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The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program: Data, Tools, and Usage
Jessie L. Christiansen, Douglas L. McElroy, Marcy Harbut, David R. Ciardi, Megan Crane, John Good, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman, Aurora Y. Kesseli, Michael B. Lund, Meca Lynn, Ananda Muthiar, Ricky Nilsson, Toba Oluyide, Michael Papin, Amalia Rivera, Melanie Swain, Nicholas D. Susemiehl, Raymond Tam, Julian van Eyken, Charles Beichman

The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program: Data, Tools, and Usage
The NASA Exoplanet Archive and the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program service are two widely used resources for the exoplanet community. The NASA Exoplanet Archive provides a complete and accurate accounting of exoplanetary systems published by NASA missions and by the community in the refereed literature. In anticipation of continued exponential growth in the number of exoplanetary systems, and the increasing complexity in our characterization of these systems, the NASA Exoplanet Archive ha…

Calamus 40 That shadow, my likeness
An odd little poem to find in Calamus. I like it, I connect to the existential doubt.
How often I question and doubt whether that is really me
The self Whitman is unsure of is the quotidian self, the one that works and talks and shops. What does he embrace as the real him?
among my lovers, and carolling my songs, I never doubt whether that is really me.
There's our lusty Whitman, finding his true self in his lovers and his poetry.
PS: this poem introduced me to the lovely word chaffer.

Resource-Splitting Games with Tullock-Based Lossy Contests
Marko Maljkovic, Gustav Nilsson, Nikolas Geroliminis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13853 https://…

Resource-Splitting Games with Tullock-Based Lossy Contests
This paper introduces a novel class of multi-stage resource allocation games that model real-world scenarios in which profitability depends on the balance between supply and demand, and where higher resource investment leads to greater returns. Our proposed framework, which incorporates the notion of profit loss due to insufficient player participation, gives rise to a Tullock-like functional form of the stage payoff structure when weighted fair proportional resource allocation is applied. We e…

The Teacher's Dilemma: Balancing Trade-Offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students
Emma R. Dodoo, Tamara Nelson-Fromm, Mark Guzdial
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14147

The Teacher's Dilemma: Balancing Trade-Offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students
K-12 computing teachers must navigate complex trade-offs when selecting programming languages and instructional materials for classrooms with emergent bilingual students. While they aim to foster an inclusive learning environment by addressing language barriers that impact student engagement, they must also align with K-12 computer science curricular guidelines and prepare students for industry-standard programming tools. Because programming languages predominantly use English keywords and most…

Thinking about this 1997 Edmund White quote on Fresh Air today, talking about casual gay sex in the 1970s.
Nor did all this sex preclude intimacy. For those who never lived through that period, and most of those who did, are dead, the phrase "anonymous sex" might suggest unfeeling sex, devoid of emotion. And yet, as I can attest, to hole up in a room at the baths with a body, after having opened it up and wrung it dry, to lie, head propped on a guy's stomach just where the tan line bisects it, smoke a cigarette, and talk to him late into the night and early into the morning about your childhood, his unhappiness and love, your money worries, his plans for the future. Well, nothing is more personal, more emotional.
(This is him reading a quote from his novel The Farewell Symphony)

Defect-Mediated Melting of Square-Lattice Solids
William Grampel, Daniel Podolsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16418 https://arxiv.org/…

Defect-Mediated Melting of Square-Lattice Solids
The Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KTHNY) theory successfully explains the melting mechanism of two-dimensional isotropic lattices as a two-step process driven by the unbinding of topological defects. By considering the elastic theory of the square lattice, we extend the KTHNY theory to melting of square lattice solids. In addition to the familiar elastic constants that govern the theory -- the Young's modulus and the Poisson ratio -- a third constant controlling the anisotropy of t…

Towards Quantum Simulation of Rotating Nuclei using Quantum Variational Algorithms
Dhritimalya Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18059 https://

Towards Quantum Simulation of Rotating Nuclei using Quantum Variational Algorithms
Quantum variational algorithms (QVAs) are becoming increasingly potent tools for simulating quantum many-body systems, in particular, on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. The application of QVAs, more especially the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), to schematic model simulation is examined in this work. The cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky (CNS) framework serves as a foundation for comprehending high-spin phenomena in deformed nuclei. Using single-particle level spacings, pairing…