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Universe, Volume 11, Issue 8

2025 August - 41 articles

Cover Story: In this Issue, we study the survivability of solar-system-like planetary systems during close encounters in stellar associations using N-body simulations. Each system studied is based on one of the possible five-planet resonant configurations, aiming to represent the initial solar system architecture, and is scaled in terms of both planetary mass and orbital compactness to explore the parameter space of the observed exoplanetary architectures. Through simulations, we explore a range of stellar encounter scenarios drawn from distinct cluster environments. We show that system survival depends on the interplay between planetary mass and orbital scale, and our findings place strong constraints on the initial architectures of planetary systems that can endure stellar-dense birth environments. View this paper
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Articles (41)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,334 Views
33 Pages

21 August 2025

Being ionized nebulae where star formation events take place, H ii regions are not only natural laboratories for studying physical processes of star formation and photoionization but also signatures reflecting evolution of their internal stellar popu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Discoveries in Astronomical Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,190 Views
20 Pages

Phantom Dark Energy Behavior in Weyl Type f(Q,T) Gravity Models with Observational Constraints

  • Anirudh Pradhan,
  • Mohammad Zeyauddin,
  • Archana Dixit and
  • Kamal Ghaderi

20 August 2025

This study explores the behavior of phantom dark energy within the framework of Weyl-type f(Q,T) gravity, considering a spatially flat FLRW universe under observational constraints. The field equations are analytically solved for a dust-like fluid so...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
981 Views
15 Pages

19 August 2025

We study the effects of the time evolution of the matter-gravity coupling on the luminosity distance, showing it can provide a natural explanation to the apparent Hubble tension. The gravitational coupling evolution induces a modification of the Frie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,189 Views
16 Pages

19 August 2025

The influence of zero-point fluctuations on photon propagation in a vacuum is investigated without using normal ordering and renormalization procedures, but in a frame of the conformally unimodular metric for a description of the fluctuating gravitat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Gravity Phenomenology: Insights and Advances)
  • Tutorial
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,895 Views
39 Pages

18 August 2025

In this tutorial, I discuss how to model a neutron star from the Quantum Hadrodynamics microscopic approach. After a brief discussion about hydrostatic equilibrium, I discuss the role of each meson of the model and how to calculate the corresponding...

(This article belongs to the Section Compact Objects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,023 Views
19 Pages

18 August 2025

There have been many research works involving mass transfer in stellar binaries, all of which are limited to certain systems with specific binary parameters. In this work, we use three-dimensional smoothed particle (3D-SPH) simulations to explore the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
857 Views
56 Pages

17 August 2025

We expand our previous study of replicated gauge configurations in lattice SU(Nc) Yang–Mills theory—employing Bloch’s theorem from condensed matter physics—to construct gauge-fixed field configurations on significantly larger lattices than the origin...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,320 Views
41 Pages

17 August 2025

I show here that if we construct D-branes not in the form of infinite superpositions of string modes, in order to satisfy the technical condition of coherence by means of eigenstates of annihilation operators, but instead insist on an approximate but...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,124 Views
35 Pages

Dynamical System Analysis of Single-Axion Monodromy Inflation with Periodically Modulated Potentials

  • Panagiotis Dorlis,
  • Nick E. Mavromatos,
  • Sotirios-Neilos Vlachos and
  • Makarios Vyros

17 August 2025

In this work, we study field theoretic systems of a single axion-like field with linear potentials modulated by cosine terms, allegedly induced by non-perturbative instanton configurations. These systems are considered in expanding-Universe spacetime...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4,549 Views
27 Pages

17 August 2025

This article presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of spacetime singularities within the framework of classical General Relativity. Singularities are defined through the failure of geodesic completeness, reflecting the limits of predictabili...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,463 Views
24 Pages

15 August 2025

In this work, we employ the Darmois–Israel thin-shell formalism to construct both static and dynamic thin-shell configurations surrounding traversable wormholes. Initially, using the cut-and-paste technique, we perform a linearized stability an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,533 Views
17 Pages

15 August 2025

Most astrophysical systems (except for very compact objects such as, e.g., black holes and neutron stars) in our Universe are characterized by shallow gravitational potentials, with dimensionless compactness |Φ|≡rs/R≪1, where rs and R...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,943 Views
13 Pages

15 August 2025

Noise in Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) data is commonly modeled as a mixture of white and red noise components. While the former is related to the receivers, and easily characterized by three parameters (EFAC, EQUAD and ECORR), the latter arises from a m...

(This article belongs to the Section Compact Objects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,648 Views
18 Pages

14 August 2025

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies exceeding 1019 eV are believed to originate from extragalactic environments, potentially associated with relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Among AGNs, blazars, particularly those d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Past, Present and Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,065 Views
24 Pages

12 August 2025

The dynamic morphological characteristics of the auroral oval serve as critical diagnostic indicators for auroral substorm recognition, with each pixel in ultraviolet imager (UVI) data carrying different physical implications. Existing deep learning...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2025—Space Science)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
953 Views
7 Pages

11 August 2025

Applying the Parikh–Wilczek method and based on the thermodynamics laws of black holes, we investigate the structure of the entropy of rotating Bardeen black holes. We find that entropy includes three terms and thus violates the area law. The f...

(This article belongs to the Collection Open Questions in Black Hole Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,126 Views
17 Pages

The Evolution of Radiating Stars Is Affected by Dimension

  • Sunil D. Maharaj,
  • Byron P. Brassel,
  • Megandhren Govender and
  • Keshlan S. Govinder

9 August 2025

The dynamics of a radiating star in general relativity are studied in higher dimensions for a specified shear-free metric. The temporal evolution of the radiating star depends on the spacetime dimension. In particular, we show explicitly that the gra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Celebrating the 110th Anniversary of General Relativity: Advances, Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,059 Views
14 Pages

7 August 2025

We discuss a quantization of the Yang–Mills theory with an internal symmetry group SO(1,n) treated as a unified theory of all interactions. In one-loop calculations, we show that Einstein gravity can be considered as an approximation to gauge t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Loop Quantum Gravity and Non-Perturbative Approaches to Quantum Cosmology, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,020 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2025

TYC 622-742-1 and TYC 1193-1918-1 are evolved metal-poor (MP) high-speed stars with r-enhanced characteristics discovered in the Milky Way (MW) halo. The study of these halo stars is important for clarification of and knowledge about their origin. We...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,436 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive statistical analysis of extremely/very low-frequency (ELF/VLF) whistler-mode waves observed within magnetic ducts (B-ducts) using data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. A total of 687 event...

(This article belongs to the Section Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,302 Views
16 Pages

6 August 2025

Accurate parameter estimation is essential for gravitational wave data analysis. In extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary systems, orbital eccentricity is a critical parameter for parameter estimation. However, the current software for the parameter est...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,366 Views
32 Pages

Role of Thermal Fluctuations in Nucleation of Three-Flavor Quark Matter

  • Mirco Guerrini,
  • Giuseppe Pagliara,
  • Andrea Lavagno and
  • Alessandro Drago

5 August 2025

We present a framework that aims to investigate the role of thermal fluctuations in matter composition and color superconductivity in the nucleation of three-flavor deconfined quark matter in the typical conditions of high-energy astrophysical system...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,472 Views
11 Pages

4 August 2025

This work presents a semi-classical, quantum-corrected model of gravitational collapse for a charged, spherically symmetric dust cloud, extending the classical Oppenheimer–Snyder (OS) framework through loop quantum gravity effects. Our goal is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Loop Quantum Gravity and Non-Perturbative Approaches to Quantum Cosmology, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,309 Views
17 Pages

2 August 2025

We investigate the statistical entropy of black holes within the framework of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) by employing effective metrics that incorporate leading-order and all-order quantum gravitational corrections. We construct thre...

(This article belongs to the Collection Open Questions in Black Hole Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,698 Views
19 Pages

1 August 2025

The Thomas–Fermi approximation is a powerful method that has been widely used to describe atomic structures, finite nuclei, and nonuniform matter in supernovae and neutron-star crusts. Nonuniform nuclear matter at subnuclear density is assumed...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
826 Views
11 Pages

INTEGRAL/ISGRI Post 2024-Periastron View of PSR B1259-63

  • Aleksei Kuzin,
  • Denys Malyshev,
  • Maria Chernyakova,
  • Brian van Soelen and
  • Andrea Santangelo

31 July 2025

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a well-studied gamma-ray binary hosting a pulsar in a 3.4-year eccentric orbit around a Be-type star. Its non-thermal emission spans from radio to TeV energies, exhibiting a significant increase near the periastron passage. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Compact Objects)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,099 Views
34 Pages

Overview of Water-Ice in Asteroids—Targets of a Revolution by LSST and JWST

  • Ákos Kereszturi,
  • Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry,
  • Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd,
  • Imre Tóth and ,
  • Bernadett D. Pál and
  • Csaba Kiss
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 July 2025

Water-ice occurs inside many minor bodies almost throughout the Solar System. To have an overview of the inventory of water-ice in asteroids, beside the general characteristics of their activity, examples are presented with details, including the Hil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Hidden Stories of Small Planetary Bodies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,199 Views
13 Pages

Toward the Alleviation of the H0 Tension in Myrzakulov f(R,T) Gravity

  • Mashael A. Aljohani,
  • Emad E. Mahmoud,
  • Koblandy Yerzhanov and
  • Almira Sergazina

29 July 2025

In this work, we provide a promising way to alleviate the Hubble tension within the framework of Myrzakulov f(R,T) gravity. The latter incorporates both curvature and torsion under a non-special connection. We consider the f(R,T)=R+αR2 class, w...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,369 Views
4 Pages

29 July 2025

‘Black hole’ is the denomination of the most extreme prediction of the General Theory of Relativity made popular by J. A. Wheeler in the late sixties of the twentieth century, having now entered widely into the collective imagination. Non...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,902 Views
12 Pages

29 July 2025

Rovelli’s relational interpretation of quantum mechanics tells us that the description of a system in the formalism of quantum mechanics is not an absolute but is relative to the observer itself. The interpretation goes further and proposes a s...

