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SDSS-IV MaNGA: Physical Origins of Double-Peaked Narrow Emission-Line Spaxels in Barred Galaxies
Jiajie Qiu, Shiyin Shen, Ruixiang Chang, Qianwen Zhao, Qi Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21512

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Physical Origins of Double-Peaked Narrow Emission-Line Spaxels in Barred Galaxies
The physical origins of double-peaked narrow emission-line spaxels (DPSs) in barred galaxies are explored through the analysis of a sample of 72 barred double-peaked emission-line galaxies (DPGs) extracted from the MaNGA dataset. In this study, we examine two potential scenarios: the gas inflow along the bar and the formation of a bar-induced gaseous nuclear ring. By applying a classical galactic dynamics model, we calculate the radii and rotational velocities of the nuclear rings for all barre…

Guardianes de la Noche: Kimetsu no Yaiba La Fortaleza Infinita se estrena el 12 de septiembre, solo en cines.
#Kimetsunoyaiba #anime #manga

Mi primer intento de churros en casa SIN, quizšs lo mšs importante, manga churrera. Estaban ricos a trozos. Las partes finas se hacen demasiado y son demasiado crujientes (no estšn mal pero no son churros). Las partes mšs gruesas quedaban un poco crudas por dentro (igual, no estšn mal, pero no son churros). Es muy importante la manga churrera para que tengan el tamaño ideal y que se frían correctamente. Quien dijo "te ha salido un churro" seguramente quería decir "hecho sin m…

Zum #Manga-Quartett auf der #DeDeCo diesen Februar gibt es nun endlich eine Aufnahme online: :blobcattoot:
https://vimeo.com/1112178704

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04080 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

AT 2018dyk: tidal disruption event or active galactic nucleus? Follow-up observations of an extreme coronal line emitter with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
We present fresh insights into the nature of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT 2018dyk. AT 2018dyk has sparked a debate in the literature around its classification as either a bona-fide TDE or as an active galactic nucleus (AGN) turn-on state change. A new follow-up spectrum taken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, in combination with host-galaxy analysis using archival SDSS-MaNGA data, supports the identification of AT 2018dyk as a TDE. Specifically, we classify this ob…

I read Monotone Blue today after not reading anything for a while and that was kinda nice. I should read more manga.

"The collection, organization, promotion, and use of graphic novels, comics, and manga: A survey of academic libraries"
#comics

Sony acquires a ~2.5% stake in Tekken and Pac-Man owner Bandai Namco for $464M, to expand "the fan community for IP such as anime and manga around the world" (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/sony-buys-stake-in-pac-man-own…

Sony Pays $464M For Stake In ‘Pac-Man’ Owner Bandai Namco
Sony Corp. has taken a small stake in 'Tekken' and 'Pac-Man' games giant Bandai Namco, as part of a strategic business alliance.

"The greatest manga artist you've never heard of"
:youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCus8vFbwGw
A video-essay fom Matttt of Comic & Manga History, on Japanese manga artist Jiro Taniguchi

I'm reading Witch Hat Atelier right now (checked out of my local library) and it's top-notch amazing, including the plot, world-building, ethics, character designs, and of course three staggering artistic quality, both in raw illustration quality and artful compositions. It's not shy with playing with the manga form either, with lots of stunning unique panels and active gutters. I also just realized the "shounen manga for girls" formula I've been looking for (which is a formulation that's nearly as important for boys to have access to as girls). But I also really love the humor, including ridiculous puns that are often well-translated. In this scene, the main character Coco has forgotten she's using a mist form spell and ends up blowing away her mist-form body even as age rushes into a chaotic situation, leading to this pun.
#AmReading

#HarperCollins übernimmt das #Manga-Geschäft von #Crunchyroll in Deutschland und Frankreich - heißt, Crunchyroll steigt aus dem Manga-Geschäft aus, nachdem sie die letzten Jahre alle ihre zusammeng…

Kinematic misalignment as a driver of black hole activity in galaxies with external interactions
Sandra I. Raimundo, Rogerio Riffel, Song-lin Li, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Sandro Rembold, Rogemar A. Riffel, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Marianne Vestergaard, Jos\'e L. Tous
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21749

Kinematic misalignment as a driver of black hole activity in galaxies with external interactions
The process of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) fuelling relies on the transport of gas across several orders of magnitude in physical scale until the gas reaches the supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. This work explores the role of kinematically misaligned gas in the fuelling of AGN in a sample of 4769 local galaxies from the MaNGA survey. We investigate for the first time the relative role of external interactions and the presence of kinematic misalignment as mechanisms to explain…

