In the Dark<p>It’s Saturday morning again so here’s another report on activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since <a href="https://telescoper.blog/2024/08/31/two-new-publications-at-the-open-journal-of-astrophysics-14/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the last update</a> we have published two more papers, taking the count in <a href="https://astro.theoj.org/issue/8655" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Volume 7 (2024)</a> up to 73 and the total published by OJAp up to 188. We’ve still got a few in the pipeline waiting for the final versions to appear on arXiv so I expect we’ll reach the 200 mark fairly soon.</p><p>The<a href="https://astro.theoj.org/article/123239-massive-black-hole-seeds" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> first paper</a> of the most recent pair, published on September 4th 2024, and in the folder marked <a href="https://astro.theoj.org/section/1189-astrophysics-of-galaxies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Astrophysics of Galaxies</a>, is “Massive Black Hole Seeds” by John Regan of the Department of <del>Theoretical</del> Physics at Maynooth University and Marta Volonteri (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France). This article presents a discussion of the pathways to the formation of massive black holes, including both light and heavy initial seeds.</p><p>Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the abstract:</p><p><a href="https://telescoper.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/regan_glitch.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>You can click on the image of the overlay to make it larger should you wish to do so. <del>Those of you who are paying attention will see that there is a bit of a glitch on the left hand side where software has thrown a line break in between the two author names. I have no idea what caused this so I raised a ticket with Scholastica and no doubt it will soon be fixed</del>. (<em>Update: it is now fixed, 12th September 2024</em>). You can find the officially accepted version of this paper on the arXiv <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17975v2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>The <a href="https://astro.theoj.org/article/123368-the-future-of-cosmological-likelihood-based-inference-accelerated-high-dimensional-parameter-estimation-and-model-comparison" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">second paper </a>has the title “The future of cosmological likelihood-based inference: accelerated high-dimensional parameter estimation and model comparison” and was published on 5th September 2024. The authors are Davide Piras (Université de Genève), Alicja Polanska (MSSL) , Alessio Spurio Mancini (Royal Holloway, London), Matthew A. Price(UCL) & Jason D. McEwen (UCL); the latter four are all based in the UK. This paper, which is in the folder marked<a href="https://astro.theoj.org/section/1188-cosmology-and-nongalactic-astrophysics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Cosmology and NonGalactic Astrophysics</a>, describes an accelerated approach to Bayesian inference in higher-dimensional settings, as required for cosmology, based on recent developments in machine learning and its underlying technology.</p><p>Here is a screen grab of the overlay which includes the abstract:</p><p><a href="https://telescoper.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/piras_overlay.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>You can click on the image of the overlay to make it larger should you wish to do so. You can find the officially accepted version of the paper on the arXiv <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12965v2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>That concludes this week’s update. 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