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Galaxies, Volume 14, Issue 1

2026 February - 13 articles

Cover Story: The low-frequency sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors can be degraded by noise arising from the re-coupling of stray light with the main beam. The experience gained with current detectors can be used to anticipate and mitigate stray light issues in third-generation instruments. Numerical simulations and the extensive characterization of stray light originating from both core and auxiliary optics are of paramount importance in this regard. Improvements to the interferometric readout system, as well as diagnostic approaches for identifying potentially harmful scattering elements, are discussed. Overall, this review summarizes best practices for the effective control of stray light in future gravitational wave detectors, supporting design approaches aimed at preventing noise issues. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,257 Views
21 Pages

The Optical Properties of Host Galaxies of Radio Sources in the Coma Cluster

  • Xiaolan Hou,
  • Heng Yu,
  • Tong Pan,
  • Hu Zou and ,
  • Haoran Dou,
  • Emily Moravec and
  • Chengkui Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 February 2026

We present a comprehensive study of host galaxies of radio sources within the 1.35R200 of the Coma cluster by combining deep 144MHz observations from the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR2) with optical spectroscopy and photometry from DESI and SD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,314 Views
26 Pages

Single Parameter Model for Galaxy Rotation Curves

  • Sophia N. Cisneros,
  • Rich Ott,
  • Meagan Crowley,
  • Amy Roberts and
  • Marcus Paz

15 February 2026

One key piece of evidence for dark matter is the rotation-curve problem: the disagreement between measured galactic rotation curves and their luminous mass. A novel solution to this problem is presented here, in a model that predicts observed Doppler...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Alternative Interpretations of Observed Galactic Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,425 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2026

This work presents integrated flux and velocity channel maps of the planetary nebula Abell 30 (A30) inner knot system. The observations were taken with the INTEGRAL spectrograph at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), La Palma, Spain. Our IFU data c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Origins and Models of Planetary Nebulae)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,089 Views
23 Pages

Estimating H I Mass Fraction in Galaxies with Bayesian Neural Networks

  • Joelson Sartori,
  • Cristian G. Bernal and
  • Carlos Frajuca

2 February 2026

Neutral atomic hydrogen (H I) regulates galaxy growth and quenching, but direct 21 cm measurements remain observationally expensive and affected by selection biases. We develop Bayesian neural networks (BNNs)—a type of neural model that returns...

  • Article
  • Open Access
908 Views
13 Pages

31 January 2026

Using twenty sectors of TESS observations and the hitherto unutilized radial velocities from the David Dunlap Observatory survey, we fully characterize the close binary TV UMi. Its nearly sinusoidal light curves are well explained by a low-inclinatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Study on Contact Binary Stars)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,720 Views
15 Pages

27 January 2026

Objective: We examine whether a finite-range scalar–tensor modification of gravity can be simultaneously compatible with cosmological background data, galaxy rotation curves, and local/astrophysical consistency tests, while satisfying the lumin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,639 Views
28 Pages

The miniJPAS and J-NEP Surveys: Machine Learning for Star-Galaxy Separation

  • Ana Paula Jeakel,
  • Gabriel Vieira dos Santos,
  • Valerio Marra,
  • Rodrigo von Marttens and ,
  • Siddhartha Gurung-López,
  • Raul Abramo,
  • Jailson Alcaniz,
  • Narciso Benitez,
  • Silvia Bonoli and
  • Javier Zaragoza-Cardiel
  • + 25 authors+ 20 authors

27 January 2026

We present a supervised machine learning classification of sources from the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) Pathfinder datasets: miniJPAS and J-NEP. Leveraging crossmatches with spectroscopic and photometr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,578 Views
18 Pages

21 January 2026

The low-frequency sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors can be degraded by noise arising from the re-coupling of stray light with the main interferometer beam. This review describes the re-coupling mechanism and shows how the experience gained...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,038 Views
27 Pages

Boxy/Peanut Bulges: Comparative Analysis of EGIPS Galaxies and TNG50 Models

  • Anton Smirnov,
  • Alexander Marchuk,
  • Viktor Zozulia,
  • Natalia Sotnikova and
  • Sergey Savchenko

13 January 2026

We investigated the properties of boxy/peanut-shaped (B/PS) bulges in a sample of 71 galaxies from the Edge-on Galaxies in the Pan-STARRS Survey (EGIPS) and 20 simulated galaxies from Illustris TNG50 using multicomponent photometric decomposition. Fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,683 Views
18 Pages

Probing the Dusty Torus of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151: A Multi-Band Study

  • Arya Sudhakaran,
  • Debbijoy Bhattacharya,
  • Puthiyaveettil Shalima,
  • Gulab Chand Dewangan and
  • Parameshwaran Sreekumar

6 January 2026

Despite several efforts to investigate the accretion disk and torus, near-simultaneous broadband studies of the nuclear regions of radio-quiet AGNs remain lacking. NGC 4151, one of the closest and brightest Seyfert galaxies, provides an excellent lab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,821 Views
12 Pages

On the Origin and Nature of Double-Double Radio Galaxies

  • David Garofalo,
  • Zhiyuan Liu and
  • Atticus V. Magerko

3 January 2026

Double-double radio galaxies (DDRGs) display inner and outer jets or lobes thought to result from intermittent accretion. Due to randomly triggered accretion events, the lifetime of the retriggered jet is not expected to have any connection to the ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,577 Views
24 Pages

Effects of the Intraday Variability of the Radio Galaxy Perseus A (3C 84) at a Frequency of 6.5 GHz and Evidence for a Possible FRB Event

  • Vladislavs Bezrukovs,
  • Oleg Ulyanov,
  • Artem Sukharev,
  • Vyacheslav Zakharenko and ,
  • Mikhail Ryabov,
  • Viktor Ozhinskyi,
  • Volodymyr Vlasenko,
  • Anatolyi Poikhalo,
  • Oleksandr Konovalenko and
  • Marina Konuhova
  • + 12 authors+ 7 authors

23 December 2025

Perseus A (3C 84), a powerful radio source located at the centre of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275—classified as a Seyfert type II AGN and the dominant member of the X-ray bright Abell 426 cluster–exhibits radio emission variability...

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