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GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
Eliza Neights, Eric Burns, Chris L. Fryer, Dmitry Svinkin, Suman Bala, Rachel Hamburg, Ramandeep Gill, Michela Negro, Megan Masterson, James DeLaunay, David J. Lawrence, Sophie E. D. Abrahams, Yuta Kawakubo, Paz Beniamini, Christian Aa. Diget, Dmitry Frederiks, John Goldsten, Adam Goldstein, Alexander D. Hall-Smith, Erin Kara, Alison M. Laird, Gavin P. Lamb, Oliver J. Roberts, Ryan Seeb, V. Ashley Villar,…

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe. Their prompt gamma-ray emission has typical durations between a fraction of a second and several minutes. A rare subset of these events have durations in excess of a thousand seconds, referred to as ultra-long gamma-ray bursts. Here, we report the discovery of the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen with a ~25,000 s gamma-ray duration, GRB 250702B, and characterize this event using data from four instruments in the Int…

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Phases of Interacting Fibonacci Anyons on a Ladder at Half-Filling
Nico Kirchner, Roderich Moessner, Frank Pollmann, Adam Gammon-Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22115 https://

Phases of Interacting Fibonacci Anyons on a Ladder at Half-Filling
Two-dimensional many-body quantum systems can exhibit topological order and support collective excitations with anyonic statistics different from the usual fermionic or bosonic ones. With the emergence of these exotic point-like particles, it is natural to ask what phases can arise in interacting many-anyon systems. To study this topic, we consider the particular case of Fibonacci anyons subject to an anyonic tight-binding model with nearest-neighbor repulsion on a two-leg ladder. Focusing on t…

Raiders Land in Interesting Spot in Week 3's On SI Power Ranking https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-geno-smith-maxx-crosby-adam-butler

"secret war" isn't a thing. It's not like you can keep public bombing executions quiet between just you and few co-conspirators.
https://journa.host/@theintercept/115429545371107143

The Intercept (@theintercept@journa.host)
Attached: 1 image “Never before in my over 20 years on the committee can I recall seeing a combatant commander leave their post this early and amid such turmoil,” Rep. Adam Smith said on Monday. https://theintercept.com/2025/10/23/military-southcom-alvin-holsey-hegseth-trump-boat-strikes/

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Constraining Baryon Fractions in Galaxy Groups and Clusters with the First CHIME/FRB Outrigger
Adam E. Lanman, Sunil Simha, Kiyoshi W. Masui, J. Xavier Prochaska, Rachel Darlinger, Fengqiu Adam Dong, B. M. Gaensler, Ronniy C. Joseph, Jane Kaczmarek, Lordrick Kahinga, Afrokk Khan, Calvin Leung, Lluis Mas-Ribas, Swarali Shivraj Patil, Aaron B. Pearlman, Mawson Sammons, Kaitlyn Shin, Kendrick Smith, Haochen Wang

Constraining Baryon Fractions in Galaxy Groups and Clusters with the First CHIME/FRB Outrigger
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide a sensitive probe of diffuse baryons: their dispersion measures (DMs) measure electron density independent of temperature and scale linearly with gas density. This makes them particularly well suited to studying the intragroup medium (IGrM), where traditional probes such as X-ray emission and the SZ effect are weak. Evidence suggests that the baryon content of group mass halos ($M_{500}\sim10^{13}-10^{14}$ M$_{\odot}$) is strongly affected by galactic feedback, …

Low-Cost and Detunable Wireless Resonator Glasses for Enhanced Eye MRI with Concurrent High-Quality Whole Brain MRI
Ming Lu, Xiaoyue Yang, Jason Moore, Pingping Li, Adam W. Anderson, John C. Gore, Seth A. Smith, Xinqiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08797

Low-Cost and Detunable Wireless Resonator Glasses for Enhanced Eye MRI with Concurrent High-Quality Whole Brain MRI
Purpose: To develop and evaluate a wearable wireless resonator glasses design that enhances eye MRI signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) without compromising whole-brain image quality at 7 T. Methods: The device integrates two detunable LC loop resonators into a lightweight, 3D-printed frame positioned near the eyes. The resonators passively couple to a standard 2Tx/32Rx head coil without hardware modifications. Bench tests assessed tuning, isolation, and detuning performance. B1$^+$ maps were measure…

BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design
Deepro Choudhury, Sinead Williamson, Adam Goli\'nski, Ning Miao, Freddie Bickford Smith, Michael Kirchhof, Yizhe Zhang, Tom Rainforth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21184

BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design
We propose a general-purpose approach for improving the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to intelligently and adaptively gather information from a user or other external source using the framework of sequential Bayesian experimental design (BED). This enables LLMs to act as effective multi-turn conversational agents and interactively interface with external environments. Our approach, which we call BED-LLM (Bayesian Experimental Design with Large Language Models), is based on iteratively…

HD 5501: A Rapidly Evolving Interacting Eclipsing Binary with a Variable Light Curve and H$\alpha$ Emission
Richard O. Gray, Christopher. J. Corbally, Sean Curry, Bradley E. Schaefer, Jack Martin, David Boyd, James Foster, Dale E. Mais, Michael M. Briley, Forrest Sims, Christophe Boussin, Gary Walker, Joe Novosel, David Cejudo Fernandez, Robert Buchheim, David Iadevaia, Robin Leadbeater, Daniel B. Caton, Adam Smith, Courtney E. McGahee, David Decker, Gary Hawkins

HD 5501: A Rapidly Evolving Interacting Eclipsing Binary with a Variable Light Curve and H$α$ Emission
HD~5501, a hitherto little studied eclipsing binary with an early A-type primary, has been caught in a short-lived, astrophysically interesting phase of its binary evolution. Recent photometric and spectroscopic observations, including photometric data from {\it TESS}, show it has a highly variable light curve as well as complex spectral variability, particularly in both the absorption and emission components at H~$α$. Our current campaign, including both professional and amateur observers, ha…

Simulating Topological Order on Quantum Processors
Adam Gammon-Smith, Michael Knap, Frank Pollmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Simulating Topological Order on Quantum Processors
It is an ongoing quest to realize topologically ordered quantum states on different platforms including condensed matter systems, quantum simulators and digital quantum processors. Unlike conventional states characterized by their local order, these exotic states are characterized by their non-local entanglement. The consequences of topological order can be as profound as they are surprising, ranging from the emergence of fractionalized anyonic excitations to potentially providing a scalable pl…

Azimuthal offsets in spiral arms of nearby galaxies
Miguel Querejeta, Sharon E. Meidt, Yixian Cao, Dario Colombo, Eric Emsellem, Santiago Garc\'ia-Burillo, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Koch, Adam K. Leroy, Marina Ruiz-Garc\'ia, Eva Schinnerer, Rowan Smith, Sophia Stuber, Mallory Thorp, Thomas G. Williams, M\'ed\'eric Boquien, Daniel A. Dale, Chris Faesi, Damian R. Gleis, Kathryn Grasha, Annie Hughes, Mar\'ia J. Jim\'enez-Donaire, Kathryn Kreckel, Daizhong Liu, Justu…

Azimuthal offsets in spiral arms of nearby galaxies
Spiral arms play a central role in disc galaxies, but their dynamical nature remains a long-standing open question. Azimuthal offsets between molecular gas and star formation are expected if gas crosses spiral arms, as predicted by quasi-stationary density wave theory. In this work, we measure offsets between CO and Halpha peaks in radial bins for 24 galaxies from the PHANGS survey that display a well-delineated spiral structure. The offsets exhibit substantial scatter, implying that star forma…