Community Science (Ad ASTRA) Workshop, Sept 2026

6Slavko Bogdanov (Columbia), Thomas Maccarone (Texas Tech), Zaven Arzoumanian (NASA/GSFC), et al.Determining the Equation of State of Cold, Dense Matter with X‑ray Timing Observations of Neutron Stars[PDF]35F. Scott Porter (NASA/GSFC), Hyunju Conner (NASA/GSFC), Massimiliano Galeazzi (Univ. Of Miami), Kip Kuntz (Johns Hopkins University), et al.Interdisciplinary Soft X‑ray Observations of the Earth's Magnetosphere Including from the Moon[PDF]58Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Marin Anderson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Alexander Hegedus (Space Science Institute), et al.Moon Radio Interferometer for Science and Exploration (MoonRISE) [PDF]62Mariano Dominguez (IATE–OAC–UNC @ Argentina & FRC–ULS @ Chile)GPC–SWARM: THE COSMOSCOPE, Measuring the Geometry of the Universe Directly via Wavefront Curvature interferometry [PDF]68Slava G. Turyshev (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Michael Shao (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), et al.SOLAR GRAVITATIONAL LENS OBSERVATORY (SGLO) [PDF]72Spencer Toulouse (LISA consortium CORE, Open AI Forum)O.B.E.R.O.N., Observatory for Bayesian Event Reconstruction across Observational Networks [PDF]125Roberto Guenzani (NASA NOW and LIFE, INdAM and ngEHT)Precursor Gravity Faraday Cage: A Unified Framework from AGN Spectral Distributions to Deep-Appearance Transient Dynamics [PDF]128Omar Ariel Vallejos (Independent Researcher), (Lunar Radio-interferometry & Astrophysics Infrastructure Laboratory)L-RAIL Scientific Concept and Mission [PDF]129Himanshi Gulia (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India), J. K. Singh (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India), and Sushant G. Ghosh (Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)Parameter estimation of generalized Ghosh black holes using shadow observables and Event Horizon Telescope Constraints[PDF]133Gh. Saleh (Saleh Research Centre, Netherlands)A New Perspective on Planetary Orbital Speeds, Uranus’s Axial Tilt, and Venus’s Retrograde Rotation [PDF]137Paul S. Ray(Science Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Peter W. A. Roming (Southwest Research Institute),b Andrea Argan (Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali), et al.STROBE-X: Capturing the Universe in Motion, Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays[PDF]138Ethan Partington (Western Kentucky University), Edward Cackett (Wayne State University), Chris Barnes (Western Kentucky University)Probing the Accretion Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei with X‑ray Timing Instruments[PDF]143James R. Cheshire IV, Maya Atassi, James J. Bock, et al. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)augr: an end-to-end differentiable framework for forecasting and optimizing CMB instrument design[PDF]144David Sie TraoreExoplanet Landing and Robotic Surface Exploration Mission[PDF]145James H. Tutt (Penn State University, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics) and Bruce Lairson (PhotonFoils)Vacuum Vibration Qualification of Large-Aperture Silicon Carbide Grids for X‑ray Microcalorimeter Blocking Filters[PDF]150Stephen J. Smith (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), C.V. Ambarish (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), J.S. Adams (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), et al.Scalable Transition-Edge Sensor Microcalorimeter Technologies for Future X‑ray Missions[PDF]153Eric D. Miller (MIT Kavli Institute), Christopher Leitz (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Gregory Prigozhin (MIT Kavli Institute), et al.Germanium CCD detectors for future broad-band X‑ray missions[PDF]154Eric D. Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Catherine E. Grant (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sven Herrmann (Stanford University), et al.High-speed, low-noise imaging cameras for future X‑ray missions[PDF]160April D. Jewell, Nathan Bush, John Hennessy, et al. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)Advanced Ultraviolet Silicon Detector Technologies Enabling Astrophysics Missions[PDF]169Enrico Biancalani (UMd, NASA GSFC), Eduardo Bendek (NASA ARC), Kevin Wagner (U of A), et al.Pathways to exo-world discovery with fluidic space-assembled telescopes[PDF]171D. J. K. Buisson, based on arXiv:2502.08718 with G. Marcel, V. López-Barquero, et al.Recurrent, reversible jumps in spectra and variability, 'flip-flops', as markers of the hard-to-soft state transition in X-ray binaries[PDF]175John Krizmanic (NASA/GSFC) for the POEMMA CollaborationUltra-high Energy Particle Astrophysics with the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA)‡[PDF]