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Universe, Volume 8, Issue 7

2022 July - 49 articles

Cover Story: Solar wind turbulence is often found to be Alfvénic, especially in fast wind streams. However, recent observations performed in the inner heliosphere have proved that also slow streams show strong Alfvénic signatures. This study focuses on a comparative analysis between a fast stream and Alfvénic slow wind intervals performed at L1 where one would expect a degradation of the Alfvénicity in slow streams. The behavior of different parameters to characterize Alfvénic fluctuations is examined, supported by a spectral analysis to compare power spectra, also using the Elsässer variables to derive the normalized cross-helicity and residual energy and study their spectral behavior. Although this study further confirms similarities between fast and Alfvénic slow wind (e.g., similar Alfvénic frequency ranges), fast wind is found to be closer to a balance between kinetic and magnetic energy. View this paper
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,123 Views
18 Pages

The predicted size of dark matter substructures in kilo-parsec scales is model-dependent. Therefore, if the correlations between dark matter mass densities as a function of the distances between them are measured via observations, we can scrutinize d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,961 Views
21 Pages

In the broader methodical framework of the quantization of gravity, the crypto-Hermitian (or non-Hermitian) version of Dirac’s interaction picture is considered. The formalism is briefly outlined and shown to be well suited for an innovative tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,204 Views
18 Pages

Physical Properties of Radio Stars Based on LAMOST Spectral Survey

  • Liyun Zhang,
  • Yao Cheng,
  • Xianming L. Han,
  • Qingfeng Pi,
  • Prabhakar Misra,
  • Baoda Li and
  • Zhongzhong Zhu

Radio emission has been detected for all types of stars in the Hertzsprung Russell diagram. Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) low and medium-resolution spectroscopic surveys provide a good opportunity to obtain the sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,953 Views
18 Pages

Determination of the Physical Parameters of AGNs in Seyfert 1 Galaxies LEDA 3095839 and VII Zw 244 Based on Spectropolarimetric Observations

  • Elena Shablovinskaya,
  • Mikhail Piotrovich,
  • Eugene Malygin,
  • Stanislava Buliga and
  • Tinatin Natsvlishvili

Here we present the detailed investigation of AGNs in two Seyfert 1 galaxies, LEDA 3095839 and VII Zw 244. Both of them were observed within the photometric reverberation mapping project in Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,276 Views
11 Pages

Quantum fluctuations can endow spacetime with a foamy structure. In this review article, we discuss our various proposals to observationally constrain models of spacetime foam. One way is to examine if the light wave-front from a distant quasar or GR...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,121 Views
34 Pages

Formation of Comets

  • Jürgen Blum,
  • Dorothea Bischoff and
  • Bastian Gundlach

Questions regarding how primordial or pristine the comets of the solar system are have been an ongoing controversy. In this review, we describe comets’ physical evolution from dust and ice grains in the solar nebula to the contemporary small bo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,207 Views
18 Pages

Low Density Neutron Star Matter with Quantum Molecular Dynamics: The Role of Isovector Interactions

  • Parit Mehta,
  • Rana Nandi,
  • Rosana de Oliveira Gomes,
  • Veronica Dexheimer and
  • Jan Steinheimer

The effect of isospin-dependent nuclear forces on the inner crust of neutron stars is modeled within the framework of Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD). To successfully control the density dependence of the symmetry energy of neutron-star matter below...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,352 Views
16 Pages

Pre-Big Bang cosmology inspired generations of cosmologists in attempts to cure the initial Big Bang singularity using a fundamental length scale as proposed by string theory. The existence of a phase of collapse/inflation with increasing curvature f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,505 Views
12 Pages

The Updated Version of the A.Ne.Mo.S. GLE Alert System: The Case of the Ground-Level Enhancement GLE73 on 28 October 2021

  • Helen Mavromichalaki,
  • Pavlos Paschalis,
  • Maria Gerontidou,
  • Maria-Christina Papailiou,
  • Evangelos Paouris,
  • Anastasia Tezari,
  • Dimitra Lingri,
  • Maria Livada,
  • Argyris N. Stassinakis and
  • Mark Dierckxsens
  • + 1 author

A ground-level enhancement (GLE) event is a sudden increase in cosmic ray intensity originated by solar sources and recorded by ground-based detectors. GLEs are invariably associated with large solar flares that can release and accelerate solar parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
1,929 Views
26 Pages

