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202 papers, from 6 September 2026 to 5 November 2026: 202 arXiv preprints.
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Resolving the Assembly of Disk Galaxies from the Epoch of Reionisation to Cosmic Noon
Most of the mass and angular momentum of today's disk galaxies assembled at $z>1$.Dust at cosmic dawn: unveiling the onset of dust and obscured star formation at $z\gtrsim8$
Although less than 1 percent of the baryonic mass budget of a galaxy, cosmic dust profoundly alters the multi-wavelength appearance of galaxies across cosmic time.Probing cold gas and dust in quiescent galaxies across cosmic time
The discovery of massive quiescent galaxies at high redshift by JWST has revealed that star formation can cease rapidly in the early Universe, yet the physical mechanisms responsible for quenching…Direct measures of black hole masses through cosmic time
Supermassive black holes (BHs) are thought to reside in all massive galaxies.Tracking the flow of interstellar gas across scales: from galaxies to star clusters
While the baryon cycle of the interstellar medium - and its ability to form stars - plays a key role in galaxy evolution, unravelling the physical processes driving its evolution remains a critical…AGN Feeding and Feedback: Resolving the Torus
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) play a key role in galaxy evolution by regulating star formation within their host galaxies.Molecular atlas of nearby galaxies through sensitive high-resolution multi-band molecular line surveys
Star formation and associated feedback processes play a key role in galaxy evolution.From local chemistry to galactic evolution: unlocking the power of interstellar isotopes with ALMA2040
Molecular isotopic ratios provide a unique window into the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium, linking stellar nucleosynthesis and Galactic chemical evolution to the physical and chemical…ALMA2040: The High-Redshift Circumgalactic Medium. Imaging the fueling and feedback of galaxies in the early universe
Galaxies do not form in isolation, but rather as part of a wider interconnected web mediated at their interface by an extended gaseous atmosphere - the Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM).Frontiers of chemical complexity in the interstellar medium: unveiling the cosmic origins of life
The interstellar medium (ISM) contains a rich molecular inventory that provides a unique window into the chemistry operating during star and planet formation and its connection to prebiotic chemistry.Star Formation across the Galaxy
Star formation is both a multi-scale and highly dynamic process.Multi-wavelength Polarization as a Probe of Planet Formation
Polarization reveals details of circumstellar disks that are not readily available from total intensity observations.Missed Detections and False Alarms in a CNN Technosignature Detector on Breakthrough Listen Data
Radio technosignature searches rely on machine learning detectors to shrink the candidate pool before a human looks at it.The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei with Hierarchical Bayesian Reverberation Mapping
Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei uses the time taken for variability to travel through the system as a measure of system size, with this size being used to inform estimates of the…ALMA2040: Mapping the Spatially Resolved Dust and Star Formation Physics Driving High-z Galaxy Assembly
Interstellar dust reprocesses approximately half of the starlight emitted across cosmic history.High-frequency water megamasers as precision probes of black holes, galaxies and cosmology: A case for a next-generation sub-mm/mm interferometer
Water megamasers in the circumnuclear disks of active galactic nuclei are among the most precise probes of supermassive black holes.Chemical Demographics of Star-forming Regions
Our understanding of complex organic chemistry during the formation of stars and planets is shaped by a handful of cherry-picked sources with bright molecular emission lines.Resolving the AGN Feeding and Feedback Cycle with ALMA2040
Understanding how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow and regulate the growth of their host galaxies requires tracing the cold molecular interstellar medium (ISM) throughout the full AGN…The environments forming stellar and planetary systems
How does a star's birth environment set the mass, angular momentum and chemical complexity delivered to its planet-forming disk, and thereby whether it builds planets, brown dwarfs or stellar…Star Light, Star Bright: Can Multimodal Models Parse an Astronomy Visual Question Answering Dataset Right?
Figures are essential for scientific communication, and the field of Visual Question Answering (VQA) aims to test the figure understanding capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs).