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The First Gamma-Ray Pulsar Confirmed by the People
A redback pulsar slowly accreting its companion has been confirmed, by the people, through gamma-ray pulsations for the first time.
H0w Low Can EDE Go? Limiting Early Dark Energy with Large-scale Structure
Early dark energy has seen a lot of attention as a solution to the Hubble tension. Today’s paper rains on its parade!
Lack of spacetime squiggles limit how much a pulsar can be squashed
Before Galileo saw it through a telescope, most people believed that the Moon was a perfect sphere. It is fascinating today that @LIGO-Virgo are able to (correctly) identify perfect spheres over a hundred times smaller than the Moon situated over 300 light years away.
How Can Fast Radio Bursts be Produced in Binary Neutron Star Systems?
Fast radio bursts have unknown origins, but today’s guest post discusses one possibility: interacting BNS systems.
Detecting non-uniform clouds on hot Jupiters in the era of JWST
As the field of exoplanet atmospheric science rapidly moves towards understanding these fascinating worlds as complex, three-dimensional entities, today’s paper explores how we can find non-uniform cloud cover on exoplanets using JWST!
The Alternative to Dark Matter May be General Relativity Itself
No dark matter, no modified gravitation, just general relativity. Let’s see what we can get in disk galaxies.
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