GANime: Generating Anime and Manga Character Drawings from Sketches with Deep Learning
Tai Vu, Robert Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09207 https://arxiv.o…

GANime: Generating Anime and Manga Character Drawings from Sketches with Deep Learning
The process of generating fully colorized drawings from sketches is a large, usually costly bottleneck in the manga and anime industry. In this study, we examine multiple models for image-to-image translation between anime characters and their sketches, including Neural Style Transfer, C-GAN, and CycleGAN. By assessing them qualitatively and quantitatively, we find that C-GAN is the most effective model that is able to produce high-quality and high-resolution images close to those created by hu…

Nice!
One of the better #litrpg webnovels I've read, Worth the Candle by Alexander Wales, is being made into a #manhwa / #manga!
Already enjoying the story! 😄

Worth the Candle
Juniper was always the Dungeon Master, never the player. He was always a creator of worlds rather than the one who walked within them…until now. Somehow, the tables have turned in the most dramatic way possible. Juniper finds himself in a world filled with the wildest fantasies a mind could come up with, and his fingerprints are all over it. Throughout this world, echoes of his own ideas and plots leave him feeling like he’s always one step behind. He finds bits and pieces of ancient infl…

Have y'all who are into anime seen Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc on Netflix? Kinda reminds me of Dragonball, but with more wrestling - and I'm not really into either of those things, but I love Kinnikuman. Go figure. It's based on the manga by Yudetamago (ゆでたまご) and some of the character designs were used by Bandai and then Mattel for the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures in the 80s. As they say, boosts appreciated for reach. I'm super curious.

Kid1's uninterested in Akira. "Why would I wanna read old-man manga?"

Just finished "Captivated, by You" by Yama Wayama. An excellent "funny off-beat highschool vignettes" manga with a focus on social interactions between weird boys. Thought I'd be getting a romance from the cover, but couldn't be more satisfied with the unexpected actuality. Great examples of non-toxic masculinity.
#AmReading

Finished 1st volume of “Blade of the Immortal” by Hiroaki Samura.
I’m always surprised how fast I can go through a manga.
Obviously I make no claims of being able to see all the great details these artists are putting into them. 🤭. I am simply enjoying them immensely.

Guten Morgen Wedding! Manga-Bell-Platz

Eu desci agora hš pouco para cuidar dos gatos lš da rua. De bermuda mas com uma blusa de manga comprida por cima da camisa normal. Mesmo assim passei frio. Tš anormal esse clima mesmo. De acordo com o app de meteorologia, aqui estš 14 graus. 🥶

Molecular gas in a system of two interacting galaxies overlapping on the line-of-sight
Ana\"elle Halle, Barbara Mazzilli Ciraulo, Daniel Maschmann, Anne-Laure Melchior, Fran\c{c}oise Combes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18355

Molecular gas in a system of two interacting galaxies overlapping on the line-of-sight
Galaxy interactions can disturb gas in galactic discs, compress it, excite it, and enhance star formation. An intriguing system likely consisting of two interacting galaxies overlapping on the line-of-sight was previously studied through ionised gas observations from the integral-field spectrograph Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA). A decomposition into two components using MaNGA spectra, together with a multi-wavelength study, allowed to characterise the system as a minor-merger with inte…

Ah something tells me Japan Expo starts this week
#manga

I think the last time I bought a manga was in 2018ish. It was time to break the curse.

Endlich habe ich es geschafft, den letzten Film zu #Given zu sehen, der die Geschichte abschließt (wie zuvor schon der Manga). Wirklich ein schöner, runder Abschluss, der auch vieles noch aufnimmt und zusammenbringt. Und wieder tolle, passende Musik.
Insgesamt finde ich es etwas schade finde ich, dass die Serie nicht eine zweite Staffel bekommen hat, sondern die Geschichte häppchenweise über m…

Flipped through an issue of Monocle for the first time in a while. Sad that it no longer contains "Kita Koga", the manga about a japanese shinobi who is also a scandinavian architect.

