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Departures from Standard Disk Predictions in Intensive Ground-Based Monitoring of Three AGN
Diego Gonzalez-Buitrago, Aaron J. Barth, Rick Edelson, Jorge V. Hern\'andez Santisteban, Keith Horne, Thomas Schmidt, Yan-Rong Li, Hengxiao Guo, Michael D. Joner, Edward Cackett, Jonathan Gelbord, Misty C. Bentz, W. N. Brandt, Mike Goad, Kirk Korista, Marianne Vestergaard, Christina Villforth, Amanda Breeveld, Thomas G. Brink, Enrico M. Corsini, Enrico Dalla Bont\`a, Gary J. Ferland, Alexei …

Departures from Standard Disk Predictions in Intensive Ground-Based Monitoring of Three AGN
We present ground-based, multi-band light curves of the AGN Mrk~509, NGC\,4151, and NGC\,4593 obtained contemporaneously with \sw\, monitoring. We measure cross-correlation lags relative to \sw\, UVW2 (1928~Å) and test the standard prediction for disk reprocessing, which assumes a geometrically thin, optically thick accretion disk where continuum interband delays follow the relation \( τ(λ) \propto λ^{4/3} \). For Mrk~509 the 273-d \sw\, campaign gives well-defined lags that increase with w…

Pentaquarks made of light quarks and their admixture to baryons
Nicholas Miesch, Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01861 https://

Pentaquarks made of light quarks and their admixture to baryons
This paper is a continuation of our studies of multiquark hadrons. The anti-symmetrization of their wavefunctions required by Fermi statistics is nontivial, as it mixes orbital, color, spin and flavor structures. In our previous papers we developed a method to find them based on the representations of the permutation group, and derived the explicit wave functions for baryons excited to the first and second shells $(L=1,2)$, tetraquarks $qq\bar q\bar q$ and hexaquarks ($6q$). Now we apply it t…

👀 Forgejo's "Roadmap for Federation" https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md — still looks like a lot of work need to be done 🥲

federation/FederationRoadmap.md at main
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Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Eduardo Koffmann Jopia, Patricia Galilea Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04532 https://

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Does it matter whether a government is "left wing" or "right wing" for economic growth? Using a panel of 113 countries (1995 2022), we combine: (i) the economic ideology of the executive branch (V Dem), (ii) the disaggregated institutional quality of the economic freedom index (Heritage), separating a core institutional block (HN: property rights, government integrity, judicial effectiveness) from a block of liberalization policies (HL: trade/financial openness, regulatory efficiency, size of g…

Role of non-extensivity $q$-parameter in tectonic seismic forecasting
Oscar Sotolongo-Costa, Miguel Eduardo Mora-Ramos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04932 https://

Role of non-extensivity $q$-parameter in tectonic seismic forecasting
By writing total Tsallis entropy as a function of non-extensivity q-parameter withing the fragment-asperity model for earthquakes, a critical range of values is identified: 1.4

Inferring the efficiency of convective-envelope overshooting in Red Giant Branch stars
Lorenzo Briganti, Marco Tailo, Edoardo Ceccarelli, Andrea Miglio, Massimiliano Matteuzzi, Alessio Mucciarelli, Alessandro Mazzi, Angela Bragaglia, Saniya Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20794

Inferring the efficiency of convective-envelope overshooting in Red Giant Branch stars
The understanding of mixing processes in stars is crucial for improving our knowledge of the chemical abundances in stellar photospheres and of their variation with evolutionary phase. This is fundamental for many astrophysical issues on all scales, ranging from stellar evolution to the chemical composition, formation and evolution of stellar clusters and galaxies. Among these processes, convective-envelope overshooting is in dire need of a systematic calibration and comparison with predictions…

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Gustav Holst, The National Youth Orchestra, Dominic Martens & Edward Gardner:
🎵 Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets)
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Gravity, finite duality cascades and confinement
Fabrizio Aramini, Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Eduardo Garc\'ia-Valdecasas, Pietro Moroni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18988

Gravity, finite duality cascades and confinement
Cascading RG flows are characteristic of $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories realized by D3-branes probing singularities in the presence of fractional branes. A celebrated example is the Klebanov-Strassler model, which exhibits an infinite cascade that ends with confinement. In this work, we explore a related setup where the addition of an orientifold plane modifies the cascade structure: the RG flow now consists of a finite number of steps, originating from a UV fixed point with a finite number of …

Adam Curtis explores Edward Bernays and his "Torches of Freedom" campaign
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IYWW6NEsNOQ&si=YXLwznqW1KRoeZu5

Dynamical Tension Strings with Target Scale Symmetry producing DE, DM and why 4D?
Eduardo Guendelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17333 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Dynamical Tension Strings with Target Scale Symmetry producing DE, DM and why 4D?
In the modified measure formulation string or branes the tension appear as an additional dynamical degree of freedom . Furthermore in the presence of an additional background scalar field that couples to the strings and locally changes the tension, the tension field really dynamical and the theory has an intrinsic target space scale symmetry. When many types of strings probing the same region of space are considered this tension scalar is constrained by the requirement of quantum conformal inva…