(This article belongs to the Section Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,252 Views
9 Pages

Locally Generated Whistler-Mode Waves Before Dipolarization Fronts

  • Boning Zhao,
  • Chengming Liu,
  • Jinbin Cao,
  • Yangyang Liu and
  • Xining Xing

29 July 2025

Whistler-mode waves, electromagnetic emissions with frequencies between the lower hybrid and electron cyclotron frequencies, are ubiquitous in planetary magnetotails. They are known to play a vital role in electron scattering and acceleration, origin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2025—Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,105 Views
18 Pages

Estimating Galactic Structure Using Galactic Binaries Resolved by Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories

  • Shao-Dong Zhao,
  • Xue-Hao Zhang,
  • Soumya D. Mohanty,
  • Màrius Josep Fullana i Alfonso and ,
  • Yu-Xiao Liu and
  • Qun-Ying Xie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 July 2025

Space-based gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and Taiji, will observe GWs from O(108) galactic binary systems, allowing a completely unobscured view of the Milky Way structure. While previous studies...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Sources: Waveforms, Detection and Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,740 Views
22 Pages

Impact of Loop Quantum Gravity on the Topological Classification of Quantum-Corrected Black Holes

  • Saeed Noori Gashti,
  • İzzet Sakallı,
  • Hoda Farahani,
  • Prabir Rudra and
  • Behnam Pourhassan

27 July 2025

We investigated the thermodynamic topology of quantum-corrected AdS-Reissner-Nordström black holes in Kiselev spacetime using non-extensive entropy formulation derived from Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). Through systematic analysis, we examined how...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Loop Quantum Gravity and Non-Perturbative Approaches to Quantum Cosmology, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
851 Views
16 Pages

25 July 2025

The high-precision and long-duration photometry provided by the Kepler mission has greatly advanced frequency analyses of a large number of pulsating stars, a fundamental step in asteroseismology. For δ Scuti stars, analyses are typically confi...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,152 Views
13 Pages

25 July 2025

Transient increments of X-ray radiation and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) during solar flares are strong drivers of thermospheric dynamics on Mars, yet their class-dependent impacts remain poorly measured. This work provides the first direct, side-by-sid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,437 Views
13 Pages

25 July 2025

In this note, we discuss interesting aspects of the interaction of electromagnetic waves (EMW) with gravitational waves (GWs) and how we can use them for GW detection. We show that there is (i) a deviation from the original path of the EMW, as measur...

(This article belongs to the Collection Gravitational Waves as a New Probe for Astronomy and Fundamental Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
996 Views
15 Pages

Spectral Dimensionality of Spacetime Around a Radiating Schwarzschild Black-Hole

  • Mauricio Bellini,
  • Juan Ignacio Musmarra,
  • Pablo Alejandro Sánchez and
  • Alan Sebastián Morales

24 July 2025

In this work we study the spectral dimensionality of spacetime around a radiating Schwarzschild black hole using a recently introduced formalism of quantum gravity, where the alterations of the gravitational field produced by the radiation are repres...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,489 Views
11 Pages

Viscous Cosmology in f(Q,Lm) Gravity: Insights from CC, BAO, and GRB Data

  • Dheeraj Singh Rana,
  • Sai Swagat Mishra,
  • Aaqid Bhat and
  • Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo

23 July 2025

In this article, we investigate the influence of viscosity on the evolution of the cosmos within the framework of the newly proposed f(Q,Lm) gravity. We have considered a linear functional form f(Q,Lm)=αQ+βLm with a bulk viscous coefficien...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 10th Anniversary of Universe: Standard Cosmological Models, and Modified Gravity and Cosmological Tensions)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,223 Views
13 Pages

Gamma-Ray Bursts Calibrated by Using Artificial Neural Networks from the Pantheon+ Sample

  • Zhen Huang,
  • Xin Luo,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Jianchao Feng and ,
  • Puxun Wu,
  • Yu Liu and
  • Nan Liang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 July 2025

In this paper, we calibrate the luminosity relation of gamma−ray bursts (GRBs) by employing artificial neural networks (ANNs) to analyze the Pantheon+ sample of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in a manner independent of cosmological assumptions. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gamma-Ray Bursts: Unveiling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,423 Views
12 Pages

Disruption of Planetary System Architectures by Stellar Flybys

  • Robert Przyłuski,
  • Hans Rickman,
  • Paweł Wajer,
  • Tomasz Wiśniowski and ,
  • Diego Turrini,
  • Danae Polychroni,
  • Camilla Danielski,
  • J. M. Diederik Kruijssen,
  • Steven Longmore and
  • Mélanie Chevance
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

22 July 2025

We investigate the survivability of solar system-like planetary systems during close encounters in stellar associations using a suite of 1980 N-body simulations. Each system is based on one of the possible five-planet resonant configurations proposed...

(This article belongs to the Section Planetary Sciences)
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