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Universe, Volume 10, Issue 12

December 2024 - 34 articles

Cover Story: The recent astrometric data from Gaia DR3 have allowed a precise determination of the Milky Way rotation curve up to 28 kpc. The data suggest a rapid decline in the density of dark matter beyond 20 kpc. We fit the rotation curve with gas, disk, bulge and halo components and compute the microlensing optical depth to the Large Magellanic Cloud. We then reanalyze the microlensing events of the MACHO and EROS-2 Collaborations. We find that the dark matter halo could be composed up to 20% of massive compact halo objects for any mass between 0.001 and 1 M, assuming that all the lenses have the same mass. If these were distributed in an extended mass function, like that of the Thermal History Model, the constraints would be weakened, allowing 100% of all DM in the form of Primordial Black Holes. View this paper
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Articles (34)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,302 Views
13 Pages

5 December 2024

Let two test particles A and B, revolving about a spinning primary along ideally identical orbits in opposite directions, be considered. From the general expressions of the precessions of the orbital inclination induced by the post-Newtonian gravitom...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,365 Views
21 Pages

3 December 2024

In the case of low-mass X-ray binaries, the companion star is often too faint for detection; therefore, there is no chance for dynamical studies to independently determine the mass of the compact object. In the absence of a mass estimate, one cannot...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,836 Views
26 Pages

30 November 2024

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may have formed through the gravitational collapse of cosmological perturbations that were generated and stretched during the inflationary era, later entering the cosmological horizon during the decelerating phase, if th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,149 Views
21 Pages

The Shape of the Chameleon Fifth-Force on the Mass Components of Galaxy Clusters

  • Lorenzo Pizzuti,
  • Valentina Amatori,
  • Alexandre M. Pombo and
  • Sandeep Haridasu

30 November 2024

In the context of chameleon gravity, we present a semi-analytical solution of the chameleon field profile in an accurately modelled galaxy cluster’s mass components, namely the stellar mass of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG), the baryonic ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,104 Views
13 Pages

The Impact of Electron Phase Shifts on ββ-Decay Kinematics

  • Ovidiu Niţescu,
  • Stefan Ghinescu and
  • Fedor Šimkovic

30 November 2024

We reexamine the angular correlation between the emitted electrons in the double beta decay (DBD) of 100Mo, with particular attention to the impact of electronic wave function phase shifts. In the two-neutrino mode, the angular correlation factor inc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,304 Views
77 Pages

Premerger Phenomena in Neutron Star Binary Coalescences

  • Arthur G. Suvorov,
  • Hao-Jui Kuan and
  • Kostas D. Kokkotas

29 November 2024

A variety of high-energy events can take place in the seconds leading up to a binary neutron star merger. Mechanisms involving tidal resonances, electrodynamic interactions, or shocks in mass-loaded wakes have been proposed as instigators of these pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,179 Views
12 Pages

29 November 2024

Solar radio spectral observation is one of the essential approaches for solar physics research, which helps us study the plasma dynamics in the solar atmosphere. The Solar Broadband Radio Dynamic Spectrometer (SBRS) started observing the Sun at Huair...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,897 Views
11 Pages

28 November 2024

We investigate the statistics of the available Pantheon+ dataset. Noticing that the χ2 value for the best-fit ΛCDM model to the real data is small, we quantify how significant its smallness is by calculating the distribution of χ2 valu...

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