Manchester United vs Burnley: Premier League Preview and Prediction
Ruben Amorim heads into the Premier League clash between Manchester United and Burnley under real pressure. His record of just 16 wins in 45 matches is not what many at Old Trafford expected when he took charge, and with Burnley visiting this weekend, there is little room for error. A defeat before the international break would place the Portuguese manager in an even more precarious position.
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Burnley, by contrast, will travel to Manchester with a renewed sense of belief. Their opening day defeat to Tottenham had raised fears of another difficult season, but victory over Sunderland last weekend lifted spirits and gave Vincent Kompany’s side something to build on.
Match Details and Kick-off Time
Manchester United vs Burnley takes place at Old Trafford on Saturday 30 August 2025, with kick-off set for 3pm BST. Supporters in the UK will not be able to watch the game live due to the traditional blackout on Saturday afternoons.
Fans can follow updates through highlights, which will be available from 5.15pm on the Sky Sports app and YouTube channel. Match of the Day will also feature extended coverage on BBC One at 10.20pm.
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Manchester United and Burnley Team News
Amorim rang the changes in midweek as Manchester United were dumped out of the Carabao Cup. Seven alterations were made, though the introduction of Bryan Mbeumo, Bruno Fernandes and Matthijs de Ligt at half-time failed to turn the tide in a 2-0 defeat. Those players are expected to start against Burnley.
Matheus Cunha and Benjamin Sesko both played the full 120 minutes plus penalties in that game, so they are likely to be rested. Mason Mount should return to the starting line-up, while Casemiro is also pushing to feature after being left on the bench. Andre Onana endured a difficult evening against Grimsby, but remains Amorim’s first choice ahead of Altay Bayindir.
Burnley have their own concerns. Jordan Beyer and Connor Roberts are hoping to return, though Zeki Amdouni and Manuel Benson remain sidelined and are not expected back soon.
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Prediction and Head-to-Head Record
Prediction: Manchester United 3-0 Burnley.
Historically, United have enjoyed the better of this fixture. Out of 137 meetings, Manchester United have recorded 67 wins, Burnley have managed 45, and 25 have ended in draws.
Ilan Weiss died defending Kibbutz Beeri on the day Hamas attacked
The body of Israeli hostage Ilan Weiss has been recovered in an operation in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s military has announced.
Weiss, 56, was killed during Hamas’s attack in southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
The remains of a second hostage, whose identity has not been released yet, were also recovered, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
Israel launched a massive offensive in Gaza following the attack in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken back to the territory as hostages.
At least 63,025 Palestinians have been killed since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
Ilan Weiss was killed while defending Kibbutz Beeri on the day of the attack. His body was taken to Gaza.
Weiss’s wife, Shiri, and daughter, Noga, were taken hostage by Hamas on the same day. They were released during a temporary ceasefire in November 2023.
“Ilan showed courage and noble spirit when he fought the terrorists on that dark day,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said, before praising Weiss’s family’s “extraordinary strength in their struggle for his return”.
After the latest announcement, 48 hostages remain in Gaza – 20 of whom Israel believes are still alive.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been facing strong domestic pressure to agree a deal that would enable the return of all hostages still in captivity. Huge protests have been held demanding an end to the war.
However Israel is pushing ahead with its plan to take over Gaza City and eventually establish control over the entire Strip. Netanyahu argues the defeat of Hamas will secure the release of the hostages.
Western countries – and the UN – have warned that an operation in an area of Gaza where more than a million people live would have devastating consequences.
The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said the military was operating with great intensity on the outskirts of Gaza City and would “deepen our strikes”.
The IDF also said a scheduled pause in military action which had been due to come into effect at 10:00 (07:00 GMT) would not apply to Gaza City.
later on Friday, Hamas warned that the planned Gaza City offensive would subject hostages in the area to the “same risks” as those faced by the group’s fighters.
“We will take care of the prisoners the best we can, and they will be with our fighters in the combat and confrontation zones, subjected to the same risks and the same living conditions,” the spokesperson for its armed wing said.
