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Universe, Volume 9, Issue 11

November 2023 - 30 articles

Cover Story: In this paper, we study analytical approximate solutions for second-order homogeneous differential equations with the existence of only two turning points (but without poles) by using the uniform asymptotic approximation (UAA) method. To be more concrete, we consider the Pöschl–Teller (PT) potential, for which analytical solutions are known. Depending on the values of the parameters involved in the PT potential, we find that the upper bounds of the errors of the approximate solutions in general are ≲0.15∼10% for the first-order approximation of the UAA method. The approximations can be easily extended to high orders, for which the errors are expected to be much smaller. Such obtained analytical solutions can be used to study cosmological perturbations in the framework of quantum cosmology as well as quasi-normal modes of black holes. View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,206 Views
16 Pages

30 October 2023

Impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events were first distinguished as the streaming electrons that produce type III radio bursts as distinct from shock-induced type II bursts. They were then observed as the surprisingly enhanced 3He-rich SEP ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,985 Views
21 Pages

Possible Wormholes in a Friedmann Universe

  • Kirill A. Bronnikov,
  • Pavel E. Kashargin and
  • Sergey V. Sushkov

29 October 2023

We study the properties of evolving wormholes able to exist in a closed Friedmann dust-filled universe and described by a particular branch of the well-known Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi solution to the Einstein equations and its generaliz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,477 Views
21 Pages

28 October 2023

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) are one of the most powerful cosmic sources of neutrinos, with energies of several MeV. The emission of neutrinos and antineutrinos of all flavors carries away the gravitational binding energy of the compact remnant and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,558 Views
17 Pages

28 October 2023

The transiting planet K2-18 b is one of the best candidates for a relatively nearby world harboring biological life. The long-term orbital evolution of this planet is investigated using theoretical and purely numerical techniques for two possible con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,673 Views
13 Pages

27 October 2023

In search of physics beyond the standard model, new phenomena can be relevant in low energies. In view of the Standard Model Extension is an effective field theory, in this study we explore the fermionic sector by showing that the properties of nonre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,794 Views
27 Pages

27 October 2023

China has successfully carried out five lunar exploration missions since 2007. These missions indicate that China has successfully implemented a three-step lunar exploration program of “orbiting, landing, and returning”. Among them, the L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,928 Views
26 Pages

Hořava–Lifshitz F(R¯) Theories and the Swampland

  • Hugo García-Compeán,
  • Daniel Mata-Pacheco and
  • Luis Zapata

26 October 2023

The compatibility between the de Sitter Swampland conjecture and Hořava–Lifshitz F(R¯) theories with a flat FLRW metric is studied. We first study the standard f(R) theories and show that the only way in which the dS conjecture can be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,188 Views
19 Pages

Rapid Orbit-to-Orbit Transfer to Asteroid 4660 Nereus Using Solar Electric Propulsion

  • Alessandro A. Quarta,
  • Giovanni Mengali and
  • Marco Bassetto

26 October 2023

This paper analyzes the rapid rendezvous trajectory of a spacecraft equipped with an advanced solar electric propulsion system towards asteroid 4660 Nereus. In this context, a set of possible minimum-time orbit-to-orbit transfer trajectories is calcu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,652 Views
13 Pages

25 October 2023

The vanishing phase space generator of the full four-dimensional diffeomorphism-related symmetry group in the context of the Barbero–Immirz–Holst Lagrangian is derived directly, for the first time, from Noether’s second theorem. Its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,002 Views
15 Pages

NLTE Analysis of High-Resolution H-Band Spectra, V: Neutral Sodium

  • Zeming Zhou,
  • Jianrong Shi,
  • Shaolan Bi,
  • Hongliang Yan,
  • Junbo Zhang,
  • Kaike Pan and
  • Xiaodong Xu

25 October 2023

In order to derive sodium abundances and investigate the effects of non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) on the formation of H-band Na I lines, we update the sodium atomic model by incorporating collision rates with hydrogen from new quantum-me...

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