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Universe, Volume 4, Issue 2

February 2018 - 23 articles

Cover Story: Due to the dozens of inflationary models, we do not know much about the inflationary era of the universe. We should therefore aim to have only a few acceptable models. The main article in this issue tries to eliminate as many models as possible by showing that their predictions are in conflict with cosmological observations, particularly the CMB-observations performed by the Planck team. Thirty-three model classes have been reviewed, about half of which have been falsified by the present observations. The review also gives a systematic presentation of the different slow roll parameters, the N-formalism and the optical parameters of the inflationary models. It is found that the warm inflation models—more complete than the cold models since they take into consideration the transition of dark energy into radiation—are favored by the observations. View this paper
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Articles (23)

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
3,094 Views
7 Pages

Cracking Strange Stars by Torsional Oscillations

  • Francesco Tonelli and
  • Massimo Mannarelli

17 February 2018

Strange stars are one of the possible compact stellar objects formed in the core collapse of supernovae. These hypothetical stars are made by deconfined quark matter and are selfbound. In our study, we focus on the torsional oscillations of a non bar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,941 Views
11 Pages

16 February 2018

In this paper, we present a method to probe the vacuum decay hypothesis by searching for deviations of the uncoupled dark matter density evolution formula. The method consists of expanding the dark matter density in a Taylor series and then comparing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,676 Views
9 Pages

Precessing Black Hole Binaries and Their Gravitational Radiation

  • László Á. Gergely,
  • Zoltán Keresztes and
  • Márton Tápai

16 February 2018

The first and second observational runs of Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) have marked the first direct detections of gravitational waves, either from black hole binaries or, in one case, from coalescing neutron st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,991 Views
20 Pages

Conformally Coupled General Relativity

  • Andrej Arbuzov and
  • Boris Latosh

14 February 2018

The gravity model developed in the series of papers (Arbuzov et al. 2009; 2010), (Pervushin et al. 2012) is revisited. The model is based on the Ogievetsky theorem, which specifies the structure of the general coordinate transformation group. The the...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,008 Views
6 Pages

Strangeness Production in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at SIS Energies

  • Vinzent Steinberg,
  • Dmytro Oliinychenko,
  • Jan Staudenmaier and
  • Hannah Petersen

13 February 2018

Simulating Many Accelerated Strongly-interacting Hadrons (SMASH) is a new hadronic transport approach designed to describe the non-equilibrium evolution of heavy-ion collisions. The production of strange particles in such systems is enhanced compared...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,581 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Scattering of Radiation on Wormholes

  • Alexander Kirillov and
  • Elena Savelova

12 February 2018

Significant progress in the development of observational techniques gives us the hope to directly observe cosmological wormholes. We have collected basic effects produced by the scattering of radiation on wormholes, which can be used in observations....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,712 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2018

The Lense-Thirring effect from spinning neutron stars in double neutron star binaries contributes to the periastron advance of the orbit. This extra term involves the moment of inertia of the neutron stars. The moment of inertia, on the other hand, d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,065 Views
11 Pages

11 February 2018

We consider diverse deformed Bose gas models (DBGMs) focusing on distributions and correlations of any order, and also on deformed thermodynamics. For so-called μ -deformed Bose gas model ( μ -DBGM), main thermodynamic aspects are treated: t...

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