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Rotational Variables: Kepler Versus ASAS-SN
Jack Stethem (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), Christopher S. Kochanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University), Anya Phillips (Center for Astrophysics - Harvard and Smithsonian), Lyra Cao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University), Marc Pinsonneault (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Center for Cosmol…

Rotational Variables: Kepler Versus ASAS-SN
Rotational variables are stars that vary in brightness due to star spots modulated by rotation. They are probes of stellar magnetism, binarity, and evolution. Phillips et al. (2023) explored distinct populations of ~50,000 high-amplitude rotational variables from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), examining correlations between stellar rotation, binarity, and activity. Here, we carry out a similar analysis of ~50,000 much lower amplitude Kepler rotational variables. The Kepl…

Synchronization in Anonymous Networks Under Continuous Dynamics
Rida Bazzi, Anya Chaturvedi, Andr\'ea W. Richa, Peter Vargas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08661

Fluent but Culturally Distant: Can Regional Training Teach Cultural Understanding?
Dhruv Agarwal, Anya Shukla, Sunayana Sitaram, Aditya Vashistha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21548 …

Fluent but Culturally Distant: Can Regional Training Teach Cultural Understanding?
Large language models (LLMs) are used around the world but exhibit Western cultural tendencies. To address this cultural misalignment, many countries have begun developing "regional" LLMs tailored to local communities. Yet it remains unclear whether these models merely speak the language of their users or also reflect their cultural values and practices. Using India as a case study, we evaluate five Indic and five global LLMs along two key dimensions: values (via the Inglehart-Welzel map and Gl…