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Dissecting the Nuclear Structure of NGC 5548 with XRISM. I. Physical Properties of the Highly Ionized Outflows

01/09/2026 - High-Energy

We present a detailed spectral analysis of an X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) observation of the prototypical Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548. XRISM’s Resolve microcalorimeter reveals, for the first time, highly ionized outflows in this active galactic nucleus (AGN) through the detection of Fe XXV and Fe XXVI absorption lines in the Fe K…

Polarized reflectance in China from DPC-2/GF-5(02) polarimetric satellite measurements: dataset and model inter-comparison

01/09/2026 - Aerosols and clouds

The Bidirectional Polarization Distribution Function (BPDF) is essential in quantitative remote sensing, particularly for understanding the anisotropy of land surface polarization properties. The widely-used BRDF-BPDF dataset claimed to not corrected for aerosol scattering, which lay a hidden problem for BPDF modeling. In our work, we conducted aerosol correction based on Chinese polarimetric data DPC-2/GF-5(02), and…

Super-resolving Herschel: A deep-learning-based deconvolution and denoising technique: I. First application at 500 µm in the COSMOS field

01/09/2026 - Low-Energy

Aims. Dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) dominate the far-infrared (FIR) and sub-millimetre (sub-mm) number counts, but singledish surveys at these wavelengths suffer from poor angular resolution, making identifications of multi-wavelength counterparts difficult. Prior driven deblending techniques require extensive fine-tuning and struggle to process large fields. This work aims to develop a fast and reliable deep-learning-based deconvolution…

Probable Detection of a Cooler Gas Component in the Perseus Cluster with XRISM

01/09/2026 - High-Energy

We present an analysis of the temperature structure of the Perseus cluster atmosphere using X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) Resolve observations. The average temperature rises from 3.3 keV near the nucleus of NGC 1275 to 8 keV at 10′ (210 kpc), which is consistent with Chandra and XMM measurements. The velocity and velocity dispersion…

The effect of the atmospheric C/O ratio on interiors of hot Jupiters

01/09/2026 - Exoplanets

The atmosphere is the outer boundary of a gas giant exoplanet’s interior. Therefore, compositional changes in the atmosphere can affect interior inferences. Typically, only metallicity is considered in atmospheric boundary conditions, while other elemental ratios, in particular the C/O ratio, are assumed to be solar. In light of the observational constraints now achievable with JWST,…

Observation of a Solar-like Magnetic Reconnection Event in an AGN Corona with XRISM

01/08/2026 - High-Energy

The X-ray source in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is commonly referred to as the corona by analogy to stellar coronae. The similarities between the two suggest that the heating mechanism of AGN coronae is magnetic reconnection—as in cool stars—but this has not yet been directly observed. This work presents the first observational evidence for a…

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