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Evolutionary Links: From Gaia Neutron Star Binaries to Pulsar White Dwarf Endpoints
Debatri Chattopadhyay, Kyle A. Rocha, Seth Gossage, Vicky Kalogera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11828

Evolutionary Links: From Gaia Neutron Star Binaries to Pulsar White Dwarf Endpoints
The discovery of wide, eccentric Gaia neutron stars (NSs) in binaries with still evolving (likely main sequence) companions offers a new probe of mass transfer and pulsar recycling beyond the compact-binary regime. We model their origins and fates using population synthesis with POSYDON and detailed binary evolution with MESA, contrasting two limiting prescriptions at Roche-lobe overflow (RLOF): enforced circularization versus explicitly eccentric mass transfer. Our MESA setups include updated …

Today (December 11) in 1957 was the day my favorite bass player of all time, Mike Mesaros, was born. Happy birthday to Mike! 🎂🔥

Hammonds
Hendrys
Butterfly
Leadbetter
Mesa Lane
El Capitan
Gaviota
#SantaBarbara

Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- MESA-QUEST: Tracing the formation of direct collapse black hole seeds via quasi-stars
Santarelli, Campbell, Farag, Bellinger, Natarajan, Caplan

Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.GA. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.GA/new
[1/1]:
- MESA-QUEST: Tracing the formation of direct collapse black hole seeds via quasi-stars
Santarelli, Campbell, Farag, Bellinger, Natarajan, Caplan

Measuring the Hidden Cost of Data Valuation through Collective Disclosure
Patrick Mesana, Gilles Caporossi, Sebastien Gambs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08869 https://

Measuring the Hidden Cost of Data Valuation through Collective Disclosure
Data valuation methods assign marginal utility to each data point that has contributed to the training of a machine learning model. If used directly as a payout mechanism, this creates a hidden cost of valuation, in which contributors with near-zero marginal value would receive nothing, even though their data had to be collected and assessed. To better formalize this cost, we introduce a conceptual and game-theoretic model, the Information Disclosure Game, between a Data Union (sometimes also c…

'inxi' is a CLI system information tool - it's got modes that cover a lot of different things, but for example if you're speaking to someone with a graphics problem, instead of asking them which GPU they have, and then checking their Mesa etc options - just ask them to paste you the output of 'inxi -G'
https://c…

inxi
inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. It is available in most Linux distribution repositories, and does its best to support the BSDs.

Well, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.

If you're cocktail minded and in #Glasgow I'd head to this! I know how much hard work has gone in to it and can vouch for how skilled the lads are.
https://www.

Collective of bartenders to host birthday cocktail pop up for east end this weekend
Bartender collective called Flat Five are hosting their first birthday event this weekend (Friday, Octonber 10 to Sunday, October 12) at Mesa on Duke Street in Dennistoun.

MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) III. The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence
Evan B. Bauer, Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy, Tim Cunningham, Minjung Park, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21717

MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) III. The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence
We present a substantial update to the MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) library, extending the MIST model grids and isochrones down the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence with realistic physics for WD cooling timescales. This work provides a large grid of MESA models for carbon-oxygen core WDs with hydrogen atmospheres (spectral type DA/DC), descended from full prior stellar evolution calculations. The model tracks, isochrones, and WD cooling timescale contours are available on the MIST…