How Inflationary Gravitons Affect the Force of Gravity

  • Lintao Tan,
  • Nikolaos Christos Tsamis and
  • Richard Paul Woodard

We employ an unregulated computation of the graviton self-energy from gravitons on the de Sitter background to infer the renormalized result. This is used to quantum-correct the linearized Einstein equation. We solve this equation for the potentials...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,897 Views
16 Pages

Periodic Variations of Solar Corona Index during 1939–2020

  • Rui Tang,
  • Yu Fei,
  • Chun Li,
  • Wen Liu,
  • Xinan Tian and
  • Zhongjie Wan

Periodic behaviors of solar magnetic indicators might provide a clue for the understanding of solar dynamic processes. Combining with a Lomb–Scargle periodogram, the concentration of frequency and time via a multitapered synchrosqueezed transfo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,011 Views
23 Pages

Overview and Status of the International Celestial Reference Frame as Realized by VLBI

  • Aletha de Witt,
  • Patrick Charlot,
  • David Gordon and
  • Christopher S. Jacobs

Accurate measurement of angular positions on the sky requires a well-defined system of reference that is realized with accessible objects. The purpose of this study is to review the international standard realization of such a system, the Internation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,791 Views
15 Pages

The self-consistent problem of gravitational collapse is solved using 2D gas dynamics with taking into account the neutrino transfer in the flux-limited diffusion approximation. Neutrino are described by spectral energy density, and weak interaction...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,208 Views
51 Pages

Key Space and Ground Facilities in GRB Science

  • Anastasia Tsvetkova,
  • Dmitry Svinkin,
  • Sergey Karpov and
  • Dmitry Frederiks

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense flashes of γ-rays coming from deep space. GRBs were discovered more than a half century ago and now are observed across the whole electromagnetic spectrum from radio to very-high-energy gamma rays....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,221 Views
17 Pages

In this paper, we present a three-order, divergence-free finite volume scheme to simulate the steady state solar wind ambient. The divergence-free condition of the magnetic field is preserved by the constrained transport (CT) method. The CT method ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,270 Views
25 Pages

Incorporating a Radiative Hydrodynamics Scheme in the Numerical-Relativity Code BAM

  • Henrique Gieg,
  • Federico Schianchi,
  • Tim Dietrich and
  • Maximiliano Ujevic

To study binary neutron star systems and to interpret observational data such as gravitational-wave and kilonova signals, one needs an accurate description of the processes that take place during the final stages of the coalescence, for example, thro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,315 Views
16 Pages

A brane-world metric with an external magnetic field is a modified theory of gravity. It is suitable for the description of compact sources on the brane such as stars and black holes. We design a class of explicit symplectic integrators for this spac...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,312 Views
23 Pages

In the present study, we continue testing the Primordial Group hypothesis (Casado 2022), which postulates that only sufficiently young open clusters can be binary or multiple, and old clusters are essentially single. To this end, we revisit all the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,118 Views
8 Pages

In modified gravity theories, gravitational wave propagations are presented in nonstandard ways. We consider a friction term different from GR and constrain the modified gravitational waves propagation from observations. The modified gravitational wa...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,431 Views
17 Pages

Dust particles leaving the comet nucleus surface are entrained by the gas within the first few nuclear radius distances and are subjected to a complex hydrodynamical environment. From distances of about 20 nuclear radii outwards, the particles decoup...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,059 Views
24 Pages

Under the background of perfect fluid and flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) space-time, this paper mainly describes the dynamics of the cosmological model constructed in f(R,T) gravity on three invariant planes,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,948 Views
16 Pages

Trajectory Analysis and Optimization of Hesperides Mission

  • Giovanni Mengali and
  • Alessandro A. Quarta

A challenging problem from a technological viewpoint is to send a spacecraft at a distance of about 600 au from the Sun, comparable with that of the Sun’s gravitational focus (that is, the general relativistic focusing of light rays, whose mini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,310 Views
12 Pages

Near-Horizon Thermodynamics of Hairy Black Holes from Gravitational Decoupling

  • Rogerio Teixeira Cavalcanti,
  • Kelvin dos Santos Alves and
  • Julio Marny Hoff da Silva

The horizon structure and thermodynamics of hairy spherically symmetric black holes generated by the gravitational decoupling method are carefully investigated. The temperature and heat capacity of the black hole is determined, as well as how the hai...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,463 Views
18 Pages

Presolar grains are microscopic dust grains that formed in the stellar winds or explosions of ancient stars that died before the formation of the solar system. The majority (~90% in number) of presolar silicon carbide (SiC) grains, including types ma...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,186 Views
18 Pages

Solar system ephemeris is very important for pulsar timing and navigation. In order to explore the effect of different precision ephemerides on X-ray pulsar timing and navigation, the differences between timing and navigation results with four JPL De...

