"Pegoraro M, Christensen R, Sørensen SS, Lindbjerg AR, Du T, Bokor Bleile Y, Svane AM, Biscio CAN, Fajstrup L, Smedskjaer MM. 2026. Predicting ionic conductivity of sulfide glass solid-state electrolytes using max-flow methodology. Nature Communications. 17, 10343.","ama":"Pegoraro M, Christensen R, Sørensen SS, et al. Predicting ionic conductivity of sulfide glass solid-state electrolytes using max-flow methodology. <i>Nature Communications</i>. 2026;17. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w\">10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w</a>","ieee":"M. Pegoraro <i>et al.</i>, “Predicting ionic conductivity of sulfide glass solid-state electrolytes using max-flow methodology,” <i>Nature Communications</i>, vol. 17. Springer Nature, 2026.","apa":"Pegoraro, M., Christensen, R., Sørensen, S. S., Lindbjerg, A. R., Du, T., Bokor Bleile, Y., … Smedskjaer, M. M. (2026). Predicting ionic conductivity of sulfide glass solid-state electrolytes using max-flow methodology. <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w</a>"},"day":"30","das_tickbox":"1","quality_controlled":"1","publication":"Nature Communications","_id":"23087","supplementarymaterial":"yes","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledgement":"We thank the Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation (DeiC) for access to computational resources at Sophia and LUMI-C (DeiC-AAU-N5-202200005). This work was supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (1026-00037), European Union (ERC, NewGLASS, 101044664), and Danish Data Science Academy, which in turn is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF21SA0069429) and VILLUM FONDEN (40516). Y.B.B. acknowledges support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 10.55776/ESP9584724.","DOAJ_listed":"1","status":"public","title":"Predicting ionic conductivity of sulfide glass solid-state electrolytes using max-flow methodology","dataavailabilitystatement":"All data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article and Supplementary Information files. Source data are provided with this paper. The developed code to perform the max-flow calculations is available as part of the Topological Materials Analysis (ToMA) library, which is available at Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10781424) and Github (https://github.com/yossibokorbleile/TopologicalMaterialAnalysis), with documentation available at https://yossi.eu/toma/. To enhance usability, we have included a brief documentation on how to compile ToMA as well as a minimal working example of the code together with an example trajectory directly in the ToMA repository. LAMMPS is an open-source code available at https://lammps.sandia.gov.","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Disordered materials such as glasses are promising candidates as solid-state electrolytes for batteries, but they tend to exhibit low ionic conductivity and current methods for investigating and predicting the ionic conductivity of electrolyte materials are inefficient. Here, we propose a framework that summarizes the topological properties of the electrolyte material’s atomic structure with a weighted graph based on periodic boundary conditions. We then compute a variation of the max-flow algorithm, a commonly used model in continuum models of transportation and liquid flow, on this summary and show that it is compatible with the simulated periodic atomic structures. Using molecular dynamics simulations of various glassy solid-state electrolyte families including both mobile lithium and sodium ions, we validate the approach by showing a positive correlation between the area-normalized maximum flow predicted from the static glass structures and the ionic conductivity as obtained from the simulations, especially in the case of high-conductivity sulfide glass electrolytes. We envision that the developed methodology, which only relies on static atomic structure, will accelerate the discovery of highly conductive sulfide glassy electrolytes for high-performance all-solid-state batteries."}],"year":"2026","month":"09","type":"journal_article","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2041-1723"]},"researchdata_availability":"yes","external_id":{"pmid":["42811056"]},"doi":"10.1038/s41467-026-77363-w","date_published":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"},{"file_date_updated":"2026-10-12T09:17:51Z","ddc":["550","000"],"volume":20,"article_type":"original","oa_version":"None","publisher":"Copernicus Publications","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","date_created":"2026-10-11T22:02:04Z","PlanS_conform":"1","date_updated":"2026-10-12T09:21:04Z","intvolume":"        20","issue":"9","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-5365-2026","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"scopus_import":"1","oa":1,"OA_type":"gold","article_processing_charge":"Yes","department":[{"_id":"TiVo"}],"author":[{"full_name":"Hardmeier, Florian","last_name":"Hardmeier","first_name":"Florian"},{"last_name":"Ferguson","full_name":"Ferguson, James","id":"05fd8d9b-bd43-11eb-8d36-f8fb1cc98040","first_name":"James"},{"full_name":"Vieli, Andreas","last_name":"Vieli","first_name":"Andreas"}],"_id":"23091","quality_controlled":"1","publication":"The Cryosphere","das_tickbox":"1","day":"21","citation":{"chicago":"Hardmeier, Florian, James Ferguson, and Andreas Vieli. “Feedbacks and Timescales in the Modelled Transient Response of Debris-Covered Glaciers.” <i>The Cryosphere</i>. Copernicus Publications, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-5365-2026\">https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-5365-2026</a>.","mla":"Hardmeier, Florian, et al. “Feedbacks and Timescales in the Modelled Transient Response of Debris-Covered Glaciers.” <i>The Cryosphere</i>, vol. 20, no. 9, Copernicus Publications, 2026, pp. 5365–92, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-5365-2026\">10.5194/tc-20-5365-2026</a>.","ista":"Hardmeier F, Ferguson J, Vieli A. 2026. Feedbacks and timescales in the modelled transient response of debris-covered glaciers. The Cryosphere. 20(9), 5365–5392.","short":"F. Hardmeier, J. Ferguson, A. Vieli, The Cryosphere 20 (2026) 5365–5392.","ieee":"F. Hardmeier, J. Ferguson, and A. Vieli, “Feedbacks and timescales in the modelled transient response of debris-covered glaciers,” <i>The Cryosphere</i>, vol. 20, no. 9. Copernicus Publications, pp. 5365–5392, 2026.","ama":"Hardmeier F, Ferguson J, Vieli A. 