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Universe, Volume 8, Issue 11

November 2022 - 60 articles

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Cover Story: We revised the classification of 2980 identified gamma-ray point sources from the fourth catalog of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) by searching for optical spectra in all the available literature and publicly available databases. Although the lion's share remains with BL Lacs and flat-spectrum radio quasars, we found a significant increase in misaligned AGN (almost doubled) and narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (almost tripled). We also found 32 Seyfert galaxies and 34 jetted AGN that changed their classification in time (changing-look AGN). The gamma-ray sky is much more varied than previously thought. View this paper

Articles (60)

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,049 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2022

A study of the top-quark interactions via flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) processes provides an intriguing connection between the heaviest elementary particle of the standard model (SM) of particle physics and the new scalar bosons that are p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,770 Views
9 Pages

Impact of Lorentz Violation Models on Exoplanets’ Dynamics

  • Antonio Gallerati,
  • Matteo Luca Ruggiero and
  • Lorenzo Iorio

18 November 2022

Many exoplanets have been detected by the radial velocity method, according to which the motion of a binary system around its center of mass can produce a periodical variation of the Doppler effect of the light emitted by the host star. These variati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,684 Views
26 Pages

17 November 2022

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and their relativistic jets belong to the most promising class of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) accelerators. This compact review summarises basic experimental findings by recent instruments, and discusses possibl...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,534 Views
3 Pages

17 November 2022

The present Special Issue is dedicated to the long-sought-after nuclear process known as Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (NDBD), a nuclear transition characterized by the simultaneous decay of two neutrons into protons and electrons, without the emiss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,717 Views
9 Pages

17 November 2022

There were 51 superactive regions (SARs) during solar cycles (SCs) 21–24. We divided the SARs into SARs1, which produced extreme space weather events including ≥X5.0 flares, ground level events (GLEs), and super geomagnetic storms (SGSs, Dst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,904 Views
25 Pages

17 November 2022

Black hole horizons interact with external fields when matter or energy falls through them. Such non-stationary black hole horizons can be described using viscous fluid equations. This work attempts to describe this process using effective field theo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,531 Views
10 Pages

17 November 2022

The correspondence between the shadow radius and the real part of the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a Kerr–Sen black hole is studied. By using the equation of the shadow radius of Kerr–Sen black hole and the angular separation constant of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,159 Views
14 Pages

17 November 2022

We examined Hubble Space Telescope images of Saturn’s northern UV aurora in 2013–2017, identified 29 short-lived flashes, and examined simultaneous magnetometer data collected by the Cassini orbiter. When observation cadence permitted, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,283 Views
16 Pages

Density Matrix Formalism for Interacting Quantum Fields

  • Christian Käding and
  • Mario Pitschmann

16 November 2022

We provide a description of interacting quantum fields in terms of density matrices for any occupation numbers in Fock space in a momentum basis. As a simple example, we focus on a real scalar field interacting with another real scalar field, and pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,941 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2022

The holographic space-time (HST) model of inflation has a potential explanation for dark matter as tiny primordial black holes. Motivated by a recent paper of Barrau, we propose a version of this model where some of the inflationary black holes (IBHs...

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