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Universe, Volume 6, Issue 6

2020 June - 17 articles

Cover Story: We perform a full analytical and numerical treatment to the 1 PN order, of the general relativistic long-term spin precession of an orbiting gyroscope due to the oblateness of its primary without any restriction on either gyro’s orbital configuration or the orientation in space of the symmetry axis of the central body. We apply our results to the past GP-B mission by finding a secular rate of its spin declination, which may be as large as $\lesssim 30-40\,\mathrm{milliarcseconds\,per\,year}$, depending on the initial orbital phase $f_0$. Both our analytical and numerical calculations confirm such a finding. For GP-B, the reported mean error in measuring the spin declination rate amounts to $18.3\,\mathrm{milliarcseconds\,per\,year}^{-1}$. Our results can also be extended to other scenarios of interest such as, e.g., stars orbiting supermassive black holes, exoplanets, and tight binaries hosting compact stellar corpses. View this paper
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,280 Views
19 Pages

We study the Λ b ( 6146 ) 0 and Λ b ( 6152 ) 0 recently observed by LHCb using the method of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) sum rules within the framework of heavy quark effective theory. Our results suggest th...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,545 Views
35 Pages

One of the most important issues in an inflationary theory as standard or quintessential inflation is the mechanism to reheat the universe after the end of the inflationary period in order to match with the Hot Big Bang universe. In quintessential in...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,770 Views
24 Pages

We perform a full analytical and numerical treatment, to the first post-Newtonian (1pN) order, of the general relativistic long-term spin precession of an orbiting gyroscope due to the mass quadrupole moment J 2 of its primary without any res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: 5th Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,563 Views
10 Pages

We consider the structure of excited states and low-energy interaction of hadronic dark matter with photons, leptons, and nucleons. Description of the lowest excited levels is fulfilled in an analogy with the standard heavy-light mesons. Using the ef...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Focus on Dark Matter)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,170 Views
13 Pages

Comments on P. Jordan’s Cosmological Model

  • Eve-Aline Dubois and
  • André Füzfa

We analyse the original cosmology of P. Jordan through his 1939 key paper entitled “Bemerkungen zur Kosmologie” or “Comments on cosmology”. In this almost forgotten work, the author introduced a model of dynamical cosmology wi...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,385 Views
12 Pages

Neutron stars, and magnetars in particular, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. The origin of these strong fields is a matter of controversy. In this preliminary work, via numerical simulations, we study, for the first ti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: 5th Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
5,482 Views
22 Pages

Was GW170817 a Canonical Neutron Star Merger? Bayesian Analysis with a Third Family of Compact Stars

  • David Blaschke,
  • Alexander Ayriyan,
  • David Edwin Alvarez-Castillo and
  • Hovik Grigorian

We investigate the possibility that GW170817 was not the merger of two conventional neutron stars (NS), but involved at least one if not two hybrid stars with a quark matter core that might even belong to a third family of compact stars. To this end,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram and in the Multi-Messenger Era of Astronomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,530 Views
13 Pages

The generalized hybrid metric-Palatini theory of gravity admits a scalar-tensor representation in terms of two interacting scalar fields. We show that, upon an appropriate choice of the interaction potential, one of the scalar fields behaves like dar...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,208 Views
70 Pages

In this work, we study the impact of quantum entanglement on the two-point correlation function and the associated primordial power spectrum of mean square vacuum fluctuation in a bipartite quantum field theoretic system. The field theory that we con...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,880 Views
24 Pages

In 1998, the Super-Kamiokande discovered neutrino oscillation using atmospheric neutrino anomalies. It was the first direct evidence of neutrino mass and the first phenomenon to be discovered beyond the standard model of particle physics. Recently, m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neutrino Oscillations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,399 Views
19 Pages

We give a systematic local description of invariant metrics and other invariant fields on a spacetime under the action of a (non-abelian) group. This includes the invariant fields in a neighbourhood of a principal and a special orbit. The constructio...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
14,530 Views
70 Pages

Black Hole as a Quantum Field Configuration

  • Hikaru Kawai and
  • Yuki Yokokura

We describe 4D evaporating black holes as quantum field configurations by solving the semi-classical Einstein equation G μ ν = 8 π G ⟨ ψ | T μ ν | ψ ⟩ and quantum matter fields in a self-consistent...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,729 Views
10 Pages

Invisible QCD as Dark Energy

  • Andrea Addazi,
  • Stephon Alexander and
  • Antonino Marcianò

We account for the late time acceleration of the Universe by extending the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) color to a S U ( 3 ) invisible sector (IQCD). If the Invisible Chiral symmetry is broken in the early universe, a condensate of dark pions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shedding Light to the Dark Sides of the Universe: Cosmology from Strong Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,575 Views
15 Pages

The time-dependent cosmological term arises from the energy-momentum tensor calculated in a state different from the ground state. We discuss the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor on the right hand side of Einstein equations in various...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,516 Views
17 Pages

The current work performs a numerical study on periodic motions of the Hill three-body problem. In particular, by computing the stability of its basic planar families we determine vertical self-resonant (VSR) periodic orbits at which families of thre...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,420 Views
11 Pages

Obscuration and Scattering in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1s

  • Xiang Pan,
  • Hongyan Zhou and
  • Peng Jiang

Narrow-line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s) observed at large inclinations from face-on are important for understanding this amazing AGN subclass. However, progress is slowly being made in the huntings and studies of highly obscured (EB–V ≥ 1) NLS1s. Rec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seyfert Galaxies Astrophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,875 Views
20 Pages

Several classic one-dimensional problems of variational calculus originating in non-relativistic particle mechanics have solutions that are analogues of spatially homogeneous and isotropic universes. They are ruled by an equation which is formally a...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
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