The health ministry said Israeli fire across the besieged territory killed 59 people on Friday. Footage filmed by the Reuters news agency showed a line of bodies in white bags outside Shifa hospital in Gaza City as relatives grieved nearby.
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Residents of Gaza City have been fleeing ahead of the expected Israeli operation there
“What is the reason? Why did they strike them? Let them tell us, what did they do while they were sleeping? What did a three-year-old child do?” Manal Sahweil, a relative of people killed in an airstrike, said to Reuters.
A further five people including two children died from malnutrition in Gaza, bringing the total number of malnutrition deaths to 322, the health ministry said.
Last week, a UN-backed body, which monitors hunger levels around the world, raised its food insecurity status in parts of Gaza to the highest and most severe – confirming famine for the first time. Israel denies there is starvation in the territory.
Since 14 August, the day the offensive was announced, about 20,000 people have been displaced to the south from Gaza City in addition to about 40,000 moving further north, according the UN’s humanitarian affairs office.
Most of Gaza’s population has been repeatedly displaced. More than 90% of homes are estimated to be damaged or destroyed and the healthcare, water, sanitation and hygiene systems have collapsed.
When it’s all over, surveying the carnage and devastation left in Thought’s wake, Flex throws down the gauntlet, emphasising that Thought performed this magic trick in one take. It’s a reminder that the BX kid born just before the dawn of rap is still, to his core, a lover of the artform and its most skilled practitioners. “For y’all cornball n*ggas coming up here doing 50 takes?” Flex says. “You just saw what it’s supposed to be.”
2. The 2Pac Controversy
NEW YORK – JULY 23: Rappers Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls (Christoper Wallace) and Puff Daddy (sean Combes) perform onstage at the Palladium on July 23, 1993 in New York, New York. (Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)Al Pereira/Getty Images
Flex had many beefs over the years—with artists, with record executives, with fellow DJs. But perhaps his most infamous feud, and the one most representative of his consequences be damned truth telling, is his ongoing squabble with a fallen rapper who’s beyond reproach in the eyes of his legion of stans.
Funkmaster Flex is from New York, and like all New Yorkers he loved The Notorious B.I.G.—he was one of the first DJs to interview Biggie, alongside Craig Mack in 1994, and was devastated when Big was murdered at 24, as we all were. It’s become fashionable to write off those twin killings as a circumstance that simply happened, a Shakespearean tragedy that couldn’t be helped, in part because that narrative leaves the legacies of both artists intact and unblemished.
But Flex has brought up the beef between the two former friends several times over the years, never backing down from his contention that 2Pac was either mistaken (or simply lied) about being robbed and shot by Biggie and co-conspirators at Quad Studio on November 30th, 1994, the canon event that led to the feud and its deadly consequences. But Flex doesn’t stop there; he’s referred to Pac as “Cheddar Bob”, outright blaming 2Pac’s words for getting Biggie killed, and refuses to bite his tongue and bow out of the debate when Pac fans complain about needlessly opening old wounds. Agree or disagree, Flex will have none of it, keeping it real on air and off, as was so often the case, which is why we love him.
1. “Otis” premiere, July 20, 2011
Of course, there’s only one number-one answer here. The true remember-where-you-were moment, one of the most definitive instances of the power of the radio personality even in a post-iTunes era. Watch the Throne’s “Otis” is classic in its own right, of course, but can you imagine it being debuted any other way? Has there ever been a better example of unbridled enthusiasm crossing the valley from annoying to endearingly infectious? Has any writer, poet, personality, whatever, ever communicated a sentence greater than “Put your hand in the register, that money is yours” since? I realized just how powerful and cross-cultural this moment has become when I saw it all over my feed celebrating Zohran, from folks who are definitely not of this hip-hop shit. Flex may not be retiring just yet, but his jersey is already in the rafters. Our money is your money, Funkmaster.
When my mother, Jenny Cox, who has died aged 86 of cancer, was admitted to hospice care, she told staff of her passions: her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, plants and the great outdoors – and her concertinas.
She also brought up an old injustice. An adventurous botanist, in her Jenny had planned to do a PhD on the flora of the inhospitable island of South Georgia, in the south Atlantic. However, the British Antarctic Survey vetoed it: no unmarried women. A feminist fire was lit. Jenny’s marriage to my father, Peter, lasted more than 60 years. A hands-on mother of three sons, she retrained as a teacher and worked in primary schools in Bristol.
