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Effects of music perception on language development in children with cochlear implants: a systematic review https://muse.jhu.edu/article/966640 "music perception" "to strengthen their neuroplasticity through visual-motor connectivity"; what could visual-to-auditory sensory substitution …

Project MUSE - Effects of Music Perception on Language Development in Children With Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review

The muse never rests.
Keep going.
#motivation #inspiration
https://muz4now.com/web-sto…

How to keep moving even when it hurts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Metric:
🎵 Sick Muse
#NowPlaying #Metric
https://stateazure.bandcamp.com/track/metric-sick-muse-state-azure-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2uxLjFYEoQ7xsqfMPuwTQ9

VLT/MUSE Detection of the AB Aurigae b Protoplanet with $H _{\rm \alpha}$ Spectroscopy
Thayne Currie, Jun Hashimoto, Yuhiko Aoyama, Ruobing Dong, Misato Fukagawa, Takayuki Muto, Erica Dykes, Mona El Morsy, Motohide Tamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18351

VLT/MUSE Detection of the AB Aurigae b Protoplanet with $H _{\rm α}$ Spectroscopy
We analyze high-contrast, medium-spectral-resolution $H_{\rm α}$ observations of the star AB Aurigae using the Very Large Telescope's Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). In multiple epochs, MUSE detects the AB Aur b protoplanet discovered from Subaru/SCExAO data in emission at wavelengths slightly blue-shifted from the $H_{\rm α}$ line center (i.e. at 6558.88--6560.13 Å; $\sim$ -100 km s$^{-1}$) and in absorption at redshifted wavelengths (6562.8--6565.1 Å; $\sim$ 75 km s$^{-1}$). AB …

Physical properties of gas departing from circular rotation at 50 pc scales using the PHANGS-MUSE galaxies
Carlos L\'opez-Cob\'a, Lihwai Lin, Irene Cruz Gonz\'alez, Sebasti\'an F. S\'anchez, Hsi-An Pan, J. K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Bau-Ching Hsieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18517 …

Physical properties of gas departing from circular rotation at 50 pc scales using the PHANGS-MUSE galaxies
Noncircular motions have been observed across various spatial scales in disk galaxies, yet the physical properties of the gas involved in these motions remain poorly constrained. Using data from 19 galaxies from the PHANGS-MUSE sample, we investigated the prevalence of noncircular flows at spatial resolutions of tens of parsecs. We developed a new tool for 3D kinematic modelling of data cubes and applied it to the PHANGS-MUSE H$α$ spectral lines to recover the underlying circular, noncircular …

VR-Trubel voraus: Vision Pro M5 und Galaxy XR | TNBT-Podcast
Wir sprechen über unsere Praxiserfahrungen mit der Vision Pro M5, Zubehör wie dem Logitech Muse und blicken auf Samsungs Kampfpreiskonkurrenten.
https:/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Muse:
🎵 Supermassive Black Hole
#Muse
https://mikhu.bandcamp.com/track/muse-supermassive-black-hole-mikhus-vocal-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lPr8ghNDBLc2uZovNyLs9

Apple to start selling Vision Pro-compatible PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers for $250 on November 11 and the $130 Logitech Muse digital pen on October 22 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/15/apple-v

Apple Vision Pro: PlayStation VR2 Sense controller in November, Logitech Muse and standalone Dual Knit Band available to order - 9to5Mac
Apple Vision Pro is officially being upgraded from the M2 to the new M5, but existing customers don’t need an...

神代文字のひとつ、"阿比留文字" というのを偶々知った。"類似性" が指摘されているようだけど、かなり似ている。形状も発音も同じものがある。ハ行の子音部分だってかなり近い。本当に不思議。画像はスクリーンショット。
世界の文字
− https://www.chikyukotobamura.org/muse/wr_column_8.html

Wa rugú.‘Yes[ sympathyorhumility].’ <-- Kapampangan words to live by :-) which I found in Michael Forman's "Kapampangan Grammar Notes", published in 1971, University of Hawaii Press which I found at https://muse.jhu.edu/book/61288

Muse-it: A Tool for Analyzing Music Discourse on Reddit
Jatin Agarwala, George Paul, Nemani Harsha Vardhan, Vinoo Alluri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20228 https://

Muse-it: A Tool for Analyzing Music Discourse on Reddit
Music engagement spans diverse interactions with music, from selection and emotional response to its impact on behavior, identity, and social connections. Social media platforms provide spaces where such engagement can be observed in natural, unprompted conversations. Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and big data analytics make it possible to analyze these discussions at scale, extending music research to broader contexts. Reddit, in particular, offers anonymity that encourages div…

DESI Strong Lens Foundry IV: Spectroscopic Confirmation of DESI Lens Candidates with VLT/MUSE
Emerald Lin, Ivonne Toro Bertolla, Aleksandar Cikota, Xiaosheng Huang, Christopher J. Storfer, Marcos Tamargo-Arizmendi, David J. Schlegel, William Sheu, Nao Suzuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18078