  • Review
  • Open Access
130 Citations
5,689 Views
41 Pages

Multiple Populations in Star Clusters

  • Antonino P. Milone and
  • Anna F. Marino

We review the multiple population (MP) phenomenon of globular clusters (GCs): i.e., the evidence that GCs typically host groups of stars with different elemental abundances and/or distinct sequences in photometric diagrams. Most Galactic and extragal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,691 Views
51 Pages

Statistical Properties of X-ray Flares in Gamma-ray Bursts

  • Yong-Rui Shi,
  • Xiao-Kang Ding,
  • Si-Yuan Zhu,
  • Wan-Peng Sun and
  • Fu-Wen Zhang

X-ray flares are frequently detected in the X-ray afterglow light curves and are highly correlated with the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We compile a comprehensive sample of X-ray flares up to 2021 April, comprising 697 flares. We clas...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,377 Views
8 Pages

There has been remarkable progress in identifying a certain type of biosignature, both from the point of view of the payloads of forthcoming missions, and from the point of view of biogeochemistry. This progress has been due to the evolution of minia...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,899 Views
37 Pages

The Past and Future of Mid-Infrared Studies of AGN

  • Anna Sajina,
  • Mark Lacy and
  • Alexandra Pope

Observational studies of AGN in the mid-infrared regime are crucial to our understanding of AGN and their role in the evolution of galaxies. Mid-IR-based selection of AGN is complementary to more traditional techniques allowing for a more complete ce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,836 Views
26 Pages

The Statistical Similarity of Repeating and Non-Repeating Fast Radio Bursts

  • Kongjun Zhang,
  • Longbiao Li,
  • Zhibin Zhang,
  • Qinmei Li,
  • Juanjuan Luo and
  • Min Jiang

In this paper, we present a sample of 21 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by different radio instruments before September 2021. Using the Anderson–Darling test, we compared the distributions of extra-Galactic dispersion measure (DME)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,387 Views
16 Pages

Observability of HOFNARs at SRG/eROSITA

  • Alena D. Khokhriakova,
  • Andrey I. Chugunov,
  • Sergei B. Popov,
  • Mikhail E. Gusakov and
  • Elena M. Kantor

Neutron stars can appear as sources of different nature. In this paper we address the observability of a hypothetical class of neutron stars—HOt and Fast Non-Accreting Rotators, HOFNARs. These objects are heated due to the r-mode instability. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,563 Views
13 Pages

We consider a QCD cold-plasma-motivated Equation of State (EOS) to examine the impact of an Anomalous Magnetic Moment (AMM) coupling and small shape deformations on the static oblate and prolate core shapes of quark stars. Using the Fogaça QCD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,804 Views
14 Pages

Investigating Alfvénic Turbulence in Fast and Slow Solar Wind Streams

  • Raffaella D’Amicis,
  • Denise Perrone,
  • Marco Velli,
  • Luca Sorriso-Valvo,
  • Daniele Telloni,
  • Roberto Bruno and
  • Rossana De Marco

Solar wind turbulence dominated by large-amplitude Alfvénic fluctuations, mainly propagating away from the Sun, is ubiquitous in high-speed solar wind streams. Recent observations performed in the inner heliosphere (from 1 AU down to tens of s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,468 Views
45 Pages

Critical Tests of Leading Gamma Ray Burst Theories

  • Shlomo Dado,
  • Arnon Dar and
  • Alvaro De Rújula

It has been observationally established that supernovae (SNe) of Type Ic produce long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and that neutron star mergers generate short hard GRBs. SN-Less GRBs presumably originate in a phase transition of a neutron star i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,341 Views
37 Pages

We review, as well as provide some new results regarding the study of the structure of spacetime and the singularity in the interior of the Schwarzschild black hole in both loop quantum gravity and generalized uncertainty principle approaches, using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,179 Views
14 Pages