In their 40s, Jenny worried that she and Peter shared no hobbies for retirement. She suggested that Peter try the concertina. They were hooked and soon found joy playing with others. Jenny’s energy, can-do attitude, and her teaching and organisational skills were soon deployed. Peter and Jenny hosted many gatherings and lent their many instruments freely.
At her primary school, Jenny founded two concertina bands and brought the country’s leading player, Alistair Anderson, to inspire them. She was a founder of the West Country Concertina Players – still going strong after 40 years. Jenny organised the first of many Halsway Manor weekends.
Jenny Cox, top right, with fellow players at a Concertina Band Weekend at Hawkwood, in Stroud, Gloucestershire
They played in the Butleigh Court concertina band, in Somerset, and she later helped develop weekends in Witney, Oxfordshire, and at Hawkwood, in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with her concertina teacher, Dave Townsend. Remarkably she persuaded the Bristol community ensemble the Redland Wind Band to admit her and toured Europe playing oboe parts on the concertina.
Latterly, she supported the J25 Concertina Band and gave her blessing to the creation of its Banding Together concertina weekends. Jenny inspired many individuals in the music world, and she also created a model of “learn, practise and perform” events that will outlast her.
Jenny was born in Liverpool, to Vera (nee Wiles), a history of art lecturer, and Keith Brumby, a French teacher. During the second world war she was evacuated to Wales and her later childhood was spent in Chatham, Kent, where she attended Chatham grammar school for girls. She then went to Birmingham University to study botany, gaining a master’s.
At Birmingham she met Peter Cox, a chemistry PhD student, and they married in 1960. After he won a Fulbright scholarship they went to Harvard, where Jenny worked in the botany department, before returning to the UK in 1964 and settling in Bristol. Jenny did her teaching training at Redland College, and then taught in primary schools including Mangotsfield primary in Emerson Green, and Cutlers Brook, St Werburgh’s.
Jenny left the Anglican church in the 1960s over its failure to condemn bombing in Vietnam; Horfield Quaker Meeting, in north Bristol, was a loving community up to the end.
She had an adventurous and progressive spirit, joy and humour, and an enormous capacity for love and friendship. In her mid-80s, she climbed mountains to enjoy the flora.
Peter died in 2022. She is survived by her sons, Danny, Trevor and me, by eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Central Precocious Puberty (CPP) affects 1 in 5000 to 1 in 10,000 children, occurring 5 to 10 times more frequently in girls than in boys. The condition results from early activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis before age 8 in girls and age 9 in boys. Key clinical signs include breast development in girls and testicular enlargement in boys, distinguishing true CPP from isolated adrenarche symptoms such as body odor or pubic hair. Although only 10% of girls have underlying pathology causing CPP, 50% to 70% of boys require extensive workup to identify potential causes. Primary care providers should refer patients showing early pubertal signs, growth acceleration, or concerning physical examination findings to pediatric endocrinologists for comprehensive evaluation.
Treatment centers on gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHA) therapies, which effectively suppress pubertal progression and preserve final adult height. Current options include intramuscular leuprolide acetate (1-, 3-, or 6-month formulations), subcutaneous leuprolide acetate (6-month), histrelin acetate implants (lasting 2-3 years), and triptorelin pamoate (6-month). Treatment selection depends on family preferences, needle phobia considerations, insurance coverage, and individual patient factors. These medications demonstrate excellent safety profiles, with common adverse effects including mild injection site reactions, occasional breakthrough bleeding, and temporary growth velocity reduction. Long-term study data show no adverse effects on bone density, fertility, or reproductive function.
The psychosocial impact of CPP extends beyond physical changes, with early menarche linked to increased rates of depression, behavioral problems, and reduced academic achievement. Early diagnosis and treatment help prevent children from feeling different from peers and facing age-inappropriate expectations. Future therapeutic developments include 12-month formulations, oral GnRH antagonists, and personalized medicine approaches targeting specific genetic mutations such as MKRN3 and kisspeptin genes. Treatment timing has evolved, with recent evidence supporting intervention benefits even in older children with bone ages up to 12 years, emphasizing individualized care over rigid age cutoffs.
