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Background: Neutron-skin thickness is an excellent indicator of isovector properties of atomic nuclei. As such, it correlates strongly with observables in finite nuclei that depend on neutron-to-proton imbalance and the nuclear symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Kortelainen , J. Erler , W. Nazarewicz , N. Birge , Y. Gao , E. Olsen

Based on the relativistic impulse approximation of proton-nucleus elastic scattering theory, the nucleon density distribution and neutron skin thickness of $^{48}$Ca are estimated via the deep learning method. The neural-network-generated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-21 G. H. Yang , Y. Kuang , Z. X. Yang , Z. P. Li

We present preliminary results of an HST/NICMOS program to image merger remnants in the J, H and K bands. The nuclear brightness profiles for most sample galaxies are similar to those typical for elliptical galaxies, but some (including the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. P. van der Marel , D. Zurek

In the study of crystal nucleation via computer simulations, hard spheres are arguably the most extensively explored model system. Nonetheless, even in this simple model system, the complex thermodynamics of crystal nuclei can sometimes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-19 Marjolein de Jager , Carlos Vega , Pablo Montero de Hijes , Frank Smallenburg , Laura Filion

(abridged) In this paper we revisit the problem of inferring the innermost structure of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster via star counts, to clarify whether it displays a core or a cusp around the central black hole. Through image…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 E. Gallego-Cano , R. Schödel , H. Dong , F. Nogueras-Lara , A. T. Gallego-Calvente , P. Amaro-Seoane , H. Baumgardt

We use HST near-infrared imaging to explore the shapes of the surface brightness profiles of bulges of S0-Sbc galaxies at high resolution. Modeling extends to the outer bulge via bulge-disk decompositions of combined HST - ground based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Balcells , A. W. Graham , L. Dominguez-Palmero , R. F. Peletier

The boundary between the solid crust, assumed to be in complete thermodynamic equilibrium (cold catalyzed matter), and the liquid core of a neutron star is studied using Skyrme SLy effective N-N interactions. An approximate value of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Douchin , P. Haensel

Background: Saturation of nuclear density is a fundamental property of atomic nuclei but in reality, the nuclear internal density distribution is not uniform, e.g., some nuclei are known to have the so-called bubble structure, in which the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-10 Shuichiro Ebata , Wataru Horiuchi

The weak interactions of neutrinos with other Standard Model particles are well described within the Standard Model of particle physics. However, modern accelerator-based neutrino experiments employ nuclei as targets, where neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-10 Vishvas Pandey

The cusped NFW universal density profile suggested by typical CDM models has been challenged in recent years by the discoveries of the soft cores for a broad range of masses from dwarf galaxies to clusters of galaxies. It is thus desirable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiang-Ping Wu , Yan-Jie Xue

We obtained a density-dependent analytical expression of binding energy per nucleon for different neutron-proton asymmetry of the nuclear matter (NM) with a polynomial fitting, which manifests the results of effective field theory motivated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Ankit Kumar , H. C. Das , Manpreet Kaur , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

In this paper we present the results of two detailed N-body simulations of the interaction of a sample of four massive globular clusters in the inner region of a triaxial galaxy. A full merging of the clusters takes place, leading to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Miocchi

The density profiles of around 750 nuclei are analyzed using the Skyrme energy density functional theory. Among them, more than 350 nuclei are found to be deformed. In addition to rather standard properties of the density, we report a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Scamps , D. Lacroix , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko

Confronting theoretical models with observations of thermal radiation emitted by neutron stars is one of the most important ways to understand the properties of both, superdense matter in the interiors of the neutron stars and dense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-25 A. Y. Potekhin , A. De Luca , J. A. Pons

We describe a theoretical framework to compute the cluster gas distribution in hydrostatic equilibrium embedded in a class of spherical dark matter halo potentials. Unlike the conventional isothermal $\beta$-model, the present method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yasushi Suto , Shin Sasaki , Nobuyoshi Makino

To make best use of multi-faceted astronomical and nuclear data-sets, probability distributions of neutron star models that can be used to propagate errors consistently from one domain to another are required. We take steps toward a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Lauren Balliet , William Newton , Sarah Cantu , Srdan Budimir

Nonuniform neutron-rich matter present in both core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star crusts is described in terms of a semiclassical model that reproduces nuclear-matter properties and includes long-range Coulomb interactions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. J. Horowitz , M. A. Perez-Garcia , J. Carriere , D. K. Berry , J. Piekarewicz

We analyze the neutron skin thickness in finite nuclei with the droplet model and effective nuclear interactions. The ratio of the bulk symmetry energy J to the so-called surface stiffness coefficient Q has in the droplet model a prominent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-01 M. Warda , X. Vinas , X. Roca-Maza , M. Centelles

Mass number dependence of the nuclear radii is closely related to the nuclear matter properties. It is known that the most of nuclei exhibit some deformation. We discuss how the nuclear density profile is modified by the nuclear deformation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-28 Wataru Horiuchi , Tsunenori Inakura

The determination of the injection composition of cosmic ray nuclei within astrophysical sources requires sufficiently accurate descriptions of the source physics and the propagation - apart from controlling astrophysical uncertainties. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Denise Boncioli , Anatoli Fedynitch , Walter Winter