Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics

JINA - Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics, 27 February 2026

Volume 24, Issue 9 (20 Articles)

# 1 - Collapse of Magnetized White Dwarfs as site of Heavy Element Formation and Kilonova Signal
- Tetyana Pitik, David Radice, Daniel Kasen, Fabio Magistrelli, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Sebastiano Bernuzzi
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21291
# 2 - Constraining the Lifespan of Intelligent Technological Civilization in the Galaxy
- Sohrab Rahvar, Shahin Rouhani
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22252
# 3 - Discovery of a runaway star likely ejected by a Type Iax Supernova
- A. Bhat, M. Hollands, M. Dorsch, S. Geier, U. Heber, D. Koester, R. Pakmor, Ken J. Shen
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23900
# 4 - Glance: A Comprehensive Framework for Galactic Archaeology
- Iris Breda, Glenn van de Ven, Sabine Thater, Federica Mauro, Stergios Amarantidis, J. Falc'on-Barroso, Prashin Jethwa, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Masato Onodera, Gerhard Hensler, Gauri Sharma
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20389
# 5 - On the Importance of the Convective Urca Process in 3D Simulations of a Simmering White Dwarf
- Ferran Poca-Amor'os, Brendan Boyd, Dean M. Townsley, Alan Calder
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21440
# 6 - The 2027-2034 Vision for Nuclear Physics in Canada, with an outlook to 2041
- Corina Andreoiu, Svetlana Barkanova, Gregory Christian, Alexandros Gezerlis, Garth Huber, Jeffery W. Martin, Ruben Sandapen
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22464
# 7 - Development of Micromegas-based Active-Target Time Projection Chamber for Nuclear Astrophysics Studies
- Pralay Kumar Das, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21238
# 8 - Using Neural Networks to Accelerate TALYS-2.0 Nuclear Reaction Simulations
- Wilson Lin, Catherine E Apgar, Lee A Bernstein, YunHsuan Lee, Alan B McIntosh, Dmitri G Medvedev, Ellen M OBrien, Christiaan E Vermeulen, Andrew S Voyles, Jonathan T Morrell
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21239
# 9 - Empirical formula for total inelastic cross-section of proton-nucleus scattering
- Hemant Kumar, Tanmay Maji, Deepa Gupta, Ashavani Kumar
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21192
# 10 - The observation of Earth-like exoplanets with ground-based telescopes and a shared orbiting starshade
- Ahmed Soliman
- Nature Astronomy
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02787-9
# 11 - Enhancing the mass resolving power of FRIB’s proposed high-voltage MR-ToF mass separator and spectrometer: Addressing non-ideal conditions
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016890022600152X?dgcid=rss_sd_all
# 12 - Measurement of the $^{92}mathrm{Mo}(p,γ)^{93}mathrm{Tc}$ reaction cross section for the $γ$-process nucleosynthesis
- A. Simon, R. Kelmar, J. P. McDonaugh, J. O'Reilly, A. C. Dombos, A. Gula, J. Koros, M. Matney, O. Olivas-Gomez, D. Robertson,, E. Stech
- Physical Review C
- http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/9fpt-k9k6
# 13 - Impact of thermal effects on prompt-collapse binary neutron star mergers
- Carolyn A. Raithel, Vasileios Paschalidis
- Physical Review D
- http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/rs9d-dhkm
# 14 - In a first, ChatGPT helps break new ground in theoretical physics
- https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aeg7163?af=R
# 15 - Ne and Fe Abundances in the Interstellar Medium: Archival Study of Fe-L and Ne-K Edges in Chandra and XMM-Newton
- D. L. Moutard, L. R. Corrales, I. Psaradaki, E. Temple, M. Shi
- The Astrophysical Journal
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae42bc
# 16 - The Collision and Merger Products of Stars Do Not Look Alike: A Magnetohydrodynamics Comparison
- Pavan Vynatheya, Taeho Ryu, Chen Wang, Alison Sills, RÃ¼diger Pakmor
- The Astrophysical Journal
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae40ba
# 17 - No Observational Evidence for Dark Matter Nor a Large Metallicity Spread in the Extreme Milky Way Satellite Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1
- William Cerny, Daisy Bissonette, Alexander P. Ji, Marla Geha, Anirudh Chiti, Simon E.T. Smith, Joshua D. Simon, Andrew B. Pace, Evan N. Kirby, Kim A. Venn
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae29b8
# 18 - Revealing the Unseen: The Discovery of Long-awaited Radiation from the Intermittent Pulsar PSR B1931+24
- Abdujappar Rusul, Z. G. Wen, J. P. Yuan, Ali Esamdin, X. P. Zheng, Michael Kramer
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae3f2a
# 19 - Astrophysical reaction rates for charged-particle induced reactions on proton-rich nuclides
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/s10050-026-01809-4
# 20 - Radiative neutron capture cross section of $$^{242}$$Pu measured at n_TOF-EAR1 in the unresolved resonance region up to 600 keV
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/s10050-026-01788-6