DESI Strong Lens Foundry IV: Spectroscopic Confirmation of DESI Lens Candidates with VLT/MUSE
We present integral field spectroscopic observations of 75 strong gravitational lens candidates identified with a residual neural network in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, obtained with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the ESO's Very Large Telescope. These observations are part of an ongoing effort to build a large, spectroscopically confirmed sample of strong lensing systems for studies on dark matter, galaxy structure, and cosmology. Our MUSE program targets both lens and sou…

The PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha Nebulae Catalogue: #PHANGS

Sonnet 082 - LXXXII
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.
And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained touches rh…

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
https://m…

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Come, muse, let us sing of rats!
-- From a poem by James Grainger, 1721-1767

MUSE Observations Reveal Optical Coronal Iron Lines from Shock Emission in Supernova Remnant 0540-69.3
L. Tenhu, J. Larsson, P. Lundqvist, I. Saathoff, J. D. Lyman, J. Sollerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14570

MUSE Observations Reveal Optical Coronal Iron Lines from Shock Emission in Supernova Remnant 0540-69.3
We investigate the optical shock emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant 0540-69.3 (SNR 0540) using MUSE integral-field-unit data from the VLT. The observations cover the spectral range 4650-9300 $Å$ and provide a $1\times1$ arcmin$^{2}$ field of view, encompassing nearly the entire remnant. We analyse the spatial and spectral properties of shock-related emission lines, and identify clumpy optical shock emission e.g. from [S II] $λλ$6716,6731 doublet and the coronal [Fe XI…

Tag 7 war nochmal #Trient gewidmet. Am Vormittag das herrliche Schloss Castello del Buonconsiglio. Am Nachmittag das Naturmuseum Muse, das extrem beliebt und ausgebucht ist.
#MeinRadUrlaub2025

M&M33: MUSE and M33 I. Unveiling the Diversity of HII Regions in M33 with MUSE
A. Feltre, F. Belfiore, G. Cresci, E. Corbelli, N. Tomi\v{c}i\'c, F. Mannucci, A. Marconi, E. Bertola, C. Bracci, M. Ceci, M. Curti, Q. D'Amato, M. Ginolfi, E. Koch, I. Lamperti, L. Magrini, C. Marconcini, A. Plat, M. Scialpi, G. Tozzi, L. Ulivi, G. Venturi, M. V. Zanchettin, A. Chakraborty, A. Amiri

M&M33: MUSE and M33 I. Unveiling the Diversity of HII Regions in M33 with MUSE
We present new VLT/MUSE mosaic observations of a 3 $\times$ 8 arcmin$^2$ area along the southern major axis of the nearby galaxy M33 at a distance of 840 kpc from the Milky Way. These data provide an unprecedented view of the galaxy interstellar medium (ISM), and allow us to resolve ionised nebulae at a spatial scale of $\approx$5 pc. We identify and catalogue 124 HII regions, down to H$α$ luminosities of $\approx 5\times$10$^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$, one order of magnitude fainter than previous sur…

Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape) #OriginalMusic #NowPlaying

Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape) #PentatonicMusic #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Finding your MUSE: Mining Unexpected Solutions Engine
Nir Sweed, Hanit Hakim, Ben Wolfson, Hila Lifshitz, Dafna Shahaf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05072 https://

Finding your MUSE: Mining Unexpected Solutions Engine
Innovators often exhibit cognitive fixation on existing solutions or nascent ideas, hindering the exploration of novel alternatives. This paper introduces a methodology for constructing Functional Concept Graphs (FCGs), interconnected representations of functional elements that support abstraction, problem reframing, and analogical inspiration. Our approach yields large-scale, high-quality FCGs with explicit abstraction relations, overcoming limitations of prior work. We further present MUSE, a…

Eight 'priceless' objects stolen in Louvre museum heist named - as authorities reveal details of daring raid | World News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/louvre-museum-in-paris-closed-after-robbery-13453106

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Muse:
🎵 Revolt
#NowPlaying #Muse
https://revoltmotionrecords.bandcamp.com/track/take-me-by-may-the-muse
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BGg9wSF98j6FzvHGkq3f0

神代文字のひとつ、"阿比留文字" というのを偶々知った。"類似性" が指摘されているようだけど、かなり似ている。形状も発音も同じものがある。ハ行の子音部分だってかなり近い。本当に不思議。画像はスクリーンショット。
世界の文字
− https://www.chikyukotobamura.org/muse/wr_column_8.html

Thinking out loud v.03 – fredsnotes #AI,

Sonnet 101 - CI
O truant Muse what shall be thy amends
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say,
'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fixed;
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
But best is best, if never intermixed'?
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so, for&…

MUSE: Multi-Treatment Experiment Design for Winner Selection and Effect Estimation
Jiachen Xu, Jian Qian, Zijun Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04489 https://

MUSE: Multi-Treatment Experiment Design for Winner Selection and Effect Estimation
We study the design of experiments with multiple treatment levels, a setting common in clinical trials and online A/B/n testing. Unlike single-treatment studies, practical analyses of multi-treatment experiments typically first select a winning treatment, and then only estimate the effect therein. Motivated by this analysis paradigm, we propose a design for MUlti-treatment experiments that jointly maximizes the accuracy of winner Selection and effect Estimation (MUSE). Explicitly, we introduce …

🖤 Diane Keaton
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/diane-keaton-dead-annie-hall-godfather-1236398458/

MUSE-Explainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Symbolic Music Graph Classification Models
Baptiste Hilaire, Emmanouil Karystinaios, Gerhard Widmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26521

MUSE-Explainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Symbolic Music Graph Classification Models
Interpretability is essential for deploying deep learning models in symbolic music analysis, yet most research emphasizes model performance over explanation. To address this, we introduce MUSE-Explainer, a new method that helps reveal how music Graph Neural Network models make decisions by providing clear, human-friendly explanations. Our approach generates counterfactual explanations by making small, meaningful changes to musical score graphs that alter a model's prediction while ensuring the …

Fox Entertainment takes an equity stake in Holywater, which primarily uses AI to create vertical microdramas on platforms such as My Drama and My Muse (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Fox Entertainment Takes Equity Stake in AI-Microdramas Company Holywater
"Development deals with top Hollywood talent will be unveiled soon,” the companies say.

Multipole Semantic Attention: A Fast Approximation of Softmax Attention for Pretraining
Rupert Mitchell, Kristian Kersting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10406 https://

Multipole Semantic Attention: A Fast Approximation of Softmax Attention for Pretraining
We present Multipole Semantic Attention (MuSe), an efficient approximation of softmax attention that combines semantic clustering with multipole expansions from computational physics. Our method addresses the quadratic computational complexity of transformers in the context length by clustering queries and keys separately in their learned representation spaces, enabling a hierarchical two-stage attention mechanism. Unlike prior clustering approaches that group only keys or use unified clusterin…

Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster IV. A study of the Globular Cluster population in four UDGs
Marco Mirabile, Michele Cantiello, Marina Rejkuba, Steffen Mieske, Enrichetta Iodice, Chiara Buttitta, Maria Luisa Buzzo, Johanna Hartke, Goran Doll, Luca Rossi, Magda Arnaboldi, Marica Branchesi, Giuseppe D'Ago, Jesus Falcon-Barroso, Katja Fahrion, Duncan A. Forbes, Marco Gullieuszik, Michael Hilker, Felipe S…

Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra-I cluster IV. A study of the Globular Cluster population in four UDGs
As old stellar systems, globular clusters (GCs) are key fossil tracers of galaxy formation and interaction histories. This paper is part of the LEWIS project, an integral-field spectroscopic survey of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Hydra I cluster. We use MUSE spectroscopy and new VIRCAM $H$-band imaging data to study the GC populations and dark matter content in four dwarf galaxies. We retrieved line-of-sight velocities for all sources in the observed MUSE fields. Since the spectroscopic…

MUSE-FM: Multi-task Environment-aware Foundation Model for Wireless Communications
Tianyue Zheng, Jiajia Guo, Linglong Dai, Shi Jin, Jun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01967 h…

MUSE-FM: Multi-task Environment-aware Foundation Model for Wireless Communications
Recent advancements in foundation models (FMs) have attracted increasing attention in the wireless communication domain. Leveraging the powerful multi-task learning capability, FMs hold the promise of unifying multiple tasks of wireless communication with a single framework. with a single framework. Nevertheless, existing wireless FMs face limitations in the uniformity to address multiple tasks with diverse inputs/outputs across different communication scenarios.In this paper, we propose a MUlt…

Photos from a Holiday week
#travel #photography
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Photos from a Holiday week
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sonnet 078 - LXXVIII
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:
In o…

Black Museum in Washington has 120 days to align with Trump’s values
https://chicagocrusader.com/black-museum-washington-national-museum-of-african-american-history/

Episodic Feedback in Triple AGN Candidate SDSS J0849 1114 Revealed by Extended ionized gas
Xiaoyu Xu, Meicun Hou, Zhiyuan Li, Sijia Peng, Zhao Su, Zongnan Li, Fuyan Bian, Junfeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20716

Episodic Feedback in Triple AGN Candidate SDSS J0849+1114 Revealed by Extended ionized gas
Galaxy mergers funnel gas toward the nuclei, igniting starbursts and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The AGN feedback can reshape the host galaxy and regulate both star formation and super-massive black-hole (SMBH) accretion. Using VLT/MUSE integral-field spectroscopy, we conduct a spatially resolved study of the triple-AGN candidate SDSS J0849+1114. Extended ionized gas structures ($>10$ kpc from nucleus A) primarily associated with tidal tails are detected. Meanwhile, two distinct ionized gas …

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Stellar halo subtraction alternative for accreting companions' characterization with integral field spectroscopy: Analytical and on-sky demonstration on the PDS70, HTLup, and YSES1 systems
R. Julo, M. Bonnefoy, F. Chatelain, O. Flasseur, O. J. J. Michel, S. Jorquera, P. Delorme, G. Chauvin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09878

Stellar halo subtraction alternative for accreting companions' characterization with integral field spectroscopy: Analytical and on-sky demonstration on the PDS70, HTLup, and YSES1 systems
Context. Medium-resolution IFS, such as MUSE at the VLT, are equipped to detect the emission lines of faint accreting companions when associated with dedicated stellar halo subtraction methods. We recently proposed a new approach based on polynomial modulations of a stellar spectrum estimate across the field of view, with orthogonal polynomials and lines masking. Aims. We seek to highlight and quantify analytically and on real data the benefits of this new approach over the one classically used…

The PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha Nebulae Catalogue
A. T. Barnes, R. Chandar, K. Kreckel, F. Belfiore, D. Pathak, D. Thilker, A. K. Leroy, B. Groves, S. C. O. Glover, R. McClain, A. Amiri, Z. Bazzi, M. Boquien, E. Congiu, D. A. Dale, O. V. Egorov, E. Emsellem, K. Grasha, J. Gonzalez Lobos, K. Henny, H. He, R. Indebetouw, J. C. Lee, J. Li, F. -H. Liang, K. Larson, D. Maschmann, S. E. Meidt, J. E. M\'endez-Delgado, J. Neumann, H. -A. Pan, M. Querejeta, E. Rosolowsky, S. K. Sarbadhicary, F. …

The PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha Nebulae Catalogue
We present the PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha nebulae catalogue, comprising 5177 spatially resolved nebulae across 19 nearby star-forming galaxies (< 20 Mpc), based on high-resolution Halpha imaging from HST, homogenised to a fixed 10 pc resolution and sensitivity. Combined with MUSE spectroscopy, this enables robust classification of 4882 H II regions and separation of planetary nebulae and supernova remnants. Electron densities for 2544 H II regions are derived using [S II] diagnostics, and nebular s…

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
https://m…

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

EP250207b is not a collapsar fast X-ray transient. Is it due to a compact object merger?
P. G. Jonker, A. J. Levan, Xing Liu, Dong Xu, Yuan Liu, Xinpeng Xu, An Li, N. Sarin, N. R. Tanvir, G. P. Lamb, M. E. Ravasio, J. S\'anchez-Sierras, J. A. Quirola-V\'asquez, B. C. Rayson, J. N. D. van Dalen, D. B. Malesani, A. P. C. van Hoof, F. E. Bauer, J. Chac\'on, S. J. Smartt, A. Martin-Carrillo, G. Corcoran, L. Cotter, A. Rossi, F. Onori, M. Fraser, P. T. O'Brien, R. A. J. Eyle…

EP250207b is not a collapsar fast X-ray transient. Is it due to a compact object merger?
Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are short-lived extra-galactic X-ray sources. Recent progress through multi-wavelength follow-up of Einstein Probe discovered FXTs has shown that several are related to collapsars, which can also produce gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this paper we investigate the nature of the FXT EP250207b. The VLT/MUSE spectra of a nearby (15.9 kpc in projection) lenticular galaxy reveal no signs of recent star formation. If this galaxy is indeed the host, EP250207b lies at a redshi…

Tracing stellar rotation in young massive LMC clusters
Sebastian Kamann, Nate Bastian, Florian Niederhofer, Andrea Bellini, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri, Stefan Dreizler, Fabian G\"ottgens, Vera Kozhurina-Platais, Mattia Libralato, Sven Martens, Sara Saracino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02698

Tracing stellar rotation in young massive LMC clusters
We present a detailed analysis of stellar rotation along the main sequences of NGC 1866 and NGC 1856, two young (~200-300 Myr) massive clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, using MUSE integral field spectroscopy. Differences in stellar rotation have been proposed as an explanation for the extended main sequence turn-offs and split main sequences in these clusters. In agreement with this idea, we find strong links between the photometric colours of the cluster stars and their projected rotatio…

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How to keep moving even when it hurts #webstories https://muz4now.com/web-stories/whats-in-the-works-the-muse-never-rests

How to keep moving even when it hurts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Stars and ionized gas in UGCA 320: a nearby gas-rich, dwarf Irregular galaxy
Adebusola B. Alabi, S. Ilani Loubser, Moses K. Mogotsi, N. Zabel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20359 ht…

Stars and ionized gas in UGCA 320: a nearby gas-rich, dwarf Irregular galaxy
UGCA 320 is a gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy which belongs to a nearby, relatively isolated group of dwarf galaxies. Here, we combine multi-band HST imaging data with deep long-slit SALT/RSS and integral-field VLT/MUSE spectral data to study the stellar and ionized gas components of UGCA 320. Our imaging data analysis reveals a very blue (V-I~0.1 mag), flattened radial colour profile. We detect an abundance of ionized gas in UGCA 320 powered mostly by recent star formation. The stellar disc in…

Higher order electroweak radiative corrections in lepton-proton scattering using covariant approach
Mahumm Ghaffar, Aleksandrs Aleksejevs, Svetlana Barkanova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22097

Higher order electroweak radiative corrections in lepton-proton scattering using covariant approach
We perform detailed calculations of electroweak radiative corrections to parity violating lepton scattering with a proton target up to quadratic and reducible two-loop level using a covariant approach. Our numerical results are presented at energies relevant for a variety of existing and proposed experimental programs such as Qweak, P2, MOLLER, MUSE, and experiments at the EIC. Analysis shows that such corrections at the Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order (NNLO) are quite significant and have to be …

The Hubble constant from the improved lens modeling of cluster-lensed supernova Refsdal with new spectroscopic redshifts and the Jackknife method
Yuting Liu, Masamune Oguri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09979

The Hubble constant from the improved lens modeling of cluster-lensed supernova Refsdal with new spectroscopic redshifts and the Jackknife method
Time-delay cosmology offers an alternative approach to measuring the Hubble constant ($H_0$), which is distinct from the cosmic distance ladder and cosmic microwave background radiation methods. In this study, we present an improved strong lens mass modeling analysis of the cluster-lensed supernova Refsdal, incorporating the latest spectroscopic redshift data from the MUSE on the Very Large Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope CANUCS/Technicolor. The robustness of our lens models is con…

Sonnet 078 - LXXVIII
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:
In o…

Hear what the muse has to say: What’s up now? – Stan Stewart https://muz4now.com/now

What's up now? - Stan Stewart
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Towards Precision Cosmology With Improved PNLF Distances Using VLT-MUSE. III. Impact of Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxy
Azlizan A. Soemitro, Lucas M. Valenzuela, Martin M. Roth, Robin Ciardullo, George H. Jacoby, Magda Arnaboldi, Guilherme S. Couto, C. Jakob Walcher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10175…

Towards Precision Cosmology With Improved PNLF Distances Using VLT-MUSE. III. Impact of Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxy
Distance measurements using the planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) rely on the bright-end power-law cut-off magnitude ($M^*$), which is defined by a number of the [OIII]$\lambda5007$-brightest planetary nebulae (PNe). In early-type galaxies (ETGs), the formation of these PNe is enigmatic; the population is typically too old to form the expected $M^*$ PNe from single star evolution. We aim to give a solution to this problem. We selected five ETGs with known MUSE-PNLF distances. The MUSE…

How to keep moving even when it hurts #webstories https://muz4now.com/web-stories/whats-in-the-works-the-muse-never-rests

How to keep moving even when it hurts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Muse:
🎵 Dig Down
#NowPlaying #Muse
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Observation of an Accreting Planetary-Mass Companion with Signs of Disk-Disk Interaction in Orion
Emilie Vila, Paul Amiot, Olivier Bern\'e, Ilane Schroetter, Thomas Haworth, Peter Zeidler, Christiaan Boersma, Jan Cami, Asuncion Fuente, Javier R. Goicoechea, Takashi Onaka, Els Peeters, Massimo Robberto, Markus R\"ollig
https://arxi…

Observation of an Accreting Planetary-Mass Companion with Signs of Disk-Disk Interaction in Orion
Young ($\lesssim 10$ Myr) planetary-mass companions (PMCs) provide valuable insights into the formation and early evolution of planetary systems. To date, only a dozen such objects have been identified through direct imaging. Using JWST/NIRCam observations towards the Orion Nebula, obtained as part of the \textit{PDRs4All} Early Release Science program, we have identified a faint point source near the M-type star V2376 Ori. Follow-up spectroscopic observations with the MUSE instrument on the VL…

The GECKOS Survey: Resolved, multiphase observations of mass-loading and gas density in the galactic wind of NGC 4666
Barbara Mazzilli Ciraulo, D. B. Fisher, R. Elliott, A. Fraser-McKelvie, M. R. Hayden, M. Martig, J. van de Sande, A. J. Battisti, J. Bland-Hawthorn, A. D. Bolatto, T. H. Brown, B. Catinella, F. Combes, L. Cortese, T. A. Davis, E. Emsellem, D. A. Gadotti, C. del P. Lagos, X. Lin, A. Marasco, E. Peng, F. Pinna, T. H. Puzia, L. A. Silva-Lima, L. M. Valenzuela, G. van de Ve…

The GECKOS Survey: Resolved, multiphase observations of mass-loading and gas density in the galactic wind of NGC 4666
We present a multiphase, resolved study of the galactic wind extending from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 4666. For this we use VLT/MUSE observations from the GECKOS program and HI data from the WALLABY survey. We identify both ionised and HI gas in a biconical structure extending to at least $z\sim$8 kpc from the galaxy disk, with increasing velocity offsets above the midplane in both phases, consistent with a multiphase wind. The measured electron density, using [SII], differs significantly…

Sonnet 078 - LXXVIII
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:
In o…

The heart of NGC 5253 as seen with MUSE-NFM: nitrogen enrichment through stellar chemical feedback at parsec scales
Brigitte G. A. Pruijt (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University), Ana Monreal-Ibero (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University), Peter M. Weilbacher (Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam), Jeremy R. Walsh (European Southern Observatory), Sebastian Kamann (Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University), Azlizan A. Soemitro (Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik…

The heart of NGC 5253 as seen with MUSE-NFM: nitrogen enrichment through stellar chemical feedback at parsec scales
NGC 5253 is a nearby (D=3.6 Mpc) Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy, notable for its three massive young super star clusters (SSCs) and nitrogen enrichment. Its similarity to extreme star-forming galaxies at high redshift makes it a good local analogue for studying chemical enrichment at high spatial resolution. We characterise the ionised gas and dust in the giant HII region in the proximity of the three SSCs in the centre of NGC 5253 using new Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer Narrow Field Mode adapti…

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MUSE study of two giant low surface brightness galaxies with compact satellites
Anna S. Saburova, Damir Gasymov, Ivan S. Gerasimov, Oleg V. Egorov, Igor V. Chilingarian, Fedor M. Kolganov, Anatoly V. Zasov, Evgenii V. Rubtsov, Anton V. Afanasiev, Mariia V. Demianenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25310

MUSE study of two giant low surface brightness galaxies with compact satellites
Giant low-surface-brightness disk galaxies (gLSBGs) are rare objects with disk radii up-to 160 kpc and dynamical masses of an order of up to 10$^{12}$ $M_{\odot}$. Their very existence challenges currently accepted theories of galaxy formation and evolution, as it is difficult to build such large, dynamically cold disks through mergers without destroying them. We present deep MUSE mosaic observations of two nearby gLSBGs with compact elliptical satellites: UGC 1382, which hosts a globally count…

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons destruction in star-forming regions across 42 nearby galaxies
Oleg V. Egorov, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, Kathryn Kreckel, Dalya Baron, Francesco Belfiore, Ryan Chown, Jessica Sutter, M\'ed\'eric Boquien, Mar Canal i Saguer, Enrico Congiu, Daniel A. Dale, Evgeniya Egorova, Michael Huber, Jing Li, Thomas G. Williams, J\'er\'emy Chastenet, I-Da Chiang, Ivan Gerasimov, Hamid Hassani, Hwihyun Kim, Hannah Koziol, Janice C. Lee, Rebecca L.…

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons destruction in star-forming regions across 42 nearby galaxies
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widespread in the interstellar medium (ISM) of Solar metallicity galaxies, where they play a critical role in ISM heating, cooling, and reprocessing stellar radiation. The PAH fraction, the abundance of PAHs relative to total dust mass, is a key parameter in ISM physics. Using JWST and MUSE observations of 42 galaxies from the PHANGS survey, we analyze the PAH fraction in over 17 000 H II regions spanning a gas-phase oxygen abundance of 12+log(O/H) = …

Negative gas-phase metallicity gradients in the narrow line region and galactic disc of local AGN-host galaxies
Amirnezam Amiri, Johan H. Knapen, Bret D. Lehmer, Amirhossein Khoram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12156

Negative gas-phase metallicity gradients in the narrow line region and galactic disc of local AGN-host galaxies
The gas-phase metallicity distribution in galaxies provides significant information on their evolution. We report the discovery of nega- tive radial gradients in the gas-phase metallicity of the narrow-line region of the nine galaxies in the Measuring Active Galactic Nuclei Under MUSE Microscope (MAGNUM) galaxies: Centaurus A, Circinus, IC 5063, NGC 1068, NGC 1365, NGC 1386, NGC 2992, NGC 4945, NGC 5643. From strong-line abundance relations for active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star-forming regi…

Kinematics of the lens host S0 galaxy NGC 1553: role of secular processes
Saili Keshri, Sudhanshu Barway, Francoise Combes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09902 https://

Kinematics of the lens host S0 galaxy NGC 1553: role of secular processes
We present an investigation of the central structure of the S0 galaxy NGC 1553, to understand its origin and the underlying dynamical processes that shape it. The high-resolution integral field spectroscopic data from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) reveal a well-ordered rotation pattern, consisting of a rapidly rotating nuclear disc that is somewhat decoupled from the main disc, together with an inner lens; we collectively refer to these structures as the "disc-lens". The central …

The GECKOS survey: Jeans anisotropic models of edge-on discs uncover the impact of dust and kinematic structures
T. H. Rutherford, A. Fraser-McKelvie, E. Emsellem, J. van de Sande, S. M. Croom, A. Poci, M. Martig, D. A. Gadotti, F. Pinna, L. M. Valenzuela, G. van de Ven, J. Bland-Hawthorn, P. Das, T. A. Davis, R. Elliott, D. B. Fisher, M. R. Hayden, A. Mailvaganam, S. Sharma, T. Zafar

The GECKOS survey: Jeans anisotropic models of edge-on discs uncover the impact of dust and kinematic structures
The central regions of disc galaxies host a rich variety of stellar structures: nuclear discs, bars, bulges, and boxy-peanut (BP) bulges. These components are often difficult to disentangle, both photometrically and kinematically, particularly in star-forming galaxies where dust obscuration and complex stellar motions complicate interpretation. In this work, we use data from the GECKOS-MUSE survey to investigate the impact of dust on axisymmetric Jeans Anisotropic Multi-Gaussian Expansion (JAM)…

Metallicity differences between Type IIP and stripped-envelope supernova environments
R. Ganss, J. L. Pledger, A. E. Sansom, P. A. James, J. Puls, S. M. Habergham-Mawson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06526

Metallicity differences between Type IIP and stripped-envelope supernova environments
This work presents measurements of local HII environment metallicities of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) in hosts with redshifts up to z$\sim$0.025. 139 SNe environments were observed at the Isaac Newton Telescope and data of an additional 268 SNe environments were found in archival data of MUSE, MaNGA and PISCO. The project focuses on SNe with clean Type IIP, Type Ib and Type Ic classifications. We present the largest spectroscopic sample to date, evaluating environment metallicities of 79 Typ…

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"Our Home" - Jaydn, opus 6-10 - streaming everywhere
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The Size Evolution and the Size-Mass Relation of Lyman-Alpha Emitters across $3 \lesssim z < 7$ as Observed by JWST
Qi Song, F. S. Liu, Jian Ren, Pinsong Zhao, Qifan Cui, Yubin Li, Hao Mo, Yuchong Luo, Guanghuan Wang, Nan Li, Hassen M. Yesuf, Weichen Wang, Xin Zhang, Xianmin Meng, Mingxiang Fu, Bingqing Zhang, Chenxiaoji Ling
https://ar…

The Size Evolution and the Size-Mass Relation of Lyman-Alpha Emitters across $3 \lesssim z < 7$ as Observed by JWST
Understanding the morphological structures of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) is crucial for unveiling their formation pathways and the physical origins of Ly$α$ emission. However, the evolution of their sizes and structural scaling relations remains debated. In this study, we analyze a large sample of 876 spectroscopically confirmed LAEs at $3 \lesssim z < 7$, selected from the MUSE, VANDELS, and CANDELSz7 surveys in the GOODS-S, UDS, and COSMOS fields. Utilizing deep, high-resolution near-infrar…

SNELLS-HD I: a first look at the stellar properties of the massive strong-lens galaxy SNL-1 with 50 pc resolution
Adriano Poci, Russell J. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01732

SNELLS-HD I: a first look at the stellar properties of the massive strong-lens galaxy SNL-1 with 50 pc resolution
We present a dynamical and chemical study of the centre of a massive early-type strong-lens galaxy ESO286-G022 (SNL-1). Analysing new data obtained through the adaptive-optics-assisted Narrow-Field Mode of VLT/MUSE, we aim to measure the mass distribution and internal properties of SNL-1 at $\sim 50\ {\rm pc}$ resolution. In particular, we aim to address the tension in the reported IMF measurements of SNL-1 between strong-lens/dynamical and spectral-fitting techniques. We fit a triaxial orbital…

Ly-alpha emission reveals two satellite halos around massive groups at z ~ 3: the puzzling case of a quiescent central galaxy
Sicen Guo, Emanuele Daddi, Raphael Gobat, Nikolaj B. Sillassen, Chiara D'Eugenio, R. Michael Rich, Guillaume Elias, Manuel Aravena, Franziska Bruckmann, Camila Correa, Ivan Delvecchio, David Elbaz, Sofia G. Gallego, Fabrizio Gentile, Shuowen Jin, Boris S. Kalita, James D. Neill, Manuel Solimano, Francesco Valentino, Tao Wang

Ly-alpha emission reveals two satellite halos around massive groups at z ~ 3: the puzzling case of a quiescent central galaxy
We present the discovery and characterisation of two Ly$α$ nebulae (LANs), RO-1001-Sat and RO-0959-Sat, as satellite structures of two giant LANs at $z=2.920$ and 3.092. They are found neighbouring two out of four known giant LANs at $z\sim3$ in our MUSE follow-up observations, reinforcing the idea that Ly$α$ emission can be used to trace massive dark matter halos at high-$z$. This high occurrence of massive satellite halos agrees with simulations. With sizes of $\simeq80\times160$ and $80\ti…

Multiphase gas offsets in the atmospheres of central galaxies and their consequences for SMBH activation I. The hot and warm ionized gas phases
Francesco Ubertosi, Fabrizio Brighenti, Ewan O'Sullivan, Gerrit Schellenberger, Myriam Gitti, Simona Giacintucci, Pasquale Temi, Laurence P. David, Jan Vrtilek, Tiziana Venturi, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Marcella Massardi, Kamlesh Rajpurohit

Multiphase gas offsets in the atmospheres of central galaxies and their consequences for SMBH activation I. The hot and warm ionized gas phases
We investigate the spatial relationships between multi-phase gas components and supermassive black hole (SMBH) activity in a sample of 25 cool core galaxy groups and clusters. Using high angular resolution observations from \textit{Chandra}, VLT/MUSE, and VLBA, we robustly locate the position, respectively, of the X-ray peak of the intracluster medium (ICM), of the H$α$ peak of the warm ionized gas, and of the SMBH radio core on parsec scales. We identify spatial offsets between the X-ray peak…

oMEGACat. VII. Tracing Interstellar and Intracluster Medium of $\omega$ Centauri using Sodium Absorptions
Z. Wang (Purmortal), A. C. Seth, M. Latour, J. Strader, M. H\"aberle, N. Neumayer, C. Clontz, S. Kamann, M. S. Nitschai, M. Alfaro-Cuello, A. Bellini, A. Feldmeier-Krause, M. Libralato, A. P. Milone, P. J. Smith, S. O. Souza, G. van de Ven
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oMEGACat. VII. Tracing Interstellar and Intracluster Medium of $ω$ Centauri using Sodium Absorptions
We investigate the foreground interstellar medium along the line of sight and intracluster medium of $ω$ Centauri ($ω$ Cen) by measuring the equivalent width of Na I D absorptions from MUSE observations. The large line-of-sight velocity difference between $ω$ Cen and the foreground enables us to separate Na I D absorption contributed from atomic gas in the interstellar and intracluster medium. We find that small-scale substructures in the foreground Na I D distribution correlate with differe…

Masses, Star-Formation Efficiencies, and Dynamical Evolution of 18,000 HII Regions
Debosmita Pathak, Adam K. Leroy, Ashley. T. Barnes, Todd A. Thompson, Laura A. Lopez, Karin M. Sandstrom, Jiayi Sun, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Koch, Kirsten L. Larson, Janice Lee, Sharon Meidt, Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez, Eva Schinnerer, Zein Bazzi, Francesco Belfiore, M\'ed\'eric Boquien, Ryan Chown, Dario Colombo, Enrico Congiu, Oleg V. Egorov, Cosima Eibensteiner, Sushma Kura…

Masses, Star-Formation Efficiencies, and Dynamical Evolution of 18,000 HII Regions
We present measurements of the masses associated with $\sim18,000$ HII regions across 19 nearby star-forming galaxies by combining data from JWST, HST, MUSE, ALMA, VLA, and MeerKAT from the multi-wavelength PHANGS survey. We report 10 pc-scale measurements of the mass of young stars, ionized gas, and older disk stars coincident with each HII region, as well as the initial and current mass of molecular gas, atomic gas, and swept-up shell material, estimated from lower resolution data. We find th…

What’s in the works? How to keep moving even when it hurts #brokenankle #creativeprocess #inspiration #muse

What's in the works? How to keep moving even when it hurts
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MUSEQuBES: The Column Density, Covering Fraction, Mass, and Environmental Dependence of Cool HI Gas Around Low-Redshift Galaxies
Sayak Dutta, Sowgat Muzahid, Joop Schaye, Sean Johnson, Nicolas F. Bouche, Ramona Augustin, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Martin Wendt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22283

MUSEQuBES: The Column Density, Covering Fraction, Mass, and Environmental Dependence of Cool HI Gas Around Low-Redshift Galaxies
We investigate cool HI gas traced by Lyman series absorption in the vicinity of 256 galaxies (median stellar mass, log10(M*/Msun) = 8.7 and median redshift, z = 0.48) using 15 background quasars (median impact parameter, D ~ 140 physical kpc (pkpc)), as part of the MUSE Quasar-fields Blind Emitters Survey (MUSEQuBES). We find that the HI column density (N(HI)) profile around isolated, star-forming galaxies, which span ~ 3 dex in stellar mass, is well described by a power law with a slope of ~ -…