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While the insulating effect of continuous debris layers is well-known, the transient feedbacks with glacier dynamics are poorly understood. The main aim of this study is to better understand the complex transient glacier response and debris-induced feedbacks through numerical flow modelling. We present an improved flowline model that couples ice flow, depth-resolved debris transport, and debris cover impact on mass balance. This approach allows for a detailed examination of the dynamics of debris-covered glaciers under transient forcing conditions of climate and debris input over extended timescales. Our results indicate that low-amplitude, decade-scale variability in debris or climate forcing does not substantially impact glacier evolution. However, large debris supply events can have a sustained impact. We find that debris-covered glacier response to warming climate forcing is non-monotonic, with distinct phases of thinning, retreat, and long-term re-advance. We attribute this to a separate, longer timescale process of englacial debris transport. Additionally, feedbacks in the englacial debris trajectory and complex bed topography further amplify the non-linear pattern of retreat in the transient glacier response to warming.","lang":"eng"}],"dataavailabilitystatement":"The model presented in this study as well as the code and synthetic data (generated from model runs) are available on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22687411 (Hardmeier et al., 2026). Two animations, referenced to in the text as Video Supplement 1 and 2, are available on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22687411 (Hardmeier et al., 2026).","status":"public","title":"Feedbacks and timescales in the modelled transient response of debris-covered glaciers","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledgement":"We thank Evan Miles, Ramachandran Shankar, and Argha Banerjee for valuable discussions and inputs on experiment design and analysis. This research has been mainly funded by the SNSF (grant no. IZINZ2_209521) within the Indo-Swiss joint trilateral SNSF-ICSSR-MoES scheme and the earlier SNSF (grant no. 200021_169775).","DOAJ_listed":"1","supplementarymaterial":"yes","type":"journal_article","page":"5365-5392","month":"09","date_published":"2026-09-21T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.5194/tc-20-5365-2026","researchdata_availability":"yes","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1994-0424"],"issn":["1994-0416"]}},{"publication_status":"published","_id":"23057","das_tickbox":"1","publication":"Physical Review A","quality_controlled":"1","citation":{"mla":"Galanis, Marios, et al. “Superradiant Interactions for Relic Detection with Entangled Nuclear Spins.” <i>Physical Review A</i>, vol. 113, no. 6, 063714, American Physical Society, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6\">10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6</a>.","chicago":"Galanis, Marios, Onur Hosten, Asimina Arvanitaki, and Savas Dimopoulos. “Superradiant Interactions for Relic Detection with Entangled Nuclear Spins.” <i>Physical Review A</i>. American Physical Society, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6\">https://doi.org/10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6</a>.","ista":"Galanis M, Hosten O, Arvanitaki A, Dimopoulos S. 2026. Superradiant interactions for relic detection with entangled nuclear spins. Physical Review A. 113(6), 063714.","short":"M. Galanis, O. Hosten, A. Arvanitaki, S. Dimopoulos, Physical Review A 113 (2026).","ama":"Galanis M, Hosten O, Arvanitaki A, Dimopoulos S. Superradiant interactions for relic detection with entangled nuclear spins. <i>Physical Review A</i>. 2026;113(6). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6\">10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6</a>","ieee":"M. Galanis, O. Hosten, A. Arvanitaki, and S. Dimopoulos, “Superradiant interactions for relic detection with entangled nuclear spins,” <i>Physical Review A</i>, vol. 113, no. 6. American Physical Society, 2026.","apa":"Galanis, M., Hosten, O., Arvanitaki, A., &#38; Dimopoulos, S. (2026). Superradiant interactions for relic detection with entangled nuclear spins. <i>Physical Review A</i>. American Physical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6\">https://doi.org/10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6</a>"},"day":"01","acknowledgement":"We are grateful to K. Irwin for illuminating discussions, and M. Schleier-Smith, M. Kasevich, J. Hogan, N. Rapidis, M. Fedderke, A. Geraci, G. Gratta, D. Schuster, D. Budker, and A. Sushkov for very valuable conversations. O.H. acknowledges support by the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). A.A., S.D., and M.G. acknowledge the hospitality provided by ISTA, where part of this work was being completed. A.A., M.G., and O.H. acknowledge the hospitality provided by the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford, where part of this work was being completed. S.D. acknowledges support by NSF Grant No. PHY-2310429 and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant No. GBMF7946, and Perimeter Institute and its hospitality. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported in part by the Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Colleges and Universities. A.A. is grateful for the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.","OA_place":"repository","supplementarymaterial":"yes","year":"2026","abstract":[{"text":"We recently showed that macroscopic nuclear spin ensembles prepared in coherent spin states can dramatically enhance the interaction rates of weakly interacting cosmic relics, such as dark matter and the cosmic neutrino background, through collective quantum effects analogous to Dicke superradiance, where the deexcitation and excitation rates scale as the square of the number of spins 𝑁2. We thus coined these processes superradiant interactions. In this paper, we propose a protocol to realize this enhancement and boost the discovery potential for such relics. We show how concepts from quantum optics can be adapted to nuclear spins coupled to superconducting circuits, enabling high-sensitivity systems. The spins are first initialized into a coherent spin state via a 𝜋/2 Rabi pulse from the ground state. When the circuit is sufficiently detuned from resonance, the spin-circuit interaction implements a squeezing Hamiltonian. Because squeezing must outpace spin relaxation and dephasing, the protocol favors macroscopic ensembles and high-quality superconducting circuits. During this squeezing phase, the standard quantum variance is reduced by up to 4.8 orders of magnitude, equivalent to 48 dB of squeezing, for circuits with quality factors 𝑄∼10^8–10^9. The signal imprinted on the spins during the squeezing protocol can be magnified by further utilizing the squeezing interactions, easing the requirement for shot-noise-limited readout. This protocol has the potential to significantly accelerate axion and dark photon dark matter searches and extend the reach of existing axion experiments to probe QCD axion-nuclear spin couplings. More broadly, it paves the way for detecting coherent inelastic interactions from other cosmic relics, most notably the cosmic