Clusters of Solar Radio Spikes Modulated by Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in a Confined Flare

  • Jing Huang,
  • Chengming Tan,
  • Xingyao Chen,
  • Baolin Tan,
  • Yihua Yan,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Suli Ma,
  • Zhichao Zhou,
  • Minghui Zhang and
  • Linjie Chen
  • + 1 author

Spikes are typical radio bursts in solar flares, which are proposed to be the signal of energy release in the solar corona. The whole group of spikes always shows different spectral patterns in the dynamic spectrum. Here, we present a special new fea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,880 Views
10 Pages

Shore Shadow Effect in Baikal

  • Apoorva Bhatt,
  • Paweł Malecki and
  • Dariusz Góra

The measurement of the individual charged particles especially muons in an extended air shower (EAS) resulting from primary cosmic rays provides important distinguishing parameters to identify the chemical composition of the cosmic primary particles....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,379 Views
11 Pages

We use the SYM-H index to indicate the ring current index. We find that there were two periods during which the SYM-H index decreased quickly during the main phase of the geomagnetic storm on 21–22 October 1999. The first period from 11:44 p.m....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,870 Views
8 Pages

We apply a singularity analysis to investigate the integrability properties of the gravitational field equations in Weyl Integrable Spacetime for a spatially flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker background spacetime induce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,331 Views
13 Pages

The Hubble Diagram: Jump from Supernovae to Gamma-ray Bursts

  • Nikita Yu. Lovyagin,
  • Rustam I. Gainutdinov,
  • Stanislav I. Shirokov and
  • Vladimir L. Gorokhov

The Hubble diagram (HD) is a plot that contains a luminous distance modulus presented with respect to the redshift. The distance modulus–redshift relation of the most well-known “standard candles”, the type Ia supernovae (SN), is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,754 Views
14 Pages

Origin of Plutonium-244 in the Early Solar System

  • Maria Lugaro,
  • Andrés Yagüe López,
  • Benjámin Soós,
  • Benoit Côté,
  • Mária Pető,
  • Nicole Vassh,
  • Benjamin Wehmeyer and
  • Marco Pignatari

We investigate the origin in the early Solar System of the short-lived radionuclide 244Pu (with a half life of 80 Myr) produced by the rapid (r) neutron-capture process. We consider two large sets of r-process nucleosynthesis models and analyse if th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,438 Views
16 Pages

The Spatial Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Measured Redshifts from 24 Years of Observation

  • Zsolt Bagoly,
  • István Horvath,
  • István I. Racz,
  • Lajos G. Balázs and
  • L. Viktor Tóth

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous objects known: they outshine their host galaxies, making them ideal candidates for probing large-scale structure. Our aim is to determine the Spatial Two-Point Correlation Function of the GRBs with spectr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,686 Views
23 Pages

Shadow and Weak Deflection Angle of a Black Hole in Nonlocal Gravity

  • Qi-Ming Fu,
  • Shao-Wen Wei,
  • Li Zhao,
  • Yu-Xiao Liu and
  • Xin Zhang

Black hole shadow and gravitational lensing play important roles in testing gravitational theories in the strong field regime. As the first-order modifications from quantum gravity, the nonlocality can be manifested by black hole shadow and gravitati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
2,744 Views
9 Pages

A cosmological model with an exotic fluid is investigated. We show that the equation of state of this “modified Chaplygin” gas can describe the current accelerated expansion of the universe. We then reexpress it as FRW cosmological model...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,811 Views
21 Pages

In this study, we report systematic investigations of the membership of galaxies inside a cluster using a machine learning (ML) neural network. By directly assigning the membership, rather than estimating the galaxy redshift as an intermediate step,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,988 Views
15 Pages

Contrasting Scaling Properties of Near-Sun Sub-Alfvénic and Super-Alfvénic Regions

  • Tommaso Alberti,
  • Simone Benella,
  • Vincenzo Carbone,
  • Giuseppe Consolini,
  • Virgilio Quattrociocchi and
  • Mirko Stumpo

Scale-invariance has rapidly established itself as one of the most used concepts in space plasmas to uncover underlying physical mechanisms via the scaling-law behavior of the statistical properties of field fluctuations. In this work, we characteriz...

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