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A Window for Water-hydrogen Demixing on Warm Metal-rich Sub-Neptunes

July 20, 2026 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Daniel P. Thorngren, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, et. al
UMD Author(s): Eliza Kempton

Tidal Disruption Event Rates across Cosmic Time: Forecasts for LSST, Roman, and JWST and Their Constraints on the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function

July 20, 2026 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Mitchell Karmen, Suvi Gezari, Colin Norman, et. al
UMD Author(s): Suvi Gezari

Interplanetary Electric Fields for Extreme Magnetic Storms

July 16, 2026 | Geophysical Research Letters
Author(s): Jeffrey J. Love, E. Joshua Rigler, Ian G. Richardson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Ian G Richardson

Evidence for an Atmosphere on the Ultra-short-period Super-Earth HD 3167 b

July 10, 2026 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Brandon Park Coy, Qiao Xue, Megan Weiner Mansfield, et. al
UMD Author(s): Megan Weiner Mansfield

Reverberation in the Narrow Fe Kα Line in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 with XRISM

July 10, 2026 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Jon M. Miller, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Xin Xiang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Abderahmen Zoghbi

Glossy Silicate Clouds on the Scorched Dayside of LTT9779b

July 10, 2026 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Suman Saha, James S. Jenkins, Jonathan Brande, et. al
UMD Author(s): Jonathan Brande

Impact of Clouds on the Atmosphere–Mantle Interface of Sub-Neptunes

July 10, 2026 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Sagnick Mukherjee, Matthew C. Nixon, Luis Welbanks, et. al

High nitrogen and carbon isotopic ratios in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

July 6, 2026 | Nature Astronomy
Author(s): C. Opitom, J. Manfroid, D. Hutsemékers, et. al
UMD Author(s): Matthew M Knight

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as a planetary defense asset

July 2, 2026
Author(s): Bryan Holler, Richard Cosentino, William Schultz, et. al
UMD Author(s): Benjamin Sharkey

History-dependent bulk density changes of lunar regolith under sustained shaking

July 2, 2026
Author(s): Eric Frizzell, Nicholas Schmerr, Christine Hartzell, et. al

CO2-Driven Activity and Icy Coma Dust in the Active Centaur 450P/LONEOS

July 2, 2026
Author(s): Charles Schambeau, Michael S. P. Kelley, Maria Womack, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael S Kelley

Vertical mixing of mineral clouds in hot Jupiter atmospheres

July 2, 2026
Author(s): Thaddeus Komacek, Emeline Fromont
UMD Author(s): Emeline Francoise Fromont

Preparing for DAVINCI Through Multi-Scale Drone Reconnaissance of Icelandic Lava Shields

July 2, 2026
Author(s): Erika Kohler, James Garvin, Stephen Scheidt, et. al
UMD Author(s): Stephen Scheidt

4th TDAMM Workshop White Paper

July 1, 2026 | arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Kocevski, Daniel, Margutti, Raffaella, Coughlin, Michael
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller, Zorawar Wadiasingh

Sequential fragmentation of C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) after its near-sun passage

July 1, 2026 | Icarus
Author(s): D. Bodewits, J.W. Noonan, M.S.P. Kelley, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael S Kelley

Magnetar Fireballs and Short Bursts

July 1, 2026 | American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts
Author(s): Wadiasingh, Zorawar, Dinh, Hoa, Kalapotharakos, Constantinos
UMD Author(s): Zorawar Wadiasingh

The First Insights into an Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsar with XRISM: Phase-resolved High-resolution Spectroscopy of the Fe K-shell Band of M82 X-2

July 1, 2026 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Shogo B. Kobayashi, Peter Kosec, Erin Boettcher, et. al
UMD Author(s): Erin Tavormina Boettcher

Variations in Dust Devil Characteristics Across Spatially Varying Terrain: Results from a Field Study in Smith Creek Valley, Nevada, USA

July 1, 2026 | Geosciences
Author(s): Lori K. Fenton, Stephen P. Scheidt, Gwendolyn Arzaga, et. al
UMD Author(s): Stephen Scheidt

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