neutrino background, and establishes nuclear-spin-based systems as a class of quantum, ultra-low-threshold detectors.","lang":"eng"}],"dataavailabilitystatement":"The data that support the findings of this article are not publicly available. The data are available from the authors upon reasonable request.","corr_author":"1","title":"Superradiant interactions for relic detection with entangled nuclear spins","status":"public","month":"06","type":"journal_article","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.20520","open_access":"1"}],"external_id":{"arxiv":["2508.20520"]},"publication_identifier":{"issn":["2469-9926"],"eissn":["2469-9934"]},"researchdata_availability":"upon request","doi":"10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6","date_published":"2026-06-01T00:00:00Z","arxiv":1,"article_type":"original","oa_version":"Preprint","publisher":"American Physical Society","volume":113,"date_updated":"2026-10-12T08:36:40Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","date_created":"2026-10-04T22:01:57Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"issue":"6","intvolume":"       113","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1103/Z2D9-4GV6","article_number":"063714","scopus_import":"1","oa":1,"OA_type":"green","department":[{"_id":"OnHo"}],"author":[{"first_name":"Marios","full_name":"Galanis, Marios","last_name":"Galanis"},{"id":"4C02D85E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Onur","orcid":"0000-0002-2031-204X","last_name":"Hosten","full_name":"Hosten, Onur"},{"full_name":"Arvanitaki, Asimina","last_name":"Arvanitaki","first_name":"Asimina"},{"first_name":"Savas","last_name":"Dimopoulos","full_name":"Dimopoulos, Savas"}],"article_processing_charge":"No"},{"date_created":"2026-10-11T22:02:03Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","date_updated":"2026-10-12T09:13:28Z","volume":3086,"publisher":"Springer","pmid":1,"oa_version":"None","department":[{"_id":"JiFr"}],"series_title":"MIMB","article_processing_charge":"No","author":[{"first_name":"Tilman","full_name":"Jacob, Tilman","last_name":"Jacob"},{"last_name":"Ai","full_name":"Ai, Haiyue","id":"71a6871f-c08f-11ee-886c-c975579c368c","first_name":"Haiyue"},{"full_name":"Quint, Marcel","last_name":"Quint","first_name":"Marcel"}],"OA_type":"closed access","scopus_import":"1","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-5603-7_13","intvolume":"      3086","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"status":"public","title":"EdU-Based Quantitative Analysis of Cell Proliferation in Arabidopsis Root Meristems","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The division of a mother cell into two daughter cells is a fundamental process in biology, involving the transfer of genomic information to the next generation of cells. In plant roots, cell divisions occur in the root apical meristem, a specialized tissue located at the plant’s root tip. Cell proliferation rates in the root apical meristem shape root growth, thereby contributing to general development as well as the acclimatization to stressful environmental conditions through phenotypic plasticity. Here, we present a protocol for the microscopical analysis of cell proliferation in Arabidopsis thaliana root meristems by 5-ethynyl-2ʹ-deoxyuridine (EdU) staining. EdU, a thymine-analog, is incorporated into newly synthesized DNA of proliferative cells during the S-phase of the cell cycle. Subsequently, EdU-containing nuclei can be labeled with a fluorophore and detected by confocal laser scanning microscopy. The combination of the EdU assay with cell wall staining enables the quantification of root meristem architecture parameters and cell division activity from microscopic images. Together, this can elucidate how root meristems respond to changes in environmental conditions or address fundamental questions of developmental plant biology."}],"year":"2026","publication":"Root Development","place":"New York","quality_controlled":"1","citation":{"chicago":"Jacob, Tilman, Haiyue Ai, and Marcel Quint. “EdU-Based Quantitative Analysis of Cell Proliferation in Arabidopsis Root Meristems.” In <i>Root Development</i>, 3086:165–76. MIMB. New York: Springer, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-5603-7_13\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-5603-7_13</a>.","mla":"Jacob, Tilman, et al. “EdU-Based Quantitative Analysis of Cell Proliferation in Arabidopsis Root Meristems.” <i>Root Development</i>, vol. 3086, Springer, 2026, pp. 165–76, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-5603-7_13\">10.1007/978-1-0716-5603-7_13</a>.","ista":"Jacob T, Ai H, Quint M. 2026.EdU-Based Quantitative Analysis of Cell Proliferation in Arabidopsis Root Meristems. 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Here we demonstrate the generation and low-noise upconversion of single microwave photons to telecom frequencies, paving the way for quantum networks with superconducting qubits.","lang":"eng"}],"year":"2026","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","title":"Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states","status":"public","date_created":"2026-10-04T22:01:57Z","corr_author":"1","conference":{"name":"Quantum 2.0","end_date":"2026-06-18","location":"Glasgow, United Kingdom","start_date":"2026-06-15"},"date_updated":"2026-10-12T08:53:25Z","_id":"23056","alternative_title":["Technical Digest Series"],"citation":{"chicago":"Militaru, Andrei, Thomas Werner, Erfan Riyazi, Samarth Hawaldar, Rishabh Sahu, Georg M Arnold, Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, et al. “Electro-Optic Conversion of Itinerant Fock States.” In <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>. Optica Publishing Group, 2026.","mla":"Militaru, Andrei, et al. “Electro-Optic Conversion of Itinerant Fock States.” <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>, QM2A.1, Optica Publishing Group, 2026.","ista":"Militaru A, Werner T, Riyazi E, Hawaldar S, Sahu R, Arnold GM, Falthansl-Scheinecker P, Sanchez Naranjo JA, Loi D, Kapoor L, Zemlicka M, Qiu L, Fink JM. 2026. Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states. Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition. Quantum 2.0, Technical Digest Series, , QM2A.1.","short":"A. Militaru, T. Werner, E. Riyazi, S. Hawaldar, R. Sahu, G.M. Arnold, P. Falthansl-Scheinecker, J.A. Sanchez Naranjo, D. Loi, L. Kapoor, M. Zemlicka, L. Qiu, J.M. Fink, in:, Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition, Optica Publishing Group, 2026.","ieee":"A. Militaru <i>et al.</i>, “Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states,” in <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2026.","ama":"Militaru A, Werner T, Riyazi E, et al. Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states. In: <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>. Optica Publishing Group; 2026.","apa":"Militaru, A., Werner, T., Riyazi, E., Hawaldar, S., Sahu, R., Arnold, G. M., … Fink, J. M. (2026). Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states. In <i>Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition</i>. 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Lagos, Claudia","last_name":"Del P. Lagos","first_name":"Claudia"},{"first_name":"Sam E.","full_name":"Cutler, Sam E.","last_name":"Cutler"},{"first_name":"Ian","last_name":"Mcconachie","full_name":"Mcconachie, Ian"},{"full_name":"Cleri, Nikko J.","last_name":"Cleri","first_name":"Nikko J."},{"last_name":"Cooper","full_name":"Cooper, Olivia R.","first_name":"Olivia R."},{"last_name":"Gottumukkala","full_name":"Gottumukkala, Rashmi","first_name":"Rashmi"},{"first_name":"Jenny E.","full_name":"Greene, Jenny E.","last_name":"Greene"},{"first_name":"Michaela","last_name":"Hirschmann","full_name":"Hirschmann, Michaela"},{"first_name":"Gourav","full_name":"Khullar, Gourav","last_name":"Khullar"},{"first_name":"Ivo","last_name":"Labbe","full_name":"Labbe, Ivo"},{"first_name":"Joel","full_name":"Leja, Joel","last_name":"Leja"},{"first_name":"Michael V.","last_name":"Maseda","full_name":"Maseda, Michael V."},{"last_name":"Matthee","full_name":"Matthee, Jorryt J","id":"7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720","first_name":"Jorryt J","orcid":"0000-0003-2871-127X"},{"last_name":"Miller","full_name":"Miller, Tim B.","first_name":"Tim B."},{"first_name":"Themiya","last_name":"Nanayakkara","full_name":"Nanayakkara, Themiya"},{"full_name":"Suess, Katherine A.","last_name":"Suess","first_name":"Katherine A."},{"full_name":"Wang, Bingjie","last_name":"Wang","first_name":"Bingjie"},{"first_name":"Katherine E.","last_name":"Whitaker","full_name":"Whitaker, Katherine E."},{"first_name":"Christina C.","full_name":"Williams, Christina C.","last_name":"Williams"}],"oa":1,"scopus_import":"1","article_number":"252","day":"01","citation":{"ieee":"Y. Zhang <i>et al.</i>, “RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from2&#60;z&#60;5,” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 997, no. 2. IOP Publishing, 2026.","ama":"Zhang Y, De Graaff A, Setton DJ, et al. RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from2&#60;z&#60;5. <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. 2026;997(2). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1\">10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1</a>","apa":"Zhang, Y., De Graaff, A., Setton, D. J., Price, S. H., Bezanson, R., Del P. Lagos, C., … Williams, C. C. (2026). RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from2&#60;z&#60;5. <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. IOP Publishing. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1\">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1</a>","mla":"Zhang, Yunchong, et al. “RUBIES Spectroscopically Confirms the High Number Density of Quiescent Galaxies From2&#60;z&#60;5.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 997, no. 2, 252, IOP Publishing, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1\">10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1</a>.","chicago":"Zhang, Yunchong, Anna De Graaff, David J. Setton, Sedona H. Price, Rachel Bezanson, Claudia Del P. Lagos, Sam E. Cutler, et al. “RUBIES Spectroscopically Confirms the High Number Density of Quiescent Galaxies From2&#60;z&#60;5.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. IOP Publishing, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1\">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1</a>.","ista":"Zhang Y, De Graaff A, Setton DJ, Price SH, Bezanson R, Del P. Lagos C, Cutler SE, Mcconachie I, Cleri NJ, Cooper OR, Gottumukkala R, Greene JE, Hirschmann M, Khullar G, Labbe I, Leja J, Maseda MV, Matthee JJ, Miller TB, Nanayakkara T, Suess KA, Wang B, Whitaker KE, Williams CC. 2026. RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from2&#60;z&#60;5. The Astrophysical Journal. 997(2), 252.","short":"Y. Zhang, A. De Graaff, D.J. Setton, S.H. Price, R. Bezanson, C. Del P. Lagos, S.E. Cutler, I. Mcconachie, N.J. Cleri, O.R. Cooper, R. Gottumukkala, J.E. Greene, M. Hirschmann, G. Khullar, I. Labbe, J. Leja, M.V. Maseda, J.J. Matthee, T.B. Miller, T. Nanayakkara, K.A. Suess, B. Wang, K.E. Whitaker, C.C. Williams, The Astrophysical Journal 997 (2026)."},"publication":"The Astrophysical Journal","quality_controlled":"1","_id":"23092","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"file":[{"relation":"main_file","checksum":"547c63f9265be5d41efdc555a25423cc","file_name":"2026_AstrophysicalJour_Zhang.pdf","success":1,"file_id":"23110","file_size":5995619,"date_updated":"2026-10-12T11:51:24Z","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","access_level":"open_access","date_created":"2026-10-12T11:51:24Z"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","publication_status":"published","status":"public","title":"RUBIES spectroscopically confirms the high number density of quiescent galaxies from2<z<5","year":"2026","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"We present the number density of massive (log(M*/Mo)> 10.3) quiescent galaxies at 2 < z < 5 using JWST NIRSpec PRISM spectra. This work relies on spectra from RUBIES, which provides excellent data quality and an unparalleled, well-defined targeting strategy to robustly infer physical properties and number densities. We identify quiescent galaxy candidates within RUBIES through principal component analysis and construct a final sample using star formation histories derived from spectrophotometric fitting of the NIRSpec PRISM spectra and NIRCam photometry. By inverting the RUBIES selection function, we correct for survey incompleteness and calculate the number density of massive quiescent galaxies at these redshifts, providing the most complete spectroscopic estimates prior to cosmic noon to date. We find that early massive quiescent galaxies are surprisingly common (≳10−5 Mpc−3 by 4 < z < 5), which is consistent with previous studies based on JWST photometry alone and/or in smaller survey areas. We compare our number densities with predictions from six state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy formation simulations. At z > 3, most simulations fail to produce enough massive quiescent galaxies, suggesting the treatment of feedback and/or the channels for early efficient formation are incomplete in most galaxy evolution models."}],"OA_place":"publisher","DOAJ_listed":"1","acknowledgement":"We thank Alan Pearl for his contribution to estimating the cosmic variance contribution to the number density uncertainties in this work. We thank Hans-Walter Rix for the valuable discussion on the selection function and correcting the spectroscopic incompleteness of massive quiescent galaxies in RUBIES.\r\n\r\nSome of the data products presented herein were retrieved from the Dawn JWST Archive (DJA). DJA is an initiative of the Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), which is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant DNRF140.