Summary: A new AI framework can detect neurological disorders by analyzing speech with over 90% accuracy. The model, called CTCAIT, captures subtle patterns in voice that may indicate early symptoms of diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Wilson disease.
Unlike traditional methods, it integrates multi-scale temporal features and attention mechanisms, making it both highly accurate and interpretable. The findings highlight speech as a promising tool for non-invasive, accessible early diagnosis and monitoring of neurological conditions.
Key Facts
High Accuracy: 92.06% accuracy in Mandarin, 87.73% in English datasets.
Non-Invasive Biomarker: Speech abnormalities can reveal early neurodegenerative changes.
Broad Potential: Could be used for screening and monitoring across multiple neurological diseases.
Source: Chinese Academy of Science
Recently, the research team led by Prof. LI Hai at the Institute of Health and Medical Technology, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a novel deep learning framework that significantly improves the accuracy and interpretability of detecting neurological disorders through speech.
“A slight change in the way we speak might be more than just a slip of the tongue—it could be a warning sign from the brain,” said Prof. LI Hai, who led the team, “Our new model can detect early symptoms of neurological diseases like Parkinson’ s, Huntington’ s, and Wilson disease—by analyzing voice recordings.”
The method achieved a detection accuracy of 92.06% on a Mandarin Chinese dataset and 87.73% on an external English dataset, demonstrating strong cross-linguistic generalizability. Credit: Neuroscience News
The study was recently published in Neurocomputing.
Dysarthria is a common early symptom of various neurological disorders. Given that these speech abnormalities often reflect underlying neurodegenerative processes, voice signals have emerged as promising non-invasive biomarkers for early screening and continuous monitoring of such conditions. Automated speech analysis offers high efficiency, low cost, and non-invasiveness.
However, current mainstream methods often suffer from over-reliance on handcrafted features, limited capacity to model temporal-variable interactions, and poor interpretability.
To address these challenges, the team proposed Cross-Time and Cross-Axis Interactive Transformer (CTCAIT) for multivariate time series analysis. This framework first employs a large-scale audio model to extract high-dimensional temporal features from speech, representing them as multidimensional embeddings along time and feature axes.
It then leverages the Inception Time network to capture multi-scale and multi-level patterns within the time series. By integrating cross-time and cross-channel multi-head attention mechanisms, CTCAIT effectively captures pathological speech signatures embedded across different dimensions.
The method achieved a detection accuracy of 92.06% on a Mandarin Chinese dataset and 87.73% on an external English dataset, demonstrating strong cross-linguistic generalizability.
Furthermore, the team conducted interpretability analyses of the model’s internal decision-making processes and systematically compared the effectiveness of different speech tasks, offering valuable insights for its potential clinical deployment.
These efforts provide important guidance for potential clinical applications of the method in early diagnosis and monitoring of neurological disorders.
About this AI and neurology research news
Author: Weiwei Zhao Source: Chinese Academy of Science Contact: Weiwei Zhao – Chinese Academy of Science Image: The image is credited to Neuroscience News
Original Research: Open access. “Multivariate time series approach integrating cross-temporal and cross-channel attention for dysarthria detection from speech” by LI Hai et al. Neurocomputing
Abstract
Multivariate time series approach integrating cross-temporal and cross-channel attention for dysarthria detection from speech
Speech analysis offers a non-invasive, low-cost approach to dysarthria detection.
Studies have shown that the temporal correlations within speech signals and the interactions among the multidimensional feature variables derived from them can facilitate dysarthria detection.
However, current studies either rely on pre-designed feature sets, which depend heavily on cumbersome feature engineering, or focus solely on spectral or high-dimensional audio vectors that capture temporal dependencies while neglecting the interactions between internal multivariate features.
We propose an end-to-end method that utilizes audio pre-trained models as multivariate time series feature extractors, combined with InceptionTime and cross-temporal and cross-channel attention mechanisms, to fully capture temporal dependencies and interactions among variables within speech for accurate dysarthria detection.
