Publications

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  • Identifying Anomalous DESI Galaxy Spectra with a Variational Autoencoder
    The tens of millions of spectra being captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide tremendous discovery potential. In this work we show how Machine Learning, in particular Variational Autoencoders (VAE), can detect anomalies in a sample of approximately 200 000 DESI spectra comprising galaxies, quasars and stars. We
    Nicolaou, C. et al.

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    2026
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  • Heat Reveals What Clouds Conceal: Global Carbon and Longitudinally Asymmetric Chemistry on LTT 9779 b
    LTT 9779 b is an ultra-hot Neptune (R p ≍ 4.7 R ⊕, M p ≍ 29 M ⊕) orbiting its Sun-like host star in just 19 hr, placing it deep within the "hot-Neptune desert," where Neptunian planets are seldom found. We present new James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec G395H phase curve observations that probe its atmospheric composition in unprecedented detail. At
    Ashtari, Reza et al.

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    2026
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  • ExoIris: Fast Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy in Python
    I present ExoIris, a user-friendly Python package for exoplanet transmission and emission spectroscopy. Unlike existing tools, ExoIris models two-dimensional spectrophotometric transit time series directly and supports the joint analysis of multiple datasets obtained with different instruments and at different epochs, as well as modeling stellar
    Parviainen, Hannu

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    2026
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  • ERRATUM: "An Alternative Explanation for the Helium Star Pulsar Binary J1928+1815: The Most Heavyweight Black Widow System to Date" (2025, ApJ, 995, 78)
    Gong, Hang et al.

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  • Electron densities and filling factors of extragalactic H II regions: NGC 2403 and NGC 628
    Measurements of the electron density of populations of extragalactic H II regions in nearby galaxies remain limited, despite the relevance of this quantity for characterizing the porosity of the interstellar medium and the escape of the ionizing radiation. We initiated a project aimed at analysing the root-mean-square electron density ${\langle }n_
    Zurita, Almudena et al.

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    2026
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  • Disc growth and vertical heating of lenticular galaxies in the Fornax cluster
    We present a detailed analysis of the vertical and radial structure of mono-age stellar populations in three edge-on lenticular galaxies (FCC 153, FCC 170, and FCC 177) in the Fornax cluster, using deep MUSE observations. By measuring the half-mass radius (R $_\mathrm{50}$) and half-mass height (z $_\mathrm{50}$) across 1 Gyr-wide age bins, we
    Martig, Marie et al.

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    2026
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