164 papers
Astro-Ph explores the fundamental nature of our universe, from the birth of stars and the behavior of black holes to the vast structures of galaxies and the invisible forces shaping cosmic evolution. This dynamic field seeks to answer profound questions about how the cosmos works, blending theoretical models with observations from powerful telescopes that peer back to the dawn of time.
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Atomic force microscopy of pristine regolith particles from asteroid Bennu reveals extremely low interparticle cohesion (~1.25 nN), suggesting that carbonaceous near-Earth asteroids are weakly resistant to rotational disruption and that their surfaces lack millimeter-scale particles due to these minimal cohesive forces.
This paper proposes LiRBM, a high-precision modeling method based on linear radial basis functions that significantly outperforms existing techniques in accurately representing the Event Horizon Telescope's synthesized beam to facilitate improved black hole image restoration and quantitative analysis.
By systematically analyzing the complete OSIRIS image archive of comet 67P, this study reveals that surface mass wasting of volatile-bearing material consistently precedes and drives cometary outbursts, reframing these events as the energetic expression of an ongoing geological process rather than their cause.
This paper proposes the "Cosmic Spectroscopy" paradigm, which reinterprets the universe as a quantized system where dark matter and dark energy form a ground state and high-energy astrophysical anomalies correspond to discrete transitions across specific spacetime tiers (Qi, Shen, and Xu) that align with the Spatio-Temporal Ladder Theory and geometric predictions like the DAMPE 1.4 TeV peak.
Using high-resolution observations from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), researchers have provided the first direct evidence of sub-50 km photospheric vortices, confirming long-standing magnetohydrodynamic predictions regarding small-scale solar convective dynamics.
This study demonstrates that while Navarro–Frenk–White dark matter halos successfully model massive SPARC galaxies, they fail to fit dwarf galaxies due to the cusp–core problem, a discrepancy resolved by cored Burkert halos, thereby highlighting the limitations of standard dark matter models and suggesting Modified Newtonian Dynamics as a viable alternative.
This paper proposes the Recursive Cosmological Hypothesis (RCH), an abductive and information-theoretic framework that establishes a preregisterable protocol for distinguishing recursively generated worlds from non-recursive alternatives by comparing their predictive discrepancies and minimum description lengths, rather than asserting that the universe is simulated.
This study employs magnetohydrodynamic modeling to demonstrate that rotation-induced electron flow in neutron star surface layers generates localized magnetic components and latitudinal field variations, providing a physical mechanism for surface magnetic anisotropy and phenomena such as micro-flares and hotspots.
This study utilizes SPARC galaxy data to demonstrate a significant positive correlation between a galaxy's global gas mass fraction and its gravitational anomaly ratio, suggesting that galaxies with higher gas content exhibit larger deviations in rotational velocity from baryonic predictions.
This study identifies three strong point-like radio-continuum sources near NGC 6209 and NGC 4603 and, through multi-frequency analysis and statistical evaluation, concludes they are most likely background quasars or radio galaxies rather than intrinsic features of the galaxies.