El manga Snowball Earth (Yuhiro Tsujisugu) se adaptarš al anime en 2026.
Pšgina web oficial #anime #manga

Forecasting the spatiotemporal evolution of fluid-induced microearthquakes with deep learning
Jaehong Chung, Michael Manga, Timothy Kneafsey, Tapan Mukerji, Mengsu Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14923

Forecasting the spatiotemporal evolution of fluid-induced microearthquakes with deep learning
Microearthquakes (MEQs) generated by subsurface fluid injection record the evolving stress state and permeability of reservoirs. Forecasting their full spatiotemporal evolution is therefore critical for applications such as enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), CO$_2$ sequestration and other geo-engineering applications. We present a transformer-based deep learning model that ingests hydraulic stimulation history and prior MEQ observations to forecast four key quantities: cumulative MEQ count, cum…

A Jetted Wandering Massive Black Hole Candidate in a Dwarf Galaxy
Yuanqi Liu, Tao An, Mar Mezcua, Yingkang Zhang, Ailing Wang, Jun Yang, Xiaopeng Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17293

A Jetted Wandering Massive Black Hole Candidate in a Dwarf Galaxy
Wandering massive black holes (MBHs) are thought to form through gravitational recoil or galaxy mergers, but observational confirmation of their displacement in dwarf galaxies, critical laboratories for early-universe SMBH seeding, remains scarce. Using multi-epoch very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), we identify a displaced MBH in the dwarf galaxy MaNGA 12772-12704, located 0.94 kilo-parsec from its optical center. The source exhibits unambiguous signatures of an accreting MBH: a brightne…

Snowball Earth manga (Yuhiro Tsujisugu) gets TV Anime adaptation in 2026.
Official Website #anime #manga

Am Nordufer ist eine Fahrradstraße geplant. Wann darüber informiert wird, erfahrt ihr hier: https://weddingweiser.de/kurzweiser-kurznachrichten/

Kurznachrichten aus dem Wedding
Aktionstag am Manga-Bell-Platz – 14.06.2025, 14–18 Uhr Beim Aktionstag „Machmalplatz“ stehen …

Spiral galaxies with unusual azimuthal asymmetry in oxygen abundance
L. S. Pilyugin, G. Tautvaisiene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18736 https://

Spiral galaxies with unusual azimuthal asymmetry in oxygen abundance
We considered five galaxies in the MaNGA survey that show distinct azimuthal asymmetry in the abundance, in the sense that in the inner part (more than half of the optical radius, $R_{25}$) of each galaxy there is a sector-like region where the oxygen abundances (O/H)_h are higher than the abundances (O/H)_l in other sectors. M-11761-12705 is a massive galaxy with a stellar mass of log(M_star/M_sun) = 11.6; the masses of four other galaxies are moderate: 10.1 < log($M_star/M_sun) < 10.4. Abunda…

The H$\alpha$ concentration of local star-forming galaxies: implications for galaxy structure formation
Zhizheng Pan, Xianzhong Zheng, Xu Kong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15278

The H$α$ concentration of local star-forming galaxies: implications for galaxy structure formation
In this work, we present a study on the H$α$ emission line flux concentration of 3098 low-redshift star-forming galaxies (SFGs) using the MaNGA data available in the Data Release 17 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We define the H$α$ flux concentration index ($C_{\rm Hα}$) as $C_{\rm Hα}=F_{\rm Hα,0.8~R_e}/F_{\rm Hα,1.5~R_e}$, where $F_{\rm Hα,0.8~R_e}$ and $F_{\rm Hα,1.5~R_e}$ are the cumulative H$α$ flux inside $0.8$ and $1.5$ $r-$band effective radius, respectively. We find that $…

Made in Abyss Gets Film series
First Film Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery premieres in 2026
#madeinabyss #anime #manga

A MaNGA about the Legacy I: Connecting the Assembly of Stellar Halo with the Average Star Formation History in Low-Redshift Massive Galaxies
Xiao-Ya Zhang, Song Huang, Meng Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22602

A MaNGA about the Legacy I: Connecting the Assembly of Stellar Halo with the Average Star Formation History in Low-Redshift Massive Galaxies
We investigate the connection between stellar mass distribution, assembly history, and star formation timescales in low-redshift massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) by combining deep LegacySurvey imaging with MaNGA's spatially resolved spectroscopy. Focusing on stellar population properties, especially the [Mg/Fe] abundance ratio, we analyze stacked spectra using both absorption line indices and full-spectrum fitting. We find that, among massive ETGs with identical average stellar mass distribut…

An integral field spectroscopic study of stellar and ionized gas properties around edge-on disk galaxies in the stellar mass range 9<log M*<11
Guinevere Kauffmann, Richard D'Souza, Antonela Monachesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13844

An integral field spectroscopic study of stellar and ionized gas properties around edge-on disk galaxies in the stellar mass range 9
We analyze the stellar light, 4000 Angstrom break and emission line profiles of 82 edge-on disk galaxies from the MaNGA survey. We characterize the stellar light profiles perpendicular to the disk plane using two parameters: a) the power law slope of the thick disk component, 2) the transition radius where the profile flattens. The 4000 Angstrom break profiles perpendicular to the plane are characterized by the number of significant changes in slope (breaks) and by the change in D_n(4000) from …