Results show that the proposed method achieves a detection accuracy of 92.06 % on a local Mandarin dysarthria dataset, which is at least 2.17 percentage points higher than previous studies, with the highest stability and the lowest time cost.
Furthermore, it achieves an accuracy of 87.73 % on an external English dataset, demonstrating good cross-linguistic adaptability and generalizability.
Additionally, experiments show that in connected speech tasks, structured tasks outperform unstructured ones in leveraging interactions, leading to more effective dysarthria detection.
These findings validate the effectiveness of the proposed end-to-end dysarthria detection method, further advancing the development of speech analysis as a promising tool for dysarthria screening.
Eighty-seven percent of respondents say C-suite leaders involve themselves regularly in tech decisions.
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Google’s $32 billion acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz made headlines for its scale, but it also reflects a deeper shift that’s underway in enterprises around the globe: Security is no longer just an IT priority. It’s a C-level concern embedded in transformation, compliance and AI strategy.
To understand how enterprise tech buying is evolving, the Forbes Research 2025 Enterprise Technology Purchasing Survey polled over 1,000 global business and technology leaders in October 2024.
Key findings:
Cybersecurity ranks as theNo. 1 external factor shaping enterprise tech strategies over the next five years, cited by 83% of leaders — more than AI regulations (82%), innovation cycles (81%) and economic uncertainty (75%).
While IT leads 59% of tech purchases today, that’s changing. By 2028, 53% of enterprise tech investments will be led by lines of business, indicating a major shift in purchasing dynamics.
87% of respondents say C-suite leaders involve themselves regularly in tech decisions that impact business strategy, 83% of C-Suite executives also say they participate in a purchasing committee and 42% report meeting directly with vendors.
84% cite data privacy and security as top purchasing criteria.
Only 25% are very satisfied with the security of their AI systems.
54% say internal coordination around purchases is becoming more difficult, suggesting a need for unified governance as tech decisions decentralize.
The data reveals a pattern: As enterprises scale investments in AI and cloud, the C-suite is focusing more heavily on security and cross-functional alignment.
Executive leaders are also bullish on artificial intelligence with 42% planning major investments in AI and machine learning this year.
But there’s a growing disconnect between where enterprises are spending and where they are ready. As noted above, security satisfaction levels are low, and 85% cite a lack of internal expertise as a major challenge in AI implementation.
Prioritizing speed over protection may cause data to become vulnerable, a risk that enterprises can mitigate by putting security and investing in AI know-how first.
Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC would have to enable Secure Boot in their Windows OS and BIOS settings. That decision proved controversial among players who weren’t able to get the finicky low-level security setting working on their machines and others who were unwilling to allow EA’s anti-cheat tools to once again have kernel-level access to their systems.
Now, Battlefield 6 technical director Christian Buhl is defending that requirement as something of a necessary evil to combat cheaters, even as he apologizes to any potential players that it has kept away.
“The fact is I wish we didn’t have to do things like Secure Boot,” Buhl said in an interview with Eurogamer. “It does prevent some players from playing the game. Some people’s PCs can’t handle it and they can’t play: that really sucks. I wish everyone could play the game with low friction and not have to do these sorts of things.”
Throughout the interview, Buhl admits that even requiring Secure Boot won’t completely eradicate cheating in Battlefield 6 long term. Even so, he offered that the Javelin anti-cheat tools enabled by Secure Boot’s low-level system access were “some of the strongest tools in our toolbox to stop cheating. Again, nothing makes cheating impossible, but enabling Secure Boot and having kernel-level access makes it so much harder to cheat and so much easier for us to find and stop cheating.”
Too much security, or not enough?
When announcing the Secure Boot requirement in a Steam forum post prior to the open beta, EA explained that having Secure Boot enabled “provides us with features that we can leverage against cheats that attempt to infiltrate during the Windows boot process.” Having access to the Trusted Platform Module on the motherboard via Secure Boot provides the anti-cheat team with visibility into things like kernel-level cheats and rootkits, memory manipulation, injection spoofing, hardware ID manipulation, the use of virtual machines, and attempts to tamper with anti-cheat systems, the company wrote.