\r\n\r\nThe Cosmic Dawn Center is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) under grant #140.\r\n\r\nSupport for this work was provided by The Brinson Foundation through a Brinson Prize Fellowship grant.\r\n\r\nR.B. gratefully acknowledges support from the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement (RCSA) Cottrell Scholar Award ID No: 27587.\r\n\r\nThe work of C.C.W. is supported by NOIRLab, which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.\r\n\r\nT.B.M. was supported by a CIERA Postdoctoral Fellowship.\r\n\r\nThis work is based in part on observations made with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The data were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127 for JWST. These observations are associated with program numbers 1180, 1181, 1210, 1211, 1213, 1214, 1215, 1286, 1345, 1433, 1747, 2028, 2073, 2198, 2282, 2561, 2565, 2750, 2756, 2767, 3073, 3215, 4233, 4446, 4557, 6368, 6541, and 6585. The specific observations analyzed can be accessed via DOI: 10.17909/sjsj-8p46.\r\n\r\nSupport for program No. 4233 was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127.\r\n\r\nThe authors acknowledge the CEERS and PRIMER teams for developing their observing program with a zero-exclusive access period.\r\n\r\nFacility: JWST - James Webb Space Telescope.\r\n\r\nSoftware: Astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013, 2018, 2022), Scipy (P. Virtanen et al. 2020), Photutils (L. Bradley 2023), SpectRes (A. C. Carnall 2017), Scikit-learn (F. Pedregosa et al. 2011), Prospector (B. Johnson & J. Leja 2017; J. Leja et al. 2017; B. Johnson et al. 2021).","type":"journal_article","month":"02","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/ae24e1","date_published":"2026-02-01T00:00:00Z","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0004-637X"],"eissn":["1538-4357"]},"external_id":{"arxiv":["2508.08577"]}},{"oa":1,"scopus_import":"1","author":[{"last_name":"Garcia Castillo","full_name":"Garcia Castillo, Diego Fernando","id":"ae681a14-dc74-11ea-a0a7-c6ef18161701","first_name":"Diego Fernando"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes","OA_type":"gold","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"}],"issue":"10","intvolume":"        21","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0351518","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","date_created":"2026-10-11T22:02:05Z","PlanS_conform":"1","date_updated":"2026-10-12T11:43:26Z","file_date_updated":"2026-10-12T11:42:06Z","ddc":["570"],"volume":21,"article_type":"original","oa_version":"Published Version","pmid":1,"publisher":"Public Library of Science","date_published":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0351518","external_id":{"pmid":["42821535"]},"researchdata_availability":"no","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1932-6203"]},"type":"journal_article","page":"e0351518","month":"10","abstract":[{"text":"Land-use change, such as the transformation of woody ecosystems into open pastures, acts as a strong ecological filter, favouring some species while excluding others according to differences in ecological niche breadth. Understanding how differences in niche breadth influence species responses under anthropogenic filters is crucial to anticipate their persistence or displacement. In this study, we quantified realized niche breadth in two sympatric ecosystem engineers, the Neotropical leaf-cutter ants Atta cephalotes and Atta laevigata, to test whether breadth differences are consistent with specialist and generalist ecological strategies. We characterized realized niche breadth across fine-scale environmental gradients by integrating hemispherical photography, microclimatic data, mound architecture, and edaphic profiles from 114 colonies across a regional transect in the Colombian Andes, alongside macroclimatic data from Copernicus. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and PERMANOVA identified canopy openness and bushes- and tree-type vegetation density as the principal axes of interspecific niche partitioning. The observed differences in realized niche breadth were consistent with specialist and generalist ecological strategies. A. laevigata was predominantly associated with open-canopy areas, warmer micro- and macroclimatic conditions, and narrower edaphic dispersion. In contrast, A. cephalotes occupied a wider range of microhabitat conditions. This broader realized niche breadth is compatible with previous reports of A. cephalotes occurring in urban areas. Together, these findings suggest that niche breadth may influence how Neotropical leaf-cutter ants respond to habitat transformation, helping to understand the ecological consequences of land-use change.","lang":"eng"}],"year":"2026","corr_author":"1","status":"public","title":"Generalism vs. specialization: Does niche breadth influence species responses to anthropogenic land-use change in Neotropical leaf-cutter ants?","OA_place":"publisher","DOAJ_listed":"1","acknowledgement":"I  am profoundly grateful to my parents, María Cristina Castillo Sandoval and Víctor Ángel García Aguillón, whose invaluable support made this research possible. Their endurance and dedication during the fieldwork were essential for the successful collection of the colony samples. Furthermore, our endless discussions regarding the natural history and behaviour of these ecosystem engineers deeply shaped the conceptualization of this study; this manuscript is a testament to their lifelong support of my academic journey. I am also sincerely grateful to my sister, Francy Alejandra García Castillo, for generously providing measurement equipment essential for our field data collection. I sincerely thank Alejandro Mejía for his invaluable local knowledge and field assistance in locating Atta colonies in Grima Baja and for providing information that guided us to the sampling area in Choro Bajo. I also thank Rosina Soler for her expert professional advice in curating the environmental variable matrix during the fieldwork planning phase, as well as for her insightful feedback during the elaboration of this manuscript.","supplementarymaterial":"yes","_id":"23093","quality_controlled":"1","das_tickbox":"0","publication":"Plos One","citation":{"ama":"Garcia Castillo DF. Generalism vs. specialization: Does niche breadth influence species responses to anthropogenic land-use change in Neotropical leaf-cutter ants? <i>Plos One</i>. 2026;21(10):e0351518. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0351518\">10.1371/journal.pone.0351518</a>","ieee":"D. F. Garcia Castillo, “Generalism vs. specialization: Does niche breadth influence species responses to anthropogenic land-use change in Neotropical leaf-cutter ants?,” <i>Plos One</i>, vol. 21, no. 10. Public Library of Science, p. e0351518, 2026.","apa":"Garcia Castillo, D. F. (2026). Generalism vs. specialization: Does niche breadth influence species responses to anthropogenic land-use change in Neotropical leaf-cutter ants? <i>Plos One</i>. 