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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This paper investigates how plasma and perfect fluid dark matter modify the optical shadows of rotating Bardeen black holes, demonstrating that these environmental effects can be constrained using Event Horizon Telescope observations to better understand both the surrounding medium and the intrinsic properties of regular black holes.
This paper investigates whether a fixed fine-structure response scale, determined independently of astronomical data, leaves a detectable projected footprint in low-redshift distance measurements, finding that while a universal remapping is rejected by DES shape data, a specific projected leakage model yields a small penalty yet improves the combined supernova and DES fit.
By incorporating the gravitational perturbation and dynamical friction of the Large Magellanic Cloud into a modified timing-argument model constrained by Gaia DR3 data, this study derives a Local Group mass of 3.45 × 10¹² M⊙ that resolves the long-standing tension between classical mass estimates and the sum of the Milky Way and Andromeda's virial masses.
This study demonstrates that applying model-based restoration techniques, specifically Richardson–Lucy and maximum a posteriori methods, as preprocessing significantly enhances the ability of deep learning models to detect and deblend faint, closely spaced astronomical point sources in ground-based optical images, even when traditional reconstruction quality metrics do not fully reflect these detection gains.
This study demonstrates that accounting for a significantly stronger-than-expected continuum pumping effect resolves the long-standing abundance discrepancy factor in the Orion Nebula by aligning recombination line and collisionally excited line metallicity measurements, thereby correcting a systematic bias in previous oxygen abundance determinations.
This paper presents a method to estimate and subtract spurious sunward electric field components from GEOTAIL/EFD double-probe observations in tenuous plasmas by leveraging the relationship between the spurious field and spacecraft potential, thereby enabling the retrieval of accurate natural electric fields in the Earth's magnetosphere and solar wind.
Using Parkes radio telescope observations, this study identifies a rare, brighter non-drifting emission state in pulsar PSR J1059-5742 that accounts for 3.8% of the observing time and suggests a mode change in the polar-cap discharge process, distinct from the dominant drifting state and nulling behavior.
This paper analyzes satellite observations at Mars to demonstrate that asymmetric, multispecies magnetic reconnection across a strong density gradient facilitates efficient plasma exchange between the solar wind and the Martian ionosphere, potentially driving atmospheric erosion through the formation of multiple X-lines.
This study reports the first detection of subsurface scandium within the Grimaldi Basin via Chandrayaan-2 CLASS XRF measurements, revealing buried KREEP-rich material and suggesting a more globally distributed lunar geochemical heterogeneity than previously recognized.
This study demonstrates that coarse statistical binning in solar wind–ionosphere coupling analyses systematically inflates correlation coefficients and suppresses occurrence maxima, revealing that reported relationship strengths are highly sensitive to bin width selection and urging the community to adopt multi-resolution reporting with bootstrap confidence intervals.