TOP: Other MUSE reductions showing the detection of AB Aur b from OB4. (left, middle) 6558.88 Aand 6560.13 Afrom the reduction shown in Figure 1. Average of the 6558.88 Aand 6560.13 Aslices from a classical SDI reduction (right). In each panel, we mask the field out to a separation affected by horizontal striping and saturation BOTTWO: Detection of AB Aur b from OB2 (left, middle panels) and weaker detection from OB1 in blue-shifted Hα (right). — astro-ph.EP
We analyze high-contrast, medium-spectral-resolution Hα observations of the star AB Aurigae using the Very Large Telescope’s Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE).
In multiple epochs, MUSE detects the AB Aur b protoplanet discovered from Subaru/SCExAO data in emission at wavelengths slightly blue-shifted from the Hα line center (i.e. at 6558.88–6560.13 Å; ∼ -100 km s−1) and in absorption at redshifted wavelengths (6562.8–6565.1 Å; ∼ 75 km s−1).
AB Aur b’s Hα spectrum is inconsistent with that of the host star or the average residual disk spectrum and is dissimilar to that of PDS 70 b and c. Instead, the spectrum’s shape resembles that of an inverse P Cygni profile seen in some accreting T Tauri stars and interpreted as evidence of infalling cold gas from accretion, although we cannot formally rule out all other nonaccretion origins for AB Aur b’s MUSE detection.
AB Aurigae hosts only the second protoplanetary system detected in Hα thus far and the first with a source showing a spectrum resembling an inverse P Cygni profile. Future modeling and new optical data will be needed to assess how much of AB Aur b’s emission source(s) originates from protoplanet accretion reprocessed by the disk, a localized scattered-light feature with a unique Hα profile, or another mechanism.
Thayne Currie, Jun Hashimoto, Yuhiko Aoyama, Ruobing Dong, Misato Fukagawa, Takayuki Muto, Erica Dykes, Mona El Morsy, Motohide Tamura
Comments: 23 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables; ApJ Letters in press Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) Cite as: arXiv:2508.18351 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2508.18351v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.18351 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Thayne Currie [v1] Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:00:02 UTC (1,915 KB) https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18351
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Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻
Keck NIRC2-LGS images of the two events. North is up and East is to the left. The green and red boxes indicate the target and comparison stars, respectively. Insets show zoomed-in views of each star, including the original image and the residuals following PSF subtraction, which are shown on the identical flux scale to facilitate comparison. The gray dotted circles in the residual images show the predicted lens-source separation. — astro-ph.EP
KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb and OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb were the lowest mass-ratio microlensing planets at the time of discovery. For both events, microlensing parallax measurements from the Spitzer Space Telescope implied lens systems that were more distant and massive than those inferred from the ground-based parallax.
Here, we report on the detection of excess flux aligned to the event locations using Keck Adaptive Optics imaging, which is consistent with the expected brightness of main-sequence hosts under the ground-based parallax, but inconsistent with that predicted by Spitzer.
Based on the excess flux, ground-based parallax, and angular Einstein radius, we determine KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb to be a 4.2±0.5M⊕ planet orbiting a 0.70±0.07M⊙ host at a projected separation of 3.1±0.3 au, and OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb to be a 2.0±0.2M⊕ planet orbiting a 0.40±0.03M⊙ host at a projected separation of 1.7±0.1 au. We report on additional light-curve models for KMT-2018-BLG-0029 under the generalized inner-outer (offset) degeneracy, which were not reported in the original analysis.
We point out inconsistencies in the inner/outer labeling of the degenerate models in the lens and source planes, and advocate for the lens-plane convention, which refers to the planet being closer or further to the host star compared to the image it perturbs. Lastly, we discuss the possibility of breaking this degeneracy via ground concurrent observations with the Roman Space Telescope.
Keming Zhang, Sean K. Terry, Joshua S. Bloom, B. Scott Gaudi, Jessica R. Lu
Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Accepted to the Astronomical Journal Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) Cite as: arXiv:2508.18343 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2508.18343v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.18343 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Keming Zhang [v1] Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:00:00 UTC (4,984 KB) https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18343
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Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻