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Generalism vs. specialization: Does niche breadth influence species responses to anthropogenic land-use change in Neotropical leaf-cutter ants? 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We map this boundary by computing composition-dependent chemical potentials from large-scale molecular dynamics driven by machine learning potentials trained on three density functional approximations (PBE, vdW-DF, and the hybrid HSE). Across the pressure range of 100-1000 GPa, the demixing temperatures are typically  ~ 2000 K lower than previous ab initio simulations using small system sizes, and this discrepancy is larger than the estimated error from the chosen density functionals, machine learning potentials, neglect of nuclear quantum effects, and statistical uncertainties. Fitting the H/He mixing free energy to a Redlich-Kister regular solution model rationalizes the thermodynamic driving force for phase separation, and provides a predictive representation of the boundary. Comparing with current planetary interior profiles indicates that helium rain is plausible in Saturn but unlikely in the warmer interior of Jupiter. Our results narrow the uncertainty in the H/He immiscibility boundary and provide inputs for planetary models that couple demixing, heat transport, and composition gradients in gas giants.","lang":"eng"}],"dataavailabilitystatement":"The training data, fitted MLPs, MLP molecular dynamics results, and source data underlying all figures and tables in the main text and Supplementary Information have been deposited in the Zenodo repository: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21632034. The data-analysis and plotting scripts used to generate the figures and tables in the main text and Supplementary Information are available in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/ChengUCB/HighPressure_HHe.","corr_author":"1","title":"Hydrogen-helium immiscibility boundary in gas-giant planetary interiors from machine-learning molecular dynamics","status":"public","DOAJ_listed":"1","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledgement":"The authors are thankful to Armin Bergermann and Ronald Redmer for generously sharing AIMD trajectories and data, and for valuable discussions and feedback on the manuscript. The authors also acknowledge the research computing facilities provided by the high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). B.C. was supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) under project ID 110990-001. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. S.H. was supported by the LDRD Program at LLNL under project tracking code 23-SI-006.","supplementarymaterial":"yes","_id":"23089","publication":"Nature Communications","quality_controlled":"1","das_tickbox":"1","day":"01","citation":{"ama":"Wang X, Hamel S, Cheng B. Hydrogen-helium immiscibility boundary in gas-giant planetary interiors from machine-learning molecular dynamics. <i>Nature Communications</i>. 2026;17. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77117-8\">10.1038/s41467-026-77117-8</a>","ieee":"X. Wang, S. Hamel, and B. Cheng, “Hydrogen-helium immiscibility boundary in gas-giant planetary interiors from machine-learning molecular dynamics,” <i>Nature Communications</i>, vol. 17. Springer Nature, 2026.","apa":"Wang, X., Hamel, S., &#38; Cheng, B. (2026). Hydrogen-helium immiscibility boundary in gas-giant planetary interiors from machine-learning molecular dynamics. <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77117-8\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77117-8</a>","chicago":"Wang, Xiaoyu, Sebastien Hamel, and Bingqing Cheng. “Hydrogen-Helium Immiscibility Boundary in Gas-Giant Planetary Interiors from Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics.” <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77117-8\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77117-8</a>.","mla":"Wang, Xiaoyu, et al. “Hydrogen-Helium Immiscibility Boundary in Gas-Giant Planetary Interiors from Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics.” <i>Nature Communications</i>, vol. 17, 10382, Springer Nature, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77117-8\">10.1038/s41467-026-77117-8</a>.","short":"X. Wang, S. Hamel, B. Cheng, Nature Communications 17 (2026).","ista":"Wang X, Hamel S, Cheng B. 2026. Hydrogen-helium immiscibility boundary in gas-giant planetary interiors from machine-learning molecular dynamics. Nature Communications. 17, 10382."},"publication_status":"published","has_accepted_license":"1","file":[{"file_name":"2026_NatureComm_Wang.pdf","success":1,"file_id":"23107","relation":"main_file","checksum":"f39b50a550623a65aea2405b527e068c","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","access_level":"open_access","date_created":"2026-10-12T10:57:42Z","file_size":1559219,"date_updated":"2026-10-12T10:57:42Z"}],"tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"}},{"date_updated":"2026-10-12T10:51:54Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","date_created":"2026-10-11T22:02:04Z","article_type":"original","oa_version":"Published Version","publisher":"Oxford University Press","pmid":1,"ddc":["570"],"volume":43,"article_number":"msag238","oa":1,"scopus_import":"1","author":[{"last_name":"Payne","full_name":"Payne, Pavel","orcid":"0000-0002-2711-9453","id":"35F78294-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Pavel"},{"last_name":"Plevka","full_name":"Plevka, Pavel","first_name":"Pavel"},{"full_name":"Bollback, Jonathan P","last_name":"Bollback","first_name":"Jonathan P","id":"2C6FA9CC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-4624-4612"},{"full_name":"Guet, Calin C","last_name":"Guet","orcid":"0000-0001-6220-2052","first_name":"Calin C","id":"47F8433E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"department":[{"_id":"CaGu"}],"article_processing_charge":"Yes","OA_type":"gold","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"intvolume":"        43","issue":"10","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag238","DOAJ_listed":"1","acknowledgement":"We thank Stuart Baird, Nick Barton, Max Joesch, Meriem El Karoui, Mato Lagator, Ivana Mašlaňová, Stepan Ovchinnikov, Roman Pantůček, Maroš Pleška, Jitka Polechová, and Bryan Wu for their feedback on the manuscript. We are grateful to the Redlinger Hut for hosting many discussions about the project away from the daily buzz. We acknowledge the core facility CELLIM supported by the Czech-BioImaging large RI project (LM2023050 funded by MEYS CR) for their support. This work was supported by H2020 European Research Council EVOLHGT No. 648440 to JPB, European Commission Programme EXCELES project LX22NPO5103 “National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology” to PPl, and a bilateral Czech-Austrian mobility grant 8J3AT003 funded by MEYS CR and OeAD AT to PPa and CCG.","OA_place":"publisher","supplementarymaterial":"yes","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Homologous recombination is ubiquitous across evolution, generating variation through genetic reshuffling. Although bacteria lack meiotic recombination, homologous recombination has been known to extensively shape their genomes. However, the mechanisms and ecological conditions sustaining frequent recombination in bacteria remain unclear. Using an Escherichia coli–P1 phage model system, we reveal how frequent recombination emerges from CRISPR-based herd immunity to a generalized transducing phage (DNA vector). Herd immunity maintains phage-susceptible donor bacteria, recipient immune bacteria, and transducing phage, which promotes chromosomal gene flow that exceeds spontaneous mutation by up to two orders of magnitude. Notably, recombination begins as bacterial cultures enter stationary phase, when canonical mutation supply through population growth and DNA replication is strongly reduced, and recombination can be reinitiated by brief fresh nutrient pulses. Genetic analysis showed that stationary-phase recombination requires recA, recB, and recG, connecting this process to a defined homologous recombination pathway, and suggests a plausible transcriptional regulatory link to transition to nutrient limitation. Bacterial herd immunity therefore has an unexpected evolutionary consequence: it can promote homologous recombination by turning phages into de facto pollinators. This mechanism can help explain how high rates of homologous recombination may be sustained across bacterial populations and suggests that bacterial immune systems can shape molecular evolution not only by blocking infection but also by regulating genetic exchange."}],"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/","year":"2026","dataavailabilitystatement":"The data underlying this article are available in the article and in its online material.","corr_author":"1","title":"Herd immunity underlies homologous recombination in stationary phase bacteria","status":"public","has_accepted_license":"1","publication_status":"epub_ahead","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by_nc.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY-NC (4.0)"},"_id":"23090","das_tickbox":"1","publication":"Molecular Biology and Evolution","quality_controlled":"1","citation":{"ieee":"P. Payne, P. Plevka, J. P. Bollback, and C. C. Guet, “Herd immunity underlies homologous recombination in stationary phase bacteria,” <i>Molecular Biology and Evolution</i>, vol. 43, no. 10. Oxford University Press, 2026.","ama":"Payne P, Plevka P, Bollback JP, Guet CC. Herd immunity underlies homologous recombination in stationary phase bacteria. <i>Molecular Biology and Evolution</i>. 2026;43(10). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag238\">10.1093/molbev/msag238</a>","apa":"Payne, P., Plevka, P., Bollback, J. P., &#38; Guet, C. C. (2026). Herd immunity underlies homologous recombination in stationary phase bacteria. <i>Molecular Biology and Evolution</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag238\">https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag238</a>","mla":"Payne, Pavel, et al. “Herd Immunity Underlies Homologous Recombination in Stationary Phase Bacteria.” <i>Molecular Biology and Evolution</i>, vol. 43, no. 10, msag238, Oxford University Press, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag238\">10.1093/molbev/msag238</a>.","chicago":"Payne, Pavel, Pavel Plevka, Jonathan P Bollback, and Calin C Guet. “Herd Immunity Underlies Homologous Recombination in Stationary Phase Bacteria.” <i>Molecular Biology and Evolution</i>. Oxford University Press, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag238\">https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag238</a>.","ista":"Payne P, Plevka P, Bollback JP, Guet CC. 2026. Herd immunity underlies homologous recombination in stationary phase bacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 43(10), msag238.","short":"P. Payne, P. Plevka, J.P. Bollback, C.C. Guet, Molecular Biology and Evolution 43 (2026)."},"day":"03","keyword":["homologous recombination","defense systems","CRISPR-Cas","herd immunity","stationary phase","bacterial evolution"],"external_id":{"pmid":["42827080"]},"publication_identifier":{"issn":["0737-4038"],"eissn":["1537-1719"]},"researchdata_availability":"no","date_published":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1093/molbev/msag238","month":"10","type":"journal_article","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag238"}]},{"external_id":{"pmid":["42816513"]},"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2731-3395"]},"researchdata_availability":"no","date_published":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1038/s44172-026-00771-9","month":"09","type":"journal_article","DOAJ_listed":"1","OA_place":"publisher","supplementarymaterial":"yes","year":"2026","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"In this review, we provide an engineering assessment of prevalent blood-wetted cardiovascular devices, their hematologic complications, and their interconnections to identify key areas for future research. In fact, the incidence of cardiovascular diseases has promoted the development of various devices to treat these conditions, including mechanical circulatory supports (mechanical pumps that assist or replace failing hearts), artificial valves to replace faulty heart valves, stents to relieve obstructions in blood vessels, vascular grafts to repair/reconstruct damaged vessels, patches to reinforce or reconstruct cardiovascular tissues, and other implants. The hemocompatibility of these cardiovascular devices, namely their ability to interact with blood flow without causing adverse reactions, remains unsatisfactory, and recurrent complications include thrombosis, hemolysis, and bleeding. Therefore, the discussion provided herein will support readers approaching cardiovascular technologies in building a solid foundation and provide everyone with an up-to-date overview of ongoing research in this multidisciplinary field."}],"title":"Hematologic complications and design challenges in cardiovascular devices","status":"public","has_accepted_license":"1","publication_status":"published","tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY-NC-ND (4.0)","name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by_nc_nd.png"},"file":[{"access_level":"open_access","date_created":"2026-10-12T11:33:01Z","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"dernst","file_size":9201511,"date_updated":"2026-10-12T11:33:01Z","success":1,"file_id":"23108","file_name":"2026_CommunicationsEngineering_Padovani.pdf","relation":"main_file","checksum":"770d3ef015bc3a8a81017f07a3225ab6"}],"_id":"23088","citation":{"chicago":"Padovani, Damiano, Nasima S Afsharimani, Andrea Cioncolini, and Yu Ding. “Hematologic Complications and Design Challenges in Cardiovascular Devices.” <i>Communications Engineering</i>. 