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A new approach that is a combination of classical thermodynamics and macroscopic kinetics is offered for studying the nucleation kinetics in condensed binary solutions. The theory covers the separation of liquid and solid solutions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Nikolay V. Alekseechkin

The functional form of the nuclear symmetry energy in the whole range of densities relevant for the neutron stars is still unknown. Discrepancies concern both the low as well as the high density behaviour of this function. By use of Bezier…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-21 Sebastian Kubis , David Edwin Alvarez-Castillo

We investigate the asymptotic separation of the optical model potential for nucleon-nucleus scattering in momentum space, where the potential is split into a medium-independent term and another depending exclusively on the gradient of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. J. Aguayo , H. F. Arellano

We report on the structure of the nuclear star cluster in the innermost 0.16 pc of the Galaxy as measured by the number density profile of late-type giants. Using laser guide star adaptive optics in conjunction with the integral field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Tuan Do , Andrea M. Ghez , Mark R. Morris , Jessica R. Lu , Keith Matthews , Sylvana Yelda , James Larkin

Here we present the fundamental properties of the nuclear cluster of the Milky Way. First, we derive its structural properties by constructing a density map of the central 1000'' using extinction-corrected star counts. We can describe the…

(abridged) In this paper we aim at determining the shape, size, and luminosity/mass of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster (MWNSC). We use Spitzer/IRAC images at 3.6 and 4.5 micrometer, where interstellar extinction is at a minimum but the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-18 R. Schodel , A. Feldmeier , D. Kunneriath , S. Stolovy , N. Neumayer , P. Amaro-Seoane , S. Nishiyama

The structure of obscuring matter in the environment of active galactic nuclei with associated nuclear starbursts is investigated using 3-D hydrodynamical simulations. Simple analytical estimates suggest that the obscuring matter with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Keiichi Wada , Colin A. Norman

Context. Current constraints on distributed matter in the innermost Galactic Centre (such as a cluster of faint stars and stellar remnants, Dark Matter or a combination thereof) based on the orbital dynamics of the visible stars closest to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Thibault Lechien , Gernot Heißel , Jai Grover , Dario Izzo

Few years ago, Boltzmann neutrino transport led to a new and reliable generation of spherically symmetric models of stellar core collapse and postbounce evolution. After the failure to prove the principles of the supernova explosion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Liebendoerfer , T. Fischer , C. Fröhlich , F. -K. Thielemann , S. Whitehouse

We investigate the stability and softness of nuclei against quadrupole, octupole, and hexadecapole deformation. By applying the spherical Skyrme-force Hartree-Fock Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer quasi-particle random phase approximation, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Le-Anh Nguyen , Minh-Loc Bui , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Naftali Auerbach

Empirically determined values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients from nuclear masses are expressed in terms of density distributions of nucleons in heavy nuclei in the local density approximation. This is then…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , G. Colo , A. Sulaksono

We present a novel nuclear energy density functional method to calculate spectroscopic properties of atomic nuclei. Intrinsic nuclear quadrupole deformations and rotational frequencies are considered simultaneously as the degrees of freedom…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-10 J. Luis Egido , Marta Borrajo , Tomás R. Rodríguez

The surfaces of neutron stars are sources of strongly polarized soft X rays due to the presence of strong magnetic fields. Radiative transfer mediated by electron scattering and free-free absorption is central to defining local surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Kun Hu , Matthew G. Baring , Joseph A. Barchas , George Younes

Including nucleon-nucleon correlations due to both Fermi statistics and nuclear forces, we have developed a general formalism for calculating the neutral-current neutrino-nucleon opacities in nuclear matter. We derive corrections to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam Burrows , R. F. Sawyer

We present 3D kinematic observations of stars within the central 0.5 pc of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster using adaptive optics imaging and spectroscopy from the Keck telescopes. Recent observations have shown that the cluster has a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Do , G. D. Martinez , S. Yelda , A. M. Ghez , J. Bullock , M. Kaplinghat , J. R. Lu , A. G. H. Peter , K. Phifer

A numerical calculation of properties of finite absorbers and of intergalactic medium based on photoionization equilibrium is performed to confront alternative UV sources in addition to quasars. It is seen that a spectrum including a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 L. Masperi , S. Savaglio

Spectra of the spreading layers on the neutron star surface are calculated on the basis of the Inogamov-Sunyaev model taking into account general relativity correction to the surface gravity and considering various chemical composition of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Valery Suleimanov , Juri Poutanen

We present a unified description of dense matter and neutron-star structure based on simple but physically motivated models. Starting from the thermodynamics of degenerate Fermi gases, we construct an equation of state for cold, catalyzed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Elissaios Andronopoulos , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

Heterogeneous nucleation is a process wherein extrinsic impurities facilitate freezing by lowering nucleation barriers and constitutes the dominant mechanism for crystallization in most systems. Classical nucleation theory (\textsc{Cnt})…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-12 Fernanda Sulantay Vargas , Sarwar Hussain , Amir Haji-Akbari

We examine whether or not the surface tension acts to increase the nucleon density in the nuclear interior within a compressible liquid-drop model. We find that it depends on the density dependence of the surface tension, which may in turn…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu