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Universe, Volume 6, Issue 2

February 2020 - 16 articles

Cover Story: Gravity is the force that shapes the overall temporal and spatial structure of the Universe but it is also the least understood of the known interactions. In the last couple of decades, there has been tremendous progress in collecting cosmological data, which made mapping the properties of gravity possible at astrophysical and cosmological scales. However, to make sense of these results, one has to build a set of alternatives against which to compare the standard model. In this context, scalar–tensor theories á-la Horndeski display many non-Einsteinian effects, for instance, generalized Poisson equation, Yukawa interactions, and anisotropic stress. To test gravity and guide future experiments, identifying properties that can be measured in a model-independent way is a fundamental step to improve our understanding of gravity.View this paper.
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,410 Views
22 Pages

22 February 2020

The nonlinear orbital dynamics of a class of the perturbed restricted three-body problem is studied. The two primaries considered here refer to the binary system HD 191408. The third particle moves under the gravity of the binary system, whose triaxi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
4,743 Views
22 Pages

18 February 2020

Gravitomagnetism characterizes phenomena in the weak-field limit within the context of rotating systems. These are mainly manifested in the geodetic and Lense-Thirring effects. The geodetic effect describes the precession of the spin of a gyroscope i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,379 Views
22 Pages

15 February 2020

We investigate the squeezing of primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) in terms of quantum discord. We construct a classical state of PGWs without quantum discord and compare it with the Bunch–Davies vacuum. Then it is shown that the oscillatory...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,212 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2020

We review the problem of transforming electromagnetic fields between inertial and rotating reference frames. We compare the method of straightforward tensor coordinate transformations adopted by Schiff in his well-known paper of 1939 with the method...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,197 Views
30 Pages

Three-Flavor Oscillations with Accelerator Neutrino Beams

  • Mauro Mezzetto and
  • Francesco Terranova

11 February 2020

The three-flavor neutrino oscillation paradigm is well established in particle physics thanks to the crucial contribution of accelerator neutrino beam experiments. In this paper, we review the most important contributions of these experiments to the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,089 Views
32 Pages

Neutrino Telescopes and High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos

  • Andrea Palladino,
  • Maurizio Spurio and
  • Francesco Vissani

10 February 2020

In this review paper, we present the main aspects of high-energy cosmic neutrino astrophysics. We begin by describing the generic expectations for cosmic neutrinos, including the effects of propagation from their sources to the detectors. Then we int...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,271 Views
11 Pages

Rotating Disc around a Schwarzschild Black Hole

  • Oldřich Semerák and
  • Pavel Čížek

3 February 2020

A stationary and axisymmetric (in fact circular) metric is reviewed which describes the first-order perturbation of a Schwarzschild black-hole space-time due to a rotating finite thin disc encircling the hole symmetrically. The key Green functions of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,165 Views
25 Pages

3 February 2020

This report presents the detection framework and a proposal for a pilot table-top experiment (supported by simulations and preliminary test results) for adoption into narrow mass range light Cold Dark Matter (CDM) searches, specifically for axions or...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
196 Citations
7,718 Views
75 Pages

Influence of Cosmic Repulsion and Magnetic Fields on Accretion Disks Rotating around Kerr Black Holes

  • Zdeněk Stuchlík,
  • Martin Kološ,
  • Jiří Kovář,
  • Petr Slaný and
  • Arman Tursunov

29 January 2020

We present a review of the influence of cosmic repulsion and external magnetic fields on accretion disks rotating around rotating black holes and on jets associated with these rotating configurations. We consider both geometrically thin and thick dis...

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