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Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23072\">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23072</a>"},"OA_place":"publisher","acknowledgement":"This project was partially supported by the 2019 Lopez-Loreta Prize and\r\nthe ERC INF2 project (project number 101161364). Furthermore, the candidate acknowledges\r\nthe support from the Scientific Service Units of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria\r\nthrough resources provided by Scientific Computing.","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Inferring signal from large quantities of data is one of the most important problems in today’s\r\nworld, with neural networks emerging as the most powerful solution. While there have been\r\nmassive breakthroughs in the ML space, there are two main drawbacks. The first is that\r\nmost of these models are “black boxes”, with very little understanding of why they work,\r\nwhich makes it hard to find the correct architecture for a given problem. The architecture is\r\ncrucial, as the widely used training algorithms are “local” and thus rely on the loss landscape\r\nbeing benign enough to find a global optimum. This brings us to the second problem: while\r\nthere is a lot of evidence that this can be overcome with large enough data, this is less clear\r\nfor datasets which are noisy, do not have enough samples, or have a non-standard structure.\r\nHistorically, on a smaller scale, the alternative has been simple (Bayesian) statistical methods,\r\nwhich also have the advantage of being interpretable and adaptable. However, many of the\r\nclassical results cannot be easily extended to the high-dimensional regime in which modern\r\ndata lives.\r\nIn this work we want to consider two different settings relating to the above. The first is\r\napproximate message passing (AMP), an iterative algorithm for high-dimensional (generalized)\r\nlinear models that easily lends itself to Bayesian setups, and which in many cases is provably\r\nBayes-optimal. The second is an autoencoder with a shallow encoder, for which we can\r\nanalyze the weights along the training trajectory of gradient descent. Surprisingly, we will find\r\na connection between the two, as we recover certain structures of AMP.\r\nWe will first introduce the AMP framework by studying an extension that can be applied\r\nto a wider variety of data: rotationally invariant generalized approximate message passing\r\n(RI-GAMP). This shows that one can extend the AMP framework to a much wider class of\r\nalgorithms, relevant to more practical settings. The results are then also confirmed on real\r\ndata that go beyond the theoretical setting.\r\nWe then move to the setup of an autoencoder with a shallow encoder and a Bayesian prior in\r\nthe high-dimensional regime, in which the input and compression dimensions are large and\r\nproportional; this is also a first step towards opening one of the black boxes above, as we\r\ncan say precisely when and why the network works. While autoencoders are widely used in\r\nmodern ML architectures, most fundamental research in this direction has focused on extreme\r\nasymptotic regimes, where the autoencoder is either severely over- or under-parameterized,\r\nand which do not extend to the proportional high-dimensional regime. We show that for\r\nGaussian priors the network finds the global optimum, and these theoretical findings extrapolate\r\nstrikingly well to real image data. Next we extend this analysis to more structured priors and\r\na deeper decoder. For sparse Gaussian inputs in the training regime studied here, the shallow\r\ndecoder does not exploit sparsity and yields the same dynamics as in the Gaussian setting.\r\nWe then show how a deeper decoder can break this behavior, and interestingly, if we treat the\r\nproblem as an AMP problem, the network eventually learns the same decoding as AMP. This\r\ntoo extrapolates to real image data.\r\nLastly, we will show that the AMP setup has real practical use, by using a practical variant,\r\ngenetic vector approximate message passing (gVAMP), for predicting plasma protein levels\r\nfrom genetic information using the UKB GWAS data. This is a perfect example of the problems\r\nin the high-dimensional regime: approximately 8.4 million dimensions and 40,000 samples,\r\nwhere the high noise, low sample count, and large size make it hard for ML methods to work.\r\nTo get the optimal prediction accuracy we consider a two-step inference. We first consider a\r\npre-processed version of the data, of about 880,000 dimensions, on which we run the gVAMP\r\nalgorithm; this allows us to find predictive regions, taking into account joint effects between\r\ndifferent regions, and for most proteins we end up selecting only about 0.1% of the dimensions.\r\nWe then consider the analogue of this small subset, on which we can now run a standard tree\r\nalgorithm (XGB) that no longer suffers from the aforementioned problems. This pipeline yields\r\nbetter prediction accuracy than recent nonlinear deep learning approaches applied to this data,\r\nas we are able to handle the pre-processing in a principled Bayesian way."}],"year":"2026","corr_author":"1","status":"public","title":"Compression and inference in high dimensions: An approximate message passing perspective","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-23072","project":[{"name":"Prix Lopez-Loretta 2019 - Marco Mondelli","_id":"059876FA-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E"}],"supervisor":[{"orcid":"0000-0002-3242-7020","id":"27EB676C-8706-11E9-9510-7717E6697425","first_name":"Marco","last_name":"Mondelli","full_name":"Mondelli, Marco"}],"oa":1,"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"ScienComp"}],"author":[{"first_name":"Kevin","id":"94ec913c-dc85-11ea-9058-e5051ab2428b","full_name":"Kögler, Kevin","last_name":"Kögler"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","department":[{"_id":"MaMo"},{"_id":"GradSch"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","publisher":"Institute of Science and Technology Austria","file_date_updated":"2026-10-09T13:25:49Z","ddc":["519"],"related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","id":"14459","relation":"part_of_dissertation"},{"status":"public","relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"12540"},{"status":"public","relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"17469"}]},"date_updated":"2026-10-12T13:04:49Z","degree_awarded":"PhD","user_id":"8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9","date_created":"2026-10-07T11:20:26Z"}]