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Wednesday Colloquium 10.11.2026

Federico Gonzalez

Observational insights into the role of multiplicity in massive-star magnetism and cluster dynamical evolution
Journal Club 16.11.2026

Gabriel Tyszka

Distinguishing black holes from naked singularities via Tidal Disruption events
SPOTKANIA z ASTRONOMIĄ 16.11.2026

Paulina Karczmarek

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arXiv:2611.03812[pdf, html]
The STARfall pathway: forging intermediate-mass black holes through stellar collisions in dense star clusters
Authors:Filippo Simonato, Manuel Arca Sedda, Taeho Ryu, Jakub Klencki, Giuliano Iorio, Sara Rastello, Lavinia Paiella, Cristiano Ugolini, Benedetta Mestichelli, Marica Branchesi, Abbas Askar, Peter Berczik, Guglielmo Costa, Mirek Giersz, Albrecht W. H. Kamlah, Rainer Spurzem, Stefano Torniamenti, Marcelo C. Vergara
Comments:22 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables
arXiv:2611.03090[pdf, html]
GALACTIC CENTERS AS TRACERS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION: Zooming from galaxy large-scale properties into their central massive black holes
Authors:F. Pinna, N. Hoyer, S. Thater, A. Mastrobuono Battisti, A. Feldmeier-Krause, E. Arjona-Gálvez, A. Askar, R. C. Levy, A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres, I. Márquez, K. Fahrion, I. Martín-Navarro, C. de Sá-Freitas, R. Schödel, S. Bonoli, A. Chaturvedi, N. Ryde
Comments:29 pages, 4 figures; white paper as proceedings of the workshop ''Galactic Centers as tracers of galaxy evolution'' held at the Lorentz Center from October 6 to 10, 2025 (https://www. lorentzcenter.nl/galactic-centers-as-tracers-of-galaxy-evolution.html)
arXiv:2611.06902[pdf, html]
Gravitational-Wave Constraints on $R^2$ Gravity
Authors:Pawan Kumar Gupta, Laura Sagunski
Comments:13 pages, 5 figures
arXiv:2611.07697[pdf, html]
Thorium and Europium production in the early Galaxy: Implications for nucleocosmochronology
Authors:L. Magrini, R. E. Giribaldi, M. Palla, S. Randich, L. Pasquini, C. J. Hansen, R. Smiljanic, M. Racca, M. Tsantaki, J. Schiappacasse-Ulloa, A. Skuladottir, G. Kordopatis, L. Berni, T. Matsuno, G. Casali, V. Hill, F. Matteucci, G. Cescutti, F. Rizzuti, E. Spitoni
Comments:15 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
arXiv:2611.07563[pdf, html]
The Pristine survey XXXI. A stream offset from the Stream: very metal-poor stellar debris trailing 100$^{\circ}$ from the LMC-SMC system
Authors:Akshara Viswanathan, Kim A. Venn, Julio F. Navarro, Daniel A. Boyea, Federico Sestito, Camila Navarrete, Hanneke C. Woudenberg, Tadafumi Matsuno, Vinicius M. Placco, Madeleine McKenzie, Triana Cornejo, Anya Dovgal, Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Manuel Bayer, Amanda Byström, Vanessa Hill, Pascale Jablonka, Jaclyn Jensen, Georges Kordopatis, Nicolas F. Martin, Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, Simon E. T. Smith, Else Starkenburg, Daria Zaremba, Giuseppina Battaglia, Salvatore Taibi
Comments:Submitted to A&A. 12 pages + 7 pages appendix (10 Figures, 3 Tables). Comments are very welcome! Note: Abstract is shortened to comply with the arXiv character limit
arXiv:2611.06785[pdf, html]
Constraining the white-dwarf mass in the intermediate polar IGR J17014-4306 using X-ray and optical spectroscopy
Authors:D. C. Souza, M. P. Diaz, A. S. Oliveira, G. J. M. Luna, C. V. Rodrigues, M. Reynolds, N. Palivanas, I. J. Lima, J. Mikołajewska, M. Orio
arXiv:2611.08115[pdf, html]
Octavius: A High-Performance Analysis Toolkit for Galaxy Simulations
Authors:Jean-Paul Duminy, Jakub Szpila, Romeel Davé
Comments:17 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to RAS Techniques and Instruments. Code is available at https://github.com/jp-duminy/octavius ; documentation is hosted at https://octavius.readthedocs.io