Context. Forced magnetic reconnection is triggered by external perturbations, which are ubiquitous in the solar corona. This process plays a crucial role in the energy release during solar transient events, which are often associated with electric current sheets (CSs). The CSs can often disintegrate through the development of the tearing

Context. Investigating whether and how galaxy mergers affect black hole growth can be a determinant for black hole-galaxy coevolution models and, in particular, for understanding how early Universe seed black holes grew to become supermassive. However, while mergers have been observed to enhance the active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity and thus

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS; Ricker et al. 2024) is conducting a nearly full-sky survey, enabling the photometric characterisation of millions of stars. Lund et al. (sub) define a catalog of 196 bright stars ─ referred to as the Luminaries ─ that exhibit solar-like oscillations. These stars serve as important calibrators for

Cosmic birefringence (CB) is the rotation of the photons' linear polarisation plane during propagation. Such an effect is a tracer of parity-violating extensions of standard electromagnetism and would probe the existence of a new cosmological field acting as dark matter or dark energy. It has become customary to employ cosmic microwave background

We present deep K s-band imaging of the extreme T subdwarf CWISE J221706.28‑145437.6. Using the new photometry, we construct its spectral energy distribution and find this object exhibits exceptionally strong collision-induced absorption in the H and K band. The comparison with the nearest benchmark extreme T subdwarf WISEA J181006.18‑101000.5

Context. A fraction of the small bodies that formed in the outer Solar System (beyond Uranus and Neptune) are predicted to have been implanted in the inner Solar System (P- and D-type asteroids and Jupiter trojans) following the outward migration of these two planets (Nice model). Aims. We further test the hypothesis that small bodies in the inner