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At 7.7 pc, the A-type star Fomalhaut hosts a bright debris disk with multiple radial components. The disk is eccentric and misaligned, strongly suggesting that it is sculpted by interaction with one or more planets. Compact sources are now…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Grant M. Kennedy , Joshua B. Lovell , Paul Kalas , Michael P. Fitzgerald

A significant fraction of the mature FGK stars have cool dusty disks at least an orders of magnitudes brighter than the solar system's outer zodiacal light. Since such dusts must be continually replenished, they are generally assumed to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ruobing Dong , Yan Wang , D. N. C. Lin , X. -W. Liu

Alice is a far-ultraviolet imaging spectrograph onboard Rosetta that, amongst multiple objectives, is designed to observe emissions from various atomic and molecular species from within the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The…

Understanding the dynamical evolution of asteroids through the secular Yarkovsky effect requires the determination of many physical properties, including the rotation period. We propose a method aimed at obtaining a robust determination of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 D. E. Vavilov , B. Carry

Transition disks are protoplanetary disks with inner cavities possibly cleared by massive companions, which makes them prime targets to observe at high resolution to map their velocity structure. We present ALMA Band 6 dust and gas…

Context: Surveys in the visible and near-infrared spectral range have revealed the presence of low-albedo asteroids in cometary like orbits (ACOs). In contrast to Jupiter family comets (JFCs), ACOs are inactive, but possess similar orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 B. Gundlach , J. Blum

General Yang-Mills symmetry and Yang-Mills gravity in inertial frames presents a possible avenue for understanding dark energy phenomenon in terms of the extremely small baryon charges of protons and neutrons. General gauge transformations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-03 Jong-Ping Hsu , Leonardo Hsu

The flyby anomalies are unexplained velocity increases of 3.9, 13.5, 0.1 and 1.8 mm/s observed near closest approach during the Earth flybys of the Galileo, NEAR, Cassini and Rosetta spacecraft. Here, these flybys are modelled using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-15 M. E. McCulloch

Building on the jet morphology and periodic wobble analysis of 3I/ATLAS in Scarmato & Loeb (2026), we link observed jet position angles (PAs) and the non-gravitational acceleration components (A1,A2,A3) in the 3D RTN (radial, transverse,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Toni Scarmato , Abraham Loeb

Cosmological measurements indicate that a large component of non-visible gravitating matter is present in the universe. A common hypothesis for its origin is a weakly interacting, massive particle. Annihilations or decays of such particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Knut Morå

An influence of the non-gravitational effects on the motion of short-period comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is investigated. It was found that the normal component of the non-gravitational force exceeds the transverse one and a model of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Malgorzata Krolikowska

We consider the dynamics of porous icy dust aggregates in a turbulent gas disk and investigate the stability of the disk. We evaluate the random velocity of porous dust aggregates by considering their self-gravity, collisions, aerodynamic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Shugo Michikoshi , Eiichiro Kokubo

The spin state of small asteroids can change on a long timescale by the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect, the net torque that arises from anisotropically scattered sunlight and proper thermal radiation from an…

The gravity-driven flow along an annular topological defect (string) with transversely corrugations is investigated by using the verified transition-rate model and boundary perturbation method. We found that for certain activation volume…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zotin K. -H. Chu

Observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have revealed a strong production of gas and dust near perihelion, together with rapid brightening. The outgassing from the nucleus has led to a detectable non-gravitational acceleration. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Valentin Thoss , Abraham Loeb , Andreas Burkert

Nonthermal radiation observed from astrophysical systems containing relativistic jets and shocks, e.g., gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and Galactic microquasar systems usually have power-law emission spectra. Recent…

This comprehensive study of comet C/1995 O1 focuses first on investigating its orbital motion over a period of 17.6 yr (1993-2010). The comet is suggested to have approached Jupiter to 0.005 AU on -2251 November 7, in general conformity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Zdenek Sekanina , Rainer Kracht

The existence of electromagnetic radiation - radio-waves, microwaves, light, x-rays and so on - is one of the most important physical phenomena, and our ability to manipulate them is one of the most significant technological achievement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Yakir Aharonov , Daniel Collins , Sandu Popescu

The determination of unseen companion masses ($M_1$) is essential for identifying compact objects in binary systems, yet obtaining reliable orbital inclinations remains one of the most difficult challenges. In this study, we focus on ten…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Rui Wang , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Hao-Bin Liu , Tuan Yi , Zhong-Rui Bai

Over the last couple of years, the appearance of the third data release from the {\it Gaia} satellite has triggered various wide binary low acceleration gravity tests. Wide binaries with typical total masses $\approx 1.0 - 1.6 M_{\odot}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-26 X. Hernandez , Kyu-Hyun Chae , A. Aguayo-Ortiz
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