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Relativistic Shapiro Delay Measurements of an Extremely Massive Millisecond Pulsar by Cromartie, H T, Fonseca, E, Ransom, S M, Demorest, P B, Arzoumanian, Z, Blumer, H, Brook, P R, DeCesar, M E, Dolch, T, Ellis, J A, Ferdman, R D, Ferrara, E C, Garver-Daniels, N, Gentile, P, Jones, M L, Lam, M T, Lorimer, D R, Lynch, R S, McLaughlin, M A, Ng, C, Nice, D J, Pennucci, T T, Spiewak, R, Stairs, I H, Stovall, K, Swiggum, J K, Zhu, W W

“…Despite its importance to our understanding of physics at supranuclear densities, the equation of state (EoS) of matter deep within neutron stars remains…”
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Spectroscopic confirmation of four metal-poor galaxies at z = 10.3–13.2 by Curtis-Lake, Emma, Carniani, Stefano, Cameron, Alex, Charlot, Stephane, Jakobsen, Peter, Maiolino, Roberto, Bunker, Andrew, Witstok, Joris, Smit, Renske, Chevallard, Jacopo, Willott, Chris, Ferruit, Pierre, Arribas, Santiago, Bonaventura, Nina, Curti, Mirko, D’Eugenio, Francesco, Franx, Marijn, Giardino, Giovanna, Looser, Tobias J., Lützgendorf, Nora, Maseda, Michael V., Rawle, Tim, Rix, Hans-Walter, Rodríguez del Pino, Bruno, Übler, Hannah, Sirianni, Marco, Dressler, Alan, Egami, Eiichi, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Endsley, Ryan, Hainline, Kevin, Hausen, Ryan, Johnson, Benjamin D., Rieke, Marcia, Robertson, Brant, Shivaei, Irene, Stark, Daniel P., Tacchella, Sandro, Williams, Christina C., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Bhatawdekar, Rachana, Bowler, Rebecca, Boyett, Kristan, Chen, Zuyi, de Graaff, Anna, Helton, Jakob M., Hviding, Raphael E., Jones, Gareth C., Kumari, Nimisha, Lyu, Jianwei, Nelson, Erica, Perna, Michele, Sandles, Lester, Saxena, Aayush, Suess, Katherine A., Sun, Fengwu, Topping, Michael W., Wallace, Imaan E. B., Whitler, Lily

“…Finding and characterizing the first galaxies that illuminated the early universe at cosmic dawn is pivotal to understand the physical conditions and the…”
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Tensions between the early and late Universe by Verde, Licia, Treu, Tommaso, Riess, Adam G.

“…A Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics workshop in July 2019 directed attention to the Hubble constant discrepancy. New results showed that it does not…”
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Stringent constraints on neutron-star radii from multimessenger observations and nuclear theory by Capano, Collin D., Tews, Ingo, Brown, Stephanie M., Margalit, Ben, De, Soumi, Kumar, Sumit, Brown, Duncan A., Krishnan, Badri, Reddy, Sanjay

“…The properties of neutron stars are determined by the nature of the matter that they contain. These properties can be constrained by measurements of the star’s…”
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Identification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z > 10 by Robertson, B. E., Tacchella, S., Johnson, B. D., Hainline, K., Whitler, L., Eisenstein, D. J., Endsley, R., Rieke, M., Stark, D. P., Alberts, S., Dressler, A., Egami, E., Hausen, R., Rieke, G., Shivaei, I., Williams, C. C., Willmer, C. N. A., Arribas, S., Bonaventura, N., Bunker, A., Cameron, A. J., Carniani, S., Charlot, S., Chevallard, J., Curti, M., Curtis-Lake, E., D’Eugenio, F., Jakobsen, P., Looser, T. J., Lützgendorf, N., Maiolino, R., Maseda, M. V., Rawle, T., Rix, H.-W., Smit, R., Übler, H., Willott, C., Witstok, J., Baum, S., Bhatawdekar, R., Boyett, K., Chen, Z., de Graaff, A., Florian, M., Helton, J. M., Hviding, R. E., Ji, Z., Kumari, N., Lyu, J., Nelson, E., Sandles, L., Saxena, A., Suess, K. A., Sun, F., Topping, M., Wallace, I. E. B.

“…Surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered candidate galaxies in the first 400 Myr of cosmic time. Preliminary indications have…”
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Microlensing constraints on primordial black holes with Subaru/HSC Andromeda observations by Niikura, Hiroko, Takada, Masahiro, Yasuda, Naoki, Lupton, Robert H., Sumi, Takahiro, More, Surhud, Kurita, Toshiki, Sugiyama, Sunao, More, Anupreeta, Oguri, Masamune, Chiba, Masashi

“…Primordial black holes (PBHs) have long been suggested as a viable candidate for the elusive dark matter. The abundance of such PBHs has been constrained using…”
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Two accreting protoplanets around the young star PDS 70 by Haffert, S. Y., Bohn, A. J., de Boer, J., Snellen, I. A. G., Brinchmann, J., Girard, J. H., Keller, C. U., Bacon, R.

