Explore the Presented Papers
Below, you'll find the papers discussed in our Journal Club sessions, categorized by the different fields of astrophysics.
De, K., MacLeod, M., Jencson, J. E., Lovegrove, E., Antoni, A., Kara, E., Kasliwal, M. M., Lau, R. M., Loeb, A., Masterson, M., Meisner, A. M., Panagiotou, C., Quataert, E., & Simcoe, R. (2024). The disappearance of a massive star marking the birth of a black hole in M31. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14778
submitted for review in Science
Lemoine, M. & Rieger, F. (2024). Neutrinos from stochastic acceleration in black hole environments. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01457
submitted for review in Astronomy & Astrophysics
XRISM Collaboration (2024). The XRISM/Resolve view of the Fe K region of Cyg X-3. arXiV. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00597
accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Mckinven, R., Bhardwaj, M., Eftekhari, T. et al. (2025). A pulsar-like polarization angle swing from a nearby fast radio burst. Nature 637, 43–47 (2025).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08184-4
Brigitte, M., Hadrava, P., Kubátová, B., Cabezas, M., Svoboda, J., Šlechta, M., Skarka, M., Alabarta, K., Maryeva, O., Russell, D. M., & Baglio, M. C. (2025). Disentangling the stellar atmosphere and the focused wind in different accretion states of Cygnus X-1. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07989 (accepted on 31 January 2025 in Astronomy and Astrophysics, not published yet)
Gompertz, B. P., Ravasio, M. E., Nicholl, M., Levan, A. J., Metzger, B. D., Oates, S. R., Lamb, G. P., Fong, W., Malesani, D. B., Rastinejad, J. C., Tanvir, N. R., Evans, P. A., Jonker, P. G., Page, K. L., & Pe’er, A. (2022). The case for a minute-long merger-driven gamma-ray burst from fast-cooling synchrotron emission. Nature Astronomy, 7(1), 67–79.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01819-4
Kyriopoulos, G., Petropoulou, M., Vasilopoulos, G., & Hatzidimitriou D. (2025). Black-hole mass estimation through accretion disk spectral fitting for high-redshift blazars. Submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06933
Ducci, L., Perinati, E., Romano, P., et al. (2025). Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars as sources of TeV neutrinos. A&A, 701, A98.
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202555242
Katsavrias, C., Aminalragia-Giamini, S., Papadimitriou, C., Daglis, I. A., Sandberg, I., & Jiggens, P. (2022). Radiation belt model including semi-annual variation and solar driving (Sentinel). Space Weather, 20, e2021SW002936.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2021SW002936
Mann, I., Ozeke, L., Murphy, K. et al. (2016). Explaining the dynamics of the ultra-relativistic third Van Allen radiation belt. Nature Phys 12, 978–983.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3799
Guo, D., Wang, D., Shprits, Y., Xiang, Z., Ni, B., Saikin, A. et al. (2024). One-step local acceleration process of ultra-relativistic electrons in the center of the outer radiation belt: Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA033024.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA033024
Li, X., Xiang, Z., Mei, Y., O'Brien, D., Brennan, D., Zhao, H., et al. (2025). A new electron and proton radiation belt identified by CIRBE/REPTile-2 measurements after the magnetic super storm of 10 May 2024. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130, e2024JA033504.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA033504
Berriot, E., Démoulin, P., Alexandrova, O., Zaslavsky, A., & Maksimovic, M. (2024). Identification of a single plasma parcel during a radial alignment of the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 686, A114. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449285
Olifer, L., Mann, I. R., Claudepierre, S. G., Baker, D. N., Spence, H. E., & Ozeke, L. G. (2022). A natural limit to the spectral hardness of worst case electron radiation in the terrestrial Van Allen belt. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030506.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030506
Sévègnes, E., Kieokaew, R., and Garnier, P. (2025). Physics-motivated neural network modelling of electric field measurements in space plasmas. under review.
Long, M., Roussos, E., Ni, B. et al. (2025). A slot region in the magnetosphere of Jupiter. Nature Communications 16, 7916.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63186-8
Kurita, S., Miyoshi, Y., Saito, S. et al. (2025). Detection of ultrafast electron energization by whistler-mode chorus waves in the magnetosphere of Earth. Nature Sci Rep 15, 992.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80693-8
Usoskin, I. G., Solanki, S. K. & Kovaltsov, G. A. (2007). Grand Minima and Maxima of solar activity: New observational constraints. A&A, 471, 301-309.
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077704
Akib, I., Hammer, F., Yang, Y., Pawlowski, M., S., Wang, J. (2025). An intriguing coincidence between the majority of vast polar structure dwarfs and a recent major merger at the M31 position. A&A, 694, A66.
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452131
Gupta, P., Simitev, R.D., and MacTaggart, D., (2022). A study of global magnetic helicity in self-consistent spherical dynamos. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.01356
Zhang, J., and Brandenburg, A., (2025). Resistive Scaling in the Magnetic Helicity-Driven Inverse Cascade. submitted to ApJ - under revision.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.21141