“…Newly forming protoplanets are expected to create cavities and substructures in young, gas-rich protoplanetary disks 1 – 3 , but they are difficult to detect…”
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HXMT identification of a non-thermal X-ray burst from SGR J1935+2154 and with FRB 200428 by Li, C. K., Lin, L., Xiong, S. L., Ge, M. Y., Lu, F. J., Zhang, S. N., Tuo, Y. L., Nang, Y., Zhang, B., Xiao, S., Chen, Y., Song, L. M., Xu, Y. P., Liu, C. Z., Jia, S. M., Cao, X. L., Qu, J. L., Zhang, S., Gu, Y. D., Liao, J. Y., Zhao, X. F., Nie, J. Y., Zheng, S. J., Zheng, Y. G., Cai, C., Li, B., Xue, W. C., Bu, Q. C., Chang, Z., Chen, Y. B., Chen, Y. P., Cui, W., Cui, W. W., Dong, Y. W., Du, Y. Y., Gao, G. H., Gao, H., Gao, M., Gu, Y. D., Guan, J., Guo, C. C., Han, D. W., Jiang, L. H., Jiang, W. C., Jin, J., Jin, Y. J., Kong, L. D., Li, G., Li, M. S., Li, X., Li, X. F., Li, Y. G., Li, Z. W., Liang, X. H., Liu, B. S., Liu, G. Q., Liu, H. W., Liu, X. J., Liu, Y. N., Lu, X. F., Luo, T., Ma, X., Sai, N., Shang, R. C., Song, X. Y., Sun, L., Tao, L., Wang, C., Wang, G. F., Wang, J., Wang, W. S., Wang, Y. S., Wen, X. Y., Wu, B. Y., Wu, M., Xiao, G. C., Yang, J. W., Yang, S., Yang, Y. J., Yang, Yi-Jung, Yi, Q. B., Yin, Q. Q., You, Y., Zhang, A. M., Zhang, C. M., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, W., Zhang, W. C., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Yue, Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Zhi, Zhang, Z. L., Zhou, J. F., Zhu, Y., Zhu, Y. X., Zhuang, R. L.

“…Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short pulses observed in the radio band from cosmological distances 1 . One class of models invokes soft gamma-ray repeaters…”
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Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates by Boylan-Kolchin, Michael

“…Early data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed a bevy of high-redshift galaxy candidates with unexpectedly high stellar masses. An…”
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On the detection of a cosmic dawn signal in the radio background by Singh, Saurabh, Nambissan T., Jishnu, Subrahmanyan, Ravi, Udaya Shankar, N., Girish, B. S., Raghunathan, A., Somashekar, R., Srivani, K. S., Sathyanarayana Rao, Mayuri

“…The astrophysics of the cosmic dawn, when star formation commenced in the first collapsed objects, is predicted to be revealed by spectral and spatial…”
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Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid Ryugu by Yada, Toru, Abe, Masanao, Okada, Tatsuaki, Nakato, Aiko, Yogata, Kasumi, Miyazaki, Akiko, Hatakeda, Kentaro, Kumagai, Kazuya, Nishimura, Masahiro, Hitomi, Yuya, Soejima, Hiromichi, Yoshitake, Miwa, Iwamae, Ayako, Furuya, Shizuho, Uesugi, Masayuki, Usui, Tomohiro, Hayashi, Tasuku, Yamamoto, Daiki, Fukai, Ryota, Sugita, Seiji, Cho, Yuichiro, Yumoto, Koki, Yabe, Yuna, Bibring, Jean-Pierre, Pilorget, Cedric, Hamm, Vincent, Brunetto, Rosario, Riu, Lucie, Lourit, Lionel, Loizeau, Damien, Lequertier, Guillaume, Moussi-Soffys, Aurelie, Tachibana, Shogo, Sawada, Hirotaka, Okazaki, Ryuji, Takano, Yoshinori, Sakamoto, Kanako, Miura, Yayoi N., Yano, Hajime, Ireland, Trevor R., Yamada, Tetsuya, Fujimoto, Masaki, Kitazato, Kohei, Namiki, Noriyuki, Arakawa, Masahiko, Hirata, Naru, Yurimoto, Hisayoshi, Nakamura, Tomoki, Noguchi, Takaaki, Yabuta, Hikaru, Naraoka, Hiroshi, Ito, Motoo, Nakamura, Eizo, Uesugi, Kentaro, Kobayashi, Katsura, Michikami, Tatsuhiro, Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Hirata, Naoyuki, Ishihara, Yoshiaki, Matsumoto, Koji, Noda, Hirotomo, Noguchi, Rina, Shimaki, Yuri, Shirai, Kei, Ogawa, Kazunori, Wada, Koji, Senshu, Hiroki, Morota, Tomokatsu, Honda, Rie, Honda, Chikatoshi, Yokota, Yasuhiro, Matsuoka, Moe, Sakatani, Naoya, Tatsumi, Eri, Miura, Akira, Yamada, Manabu, Fujii, Atsushi, Hirose, Chikako, Hosoda, Satoshi, Ikeda, Hitoshi, Iwata, Takahiro, Kikuchi, Shota, Mimasu, Yuya, Mori, Osamu, Ogawa, Naoko, Ono, Go, Shimada, Takanobu, Soldini, Stefania, Takahashi, Tadateru, Takei, Yuto, Takeuchi, Hiroshi, Tsukizaki, Ryudo, Yoshikawa, Kent, Terui, Fuyuto, Nakazawa, Satoru, Tanaka, Satoshi, Saiki, Takanao, Yoshikawa, Makoto, Watanabe, Sei-ichiro, Tsuda, Yuichi

“…C-type asteroids 1 are considered to be primitive small Solar System bodies enriched in water and organics, providing clues to the origin and evolution of the…”
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Cosmological constraints from the Hubble diagram of quasars at high redshifts by Risaliti, G., Lusso, E.

“…The concordance model ( Λ cold dark matter ( Λ CDM) model, where Λ is the cosmological constant) reproduces the main current cosmological observations 1 – 4…”
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An Ice Age JWST inventory of dense molecular cloud ices by McClure, M. K., Rocha, W. R. M., Pontoppidan, K. M., Crouzet, N., Chu, L. E. U., Dartois, E., Lamberts, T., Noble, J. A., Pendleton, Y. J., Perotti, G., Qasim, D., Rachid, M. G., Smith, Z. L., Sun, Fengwu, Beck, Tracy L., Boogert, A. C. A., Brown, W. A., Caselli, P., Charnley, S. B., Cuppen, Herma M., Dickinson, H., Drozdovskaya, M. N., Egami, E., Erkal, J., Fraser, H., Garrod, R. T., Harsono, D., Ioppolo, S., Jiménez-Serra, I., Jin, M., Jørgensen, J. K., Kristensen, L. E., Lis, D. C., McCoustra, M. R. S., McGuire, Brett A., Melnick, G. J., Öberg, Karin I., Palumbo, M. E., Shimonishi, T., Sturm, J. A., van Dishoeck, E. F., Linnartz, H.

“…Icy grain mantles are the main reservoir of the volatile elements that link chemical processes in dark, interstellar clouds with the formation of planets and…”
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Hierarchical mergers of stellar-mass black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures by Gerosa, Davide, Fishbach, Maya

“…While most of the compact-binary mergers detected by LIGO and Virgo are expected to consist of first-generation black holes formed from the collapse of stars,…”
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Eccentricity estimate for black hole mergers with numerical relativity simulations by Gayathri, V., Healy, J., Lange, J., O’Brien, B., Szczepańczyk, M., Bartos, Imre, Campanelli, M., Klimenko, S., Lousto, C. O., O’Shaughnessy, R.

“…The origin of black hole mergers discovered by the LIGO 1 and Virgo 2 gravitational-wave observatories is currently unknown. GW190521 3 , 4 is the heaviest…”
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Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies by Sales, Laura V., Wetzel, Andrew, Fattahi, Azadeh

“…Galaxies and their dark-matter haloes have posed several challenges to the dark energy plus cold dark matter ( Λ CDM) cosmological model. These discrepancies…”
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A strangely light neutron star within a supernova remnant by Doroshenko, Victor, Suleimanov, Valery, Pühlhofer, Gerd, Santangelo, Andrea

“…To constrain the equation of state of cold dense matter, astrophysical measurements are essential. These are mostly based on observations of neutron stars in…”
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Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus by Greaves, Jane S., Richards, Anita M. S., Bains, William, Rimmer, Paul B., Sagawa, Hideo, Clements, David L., Seager, Sara, Petkowski, Janusz J., Sousa-Silva, Clara, Ranjan, Sukrit, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Fraser, Helen J., Cartwright, Annabel, Mueller-Wodarg, Ingo, Zhan, Zhuchang, Friberg, Per, Coulson, Iain, Lee, E’lisa, Hoge, Jim

“…Measurements of trace gases in planetary atmospheres help us explore chemical conditions different to those on Earth. Our nearest neighbour, Venus, has cloud…”
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Aerosol composition of hot giant exoplanets dominated by silicates and hydrocarbon hazes by Gao, Peter, Thorngren, Daniel P., Lee, Elspeth K. H., Fortney, Jonathan J., Morley, Caroline V., Wakeford, Hannah R., Powell, Diana K., Stevenson, Kevin B., Zhang, Xi

“…Aerosols are common in the atmospheres of exoplanets across a wide swath of temperatures, masses and ages 1 – 3 . These aerosols strongly impact observations…”
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Massive stars as major factories of Galactic cosmic rays by Aharonian, Felix, Yang, Ruizhi, de Oña Wilhelmi, Emma

“…The identification of the main contributors to the locally observed fluxes of cosmic rays is a prime objective in the resolution of the long-standing enigma of…”
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